Make sure to fill out your FAFSA–the Free Application for Federal Student Aid–every year that you’re enrolled in college. It’s the key that can help unlock free money for your education. Complete the FAFSA right now at https://t.co/GtWRyXyAId. https://t.co/TeLxcW63lg
Going to college is the best thing you can do for your future especially during a pandemic, right @MichelleObama? 😤 Whether it’s a certificate program, community college, or a four-year school, there’s free FAFSA money waiting for you! You got this 👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/G5VZM1z9sJ
I’m honored to be Person of the Year with @KamalaHarris and grateful to be on this list with so many extraordinary folks. From front line workers to racial justice organizers, Americans met this year with strength, fortitude, and an unflinching belief in a brighter tomorrow. https://t.co/zrCCb4O6xp
Honored to be named @TIME’s Person of the Year with President-elect @JoeBiden.
We’re at a moment where we’re being confronted by multiple crises that have converged. We have a lot we need to handle in the days ahead but I know together we can get it done.https://t.co/HPZqCUAJE6
we hit the #H1N1 death toll EVERY 4 DAYS under your power.. your parents having the ability to procreate was a complete and total disaster. https://t.co/6bB2xrljo2
Writing another version of “Washington is broken” is a false equivalence way of saying Mitch McConnell is Senate Majority Leader. To those in the DC press corps framing it as “both sides,” please do better. .
"If Texas is successful in its suit, it would destabilize the results of elections in Montana & any other state that took valid state-law actions to minimize the impact of the virus on voting, including states that delivered victories to Republican candidates using mail ballots." https://t.co/ZpAVweJxaQ
As Covid-19 relief stalls, Top Chef star slams Congress.
“Celebrity chef and co-founder of the Independent Restaurant Coalition Tom Colicchio…
discusses with Ari Melber the devastating affects Covid-19 shutdowns have had on small businesses,
particularly restaurants. Colicchio slams Congress for its inability to pass a stimulus bill, asserting members of the government want to “play politics with people’s lives.””
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/as-covid-19-relief-stalls-top-chef-star-slams-congress-for-doing-nothing-97513029546)
Pass H.R.7197 –
RESTAURANTS Act of 2020 !!!
Need help for the people to survive from the government on rent and food. Small businesses also are destitute. Chef Colicchio saying 65% to 80% of restaurants, hundreds of thousands will close. And that by the time June rolls around and many people are immunized, 2.1 million restaurant jobs won’t come back because “there will be nowhere for them to work.”
Steve Schmidt to Wallace:
“They crossed it. They crossed the Rubicon. We cannot be fantastical in wishing what has happened has not happened in our thinking. It has happened. We’ve watched it play out. We’ve watched Trump and his loony attorneys. We’ve watched the declarations of fraud. We’ve seen United States senators, members of the House of Representatives, they all knew — they all know that Biden has won the election.
What they’re doing is for no purpose other than power.
The Republican Party is an organized conspiracy for the purposes of maintaining power for self-interest,
and the self-interest of its donor class.”
“There has never been a force that has achieved power, or is within reach of achieving power in the next election, that’s been so hostile to the history, the founding, the essence and the entire meaning of the country, as is this Trump and Trumpist movement that has taken over lock, stock, and barrel the Republican Party. It’s no longer dedicated to American democracy. It is dedicated to Trump and Trumpism and to his family, to defense of his indecencies, his autocratic manner, his corruptions, an apologist for the profound damage he has done.”
Dylan Roof murdered 9 people who had welcomed him INTO THEIR CHURCH + after, the cops **treated** him to Burger King #BrandonBernard was 18, was not the shooter, model inmate, 5 jurors did not want death penalty – murdered by the state last night
Dylan Roof is trending because today we are reminded of the two American justice systems. The one that says "Dylan and Kyle are just playing with their guns" and the other that says "Trayvon Martin shouldn't have had a hood on so therefore he deserved to be shot in cold blood."
Brandon Bernard is another victim of Trumpian and Bill Barr politics which says we can dangle a remorseful black man's life in the crosshairs of our greedy and petty power struggles.
Brandon Bernard has been murdered. Seeing this earlier today, I wanted to just call it a day, a week, a lifetime. The reports of his last generous words and the kindness in his face, tell you what is true. May he be loved and protected on his journey. This is on us until we stop the killing.
MAGAts in California and Nevada are inventing entirely non-existent "new" states to argue that an election, in a union that they, if real, would not belong to, should be overturned and it is absolutely sending me https://t.co/xxlIQFb86Npic.twitter.com/o47HAFleor
This is an intra-Montana split. The state's AG signed on to an amicus brief saying the election in GA, MI, PA and WI was unconstitutional because of alleged state law violations. The state's governor argues it wasn't and that this argument would invalidate Montana's election too.
Where are the Republicans who won their elections on the same ballots? Why aren't they fighting to keep their own elections valid? You would think the GOP would be pushing back for this reason bc they won so many state seats!
"We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress. We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy." https://t.co/ZOWgMExdnU via @BillKristol
It’s time to get back to a government of the people, for the people, by the people. That’s how we can move forward and solve the biggest challenges we face.
BREAKING per @CNN: The Manhattan DA's Office has interviewed several employees of Donald Trump's bank, Deutsche Bank, as well has his insurance broker, over the past few weeks.
Looks like the Trump criminality probe continues at full steam ahead in preparation for Jan. 20th.
Moscow Massacre Mitch is only interested in procuring: A Corporate Liability Shield.
To protect the owner class from the thousands of workers who were forced back to work at the behest of the Trump White House. And were infected or died.
–viz the Tyson packing plant where the managers made bets on how many employees would get COVID-19.
(Translators were instructed to purposely misinform.)
–please hold them accountable.
"It's not just about identity politics. The Department of the Interior oversees millions of acres of land, including Native reservations, and would be responsible, in large part, for the country's nearly 2 million Indigenous people." #AppointDebhttps://t.co/zW3mBTb7db
#BrandonBernard's lawyer just released this statement as the Bureau of Prisons plans to proceed with his execution, expected to begin shortly. pic.twitter.com/OZbzBy6vhw
On Wednesday trump met with ten rogue AGs in the People’s House:
“Trump To Meet With Ten State Attorneys General Backing Case To Overturn Election” (Forbes)
Congressman Raskin speaking to Maddow, called it “Political command performance by the president” and “theater” to keep the fund raising going.”
Yeh the idea is the snowing technique takes a lot of air time
and consumes your mental time. Even as gop architects games repeatedly fail, and you know they will. We know that in the short term they want quick cash-for-trump. But imo in the longer term, trump gop are setting the stage for a russian style faux democracy.
Another example of why down ballot races matter too…
The Jolt: Behind the fight between the House speaker and Georgia’s Secretary of State: A push to allow the Legislature to appoint the post isn’t going to happen … but House appropriators could use the budget to make the speaker’s point. #gapol
The topic of hyperacusis came up, and I meant to post a link to a small in-ear device I’ve had some relief using, so if anyone else has issues of coping with noise in our modern world, here is a recommendation from WMP/W:
Creating doom…
They’ve been sending the message for a long time that non-wealthy Americans should eff off and die.
The poorer we get, the more vulnerable we are to a faux democratic mafia state.
Right in line with their opinion that only certain people should have the right to vote (i.e., White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Conservative, males). Their suppression efforts over the years have worked towards that end. Now they are being outright open of their intent.
"While some people saw our collective effort to flip Georgia as wasted energy, this powerful combination delivered victory. Together, across the state and at every level of the ballot, we did the work."
“The President has threatened to veto the bill, largely because it has a provision in there championed by Anthony Brown of Maryland, a veteran on the Armed Services Committee, who has fought to have the renaming of these bases as an important priority.
The bill received a rousing vote on the Floor. It was like 337. I don’t have the number right here, but it was like 80 percent of the House voted for the legislation, which the President threatens to veto.”
Full transcript: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121020-2)
Breaking WaPo: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows threatened FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn, telling him today to submit his resignation if the agency does not clear the first coronavirus vaccine by day's end. https://t.co/7l7bJQC6q6
Dr. Rick Bright is a member of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board,
and Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, He filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the trump administration ignored his early warnings, after which trump ousted Dr. Bright.
He speaks to Hayes about the FDA Panel on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine:
Dr. Bright:
“Today was a really a show of confidence for our scientists around the world,
and for people who are looking for that independent external advisory scientific expertise to look at the vaccine, that’s been in development for the entire year. Now they played this even on Youtube and other channels because there is so much public interest in what otherwise could be a pretty boring meeting.
And we did have a panel of 22 experts, clinicians, physicians, experts in vaccine development comb over thousands of pages of data from their Pfizer clinical trial over the last couple of weeks. And today you saw them really hash it out. It wasn’t an open and shut decision. There was a lot of different ideas and perspective, and scientific decision and discussion. And then at the end of the day they weighted the risk of getting the virus, which we all see how bad that is now. And they weighed the benefit and the safety known from the vaccine from the studies done. It was clear in a 17-4-1 vote that the benefit of this vaccine would outweigh those risks. And it should be used and should be given this Emergency Use Authorization.
And that’s the recommendation to the FDA.”
Hayes: “They spent last week with huge amounts of just the data produced…they looked through that.
And then these folks are external…people who aren’t part of the FDA internally…outside experts they come in, they review the information, and then they make the vote. That’s how it works?”
Dr. Bright:
“That’s exactly how it works. They have no financial conflict with the companies that are making the vaccines. They have no political tie-ins, so there’s no political pressure on them to make a decision one way or the other. They are true scientific experts. They are independent. I trust them. And when they tell us that they trust the data from this vaccine and it looks that good for them to recommend this Emergency Use Authorization, I take that as a vote of confidence. And I hope that the FDA and I anticipate that the FDA ,
will accept their recommendation. And also authorize the vaccine for emergency use.”
Hayes: “The next step, who makes that call?”
Dr. Bright:
“There is a panel of experts, career scientists, civil servants, and the FDA. This is what they do.
They’ve spent more time than just the last weeks looking at these data, as they came in on a rolling basis from the various clinical trials. They’re going to consider the data they have. They’re going to consider the recommendation and all the discussion from the panel today. It’s not just the recommendation, but everything that was discussed will be considered. And then they will make their decision. And the FDA Commissioner Dr. Hahn, will approve that decision most likely. And then that will grant the Emergency Use Authorization. Then next it will go to the CDC. CDC has an external advisory panel as well. Called the
ACIP. And they will look at the data from the FDA. And then they will make the recommendations for the different populations for the vaccine to be used in. That will happen probably Sunday.”
Hayes: “You need speed and thoroughness…a vaccine that will be introduced into the bodies of essentially everyone in the world or in the country, like ya better get that right! And yet there’s a speed imperative as well. It seems like there are a lot of built in layers here on purpose.”
Dr. Bright:
“There are a lot of built in layers.
This vaccine goes into healthy people to protect them from serious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from COVID-19 basically. Now remember – this is just the first step of this process too. So we want to make sure that once the vaccine is improved, the hard work you know really will start in how to distribute the vaccine, how to administer the vaccine. It is still going to take months and months and months for us to vaccinate everyone across the country. So while we were excited about today’s process and the next few days as well, we want people to realize this is just a start in a very complicated downstream process that’s going to play out over the next few months.”
Dr. Bright:
“And so in the meantime, don’t stop wearing your mask. Don’t stop social distancing.
And unfortunately we’re going to again have make the very hard decisions to not travel and be with our family and loved ones through the Christmas and December holidays actually. Because we want to make sure that we’re all here next year, so we can get the vaccine when it becomes available.”
Hayes: Survive to the vaccine for six weeks, two months, three months, four months, whatever it’s going to take wherever you are in line. Please, please keep holding it together as best you can in your behavior and practices.”
TX calls its suit one against 4 States, but it’s really a suit claiming injuries to TX citizens from supposed maladministration by executive and judicial officers of those 4 States. Louisiana v. Texas (1900) made clear that such suits cannot be filed in SCOTUS. Period. Case over.
Georgia’s two U.S. senators have joined a flurry of lawsuits seeking to change the state’s handling of absentee ballots ahead of Jan. 5 runoffs. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/HbV97mbc7w
“TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma —The Cherokee Nation is set to receive its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine directly from the Indian Health Service (IHS) starting next week.
The Cherokee Nation is set to receive 975 of the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14. The Cherokee Nation will vaccinate its frontline health care workers and emergency responders,
Cherokee speakers, Cherokee National Treasures and elders over the age of 65 during its first phase.
Taking a COVID-19 vaccine is another step forward to saving lives among our Cherokee people and
helping stop the spread of this deadly virus in our Cherokee communities,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said. “I know some of our Cherokee elders may have reservations about taking the vaccine, but it will save our elders, our speakers, our National Treasures and frontline workers. As we continue our phased plan and get more doses into 2021 to begin vaccinating our employees and citizens, we can begin the process of healing from what we know is the worst public health crisis our tribe has faced in generations.
Today I’m calling on House leaders to refuse to seat any Members trying to overturn the election and make donald trump an unelected dictator. pic.twitter.com/icTmGKCpuR
"Every once in a long while, the court needs to invest some of its accumulated capital in issuing judgments that are not only legally right but also respond to imminent, tangible threats to the nation." https://t.co/gJEy7PbYAR
The left is the side that’s been increasingly doubting the court’s legitimacy, but if/when the TX case gets dismissed, the right—80% of whom think Biden somehow stole the election—may be irate. (2/4)
If he does, Roberts could go a long way toward removing the shadow under which SCOTUS has done business since the divided & divisive Bush v. Gore 20 years ago. (4/4)
SCOTUSblog's co-founder, @TomGoldsteinSB, with a short and sweet (only five paragraphs) message for the Supreme Court: Don't just deny the Texas lawsuit, decimate it. pic.twitter.com/q32ILu8OQs
NEW: Dr. Anthony Fauci says he'll “get vaccinated publicly, in the public space, so that people can see me getting vaccinated,” as soon as “the vaccine becomes available to me.” https://t.co/A1vPky785zpic.twitter.com/gTb3fQ9l1V
I was one of those essential workers who got the H1N1 vaccine in the lst group. Health workers came to all of the schools in Fla. and vaccinated the teachers and staff.
Rep. Pascrell writes to Pelosi and Lofgren asking them to look into not seating the 126 amici in the new Congress, invoking Reconstruction era constitutional “safeguards to cleanse from our government ranks any traitors and others that would destroy the union.” pic.twitter.com/WR0lJEMepK
If Mitt Romney had real courage, he would announce today that he is leaving the Republican Party, and forming a new Conservative Party, and invite elected Republicans who oppose the Texas lawsuit to follow him. As of today, the Republican Party can no longer be saved.
Manhattan DA has stepped up its investigation of Trump. Recently issuing new subpoenas, interviewing his bank and insurance brokerage and compelling testimony before a Grand Jury. The latest sign that once he leaves office, he could face criminal charges. No one can be pardoned.
This may be our first Editorial in the nearly two decades of the blog’s existence. The Supreme Court should decimate Texas’ original action seeking to invalidate the results of others states’ votes. https://t.co/M5TeehbfTv
Today I’m calling on House leaders to refuse to seat any Members trying to overturn the election and make donald trump an unelected dictator. pic.twitter.com/icTmGKCpuR
BTW & FTR >>> Congrats father (& mother) of Dr. Nephrologist! I daresay Dr. Grandmother is over-the-moon proud. 😉 Wishing the young lady continued success as she travels her chosen path!
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS throws out Texas's suit attempting to challenge presidential election results in four battleground states, granting Texas leave to file its complaint but summarily dismissing its suit for lack of standing:https://t.co/OnYMTpXuhQ
‘Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it.
…
Texas’s effort to get this Court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact. 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.”
Update on our border: To keep Canadians safe, we’ve extended the measures currently in place at the Canada-US border by another 30 days. Non-essential travel between our two countries remains restricted until at least January 21st, 2021.
It’s good news that Warnock and Ossoff are both pulling ahead of their Republican opponents, both of whom are drowning in news of financial scandals. Now, there’s another bit of good news: voter enthusiasm for Warnock and Ossoff voters is off the charts. A new poll commissioned by HIT Strategies suggests that 83% of African-American women – a key demographic that helped give Joe Biden a win in Georgia are very likely to vote in the runoffs – with an additional 4% saying they were somewhat likely to vote. In urban parts of the state, that number is up to 96%.
Both candidates are also polling with near 80% favorability among African-American voters overall, while both Loeffler and Perdue have underwater approval ratings that are likely to only get worse the longer that COVID stimulus talks falter. If just over 30% of white voters turn out for Ossoff and Warnock, they can win this, and give the state federal representation it truly deserves.
The blue states unions can have saner laws, no fucking ‘2nd amindment’, no for life judges, term limits for congress critters, voting rights, no non-democratic senate ‘rules’ and proper governance.
Watching Joy Reid s\peak with Shrrod about how she was dismissed the Obama Administration…
The marquis on MSNBC says that civil rights groups are concerned about Vilsack….i suppose i am more concerned about Trump and the autocratic Republican party…
I pray that GA Voters can beat back the voter suppression and win those two Sen seats…although i do believe that the results will be challenged
📺WATCH! #SCOTUS just put the FINAL nail in the coffin for Trump and his allies. While this is the end of a dark chapter, we can't ignore the parade of sycophants that tried to disenfranchise millions of their fellow Americans.
📺WATCH! I would love to say that what we're seeing in the post-election period is the result of spectacular lawyering by me and my team. What these ridiculous lawsuits really speak to is the breadth of President-elect Biden's victory—not courtroom skills.@allinwithchrispic.twitter.com/bhsJISjG3f
– Supreme Court throws out his final election case – YOU LOST AGAIN TRUMP! – Will Trump try to appeal to Judge Judy? – IT’S OVER – Pack your bags Donald – New York ramps up criminal case against Trump – Trump is going to prison – It’s still only 7:41pm
I would say the proverbial fat lady has sung, but she has already performed so many times over the past few weeks that her voice is hoarse and she's on a well-deserved holiday. https://t.co/SHk7Cy6qcW
Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro: "The US Supreme Court saw through this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and its swift denial should make anyone contemplating further attacks on our election think twice."
All of this is about the fact that Black/POC and Native votes dragged Biden/Harris in to victory. If only whites had voted, the orange one would have won. The big game is to disenfranchise minority, but especially Black voters. Just as at one time we counted as only 3/5 of a person, they want our votes to be the same or not at all. They came after us hard because of PBO, but they will come even harder now.
All-time top killers of Americans 1. Davis, Confederacy, Civil War: 370,000 US dead in 4 years 2. #Trump, #COVID19: 299,825 US dead in 8 months 3. Hitler, Nazis, WW2 Europe: 213,407 US dead in 4 years 4. Hirohito, Japan, WW2 Pacific: 162,525 US dead in 4 years#GOPBetrayedAmericapic.twitter.com/8lAB2Z7DnB
Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro to Ted Cruz: "I don't know if I need to send a surgeon to examine your spine or a psychiatrist to examine your head. But something is wrong with you if you continue to follow this president." https://t.co/GvUEy3lMtO
"Mind your own business and stay out of Pennsylvania." Attorney General Josh Shapiro calls Texas’ bid to overturn election results a threat to democracy. https://t.co/uOZJrS0uU9
Pelosi: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."
The Texas Republican Party is officially in favor of leaving the Union. They have lost their minds. Biden will be President, but these people are deadly serious about secession and sedition. And this is the only question that media should ask any elected Republican tomorrow. https://t.co/8UAfGET88M
What are the dems gonna do now for these seditious and treasonous acts from the rethugs? They cannot sweep all these under the congress ‘camaraderie’ rug and continue it’s business as usual since the thugs will go in even deeper shit to undermine the democracy.
The Texas Supreme Court case was never a serious legal matter. It was a propaganda tool meant to lend credibility to Trump's disinformation campaign that deceives and radicalizes his base.
We need to make sure our court system cannot be abused in this fashion ever again.
2/ And have we ever before seen so many officials say “hey! That losing you’re doing so hideously, so flailingly, so spasmodically — that looks like something I want to be a part of!
“This effort, based on nonsense and lies, to disenfranchise millions of Americans, sign me up!”
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of @DSCC and GA Democratic Party, we have filed to intervene to oppose the Republican Party's latest lawsuit to disenfranchise Georgia voters for the January Senate run-off.https://t.co/UnAUYNJ94G
When I founded @DemocracyDocket to detect and combat voter suppression, I never imagined that we would see Trump and his allies lose 57 court post-election court cases!
Thank you to all of our clients, supporters, friends and allies.
Reality is setting in for at least some on the MAGA internet after SCOTUS ruling, after a month of denying Biden's win. The general response is accusing Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett of being deep state plants and calling for civil war/martial law.
About half the people I'm seeing on The Donald and Parler, though, are insisting losing at Supreme Court was all part of the plan. The earlier theory was that lower court losses were good because it got them closer to SCOTUS. Now it's good to lose at the Supreme Court, too!
Georgia, let’s do this one more time! The runoff elections for the U.S. Senate are on Tuesday, January 5th, and early voting starts this Monday, December 14th. Go to https://t.co/b3dvKpHjqu to get the information you need to make your plan to vote. pic.twitter.com/qPlVoMrHMF
📺WATCH! #SCOTUS just put the FINAL nail in the coffin for Trump and his allies. While this is the end of a dark chapter, we can't ignore the parade of sycophants that tried to disenfranchise millions of their fellow Americans.
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of @DSCC and GA Democratic Party, we have filed to intervene to oppose the Republican Party's latest lawsuit to disenfranchise Georgia voters for the January Senate run-off.https://t.co/UnAUYNJ94G
When I founded @DemocracyDocket to detect and combat voter suppression, I never imagined that we would see Trump and his allies lose 57 court post-election court cases!
Thank you to all of our clients, supporters, friends and allies.
Allen West has always been a notorious bigot, anti-Muslim extremist & fringe actor who was stripped of his command in 2003 after pleading guilty to assaulting an Iraqi detainee & threatening to kill him. He lost his Florida House seat in 2012.
Now?
He's the Texas GOP Chair.
— Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali (@WajahatAli) December 12, 2020
….that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!
Yet another Trump tweet venting at @GovKemp for refusing his demand to illegally overturn the election. He’s already invited Doug Collins to challenge him, and said he’s “ashamed” to have endorsed him. Now he’s calling Kemp a “RINO” and urging supporters to vote him out. #gapolhttps://t.co/UeRCoKy4qi
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Joaquin Castro have opened up a new probe focusing on Jared Kushner's potentially compromising dealings with Qatar and other Middle Eastern governments. https://t.co/eexRnDRfIK
From a wise friend: So, just so I understand what the Alito/Thomas blurb is about, SCOTUS is effectively saying “get the eff off my lawn” while Alito/Thomas are like “you’re welcome to ring the doorbell but no way are we opening the door to you weirdos?” EXACTLY 🔥
Trump is "devoting his final days in office" to "a long-standing Russian objective: destroying faith in US elections."
This "campaign of slander" is "not being driven by Russians. It’s being driven by Republicans."@saletan pulls together many threads:https://t.co/OCHTywHEY9
In 2016, Putin thought Trump would lose the US election. Russia had a plan to denounce Trump's loss as a fraud, and to portray the new US president as illegitimate.
Now Putin doesn't have to run that propaganda campaign. Republicans are doing it for him. https://t.co/m5QIo9eYXY
“Oh, The Places Ivanka Won’t Go”
by Erin Gloria Ryan (writing for The Daily Beast)
Go f*ck yourself!
Today ain’t your day.
You’re out of the White House!
You’re off and away!
You’re deposed in D.C.
Macy’s won’t sell your shoes.
And if you run for office,
You’re certain to lose.
Go to Florida!
A place that is surely not sinking,
Your neighbor, Tom Brady, stands next door, unblinking,
An island of rich guys!
And their tacky wives!
An island of only The most matter-ing lives!
No more pretending you care about others,
Finally, finally, you’ll have all your druthers,
You won’t have to pretend that you’re on vacation,
The next time your dad endorses Aryan Nation!
No more boos, no more jeers, Or electoral defeats.
You’re finally living Among the elites!
And back on the mainland,
Where things are not fine,
Your time in the White House will be a punchline.
And will you recede?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
To reiterate: if @VinGuptaMD says I need to get the vaccine publicly to show folks that it's safe, I'm in. Whatever it takes to make sure we all protect ourselves and do the right thing to slay this damned pandemic. In the mean time, mask up, no traveling, and social distance! https://t.co/SaRNBZzUyJ
— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) December 12, 2020
56 years ago today, my parents, my uncle A.D., my Aunt Christine, and my paternal grandparents in Oslo, Norway for Daddy’s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize.
People don’t often see my father’s parents and siblings.
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning!
Thank you Nerdy! 😃
Yessss!!
The Boss!
Sanction the seditious mofos.
As Covid-19 relief stalls, Top Chef star slams Congress.
“Celebrity chef and co-founder of the Independent Restaurant Coalition Tom Colicchio…
discusses with Ari Melber the devastating affects Covid-19 shutdowns have had on small businesses,
particularly restaurants. Colicchio slams Congress for its inability to pass a stimulus bill, asserting members of the government want to “play politics with people’s lives.””
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/as-covid-19-relief-stalls-top-chef-star-slams-congress-for-doing-nothing-97513029546)
Pass H.R.7197 –
RESTAURANTS Act of 2020 !!!
Need help for the people to survive from the government on rent and food. Small businesses also are destitute. Chef Colicchio saying 65% to 80% of restaurants, hundreds of thousands will close. And that by the time June rolls around and many people are immunized, 2.1 million restaurant jobs won’t come back because “there will be nowhere for them to work.”
The Restaurants Act:
(https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7197?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22restaurants+act+of+2020%22%5D%7D&s=2&r=1)
Steve Schmidt to Wallace:
“They crossed it. They crossed the Rubicon. We cannot be fantastical in wishing what has happened has not happened in our thinking. It has happened. We’ve watched it play out. We’ve watched Trump and his loony attorneys. We’ve watched the declarations of fraud. We’ve seen United States senators, members of the House of Representatives, they all knew — they all know that Biden has won the election.
What they’re doing is for no purpose other than power.
The Republican Party is an organized conspiracy for the purposes of maintaining power for self-interest,
and the self-interest of its donor class.”
“There has never been a force that has achieved power, or is within reach of achieving power in the next election, that’s been so hostile to the history, the founding, the essence and the entire meaning of the country, as is this Trump and Trumpist movement that has taken over lock, stock, and barrel the Republican Party. It’s no longer dedicated to American democracy. It is dedicated to Trump and Trumpism and to his family, to defense of his indecencies, his autocratic manner, his corruptions, an apologist for the profound damage he has done.”
Justice in America 🤬
Brandon Bernard has been murdered. Seeing this earlier today, I wanted to just call it a day, a week, a lifetime. The reports of his last generous words and the kindness in his face, tell you what is true. May he be loved and protected on his journey. This is on us until we stop the killing.
😔
Insanity
More of this
Moscow Massacre Mitch is only interested in procuring: A Corporate Liability Shield.
To protect the owner class from the thousands of workers who were forced back to work at the behest of the Trump White House. And were infected or died.
–viz the Tyson packing plant where the managers made bets on how many employees would get COVID-19.
(Translators were instructed to purposely misinform.)
–please hold them accountable.
I love trivia…
Ay and they’re on to trump corruption. Don’t push it lad.
Brandon was executed 6 hours ago by lethal injection….wrote about it above.
We Will Win!
On Wednesday trump met with ten rogue AGs in the People’s House:
“Trump To Meet With Ten State Attorneys General Backing Case To Overturn Election” (Forbes)
Congressman Raskin speaking to Maddow, called it “Political command performance by the president” and “theater” to keep the fund raising going.”
Yeh the idea is the snowing technique takes a lot of air time
and consumes your mental time. Even as gop architects games repeatedly fail, and you know they will. We know that in the short term they want quick cash-for-trump. But imo in the longer term, trump gop are setting the stage for a russian style faux democracy.
Another example of why down ballot races matter too…
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a4u5l8/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-rachel-maddow—-bag-man–and-the-sordid-tale-of-spiro-agnew
“Interview – Rachel Maddow – “Bag Man” and the Sordid Tale of Spiro Agnew”
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
{{{ 💞NW & TOD💞 }}}
The topic of hyperacusis came up, and I meant to post a link to a small in-ear device I’ve had some relief using, so if anyone else has issues of coping with noise in our modern world, here is a recommendation from WMP/W:
https://www.flareaudio.com/blogs/press/new-product-launch-calmer-a-small-in-ear-device-that-increases-sound-quality-and-reduces-stress
Big hugs all around, Keep Us All The Heart!
🕊🙏🏼♥️🌏🕯🙏🏼🕊
Creating doom…
They’ve been sending the message for a long time that non-wealthy Americans should eff off and die.
The poorer we get, the more vulnerable we are to a faux democratic mafia state.
Right in line with their opinion that only certain people should have the right to vote (i.e., White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Conservative, males). Their suppression efforts over the years have worked towards that end. Now they are being outright open of their intent.
How Georgia Went Blue
Speaker Pelosi:
Weekly Press Conference.
“The President has threatened to veto the bill, largely because it has a provision in there championed by Anthony Brown of Maryland, a veteran on the Armed Services Committee, who has fought to have the renaming of these bases as an important priority.
The bill received a rousing vote on the Floor. It was like 337. I don’t have the number right here, but it was like 80 percent of the House voted for the legislation, which the President threatens to veto.”
Full transcript: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121020-2)
Makes me wonder now ….
SOON: President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris Introduce Key Members of their Administration
MUST NOT HAVE BAD THOUGHTS! But I DOOOOOOO. Fuck him.
Dr. Rick Bright is a member of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board,
and Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, He filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the trump administration ignored his early warnings, after which trump ousted Dr. Bright.
He speaks to Hayes about the FDA Panel on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine:
Dr. Bright:
“Today was a really a show of confidence for our scientists around the world,
and for people who are looking for that independent external advisory scientific expertise to look at the vaccine, that’s been in development for the entire year. Now they played this even on Youtube and other channels because there is so much public interest in what otherwise could be a pretty boring meeting.
And we did have a panel of 22 experts, clinicians, physicians, experts in vaccine development comb over thousands of pages of data from their Pfizer clinical trial over the last couple of weeks. And today you saw them really hash it out. It wasn’t an open and shut decision. There was a lot of different ideas and perspective, and scientific decision and discussion. And then at the end of the day they weighted the risk of getting the virus, which we all see how bad that is now. And they weighed the benefit and the safety known from the vaccine from the studies done. It was clear in a 17-4-1 vote that the benefit of this vaccine would outweigh those risks. And it should be used and should be given this Emergency Use Authorization.
And that’s the recommendation to the FDA.”
Hayes: “They spent last week with huge amounts of just the data produced…they looked through that.
And then these folks are external…people who aren’t part of the FDA internally…outside experts they come in, they review the information, and then they make the vote. That’s how it works?”
Dr. Bright:
“That’s exactly how it works. They have no financial conflict with the companies that are making the vaccines. They have no political tie-ins, so there’s no political pressure on them to make a decision one way or the other. They are true scientific experts. They are independent. I trust them. And when they tell us that they trust the data from this vaccine and it looks that good for them to recommend this Emergency Use Authorization, I take that as a vote of confidence. And I hope that the FDA and I anticipate that the FDA ,
will accept their recommendation. And also authorize the vaccine for emergency use.”
Hayes: “The next step, who makes that call?”
Dr. Bright:
“There is a panel of experts, career scientists, civil servants, and the FDA. This is what they do.
They’ve spent more time than just the last weeks looking at these data, as they came in on a rolling basis from the various clinical trials. They’re going to consider the data they have. They’re going to consider the recommendation and all the discussion from the panel today. It’s not just the recommendation, but everything that was discussed will be considered. And then they will make their decision. And the FDA Commissioner Dr. Hahn, will approve that decision most likely. And then that will grant the Emergency Use Authorization. Then next it will go to the CDC. CDC has an external advisory panel as well. Called the
ACIP. And they will look at the data from the FDA. And then they will make the recommendations for the different populations for the vaccine to be used in. That will happen probably Sunday.”
Hayes: “You need speed and thoroughness…a vaccine that will be introduced into the bodies of essentially everyone in the world or in the country, like ya better get that right! And yet there’s a speed imperative as well. It seems like there are a lot of built in layers here on purpose.”
Dr. Bright:
“There are a lot of built in layers.
This vaccine goes into healthy people to protect them from serious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from COVID-19 basically. Now remember – this is just the first step of this process too. So we want to make sure that once the vaccine is improved, the hard work you know really will start in how to distribute the vaccine, how to administer the vaccine. It is still going to take months and months and months for us to vaccinate everyone across the country. So while we were excited about today’s process and the next few days as well, we want people to realize this is just a start in a very complicated downstream process that’s going to play out over the next few months.”
Dr. Bright:
“And so in the meantime, don’t stop wearing your mask. Don’t stop social distancing.
And unfortunately we’re going to again have make the very hard decisions to not travel and be with our family and loved ones through the Christmas and December holidays actually. Because we want to make sure that we’re all here next year, so we can get the vaccine when it becomes available.”
Hayes: Survive to the vaccine for six weeks, two months, three months, four months, whatever it’s going to take wherever you are in line. Please, please keep holding it together as best you can in your behavior and practices.”
Only the best lawyers
“TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma —The Cherokee Nation is set to receive its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine directly from the Indian Health Service (IHS) starting next week.
The Cherokee Nation is set to receive 975 of the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14. The Cherokee Nation will vaccinate its frontline health care workers and emergency responders,
Cherokee speakers, Cherokee National Treasures and elders over the age of 65 during its first phase.
Taking a COVID-19 vaccine is another step forward to saving lives among our Cherokee people and
helping stop the spread of this deadly virus in our Cherokee communities,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said. “I know some of our Cherokee elders may have reservations about taking the vaccine, but it will save our elders, our speakers, our National Treasures and frontline workers. As we continue our phased plan and get more doses into 2021 to begin vaccinating our employees and citizens, we can begin the process of healing from what we know is the worst public health crisis our tribe has faced in generations.
The Cherokee Nation made several purchases and facility updates to keep the COVID-19 vaccines stored properly.”
(https://www.indianz.com/covid19/2020/12/11/cherokee-nation-oklahoma-6/)
He deleted and reposted
Stardate December 11 2020 and snow really coming down.
Winter solitude –
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
(Basho Matsuo)
I was one of those essential workers who got the H1N1 vaccine in the lst group. Health workers came to all of the schools in Fla. and vaccinated the teachers and staff.
I hope this happens
Apartheid amurkkka or democracy in the hands of 9 people. It is an existential crisis.
BTW & FTR >>> Congrats father (& mother) of Dr. Nephrologist! I daresay Dr. Grandmother is over-the-moon proud. 😉 Wishing the young lady continued success as she travels her chosen path!
Danke, vc.
Your move, jackass
‘Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it.
…
Texas’s effort to get this Court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact. 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.”
A-MEN!
This was apparently a part of Pennsylvania’s response.
Shorter: US keep your nasty, disease ridden asses far away from us.
It’s good news that Warnock and Ossoff are both pulling ahead of their Republican opponents, both of whom are drowning in news of financial scandals. Now, there’s another bit of good news: voter enthusiasm for Warnock and Ossoff voters is off the charts. A new poll commissioned by HIT Strategies suggests that 83% of African-American women – a key demographic that helped give Joe Biden a win in Georgia are very likely to vote in the runoffs – with an additional 4% saying they were somewhat likely to vote. In urban parts of the state, that number is up to 96%.
Both candidates are also polling with near 80% favorability among African-American voters overall, while both Loeffler and Perdue have underwater approval ratings that are likely to only get worse the longer that COVID stimulus talks falter. If just over 30% of white voters turn out for Ossoff and Warnock, they can win this, and give the state federal representation it truly deserves.
Go for it, seditious assholes. Good riddance.
The blue states unions can have saner laws, no fucking ‘2nd amindment’, no for life judges, term limits for congress critters, voting rights, no non-democratic senate ‘rules’ and proper governance.
And NO MORE FUCKING ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
Watching Joy Reid s\peak with Shrrod about how she was dismissed the Obama Administration…
The marquis on MSNBC says that civil rights groups are concerned about Vilsack….i suppose i am more concerned about Trump and the autocratic Republican party…
I pray that GA Voters can beat back the voter suppression and win those two Sen seats…although i do believe that the results will be challenged
Like I always say, Democrats love to eat their own.
Remember mellissa h whatev? Me neither. All these tv pundtwits, both (sic) left, right & center, think they matter.
YESSSSSSS
DIAF traitorous, treasonous thug.
Lock the fucking seditious corrupt thugs.
yup, they came this close to a coup.
Smart and humble too. The very opposite of rethugs.
Fucking arrogant entitled illiterates
seditious abuse of the judicial process. exactly.
All of this is about the fact that Black/POC and Native votes dragged Biden/Harris in to victory. If only whites had voted, the orange one would have won. The big game is to disenfranchise minority, but especially Black voters. Just as at one time we counted as only 3/5 of a person, they want our votes to be the same or not at all. They came after us hard because of PBO, but they will come even harder now.
Stupid, useless trivia from the useless msm.
Of course we are not finished. We have more time to grift off the stupid racists.
what republicans?
Exactly. High time the pundtwits stopped trying to prop up the rethugs.
LOL.
and so corrupt.
What are the dems gonna do now for these seditious and treasonous acts from the rethugs? They cannot sweep all these under the congress ‘camaraderie’ rug and continue it’s business as usual since the thugs will go in even deeper shit to undermine the democracy.
Is rush limpaugh dead yet? sean klannity?
Yup. Kill the stupid ‘transition period’. No other country has this ridiculous ‘rule’.
Again, hope the dem ‘establishment’ is smart enough to use this guy for his obvious skill sets.
fucking racist rubes.
Legal Heroes!
Goodnight TOD.
Shite, he is THAT west?
You feed hatred to the racist base, it eats you up in the end.
Looks like something the FBI should be investigating.
39 DAYS!!! tick tock tick tock 🕗🕛🕠🕢
Good. Lock him up.
LOL.
“Oh, The Places Ivanka Won’t Go”
by Erin Gloria Ryan (writing for The Daily Beast)
Go f*ck yourself!
Today ain’t your day.
You’re out of the White House!
You’re off and away!
You’re deposed in D.C.
Macy’s won’t sell your shoes.
And if you run for office,
You’re certain to lose.
Go to Florida!
A place that is surely not sinking,
Your neighbor, Tom Brady, stands next door, unblinking,
An island of rich guys!
And their tacky wives!
An island of only The most matter-ing lives!
No more pretending you care about others,
Finally, finally, you’ll have all your druthers,
You won’t have to pretend that you’re on vacation,
The next time your dad endorses Aryan Nation!
No more boos, no more jeers, Or electoral defeats.
You’re finally living Among the elites!
And back on the mainland,
Where things are not fine,
Your time in the White House will be a punchline.
And will you recede?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/get-to-calling/