Charlotte Hicks

Child of God. Redeemed. Southern transplant living in the Northeast. Moderate Democrat. Kind. Lover of the arts, travel & design. #BlackLivesMatter

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every few years they give you a new enemy.

In the nineties it was welfare queens and crack addicts and super-predators.

In the 2000s it was Islamic terrorism and you were told to be afraid of your neighbor on the airplane and to accept surveillance as safety.

In the 2010s it was immigrants, caravans, invasions at the border.

In the 2020s it was the other political party, upgraded to existential threat, fascists, communists, destroyers of democracy, depending on which channel you watched.

Notice what is never the enemy.

The hedge fund manager who bought your neighborhood and raised your rent 40 percent is never the enemy.

The pharmaceutical executive who priced insulin at a level that makes rationing a survival strategy for American diabetics is never the enemy.

The defense contractor CEO who has budgeted for cost overruns as a profit mechanism and built political protection into every congressional district where a factory or base exists is never the enemy.

The private equity firm that bought the hospital, extracted its capital, laid off the nurses, and left the community without emergency services is never the enemy.

They are never on the screen.

They are never the face you're shown when you're told to be angry.

They are never the subject of the prime time segment.

They are the people who own the screen.

The enemy is always someone who looks like the person next to you.

Always someone who can be found in your neighborhood, your workplace, your family dinner.

Never someone who can be found on the Forbes list, the Davos guest list, the Epstein flight manifest.

This is not accidental.

This is the product.

This is what the media is for.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

We're remembering Lawrence Nathaniel "Honey" Brooks - America's oldest known living World War I! veteran, who lived to 112. Born September 12, 1909, in Norwood, Louisiana, one of 15 children, he was drafted in 1940 at age 31.

As a private first class in 91st Engineer Battalion, he served in the Pacific Theater - Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines
- building roads, bridges, and airstrips under tough conditions.

Discharged in 1945, he returned home, worked as a forklift operator in New Orleans, and became known for his humor, deep faith, and kindness.

He celebrated birthdays at the National WWII Museum well into his 110s. Lawrence Brooks passed away at home on January 5, 2022.

God bless this remarkable man. If his long life and quiet service move you, share this to keep his story alive.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church.

ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.

She was a student at Churchill High School in San Antonio. He was working at the Hilton Garden Inn. Neither has committed a crime. Their asylum case is pending.

Now they’re both sitting at the Dilley Trailer Prison. #ShutDownDilley #FreeTheChildren

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

Why is it always ‘disabled people need to get a job’ but never ‘billionaires need to pay tax and give up their mega yachts?’

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Here, you stupid MAGA fucks, eat this.

[🦢 @ZainabSana2622]

Funny how you can track a thirteen year old child across state lines when she's needing an abortion, but not for the adult who raped her.

Because god forgive we infringe on HIS rights.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

One thing you will NEVER, EVER forget. Being on a commercial flight, & the crew makes an announcement that it is their HONOR to be a part of escorting a fallen soldier home.

They ask that after landing, everyone remain seated while the military escort team disembarks. Of course, during this time, the plane is SILENT, except for the sound of the coffin being unloaded from the cargo hold.

Pray for our heroes and their families.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

What if … and hear me out … we just regulated guns?

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

If you're wondering what party will help you keep your Social Security benefits and which one is trying to take them away, this is a Republican on the Senate floor TODAY:

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1910, a white mob of hundreds massacred Black residents in Slocum, a majority-Black community in Texas.
https://t.co/xEu1Iq4yxV

[Josh Turek @turek4iowa]

Winning I-O-W-A ✅
Winning Iowa 🔜

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

The world is not collapsing because we learned compassion.

It is collapsing because we keep rewarding greed faster than we reward responsibility.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

Trump’s media company is proposing that Wall Street firms pay $100,000 a month for privileged early access to Trump’s Truth Social posts—information they could then use to execute trades and profit before anyone else.

Once again, Trump is using the presidency to help himself and the rich get richer while ordinary people lose out.

What’s new?

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives.

That's not a political statement (I don't do politics), it's a scientific fact...

https://t.co/jBMXyfCO9S

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

So, they can release Hunter Biden’s laptop..
They can release Ashley Biden’s diary..
They can release Anthony Fauci’s diary..
But they can’t release the Epstein files.. ??🤷

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

Town Hall with Doug Jones in Madison County https://t.co/qkRenl27EJ

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

Always have been always will be---Team Fauci.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

98 days until the midterms, that’s it. 98 days to decide whether MAGA keeps the House, keeps the Senate, and keeps doing whatever the hell it wants.

We aren’t waiting. We launched our effort to flip 26 seats and take back Congress. The money we raise in the next 98 days goes directly into the fight. Ads, organizing, opposition research, and everything else it takes to make MAGA sweat between now and November.

Consider chipping in: https://t.co/9HHmkqk0aw