America’s story is one of ordinary people doing extraordinary things given half a chance. This virus is tough. But together and as a nation — we're tougher.
I know we’ll get through this and we’ll be stronger for it, I promise you. Keep the faith. pic.twitter.com/dC8JvRWPMC
Minnesota lawmakers have it right — COVID-19 has exacerbated injustices in our voting system and introduced new ones. Fighting for voting rights in this time starts with making vote-by-mail mandatory nationwide. https://t.co/p9w5RoHINp
"Frustration is brewing among some of the president's aides that wealthy outside voices are pushing their own agendas — with their own portfolios and companies in mind — rather than what may be best for the country…" https://t.co/d4Se8flncy
This is streaming right now. Please tune I’m!The governor is trying to save lives in Kansas and the Republican led legislature is trying to overturn her order. Kansas Supreme Court arguments are being streamed.
Louisville police plan to record license plate numbers of anyone attending church in person on Easter Sunday. They plan to give the license plate information to the city’s health department.https://t.co/zr7rfg66Ul
Share! Easy online voter registration sites for all the 39 states that have online voter registration… with hyperlinks:) So you can do it right away and easily!!
Please Share! Easy online voter registration sites for all the 39 states that have online voter registration… with hyperlinks:) So you can do it right away and easily!!#registertovote#votingmatters#whenweallvote
President Trump needs to do everything in his power to expand the number of testing sites and surge the number of tests. Mass testing is key to reopening the economy and finding a way out of this crisis. https://t.co/WHprzHoGnm
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In case you didn’t know, Duffelblog is kind the military version of The Onion (satire),
[Can’t believe I’m sharing a Bill Kristol tweet. ]
“Pentagon officials have expressed concern that the former commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt may have infected other commanders with a desire to place the well-being of their troops over loyalty to senior leadership, sources confirmed Friday.” https://t.co/QLeV5ekX8l
Again, it’s a topsy-turvy universe we’re in when you see me sharing not 1 but 3 tweets from Bill Kristol.
But this is good.
1. As a public service, here are Easter wishes from a Christian president: "Michelle and I join our fellow Christians in observing Good Friday and celebrating Easter this weekend. This is a time to remember the sacrifices made for us and hold all who suffer close to our hearts…
2. "Yet it is also a time to rejoice, give thanks for the Resurrection, and unite with Christians around the world in proclaiming, 'Christ has risen; He has risen indeed.' We wish all who celebrate a blessed and joyful Easter." — Barack Obama, March 25, 2016
Yesterday, President @BarackObama organized a call with faith leaders – many of whom have been friends and walked with him for a while. He wanted to encourage them during Holy Week and talk about COVID19 & the church. Here are some excerpts: https://t.co/rKqfYDg1wa
But by all means, let’s get back to work! What a damn moron.
The U.S. reported the highest coronavirus death toll in the world as of Saturday, per Johns Hopkins data. 18,860 Americans have died. https://t.co/aE8PQQN1qW
This thread, tho’ sad and uncomfortable, might be helpful.
Cook county isn't handing out death certificates to everybody so my cousin is being buried Monday without official notice.
We just dont have burial money laying around, which is why we buy life insurance. But without a death cert, the policy wont cover the funeral and burial..
— Adrienne Sailor Venus Gibbs (@AdrienneWrites) April 11, 2020
This is awful. I’m sorry for your loss and that your family is going through such a nightmare. Thank you for taking time to share the story in the midst of it all. I had no clue what people go through when this happens. Sending prayers for peace and comfort for you all.
The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 was signed into law by George Bush.
It “gave the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits.
Up until 2006, the USPS funded those obligations on a pay-as-you-go-basis,
pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees’ costs came in.
But the PAEA required the Postal Service to calculate ALL of its likely pension costs over the next 75 years,
and then sock away enough money between 2007 and 2016 to cover most of them.”
(https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-post-office)
The whole idea of a mortgage is you pay over time…
But say you had to first set aside $hundreds of thousands to cover your mortgage,
and on top of that make regular monthly payments for 30 years? Huh?
In 2012 the USPS started defaulting on the PAEA payments, losing $62.4 billion between 2007 and 2016.
–Getting rid of the requirement would’ve made the USPS profitable again.
“The Postal Service’s $15 billion debt is a direct result of the mandate,”
the Inspector General wrote in 2015.
“This requirement has deprived the Postal Service of the opportunity to invest in capital projects
and research and development.”
“Postal Service is expected to compete with the private market, and fund all of its costs out of its own revenue, without subsidies from the rest of government.” Major Cinderella sabotage?
Playing “hardball on crisis aid gives Trump and others in his administration
the leverage they’ve been seeking for years to gut the public Postal Service.”
With the coronavirus pandemic fallout, mail volume and revenue could drop by 50% in 2020.
The stimulus bill provides a weak $10 billion, compared to what’s been offered to UPS and Fedex.
(https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/09/trump-postal-workers-dont-deserve-financial-lifeline)
“But if Trump really wants to to fix the Post Office, he should tell Congress to fix the PAEA.”
imo
If Trump gets his way we’ll have an iffy, expensive private outfit in charge of our mail-in votes.
Question: If Trump replaces USPS with a private company that he endorses,
how can Americans trust the mail-in election outcome?
BLOCKBUSTER: Buried in today's @nytimes "look back" on Trump's #coronavirus failures, is a devastating revelation: the WH failed to act on early warnings about the virus, because the econ team blocked action against China
We are months into this crisis and our heroes on the front lines still don't have the protective equipment they need to stay safe. It's unconscionable.
Donald Trump needs to fully use the power of the Defense Production Act immediately. pic.twitter.com/wudATlE3wr
The hypocrites from the Kansas Supreme Court would love to #OPENAMERICANOW, as they sit in the social distance safety of their homes, deciding whether to send churchgoers to an Easter congregational death. pic.twitter.com/7ZwJ6p8dpm
While still doing Z.E.R.O. to help America out in the middle of a deadly pandemic….
Failure-in-chief Doom, useless failed corrupt businessman instructed his useless failed administration:
….Do not help our Public Postal Service.
TOPOS COVID-19 Project: Compiles data from around the country on the virus infection.
Map ends the secrecy and cover-up: (https://covid19.topos.com)
-thx to Maddow for the tip.
#Trump should have 18,860 photos — of those who are now dead because of him — woven into every piece of clothing he wears for the remainder of his vile life. #Trump + #Putin = #DeathToAmerica.
First @DanPatrick asked our Grannies to be Tribute. When MiMi didn’t volunteer, he+his cronies used their connections with big pharma to make our Papas lab rats.
The elderly aren’t expendable, but you know who is? Out of touch, predatory, @TexasGOP leaders. Vote them out! https://t.co/MNs7WBADLL
I’m no Constitutional scholar but I’m pretty certain Thomas Jefferson would be screaming *fuck that straight to the ground* if he read Judge Walker’s take here.
The Founders abhorred religion proximate to a state – fled Church of England rule. This is exactly what they despised. https://t.co/Yvj20v0WYC
Judge Walker writes he's never heard of something like not having church. Even in a dystopian novel. They did it in Kentucky in 1918. So that people wouldn't get killed. They had church at home. pic.twitter.com/I6BBjDFeEY
(My words): Dr. Romer’s model gradually reduces the rate of infections to the point of no more infections
by repeatedly isolating 70% of confirmed cases. It will require testing 10 to 15 million healthcare workers every day along with massive continuous testing of our entire population.
= A gigantic project that Paul Romer believes is well within our capability.
He is correct and doing so, which we have all the necessary skills to achieve, would have cost far less in monetary terms, let alone, saved countless lives.
PS/ Because the Washington Post has not figured out yet how to post stories without a paywall *in a way where you can find the story that a tweet is telling you exists behind the link*, I've no more information on this beyond the Twitter headline by the Washington Post. Annoying!
PS2/ Questions, once this story is more widely reported: what does "ready" mean? Ready for clinical trials? Ready for partial deployment to frontline emergency responders? Ready for full deployment to the general public? How long does a process that could start in September take?
Andy Slavitt, fmr head of Medicaid and Medicare under PBO, speaks with Maddow about how this virus will potentially kill thousands more in nursing homes across America if nothing is done.
Clearly Trump’s federal government has no intentions of taking action to prevent our deaths.
2,200 human beings who lived in nursing homes have died.
Here is Mr. Slavitt’s three-part strategy: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQwAiI0-io)
Farewell to mathematician John Conway. For us, complexity scientists, he will be remembered by the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life, that inspired so many ideas about complexity, computation and life itself. @sfiscience@svalverpic.twitter.com/scpwJ8onmV
About this heartwrenching front page photo: "Hunger usually is a hidden problem. But there is no hiding from that picture. I think a lot of readers took a look at that photo and said, 'Oh, my God. I had no idea.'" https://t.co/xW8aeNSfHfpic.twitter.com/xjglKSpZoD
(THREAD) This thread contains the RED DAWN EMAILS, just published by @nytimes. If you're unable to take the time to read the whole backstory at the Times, you can read the frantic exchanges between medical experts here. For the full article, see this link: https://t.co/CeV3HcZJwB
S’il vous plaît, nous avons tous envie de profiter du soleil… mais pour l’instant… regardez cette vidéo… et retweetez… merci.. 🤗🙏🙏pic.twitter.com/7zgHPr1Vcd
A team of 20 UCSF nurses & doctors traveled to New York today to care for patients at @nyphospital for the next month! We are grateful to this awesome group for volunteering to work in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic—and to our equally awesome staff caring for patients in #SF. pic.twitter.com/xChMKKf6rg
Just heard Joe Biden, who called in to a show on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace, and I now feel calmer than I have all day, thinking about the crazy environment we’re in at this moment in our history! He was like a breath of fresh air.
Part of America might regain some brain cells (eventually) if this propaganda station was sued to oblivion.
The White House, Congressional GOP & Fox News allegedly deliberately misinformed people about the pandemic for weeks – often while taking actions confirming they understood the dire threat.
Dumping stocks? Presidential daily briefings? Circulating memos on protecting employees?
Nothing could match this fear, and today’s “PTSD” doesn’t cover it, either. So very sorry to hear this.
“It is almost an echo of when we were young, when we were children, the same feeling of not knowing what will happen next,” said Weiss, 83. “We aren’t thinking about the virus; we are thinking of what happened to us” back then. https://t.co/yx0z1P3tOr
There’s always, always humor in tragedy, in my book (part Irish) – wherever we can find it!
I feel so bad for parents trying to celebrate Easter with their little ones this weekend. Have you been to the grocery store lately? My ovaries have more eggs.
Yes yes yes. This is the BLOCKBUSTER revelation in the @nytimes story. We are in this mess because Trump needed the trade deal with China to clean up a previous mess he had made! https://t.co/BR4gqu0S56
To any of your family, friends, colleagues or casual acquaintances who tell you they are unsure who they plan to vote for, show them this exchange. pic.twitter.com/3bQIRqYFAT
.@kailaswild you are the best of humanity. I don't know how your human body holds your tremendous heart. You are such an inspiration. You are a bright light in many dark days here in the epicenter of #COVIDー19 in NYC. https://t.co/0afPBrw4hG
🇦🇫 RIP Haji Agha Gul, of Khair Khāna, #Afghanistan who died from coronavirus last night. He was a dedicated lawyer and community leader who fought tirelessly for #peace and justice. إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ 🙏 pic.twitter.com/szhP6JIPFE
Imagine using a pandemic to try and kill the constitutionally-created postal service which employs 600,000 fellow Americans and has already lost hundreds of mail carriers to COVID-19, out of pure spite and right wing privatization greed & telling them "you get a loan or nothing." https://t.co/gnszyMbBIY
How many times must this president show us who he is…before we believe him…how can we negotiate with the devil…but somehow the Democrats in Congress must find a way…
As we prepare to reopen America, we have to learn the lessons of what shut the nation down in the first place, says @JoeBiden. Trump's failure to plan, prepare, and honestly assess the threat and the risk to the nation led to catastrophic failure. https://t.co/XTbgbzs6i8
The Kansas Supreme Court has voted to uphold an executive order by the governor limiting the size of church gatherings on Easter Sunday, ending a legal clash over public health and religious liberty. https://t.co/0bm5jHwuZd
Okay, I've been with USPS for several years now, so here's my big dumb #SaveThePostOffice thread. I don't know how many tweets it's gonna take for me to ramble through my thoughts, so stick with me. Or don't, whatever.
Fifth: You can be certain, if given the chance, certain politicians would love to GIVE AWAY this infrastructure, a la the $70 billion in digital broadcast licenses they gave away for free to Telecom companies in 1996 with no strings attached.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has won a ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court that said she holds sweeping powers to shut down operations in the state, including large church services, in the face of the coronavirus crisis. https://t.co/M2tplg2z4W
How did the country that elected Hoover end up four years later with FDR and the New Deal? Events pushed it left. Events awakened it to the urgency of an active, compassionate, effective government aiding people in need. Will that happen today?
Although our celebrations may look different this year, our unwavering faith remains the same. For me, Easter is a time of hope––a reminder of rebirth and renewal––and a belief in a better day to come. From my family to yours, we wish you all a blessed and joyful Easter. pic.twitter.com/xEsgxOarQ5
Although our celebrations may look different this year, our unwavering faith remains the same. For me, Easter is a time of hope––a reminder of rebirth and renewal––and a belief in a better day to come. From my family to yours, we wish you all a blessed and joyful Easter. pic.twitter.com/xEsgxOarQ5
Dr. Anthony Fauci said the U.S. would have benefited from shutting down earlier and also warned of reopening too soon.
"There is always the possibility, as we get into next fall and the beginning of early winter, that we could see a rebound,” he said.https://t.co/ekxc5VWbku
Donald Trump’s desire to corrupt the basic functions of government in order to punish Jeff Bezos for the Washington Post’s journalism is now threatening the viability of postal service. https://t.co/DUb8N8Tjy7
Good morning, TODville! May you have a Blessed and Happy Resurrection Sunday! 🙏💜🙏
It's Easter Sunday. It doesn't look like it, doesn't smell like it, and doesn't really feel like it, but it's Easter anyway. pic.twitter.com/TGgALcYINR
— Presiding Bishop Michael Curry (@PB_Curry) April 12, 2020
Snippets…
From Dingus McGee USPS thread (c/o Meta) above:
-The USPS is better than a private system because it is obligated to serve ALL AMERICANS. Imagine rural Americans getting left out in the cold for the simple reason that it isn’t profitable to deliver where they live.
-The USPS is the greatest example of government efficiency. It’s a shining beacon of all that government can do when just given the chance, so naturally conservatives hate it.
-Only agency that is forced to pre-fund its pension 100% b/c they want to kneecap it and make it look bad.
-Leading employer of women, people of color, and veterans
-amazing example of government efficiency
-CHEAP, FAST MAILING
-Rx delivery direct stimulus payments from IRS
-VOTE BY MAIL
-You think small businesses are doing badly right now – wait until the USPS closes and every home business comes to a complete halt.
-Also a huge employer of people with disabilities. The amount of deaf employees they have on staff is impressive. -My father’s deaf and has comfortably worked there for 20+ years!
-CO uses a vote by mail system exclusively, which means we have secure elections with high voter turnout. It’s a more democratic system. Given that Election Day is not a holiday, not everyone can afford to take off from work and vote. Vote by mail works.
-Not only is it the leading employer of women, PIC, and veterans, but it also provides equal pay & benefits because of a strong, unionized workforce.
-If the post office closes, NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS FOR VOTING!!!
-You should add (and I just learned this) cremated human remains can ONLY be shipped via USPS. No USPS no getting grandma home.
-Over 60 million people in rural America rely on the post office and its services.
-The post office also forces the only other two major shippers, Fedex and UPS, to keep costs down. Without the USPS as a competitor, their prices would skyrocket.
-The only way to promote healthy competition is to @ Save The Post Office.
-If @USPS is so efficient and essential why is it always broke? (R pol strategy explained higher up on the thread)
-Seems like Trump will do anything to win the election.
Much much much mmuucchh better
There is no doubt that President Obama would have handle this crisis better, alot better and with more compassion.
X 50 million!
Morning everyone
Fabulous!
Yeah. We needed this:)
Yep.
what a wonderful ad….speaking to soul of the America that most of us want America to be……..
I think so too. What a contrast
Thank you President Biden.
❤
Good Morning TODbots Community.
🙏💪🤲💪🙏😍🤗👒💁♀️🎩💁♀️🙌🙌
Excellent! And help fund the USPS so All Of America can vote by mail come November!!
And help felons in FL pay their debts … ?
I was thinking along those lines, earlier today! One billionaire or one GoFundMe oughta do it!
Good!!
I like these Glenn Kirshner moments of clear explanations
me too
Is this news?
They’re just figuring that out now? This has been happening since he got into the White House.
We vote by mail in AZ. It’s wonderful
We have voted by mail in Oregon for 17 years – SO convenient and easy! NO FRAUD because they check your signature.
Exactly
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-10
STREAMING LIVE NOW HERE: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
Good. Why can’t they stay home and watch the service live.
Share! Easy online voter registration sites for all the 39 states that have online voter registration… with hyperlinks:) So you can do it right away and easily!!
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx#Table%20of%20states%20w/ovr
Nerdy, you may want to consider finding a permanent place for this here… so as we get closer we don’t have to hunt this important info down:)
Thanks for posting this crucial info, Marleysperson!
You’re very welcome! Share away!
Tweeted it!!! Thanks DF!
So good! Thanks sweet girl 😘
No, thank YOU, Beautiful One! 😘
You think you have it bad? Navajo Nation has no running water and is about to run out of what they do have. This is bad
https://www.abc15.com/navajo-nation-running-low-on-water-as-they-approach-top-3-hot-spots-in-us
Wow. Just awful.
PP was checking in with his master
But he won’t. He wants to rush us back to work. To hell with our wellbeing.
Wash your balls! https://www.facebook.com/MonetizeThyself/videos/214336526511871/
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In case you didn’t know, Duffelblog is kind the military version of The Onion (satire),
[Can’t believe I’m sharing a Bill Kristol tweet. ]
Again, it’s a topsy-turvy universe we’re in when you see me sharing not 1 but 3 tweets from Bill Kristol.
But this is good.
Thanks Dudette. I am happy that you shared this from Kristol.
Close your eyes and listen to him speak. Wise and steady
Can’t disagree
Not really. They’re both dumb. Trump is just more arrogant and less empathetic.
LOL!
Aw man! I don’t know if I have the energy to resist anymore. 🙃
Goes against what I was taught in school. 🙄😏
But by all means, let’s get back to work! What a damn moron.
This must be MAGABest.
This thread, tho’ sad and uncomfortable, might be helpful.
There was a time when the counties did not issue birth certificates when blk people were born…
Hope so. Sure is beautiful
Sometimes, most times, people are amazingly good
I love that!!!!
Me too!
I don’t know about elegant, but if she can talk him off a ledge, that works
Definitely not elegant (sorry), but whatever works.
The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 was signed into law by George Bush.
It “gave the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits.
Up until 2006, the USPS funded those obligations on a pay-as-you-go-basis,
pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees’ costs came in.
But the PAEA required the Postal Service to calculate ALL of its likely pension costs over the next 75 years,
and then sock away enough money between 2007 and 2016 to cover most of them.”
(https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-post-office)
The whole idea of a mortgage is you pay over time…
But say you had to first set aside $hundreds of thousands to cover your mortgage,
and on top of that make regular monthly payments for 30 years? Huh?
In 2012 the USPS started defaulting on the PAEA payments, losing $62.4 billion between 2007 and 2016.
–Getting rid of the requirement would’ve made the USPS profitable again.
“The Postal Service’s $15 billion debt is a direct result of the mandate,”
the Inspector General wrote in 2015.
“This requirement has deprived the Postal Service of the opportunity to invest in capital projects
and research and development.”
“Postal Service is expected to compete with the private market, and fund all of its costs out of its own revenue, without subsidies from the rest of government.” Major Cinderella sabotage?
Playing “hardball on crisis aid gives Trump and others in his administration
the leverage they’ve been seeking for years to gut the public Postal Service.”
With the coronavirus pandemic fallout, mail volume and revenue could drop by 50% in 2020.
The stimulus bill provides a weak $10 billion, compared to what’s been offered to UPS and Fedex.
(https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/09/trump-postal-workers-dont-deserve-financial-lifeline)
“But if Trump really wants to to fix the Post Office, he should tell Congress to fix the PAEA.”
imo
If Trump gets his way we’ll have an iffy, expensive private outfit in charge of our mail-in votes.
Question: If Trump replaces USPS with a private company that he endorses,
how can Americans trust the mail-in election outcome?
So the motive was to bankrupt the Postal Service.
soooooooo predictable.
Could they be any more obvious. Are we waiting for a red carpet to pound them into the dust?
He won’t because he doesn’t care about them or us.
The WHPC so white
“Trump threatened to veto
the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (Cares) Act
if the legislation
contained
ANY MONEY DIRECTED TO BAIL OUT
THE POSTAL AGENCY”,
(https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/11/postal-service-verge-collapse-and-630000-jobs-risk-trump-slammed-refusing-act)
While still doing Z.E.R.O. to help America out in the middle of a deadly pandemic….
Failure-in-chief Doom, useless failed corrupt businessman instructed his useless failed administration:
….Do not help our Public Postal Service.
For all those crazy anti vaxxers
TOPOS COVID-19 Project: Compiles data from around the country on the virus infection.
Map ends the secrecy and cover-up: (https://covid19.topos.com)
-thx to Maddow for the tip.
Did he lose his medical license??!!!!
Dr. Paul Romer,
explains his model for ending the deadly pandemic sweeping America:
(https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nobel-prize-winner-we-should-be-testing-30-million-for-covid-19-daily-81912389636)
At a minimum.
(My words): Dr. Romer’s model gradually reduces the rate of infections to the point of no more infections
by repeatedly isolating 70% of confirmed cases. It will require testing 10 to 15 million healthcare workers every day along with massive continuous testing of our entire population.
= A gigantic project that Paul Romer believes is well within our capability.
He is correct and doing so, which we have all the necessary skills to achieve, would have cost far less in monetary terms, let alone, saved countless lives.
Andy Slavitt, fmr head of Medicaid and Medicare under PBO, speaks with Maddow about how this virus will potentially kill thousands more in nursing homes across America if nothing is done.
Clearly Trump’s federal government has no intentions of taking action to prevent our deaths.
2,200 human beings who lived in nursing homes have died.
Here is Mr. Slavitt’s three-part strategy: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQwAiI0-io)
Another COVID victim.
Acting like Trump would not have convince me to vote for Bernie Sanders.
This entire family is nothing but a giant fraud. Every single one of them is a fraud and a con artist. I hope they all rot in jail
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-marketing-lawsuit/trump-family-loses-bid-to-move-marketing-scam-lawsuit-to-arbitration-idUSKCN21R2OH
Space Nerd Alert! 👨🏼🚀 7pm Eastern!
Nerd-vana approaches! 🚀🤓
Thank you, Nerdy! Love Valerie Jarrett’s tweet.
Greetings, TOD!
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1249103224780361728 ..
Food insecurity is not just impacting “The Other”
very good read..
Well, this is a problem that needs to be fixed
❤️
Thank you, df!
Goodnight TOD
I love CA:) It looks so beautiful. Good does come out of tragedy.
Thread
Here too
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/04/11/he-was-told-and-he-knew-and-he-ignored-them/
Beautiful. So perfect! Thanks Meta.
It’s so gorgeous and mesmerizing!!
It’s wonderful!
So beautiful! Thanks meta!
They’re so cute!
Just heard Joe Biden, who called in to a show on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace, and I now feel calmer than I have all day, thinking about the crazy environment we’re in at this moment in our history! He was like a breath of fresh air.
Perfect
Part of America might regain some brain cells (eventually) if this propaganda station was sued to oblivion.
Thread
Sorry to mess up this beautiful blog post with anything from Michael Moore. I just liked the payback he got.
THIS!!!!! Moore forget that VP Biden has a broad coalition of support. I turn the channel every time I see him?
I do, as well! Yuck!
On a lighter note, Happy Easter, dear COS!
Not sure if these were posted yet.
Nothing could match this fear, and today’s “PTSD” doesn’t cover it, either. So very sorry to hear this.
There’s always, always humor in tragedy, in my book (part Irish) – wherever we can find it!
How I feel since Trump’s election.
LOL. I thought you stole my picture!
Oh dear!! 😂
Or, to add to Booms MM post….
The guys thought they could just get away with putting on a little T-shirt….😂😂😂😂😂😂
Join Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Dave Koz, Jonathan Butler, and Hamilton Hardin for a very special edition of Rick’s Cafe Live, in honor of Easter!
Wonderful. Thank you.
Happy Easter!
Sweet dreams and Happy Easter, TODville!
Good Morning! ☀️
Good Morning Beloved TODville community of a Heavenly East Sunday.🙏🤲😇🤲🙏
I am wishing all a Happy Easter.🙏😇🤲😇🙏
🐣🐰🐥
🙏😇🤲🤗😍🤲😇🙏
How many times must this president show us who he is…before we believe him…how can we negotiate with the devil…but somehow the Democrats in Congress must find a way…
Important thread:
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-2
Morning everyone
Thread
Either way is ok:)
Let this history repeat itself
https://twitter.com/sthenrymary/status/1249321033548562433t
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
Good overview
Smile break
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/rebirth-and-renewal/
Good morning, TODville! May you have a Blessed and Happy Resurrection Sunday! 🙏💜🙏
Snippets…
From Dingus McGee USPS thread (c/o Meta) above:
-The USPS is better than a private system because it is obligated to serve ALL AMERICANS. Imagine rural Americans getting left out in the cold for the simple reason that it isn’t profitable to deliver where they live.
-The USPS is the greatest example of government efficiency. It’s a shining beacon of all that government can do when just given the chance, so naturally conservatives hate it.
-Only agency that is forced to pre-fund its pension 100% b/c they want to kneecap it and make it look bad.
-Leading employer of women, people of color, and veterans
-amazing example of government efficiency
-CHEAP, FAST MAILING
-Rx delivery direct stimulus payments from IRS
-VOTE BY MAIL
-You think small businesses are doing badly right now – wait until the USPS closes and every home business comes to a complete halt.
-Also a huge employer of people with disabilities. The amount of deaf employees they have on staff is impressive. -My father’s deaf and has comfortably worked there for 20+ years!
-CO uses a vote by mail system exclusively, which means we have secure elections with high voter turnout. It’s a more democratic system. Given that Election Day is not a holiday, not everyone can afford to take off from work and vote. Vote by mail works.
-Not only is it the leading employer of women, PIC, and veterans, but it also provides equal pay & benefits because of a strong, unionized workforce.
-If the post office closes, NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS FOR VOTING!!!
-You should add (and I just learned this) cremated human remains can ONLY be shipped via USPS. No USPS no getting grandma home.
-Over 60 million people in rural America rely on the post office and its services.
-The post office also forces the only other two major shippers, Fedex and UPS, to keep costs down. Without the USPS as a competitor, their prices would skyrocket.
-The only way to promote healthy competition is to @ Save The Post Office.
-If @USPS is so efficient and essential why is it always broke? (R pol strategy explained higher up on the thread)
-Seems like Trump will do anything to win the election.