GenX writer. ๐ฅ ๐บ ๐ถ sci, math, languages, history, art, ๐ท, law. neurodivergent amputee. #TeamPete #TCMParty #DisabilityInFilm #MECFS #MCAS @richarddcarlson
The Black Lagoon
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I am the daughter of a German child-refugee & a 1/2-Lebanese veteran
I am a wife, sister & ๐mom
I am a researcher, writer, artist & advocate
I am a homebound double amputee whoโs spent a lifetime struggling with painful rare diseases & a broken healthcare system
#IAmTeamPete
ALT Shows the back of a yellow-framed wheelchair with a white string-pull backpack hanging over the back cushion. The backpack is printed with large capital letters in bold, alternating colors that spell โBOOT EDGE EDGE.โ Above that, pinned to the top of the back cushion are 3 large & 3 small Pete Buttigieg buttons, some with his face, and 1 small button with a portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trees in background.
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We are in a dangerous place as a nation when members of the press are taken into custody for exercising their First Amendment right to a free press, while federal agents kill with impunity.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, as dictated by the current presidential administration, should alarm us all. We must not look away or be dismissive. This is serious, and I am calling everyone to a higher state of consciousness and awareness of where we are.
This is fascist behavior, and now more than ever, I urge us to persistently seek out and study nonviolence so that we have the necessary mindset, tools, strategies, and coordinated efforts, not only to resist in this moment, but to bring into being a true state of justice.
#DonLemon #Minneapolis #FirstAmendment #Minnesota
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
Buttigieg: Most people who voted for Trump weren't voting for the idea that an American citizen could be pushed to the ground, have federal agents take his gun away, and then shoot him up to 10 times. I don't think Americans were voting for immigration police to get more funding than the FBI itself. This is not what most Americans left, right, or center want to see.
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
Buttigieg: The president lost in 2020. He went to court dozens of times trying to prove otherwise. Thereโs a reason why he lost again and again in court which is that, unlike on Twitter, you have to present evidence and there are punishments for lying.
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
This has been one of my main warning points. The sense of urgency is simulated. Thereโs no emergency. They are racing ahead in order to 1) break guardrails before they can be repaired and 2) push their loyalists past a point of no return. From my Feb 2025 Atlantic article: "These are not the acts of people who expect to lose power any time soon, or ever. They are racing to the point where they will not be able to afford to lose control of the mechanisms they are ripping up and remaking in their image. What such people will do when they believe that mounting a coup is the lesser risk to their fortunes and power cannot be predicted." theatlantic.com/internationaโฆ
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service.
Here's the playbook: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency & let parks fall into disrepair.
Then they'll call parks โmismanagedโ and invite industry to pillage them.
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
Iโm reasonably certain you could ask him about how he stopped the war between Wakanda and Namor, and heโd add it to the tally in his next speech.
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
Stop calling them Christian nationalists. Theyโre white nationalists. There is nothing Christian about them.
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
I'm just spitballing here but basically all glymphatic functions in the brain are broken in ME/CFS?
The Nasopharyngeal lymphatic plexus, which is just above your soft palate and below your brain.
This area atrophies with aging, and has no physical machinery. It works more like a passive reservoir.
May the wisdom and spirit of artist Anna Boghiguian guide whoever needs it this year and always. ๐โค๏ธ #HappyNewYear2026
youtu.be/XV6kCAP1KU8?si=0fDiโฆ
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
This is actually a later re-recording from 1965. Big Mama Thorntonโs original version of Hound Dog was recorded in 1952 for Peacock Records. My grandpa @BillHolfordACA made the master! I think he engineered the recording too, despite alternative accounts. youtu.be/Jr9q485COk0?si=hmcxโฆ
Which came first, this #DarkWinds episode name, or this sentence at the end of the #Duolingo Dinรฉ/Navajo course? I need to know!
Hรณzhวซฬ nรกhรกsdlฤฏฬฤฏฬสผ.
โBeauty is restored,โ or โThere is beauty again.โ
@netflix @AMC_TV @duolingo
ALT Screenshot of the IMDb entry for Dark Winds S2 Ep6, titled โHรณzhวซฬ nรกhรกsdlฤฏฬฤฏฬสผ (Beauty is restored). It originally aired on Aug 31, 2023
ALT Screenshot of the Duolingo sentence in Dinรฉ/Navajo: Hรณzhวซฬ nรกhรกsdlฤฏฬฤฏฬสผ. It is translated as โThere is beauty again.โ
.@CircaKiGordon Do you know anything about this โฌ๏ธ? Iโm still so curious!
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.@sagaftraFOUND posted a 35-minute 1997 interview with Sylvia Sidney on YouTube recently & itโs pure gold! One of my all-time favorite actresses, with a career spanning 7 decades! Link in next tweet.
.@missannabiller
Wanted to make sure you didnโt miss this! ๐
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Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it.
โI really take โlove your neighborโ seriously,โ he said. wapo.st/48VY4CA
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
๐ฅ A landmark study challenges the long-held belief that Alzheimerโs disease (AD) is irreversible.
โก๏ธ Using advanced mouse models that mimic human AD pathology, researchers found that restoring and maintaining healthy levels of NADโบ, a key cellular energy molecule, can not only prevent but also reverse advanced Alzheimerโs pathology and fully restore cognitive function in mice. 1/
Nicole on Wheels โฟ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ retweeted
You can use our app to trace your own medication to the manufacturer that made it, to the specific factory where it was made and to FDA inspection reports and serious compliance violations linked to that facility that ProPublica has obtained.
propublica.org/article/rx-inโฆ
For everyone who canโt handle the Epstein/Trump news dumps, emotionally, or due to poor health, etc: Give yourself permission to check out. I canโt handle it at all. For both reasons. Barely hanging on over here. Take care of yourselves and each other. โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
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I needed this, especially that last part. Except Iโm taking it more like 2 seconds at a time. ๐ฉ๐
Near the end of my tenure with Reprise Records, anti-war music was taking over the industry, and the label began pressuring me to go that route but after touring Viet Nam and having seen the horrors of that war up close, I was not prepared to go there. The sights, sounds and smells are still with me today. I recorded songs that I was comfortable with, such as โHomeโ and โItโs Such a Lonely Time of Year,โ which I feel were every bit as, or more effective than songs like โEve of Destruction.โ
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โItโs Such a Lonely Time of Yearโ was recorded for our family Christmas album, The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas in 1968. A few months before the albumโs release, I performed it on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hours, with slightly altered lyrics. While the song was written during the Viet Nam war, itsโ message of separation and loss is universal and can apply to many situations.
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Friends, Christmas is a season of hope, so if youโre struggling, please donโt lose heart. Stay the course. With faith and love in your heart, your life can change in ways you may not yet see. As my dad always said, take it two minutes at a time. May God bless you all.
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Rarely on here nowadays but accidentally clicked X while listening to Willie Nelson & this popped up! Perfect. I listen to Willie even more as I lose my sight. Brings me peace. He worked w/ my late Grandpa,on my mind all day as his last sibling just passed.๐ฏ๏ธ
