Amy Coplan

From Kool & me—with gratitude, admiration, & solidarity ✊🔥💗🗽🌈⚖️

this seemed and seems real now

This patriot died defending the homeland on American soil

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.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man, and it’s because some folks didn’t want us to. In 2021, organizers at an Ohio Memorial Day ceremony muted retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter for nearly two minutes the moment he began discussing how formerly enslaved Black Americans exhumed the remains of Union soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

The cases against J6ers were sound and convicted by juries. As someone who was at DOJ during these prosecutions, these were non-political and brought by career professionals unlike this administration.

Donald Trump's approach to the Iran war reflected his personality, not strategy—and he is on his way to losing the war for that reason, @DavidFrum argues: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

This Times investigation into the CFTC is just … wow. “In the past 16 months of the Trump administration, the commission has shrunk its work force, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn, The Times found.” nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/…

This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60. SSG Alan W. Shaw Section 60, Grave 8451 B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007 There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸

A baby hippo only needs a couple of things to break the internet: a good story and a good amount of cuteness. Bumpy has both — in abundance. And the world is in desperate need. wapo.st/4tNyl6c

Republican politician John McCain was one of the few people who understood from the beginning what Putin was all about. This interview is from 2014. It’s a shame most US politicians still lack this kind of clarity.

This is Officer Caroline Edwards. Donald Trump's insurrectionists cracked her skull and injured her brain. Trump pardoned them, and may pay them "reparations" with our taxes. If you still support Donald Trump, you've lost your right to pretend you back the blue.

@MaraElephant She’s a beauty 🥰🥰🥰🐘🐘🐘

While on daily patrol in Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Mara Elephant Project rangers came across a herd of seven elephants and quickly noticed one individual in particular, a young female subadult estimated to be around 10–13 years old. What stood out? She appears to be pregnant. Female elephants typically become able to conceive around this age, beginning a remarkable 22-month gestation period, the longest of any land mammal. For a long-lived species facing growing pressures across the landscape, the sight of a healthy young elephant on her journey into motherhood is always a hopeful sign for the future of the Mara’s elephant population.

@jdpoc @Saxondk Amazing!!!🤩

Best. Reply. Ever.

Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 letter to the New York Times: They saw the creation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine at the expense of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population as a profound injustice and moral catastrophe. Einstein and the other signatories explicitly compared Begin’s Herut (Freedom Party), born from the Irgun, to Nazis and Fascists, warning that their ideology of racial superiority and violent ethnic nationalism posed a grave danger to the moral and political future of the new state. - - - Full text of Einstein and Hannah Arendt's letter to the New York Times: TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES December 2, 1948 Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine. The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections and to cement political ties with Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel. Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other fascist parties, they have been used to break strikes, and they have encouraged demoralization among labor. In their actions they have been marked by cruelty and contempt for human life. During the recent past, they have systematically terrorized the Arab population, attacked Jewish settlements, and sabotaged the rescue of displaced Jews from Europe. A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war and had even fought off Arab bands that wanted to use it as their base. On April 9 (1948), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent an apology to King Abdullah of Transjordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of it, widely publicized it, and invited foreign correspondents to view the corpses and the ravaged village. The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have attempted to institute a reign of terror, have beaten up Jews who opposed them, and have, by gangster methods, terrorized the population. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel. The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a warning to the American people concerning a danger to be found in the Freedom Party in Israel, a danger to which the leadership of Menachem Begin gives the greatest emphasis. (Signed): Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, Irma Lindheim, and 22 other Jewish scholars, writers, and public figures. (Published December 4, 1948, in The New York Times.)

@cturnbull1968 That’s the one 😎

The Constitution

trump's endorsement of Ken Paxton in Texas has done wonders for his polling... He's 4 points behind Democrat James Talarico... in Texas! Thanks trump! 😂

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi, the bipartisan co-chairs of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, called on Sunday for Congress to block the implementation of the Justice Department’s $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund." Fitzpatrick, a Republican, and Democrat Suozzi introduced a bill that would prevent the fund from disbursing any payments. “It’s really up to the Republicans to join with the Democrats. Everybody knows this is wrong,” Suozzi said. “That's the purpose of the checks and balances in government, so that one branch of government does something stupid or wrong, the other branch holds them accountable.” Read more: this-week.visitlink.me/QpxAsc…

Pete Hegseth: “The single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘Our diversity is our strength.’” Actually, the single dumbest phrase in military history is “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.” Pete said this to West Point’s Class of 2026, which is 21% women and 40% non-white.

Your response to Hegseth’s idiotic statement is PERFECT. One would think he would have some new material by now. I wonder how many times he uttered the word “lethality,” while grimacing. I so hope that the West Point graduates view Hegseth in the way that the remaining FBI agents are reported to view Patel.

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3