Patricia McMillan

Tax prep, business consulting & advisory CPA & MBA. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

There was no screwworm under Joe Biden.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Everyone keeps telling me the war is over and Iran’s military is decimated and yet, Iran is shooting down American aircraft…

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

Every child deserves to feel seen, heard, and loved – from Delaney Hall Detention Facility in New Jersey to Dilley Detention Center in Texas.

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Fmr FBI Agent Michael Feinberg: "Something that absolutely chilled my blood was when both JD Vance and Stephen Miller told ICE officers and agents, 'You have absolute immunity in what you need to do.' That is the exact opposite of how I was trained."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mehdi Hasan slams Elon Musk, "He is obsessed with finding these cases where he can then amplify far right voices"

"He doesn't just do it in England with Tommy Robinson, he does it in German with the AfD, obviously he does it in the US with Twitter"

Victoria Derbyshire, "What is he seeking to do?"

Mehdi Hasan, "He's seeking to embolden some of the worst far right voices in the Western world"

"That's why he's funding so many people all over the place"

"This is his agenda. It's a very racist agenda. We see that in the US with the Republican party"

"Elon Musk amplifies some of the most neo-nazi voices on Twitter"

"You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, can you take apartheid South Africa out of the boy?"

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Some good news! A judge ruled against Trump’s outrageous $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, which help to bring highly skilled immigrant workers to America.

It’s an important step in the right direction that this ridiculous financial burden was ruled unlawful.

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

I sat on this hearing. @SPLC shares evidence of extremism but Majority members kept wrongly accusing them of targeting Christians as a group. Well, these Pastors make it plain. SPLC does good and names those who do bad.

[House Judiciary Dems @HouseJudiciary]

The Southern Poverty Law Center is on the front lines of fighting violent extremist groups.

Several civil rights defenders spoke out against Republicans’ baseless smears against the SPLC.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game.

You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Last week, I was sitting in an arbitration hearing in which Washington Post leadership labeled me as a threat.

And excused away the purging of Black writers, questioning our merit.

Today, I’m getting a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

An incumbent Republican Senator’s company was literally busted for the “largest health care fraud” in history in the “red” state of Florida

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Ground beef’s up 25% since Trump was sworn in, coffee 40%, the price of gas 33%. Groceries, rent, health care, and the power bill hit their new all-time highs last month.

And while you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

It is Republicans in Congress who have voted their institution into irrelevance

[Rep. John Larson @RepJohnLarson]

It is shameful for my Republican colleagues to launch an anti-Muslim caucus. They are pushing discriminatory legislation and sowing hateful misinformation about Muslim Americans.

Speaker Johnson must condemn this bigotry and commit to standing up for religious freedom for all.

[Congressman Dwight Evans @RepDwightEvans]

Social Security and Medicare are EARNED benefits!

If Republicans want to focus on fixing them, let’s start by scrapping the income cap for Social Security so millionaires and billionaires *actually* pay their fair share of taxes.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

The Senate is set to vote on renewing Trump’s spying powers this week.

If section 702 of FISA is renewed, people like Bill Pulte, Todd Blanche, and Kash Patel will be able to invade any American's privacy.

I’m going to fight like Hell to make sure that doesn’t happen.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

It is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction.

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[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @SecRollins: You lie. The average life cycle of a Screwworm ranges from 14 to 54 days depending on temperature and humidity.

The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days.

If you can’t accept responsibility, or even apologize for messing up, you need to resign.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: I imagine that Donald Trump is going to deny the results of any election that he loses because he can’t really bear the thought—the idea that he actually lost. And so I think we’ve already seen others since 2020, like Kari Lake in Arizona and many others, try to say, “Well, if I lost, it must be because it was made up.” And that’s just not the case.

When you lose fair and square, you have to understand that that’s what happened, and we have to respect the will of voters. Just like when Democrats lose, you have to respect the will of voters as well.