Christina Anne Luhn

Proud Mid-Westerner, Border Advocate & Rural Evangelist, KBO! #IStandWithUkraine #IstandwithHongKong DEMOCRACY MATTERS...Save Humanities, Save the World

[Christina Anne Luhn @DRCALuhn]

What a treat to accompany these Texas legislators to the UK! Whirlwind trip. Full agenda. We are one another's most important allies!

[UK in Texas @UKinTX]

We were delighted to welcome a bipartisan delegation from the Texas Legislature to the UK last month for an impactful trade mission. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

🌟 Starting today, we're taking you through each day of this important visit, beginning with the dynamic energy of #London on Day 1!

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.

She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.

He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.

That is EXACTLY what he’s done.

The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.

That is not Donald Trump.

He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.

For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Tomorrow is an important American event that looms in our Presidential history--Flag Day:

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell warned about the impact of a politicized Fed and made a broader call for the defense of democratic institutions in his first public remarks since the end of his eight-year stint as head of the central bank https://t.co/tVIOXqGCUT

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

"Circa early 2018, somewhere in the quiet of his beloved Cornville, Arizona ranch, John McCain — living with the knowledge that his days were growing shorter — made a decision that was so perfectly, mischievously, achingly him that it made the whole country smile through their tears when they finally heard about it: he picked up the phone and called Barack Obama, the man who had defeated him for the presidency a decade earlier, and asked him to speak at his funeral. Obama later said that when that call came, he felt 'sadness and also a certain surprise' — and then, with the warmth that defined him, he recognized exactly what McCain was doing, telling mourners at the Washington National Cathedral on September 1, 2018 that the invitation showed McCain's 'irreverence, his sense of humor, a little bit of a mischievous streak' — because, as Obama put it to a cathedral that erupted in laughter through their grief, 'what better way to get a last laugh than to make George and I say nice things about him to a national audience?' It was John McCain's final act of political theater, and it was genius — choosing the two men who had each defeated him for the presidency to stand before the nation and celebrate his life, sending a message louder than any speech he could have given himself: that in America, rivalry and respect are not opposites, that the man you run against can still be the man you trust with your legacy, and that decency is not weakness but the most durable form of strength. Obama stood at that altar and told the packed cathedral that McCain had 'made this country better,' that he had made Obama a better president, and that when all was said and done, despite every disagreement, 'we never doubted the other man's sincerity or the other man's patriotism' — and in the front pew, Cindy McCain wept, because her husband had arranged, from the very edge of his life, one last beautiful lesson in what it means to be an American.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[Alex Wayne @aawayne]

NEWS: Trump's stock trades included up to $680,000 in Eli Lilly as his administration was preparing policies that would benefit the drug company's GLP-1 business. $LLY

Trump signed the disclosure personally.

By @dariustahir

https://t.co/EqCrAc4eNB

[📽️ Red Tribe Cinema @ClayWendler]

Marcus Allen, the only player in football history to win:

The Heisman
A National Championship
A Super Bowl
A Super Bowl MVP
An NFL MVP

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

"One Nation Under God" wasn't a motto of the Founders, it was added to the Pledge in 1954. Many of the Founders were Deists who didn't particularly align to any particular Christian faith and

Jefferson himself, who wrote the Declaration, didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

8 May 1945. 3 PM. Winston Churchill’s VE Day speech on BBC Radio.

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Wade Boggs and George Brett at the 1986 All-Star Game. Brett or Boggs played in every All-Star game from 1976-96.

[Senator Bryan Hughes @SenBryanHughes]

Congratulations to my friend Senator @electcharles on being our Governor for a day.

Fun Fact: When both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are out of the state, the Senate President Pro Tempore steps in as Acting Governor for the day.

Leyla and I had a great time joining friends for Governor Charles Perry’s swearing-in and inaugural address. God bless Texas.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is from an IBM presentation

In 1979

[Gabby Birenbaum @birenbomb]

A relevant Texas image today: President George W. Bush and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston at the signing of the 2006 Voting Rights Act Reauthorization

The 25-year reauth extended key VRA provisions including Section 5 (preclearance), and passed unanimously in the Senate

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else https://t.co/LFo7jyh03o

[Acyn @Acyn]

Fox Host Jessica Tarlov responds to the “but their rhetoric” criticisms:

You say Democrats went out and called Donald Trump a threat to democracy. Absolutely. The guy still doesn't accept the 2020 results, and a majority of the party doesn't as a consequence of the fact that he continued to proliferate that lie. 

Republicans who are out there criticizing Democrats right now are the ones who run from reporters in the hallways when Donald Trump has done something absurd, like celebrate Rob Reiner's death, or say Bob Mueller, good riddance.

You said you could run through things that Democrats have said? Donald Trump has said: enemy within, communist, marxist, radical thugs, vermin, sick, party of hate, evil..

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The government shouldn’t be able to search your texts, emails, or calls without a warrant. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening under FISA. I’m fighting to end unconstitutional backdoor surveillance and restore the Fourth Amendment.

https://t.co/hXvJL3fY8R

[Rep. Chip Roy Press Office @RepChipRoy]

Rep. Roy on the kill switch: "Do you really want to put that kind of data collection mandated inside every car? At what point is there just literally no privacy at all anywhere?

A lot of Americans died to protect our Fourth Amendment rights so that we don't have government looking at our stuff."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That’s how presidents speak. LBJ was a big person in so many ways.