Russia will be increasing its tactics of aggression across the board since Putin knows Western leadership has no intention of sufficiently pushing back against Kremlin agenda. Truly tragic. https://t.co/UEFkg4WhAA
Video shows a Russian naval ship "aggressively approached" a US Navy destroyer in the North Arabian Sea on Thursday, the US Navy says in a statement Friday. https://t.co/gxCAFMoWuo
I worked as a civilian employee of the Navy for 30 years and I never met an enlisted person or officer who wanted war. Their lives are in OUR hands, in any event. Idiot trump needs to go back to his godawful private life now.
There’s something about the wilful ignorance around climate change that strikes me deeply. This is our Earth. We only get one. Many who are plotting against acting on climate change know the truth. I can see their cynical campaign, but deep down I will never understand it.
“Trump Admits He Killed Soleimani To Keep GOP Senators With Him On Impeachment”
“Trump told associates that he authorized
the strike on Soleimani
because he was being pressured by Republican Senators
who will
decide his impeachment fate.”
(politicus.usa)
“Trump Admits He Killed Soleimani To Keep GOP Senators With Him On Impeachment”
“Trump told associates that he authorized the strike on Soleimani
because he was being pressured by Republican Senators
who will decide his impeachment fate.”
(politicus.usa)
I think my cynicism and my not-giving-a-fuckness has reached an all time high. But I am buoyed by the fact that if I dig a little deeper I will possibly find more not-giving-a-fuckness.
Marianne Williamson just quit the presidential race. Her parting message: “A politics of conscience is still yet possible. And yes … love will prevail.”
Count on it!!! They would be safe to assume they are and proceed accordingly.
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts, two officials familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg News. https://t.co/Vk1YLjadVe
The run-up to Trump getting elected President wasn’t done under a shroud of secrecy. Trump voters knew exactly who and what he was, Trump didn’t pull the wool over their eyes, they voted for Trump with their eyes wide open. And if somehow Trump resigns or get voted out of office those same voters will vote for another Republican with the same ideas as Trump, but a little more civil. A Trump voter will always be a Trump voter, that’s how they are wired.
Rebecca Belmore:
“As an Indigenous woman, my female body speaks for itself. Some people interpret the image of this reclining figure as a cadaver. However, to me it is a wound that is on the mend. It wasn’t self-inflicted, but nonetheless, it is bearable. She can sustain it. So it is a very simple scenario: she will get up and go on, but she will carry that mark with her. She will turn her back on the atrocities inflicted upon her body and find resilience in the future. The Indigenous female body is the politicized body, the historical body. It’s the body that doesn’t disappear.”
(https://resilienceproject.ca/en/artists/rebecca-belmore)
—See “Fringe” stunning art photo.
BREAKING: 64% of Americans said “the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs.” in a Reuters/Ipsos poll
53% of Republicans supported it
this only means one thing – a progressive Democrat can win a general election
They rushed in every way to undermine & sabotage & gut the ACA the past 3 years but now suddenly — when this can be decided months before the election — they argue there's no rush at all??? 🤬
BREAKING: Mayor Bill de Blasio just referred findings from a review of the Trump Organization's property tax filings to the Manhattan district attorney's office.
– Can't make up his mind how many U.S. embassies were supposedly about to be attacked – Mike Pompeo admits it was all a lie – Trump regime can't decide whether it wants to pull out of Iraq – TOTAL CHAOS – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 5pm
By the time the Articles of Impeachmeent reach the Senate, God knows how many more targets the @POTUS will have added to the list of potential Soleimani targets.
I am going to hold on in hope for a while – hoping 20 days is enough to get a result that I believe in — hint, I am about survival at this moment and not in a position to take a chance with a second term for Individual 1
by that I mean, I live in a swing state and this has a way of focusing one’s mind about how fickle voters are and how you cannot take a chance with losing when everything is burning around you
Karyn Turk, a former Mrs. Florida beauty pageant winner turned conservative commentator, was sentenced to a month in federal prison plus 5 months of house arrest Thursday after pleading guilty to social security fraud in Sept. https://t.co/J9bT0okJzm
that one time Hillary stumbled on a curb and our media fell all over itself in mad dash to publish her obituary, but now we have a frail old president deteriorating before our very eyes and the silence from these craven fuckers is deafening
Not my talking head, but have to give him his props on those Town Halls. I think that’s his zone. Can’t ever find my whatevers to watch his regular show.
It was pretty inventive for him to switch over to do the town halls – I agree he’s great at those! And I shall say goodnight now, because I’m getting sleepy zzzzzzzzzzzzz 🙂
Sitting here watching All In… and wondering if anyone at Celebrity Cruises understands that the theme of Go Ask Alice…. is about drugs. IMO.. someone REALLY fucked up with that commercial!
George Conway and Neal Katyal argue: "Holding the first article back, and letting the second go forward, would be a powerful and precise response to McConnell … Trump would be forced to undergo two impeachment trials instead of one."https://t.co/v5dacEUfF8
Some former members of Congress pay themselves back any money left over from their campaigns.
Chairman Cummings made a different choice: he wanted the remaining $1 million “donated to youth programs, such as those helping needy students pay for college.”https://t.co/Wl8amxslFm
This is dementia. This is brain damage from dementia and Trump is deep into it. This is how it works, this is what it does. So much worse lies ahead for him. Trump, when asked what his middle initial “J” stood for, answered “Genius.” It’s not just the mistake, it’s the delusion. https://t.co/yXgzidxPCT
Daily reminder: Trump is an impeached President. If he’s acquitted by a Senate GOP that suppresses key evidence, it won’t exonerate him. And, the facts will come out. They always do.
Which goes to show they are the cult we all knew they were…. they are only ‘ Constitutionally conservative’ when it suits them. Frauds all
Matt Gaetz hasn’t changed his position on war powers. He had the same position when President Obama was in office. It’s the constitutionally conservative position.
For that—for consistency—he faces the GOP’s wrath. Only Trump matters. Even the Trumpiest congressman gets no pass. https://t.co/3jWChWW4oc
Or maybe it’s time that any journalist or debate moderator asked Bernie about the support he got/still gets from Kremlin information campaigns and information architecture, which he has never addressed in any way? Because his breakout is inextricably linked to this? https://t.co/ht2UpUFdUZ
Sorry.
Some stuff you have to….
Sanders is anti-fossil fuels and the corporations that are killing us. Meanwhile Putin wants sanctions lifted.
If that happens Putin + Exxon will unleash the biggest petroleum basin in the world.
And we are talking $trillions,
that this kleptocrat and friends will use against us all.
“The West Siberian Basin is the largest oil and gas producing region in the FSU, both in the geographical area it covers and the recoverable oil and gas that it contains. The basin covers an area of approximately 3.4 million square kilometres which is more than twice the size of the state of Alaska.”
= I don’t think the Kremlin wants Bernie Sanders in the WH.
Is there any scoundrel that this family isn’t in bed with? I mean really, who would know that the IRGC needed a partner in a money laundering scheme. Its like all these crooks advertise in a newspaper or online about business opportunities.
Elite law schools are still peddling clerkships with unqualified Trump judges as a marker of status, but a rising generation of progressive law students, including the organizers of @PeoplesParity, are saying no thanks. The kids are alrighthttps://t.co/AFF0SMn4Zo
Trump offers up our US military as mercenaries for hire to the world's richest autocrats: “I said to Saudi Arabia…you're a very rich country. You want more troops? I'll send them to you, but you have to pay us. They've already deposited $1B 'in the bank.'”
“For First Time Ever,
Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis”
“Around 0.9 billion hectares (2.2 billion acres) of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation,
which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions.
The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change….
In their latest study, the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and
how much carbon they would store.”
See map: (https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-many-trees-to-plant-to-stop-climate-crisis/)
“A tool on the Crowther Lab website enables users to look at any point on the globe,
and find out how many trees could grow there and how much carbon they would store. It also offers lists of forest restoration organizations. The Crowther Lab will also be present at this year’s Scientifica (website available in German only) to show the new tool to visitors. The Crowther Lab uses nature as a solution to:
1) better allocate resources – identifying those regions which, if restored appropriately, could have the biggest climate impact;
2) set realistic goals – with measurable targets to maximize the impact of restoration projects; and
3) monitor progress – to evaluate whether targets are being achieved over time, and take corrective action if necessary.
Look at the faces of the military personnel…they do not have strained expressions of the military personnel who stood behind Trump at his press conference re: Iran…
“It doesn’t matter how old you are. Everyone can stand up and say stop.” Millions of women, men, and children are trafficked worldwide. On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, see how one of our #ObamaLeaders is creating a movement to end this horrific practice in Tunisia: pic.twitter.com/NZjHYUHeTw
Wow, hadn’t imagined that icy Jupiter moons might one day support life…
“In about 7.5 billion years, the sun…will start expanding.
Eventually it will swell to about 200 times its current size. It will swallow Mercury and Venus, and make Earth uninhabitable. But currently frigid locations in the solar system, like the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, might become just the right temperature for life.”
“When the sun expands into a red giant, it will overtake the current orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth. The planets will move away from the star as it expands, allowing Earth to just barely escape being engulfed.”
(https://www.space.com/32888-dying-stars-make-habitable-exoplanets.html)
—Jus’ thinkin’ if we stop using fossil fuels and let the Sun be our guardian angel, and we survive for a long time,
—we will probably not look or operate anything ike the way we do now!
If we have troops in a country at their invitation…but then the tables turn and they want our troops out…but we refuse to go…are we now occupying that country…looks like we need @MerriamWebster to help us with this..🤔
Russian trolls have adopted more sophisticated techniques in preparation to attack US elections again in 2020, including moving some of their activity to US servers and infiltrating Iranian hacker groups in an effort to shift blame. https://t.co/uSjCf1YZcX
Don't you just hate it when you're an American nonprofit, just compiling and enriching US voter registration data for political targeting purposes… AND YOU MIX IN YOUR SOVIET COLLABORATORS' INFORMATION TOO?
“…The Founding Fathers were absolutely clear.
They wanted to ensure that our country avoided needless conflict and they understood that presidential war-making would be harmful to our democracy. That is why Article I of the Constitution vests Congressand only Congresswith the power to declare war and to direct government spending. The American people’s elected representatives have a duty to publicly debate and vote on military action before we send our brave servicemembers into harm’s way or spend a penny on military hostilities.”
– Makes up fake approval rating number for himself – Then complains that it's not higher – Can't keep his lies straight about embassies – Iran and Iraq both now hate him – Americas hates him too – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 3pm
Lawrence Lessig: Don't allow McConnell to swear a false oath.
"To swear a false oath is perjury … [A]n oath is an oath. Even a majority leader — like a president — is not privileged to swear an oath falsely." https://t.co/vImHdCJ8Zw
Good day for women in football:
Katie Sowers began her American football career playing in the Women’s Football Alliance.
Right now she’s an offensive assistant with the San Francisco 49ers (since 2017) and the team is about to win (just won very strongly) the divisional playoff and will go to the NFC championship.
—Besides this is the first time a woman has ref-ed a playoff game = this one!!!
"The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard." https://t.co/Yjw117Zl6x
Yesterday, I said kangaroos were digging holes to save their Joeys from #AustralianBushfires. Several Australian field biologists have told me that they're actually Wombat holes. Wombats let other animals use their burrows to escape bush fires. Not all heros wear capes pic.twitter.com/r6u8JaqNAa
…darling wombat if ever there wuz one. Had to ask why the fire wouldn’t go down the hole…apparently it blows across the surface but not down the burrow. Physics has a bunch of splaining to do!!
The Obama Diary 
Awesome
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/marianne-williamson-ends-2020-campaign/index.html
*clink
🙌🏾
More
Putin ‘feels’ empowered by the drug-addled president he got elected into office.
I worked as a civilian employee of the Navy for 30 years and I never met an enlisted person or officer who wanted war. Their lives are in OUR hands, in any event. Idiot trump needs to go back to his godawful private life now.
This pisses me off!
–normalizing, dumbing down, distracting, dooming, pulling a curtain over what you can envisage,
possible futures shat on.
Not important enough???
Pretty sure I read it was a 75-minute briefing, too. Ugh.
“Trump Admits He Killed Soleimani To Keep GOP Senators With Him On Impeachment”
“Trump told associates that he authorized
the strike on Soleimani
because he was being pressured by Republican Senators
who will
decide his impeachment fate.”
(politicus.usa)
Thread
“Trump Admits He Killed Soleimani To Keep GOP Senators With Him On Impeachment”
“Trump told associates that he authorized the strike on Soleimani
because he was being pressured by Republican Senators
who will decide his impeachment fate.”
(politicus.usa)
I think my cynicism and my not-giving-a-fuckness has reached an all time high. But I am buoyed by the fact that if I dig a little deeper I will possibly find more not-giving-a-fuckness.
hi Don,
we can see what is and what’s possible at the same time,
and have a love
affair with
the world.
Nice!
Count on it!!! They would be safe to assume they are and proceed accordingly.
Thread…
The run-up to Trump getting elected President wasn’t done under a shroud of secrecy. Trump voters knew exactly who and what he was, Trump didn’t pull the wool over their eyes, they voted for Trump with their eyes wide open. And if somehow Trump resigns or get voted out of office those same voters will vote for another Republican with the same ideas as Trump, but a little more civil. A Trump voter will always be a Trump voter, that’s how they are wired.
Rebecca Belmore:
“As an Indigenous woman, my female body speaks for itself. Some people interpret the image of this reclining figure as a cadaver. However, to me it is a wound that is on the mend. It wasn’t self-inflicted, but nonetheless, it is bearable. She can sustain it. So it is a very simple scenario: she will get up and go on, but she will carry that mark with her. She will turn her back on the atrocities inflicted upon her body and find resilience in the future. The Indigenous female body is the politicized body, the historical body. It’s the body that doesn’t disappear.”
(https://resilienceproject.ca/en/artists/rebecca-belmore)
—See “Fringe” stunning art photo.
Good Afternoon, TODville community.
🙏💪🙏💙💜❤🤗😍🙌
Good afternoon!
We can choose not to be distracted.
That’s a little disappointing that Sanders is at the top.
Unfortunately in 2016, a lot of his wins were from caucuses.
I am going to hold on in hope for a while – hoping 20 days is enough to get a result that I believe in — hint, I am about survival at this moment and not in a position to take a chance with a second term for Individual 1
by that I mean, I live in a swing state and this has a way of focusing one’s mind about how fickle voters are and how you cannot take a chance with losing when everything is burning around you
True that
Have to say, I like these Town Halls by Chris Hayes. Tonight’s has fab Samantha Powers!
I’m not a major fan of Chris Hayes (sometimes I like him, but not every day), but luckily I saw Samantha Power was on and watched her! #ObamaPeople
Not my talking head, but have to give him his props on those Town Halls. I think that’s his zone. Can’t ever find my whatevers to watch his regular show.
It was pretty inventive for him to switch over to do the town halls – I agree he’s great at those! And I shall say goodnight now, because I’m getting sleepy zzzzzzzzzzzzz 🙂
Sitting here watching All In… and wondering if anyone at Celebrity Cruises understands that the theme of Go Ask Alice…. is about drugs. IMO.. someone REALLY fucked up with that commercial!
I I love his Friday shows:)
More #ObamaPeople:
SOON: Biden attends community event in Sparks, NV – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2
Hope they advised her to do this
We made it to Friday! Pinch yourself, it’s real! 😂
Just throwing this vid out here. Kinda deep-sad, but I like the beat & visuals of diaspora.
Good title!
Some great stuff! 💃
Uggh, meant this one!
Goodnight TOD ….
Wish you TOD Fam a lovely weekend.
Music Guru Dudette, where you be? All good? 💖
Hi Gazelle! Been hanging out with fam! Thanks for bringing the good tunes! Excellent choices! 👏🏾
Morning everyone
🙄 Well he was already a moron, so now he&’s a moron with dementia.
he’s
A new resource/ site to follow during this impeachment trial
https://impeachment.guide/
Hang it in your brain
Which goes to show they are the cult we all knew they were…. they are only ‘ Constitutionally conservative’ when it suits them. Frauds all
Amen
Sorry.
Some stuff you have to….
Sanders is anti-fossil fuels and the corporations that are killing us. Meanwhile Putin wants sanctions lifted.
If that happens Putin + Exxon will unleash the biggest petroleum basin in the world.
And we are talking $trillions,
that this kleptocrat and friends will use against us all.
“The West Siberian Basin is the largest oil and gas producing region in the FSU, both in the geographical area it covers and the recoverable oil and gas that it contains. The basin covers an area of approximately 3.4 million square kilometres which is more than twice the size of the state of Alaska.”
= I don’t think the Kremlin wants Bernie Sanders in the WH.
Well, you know
Interesting job post!!
I do believe this is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that he was laundering money for…
Is there any scoundrel that this family isn’t in bed with? I mean really, who would know that the IRGC needed a partner in a money laundering scheme. Its like all these crooks advertise in a newspaper or online about business opportunities.
Peas in a pod. They all know who the other criminals are.
If you are able, consider a contribution to Jaime Harrison. Do SC a favor.
It’s all bullshit, all the time. Deflects away from the crimes they commit on a daily basis…. and the looting of the Treasury
Every. Damn. Day.
Neil Peart died yesterday.
Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/
–love Rush and would like to post Peart’s drum solo “Mojo Perpetuo”.
–(they bring in a jazz band at the end of the solo)
May he RIP
Glad to see that!
“For First Time Ever,
Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis”
“Around 0.9 billion hectares (2.2 billion acres) of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation,
which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions.
The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change….
In their latest study, the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and
how much carbon they would store.”
See map: (https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-many-trees-to-plant-to-stop-climate-crisis/)
“A tool on the Crowther Lab website enables users to look at any point on the globe,
and find out how many trees could grow there and how much carbon they would store. It also offers lists of forest restoration organizations. The Crowther Lab will also be present at this year’s Scientifica (website available in German only) to show the new tool to visitors. The Crowther Lab uses nature as a solution to:
1) better allocate resources – identifying those regions which, if restored appropriately, could have the biggest climate impact;
2) set realistic goals – with measurable targets to maximize the impact of restoration projects; and
3) monitor progress – to evaluate whether targets are being achieved over time, and take corrective action if necessary.
Am also thinking of drones currently in use that are planting millions of trees!!
“Re-Planting a Forest, One Drone at a Time”:
(https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/07/re-planting-forest-one-drone-time/)
Thanks for sharing these, brp! Tweeted ‘em.
-thanks Dudette!
Canadian PM Trudeau gives update on Ukrainian plane crash –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-1
ICYMI…
Look at the faces of the military personnel…they do not have strained expressions of the military personnel who stood behind Trump at his press conference re: Iran…
Wow, hadn’t imagined that icy Jupiter moons might one day support life…
“In about 7.5 billion years, the sun…will start expanding.
Eventually it will swell to about 200 times its current size. It will swallow Mercury and Venus, and make Earth uninhabitable. But currently frigid locations in the solar system, like the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, might become just the right temperature for life.”
“When the sun expands into a red giant, it will overtake the current orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth. The planets will move away from the star as it expands, allowing Earth to just barely escape being engulfed.”
(https://www.space.com/32888-dying-stars-make-habitable-exoplanets.html)
—Jus’ thinkin’ if we stop using fossil fuels and let the Sun be our guardian angel, and we survive for a long time,
—we will probably not look or operate anything ike the way we do now!
Not going to let the media pic my candidate for me
Someone should tell him this is NOT Let’s Make a Deal. This is disgusting.
Thread
“Movement To Block Trump’s Iran War Grows As Mike Lee Co-Sponsors Sanders Bill”
“Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has agreed to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s bill
to block Trump from getting any money for an Iran war.”
(https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/urgent-consequences-of-climate-change/#comments)
“…The Founding Fathers were absolutely clear.
They wanted to ensure that our country avoided needless conflict and they understood that presidential war-making would be harmful to our democracy. That is why Article I of the Constitution vests Congressand only Congresswith the power to declare war and to direct government spending. The American people’s elected representatives have a duty to publicly debate and vote on military action before we send our brave servicemembers into harm’s way or spend a penny on military hostilities.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/01/11/movement-to-block-trumps-iran-war-grows-as-mike-lee-co-sponsors-sanders-bill.html)
Good day for women in football:
Katie Sowers began her American football career playing in the Women’s Football Alliance.
Right now she’s an offensive assistant with the San Francisco 49ers (since 2017) and the team is about to win (just won very strongly) the divisional playoff and will go to the NFC championship.
—Besides this is the first time a woman has ref-ed a playoff game = this one!!!
Hello!!! MSM!! You awake????
…darling wombat if ever there wuz one. Had to ask why the fire wouldn’t go down the hole…apparently it blows across the surface but not down the burrow. Physics has a bunch of splaining to do!!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/01/11/ego-check/