With COVID-19 cases reaching an all-time high this week, we've got to continue to do our part to protect one another. This pandemic is far from over and your actions can help save lives. https://t.co/XJ4dbsCihB
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 8, 2020
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The People’s View
- Follow me at my new venture: Reclaim the Fight Spandan Chakrabarti
- Ignore the bait: Why it’s the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care Spandan Chakrabarti
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census Spandan Chakrabarti
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesn’t matter. Spandan Chakrabarti
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul Spandan Chakrabarti
Smartypants
- How Trump's Big Lie Could Hurt Republicans in the 2022 Midterms
- How to Raise an Authoritarian
- Can Someone Who Has Been Criminally Indicted - or Convicted - Run for President?
- AG Garland Just Decimated Right Wing Talking Points About January 6
- Keeping Schools Open Is Much More Complicated Than Teachers Unions vs Parents
Steve Benen
- He became a state senator at 22, and now he wants other young people to run for office
- Religious groups stand together after Texas synagogue standoff
- 'Fight' looks at how Gen Z channels their fear and passion
- Djokovic deported from Australia after losing appeal
- Jonathan Alter: Biden is no Carter, and he should wish he was
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Family! Find your superpower! Use it for good! 😍
Awww! And Bless his Mom! 💞
Look what happens when good people stand up! 😍
Undetectable 😆
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Love it!
Jon Ossoff speaks to Leslie Jones.
Oops. This is what meant to reply with. 🙄
This conversation was very well done!
This!!!!!!
I saw that yesterday! He nailed it!
Devouring their own …
Leslie Jones talks to Joy Reid about the Georgia runoffs, Steve Kornacki, and more:
See: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/leslie-jones-talks-about-the-georgia-runoffs-steve-kornacki-and-more-97442885521)
“Maddow says her partner Susan’s very scary bout with the coronavirus has changed her perspective on how to cover the pandemic. Check out Rachel’s new book, “BAG MAN: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House.”
LIVE EVENT:
FDA Holds an Open Meeting on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
C-SPAN:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?507053-1/fda-holds-open-meeting-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine
Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting December 10, 2020
FDA Briefing Document Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
3.
“Topics for VRBPAC Discussion”
“The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will convene on December 10, 2020, to discuss and provide recommendations on whether:
• based on the totality of scientific evidence available, it is reasonable to believe that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine may be effective in preventing COVID-19 in individuals 16 years of age and older, and
• the known and potential benefits of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine outweigh its known and potential risks for use in individuals 16 years of age and older.
The committee will also discuss what additional studies should be conducted by the vaccine manufacturer following issuance of the EUA to gather further data on the safety and effectiveness of this vaccine.”
(https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download)
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In the intensity of our times, we are all working so hard to maintain and grow towards a unified consciousness with each other, I almost hesitate to post an article link which may seem totally off-topic:
But sometimes a ray of Hope helps us all, as well, and since today is my 70th birthday, yes I know, I bring you some reading to remind us there will be a future, and Light will shine on us again when this darkness has passed.
My daughter has been interviewed in this article, or I likely may never have known about it. I hope it brings a breath of respite and a sense of how much we have to share.
Many blessings, big hugs all around
Btw forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joesills/2020/12/09/memphis-has-the-cure-for-americas-stagnant-airwaves-once-again/?sh=3f79c5fe5146
Wishing you a “happy, Happy Birthday”, ‘ole’ girl!!! May this year you’ve entered upon be filled with calm, light, harmony, and ever fading memories of 2020’s stress!
Thank you, thank You!
Happy Birthday, MP! now to go read the article with your daughter.
Happy and Blessed Birthday to you, wpw! 2021 HAS to be better. #HOPEisnotcancelled
Thank you for sharing the link. Will head over and read now. 🙂
Thank you, BWD, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!
Small acts of service
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Atlantic: “A Political Obituary for Donald Trump”
“The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.”
(excerpts)
“Trump’s lies were different. They belonged to the postmodern era. They were assaults against not this or that fact, but reality itself….
The most mendacious of Trump’s predecessors would have been careful to limit these thoughts to private recording systems. Trump spoke them openly, not because he couldn’t control his impulses, but intentionally, even systematically, in order to demolish the norms that would otherwise have constrained his power. To his supporters, his shamelessness became a badge of honesty and strength. They grasped the message that they, too, could say whatever they wanted without apology…
Matthew Sheffield, a reformed right-wing media activist, tweeted: “Truth for conservative journalists is anything that harms ‘the left.’ It doesn’t even have to be a fact. Trump’s numerous lies about any subject under the sun are thus justified because his deceptions point to a larger truth: that liberals are evil…
Trump’s legacy includes an extremist Republican Party that tries to hold on to power by flagrantly undemocratic means, and an opposition pushed toward its own version of extremism. He leaves behind a society in which the bonds of trust are degraded, in which his example licenses everyone to cheat on taxes and mock affliction.
Many of his policies can be reversed or mitigated. It will be much harder to clear our minds of his lies and restore the shared understanding of reality—the agreement, however inconvenient, that A is A and not B—on which a democracy depends.
But we now have the chance, because two events in Trump’s last year in office broke the spell of his sinister perversion of the truth. The first was the coronavirus…
The second event came on November 3….The election didn’t end his lies—nothing will—or the deeper conflicts that the lies revealed. But we learned that we still want democracy.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/)
“COVID-19 isn’t affecting all communities equally.
We’ve partnered with the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research to collect the most complete racial data anywhere in the COVID Racial Data Tracker.
(https://covidtracking.com)
DIANA LACHIONDO
Ada County Commissioner:
“I wasn’t actually inside the house,” Lachiondo continued. “I was taking the call from my office at the Ada County Courthouse. But my two sons, ages 12 and 8, and my mother (who was out taking our dog on a short walk) were. And as many of you saw last night, my son called me in tears at the beginning of last night’s meeting.”
“How can you not tremble with rage when you read that?”
“If you haven’t seen the Zoom footage of Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo
exiting Tuesday’s doomed CDH meeting in a near-panic, it’s there — along with brief video of selfish, ruckus-causing tools who stalked her home and frightened her children.”
Here: ((https://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article247730835.html))
Georgia, if you want to LIVE and not die like a dog!!
Fmr Ambassador Michael McFaul:
“Deeply offended by these Attorneys General who have joined this ridiculous lawsuit to overturn the will of the people in four states. Was especially disappointed to see the Montana AG on the list. Montanans who I know believe in democracy. This is the opposite of that.”
—imo Montana republicans got everything out this election by every foul means, except Trump – we’re heading
for the Dark Ages under Gianforte and Daines. (Thanks heavens for Sen. Tester). So now they’re helping Doom’s political sycophants and suicidal base to put cash in his post-presidency pocket.
Ambassador McFaul might be interested to know that a white supremacy community is being created as we speak in NW Montana. Trump Jr was there unpublicized, the weekend before the Election.
Correction: New community in western MT. Not sure how under the radar they think it is.
(The Whitefish den of iniquity is in the NW.)
Good Afternoon TODVille.
It’s official: deep cleaning will take place before Biden moves in as reported in The Hill.
“Biden will have White House disinfected after Trump leaves.”
President-elect Biden needs to bring a priest in also. To exorcise the demons left behind.
In fear of coronavirus spreading in the White House, the General Services Administration will deploy a team to “thoroughly clean and disinfect” all surfaces touched often by human hands after Trump leaves and Biden moves in, a spokesperson from the agency told POLITICO.
They may have to tent it like they do sometimes to treat termites.
That & Secret Service clearing bugs too, including VP people’s house. So much fumigation, I tell ya! 😷
An Ohio lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19 but returned to work days later.
Now several members of his committee have tested positive & he is *still* working at the Ohio Statehouse without a mask.
“The biggest election fraud of the 2020 cycle – it didn’t happen in any voting booth,
it didn’t happen in any mailing drop box. It’s happening now with these people peddling the lie that he won.”
(anti-Trump conservative George Conway)
Human Rights Day
David Perdue is a crook!
Responding to Hayes’ question
about a broken Senate and what about adding more Senators to an unfair system…
Jon Meacham, presidential historian:
“The Great thing about the Constitution is that it was built to amend.”
Matt Schlapp, Chairman of the the oldest conservative lobbying organization in the country,
says he plans to go to church on Christmas, tells Fox News that Americans:
“have the right to do unsafe things. It’s part of being an American, and I love every aspect of it.”
= the Eff You And Me Party’s open invitation to die for the cause.
Yes big time in 2010 when PBO delivered $8 billion in rail grants:
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-highspeed-rail/obama-delivers-8-billion-in-rail-grants-idUSTRE60R4GD20100128)
—Remember when Chris Christie refused the cash?
Also when PBO and VP Biden were setting up manufacturing hubs around the country.
(https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-manufacturing-innovation-hub-kn)
Yes!!!
President-Elect Joe is coming to Georgia next week to stump for our Soon-Senators!
https://www.peachvote.org
GA Voter Info.
-love
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Good Afternoon, TODbots.
Congarts, Dudette for your Furst⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🥳🥂🎶🥁📯🎹🎺🎸
Thank you, NW🤗🥰🤗🥰🙌🙌
For Carla
First Gentleman’s got a DC gig
President-Elect taps former Sec of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to pick up the reins again.
The GOP is evil.
Pro-life
Used to call gop the Death Party. Someone at the time here objected. (I stopped) But I meant it.
They are. There’s simply no doubt about it.
That oughta get some attention.
Sedition List
Happy Hanukkah!
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1337154296689922049?s=21
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1337154296689922049?s=21
Truth!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/chag-sameach/