Aramis' Mom

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

NEW: As promised, here is my new ad for #HarrisWalz. My story never gets easier to tell, but everything is on the line this election. Please watch and share 🙏🫶

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[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

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[Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel]

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[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

YES! #WomenForHarris is NUMBER ONE!

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

I think everyone needs to take a step back, breathe, and think about the reality we’re in.

We’re all on the same side here. We all have the same goal. Yes, we may have different ideas for how to get there, but we all want the same thing.

Trumpism has to be defeated; Project 2025 can’t be allowed anywhere near the corridors of power.

We have to stop fighting amongst ourselves and keep our eyes on the prize.

If Biden stays in the race — as it appears he will — he can, and will beat Donald Trump again with our help.

If Biden decides to leave the race, Kamala Harris can, and will beat Donald Trump with our help.

The situation is politically complicated, but it’s also fundamentally very easy. Our job doesn’t change. Our goals don’t change.

We’re going to follow the UK. We’re going to follow France.

We’re going to defeat authoritarianism.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Pygmy marmosets eating peas.. 😊

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@TeachCivics @Angry_Staffer @Juliet_notRomeo Same 🤷‍♀️

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

'You Should Be Weary Right Now'

https://t.co/2NjgOmkD0L

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

THREAD: ANATOMY OF AN OP: HOW SAUDI-BACKED TWITTER IS SILENCING VALUABLE VOICES IN SCIENCE, ACADEMICS, AND POLITICS:

Follow me on a journey down a troll op rabbit hole. Here’s how it works:

STEP ONE: Lure you into a debate. 1/

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@Casanova5256 @Angry_Staffer I look forward to your questions in this AMA almost as much as I enjoy Angry's answers :)

[Haley Taylor Schlitz, Esq. @HTaylorSchlitz]

@FPWellman I'm 20 #GenZ, educator, law school grad & running for school board in TX. I'm running to stand up for our values & reject hate, book banning, & attacks on our students & teachers. My election is May 6 & I need your help. #Haley4KISD #GenZVotes https://t.co/9FtwseASA0

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

The man on the left raised his fist in solidarity with peaceful protestors who came to condemn gun violence—GOP expelled him.

The man on the right raised his fist in solidarity with violent insurrectionists who came to overthrow democracy—GOP embraced him.

This IS who GOP is.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

The same Tennessee GOP that just expelled two Black reps on the first try, previously failed to condemn Nazis despite multiple tries.

If duly elected Black lawmakers are a bigger threat to you than are genocidal Nazi terrorists, it isn’t democracy you’re embracing—it’s fascism.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@AffaireVintage @TheRealHoarse BEST of wishes to all of you!! ❤️

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@svershbow Yeah ...

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@FPWellman I enjoy it 👍

[Aramis' Mom @AramisMom]

@KishaAlverson @Angry_Staffer Same 🙄���