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[stacy @scoutapus]

@NatlParkService HAHAHAHA!!!

[Eric Thompson @EricTAuthor]

when i was a kid we had to go to a church food bank to receive free ramen, mac & cheese, hamburger helper (without the hamburger) & other such items. I never felt "less than" but I also never knew who provided what we were gifted.

The church bought my mom a car one time when she didn't have enough to replace the one that broke down. It was an old, green chevy nova (now it would be a classic, but at the time it was "ugly".) I never knew who did that either.

Someone once bought me a pair of pajamas simply because they thought i should have some and another person bought me a backpack so I could join my friends camping. They saw me. They didn't put me or my mom down. They saw me and they wanted me to have something good.

Today I saw posts of people questioning moms who use foodstamps and yet have their nails done. My mom was mistreated by her grandfather, her father, and my dad who left.

Now I find myself thinking back and if my mom had makeup or nice nails, I would look back at her now and say "good. you deserve it. life has kicked you down and you deserve a little something to hold your head high about. Go on and feel pretty. Because you are beautiful to me."

So you can sit there and judge that woman using food stamps and having nice nails. Or you can ask her if there's anything she needs or simply just tell her she looks nice. Chances are she needs to hear it.

Dignity - everyone deserves it. Spread a little

[stacy @scoutapus]

@JonahDispatch “I’m naked.” 😂

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a national abortion ban. Pass it on.

[Lazlo Xerxes 💙 @LazloXerxes]

@KellyScaletta It's like this:

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Words Tim Wakefield wrote in his phone before he passed away. Posted by his wife. Powerful words we should all live by.

[stacy @scoutapus]

@contextdogs I sent this to you this morning too! Isn’t it great!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Meet Andrew Overheul. 

First I will tell you what he is:

- He is a MAGA supporter
- He is a straight male
- He is someone who has spoken out against the LGBT community.
- He is now officially a Convicted child predator, who faces 60 years in prison on child pornography charges.  
- He was a softball coach who filmed 12-year-olds showering

Now I will tell you what he is not:

- He is not a drag queen
- He is not a member of the LGBT community
- He is not a liberal
- He is not a trans man or woman.

One horrible MAGA supporter shouldn't paint all of MAGA as child predators, just like a handful of disgusting videos of incidents involving drag queens shouldn't paint them all as bad people either.  

Disgusting people are everywhere.  Don't let single actions influence your views of entire groups.

Speak out against actions which harm our children, but don't use a few examples to define large groups of innocent people.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

About 183 people have asked me to talk about the smoke from Canada coming into New York, New Jersey, and other Eastern States...
#wildfire #NY
Ok, here goes…

*Seinfeld voice: “What’s up with all that wildfire smoke?”

If you live in these areas, welcome to what Salmon, Idaho was all last summer. Literally months.

Welcome to small town Montana. Welcome to the Utah Valley.
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest in August.
Welcome to Happy Camp, California.

Welcome to Earth… There are a lot of fires burning in Canada. Many are lightning caused but the majority are human caused. Pile burn escapes, escaped campfires, escaped prescribed burns, and yes, arson.

There are not a lot of fires burning in the United States. It’s actually one of the slowest starts to fire season in the U.S. in decades.

Wildfires happen across the entire planet. It’s a natural cycle that ebbs and flows. Canada is busy this year, others places not so much.

This is what wildland firefighters wake up to every day. This is what they work in. They are the ones trying to contain these fires when they happen. Smokejumpers and Hotshots, 6 pack jacked men and women, who sleep in the dirt every night just to wake up and crush up a mountain and work in smoke.

The ones that were promised a raise and Congress sits idly by. The ones that were told recruitment, retention, and pay was priority #1.

Seemingly not…

The ones who are provided subpar food and eat military rations for breakfast. At least you can still get a delicious bagel and lox before you walk through the smoke.
*extra capers.

So once the smoke clears out, in due time, remember that there are men and women fighting these things. Remember that your representatives have denied them a raise because “other priorities.”

Some are trying to help. These representatives are supporting a Bill called Tim’s Act. In long form it’s known as the “Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act”.

If you would like to help support these men and women who wake up and work in this type of smoke everyday, contact your Rep. and tell them to support Tim’s Act.

The smoke will clear out. It always does. Welcome to Earth.

[stacy @scoutapus]

@WholesomeMeme Hahahahahahaha!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This.

[stacy @scoutapus]

@buitengebieden This makes me so happy!

[stacy @scoutapus]

@themattphelps @Vincent_Ledvina Matt - was this take. On 3/23 as well? Amazing experience!

[stacy @scoutapus]

@Vincent_Ledvina Vincent - we were at Borealis Basecamp for this. We were blown away when this happened!

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

January 6th happened because Trump lost, lied about it, tried to use the 12th Amendment and Electoral Count Act to stage a coup, and then set about convincing a lot of people that he had been wronged. Scour all the footage you like; that’ll stay true. https://t.co/bahltJoHMu

[stacy @scoutapus]

@buitengebieden Hahahaha!!!

[stacy @scoutapus]

@wrong_speak What the hell did I just watch 😳

[stacy @scoutapus]

@MichaelWarbur17 This is classic!

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

“Christmas is about family.”

Yes! It’s about the unique moment in history when God asked an unwed young woman to give birth to a child who would create a family of God not defined by biology, race, gender, or social status.

What good news for the lonely and forgotten.