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[Stephanie @Elphie314]

I love Julia Sugarbaker. Who knew her words would still ring true today #DesigningWomen

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@Acyn The more outlandish he gets the more you know he’s lying.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

You are pathetic.

You are fearmongering that candidates focused on affordable housing and healthcare, fair wages, workers rights, renters rights, and a government working for the people, not corporations or billionaires, is a scary thing.

MAGA is coming to an end. That is what you really fear.

The incompetence of Trump and a MAGA controlled Congress is staggering.

The economy is bad, life is unaffordable, millions are losing their healthcare, the deficit and debt are rising faster. Republicans own all of that failure.

The midterms are coming.

[Shadow President Elon Musk @ShadowPrezElon]

@MeghanMcCain Vance is so unlikable and unelectable that Trump had to bail him out in Ohio in his one and only Senate race. Almost any GOP presidential hopeful would win, but Vance is the only one guaranteed to lose.

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@Acyn What a hero!

[Kal - Don't Trust. Confirm. @TruthJustis4USA]

@BoLoudon Talk about not practicing what you preach.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Peter Rezba @rezba_pete96727]

@atensnut They're not terrorists you idiot. Israel is still attacking Lebanon that's why they are leaving Israel is the the terrorist State

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

That's a Father's Day Winner!

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Everything Trump says about the reflecting pool is a lie. How do we know this? Because everything Trump says about everything is a lie.

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@BrilynHollyhand Yeah a president who is in the Epstein files over 3000 times is definitely a god fearing man 🙄🙄🙄. Keep snorting that toilet seat cocaine with RFK jr.

[Deckard @yum_nachos214]

@RepFine https://t.co/Lnu0H6FImM

[Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @MattMaasdam]

President Obama was the kind of President you want to see in the White House: smart, steady, honorable, and he led with kindness. He’s a good husband, dad, and role model for our country.

One thing that always stood out to me was his magical combination of being both ultra-competitive and really easygoing. It allowed him to surf the waves of politics, and it taught me a lot about leadership. (He also loved playing with my oldest son when he was just a baby!)

It was a tremendous honor to have his trust to carry the nuclear codes and to be by his side to handle emergencies for the country.

It’s incredible to see his legacy celebrated - I can’t wait to visit the new library!

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@glennbeck They have always been a team but she has sacrificed a lot for his political career. Even now she gets called foul names by right wing individuals with only two functioning brain cells. But unlike Dementia Don or yourself, they have remained united.

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@RepLuna Must have stopped learning history after 1960.

[Stephanie @Elphie314]

@RichardGrenell He killed the leader and the country replaced him with his more radical son. He ripped up a bill what bd after starting an unnecessary war signing a peace deal that costs BILLIONS more. Do you people even try to be serious anymore or just kiss the dear leader’s feet?

[𐂂ƦƲƊЄ♕ƬӇƦƛƝƊƲƖԼ𐂂 @SmirkwoodSprite]

@Acyn First Lady of Arkansas for 8 years
First Lady of the United States for 8 years
US Senator for New York for 8 years
Secretary of State for 4 years
Graduate of Wellesley and Yale Law School

No elected POTUS has ever had qualifications like that.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch on Trump: “We have a dipshit demented obese motherfucker in the White House who is ratfucking the country and we are gonna pay a long extended price for this because Republicans are cowards”

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The MOU is all carrots, no sticks. And the administration lied all week claiming the leaked versions weren’t the actual deal because they knew it was so terrible. Trump’s only choice is to blame Vance, which he’ll happily do.

Ben Shapiro called it a “disaster.” Bill Cassidy called it “the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”

The agreement includes sanctions relief, oil export waivers, the release of frozen assets, and a $300 billion reconstruction commitment, while many of the administration’s original objectives remain unresolved or discarded. It’s bad!