"On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French, of Omaha Nebraska, swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark-infested waters after the USS Gregory was hit

So I agree. We’re not looking out for our Canada 🇨🇦 brothers and sisters. I’m actually presenting tomorrow on this to an influential group. Vaccine metrics in Canada are awful. Canada has always been there for us through hard times and good, we must reciprocate.

“My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man.'" nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/…

Thread: This mothers day, I'm thinking about Cindy Rodriguez. She was a 51-year-old mother of two living with a physical disability. She was arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store. What happened next will shake you to the core, and inspire you. (1)

Trump left us with the worst wave of death in a century, the worst crime increase in years, the first net job loss in generations, and an insurrection attempt based on an avalanche of lies told across all forms of media. Twitter was one of his least important problems.

Just a reminder that 147 Republican members of Congress — one-hundred and forty-seven — voted to throw out duly certified electors for President Biden in Arizona and Pennsylvania on January 6, even *after* armed rioters attempted to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.

Doesn't anyone fact check opinion columnists The New York Times? Because police budgets have largely increased around the country, not decreased, and homicides are up in cities with increased police budgets as well as those that have stayed the same. /1

Please take the time to read this statement by Ida Bae Wells. Every word. naacpldf.org/press-release/…

Just seeing this Giannis answer. This is so intensely valuable. For anyone.

I would like to send him 200K prize. If he ever needs support, my husband was a chess champion from Mushin and represented Nigeria in international competitions. He attended OAU & Yaba Tech on scholarships. We can support him with what we can. Let’s get him off the streets!

Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5

Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. 1/15

I’ve always respected Trevor Noah so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents’ dinner is particularly spectacular.

🧵Dems are about to give $80b to IRS. Mostly for enforcement, as you've prob heard—but some of the $$ will also go toward upgrading the agency's IT. Which is desperately needed. How can you tell? Let me take you on a tour, starting with the IRS cafeteria washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

This seems odd: wfla.com/news/politics/…

Say you were a foster kid from age 7 because your dad was murdered & your mom couldn't beat her substance use disorder. Growing up in a high-crime neighborhood, and lacking parenting or support, as an adolescent you found kinship in the streets, with other kids like yourself. 1/

Oyer: Perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today. On Friday night, I learned that the Deputy Attorney General’s office had directed the department’s Security

“Art has to do with our limitations, our frailties, and our faults as human beings,” the musician Nick Cave says. “That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply flawed creatures can sometimes do extraordinary things.” nyer.cm/8FUYVo0