Christa tl;dr

(between images of a map showing the nearly 2,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

If the UK can arrest a disgraced member of the British Royal Family - on his birthday no less! - we can at minimum follow the law and release the information and start ACTUAL investigations, no?

This Pam Bondi hearing is unhinged. If there was an Olympic medal awarded for deflection and misdirection, she would win gold.
What an embarrassment.

The goodest boy with the best run of the day!

When he says asinine crap like this, I really need the next reporter he calls on to call him out or at the very least restate her question. Do not let him continue to get away with dodging valid questions by lobbing personal insults.

Just let the woman live.

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There are no words to express my love for this woman and her work. May she rest in peace and may her memory be a blessing.

Love to see it

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN

As an American living in Canada, it is so easy to see the news and feel hopeless & helpless. Seeing stories like this out of Minneapolis - and so many others - fills my soul.

Canadian PM Carney: Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership in the economy, in security, and in rich cultural exchange. But Canada doesn’t live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian.

Yanno. At any point during that unhinged Davos speech - one of his staffers could have tripped over the mic cord, flipped a breaker, pulled a fire alarm... anything to stop the insanity. And they could have claimed some nefarious, left-wing interference. They are trolling us, at this point.

This is my shocked face 😑

Greenland is full of Ice, but Iceland is very nice.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Do you hear the people sing?✊️

Protesters sing in an incredibly powerful and haunting moment at Thursday's ICE protest/vigil for Renee Nicole Good in Philadelphia.

#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”

- John Lewis #RIP

THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young

son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's

very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

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This comment from the Auschwitz Maemorial FB page is VERY important to read today in America.

Zelenskyy greets Freeland

Zelenskyy has appointed Canada's Chrystia Freeland as Ukraine's Special Advisor on Economic Development.

This places one of the most experienced Western economic & geopolitical operators directly into Ukraine’s reconstruction and long term development strategy. #cdnpoli 🧵

Minnesota has to come first - always.

Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids.

I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.

Got brothers or sisters? Warm sibling bonds help boost happiness as you age Researchers have found that a warm, close bond with a sibling in early adult life is predictive of good emotional health later in life, with less loneliness, anxiety and depression.

Researchers have found that a warm, close bond with a sibling in early adult life is predictive of good emotional health later in life, with less loneliness, anxiety and depression.