Dad, husband, candidate for Congress (#AZ01). Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
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Jan 14 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
100 days ago, Israel was brutally attacked setting off a tragic war
Just days later, top officials of Hamas, Russia, and Iran met in Moscow to plot their next steps
2024 is about defending democracy and freedom from attack-here and globally
Read on… timesofisrael.com/moscow-hosts-h…
It didn’t get much attention last month, but just days before Xmas, the Director of National Intelligence quietly declassified a report about attempts by Iran, China, and Russia to interfere in our democracy and elections in the the 2022 midterms odni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
Jan 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I can finally tell the tale of a people who wandered in the desert...
The following is a true story. It's an American story. Maybe the most American story.
Stick around to the end.
In the spring of 1945, in a Nazi slave labor camp 50 miles from Dachau, convict No. B-1713 heard powerful explosions pierce the night air.
The guards said the "enemy" was advancing and herded the prisoners together to be marched back to Dachau.
Nov 11, 2020 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
It seems like an ordinary story. An old urban airport is shutting down. The facilities are worn out. The neighbors complain about the noise. The runways can’t handle modern jumbo jets. For some reason an Air France flight is the last to take off.
In the summer of 1948, three years after the end of WWII, the Soviets cut off western Berlin--which consisted of French, British, and U.S. sectors, deep in the heart of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany-- from everything its more than 2 million people needed to survive.
Nov 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Great context from @harrispolitico on Joe Biden’s path to greatness
Joe Biden, the 33‐year‐old Delaware Senator, youngest, most clearly shaped by Vietnam and Watergate, a frequent naysayer on Government spending programs, recalls:
Nov 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
“As it happens it is a mystery in which millions of people each fit one fragment of a total secret together, none of them knowing the shape of the whole. What results from the fitting together these secrets, is, of course, the most awesome transfer of power in the world...
"The power to marshal and mobilize power to send men to kill or be killed. The power to tax and destroy. The power to create and the responsibility to do so. The power to guide and the responsibility to heal. All committed into the hands of one individual...
Oct 10, 2020 • 17 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Today Hal Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber, turns 100. I wrote a few words about what he did & why he matters. But I have something even better to share.
Ten years ago, as a younger man turning only 90, he passed on his 15 life lessons. Here they are: democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-…1. The desire for freedom is inborn in every human soul no matter on which side of the border he or she is born
Oct 1, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1/ There was one actually important moment in the disastrous debate. And its been totally ignored.
Trump unloaded a vicious, irrelevant, false attack on Hunter Biden's military record and personal struggle. Biden got ready to swing back. And then stopped. cnbc.com/video/2020/09/…2/ "Here's the deal. You want to talk about families and ethics?" Biden, goaded, said as he began to spool up a counter punch.
"I don't want to do that," he said.
"His family, we can talk about all night," he started to say. "His family already broke..."
Then he shifted.
Sep 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We are making debate bingo cards and need your help in coming up with more
Biden
Battle for soul of nation
Literally!
Folks
I’m not exaggerating/ no exaggeration
Build Back Better
I’m not kidding/ no joke
Scranton
Obama
I’m serious
My word as a Biden
Kamala
Working Class/ middle class
Train
Sep 11, 2020 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
1/ I respect the work of @AnnieLowrey which is why it says more about the state of our discourse than the caliber of the reporter that she could write a deep dive on the climate impact of our individual actions without mentioning switching banks theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…2/ Big banks financed more than $2.7 trillion in fossil fuel exploitation since 2016 -- using their own customers' deposits to pay for it
nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…
He spoke on Thursday night in 1980 and gave a speech about Truman for his 100th birthday the same night as Cuomo's keynote in 1984.
Aug 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Now it's the turn of the two living GOP nominees of this century.
George W Bush and Mitt Romney, this is your Hamilton moment.
As many know, the climactic political event in the hit musical Hamilton (as it was in the life of the 18th century statesman who shares its name) was his active and decisive support of his intellectual and political rival Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800
Aug 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The “moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out”
“Citizens willing to contribute their voices and shed their blood to challenge injustice and protect the nation”
The words of Alexander Vindman and John Lewis this week—one a refugee to America born in authoritarianism; the other born in America as a second class citizen—are reminders that what makes America great is our power to make it better.
Jul 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Incredibly important point from @SteveCase: Our National response to COVID should be based on building the economy that is and is coming to be, not recreating what was washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…2/ E-Commerce's share of the U.S. economy has increased by as much in the past 8 weeks as it did over the past 10 years. In key respects, COVID has fast-forwarded our economy to 2030 and we can't hit rewind.
Jul 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On April 14th, @Aspiration issued a challenge to our customers: Would they sign up to plant a tree with every purchase they made by rounding up to the nearest dollar?
Amid one of the scariest, most difficult times in our history, they customers said yes—in overwhelming numbers.
Less than a dozen weeks later, Aspiration customers have planted one million trees.
An amazing achievement that shows what this community can do—and is doing.
Jun 5, 2020 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
This March, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading, an EMT lost her life. She loved her job working in the emergency room, writing “Working in health care is so rewarding! It makes me so happy when I know I’ve made a difference in someone else’s life!”
But she didn’t die from having contracted coronavirus. Breonna Taylor died in a hail of bullets from a botched and likely illegal nighttime raid on her apartment.
May 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Two middle-aged ladies were sitting at the table behind me that day, the only other customers of the meal. They had come, they said, because when the Americans liberated Paris, a young American lieutenant had slept in their house.“
He had brought coffee, soap, food, butter when all Paris hungered at the mention of them. When he moved off with his company they asked him what they could do to repay him.“
May 14, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The great international challenges we’ve faced thus far in the 21st century—terrorism, climate change, pandemic disease—all share something in common: the battle for hearts and minds isn’t a side show, it’s the main event
A relative handful of men with box cutters changed our world on 9/11 and two decades of a military response in Afghanistan has yielded uncertain results
Apr 16, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
We at @Aspiration took a step this week that has been somewhat controversial. Please excuse the series of tweets, but I think its important to explain.
Starting this week, we are every one of our customers if they'd agree to be auto-enrolled in our Plant Your Change feature which plants a tree with every purchase they make on their Aspiration card by rounding up their transaction to the nearest dollar
Apr 6, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: Was the coronavirus crisis unforeseen and unstoppable?
Four years ago, in Spring 2016, @DemJournal asked an all-star group to sketch out the possible foreign policy threats in the next administration.
Read what @RonaldKlain wrote: democracyjournal.org/magazine/40/co…
“Sometime during the next President’s term, her or his national security team may be summoned to the Oval Office to discuss a catastrophe of historic proportions: more than a million deaths in just a few weeks in a far corner of the world, sparking the fall of several governments
Mar 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Great point from @axios’ @AmyAHarder: Climate Change, coronavirus are not unforseeable, improbable risks like “black swans.”
They are “grey rhinos.” Everyone who doesn’t pretend otherwise can see them approaching but it’s so terrifying, so fast and forceful that we are frozen
A quarter century ago, @algore wondered about and warned of precisely this dynamic: how to alert people of enormous oncoming danger that they couldn’t see right in front of them—and how to impel them to act before it was too late.
