Happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating around the world. This year has tested us all, but it's also clarified what really matters. May the lights of the menorah remind us to cherish the blessings we have and offer glimmers of hope. From my family to yours, Chag Sameach!
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 10, 2020
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Happy Hanukkah! Good Evening, TODers. Thank you Nerdy for maintaining this haven.
Hi and congrats swbga!
Thank you Nerdy!
The laws *they* put in place and the suppression tactics didn’t work out the way they had plotted. So they’re no longer even trying to be underhanded about their intent.
The Republicans are proof that there is Evolution, they are evolving back to their original form with these apesh*t antics.
Listen Georgia Girl … please send Senators Warnock and Ossoff to DC to save all Georgians, all Americans and the world. We need you to help President Biden and VP Harris.
We are doing this Georgia, All Fired Up ☺
We must. We WILL!
Goodevening, TODville Community
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“Texas’s effort to get this court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro argued. “The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”
President-Elect Biden is coming to Georgia!
And that’s the problem. None of what they are doing in denying financial aid during this pandemic is affecting their pockets or their livelihood.
By electing Moscow Mitch, the ppl who elected him are also responsible for the suffering as a result of his actions.
Just me musing on a lovely Thursday evening, but this subpoena had to get approval from the highest levels at DOJ. I’m sure the FBI and every other Federal Law Enforcement Agency has had enough of Trump’s shit. So many crimes have been committed by the Trump regime that I don’t see how Biden’s next AG can ignore it, and to do so would not sit well it a lot of Democrats. It’s not personal, it’s just business.
Wish all these AG’s did a preemptive strike against the seditious thugs at the SC asking them to certify the election results, instead of fighting back now and letting the thugs set the narrative.
This is absolutely tragic and barbaric.
Can’t believe that map of Kennedy vs Nixon. As compared to today.
ANY fucking question?
These are same ideological forces that blocked the National Museum of African American History and Culture…it took almost 100 years before it was built on the National Mall..
WOW!!
This is totally not right!
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/12/10/cleavon-gilman-fired-yuma-hospital-speaking-out-covid-19/3888981001/
Over the moon to hear that fmr Ambassador Rice will be in this key role. She is superb.
Error!!
Hey they are! Partners!
Double congratulations!!! Lovely and welcome news.
I thought it was frontline covid19 workers.
And yet how many latinos/hispanics & women voted for this racist party in 2020?
And this system where one thug can halt legislation is a parody for governance.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan was named Businessperson of the Year.
In the category of Guardians of the Year, Time named activists Assa Traoré, Porche Bennett-Bey and racial-justice organizers; frontline health workers fighting the pandemic; and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
NBA star LeBron James was named Athlete of the Year and Korean pop group BTS was Entertainer of the Year.
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Goodnight TOD
Just putting it out here AGAIN!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😊😊😊
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I don’t know which is worse, the silent consent shown by “humoring” him, or the active revelation of their disdain of our democracy by their participation and support of these attempts to overturn this election.
40 DAYS!!!! Can’t come fast enough.
WOW!
Such natural talent!!!
This young man is astounding. Such talent defies words.
Open and defiant corruption. A total systemic failure.
WHAT is the response?
MUST NOT HAPPEN.
Spot on
I pray for this. Daily.
Zero doubt your prayers will be answered.
And, it won’t just be the orange dude she squeezes but those three thug kids of his, as well.
Good morning df 🙂
Morning, Bobfr:) I do believe you are correct…. and I want to see it all happen.
Look:)
https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/11/manhattan-d-a-intensifies-investigation-of-trump/
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He is spineless corrupt coward.
MT Public Radio has reported that GIANFORTE,
just elected governor, who is anti-democracy, anti-science, anti-labor, far Christian Right, anti-LGBTQ,
someone to watch on public lands, journalist attacker,
also SIGNED on to it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/
Totally as predicted.
That number should be less than 100 on any of those days …
This is perfect! 😁
Art-loving 4EverFLOTUS!
YES?
The 18 Attorneys General = 18 individuals.
-They don’t represent the citizens in their states.
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Yes!
Johns Hopkins University holds town hall discussing founder’s connection to slavery
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/fafsa-fill-it-out/
If only fucking NC and Utah senate had flipped, as the fucking ‘polls’ said.
Politicians in Argentina have voted yes to a bill that brings the largely Catholic country one step closer to legalising abortion, a change long-sought by women’s rights activists.
Parliament’s lower house voted in favour of the proposed law by 131-117.
Before becoming law, the bill must also pass the upper house, the Senate. The vote is expected before the end of the year.
Many women in Argentina who have an abortion can face prosecution.
President Alberto Fernández proposed the bill which would permit abortions to be carried out up to the 14th week of pregnancy.
Currently abortion is only permitted in case of rape or if the mother’s health is at risk from pregnancy.
The lower house passed the bill after debating for 20 hours on Thursday into Friday morning.
The vote in the Senate is expected to be even tighter – in 2018 the body rejected a similar bill to legalise abortion after the lower house voted in favour.
“I am a Catholic but I have to legislate for everyone,” President Fernández said on Thursday. “It is a very serious public health issue.”
On Thursday the Roman Catholic Church repeated its opposition to abortion, asking politicians in Argentina for “a second of reflection on what respect for life means”.
By contrast, the Women, Gender and Diversity minister Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta tweeted after the vote: “We have written a new chapter in our history.”
Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, and the vote in Argentina will be closely watched by both sides of the polarised issue in the region.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55237625
Hope the fucker thug gets ‘justice’ for all the shit he has done for decades.
“Those we’ve lost:
Erie Meyer remembers her father, Tom, who died from Covid”
“Over 292,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. One of those people is Tom Meyer, a fighter for social justice, a lover of mischief, a father, a grandfather, a friend, and more who passed away at the age of 71.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/those-we-ve-lost-erie-meyer-remembers-her-father-tom-who-died-from-covid-97522245822)
—Tom Meyer died 2 days ago. He never held his daughter’s 10 month old. Erie learned that on the days hospital staff couldn’t let her speak to Tom because they were so busy, to read it as a hopeful sign that he wasn’t expected to die that day.
Hayes honors those lost, these interviews bring home the devastation we’re living through.
3,000 of us dying every day. Still the Trump White House does nothing but try and stir up trouble.
A nation cannot survive, often, when it has become like America. When its majority hates everyone else, because it hates the idea of everyone else being a person, being a human being, being free and equal, pursuing life and liberty and happiness, because what it really wanted, all along, was to be above them, dominating them, enslaving them, owning them. And if it can’t have that, it won’t accept any kind of social compact at all.
I love trivia…