Viola Poletes

Working Mom with two fab teens. I specialize in being smart, funny, kind and helpful. Opinions/tweets are my own. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Happy Pride Night 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

See you at the ballpark tonight!

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

When people can’t afford the necessities of a dignified life, it's the government's job to step up and actually govern.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[Stephanie Smyth @stephaniesmyth]

To be clear, I don’t care if the Premier thinks I’m wanted or not. What matters to me is him being held accountable. So I thought I would reshare my question to you all. If you have nothing to hide, why are you working so darn hard to be invisible?

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

The Strokes used their Coachella set to show CIA coups and Gaza footage. They’ll probably never be invited back, and they knew it.

[brie @hellobye1024500]

This is insane
Hats off to the strokes. That was fucking powerful

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient, but they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor”

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

CARNEY: "There are some who say there's no need for a comprehensive plan. They believe we should wait it out in the hope that the United States will return to normal. That the good old days will come back. But hope isn't a plan and nostalgia is not a strategy."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

CARNEY: "When I get into the office, I always look at this statue on my desk. It was given to me by Mike Myers just over a year ago, and this is General Isaac Brock. Faced with the threat of an American invasion, Brock built alliances across our land and inspired what would eventually become Canada."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

There is bread for everyone if it is given to everyone. There is bread for everyone if it is taken, not with a hand that snatches away, but with a hand that gives. In this way, the food was abundant. It was not rationed out of necessity. It was not stolen in strife. It was not wasted by those who gorge themselves in the presence of those who have nothing to eat. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
https://t.co/rtIuNbQl83

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God’s heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God’s heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He builds up His Kingdom of love and peace day by day. Wherever there is love and service, God is there. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria

[WeimFan @TexasWeimFan]

@OunkaOnX We saw this over and over...who really is in charge?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The Pentagon summoned the Pope’s ambassador to a closed-door meeting and threatened him.

Named official. On record.

Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby called Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon and delivered this message:

“The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

Then a U.S. official invoked the Avignon Papacy — the 14th century moment when the French monarchy used military force to physically remove the Pope from Rome and bend the Church to its will.

The Vatican understood the reference immediately.

The Pope’s planned visit to America for the 250th anniversary celebration was cancelled.

And then something remarkable happened.

The Pope didn’t retreat. He pressed harder. He called the war unjust. He called Trump’s threats unacceptable. He told Americans to call Congress.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Jeremy R. Hansen @Astro_Jeremy]

One last message before the launch of Artemis II...

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The man who actually got Iran to make a deal that kept Americans safe

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump, Netanyahu and Putin: plunging the world into barbarism, oligarchy and authoritarianism.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

American hypocrisy