This was fun! Had some laughs with @StephenAtHome and even raised $9k for our Pass the Love campaign with @PHAnews. I hope you'll support our Pass the Love campaign by donating at https://t.co/s0WCBvE8HK.
Congrats, Dudette! Hope everyone can enjoy a great weekend now that so many of us have been vaccinated. It’s my 50th reunion (virtual) from Oberlin College in Ohio. I signed up for a discussion of Healing Democracy tomorrow morning (6:30 AM Pacific time – bummer) among other activities. That place shaped my sense of social justice.
NEWS: President Biden will host members of the Floyd family at the White House next Tuesday to "recognize the significance of the first anniversary of the killing of George Floyd" – a senior WH official tells @kwelkernbc
WH: The President has spoken repeatedly to how meaningful his relationship with the Floyd family is to him, and on the first anniversary of George Floyd’s passing it is important to him to hear their perspective and the progress that must be made. – h/t @kwelkernbc
President Biden is sure “getting it done.” I’m so glad. His empathy genes are enhancing his overall presidential performance, not detracting from any of it.
But, “between us girls,” twice over the last week, two cable news commentators accidentally said “President Obama” when they meant “President Biden.” I rewound the tape, so to speak, both times, just to be sure, right before I had a good chuckle.
"In total, there have been 408 voter suppression bills proposed in state legislatures as of May 19th. 25 have been signed into law so far."https://t.co/wv6GhnTenO
A former Secret Service agent has detailed the racist abuse that was leveled at Michelle Obama during her time as first lady, and her frustration and inability as an assigned protector to do anything about it. https://t.co/ZKHoaPBgZv via @HuffPostPol
Republicans say they don’t want to “relitigate 2020” while they hold a bogus fraudit in Arizona & pass wave of new voter suppression laws designed to do just that https://t.co/pLtfYzi9lh
Biden Holds Press Conference With South Korean President
문재인 대통령 환영
Welcome President Moon Jae-in!
President Joe BIden:
“We with advanced capabilities have an obligation to do everything we can to provide for protection for the entire world. I know that is an awfully…ambitious proposal. But I think the nations that have that capacity are going to be continuing to work toward getting that done.”
CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist, inaccurate remarks he made about Native Americans, HuffPost has learned. https://t.co/eIOfVywM3z
Pres. Joe Biden will mark the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death on Tuesday by meeting with members of the Floyd family at the White House. https://t.co/RyCPTkXIab
“Florida officials
are investigating after a 3-year-old boy shot his 2-year-old sister with a gun he found hidden in a sofa.”
(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/554935-florida-authorities-arrest-two-men-after-three-year-old-finds)
—Have a friend who found a gun in her grandma’s dresser at 3 years old. Pointed it at mom and grandmother and tried to pull the trigger but the safety was on….and of course they yelled at her. They blamed her of course. She thought she was playing. America has a grotesque, ginormous problem. Talk about denial.
What they are doing in AZ is NOT an audit. It is a partisan political exercise. We should all quit calling it an audit. That is an insult to real govt audits.
Family grad roll call today!
1 High school, 2 Bachelors and 1 Masters. It was a good day! We rising! 🎓🎓🎓
Dr. Fauci accepted an honorary Doctorate of Science today from Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI) and delivered the commencement speech. Just around the corner from our house (The school. He attended virtually).
Make the best decisions to protect you, your family, and your community. Talk with your health care provider to get the facts about COVID-19 vaccines. #WeCanDoThis 🔍 Search https://t.co/LlFmSkQo5H 💬 Text your ZIP code to 438829 📞 Call 1-800-232-0233 pic.twitter.com/jCjYEfYuq6
‘israeli forces shot and killed Obaida Jawabra, a 17-year-old boy, earlier this week
in the al-Arroub refugee camp located near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Obaida was shot in the chest, and witnesses say Israeli soldiers blocked an ambulance from reaching the teenager. He was taken to a local hospital by private car and later pronounced dead. Obaida, who was arrested by Israeli soldiers multiple times and featured in a 2019 short film, “Obaida,” about Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children, is at least the fourth Palestinian teenager shot dead by soldiers in the occupied West Bank this year. The killing of Obaida Jawabra “shows the brutality of the Israeli army when they target these children,” says Palestinian writer and researcher Mariam Barghouti. “Obaida — and I say this with complete sorrow — is just one name in a long list of many.”
“He was the subject of a short film in 2019 produced by the children’s human rights group Defense for Children Palestine. In the film, Obaida shares his experience as a Palestinian child facing violence under the Israeli occupation. Despite his young age, he was detained at least three times by Israeli forces, starting at the age of 14.
"For all of the praise heaped on the likes of supposedly 'moderate' Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, there is no longer any place in the Republican Party for protecting voting rights."https://t.co/rJCMqdRewQ
Vice President Harris will be speaking at the “CNN Special Event” – this hour – for 2021 Graduates! Good show. My fourth granddaughter graduates from high school this year – yeehaw!
Alora Young, a senior from Nashville and a finalist to become the Youth Poet Laureate, shared her poem dedicated to the class of 2021, "Our First Exodus." https://t.co/3mL7R7x4Ywpic.twitter.com/UYqfAXjOpf
"Graduation 2021: A CNN Special Event," CNN's special honoring the class of 2021 is underway.
The class of 2021 faced a year shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic, and many schools are holding virtual ceremonies for a second year in a row. https://t.co/yDmMYcCEXS
by far the highlight of the aquarium today was seeing two women walk around with their wedding planner and her saying "we cant guarantee the sharks will come to the front during the vows"
— jolie fka EMO SLUT (@princess_labia) May 22, 2021
LOL. wimmin/smh. (or was it the guy’s idea? more likely)
Hdhjdjdhc mosh pits are literally safe spaces. It’s a designated area where Expected PVP happens and there are pit rules and etiquette and if someone doesn’t want to be there or doesn’t feel safe; a safe exit is made for them. Mosh pits are literally a communal safe space https://t.co/zqq0wW99Ui
— Unfriendly Black²foot Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī (@Pandabbadon) May 22, 2021
Yup. That’s why establishment dems inaction is infuriating. There should have been multiple lawsuits in every fucking state challenging these apartheid laws.
Postal Workers Rally Support To Block DeJoy’s Plan To Weaken USPS
“Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the effort to rally public feedback in opposition to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to reduce mail services with slowdowns, cuts, and privatization as part of a 10-year plan.”
Ms. Karol saying the public must be pro-active, call reps, make noise, push back. We don’t want a slow down.
–Time for comment closes June 22.
Congressman Schiff:
“The Republican Party is a Cult of Personality Around Donald Trump”
Congressman Sciff and Zerlina Maxwell discussed the potential Republican filibuster of the Jan. 6 commission. Schiff called out Republican hypocrisy for their opposition to this bipartisan,
independent commission in light of previous support for the highly-partisan Benghazi select committee,
and stressed the need for a full, independent accounting to protect our democracy from future attacks.”
Zerlina Maxwell:
“So what do you make of the fact that seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump at the second impeachment – not the one you were Manager for – the second one. But some of them will not vote to approve a commission to investigate the exact same event.”
Congressman Schiff:
“…they’re all falling in line behind Donald Trump.
This has been the story since the second impeachment trial. And I think it’s most vividly demonstrated by Mitch McConnell, who gave that impassioned speech after he voted to acquit the President! About how guilty the President was, and how reprehensible the conduct of the President was. And now he just doesn’t want to look into it. And why? Because (Trump) says ‘don’t support the bill’….
They’re willing to look away, ignore what happened on January 6th, tried to bury it, try to deny it, try to pretend that it was just a bunch of tourists. And they don’t want the public to know any more about it.”
“You can’t do a credible investigation without the power of subpoena. It’s an absurd argument.
But it just shows where that party is right now. They are lock stock and barrel the property of Donald Trump.”
“So we had this partisan select committee that was chaired by Trey Gowdy.
It had one mission, tear down Hillary`s numbers. That was a terrible abuse of congressional process and of taxpayer dollars. Does that mean that you can’t have a properly constituted select committee?
No. Congress can do the job right. But the best way to do it is to perform an independent commission like the 9/11 commission. It’s outside the political process.”
“But we’re going to get answers one way or another.
We’re not going to simply look the other way as a lot of Republicans would like.”
“…all the horrors that we went through over the last year, including on January 6th, were eminently predictable and avoidable…the evidence against the president in both rounds was overwhelming.”
“We need two functional parties. But right now we have one functional party, the Democratic Party.
And we have a cult, an anti-democratic cult, an anti-truth cult, around the former president.”
Redactions newly revealed in this thread. Manafort’s lies about KILIMNICK ran much deeper than previously known. Incredible abuse to have pardoned the henchmen. Failures of Mueller, distortions by Barr, and cowardice of Senate Rs leading us down the path toward the insurrection. https://t.co/u4I577OGIO
Democrats Come To Terms With Legislating On Infrastructure Without GOP
“Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus,
talks with Rachel Maddow about Democrats preparing to move on an ambitious infrastructure bill after Republicans failed to negotiate a compromise with President Biden.”
Congresswoman Jayapal:
“However Rachel, we have to learn the lessons from the last time around during the Obama Administration
where we tried, and tried, and tried to work with Republicans. And we narrowed down everything we wanted to do, and we didn’t make the kind of investment we needed to make.
At the end of the day the Republicans didn’t vote for it. That is the same party we’re dealing with except even worse, because you look at the Rescue Plan. It was so popular. And the Republicans voted No and took the dough. Because they went back to their districts. And people were like, ‘Oh this is really great – I’ve got money in my pocket, a shot in my arm, my kids are going back to school, I got my child tax credit.’ And all of a sudden, Republicans…started claiming credit for it.”
“Brutal & Gratuitous”:
Family of Ronald Greene Demands Justice After Video Shows Deadly Traffic Stop
“Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing the family of Ronald Greene,
says the family had to fight for a year and a half before being allowed to view police video of Greene’s death, which revealed “the full extent of just how brutal and gratuitous” the violence was. “We’re looking for criminal charges to move forward against these officers at the state level and at the federal level.”
Ronald Greene’s mother:
MONA HARDIN: “The state of Louisiana has no credibility. They’re an organized crime ring that’s gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years. You can see this time and time again. The murder of my son, you can just see it, from the very beginning to end. It implicates those who are on there, and then some.”
“More than 4,200 people in Myanmar have been arrested, charged or sentenced,
and 815 have been killed by the junta.
The protests against the military have morphed into an armed resistance, with rebel armed groups launching attacks on junta infrastructure.
Suu Kyi won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her resistance against Myanmar’s military leaders and had been hailed as a pioneer of democracy in the country. However, her international brand took a massive hit in recent years amid a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim population, with critics likening the effort to ethnic cleansing.”
Jennifer Griswold,
Secretary of State (CO), chair of democratic secretaries of state, to Zerlina Maxwell.
Griswold:
“Republicans are trying to stack the deck against American voters to take power.”
“The key behind all of this is a coordinated attack on our democracy.”
“Well first and foremost…I wouldn’t even call it ‘conducting an audit’.
Conducting a sham audit. Conducting shenanigans out in Arizona is a partisan group that doesn’t have any experience in elections. And when we do election audits, there’s a whole host of best practices, including chain of custody among other things. And once that chain of custody is broken and other security procedures are not followed, then it puts the voting equipment at risk. And this could cost Arizona millions of dollars to replace this election equipment. But I think the bigger picture is that this attack on our democracy by spreading lies is not over. In fact, it’s just getting ramped up and I think we’ll be seeing it for quite some time.
“…(democratic) secretaries of state will be running…we just have to keep our eyes on the prize, and the prize is democracy.”
“I’m so glad to be Secretary of State of Colorado, just honored every single day because we have the securest and most accessible elections in the nation.
So we affirmatively send a mail ballot to every registered person. We have weeks of early voting.
We have same-day voter registration, online voter registration, automatic voter registration. And that leads to us being the securest state in which to cast a vote and one of the leaders when it comes to turnout. And every American not only deserves the same, has a right to the same. These are our Constitutional rights we’re talking about. So what can be done right now is the Senate can pass the For the People’s Act and save our democracy.”
“So the Senate has to act.
And then I just encourage all of your viewers to demand that their elected officials protect the right to vote.”
Republican-led legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and other states are passing laws that make it harder to vote. Many of these bills, which have been drafted with help from an offshoot of the conservative Heritage Foundation, will have a disproportionate impact on voters of color and are being challenged in court.
While judges could strike down some provisions for violating a state constitution or discriminating against voters with disabilities, the appellate courts that will make the final decision include mostly Republican appointees.
The GOP is defending the legislation as a response to voter fraud, though there is no evidence of widespread fraud. Jessica Anderson of Heritage Action, which helped with the drafting, said the bills would help “right the wrongs of November.” Heritage has long advocated voting restrictions, such as voter ID laws; as founder Paul Weyrich said in 1980, “Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” The group has pledged to spend millions defending the new laws in court.
These judges are unlikely to rule that the new voter suppression bills are racially discriminatory, but some courts could strike them down for violating the state constitution or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The Obama Diary 
Good Evening Friday Fam! 😘💋
Good evening to you, Dudette – and to you, Nerdy darlin’ !!
Thanks for the new post, Nerdy! ❤️
LOL! 🚌
This would make a good SNL skit. 😆 LOL
It would! 😆
Congrats, Dudette! Hope everyone can enjoy a great weekend now that so many of us have been vaccinated. It’s my 50th reunion (virtual) from Oberlin College in Ohio. I signed up for a discussion of Healing Democracy tomorrow morning (6:30 AM Pacific time – bummer) among other activities. That place shaped my sense of social justice.
That’s fabulous – enjoy your virtual reunion!
Sounds wonderful! Enjoy!!!
President Biden is sure “getting it done.” I’m so glad. His empathy genes are enhancing his overall presidential performance, not detracting from any of it.
But, “between us girls,” twice over the last week, two cable news commentators accidentally said “President Obama” when they meant “President Biden.” I rewound the tape, so to speak, both times, just to be sure, right before I had a good chuckle.
😁
🤣
covid: why animals?
🙂
Exactément!
Morning everyone, I tried to post twice, both failed, so I haz a sad now..
Sigh.
Have a good weekend, big hugs all around!
Thank you, NW, for hanging with us so long! 🕊🕯💞🕯🕊
Mainly, da math.
And snoozefest from dems. Forget Marc, where are the lawsuits from the dem party?
📻🎼🎵🎶🕺🏾
LOVE♥♥
Yep, we been knew.
Heart wrenching. And we wanted to keep her safe so very much.
oh, how I so wish.
Biden Holds Press Conference With South Korean President
문재인 대통령 환영
Welcome President Moon Jae-in!
President Joe BIden:
“We with advanced capabilities have an obligation to do everything we can to provide for protection for the entire world. I know that is an awfully…ambitious proposal. But I think the nations that have that capacity are going to be continuing to work toward getting that done.”
on the vaccine…
What a pos twerp.
They hired this homophobic scummy pos in the first place why?
I know, right? It took too long to fire him. Racist scumbag.
“Florida officials
are investigating after a 3-year-old boy shot his 2-year-old sister with a gun he found hidden in a sofa.”
(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/554935-florida-authorities-arrest-two-men-after-three-year-old-finds)
—Have a friend who found a gun in her grandma’s dresser at 3 years old. Pointed it at mom and grandmother and tried to pull the trigger but the safety was on….and of course they yelled at her. They blamed her of course. She thought she was playing. America has a grotesque, ginormous problem. Talk about denial.
aka greedistan.
LOL.
treasonous traitors all.
hear that, 3rd rate msm?
lol. bet the racist morons aka gop didn’t think it all the way through.
Family grad roll call today!
1 High school, 2 Bachelors and 1 Masters. It was a good day! We rising! 🎓🎓🎓
OUTSTANDINGGGGGGGGGGGG…..🏆🏆🏆🏆
STRIVEEEEEEEEEE Thriveeeeeeeeee ON!…..
Congrats Dudette – great accomplishments by your family!
Thanks! 😊
Congrats to cousin. Harvard is a BFD.
Thanks amk! Yes it is! She’s awesome! They’re lucky to have her. 😆
Congratulations to your family Dudette!!!
Thanks Betsy!
Unh huh! Put yo back into it! 😄
“Jailed at 14, Shot Dead at 17”
“The Story of Obaida Jawabra’s Childhood Under Israeli Occupation”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/21/obaida_jawabra_palestinian_killed_israeli_forces)
‘israeli forces shot and killed Obaida Jawabra, a 17-year-old boy, earlier this week
in the al-Arroub refugee camp located near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Obaida was shot in the chest, and witnesses say Israeli soldiers blocked an ambulance from reaching the teenager. He was taken to a local hospital by private car and later pronounced dead. Obaida, who was arrested by Israeli soldiers multiple times and featured in a 2019 short film, “Obaida,” about Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children, is at least the fourth Palestinian teenager shot dead by soldiers in the occupied West Bank this year. The killing of Obaida Jawabra “shows the brutality of the Israeli army when they target these children,” says Palestinian writer and researcher Mariam Barghouti. “Obaida — and I say this with complete sorrow — is just one name in a long list of many.”
“He was the subject of a short film in 2019 produced by the children’s human rights group Defense for Children Palestine. In the film, Obaida shares his experience as a Palestinian child facing violence under the Israeli occupation. Despite his young age, he was detained at least three times by Israeli forces, starting at the age of 14.
This is Obaida in his own words.
At the time, he was just 15 years old….”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/21/obaida_jawabra_palestinian_killed_israeli_forces)
—wake up.
Snakes gonna snake.
Exactly!!!! Yes, a snake is gonna snake. You can’t separate the Big Lie from voter suppresion.
Vice President Harris will be speaking at the “CNN Special Event” – this hour – for 2021 Graduates! Good show. My fourth granddaughter graduates from high school this year – yeehaw!
That’s doggone crazy. Poor thing.
graduation season
LOL. wimmin/smh. (or was it the guy’s idea? more likely)
karens with their always whiny projections.
thugs be fighting.
Yup. That’s why establishment dems inaction is infuriating. There should have been multiple lawsuits in every fucking state challenging these apartheid laws.
Um it was a FEDERAL election.
….Cheney using the “look at each state” argument as usual.
This was a a federal election.
DOJ: “Arizona recount could violate civil rights laws”
(https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/552190-doj-arizona-recount-could-violate-civil-rights-laws)
So what happened after this?
That it for democracy?
thug modi’s police is raiding twitter’s offices in delhi. #karma for that pos jack.
with you – keep telling it amk.
Postal Workers Rally Support To Block DeJoy’s Plan To Weaken USPS
“Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the effort to rally public feedback in opposition to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to reduce mail services with slowdowns, cuts, and privatization as part of a 10-year plan.”
Ms. Karol saying the public must be pro-active, call reps, make noise, push back. We don’t want a slow down.
–Time for comment closes June 22.
My friend still hasn’t received her Christmas card with long letter enclosed.
How the American Rescue Plan,
the American Jobs Plan, and the American Families Plan
Meet the Moment for Moms
this Mother’s Day
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2021/05/09/how-the-american-rescue-plan-the-american-jobs-plan-and-the-american-families-plan-meet-the-moment-for-moms-this-mothers-day/)
Taraji P. Henson, activist and ward-winning actress, joins Joy Reid
to discuss the mental health needs of Black youth
in response to the devastating impact of COVID and police brutality.
Taraji recently launched the Boris Lawrence Henson foundation to help address mental health.”
See: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/taraji-p-henson-joins-joy-for-a-one-on-one-interview-discussing-mental-health-needs-and-her-new-foundation-during-mental-health-awareness-month-112803397775)
Ms. Henson: ““Society hasn’t told me that I’m safe in any room.”
Congressman Schiff:
“The Republican Party is a Cult of Personality Around Donald Trump”
Congressman Sciff and Zerlina Maxwell discussed the potential Republican filibuster of the Jan. 6 commission. Schiff called out Republican hypocrisy for their opposition to this bipartisan,
independent commission in light of previous support for the highly-partisan Benghazi select committee,
and stressed the need for a full, independent accounting to protect our democracy from future attacks.”
Zerlina Maxwell:
“So what do you make of the fact that seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump at the second impeachment – not the one you were Manager for – the second one. But some of them will not vote to approve a commission to investigate the exact same event.”
Congressman Schiff:
“…they’re all falling in line behind Donald Trump.
This has been the story since the second impeachment trial. And I think it’s most vividly demonstrated by Mitch McConnell, who gave that impassioned speech after he voted to acquit the President! About how guilty the President was, and how reprehensible the conduct of the President was. And now he just doesn’t want to look into it. And why? Because (Trump) says ‘don’t support the bill’….
They’re willing to look away, ignore what happened on January 6th, tried to bury it, try to deny it, try to pretend that it was just a bunch of tourists. And they don’t want the public to know any more about it.”
“You can’t do a credible investigation without the power of subpoena. It’s an absurd argument.
But it just shows where that party is right now. They are lock stock and barrel the property of Donald Trump.”
“So we had this partisan select committee that was chaired by Trey Gowdy.
It had one mission, tear down Hillary`s numbers. That was a terrible abuse of congressional process and of taxpayer dollars. Does that mean that you can’t have a properly constituted select committee?
No. Congress can do the job right. But the best way to do it is to perform an independent commission like the 9/11 commission. It’s outside the political process.”
“But we’re going to get answers one way or another.
We’re not going to simply look the other way as a lot of Republicans would like.”
“…all the horrors that we went through over the last year, including on January 6th, were eminently predictable and avoidable…the evidence against the president in both rounds was overwhelming.”
“We need two functional parties. But right now we have one functional party, the Democratic Party.
And we have a cult, an anti-democratic cult, an anti-truth cult, around the former president.”
For all the hype, mueller, ic with their ‘powers’ turned out to be as useful as a wet weak tissue paper.
Democrats Come To Terms With Legislating On Infrastructure Without GOP
“Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus,
talks with Rachel Maddow about Democrats preparing to move on an ambitious infrastructure bill after Republicans failed to negotiate a compromise with President Biden.”
Congresswoman Jayapal:
“However Rachel, we have to learn the lessons from the last time around during the Obama Administration
where we tried, and tried, and tried to work with Republicans. And we narrowed down everything we wanted to do, and we didn’t make the kind of investment we needed to make.
At the end of the day the Republicans didn’t vote for it. That is the same party we’re dealing with except even worse, because you look at the Rescue Plan. It was so popular. And the Republicans voted No and took the dough. Because they went back to their districts. And people were like, ‘Oh this is really great – I’ve got money in my pocket, a shot in my arm, my kids are going back to school, I got my child tax credit.’ And all of a sudden, Republicans…started claiming credit for it.”
Major prize for anyone who can find Vice President Harris’s remarks at the Class of 2021 yesterday!!
Congressman Jeffries:
“Kevin who? Marjorie Taylor Greene is running the House Republican Conference.”
“Brutal & Gratuitous”:
Family of Ronald Greene Demands Justice After Video Shows Deadly Traffic Stop
“Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing the family of Ronald Greene,
says the family had to fight for a year and a half before being allowed to view police video of Greene’s death, which revealed “the full extent of just how brutal and gratuitous” the violence was. “We’re looking for criminal charges to move forward against these officers at the state level and at the federal level.”
Ronald Greene’s mother:
MONA HARDIN: “The state of Louisiana has no credibility. They’re an organized crime ring that’s gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years. You can see this time and time again. The murder of my son, you can just see it, from the very beginning to end. It implicates those who are on there, and then some.”
Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney representing the Greene family:
Interview: (https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/24/ronald_greene_louisiana_police_arrest_death)
“Suu Kyi to appear in court soon: Myanmar junta”
“More than 4,200 people in Myanmar have been arrested, charged or sentenced,
and 815 have been killed by the junta.
The protests against the military have morphed into an armed resistance, with rebel armed groups launching attacks on junta infrastructure.
Suu Kyi won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her resistance against Myanmar’s military leaders and had been hailed as a pioneer of democracy in the country. However, her international brand took a massive hit in recent years amid a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim population, with critics likening the effort to ethnic cleansing.”
(https://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/554903-suu-kyi-to-appear-in-court-soon-myanmar-junta)
Jennifer Griswold,
Secretary of State (CO), chair of democratic secretaries of state, to Zerlina Maxwell.
Griswold:
“Republicans are trying to stack the deck against American voters to take power.”
“The key behind all of this is a coordinated attack on our democracy.”
“Well first and foremost…I wouldn’t even call it ‘conducting an audit’.
Conducting a sham audit. Conducting shenanigans out in Arizona is a partisan group that doesn’t have any experience in elections. And when we do election audits, there’s a whole host of best practices, including chain of custody among other things. And once that chain of custody is broken and other security procedures are not followed, then it puts the voting equipment at risk. And this could cost Arizona millions of dollars to replace this election equipment. But I think the bigger picture is that this attack on our democracy by spreading lies is not over. In fact, it’s just getting ramped up and I think we’ll be seeing it for quite some time.
“…(democratic) secretaries of state will be running…we just have to keep our eyes on the prize, and the prize is democracy.”
“I’m so glad to be Secretary of State of Colorado, just honored every single day because we have the securest and most accessible elections in the nation.
So we affirmatively send a mail ballot to every registered person. We have weeks of early voting.
We have same-day voter registration, online voter registration, automatic voter registration. And that leads to us being the securest state in which to cast a vote and one of the leaders when it comes to turnout. And every American not only deserves the same, has a right to the same. These are our Constitutional rights we’re talking about. So what can be done right now is the Senate can pass the For the People’s Act and save our democracy.”
“So the Senate has to act.
And then I just encourage all of your viewers to demand that their elected officials protect the right to vote.”
The Doom Party griping about their definition of ‘socialism’ while pushing FASCISM.
(we see it in 3D)
https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/05/new-southern-voter-suppression-bills-face-challenges-state-and-federal-court?fbclid=IwAR0YKXLqlkQbN5I-xmORHZCMdoJiEgwauroRxxBj8btQ7IDBY-qMx3c_DeE
Republican-led legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and other states are passing laws that make it harder to vote. Many of these bills, which have been drafted with help from an offshoot of the conservative Heritage Foundation, will have a disproportionate impact on voters of color and are being challenged in court.
While judges could strike down some provisions for violating a state constitution or discriminating against voters with disabilities, the appellate courts that will make the final decision include mostly Republican appointees.
The GOP is defending the legislation as a response to voter fraud, though there is no evidence of widespread fraud. Jessica Anderson of Heritage Action, which helped with the drafting, said the bills would help “right the wrongs of November.” Heritage has long advocated voting restrictions, such as voter ID laws; as founder Paul Weyrich said in 1980, “Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” The group has pledged to spend millions defending the new laws in court.
These judges are unlikely to rule that the new voter suppression bills are racially discriminatory, but some courts could strike them down for violating the state constitution or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
You get what you vote.
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