Right now, thousands of people in Haiti are injured and even more are homeless after an earthquake hit the island on Saturday. If you’re looking for ways to make a difference, here are some organizations that are helping Haitians recover and rebuild. https://t.co/gQWKnAlkQs
As of Tuesday, 8,400 students and 307 employees in Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, which includes Tampa, are in isolation or quarantinehttps://t.co/ZaPcCyqBqT
I get sicker each day though my 02 level is great. Low grade fever sometimes. My daughter and I are getting the infusion tomorrow at 7:30. Bad,bad news is that Aliya now has it. 😢😡😢😡😢😡
Saying a prayer for you. Try not to lay down for too long. The virus makes our bodies weak and sends us to bed… while it happily invades our respiratory system to crush it.
If Abbott orders Dallas Superintendent Hirojoso to enforce no-masking (140,000 wore them just fine):
Why doesn’t the Hirojoso move to OK let’s just shut the schools down then. And let Abbot deal with it.
—-How are we allowing Abbot and DeSantis to put our children in the middle of their war
on science and decency?
It’s now up to the voters of Texas and Florida. They vote for these creeps! Otherwise wear your masks to protect yourself as much as you can and get children ,that are eligible, vaccinated.
While I think being selfish is abhorrent…i also think the ability for some critical thinking where you don’t vote against your self interest is paramount.
Just goes to show that they don’t value their own lives, imo.
Florida education officials have voted to punish the Broward County and Alachua County school districts for requiring students to wear masks.https://t.co/YIa56fFsW2
Quickly getting access to monoclonal antibody therapy when you’re the fully vaccinated, asymptomatic Governor of Texas shows just how anxious and scared @GregAbbott_TX actually is of a virus that he constantly downplays.
Five states have intensive care units over 90% full: Alabama (99.31%) Florida (91.63%) Georgia (91.03%) Mississippi (91.26%) Texas (91.38%)https://t.co/I3ZhgjlUBI
Cardinal Raymond Burke, the arch-conservative who has spearheaded a drive to cast doubt on Pope Francis’ legitimacy and fanned vaccine conspiracy theories, is now on a ventilator. https://t.co/x6jsRNDED4
At kabul airport, military side, more order than before. Evacuations picking up. Seeing more Afghan families being taken through. Planes taking off. Base well guarded.
Rosalynn Carter is 94 today. Happy Birthday to the former First Lady – shown here celebrating with her husband the night he was elected president in 1976 (Carter Library) pic.twitter.com/yarzMEbTmy
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) August 18, 2021
Been home awhile. Took little less time than we thought. Our symptoms may get worse in a few hours. Our body’s response to the exaggerated immune system/antibody infusion. Then, should start feeling better.
The 19th Amendment was ratified 101 years ago today, granting the sacred right to vote to some women. Despite these advances, the foundation of our democracy remains under attack.
We must do what is necessary to protect the fundamental right to vote for all.
Congresswoman Omar:
“Some Republicans saying they do not want Afghan refugees to come to the U.S. is slammed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who also responds to the conservative host who said President Biden wants ‘a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars.’ (ReidOut)
“We are going to keep our commitment. We’re going to keep our promise. And we’re going to keep pushing the administration and other countries to do their part. The Afghani people deserve not just our empathy, but they need our partnership and our allyship to make sure that their lives are safe and prosperous.”
For Afghan Women, Taliban Stir Fears of Return to a Repressive Past
“Since the U.S. ousted the Taliban, women and girls have rejoined society in ways that would have been unimaginable under their rule. Now those gains are threatened.
As Afghan women cloistered in their homes on Tuesday, fearing for their lives and their futures under Taliban rule, a pair of female television broadcasters offered starkly contradictory visions of the country’s direction.
On Tuesday morning, Beheshta Arghand, a newscaster with the privately owned Tolo News channel,
interviewed a Taliban official, asking him about the Taliban’s house-to-house searches in the Afghan capital.
“The entire world now recognizes that the Taliban are the real rulers of the country,”
said the official, Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad, a member of the Taliban’s media team.
“I am still astonished that people are afraid of Taliban.”
The remarkable scene of a Taliban official taking questions from a woman journalist
was part of a broader campaign by the Taliban to present a more moderate face to the world and to help tame the fear gripping the country since the insurgents seized the capital on Sunday.”
Q:
If the Taliban are now miraculously the nice guys
who are “astonished” that people still afraid of them, why cannot they give the U.S. more time?
How about extending the evacuation date?
U.S. Census Bureau computer servers not used for the 2020 census were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack. A watchdog report says hackers’ attempts to keep access to the system were unsuccessful. https://t.co/qr11ztLF3T
GOP governors who are OK with risking children’s lives and the lives of their family members:
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) announced that the state will withhold Covid-19 relief funds from schools
that have mask mandates in place.
Rep. Greg Stanton responds:
“The Governor’s gambit to deny American Rescue Plan funds to schools following CDC guidance
not only puts students at risk—it violates the law as written by Congress.
@USTreasury should make clear that these funds should go to all schools.” https://t.co/eq6PDKpx8T
(politicus.usa)
“International human rights law guarantees everyone the right to the highest attainable standard of health and obligates governments to take steps to prevent threats to public health and to provide medical care to those who need it.”
(https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/19/human-rights-dimensions-covid-19-response)
GOP targeting children is against human rights law.
Please act to take down GOP governors
who are risking the lives of children and their families!
When are we going to collectively take on these governors?
The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’
From mask mandates to critical race theory and gender identity, educators are besieged.
“You are just trying to keep everything from collapsing,” one official said.
(NYT)
BREAKING: Biden announces a series of executive actions against Republican governors who are blocking mask mandates. "We’re not going to sit by as governors try to intimidate educators protecting our children."
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 18, 2021
JUST IN: President Biden has directed the Department of Education to use its civil rights arm to go after governors threatening school districts over mask mandates.https://t.co/ywyivqWEtx
CHICAGO GROUP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO HALT WORK ON OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
An organization focused on protecting public parks in Chicago is asking the Supreme Court to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s presidential library, arguing the federal government failed to conduct the legally required reviews of the center’s environmental impact. …
The sentencing for one of the January 6 US Capitol rioters was abruptly postponed after new videos emerged of the man allegedly fighting with police, an unexpected twist because prosecutors hadn’t previously accused him of committing violence that day.
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Kurson, a former New York Observer editor and a close friend of former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was charged Wednesday in a New York state eavesdropping and computer trespassing case months after receiving a federal pardon as he faced similar harassment allegations. Kurson’s arrest marks what is likely to be the first instance of a local prosecutor pursuing state-level charges against a person after that individual was given a pass by Trump for the same alleged conduct that federal authorities had pursued.
Ensuring a Safe Return to In-Person School for the Nation’s Children
(excerpt)
“At the same time, however, some State governments have adopted policies and laws that interfere
with the ability of schools and districts to keep our children safe during in-person learning. Some of these policies and laws have gone so far as to try to block school officials from adopting safety protocols aligned with recommendations from the CDC to protect students, educators, and staff. And some State officials have even threatened to impose personal financial consequences on school officials who are working tirelessly to put student health and safety first and to comply with their legal obligations to their communities to further the essential goal of a safe, in-person education for all students.
Our priority must be the safety of students, families, educators, and staff in our school communities.
Nothing should interfere with this goal.”
'"We are seeing that we're closer to talks with the Taliban and the peace process than we've seen before," Haley said, briefing reporters after taking part in a weekend visit to Kabul…' –January 18, 2018https://t.co/1QJjHiRYNOhttps://t.co/8mFyJzM9uQ
Biden: That’s why today, I’m directing the Secretary of Education… to take additional steps to protect our children… We’re not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children pic.twitter.com/XUEADuaeFt
FEDERAL LAWSUIT: 14 TEXAS kids with disabilities are SUING @GregAbbott_TX over his mask mandate ban, saying “the order discriminates against students with disabilities and their rights to public education programs.” 😷 https://t.co/bQWHHCiYTA
BREAKING: We won our lawsuit against USPS! A judge just ruled they have to turn over documents about Louis DeJoy's potential conflicts of interest. https://t.co/FHQTGhXot9
While so much is going on the GOP quietly attempts to add to their power grab by targeting Califoria. We can not let a party that stands for nothing control the most populous state in the country. Save Democracy. Vote NO on the recall.
How Dorothy Oliver Got 94% Of Her Alabama Town Vaccinated
“Alabama has the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rate in the country,
but thanks to a retired office administrator in one small town, the vaccination rate is 94%.
Dorothy Oliver organized a pop-up vaccination clinic in Panola, Ala., and then went door-to-door to answer questions and get people signed up. Oliver tells Lawrence O’Donnell she “saw the seriousness of this disease” early on, and has no plans to stop urging others to get the vaccine “until the job is done.”
I watched the shows tonight to see if Afghanistan would be the lead story. Surprisingly, they all led with COVID. Rachel led with it but it was different. Maybe the have been losing viewers. I am certainly one of them.
Rachel Maddow told the incredible story of Major Officer Thomas Schueman and his interpreter,
who goes by the name of Zak. Zak signed up to work with marines when he was 20 years old.
After a series of harrowing Hail Mary’s, with the help of Major Schueman and so many others, he and his young family finally got on a plane in Kabul.
His family is qualified to immigrate here but the process hit a snag 6 years ago. Zak also basically served as a marine in perilous places like Sangin.
The Taliban informed him in a letter that they would kill him for working with U.S. forces.
Like Rachel… i broke down just now trying to convey this impossible, excruciating story to a friend.
Will post it up today.
As I traveled through @YellowstoneNPS last week, I was escorted by a group of bison, welcoming me to the park. I am grateful to the staff and park rangers who made my first trip back to Yellowstone as Secretary of the Interior informative, engaging, and wonderful. pic.twitter.com/ZhmvWGz25d
FLORIDA’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT MANDATES MASKS IN DEFIANCE OF DE SANTIS
Florida’s largest school district approved mask mandates late Wednesday in defiance of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) order that parents should be given an option to opt their kids out of wearing face coverings in classrooms.
Aug 16th:
“Starting this morning, Cornell Drive will begin to be narrowed from six lanes to four lanes between 59th Street and Hayes Drive. At the same time, the easternmost block of South Midway Plaisance, between Stony Island Avenue and Cornell Drive, will be permanently closed.”
More….happy traffic details!!
Afghan Women Journalists Stalwart In Face Of Taliban Takeover
“Lotfullah Najafizada, head of Tolo News in Afghanistan,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the strength and courage of Afghan women journalists
and how Western media and supporters of press freedoms can support Afghan journalism during this precarious transition to Taliban rule.”
As I traveled through @YellowstoneNPS last week, I was escorted by a group of bison, welcoming me to the park. I am grateful to the staff and park rangers who made my first trip back to Yellowstone as Secretary of the Interior informative, engaging, and wonderful. pic.twitter.com/ZhmvWGz25d
Dr. Fauci:
Hospitals becoming overrun due to COVID is a tragedy
“COVID-19 booster shots, in terms of why they are necessary while the vaccines do work, are explained by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci also addresses hospitals being overrun due to COVID-19, telling Joy Reid,
‘What you’re seeing is entirely predictable, if you don’t get people vaccinated, and yet entirely preventable by vaccine.”
Refugee expert slams Stephen Miller: He’s not an authority on American way of life
ReidOur: “As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, immigrants and refugees possibly coming to the U.S. stirs significant GOP resistance. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, slams Stephen Miller’s controversial statements on Afghan refugees.”
How One Woman’s ‘Taliban Nightmare Came True’
“Graduate student Nasrin Nawa was able to flee Kabul days before it fell to the Taliban. But her parents and sister remain trapped.”
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Jim Acosta
CNN: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has tested positive for Covid-19, according to a statement from his office.
🤷🏽♀️
Good afternoon TODVille.
May God protect us all, whether we are here or elsewhere, in Haiti or in Afghanistan, in NY or TX.
Amen!
Amen
Thanks to DeathSantis
Why is he even being tested for Covid? If he had no symptoms at all …why is he tested?
I get sicker each day though my 02 level is great. Low grade fever sometimes. My daughter and I are getting the infusion tomorrow at 7:30. Bad,bad news is that Aliya now has it. 😢😡😢😡😢😡
I’m so sorry, Sweetie. Sending prayers for speedy & full recovery. Love and hugs to you and your family.❤️
Major hugs to you and your family!
Sending prayers to you and your family. 🙏🏻❤️
You all hang in there tnmtngirl1,
Best wishes to granddaughter Aliya, you and your daughter. Good people like you deserve a quick and painless recovery.
Wishing you a speedy and full recovery and to your daughter and Aliya as well.
Oh dearest, Light around you all
🕊💙🕯🙏🏼🕯💙🕊
Saying a prayer for you. Try not to lay down for too long. The virus makes our bodies weak and sends us to bed… while it happily invades our respiratory system to crush it.
On The Same Day Greg Abbott Announces He Has COVID,
Texas Has Requested 5 Mortuary Trailers From FEMA
“In fact, 40% of the new cases in the entire country are coming from either Texas or Florida.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/08/17/on-the-same-day-greg-abbott-announces-he-has-covid-texas-has-requested-5-mortuary-trailers-from-fema.html)
If Abbott orders Dallas Superintendent Hirojoso to enforce no-masking (140,000 wore them just fine):
Why doesn’t the Hirojoso move to OK let’s just shut the schools down then. And let Abbot deal with it.
—-How are we allowing Abbot and DeSantis to put our children in the middle of their war
on science and decency?
It’s now up to the voters of Texas and Florida. They vote for these creeps! Otherwise wear your masks to protect yourself as much as you can and get children ,that are eligible, vaccinated.
Horrific.
How does the ‘base’ not see such a sickening hypocrisy?
Lack of critical thinking.
While I think being selfish is abhorrent…i also think the ability for some critical thinking where you don’t vote against your self interest is paramount.
Just goes to show that they don’t value their own lives, imo.
I wish there was a political price to pay for his hypocrisy.
guess elections do matter.
Response from Union must be let us protect ourselves, our families and our students or
we won’t teach in person.
So ridiculous.
these thug cowards are the first in line to the hospital when they catch covid.
Texans should be asked … Gov Abbot is scared, why aren’t you?
too late, they had their chance and blew it by reelecting these corrupt thugs all over the state.
He should be the one being recalled — not Governor Newsom.
except one had two school going daughters.
Good point.
kickbacks
$$$
what a fucked up system of ‘democracy’.
well done, brilliant!! Can FL do this?
Fucked up parents fucking up their kids’ lifes.
Fucked up parents fucking up their kids’ lifes.
Spot the joke.
voting against your own interests hits the peak?
All red states. That says it all.
hope the venomous thug suffers hell on earth before he goes to meet his maker for putting so many others in danger.
What an evil face. He looks like a Republican.
fugly face dripping arrogance.
will he apologize and admit he was wrong?
My guess is No.
corrupt cowards aided and abetted by corrupt msm.
Best Wishes & blessings to First Lady Rosalynn 💝🎂🙏🏾
Many happy returns of the day to dear FL Rosyalynn!!
–with love and best wishes.
Wow!! Wishing her the best birthday ever. She and her husband have lived long, caring lives. Inspirational
Been home awhile. Took little less time than we thought. Our symptoms may get worse in a few hours. Our body’s response to the exaggerated immune system/antibody infusion. Then, should start feeling better.
Hi tnmtgirl1, just read your note up top. Happy you got the monoclonal infusion. Do you have Delta?
–best wishes to you all!!
Great news. Take care of yourself and your family.
Bravo! Speedy and complete recovery.
Good to hear! Hang in there!
Congresswoman Omar:
“Some Republicans saying they do not want Afghan refugees to come to the U.S. is slammed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who also responds to the conservative host who said President Biden wants ‘a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars.’ (ReidOut)
“We are going to keep our commitment. We’re going to keep our promise. And we’re going to keep pushing the administration and other countries to do their part. The Afghani people deserve not just our empathy, but they need our partnership and our allyship to make sure that their lives are safe and prosperous.”
100,000 more of her sounds good to me.
For Afghan Women, Taliban Stir Fears of Return to a Repressive Past
“Since the U.S. ousted the Taliban, women and girls have rejoined society in ways that would have been unimaginable under their rule. Now those gains are threatened.
As Afghan women cloistered in their homes on Tuesday, fearing for their lives and their futures under Taliban rule, a pair of female television broadcasters offered starkly contradictory visions of the country’s direction.
On Tuesday morning, Beheshta Arghand, a newscaster with the privately owned Tolo News channel,
interviewed a Taliban official, asking him about the Taliban’s house-to-house searches in the Afghan capital.
“The entire world now recognizes that the Taliban are the real rulers of the country,”
said the official, Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad, a member of the Taliban’s media team.
“I am still astonished that people are afraid of Taliban.”
The remarkable scene of a Taliban official taking questions from a woman journalist
was part of a broader campaign by the Taliban to present a more moderate face to the world and to help tame the fear gripping the country since the insurgents seized the capital on Sunday.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/world/asia/afghanistan-women-taliban.html)
Q:
If the Taliban are now miraculously the nice guys
who are “astonished” that people still afraid of them, why cannot they give the U.S. more time?
How about extending the evacuation date?
GOP governors who are OK with risking children’s lives and the lives of their family members:
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) announced that the state will withhold Covid-19 relief funds from schools
that have mask mandates in place.
Rep. Greg Stanton responds:
“The Governor’s gambit to deny American Rescue Plan funds to schools following CDC guidance
not only puts students at risk—it violates the law as written by Congress.
@USTreasury should make clear that these funds should go to all schools.”
https://t.co/eq6PDKpx8T
(politicus.usa)
Rule.Of.Law
The federal government should fund these schools. Ridiculous.
Selfish.
“International human rights law guarantees everyone the right to the highest attainable standard of health and obligates governments to take steps to prevent threats to public health and to provide medical care to those who need it.”
(https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/19/human-rights-dimensions-covid-19-response)
GOP targeting children is against human rights law.
Please act to take down GOP governors
who are risking the lives of children and their families!
When are we going to collectively take on these governors?
Why we must vaccinate.
It is simple. A child can understand. Viruses replicate. In the process of copying mutation can happen.
The more replication, the more chances for mutations to occur and accumulate.
The anti-vaxxers are opening up the possibility for endless replication and mutation.
= There will be no exit in the future for our children if we let the deniers (like GOP governors) have their way.
Aside from O & G, Koch, which corporations are in favor of this?
–in favor of GOP denial.
The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’
From mask mandates to critical race theory and gender identity, educators are besieged.
“You are just trying to keep everything from collapsing,” one official said.
(NYT)
Right On President Biden!!!
Good!!
CHICAGO GROUP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO HALT WORK ON OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
An organization focused on protecting public parks in Chicago is asking the Supreme Court to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s presidential library, arguing the federal government failed to conduct the legally required reviews of the center’s environmental impact. …
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-presidential-library-supreme-court-protect-our-parks-construction/
CNN International
The sentencing for one of the January 6 US Capitol rioters was abruptly postponed after new videos emerged of the man allegedly fighting with police, an unexpected twist because prosecutors hadn’t previously accused him of committing violence that day.
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Splendid! Lock them all up.
Kurson, a former New York Observer editor and a close friend of former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was charged Wednesday in a New York state eavesdropping and computer trespassing case months after receiving a federal pardon as he faced similar harassment allegations. Kurson’s arrest marks what is likely to be the first instance of a local prosecutor pursuing state-level charges against a person after that individual was given a pass by Trump for the same alleged conduct that federal authorities had pursued.
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Ensuring a Safe Return to In-Person School for the Nation’s Children
(excerpt)
“At the same time, however, some State governments have adopted policies and laws that interfere
with the ability of schools and districts to keep our children safe during in-person learning. Some of these policies and laws have gone so far as to try to block school officials from adopting safety protocols aligned with recommendations from the CDC to protect students, educators, and staff. And some State officials have even threatened to impose personal financial consequences on school officials who are working tirelessly to put student health and safety first and to comply with their legal obligations to their communities to further the essential goal of a safe, in-person education for all students.
Our priority must be the safety of students, families, educators, and staff in our school communities.
Nothing should interfere with this goal.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/18/ensuring-a-safe-return-to-in-person-school-for-the-nations-children/)
His last few sentences are so spot on! Listen with both ears.
Right ON!
This made me laugh. Huge fan of Larry
https://com/rawstory/status/1428127786707865608?s=21
LoVe Larry David!!!
He’s hilarious!
while the biden admin still asleep at the wheels.
how is this even close? the guy won big just a few months back.
😆😂🤣
LOL!
Sweet Caroline for the win! 😜
lol
This made my morning! Thank you.
Good morning TODVille!
LMAO
How Dorothy Oliver Got 94% Of Her Alabama Town Vaccinated
“Alabama has the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rate in the country,
but thanks to a retired office administrator in one small town, the vaccination rate is 94%.
Dorothy Oliver organized a pop-up vaccination clinic in Panola, Ala., and then went door-to-door to answer questions and get people signed up. Oliver tells Lawrence O’Donnell she “saw the seriousness of this disease” early on, and has no plans to stop urging others to get the vaccine “until the job is done.”
I watched the shows tonight to see if Afghanistan would be the lead story. Surprisingly, they all led with COVID. Rachel led with it but it was different. Maybe the have been losing viewers. I am certainly one of them.
Rachel Maddow told the incredible story of Major Officer Thomas Schueman and his interpreter,
who goes by the name of Zak. Zak signed up to work with marines when he was 20 years old.
After a series of harrowing Hail Mary’s, with the help of Major Schueman and so many others, he and his young family finally got on a plane in Kabul.
His family is qualified to immigrate here but the process hit a snag 6 years ago. Zak also basically served as a marine in perilous places like Sangin.
The Taliban informed him in a letter that they would kill him for working with U.S. forces.
Like Rachel… i broke down just now trying to convey this impossible, excruciating story to a friend.
Will post it up today.
because one is being pushed by their rethug rulers (sic) with venal kickbacks.
Former Netflix staffers charged for making $3m from insider trading
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58264767
Small fries. Now do senate and congress critters and the traitorous thug and his klan.
Thought y’all might enjoy this documentary, here’s trailer:
This makes me feel good~👩🏽
thx Sheila.
This is the north side of Yellowstone. Bison are so cool, gorgeous video.
Phew…am breaking down again… see response to COS above.
FLORIDA’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT MANDATES MASKS IN DEFIANCE OF DE SANTIS
Florida’s largest school district approved mask mandates late Wednesday in defiance of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) order that parents should be given an option to opt their kids out of wearing face coverings in classrooms.
The board of Miami-Dade County Public Schools approved the policies on a 7-1 vote, according to The New York Times. … https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/568512-floridas-largest-school-district-mandates-masks-in-defiance-of-desantis
…told that Broward is upholding mask mandate.
It’s happening!!! Construction on the Obama center has started!
Aug 16th:
“Starting this morning, Cornell Drive will begin to be narrowed from six lanes to four lanes between 59th Street and Hayes Drive. At the same time, the easternmost block of South Midway Plaisance, between Stony Island Avenue and Cornell Drive, will be permanently closed.”
More….happy traffic details!!
Afghan Women Journalists Stalwart In Face Of Taliban Takeover
“Lotfullah Najafizada, head of Tolo News in Afghanistan,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the strength and courage of Afghan women journalists
and how Western media and supporters of press freedoms can support Afghan journalism during this precarious transition to Taliban rule.”
Val Demings is polling in a statistical tie with Rubio!
High time hospitals started doing this. And the insurance companies stepped in too.
A former acting Labour leader has called for women to be heard, rather than Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
Harriet Harman said that would be better than Mr Raab “simply talking to other male leaders”.
She said the UK government should appoint a minister responsible for liaising with women in Afghanistan.
She also said women should be included in any future negotiations with the Taliban.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-58272971
Major Newspapers Push to Get Workers Out of Afghanistan
“Three of the largest U.S. newspaper organizations are working to extract employees and their families after Taliban’s takeover”
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/major-newspapers-push-to-get-workers-out-of-afghanistan-11629239123)
Love this! 🦬
glad you put it up again, gorgeous bison…sometimes you go there and none in sight!!
other times…so happy for our Secretary Haaland.
Go Dorothy!
Dr. Fauci:
Hospitals becoming overrun due to COVID is a tragedy
“COVID-19 booster shots, in terms of why they are necessary while the vaccines do work, are explained by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci also addresses hospitals being overrun due to COVID-19, telling Joy Reid,
‘What you’re seeing is entirely predictable, if you don’t get people vaccinated, and yet entirely preventable by vaccine.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-19-booster-shots-hospitals-being-overrun-addressed-by-dr-anthony-fauci-119001669727)
Refugee expert slams Stephen Miller: He’s not an authority on American way of life
ReidOur: “As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, immigrants and refugees possibly coming to the U.S. stirs significant GOP resistance. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, slams Stephen Miller’s controversial statements on Afghan refugees.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/afghanistan-and-stephen-miller-s-statements-on-afghan-refugees-discussed-by-expert-119002181610)
😳
How One Woman’s ‘Taliban Nightmare Came True’
“Graduate student Nasrin Nawa was able to flee Kabul days before it fell to the Taliban. But her parents and sister remain trapped.”
New post.