Francesco Christ

@TuckerCarlson Rest in Peace to your father.

Obituary for my father. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet. He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles. By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency. In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day. In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television. The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection. He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs. Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.

@JoeBiden Please Nooooooo! Meaning, No Kamala Harris, in case was necessary to clarify. But, our differences aside, Thank you for serving the country Mr. President.

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.

@lonelyplanet Asuncion - Paraguay

What’s the COOLEST city you’ve visited?

@exitplan @CollinRugg What part? Celebrating the resurrection of a Palestinian while a genocide is happening on the same grounds where he was once walking +2000 years ago. It’s a cried for help.

@CollinRugg That is as low as low can get! Interrupting Easter Mass.

NEW: Pro-Palestine protesters take over Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. “Free, free Palestine” chants began going off during the second reading. Protesters rushed to the front and held up a banner that read: ‘SILENCE = DEATH’ The protesters were quickly tossed out and the service continued.

@feeldCo Not having so so so many FAKE PROFILES all soliciting SNAP, OF, some other new Website.. jeaus, is so bad.

How would you describe a great kiss in three words? 💋

@feeldCo I got the pings but I can’t use them because your app still doesn’t work, wont allow to send pics, like a person, etc, etc, etc. it frizzes after any action.

We are working on meaningful ways to make this right. To our Majestic Members: your daily Ping has been restored & you’ve been gifted an additional 10 Pings to your account as a token of our appreciation. We wouldn’t be here without you and are so grateful for your support.

We’ve been listening to your feedback, and understand your concerns about some changes, technical issues, and our responses.

@WhiteHouse I always gave you the benefit of the doubt, many arduos long conversations with friends and family that ended bad. I waited for a speech like this for so long, now is to late. 👎🏼

@benshapiro You are so dramatic dude..

Good news for the media: now that a fringe group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, the media can go back to slandering all 74 million people who voted for Trump as racists who are complicit in the overthrow of the republic, and calling for them to be silenced. Unity!

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As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, I’ve heard many ask how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.

“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear?”

@taymy_ @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno Same, stay safe.

@FrancescoChrist @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno Sad times we are living in. Interested to see where this goes.... stay safe!

Target being looted rn

@taymy_ @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno I truly wish to have the answer to that, I’m so affected by the injustice committed towards George Floyd and now also by the looting and all that it represents. All I can say Is that nothing is working as it supposed to, to much unnecessary suffering happening.

@FrancescoChrist @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno I see where you are coming from. What do you think is a good way to get the value of black lives to be prioritized like everyone else’s? Doesn’t seem like anything is working.... 😕

@taymy_ @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno I believe everyone should be hold accountable, the killers, the looters and everyone else behind this broken society. Is just a shame. So so sad.

@FrancescoChrist @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno We’ll just have to see. you can’t kill people without unexpected reactions. I don’t see this ending well for anyone. No one asks cops what the next reaction is to killing black people.... Why are civilians held accountable for reactions and our “protectors” aren’t?

@taymy_ @MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno Following your logic, what’s the next reaction to the looting?

@MaryTheJane2 @maxnesterak @rljourno Then police shouldn’t kill our black men. You can’t control how they react. Every action has an equal or greater reaction... but I still don’t think this is worst than countless black people losing their lives. Stop fucking killing us, period.

Is an Existentialist Ethics Possible? Does Sartre’s philosophy give us any clues about how we should live? Yes! Says Jonathan Crowe – he showed us that we can’t avoid choosing. philosophynow.org/issues/47/Is_a…

@mcuban The loans were to keep workers on the payrolls, among other things of course , why 30 Million ppl unemployed?

@lawhawk @MeghanMcCain So narrowed minded comment, the state of the country is due to all of us, for how we elect our leaders, how we educate our kids, how we treat each other and I can go on and on. It’s a problem we carry from centuries ago.

@MeghanMcCain The GOP own this absolute disaster. They refused to see the corruption, incompetence, and absolute failures by Trump to do anything but reward his cronies and right wing extremists while sidelining experts in every corner of govt.

@HillaryClinton I don’t like him but this is so low of you.

He did promise "America First." nytimes.com/2020/03/26/hea…

@BernieSanders Are you telling me students are still paying their loans with all this happening?

We must waive all student loan payments for the duration of this emergency.