Barb Smith☮️

Mom, Grandma, Wife, Veteran Ex Radio/TV personality — Surviving Journalist — re-tweets do not mean agreement --

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@HunterBiden Come marry me in Texas. Kidding but not really.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@AlexaBliz_ Utah

[KATY PERRY @katyperry]

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.

I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.

My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “This father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he’s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don’t pull the trigger you assholes. It just makes me mad. I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@GregAbbott_TX How?

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@wfaaweather You tell em Pete!! 🌺

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@SpeakerJohnson Stop. 🛑

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Charlamagne tha God: “All you do when you bring the Obamas up is remind people what is currently missing from the White House. The Obamas set a standard for decency and class and poise and intelligence. That no longer exists now. Now that bar is in hell. Satan and his demons use that bar to limbo”

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@WalshFreedom Two things can be the same. 😶🥴

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@SaraForTexLege Should we be allowed to read or write?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@FoxNews Go to the Dilley detention center in Texas sir.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@Mollyploofkins @lesleyabravanel He barely could get up after this. Nearly fell over. Why on earth would she want to interview again. It almost seems fake it’s so bad.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@jackngraham ?? The victims are hoaxes — meaning liars? 🥺🥺🙏🏻

[World News Tonight @ABCWorldNews]

A beloved Texas high school principal who's affectionately known as "Coach Mutt" was surprised by his graduating class with a heartfelt, handwritten letter to him. @DavidMuir shares the emotional moments captured at graduation. https://t.co/5AfNO4k7g3

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@AdamKinzinger They’re obsessed with trans, boys in girls sports, and the non binary gibberish. Maybe they aren’t straight men at all. What straight men do this and spend time on their phones looking this up. Super odd.

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@AdamKinzinger Why would you say this?

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp”–twice! Instead of rooting out corruption, he refused to divest from his businesses, turned the presidency into a personal cash cow, and he & his family are now worth billions — while hardworking American families are getting sicker and poorer.

op:n@msnownews

[Barb Smith☮️ @BarbSmithDFW]

@WUTangKids Top 1% can say and do anything.