Jennifer B

Special education teacher, Gopher Fan, wife, mom to two crazy Golden Retrievers, HA survivor, chocolate lover

[Jennifer B @burkshoes]

@TonyLiebert F. Without question.

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Howard Lutnick's FIRST political donation since becoming Commerce Secretary was a $5 MILLION donation to House Republicans 1 month before they interviewed him about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Let that sink in.

https://t.co/lYKqUx25FV

[✦ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✦🪐 @upshine3]

Scientists confirm that adults with ADHD use physical objects as external memory storage at higher rates than any other neurotype. The shirt holds the memory. The book remembers a season. Donating the item removes a piece of working memory the brain was relying on.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Spoke with the Mayor of Two Harbors. The winds are still a major issue today with the fires up north, but we hope the rain will help tomorrow. This video is an incredible example of pilots taking water from Lake Superior to fight the fires.

[Dan Wolfe @DanWolfeKBJR]

UPDATE: The Stewart Trail fire has grown and will be active today:

-375 acres
-0% contained
-Here’s a footprint of the burn area, via ArcGIS
-Evacuation area unchanged
-Highway 61 closure detour takes drivers to Silver Bay
-Rustic Inn reports 2 employees lost everything in fire

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

People keep trying to rewrite history, but the documents are public.

The Confederacy officially consisted of 11 states that seceded from the Union:

• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Virginia
• Arkansas
• North Carolina
• Tennessee

The Confederacy also CLAIMED Kentucky and Missouri.

West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil War because many people in the western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to secede from the Union in 1861.

And let’s be very clear: many of these states plainly stated WHY they were leaving the Union.

Mississippi said:
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery...”

Texas defended “the servitude of the African race.”

Georgia, South Carolina, and others complained about abolitionists, Black freedom, and threats to slavery.

This wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t subtle. It was written down in their own declarations. The Civil War never ended.

And many of these same states later:
• created Black Codes
• enforced Jim Crow
• fought school integration
• resisted the Voting Rights Act
• used terror, media, politics, and violence to suppress Black political power

History leaves patterns.

That’s why studying history matters — because some of the same states still struggle with the same racial tensions and political battles today.

Read the documents for yourself. Don’t let people sanitize history to make themselves comfortable.

https://t.co/YNFaOg0u4G

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

BREAKING: Tennessee GOP passed a rigged congressional map cracking Memphis (largest Black-majority city) in 3 pieces.

Rep. @JustinJPearson: These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist in the United States, Donald J. Trump.

[Mary Weller @MWellertXc]

I just cannot get enough of watching this race and the trainer’s reaction as she realizes there’s a chance they’re going to win. I can’t behold that level of pure human joy without tears. It overwhelms me.

[Jennifer B @burkshoes]

@TheFuncGlitch We have such warpped morals, values and priorities.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

[Polymarket Football @PolymarketBlitz]

The biggest winner of the draft is this old dog who got his spot on the couch back.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

No lies detected.

[GopherHole.com @GopherHole]

YES!

FINAL FOUR BOUND!

[Sandra Boynton @SandyBoynton]

Yippee.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets.

Let that land.

FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors.

That demand never showed up.

Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak.

FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities.

Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%.

The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop.

Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall.

Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse.

Empty stadiums are now a real possibility.

It happened at the Club World Cup last summer.

It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet.

The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.”

The market disagrees.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

DOGE Cuts Left U.S. Unable to Help Americans Stranded in Iran War Zone

Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk’s workforce purge warn the State Department is unable to help Americans stranded in the Middle East.

https://t.co/VNp3DywrNt

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

We see your blockade and raise you our blockade.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

What astronauts actually see during reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

The spacecraft hits the air at Mach 25. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a 5,000°F plasma wall that blocks all radio signals. For about 4 minutes, nobody on Earth can reach the crew.

The heat shield is designed to slowly burn away on purpose. It sheds layers to radiate heat back into the atmosphere instead of absorbing it. Two inches of ablative material between a 72°F cabin and temperatures hotter than molten lava.