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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

AI data centers pose a grave threat to the health, wealth, and safety of our communities. Consumer advocate and environmental activist Erin Brockovich is standing up to these companies because Trump won't.

Catch the podcast on YouTube: https://t.co/dAuDZ2UElN

[Hey Jo🤍 @joe_jo9]

Ken Paxton moved out of his Collin County marital residence on June 1, 2024. In February 2026, he purchased a $2 million love nest for himself and his mistress in Denton County. He voted in the March primary election and again in the May 2026 runoff using his old Collin County address. According to reporting, he also cast ballots in four other elections after moving out of the marital home.

That shit is illegal!

Preaches family values, fucks around on his wife. Threatens people for election fraud, commits election fraud.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” https://t.co/Abll3dfrMo

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 2011, homeless man John Byrne was sitting on Dublin's O'Connell Bridge with one of the few companions he had in the world, his pet rabbit Barney.

Then a passerby grabbed the rabbit and threw him into the River Liffey.

John did not hesitate.

He jumped from the bridge into the freezing water and swam after Barney. Firefighters eventually pulled them both from the river, and John reportedly gave his rabbit the kiss of life after the rescue.

Barney survived.

John's actions touched people across Ireland. Animal rights group ARAN later presented him with a Compassionate Citizen Award for risking his own life to save his pet.

The man who threw Barney into the river was taken to court. He pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was sentenced to four months in prison.

John had almost nothing.

But when the life of his little companion was disappearing beneath the water, he risked the one thing he still had.

His own life.

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

Poppy, a tiny Basset Hound puppy, was abandoned in a truly heartbreaking condition. Mischievous children had covered her body with marker drawings, leaving her exhausted and trembling with fear. When Lee found and rescued her, all she could do was cry nonstop.

Lee gently gave her a warm bath, showered her with cuddles and comfort, and let her rest peacefully by his side. Little by little, Poppy began to feel safe again and slowly opened her heart. Before long, the little pup was happy, constantly wagging her tail, and had fully settled into Lee's big pack of dogs. Now, Poppy is living the joyful life she always deserved in a forever home filled with love. 🐶❤️

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

There is something haunting about this photograph.

Not because of what it shows—but because of what it doesn't.

The young woman smiling into the camera had no way of knowing that almost everything she loved was about to vanish. Her name was Charlotte Salomon, a brilliant German-Jewish artist whose life would become one of the Holocaust's most heartbreaking stories.

As Nazi persecution tightened around her, Charlotte made a decision that seems almost impossible to comprehend. Instead of surrendering to despair, she painted.

Not one painting. Not ten.

More than 1,300.

Working at extraordinary speed while hiding in southern France, she transformed her memories, family tragedies, romances, nightmares, and hopes into a vast series she called Life? or Theater? Part autobiography, part stage play, part confession, it remains unlike anything else in the history of art. Every page feels like someone racing against time, determined to leave behind proof that they existed.

Those closest to her later recalled that before entrusting the paintings to a friend for safekeeping, Charlotte simply said, "Take good care of it. It is my whole life."

She was right.

In 1943, Charlotte was arrested. She was five months pregnant.

She was deported to Auschwitz.

Within hours of arriving, she was murdered.

The child she was carrying never had the chance to be born.

Yet somehow, Charlotte still refused to disappear. The paintings she left behind survived the war, preserving not only her remarkable talent but her voice, her humor, her grief, and the ordinary moments the Nazis tried to erase forever.

This photograph captures one of the last moments before history reached out and shattered her future.

She lost her life.

But she did not lose her story.

#archaeohistories

[Mike Murphy @murphymike]

Tacky, garish, artless, inelegant, noisy, overstuffed and incompetently managed. Perfect reflection of Donald Trump.

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

Someone called the police on a little boy in Hapeville, Georgia last week.

A neighbor had dialed 911 to report a kid going door to door in the neighborhood. Officer Colleran from the Hapeville Police Department was dispatched to handle the "disturbance."

When he arrived, he found a young boy, politely knocking on doors, hat in hand, asking if anyone needed their weeds pulled, their grass cut, or their hedges trimmed.

He wasn't begging. He wasn't causing trouble.

He was working.

Officer Colleran asked the boy what he was saving up for.

"A PlayStation 5, sir. But I don't want anyone to just give it to me. I want to earn it."

Let that sink in for a second. A child out in the summer heat, going door to door with a work ethic most adults would envy, because he wanted to earn what he wanted. Not ask for it. Not expect it. Earn it.

Officer Colleran, a gamer himself, knew exactly how much a PS5 meant to that kid. And he also knew something else, he was looking at a boy with more character than most people twice his age.

So he made some calls.

He reached out to a few friends, they pooled their money, and together they showed up with a brand new PlayStation 5 and a gift card for an online membership.

The boy who someone wanted removed from the neighborhood went home that day with more than a console.

He went home knowing that the right people are paying attention.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She washed clothes by hand for 75 years, and then gave almost everything she had so strangers could go to college.

She lived in a tiny wooden house, patched her shoes with tape, and saved quietly for decades. No fame. No luxury. No spotlight.

Then at 87, she walked into the University of Southern Mississippi and donated $150,000, her entire life savings, to fund scholarships for students she would never meet.

When asked why, her answer was simple: “I want to help somebody’s child go to college.”

Her gift inspired thousands of people to give, and her scholarship fund continued changing lives long after her passing.

Oseola McCarty proved that true wealth is not measured by how much you keep, but by how many lives you touch.

[GFY TV @Viralvid_89]

Judge Martin Wallace had spent 30 years on the bench. He'd handled fraud, assaults, and violent crimes. Very little surprised him anymore.

But one case stayed with him.

It involved a pit bull named Finn, who had been abandoned in an empty apartment, chained up, with no food or water for weeks. By the time rescuers found him, he was barely alive. His ribs showed through his skin, his fur was badly matted, and the fear in his eyes was heartbreaking.

After hearing the evidence, Judge Wallace handed down the maximum sentence allowed for animal cruelty. Justice had been served, but it didn't feel like enough.

Instead of heading back to his chambers, he walked out of the courthouse still wearing his judge's robe and drove straight to the county animal shelter.

A veterinary technician greeted him at the door.

"He's very weak," she said. "And he's terrified of people. He barely lets anyone near him."

When Wallace reached Finn's kennel, the dog didn't even look up at first. He just stared blankly ahead, as if he'd already given up on the world.

The judge quietly opened the kennel door and knelt on the concrete floor.

"Hey, buddy," he said gently. "I'm Martin. I heard what you've been through."

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then Finn slowly stood up.

With shaky legs, he made his way over to the judge... and climbed right into his lap.

The room fell silent.

The frightened dog who trusted no one rested against Wallace's chest and gently licked the tears rolling down the judge's face.

The vet tech could hardly believe it.

"I've never seen him do that," she whispered.

Holding the frail dog close, Wallace fought back tears.

"You're safe now," he said. "Nobody's ever going to hurt you again."

From that day forward, he visited Finn every week while the dog recovered. A respected judge sitting on the shelter floor in his robe, spending time with the dog who had unknowingly changed his life.

Two months later, Finn was finally healthy enough for adoption. Plenty of families wanted to give him a home.

But Finn had already made his choice.

Judge Wallace signed the adoption papers, and the two walked out of the shelter together.

Finn wasn't leaving as a victim anymore.

He was leaving as a survivor... with the person who had promised he'd never be alone again.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Trump earning over $1 billion last year from crypto ventures: “We are seeing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”

[The Adorable Pups @TheAdorablePups]

Tiny best friends meeting for the very first time 🥹🐶

[Riya Ghosh @Riyaghoshm]

A Homeless Dog Searched For Shelter But Was Cruelly Kicked Away.

One Kind Soul Opened Their Home Offered Food Love And Safety Proving Compassion Can Change A Helpless Life Forever.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

The president doesn't seem to understand basic grade school civics.

If SCOTUS has held that birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution, his allies in Congress cannot simply override that with a statute, short of a near impossible constitutional amendment.