Linda Whiteside

#BobDylan
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face

[Linda Whiteside @hibbingnow]

@harryhew @tywilc My first actual laugh of this June Friday morning. Jeez, I'm happy you are so dependable, Harry.

[Linda Whiteside @hibbingnow]

"Although Carroll has yet to decide how to spend Trump’s millions, she reportedly is mulling large donations to the World Windmill Foundation, Save the Algae, and the Obama Presidential Center."
Workmen Begin Putting E. Jean Carroll’s Name on Trump Tower
https://t.co/i2KrOE4HIE

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims.

I support this. Do you?

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Social Security's trust fund runs out in 2032.

That means an over 20% cut to benefits millions of retirees depend on.

The fix is straightforward: make the highest income Americans pay the same tax rate as everyone else.

Congress must act now.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Epstein files. Release 'em.

[E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarroll]

This Win Is For Every Woman in the World!!

Supreme Court Lets Sex Abuse Verdict STAND against President Trump

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

BIG NEWS: I just signed and filed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on my legislation to permanently block Trump’s $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund for his January 6 private militia and family-sized Super Pardon.

I'm calling on all members of Congress to sign on. We can stop this self-dealing scheme and stand up for the taxpayers.

[Bobcat @catandwall]

Thunder in the summer storm ⛈️

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.

The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[Bobcat @catandwall]

Tik Tok treasures

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Former first lady Jackie Kennedy, who lost her husband in 1963, offers her condolences to Coretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. April 9, 1968.

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Barack and Michelle Obama look so good together 🖤🖤

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Just saying…

48 million Americans have a substance use problem.

8 out of 10 don’t get treatment.

The crisis isn’t addiction. It’s access.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Years ago when I worked at Yale Hillary Clinton came to speak on behalf of Bill's campaign and I was fortunate enough to attend. Afterwards there was an informal gathering on the lawn as she shook hands and spoke briefly with each person. When she reached for my hand and shook it it was the very powerful grip of a determined woman and I thought to myself "Maybe she's the one who should be running for president" and if the misogyny in this country wasn't so entrenched and all the oligarchs and Russia hadn't aligned with Trump as their puppet we might've been fortunate enough to have her sitting in the White House instead of Trump and if that had happened I doubt he would be where he is now.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The reason I don’t want a “Christian nation” isn’t because I’m against Christianity.

It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church fusing itself with the empire.

Separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Regardless of whether you agree with his policies or not, have to admit that we have not seen a politician interact with constitutes like this in a very long time

This is exactly why he continues to garner popular support

[Linda Whiteside @hibbingnow]

#fearlesscompassion

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

For many years, one of the world’s most famous singers returned each June 14th to the site of a tragedy that most people no longer remember.

On June 14, 2017, a faulty refrigerator on the fourth floor of a 24-story residential building in West London caught fire. The fire should have stayed contained within that single apartment, but it didn't.

Just two years earlier, the building had been covered in a cheap aluminum cladding during a renovation meant to save money. That cladding was highly flammable, and the fire tore through it like paper. Within 15 minutes, the flames reached the roof.

The fire burned for 60 hours, and 72 people lost their lives inside.

The building was called Grenfell Tower. It was a public housing complex filled with working-class families, immigrants, and children.

The youngest victim was a six-month-old baby, and the oldest was an 84-year-old grandmother.

Most were trapped above the 11th floor because the fire alarms failed and the only safety staircase was thick with smoke.

The next morning, while rescue teams were still working, a 29-year-old woman arrived at the scene. She wore sunglasses and a black hoodie and came with her husband.

She didn't bring the press or make an announcement. She simply walked through the ash, hugged strangers, and asked who needed help. Someone in the crowd recognized her, but no one made a scene. It was the global superstar Adele.

Adele grew up just a few miles away, raised by a single mother in public housing estates very similar to Grenfell. She knew exactly what those apartments looked like from the inside, and she knew what it felt like to live with faulty equipment in social housing.

She stayed for hours that day and returned the next.

A few days later, she knocked on the window of the Chelsea Fire Station with a tray of cakes, sat with the traumatized firefighters, and drank tea with them. She didn't post about it on social media, and she didn't bring cameras.

Over the years, the families of the victims slowly revealed what Adele did behind the scenes. She paid for funerals, covered hotel rooms for those who lost their homes, and organized a private movie screening for the surviving children to give them a moment of normalcy.

Her fans only found out she was involved when she briefly mentioned at a Wembley Stadium concert that she was donating money to the survivors.

Every single year on June 14, Adele shows up. On the first anniversary, she stood by the base of the tower and cried while singing with a choir. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when gatherings were banned, she sent a video message to the families.

On the fifth anniversary, she used her massive social media platform to support Grenfell United, the group demanding justice. By the eighth anniversary on June 14, 2025, she was still there, sitting with the families and hugging the children who are now growing up.

Most celebrities show up to a tragedy once, take photos for a press release, and leave when the cameras turn off. Adele has returned quietly for nearly a decade. She has never written a song about it, never done an interview about it, and never used it for publicity. While the news cycle moved on and the world forgot, she remembered.

The Grenfell community has a saying: "We are still here."

They say it because they are still waiting for justice. Despite a massive public inquiry, the corporate executives who manufactured and sold that flammable cladding to save a few dollars are still running their businesses.

No one has been criminally charged or sent to prison for the deaths of those 72 people.

We live in a world where a billionaire pop star feels more accountability toward working-class victims than the corporate systems and government authorities responsible for their safety.

Adele keeps showing up because she knows that if she hadn’t gotten famous, she could have been the one trapped on the 24th floor.

Meanwhile, the people who actually built that death trap are still walking free, counting their profits, and betting on the fact that you will eventually forget.