So when he says “No one told me…” or “I never heard anything about…”, it’s because he won’t allow himself to be brief, or like the third grader that he is, he has his fingers in his ears singing “la la la”.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the United States is in the middle of a “very serious problem.”
Speaking at the AIDS 2020 Conference, Fauci said Covid-19 is “a true historic pandemic.” https://t.co/PQESj51JPl
The American Academy of Pediatrics is joining teachers unions and school superintendents in blasting Trump admin threats to withhold federal funds from schools that do not fully reopen. https://t.co/R0JIRe8XHE
White people be in public like "I can't wear a mask! I can't breathe! It's my choice!" but will wear this for six hours to kill Bambi whole family. pic.twitter.com/jU7TvUom9c
This is tantamount to Stone saying, ‘commute my sentence (to probation) or I will talk.’ If Trump now does so, it will be a corrupt exercise of the pardon/commutation power. Recall, Bannon testified at Stone’s trial that Roger was “the Trump campaign’s access point to Wikileaks.” https://t.co/Os7VxRwO4y
NEW: It’s virtual learning for Atlanta Public Schools this fall. According to re-opening plan, digital learning will be in place for at least the first 9 weeks of school: https://t.co/Bf5M6gDiNU@wsbtv@apsupdate
I thought of you when I read the plan, I’m most concerned about the materials (laptops) that the students will need for virtual learning. There are a lot of parents that can go out and lay out hundreds of dollar for a laptop, I wonder if there will be any kind of assistance provided to those families and can’t afford laptops?
In my school and district, Don, we have a lot of chromebooks for kids to use during class. So, what we did when we went to on line school in March is we signed out chromebooks to all the kids who didn’t have a computer at home. They signed out over 300 of them, and got all but 12 back. We have a mix of kids in my school, but are in a well to do district, so those kids benefited from that.
After members of the alt-right Proud Boys were seen mingling with officers outside a party following Mike Pence’s visit to Philly last night, FOP’s pres said they weren’t invited, but didn’t condemn their presence, either w/@jeremyrroebuck + @EllieRushinghttps://t.co/2VZyCuFMvv
— Oona Goodin-Smith (@oonagoodinsmith) July 10, 2020
Why would the profoundly stupid boys think that is was okay to go and mingle with cops? From coast to coast within police ranks there are racist, bigots, and every other type of vile. Its not surprising that the police would not outright welcome these people, but not shun them either.
A crowd of thousands outside the White House singing Lean On Me. This must be the closest we’ve come to a concert in months: pic.twitter.com/9fGTgkmVCv 03#FixThePolice
Twice the pride, double the fall, these people learn that there is always a hard lesson to be had when you are on the wrong side of history. Defending Trump is never a winning proposition.
Georgia corona virus numbers are spiking. Local leaders are trying to do things to flatten the curve. Kemp is pushing back.
What state restrictions? I'd they was working the curve wouldn't have had an upswing. Maybe the Governor needs to follow the lead of the mayor's from Savannah, Athens and Atlanta
Come January, President Biden’s Attorney General should challenge this as a corrupt and hence illegal commutation and seek to have Stone’s prison term reinstated. That’s certainly what I would do. https://t.co/WXDzTqJbXe
Silver lining? With Trump commuting Roger Stone’s sentence, he has either concluded he is certain to lose the election or . . . he may resign before the election (outside possibility though this may be).
I don’t think that there is a scenario in which he would resign. His only shot is to remain President just to hold off the dogs for four more years. The moment he resigns, the New York Southern District is coming for his ass. The moment leaks start coming out of the Whitehouse that Trump might be looking for the next President to pardon him for any crimes he may have committed, you’ll know that discussions are taking place. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if someone from Trump’s camp has already stepped to someone close to Joe and at least brought it up just to gage Joe’s interest. Not to be cynical but if I were Trump (And I’m glad I’m not) I would resign close to November. It’s obvious that Trump isn’t and hasn’t been up for the job the moment he spent his first night in the Whitehouse, and he knows it.
Thank you NerdyWonka, for all the time and energy and creativity and generosity and fire and spirit you expend to keep TOD humming along, lighting the path. It makes life bearable and affects SO MANY PEOPLE. I hope your work and goodness come back to you multiplied in blessings too many to count.
(THREAD) Here's a checklist of everything that—as a criminal defense lawyer—I'd expect a client to do if he were the U.S. president, a career criminal, headed toward a possible election defeat, and aware that he might be indicted post-election. I hope you'll read on and retweet. pic.twitter.com/LfS4IUs4Bb
We are living in a mafia state modeled after Russia. The loyalists commit crimes and get rewarded, Trump and his Republican inner circle have looted our country while mass Americans are dying. The people protecting our country get punished, fired, harassed, and called traitors
For those like @realDonaldTrump who want to reopen schools without following @CDCgov guidelines on social distancing and masks, I want you to ponder this problem which may be replicated over and over again across America:
Q: “How are you making sense of the language from Trump, his Republican followers, the plutocrats and other gangster capitalists and their propagandists that people should be willing to sacrifice their lives for “the economy”?”
Q: “How have the American people been socialized into accepting the financialization of their lives and the misery it causes as somehow normal?”
Q: “Huge corporations such as Whole Foods, Target, CVS, Walgreens and others have created a perverse narrative where their “essential employees” are “heroes.” These are low-wage employees who are being exploited and risking their lives because most of them do not have a choice.”
Q: “What do you see when you look at these right-wing anti-public health coronavirus “rallies” In Michigan and other parts of the country with the guns and threats of terrorist violence, spurred on by Trump, the Republican Party and their media?”
Interview with Miles Davis: (https://www.salon.com/2020/07/09/mike-davis-on-the-global-crisis-this-moment-is-not-a-tunnel-with-a-bright-light-at-the-end/)
What if Trump somehow wins the election? (sorry)
If so the information concerning his finances and Russian connections will be disappeared. Poof!
Barr has already successfully moved to take over all 3 SDNY, EDNY and D.C. offices doing those investigations.
This information is critical before the election and especially after – either way.
The courts must expedite that process.
Watching in slo-mo will not save us. We have no choice but to expedite.
With this commutation, Trump has again signaled that Putin can interfere in the 2020 election without fear of retaliation.
Here I discuss with @AshaRangappa_ what Americans should be prepared for Russia to do next, based on historical patterns unearthed in my book "Rigged." pic.twitter.com/Sb8txP6LWE
Roger Stone. Found guilty by a jury on 7 federal criminal counts. No jail time.
Kalief Browder. Accused of stealing a backpack. Couldn’t post bail. Spent 3 years at Riker’s awaiting trial. Ultimately committed suicide after released.
To state the obvious, does anyone doubt for a second that ole creepy Rog told Donnie Scumbag: “Don’t let me go to jail. I’ll sing like a canary if you don’t do something. Remember, I’ve known you for 30 years.”
“Now, I conceive that the President ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself. It may happen, at some future day, that he will establish a monarchy and destroy the republic.” George Mason, 1788 Virginia Debates pic.twitter.com/X952iPotDo
In response to Trump commuting Stone sentence, Pelosi says the House will move on legislation to “ensure that no President can pardon or commute the sentence of an individual who is engaged in a cover-up campaign to shield that President from criminal prosecution.”
I understand the cycnicism…but when you have a whole other party that will allow Trump to get away with anything…when you have a press class that will carry the water for Trump…it may seem like this is closing the barn after the horses are out…but she is using her power to prevent any other Pres from doing the same…
as you know…once the genie is out of the bottle…it is very difficult to put him back in….
as much as some tout the founders…and the constitution…we can see the flaws in the notion of the separation of powers…the biggest flaw is to create a document that says all men are created equal…that leaves out anyone who is NOT wealthy…white…male…i believe that is why…the right to vote is not listed in the Bill Of Rights…
but any who…here we are in this continuous neverending battle to make America live up to the notion…that all men (women) are created EQUAL…..
Trump corruptly commutes Roger Stone's prison sentence. Can it be undone by the next president or the courts? We do NOT need to just shrug our shoulders at the Trump crime or abuse du jour. Here's one possible road map to justice. https://t.co/8Qeq8oQI90 via @YouTube
When Joe reaches the Whitehouse he’s going to have to basically reestablish our standing in the world. And fix our broken institutions, and hold those accountable that have wantonly broken the law. And his V.P. is going to have to be war-time consigliere in some ways, the President and V.P. are going to have to throw punches right out the gate.
My children will be attending the 2020-2021 school year from home with virtual classes online. You know who made that call? Me. Mom. Not DeVos. Not Trump. Me. Mom.
It's a sunny day in New Hampshire today. No #TyphoidTrump—and none of the bad weather he claimed prohibited him from coming here. The fact is, he didn't come here because his event was going to be a flop. And it was going to be a flop because Granite Staters *weren't interested*.
Republicans would like to pave the way for 2024. (Starting in 2022)
But they have permitted Trump and Barr to exist.
They want you to believe they are not a bunch of nazis.
Um.
Just a thought I shared with a dear friend the other day. That everything that is going on this year was karmic. We had four years of the worse government incompetence, but it took a pandemic to show how vital competent leadership is.
— Tynisa the Cynical Gen X Witch Walker (@Kalarigamerchic) July 11, 2020
GOP continues to run the government like a corporation.
And now encouraging, you, your children, your parents to save the corporate bottom line.
-Is why Trump wants schools to reopen.
True; however, I’ll take their help this year. Their audience is republicans and right leaning independents. They can run the real hard hitting stuff. Joe can run positive ads, and compare and contrast stuff.
Key is not getting complacent on 1/20/2021
We’ll need to keep out eyes on the prize and work like hell for every election, municipal, state, federal, every damn year.
No permanent friends nor enemies; just permanent interests…
The war is over with Bernie – we don’t need or want this. Senator Sanders was on Hayes’ show July 8th.
Joe and Bernie are working closely together.
(from their conversation per MSNBC):
HAYES:
“I saw a poll today I thought was very interesting that showed I think it was 87 percent of Sanders supporters supporting Joe Biden, only 4 percent supporting Trump, and basically the picture it painted, and this is across the various candidates who were in that very crowded primary field, was a very unified Democratic Party, a very unified electorate in defeating Trump. Is that your sense of where things are right now?”
SANDERS:
“Absolutely. Look, I think every person who voted for me, and I think for the other Democratic candidates, fully understands that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president, if not in the modern history of our country, than in the overall history of our country, and that it is absolutely imperative
that we come together and defeat him, and defeat him badly….
I was glad to work with the vice president in forming six separate task forces which had some of the most knowledgeable people in the country coming together to deal with education and climate change and health care and economy and criminal justice and immigration reform….
But there was serious discussion, and I think a real honest effort, to come. up with a compromise.
And I think
the compromise
that they came up with,
if implemented,
will make Biden
the most
progressive president
since FDR.”
This wasn’t a knock on Bernie. This was a reminder to Johnson that while Kamala can take a punch, he can’t…
Backstory: Johnson has been an extremely harsh critic of anyone not supporting Warren, especially Black women. During the primary he vilified Kamala. What finally got him kicked off MSNBC was his comments about some of Bernie’s staff.
Mayor Breed: it would be great to have a little bit more coordination and support from a federal level because again we are doing the best we can here locally… Question: What more do you want to see at the federal level? Breed: I’d like to see a new president pic.twitter.com/Ju6abHOWsO
I’m glad Virginia is leading to help survivors get the justice they deserve. As California’s Attorney General, I made clearing the rape kit backlog at state-run labs a top priority—and we got it done within my first year. It’s time our nation did the same.https://t.co/PcF3ncBKIv
Imagine what it would mean to validate racism and lawlessness by giving Trump four more years never having to face voters again. Organize and vote like our national identity depends on it.
Trumps campaign appears to believe he has won the election by putting on a mask, which raises the question of why they resisted this tactically brilliant political move until after 133k deaths pic.twitter.com/FHStWnVDLS
72,000+ new cases yesterday.
Action-free total dud in the WH has already walked 330 million people to the brink of despair.
He can wear a mask on his arse if he wants, he is out.
Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback how difficult it would be to promote justice around the world. We were deluding ourselves. Justice has been near death for decades.Trump, Barr & McConnell, have however, killed it.
Even if you graduated trump University, you should know that #SaudiTrump shouldn't support the people who funded 9/11, and caused a humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
NEWS w/ @AshleyRParker: The Lincoln Project raised $16.8 million this quarter and will soon expand to include ground operations. They plan to next target GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). https://t.co/ZDXveFQU8i
An Alabama man's journey to Minneapolis is nearly complete. Terry Willis has been walking from Alabama to 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, the spot where George Floyd died in police custody. https://t.co/r0dZ3XaedZ
5/26:@DanaBashCNN: "[Trump]'s trying to belittle you for wearing a mask, making it seem like it's a sign of weakness. Is it?" @JoeBiden: "He's a fool, an absolutely fool to talk that way." pic.twitter.com/LdnSf9dndB
I learned TODAY that a MILLION black men who fought in World War II w/Drew Brees’ grandfathers were DENIED the GI Bill benefits they EARNED because they were black. As a military vet I’m EMBARRASSED I didn’t know that. It makes me want to scream. https://t.co/wn6u2m1CLQpic.twitter.com/GXoRD9AodQ
Please please please retweet this terrific videoclip of a little girl whose message about wearing masks is way way smarter and more powerful than what our so-called “leaders” mumble daily. Everyone should listen to her. Retweet if you agree! https://t.co/PQY5JbvAPE
Here is 3-2 vote against mandate for masks in St. John’s county Florida on June 30, 2020. Commissioner Waldron voted no. Afterwords he went into to septic shock from COVID-19 and is in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/vAo7tki56M
Wishing a wonderful birthday to @Malala! As we celebrate #MalalaDay, let’s not simply be in awe of her accomplishments. Let’s join her inspiring work for education and do our part to support the extraordinary talents and potential of girls around the world. pic.twitter.com/fB64F1oNHN
Like the food and medical help, Midnight Yoga for protesters is free and joined by 70 protesters. No Washington Sports Club Fees here pic.twitter.com/6juCjfpAhM
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Too true! Stay safe, TOD
People have lost their damn minds.
I’m wondering if these people even had minds to begin with.
I STAND CORRECTED.
👍🏼
So when he says “No one told me…” or “I never heard anything about…”, it’s because he won’t allow himself to be brief, or like the third grader that he is, he has his fingers in his ears singing “la la la”.
Good Evening…Thank You, NW for a New Post.
Protesters are still out there…
It’s a revolution, to borrow a line from my generation.
That’s going around
We all need to do this
I thought of you when I read the plan, I’m most concerned about the materials (laptops) that the students will need for virtual learning. There are a lot of parents that can go out and lay out hundreds of dollar for a laptop, I wonder if there will be any kind of assistance provided to those families and can’t afford laptops?
*can’t
In my school and district, Don, we have a lot of chromebooks for kids to use during class. So, what we did when we went to on line school in March is we signed out chromebooks to all the kids who didn’t have a computer at home. They signed out over 300 of them, and got all but 12 back. We have a mix of kids in my school, but are in a well to do district, so those kids benefited from that.
Why would the profoundly stupid boys think that is was okay to go and mingle with cops? From coast to coast within police ranks there are racist, bigots, and every other type of vile. Its not surprising that the police would not outright welcome these people, but not shun them either.
Idiot commuted Roger Stone.
No prison for Roger… criminals get special treatment in this WH
So much for the law and order President.
Twice the pride, double the fall, these people learn that there is always a hard lesson to be had when you are on the wrong side of history. Defending Trump is never a winning proposition.
If he can’t hold any rallies, maybe that’ll be the last thing to get him to go totally bonkers and run out of the WH screaming one night.
Can’t wait for the video.
Georgia corona virus numbers are spiking. Local leaders are trying to do things to flatten the curve. Kemp is pushing back.
This is what Atlanta’s mayor is wanting to do:
Kemp is pushing back while this…. 🙄 🙄 🙄
Every time I look at Kemp I picture him sitting on his porch drinking lemonade and conversing with the local Sheriff about how things used to be.
Their definition of MAGA
Wow
I don’t think that there is a scenario in which he would resign. His only shot is to remain President just to hold off the dogs for four more years. The moment he resigns, the New York Southern District is coming for his ass. The moment leaks start coming out of the Whitehouse that Trump might be looking for the next President to pardon him for any crimes he may have committed, you’ll know that discussions are taking place. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if someone from Trump’s camp has already stepped to someone close to Joe and at least brought it up just to gage Joe’s interest. Not to be cynical but if I were Trump (And I’m glad I’m not) I would resign close to November. It’s obvious that Trump isn’t and hasn’t been up for the job the moment he spent his first night in the Whitehouse, and he knows it.
Hasn’t Joe Biden already publicly promised to not pardon drumpf?
Thread…
Thank you NerdyWonka, for all the time and energy and creativity and generosity and fire and spirit you expend to keep TOD humming along, lighting the path. It makes life bearable and affects SO MANY PEOPLE. I hope your work and goodness come back to you multiplied in blessings too many to count.
This, please:)
EXACTLY! Thank you, Nancie and thank you, Nerdy.
All of this! Love you Nerdy! 😘
Clear as day
Is this a patio umbrella????
The puppet master showed him how
Goodnight, TODville!
Goodnight TOD.
Q: “How are you making sense of the language from Trump, his Republican followers, the plutocrats and other gangster capitalists and their propagandists that people should be willing to sacrifice their lives for “the economy”?”
Q: “How have the American people been socialized into accepting the financialization of their lives and the misery it causes as somehow normal?”
Q: “Huge corporations such as Whole Foods, Target, CVS, Walgreens and others have created a perverse narrative where their “essential employees” are “heroes.” These are low-wage employees who are being exploited and risking their lives because most of them do not have a choice.”
Q: “What do you see when you look at these right-wing anti-public health coronavirus “rallies” In Michigan and other parts of the country with the guns and threats of terrorist violence, spurred on by Trump, the Republican Party and their media?”
Interview with Miles Davis: (https://www.salon.com/2020/07/09/mike-davis-on-the-global-crisis-this-moment-is-not-a-tunnel-with-a-bright-light-at-the-end/)
Morning everyone. Come on, Jaime!!!
What if Trump somehow wins the election? (sorry)
If so the information concerning his finances and Russian connections will be disappeared. Poof!
Barr has already successfully moved to take over all 3 SDNY, EDNY and D.C. offices doing those investigations.
This information is critical before the election and especially after – either way.
The courts must expedite that process.
Watching in slo-mo will not save us. We have no choice but to expedite.
To prevent Trump from running out the clock we can set up a Special Court.
Otherwise in the future:
If an Al Capone wants to escape jail time…
Why not become President, get a Barr, and run out the clock.?
I think this is what Glenn Kirschner advocates
Let the media ring it out…starting now.
Yes. Unfortunately.
This must end
So where do we go from here
To state the obvious, does anyone doubt for a second that ole creepy Rog told Donnie Scumbag: “Don’t let me go to jail. I’ll sing like a canary if you don’t do something. Remember, I’ve known you for 30 years.”
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what happened
And what will happen?
I understand the cycnicism…but when you have a whole other party that will allow Trump to get away with anything…when you have a press class that will carry the water for Trump…it may seem like this is closing the barn after the horses are out…but she is using her power to prevent any other Pres from doing the same…
as you know…once the genie is out of the bottle…it is very difficult to put him back in….
as much as some tout the founders…and the constitution…we can see the flaws in the notion of the separation of powers…the biggest flaw is to create a document that says all men are created equal…that leaves out anyone who is NOT wealthy…white…male…i believe that is why…the right to vote is not listed in the Bill Of Rights…
but any who…here we are in this continuous neverending battle to make America live up to the notion…that all men (women) are created EQUAL…..
DENMARK
July 10,
new cases:
30
……………………..
UNITED STATES
July 10,
new cases:
71,787
……………………
(Worldometers)
There is something rotten………in America
Hamlet wouidn’t have stood a chance with this coronavirus…
Any questions?
😁
Let the church say Amen!
🙏🏾✊🏾
😘
The real question is why did George Floyd have to be murdered for this to happen.
sometimes things have to hit a critical mass///
We aren’t strangers to critical mass and all that it entails, if you live long enough it will become a part of your daily live.
When Joe reaches the Whitehouse he’s going to have to basically reestablish our standing in the world. And fix our broken institutions, and hold those accountable that have wantonly broken the law. And his V.P. is going to have to be war-time consigliere in some ways, the President and V.P. are going to have to throw punches right out the gate.
Start the hearings in late August or early September just to remind the public of what is at stake in November.
If I had any school age kids they would not be going back to school right now.
I do and he won’t.
Good Evening, TODville Community.🙏💪🙏
I hope all are having a better Saturday than my crazy day…
🤔👀😮😶🤫🤭
Could have been us.
LISTEN
🔥🔥🔥
Republicans would like to pave the way for 2024. (Starting in 2022)
But they have permitted Trump and Barr to exist.
They want you to believe they are not a bunch of nazis.
Um.
🔥Thread🔥
GOP continues to run the government like a corporation.
And now encouraging, you, your children, your parents to save the corporate bottom line.
-Is why Trump wants schools to reopen.
Die for the corporation. While they make a lot of money on healthcare.
True; however, I’ll take their help this year. Their audience is republicans and right leaning independents. They can run the real hard hitting stuff. Joe can run positive ads, and compare and contrast stuff.
Key is not getting complacent on 1/20/2021
We’ll need to keep out eyes on the prize and work like hell for every election, municipal, state, federal, every damn year.
No permanent friends nor enemies; just permanent interests…
Somehow, this ended up in the wring place. This was in response to your comment under my RVAT post…
Tuh! Shade King scores again!
Hate to see it, however…
The war is over with Bernie – we don’t need or want this. Senator Sanders was on Hayes’ show July 8th.
Joe and Bernie are working closely together.
(from their conversation per MSNBC):
HAYES:
“I saw a poll today I thought was very interesting that showed I think it was 87 percent of Sanders supporters supporting Joe Biden, only 4 percent supporting Trump, and basically the picture it painted, and this is across the various candidates who were in that very crowded primary field, was a very unified Democratic Party, a very unified electorate in defeating Trump. Is that your sense of where things are right now?”
SANDERS:
“Absolutely. Look, I think every person who voted for me, and I think for the other Democratic candidates, fully understands that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president, if not in the modern history of our country, than in the overall history of our country, and that it is absolutely imperative
that we come together and defeat him, and defeat him badly….
I was glad to work with the vice president in forming six separate task forces which had some of the most knowledgeable people in the country coming together to deal with education and climate change and health care and economy and criminal justice and immigration reform….
But there was serious discussion, and I think a real honest effort, to come. up with a compromise.
And I think
the compromise
that they came up with,
if implemented,
will make Biden
the most
progressive president
since FDR.”
This wasn’t a knock on Bernie. This was a reminder to Johnson that while Kamala can take a punch, he can’t…
Backstory: Johnson has been an extremely harsh critic of anyone not supporting Warren, especially Black women. During the primary he vilified Kamala. What finally got him kicked off MSNBC was his comments about some of Bernie’s staff.
“An island of misfit black girls” was his comment about Bernie’s staff.
Mayor London Breed FTW
This dude can sing … Teddy Swims is his name. Props [ and snaps ] !
All good 👍🏾
She left her wallet… 🤣🤣🤣
Dum, da, dum, dum… dum, da, dum, dum, duuuuuumb 😆
Nope, jackass
72,000+ new cases yesterday.
Action-free total dud in the WH has already walked 330 million people to the brink of despair.
He can wear a mask on his arse if he wants, he is out.
Zacklee. Just shows thinking people what a fraud he is. Nothing has changed
Yes, please
Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
People are mad….
https://blogforarizona.net/step-down-ducey-arizonans-speak-up/
Spot on
Whoa! The rays are incredible too!
👇🏾
Goodnight TOD.
Let’s pump up this guy’s follower count, shall we?
Thread
😷😷😷
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/12/happy-birthday-malala/