Rachelle (Ruh-Shell)

The graveyard is full of people who thought they'd have more time.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

The facts:
- Taylor Farms lettuce was linked to the cyclospora outbreak
- Taylor Farms reportedly called the White House with a plea to delay a recall
- Taylor Farms is a donor to MAGA, Inc.
- The Trump admin botched the response to this outbreak

What does this look like to you?

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

I'm getting a Costco membership even though I don't need one. My friend had Stage 4 cancer. Costco kept her employed for 2 years after her diagnosis manageable shifts, just so she'd keep her health benefits, which were excellent. She passed away recently. Costco is now covering a full year of COBRA premiums for her 3 sons.

Costco retained DEI under pressure in 2025 with 98% of shareholders backing them, and offers starting wages at $20/hr. Pulling all Callaway? Just icing on the cake.

[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.

Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?

Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

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I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"

That's bullsh*t.

Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.

1. He's a Democrat

2. Because he's half Black

When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance — unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.

Then we can't forget the unforgivable — tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.

Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.

Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.

Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.

Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.

Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."

Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.

Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.

Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.

Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.

Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.

Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.

Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.

Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.

Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.

Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.

Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.

Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.

Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."

Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.

Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.

Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.

Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Hunter Biden SHREDS the media's double standard toward the Trump family in one devastating post — and EVERY word is documented.

Hunter Biden just posted something on X that cuts right to the heart of America's broken media landscape — and it's IMPOSSIBLE to argue with.

"So let me get this straight," he wrote. "Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom," referring to the comments the CNN anchor has made about disbelieving some of the claims in Jill Biden’s latest memoir.

"Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land." TRUE. Over 100,000 Albanians are in the streets. Anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation. Flamingo habitats are being bulldozed. It BARELY registers on mainstream media.

"Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein's banker." Also TRUE. While Epstein survivors read their FBI abuse reports aloud outside the Justice Department, Pam Bondi refused to answer a even a SINGLE question about Trump and the Epstein files, and DOJ lawyers intervened to make sure she didn't.

"A startup that Donald Jr. fund backs just got a record $620 million Pentagon loan." FACTCHECK: ALSO TRUE. While Trump's own financial disclosures show him trading stock in companies his administration then hands billion-dollar contracts to, Don Jr.'s SHADY investment connections to Pentagon contractors receive almost NO scrutiny from mainstream media.

"Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5 billion in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted." Also TRUE, but that story got almost NO coverage.

And then Hunter Biden delivered the punchline that lands like a sledgehammer: "And I know: 'But what about your paintings, Hunter?'"

HUNTER IS 100% RIGHT: His art sales, laptop, and legal troubles consumed years of breathless media coverage. The Trump children's CORRUPT overseas business deals, foreign investments, Pentagon contracts, and connections to Jeffrey Epstein's associates a free pass.

And while Jake Tapper attacks Jill Biden is being attacked for a book, Jared Kushner is bulldozing protected wetlands for a $4 billion resort while his father-in-law runs foreign policy, while raising BILLIONS from shady deals with foreign governments.

There is simply NO comparison!

Please like and share!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

A pregnant Texas corrections officer had contraction-like pains while she was on the job.

She asked to leave, her Supervisor said that she could not.

By the time she was allowed to leave it was too late.

She subsequently delivered a stillborn baby.

Radical Republicans spend their days and nights saying that life begins at fertilization.

The woman sued; Texas’ defense was that the fetus didn't have rights.

Hypocrisy at its finest.
#DemsUnited

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

A short list of everyone who got reparations:

- slave owners who went bankrupt after the Civil War
- Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
- Japanese survivors of US internment camps
- Native Americans through the Indian Claims Commission and multiple other legislation
- Miners for radiation exposure
- Sterilization victims
- U.S. farmers during Trump 1.0

There is no reason Black people shouldnt be compensated for centuries of slavery and decades of segregation. We’re not even out of Jim Crow.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Here's the thing.

In the last week, a "scandal" broke revealing Thomas Massie had the audacity to have a consensual sexual relationship with a grown woman after his wife died.

Now Laura Loomer is releasing text messages that she says proves he also banged Lauren Boebert.

Was Massie some horny guy going through a mid-life crisis and sewing his oats after his wife died? Probably.

Do I care?

No.

We have a nation run by fucking PEDOPHILES and Massie is the only man in this COUNTRY not bought and paid for by Israel so please SPARE me the pearl clutching as you scroll porn and look the other way while your husband bangs his secretary.

We have a country to run and children to save.

Get over yourselves.

[Johnny AGI @JohnnyAGI]

They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her.

They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him.

They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her.

They made fun of Biden for nodding off ("Sleepy Joe), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep.

They put "I Did That" Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher.

They bragged about Trump being the no wars President, now they support war.

They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel.

They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files.

To be a MAGA is to be a slave.

Not physically, but mentally.

They stand for nothing.

We're up against people who stand for nothing.

And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us whats-what.

We shouldn't even acknowledge these people.

The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone.

I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAKE HIM SQUIRM! Mike Johnson gets asked about Trump's jaw-dropping confession that he doesn't think about Americans' "financial situation" and gives the worst answer imaginable.

Republicans are going down with the sinking MAGA ship...

"Yesterday, the President was asked about whether Americans' financial concerns were motivating him to make a deal with Iran, his response was 'I don't think about Americans' financial situations. Do you think that's the right message? Do you think the President should be considering the financial toll of the war?" a reporter asked the House Speaker during a press conference.

"I don't know the context in which he made that comment," said Johnson, who certainly knew the full context of the remark. There is no world in which he wasn't immediately briefed on Trump's historic political blunder. This is Johnson's typical craven strategy: feign ignorance when Trump says or does something awful.

"But I can tell you the President thinks about Americans' financial situations," said Johnson, directly contradicting what Trump himself admitted. "I talk to him on average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day. And we talk about it constantly."

It was then that Johnson unveiled his pathetic counter-messaging strategy for this debacle—

"Umm... He's laser-focused on trying to resolve the conflict in Iran because if we get the Strait of Hormuz— When we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, um, that will alleviate a lot of pressure with gas prices and other things in the economy," said Johnson.

If you'll forgive us a momentary lapse into Trumpian caps lock: THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS ALREADY OPEN BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THIS WAR!

This is the Republican messaging plan? "Sorry, Trump doesn't give a damn that you can't afford to feed your kids, drive your car, heat your home, or pay your rent, but don't worry, our brave leader is hard at work undoing a problem that he created."

It would be funny if it weren't so deadly serious.

And this is all assuming that Trump can actually get the Strait reopened, which seems increasingly unlikely. The Iranians have all of the leverage. According to The New York Times, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran has "regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities." That characterization flies directly in the face of Trump's claim that Iran's military has been thoroughly degraded.

We have lost this war and eventually Trump will have to crawl on his belly to the negotiating table and grant massive concessions to the Iranians to get the Strait reopened. In the meantime, the American people will be forced to suffer financially while the President rubs it in our faces that he doesn't care about our plight.

Please ❤️ and share if you are going to vote blue for the rest of your life!

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is what local accountability looks like:

In Festus, Missouri, a town of about 14,000 people, the city council quietly approved a $6 billion Ai data center to be built on 360 acres just north of Highway 67.

Residents say they were never properly heard. Meetings were held in private. Documents were released too late. A week after the approval, the town held a regular election. Voter turnout jumped 129 percent.

Every single council member who had voted yes lost in a landslide. A 70-year-old first-time candidate beat an 8-year incumbent by 40 percentage points.

Now a recall petition is circulating to remove the mayor as well. The lawsuit against the city is already filed.

Has your local government ever been held accountable like this? 🔥

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no.

The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone.

Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025.

Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded.

Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything.

Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game.

The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place.

Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

[ꪝe @_wej01]

Oh wow. Not a drag queen. Not trans. Not a book. Not an immigrant. A religious cis white hetero man. SHOCKERRRRR

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

This is why Trump started a war with Iran.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SHOCKING MOMENT: Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer now running the DOJ, just announced that Trump has a duty to hunt down everyone who indicted him.

This isn't accountability; it's mafia-style retribution dressed up as justice.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

He raped a 12 year old girl repeatedly for years.

He sexually abused a child.

Trump chose him to be his “spiritual advisor”.

He was found guilty and only served 6 months.

He destroyed that child’s life. She will never be the same.

6 months is an atrocity.