Betsy_Flickers

Writer, fabric hoarder, books are my friends. 🖋 🗳 🧵 🌞🛼⛸🚀 @[email protected]

[Betsy_Flickers @Betsy_Flickers]

This is one of the best book threads I've read. Librarians, book sellers, and authors rock.

[Lora Senf @Lora013]

I was once a bookseller. A woman came in asking for Tea at the Savoy by Oscar Wilde. I couldn't find it listed. She insisted.

I kept not finding it. She got angrier.

I asked again, "Are you sure it's by Wilde?"

Irate, she said, "YES. He was on the Today Show this morning."

😑

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Who knows what the President meant when he said he loves the inflation - but it's clear that inflation keeps getting worse, while he stays focused on anything but the cost of living.

This is an election year! He may not be on the ballot, but his protectors and enablers in Congress are. It's time to send a message.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Wake up America.
...............WAKE THE FUCK UP.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Trump pulled his ‘I’m gonna hit Iran hard tonight/based on discussions at a high level, I am cancelling my attacks’ BS so many times it barely gets a reaction in MSM. WH insiders trading on inside information, are making a f’n fortune. Let’s see Barron’s financial disclosures.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" included a $6,000 enhanced tax deduction for seniors. Republicans sold it as a gift — a little something extra for people who earned it.
On June 10, 2026, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report, and the receipt finally came due.
When the fund empties, the law triggers an automatic 22% cut to every check — roughly $500 a month for the average beneficiary, hitting 70 million Americans.
Speaker Mike Johnson, two days before this report dropped, called Social Security an "entitlement" that needs to be "adjusted."
They called it a gift, but in reality it's a robbery.
Watch: https://t.co/oGwJx4FVnt

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump’s dream.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

Turning Point sent seven buses with 350 people to the Capitol on January 6.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

New in PN: The murder of expertise

"The Trump administration has spent the last 18 months gutting funding for scientific research, forcing out nonpartisan experts, and elevating the most alarming conspiracy theorists in their stead. Now, a new rule proposed by the regime is threatening science itself." https://t.co/m238RdfIy4

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that the audio of Speaker Johnson ADMITTING that he's planning on cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security SHOULD BE A HUGE STORY.

Don't let him slide on this.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

🚨‼️ Breaking News in Epstein Case‼️ 🚨

Comer has agreed Todd Blanche must appear in @OversightDems . With explosive reporting from @nytimes on the White House coverup and multiple Situation Room meetings — this is looking more like a Watergate-style coverup every day.

Meanwhile we’ve got Bill Gates in front of Committee today answering why rich and powerful men like himself continued to hang out with Epstein even after he was convicted of sexual crimes. Regardless of party, power, or wealth—we are following every lead!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general.

Here's why: https://t.co/Nx3C0aNbUK

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Dear DNC and every Democrat running in November,

Here is your campaign.

Start running it now on every TV station especially Fox News, every radio station, streaming platform, in programmatic, on billboards and bring it up in every press interview.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @ReverendWarnock: Right now someone is trying to buy groceries in Georgia and they can't afford it.

Trump's Agriculture Secretary: Well, that's because of the Biden administration

Warnock: 2 years later and that's your answer? Because of the Biden administration?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?

JUDGE TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy. Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: It's 'political controversy' only because the president refuses to accept the results. I'm asking you as a matter of fact. Who won?

TRAYNOR: As Justice Jackson stated, it is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that

BLUMENTHAL: So you're going to use the same script that other nominees have used before this panel to avoid the question?

TRAYNOR: I think the precedent established by Justice Jackson ...

BLUMENTHAL: As a matter of fact, which presidential candidate got more votes in 2020?

TRAYNOR: As I stated before, this is an issue that Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: You're adopting a script that has been dictated to you by the White House

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump's former economic advisor just admitted on Fox News that inflation is being driven nearly exclusively by bad decisions that Donald Trump has made. Wow.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Tell us about the time you stole billions from Medicare, Rick.

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

My senior citizen parent who lives with me is on Medicare. If she were to lose benefits and her social security, that falls on me to pay her medical and living expenses. Too many Americans cannot do that. It would bankrupt families and leave sick seniors uncovered. NOT OKAY!

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Why was JD Vance panicked about the release of the Epstein files as they gathered in the Situation Room to come up with a plan to protect Trump? Because anyone who has spent more then five minutes with DJT knows unequivocally that he is in fact a sexual predator & guilty AF.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?

That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.

What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.

And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”

But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”

And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?

That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

The average American pays $367,000 into Social Security. It's deducted from every paycheck so we can retire with dignity.

Rich Republicans want to steal our earned retirement savings to fund tax cuts for the obscenely rich, endless wars, and fossil fuel subsidies.