“You will go to college for free!”
Pete Kadens, a Chicago millionaire who retired at 40, created a charity called Hope Chicago that will pay for in-state college tuition, room and board, and books for 30,000 Chicago high school students. https://t.co/0IkgY3hWjf pic.twitter.com/o0d5DeKfvQ
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 23, 2022
Category: Higher Ground
Fans
A lot of people hate her.
But a lot of people love her too. https://t.co/7OANz3cuzb
— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) May 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/GradyKeefe/status/1526948617038217216
Persuasion
James Carville called Sen. McMorrow's speech: “(an) enormously effective piece of comms…there’s really no comeback”. @Swayable ad tested that speech. TLDR + a 🧵below: parts of the speech are prob. modestly persuasive, more so among college-educated, likely, & Biden voters https://t.co/s26QGm2z8s pic.twitter.com/O2EgieBmBX
— Jonathan Robinson 🏗🏘👋 (@jon_m_rob) April 27, 2022
A moment in time
The media barely covered it:
Climate Activist Dies After Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court https://t.co/10sX3RAFqb
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) April 24, 2022
How to fight back
Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community…in a fundraising email, for herself.
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't. pic.twitter.com/jL5GU42bTv
— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) April 19, 2022
Happy tears
Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in a milestone for the United States and a victory for President Joe Biden https://t.co/lZJMdzap56
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) April 7, 2022
President Joe Biden hugs Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they watch the historic vote from the White House. pic.twitter.com/w4gWHZWvjP
— Beatrice Peterson (@missbeae on all platforms) (@MissBeaE) April 7, 2022
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is the sole Republican clapping for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation.
Most Republicans left the chamber immediately following the vote. pic.twitter.com/BtuQPsPTTf
— The Recount (@therecount) April 7, 2022
“This nomination is confirmed.” Vice President Kamala Harris announces the final vote confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court https://t.co/h4ERu1vh6o pic.twitter.com/15G5PNRkJb
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 7, 2022
R.I.P. Eric Boehlert
1/oh my goodness: Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of @EricBoehlert https://t.co/l0nOnE0Tad Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 6, 2022
Eric was just the best, a genuinely good guy. Sharp, funny, ethical. He interviewed me for one of his books (“Bloggers On The Bus”) and was one of the few people who saw the strangeness of his colleagues somehow turning the Hillary vs. Obama primary into the War of the Worlds. (I attributed it to his height. He was really tall. I teased him that his height made him less defensive than other bloggers.)
His Press Run newsletter was mandatory reading for those of us in the news assessment business. His death leaves a giant hole in the world of press criticism.
Go Cory
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has earned this moment in history, she is worthy, she is a truly great American. pic.twitter.com/A5igQ4Efnn
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) March 23, 2022
Ukraine Take Shelter
These two young people, Avi Schiffmann and Marco Burstein, students at Harvard, in just three days have developed and launched the website Ukraine Take Shelter, a website in 12 languages where Ukrainian refugees fleeing war can immediately find hosts with free rooms, apartments unused in resorts, big or small cities or school dorms.
Pass this information to other Ukrainians, who are now in European countries and not only, but also to those who would like to be a host to these people in need.
Liberated
Now do Trump Tower!
Activists stormed a Russian oligarch's mansion in London and unfurled a sign saying the property had been 'liberated' https://t.co/lzwyLty3LJ
— Insider News (@InsiderNews) March 14, 2022
French activist Pierre Afner entered the villa of Putin's daughter Alta Mira in Biarritz changed the locks, and declared the villa was ready to accept Ukrainian refugees.
The villa has eight bedrooms and three bathrooms pic.twitter.com/OWCqghHtdx
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) March 13, 2022