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[Christina Aguilera @xtina]

When President Obama suggested I sing “What a Wonderful World,” I was immediately inspired. Its message of hope, love, and possibility has always resonated with me, and I was honored to perform at such a joyful and memorable occasion. Congratulations and thank you again @ObamaFoundation @BarackObama @MichelleObama ✨

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

We will be commissioning an independent autopsy for baby Kohen Wiley because this family deserves the truth. We are calling on the Senatobia Police Department to release the body camera footage now. Kohen Wiley will never get the chance to grow up. His mother will carry this pain for the rest of her life. There must be full transparency and accountability in this case. Justice for baby Kohen!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A federal court just confirmed what everyone already knew:

Trump’s DOJ is illegally using the machinery of government to target his political enemies with bogus investigations.

That’s not justice. It’s corruption. IT MUST END!

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.

Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.

“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Emmy winning Iowa news anchor quit because he has principles and morals and didn’t want to push the propaganda and lies.He deserves the best therefore I hope his future endeavors are successful.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Spelman College has named Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th president. A former NASA engineer, AI pioneer, robotics innovator, and champion for children with special needs, this queen is walking into one of the most important roles in Black education. We celebrate you, Dr. Ayanna Howard. ✊🏿https://t.co/lbfPo4Lo1X

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate. [Mike Collins], who supports war and cutting your health care and openly associates himself with bigotry and antisemitism, who defends the violent mob that sacked the Capitol on the morning of January 6th, 2021…

To this day, this man makes excuses for those who carried out an attack to throw out your votes and install a defeated President.”

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 COVER-UP: What is the regime hiding inside the Dilley ICE facility? We cannot let them operate child detention centers in secret. Click here to send an instant letter to Congress demanding they shut it down: https://t.co/eHEYXMu1ly

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 PANIC SELLING: Internal docs reveal the regime is quietly dumping assets after a massive $38B defeat in deep red country. RT to see the receipts: 👇 https://t.co/n0WCZcZmcb

[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.

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

Happy Father's Day!

Photo credit: David Katz

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Ruben Studdard sings “Someday We'll All Be Free” at Peabo Bryson’s Celebration of Life service:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To all the dads out there – Happy Father’s Day!

Nothing we do is more fulfilling!

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Meet Desmond Durham, the incredible single dad from New Jersey who earned his Master’s Degree while working three jobs and raising his young son all on his own.
Balancing long shifts, late-night studying, and full-time fatherhood, Desmond never gave up. On graduation day, he proudly walked with his little boy by his side, a beautiful symbol of love, sacrifice, and unbreakable determination.
This is real Black fatherhood and resilience in action. Congratulations, Desmond! you did it, King! Your son has the best role model. 👏🏾❤️

[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.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning move, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron just announced he will not allow Donald Trump to remove sanctions on Iran until there is satisfactory agreement on ending Iran’s nuclear program. This is how you check Trump’s insanity.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

The Obamas, 2008 vs 2026.

[Zackory Kirk @zackoryk]

Juneteenth is about freedom. But freedom has never been free.

Our ancestors paid for it with their labor, their suffering, their resistance, and too often, their blood. They fought for rights they might never live to fully enjoy because they believed future generations deserved more.

That future generation is us.

And now it is our turn to do the work for those who have not yet been born.

To protect democracy. To defend voting rights. To preserve our history. To expand opportunity. To leave behind a nation more just than the one we inherited.

[Zackory Kirk @zackoryk]

How dare any of you demand Black labor on today of all days! I hope @JasmineForUS tells you to kiss her BLACK 🍑!

[📈 @QCWorldwide]

🎵 | 🌎 Global Digital Artist Ranking:

#79. Nicki Minaj — [+4] *Peak #2*

— Buying and streaming “Pink Friday Girls” and “Whip It” this week.