Steve

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@islivingston @bryanwx Ian, I’m leaving Twitter and moving over to Threads. It’s been good to talk to you!

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@GavinNewsom Better ideas: pass laws to 1. Limit magazines with a capacity of (pick a number).
2. Eliminate high velocity ammunition.
3. Eliminate hollow-point and other highly destructive rounds.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@mellowhale It's not just you.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

French cover of Wheel of Time book #2. https://t.co/4URwECQaiF

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@XylaFoxlin Just change "white" to "European".

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@GenMhayden Yeah. No kidding.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@islivingston I don't know about that, Ian. I attended his first "Town Hall" meeting as DIA director. Afterward, another long-time employee and I said to each other, "What a disjointed conversation! We're not going to any more of his meetings!" And we didn't.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

If it runs into itself, game over.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

"I wanted to take a few minutes to share something incredible that happened today. This afternoon I picked up Andrew from school and we got on the metro headed home. We ride the metro everyday to and from school, so Andrew is used to it. It is usually about 45min to an hour depending on delays and what not, but as long I keep him occupied with his iPad or my phone he will sit patiently in our seat.

For those of you that don’t know, when you have a child with autism, your child will have some good days and then they will have some bad ones. Today was one of those bad days. Andrews biggest behavior problem (that he has been working on by learning calming strategies) is that sometimes when he gets upset, it will go two steps too far, and escalate into a full on meltdown/breakdown.

Today, Andrew was persistent on wanting to get out of the seat to stand in the middle of train while moving and running back and forth through it (which of course if he did he would fall). I kept trying everything to get him to sit, but he just wouldn’t (this fight went on for 20 min), that is when he his regular toddler tantrum turned into a meltdown, or what I call, the point of no return for him.

He started rolling on the floor, screaming, his shoe fell off and he flung it across the train, all while I’m on the floor trying to calm him down. Then he starts the kicking, hitting, pulling my hair while everyone in rush hour stares on the train, most thinking I was a bad parent who had an out of control child, even though really he can’t help it.

We got off at Gallery Place, one stop up from Metro Center where we change lines, still he doesn’t let up and it gets worse. Now we’re rolling around on the dirty station floor. He is covered in black dirt. I try picking him up but he continues to kick which now gets dirt on me. This goes on for about 15 minutes. Trust me this isn’t my first rodeo as a single parent, but sometimes it just gets the best of me. At this point I am crying out of pure frustration and feeling so sad that Andrew is being judged right now.

I panic as I see someone walking towards us, but it turns out to be a Metro Police Officer. As soon as he comes over Andrew freezes and stares while holding my hands, body mid air, feet stretched out on me, while I was standing. The officer asks me if I needed any help or if he could help by walking us out of station (since he saw how Andrew stopped when he came over) I explained the situation to him and how this wasn’t even our stop. He asked where I was going and I told him Ballston station (a solid 30 minutes from where we were). Without hesitation he said, “Okay I’ll come on the train”.

At this point I’m thinking he means like down the escalator to the train. He starts talking with Andrew and showing him all his gadgets. He then takes off his Velcro police badge from his vest and asks Andrew, “Can you be a police man with me and help me do police work on the train?” Of course Andrew says yes.
The officer ends up riding the metro THE ENTIRE train home with us!!! Whenever he got off he would hold Andrews hand and walk with him. He sat next to Andrew as he requested on the train, acted interested as he showed him silly videos, and he even made funny faces in the Instagram face filters when Andrew asked.
This officer COMPLETELY went out of his way to help Andrew. He honestly restored my faith that there are good people still left in the world.

To that officer, I truly can not say thank you enough for your inmesurable amount of kindness and for making Andrews day (probably his whole year). Throughout the whole ordeal I didn’t get his name, I think his vest said Officer D. Case. Washington Metropolitan Police Dept. please find him and give him a raise! He deserves to be recognized for his incredible kind gesture, and especially for letting Andrew keep the police badge. Thank you thank you!!👮🏼‍♂️💙🧩

Credit: Taylor Pomilla

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@islivingston Did she spell retribution correctly?

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@islivingston LoL indeed.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@ZachEditsStuff Rachel, welcome to the club. I should write a book on all the things I've misheard.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@EMoriartyWX My sister in Pennsylvania mentioned how smoky it was there.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@islivingston Yeah, I don't get it either. My dad always said "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." I always tried to follow that rule.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

Lt. Gen. Kruse will be the first DIA Director since Lt. Gen. Clapper that did not have me as an employee!

[DIA @DefenseIntel]

President Biden has nominated Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse to lead DIA. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines congratulated Kruse, ODNI’s Advisor for Military Affairs, and praised current DIA Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier in her June 1 press release. https://t.co/jdpMfDYnWJ

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@paix120 I measured it as 166 miles southwest of Fairfax.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 2019, three Jewish men, who had managed to survive the atrocities of the Auschwitz concentration camp and were freed on the very same day, come together once again after a span of 73 years. Remarkably, all three men not only endured the horrors of the camp but also possess tattoos that differ by a mere 10, indicating their simultaneous presence within its confines. These resilient individuals went on to build families and lead fulfilling lives.

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

I am a Diligent Deficit Hawk and cut $5.6 trillion from the national debt.

Would you swipe right to raise taxes? Play The Post's budget game: https://t.co/lFWPjko9Kp

[Steve @SAWilliams16]

@TerryAnn1219 No I don't. Only when it's paired with a MAGA flag.