Retired truck driver, now just fishing for knowledge

Prichard, AL
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R.I.P. to our beloved brother and R&B legend Freddie Jackson 🙏🏾🕊️ ❤️ 🌹 🙏🏾
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
Just voted early in Florida today, and you should too! This week we vote out the crooks (Republicans). Bye, ya'll!
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🌈HEY EVERYBODY, I’M 66 TODAY‼️ GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR 66 YRS. AND ALMOST 50 YRS. SINGING FOR ALL OF YOU… THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE & SUPPORT‼️🎉🎂😍 💇🏻‍♀️Hair: Omar King 💄Makeup: Rachel Reid 📸Photos: @CatHarperPhoto 🎵Music: ME🥰 #love #music #sixtysix #HAPPYBIRTHDAY #DREAMGIRL
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
They said I needed points, so I figured I’d just take the whole lot🤭🏆 Edmond, OK, thanks for the hospitality and the hardware✨
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Rosie O’Donnell: “Just want to remind everyone November 3rd we’re voting. I will be voting blue, 100%. Let’s get rid of the Gang of Pedophiles, GOP. The enablers of Mango Mussolini. That is not American values and that is not what this country was founded on. Let’s get our country back”
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LIVE NOW: The premiere episode of “Forward by Charles M. Blow”! In this clip, guest Eddie Glaude, Jr. answers the question: “Is it fair to ask any Black person if they love America?” How would you answer? Let’s discuss. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch the full episode. youtu.be/udwOYjG-vWo?is=5-il…
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
Brainwashed half wit!
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The dancing, the hugs, the smiles, the mindset – @Jordan_lee0730 10/10
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Amazing true story: On a pouring Sunday morning in Georgia in 2014, TunDe Hector hit rock bottom on the shoulder of a slick highway. Enduring a painful divorce and severe financial hardship, she watched helplessly as her fuel gauge dropped to empty and her car sputtered to a halt. She had a single $5 bill in her pocket, an empty gas can in her hand, and miles of cold rain between her and the nearest filling station. Minutes later, Chris Wright drove past on his way to church with his family. Spotting the solitary woman trudging through the downpour with a gas can, he felt an unmistakable tug on his conscience. After dropping his wife and children off at the church doors, he looked at his wife, Carmen, and said, "I have to go back. I have to help her." Chris turned his vehicle around, pulled onto the shoulder, and offered TunDe a dry seat. He drove her to the nearest gas station and paid to fill her container. As they pulled back up to her stranded car, Chris felt another quiet prompting inside his chest telling him to empty his wallet. He reached into his pocket, pulled out $40, every dollar he had on him, and pressed the folded bills into her hand. TunDe wept right there in the passenger seat, thanking a man whose name she did not even know before they parted ways. Three years later, in the summer of 2017, tragedy struck the Wright family. Chris’s mother, Judy Wright, entered the final, devastating stages of Parkinson’s disease. Doctors informed the family that she had only weeks left to live and required immediate, round-the-clock hospice care at home. The family arranged for a private nursing aide, only for the scheduled caregiver to cancel at the very last minute. In her place, the agency sent a replacement certified nursing assistant: TunDe Hector. Neither TunDe nor the Wright family recognized one another when she walked through the front door. Over the following days, the family watched in awe as TunDe cared for their dying matriarch with extraordinary gentleness, dignity, and warmth. She spoke softly to Judy, prayed over her bed, and treated her with the devotion of a daughter. During quiet hours beside Judy’s bed, the family learned that TunDe dreamed of finishing nursing school, though she was currently locked out of registering for classes because she owed tuition money she could not afford. One afternoon during a shift change, the conversation turned to how faith carries people through impossible seasons. TunDe began telling the family about the lowest day of her life three years prior, describing how she had run out of gas in the pouring rain with only five dollars to her name, and how a kind stranger had circled back from church, bought her fuel, and handed her every dollar in his wallet. Across the room, Chris Wright froze. His jaw dropped, and tears immediately welled in his eyes. "TunDe," Chris whispered, his voice breaking. "That was me." They both removed their hats, looked closely at one another, and broke down crying in the middle of the living room. The woman Chris had rescued on the side of a lonely highway had been sent back into his life three years later to comfort his mother in her final days on earth. Two weeks later, on July 9, Judy passed away peacefully. It happened to be TunDe’s birthday. Even though she was off duty and celebrating with her own loved ones, the second TunDe received the phone call, she left her birthday party and rushed straight to the Wright home to comfort Judy’s widowed husband and prepare her friend one last time with dignity. Overwhelmed by her selflessness, the Wright family decided that simple thank-you notes were nowhere near enough. When they wrote Judy’s obituary, they included a special request: in lieu of funeral flowers, please donate toward TunDe Hector’s nursing school tuition. They set up an online fundraiser hoping to gather $1,000 to clear her past-due class balance. Within 45 minutes of going live, the fund surpassed its goal. Within days, the story of their full-circle encounter spread across the country, and strangers donated over $34,000, enough to pay for TunDe’s entire nursing degree. A single forty-dollar bill given in the rain had returned years later as priceless grace when a family needed it most.
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
It’s Sunday and YES you can STILL VOTE today! EARLY VOTE IN GEORGIA AND BE DONE WITH IT! LESSGOOOOO!!!💯🗳️
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
To be clear, evil billionaire scumbag Zuckerberg shutting down the official No Kings account in the middle of nationwide protests isn’t a mistake, it’s an assault on a free speech and expression, it’s pure fascism.
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RT @Ange_Amene: The number one reason why most Black voters vote Democrat is because the GOP is racist. Openly racist. Never discount how…
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Unlike Trump and his allies, Marc Elias has not spent the last decade stewing or concocting baseless conspiracies. “I’ve recommitted myself to fighting for democracy in court.” Keep watch on the people rewriting the rules. Sign up for free: demdock.com/3UtQUko
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
We’re putting Mississippi on the map.
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🚨Six Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officers face termination or have resigned after an internal investigation uncovered a text message thread filled with severe racial slurs, including the n-word, and other explicit biases. The text messages were discovered by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) while reviewing a phone belonging to former officer Seth Elliott. Elliott was undergoing a separate criminal investigation for allegedly misusing the department's Flock license plate reader network to aid a drug dealer. Key Details of the Scandal •The Content: The texts, which spanned several years, featured racial, sexual, and religious biases. Officers bragged about arresting Black residents, targeted Black drivers, and even instituted a competition to see who could make traffic stops involving the most Black drivers. In one message obtained by investigators, an officer explicitly stated that their group message group "sound like a clan rally". •Officer Fallout: Out of the six officers implicated—all of whom were part of the same 2024 graduating class—three have officially resigned. The other three remain suspended without pay while a Civil Service Board reviews recommendations for their termination. •Federal Investigation: On October 15, 2026, the FBI launched an active investigation into the department for civil rights violations. •Impact on Legal Cases: Defense attorneys in Charlotte have raised alarms that any pending or past criminal cases involving these officers are now severely jeopardized due to overt racial bias.
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
When they interview the farmers that voted for Trump 😂😂😂 @KarlousM
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
You might want to listen.
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
That’s Florida, y’all‼️
There are more than 700 people in line for our rally in Gainesville. It starts in a hour and a half. Florida is fired up for Angie.
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David Lee Barnes retweeted
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Your dumb ass owes an apology to these two.
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