🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦

Enjoys Photography / Formula 1 / (Classic) Rock Music / Science / Movies / Books and an occasional glass of Scotch.. Married to @MicheleHelmink

[🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦 @Leon_Helmink]

Our boys, Jack and Charlie, are reunited again. Together forever, forever loved. ❤️🐾

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Elon Musk: Trillionaire

Jeff Bezos: Billionaire

Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Ignore Trump this weekend. I mean completely ignore him. Ignore his birthday, ignore his desecration of the people’s house, ignore every lie & every idiotic thing he’ll say this weekend. Instead, enjoy yourself this weekend. And on Monday, resume the fight to defeat him & defend democracy.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is the crowd to see James Talarico tonight in Ken Paxton’s home county.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out:

“The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying.

Adam Hoffman could have faced life in prison. Instead, Ken Paxton and his office offered him a deal that kept him off the sex-offender registry and included no new jail time.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.”

Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.”

The reality:

A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway.

She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention.

The lesson is not “show your papers.”

The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them.

This is not “law and order.”
This is state abuse.

Fight Trump. Fight ICE: https://t.co/VXiWmshWgj

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

In other words, the war is over, we're stumbling toward some version of the JCPOA, America is out billions of dollars and lots of weapons that we didn't need to waste, and the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position.
And for what?

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump.

There is no close second in our history.
https://t.co/RRV6gbiZi1

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Springsteen on Colbert:

"I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke….and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small-minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about" 🔥

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I read something like this and I think: Some of us have been so focused on their authoritarianism and abuse of power and lawless that we’ve perhaps neglected to point out the additional fact that these are also just terrible humans—lacking class, grace, kindness or dignity.

[Oracle Red Bull Racing @redbullracing]

How it started 🆚 How it's going 🦁

[🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦 @Leon_Helmink]

Feeling nostalgic/old, I gave our recently acquired cassette player a go. Takeaway: feels more satisfying than selecting play on Spotify, feels like it sounds better (I'm sure it doesn't) and "Driving the last spike" is an underrated masterpiece.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Also, live your life so you never have to insist “I’m not a pedophile” on 60 Minutes.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Q: Ken Paxton said that requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is a ‘major victory for Texas and our moral values.’ What’s your response to Ken Paxton?

@JamesTalarico: I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. My faith teaches me to love my neighbor as myself — not just my neighbors who look like me, vote like me, or pray like me.

I don’t want anyone forcing their religion down my throat, and I certainly don’t want the government forcing a religion down my throat.

I’m a Christian, but I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy. Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

so let me get this straight, all of the accusations against Eric Swalwell are real according to the Republican Party and he must resign..🤔but the hundreds of accusations against Donald Trump and the fact that he's actually guilty of rape don't mean a damn thing to the Republican Party 🙄my Norwegian opinion is that Republicans are sick repulsive people🤬😤

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.

Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.

Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

[🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦 @Leon_Helmink]

@WorkElizab Not bags, but sturdy wrapping paper of sorts, brown but also with a print or whatever was "popular" back then. At least for me in the Netherlands in the 80's.

[🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦 @Leon_Helmink]

@For_Film_Fans So good. Really have to get back to watching my Blu-ray box set of it. And man, Bruce McGill is awesome in everything he is in.

[🟦Leon Helmink 🇺🇦 @Leon_Helmink]

Loved seeing Tony Becker again on "The Pitt". "Tour of Duty" was an awesome series with a great cast and fantastic music. Still got the cassette tapes. 😂

Forever hoping that one of my all time favorite series will get a bluray release but not holding my breath.😔 #thepitt