Right in the middle of a pandemic it failed to control, this administration is trying to get the Supreme Court to eliminate preexisting conditions protections for more than 100 million Americans. pic.twitter.com/HhmSgOgRc3
Last night, @KamalaHarris shared how she will work with @JoeBiden to protect the Affordable Care Act and build on it so every American has access to quality, affordable care.
There's so much at stake in this election––and millions of Americans have already started voting. If you haven't already, make a plan to join them right now. Visit https://t.co/Q2RbOQZwv9 to get all the information you need to vote safely and securely in your state. Let's go.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose two talks she gave in 2013 hosted by two anti-abortion student groups on paperwork provided to the Senate ahead of her confirmation hearing. https://t.co/kaoQqphLeU
These ceremonies are a great reminder that, even in dark times, America remains a beacon of opportunity around the globe. It’s on us to make sure it continues to be. https://t.co/WbnHLqlhBV
In case you’re wondering, I am at my naturalization ceremony. I’m becoming a U.S. citizen this morning, a dual U.S./UK national. It’s a socially-distanced ceremony but no welcome video from Trump @kumailn, just a letter. pic.twitter.com/gc0tcEgocp
Here’s the ‘fellow American’ welcome letter from Trump that I got. It’s not bad, by his standards. But he obviously didn’t write it – not just because of the pro-immigrant sentiment but also…there are no typos or spelling errors in it. I’m so used to his random Capitalizations. pic.twitter.com/crKabeoIq7
Don’t miss our grassroots event with President @BarackObama and AG @EricHolder! They’ll be discussing #FairMaps, saving our democracy, and much more. 🇺🇸
“I am a huge fan of really strong leaders, and I think that Justice Ginsburg was able to champion a lot of things.” – US Army Capt. Shaye Haver, a company commander of 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regimenthttps://t.co/RITugghayb
— VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) (@votevets) October 9, 2020
Michigan State Senator Dayna Polehanki speaks to Chris Hayes.
She was working at the State House back in April when armed protestors stormed the Capitol
demanding the COVID-19 lockdown be lifted. Two of those men were arrested yesterday regarding the plot,
foiled by the FBI, to kidnap Governor Whitmer and more.
State Sen. Polehanki:
“I’m still shaken. Even more so to learn that two of the men in the photo that I took are conspirators in this plot to kidnap the Governor and storm the Capitol. I really do feel grateful though however to our Attorney General Dana Nessel, the FBI, the Michigan State Police, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for thwarting this plot. I’m just so grateful and I wanted to make sure I said that.”
Hayes: “What has been the reaction among your colleagues today?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“You would think there would be bipartisan unity wouldn’t you?
Unfortunately just today the person who was in charge of moving bills, our Senate majority leader, pretty much said he doesn’t plan on acting to prohibit guns from our Capitol to keep us safe. He said we can’t legislate and get rid of all risks. He talks about needing to be strong and ‘not be afraid of those who are taking our freedoms away’. And it just seems like they’re intent on baiting this group. There was a group at the Capitol today, and the majority leader said those words to them on the Capitol steps! Some of them were armed. I had to be escorted to my office today by the Sergeants of Arms. Because there were guns at the Capitol today. You would think it’d bipartisan. It’s not.”
“You can open carry. You can concealed carry. But there is a fear that signs may chip the paint…”
Hayes:
“You’re saying there were protestors today outside the Capitol? And some of them had weapons on them, which is protected by state laws. They are allowed to open carry on Capitol grounds”.
State Sen. Polehanki: “Except you can’t carry SIGNS in our Capitol.”
Hayes:“Is that right? You can’t carry signs but you can carry a long gun?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“That is absolutely correct. You can open carry. You can concealed carry. But there is fear that the signs may chip the paint on the walls of our beautiful Capitol. So signs are not allowed.”
Hayes: “We had you I think on the program back in April and I remember looking at these images…
they were menacing. And to see there was an actual plot, there were talks of possibly constructing IEDs,
of kidnapping the Governor, and bringing her to Mackinac Island where there is a house, and having a show trial for ‘treason’. I can understand why you were looking over your shoulder TODAY of all days, with armed protestors outside your door.”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“Every day when I enter the Capitol’s floor I look into the gallery for armed gunman.
I keep a bulletproof vest under my desk.
And that’s just how it is in my workplace and it’s unfortunate.
The news today was of course about the plot to kidnap the Governor, which is bad enough. But in the affidavit there was also a plot to storm our Capitol with hundreds of armed men, take hostages, kidnap politicians. And just today we had kids visiting our Capitol, sitting in the same gallery where the armed men were. And I’m just afraid for them. I’m afraid for them, for myself, my colleagues, the staff, the journalists, everyone.”
Hayes: “I wanted to ask you about the Governor…she really had a target painted on her back.
The president’s tweets at her “Liberate Michigan!” Telling her these were ‘nice people’ the armed men that showed up. And that she should ‘give a little, she should work things out with them’….
She has taken a very strong approach to the virus there. What is your take away about the politics of this, and what Michiganders think about all this?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“These men – I just want to make it clear – don’t represent the vast majority of Michiganders who do approve of the Governor’s ‘Stay home, stay safe’ order, her mask order. You know Michigan’s doing a great job with the Coronavirus. And that’s in large part because of the Governor’s executive orders. And she’s saved lives, thousands of lives! So it’s not surprising to me that she’s so popular.”
eff there must be something in my eye…
Paint on the walls potentially chipped by signs:
Is more important at MI State Capitol than the precious lives of the public employees who work there.
Do their families worry whether they will make it home?
Are employees paid danger money? They are not police officers, they are civilian public servants .
When will Michigan stop the presence of open and concealed arms in the Capitol?
Give all the employees medals and fire this state senate majority leader!
Deadly bang! bang! boy games with guns are not tolerated anywhere else in the ‘free world’.
—Oh and despite the teevee and movie wishful pretense, guns are still illegal in the U.K.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nearly 50,000 voters received incorrect absentee ballots in the county that is home to Ohio’s capital, elections officials said Friday as they promised corrected ballots would be mailed within 72 hours.https://t.co/Kwn6fWZPN3
ON THIS DAY: In 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” https://t.co/alSVpHK2zspic.twitter.com/DblPk9cNfl
MoscowMitch:
Says he has not entered the White House since August 6th “due to their approach” to COVID-19.
“I have stayed away from the White House because the president is so incompetent.
His team is so dangerous, so incompetent,
so deluded, that I do not trust him with my own personal health,
even though I’m going to do everything I can to keep him in power.”
James Carville to Hayes:
“Mitch McConnell cares about one thing, power! Power.
And his Senate candidates are coming in and they’re getting slaughtered out there. And so he’s trying to give them some space to get away from Trump. I mean they’ve run away from Trump like the devil runs away from holy water!…You can just feel it that they’re looking for some space out there. And McConnell was trying to give them some. That’s exactly what’s behind this.”
Instead of taking up additional COVID-19 relief legislation that our country so desperately needs, the Senate on Monday is holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings. This is entirely out of touch with what the American people are demanding.
Casting my ballot…voting for my nana ..who first took me down to the City Hall Annex in Philadelphia, 49 years ago…to register to vote…she and my grandfather..my pop-pop …told me that one of the most important things that i could do was VOTE!
they are no longer alive…but i always feel them in my heart
Beto O’Rourke to Hayes on the Cornyn/Hagar race:
“It is a real race and I think Texans have been able to connect the dots.
They understand that John Cornyn has not only voted time and again, to take away health care, including protections for pre-existing conditions, but he has enabled Donald Trump. So if you are angered by the kids in cages, if you are so frustrated and disgusted by the open racism of this president, the failed response to COViD, and the great recession since the Great Depression…John Cornyn…in the Senate has made it possible.
And MJ Hagar is the alternative.”
30 years:
Celebrating Native Americans’ Day:
HAU MITAKUYEPI, CANTE WASTE NAPE CIYUZAPELO
by Kyle Chase.
(Hello my relatives, I greet you with warm heart and handshake).
“This year, South Dakotans are celebrating the 30th anniversary
of recognizing the second Monday in October
as Native Americans’ Day.
As a 30-year old-who has never known the second Monday in October to be anything different, I’m honored to share my perspective and reflections on this meaningful day.
I’m a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a lifelong South Dakotan.
I’ve grown up constantly analyzing issues from different perspectives: Indian v. non-Indian; State v. Tribal; Midwest values v. Lakota values. The two perspectives can be similar, but more often than not they are very different.
When Senator Mike Rounds asked me to write some thoughts for his column this week,
I wanted to use it as an opportunity to discuss these dual perspectives I have grown up with so all South Dakotans can take a moment to deepen our understanding of our Lakota, Nakota and Dakota neighbors and appreciate what this culture contributes to our society.
I’d like to begin with what Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota is NOT.
It’s not Columbus Day. It’s not an attempt to participate in the recent cancel culture fad. Columbus Day only officially became a federal holiday in 1937. Despite Columbus’ recognition on the federal calendar, South Dakota chose to be a leader in promoting our culture and, in 1990, became the very first state to proclaim the second Monday in October as Native Americans’ Day.
The naming was also commemorated by proclaiming 1990 as the “Year of Reconciliation.”
The Year of Reconciliation honored the tragic 100th anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre and focused on promoting healthy relationships between the tribes and the state into the future.”
More: (https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/10/09/kyle-chase-celebrating-the-nations-first-native-american-day/)
.@katieporteroc is an anti-corruption icon. I look forward to working with her in Congress to hold special interests and crooked officials accountable. Thank you, Katie! pic.twitter.com/sn2ncIrPak
October is Pride month here in Georgia! We’ll all be celebrating a little differently this year, but you can still #VoteYourOssoff with our new Ossoff Pride merch!
A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites,” according to the chairman of the company.
The recruiting effort is being done by Atlas Aegis, a private security company based in Tennessee that was formed last year and is run by U.S. military veterans, including people with Special Operations experience, according to its website.
It is illegal in Minnesota for people other than voters and elections staff — or those people meeting the requirements to be a registered election “challenger”— to be within 100 feet of polling sites.
There are also laws against voter intimidation that could prevent armed civilians from being in the area even if outside the buffer, according to election officials in Minnesota.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has officially canceled the second debate between Trump and Joe Biden, after Trump declined to do a virtual debate despite concerns over his Covid-19 diagnosis. https://t.co/16BRQKeO9c
Thank you to our hosts for accommodating Senator Graham's refusal to take a Covid test, and changing the debate format to keep everyone safe. 🙄 https://t.co/pbNF5Fnqac
COLUMBIA — Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison will no longer debate Friday night after Harrison declined to participate unless Graham took a coronavirus test in advance and Graham denied the request.
Instead of an hour-long debate, the two candidates will each participate in separate 30-minute interviews hosted by television station WSPA in Spartanburg.
Agreed If Lindsey Graham reveals a positive Covid test it means he will be quarantined for the Amy Coney Barrett hearings As he's Chair of Senate Judiciary Comm which will hold the first round of her confirmation hearings this could screw things up royally #LindseyIsPositivehttps://t.co/25H26BPdYr
How it started: My grandfather MJ Clifton, on right, w/Dr. King in early 60’s. How it’s going: Me, today, voting because my ancestors marched, fought, got beaten, threatened, intimidated, jailed, and still they got up and voted. I’ll always honor them. Vote. Biden/Harris. pic.twitter.com/OyqPZyWN8x
— President Kamala’s Hand (STILL) (@DearDean22) October 9, 2020
So no testing regimen in place to enter the halls of Congress…?
How about Graham – who promised not to do this and may be infected – goes completely unchallenged
for a change.
Repeating myself and others here, but the reason Lindsey Graham won't get tested despite having been exposed to many COVID+ people is because if he reveals a positive test and has to quarantine the Amy Coney Barrett nomination could get scuttled. There is no other logical reason.
Got my mail in ballot today. I have been waiting 4 long years for this day.
I can’t wait to be one of the millions of pissed off young people that are going to take down this NRA puppet through the highest youth voter turnout in American history.
This sheriff sounds like the one in Neshoba County who covered for the Klan when they kidnapped & killed 3 civil rights workers in 1964. https://t.co/E6LIX3EJlu
Two 16 hour days. Covid is getting bad again at the hospital. I am exhausted and can’t sleep. I am getting stage 2 pressure ulcers on the bridge of my nose from my N95 again. My hands are dry, angry and hurt. I am fried. Burned out. Exhausted. Wear. A. Fucking. Mask. #CovidRN
Jaysus! Lindsey dug past the rabbit hole, found & dived way into the cesspool! 😳
Lindsey Graham, facing a Black challenger: "If you're a young African American…you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative not liberal." #SCSenpic.twitter.com/5PfdIoYyJQ
Words used to come so easy for me, so I know how hard @GenMHayden is fighting to recover from aphasia. This is a testament to his strength and patriotism. Watch his powerful endorsement of @JoeBiden. https://t.co/grXO7moCWG
Omg. The little boy is so cute. Love how he starts to dance and then hands whatever he had in his hand to the person sitting and continues. So cute. And talented.
I don’t know why some folks are so shocked that NC, SC & MS are winnable. If Dems organize, run & fight for a progressive agenda, esp. among poor & low wealth ppl, they can win across the South.
Voting attire today! l walked over to the ballot box in tears thinking about #GoodTrouble Rep. John Lewis. How he was beaten and bloodied on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for me! For you! Then I proudly cast my vote for @JoeBiden@KamalaHarris. 🙏🏽 #Votepic.twitter.com/srPz2xSG3y
The norm that losing presidential candidates accept the results of the election has been extraordinarily strong—even when losing candidates’ followers made clear their willingness to use force to overturn the result.
With 24 days until the election and millions of votes already being cast, @JoeBiden's aides and Democratic allies say Trump's missteps and the former vice president's message have given him a broad map with numerous paths to 270 electoral votes.https://t.co/LydSdhhLgb
A lot packed into these thoughts below by @mehdirhasan. Every word worth listening too. Congrats Mehdi on citizenship.
I’ll finish that quote:
‘dissent is the highest form of patriotism. It is the peaceful American way to turn the nation away from a self-defeating course.’ https://t.co/bLYArit1pK
A lot packed into these thoughts below by @mehdirhasan. Every word worth listening too. Congrats Mehdi on citizenship.
I’ll finish that quote:
‘dissent is the highest form of patriotism. It is the peaceful American way to turn the nation away from a self-defeating course.’ https://t.co/bLYArit1pK
On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we affirm that mental health is just as important and real as physical health. Together, @JoeBiden and I will work to expand access to care and put an end to the stigma around mental health.
Does anyone else get annoyed when you get an email that says Barack Obama is BEGGING you to do something? I do. Barack Obama doesn’t beg, he asks. Respectfully. He doesn’t beg. Ever. Lindsey Graham begs. That is all
Go Texas!!!
MJ Hegar is a Boss! She kicked Cornyn’s azzz! It was glorious!
“Hi. I’m MJ Hegar. I’m a Purple Heart combat veteran and a working mom of two. I am your opponent.” @mjhegar DESTROYED Sen Cornyn in tonight’s Texas Senate debate & this November Texas will send her to DC. Great job tonight MJ! You’ve got this! #Vets4Hegarpic.twitter.com/P3YHx1zVb9
Help turn Texas Blue by supporting @mjhegar against Senator John Cornyn. She eviscerated him in this debate! Full US Senate Debate: John Cornyn and MJ Hegar https://t.co/N5ykCdl4zC via @YouTube
If everyone joins me in giving at https://t.co/mxkpLIOEux every time they say “lock her up” or “crooked” or “emails,” I bet we can fund Biden-Harris straight through to November 3rd. https://t.co/5uk25UHTOO
I grew up just a few miles away from where Pastor Tracey Lee is doing such incredible work. During a summer of heartbreaking loss, she's shown up day-in, day-out with faith and love, courage and compassion, and an unshakable belief in young people's right to safety. https://t.co/CTL4dzntQ5
We spent a month capturing a glimpse of Tracey Lee’s day-to-day life as a violence interrupter, pastor, and supermom. In doing so, we witnessed this Black woman bring faith, love, and unyielding hope to her community as she worked to make our city safer. https://t.co/M7sKQBSR3Bpic.twitter.com/TgDXqQwPJV
Thread . So when he brags about donating his paycheck, he’s stealing American citizens blind
NEW: In part 4 of The President's Taxes, my colleagues and I report on how Trump transplanted Washington's favor-seeking to his family’s hotels & resorts — earning millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.https://t.co/ZpzODAWI5R
BREAKING: According to JewishNewsUSA realDonaldTrump held a meeting this morning with senior campaign staff, legal advisors and his children to discuss his possible resignation. Resignation would be contingent on a pardon by Pence, and the dismissal of SDNY criminal charges.
NYET on the dismissal of charges under any circumstances, no matter what.
And he should not be pardoned – he is not a turkey. But he has done heinous acts knowingly.
–There must be accountability at last for the Gross Abuser-In-Chief.
JUST IN: A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied the Trump campaign and Republican Party’s bid to make ballot dropboxes in Pennsylvania unconstitutional, in a major ruling Saturday that essentially ends controversy over how voting in Pennsylvania will take place.
Who are those ppl on the WH lawn today? Are they hoping for Trump to sneeze on them from the balcony, hoping to catch some of God’s blessing which he claims Covid was to him …?
From the “You don’t say!” File 👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 Candace Owens' BLEXIT group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event – ABC News https://t.co/9nOxagmyg7
About 400 or so here at White House, just by rough estimating, for Trump’s 1st in-person speech after his coronavirus hospitalization. pic.twitter.com/SczM8tLh6t
The Obama Diary 
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Michigan State Senator Dayna Polehanki speaks to Chris Hayes.
She was working at the State House back in April when armed protestors stormed the Capitol
demanding the COVID-19 lockdown be lifted. Two of those men were arrested yesterday regarding the plot,
foiled by the FBI, to kidnap Governor Whitmer and more.
State Sen. Polehanki:
“I’m still shaken. Even more so to learn that two of the men in the photo that I took are conspirators in this plot to kidnap the Governor and storm the Capitol. I really do feel grateful though however to our Attorney General Dana Nessel, the FBI, the Michigan State Police, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for thwarting this plot. I’m just so grateful and I wanted to make sure I said that.”
Hayes: “What has been the reaction among your colleagues today?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“You would think there would be bipartisan unity wouldn’t you?
Unfortunately just today the person who was in charge of moving bills, our Senate majority leader, pretty much said he doesn’t plan on acting to prohibit guns from our Capitol to keep us safe. He said we can’t legislate and get rid of all risks. He talks about needing to be strong and ‘not be afraid of those who are taking our freedoms away’. And it just seems like they’re intent on baiting this group. There was a group at the Capitol today, and the majority leader said those words to them on the Capitol steps! Some of them were armed. I had to be escorted to my office today by the Sergeants of Arms. Because there were guns at the Capitol today. You would think it’d bipartisan. It’s not.”
“You can open carry. You can concealed carry. But there is a fear that signs may chip the paint…”
Hayes:
“You’re saying there were protestors today outside the Capitol? And some of them had weapons on them, which is protected by state laws. They are allowed to open carry on Capitol grounds”.
State Sen. Polehanki: “Except you can’t carry SIGNS in our Capitol.”
Hayes:“Is that right? You can’t carry signs but you can carry a long gun?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“That is absolutely correct. You can open carry. You can concealed carry. But there is fear that the signs may chip the paint on the walls of our beautiful Capitol. So signs are not allowed.”
Hayes: “We had you I think on the program back in April and I remember looking at these images…
they were menacing. And to see there was an actual plot, there were talks of possibly constructing IEDs,
of kidnapping the Governor, and bringing her to Mackinac Island where there is a house, and having a show trial for ‘treason’. I can understand why you were looking over your shoulder TODAY of all days, with armed protestors outside your door.”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“Every day when I enter the Capitol’s floor I look into the gallery for armed gunman.
I keep a bulletproof vest under my desk.
And that’s just how it is in my workplace and it’s unfortunate.
The news today was of course about the plot to kidnap the Governor, which is bad enough. But in the affidavit there was also a plot to storm our Capitol with hundreds of armed men, take hostages, kidnap politicians. And just today we had kids visiting our Capitol, sitting in the same gallery where the armed men were. And I’m just afraid for them. I’m afraid for them, for myself, my colleagues, the staff, the journalists, everyone.”
Hayes: “I wanted to ask you about the Governor…she really had a target painted on her back.
The president’s tweets at her “Liberate Michigan!” Telling her these were ‘nice people’ the armed men that showed up. And that she should ‘give a little, she should work things out with them’….
She has taken a very strong approach to the virus there. What is your take away about the politics of this, and what Michiganders think about all this?”
State Sen. Polehanki:
“These men – I just want to make it clear – don’t represent the vast majority of Michiganders who do approve of the Governor’s ‘Stay home, stay safe’ order, her mask order. You know Michigan’s doing a great job with the Coronavirus. And that’s in large part because of the Governor’s executive orders. And she’s saved lives, thousands of lives! So it’s not surprising to me that she’s so popular.”
Am ready to read: “Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, At Home and Abroad”
by fmr CIA director,
John Brennan
Interesting turn of a phase
eff there must be something in my eye…
Paint on the walls potentially chipped by signs:
Is more important at MI State Capitol than the precious lives of the public employees who work there.
Do their families worry whether they will make it home?
Are employees paid danger money? They are not police officers, they are civilian public servants .
When will Michigan stop the presence of open and concealed arms in the Capitol?
Give all the employees medals and fire this state senate majority leader!
Deadly bang! bang! boy games with guns are not tolerated anywhere else in the ‘free world’.
—Oh and despite the teevee and movie wishful pretense, guns are still illegal in the U.K.
LIVE…
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-5
On this day 2009 😄
MoscowMitch:
Says he has not entered the White House since August 6th “due to their approach” to COVID-19.
“I have stayed away from the White House because the president is so incompetent.
His team is so dangerous, so incompetent,
so deluded, that I do not trust him with my own personal health,
even though I’m going to do everything I can to keep him in power.”
James Carville to Hayes:
“Mitch McConnell cares about one thing, power! Power.
And his Senate candidates are coming in and they’re getting slaughtered out there. And so he’s trying to give them some space to get away from Trump. I mean they’ve run away from Trump like the devil runs away from holy water!…You can just feel it that they’re looking for some space out there. And McConnell was trying to give them some. That’s exactly what’s behind this.”
Casting my ballot…voting for my nana ..who first took me down to the City Hall Annex in Philadelphia, 49 years ago…to register to vote…she and my grandfather..my pop-pop …told me that one of the most important things that i could do was VOTE!
they are no longer alive…but i always feel them in my heart
I am casting my ballot for Them….
Beto O’Rourke to Hayes on the Cornyn/Hagar race:
“It is a real race and I think Texans have been able to connect the dots.
They understand that John Cornyn has not only voted time and again, to take away health care, including protections for pre-existing conditions, but he has enabled Donald Trump. So if you are angered by the kids in cages, if you are so frustrated and disgusted by the open racism of this president, the failed response to COViD, and the great recession since the Great Depression…John Cornyn…in the Senate has made it possible.
And MJ Hagar is the alternative.”
30 years:
Celebrating Native Americans’ Day:
HAU MITAKUYEPI, CANTE WASTE NAPE CIYUZAPELO
by Kyle Chase.
(Hello my relatives, I greet you with warm heart and handshake).
“This year, South Dakotans are celebrating the 30th anniversary
of recognizing the second Monday in October
as Native Americans’ Day.
As a 30-year old-who has never known the second Monday in October to be anything different, I’m honored to share my perspective and reflections on this meaningful day.
I’m a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a lifelong South Dakotan.
I’ve grown up constantly analyzing issues from different perspectives: Indian v. non-Indian; State v. Tribal; Midwest values v. Lakota values. The two perspectives can be similar, but more often than not they are very different.
When Senator Mike Rounds asked me to write some thoughts for his column this week,
I wanted to use it as an opportunity to discuss these dual perspectives I have grown up with so all South Dakotans can take a moment to deepen our understanding of our Lakota, Nakota and Dakota neighbors and appreciate what this culture contributes to our society.
I’d like to begin with what Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota is NOT.
It’s not Columbus Day. It’s not an attempt to participate in the recent cancel culture fad. Columbus Day only officially became a federal holiday in 1937. Despite Columbus’ recognition on the federal calendar, South Dakota chose to be a leader in promoting our culture and, in 1990, became the very first state to proclaim the second Monday in October as Native Americans’ Day.
The naming was also commemorated by proclaiming 1990 as the “Year of Reconciliation.”
The Year of Reconciliation honored the tragic 100th anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre and focused on promoting healthy relationships between the tribes and the state into the future.”
More: (https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/10/09/kyle-chase-celebrating-the-nations-first-native-american-day/)
Eh – Friday all day today.
Time to set up stage for that great scene in which we fall in love with Ameria again.
America.
LOL! Vote Your Ossoff! Too cute! 😆
Gee, how did THIS happen!????
A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites,” according to the chairman of the company.
The recruiting effort is being done by Atlas Aegis, a private security company based in Tennessee that was formed last year and is run by U.S. military veterans, including people with Special Operations experience, according to its website.
It is illegal in Minnesota for people other than voters and elections staff — or those people meeting the requirements to be a registered election “challenger”— to be within 100 feet of polling sites.
There are also laws against voter intimidation that could prevent armed civilians from being in the area even if outside the buffer, according to election officials in Minnesota.
“SC Senate debate replaced by separate interviews after Harrison insists on COVID tests”
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-senate-debate-replaced-by-separate-interviews-after-harrison-insists-on-covid-tests/article_a7c6c880-0a65-11eb-bd99-1b8b2a34f921.html
COLUMBIA — Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison will no longer debate Friday night after Harrison declined to participate unless Graham took a coronavirus test in advance and Graham denied the request.
Instead of an hour-long debate, the two candidates will each participate in separate 30-minute interviews hosted by television station WSPA in Spartanburg.
I was thinking that too…
So no testing regimen in place to enter the halls of Congress…?
How about Graham – who promised not to do this and may be infected – goes completely unchallenged
for a change.
Go David, & all your contemporaries! VOTE! Eff the NRA by its lapierre.👀💞💃
❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have thought this all along.
Good evening Todville.
I had a lovely evening watching a PBS doc, on train travel in Switzerland. *sigh* … someday ☺.
Jaysus! Lindsey dug past the rabbit hole, found & dived way into the cesspool! 😳
😳😄😟🤯😠😫😱
All I could express was WTH, then your imojis! 😂
Goodnight TOD.
Who needs some moments of cuteness? Got ‘em right here for you…
😍😍😍
Omg. The little boy is so cute. Love how he starts to dance and then hands whatever he had in his hand to the person sitting and continues. So cute. And talented.
Right? Love, Love, Love! ❤️
Yeah, he was like ‘this is serious business, can’t be doing it with a a bag in my hand’.
Thanks Dudette. We all need moments like this in our lives.
I should start posting pictures of cake(s) to combat the evil GOP vibes ☺
Please post cake! 😁
Boss!
Boss!
C’mon Democrats.
BOSS!
Morning everyone
Good Saturday Morning, Family!
and good Saturday to our Dudette!!
Thank you Darling brp! Have a beautiful one!
Just vote. VOTE.VOTE.VOTE. It feels GREAT!!!
Worth a listen
Worth a listen
This works.
Pump it uuuupppp! 😁
Does anyone else get annoyed when you get an email that says Barack Obama is BEGGING you to do something? I do. Barack Obama doesn’t beg, he asks. Respectfully. He doesn’t beg. Ever. Lindsey Graham begs. That is all
BOSSES!!!
thrilling, just thrilling..
Petty is an understatement
Governor Whitmer is amazing!
Go Texas!!!
MJ Hegar is a Boss! She kicked Cornyn’s azzz! It was glorious!
Hillary! 😁
Please take care
Thread . So when he brags about donating his paycheck, he’s stealing American citizens blind
BREAKING: According to JewishNewsUSA realDonaldTrump held a meeting this morning with senior campaign staff, legal advisors and his children to discuss his possible resignation. Resignation would be contingent on a pardon by Pence, and the dismissal of SDNY criminal charges.
NYET on the dismissal of charges under any circumstances, no matter what.
And he should not be pardoned – he is not a turkey. But he has done heinous acts knowingly.
–There must be accountability at last for the Gross Abuser-In-Chief.
Um.
We WILL have our voting blowout up and down the ballot – regardless of these machinations.
For real?
JUST IN: A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied the Trump campaign and Republican Party’s bid to make ballot dropboxes in Pennsylvania unconstitutional, in a major ruling Saturday that essentially ends controversy over how voting in Pennsylvania will take place.
Who are those ppl on the WH lawn today? Are they hoping for Trump to sneeze on them from the balcony, hoping to catch some of God’s blessing which he claims Covid was to him …?
Yes. I hope they catch some of his breadth.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/michelle-obama-stem-elementary-school/