Sandra S. Westfall

People Mag and AP ex-pat storyteller, communicator, mom, wife, reflexive eye-roller (it's not personal!)

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

A little preview of Independence Day.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.

The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.

We need a wealth tax.

[Ceci Connolly @CeciConnolly]

Worth repeating, underlining and highlighting 👇

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: What do you make of all these allegations of improprieties in California?

Garcia: It’s ridiculous. In California, we count every single vote. You can’t, on one hand, say that you’re glad Steve Hilton is doing well and, on the other hand, be upset about Spencer Pratt.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@CeciConnolly Not you sneaking into my backyard without telling me… 🤭

[𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd]

@cardon_brian Bari Weiss wanted a clear distortion of the truth. That is not journalism, it's propaganda...

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@MeghanMcCain Meghan, you know I am fond of you. At least, I hope you know that. Please don’t add to democracy-destroying talk of stolen elections w/out a single shred of evidence beyond the grossly Trumpian “many people are saying.” Our institutions are hanging by a thread. Help us hold on.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@HunterBiden @hpmcd1 @HunterBiden I appreciate how you’re owning your mistakes & confronting your haters w/out excuses. But you’d be a far more credible model of accountability & redemption if you did right by the mother of your 3 daughters & fulfilled your court-ordered obligations to her.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is the latest Trump corruption to push back on.

He's gotten the attorney general to exempt him from the tax laws that govern everyone else—including other presidents.

Bill and I released 30+ years of tax returns and were audited a few times! https://t.co/6JiiVjIv3F

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Princeton University @Princeton]

"In a world that is increasingly loud and self-focused, being the person who 'sets the screen' is a superpower. It’s easy to be the person with the ball; it’s much harder, and much more rewarding, to be the person who creates the space for someone else to score. Whether you end up in the halls of government, a high-tech lab, or a neighborhood nonprofit, remember that your degree isn't a crown to be worn—it’s a tool to be used in the service of others."

@CraigMalRob '83 at #Princeton26 Baccalaureate service

Read his full remarks: https://t.co/q8yXTfdDPs

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If the White House is safe enough for Trump to host this fucking thing, why does he need a “drone proof” ballroom?

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Trump didn’t just pardon his followers who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

He’s now set them up for payments through a slush fund he created to reward his allies—out of your tax dollars.

You could not make this up.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@allenanalysis @gtconway3d Our men & women in uniform are pawns in a diabolically corrupt game of Monopoly by the “someones” inside Trumpworld. We should be outraged, marching in the streets, w/ Congress, SEC, DoJ, FBI and FINRA deep into aggressive investigations. But w/Trump, it’s just another Wednesday.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@gothburz @SupervisorRed When I would buy/host tables for PEOPLE, we paid à la carte for extra wine (WHCA would provide two whites, two reds on each table seating 10 people).

So journalists DO directly pay for at least a portion of the wine at their table. I get your metaphor. But facts still matter.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@atrupar You’ve earned the reprieve. Turn off the noise from D.C. Please enjoy the game.

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@jk_rowling @clharrington024 My sweet baby boy then—and now

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@jk_rowling @clharrington024 I second Christine’s one-
Mom-to-another “thank you.” I read every word of all seven books aloud to my little boy. At bedtime, and floating in the pool, sitting outside in the summer until it got too dark to see the page..all remain my most treasured memories of his childhood 🥰

[Sandra S. Westfall @sswestfall]

@clharrington024 For my little boy, it was Sirius’ death that hurt the most. “My heart just turned upside-down and broke,” he said when I finished reading that scene. (I wrote it down—15 years ago!) Another bedtime, when Dobby died, tears soaked his pillow. The books taught him love & empathy 🥰