Damn, this one hit me hard, I was born and raised in Miami and Don Shula was an institution. My old man loved himself some Dolphins and Don Shula. I remember my dad would take my brother and I to the practices because they were free, we couldn’t afford the tickets but we didn’t care because it was the Dolphins. Sleep well Coach Shula….
Funny happening the other day when I opened my small community mailbox. There was a package in it. I had to stop and think what it could be. When I opened the package the joke was on me. I had been scammed, but it was worth it for the laugh. 😂
I am currently shopping at my regular grocery store online where I go pick the order up at the appointed time and they bring the groceries out and put them in my car. 🚙 The four times since Stay n Place that I have used the service they had no toilet paper. A friend looked in five different local grocery stores also with none available. So I turned to Amazon and found six rolls of tp on back order of a month and a half. It was through a private person working through Amazon. I ordered it.
You guessed it! Upon opening the small package it was six rolls of miniaturized toilet paper. I placed one roll of regular toilet paper on top of them as that showed the difference words do not equate. One roll of regular tp is taller than the others and may be equal to four rolls of the miniature rolls as it covered all but two rolls.
My question is in this time of shortages when there was a need for the regular product why would someone go to all the bother to make a product that would not have repeat business? Could it be opportunity, greed, and larger profit margins?
We miss a competent President and First Lady, can’t wait till November when we make our choices made if white women would not disappoint us again by given trump there votes this time
America always had very little regard for human lives, but under Trump it's just became a soulless country of savages and cannibals. https://t.co/pTAX5Rx1dM
Every day it's a new wave of nausea, a human tragedy unfolding right before our very eyes while the press find new ways to diminish the horrific GOP lies and hatred and sadism while they micromanage VP Biden's campaign.
“TEST THERE.”
Maddow reporting that possibly 80% of the deaths in Minnesota are in nursing homes: “Test and ye shall find”.
Then there are the prisons: Trousdale Turner Correctional Center TN has the 3rd largest prison COVID-19 outbreak = 1349 of 2700 people tested positive. Imagine if and when every prison is finally tested?
We must test in order to find who is infected, whether symptomatic or not, and act to prevent spread of the virus. The Nebraska governor claimed the surrounding metro area Sioux City Iowa was not getting the spike in coronavirus from the meat plant in Dakota City. Then finally, testing turned up 669 positives at that meat plant.
Maddow: “Not looking is not a safe way to hide this stuff.”
Maddow explains how the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC:
Sends “world class specialized disease detectives”, small teams of intrepid and great scientists to investigate root causes. The mo is “You invite in the CDC, they send their elite disease detectives, that team figures out what happened, they tell you in a short report in no uncertain terms with no minced words what you need to do to fix it, and then you fix it.”
But the CDC report on the Sioux Falls Plant the CDC was not normal. It instructed the plant to “consider implementing…if feasible…when possible.” Wishy-washy instead of clear cut directives. And headed up with: “These recommendations are discretionary and are not required or mandated by CDC.”
RM’s team narrowed down the abrupt change in CDC’s response to a 2 day window:
Before: The normal straight forward CDC response to JBS Greeley CO on April 20th.
After: The “Not required” CDC response to the Smithfield Sioux Falls IO on April 22nd.
Dramatic changes in CDC responses:
JBS Greeley CO (April 20): Emphasize face coverings must cover nose and mouth at all times.”
Smithfield Sioux Falls IO (April 22): “face covering are generally recommended.”
CO (20th): “Provide all entrants (listed) to the plant with a face covering and show them how it needs to be worn.”
SD (22nd): “If feasible, all employees should wear the face covering.”
CO (20th): “teach workers to ask for new face coverings when tears becomes dirty, wet, and/or difficult to breathe through..”
SD (22nd):“The facial covering should be discarded and replaced when dirty or wet, if possible.”
CO (20th) “stagger breaks to minimize the total number of workers that are in common areas, locker rooms, lunchrooms and locker rooms at the same time.”
SD (22nd) “staggering shifts, start times, and break time as much as feasible.”
CO (20th): “Put hand washing stations near the outdoor break area and encourage hand washing…Install hand washing stations or additional sanitizer dispensers in the lunchroom.”
SD (22nd): “Portable…hand washing facilities could be utilized.”
CO (20th): “Physical barriers should not be used as a replacement for maintaining at least 6 feet between workers…if that is not possible, barriers, can be installed.”
SD (22nd): “Consider the following actions to physically separate employees.”
CO April 20 (20th):“Ensure all workers who have a fever (.1004oF) or one or more of the reported symptoms are sent directly to secondary screening…Provide specimen collection and ordering of COVID-19 testing on site for workers during secondary screening who are found to have fever and/symptoms. Entrants who are not workers at the plant who indicate they have a fever or symptoms should not be allowed entry into the plant.”
SD (22nd) “If possible, ask employees about recent history of fever.”
= Weak and watered down guidance in the middle of the biggest health threat.
How did that happen in 2 days?
SD (22nd) “If possible, ask employees about recent history of fever.”
My god, my job won’t even let in the front lobby if my temperature is above a certain level AND I’m asked a series of medical questions. I’m not even allowed to enter the front lobby without a mask on and I’m required to wear it for the full shift. Even our cafeteria is closed for eat-in, to-go only, and we’re aren’t allowed to congregate unless its a full blown emergency.
“We need the real CDC back and we need it now.”
Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute:
One fiasco after another: “This has been baffling to all of us in the public health world.”
Dr. Jha has always believed the CDC to be the best public health agency in the world. Now suddenly the CDC has “repeatedly they messed up testing, they haven’t collected the data, the guidance that you’ve been laying out has been mushy and often not evidence-based. And my sense is that the leadership at the CDC has been sidelined. It is really really harmful to the American people.”
Maddow: “Shouldn’t there be a CDC briefing every day?”
Dr. Jha: “You would think the CDC would be the source of data and evidence for this pandemic…The CDC has just been absent…There’s clearly been a decision to sideline the CDC to make sure that they’re not collecting and presenting data to the American people. And It makes the work of all PH officials across the country much, much harder. We need the CDC back we really do, or we’re going to have a much harder time getting through this pandemic without them.
Maddow: “How do you imagine this getting righted, we really need them back.”
Dr. Jha: “The good news is most of the great people at the CDC…they’re still there so we don’t have to bring them back. The bad news is they’ve been muzzled…we have to find a way to unmuzzle them…to let them do their job…Congress?…public pressure…Dr. Redfield the appointed head of CDC…Is this the public health agency he wants to lead in the greatest pandemic in a century? And if he can’t do it he should step aside and make sure that somebody else can lead that agency and help the American people to get through tis period.”
All of these fuckers are going to experience every level of hell that there is when they leave this earth, and that’s what enables me to sleep at night
Holy crap you racist @AnnCoulter. And the teenager who shot and killed my daughter was white. Yes, I will blame the current occupant of the White House for inciting and your disgusting racism won't change that. https://t.co/0nZsPJfIUD
So we’re just doing de facto hard core herd immunity? With the risk tilted toward working class people and, within the working class, people of color? No national plan, no sense of moral or logistical urgency, just death for those who can’t afford to work behind a computer. Cool.
Tell your Senator that you expect them to fund the #USPS in the next stimulus bill, and to maintain it as a public good. Call 202-224-3121. https://t.co/D2vMlAqfbO
Congress owes it to rural Americans, urban Americans, employees & everyone in between to #FundThePostalService, which is why I led over 120 of my colleagues in calling for Congressional leadership to do just thathttps://t.co/kGqqosdLKZ
Yesterday: “A Todos Con BIden Moderated Discussion”.
With labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, actor John Leguizamo, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and Former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
Fab John Leguizamo kicked off the event: “Knowing your history is knowing your power.”
LEGUIZAMO:
“We came from some of the greatest empires the world has ever known, the Incas, the Mayas, the Aztecs.
The Incan empire was times bigger than any empire at the time.
Bigger than the Ming Dynasty, bigger than the Tsarist Russia, bigger than the Ottoman Empire.
The Incas had invented brain surgery with anaesthesia, and they had a binary code that predated computers.
The Mayans invented the concept of zero. Before them, there was no number to call nothing, and then we gave the world the most important foods. We gave you corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, and chilies – can you believe that.? There was no spicy food before us!
And look let me give you a little run down…
-We are 20% of the U.S. population.
-25% of the U.S. box office…less than 1% of the stories being told by Hollywood.
-And yet we contribute 2.3 Trillion dollars to the U.S. economy.
-If we were our own country we’d be the 10th largest country in the world.
-We’re bigger than England, we’re like the 4th largest estate in America.
-Our women are number #1 in small business creations at 87%.
–And we save the housing market with 68% of total sales.
So if you know this about your history, about your people…
you’ll know if they try to depress us, demean us, exclude us, we’re still contributing.
And being Latin is having a superpower.
Just know that.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5583GLr__Y)
Haven’t read yet but highly recommended:
“At home with the Aztec”
by Michael Smith.
(https://www.academia.edu/19859266/At_Home_With_the_Aztecs)
-and-
“A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya”
by Linda Schele, David A. Freidel
Apparently filled with royal intrigue, rewriting history, and succession to the throne. Decodes mayan writings and describes the royal history and major centers, entangled as any court in Europe.
Hundreds of people are gathered outside of the Massachusetts State House, calling for the end of COVID-19 related restrictions. Signs say “end the lockdown” and protesters are wearing Trump 2020 gear. #mapolipic.twitter.com/mlzYA0GFXc
They sure do have shitty windows in Russia….. dangerous shitty windows
A third Russian doctor has fallen from a hospital window, Russia has billed the U.S. $660,000 for its coronavirus aid package, Russian construction minister has been hospitalized with Covid-19, and more of what you missed over the weekendhttps://t.co/INSsJHVXqL
Holy crap you racist @AnnCoulter. And the teenager who shot and killed my daughter was white. Yes, I will blame the current occupant of the White House for inciting and your disgusting racism won't change that. https://t.co/0nZsPJfIUD
Boogaloo:
Extremists new slang term for a coming civil war.
Christopher Mathias who studies the far right (Huffpo):
Explained to Chris Hayes that the Hawaiian short worn by one of the groups protesting Government lockdown was code for Boogaloo = coming civil war.
And that these protestors are ‘not normal’.
Mathias thinks this group has come out of the woodwork in response to the instability created by COVID-19.
That it will organize and recruit, should be reported on, is dangerous, anti-Muslim, connected to bombings and murders, has a big fear of guns being taken. He added that Trump supporters and the groups involved
have “a long history of being connected to white nationalist groups.”
Boogaloo: (https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war)
A man was spotted wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood in a Vons in the San Diego County city of Santee on Saturday, igniting outrage from the mayor, the head of the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego and others.
A corporate spokeswoman said grocery clerks repeatedly asked the shopper to remove the hood or leave the store, located on Mission Gorge Road.
A supervisor found the man once he was in a checkout line and asked him again to take off the hood or leave, said Melissa Hill, a spokeswoman for Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions stores in Southern California.
“The ideological disease that cripples the United States is the belief that society does not exist beyond its commercial activity, meaning profits for corporations and their owners or shareholders — as sacred.
An entire set of religious assumptions follow, most significantly that people like Jordan are martyrs for the God of profit. Their deaths are acceptable losses in the name of God and country, which mutate together into the bloodless idol of commerce.”
“Public health experts, doctors, nurses and virologists have argued one position:
Even though it is painful and costly, the United States must remain on lockdown, and its citizens must continue to practice social distancing. Otherwise, massive amounts of people will needlessly die.” (Salon)
Define American Sets ‘Building Solidarity For Black And Asian Communities Through COVID-19’ Forum With Jon M. Chu, Franklin Leonard, Prabal Gurung And Nikole Hannah-Jones https://t.co/Ss5KdcobUspic.twitter.com/m0hFDix7d3
Such a long overdue honor for Ida B. Wells, who pioneered a style and genre of reporting — diligently documenting truths black America is well aware of but white America refuses to otherwise believe — still employed by many black journalists today https://t.co/OHBzqE4kcL
The #1619Project published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most importantly, the unparalleled role black people have played in this democracy. https://t.co/yXKwnJhAf5
Congratulations to @nhannahjones for her #Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. Watch the journalist tell the story of her "spiritual grandmother" Ida B. Wells, who was also honored with a posthumous Pulitzer citation. pic.twitter.com/491PwW8v32
This plan reflects many months of work & feedback from local elected officials, activists, organizations, practitioners, policy experts, strategists & young ppl. This is a living document and we look forward to continued engagement around this plan.✊🏾
“COVID-19 is also having a disproportionate economic impact on African American families. African American small businesses have been hit hard, and over 90% of African American-owned businesses are estimated to be shut out of the initial relief program due to preexisting, systemic disparities in lending. This is especially dire given that African American families have less of a financial cushion to fall back on in hard times.”
More to say later, but MSNBC missed the story of this election & they did so because they privilege white voices, especially white left voices. Wholesale changes in culture & personnel are needed at that network.
It’s a bit nicely:
“He’s Like “Abraham Lincoln Compared to Donald Trump”
“Resistance” Group Endorses Biden:
A progressive group has endorsed Joe Biden for president despite not supporting him during the primaries.
Indivisible will formally endorse Biden on Monday following overwhelming support from its local chapters and members. The group was founded following President Donald Trump’s election.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/04/resistance-group-endorses-biden-hes-like-abraham-lincoln-compared-to-donald-trump.html)
We usually gather in the newsroom for cake and champagne on Pulitzer Day. Today, the @latimes is celebrating a big year — two Pulitzer Prizes, three finalists — on Zoom! A little different, but no less moving. So proud. 🍾🏅 pic.twitter.com/g2KM3qBubr
There was also a story by @emilytgreen, produced by @lmisitzis, built around remarkable recordings of cartels negotiating ransom for the release of a father and son who had been kidnapped immediately after being returned to Mexico. https://t.co/pYlFDQDToA
This episode includes a piece of investigative reporting we did with @mollymotoole, in which she interviewed asylum officers who talked about their discomfort enforcing the policy. She documented the fact that many of them were resigning. https://t.co/Bq8RsxV8gU
It only took Doug Stephens 2 days & 5 interviews to decide he was done implementing Remain in Mexico, Trump’s most successful policy to restrict asylum. He’s believed to be the 1st asylum officer in the country to refuse. @latimes@ThisAmerLife exclusive: https://t.co/XmTsi6iUi2
I swore I had contracted the coronavirus and that my lungs were filling up with mucus. 5 sleeplessness nights and dozens of harried phone calls to friends before I ended-up in the emergency room Saturday morning. I had written my epithet. 2/
I am relieved to say the pinto bean dislodged itself after a vigorous round of coughing and my covid test was negative. I live to tweet–much to the chagrin of my online haters–another day.
A big Texas tip of the Stetson to Jeffery Gerrit of @palestineherald for being awarded a @PulitzerPrizes "for editorials that exposed how inmates died in a small county jail while they were awaiting trial." We need local newspapers! https://t.co/JnH7sK4r2K
Never has an editor been more proud of his staff than I am at this moment. Here's to a tremendous @courierjournal newsroom & our commitment to holding public officials accountable. That's what Kentucky expects us to do. #pulitzerhttps://t.co/ClYaftXIzl via @courierjournal
Peter Morley @morethanmySLE · 22m
BREAKING: White House #coronavirus task force members are PROHIBITED from testifying before Congress this month under new guidance issued by the Trump administration TODAY.
Days after SILENCING Dr. Fauci, from testifying. WHAT IS TRUMP HIDING? #COVIDー19
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts · 32m
A Colorado man who helped organize an armed protest against the state’s lockdown order was arrested on suspicion of having pipe bombs and related materials. He was under investigation for social media posts urging people to bring assault rifles to a rally.
Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila . 41m
A security guard at a Family Dollar store named Calvin Munerlyn in Flint, Michigan was spit at, shot and killed for asking a woman to put on a state-mandated mask before entering.
That woman, her husband and her adult son have now all been charged with murder.
We thought they were willing to accept more deaths in exchange for a better economy but it turns out they were just willing to accept more deaths period.
A lot of Democratic strategists and journalists are nibbling around the edges, but I don't think anyone has fully articulated the Trump campaign's digital strategy—it seems obvious to me that they're building a digital mouse trap for their supporters to live in until November.
Andy Lack's overdue exit from @NBCNews after he covered for Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer begs another question: why haven't @NBCNews or @MSNBC dug deeper into Trump's “Apprentice” history on their own network?
Morning everyone. Michelle Obama has something to say and all of us need to hear it. No matter what race, color or creed.. we have a civic duty to do. All.Of.Us.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has struck down a requirement that absentee ballots must be notarized to be valid.
The ruling gives a win to the League of Women Voters, which said the requirement was a "substantial obstacle" that voters would have to face. https://t.co/kQABlfpvWs
Fucker. I don’t want him here. He hasn’t paid for any of the PREVIOUS visits yet!
Trump’s traveling 9.5hrs today to Arizona for a 4hr visit to one company all so he can campaign and use taxpayer dollars to pay for it all. Because of course he is.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning TODville.
Thank you NW for this space.
Looking forward to watching Becoming on the 6th.
On fire and ready for Wednesday!!!!!
Damn, this one hit me hard, I was born and raised in Miami and Don Shula was an institution. My old man loved himself some Dolphins and Don Shula. I remember my dad would take my brother and I to the practices because they were free, we couldn’t afford the tickets but we didn’t care because it was the Dolphins. Sleep well Coach Shula….
May he rest in peace.
How do you post a photo on here? Sometimes a photo says it all.
You have to use a third party service, like twitter or Instagram or a photo hosting website. You can’t directly post photos here.
Thanks for the info. Guess I will need to show my picture with words instead.
I only have an iPad. When I select a photo a menu pops up and the closest I see to this site is gmail where I get my obamadiary.wordpress.com posts.
Tears. This disease is most cruel.
Adorable is everything…with thanks to our forever Michelle.
Can not wait to watch “Becoming” on Netflix.
Have been doing just that … have more stamps than we’ll likely ever use 🙂 Gonna give them as Christmas present stuffing goodies 🙂
I got the juice! 😄
Funny happening the other day when I opened my small community mailbox. There was a package in it. I had to stop and think what it could be. When I opened the package the joke was on me. I had been scammed, but it was worth it for the laugh. 😂
I am currently shopping at my regular grocery store online where I go pick the order up at the appointed time and they bring the groceries out and put them in my car. 🚙 The four times since Stay n Place that I have used the service they had no toilet paper. A friend looked in five different local grocery stores also with none available. So I turned to Amazon and found six rolls of tp on back order of a month and a half. It was through a private person working through Amazon. I ordered it.
You guessed it! Upon opening the small package it was six rolls of miniaturized toilet paper. I placed one roll of regular toilet paper on top of them as that showed the difference words do not equate. One roll of regular tp is taller than the others and may be equal to four rolls of the miniature rolls as it covered all but two rolls.
My question is in this time of shortages when there was a need for the regular product why would someone go to all the bother to make a product that would not have repeat business? Could it be opportunity, greed, and larger profit margins?
I’d contact Amazon. Believe there is recourse available for third party scams.
We miss a competent President and First Lady, can’t wait till November when we make our choices made if white women would not disappoint us again by given trump there votes this time
😃😍
🎺🎺🎺
Let’s just play the whole thing, shall we?
“TEST THERE.”
Maddow reporting that possibly 80% of the deaths in Minnesota are in nursing homes: “Test and ye shall find”.
Then there are the prisons: Trousdale Turner Correctional Center TN has the 3rd largest prison COVID-19 outbreak = 1349 of 2700 people tested positive. Imagine if and when every prison is finally tested?
We must test in order to find who is infected, whether symptomatic or not, and act to prevent spread of the virus. The Nebraska governor claimed the surrounding metro area Sioux City Iowa was not getting the spike in coronavirus from the meat plant in Dakota City. Then finally, testing turned up 669 positives at that meat plant.
Maddow: “Not looking is not a safe way to hide this stuff.”
Maddow explains how the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC:
Sends “world class specialized disease detectives”, small teams of intrepid and great scientists to investigate root causes. The mo is “You invite in the CDC, they send their elite disease detectives, that team figures out what happened, they tell you in a short report in no uncertain terms with no minced words what you need to do to fix it, and then you fix it.”
But the CDC report on the Sioux Falls Plant the CDC was not normal. It instructed the plant to “consider implementing…if feasible…when possible.” Wishy-washy instead of clear cut directives. And headed up with: “These recommendations are discretionary and are not required or mandated by CDC.”
RM’s team narrowed down the abrupt change in CDC’s response to a 2 day window:
Before: The normal straight forward CDC response to JBS Greeley CO on April 20th.
After: The “Not required” CDC response to the Smithfield Sioux Falls IO on April 22nd.
Dramatic changes in CDC responses:
JBS Greeley CO (April 20): Emphasize face coverings must cover nose and mouth at all times.”
Smithfield Sioux Falls IO (April 22): “face covering are generally recommended.”
CO (20th): “Provide all entrants (listed) to the plant with a face covering and show them how it needs to be worn.”
SD (22nd): “If feasible, all employees should wear the face covering.”
CO (20th): “teach workers to ask for new face coverings when tears becomes dirty, wet, and/or difficult to breathe through..”
SD (22nd):“The facial covering should be discarded and replaced when dirty or wet, if possible.”
CO (20th) “stagger breaks to minimize the total number of workers that are in common areas, locker rooms, lunchrooms and locker rooms at the same time.”
SD (22nd) “staggering shifts, start times, and break time as much as feasible.”
CO (20th): “Put hand washing stations near the outdoor break area and encourage hand washing…Install hand washing stations or additional sanitizer dispensers in the lunchroom.”
SD (22nd): “Portable…hand washing facilities could be utilized.”
CO (20th): “Physical barriers should not be used as a replacement for maintaining at least 6 feet between workers…if that is not possible, barriers, can be installed.”
SD (22nd): “Consider the following actions to physically separate employees.”
CO April 20 (20th):“Ensure all workers who have a fever (.1004oF) or one or more of the reported symptoms are sent directly to secondary screening…Provide specimen collection and ordering of COVID-19 testing on site for workers during secondary screening who are found to have fever and/symptoms. Entrants who are not workers at the plant who indicate they have a fever or symptoms should not be allowed entry into the plant.”
SD (22nd) “If possible, ask employees about recent history of fever.”
= Weak and watered down guidance in the middle of the biggest health threat.
How did that happen in 2 days?
SD (22nd) “If possible, ask employees about recent history of fever.”
My god, my job won’t even let in the front lobby if my temperature is above a certain level AND I’m asked a series of medical questions. I’m not even allowed to enter the front lobby without a mask on and I’m required to wear it for the full shift. Even our cafeteria is closed for eat-in, to-go only, and we’re aren’t allowed to congregate unless its a full blown emergency.
“We need the real CDC back and we need it now.”
Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute:
One fiasco after another: “This has been baffling to all of us in the public health world.”
Dr. Jha has always believed the CDC to be the best public health agency in the world. Now suddenly the CDC has “repeatedly they messed up testing, they haven’t collected the data, the guidance that you’ve been laying out has been mushy and often not evidence-based. And my sense is that the leadership at the CDC has been sidelined. It is really really harmful to the American people.”
Maddow: “Shouldn’t there be a CDC briefing every day?”
Dr. Jha: “You would think the CDC would be the source of data and evidence for this pandemic…The CDC has just been absent…There’s clearly been a decision to sideline the CDC to make sure that they’re not collecting and presenting data to the American people. And It makes the work of all PH officials across the country much, much harder. We need the CDC back we really do, or we’re going to have a much harder time getting through this pandemic without them.
Maddow: “How do you imagine this getting righted, we really need them back.”
Dr. Jha: “The good news is most of the great people at the CDC…they’re still there so we don’t have to bring them back. The bad news is they’ve been muzzled…we have to find a way to unmuzzle them…to let them do their job…Congress?…public pressure…Dr. Redfield the appointed head of CDC…Is this the public health agency he wants to lead in the greatest pandemic in a century? And if he can’t do it he should step aside and make sure that somebody else can lead that agency and help the American people to get through tis period.”
All of these fuckers are going to experience every level of hell that there is when they leave this earth, and that’s what enables me to sleep at night
I pray for this everyday. And I wake in the morning praying that the asshole died overnight. I hate these poor excuses for people
Good Evening TODville Community.
I took a week off & now, all my Stuff need almost new passwords, log-ins, etc.
Thanks Don.
FRIGHTENING
wrong tweet…
this is what is FRIGHTENING>>>>>>>>>>
Yesterday: “A Todos Con BIden Moderated Discussion”.
With labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, actor John Leguizamo, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and Former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
Fab John Leguizamo kicked off the event: “Knowing your history is knowing your power.”
LEGUIZAMO:
“We came from some of the greatest empires the world has ever known, the Incas, the Mayas, the Aztecs.
The Incan empire was times bigger than any empire at the time.
Bigger than the Ming Dynasty, bigger than the Tsarist Russia, bigger than the Ottoman Empire.
The Incas had invented brain surgery with anaesthesia, and they had a binary code that predated computers.
The Mayans invented the concept of zero. Before them, there was no number to call nothing, and then we gave the world the most important foods. We gave you corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, and chilies – can you believe that.? There was no spicy food before us!
And look let me give you a little run down…
-We are 20% of the U.S. population.
-25% of the U.S. box office…less than 1% of the stories being told by Hollywood.
-And yet we contribute 2.3 Trillion dollars to the U.S. economy.
-If we were our own country we’d be the 10th largest country in the world.
-We’re bigger than England, we’re like the 4th largest estate in America.
-Our women are number #1 in small business creations at 87%.
–And we save the housing market with 68% of total sales.
So if you know this about your history, about your people…
you’ll know if they try to depress us, demean us, exclude us, we’re still contributing.
And being Latin is having a superpower.
Just know that.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5583GLr__Y)
Haven’t read yet but highly recommended:
“At home with the Aztec”
by Michael Smith.
(https://www.academia.edu/19859266/At_Home_With_the_Aztecs)
-and-
“A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya”
by Linda Schele, David A. Freidel
Apparently filled with royal intrigue, rewriting history, and succession to the throne. Decodes mayan writings and describes the royal history and major centers, entangled as any court in Europe.
They sure do have shitty windows in Russia….. dangerous shitty windows
Russia’s MO..Throwing folks from the window
I know. It’s crazy and certifiable
Qwhite interesting
Boogaloo:
Extremists new slang term for a coming civil war.
Christopher Mathias who studies the far right (Huffpo):
Explained to Chris Hayes that the Hawaiian short worn by one of the groups protesting Government lockdown was code for Boogaloo = coming civil war.
And that these protestors are ‘not normal’.
Mathias thinks this group has come out of the woodwork in response to the instability created by COVID-19.
That it will organize and recruit, should be reported on, is dangerous, anti-Muslim, connected to bombings and murders, has a big fear of guns being taken. He added that Trump supporters and the groups involved
have “a long history of being connected to white nationalist groups.”
Boogaloo: (https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war)
We.Will.Not.Forget.
“Trump declares support for armed protestors storming Michigan capital:
“These are very good people”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/05/01/trump-declares-support-for-armed-protestors-storming-michigan-capitol-these-are-very-good-people/)
This country is so fucked up.
This Hurts so Much
Marc Murphy @MurphyCartoons · 6h
Pubs in Ireland are closed until at least August 10. Pubs. In Ireland.
But by all means let’s open Cracker Barrel right now.
May 4, 2020 7:10 AM SANTEE —
A man was spotted wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood in a Vons in the San Diego County city of Santee on Saturday, igniting outrage from the mayor, the head of the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego and others.
A corporate spokeswoman said grocery clerks repeatedly asked the shopper to remove the hood or leave the store, located on Mission Gorge Road.
A supervisor found the man once he was in a checkout line and asked him again to take off the hood or leave, said Melissa Hill, a spokeswoman for Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions stores in Southern California.
Rachel Maddow MSNBCVerified account @maddow · 7m7 minutes ago
This is why only testing people with symptoms is dumb.
It’s dumb in food plants, in nursing homes, anywhere you actually need to detect all infections.
“More than 370 workers at pork plant in Missouri tested positive for COVID-19. All were asymptomatic.”
clappppppppppp
YAY!!!!!!!
“Leilani Jordan, a 27-year-old woman with a developmental disability,
who worked as a grocery clerk at a satellite store of Giant Food — a chain throughout three states —died from the coronavirus disease when contracted when earning her final paycheck. That check was for $20.64.
She worked without a facial mask”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/05/02/its-time-to-reject-the-gods-of-commerce-america-is-a-society-not-an-economy/)
“The ideological disease that cripples the United States is the belief that society does not exist beyond its commercial activity, meaning profits for corporations and their owners or shareholders — as sacred.
An entire set of religious assumptions follow, most significantly that people like Jordan are martyrs for the God of profit. Their deaths are acceptable losses in the name of God and country, which mutate together into the bloodless idol of commerce.”
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“Public health experts, doctors, nurses and virologists have argued one position:
Even though it is painful and costly, the United States must remain on lockdown, and its citizens must continue to practice social distancing. Otherwise, massive amounts of people will needlessly die.” (Salon)
Pure joy!
“COVID-19 is also having a disproportionate economic impact on African American families. African American small businesses have been hit hard, and over 90% of African American-owned businesses are estimated to be shut out of the initial relief program due to preexisting, systemic disparities in lending. This is especially dire given that African American families have less of a financial cushion to fall back on in hard times.”
Plan looking good…bravi!!
Amen!
What walking the walk looks like
Yessssss!
Who’s gonna pay thousands for a death cruise?
Some will. Bon voyage to them!
I crossed off cruises and assisted living or nursing homes from my bucket list and future possibilities after what this corona virus has shown me.
It’s a bit nicely:
“He’s Like “Abraham Lincoln Compared to Donald Trump”
“Resistance” Group Endorses Biden:
A progressive group has endorsed Joe Biden for president despite not supporting him during the primaries.
Indivisible will formally endorse Biden on Monday following overwhelming support from its local chapters and members. The group was founded following President Donald Trump’s election.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/04/resistance-group-endorses-biden-hes-like-abraham-lincoln-compared-to-donald-trump.html)
After this ad, I am not sure I want to remain here NOW! LOL.
Funny; not funny; funny as all get out… 🤣
Peter Morley @morethanmySLE · 22m
BREAKING: White House #coronavirus task force members are PROHIBITED from testifying before Congress this month under new guidance issued by the Trump administration TODAY.
Days after SILENCING Dr. Fauci, from testifying. WHAT IS TRUMP HIDING? #COVIDー19
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts · 32m
A Colorado man who helped organize an armed protest against the state’s lockdown order was arrested on suspicion of having pipe bombs and related materials. He was under investigation for social media posts urging people to bring assault rifles to a rally.
I think this is the very important point that people are missing altogether:
Absolutely, Meta. This is not going to end well!!!!
Everyone should watch and listen to this microbiology physician, Dr Lane Rolling who is interviewed by his daughter; Jordyn.
AFP news agency @AFP · 2m
#BREAKING US #coronavirus deaths rise by 1,015 in 24 hours, lowest in a month: Johns Hopkins
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I am not stepping one toe out there!
Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila . 41m
A security guard at a Family Dollar store named Calvin Munerlyn in Flint, Michigan was spit at, shot and killed for asking a woman to put on a state-mandated mask before entering.
That woman, her husband and her adult son have now all been charged with murder.
I hope all 3 are locked away forever.
Fill out your census:)
2020census.gov
This made me think of our own DannyO in times past. 🙂
Indeed it does! 🙂 Now that BlackwaterDog is back on Twitter…………Fingers crossed……:)
How did I miss this needed dose of adorable!!? Yes….like Danny with his sticks:) Fond memory
Happy 90th Birthday to Katherine Jackson, mother of the late great Michael Jackson.
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Morning everyone. Michelle Obama has something to say and all of us need to hear it. No matter what race, color or creed.. we have a civic duty to do. All.Of.Us.
Fucker. I don’t want him here. He hasn’t paid for any of the PREVIOUS visits yet!
Makes total sense now why the Gov. is allowing some places to reopen here. Another ass kisser
Sorry, df. I get it because this could just as easy be Tennessee. They are all ass kissers. 🙁
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/speak-the-truth-speak-it-clearly/