Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Congrats VC on First!
The sun is a little more visible, but still can’t see the mountains and the smoke is still thick.
Hurry up November!!!!!!
I have heard many say that never in their lives have they experienced such fear, that the America they know might be gone for good. Here’s why I have hoped with my head high and my eyes focused ahead. /1 #MondayMotivation#50DaysLeft
I am 83 years old, but I am also that 5 year old, looking out at a dusty American flag and reciting those words, “With liberty and justice for all.” Only now, I know their true meaning after a lifetime of fighting for them. So fight with me. Stand up. Vote. /end
Racist cops to racist teachers to racist doctors to racist judges. Every corner of this goddamned country
The Black patients who have come into contact with this monster and been given substandard care. What an asshole. I hope he gets fired.
Baltimore really doesn’t play.
Doctor goes viral for tweeting his daughter was attacked by ‘BLM’
Local expert pulls up the 911 log, finds the call and turns out her boyfriend didn’t want his window washed So he got out of his car to beat up some kids. pic.twitter.com/0zQdnGsqoE
“San Francisco Mayor London Breed to Joy Reid: Trump Is Denying Climate Change When ‘It’s Right At Our Heels’. On President Trump dismissing the threat of climate change during his visit to California, San Francisco Mayor London Breed mentioned how she woke up last week to red, orange skies like ‘it was the end of the world.’”
The City of Portland has the worst air quality on Earth
5 million acres has burned
35 people are dead
so many people are missing
families are in fear and pain,
while fake C-I-C Trump auditions for Count Orlock.
“It will start getting cooler heh…heh…”
The news has skewed the air quality news by implying Portland has the worst air quality in the nation. Large major city would be more accurate. It is actually the fifth worst in Oregon. There are other small towns and cities here that are much worst. I just looked it up this morning. It was much worst were I live in Oregon last Wednesday and Thursday. Today it is finally rated Good where I am. I can even see the grey sky today.
#UNFIT is a powerful film. Experts, on film, for the record, about a very dangerous man. Trump can't stop this – the film is now #1 in docs on Apple. It's the FULL TRUTH about his pathology. Everyone needs to see this and spread the word!https://t.co/jj5q5cr5jQpic.twitter.com/0kVasLbAVD
More from the Woodward audios.
Trump says:
1) “This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you’re the wrong person, you don’t have a chance…. This rips you apart.
It is the plague.”
2) “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t believe it … I mean you could, you could be in the room … I was in the White House a couple of days ago, meeting with 10 people in the Oval Office and a guy sneezed — innocently. Not a horrible … you know, just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, OK? Including me, by the way.”
(The latter on Colbert interview with Woodward: https://www.axios.com/woodward-trump-recording-bailed-sneeze-fcea2df0-1793-425b-8abb-d86fba1fea65.html)
Voting early is key, either in person or by absentee. I wish all states would do it the Oregon way: automatic voter registration, voters pamphlet mailed to your home of record 3 weeks before the election, ballot mailed to your home two weeks before the election with prepaid postage. Fill it out ASAP and take it to a dropbox at one of the libraries or mail it as early as possible. SO EASY! Did you watch Michelle’s VOMO event on tv last night? Hope the kids got the message that their vote matters!
Michael Caputo:
Trump’s top communication official at DHHS:
“…accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump, even if that opposition bolsters the COVID-19 death toll.
“Warns of Armed Revolt”.
Made: “outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/caputo-virus.html)
–Don’t look now…sleeveen in charge of CDC pandemic communications off his frickin’ rocker.
“Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19”
“The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports are authored by career scientists and serve as the main vehicle for the agency to inform doctors, researchers and the general public about how Covid-19 is spreading and who is at risk. Such reports have historically been published with little fanfare and no political interference, said several longtime health department officials, and have been viewed as a cornerstone of the nation’s public health work for decades.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809)
“But since Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no medical or scientific background,
was installed in April as the Health and Human Services department’s new spokesperson,
there have been substantial efforts to align the reports with Trump’s statements, including the president’s claims that fears about the outbreak are overstated, or stop the reports altogether.
Caputo and his team have attempted to add caveats to the CDC’s findings, including an effort to retroactively change agency reports.”
“Political hacks, cranks like Michael Caputo, they are working in positions of authority to undermine the science we need to fight a once in a century pandemic in an attempt to cover up the illness and death Trump is responsible for, and boost the president politically. The politics of denialism are running roughshod over science.”
(Chris Hayes)
Michael Caputo today manipulating what the CDC says about the pandemic:
“In what is arguably the single most important public health publication in the world.
It’s called the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, and it had until Donald Trump been apolitical…a publication that informs scientists and public health experts about the latest data and trends in infectious diseases. Everyone reads it in the world of public health. Everyone.” (Hayes)
57 years ago, four innocent little girls were killed by a bomb planted outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Today, we can honor the memories of Addie Mae, Carol, Cynthia & Denise by uniting against the forces stoking the flames of hatred & division. pic.twitter.com/sH1QfjeFMI
BREAKING: “Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now. The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President.”
NOW: city of Louisville agrees to following in #BreonnaTaylor settlement:
-$12 million to family -commanding officers must approve search warrants -incentives for officers to live in city, improve relationships w/ community -social workers help w/ mental health calls
The most sacred obligation of our government is to do right by those who defend our nation at war. I’m in Tampa, Florida, to hear from veterans and to discuss how I’ll honor that promise as president. Tune in: https://t.co/RJkzB15sqj
Hispanic Heritage Month is time to reflect on the incredible beauty of our Hispanic communities and the immense strength they bring to our nation. It’s also a reminder that the strength of our union is found in our diversity and our unity.
“Trump Health Aide Pushes Bizarre Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt”
“Michael R. Caputo told a Facebook audience without evidence that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.””
by Sharon LaFraniere
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/caputo-virus.html)
Maddow:
“Michael Caputo has been stopping the CDC from publishing scientific information on COVID,
including in the CDC’s flagship weekly public health reports. And he simultaneously says while he is doing that, that he is being hunted by left wing hit squads and everybody should buy ammunition because after the election…This is a real thing. This is who they’ve got as the gate keeper on COVID information for the public. And for the world. Really?”
Sharon LaFraniere,
NYT investigative reporter, speaks to Maddow.
Maddow: “You reported this straight up with direct quotes and no commentary….Is there a connection between Mr. Caputo’s crazypants ranting and the conspiracy theories that you reported on, and the way he has been comporting himself at HHS?”
LaFraniere:
“Well this showed a side of Mr. Caputo that I think reporters who deal with him have not really seen up close. So it was rather surprising in that way. He doesn’t usually talk like this. But I would say that the views that he expressed are really not that different than the views of some other people in the president’s inner circle. There are echoes in what the president himself says. The president has himself disparaged scientists and said that he thinks the Deep State is out to get him. And that they are thwarting his efforts to control the pandemic and cast doubt on whether the election is going to be fair. And he has vaguely suggested that there are armed squads that are preparing for action. So there is some overlap in their views.”
(First section would not post…)
Maddow: “With your history of reporting on CDC and HHS does it surprise you that CDC didn’t have more institutional gravitas to be able to brush back on these political influences that they’re doing?”
LaFraniere:
“I think what we’re seeing overall is a very broad pressure campaign on the health agencies that are dealing with the pandemic, and it’s not just the CDC. But the CDC has proved to be more pliable than some of the other agencies. I think that a number of scientists within the CDC would say they feel like Dr. Redfield who is leading the agency, has failed to protect them from political interference. And the result is what we see going on with these reports. The FDA seems like it’s more on the verge. Its rollout of convalescent plasma was rushed and it was….but the scientists in the agency agreed that was the right thing to approve that treatment. On the other hand, the FDA approved hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 and then it had to reverse itself. The NIH seems like it’s fighting back quite hard. But it’s also not as much in the front lines as the other two agencies.”
NEW: ICE deported a crucial witness in an ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual assault and harassment at an El Paso immigrant detention center, according to the witness' lawyers.
Truly masterful response from Mayor Pete to Megan's dumb ass question. If the media pressed Trump about his cruel, incompetent, failed leadership half as much as they press Biden over these gimmicks we'd be better served for it. https://t.co/pGUEAnYJkp
Truly masterful response from Mayor Pete to Megan's dumb ass question. If the media pressed Trump about his cruel, incompetent, failed leadership half as much as they press Biden over these gimmicks we'd be better served for it. https://t.co/pGUEAnYJkp
Thank you. All they had to fucking do was arrest them but instead they doing all this performative bullshit because we know the same shit will continue to happen
She’s seen some things. Listen to her. She knows of what she speaks. VOTE!
100-year-old Katie Nichson celebrates her birthday with a message: "Go out and vote! And also, be counted in the Census…Get up off your butt and get out and vote, and drag somebody with you if you can." https://t.co/WCGre9E2XN
Jon Stewart is back on Capitol Hill, advocating for a bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan: "Our veterans lived 24 hours a day 7 days a week next to toxic smoke … It's bullshit. It's bullshit. It's about money." pic.twitter.com/TIx7Tq4K5o
This video was marked sensitive because it was mass reported by right-wing bots. Retweet far and wide to fight this censorship and expose how #TrumpHidTheTruthpic.twitter.com/D7xIdKCvFy
Long, uplifting thread; read each and every tweet! 🔥💖🔥💖🔥
I remember in 2010 when Kamala was elected AG (I voted for her). My neighbor already worked in AG's office & during our regular talks he'd mention what he thought she would be like should she win. Then we would talk about what kind of boss she was (is). Obviously he could not
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing is a powerful reminder of our past and what remains at stake in this election. As we honor the memory of those four little girls, we must commit to defeating the poisonous ideology of white supremacy that lit the fuse 57 years ago.
Oregon GOP state senator Fred Girod was one of 11 Republicans who made headlines when they walked out of the senate – some even leaving the state – so that a quorum could not be achieved for a climate change bill. Now the wildfires have claimed his home.https://t.co/5aQfw9dSV1
What good is a vaccine going to do for us if MOST Americans can't trust the word of a guy who lied 20,000 times and told us a few months ago to inject disinfectant?#TrumpLied200KDied
I believe JO’B asked for stories of my Mum a couple months ago. It’s hard to go through the process. But I did draft this poem. Which is a smidgen, but a start in dealing w/ grief. Much love. xoxo
Becoming Orphan
With each weeping loss
I mourn
My journey towards Orphan.
Now understanding my early
Connectivity towards
Orphaned Babies,
Who grabbed my heart.
Now I’m them.
I am that Orphan.
Father gone. Mother gone.
The stalwart engines of my life’s path,
My core center,
Gone.
And as I walk a path of broken glass,
Trying to glue pieces back together,
Even in their imperfectness,
I search for Us.
For love of those who are
Here and now,
Who aren’t yet
Our Ancestors,
Trying to mend that Orphan
Hole in my heart.
Holding off the pain of
Becoming Orphan.
Glad she put him in his place. I did not watch the town hall … but I am just gonna assume that whatever response that came out of this mouth was probably another lie.
I am looking foward to WHEN the Biden / Harris administration is in office !! ☺ and a Good Morning everyone.
The Texas Supreme Court has again blocked Harris County, Texas, from sending mail-in ballot applications to more than 2 million possible voters while litigation continues https://t.co/Jj4Ez4PmIc
“Breonna Taylor’s Family, Attorneys, Speak After Settlement Reached”
“Watch live coverage as Breonna Taylor’s family and attorneys speak after reaching a settlement with the city of Louisville, Ky., six months after she was killed in her home during a police drug raid.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvow2gD86M)
SCOOP: The FDA’s top policy official LOWELL SCHILLER has left the agency, where he worked on issues like drug importation and most recently Covid-19 guidance.@ScottGottliebMD, who originally hired Schiller, calls him “one of the most creative and effective policymakers” at FDA. pic.twitter.com/W0RJI6QkpG
The Obama Diary 
Good Day,(I hope) to everyone!
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Congrats VC on First!
The sun is a little more visible, but still can’t see the mountains and the smoke is still thick.
Hurry up November!!!!!!
🙏💪🤩⭐🤩💪🙏‼❣🙌🙌
I hope it clears up for y’all soon, ggail! 😘
😘🦋
TY, Ms GxG. From my corner I am in no rush for November, but I sure do see the western viewpoint and am crossing fingers for some relief for you guys.
Hiya VC! Good to see you! 😘
It feels good to be here, and it’s great having you back ‘up to speed’. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank you, Darling! It’s great to be back up to speed. 😊
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Beautiful thread. Thanks for sharing it, df!
Yesss…Thank you so much…..
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Racist cops to racist teachers to racist doctors to racist judges. Every corner of this goddamned country
The Black patients who have come into contact with this monster and been given substandard care. What an asshole. I hope he gets fired.
“San Francisco Mayor London Breed to Joy Reid: Trump Is Denying Climate Change When ‘It’s Right At Our Heels’. On President Trump dismissing the threat of climate change during his visit to California, San Francisco Mayor London Breed mentioned how she woke up last week to red, orange skies like ‘it was the end of the world.’”
And people still want to deny these workers citizenship, decent hourly wage and medical benefits.
We need to take the profit out of hate and discrimination
SOON: Kamala Harris meets with emergency service personnel in Fresno, Calif. –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
The City of Portland has the worst air quality on Earth
5 million acres has burned
35 people are dead
so many people are missing
families are in fear and pain,
while fake C-I-C Trump auditions for Count Orlock.
“It will start getting cooler heh…heh…”
The news has skewed the air quality news by implying Portland has the worst air quality in the nation. Large major city would be more accurate. It is actually the fifth worst in Oregon. There are other small towns and cities here that are much worst. I just looked it up this morning. It was much worst were I live in Oregon last Wednesday and Thursday. Today it is finally rated Good where I am. I can even see the grey sky today.
just spoke to someone in Portland who said the air south of Portland was worse.
–OK thanks.
Welcome back Alexei…great news!!!…what is next for you and your family?
More from the Woodward audios.
Trump says:
1) “This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you’re the wrong person, you don’t have a chance…. This rips you apart.
It is the plague.”
2) “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t believe it … I mean you could, you could be in the room … I was in the White House a couple of days ago, meeting with 10 people in the Oval Office and a guy sneezed — innocently. Not a horrible … you know, just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, OK? Including me, by the way.”
(The latter on Colbert interview with Woodward:
https://www.axios.com/woodward-trump-recording-bailed-sneeze-fcea2df0-1793-425b-8abb-d86fba1fea65.html)
Voting early is key, either in person or by absentee. I wish all states would do it the Oregon way: automatic voter registration, voters pamphlet mailed to your home of record 3 weeks before the election, ballot mailed to your home two weeks before the election with prepaid postage. Fill it out ASAP and take it to a dropbox at one of the libraries or mail it as early as possible. SO EASY! Did you watch Michelle’s VOMO event on tv last night? Hope the kids got the message that their vote matters!
Michael Caputo:
Trump’s top communication official at DHHS:
“…accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump, even if that opposition bolsters the COVID-19 death toll.
“Warns of Armed Revolt”.
Made: “outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/caputo-virus.html)
–Don’t look now…sleeveen in charge of CDC pandemic communications off his frickin’ rocker.
“Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19”
“The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports are authored by career scientists and serve as the main vehicle for the agency to inform doctors, researchers and the general public about how Covid-19 is spreading and who is at risk. Such reports have historically been published with little fanfare and no political interference, said several longtime health department officials, and have been viewed as a cornerstone of the nation’s public health work for decades.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809)
“But since Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no medical or scientific background,
was installed in April as the Health and Human Services department’s new spokesperson,
there have been substantial efforts to align the reports with Trump’s statements, including the president’s claims that fears about the outbreak are overstated, or stop the reports altogether.
Caputo and his team have attempted to add caveats to the CDC’s findings, including an effort to retroactively change agency reports.”
Propaganda.
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
“Political hacks, cranks like Michael Caputo, they are working in positions of authority to undermine the science we need to fight a once in a century pandemic in an attempt to cover up the illness and death Trump is responsible for, and boost the president politically. The politics of denialism are running roughshod over science.”
(Chris Hayes)
Michael Caputo today manipulating what the CDC says about the pandemic:
“In what is arguably the single most important public health publication in the world.
It’s called the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, and it had until Donald Trump been apolitical…a publication that informs scientists and public health experts about the latest data and trends in infectious diseases. Everyone reads it in the world of public health. Everyone.” (Hayes)
WOW!!!.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct 15), all!
Betcha Moscow Mitch won’t let them vote on it.
Of course not. Sigh.
“Trump Health Aide Pushes Bizarre Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt”
“Michael R. Caputo told a Facebook audience without evidence that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.””
by Sharon LaFraniere
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/caputo-virus.html)
Maddow:
“Michael Caputo has been stopping the CDC from publishing scientific information on COVID,
including in the CDC’s flagship weekly public health reports. And he simultaneously says while he is doing that, that he is being hunted by left wing hit squads and everybody should buy ammunition because after the election…This is a real thing. This is who they’ve got as the gate keeper on COVID information for the public. And for the world. Really?”
Sharon LaFraniere,
NYT investigative reporter, speaks to Maddow.
Maddow: “You reported this straight up with direct quotes and no commentary….Is there a connection between Mr. Caputo’s crazypants ranting and the conspiracy theories that you reported on, and the way he has been comporting himself at HHS?”
LaFraniere:
“Well this showed a side of Mr. Caputo that I think reporters who deal with him have not really seen up close. So it was rather surprising in that way. He doesn’t usually talk like this. But I would say that the views that he expressed are really not that different than the views of some other people in the president’s inner circle. There are echoes in what the president himself says. The president has himself disparaged scientists and said that he thinks the Deep State is out to get him. And that they are thwarting his efforts to control the pandemic and cast doubt on whether the election is going to be fair. And he has vaguely suggested that there are armed squads that are preparing for action. So there is some overlap in their views.”
(First section would not post…)
Maddow: “With your history of reporting on CDC and HHS does it surprise you that CDC didn’t have more institutional gravitas to be able to brush back on these political influences that they’re doing?”
LaFraniere:
“I think what we’re seeing overall is a very broad pressure campaign on the health agencies that are dealing with the pandemic, and it’s not just the CDC. But the CDC has proved to be more pliable than some of the other agencies. I think that a number of scientists within the CDC would say they feel like Dr. Redfield who is leading the agency, has failed to protect them from political interference. And the result is what we see going on with these reports. The FDA seems like it’s more on the verge. Its rollout of convalescent plasma was rushed and it was….but the scientists in the agency agreed that was the right thing to approve that treatment. On the other hand, the FDA approved hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 and then it had to reverse itself. The NIH seems like it’s fighting back quite hard. But it’s also not as much in the front lines as the other two agencies.”
“shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” (Michael Caputo)
…by all accounts apparently needs mental assistance.
The shadow is longest when you are standing farthest from the source of Light.
Important thread
Damn that was good! Way to go Mayor Pete! 👏🏾
Can’t stand her.
Me neither!
She’s seen some things. Listen to her. She knows of what she speaks. VOTE!
Long, uplifting thread; read each and every tweet! 🔥💖🔥💖🔥
SOON: Joe Biden at Hispanic Heritage Month event in Florida
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-5
Exactly.
I believe JO’B asked for stories of my Mum a couple months ago. It’s hard to go through the process. But I did draft this poem. Which is a smidgen, but a start in dealing w/ grief. Much love. xoxo
Becoming Orphan
With each weeping loss
I mourn
My journey towards Orphan.
Now understanding my early
Connectivity towards
Orphaned Babies,
Who grabbed my heart.
Now I’m them.
I am that Orphan.
Father gone. Mother gone.
The stalwart engines of my life’s path,
My core center,
Gone.
And as I walk a path of broken glass,
Trying to glue pieces back together,
Even in their imperfectness,
I search for Us.
For love of those who are
Here and now,
Who aren’t yet
Our Ancestors,
Trying to mend that Orphan
Hole in my heart.
Holding off the pain of
Becoming Orphan.
Beautiful, just beautiful..🕊🕊
{{{{{ 💞🙏🏼🕯Gazelle🕯⏳💞}}}}}
😘😘💞 Thank you!
That is beautiful Gazelle.
Thank you 😘😘💞
Oh Gazelle, what a powerful poem.
Thank you 😘😘💞
Glad she put him in his place. I did not watch the town hall … but I am just gonna assume that whatever response that came out of this mouth was probably another lie.
I am looking foward to WHEN the Biden / Harris administration is in office !! ☺ and a Good Morning everyone.
She brought it!!! I would love to know what his response was, but agree that it was a bunch of lies and/or a non-answer.
It is a battle all over….
Morning everyone. Heard there was a shitshow on TV last night…😂😂😂
Attorney Ben Crump on the ReidOut:
“Breonna Taylor family attorney calls the settlement a significant step”
“The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has reached a $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor’s family six months after she was killed in her home during a police drug raid. This includes a set of police reforms.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/breonna-taylor-family-attorney-calls-the-settlement-a-significant-step-91839557647)
“Breonna Taylor’s Family, Attorneys, Speak After Settlement Reached”
“Watch live coverage as Breonna Taylor’s family and attorneys speak after reaching a settlement with the city of Louisville, Ky., six months after she was killed in her home during a police drug raid.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvow2gD86M)
Janelle Monae Reflects On Her Friendship With Chadwick Boseman
Also her music, and voting.
I believe Zerlina is spot on
This can’t be good
You might want to highlight this, Nerdy❤️
I already requested my ballot, just waiting for it to come. And President Obama I do want to see your Regenade.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/09/16/make-a-voting-plan-2/