Jane Thomas

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

This is everything I need to read today, and probably again over the next few months. The comfort of strangers and universal experience. The common thread though is love. Weren't we lucky?

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Strange when you see the house you grew up in go on the market… the house where all your memories of your late dad, your best friend are.
When you’re young, nobody tells you about this emotional shit.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Exactly this

[Victoria Coren Mitchell @VictoriaCoren]

This is what I wrote about ⁦@chrismccausland⁩ last week. Tonight is the final and we’ve literally bought a new television, like people did for the coronation in 1953. Everyone in the final seems lovely but, come on, #GoChris. ❤️🏆
#Strictly

[Architects’ Journal @ArchitectsJrnal]

Office for Place scrapped by government https://t.co/1hnlJrUyDU

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

We can empathise with voters + accept the result but Trump’s victory does not make his program or vision better. We were wrong to believe Kamala Harris would win. We were not wrong to believe that she should have won. Or that the values + vision that she represents can win again

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

A sexist, racist, climate change denying, anti-democratic, narcissistic, ultra-capitalist, liar is elected leader of world’s only superpower for a second time.

“When the US sneezes, the U.K. catches a cold.”

We are not immune to the virus of extremism. We can’t be complacent

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Sublime

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema

This is the best video you’ll see all day…

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Here in the UK I have no cultural reference to this at all (except that's Dick Van Dyke on the right apparently) but god its funny

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

47 years ago this week, one of the greatest outtakes of all time.

Tim Conway's elephant story. 😂😂

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@soundstoryuk @Squeezeofficial Lots - so many great tunes and lyrics - but I heard Labelled with Love for the first time in ages the other day and the words made me cry. An age thing I think.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Those of us of a certain age still want to/do dress a bit like that. Elements of amyway!

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

Happy birthday to Adam Ant, #frockingFabulous as Prince Charming! This bit of #Fashionhistory was designed by Adam Ant and Yvonne Swinden, and made by Charles Whiteing. It’s now part of the V&A’s collection.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@edwinhayward Have been complaining to JL staff about this for years. Has definitely reduced my spend there

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@CathMitch14 @frankcottrell_b Fab fun fact. Thank you!

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@GylesB1 @therosebudpod So glad he pronounced 'Arding and 'Obbs properly - second time anyway - as all good south Londoners did (and still fo tbh)

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Wise words Hugh but I can't get over misused apostrophes.

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Beautiful words -

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

I finished Middlemarch today. What a magnificent achievement; the final words are a peerlessly wise & humane philosophy of life. I’ve never seen the much-lauded 1990s BBC adaptation, which is on iPlayer. Grateful for advice on whether I should watch it.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@OliverKamm Those words are beautiful. I think I have a copy somewhere which should be rediscovered

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Here for one

[Happy Cat 🐱💟 @thehappycat_]

Where are the black cat lovers ? 😻🖤

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

Fair point Doug

[Doug Emhoff @DouglasEmhoff]

Barack, you know I love you—but c'mon, it's THE BOSS!

[Zoe T @MissMarkillie]

I was taking some photos of my kids being cute in the library, when this Polish grandmother came up to me and said, "You sit. Give me phone. There are never photos of Mama," before proceeding to take a bunch of photos of me sitting and reading with them. I'm not crying; you are.

[Jane Thomas @jfrthomas]

@RevRichardColes What came first? The thought or that perfect dandy image?! Made me chuckle. Lighten up folks! (For the record I have three grown up kids, have never not drunk gin in some form and enjoyed culture - with and without them - even when they were little. We all have duties & joys)