I want to share this inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK's campaign. It's a story we can all learn from—a story of overlooked heroes and the power each of us has to create change. pic.twitter.com/yIaNJpRq7M
I am thinking it’s way past time to take the money out of politics, and take politics out of public service. This has become inhumane madness, as if We The People are utterly insignificant.
Even as we focus on fighting COVID-19, it’s important to recognize that there’s another pandemic raging right now—one that’s decades in the making and unique to the United States. We need to treat gun violence with the same urgency and resolve. https://t.co/3nD7uc194V
Manchin is ONE guy in a devastating moment for the country, let’s have it right.
Oh the boogey man…constituents in his state might get closer to a living wage.
Interesting that Republicans and Joe Manchin oppose the confirmations of Biden’s nominees who are: (1) Asian-American woman, (2) Native American woman and (3) Hispanic man. These are the same people who approved Jeff Sessions, Rick Grenell, Alex Azar, Brett Kavanaugh, et al.
U.S. Capitol Police Captain Carneysha Mendoza:
“recounts her experience defending the Capitol on Jan 6, and describes injuries she suffered during the attack.”
–The chemical burns on her face are still healing. No Johnson, this horrific event was not “festive”.
The Biden administration has withdrawn support for a Trump-backed federal lawsuit that seeks to ban transgender high school athletes from competing in girls sports.
HB 112 says you can only play high school sports in the gender you were assigned at birth.
This has passed the House in MT and is now in the Senate. It ignores the science and if passed would be unacceptably invasive for all athletes in school. Note that GOP bathroom bills failed spectacularly on all levels nationally. GOP has no policies so blaming the ills of society on transgender folks who are vulnerable easy targets, is how they rile up their Hate votes. These bills fail but they keep dragging them back, doing great harm – suicide is very high in the trans community.
HB 112 must be stopped.
GOP legislatures use zero science to support a slew of anti-transgender bills…
In MT once again the attempt to block gender affirming health care for transgender youth.
There are six LGBTQ related bills in the MT legislature:
HS 112 sports ban, HS 427 health care ban, SB 215 license to discriminate, SB 99, LC2997, SB 195.
SB 215: Allows people to claim that their religion allows them to discriminate.
–Romney gave this as a reason not to support the Equality Act.
Senator Klobuchar, Chairwoman of Rules Committee,
talks to Maddow about first Senate hearing on the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Hearing #2 is next week.
Eh very good ggail !! Guessing mine will be happen circa…this year….and it’s OK.
Besides our hero healthcare workers, pls put on the asap list underserved areas, all educators and school staff, all grocery and related employees.
David Jolly to Hayes:
“With Lauren Boebert it’s this defense against ‘the big government’. On January 6th we saw a willingness to tackle ‘that government’. That’s where the danger of the republican party
moving from a party of less government
to one willing to undermine and knee-cap it.
…Tackle the government while leaders of the republican party are embracing this imagery (of guns in their videos) of the 2nd amendment.
And Chris, there are 2 major deceits that Republicans practice:
The first is they conflate fundamental rights with absolute rights.
Lauren Boebert did that in her rant before the Natural Resources Committee.
She suggested that owning guns and taking them into the Capitol is an absolute right.
That’s not the case.
All of our fundamental rights have certain restrictions.
Including the 2nd Amendment, including the First with speech, relgion, and so forth.
The second deceit by Republicans:
is they KNOW that there’s no legislation that would pass the House and be signed by President Biden, that would take away gun ownership from law abiding rightful citizens, their ability to own guns. And so they reframe it around this issue of ‘freedom’ – that democrats want to take your ‘freedom’ – in this imagery that they’re presenting.”
“United States Officially Announces Intention to Seek Election to U.N. Human Rights Council”
“The United States has formally announced its intention to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council. according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“Today, the administration took an important step in that direction by announcing the U.S. intent to seek election to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council starting in January 2022. The United States has long been a champion of human rights. If elected to the Human Rights Council, we will use the opportunity to be a leading voice…”
(politicus.usa)
BREAKING: President Biden will nominate three Democrats to the USPS Board of Governors, a move that can lead to the Board replacing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
Congratulations to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on his swearing-in. During this critical time, @SecVilsack brings first-hand experience to strengthening our rural economy, building better food systems while combatting climate change, and helping end hunger. pic.twitter.com/uCPlJdQbGs
BREAKING: Biden to nominate three people to the Postal Service Governing Board: a former postal exec, a leading voting rights advocate, and a former postal union leader. This gives dems the majority. Louis DeJoy is about to go through some things. #SaveTheUSPS
Pres. Biden is expected to fill 3 of the remaining seats on the U.S. Postal Service's board of governors, positions that have oversight of the postmaster general.
The expected appointees, two men of color and a woman, would greatly diversify the board. https://t.co/zRXMsPVZcs
Our International Women's Day event to support Democrats running for office keeps on getting bigger.@TheAmandaGorman will now join @TeamPelosi, @chrissyteigen, and me on March 8.
US vice president’s official residence at 1, Observatory Circle stands on land once owned by Margaret C. Barber 2nd-largest slave owner in the District of Columbia, who obtained $9,351.30 in compensation when slavery abolished in DC in 1862 #slaveryarchivehttps://t.co/szlj7sItge
But this is what they do.. because the most of the press is white…they see things thru this prism…for me a Blk woman it is easy to see why the majority Senate has trouble with confirming all of Pres Biden's nominees of color…..and let me say that it is tiresome #NuffSaidhttps://t.co/55iRbGQj4L
Looking forward to chatting with the co-hosts @TheView this am about what @POTUS is up to, schools reopening, getting relief to Americans and anything else on their minds https://t.co/IFZUmH823Z
“O’Brien concluded by giving suggesting ways to stop pushing disinformation to cable news viewers . . . “don’t book liars,” recognize that not every opinion deserves a platform, and “stop saying you want a diverse staff and go hire one — fast.” https://t.co/aa0bPdTjsL
Ronald Klain, White House Chief of Staff, to Joy Reid: “On the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee for OMB Neera Tanden, White House Chief of Staff says ‘we’re fighting our guts out’ to get her confirmed. He cites Sen. Grassley coming out as ‘open minded’ on Tanden’s confirmation.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has taken possession of former Pres. Trump’s tax returns, a spokesman for the office tells @ABC News. https://t.co/35m01hVBtr
“Parker Solar Probe Offers Stunning View of Venus”
““WISPR effectively captured the thermal emission of the Venusian surface,” said Brian Wood,
an astrophysicist and WISPR team member from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. “It’s very similar to images acquired by the Akatsuki spacecraft at near-infrared wavelengths.”
This surprising observation sent the WISPR team back to the lab to measure the instrument’s sensitivity to infrared light. If WISPR can indeed pick up near-infrared wavelengths of light, the unforeseen capability would provide new opportunities to study dust around the Sun and in the inner solar system.
If it can’t pick up extra infrared wavelengths, then these images — showing signatures of features on Venus’ surface — may have revealed a previously unknown “window” through the Venusian atmosphere.
“Lengthy List Of Questions Only Grows…”
“Rachel Maddow runs through some of the outstanding questions about the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol on January 6th and what investigators have learned about the people involved.”
I don’t believe he knows the difference between wishful thinking and truth, i.e. win by a landslide and lose big time. So, under oath or not, it will be the perennial lies.
President Biden:
Supply Chain Executive Order.
(Feb 24)
“The order I’m about to sign does two things. First, the order is a 100 day review of four vital products, semiconductors, one, key minerals and materials like rare earth that are used to make everything from harder steel to airplanes, three, pharmaceuticals and their ingredients, four, advanced batteries like the ones using electric vehicles. There’s strong bipartisan support after fast reviews of these four areas, because they’re essential to protecting and strengthening American competitiveness.
Second, this order initiates a longterm review of the industry basis of six sectors of our overall economy over the next year. These reviews will identify policy recommendations to fortify our supply chains at every step, and critically to start implementing those recommendations right away. We’re not going to wait for you to be completed before you start closing the existing gaps. And as we implement this work, my administration will draw on a full range of American talent, including labor and industry leaders, policy experts, scientists, farmers, engineers, to get their input.”
Hi! We’ve made it through February, almost, and I must say that I’ve had no incidents of apprehensions re governance. Ain’t that sweet? Continued wishes for a ‘Happy 2021’ to everyone.
Kat Blalock This is Sarah Boone. She was born into slavery and married a freedman at age 15. When her family relocated to New Haven Connecticut, she took up dressmaking as a profession. In the course of her work she noticed the difficulty of flattening out creases in the sleeves pic.twitter.com/1vLNqSsYVp
and bodies of women's dresses. Ironing at the time was done on a wooden plank propped between chairs or on the kitchen table. Sarah developed a design of a tapered board on a stand. By rotating the fabric around the board, it completely smoothed any portion of a dress.
As a result, her design was issued US Patent # 473,653 on April 26, 1892. Mrs Boone was one of the first Black American women to be issued a patent and her design for the ironing board is still used today. Author Kim Stambaugh
Sigh! I wonder who I thought needed to see this so many times?
Sorry, folks. I don’t know what’s the matter with my thought processes, or my online actions, these days. It’s one of the reasons I generally keep sooo quiet most of the time now.
Congresswoman Jayapal:
“talks with Maddow about the overwhelming popularity among American voters of all political stripes of raising the federal minimum wage to $15, and the need for Democrats to show they can get these important things done when they hold power in Washington, D.C.”
This line of thought does not speak to the fact that the GOP does not care about how many Americans support anything…aka background checks…because their voters vote for them anyway…aka 2020 elections…the issue remains for them…if you are thrashing those blk folks over there>>…that even if i have substandard wages…I am OK..
It’s long past time to get rid of the filibuster. We must remove Mitch McConnell’s veto power over broadly popular policies the American people want to see passed.
At a Democratic convention, this gilded troll doll would be used to ridicule the former guy, and maybe placed inside a rest room to hold paper towels. At CPAC, it's a fake-gold compliment to their dear leader, in front of which they can take a knee. I'm glad to be a Democrat!
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Everyone!
Thank you Nerdy!
Good morning, Dudette in Furst, lookin’ good! 💞🕊💞
Thank you, NW, you are a rock..
I am thinking it’s way past time to take the money out of politics, and take politics out of public service. This has become inhumane madness, as if We The People are utterly insignificant.
Big hugs all around
{{{💙TOD💙}}}
Hi Pamela! 😘😘😘
Hugs to you, MP!
I’m with Pete. Cannot wait to see those sweet events on the calendar, again!
This is great!
Manchin is ONE guy in a devastating moment for the country, let’s have it right.
Oh the boogey man…constituents in his state might get closer to a living wage.
Hey Dudette on top of the leader board! Thanks to Nerdy for always picking out the jewels to share that we may have missed.
Yay Dudette and thanks to NW as always!
Hiya brp! 👋🏾
Hey Judith! 👋🏾
U.S. Capitol Police Captain Carneysha Mendoza:
“recounts her experience defending the Capitol on Jan 6, and describes injuries she suffered during the attack.”
–The chemical burns on her face are still healing. No Johnson, this horrific event was not “festive”.
HB 112 says you can only play high school sports in the gender you were assigned at birth.
This has passed the House in MT and is now in the Senate. It ignores the science and if passed would be unacceptably invasive for all athletes in school. Note that GOP bathroom bills failed spectacularly on all levels nationally. GOP has no policies so blaming the ills of society on transgender folks who are vulnerable easy targets, is how they rile up their Hate votes. These bills fail but they keep dragging them back, doing great harm – suicide is very high in the trans community.
HB 112 must be stopped.
GOP legislatures use zero science to support a slew of anti-transgender bills…
In MT once again the attempt to block gender affirming health care for transgender youth.
There are six LGBTQ related bills in the MT legislature:
HS 112 sports ban, HS 427 health care ban, SB 215 license to discriminate, SB 99, LC2997, SB 195.
SB 215: Allows people to claim that their religion allows them to discriminate.
–Romney gave this as a reason not to support the Equality Act.
We are figting this here in MT. The problem is we now have a crazy R governor and legislature. I worry for our state.
Senator Klobuchar, Chairwoman of Rules Committee,
talks to Maddow about first Senate hearing on the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Hearing #2 is next week.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. Thank you Nerdy for being you! 💓🙋🏾♀️😘
I have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
I will continue to mask, wash hands and social distance. 💃🏾🙏🏾😎🙋🏾♀️
Yay ggail! Congrats! 🥳
Eh very good ggail !! Guessing mine will be happen circa…this year….and it’s OK.
Besides our hero healthcare workers, pls put on the asap list underserved areas, all educators and school staff, all grocery and related employees.
CONGRATS! Welcome to the club! Pretty soon we’ll be able to gather for an O’weekend!
So relieved Gail and Alycee and more of our TOD stars have been vaccinated.
I love Black people. We’re so bloody creative and innovative.
********** SPOILER ALERT ***********
If you’ve been watching WandaVision, you know.
Hahaha! 😆
Love it!
🙋🏾♀️💃🏾😎🎶🎶🎶🎶
So bring “Auntie” up to speed; what is #WandaVision?
I love this! Was so in need of a seriously badass giggle! 😘💞
David Jolly to Hayes:
“With Lauren Boebert it’s this defense against ‘the big government’. On January 6th we saw a willingness to tackle ‘that government’. That’s where the danger of the republican party
moving from a party of less government
to one willing to undermine and knee-cap it.
…Tackle the government while leaders of the republican party are embracing this imagery (of guns in their videos) of the 2nd amendment.
And Chris, there are 2 major deceits that Republicans practice:
The first is they conflate fundamental rights with absolute rights.
Lauren Boebert did that in her rant before the Natural Resources Committee.
She suggested that owning guns and taking them into the Capitol is an absolute right.
That’s not the case.
All of our fundamental rights have certain restrictions.
Including the 2nd Amendment, including the First with speech, relgion, and so forth.
The second deceit by Republicans:
is they KNOW that there’s no legislation that would pass the House and be signed by President Biden, that would take away gun ownership from law abiding rightful citizens, their ability to own guns. And so they reframe it around this issue of ‘freedom’ – that democrats want to take your ‘freedom’ – in this imagery that they’re presenting.”
Bloop!
“Reparations: The Big Payback”. (New podcast)
“…explores the argument for and against reparations for Black Americans”
HR 40.
“United States Officially Announces Intention to Seek Election to U.N. Human Rights Council”
“The United States has formally announced its intention to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council. according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“Today, the administration took an important step in that direction by announcing the U.S. intent to seek election to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council starting in January 2022. The United States has long been a champion of human rights. If elected to the Human Rights Council, we will use the opportunity to be a leading voice…”
(politicus.usa)
Manchin now says he WILL vote for Rep. Deb Haaland, to confirm her as Interior Secretary, per MSNBC.
👍🏾💓
Three thousand per cent.
United for the People
BREAKING: President Biden will nominate three Democrats to the USPS Board of Governors, a move that can lead to the Board replacing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
#NationalDitchDeJoyDay
MVP swore in Our UN Ambassador today!
I love this administration so much!
Me too!
Bravo!
NBC News
The sister of Washington, D.C., Mayor Bowser has died at age 64 of complications from Covid-19, the mayor says.
Heard that earlier. How sad is that! So many losses all around the country.
Listening to these shameful MoFo’s in Senate today, reminded me of this historic moment in US history:
Can’t sleep so playing a little music…
This is what we were missing the last four years. Every President since Kennedy has had music in our house…
Arsenio Hall and Colbert, part 1.
Ronald Klain, White House Chief of Staff, to Joy Reid: “On the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee for OMB Neera Tanden, White House Chief of Staff says ‘we’re fighting our guts out’ to get her confirmed. He cites Sen. Grassley coming out as ‘open minded’ on Tanden’s confirmation.”
House of Representatives Schedule
Thursday, February 25, 2021
(https://www.house.gov/legislative-activity/2021-02-25)
Senate still waiting on Parliamentarian Ms. MacDonough….
INZO – Local Void
(amidst the raspberry blowing, says “don’t trust a god-damn soul”!)
hehh love it.
somethin’ about it cracks me up every time..
I wonder how many markers and red pens the Manhattan DA will need!
“Parker Solar Probe Offers Stunning View of Venus”
““WISPR effectively captured the thermal emission of the Venusian surface,” said Brian Wood,
an astrophysicist and WISPR team member from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. “It’s very similar to images acquired by the Akatsuki spacecraft at near-infrared wavelengths.”
This surprising observation sent the WISPR team back to the lab to measure the instrument’s sensitivity to infrared light. If WISPR can indeed pick up near-infrared wavelengths of light, the unforeseen capability would provide new opportunities to study dust around the Sun and in the inner solar system.
If it can’t pick up extra infrared wavelengths, then these images — showing signatures of features on Venus’ surface — may have revealed a previously unknown “window” through the Venusian atmosphere.
“Either way,” Vourlidas said, “some exciting science opportunities await us.””
(https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/parker-solar-probe-offers-a-stunning-view-of-venus)
“Lengthy List Of Questions Only Grows…”
“Rachel Maddow runs through some of the outstanding questions about the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol on January 6th and what investigators have learned about the people involved.”
I don’t believe he knows the difference between wishful thinking and truth, i.e. win by a landslide and lose big time. So, under oath or not, it will be the perennial lies.
President Biden:
Supply Chain Executive Order.
(Feb 24)
“The order I’m about to sign does two things. First, the order is a 100 day review of four vital products, semiconductors, one, key minerals and materials like rare earth that are used to make everything from harder steel to airplanes, three, pharmaceuticals and their ingredients, four, advanced batteries like the ones using electric vehicles. There’s strong bipartisan support after fast reviews of these four areas, because they’re essential to protecting and strengthening American competitiveness.
Second, this order initiates a longterm review of the industry basis of six sectors of our overall economy over the next year. These reviews will identify policy recommendations to fortify our supply chains at every step, and critically to start implementing those recommendations right away. We’re not going to wait for you to be completed before you start closing the existing gaps. And as we implement this work, my administration will draw on a full range of American talent, including labor and industry leaders, policy experts, scientists, farmers, engineers, to get their input.”
(https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-remarks-on-supply-chain-executive-order-transcript-february-24)
Hi! We’ve made it through February, almost, and I must say that I’ve had no incidents of apprehensions re governance. Ain’t that sweet? Continued wishes for a ‘Happy 2021’ to everyone.
Sigh! I wonder who I thought needed to see this so many times?
Sorry, folks. I don’t know what’s the matter with my thought processes, or my online actions, these days. It’s one of the reasons I generally keep sooo quiet most of the time now.
vcprezofan2….yes we have the Prez, the VP, and the party to be proud of.
Congresswoman Jayapal:
“talks with Maddow about the overwhelming popularity among American voters of all political stripes of raising the federal minimum wage to $15, and the need for Democrats to show they can get these important things done when they hold power in Washington, D.C.”
This line of thought does not speak to the fact that the GOP does not care about how many Americans support anything…aka background checks…because their voters vote for them anyway…aka 2020 elections…the issue remains for them…if you are thrashing those blk folks over there>>…that even if i have substandard wages…I am OK..
Have you folks seen this TikTok yet?
💞💞😷
Casting news for The First Lady anthology series! I’m looking forward to this!
Sounds really great!
Happy Friday TODVille!
Good Morning.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/renegades/