Ramona B.

Music enthusiast. Volleyball specialist. TN is my hometown. Makeup junkie. Fitness guru. One trip grocery getter! Wifey to @ucantcme4214 Mommy to Mila & Quinten

[Ramona B. @TweeterlessRo]

@KingTunde_SZN 27962. Then 30 under it.

[Ramona B. @TweeterlessRo]

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[Dr.L @DrAlmarielao]

A mother who works about 70 hours a week received a school calendar listing all the holidays, early releases, and teacher planning days. Curious, she used ChatGPT to organize every day her kids would be off from school during the year. When she saw the full list, she was shocked by how many days there actually were. Her husband stays home with the kids, but she started wondering how families with two full-time working parents manage all those days off.
School schedules can look manageable at first glance, but when you add up all the days off, it really highlights how challenging childcare logistics can be for many working families. How do households where both parents work full-time handle the large number of school holidays, early release days, and breaks during the year?

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”

The message came in at 11 PM:

“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”

Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.

New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”

She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.

Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.

I stopped the interview and said:

“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

We hired her.

She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.

Why?

Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.

Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.

Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.

If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.

You’re filtering for privilege.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Eminem on Trump and Trump Supporters….

Nailed it.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Bernie Sanders just said it plain:

“Tonight, Democrats voted with Republicans to raise healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans and pave the way to kick 15 million off Medicaid. 60,000 will die every year, so the rich can get a trillion-dollar tax cut.”

This was a betrayal of working people.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

https://t.co/mo2SmyJiKd

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Senator Chuck Schumer just called MAGA Republicans out on their blatant lies about Democrats wanting to shut down the government to give undocumented immigrants healthcare.

He released a House Republican memo saying not to make the message about healthcare because Republicans lose on that message.

“That is utter bull and they know it. The law prohibits undocumented immigrants from getting payments from medicare, medicaid or the ACA. There is no money, not a penny of federal dollars that is going there. So why do they bring this up? Because they are afraid to talk about the real issue which is healthcare for the American citizens.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care.

We can't allow that to happen.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel gets the last laugh as his heroic return to late night smashes viewership records with the Youtube upload alone racking up 13 million views already.

And it gets so much better...

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Kimmel's monologue from last night could end up being his "most-watched" ever, a dose of bitter medicine for conservative broadcasting affiliates like Sinclair that refused to air the show. They sided with Donald Trump and now they're reaping the business consequences.

As of this writing, the show's official Youtube account has raked in 13,086,809 views in just 13 hours. Currently, Kimmel's most-watched monologue is one from eight years ago in which he discussed his son's birth and health challenges. It has 14 million views. This new video is on pace to exceed those views in record time, likely by end of day today.

CNN’s Harry Enten has pointed out that the median Youtube viewership for one of Kimmel's uploads is roughly 240,000. This is a smashing success.

While the official Nielsen ratings for television viewership have not yet been released, all indications are that they'll be much higher than the 1.6 million viewers that Kimmel usually brings in.

The show itself has been met with universal acclaim (with the marked exception of MAGA world which is absolutely furious of course). Kimmel thanked those who stood by him and defended free speech during his suspension and he brutally tore into Donald Trump and MAGA FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

He called Carr "Trump's hitman" and said that his actions are "not legal" and "unAmerican."

“The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs," said Kimmel.

"Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke," he said. "He was somehow able to squeeze Colbert out of CBS. Then he turned his sights on me and now he’s openly rooting for NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and the hundreds of Americans who work for their shows who don’t make millions of dollars.”

“If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes. One by one, they’ll go down," he added.

Please retweet and ❤️ to congratulate Jimmy Kimmel!

[Paul Offit @DrPaulOffit]

https://t.co/OmUr3bYGio
Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism in arguably the most irresponsible presidential press conference in history.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House — prompting White to unleash a scathing takedown for the ages.

MAGA should have just left well enough alone...

“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.

In truth, White is still enormously popular and successful, far more so than any of the actually washed up musicians and "celebrities" that
MAGA likes to trot out as Trump supporters.

“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.

The idea that agreeing with Trump's infamously tacky interior design sensibilities is a prerequisite for being a "real artist" is laughable. Donald Trump has always had awful taste in aesthetics.

Cheung's remarks led to White posting a lengthy screed on Instagram, in which he listed off Trump's staggering number of failures and scandals—

"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." White wrote.

"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."

"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."

"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."

"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," he continued."

"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," White went on.

"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."

"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."

"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves," he continued.

"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief," he concluded before signing his name.

In his Instagram post, White also shared a photo of Trump hawking his ugly golden sneakers, one of Trump selling MAGA merchandise at the White House, and memes about Trump scandals. He also wrote a caption—

"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III... 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.' - Theodore Roosevelt"

By just about any metric, this is one of most brutal, comprehensive takedowns of Donald Trump to date. Let's hope that the White House hits back again, so that Jack White has an excuse to tear into him even more.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Jack White for speaking the truth!

[Ramona B. @TweeterlessRo]

@KeeblerUS 🍫

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

[Mike Chitwood @SheriffChitwood]

To everyone working on their email to DOGE about 5 things accomplished last week:

For #5, I encourage you to write "Applied to @VolusiaSheriff"

We won't have you wasting your time writing BS emails when you have real work to do.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

This.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

We’re Americans 🇺🇸

[Ramona B. @TweeterlessRo]

@SheriffChitwood @VolusiaSheriff I’ve always loved your stance and views @SheriffChitwood but you have truly went above and beyond to make sure these kids and parents are held responsible for their threats. The country should really look to you for advice!

[Ramona B. @TweeterlessRo]

@SheriffChitwood Thank you @SheriffChitwood for keeping Volusia safer!! These students should NEVER be allowed to re-enter the public school system after these threats!!