Last night, the great Rev. Joseph E. Lowery passed away, leaving an indelible mark on our country's history towards progress. He never once wavered in his spirit and in the resolve to end injustice — wherever he saw it. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. https://t.co/FPEAyxwTxm
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RIP💪, Rev Dr. Joseph Lowery…now an😇up in the Heavens watching above all of us.
John is throwing a commercial-free televised benefit concert on Sunday evening to help support and pay tribute to the doctors, nurses, and other medical staff currently battling the pandemic on the front lines.https://t.co/nti2DBwnIS
Only a nationwide shutdown will defeat this virus combined with federal action to get PPE and ventilators and build hospitals to house everyone. we must stop feeling helpless and start taking action to assure that all members of Congress vote for what we need and ignore 45. https://t.co/lKnyvFn42R
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“When I say, ‘I don’t get mad, I get even’, there’s one person who is going to hear from me. His name is Michael Moore,” Clyburn says. The film-maker and longtime Sanders supporter claimed after Biden’s victory in South Carolina that the state was “not representative” of the United States. “I don’t want to say much but I’m going to have a lot to say.”
Come on, I press, and he happily obliges. Reminding me that Biden won more than 60 per cent of the black vote in South Carolina and bigger percentages in Alabama and Mississippi, he says: “According to Michael Moore, South Carolina doesn’t matter because here’s what ‘the people’ want.” He says Moore is dismissing the voices of the most important segment of the Democratic electorate — black voters.
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Democrats are going to have to turn out in *droves* not only to overcome the Trump Cult, but to fill the space that's going to be left by the childish Bernie voters who are already prepping their excuses for staying home or voting third party – *again*
I been wondering about who they are since 2016. If you can see for three and a half years what Trump and his administration stand for, and then know that Bernie does not stand for that same crap, then you can not vote or vote for a third party or vote for Trump, then these Bernie supporters are worse then Trump supporters.
We are losing our icons who can speak with such 1st person authority about that period of struggle in our nation’s history..so we have a special obligation to keep the memories but more importantly the FACTS of our struggle alive…and to teach our young people to do the same…
You voted to keep this murderous maniac in office. You are criminally liable for every American who dies in this crisis. Go to hell and stay there. https://t.co/AEoEZerIOM
He thought he had buried this:
“Trump Demands Media Reveal Sources After He Posed As A Fake Spokesperson For Decades.
He spent years “planting fake news as his own pretend press secretary.”
“Trump once pretended to be his own PR person (John Barron) to spread fake information about his wealth
so it is ironic that he is baselessly attacking the press for not naming sources. Trump wants sources named in stories so that he can retaliate against them.”
“https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/28/trump-coronavirus-tirade.htm)
= When Trump (a.k.a. John Barron) spread fake news about himself.
Rev. Joseph Lowery was a giant who let so many of us stand on his shoulders. With boundless generosity, patience, and moral courage, he encouraged a new generation of activists and leaders. Michelle and I remember him fondly today, and our love and prayers are with his family. pic.twitter.com/xxjY2habOm
Once again…Trump gave the press a new rabbit hole to run down…and they are more then willing to jump down the hole…sigh…The issue is Trump's mishandling of the pandemic..and his deliberate refusal to give aid where it is needed..
My husband and I had the privilege of hearing Rev. Lowery speak at a convention in New Orleans about 30 years ago. I was mesmerized by his speaking and his heart. What a loss.
We are grateful for what he did for this country. He carried the baton longer and surer than almost anybody. It falls to the rest of us now to pick it up and never stop moving forward until we finish what he started—that journey to justice.
Trump is bloviating about quarantining NY/CT/NJ, but meanwhile, the Republican governor of Florida is the letting the local mayors of Amity and its environs do this. Seems legit. https://t.co/46EKADTPcM
All of you will remember the video in this tweet ….
#TrumpGenocide is trending as Trump is withholding medical aid to states whose governors won’t kiss hiss ass with sufficient alacrity. Remember the testimony below? It was meant as a reductum absurdum, and now it’s our reality#covidproquo https://t.co/NaMsYolb8o
AGAIN!!!! Where is the real President defending his administration??. If Trump can have his daily shit shows our President can present the facts. I want Faucci to be asked. “Can the governors that Trump has Told Mike Pence not to talk to, can they call you directly for guidance.?” and “How can this directive of having the head of the response pandemic team, not speak to certain governors, help in our Nations fight against this crisis?”
#Michigan governor’s FORMER OPPONENT slams ‘inept’ Trump for petty attacks:
‘I’ve got her back’
“Leading in crisis is hard. It’s even HARDER when the President is inept. I admire the work she’s putting in for our state”#MOG#StayAtHome https://t.co/7njuGQNpY8
.@NYGovCuomo tells CNN NY already has a quarantine except for essential movement says he is sure @realDonaldTrump isn’t talking about a lockdown & closing borders which he says would be illegal violate interstate commerce & be a federal declaration of war against the states
We have to keep our eyes on the prize….and not let Trump distract us ..which are the PPEs and other medical supplies needed to fight the pandemic…and which also includes a national response..
“A pandemic caste system is rapidly developing: rich holed up in vacation properties; middle class marooned at home w/ restless kids; working class on front lines of economy, stretched to limit by demands of work/parenting, if there’s even work to be had.” https://t.co/2KlGCFstMR
Some thoughts on why South Korea and the US are in such different stages of dealing with COVID-19, despite having confirmed their first cases on the same day. It's all about leadership, coordination & engaging the public in an open and honest dialogue. https://t.co/v3qQAYIquI
NEW: A @MiamiHerald/@TB_Times reporter was denied access to the Florida governor's coronavirus press conference today.
A state spokeswoman said our reporter could view the press conference on a live stream — where we wouldn't be able to ask questions. https://t.co/TSPatE0NKN
The reporter the Florida Governor refuses entry to has 20,000 followers. Follow @MaryEllenKlas and retweet to ask others to. Let’s show the Governor what happens when he tries to silence the good.
The majority of your media 'peers' have failed Americans and now millions are at risk of dying because folk like @realDonaldTrump@GovRonDeSantis would never have been even elected had 'the media' done its job.
The problem is that the other reporters saw this and allowed it to happen with no protest. How about if one reporter is denied access, the other reporters walk out en masse in support?
LA received 170 broken ventilators from the national stockpile. Rather than complaining, we put them on a truck, drove them up overnight, and had @Bloom_Energy get to work fixing them.
Breaking: Confirmed U.S. coronavirus-related deaths double in two days, hitting 2,000. It took about a month from the first confirmed death for the U.S. to record 1,000. That toll has risen rapidly as officials have been warning the worst is yet to come. https://t.co/pXYrxXl5S4
Mr. President, this isn’t about you, it’s about the health of the American people. Stop making everything personal.
You are the president of all 50 states — not just the ones that voted for you or that have governors who “treat you right.” It’s time you acted like it. https://t.co/iMoBKklscY
More than 2 dozen women on Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign claimed they were sexually harassed and discriminated against. Bernie Sanders said he was too busy to care. They were ignored, silenced, dismissed and demeaned by the Sanders' left. https://t.co/JEleTI8DX1
So it has neither “gone from 15 cases to 0 cases” nor has it “disappeared like a miracle.” The only hoax . . . is Donald Trump. https://t.co/e0NEVsG1uq
Canadian Queens, Tamia and Deborah Cox, just did a virtual cover of 'Count on Me' by Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans while being backed by Shep Crawford. I didn't know I needed this 🥺 pic.twitter.com/pWFfNHdMx9
“We are all just collateral damage in Trump’s re-election strategy”
“This country has had some truly bad people as president over its history………..
“But there has never been a president in American history who based his re-election strategy on a cynical gamble involving the lives of the entire American population.
We have never before experienced a president who deliberately, voluntarily chose to assume the role of a threat, rather than an ally and protector, to the American public.
Not just a threat to those who might oppose him, but an existential threat to all.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/28/1932073/-All-of-us-are-now-viewed-as-collateral-damage-in-Trump-s-re-election-strategy)
“Tragically,
that is exactly Donald Trump’s strategy to preserve his political power in the face of this pandemic.
He has chosen to gamble the lives of ordinary Americans facing potentially the most dire public health crisis in the nation’s history,
in hopes of securing his own re-election.”
Few have confounded Trump as much as commanding women. Whitmer, Pelosi, Kamala. He can’t crack them, and their ability to be unfazed by his lunacy – while delivering crisp, cutting indictments of his failings under a bright spotlight – is like kryptonite.
The stuff can be made here; however, we’d still have to get most of the materials and or parts from overseas as we no longer have fabric mills, no own the patents on some of the machine parts…
Btw, this is a donation, not a sale. I guess being a kind, decent human being/leader benefits your people.
China is still in the midst of the pandemic, however, they have been sharing supplies, meds, equipment, and medical staff with their world neighbors for the last month or so.
Gov. Cuomo on Trump's trial balloon about a NY "quarantine:"
"If you start walling off areas all across the country it would just be totally bizarre, counter-productive, anti-American, anti-social." pic.twitter.com/6SgB6riEMR
March 14: 9 March 15: 12 March 16: 18 March 17: 23 March 18: 40 March 19: 56 March 20: 49 March 21: 46 March 22: 113 March 23: 141 March 24: 225 March 25: 247 March 26: 268 March 27: 401 March 28: 515
Disapproval of Trump’s handling of coronavirus continues to rise. Trump is now under water. This week, we found a 13-point swing in his net approval on his handling of the pandemic, from 52-42% (+10) to 47-50% (-3).
NEW: A new poll tonight from Ipsos, done for The Daily Beast, shows a clear majority of the public, including self-identified Republicans, do not believe the disinformation that President Trump keeps pushing around the spread of coronavirus https://t.co/e2ce8kzlpH
TWO DAYS AFTER THE IMPEACHMENT VOTE, AFTER BEING BRIEFED ON THE CORONAVIRUS, TRUMP HAD 17.8 TONS OF HOSPITAL PROTECTIVE GEAR SENT TO CHINA https://t.co/AhrYH1ZN6U
Trump’s Environmental ‘Protection’ Agency is creating loopholes for a “sweeping and indefinite suspension of environmental rules”. So now that a global pandemic has us sick, dying, busy keeping each other alive:
Doom’s fossil fuel industry stooges in the WH are ready to pollute the eff out of the planet.
Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler has given a “green light to pollute with impunity.”
Shock doctrine.
What a small, petty, vindictive POS . Good for you, CA!! Work around it!
LA received 170 broken ventilators from the national stockpile. Rather than complaining, we put them on a truck, drove them up overnight, and had @Bloom_Energy get to work fixing them.
Starting in late January, U.S. intelligence began warning @realDonaldTrump of the seriousness of the #CoronavirusOutbreak and its potential impact on the U.S.
Yet several weeks later, Trump donated *nearly 18 tons** of vital medical supplies to #China.https://t.co/bfP8aGz5EI
If this is the case:
Then it must add to the legal elements around Trump’s conduct and involuntary manslaughter.
-Glenn Kirchner has been looking at this.
Your 'hypothetical' has now been validated by evidentiary facts. @realdonaldtrump's CRIMINALITY now includes bribing an ally & extorting 'loyalty' in exchange for LIFE SAVING resources. @SenateGOP is now guilty of self-serving, likely lethal negligence. pic.twitter.com/tFDHmhsBqp
Had our last real POTUS – @BarackObama – demanded that he be 'treated right' in order to provide relief in times of crises the #GreatRecession would have been a #GlobalDepression, for starters.
New York Daily News @NYDailyNews · 16m
A beloved Brooklyn pastor died from coronavirus at age 49, making him the first Catholic priest killed by COVID-19 in the U.S.
Rev. Jorge Ortiz-Garay was the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans, among other duties.
This feels like a tipping point for me. My soul is crushed. -Jan 3rd CDC notifies Alex Azar that COVID-19 will be bad -Feb 7th Pompeo announces the US is donating 17.8 tons ($100M) of medical supplies to China (Masks & Ventilators) -NY has received 2% of the supplies it requested
As @Bob_Wachter at @UCSF notes, we are reaching the point in SF when all COVID cases from before the city lockdown will be known. New cases are flattening.
It should not be lost on anyone that Trump's tirade against GM singles out Mary Barra, the GM CEO, and now he goes after Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer. He can't stand strong women.
Also, for the record since this is important apparently, the Claws + milk + flowers are mine; the flour and spices are hers; the young man’s groceries were already bagged and he had almost $75 worth of items, including baby food.
MAGAs will happily accept the checks because they are from their Dear Leader Con Hum Trump.
I wish they could be all tested to realize that the infection is a result of the lack of preparedness of the administration or its complete early denial or downplay of the pandemic.
I cannot post tweets any more. I hope someone will oblige.
Porpentina (Tina): Wash your hands – (fan) @porpentina2017·6h
LOL … this is the best part of the shelter in place/quarantine … people have lots of time on their hands.
Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States, will be the 1st President escorted out of the White House in handcuffs, under duress. On Live TV.
Anytime, @Yamiche. I know you would have done the same. Hard questions aren’t illegitimate questions and they shouldn’t be shut down. Let’s keep up the solidarity in the White House press corps. https://t.co/BT8hZaIEvq
The Obama Diary 
Sorry to hear about Rev. Lowery.
Yes, he was. RIP. I still smile when I think of that benediction.
Hello, Nerdy and Obama Ohana, from NE Fla.
CEB
Another wonderful part of living history gone but never forgotten. Rest in love and memory.
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Exactly what Jill Wine-banks said …. a gazillion times.
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“When I say, ‘I don’t get mad, I get even’, there’s one person who is going to hear from me. His name is Michael Moore,” Clyburn says. The film-maker and longtime Sanders supporter claimed after Biden’s victory in South Carolina that the state was “not representative” of the United States. “I don’t want to say much but I’m going to have a lot to say.”
Come on, I press, and he happily obliges. Reminding me that Biden won more than 60 per cent of the black vote in South Carolina and bigger percentages in Alabama and Mississippi, he says: “According to Michael Moore, South Carolina doesn’t matter because here’s what ‘the people’ want.” He says Moore is dismissing the voices of the most important segment of the Democratic electorate — black voters.
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I am starting to wonder about Bernie supporters … whose side are they on?
I been wondering about who they are since 2016. If you can see for three and a half years what Trump and his administration stand for, and then know that Bernie does not stand for that same crap, then you can not vote or vote for a third party or vote for Trump, then these Bernie supporters are worse then Trump supporters.
True … and I have said (to my room mate) that Bernie supporters are like Trump supporters or worse (ai am in total agreement with you).
We are losing our icons who can speak with such 1st person authority about that period of struggle in our nation’s history..so we have a special obligation to keep the memories but more importantly the FACTS of our struggle alive…and to teach our young people to do the same…
He thought he had buried this:
“Trump Demands Media Reveal Sources After He Posed As A Fake Spokesperson For Decades.
He spent years “planting fake news as his own pretend press secretary.”
“Trump once pretended to be his own PR person (John Barron) to spread fake information about his wealth
so it is ironic that he is baselessly attacking the press for not naming sources. Trump wants sources named in stories so that he can retaliate against them.”
“https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/28/trump-coronavirus-tirade.htm)
= When Trump (a.k.a. John Barron) spread fake news about himself.
Thank you President Obama and Michelle Obama.
My husband and I had the privilege of hearing Rev. Lowery speak at a convention in New Orleans about 30 years ago. I was mesmerized by his speaking and his heart. What a loss.
Lies and rumors
Greetings, TOD!
Thank you and hugs to Nerdy and all of you.
Rest in peace and power Rev. Joseph Lowery.
RIP
Wow
A lot of damage
All of you will remember the video in this tweet ….
It is exactly the outcome we expected – long before Election Day 2016.
Never!
AGAIN!!!! Where is the real President defending his administration??. If Trump can have his daily shit shows our President can present the facts. I want Faucci to be asked. “Can the governors that Trump has Told Mike Pence not to talk to, can they call you directly for guidance.?” and “How can this directive of having the head of the response pandemic team, not speak to certain governors, help in our Nations fight against this crisis?”
Things are so awful, I hope the distraction of some beautiful music helps for at least a little while.
I just learned about this young lady Yebba today. Her voice is amazing.
Thank you, dear friend. Abrazos.
😘
My dear, dear Dudette!!!
You are the nurturing font artistry that has been invaluable throughout the countless ugly crises we’ve been forced to experience since Nov 2016.
Thank you!
Thank you Bob! That means so much to me. 😘
We have to keep our eyes on the prize….and not let Trump distract us ..which are the PPEs and other medical supplies needed to fight the pandemic…and which also includes a national response..
Count on TOD!!
In_Deed, Sheila!! Thank you!!
Please follow her. I just did.
The problem is that the other reporters saw this and allowed it to happen with no protest. How about if one reporter is denied access, the other reporters walk out en masse in support?
Solutions, people.
Shocker
He’s got that down
the thwarted lover, ffs.
I weep
An absolute horror show
Love them both. This is so great!
“We are all just collateral damage in Trump’s re-election strategy”
“This country has had some truly bad people as president over its history………..
“But there has never been a president in American history who based his re-election strategy on a cynical gamble involving the lives of the entire American population.
We have never before experienced a president who deliberately, voluntarily chose to assume the role of a threat, rather than an ally and protector, to the American public.
Not just a threat to those who might oppose him, but an existential threat to all.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/28/1932073/-All-of-us-are-now-viewed-as-collateral-damage-in-Trump-s-re-election-strategy)
“Tragically,
that is exactly Donald Trump’s strategy to preserve his political power in the face of this pandemic.
He has chosen to gamble the lives of ordinary Americans facing potentially the most dire public health crisis in the nation’s history,
in hopes of securing his own re-election.”
totally brill….thx Jazziz!
I see what he did there, and I’m here for it all.
jer I just don’t get it….why the hell cannot Americans make this stuff?
A lot of people in US need work.
Many of our Manufacturing capabilities were moved to China. It started in the 1980s…ramped up in the 1990s & early 2000s.
The stuff can be made here; however, we’d still have to get most of the materials and or parts from overseas as we no longer have fabric mills, no own the patents on some of the machine parts…
Btw, this is a donation, not a sale. I guess being a kind, decent human being/leader benefits your people.
China is still in the midst of the pandemic, however, they have been sharing supplies, meds, equipment, and medical staff with their world neighbors for the last month or so.
In less than 48 hrs…
I Wish You Love (full video) 😍😍
MSNBC reports:
120,000 infected
2,000 deaths
Everyone’s bullshit meter is working overtime. Good! He’s trying to kill us all
Press release, however, do we have proof it was actually sent and received. He’s know for “the check’s in the mail…”
INVESTIGATE.
“EPA indefinitely suspends environmental rules”
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/holy-crap-this-is-insane-citing-coronavirus-pandemic-epa-indefinitely-suspends-environmental-rules/)
Trump’s Environmental ‘Protection’ Agency is creating loopholes for a “sweeping and indefinite suspension of environmental rules”. So now that a global pandemic has us sick, dying, busy keeping each other alive:
Doom’s fossil fuel industry stooges in the WH are ready to pollute the eff out of the planet.
Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler has given a “green light to pollute with impunity.”
Shock doctrine.
What a small, petty, vindictive POS . Good for you, CA!! Work around it!
If this is the case:
Then it must add to the legal elements around Trump’s conduct and involuntary manslaughter.
-Glenn Kirchner has been looking at this.
Glenn Kirschner.
Agree. This seems premeditated to me. This is sick shit.
Every GOP Senator who failed to uphold their Oath of Office, let alone morality, are guilty of negligent homicide for every US COVID 19 victim.
Apparently, VP Biden agrees ….
Fact.
😂😂
New York Daily News @NYDailyNews · 16m
A beloved Brooklyn pastor died from coronavirus at age 49, making him the first Catholic priest killed by COVID-19 in the U.S.
Rev. Jorge Ortiz-Garay was the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans, among other duties.
rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin · 1m
Knicks owner Dolan tests positive for coronavirus
🚨 THREAD 🚨
Good morning everyone.
I wonder if Trump supporters will refuse the relief cheques … cause that reeks of ‘socialism’ to me.
On a serious note … I am hoping Covid goes away soon and PP goes away in Nov.
Good Morning TODVille.
MAGAs will happily accept the checks because they are from their Dear Leader Con Hum Trump.
I wish they could be all tested to realize that the infection is a result of the lack of preparedness of the administration or its complete early denial or downplay of the pandemic.
I cannot post tweets any more. I hope someone will oblige.
Porpentina (Tina): Wash your hands – (fan) @porpentina2017·6h
LOL … this is the best part of the shelter in place/quarantine … people have lots of time on their hands.
Good morning. The tweet is perfect. Look what lots of time on hands gives us. LOL 🤣🤣
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/we-aint-going-back/