Susan Wittig Albert

Writer, citizen, news junkie, reader, gardener. Latest in the Hidden Women series: Someone Always Nearby: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

It is now July 2026

Any other vaccinated survivors out there?

Or is it just me...

HELLOO 👋

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Philosopher Simone Weil on the power of focus:

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Imagine being Amy Coney Barrett and being the mother of two adopted children from Haiti and having to explain to them why she voted to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 Haitian Nationals living and working in the United States.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing, while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes, while he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our health care, and sends prices soaring. 

And while the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself. 

While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold. 

Voting rights laws are dismantled, prisons for immigrants are full of children, and all the while we see this wickedness advanced and defended by those who wrap themselves in the banner of righteous faith. 

But we ask, where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick, to take from those with the least to give to those with the most, to violate the house of worship to hunt down the refuge

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

Official word from The Whitehouse

“Trump is the sharpest, most accessible and energetic president in American history”

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It would be so unprofessional of everyone to start replying to Trumps and White House’s tweets with this picture. So don’t

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The White House looks like a Six Flags that closed because it got hit by a hurricane

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

This is not Photoshopped. It is a plant found in the wild called Hooker’s lip (Psychotria elata). It puckers up to attract pollinators like butterflies and birds.

Nature never ceases to mesmerize us.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

This iconic photo was taken at the White House in 1985 of Princess Diana and John Travolta.

LOOK! Do you see it? We already "HAD" a ballroom. That is until Trump decided to demolish it last October.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Bee taking a nap.. 😅

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

What is the name of such interior style? 🤔

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

He murdered Renee Nicole Good.

Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”.

Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”.

He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state.

No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

hey do you guys think I need a lawyer

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Spread this photo far and wide - because the media isn't doing its job in telling the story about an increasingly unhinged president who is unfit to serve.

#25thAmendmentNOW

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

[Susan Wittig Albert @SusanWAlbert]

@scmallaby @EricTopol Fascinating conversation. Thank you to both!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.