Hello. This is where I actually tweet, because if brevity is the soul of wit, then twitter is wit on a starvation diet due to our collective attention span.
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Joined April 2011
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Anthony Starke retweeted
Martha Vickers was scorching in "The Big Sleep" which, sadly, was the highlight of her film career. Seductive just to the point of parody- and perfectly fitting the line "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up." There were rumors that star Lauren Bacall had her role subdued as she realized the star power.. Martha went on to become mainly known for beautiful portraits and television work. She died on this date 11/2/1971 at the age of 46 from cancer..
Anthony Starke retweeted
Corporate greed is Microsoft making $134 billion in profits last year, receiving $19 billion in tax breaks under Trump, paying a lower federal income tax rate than a nurse and getting rid of 60,000 workers.
“Corporations will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a total scam.
Anthony Starke retweeted
Wow. What a turnout. In a town of 10,000, in a county Trump won by almost 30 points, nearly 1,000 came out in support of Abdul El-Sayed.
Alpena, MI, thanks very much.
Anthony Starke retweeted
Happy birthday to the smartest, strongest, most selfless person I know. I love you.
Anthony Starke retweeted
Happy 90th Birthday, Bill!
One love, Keith...
@bill_wyman
📷 #1 Bill Rasic
#2 Ethan Russell
#3,4 J.Bouquet
Anthony Starke retweeted
Today I turn 88…I’ve seen some serious shit. The most serious of it all is love. I love my family, my friends, and my wonderful fans. The power of love remains.
I did not know #salute
Charles Durning was stabbed eight times by a German soldier at point-blank range. He killed him with a rock, bare-handed, because surrender meant death.
Born in Highland Falls, New York in 1923, Durning enlisted in the Army after his father—a World War I amputee—died when Charles was just twelve. On June 6, 1944, he landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach. A sergeant beside him said it was good to be scared. Moments later, that same sergeant was obliterated by an explosion that nearly took Durning with him. He watched men die around him all day. Bodies in the water, he said later, looked like driftwood. By multiple accounts, he was the sole survivor of his unit.
Six months in a London hospital relearning how to walk. Then he pleaded to rejoin his unit. They let him. Months later in Belgium, a German soldier came at him with a bayonet. Durning was stabbed repeatedly in hand-to-hand combat before he killed the man with a rock. His company was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He survived brutal captivity that finished most of the men around him. By war's end, he'd earned a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.
He came home and didn't talk about any of it. Not for decades. He built a film career instead—over 200 films. "The Sting." "Dog Day Afternoon." "Tootsie." Audiences knew him as a reliable character actor. Almost none of them knew what he'd survived to get there.
In 1994, at a 50th anniversary memorial for D-Day, his voice breaking, he finally spoke publicly: "I don't know what they went through. They don't know what I went through. Each person fights his own war."
Charles Durning died in 2012 at 89, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A man spent most of his life quietly making sure nobody found out what he'd actually lived through.
Anthony Starke retweeted
This is a WOW piece of writing. This is a story of truth, of love, of loss, of what it means to be alone. Wow.
THE HORROR OF BEING LONELY AT SEVENTY.
by Michael Whelan
The cruelest part of growing old isn't knowing that life is getting shorter. It's wondering how much of it you'll have to spend without being loved the way you once were.
At seventy, loneliness is not simply an empty house.
It is a body that still remembers what it feels like to be loved.
God, how I miss being held.
I miss holding Rebecca's hand. The beautiful simplicity of our fingers finding each other without either of us giving it a thought. I miss cuddling in bed after a long day, feeling her warmth against me, knowing that whatever horrors the world had waiting, for that one precious moment, we were safe.
I miss someone telling me I look handsome.
I miss hearing those three ordinary, extraordinary words: "I love you."
And perhaps most heartbreaking of all, I miss saying them to someone who could whisper them back.
These are the little things we take for granted until death comes along and steals them.
For years, I cared for Rebecca as Parkinson's and dementia slowly took possession of the woman I adored. Cancer had already ravaged my own body. I was exhausted, frightened, and sometimes so overwhelmed that I prayed for one afternoon when nobody needed me.
Now I have more afternoons than I know what to do with.
What a cruel joke.
People think loneliness is about having nobody to talk to. They're wrong. I can talk to friends. I can laugh. I can attend a gathering and appear perfectly happy.
Then I return home.
Nobody asks how my day went. Nobody reaches across the couch to touch my arm. Nobody notices that I've put on a nice shirt or that I'm unusually quiet.
And the bed.
Dear God, the bed.
There is something almost unbearable about having an entire side of a mattress available when you'd surrender everything you own to feel someone breathing beside you again.
At seventy, society seems to assume our need for tenderness has somehow expired.
It hasn't.
My heart is seventy.
My need to be loved is ageless.
I still want affection, companionship, laughter, romance, and the glorious comfort of knowing someone is genuinely happy that I walked through the door.
I don't want to spend my remaining years merely remembering what love felt like.
I want to feel it again.
And perhaps that is what makes loneliness at seventy so terrifying.
I am not finished loving.
I am simply living in a world where the person who knew how to love me best is gone.
But love does not vanish just because the person who awakened it is gone. It remains in the hand that still reaches across the sheets, in the words that rise to my lips with nowhere to land, in the part of me that still believes tenderness is worth wanting.
So every night, when I turn out the light, my hand finds the place where hers used to be. I always tell her how my day went.
And for one aching moment, in the darkness, I am not only remembering what I lost.
I am remembering that I am still capable of love.
And perhaps that is not the loneliest truth of all.
Perhaps it is a promise.
The heart that can grieve this deeply has not gone empty. It is still open. It is still reaching. Somewhere beyond the silence of this house, there may be another hand waiting to find mine—not to replace Rebecca, because no one could, but to meet the love that remains.
Until then, I will keep getting up. I will put on the nice shirt. I will answer the phone, accept the invitation, sit beside someone who needs company, help other caregivers how to get through another day and let the world surprise me when it can.
I have lost the life I knew.
But I have not lost my capacity to live.
And as long as I can still love, still hope, still reach toward another human being, my story is not over.
The bed may be empty tonight.
But I am still here.
And here, even at seventy, is not the end.
Anthony Starke retweeted
A new poll says 70% of Americans doubt that Trump will accept the election results if Republicans lose in November.
Too many Americans fought and died for democracy.
Trump’s authoritarianism will not prevail.
Go vote. We WILL win this election whether Trump likes it or not.
Anthony Starke retweeted
These are my great-grandfather Dr. Sam Aykroyd’s transcripts from the Seances he hosted in the Old Farmhouse. It was the spirit of his work passed down through the generations that inspired my interests. He’s the original Ghostbuster.
Anthony Starke retweeted
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
Anthony Starke retweeted
Memo: The American people want “substantial change.”
A new AP-NORC poll reports that most voters want major change in Washington ahead of this year’s midterms. The poll reports that a combined 80% of registered voter respondents said they want either “complete and total upheaval” or “substantial change” in the way the country is run — including 97% of Democrats, 90% of independents and 58% of Republicans.
If the Democratic Party thinks that they can just tinker around the edges once they take control of Congress, guess again.
The American people have had enough.
No more failed establishment status quo policies.
The American people want change, REAL change and an agenda that works for the working families of our country.
That means, among other things, passing:
- Medicare for All
- An annual 5% wealth tax on billionaires
- The elimination of a corrupt campaign finance system
- Raising the minimum wage to at least $20 an hour
- Expanding Social Security by scrapping the cap
- Free tuition at public colleges and medical and nursing schools
- Universal childcare
- Building 7 million affordable homes & apartments
- A moratorium on AI data centers
- An end to never-ending wars and U.S. support for the extremist Israeli government
The American people have had enough. They want a government that delivers for working families, not just the 1%. The Democrats must deliver.
Anthony Starke retweeted
Sending prayers to His Holiness. We need his voice in our world right now. Wishing him a full recovery.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer and has part of his right lung removed. nbcnews.com/world/pope-leo-x…
Anthony Starke retweeted
Paul Newman & Robert Redford between takes on BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969).
