Florence van Geem

Retired healthcare statistician and data systems PM; currently crafting, baking and gardening.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

🚨NEW: After Trump fired Kristi Noem, Governor Gavin Newsom is formally calling on the Trump administration to redirect the remaining funds from Noem’s $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to LA fire survivors.

[Florence van Geem @fvangeem]

Good advice

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

🚨Pulled over by an unmarked car claiming to be ICE? Protect yourself - this is an excellent video on what to do if pulled over by unmarked vehicles. https://t.co/rYrBQqyuu1 fact checks and expands:

1. Turn on hazards. Signal you see them.

2. Call 911. Say: “Unmarked vehicle pulling me over. Need to confirm.” Give plate + location.

3. Drive to a public, well-lit place. (Gas station, police station)

4. Record everything. Use your phone. Keep 911 on the line if possible.

5. Don’t exit. Don’t roll down fully. Crack window. Lock doors.

6. Ask for ID. Real cops must show badge + name.

7. Told to exit? Say: “I don’t consent".

8. Do NOT consent to a search. Say it out loud.

🦸‍♂️You don’t have to answer questions about where you’re going or your immigration status. Do not wave your rights.

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#KnowYourRights #UnmarkedCar #StaySafe #PAXIS

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Pete Buttigieg nails it:

“In a country that amended the Constitution to ban beer… then fixed it when we realized it was dumb… surely we can amend it again to say corporations aren’t people and money isn’t speech.”

Translation:

We corrected Prohibition.
We can correct Citizens United.

Democracy shouldn’t be for sale.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE.

RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump!

[Florence van Geem @fvangeem]

Beautifully stated

[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”

[Donk Media ♻️™ @donkoclock]

BREAKING: MAGA in full meltdown mode over this Super Bowl ad 😡

It would be a shame if you shared it and it went Viral 💙💙💙

Drop a 💙 for the bravery of Epstein survivors!

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

So this woman started noticing ICE vehicles in her neighborhood in Minneapolis with Uber stickers on them and sure enough it’s a new way they’re using to disguise themselves just like when they wore the construction outfits! She said they must think we’re all stupid!

[Florence van Geem @fvangeem]

Women, use your voice and vote to stop the hypocrisy

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Picture this: women in parts of the U.S. are being arrested and jailed for miscarriages, a medical event they didn’t choose, didn’t cause, while not a single powerful man named in the Epstein files is sitting in a jail cell. Women’s bodies are surveilled, criminalized, and punished at their most vulnerable, yet men accused of exploiting and abusing children are shielded by wealth, influence, and silence. That’s not justice. That’s a system that polices women and protects predators. If this were really about “protecting life,” the priorities would look very different. Instead, what we’re watching is blatant misogyny and it’s disgusting.

[Florence van Geem @fvangeem]

Include in Project 2028

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

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[Florence van Geem @fvangeem]

Thank you Jessica for getting the message out.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The SAVE Act won't help America's elections. Quite the opposite.

The facts: over 20 million Americans don't have access to those documents and nearly 50% of Americans don't have a passport.

If Republicans get this through they'd be in for a rude awakening when women who have changed their names, young people, and people without passports struggle to vote.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD

DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared 🔥🔥🔥

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with the Obamas against Trump’s racist attacks!

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

It’s time to defund ICE.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

In 365 days of Trump:

- he doubled his family’s net worth
- billionaires got $1.5 trillion richer
- his 20 wealthiest political donors got ~$380 billion richer

while…

Food prices ⬆️
Utilities ⬆️
Healthcare ⬆️
Housing ⬆️

Just in case you didn’t understand the scam yet.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

I sat through two hours of lunacy this afternoon. And watched 15 minutes of this guy just now.

The difference is night and day.

If you want to understand the long-term damage Donald Trump is doing to our country, it’s worth your time.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨🚨 Under NO circumstances should anybody like or share this video!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I cannot tell you just how significant this speech is by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

Europe is in my view about to call Trump’s bluff and I really don’t think Americans understand just how catastrophically damaging this could be in terms of long term economic impact.

Europe has had enough, as have NATO allies. Trump is about to burn 75 years of close partnerships to satisfy his pathetic ego.

Buckle up folks, because I wouldn’t like to be carrying $38.5 trillion of debt right now. Do you know who supplies 75% of all America’s insulin right now? That would be Denmark 🇩🇰

In addition Novo Nordisk is the Danish manufacturer of Ozempic. The Danish Prime Minister says everything is on the table.

🎥TikTok - https://t.co/16WVeGGoMR

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

ICE allegedly terrified a young girl by following her home, prompting her father to step in and confront agents as neighbors recorded.