JoseyRider
Lifetime Democrat. Retired. Women's rights, civil rights, environment/climate change, permaculture.
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderSPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderHassan grills RFK Jr about HHS still employs David Geier and he *IS NOT* happy about her line of questioning, which he calls "defamatory"
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderAlford defends Trump accepting a luxury plane from Qatar: "Look, President Trump is frustrated that he's flying around in the 40 year old plane. He's wanted a new Air Force One ... he's gonna get his way on this. It's gonna be painted red, white, and blue."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderYou fought for habeas corpus, put it in your constitution, and now you’re just gonna let a game show host take it away? You’re not losing your rights. You’re handing them over.
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderBreaking: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus. Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderOur government is going to hand back and forth one increasingly bugged jet a month with Qatar until they're eventually just exchanging a toilet with a giant microphone in it.
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- Reposted by JoseyRider"Pirro never served as a federal prosecutor, or in any role at all in the DOJ. She was the elected district attorney in Westchester County, New York, and served as a county judge for three years during the ‘90s, although she does not appear to have practiced law at all in the past two decades."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderBaldwin very angry about Head Start programs in her state that have faced delays in payments from HHS and have had to temporarily close. Baldwin: "What would you say to a parent who shows up for Head Start and the doors are close?" RFK Jr.: "I would be very sad."
- Reposted by JoseyRiderOkay back to RFK, now testifying in a Senate committee. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), fuming about all the haphazard and drastic cuts underway, held up a paper and said it's part of RFK's HHS "operating plan" that he he had to submit. "530 programs simply have asterisks."
- Reposted by JoseyRiderRFK Jr. is now up in the Senate HELP Committee. Minutes into this hearing, as RFK was giving opening remarks, at least 3-4 protesters started shouting and were dragged out.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro today: "Tobacco prevention, lead poisoning, oral health. Who do we have to call to be able to get those things reinstated?"
- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro specifically referenced the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which was in the news yesterday because HHS just reversed firings there that stripped coal miners' health protections. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) publicly said she talked to RFK and made this happen.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro is leaving no stone unturned. She calls out the fact that GOPers have been calling RFK personally and getting him to spare specific HHS programs they like and want for their states. "Who do Democrats have to call? Is there a special phone number if I want to save tobacco prevention?"
- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro is back, telling RFK that his reorg of HHS is illegal as is his refusal to spend billions that Congress appropriated. "You do not have the authority to do what you are doing." "I don't mean to be repetitive but I do mean to be repetitive: "You do not have the authority to do any of that."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderRFK says "everybody can make that decision" on whether to get vaccinated and he doesn't want to give his opinions bc "it will seem like I'm giving advice to other people and I don't want to be doing that." Pocan: "But that's kinda your jurisdiction because CDC does give advice." How is this real.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderRep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) asks RFK if he'd vaccinate his children today for measles: "For measles?" RFK says, pausing. "Probably for measles." The HHS secretary says his opinions are irrelevant: "I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me." 😐
- Reposted by JoseyRider(Ed note: I'm delayed by like 40 mins on this hearing, I've scrolled back to watch DeLauro) DeLauro: Why did you eliminate CDC's Office of Smoking and Health? RFK: We're under a court order not to do more reorg at HHS, my attorneys tell me I can't talk about this.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderLots of back and forth about whether RFK will spend the money that Congress appropriated to NIH in 2024, as required by law, versus not spending it because Russ Vought wants to hollow out the govt. RFK says yes. "Unbelievable," DeLauro mutters after she goes off. "Unbelievable."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro is very good at this. She's rattling all this stuff off with a calm, reasonable tone but... 🔥 "You say, you want to 'rescale our biomedical research budget.'" "Excuse me, but that's BS. You are not rescaling NIH research, you are proposing to cut it by TWENTY BILLION dollars."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderAderholt asks RFK what steps HHS is taking to prevent abortions. "Every abortion is a tragedy," RFK says. He says he's ended federal $ to overseas programs that fund/counsel abortions + withheld Title X funding from NGOs that don't differentiate their funding streams.
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro is still not done -- this is still her opening remarks! "You claim to be reorganizing NIH. Any reorganizing of NIH must go through the Congress," she tells him. "Mr. Secretary, you have no lawful authority to undertake this by yourself."
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderDeLauro lists off various CDC prevention programs that RFK is calling for eliminating in his budget: HIV Tobacco Drowning Asthma Lead poisoning Gun violence "Why on earth these the places you are terminating for so-called waste?" she asks him.
- Reposted by JoseyRiderRep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) welcomes RFK Jr. to today's House Approps Committee hearing by ripping 1) his "disastrous" HHS budget request (it cuts $33B from HHS) and 2) his "misinformation and lies" about vaccines. "Mr. Secretary, you are gutting the life-saving work of the Dept of HHS."
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- Reposted by JoseyRideran overview of the administration’s most egregious attacks on the constitution and some thoughts on why conservatives are perfectly fine with them www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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- Reposted by JoseyRiderAOC shuts down GOP outrage—calling out their arrogance, their condescension. “I will not yield to disrespectful men.” No apologies. No deference. Just straight fire. And they couldn’t handle it.💥🔥🔥
