AuntiePho

Retired business reporter for The Wall Street Journal. #VoteBlue

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

@UKRintheUSA @zelenskyy Slava Ukraini!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

VP Donald Trump didn't expect that before even taking office, 38 Republicans would ignore his and President Musk's threats. The bill needed two-thirds to pass but failed to even clear a majority of 218 votes.

It was one of Trump's worst political defeats ever.

We're up to 4 wild years. Buckle up.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

So, President-elect Musk and his puppet tank a bipartisan bill that’s been 3 months in the making, and Republicans are trying to blame Dems for the impending shutdown?

Aht aht.

Dems did their job. The Republican-led House failed to do theirs.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

With the U.S. drowning in $36 TRILLION of debt, Congress just gave themselves a shiny raise—bumping their salaries from $174,000 to $243,300.

Meanwhile, the median income for everyday Americans sits at $80,000.

Seriously, how does this math work? The people writing the budget can’t balance it, but they’ve mastered giving themselves a payday. Make it make sense.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders just called it out:

Congress reached a deal to fund the government, but Elon Musk—who’s raked in $200 BILLION since Trump took office—is throwing a fit.

Sanders asks the real question: Are Republicans working for the American people or taking orders from ‘President Musk’?

This is oligarchy in action.

[Florida Democrats @FlaDems]

🚨The House just failed to pass a spending bill.

Here’s how a #MuskShutdown impacts Floridians:

🪖 100,000 military personnel in FL go without pay
✈️ Major airport travel delays impacting millions
🍲 Over 400,000 Floridians will lose SNAP food assistance over the holidays

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame. You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way. If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

@RBReich Trump already got Thune to agree to recess appointments--so the entire slate will wind up approved.

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

I think that right-wing media propaganda is the major reason that our country will soon lose its first world status--and it's been brainwashing millions for more than two decades.

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

@GuyBoero @JoJoFromJerz I think that right-wing media propaganda is the major reason that our country will soon lose its first world status--and it's been brainwashing millions for more than two decades.

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

Your future guardian of America’s health, a short story:

The outbreak of measles in Samoa starting in September 2019 created a panic. Schools closed, Christmas events were cancelled, lockdowns ensued. More…

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: Elon Musk has SECRET MEETING with Iran's ambassador to the UN to discuss US-Iran relations.

The Logan Act prohibits private citizens from engaging in foreign policy undercutting the US govt.

Musk is NOT a govt official. If reports are true, this was a FEDERAL FELONY.

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

@13vixen @VABVOX I seem to recall that we killed the Nazis with kindness in WWII.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING NEWS!!! THIS IS DAMNING!!!

ABC News exclusively reports that the woman involved in the Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz sat for multiple days of testimony in front of the House Ethics Committee and testified that Gaetz had sex with her when she was a minor in high school at age 17.

The House Ethics Committee also subpoenaed Gaetz's former girlfriend for testimony and obtained a sworn written statement where she lists Gaetz as one of the attendees at a party in July 2017, where dugs were present and which was attended by the woman who Gaetz allegedly had sex with when she was a minor. Gaetz was already an elected member of Congress at the time.

The House ethics Committee also obtained written testimony from another woman who said that she was at a party in July of 2017 in Florida that Gaetz attended, which was also attended by the woman who was a minor at the time and where drugs, including cocaine, were present.

Another woman told the committee that she was paid by Gaetz for sex. Gaetz has long denied all of the allegations, but the committee subpoenaed the company Venmo and obtained records of some payments made by Gaetz.

RELEASE THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT ON GAETZ NOW.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Get yourself and your family vaccinated, while you still can. Seriously.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

BREAKING: The attorney for the teenager at the center of the Matt Gaetz allegations calls on the House Ethics Committee to release the report against Gaetz and says there are witnesses.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

President Biden, I want you to know...millions of us would be okay with you addressing the nation at 6:30 pm and saying, "My fellow Americans, yeah...F*ck this bullshit! Not on my watch. F*ck that!!" We won't judge you. Promise.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Dems have the Senate majority for the next 60-plus days. Use it! Not just to confirm judges. Hold your own pre-confirmation hearings. Foreign Relations on Tulsi Gabbards ties to Russia. Intel Committee onJohn Ratliffe's misconduct on intelligence in Trump's first term. 1/

[Geez Louise @LouiseMont]

@ArtCandee There goes this record.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my six-year-old friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good.

RFK Jr being tapped to lead HHS is a disgrace.

[AuntiePho @newjunefletcher]

Blue Skies shining on me! (If you follow my Thread.)
See you elsewhere.