Emily Erington

you don’t know me as well as you think

[TRUTH NOW ⭐️⭐️⭐️🗽 🎺 @sxdoc]

I had no idea.. THE BIGGEST LOSER
SAVED OUR COUNTRY

"This man was born in 1809.
In 1816, at age 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled.
In 1818, he lost his mother.
In 1828, he lost his sister.
In 1831, he opened his first business and went bankrupt.
In 1832, he stood in the legislative elections and lost.
In 1833, he borrowed money to open another business and went bankrupt again.
In 1835, he met a wonderful woman. He falls in love with her, they get engaged, and she dies.
In 1836, he entered a dark period of his life: deep depression.
He remains bedridden for 6 consecutive months. But he gets up.
He gets up and in that same year of 1836 he runs in the legislative elections and loses again.
In 1840 he presented himself as an elector; he loses.
In 1842, he met the woman he would end his life with.
They fall in love, get engaged, get married and she gives him 4 children and they lose 3 (three).
In 1843, he appeared at the congresses and lost.
In 1845, he appeared again at the congresses and lost again.
In 1850, his son died.
In 1854, he ran for the Senate and lost.
In 1856, he ran for Vice President, he didn't even have 100 votes.
In '58, he ran again for the Senate and lost again.

And in 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President of the United States of America 🇺🇸.
He was elected for two exceptional terms (he was assassinated in beginning of the second term.) He was one of the most respected and impactful Presidents in the history of the United States 🇺🇸.

It's important to tell this story of perseverance because we see the hero, but we don't see the backstage of the afflictions. "

Wow. ...
I think this is a great example of Never Never Never Give Up! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Rosie O'Donnell dedicates a song to Donald Trump.

Oh, Donnie boy, it's Rosie Rosie calling from Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show
Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding. Because my dear, I worry for you so.
Poor Donnie boy, your polls, your polls are falling.
Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew.
Your wig's a mess. Your ballroom is appalling.
And with Iran, you bit off more than you can chew.
Measles are back. Inflation is a swelling.
You post all night. You're sleeping while you work.
And what's with all this useless crap you're selling?
Hey sweetie pie, you're driving us all berserk.
But there's a way to end this drama.
It's time to use that stable genius brain.
Since we all know you'll never be Obama,
why not resign and make this country great again?
Yes, we all know you'll never be Obama.
Come on, resign and make this country great again.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

I once asked a dear friend who has already crossed 70 and is gently stepping toward 80, “What changes do you feel in yourself these days?”

His answer stayed with me… and I think it will stay with you too.

He said,
After spending my life loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have finally learned to truly love myself.

I realized I am not Atlas. The world does not rest on my shoulders.

I stopped bargaining with the vegetable seller. A few extra coins won’t hurt me, but they might help him send his little girl to school.

I tip the waitress more than expected. The extra might make her smile after a long, tiring day.

I no longer stop the elderly mid-story to say, “You’ve told me this before.” Let them relive their memories. Those moments keep their hearts alive.

I’ve stopped correcting people even when I know they’re wrong. Peace is far more precious than proving a point.

I give compliments without holding back. They light up not just the other person’s day, but mine too.

I don’t stress about a spot on my shirt or a wrinkle in my clothes. Who I am speaks louder than what I wear.

I walk away from those who don’t value me. They may not see my worth, but I do.

I don’t play the dirty game of the rat race. I am not a rat, and life is not a race for me anymore.

I no longer hide my emotions. They are what make me human.

I choose relationships over ego. Ego builds walls. Relationships build homes.

I live each day like it could be my last, because one day, it will be.

And above all, I do what makes me happy. Because my happiness is my own responsibility. Happiness is always a choice.

So why wait until we are 70 or 80 to live like this? Why not start now? At any age. At any stage.

If you’re reading this today, maybe this is your sign to begin…. ❤️

✨Unknown

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

No matter the generation, this song always gets people dancing ✨

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is.

But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile.

An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.

Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter.

We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

An astounding, record-high 73% of Americans say that Trump hasn't paid enough attention to the country's most important problems.

But it's no wonder his numbers are so bad.

Trump is just not focused on you.

No, he's focused on his asinine, fragile-ego election conspiracy theories because he can't handle that he lost a free and fair election six years ago.

And he's focused on stupid and reckless wars of choice, on settling old scores, on arches, and ballrooms, and planes, and reflecting pools, and crypto scams, and golden horse statues, and dumb little coins with his face on them, and slapping his stupid name on every building in DC, and every other grifting contract and kick-back he can win for his friends and family.

But you definitely know what he's not focused on - you, and the rising cost of everything in your life.

In fact, Trump openly mocks your challenges in affording the basics in life.

He doesn't care about you at all.

See the numbers here: https://t.co/wMar0P81ze

#ResistTrump

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

This is Trumps America 🇺🇸
Gutting every social program while pilfering our government tax dollars for his own shits and giggles.
I hate him.
He’s a despicable, vile man.
I have zero respect for him.
I have no pity for him.
I do not care if he passes.
I do not want to hear the name Trump ever again.
I’m fed up with his drama every single day.
I want a respectable, honest, understanding president with integrity who cares about their citizens and tries to build up our nation so everyone can prosper, not only the rich.

[Edward @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 A SITTING VICE PRESIDENT JUST HANDED ABDUL EL-SAYED HIS BEST LINE OF THE CAMPAIGN. READ THAT AGAIN:

JD Vance stood on stage and said El-Sayed doesn't really stand for working people.

El-Sayed answered with the exact number Trump's own Pentagon put in writing.

Let that land.

– JD Vance: "The problem with Abdul is that he claims to stand for the working people, and yet he opposed Trump's policies."

– Abdul El-Sayed: "The problem with Trump is that he claims to stand for Americans, and yet he spent $200 billion in a war for Israel."

– That $200 billion is the Pentagon's own supplemental request for the Iran war.

– El-Sayed just won the Michigan Senate primary over an establishment-backed opponent.

– He won it despite $50 to $70 MILLION in outside and AIPAC-linked money spent against him.

– He's a physician, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former Detroit Health Department director.

– Vance has called him "crazy" and "odd." Trump called him a "Communist loser."

– None of it stopped him from becoming the first Muslim major-party Senate nominee in Michigan history.

Vance just opened a door that CANNOT be closed. And every Trump surrogate debating El-Sayed next is watching.

Many people will wish they followed me sooner.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Thank you Pete Buttigieg! 🎯

[Emily Erington @EmilyErington]

Truth:

[Ryan Daigler - Exposing Narcissistic Abuse 🚩🚩 @Ryan_Daigler]

Narcissists don’t help to help — they help to be seen helping.
They’ll swoop in with performative “kindness” or “concern” when it’s not really needed, often making things awkward or uncomfortable.
And If you don’t react with sufficient gratitude even when their “help” really only made you uncomfortable because it was obvious to you that it was performative, they’ll flip and call you ungrateful.
This isn’t concern or compassion. It’s manipulation disguised as goodwill.

That feeling of awkwardness is your gut telling you, “Something’s off here.”
You're not ungrateful — you're just not falling for the performance.
This tactic also serves their ego. They often want an audience, too — even if it’s just you — to witness them being “generous.” But the moment you don’t play along with the performance, you become the problem in their eyes.

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

Abdul: President Clinton comes up to me, son, why are you going to medical school? You have good communication skills, one day you will run for office.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LOL! Dr. Abdul El-Sayed flips the tables and makes fun of his MAGA opponent's name amidst desperate Republican efforts to fearmonger over his.

Political talent like this doesn't come along very often...

"Now, Mike, I'm just gonna remind you, if you don't know how to say the name, keep the name out your damn mouth. Or just call me Abdul," said El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, at a rally.

"But I got some opinions about his name," he continued. "See, it's very fitting for him, 'Rogers.' Because that's his answer every time a corporation or Donald Trump tells him to do something."

"Mike, we need you to put a data center in the backyard. Roger!"

"Mike, we need you to hike their prescription drug prices. Roger!"

"Mike, we need you to rubber stamp this war we shouldn't be fighting. Roger!"

"Mike, and this one's Donald Trump, I need you to lick these boots. Roger!"

"And I think I speak for all of us here in Michigan when I say that we are done with Rogers. Go back to Florida where you belong," he added.

This is how you confront right-wing bigotry: with class, humor, and confidence. Republicans have been running nonstop attack ads using his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, because they think that Arabic sounds inherently scary to Americans. It's right out of the "Barack Hussein Obama" playbook.

It's a pathetic strategy meant to distract from the fact that Mike Rogers has nothing to offer the people of Michigan beyond lockstep support for Trump's kleptocratic, warmongering, pedophiliac regime.

Would you vote for Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed?

Please ❤️ and share if you think he'd make a great presidential candidate one day!

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

Lord have mercy🙄
Since my Antifa post triggered the MAGATS that actually believe that Antifa is a network of people.
No you dummies:
Let me school you for a sec.. ⬇️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: You don’t have to be a lifelong Democrat to believe that one job ought to be enough in the American economy. You don’t have to be a bleeding-heart liberal to see that costs need to go down and wages need to go up, not the other way around.

You don’t have to belong to this political party or that political party to recognize that God does not belong to any political party in the United States of America, or to insist that people of every faith and any faith, if any, all deserve equal treatment, respect, dignity, and safety in this country.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I remember…🤬🤬🤬

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Denzel Washington says society is forcing “comparative success” down our throats

“More is not better. Everybody has different gifts. I’ve been blessed with money. Some have love. Some have patience. Some have kindness.”

“Whatever your gift. But society is forcing success down our throat. Comparative success down our throat… We’ve become lovers of ourselves. We all want to be followed. We all want to lead.”

“We’re willing to do anything, young ladies and young men, anything to be influential. The universe stems from the specific, where’s your soul? Where’s your heart? Where does it start?”

“Do you want credit for it, or do you want to see the other person do well? It’s the most selfish thing I’ve done in my life, is give, because of the joy that I get from it. I love it.”

“I remember I was starting to be and act a little successful. My mom said, ‘You shut up right where you are.’ ‘All the people that have been praying for you. Grandfathers. Great-grandfathers.’”

“Then she started calling me Superstar for about a month. ‘Hey, Superstar, go get that squeegee and that bucket.’ ‘Superstar, hit them windows.’ ‘Hey, Superstar, come here, hit the back yard.’”

“She had me cleaning, working. Feet on the ground. I needed that unit, that family. I didn’t do it by myself. Who teaches you to be a man? Fame is a monster. And we all have these battles and roads we have to walk in our given lives.”

“We all have our individual challenges. Money doesn’t make it better, fame just magnifies the problems, and the opportunities.”

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

She graduated from Princeton in 1992, and one of her professors ��� a woman who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — said she was one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

Her professor's name was Toni Morrison. And the young woman she praised was about to disappear, almost entirely, into someone else's story...

Her name then was MacKenzie Tuttle, and the world would come to know her as MacKenzie Scott.

What almost no one realized, watching this poised young Princeton graduate, was how close she had come to never finishing at all. Her family had filed for bankruptcy during her final year of boarding school. At Princeton, on scholarship, she struggled constantly to pay her way, waiting tables to cover her costs. In her sophomore year, broke and in tears and on the verge of dropping out, she was saved by a roommate who found her crying and pressed a thousand dollars into her hands. And once, when she couldn't afford to fix a broken tooth and had been holding it together with denture glue, a local dentist did the work for free, asking nothing in return.

She never forgot either of them. Remember that — it matters later.

After graduation, with her gift for words and a good head for numbers, she took a practical job at a hedge fund in New York to earn a living. And there she met a man named Jeff Bezos, who had a strange idea about selling books over the internet.

She didn't dismiss it.

They married in 1993. And in 1994, they packed their belongings into a car and drove across the country to the Seattle area, chasing that idea. They rented a house with a garage. They set up computers. There was no big budget, no team, no guarantee that a single stranger would ever buy a single book.

MacKenzie did the accounting. She wrote up business plans and contracts. She answered customer phone calls. She packed boxes for shipping.

The company was called Amazon. Its first full year of sales came to about five hundred and eleven thousand dollars. And she was there for every bit of it, from the empty garage onward.

But as Amazon exploded into a giant, MacKenzie stepped back from it. She and Jeff had four children, and she turned her focus to raising them — and to the dream she'd held since Toni Morrison's classroom, of being a writer. In 2005 she published her first novel, and it won an American Book Award. Morrison herself praised it as "a rarity: a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart." MacKenzie published a second novel in 2013. She taught writing. She lived, by choice, out of the spotlight.

And so, for the better part of two decades, the story of Amazon was told without her in it.

Jeff Bezos became one of the most famous men alive. The garage became the stuff of business legend. And in that legend, MacKenzie appeared only rarely and briefly — a wife mentioned in passing, tucked into the corner of someone else's triumph. She never once stepped forward to correct it, or to claim more of the credit than she was given. She let it be.

Then, in 2019, everything changed.

That January, she and Jeff Bezos announced their divorce. When the settlement was finalized, MacKenzie walked away with roughly four percent of Amazon's stock — a fortune worth somewhere around thirty-six to thirty-eight billion dollars. Overnight, at forty-eight years old, she became one of the richest women on the planet.

And what she chose to do next is the real reason you should know her name.

Within months, she signed the Giving Pledge, publicly promising to give away the majority of her enormous wealth within her own lifetime. But it was the way she gave it that stunned the entire world of philanthropy.

There were no lengthy application forms. No demands for progress reports. No strings attached, no conditions, no control. No grand foundation bearing her name, no press releases trumpeting her generosity. Instead, she assembled a small, low-profile team whose job was to seek out organizations doing serious, unglamorous good in overlooked communities — and then call them up and give them money.

The phone calls became the stuff of legend in their own right. So many recipients assumed it had to be a scam. Some asked the caller to repeat the dollar figure, certain they'd misheard. Others just broke down and wept.

She gave four hundred and thirty-six million dollars to Habitat for Humanity. She handed the largest single gifts in the entire histories of several Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She sent hundreds of millions to food banks, to rural communities, to tribal colleges, to women's health programs — the kinds of quiet, difficult, deeply human causes that flashier donors so often pass over as too small or too complicated to bother with.

In 2025 alone, she gave away more than seven billion dollars, to hundreds of organizations. By many public accounts, that single year of giving outstripped the entire lifetime charitable giving of her famous former husband.

Her total, since 2019, now stands at an astonishing twenty-six point three billion dollars, spread across more than two thousand seven hundred organizations. No buildings carry her name. There is no branded foundation. There are no galas thrown in her honor.

Today, Forbes ranks her as the third most generous living philanthropist in the entire world — behind only Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. She climbed to that place in a mere six years.

She packed the first boxes. She ran the first numbers. She answered the first phone calls. The company that grew out of that little garage is now worth more than two trillion dollars.

The garage still stands. Her name was never on it.

But what she has done with the fortune that came out of it is now a matter of public record — more than twenty-six billion dollars sent out into the world with no fanfare and no strings, in exactly the spirit of a dentist who once fixed a broken tooth for a struggling student who couldn't pay, and a roommate who dried a young woman's tears with a thousand dollars she didn't have to give.

In one of her own essays, MacKenzie Scott described herself as just one small part of a much larger story.

The numbers say otherwise.

Had you heard MacKenzie Scott's story? Tell us below. And here's one for today: has a stranger's quiet act of kindness ever changed the direction of your life — and did you ever get to pass it on?

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

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