"@KamalaHarris’ campaign was about more than one person. It was about the little girls who saw parts of themselves in her and believed their shared experiences would bring change." https://t.co/L3KNhpGCJq
400 Billa passed since January. Here’s a list of the major ones:
Health care
House Resolution 259 — Medicaid Extenders Act of 2019
H.R. 271 — Condemning the Trump Administration’s Legal Campaign to Take Away Americans’ Health Care
H.R. 986 — Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2019
H.R. 987 — Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act
H.R. 1520, the Purple Book Continuity Act (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs)
H.R. 1503, the Orange Book Transparency Act of 2019 (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs)
Civil rights
H.R. 1 — For the People Act of 2019
H.R. 5 — Equality Act
H.R. 6 — American Dream and Promise Act
H.R. 7 — Paycheck Fairness Act
H.R. 124 — Expressing opposition to banning service in the Armed Forces by openly transgender individuals
Gun control
H.R. 8 — Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H.R. 1112 — Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019
Environment
H.R. 9 — Climate Action Now Act
H.R. 1331 — Local Water Protection Act
S. 47 — National Resources Management Act
H.R. 2578 — National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019
H.R. 205, 1146, 1941 — Banning Offshore Drilling on Atlantic, Pacific, Eastern Gulf and ANWR Coasts
Military/foreign affairs
H.R. 840 — Veterans’ Access to Child Care Act
H.J. Res. 37 — Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress
S.J. Res. 7 — To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress
H.R. 31 — Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019
H.J. Res. 30 — Disapproving the President’s proposal to take an action relating to the application of certain sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation
H.R. 4695 — Protect Against Conflict by Turkey Act
H.R. 676 — NATO Support Act
H.R. 549 — Venezuela TPS Act
Mueller report
H. Con. Res. 24 — Expressing the sense of Congress that the report of Special Counsel Mueller should be made available to the public and to Congress
Other major legislation
H.R. 1585 — Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019
H.R. 987 — Raise the Wage Act
H.R. 1500 — Consumers First Act
H.R. 1994 — SECURE Act/Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act
H.R. 2722 — Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act
H.R. 4617 — Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) Act
H.R. 1644 — Save the Internet Act of 2019
H.R. 2157 — Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019
H.R. 397 — Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (The Butch Lewis Act)
H.R. 2513 — The Corporate Transparency Act
H.R. 269 — Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019
H.R. 251 — Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program Extension Act
S.24 — Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
H.R. 430 — TANF Extension Act of 2019
Concurring in the Senate Amendments to HR 251 — Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard Program Extension Act
H.R. 790 — Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019
HJ Res. 46 — Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019
H Res. 183 — Condemning anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values and aspirations that define the people of the United States and condemning anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against minorities as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contrary to the values and aspirations of the United States, as amended
H Res. 194 — Rule Providing for Consideration of H.R. 1644 and H.R. 2021
H.R. 2480 — Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
H.R. 375 — To amend the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes (also known as the “Carcieri Fix”)
—Thank you Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats for your hard work.
“Much of this agenda is sitting in the Senate.
There have been a few things House Democrats and Senate Republicans have agreed on: disaster relief aid, reopening the government after the shutdown, the resolution to end US involvement in the Yemen war, a bill to protect public lands, and a resolution disapproving of Trump’s use of emergency powers.”
(https://www.vox.com/2019/11/29/20977735/how-many-bills-passed-house-democrats-trump)
As of Nov 15:
Four hundred bills passed by the House have waited to no avail on McConnell’s desk.
Meanwhile his Moral Turpitude has rammed through 170 mostly clueless judgeships.
–What is MoscowMitch’s job description btw?
Thanks to the bloviated compromised Grim Reaper:
“Congress has passed just 70 bills into law this year. Granted, it still has one more year in its term, but the number pales in comparison to recent past sessions of Congress, which typically see 300-500 bills passed in two years (and that is even a diminished number from the 700-800 bills passed in the 1970s and 1980s).
Ten of those 70 bills this year have been renaming federal post offices or Veterans Affairs facilities, and many others are related to appropriations or extending programs like the National Flood Insurance Program or the 9/11 victim compensation fund.”
His history isn’t complicated. It was extremely clear and well documented. He was quoted saying really terrible things. And then a court ruled on it. So this tweet is inaccurate. https://t.co/muRp0dwuV5
Grossly underrated reason Americans are so angry and divided — college. Who goes, how on earth to pay for it — creating class war, resentment and even loathing toward knowledge itself. Why fixing this mess is a huge 2020 campaign issue is my new column https://t.co/fYXJma5363
Tnank you Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats for all of your hard, persistent work.
Thank you for the stellar impeachment process hearings. Thank you Chairmans Nadler and Schiff.
In listening to the jobs report for November this morning I noticed it was a robust job increase. A good news for Trump report. I cannot help but think that the job report seems to be measured by whether it is under, equal to or beyond the expectation set. (Ahhh set the expectation low then it is easier to beat! ) Also we are in the holiday extra hiring season. Another thing I noticed is how the number is arrived at by choosing certain places of business to report their numbers and to extrapolate from there. (Realizing DT’s crew has ousted, scrambled and cut department members, how do we know what businesses have been chosen or whether those people in charge are independent of political influence?) Corrections to reports are done a few months later and decreasing the numbers at that time does not have the buzz the initial report has. (Excuse me for being suspicious of everything these days, but the great manipulator, ratings monger might have a scheme in play.) Although holiday hiring may be the biggest factor and there is no manipulation. The problem with this liar Administration is you cannot believe anything you are told.
So @realDonaldTrump has no problem with hostile foreign intelligence services listening to his calls, but fears having his aides know who he’s even talking to. https://t.co/7mmEeVKyPQ
The Confederate flag aka “Stars and Bars” is a flag of an enemy nation. Traitors raised it and the Union lowered it when we defeated the Confederacy. Any sentimentality for it should be equated to having the same towards any other enemy of our Republic. https://t.co/sakuRiYGUY
Maddow’s stunning opening segment last night takes a detailed look at the geo-political situation viz Russia, whose only “economic tentpole” is Oil and Gas, which was massively blocked by PBO sanctions after Putin invaded Ukraine. These sanctions delivered a huge blow, part of a “Major comprehensive international
American-funded response to what Putin had done. A whole suite of punishing consequences.”
(She breaks it down.) Also Putin got knocked out of the G8, Ukraine received a military aid package, and the
bi-partisan European Reassurance Initiative was put in place, by which the Obama administration acknowledged the growing threat to long-term U.S. national security interests in Europe and beyond.
Trump quietly defunded it before saying he thought Putin should be let back into the G7, and has attacked sanctions on Russian oil since July 2015. As did Putin’s long-time buddy, then secretary of state Exxon Tillerson.
RM exposes the pattern: “Trump blocking aid to Ukraine didn’t come out of the blue”.
“What Trump is being impeached for is part of a larger group of actions that he has taken consistently since he has been in office that have all pointed in the same direction, that have all had the same aim.”
= Helping Russia.
—Pls do not miss this. Maddow in her element in the weeds, awesome!
—Video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDErwJ0AjgI)
Update: A member of the Saudi Air Force was identified by authorities as the gunman who killed 3 people at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida. https://t.co/qiYXsihs38
“In her father’s bedroom, she found a jewelry box, which had been hers as a child. She also found four external hard drives and eighteen thumb drives that had belonged to her father. One of the drives was labelled ‘NC Data’.”
John Kerry touts his longtime working relationship with Joe Biden, adding: "The only team that's worked more closely than us is Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin." https://t.co/w34EEIbpnRpic.twitter.com/vVoJl1fEZx
Trump: "The light bulb. They got rid of the light bulb that people got used to … It doesn't make you look as good. Being a vain person … I don't want an orange look … We'll have to change those bulbs out at least a couple of rooms where I am in the White House." Via CSPAN pic.twitter.com/TumHiESCDz
“Joy Harjo Becomes First Native American Writer to Be Named U.S. Poet Laureate.”
“Harjo, a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation, says the appointment ‘honors the place of Native people in this country, the place of Native people’s poetry.”
Snippet from:
I. She Had Some Horses
She had some horses.
She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
She had horses who were skins of ocean water.
She had horses who were the blue air of sky.
She had horses who were fur and teeth.
She had horses who were clay and would break.
She had horses who were splintered red cliff.
She had some horses.
She had horses with eyes of trains.
She had horses with full, brown thighs.
She had horses who laughed too much.
She had horses who threw rocks at glass houses.
She had horses who licked razor blades.
She had some horses.
She had horses who danced in their mothers’ arms.
She had horses who thought they were the sun and their
bodies shone and burned like stars.
She had horses who waltzed nightly on the moon.
She had horses who were much too shy, and kept quiet
in stalls of their own making.
She had some horses. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/joy-harjo-has-been-named-first-native-american-poet-laureate-180972458/
Today, the House passed H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which responds to the Shelby County v. Holder decision, repairs the Voting Rights Act, and ensures that all Americans can exercise their right to vote. pic.twitter.com/Wr7svKmDnN
Just understand for context that the Voting Rights Act since 1965 has always been, until now, a bipartisan bill. When it was reauthorized in 2006 the vote was 396-33. https://t.co/kdDV4zUuKl
I hope that Biden actually says this one time. Really.
Trump removal has been my focus so I don't talk about the candidates much. Kamala was my favorite since April.
Message to Biden- When they ask you a/b Hunter, say "Taking a cush board position may not have been the best idea but at least my son didn't steal from a phony charity"
JUST IN: White House Counsel Pat Cipollone writes to House Judiciary Committee Chairman but doesn’t answer as to whether the White House will participate in next week’s impeachment proceedings. pic.twitter.com/9t0357ZjIf
– Complains that he had to flush his toilet ten or fifteen times – He actually said this – What a bunch of shit – Rudy screws up, points Feds to new evidence against him – Lev Parnas negotiating plea deal – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 6pm
NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied @TheJusticeDept’s request to restart federal executions on Monday. The Court will not allow the DOJ to rush executions while appeals are still pending. There will NOT be a federal execution on Monday. More information to come soon.
Proud to stand with hundreds of my colleagues across the nation in naming Trump’s conduct impeachable and a basis for his removal from office:https://t.co/FJEqpqKaCC
Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway – *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways.
Maybe the Trump admin should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families. https://t.co/BbqhXbB9MM
Will amazon start paying their taxes?
“Amazon paid $0 in U.S. federal income tax on more than $11 billion in profits before taxes.
It also received a $129 million tax rebate from the federal government.
Amazon’s low tax bill mainly stemmed from the Republican tax cuts of 2017…” (CNBC)
House Democrats took a major step towards restoring the Voting Rights Act to full strength on Friday. But all but one Republican voted against it. It can’t be said enough: only one party works to ensure that fewer people have a voice in American elections. https://t.co/slfcqo95U5
Traditionally in the State Dept, officers take notes and transcribe the Secretary's calls, to send readouts to officials and to comply with federal record-keeping laws.
Exactly…. but once again, he does this for HIS benefit… not fighting for the benefit of Americans as a whole. Everything this guy has done has been for his benefit and his alone.
Going all the way to the Supreme Court to try to prevent the release of your tax returns does not seem like the type of thing you do if you have nothing to hide. https://t.co/lCyJJi6YCJ
A judge held Betsy DeVos in contempt and fined the Education Dept for defying a court order & attempting to collect student loans from thousands of borrowers. This week, the agency revealed that 30,000 more students than previously stated were involved. https://t.co/Wl6w73JcId
As a former Chief of the Orlando Police Dept, @RepValDemings is uniquely qualified to write this piece. I know she speaks for many law enforcement leaders who were appalled by Barr’s remarks. https://t.co/IB0iaFZMn9
Such an eloquent & powerful rebuttal by @RepValDemings to Barr’s “protection” racket speech: “It is a knife in the heart of decades of painstaking work to develop bonds of trust between police and the communities they serve.” https://t.co/o5H46saZF2
Now that Kamala Harris is out, voters are finally awakening to the flaws of the other candidates. I’m sitting here with my morning cup of hot tea watching their supporters squirm. They don’t know the half. pic.twitter.com/pSGjh2faXn
— America Didn’t Deserve Prez Kamala Harris in 2020 (@flywithkamala) December 7, 2019
Hi, former NSA lawyer here. This is not how it works. At all. It's not how the law works. It's not how NSA works. It's not how phone records work. That's all. Have a good evening. https://t.co/qtFX1axUSN
It's honestly astonishing. I don't think I've ever heard a more uninformed conversation about NSA or intelligence collection in my life. And I once had a relative corner me a wedding to say NSA was blackmailing John McCain into supporting immigration reform SO THE BAR IS REAL LOW
Because on the face of it, it really does look like she went on television to repeat an outright unfounded lie. And even worse for a “national security/war correspondent” it would seem that she doesn’t understand even extremely basic principles of the subjects she covers.
Another nugget. Boy, the Republicans sure don’t like the laws THEY ENACTED, used against them!!!
Adam Schiff was able to easily subpoena phone records from telecom companies due to "national security" laws championed by Republicans. https://t.co/inqPIYjV9g
Trent Capelli 🇨🇦 @TrentCapelli · 5m
I’ve taken Trump’s advice. This morning when I woke up, I looked at the faucet, the water, the toilet flushes. All of it. I had the water. The good water. We looked at it. It’s water. Good water. All good. Not just dripping. Strong water. Thank you, Stable Genius.
I had good water pressure too, and the pressure was strong. Not limp or weak, but strong, though it takes a minute before it gets hot but it does get hot. But for some odd reason my wife doesn’t like it when my son takes long showers, she’s into that lefty stuff like conservation. But men understand that a shower is more than a shower, it is a place were you can contemplate events that have shaped the person you are. Long live long showers.
Michael Avenatti @MichaelAvenatti · 13m
I slept so well last night knowing that our corrupt President is keenly focused on water pressure in bathrooms. Pathetically stupid. And dangerous.
I truly believe that Trump will be impeached, this country since its founding has always had fits and starts when it came to making historical changes, but in the end changes were made. Democracy is indeed messy, but it is enduring, and it will always seek truth.
That’s what so frustrating about Joe, he makes errors over the most simplest of things. Its like he constructs the perfect sentence, and then throws in a word at the end that has nothing to do with the sentence he’s just constructed. The Constitution is a living breathing document that oversees how our government work….jambalaya
Nadler: "President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain. The Constitution details only one remedy for this misconduct: impeachment … In America, no one is above the law, not even the President." https://t.co/cUnmUowRsX
GRETA THUNBERG arrived in Portugal 4 days ago after sailing for 20 days across the Atlantic from NY to attend the United Nations COP25 climate summit in Madrid. On arrival she said “We need to work together to make sure that we secure future living conditions for humankind, and that we fight for not only ourselves, but for our children and for our grandchildren and for every single living being on Earth.” (per BBC report)
—sending big love to this young marvel walking among us.
Since sending both their daughters to college, the Obamas are enjoying some alone time and rediscovering each other as a couple. 💞https://t.co/qh3UzoNphg
Nadler: "President Trump abused his power (OTHER HIGH CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS), betrayed our national security (TREASON), and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain (BRIBERY). . . A trifecta worthy of impeachment, conviction, removal and bar for life
The Obama Diary 
Good afternoon! Wishing everyone a Blessed and joyful day!
😘❤️ congrats Alycee on First!
My oldest granddaughter’s 29th birthday, so it’s been a sweet and wonderful and nostalgic day! Have a great weekend, all!
400 Billa passed since January. Here’s a list of the major ones:
Health care
House Resolution 259 — Medicaid Extenders Act of 2019
H.R. 271 — Condemning the Trump Administration’s Legal Campaign to Take Away Americans’ Health Care
H.R. 986 — Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2019
H.R. 987 — Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act
H.R. 1520, the Purple Book Continuity Act (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs)
H.R. 1503, the Orange Book Transparency Act of 2019 (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs)
Civil rights
H.R. 1 — For the People Act of 2019
H.R. 5 — Equality Act
H.R. 6 — American Dream and Promise Act
H.R. 7 — Paycheck Fairness Act
H.R. 124 — Expressing opposition to banning service in the Armed Forces by openly transgender individuals
Gun control
H.R. 8 — Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H.R. 1112 — Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019
Environment
H.R. 9 — Climate Action Now Act
H.R. 1331 — Local Water Protection Act
S. 47 — National Resources Management Act
H.R. 2578 — National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019
H.R. 205, 1146, 1941 — Banning Offshore Drilling on Atlantic, Pacific, Eastern Gulf and ANWR Coasts
Military/foreign affairs
H.R. 840 — Veterans’ Access to Child Care Act
H.J. Res. 37 — Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress
S.J. Res. 7 — To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress
H.R. 31 — Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019
H.J. Res. 30 — Disapproving the President’s proposal to take an action relating to the application of certain sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation
H.R. 4695 — Protect Against Conflict by Turkey Act
H.R. 676 — NATO Support Act
H.R. 549 — Venezuela TPS Act
Mueller report
H. Con. Res. 24 — Expressing the sense of Congress that the report of Special Counsel Mueller should be made available to the public and to Congress
Other major legislation
H.R. 1585 — Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019
H.R. 987 — Raise the Wage Act
H.R. 1500 — Consumers First Act
H.R. 1994 — SECURE Act/Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act
H.R. 2722 — Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act
H.R. 4617 — Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) Act
H.R. 1644 — Save the Internet Act of 2019
H.R. 2157 — Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019
H.R. 397 — Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (The Butch Lewis Act)
H.R. 2513 — The Corporate Transparency Act
H.R. 269 — Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019
H.R. 251 — Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program Extension Act
S.24 — Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
H.R. 430 — TANF Extension Act of 2019
Concurring in the Senate Amendments to HR 251 — Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard Program Extension Act
H.R. 790 — Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019
HJ Res. 46 — Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019
H Res. 183 — Condemning anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values and aspirations that define the people of the United States and condemning anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against minorities as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contrary to the values and aspirations of the United States, as amended
H Res. 194 — Rule Providing for Consideration of H.R. 1644 and H.R. 2021
H.R. 2480 — Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
H.R. 375 — To amend the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes (also known as the “Carcieri Fix”)
—Thank you Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats for your hard work.
Would love to see targeted ads for each district, highlighting how specific bills correlate with the district’s priorities.
jazziz hi, yes we need to stick these very large facts to the Do Nothings, tax payer moochers.
Is there a link for this?
Vox: Link next post down on #8.
Now be post # 10.
Thanks:) saw it after I asked:)
“Much of this agenda is sitting in the Senate.
There have been a few things House Democrats and Senate Republicans have agreed on: disaster relief aid, reopening the government after the shutdown, the resolution to end US involvement in the Yemen war, a bill to protect public lands, and a resolution disapproving of Trump’s use of emergency powers.”
(https://www.vox.com/2019/11/29/20977735/how-many-bills-passed-house-democrats-trump)
As of Nov 15:
Four hundred bills passed by the House have waited to no avail on McConnell’s desk.
Meanwhile his Moral Turpitude has rammed through 170 mostly clueless judgeships.
–What is MoscowMitch’s job description btw?
Thanks brp! Tweeted it!
hey Dudette!!!
Tweeted it, too. Thanks for the link!
Thanks to the bloviated compromised Grim Reaper:
“Congress has passed just 70 bills into law this year. Granted, it still has one more year in its term, but the number pales in comparison to recent past sessions of Congress, which typically see 300-500 bills passed in two years (and that is even a diminished number from the 700-800 bills passed in the 1970s and 1980s).
Ten of those 70 bills this year have been renaming federal post offices or Veterans Affairs facilities, and many others are related to appropriations or extending programs like the National Flood Insurance Program or the 9/11 victim compensation fund.”
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. 😘❤️✌🏾🥰
Tnank you Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats for all of your hard, persistent work.
Thank you for the stellar impeachment process hearings. Thank you Chairmans Nadler and Schiff.
In listening to the jobs report for November this morning I noticed it was a robust job increase. A good news for Trump report. I cannot help but think that the job report seems to be measured by whether it is under, equal to or beyond the expectation set. (Ahhh set the expectation low then it is easier to beat! ) Also we are in the holiday extra hiring season. Another thing I noticed is how the number is arrived at by choosing certain places of business to report their numbers and to extrapolate from there. (Realizing DT’s crew has ousted, scrambled and cut department members, how do we know what businesses have been chosen or whether those people in charge are independent of political influence?) Corrections to reports are done a few months later and decreasing the numbers at that time does not have the buzz the initial report has. (Excuse me for being suspicious of everything these days, but the great manipulator, ratings monger might have a scheme in play.) Although holiday hiring may be the biggest factor and there is no manipulation. The problem with this liar Administration is you cannot believe anything you are told.
Curious, huh?
Not really curious. I was being snarky
This makes me so happy:)
me too….smilin
FFS. NO!!!!!
That disqualifies Nikki Haley. From anything.
Good Afternoon TODbots.🙌💪🎩👒💁♀️💙❤💜😍
Thank You, NW for a new Post🙇♀️🙏💙❤💜👒💁♀️🙌
TGIF, finally.
Who were the 187?
One guess
I want to see their names all spread out.
Here ya go
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll654.xml
Maddow’s stunning opening segment last night takes a detailed look at the geo-political situation viz Russia, whose only “economic tentpole” is Oil and Gas, which was massively blocked by PBO sanctions after Putin invaded Ukraine. These sanctions delivered a huge blow, part of a “Major comprehensive international
American-funded response to what Putin had done. A whole suite of punishing consequences.”
(She breaks it down.) Also Putin got knocked out of the G8, Ukraine received a military aid package, and the
bi-partisan European Reassurance Initiative was put in place, by which the Obama administration acknowledged the growing threat to long-term U.S. national security interests in Europe and beyond.
Trump quietly defunded it before saying he thought Putin should be let back into the G7, and has attacked sanctions on Russian oil since July 2015. As did Putin’s long-time buddy, then secretary of state Exxon Tillerson.
RM exposes the pattern: “Trump blocking aid to Ukraine didn’t come out of the blue”.
“What Trump is being impeached for is part of a larger group of actions that he has taken consistently since he has been in office that have all pointed in the same direction, that have all had the same aim.”
= Helping Russia.
—Pls do not miss this. Maddow in her element in the weeds, awesome!
—Video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDErwJ0AjgI)
Correction: The sanctions on Russia were an international American-LED response.
WTF
“Joy Harjo Becomes First Native American Writer to Be Named U.S. Poet Laureate.”
“Harjo, a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation, says the appointment ‘honors the place of Native people in this country, the place of Native people’s poetry.”
Snippet from:
I. She Had Some Horses
She had some horses.
She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
She had horses who were skins of ocean water.
She had horses who were the blue air of sky.
She had horses who were fur and teeth.
She had horses who were clay and would break.
She had horses who were splintered red cliff.
She had some horses.
She had horses with eyes of trains.
She had horses with full, brown thighs.
She had horses who laughed too much.
She had horses who threw rocks at glass houses.
She had horses who licked razor blades.
She had some horses.
She had horses who danced in their mothers’ arms.
She had horses who thought they were the sun and their
bodies shone and burned like stars.
She had horses who waltzed nightly on the moon.
She had horses who were much too shy, and kept quiet
in stalls of their own making.
She had some horses.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/joy-harjo-has-been-named-first-native-american-poet-laureate-180972458/
Eh we made it through another thundering train of a week.
tgif, love to all.
❤️
I hope that Biden actually says this one time. Really.
No doubt because he’s so full of shit. The jokes write themselves.
This is really really good
Happy Friday, TOD Fam! This is the cutest vid:
I needed that sweet little gal with her kind Dad to bring a smile to my face.
So adorable😁
Loved her “I got it now” & Dad is doing his thing to make her feel great about it all! 💞
Thanks. This is everything to me…the little ones are everything….her darling Dad such a role model.
‘ Benetton rainbow squad’
😂 😂😂😂
Perfect!!!
Will amazon start paying their taxes?
“Amazon paid $0 in U.S. federal income tax on more than $11 billion in profits before taxes.
It also received a $129 million tax rebate from the federal government.
Amazon’s low tax bill mainly stemmed from the Republican tax cuts of 2017…” (CNBC)
Morning everyone. I learned something new today
Hmmm. Do did I. Had no idea! Ukraine needs to get this info out there so more people know this.
All seems worse now having found this out.
Exactly…. but once again, he does this for HIS benefit… not fighting for the benefit of Americans as a whole. Everything this guy has done has been for his benefit and his alone.
he is digging himself in so deep…let’s be knowing what he is treachering around the world.
Another nugget. Boy, the Republicans sure don’t like the laws THEY ENACTED, used against them!!!
LOL.
Trent Capelli 🇨🇦 @TrentCapelli · 5m
I’ve taken Trump’s advice. This morning when I woke up, I looked at the faucet, the water, the toilet flushes. All of it. I had the water. The good water. We looked at it. It’s water. Good water. All good. Not just dripping. Strong water. Thank you, Stable Genius.
I had good water pressure too, and the pressure was strong. Not limp or weak, but strong, though it takes a minute before it gets hot but it does get hot. But for some odd reason my wife doesn’t like it when my son takes long showers, she’s into that lefty stuff like conservation. But men understand that a shower is more than a shower, it is a place were you can contemplate events that have shaped the person you are. Long live long showers.
Don, did I say you were good?
Michael Avenatti @MichaelAvenatti · 13m
I slept so well last night knowing that our corrupt President is keenly focused on water pressure in bathrooms. Pathetically stupid. And dangerous.
Oh, he speaks, Michael “The Democratic Party’s choice to take on trump better me a white male” Avenatti.
I truly believe that Trump will be impeached, this country since its founding has always had fits and starts when it came to making historical changes, but in the end changes were made. Democracy is indeed messy, but it is enduring, and it will always seek truth.
Damn! Why didn’t I think of that?!
hope it is ceramic
NPR just reported that the banana not ceramic. And it is getting mushy.
maybe they can peel it off the wall and make banana bread.
…functional.
😂😂😂
I like it.
❤
NOW: Joe Biden holds event in Oelwein, IA – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2
NOW: Eliz. Warren in Rochester, NH – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-3
NOW: Bernie Sanders event in Iowa Falls, IA – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-1
imo VP Biden is making a mistake by going after AOC.
She is an exciting voice for our future.
boom.
I wholeheartedly agree. Joe is making some errors.
That’s what so frustrating about Joe, he makes errors over the most simplest of things. Its like he constructs the perfect sentence, and then throws in a word at the end that has nothing to do with the sentence he’s just constructed. The Constitution is a living breathing document that oversees how our government work….jambalaya
I don’t dislike AOC, but I’m not that into her either.
GRETA THUNBERG arrived in Portugal 4 days ago after sailing for 20 days across the Atlantic from NY to attend the United Nations COP25 climate summit in Madrid. On arrival she said “We need to work together to make sure that we secure future living conditions for humankind, and that we fight for not only ourselves, but for our children and for our grandchildren and for every single living being on Earth.” (per BBC report)
—sending big love to this young marvel walking among us.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/record-setting-year/