Olivia Houston

it's me🤷🏾‍♀️

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

This was 49 years ago… all those racist white kids in the video are 55-75 today. They run the country, run the judicial system, serve as police chiefs, etc. Let that marinate, bro.

[Chris @Chris490360]

Reparations now are owed

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Michelle Obama had a problem.
She was standing in Buckingham Palace, about to sit down to a state dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II — one of the most formally dressed women in the world, wearing jewels that had adorned British royalty for centuries — and the gift she had brought was a $50 brooch from an antique shop in Washington D.C.
It was May 2011. President Barack Obama and the First Lady were on a state visit to the United Kingdom — only the second time in history a sitting American president had been granted that honor. The palace had pulled out all the stops. Chandeliers blazing. Footmen in livery. The Queen in full regalia, diamonds catching the light.
And Michelle's gift was a small moss agate brooch from a vintage store called Tiny Jewel Box.
Barack Obama would later recall the moment with a smile. "The Queen was dressed up quite a bit for the state dinner," he said. "It was a little bit concerning for Michelle, because as a gift to Her Majesty, Michelle had selected a small, modest brooch of nominal value."

The brooch was beautiful, in its quiet way. Made in 1950 in America, crafted in fourteen-karat yellow gold, set with diamonds and pale green moss agate in the shape of a small flower. Delicate. Personal. The kind of thing you find when you're not looking for something grand — when you're just looking for something true.
Michelle presented it to the Queen that evening, alongside the official state gift — a carefully assembled album of photographs and memorabilia from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's historic 1939 visit to the United States, something the Queen was said to have been visibly moved by as she turned the pages.
But it was the little brooch that told a different story.
The following evening, the Obamas hosted their own reciprocal dinner at Winfield House — the official residence of the American Ambassador in London. It was a room full of heads of state and royalty, an evening of its own formality and grandeur. The Queen arrived.
And on her lapel, she was wearing Michelle's brooch.
Not one of her legendary pieces. Not a diamond parure gifted by a Commonwealth nation or a sapphire set that had passed through generations of the royal family. The small American flower from a Washington antique shop — worn the very next night, in front of everyone.
Obama said: "The one thing we immediately noticed is that she was wearing the brooch that Michelle had given her. It was an example of the subtle thoughtfulness that she consistently displayed. Not just to us, but to everybody who she interacted with."

The Queen understood something that is easy to forget in rooms full of expensive things: the value of a gift has nothing to do with its price. It has everything to do with what it says. That brooch said — I chose this for you. I thought of you when I saw it. I wanted you to have something made by American hands, something personal, something that wasn't pulled from a state inventory.
The Queen heard every word of it.
She kept the brooch. It became known in royal circles as the American State Visit Brooch, and it appeared on her again on notable occasions over the years — a quiet signal, each time, of the warmth she carried for the people who had given it.
The exchange, it turned out, went both ways. The Queen gave Michelle a gift of her own that visit — an antique brooch of red coral and gold, shaped like a rose. Two women, surrounded by all the machinery of state protocol, quietly giving each other flowers.
When Queen Elizabeth died in September 2022, Barack Obama released a video tribute. He talked about how she reminded him of his grandmother — the same wry humor, the same no-nonsense grace, the same ability to make everyone around her feel genuinely seen. And he told the brooch story. The $50 antique. The state dinner. The moment the next evening when they walked in and saw her wearing it.
"She could not have been more kind or thoughtful to me and Michelle," he said.
Queen Elizabeth II owned jewels that belonged to empires. Pieces that had passed through the hands of kings and queens across centuries of history. Stones worth more than most people will ever see in a lifetime.
And when she wanted to tell someone that their gift had mattered — that the thought behind it had reached her — she pinned a small moss agate flower to her lapel and walked into the room.
That is the kind of person she was.
Kindness, when it comes from a genuine place, doesn't need to be expensive.
It just needs to be worn.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

Good question—why are there no 40 something year old trad wives?

Anyone with life experience knows why-they’re divorced and destitute.
To the young conservative women—stop drinking the kool-aid!

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

No state authorizes the death penalty for theft. Yet, police routinely kill Black people they suspect of stealing something. No trial. No jury. No due process. Just state sanctioned violence

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: CNN confirms the Trump administration has completely drained the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level since 1983!

Washington's disastrous Iran war has left America entirely defenseless.

Cushing's massive pipelines are literally running dry!

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Jeff Bezos claiming humans are consuming too much water and not leaving enough for AI data centers is INSANE.

[Olivia Houston @Thesexygardener]

@charise_lee I did a store locater.. they're all in Target.. that's a no for me, I'll try to find other ways to obtain... they really need to get with @HEB

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Happy Juneteenth! Just a reminder that USA never abolished slavery. The 13th amendment actually allows incarcerated people to be used as slaves. This is why our corporate overlords love mass incarceration so much and why they'll never support policies that reduce crime.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Police officer fired for feeding "feces sandwich" to homeless man—now promoted to Chief of Police.

After being rehired on technicality—fired yet again after another poop-related attack in women's bathroom.

He was rehired by another Texas police department—and promoted to Chief of Police.

Matthew Luckhurst bragged to a fellow San Antonio police officer that he had picked up some feces, placed it in a slice of bread, put it in a Styrofoam container, and then gave it to a homeless man.

His final termination from the San Antonio Police Department was in 2020.

He was then rehired as a police officer by the Benavides Police Department in April 2023—promoted to Police Chief in June 2026.

Benavides is a city located in Duval County in South Texas.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Just a thought…

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Dana White released the actual invite list for Trump's birthday UFC night. Adam Sandler, Tom Brady, The Rock, Jason Statham, Jared Leto, Mario Lopez, Guy Ritchie. Every one of them said no. What was left standing in that arena was Mark Zuckerberg, a handful of Trump relatives, and Nate Bargatze doing his best with a room that didn't want to be there.

Three days later the Obama Foundation released its own list. Stevie Wonder. Bruce Springsteen. Bono. The Edge. Jennifer Hudson. John Legend. Eddie Vedder. Nobody had to twist an arm to get any of them on a plane to Chicago.

The presidency ends eventually. The ability to fill a room because people actually want to be there either survives that or it never existed in the first place.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Awesome rant:

Bravo!

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has forced the National Parks Service to remove any photos of Harriet Tubman from their website covering the Underground Railroad.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Under Trump, the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights has dismissed roughly 90% of discrimination complaints without even reviewing the allegations made.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Trump on his bullsh*t ballroom:

"I don't need it through the Senate. I'm paying for it myself. I don't know what they're talking about, giving a billion? I don't need money from the Senate; I'm putting up my own money."

WTAF: Trump stole $352M for Secret Service training and used it to build the ballroom after failing to bully the Senate, trying to fire the parliamentarian is now GASLIGHTING and straight-up lying.

[Olivia Houston @Thesexygardener]

@timacheson @madeyawook Theft is not a death sentence... steadily proving the point... you're the problem

[MrsEvans916 @MrsEvans916]

Happy Juneteenth🪶

Prisoners of War were mislabeled in your history book as SLAVES, in case you didn't know. 🫶🏽