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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My main problem with the proposed Trump #ballroom is its size. Seems way out of scale with the WH itself. Does anyone know how big a ballroom is really needed for state purposes? Buildings on this 90k sq ft scale are convention centers. Maybe DJT wants to hold the Republican convention in it.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

@karaswisher.bsky.social @profgalloway.com @pivotpod.bsky.social You guys have the whole Qatari plane thing upside down. The Qs are sick of the old “palace” and are getting a new plane. They are punking Trump by giving him that white elephant, playing on his pretensions to monarchy.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Good idea, but let’s go one better: dox any and all HSI or ICE agents we can identify *now*! “Just following orders” of a criminally immune leader is no defense. That was tried last century.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I always want to remind people (especially Rs) that Medicaid is not giving money to poor people. It’s paying hospitals, docs, etc who provide health care (which they’re required to do) to these people. If you don’t pay care providers, guess where costs get shifted to?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@preetbharara.bsky.social Just finished listening to you, Frank, Jonah, Joanne when breaking news popped up that DJT is threatening to sanction Russia for new bombing of Ukraine. Does DJT think Vlad is muscling in on his turf? Mob metaphor seems very accurate here.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

@jaredb-econ.bsky.social I’m concerned that a lot of your reporting is dependent on reliable government data sources. Are you worried? Yet?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

@charlesgaba.com I’m worried about your future ability to post health care data. How much do you depend on reliable government statistics?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

There’s an old saying that: Before you tear down a fence (wall), be sure you know why it was build in the first place.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Keep in mind that #Medicaid is not a pay-out to poor or low-income persons. It makes payment health care providers who treat these folks. If we don’t do, these folks will get sick(er), miss work, etc. And the costs they put the system in uncompensated care will push up insurance rates.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Henceforth I will always refer to this as the #TrumpRegime .

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just to give context: Sununu was gov of NH when vouchers to private schools gave more per student than the state gave to public schools. NH is last in state support for public schools and higher education youtube.com/watch?v=kIIP...

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So I’m just waiting for the opening bell on the NYSE today. Gotta see how my retirement is gonna play out ….

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@barbmcquade.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social Please list legal defense orgs we can donate to that will defend wrongly terminated federal employees and military.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Lawyers on here: Is there a legal challenge underway to Musk's apparent seizure of federal spending? If not, why not?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

As NH state rep 2007-13, I saw the most impassioned representatives were parents of special needs kids, who struggled for support from the state, no easy feat in NH that worships "small govt". Maggie Hassan, then state senator, was one of them. @senatorhassan1.bsky.social youtu.be/BEYj8x8f1QY?...

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Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Gets Emotional Talking About Son at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hearing

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social The next time you’re on with Preet, you’ll need to pronounce broligarchy and broliagarch. (Why does on have an A before the G and the other not?) If these terms are going to enter into common parlance we need to know how to pronounce them properly. Thank you!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Biden: When Putin invaded Ukraine, he thought he'd conquer Kyiv in a matter of days. But the truth is, since that war began, I'm the only one that stood in the center of Kyiv. Not him.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 31/12/2024

The black line is how much a 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr has to pay per month for the benchmark #ACA policy in 2025. The blue bars are how much they'd have to pay in 2026 if the IRA subsidies are allowed to expire. I'm only halfway through the states.

Net ACA premiums for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr in various states with & without IRA subsidies

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

So are we calling them President Trusk or President Mump? #governmentshutdown

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I wonder if, when he cited medieval texts in his opinion overturning Roe, Sam Alito expected pregnant women to return to medieval mortality rates.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@preetbharara.bsky.social #askpreet Could a possible defense for Mangione in the United Health CEO killing be that crippling chronic pain had lead to severe mental instability, therefore not responsible for his actions? essentially an insanity defense?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m that mom. Each year’s COLA is eaten up before time by heat/rent increases.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

On one level I’m disgusted that Trump is in the front row next to Macron at Notre Dame. But then saw John Kerry is there. Sure wish Biden, a devout Catholic, was representing US. On the other hand, this may be the longest Trump has ever had to sit in a church. Looks to be falling asleep.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Biden will be exiting the public stage in less than 2 months, and at that time will be politically irrelevant. He is a father who cares for his once troubled son, and wanted to give him an escape from a legal prosecution really aimed at Joe, not Hunter. I applaud him. Hunter has paid enough.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

All this talk about immigrants pouring over the border blah blah blah, it occurs to me that immigrants, documented or not, are doing / hoping to do exactly what Elon has done: enter into the country with the strongest economy in the world, work hard, be successful, for themselves and family.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

@hakeemjeffries.bsky.social @senatorschumer.bsky.social Question, now that the judges are done: what if you reintroduced the bipartisan immigration bill. Could you get that passed by New Year’s Eve?

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@nhrepporter.bsky.social When you look into the deep pockets behind voucher schemes, it would seem that those folks could easily scholarship any kid they wanted into their private/home/religious schools. What they’re really after is the public dollars to ensure they make profit off their curricula.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@michelemuse.bsky.social Hi Michele. I take photos of flowers, too, like this dahlia from my garden last summer.

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Jill Shaffer Hammond @jillshafham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Tax and Spend” is what government does. Whether Dem or Repub, democratic or authoritarian. A good government will tax fairly and will spend appropriately.

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