Susan O'Connor

Posts are my own opinions. #MAGA #MAHA

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

When Mariska Hargitay was cast as Detective Olivia Benson in 1999, she thought she had landed a steady acting job on a new Law & Order spinoff called Special Victims Unit.

She had been working in television for years, including a recurring role on ER, but nothing that had made her a household name.

SVU was supposed to be a paycheck and a career milestone. Nothing more.

Instead, it changed everything.

Soon after the show aired, letters began arriving.

At first, they were ordinary.

Then came one that stopped her cold.

*"I was assaulted when I was 15. I am 40 now and have never told anyone."*

More letters followed.

Hundreds.

Then thousands.

They weren't writing to Mariska.

They were writing to Olivia Benson.

She realised survivors trusted a fictional detective with secrets they couldn't tell their own families.

Most actors would have moved on.

She moved closer.

She became a certified rape crisis advocate, studied trauma, and learned from people who worked with survivors every day.

In 2004, she founded the Joyful Heart Foundation.

Its mission was clear.

Help survivors heal.

Help change how America responds to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse.

Then she discovered another heartbreaking truth.

Across the country, thousands of rape kits sat untested in police storage.

Some had been forgotten for decades.

She refused to let them stay forgotten.

She testified before Congress.

She met police leaders, prosecutors, and lawmakers.

In 2017, she co-produced *I Am Evidence*, following survivors still fighting for justice.

It won an Emmy.

One Emmy honoured Olivia Benson.

The other honoured the work Mariska chose to do in real life.

The fight kept growing.

The Joyful Heart Foundation helped pass more than 130 laws across 46 states, bringing rape kit reform to millions.

Then, in May 2026, Maine became the final state to adopt at least one pillar of reform.

For the first time, every American jurisdiction had taken action.

Mariska still plays Olivia Benson.

But when she speaks about her life's work, she doesn't begin with television.

She begins with survivors.

A fictional detective gave people the courage to speak.

A real woman turned those voices into change.

[Susan O'Connor @susanraz]

Keep it up! You are doing GREAT!

[DNI Pulte @DNIPulte]

Acting Director of National Intelligence announces 4th wave of layoffs

https://t.co/V3TA7lAbgn

[DNI Pulte @DNIPulte]

Acting Director of National Intelligence announces 4th wave of layoffs

https://t.co/V3TA7lAbgn

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1930, in a tiny tenement apartment in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, a baby named Thomas Sean Connery slept on a bed made of folded blankets inside a dresser drawer.

His parents could not afford a real crib, nor did they have the floor space for one. Cold wind blew through the cracked walls, carrying the thick smell of coal smoke, but inside that little drawer, the newborn was kept safe and warm.

Life in the Connery household was defined by hard work and quiet endurance. Sean’s father spent long hours at a local factory, coming home every night with clothes heavy with grease and soot.

His mother worked endlessly scrubbing floors for wealthier families, her hands raw from harsh soap and cold water.

Money was always tight, but nobody complained. In their neighborhood, hardship was simply a part of daily life.

By the time Sean turned thirteen in 1943, the pressures of World War II made things even harder for struggling families.

Higher education was a luxury they could not afford. Sean walked up to his teacher, shook his hand, and left school for good. He was not quitting out of laziness; he was stepping up to help support his family.

The very next morning, long before the sun came up, thirteen-year-old Sean was out on the freezing streets of Edinburgh on a heavy bicycle, delivering milk bottles to local doorsteps.

The icy winter air burned his lungs and made his fingers numb, but he kept pedaling every single day.

As he grew older, Sean took whatever work he could find to keep food on the table.

He got a job polishing wooden coffins, spending hours wiping down dark mahogany until he could see his own reflection in the shine.

Later, he worked as a lifeguard, a manual laborer, and even an artist's model at the Edinburgh Art College, standing completely still for hours while students sketched his broad frame. He never turned down an honest day's pay.

He often told people around him, "Work is work, and you do what you have to do to get by."

At sixteen, looking for a way to see the world, he joined the Royal Navy. He served proudly for three years until a severe stomach ulcer forced him to be discharged and return home to Edinburgh.

Once again, he was back where he started, searching for his next opportunity.

That opportunity came in 1951 in the most unexpected way. Sean went to a theater audition just to keep a friend company. He had no acting lessons, no fancy clothes, and no script prepared.

But when he walked into the room, his tall stature, strong posture, and raw confidence immediately caught the director's eye. Years of heavy labor had given him a natural presence that could not be taught in any drama school.

He landed a small part, which led to television roles, and eventually brought him to a movie set in 1962 for a film called Dr. No.

Standing in front of the camera, wearing a tailored tuxedo that felt a world away from his greasy factory clothes, he looked straight ahead, lit a cigarette, and said the line that changed cinema history:

"Bond. James Bond."

The world fell in love with his charm, elegance, and smooth sophistication. Audiences saw an unstoppable superstar, but Sean never forgot where he came from.

Behind the glamour of Hollywood was always the humble Scottish boy who learned the true value of hard work, family, and resilience in a drafty Edinburgh room.

[Janice Dean @JaniceDean]

Congratulations to my beautiful friend @CarleyShimkus, her husband Pete and big brother Brock. Welcome to the world, Harrison! I can’t wait to meet you! ❤️

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Senior CIA Operations Officer James Erdman III Blows The Whistle on “Shadow Government,” Urges Senators To Focus On Fauci and The Money Trail, Alleges CIA Effort to Block His COVID-19 Senate Testimony, Destruction Directed Energy Attack Records And Spying on Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Investigators

On the Eve of Dr. Fauci’s Scheduled Testimony Wednesday @SenRandPaul Erdman details “bureaucratic guerrilla warfare” to hide the facts, what he calls the “Globalist” mentality inside the intelligence community, push back against @realDonaldTrump’s agenda, reveals potential financial conflicts of interest surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci and gain-of-function research and why he believes the Havana Syndrome cover-up was bigger than COVID.

CIA Director of Public Affairs Liz Lyons provided this statement:

“There is no disputing CIA’s record of successfully executing on President Trump’s transparency initiatives. Any insinuation that CIA was an obstacle and not a facilitator is wrong—the DIG was temporary and disbanded at the direction of the DNI herself after less than a year.”

Former DNI Gabbard did not immediately respond, nor did the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak did not return emails seeking comment.

01:51 Erdman “The CIA that I joined is not the CIA that we have today”
02:44 Alleges CIA Effort To Block His Whistleblower COVID-19 Origins Testimony
05:07 Senate Democrats “No Show”
05:46 Fauci, Health Officials: Credible Allegations Financial Conflicts of Interest
08:30 Senator Rand Paul Records: FBI Blocks CBP Access COVID Scientist
09:19 Intel Community More Involved in High Risk “Gain of Function Research" Than Publicly Acknowledged
11:08 Is There A Scenario Where Dr. Fauci, His Associates Go To Jail?
12:20 Opposition to President Trump’s Election Integrity Investigations
13:20 “Massaging” Trump’s Daily Brief/China
14:18 Shadow Government — “We’ve Got Globalists Working Inside The Intelligence Community”
17:20 MK Ultra + JFK Assassination Files
18:47 CIA/ODNI “Bureaucratic Guerilla Warfare,” Alleges Spying on Gabbard team
20:20 Former CIA Director Brennan Loyalists Still Inside HQ
23:03 Erdman: Havana Syndrome Cover Up Worse Than COVID-19, Claims CIA Records Destroyed
27:34 Records About Suspected Directed Energy Weapon Should Be Declassified
28:28 Took ‘Everything Gabbard Had’ To Retract Defective Biden-Era Reports
29:26 Directed Energy Weapons: Real People Have Been Harmed
29:50 Insider Threats
30:12 UAP Reports Can Be Released
33:41 Lawsuit Over CIA Officers Who Were “Non-Complaint” With Vaccine Mandates
36:22 Tulsi Gabbard: “I think she's the only one who actually conducted IC reform and did exactly what President Trump was asking her to do…”
37:40 Completed Reports Can Be Released: UAP, COVID-19 and Directed Energy Attacks

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

cc: @TheJusticeDept

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

Acting DNI @DNIPulte: "declassified intelligence reveals that voter registration rolls from at least 18 states have been compromised by the People's Republic of China (PRC)" NOTE: Swing States

Intel Community Suppressed Information about PRC's 2020 Election Influence Operation.

Former DNI Investigator James Erdman III led the COVID origins probe, "...we had whistleblowers say, yeah, they didn't want to touch (it.) They did not want to harm China."

[John M. Cameron @johnrockshomes]

I am a J6er.
I entered the Capitol 23 seconfs behind Ashlii Babbit

Same spot. Upper West Terrace Senate Wing entrance.

She turned left, and I went right.
She was murdered by Michael Byrd

I lived.

God works in mysterious ways.

I will carry her message until I die.

RIP Patriot Princess.

God Bless the J6ers.

[Brett L. Tolman @tolmanbrett]

Great investigative reporting by @nataliegwinters

[John James @JohnJamesMI]

President Trump has my back.

Michigan, I have yours. 🇺🇸

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have just RELEASED A TROVE OF DOCUMENTS PROVING THAT THE FBI PLANTED AND TAMPERED WITH EVIDENCE DURING THEIR RAID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME. They also knew that they didn’t have probable cause to raid his home in the first place, but the Biden administration put enormous pressure on them to raid President Trump’s home anyway. A senior Biden official was quoted as saying, “I don’t give a shit what the optics look like.” The case was all a BIG LIE - And Jack Smith and his team fabricated the entire thing. The criminal cases against President Trump were the Biden administration’s own version of Russiagate: It was a coup attempt meant to take down President Trump and prevent him from his inevitable return to The White House by illegally weaponizing the justice system against their political opponent. Each and every one of them should spend the rest of their lives in federal prison for this HIGH TREASON. God Bless Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe for EXPOSING THE TRUTH IN THESE BOMBSHELL DOCUMENTS.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: AAG Harmeet Dhillon is preparing to go to the SUPREME COURT to force dozens of non-compliant states into turning over and purging their voter rolls of noncitizens

HARDBALL for secure elections! 🔥

Q: Do you plan to take this fight to the Supreme Court?

DHILLON: "We do...20 states have given us their voter rolls voluntarily and we've found hundreds of thousands of people on those voter rolls who shouldn't have been there."

[Lawyer mom @legallymom2]

My now 22 year old son spent most of high school in his bedroom due to draconian Pritzker/Fauci lockdowns. He grew very depressed during those years and virtually all normal teenage life was shut down in Chicago. He applied early decision to college without visiting colleges due to lockdowns. He was accepted to his first choice school early decision in the fall of his senior year when life was slowly returning to normal, minus forced masking. His spirits perked up. He got covid during omicron and it was uneventful. In order to escape the every other week close contact quarantines, he got vaxxed prior to omicron. In the summer before college his school announced that all students had to be boosted, no exemptions of any kind. We fought the vaxx mandate to no avail. He was desperate to go to school and have a normal life. He had applied early decision and had no other options at that point. The school said he needed to get the shot to “avoid long covid” and treated us badly during our exchanges about exemptions. He finally got the shot. His choice not mine. He felt very tired for weeks. He was chronically ill and bed bound within 6 months of the shot and is still very ill today. We now have names for his illness - MCAS, POTS , chronic fatigue syndrome,and he has damage to his right iliac vein. He has not been able to finish college within 4 years, his college years were riddled with illness, we have been bounced around the medical community and charged thousands of dollars but given few answers. Fauci pressured schools to close, to perform close contact quarantines, to force masking, and to mandate boosters. I am livid reading his diary as I prepare my still ill son for surgery to stent his iliac vein and then hopefully complete college within 5 years. All so that he could avoid “long covid”….

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

THANK YOU, Senator Graham! 🇺🇸

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Look at Florida.

Homicide rate down 20 points.

Drug overdoses down 20%.

7,400 missing children found and identified.

Enough fentanyl seized to kill 225 million Americans… in just 15 months.

The FBI is proud to stand with these sheriffs.

You don’t post numbers like that by accident.

That’s how you get things done.

-DKP🇺🇸

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

They had sexual black mail on Eric Swalwell for years. Then used it when necessary to remove him. Have to wonder how many other members of Congress, from both political parties, are living under the same sword of Damocles.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) just got FIRED UP and suddenly filed UNANIMOUS CONSENT to pass nationwide photo voter ID, a key element of SAVE America...

...and a DEMOCRAT OBJECTED. Immediately 🤯

This bill also bans Congressional stock trading!

"They STILL come here to the floor and OBJECT to voter ID after THOUSANDS of noncitizens on the voter rolls was blamed as a 'software error.'"

"They tell us time and time and time and time again that that could never happen and does not happen. Oh my goodness, it's HAPPENING!"

"Which party is asking their colleagues to require voter ID and banning the purchasing of stocks while in office? What could be the reason?!"

"As if in legislative session and notwithstanding rule 22, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of HR 7008, which was received from the House, further that the bill be considered red a third time and passed, and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table."

Thank you, @AshleyMoodyFL, keep pushing!

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

I remember.

[Sébastien Mélières @SbastienMlires1]

A los 40 años, Vozinha pasó de ser la gran historia del Mundial a firmar el mejor contrato de su carrera con Colo Colo.

El portero de Cabo Verde ganará 11 veces más que en su anterior club, el Chaves de Portugal.

Vozinha se vistió de gala y lloró a mares. Maravillosa historia.