Deborah Pettit

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.

Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.

They knew how to treat her. There was one issue…🧵

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Good morning, everyone. I think this is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

If you are ever turned away at the polls, your LEGAL response must be:

“Please give me a provisional ballot, with a receipt, as required by law.”

🗳️ Spread the word! 🗳️

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

The Venerable Monks Walking for Peace have reached DC.
Thank you for being a light for humanity everywhere. ✨

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

[Ladies Who Like Baseball @LONTDC1]

May the ghost of Katharine Graham haunt Jeff Bezos for the rest of his life.

She had the backbone & balls @JeffBezos will never have.

[Lisa.B @Ana9Lisa]

Este es Mariano Barbacid, él y su equipo han conseguido eliminar por completo el cáncer de páncreas en ratones. Y después de una semana de noticias nefastas y discusiones salvajes, esto es lo que merece ser destacado, la esperanza. Es de colorinchis, y aquí va mi arte para él.❤️

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

We cannot allow America to become a country where journalists get arrested because the president doesn't like their coverage.

Free Don Lemon.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Aerial footage shows a MASSIVE crowd peacefully marching through Minneapolis in protest of the Trump administration and ICE.

This isn’t fringe. This isn’t isolated.
This is sustained, organized, nationwide resistance and it’s growing.

📍 Minneapolis, Minnesota

H/t VinceDMonroy

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY - 72 - and all I want for my birthday is for you to RETWEET THIS VIDEO!

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

The Constitution is NOT a suggestion.

It's called the 22nd Amendment. Read it.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a rare and powerful moment following radiation treatment, President Biden just delivered the speech of the year demolishing Donald Trump and imploring Americans to get up and fight back. This is so powerful. https://t.co/zzUeIITNLN

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

NO KINGS. TODAY. NATIONWIDE.

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

Tomorrow, Catifa will be there.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

🚨 I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it was President @JoeBiden who secured the release of 140 hostages in Gaza. Trump? Just 28.

That means Biden was responsible for 83% of all the hostages freed — yet you’d never know it from the way the media talks.

If anyone deserves the title “Peace President,” it’s #46 — not the guy bombing fishing boats in international waters and sending masked agents to terrorize Americans.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

This Obama edit has 6.3 million likes and 23 million views on TikTok from a random political creator

I've never seen the actual establishment sell Obama's legacy as well as this organic hit

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel!

[✨🦋helene🦋✨ @hvayou925]

That part.