Ann’s Rumbles and Rambles
@ann121.bsky.social
Healthcare M&A and turnaround consultant
Optimist, adopted adopter, proud single mom, number nerd, overthinker, bookworm, knitter, musician
Dark blue with sparkles, originating from the state that voted against Nixon!
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Optimist, adopted adopter, proud single mom, number nerd, overthinker, bookworm, knitter, musician
Dark blue with sparkles, originating from the state that voted against Nixon!
🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
I love this man. He came out of nowhere as the VP candidate and we had no time to find out about the hard steel core under his midwestern nice guy facade.
Tim Walz takes a shot at Susan Collins: "She's always 'deeply concerned' about things. Well do something then, about being 'deeply concerned.'"
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I love this man. He came out of nowhere as the VP candidate and we had no time to find out about the hard steel core under his midwestern nice guy facade.
“Regardless of what happens in the future or how the political landscape may change or who we have helming our nation, what has been revealed about us as is going to remain, and we're going to have to deal with the unmasked, unearthed, illuminated hatred that we are this violently afflicted with.”
Then he arrived a decade ago: someone who gave them what they needed to finally abandon the performance completely: permission to be horrible; someone who erased any semblance of decorum, any expectation of decency, any level of accountability.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-presi...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-presi...
This President Exposed Many of My White Christian Friends
This President has been many things since descending an escalator a decade ago: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Regardless of what happens in the future or how the political landscape may change or who we have helming our nation, what has been revealed about us as is going to remain, and we're going to have to deal with the unmasked, unearthed, illuminated hatred that we are this violently afflicted with.”
I am so sorry for these hard-working ATCs doing a job where the only time you’re noticed is when something goes wrong. Horrible.
May 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I am so sorry for these hard-working ATCs doing a job where the only time you’re noticed is when something goes wrong. Horrible.
Too important not to share. #WarOnWomen
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Too important not to share. #WarOnWomen
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This is a great plan. Go check it out and get everything set up for us.
May 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is a great plan. Go check it out and get everything set up for us.
Buddy and Teddy say goodnight.
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Buddy and Teddy say goodnight.
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"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
No words.
Ashley Babbit's family is poised to recieve 30 million dollars (from tax payers) thanks to the Dept of Justice...
Mrs Sicknick just wanted a phone call and the people who assaulted her son Brian held accountable.
Mrs Sicknick just wanted a phone call and the people who assaulted her son Brian held accountable.
May 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
No words.
Just watched a TikTok where a man pointed out a nice thing someone had done for him and said, “Sometimes it’s the little things that are the big things.” Truth.
May 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just watched a TikTok where a man pointed out a nice thing someone had done for him and said, “Sometimes it’s the little things that are the big things.” Truth.
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The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm.
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm.
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.
Hello?
It is appropriate, as we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, to reread the Declaration of Independence. The list of Britain’s “repeated injuries and usurpations” is startlingly relevant to the present day.
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
May 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It is appropriate, as we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, to reread the Declaration of Independence. The list of Britain’s “repeated injuries and usurpations” is startlingly relevant to the present day.
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AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care?
There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
May 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care?
There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
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Courts delivered wins for Pennsylvania voters Friday in two different right-wing disenfranchisement efforts.🥳
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A Double Win For Voters in Pennsylvania
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Courts delivered wins for Pennsylvania voters Friday in two different right-wing disenfranchisement efforts.🥳
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Your School House Rock moment...🤔
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Your School House Rock moment...🤔
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
I couldn’t agree more. I want boring. Dependable. Stable. Competent.
I want a President who will just do his job. Quietly and professionally. I don’t need someone in my face 24/7.
May 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I couldn’t agree more. I want boring. Dependable. Stable. Competent.
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The National Science Foundation has been ordered to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice”.
No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.
If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.
Link below.
No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.
If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.
Link below.
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The National Science Foundation has been ordered to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice”.
No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.
If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.
Link below.
No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.
If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.
Link below.
And what back doors have now been installed into the systems for continued access or revision.
We’ve been warning about this on @pivotpod.bsky.social for 6 months now.
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
April 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And what back doors have now been installed into the systems for continued access or revision.
More heroes.
This is so important. No pretenses. Speak the truth.
Because it’s time now to start ensuring that record is crystal clear.
Because it’s time now to start ensuring that record is crystal clear.
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
More heroes.
The grift is strong in this one.
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The grift is strong in this one.
That’s an excellent point!
April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
That’s an excellent point!
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This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
(1/5)
📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 27, 2025
Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.