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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Well..it's now June 2026

Apparently 7 billion of us who got vaccinated are now meant to be dead

Anyone out there who is vaccinated and still alive?

✋

[Robbie Sherwood @RobbieSherwood]

Aren’t you late for one of Mark Lamb’s cowboy Diddy parties?

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

I got a call from my daughter’s high school principal today. He said she’d been caught operating an “unauthorized commercial enterprise” out of the girls’ locker room. My stomach DROPPED. I left work immediately, already imagining the worst: Drugs. Vapes. Stolen stuff. Some TikTok side hustle gone wrong. By the time I got to the school, I was preparing myself for lawyers, suspension, maybe even police involvement. I walk into the principal’s office….…and my daughter is sitting there quietly with a spiral notebook full of spreadsheets. Not cash. Not customer lists. Spreadsheets. Turns out, she’d noticed some girls at school were quietly struggling: • no money for feminine hygiene products • no winter jackets • wearing the same clothes every week after budget cuts hit families hard So she started her own underground support network. She collected donated jackets, hygiene products, gloves, and clothes from wealthier neighborhoods.
Then she cataloged everything by size and need in her notebook like a tiny operations manager. And from her gym locker, she distributed items discreetly to students who needed them — no embarrassment, no announcements, no attention. The principal wasn’t calling because she was in trouble. He called because the school found out… and wanted my permission to turn her “illegal locker room business” into an official school charity program.

I thought I was driving to the biggest parenting nightmare of my life. Instead, I walked into one of the proudest moments I’ve ever had as a parent.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

We already have a process for determining whether accusers are credible. It’s called a trial. And a jury already decided they believed E Jean Carroll. THIS is weaponization.
https://t.co/wKl1B9YX4v via @NYTimes

[Tom Ryan @tomryanlaw]

In Arizona two of the weakest and lamest congressmen who totally fail in oversight of this corruption are asking for you to vote them in as Governor. Just say NO to Biggs & Schweikert! They have not proven worthy of our trust!

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

So let me get this straight… Trump gets found liable by juries TWICE, owes E. Jean Carroll millions, then his DOJ launches a CRIMINAL probe into HER? That’s not justice. That’s revenge wearing a government badge.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

.@rodneyglassman keeps saying that Mark Brnovich didn't investigate the 2020 election.

1) Here's Brnovich's investigation into alleged dead voters in the 2020 election. https://t.co/4H2xyr4ZcX

2) Here's Brnovich's investigation into the use of Sharpies: https://t.co/o4LBBXE5zn

3) Here's a report that Brnovich's investigators put together in which they estimate that they spent 10,000 hours investigating the 2020 eleciton. https://t.co/rMLdDjcTlA

4) And of course there were likely other investigations by the office that simply weren't made public (most investigations aren't made public).

5) And the United States Attorney General investigated the 2020 election as well.

This was all in the context of being asked "was the 2020 election stolen? Did Joe Biden lawfully win?"

Man of courage he is not; @rodneyglassman, can't answer the question directly.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If you get a payout from Trump’s January 6 slush fund, California will tax it at 100%.

People who assault cops and overthrow democracy don’t deserve a taxpayer-funded payday.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent was caught on video telling a U.S. citizen that they are a “dead man”… wile they were protesting, on PUBLIC PROPERTY, outside the Delaney facility, in New Jersey.

ICE agents are now openly giving out death threats to civilians for exercising their constitutional rights.

And this is after we have seen countless videos of ICE agents shoving protesters, assaulting them, and even pushing demonstrators toward MOVING VEHICLES.

This is what happens when an agency operates like it’s above the Constitution.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Can you believe I just spent $87 filling up a Rav 4 and all because Donald Trump raped children with Jeffrey Epstein? Disgraceful.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

As Arizona's governor, @KatieHobbs has been working hard every day to lower costs and make life easier for working families — because she understands exactly what they're going through. We need to re-elect Katie in November to keep fighting for Arizonans.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain wife of disabled U.S. Marine veteran—mother of Purple Heart Marine.

She has been a legal permanent resident for 55 years.

"They’re trying to kill me, I’m telling you—ask anybody in here!" she cries.

Husband is "100% disabled" since Gulf War—she's been his caregiver for the past 32 years.

Her son is a decorated U.S. Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq and was awarded 2 Purple Hearts.

Rosalba "Rose" Chiaromonte is diabetic and not getting the medication she needs—causing her to vomit every day.

"They’re messing with my health," she explains over video call.

ICE claims she was arrested due to criminal charges from over 10 years ago—even though the first Trump administration renewed her green card in 2017.

She is currently locked up 300 miles from her husband and 4 children in Charleston, South Carolina.

[Tom Ryan @tomryanlaw]

Is there anyone in the Arizona Republican Party Leadership that has the moral courage and backbone to not just condemn Lamb, but to call for Lamb's withdrawal? Anyone??
Mark Lamb traded racist jokes with border vigilante, screenshot shows https://t.co/K7ept3doDl via @azcentral

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hey MAGA Texans.

Let me introduce you to Adam Hoffman. He raped his son’s best friend from the age of six years old to nine years old. For three years this man raped a little boy.

Paxton made sure his buddy only got a 60 day sentence. Oh wait it gets better, he didn't even serve the full sixty days.

Wait wait, it's gets even better. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender and his record has been wiped clean.

MAGA maniacs want women to go to prison for miscarriages but are cool with pedophiles going free.

Ken Paxton is a disgusting criminal, that's why Trump endorsed him.

Make sure you have a plan to vote. @jamestalarico is what Texas needs. Not more of the Epstein Class.
#DemsUnited

[Tom Ryan @tomryanlaw]

Hey! @AZGOP anyone home that will condemn Lamb? Ask him to leave the race? Anyone?????? Here's your chance to show Arizona that you really are the party of family values.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE agents were filmed committing a hit and run AFTER racially profiling and illegally detaining a U.S. citizen.

In the video, ICE agents have the man completely boxed in with vehicles, surrounding him on multiple sides while he films the encounter.

One of the federal vehicles is backed directly against the front of his car as the man asks who is going to pay for hitting his vehicle…

The agents ignore him, get in their cars, and drive away.

Think about how insane this is…

Federal agents boxed in an American citizen based on how he looked… damaged his vehicle in the process… then fled the scene once they realized he was a U.S. citizen.

If a regular person hit someone’s car and then drove away, they would be arrested and charged.

But, for ICE agents… it’s just another day.

[Kris Mayes @krismayes]

Just think about how much fraud in Arizona’s Medicaid system we could’ve prevented if you were paying attention as a republican legislator in 2021?? Billions of dollars were defrauded from Arizona under your leadership—before I got into office and was able to stop it.