Missing my 1st 2 loves since 2018 & 2020. Nothing can dim their light.
They don’t call me Hope 4 nothing.
Liz: I need you to keep believing in me.
Me: Always
"Spending just 20 minutes near the ocean has been scientifically proven to significantly lower cortisol levels. Nature really is the ultimate therapy."
“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.” https://t.co/gTDinE6ClH
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate#climate
This is Ronaldo Salgado & his beloved father was shot & killed by ICE in Houston after a traffic stop. His father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 year old Construction Worker who picking up his coworkers. He lived in the U.S for 30 years & was getting his work permit.
In a four-bedroom house in Azusa, California, in the eastern part of the San Gabriel Valley, a seventy-one-year-old Libyan-born American named Mohamed Bzeek lives with his adult son and, at any given time, with one or more children in the final months or weeks of their lives.
He is the only foster parent in Los Angeles County who has chosen, as his specific institutional role, to care exclusively for terminally ill children whom the rest of the system cannot place.
He has been doing it for thirty years.
He has fostered approximately eighty children. Ten of them have died in his home. He has buried them, one by one, at a Muslim cemetery near his house. He visits the graves.
When asked, in interview after interview across the past decade, how he is able to do this work, he gives the same answer.
He says he is doing it because his faith requires him to.
He had not come to the United States to do any of this. He had come in 1978 from Tripoli, Libya, to study electronic engineering. He had expected, like most international students of his generation, that he would finish his degree, find professional work, and build the kind of American life that the system had described to him.
He met Dawn Mellon in the 1980s.
Dawn had been a foster parent in Los Angeles County since the early 1980s. Her own grandparents had been foster parents. She had grown up in a household built around the idea that taking in children who had nowhere else to go was something a person did. By the time she met Mohamed, she had been doing foster work for years.
They married in 1989. Mohamed joined her in the foster work that same year.
At first they took in children with the usual range of foster-care needs — abandonment, abuse, neglect. Over time, as they became known in the county system for accepting children with complex medical conditions, the placements they received began to skew toward the hardest cases. By 1995, six years after they had started together, they made a decision.
They would take only the dying ones.
The children that came to them after that had names like the children who came to any foster home. Some could see; some could not. Some could hear; some could not. Some were on ventilators. Some had genetic conditions the medical literature understood in detail and could do almost nothing about. Some lived with the Bzeeks for years. Some lived for weeks. Some did not last the night.
Mohamed took every one of them to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for treatment. He learned how to operate the equipment. He kept a medical bed permanently set up in his house. He kept a soft light on at night.
Dawn died in the mid-2010s. Mohamed continued the work alone.
He has had health issues of his own. He underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in December 2016. He recovered. He went back to the work. His biological son, Adam, born in 1997, has osteogenesis imperfecta — brittle bone disease — and lives with Mohamed and requires significant ongoing care himself. Adam is now an adult. He has spent his entire life in the same household as the foster children his parents cared for.
In February 2017, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature about Mohamed by the reporter Hailey Branson-Potts. The piece was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It introduced him to a national and international audience. Children's Hospital Los Angeles ran their own profile of him later that year, calling him the Father of Last Resort. He has been interviewed by major outlets in dozens of countries. A 2018 documentary called Guardian of Angels was made about his work. A GoFundMe campaign launched after the Los Angeles Times feature raised more than half a million dollars to support the household.
He has continued, since then, exactly as he was. He does not present what he does as exceptional. He says, in the documented record of his many interviews, that his Muslim faith requires him to help people who cannot help themselves, that the children who come to him need someone to hold them, that the work is what God has asked him to do, and that he is doing it.
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has confirmed, across multiple interviews over the past decade, that he is the only foster parent in the county dedicated specifically to terminally ill children — that without him, the children who have lived in his home would have died in institutions, alone.
He has buried ten of them. He visits the graves at the Muslim cemetery near his house. He has said, in interview after interview, that he does not see the work as painful, because he does not see love as something that produces pain.
He has called the children he buries his sons and his daughters.
He is seventy-one. He is still doing the work.
One house. 80 children. A lifetime of love no one expected
Russia spent last week murdering civilians sleeping in their homes with ballistic missiles and now the Olympics invites them back. That means the russian anthem will play at the next games. This is absolutely disgusting.
A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.
A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.
A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.
A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.
A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.
A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.
A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.
Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag. Not under “neutrality.” Not as individuals.
In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.
If you see this, RT and like. Let the International Olympic Committee @iocmedia hear us.
Let the world hear us.
Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState
In 1998, Ryan Hreljac sat in his first-grade classroom, feet swinging above the floor, listening as his teacher talked about the children who suffered in Africa. Children who woke before sunrise and who walked for hours just to collect water. Water that made them sick and sometimes killed them.
Ryan asked, “How much does it cost to help them?”
“Maybe seventy dollars,” the teacher said. But that was just an estimate.
That afternoon, Ryan went home and asked his mom for the money. Not for a toy. Not for a game. To build a well so that children he has never met could drink clean water.
His mother told him that he would have to earn it.
So Ryan worked.
Vacuuming. Washing windows. Doing any odd job he could, saving every dollar in a jar. Four months passed. Finally, he had seventy dollars—and a heart full of hope.
At the charity office, someone knelt down and explained gently: seventy dollars would buy a pump. A full well cost two thousand.
Ryan didn’t cry. He didn’t quit.
He just said, “Okay. I’ll do more chores.”
And then something beautiful happened.
His brothers joined in. Neighbors offered work. His school held fundraisers. A quiet little boy who refused to give up inspired everyone around him.
By the end of the year, Ryan had raised the full amount.
He was seven years old when a well was drilled at a school in Uganda. An entire village drank clean water because a child believed he could help.
It all began with a question.
And a child who didn’t look away.
Ryan Hreljac is an adult now. He founded Ryan’s Well Foundation at age six to provide clean water to African communities. Since 1998, his organization has built over 1,500 wells and helped nearly one million people.
Sometimes the world changes not because someone is powerful—but because someone is paying attention.
“WHAT DID JOE BIDEN EVEN DO⁉️”
I’m so glad you asked 💙
✅ Added more than 16 million jobs —the strongest job growth of any modern president
✅ Drove unemployment near a 50-year low, with record lows for Black and Hispanic Americans
✅ Delivered four straight years of record small-business growth
✅ Approved more than $140 billion in student debt relief for nearly 4 million Americans
✅ Signed the Inflation Reduction Act — the largest climate investment in U.S. history and a major step to reduce the deficit
✅ Lowered prescription drug costs for millions of Americans
✅ Capped insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare
✅ Expanded Affordable Care Act coverage to a record number of Americans
✅ Made historic investments in HBCUs, community colleges, and workforce training
✅ Signed the American Rescue Plan, helping cut poverty and accelerate economic recovery
✅ Signed the PACT Act, expanding health care and benefits for millions of veterans
✅ Signed the first major federal gun safety law in nearly 30 years
✅ Nominated and confirmed Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson — the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
✅ Protected reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, and voting access through executive action
✅ Signed the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen American manufacturing and innovation
✅ Signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild roads, bridges, water systems, and broadband nationwide
✅ Signed the Respect for Marriage Act, protecting same-sex and interracial marriage
✅ Created the White House Office of
Gun Violence Prevention
✅ Launched the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research
✅ Led the national recovery from COVID-19 and helped drive the global vaccination effort
✅ Rebuilt U.S. alliances, rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, and strengthened
NATO
BONUS: Had ZERO felonies, grifted ZERO dollars, and was a leader our kids could look up to 💙
THAT’S what President Biden did.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught, on video, entering a U.S. citizen’s home without a warrant, tackling the father to the ground, while pinning down his 15-year-old grandson.
As the family repeatedly told agents they were U.S. citizens, and demanded to see a warrant, the agents ignored them.
The daughter began recording and repeatedly asked to see a warrant, but they refused. She also told agents her father is diabetic, and that the teenager they were restraining was only 15 years old.
The agents continued to arrest both U.S. citizens from their home, without a warrant, eventually releasing the child but taking the father.
The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from entering a home without a judicial warrant.
If federal agents can force their way into a U.S. citizen’s home, ignore repeated demands to produce a warrant, and use force without lawful authority, they aren’t just violating one family’s rights… they’re undermining one of the core constitutional principles America was founded on.
A free country depends on the government being bound by the Constitution. If those limits can be ignored without consequences, we are no longer a free country.
Ukraine is winning & Zelenskyy has the cards now 😏
Remember, trump loves to back WINNERS and the tide is turning in this war now.
Glory to the heroes! 🇺🇦
So far this morning, Trump has...
• Declared the ceasefire over
• Threatened to commit war crimes against Iran
• Suspended trade with Spain
• Accused the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' of launching 111 missiles
• Referred to Zelenskyy as 'President Putin'
• Said he is number one on 'Tic Tack'
• Claimed prices are down on everything
• Suggested the U.S. should have carpet-bombed Khomenei's funeral
• Mentioned taking over Kharg Island
• Removed Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list
• Praised China, Russia, and Turkey while disparaging NATO
• Tanked the markets