This is the impeccable work of @DaniaFrancis who is a public policy PhD and economist. She also has a research study about how teachers view Black girls as disruptive disproportionately. https://t.co/J2eZNrXKSD
— Anna Gifty says #BlackWomenBest (@itsafronomics) February 4, 2021
“The Center will create jobs and economic opportunity, especially for South Side residents. We believe the team that's building the Center should reflect the community.” —@BarackObamapic.twitter.com/ztjNIAJEG9
Another huge @ObamaFoundation milestone! The man – @BarackObama – said it himself: “Getting to this point wouldn’t have been possible without the folks in the community who have been a part of this process along the way.” Thank you for everything! https://t.co/uNA2HtSkfH
Like so many of you, I was moved as I watched @TheAmandaGorman read her poem at the inauguration. I first met her back in 2016, and over the years, I've seen her continue to inspire people with her words. I'm so proud of the young woman she has become. https://t.co/9KLTu5tV4Lpic.twitter.com/GQ9xlyjVqW
This is 99 year old Althea. Her aide Cristy sent me this video of her responding to my inaugural poem that just warmed my heart. Part of the privilege of writing poetry is getting to touch other people’s lives. Thank you so much Althea for this gift 💛🙏🏿 pic.twitter.com/8p4koEiVaY
“The American Rescue Plan is supported by majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, according to Navigator Research.”
(Easley, politicus.usa)
8% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, up 2 percentage points from last week. The work we’re doing to increase supply, increase locations, and increase staff to get shots in arms are all in service of sustaining and boosting this number. pic.twitter.com/he17wOlq2k
— White House COVID-19 Response Team (@WHCOVIDResponse) February 4, 2021
Heard a doctor on MSNBC say last night re: high rates of Black COVID deaths: ‘we are losing a generation of Black moms and dads, aged 40-50, to COVID.’ A GENERATION (Gen-Xers/Millennials). Please think of this when you make your Super Bowl plans this weekend. And then just don’t.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky:
“Same Safety Measures Apply To Coronavirus Variants”
“CDC Director talks with Maddow about the progress being made researching new mutated variants of the coronavirus and notes that where people have contracted a variant, the same, already recommended mitigation measures like masks and distancing would have protected them.”
—-welcome back CDC.
Schools have to have plenty of funding and resources to meet those mitigation measures.
–was surprised by something in my eye, listening to a real CDC Director.
Not true for my school district re: plenty of funding here in CA even in a “rich” district. School buildings are old; poorly ventilated and would cost millions to fix. So I think that she’s overstating this issue and many of my fellow teachers are freaking out. I think this should not have come up until the information about how schools would be able to do the mitigation required is addressed, before talking about not vaccinating teachers. Big fail, I’m afraid. Lots of teachers are freaking out and feel sideswiped out of nowhere. I feel that the money in the American Rescue Plan will not be nearly enough for schools to reopen safely, so they’ll reopen and not vaccinate the teachers b/c of what the CDC just said. Kids are germ factories, they spread virus all the time (my pediatrician hubby says), so I don’t know what their control samples are and for the many, many students who have been at home this whole time, how vulnerable will they actually be when actively involved with other kids. How can you keep them 6 feet apart (do you move the lockers?); how can you teach classes of 35-38 kids per day, if you split the classes, how many hours will you be teaching then? Where’s the plexiglass which should go between students and surround teacher desks? How much will that cost?
I don’t hear them talking about all that mitigation. It’s just a word that districts can conveniently ignore in their haste to get kids back in the classroom at the expense of the teachers; that’s how I think it will go. I hope I am totally, completely wrong and I have to eat every word.
What an honor to be on @TIME 's new cover. From the interview: "In all the forms of expression of human life, we’re seeing that artistry be informed by the Black experience. I can’t imagine anything more exciting than that." https://t.co/SKC3rreA4x
"The Black Renaissance is stirring Black people to be themselves. Totally. Unapologetically. Freely," writes Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) https://t.co/KLO3yEs4Pe
Currently listening to Special Committee on Election Integrity — bill is to move deadline for absentee ballot application to 10 days ahead of election. Remember when Brian Kemp was exposed to COVID & he got his ballot a couple days ahead of Nov. election? https://t.co/2vrbrThguL
A lot of the rules that Republicans are trying to change were put in place *by* Republicans for the benefit of Republicans. Much of it were were hidden in plain sight in that you didn’t know about it unless you were informed or knew to look for it. I, for one, did not know that you didn’t have to have an excuse to vote absentee in GA until this year. I still might not have known if it had not been for the pandemic. But, it was noted that it was Republicans who were encouraged to vote and typically voted absentee. Democrats (i.e., POC) more likely used in-person early voting.
But now that we are privy to their “secrets” — Thanks Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight — all of a sudden voting is not secure.
I wonder if they realize that some of the changes they are trying to make don’t just affect Democrats/POC. As pointed out in the tweet, they will also be impacted by restrictions to absentee voting.
Extending the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures to help countless Americans keep a roof over their head — that’s the American Rescue Plan. pic.twitter.com/Xbviqqr47w
"On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job."https://t.co/f4fuEv4P8Q
— Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (he/him) (@lorenzofb) February 4, 2021
NEWS: In yet another Biden reversal, the Justice Department notified the federal court in Connecticut that it is dropping its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University for alleged bias against Asian and White applicants.
By understanding the additive nature of risk reduction, you can reduce your own exposure risk in any situation. Dr. @syramadad and I put together this handy chart to help! Try to apply as many of these as possible rather than relying on categorical rules about time and distance. pic.twitter.com/oyXGgLgu41
CDC Director Dr. Walensky on variants:
“I mean you hear the word ‘mutation’ and everybody thinks of a science fiction movie, right?
So we know that viruses mutate.
We know that they change their genetic code, often every time they replicate. RNA viruses mutate frequently. We expected mutations and we expected variants. Usually when there’s a variant that becomes predominant, it’s because it has some advantage to the virus, whether it’s because it’s increasingly transmissible, whether it’s because it has increased mortality, or because it can escape our vaccines and our treatments.
We know that some of the variants have increased transmissibility. There’s increasing data that suggests that some of the variants, the B117 variant, may lead to increased mortality. And the jury is still out with regard to how these vaccines are going to work with regard against these variants.”
I look forward to working with @SecretaryPete to improve Arizona's transportation infrastructure — particularly in rural and tribal communities. Transportation directly impacts economic opportunity, and infrastructure investments will create jobs and help rebuild our economy.
Government Accountability Office:
“GAO report slams Trump administration response to the coronavirus pandemic”
“The 346-page Government Accountability Office document, much longer than most,outlines broad Trump administration failures so alarming that the normally circumspect auditors pronounced themselves “deeply troubled.” That constitutes an anguished cry from an office that prides itself on just-the-facts, albeit dull, reports.
FIVE DEATHS, TWO SUICIDES.
Due to violent insurrection openly incited by Donald J. Trump.
Impeachment was started while he was still president. McConnell wanted to postpone the Trial till February.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar:
Republican base is “becoming the looney tunes'”.
To Hayes: “The Republicans truly have lost their way. Their party is destroyed.
Their base now is conspiracy theorists. It’s cowards, it’s opportunists, it’s grifters and sadly they’re becoming the looney tunes,” Omar said. “These are people who we can’t take serious [sic]. They’re not here to do the people’s business. They are here to just be obstructionists and make a mockery of not just our government, but our country.”
“It is going to be a long road because these are the children that are born out of a white supremacist movement that is taking over the base of the Republican party,” Omar said. “And we have to wait and see if they are willing to do the hard work of dealing with this awful, toxic, really deadly, white supremacist, fascist America that they have unearthed.” (Yahoo)
Chair of House Rules: “Congressman McGovern said he was fine setting a precedent that the majority can take away committee assignments if members advocate violence against their colleagues.” (nbc)
“If that’s not the bottom, I don’t know what the hell is.”
Maddow: “Can we all agree on that? Can we all agree that if you call for putting bullets in the heads of other members of Congress, that’s the line?”
Thomas L. Jennings – Inventor of Dry Cleaning Process
Thomas Jennings was the first black man to receive a patent. The patent was awarded on March 3, 1821 (US Patent 3306x) for his discovery of a process called “dry-scouring” which was the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning.
The patent to Jennings generated considerable controversy during this period. Slaves at this time could not patent their own inventions; their effort was the property of their master. This regulation dated back to the US patent laws of 1793. The regulation was based on the legal presumption that “the master is the owner of the fruits of the labor of the slave both manual and intellectual.” Patent courts also held that slaves were not citizens and therefore could not own rights to their inventions. In 1861 patent rights were finally extended to slaves.
Thomas Jennings, however, was a free man and thus was able to gain exclusive rights to his invention and profit from it. Jennings was a passionate abolitionist who used the income from his invention to free the rest of his family from slavery and fund abolitionist causes. He served as assistant secretary of the First Annual Convention of the People of Color which met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 1831.
Sincere apologies for using the term “shaman” that way.
(The insurrectionist above apparently refers to himself that way.) There’s a lot of assumptions and wrong assumptions about this term, and how it applies to different parts of the world. My understanding is that as it applies to North America, the primary focus is to heal. Someone i was fortunate to know in the interior of B.C. is still beloved shaman and medicine man in his community. A wonderful guy.
Secretary Blinken: “No one has ever brought as much foreign policy expertise and experience to the presidency as Joe Biden.”
“And I know from watching him in action that he believes profoundly in leading with diplomacy.”
“I Believe I’ve Been Cleared’: Florida Man and Alleged Capitol Hill Insurrectionist Who Bragged About Acing FBI Interview Is Charged With Multiple Federal Crimes”
A Florida man who used Instagram and Facebook to post about his participation in the pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol Complex last week was charged with four federal crimes on Friday.
Notably, one of those posts contained his stated belief that he had recently aced an interview with federal agents.
Camargo was charged with the following crimes: (1) one count of 18 U.S.C. 231(a)(3) (civil disorder); (2) one count of 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)(1) (entering and remaining in a restricted building); (3) one count of 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)(2) (disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building); and (4) one count of 40 U.S.C. 5104(e)(2)(F) (act of physical violence in a Capitol building).
If convicted as charged, he faces more than 25 years in prison.
”Myanmar coup:
What is happening and why?”
“Myanmar hit headlines around the world on Monday when its military seized control.
The country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party are thought to be under house arrest.”
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55902070)
“The military is now back in charge and has declared a year-long state of emergency.
It seized control following a general election which Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.
The armed forces had backed the opposition, who were demanding a rerun of the vote,
claiming widespread fraud.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is preparing a welter of amendments to a budget resolution essential to passing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus package in a grueling “vote-a-rama” on Thursday.
Democrats have signaled that they will press ahead to pass the $1.9 trillion stimulus without GOP support using budget reconciliation, a process that prevents filibustering and would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority of 51 votes.
However, the price for using this measure is having to receive a barrage of amendments from the GOP to the budget resolution needed to pass the stimulus, which is likely to keep the Senate debating for hours.
Amendments include:
• whether taxpayers should fund checks for illegal immigrants
• whether Democrats should raise taxes on small businesses in the midst of this historic crisis
• whether generous federal funding should pour into school districts where the unions refuse to let schools open
• measures to preserve former President Donald Trump’s southern border wall
• plan to reverse Biden’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline
It’s official: the Republican Party fully owns Margie Q Greene — the calls for lynching the first Black president, Hillary Clinton and Speaker Pelosi, the weird stuff about “miscegenation,” the Katie Hopkins love-fest, the conspiracies.. all of it, https://t.co/fMfjIN71gP
— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) February 4, 2021
Greene's district is overwhelmingly Republican, but a group of local Democrats promise to be a voice of opposition. In a new statement, they say she is "unfit to serve in Congress" as Democrats seek to strip her of committee assignments. #gapolhttps://t.co/CAFkfIOL5r
"Our starred review calls it 'an impeccable, epic, essential vision of American history as a whole and a testament to the resilience of Black people.'" #400Souls
As a physician, detecting cancer at the most curable stage is critical. That's why @bakshib87 co-founded @CtheSignsTool—a platform that is making it easier to detect cancer earlier. On #WorldCancerDay, get to know this inspiring Obama Leader at https://t.co/UUw91N6GUS
Liz Cheney right now on the House floor right now: Leave Marjorie Taylor Greene alone. She’s a friend of mine. In fact, we’re going hunting this weekend.
Speaker Pelosi said,
“In terms of acknowledging the threat from within,
I remain profoundly concerned about house Republican leadership acceptance of extreme conspiracy theorists, their eagerness to reward a Qanon adherent, a 9/11 truther, a harasser of school shooting victims, and to give them valued committee positions, including who could imagine they would put such a person on the education committee. The House will vote to remove Representative Greene from her positions. It’s unfortunate.
You would think that the Republican leadership in the Congress would have some sense of responsibility to this institution. As they did when they did not seek Representative King of Iowa. For some reason, they have chosen not to go down that path, even though we gave Mr. Hoyer — Mr. Hoyer gave leader McCarthy sufficient notice this is a path we would follow.”
(Easley, politics.usa)
The ONLY "Culture" that MUST BE CANCELED is the 50+ Year Infestation of America by #KLEPTOCRATS (Domestic & Foreign) who OWN the @GOP & its CORPORATE PROPAGANDA Machine (aka 'Cable' News).
"The video begins with Trump’s eyes in the shadow, and its second frame focuses the audience on the Capitol building–America’s Reichstag, where the decisions being denounced by the rally’s organizers were being made that day."
.@RepJeffries: "The party of Lincoln is gone. The party of Reagan is gone. The party of John McCain is gone. This is now the party of Marjorie Taylor Green." pic.twitter.com/huJGdqOcGu
Just want to put out there that @OneFreshPillow is a progressive company if you wanted to throw your resources behind them instead of starting something from scratch. And their pillows are great!
Prosecutors have been using the most basic charges to start proceedings against insurrectors. So when Cudd asked the judge to let her vacation in Mexico, prosecutors responded with an updated indictment charging obstruction of justice, among other things. She’ll lose her deposit. https://t.co/WAcgWEg5yw
Wish I could take a 4-day weekend in Mexico, guess I have to break several federal laws first – oh, and have enough $$$ to get there and back. Economic anxiety my arse
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons says Pres. Biden would like bipartisan support on his Covid-19 relief package, “but he is not going to spend months and months chasing negotiations if they don’t go anywhere," so the Senate is prepared to support Biden with or without GOP votes. pic.twitter.com/8m9P6uOIq5
Shipments of Covid-19 vaccines will be headed to pharmacies next week under a federal program that aims to get more people vaccinated quickly https://t.co/bTOWuMvFRg
Chadwick Boseman made SAG Awards history on Thursday when he became the first person ever to receive four nominations in a single year in the film categories https://t.co/7DZ8YBQ46A
We stand on the shoulders of those who came before. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she was lifting all of us up. Today, on her birthday, we honor her legacy and courage.
“Swamped by thousands of complaints over lost or delayed mail, Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) is leading an intensifying push in Congress to replace U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and, if necessary, the entire governing board of the U.S. Postal Service,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Thursday.
Yeah, let’s just sweep this all under the rug. Unity!
An emotional Rep. Tlaib on the House floor: "On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat. It was a serious one. They took me aside, the FBI … I didn't even get sworn in yet & someone wanted me dead for just existing. More came later. Uglier, more violent" pic.twitter.com/qtqlW9ES2A
But what if soldiers are becoming radicalized while they’re in the service?
Did you know the Army screens for extremism? Screening includes identification checks and verification, criminal background checks, a sex offender query, fingerprints sent to the FBI, local police checks, and checks of local court documents.#PeopleFirstpic.twitter.com/PmyBPjrFmp
They know it. The ones that don’t accept it are rescinding their party membership. The rest are taking advantage of the benefits of being under the party umbrella as the radicals/cultists take over.
Effective immediately, all individuals on military installations, and all individuals performing official duties on behalf of the DOD from any location other than the individual's home, including outdoor shared spaces, will wear masks in accordance with current CDC guidelines. pic.twitter.com/qXJpqsS01J
— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) February 5, 2021
My mother was a cancer scientist. It was a shock when she herself was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away a year later.
On this World Cancer Day, @POTUS and I are committed to supporting the scientists, researchers, and health care workers devoted to fighting this disease. pic.twitter.com/8e7ftETkmU
The fight against cancer is personal for my family, like it is for millions. But I’m confident that with the strength of dedicated scientists and researchers, tireless health care workers, and brave families like yours, we’ll win this fight once and for all. #WorldCancerDay
Some state legislators want to:⁰⁰- end 24/7 drop boxes for ballot returns⁰- limit vote by mail options during a pandemic⁰- end automatic voter registration when obtaining a license⁰⁰This is wrong. We must expand access to the ballot box, not make it harder to vote. https://t.co/35fgkNbSn3
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) February 5, 2021
“Some top-ranking party members, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, have expressed support for restrictions on absentee voting. Republicans control both chambers of the General Assembly, but there isn’t yet an agreement on how far those restrictions should go.”
Probably trying to figure out what they can do to suppress Democratic/POC votes with little to no impact to Republican voters. They can’t get around that whatever they do will affect ALL voters.
Black History Month celebrates @KizzyPhD. Dr. Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett is accredited with creating the COVID-19 vaccine. She’s an American viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, NIH. #Excellence
The purpose of the event, the first of a series planned by the organizers, was to provide military families with up-to-date information about the two vaccines being distributed, to answer their questions and to urge families to get them.https://t.co/METVcDQPgQ
AOC comforted Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib as she spoke about the death threats she has received since taking office and pleaded with her colleagues to take the Capitol riots seriously pic.twitter.com/pwk0qSsDMw
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, through tears: "I ask my colleagues to please try not to dehumanize what's happening. This is real … I urge my colleagues to please, please take what happened on January 6th seriously. It will lead to more death. And we can do better. We must do better."
It was the part of the process where any senator can propose an amendment to the bill and republicans offered 400. Mostly to slow the process n make dems take votes on unrelated things for election ads. So they ran thru them in an all nighter
And with Vice President @KamalaHarris casting the crucial tie-breaking vote, at 5:30am after 14 hours of debate, the Senate has passed a $1.9 trillion budget for COVID relief. Georgia voters made this possible.
The Jolt: A month after the Georgia runoffs, the U.S. Senate forges ahead on COVID relief with key votes from Ossoff & Warnock #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/ATG74B8a90
Georgia Democrats swept the Senate runoffs one month ago today. Said Schumer: “Just a month from that day, we have taken a giant step to begin to fulfill our promise.” #gapolhttps://t.co/QTQC99iI3K
Faced with a barrage of bills to clamp down on ballot access around the country, some voting rights advocates are urging Democrats to pass a sweeping election reform and voting rights package — even if they have to torpedo the Senate filibuster to do it. https://t.co/tlnfP4f9CU
NEW AD: Senate Repubs say it's "too late" to convict Trump — @RepRaskin makes a brilliant argument knocking that out of the ballpark! We put it in this ad!
Not sure if her behavior would be any different than it would be if she were still on committees. But she is showing how sincere she was (NOT) in her floor speech. It sounds like she’s getting ready to crank up the crazy and 190+ Republicans have said they are okay with it.
Today is Trayvon Martin's birthday. This picture has always been a favorite of mine. Never once did the media mention the kid who went to Space Camp. pic.twitter.com/FlQLvuQwkz
The idea that Biden and his team actually learned the proper lesson by what Republicans did in 2009 really vexes some in the press who want him to learn it all over again, for unity.
Photo: Pregnant woman in Ladakh, India, walks 9 days on rugged mountain trails & icy Chadar river ~11,300 ft. (3,444 meters) in mid-winter, to reach rural hospital in Linger to give birth and then walk back home again. (c) Tim Vollmer pic.twitter.com/Al8puM4kDW
🇦🇫In 2001 #Afghanistan had 467 trained midwives. Now there are ~10,000 trained midwives. But a long ways to go. It all starts with girls education. Thanks Afghan Midwives Assoc., educators & brave midwives! Photo: Midwife students from rural Nuristan & Kunar in Jalalabad school. pic.twitter.com/x4Bx4OQ7oO
After an all-night session, Vice President Kamala Harris breaks a tie at 5:30 a.m., approving the Senate budget resolution by a 51-50 vote and paving the way for Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to pass without Republican votes next month.pic.twitter.com/9dGoaYZD9a
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning! Thank you for this important post, Nerdy!
I don’t think this was a trap..
more like this is what America needs!! and Biden knew it!👍🏼
“The American Rescue Plan is supported by majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, according to Navigator Research.”
(Easley, politicus.usa)
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock: Covid relief needs to be urgent, quick, and equitable.
“It is important that we get the people of Georgia aid and that we get it as soon as possible.” (ReidOut)
Hear here: (https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-reidout-with-joy-reid/episode/sen-warnock-covid-relief-needs-to-be-urgent-quick-and-equitable-81358357)
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky:
“Same Safety Measures Apply To Coronavirus Variants”
“CDC Director talks with Maddow about the progress being made researching new mutated variants of the coronavirus and notes that where people have contracted a variant, the same, already recommended mitigation measures like masks and distancing would have protected them.”
—-welcome back CDC.
“CDC director Rochelle Walensky explains to Maddow that the science shows not a lot of coronavirus transmission when proper mitigation measures, including masking, distancing, dedensification of the classroom, ventilation, contact tracing, hand washing, etc., are in place in schools, so reopening schools without vaccinating teachers is possible when those conditions are met.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-mitigating-measures-key-to-opening-schools-without-vaccinating-teachers-cdc-director-100501573696)
Schools have to have plenty of funding and resources to meet those mitigation measures.
–was surprised by something in my eye, listening to a real CDC Director.
Not true for my school district re: plenty of funding here in CA even in a “rich” district. School buildings are old; poorly ventilated and would cost millions to fix. So I think that she’s overstating this issue and many of my fellow teachers are freaking out. I think this should not have come up until the information about how schools would be able to do the mitigation required is addressed, before talking about not vaccinating teachers. Big fail, I’m afraid. Lots of teachers are freaking out and feel sideswiped out of nowhere. I feel that the money in the American Rescue Plan will not be nearly enough for schools to reopen safely, so they’ll reopen and not vaccinate the teachers b/c of what the CDC just said. Kids are germ factories, they spread virus all the time (my pediatrician hubby says), so I don’t know what their control samples are and for the many, many students who have been at home this whole time, how vulnerable will they actually be when actively involved with other kids. How can you keep them 6 feet apart (do you move the lockers?); how can you teach classes of 35-38 kids per day, if you split the classes, how many hours will you be teaching then? Where’s the plexiglass which should go between students and surround teacher desks? How much will that cost?
I don’t hear them talking about all that mitigation. It’s just a word that districts can conveniently ignore in their haste to get kids back in the classroom at the expense of the teachers; that’s how I think it will go. I hope I am totally, completely wrong and I have to eat every word.
Sorry bridgeriverpass, didn’t see the “have to have” in your comment. Of course that is also my point.
Great!!
A lot of the rules that Republicans are trying to change were put in place *by* Republicans for the benefit of Republicans. Much of it were were hidden in plain sight in that you didn’t know about it unless you were informed or knew to look for it. I, for one, did not know that you didn’t have to have an excuse to vote absentee in GA until this year. I still might not have known if it had not been for the pandemic. But, it was noted that it was Republicans who were encouraged to vote and typically voted absentee. Democrats (i.e., POC) more likely used in-person early voting.
But now that we are privy to their “secrets” — Thanks Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight — all of a sudden voting is not secure.
I wonder if they realize that some of the changes they are trying to make don’t just affect Democrats/POC. As pointed out in the tweet, they will also be impacted by restrictions to absentee voting.
CDC Director Dr. Walensky on variants:
“I mean you hear the word ‘mutation’ and everybody thinks of a science fiction movie, right?
So we know that viruses mutate.
We know that they change their genetic code, often every time they replicate. RNA viruses mutate frequently. We expected mutations and we expected variants. Usually when there’s a variant that becomes predominant, it’s because it has some advantage to the virus, whether it’s because it’s increasingly transmissible, whether it’s because it has increased mortality, or because it can escape our vaccines and our treatments.
We know that some of the variants have increased transmissibility. There’s increasing data that suggests that some of the variants, the B117 variant, may lead to increased mortality. And the jury is still out with regard to how these vaccines are going to work with regard against these variants.”
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Adorable!
😁🚈
🤣🤣
Global Peace Agreement Task Force.
That too!
Government Accountability Office:
“GAO report slams Trump administration response to the coronavirus pandemic”
“The 346-page Government Accountability Office document, much longer than most,outlines broad Trump administration failures so alarming that the normally circumspect auditors pronounced themselves “deeply troubled.” That constitutes an anguished cry from an office that prides itself on just-the-facts, albeit dull, reports.
Almost 90 percent — 27 of 31 — of the GAO’s recommendations from June, September and November
“remained unimplemented” as of Jan. 15, less than a week before Trump left office.
The document was released last week.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gao-trump-covid-biden/2021/02/02/38f0a0a8-65a4-11eb-bf81-c618c88ed605_story.html)
—The Trump Administration was nobbut a killing machine.
—Greene is an extension of that threat to life and limb.
There is no bottom for pathological liars.
FIVE DEATHS, TWO SUICIDES.
Due to violent insurrection openly incited by Donald J. Trump.
Impeachment was started while he was still president. McConnell wanted to postpone the Trial till February.
They think after all the chaos we won’t remember the details. Ah but we do.
Apartheid amurkkka is coming. WTF happened to Eric Holder’s voter protection initiatives?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar:
Republican base is “becoming the looney tunes'”.
To Hayes: “The Republicans truly have lost their way. Their party is destroyed.
Their base now is conspiracy theorists. It’s cowards, it’s opportunists, it’s grifters and sadly they’re becoming the looney tunes,” Omar said. “These are people who we can’t take serious [sic]. They’re not here to do the people’s business. They are here to just be obstructionists and make a mockery of not just our government, but our country.”
“It is going to be a long road because these are the children that are born out of a white supremacist movement that is taking over the base of the Republican party,” Omar said. “And we have to wait and see if they are willing to do the hard work of dealing with this awful, toxic, really deadly, white supremacist, fascist America that they have unearthed.” (Yahoo)
Chair of House Rules: “Congressman McGovern said he was fine setting a precedent that the majority can take away committee assignments if members advocate violence against their colleagues.” (nbc)
“If that’s not the bottom, I don’t know what the hell is.”
Maddow: “Can we all agree on that? Can we all agree that if you call for putting bullets in the heads of other members of Congress, that’s the line?”
Now, do traitorous thug.
Thomas L. Jennings – Inventor of Dry Cleaning Process
Thomas Jennings was the first black man to receive a patent. The patent was awarded on March 3, 1821 (US Patent 3306x) for his discovery of a process called “dry-scouring” which was the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning.
The patent to Jennings generated considerable controversy during this period. Slaves at this time could not patent their own inventions; their effort was the property of their master. This regulation dated back to the US patent laws of 1793. The regulation was based on the legal presumption that “the master is the owner of the fruits of the labor of the slave both manual and intellectual.” Patent courts also held that slaves were not citizens and therefore could not own rights to their inventions. In 1861 patent rights were finally extended to slaves.
Thomas Jennings, however, was a free man and thus was able to gain exclusive rights to his invention and profit from it. Jennings was a passionate abolitionist who used the income from his invention to free the rest of his family from slavery and fund abolitionist causes. He served as assistant secretary of the First Annual Convention of the People of Color which met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 1831.
Capitol rioter may not be getting her Mexico trip after all???
Ah ok. My bad, I thought she had permission to go on vacay too.
I had never heard otherwise until today.
The shaman QAnon guy cares for his own body (wants organic food in jail)
but cares not for the lives of the entire Congressional body.
Sincere apologies for using the term “shaman” that way.
(The insurrectionist above apparently refers to himself that way.) There’s a lot of assumptions and wrong assumptions about this term, and how it applies to different parts of the world. My understanding is that as it applies to North America, the primary focus is to heal. Someone i was fortunate to know in the interior of B.C. is still beloved shaman and medicine man in his community. A wonderful guy.
He was not spoken about in those term but as “Elder” and by his name.
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Secretary Blinken: “No one has ever brought as much foreign policy expertise and experience to the presidency as Joe Biden.”
“And I know from watching him in action that he believes profoundly in leading with diplomacy.”
Subpoena him.
Good boy!!
“I Believe I’ve Been Cleared’: Florida Man and Alleged Capitol Hill Insurrectionist Who Bragged About Acing FBI Interview Is Charged With Multiple Federal Crimes”
https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/i-believe-ive-been-cleared-florida-man-and-alleged-capitol-hill-insurrectionist-who-bragged-about-acing-fbi-interview-is-charged-with-multiple-federal-crimes/
A Florida man who used Instagram and Facebook to post about his participation in the pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol Complex last week was charged with four federal crimes on Friday.
Notably, one of those posts contained his stated belief that he had recently aced an interview with federal agents.
Camargo was charged with the following crimes: (1) one count of 18 U.S.C. 231(a)(3) (civil disorder); (2) one count of 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)(1) (entering and remaining in a restricted building); (3) one count of 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)(2) (disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building); and (4) one count of 40 U.S.C. 5104(e)(2)(F) (act of physical violence in a Capitol building).
If convicted as charged, he faces more than 25 years in prison.
Like, a coup and claims of election fraud.
”Myanmar coup:
What is happening and why?”
“Myanmar hit headlines around the world on Monday when its military seized control.
The country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party are thought to be under house arrest.”
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55902070)
“The military is now back in charge and has declared a year-long state of emergency.
It seized control following a general election which Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.
The armed forces had backed the opposition, who were demanding a rerun of the vote,
claiming widespread fraud.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is preparing a welter of amendments to a budget resolution essential to passing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus package in a grueling “vote-a-rama” on Thursday.
Democrats have signaled that they will press ahead to pass the $1.9 trillion stimulus without GOP support using budget reconciliation, a process that prevents filibustering and would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority of 51 votes.
However, the price for using this measure is having to receive a barrage of amendments from the GOP to the budget resolution needed to pass the stimulus, which is likely to keep the Senate debating for hours.
Amendments include:
• whether taxpayers should fund checks for illegal immigrants
• whether Democrats should raise taxes on small businesses in the midst of this historic crisis
• whether generous federal funding should pour into school districts where the unions refuse to let schools open
• measures to preserve former President Donald Trump’s southern border wall
• plan to reverse Biden’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline
So he is just wasting everyone’s time for the hell
of it. Idiot.
Hero!!
Good for him. GOP legislators believe they can take away executive authority when Democrats are in the position.
That’s what you call “bald-faced lying”
Shay’s got jokes…
So if you are a friend, help her to seek mental health guidance.
–Herself or someone around her could suffer the fallout on a ‘bad day’.
Liz didn’t say that; Shay was joking. “Hunting” was alluding to her daddy shooting a friend with buckshot…
Speaker Pelosi said,
“In terms of acknowledging the threat from within,
I remain profoundly concerned about house Republican leadership acceptance of extreme conspiracy theorists, their eagerness to reward a Qanon adherent, a 9/11 truther, a harasser of school shooting victims, and to give them valued committee positions, including who could imagine they would put such a person on the education committee. The House will vote to remove Representative Greene from her positions. It’s unfortunate.
You would think that the Republican leadership in the Congress would have some sense of responsibility to this institution. As they did when they did not seek Representative King of Iowa. For some reason, they have chosen not to go down that path, even though we gave Mr. Hoyer — Mr. Hoyer gave leader McCarthy sufficient notice this is a path we would follow.”
(Easley, politics.usa)
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/02/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-removed-from-committees.html)
A good auspicious start. Loving the new aggro dems.
Yeah, they are fucking corrupt cowards.
FUCKING CANCELED.
And fucking liz cheney went back to being the usual rethug asshole.
Hot damn. Go Nancy.
It’s qop alright.
Proof of fucking liz cheney was always a fucking rethug asshole.
DID any official Democrat ever threaten to shoot McConnell in the head, or any part of his body?
Or any of their colleagues?
Proof of fucking liz cheney was always a fucking rethug asshole.
Lol
Cultists racists
Hey Buddy! Good to see ya! 😃
Hi ya.
Thought you blew us off after Inaug. Glad you’re back.
😭😭😭😭
So sad that he is no longer here.
IKR
“Swamped by thousands of complaints over lost or delayed mail, Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) is leading an intensifying push in Congress to replace U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and, if necessary, the entire governing board of the U.S. Postal Service,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Thursday.
He is a seditious corrupt thug. Charge him.
Yeah, let’s just sweep this all under the rug. Unity!
But what if soldiers are becoming radicalized while they’re in the service?
They know it. The ones that don’t accept it are rescinding their party membership. The rest are taking advantage of the benefits of being under the party umbrella as the radicals/cultists take over.
Dr. Fauci…godsend, delightfully timeless….thank you.
Leadership looks like this.
“Some top-ranking party members, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, have expressed support for restrictions on absentee voting. Republicans control both chambers of the General Assembly, but there isn’t yet an agreement on how far those restrictions should go.”
Probably trying to figure out what they can do to suppress Democratic/POC votes with little to no impact to Republican voters. They can’t get around that whatever they do will affect ALL voters.
Yay Dr. Kizzy! 💉
Another reminder of the previous administration’s incompetence and cruelty.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib 🥺
yussss.
Loving the new kick ass dems. The seditious treasonous traitor thug was the ultimate straw that broke the dam.
And looks like zero thugs voted for the package, including the so called “moderates”.
Good Morning Family! Look at what our Democratic Senate and MVP have done for you this morning!
😆😆😆
Hmmmm
Not sure if her behavior would be any different than it would be if she were still on committees. But she is showing how sincere she was (NOT) in her floor speech. It sounds like she’s getting ready to crank up the crazy and 190+ Republicans have said they are okay with it.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/black-renaissance/
Yes she is!