Now that BECOMING is out, I'm excited to share the inspiring story of Elizabeth who I met last year while spending time with a group of remarkable young women from my old high school, @wyhs. As you watch, I hope you'll see your own stories reflected in this film. #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/pmJWvZa3qr
We’re honoring #NationalNursesDay with a very special surprise for a deserving group of heroes. @craigmelvin shares the story of nurses working on the front lines at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. pic.twitter.com/OO37rRN7Kl
Mabel K. Staupers (1890-1989) successfully led the decades-long charge to integrate black women nurses into the military nurses corp. Staupers served as executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) from 1934-1949. #NationalNursesDaypic.twitter.com/iTM296nbqP
Ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes hospital call.
The Supreme Court will hold a conference call to hear a case involving birth control and Obamacare — and RBG will call into the argument from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital.https://t.co/AZie2ndvkJ
On my way to work and my neighbor told me Its national nurses day and thanked me for my service. If you guys see a nurse today please thank them for everything they do, it means so very much to us. 💙💙 pic.twitter.com/RsnJy86jGG
Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Gail! As a retired nurse-midwife and mother of a public health nurse who is running a testing site in South Seattle, than you for appreciating all our nurses!
To all nurses God Bless you, thanks for all you have done and continue to do, may your days be long and your life be wonderfully blessed we really do appreciate the work you do Long Live our Nurses
I do believe trump plans by summer to hide all talk of coronavirus to give his supporters and the general public the false feeling it has gone away it was all a hoax and there will be denial of the true death toll, his maga supporters already believe everything he says its up to the media democrats and the medical profession to keep this out front in the public and not let him get away with this genocide
Maybe it was Rachel or then again it might have been Lawrence that had an article about how the two main AZ state Universities had experts volunteering their time on a project to figure out when was safest for them to open up their state again. Based on their report the AZ Governor announced they would wait until the end of May to start the opening. Then Trump went to AZ to tour a face mask production plant and met with the Governor. Suddenly the opening date is moved forward and the volunteer University experts have been sent a desist letter. Seems the data the Federal Government is using is different and not transparent. So what is currently happening with the Iowa and Arizona Governors with their states’ rising numbers of coronavirus cases and Trump talks with them verifies what you are saying.
This is wild. Two Utah businesses instructed staff to ignore quarantine guidelines, resulting in 68 cases. At one of the businesses, half of the employees got it. https://t.co/zi4qxgKdHF
As far as I’m concerned, every day should be #TeacherAppreciationDay. Their miraculous work is invaluable and their impact on our children unmistakable – even without a national crisis complicating their efforts.
Over the last two months, teachers nationwide have achieved the impossible: rewriting lesson plans in a matter of hours, rapidly mastering new technology, and devising innovative ways to keep America’s students engaged at a distance.
Congress cannot allow their reward for this inspiring show of expertise to be a furlough or a pink slip. The best way to #ThankATeacher is to ensure they and countless other workers in our communities have the support they need to continue their vital work. RT if you agree!
We should support teachers better than we do. It’s way past time.
‘I want to tell my students, ‘You should be a teacher.’ But how can I do that when I feel like I can’t keep doing it?’ — This Nashville teacher poured her heart out at a school board meeting #TeacherAppreciationDaypic.twitter.com/bcBBY0BKP0
Fatal combo for the rest of us.
Doom in over his head…this is so beyond mob real estate crimes…but he is still doing the old routine:
Making other people do all the work (governors and mayors), then punishing them for it (sues, refuses to pay).
Never admits he doesn’t know something, cannot face the truth, so now fairy story he tells himself is Blowing Up.
Rather than die in jail Trump see his best way out is to let voters die.
The government’s official jobs report on Friday is expected to be a chilling one, showing layoffs surged and unemployment rose to Great Depression levels in April. https://t.co/JaLu92EDgvpic.twitter.com/fiQKWnruN8
The press still regurgitating whatever comes out of Trump’s mouth..spreading misinformation like the Corona virus…..Not allowing DrFauci to testify before the HOUSE is an Obstruction of Congress for what he was IMPEACHED for..why can’t the press say that #Pathethic
Sorry about the fb link, y’all, but it’s all I have for now.. luckily, you can scroll down and watch the trailer without having to log in or join fb.. which suits me!! Kids are leaving Myanmar finally (pray for them) on Friday, it has been quite a journey..
Juliette Kayyem,
Fmr U.S. Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security:
“Trump will stop counting fatalities once the Task Force ends.
“The numbers just got too big, once we passed 60,000.” This is a homeland security response in 3 key failures: ignoring the intelligence;
inability to execute for the states;
and refusal to respect the dead.”
(https://triblive.com/news/white-house-may-dissolve-its-coronavirus-task-force-this-month/)
The mere notion that the richest, most powerful, and most technologically advanced country in the world is going to be the one most devastated by the virus is all the evidence needed that no gov't. can be gutted, staffed with sycophants, led by a narcissistic lunatic, and work.
Ahmaud Arbery's horrific murder reminds us how dangerous it is when average White people feel empowered to deputize themselves w/ powers of surveillance, judgment & punishment. THIS is why we get upset when folks call 911 on BBQs & lemonade stands. It's always been life & death.
— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) May 6, 2020
On the Trump Administration violating their own guidelines.
CHRIS HAYES: “Everyone is just blowing through it at the urging of the president.”
CONGRESSMAN CHRIS MURPHY:
“He frankly didn’t do anything to implement the plan…the plan says once you reopen you’ve got to adopt as system of testing, tracing and quarantine…well that doesn’t happen without an infrastructure, without staff,
without funding, and just since the plan was released the administration has had two weeks to work with Congress to appropriate money to the states, to local public health departments, to hire up workers who would do this. Instead they have resisted efforts to try to fund those activities. They’ve said that states should go bankrupt!
And so even since they released the plan, they have resisted any efforts to implement it.
And so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that it didn’t work and that now they are left with only one option, which is to just go along with increasing tide being driven by Trump’s base, and open up the country too soon.”
Later on in the show…
Kathleen Sebelius, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services:
“I have to tell you Chris, you and Senator Murphy are overly generous.
It didn’t take 2 weeks for the president to ignore the CDC guidelines. It took 24 hours.
The guidelines were put out. The following EVENING he began texting “Liberate” Michigan, “Liberate” Virginia. That was 24 hours after the CDC guidelines, which do make sense, were put forward.”
Hayes quoted this tweet by Charlie Warzel, (NYT)
“..the u.s. virus response feels so much like our response to gun violence.
seems easy to prevent! others have! but it’s not ‘who we are.’ a certain idea of freedom makes it impossible. so we move on and just learn to accept a level of human loss that other countries won’t tolerate.”
Congressman Chris Murphy:
“On gun violence there is a really powerful political constitutency on the other side that we have to beat.
We know what to do, but we’re not willing to do it because of a political force that exists on the other side.
What makes the Trump administration’s lack of response so unconscionable, is that there
ISN’T A POLITICAL FORCE on the other side…There’s NOBODY STOPPING the Trump administration from following South Korea’s lead, there’s nobody’s stopping them from deciding to fund a testing, tracing and quarantine system, there ISN’T AN NRA when it comes to the politics surrounding this issue.
If Trump would lead and do the things that we know would get this epidemic under control, we could save thousands of lives. And that I think is the critical difference.”
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS:
“Where the CDC is I don’t know but we need them front and center.
We should be hearing from the CDC who will teach us how to track and trace and identify and shut down the outbreaks of this disease. And from the NIH that will be at the front of vaccine development.
And right now the CDC is missing in action.”
“Fauci is being gagged by our president, not allowed to testify in Congress…the American public will not have any faith in going back into normal society unless the scientists say it is really OK. And if Tony Fauci is gagged they will listen to their state and local Health leaders and health scentists.” (Sebelius)
RBG from her hospital bed, fighting for our rights.
RBG: "You have just tossed entirely to the wind what Congress thought was essential, that women be provided these services with no hassles, no cost … Instead, you are shifting the employer's religious beliefs, the cost of that, onto these employees." https://t.co/REURcsHu7M
Dear Universe, Please Protect RBG at all costs. Encircle her with an impenetrable force field of healing strength and power. This woman is a certified bad ass and deserves full throated protection. Thank you. Love, Sane citizens of the United States of America
New: Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN she will back John Ratcliffe's nomination to be Director of National Intelligence, all-but ensuring Ratcliffe's nomination will be approved during the floor vote. @mkraju reporting
.@JetBlue is donating a pair of round-trip flights to 100,000 medical personnel and nurses to honor their efforts, beginning with 10,000 NY medical professionals.
What a great way to thank so many of our frontline heroes. #NationalNursesDay
"At least three African Americans carrying large rifles" escorted MI State Rep. Sarah Anthony into the State Capitol, a week after armed white men swarmed the building:https://t.co/RxTna1XhoMpic.twitter.com/nRECIIKzV4
Our First Lady’s movie “Becoming” just now graced my tv.
The Obama family in the White House really happened…such a glorious, indelible event.
FL Michelle is real, magnificent, and her story is a devastating gift to the world.
Thank You.
What a sight that was today. I’m bummed I didn’t have my phone handy. ❤️
Today a parade of cars & trucks rolled through my neighborhood with horns blaring, passengers waving and signs encouraging people to “Be Strong”, “Be Kind” and “Stay Safe.” There is #goodnessintheworld. 🙏🏾#QuarantineLife
@LidlUS This morning at your Snellville, GA store: NO sanitized shopping carts; NO spray disinfectant: NO employees wearing masks; multiple employees NOT observing social distancing. You might want to jump on that. (On the bright side, all staff were v. helpful & friendly.)
My parents and other family members who live in Snellville love to shop at Lidl. I’m appalled to hear this store is taking no precautions to keep their employees and customers safe. Given the risks to their health, I have encouraged my friends and family to avoid this store.
Who is it other then Biden that can be the nominee? These progressive left never have like Biden, they have been a Bernie supporter. I’m still with Biden.
@TheBeatWithAri No longer watching your show because of your anti-Biden efforts and your hosting of anti-Biden people like Michael Moore. Won't miss you, either! Keep doing what you're doing and you'll guarantee 4 more years of trump. Disgusted that I fell for your antics once.
"Trump is so manifestly unfit for this office that in the end the consequence of it will be one of the worst crises facing the country in our history. His extraordinary mismanagement of this situation has to be called out every day" – @SteveSchmidtSES w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/jvg8I1N7sE
When I hear REALLY high COVID-19 death projections from the White House (over 200K), it makes me think they're saying it'll be higher so that if it's lower trump can say "See, look what I did! Less death!"
A man is in custody after police say he disrupted a salute to health care workers and led them on a chase through Delaware County. https://t.co/M1sylzr4hA
There's a reason we are not being encouraged to grieve collectively. They want us to forget how to care for and about each other. Collective grief is anti-fascist, bc it binds us together in empathy & the shared reality of our collective loss. They're afraid of that.
— Puff the Magic Hater (@MsKellyMHayes) May 7, 2020
Remember! trump is a different kind of president!!
Manson was a different kind of commune leader!
Pearl Harbor was a different kind of international relations!
The Titanic was a different kind of ocean liner!
9/11 was a different kind of evacuation drill!
Cat poop is a different kind of tootsie roll!
What always moved me w/ Gabriel’s novels was his beautiful use of language & yet add these humorous nuggets in between disasters. Who the heck can produce a dastardly situation & make you laugh at human frailties, or misguided strengths in the midst of some terrible situation! His characters are so universal. You’re going to find family members (extended or not) right on those pages! 😇😂👀
I love author Gabriel Garcia Marquez! Loved “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, exquisite use of language. Almost burst out laughing on metro ride to work one morning as I was reading! The characters could be straight out of of our home towns. Loved “Love in Time of Cholera”. What always captures me is that beautiful turn of phrase, universal characters, & fab sense of humor set in absurd circumstances. Quirky. Should one laugh or cry? Nah, laugh! 😂 You almost don’t want story to end!
Holder said Biden would prioritize criminal justice reform if elected: "This is one of those issues that people are going to be surprised at how forward-leaning he's likely to be."https://t.co/L37G7jP79N
Republicans will spend millions of dollars in the next months on focus groups and polls trying to figure out why they are losing women in huge numbers. When all they have to do is read this tweet. https://t.co/E7uYMFOH86
This footage from our upcoming film #UNFIT speaks to malignant narcissism and authoritarianism. You'll see why Trump is so allergic to oversight (a timely issue).
Trump probably thinks of the deaths in terms of a permanent Democratic voter denial system particularly when viewing it as taking more poor, Black and Brown lives.
IMPORTANT If you are thinking of going to a salon or barber think about this, they are NOT using DISPOSABLE capes, towels & the technicians are wearing the SAME apron with ALL customers.People are touching mags & books & using the bathroom. They have to TOUCH you. It's not safe pic.twitter.com/XJcF3WC42m
AP Exclusive: The Trump admin has shelved a set of detailed documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places during the still-raging pandemic. https://t.co/5NQ2kA269x
Many Trump supporters cling to their race and skin color because for some that’s all they got. Some know that if opportunities were truly based on talent, skill and intelligence, they would always be at the bottom.
The Obama Diary 
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. Today is Nurses Appreciation Day. They deserve our thanks and gratitude ❤
❤️
Good morning Gail and TOD family. Hope all are staying in and staying well.
I really agree about Nurses. We don’t appreciate them enough.
👍🏾❤️
Thank you to all the nurses!
https://images.app.goo.gl/TV76uGM42fx9mpWeA
COMING UP:
Also here: https://www.ny.gov/
I’ve watched Becoming, three times already. It’s warm, like watching a good friend ❤
🙏🏾 😘
Happy Nurses Day!
Awesome 💕💕💕
And still WE rise ❤
Grateful thanks…also for the beauty.
Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Gail! As a retired nurse-midwife and mother of a public health nurse who is running a testing site in South Seattle, than you for appreciating all our nurses!
{{{{hugs}}}} ❤
💐💐You have our never ending gratitude and appreciation
To all nurses God Bless you, thanks for all you have done and continue to do, may your days be long and your life be wonderfully blessed we really do appreciate the work you do Long Live our Nurses
I do believe trump plans by summer to hide all talk of coronavirus to give his supporters and the general public the false feeling it has gone away it was all a hoax and there will be denial of the true death toll, his maga supporters already believe everything he says its up to the media democrats and the medical profession to keep this out front in the public and not let him get away with this genocide
Maybe it was Rachel or then again it might have been Lawrence that had an article about how the two main AZ state Universities had experts volunteering their time on a project to figure out when was safest for them to open up their state again. Based on their report the AZ Governor announced they would wait until the end of May to start the opening. Then Trump went to AZ to tour a face mask production plant and met with the Governor. Suddenly the opening date is moved forward and the volunteer University experts have been sent a desist letter. Seems the data the Federal Government is using is different and not transparent. So what is currently happening with the Iowa and Arizona Governors with their states’ rising numbers of coronavirus cases and Trump talks with them verifies what you are saying.
Thank You, NW🙏💙💪💙💪🙏
❤️❤️❤️
“Awfully Close to Genocide by Default.”
“Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves said the approach came close to genocide.’
‘An epidemiologist didn’t hold back in his assessment of the U.S. response to Coronavirus on Wednesday.”
“How many people will die this summer, before Election Day?”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/06/yale-epidemiologist-u-s-handling-of-coronavirus-awfully-close-to-genocide-by-default.html)
–Covering up the massive growing death toll numbers…pattern behavior…writing on wall.
We should support teachers better than we do. It’s way past time.
Fatal combo for the rest of us.
Doom in over his head…this is so beyond mob real estate crimes…but he is still doing the old routine:
Making other people do all the work (governors and mayors), then punishing them for it (sues, refuses to pay).
Never admits he doesn’t know something, cannot face the truth, so now fairy story he tells himself is Blowing Up.
Rather than die in jail Trump see his best way out is to let voters die.
“But when a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there’s a problem.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/5th-time-two-weeks-trump-tweaks-projected-death-toll-n1199276)
The press still regurgitating whatever comes out of Trump’s mouth..spreading misinformation like the Corona virus…..Not allowing DrFauci to testify before the HOUSE is an Obstruction of Congress for what he was IMPEACHED for..why can’t the press say that #Pathethic
Sorry about the fb link, y’all, but it’s all I have for now.. luckily, you can scroll down and watch the trailer without having to log in or join fb.. which suits me!! Kids are leaving Myanmar finally (pray for them) on Friday, it has been quite a journey..
Big hugs all around, keep us All The Heart!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=918235551971756&id=417977215330928?sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e
The Egypt film will release next week, after they have had some respite, and a few naps!! Bye for now, love all o’ Y’all!
Thank you, MP! praying for the kids. May they have a safe trip. 🙏❤️
💞🕊💞
Juliette Kayyem,
Fmr U.S. Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security:
“Trump will stop counting fatalities once the Task Force ends.
“The numbers just got too big, once we passed 60,000.” This is a homeland security response in 3 key failures: ignoring the intelligence;
inability to execute for the states;
and refusal to respect the dead.”
(https://triblive.com/news/white-house-may-dissolve-its-coronavirus-task-force-this-month/)
the need for a strong..competent…Federal Government.
Receipts!
Thread on COVID testing. Good read. Good plan. Wish we had a functioning federal government..
On the Trump Administration violating their own guidelines.
CHRIS HAYES: “Everyone is just blowing through it at the urging of the president.”
CONGRESSMAN CHRIS MURPHY:
“He frankly didn’t do anything to implement the plan…the plan says once you reopen you’ve got to adopt as system of testing, tracing and quarantine…well that doesn’t happen without an infrastructure, without staff,
without funding, and just since the plan was released the administration has had two weeks to work with Congress to appropriate money to the states, to local public health departments, to hire up workers who would do this. Instead they have resisted efforts to try to fund those activities. They’ve said that states should go bankrupt!
And so even since they released the plan, they have resisted any efforts to implement it.
And so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that it didn’t work and that now they are left with only one option, which is to just go along with increasing tide being driven by Trump’s base, and open up the country too soon.”
Later on in the show…
Kathleen Sebelius, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services:
“I have to tell you Chris, you and Senator Murphy are overly generous.
It didn’t take 2 weeks for the president to ignore the CDC guidelines. It took 24 hours.
The guidelines were put out. The following EVENING he began texting “Liberate” Michigan, “Liberate” Virginia. That was 24 hours after the CDC guidelines, which do make sense, were put forward.”
The incompetence, and rank corruption, is a fine feature, not a bug, of #virus45’s administration…
Hayes quoted this tweet by Charlie Warzel, (NYT)
“..the u.s. virus response feels so much like our response to gun violence.
seems easy to prevent! others have! but it’s not ‘who we are.’ a certain idea of freedom makes it impossible. so we move on and just learn to accept a level of human loss that other countries won’t tolerate.”
Congressman Chris Murphy:
“On gun violence there is a really powerful political constitutency on the other side that we have to beat.
We know what to do, but we’re not willing to do it because of a political force that exists on the other side.
What makes the Trump administration’s lack of response so unconscionable, is that there
ISN’T A POLITICAL FORCE on the other side…There’s NOBODY STOPPING the Trump administration from following South Korea’s lead, there’s nobody’s stopping them from deciding to fund a testing, tracing and quarantine system, there ISN’T AN NRA when it comes to the politics surrounding this issue.
If Trump would lead and do the things that we know would get this epidemic under control, we could save thousands of lives. And that I think is the critical difference.”
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS:
“Where the CDC is I don’t know but we need them front and center.
We should be hearing from the CDC who will teach us how to track and trace and identify and shut down the outbreaks of this disease. And from the NIH that will be at the front of vaccine development.
And right now the CDC is missing in action.”
“Fauci is being gagged by our president, not allowed to testify in Congress…the American public will not have any faith in going back into normal society unless the scientists say it is really OK. And if Tony Fauci is gagged they will listen to their state and local Health leaders and health scentists.” (Sebelius)
RBG from her hospital bed, fighting for our rights.
Dear Universe, Please Protect RBG at all costs. Encircle her with an impenetrable force field of healing strength and power. This woman is a certified bad ass and deserves full throated protection. Thank you. Love, Sane citizens of the United States of America
Because.Of.Course.
Now we’re beginning to see how much long-time Republican operatives detest Trump …..
UT OHHHH
Yup. What’s good for the goose ….
GOOD!
Our First Lady’s movie “Becoming” just now graced my tv.
The Obama family in the White House really happened…such a glorious, indelible event.
FL Michelle is real, magnificent, and her story is a devastating gift to the world.
Thank You.
Love it .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a sight that was today. I’m bummed I didn’t have my phone handy. ❤️
Who is it other then Biden that can be the nominee? These progressive left never have like Biden, they have been a Bernie supporter. I’m still with Biden.
Good advice.
Hi Bob. Ironic that Schmidt is so profoundly correct in his assessment.
Indeed!
Understand this
In my neck of the woods. Disgusting!
BECOMING on Netflix is a winner! /sigh
Remember! trump is a different kind of president!!
Manson was a different kind of commune leader!
Pearl Harbor was a different kind of international relations!
The Titanic was a different kind of ocean liner!
9/11 was a different kind of evacuation drill!
Cat poop is a different kind of tootsie roll!
Thread.
Too funny!
😂😂 was it an upgrade? 😂
Lawrence O’Donnell’s program he brought up an issue…There is no Strategy just tactics…
usually the Federal Government would have a strategy…a strategy that mitigates the spread while we search for a vaccine and treatment
Thank you, Nerdy darlin’, for always being here with us! Gives me such a sense of calm, especially on certain days. Love you!
Love his father’s books, a beautiful author. This from his son.
I cried
What always moved me w/ Gabriel’s novels was his beautiful use of language & yet add these humorous nuggets in between disasters. Who the heck can produce a dastardly situation & make you laugh at human frailties, or misguided strengths in the midst of some terrible situation! His characters are so universal. You’re going to find family members (extended or not) right on those pages! 😇😂👀
I love author Gabriel Garcia Marquez! Loved “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, exquisite use of language. Almost burst out laughing on metro ride to work one morning as I was reading! The characters could be straight out of of our home towns. Loved “Love in Time of Cholera”. What always captures me is that beautiful turn of phrase, universal characters, & fab sense of humor set in absurd circumstances. Quirky. Should one laugh or cry? Nah, laugh! 😂 You almost don’t want story to end!
This is good
Then they should go
Goodnight! 😍
Morning everyone
Watch. Share. #Unfitanddangerous
Trump probably thinks of the deaths in terms of a permanent Democratic voter denial system particularly when viewing it as taking more poor, Black and Brown lives.
People are stupid to go there
Yeah. It’s just like that.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/being-black-is-not-a-crime/