Bleda’s Mom

Perpetual home remodeler because climate change is real. #Beto

[Bleda’s Mom @Attillasmom]

Vote like your children matter. Vote #BetoForGovernor2022 @BetoORourke

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning development in deep-red Ohio, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton has out-fundraised her Republican challenger Vivek Ramaswamy. Let's go!

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking about this, actually every American should be thinking about this. @amyklobuchar

[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.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Happy Father’s Day to my man...he shows our daughters everyday what it truly means to be a man. Thank you for setting the bar high for them.

[Chris Coble @ChrisCoble]

@adgirlMM @TibbJam Yeah as I’m approaching the age where that money really matters in planning, I have to now pretend it doesn’t exist to manage risk. That’s bullshit. I’ve been paying into that continuously, even through college, since age 16.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

So he can in fact call in the National Guard whenever he wants. He just refused to do it to protect the Capitol on January 6th for 187 minutes. Glad we cleared that up.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

@Acyn Sure he will

[Shabnam Paty🐾🐩 @ShabnamPaty]

@MorganOrtagus Really doubt it. Trump has proven he’ll do whatever it takes to keep the Islamic Republic alive and he’ll find a fresh appeasement to make it happen.
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

So Trump shows the new Air Force one and the luxury of it for some reason believing Americans will love that he has such a plush plane.

He really believes we are proud of his grift

[Chili Dog @RobertJMolnar]

lol

going well

[Chili Dog @RobertJMolnar]

lol

[— • C H E E K Y • — @andreagail_k]

@MeidasTouch

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Iran's negotiators have LEFT the venue in protest of Trump's threats, per Tasnim.

Trump is single-handedly destroying the entire peace process.

[— • C H E E K Y • — @andreagail_k]

@MotherJones

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

For your information, during the first 80 minutes of negotiations, which have now concluded their first round, JD Vance did not raise the Islamic regime in Iran's nuclear program even once. Zero mention of the nuclear issue. Instead, Iran demanded that the United States stop Israel from responding to Hezbollah terrorists, support statehood for the Yemen-based terrorists, and accept Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz, which it is already attempting to assert.

This is not a nuclear deal. It is one of the most shameful and disastrous negotiations imaginable.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

We've been forced to pay into social security our whole damn working lives, but this little weasel and the Republicans think we don't deserve OUR MONEY back in full when we retire? They say we're not "entitled" to it.

Fuck that.
See you in November, GOP. 🔥

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Kind of amazing that Todd Blanche enjoyed spending two days with Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, while refusing to meet with survivors.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Some good news for a change! A judge ruled that Trump’s freeze on processing immigration applications for 39 countries is illegal and that processing must restart immediately.

This ruling is a step in the right direction. Let’s keep up the fight.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This iconic duo meme just got upgraded. 😂