Angie Casas

mom of 2 girls; trying to keep a positive attitude; trying to be a positive influence.

[Scrollscore | Screen Time App @scrollscoreapp]

@ayeejuju We went from actually living life, to watching life through our phones

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S. southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Remember folks, a #BlueWaveIn40Days won't happen unless you personally make it happen. Fewer people usually vote in the midterms, which makes your vote more powerful. Use it. Stop the Trump agenda in its tracks. Hold the bastards, thieves, and insurrectionists accountable. Do it.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The following vulnerable Republicans have all voted to continue Trump’s war in Iran that is skyrocketing prices:

Sen. Susan Collins, Maine
Sen. Dan Sullivan, Alaska
Rep. Ashley Hinson, IA-02
Rep. Mike Lawler, NY-17
Rep. Juan Ciscomani, AZ-06
Sen. Roger Marshall, Kansas
Rep. David Valadao, CA-22
Rep. Gabe Evans, CO-08
Sen. Jon Husted, Ohio
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, IA-01
Rep. Zach Nunn, IA-03
Rep. Tom Barrett, MI-07
Sen. Pete Ricketts, Nebraska
Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., NJ-07
Rep. Max Miller, OH-07
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, PA-07
Rep. Rob Bresnahan, PA-08
Rep. Scott Perry, PA-10
Rep. Jen Kiggans, VA-02
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, WI-03
Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-04
Rep. Monica De La Cruz, TX-15
Rep. Robert Wittman, VA-01
Sen. Darline Graham, South Carolina

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Don't trust the polls. Do your civic duty and vote

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

The president is making so much money that he is now worth 7 billion dollars and you can’t afford to fill your car up with gas because it’s too expensive—-this seems like an obvious midterm message

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨OUTRAGEOUS: An MS NOW reporter just tried to enter the White House, scanned her badge and discovered it had been DEACTIVATED:

“I attempted to scan my badge. It DID NOT work. There is a red beeping light. The officer said it’s disabled.” This is a direct attack on our freedom.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans. They're running the country. Who else can you blame?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

A blue wave will not happen unless you personally make it happen. Do not trust the polls. Do not believe other people will do it for you. Go vote and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Me here to remind you it's okay to take a break when you need one. 💙

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

One month after September 11, workers clearing the rubble at Ground Zero found something alive.

A tree.

Eight feet of blackened stump. Roots snapped. Every branch broken but one.

They could have thrown it away with the rest. Nobody would have noticed.

They did not.

It was a Callery pear. Nobody had ever paid attention to it. It had been planted in the 1970s in the plaza between Buildings 4 and 5 of the World Trade Center, one of dozens of ornamental trees the Port Authority put in to make the concrete feel less like concrete. Office workers ate lunch under it. Tourists walked past it on their way to the observation deck.

On the morning of September 11, a hundred and ten stories fell on it. Twice.

In October, on the pile, someone saw a single living branch sticking out of the wreckage. Green. Still trying.

A decision was made on the spot. They dug it out.

The city's Parks Department took the stump to a nursery in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The horticulturists there looked at it and were not optimistic. The trunk was charred. The root system was mostly gone. Trees in that condition do not usually come back.

They went to work anyway. They cleaned the burns. They trimmed the dead wood. They set it in good soil. They watered it. And they waited.

That first spring, in 2002, against everything the experts expected, the stump put out blossoms.

Small white flowers, on a tree that had been under the World Trade Center six months earlier.

It stayed in the Bronx for nine years. Relearning how to be a tree. Growing new branches out of the old scarred wood. Getting taller. Filling out.

In 2010, weeks before it was finally scheduled to go home, a storm tore through the nursery and ripped it out of the ground.

The people who had been nursing it for nine years came out the next morning and found it on its side, roots exposed again.

They stood it back up. They repacked the soil. It survived that too.

On December 22, 2010, it was replanted at the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan, a few steps from where the South Tower had stood. Where it had been found.

The eight-foot stump is now more than thirty feet tall.

Walk up to it and look at the trunk. There is a line on it. Below the line, the bark is dark and gnarled and twisted. That is the wood from 2001. Above the line, the bark is smooth and pale and new. That is everything that grew after.

The tree does not hide the line. It does not cover it over. The scar is right there, and the whole rest of the tree grows up and out of it.

People tie tags to the railing around it. Prayers. Names. Messages to the dead.

Every spring it is the first thing on the entire plaza to bloom. It goes white before the other trees have even leafed.

In 2013, the Memorial started a program. They gathered seedlings from the Survivor Tree, and every year they sent them to a community that had just had its own worst day.

Newtown, Connecticut, after Sandy Hook. Orlando, after Pulse. Puerto Rico, after Maria. Paris. Manchester. London.

A small tree from the rubble of the World Trade Center, planted in the ground of the next place that thought it would never grow anything again.

Twenty-five years ago this month, a hundred and ten stories of steel came down on a pear tree and someone on the pile saw one green branch and said, not that one.

Not that one.

The last living thing pulled out of Ground Zero has children now, growing all over the world.

It did not survive by being untouched.

It survived by growing out of the wound. 🌸

[VoteVets @votevets]

Some ground isn’t for building on.

Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place of more than 400,000 service members and their families. A 250-foot arch, with a tourist observation deck, would go up at its entrance, changing that ground forever.

Families bury their dead there every weekday. Construction could run three years, 20 hours a day, close to those services.

Veterans are in federal court right now trying to stop it. Before the commission votes, you can help:

→ File a public comment with the commission
→ Call your representative and your senators
→ Share this

This isn’t about politics. It’s about letting a burial ground stay a burial ground. @OfTheBraveUSA

[Grover @Grover]

If you are having trouble believing in yourself, have no fear! Super Grover is HERE! I believe in you, friend! 💙

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo thinks it's a great day to have a great day! ☀️

[Angie Casas @AngelesFCasas]

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[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Texas Republicans have been in power for decades. The problems they are running on solving are problems they created.

Texas needs new leadership.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

NEW: Trump’s Interior Dept is quietly pushing an unprecedented deal to carve a strip of Yosemite out of the park and give it to a private developer. They’re selling off our public lands. We can’t let this happen. https://t.co/06ghgA85Dw

[Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon) @RedTRaccoon]

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