Catherine MD, JAFERD

@andertoon.bsky.social

For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.

BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.

Update: the Manassas-based effort to help flood survivors in Nepal has raised $36,302 from 82 donors so far. Their goal is $100K. Please join me in contributing: funds.anhsdc.org

Ken Paxton stole someone’s $1,000 pen. He’ll steal your tax dollars. He’ll steal your healthcare. He’ll even steal your pen. I'll be a Senator who puts money in your pocket — and I’ll never put your pen in mine.

He didn’t change. They did.

Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

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July 7 would be a good day for the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to deny initiation of the Dulles South Innovation Center comprehensive plan amendment so the world’s largest data center proposal fails now instead of starting another years-long fight. www.insidenova.com/news/prince_...

Read JD Vance, writing in @theatlantic.com , from 2016. Ask yourself: was he right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

To my constituents who fought so hard against all the odds against the largest data center proposal in history (up to that point): you showed the commonwealth, country and world what happens when everyday people unite & win. The PW Digital Gateway is gone! www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/br...

Should be reposted every month....Speak Truth....

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The data center industry wants us to continue their sales tax exemption through 2035 because the amount of money they keep from it annually grows exponentially. That’s billions of $ we need to offset the damage of HR1 to Medicaid, the ACA, SNAP, etc. We need that money to fix roads and feed kids.

The White House is literally becoming a trap house. The resident has 3 baby mamas, 34 felonies, gets shot at all the time, and there are now fights on the front lawn.

It’s telling that when Hassett was asked about the spike in delinquent credit card balances, he talked about the potential harm to credit card companies, not people.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Health insurance companies don't provide health care. Doctors do. Nurses do. Hospitals do. Clinics do. All insurance companies do is deny you the care you already paid for so some executive can buy their second yacht and their third home.

This always amazes me. In a very reprehensible way...how these men went from making these statements to complicit enablers. They could have and should have been better.

You shouldn’t have to fight and kill in an unjust war to have decent healthcare in this country.

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Screw That Data Center,And Others. Shorter Showers, All While Much Of The Country Is In A Very Bad Drought, Stupid Waste Of Resources, FOR RICH INVESTORS........

Democrats in the Senate introduced bills to end Trump’s war with Iran on: March 4 March 18 March 24 April 15 April 22 (last night) Republicans blocked it. Every single time.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Right now, as millions of pages filled with the most despicable, depraved atrocities human beings are capable of, cover every square inch of America’s collective consciousness, the pro-life Christians are nowhere to be found... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Huh. Somebody wrote an article about all of us who were seemingly pissing into the wind about rightwing fascist designs for America for the last umpteen years. apple.news/ALG9ltJmRTUO...

You're the dipshit liver doctor who voted to confirm the dipshit. You owe America an apology, but even then, no apology will ever be enough. #medsky

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Exports of U.S. farm products declined by 60% after the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1929. Countries retaliated with tariffs of their own, then turned to other sources for key U.S. farm products—such as wheat, pork, and cotton. Exports did not fully rebound until after World War II.

Full context here. www.politico.com/live-updates...