"Troops to receive Purple Hearts from attack Trump downplayed"

I wish everyone could have the blessing of working alongside a colleague who is as hilarious, as wickedly capable, as enormously generous as the great Brian Williams. It's one of the true honors of my working life to have shared a desk (and so many midnight hot dogs) with him ❤️

“'I think we should throw those books in a fire,' said one board member. A second said he wants to 'see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff'.”

it's almost like the world would be a better place and the various dictators of the former soviet sphere would have less purchase if the rest of the world didn't let them have this kind of leverage. #Blowout 

“An Indiana man charged with carrying a loaded firearm to the Capitol on Jan. 6 told investigators that if he had found Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 'you’d be here for another reason'.”

"In Genesee County, Michigan, the local GOP chair pled guilty last week to a misdemeanor for 'malicious use of telecommunication services,' admitting he called the Houghton County Clerk in March 2020 to harass her. She says he threatened to kill her dogs."

"His Daystar network has broadcast a series of programs featuring vaccine skeptics and a group known as America’s Frontline Doctors..." (Gov. Ron DeSantis's handpicked Florida surgeon general is in America's Frontline Doctors)

"Pope Francis said that he hoped that strengthened democracy everywhere 'may be the response to the siren songs of authoritarianism; and that individualism and indifference may be overcome by concern for others, for the poor, and for creation'."