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[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

Hello all.
I just thought I’d share some news. I have not been feeling very good for the last seven months.
And it turns out I’m not well and need treatment for a few months.
I won’t go into any more details than that.
So I won’t be on for a while.

Don’t forget me. 🖖

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

True story, I once had an infection on my foot that required hospitalization. The nurses who took care of me were all Nigerian immigrant women, and they were the sweetest souls I've ever met. Immigrants are not the problem with America, billionaires who don't pay taxes are.

[Momzilla @mildred1158]

@SteveAlJohn @WilliamShatner Go to Hell.

[Momzilla @mildred1158]

@consequence None of this matters. We are an NBC family!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg shows presidential leadership in making a powerful case on bridging political divides in red-state town hall!

Speaking in deeply red Beaverhead County, Montana, Pete Buttigieg gave one of his best answers yet when a left-leaning resident asked how she can convince his conservative neighbors that he loves America just as much as they do.

Buttigieg responded with empathy, strategy, and clarity. He thanked the woman for trying and reminded everyone that bridging divides is something all of us can do – with neighbors, at church, and even that crazy uncle in the family group chat.

“It’s not about hitting them with politics all the time, but modeling something different.”

Secretary Pete pointed out that many Trump voters are starting to see the gap between what they were promised and what they’re getting, from lower prices, to promises of no new wars, etc., creating an opening for real conversations.

He urged Democrats to be their authentic selves, because many on the right have been convinced by the Fox media bubble that liberals are truly “bonkers.” And most importantly, he stressed treating people with genuine regard:

“You’re not a bad person because of how you voted … When I’m talking to folks, it’s not ‘how can you be on board with that?’ It’s ‘he [Trump] doesn’t deserve you.’ He doesn’t deserve your loyalty, your support, your money, or your vote.”

This is why so many people respect the maturing Buttigieg. He refuses to write off millions of Americans and instead shows how Democrats can proudly claim their deep love of country while pushing back against Trumpism with respect and conviction.

All of us Democrats love this country deeply, and we’re ready to prove it by fighting for a better future for everyone. Buttigieg showed he can combine being smart as a whip, aces on the issues, and lightning fast on his feet -- with the humanity and common sense we all want in a leader.

If you agree, like and share this post.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

She Was 37. Broke. Dying. And She Made 30 Million People Laugh Every Week. Erma Bombeck didn’t have an office. She had a typewriter on a wood plank in her bedroom. She didn’t have time. She had three kids and a disease that was killing her.

Ohio. 1965.
Erma was 37, a mom in Centerville, Ohio. Laundry never ended. Kids destroyed the house daily. Dishes reappeared like magic. Everyone said motherhood was “sacred.” “The highest calling.”

Erma thought it was also messy. Loud. And funny as heck.

So she walked into a tiny local paper and asked to write the truth. Not the perfect mom version. The real one. They said, “We’ll pay you three dollars per column.”

She said yes.

She went home, put a typewriter on a plank between two cinder blocks, and got to work. No desk. No fancy setup. Just her and the chaos.

She wrote about the septic tank exploding during dinner. About trying to get three kids to school without losing her mind. About “the beautiful absurdity of a life spent making other people's lunches”.

Three weeks after a bigger paper found her, she went national. Soon, “At Wit's End” ran in 900 newspapers. “Thirty million readers. Twice a week. Every week.”

Erma became the most-read humor writer in America.

Why? Because she said what no one else would. “She told the truth about motherhood when polite society insisted it must remain perfect.” She joked about selling her kids. Told moms to “lock the bathroom door and hide from their families for five minutes of peace.”

Thirty million women read it and thought: “Oh my God. Someone finally said it.”

Phil Donahue was her neighbor. He said, “Motherhood was sacred. Mothers were put on pedestals. Then Erma wrote, 'I'm going to sell my kids.' She punctured that pretense and was suddenly speaking for millions.”

But here’s the part nobody knew: Erma was dying the whole time.

At 20, doctors told her she had polycystic kidney disease. Incurable. They said she’d never have kids. She adopted a daughter. Then somehow had two sons.

For decades, she did dialysis and came home to write. “She made America laugh while quietly fighting to stay alive.” She never complained. Never asked for pity. “She just kept writing.”

She grew up poor in Dayton. Dad died when she was nine. At 13, she wrote for her school paper. At 15, she got a job at the Dayton Herald. A professor told her: “You can write.” So she did. For 31 years. Over 4,000 columns. 15 books. Nine bestsellers. 15 million copies sold. Eleven years on Good Morning America.

She wrote survival guides disguised as jokes. Titles like The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

She beat breast cancer in 1992. Finally told the world about her kidney disease in 1993. Got a transplant on April 3, 1996. Wrote her last column 14 days later. Died five days after that. April 22, 1996. She was 69.

She’s buried in Dayton under a 29,000-pound boulder from Arizona. Big as the laughs she gave us.

Think about it. She started at 37 — when the world says women are done. For three dollars a week. On a plank. While on dialysis. While dying. “And she never stopped being funny.”

Because “humor isn't the opposite of pain. It's how you survive it.”

She once wrote, “Success is outliving your failures.” She did.

Not because she got famous. But because 30 million people picked up a paper and felt less alone. She told them: Motherhood is hard. You’re tired. You’re not failing. You’re human.

“Before Erma, mothers were supposed to be saints. After Erma, they were allowed to be people.”

She was 37 when she started. Dying the whole time. Wrote till five days before she died.

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996). A housewife. A typewriter. Three dollars. Thirty million readers. And the belief that ordinary lives are worth writing about.
“Not despite their ordinariness. Because of it.”......................

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Senator Sheldon Whitehouse explains how Democrats "blew up the Trump billionaire ballroom" and the details are glorious!

This is what we've all been hoping for...

"If you want to know how we blew up the Trump billionaire ballroom in the reconciliation process, let me take you into the parliamentary arguments where we won..." Whitehouse said in a video posted to X.

"In order to get the funding through the reconciliation process, the Republicans had to give reconciliation instructions to all the relevant committees," he said. "Well, I'm the top Democrat on the Environment Public Works Committee. Martin Heinrich is the top Democrat on the Energy Natural Resources Committee."

"And guess what?" he continued with obvious glee. "The White House is a public building under the jurisdiction of the Environment Public Works Committee, and it's in a national park under the jurisdiction of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. And the Republicans managed not to give reconciliation instructions to either committee..."

"So our lawyers went in, mine arguing for EPW, Martin's arguing for Energy Natural Resources, that the reconciliation was defective, could not put money to the ballroom because there was no proper instruction allowing money to go to the ballroom because of the jurisdiction of EPW and ENR," explained the senator.

"We won that argument!" he added. "It was well-prepared and well-delivered, and it took only one day for the parliamentarian to decide that in fact, the ballroom being added to the reconciliation bill was defective and it had to fall."

"So bye-bye billionaire ballroom," he concluded.

It's hard to overstate just how welcome this news is. With the exception of MAGA cultists, every person in this country is screaming for Trump to abandon this vanity project. We're all struggling to afford groceries and gas because of his pointless Iran War and he wants to burn $1 billion of our tax dollars on a big ugly ballroom for the Epstein class to party in.

That said, we're certain we haven't heard the last of this boondoggle. Trump will try to push the project forward despite this massive setback, because he's totally obsessed with it. He has given up even the semblance of caring about governance or the American people. All he cares about is erecting structural monuments to his own ego, in the desperate hope that it will amount to some kind of legacy.

It will not.

Please ❤️ and share if you oppose Trump's ballroom!

[Lynnez 🌊♥️🇺🇸 Rib Gone Rogue @RibGoneRogue]

@harryjsisson @LakerPatrick2 Trump got thrown off the Apprentice and replaced with Schwarzenegger! 😂🤣😂 Trump never got a single Emmy either! 😂🤣

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with James Talarico against Republican Ken Paxton!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime.

Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://t.co/0syXYZoCnD

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I support war hero Pete Buttigieg for president. If y'all can't get over your homophobia then I'd happily vote for Sen. Mark Kelly. Both guys are stellar. Anyone but some Trump-endorsed asshat.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Can someone explain to me how it’s okay for a sitting president to make hundreds of millions of dollars in securities trades while in office?

[Hillybilly62 @hillybilly62]

@highbrow_nobrow This is total fucking bullshit. Looks like it's time to stop paying taxes.
FUCK these retards!!!

[Dan 😎🍕🍔🐈‍⬛ @DanielAshley13]

@highbrow_nobrow So the rule of law doesn't matter anymore. The Constitution means nothing. It's just scrap paper. I don't remember the Constitution mentioning loyalty to the president. Didn't we fight a war because we didn't want to be loyal to a King?

[Barb Thaine @barrebelle75]

@highbrow_nobrow He’s profited off the presidency. HE should pay them—they weren’t helping American citizens. They were helping HIM.

[Craig @Craigjhdy]

@highbrow_nobrow “Because loyalty outranks law in my world” are the words of a mob boss, not of a POTUS!

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Georgia, it’s Election Day.

You have the chance to send Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to the Georgia Supreme Court. They are extraordinary leaders who will fight to protect your rights and uphold the rule of law.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

On what would have been Malcolm X’s 101st birthday, I honor a life that challenged this nation to confront truth, injustice, and the cost of denying human dignity.

May we continue to reflect on the urgency of freedom, self determination, and justice.

#MalcolmX #MLK

[Momzilla @mildred1158]

@KevOnStage Yes, 67 yo Boomer

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

Trump is holding a gun to the head of American democracy.
Our governmental checks on such activitiy are handing him ammunition instead of disarming him.
Not in my life and not in recorded history has the citizenry of this country been placed in such peril.