Virginia C. Foley 🇺🇸🌊🌻🌈

Author, teacher, lifelong learner, SUPER CHICAGO CUBS FAN! #resistance BLM 🇺🇸🌊 🌻🌈

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Here’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in April announcing the end of the military’s mandatory annual flu vaccine requirement, calling it “Not rational.”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety claims the car was moving toward them, prompting an officer to fire. Cellphone video from the scene instead shows the car driving away from police.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FOX: “We learned why the Iranians are eager to sign on to this deal — Iran will be able to start selling oil again on the global marketplace… and nobody is disputing they’ll have access to a $300 BILLION fund.”

[Aida 🇵🇷💛💜💚🐾 @latina4JesusShw]

Honoring my forever First Lady Michelle Obama, the classiest lady I’ve ever seen.

#USDemocracy

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

BOOP!!!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The MOU with Iran is nothing short of a complete surrender. Regardless of whether you support the war or not, there is not reason to have given Iran everything it wanted, to get NOTHING but 60 more days to talk. I’m sorry America, because this is an EPIC FAILURE.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Thanks to Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill,” student loan payments will go up as much as $4,000 a year starting July 1st.

While billionaires get massive tax breaks, working people will be defaulting on their debts.

Unacceptable.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The real reason he signed the MOU and gave Iran what everything they wanted:

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW! Former US Official Ben Rhodes confirms Iran never cheated on the nuclear deal, revealing the UN verified their compliance.

He exposes how Trump ignored his own intelligence agencies to sabotage peace. Washington deliberately provoked a disastrous conflict.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

New lawsuit just filed challenging Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for Governor in Alabama because he’s a … Florida man.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: A shocking new Guardian investigation discovers that Trump and Hegseth murdered EIGHT CHILDREN and four adults, including a pregnant woman, in an airstrike on a school and homes in Somalia…and NEVER told the public!

What ELSE aren’t they telling us?

Shortly after 9am on 15 November 2025, the town of Jamaame in south Somalia was pummeled with a series of explosions. Missiles, almost certainly fired from American MQ-9 Reaper drones, destroyed a school and several homes.

“All my children were lying on the ground covered in blood. When I tried to tend to them, shells began falling everywhere. Every direction you turned, there were shells and missiles raining everywhere,” said Marian Haji Abdi Guled.

A farmer, Abdullahi Mohamed Abo Sheikh Ali, returned home in shock to find his children murdered. His grandfather recounted to the Guardian how “clothes and books were scattered on the ground, but I couldn’t focus on them. I was in shock, standing before the bodies of my grandchildren. They were ripped to pieces.”

Mohamed is tortured by the memory of having to find the pieces of his torn-apart grandchildren. They were too slippery, he says, and kept sliding from his grasp. “There was no place to grip because they were ripped to pieces.”

“The Americans bombed us,” said Abdullahi. “Children, women and elders were bombed. They spared nothing.”

The strike killed Abullahi's heavily pregnant daughter-in-law Safiyo Hassan Abukar, her ten-year-old daughter Abdifatah, seven-year-old Abdinasir, six-year-old Hussein, and four-year-old Abdurahman.

Mohamed Hassan Abdulle found his home flattened and the mangled bodies of his 26-year-old wife, Farhiyo Hassan Nuur, and daughter, 10-month-old Layla Mohamed Hassan.

He stood beside his destroyed home, the entire neighbourhood ablaze. “I couldn’t even find anyone to help carry the bodies of my wife and daughter,” he says.

Gedow Ibrahim received a call from his wife, terrified about the circling drones. He raced home. His daughters, Maryan, nine, and Farhiyo, seven, were dead.

“I saw the lifeless bodies of my children. One of them had their left arm torn off. The other one had shrapnel in their back, which came out of their chest.”

Mohamed says at least 18 homes were destroyed. The school was reduced to a shell. Guled counted nine strikes in the Burburka neighbourhood alone.

Locals say that the al-Shabaab terror group has no presence in the town, which raises huge questions about why and how this quiet village of livestock herders was selected to be massacred, why the presence of children playing in the street didn’t deter the strikes, or why they kept firing after the first homes were hit.

The Trump administration has refused to comment on anything. When the White House was approached for a response to the Jamaame strikes, the deputy press secretary Anna Kelly asked if the Guardian would also focus on “fraud committed by Somalis in the United States?”

Between these strikes in Somalia and the massacre of sailors in the Caribbean, it is clear that the Trump administration is simply killing for the sake of killing.

This is the consequence of building the world’s most sophisticated murder machine – the people in charge of pressing the buttons won’t always be responsible or empathetic.

Sometimes, they will be murderous, racist psychopaths like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.

They must be held accountable after all this is over. These crimes are beyond horrific.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEW: House Oversight Democrats have launched an investigation into reports that Stephen Miller pushed suspending habeas corpus. The inquiry, obtained by MeidasTouch, demands White House records and orders officials to preserve all related communications. https://t.co/5bi5tJrNO4

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Happy anniversary to President @JoeBiden and @DrBiden!

Through the highs, the heartbreak, the campaigns, the White House years and everything in between, they’ve shown America what real love, loyalty and partnership look like.

Wishing them many more years of happiness together. ❤️

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨THIS IS WHY TRUMP ATTACKED JON OSSOFF

Senator Ossoff just released this DEVASTATING ad about his opponent Mike Collins that’s already viral across social media.

Ossoff is now a massive target for MAGA for one simple reason: They are scared of him and know he’s going to win.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

A few quotes from the Texas GOP convention:

-“Islam is a disease that spreads by immigration."
-“True Christians and Americans will hold nothing but contempt and disdain for the toxic ideology of Islam.”
-"We don't need them in any level of government."
https://t.co/6ehtGO38xI

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Start spreading the news —  we’re giving away 600 free tickets to Thursday’s Championship Ceremony at City Hall following the Knicks’ ticker-tape parade.

The public lottery is open now and will close tomorrow, June 17, at 11 AM.

Details at https://t.co/yEU0wPSzEh.

[(((Alan Rosenblatt, PhD))) @DrDigiPol]

Why does JD Vance hate 120 million or so Americans?

That should be disqualifying for a national politician.