Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀

Gemology student, designer, writer, cat whisperer, nerd, former equestrian, tattooed punk, writer, traveler, hockey fan, and other things. She/her. No DMs.

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

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[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

I already despised drugs and the drug game by the mid 1980s … it was a cointelpro chapter the Black community still hasn’t recovered fully from. The so called Govts created the streets.
Backed it with guns and money while drying up community opportunities. Reagan & Bush had a regime under them that saw a momentum sing ‘Aint No Stopping Us Now’ and eradicated many OGs at the time trapped in the Cocaine Wars leading to Crack paths
By 1987 out financed out gunned outed by the one sided law and no justice. RAP and HIP HOP questioned where this bulsht came from. Yo! Bum Rush The Show Paid in Full and Criminal Minded started to answer back with our MIND REVOLUTION … 40 years ago… and here we are
We were probably more broke but far from broken …

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy Juneteenth

[Jew in a Canoe ✡️🇨🇦 memoir now available! @WillieHandler]

I'm going to be at the Summer Shuk with my books at the Prosserman JCC on July 5.

There will be local artists and performers, entrepreneurs, 80 vendors, live music, BBQ Demos, art galleries, hands-on family activities, delicious Jewish flavours, and so much more. Bring the whole family!

ONLY $5. Kids 12 and under are FREE!

🗓️ Sunday, July 5

🕚11AM - 5PM

📍Honey & Barry Park @ Prosserman JCC!

#shuk #summershuk #summermarket #outdoorfestival #outdoormarket #israel #jewish #jcctoronto #community #familyfestival

REGISTRATION LINK:
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[Jean-Claude Damn Van™ @ChaosAgent_42]

Trump killed millions with his criminally incompetent COVID-19 mismanagement, and now is directing his disinformation squad to shield him by presenting Dr. Fauci as a villain.

Demand proof, you'll get insults.

RT if you believe Fauci is innocent.

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

@ronsterd89 My granddad smoked Lucky Strikes, and my mother smoked Tareytons until she quit about 20 years ago.

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

@0TulsiGabbard2 Yes. Everything he’s done has been for self-aggrandizement and for his billionaire friends. Nothing has been done for the benefit of the average American citizens.

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

@0TulsiGabbard2 @Ugomego At the time, I thought it was premature, despite having admired him since his speech at the 2004 DNC which I was at in person. Now, having seen how the country has regressed since then, I’ve revised my opinion. He united people in a way that hasn’t happened since.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I learned something new today. 🐶

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨 🚨I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power

THIS is what an insurrection looks like 👇👇👇

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

#Juneteenth

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

I cried today. I'm not going to pretend I didn't.

Four presidents shared a stage in Chicago, a thing that used to be ordinary and now feels almost holy, and I felt the tears come before I understood them. At first I thought I knew what they were. I thought they were grief. I thought I was crying for how far we've drifted from that morning in 2008 when so many of us let ourselves believe, all the way down, that America could be better than her history. That we could be better. The distance between that morning and this one felt like the whole sad arc of the story, and for a moment I let myself sit inside the ache of it.

But the longer President Obama spoke, the more I understood I had it backwards.

He told a story I can't stop thinking about. The line we all know, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, didn't start with Dr. King. King was borrowing it from a Boston minister named Theodore Parker, who preached it more than 170 years ago. And here is the part that broke me open: Parker preached it at one of the darkest moments this country had ever seen. The Compromise of 1850 had just made it a federal crime to shelter a man fleeing slavery. In Boston, a young fugitive had been seized, tried, and marched to the harbor by hundreds of armed officers, put on a ship, and sent back south into chains. While the whole city watched.

That is when Parker said it. Not in triumph. In the dark.

He admitted he couldn't see how it would end. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe,” he preached. “The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve... I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”

He couldn't see it. He believed it anyway. And then he kept fighting.

As Obama put it today, Parker's words were “a declaration of faith, a defiant call, not to abandon hope or give way to fear, but to stay true to our better selves, and true to one another, and to keep fighting... even in the face of cruelty and bitter disappointment, even in the face of impossible odds.”

And that's when my tears changed. Right there. They stopped being grief and became something else, something that scared me a little with how much it felt like hope. Because I realized I wasn't witnessing a eulogy for a country we'd lost. I was watching a man reach down and hand us back the very thing we had set down in our exhaustion. The arc doesn't bend on its own. It never did. It bends because people put their hands on it and pull, people who can't see the end and reach for it anyway. People in the dark, refusing to believe the dark gets the last word.

He would not let the day be about him. He said it plainly: America's story “isn't frozen in the past. It has chapters yet to be written, not by one person or a few people, not by Barack and Michelle... but by all of us.” Michelle said the same thing in her own way, that the center was never about them, never for them. Look up at that building and you'll see three words cut into the stone: You are America.Not him. Not them. You. Us. The ordinary, the unfamous, the tired, us.

And then Bruce Springsteen walked out with a guitar and sang “Land of Hope and Dreams.” If you don't know it, it's a song about a train, a train with room for everybody on it. Saints and sinners. The lost. The broken. The ones who've been left standing at every other station their whole lives. This train carries everybody. He sang it soft and aching, like a prayer he wasn't sure would be answered but was going to say anyway, and when the last note left him he turned to the Obamas and said the only thing left to say. “I love you.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, 161 years since the first Juneteenth celebration, we honor those who fought for freedom and remember the lasting legacy of slavery.

Black Americans continue to face systemic challenges to living in safety and dignity.

Our goal: we must end all forms of bigotry.

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

@AZ_Brittney Brilliant!

[Jew in a Canoe ✡️🇨🇦 memoir now available! @WillieHandler]

I just want to post about a humanitarian crisis that has been going on for several years.

150,000 dead.
14 million displaced.
Mass rape.
Ethnic killings.
Famine.
Aid blocked.
Hospitals destroyed.
Cities turned into rubble.

0 UNRA condemnations
0 ICC cases
0 ICJ cases
0 campus tent cities
0 celebrity hunger strikes

This is Sudan but since Jews aren't involved no one seems to care.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Randi O'Malley Smith 💙🌊 🟧 🐀 @randomwolf70]

@Kristinartz Yes.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: HAHA! Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center after Michelle brilliantly shades Trump over the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is just too good...

"You were unflappable at every turn, always focused, always calm, always looking at the long view," the former First Lady said to her husband. "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have buckled under the pressure even once, lashed out in frustration, lost your temper. How absurd it is to imagine that you might have done anything but make our family and this entire country proud."

We can think of another President who regularly loses his temper, buckles under pressure the moment that difficulties arise, and lashes out in frustration on Truth Social daily. There is an infuriating double standard at play. Obama had to always keep his cool to avoid getting labeled with the "angry Black man" racist trope. As an entitled white man, Trump can blow his top whenever he wants and nobody bats an eyelash.

"No, you were too busy. I'm not done, y'all! Not done," Mrs. Obama continued as the crowd roared with approval. "So much to say. You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding healthcare, ending a war, ordering the Bin Laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize."

She paused and smiled at that point in the speech, giving the audience a chance to cheer. Seated in the wing, Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the obvious jab and President Obama laughed along with her.

It's well-documented that Donald Trump is absolutely obsessed with the fact that Obama has a Peace Prize while he himself has been denied the distinction. Trump aggressively lobbied in vain for one, cajoling foreign leaders to nominate him.

He was so incensed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's refusal to award him that he wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre: "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace."

He lived up to the implicit threat in that letter by going on to launch a pointless, costly, child-murdering war against Iran that ultimately ended in defeat and surrender for the United States.

And Michelle wasn't done there...

"Keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, standing up for marriage equality, listening to science, and comforting an entire nation in the face of unspeakable tragedies," she continued, listing more of her husband's accomplishments. "And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park."

The Ebola bit is another jab at Trump who, with the assistance of RFK Jr. and Elon Musk gutted research and pandemic prevention. This is the most virulently anti-science administration that this country has ever seen.

One thing is certain. The Obamas will have a lasting, radiant legacy in this country. Trump will be reviled by future generations, his name used a byword for incompetence, failure, and corruption.

Please ❤️ and share if you love the Obamas!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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