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[Christine in Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ctnyholm1]

Hunter Biden is holding up the magical looking glass that America needs to look at to realize what they lost when they rejected Joe Biden. We lost the capacity to be loved like this even when we were imperfect.

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

1/ Donald Trump's decision to put an incompetent dangerous operative in the position of Director of National Intelligence is the last straw. He must be impeached and removed. No other act in Congress should take precedence over the need to remove this insane and dangerous man.

[Bini @bini02882]

@jacquie_rn Almost seven years clean and sober? Heck- the man has my respect!
That pretty much says it all for me. 💪🏼🙌🏼👏🏼

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

True story, I once had an infection on my foot that required hospitalization. The nurses who took care of me were all Nigerian immigrant women, and they were the sweetest souls I've ever met. Immigrants are not the problem with America, billionaires who don't pay taxes are.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This is only the beginning.

He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight.

The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone.

Choose who you'll be in this moment.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you honestly believe that any of the violent 1,600 rioters that stormed the Capitol and beat cops with flagpoles and fire extinguishers on January 6th deserves ONE CENT of our hard-earned tax dollars, you are a DISGRACE and an asshole.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

A bedrock principle of America’s founding was religious freedom, not a national religion. Theocracy is the stuff of ISIS.
https://t.co/Q4kvBWbclT

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes."

"Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

[Rick J @rickjeff78]

We are driving head first into the worst energy crisis the world has ever seen and about 7% of Americans are aware it's happening.

[Bini @bini02882]

@GailDow12 @JamesTate121 @TERRIENMAC Same🙌🏼.

[Karin Arcuschin @KarinArcus_ok]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA

Trump ataca al Papa Leo XIV — y recibe una respuesta contundente que no olvidará

Donald Trump pensó que podía ganar puntos políticos fáciles al llamar al Papa Leo XIV “un insulto a Jesús”, argumentando que el pontífice, conocido por expresar sus opiniones, estaba “demasiado influenciado por lo woke” y creía que Dios no discrimina por género. Pero, desafortunadamente para “Dementia Don”, eligió a la persona equivocada. Frente a una audiencia llena, el Papa Leo XIV no solo respondió — ofreció una poderosa reflexión moral.
“El Presidente de los Estados Unidos acaba de decir que yo insulté a Jesús”, comenzó el Papa Leo XIV. “¿Quieren saber qué insulta a Jesús? Quitarle la atención médica a los enfermos mientras se reducen los impuestos a los multimillonarios.”
Y eso fue solo el comienzo.
“¿Saben qué insulta a Jesús?”, continuó. “Deportar al extranjero y separar a los bebés de sus madres.”
Luego fue aún más allá — señalando la guerra, la corrupción y la hipocresía.
“¿Saben qué insulta a Jesús? Bombardear a niños inocentes en Irán y enviar a nuestros valientes hombres y mujeres a morir en otra guerra interminable… Encubrir los archivos de Epstein y luego negarse a procesar a una sola persona involucrada.”
Esto no era política como de costumbre. Era una acusación moral directa. El Papa Leo XIV — quien ha hablado frecuentemente sobre temas sociales y éticos — cambió completamente el enfoque. En lugar de retroceder, fundamentó su mensaje en las mismas enseñanzas que Trump intentó usar en su contra.
“No soy un cristiano perfecto”, dijo. “Solo ha habido un cristiano perfecto, y fue crucificado en una cruz hace 2.000 años.”
Y luego llegó la frase que más impactó:
“Jesús nos enseñó a amar a nuestro prójimo como a nosotros mismos… ¿Podemos imaginar guerra en el cielo? ¿Podemos imaginar intolerancia en el cielo? ¿Podemos imaginar pobreza en el cielo? Entonces, ¿por qué toleramos estas cosas en la tierra?”
Así es como se responde. No con insultos. No con miedo. Sino con claridad — y convicción. Trump intentó desacreditarlo. En cambio, el Papa Leo XIV ofreció un mensaje que ahora resuena mucho más allá de esa sala.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints a Black vocal Trump critic to be a new bishop for Washington in a clear message to the President, his racist regime and his warmongering!

Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to HATE this…
The Holy Father announced that Rev. Robert Boxie III would become the youngest bishop in the United States, appointing him to be an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Washington.

Rev. Boxie has previously been very critical of the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI and eliminating Black people from employment in the federal government.

In an interview with Catholic Review, Boxie said that “It’s really frustrating — especially this moment that we’re living in. The attacks on ‘DEI’ — I don’t even know what that means anymore. It’s a term that’s been hijacked. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people.”

“I think at its core, it’s what America is all about. We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”

“And the fact that it’s been turned into something negative — or something that should be avoided or not talked about — just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.”

“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race. And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”

He couldn’t be more right. The reason that DEI programs exist is because racial discrimination and white supremacy are hardcoded into American society and all American institutions.

We saw this first-hand just this week when the Supreme Court gutted Section II of the Voting Rights Act and every red state began foaming at the mouth to strip political representation away from Black voters.
Our history and our present is exclusive, and the anti-DEI campaigns of the right-wing show that we were correct to have them and need to redouble our efforts once we’re back in power.

Rev. Boxie certainly has the resume to be an auxiliary bishop and well-deserves the role; but his placement in Washington feels like it carries a symbolic weight to it that matters greatly in this era of ignorance and contempt.

Congratulations, Rev. Boxie!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I promoted Lorna Hajdini to Executive Director at JPMorgan because she understood something most bankers never learn.

Ownership.

Not deal ownership. People ownership. The kind of leadership where you don't just manage a pipeline. You manage the person building it. Their trajectory. Their compensation. Their future at the firm. Their references when they try to leave.

I taught her that. Not at NYU Stern. Not at Harvard. Here. In Leveraged Finance. In my corner office on the forty-second floor with the framed Tombstones from every deal that made this division what it is.

Lorna's handshake could restructure a cap table. That's not a compliment. That's a performance review.

When the complaint came across my desk, I read it twice. Not because it was disturbing. Because it was familiar.

Every behavior described. The direct communication. The after-hours mentorship. The expectation that juniors earn their advancement through demonstrated commitment to the team. That's the playbook. My playbook. The one I handed Lorna when she made Executive Director and inherited a book of direct reports who needed to understand the hierarchy.

"I own you."

I've said it to thirty-one analysts over twenty-two years. It means: I control your rating, your bonus, your promotion slate, and whether the next firm you apply to hears "top-decile performer" or dead air. It's in the HR manual under "direct management accountability." We call it alignment of incentives.

The complainant. A Senior VP in Originations who couldn't close. He alleges Lorna tied his advancement to "pleasing" her. I've read the promotion policy. An Executive Director has full discretion over direct-report advancement recommendations. Full discretion. We designed that authority. It incentivizes loyalty. It builds culture. It creates the kind of deep mentorship relationships that retain top talent.

If he interpreted "full discretion" as something other than what every Managing Director on this floor has understood since the division was founded in 1998, that's a communication gap on his end. Not a policy failure.

Harvard Business School profiled Lorna last month. "Leveling Up with Perspective, Practice, and People." She described a striking level of humility. A palpable hunger for knowledge. She talked about growing personally and professionally alongside her team. About being curious about perspectives different from your own. I wrote her recommendation for that program. I said: Lorna understands ownership the way very few people at her level do.

The profile is still live on the Harvard website. Nobody took it down. That's not an oversight. That's an editorial decision by people who evaluate leaders for a living.

The investigation lasted six weeks. I was consulted on a Thursday. They interviewed fourteen employees. Reviewed badge data. Calendar invites. Email metadata. Found no policy violation.

The complainant declined to participate. He was already on wellness leave by then. Unrelated.

Two witnesses are cited in the lawsuit. They were not cited in the investigation. I am told this is because the investigation's scope was determined prior to the filing.

Scope is important. Without scope, every investigation into a Managing Director candidate with eighteen active deal mandates and a direct line to three of our top-ten private equity clients becomes a fishing expedition that puts nine figures of annual revenue in jeopardy. We are not in the business of fishing.

Lorna remains employed. The complainant does not. His systems access was revoked on a Tuesday. I know it was a Tuesday because I approved the ticket. Standard offboarding protocol. The building badge, the Bloomberg terminal, the health insurance portal. All deactivated within the same four-hour window. He found out when his laptop locked at 2 PM and his key card stopped working at the elevator bank.

The threatening phone calls started that week. "Just wait till you're back in New York, Brown boy." Someone knew his personal number. Someone knew he was out of state. Someone knew the racial thing would land. Those are outside the scope of the firm's responsibility. We cannot police what former colleagues discuss on personal devices during personal time. We did advise him to contact local law enforcement. In writing. Via his personal email, since his corporate account had already been deactivated. I am told he received that email.

People keep asking if I'm concerned.

I thought about him once. The complainant. On a Wednesday, I think. I was reviewing Lorna's Q3 revenue attribution and his name appeared on a deal she closed after he left. His origination work. Her closing credit. Standard reassignment. And I thought — briefly — about what it must feel like to watch your work get credited to the person who.·

Anyway. Revenue attribution follows the active relationship manager. Policy is clear.

Am I concerned?

I built Lorna's career. I taught her how ownership works in Leveraged Finance. I watched her apply those lessons with a level of intensity I haven't seen since my own early years on the desk, back when nobody filed complaints because everybody understood the cost of being the person who didn't understand. If the system produced what that lawsuit describes, then I'm the system.

But the investigation found no merit.

So I'm just a mentor.

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

In Japan, when there’s an earthquake, the chairs in public buildings transform into protective helmets.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In Brazil there is a tradition to give the first slice of your birthday cake to the person you love the most.This little boy gave his to his brother.

Watch the reaction

[Bini @bini02882]

@mrspig59 @jaycartervideo @CrazyDaysPoster Thank you. What an awesome answer. Hats off!

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

😡😡😡✅

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

President Zelensky has already been nominated for a 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Currently, there is also an online global campaign to nominate trump's other least favorite person, American-born Pope Leo XIV.

Wouldn't it be amazing if one of them WON it this year?

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Dancing minister goes viral!

A victory dance by Zsolt Hegedűs has racked up over a million views overnight.

He’s one of the key figures in Péter Magyar’s team and a leading candidate for Hungary’s health minister.

A top orthopedic surgeon, he spent years working in leading UK clinics before returning to Hungary in 2015 to reform the healthcare system. He is now developing Tisza’s healthcare reform plan.

A future minister who can both operate and light up the dance floor. Seen the video yet — what do you think?

[Trisha Hope - National Delegate-TX @JustTheTweets17]

I was a long time Trump supporter, I became a National Delegate to make certain Trump was seated as the nominee.

While en-route to Wisconsin, I learned of the attempt on Trump's life at the Butler rally. I was in the middle of having dinner at a restaurant in Little Rock, AR. We immediately got the check and left, I was very upset.

Prior to learning of the "assassination attempt" I was to scheduled to do an interview with The Washington Post, they had a reporter who was going to shadow me at the convention. He reached out to me after the shooting in a way that I found lacked concern for Trump, so I canceled the interview and did not allow them to shadow me.

The purpose of allowing them to follow me was to bring awareness to J6ers. One of the hats I wore at the convention dawned the images of 4 J6ers, that hat now sits in the Smithsonian.

At the convention of course there was massive concern for President Trump the consensus was it was divine intervention that saved Trump and we were all incredibly grateful.

On the night Trump spoke, he had the ear patch on and many in the crowd did also. As Trump begin to speak, he started with this:

“So many people have asked me what happened. Tell us what happened, please. And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.”

As I stood on the convention floor you could have heard a pin drop as he spoke. My first thought was how odd for him to begin this way. He was nearly assassinated just a few days before and yet he was declaring this would be the only time he spoke of it, that was my first red flag.

When people tell a lie, certainly a big one it is tough to keep all the details straight and doing so is an effort. In my opinion Trump made that statement to stop any further conversation about what happened. He gave us his official story, would only do it once and that was the end of it. Now we all know no one loves Trump more than Trump so this to me felt completely out of character.

Fast forward to the questioning of Secret Service on how this was allowed to happen. If you look at the perfectly timed ICONIC photo Trump standing triumphantly screaming FIGHT, FIGHT FIGHT, certainly this was divine intervention....right?

Following the inauguration, I found it odd that Trump wasn't going aggressively after those who allowed this to happen. He seemed to behave like it was no big deal.

His Secret Service detail failed him massively, allowed him to be shot, and they allowed that perfectly timed photo op to take place

Instead of his SS detail being terminated as they should have been, Trump made the gentleman in the white shirt the HEAD of the Secret Service on January 22, 2025. Instead of losing his job Sean Curran was given a massive promotion.

Now, I want you to look critically at this photo. They allowed President Trump to stand up, exposing multiple potential kill shots, as the flag is gently lowered. Interesting that the other SS agents lower their heads as the perfectly time ICONIC photo is taken. Honestly, it couldn't have been scripted better if were to have been done in a studio.

Since the attempt on his life, Trump has show no interest in investigating what really happened. He never mentions it, it's as if it never happened, except when he tells us, he took a bullet for us.

As for Corey Comperatore, he was used in this plot, someone had to die otherwise, it would have been much easier to claim it was a HOAX. They killed Corey, likely because he was truly a real life hero, one people would rally behind and defend passionately, as they should.

Then to top it off, they used Corey to their benefit at the convention. To this day his wife is begging for answers, answers she has repeatedly been denied. Sadly, they have no more use for her, she no longer matters.

If you cannot look at this story, and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it.