Chelsea Donaldson

⚖️ @CTVeteransLegal serving all who served
🗣️ more healthcare, less cages
💙 survivor and advocate #metoo
🏳️‍🌈 pride 24/7/365
⌛ tweets/opinions are my own

[Chelsea Donaldson @CMD_ESQ]

Thank you, @rosadelauro, for inviting us to be a part of this conference.

Congress needs to do the right thing, here — #FundtheVA.

[Rosa DeLauro @rosadelauro]

Republicans passed a bill to immediately cut $2 billion from veterans’ programs & leave them vulnerable to even deeper cuts.

I joined CT veterans today to highlight how Republicans are trying to delay their access to health care & slash the programs & benefits they have earned.

[Chelsea Donaldson @CMD_ESQ]

@DK_Assist Are you giving out free oat bars or...?

[Chelsea Donaldson @CMD_ESQ]

Patriots are on a roll this season! #GoPats

[Gillette Stadium @GilletteStadium]

Happy Game Day 🎃! Follow/ RT to enter to win all of this @dunkin swag 🤩🕷️🕸️

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

How.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Bibi speech described a reality that doesn't exist. Lying about cutting off access to food. Lying about civilian casualties. Avoiding responsibility for 10/7 security failure and diplomatic failure to bring hostages home. Seeking applause for unachievable military objectives.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

"Sanctions on Venezuela, for instance, contributed to an economic contraction roughly three times as large as that caused by the Great Depression in the United States." https://t.co/RSjsAMo4yf

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Congrats again to everyone who facilitated this disgraceful campaign rally speech from Netanyahu. Hope they're proud to watch him attack American college students and freedom of speech and assembly from Congress.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

We're working with our partners at Zoom to increase registration limits!!! If you are in line, stay in line! #answerthecall2024 https://t.co/Mb5129rjlJ

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

On Sunday night, 44,000 women gathered with @WinWithBLKWomen to support Kamala Harris, and they raised over $1 million. It’s our turn to show up. So that’s what we’re doing.

All are welcome. Tell your people.

Register now at https://t.co/jajPP57H3e

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

My wife and I had multiple, soul-crushing miscarriages, and one still born daughter before we were able to have children. Millions of parents are desperate to have kids but simply can't. Treating people without children like they are lesser human beings is unbelievably cruel.

[Michael Sainato @msainat1]

Seven major labor unions, the UAW, AFA, SEIU, NEA, APWU, UE, and IUPAT have called on the Biden Administration to halt all military aid to Israel

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Hard to think of worse example of someone with manufactured enthusiasm than Taylor Swift whose tour just grossed over a billion dollars.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Madam Vice President, we are ready to help.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country.

I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

It's never too late to uninvite Bibi Netanyahu to Washington!

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

In a world increasingly filled with leaders who have changed laws, killed people, and stormed parliaments to cling to power, Joe Biden just flipped the script.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I prosecuted sex predators. Trump is one.
I shut down for-profit scam colleges. He ran one.
I held big banks accountable. He's owned by them.

I'm not just prepared to take on Trump, I'm prepared to beat him.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

Let’s fucking go 🥥

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Lost in the news cycle but Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill, died by suicide on Friday. He was only 59. What a terrible loss.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.