Anne of Green Gables

A data-loving pragmatist with a soft spot for animals, a sharp eye for detail, and a habit of thinking three steps ahead. MS in Chemistry, Early Retired.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@NiallHarbison This photo always gives me such a shock, but knowing the outcome gives me joy.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@BarackObama @MichelleObama I truly respect each and every individual in this photos. I never totally agreed with anyone's full agenda, but that is what a democracy is about, different views coming together to create a better country. Togetherness is what will save us, and this photo says it all.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@HunterBiden No one could have explained it better. Thank you for the clarity.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@NiallHarbison Signed up for a monthly. This is the best dog rescue out there!! And, I am a bit selfish too, because every day, I get a bit of tearful joy just logging on.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

He created a device that lets paralyzed individuals control phones, tablets, and computers with only their tongue.

Created by MIT-trained engineer Tomás Vega, the device sits on the roof of the mouth and works like a wireless trackpad.

[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.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@NiallHarbison Such a beautiful result for that little gem.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@chiky_handlr So embarrassed for my country by our President.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@HunterBiden So many people will benefit from the kindness and open heart you are offering.There is nothing harder than admitting your weaknesses and past failures, and presenting the truth of who you are to people without a filter.I wish you well, and I know you will be touching many hearts.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@BigFish3000 That was a beautiful run. Wow!

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@xurxoexplica @Rainmaker1973 Maybe color blind to an extent?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@NiallHarbison He is in the one place on this Earth where I KNOW he will have the best chance for a life.

[Anne of Green Gables @bartlett233]

@mlonnroth @de_dummy @AJamesMcCarthy Nice response!