ANNE LAMOTT
@ANNELAMOTT
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Author of Somehow, Almost Everything, Help Thanks Wow, Bird by Bird & Traveling Mercies, as well as seven novels. Mother, grandmother, progressive.
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Joined October 2011
“They want you to feel powerless, to surrender and to let them trample everything. You are not going to let them. You are not giving up;neither am I. Remember what you love. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.” Rebecca Solnit.
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Kindness is the anti-venom.
Here is the LA Times piece, Monty Python helping to lead the Resistance:
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RT @AnneLamottQuote: “Kindness anywhere gives me hope; it changes us. Those who were sober never gave up on anyone—I am exhibit A—and so I….
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Here is the LA Times piece, Monty Python helping to lead the Resistance:
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Here is a new piece that just posted at the LA Times--will.you try to log in and let me know if it is behind a paywall? .
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We desperately need joy and laughter again. And who does absurdity better than the Ministry of Silly Walks?
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RT @BarbaraComstock: But if you want to build a gallows on the mall, trash the Capitol, defecate in the Rotunda and call to “Kill the Polic….
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RT @KathaPollitt: I just contributed to a cause that helps Afghan girls access education and food. Their futures matter. Please consider do….
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Support Afghan Girls Through Online Education WDI Afghanistan o… Yal Bano needs your support for Support Afghan Women with food & Girls with online Education
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RT @KathaPollitt: Can you chip in for Gaza family with sick newborn? Vetted through the mom's friend who works for Doctors without Borders.….
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My name is Zahra Dahman. I’m 18 years old, a new mother, and I’m writing to you from Gaza, where I live with my one-month-old baby girl, Eileen, my husband Adnan, and my brother, who was severely...
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EMERGENCY: Newborn Baby Eileen Needs Milk & Medicine
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My name is Zahra Dahman. I’m 18 years old, a new mother, and I’m writing to you from Gaza, where I live with my one-month-old baby girl, Eileen, my husband Adnan, and my brother, who was severely...
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RT @Atul_Gawande: #freedc I returned from the wedding of our daughter to find the city where I have lived for the last 3 years in the midst….
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RT @GovTimWalz: The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
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RT @AnneLamottQuote: “Three years sober, I had a child by myself, with no partner or money, and I had to accept a lot of help with bills, a….
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His own domestic military force roving the streets.
NEW: The U.S. military is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two officials told Reuters. This is not about crime. Violent crime in D.C. is down 25% in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. This is another move by wannabe dictator Trump
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He’s building a military force in DC to protect him.
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RT @PearlsFromMyrna: Today at the church coffee Doris spelled a bad word with the Splenda packets.
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RT @McFaul: “Earned?” Since when do US diplomats describe imperial invasion and occupation in this way? Shocking.
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RKK is Cassidy’s legacy, like the big beautiful bill is Murkowski’s.
Unfortunate? It’s ok to admit confirming him was a gigantic mistake. Try it. We need to start to live in a world where owning up to a mistake is rewarded, not punished.
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