Philip Rafshoon

Built a cool bookstore, ran a book festival, now building membership of Midtown Alliance. Walker, runner, biker, enjoying life & culture.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

I’M CRYING 😂😂

[emilie @emiliepfrank]

ice agents helping tsa at airports across the country this morning

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

Hey… Charlie Kirk’s shooter turned out to be a white male who donated to Trump’s presidential campaign.

Not a Democrat…
Not a liberal…

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Mad TV 30 years ago.

[Philip Rafshoon @philiprafshoon]

@DianneCallaha16 I got it, too!

[Dianne Callahan @DianneCallaha16]

So, I received an e-mail from the Social Security Administration (SSA) that reads that there is no tax on Social Security because of the Big Beautiful Bill, but that’s a lie. Has anyone else received this? It’s not only a lie, but it’s extremely unprofessional.

[Philip Rafshoon @philiprafshoon]

@ThisWeekABC @GovChristie @jonkarl N

[Philip Rafshoon @philiprafshoon]

@ThisWeekABC @GovChristie @jonkarl I

[John Mamola @JohnMamola]

Rachel Maddow got that FU money

Whoh!

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

Tell me again how the message wasn’t “plain spoken” enough, but first watch this video

[The Carter Center @CarterCenter]

This Presidents Day, we honor the memory of former President Jimmy Carter. The world said goodbye to him last month, but his legacy endures through the Carter Center's efforts to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope. https://t.co/UAiLLvKeU4

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Seven years ago today was the worst day of my life. On that day, a 19-year-old who never should’ve had access to a gun in the first place entered my high school with an AR-15 and took the lives of 17 students and faculty members and injured 17 others.

Since then, I’ve worked to get stronger gun laws passed across the country because I never want anyone else to hear the deafening cries of their classmates and family members after their friends have been stolen from them by the epidemic of preventable gun violence.

I’ll be honest, this work is soul-crushing. No one would choose to spend every day talking about the worst day of their life because they want to — but the reason people who’ve experienced this do this is because we feel we have no other choice. Like with all forms of activism, it is not voluntary, it is mandatory to organize for others survival.

Because despite the empty “thoughts and prayers” offered by too many of our leaders, this continues to happen on a regular basis. Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough on their own — they need to be paired with action.

Though this work is incredibly hard, it is working. President Biden created the first ever office of gun violence prevention which helped act like FEMA for instances of gun violence and mass shootings along with making sure the hundreds of millions allocated by congress to combat gun violence was actually used to fund violence intervention programs and enforce laws better. The other day I was talking with one of the former directors of gun violence prevention from that office, who told me in 2023 we saw the single largest one year reduction in gun homicides in US history of 12% and the data for 2024 are pointing to an additional 15% reduction. That means we cut gun homicides by nearly a third in just two years. That means thousands are alive right now who otherwise would not be. ⅓ is nowhere near enough but it’s a hell of a lot better than where we were headed. I spent many days of college in between classes on zoom calls with the white house working to create that office and had worked on the idea since introducing it with March For Our Lives in 2019. What keeps me going are my incredible family, friends, fellow survivors and knowing what we are doing is working, even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.

One day, I want to live in a world where no one ever has to experience the pain so many experienced that day in Parkland and every day in America. But until that day is a reality, we have to keep doing this work. It’s too important not to. Those in my generation who are part of the gun safety movement know that if we don’t have a government that will change gun laws then we’ll change who’s in government. That is the next phase that I am working on now with Leaders We Deserve we must bring the next generation of the movement into office to create the change our country so desperately needs.

[Carlos del Rio @CarlosdelRio7]

Impact of NIH funding in Georgia:
NIH AWARDS FUNDING: $780 M
JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,816
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.18 B
Bio Industry Impact in the State:
Jobs: 37,031
Businesses: 3,284
Cutting NIH indirects will kill jobs and cause a recession. https://t.co/SGxtjfXuIe

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

@SenatorCollins You enabled this 10-cent 10-IQ dictator, you asshole. This is yours. May your creator forgive you.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

Trump’s Make America Sick Again agenda had a strong first week — undermining bird flu research, HIV prevention/treatment & global disease coordination all in one fell swoop.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Jack Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy’s son, on RFK Jr and the silence from some of his family members.

[Philip Rafshoon @philiprafshoon]

For what it's worth, It's 26 Degrees right now in DC. It was 28 degrees for both President Carter and President Biden's Outdoor Inaugarations.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

🚨 BREAKING: President Biden's term concludes with zero political appointees indicted or convicted, and no cabinet resignations over impropriety—an ethical benchmark rarely seen, especially in contrast to Trump's administration. Well done!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Four years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right. That’s what @JoeBiden did.

At a time when our economy was reeling, he drove what would become the world’s strongest recovery – with 17 million new jobs, historic wage gains, and lower health care costs. He passed landmark legislation to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and address the threat of climate change. 

I’m grateful to Joe for his leadership, his friendship, and his lifetime of service to this country we love.