And thanks for asking – the grands and great grands are all doing very well! My two great grandsons are in 3rd grade and Kindergarten now, and I’m loving the stories. Apparently, this is the year the 3rd grader develops his love for Science (a family trait that skipped me) – and the Kindergartener develops his love for little girls in his class. Too sweet.
"New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed to let them interview him for their upcoming book ― as long as they would publicly lie about it." https://t.co/BzZnuFuu7D
Pennsylvania started the first statewide @ItsOnUs program in 2015. Since then, we've provided millions in grants and passed major reforms to help end campus sexual assault.
So what is that Russia President Trump up too concerning this whistle blower? I know Barr is doing all he can to protect Trump. The entire Trump Republican Party Administration are crooks.
Yeah, this is impeachable. Instantly impeachable. Do not pass go impeachable. It's collusion with a foreign power in the context of a presidential election, and using US foreign policy for personal gain. That's an Oath of Office violation, abuse of power and bribery. Impeachable. https://t.co/oGlcQAtej5
OMG…What is going on…Colt said that they would stop manufacturing assault weapons for civilian use…and now Moscow Mitch says this..
In a surprise development, Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced his support for additional money to bolster the country's election security system ahead of the 2020 vote. https://t.co/6qSwp0687K
Anybody else watch only the first 10 minutes of Rachel’s show and now want to open their front door and just let out a scream? (I would, but I don’t want to scare the neighbors!)
It was an honor to meet @HillaryClinton & give her one of Ana’s books. Also to have worked with @ChelseaClinton at @CCSU to create an unforgettable afternoon for our community- lifting up girls.
Bette, I love ya, however, you need to call a meeting of #TheFirstWivesClub. Your mission is to slap some sense into the 53% of your sisters who voted for the #pussygrabber… Black women were well aware of the stakes and voted 94+% for Hillary! #VoteLikeBlackWomen
I could see where Kushner would say this about somebody else, because if I were Kushner (and thank God I'm not), I wouldn't "look in the mirror," either.
@11thHour The remarks and advice from Clint Watts on Brian's show tonight were the most lucid and succinct relating to this particular aspect of the #Whistleblower situation. Check out his remarks!
We are all blessed and grateful for you and for our TOD community. We know there are more of us than the haters, but we need each other to remind us and to give each other strength. You are one strong beautiful ladies Dudette. We are blessed to have you in our lives.
If this world 🌎 were mine!! 🙂 I love this. 🙂 Last year in an Alpharetta Walmart a man heard a woman humming in the next aisle. He asked her if they could sing the classic “ if this world were mine by Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn. Enjoy this beautiful moment. Let’s get it!! pic.twitter.com/PYKMouiRqc
Beautiful!!!!🌸🌸🌸 nice to wake up to seeing this:)
Morning everyone… my wonderful husband has a birthday today… thinking of him and wishing him a fabulous day! He’s out of town for work… so I sent him extra special love and birthday wishes 💕
Been pretty good at keeping my emotions in check around today’s #ClimateStrike, but my 8-year-old mate Archie—the first kid I’ve properly known and loved since he was born—has been in news bulletins across NSW and I’m so proud of him for doing this, and ashamed that he had to. 💚 pic.twitter.com/H0MVrSa5gJ
If it’s true that Trump tried to bribe Ukraine by withholding military aid as leverage for help in the 2020 election and the Democrats don’t call for immediate Impeachment, many loyal Democrats will abandon the party. We must stand up for Democracy & The Rule of Law.
I’m more concerned about all the people that actually heard the phone call and DIDN’T do anything about it than I am about the whistleblower. We are in a constitutional crisis, it is beyond time for Pelosi to act.
It’s getting scary now. We can’t depend on people to do the right thing for their country…. to my mind, Pelosi has no choice but to act. People voted for Democratic candidates in part, to hold these crooks and liars accountable. If that doesn’t happen, her calculations will be all off!! She will not only NOT hold the House, but all will be lost to a criminal tyrant
Do you think Professor Tribe speaks to the Democratic leaders on a regular basis? He should.
DOJ's manual: "Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, which should only be used in exceptional circumstances of peculiar emergency or public importance…The power…is limited to the enforcement of nondiscretionary, plainly defined, and purely ministerial duties." This looks right https://t.co/D0Ugtfqvj2
I often wonder that, myself. So sick of these constitutional and law experts with huge reputations harping against Democrats all day long, when they could ask to meet directly with the congressional caucus and/or presidential candidates and offer their advice first-hand. People like Tribe would be welcomed. Sick of all those real experts who point fingers from afar, when their counsel should be what they’re freely willing to give directly without the damn name calling. The latter is making them feel high and mighty, but they need to refocus and come down off their comfortable and lofty perches and get their hands dirty.
Bette Midler is being freaking ridiculous. Between this and her previous tweet on race, she is line-stepping and needs to get back in her lane.
This constant demand and expectation for Black women and hyper-visible Black women to continually labor to save this ungrateful country from itself is tiring. Where is Taylor Swift? She was mum all through the 2016 elections and afterward. Then she suddenly woke from her “coma” and realized Trump is evil. No shit, Taylor. Why isn’t Bette calling on her own fans and other white people to get their shit together.
You create a mess and then Black women are supposed to swoop in and fix it over and over again. We’re tired. Fix your own crap. Bette is rightfully getting dragged on Twitter.
Being that 98 percent of black women voted against Donald Trump, you should probably hit up Katy Perry or Taylor Swift. Stop depending on Black Women to save everybody. https://t.co/P9AW8gXza7
Bette, I love you, but the only thing we need to say to the Beyhive as voters is thank you for your service and then we need to try not to let them down so badly in 2020 as we did in 2016.
Being Black means hyper visibility. & Beyoncé is arguably the most visible Black woman in the world. It’s time to explore the anti-black reasons y’all always choose her & her fan base to antagonize. Mean while y’all let the Taylor Swift’s be exempt from social responsibility
One endorsed Clinton and her fan base voted almost exclusively for Clinton, one was publicly SILENT and a big portion her fan base voted for Trump and support their family members who voted for Trump… 🧐
Wouldn’t it be amazing if YOU and y’all’s #WhiteGirlHive mobilized them trifling WHITE WOMEN that voted for that asshole instead of asking Black women to swoop in save y’all from yourselves? Thanks. pic.twitter.com/TtsuodXFij
Am right there w/u, NW. So, when there’s a movement, Black Women’s voices are ignored. Until … (Oh, reality sucks, right to the core, eh?), then it’s, please, Black Women, get us out of out of our self-inflicted wounds. We promise, pretty please, to treat you as our equals. Riiight! 😏 Let’s take a side-eye journey thru our history. Ahem! Once again: Riiight! 😏 Midler is a celebrity, why not use her voice to address/redress all these Becky’s proliferating everywhere? Uggh, I can go on. Gonna stop now & find my corner chair & be still! 😇
Bunches of thanks, NW, for all you do to have this space for us. I think I would be a permanent resident of my corner chair otherwise! 😂
“Clearly,” said Geraschenko, “Trump is now looking for kompromat to discredit his opponent Biden, to take revenge for his friend Paul Manafort, who is serving seven years in prison.” https://t.co/kpm0YElWz3
It wasn’t the silent quid pro quo that will get trump. I was the brazen out in the open quid pro quo that trump will have to answer for. That phone call can be the manna from heaven that the Dems need to bring trump to justice.
““Multiple, independent lines of evidence show a massive reduction in the abundance of birds,” said Ken Rosenberg, the study’s lead author and a senior scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and American Bird Conservancy…for the first time, the results also showed pervasive losses among common birds across all habitats, including backyard birds.”
Almost 90% of the birds lost came from 12 common songbird families like sparrow, blackbirds, warblers, finches and swallows. Shorebirds have also lost one-third of their population, and grassland birds lost more than 720 million, resulting in a 53% population reduction. Forests across North America lost more than 1 billion birds.
The extreme loss matches a similar picture emerging around the globe. The loss of grassland birds in North America is similar to a decline in farmland birds across Europe, according to the study. The study did not analyze causes of the declines. But widespread population decline is usually due to a LOSS OF HABITAT and factors that interfere with breeding and increase mortality.””
(https://wtkr.com/2019/09/20/us-and-canada-have-lost-2-9-billion-birds-since-1970-study-says/)
–DOOM dooms habitat and seasonal foraging patterns when he builds walls — leads to local extinctions.
“New research shows that surveyed animal populations have declined by more than 50 percent on average in the last two generations….
The average Living Planet Index score for freshwater populations has plummeted by 83 percent, meaning that populations of water-dwelling animals has declined by this amount on average.”
“Stemming the tide of extinction will require cooperation on a global scale,
so scientists have been alarmed by an international backsliding on environmental regulations.
The Trump administration continues to push to roll back elements of the Endangered Species Act,
the United States’ bedrock environmental policy.”
(https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/animal-decline-living-planet-report-conservation-news/)
E.O. Wilson in ‘The Future of Life’ :
“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
Animal conservation isn’t a special interest anymore. It’s a human interest.”
Sinister is not a word that conjures up anything good …. he is a liar, cheat and flat out criminal.
Schiff: “… [the whistleblower complaint is] something involving a serious or flagrant abuse or violation of law or misappropriation, and the IG underscored the seriousness of this, and also that this needs to be looked into. Right now, no one is looking into this.” via @mkrajuhttps://t.co/BOftzl9F9j
Trump is showing genuine rage in the Oval Office, knowing he's caught red-handed by the whistleblower- thx Rudy. He's withering under reporters questions. Sending a Bat Signal to @BarryBerke to question Rudy & the rest a/b Trump's criminal activity w/ Ukraine & connected crimes
On the light side, would like to thank Col-burt once again.
Last night he howled like a banshee throughout – but hey it’s fair. He can be brill by gad and imo always when needed.
There is no abuse of power that Republicans will not defend so long as Trump is president. They're in way too deep now and maintaining power at all costs is their most important priority.
Thread. It seems likely that the whistleblower issue isn't merely Ukraine and a few calls – but Trump doing Putin's bidding. For years. 💣 https://t.co/GBxtjQnK6T
Democracy doesn’t always die with a bang. It often decays as norm after norm — the soft guardrails of democracy — break down. Each time, previously unthinkable behavior becomes routine; the guardrails disappear; and it starts over again with ever more authoritarian behavior.
On phone w/ @ChrisMurphyCT as WSJ story broke. His immediate reaction when I read him the lede: "If it's true that the president requested that the president of Ukraine interfere in an American election, we are in really dangerous, brand new territory."https://t.co/Pt2kIxD2N0
Documentary: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
“It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president.”
Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn “got away with it until he didn’t.”
“Cohn did not, in the end, elude the consequences of his actions. He could not, it turned out, get away with everything forever.
“an intimidator and a bluffer,” attorney Arthur Liman would write, “famous among lawyers for winning cases by delays, evasions, and lies.”
“He will stop at nothing,” a law school classmate once told Esquire.
“He didn’t pay his taxes, either, racking up millions of dollars in liens.”
“Roy,” according to an attorney in his office, “couldn’t have given less of a shit about rules.”
“At a most formative moment for Trump, there was no more formative figure than Cohn.”
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144)
“Trump,” the late Wayne Barrett wrote in 1979, “is a user of other users.”
"On Friday, Giuliani was seen by Reuters reporters at the Trump International Hotel, a few blocks away from the White House, sitting next to Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian businessman with whom Giuliani has recently been working. Giuliani declined comment." https://t.co/zgbYmBkXam
“What’s happened is exactly as if someone went to the police to report a crime, and the police
responded by asking the criminal if it should be investigated and turning all the documents over to him.
1) A whistleblower filed a confidential report over a matter that, by definition, isn’t an issue of policy, but a serious breach of law or threat to national security.
2) That report was supposed to go to Congress. It did not.
3) Rather than notify Congress of the existence of the report, acting DNI Joseph Maguire shared the report with the subject of the report, asking if it should be withheld.
4) Congress found out about the report only because it was notified by the inspector general.
5) Maguire ordered the inspector general not to assist the whistleblower in meeting with Congress, as the law requires.
6) The White House and the Department of Justice moved to smother the report, claiming that it is not in the scope of an intelligence report—but the law does not allow them to make this judgment.
7) The report now appears to have been shared broadly across the White House, meaning that the identity of the whistleblower is deeply endangered, and Trump’s team is at this very minute getting a chance to remove evidence of wrongdoing without anyone being aware.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/20/1886749/–Everyone-at-the-White-House-has-read-the-whistleblower-report-in-another-blatant-violation-of-law#view-story)
How can anyone be proud of that man in the White House? For so long all we heard from Trump and his supporters was LOCK HER UP, if anyone ought to be lockup it is DONALD J. TRUMP. So we now know that Sleepy Joe scares Trump to death.
Fmr DOJ chief spokesperson Miller tweeted:
“If [Trump] was promising U.S. government action in exchange for a foreign government targeting a political [opponent], that is about as high a crime and misdemeanor as one can imagine.”
(alternet)
Billionaire Robert Smith’s surprise pledge to pay off the student loans of Morehouse College’s class of 2019 will cost $34 million and will now include federal educational debt amassed by parents. https://t.co/1GB5q91MlK
Democracy deserves those who are willing to set the temperature (thermostat), not just those who can tell the temperature (thermometers). #ImpeachTrumphttps://t.co/RyQ9sIDMDR
Trump in trouble over this Ukraine outrage. Def Sec, fresh from a meeting with Trump, announces at the Pentagon that we are deploying troops to Saudi Arabia. Apparently we are doing this alone and not with other countries. @SpeakerPelosi, you still don’t see a problem?!
McCain donors flip to Mark Kelly over Republican incumbent in key Arizona Senate race https://t.co/QH8xAORtUa Here we go Arizona… McSally MUST go… Follow and Support@ShuttleCDRKelly 🌵🇺🇸🌵
The Obama Diary 
Thanks, Nerdy darlin’!
Hi, JOB! Sending you hugs. BTW, how are the grands doing?
Nerdy, I, too add my thanks. Don’t know what we would do without this safe harbor…
With you on the safe harbor that Nerdy gives us!
And thanks for asking – the grands and great grands are all doing very well! My two great grandsons are in 3rd grade and Kindergarten now, and I’m loving the stories. Apparently, this is the year the 3rd grader develops his love for Science (a family trait that skipped me) – and the Kindergartener develops his love for little girls in his class. Too sweet.
Glad to hear they are all doing well! They grow up so fast!
Thanks so much. Sweet dreams when you get there, O’friend! ❤
Deepest sympathy to Rep. Clyburn and his family.
So sorry to hear that.
May she rest in peace.
S#’+, PBO warned us… Hillary warned us…
Speaking of Magnifying Who You Are…
All the best people
So what is that Russia President Trump up too concerning this whistle blower? I know Barr is doing all he can to protect Trump. The entire Trump Republican Party Administration are crooks.
A bribe… in the very least
Good!
Probably pressure from all people with a beating heart was too much for them not to reverse their cruel and unnecessary course
I see trump and turtle trying to gang up on us here in California by turning pit bull Choa out to wag her finger. 😡
Extraordinary
Indeed WE ARE…and there are many people who have kindness in their hearts…i meet them every day…it is what keeps me going
OMG…What is going on…Colt said that they would stop manufacturing assault weapons for civilian use…and now Moscow Mitch says this..
Things that make you go hmmmm
Yes, it is.
And Yes.We.Can.
Anybody else watch only the first 10 minutes of Rachel’s show and now want to open their front door and just let out a scream? (I would, but I don’t want to scare the neighbors!)
Gonna munch on some chocolate.
I want to cry.
Hang in there!
Makes total sense
Hang on, TOD. We need this safe space more every day, so endless thanks to Nerdy and all the posters who keep us in touch!
Amen to that Judith! 🙋🏾♀️
THIS! Ha.
Goodnight, TODville. What a day, eh?
Goodnight TOD ….
Good morning, TOD. If you want to feel hopeful and encouraged by the next generation, go to Greta Thunberg’s twitter TL:
NERDY! I just realized this link might break the blog. Remove if you’d like!
Good Morning Everyone! Yesterday was lovely. I’m blessed and grateful to have such loving people in my life, both online and IRL. 😘❤️
We are all blessed and grateful for you and for our TOD community. We know there are more of us than the haters, but we need each other to remind us and to give each other strength. You are one strong beautiful ladies Dudette. We are blessed to have you in our lives.
Aw thank you mtm! You are a blessing to me and TOD as well. Love and hugs to you My Dear! 😘
Start the day with something beautiful 🙂
Beautiful!!!!🌸🌸🌸 nice to wake up to seeing this:)
Morning everyone… my wonderful husband has a birthday today… thinking of him and wishing him a fabulous day! He’s out of town for work… so I sent him extra special love and birthday wishes 💕
Happy Birthday to your hubby! 🎉
Happy Birthday to your husband!
Happiest of b-days to hubby, DF! 💞
Darn, Dudette, this clip was too short! Wanted more, encore, etc.! 😂😇
Me too 😁
DeBlasio dropped out. Bye.
Rudy:) crazy dog
May?????? How about SHALL??
Jaysus! So bottom line is dood is working all angles to stay out of the Big House? Sheesh! Get outta here! 😏
Your move, Speaker
I’m more concerned about all the people that actually heard the phone call and DIDN’T do anything about it than I am about the whistleblower. We are in a constitutional crisis, it is beyond time for Pelosi to act.
It’s getting scary now. We can’t depend on people to do the right thing for their country…. to my mind, Pelosi has no choice but to act. People voted for Democratic candidates in part, to hold these crooks and liars accountable. If that doesn’t happen, her calculations will be all off!! She will not only NOT hold the House, but all will be lost to a criminal tyrant
Do you think Professor Tribe speaks to the Democratic leaders on a regular basis? He should.
I often wonder that, myself. So sick of these constitutional and law experts with huge reputations harping against Democrats all day long, when they could ask to meet directly with the congressional caucus and/or presidential candidates and offer their advice first-hand. People like Tribe would be welcomed. Sick of all those real experts who point fingers from afar, when their counsel should be what they’re freely willing to give directly without the damn name calling. The latter is making them feel high and mighty, but they need to refocus and come down off their comfortable and lofty perches and get their hands dirty.
Amennnnnnnnnnn to the 5th power….
Our folks (House Dems) are in the battle of a lifetime, but they are being nicked and cut by folks who are supposed to be on their side
Totally agree and I’m quite sick of it! But we shall get through this!!!!!
Bette Midler is being freaking ridiculous. Between this and her previous tweet on race, she is line-stepping and needs to get back in her lane.
This constant demand and expectation for Black women and hyper-visible Black women to continually labor to save this ungrateful country from itself is tiring. Where is Taylor Swift? She was mum all through the 2016 elections and afterward. Then she suddenly woke from her “coma” and realized Trump is evil. No shit, Taylor. Why isn’t Bette calling on her own fans and other white people to get their shit together.
You create a mess and then Black women are supposed to swoop in and fix it over and over again. We’re tired. Fix your own crap. Bette is rightfully getting dragged on Twitter.
Am right there w/u, NW. So, when there’s a movement, Black Women’s voices are ignored. Until … (Oh, reality sucks, right to the core, eh?), then it’s, please, Black Women, get us out of out of our self-inflicted wounds. We promise, pretty please, to treat you as our equals. Riiight! 😏 Let’s take a side-eye journey thru our history. Ahem! Once again: Riiight! 😏 Midler is a celebrity, why not use her voice to address/redress all these Becky’s proliferating everywhere? Uggh, I can go on. Gonna stop now & find my corner chair & be still! 😇
Bunches of thanks, NW, for all you do to have this space for us. I think I would be a permanent resident of my corner chair otherwise! 😂
This. Impeach the MF’er. NOW!!
It wasn’t the silent quid pro quo that will get trump. I was the brazen out in the open quid pro quo that trump will have to answer for. That phone call can be the manna from heaven that the Dems need to bring trump to justice.
Right ON!
Federal judge blocks California law requiring Trump disclose his tax returns http://hill.cm/X96XFMV
““Multiple, independent lines of evidence show a massive reduction in the abundance of birds,” said Ken Rosenberg, the study’s lead author and a senior scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and American Bird Conservancy…for the first time, the results also showed pervasive losses among common birds across all habitats, including backyard birds.”
Almost 90% of the birds lost came from 12 common songbird families like sparrow, blackbirds, warblers, finches and swallows. Shorebirds have also lost one-third of their population, and grassland birds lost more than 720 million, resulting in a 53% population reduction. Forests across North America lost more than 1 billion birds.
The extreme loss matches a similar picture emerging around the globe. The loss of grassland birds in North America is similar to a decline in farmland birds across Europe, according to the study. The study did not analyze causes of the declines. But widespread population decline is usually due to a LOSS OF HABITAT and factors that interfere with breeding and increase mortality.””
(https://wtkr.com/2019/09/20/us-and-canada-have-lost-2-9-billion-birds-since-1970-study-says/)
–DOOM dooms habitat and seasonal foraging patterns when he builds walls — leads to local extinctions.
“New research shows that surveyed animal populations have declined by more than 50 percent on average in the last two generations….
The average Living Planet Index score for freshwater populations has plummeted by 83 percent, meaning that populations of water-dwelling animals has declined by this amount on average.”
“Stemming the tide of extinction will require cooperation on a global scale,
so scientists have been alarmed by an international backsliding on environmental regulations.
The Trump administration continues to push to roll back elements of the Endangered Species Act,
the United States’ bedrock environmental policy.”
(https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/animal-decline-living-planet-report-conservation-news/)
E.O. Wilson in ‘The Future of Life’ :
“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
Animal conservation isn’t a special interest anymore. It’s a human interest.”
Sinister is not a word that conjures up anything good …. he is a liar, cheat and flat out criminal.
Magnifying who you are… Part Two
Please see this
TED Talk
by Greta Thunberg.
There is a pause on the screen before it starts:
(https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate/footnotes)
Please see this TED Talk
by Greta Thunberg.
There is a pause on the screen before it starts:
(https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate/footnotes)
Family trait
Yep, and he did it quietly and effectively, and most importantly he did it without ego.
Amen
NOW: Joe Biden holds town hall in Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4
On the light side, would like to thank Col-burt once again.
Last night he howled like a banshee throughout – but hey it’s fair. He can be brill by gad and imo always when needed.
Correct
This reminds me of the Winston Churchill quote, “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
No time to waste
Good Later Afternoon TODville Community.
😍😍😍😍
TGIF
Hi, nena! TGIF!
Hi, JO’B.
Congrats on your Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐👒💁♀️🥂☺☺☺
Thank you!
8 times. One conversation.
Documentary: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
“It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president.”
Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn “got away with it until he didn’t.”
“Cohn did not, in the end, elude the consequences of his actions. He could not, it turned out, get away with everything forever.
“an intimidator and a bluffer,” attorney Arthur Liman would write, “famous among lawyers for winning cases by delays, evasions, and lies.”
“He will stop at nothing,” a law school classmate once told Esquire.
“He didn’t pay his taxes, either, racking up millions of dollars in liens.”
“Roy,” according to an attorney in his office, “couldn’t have given less of a shit about rules.”
“At a most formative moment for Trump, there was no more formative figure than Cohn.”
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144)
“Trump,” the late Wayne Barrett wrote in 1979, “is a user of other users.”
“What’s happened is exactly as if someone went to the police to report a crime, and the police
responded by asking the criminal if it should be investigated and turning all the documents over to him.
1) A whistleblower filed a confidential report over a matter that, by definition, isn’t an issue of policy, but a serious breach of law or threat to national security.
2) That report was supposed to go to Congress. It did not.
3) Rather than notify Congress of the existence of the report, acting DNI Joseph Maguire shared the report with the subject of the report, asking if it should be withheld.
4) Congress found out about the report only because it was notified by the inspector general.
5) Maguire ordered the inspector general not to assist the whistleblower in meeting with Congress, as the law requires.
6) The White House and the Department of Justice moved to smother the report, claiming that it is not in the scope of an intelligence report—but the law does not allow them to make this judgment.
7) The report now appears to have been shared broadly across the White House, meaning that the identity of the whistleblower is deeply endangered, and Trump’s team is at this very minute getting a chance to remove evidence of wrongdoing without anyone being aware.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/20/1886749/–Everyone-at-the-White-House-has-read-the-whistleblower-report-in-another-blatant-violation-of-law#view-story)
Somebody leak the entire copy? Let’s get shut of this crew.
How can anyone be proud of that man in the White House? For so long all we heard from Trump and his supporters was LOCK HER UP, if anyone ought to be lockup it is DONALD J. TRUMP. So we now know that Sleepy Joe scares Trump to death.
Fmr DOJ chief spokesperson Miller tweeted:
“If [Trump] was promising U.S. government action in exchange for a foreign government targeting a political [opponent], that is about as high a crime and misdemeanor as one can imagine.”
(alternet)
Nixon resigned because…the Republicans pulled their support from Nixon because he lost popular support…and therefore became a liability
not legal,
don’t let him get away with it.
military can wait for authorization.
Saudi oil getting popped has nothing to do with the American people.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/climatestrike/