Grief Is a Form of Patriotism, Too.
This 4th of July, many of us won't be waving flags or watching fireworks.
Not because we hate our country, but because we love it too much to pretend everything is fine.🧵
Raphael Warnock on the Texas Board of Education requiring students to study the Bible: Religion can just show up as performance rather than substance. I'm a Christian pastor. I don't want to live in anybody's theocracy.
Larry Wilmore: Jesus never ran for Mayor.
The Obama Presidential Center might be named for the Obamas, but it is built for you. It’s a vibrant, living celebration of community. A monument to unshakable values: equality, empathy, and inclusion. A beacon of hope.
It’s a place we hope you’re going to come back to again and again.
Jamie Raskin is visibly shaken after reading the unredacted #EpsteinFiles
"Donald Trump's name is all over these files...I saw a reference today to a 9yr old girl".
Don't ever stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. #Trump
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.
Voter at a town hall on Republican gerrymandering:
"These maps are the wet dream of soft men who won't even look up from their phones to face their voters. These are men who lust for a world where the powerful do what they can and the rest of us suffer what we must. Jesus wept."
Ted Lieu says the unreleased Epstein files show Trump r*ping children.
That’s what’s being hidden. That’s why the files stay sealed. That’s why there are no arrests.
Release everything. Or resign.
"We can fight to stop the ballroom. If this means leaving the area as a destruction site for the rest of Trump’s presidency, so be it. Let its ugliness exemplify the Trump era. Let its rubble symbolize what he's tried to do to the American republic." https://t.co/yVcOuyDSrT