Andrew M Wheeldon

Bicycle Cities consultant and enabler. Bicycle journeys connect us all, a democratic and egalitarian model for society. 640,000+ km by 🚴 since 1984 ♣️

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

He didn't break the law out of greed. He broke it out of love. Standing in court, head in his hands, shivering in an orange jumpsuit, he looked like just another criminal facing fraud charges. But the file on the judge's desk told a different story. He'd written a bad check for thousands of dollars. Not for a new car or a vacation, but at a pharmacy counter. When the insurance company denied his mother's life-saving medication, panic took over. He knew the check would bounce, but he also knew it was the only way to get the medicine she needed to survive the week. Now, he faced prison time for that desperation. And as he stood there weeping, his only thought wasn't about jail, but about who would take care of her if he was gone. He braced himself for sentencing. But the judge didn't bring down his gavel. In a moment that stunned the entire room, she stood, leaned across the bench, and wrapped her arms around him. She didn't see a con artist; she saw a loving son pushed to the brink. Holding his face in her hands, she looked him in the eye and delivered the life-changing verdict: 'It's over. I'm dropping the charges. You deserve a second chance, and I believe you can take advantage of it.' She didn't just give him back his freedom; she gave him the challenge of going home, taking care of his family, and making this mercy matter. Sometimes, justice isn't just about punishment. It's about understanding. Do you think the judge made the right decision by looking at the 'why' instead of just the 'what'?

[Lerato @_BellaM_]

It’s painful to think that almost every town and city in South Africa once had a functioning train station connected to a national rail network. People could live in one town and work in another because affordable transport made it possible.

Today, many of those stations stand abandoned, vandalised and dilapidated. Rail lines that once connected communities and drove economic growth have been left to decay. We had infrastructure that many developing countries could only dream of, yet decades later we’ve gone backwards while others surged ahead.

The collapse of our rail network is one of the biggest failures of the ANC era, and ordinary South Africans are paying the price. @TransnetNPA @PRASA_Group @GovernmentZA @MYANC @BarbaraCreecy_ @Dotransport

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING 🚨
Donald Trump thought he ended Stephen Colbert. He didn’t. He amplified him.

After celebrating the end of The Late Show, Trump claimed Colbert was off TV for good. That victory lasted less than 24 hours.

By Friday night, Colbert was already back, this time on a tiny public-access station in Michigan. No big budget, no corporate backing, just a mic, a camera, and a voice that wouldn’t quit.

Then it got even better. Jack White, Eminem, Steve Buscemi, and Jeff Daniels showed up. Big names in a small studio, all sending the same message: you can’t silence someone who refuses to be quiet.

“It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,” Colbert joked.

This wasn’t just a comeback, it was a statement. Platforms can disappear, studios can shrink, but a voice that won’t back down only gets louder.

Now Colbert isn’t off the air, he’s everywhere. Living rent-free in Trump’s head. And the more Trump pushes, the louder that little studio in Monroe becomes.

Ironically, Trump helped make it happen, boosting Colbert with every post and every attack. The more you try to silence someone, the bigger they become.

We love you, Stephen Colbert ❤️

#StephenColbert #LateNight #FreeSpeech

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Sandra Bullock is spot on.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Trump in China

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Yes!

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Are you gonna help him out? Yes or No? 🤔

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you". Wise words that still ring true today spoken by an upstanding Texan, LBJ in 1964… let it sink in that it’s now 2026.

[Andrew M Wheeldon @andrewmwheeldon]

@carltonkirby fabulous story. I’m awaiting the follow up when the race director calls you about their room selection for tonight 😂

[Halle Bentley™️ (Renae)💙 @Trenae38]

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[Kawaii 🫆 @kawaiibsfr]

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[Rafif Sheikh @Hatelies_12]

@kaitlancollins Pure feeling

[Global @tyosooo]

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Congressman Gomez just put Tulsi Gabbard in a corner she couldn’t escape.
The exchange:

“Last year you testified Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by that?”

Gabbard dodged. Gomez reclaimed his time.

“Trump said you were wrong. Were you lying or not?”

“I stand by the intelligence community’s complete assessment.”

“Were they weeks away from a nuclear weapon — yes or no?”

Gabbard dodged again.

Gomez: “Why do you even have a job? Why do you even advise them?”

Then the kill shot:

“You’re saying the President can declare any country an imminent threat — China tomorrow if he wants — and act regardless of what the intelligence says?”
Ratcliffe: “The president is commander in chief.”

Gomez: “So what’s the point of intelligence?”

18 agencies confirmed Iran had no nuclear capacity.

Israel said ten bombs in two weeks.
Trump chose Israel.

Gabbard couldn’t say Iran was weeks away.

Ratcliffe confirmed the president can ignore intelligence entirely.

Joe Kent resigned over it.

They just said the quiet part out loud under oath.

The president can start any war he wants.
Intelligence is optional.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Greenland’s Prime Minister just shut the whole fantasy down:

Nobody has the mandate to “make a deal” for Greenland except Greenland and Denmark.

Translation: We’re not for sale. Stop acting like we’re a real estate listing.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Powerful song and video…

We stand with you Greenland✊🏼