Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to pursuit of power and personal interest at any cost, but to the common good.
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
The @PRRIpoll survey found:
🌈Nearly 7 in 10 Americans...
🤝Majorities across party lines...
🇺🇸Majorities in all 50 states...
support non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people.
https://t.co/AUKRBbeoD4
In a new poll, three-quarters of Americans said the full Mueller report should be made public. That included a majority (54%) of Republicans. https://t.co/OzY4QQ3FdZ
I find it revealing when people mock where I came from, & say they’re going to “send me back to waitressing,” as if that is bad or shameful.
It’s as though they think being a member of Congress makes you intrinsically “better” than a waitress.
But our job is to serve, not rule.
The Mystery Lives On: Scientists Have Concluded That They Will Never Know If Salsa Is Kind Of Good For You Or Kind Of Bad For You https://t.co/1gzhV0XTC2
Customer Service FTW: Best Buy Is Constructing 40,000 Terra-Cotta Geek Squad Agents To Fix Its Customers’ Computers In The Afterlife https://t.co/tGQ5lvTChj
Gun violence is an emergency.
Climate change is an emergency.
Our country's opioid epidemic is an emergency.
Donald Trump's ridiculous wall is not an emergency.