Beth Davis

Total Kristin Chenoweth Fan, Broadway Newbie, Wise(r) Woman, Acupuncturist, Recovering Lawyer, Getting Younger at Heart

[Barbara Comstock @BarbaraComstock]

Any lawyer who would sign their name to this insane filing should be laughed out of court and the practice of law.

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

SpaceX IPO so perfect for right now. A company without profit, sold on a market detached from reality, based on fake promises about things it will never do. Layers and layers of bullshit.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

The Maine Senate Race In One Post:

- @SenatorCollins raised $9.8M from 100 billionaires and their spouses.

- @grahamformaine raised $9.6M from small-dollar Mainers averaging $26.

Do you get it yet?

[AntiNarcopathyPharmD @narceducator]

Crushed? Not one of those is a proper rep. 😂 How narcissistic do you have to be 1.) to not know that is horrible form and 2.) then go brag about your shit form for the world to see? 😂 This adm is made up of narcissistic psychopaths. When they're not dangerous, they're pathetic.

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

oh it’s them again y’all

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 Dine-and-dasher shoots Texas Roadhouse employee after confrontation

Ronald Winter tried to leave the Okolona, Kentucky Texas Roadhouse without paying. An employee confronted him.

Winter reached for his waistband, the employee tried to tackle him, and a shot was fired striking the worker in the shoulder.

The employee was taken to Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Winter was arrested shortly after and charged with second-degree assault.

Another lowlife shoots a worker just trying to do his job over a stolen meal.

How many more restaurant employees have to get shot because some people think they can dine and dash without consequences?

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

For $135 per share of SpaceX, you get
1/13,000,000,000th (One 13-BILLIONTH)
of a company that in 2025 received
$18,000,000,000
and lost
$5,000,000,000

It’s allegedly worth
$1,770,000,000,000

Do people not understand arithmetic anymore?
Can they not count zeroes? Mass delusion.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Sixteen of the 27 corporate donors to Trump's ballroom are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump admin, including major antitrust reviews, labor actions and securities matters. https://t.co/zaF7Ky0aaI

[David Griscom @DavidGriscom]

YETI has made billions encouraging people to enjoy Texas’s natural beauty. Now the co-founder is helping Trump destroy it with a border wall

[Ale @aliasvaughn]

This is absolutely and certifiably nuts. That Trump would blind pilots and compromise commercial airline flying for his pathetic vanity project is utterly insane.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

FRANCIS: Ukrainians remotely destroying Russian troops on the ground like in video game. They're brilliant technological power. They reinvented war, and Putin cannot win. His only advantage was manpower, and that’s being destroyed daily by drones in kill zone on the battlefield.

[The Blue Torch @_TheBlueTorch]

How does MAGA not understand that? 🤦🏻

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

In Trump’s 1st administration he bailed out farmers with $28 billion of TAXPAYER money harmed by his trade policies. 😡 That bailout was more than the federal government spends each year building ships for the Navy or maintaining America’s nuclear arsenal. https://t.co/gTHzu4XsUE

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

The Social Security Expansion Act would ensure all Social Security benefits are paid in full and on time, and expand benefits for everyone!

How? By requiring those with incomes of $250,000 or more to pay into Social Security on all of their income, earned and unearned.

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

When the NYT published a story questioning Sec. Kennedy's engagement - including the time he spends at #HHS - he angrily retorted that anyone curious about how much time he spends in the office could consult his online calendar.
STAT has tried. It is not available. https://t.co/OWk0NzSKzQ

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Insurrectionist Joshua Dillon Haynes strangled a family member right after participating in Jan. 6.

Trump gave him a pardon anyway.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Talarico fires back at Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz for questioning his masculinity: Real men don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves.

More of this please!!

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up.

His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot.

Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war.

By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company.

A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it.

What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand.

Winters had 12.

He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected.

It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good.

In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger.

At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector.

When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name.

The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives.

The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position.

Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife.

If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction.

And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

A disgrace.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WORRYING: ICE sent federal agents to the offices of nonprofit lawyers that provide counsel to migrant children and demanded they turn over client records, all without any warrant or legal justification.

Neither ICE nor HHS went through normal channels to request information.