C is for Cookie

Kick-Ass Mom and All Around Badass

[MaineJumbo🌲🦞 @MassJumbo]

The Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts has openly admitted to being a pedophile btw and no one cares

[CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80]

Barack Obama decided to hit Pete Hegseth with the elbow from the top rope. Absolutely brutal takedown.

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

Trump won’t let me fly with him today — but he can’t silence me https://t.co/gS2LIaXghw

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs.

After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own.

The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help. https://t.co/C6X2KRyKsA

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

This article broke my heart. This is what regular Americans are going through under Trump.

After the hottest summer on record, residents in Oklahoma are getting letters from their local utility giving them a fixed number of days to pay their summer bill or face disconnection.

NYT: ““The summer had just ended, and they had just gotten the bill for all of that electricity, and it was far more than their monthly income, almost $1,500.

It also came with a bold lettered disconnection notice that said they had nine days left to pay.
My colleague Eli Saslow says that for the couple he met, Genia and Darryl, it's not just about the lights may be going off.

A disconnection would mean they also couldn't run the oxygen machine or the CPAP they depend on. Eli says he saw how the couple tried to limit their electric bill by more or less moving their whole life into the living room where the AC is, hanging curtains from the doorways to keep the cool air in, sleeping there, eating there, but all that still wasn't enough.”

The couple tried to go to churches charity thrift shops, tried to get doctors notes, to help pay the bill, but everyone was overwhelmed by clients having the same issue, and facing having their electrical turned off.

The utility said they needed the higher rates to perform maintenance on their system, in part to keep up with increased demand coming from data centers:

“But the utility company in that part of Oklahoma, which is called PSO, says it's facing its own pressure.

The grid is old and needs updating. These hot summers also are straining electrical companies because they need to provide more power. And also, there are a huge number of what they call large load customers coming onto the grid.

These are new businesses and in some cases, new data centers for artificial intelligence that are going to increase the demand for electricity like never before.”

What an incredible and heartbreaking story about what regular Americans are facing.

https://t.co/HFDGHgQS32

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“We are taking our country back.
Not with anger. Not with fear, not with division. But with the hope that built this state.”
~@jamestalarico

One of the most powerful ads I’ve ever seen, with the added value of being true.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Trump has now abandoned pretense and is openly aiding the Kremlin in its war against a friend and partner of the U.S. The American commander in chief has abandoned the Western order, the most successful—and powerful—security arrangement in human history” https://t.co/aKw8Y9W7Xn

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

State law makes them eligible to vote where they go to school. But Republicans are afraid of their votes. Remember, no one would be trying so hard to take away your vote unless they understood how powerful it makes you. Vote no matter what.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is insane. The level of overt, proud racism, hatred and bigotry in today's Republican Party is a stain on every leader in it and it will never ever wash away.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[C is for Cookie @caacapoo]

He should know her name and he should say it. He is the VP. He should honor 'her' by not calling her 'your wife'. SAY HER NAME, ASSHOLE. You are a disgrace.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance takes a question from a man whose wife was an American who died in an Iranian air strike in March. He says "there's a failure in the leadership" and asks Vance "how is this administration gonna start holding those leaders accountable for the deaths of the soldiers that we honor and love?"

[Rusty Grandpa @rrUnplugged]

@atrupar The Vice President of the United States telling the widow of a soldier killed in war months prior, saying “this is the first I heard of this” is inexcusable.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Emperor @EmperorPolitics]

@infinite_jaz "Settlers" did not attack Heidi Levine. ISRAELIS attacked Heidi Levine.
They are Israelis funded by the govt. Protected by IDF.

They are not "settlers".
They represent the rest of the Israeli society.

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

what in the actual fuck is happening in the dc jail
https://t.co/l55sgfi4cG

[Brian Evans @BriInMN]

I can't believe this actually happened live on television. Holy shit.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

This Katie Zacharia episode really makes clear the incredible the level of racism Biden Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre faced over her credentials and ability to do the job (including from many mainstream media folks)