proud liberal Democrat Whistleblower,Social Justice Activist, Ret Park Ranger. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good folks to do nothing
My thoughts are with Jason Ensign’s loved ones, friends, and fellow firefighters in the wake of this tragic loss.
So many firefighters are working long hours in dangerous conditions to keep our communities safe. Oregon is grateful.
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You can email @JoeBiden to let him know he’s in your thoughts & to thank him for his decades of selfless service to our country, which I did last July
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This reply will live in my Saved Emails folder forever 💙
@DrBiden@HunterBiden
@taradublinrocks@TheMeerbat Pre-ordered my hardcopy of PromiseMe, America. Enjoyed all other writings by President Biden, who has dedicated his life to serving our country. Wishing him some measure of peace as he battles cancer that devastates far too many families. I know it well…
Kindness is often mistaken for weakness—until history remembers who kept showing up. History will debate his decisions. Few will debate his humanity. #voteblue@JoeBiden@HunterBiden
🇺🇸JD Vance at 6:00 PM: "Forty years of bad economic policy. You won't see it fixed in 18 months."
🇺🇸Biden at 6:30 PM: "Sit down. The guy sitting in the office has done so much damage in just 18 months that no one can fix it in the next 40 years."🔥🔥
Biden absolutely thrashed JD Vance💪
Unless you held your personal phone up to a dying patient so they could gasp “I’m sorry…I love you…goodbye…” to their family on a group call you organized, you do not judge Fauci.
Unless you did the same for a patient who was already unresponsive and nearing death so their loved ones could say the things they never said and you were never meant to hear, you do not judge Fauci.
Unless you rationed oxygen, medical equipment and life-saving medications, because your top-rate, first-world country, and its self-aggrandizing medical system failed, you do not judge Fauci.
Unless you’ve lost three patients in 45 minutes going from one bedside to the next so they did not die alone, praying the prayers a priest was meant to say because they could not come, you do not judge Fauci.
Unless you’ve zipped a human being in a bag knowing no one else would ever gaze upon that face again, and placed it on a table in an office or on the floor of a refrigerated trailer meant for sides of beef, you do not judge Fauci.
Unless you hold a degree in nursing or medicine, or epidemiology, or public health, or at the very least can connect the dots, the very simple dots, you do not judge Fauci.
For if you lived and sit in judgment of decisions you did not make and do not understand, decisions for which you were never considered, and never would be, you are a fool and look dumb before humanity and God.
And may God help you, because you clearly cannot help yourself.
~Jason M. LaForest, July 30, 2026
On April 22, 2018, James Shaw Jr. walked into a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, expecting nothing more than breakfast. Minutes later, g*nfire erupted inside the restaurant.
Four people had already lost their lives, and the g*nman was still carrying an AR-15 style rifle. Most people would have run. Shaw made a split-second decision that changed everything.
Unarmed and acting purely on instinct, Shaw charged the g*nman. He grabbed the rifle by its burning hot barrel with his bare hands and fought to take control of the weapon.
His hands were badly burned, but he refused to let go until the rifle was out of the attacker's hands. The g*nman fled, and Shaw's extraordinary courage almost certainly prevented even more innocent people from being k*lled.
The country praised him as a hero, but Shaw never accepted that title.
He said he was simply trying to survive and protect the people around him. Instead of seeking fame, he launched a fundraiser that collected more than $200,000 for the victims' families. He continued speaking about healing, kindness, and supporting communities affected by violence.
Today, the headlines have faded, and many people no longer remember the man who risked everything for complete strangers. But courage like James Shaw Jr.'s should never be forgotten.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to call examples like @AbdulElSayed “The American Dream”
Michigander born to immigrants, attends UM, then Oxford on Rhodes Scholarship & Columbia for his MD.
His commencement address mentions:
“…audacity to believe we can change this world…”
Sen. @RonWyden: We're going to be discussing the future of Social Security. It seems that every time some Republicans get their hands on Social Security, life gets worse for older people that count on the program to get by. Thanks to Donald Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill, the crisis is speeding up. Trump and the MAGA crowd give huge tax breaks to billionaires and massive corporations, and that bill plundered Social Security by $168 billion.