Blokesplus1

Mom, wife, business owner, wine-drinking music lover, resister, persister.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

FUN FACT: Mitch McConnell has been on paid medical leave for 51 days now. That's over 7 weeks.

This is a week longer than the 6 weeks of maternity leave that women in the US are not guaranteed after giving birth.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

A civilian medevac plane crashed in New Mexico after a U.S. military GPS-jamming exercise disrupted navigation across hundreds of miles, killing all four people on board.

Everyone should read this: https://t.co/RjS6heKs8K

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: Bulldozers are arriving in Big Bend National Park near Santa Elena Canyon to plow through border barriers & roads.

The irreversible destruction of Texas' crown jewel national park is unfolding and virtually no national media is paying attention. 📷 Natialie Newman

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The sitting president of the United States cannot bank with capital one. Due to suspicion of money laundering.

Are we great yet?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras tanto en el mundo capitalista, la rica millonaria Kim Kardashian lució un minúsculo bolso Hermès de plata que vale más de 200.000 dólares.

Los ricos se gastan casi un cuarto de millón en un bolso de juguete mientras tú no puedes ni pagar el alquiler, enjoy capitalismo.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning the olive groves of Yaroun in South Lebanon.

One of the oldest villages on Earth.

A 3,000-year-old village.

This is an act of ecocide.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

What a nightmare. By implementing the tariffs illegally, and now having to unwind them, the Trump administration created over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers.

Your refund: $0.00
Apple’s profit: $2.2 billion

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

61% of Americans say they are cutting back on groceries because they can’t afford rising costs of food.

Meanwhile:

[RealHousewifeOfMichigan @RealHousewifeMi]

Paid $4.59 a gallon for gas. That along with my $702 electric bill make me so happy congress decided to question Dr . Fauci this week.

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

Weird I thought it was the genocide.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The US and Israel are currently funding a massive migrant scheme by flooding Spain with migrants from Morocco. This is in retaliation for Spain denying Israel and the US access to their airspace to target Iran. (ALSO: Elon will use this as 'anti-white colonization propaganda).

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That is a fact.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The plan is to erase physical knowledge so they can monetize it.

[Juan Ceñal @ordago13]

RIP Glen Hansard ¿Podemos por favor parar 4 minutos y detenernos a apreciar lo absolutamente desgarradora y maravillosa que es Falling Slowly de la BSO de Once con la que ganó un Oscar?

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Glen Hansard was so much more than just the guy from ‘Once.’ He was a rock star, synthesizer and serenader, a busker and bard, a jazzman and a mystic, a hushed folk whisperer and showbiz soul belter.

Read our tribute to the late Irish singer-songwriter: https://t.co/cSJSDSySZk

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Case closed.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Democrats forced Graham Platner to step down over serious allegations - but when Max Miller faces serious allegations of throwing boiling water on his ex-wife, beating her, holding a gun to her head and breaking his 2yo daughter’s collarbone - Republicans do nothing.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reporting reveals Meta cut a secret deal with Louisiana Republicans to build a $50,000,000,000 data center.

The data center is anticipated to consume 7 times as much energy as the city of New Orleans.