Tammy

I rant, therefore I am.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Jamey Newberg @NewbergReport]

Would be nice if we were teeing up a writeup on one of the best performances of Jack Leiter’s career.

Sorry about baseball, Jack.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

BREAKING: MAGA influencer Craig Long has just been arrested after being caught in a human sex trafficking sting operation.

The accused Sex Trafficker was just pictured with Donald Trump and Trump Jr. at a UFC fight in Miami on April 11, 2026.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

Labeling every American of the opposition political party as an enemy to the country may be the most un-American thing any president has ever said. Dangerous.

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

Senate Democrats have come to the Senate floor to fund FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard nine separate times.

Republicans blocked each attempt because they wanted more money for mass deportations.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Rising gas prices are causing a steep rise in consumer prices and will slow any future economic growth. It is a tax on all Americans.

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

NEWS: The FBI *did* interview a victim who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault, according to Epstein file documents, undermining claims that Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing. It's unclear what became of the investigation. My report here: https://t.co/J2PFKnBFwE

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: AOC in Germany:

“You are the Attorney General of the United States of America and you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable? Resign or be impeached!"

[Brooke Pryor @bepryor]

The child in the halftime show was an actor, not Liam Ramos, per source.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

this is what MAGA is triggered by btw

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I love how there's a separate Superbowl halftime show just for the pedophiles

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

If you can get beaten over your 1st amendment right, and murdered over your 2nd amendment right, you have no rights.

[Minnesota DFL @MinnesotaDFL]

A colleague of Alex Pretti has confirmed that he was an ICU nurse and VA worker.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

My second husband started doing stuff like this near the end

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: I understand that Vance believes that shooting a young mother is an acceptable America that he wants to live in. I do not.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

They believed the lie.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

Why doesn’t Donald Trump want you to know who this is?

[Jro 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JroWooTown]

Just when you thought you heard the stupidest policy announced by the Repubes, they surprise you with an even stupider one!🤷🤦‍♂️😵‍💫

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

"I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -Matthew 25:35

[The Rise of TyWalker🐔 @TyWalker716]

“Jerry’s gotta be so unhappy after that loss!”

Jerry: