Maureen Skelton

Hospice director, displaced Bostonian, diehard Sox fan, dogmom to 2 blonde bombshells

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.

Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Iran won and Trump surrendered.
Moscow is burning and Ukraine will win.
Treasonous Tulsi is out.
Trumps name is off the Kennedy Center.
The Reflecting Pool is green.
Donald Trump is riddled with dementia and is rotting before our eyes.
MAGA is in a civil war.

Happy Friday!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Dr. Joseph Warren died on this day in 1775, and he might be the most important Founding Father you were never taught about.

He was born in Roxbury, went to Harvard, and by his early thirties he was the most sought after doctor in Boston. He inoculated the Adams family against smallpox. He took on apprentices. He treated patients on both sides of the growing fight, redcoats included, because he was a doctor first. He was 34 and a widower raising four small children alone after his wife died in 1773.

He was also the quiet engine of the entire revolution in Massachusetts. He wrote the Suffolk Resolves. He ran the Committee of Safety. He stood up twice to give the Boston Massacre orations, and the second time, with British officers packing the room to intimidate him, the story goes that he climbed in through a window rather than be turned away, then delivered the speech to their faces.

On the night of April 18, 1775, it was Warren who learned the British army was about to march. He sent Paul Revere out one way and William Dawes the other to raise the alarm toward Lexington and Concord. There is no midnight ride without Joseph Warren. People have argued for two centuries about where he got his intelligence, and one long running rumor is that his secret source was close to General Gage himself.

The next morning he didn't sit safe behind a desk. He rode out to the fighting at Lexington and Concord and got into the thick of it. A British musket ball came so close it knocked a pin out of the hair beside his ear.

Three days before Bunker Hill, the Provincial Congress made him a major general. When he walked onto the hill on June 17, the officers there offered to hand him command of the whole field. He refused. He said he had come to fight as a volunteer, not to give orders, and he took a musket and went into the redoubt with the ordinary men, in the most dangerous spot on the line.

The Americans held off two British charges. On the third, low on powder, they were overrun. Warren stayed to cover the retreat and was shot in the head. The British knew exactly who they had killed. They stripped him, ran him through with bayonets, and threw him into a shallow pit with another body. A British officer later bragged that he had stuffed the scoundrel into the ground. General Gage is said to have remarked that Warren's death was worth that of 500 ordinary men.

Ten months later, after the British finally gave up Boston and sailed away, his friends went looking for him. The body was beyond recognition. The only reason they ever found him is that Paul Revere, a silversmith by trade, had once wired a false tooth into Warren's jaw with silver wire. Revere dug through the grave, saw his own work in the teeth, and knew. It is remembered as one of the first forensic dental identifications in American history.

His orphaned children were nearly forgotten too, until people like Benedict Arnold, years before he became a traitor, chipped in money to make sure they were raised and educated.

The most famous painting of the battle, by John Trumbull, isn't really about the battle at all. It's about the death of one man in the smoke.

The doctor who could have commanded an army chose to die in the dirt as a private soldier. He was 34 years old. 251 years ago today. Remember him 🇺🇸

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts said Democratic state attorneys general and pro-voting organizations can continue to challenge President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting before the midterm elections. https://t.co/r6BwDzyJjl

[Mike Morrison @MDMorrison82]

In the dead of night the Scots arrived at the Airbnb across the street. Decked out and playing the pipes at 6:30 am. So it begins…

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

President Trump should have never dragged the United States into war with Iran in the first place, and the American people have paid the price for the dumbest foreign policy decision in a generation. Fourteen brave servicemembers were killed and hundreds more have been injured, families have suffered higher gas and groceries bills, and countless innocent civilians, including children at an Iranian school for girls, were killed.

I am glad the conflict has halted as the result of negotiations. But no one in the Trump administration or his Republican enablers in Congress–who repeatedly voted to continue military action–can explain how people in Massachusetts and across our nation are safer or better off because of the war.

Trump’s war is a failure by his administration's own metrics: Iran is now a more extreme regime with greater leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. I hope this deal means his war is over. The only way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is through a diplomatic agreement–which Trump ripped up, went to war instead, and then negotiated worse terms.

The burden is now on the Trump administration to inform Congress and the public on the details of the U.S.-Iran deal, explain its sanctions approach, and ensure we end this destructive and costly war.

[The Other 98% @TheOther_9]

Because of my anti-Trump posts, my account with over 700K+ followers was reported by MAGA and was shut down.

I’m back with a new account and will keep speaking out.

Please follow, repost, and help me rebuild. Thank you.

[Esta @TheOnlyEsta]

Just a lil reminder 👇🏽

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you are proud to stand with Hillary!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

What a reflecting pool is supposed to look like.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

President Joe Biden will always have a place in my heart because he’s always been a Honorable Man,Husband,Father & President. Watching him tear up now reminds me of when he did the same at the Hortman’s funeral when knelt down in front of their caskets.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

I like highly educated, classy First Ladies who never had to pose nude for photo shoots. 💙

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Dear Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama,

I’ve watched you and your children attacked with a ferocity and cruelty that defy any sense of decency and that certainly have no precedent.

I’ve watched your birthplace called into question, your personal faith ridiculed, your patriotism mocked, your gender contested, and your very humanity discounted.

I’ve watched you endure the incessant, bitter venom of those for whom the color of your skin was always going to be a problem.

And through all of it, I’ve watched you be the better humans, always going high despite their sickening depths.

In the face of a sustained, spitting, violent, raw-throated hatred, you’ve never responded in kind.

You never allowed yourselves to be defined by the bigotry of your critics, and you never dehumanized them or let them win by becoming them.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

President Obama IS the GOAT.

[Anne Smith @AnneS4Justice]

.@KamalaHarris debunked the claim from Donald Trump, MAGA, and leftists that she would have started a war (in Iran like Trump).

Kamala responded, “Absolutely not!”

@Tim_Walz gave a standing ovation after Kamala’s answer.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Anyday now...

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great reconnecting with our alumni tonight!

Michelle and I will always be grateful for the chance to work side-by-side with so many brilliant, selfless people who believed in something bigger than themselves.

[Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineforga]

When I head to Washington, I will be the first woman in Congress with a science PhD. That matters. At a time when science is under attack, Congress needs more leaders who understand the value of evidence-based decision-making.

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

The Republican Party has done two things in the last 25 years: They've cut taxes for the rich and they’ve started wars we don't need.