LAMusing 🌻

Just a lady musing

[LAMusing 🌻 @LAMusing]

@mjfree I hope these Generals understand they WILL be ordered to commit illegal and immoral acts in the near future, and are facing that they will have to make a clear choice. "I was just following orders" will not absolve them either in heaven or on earth for war crimes

[B @utdbrxy]

Cape Verde went to war with Spain and Uruguay in their first World Cup nobody will ever forget that

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding administrative procedures, and an executive order that few people are paying attention to. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: https://t.co/8dvrOO8Zy6

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

US-Iran Peace Talks Fail.

The US delegation, led by JD Vance, entered the meeting arena first. This was strange, because the party that claims to be the upper hand typically arrives last.

Shortly after, the Iranian delegation arrived. They greeted the mediator, Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, but informed him that they refused to negotiate due to recent threats issued by Trump. They didn't meet Vance and then abruptly left.

A panicked Sharif frantically requested his boss, "Field Marshal" Munir, to intervene, but Munir also appeared helpless. Watching from a distance, Vance approached and asked what had happened. A shaken Sharif and Munir apologetically explained the situation to him.

[LAMusing 🌻 @LAMusing]

@zellieowen There are no reviews. There are no social media reactions. There is an embargo in place

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE deport couple—leave their 2 dogs locked inside their home to die.

They were left without food or water for 1 whole week—until apartment manager went to check on the smell.

"Yes! This is ICE's fault!" said animal welfare guy.

"It is 1000% their responsibility to notify us."

If any law enforcement agency involved knows that there are animals at the scene—they are mandated reporters to animal welfare.

"Why are people coming out of left field to defend ICE in this situation?" he asks.

Incident occurred near Chicago, Illinois.

[Brian Rosenworcel @bowl_of_worcel]

End this. End this shit now.

[Covie @covie_93]

So they're arresting people for taking a piece of the paint that's peeling off the Reflecting Pool while allowing the people who rape kids with jeffrey epstein to walk free?????

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?

[Jack Cocchiarella @JDCocchiarella]

Iran just closed the Strait of Hormuz again

Meanwhile Trump:

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Japan fans might never want to leave Texas after this World Cup

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

THIS INSANE 🇺🇸

Koreatown in Los Angeles during the Mexico vs. South Korea match at the 2026 World Cup.

Absolutely incredible to see 🇲🇽🇰🇷

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

We’ve reached the part of Freddy’s journey when a private jet operator, two $5B+ airlines and the Governor of Utah are sliding into his DMs so he can make it to Canada to watch the German World Cup team play. Incredible.

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

Stopped for gas in Kentucky… saw the sign ‘We have disco bathrooms’ and thought it was a joke 😂
Went in, spotted the big red button that said ‘DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON’… obviously I pushed it.
Next thing I know, lights out, disco ball spinning, and I’m having an impromptu dance party in the bathroom! 💃🕺✨ Who else is hitting every Hop Shop on the road trip now?!
Never trust a button that tells you not to push it! 😂

[LAMusing 🌻 @LAMusing]

@MeidasTouch Also paved over Rose Garden and tacky gold crap all over the WH.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The extent of Trump's destruction of Washington, D.C., is truly stunning. It's the ultimate metaphor.

The algae-infested Reflecting Pool. The destroyed grass from the UFC event. The bulldozed East Wing grounds. "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Reflecting Pool.

REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

[ABC News @ABC]

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool where workers continue to battle algae – and the new paint job appears to be falling apart.

The Department of Interior did not immediately respond to a request for comment. https://t.co/7TzBngVdyc

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

An aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House.

The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party.

REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨UNBELIEVABLE: As millions of Americans are STRUGGLING, Trump has the audacity to brag about how luxurious his PLANE is:

“This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody's ever seen before.”

This is a winning midterm ad for Democrats.

[Derek Cressman @DerekCressman]

“The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils.”