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Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
the warning celebrating their latin grammy win with their parents ♡
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It never gets old seeing this! Mesmerizing! Fall colors in the Bluegrass. @WLKY Horse country🐎
…more on the way!
Received an email from Acura that the latest map update for my onboard navigation will the last they will make for it.
Trying to force me into a new vehicle.
Car makers wonder why we like Car Play and Android Auto. It's our only option to battle against planned obsolescence
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Love small town life.
Go out to eat and run into three people that you know from over 10 years ago.
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Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
A Capitol Hill source sent me a Department of Energy hotline on S.1674, the Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2025, which is Senator Mitch McConnell’s bill.
That raises an obvious question: if Senator McConnell is still at George Washington University Hospital, how did this legislation move forward? Do Senate staff have the authority to advance legislation like this on behalf of a senator?
I followed up with Senator Mitch McConnell’s communications director, Stephanie Penn, hoping to get answers and a response to the questions raised in my previous video. Specifically: Where did this legislation come from, and how was it approved if the senator remains hospitalized?
Stephanie Penn had no response and walked into Senator Katie Britt’s office.
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
Hey guys, since you released faucis diary maybe now we can do the Epstein files?
Coincidentally @wfpk Question of the Day is “What is (or was) my favorite dive bar?”
Guess 14B WAS my favorite dive bar.
How else could I tolerate being stuck in the middle seat for hours? 😉
Daily reminder: 14B is not a dive bar. The call button isn’t a way to keep ordering round after round, and your flight is NOT the after-party.
Travel smart. Follow instructions of airport and airline workers, and leave unruly behavior off the itinerary, please and thanks.
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In the music biz, there’s a connotation that an artist identified as an artist”industry plant” is a bad thing.
But for decades wouldn’t we say the that most successful acts would be considered “industry plants?”
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Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
Thomas Massie Full Speech @ Oldham County LDD.
Watch the full clip.
Shameful behavior by the GOP and Kentucky Speaker of the House David Osborne.
@MassieforKY @RepThomasMassie
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
Here's the video of Massie's speech getting cut off on Friday night
Paywalled. I’ll put screen shots in the comments in case you’re interested to know why the Ky House Speaker snatched my microphone from the podium at the GOP event last night.
courier-journal.com/story/Ne…
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
If H.R. 260 becomes law, $631M meant for Afghanistan reconstruction will be clawed back to the Treasury. After twenty years of war and failure, not another dollar should ever reach the Taliban.
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
The utter lack of leadership—and the spineless kind that’s replaced it—is exactly what the American people are sick of. Cowards in Congress sell out the Constitution at the first whiff of pressure, then pat themselves on the back for their “pragmatism.”
This isn’t leadership. It’s surrender dressed up in a suit and tie.
If we won’t stand up for the Constitution, we don’t deserve to sit in these seats.
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
This guy makes some really good points . . .
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
When is a day not a day?
Answer: when Congress circumvents the law requiring a vote on Presidential National Emergencies within 15 days.
This passed with only three of us Republicans dissenting. It means there will be no House votes on tariffs.
Did we learn nothing from COVID?
Tom R./[email protected] retweeted
Why haven’t we voted on tariffs in the House of Representatives?
Because Speaker Johnson is using Rules Committee Resolutions, consummated by majority votes of the whole House, to declare that “a day is not a day” in order to AVOID THE U.S. LAW that requires Congress to vote.
Math is hard
The 1,547-page, $110+ Billion House “Continuing Resolution” meant to avert a government shutdown includes:
-A pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year.
-A new football stadium in D.C.
-72 pages of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy
- Renewal of the “Global Engagement Center”, which is currently being sued for censorship
Sources:
punchbowl.news/wp-content/up…
cbsnews.com/news/continuing-…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The pay increase for congress is 3.8%, not 40%, resulting in an increase of $6,600 and a salary of $180,600.
The number $243,000 comes from an estimate of what congress members would have been paid had they received every adjustment provided by the ECI formula since 1992.
factcheck.org/2024/12/congre…
crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS…
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