Rebecca

🎶 Born and raised in south Detroit 🎶 Elder millennial. Militant swearer. Black Lives Matter. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. She / her. No one wants to microchip you.

[Rebecca @rebaberk]

@weeklyshowpod @SenFettermanPA I would rather slam my tits in a door than listen to that guy

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump’s ballroom went from $200M to $300M to $400M, and now Congress wants $1B for a tacky gold ballroom. We aren’t being governed. We’re being fucking looted.

[Rebecca @rebaberk]

@chi_quiero Oh my goodness, they’re both so beautiful. This is art.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Trump has skipped EVERY correspondant's dinner across his presidencies. Except this one.

And all of a sudden there's a shooter in the lobby

Ok.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

A Farce in Four Acts:

1. Trump skipped the WHCD every single year.
2. Except this one.
3. All of a sudden there’s a shooter in the lobby.
4. Trump: “This shooting is a clear example of why we need a new ballroom!”

It hardly gets any dumber than this.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

[Nick 🇻🇦 @XCkyro]

It’s interesting that this crucifix stood in Lebanon untouched amongst our supposed enemies, yet 5 seconds after “our greatest ally” invades the country, they destroy an icon of Jesus.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

MAGA: Put the bible and 10 commandments in schools!!!

Church: let’s spread peace and not war.

MAGA: WHOA!!!! STAY OUT OF OUR POLITICS!!!

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

[Anthony Emerson❤️🌲🦞🇾🇪🌹 @AnthonyMEmerson]

I’m a New England Catholic, which means I don’t practice the faith and I oscillate daily on whether or not I even believe in god, but I will defend the church to the death from perfidious protestants

[Rebecca @rebaberk]

@DJ_Ajaxx @MalcolmNance @TMobile @Verizon Same

[Rebecca @rebaberk]

@RJC4500 @elikowaz @ForecasterEnten 🎯

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump went out of his way to stage a whole scene just to remind everyone we live in a country where grandparents can’t retire and have to keep working to afford healthcare. That should play well in the midterms.

[Jeffrey Luscombe @JeffreyLuscombe]

If we’re taking sides… I’m on the side of the Pope. And I’m an atheist.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside.

She couldn’t afford her bill.

This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America.
The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box.

Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success.

Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix.

Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world.

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths.

There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name.

The first man’s country has the higher GDP.

The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon.

MAGA America calls that losing.

Ask anyone.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

If you can't see we're in a five alarm fire, then I don't know what planet you are on.

[osama @0ba0sama]

Americans after finding that a group of fish is called 'school'