Jean Franks

[Jean Franks @AnotherLibtard]

Yup, just as predicted. It breaks my heart to see how Christ’s message was twisted and distorted too.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Fascism has come to America, and as predicted, it is wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Like most things Trump touches, the Reflecting Pool is now in worse shape than before. Adding cosmetic paint did not solve the underlying problem. And now he baselessly blames vandals for his failure.
https://t.co/MlW3Eeof4Y

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

I’m so old I remember when @HillaryClinton warned EVERYONE about Tulsi Gabbard.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Today’s episode of “you can’t make this up:”

Trump set out to prove voter fraud in the voting machines. And found not a single instance of fraud, so they’re pretending the study never happened

[Covie @covie_93]

The same donald trump who threatened "years in jail" for people who touch the peeling paint in the Reflecting pool pardoned 1500 people who destroyed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Jean Franks @AnotherLibtard]

@HunterBiden Beautifully written. You’ve had a lot of tragedies in your life as has your father. He’s a wonderful role model. We were blessed to have him as Vice President for 8 years and president for 4 years. He is an inspiration to us too. God bless you!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The difference between this and the deal Trump tore up is that Iran now gets more money, fewer restrictions, less oversight, and more regional autonomy.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Iconic solidarity

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Happy Juneteenth, a day of celebration for America’s movement toward a more perfect union, and a day of commitment to the work that is left to be done.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

I like highly educated, classy First Ladies who never had to pose nude for photo shoots. 💙

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

I think Skipper likes to make sure I see him enjoying the slice of apple… so I’ll give him another slice of apple.

[Covie @covie_93]

He's going to peel off the paint at the bottom of the reflecting pool and start selling pieces to the cult for $250 isn't he??

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Fun fact: hydrogen peroxide is used as paint remover

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

July 4th came early for me this year. Yesterday’s opening of the Obama Presidential Center was an absolute celebration of the values and ideas that make our country great!

[Covie @covie_93]

Now this is a reflecting lake.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Italy's deputy PM and foreign minister Antonio Tajani just CANCELLED his planned diplomatic trip to Washington on monday, declaring that Trump's "serious and offensive words" directed at the prime minister "offend all of Italy."

This comes after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni TORCHED Donald Trump after he claimed she “begged” him for a photo at the G7 and that he only took it because he “felt sorry for her.”

The Italian PM was wondering.
"I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies; it’s not the first time this happens."

She went on saying, "I can only say that I’m sorry he doesn’t show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, whose leaders he instead shows himself to be much more accommodating towards."

Italy's prime minister is a boss lady.

[Covie @covie_93]

Nothing says masculine manly man more than falling asleep at the UFC fight to celebrate your 80th birthday at the White House.

[Jean Franks @AnotherLibtard]

A picture is worth a thousand words. The First Lady of France is clearly uncomfortable. and Trump is being lecherous. He is invading her space. A handshake would be appropriate in a political situation like this. Trying to smooch the First Lady of France is so inappropriate.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

They call this move "The Melania."
Face MUST be contorted in disgust.

Thems the rules.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Newsom: We didn't even realize how much we've been missing and we've been missing it because of the divisiveness. We've been missing it because we have people that, frankly, are unworthy of their positions. And there we saw on stage people that were worthy of what our founding fathers lived and died for.