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Margaret

@mpinchb

just me, I live in Maine 🇺🇸🌊🐕🐈🏒🇺🇦🟧🦉🌊🇺🇸

Windham, Maine Katılım Ekim 2015
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Margaret@mpinchb·
France called. They want their statue back.
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The Bee Guy
The Bee Guy@the_beeguy·
It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #retweet! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9
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Margaret@mpinchb·
Hang on just a bit longer, spring is almost here!
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Margaret@mpinchb·
RIP Robert Mueller. Thank you for your service to this country. 🙏
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Margaret
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@babybergy37 But what’s with that “WOOO” after someone scores?
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x - Hannah@babybergy37·
I’m so glad TD Garden and Bruins fans don’t scream in the middle of the National Anthem like every other team does
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Stephen Green@VodkaPundit·
My 14-(15?)-year-old rescue girl still loves snow days.
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michaeljwhelan@mikejwhelan·
THE FINAL KISS AS THEY GET READY TO TAKE HER TO THE FUNERAL HOME- OUR FINAL KISS. 😭😭😭😭💙
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Margaret@mpinchb·
@mikejwhelan Oh I’m so sorry. You have been so strong, standing beside her as her journey ended. I wish you continued strength to carry on. 💔
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michaeljwhelan
michaeljwhelan@mikejwhelan·
Rebecca Died 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@_MikeSullivan Use the block feature, I know it makes me feel better. It erases morons
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Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan@_MikeSullivan·
#NHLBruins Twitter…I’ve missed you Needed a long term break from this app…mental health takes the front seat over my Bruins thoughts…still watching the games, still have my thoughts but my god this app is so insanely toxic I had to get away for a bit
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
What would you name this cat
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@mikejwhelan Blessings to you both, I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. So sad
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michaeljwhelan
michaeljwhelan@mikejwhelan·
REBECCA JUST MET WITH ALL THE DOCTORS. HOPEFULLY, SHE'LL MAKE IT A WEEK. I'VE SAID EVERYTHING I'VE NEEDED TO SAY. SHE'S RESTING COMFORTABLY SINCE HER NEW MEDS. 💙 I AM USING SECURITY ON twitter. IF I OWE YOU A FOLLOW LET ME KNOW SO YOU CAN REACH ME. I'M DOING MY BEST TO GET RID OF BOTS AND NEANDERTHALS. DON'T FEEL EMBARRASSED TO TELL ME. WE LOVE YOU ALL. I WON'T BE POSTING MANY PICTURES UNTIL DOCUMENTARY. 💙
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Margaret@mpinchb·
@SenatorCollins Go away. Retire to Florida. You don’t know anything about your constituents
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Sen. Susan Collins
Sen. Susan Collins@SenatorCollins·
The Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, ballistic missile development, and support for terrorist proxies pose serious threats to America’s national security and that of our allies, as well as to stability in the Middle East. Our highly skilled and brave service members are in my prayers as they perform this mission. Sustained combat operations require full engagement with Congress. There are important questions that will be discussed in the Senate’s classified briefings with Administration officials next week.
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f.₳RT@cNFTfART·
@RepNancyMace it’s a little early to be drinking on a sunday, nancy.
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Alice 👑
Alice 👑@shouq_al90149·
Vintage old lady name for this DOG please
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John Pavlovitz
John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz·
FACTS: @lindyli spent the entire decade prior to the outcome of the 2024 election campaigning for, working for, fundraising for, and serving as a loud surrogate for the Democratic Party. I personally partnered with her on a 2024n fundraising event for Kamala Harris and was contacted by her many times in the weeks before the election, asking me to keep raising money. She was all in. The day after the election, she immediately pivoted, scrubbed her socials, and began rebranding herself as a Trump supporter. She is the very worst kind of grifter. She has no convictions, no values, and no moral compass. Her allegiances are wherever the money and power are.
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Margaret@mpinchb·
@SenFettermanPA What is wrong with you? Trump produces “real peace” by starting a war? Resign and go home
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U.S. Senator John Fetterman
U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA·
Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.
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Chris Martz
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·
I interrupt your doom scrolling. While everyone argues about Iran, here’s a picture of Daisy when she was a puppy.
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