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Arlene Hirsch

@ashirsch.bsky.social

Career Counselor, Vocational Expert, Author, Childless Cat Lady, Concerned American. I have a website: www.arlenehirsch.com

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

No. She hasn't been charged with anything.

1/9/2025, 11:54:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

From your mouth to God's ears.

1/9/2025, 12:42:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice to seek Welker pushing back.

31/8/2025, 4:08:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK is bonkers.

31/8/2025, 4:04:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a word missing. It should read "RFK FALSELY links..."

30/8/2025, 1:54:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Said the guy who pardoned the insurrectionists and gave Ashli Babbitt's five million dollars and military honors.

29/8/2025, 5:23:42 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Irony is dead.

29/8/2025, 2:43:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

He's such a child. Someone needs to give him a timeout, preferably for the next three years.

29/8/2025, 12:30:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Despite the fact that they are a very large voting bloc, this article makes no mention of independent voters.

28/8/2025, 2:40:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I know a lot of young men who don't think Trump is the answer to anything they care about.

28/8/2025, 2:35:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

According to that logic, when someone invades your country, you should hand it over to them without a fight.

27/8/2025, 2:45:49 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Where's the evidence that Pritzker is freaked out? There's no sense here in Chicago that he's the least bit intimidated by the bully-in-chief.

27/8/2025, 1:41:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

In 2023 Norman's home state of South Carolina had a 25.8% increase in violent crime; yet no one is talking about sending troops there. I wonder why.

27/8/2025, 2:21:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The people in this "administration" are all certifiably insane.

26/8/2025, 5:23:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The crook is in the White House.

26/8/2025, 4:09:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Read her statement. She is not leaving.

26/8/2025, 10:28:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

He didn't remove her. She's still there.

26/8/2025, 10:26:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Does he know who gets the benefit of that research? All of us.

26/8/2025, 12:27:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The very definition of capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. That doesn't sound like a great businessman.

26/8/2025, 12:24:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has been accused of sexual harassment, abuse and even rape by over 30 women. And his first wife accused him of raping her. Maybe we can deport him.

25/8/2025, 3:37:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

What is she even talking about? I have lived in Chicago most of my life. No one I know who lives here is afraid to walk outside or go out to dinner.

25/8/2025, 2:57:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

He's not meeting the moment very well.

25/8/2025, 8:28:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Birds of a feather....

24/8/2025, 11:41:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

No, we don't.

24/8/2025, 12:56:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

By the time he's done the whole country will be slathered in gaudy fake gold.

22/8/2025, 7:37:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems unlikely that a 79-year old man can rule for decades. But his successor won't be any better and he is a lot younger.

22/8/2025, 9:39:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Alleged security reasons.

22/8/2025, 9:30:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was teaching high school English, I had a number of students who ascribed to that philosophy.

21/8/2025, 10:15:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I never really understood the genre.

21/8/2025, 1:35:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The arrogance of this man telling a world leader to behave. Repulsive.

20/8/2025, 11:17:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I see the connection to today's politics especially fascism and authoritarianism. Not sure how it connects to science fiction though.

20/8/2025, 11:16:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I know that book. I wan English major in another lifetime.

20/8/2025, 7:30:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

They are creating the problem they are purporting to solve by making a city where crime is down more violent in order to justify their military occupation.

20/8/2025, 7:57:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Correct.

19/8/2025, 11:51:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

If there's a God everybody in this administration is going straight to hell.

19/8/2025, 8:24:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

It should be zero

18/8/2025, 5:29:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Why take responsibility when you can just blame people who don't have the power to pressure Russia into ending the war.

18/8/2025, 5:13:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it's a great idea.

17/8/2025, 8:39:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, Do not give Alaska back to Russia.

15/8/2025, 8:39:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Here's how much New York loves Donald Trump: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

13/8/2025, 12:27:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The word "illegally" is in the wrong place. It should read "Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to illegally exclude undocumented immigrants".

13/8/2025, 11:19:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

The evolution of "alternative facts" continues.

13/8/2025, 11:16:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

"Accuracy concerns" is code for "facts we don't like"

13/8/2025, 7:58:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

False. She was just trying to cover up for his gaffe.

13/8/2025, 7:55:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

He's constantly inventing crises and emergencies in order to justify some corrupt, unethical, unlawful and/or immoral action.

13/8/2025, 2:10:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

It is a fact that violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low. So the idea that D.C. needs federal law enforcement on the streets is 'much ado about nothing'. But it is a big deal that the President is making up imaginary facts to promote his own agenda.

13/8/2025, 12:37:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

This should read "Despite the fact that violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low, Trump vows crackdown on D.C. crime" also known as Much Ado About Nothing.

12/8/2025, 10:11:55 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

It's called situational awareness. While that's an important skill set, it doesn't require a police state.

11/8/2025, 5:45:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonder how Cuban-Americans feel about his since they mostly vote Republican?

11/8/2025, 5:04:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

11/8/2025, 4:03:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low, according to the Dept. of Justice. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

11/8/2025, 3:07:54 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

"Far from certain" or "ezxtremely unlikely"

10/8/2025, 8:53:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

When prices go up, people lose their jobs and access to healthcare, and there are an increasing number of public health crises, no one (except the ultra-wealthy) are going to be happy with their day to day lives.

9/8/2025, 11:32:28 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Kellyanne: fading into irrelevant

9/8/2025, 9:25:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

More waste, fraud and abuse.

7/8/2025, 2:01:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I would support Nancy Mace getting more cavities and higher dental bills.

6/8/2025, 10:58:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Easy for her to say. Maybe she should try working in the fields all day and see how long she lasts.

5/8/2025, 3:24:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

He's got a lie for every fact. He knows they are detaining people with no criminal record and destroying entire industries in the process.

5/8/2025, 12:49:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

They are determined to kill the tourism industry.

5/8/2025, 11:36:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Now even the lawyers are lying. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

4/8/2025, 1:48:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

It's worse to be evil.

3/8/2025, 11:56:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rocky Mountain Mike (@rockymntnmike.bsky.social) reposted

“I’d Really Love Impeachment Tonight” youtu.be/iUa6mkI5kuE?...

1/8/2025, 6:36:32 PM | 93 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

This "president" has a very limited vocabulary with an annoying overuse of words like "radical" "crazed" "lunatic" and "hoax".

29/7/2025, 1:20:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Another waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

29/7/2025, 1:18:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Another GOP hypocrite. Sen. Kennedy's home state of Louisiana has one of the highest murdere rates in the country.

29/7/2025, 11:46:27 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Take the guns away from the idiots?

29/7/2025, 4:43:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

They do need to stop acting like lemmings, grow a spine and stand up against a corrupt administration.

29/7/2025, 4:34:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

STFU

29/7/2025, 2:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Welker's finally had enough.

28/7/2025, 4:37:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Welker finally showing some guts.

28/7/2025, 2:53:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

For starters, he can't form a coherent sentence.

28/7/2025, 9:26:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Snore.

27/7/2025, 12:08:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

They are figuring out that his populist message was part of the con. He's always been driven by an endless need for money and power at the expense of those people who fell for the con.

26/7/2025, 8:00:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Disagree.

25/7/2025, 7:42:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Why bother talking to these people? Everything that comes out of their mouths is garbage.

25/7/2025, 1:28:27 PM | 93 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

24/7/2025, 11:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Tarlov doing God's work.

24/7/2025, 4:33:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Assuming this is true (which it probably isn't) - what's important to America is affordable healthcare, affordable housing, free and fair elections, a humane immigration process, free speech, an investment in scientific research and a habitable planet.

24/7/2025, 11:59:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Art of the Deal: Announce the terms of the 'deal' and then agree to the terms that you announced without discussing or negotiating with the other party.

23/7/2025, 10:50:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Cancelling Congress for six weeks is a political game.

22/7/2025, 4:22:06 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Pathological liar denies the encounter - that's a 'tell'.

22/7/2025, 3:56:15 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Some of the most self destructive acts are created in the name of revenge.

21/7/2025, 4:08:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they putting the main coup plotters (i.e. Trump) at the top of that list?

20/7/2025, 3:25:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

She needs to include herself on the list along with a bunch of other GOP operatives.

20/7/2025, 3:24:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ (@craigary.bsky.social) reposted

Paramount+ sub = $60 a year Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.

19/7/2025, 12:00:24 AM | 7499 2277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he aware that Rupert Murdoch also owns Fox "News". W/o Fox the MAGA base would lose it major media megaphone.

18/7/2025, 3:18:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

To state the obvious: a unilateral 'deal' is not a negotiation - it's a dictate. That requires zero skill.

17/7/2025, 2:22:47 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Ignoramus telling highly knowledgeable Fed Chair how to do his job.

16/7/2025, 2:50:05 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, if we're giving IQ tests let's start with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Andy Ogles etc.

15/7/2025, 6:35:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd rather foot the bill for Sesame Street in Iraq than pay for Trump to play golf on the taxpayer dime.

15/7/2025, 2:50:04 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA voted for a cult leader who is expected to nod approvingly at everything their Dear Leader says and does.

15/7/2025, 12:23:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Rout/

14/7/2025, 5:04:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently he can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any followers but he can't disappear the Epstein followers.

14/7/2025, 11:06:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

His supporters are unbothered by the continual grifting and egregious abuse of power, but outraged over him nixxing the disclosure of the Epstein files? How do they not understand that he's killing the list because he's on it?

13/7/2025, 11:48:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

What a surprise. Another "lawmaker" who has no regard for the law and demonizes those who do.

12/7/2025, 7:15:48 PM | 64 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

His shtick is getting really old.

12/7/2025, 2:39:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Boo hoo.

10/7/2025, 9:04:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't coaches review game tapes with the players to see whether they made mistakes and what they could do differently? Othewise, how can people learn from their mistakes?

9/7/2025, 12:05:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arlene Hirsch (@ashirsch.bsky.social) reply parent

Since when does he need legislation? He usually just signs an Executive Order and leaves it to the attorneys to fight it out in Court.

9/7/2025, 9:47:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view