Retired journalist, mom, grandma of 4. Photography, gardening, cooking, dog & hubs keep me busy. Big Sumo fan! Pls. no MAGS, DMs or lists. 🖖🏼🌻🐕📷🌊
New Jersey, USA
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Barbara Rybolt retweeted
After hearing stories from teachers, I am more aware than ever that I am blessed to substitute in the district I do. The administration supports me. The good students outweigh the not so good. After 4 yrs, they know me, and I get fist bumps in the halls as well as students in class telling other students that have never had me as a sub, "That's Mr. G, and he don't play. Just be cool and don't act the fool and he'll treat you with respect". The good students are my biggest allies.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
2,665 CHILDREN DEPORTED TO COUNTRIES THAT WEREN'T THEIR OWN.
That's what an analysis of ICE records found between January 2025 and March 2026.
601 were sent to Panama.
380 to El Salvador.
331 to Colombia.
299 to Mexico.f
224 to Canada.
The records identify destinations different from the children's recorded citizenship.
BUT HERE'S WHAT WE STILL DON'T KNOW:
How many were unaccompanied?
How many were sent under third-country deportation agreements?
And what safeguards ensured they were received safely?
The records don't answer those questions.
Meanwhile, The Marshall Project reports more than 22,000 child deportation events through August 6, 2026.
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS.
WHERE IS THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
HOLY SHIT!!
My 6 year old grandson said he wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween, and then stay a Ninja Turtle.
So, his mom and I called his school and asked if they could do trans-species surgery instead of transgender surgery on him Monday.
They're going to call George Soros to get the funding. And we already filed to change his name to Dino-tello. And we also requested the government to allow him to live at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with all the algae.
Yeah, that's how fucking stupid you MAGA morons sound when you believe @realDonaldTrump and his school transgender surgery bullshit.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
📣 Your reminder that Lindsey Graham, along with Mike Crapo, Chuck Grassley, Jerry Moran, Mitch McConnell, John Thune and Roger Wicker, voted to convict Bill Clinton for lying about an affair, but acquitted Trump for attempting a coup‼️
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
Let's notforget overlooking the Epstein files as well. We know Trump raped children. He may have murdered children &
the fact that he is still sitting where he is shows the depth of rot in the vitals of the country we thought we knew.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
10/31/26 …
Good morning friends,
& HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
As you can see, Oakie &
I dressed up as an old woman, & her dog!! 😂
It’s a cold, rainy day here, & my girl is already outside playing in the mud. 🤷🏽♀️
I’m headed for the wood shop.
Y’all have a wonderful day.
L&H’s!
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists sought to notify clinicians on the rising threat about a month ago through its Health Alert Network and provide guidance for care, according to two people briefed on the process who, like others,
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
they really are determined to kill us off one way or another
CDC scientists sought urgent alert on measles in pregnancy. It wasn’t approved.
The report could fill major gaps about a condition doctors have rarely seen for decades.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
@HostageGina
@photojack @RobertPRowley2
Thanks to George Bilgere's Poetry Town:
Dark Charms
by Dorianne Laux
Eventually the future shows up everywhere:
those burly summers and unslept nights in deep
lines and dark splotches, thinning skin.
Here’s the corner store grown to a condo,
the bike reduced to one spinning wheel,
the ghost of a dog that used to be, her trail
no longer trodden, just a dip in the weeds.
The clear water we drank as thirsty children
still runs through our veins. Stars we saw then
we still see now, only fewer, dimmer, less often.
The old tunes play and continue to move us
in spite of our learning, the wraith of romance,
lost innocence, literature, the death of the poets.
We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named.
We name it the past and drag it behind us,
bag like a lung filled with shadow and song,
dreams of running, the keys to lost names.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
I don't understand why people can't grasp that skin color is melanin & has nothing to do with character. What influences character has nothing to do with ethnicity. It has to do with upbringing & other genetic factors that may impact mental health but race is not one of them
To All #Black, #Hispanic and #Latino #Voters:
The #Assignment is to #VoteBlue en masse.
Don't let these #Rascists succeed.
I was taught from the time I was in grade school that a #Black #Man would hurt me because I was a White, Blond-Eyed little girl.
As a result, it has taken me a lifetime to not feel jolt of fright when I see a Man of Color.
#GirlFromKansasAndTexas
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
"Republican Texas Senate hopeful Ken Paxton’s office is suing election officials in his state’s largest county - for helping people of color to vote."
newrepublic.com/post/217362/…
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
trump's ass kissers tried to convince the judge any delay would hurt the government. What a pile of bullshit.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
Federal judge signals she may halt construction on Trump’s arch
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan was skeptical of the Justice Department’s arguments, including on the project’s urgency. “What is the rush?” she asked.
via @washingtonpost
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
🚨 NEVER FORGET JANUARY 6.
Trump watched from the White House dining room as police officers were beaten, refusing for HOURS to stop the mob trying to overturn the 2020 election.
If Republicans lose the midterms, will Trump try to STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION?
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
This is the President of the United States, spewing more garbage: “If Abdul and the Democrats win, they will open the floodgates and invite hordes of jihadis to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence and terror until you cannot even have a Christmas.”
I’M EMBARRASSED.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
'Patriots’ using the flag to beat police
January 6th 2021
I will keep on posting this till over the midterm elections
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund has been unmasked as the force behind the fake Texas Transgender Student Union (TTSU). This Wyoming LLC, formed in September, flooded as many as 3 million Texas mailboxes and phones with texts and brochures just as early voting began for the midterms.
Posing as a trans advocacy outfit, the materials—addressed to the children of registered voters—coached minors on seeking gender-affirming care even against parents’ wishes, pursuing emancipation, going out-of-state for hormones or surgery, and finding a “found family.” They copied branding from the real Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) and used a near-identical address.
Legal filings named the Republican Women’s Caucus and “John Braun”—the name of a Washington state senator whose campaign treasurer, Paul Kilgore, also handles finances for the RWC Fund and PACs supporting Ken Paxton’s Senate bid against Democrat James Talarico. TTSU’s lawyer is former Paxton assistant AG Chris Hilton.
TENT sued, claiming harassment, threats, and operational harm. Judge Jan Soifer ordered disclosure, rejecting free-speech secrecy claims.
So, a Republican-linked group, with financial ties to Paxton-supporting PACs, mass-produced and distributed materials that impersonated a transgender student resource guide. In other words, the people who routinely accuse the transgender community of “indoctrinating” or targeting children, themselves produced and mailed the very content designed to look like that targeting—so parents would see it and react.
Every Republican accusation is a confession.
Barbara Rybolt retweeted
If Democrats regain control of Congress, we need an agenda that works for working people:
Medicare for All
$20 an hour minimum wage
Overturn Citizens United and end billionaire-funded super PACs
End Trump's war in Iran
End military aid to the Israeli government
