Terri #Trying2DoGood

Passionate about family & community. Gardener, word freak, NPR geek. Pro-Earth. Strong public education is only way to stable democracy. @TSE2935 elsewhere.

[Terri #Trying2DoGood @tse2935]

Slowly unfollowing folks here who are also on the alt-Twit sites.

Loved this place once. A little nobody could eavesdrop on so many fabulous conversations, be treated to fabulous recommendations of books, articles, music, artwork.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

7 doctors are anti vaccine

100,000 doctors are pro vaccine

Anti vaxxers : "But doctors say..."

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Did you know the department of energy deleted almost 6000 web pages on energy saving, all because they matched the advice Mamdani was giving in NYC?

It’s the world’s dumbest cult.

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

Funny how these ‘patriotic Christians’ never seem to follow this part of the Bible.

Leviticus 19:33–34.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

People who say “I can’t do that, it’s against my religion” are practicing religious freedom.

People who say “You can’t do that, it’s against my religion” are practicing authoritarianism.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Republicans don't own July 4th.
Republicans own January 6th.

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

This. This. This. Every word. (Although I’m still a little peeved at the officiating. Delay for 2.5 minutes while Argentina gave medical assistance to a player who then returned immediately? No.)

[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

White supremacy sounds like complaining about the low birth rate in America then trying to end birthright citizenship and even moving to block visas of pregnant women trying to enter the United States.

“Low birth rate” means “low white birth rate.”

[Rev. Justin Berkobien @JustinBerkobien]

If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault you also owe the country your resignation.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Cats teach science.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

I built a way to save America a whole lot of money.

A patient of mine needs a mastectomy with tissue expander reconstruction, so we called a hospital’s price transparency line to ask for an estimate before surgery.

The quote? $430,000.

Then I sat down and estimated what it would cost to perform that exact same operation at Redbud Surgery Center.

About $17,000.
This is exactly why I believe independent outpatient surgery centers are part of the future of healthcare.

When physicians are empowered to build efficient, patient-centered facilities, we can often provide the same high-quality care in a setting that is more affordable, more transparent, and designed around the patient experience.

Healthcare doesn’t have to be this expensive.

Competition works. Transparency works. Innovation works.

If we want to lower healthcare costs in America, we don’t have to lower the quality of care. We simply have to start supporting models that deliver excellent outcomes without unnecessary overhead.

There are solutions. We just have to be willing to build them.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”

— E.O. Wilson

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

This awful episode is an example of character assassination, a longtime authoritarian tactic, along with "going after the target's family." The goal is to cause such psychological distress that they will stop opposing the government or defending democracy.
Baseless accusations of sex crimes and domestic abuse are among the most common categories of character assassinations, and are frequently used in Russia to harass and sometimes imprison people who displease the government.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Right...

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.