Cee Perry

❤️ Democracy 🇺🇸 ❤️Dogs and Cats (not sure re most people)

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

While Hegseth and his friends get reprimanded for disrespecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, these loyal US vets—deported by Trump—honor the country they defended.

Shame on this administration.

[Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @AlCappuccinoIT]

Going to start calling him “J6 Jordan”.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!"

Kurt Vonnegut

[Sweet Daddy Cool✌️🇺🇦 🐕🇨🇦 @m_millsey]

Gouging customers during hard times and emergencies, and creating fewer jobs. Got it. Well done, corporate America.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

In 1993, Japan 🇯🇵 withdrew the MMR vaccine from their schedule

You'll never guess what happened to autism cases !

They continued to go up ...

It's almost like MMR vaccines have absolutely nothing to do with autism which is EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR 30 YEARS

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

New: The contents of a hacked computer belonging to John Mark Dougin, an American ex-cop living in Russia, offer documentary evidence that he worked with the FSB and GRU to peddle disinformation. He liaised with GRU Unit 29155 the originator of the Ukraine biolabs hoax, and his "moment of triumph came in June 2026, when information from his investigation was endorsed by @TulsiGabbard, who was serving as director of national intelligence in the Trump administration." https://t.co/yUTo5ZAEq7

[Paris 🗼 @Paris_dnd]

Bill Maher tries to overcomplicate Gaza. Bill Burr stops him.

Bill Maher: have you heard what's going on on college campuses these days

Bill Burr : i don't watch the news

Bill maher: you don't realize that college campuses erupted with the kids demonstrating for Hamas they are in with the terrorists

Bill Burr : they were for the Palestinians

Bill maher: well it's sort of the same cause why are you ?

Bill Burr : I'm on the side of the kids

Bill maher: yeah that's easy to say you know no one wants to see kids dead

Bill Burr: this is a very brave of you to say

Bill Maher: no I'm the one who's actually Brave on this

Bill Burr: yeah pat yourself on the back

Bill Maher: it's easy to say I'm for the kids who's not for the kids it comes down to real hard-nosed decisions

Bill Burr : stop talking like you're a general , let's go to Russia and the Ukraine how do you solve that one bill let me hear your hardnose decision about that well

Bill maher: this is why this is not your thing not your thing

Bill Burr : you're like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks that's exactly what it is like why into you like like you've done something what have you done in Washington ? nothing!

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

He cannot grasp anything not about him

[Hal_For_NY__ @HalforNY__]

@atrupar Does @angiewong think the guard was making a political statement?

Congrats Angie, for saying the DUMBEST thing in history.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

WOW holy shit…@SecWar Pete Kegseth and his crew decided to take pictures at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and one of the morons started laughing so the US Army sentinel guarding the tomb reprimanded them

"Maintain silence, Pay respect"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Warren Harding once choked a man inside the White House. Honestly, he had it coming.

His name was Charles Forbes.

Forbes had met Harding and his wife on a trip to Hawaii years earlier. He was charming, fun, and a great poker partner, which mattered a lot to Harding. When Harding became president in 1921, he made Forbes head of the brand new Veterans' Bureau.

It was one of the biggest jobs in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of men had come home from France wounded, gassed, or shell-shocked. The bureau had a huge budget to build hospitals, buy supplies, and care for them.

Forbes treated it like a personal piggy bank.

He toured the country picking sites for new veterans' hospitals, and the contractors who wanted those jobs knew who to take care of. Forbes partied with them, traveled with them, and steered contracts their way in exchange for kickbacks. Hospital construction costs ballooned.

Then there was the warehouse.

At a massive government depot in Perryville, Maryland, the bureau had stockpiles of supplies meant for veterans' hospitals. Sheets, towels, blankets, gauze, medicine. Forbes declared huge amounts of it surplus and sold it off to a private company for a tiny fraction of what it was worth. Trainloads of brand new goods went out one gate while the bureau was buying replacements at full price through the other.

At the same time, the bureau was buying some things at wildly inflated prices. It bought so much floor cleaner that, by one estimate, it would have taken a hundred years to use it all.

Meanwhile, veterans were waiting for care that didn't come.

Word eventually reached Harding, and he did not take it well.

Forbes was called to the White House. Harding grabbed him by the neck and shook him the way a dog shakes a rat, calling him a "double-crossing bastard." The only thing that saved Forbes was the President's next appointment walking in on the two of them. Whoever that poor visitor was, they walked into the Oval Office and found the President of the United States throttling a member of his own administration.

Forbes was out. He sent in his resignation in early 1923.

Things got darker from there. A few weeks later, the bureau's top lawyer, Charles Cramer, took his own life. Then Jess Smith, a close aide to Harding's attorney general, did the same. Washington was buzzing about how deep the rot in the Harding administration went.

Harding knew it was coming. Around that time he told a journalist that his enemies weren't the problem. It was his friends who kept him up walking the floor at night.

That summer, during a trip out West, Harding fell ill and died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923.

After his death, the scandals came pouring out. Teapot Dome got the headlines. But Senate investigators dug into the Veterans' Bureau too, and the numbers they put on waste and fraud ran into the tens of millions, with some estimates far higher.

Forbes's life fell apart. His wife divorced him. Then, in 1925, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government and sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.

The man trusted to take care of America's wounded soldiers ended up behind the walls of one of the most famous prisons in the country, a few miles from Fort Leavenworth and the Army he'd been robbing.

It's called the Veterans' Bureau scandal, and almost nobody learns about it.

[Annie Grayer @AnnieGrayerCNN]

Hinds County Circuit Clerk Zack Wallace told me he was surprised by the number of affidavit ballots in Hinds County: “I was not expecting this many affidavits to be rejected, and really, I didn't expect this many affidavits.”

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerks]

Yeah you can’t do that 😂😂

[Cruz Oxenreider @TheRealCruzOx]

Someone is 100% getting fired

[Bruce Campbell @GroovyBruce]

Had a blast directing Stacy on Man With the Screaming Brain back in the day. For a serious actor, he was very funny and charming. Safe travels, sir.

https://t.co/jDFgNGYndK

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao Hegseth just used the "just following orders" defense and now Rubio is doing it….they should brush up on the a Nuremberg trials and find out how well that defense strategy worked out for the Nazis

[Caring Guy💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 @caringguy1957]

@StephenM STFU, you lost.

You laid something out, all right. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the truth.

First, your claim that not one Democratic-controlled state checks citizenship is false. Colorado uses federal citizenship verification resources, including DHS’s SAVE system. Michigan cross-checks voter registration records against state databases, audits noncitizen records, and investigates discrepancies. Other states have their own verification procedures.

Second, refusing to surrender millions of voters’ sensitive personal records to the federal government is not the same as refusing to verify citizenship. Federal law requires citizenship to vote in federal elections. It does not impose a blanket requirement that every state upload its entire unredacted voter file to DHS.

Now let’s examine what actually happens when these supposed discoveries are investigated.

In Nevada, DHS initially claimed there were potentially 15,903 noncitizens on the voter rolls. That number eventually narrowed to 185. When Nevada officials examined those records, they reported that all 185 were citizens. Zero confirmed noncitizens.

In Texas, the SAVE system initially flagged 2,724 potential noncitizens. Further investigation confirmed that at least 578 of them were actually American citizens.

Utah examined more than two million voter records and identified just 27 confirmed noncitizens and another 25 probable cases. That’s approximately 0.0025% of the records examined, including the probable cases.

And here’s something you apparently don’t understand: being improperly registered isn’t the same as casting an illegal ballot. Nor does a database flag establish that someone isn’t a citizen.

Nobody disputes that noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections. Nobody disputes that voter rolls should be accurate. What we dispute is the repeated attempt to turn unverified database matches into allegations of widespread election fraud.

If the ghoul has evidence of widespread illegal voting, he should produce it. Until then, repeating accusations isn’t evidence, and refusing to hand over Americans’ private information isn’t proof of a cover-up.

[Jeff Pritz @jeffreypritz]

@THR Rest in peace, Stacy Keach (1941–2026). From Mike Hammer to Shakespeare, he brought grit, depth, and quiet power to every role across film, television, and theater. A true original and one of the great character actors of his generation.

[Miz Beaverhausen, Duchess of Soho @Reashelby1]

@THR I loved him on Man with a Plan. Stacy was so fun to watch.