Huge thanks to @BookBub for including Why We Read in their round-up of upcoming memoirs and biographies worth your reading time. I agree. Also, thanks for illustrating this story with a thirst trap photo of Anderson Cooper. I agree with that too. https://t.co/TPG5uafGLq
Advisory from IL Dem Gov JB Pritzker’s office on planned Wednesday visit of Homeland Security Secy Kristi Noem to Springfield: “We would urge all pet owners in the region to make sure all of your beloved animals are under watchful protection while the Secretary is in the region.”
They need to quit remaking good movies and start remaking bad movies. I wanna see Air Bud with a $900 million dollar budget, where he’s coached by Daniel Day Lewis.
At the end of his life, Pope Francis made one last symbolic gesture: he emptied his personal bank account to donate 200,000 euros to the prisoners he had long championed. https://t.co/ygnWUpALUO
Legitimately this is my favorite thing a spiritual leader has ever said. Hell is an eternity away from God. To believe that hell is empty and that God would never send his children away forever, is truly to believe in a compassionate and forgiving God. It’s a beautiful thought.
"It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help... If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
- Pope Francis
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,
Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
It’s hard not to find this image — of a single Democratic senator standing alone in some empty room in a foreign country and defending the rule of law — very moving. There should have been more senators there with him, but kudos to Van Hollen.
Anon - I’m a constituent of Van Hollen and on his email list, and he has so far not sent a single fundraising email around his work to free Abrego Garcia