Rep. Val Demings of Florida, a former Orlando police chief, forged a close bond with the Bidens during the VP search. Some Biden advisers are hopeful she will challenge Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 election. https://t.co/P2C26jvN6Y
I was sent this from Tamil Nadu where our Indian family is from. It says “PV Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious.” I knew my great grandfather from our family trips to Chennai when I was young—he was a big figure for my grandma and I know they’re together somewhere smiling now. pic.twitter.com/WuZiKimmqj
I’m sorry. WTF!!!! There are MUCH better things too cut from defense than the healthcare of veterans and active duty personnel!
Pentagon officials have proposed slashing military health care by $2.2 billion, a reduction that some defense officials say could effectively gut the Pentagon's health care system during a nationwide pandemic. https://t.co/lvcPUNyV0r
He’s looking for 1.75 Billion to cover the new FBI building that he wants put across the street from his scuzzy hotel instead out in the less expensive suburbs. He wants to prevent a competing hotel from moving there and, of course, business that would come from having a major federal agency HQ across the street. GOP tried to stick that in their version of the next pandemic relief bill. Dems balked and Rethugs were like “What? Oh, how did that get in there?”
Breaking News: Members of the U.S. House will return early to vote on legislation to block changes at the Postal Service that could threaten mail-in voting https://t.co/Xcuqr4KtRn
But tell Bob (or not) it’s a better idea than I came up with, last night. I was – I swear to God, and I wasn’t even drinking wine – picturing the neighborhood ice cream truck’s picking up returned ballots.
I LOVE your ice cream truck idea. Or a taco truck or a whatever just COME GET OUR BALLOTS TRUCK. I know it’s not allowable but I love the idea nonetheless.
Someone may have already commented on this (just getting back here), but Al Gore was ON FIRE on Anderson Cooper’s show tonight. He hit every note and represented Joe Biden, the Democratic party, everything anti-trump, brilliantly. Haven’t seen him in a while and I was TOTALLY impressed. Still smilin’!!!
Every GoFundMe for prescription drugs is a policy failure. That’s why I worked with both parties to pass the Lower Insulin Costs Now Act into law, to bring generic versions of this life-saving drug to market faster so more can afford it:https://t.co/Ke8kQF5oXA
They’re doing mail-in ballots. I’m betting, if he lets her complete it herself, he’ll insist on seeing her ballot or, more likely, having a staffer fill it out for her.
I have no sympathy for her. She chose this life. She willingly stepped up to amplify his birtherism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, plagiarized Mrs. Obama (I bet she’ll do it again at their convention this year) and had the nerve to wear that “I don’t care” jacket to go ogle at children in cages. Screw her.
This is performance art. She is positioning herself to survive the takedown. Every time she does this she well knows that cameras are everywhere recording this so that people can feel sorry for her. She is a birther and an opportunist. Used chain immigration to get her family here after she got here through fraud.
The United States of America can be defined by one word: possibilities. There’s not a single thing we can’t achieve if we set our minds to it. pic.twitter.com/vASpxmaD3E
The assault by President Trump & his mega-donor Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on the Postal Service threatens lives, livelihood & life of our American democracy. I am calling on the House to return to vote on Chairwoman Maloney’s "Delivering for America Act." #DontMessWithUSPS
tRump likes to brag that he has a 90 something percent approval rating in the Republican party. Doesn’t he mean what’s LEFT of the Republican party??? A high percent of a smaller number.
Haven’t a number of people who identified as Republicans at the time he *took* office changed their identification?
Yes, and I believe they are being sent out Oct 5th. When I get mine, I am filling it out, my hubby and son are filling theirs out, and then I’m driving to wherever I can drop off my ballot that day. I only hope it doesn’t take 3 weeks to get to my house.
The hard truth is that our economy wasn't working for folks long before this crisis. It's why we can't just go back to the way things were — we have to build back better.
We've got to create an economy that works for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected.
The #DemConvention kicks off tonight with a full lineup of incredible speakers who represent the decency and diversity of our party—and the brighter future we can build together under a @JoeBiden administration. Don’t miss out. https://t.co/9MWysjyttW
Indiana: An Air Force veteran and former U.S. Secret Service agent had to drive two hours round-trip to pick up life-saving heart medication. He's been waiting nearly three weeks for a CPAP mask and tube, which usually takes 3-5 days by mail.
Trailing badly in the polls, Trump's desperate Hail Mary to win the election is now to have his cronies he installed at the Postal Service slow down the mail to suppress votes in key states.
New 📺 📺 📺 #BidenSchoolsTrump why we need science to guide our school reopening plans, not politics.
Text BIDEN to 50409 to make sure you're ready to make the easiest choice in November and elect @JoeBiden to be the next President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/iRulXeRzZ5
Tune in on August 18th! I’ll be joining @JasonKander on his IG live where we’ll be discussing how our campaign will help flip GA blue! You won’t want to miss it! pic.twitter.com/51t6pYbsaU
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) August 15, 2020
Our health care workers are heroes for risking their lives everyday fighting on the frontlines. Let us help them by taking every necessary precaution to prevent this virus from spreading. #WearAMaskhttps://t.co/5ibqsRDusy
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) August 16, 2020
Georgia is one of only 12 states that hasn’t adopted Medicaid Expansion, and it’s left 518,000 Georgians without access to affordable health care, in the middle of a pandemic.
In 2014, I was arrested leading a sit-in to fight against that shocking injustice. pic.twitter.com/PLFgWomBpA
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) August 15, 2020
“The Democratic party is basically a governing party, organized around developing and implementing public policies. The Republican party has become an attack party, organized around developing and implementing political vitriol. Democrats legislate. Republicans fulminate.
In theory, politics requires both capacities – to govern, but also to fight to attain and retain power.
The dysfunction today is that Republicans can’t govern
and Democrats can’t fight.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/16/us-election-democrats-republicans-trump
—Dems now pls fight Hammer and Tongs in Congress.
—Throw the kitchen sink at DeJoy, pls don’t be shy!!
saveourplanetfromtrump.
“Belarus live updates: Lukashenko says no new election ‘unless you kill me'”
“The latest remarks mark a major change of tack for the besieged Lukashenko who has so far defied calls to give up power amid mass protests…
Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek said fears of a Russian invasion in Belarus
were “appropriate.” Speaking to CT television channel, Petricek said the EU needed to send out a clear signal that a military engagement in the ex-Soviet state was unacceptable. “We reject a repetition of the Ukraine scenario and the Crimea annexation.”
(https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-live-updates-lukashenko-says-no-new-election-unless-you-kill-me/a-54594736)
Destroying the Postal Service helps destroy the economy. Trump doesn’t care about the economy. Trump doesn’t care about We The People. Trump doesn’t care about the voters in his base-especially in rural America-being crushed by postal delays. Trump case about cheating & chaos.
Definitely doesn’t make sense to, on one hand, demand that businesses re-open, and on the other hand, disrupt one of the main resources that help these businesses (especially small businesses) to operate and thrive.
Oh! I forgot! It’s all about him trying to get re-elected. Anything that doesn’t directly align with that goal is just collateral damage.
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem is rejecting Trump's federal coronavirus unemployment assistance. She said it's not needed thanks to her state's healthy economy. https://t.co/Ew9z90JIVE
2/4 they believe in government and public service. He explained that for him, the Vietnam War and Richard Nixen became when he no longer believed in government or trusted our leaders. He still voted but not with enthusiasm or comfort. He really felt like that was the beginning of
4/4 he trusted Barack Obama (5 yr old me would not have thought this would be true). He said Barack Obama believed in what government can do and be. Kamala Harris is like that – not to compare her to Obama but she possesses that belief in a government that works for the people.💛
100 years since women were given the right to vote:
“August 18th marks 100 years since the 19th amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
But for women of color it took years after that day to gain the ability to freely vote.
Unpacking the legacy of what 100 years of voting for women truly means, Teen Vogue highlights 10 women of color advocating for change and voters’ rights as the cover story in their August issue.”
Alicia Menendez discusses what voting in 2020 means to Executive Editor of Teen Vogue, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, writer and activist Raquel Willis, and Alaskan Native student activist, Charitie Ropati:
(https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/tuesday-marks-100-years-since-women-were-given-the-right-to-vote-90165317630)
52 days of silence on #BountyGate is shocking, but it’s not entirely surprising. It’s consistent with the disgraceful, inexplicable subservience Trump has shown to Putin since the first days of his presidency.
If you text USPS to 50409 they will send letters to your senators and representative in support of the postal service. It takes under one minute. Help save our democracy. Works like a charm. Please do this. Don’t let your vote be suppressed.🌎❤️🇺🇸
Number one with Mr. Hoax is lifting sanctions on russian Arctic oil.
We are keeping ANWR pristine for our children.
RIP filthy oil — thoughts and prayers.
“I feel like Black people, we’re not asking for sympathy,” @iamcardib tells presumptive Democratic presidential nominee @JoeBiden, “We’re not asking for charity—we are just asking for equality. It’s simple: We want to feel like Americans.” https://t.co/HRylmdQPPcpic.twitter.com/vUf7j9Cgrs
VOTER CAGING: “Caging Democracy:
A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters” (Teresa James, M.D.)
“Voter caging is a practice of sending non-forwardable direct mail to registered voters and using the returned mail to compile lists of voters, called “caging lists,” for the purpose of challenging their eligibility to vote. In recent years, other techniques, such as database matching, have been used to compile challenger lists.”
“State voter challenge statutes permit partisan individuals to challenge and disqualify voters, frequently without providing clear standards. These statutes often have their origins in post- reconstruction laws that were enacted to deprived african american voters of their franchise.”
“MEDIA CAMPAIGNS immediately before elections were a key part of voter caging operations.
part of the strategy was to call a press conference to announce the filing of mass challenges on the eve of the filing deadline. The challenges were billed as evidence of massive voter fraud although the voter caging lists were, in fact, only evidence of returned mailings. frequently, the pre-election media campaigns alleging voter fraud were as vigorously, or more vigorously, carried out than the challenges themselves.”
Detailed report: (http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Caging_Democracy_Report.pdf)
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of our country’s greatest natural treasures. We cannot let Donald Trump, @SecBernhardt, and their Big Oil buddies auction off these protected lands and waters to the highest bidder. https://t.co/qcQ5VDFVqV
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Dem Convention starts tonight.
I can’t wait.
🙏💪🙏🥁📯🎶🎺😍🤲🤗
Thank you, NW for all You do for our Global Village.👒💁♀️🙇♀️💙❤🖤🤎💜💛🧡💚💗🥂
Doing some homework on the history of the Post Office. The immediate concern is that Trump may be trying to steal the election by crippling the institution. But he's also trying to undermine an institution that has been crucial in nation-building 1/ https://t.co/9yht7csx5Y
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
YESSSSSSSS
I was referring to the second tweet!!
YES!!!!
That would be AWESOME!
Right?
She’d also make a great Governor instead of that lunatic moron DeSantis.
Absolutely!
I prefer to spell it “DuhSantis.”
FOR THE WIN
I am really getting November 2008 vibes. I am very excited! All fired up!
(I also think there should be a civilian army protecting the mailboxes!)
Yes we can!! We must!!
I’m sorry. WTF!!!! There are MUCH better things too cut from defense than the healthcare of veterans and active duty personnel!
Oh, hell no! Get rid of some super costly military hardware, planes, etc. instead.
Who stands to gain from this … ???
Who is getting $$$ out of this?
Doesn’t make sense otherwise. Or perhaps I am just a hopeless cynic.
He’s looking for 1.75 Billion to cover the new FBI building that he wants put across the street from his scuzzy hotel instead out in the less expensive suburbs. He wants to prevent a competing hotel from moving there and, of course, business that would come from having a major federal agency HQ across the street. GOP tried to stick that in their version of the next pandemic relief bill. Dems balked and Rethugs were like “What? Oh, how did that get in there?”
INSANE. Each day crazier than the last. They are all completely NUTS. Prison is too good for these criminals.
Finally, and no surprise it is Speaker Pelosi leading the charge ….
And, this dude should ‘step up,’ big time ….
… if he has the personal fortitude to do so which I will only ‘hope’ he does.
I would think that he with all his squillions of dollars would want to save the very same democracy that made him a squillionaire.
Bob, under Pennsylvania law, Amazon wouldn’t be authorized to handle ballots.
Also under federal law, I think.
But tell Bob (or not) it’s a better idea than I came up with, last night. I was – I swear to God, and I wasn’t even drinking wine – picturing the neighborhood ice cream truck’s picking up returned ballots.
I LOVE your ice cream truck idea. Or a taco truck or a whatever just COME GET OUR BALLOTS TRUCK. I know it’s not allowable but I love the idea nonetheless.
🙂
AZ too
In Georgia, absentee ballots cannot be delivered by anyone other than the voter, unless the voter is disabled.
Well folks, someone better devise a solution or this election is already decided – by Putin.
And, that is so far from hyperbole it is boringly obvious to anyone who has paid attention to what he has already accomplished.
Someone may have already commented on this (just getting back here), but Al Gore was ON FIRE on Anderson Cooper’s show tonight. He hit every note and represented Joe Biden, the Democratic party, everything anti-trump, brilliantly. Haven’t seen him in a while and I was TOTALLY impressed. Still smilin’!!!
Aw, I’m sorry I missed that.
She’s great!
Wow, so obvious that Melania was not having it.
I don’t know why people keep trying to rescue birther Melania. If you watch to the end, she’s gladly holding his hand as they walk the tarmac.
I have no sympathy for her. She chose this life. She willingly stepped up to amplify his birtherism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, plagiarized Mrs. Obama (I bet she’ll do it again at their convention this year) and had the nerve to wear that “I don’t care” jacket to go ogle at children in cages. Screw her.
CO-SIGN
She’s just like him. They’re perfect for each other
This is performance art. She is positioning herself to survive the takedown. Every time she does this she well knows that cameras are everywhere recording this so that people can feel sorry for her. She is a birther and an opportunist. Used chain immigration to get her family here after she got here through fraud.
Dag, why didn’t they send a photographer or videographer? 😆
That’s hysterical. I applaud whoever got the word out, nevertheless!
Good Morning! 💐💐💐
😍😍😍
I always loved her in that dress. The dress is art
I wondered about this too. Here’s the answer. I give him props.
tRump likes to brag that he has a 90 something percent approval rating in the Republican party. Doesn’t he mean what’s LEFT of the Republican party??? A high percent of a smaller number.
Haven’t a number of people who identified as Republicans at the time he *took* office changed their identification?
Morning everyone
I would just amend with CA: Gov Newsom signed an order in May that requires each county’s elections officials automatically send vote-by-mail ballots for the November 3, 2020 General Election to all registered voters.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/05/08/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-protect-public-health-by-mailing-every-registered-voter-a-ballot-ahead-of-the-november-general-election/
Yes, and I believe they are being sent out Oct 5th. When I get mine, I am filling it out, my hubby and son are filling theirs out, and then I’m driving to wherever I can drop off my ballot that day. I only hope it doesn’t take 3 weeks to get to my house.
SAME!!
PEDAL TO THE METAL, PEOPLE!!!!
Beautiful
🎵🎵🎵
PP the Superspreader? When you are a celebrity they let you do stuff like that … oh Wisconsin, what will you do?
Get stuck with a security bill and watch their coronavirus go up exponentially.
Exactly.
Thread
Flip the Senate!
I am praying that they do so. I don’t know why anyone would take pleasure in human suffering … smh.
Who says shit like this when a family member dies? A mentally ill person does.
He’s just so PSYCHO in every way. Every single last way.
How is everyone here watching the Convention this week??
“The Democratic party is basically a governing party, organized around developing and implementing public policies. The Republican party has become an attack party, organized around developing and implementing political vitriol. Democrats legislate. Republicans fulminate.
In theory, politics requires both capacities – to govern, but also to fight to attain and retain power.
The dysfunction today is that Republicans can’t govern
and Democrats can’t fight.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/16/us-election-democrats-republicans-trump
—Dems now pls fight Hammer and Tongs in Congress.
—Throw the kitchen sink at DeJoy, pls don’t be shy!!
saveourplanetfromtrump.
Plan Your Vote State-by-State
”We will perish’: embattled Lukashenko sends SOS to Putin”
Belarusian leader seeks Kremlin support against external threats as analysts predict an end to his rule
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/we-will-perish-embattled-lukashenko-sends-sos-to-putin)
“Belarus live updates: Lukashenko says no new election ‘unless you kill me'”
“The latest remarks mark a major change of tack for the besieged Lukashenko who has so far defied calls to give up power amid mass protests…
Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek said fears of a Russian invasion in Belarus
were “appropriate.” Speaking to CT television channel, Petricek said the EU needed to send out a clear signal that a military engagement in the ex-Soviet state was unacceptable. “We reject a repetition of the Ukraine scenario and the Crimea annexation.”
(https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-live-updates-lukashenko-says-no-new-election-unless-you-kill-me/a-54594736)
Also here: https://www.ny.gov/
Definitely doesn’t make sense to, on one hand, demand that businesses re-open, and on the other hand, disrupt one of the main resources that help these businesses (especially small businesses) to operate and thrive.
Oh! I forgot! It’s all about him trying to get re-elected. Anything that doesn’t directly align with that goal is just collateral damage.
Fmr AG Loretta Lynch and Tiffany Cross:
Voter turnout and protecting the 2020 elections…
“backlash against the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as its widespread support.” (AMJOY)
(https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/voter-turnout-protecting-elections-discussed-by-former-ag-lynch-9015456562
She thinks it makes her look good? I wonder how the unemployed feel.
Naomi Campbell: ‘It’s time to reset’
(https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/aug/16/naomi-campbell-it-is-time-to-reset-the-supermodel-relishes-a-moment-of-change)
100 years since women were given the right to vote:
“August 18th marks 100 years since the 19th amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
But for women of color it took years after that day to gain the ability to freely vote.
Unpacking the legacy of what 100 years of voting for women truly means, Teen Vogue highlights 10 women of color advocating for change and voters’ rights as the cover story in their August issue.”
Alicia Menendez discusses what voting in 2020 means to Executive Editor of Teen Vogue, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, writer and activist Raquel Willis, and Alaskan Native student activist, Charitie Ropati:
(https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/tuesday-marks-100-years-since-women-were-given-the-right-to-vote-90165317630)
Number one with Mr. Hoax is lifting sanctions on russian Arctic oil.
We are keeping ANWR pristine for our children.
RIP filthy oil — thoughts and prayers.
Go CardiB!
Pay Gap:
It takes a year and seven months for black women to earn what a white guy does in a year.
“Black women and the Pay Gap – AAUW:
(https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/black-women-and-the-pay-gap/)
Latinas and the Pay Gap – AAUW:
(https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/latinas-and-the-pay-gap/)
Older women and the Pay Gap – AAUW:
(https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/older-women-pay-gap/)
Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day is October 1:
Native women are paid 57 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
Asian-American Women’s Equal Day is February 11:
Asian-American women are paid 90 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
All Women’s Equal Pay Day is March 31:
Women working full time and year round are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to a man who works full time and year round.”
(https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/simple-truth/)
VOTER CAGING: “Caging Democracy:
A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters” (Teresa James, M.D.)
“Voter caging is a practice of sending non-forwardable direct mail to registered voters and using the returned mail to compile lists of voters, called “caging lists,” for the purpose of challenging their eligibility to vote. In recent years, other techniques, such as database matching, have been used to compile challenger lists.”
“State voter challenge statutes permit partisan individuals to challenge and disqualify voters, frequently without providing clear standards. These statutes often have their origins in post- reconstruction laws that were enacted to deprived african american voters of their franchise.”
“MEDIA CAMPAIGNS immediately before elections were a key part of voter caging operations.
part of the strategy was to call a press conference to announce the filing of mass challenges on the eve of the filing deadline. The challenges were billed as evidence of massive voter fraud although the voter caging lists were, in fact, only evidence of returned mailings. frequently, the pre-election media campaigns alleging voter fraud were as vigorously, or more vigorously, carried out than the challenges themselves.”
Detailed report: (http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Caging_Democracy_Report.pdf)
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Dem Convention starts tonight.
I can’t wait.
🙏💪🙏🥁📯🎶🎺😍🤲🤗
Thank you, NW for all You do for our Global Village.👒💁♀️🙇♀️💙❤🖤🤎💜💛🧡💚💗🥂
Nerdy – We “thank our lucky stars” every day for you!
😀
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/demconvention-tonights-the-night/