Sheesh

@SirBylHolte I find it telling when folks get really upset about story characters being portrayed in different tellings. It seems such a strange thing to me. The skin color, gender, or species of characters is usually irrelevant to the story. If relevant, it becomes part of this told story.

REALITY CHECK UPDATE: Helen of Troy is not black - and never could be. Same with Clytemnestra. Same with Athena. Mulder & Scully are not black. Dean Youngblood is not black. Thomas Crown is not black. Long John Silver is not black. Severus Snape is not black. Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield is not black. Little Orphan Annie is not black. Captain America is not black. Wonder Man is not black. Little Mermaid is not black. Cleopatra is not black. Ann Boleyn is not black. Queen Charlotte is not black. Doctor Who is not black or gay. Vikings are not black. Tinker Bell is not black. Sir Lancelot is not black. Guinevere is not black. Julius Caesar is not black. Heimdall is not black. Friar Tuck is not black. Achilles is not black. Joan of Arc is not black. Zeus is not black. Margaret of Anjou is not black. The 7 Dwarves are dwarves. The Lost Boys are boys. Snow White is white. 007 is not and will never be a black woman. Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson is not a black female. The Founding Fathers are not black or hispanic. And Black Panther is not a woman. Did I leave anyone out?

@NolanAnalyst White supremacists reveal themselves by their ignorance of the import of the Kingdom of Ethiopia throughout the Ancient world from the time of Solomon through the 9th century AD. Clearly important as the delegation from Ethiopia is the Bible’s way of showing Solomon’s importance

Alec Baldwin reacts to Elon Musk criticizing Lupita Nyong'o being cast as Helen of Troy in THE ODYSSEY

@elonmusk Your failure to acknowledge the importance of the Kingdom of Ethiopia in the ancient world reveals your inaccurate and low key white supremacist view of history.

Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …

@elonmusk So I’m guessing you are unfamiliar with the Kingdom of Ethiopia which was a major trade player throughout the ancient world from the time of King Solomon of Israel through the Roman Empire. There were rich Ethiopian merchants, diplomats, & nobility doing business in Greece too.

@WhiteHouse The nation is in decline because we hold each other in contempt. It isn’t Republicans or Democrats, rather it is hard hearts & stiff necks that bring down civilizations. We can come back through reasonable bipartisan compromise solutions.

"When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden... But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

@SpeakerJohnson Contempt, disrespect, inaccuracy, division. Do you really think hard hearts & stiff necks will prosper you?

We will fully fund both border security and immigration enforcement for the balance of President Trump's term.   We're going do this for two reasons: maintaining border security and deporting dangerous criminal illegal aliens is the baseline that the American people demand and deserve, and because there's not a single Democrat in Congress — House or Senate — who believes that border security and immigration enforcement should exist.

@SpeakerJohnson Proverbs has plenty to say about those who can only sow division. No big ideas, no hope, no common ground bipartisan solutions, no persuasion, just demonizing the other party & putting faith in schemes. Proverbs also has words about schemes.

Republicans are laser focused. We don't look to the right or the left — we charge straightforward.    Republicans are for COMMON SENSE, and Democrats are for crazy. It's as simple as that, and we're going to continue reminding the American people of this every single day.

@amdespotopoulou @simongerman600 Food is culture.

@simongerman600 Italians forgot the food, for crying out loud.

Very interesting data. What makes Europeans proud of their country? Freedom makes the top three seldomly. Politics features more often.

@SenFettermanPA Are they fixing the leaking pipes & re-engineering it to work properly long term? Or just beautifying it as planned for more money? Investigate & get back to us.

Stop this henpecking. $13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair. Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th. 🇺🇸

@WhiteHouse Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions or control imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. It encompasses the power to act, believe, and express oneself without arbitrary interference. Beacon of Liberty. Yes

A beacon of freedom, hope, & the American spirit. 🇺🇸

@FT Given their conviction of corruption in regards to their charity, perhaps extending trust without extreme oversight & constant verification would be foolish. Or we could use the proper procedures to find non corrupt companies that have transparent accountability processes.

FT Exclusive: A company linked to Donald Trump's sons has asked the US defence department for an extra $400mn to develop a mine in Kazakhstan, adding to $1.6bn in government support for the project. ft.trib.al/E0tDNeT

@WhiteHouse My biggest critique of reelecting DJT was the lack of professionalism, decorum, respect, & planning. Carelessly “winging it” in complex situations that need comprehensive strategy with precise selection of high value targets, & careful logistical planning to meet goals.

Bing, Bing, GONE!!!

@archeohistories Washington’s biography by Ron Chernow , George Washington did meet with Philis Wheatley while in Boston, and he was impressed.

In October 1772, an eighteen-year-old enslaved woman was brought before a panel of eighteen of the most powerful men in Boston. The governor was there. The lieutenant governor. John Hancock. Seven ministers. Several Harvard graduates. Their task was to determine whether a Black woman could have written poetry. Phillis Wheatley answered their questions, demonstrated her knowledge of Latin and Greek, recited her verses. She proved what they did not want to believe. They signed a document attesting to her genius, and the following year, she became the first African American to publish a book of poems. She had been kidnapped from West Africa around the age of seven. The slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic was called The Phillis -- and that became her name. When she arrived in Boston in 1761, she was purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley, a merchant and his wife, who put her to work as a domestic servant. But they soon noticed something extraordinary. Within sixteen months, the child could read the Bible. Within a few years, she was reading Latin and Greek, translating Ovid, studying astronomy and geography. Susanna's daughter Mary, the same age as Phillis, became her tutor, and the family, recognizing her gifts, excused her from most household labor and encouraged her to write. By fourteen, she had published her first poem. By seventeen, her elegy for the famous minister George Whitefield had made her name known across the colonies and in England. She was a prodigy -- and a paradox. An enslaved woman writing verse in the language of her captors. A poet who had to prove she was human before she could prove she was good. That was the purpose of the 1772 examination. No American publisher would print her work -- they refused to believe an enslaved Black woman was capable of such poetry. So she was brought before Boston's elite to be tested. "She passed with flying colors," the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. later wrote. The eighteen men signed an attestation, included in the preface of her book, certifying that the poems "were written by Phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa." In 1773, Wheatley traveled to London with the Wheatleys' son. She was celebrated there -- invited to meet the Lord Mayor, praised by aristocrats, funded by the Countess of Huntingdon. An audience with King George III was arranged, though she returned to Boston before it could take place. She wrote to a friend about the "unexpected and unmerited civility" she had received. Her book, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," was published in London that September. She became, in the words of one scholar, "the most famous African on the face of the earth." Shortly after, she was emancipated. Some historians believe she made her freedom a condition of returning from England. But freedom did not mean ease. The Wheatleys who had supported her died within a few years, and she was on her own -- a free Black woman in Revolutionary Boston, trying to support herself with her pen. In 1774, she published a letter to the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan minister and fellow advocate for the rights of Black and Indigenous people. It was her clearest condemnation of slavery: "In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance." Two years later, she wrote a poem praising George Washington's appointment as commander of the Continental Army. He replied with admiration -- and an invitation. "If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters," Washington wrote, "I shall be happy to see a person so favour'd by the Muses." Some historians believe she accepted. We do not know for certain. © A Mighty Girl #archaeohistories

@Photoshop_News @ForecasterEnten Agreed. I hope some writes an in depth study after all this illustrating why division doesn’t ultimately win popularity. Their deal is eating their own, dividing out folks, driving out anyone who disagrees while they do terribly disagreeable things.

@ForecasterEnten Dems never said Trump lost his MAGA base. We said they aren't enough on their own to win elections. He lost everyone else that might for vote for his BS. Coalition building is how you win elections. Not riding a cult.

As Indiana goes, so goes the nation: Trump still has the juice with the GOP. His approval with them is the same or higher than in past midterm cycles. Most of the GOP say party leaders should follow Trump's lead. GOP lawmakers who mess with Trump get voted off the island.

@SecWar Those who reject wisdom & knowledge are morally deficient fools. —all of Proverbs

The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

@SecWar @KidRock @USArmy Morally deficient fools despise discipline. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Joined my friend @KidRock — and some of our great @USArmy Apache pilots — for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!) Kid Rock is a patriot and huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America’s 250th — home of the free because of the brave.

@Reuters How mismanaged does the DOD have to be right now for this to be happening??? Has this ever happened before? Amateurs.

US warns European allies including UK and Poland of arms shipment delays, FT reports reut.rs/4uldxDI reut.rs/4uldxDI

@peterbakernyt @nytimes Gross. This is not in the Federalist style it won’t look good, more importantly, we cannot afford it, don’t want it, and do not want to finance it.

A 3-D model by the @nytimes visualizes the impact of Trump's proposed arch on the sightline between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House, showing that it would not only dwarf the other memorials but also interfere with the carefully crafted view. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@RichardAngwin The right thing, help someone in need, regardless of who it is. Accountability is only served through legal means in a justice system. All else is foolishness.

what would you do in this situation ??

@Arkypatriot How bad are you at diplomacy & messaging if the King & Queen of England visit you to message about important international affairs and you make it about grabbing your wife’s butt in front of the press instead of the occasion? Poor judgement. Inappropriate if you wanted the clout.

So this particular picture is causing a lot of commentary. Stay on topic or move along. If you take the post off the rails to trash Melania or Trump, instead of answering the actual question, you’ll be muted. Pretty simple. So. Is this acceptable behavior of your husband in public with you?