Daniel Penton

Retired archaeologist and natural/cultural resource manager. Muscogee elder and sixth generation Floridian. FDR Democrat. "Endeavor to persevere". No DM, please

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Clint Eastwood said something about getting old that stopped me cold.
Aging is not gentle. You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move.
The body that carried you through everything – the wars, the work, the wildness of youth – begins to ask for more than you can give it.
Joints that never complained now speak in the mornings. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses. But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call. The people who knew you when you were young – who remember the same summers, the same streets, the same faces – are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry, have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the story anyway. To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps, the truth deserves.
With a touch of pride you’ve earned and a grief you don’t always name. You know the person across from you wasn’t there. You know they can’t quite feel it this the way you do. But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered. And if no one asked for them – you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body. It is memories looking for a place to rest. And what an old person needs – more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel – is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen. Not to fix anything. Just to be there. That is the whole gift. And it cost nothing. Wild whispers.

[ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ @justprince]

the sooner you recognize that ICE is just a glorified human trafficking operation the better

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

@OvereducatedFem Please keep doing so. For well over a year...X has hammered my ass...and suppressed me all to hell. I'm only still here...because quit isn't in my vocabulary.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Dear billionaires,

When you finally become trillionaires and hoard all the money in the world, CONGRATULATIONS.

No one can afford to buy your crap anymore and your worthless piles of cash become toilet paper. Economy 101.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Credit where it’s due: Steyer did the right thing.

He conceded, endorsed Xavier Becerra, and urged his supporters to unite against Trump’s handpicked candidate.

That’s what putting California first looks like.

Now it’s time to win November. 💥

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it.

The United States and Israel.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Drinking water tanks. The big brains figured out how to do the most inflammatory possible shit against civilians because that’s definitely how you get out of this. The combination of sadism and sheer incompetence is breathtaking.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Charlamagne tha God: “Donald Trump wasn’t responsible for the loss of the game, but he was responsible for the loss of joy the Knicks fans had been feeling. Donald Trump came here yesterday and sucked the joy out of the city”

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

The new Social Security Trustees report shows that the program's shortfall is getting closer.

Why?

Trump's tax breaks for the rich cut into Social Security's revenue.

Experts say it moved the depletion date up by SIX MONTHS.

We are being scammed.

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

You’re damn right I want to abolish ICE.

There is no way whatsoever I would support giving Donald 70 billion of our tax dollars so his armed vigilantes can keep terrorizing our streets.

Not one penny.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

@PopBase De platform the mega wealthy.
NOW is the time

[ABDELAZIZ | عبدالعزيز @azizkh___]

For those who don't know:

Gaza now has the highest rate of amputee children in modern history.

Something that leaves you with profound sadness and shock.

This is not just another news item.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s very wilď to me that people can work 8-12 hours a day 5 days a week for 50 years and argue that this is the best system humans can come up with and people who make your entire net worth every 12 seconds shouldn't be taxed more.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

OMG

The United States is now attacking Iran's drinking water

A MASSIVE WAR CRIME

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

There is absolutely no redeeming social value in the despicable JD Vance

[Codziennik z Mordoru @mordownik4u]

Reprezentacja Haiti na oficjalnych koszulkach w których zagra na Mistrzostwach Świata umieściła POLSKĄ FLAGĘ!

To nie błąd projektanta ani przypadek – to wyjątkowy gest pełen szacunku, który porusza serce każdego Polaka. W 1802 roku Napoleon wysłał kilka tysięcy żołnierzy z Polskich Legionów na San Domingo (obecne Haiti), żeby zdławić tamtejsze powstanie niewolników. Polacy jednak wybrali inną drogę. Zamiast walczyć przeciwko walczącym o wolność, wielu z nich przeszło na stronę powstańców i stanęło do walki ramię w ramię z Haitańczykami przeciwko wojskom francuskim. Po zwycięstwie rewolucji i ogłoszeniu niepodległości w 1804 roku, pierwszy przywódca Haiti – Jean-Jacques Dessalines – oddał Polakom wielki hołd. Przyznał im pełne obywatelstwo, a w konstytucji nazwał ich „Białymi Murzynami Europy”. Były to słowa najwyższego uznania i braterstwa w tamtych czasach. Część polskich żołnierzy (ok. 400–500) została na wyspie na stałe, głównie w regionie Cazale, gdzie ich potomkowie mieszkają do dzisiaj. Dziś, ponad dwieście lat później, pamięć o polskiej odwadze i solidarności wciąż żyje na Haiti. Kiedy ich piłkarze wychodzą na murawę, niosą na piersi symbol naszej wspólnej historii – historii walki o wolność, która nie zna granic ani koloru skóry.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

All part of the plan.
Many warned they would come for your social security.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

I don't care if people call me an anti-Semite

I do care that Israel is using white phosphorus on civilians

It's my duty as a journalist to make sure the world knows

[Sarah Rumpf 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦 @rumpfshaker]

the Russians use their drone tech to target and murder civilians, including children

the Ukrainians use theirs to target Russian military assets and soldiers invading their country … and to rescue kittens