Sue Bevelheimer
@sjbevelhe.bsky.social
Federal retiree; Midwesterner; love my dogs, gardening, tennis, family, nature, and wild places. Also the Detroit Lions, Red Wings, Pistons, and Tigers!
Ain't it the truth.
In October 2024, the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 % and the inflation rate was 2.6 %. Now, unemployment is 4.4 %, inflation has risen to 3 %, and we’ve added $3 Trillion to the national debt. The “Golden Age” feels more like the “Broke-Ass Olden Age.”
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ain't it the truth.
Can it get any crazier? Unfortunately, with the Trump administration - yes.
The DOJ is suing to stop California’s redistricting map. Apparently vote approved maps are a problem, but partisan gerrymanders done without public input are just democracy working as intended?
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Can it get any crazier? Unfortunately, with the Trump administration - yes.
Oh my. Trump: hypocrisy mych?
The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Oh my. Trump: hypocrisy mych?
💯 This!
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
💯 This!
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
Trump has been creating these trade wars that have resulted in Americans paying more. Tariffs are taxes on Americans — consumers pay, not foreign companies.
If they really helped, why are Trump and Josh Hawley now pushing rebate checks? Because voters feel the rising cost of living due to tariffs.
If they really helped, why are Trump and Josh Hawley now pushing rebate checks? Because voters feel the rising cost of living due to tariffs.
July 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Trump has been creating these trade wars that have resulted in Americans paying more. Tariffs are taxes on Americans — consumers pay, not foreign companies.
If they really helped, why are Trump and Josh Hawley now pushing rebate checks? Because voters feel the rising cost of living due to tariffs.
If they really helped, why are Trump and Josh Hawley now pushing rebate checks? Because voters feel the rising cost of living due to tariffs.
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
NEW from me and @immcouncil.org. Are migrants responsible for the fentanyl crisis? We analyzed CBP data on fentanyl seizures and find NO LINK between the two.
Our new fact sheet explains how fentanyl smuggling is overwhelming done at ports of entry, most often by US citizens. Check it out below!
Our new fact sheet explains how fentanyl smuggling is overwhelming done at ports of entry, most often by US citizens. Check it out below!
Fentanyl smuggling: Most seizures occur at ports of entry where U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers - American Immigration Council
Most fentanyl enters the U.S. through ports of entry, not via migrants. U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers, often recruited by criminal networks. Effective solutions focus on better screening at ...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
NEW from me and @immcouncil.org. Are migrants responsible for the fentanyl crisis? We analyzed CBP data on fentanyl seizures and find NO LINK between the two.
Our new fact sheet explains how fentanyl smuggling is overwhelming done at ports of entry, most often by US citizens. Check it out below!
Our new fact sheet explains how fentanyl smuggling is overwhelming done at ports of entry, most often by US citizens. Check it out below!
Insanity rules. Under Trump. But, no, let's get our knickers in a twist about Joe Biden. Who no longer is leading our country.
May 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Insanity rules. Under Trump. But, no, let's get our knickers in a twist about Joe Biden. Who no longer is leading our country.
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
Truth.
May 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Truth.
Excellent point!
April 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excellent point!
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
CNBC's Steve Liesman on the insane way the Trump tariffs are set: "It's gibberish. That's really the problem....They just made it up. Nobody's ever heard of it."
CNBC calls bullshit on Trump tariff calculations.
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
CNBC's Steve Liesman on the insane way the Trump tariffs are set: "It's gibberish. That's really the problem....They just made it up. Nobody's ever heard of it."
Hmmm...
Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.
April 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Hmmm...
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
Needs to be heard.
“You scare people into retiring, and it’s not just that NASA will be slower without them. We are going to lose entire abilities. We don’t understand the long-term implications in a field that’s this hard until it’s too late.”
Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA
So far, NASA has been spared the sweeping cuts that DOGE has unleashed on other federal agencies. Is that about to change?
www.newyorker.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Needs to be heard.
THIS!!!
If the US claims to be punishing Columbia for allowing what it describes as “illegal protests” and failing to protect students from “anti-Semitic harassment on campus”, why is the government mainly terminating medical, public & environmental health funding that keeps us safe? 6/
March 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
THIS!!!
Reposted by Sue Bevelheimer
NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam.
USAID was funding a cleanup.
Then Trump stopped work.
Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
USAID was funding a cleanup.
Then Trump stopped work.
Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
March 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam.
USAID was funding a cleanup.
Then Trump stopped work.
Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
USAID was funding a cleanup.
Then Trump stopped work.
Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Exactly. This is the question: who decides?
So who decides now if someone is a gang member or if someone has a valid asylum claim under the law? Tom Homan? A random ICE agent? A local Sheriff’s deputy? A neighbor? An informant? So they just say a person is in a gang and they get disappeared to a prison in El Salvador?
March 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Exactly. This is the question: who decides?
This makes me sick. Who are we anymore?
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This makes me sick. Who are we anymore?
No.Words. Just no words here.
Trump has repeatedly stated that his view is that Article II gives him the power to do whatever he wants. We should take him at his word that he views his power that way.
Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.
That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.
That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.
March 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
No.Words. Just no words here.
This!! As a former DoD employee, I could have been fired for violating the Hatch Act. At the very least, I could have been suspended with no pay. How can the Commander in Chief get away with this?! How can Defense Secretaty Hegseth require no political behavior by DoD employees! Terrible leadership.
Hyping Tesla up in front of the White House and pushing people to buy their stocks is a violation of the Hatch Act and in normal times this would’ve resulted in disqualification and removal from office. But now it’s normal that a convicted felon controls US govt so there’s that.
March 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This!! As a former DoD employee, I could have been fired for violating the Hatch Act. At the very least, I could have been suspended with no pay. How can the Commander in Chief get away with this?! How can Defense Secretaty Hegseth require no political behavior by DoD employees! Terrible leadership.
Well said!
March 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Well said!
Great news. Important effort!
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Great news. Important effort!
Good idea!
March 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Good idea!
Truth.
Delaying Mexican tariffs but not Canadian puts the lie to the idea that the tariffs have anything to do with fentanyl flows (since there are effectively no fentanyl flows across the northern border and there plenty across the southern border.) It was all an empty pretext anyway. This just proves it.
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Truth.