Imagine finally you get to see your little one through a window, but then, her reaction when you must walk away.
An in-law hospitalized with cancer will die without family visitors. Unimaginable emotional times for our
superhero health care workers…thanks for reminding us there are good people everywhere in the world.
All I gotta say is, if everything that has happened since 2016 and counting doesn't light a fire under your ass (left, far left, WTFever) to vote Trump and GOP out (down ticket included) your privilege knows no bounds and you are beyond redemption. pic.twitter.com/vHHQbdSnLI
I get tears in my eyes when I see or hear from them. What a disaster Trump has been, world-wide. Hope someone is keeping control of the purse strings. 3 Trillion dollars is at stake.
– Bernie Sanders drops out – Joe Biden is the Democratic Party nominee – #Biden2020 – Biden will destroy Trump in November – Trump goes berserk, attacks everyone – He knows he's going to lose – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 1pm
Please join @JoeBiden, the next president of the United States, at a virtual town hall today at 5:30pm EDT. The topics will include unemployment and other issues facing working families.#TeamJoe#Biden2020pic.twitter.com/FiVR96fSaX
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite,
Chief of Engineers, commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers talking to Maddow:
“This virus…has been changing and you can’t just figure out what is the plan and build out the plan.
So when we went into this…we really did think we’d have a lot more capability to do things like hotels and dormitories and we were a little nervous of the great big Convention Center because we weren’t sure we could actually put covid in there…Instead of having little oxygen tanks for everybody’s bed we actually brought in central piping with oxygen to be able to modify that Center. So every single time we build one we have a standard design…and we continue to modify the standard design, then site adapt it, power it down, and be able to decentralize execution at the point of need. So it’s been a very very evolving concept.
But as a result we’re getting better and better capabilities….
It really goes back to being responsive to the needs of the mayor and the governor…we’re part of FEMA….
where does the governor want to go with their plan…how do we continue to adapt? Obviously in NY because of the different changes in some of the medical populations, but the team rallied, and as a result we’ve got a very capable facility. Tonight it is taking care of people.
…I think tonight we’ve done about 828 different assessments…
So when we look at a facility we go in very detailed analysis with a lot of the same fundamental modeling parameters and then we build out that particular city…we need a plan here where it’s going to be a 21 day build, and then we’ll go to the contractors and say this is going to need 24/7, this is where we need you to turn on and give us every single thing you have, because we do not want to be late for need.
And we’re pushing real hard…the other facilities we’ve got, but right now we continue to think we can barely just stay ahead of the curves in all of those key cities.”
….So can we get a military Command and Control to oversee procuring and allocating medical supples nationally?
…Betting a few military guys could do this critical leadership job with their eyes closed…
The Obamas always lead the way with compassionate intelligence! Relieved Bernie suspended but don’t trust too many of his followers not to still burn down everything.
Dems aren't going big unless they insist on universal vote by mail in any Congressional recovery bill. Otherwise we're looking at 45 other Wisconsins on Election Night https://t.co/6ddSCDmwYI
Let’s Go Big on funding:
Oregon been doing vote by mail for a long time (permanent in 1987) :
“1998 Oregonians confirm their overwhelming support for vote-by-mail by passing Measure 60.
2000 Oregon becomes the first state in the nation to conduct a presidential election entirely by mail. About 80% of registered voters participated.
2019 Oregon becomes the first state not to require paid postage on ballot return envelopes.
Measure 60 eliminated restrictions on vote-by-mail and established it as the single form of voting for elections in Oregon. It also required vote-by-mail to be used for biennial primaries and general elections as well as eliminating polling places.” (wiki)
–Oregon has had zero problems with vote by mail.
News: The DNC entered into a joint fundraising agreement with @KamalaHarris this morning to support the eventual Democratic nominee + Democrats up and down the ballot this year.
If you're going to wear a mask because of #COVID19 at least wear it, and remove it, properly. Otherwise, the mask will do more harm than good.https://t.co/ZtMluiFgua
Where are we Jimmy?
Steve Taylor, senior lecturer in psychology in UK: “It’s well known that shock and trauma slow down our time perception — it often happens in car crashes, robberies and falls. So I think it’s a variation of that.”
“There have been so many novel and attention-demanding events recently, that time may have dilated, making this recent span seem to have lasted much longer than a comparable period of ordinary or expected events.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/why-coronavirus-makes-february-feel-like-six-months-ago.html)
—–i remember being in the front of a car, careening on the ice towards the very edge, on the top of a mountain.
All in slo-mo…didn’t feel the slightest worry…like floating…then at the last moment another car skidded on the ice and banged us back onto the road…and we drove off! Pls let’s make sure we have a course-correct like that!
CONFIRMED: @tylerperry paid for all groceries during Seniors Hour at 44 Atlanta-area @Kroger stores. Look at these faces — you can see the smiles and tears through the masks! pic.twitter.com/MIm7F5Hssr
“Thank you, Bernie — for your voice and for your leadership, and for everything that you have brought to the public discourse, and your role of leadership in our country.” –@KamalaHarrispic.twitter.com/sTTPD6TztO
imo, Trump Party COVID-19 strategy per WI includes:
1) Force the urban voters to show up in person.
2) Which will reduce the number of urban voters in favor of rural voters.
3) Absence of medical gear creates the fear and keeps you home.
Campaign strategy to target and disenfranchise voters – with right wing SCOTUS on board.
a note from Joe: "We will not defeat Donald Trump by being like Donald Trump. We won’t win with division, cruelty, or appealing to the worst in us. We’ll win with compassion, humanity, humility, and joy." pic.twitter.com/x2mAxjgCrR
Arkansas Gov Asa Hutchinson not only won't issue a stay at home order for his state, he is blocking all cities and counties in the state from issuing their own.
Arkansas closing in on 1000 cases today. Maybe the idea is just to see how high it can go?https://t.co/TrmfNA4zD0
Y’ALL. Share this far and wide. Today at 2:30 PDT/5:30 EDT @JoeBiden is live-streaming a town hall. We’ll run it on our site, but GET EVERYONE TO TUNE OUT TRUMP AND TUNE IN BIDENhttps://t.co/Q49rLb4JRF
Source close to former President Barack Obama tells @kwelkernbc that “when the moment is right and when he feels he can have maximum impact, the country will be hearing more from him” about the 2020 presidential election.
Texas @GovAbbott says the state is adding significant testing capacity daily, but this is the challenge one doc told me is like fighting the virus with an arm tied behind his back: not nearly enough tests. https://t.co/uNbJdmYwlh
Even if Bernie keeps his name on the ballot & continues to raise money and so forth, the formal suspension of the Sanders campaign means Biden is free to name his running mate now, right? #BidenHarris2020pic.twitter.com/9JEI534oOF
SANDERS: "I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states and continue to gather delegates. While Vice President Biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible… to exert significant influence over the party platform."
Also….like Trump…he can lie in plain sight….Sanders said that he suspended his campaign..but he still wants folks to vote for him and not support Biden…For all the folks who praised Sanders…Ha!..i bet you thought that he was really suspending his campaign #SIKE
Translation:…..I still want to milk my supporters for as much money as i can…because that is what i do….Ha!…you did not think that i would really support Biden…HA!…you must not have been paying attention in 2016….
As America contends with unprecedented loss, we need a leader who can steady the ship, heal our common wounds, and lead us into our next national chapter. Joe Biden has the humanity, empathy and steadiness we need in a leader.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 8, 2020
Former President Barack Obama says it would not be feasible to relax current measures to combat the spread of coronavirus without a "robust system of testing and monitoring — something we have yet to put in place nationwide." https://t.co/KJswBKGt16
I’m with you Don. Reecie is correct. Bernie is still trying to stir chaos.
Yes, I get the part about what happens to delegates previously pledged to him. His wording made it sound like he thinks he might get more delegates because he’s still on the ballot in upcoming primaries. Maybe I picked up that interpretation from other people.🤷🏽♀️
If the governors of those states that refuse to follow common sense measures to mitigate the corona virus well then those governors should be held liable if any of those citizens should get sick and or die.
The data we called for & finally got today on #COVID19’s racial impact confirms & reinforces what we've seen over years of systemic inequities. These ingrained injustices have always been there, but the numbers show the bias has a body count.
Chairman Schiff to Hayes:
“This president is allergic to the idea of oversight
and used it as a threat by very deliberately retaliating against the respected Intelligence Community Inspector General…then chastising …the Inspector General of Health and Public Services for telling the truth, for essentially going out interviewing hospitals around the country to find out the ground truth: Are the hospitals getting what they need? Do they have the ventilators, do they have the protective equipment? You know, you would expect a president to want to know those two answers to determine whether what he is doing is working or not. But it revealed quite the opposite, that the happy talk coming out of the White House wasn’t consistent with the ground truth, and therefore this is a threat to the president’s preferred narrative of things.” (more)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQGy9RZMvs)
You know, I’m not really surprised at the number of African Americans that have contacted or have died from the corona virus versus the percentage rate of African Americans in any city or town or state. The corona numbers bore out the inequities in society.
Join me for Storytime with BDD, where we'll discuss Joe Biden's possible VP picks, the 2020 Presidential election, and how it will affect Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
BREAKING: President Obama calls for “robust system of testing and monitoring” for coronavirus. It’s “key” to recovering and “something we have yet to put in place nationwide.” Let me translate: Obama thinks Trump has no plan. So Obama laid out what the plan should be. Awesome.
Trump didn’t ask Ukraine to announce a bogus investigation into Bernie or Harris or Warren or Booker. Trump was afraid of Biden. That’s why he attempted to unlawfully bribe Zelensky to provide false dirt on Biden. Trump’s days in office are numbered. And . . . #JusticeIsComing
Gov. Cuomo said all New Yorkers will be able to cast absentee ballots in the state’s June 23 primary elections due to the coronavirus crisis.https://t.co/KW4VhByOfo
Want to see more people of color on the news as health experts? Here's how. A primer.
1. Visible social media posts often lead to journalist inquiries. So for the same info, take a moment to tweet from diverse sources. https://t.co/r5cAdSwLvK
— Stacy Brown Media (@StacyBrownMedia) April 7, 2020
The way this pandemic has been handled should itself be an impeachable offense for anyone in authority. It's a disgrace and we know black people of course have been hit hardest yet government is suppressing those stats. But yes let's test tigers!!
— Stacy Brown Media (@StacyBrownMedia) April 8, 2020
What. In. The. Hell. Is. Going. On. In. Georgia 😔 We can get cerebral & talk a lot about research but at the end of the day we are wasting precious time. We need to use app of @RubixLS to real-time track symptomatic patients, identify high vol/high risk Indiv & MEET them there. pic.twitter.com/CVc4gWNJW4
— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJadeHilton) April 8, 2020
.@KamalaHarris: "During a crisis the existing disparities are exacerbated. Blacks are 20% more likely to have asthma, 40% more likely to have high blood pressure. Black women 3x more likely than whites to have lupus. Sickle cell anemia.They are doing worse during this pandemic." pic.twitter.com/C99eqoK6uK
Time for all Americans to support putting in place health sensitive procedures for our November elections. Should not be a partisan issue. Voting at home has proven to work-see Oregon. No fraud/greater voter participation. We can keep ourselves safe and vote. No more Wisconsins.
🚨🚨🚨@KamalaHarris and the DNC formed a joint fundraising committee earlier today, per FEC records. This is something you usually only see from the party's nominee.
Love Samantha Power. Accidentally caught tail end of her segment on Chris Hayes! (Normally don’t watch, except sometimes, in past, his townhalls. Will try to find vid.
Turns out both of Georgia Senators used their knowledge from Senate briefings to enhance their stock portfolios. BOTH of those mofos need to go to jail. Martha Stewart went to jail for less than these crooks and no one died.
My neighbour @scottduggan had the most beautiful idea to project classic movies for our terrace, listening to the movie on an FM signal sitting in our own separate front gardens made us all feel a little less alone 🙂 donations went to @AgeActionpic.twitter.com/8lhEnYW21l
CNN has confirmed that newly resigned acting Navy Secretary Modly's recent trip to Guam where he addressed the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt & slammed their former commanding officer, remarks that cost him his job, cost the @DeptofDefense ~$243,000, per a Navy estimate
NBC News @NBCNews · 2m
“I’m making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow. … I know the need for a prosecution referral when I see one,” State Rep. Tavia Galonski said.
New York Daily News @NYDailyNews · 4m
A California nursing home was evacuated after most of the employees stopped showing up for duty. The facility has 39 coronavirus cases.
The Obama Diary 
Imagine finally you get to see your little one through a window, but then, her reaction when you must walk away.
An in-law hospitalized with cancer will die without family visitors. Unimaginable emotional times for our
superhero health care workers…thanks for reminding us there are good people everywhere in the world.
Way beyond redemption!
True Dat!!
I get tears in my eyes when I see or hear from them. What a disaster Trump has been, world-wide. Hope someone is keeping control of the purse strings. 3 Trillion dollars is at stake.
Congrats VP Joe!!
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite,
Chief of Engineers, commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers talking to Maddow:
“This virus…has been changing and you can’t just figure out what is the plan and build out the plan.
So when we went into this…we really did think we’d have a lot more capability to do things like hotels and dormitories and we were a little nervous of the great big Convention Center because we weren’t sure we could actually put covid in there…Instead of having little oxygen tanks for everybody’s bed we actually brought in central piping with oxygen to be able to modify that Center. So every single time we build one we have a standard design…and we continue to modify the standard design, then site adapt it, power it down, and be able to decentralize execution at the point of need. So it’s been a very very evolving concept.
But as a result we’re getting better and better capabilities….
It really goes back to being responsive to the needs of the mayor and the governor…we’re part of FEMA….
where does the governor want to go with their plan…how do we continue to adapt? Obviously in NY because of the different changes in some of the medical populations, but the team rallied, and as a result we’ve got a very capable facility. Tonight it is taking care of people.
…I think tonight we’ve done about 828 different assessments…
So when we look at a facility we go in very detailed analysis with a lot of the same fundamental modeling parameters and then we build out that particular city…we need a plan here where it’s going to be a 21 day build, and then we’ll go to the contractors and say this is going to need 24/7, this is where we need you to turn on and give us every single thing you have, because we do not want to be late for need.
And we’re pushing real hard…the other facilities we’ve got, but right now we continue to think we can barely just stay ahead of the curves in all of those key cities.”
….So can we get a military Command and Control to oversee procuring and allocating medical supples nationally?
…Betting a few military guys could do this critical leadership job with their eyes closed…
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.🙏💪🙏
Thank you, Rock Steady, NW…Obrigada…👒💁♀️🙌💪🤗😍🙏
The Obamas always lead the way with compassionate intelligence! Relieved Bernie suspended but don’t trust too many of his followers not to still burn down everything.
Let’s Go Big on funding:
Oregon been doing vote by mail for a long time (permanent in 1987) :
“1998 Oregonians confirm their overwhelming support for vote-by-mail by passing Measure 60.
2000 Oregon becomes the first state in the nation to conduct a presidential election entirely by mail. About 80% of registered voters participated.
2019 Oregon becomes the first state not to require paid postage on ballot return envelopes.
Measure 60 eliminated restrictions on vote-by-mail and established it as the single form of voting for elections in Oregon. It also required vote-by-mail to be used for biennial primaries and general elections as well as eliminating polling places.” (wiki)
–Oregon has had zero problems with vote by mail.
but states can still refuse to pass a bill to vote by mail….
of course the Trump party will try to repress the vote,
but let’s hope Dems stop them in their urban versus rural strategy.
How to correctly wear a mask
Our lovely nurse neighbor made a gorgeous mask for me….so thrilled to wear it.
Where are we Jimmy?
Steve Taylor, senior lecturer in psychology in UK: “It’s well known that shock and trauma slow down our time perception — it often happens in car crashes, robberies and falls. So I think it’s a variation of that.”
“There have been so many novel and attention-demanding events recently, that time may have dilated, making this recent span seem to have lasted much longer than a comparable period of ordinary or expected events.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/why-coronavirus-makes-february-feel-like-six-months-ago.html)
—–i remember being in the front of a car, careening on the ice towards the very edge, on the top of a mountain.
All in slo-mo…didn’t feel the slightest worry…like floating…then at the last moment another car skidded on the ice and banged us back onto the road…and we drove off! Pls let’s make sure we have a course-correct like that!
LOL! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Never forget this. More importantly, never let THEM forget this!!
❤️Love her❤️
This is part 1
OG is poppin’! Love this!
My Senator/VP for the people!
imo, Trump Party COVID-19 strategy per WI includes:
1) Force the urban voters to show up in person.
2) Which will reduce the number of urban voters in favor of rural voters.
3) Absence of medical gear creates the fear and keeps you home.
Campaign strategy to target and disenfranchise voters – with right wing SCOTUS on board.
Beauty Break ✨
🙊🙉🙈🤦♀️😶🤫🤷♀️😷🤔
Relieved to hear this
NO GRASS GROWS UNDER HER FEET.
She is not skipping a beat.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
See this bucket of deer turd right here
I don’t understand what kind of influence is he hoping to exert?
Welcome to the club.
Anddddd
Da troof!
I was thinking the same. Disappointing to say the least.
I will not soil this wonderful place with my true thoughts on Bernie and his followers.
I’m with you Don. Reecie is correct. Bernie is still trying to stir chaos.
But is he breaking the 15% barrier anywhere? This is the part that’s missing for me.
I guess we’ll see in the weeks and months to come.
Don’t say anything, Don.
If the governors of those states that refuse to follow common sense measures to mitigate the corona virus well then those governors should be held liable if any of those citizens should get sick and or die.
This!
Chairman Schiff to Hayes:
“This president is allergic to the idea of oversight
and used it as a threat by very deliberately retaliating against the respected Intelligence Community Inspector General…then chastising …the Inspector General of Health and Public Services for telling the truth, for essentially going out interviewing hospitals around the country to find out the ground truth: Are the hospitals getting what they need? Do they have the ventilators, do they have the protective equipment? You know, you would expect a president to want to know those two answers to determine whether what he is doing is working or not. But it revealed quite the opposite, that the happy talk coming out of the White House wasn’t consistent with the ground truth, and therefore this is a threat to the president’s preferred narrative of things.” (more)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQGy9RZMvs)
You know, I’m not really surprised at the number of African Americans that have contacted or have died from the corona virus versus the percentage rate of African Americans in any city or town or state. The corona numbers bore out the inequities in society.
How many times have you heard “I live by faith not fear” in the last couple months? Church parking lots full until maybe last week.
He failed in his job. Period. End of sentence. Rather than protect Americans, he endangered them. EpicFail
Love these ideas!
🐴
Thread
Squeeee!
Love Samantha Power. Accidentally caught tail end of her segment on Chris Hayes! (Normally don’t watch, except sometimes, in past, his townhalls. Will try to find vid.
A moment of cuteness! 😄
What a scuzzball! Crooked-ass crook! 😠
“You profited … ” greed has no bounds I suppose.
Turns out both of Georgia Senators used their knowledge from Senate briefings to enhance their stock portfolios. BOTH of those mofos need to go to jail. Martha Stewart went to jail for less than these crooks and no one died.
Hopefully next year
This is great! What a lovely idea!
Very nice and generous!
I am waiting for the endorsements from Susan Surandon, Nina Turner, and Michael Moore. I already received that of Tulsi Gabbard. Thank you.
I think they have crawled back under where they came from. Don’t get me started on TYT (which unfortunately my room mate listens too).
Newsweek @Newsweek
Anti-Trump conservative group, led by George Conway and Rick Wilson, endorses Joe Biden
The Hill @thehill · 19m
JUST IN: Trip that led to acting Navy secretary’s resignation cost $243K: reports
NBC News @NBCNews · 2m
“I’m making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow. … I know the need for a prosecution referral when I see one,” State Rep. Tavia Galonski said.
New York Daily News @NYDailyNews · 4m
A California nursing home was evacuated after most of the employees stopped showing up for duty. The facility has 39 coronavirus cases.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/doing-whatever-we-can/
The Spectator Index @spectatorindex · 2m
Confirmed coronavirus cases.
Spain: 148,220
Italy: 139,422
Germany: 113,296
New York State: 151,000
Bye Don