Terrie Thorstad

[Terrie Thorstad @TerrieThorstad]

@HellerSports He’s still a jerk…I never need to hear another word from Rodgers. Thank god he’s no longer a Packer!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges.

This is his mugshot.

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

Just sayin'.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

A 4-year-old boy whose father left him, stood outside every single day for months waving at strangers... just hoping somebody would say hi back, in North Carolina.

Then one neighbor walked across the street to meet him.

Now an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD shows up for his soccer games, his swim lessons, his birthday parties.

Roman Butzlaff is 4 years old, from Concord NC, just outside Charlotte.

His mom says he wakes up every single morning excited to say "hi" to somebody. It's the very first thing he wants to do.

But behind that big smile was a hurting little heart. His parents split about a year ago and his dad moved away.

Then a neighbor named Wade Fulgum did the simplest, most powerful thing in the world.

He just walked across the street... and met the little boy who was always waving at him.

And it spread.

Now about a DOZEN neighbors, people who barely knew each other's names, show up for Roman's soccer games.

His basketball games. His swimming lessons. Even his preschool open house. His birthday party guest list was basically a map of the block.

One neighbor said it best: "If the world was like this child, what an awesome, awesome place it would be."

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

just sayin’

[resident @residentmusic]

To celebrate @Harry_Styles' number 1 album and record breaking run at Wembley Stadium, we’ve been given a SIGNED Wembley exclusive edition of ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’ to give away to a lucky winner!

All you have to do is like, share this post, follow @residentmusic and comment your favourite track from Harry’s new album 🪩

Deadline is Friday 17th July.

Good luck!

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

If you think liberals steal elections and control the weather but also let Republicans control all three branches of government you may be fucking stupid beyond repair.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump's Great American Fair will go down in our history as a fitting disaster, emblematic of the man, a combination of narcissism, idiocy, and incompetence. The attendance is woeful. The entertainment is lousy. The food is crap. The messaging is misplaced. The stage is collapsing. The military does flyovers while people on the ground pass out from heat exhaustion. It is - as predicted ... and as expected - a testimony to Trump and Trumpism, and an insult to America and to thinking people everywhere.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[Terrie Thorstad @TerrieThorstad]

@PeteButtigieg I’m so sorry this happened. It’s gut wrenching to think your family was put through this politically motivated investigation.

[The Democratic Voice @TheDemVoiceNow]

OOPS. Ran out of room. If you are fed up with Trump destroying everything he touches, join our community! Link in profile.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

First it was $40 billion to Venezuela and now it’s $300 billion to Iran

This is the price of the Epstein files. This is the cost of electing a pedophile. I never want to hear conservatives say we don’t have money for shit ever again

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Covie @covie_93]

The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Hegseth’s ban on transgender military members being ruled unconstitutional on the first day of Pride is hilarious.

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

MASSIVE:

🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying.

A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements.
Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts.

We tracked a whale for weeks.
0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate.

You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets.

Now the BBC has the receipts.
Nobody will be investigated.
Nobody will be charged.

The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

I’d like to apologize to every MAGA supporter I ever mocked.

I should have been meaner to you and done it more often.

Because you deserve to be endlessly reminded of how fucking stupid you are.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: TMZ calls on all Americans to send them ANY photos of members of Congress on vacation during the partial shutdown so they can shame them. This might just be enough to turn it all around. Ted Cruz take note.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Good on Jon Ossoff for exposing Donald Trump for using a dead soldier’s casket in a fundraising email. One of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen from any politician in my 20-year career.