Today, let’s truly commit to action for Breonna Taylor. Do your part so this injustice doesn’t get covered up. It is really really important. When you have completed your action item, please share with your community so they do their part as well.
Bookmark the website and keep going back to it so that the authorities in Louisville, KY know that we will not stop until the cops who murdered her are held legally accountable. Thanks.
!!! Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants to see Roger Stone's commutation paperwork, after questions have arisen about whether President Trump's clemency covers only Stone's prison time or also his probation. US Probation Office has raised questions about the commutation @kpolantz
I'll never get over people saying Sandra Bland committed suicide as if that was supposed to *make me feel better* about what happened to her. She failed to use her turn signal. Then Brian Encinia falsified a police report. She should never have even been in that jail cell.
Voting by mail shouldn't be a partisan issue––especially during a pandemic. Everybody should be able to request an absentee ballot, and make their voice heard in every election. https://t.co/enlhkichz3
Congress needs to get to the bottom of whether Russia placed bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. We need full access any relevant presidential briefing materials.
And the Trump administration must testify before Congress in an open hearing.
.@SenTedCruz, my dad just tested positive again for COVID after his wife, my stepmom, died last Friday from it.
As you know, the virus is surging in Texas. It would help all of us if we all wear a mask in public. Will you please wear a mask out of courtesy to others? https://t.co/8Ngy1qix9F
There are more than 35M people living with a disability who are eligible to vote. But too often voting is inaccessible. This National Disability Voter Registration Week, I’m calling on Congress to pass my VoteSafe Act to make voting in the age of coronavirus accessible for all.
Sandra Bland should be alive today. Thinking about her family, especially her mother, on the 5th anniversary of her death in police custody after she was stopped, arrested and jailed for being black in Waller county. There has been no justice for Sandra, 5 years and counting.
Q: "You're asking Americans to have full faith in law enforcement. How do you respond to critics who say you undermined … the DOJ when you commuted the sentence of Roger Stone?
Trump: "Well, if you look back on it, this was an investigation that should have never taken place."
I was thrilled to join the @GirlUp Leadership Summit to celebrate the power of girls around the world and to share a message about the @GirlsAlliance. I hope you'll join our work to unlock the extraordinary talents of adolescent girls through education. https://t.co/jZazpZLyVf
Check out @MichelleObama’s message for the @GirlUp Leadership Summit about the importance of giving girls around the world the opportunities to fulfill their boundless promise. Then head over to https://t.co/zqgbDtCgOa to take action for girls’ education and empowerment. pic.twitter.com/nwQcFz9CpG
— Girls Opportunity Alliance (@girlsalliance) July 13, 2020
BREAKING: 1 out of every 100 Americans has tested positive for the virus. Trump’s response has been catastrophic. His negligence and fraud killed Americans. He is the biggest failure in US history.
"Trump’s COVID scandal makes what Nixon did at Watergate look innocent. Nobody died in the Watergate scandal. Thousands of people are going to die in this COVID scandal." -Gov. Cuomo https://t.co/vZK0TVZaLwpic.twitter.com/qMgicoU4KK
The problem is, these prisoners aren’t contributors to the powerful…
A thread…
Fiona Apple stepped up. After a federal judge dismissed dozens of sworn declarations from inside jail as “unhelpful” & only “marginally relevant.” She didn’t want anyone to ignore them. So she read their words. “I’ve lost my spirit, sort of given up.” More:pic.twitter.com/MSX9DykIc2
"Perhaps the most sinister form of minority voter suppression is also the simplest: making nonwhite people wait longer to vote." https://t.co/TkwqiPYvk7
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) July 13, 2020
In the wake of racial justice protests, Ariel and her team started the Mom Crisis Fund—hosting relief popups for moms who have lost their children to gun violence. Moms can pick up essential items, share stories of pain and resilience, and join a healing community conversation. pic.twitter.com/9EG6hnEtUm
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) July 13, 2020
A NY judge has lifted the restraining order that barred Mary Trump from speaking publicly about her new book, per her attorney @BoutrousTed. He says the First Amendment "forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy."
A bit of news:Privileged to be joining the prosecution team in the George Floyd case,working under AG Keith Ellison (@keithellison). Grateful to the attys from @HoganLovells &elsewhere on the team+my firm for their support. I'll have no further comment https://t.co/ZXzoRB8Stv
Listen to the scientists. Listen to the public health experts. Listen to the facts and data. Listen to the doctors and nurses and emergency responders on the front lines.
"We are learning that when you are this bad, it's like walking on a bed of nails. How you don't feel the individual nails because they're all so damn sharp. And I think the country has gotten way too numb to the level of scandal…" – @clairecmc w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/c9DWFsTp0m
"Based on what I've seen in terms of the school reopening plans, it doesn't seem like he cares about teachers' lives, parents' lives, those of our children. There's no plan and that's the big problem" – @VinGuptaMD w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/JKGX9yCilC
Absolutely mind boggling to think a Treasonous, lying, thieving, sex-assaulting, Russia colluding, race-baiting, violence-inciting, Justice-obstructing, Democracy-destroying, divisive son of a bitch is still this high in the polls. #Tragicpic.twitter.com/ARwdB8S46F
I had to fly to Boston for something. The flight was slightly delayed. Waiting at the gate was Senator Kerry — who had a computer bag, a smallish overnight bag, what looked like an empty gym duffel bag, several newspapers. He was in a suit, obviously with a first class ticket /2
“Whenever you are asked to name the lowest moment of the Trump presidency, one answer is always correct: Tomorrow.
As the nation ricochets between chaos and calamity, the one reliable constant is the certainty that things will get worse.”—Dana Milbank
🚨ALERT: Doctors in #Florida give dire warning. “#Miami is now the epicenter of the #pandemic. What we were seeing in #Wuhan 5 or 6 months ago, now we are there,. per Dr. Lillian Abbo, U of Miami infectious disease specialist#Florida must #lockdown NOW‼️https://t.co/NaGn7UQeNc
While DeVos wants schools to take the responsibility = zero national leadership = you are on your own:
Arnie Duncan, former secretary of Education under PBO:
“The real travesty here is there’s no body count high enough for the president to actually pay attention to science. We could lose another 10,000. We could lose another 50,000. We could lose another 100,000. Nothing would compel him to listen to Dr. Fauci and others who are actually trying to fight to save lives.”
–Meanwhile it is being discovered that COVID-19 causes neurological damage, immunological damage, cardiovascular damage. Doctors are overwhelmed by children riddled with blood clots.
–So No we will not throw our children and teachers on the funeral pyre to please Trump and his crime syndicate.
When the story broke about Russia offering bounties for the killing of American troops, any Commander in Chief with a shred of decency would do something—anything—to let our troops know they are protected.
While it's certainly fun to watch the Lincoln Project troll the president, it's ads like this new one from @VoteVets that are actually going to obliterate Trump in swing states in Novemberpic.twitter.com/dAyARsiufy
It says everything about the ghouls in the Trump campaign that they think a picture of their opponent lovingly holding his now-dead son as a child is some kind of own. pic.twitter.com/XoDCDOUdCe
#BREAKING: The Orange County Board of Education has voted 4-1 to reopen schools next month with in-person instruction. Students and teachers can choose to attend classes without masks and no social distancing is required. https://t.co/z1Zvr1JNTh
EFF YOU DEVOS:
Anti-child, anti-education, multi-billionaire has her trumpy corporate interests.
“Corporations have seized control of the news industry and turned it into burlesque.
They have corrupted academic scholarship.
They make war on science and the rule of law.
They have used their wealth to destroy our democracy
and replace it with a system of legalized bribery.
They have created a world of masters and serfs who struggle at subsistence level and endure crippling debt peonage. The commodification of the natural world by corporations has triggered an ecocide that is pushing the human species closer and closer towards extinction. Anyone who attempts to state these truths and fight back was long ago driven from the mainstream and relegated to the margins of the internet by Silicon Valley algorithms.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/dont-be-fooled-by-the-cancel-culture-wars-corporate-power-is-the-real-force-behind-racism/)
—-Lockdown Florida and the schools.
About 77% of American teachers are women. About 75% of American lawmakers are white men – like Senator Kennedy. Until Kennedy – a privileged millionaire – spends a week in a classroom with dozens of coughing, sneezing kids, he can kiss my ass.
The results of the 2020 census will determine how much funding your community will receive for key programs and services for the next decade. It’s never been more important to #BeCounted.
“CLIMATE CHANGE driven by global warming threatens to worsen as experts warn atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels will soon be greater than at any point in the last 3.3 million years.”
“Currently, our CO2 levels are rising at about 2.5 ppm per year.”
(https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1308968/Climate-change-2025-CO2-global-warming-carbon-dioxide)
—Where I live the low traffic means we’re breathing easy, birds and bees returning (significantly as people stop spraying poison), clear skies.
–Researchers report that in the absence of cruise ship, whales are going back to their normal singing. Forget the nice whale watching if something isn’t done, between that and the fkn plastic.
Bonne Fête Nationale! Happy Bastille Day! Wishing our neighbours in France a dazzling day of national celebrations. #bastilledaypic.twitter.com/b6CTv2uIIS
If Dr. Fauci and Donald Trump were both drowning and you only had time to save one of them, where would you and Dr. Fauci go to lunch together afterward?
Twitter do your thing. This was at Met Market in West Seattle. The male Karen refused to put on a mask, then pulled down the mask of the store manager and spit in the manager’s face. #Covidiots#KarensStrikeAgainpic.twitter.com/PwDAOdNL2z
“ProPublica reported Tuesday that the Black 15-year-old,
identified by the news outlet only as Grace, had her probation revoked by a white judge over a month ago and has been in custody since the hearing over “failure to submit to any schoolwork and getting up for school.”
Grace previously was put on probation for fighting with her mother and stealing, according to the news outlet, though ProPublica could not locate any other examples of children
remanded into custody over failure to complete schoolwork.
The teen had also not re-offended since being put on probation, save for failure to complete her schoolwork, according to the news outlet, and is diagnosed with a learning disability,
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ”
(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/507224-michigan-teenager-incarcerated-for-failing-to-do-her-online)
—15 years old with learning disabilities incarcerated for not doing her homework, not getting up for school.
—White judge is a fkn saint mind you, who never did any such thing, nor did his offspring, also fkn saints.
One expert who worked on the WH Ebola response told me this a couple years ago:
“They [Obama et al] were, in the first months especially, like sponges. For Ebola, they made a conscious decision to put the politics aside and dealt with the science.”https://t.co/wLFjzwrs0Dhttps://t.co/zycvvkSFmh
I remember going to the West Wing in the fall of 2014. My meeting was running late. The whole place was buzzing. A young staff assistant said, "Sorry, it's been crazy here. It's Ebola 24/7."
You know how many confirmed Ebola cases we ended up having in the U.S.?
Teachers shouldn't be required to endanger their life & THE LIVES OF CHILDREN because of an evil-to-the-core President & his @GOP enablers. https://t.co/yOT32yErx1
When my children were small…my favorite hairstyle for my girst was the one on the right….i would adorn their with flowere and other ornament…i reminded them that their hair was beautiful…i hated that notion of so called “good” hair…
Listen to experts like Dr. Fauci who put the wellbeing of the American people first. Not someone who continues to suppress the word of public health experts and refuses to follow the science.
Thanks for having me @Lawrence! We’ll get into the stories from my White House transition from Obama-to-Trump next time around! https://t.co/Pobpa4Lgtj
Meghan Markle’s Girl Up address was powerful, unflinching, passionate, eloquent, and inspiring. So happy to see her being her real self unapologetically. Ended by including Harry and Archie in her well wishes for the group. England threw away a pearl.
A 15-year-old black girl did not do her remote schoolwork _in a pandemic_ and a judge ruled she violated probation, called her a “threat to (the) community,” and sent her to juvenile detention https://t.co/ZJ1MJm2ow7
Today is Runoff Tuesday and Primary Day in Alabama, Maine, and Texas. Your vote is your voice. Be sure to turn in your absentee ballot and if you decide to head to the polls, be sure to wear a mask, maintain social distancing, and wash your hands.
"They don’t listen until they have to, because the status quo is easy to excuse and it’s hard to break; but it will pull tightest right before snapping. Keep challenging, keep pushing, make them a little uncomfortable." – Meghan Markle Link 👉🏾 https://t.co/pPZE1YDiZ0pic.twitter.com/TA38MxxQQD
"This is a humanity that desperately needs you. To push it, to push us, forcefully in a more inclusive, more just, and more empathetic direction. To not only frame the debate, but be in charge of the debate—on racial justice, gender, climate change, mental health and wellbeing." pic.twitter.com/Dwhvnd0FKZ
As she wrapped up her speech, Duchess Meghan told the 40,000+ @GirlUp young participants (in 172 countries): "I will be cheering you on, so will my husband, so will Archie, as you continue marching, advocating, and leading the way forward."#GirlLead20
"They are a generation challenging norms, enacting real-world change, and leading global movements," a Meghan source tells @HarpersBazaarUS. "She says they are not only ‘poised to change the world,’ she believes they have ‘already begun’."#GirlLead20https://t.co/A2bvi2j4BV
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Today, let’s truly commit to action for Breonna Taylor. Do your part so this injustice doesn’t get covered up. It is really really important. When you have completed your action item, please share with your community so they do their part as well.
Bookmark the website and keep going back to it so that the authorities in Louisville, KY know that we will not stop until the cops who murdered her are held legally accountable. Thanks.
Thanks – this is top priority!
I personalized the message slightly and corrected the spelling of beginning. Didn’t take much time.
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Thank you for this Post, NW…May God Bless You.🙌😍🤗😍🙌
🙏🕯🙏
⚖⚖⚖ for Breonna Taylor.
😞
Yeah. I don’t understand how we’ve moved on from that scandal.
I don’t get it either. The pressure for answers on this needs to ratchet up, not down.
Ass hole!
Aside from this, it looks like a damn HIPPA violation . WTF is wrong with these people??
I was going to ask, how did someone even get this?!?!?!?
Little Lindsey looks good.
Wow.
The problem is, these prisoners aren’t contributors to the powerful…
A thread…
☀️🌞☀️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
John Legend re artists speaking out re politics –
(Short THREAD)
Rest in Peace, Naya.
Give it up for the Brown and Black girls on Glee:
Trump Humiliates Himself By Claiming His Executive Orders Are Laws
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/13/trump-humilates-himself-by-claiming-his-executive-orders-are-laws.html)
–The president does not make laws.
Good Evening Beloved TODbots.
Not that I care about the book … just glad trump lost.
wow…something unprecedented might be happening…as Maddow says…Watch this space!
Part 2
No ambiguity ….
Fact ….
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Sounds good to me!
Goodnight TOD
Today in history…
Thread…
Good morning, TODville. Let’s keep working for sanity and safety.
Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn
“Whenever you are asked to name the lowest moment of the Trump presidency, one answer is always correct: Tomorrow.
As the nation ricochets between chaos and calamity, the one reliable constant is the certainty that things will get worse.”—Dana Milbank
😍
He did a similar one for AZ. Excellent
“The art of Undermining, or:
How easily U.S. President Donald Trump gets away with corruption”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/trump-and-corruption-who-cares-in-the-time-of-covid_partner/)
“No end in sight for COVID-19 in Arizona as governor remains idle”
“Will Humble, former executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, talks about how little is being done by Arizona governor Doug Ducey to stem the spread of coronavirus, and the horrific impact COVID-19 is having as a result.” (Velshi)
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/no-end-in-sight-for-covid-19-in-arizona-as-governor-remains-idle-87647813879)
“Fmr. NFL player Donté Stallworth:
“We look at it through the lens of how protests can create awareness and put pressure on teams or on entities to be in fear of what the bottom lines are…The current team owner Dan Snyder said he would NEVER, in all caps, change the name. And here we are today.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-nfl-player-reacts-to-washington-team-s-drop-of-racist-name-87627845789)
While DeVos wants schools to take the responsibility = zero national leadership = you are on your own:
Arnie Duncan, former secretary of Education under PBO:
“The real travesty here is there’s no body count high enough for the president to actually pay attention to science. We could lose another 10,000. We could lose another 50,000. We could lose another 100,000. Nothing would compel him to listen to Dr. Fauci and others who are actually trying to fight to save lives.”
–Meanwhile it is being discovered that COVID-19 causes neurological damage, immunological damage, cardiovascular damage. Doctors are overwhelmed by children riddled with blood clots.
–So No we will not throw our children and teachers on the funeral pyre to please Trump and his crime syndicate.
Proud to be a member of and contributor to VoteVets!
Evil. Just evil.
So let’s be clear about who the trumpies are in this deal.
And hold them all accountable when the death toll mounts.
EFF YOU DEVOS:
Anti-child, anti-education, multi-billionaire has her trumpy corporate interests.
“Corporations have seized control of the news industry and turned it into burlesque.
They have corrupted academic scholarship.
They make war on science and the rule of law.
They have used their wealth to destroy our democracy
and replace it with a system of legalized bribery.
They have created a world of masters and serfs who struggle at subsistence level and endure crippling debt peonage. The commodification of the natural world by corporations has triggered an ecocide that is pushing the human species closer and closer towards extinction. Anyone who attempts to state these truths and fight back was long ago driven from the mainstream and relegated to the margins of the internet by Silicon Valley algorithms.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/dont-be-fooled-by-the-cancel-culture-wars-corporate-power-is-the-real-force-behind-racism/)
—-Lockdown Florida and the schools.
“CLIMATE CHANGE driven by global warming threatens to worsen as experts warn atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels will soon be greater than at any point in the last 3.3 million years.”
“Currently, our CO2 levels are rising at about 2.5 ppm per year.”
(https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1308968/Climate-change-2025-CO2-global-warming-carbon-dioxide)
—Where I live the low traffic means we’re breathing easy, birds and bees returning (significantly as people stop spraying poison), clear skies.
–Researchers report that in the absence of cruise ship, whales are going back to their normal singing. Forget the nice whale watching if something isn’t done, between that and the fkn plastic.
Good morning! Celebrate!
Morning everyone
This guy needs a bad day
Domestic terrorism is it?
Not a leap to imagine this guy’s children copycatting him in school.
“ProPublica reported Tuesday that the Black 15-year-old,
identified by the news outlet only as Grace, had her probation revoked by a white judge over a month ago and has been in custody since the hearing over “failure to submit to any schoolwork and getting up for school.”
Grace previously was put on probation for fighting with her mother and stealing, according to the news outlet, though ProPublica could not locate any other examples of children
remanded into custody over failure to complete schoolwork.
The teen had also not re-offended since being put on probation, save for failure to complete her schoolwork, according to the news outlet, and is diagnosed with a learning disability,
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ”
(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/507224-michigan-teenager-incarcerated-for-failing-to-do-her-online)
—15 years old with learning disabilities incarcerated for not doing her homework, not getting up for school.
—White judge is a fkn saint mind you, who never did any such thing, nor did his offspring, also fkn saints.
Beauty Break:
When my children were small…my favorite hairstyle for my girst was the one on the right….i would adorn their with flowere and other ornament…i reminded them that their hair was beautiful…i hated that notion of so called “good” hair…
Thread…
Up-and-comer!
Meghan Markle’s Girl Up address was powerful, unflinching, passionate, eloquent, and inspiring. So happy to see her being her real self unapologetically. Ended by including Harry and Archie in her well wishes for the group. England threw away a pearl.
VOTE
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/america-a-violently-racist-country/
COMING UP…