Rude and insulting to others in the G7, Trump told Shinzo Abe he'd ship 25 million Mexicans to Japan and, to Macron, "all the terrorists are in Paris" https://t.co/GLjFMzWugT via @nypost
Ever wonder why Trump keeps Pruitt around? Well, Pruitt is about to announce a major environmental rollback that will benefit – wait for it – golf course and real estate developers.
“ I never, never saw him belittle another person, I never witnessed him do anything behind his wife's back….. For all of my political differences with Barack Obama, I will be the first to say that he is a very decent man.” https://t.co/sKqmBJOgCA
Well, well, well. AP got dragged today for their ridiculous headlines.
We’ve deleted a tweet from earlier today that did not meet AP standards. It imprecisely quoted President Donald Trump’s remarks on the Justice Department inspector general’s report, and failed to put those comments into clear context.
These are troubled times in this country and today, some of that was right in my residential space.
For decades now, there is mosque near located in The Ohio State University neighborhood, in Columbus Ohio .
Well, today being EID, the extremist Christians (also known as trump key supporters) decided that this would be the “best day” to come and stage protests against Muslims.
Counter-protesters (in this case the people against such hatemongering) came out too and occupied the opposite side of the street). A number of police officers and news reporters are here.
A friend called me to tell me about the protest. Of course, like any self-respecting socio-economic justice activist would do, I quickly made my sign and went out to counter-protest against the hatemongers.
Our group was larger, more vocal and more diverse. We put ourselves upfront so that the Muslims could enter and say their prayers.
Yes, it is very hot but we have to support other marginalized groups when they need us.
Ps, If you have some financial, time, or other resources, please consider supporting and promoting Senator Sherrod Brown (D, OH) who is in a very tight re-election race. He is an unapologetic supporter of socio-economic justice and all kinds of priority human rights issues. These are troubled times in this country and today, some of that was right in my residential space.
Thanks, gcl. Thought I was well informed and “up” on things. Had no idea this type of this was still happening. Thought it had “run its course.” So sad and so wrong!!!
WOW – In the Michael Cohen case, the FBI obtained 731 pages of WhatsApp and Signal messages (these are apps used to encrypt and quickly disappear texts; Kushner also uses Signal) and 16 pages of shredded docs have been reconstructed.
“FOR PROFIT PRISON CAMP”
It’s all about the cash and salaries for private prisons. Trump KOCH Party is KNOWINGLY RISKING OUR KIDS LIVES for cash.
This evil, hateful demonic party must go down.
#NewHaven will soon be home to what's expected to be Connecticut's first school named after former President Barack Obama. A groundbreaking is planned Thursday for the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School. The K-4 facility will be located at Southern. https://t.co/mkuUGDLR6T
He may very well be an honorable man but I will never forget how he sabotaged her campaign (because honestly I think he thought she was going to win and he wanted to give the Republicans red meat to go after her once she became President) and in doing so most likely gave that election to Trump and then while on that extensive book tour (on every channel) he never admitted that what he did in those final days was wrong. He still doesn’t even to this day!
I also hesitate to trust Rod Rosenstein.
He is a Republican and I refuse to believe that there is no party bias in his thinking. Just think about it, why does Rosenstein go running over to the White House all the time? I know Trumps title but Rosenstein also knows where the skeletons are buried. You would think that he would get Sessions or Kelly or somebody in that White House to tell that moran that he shouldn’t be calling him to the White House on a regular basis. Maybe I’m all wrong and he is just trying to appease Trump in order to keep his job and keep the investigation going but there is something unsettling about him.
Time will tell and I’m praying Trump and his cronies (including his children) go down.
I agree with you dd4d. Comey and McCabe sucked up to Dotard then got burned when he turned on them got what they deserved. The same with Rosenstein. He KNEW the axe was going to fall on him back in April. He better hope Dotard doesn’t lose his mind and fire or try to end the Mueller investigation. He should be kissing Mueller’s toes for having filed all those indictments that will fly from every corner of the globe like flying monkeys from the Wiz of Oz.
Giuliani should shut his mouth and realize that Manafort just went to the slammer for witness tampering. Ignoramus is obstructing justice and tampering. All these freaks think they’re above the law. Well, HELL NO.
My face has been in a constant state of confusion all day. The man is legitimately crazy!
“Shinzo, you don’t have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you’ll be out of office very soon," Trump told Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, according to the WSJ. https://t.co/FWb2b0Jbtp
Otto Kernberg defined malignant narcissism as having 4 components: narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality and sadism. Trump exhibits all four: “His narcissism is evident in his “grandiose sense of self-importance … without commensurate achievements.” From viewing cable news, he knows “more about ISIS than the generals” and believes that among all human beings on the planet, “I alone can fix it.” His “repeated lying,” “disregard for and violation of the rights of others” (Trump University fraud and multiple sexual assault allegations) and “lack of remorse” meet the clinical criteria for anti-social personality. His bizarre conspiracy theories, false sense of victimization, and demonization of the press, minorities and anyone who opposes him are textbook paranoia. Like most sadists, Trump has been a bully since childhood, and his thousands of vicious tweets make him perhaps the most prolific CYBER BULLY in history.” And this is just the start. Let him pay the price for his narcissism, greed, sleaze, libel, hatred, shifting the blame to others, compulsive lying, criminality and treason. Trump’s filth & shame is NOT mine or yours. It’s…all..on…him.
This is DC Central Detention facility. It’s where Paul Manafort will spend his foreseeable future. Those detained there say it is covered in cockroaches and that inmates stay up at night killing them.
I'm so glad you dropped by. I was really wondering when one of the mouth-breathing, slack-jawed yokel contingent would drop by to publicly soil himself with an embarrassing farrago of ludicrous conspiracy theories inflamed by QAnon agitporn. https://t.co/RDe9JMPMba
Just like Mika and Morning Joke did in the beginning with Dotard, giving him soft ball questions when he was first running. It’s on tape! don’t need emails or video.
"I want to make a quick point about the Air Force One meeting because … what that means here is that's meeting with the high command… that’s a conspiracy … " – @harrylitman w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/h6iJ57EJ8k
Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration. Asylum is legal immigration.
In light of IG's failure to look at leaking/anti-Clinton bias among agents in NYC field office, this seems quite relevant. Nunes says "good FBI agents" told him about Weiner laptop in late September 2016. pic.twitter.com/BU6ysY7Xwn
BOOM: Judge couldn’t trust that Manafort could go without committing a crime:
JUST IN: Judge's full order explaining why she sent Paul Manafort to jail today.
"…no conditions that would assure that the defendant will comply with the most fundamental condition of release under the Bail Reform Act: that he not commit a … crime" https://t.co/xJwPXov0O3pic.twitter.com/6Els95LUgf
BEST VIDEO EVER: Today in New York City, a bystander pointed at Michael Cohen and said, “Hey, it’s the guy that’s going to jail!” pic.twitter.com/1hmhKQMljN
Thank you so much for sharing this. What an incredible mind & life. Yes, life. RIP to a magnificent soul, who strived to expand our narrow minds. Bless! ❤
I am disgusted by Giuliani’s abhorrent and idiotic comments about Joe Biden. Joe Biden is one of the great political leaders of all time, one of the truly decent men left in politics – and someone my family has looked to for strength during the most difficult time in our lives.
He is a disgusting person, traumatizing children for some sick obsession. Would he want this for his grandchildren? The damage he is doing to these kids will be life lasting, in some cases, irreversible. This is monster, wicked behavior that should not be discussed so casually. https://t.co/IcRRX8KL0E
— KSK(africa) I miss President Obama Everyday (@lawalazu) June 16, 2018
Mueller's office just filed notice of evidence it plans to present at trial about "prior acts" by Paul Manafort that he isn't facing charges for, but that prosecutors say is probative https://t.co/7DX4dv6m8jpic.twitter.com/leWvpkI8cE
He’s in the “VIP” section, I saw earlier. I’d like to see him spend a few months at one of the immigrant detention centers in TX, where trump is torturing children. Maybe give him a nice pillow and a plastic blanket in tent city during hurricane season.
J’OB, I’m beyond the beyond. So absolutely mortified. Is this what we, as a nation, have become. Doesn’t shame exist in US anymore? Breaks my being to the very core.
It is horrendous to do this to anyone – including Manafort. To do it to young children takes the horror to a much greater level.
This is the US government, led by the president* and his little friend mr sessions
Just an fyi – keeping anyone in jail/ prison is a “risk to their safety”. Frankly he should have no more protection than anyone else. But $$$ makes him special.
You can't speak about trump without mentioning torture of immigrant children at our southern border. What say you? Did you go to the UN to endorse THAT?
On This Day. 1858. One of the greatest speeches ever given by Abraham Lincoln (and that's really saying something) – his "House Divided" address – given in the Illinois House of Representatives chamber /1 pic.twitter.com/1OJvAQwSR9
Those who were mad at Michelle Obama because she said that kids should eat vegetables are completely fine with Trump putting kids in concentration camps.
Right about now Manafort is having breakfast or has already had breakfast. He might have a visit from his lawyer or a family member depending on if they’ve been cleared to visit him. A legal visit by his lawyer might take a couple of days to get processed. Manafort is probably not talking to other inmates, I’m not sure if he’s housed with other inmates or if he’s housed alone, and he could even be on suicide watch. I doubt if he even slept last night. During his intake screening he’ll be asked about his mental and physical health, i.e. medications. And if he’s in a jail the constant noise is going to drive him crazy, jails can be very noisy at times. If I were Manafort I’d prefer a Federal lockup as opposed to a jail, Detention lockup can be more humane because most of your clientele have money, manners, and means. In a Federal lockup Manafort might even run into someone with more money than he has, LOL. Whereas a jail, you’re dealing with your common street criminal or hoodlum. Up until this moment I haven’t heard about him cooperating, but once it’s been put out there that he might be cooperating then you can bet that someone on his legal team might have had a conversation with the Special Counsel. I think Manafort knows that he’s going to do time, he’s probably trying to figure out just how much time. Come Monday Manafort is going to have a fresh perspective on a great many things.
BREAKING: According to internal CBO documents obtained by @allinwithchris, from June 3-11, fully ***91%*** of parents being prosecuted at the border and forcibly separated from their children are being prosecuted for a *misdemeanor.*
Every single GOP member of Congress who will not confront Trump’s rantings, delusions and non stop lies in a public manner and demand it stop is simply unfit and unworthy of service under the dome of the Capitol of the United States. They disgrace themselves and our nation
Not everybody believes in the Bible, but everybody in a governmental post in our country needs to stop quoting it, IMHO. But if they quote it, quote this.
90% of Democratic senators have signed on to a bill aimed at stopping family separations. No Republican senator has signed on. Trump this a.m. tweets that the Democrats are forcing family separations. https://t.co/GGKEiWtlNm
If you think authoritarianism cannot happen here in America, I lived through a time when it already did: to 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of us citizens. It starts by dehumanizing a group, then spreads through fear, ignorance and hate. Recognize the patterns. Remember history.
Trump has said and done some of the most despicable things of his presidency or any presidency in the last few weeks, and not a single elected Republican has done anything about it.
The only way this changes is if their party suffers total defeat in November.
More Democrats need to be saying this. They need to say that Trump is straight-up LYING about HIS policy when he claims that the Democrats are doing it.
At minimum, he deserves to have Ivanka and/or Don Jr. get the Paul Manafort treatment. Karma can’t come quickly enough.
Trump's firehose of horror is his strongest tactic so we are being bombarded with MANY evil acts every day. Please share this information with your networks. https://t.co/YWNa3lEBZe
Don't start this weekend without noting that out of nowhere this week the Trump administration tried destroy the entire health insurance market, including employer-provided insurance, leaving anyone from cancer patients to people with acne uninsurable. https://t.co/CH81qMYUEB
I worry that too much focus on some of parents having lawful asylum claims risks masking the fact that intentionally harming children *in order to deter* even unlawful conduct by their parents is itself morally abhorrent.
Family separation is not a rational or necessary part of law enforcement here. Most adults are accused of misdemeanors and we've long administered the law without unnecessary family separation. The separation is not responsive to any need, it is a new deterrence policy.
Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war.[1] They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a govt policy or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a govt or a de facto authority.https://t.co/ZTYch8jhFYpic.twitter.com/uOVVhRToRh
Can I say I DESPISE Joe Manchin with the heat of a thousand suns? This week he put out an ad saying he’s 100% behind building the wall. He also says he’d consider backing Trump in 2020. I don’t care where he lives, what kind of a mofo does this? UGH UGH UGH
I remember those weekends when President Obama was in the oval office, we’d sit around here bored because everything was being taken care of in a responsible manner and we didn’t have anything to worry about. I have a greater appreciation for calmness and civility and intelligence.
Fr. James Martin (you’ll remember seeing him for years on MSNBC, off and on) – who’s really speaking out and has continued to speak out on behalf of not just the immigrants but also our LGBT citizens and others who are “easy targets” – offered this thread today. Whether one believes in God, or the Holy Spirit, or is not a believer at all, the “examine your conscience” part of this is the real key. It’s the old standby reminder of “man’s inhumanity to man,” which humans have fought back against since the cavemen and cavewomen times. Highly recommend this thread.
Thread: You know that feeling of anger when you read about children being taken away from their parents at the border, in your government’s name? 1/10 pic.twitter.com/UBdwYfYfd9
I’ve already “spoken to” my grandson, who’ll be eligible to vote in 2020, to “Register, then vote as a Democrat.” Hey, I’m his grandmother, I can order him to do the right thing. Ha! (He’s got big-time Democratic leanings already, thank God.)
Haven’t seen a link to President Obama’s post, so – with your indulgence – I’ll just copy and paste his summer reading list here.
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From President Obama:
I’m often asked what I’m reading, watching, and listening to, so I thought I might share a short list from time to time. There’s so much good writing and art and variety of thought out there these days that this is by no means comprehensive – like many of you, I’ll miss “The Americans” – but here’s what I’ve been reading lately. It’s admittedly a slightly heavier list than what I’ll be reading over the summer:
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner
I once wrote a book on my own search for identity, so I was curious to see what Alex, daughter of a Burmese mother and Iowan Irish-Catholic father – and a friend of mine – discovered during her own. What she came up with is a thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are – the search for harmony between our own individual identities and the values and ideals that bind us together as Americans.
The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti
It’s six years old now, but still a timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them – and how policymakers can learn from that to lift the circumstances of working Americans everywhere.
Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
In a time of growing inequality, accelerating change, and increasing disillusionment with the liberal democratic order we’ve known for the past few centuries, I found this book thought-provoking. I don’t agree with most of the author’s conclusions, but the book offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril.
“The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy,” by Matthew Stewart, The Atlantic
Another thought-provoking analysis, this one about how economic inequality in America isn’t just growing, but self-reinforcing – and what that means for education, health, happiness, even the strength of our democracy.
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, by Mitch Landrieu
A few years ago, I eulogized the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was slain by a white supremacist in his church in Charleston, South Carolina. And I’ll never forget something Clem said while he was alive: “Across the South, we have a deep appreciation of history. We haven’t always had a deep appreciation of each other’s history.” That’s something Mitch takes to heart in this book, while grappling with some of the most painful parts of our history and how they still live in the present. It’s an ultimately optimistic take from someone who believes the South will rise again not by reasserting the past, but by transcending it.
“Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life,” by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, RAND Corporation
The title is self-explanatory, but the findings are very interesting. A look at how a selective sorting of facts and evidence isn’t just dishonest, but self-defeating to a society that has always worked best when reasoned debate and practical problem-solving thrive.
This latest episode in our journey to a more perfect union now includes the taking of children from their parents. From Slavery to the Women’s Suffrage Movement to Civil Rights to both DOMA and DADT, ours is a complicated history. Yes we can accept children being taken from their parents, because we’ve been harden by the bodies of dead children on classroom floors, and even those acts didn’t change our hearts enough. If the sight of our own children that came from our own wombs, riddled with bullet holes didn’t change us, the sight of someone else’s children being rounded up by our government isn’t going to change us. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” That’s a hell of a quote to hold on to when your child is alone and afraid locked in a cage.
thanks Don, so much.
That little girl is defenseless and ALONE. Anything can happen to her. Will we find out what?
Manafort in jail as punishment for crimes. Little children even 8 month olds in jail for NO REASON. Innocent. NO crime.
Why don’t you try an experiment: set the Fox$Friends set on fire OnAir, get arrested for Arson, make bail, then if you still have a job while pending trial, do it again and see if you’re offered bail again. Or have you been schooled enough for one stupid tweet?
A law is when a piece of legislation is approved by both the House and Senate – and signed by the president. There is no law that forces federal agents to snatch crying kids away from their mothers and fathers. It is simply something, a policy, that @realDonaldTrump has ordered
The Obama Diary 
Hi folks. Thanks Nerdy!
He is not right in the head
https://nypost.com/2018/06/15/trump-told-shinzo-abe-hed-ship-25-million-mexicans-to-japan/?utm_source=reddit.com
Just truly crazy.
There is NO doubt Orange Satan will pardon him but I pray he goes to jail on state charges.
Well, well, well. AP got dragged today for their ridiculous headlines.
They sure did and I gave them my 2 cents as well.
Thank you, DD. One voice can change a room……
Glad to see this. That tweet is no longer available on my response to them.
These are troubled times in this country and today, some of that was right in my residential space.
For decades now, there is mosque near located in The Ohio State University neighborhood, in Columbus Ohio .
Well, today being EID, the extremist Christians (also known as trump key supporters) decided that this would be the “best day” to come and stage protests against Muslims.
Counter-protesters (in this case the people against such hatemongering) came out too and occupied the opposite side of the street). A number of police officers and news reporters are here.
A friend called me to tell me about the protest. Of course, like any self-respecting socio-economic justice activist would do, I quickly made my sign and went out to counter-protest against the hatemongers.
Our group was larger, more vocal and more diverse. We put ourselves upfront so that the Muslims could enter and say their prayers.
Yes, it is very hot but we have to support other marginalized groups when they need us.
Ps, If you have some financial, time, or other resources, please consider supporting and promoting Senator Sherrod Brown (D, OH) who is in a very tight re-election race. He is an unapologetic supporter of socio-economic justice and all kinds of priority human rights issues. These are troubled times in this country and today, some of that was right in my residential space.
Thank you for your activism Linda!!!
Thank you and so glad you are part of our community.
Thanks, gcl. Thought I was well informed and “up” on things. Had no idea this type of this was still happening. Thought it had “run its course.” So sad and so wrong!!!
Thanks, Linda!
Maybe it will be Mueller Monday after all……
Sadistic.
“FOR PROFIT PRISON CAMP”
It’s all about the cash and salaries for private prisons. Trump KOCH Party is KNOWINGLY RISKING OUR KIDS LIVES for cash.
This evil, hateful demonic party must go down.
Evil s.o.b.s.
Yes they are, Africa. Pure evil.
Place of my birth:) Proud of this!
And hubby’s alma mater will have the school on their grounds… I feel the connection:)
Was just coming here to ask “Where is my president?”. Thank you very much !!!
I don’t like James Comey.
He may very well be an honorable man but I will never forget how he sabotaged her campaign (because honestly I think he thought she was going to win and he wanted to give the Republicans red meat to go after her once she became President) and in doing so most likely gave that election to Trump and then while on that extensive book tour (on every channel) he never admitted that what he did in those final days was wrong. He still doesn’t even to this day!
I also hesitate to trust Rod Rosenstein.
He is a Republican and I refuse to believe that there is no party bias in his thinking. Just think about it, why does Rosenstein go running over to the White House all the time? I know Trumps title but Rosenstein also knows where the skeletons are buried. You would think that he would get Sessions or Kelly or somebody in that White House to tell that moran that he shouldn’t be calling him to the White House on a regular basis. Maybe I’m all wrong and he is just trying to appease Trump in order to keep his job and keep the investigation going but there is something unsettling about him.
Time will tell and I’m praying Trump and his cronies (including his children) go down.
I agree with you dd4d. Comey and McCabe sucked up to Dotard then got burned when he turned on them got what they deserved. The same with Rosenstein. He KNEW the axe was going to fall on him back in April. He better hope Dotard doesn’t lose his mind and fire or try to end the Mueller investigation. He should be kissing Mueller’s toes for having filed all those indictments that will fly from every corner of the globe like flying monkeys from the Wiz of Oz.
I agree Donna. You are saying what I l too.
Trial balloons are already going up to see if he gets the reaction he wants…..
Sounds like obstruction of justice to me. Sure, Rudy…keep talking
Giuliani should shut his mouth and realize that Manafort just went to the slammer for witness tampering. Ignoramus is obstructing justice and tampering. All these freaks think they’re above the law. Well, HELL NO.
Can’t wait until the IG comes out with what they found about the FBI NYFO and Gouhlioni knowing about the October Surprise.
My face has been in a constant state of confusion all day. The man is legitimately crazy!
And devoid of humanity! He’s a pod.
Otto Kernberg defined malignant narcissism as having 4 components: narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality and sadism. Trump exhibits all four: “His narcissism is evident in his “grandiose sense of self-importance … without commensurate achievements.” From viewing cable news, he knows “more about ISIS than the generals” and believes that among all human beings on the planet, “I alone can fix it.” His “repeated lying,” “disregard for and violation of the rights of others” (Trump University fraud and multiple sexual assault allegations) and “lack of remorse” meet the clinical criteria for anti-social personality. His bizarre conspiracy theories, false sense of victimization, and demonization of the press, minorities and anyone who opposes him are textbook paranoia. Like most sadists, Trump has been a bully since childhood, and his thousands of vicious tweets make him perhaps the most prolific CYBER BULLY in history.” And this is just the start. Let him pay the price for his narcissism, greed, sleaze, libel, hatred, shifting the blame to others, compulsive lying, criminality and treason. Trump’s filth & shame is NOT mine or yours. It’s…all..on…him.
Yup ….
He can name one Donnie and another one Vlad….
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Thank you, Bob.
What a time we live in!
Just like Mika and Morning Joke did in the beginning with Dotard, giving him soft ball questions when he was first running. It’s on tape! don’t need emails or video.
Bob, that was a stellar tweet, & the comments are hilarious. Grazie! 😎😂
Thank you Gazelle and NCLB!
Yup, jojo
An oldie but oh so sweet reminder ….
Yes
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Cannot be said enough.
OH.
Well now, how’s everyone @ TOD? 😂
BOOM: Judge couldn’t trust that Manafort could go without committing a crime:
I’d say, “commit yet another crime.” 😯😂😷
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Love NYC. Just saying it as is! 😎😂
Thank you so much for sharing this. What an incredible mind & life. Yes, life. RIP to a magnificent soul, who strived to expand our narrow minds. Bless! ❤
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Good for Meghan … for once ….
And no, we will never forget!!
As to avoid any ambiguity on my preference ….
Just because it made me smile & hope.
Wow, they are mining deep. This guy is screwed.
This looks more like a country club.
He’s in the “VIP” section, I saw earlier. I’d like to see him spend a few months at one of the immigrant detention centers in TX, where trump is torturing children. Maybe give him a nice pillow and a plastic blanket in tent city during hurricane season.
J’OB, I’m beyond the beyond. So absolutely mortified. Is this what we, as a nation, have become. Doesn’t shame exist in US anymore? Breaks my being to the very core.
It is horrendous to do this to anyone – including Manafort. To do it to young children takes the horror to a much greater level.
This is the US government, led by the president* and his little friend mr sessions
AMEN
Just an fyi – keeping anyone in jail/ prison is a “risk to their safety”. Frankly he should have no more protection than anyone else. But $$$ makes him special.
THREAD
I could weep.
Right about now Manafort is having breakfast or has already had breakfast. He might have a visit from his lawyer or a family member depending on if they’ve been cleared to visit him. A legal visit by his lawyer might take a couple of days to get processed. Manafort is probably not talking to other inmates, I’m not sure if he’s housed with other inmates or if he’s housed alone, and he could even be on suicide watch. I doubt if he even slept last night. During his intake screening he’ll be asked about his mental and physical health, i.e. medications. And if he’s in a jail the constant noise is going to drive him crazy, jails can be very noisy at times. If I were Manafort I’d prefer a Federal lockup as opposed to a jail, Detention lockup can be more humane because most of your clientele have money, manners, and means. In a Federal lockup Manafort might even run into someone with more money than he has, LOL. Whereas a jail, you’re dealing with your common street criminal or hoodlum. Up until this moment I haven’t heard about him cooperating, but once it’s been put out there that he might be cooperating then you can bet that someone on his legal team might have had a conversation with the Special Counsel. I think Manafort knows that he’s going to do time, he’s probably trying to figure out just how much time. Come Monday Manafort is going to have a fresh perspective on a great many things.
Morning everyone. Have you called your MoC yet?
Our union President has us constantly phone-banking. Morning Sunshine.
Morning to you:) I learn so much from you. Truly. Everyday. Thanks…and thanks for phone banking, too
AND ACT ON THEM!!!
Not everybody believes in the Bible, but everybody in a governmental post in our country needs to stop quoting it, IMHO. But if they quote it, quote this.
When it comes to scripture, man has shown that he will use it to justify anything.
So true.
Where is Jeff Flake, Bob Corker and Susan Collins, the supposed Republican moderates?
Eyes Open, America.
Zero Republicans. Family first, my ass
More Democrats need to be saying this. They need to say that Trump is straight-up LYING about HIS policy when he claims that the Democrats are doing it.
At minimum, he deserves to have Ivanka and/or Don Jr. get the Paul Manafort treatment. Karma can’t come quickly enough.
THIS THIS THIS
This Is Us…
wishing you a great day
You, too, darlin’!
Can I say I DESPISE Joe Manchin with the heat of a thousand suns? This week he put out an ad saying he’s 100% behind building the wall. He also says he’d consider backing Trump in 2020. I don’t care where he lives, what kind of a mofo does this? UGH UGH UGH
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I remember those weekends when President Obama was in the oval office, we’d sit around here bored because everything was being taken care of in a responsible manner and we didn’t have anything to worry about. I have a greater appreciation for calmness and civility and intelligence.
Fr. James Martin (you’ll remember seeing him for years on MSNBC, off and on) – who’s really speaking out and has continued to speak out on behalf of not just the immigrants but also our LGBT citizens and others who are “easy targets” – offered this thread today. Whether one believes in God, or the Holy Spirit, or is not a believer at all, the “examine your conscience” part of this is the real key. It’s the old standby reminder of “man’s inhumanity to man,” which humans have fought back against since the cavemen and cavewomen times. Highly recommend this thread.
MUST SEE.
Read the entire thread from the show today. Consistently spot on and solid, factual viewing
Agree.
LET’S not wait until November until there are thousands more innocent children incarcerated.
STOP THIS HUMAN ATROCITY NOW.
I’ve already “spoken to” my grandson, who’ll be eligible to vote in 2020, to “Register, then vote as a Democrat.” Hey, I’m his grandmother, I can order him to do the right thing. Ha! (He’s got big-time Democratic leanings already, thank God.)
Haven’t seen a link to President Obama’s post, so – with your indulgence – I’ll just copy and paste his summer reading list here.
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From President Obama:
I’m often asked what I’m reading, watching, and listening to, so I thought I might share a short list from time to time. There’s so much good writing and art and variety of thought out there these days that this is by no means comprehensive – like many of you, I’ll miss “The Americans” – but here’s what I’ve been reading lately. It’s admittedly a slightly heavier list than what I’ll be reading over the summer:
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner
I once wrote a book on my own search for identity, so I was curious to see what Alex, daughter of a Burmese mother and Iowan Irish-Catholic father – and a friend of mine – discovered during her own. What she came up with is a thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are – the search for harmony between our own individual identities and the values and ideals that bind us together as Americans.
The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti
It’s six years old now, but still a timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them – and how policymakers can learn from that to lift the circumstances of working Americans everywhere.
Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
In a time of growing inequality, accelerating change, and increasing disillusionment with the liberal democratic order we’ve known for the past few centuries, I found this book thought-provoking. I don’t agree with most of the author’s conclusions, but the book offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril.
“The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy,” by Matthew Stewart, The Atlantic
Another thought-provoking analysis, this one about how economic inequality in America isn’t just growing, but self-reinforcing – and what that means for education, health, happiness, even the strength of our democracy.
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, by Mitch Landrieu
A few years ago, I eulogized the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was slain by a white supremacist in his church in Charleston, South Carolina. And I’ll never forget something Clem said while he was alive: “Across the South, we have a deep appreciation of history. We haven’t always had a deep appreciation of each other’s history.” That’s something Mitch takes to heart in this book, while grappling with some of the most painful parts of our history and how they still live in the present. It’s an ultimately optimistic take from someone who believes the South will rise again not by reasserting the past, but by transcending it.
“Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life,” by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, RAND Corporation
The title is self-explanatory, but the findings are very interesting. A look at how a selective sorting of facts and evidence isn’t just dishonest, but self-defeating to a society that has always worked best when reasoned debate and practical problem-solving thrive.
Thank you! Is this from Facebook?
Yes!
like many of you, I’ll miss “The Americans” LOLOLOLOL!!! Now that is how you do shade!
This latest episode in our journey to a more perfect union now includes the taking of children from their parents. From Slavery to the Women’s Suffrage Movement to Civil Rights to both DOMA and DADT, ours is a complicated history. Yes we can accept children being taken from their parents, because we’ve been harden by the bodies of dead children on classroom floors, and even those acts didn’t change our hearts enough. If the sight of our own children that came from our own wombs, riddled with bullet holes didn’t change us, the sight of someone else’s children being rounded up by our government isn’t going to change us. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” That’s a hell of a quote to hold on to when your child is alone and afraid locked in a cage.
thanks Don, so much.
That little girl is defenseless and ALONE. Anything can happen to her. Will we find out what?
Manafort in jail as punishment for crimes. Little children even 8 month olds in jail for NO REASON. Innocent. NO crime.
And Trump/Sessions/KOCH creating orphanage internment camps right NOW. Right NOW this atrocity under our noses.
Who can get these little ones out?
Trump’s preamble to an Authoritarian Regime. There is still a sliver of time to stop Trump-Putin-KOCH brothers.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/06/16/only-the-beginning/
My forever first lady!