Happy International #DayoftheGirl! Today I’m celebrating the promise that exists within every girl. When we invest in that promise, we empower them to change their communities for the better. Join me and the @GirlsAlliance in supporting girls’ education: https://t.co/dwyLjHlyo7pic.twitter.com/mVYsPN8onA
The future of our world is only as bright as our girls.
“Right now, more than 98 million adolescent girls worldwide are not in school.
That’s why the Girls Opportunity Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, is teaming up with GoFundMe to encourage people around the world to take action by helping to break down the barriers that keep girls from fulfilling their potential.
Some of these barriers are child marriage or early pregnancy. But often they are attitudes and beliefs—the belief that girls simply aren’t worthy of an education; that women should have no role outside the home; and that their bodies aren’t their own, their minds don’t really matter, and their voices shouldn’t be heard.
When we invest in girls’ education, it doesn’t just benefit them—it benefits all of us. An educated girl can lift up her family, her community, and her country. When girls get the opportunities they deserve, amazing things start to happen. Poverty goes down, economies grow, families get stronger, babies are born healthier, and the world, by all accounts, gets better.”
“Of course, McConnell did not propose the two-month extension out of the goodness of his heart,
a concern for the institution of the Senate, or his concern for the country and the economy.
He had demanded that Democrats raise the debt ceiling through the vehicle of budget reconciliation, making it more difficult or impossible for them to use reconciliation for their broader, ambitious agenda on human infrastructure.
He feared that, pushed to the edge by the obstruction, and unable in any case to use reconciliation in time, Democrats in the Senate at the 11th hour would have carved out an exception for the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold — opening the door to further exceptions, and then to broader filibuster reform.”
“In the aftermath of the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, incited by Donald Trump,
where the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and scores of members of Congress were at risk, two-thirds of House Republicans, upon returning to the trashed Capitol late that afternoon, still voted that the election of Joe Biden was illegitimate.
Some of their members have likened the assault to a typical tourist visit, and have tried to whitewash the history.
Subsequently, Senate Republicans filibustered and killed a carefully balanced bipartisan commission to investigate what was behind the insurrection. In the face of evidence that several of their own, in the House and Senate, had helped plan or incite the violence, there has been no pushback or sanction by GOP leaders in both bodies against them.”
Saw this morning that President Obama will be campaigning at one upcoming event for Terry McAuliffe. So glad he’ll be out and about, helping HIS party! We are so lucky.
The only reason a Prosecutor would choose not to Indict Trump is the fear that if he did his cult would start a Civil War. But if you don’t Indict a man who tried to overthrow the Government, that Civil War has already been lost.
Life is pretty much back to normal here in Norway. And we have no mask mandates, no vaccine mandate, no mandated social distancing. It’s amazing how much freedom you get when you just listen to and follow the science 🤷🏼♀️
Ms Sheinbaum’s latest announcement was made on 12 October – the anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the Americas.
In the US it is widely celebrated as Columbus Day. But in Mexico and other Latin American countries it is known as Día de la Raza (Spanish: Day of the Race). Many view it as a commemoration to native resistance against European conquest.
Ms Sheinbaum said she wanted to make the change as part of the “decolonisation” of the famous Reforma Avenue, where an empty plinth currently stands.
She added that the new monument – set to to be three times as tall as the Columbus statue – was in recognition that “indigenous women had been the most persecuted” during and after the colonial period.
The original Young Woman of Amajac was discovered in January in Veracruz.
It is believed that the sculpture depicts a leading female member of the Huastec people at the time of its creation.
The original currently sits in Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum, which is going to create the replica.
To keep things in perspective, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger both voted against raising the debt ceiling. I’m thrilled they draw the line at insurrection but they’re perfectly willing to destroy the U.S. economy just to keep their party—which has rejected them—in power.
A ‘Historic Event’:
First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.
“Malaria kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa. The new vaccine isn’t perfect, but it will help turn the tide, experts said.”
“Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, said the long-awaited vaccine was a breakthrough for science and could save tens of thousands of young lives each year.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/health/malaria-vaccine-who.html)
Why it matters that Jim Jordan wants to ‘ban all vaccine mandates’
Jim Jordan wants a ban on “all vaccine mandates,”
not just those related to Covid-19.
Think smallpox, polio…Jordan et al trashing science and medical advances. We can’t just do nothing in response to despotic leadership that injures and kills people.
Black flag:
Understanding the Trumpists’ latest threatening symbol
Trump zealots have begun flying black U.S. flags, which signal no quarter for enemies.
It’s a threat of violence.
“It’s an old truism that the “real bad men” (and bad women) “move in silence and violence.”
That’s certainly true for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump’s allies, henchmen, henchwomen, and other followers.
But for Donald Trump himself, and most of his political cult, that rule does not apply.
Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6.
The lethal attack on the Capitol had been publicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Trump’s rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge — and specifically of “getting even” with Trump’s “enemies.”
The black flag…if you are not a member of this cult = death to you. Only far right, white, straight, cis need apply. This idea that ‘God’s will (trump) is being thwarted’. When you mix religion and politics you get the Taliban, ISIS. What is happening about the domestic terrorist designation? What’s the hold up?
This is not like a fascinating cultural thing that will burn out by itself.
T-minus 7 minutes. Blue Origin flight director Nick Patrick has polled his team, and all stations are “go” for launch of the New Shepard rocket with four passengers on a flight to the edge of space.
Haha, I would so be @WilliamShatner, waxing philosophically on the blueness of the sky (“I hope I never recover [from this experience] … this sliver of atmosphere that sustains life.”) and stepping away from the champagne shower. I love it. #NS18pic.twitter.com/K1kBu4jxcg
“Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, the swarms of Trojan asteroids associated with Jupiter are thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. The Trojans orbit the Sun in two loose groups, with one group leading ahead of Jupiter in its path, the other trailing behind. Clustered around the two Lagrange points equidistant from the Sun and Jupiter, the Trojans are stabilized by the Sun and its largest planet in a gravitational balancing act. These primitive bodies hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system.
Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans.
The mission takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor (called “Lucy” by her discoverers) whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity’s evolution. Likewise, the Lucy mission will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.”
This is a 12 year mission to 8 asteroids. Twelve years from now some of our children in kindergarten and middle school will likely be working on Lucy !!
Alliances for Climate Action:
Leaders from academia and federal, state and local agencies discuss climate migration and community presence.
How do we purposefully and equitably move people and structures away from risk?
Lol absolutely not. They already have their narrative 'Biden is CRATERING. Dems in disarray' and nothing makes them happier. No amount of data point will change that. https://t.co/uID8dmf8zW
Sen. @ewarren to @TheView: “70% of all Americans want the rule of Roe v. Wade to be the rule in this country. When 70% of America wants something to be the law, it is time for Congress to step up, pass it into the law, and do the will of the people. That’s how democracy works.” pic.twitter.com/JMyyXW60rH
In my address to the National Congress of American Indians, I talked about our Administration’s commitment to honoring tribal sovereignty and investing in Indian Country. We are committed to ensuring Tribes have a voice. pic.twitter.com/zxisrHSoEO
After working closely with my team, the Port of Los Angeles is announcing today that it will begin operating 24 hours 7 days a week — which follows the Port of Long Beach’s commitment.
A 24/7 system is what most of the leading countries operate on. Except us. Until now.
I saw tweets from ppl wondering if Shatner is being compensated by Blue Origin apparently because his comments are so in tune w/Bezos and could bring in business. So I asked. Blue Origin spokesperson: "William Shatner is not being compensated." His eloquent remarks are genuine.
We are relying on supply chains that were built generations ago. That's why we're working to invest in efficient port infrastructure for the future—while moving forward with immediate steps like expanding hours at our biggest ports. pic.twitter.com/ZqKyXIRPzw
Montgomery County is my home. It's where I grew up, where Lori and I are raising our four kids — and where I'm launching my campaign to be the next Governor of Pennsylvania.
Kaepernick’s New Book Advocates for the End of Policing and Imprisonment
By Delaina Dixon
“Colin Kaepernick has fully come to grasp that the only way to get ahead of the establishment is to build something of your own. This revelation led the former football player turned activist to launch Kaepernick Publishing in 2019, with the mission to elevate a new generation of writers with diverse views and voices to help build a better and more just world. Now the publishing house is releasing its first powerful offering, Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons. A collection of more than 30 essays, the anthology examines the anti-Black roots of policing and imprisonment. Writers and activists such as Mariame Kaba, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kiese Laymon, Derecka Purnell, and others share their thoughts and findings through historical exposition, researched data, and personal essays—some that take us through their own firsthand realities of being incarcerated. Artist Emory Douglas, best known as the former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, designed the striking cover art.”
and across the pond, the other corrupt clown bojo’s brexit shit sandwich is in shambles. it all goes back to the rabid racist voters and taking my ball home nonvoters.
Can’t emphasize this enough: Freedom to Vote Act would ban extreme racial + partisan gerrymandering being rushed through by Republicans in states like TX but Dems running out of time to pass it before new maps become law https://t.co/3C9nREHI2l
Senate Dems once again leaving town without passing voting rights legislation, as GOP gerrymanders to take back House & lock in anti-democratic control of states for next decade
When you spend more time covering Captain Kirk going into space on a billionaires rocket for mere seconds than you do the women’s March on the freedom to decide/choice, well you are doing something wrong and it is one reason we are in the situation we are in here in America.
Each of these investigative reports details serious criminal activity which undermined our democracy and its institutions. And yet the subject of them may well become President again. Just unbelievable pic.twitter.com/Cw3Z67rkEI
Today, Republicans for Voting Rights (RVR) launched a billboard campaign across the country in response to reckless Republican calls for sham audits of the 2020 election. Here's one we've put up in New York City's Times Square: pic.twitter.com/96tweL9l9w
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) October 13, 2021
MVP and Senator Duckworth discuss what’s in the Build Back Better agenda
Tune into today’s virtual townhall, where @VP and @SenDuckworth will take questions on the different care policies in the Build Back Better Agenda — including childcare, home and community-based care, paid family leave, the Child Tax Credit, and more. https://t.co/5gMq2jmn13
Republicans looking to manufacture voter fraud where they haven’t found any: Marc Elias
“Marc Elias, Democratic voting rights attorney,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican strategy to change voting laws
with the hopes of producing mistakes that can be spun as fraud,
and what politicians and pro-democracy Americans can do about it.”
Hey, if Bernie can compromise over in the Senate (who would have thought that!), our House Progressives should be able to, as well. After that, we can better work on Manchin and Sinema. Anyway, that’s my take today. May change tomorrow – Ha!
@RepJayapal We are ALL progressive AND moderate as Democrats – it's not either/or! Support President Biden's agenda. Compromise, as @SenSanders did. We can't ask Manchin/Sinema to do that, if you won't. We need to push the agenda @POTUS has set, and keep the House and Senate!
S & M have been bought off…Big Oil (climate action) and big pharma are freaking out.
Our folks are not the problem. Manchin came in at Zero dollars…the original figure was 6T. For now, Dems are looking at shortening the list and doing a lasting job on those.
Florida School Board Member Details Terrifying Harassment By Anti-Maskers
“Jennifer Jenkins, Brevard County Florida School Board member, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the harassment she has faced for supporting masks and why “it only takes one person to terrorize you.”
Lawrence O’Donnell:
“What is it like to be in your home with your (5 year old) daughter watching that stuff?
Jennifer Jenkins:
“It’s really difficult. The last protest where they came outside of my home. Again, I’m not against people using their First Amendment rights. They’re on public property. That’s okay.
But I’m against them terrorizing my family.
There was 25 individuals standing outside my home in a small beach town in Florida. They were there for hours. Police presence didn’t come right away. It started to get dark out. It was time for me to put my daughter to bed, and as I’m sitting trying to read her a story, these individuals are walking right by her bedroom saying vile things. And as I followed them around the corner to where their cars were parked into a parking lot right behind my home, police presence wasn’t following them until I was there.
They got in my face. They coughed in my face telling me they were going to give me COVID. They swung flags in my face, nearly missing me by a couple of inches. They said horrible disgusting things to my neighbors. And I eventually went back inside, but they brandished their weapons in the parking lot in front of my neighbors. And my daughter to this day at least twice a week, Mommy are those mean people going to be outside again?….they vandalized my property…they wrote obscenities in my grass with weed killer.”
PM Trudeau made it a federal crime to harass school board officials and health-care workers.
—why oh why cannot we make this possible in America?
—aren’t we bright enough?
We are one, maybe two, elections away from a constitutional crisis. More than a year ago — before Election Day — Donald Trump made clear that he would not accept the results of free and fair elections if he did not win. Too few people paid attention, discounting it as the ravings of a soon-to-be failed candidate. In the days following the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies executed a plan to subvert the election results. While they failed, Republicans learned from the experience and are prepared to try again. The future of our democracy rests on whether those committed to free and fair elections will prepare as well.
Looks like my piece today shook up the former failed one-term president 👀
Republicans looking to manufacture voter fraud where they haven’t found any: Marc Elias
“Marc Elias, Democratic voting rights attorney,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican strategy to change voting laws
with the hopes of producing mistakes that can be spun as fraud,
and what politicians and pro-democracy Americans can do about it.”
“And what about now? What is preventing any meaningful oversight now?” (Lawrence O’Donnell)
Walter Shaub,
fmr Director U.S. Office of Government Ethics:
“Well sadly, I think timidity. It’s the same thing we’re seeing with the Justice Department.
There seems to be this fear that they’ll be viewed as engaging in retribution, politically motivated, or that they may face retaliation themselves from a future administration.
But I think it’s a failure to grasp that we’re so far outside of the norm and in such dangerous territory,
that the greater risk in my view is the impunity from a lack of the government holding anyone accountable.
It sentences us a nation to endure more of this because future bad actors will know they can get away with it.”
Can you imagine if we lose our republic with Congress NEVER having used its lawful power of inherent contempt to enforce its subpoenas? There’s no shame in fighting for what’s right & losing. There’s nothing but shame in refusing to fight for what’s right for fear of losing.
The Obama Diary 
Thx for all your posts and encouragement NW.
The future of our world is only as bright as our girls.
“Right now, more than 98 million adolescent girls worldwide are not in school.
That’s why the Girls Opportunity Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, is teaming up with GoFundMe to encourage people around the world to take action by helping to break down the barriers that keep girls from fulfilling their potential.
Some of these barriers are child marriage or early pregnancy. But often they are attitudes and beliefs—the belief that girls simply aren’t worthy of an education; that women should have no role outside the home; and that their bodies aren’t their own, their minds don’t really matter, and their voices shouldn’t be heard.
When we invest in girls’ education, it doesn’t just benefit them—it benefits all of us. An educated girl can lift up her family, her community, and her country. When girls get the opportunities they deserve, amazing things start to happen. Poverty goes down, economies grow, families get stronger, babies are born healthier, and the world, by all accounts, gets better.”
(https://www.gofundme.com/f/wz97b-the-girls-opportunity-alliance-fund)
“Fix the Senate, save America”
by Norm Ornstein
“Of course, McConnell did not propose the two-month extension out of the goodness of his heart,
a concern for the institution of the Senate, or his concern for the country and the economy.
He had demanded that Democrats raise the debt ceiling through the vehicle of budget reconciliation, making it more difficult or impossible for them to use reconciliation for their broader, ambitious agenda on human infrastructure.
He feared that, pushed to the edge by the obstruction, and unable in any case to use reconciliation in time, Democrats in the Senate at the 11th hour would have carved out an exception for the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold — opening the door to further exceptions, and then to broader filibuster reform.”
“In the aftermath of the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, incited by Donald Trump,
where the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and scores of members of Congress were at risk, two-thirds of House Republicans, upon returning to the trashed Capitol late that afternoon, still voted that the election of Joe Biden was illegitimate.
Some of their members have likened the assault to a typical tourist visit, and have tried to whitewash the history.
Subsequently, Senate Republicans filibustered and killed a carefully balanced bipartisan commission to investigate what was behind the insurrection. In the face of evidence that several of their own, in the House and Senate, had helped plan or incite the violence, there has been no pushback or sanction by GOP leaders in both bodies against them.”
(https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fix-the-senate-save-america-20211010-cmtmg5trdbf4bn7nliaxckpufi-story.html)
Wonderful post, Nerdy darlin’ !!
Saw this morning that President Obama will be campaigning at one upcoming event for Terry McAuliffe. So glad he’ll be out and about, helping HIS party! We are so lucky.
Terry’s not my favorite Democrat, but he and so many other Dems are better than the alternative!
Anyone like to describe in words/pictures what America will look like if doom and doomites get what they want?
Also pls be honest about the big changes needed to prevent it + by what date.
Love it!
😆
Garland is an useless decoration.
Mexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58893051
new poutrage for rwnj’s.
Ms Sheinbaum’s latest announcement was made on 12 October – the anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the Americas.
In the US it is widely celebrated as Columbus Day. But in Mexico and other Latin American countries it is known as Día de la Raza (Spanish: Day of the Race). Many view it as a commemoration to native resistance against European conquest.
Ms Sheinbaum said she wanted to make the change as part of the “decolonisation” of the famous Reforma Avenue, where an empty plinth currently stands.
She added that the new monument – set to to be three times as tall as the Columbus statue – was in recognition that “indigenous women had been the most persecuted” during and after the colonial period.
The original Young Woman of Amajac was discovered in January in Veracruz.
It is believed that the sculpture depicts a leading female member of the Huastec people at the time of its creation.
The original currently sits in Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum, which is going to create the replica.
all the trumpturds showing their ‘support’ should be a teachable moment for this entitled idiot.
Good Morning TOD family! It’s a great day to be alive! Dance like you know it! 😄
A ‘Historic Event’:
First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.
“Malaria kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa. The new vaccine isn’t perfect, but it will help turn the tide, experts said.”
“Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, said the long-awaited vaccine was a breakthrough for science and could save tens of thousands of young lives each year.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/health/malaria-vaccine-who.html)
Why it matters that Jim Jordan wants to ‘ban all vaccine mandates’
Jim Jordan wants a ban on “all vaccine mandates,”
not just those related to Covid-19.
It’s an inevitable endpoint to a ridiculous political position.
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-it-matters-jim-jordan-wants-ban-all-vaccine-mandates-n1281403)
—DeSantis, Abbot, Jordan, which vaccines have you had since childhood, and your children? Did they work?
Think smallpox, polio…Jordan et al trashing science and medical advances. We can’t just do nothing in response to despotic leadership that injures and kills people.
HOTT DAMN!!!!
👏🏾👏🏾🔥😎
yesss, thx Sheila.
Black flag:
Understanding the Trumpists’ latest threatening symbol
Trump zealots have begun flying black U.S. flags, which signal no quarter for enemies.
It’s a threat of violence.
“It’s an old truism that the “real bad men” (and bad women) “move in silence and violence.”
That’s certainly true for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump’s allies, henchmen, henchwomen, and other followers.
But for Donald Trump himself, and most of his political cult, that rule does not apply.
Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6.
The lethal attack on the Capitol had been publicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Trump’s rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge — and specifically of “getting even” with Trump’s “enemies.”
(https://www.salon.com/2021/10/12/black-flag-understanding-the-trumpists-latest-threatening-symbol/)
The black flag…if you are not a member of this cult = death to you. Only far right, white, straight, cis need apply. This idea that ‘God’s will (trump) is being thwarted’. When you mix religion and politics you get the Taliban, ISIS. What is happening about the domestic terrorist designation? What’s the hold up?
This is not like a fascinating cultural thing that will burn out by itself.
When Captain Kirk went to space! 🚀🖖🏾
🌎✨😭
nasa.gov
Today 1pm EDT: Lucy Pre-launch media briefing
NASA Live
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
“Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, the swarms of Trojan asteroids associated with Jupiter are thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. The Trojans orbit the Sun in two loose groups, with one group leading ahead of Jupiter in its path, the other trailing behind. Clustered around the two Lagrange points equidistant from the Sun and Jupiter, the Trojans are stabilized by the Sun and its largest planet in a gravitational balancing act. These primitive bodies hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system.
Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans.
The mission takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor (called “Lucy” by her discoverers) whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity’s evolution. Likewise, the Lucy mission will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.”
Details: (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index)
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This is a 12 year mission to 8 asteroids. Twelve years from now some of our children in kindergarten and middle school will likely be working on Lucy !!
NOW: nasa.gov
(https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive)
Alliances for Climate Action:
Leaders from academia and federal, state and local agencies discuss climate migration and community presence.
How do we purposefully and equitably move people and structures away from risk?
—incredibly important discussion.
LIVE:
I agree with her 💯🎯. And, then some. ☹️
Yup. Didn’t heed her warnings in 2016 and the entire world paid a huge price. This is not a Déjà vu.
IT’s ON for PA Governor
Kaepernick’s New Book Advocates for the End of Policing and Imprisonment
By Delaina Dixon
“Colin Kaepernick has fully come to grasp that the only way to get ahead of the establishment is to build something of your own. This revelation led the former football player turned activist to launch Kaepernick Publishing in 2019, with the mission to elevate a new generation of writers with diverse views and voices to help build a better and more just world. Now the publishing house is releasing its first powerful offering, Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons. A collection of more than 30 essays, the anthology examines the anti-Black roots of policing and imprisonment. Writers and activists such as Mariame Kaba, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kiese Laymon, Derecka Purnell, and others share their thoughts and findings through historical exposition, researched data, and personal essays—some that take us through their own firsthand realities of being incarcerated. Artist Emory Douglas, best known as the former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, designed the striking cover art.”
(https://www.ebony.com/entertainment/kaepernicks-new-book-advocates-for-the-end-of-policing-and-imprisonment/)
and across the pond, the other corrupt clown bojo’s brexit shit sandwich is in shambles. it all goes back to the rabid racist voters and taking my ball home nonvoters.
they are all robin leaches. pun intended.
I love the poorly educated. most of murkkka now.
Mebbe the problem is with those ‘institutions’ than with the traitorous thug.
Exactly!
Beautiful! That was quite the moment.
And Dudettes!!
Pro tip: Never leave drunk Derek out front.
Are you drunk?!!
Of course I am, it’s a party! 😂🤣
Good Thursday Morning, Family!
Bookmark this for when you need it! 😆😂🤣😆😂🤣😆😂🤣
MVP and Senator Duckworth discuss what’s in the Build Back Better agenda
imo Prez Biden and Dems need to toot their own horn with pride a lot more!
Doom yesterday….
“If we don`t solve the presidential election fraud of 2020,
which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented,
Republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024.
It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”
—–Um it snowed, snowing again biggest flakes ever…but is the sky is up?
DeSantis, Abbot, is this sky up?
Here:
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-looking-to-manufacture-voter-fraud-where-they-haven-t-found-any-marc-elias-123506245523)
Republicans looking to manufacture voter fraud where they haven’t found any: Marc Elias
“Marc Elias, Democratic voting rights attorney,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican strategy to change voting laws
with the hopes of producing mistakes that can be spun as fraud,
and what politicians and pro-democracy Americans can do about it.”
Good morning!
Hey, if Bernie can compromise over in the Senate (who would have thought that!), our House Progressives should be able to, as well. After that, we can better work on Manchin and Sinema. Anyway, that’s my take today. May change tomorrow – Ha!
S & M have been bought off…Big Oil (climate action) and big pharma are freaking out.
Our folks are not the problem. Manchin came in at Zero dollars…the original figure was 6T. For now, Dems are looking at shortening the list and doing a lasting job on those.
Dayton Police Dragged Paraplegic Man Clifford Owensby from His Car;
NAACP Says Arrest Was “Unlawful”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/12/clifford_owensby)
—This was horrific. Mr Owensby was also cuffed…where is the media.
“People vs. Fossil Fuels’’:
Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/11/people_vs_fossil_fuels_winona_laduke)
Florida School Board Member Details Terrifying Harassment By Anti-Maskers
“Jennifer Jenkins, Brevard County Florida School Board member, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the harassment she has faced for supporting masks and why “it only takes one person to terrorize you.”
Lawrence O’Donnell:
“What is it like to be in your home with your (5 year old) daughter watching that stuff?
Jennifer Jenkins:
“It’s really difficult. The last protest where they came outside of my home. Again, I’m not against people using their First Amendment rights. They’re on public property. That’s okay.
But I’m against them terrorizing my family.
There was 25 individuals standing outside my home in a small beach town in Florida. They were there for hours. Police presence didn’t come right away. It started to get dark out. It was time for me to put my daughter to bed, and as I’m sitting trying to read her a story, these individuals are walking right by her bedroom saying vile things. And as I followed them around the corner to where their cars were parked into a parking lot right behind my home, police presence wasn’t following them until I was there.
They got in my face. They coughed in my face telling me they were going to give me COVID. They swung flags in my face, nearly missing me by a couple of inches. They said horrible disgusting things to my neighbors. And I eventually went back inside, but they brandished their weapons in the parking lot in front of my neighbors. And my daughter to this day at least twice a week, Mommy are those mean people going to be outside again?….they vandalized my property…they wrote obscenities in my grass with weed killer.”
Reportedly,
PM Trudeau made it a federal crime to harass school board officials and health-care workers.
—why oh why cannot we make this possible in America?
—aren’t we bright enough?
“Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa
Wins Nobel Peace Prize
After Facing Years of Threats & Arrests”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/8/peace_prize)
Pro-Trump Candidate Suggests Taking Boats Out of the Ocean to Lower Sea Levels
“I’m curious, do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water? Just a thought, not a statement…”
…anti-science kings.
Remarks by President Biden
on Efforts to Address Global Transportation Supply Chain Bottlenecks
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/13/remarks-by-president-biden-on-supply-chain-bottlenecks/)
Derek Thompson: “America Is Running Out of Everything”
“The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive.”
Oct 7 2021: (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/)
Biden Reverses Trump’s Policy Of Terrorizing Immigrants With Workplace Raids
“The Biden administration has ended the targeting of immigrants with workplace raids and shifting the enforcement focus to employers.”
See statement by Secretary of HS Mayorkas:
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/10/13/biden-reverses-trumps-policy-of-terrorizing-immigrants-with-workplace-raids.html)
ARE WE READY!??? The Fierce Urgency of NOW!
We are one, maybe two, elections away from a constitutional crisis. More than a year ago — before Election Day — Donald Trump made clear that he would not accept the results of free and fair elections if he did not win. Too few people paid attention, discounting it as the ravings of a soon-to-be failed candidate. In the days following the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies executed a plan to subvert the election results. While they failed, Republicans learned from the experience and are prepared to try again. The future of our democracy rests on whether those committed to free and fair elections will prepare as well.
—thanks again Sheila.
Marc Elias interview above:
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-looking-to-manufacture-voter-fraud-where-they-haven-t-found-any-marc-elias-123506245523)
Republicans looking to manufacture voter fraud where they haven’t found any: Marc Elias
“Marc Elias, Democratic voting rights attorney,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican strategy to change voting laws
with the hopes of producing mistakes that can be spun as fraud,
and what politicians and pro-democracy Americans can do about it.”
“And what about now? What is preventing any meaningful oversight now?” (Lawrence O’Donnell)
Walter Shaub,
fmr Director U.S. Office of Government Ethics:
“Well sadly, I think timidity. It’s the same thing we’re seeing with the Justice Department.
There seems to be this fear that they’ll be viewed as engaging in retribution, politically motivated, or that they may face retaliation themselves from a future administration.
But I think it’s a failure to grasp that we’re so far outside of the norm and in such dangerous territory,
that the greater risk in my view is the impunity from a lack of the government holding anyone accountable.
It sentences us a nation to endure more of this because future bad actors will know they can get away with it.”
LIVE NOW…
thx amk.
Part of the architect far right strategy is that we are UNABLE to imagine anything better.
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