Anthony Mendonca

Good human being, veteran helicopter pilot, poet.

[Anthony Mendonca @MendoncaAnthony]

@PathfinderAstro Poetic.

[Anthony Mendonca @MendoncaAnthony]

@niyetsel 999

[Anthony Mendonca @MendoncaAnthony]

@hicasamadim 72

[Mannie Quinn & The Dolly Liberation Army @DollidarityArmy]

The original population of the Americas before Europeans invaded and committed genocide, was around 90 million. By 1900, the native population had been reduced to 300,000.
That's what a fucking holocaust looks like.
But they weren't "chosen people", so nobody gives a shit.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Hi @X — would you mind removing the throttle from my account so I could have my reach back?

And followers, if you don’t mind liking this post so I can gauge if it’s showing up on your feed that would be very helpful.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The "flag on the moon."

They gave the world the image of a "flag on the moon" in 1969, and it became the image of American destiny. American reach. American inevitability.

The same government that planted that flag was, in 1969, conducting mass bombing campaigns in neutral Laos, a war kept largely hidden from Congress and the American public.

Dropping more than two million tons of bombs on one of the poorest countries on earth, more than the U.S. dropped on Germany and Japan combined during all of World War II.

Running a CIA-designed program in Vietnam that tortured and assassinated civilians suspected of communist ties by the thousands.

The moon flag and the secret bombing happened in the same year.

Ordered by the same government.

Funded by the same budget.

Administered by some of the same people.

One image is remembered as the "height of human achievement."

The other is a footnote, if that.

This is curation.

This is how a national mythology is built and maintained.

You amplify one image until it fills the frame.

The other image never makes it into the frame at all.

What's outside the frame is where the truth lives.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@IngrahamAngle @LaraLeaTrump After grandpa joked for the umpteenth time about Paul Pelosi’s attack, someone sent me photos of my house and then called me to say they were on their way to “Paul Pelosi me next.”

That didn’t happen in a vacuum either, Lara.
But please do go on clutching those pearls.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude. While at Harvard Law School, she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. 

Donald Trump is a fucking idiot.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

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 fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@PressSec What the fuck did we win????
We sent 13 troops home in coffins.
Thousands of Iranians are dead including schoolchildren.
Tens of billions of dollars to give Iran their wishlist.

Go gaslight somewhere else KKKaroline.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is a student’s notebook recovered from the rubble as the U.S. bombs Sharif University in Tehran.

From the writings, you can see that this contains mathematical symbols such as the integral sign. If you look further, you can see that the calculations here are from Quantum Mechanics.
The equations here essentially show how to calculate the behavior of a quantum particle by starting with its free motion and then observing how it interacts with a potential field between its start and end points.

So basically, as U.S. attempts to steal Iran's enriched uranium failed miserably, they resorted to bombing Tehran's topmost theoretical physics departments in a desperate hope to destroy the research facilities that empowered Tehran to enrich uranium to such a high level.

What a shame!

[Anthony Mendonca @MendoncaAnthony]

@everyday_awaken In my opinion, it is a split screen, or picture in picture. Stillness and activity.
Responsibilities have to be met.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump despises anyone with a deep sense of duty, discipline, and patriotism.

Rest in peace, Robert Mueller.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: Trump ADMITS the SAVE Act is designed to disenfranchise voters: "Republicans have to win this one. We'll never lose a race for 50 years."

He’s talking about YOU. Your vote gone. Your voice erased. So they never have to answer to you again.

#NoPayToVoteSaveAct

[Autosport @autosport]

Kimi getting his first win with Mercedes and Lewis getting his first podium with Ferrari at the same race is perfect 🤌

#ChineseGP

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: A clip of Donald Trump from 2024 is going mega viral: “I can tell you you’re not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.”

Truly curious if any MAGA voters are willing to admit they were played.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

This has reached Canada, Ukraine, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Japan, Finland, Czech Republic, Iran, China, Colombia, Russia, Palestine and more.

This is international.

They'll be adding another 100+ files today. Notifications on. Follow this account.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

BREAKING: 🚨 🇺🇸 The U.S. will send $10 BILLION to Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace.”

The board is an offshore entity he controls. Where he’s chairman for life.

He literally robbing you.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he’s transferring $10 billion from the U.S. government to his “Board of Peace,” which he chairs and can use the funds as he wishes.

Where is Congress???