One year ago today, Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were senselessly murdered in an act of political violence.
In their memory, we recommit ourselves to the values that Melissa and Mark exemplified: building a kinder, more just, and loving world.
We miss you, and think of you often.
Session is wrapped. Spring is in bloom. I’m retiring soon. You two would have thrived in retirement. I trust you’re living it now.
We have our arms wrapped around your kids. They’re remarkable. We love them.
Today my Mom is 81 🎂
She's beautiful.
She is all the things right in this world.
Can I please get some Birthday wishes to show her... this birthday in particular is hard on her. My Dad died a few weeks ago and they were together for 60 years. Her Mom also died on her birthday a few years back. Shes so strong, but I know shes sad. I'd love to show her message after message that shes being uplifted on her special day. Thank you friends. Her name is Carole. Loved by all. 🩷 Happy Birthday Mom.
The Pentagon, despite a $1 trillion budget, is full of waste, fraud and abuse. It is, in fact, the only federal agency that can’t pass an independent financial audit. And now Trump wants $500 billion more in military spending.
CONGRESS MUST JUST SAY NO.
On the birthday of dictator Trump, let us above all enjoy what it was like to have a president who commanded respect throughout the world and was very loved by almost the entire population.
When I see this, I have to smile. Obama was amazing.
Share this, if only to tease Trump.
Don’t argue with people over sixty. Just don’t.
It’s not just an age; it’s a masterclass in survival.
They grew up without Google, without DoorDash, without therapy podcasts, and without an "undo" button. If something broke, they grabbed duct tape, WD-40, a hammer, and a look of sheer determination that made even the broken appliance second-guess itself.
As kids, they knew exactly what kind of mood their mom was in just by the sound of how hard she slammed the cast-iron skillet onto the stove.
They were the original latchkey kids — walking home from middle school with a house key tied around their neck, with strict orders to heat up lunch and not burn the kitchen down. By the time they were ten, they could bike to the corner store, buy a gallon of milk for the neighbor, feed the family dog, and still have time to play freeze tag in the yard until dark.
Their knees were a permanent canvas of scrapes, bruises, and rubbing alcohol. Their universal first-aid kit was just a quick wash under the garden hose and a Band-Aid. If a bone wasn't sticking out, you were fine.
They drank water straight from that same hose, ate Wonder Bread covered in butter and sugar, shared a single glass bottle of Coke among five friends, and somehow didn't die from a lack of sanitization.
This is the generation that knows how to rewind a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. They know the suspense of waiting all week for a movie to air on TV, because if you missed it, it was gone. They remember rotary phones, looking up a family in a massive paper phonebook, and the excitement of getting a color television.
They survived party lines, typewriter ribbons, early brick cell phones, and flip phones — and today, they might accidentally send you a 7-minute voice memo where the first 6 minutes are just them breathing and asking, "Hello? Can you hear me?"
And don't you dare laugh.
Because without a GPS, these people could drive halfway across the country using nothing but an old paper map, a cooler full of sandwiches, and the gut feeling that "the exit should be coming up somewhere around here."
They are the ultimate masters of household magic. They can stitch, tighten, glue, and fix just about anything. And somewhere in their pantry, they have a "bag of bags" that is literally older than half the gadgets you own.
Leave people over sixty alone. They saw the world before the internet, and they navigated the world after it. And through it all, they didn't just get by — they thrived.
Remember, during today's literal cage match on the White House grounds:
No matter what, it's not his house. It's our house.
Get a hat, coaster, or sticker to support groups and candidates who will respect the form AND the function of the people's house. https://t.co/yGDgJciDQZ
.@NYCMayor said he didn’t go to sleep til 3:45a following the #Knicks win.
“We’ve been waiting for this for 53 years, and it just feels like the entire city is alive. The biggest city in the country feels like the smallest town in the world.”
Let's remember February 22, 1997, when the legendary Tina Turner took to the stage of Saturday Night Live and delivered one of her most memorable performances 🎤💃🔥🔥
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
BREAKING: One Of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims Just Spoke On Camera About What Happened To Her.
Juliet says she was a young model in Paris when she was approached with what sounded like a career opportunity in New York.
A flight was arranged.
Meetings were set up.
She thought she was taking the next step in her modeling career.
Instead, she says she was taken to meet Jeffrey Epstein.
According to her account, Epstein asked her to undress and began examining and touching her body.
Then came the moment that stayed with her.
"I started to have fear."
For years, the Epstein story has been consumed by arguments about files, powerful people, and politics.
But this is the reality at the center of it.
A woman describing how she says she was recruited, brought to New York, and placed in a situation that immediately made her afraid.
That's why people are still demanding answers.
UFC has become a global phenomenon by embracing values that resonate far beyond the Octagon: excellence, discipline, opportunity, and meritocracy.
Proud to launch a new Sports Diplomacy partnership with @UFC and grateful to host @DanaWhite for the signing of our MOU.