Jeanmarie Grimsley

TEDxJacksonville Producer and Co-Organizer. DC native. Identical twin. Book editor. News junkie. Accidental webmaster. Hopeful American. #Duuuval

[ProPublica @propublica]

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

We found that the request came directly from the White House.
https://t.co/ejXPkLasNM

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The difference between this and the deal Trump tore up is that Iran now gets more money, fewer restrictions, less oversight, and more regional autonomy.

[Jeanmarie Grimsley @grimss2]

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[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

This is a jaw-dropping, horrific surrender document complete with hundreds of billions in reparations. It is the predictable result of incompetent negotiation and the foolhardy strategic catastrophe of starting and pursuing this disastrous war. The U.S. will not soon recover from this, the biggest national security blunder in decades.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is seeking to throw out a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company, xAI, over the data center's air pollution, saying it has the right to run polluting gas-burning turbines in Mississippi despite not having permits for them. https://t.co/CxztBM0baD

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Trump is attempting to undo the republic to retain personal power. No one in DOJ or FBI should be assisting him in this essentially criminal and anti-American undertaking.
https://t.co/YcXiKYpIvB

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The academic freedom index across the world.
The US is on a steep decline, ranking below 120th of countries in 2025.
In 2015, we were ranked in the top 15.
https://t.co/6DZFYY6oXP

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera company, says its tech just makes neighborhoods safer. Critics contend that it’s the largest privately owned surveillance dragnet in US history, with significant potential for abuse.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

As of June 16th, the water in the Reflecting Pool is greener than the surrounding grass.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million.

Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

This important talk by Joe Trippi outlines the challenges we face with the expansion of tech faster than democracy can react. Please watch and share!

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Iran has reportedly assessed that Donald Trump is "mentally incompetent" and has incorporated psychologists into its negotiating team to adapt the wording of the proposed agreement "as if the recipient were a [mental] patient ... whose capacity is limited." ⬇️

[Warren @swd2]

This is what happens when you give your pool boy a $14,000,000 no bid contract for stuff he’s clearly not qualified to do.

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[CathyNotToday2 🌿 @Cathy2NotToday]

“Florida ranks 44th of 50 states in healthcare access and affordability, and #10 of 12 among SE states

The same report ranks Fl 49th of 50 for avoidable hospital use and costs.

A hospital stay in our state costs an average of $3,060 per day before any procedures

Fl has 320 areas designated as Health Prof Shortage Areas, meaning primary care, dental care, mental health services are inadequate to serve the pop.

This situation affects nearly seven mil people .And all but one of Fl 67 counties have at least a partial primary care shortage (Fl Medical Assn, 2025).

The U.S. Congress didn’t help. The “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed on July 4, 2025, allowed the enhanced ACA subsidy to expire & made it harder to enroll to receive ins subsidies. Fl has more ACA Marketplace enrollees than any other state— ⚠️about 20% of population.

No other state has a higher proportion of residents getting their healthcare through ACA Marketplace. Without subsidies, the avg premium more than doubles, from about $888 per person per yr to $1,906.

By the govt estimates, these changes will result in the loss of health coverage for approx 16 million Americans, including children, pregnant women, disabled individuals, seniors, and veterans (Congressional Budget Office).

⚠️In Florida, the uninsured rate is expected to jump from 10.7% to 16.7% (Florida Policy Institute). The bill also requires new Medicaid work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks.

The biggest cuts are coming over the next few years. Florida has more than 4 million Medicaid recipients and stands to lose $4 billion in federal Medicaid funding (Florida Policy Institute).

Florida’s Legislature is making this healthcare situation worse. Florida is one of only ten states refusing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, even as Republican-led states like Louisiana, Arkansas, and West Virginia chose to accept the federal funds our tax dollars paid into (Check Medicaid).

That refusal leaves about 1.4 million Floridians in the coverage gap. They make too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance, and it costs Florida an estimated $4 billion a year in federal funding that goes to other states instead (Florida Decides Healthcare / Gainesville Iguana).

❌When a citizen-led campaign tried to put Medicaid expansion on the 2026 ballot, the Legislature passed a bill that rewrote the rules for ballot initiatives in the midst of that campaign and making it nearly impossible to gather signatures in time. That pushed the effort to 2028 (WUSF).

Florida legislators made an active decision to block residents from voting on healthcare, while 67% of Floridians, including a majority of Republicans, say they support Medicaid expansion (GSG poll, June 2025, via Fl Decides Healthcare)

For anyone tempted to say these are people who want something for nothing: they are not. Nearly 2/3 of adult Medicaid enrollees are working, and most of the rest do not have paying jobs because they are caregivers, dealing with illness or disability, or in school (KFF, 2026).

✅Most Medicaid adults rely on the program not bc they are avoiding work, but because they work in jobs that do not offer health coverage (KFF, 2026).

The industries most represented among Medicaid enrollees are healthcare and social assistance, retail trade, and food service (HHS/ASPE).

These are home health aides, cashiers, and restaurant workers. These are people keeping our economy running. As for ACA enrollees, many are self-employed or work for small businesses, and more than half enrollees earn under 138% of the federal poverty level ,which was $15,650 for a single person in 2025. That means most single recipients earn less than $22,000 yr

People who lose coverage don’t stop getting sick. They delay care until the pain is unbearable, and then they go to the ER $$ This drives up costs and ER waits for everyone. Ins premiums go up, and hospitals are strained to the breaking point

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

Inflation has overtaken wages for the first time in 3 years.

That means Americans’ incomes are shrinking in real terms, largely because of the Iran war.

My @Morning_Joe Chart.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Prices are rising faster than paychecks.⁣
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Average wages haven't kept pace with inflation, which means the purchasing power of the typical paycheck has been falling.⁣
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I explain what's driving it—and why the headlines are likely to get louder: https://t.co/kolre4RGsk

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Price Increases over last 5 years...
New Cars: +19%
Groceries: +26%
Family Health Insurance: +27%
Shelter: +29%
Restaurants: +31%
Dozen Eggs: +35%
Home Prices: +35%
Electricity: +40%
Gas Utilities: +41%
Transportation: +42%
Gasoline: +52%
Auto Insurance: +54%
Ground Beef: +64%
Fuel Oil: +69%
Coffee: +108%