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
Hello. Kudos and congrats for opening the door, jackie O’boomer. Thanks, NW, for the new thread. Love this man.
FYI: I will continue to wear my mask, especially inside stores and other locations. TN is fourth from the bottom in vaccinations. Less than 29% of the state is vaccinated. Knox County comes in at 43% vaccinated so for this red area, that’s not too bad and especially in relation to the rest of the state. #leadershipmatters
The pipeline was fine the whole time. They just couldn’t accurately bill customers so they cut fuel to most of the Eastern seaboard. https://t.co/6GUgtEgpJv
Instead of supposedly paying the ransom couldn’t they just reload the backup files right before the attack? So instead of doing that, it would have been cost effective to pay ransom instead of an IT team to figure out the billing?
Republican Rep. Clyde actually said the following;
knowing how many people died and how many police officers were injured defending himself and the Capitol.
The reality is if not stopped, domestic terrorists might have assassinated members of Congress and held others hostage. Put it this way imo if Clyde doesn’t know by now, he and Greene should be mentally evaluated.
Clyde: ”There was no insurrection…the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures…you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
Ari Melber to Jemele Hill (Atlantic): “What we should think through about that as a society?”
(unable to finalize transcript)
Jemele Hill:
“Yes unfortunately for our country, it’s sadly on brand. Because we have seen through a number of historical events how in the moment, they try to get sanitized. How they get changed, misinterpreted, just to continue to keep the hypocrisy going. I mean the truth of the matter is we have a national problem in facing up to our own stuff. And I really didn’t want to say ‘stuff’. I mean this goes back throughout the history of slavery, even when you look at the history of civil rights. And even now, with people trying to rewrite what slavery actually was.
So, I’m not surprised that this has bled over into the insurrection.
I don’t know too many tours where you see people climbing the outside of the building, or threatening to kill lawmakers. Or too many tours where an officer loses his life and many officers get injured, and they’re left with the psychological damage of what was done to them that day. And it’s beyond just intellectually dishonest. It’s actually hurtful. It’s hurtful for not just the people who were there that day and tried to defend the Capitol, and the authorities, and police officers that were put in harm’s way.
It’s offensive and hurtful as a citizen in this country. Because this is something that is clearly fundamentally wrong. We have to be able to call a thing the thing.
We have to be able to say what is actually true.
There is no healing that can come if you’re constantly lying to yourself.
And so looking at how a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives are trying to rewrite what happened on January 6th, it’s just, frankly, insulting. It’s beneath them, it’s undignified and it’s just reckless…knowing that they’re continually perpetuating lies and untruths to people on a daily basis – all in a desperate grab for power.”
—-Bring on the Commission.
Can we have Jan 6 trumpies who were arrested-charged, to describe What they did and Why.
Fox should get it in the neck…imo bringing fox down the highest priority = counteract the big lies in a big way.
–Forwarding their dystopia view of America’s future, gop is allowing Greene to raise cash via stalking,
harassment and intimidation of our elected officials. So if we want more Greenes…keep doing nothing about it.
Dante de Blasio, the New York City mayor’s son, is going to get the message to young New Yorkers that they need to get vaccinated, the father and son announcehttps://t.co/1tzbRa3FiH
On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, the message from the United States is clear: everyone deserves dignity and equality, no matter who they are or whom they love. We’re committed to advancing LGBTQ+ rights here at home and around the world.
#OTD in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. For more than a decade, Charles Houston, Dean of @howardlawschool, headed a team of lawyers that challenged the segregation of schools in 4 states & DC. #APeoplesJourneypic.twitter.com/FHCEzHPFLw
After Houston’s death, Thurgood Marshall argued a joint appeal of these cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Part of their defense relied on the testimonies and research of social scientists throughout their legal strategy. #APeoplesJourneypic.twitter.com/WFQDO0VoWN
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African American children. Learn more: https://t.co/s7gXi6aMGY#APeoplesJourney
On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren issued a unanimous decision that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, violating the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. pic.twitter.com/E5HrXPRE7B
1…
during the confirmation hearings of many of the judges that Trump nominated and the Senate confirmed…many of them would not agree that Brown Vs Board of Education was properly settled///
2…
If SCOTUS scuttles Roe Vs Wade thereby scuttling precendence…what else would SCOTUS disband or overturn…
The @VP meets with members of the @HispanicCaucus to discuss the work they can do together to address the root causes of migration in Northern Triangle countries pic.twitter.com/Ju9Kty55Ty
VP Kamala Harris will be the keynote speaker for AAPI Victory Alliance and AAPI Victory Fund’s first ever virtual AAPI Unity Summit on Wednesday. #StopAsianHatehttps://t.co/Ho5NDWR03U
— Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT! (@flywithkamala) May 17, 2021
By the way, some Shade Thrown by the White House in its statement releasing the tax returns: "Today, the President released his 2020 federal income tax return, continuing an almost uninterrupted tradition."
Hi Twitter, please appreciate my grandma bowling a strike in her saree, and then proceeding to ensure her mask covers her nose#QueenShit, if you ask me! 👸🏽 pic.twitter.com/T3g4x5dpbk
— Sudarshan Krishnamurthy (@sudkrish) May 17, 2021
It’s not a bfd at all. Don’t know what the fuss is all about.
US police academies spend far more time on firearms training than on de-escalating a situation – 71 hours against 21, on average, according to a 2013 US Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
And in the US, the escalation of force is at the discretion of the officer, whereas in countries such as Norway and Finland officers must get permission from a more senior officer before firing a gun.
Prof Haberfeld says: “Most of the training in the US is focused on various types of use of force, primarily the various types of physical force. The communication skills are largely ignored by most police academies.
“This is why you see officers very rapidly escalating from initial communication to the actual physical use of force, because this is how they train.”
Just read up on this story… so there were racial tensions in the area. The local police officers unloaded 400 bullets at the students the night before their graduation. Killing 2 and wounding many others and stripping them from what should have been an amazing day. https://t.co/cTXO82NAIZ
5/ This zero-sum game of power/not-power is what the Democrats never, ever, ever grasp. This year in the states, the GOP — directed and assisted by Heritage Action — has passed sweeping voter restrictions.
Democrats couldn't mount a response. They played defense.
“Another … very good reason why we all should be getting vaccinated."
⚡️Dr. Fauci shares “very encouraging” data showing the COVID vaccines in the U.S. are largely effective against more-contagious variants in India and other nationshttps://t.co/JOUsiTRgMf
CONGRATS!!
on Covid cases declining in the U.S. and deaths down by 81%.
Dr. Fauci to Chris Hayes:
“I have heard of situations where I think are quite reasonable,
that a person who owns an establishment says OK…
I am an establishment in which there may be people who are unvaccinated and infected,
and other people who are unvaccinated and not infected, and there`s risk of transmitting in my establishment….
Therefore, that person has every right to say, when you come into my establishment, you better put a mask on otherwise don`t come in…
But the bottom line of why this recommendation was made
was to assure people
that WHEN they get vaccinated,
they can feel safe,
whatever circumstance they`re on,
outdoors or indoors.”
“Political Corruption Of Secret Service Made Biden Safety A Concern”
“Carol Leonnig, Washington Post reporter and author of “Zero Fail,” talks with Rachel Maddow about the compromised state of the Secret Service
and the problem of agents openly advocating for Donald Trump
and sympathizing with the January 6th insurrection
being tasked with protecting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Statement from President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
on the Child Tax Credit
“The American Rescue Plan is delivering critical tax relief to middle class and hard-pressed working families with children. With today’s announcement, about 90% of families with children will get this new tax relief automatically, starting in July. While the American Rescue Plan provides for this vital tax relief to hard working families for this year, Congress must pass the American Families Plan to ensure that working families will be able to count on this relief for years to come. For working families with children, this tax cut sends a clear message: help is here.”
Gene Sperling, White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator,
to Lawrence O’Donnell on the Child Tax Credit:
“This is an historic tax cut.
It is one of the hallmarks of the American Rescue Plan in providing security, dignity, opportunity to virtually every middle class family. And as you said, being a policy that can have a major impact in reducing child poverty….we’re giving that tax cut NOW starting in July when people need it, when they’re still coming back from Covid pandemic…it’s going to come every month. And one of the things I’m most proud of in our work with Treasury and the IRS is that for the people who get direct deposit, which is 80% of American taxpayers right now, it’s going to come on the 15th of every month…
And I do think this reflects a lot of the policy heart of Joe Biden,
not just that it’s going to help the dignity and security of families that it’s going to reduce poverty. But when you talk about him wanting to know the details, one of the things he presses – and this was true in the campaign, it’s true as long as I’ve worked with him – is how is it going to affect people? How are they going to know what they’re getting….so here they’re going to know: July 15th, August 15th, September 15th, they’re going to know there’s that extra support they can depend on and rely on and this has really never been done before…
He (Joe) sees that real person,
and he knows getting that right might be a detail in a policy world,
but it’s life and death to a working family,
to their hopes, their aspirations,
the desire that everyone has to care for their children.”
“The Republicans right now still can’t even identify who stole the election.
I mean was it Hugo Chavez, was it the Dominion voting machines CEO, was it the panda bears, was a voter standing in line waiting to get water? They can’t even identify a culprit.
So in addition to that, these very same Republican members were on the same ballot as the former president.
So if the ballot was somehow faulty, then they shouldn’t even be in Congress.”
Senator Mazie Hirono to Joy Reid:
“So you have Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and now Barrett and who knows, they may be joined by the chief justice to undo Roe v. Wade. This is what’s being set up by state legislatures all across the country. Hundreds and hundreds of these kinds of restrictive laws being contemplated and some passed.
Joy Reid: It’s about women, it’s about controlling women.
Sen. Hirono:
“They have been setting this up with dark money to get Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett on the Supreme Court
to the tune of millions.”
Sen. Hirono:
“Somebody said when climate change comes up, Republicans say ‘I’m not a scientist’.
But when a woman’s health issue is being discussed, they’re all
GYNECOLOGISTS.”
If we are to ever fully recover from Jan. 6, we have a lot of changes to make, and we need to make them fast.@TheRickWilson lays out why — and how: https://t.co/2d1Awl4n4z
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 18, 2021
Senior coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt revealed that one of his sons has serious lingering effects from COVID-19—six months after he first tested positive. https://t.co/b1wd8G6wLo
“A lot of people, they just checked out after Joe Biden was declared the winner…But for those of us that actually follow, it’s gotten even more disturbing since the election,” @AriBerman says on the @NewAbnormalPod. https://t.co/tZBLsrgDzt
DEMS have a ton of crap to clean up from 4yrs of GOP stealing and destruction, a year of COVID-19 inaction, almost 600k dead. We’re supposed to clean up GOP mess in less than 6 mos?! F@# I am really sick of people expecting DEMS to solve 400yrs of problems only to put GOP back in office the first chance they get! F@#
Outrage aside, dems need the political power to do whatever things they want to do. Without political power, they can do jacksquat and voting is what basically democracy is all about that gives the dems the power. You lose it, you will get permanent rethugs corruption at every level. Berman is a voting right activist and I agree with his assessment that dems have largely checked out after 2020.
Cheney's ouster directly connected to story we broke yesterday about dark money Heritage Action bragging to donors about writing GOP voter suppression laws
Highest echelons of GOP/conservative movement weaponizing Trump's Big Lie to rig future elections https://t.co/KBXkTLfuxM
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we held a handful of Museum collection events to speak face-to-face with folks across the country. On #IMD2021, hear from Chicagoans whose stories of the Obamas date back long before their time in the White House. pic.twitter.com/Tsxgq6jp5n
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) May 18, 2021
President Biden took Ford's new electric truck out for a test drive after touring their electric vehicle center in Dearborn, Michigan. pic.twitter.com/jfolzGNSTb
New: Arizona's election auditors and the Senate Republicans overseeing it were totally wrong in claiming a key Maricopa County database had been deleted. They'd just been looking the wrong way, their tech expert admitted today.
Gateway Pundit is saying they “recovered the deleted database” like the cyber Ninjas are some kind of heroes when they actually don’t know what the hell they’re doing. That’s how this grift works. Idiots keep writing them checks if they think they can prove Trump won.
The change to include possible criminal charges against the Trump Organization reminds me of this statement by Sen McConnell:
“We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one." https://t.co/9c2cbuo4SS
This is a matter between NY AG, courts and the traitorous thug. What is the relevance of other gop thugs like mcturtle in this? They got jacksquat relevance.
Just as the rethugs are frauditing AZ results, why don’t the dems play the same hardball tactics against all the highly questionable ‘wins’ of rethugs like mcturtle, lindsey, this maine lady, that NC senate guy?
At first I was a tree, now I’m petrified. Thinking all my wooden rings had turned to stone inside…🎶 I will survive! Two of the icons of Petrified Forest National Park includes petrified wood and the night sky. What do you think of this view?
The piece of shit is moving to NJ for the summer. Good time to indict and issue arrest warrants, right? FL would not extradite the scumbag, but NJ will? (A guy can dream, can’t he? 😃 )
Do not forget that a century ago, the Tulsa massacre happened, a white mob invaded this black prosperous community and murdered as many as 300 black residents. Jealousy, madness, unrelenting rage towards my people.#TulsaRaceMassacre#racism#BlackLivesMatter 📸 Tulsa World pic.twitter.com/GnHG3qV0p4
JUST IN: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission says former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will deliver keynote address at “Remember & Rise” commemoration event on May 31st at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. @NewsOn6pic.twitter.com/CpVILXlzMi
Ms. Viola Fletcher — the oldest survivor of the Tulsa race massacre (in the green jacket) — tells Congress she turned 107 two weeks ago and this is her first trip to Washington: “I’m here seeking justice, and I’m asking my country to acknowledge what happened on May 31, 1921.” pic.twitter.com/c3l1nw6Pac
A Michigan judge has rejected an effort to force a new audit of the 2020 election results in a county that has been central to lies promoted by Trump and his supporters.
The case was one of the last challenges to the 2020 election results still pending. https://t.co/fTn2sEwPe4
‘Why not every election and why only the presidential?’:
Maricopa County Recorder on Arizona GOP’s sham 2020 election recount”
“In Arizona, Republicans are conducting a third sham review of the 2020 election looking to undercut President Biden’s victory.”
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to Joy Reid: “my dog in the fight is looking out for the hardworking people of Maricopa County and not letting them defamed, not letting their good efforts get mocked.”
Remarks by President Biden on a Future Made in America
(excerpts)
“We’re at a great inflection point in American history. How we handle the next 4 to 10 years is going to determine where we’re going to be 30, 40, 50 years from now. It’s one of those moments in American history….
Look, the future of the auto industry is electric. There’s no turning back.
And as Rory says, “The American auto industry is at a crossroads.”
And the real question is whether we’ll lead or we’ll fall behind in the race to the future;
or whether we’ll build these vehicles and the batteries that go in them here in the United States or rely on other countries; or whether the jobs to build these vehicles and batteries, that are good-paying union jobs with benefits — jobs that will sustain and grow the middle class.”
“It means passing the American Jobs Plan to do three things.
One, transform our infrastructure. Our infrastructure is ranked like 38th in the world. This is the United States of America, for God’s sake.
We’re going to put Americans to work modernizing our roads, our highways, our ports, our airports, rails, and transit systems. That includes putting IBEW members and the union workers to work installing 500,000 charging stations along our roads and highways, our homes and our apartments.
The IBEW is ready to do it, and they can.
Two, we’re going to boost our manufacturing capacity. That’s why the American Jobs Plan invests in new and retooled union facilities: grants to kickstart new battery and parts production, loans and tax credits to boost manufacturing of these clean vehicles.
It also makes the largest investment in research and development in generations. That’s going to help innovate, manufacture, and build the supply chains for batteries and semi-conductors and the small computer chips that make electric trucks and cars go — to be even more reliant than they are now.”
Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor,
to Chris Hayes:
(excerpt)
“I mean everybody is going electric. And the question is who’s going to win in that race, and who’s going to capture these markets.
So but it’s also important to recognize that in the American Jobs Plan,
there are incentives that will help consumers be able to afford these vehicles. We know that soon they’re going to have parity with the cost of combustion engines, but we want them to have parity now.
We want consumers to have opportunities for rebates. We want to actually provide benefits to companies that have union workers, and that actually manufacture these batteries. We want to have opportunities for a manufacturing upstream and the entire supply chain. So we’re talking about grants and loans and other opportunities that we can bring to the table.
In the American Jobs Plan,
we’ll accelerate everything we’re doing. Everything from electric vehicles,
to transit, to buses. I mean we are talking about transforming our transportation sector so that we’re ready to build the future. Not just rely on what we had in the past. That’s what President Biden means about Build Back Better. And it’s just the start. Because we’re looking at investments and broadband. We’re looking at investments in the future that’s really going to point us to win in this economic challenge that we face right now.
And Lord knows, the pandemic is getting close to being behind us. And we want it to be there. Now is the time to look at hope and opportunity. New jobs, good-paying jobs. Really building the future in a way that we’re going to be proud to hand to our kids. Because there’s going to be low carbon. It’s going to address the issue of climate change. And provide us an opportunity to live healthier and safer lives.
That’s what it’s all about.”
The F-150 >>>> gas to electric.
All will be revealed tonight!!
“Massive market reach of Ford’s F-150 could make all-electric version a game changer”
“Rachel Maddow reports on the immense popularity of the Ford F series pick-up trucks,
and particularly the F-150,
which is set to be released in an all-electric version.
If the electric F-150 is a success,
its popularity could make the difference in normalizing electric vehicles in the U.S.
and begin the phase-out of gas-powered vehicles.”
The fact Republicans continue to get away with equating protests against police violence with an attack on the nation’s Capitol by Trump supporters intent in insurrection continues to boggle the mind.
Steve Gallardo, member of the Maricopa County AZ board of supervisors,
speaks to Rachel Maddow:
“You have organizations, you have Trump loyalists. They are doing everything they can to undermine our democracy, undermine the will of the voters in the state of Arizona.
There’s nothing that we can do to try to convince these folks that the election was safe, secure and accurate.
They have taken control of the Arizona State Senate.
They have now forced them to continue this sham audit.
They had a sham hearing earlier today.
These outside forces are raising money off this audit.
They’re raising money to be able to continue to push the Big Lie,
and they’re also using this particular audit to push legislation. Voter suppression legislation, that’s what they’re doing. This is what it’s all about. It’s about continuing the Big Lie. It’s about raising money. And it’s about using this to push legislation that will hurt the ability for minorities and elderly and poor people from voting.
That’s what this is all about.”
“Enough is enough!
The fact is that we received a letter from the Arizona State Senate accusing us of ‘committing crimes’ here in the state of Arizona and in Maricopa County. They have called for us to be arrested.
Enough is enough. I believe that many of the Republicans there in Maricopa County have said this is enough. We’re not going to continue to stand on the sidelines and be quiet. We’re going to speak out.
And that’s what you’re seeing.
You’re seeing members not only on my Board but countywide elected Republican officials….
The fact is that they have done more damage to our democracy, the credibility of our election system over the last 6 months than ever before. And it’s time for elected officials to stand up and say Enough Is Enough, knock it off, stop this ridiculous sham audit. And for those that want to sit on our sidelines, our governor, Governor Ducey wants to sit on the sidelines, doesn’t want to upset Trump and the Trump loyalists – enough is enough!
He needs to step up.”
Congresswoman Grace Meng:
On the passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.
“The House today passed a Senate bill to address the rise in Anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic.
New York Congresswoman Grace Meng, who introduced the legislation in the House, tells Joy, “most hate crimes and hate incidents are not being reported to the federal government at all and so we want to make sure, as with any health crisis… that we are having a more accurate and complete set of data to figure out how we can better target and address this problem.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-we-re-thrilled-grace-meng-on-the-passage-of-the-covid-19-hate-crimes-act-112363589764)
Speaker Pelosi:
Floor Speech on S. 937, the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
“And thank you, Mr. Chairman, for bringing us together around this legislation
put forth by Representative Grace Meng, a real champion in Congress, who’s long led the charge against anti-AAPI bigotry – and all forms of bigotry and violence – and who sees its impact firsthand in her district in Queens.”
The Obama Diary 
Hi, there, TOD!
Hello. Kudos and congrats for opening the door, jackie O’boomer. Thanks, NW, for the new thread. Love this man.
FYI: I will continue to wear my mask, especially inside stores and other locations. TN is fourth from the bottom in vaccinations. Less than 29% of the state is vaccinated. Knox County comes in at 43% vaccinated so for this red area, that’s not too bad and especially in relation to the rest of the state. #leadershipmatters
WooHoo, lookit you! Furst and wearing it well! {{{ 💞JO’B💞}}}
Morning everyone, all be well, stay safe, big hugs all around!
🕊🕯🙏🏼💙🙏🏼🕯🕊
Hi there J’OB ! 💃🏾
How much of this ‘ransomware’ was oil insider trading? Who made a killing on oil features?
If verified as true, how many families suffered injury due to monster greed?
Instead of supposedly paying the ransom couldn’t they just reload the backup files right before the attack? So instead of doing that, it would have been cost effective to pay ransom instead of an IT team to figure out the billing?
I had my suspensions from the very beginning due to the fact that it happened in GOP territory.
The don’t-believe-your-own-eyes gop strategy:
Republican Rep. Clyde actually said the following;
knowing how many people died and how many police officers were injured defending himself and the Capitol.
The reality is if not stopped, domestic terrorists might have assassinated members of Congress and held others hostage. Put it this way imo if Clyde doesn’t know by now, he and Greene should be mentally evaluated.
Clyde: ”There was no insurrection…the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures…you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
Ari Melber to Jemele Hill (Atlantic): “What we should think through about that as a society?”
(unable to finalize transcript)
Jemele Hill:
“Yes unfortunately for our country, it’s sadly on brand. Because we have seen through a number of historical events how in the moment, they try to get sanitized. How they get changed, misinterpreted, just to continue to keep the hypocrisy going. I mean the truth of the matter is we have a national problem in facing up to our own stuff. And I really didn’t want to say ‘stuff’. I mean this goes back throughout the history of slavery, even when you look at the history of civil rights. And even now, with people trying to rewrite what slavery actually was.
So, I’m not surprised that this has bled over into the insurrection.
I don’t know too many tours where you see people climbing the outside of the building, or threatening to kill lawmakers. Or too many tours where an officer loses his life and many officers get injured, and they’re left with the psychological damage of what was done to them that day. And it’s beyond just intellectually dishonest. It’s actually hurtful. It’s hurtful for not just the people who were there that day and tried to defend the Capitol, and the authorities, and police officers that were put in harm’s way.
It’s offensive and hurtful as a citizen in this country. Because this is something that is clearly fundamentally wrong. We have to be able to call a thing the thing.
We have to be able to say what is actually true.
There is no healing that can come if you’re constantly lying to yourself.
And so looking at how a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives are trying to rewrite what happened on January 6th, it’s just, frankly, insulting. It’s beneath them, it’s undignified and it’s just reckless…knowing that they’re continually perpetuating lies and untruths to people on a daily basis – all in a desperate grab for power.”
—-Bring on the Commission.
There are pictures of this moron helping to put up barricades to keep the tourist out!
SOON…
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
No treats for me?
Then no fucking streets for thee.
😁
Can we have Jan 6 trumpies who were arrested-charged, to describe What they did and Why.
Fox should get it in the neck…imo bringing fox down the highest priority = counteract the big lies in a big way.
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green aggressively confronts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html)
–Forwarding their dystopia view of America’s future, gop is allowing Greene to raise cash via stalking,
harassment and intimidation of our elected officials. So if we want more Greenes…keep doing nothing about it.
Georgia is barely over 29%. The tunnel is long and dark.
🏳️🌈
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/17/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-is-advancing-lgbtqi-human-rights-at-home-and-across-the-globe/
On this day in 1954…
Two things…
1…
during the confirmation hearings of many of the judges that Trump nominated and the Senate confirmed…many of them would not agree that Brown Vs Board of Education was properly settled///
2…
If SCOTUS scuttles Roe Vs Wade thereby scuttling precendence…what else would SCOTUS disband or overturn…
Thanks JER, I was about to post something about this. 💖🙋🏾♀️👏🏾
❤️❤️❤️🐶
Exactly!
Haha! Get it? Branch manager! 😁
First and Second Family Tax Returns are out.
Trumps tax returns are under audit……by SDNY and Cy Vance. LOL 😆
Dogs: WTF? It has a name?
LOL.
exactly where I parked it.
It’s not a bfd at all. Don’t know what the fuss is all about.
How US police training compares with the rest of the world
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733
US police academies spend far more time on firearms training than on de-escalating a situation – 71 hours against 21, on average, according to a 2013 US Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
And in the US, the escalation of force is at the discretion of the officer, whereas in countries such as Norway and Finland officers must get permission from a more senior officer before firing a gun.
Prof Haberfeld says: “Most of the training in the US is focused on various types of use of force, primarily the various types of physical force. The communication skills are largely ignored by most police academies.
“This is why you see officers very rapidly escalating from initial communication to the actual physical use of force, because this is how they train.”
Totally 200% rocked it.
cops = evil
😭😭😭
Mornin’ y’all..
How cool is this?
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
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Way cool, pamela! Thanks for sharing.
Seditious thug.
I hate nevertrumpers but he is right here. Dems don’t do power thingys proactively.
The fucking fifth columnists.
CONGRATS!!
on Covid cases declining in the U.S. and deaths down by 81%.
Dr. Fauci to Chris Hayes:
“I have heard of situations where I think are quite reasonable,
that a person who owns an establishment says OK…
I am an establishment in which there may be people who are unvaccinated and infected,
and other people who are unvaccinated and not infected, and there`s risk of transmitting in my establishment….
Therefore, that person has every right to say, when you come into my establishment, you better put a mask on otherwise don`t come in…
But the bottom line of why this recommendation was made
was to assure people
that WHEN they get vaccinated,
they can feel safe,
whatever circumstance they`re on,
outdoors or indoors.”
“Political Corruption Of Secret Service Made Biden Safety A Concern”
“Carol Leonnig, Washington Post reporter and author of “Zero Fail,” talks with Rachel Maddow about the compromised state of the Secret Service
and the problem of agents openly advocating for Donald Trump
and sympathizing with the January 6th insurrection
being tasked with protecting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Statement from President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
on the Child Tax Credit
“The American Rescue Plan is delivering critical tax relief to middle class and hard-pressed working families with children. With today’s announcement, about 90% of families with children will get this new tax relief automatically, starting in July. While the American Rescue Plan provides for this vital tax relief to hard working families for this year, Congress must pass the American Families Plan to ensure that working families will be able to count on this relief for years to come. For working families with children, this tax cut sends a clear message: help is here.”
CONGRATS!!
To our marvelous Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro.
For decades of working on the Child Tax Credit, with the goal of making it permanent and to cut poverty in half.
Full text of DeLauro, DelBene, Torres bill:
(https://delauro.house.gov/sites/delauro.house.gov/files/documents/AmericanFamilyAct.pdf)
May we end child poverty once and for all.
The cows!!
LIVE NOW — President Biden delivers remarks at Ford electric vehicle facility in Dearborn, Michigan
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Gene Sperling, White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator,
to Lawrence O’Donnell on the Child Tax Credit:
“This is an historic tax cut.
It is one of the hallmarks of the American Rescue Plan in providing security, dignity, opportunity to virtually every middle class family. And as you said, being a policy that can have a major impact in reducing child poverty….we’re giving that tax cut NOW starting in July when people need it, when they’re still coming back from Covid pandemic…it’s going to come every month. And one of the things I’m most proud of in our work with Treasury and the IRS is that for the people who get direct deposit, which is 80% of American taxpayers right now, it’s going to come on the 15th of every month…
And I do think this reflects a lot of the policy heart of Joe Biden,
not just that it’s going to help the dignity and security of families that it’s going to reduce poverty. But when you talk about him wanting to know the details, one of the things he presses – and this was true in the campaign, it’s true as long as I’ve worked with him – is how is it going to affect people? How are they going to know what they’re getting….so here they’re going to know: July 15th, August 15th, September 15th, they’re going to know there’s that extra support they can depend on and rely on and this has really never been done before…
He (Joe) sees that real person,
and he knows getting that right might be a detail in a policy world,
but it’s life and death to a working family,
to their hopes, their aspirations,
the desire that everyone has to care for their children.”
Speaker Pelosi’s Remarks at Press Conference on COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/51821-1)
Congressman Ted Lieu, thank you.
“The Republicans right now still can’t even identify who stole the election.
I mean was it Hugo Chavez, was it the Dominion voting machines CEO, was it the panda bears, was a voter standing in line waiting to get water? They can’t even identify a culprit.
So in addition to that, these very same Republican members were on the same ballot as the former president.
So if the ballot was somehow faulty, then they shouldn’t even be in Congress.”
Senator Mazie Hirono to Joy Reid:
“So you have Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and now Barrett and who knows, they may be joined by the chief justice to undo Roe v. Wade. This is what’s being set up by state legislatures all across the country. Hundreds and hundreds of these kinds of restrictive laws being contemplated and some passed.
Joy Reid: It’s about women, it’s about controlling women.
Sen. Hirono:
“They have been setting this up with dark money to get Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett on the Supreme Court
to the tune of millions.”
Sen. Hirono:
“Somebody said when climate change comes up, Republicans say ‘I’m not a scientist’.
But when a woman’s health issue is being discussed, they’re all
GYNECOLOGISTS.”
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DEMS have a ton of crap to clean up from 4yrs of GOP stealing and destruction, a year of COVID-19 inaction, almost 600k dead. We’re supposed to clean up GOP mess in less than 6 mos?! F@# I am really sick of people expecting DEMS to solve 400yrs of problems only to put GOP back in office the first chance they get! F@#
Outrage aside, dems need the political power to do whatever things they want to do. Without political power, they can do jacksquat and voting is what basically democracy is all about that gives the dems the power. You lose it, you will get permanent rethugs corruption at every level. Berman is a voting right activist and I agree with his assessment that dems have largely checked out after 2020.
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why is the msm still legitimizing these blatantly corrupt frauds as ‘auditors’?
yup, thanks to the equally corrupt msm.
what a difference a century maketh.
This is a matter between NY AG, courts and the traitorous thug. What is the relevance of other gop thugs like mcturtle in this? They got jacksquat relevance.
Just as the rethugs are frauditing AZ results, why don’t the dems play the same hardball tactics against all the highly questionable ‘wins’ of rethugs like mcturtle, lindsey, this maine lady, that NC senate guy?
Goooood Morning TOD Family! 🤓😜
Love wins!
The piece of shit is moving to NJ for the summer. Good time to indict and issue arrest warrants, right? FL would not extradite the scumbag, but NJ will? (A guy can dream, can’t he? 😃 )
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/bedminster-mar-a-lago-donald-trump/index.html
At what point do the courts start sanctioning the lawyers for lying to the courts?
SOON – President Biden delivers keynote address in Coast Guard Academy commencement
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
‘Why not every election and why only the presidential?’:
Maricopa County Recorder on Arizona GOP’s sham 2020 election recount”
“In Arizona, Republicans are conducting a third sham review of the 2020 election looking to undercut President Biden’s victory.”
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to Joy Reid: “my dog in the fight is looking out for the hardworking people of Maricopa County and not letting them defamed, not letting their good efforts get mocked.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-why-not-every-election-and-why-only-the-presidential-maricopa-county-recorder-on-arizona-gop-s-sham-2020-election-recount-112362565614)
Joy Reid:
“Democrats actually believe in democracy when they lose. Your party doesn`t seem to, sir.”
SOON – Secs. Buttigieg, Walsh, DC Mayor Bowser visit Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
Remarks by President Biden on a Future Made in America
(excerpts)
“We’re at a great inflection point in American history. How we handle the next 4 to 10 years is going to determine where we’re going to be 30, 40, 50 years from now. It’s one of those moments in American history….
Look, the future of the auto industry is electric. There’s no turning back.
And as Rory says, “The American auto industry is at a crossroads.”
And the real question is whether we’ll lead or we’ll fall behind in the race to the future;
or whether we’ll build these vehicles and the batteries that go in them here in the United States or rely on other countries; or whether the jobs to build these vehicles and batteries, that are good-paying union jobs with benefits — jobs that will sustain and grow the middle class.”
“It means passing the American Jobs Plan to do three things.
One, transform our infrastructure. Our infrastructure is ranked like 38th in the world. This is the United States of America, for God’s sake.
We’re going to put Americans to work modernizing our roads, our highways, our ports, our airports, rails, and transit systems. That includes putting IBEW members and the union workers to work installing 500,000 charging stations along our roads and highways, our homes and our apartments.
The IBEW is ready to do it, and they can.
Two, we’re going to boost our manufacturing capacity. That’s why the American Jobs Plan invests in new and retooled union facilities: grants to kickstart new battery and parts production, loans and tax credits to boost manufacturing of these clean vehicles.
It also makes the largest investment in research and development in generations. That’s going to help innovate, manufacture, and build the supply chains for batteries and semi-conductors and the small computer chips that make electric trucks and cars go — to be even more reliant than they are now.”
Full transcript: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/18/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-future-made-in-america/)
Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor,
to Chris Hayes:
(excerpt)
“I mean everybody is going electric. And the question is who’s going to win in that race, and who’s going to capture these markets.
So but it’s also important to recognize that in the American Jobs Plan,
there are incentives that will help consumers be able to afford these vehicles. We know that soon they’re going to have parity with the cost of combustion engines, but we want them to have parity now.
We want consumers to have opportunities for rebates. We want to actually provide benefits to companies that have union workers, and that actually manufacture these batteries. We want to have opportunities for a manufacturing upstream and the entire supply chain. So we’re talking about grants and loans and other opportunities that we can bring to the table.
In the American Jobs Plan,
we’ll accelerate everything we’re doing. Everything from electric vehicles,
to transit, to buses. I mean we are talking about transforming our transportation sector so that we’re ready to build the future. Not just rely on what we had in the past. That’s what President Biden means about Build Back Better. And it’s just the start. Because we’re looking at investments and broadband. We’re looking at investments in the future that’s really going to point us to win in this economic challenge that we face right now.
And Lord knows, the pandemic is getting close to being behind us. And we want it to be there. Now is the time to look at hope and opportunity. New jobs, good-paying jobs. Really building the future in a way that we’re going to be proud to hand to our kids. Because there’s going to be low carbon. It’s going to address the issue of climate change. And provide us an opportunity to live healthier and safer lives.
That’s what it’s all about.”
The F-150 >>>> gas to electric.
All will be revealed tonight!!
“Massive market reach of Ford’s F-150 could make all-electric version a game changer”
“Rachel Maddow reports on the immense popularity of the Ford F series pick-up trucks,
and particularly the F-150,
which is set to be released in an all-electric version.
If the electric F-150 is a success,
its popularity could make the difference in normalizing electric vehicles in the U.S.
and begin the phase-out of gas-powered vehicles.”
Background: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/massive-market-reach-of-ford-s-f-150-could-make-all-electric-version-a-game-changer-112389189852)
“Biden floors electric Ford F-150 in test drive: ‘This sucker is quick'”
(https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-ford-electric-truck-f150-test-drive-dearborn-michigan-visit-2021-5)
Wait for the elephant baby’s reaction.
ALL LIFE IS SACRED
ALREADY ONE.
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Life over profit: These guys know not what they do.
What else do you expect with a fifth columnist fourth estate spreading such false equivalency?
Steve Gallardo, member of the Maricopa County AZ board of supervisors,
speaks to Rachel Maddow:
“You have organizations, you have Trump loyalists. They are doing everything they can to undermine our democracy, undermine the will of the voters in the state of Arizona.
There’s nothing that we can do to try to convince these folks that the election was safe, secure and accurate.
They have taken control of the Arizona State Senate.
They have now forced them to continue this sham audit.
They had a sham hearing earlier today.
These outside forces are raising money off this audit.
They’re raising money to be able to continue to push the Big Lie,
and they’re also using this particular audit to push legislation. Voter suppression legislation, that’s what they’re doing. This is what it’s all about. It’s about continuing the Big Lie. It’s about raising money. And it’s about using this to push legislation that will hurt the ability for minorities and elderly and poor people from voting.
That’s what this is all about.”
“Enough is enough!
The fact is that we received a letter from the Arizona State Senate accusing us of ‘committing crimes’ here in the state of Arizona and in Maricopa County. They have called for us to be arrested.
Enough is enough. I believe that many of the Republicans there in Maricopa County have said this is enough. We’re not going to continue to stand on the sidelines and be quiet. We’re going to speak out.
And that’s what you’re seeing.
You’re seeing members not only on my Board but countywide elected Republican officials….
The fact is that they have done more damage to our democracy, the credibility of our election system over the last 6 months than ever before. And it’s time for elected officials to stand up and say Enough Is Enough, knock it off, stop this ridiculous sham audit. And for those that want to sit on our sidelines, our governor, Governor Ducey wants to sit on the sidelines, doesn’t want to upset Trump and the Trump loyalists – enough is enough!
He needs to step up.”
Congresswoman Grace Meng:
On the passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.
“The House today passed a Senate bill to address the rise in Anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic.
New York Congresswoman Grace Meng, who introduced the legislation in the House, tells Joy, “most hate crimes and hate incidents are not being reported to the federal government at all and so we want to make sure, as with any health crisis… that we are having a more accurate and complete set of data to figure out how we can better target and address this problem.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-we-re-thrilled-grace-meng-on-the-passage-of-the-covid-19-hate-crimes-act-112363589764)
S.937 – COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] (Introduced 03/23/2021)
Text: (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/937/text)
“Hate crimes bill to fight Asian American discrimination clears final vote, heads to Biden’s desk”
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/18/anti-asian-hate-crimes-bill-go-before-joe-biden-after-full-house-vote/5144587001/
Speaker Pelosi:
Floor Speech on S. 937, the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
“And thank you, Mr. Chairman, for bringing us together around this legislation
put forth by Representative Grace Meng, a real champion in Congress, who’s long led the charge against anti-AAPI bigotry – and all forms of bigotry and violence – and who sees its impact firsthand in her district in Queens.”
Full: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/51821-4 )
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