Quality Bob

Quality Bob

@qualitybobaz.bsky.social

Retired executive. Family man. Non-smoker. Enjoys big, bold red wine, peaty scotch, porters, stouts, and Bloody Mary cocktails. International travel and cruises. Proud progressive. Lifelong learner.

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What an ignorant and selfish perspective by RFK Jr.! People know they have health insurance because they pay a monthly premium! People purchase insurance as a hedge against catastrophic events. People ought to be rewarded for making healthy choices, not kicked off healthcare insurance!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim."

Disgusting. We need more clean energy, less pollution, greater focus on mitigating climate change. That $1B could be better spent on healthcare, SNAP benefits, FEMA, TSA, infrastructure projects.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. A good time to say FUCK JILL STEIN. cnn.it/4uM0NXV

An utter failure of leadership!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

Disgusting. The USA used to be a nation of laws and constitutional rights.

Rachel Bitecofer@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

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$1.5T for the military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $470M to send National Guard into cities $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Fuck Trump. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine has a right to defend itself.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

US government is going to extreme lengths to help Putin and hurt Ukraine. Now threatening European states that if they use Russian assets to help Ukraine, they will have to pay it all back. Trump is desperate to give Putin his money back.

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This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

So who thinks that Trump will urge Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to redact [his name] from all Epstein files due to “ongoing investigations” of Democrat crimes…

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

After his new humiliation with the passage of the Epstein files bill, Trump is now more politically exposed on that issue than ever — and both his allies and opponents know it.

Can you say DEI hire?!

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.

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I almost skipped this because, well, duh. Don't skip it. It does a great job of addressing our current situation without ever saying a word about our current situation. HCR is, as always, outstanding.

Or in Greater Phoenix along with many other existing Data Centers (no tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, or floods)?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Khanna: "I appreciate that he's trying to get a deal with Iran. I don't like the fact that the biggest AI center, research center, is going to be in Dubai. I mean, what happened to America first? Why don't we put that center in Pennsylvania or in Ohio?"

The Trump legacy.

Mollie Katzen@molliekatzen.bsky.social

No national parks, no museums, no public schools, no affordable healthcare, no public television/radio, no suicide hotlines, no protections for water, food, or air, no early education or nutrition help for needy small children, no science research, no public health, no history or secular literature.

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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

What’s the current rate for government confidential and Top Secret documents?

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

The White House reportedly wants to recruit corporate sponsors for its annual Easter Egg Roll. The financial backers could spend as much as $200,000 on a "sponsorship" and gain exclusive access to the Oval Office. Is there anything that's not for sale under Trump?

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Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts. Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations. But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people. It's another scam.

85% of the problems are systemic - the role of leadership. Indiscriminate firings do not foster a climate of trust in the workforce. Without trust, fairness, and respect there cannot be engagement. Without engagement there will is no high performance, no organizational learning, and no innovation.

The value of government is not profit, but utility. The role of government is to serve and protect its citizens. The USPS was once the MOST respected and loved government service, until Republicans passed legislation requiring it to fully fund future pensions and show a profit, and installed DeJoy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

that Trumpers think the US Postal *SERVICE* should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

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