We can welcome the tired, the poor, the yearning to be free – and still be free ourselves. If America can’t figure out how to amass the resources, courage, & political will to ensure NO child suffers on our shores – who will? pic.twitter.com/cFB0sJtGGc
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) June 22, 2018
Thanks for giving us a concrete way to make a difference. Hope everyone here is managing their stress and finding joy each day. Today I was outside by te creek that runs by our house and saw 2 young deer. We need to take care of ourselves so we can be strong and resist.
I am doing well
Going to a meeting tonight to plan a June 30th rally
Texting for lots of Dem candidates.
Hope to have more time to post here and encourage all the wonderful folks who read this blog to get involved in local elections and if you live in a Blue area to work outside your district.
Texting and sending postcards are 2 new ways our team is contacting voters and it is lots of fun.
Hope all is well with you in AZ – we will be working on the Senate race and a few congressional seats.
President Trump’s roundup of immigrants is beginning to resemble a sort of ethnic cleansing campaign. He’s already proven that he won’t be constrained by our democratic norms, our respect for human rights or even basic human decency. https://t.co/DVGGyrOMLx
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 22, 2018
Rachel Maddow reports that HHS Secretary Alex Azar, whose purview includes the facilities housing separated migrant kids whose parents can’t find them, skipped out for his college reunion on the day after his agency build a tent city in Texas to house migrant children taken from their parents.
Jason Rittereiser, whose law firm has offered free legal representation federal employees who refuse to carry out Donald Trump’s migrant family separation policy, talks with Rachel Maddow about response to the offer both from other lawyers wanting to help and at least five government employees who have reached out for help.
Rachel Maddow reports on a letter sent to Defense Secretary Mattis from Senators Gillibrand, Leahy, and Ernst, asking him to reconsider sending JAGs to border states to help the DoJ prosecute immigration cases.
Dr. Marsha Griffin, pediatrician and co-chair of The American Academy of Pediatrics Special Interest Group on Immigrant Health, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lasting developmental damage done to children when they’re taken away from their parents.
Rachel Maddow reports on a lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and joined by several other states to stop Donald Trump’s migrant family separation policy.
Jun.21.2018
Rachel Maddow shares reporting from the Washington Post that the National Enquirer sent stories about Donald Trump to Michael Cohen for approval before publishing and took suggestions for stories about Hillary Clinton from Trump.
Jun.21.2018
A few moments ago I finished visiting with mothers who were separated from their children at the border. I can tell you they are in utter despair. The stories they shared with me paint a picture of human rights abuses being committed by our government. We are so much better this. pic.twitter.com/lEeIOtEjWU
.@TheRickWilson@DavidJollyFL@samstein – Time Magazine should do the exact same themed cover next week with a child who had actually been separated just to drive the point home. That would be the most powerful correction in journalism history.
I see your rerun cover next week and raise you with the exact same cover with a different kid every week until they have all been reunited w their families
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it’s now commonplace for people of different world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It’s a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect
More than a month apart after being separated at the border, this Guatemalan mother got her 7-year-old son back just days after suing top Trump administration officials: https://t.co/CBnStsEbbGpic.twitter.com/sMpVbqvWxZ
This child is completely and thoroughly traumatized, incapable of releasing his fear and experiencing joy, trusting that this is his mother and she will be there tonight and tomorrow and the next day and the next day. I’m thrilled for their reunion. It’s going to take some time before he’s able to ever relax and not feel completely out of his mind with fear and abandonment.
I’m so broken-hearted about all of this. I’ve got 5 grandkids and 2 great grandkids and I put them in these situations in my head, knowing they wouldn’t have been able to cope without scars, either, and I thank God it hasn’t happened to them. And you don’t have to have children to feel the empathy for these children and their parents and families. It’s the most devastating thing yet.
Oh, that was a fun trip down memory lane!! And a real feeling of rescue. Thank you for some great memories. I’ll never forget seeing them when I was just 13!!
Whoa conservative George Will: Vote against the GOP and flip both houses of Congress. "Ryan traded his political soul for…a tax cut." https://t.co/hFExD0Q0GG
"@SpeakerRyan and many other Republicans have become the president’s poodles, not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it." — George Will https://t.co/uwKbI2pcPl
Kids who don't know George Will, this is huge. George Will and mainstream Republican thought was synonymous for decades. He was their intellectual voice. THAT George Will wrote THIS: "Vote against the GOP this November" https://t.co/WKOaAXmhiA
i read that piece…he still could not stop himself for taking shots at Dems…these so called conservative GOPers can miss me with all their lamenting about Trump…the time for all this lament was BEFORE the election
George Will and all the GOP haters of Bill & Hillary and any Democrat for years created this mess. If we are lucky enough to get rid of Orange Satan they will go back to what they do best, spreading hate.
There's “no hidden message” here. We like to keep it pretty straightforward. Donate $20.18 to get this shirt, and all proceeds will go toward defeating Trump-supporting Republicans this November. https://t.co/gMKvkwv5tipic.twitter.com/DlxNIhAecU
Hello…drum roll…
Because Michael Cohen was a Hoarder the Government has the Evidence to Bring Trump Down:
” I told you before there were audio tapes and a whole lot of information that was seized in connection with these raids. Among other problems that Michael and the president have is that it appears that Michael Cohen basically was one of the world’s great hoarders as it related to keeping evidence and cell phones and the like. This guy never threw anything away which I’m sure the government is ecstatic about right now.” https://www.politicususa.com › Donald Trump
(Includes video of Avenatti.)
These dumpster fire mofos are going to regret their stupidity and hate. THEY HAVE IT COMING.
We share everyone's concern about the border situation and stand ready to help. We have offered assistance to federal gov't authorities, but without permission, we can't access facilities. Here’s a list of trusted organizations providing assistance: https://t.co/HfU4LTviUz
For the fourth straight day there was no WH briefing. No officials to explain how the admin plans to return the separated kids to their parents. This is how the briefing room looks.. a few reporters waiting for answers that aren’t coming yet. #whereistheplan#whereispresssecpic.twitter.com/aLok8zcEbc
I doubt very much if any sane and caring person, no matter their ethnicity, would say that the detention conditions are better than being with their families. Republicans are synonymous with Trumpites. There is absolutely no difference and they will lie as glibly as possible.
Ain’t nothin better than a criminal target that hoards evidence…Except one that hoards evidence and is also too cheap to buy a good crosscut shredder. #Bastahttps://t.co/H4EPK7K3CA
“I do not urge you to turn your hate into love for these people. I can’t do it myself. There can be no love for them. Loving them would not change them, would not better them, would not alter the way they think. They are lost, and the best we can hope to do is to neuter them so that their fear no longer has any potency.
But do turn that hatred, that blinding, debilitating hatred, into love. Not for them, but for those they hate. For those they oppress. For those they murder. Love those people, work for them, serve them. Protect them as best you can. Speak for them when they can’t speak for themselves. Join with them and follow their lead when they take action.”
"They are lost, and the best we can hope to do is to neuter them so that their fear no longer has any potency" .A time of hatred https://t.co/OJ5GwGM6PA
We work to rebuild our nation and to restore our place in the world as a caring nation. We defeat Republicans already in office or running for office and we replace them with people who care about this country and its values. We teach our children how they should behave to be responsible, caring adults. We share our resources with those in need. And we remember what this country has strived to become – until the Republicans crossed the bridge to fascism with their president, D. Trump.
Update: Delaware came through. Protests are now planned in all 50 states. 523 of them. Hundreds of thousands of participants. Make your plan now to march on June 30, and find your nearest march here: https://t.co/poMhddYGzohttps://t.co/cgmpb3p7ND
Thanks, Bobfr! Going to the one in Philadelphia on June 30th. My Congressman, Donald Norcross, couldn’t get in to see the children placed in a Children’s Resources Center yesterday in Camden, NJ. He was told HHS requires 2 weeks notice. Cooper Indivisible group is planning protests next week. I’m going to go to the one on Monday morning. Monday night they had already scheduled a meeting about what people can do to help. They had such a high volume of people signing up to go, that they had to move the venue.
‘womp, womp’ … IN_DEED … if it happens that Cohen really is a pack rat with no disposal or intent to dispose of all he’s got in his cupboard …. see Avenatti tweet, above ….
Thrilled to announce that I'm partnering w/ @its_the_outrage, a woman-owned company that focuses on social justice, to produce these jackets with 100% of the proceeds going to @RAICESTEXAS to support undocumented folks w/ legal services. Pre-order link will be up in a few hours! https://t.co/Ajj8ADkci0
There's a 4th grade teacher in the school where I work who has all US presidents' portraits on a wall- except trump's. Obama's portrait remains in the spot of honor until there's a new pres.
This interview makes me feel good. Something we all need right now. I remember my meltdown when I was told that i was too young (4 I think), some seventy years ago, to have my own library card. I wanted one so desperately. I also remember summer days when my mother would walk with my sister and me and my doll coach to the library for books. We would sit on a blanket in the front yard and read to our dolls and the family dog.
Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama discusses her forthcoming memoir titled, Becoming, during the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference on June 22, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I watched that video of Tom Arnold on CNN and he seemed really weird, like on drugs or drunk or something. He sounded like he was just hyping a show he’s doing and didn’t really have the goods. And now I see that Michael Cohen is posting a tweet that undercuts everything Arnold is implying. He’s not exactly trustworthy either but it seems safe to guess that there’s not much there there.
He was on The Last Word tonight … it was very confusing, he’s sticking to part of his CNN story and discounting other parts … Lawrence said he’d tweet out the gist of it tonight (but it may take days to figure out what the heck Tom Arnold said). I think it’s probably a non-story.
In a tweet Michael Cohen tried to clarify his "chance, public encounter [with Tom Arnold]" and says they did not discuss anything related to President Trump.
And now even HE admits he’s a little off! But the good part is that apparently he hates trump and the feeling is mutual, so any poke in trump’s eyes from the sidelines (no matter how unimportant TA may be in the grand scheme) serves a purpose in fighting back. I just want to see trump go totally off the rails so even RWNJs want him gone. May be a wait, but I can’t wait.
Stop whatever you're doing and read the @WhiteHouse plan for complete reorganization of the entire federal government. I have tweeted some highlights, but honestly can't begin to capture the horror. Overall, it privatizes a lot, cuts, & consolidates power.https://t.co/P08kGi7dSh
May all lightening bolts zap them & their ilk. (That’s me being polite.) HHS & their so-called “reunification task force”. WTF! Task Force? What other disaster awaits? You know they’re trying to put ghee on their Gehenna, which enhances the sizzle. We The People are done w/ their total BS. QED.
Haven’t posted in a long time. Missing the Obamas and the joyous, sane time where we took compassion, intelligence and common sense in the White House for granted. Hope all of you are well in spite of the every-day horror, love to everyone! ❤️❤️❤️
He rolled back the protections that PBO put in place after Deepwater Horizon. Good luck now, world’s oceans! Good luck now, Gulf states! He doesn’t care.
While the world was looking elsewhere, Trump repealed Obama's ocean policy yesterday, and put in place a new, anti-science, pro-oil plan. It's a huge shift, and its impact will be enormous. Follow @ourdailyplanet to stay informed and up-to-date. https://t.co/OtwpckM186
The shift in policy also affects the Great Lakes, our once-again (since they got cleaned up in recent decades, our pristine national source of fresh water. What do Republicans care if the oceans rot, the fish disappear and the lakes and rivers become so polluted that they cannot be used by humans?
Sinclair enforcing Little Russia state TV is shutting down our response to domestic human atrocities.
“This week the 193 local news channels owned by The Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation informed their viewers that “dishonest liberals” were trying to fool them into thinking that the Trump administration had been separating migrant children from their families, in a cruel effort to deter migrant refugees from seeking asylum in the United States.Sinclair stations reach nearly 40% of all American homes and it is owned and operated by right-wing Trump supporters. Recently the company has been heavily criticized for forcing its news anchors to read pre-written Trump propaganda on the air in order to keep their jobs. And this past week Sinclair has forced all of its stations to provide propaganda in support of Trump’s child separation practices and its zero tolerance immigration policies.” https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/…/sinclair-tv-stations-family-separation-propaganda
Former Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn, who now works for Sinclair, prepared and read the following pro-Trump statement that was broadcast on all 193 Sinclair stations:
“Our immigration system is undeniably broken and the discourse around this topic is toxic. A perfect illustration of these facts is the recent firestorm surrounding President Trump’s decision to enforce a ‘zero tolerance’ policy and prosecute all adults illegally crossing our borders. Many members of the media and opponents of the president have seized on this issue to make it seem as if those who are tough on immigration are somehow monsters. Let’s be honest: While some of the concern is real, a lot of it is politically driven by the liberals in politics and the media.”
“Epshteyn criticizes the media in his commentary, while praising Trump’s “correct” action of signing his phony executive order this week. He doesn’t mention that the zero tolerance policy was a Trump invention, nor that Trump had lied continually over the past two weeks about his supposed inability to change the policy he had created. In his commentary Epshteyn also failed to mention that “liberal outrage” over Trump’s zero tolerance policy has been caused by the fact that the U.S. government has been ripping infants from their mothers, locking them in cages, and saying it has no responsibility for reuniting the families it has separated. Many older Americans don’t subscribe to cable television so the local Sinclair affiliate is their only televised source of news information. Millions of people watch their local news broadcasts with no idea that they are being deliberately targeted with state propaganda by the right-wing media.”
“Sinclair’s tactics of providing forced propaganda are similar to those used in autocratic states such as Hungary where identical headlines are blared across all television channels that are forced to support government policies. When combined with state-media Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting has become a powerful force and a threat to democracy in the United States.”
Shouldn’t Trump now be under arrest for the proven demonstrated human atrocities he has committed and these are ones we know about?
Are we back to square one already? SINCLAIR TV’s job is to make every evil and vile thing Trump does and says just disappear. Wow is it ever past time to take the KOCH brothers down – but no their tentacles are permitted to keep growing and growing on and on unencumbered and unchallenged and this is the fallout. No doubt KOCH brothers are behind the SINCLAIR takeover and doubtless they’ve conspired with Putin for a long time. Will Mueller ever act? Maybe Putin will fix it so he can jointly run Russia as well as the U.S. Why not? Americans will just plod on.
Yahoo News has identified 5 companies making millions off of Trump's child separation policies—including two that have not been publicly tied to the program.
In response to inquiries, one of the companies said it would cease working with the government. https://t.co/qqD8Gg2A8Z
Tucker Carlson: “No matter what they tell you, this is not helping children. They want to change your country—forever.”
Change? Obviously, he’s talking demographics. They keep telling you this burgeoning anti-immigrant authoritarianism is fueled by their racism. Believe them.
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley is "exploring the possibility" of throwing his hat in the ring in the 2020 presidential election, he told The New York Times https://t.co/YFOa4xa09Epic.twitter.com/x9m9lNc4kE
I was activated and deployed to the gulf for Deepwater Horizon. We killed ourselves out there, up to our armpits in toxic chemicals, to make sure this was fixed and never happened again.
All undone in an instant, for no other reason than the whim of a rich, entitled monster. https://t.co/jGUgK5eDfF
.@MARIANAATENCIO: I was actually in the federal court and I saw hundreds of immigrants being brought in with shackles. It takes… about a minute and a half per case. These people are told to plead guilty so they can be reunited with their children #AMJoy#ImmigrantChildrenpic.twitter.com/8aUCNY2Qfc
Click the link to see voter suppression efforts in 2016. Do NOT let them repeat this!
The @HouseGOP@realDonaldTrump Pound their chest about “open boarders” they miss the point: under @GOP via Trump YOUR PARTY CONSPIRED WITH RUSSIA HANDED THEM THE KEYS TO OUR DEMOCRACY but you’re worried about our Southern Boarder? GTFOH traitor-totshttps://t.co/wMv0x0aWDL
"The way that Donald Trump describes what's happening down on the border in Washington, D.C. is just about as far removed from reality as it could possibly be." pic.twitter.com/0Jg8oD8ZLG
South Carolina lawmaker Katie Arrington, who defeated U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford in his re-election bid, has been seriously injured in a car wreck, according to spokesman. https://t.co/EmHPIh5tOnpic.twitter.com/ICWtWBLfTs
This is my birth-country. Ortega has killed +215 Nicaraguans, mostly students, w/impunity while @OAS_official plays the violin. These conditions in Central America are why ppl risk lives to seek asylum in US. I humbly ask u RT so they know they’re not alone.#SOSNicaragua 🇳🇮 https://t.co/vqLMkWQPHQ
I'm humming that song "Bye Bye Ms. Un-American Pie" in my head right now. In fact, she and her "family" should head to the corner and buy some pie from her friendly baker who won't sell pie to LGBTQ couples. Bye Bye, Ms. Un-American Pie.
There are few things more gratifying in my role as an advocate than when a whistleblower trusts me with explosive information (docs, images, etc.) and looks to me to ensure it is released for maximum impact for the public good. Today is another such day. #BuckleUp#Basta
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Thanks for giving us a concrete way to make a difference. Hope everyone here is managing their stress and finding joy each day. Today I was outside by te creek that runs by our house and saw 2 young deer. We need to take care of ourselves so we can be strong and resist.
Amen…Amen…..
Was just thinking about you today:) and look! Here you are:)
When that happens to me, I close my eyes and think about winning a black Cadillac convertible.
Hasn’t worked for me yet, but passing it on. 🙂
I am doing well
Going to a meeting tonight to plan a June 30th rally
Texting for lots of Dem candidates.
Hope to have more time to post here and encourage all the wonderful folks who read this blog to get involved in local elections and if you live in a Blue area to work outside your district.
Texting and sending postcards are 2 new ways our team is contacting voters and it is lots of fun.
Hope all is well with you in AZ – we will be working on the Senate race and a few congressional seats.
You’re a force:) Thank you for all you do. Always involved in something… for me it’s RedforEd and getting ready for November
President Trump’s roundup of immigrants is beginning to resemble a sort of ethnic cleansing campaign. He’s already proven that he won’t be constrained by our democratic norms, our respect for human rights or even basic human decency. https://t.co/DVGGyrOMLx
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 22, 2018
As HHS tent city filled with kids, Azar left for college reunion
Rachel Maddow reports that HHS Secretary Alex Azar, whose purview includes the facilities housing separated migrant kids whose parents can’t find them, skipped out for his college reunion on the day after his agency build a tent city in Texas to house migrant children taken from their parents.
Conscientious objectors to Trump border policy get free legal aid
Jason Rittereiser, whose law firm has offered free legal representation federal employees who refuse to carry out Donald Trump’s migrant family separation policy, talks with Rachel Maddow about response to the offer both from other lawyers wanting to help and at least five government employees who have reached out for help.
I was just coming here to post that, after seeing it in a CNN tweet. Cool.
Senators push back on DoD over JAGs assigned to immigration cases
Rachel Maddow reports on a letter sent to Defense Secretary Mattis from Senators Gillibrand, Leahy, and Ernst, asking him to reconsider sending JAGs to border states to help the DoJ prosecute immigration cases.
Kids removed from parents by Trump policy suffer lasting trauma
Dr. Marsha Griffin, pediatrician and co-chair of The American Academy of Pediatrics Special Interest Group on Immigrant Health, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lasting developmental damage done to children when they’re taken away from their parents.
Multiple states sue Trump admin to stop family separation policy
Rachel Maddow reports on a lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and joined by several other states to stop Donald Trump’s migrant family separation policy.
Jun.21.2018
National Enquirer consulted Cohen, Trump on 2016 stories: WaPo
Rachel Maddow shares reporting from the Washington Post that the National Enquirer sent stories about Donald Trump to Michael Cohen for approval before publishing and took suggestions for stories about Hillary Clinton from Trump.
Jun.21.2018
Blindingly obvious ….
This child is completely and thoroughly traumatized, incapable of releasing his fear and experiencing joy, trusting that this is his mother and she will be there tonight and tomorrow and the next day and the next day. I’m thrilled for their reunion. It’s going to take some time before he’s able to ever relax and not feel completely out of his mind with fear and abandonment.
I’m so broken-hearted about all of this. I’ve got 5 grandkids and 2 great grandkids and I put them in these situations in my head, knowing they wouldn’t have been able to cope without scars, either, and I thank God it hasn’t happened to them. And you don’t have to have children to feel the empathy for these children and their parents and families. It’s the most devastating thing yet.
I grew up a big Beatles fan so in the midst of all of this weeks madness this made me smile and laugh out loud.
I dare you to watch it without smiling…. 😉
Oh, that was a fun trip down memory lane!! And a real feeling of rescue. Thank you for some great memories. I’ll never forget seeing them when I was just 13!!
You were singing “Hey Jude” at the end, weren’t you 🙂
YES, GURL.
Thank you for posting it. Just watched this earlier tonight. It was really great!
Oh that was so beautiful… sang to all of them. What memories.
Thank you Donna for posting this! I needed this tonight…I smiled all the way through. I love Paul !!!!
‘the times they are a changing … ‘
i read that piece…he still could not stop himself for taking shots at Dems…these so called conservative GOPers can miss me with all their lamenting about Trump…the time for all this lament was BEFORE the election
George Will and all the GOP haters of Bill & Hillary and any Democrat for years created this mess. If we are lucky enough to get rid of Orange Satan they will go back to what they do best, spreading hate.
WOW, this guy is the REAL DEAL.
Thank you, Donna! Just ordered that shirt and the Thanks Obama Shirt.
Hello…drum roll…
Because Michael Cohen was a Hoarder the Government has the Evidence to Bring Trump Down:
” I told you before there were audio tapes and a whole lot of information that was seized in connection with these raids. Among other problems that Michael and the president have is that it appears that Michael Cohen basically was one of the world’s great hoarders as it related to keeping evidence and cell phones and the like. This guy never threw anything away which I’m sure the government is ecstatic about right now.”
https://www.politicususa.com › Donald Trump
(Includes video of Avenatti.)
go Avenatti!!
These dumpster fire mofos are going to regret their stupidity and hate. THEY HAVE IT COMING.
I doubt very much if any sane and caring person, no matter their ethnicity, would say that the detention conditions are better than being with their families. Republicans are synonymous with Trumpites. There is absolutely no difference and they will lie as glibly as possible.
OH, DEAR
“I do not urge you to turn your hate into love for these people. I can’t do it myself. There can be no love for them. Loving them would not change them, would not better them, would not alter the way they think. They are lost, and the best we can hope to do is to neuter them so that their fear no longer has any potency.
But do turn that hatred, that blinding, debilitating hatred, into love. Not for them, but for those they hate. For those they oppress. For those they murder. Love those people, work for them, serve them. Protect them as best you can. Speak for them when they can’t speak for themselves. Join with them and follow their lead when they take action.”
We work to rebuild our nation and to restore our place in the world as a caring nation. We defeat Republicans already in office or running for office and we replace them with people who care about this country and its values. We teach our children how they should behave to be responsible, caring adults. We share our resources with those in need. And we remember what this country has strived to become – until the Republicans crossed the bridge to fascism with their president, D. Trump.
Thanks, Bobfr! Going to the one in Philadelphia on June 30th. My Congressman, Donald Norcross, couldn’t get in to see the children placed in a Children’s Resources Center yesterday in Camden, NJ. He was told HHS requires 2 weeks notice. Cooper Indivisible group is planning protests next week. I’m going to go to the one on Monday morning. Monday night they had already scheduled a meeting about what people can do to help. They had such a high volume of people signing up to go, that they had to move the venue.
As weird as it can get, but in the age of Trumpism nothing surprises me, absolutely nothing …
‘womp, womp’ … IN_DEED … if it happens that Cohen really is a pack rat with no disposal or intent to dispose of all he’s got in his cupboard …. see Avenatti tweet, above ….
Michelle Obama was in New Orleans today holding a conversation with Carla Hayden at the American Library Association.
Just spotted this later in the replies …
Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at the opening general session of the 2018 American Library Association annual conference.
This interview makes me feel good. Something we all need right now. I remember my meltdown when I was told that i was too young (4 I think), some seventy years ago, to have my own library card. I wanted one so desperately. I also remember summer days when my mother would walk with my sister and me and my doll coach to the library for books. We would sit on a blanket in the front yard and read to our dolls and the family dog.
Thanks for providing it.
Hello JER. Thank you.
Hi Bella. My pleasure.
Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama discusses her forthcoming memoir titled, Becoming, during the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference on June 22, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I watched that video of Tom Arnold on CNN and he seemed really weird, like on drugs or drunk or something. He sounded like he was just hyping a show he’s doing and didn’t really have the goods. And now I see that Michael Cohen is posting a tweet that undercuts everything Arnold is implying. He’s not exactly trustworthy either but it seems safe to guess that there’s not much there there.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Just trying to get publicity and money.
He was on The Last Word tonight … it was very confusing, he’s sticking to part of his CNN story and discounting other parts … Lawrence said he’d tweet out the gist of it tonight (but it may take days to figure out what the heck Tom Arnold said). I think it’s probably a non-story.
I’m sure you’ve moved on, but just spotted this!
I thought TA got some sense after leaving RA but I see he is just as crazy as before or he stopped taking his meds.
And now even HE admits he’s a little off! But the good part is that apparently he hates trump and the feeling is mutual, so any poke in trump’s eyes from the sidelines (no matter how unimportant TA may be in the grand scheme) serves a purpose in fighting back. I just want to see trump go totally off the rails so even RWNJs want him gone. May be a wait, but I can’t wait.
I have no idea who Tom Arnold is. It doesn’t seem important that I know him.
May all lightening bolts zap them & their ilk. (That’s me being polite.) HHS & their so-called “reunification task force”. WTF! Task Force? What other disaster awaits? You know they’re trying to put ghee on their Gehenna, which enhances the sizzle. We The People are done w/ their total BS. QED.
My friend’s 90-something grandmother used to have a phrase that she thought wouldn’t send her “straight to hell,” in the telling:
“I hope they all go to heaven. Soon.”
And she wasn’t even Irish, but that sure sounds Irish!
Goodnight, TODville – and all the ships at sea!
Thank you for posting this. We need daily reminders that there are still many good people in this country who will help others without prejudice.
I definitely agree!
Haven’t posted in a long time. Missing the Obamas and the joyous, sane time where we took compassion, intelligence and common sense in the White House for granted. Hope all of you are well in spite of the every-day horror, love to everyone! ❤️❤️❤️
HUMAN ATROCITY.
BABY JAILS…THOUSANDS UNACCOUNTED FOR.
That all?
When you have a bit of time, watch this author talk about the danger of a single story.
Thank you, Gazelle, for posting this.
You’re welcome. Thought it’s apropos especially for these times we’re in.
He rolled back the protections that PBO put in place after Deepwater Horizon. Good luck now, world’s oceans! Good luck now, Gulf states! He doesn’t care.
The shift in policy also affects the Great Lakes, our once-again (since they got cleaned up in recent decades, our pristine national source of fresh water. What do Republicans care if the oceans rot, the fish disappear and the lakes and rivers become so polluted that they cannot be used by humans?
Sinclair enforcing Little Russia state TV is shutting down our response to domestic human atrocities.
“This week the 193 local news channels owned by The Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation informed their viewers that “dishonest liberals” were trying to fool them into thinking that the Trump administration had been separating migrant children from their families, in a cruel effort to deter migrant refugees from seeking asylum in the United States.Sinclair stations reach nearly 40% of all American homes and it is owned and operated by right-wing Trump supporters. Recently the company has been heavily criticized for forcing its news anchors to read pre-written Trump propaganda on the air in order to keep their jobs. And this past week Sinclair has forced all of its stations to provide propaganda in support of Trump’s child separation practices and its zero tolerance immigration policies.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/…/sinclair-tv-stations-family-separation-propaganda
Former Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn, who now works for Sinclair, prepared and read the following pro-Trump statement that was broadcast on all 193 Sinclair stations:
“Our immigration system is undeniably broken and the discourse around this topic is toxic. A perfect illustration of these facts is the recent firestorm surrounding President Trump’s decision to enforce a ‘zero tolerance’ policy and prosecute all adults illegally crossing our borders. Many members of the media and opponents of the president have seized on this issue to make it seem as if those who are tough on immigration are somehow monsters. Let’s be honest: While some of the concern is real, a lot of it is politically driven by the liberals in politics and the media.”
“Epshteyn criticizes the media in his commentary, while praising Trump’s “correct” action of signing his phony executive order this week. He doesn’t mention that the zero tolerance policy was a Trump invention, nor that Trump had lied continually over the past two weeks about his supposed inability to change the policy he had created. In his commentary Epshteyn also failed to mention that “liberal outrage” over Trump’s zero tolerance policy has been caused by the fact that the U.S. government has been ripping infants from their mothers, locking them in cages, and saying it has no responsibility for reuniting the families it has separated. Many older Americans don’t subscribe to cable television so the local Sinclair affiliate is their only televised source of news information. Millions of people watch their local news broadcasts with no idea that they are being deliberately targeted with state propaganda by the right-wing media.”
“Sinclair’s tactics of providing forced propaganda are similar to those used in autocratic states such as Hungary where identical headlines are blared across all television channels that are forced to support government policies. When combined with state-media Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting has become a powerful force and a threat to democracy in the United States.”
Shouldn’t Trump now be under arrest for the proven demonstrated human atrocities he has committed and these are ones we know about?
Are we back to square one already? SINCLAIR TV’s job is to make every evil and vile thing Trump does and says just disappear. Wow is it ever past time to take the KOCH brothers down – but no their tentacles are permitted to keep growing and growing on and on unencumbered and unchallenged and this is the fallout. No doubt KOCH brothers are behind the SINCLAIR takeover and doubtless they’ve conspired with Putin for a long time. Will Mueller ever act? Maybe Putin will fix it so he can jointly run Russia as well as the U.S. Why not? Americans will just plod on.
Sickening travesty.
Looks familiar
Click the link to see voter suppression efforts in 2016. Do NOT let them repeat this!
Early voting started last week here in Maryland and……..
Thank you, JER!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/06/23/flotus-at-ala/
Welllll, do tellllll