Burton Segall

Peaceniik, antifa, environmentalist musician, health worker, dad, grandpa. GQP’s gotta go surfing in shark infested waters.

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

Evil people, wicked intent.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_��樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

America isn’t in financial trouble because we have to help the poor. We’re in financial trouble because we can’t satisfy the rich.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We live in a shit hole country.

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

I’m sick of this. Fuck this Trump Fami Crime Syndicate and administration.

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

BREAKING: The U.S. Navy has destroyed a major drinking water distribution facility serving Sirik County in southern Iran, leaving more than 20,000 civilians without access to potable water during the peak of summer heat.

According to the CEO of Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, the strike destroyed two reinforced-concrete water reservoirs with capacities of 500 and 2,000 cubic meters, along with associated mechanical infrastructure. The facilities supplied drinking water to the town of Kouhestak and ten villages in the Bamani district.

As a result of the attack, water service has been completely cut off to the affected communities, depriving more than 20,000 residents of access to drinking water in one of the hottest regions of the country. Local officials stated that the targeted infrastructure was directly linked to the daily health and livelihood of the civilian population.

Damage to the water supply network is estimated at more than 140 billion tomans. Emergency efforts to establish alternative water sources are currently underway.

#OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Congress Just Learned Something Pretty Stunning About Jeffrey Epstein’s Operation.

According to Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant admitted her legal fees are being paid by a fund established through Epstein’s estate.

Read that again.

Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

Yet his money is still paying the attorneys of a key witness connected to his network.

Then came another admission.

She acknowledged helping arrange calls between Epstein and Trump, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures.

Even now, Epstein’s money appears to be shaping who can afford legal representation and who can’t.

That’s a remarkable revelation.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Hello, President Biden, it's Ron! May I please have some socialism?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

“Right now in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. it is wrong, it has to change.”

~ Donald J. Trump, dumbest motherfucker on the planet

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

@mjfree Whenever I see this I repost.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

@atensnut That's Trump's beautiful wall. How dare they?!?

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

@elonmusk Your South African roots are showing.

NOT PRETTY!

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

VOTE THEM ALL OUT.
EVERY
SINGLE
ONE!!!

MTG Freaks Out That Republicans Don’t “Deserve to Be Reelected” https://t.co/qXlGaSAdLR via @Yahoo

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

@LauraLoomer @Gutfeldfox @Tim_Walz Trump lies.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

No single person in the history of the planet has put as many fake stories before the eyes of more human beings.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Donald Trump is now pushing for a government shutdown.

Weeks ago, Trump was hoping for a recession.

This man is unfit to serve.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

WHAT IF A PERSON WITH A LEBANESE PAGER IS ONBOARD A COMMERCIAL AIRLINE SITTING NEXT TO A WINDOW & OTHER CIVILIANS?

[Burton Segall @BurtonSegall]

@MTGrepp So you’re a Russian operative. It makes sense.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

There is perhaps no bigger or more consequential untruth in American politics than the false belief that the economy does better when Republicans are in power.