Jim McCleary

Author of books never published.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

"Sé que me queda menos por vivir de lo que he vivido. Me siento como un niño al que le han regalado una caja de bombones. Disfruta comiéndolo, y cuando ve que no queda mucho, empieza a comerlos con un sabor especial. No tengo tiempo para interminables conferencias sobre leyes públicas, nada cambiará. Y no hay deseo de discutir con los tontos que no actúan de acuerdo a su edad. No asisto a reuniones donde se inflan los egos y no soporto a los manipuladores. Me molestan las personas envidiosas que intentan calumniar a quienes son más capaces de arrebatarles sus puestos, talentos y logros. Mi alma tiene prisa. Quedan muy pocos dulces en la caja. Estoy interesado en la gente humana. Las personas que se ríen de sus errores son las que tienen éxito, las que entienden su vocación y no se esconden de la responsabilidad. Que defiende la dignidad humana y quiere estar del lado de la verdad, la justicia. Para eso es la vida. Quiero rodearme de personas que sepan tocar el corazón de los demás. Quien, a través de los golpes del destino, supo levantarse y mantener la suavidad del alma. Sí, tengo prisa, tengo prisa por vivir con la intensidad que sólo la madurez puede dar. Me comeré todos los dulces que me quedan, sabrán mejor que los que ya me he comido. Mi objetivo es llegar al final en armonía conmigo mismo, mis seres queridos y mi conciencia. Pensé que tenía dos vidas, pero resultó ser solo una, y hay que vivirla con dignidad".

Anthony Hopkins 🇬🇧

[HarryHew @harryhew]

It's official: The Beatles' first album, PLEASE PLEASE ME, was released closer to the 1800s than to the present day.

Dec 31, 1899 to March 22, 1963 = 23,091 days
March 22, 1963 to June 11, 2026 = 23,092 days

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Boycott CBS

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Scott Pelley: "She is murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that."

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A viral joke on social media to turn Trump’s White House UFC fight on America’s 250th birthday into the “gayest party in US history” is becoming real as hundreds of gay men are actually buying tickets and planning to show up shirtless, glittered up, and very flamboyant.

[SNY Giants @SNYGiants]

Abdul Carter says he will only address Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump one time:

"Some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things.

Jaxson is one of our leaders - he's the face of our franchise. He represents himself and what he does, and he represents all of us.

If he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world.

That doesn't mean that we have to spread hate. That doesn't mean that me and Jaxson hate each other or we have beef. I sit next to Jaxson every day - we're close, we talk.

As long as we make sure we have the same goal as a team, and our goals align - which they do -that's all that matter.

I just want to move past this."

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

"Most people can't write. I'm not saying that to be an asshole. It's just the reality. I think I'm a good writer. But I read García Márquez and I'm like, holy shit. I couldn't do that if you paid me a billion dollars and gave me 20 years. Most people can get to a certain level. You can push, you can learn. But you have to understand what you're good at, and go for that.

When I read writers trying to do creative dramatic leads and it's just not working. It's like, you're clearly good at X. Focus on X."

— Nick Bilton

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Trump could have presided over a very strong economy. All he had to do was...nothing: Inflation was trending downward, the AI boom was raising growth.

Instead, he engineered a global trade war and energy shock, while shrinking America's labor force. https://t.co/JvvlsQ83R8

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Having Milli Vanilli, a group who ended up admitting they didn't actually sing on their records, as performers for Freedom 250, is one of the most on brand things Trump has done.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

In other words, the war is over, we're stumbling toward some version of the JCPOA, America is out billions of dollars and lots of weapons that we didn't need to waste, and the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position.
And for what?

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Mo Welch.

[Tara Dublin aka Winona Spyder™️ @taradublinrocks]

This is GLORIOUS

David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time

This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂

And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

To be truly fluent in English,
you must know your shits

Part 2

Dogshit: Very poor quality
Bullshit: Not true
Horseshit: Nonsense
Apeshit: Rambunctious
Batshit: Insane
Chickenshit: Cowardly
Ratshit: Poor quality
No shit: Obviously
Holy shit: Unbelievable
Hot shit: Very good
Dipshit: Total dumbass
Tuff shit: Take it or leave it
Jack shit: Nothing
The shit: Perfection
Deep shit: Big trouble
Shitfaced: Drunk
Shitstorm: Chaos
Piece of shit: Lousy person/thing
Full of shit: Lying
Shit-ton: Huge amount
Shithead: Jerk
Shithole: Terrible place
Brick shithouse: Curvy/voluptuous
No shit, Sherlock: Sarcastic obvious
Don’t give a shit: Don’t care
Shit happens: Oh well
I shit you not: Truth
Shit stirrer: Drama starter
The shits: Diarrhea
Good shit: Excellent
Crock of shit: Nonsense
Shit sandwich: Bad situation

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, win the popular vote, and hold the majority of governorships—and still blame the other party for everything wrong with the country.

[Truth Will Reign 👑 @TruthWill_Reign]

I was walking on the beach when I came across this naturally occurring shell formation. Hope I don’t get sued for it. 🐚

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists” and calling immigrants “animals” then turning around and telling people they need to “tone down their rhetoric.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The people who posted racist memes of the Obamas as apes are asking to tone down the rhetoric. 🙄