Ann V.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Please, no matter what you do, do not post this photo as Donald Trump will lose his mind.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Three-time Trump voter from Hawaii calls C-SPAN in tears: “He’s the worst president we’ve ever had”!

A longtime Trump supporter from Hawaii just delivered a raw, emotional confession on C-SPAN that’s resonating across the country.

The caller, Thomas, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, opened up about finally breaking with the man he once believed in:

“It’s hard for me to say this," Thomas said. "I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time. But now I regret my support for him and I should’ve known better.

"He’s a con man. A liar who doesn’t keep his promises. He’s in office all for himself and he doesn’t even try to hide his corruption anymore. He’s the worst president we’ve ever had and he’s the most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

Thomas described his change of heart as a “cumulative process,” saying Trump’s broken promises on day-one fixes and the sheer blatancy of the corruption finally became impossible to ignore.

He even compared the cult-like hold to historical brainwashing, saying he never thought he’d see it in his lifetime.

He ended with a call to action:

“The only weapon is to vote for as many Democrats whether you like them or not… We just need some balance back into our system of checks and balances.”

This is a genuinely significant moment when a former MAGA voter publicly walking away and urging others to do the same for the good of the country. As time passes, thousands more lapsed MAGAts will inevitably do the same.

When even dedicated Trump voters from 2016-2024 start saying “I regret it” and “he’s the most corrupt president we’ve ever had,” the tide is clearly turning.

Good for you, Thomas. It takes real courage to admit you were wrong, especially after voting for someone three times. We respect you for speaking out. More Americans need to hear this.

If this powerful confession from a former Trump voter gives you hope that the ice is cracking, like and share this post.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Xi didn't greet trump at the airport.

He's only buying 200 Boeings from the U.S., not the 500 expected.

trump lavished praise on him like a pathetic fanboy.

Xi made trump his BITCH.

Be a shame if this picture got retweeted all over and went viral.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

WARNING: This may be the least flattering photo of Trump ever taken.

Fuckface would absolutely HATE seeing this spread across timelines.
So whatever you do… DO NOT RETWEET! Don’t share it.

Let’s all be mature adults and make sure that doesn’t happen.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Jeff Daniels' powerful rant against Trump.

This video was deleted from facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: YES! Pope Leo XIV claps back after Trump accused him of "endangering a lot of Catholics" with a brilliant response that has MAGA world screeching.

This pope always knows exactly what to say...

“Well, the pope would rather talk about the fact that it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and I don’t think that’s very good,” Trump told right-wing commentator Hugh Hewitt. “I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics, and a lot of people, but I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

As has been explained and repeated in countless publications at this point, Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons. Our own intelligence agencies concluded as much and Ayatollah Khamenei — who Trump assassinated — maintained a religious ban against such armaments. Ironically, now that the United States has attacked, Iran has a greater incentive than ever to pursue nukes.

What's more, Trump is the one who endangered Catholics, and indeed everyone on this planet, by starting an illegal war on behalf of Israel that could easily escalate into a new world war.

While Pope Leo didn't mention Trump by name, a tactic often used by former President Barack Obama, it was clear who he was responding to.

“I have already spoken from the first moment ‘peace be with you.’ The mission of the Church is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If anyone wants to criticize me for proclaiming the Gospel, let them do so truthfully," Leo told reporters in Italian. “The Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, so there is no doubt about that."

Of course Pope Leo doesn't want Iran to have nuclear weapons because the Catholic Church doesn't want anyone to have them. At the same time, he won't support a bloody, genocidal war of aggression being waged against innocent women and children to prevent weapons that were never being built in the first place.

Trump's fixation on Leo stems from a frustration with his own powerlessness to stop the Vatican from criticizing this war. He's used to Evangelical Republicans who claim to believe in Jesus but in practice believe in nothing beyond raw power. Now that he's going up against a real Christian, he doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Pope Leo!

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

When Barack Obama entered the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 — becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city destroyed by the United States in August 1945 — the world focused on his speech. Cameras showed the wreath at the cenotaph. Headlines rightly emphasized the weight of the moment. But almost no one noticed a short, quiet Japanese man standing among the official delegation.
His name was Shigeaki Mori. He was eight years old on the day of the atomic bombing. By 2016, he was the only person who knew the names of all twelve Americans who died in Hiroshima — U.S. prisoners of war whom America had never fully accounted for.
Mori spent forty years finding them. Not for money. Not by order. Simply because he believed the dead should have names.
He was born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he was crossing a small bridge about 2.5 kilometers from the epicenter. The blast threw him into the stream below. Decades later, he recalled:
“I climbed out and saw a woman stumbling toward me. Her body was covered in blood, her organs hanging out. Holding them, she asked where the hospital was. I cried and ran away.”
He was eight. And there were no hospitals left.
Mori survived. He grew up in postwar Japan, worked ordinary jobs — in a brokerage, later at a piano factory — but dreamed of becoming a historian. He never got a formal degree. So he became one on weekends.
In the 1970s, a professor showed him a document: a list of twelve American airmen shot down over Japan in 1945. They were crew members of two B-24 bombers — Lonesome Lady and Taloa — captured and held in Hiroshima, just 400 meters from where the bomb exploded.
They died from their own country’s bomb.
For decades, their story was barely acknowledged. Families were told only: “missing, presumed dead.” No details. No truth.
Mori decided to find it.
Without funding or institutional support, he spent decades reconstructing their fate — comparing archives, tracking records, even locating surviving crew members. One by one, he restored their identities.
Then he wrote letters.
In broken English, he contacted families across the U.S. — often seventy years too late — explaining what had happened to their sons, brothers, husbands.
In 2008, he published his research, which eventually led the U.S. government to officially acknowledge the deaths of the twelve American POWs in Hiroshima.
In 2016, a documentary introduced his story to a wider audience. During Obama’s visit, Mori was invited to attend. In his speech, Obama mentioned the victims — including “twelve Americans held in captivity.”
For the first time, a sitting U.S. president publicly acknowledged them on Japanese soil.
After the speech, Obama approached Mori — a small, elderly man who bowed politely. Then, unexpectedly, the president opened his arms.
They embraced.
The image went around the world.
In 2018, at age 79, Mori visited the United States for the first time. He attended memorial events, spoke publicly, and finally met some of the families he had written to for decades.
When asked why he devoted his life to Americans who died beside him, Mori answered:
“My work was not about people from an enemy country. It was about human beings.”
Shigeaki Mori died in Hiroshima on March 14, 2026. He was 88 years old.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

When facts walk in, narratives start falling apart.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

I almost threw a punch in the checkout line last Tuesday—not because I’m violent, but because at 74 years old, I finally woke up.

I’m a retired mechanic from outside Detroit. I live alone in a house that smells like dust and silence. My wife, Ellen, passed away six years ago. My kids? They’re busy in New York and Atlanta, chasing careers and raising grandkids I mostly see on FaceTime.

Recently, I realized I had become invisible. Just “that old guy” blocking the aisle with his cart, counting pennies because Social Security doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.

Every Friday, I go to the big superstore on the edge of town. It’s the highlight of my week—which tells you everything you need to know about my life.

That’s where I met Mateo.

He was the cashier at Lane 4. Young—maybe 22. He had an eyebrow piercing and tattoos running down his arms, sleeves of ink disappearing under his blue vest. To a lot of folks from my generation, he looked like trouble.

His English carried a heavy accent. He’d say, “Did you find everything okay, sir?” and most people wouldn’t even look up from their phones. They’d just shove their credit card into the machine.

I watched people treat him like furniture.

A woman in a fancy coat huffed, “Can’t you go faster?”
A man muttered, “Learn the language or go home.”

Mateo never flinched. He just kept scanning, smiling, and saying, “Have a blessed day.”

Three weeks ago, I was standing behind a young mother. She looked exhausted—dark circles under her eyes, a baby crying in the cart. She was buying store-brand diapers and two jugs of milk.

When she swiped her card, the machine buzzed.

Declined.

She turned red. “I… let me put the milk back,” she stammered, holding back tears. “I get paid on Monday.”

Before I could reach for my wallet, Mateo was already moving.

He didn’t make a scene. He didn’t announce it. He simply pulled a crumpled ten-dollar bill from his pocket, scanned it, and handed her the receipt.

“It is covered, miss,” he said quietly. “Go feed the baby.”

She stared at him, shocked, whispered thank you, and hurried out. The next customer immediately started complaining about the wait.

But I saw.

That night, I sat in my recliner staring at the wall. Here was this kid—working for minimum wage, getting treated like dirt—giving away his own money to a stranger.

Meanwhile, I’d spent the last five years feeling sorry for myself.

The next Friday, I wrote a note on a napkin. When I got to his register, I slid it over. It said:

“You are a good man. I saw what you did.”

Mateo read it. He looked up, and for the first time, his professional mask slipped. His eyes filled with tears.

“Thank you, Mr. Frank,” he whispered.

We started talking.

I learned he works two jobs and takes online night classes to become a paramedic.

“I want to save lives,” he told me. “My parents sacrificed everything to get me here. I cannot waste it.”

Then came last Tuesday.

The store was packed. Tensions were high—these days, everyone seems on edge. A large man in a baseball cap slammed his items onto the belt.

Mateo made a small mistake. He had to void an item. It took an extra thirty seconds.

The man exploded.

“Are you stupid?” he shouted, loud enough for three lines to hear. “This is America. Why do they hire people who can’t even run a register? Go back to where you came from!”

The air went still.

People stared at the floor. The cashier next to us looked terrified.

Mateo just stared at the scanner, his hands trembling slightly.

My heart pounded. My whole life, I’ve been the “keep your head down” type. Don’t make waves. Mind your business.

But this was my business.

I stepped forward. My joints ached, but I stood as tall as my 5'9" frame would allow.

“Hey!” I barked. My voice cracked—then steadied.

The man turned. “What?”

“He works harder in one shift than you probably do all week,” I said, pointing at Mateo. “He’s studying to save lives. He helped a mother buy diapers when she had nothing. What have you done today besides yell at a kid?”

The man’s face turned red. “Mind your business, old man.”

“Decency is everyone’s business,” I said. “You want to be tough? Be tough enough to show some respect.”

The line fell silent.

Then a woman behind me started clapping. Slowly.

Another person nodded. “He’s right,” someone muttered.

The man grabbed his bags and stormed off, still muttering under his breath.

I looked at Mateo.

He wasn’t trembling anymore. He stood straighter, shoulders back. He met my eyes and nodded.

A quiet understanding passed between us—between a 74-year-old retiree and a 22-year-old trying to build a future.

I walked to my car shaking.

I cried in the parking lot—not out of sadness, but because for the first time in years, I felt alive.

I felt like a human being again.

Yesterday, Mateo handed me my receipt. On the back, in neat handwriting, he had written:

“My father is far away. Today, you were like a father to me.”

I’m sharing this because we are living in angry times. We are told to hate each other. We are told to pick sides.

But here’s what I learned in that checkout line:

You don’t have to fix the world.

You don’t have to solve every problem.

Sometimes, all you have to do is change the air in the room.

Be the one who speaks up.

Be the one who sees the person behind the name tag.

Because at the end of the day, we’re all just walking each other home.

Make sure you’re good company.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[Ann V. @dolphin711]

@Bella_x_30 6

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

The White House deleted this embarrassing video. So whatever you do- * DON'T REPOST IT. * Donald wouldn't like it if you hit "repost."

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

[Bruce “Willy’s” Jeepᵀᴹ @FlyInTheOinment]

@theliamnissan @LazuliLady

[Ann V. @dolphin711]

@mubeen477 Bobbins for a sewing machine.

[Ann V. @dolphin711]

@SaqibBanbh90290 I see 11

[Ann V. @dolphin711]

@Zunaira414 14

[Ann V. @dolphin711]

@Matt_Pinner No!