Author: susie
You can’t always get what you want
He’s running
No fence Sitters!!!🚨 BREAKING – American actor Dwayne Johnson (The Rock): "I've seen a lot of evil in Hollywood scripts – but nothing compares to what Israel has done in Gaza. The Israeli government and PM Netanyahu are heartless criminals with no trace of humanity." 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸x.com/i/status/208…
— Angry Donkey News (@angrydonkeynews.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T04:09:49.287Z
Good guys winning
www.propublica.org/article/nonc…
— Susie Madrak Ω (@susiemadrak.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T13:40:16.772Z
The big cheese
Yes, someone gave Andrew Jackson, a 1400 pound block of cheese for Inauguration, which he left in the White House entrance for two years, and then let people come in and eat it, www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/paint….
— Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T03:23:26.285Z
Cry for private health insurance
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”ysph.yale.edu/news-article…
Dump site
I was thinking the other day how those not in DC (I'm not) aren't hit as clearly with how Trump has turned the White House grounds into something between construction site and waste dump. Genuinely upsetting. Far from the worst thing he's done but among the most tangible and graphic.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2026-08-16T13:22:50.175Z
Huh
www.independent.co.uk/news/science…
— Louisa Radice (@louisaradice.bsky.social) 2026-08-15T20:43:42.038Z
Life is hard
One of my closest friends lived like this. Recently, her son was accepted into a residential care home and she has some degree of freedom for the first time in 25 years. There were many time when I wondered if she’d make it out alive.
The burden is enormous, and they’re given bandaids.
Just like Reagan
Trump is living in a WW2 movie.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-orders-navy-to-restore-old-technology-in-aircraft-carriers-costing-billions-0055ec1b?st=Rgfcck&reflink=article_copyURL_share