Thomas A. Flaherty, CGCS

Watertown High School, Watertown, Massachusetts
Clatsop Community College, Astoria, Oregon
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Bequia, SVG

[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.

[Richard Smith @Richard_ezio]

CNN confirms Iran destroyed a $500M US Boeing E-3 Sentry & crippled Washington's air defense.

But Trump said Iran's army, air force, missiles, and navy were COMPLETELY DESTROYED. They had nothing left to defend with.

So what's this? What kind of mess is this? 🤡

[Election Time @ElectionTime_]

🚨SHOCK POLL: Democrats lead by 5% in the Texas US Senate election. This is the second poll in a row in which Talarico has led against Paxton.

Texas - 2026 US Senate
🟦James Talarico 46% (+5)
🟥Ken Paxton 41%

Texas Public Opinion Research | April 17-20, 2026 | 1,018 RV

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, look at all the anti-trump protesters at THE VILLAGES in Florida, of all places!

trump is COOKED.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints a Black vocal Trump critic to be a new bishop for Washington in a clear message to the President, his racist regime and his warmongering!

Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to HATE this…
The Holy Father announced that Rev. Robert Boxie III would become the youngest bishop in the United States, appointing him to be an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Washington.

Rev. Boxie has previously been very critical of the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI and eliminating Black people from employment in the federal government.

In an interview with Catholic Review, Boxie said that “It’s really frustrating — especially this moment that we’re living in. The attacks on ‘DEI’ — I don’t even know what that means anymore. It’s a term that’s been hijacked. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people.”

“I think at its core, it’s what America is all about. We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”

“And the fact that it’s been turned into something negative — or something that should be avoided or not talked about — just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.”

“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race. And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”

He couldn’t be more right. The reason that DEI programs exist is because racial discrimination and white supremacy are hardcoded into American society and all American institutions.

We saw this first-hand just this week when the Supreme Court gutted Section II of the Voting Rights Act and every red state began foaming at the mouth to strip political representation away from Black voters.
Our history and our present is exclusive, and the anti-DEI campaigns of the right-wing show that we were correct to have them and need to redouble our efforts once we’re back in power.

Rev. Boxie certainly has the resume to be an auxiliary bishop and well-deserves the role; but his placement in Washington feels like it carries a symbolic weight to it that matters greatly in this era of ignorance and contempt.

Congratulations, Rev. Boxie!

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨IT'S OFFICIAL: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 The United States is withdrawing its troops from Germany after German Chancellor declared that Iran has humiliated the entire American nation.

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

With the Epstein Files being released we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kash Patel perjured himself when he said this in front of Congress.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This was Jeffrey Epstein describing Trump and just remember the type of person he actually is because he’s literally saying this about his best friend Trump.I’ve met some very bad people,but none as bad as Trump because he doesn’t have a decent cell in his body! 👇👇

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

President Donald Trump explicitly threatens to destroy entire nations.

He boasts about obliterating sovereign countries that dare to defy Washington.

The White House is run by a dangerous megalomaniac obsessed with absolute global domination.

He must be impeached immediately.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

WATCH: Earlier today, Trump called “affordability” a “line of bullshit.”

I’m sure this will go over well with millions of struggling Americans. 😡

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

JUST IN AND UNUSUAL
China pushes back against U.S. sanctions and moves to shield its oil companies with an official order.

In a firm step underscoring its defense of national interests, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced a judicial order prohibiting the enforcement or compliance with U.S. sanctions imposed on five Chinese petrochemical companies accused by Washington of purchasing Iranian oil.

According to the state‑run Xinhua News Agency, Beijing reiterated that it does not recognize unilateral U.S. measures, stressing that foreign sanctions carry no legal validity inside China.

The decision reflects China’s insistence on economic sovereignty, its rejection of sanctions as a political pressure tool, and its commitment to protecting its companies and energy supply chains from external interference.

[JB Thinkin™️ @JBThinkin]

Shots have been heard at this point. In SECONDS, Vance is whisked away. trump sits in his own spoilage. No concern on his face. Almost as if he forgot he was supposed to do something. Not only is he a complete moron, he’s a TERRIBLE actor! STAGED!!

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Jan 6th should have been the final straw. He never should have been allowed to run again.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD SEES WHEN WE LOOK AT AMERICA TODAY 🤷

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as “belligerent idiots,” “outright Nazis,” “cowards,” and “bootlickers,” while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. @KFILE (2024)

[GBX @GBX_Press]

TRUMP: "I am not a Pedophile. I have not raped anyone"
Iran: "He is a pedophile and he declared war on us to get us to cut the Epstein-related news"

[Cliff W @CliffW08950229]

HELL YES!!!!! Trump started this fight and Democrats will fucking finish it goddamit.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

SO HE HAS ALWAYS HAD STUPID HAIR! 🤣

A review of the 1968 Wharton Dean's List, published in the student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian, does not include Trump's name. This list represented the top 56 students, or approximately the top 15% of the class of 366 graduates. 🐷

The 1968 Commencement Program from the University of Pennsylvania does not list Trump as graduating with any honors.

I Fact checked his statement: It's a Lie ❌️.

So he has always been stupid! ✅️

[Koneser Związku Radzieckiego/X @KrzysiekWSK]

USA właśnie ostrzegł UK i Polskę o opóźnieniach broni-FT

USA właśnie w projekcie budżetu pentagonu na 2027 nie przeznaczyła ani dolara na Ukrainę

USA właśnie wycofało 5000 żołnierzy z Niemiec.

Tusk miał niestety rację, że USA nie można już ufać.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

🔥Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls out Trump for blocking the Epstein Files, says "That's when MAGA died"

"[Epstein] was a convicted pedophile and we knew there were many with him"

"[But Trump said] my friends are going to get hurt... people [at] Mar-a-Lago [and in] in Palm Beach"

This clip of Greene (@FmrRepMTG) is taken from a video posted to The RonPaulLibertyReport YouTube channel on May 2, 2026.

----------------Partial transcription of clip---------------

"So, wow. When we started talking about releasing the Epstein files, I'm like, this is a no-brainer. President Trump will just roll them out on a big cart himself. Stacks and stacks and stacks of the Epstein files. Because obviously Bill Clinton is all in there and Hillary Clinton. That's what I had been told all along, right?

"Well, it was the most shocking thing when I sat in a conference meeting, and I learned that the President didn't want to release the Epstein Files. I was like, what? Yeah.

"Come to find out, he was very much against it. So we kept on trying and kept on talking about it. And then the President told Mike Johnson, no, do not bring that resolution to the floor for a vote. He told the Rules Committee, and Johnson told the Rules Committee, no, you will not mark up any bill and in the Rules Committee that will allow the Epstein Files to be released.

"And the resistance built and built and built. He told Pam Bondi, don't release the Epstein Files. He told everybody, don't release the Epstein Files. So we persisted because that's what we promised. That's what we campaigned on. Transparency and accountability, especially to pedophiles. How is that complicated?

"So it got to be such a gigantic amount of resistance coming from the President and the speaker and everyone, the DOJ. I said, fine, I'll do the unthinkable. I'll go over there and I'll sign my name on a discharge petition that all the Democrats are signing their name on. Talk about crossing the aisle. Me, a general in the MAGA army, crossing over to sign my name with a bunch of Democrats. Yeah, I did. Because women were raped when they were 16 and 14 years old. And he was a convicted pedophile and we knew there were many with him.

"So I signed my name on the discharge petition. Oh, did I get my name on the naughty list then, let me tell you. That became a real issue at the White House. Well, I'll never forget it. I was in my office in the Rayburn Building and I got a phone call from the President and he was at the White House and he wanted to talk to me about the discharge petition that I'd signed my name on. And he said, Marjorie, you're going to have to take your name off that discharge petition. We can't let. This is a hoax. We can't carry this. This is a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax, and we've got to just put this away and stop doing this.

"And he said, my friends are going to get hurt. He said his friends would get hurt if we released the Epstein Files. He said, Marjorie, these are good people. These are people, you know at Mar-a-Lago, people in Palm Beach. They're going to get hurt by this.

"And I said, Mr. President, people have been hurt. These women have been hurt. I, said, have you talked to them? I said, you should talk to them. You should have them in the Oval Office. Mr. President, you have everybody in the Oval Office. You have sports teams, you have world leaders. You have Al Qaeda terrorists that are now leading Syria. You have Mamdani. I mean, you have everybody in the Oval Office. Surely you can have these women who were raped as teenagers. Talk to them. I talk to them all the time. As a matter of fact, many of them voted for you.

"That's what I told them. They voted for you. Epstein victims voted for Donald Trump and he wouldn't have anything to do with them. And he told me his friends would get hurt. And I said, not taking my name off the discharge petition.

"Because this crosses party lines. It crosses— As a matter of fact, it crosses all the lines when it comes down to victimizing some of the most innocent people in America. These were young girls that were teenagers that desperately wanted to be models one day. They wanted to be seen as beautiful. They wanted to be rich, they wanted to be famous. And, of course, every teenager wants things like that. And they were victimized by Ghislaine Maxwell and others.

"They were victimized by the richest, most powerful men, not only in our country, but in the world. And they were used by Jeffrey Epstein as sexual tools for his own satisfaction and his friends' satisfaction to actually be asked by the President of the United States to back off and not help these women. That's when MAGA died. That's when the entire thing shattered for me."