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Somewhere a sound engineer is rocking back and forth in a corner muttering “I told them to set the gain lower. I TOLD THEM.”
#StateOfTheUnion Trump yelling #SOTU #SOTU2026 #SOTU26
Yesterday, at just 49 years old, @MiaBLove passed away.
As the first (and still only) Black woman elected to U.S. Congress as a Republican, Mia broke barriers.
The Congresswoman, outdoorswoman, and avid trail runner died after a courageous three-year battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.
In 2018, I had the privilege of sitting down with Mia at the kitchen table in her home in Utah.
While I didn't agree with her politics, I was inspired by her resilience in facing both the challenges of a female leader breaking barriers as well as her personal health battles.
What struck me most during our extended conversation (I've shared a 5-minute excerpt here) was Mia's authentic belief in America's promise—not as an abstract concept, but as the lived reality her Haitian immigrant parents experienced arriving with just $10 in their pockets.
I'm sharing this interview today as a tribute to her remarkable life and enduring optimism.
Whether you agreed with her politics or not, her story reminds us that leadership is ultimately about character and conviction.
In her final words to us, Mia expressed a hope that resonates deeply:
"I hope that my life will have mattered and made a difference for the nation I love and the family and friends I adore. I hope you will see the America I know in the years ahead, that you will hear my words in the whisper of the wind of freedom and feel my presence in the flame of the enduring principles of liberty."
Rest in peace, Congresswoman Love.
Your life indeed mattered, and your spirit inspired me and will inspire generations to come.
#MiaLove
Two weeks ago, Mia announced in a moving Deseret News essay that her cancer was no longer responding to treatment and that she would soon die.
She used this final opportunity to write a love letter to America: bit.ly/MiaLoveMyLivingWishfo…
In her final essay titled "My Living Wish for the America I Know," Mia wrote: "The America I know is great—not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my parents and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things."
Even facing her mortality, Mia's message wasn't about division or despair, but about unity and hope: "Some have forgotten the math of America—whenever you divide you diminish. What I know is that the goodness and compassion of the American people is a multiplier that simply cannot be measured."
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At a time when loneliness is at nearly epidemic levels—a 2021 report revealed that more than half (58%) of adults experienced loneliness and 61% of the lonely people are young adults (ages 18-25)—is The Friend a possible positive solution to lend comfort and companionship?
I’m weirdly #twitterold (but I’ll tell you the routine I use to stay so youthful.)
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I (might)! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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"This implies that people who struggle to remain positive aren’t worthy of love, connection, or relationships. That is, until they fix themselves by simply thinking their way out of it."
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“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” -John Bingham
My thoughts are with the Boston Marathon runners today, and everyone pushing through some pain.
Only 2 years before I was born, people of my gender were officially allowed to... run the Boston Marathon legitimately.
Even in the 1950s and '60s women were told they were too fragile to run marathon distances, which were for male runners only.
There was even a myth that a woman’s uterus would fall out if she participated in distance running. (Not even a joke... I wish it was.) Until 1967: bit.ly/KathrineSwitzerMedium
ALT Pre-Boston Marathon shakeout run in 2017 with Clif Bar team and living legend and ultra-runner Scott Jurek
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One of the scariest thing about being a journalist is that every time you finish writing an article, you're going to have to write another one
