Ashley Lê

digital at @giffords_org & @gabbygiffords. will always be telling extraordinary stories of @refugees. #smpaproud by night. she/hers

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Sarah Axelrath MD @DrSarahAxelrath]

I love my job, but I also wish I could quit my job and professionally rescue and rehabilitate and rehome every dog on earth.

[El 🎭 @blondchameleon]

things I love the writers for

• benedict coming out
• not ignoring that this was hyacinths first experience at grief
• benedict proposing to sophie BEFORE being accepted by society
• giving sophie a best friend and a friend group
• alice diva mondrich

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

"She is so ethereal Instagram"

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Visitors in China's Heilongjiang Province gathered to watch penguins dressed up in Chinese Tang suits for a Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 10.

The penguins waddled around while onlookers took photos, according to footage provided to AP by CNS. The Associated Press has not independently verified the footage.

[Paulina Mangubat 🫏 @paulinaVEVO]

Everyone doing metacommentary about Dem digital ought to be sentenced to at least 1 straight week of rapid response:

clipping Trump, summarizing policy into punchy videos, taking pressure from leadership to do Epic Dunks while being regularly humiliated in approvals chains

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The show Heated Rivalry only exists because of an article by @Curious_Kurz in @washingtonpost inspired the showmaker to reach out to the book's author. Today, The Washington Post laid off the reporter who did the story.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Olivia Dean during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech for Best New Artist:

“I’m up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I’m a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated.”

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I really need Democratic lawmakers to understand that we're fed up with them simply posting on social media "this has to stop" without calling for specific actions to make it stop.

We know this needs to stop. We elected you. Tell us what needs to be done to make it stop.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Gov. Walz: You ask us for peace, and we give it. And we get shot in the face on the streets

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

Federal agents are shooting and killing people in the streets.

These operations are not about public safety — they’re abuses of power, and people are dying. It must stop.

[Justin Jenkins @just_jenkins]

New year, new opportunities to join team @CaptMarkKelly!

Looking to "level up" while fighting to flip the House and Senate? Start here ⤵️

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[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

15 years ago Gabby Giffords was targeted in a mass shooting. Since then she’s overcome so much and worked tireless to honor the 8 people who lost their lives to gun violence that day.

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

Today marks 15 years since a gunman tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people and killed six.

I almost died, and think of those who did every day.

As I look back on the years since I was shot, I’m reminded of how much is possible when we reach across divides and find common purpose. Together, we built a movement to end America’s gun violence crisis and have passed more than 820 gun safety laws across the nation.

I’ll never stop fighting. This mission is for Christina-Taylor, Gabe, John, Phyllis, Dorothy, and Dorwan—and every single victim and survivor of gun violence. We will build the safer future they deserved. I’m sure of it.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love 
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice; 
In the end, gorgeously, 
Endures our enormity. 

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

RETWEET

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Washington Spirit give out a lesson on counterattacking 📚

(via @NWSL)

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

I'm voting no. In the richest country in the world, families shouldn’t have to choose between putting food on the table and their health care. But that’s exactly what Donald Trump has done to Americans with this shutdown.

There should’ve never been a shutdown in the first place, and I worked to find a solution with Republicans and this administration. But Donald Trump has proven he doesn’t care about rising costs, skyrocketing health care premiums, or working families struggling to put food on the table. He has spent more time working on his ballroom than working to open the government. He sued to block food assistance for hungry families.

I’ve spent the last month hearing from Arizonans worried they can’t afford health care and families who were going broke and hungry because the government was shut down. That’s who I’m fighting for. But Donald Trump rejected a straightforward compromise that would have best served all Americans by reopening the government and keeping health care from becoming unaffordable and out of reach for millions, including thousands of Arizonans. If he’s ready to get serious on a solution to keep health care premiums from spiking, I'm ready to work, but everything he’s done suggests he just doesn’t care.