Tom Whitby

Author, Blogger, Speaker, podcaster, 40 yr teacher, Founder #Edchat, Edchat Interactive, EDU PLN, Blog: My Island View

[Tom Whitby @tomwhitby]

I made the jump to Bluesky
I will remain on Twitter for a while longer to support my 80+K followers. Please follow. https://t.co/1xY2vdFnhf

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[A @bluhue123]

Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump

Raise Your Hand ✋ If You STAND With Admiral McRaven 🇺🇸

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

These days I’m at a loss for words. The new corruption scandal is just bananas. Trump has been using inside information to trade stocks and make millions. And the scale of the trading is just mind blowing.

Here’s what we know.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE ‼️

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

THEY ARE SO STUPID!

This is the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen.

Burgum: When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work.

Rep. Huffman: I request to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the Secretary is unaware of. It's a battery.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

I’m going to post this video every single day between now and the midterms.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Brilliant ! Period

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Over the next week week, Republicans are going to spend all their time trying to pass legislation sending A BILLION DOLLARS of your money to help Trump throw corrupt billionaire parties.

The ballroom is the biggest scam out there. Here's why.

[ASSET @assetny]

Please join us in celebrating ASSET's outstanding Student Scholarship winners at our Annual Scholarship Luncheon!
Friday, May 15, 2026
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[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Marco Rubio: For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

Trump canceled most federal cancer research funding,...

... and now demands taxpayers pay for his $400 million ballroom at the White House.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

This is very compelling! Pete Buttigieg just gets it. The sheer humanity in this clip is why I like this man so much, everyone should watch it.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.

Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...

“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”

"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.

The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."

Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."

Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.

"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."

“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.

Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.

While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!

[Peter H Proctor MD, PhD @peterproctor]

@allenanalysis Trump exhibits the pathognomic (points to the disease) symptoms of Frontal-temporal dementia. E.g., the classic foreward lean.