Maria E Perez

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

This is a must-see and listen.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1981, Dr. Michael Shannon worked tirelessly through the night to successfully rescue a premature baby boy.

30 years later, in 2011, Dr. Shannon was trapped in his burning SUV following a collision with a semi-truck.

Miraculously, he was rescued from the blazing vehicle by Chris Trokey, a paramedic with the Orange County Fire Authority.

Remarkably, it was revealed that Chris Trokey was the same premature baby Dr. Shannon had delivered three decades earlier.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Just about everything that’s wrong with America all in one room.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Happy anniversary, sweetheart! @MichelleObama, you're brilliant, kind, funny, and beautiful—and I'm lucky to call you mine.

[Skyleigh Uhrich @Sky_Lee_1]

OMG SNL killed this ad for Trump!

Please enjoy 😆

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The most amazing creatures in the world are mothers! ❤️

https://t.co/ki0X4ebLMW

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Nature is incredible!
Perfect wave touching the clouds...

[Elizabetmore7 @Elizabetmore7]

This is a reminder that the leading Republican presidential candidate is a disgraced twice impeached, criminally charged, sexual abuser former “president” who led a coup attempt against our democracy. And now he has been arrested.
This is NOT normal.
#TrumpArraignmentDay

[Amelia.M @Amelia84M]

Give me thumbs up and retweet if you think Stephen King is correct 👍
#TrumpArraignmentDay #TrumpArrest

[Mark my words - Trumps Going to Prison! @TFGLiedUSADied]

@CollinRugg @TheStevenCheung MAGA Religion 🤣

[ILuvPolitix @politix_i]

@CalltoActivism "Before February, Jaci Statton wasn't particularly focused on Oklahoma's abortion bans. "I was like, 'Well, that's not going to affect me. I won't ever need one,' " she says."
Makes it harder for me to care about her experience, honestly.
https://t.co/Kkn8cZ19P4

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

donald trump didn’t lower your taxes. He didn’t get your roads fixed or your bridges built. He didn’t get you healthcare coverage, lower the price of your prescriptions, decrease the deficit, end the opioid crisis, revive the coal industry, he didn’t make “covid disappear”, didn’t make Mexico “pay for the wall”, he didn’t “put America First” and he sure as hell didn’t “drain the swamp”.
So when you say he “fought for you”, you mean he validated your hate.
Because he didn’t do a goddamn thing for you other than that.

He hates who you hate.
And sadly, that’s all you think you need.

[Maria E Perez @mep423]

@CalltoActivism Both

[The Problem With Jon Stewart @TheProblem]

State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Republicans quite literally could not tell on themselves more than by banning The Handmaid's Tale.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Since Republicans are so upset about disappearing debts, maybe they can tell us who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $200,000 credit card debt, his $92,000 in country club fees, and his $1.2 million mortgage?

[Charlie Crist @CharlieCrist]

Democrats, Independents, and Republicans are all unifying to defeat Ron DeSantis because they’re ready to bring decency and respect back to our state.

Can you retweet to help us get to 250K followers so we can keep growing our movement?

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.

https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB

[Maria E Perez @mep423]

Hey @SenatorRomney the gun lobby has spent $13,647,676 in support of you. Represent the voters, not the gun lobby, or come November we will https://t.co/DhN8nSLWRA #VoteYouOut