✨ Tonight's #30thFreedomAward honoree and First Lady Michelle Obama accepted the honor on behalf of the generations before us who “led by example,” stood proud and shared values of “honesty, decency, and sacrifice for the greater good.” pic.twitter.com/wiPlFFozry
✨ #30thFreedomAward honoree Michelle Obama cited lessons learned from Dr. King and others who’ve won the Freedom Award as “the blueprint” to overcome challenges. “Together… oh, we can move mountains.” pic.twitter.com/nCBTpsjCLe
Quoting civil rights leaders Dr. King & John Lewis, honoree Michelle Obama cited we must not only get into “good trouble” but also understand we are in an “inescapable network of mutuality… a single garment of destiny.” pic.twitter.com/oPfAI67rWV
The International Photography Hall of Fame is set to induct its newest class of inductees on October 29. The live virtual awards ceremony will be hosted by Art Holliday and honor 2021’s class of photographers and industry professionals. Among them are fine art photographers Dawoud Bey, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sally Mann, and Joyce Tenneson; photojournalist and Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza; and David Douglas Duncan and Larry Burrows, who are being posthumously honored for their work as a war correspondents.
I’m being inducted into the Hall of Fame! Not for my batting average but for my photography. https://t.co/M6GCbhTPRB
This one is my favorite. I love that you and the White House put out so many candid shots and this one shows us so much about Obama's personality. pic.twitter.com/Svi3x6QAPC
Overheard: “Until you do 30 minutes+ of CPR in a plastic gown, N95, surgical mask, two pairs of gloves and a face shield, you should probably stop complaining about wearing some fabric on your face to the grocery store”.
💯💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯🎯. That is the $64,000 question. 😡☹️😢. If situation was reversed, we know what the majority would be doing. Steamrolling everything and proving why they were given the majority. Dems, nah, we will just keep drifting along, being nice and waiting for bipartisanship. Lord, help us.
fyi passing this along amk. Golden retrievers have a predisposition to hip dysplasia…we were warned…watch out for cold hard surfaces on the hips and bones.
Prosecution of Bannon for Contempt of Congress WILL Impact How Meadows, Patel, Scavino and Others Will Deal with Congressional Subpoenas. Because #JusticeMattershttps://t.co/K0LW4X807W via @YouTube
No matter how negative a person can be towards you, it only speaks to who they are. One must always know their worth and value. When people tell you that you can’t do something, they are actually speaking to their own limitations not yours. Keep rising. Keep shining. 💙🇺🇸 https://t.co/ogtzHXKU44pic.twitter.com/bEhmai5jfT
— Allen Ellison Democrat for US Senate Florida (@AllenLEllison) October 16, 2021
Happy to see our favorites getting the accolades they so richly deserve! Mailing my 80 Vote Forward letters to Virginia today. Make sure all your progressive friends who live there vote ASAP!
“Trump put out a statement on Friday claiming that the ballot boxes were stuffed in Arizona and demanding that he be declared the winner of the 2020 election.”
(politicus.usa)
imo, Isn’t it time the media referred to trump as mentally challenged while creating a serious national security problem for the rest of us? Not that he is in mental decline, but that there is something wrong with him pathologically. Marginalize him and get him off the front pages!
NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation
“NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday
on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Over the next 12 years, Lucy will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Trojan asteroids,
making it the agency’s first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids. Lucy will investigate these “fossils” of planetary formation up close during its journey.
“Lucy embodies NASA’s enduring quest to push out into the cosmos for the sake of exploration and science,
to better understand the universe and our place within it,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “I can’t wait to see what mysteries the mission uncovers!”
About an hour after launch, Lucy separated from the second stage of the ULA Atlas V 401 rocket.
Its two massive solar arrays, each nearly 24 feet (7.3 meters) wide, successfully unfurled about 30 minutes later and began charging the spacecraft’s batteries to power its subsystems.
“Today’s launch marks a genuine full-circle moment for me as Lucy was the first mission I approved in 2017,
just a few months after joining NASA,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “A true mission of discovery, Lucy is rich with opportunity to learn more about these mysterious Trojan asteroids and better understand the formation and evolution of the early solar system.”
Lucy sent its first signal to Earth from its own antenna to NASA’s Deep Space Network at 6:40 a.m.
The spacecraft is now traveling at roughly 67,000 mph (108,000 kph) on a trajectory that will orbit the Sun and bring it back toward Earth in October 2022 for a gravity assist.”
Today is a good day to remember that @TuckerCarlson was first in line to get vaccinated and does a broadcast every weeknight convincing people not to get vaccinated so they can die breathless in the hospital and devastate their families forever.
Yup. Every president gets the right to appoint 5 judges during his term(s) and after such terms, the judges get retired too. Nowhere in the world judges for appointed for life.
Best and worst candy to receive on Halloween? And don’t say popcorn balls and other shit you only got one time that one year and do not say “not Halloween, but” just answer the question god I’ve been on here too long
Here, all the specialty departments, which had been converted for covid care, have been restored to their original operations a few months back and covid care is now restricted their own wards. vax drive is still being strongly pushed by both central and state govts. Thank god, our rw’ers are somewhat sane.
NEW — More than 300 Black churches across VA will hear from @KamalaHarris btwn Sun. and November 2 in video message that will air during morning services as part of outreach effort aimed to boost @TerryMcAuliffe.#VAGOV
A #COVID19 booster dose is a new dose given to a fully vaccinated person to help improve protection that has decreased over time. Certain groups that have been shown to lose protection faster than others are now eligible for a booster. More: https://t.co/4VeKDMaATk. pic.twitter.com/TBYnucTtiM
I believe this is why it is so hard to protect our children…this culture of child marriages in America…check out the legal age for a child to get married in your state….
Very Few states set a threshold for a child to be married…and even in some of the states that do…there are exceptions that allow it…
From 2000 to 2018, nearly 300,000 minors under the age of 18 were legally married in the U.S., according to a recent estimate by the nonprofit Unchained at Last. https://t.co/5HgKN0mcUX
Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition
The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html)
Manchin’s argument is nothing more than insulting krap b-s.
West Virginians are FOR the $3.5T plan. They want it.
WV doesn’t get the severe wild fires experienced by the west coast,. It’s not on the coast, so no sea level rise, little impact from hurricanes or floods. So Mister O & G is ignoring the global climate emergency.
Global = not particular to West Virginia.
West Virginia is ONE state among FIFTY.
Manchin is “Kingmaker” spokesman in Congress for Exxon, said their lobbyist on tape.
Manchin made $500,000 off of coal last year via his son’s business.
Make Manchin do full press conferences.
Manchin is owned by fossil fuel industries that could care less.
Those Exxon ads telling you they’re ‘climate friendly’…
In fact they could take the lead on Green energy. And start making up for their 50 years of lies and denial now destroying and dooming the planet. All the lives down the mines and children on the planet that Manchin doesn’t care about. The Manchin behind those glazed, shuttered eyes is a scheming (fill in the blank).
Don’t give me the “Oh but he’s a church-going Catholic” routine. My parents were devoted Catholics and the culture it represented looked out for poor people here and around the world. Instead Manchin is pushing COAL jobs on his constituents. My grandfather died of cancer and lung issues related to a life of coal mining, and his sons had various fallouts from it. They would gladly have taken job training and moved on to a cleaner world for themselves and their children. Given the chance, that is.
Given the chance.
—Will we march against Manchin or relinquish it all to fossil fuels in the end?
“And coal is just a distant – I mean,
anybody who’s been tracking the numbers in the energy industry knows that coal is just a memory now.
The only negotiation is how fast it dies
and how well the communities is located and get compensated,
you know, sort of the mechanics of phasing it out.
But no one,
no one who follows energy markets these days thinks that coal has a long-term future.”
(1) This does not feel right. We have immigrants who do back breaking farm work that can't get green cards, yet Afghan refugees’ immigration status is not guaranteed unless Congress passes a Biden administration proposal to give them green cards, and then
(2) there's this – Refugee Sahar Mohammad, said his family initially lived in a tent at New Jersey’s Fort Dix without doors or sound control. He and his family came to the US with one bag per person, and have not been given warmer clothes for the fall. “I don’t want to complain
(3) because we are in the U.S., and they are trying their best,” he told the Journal. “But it is hard. We can’t start our own lives or send our kids to school. We feel like we are not free.”
Congrats to our new WNBA champs, @ChicagoSky! I couldn’t be prouder of this team — they worked hard for this moment, and have made our city proud. https://t.co/Da9cLtvSX4
When I joined the US Navy at 17, I took an oath to defend this nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. As a lifelong politician, Kevin McCarthy takes that same oath every 2 years, but he defends terrorists. He's a disgrace to veterans and our country. Help me defeat him. pic.twitter.com/nlvw7iCDfy
— Bruno 🇺🇸 4 Congress CA23 Against Kevin McCarthy (@BrunoAmato_1) August 4, 2021
I don’t mind if a good pastor makes a good living or is even well off, but when pastors have private jets and mega-mansions, you have to wonder who they’re really serving. These are the worst kinds of people.
Adam Schiff
Tells Trump And His Cronies It’s A New World Now And Criminal Charges Are Coming
“1/6 Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that criminal prosecutions are faster than civil cases and warned Trump and his cronies that it is a new world now.”
This is your daily reminder that in American democracy, two Senators who represent 9 million constituents are some how able to block 48 other Democratic Senators who represent 176 million constituents from passing a bill that has nearly 60% public support
12 years ago my wife's grandma told her "laundry is the best job for a women because it doesn't require a lot of thinking" and ever since, out of pure disgust, I have done every single load of laundry in our household but it just occurred to me now that I might have been setup
"Democrats can’t be expected to deal with these guys like they’re on the level. Nor should journalists cover them as if they are.” https://t.co/JQnsIjxmnG
Our Speaker walks the walk, and talks the talk! Thank you, Speaker Pelosi! #NancySmash And thanks to all others who participated in these important discussions.
The former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. "He was fully vaccinated,” his family says. General Powell was 84 – RIP to a great American patriot pic.twitter.com/admYmacP96
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) October 18, 2021
'A dominant presence in American politics': Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died aged 84 from Covid-19 complications, his family says. https://t.co/91pum1gbMJ
Powell was 84. Seniors are particularly vulnerable still, which is why they are prioritized for booster shots. Vaccines help us immensely in fighting covid but they're not a forcefield or superpower, sadly. https://t.co/3tSXcimqGp
My feed is filled with news about Colin Powell’s death from complications of Covid-19, but none of them mention he was immuno-compromised from a battle with cancer.
Mourning the passing of our beloved Interior Secretary’s mother, Mary Toya, a Navy veteran and long time civil servant. Wishing this beautiful Native woman — a wonderfully blessed journey. pic.twitter.com/mVfj8aaEMf
Congrats to our new WNBA champs, @ChicagoSky! I couldn’t be prouder of this team — they worked hard for this moment, and have made our city proud. https://t.co/Da9cLtvSX4
When I think of Sec. Powell, I think of a trailblazer, barrier-breaker, soldier & patriot who dedicated his life in service to our country.
My heart is with his family and all those who knew and loved him. And I continue to pray for those who have lost loved ones to this virus. https://t.co/ALiOp53To2
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) October 18, 2021
Five times as many police officers have died from COVID as from gunfire since start of pandemic:
COVID has become the leading cause of death for officers despite law enforcement being among the first groups eligible to receive the vaccine. https://t.co/5SW3CS2yki
Remind anti-vaxxers that Colin Powell had blood cancer that made him very immuno-compromised. So, as they dance on his grave thinking they’re making a point about vaccines, they contributed to his death by not doing their part to slow the spread of COVID.
Texas Attorney: GOP governor’s vaccine mandate ban is ‘anti-business’
“Harris County, TX Attorney Christian Menefee
tells Zerlina Maxwell that Gov. Abbott’s executive order banning vaccine mandates, including for private businesses, “strips away choice” from businesses trying to keep employees and customers safe:
“It’s bad business for Texas and it’s bad policy for Texas.”
‘Toxic Culture’:
NFL Cheerleaders Demand Release Of Full Workplace Inquiry
Frmr Washington Football Team cheerleader and employee Melanie Coburn:
“These women have been texting me for the last 36 hours wondering if their nude bodies or photographs are circulating through the inboxes of the NFL. t’s triggered them. It’s reliving trauma that we’ve been living
for the past 15 months.”
—-Feeling of excruciating pain from Ms. Coburn was so strong.
—My best wishes to her, and to all the women involved.
While visiting Athens last week, I had a chance to meet with Georgians like Montu, a parent whose family has benefitted from the expanded #ChildTaxCredit.
I’m going to keep fighting to extend these critical tax cuts, and make them permanent for working families. pic.twitter.com/uOu9aRYrIn
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) October 18, 2021
When I think of Sec. Powell, I think of a trailblazer, barrier-breaker, soldier & patriot who dedicated his life in service to our country.
My heart is with his family and all those who knew and loved him. And I continue to pray for those who have lost loved ones to this virus. https://t.co/ALiOp53To2
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) October 18, 2021
President Obama’s remarks on the passing of General Powell
General Colin Powell understood what was best in this country, and tried to bring his own life, career, and public statements in line with that ideal. Michelle and I will always look to him as an example of what America—and Americans—can and should be. pic.twitter.com/vSxTbUE5aR
The Obama Diary 
Have a happy weekend folks and thanks Nerdy for this place and all that you do.
Forgot to say that Michelle Obama will always be my favorite First Lady. Always.
Co-sign! Happy weekend and thanks, Nerdy darlin’ !!!
I do, as well. We haven’t had once since #44.
Congratulations Pete!!!!
The International Photography Hall of Fame is set to induct its newest class of inductees on October 29. The live virtual awards ceremony will be hosted by Art Holliday and honor 2021’s class of photographers and industry professionals. Among them are fine art photographers Dawoud Bey, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sally Mann, and Joyce Tenneson; photojournalist and Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza; and David Douglas Duncan and Larry Burrows, who are being posthumously honored for their work as a war correspondents.
❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️this so much! Pete = THE BEST. 👏👏👏👏 He deserves this and more.
So happy for him!
so, why doesn’t the majority do something about it?
💯💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯🎯. That is the $64,000 question. 😡☹️😢. If situation was reversed, we know what the majority would be doing. Steamrolling everything and proving why they were given the majority. Dems, nah, we will just keep drifting along, being nice and waiting for bipartisanship. Lord, help us.
the manchurian senator.
Too cute!
Wimmin are mean.
da floating head.
mistah adorables!!
fyi passing this along amk. Golden retrievers have a predisposition to hip dysplasia…we were warned…watch out for cold hard surfaces on the hips and bones.
thx, brb. It sure ain’t cold in my part of the desert. We have only three weathers, hot, hotter and hottest.
allers braggin’ amk.
Indeed! 💞💞
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Happy to see our favorites getting the accolades they so richly deserve! Mailing my 80 Vote Forward letters to Virginia today. Make sure all your progressive friends who live there vote ASAP!
“Trump put out a statement on Friday claiming that the ballot boxes were stuffed in Arizona and demanding that he be declared the winner of the 2020 election.”
(politicus.usa)
imo, Isn’t it time the media referred to trump as mentally challenged while creating a serious national security problem for the rest of us? Not that he is in mental decline, but that there is something wrong with him pathologically. Marginalize him and get him off the front pages!
Lucy – today.
nasa.gov
NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation
“NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday
on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Over the next 12 years, Lucy will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Trojan asteroids,
making it the agency’s first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids. Lucy will investigate these “fossils” of planetary formation up close during its journey.
“Lucy embodies NASA’s enduring quest to push out into the cosmos for the sake of exploration and science,
to better understand the universe and our place within it,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “I can’t wait to see what mysteries the mission uncovers!”
About an hour after launch, Lucy separated from the second stage of the ULA Atlas V 401 rocket.
Its two massive solar arrays, each nearly 24 feet (7.3 meters) wide, successfully unfurled about 30 minutes later and began charging the spacecraft’s batteries to power its subsystems.
“Today’s launch marks a genuine full-circle moment for me as Lucy was the first mission I approved in 2017,
just a few months after joining NASA,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “A true mission of discovery, Lucy is rich with opportunity to learn more about these mysterious Trojan asteroids and better understand the formation and evolution of the early solar system.”
Lucy sent its first signal to Earth from its own antenna to NASA’s Deep Space Network at 6:40 a.m.
The spacecraft is now traveling at roughly 67,000 mph (108,000 kph) on a trajectory that will orbit the Sun and bring it back toward Earth in October 2022 for a gravity assist.”
For more information about NASA’s Lucy mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index
——Congrats and fired up! 12 years…godspeed.
Gaia ~ doing what Gaia does,
and what She has done since forever.. else we surely would not be here… what say?
Big hugs all around {{{💜TOD💜}}}
Star Shopping
Lil Peep
—love and protection to all our young people.
😆😆😆
The thug’s dumb base is the main problem here.
Livelyhood. What a fucking moran…..
Mine too. The contempt through hand flick.
Entitled twit.
These idiots will kill is all.
Yup. Every president gets the right to appoint 5 judges during his term(s) and after such terms, the judges get retired too. Nowhere in the world judges for appointed for life.
Too funny!
Here, all the specialty departments, which had been converted for covid care, have been restored to their original operations a few months back and covid care is now restricted their own wards. vax drive is still being strongly pushed by both central and state govts. Thank god, our rw’ers are somewhat sane.
Good to hear.
a brit rw’er pol stabbed by a lone guy is ‘terrorist act’ because he is poc.
a white dude in norway murdering six people with bow and arrow had ‘mental issues’.
fuck bbc, who are no better than murkan msm.
This made me smile!
❤️
Great idea.
I believe this is why it is so hard to protect our children…this culture of child marriages in America…check out the legal age for a child to get married in your state….
Very Few states set a threshold for a child to be married…and even in some of the states that do…there are exceptions that allow it…
Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition
The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html)
Manchin’s argument is nothing more than insulting krap b-s.
West Virginians are FOR the $3.5T plan. They want it.
WV doesn’t get the severe wild fires experienced by the west coast,. It’s not on the coast, so no sea level rise, little impact from hurricanes or floods. So Mister O & G is ignoring the global climate emergency.
Global = not particular to West Virginia.
West Virginia is ONE state among FIFTY.
Manchin is “Kingmaker” spokesman in Congress for Exxon, said their lobbyist on tape.
Manchin made $500,000 off of coal last year via his son’s business.
Make Manchin do full press conferences.
Manchin is owned by fossil fuel industries that could care less.
Those Exxon ads telling you they’re ‘climate friendly’…
In fact they could take the lead on Green energy. And start making up for their 50 years of lies and denial now destroying and dooming the planet. All the lives down the mines and children on the planet that Manchin doesn’t care about. The Manchin behind those glazed, shuttered eyes is a scheming (fill in the blank).
Don’t give me the “Oh but he’s a church-going Catholic” routine. My parents were devoted Catholics and the culture it represented looked out for poor people here and around the world. Instead Manchin is pushing COAL jobs on his constituents. My grandfather died of cancer and lung issues related to a life of coal mining, and his sons had various fallouts from it. They would gladly have taken job training and moved on to a cleaner world for themselves and their children. Given the chance, that is.
Given the chance.
—Will we march against Manchin or relinquish it all to fossil fuels in the end?
imo.
David Roberts, Volts:
“And coal is just a distant – I mean,
anybody who’s been tracking the numbers in the energy industry knows that coal is just a memory now.
The only negotiation is how fast it dies
and how well the communities is located and get compensated,
you know, sort of the mechanics of phasing it out.
But no one,
no one who follows energy markets these days thinks that coal has a long-term future.”
Coal is killing us.
We must stop pretending otherwise.
The dusty coal trains still go by at the bottom of our valley….heading for China.
They go through Missoula on their way to China.
Michelle Obama, Poor People’s Campaign
accept Freedom Awards from National Civil Rights Museum
Her important and remarkable 9-minute speech.
Here:
(https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2021/10/14/freedom-awards-2021-national-civil-rights-museum-michelle-obama-poor-peoples-campaign/8442677002/)
freedom = freedom from anger and despair.
Not a world in which only despots are free to do whatever they want.
That smile made my damn night!
as long as there are p t barnum defined suckers, such leaches will live and prosper.
same goes for the traitorous thug.
Adam Schiff
Tells Trump And His Cronies It’s A New World Now And Criminal Charges Are Coming
“1/6 Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that criminal prosecutions are faster than civil cases and warned Trump and his cronies that it is a new world now.”
Video:
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/10/17/adam-schiff-new-world.html)
—–“The rule of law is back”.
cute contest – tongue or toes?
No contest
All of the above
😹😹😹
effed up system.
Nancy’s doing what they all should be doing!
Nite nite TOD
🕊🕯💤🕯🕊
Sad news, y’all!
Such a loss! I followed his military career – and, of course, loved his endorsement of Barack Obama!
😔
LOVE it.
trumpturds gonna trumpturd.
Texas Attorney: GOP governor’s vaccine mandate ban is ‘anti-business’
“Harris County, TX Attorney Christian Menefee
tells Zerlina Maxwell that Gov. Abbott’s executive order banning vaccine mandates, including for private businesses, “strips away choice” from businesses trying to keep employees and customers safe:
“It’s bad business for Texas and it’s bad policy for Texas.”
Jelani Cobb:
“Why Republicans Are Still Recounting Votes ”
(https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/why-republicans-are-still-recounting-votes)
‘Toxic Culture’:
NFL Cheerleaders Demand Release Of Full Workplace Inquiry
Frmr Washington Football Team cheerleader and employee Melanie Coburn:
“These women have been texting me for the last 36 hours wondering if their nude bodies or photographs are circulating through the inboxes of the NFL. t’s triggered them. It’s reliving trauma that we’ve been living
for the past 15 months.”
—-Feeling of excruciating pain from Ms. Coburn was so strong.
—My best wishes to her, and to all the women involved.
Women have to fight the deadly lies that tell them they aren’t worth it. Plls don’t buy it.
President Biden’s Statement on the passing of General Colin Powell
Looks like the Halloween decorations are coming out.
New post.
President Obama’s remarks on the passing of General Powell
Thanks! I was waiting to see that!