A year ago today, we lost Congressman John Lewis. As we celebrate the king of good trouble—his legacy of perseverance; his ability to find moments of joy and lightness in the midst of real struggle—we should also recommit ourselves to building the future he envisioned. pic.twitter.com/07nbvnBh9i
All across our country, the sacred right to vote that he marched and bled for is being threatened. That’s why we’ve got to do everything in our power to pass the #ForThePeopleAct and the #JohnLewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Everyone deserves to have their voices heard and their votes counted, and I can’t think of a better way to honor Congressman Lewis than by turning these bills into law.
The oldest guy to ever win the presidency tells the oldest QB to ever win a Super Bowl that "there's nothing wrong with being the oldest guy to make it to the mountaintop" pic.twitter.com/rIJDpLnR6j
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) July 20, 2021
Literallly just noticed a response from both of you to a comment I made on July 1st. I tried to acknowledge both but the system kept responding with ‘Response failed. Try again.’ So just so you know i was not ignoring you – was tempted to ignore uno who but – Hi.
Uh Oh!
Trump ally Tom Barrack charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/politics/tom-barrack-arrested/
Tom Barrack, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, was charged Tuesday with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates for what federal prosecutors in Brooklyn described as an effort to influence the foreign policy positions of both the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the subsequent incoming administration. Barrack is charged in a seven-count indictment with acting as an agent of the UAE between April 2016 and April 2018. He is also charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal law enforcement agents. According to the indictment, Barrack and two other men charged Tuesday — Matthew Grimes of Aspen, Colorado, and Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi, a UAE national — capitalized on Barrack’s status as a senior outside adviser to the Trump campaign to “advance the interests of and provide intelligence to the UAE while simultaneously failing to notify the Attorney General that their actions were taken at the direction of senior UAE officials.”
✅SIX months ✅FIVE million children being lifted out of poverty ✅FOUR out of five seniors vaccinated ✅THREE million new jobs ✅TWO million more Americans with health insurance ✅ONE first-class team pic.twitter.com/HdAZravVTu
Senator @RandPaul you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly…..and I want to say that officially YOU DO NOT KNOW what you are talking about. pic.twitter.com/5WOJypF7ME
Jeff Bezos forgot to thank all the hardworking Americans who actually paid taxes to keep this country running while he and Amazon paid nothing. https://t.co/tjOeCWbUA8
This is Scrappy Doo. He knows he peed right before the road trip started, but he has to again. Cannot help that he is a hydrated king. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/MLHOod8b7m
Watching NASA takeoffs when I was a kid was such a moment of national pride and unity. Having them replaced by billionaire vanity flights is one of the more depressing touchstones of this era.
Agree 100% I do not care what they do. It benefits only them and not the community. I’d rather watch ex-prisoners help inmates rehabilitation and survive on the outside.
Maybe while he’s in solitary, he might be ‘required’ to read each one aloud, on tape.. to play back to himself, with earphones, hearing all the crap in his own voice.. nasty piece of work he is.
I just watched this and shockingly Biden did not go around the room and have each of his cabinet members praise him and talk at length about how awesome he is pic.twitter.com/jmROaVvHt4
I was shocked at a doctors appointment to find out the health system in my community who will not employ smokers, and mandates flu vaccinations for employees HASN’T mandated Covid shots. It’s ridiculous!!
I took the day off news and come back to find republicans telling people to get the vaccine, Tom Brady loves Joe Biden, and another rich guy went to space, but this one also gave an idiot $100 million.
Do I have that correct? 2021 smoked too much weed.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Liftoff! 🚀The Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" is on its way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. pic.twitter.com/TP5peQ8a1x
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) July 21, 2021
Moody's on WH Plans: "It will strengthen long-term economic growth, the benefits of which would mostly accrue to lower- and middle-income Americans… Worries that the plan will ignite undesirably high inflation and an overheating economy are overdone."https://t.co/hNgMyTWePI
Fox has undermined vaccination efforts
in nearly 60% of all vaccination segments in a 2-week period
“Fox News has relentlessly undermined the effort to get Americans vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease.
“From June 28 through July 11, 57% of segments about coronavirus vaccines on the network included claims that undermined vaccination efforts.
“Amid a push from the Biden administration and medical officials to increase vaccination rates,
Fox News has repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns. Fox News’ dismissal of vaccine efforts is particularly dangerous as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have surged in unvaccinated red states, with polling showing conservative and Republican voters — who count Fox as their most trusted news source — are less likely to get vaccinated. Further, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported that Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) blamed right-wing media anti-vaccination “propaganda” for the state’s low immunization rates. The paper quoted Cox as describing the “recent push by Fox News, Newsmax, and other right-wing media against the vaccine” as “reckless.”
“Over a two-week period, from June 28 through July 11, Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Forty-five percent of segments included claims suggesting that the vaccination drive is coercive or that it represents government overreach.
Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.
Fox & Friends, including its early morning and weekend iterations, aired the most vaccine segments during this period, with more than half (52%) featuring claims undermining or downplaying immunization.
All of Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows with vaccine segments — Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson
Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle — included claims undermining or downplaying coronavirus vaccines in those segments.
Fox personalities and guests made a total of 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines in segments about coronavirus immunization.
Pundits in vaccine segments made 151 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines, representing 70% of the total attacks on vaccination efforts. Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham made the most such claims with 22 and 18 statements, respectively.
Over the two-week study period, Media Matters identified 129 coronavirus vaccine segments on Fox. Out of those, 57% of segments included claims that undermined or downplayed vaccines or immunization efforts.
In 58 segments, or 45%, Fox described immunization efforts as coercive or government overreach, or framed them with a false dichotomy of “personal choice” against “medical freedom.” Personalities and guests on the network argued against vaccination or highlighted extremely rare medical complications in 48 segments, or 37% of the total.
The network’s opinion programming aired 80 coronavirus vaccine segments, 69% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Its “news”-side programming aired 49 segments about vaccines, with 39% of those including claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts.
The show with the most vaccine misinformation was the network’s flagship morning program, Fox & Friends. Including its early morning and weekend counterparts, Fox & Friends aired 44 vaccine segments, 52% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Co-host Brian Kilmeade summed up the program’s resistance to vaccination efforts when he described the Biden administration’s campaign to get more Americans vaccinated as “mind boggling.”
Notably, Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows — Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle — promoted claims undermining and downplaying immunization in all of their coronavirus vaccine segments. The Ingraham Angle in particular did so in 15 segments over the two-week period, with both the host and her guests undermining vaccination rates.
In total, Fox personalities and guests made 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization drives. Out of those, 151 claims came from pundits on the network, which represented 70% of the total. Fox pundits described vaccine efforts as coercive or government overreach 103 times and described vaccines as unnecessary or dangerous 75 times.
Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends and Laura Ingraham of The Ingraham Angle were the network’s worst offenders. Kilmeade made 22 claims downplaying or undermining vaccines or immunization, and Ingraham made 18 such claims. Other top offenders were hosts Tucker Carlson (11), Rachel Campos-Duffy (11), Pete Hegseth (11), Ainsley Earhardt (11), and Will Cain (10).
Much of the network’s outrage spawned from misleading coverage of a “door-to-door” vaccination campaign from the Biden administration, which host Jeanine Pirro described as a campaign to ultimately take away Americans’ guns, and reaction to comments from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, which one contributor likened to medical practices of “the Taliban.”
Fox’s attacks on the vaccination effort are just the latest example of the network undermining public health efforts. And Fox’s hard turn against vaccines is particularly dangerous as vaccination rates in the United States have stalled or slowed — at publication, fully vaccinated Americans still represent less than half of the total population.
As with its coverage of other public health measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, Fox is again leading the charge to discredit accepted science with misinformation and fearmongering.”
Vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.
Immunization efforts are coercive, represent government overreach, or violate personal freedom or choice.
For the first category, we coded claims meeting any of the following criteria:
Suggesting that vaccination is not necessary for persons with prior infections or persons who are at low risk of serious illness or complications due to COVID-19.
Highlighting rare complications as a result of vaccination to suggest that certain cohorts should not be vaccinated.
Suggesting that the vast majority of Americans do not need to be vaccinated.
Suggesting that the pandemic is over, and therefore, vaccinations are unnecessary or superfluous.
Suggesting that risk of complications from vaccination outweigh protections from vaccination.
For the second category, we coded claims meeting any of the following criteria:
Characterizing vaccination efforts as coercion or highlighting personal choice over public health or emphasizing “medical freedom.”
Suggesting that parents’ rights should be prioritized over vaccination.
Suggesting that vaccination efforts are akin to fearmongering.
Suggesting that reimposing health measures would undermine health expert credibility — and thus, vaccination efforts — or confidence in the vaccines.
Suggesting that health officials cannot be trusted on coronavirus and, thus, cannot be trusted when recommending vaccines.”
(mediamatters)
HOW FOX AND TRUMP KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US.
Fox hosts NOW claiming oh of course THEY are vaccinated — but it’s your choice no worries.
Um one obvious example: Children don’t have a vaccine yet and “your choice” might have consequences.
‘They Got What They Wanted’:
Indictment Outlines U.A.E. Wins With Barrack Working Trump”
“Rachel Maddow reports on how the federal indictment against Donald Trump insider Tom Barrack
outlines how well served the United Arab Emirates was by allegedly having Barrack as an agent influencing Donald Trump on their behalf, and how lucrative the arrangement was for Barrack.”
Barrack Indictment Puts New Attention On U.A.E. Interest In Getting Trump Elected
“Rachel Maddow reviews New York Times reporting from 2018 of an offer by the United Arab Emirates
to help Donald Trump get elected, an especially appealing prospect since they allegedly had an agent in Tom Barrack in a position to influence Donald Trump to act in their interest. ”
Tom Barrack Indictment Adds New Perspective On Foreign Schemes To Help Trump Win Election
“David Kirkpatrick, national correspondent NYT,
talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Tom Barrack indictment
alleges Barrack was working with the United Arab Emirates
as the U.A.E. was reportedly offering help to the Trump campaign in 2016
and efforts were being made to make connections with Russia.”
HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ Pennsylvania's top election official has decertified the voting machines of a county that disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local GOP lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an "audit" after the 2020 election.
‘Racism Kills’:
Chris Hayes On Biz Markie And The Life Expectancy Gap
“Black men get considerable less years on the planet than white men. When you are asked what structural racism means, that’s what it means.”
Hayes:
“Biz Markie died last Friday after a decade-long battle with type two diabetes. He was 57.
Back in April, hip hop musicians, legends, DMX, Black Rob, and Shock G all died within the span of a few weeks, and they were 50, 52, and 57 respectively.
Last October, one of my all-time favorite rappers MF DOOM died at the age of 49.
Now you can say that well, musicians die too young all the time.
And that’s true.
Or that the rapper lifecycle burns out quick.
But this is also about disparities that have long been documented.
Earlier this year, the American Medical Association noted the country’s pervasive health inequities were evidenced by a tragic tally of more than 74,000 excess deaths on average among Black people,
compared with white people each year between 2016 and 2018. It’s even more stark when you look at just Black men as all of these rappers were.
The average life expectancy for a white male in this country is about 75 years old.
The average life expectancy for a Black male is about 68 years old.
That’s a seven year difference.
When we talk about structural racism in critical race theory the big bugaboo right now, that’s what we’re talking about.
It is worth noting that Black men get considerable less years on the planet than white men.
When you’re asked what structural racism means,
that’s what it means.
It means a society that takes years off people’s lives. The only thing we have.
Because of a million different things that have built up over hundreds of years,
produced a system where Black people are more exposed to violence,
and more exposed to toxins,
and more exposed to health risks,
and face more barriers for health treatment,
and on and on and on.
This is not some abstraction. It’s not some question of hurt feelings.
It is literally life and death.
Racism kills. It takes lives too early every damn day.
Biz Markie like so many others of his generation died at a tragically young age.
And like others, left behind a rich legacy that perhaps were largely under-appreciated until it was too late. But Biz and others deserve more.
They all deserve more.
At its core that is what the fight for equality and against racism is all about.”
“A few days later when I call time of death,” continued Cobia on Facebook, “I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.” #GetVaccinated
Rosa Maria Paya, founder, Cuba Decide, speaks with Joy Reid:
“The Cuban military have been actually cracking down on protesters with brutal repression.
But the people understand. We as a nation, we understand that to get out of the deep crisis that we are facing,
we need to get out of the dictator.
We need to end their dictatorship.
And in the middle of the sanitary crisis, in the middle of the public crisis, in the middle of the health crisis, that people are just fed up and went to the streets, demanding what is the root of all the crises.
Which is the Castro’s dictatorship.
So the call to the international community is still the same:
“Please listen to the people asking for freedom and support that demand.””
REID:
“What can the Biden administration do to support the Cuban people?”
PAYA:
“Well the Biden administration has today the big opportunity of accompanying the Cuban people in their quest for freedom. And actually achieving together with the Cuban people the freedom after 62 years of dictatorship.
For instance, the U.S. should apply individual targeted sanctions against the repressors,
against the ones that are ordering the military to shut down young people in the streets.
And there are many companies, many enterprises still doing business with that criminal regime.
The Biden administration should take a similar approach to the approach taken towards South Africa, to end apartheid. And put responsibility on those companies and apply… principles.
The U.S. has the capacity to provide Cubans with Internet access, with satellite, Internet access.
Which means it’s going to bypass the interference and the censorship of the dictatorship, that by the way cut Internet success when the protests started.”
PAYA:
“So we are asking capacity to be enabled for the Cuban people.
But also this Administration has the ability to be leaders in that regard, world leaders in the defense of democracy, the defense of human rights.
So we hope that the Biden Administration invites the European Union to take similar steps, Invites the member states of the OAS to take similar steps.
This is a big challenge to all the democracies of the world, but it’s also a big opportunity here to finally see a free Cuba. And with a free Cuba, more stability and peace in our hemisphere.”
REID:
“It is remarkable to see it happening. I`m glad that you mentioned South Africa. Joe Biden was actually one of the most vocal senators at that time against the South African apartheid regime. And also has been pushing for freedom in Russia as well.”
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, singer-actor Bette Midler, Motown chief Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels and opera singer Justino Díaz will be feted when the 44th Kennedy Center Honors take place in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5. https://t.co/0aDYT3Ra8Bpic.twitter.com/xuyF7TkM4o
Nothing but love to the legendary Marla Gibbs, one of our TV and film faves! Congrats on receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You deserve!! 💐 pic.twitter.com/oDZwzsAKyZ
— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) July 21, 2021
Even by cynical nihilist standards, McCarthy mis-played this.
The cycnical, nihilist move would have been to keep appointing crazier and crazier Republicans, forcing additional Pelosi vetoes, and THEN pull the plug.
“I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time you stay at home, not us."@EmmanuelMacron#GetVaccinated
So sad, I was reading about the Dr. in Mississippi or Arkansas, that these young people are begging to take the vaccine right before intubation. This is so unfair to the medical staff. They deserve a break after last summer and winter. All these selfish people.
Pelosi when I asked her about McCarthy’s blast that she is playing politics with Jan 6 committee – a classic: “Perhaps you mistake me for somebody who would care about that.”
Barack Obama Charts a Historic Course in New Trailer for ‘Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union’
“Three-part HBO docuseries will examine the former president’s life and political career”
by John Blistein, Rolling Stone.
HBO has released a new trailer for its upcoming three-part docuseries on Barack Obama, Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union. It will premiere August 3rd, with additional episodes airing on the 4th and 5th.
HISTORY MADE: Atlanta's Jayla Jackson and Emani Stanton are the first Black female duo to win Harvard's international debate competition. And they did it with an undefeated record. https://t.co/0syjBydg60
This is Jasper. He’s not sure why this dog is giving him so much attitude. Got all pup in his face. 14/10 for Jasper but only 12/10 for the other guy pic.twitter.com/qqlQqbsi7y
I LOVE the Olympics and all, but this ridiculous and highly irresponsible! It’s getting worse by the minute! They should not be risking all these people’s health like this. I thought they were at least taking all appropriate measures to keep everyone safe, but it doesn’t appear that’s the case. 😱
🚨 JUST IN: 91 people directly linked to the Olympic Games have now tested positive for #Covid19
— (((Dr Lilly Evans))) #STAYING_HOME (@Alheri) July 22, 2021
#breaking Tokyo under state of emergency with highest Covid-19 numbers in more than 6 months, Cases rising inside the #Tokyo2020 Olympic bubble as more athletes test positive. Major sponsors distancing themselves from games. Opening ceremony details unknown. @Acosta@CNNSitRoompic.twitter.com/NzDs714zkt
🗣New 3-part Obama documentary series coming to HBOMax August 3rd —
Obama: In Pursuit Of A More Perfect Union
#ObamaHBO: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union follows @BarackObama’s personal and political journey and challenges as the 44th President of the United States.
Uh-oh! The Russian Nauka rocket headed to the Space Station is in trouble! 😳
UPDATE: #Nauka's main engines (pictured in operation) are currently out of commission. Specialists are troubleshooting the issue and developing a backup rendezvous plan. The module has ~30 stable orbits at current altitude. EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: https://t.co/KZE3WlnXSupic.twitter.com/uEAP4irjyi
A breaking story on twitter is the latest Russian module to space station "Nauka" is in serious trouble with its planned docking. It has developed a fault with its guidance engines that are so critical for it to dock. https://t.co/FB9VBJK4wj
Some background, Nauka was expected to orbit earth several times to give mission control time to do diagnostic checks of its systems prior to attempting docking. It seems the "event" that trigger the fault occur during the diagnostic checks. pic.twitter.com/NbiUQGN36f
To make matters worse, Nauka was always intended to dock relatively quickly with the space station. Currently the best guess is they have only two days to get the engines working or it will be too far away to get to the space station on its own engines. pic.twitter.com/dtzlRgSatQ
The state of Pennsylvania is decertifying the voting system of Fulton County after local officials used a private company with no expertise in election technology to “audit” 2020 vote. *Donald Trump’s “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell was connected to this. https://t.co/i4FHX17SAqpic.twitter.com/LcAapUhvkD
Now I’m not trying to put down anyone’s state, but I AM saying that South Carolina produces three times as many peaches as the “Peach State.”
That’s why my office brings a little bit of South Carolina to D.C. and delivers locally grown peaches to my colleagues each year. pic.twitter.com/7tWjGaEweM
Thank you Officer Dunn for your service and bravery.
Congressman Swalwell:
“this is a party that is sympathizing with the cop killers.
They are voting against Capitol Police funding, they are voting against awarding the gold medal to the Capitol Police officers, They continue to say that the police, like the FBI, are responsible for what happened. And now today they’re walking away from the Police and this investigation. So we can’t wait for them. Our country can’t wait for them. This investigation must move on.”
(Carlson modeling the rich white atrophied gop brain here….is it hard to take down all the emptiness?)
The Obama Diary 
Hi, everyone.
Here’s hoping you are all holding your own with the virus, and with family and friends.
Nice thought, VC.
Thank you for the new post, NW.
Greetings, NCLB. It’s always such a delight to see ‘old’ familiar faces in TOD village. 🙂
VC!!!!!! hello my international sister 🙋🏾♀️😘💖
Hiya VC! Lovely to see you here in the village! 😘❤️
🥇💙🏆
Agree!
Joe was pretty funny during that get-together!
‘Lo, GxG & AMK:
Literallly just noticed a response from both of you to a comment I made on July 1st. I tried to acknowledge both but the system kept responding with ‘Response failed. Try again.’ So just so you know i was not ignoring you – was tempted to ignore uno who but – Hi.
No worries. 🥰
Uh Oh!
Trump ally Tom Barrack charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/politics/tom-barrack-arrested/
Tom Barrack, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, was charged Tuesday with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates for what federal prosecutors in Brooklyn described as an effort to influence the foreign policy positions of both the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the subsequent incoming administration. Barrack is charged in a seven-count indictment with acting as an agent of the UAE between April 2016 and April 2018. He is also charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal law enforcement agents. According to the indictment, Barrack and two other men charged Tuesday — Matthew Grimes of Aspen, Colorado, and Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi, a UAE national — capitalized on Barrack’s status as a senior outside adviser to the Trump campaign to “advance the interests of and provide intelligence to the UAE while simultaneously failing to notify the Attorney General that their actions were taken at the direction of senior UAE officials.”
Yes indeed, one class team!
That’s “one first-class team” 😁
Indeed 🥰😎
Texas Republicans suck! 🤬
How they can conduct business when no quorum?
Good question
It’s a fucking swamp of sleaze.
⭐️
what was it, a 10 minute nothingburger which did zilch for science and for the public?
Every amazon employee paying taxes on minimum wage
stooges gotta be stooging.
lol.
give him a pee bottle at least, ffs.
Give that baby whatever he wants! 😍
Man on the moon was a global celebration. Unlike this shitshow.
Agree 100% I do not care what they do. It benefits only them and not the community. I’d rather watch ex-prisoners help inmates rehabilitation and survive on the outside.
This
Maybe while he’s in solitary, he might be ‘required’ to read each one aloud, on tape.. to play back to himself, with earphones, hearing all the crap in his own voice.. nasty piece of work he is.
That’s all I have to say..
Nite nite
Big hugs
Big hugs to you!! ❤
Hugs back to you, JO’B! 💞
ugh, how cringey that servile shitshow was. and yet 48% wanted a replay of that shitshow. 🤮
😁
The head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee has not ruled out a cancellation of the Olympic Games.
Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and hold “discussions” if necessary.
More than 70 people associated with the Games have tested positive ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.
His comments came on the same day International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said cancellation was “never an option”.
Earlier this month, Japan announced the Games would go ahead in empty venues without spectators – despite growing concern over the Covid situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57911122
wilful pigheadedness.
What a great day in America that would be! 😃
Oh. My. Goodness.
It’s way too early for WMPW, but this must be shared! Inspiration, intelligence, dedication.. I will send it to Obama Foundation!
Bbl
🕊🕯💙👏🏼💙🕯🕊
Good Family! Read this thread. You’re welcome. 😊
I’m shocked too! 🤨
What a wacky world.
This is perfecto!!!!
I still don’t like him, but whatever.
Surprise (not)! It’s Brisbane 2032!
Choices. Consequences.
Liftoff 🚀
Dream Team Queens! 👑
Moody’s gives 👍🏾 on the Biden-Harris admin plans
FACT…
Fox has undermined vaccination efforts
in nearly 60% of all vaccination segments in a 2-week period
“Fox News has relentlessly undermined the effort to get Americans vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease.
“From June 28 through July 11, 57% of segments about coronavirus vaccines on the network included claims that undermined vaccination efforts.
“Amid a push from the Biden administration and medical officials to increase vaccination rates,
Fox News has repeatedly fearmongered about and downplayed the need for continued vaccination campaigns. Fox News’ dismissal of vaccine efforts is particularly dangerous as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have surged in unvaccinated red states, with polling showing conservative and Republican voters — who count Fox as their most trusted news source — are less likely to get vaccinated. Further, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported that Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) blamed right-wing media anti-vaccination “propaganda” for the state’s low immunization rates. The paper quoted Cox as describing the “recent push by Fox News, Newsmax, and other right-wing media against the vaccine” as “reckless.”
“Over a two-week period, from June 28 through July 11, Fox News aired 129 segments about coronavirus vaccines. Of those, 57% included claims that either undermined or downplayed immunization efforts.
Forty-five percent of segments included claims suggesting that the vaccination drive is coercive or that it represents government overreach.
Thirty-seven percent of segments included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.
Fox & Friends, including its early morning and weekend iterations, aired the most vaccine segments during this period, with more than half (52%) featuring claims undermining or downplaying immunization.
All of Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows with vaccine segments — Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson
Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle — included claims undermining or downplaying coronavirus vaccines in those segments.
Fox personalities and guests made a total of 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines in segments about coronavirus immunization.
Pundits in vaccine segments made 151 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines, representing 70% of the total attacks on vaccination efforts. Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham made the most such claims with 22 and 18 statements, respectively.
Over the two-week study period, Media Matters identified 129 coronavirus vaccine segments on Fox. Out of those, 57% of segments included claims that undermined or downplayed vaccines or immunization efforts.
In 58 segments, or 45%, Fox described immunization efforts as coercive or government overreach, or framed them with a false dichotomy of “personal choice” against “medical freedom.” Personalities and guests on the network argued against vaccination or highlighted extremely rare medical complications in 48 segments, or 37% of the total.
The network’s opinion programming aired 80 coronavirus vaccine segments, 69% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Its “news”-side programming aired 49 segments about vaccines, with 39% of those including claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts.
The show with the most vaccine misinformation was the network’s flagship morning program, Fox & Friends. Including its early morning and weekend counterparts, Fox & Friends aired 44 vaccine segments, 52% of which included claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization efforts. Co-host Brian Kilmeade summed up the program’s resistance to vaccination efforts when he described the Biden administration’s campaign to get more Americans vaccinated as “mind boggling.”
Notably, Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows — Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle — promoted claims undermining and downplaying immunization in all of their coronavirus vaccine segments. The Ingraham Angle in particular did so in 15 segments over the two-week period, with both the host and her guests undermining vaccination rates.
In total, Fox personalities and guests made 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization drives. Out of those, 151 claims came from pundits on the network, which represented 70% of the total. Fox pundits described vaccine efforts as coercive or government overreach 103 times and described vaccines as unnecessary or dangerous 75 times.
Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends and Laura Ingraham of The Ingraham Angle were the network’s worst offenders. Kilmeade made 22 claims downplaying or undermining vaccines or immunization, and Ingraham made 18 such claims. Other top offenders were hosts Tucker Carlson (11), Rachel Campos-Duffy (11), Pete Hegseth (11), Ainsley Earhardt (11), and Will Cain (10).
Much of the network’s outrage spawned from misleading coverage of a “door-to-door” vaccination campaign from the Biden administration, which host Jeanine Pirro described as a campaign to ultimately take away Americans’ guns, and reaction to comments from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, which one contributor likened to medical practices of “the Taliban.”
Fox’s attacks on the vaccination effort are just the latest example of the network undermining public health efforts. And Fox’s hard turn against vaccines is particularly dangerous as vaccination rates in the United States have stalled or slowed — at publication, fully vaccinated Americans still represent less than half of the total population.
As with its coverage of other public health measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, Fox is again leading the charge to discredit accepted science with misinformation and fearmongering.”
MORE: (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-has-undermined-vaccination-efforts-nearly-60-all-vaccination-segments-2-week-period)
“We categorized claims into two broad categories:
Vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.
Immunization efforts are coercive, represent government overreach, or violate personal freedom or choice.
For the first category, we coded claims meeting any of the following criteria:
Suggesting that vaccination is not necessary for persons with prior infections or persons who are at low risk of serious illness or complications due to COVID-19.
Highlighting rare complications as a result of vaccination to suggest that certain cohorts should not be vaccinated.
Suggesting that the vast majority of Americans do not need to be vaccinated.
Suggesting that the pandemic is over, and therefore, vaccinations are unnecessary or superfluous.
Suggesting that risk of complications from vaccination outweigh protections from vaccination.
For the second category, we coded claims meeting any of the following criteria:
Characterizing vaccination efforts as coercion or highlighting personal choice over public health or emphasizing “medical freedom.”
Suggesting that parents’ rights should be prioritized over vaccination.
Suggesting that vaccination efforts are akin to fearmongering.
Suggesting that reimposing health measures would undermine health expert credibility — and thus, vaccination efforts — or confidence in the vaccines.
Suggesting that health officials cannot be trusted on coronavirus and, thus, cannot be trusted when recommending vaccines.”
(mediamatters)
HOW FOX AND TRUMP KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US.
Fox hosts NOW claiming oh of course THEY are vaccinated — but it’s your choice no worries.
Um one obvious example: Children don’t have a vaccine yet and “your choice” might have consequences.
= Fox and trump the People Killers must pay.
Yussss.
Speaker Pelosi is stunning, brilliant news.
‘They Got What They Wanted’:
Indictment Outlines U.A.E. Wins With Barrack Working Trump”
“Rachel Maddow reports on how the federal indictment against Donald Trump insider Tom Barrack
outlines how well served the United Arab Emirates was by allegedly having Barrack as an agent influencing Donald Trump on their behalf, and how lucrative the arrangement was for Barrack.”
Barrack Indictment Puts New Attention On U.A.E. Interest In Getting Trump Elected
“Rachel Maddow reviews New York Times reporting from 2018 of an offer by the United Arab Emirates
to help Donald Trump get elected, an especially appealing prospect since they allegedly had an agent in Tom Barrack in a position to influence Donald Trump to act in their interest. ”
See: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89bFUkfQS9A)
Tom Barrack Indictment Adds New Perspective On Foreign Schemes To Help Trump Win Election
“David Kirkpatrick, national correspondent NYT,
talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Tom Barrack indictment
alleges Barrack was working with the United Arab Emirates
as the U.A.E. was reportedly offering help to the Trump campaign in 2016
and efforts were being made to make connections with Russia.”
See: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icb5UeKmNnk)
Really, I know why it took 2yrs. TRUMP/BARR.
I feel seen! 😄
White House/Pelosi COVID Cases Show Why Unvaccinated Republicans Are Dropping Dead
“The breakthrough White House and Pelosi staff COVID cases show the difference
between vaccinated
Democrats
who get
a little sick
while unvaccinated
Republicans
die.”
(politicus.usa)
Local GOP Official
Who Spread Conspiracies And Pandemic Misinformation Dies Of COVID
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/07/20/local-gop-official-who-spread-conspiracies-and-pandemic-misinformation-dies-of-covid.html)
–expecting more of this.
‘Racism Kills’:
Chris Hayes On Biz Markie And The Life Expectancy Gap
“Black men get considerable less years on the planet than white men. When you are asked what structural racism means, that’s what it means.”
Hayes:
“Biz Markie died last Friday after a decade-long battle with type two diabetes. He was 57.
Back in April, hip hop musicians, legends, DMX, Black Rob, and Shock G all died within the span of a few weeks, and they were 50, 52, and 57 respectively.
Last October, one of my all-time favorite rappers MF DOOM died at the age of 49.
Now you can say that well, musicians die too young all the time.
And that’s true.
Or that the rapper lifecycle burns out quick.
But this is also about disparities that have long been documented.
Earlier this year, the American Medical Association noted the country’s pervasive health inequities were evidenced by a tragic tally of more than 74,000 excess deaths on average among Black people,
compared with white people each year between 2016 and 2018. It’s even more stark when you look at just Black men as all of these rappers were.
The average life expectancy for a white male in this country is about 75 years old.
The average life expectancy for a Black male is about 68 years old.
That’s a seven year difference.
When we talk about structural racism in critical race theory the big bugaboo right now, that’s what we’re talking about.
It is worth noting that Black men get considerable less years on the planet than white men.
When you’re asked what structural racism means,
that’s what it means.
It means a society that takes years off people’s lives. The only thing we have.
Because of a million different things that have built up over hundreds of years,
produced a system where Black people are more exposed to violence,
and more exposed to toxins,
and more exposed to health risks,
and face more barriers for health treatment,
and on and on and on.
This is not some abstraction. It’s not some question of hurt feelings.
It is literally life and death.
Racism kills. It takes lives too early every damn day.
Biz Markie like so many others of his generation died at a tragically young age.
And like others, left behind a rich legacy that perhaps were largely under-appreciated until it was too late. But Biz and others deserve more.
They all deserve more.
At its core that is what the fight for equality and against racism is all about.”
Gahh – after an hour of trying everything have resorted to lamenting in French, for god’s sake.
Pourquoi ne puis-je pas publier un article (de SB) sur les expériences de ce médecin??
–re the doctor in Dudette’s post.
SB = Steve Benen…maybe it gets passed the censors at this point.
Rosa Maria Paya, founder, Cuba Decide, speaks with Joy Reid:
“The Cuban military have been actually cracking down on protesters with brutal repression.
But the people understand. We as a nation, we understand that to get out of the deep crisis that we are facing,
we need to get out of the dictator.
We need to end their dictatorship.
And in the middle of the sanitary crisis, in the middle of the public crisis, in the middle of the health crisis, that people are just fed up and went to the streets, demanding what is the root of all the crises.
Which is the Castro’s dictatorship.
So the call to the international community is still the same:
“Please listen to the people asking for freedom and support that demand.””
REID:
“What can the Biden administration do to support the Cuban people?”
PAYA:
“Well the Biden administration has today the big opportunity of accompanying the Cuban people in their quest for freedom. And actually achieving together with the Cuban people the freedom after 62 years of dictatorship.
For instance, the U.S. should apply individual targeted sanctions against the repressors,
against the ones that are ordering the military to shut down young people in the streets.
And there are many companies, many enterprises still doing business with that criminal regime.
The Biden administration should take a similar approach to the approach taken towards South Africa, to end apartheid. And put responsibility on those companies and apply… principles.
The U.S. has the capacity to provide Cubans with Internet access, with satellite, Internet access.
Which means it’s going to bypass the interference and the censorship of the dictatorship, that by the way cut Internet success when the protests started.”
PAYA:
“So we are asking capacity to be enabled for the Cuban people.
But also this Administration has the ability to be leaders in that regard, world leaders in the defense of democracy, the defense of human rights.
So we hope that the Biden Administration invites the European Union to take similar steps, Invites the member states of the OAS to take similar steps.
This is a big challenge to all the democracies of the world, but it’s also a big opportunity here to finally see a free Cuba. And with a free Cuba, more stability and peace in our hemisphere.”
REID:
“It is remarkable to see it happening. I`m glad that you mentioned South Africa. Joe Biden was actually one of the most vocal senators at that time against the South African apartheid regime. And also has been pushing for freedom in Russia as well.”
Barack and Michelle Obama Are Producing Blackout Anthology for Netflix
“The film and TV event will consist of six love stories, each scripted by a different writer.”
(https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37038742/barack-michelle-obama-blackout-netflix/)
—fab swooning on the way!
Ouch! ⚽️
Kennedy Center Honorees for 2021
Yay Marla Gibbs! 🌟
So sad, I was reading about the Dr. in Mississippi or Arkansas, that these young people are begging to take the vaccine right before intubation. This is so unfair to the medical staff. They deserve a break after last summer and winter. All these selfish people.
A seditious thug’s ‘blast’? Who is this shithead reporter?
P.B.O.
Barack Obama Charts a Historic Course in New Trailer for ‘Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union’
“Three-part HBO docuseries will examine the former president’s life and political career”
by John Blistein, Rolling Stone.
HBO has released a new trailer for its upcoming three-part docuseries on Barack Obama, Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union. It will premiere August 3rd, with additional episodes airing on the 4th and 5th.
Watch trailer: (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/barack-obama-docuseries-trailer-1200295/)
giraffic park.
some guyz have all the luck in the world.
Impressive! Most impressive!
doggone-it.
You must read this thread and comments::
I LOVE the Olympics and all, but this ridiculous and highly irresponsible! It’s getting worse by the minute! They should not be risking all these people’s health like this. I thought they were at least taking all appropriate measures to keep everyone safe, but it doesn’t appear that’s the case. 😱
🗣New 3-part Obama documentary series coming to HBOMax August 3rd —
Obama: In Pursuit Of A More Perfect Union
thx, love these 2 very different images of PBO.
Uh-oh! The Russian Nauka rocket headed to the Space Station is in trouble! 😳
Democracy dying one cut at a time
Look at Whip Clyburn startin’ some mess! He ain’t lyin’ though! 🍑😁
Ossoff😍
LMAO! The fan thirst videos on TikTok for my senators are a hoot! 😄
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtCeExR/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtCeJ4b/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtCNRsa/
SOON…
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-2
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1417907219958403072
LOL! 😜
https://twitter add.com/blackwomenviews/status/1418174479012962311?s=21
Woops! Here it is!
Wow, these posters for Dune are incredible! But October is still too early for movie theaters for me. Damn.
Turns out it will stream on HBOMax afterall! Yay! 😃
Is he suing the mofo for defamation? Legal threats are the only way to stop these vicious thugs.
Thank you Officer Dunn for your service and bravery.
Congressman Swalwell:
“this is a party that is sympathizing with the cop killers.
They are voting against Capitol Police funding, they are voting against awarding the gold medal to the Capitol Police officers, They continue to say that the police, like the FBI, are responsible for what happened. And now today they’re walking away from the Police and this investigation. So we can’t wait for them. Our country can’t wait for them. This investigation must move on.”
(Carlson modeling the rich white atrophied gop brain here….is it hard to take down all the emptiness?)
New post.