just being me

Random thoughts, ideas, and musings about life and love. Always trying to be a better human!

[just being me @futuredoc73]

This !

[victoria 🫶🏻 @litttlesnappy]

praising jesus because a rapist was elected is why i don’t go to church anymore

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

It’s just morally and reprehensibly wrong that this half-dead, morbidly lethargic, sorrowful excuse for a human being blocked or voted AGAINST paid medical leave 23 times. He returned to “work” yesterday after being on paid medical leave for 3 fucking months.

[just being me @futuredoc73]

This!!!!

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Last night, I watched Nuremberg about the prosecution of Nazi high command after World War II. Everyone in America should see it.

This morning, a friend of mine who wants to remain anonymous, sent the following to me:

As an American Jew, I never thought I would hear this sentence in America:

The government is asking for lists of Jewish students.

They say it’s for protection.
They say it’s to investigate discrimination.
They say it’s well-intentioned.

Maybe.

But history doesn’t begin with what governments say. It begins with what they collect.

Right now, a federal agency is demanding names and information about Jewish students and faculty as part of an antisemitism investigation.

That may sound bureaucratic. Technical. Even reasonable.

But let’s be honest about what it is:

A list of people, identified by religion.

And once a list exists, it can be used.

Maybe not today.
Maybe not by this administration.
But by the next one. Or the next.

If a future government believes America should be a “Christian nation,” what happens then?

Do those lists determine who votes?
Who gets admitted?
Who gets hired?
Who is “other”?

Do they become tools for exclusion?
For pressure?
For conversion?
For silence?

We don’t have to imagine this.

Jewish history has seen it, again and again.

That’s why even today, Jewish students and civil liberties groups warn that creating such registries crosses a dangerous line, one that “can easily be weaponized.”

Because the danger isn’t just intent.

It’s precedent.

It’s normalization.

It’s the quiet shift from:
“We need information” to “We need to know who they are.”

I believe in fighting antisemitism.

But I also believe this:

You don’t protect a minority by cataloging it.

You protect it by defending its rights, including the right not to be listed.

Because once a government starts making lists of Jews, history tells us it rarely stops there.

[just being me @futuredoc73]

@GeoRebekah @DestinyReelly20 I just paid close to 200
For an original birth certificate. It’s insane

[Ethical American @AmericanEthical]

Michael Garrett - NC Senate's Viral Statement on the Bad Bunny Halftime Show

“I watched #BadBunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.

He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it “disgusting.” Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.

And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said “God bless America.”
And then he started naming them.

Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, “Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.
The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.”

I teared up. I’m not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.

That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother’s language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read “Together, we are America” into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.

And what did the President do? He called it “absolutely terrible.” He said “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He called it “a slap in the face to our Country.” The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.

Let that sink into your bones.
The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million #Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That’s not strength. That’s not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.

Here’s what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny’s celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren’t only red, white, and blue:

Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn’t forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love “disgusting.” And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

No gym. Just a chair, discipline, and consistency.

Build strength, burn fat, and light up your core—one rep at a time.

Save it. Try it today. 💪

[just being me @futuredoc73]

@donwinslow The demise of civility is happening in real
Time …….. lemmings at their finest.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Amen

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Fact.

[just being me @futuredoc73]

This

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Shocking accusations about Prince Andrew are revealed in Virginia Giuffre’s book, co-authored with @msamywallace on BBC Newsnight

Amy Wallace, "She was told she was going to meet a prince. This was a woman who as a young child loved the movie Cinderella. The idea of meeting a prince was exciting for her"

Victoria Derbyshire, "The third time she says she was forced to have sex with him, involved, Prince Andrew, Epstein and eight other young girls"

Amy Wallace, "This was on the private island"

Victoria Derbyshire, "Epstein had become fascinated by sadomasochism, this was to cause great physical pain to Virginia Giuffre, wasn't it?"

Amy Wallace, "Yes. She was basically hog-tied, made to crawl across the floor"

[Allroy Soho (Smelly Era) @RadFriAllroy]

No, we won’t. Ace Frehley isn’t a racist, sexist asshole who masquerades his bigotry in christian values. Ace Frehley is a wonderful guitarist who is a great man and has contributed to actual charities that isn’t a propaganda machine for mentally vulnerable idiots

[just being me @futuredoc73]

@maddenifico Thank you !

[just being me @futuredoc73]

This!!!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This woman is not wrong. 😳👇

[Grindz TV  @Grindz_TV]

Charlie Kirk knew he was full of sh🤫t‼️

[just being me @futuredoc73]

Welp

[Izzy 🐀 @rules_of_izzy]

@PaperboyPrince

[RealHousewifeOfMichigan @RealHousewifeMi]

@travelingflying You’re not posting this to piss off anyone who is liberal. We couldn’t care less.

You’re posting this because you’re desperate for attention.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Wow.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

What @CoryBooker just did on the Senate floor is exactly what we need. If Democrats can’t meet this moment, then they must step aside. We need warriors and if you aren’t one, then this isn’t your time.