From Heather Cox Richardson:

Last night, at exactly 9:25—9 to 5—the top of the Empire State Building in New York City lit up pink. The antennas of Chicago’s Willis Tower—formerly the Sears Tower—lit up pink, too. So did the Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier, which also sported a giant pink heart. The Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee; Reunion Tower and other buildings in the Dallas skyline; and the Longfellow, Burns, Fore River, Braga, and Zakim bridges of Boston; Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans; and, of course, Nashville’s KVB Bridge and historic Metro Courthouse were all lit up in pink last night.

The Arthur Ashe Stadium played “Jolene” during the U.S. Open. Jack White played Jolene in London. Elsewhere in London, the Buckingham Palace band played “9 to 5.”

All this and more for a woman born on January 19, 1946, in Sevier County, Tennessee, in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains without electricity or running water.

The President of Ukraine VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY speaks poetry to unite and inspire. Rise on his words.

Do you still think we are one people?

Do you still think you can scare us,

break us,

force us to make concessions?

Don’t you really get it?

Don’t you understand who we are?

What we stand for?

What we are all about?

Read my lips:

Without gas or without you?

Without you.

Without light or without you?

Without you.

Without water or without you.

Without you.

Without food or without you?

Without you.

Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as frightening and deadly for us as your friendship and brotherhood.

But history will put everything in its place. 

And we will be with gas, light, water and food

…and WITHOUT you!”

As much as we’re all shaking from yesterday’s events, I note it is Republican women who have come forth, who are speaking out. Inspiration!! And the truth comes out despite threats and intimidation. The hearings were moved up to protect Cassidy, and we’re all watching even more closely and carefully now.