Lynne Holder

Every day brings an opportunity to share God’s love. Appreciate other people’s stories. Love my family. Love being an Ouma!

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

I still am struggling to wrap my head around the fact this is actually happening…

Don’t care what your political views are, EVERYONE should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed that this is happening at the Lincoln Memorial & White House. What a joke.

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

Today, I’m mourning my friend Melissa and her husband Mark, as we mark one year since they were assassinated in their home. Melissa was a dedicated public servant who worked every day to improve the lives of Minnesotans. That should never have cost her or her husband their lives.

Being elected to serve our communities should never be life-threatening. From state legislatures to the White House, it’s time for our leaders to stand against armed political violence.

My heart is in Minnesota and with Sophie, Colin, and the entire Hortman family as they continue to grieve this tragic loss.

[#AfghanEvac @afghanevac]

We hear a lot from our friends stuck in Pakistan.

Our update on Monday is going to talk about why you’re not hearing a lot of specific advocacy about their plight but today we wanted to lay out how we got to this point.

#AfghanEvac #StillWithUS

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“People's talents in their previous lives turned into talents in a refugee shelter that could help save and solace many of their country people.” I talk to author James Verini about stories of extraordinary courage inside the Mariupol Theater, site of one of Russia’s greatest wartime atrocities.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

The so-called 'Save Our Bacon Act' is nothing but a giveaway to Big-Ag that would gut protections against cruel factory farming—overturning laws that ban extreme confinement of pigs, hens, and calves, and make all of our food less healthy. We can't let Congress strip states of their right to demand better for animals, our environment, and public health.

op: @kris.and.dave

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[#AfghanEvac @afghanevac]

Yesterday in São Paulo, we met with over 100 members of Brazil’s Afghan community.

We heard stories of resilience, economic hardship, family separation, and concern for loved ones still at risk in Afghanistan.

We came to listen. We left inspired and recommitted. #AfghanEvac

[Story Web @Ezekle1]

June 10 · Center Point, Alabama

He showed up to work in his uniform on the day he was supposed to walk across a stage.

Timothy Harrison was 18 years old. It was graduation day at Woodlawn High School. And instead of getting ready with his classmates, he clocked into his shift at the Waffle House in Center Point, Alabama, because the cap and gown pickup had passed him by, and he had no ride to the ceremony, and at some point he had quietly decided that today just wasn't going to be his day.

His manager, Cedric Hampton, saw him walk in and stopped.

Timothy had the day off. Why was he here?

When Cedric heard the answer, he made a decision in about three seconds: not on my watch.

What happened next, in a Waffle House in Alabama, was something you don't forget.

Staff scrambled to track down a cap and gown. Coworkers passed around cash, for a dress shirt, a tie, pants, shoes. Customers sitting at the counter overheard what was happening and reached into their wallets without being asked. Within a few hours, Timothy Harrison was standing in that restaurant fully dressed for graduation, looking like someone who had planned this all along.

A coworker drove him across town. They arrived just in time. Timothy took his seat with his graduating class.

He walked.

After the story spread, Lawson State Community College offered him a full scholarship, a future that hadn't existed that morning when he'd quietly given up on his own day.

"I just came in to work. I wasn't expecting any of that."

— Timothy Harrison

Some people decide a moment is over. And then there are the people who refuse to let them.

Tag someone who would have been in that Waffle House passing the hat. 🎓

[#AfghanEvac @afghanevac]

651 letters. All 50 states. Today, 83 members of Congress demanded answers on our Afghan allies stranded in Qatar.

Civic engagement did that.

Read our statement.

#AfghanEvac #StillWithUS

[Congresswoman Julie Johnson @RepJulieJohnson]

Two DHS secretaries have still given me no answer as to how Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal died in ICE custody.

Mohammad bravely fought alongside our servicemembers in Afghanistan and was granted asylum here in the United States.

Now, the Trump Administration wants to go even further and deport all Afghans who were granted asylum in the U.S. while helping our servicemembers.

It’s an insult to their sacrifice, and I’ll continue to fight for their recognition.

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

Solidarity with Omar Artan, the #WorldCup referee from Somalia denied entry in the United States.

How sad to see a country whose greatness owes so much to the talent of migrants and refugees refuse entry to a man of great talent.

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

My colleagues have put forward proposal after proposal that would address Social Security’s impending insolvency.

We must do what we were sent to the Senate to do and actually debate and vote on these ideas.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen, while he was grabbing coffee, in Maryland.

Samuel Guzmán repeatedly told agents he was born in the United States. He even offered to show his ID… and they didn’t believe him.

Instead, they took his phone, wallet, and keys, shoved him in their car, illegally transported him to another location, questioned him about where he was “really” from, for 2 hours, and refused to let him call anyone.

Then, once they realized he was a U.S. citizen… they let him go without explaining why he was detained.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation.

And the Equal Protection principles mean the government can’t target people simply because of their race, ethnicity, or the language they speak.

If you’re okay with constitutional rights disappearing the moment someone has the wrong last name, or skin color…

You were never defending law and order.

[Lynne Holder @Tevredeaviary]

@sprigwig Only on days that end in “y” 🥰

[Lynne Holder @Tevredeaviary]

Pass it on!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “An absolute nightmare scenario. Let’s stop it.” 🦒 🦓

@peoplemag covers @BradPaisley speaking out against the @DCBLOXinc data center planned right next to the @NashvilleZoo — public comment THURSDAY.

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Plenty of awful things happening worldwide. One that hasn't gotten much attention is the brutal repression of women and girls in Afghanistan, including the denial of education. This holds back not just girls but the entire country.

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

We're not editing this clip.

Just watch it.

15,000 farms lost. $28 billion in farmer losses. Diesel prices nearly doubled. Fertilizer costs soaring. Family farmers struggling to stay afloat.

And the Trump administration's response? Deflect, deny, and blame someone else.

If you're not willing to own the problem, you can't solve the problem.

If this is their idea of a "golden age" for agriculture, I'd hate to see what they call a crisis.

Leadership Matters.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Four USPS workers have died at the Palmetto, Georgia mail sorting facility since it opened just two years ago, including Eric Smith and Demarcus Little, whose deaths have left coworkers searching for answers. Now, workers are raising concerns about safety and the inability to reliably call for help inside the building. No one should fear losing their life simply for going to work!

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

50 people have died in detention since Trump returned to office. And tens of thousands more are languishing in these facilities each night, living under horrific conditions and medical neglect.

We cannot allow another cent to go to these for profit, immigration prisons.