‼️Judge George Hazel orders that discovery commence in the Census citizenship question litigation. This provides the Plaintiffs with the ability to continue to dig up the true, pretextual reasons behind the Trump Administration’s desire to put the question in the Census. pic.twitter.com/s3Tb93tKCk
Brother Brian, sure! It's no different than a Supreme Court (or any other federal court) ruling on an act of Congress. Its null and void. So at a minimum it means no legal process can be invoked to enforce the Exec Order. So if you have an Exec Order that says "arrest Axe" 1/ https://t.co/BmQLbI0BZk
ACLU asks Judge Furman in New York to block further efforts by Trump Administration to add citizenship question to 2020 census. #2020Censushttps://t.co/48E5BLfNNu
Just landed New Orleans! @Essence & convo w/ the one & only michelleobama!! TOMORROW! But first stop leaving airport turkeyandthewolf!! Not fancy & oh so good! ..swipe left for small but mighty (tasty) menu … https://t.co/WUaRbl4vAY
The media lamely reports "He is going to use an executive order" The lede is: "He uses the excuse of an EO which not not change his legal predicament." POTUS cannot overrule SCOTUS with an EO, people.
A quick look back at the 50th Running of the @ajcprr. Yesterday was one for the books. 4 new event records and so many more memories. #AJCPRRpic.twitter.com/r0bYMjTctU
#Earthquake(Update): 911 calls coming in from NW communities of #SBCounty. Homes shifted, foundation cracks, retaining walls down. One injury (minor) with firefighters treating patient. No unmet needs currently. ^eas
Love the lady w/ white visor, head movements following every shot, willing it to go where it should! That’s just so like me watching tennis, especially when routing for my player! 😂😇
Ten #earthquakes in Hawaii in last 24 hours following zero the previous week. 7.1 Magnitude hit Ridgecrest CA at 8:19 PM PST today following many aftershocks? and 6.4 mag on July 4. Tremors along San Andreas fault line and clusters in Alaska and throughout midwest US. pic.twitter.com/B5itpTZhYl
Morning Don. Sorry to hear about Kawhi signing with the Clippers over the Lakers, but the Lakers did pick up Danny Green, he is a good three point shooter, that will help them. One thing for sure the Lakers should be alot better then last year. P.S, if Harris is our nominee I’ll vote for her, I don’t know about happily. But I will always remind myself, that the main goal is to defeat that lying racist crook in the White House.
Morning everyone. My thoughts are with the people of California today… must be getting unnerving with all the earthquakes and aftershocks. Stay safe everyone! Might I extend the offer to move to AZ… just ponder 🙂
Irresponsible proponents of #5G technology threaten to disable meteorologists ability to forecast storms and predict weather! Meteorologists around the world say #EMF from 5G frequencies will contaminate critical measurements! #weather#Stop5G#5GDangerhttps://t.co/PxBHE2eMDy
That’s a quandary, everyone wants faster and stronger cell service and 5G might ensure that. Cellphones today are basically mobile offices. I was under the impression that the national weather service has their own satellites and other technologies to avoid this kind of thing.
I think the weather measuring instruments are sensitive and can be easily disrupted. It’s always something! I think it was PBO that said one time that the technology in our current cell phone was able to launch a rocket into space. That always amazed me. People smarter than me will figure out what to do about this. With weather and climate being so important now… I might just opt for 4 G until we figure this out:)
Marleysperson, I thought 4G was standard among all cellphone companies. Now I will admit I just heard about the 5G thing. My wife has the old Samsung Note 2 and that cellphone does everything. I had an Iphone but it didn’t seem to be all that. I got a cheaper LG and it does everything that the Iphone did. I always assumed that the better our technology got the smarter we would become.
I hope it all comes out. Every last horrific, sordid detail. Their money and power has allowed them to hide their horrible unthinkable crimes for too long. Heads should roll
NEW: Sex, lies and secret audio tape: an accused sex trafficker fuels war between two of America’s most prominent legal minds https://t.co/hvI9B5XkdK
If you’re in the stock market ask your $ planner if any of your funds are invested in private prisons or detention centers. I did over a year ago after watching @ava#13th. I was. I got out. Make sure your money follows your heart and is in tune with your words. pic.twitter.com/Giwi7Psuv0
The right trees, planted in the right locations, could store 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming https://t.co/YdeEnvQL3d via @sciam
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Even before I was of voting age, I saw Republicans accuse the Obamas of doing a 'terrorist fist bump,' so they've been clowns since I was a teen." https://t.co/gIwIe1zFNk
So I guess Trump sees bee data as a threat to climate crisis denial and his support for his donors:
= The cancerous, poisonous herbicide, pesticide and fungicide industries.
IF BEES GO, WE ALL GO.
It is no time to be shorting bees, this is insanity. Most food is from flowering plants which must be pollinated.
What do the farmers say about what Trumpsky is doing? In China it is apparently so desperate that plants are being pollinated by hand.
Bees affected by smoke from fires, not enough diversity to feed the bees, hurricane and cyclones and herbicides glyphosate, and pesticides and fungicides.
Do not buy Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ (bought out by Bayer).
Grains are wind pollinated, don’t need bees. But virtually EVERYTHING else does.
Igrnoramus Trump must go asap.
LIFE ON EARTH IS ON THE LINE.
Here we go: “This past winter saw the highest honeybee colony losses on record” (Wapo)
n.b. it takes 2 million hives to pollinate CA’s almond crop alone. Just one producer lost 2,000 hives this year.
Perhaps it’s the jokes and memes that Donald Trump generates in abundance, the gift that keeps on giving,
that blinds us to a chilling fact that we’d rather not face.
Put simply, the leader of the world’s most powerful nation is behaving like an authoritarian dictator, one who threatens democracy in his own country and far beyond….
On Thursday Donald Trump marked the Fourth of July by praising the US military, invoking the heroism of an army that defeated the British in the 18th century in part because “it took over the airports”… But all those giggles served to obscure the more pressing fact: that in a departure from all precedent, Trump had used Independence Day to stage a military display, in which M1A2 tanks and Bradley armoured vehicles rolled into Washington, while fighter jets and helicopters filled the sky. The generals, mindful of the need to separate military and political power, had long opposed this extravaganza and, tellingly, most of the joint chiefs contrived to stay away. They understood that such a pageant is the stuff of despots, not democrats.”
“Another image framed this split-screen 4 July: that of the children, separated from their parents, who are caged in detention camps on America’s southern border. Accounts by lawyers and doctors who were allowed brief visits to these hellish places are almost unbearable to read: children deprived of sleep, denied access to blankets or mattresses, not allowed to wash their hands or brush their teeth; toddlers left alone on cold, hard floors, so traumatised they sit in stunned, tearless silence. I’m especially haunted by the report of “a suicidal four-year-old whose face was covered in bloody, self-inflicted scratches”.
“I was vetted by him”: Joe Biden in a new campaign speech today is expected to say he's "changed" since his days serving as a senator in the 1970s, leaning into his relationship with former President Barack Obama. https://t.co/IifFnpUe5wpic.twitter.com/cn25nt4vAp
Chomskyl:
“So, if you look at the legislation under Trump, it’s just lavish gifts to the wealth and the corporate sector—the tax bill, the deregulation, you know, every case in point. That’s kind of the job of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, those guys. They serve the real constituency. Meanwhile, Trump has to maintain the voting constituency, with one outrageous position after another that appeals to some sector of the voting base. And he’s doing it very skillfully. As just as a political manipulation, it’s skillful. Work for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes—that’s not an easy trick. And he’s carrying it off.”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/5/an_hour_with_noam_chomsky_on)
–And imo, GOP screwing trump voters all the way to the bank is cultural not logical. In their world Dems are still “elite gay hippies in league with the communists” while GOP is (for really real) fragrantly in league with Russia! Is why it’s a fool’s errand for Dems to go to the ‘center’ in hopes of attracting trump voters = coz no earthly logic will do it.
Rachel Maddow …lays it down…chronicles how Trump did a purge of important career officials at the Justice department..how the Mueller report lays it down about the crime and then the cover up done by Trump and his administration…tells of the current AG who is on a mission to find out what and who is the intelligence behind the conclusion that Russian attacked our elections to install TRUMP….
I have tried to remain calm about this…but there is a fierce urgency of NOW…Time for those running for President to sound the alarm…
Biden on remarks about segregationist senators: "Was I wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that I was praising those men who I successfully opposed time and again? Yes, I was…I’m sorry for any of the pain or misconception I may have caused anybody." pic.twitter.com/QcFTyvbKnT
A MINORITY of WHITE Rich Folk now desperately cage children for profit, disenfranchise non-whites, seek more war & otherwise defy the law because they FEAR the reality that America is on a path of reconciling its crimes against Native Peoples, Slaves & Women.
Those Rich White Folk have used abortion, guns & Christ to nurture racist hate among several million Americans because they know those ploys are very effective ways to perpetuate their lust for lawless power and wealth.
So, as a failed @SCOTUS further disenfranchises the descendants of slaves, as the entire @GOP refuses to protect our elections from attack by brutal adversaries, & as inequity in America approaches that of Russia's, I am cconfident that the next chapter will be our best, ever.
Because of @JohnBrennan's fierce defense of those who serve and keep us safe and are never known or seen during all their acts of bravery and professionalism.
In the theater of life in this country, it is at this point that the audience would stand and break out in frenzied and appreciative applause for every word spoken.
♥️ sometimes the way forth is beset by darkness and storms, still the only way through is forward, into the Light.. having learned an immense lesson by understanding our fear.. we press on, knowing the Sun will surely rise in the morning. Keep Us All The Heart ~ big hugs all around. 🕯🙏🏼🕯
Hey, #EssenceFest! I brought a few of my girlfriends with me to New Orleans and we can't wait to join you tonight in the Superdome. Who's ready?! pic.twitter.com/OHzh2ZD9UW
The new indictment—which will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court—will allege Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage girls in a familiar scheme: molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side mansion Via @thedailybeast https://t.co/lcLmrrGq1M
The Obama Diary 
Good Afternoon/Evening, TOD!
Thank you, Nerdy.
Congrats on 1st! And good evening.
Thank you, Jacqueline, and good evening to you, too.
Congrats, sjterrid! The Obama Foundation is doing important work. We decided when President Obama left office to put this foundation in our will.
What a great idea!!❤️
Fabulous idea!
Thank you, Judith!
That’s so nice of you to put the Obama Foundation in your will.
Important thread
Yes Michelle Obama, CoCo is terrific.
That woman is a dam idiot.
How “life in the big city” could be, everywhere. Good for them.
Wow. Hope everybody’s okay.
My God, just seeing that poster is a comfort.
Truth.
Another earthquake near the same spot as yesterday. Stay safe everyone
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/us/california-earthquake/index.html?adkey=bn
She’s a seismologist
Goodnight TOD …
Stay safe all of you in California that have been affected by the earthquakes.
CA, my ❤🙏🙏 to you all.
Stay safe everyone. ❤️
There are no coincidences
Love the lady w/ white visor, head movements following every shot, willing it to go where it should! That’s just so like me watching tennis, especially when routing for my player! 😂😇
I miss having a President who is good with kids!
😳 Hawaii too!
SoCal folks & HI too now (wot!), please stay safe. 😘
I’ve made peace with the fact that Kawhi chose the Clippers over the Lakers, I’m in a better place now.
p.s. as always, if Joe is our nominee I’ll happily vote for him.
Morning Don. Sorry to hear about Kawhi signing with the Clippers over the Lakers, but the Lakers did pick up Danny Green, he is a good three point shooter, that will help them. One thing for sure the Lakers should be alot better then last year. P.S, if Harris is our nominee I’ll vote for her, I don’t know about happily. But I will always remind myself, that the main goal is to defeat that lying racist crook in the White House.
Good Morning Hillary, yes I think the Lakers will be a better team this year with the addition of Anthony Davis.
We in TO are grateful to Kawhi and sorry to see him leave. But wish him all the best.
Serena Williams won 6-3, 6-4.
Morning everyone. My thoughts are with the people of California today… must be getting unnerving with all the earthquakes and aftershocks. Stay safe everyone! Might I extend the offer to move to AZ… just ponder 🙂
That’s a quandary, everyone wants faster and stronger cell service and 5G might ensure that. Cellphones today are basically mobile offices. I was under the impression that the national weather service has their own satellites and other technologies to avoid this kind of thing.
I think the weather measuring instruments are sensitive and can be easily disrupted. It’s always something! I think it was PBO that said one time that the technology in our current cell phone was able to launch a rocket into space. That always amazed me. People smarter than me will figure out what to do about this. With weather and climate being so important now… I might just opt for 4 G until we figure this out:)
Marleysperson, I thought 4G was standard among all cellphone companies. Now I will admit I just heard about the 5G thing. My wife has the old Samsung Note 2 and that cellphone does everything. I had an Iphone but it didn’t seem to be all that. I got a cheaper LG and it does everything that the Iphone did. I always assumed that the better our technology got the smarter we would become.
I think you may have assumed incorrectly:) we don’t seem all that smart:)
Everyone can do this
You don’t say!!!
Good Morning Beloved TODbots😍😍😍
I hope it all comes out. Every last horrific, sordid detail. Their money and power has allowed them to hide their horrible unthinkable crimes for too long. Heads should roll
Fingers and toes crossed that it ALL comes out.
TRUMP IS FALLING ALMOST 1 MILLION JOBS SHORT VS. OBAMA
…Working back from January 2017, Obama’s last month in office, there had been 6.423 million jobs added or 221,000 per month. The difference for the 29 months is 810,000 more jobs or 27,000 more per month than Trump. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/07/05/trump-is-falling-almost-1-million-jobs-short-vs-obama/#28d7c5aa8caa
Good Morning, TOD!
I hope and pray all of you that are getting hit with earthquakes and tremors are safe. 🙏❤️
Yes people!!! And you know who you are!! We need you there!!
THIS
Wise words from Wanda
Holy shit
Amazing Cecily Strong impersonator.
Definitely! 🙂
😂
Oh, heck. Now that reminded me of this. *SIGH* (The marginal singing makes it even better.)
💙❤️💙❤️
I wonder have Meghan’s father met his grandchild yet.
Beautiful photo. Adorable Archie
What sweet pictures.
We need to try
My nephew has a huge gorgeous tree in his backyard that he had to have removed because it died due to the drought. We have to move FAST.
Sure do!!
Happy weekend, TODville!
She had more to say….. but she isn’t wrong.
Bad call if true. Really bad call.
Amen, Sister!
So I guess Trump sees bee data as a threat to climate crisis denial and his support for his donors:
= The cancerous, poisonous herbicide, pesticide and fungicide industries.
IF BEES GO, WE ALL GO.
It is no time to be shorting bees, this is insanity. Most food is from flowering plants which must be pollinated.
What do the farmers say about what Trumpsky is doing? In China it is apparently so desperate that plants are being pollinated by hand.
Bees affected by smoke from fires, not enough diversity to feed the bees, hurricane and cyclones and herbicides glyphosate, and pesticides and fungicides.
Do not buy Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ (bought out by Bayer).
Grains are wind pollinated, don’t need bees. But virtually EVERYTHING else does.
Igrnoramus Trump must go asap.
LIFE ON EARTH IS ON THE LINE.
Here we go: “This past winter saw the highest honeybee colony losses on record” (Wapo)
n.b. it takes 2 million hives to pollinate CA’s almond crop alone. Just one producer lost 2,000 hives this year.
😂😂😂
There’s a Disneyland there? Hmmm.
Perhaps it’s the jokes and memes that Donald Trump generates in abundance, the gift that keeps on giving,
that blinds us to a chilling fact that we’d rather not face.
Put simply, the leader of the world’s most powerful nation is behaving like an authoritarian dictator, one who threatens democracy in his own country and far beyond….
On Thursday Donald Trump marked the Fourth of July by praising the US military, invoking the heroism of an army that defeated the British in the 18th century in part because “it took over the airports”… But all those giggles served to obscure the more pressing fact: that in a departure from all precedent, Trump had used Independence Day to stage a military display, in which M1A2 tanks and Bradley armoured vehicles rolled into Washington, while fighter jets and helicopters filled the sky. The generals, mindful of the need to separate military and political power, had long opposed this extravaganza and, tellingly, most of the joint chiefs contrived to stay away. They understood that such a pageant is the stuff of despots, not democrats.”
More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/donald-trump-dictator-not-enough-laugh
“Another image framed this split-screen 4 July: that of the children, separated from their parents, who are caged in detention camps on America’s southern border. Accounts by lawyers and doctors who were allowed brief visits to these hellish places are almost unbearable to read: children deprived of sleep, denied access to blankets or mattresses, not allowed to wash their hands or brush their teeth; toddlers left alone on cold, hard floors, so traumatised they sit in stunned, tearless silence. I’m especially haunted by the report of “a suicidal four-year-old whose face was covered in bloody, self-inflicted scratches”.
Chomskyl:
“So, if you look at the legislation under Trump, it’s just lavish gifts to the wealth and the corporate sector—the tax bill, the deregulation, you know, every case in point. That’s kind of the job of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, those guys. They serve the real constituency. Meanwhile, Trump has to maintain the voting constituency, with one outrageous position after another that appeals to some sector of the voting base. And he’s doing it very skillfully. As just as a political manipulation, it’s skillful. Work for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes—that’s not an easy trick. And he’s carrying it off.”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/5/an_hour_with_noam_chomsky_on)
–And imo, GOP screwing trump voters all the way to the bank is cultural not logical. In their world Dems are still “elite gay hippies in league with the communists” while GOP is (for really real) fragrantly in league with Russia! Is why it’s a fool’s errand for Dems to go to the ‘center’ in hopes of attracting trump voters = coz no earthly logic will do it.
heh. correction…flagrantly.
so off to see ‘Aladdin’ in a few hours…about my speed…wishing for a sweet magical super creative children’s movie about now.
Rachel Maddow …lays it down…chronicles how Trump did a purge of important career officials at the Justice department..how the Mueller report lays it down about the crime and then the cover up done by Trump and his administration…tells of the current AG who is on a mission to find out what and who is the intelligence behind the conclusion that Russian attacked our elections to install TRUMP….
I have tried to remain calm about this…but there is a fierce urgency of NOW…Time for those running for President to sound the alarm…
Now is definitely not the time for calm, for sure, Sheila.
Fierce offense is the order of the day.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzlnz65o__u/
More shoes to drop
In the theater of life in this country, it is at this point that the audience would stand and break out in frenzied and appreciative applause for every word spoken.
Thank you for that gift, Bob.
You are a gift . Thank you, always
♥️ sometimes the way forth is beset by darkness and storms, still the only way through is forward, into the Light.. having learned an immense lesson by understanding our fear.. we press on, knowing the Sun will surely rise in the morning. Keep Us All The Heart ~ big hugs all around. 🕯🙏🏼🕯
Gosh I miss Michelle and Barack being in the White House.
Thanks goodness!!!! Lock Him Up!!!
Looong been rumored that ole prez fuckface partook in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors. INTERESTING if that comes out? Me thinks . . . .
I certainly hope it does!!
Repeat offender, perhaps the judge will deny bail
Julie K. Brown has been a tenacious warrior on this story. She deserves a Pulitzer
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/the-first-lady-at-essence-festival/