Jim Wegman

Dogs rule. Socially liberal, fiscally responsible. Truth, science, logic, facts, fairness, kindness, and empathy. #HarrisWalz #BLM #Climatechange 318 ppm

[Harry 🇬🇧 @Harry20211959]

Before….and after.

Love and compassion conquers all..

Kindness costs nothing, it’s free.. 💜

A Rescue Animal's Poem

When you look into my eyes I know what you will see.
There is only love and trust where fear once used to be.

For I was an abandoned animal a cold and hungry stray.
But you reached out your gentle hands
And took me home to stay.

I've eagerly accepted the compassion you have shown.
I soon forgot the times
When I was frightened and alone.

You opened up your heart to me
And taught me how to trust.
You've given me a loving home where kindness is a must.

So when you gaze into my face I hope you'll realize,
That "love without condition" is reflected in my eyes.

                      By Carole Preble

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg

[Shane Janisch 🇺🇦🐬🐳🐘 @janischshane]

Lucy remembers the moment she was taken from her family at age 2.
She remembers 48 years of frigid winters, empty enclosures, and no one to share her grief.
She doesn’t need a “good zoo.”
She needs freedom. She needs sanctuary. She needs us.
#FreeLucy #ElephantsFeel

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump Tower Was Ground Zero For Epstein's Sex Recruiting — And The Bait Was Trump

How much more damning can it get?!! This is completely fucking insane.

According to a buried FBI interview from June 19, 2020, in the early 1990s the public atrium of Trump Tower was being used as an open hunting ground for young women and children.

A woman who worked at a nearby luxury shoe store was studying on her lunch break when two men approached her. They were openly "constantly picking up" women in the building.

One of them immediately started the pitch:

"You know who Donald Trump is?"

"Want to meet him?"

"You don't need to work so hard going to school."

Winked and said Trump "could do whatever you liked."

When she declined the clear sex offer, they switched to:

"Come to a party then." She could bring a friend — as long as the friend looked like her and wasn't a man.

The invitation had Jeffrey Epstein's address.

After she said no, the death threats began. They knew exactly where she worked. For the next six months she watched the same two men escort girls who looked 15 or 16 years old up the escalators inside Trump Tower.

Trump Tower wasn't just a building. It was Ground Zero for Epstein's pedophile sex trafficking — and operating in plain sight, in Trump's own flagship property.

Every fucking day we understand why Trump is hellbent on NEVER allowing the Epstein files to see the light of day. This is beyond damning.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Trump’s humiliating Iran surrender in one chart:

Obama: 98% uranium cut, enrichment capped, sanctions in place, 0 American lives lost.

Trump: $25B unfrozen, sanctions lifted, Hormuz tolls for Iran, 15 dead + 543 injured Americans, $2.2 TRILLION cost.

So weak!
#TrumpSurrendered

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Dear Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama,

I’ve watched you and your children attacked with a ferocity and cruelty that defy any sense of decency and that certainly have no precedent.

I’ve watched your birthplace called into question, your personal faith ridiculed, your patriotism mocked, your gender contested, and your very humanity discounted.

I’ve watched you endure the incessant, bitter venom of those for whom the color of your skin was always going to be a problem.

And through all of it, I’ve watched you be the better humans, always going high despite their sickening depths.

In the face of a sustained, spitting, violent, raw-throated hatred, you’ve never responded in kind.

You never allowed yourselves to be defined by the bigotry of your critics, and you never dehumanized them or let them win by becoming them.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Funny how every Trump "solution" to Social Security defunding asks MORE from workers and seniors:

Raise the retirement age.
Cut benefits.
Means-test retirees.

But ask billionaires to pay more?

Suddenly that's impossible.

#HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Our SWT/KWS Mara Vet Unit had a patient who didn't want to be found. A bull in musth – testosterone sky high, aggressively evading every attempt to sedate him – but his 8-inch spear wound couldn't wait.

From the safety of their vehicle, the team stayed in pursuit and their patience paid off. Once darted, his wounds were treated and he was soon back on his feet – and back presiding over the plains of the Maasai Mara.

This took place in March 2026, one of many life-saving treatments that have unfolded in the field through donations.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Heroes never die..🫡🙏

First, she lost her husband. Twenty-four days later, she lost her own life💔.
Russian bombing of Azovstal left three-year-old Danylo without both parents.
The story of Alla and Vitaly Taranin is one of thousands of tragic fates left behind by this war.

Eternal memory 🫡

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The condemnation is universal. Republicans, Democrats, independents, world leaders... With the lasting ramifications being likely worse than Vietnam, everyone is accurately stating that this is the biggest geopolitical fuck-up in US history.

Not only did Trump LOSE his war of choice against Iran, but he has made billionaires of Iranian regime officials. What Iran now knows that they did not know before is that they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they feel like it — and there's not a fucking thing Trump can do about it.

Everything Trump did was ass-backwards. From being conned by Netanyahu, to not even bothering to consult with America's allies, this was a catastrophe and exercise in dumbfuckery from the very beginning.

Billions of tax dollars wasted, over a dozen American soldiers dead, hundreds of soldiers maimed and mutilated — and for what? So a pedophile president could change the divert attention away from the Epstein files? Un-fucking-believable!

Trump's incompetence is no longer debatable, nor is his place in history. The sick fuck is America's worst president.

[Lina @Lina_rays1ya]

Biden didn’t destroy the Rose Garden. He rebuilt the economy, created over 15 million jobs, cut the deficit, lowered insulin costs, and passed historic climate & infrastructure bills. His conscience is clear and so is his record.

Do you agree with me? Yes Or No

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The most catastrophic error the Kremlin made was escalating its aggression into a genocidal war, a move that is both a moral abomination and a fatal strategic mistake.

This choice stripped Ukrainians of any alternative but total, unyielding resistance, ensuring that Russia is now trapped in a war it cannot win.

For Russia, this campaign is a war of choice, but for Ukraine, it is an inescapable reality. The genocidal rhetoric and behavior combined with the sheer violence unleashed against civilians eliminated any possibility of a negotiated ”compromise.”

People will occasionally capitulate to a standard political occupation, but no one willingly submits to their own destruction. The Kremlin's cruelty completely backfired by cementing a permanent, deep-seated hatred toward the occupiers.

This pathetic behavior also completely destroyed Moscow's diplomatic standing. The pretense of defending against Western encirclement was revealed as a transparent lie, completely alienating anyone on the global stage with a basic sense of morality or a brain.

By forcing an entire nation into a corner, Russia guaranteed its own long-term failure. The resulting defeat is not just inevitable, but a fully deserved consequence of their own actions.

Russia needs to be and will be defeated

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

Did the 13 US service members killed in the Iran conflict- Die in Vain?

Sadly, I think they did!

What do you think?

[Jim Wegman @BbguruJim]

@RepDonBacon Right on!

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

New wallpaper for my phone: it helps to calm down, reset breathing, and reminds what to focus on. Also it’s just beautiful.

The moment a storage tank at the Moscow oil refinery was hit: the blast blew the tank’s lid off.

The funny part - in almost every video, ordinary Russians keep asking the same questions: “Why are they bombing us? What is going on? Can anyone explain what’s happening? Why don’t we have gas? What’s up with that?”

It feels surreal watching brainwashed people, who have always claimed to be “out of politics” suddenly confront reality.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Amy Klobuchar nails it! 🎯

[Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher @EileenforCO]

Lauren Boebert knew the Medicaid cuts she voted for would hurt people in Colorado's 4th District. When a fellow congressman warned about the damage, she responded "you're not wrong." Then she voted yes anyway.

That vote cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid to help pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. And now nearly a quarter of Colorado's rural hospitals are at risk of closing.

Our district deserves a representative who actually fights for us. That is why I am running.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Bluey. He just came over to say hi. Wants to know what you're doing all the way up there. 12/10 valid question