María Claudia Thorne 🟧🇺🇸🦅🇺🇦

Mother, MDCPS School Teacher and Proud Latina Americana

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MUST WATCH:

Clip from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Rob Reiner (before his death) as George Washington.

Trump is going to hate this.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This clip, from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness" is one of his FUNNIEST ever.

Awesome to have Rob Reiner as George Washington in possibly one of his final on-screen performances.

Cameo by Kimmel is chef's kiss.
RIP, Rob Reiner.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

This ship is my everything. As a sailor in the @Armada_esp, I served aboard her for 6 months. In 1990, I arrived in the USA for the first time — up in the mast, watching Ellis Island and Lady Liberty come into view. Now, on the 250th anniversary, nothing gives me more joy than seeing this ship connect the two countries I love. 🇪🇸🇺🇸⛵

[Reuters @Reuters]

Pope Leo urged Americans to uphold the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, praising the country's long tradition of welcoming immigrants in his first major address to the United States https://t.co/zLPDluiCf1

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Bill, Mayor Mamdani isn’t on the ‘wrong side’ because the desk has drawers on both sides. You and Elon Musk may have billions that the rest of us don’t have, but you don’t ever seem to have any basic historical knowledge or even, y’know, access to Google.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:

"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.

"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.

"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.

"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.

"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.

"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.

"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."

[The Taylor Swift Daily @TheTSDaily]

❤️ | Ronan's mother, Maya Thompson, shared an emotional message thanking Taylor Swift for her continued support of children with cancer, saying, “She never left.”

[New York Cares @newyorkcares]

New York Cares is honored and delighted to receive a gift from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who have chosen to celebrate their love by investing in those in need.

This generous donation will support programs that are making NYC more equitable for all and add to our impact...

[ASPCA @ASPCA]

🧡Thank you, Taylor and Travis🧡We’re deeply grateful to @taylorswift13 and @tkelce for their generous donation to the ASPCA as a part of their latest charitable giving announcement. Learn how you can make a difference at https://t.co/zoJ9JF5Dtb

[Feeding America @FeedingAmerica]

Thank you @taylorswift13 and @tkelce for your generous $2M gift to Feeding America!

Your support brings us all closer to a future where everyone has the food they need to thrive. So grateful to have partners like you in the movement to end hunger. 🧡

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

Thank you @taylorswift13 and @tkelce for the generous gift to @dollyslibrary! ❤️ I wish you both the best, and know that I will always love you.

[The Taylor Swift Updates @theTSupdates]

‼️| The 20 charities Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce donate to ahead of their wedding cover: food, health, education and music. ($26M in total)

[Variety @Variety]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26M to more than 20 charities this week ahead of their reported New York wedding. The recipients include:

• City Harvest (New York City)

• Food Bank for NYC

• New York Cares

• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

• Harvesters – The Community Food Network (Kansas City, MO)

• The Store (Nashville, TN)

• Helping Harvest (Reading, PA)

• Rhode Island Community Food Bank

• Feeding America (National)

• ASPCA (National)

• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (National)

• Grammy in the Schools (National)

• Education Through Music (New York, NY)

• Answer the Call (New York, NY)

• Musical Mentors (New York, NY)

• After-School All-Stars (New York, NY)

• After-School All-Stars (Cleveland, OH)

• MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult programs)

• Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone

• Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)

https://t.co/pB1Vz5ZtiN

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

WOW….Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26M to more than 20 charities ahead of their wedding. https://t.co/uhsJ3XaP4s

Recipients include:

• City Harvest (New York City)
• Food Bank for NYC
• New York Cares
• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
• Harvesters – The Community Food Network (Kansas City, MO)
• The Store (Nashville, TN)
• Helping Harvest (Reading, PA)
• Rhode Island Community Food Bank
• Feeding America
• ASPCA
• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Grammy in the Schools
• Education Through Music (New York, NY)
• Answer the Call (New York, NY)
• Musical Mentors (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (Cleveland, OH)
• MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult programs)
• Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone
• Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)

[GingerSpice❄️💙 @thedesertginger]

Mitch is dead

People of Kentucky, get your shit together and demand a special election and stop voting against your best interests

[María Claudia Thorne 🟧🇺🇸🦅🇺🇦 @FierceMamaMaria]

@ColMoeDavis .@SLOTUS too

[Kasey Helton @KaseyHelton05]

My husband is busting his ass today in a steel mill in 90+ degree heat 60 hours a week all summer long and I’ll be at my job on July 4 at the hospital while you enjoy your holiday you starchy shirted jackass. Tell me we don’t work as hard as you.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

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