Maureen Carden

Lady from the Great Lake state of Michigan!

[Maureen Carden @M1Carden]

@ThendoRalph You are so brave and have nothing to be ashamed of. Absolutely nothing. Thank you for sharing and for giving grace to Jane Doe. I'm so impressed by your strength and pray that you continue to heal from your trauma. You are Grace!

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

This is John Valentine and when it comes to data centers, you need to listen to this.

So what are the centers needed for?

[Maureen Carden @M1Carden]

@BarackObama @MichelleObama Hugs to all of you!

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

How do you defeat a president who’s trying to sabotage the midterms?

1. Use drop boxes.
2. Vote EARLY in person.
3. If mailing in your ballot, put it in the mail AT LEAST two weeks before Election Day.
4. Vote in person on Election Day.
5. Share these instructions with everyone you know.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

A video that Netanyahu does not want the world to see

Let the world know by sharing this

Tens of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews and Dozens of Rabbis gathered in the Barclays Center in New York City to say that the Zionist regime is a criminal and occupying gang and does not represent the Jews.

Anti-Zionist Jews are not fringe, not Small.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Every veteran that served in Afghanistan should watch Rachel Maddow tonight.

When a president who never served, and his fascist little advisor who never served, deport the Afghan allies who risked their lives and their families lives to help our soldiers...

and when a Marine Colonel must speak out on their behalf because our government betrayed its promise, every veteran, every American should be incensed.

This administration is a disgrace.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

House members’ constitutional terms expire every two years. A president cannot extend them by executive order.

Trump cannot cancel the midterms. He cannot postpone democracy because he fears the outcome. He cannot declare himself above the Constitution.

The presidency is an office, not a throne.

If any president attempts to stop an American election, the response cannot be silence, hesitation, or compliance.

Congress must resist. Governors must resist. Courts must act. Citizens must show up.

Defend the Constitution. Defend the ballot. And vote like the future of the Republic depends on it.

[EvelynPineapple @evelynzhgz]

@WalshFreedom https://t.co/ZTRMTNbS3S

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

Peter Gold: "I just made the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life."

"I looked at the Epstein files."

"We're living in bloody hell. I had to stop because I can't unsee what I saw."

"These people are the devil. The devil is on Earth."

"My solution is that whole government that's allowing this to happen, the leaders needs to go."

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets 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 ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘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 twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

TRUMP SUPPORTERS: I know you're uncomfortable. Things don't add up. Prices aren't going down, but he keeps saying they are! As you learned on Google, foreign nations don't pay our tariffs - WE DO! You see every day he badly botched the war in Iran, and he VERY badly treated our soldiers on the USS Lincoln - these are our soldiers and he doesn't seem to care about them - these are our America First boys!
His response to people's unhappiness is to tell you Dems are Communists. His response to bad polling is that he's doing great! Up is down. Black is white. Our allies are adversaries and our adversaries are allies - what is up with all of this!?
He seems focused on vanity projects and crypto and his name on buildings - everything EXCEPT Americans!
And if he's not implicated in the Epstein files, why is he so petrified of them and why haven't they properly released all of them, as was agreed they would?
We get it. You're right to feel conflicted, because things DON'T add up. There's a name for the conflict you feel - it's called COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.
We'll be straight with you: He was never a builder. He was never competent. He was never conservative. He was CERTAINLY never "one of you." He is a lifelong criminal whose only skills are committing the con, grabbing the grift, fabricating the fraud, and avoiding accountability.
And "The Apprentice" --- was A REALITY TV SHOW!
Take a deep breath. Stop the defiance. Come back to the light. You know Putin started the war in Ukraine WITHOUT PROVOCATION and is a war criminal. He's bad! Doesn't it seem like half the people in Trump's orbit are billionaires ... is Trump the actual Deep State? And you know Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence - Blanche met with her and poof - she got moved to a much more lenient prison. That's REALLY bad! Think about how brutal that is for the survivors!
You're an American. And America is stronger with less tribal disagreement. Open your minds to the truth - however unpleasant. You know he's old and you know he's losing it. You know you don't like or trust Vance. You know America is way better without all this mid-census gerrymandering - that's cheating and should piss YOU off too.
And hey - finally - if you can please try to open your minds to the toughest truth of all, you'll know - the reason you feel uncomfortable and conflicted and cognitively dissonant, is because ...
You've been played.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Russ Clark, a retired U.S. Marine Corps infantry commander who served in Vietnam and holds a graduate degree in mental health counseling, issued a scathing assessment of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, stating that his ten-year acquaintance with Hegseth allowed him to diagnose the defense secretary as "an arrogant, inebriated, misogynistic, cruel, sadistic, adolescent psychopath" who is now "controlling the strongest military in world history like he's playing a video game".
Clark's post on Threads (March 2026), carries particular weight given his credentials as both a combat veteran and retired United Methodist minister who now serves as a chaplain to veterans.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: UNPRECEDENTED! Trump’s new federal NDA policy is setting off alarms across Washington.

Donald Trump has used nondisclosure agreements his entire adult life to silence people who know things he doesn't want the public to know. His ex-wives. Contestants on The Apprentice. Campaign staffers. Porn stars. Now he wants to use them on the entire federal workforce.

The Trump administration is planning to require all federal employees to sign NDAs barring them from sharing "non-public, confidential, or proprietary information" or any "sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material." The draft notice goes beyond existing classified and unclassified designations — creating a new, broader category of things federal workers simply cannot talk about.

The administration's justification? They claim leaked information about the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro put American troops at risk by tipping off the New York Times, which they say held the story at their request.

There's just one problem. The New York Times says that's completely false. Executive editor Joe Kahn stated directly: "The Times did not have verified details about the pending operation to capture Maduro or a story prepared, nor did we withhold publication at the request of the Trump administration."

The entire premise for this policy is a lie. And they're using that lie to silence 2 million federal workers.

OPM Director Scott Kupor compared it to standard private sector practice. But the federal government isn't a private company — and federal employees aren't Trump's personal staff. Federal law specifically protects whistleblowers because the public has a right to know when their government breaks the law.

Pete Hegseth already forced Pentagon officials to sign NDAs before reading classified briefings. Now that model is going federal government-wide.

This comes after the administration fired approximately 300,000 federal workers — tens of thousands of whom were later rehired with back pay after courts ruled the firings were unlawful. It comes after federal employees have been polygraphed, retaliated against for talking to Congress, and fired for telling the truth in court.

The pattern is unmistakable. Trump is methodically converting the federal government — your government, paid for by your taxes — into a personal loyalty operation where employees serve one man and stay quiet about what they see.

That's not how a democracy works. That's how a cover-up works.

Please like and share this post everywhere to spread the news!

[Maureen Carden @M1Carden]

@CraigBrockie Aminos

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"She told the FBI in 1996. They hung up. Twenty-nine years later, the documents proved she was right all along."
The complaint was dated September 3, 1996.
A young artist, barely into her twenties, sat across from a federal agent and described what she had witnessed. She gave names. She gave locations. She told them about the girls.
The agent hung up.
Maria Farmer had come to New York to paint. She'd earned her master's degree from the New York Academy of Art just a year earlier, in 1995.
She was from Paducah, Kentucky. She had talent and drive and was standing at the threshold of the kind of career most artists only dream about.
Then Jeffrey Epstein walked into her graduate show.
What started as a job offer became something else entirely. She worked at his Manhattan mansion, answering phones, advising on art. She watched the comings and goings. She saw things that didn't sit right.
And then, in the summer of 1996, while working at a sprawling Ohio estate owned by retail magnate Les Wexner, she says Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sexually assaulted her.
She locked herself in a room. She begged for help. When she finally got out, she went straight to the FBI.
Nothing happened.
For twenty-nine years, Maria Farmer lived in a particular kind of silence.
The kind where you've told the truth and no one believes you. Where you've raised the alarm and the people who were supposed to listen simply turned away.
Epstein's network grew. His crimes continued. And Maria carried what she knew, mostly alone.
She tried again in 2002, speaking to a journalist at Vanity Fair. The magazine killed the story. Legal reasons, they said.
She kept trying. The world kept moving.
Then, in December 2025, the Department of Justice released a tranche of documents related to Epstein.
Buried in the pages was her complaint. September 3, 1996.
Nearly a decade before the Palm Beach investigation that would finally bring Epstein to court for the first time.
The FBI had known. They had her testimony. They had done nothing.
By the time Maria came forward publicly in 2019, her body had begun to break under the weight of it all.
A rare brain tumor. Then cancer. Surgeries. Radiation.
She has said she believes the trauma played a role.
But even as her health failed, she kept speaking.
And she went back to painting.
She creates pastel portraits now. Not of herself, but of other survivors.
Each woman rendered on a field of bright color. Turquoise. Pink. Orange. Yellow.
She gives them away as gifts.
Because for too long, these women were invisible.
Maria Farmer is making sure they are seen.
Think about what it means to tell the truth in 1996 and be ignored until 2025.
Twenty-nine years of watching the man who hurt you become more powerful. More protected. More untouchable.
Twenty-nine years of knowing the FBI had your complaint and did nothing.
Twenty-nine years of people calling you a liar, a conspiracy theorist, someone seeking attention.
And then, finally, the documents surface. Proof you told the truth from the beginning.
Maria Farmer lost her health, her career, nearly three decades of her life carrying a truth no one wanted to hear.
Now she paints survivors in bright, beautiful colors.
Making visible what the powerful tried to erase../

[Maureen Carden @M1Carden]

@LifeScience_X @GodswillChemist 15

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

“The Trump administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone…” https://t.co/qezHSFOnJe

[🇺🇸 Donna @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

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