Zelensky’s diplomacy: In December 2019, Zelensky was seen laughing as Putin spoke about implementing the Minsk Agreement to end the conflict in Donbas. Years later, Angela Merkel admitted that the agreement was intended to give Ukraine time to strengthen and build up its armed forces.
I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. 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.
Congress 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. 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.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?
Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
You find a new door and you go through it.
You may not realize it, but you have a master key that opens many doors.
You’ve earned that key through life’s ups and downs over the years.
We all have.
Open a new door and go through that threshold.
Life is a series of thresholds.
TIME SURE FLYS.
Nine years ago, I tried something I wasn’t sure had ever really been done this way before on Twitter.
I opened the door and welcomed you all in to two sick people's lives.
Not to a polished version, but to the real one—the fear, laughter, illness, caregiving, exhaustion, hope, heartbreak, and extraordinary love that lived inside our little Orlando home.
I invited you into Rebecca’s life, our animals, our family and mine as raw as it sometimes was, hoping that as days became weeks, weeks became months, and months became years, you might stop feeling like followers and simply become part of the Whelan family.
And so many of you did.
Books and long essays included.
What you have done for us over these years—your kindness, prayers, generosity, encouragement, and simply showing up—can never be adequately repaid with words. Some gifts are too large for language.
I will carry that gratitude for the rest of my life.
Nine years is a long time to leave the front door open.
And lately, I’ve found myself standing in that doorway a little longer than usual. Staring. A bit lost. Wondering what's next?
Looking back.
Remembering.
And wondering what one does with the key when a very very long chapter has finally said everything it came here to say.💙
This is my beautiful daughter, Ashley. She was only 13 when #BrainCancer took her from this Earth. 💔
Ashley’s fight became my mission & purpose in life. It’s why I founded Cancer Response Team, so other Children & families don’t have to walk this road as alone as we did.
If this photo stops you for even a second, please don’t scroll past. Follow. Repost. Donate & help us keep Ashley’s light going for the Children still fighting.
We love you, Ashley. 💜
@FringeViews@DrNeilStone Cancer is basically your cells mutating into cancer.
So if you take a cancer vaccine, it would stop your body’s cells from mutating into cancer.
@nopitypolitics It is where there military infrastructure is the strongest.
It doesn’t mean they’ll stay in the UK if war breaks out.
It means the entire royal family will quickly be together and ushered out as needed.
And I’m sure there are bunkers, tunnels, and transport readily available.
@SteveLovesAmmo Ummm……wrong.
All those individuals residing or visiting within the borders of the country are subject to the laws (constitution) and the laws of the state they are residing in or visiting.
@funderboltz@zufrieden275 Your grandfather may have lived into his 80’s or 90’s, but now look at how many of his siblings died in the first 2-3 years of life.
@ShaunPinnerUA Seoul is a city with a population of 10 million.
It is within 25 miles of the DMZ, where North Korea has thousands of artillery pieces and rockets pointed directly at that city.
In the event of war on the peninsula, it would take the US weeks to eliminate those weapons.
@Asq2858@NatalyaOba So if the person in question has to be at work at an unusual hour (say 6am) do you want to hear the rolling of the garbage cans a 5-5:30?
@NatalyaOba There are important variables that you did not mention:
What time is the garbage pickup?
What time does the individual in question go to work? Does he/she work the night shift, or some other off-hours, which precludes them from placing the garbage out in the morning?
@Chip2022@blairvic02 The law doesn’t take into account cost of living or inflation adjustment between time periods.
The wording of the law would have to be amended to reflect the change.
@cabsav456@Allisonwants8ak The US has a major shortage of missile interceptors and other arms as a result of the conflict with Iran.
Also, it is a known fact that Trump has numerous business ties with Russia going back decades.
Why are his actions a mystery to you?
Your puzzlement is dumbfounding.