Our case numbers in Oregon are still not dropping and the number of fully vaccinated people is not high enough to make me go maskless anywhere indoors outside of my house and car. I take a mask with me when walking in the neighborhood and put it on when I see another person because I want to send a message that masks still matter. We are not out of the woods on potential lethal mutations arising and spreading liker wildfire. So far, the current vaccines seem to offer protection. We have just started to have other fully vaccinated couples over for happy hour. Stay safe!
Glad you and your colleagues can. I’m high risk. Got vaccinated but live in a state where only 25% of adults did. I don’t trust the gross anti-maskers & anti-vaxxers walking around spreading disease. It’s been nice not getting a cold or flu too. I’ll keep wearing my mask, TYVM.
‘Morally Shocking’: Inside The Escalation Between Israel And Gaza
“Chris Hayes and guests Rula Jebreal and Lisa Goldman examine the escalating violence in Israel—and why it is so “morally shocking.”
Chris Hayes: “Rula Jebreal, you grew up as a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.
Your father was an imam in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. You’ve written about the conflict for most of your life. What are you seeing now and what do these images on the streets mean to you?”
Rula Jebreal, journalist:
“This is what we all have been warning against. And we were appealing to Democrats in the United States across the world, especially those who for all their life fought with African Americans here – to affirm equality, equal right, and to protect multiracial democracy in the United States.
What you’re seeing in Israel is trumpism on steroids.
What you’re seeing in the streets of Israel is when (like you) Prime Minister Netanyahu weaponized ethnonationalism and the belligerent races racism, and unleashed in the streets. And now it’s the dominant sentiment in Israel politics and Israel society.”
—-Sound familiar?
Jebreal:
“I’ve never in my life seen anything like what we are seeing all over Israel in mixed cities, supposedly also tolerant. Coexistence was the character of those cities, in Tel Aviv, everywhere.
What you’re seeing is years and years where these nationalist extremists, the militias, the mob, the equivalent of the Proud Boys were so legitimized and normalized, and now they’re sitting in Parliament.
And they are Bibi’s allies! These are people who will probably form a government.”
—-Sound familiar?
Jebreal:
“So he’s been embracing these guys.
So when our government in the United States says that we support Israel, they’re asking the Palestinians who are occupied to protect their occupiers. This is what they’re asking.
In the meantime, they’re actually sponsoring, underwriting the occupation in the occupied territories and West Bank, while underwriting again the ethno-segregation everywhere else.
And the country is imploding. We’ve seen this gradually increasing.
But it’s imploding politically, socially, economically, and racially, and religiously. And what they fear the most – you mentioned my father who worked in the mosque – in 1984, those extremist Jewish fanatics, tried to blow up the mosque. They were caught, they were sentenced, and they were pardoned.
In ’96, they killed the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. They incited against him. They called him a traitor of the Jewish people. And they killed him. The guy that killed him is now…a hero of these nationalists. We see where this effort is going. And I fear it’s going to be bloodshed, pogroms. And what you saw these nights, it’s going to become the norm in Israel and Palestine.”
This is so sad https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/eighteen-elephants-found-dead-in-indian-forest-reserve
Authorities are trying to establish how 18 wild Asiatic elephants died in a remote corner of India’s north-east.
The elephants, including five calves, were found dead in the protected Kondali forest reserve in the state of Assam, Jayanta Goswami, a wildlife official, told Associated Press. The forest guard reached the area on Thursday and found 14 elephants dead atop a hill and four at its bottom.
Hundreds march in California for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
by Albert Bender
“The Native Sisters Circle of Sacramento said the march’s purpose was to bring about greater awareness of the horrendous tragedy that has beset Native women for decades in the United States. The Prayer Walk focused on several Indigenous women who’ve gone missing or been murdered in Northern California and law enforcement’s failure to investigate properly.
A recent report by the Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI), a data-based nonprofit, Indigenous-led research organization based in Humboldt County, examines the failure to pursue the cases of 105 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls throughout Northern California from the Bay Area to the Oregon border.
Utilizing police reports, federal and state data, community-focused information, and other research, the SBI uncovered more than 2,300 other cases in the U.S. There is no official, comprehensive database covering all MMIW cases. Undoubtedly, the real figure is much larger. Many Native victims are misclassified as other races, and some deaths are classified as accidental when, according to relatives, clear evidence of foul play is present.
Within Northern California, the SBI found that the most highly concentrated number of MMIW cases is in the “Lost Coast” region of Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino Counties. The Bay Area makes up 16% of cases in the report that never made national headlines or gathered social media attention.”
Indian Country cheers nomination of Muscogee Nation citizen to federal bench
by Acee Agoyo
“A citizen of the Muscogee Nation is set to make history as the first Native person
to serve as a federal judge in Washington state.
Lauren J. King, an attorney,
will be nominated to serve on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, the White House announced on Wednesday. Should she be confirmed by the U.S. Senate,
she will only be the third active Native judge in the nation.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/05/13/indian-country-cheers-nomination-of-muscogee-nation-citizen-to-federal-bench/)
President Biden promised a US response to DarkSide yesterday and right now something very bad appears to be happening to DarkSide, which hacked the Colonial Pipeline.
Stardate 3001: And so it was.
The northern nation of the Americas, previously on track to annihilation under the illegitimate mafia president, began to recover. The new President in 2021 was quickly revealed to be authentic with a heart of gold.
Globally revered C.D.C. informed the U.S. that wearing masks was no longer required, following a year of the deadly Covid-19 virus. And the people were ready for the former criminal president to be apprehended by the courts and taken from his hiding place. A skirmish with his defenders in that process seemed inevitable.
YALL I’m in line at Starbucks in Publix, an officer in the line told a lady to have a nice day she replied “you as well try not to kill any black men today” pic.twitter.com/ewMmf7xtoV
The other day I had a chance to visit a COVID-19 vaccination site in Greenbelt, MD. It was great to see so many folks getting their shot. If you need one, sign up today at https://t.co/k4jKpPT5qo — and then spread the word so we can keep our families and communities safe. pic.twitter.com/iyR2IqCTD4
.@RepSwalwell responds: "No one should be bullied for wearing a mask. So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit." https://t.co/hT2iP01fdj
What does @RepSwalwell say? BTW just because we, the vaccinated, can take our masks off doesn’t mean we will if we don’t trust that those around us are also vaccinated. But leave to RWNJs like MTG to resort to a new level of mask shaming.
— DogLover4Dems – #GetVaccinated 💉 (@Donna_West) May 14, 2021
That’s the part people seem to be missing. It’s not that we don’t trust the CDC, it’s that we don’t trust fellow Americans.
White House: "Neera Tanden will be Senior Chief Liaison between the White House & the Senate Budget Committee. All communications from the Committee to the White House will go through her office first. Ms Tanden will then decide what should be forwarded to the Cabinet and POTUS." https://t.co/KDps5yC91V
— Purity For Thee But Not For Me💃🏻⚖️💉 (@TheePurity) May 14, 2021
read that release more carefully, this will REALLY fry Bernie's ass.
"All communications from the Committee to the White House will go through her office first. Ms Tanden will then decide what should be forwarded to the Cabinet and POTUS."
JB basically creates a specific job description that gives her MORE power than if she were OMB Director & now she has no Congressional oversight! She’s an ADVISOR so Biden can claim Executive Privilege! This is too damned perfect. WINNING pic.twitter.com/vw5oo85YV4
Hey VC, my nephew came to mind when I read this tweet
As of 2014, less than 2% of musicians in American orchestras are African American, according to a study by the League of American Orchestras. @BlackViolin is changing that. I’m talking to these two dope guys next hour on #CrossConnection Don’t miss
Hello there, GxG. 🙂 🙂 You are a thoughtful auntie.
Me, I can’t tell the last time I’ve heard him play … anything. He’s been busy working to bring home the bacon to his family, while I’m busy trying to not say anything like ‘What’s happened to your music?’
"If Democrats do not make preventing the Big Lie from becoming a pillar of the state a top priority, we will lose not only elections but our democracy."
“The top priority for Democrats and progressives has to be protecting voting rights. That should be our 1st, 2nd and 3rd agenda item because without the protection of the right to vote — nothing else will matter.”
An Evening with CARE, Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the CARE Package
“A special CARE experience hosted by Whoopi Goldberg featuring President Joe Biden, former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush & Barack Obama with musical performances, stories of impact from around the world, and Moments of CARE”
🚀 Samples of a 4.5-billion-year old asteroid head to Earth 🔭 Our @NASAWebb telescope checks off a key prelaunch milestone ⛈️ Scientists develop a way to view satellite data in 3D
“Steve Jurczyk, who served as acting NASA administrator from Jan. 20 to May 3, 2021, announced Monday he will retire on Friday, May 14, after more than three decades of service at NASA.
Jurczyk has served as associate administrator,
the agency’s highest-ranking civil servant, since May 2018.
He was the highest-ranking career civil servant leading NASA throughout the pandemic and most recently oversaw the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, a successful Green Run test of the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket, the naming of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 to the International Space Station,
and the return of Crew-1 back to Earth.”
The House passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, 315-101.
The Senate will now consider the bill, which, if passed, will require employers to reasonably accommodate workers and job applicants who need accommodations due to pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions.
I feel so naked and exposed without a mask. It’s a little unnerving just walking to my garage and riding in the car without it. Still wearing it at work, inside buildings and around people I don’t know.
1/16 Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. That’s an indisputable fact. But so do Palestinians. And that's a fact that is often ignored. Palestinians are, at best, third class citizens in the nation of their birth. #velshi
President Biden on Friday revoked a series of controversial executive orders issued by the Trump admin., striking down decisions ranging from monument protection to immigration restrictions. https://t.co/oqthrrZwU9
The GOP doesn't want school children to learn about slavery, systemic racism, the slaughter of Native Americans or anything else that undermines their myth that white people "birthed a nation from nothing." They didn't. My MSNBC article https://t.co/DZ1iIimFWZ
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 16, 2021
“Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins
by carefully chewing and passing them around”
“Extraordinary scenes filmed for new documentary showing the marine mammals in their natural habitats
Though large doses of the toxin can be deadly, in small amounts it is known to produce a narcotic effect, and the dolphins appeared to have worked out how to make the fish release just the right amount.”
“When the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced,
using DNA collected from ancient bones,
it was accompanied by the discovery that modern humans in Asia, Europe and America
inherited approximately 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals —
proving humans and Neanderthals had interbred after humans left Africa.
Since that study, new methods have continued to catalogue Neanderthal ancestry in non-African populations, seeking to better understand human history and the effects of Neanderthal DNA on human health and disease.
A comparable catalogue of Neanderthal ancestry in African populations, however,
has remained an acknowledged blind spot…
“This is the first time we can detect the actual signal of Neanderthal ancestry in Africans,”
said co-first author Lu Chen, a postdoctoral research associate in LSI.
While the Princeton researchers acknowledged the limited number of African populations they were able to analyze, they hope their new method and their findings will encourage more study of Neanderthal ancestry across Africa and other populations. Regarding the overall significance of the research, Chen said:
“This demonstrates the remnants of Neanderthal genomes survive
in every modern human population studied to date.”
Kind of amazing how quickly the Pentagon has gone from "UFOs? Just weather balloons and swamp gas" to "yeah, everyday we see shit we can't explain." Don't know what to make of it. https://t.co/iKkgK7RSky
“I'm not telling you that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real,” says Luis Elizondo, a 20-year veteran of covert military intelligence operations, about UFOs. “What is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?” https://t.co/N8Z0JM2tH5pic.twitter.com/fVUZ3hQaIq
“Imagine a technology that can… fly 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar… has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces… That’s precisely what we’re seeing,” says the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation program. https://t.co/gaYglDoDGIpic.twitter.com/TToSqJqaAT
“I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's something out there that was better than our airplane,” says fmr. Navy pilot David Fravor about his experience with a UFO off the Pacific coast in 2004. https://t.co/fSMVvwynzcpic.twitter.com/aDDIPg3TJq
The funding for the GOP-backed Arizona audit is cloaked in secrecy:
Private fundraisers have boasted that they're funneling hundreds of thousands into the effort. But there's little to no scrutiny on where that money is going or how it's being used.https://t.co/Jtvqu10CWu
Independent and opposition candidates have a won a key two thirds of seats in the body that will write a new constitution in Chile.
A new constitution to replace the one dating back to Gen Pinochet’s military rule was a crucial demand of protests which swept through Chile in 2019.
Government-backed candidates have only secured about a fourth of the seats.
That is short of the number which would have made it possible for them to block sweeping changes.
Right-wing President Sebastián Piñera said it was a historic election in which citizens had sent a clear message, and that his government and other traditional parties were not attuned to the demands and aspirations of the people.
Last October, an overwhelming majority of Chileans voted in favour of rewriting the constitution in a referendum, held as a result of mass street demonstrations across the country a year earlier.
The protests, originally triggered by a fare hike on the Santiago metro, drew a wide variety of people who shared an anger about high levels of inequality in Chile.
One of their demands was to reform the old dictatorship-era constitution, which they argued was at the root of much of Chile’s inequality by giving undue weight to Chile’s private sector.
Millions of Chileans are heavily indebted, for example, often to pay for schooling and private pensions.
Palestinian Writer Forcibly Removed From His Neighborhood
“Violence continues to escalate at the border of Israel and the Gaza strip,
more than 100 Palestinians and eight Israelis have been killed in the violence including dozens of children. Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian forcibly removed from his neighborhood, told Joy, “I managed to get back home, I’ll always find my way back home.”
Rule Jebreal, University of Miami:
(transcript not final)
“So, Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel apartheid government.
And I say the word ‘apartheid’ because former Prime Minister of Israel, two of them, Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, security services, head of the Mossad and many others, used this word saying, in absence of any political solution we will be entering apartheid.
We`re already living a project of ethno-religious exclusion and purity.
This is what happened after years of Bibi Netanyahu incitement, weaponization of religion and weaponization of race, where it doesn`t matter (about) democracy for even Palestinians who live inside.
What matters is their ethnicity.
What matter is their race, their religion.
And it`s basically (at) this stage, where the occupation is metastasized everywhere. Not only in Gaza or in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, but also inside Israel.
What you’re seeing Joy is what we have seen here in America, with the white supremacists under Jim Crow…If you can see these images of somebody like Mohammed, who is a young man from occupied East Jerusalem taken from his home like this, expelled from his home, not because the home doesn`t belong to him because of who he is, because of his ethnicity.
We know this phenomena very well. And the heartbreaking part is that we can connect this phenomenon to things that happened recently in American history. When you saw the mosques being gassed, where worshipers are gassed. Or people marching in the streets now, as we speak, in Haifa, in Acre, everywhere, saying, “Kill all the Palestinian, kill the Arabs, bomb them to oblivion, we have the right to kill them all.”
We have seen this force, whether on January 6…
We have seen this kind of politics when they put kids in cages in the United States.
We have seen this before. And the most heartbreaking thing Joy, is that the United States subsidize this ethno-nationalist project of exclusion and purity.
We subsidize the atrocities that are taking place.”
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will take up Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks. https://t.co/7gZPYjVc14
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Biden administration announced Monday that about 39 million families will begin receiving monthly child tax credit payments for the first time starting July 15. The payments are expected to dramatically reduce child poverty.
The payments are part of the American Rescue Plan, which expanded the child tax credit for one year and made it possible to pre-pay the benefits on a monthly basis.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT),
House Appropriations Committee Chair, member Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
Hope For Repairing Trump & DeJoy’s Damage To Post Office
“Rachel Maddow reviews the damaging impact of Louis DeJoy as postmaster general under Donald Trump and talks with Amber McReynolds, a newly confirmed, Biden-nominated member of the USPS board of governors about her hopes for the future of U.S. mail and improving service for Americans who rely on it.”
Amber McReynolds: “Election officials are heroes.”
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
YUP. It’s masks up on this side. I don’t trust nan one of my fellow country people.
Our case numbers in Oregon are still not dropping and the number of fully vaccinated people is not high enough to make me go maskless anywhere indoors outside of my house and car. I take a mask with me when walking in the neighborhood and put it on when I see another person because I want to send a message that masks still matter. We are not out of the woods on potential lethal mutations arising and spreading liker wildfire. So far, the current vaccines seem to offer protection. We have just started to have other fully vaccinated couples over for happy hour. Stay safe!
Thanks NW…
“Power Up: Biden goes maskless, signaling a big change for country”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/14/power-up-biden-goes-maskless-signaling-big-change-country/)
President Biden goes maskless.
= HEY YAHH, YAHHHHH !!
They can be confident that their colleagues and people close to them are vaccinated. That’s not the case for me. The mask stays.
Dudette I agree with you. I’m not immune compromised but I don’t trust many of the people I’m around. Too many anti vaxxers.
This week at NASA.
Remarks by Vice President Harris and Secretary Marty Walsh
Before Inaugural Meeting of the Task Force
on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/14/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-and-secretary-marty-walsh-before-inaugural-meeting-of-the-task-force-on-worker-organizing-and-empowerment/)
CDC
Choosing Safer Activites Chart
Here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/pdfs/choosingSaferActivities.pdf
CHART
Left side: unvaccinated people.
Right side: vaccinated people.
Eh anti-vaxxers: Na-Na-Na-Na-Na.
–At yore own risk.
‘Morally Shocking’: Inside The Escalation Between Israel And Gaza
“Chris Hayes and guests Rula Jebreal and Lisa Goldman examine the escalating violence in Israel—and why it is so “morally shocking.”
Chris Hayes: “Rula Jebreal, you grew up as a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.
Your father was an imam in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. You’ve written about the conflict for most of your life. What are you seeing now and what do these images on the streets mean to you?”
Rula Jebreal, journalist:
“This is what we all have been warning against. And we were appealing to Democrats in the United States across the world, especially those who for all their life fought with African Americans here – to affirm equality, equal right, and to protect multiracial democracy in the United States.
What you’re seeing in Israel is trumpism on steroids.
What you’re seeing in the streets of Israel is when (like you) Prime Minister Netanyahu weaponized ethnonationalism and the belligerent races racism, and unleashed in the streets. And now it’s the dominant sentiment in Israel politics and Israel society.”
—-Sound familiar?
Jebreal:
“I’ve never in my life seen anything like what we are seeing all over Israel in mixed cities, supposedly also tolerant. Coexistence was the character of those cities, in Tel Aviv, everywhere.
What you’re seeing is years and years where these nationalist extremists, the militias, the mob, the equivalent of the Proud Boys were so legitimized and normalized, and now they’re sitting in Parliament.
And they are Bibi’s allies! These are people who will probably form a government.”
—-Sound familiar?
Jebreal:
“So he’s been embracing these guys.
So when our government in the United States says that we support Israel, they’re asking the Palestinians who are occupied to protect their occupiers. This is what they’re asking.
In the meantime, they’re actually sponsoring, underwriting the occupation in the occupied territories and West Bank, while underwriting again the ethno-segregation everywhere else.
And the country is imploding. We’ve seen this gradually increasing.
But it’s imploding politically, socially, economically, and racially, and religiously. And what they fear the most – you mentioned my father who worked in the mosque – in 1984, those extremist Jewish fanatics, tried to blow up the mosque. They were caught, they were sentenced, and they were pardoned.
In ’96, they killed the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. They incited against him. They called him a traitor of the Jewish people. And they killed him. The guy that killed him is now…a hero of these nationalists. We see where this effort is going. And I fear it’s going to be bloodshed, pogroms. And what you saw these nights, it’s going to become the norm in Israel and Palestine.”
This is so sad
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/eighteen-elephants-found-dead-in-indian-forest-reserve
Authorities are trying to establish how 18 wild Asiatic elephants died in a remote corner of India’s north-east.
The elephants, including five calves, were found dead in the protected Kondali forest reserve in the state of Assam, Jayanta Goswami, a wildlife official, told Associated Press. The forest guard reached the area on Thursday and found 14 elephants dead atop a hill and four at its bottom.
oh my that is so awful. I sure hope they find out what happened!
Me too Marilyn
Hundreds march in California for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
by Albert Bender
“The Native Sisters Circle of Sacramento said the march’s purpose was to bring about greater awareness of the horrendous tragedy that has beset Native women for decades in the United States. The Prayer Walk focused on several Indigenous women who’ve gone missing or been murdered in Northern California and law enforcement’s failure to investigate properly.
A recent report by the Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI), a data-based nonprofit, Indigenous-led research organization based in Humboldt County, examines the failure to pursue the cases of 105 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls throughout Northern California from the Bay Area to the Oregon border.
Utilizing police reports, federal and state data, community-focused information, and other research, the SBI uncovered more than 2,300 other cases in the U.S. There is no official, comprehensive database covering all MMIW cases. Undoubtedly, the real figure is much larger. Many Native victims are misclassified as other races, and some deaths are classified as accidental when, according to relatives, clear evidence of foul play is present.
Within Northern California, the SBI found that the most highly concentrated number of MMIW cases is in the “Lost Coast” region of Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino Counties. The Bay Area makes up 16% of cases in the report that never made national headlines or gathered social media attention.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/05/14/peoples-world-native-people-march-for-missing-and-murdered-loved-ones/)
LAUREN J KING
Indian Country cheers nomination of Muscogee Nation citizen to federal bench
by Acee Agoyo
“A citizen of the Muscogee Nation is set to make history as the first Native person
to serve as a federal judge in Washington state.
Lauren J. King, an attorney,
will be nominated to serve on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, the White House announced on Wednesday. Should she be confirmed by the U.S. Senate,
she will only be the third active Native judge in the nation.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/05/13/indian-country-cheers-nomination-of-muscogee-nation-citizen-to-federal-bench/)
Interesting thread
Hmmmm?
Stardate 3001: And so it was.
The northern nation of the Americas, previously on track to annihilation under the illegitimate mafia president, began to recover. The new President in 2021 was quickly revealed to be authentic with a heart of gold.
Globally revered C.D.C. informed the U.S. that wearing masks was no longer required, following a year of the deadly Covid-19 virus. And the people were ready for the former criminal president to be apprehended by the courts and taken from his hiding place. A skirmish with his defenders in that process seemed inevitable.
…wearing masks and physical distancing no longer required for the fully vaccinated in most cases.
Eternal Now –
LSDREAM & Champagne Drip
Grandmas are GANG GANG!
Priceless!
Bloop!
Happy Beautiful Friday! 🌸
🥰💖And the same to you too Queen
((((❤️ ggail44 ❤️)))))
{{{[Dudette}}}} 💖
Dudette yes beautiful
I LOVE this man 💖
What a team player. He knows how much weight he carries when he speaks out on a subject.
I would have been a total silly if he had walked in my vaccination center! 😂😇💞
RWNJ are so pressed by people wearing masks. Let one of them jerks step to me.
Yay Neera!
I love this song!
Cat jumps five storeys to safety from burning building
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57124736
Love the way how she/he sticks the landing. #koolkat
I saw a show, the higher the fall cats relax enough to land safely. Cats Rule!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57124256
first world problems. fucking trading cards. only in murkkka.
The pandemic brought out the fact Americans have serious mental issues.
Most men are too dumb to get this connection LOL!
🕊💞🕯🙏🏼🕯💞🕊
{{{ TOD }}}
Hey VC, my nephew came to mind when I read this tweet
Hello there, GxG. 🙂 🙂 You are a thoughtful auntie.
Me, I can’t tell the last time I’ve heard him play … anything. He’s been busy working to bring home the bacon to his family, while I’m busy trying to not say anything like ‘What’s happened to your music?’
💜
He got his work ethic and family responsibility from you. {{{hugs}}}
I bet President Obama has sent condolences privately to the family 🙏🏾🕊
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/15/damon-weaver-interview-obama-white-house-23
Damon Weaver, who interviewed Obama as an 11-year-old, dies aged 23
Weaver interviewed Obama at the White House in 2009
Sister Candace Hardy says he died of natural causes.
Yes! Rev. Dr. Barber is correct. We need to connect with these young adults now!
If this guy is worried, dems are fucked come 2022.
You know, there is turmoil, conflict and political strife all over the World.
No region is immune.
Let’s keep that in mind and work towards improvements.
An Evening with CARE, Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the CARE Package (Source: Getty Images)
May 11, 2021
An Evening with CARE, Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the CARE Package
“A special CARE experience hosted by Whoopi Goldberg featuring President Joe Biden, former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush & Barack Obama with musical performances, stories of impact from around the world, and Moments of CARE”
Sharing a Saturday moment of Zen & hope! I love these guys, Black Violin! Woot! 💞
YAAASSSSSSSS! 🎶🎵💃🏾
Jurczyk Retires as NASA Associate Administrator
“Steve Jurczyk, who served as acting NASA administrator from Jan. 20 to May 3, 2021, announced Monday he will retire on Friday, May 14, after more than three decades of service at NASA.
Jurczyk has served as associate administrator,
the agency’s highest-ranking civil servant, since May 2018.
He was the highest-ranking career civil servant leading NASA throughout the pandemic and most recently oversaw the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, a successful Green Run test of the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket, the naming of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 to the International Space Station,
and the return of Crew-1 back to Earth.”
More: (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/jurczyk-retires-as-nasa-associate-administrator)
–wow.
Quite the long and distinguish serving America’s mission in space. Bravo and godspeed to him.
Congratulations to Second Daughter, Ella Emhoff!
Sad news to report, Family.
Rest in peace, Damon Weaver. 🙏🏾😔
https://amp.palmbeachpost.com/amp/5080816001
Surprised that many rethugs voted for this. I am guessing it will pass in the senate too.
gfy, evil cheney spawn.
True.
I feel so naked and exposed without a mask. It’s a little unnerving just walking to my garage and riding in the car without it. Still wearing it at work, inside buildings and around people I don’t know.
cycle of life. yes, pun was intended.
Hello my lovely TOD Fam. Either this is evening or early morning, whatever timezone. 😇 Whether dinner or breakfast time, enjoy!😂💃
Love her long time! 👏🏾
Haven’t seen GCL (Linda) in ages, maybe missed her posts? Hoping she’s okay. This song is for her.
Also, is Don still around & out of his retirement funk? Shake a leg, Don. There’s always unexpected joy around the corner. It’s all good! Hang tight!
And dropping one more ….
Angelique rocking Nobel Peace Prize celebration, had all these folks singing & dancing to “Afrika”! Dayum! This is your brunch moment of Zen! 😂😇💞
So sad…
Thread…
“Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins
by carefully chewing and passing them around”
“Extraordinary scenes filmed for new documentary showing the marine mammals in their natural habitats
Though large doses of the toxin can be deadly, in small amounts it is known to produce a narcotic effect, and the dolphins appeared to have worked out how to make the fish release just the right amount.”
(https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/dolphin-facts-puffer-fish-high-b1847115.html)
—so much we don’t know!!
“When the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced,
using DNA collected from ancient bones,
it was accompanied by the discovery that modern humans in Asia, Europe and America
inherited approximately 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals —
proving humans and Neanderthals had interbred after humans left Africa.
Since that study, new methods have continued to catalogue Neanderthal ancestry in non-African populations, seeking to better understand human history and the effects of Neanderthal DNA on human health and disease.
A comparable catalogue of Neanderthal ancestry in African populations, however,
has remained an acknowledged blind spot…
“This is the first time we can detect the actual signal of Neanderthal ancestry in Africans,”
said co-first author Lu Chen, a postdoctoral research associate in LSI.
While the Princeton researchers acknowledged the limited number of African populations they were able to analyze, they hope their new method and their findings will encourage more study of Neanderthal ancestry across Africa and other populations. Regarding the overall significance of the research, Chen said:
“This demonstrates the remnants of Neanderthal genomes survive
in every modern human population studied to date.”
(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130112000.htm)
no daylight, as it is.
Yes or No.
Can we pls ask Senator Manchin on-camera,
If the rabid 361 voter suppression bills by republican legislators nationwide are:
BI-PARTISAN.
“NBA World Reacts To Steph Curry’s Insane Performance”
(https://thespun.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/steph-curry-insane-performance-sunday-warriors-grizzlies)
boy: whatever it is on your head, I want it.
😍
We have the world’s biggest vax manufacturer and have the least stock. Pathetic.
👁👁🛸
Now we know who started the covid.
#mesays
asiansaliens.If the plan was to exterminate us, seems like there would be faster methods.
They prolly enjoy torturing us to death. The traitorous thug was the start.
Imo if the thing can disappear in front of you as he said…it is either light projection or a different dimension!!!
how is this fraudit even legal? where the fuck are the dems?
looks like hey “You can do anything you want and we don’t have any laws to stop you”.
-great msg, horrendous.
Independent and opposition candidates have a won a key two thirds of seats in the body that will write a new constitution in Chile.
A new constitution to replace the one dating back to Gen Pinochet’s military rule was a crucial demand of protests which swept through Chile in 2019.
Government-backed candidates have only secured about a fourth of the seats.
That is short of the number which would have made it possible for them to block sweeping changes.
Right-wing President Sebastián Piñera said it was a historic election in which citizens had sent a clear message, and that his government and other traditional parties were not attuned to the demands and aspirations of the people.
Last October, an overwhelming majority of Chileans voted in favour of rewriting the constitution in a referendum, held as a result of mass street demonstrations across the country a year earlier.
The protests, originally triggered by a fare hike on the Santiago metro, drew a wide variety of people who shared an anger about high levels of inequality in Chile.
One of their demands was to reform the old dictatorship-era constitution, which they argued was at the root of much of Chile’s inequality by giving undue weight to Chile’s private sector.
Millions of Chileans are heavily indebted, for example, often to pay for schooling and private pensions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57142087
Palestinian Writer Forcibly Removed From His Neighborhood
“Violence continues to escalate at the border of Israel and the Gaza strip,
more than 100 Palestinians and eight Israelis have been killed in the violence including dozens of children. Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian forcibly removed from his neighborhood, told Joy, “I managed to get back home, I’ll always find my way back home.”
Rule Jebreal, University of Miami:
(transcript not final)
“So, Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel apartheid government.
And I say the word ‘apartheid’ because former Prime Minister of Israel, two of them, Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, security services, head of the Mossad and many others, used this word saying, in absence of any political solution we will be entering apartheid.
We`re already living a project of ethno-religious exclusion and purity.
This is what happened after years of Bibi Netanyahu incitement, weaponization of religion and weaponization of race, where it doesn`t matter (about) democracy for even Palestinians who live inside.
What matters is their ethnicity.
What matter is their race, their religion.
And it`s basically (at) this stage, where the occupation is metastasized everywhere. Not only in Gaza or in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, but also inside Israel.
What you’re seeing Joy is what we have seen here in America, with the white supremacists under Jim Crow…If you can see these images of somebody like Mohammed, who is a young man from occupied East Jerusalem taken from his home like this, expelled from his home, not because the home doesn`t belong to him because of who he is, because of his ethnicity.
We know this phenomena very well. And the heartbreaking part is that we can connect this phenomenon to things that happened recently in American history. When you saw the mosques being gassed, where worshipers are gassed. Or people marching in the streets now, as we speak, in Haifa, in Acre, everywhere, saying, “Kill all the Palestinian, kill the Arabs, bomb them to oblivion, we have the right to kill them all.”
We have seen this force, whether on January 6…
We have seen this kind of politics when they put kids in cages in the United States.
We have seen this before. And the most heartbreaking thing Joy, is that the United States subsidize this ethno-nationalist project of exclusion and purity.
We subsidize the atrocities that are taking place.”
Thanks President Biden and for example Congressman Rosa DeLauro,
who has worked on this relentlessly for two decades….. wow, wow, brilliant! Wow.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT),
House Appropriations Committee Chair, member Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
Hope For Repairing Trump & DeJoy’s Damage To Post Office
“Rachel Maddow reviews the damaging impact of Louis DeJoy as postmaster general under Donald Trump and talks with Amber McReynolds, a newly confirmed, Biden-nominated member of the USPS board of governors about her hopes for the future of U.S. mail and improving service for Americans who rely on it.”
Amber McReynolds: “Election officials are heroes.”
New post.
https://www.obama.org/honoring-freedom-riders/?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Freedom%20Riders_051721&sfmc_s=0033600001DxWTZAA3