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[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

My heart goes out to Pete and Chasten and it enrages me that this happened to them. Of course it could happen to anyone who uses their voice about anything today. We must all denounce this and stand with this family. This anonymous caller should be arrested. @PeteButtigieg

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

This week, a pre-K graduation reminded me of something I think many of us forget.

The people who teach us the most are not always the ones we expect.

Sometimes they’re five years old.

I wrote about friendship, kindness, bucket fillers, and why every person who crosses our path has something to teach us.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read this week’s essay. https://t.co/gUebyieW8C

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

On a Sunday evening at the University of Texas, a gaggle of students discussed their dating goals.

Ocean Pierce-Shimomura wanted someone “to love things with them.” Marielle Abrams envisioned someone who is patient — and tall. Carter Cawley hoped for “someone who wears a Texas tee,” he said. “Not A&M.”

The students are enrolled in a dating class offered by Lifelong Learning with Friends, a nonprofit that gives students with intellectual and developmental disabilities access to classes at UT infused with rigor, accessibility and fun.

https://t.co/BDe5ZtdL87

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

This is one of the smartest, funniest things I have heard in a long time. Download the audio version so you can hear these essays read in @DavidSedaris own voice. I have been a fan of his for years and this collection might be my favorite. https://t.co/lFPbiStH9L

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

This is one of the most beautiful essays I have ever read.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Well that’s one of the most compelling answers to that question I’ve ever heard.

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

@ZackBornstein Thank you for writing such a beautiful story!!! I was a little upset with you for the end of episode 10 but you more than redeemed it all with episode 11. Thank you for the final scene with Paul and Jimmy. It wrecked me in the best possible way.

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

@VDOOZER I watched the season finale of Shrinking on a plane yesterday and sobbed unabashedly! Thank you for this beautiful series and for that last scene with Paul and Jimmy. What a gorgeous depiction of the ferocious love of friendship. #shrinking

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

This is a fascinating conversation between a former insurance executive and a physician https://t.co/oPlUeNNVoz

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

@lilykepner @statesman @UTAustin Subscribed!

[Aaron Black @ABlackPolitical]

Bruce Springsteen is currently playing to a #NoKings crowd of over 200,000 people in Saint Paul Minnesota right now!

Trump is using government to hurt people who disagree. That is what kings do to scare others. We will not be scared. We will not be silent.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “Every single breath we take discussing culture war stuff is a breath we are not talking about universal healthcare. It’s a breath we are not talking about going after wealth where it’s been hoarded. Not talking about breaking up corporate monopoly power. That’s what we need to be focusing on. But we do not sell people out. A politics that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out”

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

@SarahLongwell25 @JVLast We appreciate you! Can't wait to read!

[jen lockhart kepner @jenkepner]

hey @Delta we were on flight 5860 from ORD to LGA on 2/21 and my daughter left her beloved blanket made by her great great aunt— any help in getting it back would be so so appreciated

[Principles First @Principles_1st]

.@chucktodd: "Tell me your line of pessimism vs. optimism after spending a few days in Minneapolis."

@BillKristol: "The scale, severity, and brutality of what was happening — I didn't fully appreciate it until I got out there…It's worse than you think."

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”

https://t.co/ley0pm5mU2

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The national media has moved on but Minnesota is still under siege.

Important JVL newsletter from our visit to Whipple and the surrounding areas

https://t.co/ley0pm5mU2

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Chicago Honey Bear 🟧 @ChiHoneyBear]

This is what a REAL man does: feel so deeply about his fellow man that he's willing to protest and fight for his neighbors and community

He is the greenest green flag out there

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.