Erica Wood

Mom of 2 humans and 2 animals. Wife and RN from Shepherdsville, KY. played vball at Lynn U and #WKU. Clinical Informaticist. Volleyball Coach.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Taking a floating paint chip out of the Reflecting Pool is vandalism.

Smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol is patriotism.

Got it.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Michelle Obama talking about Barack Obama.

"He is showing young men that it's okay to love your wife forever. It's okay not to cheat and lie."

[Sibylle @AHaschi]

Like Pride Rock after Scar took over 😭😭😭

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

The lady with the funny laugh was going to give Americans buying their first homes $25,000 each... and it would cost 100 billion over 10 years.

Trump just gave 3X that amount to Iran. 👍

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

An administration against windmills because the president says they kill birds is pouring hydrogen peroxide into a home for ducks and geese.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The 14-million-dollar money laundering scheme explained.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Fish waking up in the Reflecting Pool today.

[Deb @DontCallMeDebby]

‘‘ strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.’’

- Michelle Obama

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Exactly correct. The billionaire class is an economic tumor that has metastasized to every major organ in civilization in search of growth at all costs. The primary characteristic they share is psychopathy—they see humans as disposable objects. They are eating us alive.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[jezz @JezziiB]

The fact that the Epstein Files STILL have not turned into the Epstein Trials goes to show just how far this country has fallen.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid over $4 a gallon for gas today, I thought to myself, “Thank god the reflecting pool is bigger than skyscrapers.”

[𝐋𝐞𝐠���𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Late-realized neurodivergence is looking back at your whole life and thinking, “Oh. That’s why.”

Over and over and over again.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

I love that Trump is putting his face on the $250 bill. It'll be a constant reminder that it costs $250 to get what used to cost us $100. Let that be your legacy you narcissistic imbecile.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

“Fidget toys are ridiculous. ADHD and autism didn’t exist back in my day.”

Oh yeah? That’s because we had:

- clicking pens
- chewing pencils
- speaking into fans
- peeling Elmers off our hands
- rubbing that broken shirt seam
- drawing the cool S
- bouncy balls in all sizes
- slap bracelets
- rubber bands

This is sensory seeking and self-regulation, before it was commercialized.

[Erica Wood @EricaHardy7]

Same girl, same.

[jay @JaysRealityBlog]

Rihanna responds to Whitney’s IG story ❤️ #RHOSLC