Michelle

Teacher, wife, and mom of 4 kids, 4 🐕 , and 1 🐈‍⬛. ❤️ 🏈 🏀 🥎

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

An 18-year-old was accused of pointing a gun at an officer and faced an attempted murder charge. But body camera footage reportedly showed him cooperating and had his hands raised the entire time! Prosecutors dropped the charges. Imagine if that footage didn’t exist. The proper use of body cameras should be NON-NEGOTIABLE.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The U.S. military fired the publisher and the top editor of Stars and Stripes, which had reported on problems aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln. https://t.co/mAmxjV1G4u

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

So this Congress created a massive tax cut for the rich. Torched the budget. Now they want to cut more from working Americans to cover the disaster they created. This is the playbook. We don't have a budget problem. We have a massive oligarchy problem. They want to kill more Americans with healthcare and food aid cuts so they can get another yacht and private jet.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

“Thousands of people in Gary, Indiana, a city where nearly 80% of residents are Black, have been living without power for nearly two weeks.

After storms and winds tore through Northwest Indiana on Aug. 11, more than 60% of NIPSCO customers lost power. While electricity has been restored to many communities, officials said Wednesday that about 22,000 customers in Gary were still in the dark. Schools are closed and grocery stores are basically empty.

Social media food critic and creator Keith Lee is using his platform to bring attention to #garyindiana and said this week he hadn’t seen enough people outside the city talking about what residents are going through. He plans to visit this weekend to support storm recovery efforts.” @TheRoot

[Tamie @RealTamie]

Here is yet another cruel display of how this administration preys on the weak and vulnerable.

America’s wild horses are supposed to be protected. Instead, the federal government is rounding them up, selling some for as little as $25, and exploiting a loophole that can strip away their protections and leave them vulnerable to being shipped across our borders for slaughter.

In 2025 alone, the government sold approximately 3,700 wild horses—more than double the number sold in previous years.

These are magnificent animals that have roamed our public lands for generations. They are part of the history and beauty of the American West, and they belong to the American people.

There is something deeply disturbing about a government that continually seems to find its greatest strength when targeting those with the least power to fight back.

Whether it is people or animals, how we treat the vulnerable says something about who we are as a nation.

Strength is not cruelty.

Power is not demonstrated by hurting those who cannot defend themselves.

And saving money is not an excuse for abandoning our humanity.

Close the loophole. Protect our wild horses. Stop sending these beautiful animals into the slaughter pipeline.

We are better than this. 🇺🇸🐎 https://t.co/e58Wr2HO1R

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

I spent my day watching the place I love more than anything in the world be irreversibly destroyed for no reason.

There is not a single logical explanation for what DHS and its contractors are doing to Big Bend. It has become perfectly clear: they are using the destruction of this crown jewel national park as a vehicle to transfer billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of these politically connected contractors.

They are sacrificing our public lands so obscenely rich men who have never once set foot here can get even richer. And if they can do it here in Texas' wildest and most beloved national park, they will do it everywhere.

Governor Abbott, Senators Cruz and Cornyn: WHERE ARE YOU?!

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS IS BULLDOZING THE MOUTH OF SANTA ELENA CANYON.

DHS waived every single environmental law, now they’re butchering the most iconic part of Texas’ crown jewel national park. All happening the day after a massive protest right here and on the morning CNN left. This is an indefensible attack on Texas’ natural heritage.

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[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump is spending $1.4 BILLION deploying the National Guard in D.C. through 2029.

For what?

Crime data shows violent crime is flat. The same as last year.

This isn't public safety. It's a political stunt.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

The danger was never that he would run again.

The danger remains that he will invent an emergency and decree that it’s impossible to hold elections at the moment and he will let us know when that situation has changed.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

This is exactly how .@FoxNews propaganda works. Not by lying outright, but by choosing exactly which true facts to show you, and which ones to bury.

Yes, Massachusetts removed its 24-week limit. What Fox doesn't tell you: this covers rare, devastating cases, fatal fetal anomalies, maternal health emergencies, so families don't have to fly out of state during the worst moment of their lives.

Also missing: "very few" abortions happen after 24 weeks at all. Fox lets you imagine healthy, full-term babies being aborted on a whim. That's not what this law does. That's the manipulation.

This is the same network that agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying to us about stolen election. They do so much harm to our nation.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

holy shit Trump is OUT

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors.

Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach.

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

June 28: Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones.

July 24: European diamonds got their exemption from Trump’s tariffs.

I'm investigating what looks like cartoonish corruption.

[Lee R @247_lee]

@NiallHarbison Niall’s posts are still being stolen by this account, which I’m surprised is still up. If you haven’t already, report this account.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading and is IMPEACHABLE.

Overall, Trump has made an estimated $3.4 BILLION in just one year and 6 months.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The U.S. economy is officially losing jobs. From lost manufacturing to higher costs, the economic failures of the Trump administration keep piling up. There’s no way to spin these dismal results, because Americans know they’re paying the price every day.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy hell. Watch this.

TAPPER: Trump added 548K net jobs so far... 2 MILLION jobs were created in the last 18 months of Biden's presidency. Are you really arguing that your numbers are better than that?

HASSETT: I disagree with your number. We'll have to follow up on email...

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

In America, one health care company can own:

Your doctor
Your pharmacy
Your insurance
AND the middleman between your pharmacy and insurance.

That means more profits for giant companies and higher costs for you.

That's not right — and I have a bill to stop it.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

And another thing....

Every time Trump asks a reporter "who are you with?" Reporters need to answer "the United States of America. Who are you with, sir?"

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Jackie Kennedy was 31 when she decided the White House belonged to the American people. Then she made it the law.

She arrived in 1961 to find the people's house filled with reproductions and department-store furniture, the real treasures sold off or scattered across a century. She laid out the mission in Life magazine that fall: "It would be sacrilege merely to 'redecorate' it—a word I hate. It must be restored. That is a question of scholarship."

So she did the scholarship. In her first weeks she assembled a Fine Arts Committee and began hunting down the lost pieces of every presidency, desk by desk, portrait by portrait. She hired the first curator in the building's history. She founded the White House Historical Association to pay for it all without a dime of tax money. And she pushed Congress to pass the 1961 law that made every historic piece in that house the permanent property of the American people, immune to the whims of whoever lives there next.

Then she showed the country what it owned. On February 14, 1962, she walked America through its house on television. Fifty-six million people watched, a record. If you were a kid in 1962, you saw it in your living room, probably next to your mother.

Outside the East Wing, she started one more project: a garden, designed with her friend Bunny Mellon. She never got to finish it. In April 1965, Lady Bird Johnson completed the work and dedicated it to her predecessor. "There could be only one name for this garden," she said at the dedication. "This garden, every detail of it, reflects the unfailing taste of the gifted and gracious Jacqueline Kennedy."

Last October, Trump's crews took about a week to demolish the East Wing, the First Ladies' wing, making room for a roughly 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden went with it, razed to bare dirt. He had promised, on camera: "It'll be near it but not touching it." His press secretary had promised: "nothing will be torn down."

The builder's own estimate now puts the ballroom at $600 million, more than $300 million of it from taxpayer-funded accounts, despite his pledge that taxpayers wouldn't pay a cent. The private money comes from donors including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir.

When Americans were polled on the demolition, they opposed it two to one. Her grandson, Jack Schlossberg, answered: "My grandmother saw America in full color — Trump sees black and white."

But here is what the wrecking ball could not reach. The Red Room, the Blue Room, the State Dining Room: every room she restored still stands untouched in the residence. And the collection she assembled can never be sold, hauled off, or handed to a donor, because the law she won in 1961 made it yours, permanently. It would take an act of Congress to undo what a 31-year-old First Lady did.

He got a wing and a garden.

The house is still yours. She made sure of it, sixty-four years ago.
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