I’ve been hoping to find light in the darkness at least once each day. Thank you for posting this. I had to watch it multiple times to let it sink into each stressed and hurting part of myself and replace the revulsion for Trump and his enablers with a better energy.
More big news! Preliminary injunction granted. @NAACP_LDF joined the @ACLU_SC in challenging on behalf of Black the absentee ballot third party “witness” requirementas an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote for Black voters during the COVID-19 pandemic. Important win! https://t.co/3mX4jfAj6a
This young man's art is outstanding! South Carolinians never cease to amaze me with their talent and resourcefulness. If you can, consider buying one of his prints to support him. https://t.co/3s17b57iFz
Let us be reminded that we drink deeply from wells of freedom that we did not dig. Today we honor the memories of the heroic Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. #MemorialDay
While wearing a mask, Joe Biden makes his first public appearance in two months to lay a wreath at Veteran's Memorial Park in Delaware on Memorial Day https://t.co/fDCHpb9F9Ppic.twitter.com/R3S3AZ8Wwm
VP Biden, Dr. Jill Biden and their Secret Service detail demonstrate honestly and forthrightly the deep solemnity and historic moment of both Veteran's Day and this pervasive horrific pandemic, respecting the lives of all who have fallen. https://t.co/X94BS5847p
In an effort to support the @USPS and fill time, I committed to writing a letter a day. Bought old fashioned paper, a fountain pen and wax seals. Reconnecting with friends and family in a more personal way than e-mail or text. pic.twitter.com/MRUJsvnVvj
Poignant Memorial Day. A grievous number of Americans needlessly dead from Covid-19 and growing. On a happier note, today is also the birthday of my husband’s youngest brother. Tim reached age 59 despite Down Syndrome.
To all the members of our military and our military families, especially those who have lost their service member, thank you. We owe you. We can never lessen the magnitude of your loss, but this I can promise you: we will never forget. #MemorialDaypic.twitter.com/b5vDrYiPL5
After six months and nearly 100,000 lives lost, the Trump Administration still does not have a serious plan for increasing testing to stop the spread of the virus.
Forgot to note, the above is 1st tweet in a thread. Here’s the rest…
To reopen our economy safely, we need testing to be free, accurate, reliable and accompanied by tools like contact tracing so we can slow the spread of the virus and prevent outbreaks.
Hay guys did you see Michelle read her books today? This was the last day of her PBS kids reading. But today she had two more guess, Guess who? Bo and Sunny. It was so nice seeing them.
– Shows up late to Memorial Day service – Looks and sounds mostly dead – Racist "China Virus" meltdown – Brags about his "reviews" – Attacks Congressman Conor Lamb, spells his first and last name wrong – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 5pm
today was supposed to be one of those days. where the human invites a bunch of frens over. someone would eventually drop a plate of food. and it would be my time to shine. but because that can’t happen. the human has been dropping little snacks for me on purpose. all afternoon
You better NEVER have me see you harming an animal or a child or a woman, EVER.
What happened to ‘Karen’ would be way more than a video posted to Twitter.
Olympic Karenning here. Lock her up for wasting police time, for lying to the police, for endangering the life of an innocent man merely asking her to stick to the park rules, for threatening him explicitly based on his race, and for practically choking her poor dog. 🚮 https://t.co/tmZiVb8suC
Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in NY’s Central Park, where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be leashed at all times, and someone like my brother (an avid birder) politely asks her to put her dog on the leash. pic.twitter.com/3YnzuATsDm
There's a really excellent sociology paper by Yale professor Elijah Anderson on what that Central Park woman (Amy Cooper) tried to do by calling 911 on the Black birder. It's called "The White Space": https://t.co/PIeT1U5jr0
Amy Cooper, the VP of Investment Solutions at Franklin Templeton, needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for falsely accusing an African American man of being violent against her and calling 911. This isn’t about cancel culture. This is about basic accountability.
What happened in Central Park today with Amy Cooper is a crime. It should be prosecuted, but equally important is the teachable moment it offers the NYPD, a dept with a horrific history of prosecuting *INNOCENT* black people.
"Researchers who examined the lungs of patients killed by covid-19 found evidence that it attacks the lining of blood vessels there, a critical difference from the lungs of people who died of the flu, according to a report published Thursday” https://t.co/vy6winmS1V
In case you’re wondering if some people are willing to put the lives of others at risk by calling the cops on them, and lying about the threat. Imagine doing this KNOWING you are being recorded. https://t.co/XYEBhYHoNd
Hope you make the exceptionally compelling story of @senatemajldr McConnell's cruelty & greed that @AnandWrites has documented a central focus of your campaign.
Modest proposal. Arlington is Arlington because Congress took it from General Lee and built a US military graveyard on his lawn. We should do the same for Covid patients. Bury them with honor on reclaimed Trump golf courses. pic.twitter.com/w4Y96ARgkw
This is your monthly reminder that America was founded by a small group of rich white men who didn't want to pay taxes and thought owning people was okay. That political philosophy never went away and that's why wealthy GOP donors think it's totally cool to send you back to work.
They need to fire her. NYPD needs to charge her with making a false report. Meanwhile, she no longer she no longer owns the dog…
Thank you to the concerned public for reaching out to us about a video involving a dog that was adopted from our rescue a few years ago. As of this evening, the owner has voluntarily surrendered the dog in question to our rescue while this matter is being addressed. 1/2
My state representative. She’s the first democratic representative in what had been thought to be a permanent republican district. Representation matters, and she is doing an outstanding job, engaging the whole district, not just the high dollar contributors…
So when he makes that SHOW of donating his salary, it is *meaningless* considering all that he, his companies, and cronies have profited from taxpayer dollars.
John Cusack on vote for Bernie in the primaries. Something about still being able to gather enough votes for something to do with super delegates.
Is he taking the same drugs as PP?
Some 800 American Navajo fought in the Korean War in the early 1950s. In a show of gratitude, South Korea now is providing 10,000 masks and other PPP to the Navajo Nation as it struggles with Covid-19: https://t.co/wBUFGusHmb
I study election rigging. I co-authored a book called How to Rig an Election. These tweets are lies. The purpose of these tweets is to lay the groundwork to reject or dispute election results if he loses. https://t.co/HrmXAY02yf
I listened to the Lawfare Podcast this morning….usually i do not listen to this topic..but today i did…i am glad that i did…i hope that you do too…i found it enlightening…if you do listen..let me know if you found anything interesting
If we’d acted one week earlier…meanwhile…Trump insisted nothing need be done.
“Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show.”
“If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did, in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak”, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers. “And if the country had begun locking down cities and limiting social contact on March 1st, two weeks earlier than most people started staying home, the vast majority of the nation’s deaths, about 83%, would have been avoided.”
W/maps: (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html)
Total deaths reported March 3 2020: 65,307.
What if this administration had acted when the virus was “two weeks younger”?
Maddow explains that researchers took real world data and mapped it backwards in time.
They looked at how transmission slowed down when social distancing took hold across much of the country. And by how much it would have slowed transmission if started on, or two, weeks earlier. We could have done that. By starting one week earlier, 54,000 fewer Americans would have died. Estimated deaths: 29,410. And if we’d started two weeks earlier: 11,253.
Which leaves “haunting questions for the relatives of loved one who have died.”
And a warning for the future = Don’t make the same mistake again.
“The results show that as states reopen, outbreaks can easily get out of control unless officials closely monitor infections and immediately clamp down on new flareups. Just as we needed to stop this thing when it was small from the outset, we need to stop new outbreaks when they are small too.” (NYT)
“Columbia University “epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman’s team estimated the effect of relaxing all control measures across the country, the model finds that because of the lag between the time infections occur and symptoms begin emerging, without extensive testing and rapid action many more infections will occur, leading to many more deaths…” (Maddow)
JEFFREY SHAMAN (Columbia University School of Public Health):
“The important thing that we’re really trying to do here is not just look retrospectively and quantify what might have been, but to use that information to really inform how we go forward and how we have to be very vigilant with this virus. We’re not done with this pandemic by any stretch.
Most of the country has not been exposed to it, has not been infected.
And it’s really vital that we actively seek it out in our communities, that we monitor what is happening with the transmission of the virus in communities as we loosen restrictions and reopen the economy further and further, to make sure that we don’t have flareups. And if we identify identify growth in cases, we have to clamp down, we have to respond more quickly, because as you said if we get the virus when the outbreak is young, when it’s in the early stages, you’re going to limit the number of deaths that accrue over time.”
MADDOW: “Can you explain in layman’s terms why the numbers are so dramatically affected by even a few days’ difference in response time…how does one week make such a difference?”
SHAMAN: “Well it is very staggering…when you see how strong that response is.
When you’re dealing with the growth of a virus in a fully susceptible population, it’s going through a doubling process, it’s growing exponentially And it’s very important to remember the doubling processes really can sneak up on you. They seem to start very small and insignificant and not be of much consequence. But they really can swell and overwhelm you, kind of like a tsunami wave.”
“There are many examples that you’ll hear in Mathematics that will try to explain it very simply:
One of my favorites is this idea that you have a pond.
There’s this invasive lily flower that gets into it.
And every day it doubles in size, or doubles the number that are there,
And let’s say by day 30 the entire pond is covered with lilies.
And the question is, well on what day was it half way covered with lilies?
And the answer is day 29, just the day before, because it is a doubling process.”
SHAMAN: “By jumping on this virus earlier, you are really going to circumvent that growth,
you’re going to squash that growth down. And you’re going to prohibit the number of people who are going to subsequently be infected by taking early action. It’s a very strange and horrifying, compounding, process by which this goes through when it is spreading through a community. And as a consequence it’s really vital that we reach out and we monitor what’s going on in our communities actively. We can’t get complacent with this. There is a risk of that, particularly as we’re moving into summer, particularly because the virus may be seasonal and less transmissible during summer. Then we’re going to get complacent and feel like we have this thing under control. But we have to get in this for the long haul, and understand we want to keep this virus squashed. We want to really reduce the numbers to a low level of cases per day going forward, while we hold on until we can get a vaccine that’s effective or effective therapeutics.”
MADDOW: “That key insight…that dynamic was true at the outset is also true with new outbreaks going forward. It’s a game changing understanding.”
Because neither the news media nor the nation’s larger political culture has reckoned with the GOP’s authoritarian evolution, the habitual response is to mislabel GOP authoritarianism as hypocrisy. Calling out hypocrisy is a pointless shaming mechanism for a party that has broken free of shame. Worse, it camouflages a war on democracy as democratic politics as usual.
“In a democratic context, with two parties, when one party begins to violate or break the rules, the second party has no clear winning strategy,” Steven Levitsky, co-author of “How Democracies Die,” said… vital column by @fdwilkinsonhttps://t.co/MZGQtuWgHy
This video helps expose/explain Trump/Kushner’s fleecing of America. History will record this as “The Great Grift.” This should be one of the FBI’s too priorities: How Trump is profiteering off the coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak in 10 … https://t.co/bllPOVnkWZ via @YouTube
He looks like someone who understands the gravity of what we are facing, knows his role as a citizen in combating it, wants to set an example to others, and is secure and confident enough to not care how he looks.
Diabolical Calculations:
GOP is gambling the re-election of Trump on ‘opening up the economy’ at any price.
-They don’t care how many die or if they destroy the planet.
-Suppressing the death toll data at all levels, media.
-Suppressing voting.
-Blame + bots.
-imo Doom will feign a vaccine in desperation.
Rove-ites could care less what happens after the election.
I would like a list of the names of individuals who sought unmasking during this Administration. To make sure of it, we plan to sue USGOVT for them. https://t.co/3yWPvs0AKj
.@realDonaldTrump used his account to incite violence, threaten war, aid our enemies, spread lies and conspiracy theories, and undermine efforts to stop Covid. His account should have been deleted a long time ago, @Twitter. Please RT if you agree.#TakeTrumpOffTwitter
— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) May 26, 2020
trump willfully spreads lies and information on a daily basis, during a time of crisis when it is ESPECIALLY more dangerous and irresponsible to do so.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany asked 4 times in 2 minutes why President Trump continues to baselessly suggest that Joe Scarborough murdered an aide who worked for him in 2001.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
I’ve been hoping to find light in the darkness at least once each day. Thank you for posting this. I had to watch it multiple times to let it sink into each stressed and hurting part of myself and replace the revulsion for Trump and his enablers with a better energy.
I understand Catrst! I too try to find the light as much as I can
It can be a daily struggle to deal with all this despair. We must do what we can to maintain HOPE and actively work for it to arrive ASAP.
I agree.
Celebrate these victories
Absolutely phenomenal artist!
Nice to see Jaime promoting this young talent!
Yes:)
I love the white wreath. Hope Biden and Jill take every precaution. We need them healthy.
Not having any selfishness
This force of nature will soothe your soul:
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Beautiful idea ❤️
Poignant Memorial Day. A grievous number of Americans needlessly dead from Covid-19 and growing. On a happier note, today is also the birthday of my husband’s youngest brother. Tim reached age 59 despite Down Syndrome.
Judith, a very Happy Birthday to Tim!
Happy Birthday, Tim! ❤
Happy Birthday to Tim, Judith.
Set the DVR! Sarah’s gonna be on Ellen tomorrow 😂😂😂
Forgot to note, the above is 1st tweet in a thread. Here’s the rest…
Hay guys did you see Michelle read her books today? This was the last day of her PBS kids reading. But today she had two more guess, Guess who? Bo and Sunny. It was so nice seeing them.
Soooo sweet! Loved seeing our First Dogs again!
He just really can’t stand a real patriot.
Thoughts of Dog always brings a smile 😃
It’s not a beauty contest, it’s all about trying to stay safe. Biden is man enough not to care if the reporters take a picture of him with a mask on.
You better NEVER have me see you harming an animal or a child or a woman, EVER.
What happened to ‘Karen’ would be way more than a video posted to Twitter.
RT this and spread it as far as you can ….
JFC.
YUP.
Shocker. Not just like the flu.
Good.
Yup.
This is where I’m at…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAoXN5GFWyA/?igshid=we19g1vw1yqo
Excellent, Bobfr. I certainly hope she takes this advice.
Thank you, df!
need to fire her. NYPD needs to charge her with making a false report. Meanwhile, she no longer
Definitely. She needs to suffer the full consequences of her despicable actions.
FAT FINGERS… should read:
They need to fire her. NYPD needs to charge her with making a false report. Meanwhile, she no longer she no longer owns the dog…
My state representative. She’s the first democratic representative in what had been thought to be a permanent republican district. Representation matters, and she is doing an outstanding job, engaging the whole district, not just the high dollar contributors…
So when he makes that SHOW of donating his salary, it is *meaningless* considering all that he, his companies, and cronies have profited from taxpayer dollars.
Exactly. Who is falling for this nonsense?
The FTD is kicking in
Morning all.
John Cusack on vote for Bernie in the primaries. Something about still being able to gather enough votes for something to do with super delegates.
Is he taking the same drugs as PP?
likes
Awful news to hear.
Morning everyone
GM ToD….
I listened to the Lawfare Podcast this morning….usually i do not listen to this topic..but today i did…i am glad that i did…i hope that you do too…i found it enlightening…if you do listen..let me know if you found anything interesting
If we’d acted one week earlier…meanwhile…Trump insisted nothing need be done.
“Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show.”
“If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did, in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak”, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers. “And if the country had begun locking down cities and limiting social contact on March 1st, two weeks earlier than most people started staying home, the vast majority of the nation’s deaths, about 83%, would have been avoided.”
W/maps: (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html)
Total deaths reported March 3 2020: 65,307.
What if this administration had acted when the virus was “two weeks younger”?
Maddow explains that researchers took real world data and mapped it backwards in time.
They looked at how transmission slowed down when social distancing took hold across much of the country. And by how much it would have slowed transmission if started on, or two, weeks earlier. We could have done that. By starting one week earlier, 54,000 fewer Americans would have died. Estimated deaths: 29,410. And if we’d started two weeks earlier: 11,253.
Which leaves “haunting questions for the relatives of loved one who have died.”
And a warning for the future = Don’t make the same mistake again.
“The results show that as states reopen, outbreaks can easily get out of control unless officials closely monitor infections and immediately clamp down on new flareups. Just as we needed to stop this thing when it was small from the outset, we need to stop new outbreaks when they are small too.” (NYT)
“Columbia University “epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman’s team estimated the effect of relaxing all control measures across the country, the model finds that because of the lag between the time infections occur and symptoms begin emerging, without extensive testing and rapid action many more infections will occur, leading to many more deaths…” (Maddow)
JEFFREY SHAMAN (Columbia University School of Public Health):
“The important thing that we’re really trying to do here is not just look retrospectively and quantify what might have been, but to use that information to really inform how we go forward and how we have to be very vigilant with this virus. We’re not done with this pandemic by any stretch.
Most of the country has not been exposed to it, has not been infected.
And it’s really vital that we actively seek it out in our communities, that we monitor what is happening with the transmission of the virus in communities as we loosen restrictions and reopen the economy further and further, to make sure that we don’t have flareups. And if we identify identify growth in cases, we have to clamp down, we have to respond more quickly, because as you said if we get the virus when the outbreak is young, when it’s in the early stages, you’re going to limit the number of deaths that accrue over time.”
MADDOW: “Can you explain in layman’s terms why the numbers are so dramatically affected by even a few days’ difference in response time…how does one week make such a difference?”
SHAMAN: “Well it is very staggering…when you see how strong that response is.
When you’re dealing with the growth of a virus in a fully susceptible population, it’s going through a doubling process, it’s growing exponentially And it’s very important to remember the doubling processes really can sneak up on you. They seem to start very small and insignificant and not be of much consequence. But they really can swell and overwhelm you, kind of like a tsunami wave.”
“There are many examples that you’ll hear in Mathematics that will try to explain it very simply:
One of my favorites is this idea that you have a pond.
There’s this invasive lily flower that gets into it.
And every day it doubles in size, or doubles the number that are there,
And let’s say by day 30 the entire pond is covered with lilies.
And the question is, well on what day was it half way covered with lilies?
And the answer is day 29, just the day before, because it is a doubling process.”
SHAMAN: “By jumping on this virus earlier, you are really going to circumvent that growth,
you’re going to squash that growth down. And you’re going to prohibit the number of people who are going to subsequently be infected by taking early action. It’s a very strange and horrifying, compounding, process by which this goes through when it is spreading through a community. And as a consequence it’s really vital that we reach out and we monitor what’s going on in our communities actively. We can’t get complacent with this. There is a risk of that, particularly as we’re moving into summer, particularly because the virus may be seasonal and less transmissible during summer. Then we’re going to get complacent and feel like we have this thing under control. But we have to get in this for the long haul, and understand we want to keep this virus squashed. We want to really reduce the numbers to a low level of cases per day going forward, while we hold on until we can get a vaccine that’s effective or effective therapeutics.”
MADDOW: “That key insight…that dynamic was true at the outset is also true with new outbreaks going forward. It’s a game changing understanding.”
Dr. Jeffrey Shaman: (https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/jls106)
From the article…
Because neither the news media nor the nation’s larger political culture has reckoned with the GOP’s authoritarian evolution, the habitual response is to mislabel GOP authoritarianism as hypocrisy. Calling out hypocrisy is a pointless shaming mechanism for a party that has broken free of shame. Worse, it camouflages a war on democracy as democratic politics as usual.
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“The very first rule of understanding an autocracy is to Believe the Autocrat.
When someone promises that they will destroy whole peoples and intentionally wreck the environment—
believe them. When Jair Bolsonaro was running for president of Brazil,
he told people to call him “Captain Chainsaw.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/23/1880843/-Amazonia-is-burning-because-that-s-exactly-what-Brazil-s-Trump-promised)
Precisely
Shouldn’t this be something that our President should be doing for Americans..
Diabolical Calculations:
GOP is gambling the re-election of Trump on ‘opening up the economy’ at any price.
-They don’t care how many die or if they destroy the planet.
-Suppressing the death toll data at all levels, media.
-Suppressing voting.
-Blame + bots.
-imo Doom will feign a vaccine in desperation.
Rove-ites could care less what happens after the election.
Never was never will be legit C-I-C.
“You tell me what people are doing today, I’ll tell you what the infection rate is tomorrow.”
(Governor Cuomo)
= Wear.The.Mask.
One hundred thousand Americans dead of COVID-19 coincided with Memorial Day.
Finish him off.
Jim Clyburn is so good
Spokesliar
Ask Rove.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/your-actions-speak-louder/