GRETA THUNBERG tomorrow…another climate strike!
“Thunberg is planning to attend a climate strike in Montreal, Canada, outside a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency. She gave up flying (and sailed to the US for the summit) because of what she learned about the impact of the aviation industry on the global climate. It produces 2.4 percent of global emissions, but there are few options for shrinking this footprint and demand for air travel is poised to surge in the coming decades. She and other activists want airlines and regulators to do much more to limit those emissions.”
(https://www.vox.com/2019/9/26/20885295/greta-thunberg-climate-strike)
–On Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuels: https://www.nap.edu/read/23490/chapter/8
If it were President Hillary or President Obama they would have read it by now and be all over the tv, all set to IMPEACH . These Senators are fill of alot of B.S. They are a disgrace.
“Didn’t read it!” Is their excuse for not having to defend or respond when the reporters ask, but that can be refuted easily with “That’s your job. It is less than ten pages. Purposeful ignorance is no excuse.”
This year’s list of #TheRoot100 honorees is a reminder of the beauty and brilliance of blackness, at a time when the political and cultural landscape has grown even more hostile to the idea of black achievement! https://t.co/zlAmJxjrtJpic.twitter.com/Wzz3AQ3y0S
Good Morning Beloved TODville Community.
TGIF
Nancy Pelosi, Madam Speaker is Live now on Morning Joe.
It’s about Our National Security…….That is Mic drop🎤
I said it in Aug, I felt a Change.
It’s now up to Us to make this Change Permanent in 2020.
😍😍😍😍🙌☺☺☺☺
BREAKING- Huge tell from Putin's spokesman showing fear of more Trump conversations being exposed. Putin & Trump plotting over Russia retaking Ukraine will come out. Expect multiple news bombs to drop while a focused impeachment investigation is happening https://t.co/QjRGkZT1Ap
Giuliani is doing a fantastic job implicating the State Department in the Ukraine scandal and thus ensuring that it keeps consuming more and more of the administration. https://t.co/wsO5GqztFv
California Institute of Technology is receiving the second-largest donation ever to an American university: $750 million for environmental study, much of it focused on technological solutions to combat climate change https://t.co/uz38Ppdows
Breaking: NYT: Whistleblower first went to intelligence agency, then went to IG upon learning the agency went to White House. pic.twitter.com/dzy43ue2Cz
I thought she waited too long… but now that she’s in this war w/ @realDonaldTrump, my money’s on @SpeakerPelosi. She’s way smarter, stronger, confident, a masterful fighter, disciplined and focused. He’s just an erratic, impulsive, chaotic, emotional, insecure buffoon… #Trump
Seems like reverse psychology to me, but still worthy of investigation. It also seems like all these mysteries will come together at some point. The length of time it takes is the concern due to the damage that can occur in the meantime.
Can’t wait until Rudy calls Adam Schiff “moron” like he called the other guest on FOX. Adam might come swingin’ around the podium and take him down. (I added that last part for the visual, ’cause I needed a laugh).
Wrap your head around this statement. Their first thought was to hide and CYA … not do the right thing. This is who they ALL are!
The alarm among officials who heard the exchange led to an extraordinary effort to keep too many more people from learning about it. https://t.co/OgABmRmM0s@peterbakernyt
Yep, I was reading a tweet about this exact same thing this morning. When Zipper Gate happened there where over one hundred and fifty newspapers calling for Bill Clinton to resign.
The results of a congressional probe into the NRA's ties to Russia paints a picture of NRA officials providing Russian officials access to American elected officials in exchange for lucrative business opportunities. https://t.co/n1SXoxdKCk
Deepest condolences to Valerie Plame & her two children on the death of former Amb. Joe Wilson. Joe was heroic–one of the *very* few voices advocating caution & more deliberation in the run-up to the misguided & disastrous Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq.https://t.co/O3kUy71LD8
If this is how President Trump acts with the president of the Ukraine when many people are on the phone what does he say to Putin when no one is around?
INTRO paragraph:
“Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff,
I am reporting an “urgent concen” in accordance with the procedures outlined in…
This letter is UNCLASSIFIED when separated from the attachment.
In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election.
This interference includes, among other things,
pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main political rivals.
The President’s personal lawyer, Mr. Guiiiani, is a central figure in this effort.
Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well.”
………………………….
(https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf)
Want to thank our Democratic team on the House Intelligence Committee:
For the stellar job they did yesterday. It was so well-organized and delivered. So proud of everything they do, did. Bravi. A zillion thanks!
“I am therefore fulfilling my duty to report this information, through proper channels, to the relevant authorities.
.) I am also concerned that these actions pose risks to U.S. national security and undermine the U.S. Government’s efforts to deter and counter foreign interference in the U.S. elections.”
(from page 1)
(From page 3):
..”The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call.
On the evening of the 25th of July, a readout was posted on the website of the Ukrainian President that contained the following line (translation from the original Russian -language readout):
.) “Donald Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve Ukraine’s image and complete the investigation of corruption cases that have held back cooperation between Ukraine and the United States.”
Aside from the above-mentioned “cases’ purportedly dealing with the Biden family and the 2016 U.S. election, I was told by White House officials that no other “cases” were discussed.”
.) “In addition to the White House personnel, I was told that State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich
Brechbuhl, also listened in on the call.
.) I was not the only White House official to receive a read-out of the call. Based on my understanding, multiple State Department and Intelligence Community officials were also briefed on the contents of the call as outlined above.”
(from page 3)
(From page 4):
.) “White House officials told me they were directed by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.
.) Instead the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.”
Circumstances leading up to the phone call follow in section IV.
From page 7:
“Starting in mid-May, I heard from multiple U.S. officials I heard from multiple U.S. officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Guiliani’s circumvention of national security decisionmaking processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between Kyiv and the President.”
My head is spinning. Just when you think you know how bad it is and then you find out it is worse. To every elected person who chose the NRA over my daughter and other victims of gun violence, this is on you. Do the noble thing and resign or prepare to be fired. https://t.co/CFMwJnmlTL
BREAKING: More than 300 former national security professionals, many of whom served presidents of both parties, express alarm at President Trump's actions and endorse the impeachment inquiry in a statement relesed today. https://t.co/eYSSaTIqE6pic.twitter.com/83DNfxly8q
CHAIRMAN SCHIFF followed every protocol.
Meticulous and fastidious:
That is who he is.
“Republicans are literally lying about why the complaint wasn’t seen by Congress,
which is already an established fact….
Republicans are trying to smear Adam Schiff because he’s an excellent prosecutor who will be handling the impeachment case against Donald Trump. Trump is desperately trying to make “liddle” happen again, apparently he’s believed that’s a word for many years, but it’s not taking off.
This all the usual Republican poison the well attack because they can’t discuss facts.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/27/republicans-cant-defend-trump-so-they-are-desperately-smearing-adam-schiff.html)
On GOP desperation…
VoteVets: “Wow, this is a blatant lie. Not even spin. The letter, delivered to the IG, was then withheld from House Intel and Chairman Schiff, by DNI. That was a major, major point discussed in committee, yesterday.”
Ukraine’s top anti-corruption official says his agency hasn’t investigated former VP Biden or his son as President Trump has suggested. https://t.co/L6DN0vHDHF
BREAKING: Reps. Schiff, Engel and Cummings have subpoenaed Sec. of State Pompeo over his failure to produce answers about Ukraine. They will also depose five State Dept officials: -Ambassador Yovanovitch -Ambassador Volker -DA Sec. Kent -Counselor Brechbuhl -Ambassador Sondland
Breaking: Mike Pompeo has just been subpoenaed for Ukraine documents by the chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight Committees. https://t.co/xKlqh4LPN0
-the fab Speaker Pelosi:
“We have to put country before party.”
checks and balances….as Ben Franklyn said “A Republic”. And all of that is at stake: The separation of powers..his genius..of a Constitution, 3 separate co-equal branches of Government to be a check on each other. This is a serious as it gets when it comes to protecting the Constitution of the United States.
The oath of office that we take, I think the President violated that oath. But sadly, we have to follow the facts…another is to corroborate what we have heard so that the public has the comfort level in what we have to do.”
Deepest condolences to Valerie Plame & her two children on the death of former Amb. Joe Wilson. Joe was heroic–one of the *very* few voices advocating caution & more deliberation in the run-up to the misguided & disastrous Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq.https://t.co/O3kUy71LD8
Apparently, they were divorced, but I always thought they were a great couple back when some of us first learned about them. Sorry to hear he passed away.
“William Barr has eroded public trust in government and the rule of law and has earned himself an impeachment inquiry of his own.” Opinion: I Thought We Could Trust William Barr. I Was Wrong. https://t.co/HNv29cO6Qe
It's been one year since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I believed her then and I believe it now: she is a true profile in courage. pic.twitter.com/bG36lOA7AD
Trump met with Wayne LaPierre and asked if the NRA would finance his impeachment defense. LaPierre said he would if Trump promised not to pursue any gun legislation. https://t.co/dAlVCbupQ2
Hallo there is your unroll: Thread by @docrocktex26: "The paralyzing fear of Whitelash to Trump impeachment is akin to the fear of Whitelash to gun & fossil fuel regulati […]" https://t.co/g4bjLyWQvL Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖
Chris Wallace is trending because he said something truth on Fox News about how Trump defenders are trying to make "nothing out of something." And a Fox person telling the truth is, legitimately, national news.
He continues to break the law every day, with the other law breakers. But, of course, we knew that.
So just to be clear: Trump is altering US policy in exchange for personal gain in order to defend himself against an impeachment inquiry where he’s alleged to have altered US policy in exchange for personal gain. https://t.co/ix0VdPqRkY
NYT confirms: Kurt Volker, the State Department's special envoy for Ukraine, who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by Trump and Rudy Giuliani to find damaging information about Democrats, resigned his post on Friday. https://t.co/vdMqI6Rg4t
Page 2: this is a party-sponsored poll, so caveats apply. That said, sponsored by a party group that to date has been dim on impeachment, so them declaring "the current debate is a political liability for Republicans in Congress" is notable. pic.twitter.com/47EN9qLBNb
The Obama Diary 
Sweet!
Thx Nerdy ✌🏾
Congrats GG!
Such happy news!
Thx NCLB ❤
GRETA THUNBERG tomorrow…another climate strike!
“Thunberg is planning to attend a climate strike in Montreal, Canada, outside a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency. She gave up flying (and sailed to the US for the summit) because of what she learned about the impact of the aviation industry on the global climate. It produces 2.4 percent of global emissions, but there are few options for shrinking this footprint and demand for air travel is poised to surge in the coming decades. She and other activists want airlines and regulators to do much more to limit those emissions.”
(https://www.vox.com/2019/9/26/20885295/greta-thunberg-climate-strike)
–On Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuels: https://www.nap.edu/read/23490/chapter/8
Thanks for everything, every day, Nerdy darlin’!
I love Pete!
Seems they are derelict in their duties
Pretty much.
If it were President Hillary or President Obama they would have read it by now and be all over the tv, all set to IMPEACH . These Senators are fill of alot of B.S. They are a disgrace.
“Didn’t read it!” Is their excuse for not having to defend or respond when the reporters ask, but that can be refuted easily with “That’s your job. It is less than ten pages. Purposeful ignorance is no excuse.”
That was the only thing they had on the first day. I think “the dog ate my homework” is next. Ugh.
Correct
Hopefully, it’ll be a two-fer on impeachment. (And I particularly like this “walking Q-tip” reference.)
“Walking Q-Tip” is a perfect name for Pence. He is tangled up in this mess as much as Trump and such such a lying puppet hypocrite.
Oh please let him be impeached, too! He and Mother can get out of our faces!
AND AG Bill Barr too, pretty please.
Yes, please.
I got my flu shot today. Ouch! 😀
How are you doing; and how is your Uncle? Email or call me.
ok, i’ll touch base tomorrow. luv U
Awesomeness! Had to play Bob, just my randomness:
One last one for Comrade Minus (love Pete’s name for iQ45):
Love Bob Marley! Thank you!
Nancy Smash will be on Morning Joe at 6 am ET. Thank God I can record it, ’cause that’s wayyyyyyy too early and I’m an hour earlier in my time zone.
Goodnight, TODville!
Goodnight TOD …
And he can’t. He’s not above the law. Neither are his sycophants.
Good Morning Beloved TODville Community.
TGIF
Nancy Pelosi, Madam Speaker is Live now on Morning Joe.
It’s about Our National Security…….That is Mic drop🎤
I said it in Aug, I felt a Change.
It’s now up to Us to make this Change Permanent in 2020.
😍😍😍😍🙌☺☺☺☺
Thanks nena, this is great and I agree with PBO
Putin has a funny sense of humor, he’s basically saying trump and I talked about all kinda illegal shit and I hope you don’t find the phone calls.
IKR?!!!
Definitely agree with your assessment, Don!
From the people that used more water than the entire state’s combined citizens! Maybe they feel guilty and this is their olive branch?
Ok, I exaggerated:) They used more water than everyone in LA….
😀 😀
MoFo, there are no “private conversations” in The People’s House, except maybe in the residence section.
Seems like reverse psychology to me, but still worthy of investigation. It also seems like all these mysteries will come together at some point. The length of time it takes is the concern due to the damage that can occur in the meantime.
Morning everyone. Happy Hour after work today may be necessary
Cuz you know how ‘terrible ‘ the FBI is
Words of the day
OMG!
Other word of the day:)
Insane version of Romper Room
Can’t wait until Rudy calls Adam Schiff “moron” like he called the other guest on FOX. Adam might come swingin’ around the podium and take him down. (I added that last part for the visual, ’cause I needed a laugh).
😀 😀 visual worked for me too!
LOL!
Next week’s New Yorker cover
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212512034
Here
Love it.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
Wrap your head around this statement. Their first thought was to hide and CYA … not do the right thing. This is who they ALL are!
Gee… anyone besides me wondering why newspapers across the country aren’t calling for the fraud’s resignation?
Yep, I was reading a tweet about this exact same thing this morning. When Zipper Gate happened there where over one hundred and fifty newspapers calling for Bill Clinton to resign.
Let’s take a mental note of how long this takes. They have been propping up this fraud for far too long!
Giuliani is going to start snitching more than Henry Hill in “Goodfellas.”
Because OF COURSE!!!
So terribly sad to hear this.
It’s why I haven’t slept well in years
😂😂😂
Well technically, he didn’t go that far. I’ll see myself out now.
So bad:)
Love Michelle Obama.
SOON: Hillary Clinton speaks at Georgetown University – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-3
INTRO paragraph:
“Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff,
I am reporting an “urgent concen” in accordance with the procedures outlined in…
This letter is UNCLASSIFIED when separated from the attachment.
In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election.
This interference includes, among other things,
pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main political rivals.
The President’s personal lawyer, Mr. Guiiiani, is a central figure in this effort.
Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well.”
………………………….
(https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf)
Want to thank our Democratic team on the House Intelligence Committee:
For the stellar job they did yesterday. It was so well-organized and delivered. So proud of everything they do, did. Bravi. A zillion thanks!
“I am therefore fulfilling my duty to report this information, through proper channels, to the relevant authorities.
.) I am also concerned that these actions pose risks to U.S. national security and undermine the U.S. Government’s efforts to deter and counter foreign interference in the U.S. elections.”
(from page 1)
(From page 3):
..”The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call.
On the evening of the 25th of July, a readout was posted on the website of the Ukrainian President that contained the following line (translation from the original Russian -language readout):
.) “Donald Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve Ukraine’s image and complete the investigation of corruption cases that have held back cooperation between Ukraine and the United States.”
Aside from the above-mentioned “cases’ purportedly dealing with the Biden family and the 2016 U.S. election, I was told by White House officials that no other “cases” were discussed.”
.) “In addition to the White House personnel, I was told that State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich
Brechbuhl, also listened in on the call.
.) I was not the only White House official to receive a read-out of the call. Based on my understanding, multiple State Department and Intelligence Community officials were also briefed on the contents of the call as outlined above.”
(from page 3)
(From page 4):
.) “White House officials told me they were directed by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.
.) Instead the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.”
Circumstances leading up to the phone call follow in section IV.
From page 7:
“Starting in mid-May, I heard from multiple U.S. officials I heard from multiple U.S. officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Guiliani’s circumvention of national security decisionmaking processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between Kyiv and the President.”
(errors due to my transcription, apologies.)
HOLY SMOKES in infinite triplicate.
CHAIRMAN SCHIFF followed every protocol.
Meticulous and fastidious:
That is who he is.
“Republicans are literally lying about why the complaint wasn’t seen by Congress,
which is already an established fact….
Republicans are trying to smear Adam Schiff because he’s an excellent prosecutor who will be handling the impeachment case against Donald Trump. Trump is desperately trying to make “liddle” happen again, apparently he’s believed that’s a word for many years, but it’s not taking off.
This all the usual Republican poison the well attack because they can’t discuss facts.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/27/republicans-cant-defend-trump-so-they-are-desperately-smearing-adam-schiff.html)
On GOP desperation…
VoteVets: “Wow, this is a blatant lie. Not even spin. The letter, delivered to the IG, was then withheld from House Intel and Chairman Schiff, by DNI. That was a major, major point discussed in committee, yesterday.”
HA!!
Pelosi is the best.
“HOW TRUMP’S BIDEN MANIA LED HIM TO THE BRINK OF IMPEACHMENT.”
“In the three months prior to the fateful Ukraine call,
the president was extraordinarily preoccupied with Biden.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/27/trump-biden-impeachment-005123)
Good Afternoon, Good Evening, TODville Community.
Here’s Speaker Pelosi’s Full Interview on Morning Joe today.
-the fab Speaker Pelosi:
“We have to put country before party.”
checks and balances….as Ben Franklyn said “A Republic”. And all of that is at stake: The separation of powers..his genius..of a Constitution, 3 separate co-equal branches of Government to be a check on each other. This is a serious as it gets when it comes to protecting the Constitution of the United States.
The oath of office that we take, I think the President violated that oath. But sadly, we have to follow the facts…another is to corroborate what we have heard so that the public has the comfort level in what we have to do.”
Thank you so much, Nena!
I don’t know where it went but Amb. Joe Wilson has passed away. He is Valerie Plame’s husband… my heart is sad.
Apparently, they were divorced, but I always thought they were a great couple back when some of us first learned about them. Sorry to hear he passed away.
Heard this earlier. Very sad. I had no idea they were divorced.
I didn’t know either! Very sad.
SOON: Joe Biden hosts community event in Las Vegas – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2
Thank you!
😊
Shame, shame. 😜😚😏😘. Thanks for the perfect point, Col. Davis. 🥰
Holy Crap! Can someone, anyone, explain this man to me!! 😨🥺
NOW: Elizabeth Warren hosts town hall in Hollis, NH – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-6
or read it here:
He continues to break the law every day, with the other law breakers. But, of course, we knew that.
I think the non-practicing-Republican Rick Wilson’s book is called, “Everything trump Touches Dies.” Yep. Fits.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/helping-all-voices-be-heard/