Two days later, people are still coming to pay their respects to Navalny https://t.co/gTu60gjjfU
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) March 3, 2024
Category: Higher Ground
Respect
This is powerful….if this is what they call woke then sign me up….I’d run through a wall for this Air Force Academy General
pic.twitter.com/8FpCez6MN6— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) February 27, 2024
Civic virtue
This @RosenJeffrey piece is spot on. We need people to aim for good. Falling short but pointing at virtue is vastly better than cynical nihilism. https://t.co/2NJPOSEefj
— Andy Wright 🇺🇸 (@AndyMcCanse) February 25, 2024
Onward, Wisconsin
BREAKING: I've promised from the beginning that I will always try to do the right thing. Today, I'm keeping that promise and I'm signing fair maps for Wisconsin.
Wisconsin, for the first time in over a decade, we will not have some of the most gerrymandered maps in America. pic.twitter.com/jc5RUGY0mM
— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) February 19, 2024
Mother and child
A baby chimp was born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had trouble getting oxygen so had to be kept at the vet. This is a clip of mom reuniting with her baby after almost 2 days apart. pic.twitter.com/ly0uIEezbi
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 18, 2024
Doubt & faith
In this talk from 1989, apart of The Listening Heart series, Ram Dass fields questions about doubt, faith, judgment, and being.
🎥 https://t.co/fHfLmbyijL#ramdass #love #spiritual #yoga #meditation #youtube pic.twitter.com/Sjk8Bpxefm— Ram Dass (@BabaRamDass) February 10, 2024
Feed the poor
There are 30 million U.S. kids who rely on the free or reduced-priced meals they get at school to not go hungry—& when summer comes, they're on their own.
This shouldn't happen in America—& it's why I fought to create a permanent summer nutrition benefit. https://t.co/ddCsOP3OQe
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) February 4, 2024
‘You are so smart’
This is beautiful! Seeing this young King uplift his classmate with such kind words is heart-warming! Our children are SO wise and leave us all inspired everyday! ❤️
🎥: IG/unklearnold pic.twitter.com/PhSppkrEIB— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) January 29, 2024
Present tense
“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”
Arendt on love and how to live with the fear of loss: https://t.co/vFMCDBF6ce— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) January 28, 2024
Happy MLK Day
If you still had a chance to hear Martin Luther King Jr. preach, you’d take it, right? That’s why I spent an hour or two yesterday listening to the Rev. William J. Barber II, because he’s the closest thing we have. He preached to the congregation of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem yesterday for their annual King Sunday service. (His sermon begins at 1:09.) He is the inspiration I needed: