Pam Hartley

💙🌊 Animal loving retiree, advocate of kindness, ovarian cancer fighter, Democrat

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

Someone called the police on a little boy in Hapeville, Georgia last week.

A neighbor had dialed 911 to report a kid going door to door in the neighborhood. Officer Colleran from the Hapeville Police Department was dispatched to handle the "disturbance."

When he arrived, he found a young boy, politely knocking on doors, hat in hand, asking if anyone needed their weeds pulled, their grass cut, or their hedges trimmed.

He wasn't begging. He wasn't causing trouble.

He was working.

Officer Colleran asked the boy what he was saving up for.

"A PlayStation 5, sir. But I don't want anyone to just give it to me. I want to earn it."

Let that sink in for a second. A child out in the summer heat, going door to door with a work ethic most adults would envy, because he wanted to earn what he wanted. Not ask for it. Not expect it. Earn it.

Officer Colleran, a gamer himself, knew exactly how much a PS5 meant to that kid. And he also knew something else, he was looking at a boy with more character than most people twice his age.

So he made some calls.

He reached out to a few friends, they pooled their money, and together they showed up with a brand new PlayStation 5 and a gift card for an online membership.

The boy who someone wanted removed from the neighborhood went home that day with more than a console.

He went home knowing that the right people are paying attention.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

NEW: On America's 250th, Sarah Jessica Parker narrates a reading on resisting authoritarianism and building a better future—featuring Mark Ruffalo, Ted Danson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leslie Odom Jr., Margaret Atwood, & more.

"What happens next is not inevitable. It depends on us."

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The fine line between male and female intelligence.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

This photo was published of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner. What’s the problem? Giving a foreign leader visual access to a USG laptop, while using someone else’s CAC to log in. Pure incompetence at every turn.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Blundell: When Trump took over the board with all of his loser pals, he also got access to The Kennedy Center bank account. And there's about $17 million that should be in this account for operational expenses that has disappeared ... where did that $17 million go?

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN montage of Trump bashing the JCPOA and releasing any money to Iran:

I would have never given him back the money. I would have said, the money is off the table. Let's start negotiating. And you know what? I would have won that negotiation

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."

April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."

June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! MS NOW confirms Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel used over $1M in taxpayer funds to illegally reward a secret "Payback Squad" of loyalist agents.

Rep. Raskin reveals they were paid to carry out unlawful orders and cover up Patel's misbehavior!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Bragging that you dropped $250 million dollars worth of bombs on Iran IN ONE NIGHT, while people are starving and struggling to pay bills and can't get health insurance, is NOT the flex you think it is.

IT IS OBSCENE.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

DNC drops new ad:

Trump in his own words.

“You know what I really love? I love the inflation.”

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years.

He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.

https://t.co/V9XqCfrZXv

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: Mike Johnson PANICS after a recorded conversation is released exposing the House Republican plan to CUT Medicaid, Medicare, AND social security for millions of Americans.

They denied it. The recording just blew up the entire lie. EVERY American should see this.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Trump today claimed he “didn’t promise anything” about NO NEW WARS.

So here’s a second compilation showing FIFTY times during his campaign where he PROMISED exactly that.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Trump LIED to Meet The Press and said he DID NOT Promise No More Wars on the Campaign Trail

Here is PROOF he did!

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

In half a century, we’ve held the screwworm at bay.

Enter Trump and his chainsaw waving, DOGE crew of morons and they cut funding to monitoring and treatment programs.