I have a new essay in The New York Times, about why my father, who raised me, could never really celebrate Christmas and creating a Christmas for myself after he died: nytimes.com/2023/12/15/well/… What kind of winter traditions have you created?

Speaking of dressing for respect -- why is anyone allowed to wear a baseball hat in the Oval Office?

Today @SergiiMarchenk3 and I signed the UK-Ukraine Bilateral Agreement to deliver £2.26bn of new funding to Ukraine. This will be repaid using profits from sanctioned Russian sovereign assets. Action, not just words - Britain stands with Ukraine. 🇬🇧🇺🇦

A century ago, monarchs & emperors ruled the world. Claiming absolute power as their “divine right,” they lived in opulence while their subjects barely survived. Today, Trump & his oligarchs are undermining democracy & moving us back to those times. We can't allow that to happen.

A Ukrainian soldier evacuates a little girl to a safe place. This girl, and millions of Ukrainian children, are the reason why we fight. For their sake, we want a just and lasting peace.

I stand with @ZelenskyyUa . #SupportUkraine

I support @Ukraine. #SupportUkraine

WSJ editorial: Donald Trump’s seeming desperation for a deal with Vladimir Putin is a risk to Ukraine, Europe, U.S. interests—and his own Presidency. wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump… via @WSJopinion

Republican Sen. John Kennedy said he disagreed with President Donald Trump's view that Ukraine started the war with Russia. "Vladimir Putin is a gangster ... He makes Jeffrey Dahmer look like Mother Theresa." Read more: newsweek.com/donald-trump-sa…

Volodymyr Zelensky is NOT a dictator. Vladimir Putin IS a dictator. Zelensky didn’t start the war in Ukraine. Putin did. Hope this clarifies things for anyone who is confused.

It’s going to take time to sort through what happened Tuesday. But I've read a lot of takes the past few days (some good, many bad), and I've had a lot of people ask how I won one of the toughest districts in the country by over 13%. Here are some thoughts: 🧵

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week: The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse. The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections. Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance. Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.) That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot. Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs. Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful. Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well. Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem. If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem. Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most. That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern. More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition. Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory. The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

The censorship algorithm has reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife advocacy group ? You can help by retweeting, liking and following. If we're going to preserve what few wild places remain, we need you to get involved.

A growing cadre of health care professionals believe civic engagement can improve quality of life, reports @Maura__Kelly. One doctor taking action: @AlisterFMartin, who meets patients where they are—in his ER, for example—and helps them register to vote. harvardpublichealth.org/poli…

The American Public Health Assoc. has named voting as one of the key “political determinants” of health. @AltaMedHealthS @mivotomisalud program gets its patients civically engaged through education and access to voting. via @HarvardPublic @Maura__Kelly harvardpublichealth.org/poli…

On AI and loneliness, by @ev_rat: “Voice agents have been touted as a solution to the loneliness epidemic. But when I called a friend of mine and unleashed the A.I. version of me, he [lamented]: ‘It’s so lonely.’” nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opini…

HPH’s @Maura__Kelly came to the same conclusion last year, when she tested several AI- and robot-driven attempts to cure her loneliness—and found them severely wanting. harvardpublichealth.org/ment…

"WHAT WE BECOME DEPENDS ON WHAT WE READ after all of the professors have finished with us." -Thomas Carlyle

Motive doesn't matter, says the US Supreme Court. Very f&*ked up.