Ragan Rhodes

Passionate about the Performing Arts in Houston and helping power the business of arts and culture across the globe. BFA MT from TxSt.

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

@jonfavs Profit?

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

this looks like a joke website or something created by a movie marketing department for a first contact film.
https://t.co/nmc63Jucrn

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

@prettycritical yes AND she is trying very hard in this clip to cry.

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

This is literally a plot point of our favorite anti-capitalist D&D show, @dimension20show

[Crisis of Conscience @crisisofconsc]

The place where my grandma lives in Boca Raton is not a retirement community but an apartment complex but still has an older crowd (because duh, Boca Raton...). They recently switched all their laundry machines in the buildings to have to pay on an app (most don't have laundry in their units so there's a laundry area per floor).

None of the old people can figure out how to do laundry now, and the other half don't even have smartphones. I don't know who thinks this shit is a good idea to throw in everyone's faces when not everyone uses technology at the same level, or even can.

[ꕤ smosher ☆ @ThatOnePoes]

I don’t get it. If there’s one boy, where’s the other boy?😕

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

@konekone2026 I definitely need it more for my phone than my computer.
I think I would get less mad at it than any of the other screen time apps I've tried.

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

@birdabo I definitely need it more for my phone than my computer.
I think I would get less mad at it than any of the other screen time apps I've tried.

[Kelly ツ🌊 Kellwoohoo @kellwoohoo]

Spare me the complaints about Virginia's new districts. This is my new district in Texas. Unlike VA, I wasn't able to vote on it.
The blue area is a very diverse part of the Dallas suburbs that was carved out & threw in with a bunch of rural (red) voters as far as 180 miles away!

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

"a whole civilization will die tonight"

that was 6 hours ago..

Trump just agreed to stop bombing..

so today a president threatened to erase 88 million people.. bombed their oil.. their factories.. their railways.. let a country run a countdown clock to their destruction on live TV.. made his own allies call for his removal..

and then accepted the exact deal that was on the table before he threatened anyone..

every building that burned today.. every factory that was flattened.. every family that hid from the bombs.. was for a deal he could have signed this morning..

that's a man who set a house on fire so he could take credit for calling the fire department

[Definitely Not Al Gore 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇸 @AlDefinitely]

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

If every American voter, without a passport, decided to get a passport, as their primary form of ID, it would take 5 years to fill the requests. But Republicans want this to be in effect before the midterms.

They know this, of course, so it’s obvious voter suppression.

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

And wasn't just last week @ehasselbeck was screeching about how women and girls should have hope now that the US is bombing them on @TheView ?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

HOW IS THIS NORMAL?

Trump on the girls’ school in Minab:

“The Tomahawk missile that destroyed it could have been anyone’s. A Tomahawk is very generic.”

Facts:
Tomahawk missiles are manufactured by RTX in Phoenix, Arizona.

The US sells them to exactly four countries: the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.

None of them are at war with Iran.

The White House already confirmed behind closed doors to Congress that the US targeted the area.
CNN confirmed US responsibility.

165 girls aged 7-12 are dead.

And the President of the United States just told the American people a Tomahawk missile is “very generic.”

This is not a mistake. This is not confusion.

This is a lie. On camera. About dead children.

[𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐮𝐬 @ImperiumFirst]

> Renames DoD to Department of War

> Actually goes to war but says it’s not a war

> Starts calling it the Department of Defense again

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

This stinks to high heaven.

While Talarico won this fair and square, I do not blame Crockett supporters for being pissed at blatant voter suppression in her home county. The GOP just did everything in their power to screw Black voters. They will try the same in November.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The Trump/Abbott redistricting got Dan Crenshaw. Oh well.

[Ragan Rhodes @Smilnsinger]

@WUTangKids @MmunozDRRI Shaun Finnie. He is a moderate Dem and a good dude. If he can get in front of suburban voters who have always voted R out of habit, I think he can convince them.