.@MichelleObama, calling on Black voters, says Trump’s racial fear mongering has results: “we know what happens next—a racial slur from a passing car… a job promotion that never comes… a routine traffic stop gone wrong… maybe a knee to the neck.”
The officer who shot and killed Jonathan Price in Wolfe City, Texas has been charged with murder.
Jonathan was a community leader and mentor who was killed while trying to break up a domestic dispute. I hope his family receives the justice they deserve. https://t.co/IT4mIokxQn
Michelle Obama rips into Trump: “What the president is doing is, once again, patently false, morally wrong and yes, it is racist.” pic.twitter.com/VHjrUQy7nX
Pay no attention. Just vote. We won’t get a do over.
Ignore. Polls don’t take into account voter suppression, Russian interference, Jacob wohl robocalls, hackable voting machines with patents owned by ivanka, gerrymandering, and nazi poll watchers. VOTE LIKE WE ARE 20 POINTS DOWN, because effectively, we ARE. #BidenHarris2020https://t.co/6ji8gZ07tb
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) October 6, 2020
Across America, brave men and women are battling daunting odds and systemic injustices to end the gun violence that plagues our cities. They're taking action to bring about peace. Meet them. Learn from them. Commit to do your part at https://t.co/M28mnyhNKI. pic.twitter.com/1URYI7FuX6
Too many of you are confused about your class status. If you can’t afford to miss a paycheck, you’re the working poor, and part of the 80% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. If you HAVE to work to survive, you’re working class.
The middle class is basically gone, and y’all are being used as a tool against working class and poor people. Most of y’all are one major emergency away from poverty. Get some class solidarity and stop protecting the rich, we should eat them instead.
Saw this earlier on Twitter. So much truth; people need to stop fooling themselves, especially working class white folks, which is essentially most of them as she points out that there is no real middle class left.
Stanley has produced a video, Stanley Clarke and Friends: Go Vote. Stanley's friends includeArlo Guthrie; Kathy Sledge, "We Are Family;" songwriter Phil Lightfoot; bassists Byron Miller and Leland Sklar; and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbahttps://t.co/80t8sXMFJO
— The UnRuley Retired Marine 💛🐝💛 (@TheUnruley) October 4, 2020
I plan to do the same. Just got mine in the mail today. The county ballot tracker says elections board issued it on 9/18. Crazy that it took so long to go 10 miles. I was gonna go to the office and raise hell if it hadn’t come by tomorrow.
Listening to @DanRather book ‘what unites us’ while waiting to vote. Some states’ polls are open and it’s Time to show up ladies! We are more than 50% of the population and our vote matters 👊🏼#thisnastywomanvotespic.twitter.com/yJJzDPdTB1
Michelle Obama just now on Trump’s policies and rhetoric: “What the president is doing is, once again, patently false, morally wrong and yes, it is racist.” pic.twitter.com/peiZmbFpqm
Cue the masses of clutched pearls, pursed lips and bulging veins more outraged at a Black woman calling out racist behavior than the racist behavior itself.
#ImVotingFor people like my mother, Shyamala, who taught my sister and me that if you see a problem, you don't complain about it: you do something about it.
If you tried to register or vote yesterday in Florida, but couldn’t because the portal crashed, please call @LawyersComm’s hotline. https://t.co/Th7eoteKs8
“Anand Giridharadas joins Lawrence O’Donnell to put into perspective how the historic events of the past week are “all the same story of a masquerade of strength” by a president who knows he’s losing the election and how Trump’s illness reflects America’s culture of masculinity”.
“He has this disease because he’s more afraid of not being seen as a man than dying.”
“The illness he is”
“Death and taxes, sickness and health, strength and weakness, freedom and tyranny”
“He hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay.” (Anand Giridharadas)
(https://the.ink/p/the-illness-he-is)
“The Mussolini-esque scenes on the balcony of the White House.”
“It benefits Donald Trump for us to be living in this eternal present every day.”
—the serial quickfire succession of trump dramas.
Um at the unmasked Barrett event she was with all her children.
And now no contact tracing after that super spreader event.
—when you think they can’t be any worse.
As with everything else… his taxes, his health, COVID-19, etc… being transparent will reveal information that will out him; that will leave no doubt about the things that we suspect but can really only intelligently speculate about with the limited information we *do* have. We suspect that he and others of his staff have been positive for longer than has been revealed. Contact tracing will give proof to that suspicion and leave no doubt (as if there is doubt even now) of how evil and despicable he is.
VP Joe Biden at the town hall with Lester Holt speaking to Gen. Z:
“You’re the best educated. You’re the most open. You’re the least prejudiced generation in American history.
The future is yours and I’m counting on you.”
–wow was he good.
#ImVotingFor our family. I want a world where all the people we love can be together again, safely. @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris have a plan- based on science, to take this virus head-on, listen to the experts & turn a page on this dark chapter.
If you aren’t familiar with the MacArthur Fellowship, it is a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. #MacFellow
I do not have an Instagram account, couldn’t access the post with Kamala Harris on the cover of Elle. If anyone else can bring it over, please do … though I am sure I still won’t be able to read it ☺.
Closing Argument from @MichelleObama. Everything is at stake. The election is happening RIGHT NOW. Early voting, mail-in ballots – RIGHT NOW! Enough of a President who is operating with dangerous intention. ENOUGH. https://t.co/j8dr5UMEv5
JUST IN: The @FLSecofState is extending voter registration deadline to TONIGHT at 7 p.m. across Florida after issues reported with online registration last night.
“WH Opacity, Lack Of Credibility On Trump’s Health Risks National Security”
“John Brennan, former CIA director, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the squandered credibility and evasiveness on the real condition of Donald Trump’s health leaves American inadequately informed and risks rival countries testing a perceived leadership vacuum.”
.@KingJames' voting rights group @morethanavote announces they're partnering with @lyft to "Provide Access to Free Rides (up to $15) to Single Harris County, Texas Ballot Drop-off Location."
Deplorable how little the already Trump-inflected Court cares about the dangers to democracy of blatant voter suppression efforts https://t.co/Bg4Sv3x4np
NEWS: One of the president's military aides, Coast Guard aide Jayna McCarron, has coronavirus, sources tell me. And so does one of the president's valets, who is also active duty military, and traveled with the president last week.
We all remember when insurance companies could discriminate against people with asthma, diabetes or cancer. Now if Trump and Amy Coney Barrett have their way, millions could lose health care over a new pre-existing condition: COVID-19. #WhatsAtStakehttps://t.co/EUpgliIqep
If you had gotten a little jaded about MacArthur grants, read this and regain an appreciation for how these awards can be so transformational in artistic lives — and allow artists to focus on art instead of how they're going to make rent. https://t.co/QFCsDSjdS7
Trump, McConnell, and Supreme Court Justices have access to some of the best medical care in the world. Many Americans don’t – and people will die if they repeal the ACA. It is reckless and wrong to ram through a nominee hand-picked to rip away health care during a pandemic.
Donald Trump is a threat to national security… again.
BREAKING: The top US general, Gen. Mark Milley and several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tested positive for coronavirus, several US defense officials tell @barbarastarrcnn
Florida extended its voter registration deadline to 7pm tonight after an unprecedented 1.1 million requests per hour caused the state's online portal to crash yesterday.
To clarify in #Alabama you can vote by absentee ballot in person, contact your County Absentee Election Manager to get the most up to date information. https://t.co/nTDOGrheoy
Wow — A U.S. official confirms that all the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are quarantining at home after a positive COVID test for Admiral Ray, the Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, per @LMartinezABC.
“Finally, and most importantly, the more the president downplays the seriousness of the coronavirus threat, the more dangerous it is to the public. Today, tens of thousands of Americans will test positive for the virus, and several hundred will die. For Trump to tell the citizens of his own country that they need not fear the pandemic, they will survive infections, and the virus is comparable to the flu is to see the president effectively play the role of a public menace.” (Benen)
Once these satellites reach their target position, we will be able to roll out a fairly wide public beta in northern US & hopefully southern Canada. Other countries to follow as soon as we receive regulatory approval.
The right to vote in a free and fair election is one of the foundations of American democracy. The leaders of the #FBI, @CISAgov, @NCSCgov, and @NSAgov want you to know how their organizations work together to protect your voice—no matter how you cast your vote. #Protect2020pic.twitter.com/TaJBhWYwqL
NBC Medical Unit: According to the CDC, Trump would be considered contagious for 10-20 days from onset of symptoms, depending on the severity of his disease. That means he might still be contagious if he travels to Miami for the presidential debate.
Because Trump is getting dexamethasone, the CDC suggests he could be infectious for 20 days. I feel like I heard this days ago but it's not a top story that he's infecting all the White House staff knowing he is positive.
When I first saw this, I thought this “no symptoms” report was [supposedly] based on routine checks of his vitals (i.e., temperature, pulse rate, respiration), and other tests and observations performed by MEDICAL personnel.
NEW: “They’ve given us more masks, but that’s about it,” one WH official tells @JoshNBCNews, about what, if any, precautions have been taken for staffers still showing up to work at the White House, following Trump’s COVID diagnosis.
Pence really doesn’t want to debate Kamala Harris. Mr. head of COVID-19 tasks force is still not taking this virus seriously, even with break-out in the WH.
BREAKING—Now VP Pence’s team is breaking earlier agreement and now *refusing* even a transparent plexiglass divider for the VP debate!
Earlier Monday, Commission on Presidential Debates said dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure for #COVID19. https://t.co/IXP6nywECW
The more I hear about President Trump's covid treatment, the more I think about the late James Brooks, an 80-year-old black man who lived outside Detroit. He left Mississippi for Detroit and built a middle-class life for his family as a company man at Chrysler.
When James Freeman got sick this spring, there was so much confusion about what to do. This energetic man felt unusually tired and chest pain. His kids suspected covid, but they did not take him to the nearest hospital b/c it had a bad reputation for treating black patients.
So they took him to a drive-through test site at a hospital farther away with a better reputation. The outcome wasn't much better. He was denied a covid test 2x because he had no fever (even though he was elderly, lethargic and with chest pain). That's how limited tests were.
His blood pressure was alarming, so doctors agreed to give him an X-ray. Only then did the note covid had set into his lungs. The hospital was low on beds, so Freeman had to sleep over night in a wheelchair, then a cot. And finally, a hospital bed, where he died alone.
When his daughter, Robin Freeman-Brooks, told me the story, she and her family were still debating which ten people would be able to go to his funeral. "How are we supposed to decide this?" she asked. "Draw straws? Calculate who loved him the most?"
As the covid story now coalesces around the president, I think it's important to remember how catastrophic this virus has been for American families. When Freeman-Brooks told me this story in May, there were so many stories like this that we didn't publish it. It was that common.
We’re seeing some wraparound action, but overall the line to drop of absentee ballots in Harris County is moving quickly. Thanks to Gov. Abbott’s proclamation this is now the only drop-off site in the county of more than 4.7 million. I’m live on @MSNBC w/ the latest all day. pic.twitter.com/n2mauqq20A
I will do nothing to stop the virus that’s killed more than 200,000 Americans, and I will do nothing to fix a recession that’s led to double-digit unemployment.
But I will kick people off their health insurance so that the people that got the virus I didn't stop and lost their jobs in the recession I didn't fix were as fucked as humanly possible.
Four weeks is one thing. More ominous, if Trump loses you can pretty much guarantee he will refuse to sign any relief bill to spite the country that rejected him. that puts any more covid relief off almost five months into the future.
Pence's physician released a memo that says he does not need to quarantine and "is not a close contact with any individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19," despite the fact that he's been around multiple people who have tested positive within the last 10 days. pic.twitter.com/VWvVFR68GL
If Mike Pence wants to surrender the stage over plexiglass, then the debate should turn into a town hall for Kamala Harris to share Joe Biden's policies with the American people during primetime.
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar hero and songwriter who helped give Van Halen its name and sound, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 65. Van Halen dazzled a generation of guitar fans with his histrionic solos and trademark finger tapping. https://t.co/BT0q7kpue6
One of the greatest musicians of all time. His guitar skills are about as legendary as his career. Rest well, Eddie Van Halen. pic.twitter.com/0P6VCDFmWG
BREAKING: President Trump says he has instructed aides to stop negotiating on a coronavirus aid plan until after the election. Trump's announcement comes as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warns the recovery could falter without more federal stimulus. https://t.co/tP5vAorRoa
Is that the ‘roid rage kicking in? I have to question the mental fitness of those who have the authority to invoke the 25th and are choosing to act as if all is well.
Nancy Pelosi on Trump ending COVID negotiations: “Today, once again, President Trump showed his true colors: putting himself first at the expense of the country, with the full complicity of the GOP Members of Congress." pic.twitter.com/Cr5uMmKy55
I'm in the hospital with post-covid blood clots in my lungs and legs. I also had a pulmonary infarction. I had steroids last week. Trump is not out of the woods yet, trust me.
NEW: Today @JoeBiden became the FIRST presidential nominee to release an ad focused solely on climate change. Climate isn't just an urgent issue, it's a winning issue.
The new spot running in the Traverse City-Cadillac market features Michigan cherry farmers. Check it out: pic.twitter.com/xdGO9mZOik
This country is so accustomed to its monstrous health care system that when a 2-year-old child with a genetic condition needs to rely on a high school robotics team to meet his basic health care needs the media thinks its a feel-good story, not a dystopian nightmare. https://t.co/GP0l1C8EJA
The Obama Diary 
Pay no attention. Just vote. We won’t get a do over.
Saw this earlier on Twitter. So much truth; people need to stop fooling themselves, especially working class white folks, which is essentially most of them as she points out that there is no real middle class left.
VOTE!
Dropped my ballot off at the county elections office on 10/1/ ; checked online today and saw that it has been counted, woo hoo! I live in Florida.
I plan to do the same. Just got mine in the mail today. The county ballot tracker says elections board issued it on 9/18. Crazy that it took so long to go 10 miles. I was gonna go to the office and raise hell if it hadn’t come by tomorrow.
Michelle Obama’s Closing Argument.
Forwarding to everyone i know…
We are seen, we are loved, and Joe will do the same.
Thank you for posting this! 💞
“And yes, it is racist.” – Michelle Obama
Teachers deserve the best of everything!
I want this man to be My President!
Love him! 😄
“Anand Giridharadas joins Lawrence O’Donnell to put into perspective how the historic events of the past week are “all the same story of a masquerade of strength” by a president who knows he’s losing the election and how Trump’s illness reflects America’s culture of masculinity”.
“He has this disease because he’s more afraid of not being seen as a man than dying.”
Saw that. Very insightful.
Dudette!…yes he is astonishing.
“The illness he is”
“Death and taxes, sickness and health, strength and weakness, freedom and tyranny”
“He hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay.” (Anand Giridharadas)
(https://the.ink/p/the-illness-he-is)
“The Mussolini-esque scenes on the balcony of the White House.”
“It benefits Donald Trump for us to be living in this eternal present every day.”
—the serial quickfire succession of trump dramas.
Thread
“White House Is Not Tracing Contacts for ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/health/contact-tracing-white-house.html)
—Do not adjust your sets.
Um at the unmasked Barrett event she was with all her children.
And now no contact tracing after that super spreader event.
—when you think they can’t be any worse.
No bottom exists for any of them. None.
As with everything else… his taxes, his health, COVID-19, etc… being transparent will reveal information that will out him; that will leave no doubt about the things that we suspect but can really only intelligently speculate about with the limited information we *do* have. We suspect that he and others of his staff have been positive for longer than has been revealed. Contact tracing will give proof to that suspicion and leave no doubt (as if there is doubt even now) of how evil and despicable he is.
Good morning TODVille,
Keeping my log updated.
Stephen Miller also tested positive for Covid. I thought his deal with the devil shielded him but I was wrong.
Devil might throw him back in our midst! 😏😷
VP Joe Biden at the town hall with Lester Holt speaking to Gen. Z:
“You’re the best educated. You’re the most open. You’re the least prejudiced generation in American history.
The future is yours and I’m counting on you.”
–wow was he good.
Well, well, well.
“Trump Didn’t Disclose First Positive Covid-19 Test While Awaiting a Second Test on Thursday”
“President received positive result on Thursday evening before making an appearance on Fox News
in which he didn’t reveal those results.”
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-didnt-disclose-first-positive-covid-19-test-while-awaiting-a-second-test-on-thursday-11601844813)
—“Trump is a weak man’s idea of strength.” (Lawrence O’Donnell)
Genius
I do not have an Instagram account, couldn’t access the post with Kamala Harris on the cover of Elle. If anyone else can bring it over, please do … though I am sure I still won’t be able to read it ☺.
Serving like a BOSS!
Thanks Dudette 😊
I give. I’m a giver. 😁
You are Dudette. And we appreciate all you give to us. Thank you, thank you!
☺️ Love you DF! 😘
Love you mtm! 😘
❤️ Deesha
“What to Know About Sean Conley, the White House Physician”
“Dr. Conley, who was appointed as President Trump’s physician in 2018, is a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/sean-conley-trump-doctor.html)
“WH Opacity, Lack Of Credibility On Trump’s Health Risks National Security”
“John Brennan, former CIA director, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the squandered credibility and evasiveness on the real condition of Donald Trump’s health leaves American inadequately informed and risks rival countries testing a perceived leadership vacuum.”
“Undaunted” by John Brennan is out!
–looking fwd, am a fan.
John Brennan: “Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, At Home and Abroad.”
Joint Chiefs are in quarantine after Coast Guard Commandant tested positive.
Yep
Donald Trump is a threat to national security… again.
“The quality of mercy is not strained.”
E. Jean Carroll v Crooked AG Barr:
“The Justice Department intervened to shield Trump from legal accountability only after his state court stall tactics, procedural gambits, and assertions of immunity were all rejected,” Carroll’s lawyers wrote.
“Only in a world gone mad
could it somehow be presidential, not personal,
for Trump to slander
a woman
who he
sexually
assaulted.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/06/legal-team-for-e-jean-carroll-moves-to-block-justice-departments-interference-in-case-against-trump.html)
Good Afternoon, TODville Community…It will reach 71F today…That is MY Minnesota💛🖤🤎🧡❤💜💙🤷♀️🤷♀️🤣😂
Thanks, NW👒💁♀️⭐🤩⭐
Yup! I won’t mute or change channels! 😷😂
😍
Awww! 😍
“Coming full circle, Trump returns to false, misguided ‘flu’ rhetoric”
“Nearly seven months after his misguided “think about that!” tweet, comparing COVID-19 to the flu, the Republican has apparently come full circle.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/coming-full-circle-trump-returns-false-misguided-flu-rhetoric-n1242286)
“Finally, and most importantly, the more the president downplays the seriousness of the coronavirus threat, the more dangerous it is to the public. Today, tens of thousands of Americans will test positive for the virus, and several hundred will die. For Trump to tell the citizens of his own country that they need not fear the pandemic, they will survive infections, and the virus is comparable to the flu is to see the president effectively play the role of a public menace.” (Benen)
Smh.
👍🏾
Oh yeh, SpaceX did some stuff earlier today 🤓🚀
💔💔💔
Wear a mask!
King of Shade
Great new ad!
When I first saw this, I thought this “no symptoms” report was [supposedly] based on routine checks of his vitals (i.e., temperature, pulse rate, respiration), and other tests and observations performed by MEDICAL personnel.
Instead, it is based on *tRUMP REPORTED*.
Lord have mercy on us.
Wow…just WOW
I see he is adding hostage taking to his resume.
Pence really doesn’t want to debate Kamala Harris. Mr. head of COVID-19 tasks force is still not taking this virus seriously, even with break-out in the WH.
😭😭😭😭
Texas voters will not be stopped!
ikr!!!!
Rest in peace Eddie Van Halen 😔
Muthaf…🤬🤬🤬
Is that the ‘roid rage kicking in? I have to question the mental fitness of those who have the authority to invoke the 25th and are choosing to act as if all is well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1313565483782885377
Meanwhile
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/closing-argument/