Michelle Obama: Not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you… the claims that a U.S. Senator and constitutional law expert wasn't qualified for the job. The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.
This complete surrender to Iran is so disastrous even Ted Cruz correctly pointed out that it’s crazy and dangerous to hand $300 billion over to the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Not happy to just destroy America, Donald wants the entire planet endangered
A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…
It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.
…It has piqued your interest.
You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.
If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.
It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.
And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.
Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.
This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙
Joy, in the healthiest sense, is not the loud promise that everything will be fine. It is not a bright sticker pasted over a cracked window. Joy is a steady, clear-eyed willingness to notice what is good without denying what hurts. In the Yukon, joy can be as small as the smell of tea in a warm mug, as quiet as a raven’s wingbeat, as simple as a neighbour waving from across a snowy road. It does not erase pain. It sits beside it and says, "I am here too."
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By 2026, digital media had engulfed everyday life. In 2026, I created an experience through the tactile, quiet, unhurried act of reading on paper. Inside The Gurdeep Magazine, you’ll find essays crafted for slow, quiet reading, all centered on joy, hope, and positivity. If you'd like to hold printed words that warm your hands, heart and mind, visit https://t.co/rehEMdIORw.
When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game!
by Donald J. Trump
Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?
Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.
Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.
Then June came.
The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.
Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.
The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.
Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.
Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.
This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.
How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?
Sometimes support looks like tears. Sometimes it looks like stillness. Sometimes it looks like calling a friend and not pretending the day is easy. When people cannot cry, I do not tell them to force it. I tell them they are not broken. I tell them that the heart has more than one language. Some hearts speak through work, through care, through silence, through art, through prayer, through walking until the mind softens. Tears are one way of telling the truth, not the only way.
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By 2026, digital media had engulfed everyday life. In 2026, I created an experience through the tactile, quiet, unhurried act of reading on paper. Inside The Gurdeep Magazine, you’ll find essays crafted for slow, quiet reading, all centered on joy, hope, and positivity. If you'd like to hold printed words that warm your hands, heart and mind, visit https://t.co/rehEMdIORw.
It's Whitsun, Pentecost, the summer festival when the Holy Spirit descends with fire. In this Anglo-Saxon image the flames touch the lips of each apostle, and even the sky has turned fiery red.
'Tongues of fire they had, when with love they preached the glory of God' (Ælfric)
Palestinian “resistance,” 50 years ago.
Torture. Barbarism. Savagery.
The same as it was on October 7.
It isn’t against only Jews. It’s against Christians, Hindus, other Muslims.
Will the West remember what terrorism means only when they’re targeted again?
(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....
Donating $5 million to the people investigating you is corruption.
Accepting $5 million from the person you’re investigating is corruption.
Our government is run by corrupt billionaires and bought politicians.
Trump and his family sued the IRS, then set up a fund to pay themselves. It will be managed by five people chosen by Trump.
You thought he couldn’t get worse? The orange man laughs in your face.
Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.
But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.
💔ing. I am so sorry for children today who have to “prepare” for violence. Even if it never comes, a deep seed of fear and anxiety has been sewn in the soul.
I live just across the road from a school, and today I heard the announcement of a lockdown drill. When it was finished, I could hear the children playing in the Spring rain. I thought of my own son, safe by the grace of God, and of history, and of all the children for whom the day came when it was not a drill. And I thought about James Baldwin's words—"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe"—and I thought about this:
I love this image of Christ’s Ascension and the footprints left behind. And in my head I hear the little boy in Close Encounters of the Third Kind softly saying, “Bye bye.”
The Ascension of Christ into Heaven, in 15th Century glass at East Harling, Norfolk. Mary and the Disciples watch as Christ's nail-scarred feet rise leaving footprints.
Today's the feast of the Ascension, the end of the Easter season after 40 days.
More about East Harling: https://t.co/IwooW3sIOg
Horrific night in Kyiv. 7 people killed, including a child. 44 injured. Search efforts ongoing. My heart aches for their family and loved ones.
More than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles pummeled Ukraine, hitting Kyiv hardest and targeting civilian life—from homes and a school to clinics and energy infrastructure. This is not the work of peace—this is terrorism.
Happy 100th anniversary of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien's first meeting, and this entry from Lewis's journal.
“He is a smooth, pale, fluent little chap … No harm in him: only needs a smack or so.”