Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Republicans are destroying democracy and impoverishing all of us. Stop voting for them! #FightForDemocracy not for republicans' overlords.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

It looks to me like the American government is part Russian assets and part Israeli assets fighting for control. This would be a great time for the American assets to take over. Bye Bibi, bye Pootie, bye dotard.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is what the SAVE act will do nationwide‼️

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

lol

[Beatrix Vox @beatrixvox]

@FreddyLA7 Drive carefully in Louisiana Freddy😂

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Short report from Hermel, which is situated in the northeast of Lebanon, approximately 3 hours from Beirut.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

@TrueFactsStated @PeteButtigieg @GavinNewsom @ossoff @AOC @KamalaHarris @SenMarkKelly @JBPritzker @GovAndyBeshear 3 Every time I see @ossoff speak I feel that he is saying everything that I want to say. Dems should stick to his message.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Talarico VS Paxton.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

@TrueFactsStated https://t.co/Ijc2JrYk8e

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

6 hours. 52 posts.

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

And that's the truth.

[Subi-doo @subi35460]

Dear #MAGA Zealots,

I write this not with a heavy heart, but with a seething rage that burns brighter than the lies you’ve peddled for years. You, with your blind allegiance to a conman and your willful ignorance of facts, have dragged this once-great nation into the abyss. We are suffering—yes, suffering—at the hands of your fucking stupidity, your refusal to see beyond the echo chambers of hate and division you’ve built around yourselves.

How dare you cloak your bigotry in the flag, twisting patriotism into a weapon against your fellow Americans. You’ve empowered the worst among us, unleashing a torrent of corruption, incompetence, and cruelty that has eroded our institutions, poisoned our discourse, and left millions in despair.

The downfall of our country is on you—every policy failure, every emboldened extremist, every shattered dream bears your fingerprints. You’ve sold out our democracy for a cult of personality.

I will never forgive you. Not for the families torn apart, the lives lost to your reckless denial of science, policy and truth, nor for the international shame you’ve heaped upon us.

History will not look kindly upon you. It will brand you as the fools and sycophants who accelerated our decline, the architects of an American tragedy. You’ll be remembered not as patriots, but as the pathetic enablers of chaos, the fucking assholes who chose a man over our country.

With unyielding contempt,
A True American 🇺🇸

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

This is me.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Neil @neil_on_sea]

Give @cbonneauimages a follow

she’s doing incredible work documenting Israeli crimes from the ground and humanising the victims

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

@neil_on_sea @cbonneauimages I just followed her. If you haven't listened to her on PREVAIL with @gregolear don't miss it. I am floored by her clear, no BS reporting.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

@gregolear The Prevail interview with @cbonneauimages Courtney Bonneau was eye opening about what Israel is doing in Lebanon. We seldom hear someone as plain spoken as her. She pulls no punches. I love her so much. Thanks for turning me on to my new favorite follow.

[🚨AL-Hunaiti🔻 @J_ALHunaiti]

@elonmusk A Shameless, Two Faced Hypocrite And Liar.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

The only thing growing faster than the federal deficit is the tunnel network under the White House.

The East Wing was demolished after a moisture study came back bad. Now, Shalom Baranes (the same architect through the same GSA branch), just filed a moisture study for the Blair House.

Same architect. Same office. Same word.

I’ve seen this playbook before.

[Deborah S 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Debbie0930]

Omg lol insane

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🤖 In China, a robot went out of control and nearly injured dancers

Fortunately, the machine was quickly restrained.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Even if it takes me 20 years I'll follow back anybody who reposts this thread

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

That would be chic!