Judy Serkes

Food enthusiast, traveler, photographer, adventurer, Grandparent to twins and seven amazing singletons.

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.

This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

[JIMMY @yakubbsmonster]

Guy parachuting into Virginia Tech Spring game is stuck on the scoreboard after rough collision. #oops

[Anas Alhajji @anasalhajji]

So..
💥No waiver for Russian oil.
💥No waiver for Iranian oil.
💥Venezuelan oil exports under full US control.
💥The US is blockading the Strait of Hormuz.
💥Refining margins in Europe and Japan have turned negative.
💥A major fire has hit one of Australia’s key refineries.
💥Global oil inventories plunging hard
💥Jet fuel shortages with record prices in many parts of the world
💥US exports of oil, LNG, and NGLs are at record high!

💋Finish painting this picture!

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

NEW 🇮🇷: Lego Style Music Video from Iran via PersiaBoi Studios

Titled: Epstein Queen

This guy wrote a Trump Distrack with his wife as the target...OH MY WORD

[UVA @UVA]

After years of planning and a two-year construction project, UVA’s @Center4Politics on Friday celebrated the grand opening of its newly expanded home.

The facility is specifically designed for teaching students, hosting public events, preserving political history and creating a space for civic life on Grounds. https://t.co/aB1tSfZ7og

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

CALLED IT 😂 I smelled a LEGO Melania video was coming—and just like that, it magically appears.😂

[Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance]

Markets are delusional

we’ve already lost:

- ~30% of fertilizers
- ~20% of LNG
- ~14% of oil
- ~30% of helium

Any one of these on its own would be enough to trigger a crisis. Together, they form a systemic shock that risks pulling the global economy into a serious recession.

Because these aren’t isolated commodities.... they sit at the core of entire production chains:

Petrochemicals -> fertilizer -> food production
Petrochemicals -> mining (copper, uranium, nickel)
Petrochemicals -> plastics -> cars, electronics
Petrochemicals -> drugs, rubber, textiles
Helium -> semiconductors / AI chips
Gas -> power generation
Diesel -> transportation

So this isn’t just an energy problem... it’s a full-spectrum supply shock hitting food, industry, tech, transportation and power at the same time. Without flows from Hormuz, the system doesn’t just slow down, it starts to break.

And there is no policy tool that can replace missing physical supply.

[Ken Harbaugh @Team_Harbaugh]

I embedded with anti-drone crews across Ukraine - rooftops, trenches, the Black Sea coast. They rewrote modern warfare in real time. The Pentagon had a front-row seat, but learned nothing. Now, drones are killing Americans overseas.
Drone Hunters of Kherson premieres TODAY.
https://t.co/55RhQIBs7Z

[Judy Serkes @jls5k0]

@espn Your announcers mikes aren't working! UVA-NC STATE

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump admin evacuation plan: Take a tourist shuttle bus to Egypt and try to get out from there if you can.

[Niz @NizMhani]

🚨BREAKING:

The "Board of Peace" launches its first war....

[Judy Serkes @jls5k0]

@LarrySabato The priorities are astounding.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

People are overreacting to the Rose Garden thing I think it looks great

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love 
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice; 
In the end, gorgeously, 
Endures our enormity. 

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump's meandering address to House Republicans today contained at least 18 false claims - about January 6, crime, the economy, elections, even the Olympics. A quick fact check: https://t.co/mhT7Fm5u5l

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

DEAR DONALD TRUMP,

THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION TO THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE. WHILE WE REVIEW YOUR "VERY PEACEFUL" ATTACK ON VENEZUELA, WE SUGGEST YOU APPLY TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE. WE BELIEVE YOU ARE EXACTLY WHO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is the most desultory presentation we've ever heard from a POTUS in the wake of such a momentous and fraught announcement.
He's just riffing, spouting a bunch of certifiable BS about his incursions in American cities. This is really terrifying.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump makes it clear that it’s about the oil:

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Eventually @POTUS may stop bragging and start explaining.
Wait... "We are going to run the country..." until a time of safe transition.
Wow?!? How? Is the U.S. military going to occupy Venezuela??