Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸

Romanian-US #Journalist. 2014 #VT Science Teacher of the Year. #STEM #sensitivityreader She/her #StanfordMom

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

OMG! @DanRather retweeted my tweet! My favorite journalist, the kind of journalist I wanted to be! I’m so honored!
I highly recommend reading “What Unites Us.” You won’t be disappointed a bit.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

An amazing book!

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden So well done!
I’m amazed how insightful you are.
And you have the right words with you.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden This is not a question anymore. We know the reason also.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden says it all.
Nothing to add. Nothing to delete.
It’s all here. Now live to your fullest because if you didn’t have a loss or pain or anything like this you can’t talk about that.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden @suzievanbommel Same here, Hunter.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden Keep it up, Hunter! You are doing such a great job!

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden I’m a victim of addiction. My husband was killed in a crash by an adict.
It’s a long recovery process and I’m glad you are out of this cycle.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden @IronChestCap Pretty please! Nothing would enrage MAGA more than this.
Let’s make it a party and a slogan.
You’re so good at trolling MAGA.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden I wish you could have shown your humor and empathy long before.
Maybe you don’t realize yet, but we are in love watching your posts and replies.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden I’m dying laughing! lol

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden You made my day!
Don’t let them have their cake the way they want.
Prayers to you and your family!

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@HunterBiden Hunter, you are doing so well and look so healthy!
Congratulations!

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@StephenKing Too many.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

Brilliant work.

[Uncertain Systems (e/acc) @uncertainsys]

@manarmn__ If you dont know where to start, I have created a learning plan that anyone can clone and adapt to their own math level.

Simply fork the plan and tell our AI planner what your math level really is:

https://t.co/s7KI0ELQ1j

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

This is crazy math!

[Uncertain Systems (e/acc) @uncertainsys]

For those who love learning:
https://t.co/7OdOL2VWpM

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@uncertainsys @manarmn__ I was able to open it. It’s amazing what you’ve done.
My students did a space science project and I plan on using some of your work to reinforce to them why math and physics are important.
I hope they won’t ask again after my next class.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@Reality_Chick69 @FlindersJimmy @JoJoFromJerz @FmrRepMTG @peter72i3 I do. I have one.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@FlindersJimmy @Reality_Chick69 @JoJoFromJerz @FmrRepMTG @peter72i3 That’s why I said, but yes, you clarified it for me. That’s what I meant.

[Maria D. Holderman 🌻🇺🇦🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 @MariaHolderman]

@Reality_Chick69 @JoJoFromJerz @FmrRepMTG @peter72i3 Nahhh! Come to Europe. It’s hard to see normal women’s faces anymore.
It’s like a trend: blonde and lips.