shuntley98

Reader, musical theater lover, traveler, Minnesota farm kid at heart. Opinions my own.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

I can’t stand the cruelty of today’s Republican party. I simply cannot comprehend the cruelty.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A pregnant mom with a 7 year old daughter are trapped in Dilley detention center while trying to self-deport. They have been begging @SenKatieBritt to intervene. She has not responded to the lawyers repeated requests.

She did find time to go on Fox & slur people though.

[shuntley98 @shuntley98]

@RossRaihala @mhenderson33 So excited for The Chicks!! And it looks like it’s gonna be a beautiful day!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

ICE grabbed a roofer in Missouri with no warrant. His wife self-deported so her kids wouldn’t lose both parents. Both found bound and shot in a cane field. Their 14-month-old was crying next to her mother’s body, dehydrated. Not a side effect. The point. Enough of this bullshit.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years, what do we see? ... we see the wealthiest country in the history of the world -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

I know the President is flying to North Dakota today to visit the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library… but it should be noted this visit comes only two months after he ignored Roosevelt’s descendants who asked him to save the Boundary Waters.

Roosevelt was the first American President to protect the Boundary Waters back in 1909. He was a staunch conservationist and thought of public lands as the birthright of every single American, and he was a huge Minnesota enthusiast (below you’ll see Roosevelt delivering his iconic “Speak softly and carry a big stick” speech at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, just four days before President McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became Commander in Chief).

President Roosevelt’s descendants wrote: “Theodore Roosevelt was active in preserving our greatest wilderness terrain on both the East and West coasts - it became one of the greatest enduring legacies of his life. It is now time for all of you to get in the Arena with him. We implore you to do your own parts to ensure TR's common-sense approach to conservationism is as strong today as it was more than a century ago. There is no better way to do this than to preserve the greatest wilderness terrain in the middle of America's Heartland: The Boundary Waters.”

Yet Trump signed the legislation selling out the Boundary Waters two months later.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

Damn that’s crazy, can’t relate

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

I know this is beside the point, but I have a profound, visceral hatred of anyone or anything that abuses animals, kills them for trophies, or uses them as props. There is no clearer indicator of someone's values than how they treat animals. Parading an elephant through this room is such an apt reflection of today's Texas GOP.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

"For some reason"

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

If you hunt to feed your family, you won't hear a word from me about it and I fully support you. But if you pay $30K to fly to Africa and shoot a lion in the face, there's something wrong with you.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Rural hospitals are closing, we can't afford to help people stay on their health insurance, but we have a billion dollars for a ballroom where Trump can party with the Epstein Class?

The political ads write themselves.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Meet Bumpy the baby hippo!

This is NOT AI.

My beloved @SheldrickTrust is best known for its rescue, raising, and reintegration of orphaned baby elephants, but as some of you have come to learn over the years, no orphan is left without a home and love when it comes to Sheldrick.

Bumpy, a son of Kenya, is just one week old.

Bumpy’s mom likely was killed in a territorial fight while defending him. He was found standing next to her body, confused about what had happened, desperately nudging her with his nose.

Without his mom around anymore, and being only a week old, Bumpy needs to be raised by hand for a few years (male hippos can’t survive without their mothers until about 2–3 years old).

So my pals at the Sheldrick Trust got their rescue engine fired up, and next thing you know, Bumpy got his first — and likely only — helicopter ride when Taru Carr Hartley scooped him up to bring him to the Sheldrick facilities in Kaluku.

I always wonder how these babies experience the helicopter — is it like an alien abduction to them?

As you can see in these photos, just as the orphaned baby elephants do, Bumpy will have a keeper sleep next to him every night.

While no human keeper can ever replace the love of his mother, you can rest assured that the keepers of the Sheldrick Trust—along with the staff—will love and protect him until he’s ready to return to the wild.

To learn more about Bumpy and to adopt him (which means you’ll get updates on him), click the link in the post below!

[Richard Carlbom @richardcarlbom]

Abhorrent and ignorant. So many hospitals are at risk because of Republican attacks. HCMC is one of the places his constituents are flown when they experience major trauma. This will hurt his constituents. @SenWestrom, do better.

[shuntley98 @shuntley98]

@jonfavs @jonlovett He went full-on flopsweat William H. Macy in Fargo. Unbelievable. 🤬

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Great job @marcorubio

Hope you’re proud of yourself

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists” and calling immigrants “animals” then turning around and telling people they need to “tone down their rhetoric.”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom.

It was always a scam.

We were always going to have to pay for it.

They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill.

This is now the time.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

The best thing is, they'll never forget it 👍

[shuntley98 @shuntley98]

@RepMaxwellFrost @yashar Thank you, Congressman, for helping animals. 💔