Happy birthday to my darling Sasha! I am so grateful for every laugh we’ve shared — and everything you’ve taught me over the years. You’ll always be my little girl, but I couldn’t be prouder of the woman you are becoming. Love you so much! 🎉🥳💗 pic.twitter.com/akqfTBiWgV
Happy birthday, Sasha! You’ve grown so much, and it’s been a joy to watch you become the person we always hoped you’d be. Your mom and I can’t wait to see where life takes you next. pic.twitter.com/IJ8hEpy01u
Happy Birthday to Sasha who went from adorable little imp to stunning young woman right before our eyes! What a bright future she and Malia have, on their own merits.
TY but it shouldn't have to fall to you to protect democracy. It should be DOJ suing and Congress passing both voting protection bills! https://t.co/jBgc8Evqsn
NEW: In hunting for people who leaked Russia investigation intel to reporters, DOJ subpoenaed Apple for data belonging to Adam Schiff, another House Intel Committee Democrat, aides and family members. One was a minor. w. @npfandos@nytmike@adamgoldmanNYThttps://t.co/6jWHq34kUB
As part of Trump era leak probes, DOJ got data from Apple belonging to Adam Schiff and other Democrats on House Intel. The Justice Department this May refused to tell Schiff whether any Republicans were investigated w.@npfandos@nytmike@adamgoldmanNYThttps://t.co/6jWHq34kUB
The last time this Senate seat was up, it was decided by less than 80,000 votes. This is a race we can win! Without a single cent of corporate PAC money, we're building a grassroots movement and I want you to be a part of it. Can you join us? Chip in 🔽 https://t.co/7f9aDRof9p
Happy Birthday to Sasha Obama, how wonderful to have watched her grow from a very cool little kid into a remarkable young woman! You go gurl, this world needs you very much!
🕊🕯💞🎂🥂🗝🙏🏼💐💞🕯🕊
Last year I lost my Congressional race by only 333 votes. My Republican opponent has since sided with terrorists. We can flip this seat, but I need your support. I have 54.2k followers.
Unless something major happens to change our present course, we are going to get our asses handed to us in 2022 and Kevin McCarthy will be Speaker of the House.
A federal judge has ruled that pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood has no basis to seek a federal court's relief from a State Bar of Georgia investigation to determine whether he is fit, in terms of his mental health or otherwise, to practice law. https://t.co/RnAiNqKzPW
“MT Supreme Court upholds controversial judicial-appointment law
Gianforte can appoint new judges directly”
“The new law abolishes the 48-year-old state Judicial Nomination Commission, which had vetted judicial candidates and forwarded a list of finalists to the governor, who had to choose from the list.
Now, the governor can essentially appoint whoever he or she wants, to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court or state district courts.”
A direct gubernatorial appointment:
Justice Laurie McKinnon (only dissenter): “Unfortunately, 50 years after the 1972 Constitutional Convention, this court reaches a conclusion contrary to the framers’ intent and which enables what the framers clearly sought to prevent – a direct gubernatorial appointment,”
—imo and looks to be a possible lead-in to GOP control of election outcomes.
Remarks by President Biden
on the COVID-19 Vaccination Program and the Effort to Defeat COVID-19 Globally
“Over the past four months, we have taken a number of steps toward this historic effort. We have contributed more than any nation to COVAX — a collective global effort that is delivering COVID-19 vaccines across the world.
We have supported manufacturing efforts abroad through our partnerships with Japan, India, and Australia — known as the “Quad.” We’ve shared doses with our neighbors Canada and Mexico.
And in addition, three weeks ago, with America’s vaccines — America’s vaccine supply secured and with confidence we have enough vaccines to cover every American who wants one, we announced that we would donate 80 million doses of our own vaccine — in house now — to supply the world by the end of June. Many of these doses are shipping to countries around the world as we speak.
And today, we’re taking a major step that will supercharge the global fight against this pandemic. At my direction, the United States will purchase an additional half billion doses from Pfizer — the Pfizer vaccine — that we’ll donate nearly 100 low- and lower-middle-income countries. They will be the beneficiaries.
Let me say that again: The United States will purchase a half a billion doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 nations that are in dire need in the fight against this pandemic. That’s a historic step. The largest single purchase and donation of COVID-19 vaccines by any single country ever.
Importantly, this is an mRNA vaccine, which is proven to be extremely effective against COVID-19 and every known variant of that virus thus far.
These half a billion vaccines will start to be shipped in August as quickly as they roll off the manufacturing line. Two hundred million of these doses will be delivered this year, in 2021, and 300 million more will be delivered in the first half of 2022.
Let me be clear: Just as with the 80 million doses we previously announced, the United States is providing these half…[billion] doses with no strings attached.”
(whitehouse.gov)
During his first international trip, Pres. Biden announced that the U.S. will donate 500 million Pfizer vaccine doses to nations in need pic.twitter.com/MXhRdbj4lo
From kick-off at Wembley next Friday, @ScotlandNT and @EnglandFootball will be the fiercest of opponents – but before that, the players will unite in solidarity against racism. Good decision, Scotland – well done! https://t.co/w15smxGsus
“Donald Trump exposed the weaknesses in our system of government
that could now be exploited by a corrupt leader with control of the White House. In this series, the Globe editorial board outlines the urgent reforms needed to prevent the rise of an American tyrant — and to protect our democracy for posterity.”
“…While there are supposed to be laws and limits on the presidency, Trump was unrestrained, exposing just how toothless those safeguards have become and just how urgently the nation needs to reform the office of the presidency itself.
Presidents in a democratic system of government are not meant to be able to extract personal profits from government service — or hand out pardons to imprisoned buddies, pervert justice, or foment an insurrection. That’s the promise of democracy: that it will be superior to these authoritarian tendencies of tyrants and kings. When these laws and norms are violated, they should be backed up by severe consequences if that democracy is to maintain its integrity. But right now, as it stands after Trump’s four years in office, American presidents can, in fact, commit all those abuses — and suffer little more than losing their Twitter account.
Trump may not have destroyed the American presidency, but he did put the institution on a perilous path.”
“The nation can, and must, prevent the rise of an American tyrant.”
1) Who in the Capitol was behind the Insurrection in any way?
2) Was the Jan 6 response delay partly about waiting for a chance for trump to impose the Insurrection Act?
3) Why haven’t Proud Boys been designated a Domestic Terrorist group? (Canada has done so.)
Clint Watts to Joy Reid:
“There is no domestic terrorism statute by which there’s a designation process allowing the FBI or any investigators for that matter in the domestic space to develop intelligence. Even anticipating that a group might mobilize to something, you have to have a probable cause to start investigations on each individual case.”
That’s such B.S. If a Black group like Black Panthers or a Muslim group did have the crap White hate group have done the FBI and GOP would would demand they all be in jail.
Oregon lawmakers ejected a Republican colleague from office for the first time in state history, voting 59 to 1 to oust Mike Nearman for helping a far-right crowd breach the State Capitol in December.
Rachel Maddow:
“But the home front is wobbly, in terms of whether we are successfully fighting off our own rapidly consolidating authoritarian movement inside our own politics. And whether we are establishing the necessary deterrence for would-be authoritarian leaders here, who have proven pretty good at grabbing the reins in our own country.”
President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have signed a new Atlantic Charter:
“…renewing an updating a commitment our countries made to each other as free nations in 1941 as Hitler rose. And FDR and Churchill wanted to shore up the alliance of the free world against him, and against fascism, and against authoritarianism. When we learned that Biden and Johnson will be signing this new Atlantic compact today, we called NBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss to get his take on where these two leaders are at right now with this update of that compact, compared with FDR and Churchill fighting fascism 80 years ago.”
Michael Beschloss, presidential historian:
“Well you know, a couple of moments in history our democracy has been almost taken away. That happened in the 1860s, there was a Southern insurrection. That happened in 1940, when Americans had to decide whether we’d stand up to Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese, to make sure that we and freedom survived.
The Cold War, especially a moment like 1960, when John Kennedy became president. He said, ‘We are in an hour of maximum danger that our system may not survive.”
We have lived, you and I and all of us watching, for four years through Donald Trump.
Our democracy was almost taken away.
But here we are – he is gone, the danger remains.
You were talking about the fact that the Russians and Chinese would love nothing better than to chase democracy out of our country. They’re uncomfortable with it.
But the worst thing, just as you were saying Rachel, is that we have at the same time what we didn’t have a 1940 or 1960. And that is a danger to democracy from within.
Another insurrection like January 6th. Maybe another attempt at coup d`état or worse, just as you’ve been saying. We’re seeing these state legislatures stealing voting rights from people in state after state. We are in danger of American elections and the presidency, and other offices, being something like the elections for Mussolini which he won with about 90%”
Collapse of Infrastructure Talks Puts Climate Action at Risk
“The planet cannot survive another successful Republican obstructionist strategy,” said Senator Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who wrote climate legislation that died in Congress in 2010. “We have to have climate at the center of any infrastructure package in order to have my vote. No climate, no deal.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/climate/climate-congress-infrastructure.html)
Senator Ed Markey to Hayes:
“Well, it sounds like to me that they have a package which is climate denial masquerading as bipartisanship.
We can’t have an infrastructure bill in 2021 that doesn’t have climate at its center.
And any other bill that we are going to consider that does not have aggressive solutions to the climate crisis
will just have that response which I`ve been giving which is no climate, no deal.
That’s the only way in which we can respond.
This bill has to meet the magnitude of the challenges which the climate crisis is presenting to our country and to the planet.”
Sara Nelson, International President. Association of Flight Attendants Union,
to Chris Hayes:
“80% of the airline employees have a Union.
And so we were able to get the best Covid relief package of any industry.”
“the American worker…working more to make more, not making more to have a better life.”
“But the fact of the matter is that we have to grow the labor movement.
This is what President Biden is saying, and he’s absolutely right.
If we don’t grow that sustained labor movement where workers can actually bargain for their wages, and their health care, and their secure retirement, and the other benefits, and vacation,
and things that make it a meaningful life,
then those things can change.
The corporate elite can change them any day!!!
So you could have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something on in one month,
and is taken away in the next month, if you don’t have a union and those rights and that contract… just like those executives demand for themselves.”
“As more DOJ abuses are exposed, demands for answers, accountability grow more urgent
“Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times,
talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that the DOJ seized private data on members of Congress and their staff members and families, and still fresh revelations that the data of reporters was also subpoenaed in other investigations.”
Chairman Adam Schiff, one of the lawmakers whose communications were seized,
said the new Attorney General Merrick Garland,
“has an obligation to clean house, to essentially understand
exactly what the Department was doing over the last four years, make sure that there’s accountability
for those that were engaged in political and partisan investigations within the department.”
Millions taking notice: Snotty Nose Rez Kids
“First Nations Haisla hip hop artists hit top numbers on Spotify and YouTube, by combining heritage with unapologetic music lyrics”
by Vincent Schilling
“First Nations Haisla hip hop artists Yung Trybez and Young D say they are always pushing boundaries and heating things up. Their music lyrics are unapologetic. Their imagery, whether it be a photo shoot, music video or Instagram post, are striking, in-your-face all the while maintaining an excellent balance
between Native and hip hop culture.
In short, the Snotty Nose Rez Kids are what’s up.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/06/11/indian-country-today-snotty-nose-rez-kids-keep-climbing-the-charts/)
Chairman Frazier statement regarding TC Energy’s KXL Pipeline
by Harold Frazier
Statement from Chairman Harold Frazier of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Eagle Butte, South Dakota —
“I have heard news today that has given me a sense of relief that I have not felt in a long time. It has been reported that TC Energy has cancelled the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would run right through the middle of Great Sioux Nation treaty territory.
I would like to thank all the people who sacrificed, stood up, took action, worked and prayed for to protect our nation and Unci Maka. Jim Picotte and Leon Red Dog shall always be in my thoughts and prayers for their commitment to protecting our land.
To the countless water protectors who have fought the constant battles in a thousand places to defeat this existential threat to us all, every action you took was an answer to a prayer.
I would like to thank United States President Joseph Biden
for understanding the damage to this planet projects like this would cause and cancelling the permit needed to cross the medicine line with Canada. An acknowledgement of the importance our actions have to this planet was provided when you took the bold step of action making you a champion for all of us.”
Happy Fab Friday to all !!!!
Thank you J and K, all at the WH, and all working for good in Congress, all of our true media.
Need yous big time.
P.S.
Just seen aww velvety antlers on a buck deer, first have seen this year.
Judging by how big his antlers are now – they’ll be like wow by September, October!
Ice cream van went by yesterday, first one, didn’t catch the music.
–Love First Lady Jill’s LOVE jacket
Russ Taylor, a Three Percent militia member, was just charged with six counts for his roll in the January 6th insurrection. What adds icing to the cake, is that this woman he was pictured with in Washington was not his wife. Uh oh… pic.twitter.com/2wbwx1ce3y
🔴 ENGLAND, CARBIS BAY : G7 LEADERS ALL TOGETHER #Video: There were some relaxed moments during the meeting breaks and the leaders were joking in between them. 'Everybody in the water!' quips Biden during famous photo on the beach. -Ruptly#Flashpic.twitter.com/YxRF1rjEuE
US President, Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden smile during the Leaders official welcome and family photo during the G7 Summit In Carbis Bay, on June 11, 2021 in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. Getty Images
Judiciary Chairman Nadler on the Trump DOJ subpoenas: "The Committee has been in communication with DOJ, and we have made our position clear. The Department has a very short window to make a clean break from the Trump era on this matter."
Chairman Schiff: "The Attorney General needs to do a full damage assessment of the conduct of the department over the last four years and outline all of the accountability and mitigation necessary to protect the public going forward."
Schiff: "This incident must be viewed in the context of the systemic politicization of the Department … [including] the intercession of former Att'y General Barr to reduce the sentence or dismiss cases against those who lied to cover up for themselves and the former president."
Schiff: "This incident must be viewed in the context of the systemic politicization of the Department … [including] the intercession of former Att'y General Barr to reduce the sentence or dismiss cases against those who lied to cover up for themselves and the former president."
A sign of how good Republicans are at working the media is that two GOP senators who for weeks spread the Big Lie that Trump really won the election—Bill Cassidy and Rob Portman—are labeled by the press as “centrist” and no journalist has mentioned their history spreading it https://t.co/ftLCrQsnqh
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) June 11, 2021
I usually avoid retweeting images of that orange turd, but this is worth showing the stark contrast between the oaf and the statesman. One comment mentioned how his being a such an embarrassment on the world stage may be the least of the horrible things he’s done. Oh so true. 🙄
My colleague Fiona Hill, who staffed the summit for Trump, told the BBC that Helsinki was so bad that she considered faking a medical emergency just to disrupt it. https://t.co/XHNPn5N1Dk
Merrick Garland is dealing with a landfill sized garbage heap of corruption left behind by a Criminal President. He won’t succeed in cleaning it up unless he prosecutes the Criminal who sat at the top of that heap.
Before I order these figures, does anyone know if you can take them out and play with them or are they glued to the display stand? pic.twitter.com/vLVS1QfjEa
Today I’m using tiktok to explain to teens how Bill Barr lied to the news media by saying there was “no collusion” in the Mueller report and the media printed that lie in headlines without proper attribution pic.twitter.com/6T7zHXmOEb
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) June 11, 2021
A Texas hospital has suspended 178 staff members who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine despite a mandate for staff to be inoculated by this week. https://t.co/x8RZ6gOBd1
The Floyd family is so pleased to see Darnella Frazier honored for her courageous humanity in documenting the murder of George Floyd. We are deeply grateful for her heroism which led to justice for George and sparked historic social change. https://t.co/gK1VTAWF29
Rep. Val Demings raised $1 million for her U.S. Senate bid in the first 24 hours after she announced her challenge to Marco Rubio.https://t.co/a9zEr9xiqY
GO VAL!!! Awesome woman is going to unseat that puddle of stale puke! Well, I certainly hope so….. Sent my first donation yesterday. Got 3-4 fund raising e-mails since then LOL! And that’s the way it works. 😊
YouTube has suspended the account of Republican Ron Johnson for seven days for promoting misinformation about coronavirus treatments. https://t.co/YhgMmxjZ5H
Just in: Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Atlanta next Friday as part of a nationwide tour to encourage more Americans to receive coronavirus vaccinations, a trip that comes as Georgia health officials race to improve inoculation rates. #gapolhttps://t.co/zYHlCcU00R
The state’s vaccination rate remains well below the national average. About 52% of Georgia adults had received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with the 64% national average. Only about 35% of Georgians have completed their vaccinations. #gapolhttps://t.co/zYHlCcCp9j
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) June 11, 2021
Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed the police killing of #GeorgeFloyd, has won a Pulitzer Prize special citation.
Frazier was 17 when she witnessed ex-officer Derek Chauvin murder Floyd: "My video didn't save George Floyd, but it put his murderer away and off the streets." pic.twitter.com/5kAKNzO1nQ
Pulitzer Prize co-chair Mindy Marqués awards a special citation to Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the murder of George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/MmI51dp2uZ
“Even though this was a traumatic life-changing experience for me, I’m proud of myself,” Frazier wrote in an Instagram post on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder.
“If it weren’t for my video, the world wouldn’t have known the truth.” https://t.co/hUQWk9ZZgQ
54 years ago, we represented Mildred and Richard Loving in the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. We won the case and overturned unconstitutional bans against interracial marriage. #LovingDaypic.twitter.com/pQqVRGJ1rq
Yesterday, I met students at CentroNía in Washington D.C. These children are a reminder that the children in our nation are capable of anything and everything. And it is our responsibility to remind them how special they are and how important they are to us as a community. pic.twitter.com/5ny6bVuocl
.@VP Harris announces the administration will have a child tax credit awareness day on June 21. Harris also says families can begin to receive their child tax credit checks in July.
Florida banned public schools teaching critical race theory, which examines the long-term impacts of white supremacy and slavery, including institutional racism today.
The governor claims without evidence that it teaches children "to hate our country and to hate each other." pic.twitter.com/qAIBNzKpF5
President Joe Biden enjoys a light moment with President Emmanuel Macron of France during their meeting at the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK. @POTUSpic.twitter.com/KLfHAtdt0u
we did nothing to stop both the radicalization of the rw incel who just shot your school, and did even less to prevent him from getting a weapon, but the good news is your lifelong burden of student debt will be delayed slightly
Good Morning!
Thought I share a good word today. 🙏🏾
Every single human being you pass by today is fighting to find peace and to push back fear; to get through their daily tasks without breaking down in the produce section or in the carpool line or at the post office.#SundayMorninghttps://t.co/G99YzbKwoa
You never once suggested that God placed Barack Obama where he was, never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.#SundayMorninghttps://t.co/5u8u1eFHFv
I was a huge fan of JER’s posts of arrival/departure of AF1! OK, OK, I was addicted! 😂😎 That ended for us all w/ Virus45. Uggh! Effing gargantuan nightmare!
Just saw AF1 on runway, & addiction is back, not going to rehab. This is my sheer joy! I love these overseas trips! 💞💞
😂😂 I was so silly during 8 years of PBO. Kinda bad as Tattoo in Fantasy Island series: “Da plane”. Ah geez! That was funny, as if I had shares in that plane! Guess we all did! 😇💞
Now am beginning to feel that joy again. What’s the name given to Dr. Jill’s plane? First Lady.
Does her plane really have a name, other than AF1 when she flies with The President? I couldn’t find anything about a plane name for her, just mentions of what kind of plane she might use.
I also went down a rabbit hole trying to find Second Gentleman Doug’s secret service name. All I could find was:
President Joe – Celtic
First Lady Dr. Jill – Capri
MVP Kamala – Pioneer
Second Gentleman Doug – To be announced but something that starts with a “P”
Looks like no one in the press bothered to follow-up after the inauguration.
The chlorine squeeze is especially acute because Americans are more pool-happy than ever:
➡️ Demand for pool upgrades and new construction skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic ➡️ Pool owners who didn’t do any extra work started using their pools more https://t.co/luPrAbc65Hpic.twitter.com/CUaQspOV6a
About two-thirds of the 5.2 million residential in-ground pools in the U.S. use traditional chlorine systems. The chlorine shortage will affect the vast majority of pool owners.
Jennifer Rocha, the daughter of immigrants and the first in her family to attend college, shared this powerful graduation photo and I can't stop thinking about it. pic.twitter.com/1xIq02MiI1
Euro 2020: Boos drowned out by applause as England take the knee
Boos from a “large number” of fans were drowned out by “loud and prolonged applause” when England’s players took the knee before their opening Euro 2020 game with Croatia at Wembley Stadium.
The Football Association had asked fans to respect the players’ wishes over the gesture to highlight racial injustice.
Boos on Sunday were met by an ovation from other members of the 22,500 crowd.
Before Euro 2020, England boss Gareth Southgate said his players were “more determined than ever” to take the knee.
Democrats didn’t ask people to put us in office so we could enshrine a Senate rule that empowers Mitch McConnell. We asked people to vote for us so we could deliver results. Now is the time to deliver on our promises to the American people. #EndTheFilibuster
LGBTQ Americans, I want you to know: We see you. We hear you. President Joe Biden and I will not rest until everyone has equal protection under the law. Happy #Pride. pic.twitter.com/HSEkOyZyLe
All the unmasked world leaders, their assistants, the Queen- met for G-7. It’s done and the next day Boris Johnson announces because of the Delta variant, re-opening is a delayed a month? Timing much.
The Obama Diary 
Happy Birthday! 😁
Thank you Nerdy Wonka! 😘❤️
Happy Birthday Sasha Obama.
Happy Birthday to Sasha! We all are so proud of you. 💖🦋🥰💃🏾🎂
Thanks Nerdy for posting this.
Happy birthday to a wonderful young woman who brought so many smiles to our faces.
Happy Birthday to Sasha who went from adorable little imp to stunning young woman right before our eyes! What a bright future she and Malia have, on their own merits.
Take the hint, joe. The man is sending so many.
LOL.
😁
this may? the may when garland is the ag may? pathetic.
Wot? That doesn’t pass any logic test? Wot??..
twitter maketh, twitter breaketh.
I think Stevie would love this homage!
So good!!
Just in case you’re ISO sweetness, human kind 💞:
Happy Birthday to Sasha Obama, how wonderful to have watched her grow from a very cool little kid into a remarkable young woman! You go gurl, this world needs you very much!
🕊🕯💞🎂🥂🗝🙏🏼💐💞🕯🕊
Nite nite TODobots! 🕊🕯💙🙏🏼💙🕯🕊
A squirrel.
I zoomed in and said “What kinda squirrel is shaped like that?” 🧐
Not a squirrel
Aha!
Photography by whatchamacallit my brother’s son.
🙂
Start with 2016. And they did it all brazenly on fucking live teevee. With Zero consequences.
Yup …zero consequences.
disbar the seditious thug already.
Good!!!!!
well said.
WOW
Gorgeous! The music and the musician.
“MT Supreme Court upholds controversial judicial-appointment law
Gianforte can appoint new judges directly”
“The new law abolishes the 48-year-old state Judicial Nomination Commission, which had vetted judicial candidates and forwarded a list of finalists to the governor, who had to choose from the list.
Now, the governor can essentially appoint whoever he or she wants, to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court or state district courts.”
(https://www.kbzk.com/news/montana-politics/mt-supreme-court-upholds-controversial-judicial-appointment-law)
A direct gubernatorial appointment:
Justice Laurie McKinnon (only dissenter): “Unfortunately, 50 years after the 1972 Constitutional Convention, this court reaches a conclusion contrary to the framers’ intent and which enables what the framers clearly sought to prevent – a direct gubernatorial appointment,”
—imo and looks to be a possible lead-in to GOP control of election outcomes.
Good Morning! 😁
Word is…
Attorney General Merrick Garland has scheduled a speech today.
Remarks by President Biden
on the COVID-19 Vaccination Program and the Effort to Defeat COVID-19 Globally
“Over the past four months, we have taken a number of steps toward this historic effort. We have contributed more than any nation to COVAX — a collective global effort that is delivering COVID-19 vaccines across the world.
We have supported manufacturing efforts abroad through our partnerships with Japan, India, and Australia — known as the “Quad.” We’ve shared doses with our neighbors Canada and Mexico.
And in addition, three weeks ago, with America’s vaccines — America’s vaccine supply secured and with confidence we have enough vaccines to cover every American who wants one, we announced that we would donate 80 million doses of our own vaccine — in house now — to supply the world by the end of June. Many of these doses are shipping to countries around the world as we speak.
And today, we’re taking a major step that will supercharge the global fight against this pandemic. At my direction, the United States will purchase an additional half billion doses from Pfizer — the Pfizer vaccine — that we’ll donate nearly 100 low- and lower-middle-income countries. They will be the beneficiaries.
Let me say that again: The United States will purchase a half a billion doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 nations that are in dire need in the fight against this pandemic. That’s a historic step. The largest single purchase and donation of COVID-19 vaccines by any single country ever.
Importantly, this is an mRNA vaccine, which is proven to be extremely effective against COVID-19 and every known variant of that virus thus far.
These half a billion vaccines will start to be shipped in August as quickly as they roll off the manufacturing line. Two hundred million of these doses will be delivered this year, in 2021, and 300 million more will be delivered in the first half of 2022.
Let me be clear: Just as with the 80 million doses we previously announced, the United States is providing these half…[billion] doses with no strings attached.”
(whitehouse.gov)
The New Atlantic Charter
“Today, the President of the United States and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom reaffirm their commitment to work together to realise our vision for a more peaceful and prosperous future.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/10/the-new-atlantic-charter/)
There truly is goodness in the world!
Why demand? Fucking subpoena the treacherous thugs.
Right? Make like Nike and just do it!
inr? just fucking do it. shumey is all talk.
Zee were
A treasure map for an American tyrant
“Donald Trump exposed the weaknesses in our system of government
that could now be exploited by a corrupt leader with control of the White House. In this series, the Globe editorial board outlines the urgent reforms needed to prevent the rise of an American tyrant — and to protect our democracy for posterity.”
“…While there are supposed to be laws and limits on the presidency, Trump was unrestrained, exposing just how toothless those safeguards have become and just how urgently the nation needs to reform the office of the presidency itself.
Presidents in a democratic system of government are not meant to be able to extract personal profits from government service — or hand out pardons to imprisoned buddies, pervert justice, or foment an insurrection. That’s the promise of democracy: that it will be superior to these authoritarian tendencies of tyrants and kings. When these laws and norms are violated, they should be backed up by severe consequences if that democracy is to maintain its integrity. But right now, as it stands after Trump’s four years in office, American presidents can, in fact, commit all those abuses — and suffer little more than losing their Twitter account.
Trump may not have destroyed the American presidency, but he did put the institution on a perilous path.”
“The nation can, and must, prevent the rise of an American tyrant.”
(https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/06/future-proofing-the-presidency/part-1-a-treasure-map-for-an-american-tyrant/)
—multi-part series by the Boston Globe, wow, thank you.
“Our norms only go so far in protecting the democracy. Our laws only go so far.”
Adam Schiff
imho thoughts, questions:
1) Who in the Capitol was behind the Insurrection in any way?
2) Was the Jan 6 response delay partly about waiting for a chance for trump to impose the Insurrection Act?
3) Why haven’t Proud Boys been designated a Domestic Terrorist group? (Canada has done so.)
Clint Watts to Joy Reid:
“There is no domestic terrorism statute by which there’s a designation process allowing the FBI or any investigators for that matter in the domestic space to develop intelligence. Even anticipating that a group might mobilize to something, you have to have a probable cause to start investigations on each individual case.”
That’s such B.S. If a Black group like Black Panthers or a Muslim group did have the crap White hate group have done the FBI and GOP would would demand they all be in jail.
Lock him up and throw away the key.
Rachel Maddow:
“But the home front is wobbly, in terms of whether we are successfully fighting off our own rapidly consolidating authoritarian movement inside our own politics. And whether we are establishing the necessary deterrence for would-be authoritarian leaders here, who have proven pretty good at grabbing the reins in our own country.”
President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have signed a new Atlantic Charter:
“…renewing an updating a commitment our countries made to each other as free nations in 1941 as Hitler rose. And FDR and Churchill wanted to shore up the alliance of the free world against him, and against fascism, and against authoritarianism. When we learned that Biden and Johnson will be signing this new Atlantic compact today, we called NBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss to get his take on where these two leaders are at right now with this update of that compact, compared with FDR and Churchill fighting fascism 80 years ago.”
Michael Beschloss, presidential historian:
“Well you know, a couple of moments in history our democracy has been almost taken away. That happened in the 1860s, there was a Southern insurrection. That happened in 1940, when Americans had to decide whether we’d stand up to Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese, to make sure that we and freedom survived.
The Cold War, especially a moment like 1960, when John Kennedy became president. He said, ‘We are in an hour of maximum danger that our system may not survive.”
We have lived, you and I and all of us watching, for four years through Donald Trump.
Our democracy was almost taken away.
But here we are – he is gone, the danger remains.
You were talking about the fact that the Russians and Chinese would love nothing better than to chase democracy out of our country. They’re uncomfortable with it.
But the worst thing, just as you were saying Rachel, is that we have at the same time what we didn’t have a 1940 or 1960. And that is a danger to democracy from within.
Another insurrection like January 6th. Maybe another attempt at coup d`état or worse, just as you’ve been saying. We’re seeing these state legislatures stealing voting rights from people in state after state. We are in danger of American elections and the presidency, and other offices, being something like the elections for Mussolini which he won with about 90%”
NO CLIMATE, NO DEAL
Collapse of Infrastructure Talks Puts Climate Action at Risk
“The planet cannot survive another successful Republican obstructionist strategy,” said Senator Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who wrote climate legislation that died in Congress in 2010. “We have to have climate at the center of any infrastructure package in order to have my vote. No climate, no deal.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/climate/climate-congress-infrastructure.html)
Senator Ed Markey to Hayes:
“Well, it sounds like to me that they have a package which is climate denial masquerading as bipartisanship.
We can’t have an infrastructure bill in 2021 that doesn’t have climate at its center.
And any other bill that we are going to consider that does not have aggressive solutions to the climate crisis
will just have that response which I`ve been giving which is no climate, no deal.
That’s the only way in which we can respond.
This bill has to meet the magnitude of the challenges which the climate crisis is presenting to our country and to the planet.”
= NO CLIMATE NO DEAL
https://mobile.twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1403388186911555588
Sheesh.
Good morning, or it was until this came across via Stonekettle..
So much for ‘have a good weekend’, eh?
Big, big, really big hugs all around
{{{TOD}}}
He’s right though!
((((( Pamela )))))
Yeah, he is, and he’s clear ~ people all over the world need to listen! 🕊💞🕊
Sara Nelson, International President. Association of Flight Attendants Union,
to Chris Hayes:
“80% of the airline employees have a Union.
And so we were able to get the best Covid relief package of any industry.”
“the American worker…working more to make more, not making more to have a better life.”
“But the fact of the matter is that we have to grow the labor movement.
This is what President Biden is saying, and he’s absolutely right.
If we don’t grow that sustained labor movement where workers can actually bargain for their wages, and their health care, and their secure retirement, and the other benefits, and vacation,
and things that make it a meaningful life,
then those things can change.
The corporate elite can change them any day!!!
So you could have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something on in one month,
and is taken away in the next month, if you don’t have a union and those rights and that contract… just like those executives demand for themselves.”
“Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress”
“The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/justice-department-leaks-trump-administration.html)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8nze1srAs)
“As more DOJ abuses are exposed, demands for answers, accountability grow more urgent
“Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times,
talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that the DOJ seized private data on members of Congress and their staff members and families, and still fresh revelations that the data of reporters was also subpoenaed in other investigations.”
Chairman Adam Schiff, one of the lawmakers whose communications were seized,
said the new Attorney General Merrick Garland,
“has an obligation to clean house, to essentially understand
exactly what the Department was doing over the last four years, make sure that there’s accountability
for those that were engaged in political and partisan investigations within the department.”
WATCH LIVE: Garland reflects on voting rights policy
Millions taking notice: Snotty Nose Rez Kids
“First Nations Haisla hip hop artists hit top numbers on Spotify and YouTube, by combining heritage with unapologetic music lyrics”
by Vincent Schilling
“First Nations Haisla hip hop artists Yung Trybez and Young D say they are always pushing boundaries and heating things up. Their music lyrics are unapologetic. Their imagery, whether it be a photo shoot, music video or Instagram post, are striking, in-your-face all the while maintaining an excellent balance
between Native and hip hop culture.
In short, the Snotty Nose Rez Kids are what’s up.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/06/11/indian-country-today-snotty-nose-rez-kids-keep-climbing-the-charts/)
Chairman Frazier statement regarding TC Energy’s KXL Pipeline
by Harold Frazier
Statement from Chairman Harold Frazier of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Eagle Butte, South Dakota —
“I have heard news today that has given me a sense of relief that I have not felt in a long time. It has been reported that TC Energy has cancelled the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would run right through the middle of Great Sioux Nation treaty territory.
I would like to thank all the people who sacrificed, stood up, took action, worked and prayed for to protect our nation and Unci Maka. Jim Picotte and Leon Red Dog shall always be in my thoughts and prayers for their commitment to protecting our land.
To the countless water protectors who have fought the constant battles in a thousand places to defeat this existential threat to us all, every action you took was an answer to a prayer.
I would like to thank United States President Joseph Biden
for understanding the damage to this planet projects like this would cause and cancelling the permit needed to cross the medicine line with Canada. An acknowledgement of the importance our actions have to this planet was provided when you took the bold step of action making you a champion for all of us.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/06/11/harold-frazier-pipelines-continue-to-threaten-our-treaty-territory/)
—mega Congratulations on defeating the Keystone XL pipeline!!!
Happy Fab Friday to all !!!!
Thank you J and K, all at the WH, and all working for good in Congress, all of our true media.
Need yous big time.
P.S.
Just seen aww velvety antlers on a buck deer, first have seen this year.
Judging by how big his antlers are now – they’ll be like wow by September, October!
Ice cream van went by yesterday, first one, didn’t catch the music.
–Love First Lady Jill’s LOVE jacket
Do or Die – Mikey Lion, Sacha Robotti
Diplomacy is back!
I like this pic that includes Queen Elizabeth
And here the Queen is smiling with our President & First Lady
Rafaaaa! 😩
more like, joker https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f629.svg.
The fecker is an anti-vaxer thug
I never liked him. He keeps confirming my instincts about him.
Uh Oh
Just the charged? Arrest his seditious ass already.
😏🚴🏼♂️
G7 on the beach 😄
https://mobile.twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1403221500597919744
The furst and prolly the only one.
US President, Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden smile during the Leaders official welcome and family photo during the G7 Summit In Carbis Bay, on June 11, 2021 in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. Getty Images
Great photo!
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1403345768942030849
all thanks to the fucking 3rd rate 4th estate 5th columnists.
https://mobile.twitter.com/marceelias/status/1403485135417270274
poor guy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1403180974247190538
how many? how about all of them, from the fucking racist base to the fucking racist mcturtle ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/maziehirono/status/1403087424037720065
Only on this matter? How about on all matters? What a wimpy asshole
Exactly. See how this is done, nadler, you asshole.
Make schiff the leader already instead of that useless wimp nadler
Make schiff the leader already instead of that useless wimp nadler
Except for all the closeups of the needle going in. Ugh! I can’t look! 🥴
And the people giving those shots have NO gloves .
Eek! 😖
Exactly. Actions, not mere words
what a fugly thug.
I usually avoid retweeting images of that orange turd, but this is worth showing the stark contrast between the oaf and the statesman. One comment mentioned how his being a such an embarrassment on the world stage may be the least of the horrible things he’s done. Oh so true. 🙄
Glenn Close: “I’m not going to be IGNORED, Dan!”
Where’s the rabbit? Yikes, gotta save bunny! 😂😂😱
😱
only today? only tip of the iceberg? ‘learning’ from nyt?
Get real man.
what a horrible sob and bitch, made for each other indeed.
agreed.
She knew. 😆
Georgetown representin’ in da WH!
lol. playing dead to the extreme levels.
lol. whassup dood?
So cute! 😄
It’s lame. The Pulitzer. Not the tweet.
assholes gonna be assholes.
Boris is a whole ass.
$6K to £0 Wiki’s! God Save The Queen, and all! 😒😉
lol.
😁
Fucking 3rd rate 4th estate.
🗣🗣🗣
Not me. At all.
😀
GO VAL!!! Awesome woman is going to unseat that puddle of stale puke! Well, I certainly hope so….. Sent my first donation yesterday. Got 3-4 fund raising e-mails since then LOL! And that’s the way it works. 😊
💞💞👊👊
just 7 days? useless assholes.
She’s coming to Atlanta!
Darnella Frazier receives a Special Citation from Pulitzer.
The day Loving won!
This thread within a thread had me howling! 😆
Pulse, Orlando 😔🕊
Oh yeh! Go Val! 😃
lol.
lol. not true. at all.
🇺🇸❤️
DeSantis is a sickening racist.
He will be running for President. He needs the Trumpers…
Ugh to that!
Let’s just start w/ his name … 😒
what a contrast to the traitorous thug. a psychopath who could never laugh genuinely.
Dan Rather brought this to our attention
I remember his story. Imagine how advanced society would be if racial hatred wasn’t so ingrained in it.
Thank you for this, GG….They stole his dream. How many others?
Fucking msm.
exactly.
How in the fuck people vote for these assholes repeatedly?
I so want Val to eat little Marco and spit him out. He is a slimy prick…but the Cubans in Florida love him.
Just because I love this version too!
Welcome to Sunday, TOD Fam! 😉 Hit it w/ Playing for Change, & Sheila E’s in the space! 💃
Uggh, trying again. The jam is Sunday Brunch!
Uggh 2×! Sorry, it looked like previous post got stuck in tech ether! 😂😷
I needed this today! Thank you, G!
Love it! Love you! 😘❤️
Good Morning!
Thought I share a good word today. 🙏🏾
This too!
Pride
I was a huge fan of JER’s posts of arrival/departure of AF1! OK, OK, I was addicted! 😂😎 That ended for us all w/ Virus45. Uggh! Effing gargantuan nightmare!
Just saw AF1 on runway, & addiction is back, not going to rehab. This is my sheer joy! I love these overseas trips! 💞💞
Me too! 😁
😂😂 I was so silly during 8 years of PBO. Kinda bad as Tattoo in Fantasy Island series: “Da plane”. Ah geez! That was funny, as if I had shares in that plane! Guess we all did! 😇💞
Now am beginning to feel that joy again. What’s the name given to Dr. Jill’s plane? First Lady.
Does her plane really have a name, other than AF1 when she flies with The President? I couldn’t find anything about a plane name for her, just mentions of what kind of plane she might use.
I also went down a rabbit hole trying to find Second Gentleman Doug’s secret service name. All I could find was:
President Joe – Celtic
First Lady Dr. Jill – Capri
MVP Kamala – Pioneer
Second Gentleman Doug – To be announced but something that starts with a “P”
Looks like no one in the press bothered to follow-up after the inauguration.
Beware the dirty pools
You don’t even want to know how much I had to pay for chlorine. Sinful
Girl, it’s crazy everywhere. Be safe.
I don’t get it! Why is there a shortage. Shouldn’t a surplus make more sense in these times?
Know your history despite the RWNJs.
a lovely du.
I love her sense of humor. Fuck bill, the asshole.
Go Tsitsipas! 🎾
Hope he wins. Fingers crossed.
🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
Dammit, I feel like I jinxed him.
Bummer. At 2-0, I thought he had it.
Me too. ☹️
Euro 2020: Boos drowned out by applause as England take the knee
Boos from a “large number” of fans were drowned out by “loud and prolonged applause” when England’s players took the knee before their opening Euro 2020 game with Croatia at Wembley Stadium.
The Football Association had asked fans to respect the players’ wishes over the gesture to highlight racial injustice.
Boos on Sunday were met by an ovation from other members of the 22,500 crowd.
Before Euro 2020, England boss Gareth Southgate said his players were “more determined than ever” to take the knee.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57461330
😎
yup.
you voted for it, now live in dark.
It’s not really a wrong corrected if they had to buy it back, but good it’s back under tribal stewardship.
Historically, Native Americans are waaa-y better stewards of the land.
Yayy, congrats!!
so lovely, well said wonderful VP Harris.
😁🇺🇸❤️
Prez Joe & Dr Jill are meeting w/ Queen E. @ Windsor. Methinks Virus45 is having tantrums at his shithole! Yeah, am owed a ton of little pettys! 👊💞
New post.
Swaggalicious!
MVP in the SC!
Ain’t this some shit?