Russell Taylor

[Russell Taylor @Sonoiort]

@HunterBiden Well said!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The Kamala Harris campaign just released their first ad. Retweet to make sure every American knows who Kamala Harris is and what is at stake this November.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

COMMENTARY: A violent domestic dispute. An altercation with law enforcement. Drunk driving. Why the cheers for the CO-4 GOP congressional candidates who celebrated having arrest records? #copolitics

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

Few and far between, but there is still some adorable content on this hellscape app.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Do you understand the #Georgia indictment? You probably should, because most of these people are going to jail.

[America’s Got Talent @AGT]

We're all ears for Putri Ariani's amazing voice. 🎶 #AGT https://t.co/uarIqG0Eqb

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

If you find yourself justifying Trump’s actions, explaining why his crimes aren’t crimes or, like almost every single Republican politician, promising to vote for him if he’s the candidate no matter his convictions, then you’re not patriots, so please stop acting like you are.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

If you watch only one video today, let this be the one.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congrats to the Denver @Nuggets and the remarkable finals MVP Nikola Jokić for bringing home the franchise’s first NBA Championship!

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

LGBTQI+ rights are human rights.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Kaiser Permanente CO @KPcolorado]

As an avid volunteer and recipient of the David Lawrence Community Service Award, we're proud to share that our employee, Kristen Turnbull, will give $10,000 to CHEER Colorado, a volunteer adult cheer team that raises awareness and funds for LGBTQIA+ organizations.

[Kaiser Permanente CO @KPcolorado]

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many of us at Kaiser Permanente Colorado spent the day helping those in need. Overall, 118 people signed up to help and contributed 414 hours of service to 11 different organizations.

[Kaiser Permanente CO @KPcolorado]

Kaiser Permanente Medicare health plan is rated 5 out of 5 Stars in Colorado for 2022. With a 5 Star rating, #Medicare members have the option of enhancing their plan before #AnnualEnrollment on October 15. Check out the video to find out more. https://t.co/EuT8Xis8br

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

ON JOE BIDEN OFFENDING THE AMERICAN RIGHT BY SAYING DEMOCRACY IS GOOD

[Kaiser Permanente @aboutKP]

Happy #LaborDay to our employees! We celebrate all the amazing ways you make a difference in patients' lives and the communities we serve. Thank you and 多謝 and gracias and mahalo. https://t.co/knq5xud6kO

[Kaiser Permanente @aboutKP]

We’re helping small businesses cope during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a $1 million grant from Kaiser Permanente, @energizecolo is using its Gap Fund to help some of Colorado’s small businesses, such as the Carefree Bar and Grill in Colorado Springs, CO. https://t.co/okXUXMvaas

[Kaiser Permanente @aboutKP]

The effects of climate change are a public health issue disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities. Skip Skivington, VP of health care continuity and support services, shares with @hfmmagazine how we’ve prepared and our recovery efforts. https://t.co/3SaENIEBaw