julia heitzman

UH alum • TWU MS Child Life student • be kind

[Taylor Swift Updates 💎 @swifferupdates]

🎥| George Kittle reveals Taylor and Travis said "absolutely no gifts" for their wedding! 💒

[rose @wynrosei]

FUCKING LEGEND OF A RESPONSE.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Moments ago at the White House this took place.

A bunch of old people praying for a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, who appears to have just blown up 100+ Iranian schoolchildren, while he hides the Epstein files, in which he appears in thousands of times.

We are a joke.

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

Congressman Thomas Massie says bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump administration strips Social Security benefits from a Black American cancer patient by claiming that she is “not lawfully present in the U.S.”

This is what Trump’s intentional cruelty looks like in 2026.

Ramona Rakestraw, 59, was born at Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 1966. She has never left Dallas County — not for vacation, not for work, not for anything. And yet somehow, the federal government has decided she is “not lawfully present in the U.S.”

Her crime? Existing while sick.

Rakestraw has battled kidney disease for decades. She endured a transplant. She returned to dialysis. In 2024, she was diagnosed with cancer. Through it all, she survived on Supplemental Security Income — her only source of income — and Medicare Part B.

Then in October, the payments stopped. Why? Because her “immigration status” was suddenly under review.

“I’m not an immigrant,” she said. “I’ve never even left Dallas County — let alone the country.”

Let that sink in. A lifelong Texan. Born in an American hospital. Fighting cancer. Forced to march down to a Social Security office with her birth certificate in hand to prove she belongs in the country where she was born.

And still, she received a letter stating: “We cannot pay you benefits because you are not lawfully present in the U.S.”

This is the human cost of a system so obsessed with rooting out “illegals” that it can’t tell the difference between a Dallas native and a border crossing.

Her Medicare was eventually restored. Her SSI — her only income — was not.

Now she’s appealing, drowning in paperwork while undergoing dialysis and cancer treatment. Sixty days to fight a bureaucratic accusation that should never have happened.

This isn’t about paperwork errors. It’s about a government climate that treats citizenship as suspect and vulnerable Americans as disposable.

Ramona Rakestraw isn’t asking for special treatment. She’s asking for the benefits she’s legally entitled to — the benefits she paid into with a lifetime of perfectly legal existence in this country.

Born in Dallas. Fighting for her life. And now forced to fight her own government just to survive. That’s not just incompetence. That’s a system that’s lost its humanity.

Please like and share this sad story!

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 U.S. Senators have officially called for President Trump's removal from office under the 25th amendment.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Resign now, you racist slob.

[𝔸𝕓𝕚² @downbadABII]

🗣🗣YOU CAN HEAR IT IN THE SILENCE 🗣🗣

[julia heitzman @juliaaheitzman]

@Grande_ESS @theTSupdates he was nominated for wpmoy

[The Taylor Swift Updates @theTSupdates]

the only performance that mattered in 2016. https://t.co/dEMpM72QM0

[bethany ☁️ @corneliastagain]

idk how else to explain it but seeing taylor in the suite at her first chiefs game felt exactly like the intro to so high school and i’m so impressed she could encapsulate that feeling

[Shahad13🐍🫶 @shahadmajili]

I hope that their relationship sets up an example for people to not settle for what they know they deserve 💕

[Luciana 🇺🇾❤️‍🔥 @lulytaJB]

I’ll say it once again, whoever came up with this montage to happiness owes me my therapy bill because 😭😭😭 it’s perfect, listening to the lyrics in the context of the tour ugh straight to the heart

[Kata❤️‍🔥 (Taylor’s Version) @chertessmrsflax]

That’s right! 🫂

[WhoisTayvisanyway? ⸆⸉ @whoistayvis]

This wins the trend 🥺

[Marie❤️‍🔥 (Taylor's Version) @harrypurplebow]

Love these queens😁

[𝒮𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒽 (𝒯𝒶𝓎𝓁𝑜𝓇’𝓈 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃) ❤️‍🔥 @giftedswifted]

The sparkle is literally everything

[ver. @cryeyesviolet_]

me as fuck

[marley ❤️‍🔥 @marleyharper]

we’ve grown up with her 🥲