Melanie Bragg🇺🇦

Math Teacher, Irvington High School. Proud mother of two outstanding sons.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı.

Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor:

— Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir)

— Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar.

— İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum!

— Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Smart Leah: “In this case (TPS)…the six Republican [SCOTUS] appointees said that Trump’s statements that Haitians probably have AIDS, are poisoning the blood of our country, are eating the cats and dogs, DON’T constitute racial animus. I mean, Justice Alito’s majority opinion characterized that as not overtly racial. I have no idea what that could possibly mean. He did not even have the strength to reprint the comments that the president made in the opinion that excused those comments as not racist, and if you are unwilling to reprint, recite the comments from the person you say isn’t racist, maybe that is a sign that it is racist. Now, what Justice Alito said two months ago DID constitute racism, was when Congress attempted to get states to draw districts that were actually representative of a multiracial democracy, namely complying with the Voting Rights Act. THAT, Sam Alito said was racism, but Donald Trump SMEARING Haitian nationals with such VILE language, that apparently ISN’T overtly racial at all.” 🙄🤦‍♀️

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Bob K 🇺🇸 @EnsPulver1958]

@Acyn

[KellyK 🌺 @azkellyk_]

$1.8M became $16M for a reflecting pool. No-bid contracts to Trump’s inept hotel buddies and donors.

Meanwhile 770,000 needy kids lost SNAP.

It’s summer.

No school meals.

Starving children didn’t make the priority list but reflecting pool did.
#RepublicansStarveChildren

[Stephen Piccarella @spiccarella]

People who don’t watch Love Island are often surprised to hear that I do but only because they think it’s like The OC or something when really it’s like the Stanford prison experiment

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

RFK Jr's war on vaccines isn't just because he's a freak. As with most of the Trump cabinet, corruption and money talks. Watch the LP Pod with @isareport

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱 @MappingFL]

If I’m ever a single-issue voter, it’s over supporting Ukraine

If you don’t support Ukraine, or push the narrative of Russia being bullied into the invasion, I’d never vote for you

It’s a democracy being invaded by a fascist state. There is no “two sides” or debate.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Can you imagine how fucking psychotic this would look?

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

I requested a tree for a second time for outside of my condo building and they put it in 3 days later. Had been waiting 3 years lol.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

November 6th... 2024.

How did I do?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ben Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning ... in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president"

[Melanie Bragg🇺🇦 @mel_bragg]

@mmpadellan @AmazingPopPod Peter

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

I come from a baseball obsessed family (Go Cards) and this is the first time in my life I cried tears of joy at the end of a game. New York City has been through a lot over the years. Most of us aren’t rich we just get by. We needed this so badly.

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

this would have been a very ideal time to use “dreamt” instead of “dreamed”

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

MAGA Influencer Riley Gaines caught on camera taking directions on what to say to her dumb gullible fans.

It’s all an act.

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

🚨Price increases — Coming this summer to a grocery store aisle, gas station, and airfare ticket near you!

We’re running this video ad as part of Home of the Brave’s new Sticker Shock Summer campaign to show the public the real price tag of the Trump administration’s agenda.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

And then Pete Hegseth came for the Mormons, and I didn't care because the Mormons voted for this exact shit