The Voting Rights Act, signed into law 56 years ago today, was a monumental piece of legislation. But with the Supreme Court and state legislatures making it harder to cast a ballot, we can’t take voting rights for granted.
Good morning to you, Nerdy, and all of TOD! We are equally concerned, Mr. President Obama, that the US Senate Democrats are not putting foolproof democracy protection bills like the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act at the very top of the agenda. It’s a fool’s errand to think there will ever be any GOP support for those, so carve out an exception to the filibuster rules like Rep. James Clyburn suggested, and pass them by majority vote.
Ditto to every word, Judith. I do not understand it. All these other things are important BUT without the right for everyone to vote, these other things won’t matter. If the GOP regains total power, they will wipe these things away! WHY do the Dems not understand that? Voting rights need to be the ONLY thing they are focused on right now.
Big thanks to the incredible U.S. Olympic athletes and all who competed! Thanks NW, and for the stellar Olympic reporting here on TOD. If only we could live this kind of unity in our own country and with the world all the time….
that is how to fight the rise of fascism.
“Opinion: Here’s a roadmap for the Justice Department to follow in investigating Trump”
“As evidence of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election mounts,
the time has come for the Justice Department to begin, if it hasn’t already, a criminal investigation of the former president’s dangerous course of conduct.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has worked to restore the badly frayed public trust in a nonpartisan DOJ.
But failing to investigate Trump just to demonstrate objectivity would itself be a political decision — and a grave mistake. If we are to maintain our democracy and respect for the rule of law, efforts to overturn a fair election simply cannot be tolerated, and Trump’s conduct must be investigated…”
(Tribe, McQuade, Vance)
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/05/heres-roadmap-justice-department-follow-investigating-trump/
“Tucker Carlson’s fawning new Orban interview shows the rights’s dream future”
(Greg Sargent)
“An ugly tension sits at the core of Carlson’s conversation with the Hungarian leader.
Carlson fawns over the “free” nature of Hungarian society —
contrasting it favorably with the supposed repression of widespread anti-liberal yearnings in American society — while saying little to nothing about the autocratic nature of Orbanism.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/06/tucker-carlson-orban-interview-right-dream-future/)
Trump Is Planning a Much More Respectable Coup Next Time
“the 2020 election subversion attempt is being shown every day to have been a Keystone Cops Coup.”
“The Jan. 6 insurrection, and Trump’s actions trying to change the electoral college votes in five states,
was an attempted coup built on the Big Lie of voter fraud.
But the potential coup next time will come in neatly filed legal briefs and arguments
quoting Thomas Jefferson
and wrapped in ancient precedents
and purported constitutional textualism.”
(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/trump-2024-coup-federalist-society-doctrine.html)
President Biden has been in office a little over 6 months. The GOP did not allow the confirmation of A.G. Garland until March (not even 5 months). The GOP makes sure when Dems take over we have a lot of cleanup. GWB left 8yrs of cleanup for PBO. Thank God Trump left only 4yrs but a bad economy, a Pandemic, and disinformation from his party.
“This is a solved crime.”
Release Kevin Strickland!!
Innocent and incarcerated for over 40 years!! Even the prosecutor says he is innocent.
Governor Parsons continues to release others such as “the gun-toting couple infamous for raising their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters”, but not Mr. Strickland.
That Gov should be personally SUED by him and his family. Cruel and Unusal Punishment for keeping a man behind bars for No Reason. Where is the A.G. Civil Rights folks. Trump disbanded most of the unit, they need to rehire all those that quit ASAP!
On the 6th & 9th August 1945 the US Army Air Force dropped 2 atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 120,000 civilians were killed, either immediately in the initial explosions or later from radiation exposure. On 14 August 1945, Japan formally surrendered. pic.twitter.com/KxCci8nhZk
— The Wiener Holocaust Library (@wienerlibrary) August 7, 2021
The 76th "Atomic Bomb Drop Day" since the atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945 I wish for a world without nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/bXl30eGvCT
Amazon Workers Allowed to Re-Vote for a Union After Corporate Interference
“The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU),
the auspices under which Amazon‘s union would lie, should unionization occur,
states earlier this year the internet retail giant illegally threatened to reduce staff benefits and compromised the election’s integrity by placing a secure ballot collection box outside the warehouse within sight of warehouse cameras, leading voters to believe they were under surveillance,
a U.S. labor law violation.
NLRB hearing officer Kerstin Meyers explained:
“It is clear that the sole reason the Employer sought to have a mailbox installed was the possibility that the Acting Regional Director would order a mail ballot election.”
Amazon management also disseminated “vote no” propaganda among senior staff.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/08/08/tm-amazon-workers-allowed-revote-union-corporate-interference.html)
—BEZOS ($214 Billion) do right by your workers!!
—Pay them a living wage!
–This is how to solve the terrible ‘problem’ of where to spend your $42 Billion per week.
—Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is slowing.
—Includes the Gulf Stream which warms Europe, US, and Canada.
—The warm Gulf Stream is needed for global stability. We thought there were centuries before we saw such change and now researchers say we have decades. Fresh water from Greenland ice melt is interrupting the warm salt water and pushing it down, so that the warm water doesn’t reach Europe. Like a river being interrupted if you mess up one part the whole is affected. Also the ‘Cold Blob’ around Iceland could throw us into centuries of hemisphere cold. All happening much faster than we thought and already destabilizing…we make models but we really don’t know all the affects.
“Major Atlantic Current May Be On The Verge Of Collapse, Scientists Warn”
“The study, which appeared in the journal Nature Climate Change, found several signs that Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), of which the Gulf Stream is a part, is slowing down and might be about to collapse.
Higher sea surface temperatures in the tropics and the incursion of fresh water from melting ice sheets are the biggest factors in the potential shutdown of the Amoc,
a massive current system that is critical to heat distribution across the planet.
The current helps moderate temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere,
taking warm water from the tropics northward on the Gulf Stream toward Europe, before returning submerged, colder waters southward toward Antarctica.”
(Forbes)
Dearest NW (aka UTAL), please let us know you are okay, with all we read is going on in your area, and your city. Much, much love and devotion to you, thank you deeply for your dedication. {{{💕NW💕}}}
I heard that Young Dame AOC (from the great sub-state The Bronx) is not ruling out a challenge to Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s seat in the next elections. Schumer learned from AOC’s predecessor and quickly moved many steps to the left and joined the Young Dame in all her ultra-progressive and, at times crazy. positions. Still, it’s not enough. She professed on records that old age and long tenure were anathemas to her taste. We shall see.
A simple NO would have suffice but she could not say it.
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The Hill
AOC on if she will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer in primary: “I can’t operate the way that I operate and do the things that I do in politics while trying to be, aspiring to other things or calculating to other things… I make decisions based on what I think our people need.”
Austin judge signs order to block arrests of Democrats who refuse to return to Texas Capitol for special session https://t.co/qTtRpldBNd via @TexasTribune
@LATimesSkelton, Contrary to what you would like to infer, Dems are very engaged in this Election! Column: One of the first rules of politics is to show up. Larry Elder broke it with the recall debate https://t.co/PjXytckz3E via @YahooNews
Breaking: Gov. Greg Abbott announces Texas will be seeking out-of-state health care personnel to help with the latest surge, and he is asking hospitals to voluntarily postpone elective medical procedures. pic.twitter.com/bNltNhYvT4
BREAKING: Today I filed the Bill to name Florida’s longest road—U.S. Highway 27—the “President Donald J. Trump Highway,” to honor one of America’s greatest Presidents. 🇺🇸
If Garland doesn’t at least meaningfully investigate criminality around the Trump-Clark coup attempt – and there’s no sign he is – then we’ll be left with public reporting, Congressional findings, an IG report, and no consequences remotely sufficient for a coup attempt.
Trump and his allies set out to destroy the Executive Branch…they were very successful…they got rid of long time employees and supplanted cronies there..it will take time to rebuild all those agencies…including the DOJ ..besides…he also has to get rig of plants and infiltrators left over from the Trump administration….this will not be easy or quick…
“So what are you going to do?” “Ask my boss for a raise.” “Because what are you?” “I’m a pelican.” “And not a…” “Pelican’t.” “That’s right.” “Thanks Marty, I really needed that.” “No problem, buddy.” pic.twitter.com/9abUdtSO6Y
People who don’t want to see family get murdered are spending less time with murderers, while the murderers are getting testy over being excluded https://t.co/5CelOy9sCg
So *more* doctors and nurses have to come in and help Texas (and risk being exposed themselves) bc this same asshat won’t allow mask mandates?? Are these people for real https://t.co/3JEdj8O3p7
President Biden returns to White House from Wilmington today; with hurricane season underway (one may be forming in Caribbean now), he'll get a briefing from FEMA, Homeland Security and his COVID-19 teams on how the pandemic is impacting hurricane preparedness
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) August 10, 2021
Why Hasn’t Trump Been Charged For Attempting To Overturn Election?
Mehdi: “Many Democrats, many journalists, are still so nervous about simply stating what we are stating tonight:
Donald Trump’s many attempts to overturn the election were criminal,
were violations of the law” says Mehdi Hasan. “So why is Donald Trump not charged with any crimes?”
Facts So Far In Trump Coup Probe Suggest Criminal Referral Likely
“Senator Richard Blumenthal, member of Senate Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow
about indications so far that events surrounding Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss
could result in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.”
BREAKING: The Senate approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan 69-30, a rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans joining to overcome skeptics and deliver a cornerstone of President Biden’s agenda. https://t.co/1aFR1lbo1V
Big news, folks: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal has officially passed the Senate. I hope Congress will send it to my desk as soon as possible so we can continue our work of building back better.
BREAKING: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a barrage of sexual harassment allegations a year after he was hailed for his leadership during the darkest days of COVID-19. https://t.co/RKWEVzKVYR
"The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing. And therefore, that's what I'll do," New York Gov. Cuomo says. pic.twitter.com/Z1edfCJa3z
Thankful to everyone who helped to deliver today's landmark Senate vote on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. We are one big step closer to a historic investment not just in our infrastructure, but in our future.
Yeap. People don’t even realize when they are being used. Now, the road is clear for Andrew Giuliani with plenty of cheerleaders along the way, the rethugs of NY, Trumpworld, and De Blasio.
I see the media is moving seamlessly from “interviews with Trump voters in a diner booth” to “interviews with Trump voters in an ICU bed.” https://t.co/Er4lnNTEsi
Palmer Report
Stop fretting over Cuomo, it’s a done deal and it doesn’t harm the Democrats anyway. Instead get out there and make sure Gavin Newsom wins his recall election. That one could actually hurt us big if it goes the wrong way. Donate, volunteer, or phone bank.
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Wise words.
There were ZERO available ICU beds in Mississippi as of early this morning. None. That means hospitals across the state may not be able to provide the level of care needed to you or your loved one. Not just for COVID-19 but FOR ANY EMERGENCY CARE.
As Democrats promised, the Senate is already moving forward with a budget resolution that will make historic investments in climate action, child care, paid leave, & more. Both the infrastructure bill and this budget are essential for our country to build back stronger & fairer.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was just suspended from Twitter for one week, for yet again lying about Covid and vaccines (she herself is vaccinated). She is a legitimate public health threat, and danger to this countries well being. RT if you think @Twitter should permanently ban her.
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Sixth Assessment Report
“AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
So we’re locked in for 30 years of plague, fire, and pestilence due to deadly knowing inaction.
To prevent warming past 1.5 Celsius we must be at Net Zero Emissions by 2050.
It was only a matter of time when the phucker would come crawling to President Biden for assistance. 😡
BREAKING: After relentlessly attacking President Biden and downplaying the COVID threat in Florida, Ron DeSantis is now requesting 300 ventilators from President Biden.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 10, 2021
DeSantis is knowingly risking the lives of Florida schoolchildren and their families.
–Hold him to account.
Joshua Sharfstein,
Vice-Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to Mehdi Hasan:
“This is a moment for school boards
and for superintendents to look in the mirror
and ask themselves whether they`re really putting the health of children first.
Because if they are, they should listen to the American Academy of Pediatrics which recommends
the masks for everyone who can wear them in school,
should listen to the Centers for Disease Control
based on many studies and a lot of consensus that masks should be worn in school.
You know, there`s a school district that I`m aware of where the motto is ‘Soaring to greatness committed to excellence’ but they shouldn`t have as part of that motto – not putting the health of kids first. “
Fauci Worried About Delta Variant Spread ‘If We Don’t Do The Right Thing’
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
talks with Rachel Maddow about why the role unvaccinated people play in generating new variants that can ultimately hurt even vaccinated people, and the best way to balance Covid safety with the need for children to return to school.”
Rachel Maddow:
“In terms of that simple idea at the heart of that virological principle…that more replication equals more opportunity for variation and mutation. Are you up at night worried about kids going back to school in the fall? I mean that is upon us now. That is starting to happen.
And we’re at over 100,000 cases now, again. We were at 300,000 cases in January but kids weren’t in school. We do have a lot of people vaccinated. Masks is a whole other issue and we could talk about that separately. But how worried are you about seeing large numbers of new infections particularly among young people, once people are back in school?”
Dr. Fauci:
“Well I’m worried about it Rachel if we don’t do the right thing. So let’s talk about that.
So we know because we’ve had experience now 18 months, keeping the children physically out of school has real, detrimental implication for them. We know that the development of the children, their mental health or what have you. So you’ve got to balance. How do we get them to school at the same time that we protect them to get them safely in school?
The first thing you do is you surround them with those people who can get vaccinated and are vaccinated.
So ANYBODY that goes near a child in school – teachers, people who work in the school – if they are eligible to be vaccinated they need to be vaccinated right away. That’s one level of protection.
Then also as difficult as it is for children to be wearing masks, you got to get everybody to wear a mask in school. And that’s what the CDC recommendation is. Vaccinate who can be vaccinated.
And wear masks, for others.
I know it’s difficult and it’s controversial about children and those in school wearing masks.
But we don’t want to keep the children out of school for yet again, another term. And at the same time we want to keep them safe.”
BREAKING: Gov. Tom Wolf said Pennsylvania employees working in health care facilities and “high-risk congregate care facilities” will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by September 7. https://t.co/PweM2i4wCZ
imo,
De Santis is clearly on the side of Covid.
He is risking sickness and possible deaths of young schoolchildren (and/or members of their families) who will probably not be vaccinated until winter. How do we respond?
To all GOP media and GOP officials who are
endangering and ending our children’s lives for political reasons:
Didn’t someone protect you and keep you alive when you were too young to do it for yourself?
We Homo sapiens have taken care of our young for 300,000 years.
Our ancestors did the same for 6 million years and because of them you’re here today.
Now it’s your turn in 2021 to take care of our young and their future on this planet …why are you dropping the ball? For the fossil fuel industry?
The Obama Diary 
Morning everyone:) Happy Monday….It’s back to work for me! Have a great day!
Morning DF 🥰
Have a great and safe Back to School day today!
Good morning to you, Nerdy, and all of TOD! We are equally concerned, Mr. President Obama, that the US Senate Democrats are not putting foolproof democracy protection bills like the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act at the very top of the agenda. It’s a fool’s errand to think there will ever be any GOP support for those, so carve out an exception to the filibuster rules like Rep. James Clyburn suggested, and pass them by majority vote.
Ditto to every word, Judith. I do not understand it. All these other things are important BUT without the right for everyone to vote, these other things won’t matter. If the GOP regains total power, they will wipe these things away! WHY do the Dems not understand that? Voting rights need to be the ONLY thing they are focused on right now.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
We the People should be calling the phone numbers of our Congressional Leaders now!
Everyone has a phone. There is no excuse that they should not be hearing from us.
If you don’t think it affects you – you are deluding yourself.
Right on, Gail!
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾Judith!
Big thanks to the incredible U.S. Olympic athletes and all who competed! Thanks NW, and for the stellar Olympic reporting here on TOD. If only we could live this kind of unity in our own country and with the world all the time….
that is how to fight the rise of fascism.
“Opinion: Here’s a roadmap for the Justice Department to follow in investigating Trump”
“As evidence of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election mounts,
the time has come for the Justice Department to begin, if it hasn’t already, a criminal investigation of the former president’s dangerous course of conduct.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has worked to restore the badly frayed public trust in a nonpartisan DOJ.
But failing to investigate Trump just to demonstrate objectivity would itself be a political decision — and a grave mistake. If we are to maintain our democracy and respect for the rule of law, efforts to overturn a fair election simply cannot be tolerated, and Trump’s conduct must be investigated…”
(Tribe, McQuade, Vance)
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/05/heres-roadmap-justice-department-follow-investigating-trump/
“Tucker Carlson’s fawning new Orban interview shows the rights’s dream future”
(Greg Sargent)
“An ugly tension sits at the core of Carlson’s conversation with the Hungarian leader.
Carlson fawns over the “free” nature of Hungarian society —
contrasting it favorably with the supposed repression of widespread anti-liberal yearnings in American society — while saying little to nothing about the autocratic nature of Orbanism.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/06/tucker-carlson-orban-interview-right-dream-future/)
Trump Is Planning a Much More Respectable Coup Next Time
“the 2020 election subversion attempt is being shown every day to have been a Keystone Cops Coup.”
“The Jan. 6 insurrection, and Trump’s actions trying to change the electoral college votes in five states,
was an attempted coup built on the Big Lie of voter fraud.
But the potential coup next time will come in neatly filed legal briefs and arguments
quoting Thomas Jefferson
and wrapped in ancient precedents
and purported constitutional textualism.”
(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/trump-2024-coup-federalist-society-doctrine.html)
awwwwwwwwwww sooookie soooooookie now!!!! 💃🏽💃🏽
President Biden has been in office a little over 6 months. The GOP did not allow the confirmation of A.G. Garland until March (not even 5 months). The GOP makes sure when Dems take over we have a lot of cleanup. GWB left 8yrs of cleanup for PBO. Thank God Trump left only 4yrs but a bad economy, a Pandemic, and disinformation from his party.
👍🏾
So true.
Good Morning TODVille.
Happy Monday!
The Hill
New Orleans Jazz Fest canceled for second year due to COVID-19.
Hey, when the ‘leader’ of your party and ‘movement’ is a corrupt traitorous thug…
“This is a solved crime.”
Release Kevin Strickland!!
Innocent and incarcerated for over 40 years!! Even the prosecutor says he is innocent.
Governor Parsons continues to release others such as “the gun-toting couple infamous for raising their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters”, but not Mr. Strickland.
Interview ReidOut with Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Executive Director Midwest Innoncence Project:
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/missouri-governor-pardons-gun-toting-couple-black-man-prosecutors-say-is-innocent-remains-imprisoned-118092357585)
That Gov should be personally SUED by him and his family. Cruel and Unusal Punishment for keeping a man behind bars for No Reason. Where is the A.G. Civil Rights folks. Trump disbanded most of the unit, they need to rehire all those that quit ASAP!
Amazon Workers Allowed to Re-Vote for a Union After Corporate Interference
“The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU),
the auspices under which Amazon‘s union would lie, should unionization occur,
states earlier this year the internet retail giant illegally threatened to reduce staff benefits and compromised the election’s integrity by placing a secure ballot collection box outside the warehouse within sight of warehouse cameras, leading voters to believe they were under surveillance,
a U.S. labor law violation.
NLRB hearing officer Kerstin Meyers explained:
“It is clear that the sole reason the Employer sought to have a mailbox installed was the possibility that the Acting Regional Director would order a mail ballot election.”
Amazon management also disseminated “vote no” propaganda among senior staff.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/08/08/tm-amazon-workers-allowed-revote-union-corporate-interference.html)
—BEZOS ($214 Billion) do right by your workers!!
—Pay them a living wage!
–This is how to solve the terrible ‘problem’ of where to spend your $42 Billion per week.
Referencing the billionaire club:
“Billionaires Profited Average of $42 Billion weekly During Pandemic”
(Business Insider)
This is a BFD.
“New Signs Indicate a Major Ocean Current Is on The Edge of Collapse Right Now’
(https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-clear-signs-a-major-atlantic-current-system-is-on-the-edge-of-collapse)
—Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is slowing.
—Includes the Gulf Stream which warms Europe, US, and Canada.
—The warm Gulf Stream is needed for global stability. We thought there were centuries before we saw such change and now researchers say we have decades. Fresh water from Greenland ice melt is interrupting the warm salt water and pushing it down, so that the warm water doesn’t reach Europe. Like a river being interrupted if you mess up one part the whole is affected. Also the ‘Cold Blob’ around Iceland could throw us into centuries of hemisphere cold. All happening much faster than we thought and already destabilizing…we make models but we really don’t know all the affects.
“Major Atlantic Current May Be On The Verge Of Collapse, Scientists Warn”
“The study, which appeared in the journal Nature Climate Change, found several signs that Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), of which the Gulf Stream is a part, is slowing down and might be about to collapse.
Higher sea surface temperatures in the tropics and the incursion of fresh water from melting ice sheets are the biggest factors in the potential shutdown of the Amoc,
a massive current system that is critical to heat distribution across the planet.
The current helps moderate temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere,
taking warm water from the tropics northward on the Gulf Stream toward Europe, before returning submerged, colder waters southward toward Antarctica.”
(Forbes)
Original study:
“Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation”
by Niklas Boers
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=1433a781-3863-48f3-a8fb-3b8c83ac135d)
“in the course of the last century,
the AMOC may have evolved from relatively stable conditions to a point close to a critical transition.”
Dearest NW (aka UTAL), please let us know you are okay, with all we read is going on in your area, and your city. Much, much love and devotion to you, thank you deeply for your dedication. {{{💕NW💕}}}
With party members like these…
I heard that Young Dame AOC (from the great sub-state The Bronx) is not ruling out a challenge to Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s seat in the next elections. Schumer learned from AOC’s predecessor and quickly moved many steps to the left and joined the Young Dame in all her ultra-progressive and, at times crazy. positions. Still, it’s not enough. She professed on records that old age and long tenure were anathemas to her taste. We shall see.
New York Post
AOC says she thought she would be raped during Capitol siege.
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And, I would have never revealed what I thought could happen. Stick to the facts of what happened.
A simple NO would have suffice but she could not say it.
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The Hill
AOC on if she will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer in primary: “I can’t operate the way that I operate and do the things that I do in politics while trying to be, aspiring to other things or calculating to other things… I make decisions based on what I think our people need.”
Great article, easy read
Oooooh, George Skelton burns my butt 😡
Oh My!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
A massive urinary tract infection with a name?
HA!
I like waiting to see what they will or won’t do.
yeah, more mueller nothingburger.
Trump and his allies set out to destroy the Executive Branch…they were very successful…they got rid of long time employees and supplanted cronies there..it will take time to rebuild all those agencies…including the DOJ ..besides…he also has to get rig of plants and infiltrators left over from the Trump administration….this will not be easy or quick…
awww, another wsj whitey whine.
cda – covid detection agency
How does that work?
🤷🏾♀️
hit their pocketbooks. make them pay for their stupidity.
These ass hats are getting big fat hospital bills if they have no insurance.
Evoke a Mask Mandate THEN go to Texas, if not you only want to kill out of state doctors and nurses.
redstaters deserve the corrupt thugs they voted for. I am sure blue voters in these states are already vaxed and masked.
But remember, there are millions of us in those red states that did not vote for these idiots.
redstaters = rethugs. That’s why I said blue voters in those states are smarter and safer.
Gerrymandering keeps them in office.
Gerrymandering. Left doesn’t turn out in crucial years. Shellacking. It’s a vicious cycle.
lol
lol.
🕊💙🙏🏼💤⌛️🕯💤🪔💙🕊
whatever happened to their earlier suits against whoever?
Yeah!
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. 🌞😎
testing…still having WordPress issues
This is so sad to see, especially since it could have been avoided to this extreme.
Exhibit A of “Elections and Voting have consequences”
They keep voting Rethug.
Why Hasn’t Trump Been Charged For Attempting To Overturn Election?
Mehdi: “Many Democrats, many journalists, are still so nervous about simply stating what we are stating tonight:
Donald Trump’s many attempts to overturn the election were criminal,
were violations of the law” says Mehdi Hasan. “So why is Donald Trump not charged with any crimes?”
Why hasn’t Trump been charged for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election?
Facts So Far In Trump Coup Probe Suggest Criminal Referral Likely
“Senator Richard Blumenthal, member of Senate Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow
about indications so far that events surrounding Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss
could result in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.”
Mcturtle doesn’t do things like this without some schit behind it
Congrats Leader Schumer and everyone who persisted, worked so hard on this landmark bill!!
–a zillion thanks.
Gov Cuomo just announced that he is resigning.
Good, they need a Dem in there so a Rethug won’t pardon Trump.
Keep praying.
Wow How things change
How much was his cut for his state’s boondoggle?
Hi Everyone! Big news today… HUGE!
Other news
A woman replaces a womanizer. Poetic justice.
First female governor of New York.
It took only what, a few centuries?
… and a sexual harassment scandal
Shows how much abuse the white men can get away with.
Indeed
And it took a gutsy black AG to take on and blackball a powerful gov publicly.
Yeap. People don’t even realize when they are being used. Now, the road is clear for Andrew Giuliani with plenty of cheerleaders along the way, the rethugs of NY, Trumpworld, and De Blasio.
Cities are leading the way. Rural rethugs left to rue.
Cuomo news is a bigger Breaking News topic than the Breaking News Infrastructure Bill passing.
Coincidence?
Timing?
scandal sells. always. everywhere.
True dat
When she presides over the Senate, she’s Madame President. I ❤️the sound of that.
Palmer Report
Stop fretting over Cuomo, it’s a done deal and it doesn’t harm the Democrats anyway. Instead get out there and make sure Gavin Newsom wins his recall election. That one could actually hurt us big if it goes the wrong way. Donate, volunteer, or phone bank.
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Wise words.
Good tweet
Let’s re-tweet this to infinity!!!
4,500 tips…
“We Now Know What the FBI Did With the 4,500 Kavanaugh Tips
It Collected in 2018”
(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-tips.html)
Um.
Kavanaugh didn’t get up there and give a New York COVID report every day for 100 days.
–while trump did nothing to stop the mass death
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Sixth Assessment Report
“AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
To download full report:
(https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf)
So we’re locked in for 30 years of plague, fire, and pestilence due to deadly knowing inaction.
To prevent warming past 1.5 Celsius we must be at Net Zero Emissions by 2050.
1) Wave fossil fuels BYE BYE starting now.
2) Senator Manchin – this means you.
It was only a matter of time when the phucker would come crawling to President Biden for assistance. 😡
DeSantis is knowingly risking the lives of Florida schoolchildren and their families.
–Hold him to account.
Joshua Sharfstein,
Vice-Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to Mehdi Hasan:
“This is a moment for school boards
and for superintendents to look in the mirror
and ask themselves whether they`re really putting the health of children first.
Because if they are, they should listen to the American Academy of Pediatrics which recommends
the masks for everyone who can wear them in school,
should listen to the Centers for Disease Control
based on many studies and a lot of consensus that masks should be worn in school.
You know, there`s a school district that I`m aware of where the motto is ‘Soaring to greatness committed to excellence’ but they shouldn`t have as part of that motto – not putting the health of kids first. “
Fauci Worried About Delta Variant Spread ‘If We Don’t Do The Right Thing’
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
talks with Rachel Maddow about why the role unvaccinated people play in generating new variants that can ultimately hurt even vaccinated people, and the best way to balance Covid safety with the need for children to return to school.”
Rachel Maddow:
“In terms of that simple idea at the heart of that virological principle…that more replication equals more opportunity for variation and mutation. Are you up at night worried about kids going back to school in the fall? I mean that is upon us now. That is starting to happen.
And we’re at over 100,000 cases now, again. We were at 300,000 cases in January but kids weren’t in school. We do have a lot of people vaccinated. Masks is a whole other issue and we could talk about that separately. But how worried are you about seeing large numbers of new infections particularly among young people, once people are back in school?”
Dr. Fauci:
“Well I’m worried about it Rachel if we don’t do the right thing. So let’s talk about that.
So we know because we’ve had experience now 18 months, keeping the children physically out of school has real, detrimental implication for them. We know that the development of the children, their mental health or what have you. So you’ve got to balance. How do we get them to school at the same time that we protect them to get them safely in school?
The first thing you do is you surround them with those people who can get vaccinated and are vaccinated.
So ANYBODY that goes near a child in school – teachers, people who work in the school – if they are eligible to be vaccinated they need to be vaccinated right away. That’s one level of protection.
Then also as difficult as it is for children to be wearing masks, you got to get everybody to wear a mask in school. And that’s what the CDC recommendation is. Vaccinate who can be vaccinated.
And wear masks, for others.
I know it’s difficult and it’s controversial about children and those in school wearing masks.
But we don’t want to keep the children out of school for yet again, another term. And at the same time we want to keep them safe.”
New post.
imo,
De Santis is clearly on the side of Covid.
He is risking sickness and possible deaths of young schoolchildren (and/or members of their families) who will probably not be vaccinated until winter. How do we respond?
To all GOP media and GOP officials who are
endangering and ending our children’s lives for political reasons:
Didn’t someone protect you and keep you alive when you were too young to do it for yourself?
We Homo sapiens have taken care of our young for 300,000 years.
Our ancestors did the same for 6 million years and because of them you’re here today.
Now it’s your turn in 2021 to take care of our young and their future on this planet …why are you dropping the ball? For the fossil fuel industry?