Alisha DodHo

I'm closet funny.

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@andersoncooper Thanks for sharing what is on my heart! I spent 3 months working in a field hospital in Port-au-Prince following the earthquake. The people are incredible, determined, resilient, joyful, and (as you stated) have dignity. More people could learn from Haiti and its people!

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@JackCooper92 My Dalmatian, Hazel, as a baby 2 years ago. The sweetest and possibly the weirdest dog breed ever. Sorry for your loss. Dogs are a comfort

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@marcorubio 🖕🏼

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@elonmusk @SenMarkKelly 🖕🏼

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Thank you @SenMarkKelly for showing up in person…..next time extend an invitation to @JDVance please so he can see the churches and synagogues destroyed by Russia and schools and universities and kindergarten and museums….and hospitals and entire small towns with civilians dying everyday….

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

”Why don’t you wear a suit?”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rieckhoff: He's losing his women and children. His cities are being bombed, and we're talking about his clothes? It was victim shaming, which is what trump has been doing to Zelenskyy and Ukraine since before he got elected. It's unacceptable. It's inappropriate. And it's also undermining not just Ukraine but our own national security. 

We are now aligned with the bad guys. Russia is the bad guy, Ukraine is the good guy. And when we continue to attack Ukraine and defend Russia, that puts us in line with the bad guys, which is not where America wants to be.

[Stephanie Ruhle @SRuhle]

MAYBE THE WORLD DOES NEED MORE WOMEN LEADERS.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

Dump Thy Neighbor?

As our new president and his favorite broligarch move to dismantle US foreign aid in the name of making America “great again,” consider this:

There are 8 billion people on this planet. About half of them live on less than $7 a day. Around 10% are in what the UN calls “extreme poverty” — trying to live on less than $2 a day. And 4% are Americans who live on an average of about $220 per day.

Before January 21, when Trump froze virtually all foreign aid, the US allocated slightly less than 1% of its wealth to help the world’s poorest people. And for more than 60 years, that work has been done by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), whose goal is both self-serving and compassionate: to “further America's interests while improving lives in the developing world.”

This weekend, Trump declared USAID is run by “liberals and lunatics” — and Elon Musk tweeted it was “time for it to die” as his crew took over the agency’s offices and demanded access to classified material. And today, with Musk crowing, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the woodchipper,” we are learning that Marco Rubio is now in control of the agency.

Trump was elected by the most conservative Christians in the USA. But all Christians, whether liberal or conservative, follow the teachings of Jesus Christ — and if you distill Jesus’s message into three words, it’s “love thy neighbor.” As a traveler, I’ve come to understand that if there is a God, then all people are children of their heavenly creator. Therefore, we are all brothers and sisters. And logically, proximity (what country you happen to live in) has nothing to do with “love thy neighbor.”

But let’s just say the typical MAGA American Christian is more of a nationalist than a Christian (a.k.a. a “Christian Nationalist,”) and they care more about being rich and safe than actually loving thy neighbor. The president those Christian Nationalists helped elect, whose slogan is “Make America Great Again,” is in the process of dismantling humanitarian aid in the interest of saving tax dollars. But ironically, pulling out of this work will actually make America less safe and less great. Forgetting about any ethical or Christian-compassion dimension of foreign aid, ending these programs will make the Global South both more desperate and less stable — leaving a huge vacuum for China (which seems to understand the concept of “soft power” much better than MAGA Americans) to fill in these weakened countries. And to top it off, millions of people will no longer be providing a market for us to trade with — and will instead become refugees.

As a traveler who has spent about three months a year overseas for 40 years, who has researched and produced a one-hour TV special called “Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala,” and whose primary teaching and philanthropic goals have been to fight poverty at home and abroad, I’ve learned something very fundamental: Even if you’re only motivated by greed, if you know what’s good for you and your loved ones, you don’t want to be filthy rich in a desperately poor world. It’s just not a pretty picture.

And if you really want to make America great, the best possible use of US tax dollars is to continue to dedicate less than 1% of the total federal budget to fighting global poverty — not in the name of Jesus, but in the name of a more stable and prosperous world where the USA is a strong leader. (And talk about a twofer…you get to love thy neighbor as well!)

Concerned? Raise your voice!

[officialhambly she/they @officialhambly]

A few years back in Yosemite there was a problem with bears getting into trash cans and ppl said ‘why not make the cans more complex?’ And a ranger said ‘bc there is significant overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest human’ and this election feels like that quote to me

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.

That was a shock. This is just confirmation.

We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.

Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.

Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.

As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom.

He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had.

But at least he's not a Black woman.

[nick wright @getnickwright]

At its core, every aspect of the Deshaun Watson story is about one thing & one thing only: A total lack of regard for woman as a true equal class of humanity, and that’s why the defense of him Sunday was so appalling.

[Alexa Williams @alexawilliams7]

Louder, for the people in the back.

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@HelenhCarr Thank you! I have struggled with this since the opening ceremonies. Glorifying her gruesome death at such a celebratory event felt off for me.

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@Avis That’s the problem, we called that number and are told we have to call the France number of pick up …but the local Avis never picks up. There’s no assistance anywhere

[Alisha DodHo @AliDanielle7]

@Avis we have an emergency and need to switch our drop off location from Avignon TGV to Nice but have tried every way possible to call the Avignon TGV office with no answer there, online, or through any Avis location. Can you assist with this because it seems no one else can

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Alabama: Embryos are babies.
Me: Oh, so we can't deport mothers carrying American citizens.
Alabama: Wait.
Me: Also dudes are on the hook for child support nine months earlier.
Alabama: No. Not like that!

[First Things First @FTFonFS1]

.@getnickwright reacts to the shooting at the Chiefs parade:

[Herd w/Colin Cowherd @TheHerd]

.@ColinCowherd has no problem with Taylor Swift's presence for the NFL