“I wrote this because I can’t speak about it.
I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.”
@RBLeipzig and @equipenatciv winger Yan Diomande on the life of his sister, Roxane. https://t.co/6wQmpdWTSi
AOC on why she's at the Munich security conference:
"I think this is a moment where we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the Transatlantic partnership, ah, rip up every democratic norm, ah, and, you know, really calling into question, as was mentioned by, um, by Dick Carney, at the World Economic Form. The rules, based order that we have, or question mark, do we have? And so I think one of the reasons why not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact, democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, um, is because we want to tell a larger story that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era domestically and globally. There have been many leaders who said, we will go back. And I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules based order and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy. I think what we identify is that in a rules based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability. And so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules, based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when, too often in the West, we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations, um, to act out these paradoxes, whether it is, you know, kidnapping a foreign head of state. Whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is, um, looking the other way in a genocide. Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally. And so I think many of us are here to say we are here, and we are ready for the next chapter, not to have the world turn to isolation, but to deepen our partnership on on greater and increase commitment to integrity. To our values."