Gayle

Non-political til 2015: Dem convert, personal values hv home now | Focus: Voter rts,electn hack,Hlth care,Environmt | Fun: Classical music,Genealogy | 🚫Lists

[Gayle @GayleOldSmith]

Contact info for media reps. (from @funder, I believe)
https://t.co/b0YpBkqnyc

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

President Obama: “America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.”

President Biden: “True bravery is when there is very little chance of winning, but you keep fighting.”

Trump: “JB Pritzer is a fat pig.”

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Congratulations 🎊 President Biden on finishing chemotherapy and ringing the bell!🔔

Wishing you continued good health!
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[Maca Iglesias 🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 @rotterdamvvg]

Populists, cons, and MAGA corrupt politician supporters call him names. The rest of us call him a hero who lost everything when he stood up to Trump and his minions.

There will be a #BlueWaveIn100Days, and we need to make sure @AVindman is surfing it because here, right matters.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump rushed to his golf course posting memes of Kaitlan Collins and Bruce Springsteen. Meanwhile: the US is burning through its munitions stockpile, Zelenskyy says Russia is helping Iran target our troops, and much more. Your midday recap is here: https://t.co/s5t0cTojhk

[MM  @adgirlMM]

"The man who won the 'FIFA Peace Prize' called Kaitlan Collins' award fake."

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The grotesque irony of staging a White House Correspondents' Dinner in the presence of a rambling, authoritarian figure who is actively working to dismantle the First Amendment protections of the very free press he is ostensibly there to honor is almost too much to bear.

What should have been an evening celebrating journalistic independence instead became a platform for a petty, mean-spirited performance that exposed the speaker's smallness of character.

Rather than rising to the occasion, he spent his time sneering at "fake news," recycling tired grievances, and clumsily attempting to publicly humiliate CNN's Kaitlan Collins — revealing not strength or wit, but the brittle insecurity of a man who confuses personal score-settling with leadership.

The speech was not merely tone-deaf; it was a dismal, unfunny, and intellectually bankrupt spectacle that diminished the event and the office it pretends to respect.

And then came the final, chilling flourish: the deliberate donning of a bright red "Trump 2028" hat. This was no joke, no lighthearted gag. It was a brazen, foreboding signal — an open declaration that the assault on democratic norms is far from over, and that the next coup is already being telegraphed in plain sight.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Shout out to the award-winning unflappable Kaitlan Collins who gets under Grievance Grandpa's thin bruised skin. 🔥🔥

[dani d @DanielleDressel]

You’re laundering fking money to pad stocks and saying it’s for the children.
Tf you think we don’t know.
Trump fam already did this in NY and plundered their own charity.
Don’t do this.
Don’t.
You’ll never see this money.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Our military needs more people better at XBox not more men who can do pushups.

That Hegseth does not seem to understand this fundamental fact of modern warfare worries me.

He should spend some time in Ukraine and learn. The best soldiers today in that fight are those who know how to fly drones effectively. That’s a different skill set than bench pressing.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Ot's all about greed. If we had Medicare for all, corporations would actually gain a competitive advantage internationally as they wouldn't have to pony up healthcare insurance for employees. Emergency rooms would clear out because people could address many health issues before they became emergencies. Healthcare would be based on need, not the patient's ability to pay.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

People don’t need religion to have a moral compass; they need religion to cover up not having a moral compass.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

New research shows children born during COVID-19 lockdowns are entering preschool with significantly lower executive functioning and language skills, raising alarms about their school readiness.

The first years of life are critical for developing executive functioning—the mental processes that enable children to focus, plan, solve problems, and regulate their emotions.

However, a study published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood warns that children born during England’s first pandemic lockdown are struggling significantly in these key areas.

Evaluating 205 four-year-olds born between March and June 2020, researchers from City St George's, University of London, found that the cohort’s executive functioning was notably below pre-pandemic norms and fell short of their overall cognitive potential.

While these children showed surprisingly strong non-verbal reasoning and vocabulary comprehension, their ability to express themselves and manage daily tasks was compromised. Researchers attribute these deficits to the severe lack of diverse social experiences during their first 18 months, when baby groups were closed and contact with extended family was restricted. The study highlights the profound impact of early social isolation on child development and underscores the urgent need for schools to implement targeted interventions as this unique generation enters formal classrooms.

source: Botting, N., & Henry, L. A. (2026). Developmental outcomes in 4-year-old children born in the first COVID-19 lockdown in England: preliminary findings from the Born In COVID Year – Core Lockdown Effects (BICYCLE) study. Archives of Disease in Childhood.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

CNN's Jake Tapper was a deranged bloodhound following the trail of Joe Biden experiencing *normal aging processes* in office but can't turn his Sherlockian skills to the comparatively simple question of whether Mitch McConnell is *still on Earth*. Is there no money in the latter?

[Jussi Pekka 🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇦 @JuPe_EU]

@aliasvaughn @BBC should take the lead in the Trump-Epstein-files case 🙏.
https://t.co/SGRBX6vhIR

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

What I've been hoping for. If Blanche doesn't comply he's likely to be held in contempt. Because there's already been an order to show cause. If he complies Trump and Blanch are likely to be in a very bad spot. So I expect Trump tells Blanche to take one for the team.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“It’s about Blanche lacking an ethical backbone and the willingness to exercise independent judgment. I understand why Trump is desperate to have Blanche as his attorney general. It’s the same reason why Republican senators should refuse to confirm him.”

https://t.co/WnzdLBjRQW

[Steve Berkowitz @steveberkowitz]

As vote on Blanche for attorney general nears, ex-DOJ staffers warn against confirmation • Ohio Capital Journal https://t.co/4Xy4ijlAnc

[Disney4Eternity @Disney4Eternity]

@jimstewartson Four (4)…Benjamin Netanyahu. 💯