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Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both state chambers.

June 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

The photo shows a group of people around a large meeting table. At the table is Big Bird from Sesame Street, with the comment: Dude from Atlantic.

March 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

If Tesla dealerships would just rake their lots there wouldn’t be so many fires.

March 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in tax returns from billionaires exceeds the combined sum of every scam in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc you've ever heard by FAR.

It's not even close.

At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR.
It's not even close.

February 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz last year, spoke out on Facebook.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk.
A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

January 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

We generally don’t give luck—good luck or bad luck—enough credit.
Let’s help them get back on their feet. #LAfires

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
@ethanjacobs.bsky.social

January 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

The announcement that there will no longer be fact-checking on Facebook isn’t going well for Zuck. #FactsMatter

Headline: Facebook Founder and
Convicted Pedophile Mark Zuckerberg, Dead at 36, Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact-Check Posts

Photo of Zuckerberg

Copy: Zuckerberg, who died of coronavirus and complications from syphilis at his home near Facebook headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, says it is not Facebook's role to be the arbiter of truth.

January 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

AG Garland has a duty to release the #JackSmith report and we deserve the opportunity to read it!

Please contact the Department of Justice to request its release!

DoJ email 📧contact page: www.justice.gov/doj/webform/...
DoJ Comment📱Line: 202-353-1555
#ReleaseTheJackSmithReport

Liz Cheney: While Donald Trump and Barry Loudermilk continue to spread malicious lies about the 1/6
Select Committee, Trump is trying yet again to hide evidence and suppress the truth. The Justice Department has obtained testimony and evidence from dozens of Trump's former advisors and Vice President Pence showing the danger Trump poses.
Now Trump is already doing what despots do— he is trying to conceal the truth and threatening to jail those who investigated him. The congressional report yesterday destroying Loudermilk's fraudulent allegations shows the despicable malice behind Trump's efforts. AG Garland now has a duty to release the Justice Department Report and prevent its evidence from being destroyed. The truth must prevail. The framers of our Constitution knew the lessons of history — that people led by men without character can quickly lose their freedom.

January 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

AG Garland has a duty to release the #JackSmith report and we deserve the opportunity to read it!

Please contact the Department of Justice to request its release!

DoJ email 📧contact page: www.justice.gov/doj/webform/...
DoJ Comment📱Line: 202-353-1555
#ReleaseTheJackSmithReport

January 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

You get a lot more exercise if you use your face. 🤣
#exercise #hiking

TIP: As you walk down a trail, use a stick to make first contact with spiderwebs. You can also use your face. Do what feels right.

January 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Susan Masters

@susanboulder.bsky.social

"There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things."
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

Image: Devin Leonardi, "Two Friends on the Shore of Long Island"