Resilience rises. 🚀 The Crew-1 mission has lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:27pm ET and is en route to the International Space Station. #LaunchAmerica

Stage 1 has separated. The SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle is on its way and the trajectory is nominal. #LaunchAmerica

In the third Covid-19 surge, people are becoming infected not just at big gatherings but during daily routines or in smaller social settings they thought of as safe on.wsj.com/3kA7uHt

In 2008, the outgoing Bush administration cooperated with the Obama-Biden team to lay the groundwork for rescuing the auto industry and saving countless jobs. With even greater crises today, the American people deserve a higher, not lower, standard of cooperation.

It’s not enough to praise our essential workers — we have to protect and pay them.

Protecting the outgoing president's ego is not worth undermining national security.

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the memory of the at least 37 transgender or gender-nonconforming people killed this year—the majority of whom were Black and Latinx transgender women. Today and every day we must recommit to ending this epidemic. #TDOR

Here's the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help. If you're able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition. joe.link/2UNbPwc

Let’s all do our part this Thanksgiving to keep people safe and healthy. Celebrate virtually, if you can. Wear a mask. And as always, listen to the experts. The choices you make could save lives.

We need to remember: We’re at war with a virus — not with each other.

This Native American Heritage Day, we give thanks to our Indigenous communities and their ancestors. As we celebrate their rich heritage and contributions, let’s commit to writing a new future together — one built on a strong partnership and filled with opportunity for all.

40 days.

So it’s Dr. Fauci’s birthday. While he’s still a kid by my standards, he’s more than earned our respect and attention. I don’t know what he wants for this occasion but I imagine one thing would be for all of us to respect the damn science and defeat this horrid plague.

Though we may be physically separated, we, the American people are united in spirit.

The last time I was here in 2017, Capitol police were escorting me to central booking for leading a non-violent protest of an immoral budget. This time they just had to show me to my office.

There's so much I admire about the French: their sophistication, their cinema, their willingness to prosecute former presidents.

Check out this week's edition of The Beacher Weekly Newspaper for stories about the library's renovation and our virtual events during #COVID19. Thank you to The Beacher! #MichiganCityPublicLibrary #MCPL #virtualevents thebeacher.com/pdf/2021/Beach…

A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious.” I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.

In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be.

BREAKING: Senate Democrats just passed the American Rescue Plan and big, bold COVID relief for people across this country.