Michelle, Suburban Mom

“Look for the helpers. You will always find people helping.” -Fred Rogers (@

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

A few seconds of peaceful zen for you.

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

@LucifersTweetz I feel like we are all living in the land of Lucifer.
Every single day.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Imagine an underwater Grand Canyon where corals have been growing since before the United States was founded. 🐠

Plunged in total darkness. Untouched. Protected.

Until one signature changed everything.

On February 6, 2026, that's exactly what happened.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is bigger than Yellowstone.

Its submarine canyons drop into depths we're still mapping. There are sea creatures here science hasn't even named yet.

It’s underwater mountains — millions of years old, rise from the ocean floor, drawing sperm whales and endangered right whales from miles away.

The cold-water corals living here? Some have been growing for over a thousand years. A trawl net destroys them in seconds. They don't grow back in our lifetimes.

The monument was created in 2016 for one reason — to keep this ecosystem off limits from exactly this kind of destruction.

It worked. Until February.

One person. One signature. Zero public input. No congressional vote. No comment period. Just a proclamation — and a thousand-year-old ecosystem lost its protection overnight.

Proclamation 11009 — "Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic"— erased the ban overnight. Trawl gear, dredges, otter nets. Now permitted inside monument boundaries.

And here's the part that should make you angry — this administration tried this exact move in 2020. Conservation groups sued. They won. Biden restored protections.

Now we're back here.

How many more monuments have to lose their protections before Congress does something? 🐠

#DemsUnited

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

U.S. transferred $3 billion to Iran from frozen assets via the UAE in exchange to halt recent strikes on Israel, according to Kann.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

According to a new report, the Social Security trust fund—which helps pay Social Security benefits—will now run out of money in 2032, a year earlier than expected.

Why? Because Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is depleting the fund faster. Recipients will see their benefits slashed by 22% if Congress doesn’t act.

Sounds like a cut to Social Security to me.
https://t.co/dmoRB2mjP8

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Brad Paisley has encouraged his fans to help stop plans to build a 69,000 square-foot data center just 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo:

"It doesn’t belong there. It would be an enormous monstrosity"

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

@swd2 @PSRSurf Fact check:
No.
No, he does not.

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Several federal government X accounts, such as the U.S. State Department and Customs and Border Protection, have deleted posts from previous presidencies.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Every summer, well-meaning people hang out balls of dryer lint, yarn, and pet fur for the birds. Most of it does more harm than good.

Dryer lint feels perfect, but it isn't. It crumbles the first time it rains and leaves holes in the nest, and it carries detergent residue and microplastics.

Yarn, string, and long hair can be worse: they wrap around a nestling's leg or wing as it grows and slowly cut off circulation, and wildlife rehabbers see the results every year.

Pet fur seems like the safe, natural choice, and it's the one I'd skip hardest. A 2025 UK study found that 100% of the animal fur lining the nests of two common songbirds contained insecticides from flea and tick treatments, and the higher the dose, the worse the chicks did. The soft lining was poisoning the brood.

Here's the good news: The best nesting material is a slightly messy yard, and it's free. Leave the twigs, dead leaves, and dried grass where they fall. Let plants stand so the seed fluff and stems are there for the taking. Leave a small patch of bare mud for the robins.

Birds were building nests for millions of years before the craft-supply aisle existed. Give them a wild corner and get out of the way.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

New York City spends part of every summer renting goats to fight invasive plants.

Two dozen retired farm goats get trucked in from upstate and turned loose on a two-acre hillside too steep and tangled for human crews to work safely. They go straight for the plants nobody else wants to touch: porcelain berry, mugwort, multiflora rose, English ivy, and poison ivy, which they eat with no reaction at all.

A goat puts away about a quarter of its body weight in vegetation a day, and the herd grazes the invasives down to the root, again and again, weakening them and making them easier to control.

It isn't a gimmick. Goats reach terrain machines can't, can reduce or even eliminate the need for herbicides in some areas, their droppings fertilize as they go, and clearing the tangle is exactly what lets park staff come in behind them to plant native trees and understory that hold the slope.

Cities from California to the Carolinas now rent goats to clear brush and cut wildfire fuel.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Iranian FM Araghchi: "Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered. Leave our region if you want to be safe."

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

What just happened?

At 9:45 AM ET, the S&P 500 was trading nearly +1.5% higher and tech stocks were sharply higher.

At 10:40 AM ET, selling pressure began to intensify without any major headlines in one of the biggest reversals of the year.

Just 2 hours later, President Trump said Iran shot down a US helicopter "last night" and that the US must "respond to this attack."

This sent the S&P 500 to a new low of the day, down 240 points since 9:45 AM ET.

In just 3 hours, the S&P 500 has erased -$2.1 trillion in market cap.

Volatility is back.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

$2 TRILLION HAS BEEN WIPED OUT FROM US STOCK MARKET IN LAST 2 HOURS.

Two possible reasons for this selloff.

THE FIRST REASON IS SPACEX.

SpaceX lists on June 12 at a $1.77 trillion valuation, raising $75 billion, the largest IPO in US history.

SpaceX allocated 30% of shares to retail investors, three times the industry norm.

Even then, most retail investors still did not get full allocation. To buy more SpaceX at open on Thursday, they are selling their existing positions today to raise cash.

And SpaceX does not enter the Nasdaq 100 on day one. It enters 15 trading days after listing, putting forced buying around early July.

Nasdaq changed its rules specifically for this IPO, cutting the waiting period from three months to 15 days.

When that happens, every QQQ fund must automatically buy SpaceX, an estimated $22 to $27 billion in forced mechanical buying. To make room, every existing Nasdaq 100 stock gets trimmed.

MSCI has also adopted early inclusion rules, adding trillions more in tracked assets that will be forced to buy SpaceX after listing.

Both retail and institutions are raising cash at the same time, retail to participate in the listing, institutions to prepare for the forced index buying in July.

That combined selling is what you are seeing right now.

The second reason is insider positioning ahead of major news.

When institutions sell this aggressively across every asset class at the same time, it often signals they know something the market does not yet.

[Judge Rod Bean @RealMrBean99]

I live about 40 miles east of Stone Mountain.
If I dig about a foot down in my front yard I hit Stone Mountain granite. It actually extends almost all the way to the Georgia/Carolina border.
It is a tremendously huge piece of granite.
This exposed chunk is just a bump up

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

@atrupar It almost sounds like he is saying people were put on the planet to serve the Epstein class of corporate oligarchs.

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

@davidrlurie @atrupar Like Santa Claus.

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

@CBSNews What Americans were asked? Were 50% of those asked billionaires? The billionaires are the ONLY ones NOT worse off financially than a year ago.

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

Brilliant!

(With a “t,” most people don’t know it ends in a “t.”)

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I.

Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠

#VeryStableGenius #PartTwo #parody

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Wow, if you read this you might get the impression that trump is getting ready to steal the next election! And you’d be right.