If you are still claiming police needed to kill a child I don't have anything to say to you. Because you're clearly okay with the state murdering kids & that's so far down the road to hell there's no turning back. We can't agree to disagree, we can't discuss it. You have to go.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) April 21, 2021
This is my foster sister Ma’Khia I want her to be remembered as the sweet full of life young girl she was, not as what people are painting her out to be. I refuse for her to be painted as anything but the amazing girl she was #MakiahBryant pic.twitter.com/ayJsMcTwz0
— Asia (@itsasiiiaaa_) April 21, 2021
Casually suggesting a taser as a de-escalation tool – especially on a child – is depraved.
— blackness everdeen 🐺 (@traceyecorder) April 21, 2021
this is makhia bryant, the teenager that was just shot and killed by cops in columbus. my heart hurts so bad. https://t.co/LeuSM0NEhg
— no (@afroelven) April 21, 2021
Police killed at least 5 people today. This morning they killed someone in Lakewood, CO. Police killed two people in San Antonio this afternoon. Then they killed someone in Detroit and killed #makhiabryant in Columbus. https://t.co/GfRHZzTZvP
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 21, 2021
This happened at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. The kids who did it were overwhelmingly white. No police showed up, no tear gas or "less-than-lethal munitions deployed. Police in that same city just murdered 16 year old Black girl #makhiabryant. https://t.co/Dcyo0wgj3h
— No (@MattStofflet) April 21, 2021
A Black girl is dead because the cops brought a gun to a damn knife fight. If you don’t know how to de-escalate teen girls who are fighting, you should not be a police officer. I said what I said. #MakhiaBryant
— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) April 21, 2021
A lot of you will walk away from this and soothe yourselves with the language that this was justified. It is neithe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) April 21, 2021We’ve literally seen cops apprehend, ARMED white teens, MOMENTS after the teens/young adults murdered people. Let’s not play this game. Short, short memories. Some even get taken to Burger King. Humanity is something not afforded to Black youth. Even when calling 4 help.
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) April 21, 2021
The Obama Diary 
‘A Glimmer Of Justice’
Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner:
“and a member of Mothers of the Movement, talks with Rachel Maddow about what the guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial mean to her, and her work with other mothers who have had children killed by police.”
Part 1:
Part 2:
Yaaaaay Levar! 🖖🏾
Woo-hoo! 💃💞
I hope he gets the role!
Meet our Associate AG, Vanita Gupta! 👏🏾
Another member of the Biden Dream Team!
Another Woo-hoo! 💃💞
So glad it’s happening! Good for Lisa Murkowski (and I don’t always say that).
Great week for confirmations! More great people entering the administration.
I love this rendition, the spirit on stage, covering a classic song:
Before Mr. Navalny dies via Putin cunning (and this time I think he will die without intervention):
Is it too far fetched for President Biden to offer to help him? Or Germany once again?
At least get the ball rolling….while he is alive.
Coincidentally, Chris Hayes is now covering this.
Goodnight TOD, everyone..
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Dropping this version of a classic:
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing this.
Step 1 toward firing Trump’s henchman and fixing the broken USPS.
The More You Know…
POTUS and VP open the Leaders Summit Climate Change 🌎🌍🌏
Yup. A traitorous thug could run amuck all over govt for 4 years including insurrection and yet hems and haws are being pulled for not taking any corrective action.
200 million vaccinations!
A “Christian” cop
Got my entire staff of nearly 100 peeps the second vax dose today.
Mission Accomplished.
👍👏👏👏👏👏👍🎊❤️
There were a few vax skeptics, thanks to the ubiquitous fucking social media.
So I had to go full hitler on them – it’s either jab or job, your choice. And it worked.
Good for you. Gotta do what you gotta do. 😍
This is awesome, amk! Way to go!
Fly Chopper Fly!
Deep Sigh!
Earth Day from the astronaut’s perspective
President Biden:
A Proclamation on Earth Day, 2021
(excerpt)
“In recent years, climate change has upended the lives of millions of Americans. Record cold weather knocked out the electric grid in Texas this winter, killing at least 111 people and disrupting the lives and livelihoods of millions more. Wildfires tore through more than 5 million acres across the American West — an area roughly the size of the entire State of New Jersey burned to the ground. Last year, back-to-back hurricanes and powerful tropical storms battered the Gulf and East Coasts in the worst Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history. Record floods, hurricane-speed windstorms, and severe droughts devastated families and communities across the Midwest. People have lost homes and irreplaceable memories of their loved ones, small businesses built from years of tireless labor and sacrifice, farmland meant to be passed on to the next generation, and so much more.
At the same time, Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other communities of color continue to be hit hardest by the impacts of climate change. They bear the highest burden of pollution, face higher rates of heart and lung disease, are least likely to have safe drinking water in their homes, and suffer increased risk of death from COVID-19. These communities have also frequently been shut out of government decisions that directly bear on their interests. We have an obligation to correct these historic wrongs and to build a future where all people have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, healthy communities in which they can live, work, and learn, and a meaningful voice in their future.
That is why my Administration is advancing the most ambitious climate agenda in our Nation’s history.
Our clean energy plan will create millions of good-paying union jobs, ensure our economic competitiveness, and improve the health and security of communities across America. By making those investments and putting millions of Americans to work, the United States will be able to cut our greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/22/a-proclamation-on-earth-day-2021/)
FACT SHEET:
“President Biden Sets 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target Aimed at Creating Good-Paying Union Jobs and Securing U.S. Leadership on Clean Energy Technologies”
“Building on Past U.S. Leadership, including Efforts by States, Cities, Tribes, and Territories, the New Target Aims at 50-52 Percent Reduction in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Pollution from 2005 Levels in 2030”
(Whitehouse.gov)
“Readout of the Third National Climate Task Force Meeting”
Yesterday: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/21/readout-of-the-third-national-climate-task-force-meeting/)
A very BFD indeed.
LIVE: Joe Biden hosts Leaders Summit on Climate on Earth Day | Climate change
U.S. President Joe Biden will host 40 world leaders in the Leaders Summit on Climate.
“The event is expected to underscore the urgency and the economic benefits of stronger action to tackle global warming. President Biden and Vice President Harris will open the inaugural session of the Summit.
It will provide an opportunity for leaders to highlight the climate-related challenges their countries face and the efforts they are undertaking, and to announce new steps to strengthen climate ambition.”
“As Biden convenes world leaders, U.S. pledges to cut emissions up to 52 percent by 2030″
‘”The stakes could not be higher,’ said one top administration official, as the White House presses other countries to make their own bold promises”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/04/22/global-emissions-52-percent-biden/)
Remarks by President Biden
at the Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate Opening Session
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/22/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-virtual-leaders-summit-on-climate-opening-session/)
“Elizabeth Esteban, Daughter Of Farmworkers, Defies Odds With Full Scholarship To Harvard”
“Growing up in California’s Coachella Valley, the daughter of immigrant farmworkers, Elizabeth Esteban dreamed of going to Harvard. Her dream is coming true, with a full scholarship. Her message for others: “Don’t live a life regretting and questioning what if I did try.”
Remarks by President Biden
Before Meeting with Leadership of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
(excerpt)
“But the America — in our view, and I mean it sincerely — cannot succeed if it’s — unless Hispanic families succeed.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/20/remarks-by-president-biden-before-meeting-with-leadership-of-the-congressional-hispanic-caucus/)
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Voting Rights
“Lawmakers and advocates testified on voting rights and the new Georgia election law at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The first panel included testimony by Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Representative Burgess Owens (R-UT). Following their remarks, the committee received testimony from state officials and voting rights advocates, including Fair Fight Action Founder Stacey Abrams and Georgia House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones (R). They were questioned by lawmakers on the implications of the new Georgia voting law.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?511034-1/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-voting-rights&live=
—-includes John Kennedy’s epic fail by questioning Stacey Abrams — he had no idea what was coming.
Philonise Floyd On The Chauvin Verdict: ‘I Wanted To Jump Up And Down’
“Philonise Floyd talks about his reaction when the verdict was announced: “When the judge started reading and I heard ‘guilty,’ and then I heard ‘guilty,’ and then I heard ‘guilty’ one more time, I wanted to jump up and down … I was ecstatic about everything.”
“G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them)”
“As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/republican-anti-protest-laws.html)
“G.O.P. lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills during the 2021 legislative session”
Greetings.
Q: ARE WE IN RUSSIA?
Putin has arrested at least 1700 protesters. (NPR)
Here, GOP in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills this year. (NYT)
De Santis signed an anti-riot bill into law on Monday.
Senator Shevrin Jones, D-West Park said the new law: “undermines every Floridian’s constitutional rights,
and it is disgusting that the GOP would rather empower vigilantes and silence voices than listen to the majority of Floridians who oppose this dangerous bill. The governor’s spectacle is a distraction that will only further disenfranchise Black and brown communities.”
imo, we are looking a lot more like Russia…
what happened to the right to assemble in America?
(They sure act fast when they want to.). How far will GOP go to get their authoritarian papa elected?
Imagine if trump had been re-elected. What was their plan?
Putin is revisiting 2014 and amassing troops on the border of Ukraine, threatening his ‘enemies’ in a speech,
arresting protestors, and poisoning his opponent Navalny to death.
—While his GOP admirers and colluders openly lift up his vision in the U.S.
“House passes DC statehood bill in party-line vote”
“The House has passed the bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st US state, in a vote of 216 to 208.”
(Guardian)House passes DC statehood bill in party-line vote
—how many Manchins do you need to screw in a light bulb?
“House passes DC statehood bill in party-line vote”
“The House has passed the bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st US state, in a vote of 216 to 208.”
(Guardian)
—pls make into law asap.
GRETA
“Greta Thunberg Testifies Before House Oversight Committee”
“Climate activist Greta Thunberg testified before Congress on Earth Day. The hearing comes on the same day that President Biden holds a virtual climate summit with world leaders.”
(https://www.c-span.org/video/?511009-1/greta-thunberg-testifies-house-oversight-committee&live)
Embracing the World: The Movie (2018)
“The story of Embracing the World is the story of what happened when one person decided to offer her life wholeheartedly for the sake of others.”
We made it to Earth Day 2021. Congrats!!
Thanks to our little planet for sustaining our lives. Let’s plant more trees!
Thanks to the vaccine makers, medical teams, everyone getting those shots into millions of fab arms.
Thanks to our President Joe and VP Kamala and the WH for the Climate Summit today!
Thanks to all those who care for us in Congress, love you.
–Go NASA !!!!
NASA Science Live: Connected by Earth.
“This year at NASA, EarthDay is about connections—to our planet and to each other. Our planet is home to over 7 billion people of diverse backgrounds and experiences, but we are all #ConnectedByEarth. Join NASA climate experts to learn about the connections between human activity and climate change.”
Space Station launch early tomorrow morning. 🚀🛰
That’s a neat trick to scare the shit out of toked up thieves.
LIVE NOW: First Lady Jill Biden delivers radio address to Navajo nation in Window Rock, Ariz.
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
And all that fucking sanctimonious preaching to the world.
The same pos in a new vote
He’s always been an incompetant a$$hole.
Yup. A fu…ing war criminal. The second worst ‘president’.
NASA LIVE:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
April 23, Friday: 1:30 a.m. – Coverage of the launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Endeavour” to the ISS
(Kimbrough, McArthur, Hoshide, Pesquet; launch scheduled at 5:49 a.m. EDT)
Editor’s note: NASA TV will provide continuous coverage through Friday’s welcome ceremony.
Underway…!!!!
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New post.