Mana G.

@lisamurkowski This is wrong and you knew it. You had a chance to do something and you didn't. How dare you.

This was one of the hardest votes I have taken during my time in the Senate.   My goal throughout the reconciliation process has been to make a bad bill better for Alaska, and in many ways, we have done that. In addition to extending pro-growth tax cuts, a larger child tax credit, and no tax on tips or overtime, we made a historic investment and modernization of the Coast Guard; enhanced our border security and national defense; funded aviation safety, including AWOS/VWOS systems that will save lives; and provided tax-exempt status for the Community Development Quota Program to help western Alaska communities establish a sustainable economy, among other provisions.   We have advanced new opportunities for resource development in the NPR-A, the Coastal Plain, and Cook Inlet that will help us create jobs and increase the share of revenues our state receives. I also co-led the Senate effort to restore a slightly longer phase-out for wind and solar tax credits while deleting a punitive excise tax targeting them.   Those provisions will benefit our economy, but it is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety net programs—Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits—that our most vulnerable populations rely on.   To address the bill’s shortcomings, we have helped our communities through a $50 billion rural health fund. This will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for Alaska hospitals, community health centers, and other providers. We secured commitments from the CMS Administrator to continue to address longstanding priorities which will directly help Bartlett, Fairbanks Memorial, Central Peninsula, and other hospitals in Alaska.   In the SNAP program, we have added tribal exemptions for work requirements, delayed cost-share penalties to help Alaska get benefits to the people who need them, and included work requirement waivers that align with our Medicaid policies. We also secured commitments from the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional flexibilities to Alaska for SNAP.   But, let’s not kid ourselves. This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution. While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation—and we all know it.   My sincere hope is that this is not the final product. This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the President’s desk. We need to work together to get this right.

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@lukeylux EXCUSE ME?

This is like… 1/3 the stones I came home with BUT all of these are available for customs ✨

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@peachyyyykeen_ I NEED ONE

@thewolfworkshop I was on a waicing list for this at some point buy have never got an email. Did anything ever happen with it?

Also, it's glow up season.

@az_hanza Classic tell me you didn't read it without telling me you didn't read it. Maybe reading comprehension is at fault? Maybe people just open webtoons and look at the pictures?

I see this series has been getting a lot of unnecessary hate. I'm not one of the Canvas readers, but I read up to episode 6 and understood what the author is trying to convey.

a retired wizard. "I CAST! POWER WORD!! MIMOSAS!!"

This is genius. Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song. And it was a hit.

@Irrel Empty treasure chest. Already looted.

@UrsulaV I am going to make a TTRPG session where we fight God to protect the world's last Waffle House.

The Waffle House thread went viral, and the QTs are, for once, remarkably consistent. 1% — whatever, you didn’t need to write a whole thread 1% —ugh, cringe, you’re probably a Yankee who moved to Charlotte and think you know the South 98% — I WOULD FISTFIGHT GOD FOR WAFFLE HOUSE

@ElyKreimendahl Saw a name tag at Target for "Knathan"

in NYC kids are named Imogene and Silas and Atticus and when I go back home to Illinois all the kids are named John. Sometimes Jon. Or maybe Sean

Since apparently people have decided to slag on Waffle House today, allow me to say a few words, as a transplant to the South, about this institution. Waffle House goes harder than 99% of us will ever go in our lives.