Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz

Mom of a Teacher 🍎, a Meteorologist 🌡️, and a Bernese Mountain Dog 🐶 and married to my best friend ❤️

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

FACTS!!!

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Every single woman has Gloria Steinem to thank for something. Every. Single. One.

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

Same. Same. 🤪

[Fuckin’ Princess @8WithaTiara]

I completed a chore today that I’ve been putting off for four weeks..

It took me 2.5 minutes

I will learn nothing from this.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Just a reminder of how stunning and elegant the Rose Garden once was.

[Captain's Corner @Captain2Corner]

Bigger than baseball.

Man😮‍💨

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

BRB heading to Nepal to bring my new dog home 🐶😭🙏

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Dear @andersoncooper and producers of @AC360 @CNN

I saw Anderson was filming at the devastated Trishuli market in Nepal. That is where this dog was filmed distressed and alone in the aftermath 5 days ago.

I am begging your team, if you still have boots on the ground at Trishuli, PLEASE look for this dog and bring him/her to safety, with food and water.

You will be international heroes.
This would be a CNN Heroes moment. Please help this flood survivor. 💔

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Women, the reason you can have a credit card in your own name and don’t need a man’s signature to open a bank account is because of Gloria Steinem. RIP to this queen.

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

RIP to the woman who lead the charge to make my life and career possible 🙏

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

@omgsidewalks Yes

[Classic Moments ✨ @Sunflower15025]

When Dolly Parton approached Robert Plant for permission to record her version of “Stairway to Heaven,” she reportedly worried about how he would react. Instead, Plant’s response was wonderfully simple: “Of course you can, you’re Dolly Parton.”

And somehow, that feels like the perfect answer. Dolly didn’t try to copy Led Zeppelin — she took one of rock’s most iconic songs and made it unmistakably her own, adding a touch of country, gospel, and her unmistakable voice.

Sometimes, a legend recognizing another legend is all the permission you need.

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

😳

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

RFK Jr testified in his divorce proceedings that he was too brain damaged to work so therefore couldn’t pay alimony.

He is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Our food is poisoned and measles is on the rise.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Turns out, food regulations were really important for regulating food

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

This ❤️

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

🙏

[Keagan Stiefel @KeaganStiefel]

Drake Maye and Ann Michael Maye star in a new social media video for LL Bean.

Funniest commercial involving a #Patriots player since Tom Brady screamed at that guy inside a Dick’s Sporting Goods.

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

@HQNewsNow WTAF??????

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A Bronx pizzeria owner saw a woman eating out of his GARBAGE.

He walked outside, took her by the hand, led her in, and pulled a hot slice straight from the oven for her.

She sat down and cried. He said: "Don't cry. Eat. I don't want you eating out of a garbage." ❤️

His name is Daniel Romano.

He owns D'Romano's Pizza in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx.

He didn't shoo her away.

"I grabbed her by the hand and I led her to the pizzeria and I went in the oven and I got her a fresh slice and gave it to her. Sat down and she started crying. I said, 'don't cry, eat. This is not a problem.'"

In that moment, he decided he'd never let it happen to anyone again.

So he grabbed a marker, wrote a sign by hand, and taped it in his window for the whole neighborhood to see:

"To the people eating out of my garbage, I have more love for you than you think. Please come in and tell me you're hungry. I will forever give you a slice and fresh water to drink."

When they asked him why, his answer was simple.

"Right now, I think this world is shot. There's too much hate. Too much negativity. Why not put a smile on someone's face?"

And it turns out this runs deep for Daniel.

It goes all the way back to his mother, Carmella.

"She had a saying in Italian. She used to say, 'a desperate person will always make a better decision on a full stomach than on an empty.'

"It always stuck with me. So I feed people."

A desperate person makes a better decision on a full stomach.

That handwritten sign has traveled way past the Bronx now.

Daniel says people are calling him from Texas, Arkansas, Hawaii, even Alaska, all wanting to chip in and buy slices for hungry strangers they'll NEVER MEET.

"Don't ask me, I didn't even know Alaska had a phone."

It all started with one slice.
One woman.
One man who did something kind.

GOD BLESS Daniel Romano. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have a sad and genuinely infuriating story...

A little donkey named HeeHaw was sh0t and k*lled... by police... in the middle of the night... on his own family's farm.

His "crime"? He ran up to the officers braying, being a friendly donkey.

This happened in Polk County, Georgia, around 12:45 in the morning.

According to the family that owns Elsberry Riding and Farm, officers came onto their property, into the pasture, searching for a missing person. The family says they did it without permission.

And there was HeeHaw. A small, curious donkey doing what donkeys do. The family says he ran up to the officers braying to greet them.

The family says the officers tried to TASE him first and then one of them sh0t him, and he passed away.

A small donkey trotting up braying is not a threat.

You do not need a taser, and you SURE AS HELL don't need a bullet, for a friendly farm animal, any Southern person knows that.

To their credit, the department is not sweeping it away.

The Cedartown Police Chief launched an investigation and put the officer who fired on administrative leave. GOOD.

And the Sheriff's Office, which wasn't even involved, took the time to send condolences to the family.

HeeHaw wasn't a threat. He was a pet. And he trusted people right up until the end.

Rest easy, HeeHaw. 💔

[Erin (DeBruyn) McCarthy Lootz @erindebruyn]

I got to have two - Grampa’s house & my Uncle Bill’s ❤️🥺🙏

[Denise 🇺🇸 @NoDMsPerfavore]

Nobody tells you when you’re a kid that one random Sunday at Grandma’s house will eventually be the last time everyone is there at the same time.

The cousins are running in and out of the house.

Somebody’s yelling, “STOP SLAMMING THAT DOOR!”

The adults are sitting around the kitchen table talking about things you couldn’t care less about.

There’s food everywhere.

Someone is asleep in a recliner.

You can hear the TV from the other room.

You’re bored half the time and begging to go home.

And you have absolutely no idea that you are standing inside a memory you will spend the rest of your life wishing you could walk back into.

Then everybody grows up.

The cousins move away.

People get married.

Families get busy.

Grandparents get older.

The house gets sold.

Some people stop speaking.

Some people are no longer here.

And suddenly you’d give just about anything to sit at that kitchen table for ten more minutes and hear everybody’s voices coming from different rooms.

The older I get, the more I realize…

We weren’t “just going to Grandma’s house.”

We were going to the one place where our entire family still belonged to each other.

And somehow none of us realized it was temporary.

If you had a house like that growing up, you were richer than you knew. 🤍

Whose house was “the house” in your family?

[Mark 2 @ethicalliberty]

Posted to chill us out. There are beautiful things in this world, and we need to remember that through the gloom.
Sit back for a brief moment . Sound up

[Tyler Milliken @tylermilliken_]

Payton Tolle is my favorite human on this planet.