Mrs. Opal Lee also known as The Grandmother of Juneteenth … born 1926 in Marshall, TX.
She is the reason that Juneteenth became a federally recognized holiday.
Dear England, We just wanted to make you aware; We have officially adopted the Scots. They are family now. We will be in touch to negotiate your visitation rights.
Signed, The Americans.
🦅🇺🇸💪🏴🫶 #Scotland#America🇺🇸
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CNN at Reflecting Pool: This is the output from what's going on over there. And you can see it is clearly green. This is the water that the federal officials are saying is absolutely clear. It very clearly is not
Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who noticed that, while even MILLI VANILLI bailed on trump's birthday, EVERYONE showed up for President Obama, including all the living Presidents, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Common, Eddie Vedder, Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg...
People showed up for the REAL ones.
Michael Steele: "This is a moment that can be about the country. And I think a lot of people are looking at it that way."🙏💪
There’s no doubt that Putin fears the return of his army home. That is why he is so afraid of the war ending without victory. And there will be no victory. He is physically afraid of his own army. That is why, if there is no ceasefire backed by specific security guarantees, he will return to war. And this time, others may be the ones under attack.
Today, Ukraine is de facto the second army of NATO – one that is not inferior to the second army in the world. And that is why NATO needs us – specifically us – de jure. This is already a fact recognized by all leaders. Putin will remain in the Kremlin until his death, and he has one goal: the restoration of the Soviet Union. Without Ukraine, this is impossible, and that is why things are so difficult for us.
From answers to journalists’ questions. (3/3)
Maya Wiley says one of the most overlooked facts in the voting rights debate is that courts found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters when drawing congressional districts.
Her criticism: despite those findings, the maps ultimately remained in place.
That's why she argues this isn't a history lesson.
It's a present-day fight.
I feel like I’m the only one that is outraged that JD Vance spent a week promoting his book on the public dime. Even when defending the un- Christian ethos of his administration to NYT he worked in a f’n plug ‘available wherever books are sold’.
Among a myriad of things in our political landscape, aside from policy, that the Right will never candidly discuss, and the media doesn't discuss enough:
Trump IS dying.
NOBODY KNOWS how long doctors can keep him going.
He doesn't like Vance. Vance is being set up TO FAIL.
The RW grift apparatus only cares about THE GRIFT.
Trump 2.0 aides and cabinet only care about POWER AND PARDONS.
Most of the GOP are in incredibly deep and are craven, but they have constituents to answer to, in theory; whether enough of them will, nobody knows.
In a free and fair midterm elections, Dems will take the House handily, and the Senate is a toss-up.
Cognitive dissonance is everywhere; Trump is overreaching; there are cracks in MAGA that could easily become fissures.
18 year olds, after 13 years of government education, can’t build a house, can’t work on a car, have no idea how to farm, are economically illiterate, historically illiterate, have no idea how our bodies work, have no clue about healthy nutrition, and are chronically depressed.
Become self educated.
The system wants you to be its slave.
Tell me I’m wrong
Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DONALD ON HIS SURRENDER! MANY SAY IT'S THE BEST SURRENDER THEY'VE EVER SEEN. NAZI GERMANY CAN ONLY DREAM OF SUCH SURRENDER. PEOPLE BEG ME TO TELL THEM DONALD'S SECRET. I TELL THEM ALL, I'M SORRY, SURRENDERING CAN'T BE TAUGHT, YOU HAVE TO BE BORN WITH IT.
This is the world we deserve. Not the one that the media and politicians use to divide us.
Maybe the most powerful thing about the World Cup isn’t who wins the trophy. It’s millions of people discovering that the stranger they were taught to fear turns out to be a friend they just hadn’t met yet. That’s the kind of thing that restores faith in humanity. ❤️🌎⚽
The MAGA regime has opened up over 135K acres of Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest to both construction and logging.
Sounds like illegal bribery and for-profit schemes to me and our planet will have to pay another price for their greed. Fascist republicans have doomed us all.
🚨TRUMP’S IRAN DEAL BLOWS UP:
Iran has CLOSED the Strait of Hormuz again and suspended further talks, just days after Trump claimed victory. Senator Mark Warner saw it coming:
“Even Trump can’t sell this as a win for our country… This will be viewed as a historic blunder.”
The Obama Presidential Library is absolutely beautiful. I love the walking paths on the roof of the buildings on the ground, and the landscape architecture has very modern Frank Lloyd Wright vibes. Just gorgeous. 💙
For those who want to know what it says on the Museum Tower:
“You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there is new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.” 🇺🇸
Grading people by fame and wealth is a dangerous game.
Epstein’s network operated that way too.
These elite “secret societies” and networks are more connected than people want to admit.
Trump audibly farted twice in a press conference the other day, with Rubio and Lutnick right behind him.
It's becoming clear at Trump's rambling press conferences that even his cabinet members are aware of his lack of control and declining capacity.
We listened to MAGA drag Joe Biden for four years about cognitive decline.
Joe Biden never farted on stage while talking about war. Joe Biden also never started a war.
It is time for America to turn the page from this era. We must restore dignity, leadership, trust and respect to the highest office.
America cannot be the fart heard around the world.