Piper Hollman

[New York Post @nypost]

Happy birthday Mel Brooks — and thanks for the laughs! ‘Blazing Saddles’ director turning 100 https://t.co/ij67H8vYzP

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is Sad!

For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.

Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.

Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.

This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.

Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.

We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is outrageous and unacceptable. Speaker Johnson makes clear that the GOP is planning to gut Medicaid and Social Security — programs millions of Americans depend on.

73 million seniors, disabled Americans & families are watching. We must stand up for them. This is a fight to protect the benefits seniors have earned through a lifetime of hard work.

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

🤣

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

In a world where you can be anything, be a number 50

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Every human being is worthy by the mere fact of having been willed, created, and loved by God. There is no situation that causes the Lord to turn His gaze away from us. It is a consoling truth that accompanies us at all times and reminds us that His merciful love always outweighs whatever good or evil we may have done. #ApostolicJourney
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[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

“Severe weather will effect your area today”

Midwesterners:

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

I love this story.

Spread kindness. Litter your life with seeds of grace.

You may never fully realize it, and you may never know the harvest that grows from your efforts, but the love, encouragement, and compassion you sow today may one day bless lives far beyond your imagining.

op: @majicallynews

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

As a veteran, I hate that this man "salutes" during the anthem.

1. Generally speaking even Active Duty and Veterans don't salute in civies. You CAN, but most people just put their hands over their hearts.

2. He's not a veteran or active duty. POTUS is a civilian's office.

3. He's a fucking draft dodger. That's some stolen valor bullshit. You haven't earned that right, you fucking fuck.

4. If you're going to insist on being a valor thief, at least learn to salute properly instead of that lazy-ass, floppy-wristed, palm-out bullshit.

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

Billie Jean is from the album Thriller (1982), the best-selling album in history, but the moment that eternalized the track was the solo performance in the special Motown 25 recorded on March 25, 1983. Michael Jackson, only 24, hardly wanted to participate in the show. Berry Gordy had to insist a lot. He chose "Billie Jean" because he thought the other tracks from when he was younger didn't match his new style. Michael performed the song with impeccable choreography and, in the middle of the track, debuted the moonwalk for the first time on world television, a step he had learned from street dancers years earlier.

This performance changed the history of music: it was the moment when Michael stopped being "the boy of the Jackson 5" and became the King of Pop. The special was shown in May 1983 and seen by more than 47 million people, to this day it is considered one of the greatest live performances of all time.

[Rare 🇺🇸 @RareImagery]

Dude, this was it

[aijamayrock @aijamayrock]

My waiter had dementia and forgot my order.

I visited a cafe in Japan that ONLY hires people with Dementia. It's called the Cafe Of Mistaken Orders.

Sometimes the servers bring you the wrong food, never bring your order, or sit down and join you instead.

But the point of this cafe is to be a place for dementia patients to feel needed and have purpose.

And this cafe is working. Japan has discovered that being socially connected actually slows down the progression of dementia.

So now there are 8,000 dementia cafes all over Japan!

The U.S. should be more like Japan. We should keep elders out of nursing homes, find ways to give them purpose, and part of society until their last days.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

107 year old Viola Ford Fletcher preparing to give testimony to Congress about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in its 100th anniversary year.

She was one of three known survivors of the days long riot, which destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:

“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”

She was SIX.

And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.

Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.

Just because of the color of her skin.

A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Guy makes an insane house for a frog

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In December, an 85-year-old widow called a North Carolina tree removal company, begging for firewood to keep her house warm, but said she couldn't pay them.

Paul Brittain, the owner, delivered the firewood for free, fixed her car, her roof, her heating/AC unit ALL for FREE and then raised $20,000 for her for Christmas.

Ever since, has been maintaining her property, completely for free.

He has never charged her a dime.

This is the America I love!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons

“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Do you even remember what JOURNALISM looked and sounded like?

It sounded LIKE THIS.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Now is once again the time to get into some good trouble.

Beautiful graphic by @heatherschiderillustrates_