Ten years ago today, we repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Today our military is stronger and our country is safer because patriotic Americans no longer have to live a lie in order to defend the country they love. pic.twitter.com/uXKSnsflMk
My Latest: "There simply is no historical analog in American politics to the current war the Republican Party is waging on election results and the transfer of power…With little more than a year until the midterm elections, we must act now to fix this."https://t.co/suzOZW8Xj5
Just In: The WAPO reports that the WH is "leaning toward releasing" information to Congress about what Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack, despite Trump's objections. "There’s no such thing as a former president’s executive privilege,” says Rep Jamie Raskin.
@POTUS Absolutely excellent presser today, Mr. President! Thank you for speaking directly to the American people, on the status of so many topics. We stand with you. @PressSec
Thank you, President Obama, on behalf of so many! (And thank you, Nerdy darlin’, for being here for us every day!)
As a child of a LGBTQ family, I don’t think people fully understand how privitol the Obama years were to us being able to live free of persecution in our very own country!
I will forever be in debt to the people who made my parents dream a reality.
COVID-19 reminded us how important it is to have a stable place to call home. When the virus hit, we were all told to stay safe by staying home — but, what if you didn't have a home? Housing is a right, not a privilege. Together, we can address the homelessness crisis. Thread 🧵
Thrilled to be celebrating this momentous occasion! While we can’t gather in person for a traditional groundbreaking ceremony, we hope you’ll follow along next week. https://t.co/A5KmS2lgGS
Roe v. Wade is law and Congress must protect it.⁰ Today, I will vote yes for the Women’s Health Protection Act to ensure equal access to abortion for all.
The fight for safe and legal abortion is not over — not anywhere.
"If you got the Pfizer vaccine in January, February,March of this year & you're over 65 years of age,go get the booster. Or if you have a medical condition like diabetes or you're a frontline worker like a health care worker or teacher,you can get a free booster now." – @POTUS
24-year-old running for Congress:
Need to honor those “killed due to senseless gun violence”
“Maxwell Alejandro Frost, 24, who is running to become the first Democratic Generation Z member of Congress, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that gun violence and listening to President Obama led him to get involved in politics when he was 15 years old.”
A planned interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on #TheView was derailed Friday when two of the show’s co-hosts were asked to exit mid-broadcast because they tested positive for COVID. https://t.co/p0oYd0WExYpic.twitter.com/18Fr07Jary
The Arizona “audit” coming out tomorrow didn’t just confirm Biden won. Biden actually gained votes in their recount, while Trump lost hundreds, according to a draft report. https://t.co/vSflCtllnipic.twitter.com/9JuLNtYbeW
Opinion:
Research Proves Trump Purposely Contributed to COVID-19 Deaths
“Now there is proof that after the pandemic began ravaging the nation, he “contributed to Americans embracing beliefs that neutralized social distancing norms.”
“In other words, not only is Trump guilty of criminally negligent homicide in deliberately aiding the plague
to sweep across America, he encouraged his acolytes’ bad actions that spread the virus throughout the population. Worse yet, he did it purposely as a part of his electoral campaign strategy
to remain in the Oval Office.”
“I Empathize With The Doom”
“We’ve basically grown up, our generation since we were like 5, being told that the Earth is dying.”
Shawn Mendes On His Generation’s Relationship With The Climate Emergency
“23 year old Shawn Mendes gives Colbert insight into what his generation has gone through growing up in the climate crisis. “
Wonder grants:
“The Shawn Mendes Foundation seeks to enable those who choose to dream big and to wonder about how to use their voice, vision, or abilities to change the world for the better. Wonder Grants are designed to uplift and amplify young changemakers with big ideas.”
(https://www.shawnmendesfoundation.org/wonder-grants)
Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago
“Tracking the peopling of the Americas has been a difficult task,
and archaeologists disagree over how and when humans arrived. Most agree people were present on these continents by 13,000 years ago, represented by what researchers refer to as the Clovis culture.
But evidence from potentially older archaeological sites is often controversial and can be difficult to verify.
The radiocarbon dates for the seeds from the New Mexico tracks would thus be the clearest evidence yet that people were making ancient North America their home more than 20,000 years ago.
The tracks, reported on Wednesday in Science by geologist Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University in England and his colleagues, dot the flat lake deposits in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.
At least seven footprint sites have been found, including one with 37 prints. Most are from smaller-statured people with foot anatomy just like that of modern humans. This indicates, Bennett and his co-authors hypothesize, that most of the tracks were left by adolescents and children.”
President Biden revives White House Tribal Nations Summit
by Acee Agoyo
“As promised by the Biden administration, the White House Tribal Nations Summit is returning after a four-year absence.Tribal leaders are being invited to attend the summit, which is set to take place during the week of November 8. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted American Indians and Alaska Natives at disproportionate rates, the event will be held virtually for the first time.”
“President Biden and the Administration look forward to hosting a robust and meaningful dialogue with Tribal leaders on key issues, policy initiatives, and goals for Indian Country,” the White House said
in an email to tribal leaders on Wednesday morning.”
(Indianz. com)
Groups push to ship, not shoot, Canyon bison
by Ulysse Bex
“A planned hunt of bison on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon this week appears to be moving forward,
despite last-minute pleas by lawmakers in Colorado to move the animals there instead.”
“Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said that the animals should be moved to his state, where they can “live and roam free at the Southern Plains Land Trust in Bent County.”
(Indianz.com)
🚨Heads Up: PBO will be on Good Morning America next Tuesday! 😍
TUESDAY: @ABC Exclusive: @RobinRoberts sits down with former Pres. @BarackObama as ground is broken on The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
What does he want you to know about the ambitious promise of his center? What does he have to say about politics? Watch @GMA Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/MRXoyLQSTz
I'm heartbroken by the treatment of Haitian migrants at our border — and I acknowledge it is only the latest of many historic indignities that Haitians have faced. We will continue to offer assistance and investigate wrongdoing. I remain committed, as ever, to Haiti's future. pic.twitter.com/Cu1TlqF4EA
🚨The train is moving: @SpeakerPelosi “Dear Democratic Colleague” letter says the House will “move forward to pass two jobs bills next week: the Build Back Better Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.”
PSAKI says Biden has decided he will NOT invoke executive privilege on Trump's behalf to shield any of his White House records from the Jan. 6 committee.
He has to get rid of all the trumpturds in all depts especially the radicalized ice, dhs, fbi, doj, po. Their singular purpose to damage his presidency.
1- almost all Haitians at the border originated from Brazil. 2- Haitian community between Brazil and Mexico shared a detailed route map to get to juarez starting June on WhatsApp & FB 3- arrival was sudden & organized 3- Jason Miller was in Brazil. https://t.co/CzpMkBjg6R
In one of our highest courts, right in front of the judge, a mobster was shot dead by two mobsters disguised as lawyers, who in turn were shot dead by the police guarding the judge.
Many headlines are saying the Arizona audit "confirmed" Biden's win.
Don't do this! It implies that the audit was about empirical verification of the outcome, normalizing this practice. It was actually about undercutting the legitimacy of a Dem victory:https://t.co/yParsuFUVMpic.twitter.com/y0Y91Geho7
If Trump and all his “associates”(including family) are not Indicted for their mountain of State and Federal Crimes, The Rule of Law and Democracy itself are meaningless.
The Arizona sham audit is no laughing matter. They have successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars off it, they have harvested voter data, and they have normalized privatized, tax-payer funded sham audits.
You know those tanks and military vehicles the police buy? These are the situations they are supposed to use them for. Not for people peacefully marching
Congressman Green was just on CNN and he nailed it. We can’t have haters on horseback have the last word.
@POTUS Sir, if you haven't already, please invite @RepAlGreen to the White House for a one-on-one regarding the Haitian migrant crisis. He supports you and has much to add to the conversation about current events, as do many of my fellow "baby boomers" !! @VP@WHCOS@PressSec
@CNN@MSNBC The only thing good about your "woe is Joe Biden" headlines is that you'll all have egg on your faces, when his programs are in place and helping the American people #BuildBackBetter along with the efforts of @VP@SpeakerPelosi@SenSchumer and all rational voters!
UPDATE tonight from the volcano eruption on La Palma…as you can see it’s super active! @WCKitchen is here serving meals to the first responders working 12 hour shifts…and with help of some amazing volunteers we are making sure everyone has something to eat! #ChefsForLaPalma 🌋 pic.twitter.com/o7mVM9jt0Q
Steve Schmidt Warns That
We Must Confront The Republican Attack On Democracy
“Steve Schmidt talked about how America can stand up to the authoritarian threat with Rachel Maddow:
“The front of that fight is a space where the lie is confronted with the truth.
That is the battleground. And it plays out in 1 million ways. But a democracy cannot survive in a world where the lie and the truth stand equally. The system that we have is based on a compact that requires faith in belief and trust. It’s how we share power with people that we disagree with. We acknowledge that we live in a complex world where people have different perspectives. And we have to accommodate those views.
In the 21st century, I believe that there was a consensus that has unraveled in start really short period of time,
that you can trace all the way back to the beginning of the country, in the name of political power — also, the same people claiming that they’re doing it in the name of freedom are seeing that that preservation of freedom means maintaining our power. Not necessarily abiding the results of the election. And when you get into that territory, you’re in a scary space.
And it’s essential to remember to understand one thing,
and this has to be brought forward into the debate, despite all the flaws of American democracy, or any democracy — democracies are the only system of government that has ever existed in the history of humanity
that puts the individual human being on top of the power of the city.
Every other system so subordinates the dignity of the human being to the power of the state,
for the purposes of the state, often controlled by self interested, corrupt minority. So, this is the most profound moral issue that you could possibly talk about on any given evening in this country. Because it goes to the heart of the American idea, the embrace of humanism, of natural rights, of pluralism. And this idea that anybody can be an American. That we can all stand equal, cool equally, in a society, under the rule of law.
Where we all get a say, get to participate. And that is what is being vandalized and attacked, and successfully so.”
“It is easy to make fun of the Arizona audit,
but far too many people fell into the trap of legitimizing an illegitimate political process in Arizona.
The Arizona audit was not a legitimate audit.
The bigger goal that Republicans had in Arizona was getting their attack on democracy legitimized and political parties conducting audits of election results that they disagree with normalized and looking at the coverage of this sham, one can see that their efforts worked.
The audit was an attack on democracy.
Steve Schmidt is correct.
Only a powerful consolidated effort backed by the truth c
an defeat these lies and authoritarian attacks.
Trump is the figurehead, but the shift in the Republican Party from democracy to authoritarianism goes much deeper, and it is the greatest internal threat to US democracy since the Civil War.”
(Easley, politicus.usa)
Jim Wright, always, always a worthy read.. I believe many of us will remember this one, it’s making the rounds again, thankfully, because a lot of people need to start listening!!
Before dying at the age of 21:
“Lil Peep came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures drawn together by the internet…was candid about struggles with his sexuality, depression, heartbreak, and drug use.” (wiki)
–This young man left behind an outsize legacy. May we be sensitive to everything we’re doing, how we’re responding, what we are thinking, our vision for the future, and how it is affecting our young wans.
Anyone who holds an ounce of political power needs to stop, see where all this is going and do everything in their power to prevent it before it spirals out of control — which will happen faster than anyone realizes.
Thread 9/25 Man, don't even know where to start.. What a year.. man what a year. I don't remember ever feeling like this on a birthday.. and i don't mean that in a bad way, just a different way. I remember other birthdays plotting and planning celebrations and partys… pic.twitter.com/qp6EUPNMUm
Anyone who holds an ounce of political power needs to stop, see where all this is going and do everything in their power to prevent it before it spirals out of control — which will happen faster than anyone realizes.
A federal judge erupted at a Capitol riot defendant as he pleaded guilty, chastising him for participating in an "attack on our government" and warning him to stay on the "straight and narrow."
Iceland elects Europe’s first female majority parliament.
Iceland looks set to make history by becoming the first European country to elect a female majority to parliament.
According to projections based on the final election results, 33 of the 63 seats in the Althingi, or 52%, have been won by women.
This would mark an increase of nine seats from the last election in 2017.
No other European country has breached the 50% threshold, with Sweden coming closest at 47%, according to data from the Inter Parliamentary Union.
Unlike some other countries, Iceland does not have legal quotas on female representation in parliament, though some parties do require a minimum number of candidates be women.
The country has long been considered a leader in gender equality and was ranked the most gender-equal nation in the world for the 12th year running in a World Economic Forum report released in March.
I wonder what this little kid would have said if you’d told him that he’d eventually win 100 #F1 GPs. Today, it happened. A truly magnificent achievement. Bravo! #Lewis100#Hamilton100pic.twitter.com/SFU93VZZ29
Detroit’s 104-year-old Obama Building reopens as home to businesses, affordable apartments
“The event was part of the inaugural Artist Village Detroit Arts Festival.”
"Elections alone are not sufficient to sustain our democracy. It is what comes after those elections — a peaceful transfer of power — that is as essential to democracy as fair election rules themselves." https://t.co/suzOZVRmrx
And hence the seditious party’s multiple attacks on both on multiple formats and on multiple forums with piss poor pushback from the dems and the press.
The political media fails you frequently and Chuck Todd is kinda the spokesmodel for that, tbh. Just something to keep in mind as you think about whose point of view is consistently elevated and who has to fight—and beg—for coverage.
“We wanted to create a space that was big enough for people to kind of take a journey and to walk through and come out on the other side with a really different perspective,“ @eji_org’s Bryan Stevenson says of the newly expanded “Legacy Museum” in Montgomery, AL. #SundayShowpic.twitter.com/00VTBk02LP
— The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@TheSundayShow) September 26, 2021
If the GOP wins Pennsylvania’s open 2022 gubernatorial race to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf — and the governor’s mansion has flipped parties without fail since the 1960s — then the secretary of state pick will be made by a Republican who will surely have to curry favor with Trump to get through a crowded primary. One of the front-runners is a mirror image of Arizona’s Finchem — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who organized buses to Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 and was photographed near the insurrection. If Mastriano or one of several other Trump-crazed candidates wins the general election, it’s a lock that Pennsylvania’s 48th governor will name a secretary of state who will work feverishly to restrict voting rights in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, and — if Trump gets fewer votes, again — cast doubt on the outcome, or work to simply ignore the results, as would be expected in a dictatorship.
What happened in AZ was no joke – but the start of a 4-year Trumpian scheme to sow chaos around voting while laws are rewritten and secretaries of state are replaced in time to steal '24
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are edging towards election victory, as projected results look increasingly bleak for the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ms Merkel’s successor, Armin Laschet, is still vowing to form a government, but his conservative CDU party has seen its worst performance in history.
The SPD currently leads by a small margin, but results are not yet final.
Their leader Olaf Scholz says his party has a clear mandate to rule.
Exit polls predicted a dead heat, but this election has been unpredictable from the start, and the result was never going to be the end of the story. For one thing, the outgoing chancellor is going nowhere until a coalition is formed – and that may have to wait until Christmas.
The successor’s task is to lead Europe’s foremost economy over the next four years, with climate change at the top of voters’ agenda.
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country’s federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to preliminary results.
The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative bloc gained 24.1%.
The Greens achieved the best result in their party’s history, coming in third with 14.8% of the ballot.
A coalition must now be created to form a government.
Just a casual reminder that in 1861, 11 Senators and 3 Representatives were expelled from Congress for failing to recognize Lincoln’s election and supporting insurrection.
The Obama Diary 
Democrats are inclusive; Repubs are white supremacists with archaic views of human sexuality.
This!
I stand with my fellow Democrats!
Hi y’all it’s been a long long time. Missed everyone. 🤗
heyyyyyyyyy zizi..wavinnnnn
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Glad to see you!
Thank you, President Obama, on behalf of so many! (And thank you, Nerdy darlin’, for being here for us every day!)
WOW!!! Wish i could be there…
Woooooot! 🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾
24-year-old running for Congress:
Need to honor those “killed due to senseless gun violence”
“Maxwell Alejandro Frost, 24, who is running to become the first Democratic Generation Z member of Congress, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that gun violence and listening to President Obama led him to get involved in politics when he was 15 years old.”
I am assuming he turns 25 before the vote or he’s ineligible.
Exactly. Don’t fucking legitimize an illegal power grab of a fraudit.
Groundbreaking for Obama Presidential Center Set for Tuesday
(https://news.wttw.com/2021/09/24/groundbreaking-obama-presidential-center-set-tuesday)
obama.org today:
“Festivities begin on Monday, September 27.
Tune in for our groundbreaking ceremony at 1:15pm CT on Tuesday, September 28.”
Holy Smokes!
nasa.gov
Friday, Sept. 24
1 p.m. – Landsat 9 Science Briefing, with the following participants:
This event is open to all with valid media credentials.
Bwahahaha!
Opinion:
Research Proves Trump Purposely Contributed to COVID-19 Deaths
“Now there is proof that after the pandemic began ravaging the nation, he “contributed to Americans embracing beliefs that neutralized social distancing norms.”
“In other words, not only is Trump guilty of criminally negligent homicide in deliberately aiding the plague
to sweep across America, he encouraged his acolytes’ bad actions that spread the virus throughout the population. Worse yet, he did it purposely as a part of his electoral campaign strategy
to remain in the Oval Office.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/24/opinion-research-proves-trump-purposely-contributed-to-covid-19-deaths.html)
Kroger Shooting: Gunman Kills 1 and Wounds 14 in Tennessee Store
The authorities said the suspect was found dead, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot, in Collierville, Tenn., a Memphis suburb. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/23/us/shooting-collierville-kroger-tennessee
Dear God! 😔
The Death Panels Have Arrived And They Are In Deep Red Idaho
“A decade ago, Republicans warned that Obamacare would result in death panels, but it is the deep red state of Idaho where the death panels have arrived.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/17/the-death-panels-have-arrived-and-they-are-in-deep-red-idaho.html)
https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/09/september-22-2021.html?spref=tw&m=1
🕊💕🕯🗝🎶🗝🕯💕🕊
{{{NW&TOD}}}
“I Empathize With The Doom”
“We’ve basically grown up, our generation since we were like 5, being told that the Earth is dying.”
Shawn Mendes On His Generation’s Relationship With The Climate Emergency
“23 year old Shawn Mendes gives Colbert insight into what his generation has gone through growing up in the climate crisis. “
Wonder grants:
“The Shawn Mendes Foundation seeks to enable those who choose to dream big and to wonder about how to use their voice, vision, or abilities to change the world for the better. Wonder Grants are designed to uplift and amplify young changemakers with big ideas.”
(https://www.shawnmendesfoundation.org/wonder-grants)
Shawn…who ran like the wind in NY ?
Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago
“Tracking the peopling of the Americas has been a difficult task,
and archaeologists disagree over how and when humans arrived. Most agree people were present on these continents by 13,000 years ago, represented by what researchers refer to as the Clovis culture.
But evidence from potentially older archaeological sites is often controversial and can be difficult to verify.
The radiocarbon dates for the seeds from the New Mexico tracks would thus be the clearest evidence yet that people were making ancient North America their home more than 20,000 years ago.
The tracks, reported on Wednesday in Science by geologist Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University in England and his colleagues, dot the flat lake deposits in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.
At least seven footprint sites have been found, including one with 37 prints. Most are from smaller-statured people with foot anatomy just like that of modern humans. This indicates, Bennett and his co-authors hypothesize, that most of the tracks were left by adolescents and children.”
more: (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/footprint-discovery-hints-at-humans-in-the-americas-more-than-20-000-years-ago/). Original article: ““Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum”
President Biden revives White House Tribal Nations Summit
by Acee Agoyo
“As promised by the Biden administration, the White House Tribal Nations Summit is returning after a four-year absence.Tribal leaders are being invited to attend the summit, which is set to take place during the week of November 8. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted American Indians and Alaska Natives at disproportionate rates, the event will be held virtually for the first time.”
“President Biden and the Administration look forward to hosting a robust and meaningful dialogue with Tribal leaders on key issues, policy initiatives, and goals for Indian Country,” the White House said
in an email to tribal leaders on Wednesday morning.”
(Indianz. com)
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Groups push to ship, not shoot, Canyon bison
by Ulysse Bex
“A planned hunt of bison on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon this week appears to be moving forward,
despite last-minute pleas by lawmakers in Colorado to move the animals there instead.”
“Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said that the animals should be moved to his state, where they can “live and roam free at the Southern Plains Land Trust in Bent County.”
(Indianz.com)
Interior Secretary signs CSKT water compact
by Eric Dietrich
“U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally executed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
water compact Friday, finalizing a long-running effort to negotiate an agreement that reconciles the tribes’ historic treaty rights with Montana’s modern water rights doctrine.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/09/23/montana-free-press-water-compact-for-confederated-salish-and-kootenai-tribes-becomes-official/)
They say it is Friday…wishing everyone a blue sky mind !!
“Dragon daughters and sons, do not be irresolute ~
ten thousand miles of pure wind,
only you can know it.”
(Deshan)
🚨Heads Up: PBO will be on Good Morning America next Tuesday! 😍
😆
I love Nancy Pelosi!
HOLD MY PEARLS
constitution vs ‘executive privilege’. It’s a nobrainer.
Poor Twitler
Job well done
We will miss her!
He has to get rid of all the trumpturds in all depts especially the radicalized ice, dhs, fbi, doj, po. Their singular purpose to damage his presidency.
Yep
Yup. That’s why the fucking msm should not legitimize the corrupt fraudit.
Exactly
VRA now or dems never.
one chinese for two canucks. not a bad deal?
In one of our highest courts, right in front of the judge, a mobster was shot dead by two mobsters disguised as lawyers, who in turn were shot dead by the police guarding the judge.
Good time was had by all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58674452
Also. Too. SC judges.
Hear that, gop women?
🤣😎
Dingell should have just waved away the seditious thug away instead of getting into a shouting match with her. Far more better optics.
The serial pedophile randy andy has been served. Let’s see if he really serves time.
jaysus: fu
I’m holding to the Light, we ARE the Light, hang in there, everyone, the way is opening up.. finally
Nite nite
🕊🕯🗝🕯🕊
With you all the way, MP!
Booms! 🕊💕🕯🗝🕯💕🕊
Congressman Green was just on CNN and he nailed it. We can’t have haters on horseback have the last word.
Congressman Green announced he was 74, so I added the boomer reference! We’re still kicking! Ha.
How is he there everywhere? #superman
El chef José Andrés y su ONG ayudan con platos canarios a los afectados por el volcán de La Palma
Steve Schmidt Warns That
We Must Confront The Republican Attack On Democracy
“Steve Schmidt talked about how America can stand up to the authoritarian threat with Rachel Maddow:
“The front of that fight is a space where the lie is confronted with the truth.
That is the battleground. And it plays out in 1 million ways. But a democracy cannot survive in a world where the lie and the truth stand equally. The system that we have is based on a compact that requires faith in belief and trust. It’s how we share power with people that we disagree with. We acknowledge that we live in a complex world where people have different perspectives. And we have to accommodate those views.
In the 21st century, I believe that there was a consensus that has unraveled in start really short period of time,
that you can trace all the way back to the beginning of the country, in the name of political power — also, the same people claiming that they’re doing it in the name of freedom are seeing that that preservation of freedom means maintaining our power. Not necessarily abiding the results of the election. And when you get into that territory, you’re in a scary space.
And it’s essential to remember to understand one thing,
and this has to be brought forward into the debate, despite all the flaws of American democracy, or any democracy — democracies are the only system of government that has ever existed in the history of humanity
that puts the individual human being on top of the power of the city.
Every other system so subordinates the dignity of the human being to the power of the state,
for the purposes of the state, often controlled by self interested, corrupt minority. So, this is the most profound moral issue that you could possibly talk about on any given evening in this country. Because it goes to the heart of the American idea, the embrace of humanism, of natural rights, of pluralism. And this idea that anybody can be an American. That we can all stand equal, cool equally, in a society, under the rule of law.
Where we all get a say, get to participate. And that is what is being vandalized and attacked, and successfully so.”
video: (https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/25/steve-schmidt-warns-that-we-must-confront-the-republican-attack-on-democracy.html)
“It is easy to make fun of the Arizona audit,
but far too many people fell into the trap of legitimizing an illegitimate political process in Arizona.
The Arizona audit was not a legitimate audit.
The bigger goal that Republicans had in Arizona was getting their attack on democracy legitimized and political parties conducting audits of election results that they disagree with normalized and looking at the coverage of this sham, one can see that their efforts worked.
The audit was an attack on democracy.
Steve Schmidt is correct.
Only a powerful consolidated effort backed by the truth c
an defeat these lies and authoritarian attacks.
Trump is the figurehead, but the shift in the Republican Party from democracy to authoritarianism goes much deeper, and it is the greatest internal threat to US democracy since the Civil War.”
(Easley, politicus.usa)
Jim Wright, always, always a worthy read.. I believe many of us will remember this one, it’s making the rounds again, thankfully, because a lot of people need to start listening!!
https://www.stonekettle.com/2012/02/perversity-of-extremism-tends-toward.html?m=1
bbl
🕊💕🕯💕🕊
Star Shopping, Lil Peep.
Before dying at the age of 21:
“Lil Peep came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures drawn together by the internet…was candid about struggles with his sexuality, depression, heartbreak, and drug use.” (wiki)
–This young man left behind an outsize legacy. May we be sensitive to everything we’re doing, how we’re responding, what we are thinking, our vision for the future, and how it is affecting our young wans.
what a maskhole. how did SS allow this?
so, sue me.
the child is the adult.
Will happen?
It’s already happened and is currently happening.
even school kids get a worse rap in their knuckles. what a travesty of a joke.
Lewis Hamilton the centurion, the first F1 driver to post 100 wins and that too in pouring rain during the final 10 laps.
Yesssss.
Iceland elects Europe’s first female majority parliament.
Iceland looks set to make history by becoming the first European country to elect a female majority to parliament.
According to projections based on the final election results, 33 of the 63 seats in the Althingi, or 52%, have been won by women.
This would mark an increase of nine seats from the last election in 2017.
No other European country has breached the 50% threshold, with Sweden coming closest at 47%, according to data from the Inter Parliamentary Union.
Unlike some other countries, Iceland does not have legal quotas on female representation in parliament, though some parties do require a minimum number of candidates be women.
The country has long been considered a leader in gender equality and was ranked the most gender-equal nation in the world for the 12th year running in a World Economic Forum report released in March.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58698490
While the oldest western democracy gets more and more misogynistic ever.
Simply the GOAT. 🐐🐐🐐
It’s a BFD to create history in a sport that has just one black man in its entire history.
Detroit’s 104-year-old Obama Building reopens as home to businesses, affordable apartments
“The event was part of the inaugural Artist Village Detroit Arts Festival.”
“The Obama Building has already become a key piece of this community,” Detroit Blight Busters founder John George, a key organizer and participant in the revitalization of the Old Redford area, said Saturday.
“It is also proof that when you take the power of positive thinking and apply a large dose of elbow grease,
anything is possible.”
(https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/09/25/detroits-obama-building-reopens-home-businesses-affordable-apartments/5822765001/)
And hence the seditious party’s multiple attacks on both on multiple formats and on multiple forums with piss poor pushback from the dems and the press.
If the GOP wins Pennsylvania’s open 2022 gubernatorial race to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf — and the governor’s mansion has flipped parties without fail since the 1960s — then the secretary of state pick will be made by a Republican who will surely have to curry favor with Trump to get through a crowded primary. One of the front-runners is a mirror image of Arizona’s Finchem — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who organized buses to Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 and was photographed near the insurrection. If Mastriano or one of several other Trump-crazed candidates wins the general election, it’s a lock that Pennsylvania’s 48th governor will name a secretary of state who will work feverishly to restrict voting rights in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, and — if Trump gets fewer votes, again — cast doubt on the outcome, or work to simply ignore the results, as would be expected in a dictatorship.
Why aren’t the dem establishment types demanding equal time on these shows pushing back against these lies?
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are edging towards election victory, as projected results look increasingly bleak for the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ms Merkel’s successor, Armin Laschet, is still vowing to form a government, but his conservative CDU party has seen its worst performance in history.
The SPD currently leads by a small margin, but results are not yet final.
Their leader Olaf Scholz says his party has a clear mandate to rule.
Exit polls predicted a dead heat, but this election has been unpredictable from the start, and the result was never going to be the end of the story. For one thing, the outgoing chancellor is going nowhere until a coalition is formed – and that may have to wait until Christmas.
The successor’s task is to lead Europe’s foremost economy over the next four years, with climate change at the top of voters’ agenda.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58698806
Bad news Merkel’s party is losing. Good news the country leaning center left.
The turnout is expected to be more than 76%.
as always, women are smarter.
bbc
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country’s federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to preliminary results.
The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative bloc gained 24.1%.
The Greens achieved the best result in their party’s history, coming in third with 14.8% of the ballot.
A coalition must now be created to form a government.
New post.