Jill Barletti 📚

Award-winning author of bilingual personalized children’s books in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, & Italian + Founder of @Snowflake_Story ❄️

[Jill Barletti 📚 @JillBarletti]

Read to your child as an act of protest 🪧

🔹A well-read mind bows to no one

🔹Children’s books teach kindness

🔹Literacy, Education + Kindness are the best weapons against dictatorships

We the people wear the crown 👑
#NoKings 👑

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Josh is talkin’.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

A nation’s progress is also measured by how it welcomes all people with disabilities and particular needs. Their lives are not a burden on society. They are a blessing, because they can help us to remember the foundation of the dignity of every human being and what is truly important in life. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Love DOCTOR SENATOR @AbdulElSayed

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Listen to this. And then listen again. And again. Until you get it.

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

A small cabal of self serving, ultra rich tech titans should not be allowed to drive humanity off a cliff with artificial super intelligence, while they quietly build their rockets and bunkers in New Zealand and Hawaii to escape the apocalypse.

Stand with us and DO NOT ACCEPT this future.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is why everyone is REALLY scared of him. He is very smart ! It’s been so long since we’ve seen such directness and accuracy. We need more leaders like him in government.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Damn, that was fire 🔥 he did research for this clap back!
Now, what did we learn, Marcus?

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

Nory from Texas on where she stands with Republicans the day after the election and how she feels about them joining our movement. This internal struggle she feels I can identify with but I’m trying to get past the resentment and anger.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The entire world was rooting for us: all around the world people are in tears over Americans saving their democracy from the authoritarian tyranny of Trump and Republicans.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

If you watch only one video today, you should watch this edit with @SymoneDSanders from last night, speaking on the 92%.

And when I tell you I’ve watched it three or four times and get choked up every time— this one hits hard.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Sure, Trump can veto, but this is a mandate.

Let this sink in: With a House majority this large, Democrats wouldn’t need a SINGLE Republican vote to pass legislation in the House.

Not one!

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I promise you. This is one confessional from a Trump voter that is worth your time.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Shut up, you’re crying.

I got choked up on this one. #Hopium

[Marie Bennett @mariebennett1_]

The woman at the desk smiled.

"He went home on Tuesday."

A man had come in looking for an older cat. He worked from home and wanted a quiet companion, not a kitten.

Apparently, he'd sat in the visiting room for nearly half an hour while Walter stayed under a chair.

Then Walter came out and settled near his shoes.

The man said that was enough for him.

I was happy. Of course I was.

But when I finished cleaning that morning, I caught myself walking toward Walter's old cage with my book.

It felt strange not to have somewhere to sit.

Two weeks later, the shelter put a photo on the volunteer noticeboard.

Walter was lying on a faded green blanket at the end of somebody's couch. His folded ear was unmistakable.

There was a short message from his new owner.

He said Walter still spent most of the day under the bed. But every evening, when he sat down to read, Walter came out and took his place on the couch.

"He doesn't want much attention," the note said. "I think he just likes having somebody nearby."

I stood there looking at that picture longer than I meant to.

The following Sunday, I brought my book again.

There was a little black cat in the next room who'd arrived frightened and wouldn't come out from behind her litter tray.

I asked if I could sit with her for a while.

She stayed hidden the whole time.

I turned another page.

[Marie Bennett @mariebennett1_]

For six months, I spent the last fifteen minutes of my shelter shift sitting beside a cat who pretended I wasn't there.

Then one Sunday, his cage was empty.

His name was Walter. He was eleven, a gray tabby with one folded ear, and he spent most of his time hiding in a cardboard box.

I volunteer at a small animal shelter on Sunday mornings. I clean cages, change water bowls, and wash more blankets than I ever thought possible.

Walter had been surrendered when his owner moved somewhere that didn't allow pets.

The younger cats would come right up to the doors, batting at toys and trying to catch people's attention. Walter stayed in his box.

A staff member told me not to take it personally.

So after my chores, I'd sit on the floor outside his cage and read whatever paperback was in my bag.

For weeks, nothing happened.

Then one Sunday, I noticed he was sitting just outside the box.

The next week, he came close enough to sniff my sleeve.

I never tried to pick him up. Sometimes I just sat there until my shift ended.

One morning, he leaned his cheek into my fingers.

I thought about it the entire drive home.

When I found his cage empty that Sunday, even his cardboard box was gone.

I went straight to the front desk to ask what had happened.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

President Trump claimed that AI oligarchs could regulate themselves because they “love our country.”

Now, Google is threatening schools: if you stop your students from using AI, we will cut off your access to Google Search.

That’s not love. That’s extortion.

PAUSE AI NOW.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools.

No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children. 

Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.

https://t.co/jfACMS1Sh2

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

👀 DESANTIS: “Republicans are trying to blame Biden — No, listen, we just gotta be honest. Gas prices are higher because of (Trump’s war). That’s just a fact. If you can admit that to voters you’re gaslighting them.”

[Grok @grok]

OMB data (fiscal years):

Republicans:
Reagan: $79B deficit → $153B (+$74B)
GHW Bush: $153B → $255B (+$102B)
GWB: $128B surplus → $1.41T (+$1.54T)
Trump: $665B → $2.77T (+$2.1T)

Democrats:
Clinton: $255B → $128B surplus (−$383B)
Obama: $1.41T → $665B (−$745B)
Biden: $2.77T → $1.78T (−$1.0T)

Democrats cut the annual deficit; Republicans raised it. Congress sets the budget; recessions/wars/COVID also drive the numbers.

[AnatolijUkraine @AnatoliUkraine]

🇺🇦 Zelensky delivers a clear message to Washington and Moscow:

Neither the United States nor Russia gets to decide Ukraine’s future in the European Union. That decision belongs to Ukraine and the EU member states.

And I have one question: Since when does a country invading its neighbor get a vote on that neighbor’s future?