William “Buddy” Carter is retiring after 47 years as a butler at the White House and the Blair House. Barack and I are so grateful to have had his warmth, charm, and dignity by our side for eight of those years. Congratulations, Buddy! pic.twitter.com/MZPox5F1a1
Wow! 👁👁 I don’t really follow Israeli politics but this seems like a BFD.
Lapid tells president he has formed a new government with Bennett, sending Netanyahu to the opposition after 12 years in power. Their next challenge: swearing in the new coalition https://t.co/CG9dBlSrMo
Today, on the anniversary of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, the DPC hosted the first of several Tribal Consultations on strengthening Native voting rights. As @POTUS has said, the right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. Those rights must be protected for all.
If you or someone you know is looking for that extra push to get vaccinated, you can now visit https://t.co/opPEcFsY6J for a full list of all the ways employers and business are stepping up to support our vaccination efforts. https://t.co/7F045JsIMw
— White House COVID-19 Response Team (@WHCOVIDResponse) June 2, 2021
Surprise, y’all!! President Obama surprises Chicago Southside Wolfpack team, drops in on small business owners' meeting – ABC7 Chicago https://t.co/RqUzu4eT4k
Yesterday, I sat down with some of the Obama Presidential Center’s neighbors—local business owners who help hold the South Side of Chicago together. We talked about how the @ObamaFoundation can catalyze more inclusive economic development and their hopes for the future. pic.twitter.com/aTMmwMlcHH
It’s great to be back in my hometown and even better to spend some time with talented young people in Jackson Park. I’m proud of the Wolfpack for a terrific season, and for their leadership off the field as well. Thanks for letting me give a guest pep talk! https://t.co/md3qjvffxY
Politico Nightly: 12 states, according to the White House, have vaccinated at least 70% of their adult population. Every one of them voted for Biden in 2020. @playbookdc
Our supremes are much much better in handling political malfeasance of the ‘executive branch’. Despite the thug modi & co’s constant braying of ‘oh, that’s judicial overreach!!!”.
.@brhodes has been a close advisor and a good friend for more than a decade. His new book, After the Fall, is a personal, timely look at how America has shaped the world we live in—for better and worse—and the importance of continuing to lead by example. It's a great read! pic.twitter.com/YwoUeV9Dk7
Major pharmacy chains — Albertsons/Safeway, CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens — will offer later hours every Friday this month to promote vaccination.https://t.co/B1k5XCcGjm
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) June 2, 2021
Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters spanning nearly four months in 2017 as part of a leak investigation, the Biden administration has disclosed.https://t.co/YgaLPx3lvV
US President @JoeBiden has amassed an approval rating of 70% among American Jews, thanks to his handling of the #COVID pandemic, ongoing racial tensions and help manage a ceasefire in the last conflict between #Israel and Hamas.https://t.co/F3GuVnBeQx
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 3, 2021
Standing next to Republican Sen. John Cornyn, Democratic @SenatorSinema says the filibuster "protects the democracy of our nation."
Cornyn voted to filibuster creating an independent commission to examine the 1/6 attack on our democracy. Sinema didn't vote. pic.twitter.com/zUTE9utzqp
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) June 2, 2021
didn’t the loony left push this backstabbing woman since she was a ‘lgbt’ or some such crap?
Amazing how you had time to do the press conference about why you didn't show up to vote on for the January 6 commission but didn't have time to show up and vote.
The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.
Two black players filed a civil rights lawsuit over the practice.
More than 2,000 former NFL players have lodged dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received compensation.
Lawyers say more than half of NFL retirees are black.
Attorneys have requested details on how NFL brain injury payouts have been apportioned along racial lines, but are yet to receive any details.
"Race norming" is a mild way of labeling something super fcuking egregiously racist. https://t.co/LMqcehoOz4
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) June 3, 2021
The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify.https://t.co/OQpzSD88xM
“Four years of Trump have led to the GOP becoming a threat to democracy, a declining sect dominated by crackpots, charlatans and cowards. Of these, it’s the cowards, including the senators who killed last week’s legislation, who bear the most blame.” https://t.co/VKlCzsFJmK
A new American up & comer in the tennis world. Keep an eye out for DC’s Hailey Baptiste.
Milestone win at #FrenchOpen for DC native Hailey Baptiste. The 19yo, who worked her way thru qualifying in Paris last week, earned straight-sets win today in her #RolandGarros main draw debut
I’m beginning to wonder if Kyrsten Sinema is actually a rogue operator who ran as a Dem as a means of getting on the ballot without competing in the Republican primary.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 3, 2021
India’s Supreme Court has sharply criticised the federal government over its coronavirus vaccination programme.
The judges asked the government to explain why it was mandatory to register on an app for getting a jab.
The court said this would hamper vaccinations across rural India where internet access is difficult.
The judges also questioned whether federal policy was making individual states compete against each other for vaccines.
India has administered more than 220 million doses since it began vaccinating in mid-January, but so far only 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has opened up vaccinations for some 960 million eligible Indians without having anything close to the required supply.
/
The Supreme Court said that asking people between 18-44 years to pay for their jabs was “arbitrary and irrational”.
The court asked the government to review its vaccination policy and “place on record a roadmap of projected availability of vaccines till 31 December” – the date by which the government is promising to vaccinate the entire adult population.
The Obamas really are just The
Best! I love them so much! ❤️❤️
This country DESPERATELY needs some civics lessons…love that the Obamas are making it more exciting for people to learn. https://t.co/Q9GbrM9kWO
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) June 3, 2021
Michelle and I are excited to share our latest show from Higher Ground: We The People. Some of our favorite artists got together with amazing animators to remix civics—and the result is a lot better than what we had in school. Check it out on @Netflix this July 4. pic.twitter.com/PlsSyq5pgk
"The White House's partnership with Anheuser-Busch offering free beers if the US reaches its goal of getting 70% of adults at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot by July 4 — almost Prohibition in reverse — is more than a gimmick." Analysis by @StCollinsonhttps://t.co/MomEHDG0Cz
Look at our administration gettin’ it done! This is commitment! Love to see it!
"The White House's partnership with Anheuser-Busch offering free beers if the US reaches its goal of getting 70% of adults at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot by July 4 — almost Prohibition in reverse — is more than a gimmick." Analysis by @StCollinsonhttps://t.co/MomEHDG0Cz
It’s never been easier to get vaccinated: 1. 90% of Americans live within five miles of a vaccination site. 2. Uber and Lyft are continuing to offer free rides to and from vaccination centers.
3. KinderCare, Learning Care Group, and Bright Horizons – alongside hundreds of YMCA locations – will offer free, drop-in child care while parents are getting vaccinated.
4. Starting next week, many vaccination sites – will be offering extended hours during the month of June – including pharmacies that will be open 24 hours every Friday night this month. 5. Text your zip code to 438829 to get a location 6. Remember: The shot is free.
happy bday @jonfavs —one of my fave pics of us bc we all look like we are solving a crime but we are really trying to see if the diner across the street is open pic.twitter.com/7bZJaC0AZt
— alyssa mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) June 2, 2021
Derek Chauvin believes he deserves probation for murder while George Floyd deserved a death sentence for a minor incident. Go to hell.https://t.co/h8r0lxlWrs
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) June 3, 2021
This is Susan Sarandon and other Bernie supporters getting in the face of civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and screaming at her for supporting Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Nevada caucus. Nevada has now voted to change from a caucus to a primary pic.twitter.com/48pvIoogxH
I’m inspired by @NaomiOsaka’s courage. This is a moment for all of us—especially the press—to ask why it’s not enough to let her stellar performance on the court speak for itself.
A journalist went to cover a story in a shelter but this dog wouldn't stop hugging him so he ended up adopting him and took him home ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/Gf4xDhjgyU
— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@FeelGoodPage11) June 3, 2021
Dr. Jill Biden is getting a day at the beach for her 70th birthday, today. President Joe Biden and the First Lady are in their Delaware beach house to help celebrate her milestone birthday on Thursday. https://t.co/cAL0DiaatA
Queen Elizabeth II plans to host U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at Windsor Castle on the last day of next week's Group of Seven summit in England. https://t.co/VOTPQi57cj
The Queen will meet the President of the United States of America and First Lady Jill Biden at Windsor Castle on Sunday, 13th June 2021. pic.twitter.com/GPJLYwFzyr
Americans can do anything if we do it together. So, do your part. Give it your all through July 4th — let’s get as many folks vaccinated as possible. pic.twitter.com/s2iNMKmHFq
ICYMI: VP Harris will lead the White House's effort to protect voting rights and work with Congress to pass #HR1 For The People Act & the John Lewis VRAA. Harris will also partner with organizations and the private sector to promote voting rights. https://t.co/nvaJQi6cAD
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) June 3, 2021
Congratulations to my friend Mia! Mia is a superstar and a tremendous public servant! She is one of the great Democrats running for Governor in SC in 2022. https://t.co/skUh1OQWvX
— Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair (@harrisonjaime) June 3, 2021
As this thread blows up, I should stress this isn't remotely an exhaustive list — I did it quickly and I didn't repeat years in which there were multiple filibusters on different civil rights issues.
But it should still give a sense of the "racial history" in the filibuster.
✅ Family food shortages and financial instability dropped by over 40% ✅ 5.2 million children escaped food insufficiency ✅ Frequent anxiety/depression went down by 20%
NEW: Employment report sharply exceeded expectations with 978,000 private sector jobs added in May. Analysts had expected only 650,000. pic.twitter.com/XgMtbhazcf
Joy Reid:
“Hundreds of volunteers continue to paw ballots in search of bamboo fibers,
cheese dust and nonexistent fraud, rightfully alarming Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs who published a summary of troubling incidents noted by election experts on the ground.
Those experts have witnessed security gates left open and unattended, pens near the ballots, which is prohibited to ensure that they can’t be used to alter those ballots.
A Senate liaison also confirmed that voting system data was sent to a lab in Montana,
but did not specify what this lab would do or what this lab even was.
This, as terrifyingly anti-democratic as it sounds, isn’t even the worst of it.”
“lower cognitive functioning’ = Hell On Wheels from the NFL.
19th century ‘brain science’ used false data to ‘prove’ the African brain is smaller than european brain.
This NFL atrocity is an outgrowth of the lie that the former doesn’t perform as well, and is not structured as well. More outrageous disgusting examples of racism. How many people knew about this?
–The NFL must make it right.
During a recent call, Coach Radcliffe invited President @BarackObama to stop by one of his Southside Wolfpack football practices in Jackson Park—the future home of the Obama Presidential Center. Eager to see the team in action, the President made a surprise visit. pic.twitter.com/psUfPwUCf9
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 3, 2021
Meanwhile we gave Doom the most powerful job in the world. We allowed his mental incapacity and his brilliant bulb sycophants to severely abuse us for 4 years…continuing…proven killers ready to destroy America.
Who needs help, us or them?
Dr. Lance Dodes,
(‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president’)
to Lawrence O’Donnell:
“And lack of power is the thing that he can’t stand and doesn’t acknowledge.
Since it can’t be true in his world, in his delusional world, he has to change reality to the extent he can to make it so. So he creates the illusion that he has some information and things are going to happen. He promises that he’ll be back in office and whatnot. It’s more of the same and I think that if none of these things pan out for him I think what we’ll see is that he will become even more overtly deluded.
And I’ve said for sometime although I can’t be sure
but he is certainly at risk of leaving the country
rather than facing the law.”
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around:
“Rev Dr William J Barber II sang ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around’ with the three living survivors
of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, after Joe Biden gave a speech honouring the anniversary. Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the site where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, as he marked the country’s legacy of racial violence.”
Launching aboard today's @SpaceX flight are a pair of iROSA: ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays. Each array will produce more than 20 kilowatts of power for the @Space_Station. pic.twitter.com/F5X7dg424e
Launching aboard today's @SpaceX flight are a pair of iROSA: ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays. Each array will produce more than 20 kilowatts of power for the @Space_Station. pic.twitter.com/F5X7dg424e
A chilling new video shows a sheriff’s deputy repeatedly ducking behind a tree as a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy unleashed a barrage of gunshots in a surreal encounter in Florida’s Volusia County, authorities said.https://t.co/2xEeVU1G0e
Fmr Sen. Al Franken:
“This is about our democracy. And if we lose this one.
If we allow this — TO OVERTURN ELECTIONS — elected Republican officials to overturn elections.
Our democracy goes away.
It wouldn’t be Hitler. It wouldn’t have been Tojo. Wouldn’t have been the confederacy.
It would be Mitch McConnell who ended our democracy.”
Joy Reid: “Yes and Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema…I can’t not fault them.”
“None of that is rooted in reality….
THEY KNOW that when the playing field is level, they can’t win.
THEY KNOW that in a conversation about actual public policy, about the things that truly impact people’s day-to-day lives – they can’t win!
THEY KNOW that in a conversation rooted in fact, reality, truth, historical accuracy, context, they can’t win.
Bardella:
”It’s this mania, right?
I mean there has got to be a mental health explanation for the irrational desire to want to not wear a mask,
go to super-spreader events, get everybody infected, infect their loved ones, their parents, their grandparents, watch them all die. And to the claim proudly that it’s their right to do that. That it’s somehow wrapped in this misguided sense of liberty and freedom.
Those are the buzzwords Joy — liberty, freedom.”
Reid: “Yes it’s a right to die. It’s their right to die.”
Bardella:
“Republicans have been using those words and the blanket of ‘patriotism’
as an excuse for all the oppression that they have put forward against communities of color. Against working poor, against minorities and immigrants, and the least vulnerable among us.
And so this is a game that they continually play.
And you’re right. This wannabe macho party, this wannabe tough guy strong man act that they pull. These people are the most mentally fragile, weak, scared little children in a corner, hiding people that you will ever find.
Because at the end of the day when push comes to shove and they get caught. And they get pulled before court. They’re the ones crying to their lawyers now, saying, ‘Oh I had Fox psychosis. I can’t believe this happened’.
They fold immediately like a house of cards when they get called on their b-s.”
Bardella:
“They’re scared to death of going outside their little Fox bunker, into the real world with real questions.”
Reid: “And that’’s why they just want to rig elections instead.”
‘Larger breaches
at a much larger scale’:
Russia-based hackers targeting key U.S. systems
“David Kennedy, a former NSA hacker,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the relationship between Russia-based ransomware hacker groups
and the Russian government, and the apparent recent uptick in these groups targeting important U.S. systems.”
Women in Motion premieres TODAY on Paramount+! Watch as Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols takes us all on a voyage into her incredible impact on the US space program! pic.twitter.com/qX13t3b2Po
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Aw, what a lovely message from Mrs. O. Thanks for posting that, Nerdy!
Indeed! Good Evening, Dudette. Good Evening TODVille.
Just wanted to say hello and thanks. Thanks for this beautiful place where positive news is the norm.
Hi NCLB! Great to so you! I’m so grateful we have our TOD village to come home to, thanks to the ever-awesome Nerdy Wonka!
Hear, hear!
Wow! 👁👁 I don’t really follow Israeli politics but this seems like a BFD.
Vaccine incentives
Brava Paxton! 👏🏾
Groom that smart young lady now! Our political team needs her – for real 💃🏾🌟👏🏾👏🏾
Boom!
So, paying off porn stars to silence them before elections is a go-go now in murkkka? Yet another norm broken just for the traitorous thug.
Secede from stupidity already.
And nut n yahoo is out. Fiiinally.
Let’s hope….
Our supremes are much much better in handling political malfeasance of the ‘executive branch’. Despite the thug modi & co’s constant braying of ‘oh, that’s judicial overreach!!!”.
https://www.rediff.com/news/report/sc-asks-govt-to-place-vax-policy-documents-on-record/20210602.htm
the get.set.go at each round is highlarious.
Babydog got the short distance sprint! But double the distance and that deer would be flyin’!!
Nah, the deer was just being a dear and letting the dog ‘win’.
Too cute! 😁
Yep the deer was barely sweating…..
lol. what a whyte doofus of a dumbass.
Squeeeee!
Now this is cool!
aaand? All these ‘breaking news’ ain’t breaking at all unless there is a consequence for the traitorous seditious insurrectionist thug.
garland was oversold by the left.
This is more of the failure of fourth estate and the much touted checks & balances system than of the traitorous treasonous thug.
Amen ~ we the taxpayers kindly and generously covered all the losses for his fat ugly ass… where’s the payback?
Goodnight everyone, try to rest, the road is long before us, and for too many, the road is long behind us as well.
Keep You The Heart.
🕊🕯💙🗝💙🕯🕊
Ouch, lol. There always a tweet with that traitorous thug, isn’t there?
didn’t the loony left push this backstabbing woman since she was a ‘lgbt’ or some such crap?
The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.
Two black players filed a civil rights lawsuit over the practice.
More than 2,000 former NFL players have lodged dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received compensation.
Lawyers say more than half of NFL retirees are black.
Attorneys have requested details on how NFL brain injury payouts have been apportioned along racial lines, but are yet to receive any details.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57336282
Talk about institutionalized racism.
Deep Colin Kaepernick Sigh!
The players union should sue the fuck out of those bastards!
LOL. I miss her ‘mimicry’.
A new American up & comer in the tennis world. Keep an eye out for DC’s Hailey Baptiste.
#metoo
Ugh! SMDH!
A speech that normally would of only been heard by the 300 or so that attended…now the entire country knows. ……. that’s “The rest of the story”!
This!
yup. and the loony left fell for it.
India’s Supreme Court has sharply criticised the federal government over its coronavirus vaccination programme.
The judges asked the government to explain why it was mandatory to register on an app for getting a jab.
The court said this would hamper vaccinations across rural India where internet access is difficult.
The judges also questioned whether federal policy was making individual states compete against each other for vaccines.
India has administered more than 220 million doses since it began vaccinating in mid-January, but so far only 3% of the population has been fully vaccinated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has opened up vaccinations for some 960 million eligible Indians without having anything close to the required supply.
/
The Supreme Court said that asking people between 18-44 years to pay for their jabs was “arbitrary and irrational”.
The court asked the government to review its vaccination policy and “place on record a roadmap of projected availability of vaccines till 31 December” – the date by which the government is promising to vaccinate the entire adult population.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57340069
It’s eerie how the rw thugs world over fail miserably in the same manner.
#showoff.
wimmin/smh
The Obamas really are just The
Best! I love them so much! ❤️❤️
Look at our administration gettin’ it done! This is commitment! Love to see it!
😆
Co-sign.
Hopefully we have seen the end of berniemob.
LOL. That meme is never gonna die, isn’t it?
yup, fuck the 3rd rate 4th estate.
Good Morning! It’s a beautiful day to launch a space ship!
😍😍😍
Courage
I’m pleased.
This woman has more backbone than the feckless fec and the rethug cowards.
Thank you President Biden
Happy Birthday FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden!
POTUS and FLOTUS are heading across the pond.
Civics lesson thread
Soothing by Mother Nature
Fireflies are mesmerizing!
You won’t hear anything positive about this today. Good news under a Democratic president, meh.
Yep.
who was that asshole?
contrast this with this white asshole father.
or this dad. that will be me. DU hates it when she had to drive me around.
Joy Reid:
“Hundreds of volunteers continue to paw ballots in search of bamboo fibers,
cheese dust and nonexistent fraud, rightfully alarming Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs who published a summary of troubling incidents noted by election experts on the ground.
Those experts have witnessed security gates left open and unattended, pens near the ballots, which is prohibited to ensure that they can’t be used to alter those ballots.
A Senate liaison also confirmed that voting system data was sent to a lab in Montana,
but did not specify what this lab would do or what this lab even was.
This, as terrifyingly anti-democratic as it sounds, isn’t even the worst of it.”
“If you lose democracy you cannot achieve any other aim through your vote.” (O’Donnell)
Is Manchin willing to jettison democracy to keep his job?
–I’ll just wait.
“lower cognitive functioning’ = Hell On Wheels from the NFL.
19th century ‘brain science’ used false data to ‘prove’ the African brain is smaller than european brain.
This NFL atrocity is an outgrowth of the lie that the former doesn’t perform as well, and is not structured as well. More outrageous disgusting examples of racism. How many people knew about this?
–The NFL must make it right.
fedex showing his age. bummer.
Meanwhile we gave Doom the most powerful job in the world. We allowed his mental incapacity and his brilliant bulb sycophants to severely abuse us for 4 years…continuing…proven killers ready to destroy America.
Who needs help, us or them?
Dr. Lance Dodes,
(‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president’)
to Lawrence O’Donnell:
“And lack of power is the thing that he can’t stand and doesn’t acknowledge.
Since it can’t be true in his world, in his delusional world, he has to change reality to the extent he can to make it so. So he creates the illusion that he has some information and things are going to happen. He promises that he’ll be back in office and whatnot. It’s more of the same and I think that if none of these things pan out for him I think what we’ll see is that he will become even more overtly deluded.
And I’ve said for sometime although I can’t be sure
but he is certainly at risk of leaving the country
rather than facing the law.”
Go fedex.
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around:
“Rev Dr William J Barber II sang ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around’ with the three living survivors
of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, after Joe Biden gave a speech honouring the anniversary. Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the site where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, as he marked the country’s legacy of racial violence.”
Liftoff
Woohoo! 🚀
This is all so fabulous Dudette, thank you!
My pleasure brp!
Fmr Sen. Al Franken:
“This is about our democracy. And if we lose this one.
If we allow this — TO OVERTURN ELECTIONS — elected Republican officials to overturn elections.
Our democracy goes away.
It wouldn’t be Hitler. It wouldn’t have been Tojo. Wouldn’t have been the confederacy.
It would be Mitch McConnell who ended our democracy.”
Joy Reid: “Yes and Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema…I can’t not fault them.”
Morning everyone:)
I wasn’t done yet! Getting ready to have a video conference with my new principal….
All the best with your meeting mp.
Mail-in voting rocks!
Kurt Bardella, DCCC Adviser, to Joy Reid:
“None of that is rooted in reality….
THEY KNOW that when the playing field is level, they can’t win.
THEY KNOW that in a conversation about actual public policy, about the things that truly impact people’s day-to-day lives – they can’t win!
THEY KNOW that in a conversation rooted in fact, reality, truth, historical accuracy, context, they can’t win.
Bardella:
”It’s this mania, right?
I mean there has got to be a mental health explanation for the irrational desire to want to not wear a mask,
go to super-spreader events, get everybody infected, infect their loved ones, their parents, their grandparents, watch them all die. And to the claim proudly that it’s their right to do that. That it’s somehow wrapped in this misguided sense of liberty and freedom.
Those are the buzzwords Joy — liberty, freedom.”
Reid: “Yes it’s a right to die. It’s their right to die.”
Bardella:
“Republicans have been using those words and the blanket of ‘patriotism’
as an excuse for all the oppression that they have put forward against communities of color. Against working poor, against minorities and immigrants, and the least vulnerable among us.
And so this is a game that they continually play.
And you’re right. This wannabe macho party, this wannabe tough guy strong man act that they pull. These people are the most mentally fragile, weak, scared little children in a corner, hiding people that you will ever find.
Because at the end of the day when push comes to shove and they get caught. And they get pulled before court. They’re the ones crying to their lawyers now, saying, ‘Oh I had Fox psychosis. I can’t believe this happened’.
They fold immediately like a house of cards when they get called on their b-s.”
Bardella:
“They’re scared to death of going outside their little Fox bunker, into the real world with real questions.”
Reid: “And that’’s why they just want to rig elections instead.”
–excerpts.
‘Larger breaches
at a much larger scale’:
Russia-based hackers targeting key U.S. systems
“David Kennedy, a former NSA hacker,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the relationship between Russia-based ransomware hacker groups
and the Russian government, and the apparent recent uptick in these groups targeting important U.S. systems.”
Right here: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-larger-breaches-at-a-much-larger-scale-russia-based-hackers-targeting-key-u-s-systems-114242629970)
“Colonial Pipeline CEO Tells Why He Paid Hackers a $4.4 Million Ransom”
“Joseph Blount says he needed to quickly restore service after cyberattack threatened East Coast supply”
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/colonial-pipeline-ceo-tells-why-he-paid-hackers-a-4-4-million-ransom-11621435636)
Keep on not looking now…feels like Putin is very much in control.
Flips And Flops, Drips And Drops – Electric Mantis
New documentary about Anthony Bourdain from the director of who did Won’t You Be My Neighbor.
President Obama remembers Anthony Bourdain on his passing.
My Queen!!!
New post.