ariel (taylor’s version)

The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish.

[Trill Clinton @aStatesman]

Imagine how dope the America 250th would have been if Kamala had won. Massive concerts, foreign dignitaries, millions of visitors to DC, a year long celebration culminating in a huge party on the 4th. Instead, we get meth head Kid Rock, a Gatorade colored reflecting pool, and a traveling carnival.

[ariel (taylor’s version) @arieldallafior]

@swifferwins Not 36. I’ll let you know when/if it happens.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything he does, but he was literally handed a bipartisan housing bill that would lower costs on a silver platter. It was such an easy win for him at a time when he’s so unpopular because of his cover-up of the Epstein files and this illegal war he screwed up. He could’ve said, “I did this big housing bill,” and because he is so committed to rigging the election, he chose to blow it all up. Their party is a mess. Trump is a joke.

[oscar⸆⸉ ☁️ @oscxrss]

i will be proud to say i stanned this song since day one when it gets its cruel summer momment for TS13 tour

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked my autistic friend whose pattern recognition gives her borderline prophetic accuracy even though no one ever listens to her because she’s awkward and has bad timing and says the wrong thing and has no control over her body or volume or brain

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

CPTSD is just “i have excellent pattern recognition for danger” but the pattern is someone sighing in the next room

[Victoria! @VictoriaTheTech]

Something I was talking with friends about the other day is that the “Cookie Monster Pajama Pants Girl” is such a ubiquitous late GenX and Millennial experience. We’re all from different states but every single one of us knew a Cookie Monster Pajama Pants Girl.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Driving through Ohio. Towns like this are why we’re trying to avoid the interstates and take the slower roads instead. These are the kinds of places we want to see. This feels like peak America.🇺🇸

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Printers never work because they are an affront to God. Man was not meant to pull objects from the digital realm into the real world. Icarus is flying too close to the sun.

[Aimy 🍓🥛 @erdbeermilcher]

Marie Antoinette ist für deutlich weniger gestorben

[🗣️ @vzzeo]

i am not ashamed to admit that while i am grateful for having a job, i do not enjoy working.

[s44nti @s44nti]

mi riñón escuchando que todo quiero pagar con el

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Sibylle @AHaschi]

Like Pride Rock after Scar took over 😭😭😭

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.

[ariel (taylor’s version) @arieldallafior]

I mean this is just humiliating at this point lmfao.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Paint was seen peeling from the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, weeks after a $14 million renovation that included a new color President Trump called “American Flag Blue.”

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Obama teared up during Michelle Obama's speech at Obama Presidential Center:

“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 & managed to give me both.”

[Matt G @MattyGee1975]

This area is EXTREMELY populated and 2 say worry is afoot is an understatement. EVERYONE N this area please stay alert later today 5- 10 pm and don’t wait for warnings. Just stay n and stay near a basement or safe spot. These things are going 2 b ridiculously fast. 🙏#inwx