Tammy Duckworth was a helicopter pilot during the Iraq War when she survived a rocket-propelled grenade attack that left her a double amputee. She went on to serve at the Department of Veterans Affairs and in Congress. Read more about Duckworth on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Successful Living Veterans: 📸: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images #Forbes250#

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C-SPAN: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Urges Democrats to Not Impeach Anybody and "Get Back to Work" If They Win Majority Senator Tammy Duckworth says Democrats should not impeach "anybody" if they regain control of Congress and "get back to work" on issues like funding of USAID or easing tariffs, which she says are hurting Illinois pork and soybean farmers who trade with China.

🚨🔵⚪️ Ipswich Town are waiting for Tammy Abraham to decide on the move as straight loan deal has been agreed with Aston Villa. #ITFC# wait and hope for Tammy’s green light.

Moving on! Tammy Hembrow's ex-husband Matt Zukowski kisses stunning blonde bridal stylist during a romantic date after revealing he cried 'once a day for four months' after their split

Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin say their concern is there may be more emergency exit doors than flight attendants in the event of an evacuation.

🇺🇸 Amazon's own chatbot snitched on Amazon, and now 2 senators want answers. A study from Lina Khan's think tank found that Amazon's Alexa and Walmart's Sparky shopping assistants hide info on American-made products while showing where Chinese and other foreign goods come from. Asked why there's no "Made in USA" filter, Alexa said one would "redirect significant sales away from their largest seller base," meaning overseas manufacturers. The bots can often spot fake "Made in USA" labels too, but neither company uses that to clean up listings, and Sparky blamed weak FTC enforcement when asked why. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott are now asking the FTC to investigate both companies, a year after it warned them about the same problem. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniyal

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Over 450 remote villages across the island nation of Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia now have high-speed internet access thanks to SpaceX’s @Starlink, helping expand digital government services, education, and healthcare access. "In many communities, students previously had limited or no access to digital learning opportunities. Now classrooms are connecting with the world.” Teachers can now access updated educational resources, online training and digital teaching tools that were previously unavailable due to connectivity limitations. “Timor-Leste is undergoing a digital leap forward,” Vorakai Lda, Chair, Tammy Kassiou said. “For decades, many remote communities have been effectively cut off from reliable access to information, services and opportunity due to infrastructure limitations. This initiative is fundamentally changing that reality.” Starlink stories like these deserve more coverage, because this technology is literally changing these people's lives for the better.

His name was Jeff Erlanger. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 30, 1970, a healthy baby for his first 7 months. Then doctors found a tumor on his spine. Surgery removed it and saved his life. It also left him a quadriplegic. He would use an electric wheelchair for the rest of his life. By age 5, Jeff needed another major operation, a fusion of his spine. Before the surgery, his parents asked him what he wanted most. They expected a small boy's answer. A trip to Disneyland, maybe. Jeff had a different answer. He wanted to meet Mister Rogers. Jeff and his older sister, Lisa, knew every word to every song on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. On television, a man looked straight into the camera and told children they were special exactly as they were. For a boy in a body that worked differently than other kids', that felt like real friendship. His sister wrote a letter to Fred Rogers, describing her brother and his wish. Fred Rogers wrote back. He happened to be traveling to Milwaukee. So in 1975, the Erlanger family drove to meet him, and the most famous children's television host in America sat down for breakfast with a 5-year-old boy in a wheelchair. That could have ended there. A kind gesture. A nice story. Instead, several years later, Fred Rogers wanted a child in an electric wheelchair for a themed episode on machines. His staff suggested finding a local child in Pittsburgh rather than flying someone in. Fred insisted on one name: Jeff. On February 18, 1981, an episode aired with 10-year-old Jeff Erlanger sitting beside Mister Rogers. The segment was unscripted. Jeff was simply told they would talk about his wheelchair and maybe sing a song. Jeff explained, in plain and confident detail, why he needed the chair, what his surgeries had been like, and what a person can do on the days they feel sad. Mister Rogers did not pity him. He asked real questions and listened, the same way he listened to every child on the show. Then the two of them sang together. The song was "It's You I Like," one of Fred's own compositions. Its message was simple: what matters is the person inside, not how their body looks or works. A 10-year-old quadriplegic and a 52-year-old television host sang that message to each other, live, on national television. Fred Rogers later called it his most treasured moment in the entire run of the show. Here is what most people miss: the friendship did not end when the segment did. Fred kept telling Jeff's story in speeches for years afterward, holding him up as an example of someone who faced enormous obstacles and still felt completely at ease with himself. Jeff grew up. He earned a political science degree from Edgewood College. He interned for Senator Russ Feingold and Representative Tammy Baldwin. He chaired Madison's Commission on People with Disabilities. He ran for city council in 2003. He helped bring accessible taxi service to his hometown. He needed many more surgeries along the way. He refused, every time, to be treated with pity. Then, in 1999, 18 years after that first television episode, Fred Rogers was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. The ceremony's producers had arranged a surprise Fred did not know about. The person chosen to introduce him was Jeff Erlanger, now a grown man in his late twenties, rolling out onto the stage in his wheelchair. Fred Rogers did not stay seated the way formal etiquette expected. The moment he recognized his old friend, he leaped up, climbed the stairs, and ran to embrace him in front of the entire audience. Jeff closed his introduction with the same words from that 1981 song: it's you I like. There was not a dry eye in the room. Fred Rogers died of stomach cancer in 2003, at age 74. Jeff Erlanger attended his memorial service in Pittsburgh that May. Jeff himself died on June 10, 2007. He was 36 years old. He spent his short adult life fighting for people with disabilities, exactly the way the man who once sang to him always believed he would. The lesson Fred Rogers spent his whole career teaching sounds almost too simple for adults to take seriously: that every person has worth, and none of it depends on what their body can do or what they can give back. Most people teach a lesson like that and move on to the next one. Fred Rogers met one 5-year-old boy who needed to hear it more than most, and then spent the next 18 years proving he meant every word.