Kathy Robertson

I'm a professional lurker. You won't find anything here. Really. And #IAmAnEngineer Moving to bluer skies; same handle.

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

Zach Lahn wants you to hear the first part of this conversation, but he refused to include the last 60 seconds, which changes the exchange entirely.

Here's the part he & his team are hiding.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

🎯🎯🎯

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

If male staff are in any way distracted by children's knees, I don't think they should be allowed anywhere near a school, to be honest.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

New aerial photos have just been released, revealing the damage to the White House.

What is going on?

This is the People’s House - not a Trump resort!

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Remember.

As President, Trump didn't have the power to send the National Guard to the Capitol on Jan 6.

But he suddenly has the power to spend $2.4 billion & have them police Washington, DC for 4 years.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

So the White House is a Thai restaurant now?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Speaking of groceries, you may be shocked to know that it isn’t just members of the Trump administration who are increasingly out of touch. There are also Republican lawmakers like Congresswoman @RepAshleyHinson, who is currently running to be Iowa’s next senator, and thought it would be a great idea to just try to relate to the average Joe, to tell them she knows what families are facing: [Rep Hinson: ‘I am at the heart of everything, a working mom and whether it is, you know, refueling the the minivan or restocking my fridge for our teenager boys, I know what is facing our families here in Iowa. You know, I’m getting the text from my kids on the way on the plane out to DC, Mom can you put some more money in my lunch account, or hey, can you do something about the lack of groceries in the house? That’s an everyday problem in our house right now.’] Now I do not know the inner workings of Ashley Hinson’s household, but what I do know is that the folks at Meidas Touch point out that according to her recent financial disclosures, Hinson’s net worth has increased by up to $7 million while she has been in office, thanks to her husband’s ownership of individual stock in his private company, and I will just go out on a limb here and say the average American has nowhere near those financial assets, and certainly not the average person sitting in Iowa she’s trying to get to vote for her.”

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A Delaware company that didn't exist a month ago is selling gas fifty cents under market at stations partly owned by Blue Owl, a company Trump holds over five million dollars in. Nobody will say who's covering the loss. Ask for the paperwork before you call it patriotism.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

I’m tired of people acting like someone’s life matters less because they weren’t an American on paper. He spent 35 years here, raised three American children, and built his life in Houston. He was an American in every way that mattered.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just paid a French oil company $2.5 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars... to kill American wind energy.

Not to build it. To make it disappear.

TotalEnergies had two offshore wind farms ready to go. One off North Carolina, one off New York. Combined, they would have powered hundreds of thousands of homes.

The Department of the Interior paid TotalEnergies $795 million to walk away from both, and banned the company from ever building offshore wind in the U.S. again.

Here's the part that should stop you cold:

That $795 million isn't just a payout. It's a condition. TotalEnergies has to take that money and pour it into oil, gas, and LNG projects instead.

The government is paying a company, with your tax dollars, to convert clean energy into fossil fuel. On purpose, by design.

And it didn't stop there.

Invenergy took $765 million to drop four more offshore leases, same condition attached: oil and gas only.

Bluepoint Wind, a 2.4 gigawatt project off New York, folded too. So did Golden State Wind, a floating wind farm planned for the waters off central California.

These weren't early-stage ideas. Ports were already being built to support them. California alone has sunk over $100 million into port and mooring infrastructure for a project that may never get finished.

Over $2.5 billion in taxpayer money, across four separate deals, all pointed the same direction: away from wind, straight into fossil fuel.

Meanwhile, a wind farm that did get finished, Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, is already saving families $1.4 billion on their power bills over the next 20 years. That's the version of this we're not choosing.

Seven states are suing over the TotalEnergies deal alone. California's Attorney General just filed a separate case over the rest.

Since when does the government bribe companies to pick oil over wind?

#DemsUnited

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) statement defending his constituent David Hearn, who is charged with damaging Reflecting Pool... (It ain't subtle)

"Davey Hearn would never desecrate a federal building or landmark by writing his name on it or affixing his name illegally to it or engaging in any other kind of political graffiti, vandalism or delinquency. He would never intentionally damage government property. Whether we are talking about the White House, the Reflecting Pool or the Kennedy Center, Davey would never try to alter, bulldoze or redesign federal property or buildings without explicit Congressional authorization and direction.  Davey is an honorable and law-abiding citizen who has won real giant prizes, including eight world championships. He did so without any corrupt practices and only through his magnificent hard work and surpassing dedication to the team. He would never try to undercut or sabotage anyone, much less our entire community"

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

When is the media going to cover Ken Paxton the way they're covering Graham Platner?

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I’m never deleting this app!! 😭

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Three Florida Republicans were just charged with creating a fake voter guide to steal an election.

They did not hack the machines. They did not stuff the ballot box. They printed a fake Republican voter guide, made it look nearly identical to the real one, and mailed it to tens of thousands of voters before a 2024 primary.

It worked. An incumbent won by fewer than 1,000 votes. Now three elected officials in St. Johns County, Florida are facing criminal charges for it.

[Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus]

If @ScottJenningsKY is proven to have lied about having a nearly 20 minute phone conversation with McConnell, @cnn needs to fire him immediately.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

People can’t fucking afford groceries. Bragging about taxpayers paying for your luxuries isn’t the flex you think it is.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Once again, it is time for @GovAndyBeshear to call the special election.

McConnell’s team ignored the request for a health update.

It is not illegal to call a special an election on a presumed vacancy.

If Republicans have proof of life to halt it, then they can show the court.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.