Saw this on Twitter and it melted my heart. It was precious, funny, hopeful and sad all at the same time. The parents are so wonderful to help them to do this. I can imagine these babies seeing the protests on tv or maybe a march passed by their home and they asked the parents about it and wanted to participate and this was the result. Maybe this time it will be different and real and lasting change will come.
As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.
53 years ago, the Supreme Court struck down the ban on interracial marriage. That’s right – only 53 years ago. Today we celebrate #LovingDay and we continue the fight for racial justice in our country. https://t.co/6HDFHbGxUm
JUST IN: National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell, in a league-wide memo obtained by CNN, announced on Friday the NFL will be closing their league offices (making it a league holiday) on June 19th for Juneteenth, a day which commemorates the end of slavery.
A Trump administration rule will allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay.
The rule was released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse shooting, which left 49 mostly queer and trans people dead in a Florida nightclub. https://t.co/HJu7afQwe1
I don't think people realize the profound effect President Obama had on the generation that grew up with him as our President. He set an incredible example for them by being kind and honest. Having daughters in that age group made him a fatherly role model to them.
Our new ad cuts to the chase, and pulls no punches: We’d never name bases after America’s enemies, like Osama bin Laden. Why does Donald Trump so desperately want to keep the names of other racist enemies on our Army bases? pic.twitter.com/Pfixi2Tu6w
Four years ago today, 49 lives were cut short in an act of unspeakable terrorism at Pulse nightclub. As we remember those we lost — including so many in the LGBTQ+ and Hispanic communities — we have to double down on our efforts to #HonorThemWithAction. pic.twitter.com/TKaZ4M7IFF
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has declared racism a public health crisis.
He will reallocate $3 million from the city's police department to public health — and will propose transferring $9 million more for housing and counseling initiatives.https://t.co/MgYtdghYb6
I’d be more than happy if he picks Kamala Harris, but I’m trying to spread my wings so I’m not disappointed if I only pick one and he picks somebody else! If that makes sense!
Give me Harris or Rice, or give me death, just kidding. But I prefer Harris, her elbows seem a little more sharper, Harris is street fighter and she has no problem going to the mattresses. Biden needs a war-time consigliere. In a more stable environment Rice wouldn’t be a bad pick, but we aren’t in a stable environment.
Oh I get what you mean and Kamala’s great (and I could see her in the boring part, taking down Pence at a debate) … but Susan can pack a punch, too, which is one of the biggest reasons I’d add her to the list!
"Trump didn't look up when I came in and I don't think he looked up the whole time I was giving my spiel about the terrorist attack," Fiona Hill said. "And then Ivanka came in and sat down next to me, the first thing she did was look at my shoes." https://t.co/JFBe3zwtGR
Today is #LovingDay, a celebration of Richard and Mildred Loving's successful fight against interracial marriage bans. Learn more about the landmark Loving v. Virginia case, and see how love won 53 years ago today: https://t.co/aVZqfvNWfKpic.twitter.com/6tj90O7ubE
— Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (@CivRightsVoices) June 12, 2020
In these times, we are again and again reduced to stating what should be obvious: Discrimination is wrong. LGBTQ people deserve equality. Lives depend on voting this administration out. https://t.co/nuEWl8yHse
BREAKING: The Trump administration just finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in health care and health insurance.
Critics say the rule would further harm an already vulnerable group — trans people — amid a pandemic.
"I can't help but wonder if the timing is by design so that this is something people won't pay attention to," says one political science professor. https://t.co/AcZSFNnoQP
Or, if you’ve noticed the dozens of other similar announcements in recent days. Take that as a small measure of the way in which Black people are INUNDATED with HUNDREDS of microaggressions every day. . .
No white person in America will ever see the equivalent of what the Confederate Flag represents to Black people so normalized that any time you leave your house, you are almost guaranteed to see it, casually, thoughtlessly displayed.
BREAKING#BunkerBitch backed down, trump has rescheduled his rally — it will no longer be on Juneteenth, but June 20th, due to a MASSIVE backlash.he claimed he did it out of respect for his "African American friends" what a load of crap
— Henry(Joe Biden will heal America) Djoutsa (@D_jeneration) June 13, 2020
Never thought Taylor Swift would be more outspoken than kanya re: BLM. Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.
USA TODAY examined 32 fatal police encounters in which victims said they couldn’t breathe while being restrained. At least 134 people have died in police custody from “asphyxia/restraint” in the past decade alone.https://t.co/GDsTqHCmsC
A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stencilling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. “Karen” lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatterpic.twitter.com/rOpHvKVwgP
Jay Pharoah says he was stopped by police while jogging in Los Angeles recently, that one of the officers kneeled on his neck and that video footage, apparently from a nearby security camera, recorded the incident https://t.co/AKdtFOZUFk
Part 2. Comedian Jay Pharoah Recalls Being Stopped By LAPD While Jogging: A Cop Kneeled On My Neck!! [See The Footage] @JayPharoahpic.twitter.com/ShpjiRfxCi
Hollywood has made many Vietnam War stories over the past 50 years, but very few have dug into the experiences of black servicemen in that conflict. Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods"—out on Netflix—is a masterful film that changes that, @davidlsims writes: https://t.co/M80cYKRC3K
If you haven’t already read it, I recommend the book, Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry. I used it as one of the texts for a freshman writing class I taught many years ago. The author came to speak to my students and he was really terrific. It was published in 1985, groundbreaking.
Did I squeal with delight when I saw my pretend-husband Norm Lewis is in this movie? Yes I did. Yes I DID! 😆
Bte, love me some Delory Lindo and Clarke Peters and Chadwick Boseman too! Just sayin’!
How Spike Lee Prepared 'Da 5 Bloods' Cast for War. Check out this video on IMDb – https://t.co/JftcFv8pUD
Lt. Col Vindman’s words to his Soviet immigrant father: “Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.” Only to have his twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman (who wasn’t even an impeachment witness) also fired. American patriots treated in the most un-American manner. https://t.co/fxhLEbEkaj
Trump’s campaign needs to warn voters that, by casting their ballots for his reelection, they’re waiving the right to sue or complain if they discover they’ve lost their liberties as free citizens in a self-governing constitutional republic.
what Prof Tribe and others like him do not fully understand about these voters is that it would not matter to them…as long as the folks who they hate..namely Black people are hurt more…that is lynch pin for it all…#WhiteSupremacy
I forced myself to watch this – I hate the sight and sound of this vile monster – but it turned out to be one of the best ads of the season. Please share with your networks.
From the start, everything @realdonaldtrump has said is bullshit. Together, we end this nightmare on November 3.
Check out the Entire video over ajc.com to get a better perspective of what happened. I don’t think we need to abolish the police entirely, we need the police to fight crime. But how the police go about their business needs to be overhauled. Some police shootings are justified and some aren’t. After you watch the video in its entirety, what is your opinion about the shooting?
I am tired of cops being Judge Jury and executioner…and it is only with Black People…I think of the militia men open carrying…no officer appears to be afraid for his life…there is no swat team…no tanks…no assault weapons…in fact the militia men outgunned the police………. but a man running away from the police deserves to be executed…perhaps they are still enacting the fugitive slave law…
i think that that police need to defunded and restructured
you cannot retrain…police officers to not kill Black people…you have to recruit police officers who won’t kill Black people
Lansford lives in Reno and has been involved in the GOP since the early 70s. He also cannot bring himself to support Trump this November: "Trump is unfit for office. He's arrogant, vile, racist. He's stupid. I don't think the man could pass a fifth grade civics class." pic.twitter.com/oZLFtu7RQJ
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) June 12, 2020
When you actually care about people and their families, care about what you're doing and how you're doing it. When you save our country from a great depression instead of causing one. https://t.co/GrrV7Ci46X
I had the opportunity to speak with @JoeBiden about some really important issues facing our country right now. Check out part of our conversation about voter apathy and why it is so important that we all register to vote. Together we have the power to make a real change! pic.twitter.com/yzVq1RVLgc
“Rachel Maddow reports on the poor job the Trump administration has done in tracking coronavirus cases in nursing homes and providing facilities with much needed equipment, even though nursing homes are where COVID-19 has been causing the most death since its beginnings in the U.S.”
“Despite dire death toll, Trump admin still failing nursing homes”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-dire-death-toll-trump-admin-still-failing-nursing-homes-84970053705)
Trump negligence and cover-up goes on killing elderly Americans.
His government concealing the death toll numbers in nursing homes, failing to assist in all possible ways:
Nursing homes are the places with the most virus deaths. When the federal government finally published some data, facilities with known deaths had been counted as zeros deaths, clearly undercounted, or politely “incomplete”, or painted half the picture. The data was so wrong that e.g. Detroit Free Press decided it was unprintable. Trump sent useless PPE, gowns were “glorified garbage bags sometimes without armholes. Nursing homes are the most dangerous places, with highest death numbers.
The U.S. has the worst epidemic in the world and the crisis in our nursing homes is deepening
–Trump sees the elderly (basically everybody if not rich) as expendable.
–Martin Gugino who sustained brain damage was slandered by trump. Still no apology.
In less than 24 hours our latest video about Trump’s love for racist traitors has already been viewed more than 2 million times! Help us continue creating more content like this — donate today! https://t.co/VzgV0iGjaOpic.twitter.com/zxKqf8b16w
When I was in Seattle a few years back, I discovered that there was a Confederate monument there??? In Washington state? Washington State wasn't a state until 1889!!https://t.co/vwv32Z7w4q
I’ve just signed a petition about this bridge to dignity as seen in SELMA. It is named after a KKK grand wizard and confederate warlord. Edmund Pettus Bridge should be the John Lewis Bridge. Named for a hero. Not a murderer. Join this call. It’s past due. https://t.co/EZqu7ic0bU
This bridge was the site of a showdown,,,which the civil rights marchers eventually won…i want the name to as it is,,,but i want the story to be told…with a plaque or monument marker
Didn’t think there was anyone else here who might feel like I do about this particular situation! I felt that way even when there was talk during PBO’s term/walk that the name ought to be changed, though I hadn’t got as far as thinking of a monument marker for Rep Lewis.
Black blood stains America’s sidewalks. And we’ve had enough. This week, we announced the Justice in Policing Act to reform our nation’s police departments. pic.twitter.com/0lZ3dz3EAC
Sometimes the struggle is enough to have you suffering from PTSD, especially if you’re from a marginalized community. I don’t know how we even begin to address the mental anguish that the police has caused in our communities. What does reform even look like?
“When DT tried to stage a coup”
“”Krugman points out that in the minds of far-right reactionaries,
“the horror of the situation isn’t the possibility that protests might turn violent.
It’s the fact that the protests are happening at all.
And that’s why people like Trump and Tom Cotton have been so eager to send in the military.”
Moreover, Krugman says, reactionaries are terrified to see so many whites marching in the protests.
But Krugman ends his column with a warning: if far-right reactionaries believe they are losing public option, that could make them even worse. “Don’t count the reactionaries out,” Krugman warns.
“They remain extremely dangerous and will become more dangerous if, as seems increasingly likely, Trump finds himself staring at the prospect of electoral defeat.””
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/when-donald-trump-tried-to-stage-a-coup/)
imo,
they see trump losing as the end of the great white kingdom…not ready to crawl back into their holes.
Am ready for Joe Biden to declare the KKK and other neo-nazi groups as Terrorist organizations.
So many, many days I just can’t handle so much brutality in our faces suffered by people who just want to live their lives. I’m so disgusted, sickened, unable to parse so much sadism in evidence collected to teach the truth. Making the case that no one deserves to live in the dysfunction of this country as it is now.
“Trump has no grand strategy – and he’s going all in with losers”
Susan Glasser:
“I know it is hard to remember all the crazy things that happen in the course of a week in Trump’s America,
but I will try hard to remember this one:
a week when I saw troops in the streets and worried about a years-long economic crisis;
a week when an untamed pandemic killed up to a thousand Americans a day;
a week when massive nationwide protests suggested that our dysfunctional, gridlocked political system might finally actually do something about the plague of police brutality and systemic racism.
And then there was the President,
who chose to spend the week refighting the Civil War—on the losing side.”
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trump-has-no-grand-strategy-and-hes-going-all-in-with-losers/)
“On Thursday, the president travelled to Dallas, Texas where one of the events was a roundtable discussion on race and policing.
The problem is that a few key players were not invited:
Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall, Sheriff Marian Brown and District Attorney John Creuzot, all of whom happen to be African American.
“I’’m not going to credit him with any kind of grand strategy.
His instincts are racist and he projects that onto the electorate, assuming that he can win once again by fanning the flames. Is America ready to prove him wrong? We’ll see.”
(Nancy LeTourneau)
U.S. Rep. Sylvia R. Garcia, a Houston Democrat, announced Friday that she was exposed to the coronavirus and will be self-quarantining.https://t.co/1vspJhlQsf
After the latest poll, Mayor Lori Lightfoot finds herself in rare air for a big-city mayor who has endured countless controversies during her first year in office. https://t.co/KV1kMbuHbH
Since the beginning of June, more than a dozen states have reported their highest 7-day average of new cases ever. So today Donald Trump announced a new comprehensive plan to contain the spread of the virus in those states… Just kidding. He's having rallies. pic.twitter.com/E36AAhnK7C
– Walter Reed speech a disaster – His arm doesn't work – He can barely walk – He can barely speak – Seems half dead – What happened at Walter Reed? – Trump is going to prison – If he doesn't croak first – It's still only 7:50pmhttps://t.co/tmOQAMTZ6I
The Obama Diary 
Thank You NW. You are much much much appreciated.
Good evening TODville.
Thank you.
I never knew that wowww
Thank You, NW. What a Treasure!
Saw this on Twitter and it melted my heart. It was precious, funny, hopeful and sad all at the same time. The parents are so wonderful to help them to do this. I can imagine these babies seeing the protests on tv or maybe a march passed by their home and they asked the parents about it and wanted to participate and this was the result. Maybe this time it will be different and real and lasting change will come.
This ruling has made various parts of my family possible.
So…..what about Kap? Waiting on their apology and a job offer.
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❤️❤️❤️
Aww! ♥️♥️♥️
This is all nice and good, BUT THEY HAVE TO VOTE
True, this ….
Yup
Good riddance, wonder who the replacement killers will be:
Reuters: White House’s top lawyer at the Supreme Court to resign.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-noel-francisco/white-houses-top-lawyer-at-the-supreme-court-to-resign-idUSKBN23I2PN?feedType=mktg&feedName=topNews&WT.mc_id=Partner-Google
Now THIS is some goodness!!
Note the source is “Democrats with knowledge of the process” not the campaign or anyone involved in the process.
https://apnews.com/cfb9f51767aeee83f1f426fb42070a9e
I’m leaning Susan Rice.
Kamala Harris.
She’s great, too.
She’s great! I prefer Kamala Harris as VP and Rice as Sec of State but if he picks Rice for VP, I wouldn’t be too mad.
I’d be more than happy if he picks Kamala Harris, but I’m trying to spread my wings so I’m not disappointed if I only pick one and he picks somebody else! If that makes sense!
It does.😊
I’m with you Dudette.
Give me Harris or Rice, or give me death, just kidding. But I prefer Harris, her elbows seem a little more sharper, Harris is street fighter and she has no problem going to the mattresses. Biden needs a war-time consigliere. In a more stable environment Rice wouldn’t be a bad pick, but we aren’t in a stable environment.
Oh I get what you mean and Kamala’s great (and I could see her in the boring part, taking down Pence at a debate) … but Susan can pack a punch, too, which is one of the biggest reasons I’d add her to the list!
Oh dear god
PGS has a really good musical on now. Called ‘Stay at Home with WNED’.
This! All of it!
Yes, every single day…
Now to get him to change convention speech…
Never thought Taylor Swift would be more outspoken than kanya re: BLM. Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Tuh!
Good Morning, TODville Community.
A new Spike Lee joint
If you haven’t already read it, I recommend the book, Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry. I used it as one of the texts for a freshman writing class I taught many years ago. The author came to speak to my students and he was really terrific. It was published in 1985, groundbreaking.
Cool! I’ll check it out!
Did I squeal with delight when I saw my pretend-husband Norm Lewis is in this movie? Yes I did. Yes I DID! 😆
Bte, love me some Delory Lindo and Clarke Peters and Chadwick Boseman too! Just sayin’!
Let us never forget this travesty.
Morning everyone
Takes your breath away. We have to vote him out in numbers never seen before…. nothing can be left to chance. We will not survive otherwise
Sorry – not sorry – for posting the same ad just below! It’s a really fantastic summation.
So nice, it deserved to be posted twice…
what Prof Tribe and others like him do not fully understand about these voters is that it would not matter to them…as long as the folks who they hate..namely Black people are hurt more…that is lynch pin for it all…#WhiteSupremacy
I could not have said it any better, Sheila!
I forced myself to watch this – I hate the sight and sound of this vile monster – but it turned out to be one of the best ads of the season. Please share with your networks.
… Cellphone video apparently captured by a Wendy’s customer appears to show two officers struggling with Brooks in the parking lot. He appeared to be running away from the police when he was fatally shot. … https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/man-shot-killed-atlanta-police-wendy-drive-thru/rUUFN6yfvgsevgIc2Q7ZkJ/
Check out the Entire video over ajc.com to get a better perspective of what happened. I don’t think we need to abolish the police entirely, we need the police to fight crime. But how the police go about their business needs to be overhauled. Some police shootings are justified and some aren’t. After you watch the video in its entirety, what is your opinion about the shooting?
I am tired of cops being Judge Jury and executioner…and it is only with Black People…I think of the militia men open carrying…no officer appears to be afraid for his life…there is no swat team…no tanks…no assault weapons…in fact the militia men outgunned the police………. but a man running away from the police deserves to be executed…perhaps they are still enacting the fugitive slave law…
i think that that police need to defunded and restructured
you cannot retrain…police officers to not kill Black people…you have to recruit police officers who won’t kill Black people
A Republican that saw the light in the 2016 GE…
How adorable is this guy?!
Absolutely correct
Please dear God. I think Moscow Mitch is just as, if not more, evil than PP.
The man is poison, always with his stupid smirk.
Absolutely correct
🚨 Thread 🚨
Get them.
Then get trump, miller, pence.
It’s the dementia taking hold.dangerous
yes…i wonder as well
“Rachel Maddow reports on the poor job the Trump administration has done in tracking coronavirus cases in nursing homes and providing facilities with much needed equipment, even though nursing homes are where COVID-19 has been causing the most death since its beginnings in the U.S.”
“Despite dire death toll, Trump admin still failing nursing homes”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-dire-death-toll-trump-admin-still-failing-nursing-homes-84970053705)
Trump negligence and cover-up goes on killing elderly Americans.
His government concealing the death toll numbers in nursing homes, failing to assist in all possible ways:
Nursing homes are the places with the most virus deaths. When the federal government finally published some data, facilities with known deaths had been counted as zeros deaths, clearly undercounted, or politely “incomplete”, or painted half the picture. The data was so wrong that e.g. Detroit Free Press decided it was unprintable. Trump sent useless PPE, gowns were “glorified garbage bags sometimes without armholes. Nursing homes are the most dangerous places, with highest death numbers.
The U.S. has the worst epidemic in the world and the crisis in our nursing homes is deepening
–Trump sees the elderly (basically everybody if not rich) as expendable.
–Martin Gugino who sustained brain damage was slandered by trump. Still no apology.
Also, too.
This bridge was the site of a showdown,,,which the civil rights marchers eventually won…i want the name to as it is,,,but i want the story to be told…with a plaque or monument marker
Didn’t think there was anyone else here who might feel like I do about this particular situation! I felt that way even when there was talk during PBO’s term/walk that the name ought to be changed, though I hadn’t got as far as thinking of a monument marker for Rep Lewis.
Sometimes the struggle is enough to have you suffering from PTSD, especially if you’re from a marginalized community. I don’t know how we even begin to address the mental anguish that the police has caused in our communities. What does reform even look like?
“When DT tried to stage a coup”
“”Krugman points out that in the minds of far-right reactionaries,
“the horror of the situation isn’t the possibility that protests might turn violent.
It’s the fact that the protests are happening at all.
And that’s why people like Trump and Tom Cotton have been so eager to send in the military.”
Moreover, Krugman says, reactionaries are terrified to see so many whites marching in the protests.
But Krugman ends his column with a warning: if far-right reactionaries believe they are losing public option, that could make them even worse. “Don’t count the reactionaries out,” Krugman warns.
“They remain extremely dangerous and will become more dangerous if, as seems increasingly likely, Trump finds himself staring at the prospect of electoral defeat.””
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/when-donald-trump-tried-to-stage-a-coup/)
imo,
they see trump losing as the end of the great white kingdom…not ready to crawl back into their holes.
Am ready for Joe Biden to declare the KKK and other neo-nazi groups as Terrorist organizations.
WORD
So many, many days I just can’t handle so much brutality in our faces suffered by people who just want to live their lives. I’m so disgusted, sickened, unable to parse so much sadism in evidence collected to teach the truth. Making the case that no one deserves to live in the dysfunction of this country as it is now.
Blues brothers: ‘I hate Illinois Nazis”.
-heh on wheels-
“Trump has no grand strategy – and he’s going all in with losers”
Susan Glasser:
“I know it is hard to remember all the crazy things that happen in the course of a week in Trump’s America,
but I will try hard to remember this one:
a week when I saw troops in the streets and worried about a years-long economic crisis;
a week when an untamed pandemic killed up to a thousand Americans a day;
a week when massive nationwide protests suggested that our dysfunctional, gridlocked political system might finally actually do something about the plague of police brutality and systemic racism.
And then there was the President,
who chose to spend the week refighting the Civil War—on the losing side.”
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trump-has-no-grand-strategy-and-hes-going-all-in-with-losers/)
“On Thursday, the president travelled to Dallas, Texas where one of the events was a roundtable discussion on race and policing.
The problem is that a few key players were not invited:
Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall, Sheriff Marian Brown and District Attorney John Creuzot, all of whom happen to be African American.
“I’’m not going to credit him with any kind of grand strategy.
His instincts are racist and he projects that onto the electorate, assuming that he can win once again by fanning the flames. Is America ready to prove him wrong? We’ll see.”
(Nancy LeTourneau)
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/disparities/
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MaddowBlog got jokes
testing
Testing
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-ll-understand-in-the-long-run-mayor-issues-mask-order-85420613654