Terri Bellanger

I don't auto-follow-back. I follow who I want to follow.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Crazy idea: Spend taxpayer money on supplies for our well-trained and modestly paid sailors, not on electric shock gloves for poorly trained and overpaid ICE agents.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Women
- are 51% of the population
- but 60% of the poor
- and 83% of single parents
- doing 66% of the work
- producing 50% of the food
- but earn just 11% of the pay
- and own only 20% of the land.
- All while giving birth to 100% of the population.

Just in case you wondered why we still need feminism.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Lots of people genuinely suffered during Covid, but if your big trauma was that you had to wear a cloth over your face, or you could only eat on the restaurant‘s outdoor patio, or you couldn’t see Wonder Woman 1984 in a theater, please shut the fuck up.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

We moved on WAY too fast from Ken Paxton letting convicted child molester Adam Hoffman off with a ONE-DAY JAIL SENTENCE.

Hoffman, who admitted to sexually abusing a young boy for YEARS, didn’t even have to register as a sex offender.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I don’t know how you argue that Saudi Arabia can have a nuclear program, but Iran can’t. The majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. This is insane to me.

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

Susan Collins lied to Mainers. She helped destroy Roe v. Wade, she advanced Trump's $990 billion Medicaid cuts, and she gave ICE $70 billion continue its rogue terror campaign.

Together, we will replace her with a Senator who gives a damn about working people in this country.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE WHO IS THANKING DONALD TRUMP FOR MAKING THE WORLD CUP POSSIBLE THAT AMERICA GOT THE WORLD CUP UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA 🙄

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hey MAGA Texans.

Let me reintroduce 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

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

The strange thing about humans…

We spend billions trying to discover life on other planets,

while treating the only living planet we’ve ever found as if it’s replaceable.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Liz Oyer: “I was shocked to hear Mr Blanche’s testimony about this yesterday. What he said about my firing is provably false. His claim that it had nothing to do with the concerns I raised is contradicted by documents and evidence. His claim that he tried to call me before sending marshals to my home is flat out false. His claim that it is normal for DOJ to use armed law enforcement officers to deliver mail to the homes of its former employees is preposterous. The casual lies that Mr Blanche tells, even while sitting in this chair testifying to this committee, are emblematic of a much larger problem. To the American public, it looks like Mr Blanche is running DOJ as Donald Trump’s personal law firm. Americans across the political spectrum rely on DOJ to keep us safe and free. Mr Blanche has shown that he is willing to put all of that at risk to serve a political agenda. I beg the members of this committee to think about what this is costing our country. Please do not degrade our justice system further by promoting Mr Blanche.” 😳

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

EXCELLENT QUESTION.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Remember how the police would pull you over for having to tinted windows? Well ICE will pull you over for having tinted passengers.

[Terri Bellanger @TerriBellanger]

@Xyleniqq I. FUCKING. LOVE. THIS! Doing the goddess's work. ❤️

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was right in 1953:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Those middle aged and elderly Dem women y’all hate so much are called canvassers and phone bankers. They’re the lifeblood and backbone of every successful campaign.

There’s no one more dedicated to GOTV than a retired woman. Shit on them at your peril.

[Terri Bellanger @TerriBellanger]

@BillKristol JFC ... Is that for real?!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.