Earlier this month, Anna Bower started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
I don't have a Jimmy Carter story of my own, but about a decade ago I met an artist named Gil McCue who was also a Navy veteran. He held regular weekend pop-up shops in downtown Carlsbad, CA to sell his artwork.
My wife struck up a conversation with him and after a short while she asked him about a photo he had displayed next to his artwork. It was a photo of him presenting one of his paintings to Jimmy Carter, from one Navy vet to another.
He was proud of showing his work in the presence of a former US President, but you could tell the true part of the moment was him getting to meet Jimmy Carter. He spoke glowingly about how genuine of a person he was. It left such an impression on him that here he was decades later still carrying around a photo of that time they met.
I left that day with an impression of the former President myself. People don't carry around a photo for decades of the time they met you just because you were famous.
Jimmy Carter “was an optimist about human nature,” @rbreich writes. “Carter believed passionately in the capacity of human beings to create civil societies that would contain the beasts in all of us.”
“Carter was a religious man who lived by this simple civil religion. He not only saw the good in others, but he practiced the good. He was far from the best president America has had, but he was one of the best and most decent people ever to serve as president.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/sunday-caption?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios
The attached image shows #Carter in 1979 during the press unveiling of 32 #solar water-heating panels at the White House. In the statement he said:
“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”
He is here!!! The boy!!! Hello boy!!!
I love him and how he is perfectly balanced to sit without falling over 😌
It's obvious Trump is dismantling american agencies to ruin our foundation to make America weak. This cabinet is proof of it...
NEWS: President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/19/linda-mcmahon-trump-education-secretary-pick-00188507
Trump’s victory is like the “Philippinization of America,” says Filipina journalist & Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa. She sees similarities between Trump and the Philippines’ ex-president Rodrigo Duterte.
Her advice? “Hold the line.” #Velshi
Donald Trump’s conduct is straight out of the same strongman playbook that others have used, and his presidential victory is part of a recent global trend of illiberal leaders being elected democratically. “We’re seeing the ‘Philippinization’ of America,” says the Filipina journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa. “Look at our experience for what’s coming up in the days ahead,” she adds, cautioning that what could happen in America has already occurred in other countries like the Philippines. There may be tough times ahead, but she advises that people should “hold the line” and “stay committed to [their] values.”
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