NY/CHICAGO/LA/family/friends/sports/mortgage brkr/proud Mom.Lung cancer widow💔granddaughter of immigrants/ I didn’t leave the Left. The Left left me.🇺🇸
New York City’s rent freeze sounds compassionate—until you meet the landlords barely hanging on.
@LLBiggers interviews a landlord whose grandfather fled Castro’s Cuba and spent a lifetime building a future in New York.
Now, government housing policies threaten to destroy everything he built.
Thank you Sara! Torn between not wanting to see this fraud express his criticism of the USA but also wanting others to see that many Americans are disgusted by him. I still cannot believe the city I was born in elected him when he clearly hates America and sees it as a nation of victims instead of a nation of strength and diversity.
James Earl Jones performed an iconic rendition of the national anthem at the 1993 MLB All-Star Game 👏
The legendary actor memorably appeared in the baseball movies “Field of Dreams” and “The Sandlot.”
#July4th#MLB#USA
I was most struck by what Balogun said about his reaction to the red card.
“There are lots of people we’re inspiring, boys and girls watching, you have to show them the right way to handle things,” Balogun said. “Even when you think it’s unjust.”
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Hope. 🙏💙🕊
We've been back in Scotland for a few days.
On the flight home, what struck me was just how welcoming Americans are. I had reservations before going because of Trump, ICE, Palestine, etc. But what we found was that it didn't matter whether black/white, left/right, rich/poor, all the Americans we met were extremely hospitable & welcoming. (Thank you!🙏)
I think if we could get more common people talking with common people, & get the politicians out of the way, we would have a much better world.
America, the football results didn't go our way, but to paraphrase Casablanca, "We will always have Boston." 😘
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My father raised me with Jewish observance. Shma at night, Kiddush on Friday night. But the earliest memories I have of reading a sacred text with my father aren't of Genesis, or the Exodus from Egypt, or even of my Bar Mitzvah parsha.
They're of reading the Declaration of Independence with him every July 4th.
He would read them aloud with the same musical, passionate voice that compelled the attention of listeners at state affairs or class day ceremonies. We were a small family of four, often in those early years with another family we were close to, but we felt like a jury listening to the case that he was making in the highest of courts.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal!" he would insist, his eyes meeting ours -- and then pause, waiting to see if any of us would dare to challenge him. I didn't understand many of the specific accusations that the Founding Fathers were laying at Britain's feet, but I knew by the end that my father believed America had the protection of divine Providence, and that he pledged his life, fortune and honor to this country that had taken him in, that had given him a home when he was stateless.
To our fellow Americans, Shabbat Shalom and happy 250th anniversary of these blessed United States of America.
🚨🗣️ Mauricio Pochettino on the red card to Balogun: "Watching it after on TV, it was never the intention to step onto the player; it's a normal action in football that happens by accident."
"It's never intentional. It's never a red card."
"Today, in all the 50-50 decisions, none were for us. And the players reacted very well. We controlled that emotional part of the game that’s so important…"
"How they managed the situation was amazing; we showed maturity."
California reported processing 4,308,269 new voter registrations between 2022 and 2024.
None of the 4,308,269 new registrations required proof of citizenship.
I say this in love with if you want to keep you child out of prison, please share this with them so they can understand what a deadly weapon is. Please do not listen to Jasmine Crockett.
41-year-old Jonathan Pettigrew, a devoted dad from the Bronx who had recently gained full custody of his young daughter and was working hard to provide for his seven children, was fatally shot on a BX36 bus on Monday, June 8, 2026.
Police say Pettigrew politely asked another passenger, reportedly a teenager to stop talking so loudly on his phone. The argument escalated, and the suspect pulled out a gun and shot him in the abdomen. Pettigrew was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made. The suspect is described as a young male, possibly in his teens.
This is yet another heartbreaking example of how quickly a simple request for respect on public transit can turn deadly. Jonathan was trying to get home after work just doing what any father would do.
Rest in peace, Jonathan Pettigrew. You didn’t deserve this. 🕊️
Jonathan Pettigrew, a 41-year-old Black father of SEVEN, was shot to death on a BX36 bus in the Bronx yesterday.
Pettigrew was murdered for the crime of telling some deranged young Black male to stop yelling on the phone to whoever he was arguing with, as he was disturbing other passengers on the bus.
Jonathan Pettigrew never made it home to his family because the animal who killed him felt entitled to "keeping it real" with his disgusting anti-social behavior, and fuck anyone who tries to enforce boundaries.
Jonathan Pettigrew's murderer is NO different than Karmelo Anthony.
Jonathan Pettigrew is NO different than Austin Metcalf.
Karmelo Anthony received a THIRTY-FIVE YEAR sentence and will be eligible for parole after SEVENTEEN.
Seeing as that boy should have received the death penalty, I'd say that sentence WAS "grace."
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
So I didn't realize this -- so mail ballots can be accepted after election day WITHOUT A POSTMARK?!
Voters can "self-date." Can anyone defend that as anything other than an open invitation to corruption?