THREAD: Here’s how @SenFranken should start his remarks tomorrow: My name is Al Franken and here is why I’m not resigning from the senate.
Our country is being hijacked by very bad people. Rapists and pedophiles and Nazis and Racists and Treasonists and Crooks and Liars and Thieves. I have behaved badly. I have mistreated women for many years. I have acted irresponsibly. And I am ashamed. And embarrassed.
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THREAD: Will of Another: George Washington predicted Donald Trump and the modern GOP. His final words to the nation warned against their rise. Read on…
2/ President George Washington sought to emulate the great Roman military leader Lucius Cincinnatus when he declined a third term as the leader of our young nation. He handed the power back to the people. And he left office with a stark warning to the American people.
3/ President Washington wrote a farewell address which he addressed to his “Friends and fellow-citizens.” It was originally titled “The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States.”
THREAD: Architects & Engineers: I’ve been sitting on an airplane flying over the greatest nation on the planet and I have a few thoughts I’d like to share.
2/ I’m listening to my Spotify playlist and a song came on called You Were Born (link below.) It begins, “You were born into a strange world. Like a candle you were meant to share the fire. I don’t know where we come from. I don’t know where we go.”
3/ My great-grandparents were first-year immigrants. They came from Poland looking for a better life. They didn’t speak English. In fact their accents were so poor that the translation by immigration officers at Ellis Island actually altered our family name.