holly ☮️ retweeted
If you celebrate layoffs, you are a ghoul. Shouldn’t be controversial: don’t celebrate people losing their livelihoods, don’t celebrate families suddenly unsure of how to pay their mortgage or rent. Wild that some people on this site need that reminder.
RIP, Scott Stoddard! Journalism was lucky to have you.
I think I first began chatting with @scottstoddard on Twitter. I’m missing his voice, here and in person. Irascible editors unite. Subscribe to your local print paper in his honor.
holly ☮️ retweeted
If you're an editor, hire Nicole. She can do everything. Everything. I worked with Nicole for a decade, and all of us in the newsroom were in awe of her boundless skills and her ability to adapt to (and master) new beats, new technologies, new anything.
holly ☮️ retweeted
The @IdahoStatesman newsroom was gutted today by @mcclatchy - a gross, gutless company that sold its soul more than a decade ago. Today, whether you read the paper or not, it's BEYOND SAD!
Statesman sports staff down to one?
Good people losing jobs!
Statesman future ... AI scary!
Our community pays the price!
holly ☮️ retweeted
RIP. Will never forget what Dolly told me about politicians. "I don’t think any of ‘em are trying hard enough... they worry more about their party than they do about the people. If we just do what we felt was the right thing... None of them are working from the heart." 💙
Trying to figure out how we live in a world where our health insurance companies - not our doctors - have the power to decide whether we get MRIs or not. (And why it took nearly a week for my insurance to deny one. I should have just gone to the ER at the first sign of symptoms.)
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I served this nation for 21 years under presidents of both parties.
Six years ago today, I was forced to retire, following months of retaliation for a decision I made to defend our Constitution.
I’ll always call out corruption, regardless of party — it’s the right thing to do.
holly ☮️ retweeted
Needless to say, some of the greatest anti-Communists were Social Democrats. Trump wouldn’t know since he never was an anti-Communist—he wanted to cut business deals with the Soviet Union and admired the brutal repression of the Chinese regime.
holly ☮️ retweeted
Katie Miller has a master's degree and a career. It appears that she has consistently worked since she was 20. She can open a bank account, own property, and have a credit card in her name. She has access to no-fault divorce and would be entitled to child support for her baby if she and Stephen Miller divorce. She has laws protecting her against physical abuse and rape by her spouse. She had access to birth control and abortion, meaning that having a baby was a choice.
She is very much not living the life that the "propaganda. . . convinced" women was oppressive. She is living the life that feminism made possible.
Of course, she knows this. She's just a liar.
holly ☮️ retweeted
Power Ranking World Cup host cities I’ve been to so far… 🏟️
1. Seattle
2. Vancouver
3. Los Angeles
4. San Francisco
Seattle had EVERYTHING. Public transport, walkability, great food, and a stadium IN downtown.
Vancouver was a close 2nd. Similar vibe as Seattle. Was only there for a day. Waterfront is BEAUTIFUL!
Los Angeles is just too spread out. No atmosphere around the stadium. Traffic. Meh.
San Fran… or Santa Clara. Tough when the host city is an hour drive from the stadium.
🔜 still to come…
Houston
Dallas
Atlanta
Philly
Boston
NYC
This is fun news! idahocapitalsun.com/2026/05/…
holly ☮️ retweeted
Holy shit. And it all can be traced back to canceling USAID
Former CDC director on Ebola outbreak: ‘I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic’
thehill.com/policy/healthcar…
holly ☮️ retweeted
This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.
Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.
IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.
The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.
The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.
Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”
Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.
The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.
This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.
Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?
nytimes.com/2026/05/19/admin…
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🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th.
You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor.
Beyond shameful.
holly ☮️ retweeted
The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them.
Got it.
It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.
FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday politico.com/news/2026/05/19…
"The expectant management approach, the study said, could increase the risk of hemorrhage and retained pregnancy tissue, which can cause infection if it is not removed." stateline.org/2026/05/18/mis…
holly ☮️ retweeted
You could start by walking down the hall. See why your boss keeps pardoning people convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and securities fraud.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters.