Elise Flynn

CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978: Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time The class division in this country is staggering, unforgivable, and untenable. epi.org/171191

@TonyWard867811 They will not be selling you children's retirement, Mr. Ward. They will not be there long enough. Companies will simply dispose of them beforehand. x.com/SkyNews/status…

Your father retired at sixty. He bought a caravan. He saw his grandkids on Tuesdays. He had time. You are sixty four. Your knees are gone. Your back is ruined. And they have moved the line again. Sixty seven. Then sixty eight. Then sixty nine. They sold three years of your retirement to balance their books. They sold five years of your wife's pension to balance their books. They will sell your children's whole retirement before they are done. Healthy life expectancy in this country is sixty three. You will retire sick. If you retire at all. The printer at Threadneedle Street never stops. The spending at the Treasury never stops. The excuses at Downing Street never stop. Three machines grinding through your life. You were not given more years to enjoy. You were given more years to serve.

@CrazyVibes_1 I grew up reading Erma Bombeck. I had no idea she was this ill, but knew she was feisty and true and strong and a role model not only for me but for my own mother and every mother I knew. What a life. What a lady. What a loss to the world that she's not still with us.

She Was 37. Broke. Dying. And She Made 30 Million People Laugh Every Week. Erma Bombeck didn’t have an office. She had a typewriter on a wood plank in her bedroom. She didn’t have time. She had three kids and a disease that was killing her. Ohio. 1965. Erma was 37, a mom in Centerville, Ohio. Laundry never ended. Kids destroyed the house daily. Dishes reappeared like magic. Everyone said motherhood was “sacred.” “The highest calling.” Erma thought it was also messy. Loud. And funny as heck. So she walked into a tiny local paper and asked to write the truth. Not the perfect mom version. The real one. They said, “We’ll pay you three dollars per column.” She said yes. She went home, put a typewriter on a plank between two cinder blocks, and got to work. No desk. No fancy setup. Just her and the chaos. She wrote about the septic tank exploding during dinner. About trying to get three kids to school without losing her mind. About “the beautiful absurdity of a life spent making other people's lunches”. Three weeks after a bigger paper found her, she went national. Soon, “At Wit's End” ran in 900 newspapers. “Thirty million readers. Twice a week. Every week.” Erma became the most-read humor writer in America. Why? Because she said what no one else would. “She told the truth about motherhood when polite society insisted it must remain perfect.” She joked about selling her kids. Told moms to “lock the bathroom door and hide from their families for five minutes of peace.” Thirty million women read it and thought: “Oh my God. Someone finally said it.” Phil Donahue was her neighbor. He said, “Motherhood was sacred. Mothers were put on pedestals. Then Erma wrote, 'I'm going to sell my kids.' She punctured that pretense and was suddenly speaking for millions.” But here’s the part nobody knew: Erma was dying the whole time. At 20, doctors told her she had polycystic kidney disease. Incurable. They said she’d never have kids. She adopted a daughter. Then somehow had two sons. For decades, she did dialysis and came home to write. “She made America laugh while quietly fighting to stay alive.” She never complained. Never asked for pity. “She just kept writing.” She grew up poor in Dayton. Dad died when she was nine. At 13, she wrote for her school paper. At 15, she got a job at the Dayton Herald. A professor told her: “You can write.” So she did. For 31 years. Over 4,000 columns. 15 books. Nine bestsellers. 15 million copies sold. Eleven years on Good Morning America. She wrote survival guides disguised as jokes. Titles like The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? She beat breast cancer in 1992. Finally told the world about her kidney disease in 1993. Got a transplant on April 3, 1996. Wrote her last column 14 days later. Died five days after that. April 22, 1996. She was 69. She’s buried in Dayton under a 29,000-pound boulder from Arizona. Big as the laughs she gave us. Think about it. She started at 37 — when the world says women are done. For three dollars a week. On a plank. While on dialysis. While dying. “And she never stopped being funny.” Because “humor isn't the opposite of pain. It's how you survive it.” She once wrote, “Success is outliving your failures.” She did. Not because she got famous. But because 30 million people picked up a paper and felt less alone. She told them: Motherhood is hard. You’re tired. You’re not failing. You’re human. “Before Erma, mothers were supposed to be saints. After Erma, they were allowed to be people.” She was 37 when she started. Dying the whole time. Wrote till five days before she died. Erma Bombeck (1927-1996). A housewife. A typewriter. Three dollars. Thirty million readers. And the belief that ordinary lives are worth writing about. “Not despite their ordinariness. Because of it.”......................

@tedcruz You wish I hadn’t pointed out that 95+% of my opponent’s funding came from the Israeli lobby, and millions of that came from a woman who has Israeli citizenship and served in the IDF? Sorry for your feels Ted.

@stephenRB4 "Clear off." "Bless your heart." "Is that so?"

What’s your favourite swear word that isn’t really a swear word? Some personal favourites of mine: - Blimey - Crikey - Golly Gosh

The cow gave birth to quadruplets against incredible odds, and the owners named them Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moo.

@MalcDow @nexta_tv We are all so disposable at this point.

@TashaMahal @nexta_tv Better than just 'track', if you read the T&C small print (miles of it) FB "owns" the content.

😱 Zuckerberg fired 8,000 employees and tightened surveillance at Meta On the day of the layoffs, workers were told not to come to the office, while dismissal emails started arriving at 4 a.m. The remaining employees were put under a monitoring system that tracks mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots for AI training.

@human_xxoo For those who aren't native Californians (or who are too young), Ronald Reagan also released everyone in CA state mental institutions insisting the government should not have to house, feed, and care for them. Hence all the mentally ill on the streets. Tax cuts for the rich? 👍

Ronald Reagan was full of shit. His ideas were garbage. He destroyed the middle class. He stuck us with enormous debt and dismantled the Peoples government and replaced it with a crappy oligarch puppet party.

Fun fact for the $10 billion lawsuit crowd. The IRS leak that exposed Donald Trump’s tax returns happened between August 2019 and November 2020. 405,427 other taxpayer returns were also leaked. Trump was president. His own pick, Charles Rettig, ran the IRS. The contractor who did it, Charles Littlejohn, worked on a Trump-era IRS contract and is now serving five years in federal prison. On January 29, 2026, Trump sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over a breach that happened on his watch, under his commissioner, by a contractor his administration paid. He is suing the federal government he ran, for failing to stop a leak that occurred while he was running it. The taxpayer foots the bill either way.

We are at this stage of capitalism.

@sne70433 Voting for a herd of really ticked off elephants nearby.

Vile. I firmly support air dropping trophy hunters naked and unarmed into maneater territory.

@BarndoLife Unfortunately the only people who could afford that have already been laid off and replaced by AI. AI doesn't need a house. That's how the "Tech Bros" have solved the housing crisis (insert sarcasm emoji here).

Keep your family close with this dual-master floor plan.

@MikeVA999 @BarndoLife Thank you, Mike. Thought it was only we women who noticed that. Also you must walk from the 6-car garage through the laundry room to pass the entrance to the master bedroom to get to the kitchen with your groceries. Not for me.

@BarndoLife Why do these plans put the washer and dryer in the garage and not the laundry room? Even in mild climate areas, the garage can get hot and full of bugs. I don't get it.

@EduardoVarelaTV Someone ask all those "executives" at FIFA who 'awarded' Trump the "FIFA Peace Prize" how they can thank him for ruining hotel reservations for America.

Hasta el 70% de las habitaciones reservadas por la FIFA en Boston, Dallas, Los Ángeles, Filadelfia y Seattle han sido canceladas, informó la Asociación de hoteles de EUA.

@sahouraxo If this doesn't break your heart into a million pieces nothing can.

Israel killed every single child in this photo in South Lebanon within less than 30 days. They were not combatants. They were children.

@broadwaybabyto Anyone and everyone banking there should more their accounts elsewhere and inform them they refuse to conduct business with a company that dehumanizes its employees -- and its customers.

Companies referring to people as “Lower value human capital” Welcome to end stage capitalism Add this term to others such as “economically inactive” & “useless eaters” The disabled, homeless & elderly fall in these categories too Worth must never be measured by productivity.

@Kristinartz "Nameless chattel." Still popular (if not required) in many cultures.

I'm looking for a ridiculously old girl's name. Think great grandmother type of name. Very old and

@JayneZirkle There is an "Israel Day Parade"? Why? Is there an "X" Day Parade for every other country in the world - or just the one we send tens of billions of our (not just New York) taxpayer money to every year?

Zohran Mamdani just became the first NYC mayor in 61 years to skip the Israel Day Parade. Every mayor since 1964 showed up. Mamdani won’t stand with Jewish New Yorkers.

@JayneZirkle Probably because they support Israel’s subversion of America - Miriam Adelson for example x.com/k1nghenryiv/st…

@MoundLore My father had a bullet vacuum cleaner from Sears that lasted 57 years. All his tools were Craftsman. We had Kenmore appliances. Dad was born in 1913. He watched Sears build a store where a man could put his house & home together with his own hands - and buy a literal house, too.

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.