Melissa Dobson

On hiatus.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@elonmusk Really? Holy hell, dude. This is so what you would expect of Elon Musk AI. Cheesy. Precious. Generic.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@Acyn Republican legislators have basically been AWOL for the past year but OK, here’s hoping you get a good showing at the State of the Shitshow tonight.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@Kash_Patel You look extremely humbled! And there is no credible evidence that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women! And you're not a government gangster, you just wrote a book by that title in a paroxysm of Trumpian projection! Yeah, history gonna remember you, dude.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@CommonSentiment The not-so-singular disconnect for me was the parenthetical. (frigid) would like a word.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@PressSec Except the ones he pardons

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

By Raymond

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@realDonaldTrump 🤣

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@Stanley05014826 @JessicaTarlov Look in the mirror dude.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

The safest place to be in the whole world is in the Epstein Files.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@SecWar The American people deserve a medal for having to put up with (for now) this assinine performative bullshit from an utter jackass.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@RepMTG I would welcome you with open arms if you admitted to and pledged to atone for the destructive rhetoric and behavior that has contributed to degrading our American culture over the past decade. Look in the mirror, babe. You birthed the bully. You are that thing.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@LauraLoomer @CodyAIFanatic Get out! Really?

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Here’s four well known ones for you:

Donald Trump.
Pete Hegseth.
Elon Musk.
Boris Johnson.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@rose_k01 Left

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@JDVance His advertisers were revolting? As in disgusting? Abhorrent? You guys have the best words.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@JDVance JD Vance Pants on Fire

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@elonmusk Oh well, have at it then, Elon. We've obviously been royally fucked for 250 years.

[Melissa Dobson @madbeyond]

@teslaownersSV Trump looks a bit VeXed.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

From a letter in the Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal:

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.