Thanks @RobinRoberts for chatting all things Obama Presidential Center on @GMA, and helping @BarackObama surprise members of Chicago Women in Trades before we break ground later today! https://t.co/Qw2UZRDzP9
Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the FBI to meet with U.S. Attorneys around the country to open up lines of communication about threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff. pic.twitter.com/2gIMKnQfO4
This will be like NO OTHER Presidential Library! The vision of our President and our FLOTUS will live and breaths i n those walls, gardens. … Built by Chicago folks and those women…wow! This is a homegrown project, built by those who call Chicago home. How proud they all must be!!
People outside Sarasota Sch Bd member Shirley Brown’s house tonight: “We see you in there, Shirley. We want you to come out for a redress of grievances. This is the line we will die on. Shirley, come out. We have some questions and we have demands that need to be met.” pic.twitter.com/iHQxnzbdEK
The fact that this statistically insignificant “survey” is what they put out for the public in their “transparency center” and cite as “proof” (by the VP of Content! On national television!) tells you everything you need to know about their motives. I mean, it’s just insulting
Just pointing out that you have the option of going in front of the Committee, under oath, and offering evidence that what she has said is wrong. Your turn. https://t.co/QDiLVVTVHw
Thinking back to the heated fights with my 12yo/14yo kids about why they can't have social media accounts (I study disinfo and their dad is an FBI cyber agent, so) and lining up committee hearing clips for my victorious "I told you so" moment tonight
Thinking back to the heated fights with my 12yo/14yo kids about why they can't have social media accounts (I study disinfo and their dad is an FBI cyber agent, so) and lining up committee hearing clips for my victorious "I told you so" moment tonight
Tesla must pay $137m to racially harassed former worker
Carmaker Tesla has been ordered to pay almost $137m (£101m) in damages for failing to stop a black former worker at its Fresno plant from being abused.
Owen Diaz, a lift operator from 2015 to 2016, was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, a federal court in San Francisco found.
Mr Diaz claimed black workers regularly faced racist slurs on the factory floor and racist graffiti in bathrooms.
Tesla disputed the verdict but said it recognised it was “not perfect”.
Mr Diaz’s lawsuit alleged African-American workers “encountered a scene straight from the Jim Crow era” at the electric carmaker’s Fremont factory.
It said colleagues used racial epithets “daily” and told Mr Diaz to “go back to Africa”.
“Tesla’s progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees,” it said.
Despite complaints to supervisors, the court found Tesla did not take reasonable steps to tackle the abuse.
On Monday, the jury at the San Francisco court awarded Mr Diaz $130m in punitive damages and $6.9m for emotional distress, according to Mr Diaz’s attorneys.
One of them, Lawrence Organ of the California Civil Rights Law Group, said he hoped the high penalty would spur change.
“It’s gratifying to know that a jury’s willing to hold Tesla accountable, one of the world’s largest, richest corporations finally is told, ‘You can’t let this kind of thing happen at your factory,'” he told the Washington Post.
President and Mrs. Obama’s surprise visit to Chicago Women In Trades
“As part of our groundbreaking festivities, President and Mrs. Obama surprised some of the hardworking women who are a part of our construction workforce initiative. Learn more about our workforce program at Obama.org/the-center/opc-jobs.”
🚨UPDATE: Senate Democrats introduce the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act under the bill number #S4. Among its provisions, the bill would restore the preclearance requirement for election law changes in jurisdictions with histories of racial discrimination. #RestoretheVRA
Tomorrow marks the 9 month anniversary of Donald Trump’s deadly attempt to overthrow the United States Government. Neither he nor members of his Criminal Cabal have been brought to Justice. The survival of Democracy demands it.
Love your family enough to protect them from catching an illness that could damage them for life even if they survive. And love yourself enough to protect yourself from having to live with the guilt that comes from knowing they caught it from you.
“With the vaccine your immune system looks like the Washington Wizards. Without the vaccine it looks like the Washington Generals.” pic.twitter.com/naoqFArBZS
FDA's top vaccine official: "In this latest wave of COVID, particularly down south, there have been thousands of children hospitalized. Frankly, it's an embarrassment in a developed country to have even 100 children, like we've had, die of infectious disease that's preventable."
President Biden says it's a "real possibility" that Senate Democrats could seek to revise the chamber's filibuster rules to overcome the Republican blockade on raising the debt ceiling. https://t.co/CFbAk702FK
By calling in Banking CEO's and Business leaders today, Joe Biden going over the heads of Republican leaders to alert their funders to an unnecessary default on the Debt Limit. MSNBC.
School shooting at Mansfield ISD Timberview HS. a few minutes ago. My daughter texted me from a different school in the district; they’re on lockdown. This is traumatic. When we were in Santa Clarita there was a school shooting there too sadly in Saugus. Praying everyone is ok.🙏
My daughter just texted me that there was a school school shooting at Timberview H.S. In Mansfield ISD in Arlington, TX. She sent this video that’s out. Her nearby school is on lockdown also, and we hear police sirens rushing in. Police confirm there is an active shooter. Praying pic.twitter.com/m90QzZUfTz
Remarks by President Biden
on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and Build Back Better Agenda
“America is still the largest economy in the world. We still have the most productive workers and the most innovative minds in the world. But we risk losing our edge as a nation.
Our infrastructure used to be the best in the world — literally, not figuratively. Today, according to the World Economic Forum, we rank 13th. Our infrastructure — 12 nations have a better infrastructure than we do, which means they can move product, they can do so many things better than we can do it.
We’re among the first in the world to guarantee access to universal education. Now, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development ranks America 35th out of 37 major countries when it comes to investing in early childhood education as a percent of GDP.”
“Things are changing incredibly quickly.
That’s why I proposed two critical pieces of legislation being debated back in Washington right now.
The first, a bill to invest in our physical infrastructure.
And the second is a bill to invest in our human infrastructure.”
Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." https://t.co/i1hcYBhbvbpic.twitter.com/wTNg6xWmzU
SCOOP: Source tells me Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and top aides Scavino, Bannon and Patel are set to defy Jan. 6 committee subpoenas — under instructions from Trump. @GuardianUShttps://t.co/a8hQtm5zJ0
—Bruce family beach front property is restored to rightful heirs.
—After 97 years, Gov Newsom signed and apologized.
—How many other African Americans have been denied the chance to build generational wealth in America?
In September, @NMAAHC will celebrate 5 years as the nation’s largest cultural destination dedicated to exploring the African American story & its impact on history with a season of new offerings. Learn more: https://t.co/pGgr9tqOyP
An Interview with Jarrett Adams about His New Book and An Inspiring Message for Our Legal Community
by Bob Glaves (aug/21)
“When Jarrett was just 17 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of a crime and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum-security prison. After serving nearly 10 years and filing multiple appeals, Jarrett was exonerated with the assistance of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
Jarrett used the injustice he endured as inspiration to become an advocate and attorney for the underserved and often uncounted. With a boost from the Marovitz Scholarship, Jarrett earned his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in 2015. After law school, Jarrett served as a public interest fellow for Judge Ann Claire Williams in the 7th Circuit and for a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He also worked for the Innocence Project in New York as their attorney that was formerly an exoneree.
Jarrett then started his own firm, the Law Offices of Jarrett Adams, which now has offices across the country, and remains active in the related nonprofit he helped found, Life After Justice.”
Me: No! And there's a fun rhyme to help you remember: 30 days hath September, April, June, and November. 31 hath all the rest, except February, which has 28, unless it's a leap year, then it has 29.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki: "Tonight's ruling is an important step forward toward restoring the constitutional rights of women across the state of Texas. S.B. 8 … blatantly violates the right to safe and legal abortion established under Roe v. Wade."
Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." https://t.co/i1hcYBhbvbpic.twitter.com/wTNg6xWmzU
Today is the deadline for four top Trump officials to respond to subpoenas from the Jan. 6 select committee to turn over emails, call records, and other documents related to the Capitol attack.
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has he was “surprised and humbled” to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).
Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.
He said how grateful he was to the academy, adding: “It’s just great – its just a big prize, and such a huge list of wonderful writers – I am still taking it in.
“It was such a complete surprise that I really had to wait until I heard it announced before I could believe it.”
— NASA's Johnson Space Center (@NASA_Johnson) October 7, 2021
I love the idea of exploring the unknown. There's so much out there that we still have to learn. As the chair of the National Space Council, I'm eager to get our young people interested in STEM and space exploration. Watch “Get Curious” at https://t.co/d7UDjdh8NGpic.twitter.com/UYvZzsNgId
This is one of the most monumental headlines of my lifetime. This may abate more suffering and improve more lives than any other invention or discovery. It’s bigger than the moon landing, in real terms. https://t.co/NgAFfddWXo
Vaccination requirements work. They drive up vaccination rates, which makes our communities and schools safer, along with strengthening our economic recovery. Vaccine requirements are widely supported, proven successful, and quickly becoming the standard across the country. pic.twitter.com/qo1swxjbYg
Judge Robert Pitman, U.S. Federal District Judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of Texas abortion ban.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽His scathing 113-page ruling said “law is offensive deprivation of an important right.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s written statement:
“Today`s ruling enjoining the Texas law is a victory for women in Texas and for the rule of law.
It is the foremost responsibility of the Department of Justice to defend the constitution. We will continue to protect constitutional rights against all who would seek to undermine them.”
Rachel Maddow:
“It was September 1st just over a month ago, when the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court let a Texas state abortion ban go into effect.
Roe versus Wade is supposed to protect American women’s right to get an abortion.
It’s supposed to stop any state from trying to ban abortion. But nevertheless Texas’ ban on abortions after just 6 weeks of pregnancy was allowed by the Supreme Court to go into effect.
Well tonight a Federal Judge has stepped in and blocked the law.
The U.S. Justice Department had sued Texas over the law, had asked the Judge for this injunction.
Tonight the injunction was granted….
The Judge said tonight in his ruling: “The state has forfeited the right to any such accommodation, by pursuing an unprecedented and aggressive scheme to deprive its citizens of a significant and
well-established Constitutional right.”
(Maddow: “Well at least we thought it was a well-established constitutional right until the Supreme Court let this ban go into effect.”)
Neal Katyal,
fmr Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S.
“So first of all, an Injunction for our viewers means that a Federal Judge has said this law can’t be enforced now. And it will go on review to the court of appeals and to the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court disagrees with this judge and says we’re going to reinforce the law, the law can go back into effect, the evilness of this SB8, this Texas law, it has a provision in it which says ‘If you helped with an abortion while the law was under an injunction, you can now retroactively be sued’. (Retroactive liability)
So when you ask why is Cecile Richards such a hero in fighting this way?
It’s not just because of what she’s doing in the courts and what other women are doing, and men, all sorts of people in the courts, it’s also because we need legislation.”
Cecile Richards,
fmr President, Planned Parenthood:
“So ultimately we have to pass federal legislation and I would note that the Women’s Health Protection Act
which did pass the House, was supported, would essentially enshrine the ability of people to make their own decisions about pregnancy.
And not a single Republican member of Congress voted for it.
So this is a political battle.
The Republican Party is clearly on the side of taking away the most fundamental right that women in this country have, and we have to make that clear to voters everywhere.”
Joy Reid:
Replacement theory…right wing fear mongering tactic.
“Now you will likely not be surprised that Replacement Theory is also deeply rooted in misogyny.
A 2019 New York Times piece reported the most pressing concern among far right members is falling birth rates, meaning white women are not making enough babies because they’re spending too much time
competing with men at the workplace, and leaving their kids at day care or, God forbid, voting.
With scholar Kathleen Belew saying: “For people in the white power movement, everything is framed through reproduction and gender.”
Senator Bernie Sanders to the press:
“Thanks very much on a busy day for being here. I just want to say a few words about some of what’s going on.
As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,
I want to say a few words about the $3.5 trillion Reconciliation Bill that a number of us are fighting for. And I would also like to make some brief comments about what Senator Manchin said earlier today.
Senator Manchin as I understand it, talked today about not wanting to see our country become an
“Entitlement society”. I am not exactly sure what he means by that. Senator Manchin has been extremely critical of the $3.5 trillion proposal that many of us support – in fact 9 out of 11 members of the Budget Committee support.
But the time is long overdue for him to tell us with specificity, not generalities.
We’re beyond generalities. With specificity, what he wants and what he does not want. And to explain that to the people of West Virginia and America.”
Senator Sanders:
“Look it’s very easy to use vague phraseology.
My concern with Mr. Manchin is not so much what his views are. I disagree with him.
But it is that it is wrong. It is really not playing fair that one or two people think that they should be able to stop what 48 members of the Democratic Caucus want, what the American people want, what the President of the United States wants. That would be my position.
So Senator Manchin has a right to fight for his point of view.
He has not only a right to be heard, he has a right to get some compromise. He’s a member of the Senate. But two people do not have the right to sabotage what 48 want and what the president of the United States wants. That to me is wrong.”
The Obama Diary 
It’s going to be spectacular and a great place for various TOD reunions when completed.
Yes! And hello to you!
❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this post, Nerdy! Have a fine Obama day!
This will be like NO OTHER Presidential Library! The vision of our President and our FLOTUS will live and breaths i n those walls, gardens. … Built by Chicago folks and those women…wow! This is a homegrown project, built by those who call Chicago home. How proud they all must be!!
It’s wonderful!
I love him! And I always watch the Rose Parade, so I won’t miss this.
Mr. Burton is living his best life!Moisturized and unbothered! Love to see it! 😄
the replies to that punk perkins are awesome.
What a pathetic sycophant little pos.
There ya go. I pegged him as a scammer long time ago.
Where are all the feds garland, the meme, promised? Nazis are out there.
These folks are entitled…Where are the police
Heard this last night. Stupid, just stupid. What a weak ‘excuse.’
It’s a horrible disease inflicted on stupid people. Thank god, I never caught it.
Tesla must pay $137m to racially harassed former worker
Carmaker Tesla has been ordered to pay almost $137m (£101m) in damages for failing to stop a black former worker at its Fresno plant from being abused.
Owen Diaz, a lift operator from 2015 to 2016, was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, a federal court in San Francisco found.
Mr Diaz claimed black workers regularly faced racist slurs on the factory floor and racist graffiti in bathrooms.
Tesla disputed the verdict but said it recognised it was “not perfect”.
Mr Diaz’s lawsuit alleged African-American workers “encountered a scene straight from the Jim Crow era” at the electric carmaker’s Fremont factory.
It said colleagues used racial epithets “daily” and told Mr Diaz to “go back to Africa”.
“Tesla’s progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees,” it said.
Despite complaints to supervisors, the court found Tesla did not take reasonable steps to tackle the abuse.
On Monday, the jury at the San Francisco court awarded Mr Diaz $130m in punitive damages and $6.9m for emotional distress, according to Mr Diaz’s attorneys.
One of them, Lawrence Organ of the California Civil Rights Law Group, said he hoped the high penalty would spur change.
“It’s gratifying to know that a jury’s willing to hold Tesla accountable, one of the world’s largest, richest corporations finally is told, ‘You can’t let this kind of thing happen at your factory,'” he told the Washington Post.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58807212
President and Mrs. Obama’s surprise visit to Chicago Women In Trades
“As part of our groundbreaking festivities, President and Mrs. Obama surprised some of the hardworking women who are a part of our construction workforce initiative. Learn more about our workforce program at Obama.org/the-center/opc-jobs.”
Obama Foundation.
Schrödinger’s cat.
Ok, dog.
😍😍😍
Jack so owns you, amk!! Lalalalalala woof, woof, woof!!
What a cutie (him) (not you)
😹
Hey!!!!
Yo
that would be everywhere
Having a good day, amk? You managed to give us some positive posts – yay! Keep smiling! I’m heading off to dreamland.
Again, Truman truism about hell and all that.
Glenn Kirschner spelling out the obvious, but worth a listen
This day is done, and it has done me in.
Goodnight TOD.
🕊🕯🕊
Good Morning Family!
Hey Dudette – beautiful to see you !!!!!!!
Hi Dear! Lovely to see you! 😄
🗣
This too!
Drew is pretty clever and smart too!
Let’s follow Pete’s suggestion and flood Mitch’s offices with phone calls!
there is never a bottom for rwnj’s to sink to.
Smart move
ACTIVE SHOOTER AT TIMBERVIEW HIGH IN ARLINGTON, TX. MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/lockdown-issued-at-timberview-high-in-arlington-possible-shots-fired/2759727/
Remarks by President Biden
on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and Build Back Better Agenda
“America is still the largest economy in the world. We still have the most productive workers and the most innovative minds in the world. But we risk losing our edge as a nation.
Our infrastructure used to be the best in the world — literally, not figuratively. Today, according to the World Economic Forum, we rank 13th. Our infrastructure — 12 nations have a better infrastructure than we do, which means they can move product, they can do so many things better than we can do it.
We’re among the first in the world to guarantee access to universal education. Now, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development ranks America 35th out of 37 major countries when it comes to investing in early childhood education as a percent of GDP.”
“Things are changing incredibly quickly.
That’s why I proposed two critical pieces of legislation being debated back in Washington right now.
The first, a bill to invest in our physical infrastructure.
And the second is a bill to invest in our human infrastructure.”
Full: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/05/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-and-build-back-better-agenda/)
wow great news….had no idea they were close.
Now we will see if it’s all just stern words from the dems.
Defy because they are like the driven snow.
Trumpsky has no executive privilege, zero.
–Headline.
https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/10/recap-october-4-2021.html?m=1
Op-Ed: I hope our Bruce Beach fight will help others
(https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-09-30/bruces-beach-family-fight-help)
—Bruce family beach front property is restored to rightful heirs.
—After 97 years, Gov Newsom signed and apologized.
—How many other African Americans have been denied the chance to build generational wealth in America?
i will be so glad when i can safely return
We will 💖👍🏾
Redeeming Justice:
“From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System.”
by Jarrett Adams.
An Interview with Jarrett Adams about His New Book and An Inspiring Message for Our Legal Community
by Bob Glaves (aug/21)
“When Jarrett was just 17 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of a crime and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum-security prison. After serving nearly 10 years and filing multiple appeals, Jarrett was exonerated with the assistance of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
Jarrett used the injustice he endured as inspiration to become an advocate and attorney for the underserved and often uncounted. With a boost from the Marovitz Scholarship, Jarrett earned his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in 2015. After law school, Jarrett served as a public interest fellow for Judge Ann Claire Williams in the 7th Circuit and for a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He also worked for the Innocence Project in New York as their attorney that was formerly an exoneree.
Jarrett then started his own firm, the Law Offices of Jarrett Adams, which now has offices across the country, and remains active in the related nonprofit he helped found, Life After Justice.”
(https://chicagobarfoundation.org/blog/redeeming-justice-an-interview-with-jarrett-adams/)
—Mr. Adams had a great interview with Ari Berman yesterday.
“We certainly talked about it, both in caucus and privately,” said Senator Chris Murphy.
“Because if you’re ever gonna change the filibuster, doing it to stop the meltdown of the economy is a pretty good reason.”
–duh on toast.
Howzabout
get rid of the filibuster and the debt limit
so that the party-formerly-known-as-GOP
can never sabotage
the United States
like this again.
yeah, just what we need. #gazilliongods
LOL. Is it Biden dog?
Yup, dems slow walking this will only lead to their political demise.
Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid ‘miracle’ drug
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809
Now we will see what dems are made of.
our rw govt is still yet to decide on vaxing children and pushing the schools to open. Hope they will wake up at least now.
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has he was “surprised and humbled” to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).
Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.
He said how grateful he was to the academy, adding: “It’s just great – its just a big prize, and such a huge list of wonderful writers – I am still taking it in.
“It was such a complete surprise that I really had to wait until I heard it announced before I could believe it.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58828947
Good Morning Fam! How adorable is this? ❤️
💙🧑🏽🚀💙
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Wow! This is cool!
Small victory, but it’s a beginning
Uh huh, sure 🤨
https://youtube.com/shorts/cyQINuncgV0
A BFD! Huge!
Vaccine mandates work
You need a good laugh, don’t you? 😁
Thanks Obama!
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s written statement:
“Today`s ruling enjoining the Texas law is a victory for women in Texas and for the rule of law.
It is the foremost responsibility of the Department of Justice to defend the constitution. We will continue to protect constitutional rights against all who would seek to undermine them.”
Rachel Maddow:
“It was September 1st just over a month ago, when the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court let a Texas state abortion ban go into effect.
Roe versus Wade is supposed to protect American women’s right to get an abortion.
It’s supposed to stop any state from trying to ban abortion. But nevertheless Texas’ ban on abortions after just 6 weeks of pregnancy was allowed by the Supreme Court to go into effect.
Well tonight a Federal Judge has stepped in and blocked the law.
The U.S. Justice Department had sued Texas over the law, had asked the Judge for this injunction.
Tonight the injunction was granted….
The Judge said tonight in his ruling: “The state has forfeited the right to any such accommodation, by pursuing an unprecedented and aggressive scheme to deprive its citizens of a significant and
well-established Constitutional right.”
(Maddow: “Well at least we thought it was a well-established constitutional right until the Supreme Court let this ban go into effect.”)
Interview with Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health,
will not post.
–ffs.
Neal Katyal,
fmr Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S.
“So first of all, an Injunction for our viewers means that a Federal Judge has said this law can’t be enforced now. And it will go on review to the court of appeals and to the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court disagrees with this judge and says we’re going to reinforce the law, the law can go back into effect, the evilness of this SB8, this Texas law, it has a provision in it which says ‘If you helped with an abortion while the law was under an injunction, you can now retroactively be sued’. (Retroactive liability)
So when you ask why is Cecile Richards such a hero in fighting this way?
It’s not just because of what she’s doing in the courts and what other women are doing, and men, all sorts of people in the courts, it’s also because we need legislation.”
Cecile Richards,
fmr President, Planned Parenthood:
“So ultimately we have to pass federal legislation and I would note that the Women’s Health Protection Act
which did pass the House, was supported, would essentially enshrine the ability of people to make their own decisions about pregnancy.
And not a single Republican member of Congress voted for it.
So this is a political battle.
The Republican Party is clearly on the side of taking away the most fundamental right that women in this country have, and we have to make that clear to voters everywhere.”
Joy Reid:
Replacement theory…right wing fear mongering tactic.
“Now you will likely not be surprised that Replacement Theory is also deeply rooted in misogyny.
A 2019 New York Times piece reported the most pressing concern among far right members is falling birth rates, meaning white women are not making enough babies because they’re spending too much time
competing with men at the workplace, and leaving their kids at day care or, God forbid, voting.
With scholar Kathleen Belew saying: “For people in the white power movement, everything is framed through reproduction and gender.”
Senator Bernie Sanders to the press:
“Thanks very much on a busy day for being here. I just want to say a few words about some of what’s going on.
As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,
I want to say a few words about the $3.5 trillion Reconciliation Bill that a number of us are fighting for. And I would also like to make some brief comments about what Senator Manchin said earlier today.
Senator Manchin as I understand it, talked today about not wanting to see our country become an
“Entitlement society”. I am not exactly sure what he means by that. Senator Manchin has been extremely critical of the $3.5 trillion proposal that many of us support – in fact 9 out of 11 members of the Budget Committee support.
But the time is long overdue for him to tell us with specificity, not generalities.
We’re beyond generalities. With specificity, what he wants and what he does not want. And to explain that to the people of West Virginia and America.”
Senator Sanders:
“Look it’s very easy to use vague phraseology.
My concern with Mr. Manchin is not so much what his views are. I disagree with him.
But it is that it is wrong. It is really not playing fair that one or two people think that they should be able to stop what 48 members of the Democratic Caucus want, what the American people want, what the President of the United States wants. That would be my position.
So Senator Manchin has a right to fight for his point of view.
He has not only a right to be heard, he has a right to get some compromise. He’s a member of the Senate. But two people do not have the right to sabotage what 48 want and what the president of the United States wants. That to me is wrong.”
New post.