Tom Phillips* 👁️⃤

Lololol, I’m ded. Best $22 I’ve ever spent. That said, hey dhGATE, we should talk...

Israeli soldiers raided a Palestinian family's home in the West Bank while the people inside were literally on TikTok live. Children screaming.Pure terror. Soldiers laughing and shoving people around inside their own home.

This is amazing. The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings. "On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents." North Korea.

Not-so-fun fact....According to AARP, 3.3 million retired seniors were forced to unretire and rejoin the workforce in the past few months thanks to Trump.

Most Americans have no idea where Memorial Day actually came from. It was not invented by Congress. It was not handed down by a president. It was built from the ground up by ordinary citizens standing over the graves of men who gave everything for this country. The Civil War ended in April 1865. It cost roughly 750,000 American lives, more than every other war this nation has fought combined. Every town had empty chairs at the dinner table. Every county had fresh graves. The wounds were everywhere. And out of that grief, something uniquely American happened. Without any federal order, communities across the country, North and South, began visiting cemeteries in the spring of 1866 to lay flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers. Waterloo, New York. Columbus, Mississippi. Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Carbondale, Illinois. Charleston, South Carolina. Dozens of towns later claimed to be the birthplace of the tradition, because the tradition rose up in dozens of places at once. That is the point. Nobody told Americans to honor their dead. They just did it. On May 5, 1868, a Union general named John A. Logan, then commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, recognized what the country was already doing and made it official. He issued General Order No. 11, designating May 30th as a day "for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion." He chose May 30th for a simple reason. It was not the anniversary of any battle. He wanted a day that belonged to all the fallen, not to any single victory or defeat. They called it Decoration Day. The first national observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery, on land that had been seized from Robert E. Lee's family and turned into the resting place of Union dead. 5,000 people showed up. James Garfield, a future president, gave the speech. Children from a nearby orphanage for the children of dead soldiers walked through the rows of graves placing flowers on every single headstone, Union and Confederate alike. That last detail matters. From the very beginning, Americans understood that the dead belonged to the country, not to a side. After World War I, the holiday expanded to honor the fallen of every American war. In 1971, it officially became Memorial Day and was moved to the last Monday in May. But the core never changed. It is one of the only holidays in the world founded not by decree but by grief. A nation of citizens who chose, on their own, to remember. This Memorial Day, remember what it actually is. Not a long weekend. Not a sale at the mall. A promise. That the men and women who died for this country will never be forgotten by the country they died for. Pass it on.

BREAKING - Malaysia to take Israel to the ICJ over the torture of Greta Thunberg and cases of rape to other activities

Yesterday Arne Slot couldn't be arsed to applaud and thank Anfield for their constant support throughout one of the toughest seasons ever. But here's Hugo Ekitike. He is injured, with foot in a protective boot & limping, Yet he came onto the pitch to applaud Liverpool fans.

I was 10 years old the first time I saw this painting. Something stopped me. I sat and stared at it for a few minutes. Just a little kid feeling a sadness and gratitude I don’t know I had felt before.

There's a video on the timeline today of a Palestinian man weeping over the body of his dead 6-year-old daughter. She was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent. There is no ceasefire. There was never a ceasefire. And they have never stopped slaughtering the children of Gaza.

ICE tear gassed NJ Senator Andy Kim outside Delaney Hall in Newark after detainees launched a hunger strike over conditions that included spoiled food, lack of medical care, and extreme heat. h/t veronicadelacruztv

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🇺🇸 Take a minute to reflect on the hallowed grounds of the Normandy American Cemetery in France on this Memorial Day. Perched on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach — the very site where our heroes launched the greatest assault for liberty in human history — lie the final resting places of 9,389 American warriors who gave their last full measure of devotion during D-Day in World War II. These are not just graves. They are monuments to American courage, sacrifice, and the fierce belief that freedom is worth dying for. Among them: • 307 Unknown Soldiers — forever honored, never forgotten. • 1,557 names inscribed on the Walls of the Missing — their spirits still watching over the cause they served. • 45 pairs of brothers who fought and fell together. • Three Medal of Honor recipients and four heroic American women buried side by side with their brothers-in-arms. This sacred cemetery was established on June 8, 1944, just days after the invasion. This was the first American WWII cemetery on European soil. A permanent reminder that when evil threatened the world, America answered the call. To every American who stormed those beaches, climbed those cliffs, and never came home: Your blood bought our tomorrow. Because of you, the light of liberty still shines bright across the globe. We will never forget. We will never falter. God Bless our Fallen Heroes. God Bless the United States of America. ❤️🤍💙

Somewhere beneath white crosses & marble Stars of David are young men who never got the chance to grow old. 🪖 Memorial Day is for them. 🇺🇸

If 9 Jewish paramedics were killed ANYWHERE in the world it would be called terrorism. And we’d never hear the end of it. Israel slaughtered 9 paramedics in 72 hours, most of which we’ve seen on film, and we only hear their names on Twitter.

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On this Memorial Day, remembering that during WWII 52 American submarines never came home, and that U.S. submariners suffered a fatality rate of about 20%, more than 10X that of the U.S. Navy as a whole. Here is the crew of USS Snook (SS-279), lost with all hands in March 1945.

Generation after generation, men and women put on the uniform knowing the risk — and went anyway knowing they might not come home. Knowing their families would carry that for the rest of their lives. To the families still carrying that weight — I see you. The pain doesn’t go away, but neither does the pride. Freedom has never been guaranteed. It has to be earned, defended, and sometimes paid for in the hardest way imaginable. Today on Memorial Day, we stop, we slow down, and we remember those who did. We honor them. We thank them. And we work hard to live up to what they died for. Keep the democracy they believed in worth believing in. That is the ultimate tribute for their sacrifice.

The image depicts Katherine Cathey, the pregnant widow of U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. James “Jim” Cathey, lying on an air mattress on the floor in front of her husband’s flag-draped casket the night before his burial. A Marine honor guard stands vigil in the background. Jim Cathey was tragically killed in action in Iraq in August 2005. Overcome with grief, Katherine refused to leave her husband’s casket. She requested to spend one final night with him. Two Marines went to great lengths to provide her with a makeshift bed, using a mattress and pillows on the floor. One Marine stood guard over her and the casket throughout the night. This powerful and Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was captured by Todd Heisler in 2005 as part of his series “Jim Comes Home” for the Rocky Mountain News.

At Arlington National Cemetery today, Trump failed to name 14 of the 15 soldiers who died during his unauthorized war in Iran. Here is the full list: Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, Winter Haven, Florida Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, Bellevue, Nebraska Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, White Bear Lake, Minnesota Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, West Des Moines, Iowa Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien, 45, Waukee, Iowa Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, Sacramento, California Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, Glendale, Kentucky Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, Auburn, Alabama Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, Covington, Washington Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, Bardstown, Kentucky Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, Mooresville, Indiana Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, Wilmington, Ohio Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, Columbus, Ohio Lance Cpl. Kevin Melendez, 19, Grapevine, Texas Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, New York, New York

I watched the National Memorial Day Concert on PBS last night. Every branch of the military was honored, even the Joint Chiefs of Staff were there and honored. The best part of the presentation was the absence of Pete Hegseth, VP Vance, & trump.

He fell asleep. He fell asleep at an event honoring our fallen. He. Fell. Asleep. 🤬