Karin Weale

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Fuck yes!!!!! Piggy finally had to pay!!!

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

A lot of us know people - good people - who may have believed the promises they were told about "draining the swamp" or "no new wars."

Now is the time to reach out to them. Not to say, "I told you so," but to say, "He doesn't deserve you."

And to ask them to team up and help change America for the better. Together.

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

And just like that, everybody stopped talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein's private plane.
Four young girls.
Donald Trump.

Why isn't this being talked about anymore?

Epstein.
Epstein.
Epstein.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This holiday weekend, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, I'll be thinking not just about the history of the United States but about our future.

If our generation does its job, then by the time our kids are celebrating the 300th, they'll look back on the decades between these milestones with admiration for how America faced ferocious challenges and once more drew nearer to its highest ideals.

From our family to yours, happy Fourth of July!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

250 years ago, this country was founded on a radical idea that government answers to the people.

Today, that idea is under attack by a man who embodies the very tyranny our Founders rejected.

Let's honor the promise of America by defending our democracy.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

U.S. world-famous author Stephen King:

“Trump is a tumor in America’s veins. A tyrant who does not hesitate to set a country on fire for his narcissistic ego. No horror story I’ve written could be as terrifying as this man.”

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"Mary had a little lamb" wasn't just a nursery rhyme—it was a real 9-year-old girl who saved a dying lamb, and that lamb's wool eventually helped save a piece of American history.

You probably learned the rhyme as a child.

Maybe you've even sung it to someone else.

But Mary was real.

Her name was Mary Sawyer, and the famous poem began with a true act of kindness.

March 1815.

Sterling, Massachusetts.

Nine-year-old Mary was helping with morning chores when she discovered that one of the family's sheep had given birth to twins.

One lamb was healthy.

The other lay weak, abandoned by its mother, and barely alive.

Without warmth and milk, it wouldn't survive.

Mary begged her father to let her save it.

At first, he refused, believing the tiny animal had no chance.

But Mary wouldn't give up.

Finally, he agreed.

She carried the freezing lamb inside, wrapped it in warm clothes, and stayed beside the fireplace through the night.

She fed it by hand and cared for it every day.

Against all expectations, the lamb recovered.

Soon it followed Mary everywhere she went.

Its loyalty became impossible to miss.

One morning, Mary secretly took the lamb to her one-room schoolhouse.

She hid it beneath her desk inside a basket.

Everything stayed quiet until Mary stood to recite her lesson.

Suddenly, the lamb jumped out, bleated loudly, and followed her across the classroom.

The children burst into laughter.

Even the teacher smiled before asking Mary to take the lamb outside.

Mary thought it would simply become a funny memory.

She was wrong.

A visitor named John Roulstone Jr. had witnessed the scene.

The following day, he handed Mary a piece of paper containing a poem inspired by what he had seen.

It began with four unforgettable words.

"Mary had a little lamb..."

Mary treasured that poem for years.

The lamb lived several more years before dying accidentally.

Its wool was carefully saved, and Mary's mother knitted stockings from it.

Years later, writer Sarah Josepha Hale expanded the original verses and published them in *Poems for Our Children*.

The poem spread across America, becoming one of the best-known nursery rhymes ever written.

Then came an extraordinary moment.

In 1877, inventor Thomas Edison tested his new phonograph—the first machine capable of recording sound.

To demonstrate it, he recited one simple poem.

"Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Those words became the first audio recording in human history.

More than sixty years after Mary rescued one tiny lamb, her story helped mark the beginning of recorded sound.

In 1876, Mary publicly confirmed she was the girl from the famous poem.

She even donated stockings made from her lamb's wool to help preserve Boston's historic Old South Meeting House.

Mary Sawyer passed away in 1889, leaving behind a legacy few children could ever imagine.

The rhyme wasn't just about a lamb following its owner.

It began with compassion.

One little girl refused to abandon a helpless animal when everyone else had already lost hope.

That single act of kindness became a poem.

The poem became history.

And history turned a little lamb into a legend remembered around the world.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Karin Weale @chiweenielove]

@news4buffalo Good, there are enough wasteful fireworks. There are better ways to celebrate. Let’s put our monies into more sustainable products that are less damaging to people, pets, wildlife and the environment.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

What was your favorite part of this National Day of Patriotism?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what insurrectionist Donald Trump and MAGA did on J6.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power.

Is THIS is what an insurrection looks like? 👇👇👇

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is passed out in the Oval Office right now. 25TH AMENDMENT NOW!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SH*T, this parting statement by Scott Pelley is WILD:

"New management has instructed me to INJECT FALSEHOODS AND BIAS into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified."

I bet he knows a LOT more, too. 🔥

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

What do you call this?

⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

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Until they no longer say it was antifa.

Until they no longer say it was Pelosi.

Until they no longer say it was the FBI.

Until they hold those responsible accountable for what they did and stop trying to give them our tax dollars!

[Karin Weale @chiweenielove]

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