Tamara

Mother, Actual Woman, Physician, Honest Person. Biology matters. Save Title IX. Protect women’s spaces. Homemade sourdough enthusiast! #MAGA #MAHA 🇺🇸

[Tamara @docteb19]

@BowTiedBroke Tesla Model 3. The self driving is AMAZING… and makes it much safer for all drivers.

[Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue @carrotcottagerr]

Perhaps our supporters could help out? Ready to test your bunny name knowledge?😂🤓

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

FOSTERING THE FUTURE // End the “Orphan Tax”
We have a responsibility to put children’s needs before politics and geography.

Thirty states have now committed to ending the "orphan tax"—the practice of using foster children's Social Security survivor and disability benefits to offset the cost of their care.

Additionally, 25 states have agreed to support Fostering the Future Accounts.  These accounts will help foster youth save, build financial security, and prepare for adulthood.

Every state, whether led by Republicans or Democrats, should support America’s foster children.

https://t.co/B63DWJBYj0

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

RFK Jr visits Yellowstone to meet the famous bison 🦬 👀😂

[Lee Zeldin @LeeMZeldin]

Requiring photo ID in all 50 states, and proof of U.S. citizenship, is such a no-brainer that should have been implemented a very long time ago!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

There is a diner in the Tennessee mountains where a little girl showed me a book.

She could not have been six. She held it the way grown men hold the deed to a house.

A thin paperback. The cover soft and bent from love. A cartoon bear.

I asked her, to be kind, if it was a good book.

She said, "The Book Lady sent it. She sends me one every month. She knows my name."

Then she went back to her pancakes, as if she had not just described something impossible.

I could not let it go.

All through breakfast I turned it over. A woman who knows the names of small children, sends them books, and asks for nothing. In my country she would have a shrine. Incense. One clean day a year when the town remembers her.

I decided the Book Lady must be a gentle fiction. A story mothers invent, the way we tell children the old mountain is watching, so they behave.

I was wrong.

The Book Lady is real. She is the most famous woman in the state. Her name is Dolly.

I made errors. In a hardware store I called her "your empress." The man thought about it honestly and said, "Close enough."

I asked a waitress if Dolly was still living. She set down the coffee pot with great care. "Honey, Dolly will outlive us all, and then she will send flowers to the funerals."

Then they told me the thing, all of them, in the flat voice this country keeps for facts too large to raise the voice for.

Dolly grew up one of twelve children, in a one-room cabin, in these same mountains. Her father could not read a word his whole life.

So she built the thing that sends the books. Not the clever children. Not the deserving ones. Every child who signs up, from birth until they start school, free, their own name on the cover, whether the family has money or nothing at all.

The children do not know she is famous. They know only the Book Lady. Some will grow old and never learn it was her.

Two hundred million books, a man told me at a gas pump. Then, seeing the number had defeated me, he made it smaller and heavier at once.

"She did it for her daddy," he said. "He never got to read. So she made sure every child after him would."

I would like to tell you what happened in my chest when he said that. I do not have the words, and I distrust any man who claims he does.

I come from eight hundred years of men who wrote everything down. We cut our names into stone so the centuries could not misplace us.

My father was the last of that line before me. A silent man. For forty years I believed his silence was the only thing he ever gave me.

In that diner, I remembered something I had put away as nothing.

When I was a boy, my father worked among machines loud enough to take a man's hearing, and in time they took most of his. He came home each night with nothing left to say. But there was one year, when I was learning to read and ashamed of how badly it went, that every night, however late he came in, he sat beside me while I read one page aloud.

He never said a word. I thought he was only checking that I had done the work.

It took me forty years and a stranger's diner to understand.

He could not hear me. By then he could barely hear anything. He was not listening to the words. He could not have caught one of them.

He was only sitting where a small boy could look up and see that his father had stayed.

I carried that year my whole life as proof my father was cold.

It was the warmest thing anyone has ever done for me. I just never had the book to prove it, so I let myself forget.

There is a bookshop two doors from that diner. I have just bought a thin paperback with a soft-looking bear on the cover. I am mailing it tonight to my father in Japan. He is eighty-one. He still cannot hear.

He will not need to.

Inside the cover I wrote one line, large enough that he can read it without his glasses:

"I finished the page. I always finished the page. Thank you for staying."

The Book Lady learned it from her father, who could not read.

I learned it from mine, who could not hear.

And somewhere in the mountains between us, those two old men would have understood each other completely, and said nothing at all, which is the loudest thing men like them have ever known how to say.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@brianstelter The people, like you and your outlet, that spent years maliciously pushing the lie that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia are upset about the release of ACTUAL news and information regarding election administration? Curious.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

WTF. Mother of a student at @MarvinRidgeHSNC in North Carolina, says her son's senior year American Flag parking spot design was reportedly DENIED by the school because it "might offend someone."

This student, who is enlisting in the military, can't have an AMERICAN FLAG parking spot at an AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Wtf is going on @MarvinRidgeHSNC?!

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

There is no shortage of labor in the USA.

We have had massive tech layoffs happening in the USA due to Ai.

It is time for remigration of all Indian and Chinese H1B visa workers back to their home countries.

[Dr. Oz CMS @DrOzCMS]

Despite the internet trolls, the fraud busting will continue until morale improves.

@nickshirleyy

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

If you don’t speak English, you have no business becoming an American citizen.

I just introduced a bill to end the loophole letting some immigrants skip the test everyone should have to pass.

[Tamara @docteb19]

@Sassafrass_84 Agreed

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

@piersmorgan Hi Piers!

[Royce White 🇺🇸 @Highway_30]

The Michele Tafoya Psyop — Are people really going to keep pretending with the county on the line, Michele didn't say "let's get back to normal", in reference to begging President Trump not to run again. What normal would that be Michele? Normal was corruption, normal was the status quo, normal was a dying nation. Normal was the Koch brothers and all the other special interests or lobbies. Normal was unacceptable, we don't need normal ever again, until normal is America 1st.

It's just an embarrassment what has happened to America, Minnesota and maybe most of all Minnesota "conservatives", what have you conserved? What is "get back to normal" exactly Michele?

I'll tell you "get back to normal" means the machine is about to test if Americans will fall for a semi well known face and name, from the sports world, to pull the Overton Window back to the center. I wouldn't be surprised if they used Minnesota, the cultural epicenter of American politics, to do just that and rig it for Michele. We all know she won't fight the power. Again, she BEGGED President Trump not to run in 2024. What are we even talking about?

I'll be here whenever America is serious about saving this great country from dastardly, feckless, puppet politicians. We all know what needs to be done... question is do we have the fucking balls to do it.

SECURE ELECTIONS
MASS DEPORTATIONS
TERM LIMTS
BAN SHARIA & MARXISM
BAN PACs & LOBBIES

Royce White for U.S. Senate MN 2026
Vote Primary August 11th

[Tamara @docteb19]

@Sassafrass_84 Send in @nickshirleyy - he’ll figure out what’s going on with McConnell.

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

This is a very big story that I would not have seen had POTUS not posted on it. The charade in Manhattan was a carnival of injustice from day one. It backfired on every prosecutor and the judge involved in it and it will get worse. What an indictment of everyone involved in it. The full story of the weaponization of federal and state law enforcement in an all out effort to get the once (and at that time future) president is a scandal that will take years to uncover in full and document. I hope DOJ is digging fast and deep into this. It should never happen again against anyone from either party. Disgraceful in a “rule of law” country. https://t.co/oI8SdAuYBA

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

[Second Lady Usha Vance @SLOTUS]

Independence Day is almost here! 🇺🇸 Celebrate our country's 250th birthday with me and special reader President Trump as he reads about our former (and current!) presidents' favorite pastimes on Storytime with the Second Lady.

https://t.co/MMGBWjWgfP

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Tamara @docteb19]

@Notwokenow @amazon Absolutely. Maybe @elonmusk can open a competing company that is Made In America only products.