Kathy Stewart

[Kathy Stewart @stewart314]

Left my lunch at home this morning. Since ⁦@73BIG_HOMIE⁩ is home for Spring Break, I asked him to bring my lunch to me at work. He added the sweetest surprises to my lunch bag (2❤️ notes and a bag of M&Ms)!! Thanks Bryceee! I love you!🥰💙🤗💋 #mydaymadebrighter

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at RobinsonHigh School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.

Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did.

Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Dear God,
Please make me Black in every lifetime! You gave us gifts, talents, rhythm, sound, creativity, style, intelligence, uniqueness, wisdom and soul that I don’t see or experience in any other race.
Thank You 🙏🏾
#BlackPeople
#BlackCulture
#BlackJoy

[The View @TheView]

"We put you in there to clean house. To make sure that the government works the way the people want it to work." Following Democrats' victories in the midterm elections last week, the party is facing a debate about who should lead going forward — Whoopi Goldberg weighs in.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: CALLING ALL BONE SPURS...LOL! Anonymous artists put a golden statue of Trump clutching his “bone spur” foot on the National Mall just in time for Veterans Day.

There has been no other American president as obsessed with creating grand monuments to himself as Donald Trump. Trump loves to rename existing arts centers after himself (even if they’re already named after someone else), wants to build a triumphal arch to be named after him in a place where no one else wants it, and he particularly loves golden statues of himself.

We don’t think he will love this statue created and placed on the National Mall today by the anonymous art collective The Secret Handshake.

The collective installed a gold statue on Monday called “The Foot Soldier,” showing Trump sitting down and grabbing his right foot, a reference to the bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam. It stands near the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden and will stay up through Veterans Day.

The inscription on it is brutal. It honors Trump as “a soldier in spirit, who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft, armed with a perfect diagnosis of bone spurs.” It salutes “a leader who knows you can’t spell sacrifice without ‘I,’” and “a warrior who reminds us that sometimes when you’re called to stand up, it’s best to just sit down and rest your feet.”

The plaque also quotes something Trump himself said in 2013: “I can be very military.”

Here’s the history behind the biting satire. Trump got five deferments during the Vietnam War: four were student deferments for school, but a fifth was based on a long-disputed bone spur diagnosis. Other young men his age without a father willing to allegedly bribe a doctor for a spurious diagnosis were sent to Vietnam in his stead.

The statue also came with a mascot. A 6-foot-tall big toe named “Toey” stood next to it and mocked the president, according to The Washington Post. “Draft dodger? I hardly know her,” Toey said. Then Toey did a Trump impression: “I’m the biggest toe. The hugest toe. Huge. Hugest toe. Largest toe that anyone’s ever seen.”

The White House did not see the humor. Spokesperson Davis Ingle said, “Trump Derangement Syndrome is a sick and incurable disease that has rotted the brains of these Democrat activists.”

The artists responded: “We are honored that the White House has diagnosed us with Trump Derangement Syndrome, though we have checked and it seems like that does not qualify for us to skip out on the latest war he’s created.”

They also went straight at Iran. They said they wanted to honor “a simpler time when the President would do anything in his power to avoid military action.” Then they added: “If only his prescription for bone spurs had lasted long enough for him to consider them when invading Iran.”

That’s the part that stings. The man who found a way out of his own war has spent about nine months sending other Americans into one. At least 19 have been confirmed dead and more than 820 wounded. The Army has been practicing how to dig mass graves on the battlefield. Sailors have tried to take their own lives during deployment.

This isn’t the group’s first piece. The Secret Handshake has also previously built statues about Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, and a giant sarcastic “participation” trophy for the Iran war.

This Veterans Day, honor the people who actually served. The man who sat it out with a sore foot doesn’t need any monuments to help people remember his cowardice. Please like and share if you agree.

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

Jimmy Kimmel - “You are on the ballot, you are like dog hair, all over everything..” His opening tonight was hilarious:

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Dear Stacey Abrams,

This moment is dedicated to YOU.

Before Keisha Lance Bottoms made history as the first Black woman elected governor in America, you dared to show us that it was possible.

You ran when the road was uncertain. You stood tall when the outcome wasn’t what we’d hoped. And instead of allowing defeat to define your story, you continued the work of making sure our voices were heard.

Your courage, your grace, your commitment to voting rights, and your power to organize helped lay the groundwork for a Georgia that looks different today.

And while we celebrate this historic victory and the wave of change sweeping across the country, we cannot forget the women who helped make moments like this possible.

Stacey, we see you. We thank you. And we give you your flowers.

Video: @thezactivist

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SOMALI STRONG! 9 Somali Americans won their elections last night despite the vile racist smear campaign that Trump has been waging against their entire ethnicity.

Victory is the best revenge...

Trump called Somalis "garbage." His relentless attacks against their communities were the most consistent racist barb in his arsenal this election cycle. He was convinced that throwing hateful red meat to his base would carry the day for MAGA.

“I don’t want them in our country," he said.

“They contribute nothing," he said.

“Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage," he said.

“Let them go back to where they came from and fix it," he said.

He called Somalia “barely a country” and said Somalis come from “hell.” He said, “Their country stinks”.

But last night, the American people stood up and showed him exactly what they think of Somalis. We support them, value them, and we think they belong in government!

Rep. Ilhan Omar won reelection.

Omar Fateh and Zaynab Mohamed won Minnesota State Senate seats in Minneapolis.

Samakab Hussein won a Minnesota State House seat in St. Paul’s East Side.

Mohamud Noor and Anquam Mahamoud won Minnesota State House house seats in Minneaplois.

Abdi Daisane flipped a Minnesota State House seat in the the St. Cloud area.

Ismail Mohamed and Munira Yasin Abdullahi won Ohio House seats in Columbus.

Trump tried to make them a punchline. Instead, they made history. The MAGA era is over. We are sick and tired of letting these demented fascists divide us along racial and religious lines. America is vibrant, multiracial democracy and if Republicans don't like it, they can get out!

Please ❤️ and share to congratulate these winners!

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

We are celebrating Keisha Lance Bottoms, Deb Haaland, and Gina Hinojosa for their historic gubernatorial victories in Georgia, New Mexico, and Texas! Every barrier broken brings us closer to a future where EVERY child knows their potential has NO limits!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I wish my mother could have seen Georgia last night.

When she called on women to become the soul of the nation, she was asking us to help shape what this country stands for and how it treats its people. She spent her life putting those words into action.

I thought of her as Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor of a U.S. state. I thought, too, of the Black women who went door to door, registered voters and organized for years. Many did not live to see what they helped make possible.

Congratulations, Governor-elect Bottoms. Congratulations also to Penny Brown Reynolds, Georgia’s next secretary of state, and Tanya Miller, our next attorney general.

I’m thinking of the Black girls who will grow up seeing women who look like them lead Georgia. I pray they see what my mother saw in leadership: the power to make life better for others and the responsibility to use it.

#CorettaScottKing #KeishaLanceBottoms #PennyBrownReynolds #TanyaMiller #GeorgiaHistory

[David Pakman Show @davidpakmanshow]

Obama has mastered the art of humiliating Trump

[Michael.A @Michael_A]

Enjoy the day friends.

[Miti 💙🕊️ @Miti_Blue2]

Making Halloween great again… one Obama moment at a time! 🎃🔥

A little throwback to the Obama presidency! 💙

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

A 3-year-old boy was kidnapped from a public library, and less than an hour later, he was sitting on a city bus beside the man who had taken him. The little boy was crying, and the other passengers had no idea he had been abducted. But when the bus driver looked at the child, he suddenly realized he matched the description of a missing boy police were desperately searching for.

It happened in Milpitas, California. Bus driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert about a missing 3-year-old boy earlier that day. When a man boarded his bus with a crying child, something didn’t seem right. The more Tim looked at the little boy, the more he suspected he was the child everyone was searching for.

But Tim couldn’t risk confronting the man. If he was the kidnapper, one wrong move could put the little boy in even greater danger. So Tim came up with a clever plan. He announced to the passengers that someone had reported a missing green backpack and began walking through the bus, pretending to search for it.

As he moved past the man and child, Tim got a closer look and confirmed his suspicions. He quietly contacted dispatch to alert police, then returned to his seat and continued driving as though nothing had happened. All the while, the suspected kidnapper remained on board, completely unaware that the driver had recognized the child.

Tim kept his composure until police were able to intercept the bus. Officers rushed aboard, arrested the suspect, and brought the little boy to safety. Thanks to one observant bus driver who refused to ignore his instincts, a terrifying kidnapping ended with a child being returned to his family.

Tim Watson wasn’t a police officer or a trained rescuer. He was simply a bus driver who recognized a child in danger and found a way to save him without putting him at greater risk. Let’s give this incredible man the recognition he deserves.

[Johnfrom412 @johnis44]

This woman is 104 years old.

She’s seen 18 presidents in her life.

Listen to what she says about Trump.

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

A 5-year-old girl plunged 49 feet from a moving cruise ship into the open ocean. Her father heard his wife screaming and raced toward the railing, only to discover that their daughter was gone.

It happened aboard the Disney Dream near the Bahamas, where a family vacation took a terrifying turn when the little girl fell from the ship’s fourth deck.

When her father realized what had happened, he jumped overboard after her, plunging nearly 50 feet into the ocean. But when he surfaced, he couldn’t see his daughter anywhere.

He began desperately calling out for her, searching the water until he finally heard her calling back. He swam toward her and managed to reach her, but they were still stranded in the open ocean as the massive cruise ship began turning around.

For roughly 20 minutes, he kept his little girl afloat, holding her above the water until a rescue boat finally reached them and brought them back to safety.

Both survived, although the father suffered two fractures in his spine from the fall.

It takes an incredible amount of courage to jump nearly 50 feet into the open ocean, not knowing what awaits you below. But this father didn’t hesitate to put his own life on the line for his little girl. Thank God they both made it home.

[Golden Tunes ✨ @Hoint1967]

This 2-year-old singer shocked everyone! 🥹📷

[Kathy Stewart @stewart314]

The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing!! My why???
*All that my ancestors endured to allow me the privilege of voting. *The America we all are entitled to live in (equality, freedom, justice). *An excellent America for the future of my descendants. ❤️🇺🇸💙

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.

After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.

This is why I will vote in every election. This is why you should vote in every election.

The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. What about you?

#DemsUnited

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Georgia high school students stage a fight to bait their principal to break it up, so they could sing him happy birthday.

Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School principal Bobby Davis was seen sprinting to the fight to break it up.

After Davis ripped the prank fight apart, the students started singing happy birthday.

"He single-handedly changed me for the better, and he knows I could never take it for granted," said the student who came up with the idea.

"the things he’s done during my time at LFO are truly memories i’d die with. i was so happy to come up with this idea and do it for him."

[South Carolina Football @GamecockFB]

Shoutout to our nutrition team 😏

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

This young King is soaking up every moment from Alcorn State University's Sounds of Dyn-O-mite Marching Band! THIS is why representation matters! Just imagine the future ahead of this drum major in the making!

🎥: ceyoncecescott/TikTok