Leslie Armes

European traveler - believer in Karma

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Pete Hegseth just blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers — five of whom are women or people of color — to two-star admiral rank.

For the first time in more than a decade, no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year. https://t.co/RTCUIjTLTx

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

You just knew it was going to be two weeks.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump's bill didn’t achieve “no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.” It created a temporary (expiring in 2028) additional $6,000-per-year deduction for people 65 and older. Millions of people in that group will still pay taxes on their benefits, as will beneficiaries under 65.

[Leslie Armes @dutchiris435]

@RRogalette i just found your dream house

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

There are no penguins in Greenland. All Penguins live in the southern hemisphere except one species from the Galapagos Islands.

Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

RFK Jr is telling everyone to eat steak. People dragged him because they can’t afford steak. So Rollins rolls out an amazing $3 meal deal.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is Renee Good.

She was a mother of a six-year-old child.

She was an American citizen.

She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”

And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

my New Year's resolution is to stress out less

unfortunately, y'alls resolution is to pet a bobcat so I will not be meeting my goal

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

Let children be happy in their own way; there's no better way. ”
Samuel Johnson

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Live long and be merry.

op: @OmegaParticle_

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

Adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man doesn’t make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone else’s doesn’t mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as the other man. Putting your name above another man’s name on his existing memorial… What is that about? Truly? What’s that about? Do you want people to speak the names as one? Dig down deep. What are you trying to say? I’m really interested. There is no other president who would do this. None. Zero. In fact, it’s not even legal. Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial in 1964, and only congress can change that law.

This will always be the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art. A great man would have said to his hand picked board, “Thank you, but the building already has its name. Let it stand. Let it be. I don’t need that.” But then again…

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history. He brought the arts into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie amplified the arts, celebrated the arts, stood up for the arts and artists.

It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not.

Next thing perhaps he will want to rename JFK Airport, rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial. The Trump Jefferson Memorial. The Trump Smithsonian. The list goes on.

Can we not see what is happening here? C’mon, my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny. This is way beneath the stature of the job. It’s downright weird. It’s obsessive in a weird way. Just when you think somone can’t stoop any lower, down they go…

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today:

- He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White House uses on its website, and a detailed review shows even the smaller WH figure is wildly inflated

- He claimed grocery prices are down. They're up: 2.7% year-over-year as of September, 1.4% since January

- He claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by 500% to 900%. These numbers make no mathematical sense; they'd mean people would get paid to acquire their medications

- He claimed every military attack on a (purported) drug-smuggling boat saves an average of 25,000 lives. Experts say this number also makes no sense, even aside from the fact the administration hasn’t publicly proven what was on the boats; the US had a reported total of 82,000 overdose deaths last year

- He claimed he has "stopped inflation in its tracks" since January. The September year-over-year inflation rate, 3.0%, was the exact same as the rate in January (actually a tiny bit higher if you go to more decimal places) - and September was the fifth consecutive months the year-over-year rate had increased

- He claimed he inherited the worst inflation of all time. He didn't; he inherited 3% inflation, same as the most recent rate, and even the Biden-era peak, 9.1% in June 2022, wasn't close to an all-time high

- He claimed he ended eight wars. Among other issues, his list includes two supposed wars that did not actually exist during his presidency, Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia-Kosovo, and a war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has not actually ended

- He claimed China “doesn’t have gasoline.” It’s true China doesn’t produce enough oil to meet domestic demand, but China has domestic oil and refines oil into gasoline

- He claimed that, under Biden, “By 2030, everybody had to own an electric car.” Biden’s push for EVs did not include a requirement for anybody to buy an electric car or abandon their gas-powered car; Biden tailpipe rules sought to have EVs make up 56% of new passenger vehicles sold in 2032

- He claimed the US gave $350 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine. Not even close. A US government inspector general says $187 billion was appropriated for the war response through June...including billions spent in the US and broader Europe

- He claimed Washington, DC now has "no murders," which wasn't true even before the deadly attack on National Guard troops last week

- He claimed the 2020 election was a fake election. It wasn’t, he lost, this is a lie

- He claimed his big domestic policy bill included “no tax on Social Security.” It didn’t eliminate tax on Social Security; it temporarily increased the standard deduction for people age 65+, which means some people 65+ (and beneficiaries under 65) continue to pay tax on their benefits

More details: https://t.co/bkbVxDwlKo

[USA TODAY Travel @usatodaytravel]

Five whales breached in almost perfect unison in Alaska as sightseers watched in amazement.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The cat trying to explain why the toilet papers are on the floor.. 😅

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

🕊️

When will the suffering end….

[Jen Psaki @jrpsaki]

Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT SINCE I SAID “I HATE KID ROCK” HE'S NO LONGER 'HOT?' — GCN