"Hands Off." Protested with three thousand people in suburban Chicago today. You could hear the people sing. Singing a song of angry men. Just a beginning.

I've worked with many desperate populations: lepers in Thailand, nomads in Africa, street children, indigenous families scavenging garbage dumps. To all, USAID brought hope: nutrition, medicine, clean water. Our Christian Nationalists slashing USAID, well, ain't nothing Christian about it. #USAID

It was Inauguration Day, but the lake didn't know. So it just went about its happy freezing wildness without constraint or worry. Lucky lake.