Happy Mother’s Day to @MichelleObama and all the moms celebrating today. I hope you take a moment to thank the women who love you in that special way that mothers do, and remember those who are no longer with us. pic.twitter.com/Uky8xMqHRl
I hope you take today to let all the mother figures in your life know how much you love them. I know I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for my mom. She's always been that guiding light in my life. Wishing her and all the moms out there a wonderful #MothersDay! 💖 pic.twitter.com/Qa1ePhSpOE
For all the Moms, Momala’s, mumsies, mamas, surrogate moms, and all who give their hearts to our children to grow a brighter future, Thank You.. so very much.
My heart broke to read about Bo, I lit a candle for him, and for his loving family, as soon as the sobbing subsided..
Have a lovely Mother’s Day, each and every One, with my deep respect to you all!
My mom taught me about the importance of family, loyalty, and faith. Her immeasurable strength lives on in all of her children, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, and the many other lives that she touched. pic.twitter.com/hapYzf5S3y
House Democrats plan to re-introduce a bill to remove statues from the Capitol of the Supreme Court justice who authored the Dred Scott decision, Roger Taney; Vice President John Calhoun; Confederate leaders; and other advocates of slavery and segregation. https://t.co/rodK7Vdz9e
Six people were killed in a shooting at a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.https://t.co/PdwUQSJh3X
A friend of mine is being featured on W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America.
Best Mother’s Day gift is my mom finally seeing tonight on @CNN how all those comics books and video games she bought me as a kid did not rot my brain and actually are going to help change the world for the better. https://t.co/SzzzWmV2YZ
— Creating geek stuff between snacks (@greenecocreate) May 9, 2021
I'm very honored to be joining the extraordinary team at the Department of Justice in the National Security Division. Thank you for all the kind words. (And a huge thanks to the folks at WH PPO, agency WH liaisons and HRs who are working night and day to staff this government.)
This is science fiction. Except it isn't. "The main fuel supply line to the U.S. East Coast has shut down indefinitely after the pipeline's operator suffered what is believed to be the largest successful cyberattack on oil infrastructure in the country's history."
Anthony Fauci said it is “conceivable” that people might decide to wear masks seasonally to diminish the possibility of either spreading or catching respiratory-borne viruses https://t.co/hEhquDQiaT
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 10, 2021
“Not Just Coronavirus:
Asians Have Worn Face Masks for Decades”
“Japanese wear masks when feeling sick as a courtesy to stop any sneezes from landing on other people. Japanese women mask their faces on days when they don’t have time to put on makeup.
Philippine motorcycle riders wear masks to deflect vehicular exhausts in heavy traffic.
In Taiwan, citizens say masks keep their faces warm in the winter and offer a sense of protection from air pollution, including any airborne germs.
Masks have become so popular that some manufacturers make them purely for fashionable use, with no protective function.”
John Meacham on ReidOut:
“On GOP efforts to ban the teaching of critical race theory, Joy says “None of this should shock you.
Why would the Republican Party want to have a factual conversation about race, gender, and equity when their most pressing issue today is pushing ‘the big lie?’'”
Obsessed with lying about critical race theory,
GOP tries to ‘cancel’ it.
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-the-gop-is-obsessed-with-lying-about-critical-race-theory-111531077713)
Or imo we are looking into the abyss.
e.g If he runs again,
FaceBook will probably let him back on their site. We’re spoiled for choice on what to get him on but there’s a time window…if we are serious about the future and democracy.
“Racist Relic Caught Creeping Into New Texas Voter Suppression Bill”
“Rachel Maddow looks back at how the phrase “purity of the ballot box”
in the Texas constitution was used as the basis for excluding Black Americans from all-white primaries, and shares video of Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchía calling out Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain, Republican chair of the Texas State House Elections Committee, for including that phrase in the new Texas voter suppression bill.”
“Remember, this is the hardest state in which to cast a ballot,” said O’Rourke.
“That is not an opinion of mine. You can read journals and scientific studies that look at all the 50 states, and they find it because we don’t have online voter registration places, hundreds of polling place closures, racial gerrymandering of our jurisdictions and harshest voter ID laws, among many other problems.
It’s harder to cast a ballot here than anywhere else, and Republicans here are about to make it even harder.”
Opinion:
Federal Judges and DOJ Prosecutors Warn That Trump Is Still Inciting Violence
“According to two separate Supreme Court rulings,
there is a limit on free speech that poses an inherent danger to public safety.
Still, right-wing media outlets and Republican fascists continue parroting Trump’s Big Lie that the election was fraudulent and stolen from him. Now, federal officials assert that Trump poses a clear and present danger of more violence against the United States government.”
“On Thursday, Department of Justice prosecutors argued in filings that Trump’s fascist rebels must be kept incarcerated due to the “persistent danger inspired by Trump.”
(politicus.usa)
Nearly one million people signed up for Obamacare coverage this spring.
“Nearly one million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage during the first 10 weeks of a special open enrollment period the Biden administration began in February.
A total of 940,000 people enrolled in Obamacare coverage between Feb. 15 and April 30, new data released Thursday by Health and Human Services shows. Of those new enrollees, nearly half bought coverage last month, after Congress added billions in subsidies included in the most recent stimulus package.
With that additional funding, the average monthly premium that Healthcare.gov consumers paid fell to $86 for those signing up in April, down from $117 in February and March (before the new subsidies).
The surge in sign-ups reflects a growing demand for health insurance.
Many Americans have lost job-based coverage during the pandemic, and others who were uninsured before found themselves newly interested in coverage. The numbers undercount the overall new insurance sign-ups; they reflect enrollment only in the 36 states with marketplaces that the federal government manages.”
In a new AP poll released this morning, Biden’s overall approval is now a mega-healthy 63%. Speaking of "healthy," 71% of America approves his handling of Covid, including 47% of Republicans.
The other 53% of Republicans are raking forests and injecting bleach.#Foxitis
Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry are teaming up for a series that will delve into mental health issues and feature segments from athletes and stars like Lady Gaga and Glenn Close. https://t.co/nELlOTAk7I
This morning I'm thinking about how 99.9% of the U.S. still doesn't know that, after they killed Breonna Taylor, Louisville cops managed to get the City to increase their budget by $750,000 and to cut the public library budget by $775,000.
When @POTUS signed the American Rescue Plan, it led to the largest expansion of health care since the Affordable Care Act. Now close to 1 million people have signed up for health care since February. Make sure you're covered at https://t.co/ob1Ynoesod. https://t.co/A113SWN49q
NEW: The Food and Drug Administration says children 12 to 15 years old are now eligible to receive Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. https://t.co/uID1vV2aK5
The Biden admin has announced the formal launch of its Scientific Integrity Task Force which will review the federal government's scientific policies to ensure they're free from inappropriate political influence. https://t.co/lx0jiqQEgz
COVID-19 has shown us just how necessary it is to center the needs of women and girls in our health care system. This National Women's Health Week, we’re doubling down on our commitment to equal access to health care. https://t.co/r5ETZ5UwDJ
— Partnership for a Healthier America (@PHAnews) May 10, 2021
Former first lady @MichelleObama is revealing to @GayleKing what's next in her fight to give all families access to healthy food — with the help of two adorable puppets in her new @Netflix show, #WafflesAndMochi.
Michelle Obama to CBS: "You wanna hang out with us? Get your vaccine. Get all of it. Finish it up. And then we can talk. So I urge everybody out there within the sound of our voices, please, please get the vaccine. It's time."
HONORING A CIVIL RIGHTS LEGEND: The Alabama Legislature has approved a measure to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after the late Rep. John Lewis. https://t.co/NJpOT8Hb9D
The world can expect more pieces of #ChineseRocket debris raining from the sky in the coming years, a spokesperson from the European Space Agency (ESA) told Insider.#LongMarch5B
— Business Insider India🇮🇳 (@BiIndia) May 11, 2021
Where are the global rules to protect lives from um…spacefall? If none, can we start now?
–used to be horrific when tree branches fell on you, this cannot be business as usual.
“Justice Breyer should learn from Justice Ginsburg’s mistake — and retire now”
“Making way for a successor would protect his Supreme Court legacy.”
RGB: “was gambling that she would be able to leave the bench with a Democratic president in office.
Instead, President Donald Trump picked her successor,
selecting someone from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
It’s a decision that will resonate for decades…”
‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’:
Democrats’ Plans Hinge on Good Health
“In a narrowly divided Congress, an illness or a death could upend the balance of power and threaten an ambitious agenda.”
“On average, 10 lawmakers have died in each two-year Congress: seven House members and three senators.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/upshot/democrats-agenda-hinges-health.html)
–urgency.
“Kinzinger Says He Warned McCarthy His Words Would Lead to Violence That Led to Capitol Riot”
“A few days before Jan 6, our GOP members had a conference call.
I told Kevin that his words and our party’s actions would lead to violence on January 6th,” Kinzinger wrote.
“Kevin dismissively responded with ‘ok Adam, operator next question.’
And we got violence.”
Speaker Pelosi:
Statement on Biden Administration Banning Discrimination Against LGBTQ Americans in Health
(excerpts)
“Today, the Biden Administration has taken essential and potentially life-saving action
to affirm that all people in America have the right to quality, affordable health care – no matter who they are or whom they love. During this time of pandemic and always, it is vital that the most vulnerable have access to care, including LGBTQ Americans, who have long suffered injustice and discrimination that has left them dangerously exposed to health risks.”
“The Trump Administration’s decision to greenlight anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care
in the middle of a pandemic was an act of senseless and staggering cruelty,
made in blatant defiance of our values and a Supreme Court ruling made just a month prior.”
(speaker.gov)
“The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater,
Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized”
“An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.”
by Jane Mayer
“Atwater died before he could finish his memoir.
What remains of it are hunks of yellowing typewritten pages, held together by rusting staples and paper clips.
But the seven surviving chapters suggest that, far from dying along with him, the nihilism, cynicism, and scurrilous tactics that Atwater brought into national politics live on. In many ways, his memoir suggests that Atwater’s tactics were a bridge between the old Republican Party of the Nixon era, when dirty tricks were considered a scandal, and the new Republican Party of Donald Trump,
in which lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost have become normalized.
Chapter 5 of Atwater’s memoir in particular serves as a Trumpian precursor.”
Remarks by President Biden on the Economy
(excerpts)
“In the first quarter, our economy grew at 6.4 percent rate, outpacing the growth we’re seeing from other — our friends in the Eurozone.
Because of the American Rescue Plan, forecrast- — forecasters are projecting we’ll see the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years in the months to come. We’re moving in the right direction.
So let’s be clear: Our economic plan is working.
I never said — and no serious analyst ever suggested — that climbing out of the deep, deep hole our economy was in would be simple, easy, immediate, or perfectly steady. Remember, 22 million Americans lost their jobs in this pandemic…”
“First, today we’re opening a portal for state and local governments to apply for their — the first funds from the American Rescue Plan. Because states and local governments have to balance their budgets, a lot of them had to lay off employees when the economy — state and federal — state employees and local employees when the economy slowed and tax revenues fell. We’re talking about 1.3 million state and local employees out of work.
Now — but now the money we’re distributing — going to be distributing now is going to make it possible for an awful lot of educators, first responders, sanitation workers to go back to work.
Second — this is a yearlong program. Second, we’re delivering assistance to tens of thousands of restaurants and bars across the country. Today, we’re sending out the first relief checks to 16,000 hard-hit restaurants with help for many more to follow. A lot more people are going to be employed.
Third, the employers bring back laid-off workers. To help them do that, we’re going to remind them that there is some progress they can take advantage — some programs they can take advantage of….”
“Fourth, we’re going to provide real help for people struggling with the challenge of childcare, which is making it hard for many parents who need to work — especially women — to get back to work. ..”
‘Cancel culture’ becomes synonymous with ‘consequences’ after endless Fox News memeing”
“Rachel Maddow shares video of horse trainer Bob Baffert discussing his horse, Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, failing a drug test, chalking the matter up to “a cancel culture kind of thing.”
With GOP cheating is not cheating, and the only crime is getting caught. If they can pre-rig the system they will not pay if caught = a trump specialty. The world of Mafia Don and the GOP party of course messes with the the courts and police…Trump has been in that world all his life. Now the infection has spread and his party was primed for it, the only ethic is to cheat and lie.
imo per the GOP plan pretty soon there’ll be no such thing as an election, only those who stay in control.
STOP THE AZ RECOUNT
and their plan to continue their charade on to other states.
A non-official entity has access to your private voter information.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
“Russia Seen As Safe Haven For Cyber Crime Following Pipeline Hack”
“Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is known about the cybercriminal group that hacked the Colonial Pipeline Company, and the peculiar relationship between many criminal hacker groups and the Russian government.”
Democrats Add State-Level Republican Feedback To New Voting Rights Bill
“Senator Jeff Merkley, lead sponsor of the voting rights bill moving through the Senate,
talks with Rachel Maddow about recruiting support for enforcing democratic principles from state Republicans even as Washington, D.C. Republicans continue to rely on the corruption of those principles to stay in power.”
H.R.1 – FOR THE PEOPLE ACT
Senator Jeff Merkley, lead sponsor of the For The People Act, talks to Rachel Maddow.
Senator Merkley:
“And by the way what you’re describing in Arizona, that madness. There is method to that madness.
It is designed to keep the voter fraud argument going, both to change the laws in the states, and to stop this bill in the Senate.”
Sen. Merkely:
“And so we’re working with those Republicans across the country who say
‘This makes sense, we want to stop gerrymandering, which corrupts the vision of equal representation. We want to stop billionaires from buying elections, and we want to defend the freedom and right of every citizen to be able to vote.’
And so this strategy is based on let’s defend these core principles of our Constitution that resonate deeply with Democrats and with Republicans across this country.”
Sen. Merkley:
“the reason the Republican establishment in the Senate is opposing this is because their power stems from a corrupted voting process, from the gerrymandering, from the dark money, from the voter suppression. And they want to maintain it, even though their citizens out there across America say they want us to restore and protect the right to vote.
And so if we don’t talk about it, we fail to convey what a tremendously perilous moment this is.
Because if we fail to protect the election process, then we have failed to defend the core foundation for the vision of Government of, by, and for the People. And it means that the Republican goals, whether it’s packing the courts with federalist corporate members, or it’s tax cuts for the richest Americans. Those things get done by simple majority because the Republicans change the rules. While the things that we’re fighting for, for ordinary families on health care, housing, education, good paying jobs and the Equality Act, and environmental protection – those things we fail on. Because they (GOP) will keep the people from being able to vote (and from) fighting for those fundamental goals.
So are we going to veer out completely away from this vision that our nation was founded on,
or as Lincoln summarized, of, by and for the people? And just be a corrupted republic that works for the powerful? Whether or not we pass this bill is a huge pivot point for the direction of America.”
We need to pass the #ForThePeopleAct. Today I joined my fellow freshmen Democratic senators to demand it be brought to the floor and voted on. pic.twitter.com/1J6QzjASgN
— Senator John Hickenlooper (@SenatorHick) May 11, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney as a voice of conscience within the Republican Party for denouncing former President Trump.
“Liz Cheney spoke truth to power. And for that, she’s being fired,” Schumer added.https://t.co/nQ8QrXorpo
NY Attorney General James:
“A judge has ruled in our favor and rejected the
@NRA’s attempt to claim bankruptcy and reorganize in Texas. The @NRA does not get to dictate if and where it will answer for its actions, and our case will continue in New York court.
No one is above the law.”
Trump, a guy who's never won the popular vote, twice impeached, rated the worst president ever, serially corrupt, a traitor, rapist, racist, gave the GOP a perfect out on Jan 6. They could've easily just turned the page. But instead they said, "Nope, we'll stick with him."
The White House and Administration are working around the clock to address the Colonial Pipeline shutdown and get fuel to the communities that need it. Here’s what we’ve done so far:https://t.co/Zf3KyzRiZp
There have been 360+ voter suppression bills introduced nationwide just this year.
This is a 911 emergency for our democracy. We have to pass federal voting rights legislation, no matter what—and we won’t stop pushing until the #ForThePeopleAct gets a vote on the Senate floor. https://t.co/nRPuJMS1uV
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) May 11, 2021
🚨ALERT: #ForThePeopleAct stalled in committee after a 9-9 party line vote. For the bill to go forward, Majority Leader Schumer will need to call #S1 up for a preliminary debate before the full Senate and then call for another vote to advance the bill.https://t.co/eyZ62I2Z2T
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) May 11, 2021
👋 Goodbye, asteroid Bennu! Yesterday, our #OSIRISREx spacecraft took a final image before departing for the journey back to Earth. In 2023, it'll arrive back at our home planet, delivering a sample of rocks & dust captured from the asteroid: https://t.co/Esy6uJMGu0pic.twitter.com/GN8CqSv7P0
“At least 404 voting-restriction bills have now been introduced in 48 state legislatures” across the country and 25 of those bills have already become law.
For years Republicans had no problem with vote by mail when it was relied on most heavily by older white voters and most Black voters preferred in person voting. Only after 2020, when Black voters widely adopted mail-in voting did GOP concerns about vote by mail fraud arise.
Michael Scherer, WAPO, to Rachel Maddow last night:
“You know, Donald Trump wanted to make an example of Liz Cheney when she voted for impeachment. He sent out aides right away to Wyoming to denounce her. He celebrated the Republican Party in that state when it censured her. He commissioned a poll to show how unpopular she was.
But Liz Cheney is making clear tonight, and I think you’ll see it tomorrow and I think you’ll see it for days to come, that instead of an example he’s getting a rival here. And she’s going to take this case the distance.
And I think her event horizon here is longer than he thought it would be.
She’s not just looking to the next midterms….”
imo…thinking…maybe this is how GOP figures it can play both angles.
Like when trump crashes and burns with indictments, Cheney the hard right conservative who voted 93% of the time with Trump, will be there. She even voted against gay marriage when her sister is gay! Even as we don’t want Trump, Cheney is no friend to Democrats. She’s like that ‘smart trump’ we predicted would come along. As always the architects are playing the long game.
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
in Support of Washington State’s Overtime Bill for Farm Workers
“I congratulate the Washington State legislature and Governor Jay Inslee for signing into law SB 5172, Washington’s Overtime Bill for Agricultural Workers, which will help more than 100,000 farmworkers secure the overtime pay they deserve. Agricultural workers in Washington and across the country have helped carry our nation through this pandemic — working long hours, often at great personal risk, to meet the needs of their communities and keep America healthy and well-nourished. These overtime protections will ensure that agricultural workers in Washington are paid for all of the vital work they do.
For too long — and owing in large part to unconscionable race-based exclusions put in place generations ago — farmworkers have been denied some of the most fundamental rights that workers in almost every other sector have long enjoyed, including the right to a forty-hour work week and overtime pay.”
The Obama Diary 
WISHING Moms and all who love children a happy day, and healing for all our hearts.
America, become one.
I share that wish!
For all the Moms, Momala’s, mumsies, mamas, surrogate moms, and all who give their hearts to our children to grow a brighter future, Thank You.. so very much.
My heart broke to read about Bo, I lit a candle for him, and for his loving family, as soon as the sobbing subsided..
Have a lovely Mother’s Day, each and every One, with my deep respect to you all!
Big hugs
🕊🕯💞💗💞🕯🕊
And to you, MP!
Thank you! My daughter likes to say:
“In our world, every day is Mother’s Day”..
Who am I to question that!?!?
Lol! 🕊💞🕯💞🕊
Love!
((((( 💐Pamela 💐)))))
{{{ 💞Dudette💞}}}
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms here….hugs to all of you!
{{{💞DF💞}}}
Our Mom would say ‘two heads are better than sheeps’ heads.”
–best high dive, most giggly.
Love that!
Good move!
Happy Mother’s Day to all! Nerdy, thank you for this sweet post!
Love the video of Joey talking about his mother. The story about Grant Park……..so sweet and touching.
Hope each of you had a good Mother’s Day.
A friend of mine is being featured on W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America.
How cool is that! I pre-recorded it but was yacking on the phone too long and now I’m too tired to watch – will check it out tomorrow!
❤️
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-nasa-star-trek/index.html
hawt mom
hawt hat
hawt daymn
This is a good addition…
We are still under attack…
time to wean the country off of oil then.
“Not Just Coronavirus:
Asians Have Worn Face Masks for Decades”
“Japanese wear masks when feeling sick as a courtesy to stop any sneezes from landing on other people. Japanese women mask their faces on days when they don’t have time to put on makeup.
Philippine motorcycle riders wear masks to deflect vehicular exhausts in heavy traffic.
In Taiwan, citizens say masks keep their faces warm in the winter and offer a sense of protection from air pollution, including any airborne germs.
Masks have become so popular that some manufacturers make them purely for fashionable use, with no protective function.”
(https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/not-just-coronavirus-asians-have-worn-face-masks-decades)
—-imo looking out for others, wearing a mask when you’re sick, is a great thing.
John Meacham on ReidOut:
“On GOP efforts to ban the teaching of critical race theory, Joy says “None of this should shock you.
Why would the Republican Party want to have a factual conversation about race, gender, and equity when their most pressing issue today is pushing ‘the big lie?’'”
Obsessed with lying about critical race theory,
GOP tries to ‘cancel’ it.
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-the-gop-is-obsessed-with-lying-about-critical-race-theory-111531077713)
ARREST.TRUMP.
Or imo we are looking into the abyss.
e.g If he runs again,
FaceBook will probably let him back on their site. We’re spoiled for choice on what to get him on but there’s a time window…if we are serious about the future and democracy.
“Racist Relic Caught Creeping Into New Texas Voter Suppression Bill”
“Rachel Maddow looks back at how the phrase “purity of the ballot box”
in the Texas constitution was used as the basis for excluding Black Americans from all-white primaries, and shares video of Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchía calling out Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain, Republican chair of the Texas State House Elections Committee, for including that phrase in the new Texas voter suppression bill.”
New Moon in Taurus, 11th May, 10:06amPDT…
Big hugs all around…
Bbl
“Remember, this is the hardest state in which to cast a ballot,” said O’Rourke.
“That is not an opinion of mine. You can read journals and scientific studies that look at all the 50 states, and they find it because we don’t have online voter registration places, hundreds of polling place closures, racial gerrymandering of our jurisdictions and harshest voter ID laws, among many other problems.
It’s harder to cast a ballot here than anywhere else, and Republicans here are about to make it even harder.”
(https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/opponents-of-gop-backed-texas-voting-bills-rally-outside-state-capitol/269-47dc91cb-4166-430f-9669-4450099300ca)
Opinion:
Federal Judges and DOJ Prosecutors Warn That Trump Is Still Inciting Violence
“According to two separate Supreme Court rulings,
there is a limit on free speech that poses an inherent danger to public safety.
Still, right-wing media outlets and Republican fascists continue parroting Trump’s Big Lie that the election was fraudulent and stolen from him. Now, federal officials assert that Trump poses a clear and present danger of more violence against the United States government.”
“On Thursday, Department of Justice prosecutors argued in filings that Trump’s fascist rebels must be kept incarcerated due to the “persistent danger inspired by Trump.”
(politicus.usa)
Nearly one million people signed up for Obamacare coverage this spring.
“Nearly one million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage during the first 10 weeks of a special open enrollment period the Biden administration began in February.
A total of 940,000 people enrolled in Obamacare coverage between Feb. 15 and April 30, new data released Thursday by Health and Human Services shows. Of those new enrollees, nearly half bought coverage last month, after Congress added billions in subsidies included in the most recent stimulus package.
With that additional funding, the average monthly premium that Healthcare.gov consumers paid fell to $86 for those signing up in April, down from $117 in February and March (before the new subsidies).
The surge in sign-ups reflects a growing demand for health insurance.
Many Americans have lost job-based coverage during the pandemic, and others who were uninsured before found themselves newly interested in coverage. The numbers undercount the overall new insurance sign-ups; they reflect enrollment only in the 36 states with marketplaces that the federal government manages.”
more: (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/upshot/obamacare-signups.html)
MoscowMitch has proudly declared (his nth year of) GOP zero co-operation.
–Manchin’s ‘bi-partisan’ explanation is caput.
Play That Thing Again
ESPRIT 空想, George Clanton
LIVE NOW…
Bo was such a good dog! Look at how he would stop to let Pete catch up when they were playing chase. ❤️
Walk-in vaccines at Publix in 7 states
More brilliance from Randy Rainbow 😆
This is why elections matter! 👏🏾
Yay Cleveland and Atlanta!!!
Listen to Mrs. O!
Alright California!
🐕🦮🐩🐕🦺🐾🦴
Where are the global rules to protect lives from um…spacefall? If none, can we start now?
–used to be horrific when tree branches fell on you, this cannot be business as usual.
Don’t tell us to ‘get over it’.
NOW…
“Justice Breyer should learn from Justice Ginsburg’s mistake — and retire now”
“Making way for a successor would protect his Supreme Court legacy.”
RGB: “was gambling that she would be able to leave the bench with a Democratic president in office.
Instead, President Donald Trump picked her successor,
selecting someone from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
It’s a decision that will resonate for decades…”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/08/breyer-ginsburg-biden-trump/)
—-respectfully hoping Justice Breyer will be selfless and use reason here or we could be in the soup.
‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’:
Democrats’ Plans Hinge on Good Health
“In a narrowly divided Congress, an illness or a death could upend the balance of power and threaten an ambitious agenda.”
“On average, 10 lawmakers have died in each two-year Congress: seven House members and three senators.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/upshot/democrats-agenda-hinges-health.html)
–urgency.
“Kinzinger Says He Warned McCarthy His Words Would Lead to Violence That Led to Capitol Riot”
“A few days before Jan 6, our GOP members had a conference call.
I told Kevin that his words and our party’s actions would lead to violence on January 6th,” Kinzinger wrote.
“Kevin dismissively responded with ‘ok Adam, operator next question.’
And we got violence.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/05/10/kinzinger-says-he-warned-mccarthy-his-words-would-lead-to-violence-that-led-to-capitol-riot.html)
“A new poll found that 71% of Republicans
under age 45
want to raise taxes
if it means creating jobs.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/05/10/republicans-in-disarray-after-poll-finds-young-gopers-want-to-raise-taxes-to-create-jobs.html
Speaker Pelosi:
Statement on Biden Administration Banning Discrimination Against LGBTQ Americans in Health
(excerpts)
“Today, the Biden Administration has taken essential and potentially life-saving action
to affirm that all people in America have the right to quality, affordable health care – no matter who they are or whom they love. During this time of pandemic and always, it is vital that the most vulnerable have access to care, including LGBTQ Americans, who have long suffered injustice and discrimination that has left them dangerously exposed to health risks.”
“The Trump Administration’s decision to greenlight anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care
in the middle of a pandemic was an act of senseless and staggering cruelty,
made in blatant defiance of our values and a Supreme Court ruling made just a month prior.”
(speaker.gov)
“The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater,
Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized”
“An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.”
by Jane Mayer
“Atwater died before he could finish his memoir.
What remains of it are hunks of yellowing typewritten pages, held together by rusting staples and paper clips.
But the seven surviving chapters suggest that, far from dying along with him, the nihilism, cynicism, and scurrilous tactics that Atwater brought into national politics live on. In many ways, his memoir suggests that Atwater’s tactics were a bridge between the old Republican Party of the Nixon era, when dirty tricks were considered a scandal, and the new Republican Party of Donald Trump,
in which lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost have become normalized.
Chapter 5 of Atwater’s memoir in particular serves as a Trumpian precursor.”
(https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized)
Remarks by President Biden on the Economy
(excerpts)
“In the first quarter, our economy grew at 6.4 percent rate, outpacing the growth we’re seeing from other — our friends in the Eurozone.
Because of the American Rescue Plan, forecrast- — forecasters are projecting we’ll see the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years in the months to come. We’re moving in the right direction.
So let’s be clear: Our economic plan is working.
I never said — and no serious analyst ever suggested — that climbing out of the deep, deep hole our economy was in would be simple, easy, immediate, or perfectly steady. Remember, 22 million Americans lost their jobs in this pandemic…”
“First, today we’re opening a portal for state and local governments to apply for their — the first funds from the American Rescue Plan. Because states and local governments have to balance their budgets, a lot of them had to lay off employees when the economy — state and federal — state employees and local employees when the economy slowed and tax revenues fell. We’re talking about 1.3 million state and local employees out of work.
Now — but now the money we’re distributing — going to be distributing now is going to make it possible for an awful lot of educators, first responders, sanitation workers to go back to work.
Second — this is a yearlong program. Second, we’re delivering assistance to tens of thousands of restaurants and bars across the country. Today, we’re sending out the first relief checks to 16,000 hard-hit restaurants with help for many more to follow. A lot more people are going to be employed.
Third, the employers bring back laid-off workers. To help them do that, we’re going to remind them that there is some progress they can take advantage — some programs they can take advantage of….”
“Fourth, we’re going to provide real help for people struggling with the challenge of childcare, which is making it hard for many parents who need to work — especially women — to get back to work. ..”
(whitehouse.gov)
‘Cancel culture’ becomes synonymous with ‘consequences’ after endless Fox News memeing”
“Rachel Maddow shares video of horse trainer Bob Baffert discussing his horse, Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, failing a drug test, chalking the matter up to “a cancel culture kind of thing.”
With GOP cheating is not cheating, and the only crime is getting caught. If they can pre-rig the system they will not pay if caught = a trump specialty. The world of Mafia Don and the GOP party of course messes with the the courts and police…Trump has been in that world all his life. Now the infection has spread and his party was primed for it, the only ethic is to cheat and lie.
imo per the GOP plan pretty soon there’ll be no such thing as an election, only those who stay in control.
STOP THE AZ RECOUNT
and their plan to continue their charade on to other states.
A non-official entity has access to your private voter information.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
“Russia Seen As Safe Haven For Cyber Crime Following Pipeline Hack”
“Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is known about the cybercriminal group that hacked the Colonial Pipeline Company, and the peculiar relationship between many criminal hacker groups and the Russian government.”
“FBI confirms DarkSide ransomware group behind pipeline hack”
(https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/552656-fbi-confirms-darkside-ransomware-group-behind-pipeline-hack)
Democrats Add State-Level Republican Feedback To New Voting Rights Bill
“Senator Jeff Merkley, lead sponsor of the voting rights bill moving through the Senate,
talks with Rachel Maddow about recruiting support for enforcing democratic principles from state Republicans even as Washington, D.C. Republicans continue to rely on the corruption of those principles to stay in power.”
H.R.1 – FOR THE PEOPLE ACT
Senator Jeff Merkley, lead sponsor of the For The People Act, talks to Rachel Maddow.
Senator Merkley:
“And by the way what you’re describing in Arizona, that madness. There is method to that madness.
It is designed to keep the voter fraud argument going, both to change the laws in the states, and to stop this bill in the Senate.”
Sen. Merkely:
“And so we’re working with those Republicans across the country who say
‘This makes sense, we want to stop gerrymandering, which corrupts the vision of equal representation. We want to stop billionaires from buying elections, and we want to defend the freedom and right of every citizen to be able to vote.’
And so this strategy is based on let’s defend these core principles of our Constitution that resonate deeply with Democrats and with Republicans across this country.”
Sen. Merkley:
“the reason the Republican establishment in the Senate is opposing this is because their power stems from a corrupted voting process, from the gerrymandering, from the dark money, from the voter suppression. And they want to maintain it, even though their citizens out there across America say they want us to restore and protect the right to vote.
And so if we don’t talk about it, we fail to convey what a tremendously perilous moment this is.
Because if we fail to protect the election process, then we have failed to defend the core foundation for the vision of Government of, by, and for the People. And it means that the Republican goals, whether it’s packing the courts with federalist corporate members, or it’s tax cuts for the richest Americans. Those things get done by simple majority because the Republicans change the rules. While the things that we’re fighting for, for ordinary families on health care, housing, education, good paying jobs and the Equality Act, and environmental protection – those things we fail on. Because they (GOP) will keep the people from being able to vote (and from) fighting for those fundamental goals.
So are we going to veer out completely away from this vision that our nation was founded on,
or as Lincoln summarized, of, by and for the people? And just be a corrupted republic that works for the powerful? Whether or not we pass this bill is a huge pivot point for the direction of America.”
NOW…
LET”S VOTE!!!…Let’s get it DONE!!!
“The NRA Could Soon Be Gone
After Judge Rejects Bankruptcy And Texas Move”
“The NRA lost their bid to declare bankruptcy in New York
and reorganize in Texas in a New York court.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/05/11/the-nra-could-soon-be-gone-after-judge-rejects-bankruptcy-and-texas-move.html)
NY Attorney General James:
“A judge has ruled in our favor and rejected the
@NRA’s attempt to claim bankruptcy and reorganize in Texas. The @NRA does not get to dictate if and where it will answer for its actions, and our case will continue in New York court.
No one is above the law.”
Um.
“Russia to tighten gun rules after school shooting.”
(BBC World)
The traitors’ party is the traitor’s party. As are their traitors ‘base’.
our hero standing for the door on the way out…2 much amk !!!
Fuck that fucking karen trying to take it away from him/her.
🚨Mrs. O. is on with Stephen Colbert tonight! 🚨
Apartheid amurkkka is here already. Dems better wake the fuck up.
walk a little, you selfish fat fucks.
Just sharing this amazing young man & his super talent:
Michael Scherer, WAPO, to Rachel Maddow last night:
“You know, Donald Trump wanted to make an example of Liz Cheney when she voted for impeachment. He sent out aides right away to Wyoming to denounce her. He celebrated the Republican Party in that state when it censured her. He commissioned a poll to show how unpopular she was.
But Liz Cheney is making clear tonight, and I think you’ll see it tomorrow and I think you’ll see it for days to come, that instead of an example he’s getting a rival here. And she’s going to take this case the distance.
And I think her event horizon here is longer than he thought it would be.
She’s not just looking to the next midterms….”
imo…thinking…maybe this is how GOP figures it can play both angles.
Like when trump crashes and burns with indictments, Cheney the hard right conservative who voted 93% of the time with Trump, will be there. She even voted against gay marriage when her sister is gay! Even as we don’t want Trump, Cheney is no friend to Democrats. She’s like that ‘smart trump’ we predicted would come along. As always the architects are playing the long game.
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
in Support of Washington State’s Overtime Bill for Farm Workers
“I congratulate the Washington State legislature and Governor Jay Inslee for signing into law SB 5172, Washington’s Overtime Bill for Agricultural Workers, which will help more than 100,000 farmworkers secure the overtime pay they deserve. Agricultural workers in Washington and across the country have helped carry our nation through this pandemic — working long hours, often at great personal risk, to meet the needs of their communities and keep America healthy and well-nourished. These overtime protections will ensure that agricultural workers in Washington are paid for all of the vital work they do.
For too long — and owing in large part to unconscionable race-based exclusions put in place generations ago — farmworkers have been denied some of the most fundamental rights that workers in almost every other sector have long enjoyed, including the right to a forty-hour work week and overtime pay.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/11/statement-by-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-in-support-of-washington-states-overtime-bill-for-farm-workers/)
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