Reuben M

Christ is King! He is coming back! 🙌🏼Proud American!🇺🇸Here for the truth and often, the laughs. Happy to just support others.💗

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.

As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton

Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.

When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?

“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.

Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.

You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?

I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?

The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!

The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!

We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.

[Reuben M @toadroady]

@Puppieslover God Bless this puppies human for making sure this friendship thrived in all circumstances! 🥹

[Joey Jones @Johnny_Joey]

Secure

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

I'm so proud to be an American.

Thank you to all who fought for our freedoms, especially those who paid the ultimate price. We're indebted to you. 🇺🇸

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This American needs to lead the Department of Education

“This is my audition to become the head of the US Department of Education

- My first act of office will be immediately abolishing the No Child Left Behind Act. Yes, we will be leaving children behind. If they fail a class, they will have to repeat it

- My second act is one that I'm very passionate about. We will be bringing zeros back. If you don't know, in many schools in the US right now, students receive 40% or 50% if they do zero work, if they do not complete an assignment. And my school included, and many other schools, are not going to be allowed to give a student a 50% if they do not turn in any work. They will have to receive a zero.

Likewise, there will be no completion grades, If you just attempt an assignment, that doesn't mean you get a 55%. Like, if you get a 1 out of 10, you earned a 10% on that assignment, and that's okay. Sometimes failing happens, and we don't need to just inflate the grades just for fun. Grades will reflect students' actual performance and understanding of the content

- The third one I'm very excited for as well. Teacher evaluations will take place once a year and teachers will be observed by another current teacher from a different school. Teachers would volunteer to be evaluators. They would get a sub for the day, no questions asked, and then they would evaluate objectively. That way the person evaluating you does not know you and does not have any personal bias towards you. Hopefully.

- The fourth one, I think this should be common sense, but I hear that it happens all the time at some schools. Never at mine. But teachers shouldn't be expected to work for free. I hear elementary teachers are doing these before and after work things that they aren't getting paid for, like lunch duty or recess duty or pickup duty, whatever it is. The school needs those things covered.

People can volunteer for it, and then they have to get paid for it. They can't force you to cover other people's classes for free. They have to pay you extra if they're gonna take away your lunch or your prep or whatever time that is supposed to be yours and then force you to do something without getting paid. There will be no more voluntelling.

Hire this woman. The most important thing we need to do is hold students back and force them to learn the work. No more dumbing down out standards

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Unvaccinated Chief Warrant Officer 5 Kennie Kelly — a Master Aviator — has officially been REINSTATED to the US military, with full backpay, entitlements, station preference and benefits...

...after being REMOVED due to refusing the COVID jab under Biden

LFG!

I VOTED FOR THAT!

Bless this hero 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell

[OnlyBangers @OnlyBangersEth]

ups driver saving ranchers cattle 😭

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t kill anyone, nor celebrates the killing of anyone, nor fantasizes about the killing of anyone...

…just for winning an election

That’s what side I’m on.

[🇺🇸 Nate Vance 🇺🇸 @VanceNate]

This dude had a school shooter arrive on his campus. This dude catches a round to the leg and still tackles and subdues the shooter because this dude is awesome!

Principal Kirk Moore

He’s already back at work because he’s also apparently Wolverine

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

I spend time in the room we built for my daughter Katie, a place to honor her life and feel close to her. It’s where I reflect, and where the weight of everything since her death comes rushing back. In those moments, I lean on faith, scripture, and her memories to carry me through.

In June 2025, I went to Washington for oversight hearings on sanctuary policies. I sat there for 8 hours as a father who lost his daughter. Every Republican lawmaker took time to speak with me, they didn’t have to, but they did.

Not a single Democrat even looked my direction.

Not one.

Leaders from Illinois, the state I’ve called home my entire life, ignored Katie. Ignored her story. Ignored her life. I believed they would show basic humanity.

They didn’t.

We never thought this would happen to our family. Like so many, we believed it was something that happens somewhere else, until it doesn’t. We upheld our end of the social contract. We followed the rules. We trusted our government would do the same. They didn’t, and now we have no recourse. This could happen to any family. And when it does, don’t expect Illinois politicians to stand with you. They will leave you alone, and erase you too.

And that includes Governor Pritzker.

Now when I sit in Katie’s room, the room we were forced to build because of radical policies with zero guardrails, it leaves me with an increasing, uncomfortable tension: staying in a broken state led by fallen leaders, where my family is, where my friends are, where Katie lived, where our lives were built, or leaving the only home I’ve ever known.

These politicians, in their callous indifference to the people they serve, put my family and me in this position:
@GovPritzker 
@JulianaStratton
@SenDuckworth 
@SenatorDurbin
@ToniPreckwinkle
@KwameRaoul

It is disheartening to watch a once prosperous state devolve into something I don’t recognize. Even more discouraging is watching the same politicians get reelected, not because they’ve earned it, but because they outspend opponents, manipulate districts, and rely on low turnout, propped up by a media that too often acts as a willing participant, not a check on power.

These politicians, and their handmaidens in the media, serve themselves, not taxpayers. They have no regard for the people they represent.

It’s clear they don’t want citizens like me here, independent voices who won’t fall in line. We are not welcome. They would rather see us leave.

I may soon oblige them.

And that, in itself, is yet another indictment of leadership that continues to fail, and still gets rewarded.

That reality is salt in a wound that never heals.

But I will not be silent.

I will speak for Katie. For the Katies. For every victim they ignore, erase, and abandon.

Because Illinois leaders never will. To them, we do not exist.

[Reuben M @toadroady]

@AstroVicGlover @JavonPrice @NASA @csa_asc So inspiring! Thank you!!
And WOW! You have a beautiful family!!

[Reuben M @toadroady]

@mattvanswol @NateSilver538 Agree with all but the part of you being a nobody!! I find you to be an inspiration! You are a child of God so most definitely NOT a nobody! Keep being YOU!!

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

Proud of our troops. Proud of our President. Proud to be an American. 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump delivers a message on Holy Week ✝️

'Happy Easter to all, may God bless you, may God bless the United States of America.'

[Gianno Caldwell @GiannoCaldwell]

.@GovPritzker has never responded to me regarding the tragic murder of my innocent teenage brother in Chicago on June 24th, 2022. There are countless families who have experienced similar tragedies in Chicago and throughout Illinois, and they have all been completely ignored by Governor JB Pritzker. I hope their voices are heard loudly at the ballot box this November.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@GovPritzker, I saw your post honoring lives lost in Minnesota—standing publicly, naming Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and laying flowers in their memory.

But where was that same compassion on January 19, 2025?

That is the day my 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed here in Illinois. She was innocent. She did not knowingly put herself in the middle of an ongoing law enforcement situation. She was not making a dangerous choice.

She was simply living her life—and it was taken from her.

You have never said her name. You have never come to where she died. You have never acknowledged her publicly.

And beyond that—you have never even responded to me.

I sent you a simple, non-political letter. Not for attention. Not for headlines. Just a father asking for clarity, for answers, and for understanding of the state’s position.

You never replied.

And now, in the wake of another tragedy here in Chicago, your public display of compassion elsewhere—while remaining silent about victims in your own state—feels deeply disconnected from the reality families like mine are living every day.

Instead, you continue to defend sanctuary policies that create the conditions where preventable tragedies like hers can happen.

This is not about politics. It’s about leadership and accountability.

When you choose to publicly mourn some victims while remaining silent about others—especially those lost under policies you support—it sends a message.

Whether intentional or not, it tells families like mine that our loss does not matter the same way.

So I am asking you directly:

Where is your compassion for my daughter? Where is your acknowledgment of victims here in Illinois? And when will you take responsibility for the consequences of the policies you defend?

Say her name: Katie Abraham.

Stand where she died. Show the people of Illinois that every life matters.