Greg Bell

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In a groundbreaking social initiative, Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a program that pays homeless individuals to clean streets, parks, and public areas.

The idea was simple — offers work, dignity, and purpose instead of punishment or pity.

The results were remarkable: over 70% of participants have now secured permanent housing or full-time employment, transforming their lives and communities alike. The city’s “There’s a Better Way” program proves that compassion-driven policies can be more effective than traditional welfare systems.

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

BREAKING: This morning I, Anthony Andrews, received a “demand” letter from the lawyers of the President and First Lady via FedEx. I guess it is a cease and desist of sorts. It is 6 pages long and references numerous social media posts relating to Donald Trump and separately Melania. The scale of what the posts cover would allow for discovery to be sensational. The broad terms mentioned regarding my posts about Donald Trump would allow, if litigated, the world to see the extent to which the president is willing to go to evade accountability.
The posts referencing Melania have also been similarly referenced over the years by thousands of people publicly. As a messenger, I posted what was shared with me by a first person witness.
I have them on their toes and am obviously very much over the target.
More details to come. If they’re coming after me, they will eventually come after everyone.

[Jane @JaneFranklin99]

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The real reason the Kushner’s are trying to buy Sazan island in Albania and it’s not to build a luxury resort!

[Tirana Report @Tirana_Report]

Moments from the protests in Milan, London, Berlin, and Stockholm against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's project in 🇦🇱. Albanians across Europe have announced more protests in Switzerland, Austria, France, Greece, as well as in other italian and german cities. 🦩 #Albania

[ZZ Santa Chevy Cruze™️ #SmokeFleet🟦 @Danphillipsresi]

Is it any wonder that CBS sucks so bad now?

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Sit-In That Came Before the Sit-Ins.

On January 27, 1950, an 86-year-old woman walked into Thompson's Restaurant in Washington D.C., a cafeteria a few blocks from the White House, and asked to be served. The manager refused. The reason given: "colored."

Her name was Mary Church Terrell. Her father, Robert Reed Church, had been born enslaved and became the first Black millionaire in the South. She had graduated from Oberlin College in 1884, delivered an address to the International Congress of Women in Berlin in 1904 in English, German, and French, and spent decades at the forefront of civil rights organizing. She was 86. When journalists asked why she was still leading the charge, she replied: "We're second-class citizens because we sit idly by."

Terrell chaired the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws and organized picket lines across the capital. The committee ran an eight-month boycott of Hecht's, one of Washington's largest department stores, until it desegregated its lunch counter on January 14, 1952. Two days later, Terrell ate lunch there. The Thompson's lawsuit, meanwhile, invoked Reconstruction-era statutes from 1872, laws that had existed for eighty years without enforcement, arguing they barred racial discrimination in the capital's restaurants outright.

On June 8, 1953, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously. District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc., written by Justice William O. Douglas, invalidated restaurant segregation in Washington. Terrell told the Washington Post she would "die happy knowing that children of my group will not grow up thinking they are inferior."

Rosa Parks would refuse to give up her bus seat five years later. Greensboro students would stage their famous lunch counter sit-ins a decade after Terrell had walked into Thompson's. When Barack Obama, in his 2009 inaugural address, remarked that sixty years earlier his father might not have been served at a local Washington restaurant, he did not say her name. Mary Church Terrell died on July 24, 1954, at 90, just weeks after Brown v. Board of Education, having lived long enough to win.

History eclipsed her. She was already gone by then, and she died happy anyway.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Seems like a bait and switch. After predictable outcry, Trump DOJ pulls back slush fund for insurrectionists, but retains tax immunity for Trump. Was that the plan all along? It’s all corrupt.
https://t.co/NnZwe4nLO0

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

D-Day veterans mark 82nd anniversary as nearly 100 British names added to memorial https://t.co/7kFcSmk08n

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Trump held an agriculture roundtable meeting with farmers in Wisconsin yesterday.

The purpose was to raise the morale of farmers with new promises he will break as usual.

This is what Trump told them.

"I don't need this. I got elected. What the hell do I have to be here for?"

Well, if farmers haven't given up on him yet that statement should have given them a wake-up call.
#DemsUnited

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jake Lang, who beat Capitol police officers with a baseball bat on January 6, spent four years in federal prison on an 11-count indictment, got pardoned by Trump on day one, and was recently running for U.S. Senate in Florida, was arrested Tuesday night in Frisco, Texas on a criminal trespass warrant.
He hopped a fence into a high school stadium to film what he claimed was dried blood from a stabbing, then posted it online for clout.
Since his pardon he has also been charged with felony property damage in Minnesota for destroying an ice sculpture, charged with threatening a Capitol police officer, showed up outside a mosque in Plano holding a severed pig’s head, threw chocolate coins outside AIPAC while doing a Nazi salute, and dragged a goat on a leash to a protest against a Muslim mayoral candidate. For real though!
Trump pardoned this bastard. He is currently in the Collin County jail complaining about his mattress.
The pardon was 136 days ago. VIA~~Eric Blackerby

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Today, Americans live under a regime that wraps itself in the symbols of patriotism, while displaying little understanding of its meaning.

Patriotism isn’t a costume, a slogan, or a social media post.

Patriotism is found in places like Normandy.

https://t.co/v5t8CFYPNt

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024

Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened:

🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people

Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe

🇺🇸 veteran: My hero

Zelensky: No, you are our hero

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Caolan Robertson is probably the best investigative journalist on X right now - follow him!

Also huge thanks to NAFO and Irish investigative journalists digging deeper into this case.

Rusal needs to go!

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

Is Matthew right ??

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Our heroes are back and Brigitte was here to welcome them!

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Kimmel: "You'd think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs. It's what got him out of Vietnam."