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Singer and teacher; wishing joy to all :)

[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Bad Bunny's powerful Super Bowl halftime show has been nominated for a record-breaking 9 Emmys.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Trump is attacking the National Museum of African American History and Culture, so I just gave them a follow.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This woman is reciting Trump’s words exactly as he said them during the NATO summit.

We have become so inured to Trump’s incoherence that is sanewashed by the media 24/7 that we fail to recognize just how much he’s declined.

Reading a transcript of his words makes it SO CLEAR.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

We just have some random lunatic in the Oval Office going around and destroying everything, and nobody is doing anything about it. Congress? Oversight? Ha! If you’d shown me this as the future 10 years ago I would’ve committed you. Now I feel crazy.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This picture is when Jon Stewart shamed Mitch McConnell into giving 9/11 responders the healthcare they deserved. He was a horrible human being. That will be is legacy.

[Kylie Jane Kremer @KylieJaneKremer]

This is an extraordinary development in the ongoing questions surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s health.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has taken the highly unusual step of formally sending a letter to Senator McConnell requesting that he update Kentuckians on his health and ability to continue serving in the United States Senate.

When a sitting governor publicly asks one of his own state’s senators to explain whether he is capable of fulfilling his duties, it’s a sign that concerns have grown well beyond social media speculation.

It’s also remarkable that a Democratic governor is the one demanding transparency while much of the Republican leadership has relied on brief public statements rather than providing clear, verifiable information that would settle the questions surrounding McConnell’s condition.

With the August 3 deadline under Kentucky law rapidly approaching, a date that could affect the process for filling any Senate vacancy, the need for transparency has never been greater. Kentuckians deserve to know whether their senator is able to carry out the responsibilities of the office they elected him to hold.

One question also remains unanswered regarding our national security: where is Elaine Chao and why has she been meeting with the CCP as McConnell is in the hospital?

[Kylie Jane Kremer @KylieJaneKremer]

Fascinating.

Mitch McConnell is apparently well enough to spend 20 minutes discussing global geopolitics, but somehow not well enough to record a 30-second video reassuring the people of Kentucky, and the world, that he’s okay.

Also, his office of roughly 40 staff members still can’t provide a meaningful update?

Nothing about why Elaine Chao traveled to China to meet with senior CCP officials just three days after he was hospitalized?

And we’re all just supposed to accept this at face value?

None of this inspires confidence. If anything, this post raises more questions than it answers.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: There are now multiple reports from a variety of sources on the right and the left, claiming that Mitch McConnell has been unconscious for weeks and is likely braindead..

The fact that family members and Republican insiders are not pushing back on these reports tell you everything you need to know.

Time for a Special Election Kentucky.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard is wearing a high quality mask at the start of the race.

“I hear already that there’s some sickness in some teams and I’ve had a history of being sick in my last two Grand Tours, so as you said: ‘Better safe than sorry.’”

👏

[ALLDAYNYC @AllDayNYC]

Dude aired out the whole job and rightfully so.

All unsafe practices, no wonder it started to collapse.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Worth watching this chilling account from Amb. Samantha Power about Elon Musk & Trump ignoring evidence in plain sight that destroying USAID would lead to deaths around the world: “There was no regard for human lives at stake.”

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, EVERY LAST WORD that Michael Steele said here! 🔥 🔥

He blasted trump and Republicans for trying to sell Americans a bunch of bullshit on Communism.

"Who's buddy-buddy with all the big name Communists in the world? Donald trump."

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[zaza @zazaxbtt]

Dolly Parton revealed she turned down Elvis cried all night and made $10,000,000 from Whitney Houston

‘I was so excited and there was this producer at the time he called he said Elvis wants to meet you and he’s gonna record just me thinking about Elvis on my song’

‘Before the section the next day I was told they don’t record anything with Elvis unless they have the publishing and I said that’s not possible that is my most important copyright and I said I can’t do that I cried all night’

‘But it was only after Whitney was recorded I was so thankful that I had made that choice cause I made a lot of money of it, I was coming home from my office I was driving and I heard it on the radio’

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Matt Damon and Amy Poehler reflect on the genius of the late Robin Williams and how life-changing it was to work with him, as Damon reveals that Williams improvised the iconic final line of Good Will Hunting after nearly 15 takes 🎬❤️

“The last line of the movie was not written… He must have done 15 takes. He’d put the envelope back in the mailbox, go in, and we’d still be rolling. Then he just started improvising lines.”

“On like the ninth line, he opened the door, read the letter and said, ‘Son of a bitch, he stole my line.’ I grabbed Gus. When a piece of dialogue falls from heaven, you just know. The second Ben heard it, he was like, ‘That’s it.’”

[Bryan Dawson🇺🇸 @BryanDawsonUSA]

Former MAGA on January 6 and leaving the cult: "I did believe the election was stolen. I did believed the riots were patriots. Until I actually switched off Fox News, and started getting my news from other places, that's when it hit."

Fox is the most dangerous threat ever. @PerfectOurUnion @LeavingMAGA

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Because Trump says everything is back to normal on the oil front does not make it so.

Mr Global hits the nail on the head here. Behind the false narrative to cover up Trump’s illegal market manipulation there is an economic structural cost when institutional investors walk away.

Trump’s market persistent manipulation of the markets cost YOU and he and his friends were the beneficiaries at YOUR expense.

My thanks to Mr Global for the clip

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/TpCrf62Ozf

[Fibonacci 🥷 @Fibonacci69]

Molly Bloom reveals how an unnamed A-list movie star stole her high-stakes poker game after she refused to let him control her earnings.

Steve: "He basically said to you, 'Listen, you're making a lot of money... I'll put a cap on your earnings and I get the rest of what you're making....He kind of wanted to make you his employee.'"

Molly: "Yeah, and I never want to be anyone's employee ever again... accepting that offer meant no autonomy for me, no freedom, and no dignity."

"He called me about a week later and with this almost jubilant laugh and tone was like, 'You're done.'"

Steve: "How could he ensure that you were done?"

Molly: "He had colluded with the biggest whale in the game... to have the game at his house, and that was where the money was for everyone."

"This was a really long time ago... and I've totally forgiven him."

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

I filmed the Norway fans in Times Square chanting Donald Trump is a sex offender and I said to one of them the whole world knows and he said yes the whole world knows