Five years ago, the Paris Agreement went into effect. Paris provided an important framework in the fight against climate change, but it wasn’t enough. That’s why I’ll be speaking in Glasgow on Monday about the road ahead and what young people in particular can do to help. pic.twitter.com/E7P3X6jtny
Signing the Paris Agreement to fight climate change was one of my proudest moments in office. But it was always a foundation to build on. As world leaders gather for COP26, I shared some reflections on the road to Paris and the young activists who are pushing us further. pic.twitter.com/EebSdTQ6QS
His voice is the balm you need in your every day, it’s the joy one needs at end of a tough day, it’s that voice you want to hear every time as you start your day, hug your kids, family. That richness of voice that touches the core of your being. That lovely part of your soul. It’s peace. 💜💞
“You write that growth has meant emissions, and emissions have meant growth.
The climate crisis is a result of that history as is the wealth of nations.” (Chris Hayes)
David Wallace-Wells, Editor at large, New York Magazine:
Climate reparations:
“I almost think it’s a mistake to think of it in terms of spending money.
90% of the world now lives in places where clean energy is cheaper than dirty energy,
which means it’s not markets that are slowing us. It’s obstacles to markets that are slowing us.
And so if we really unleashed the logic of market power, in fact we’d be heading towards a faster transition.
Every economist in the world today will tell you would bring us more prosperity and a more just equitable prosperity as soon as a decade or so from now if we undertook it now.”
Climate Reparations
A trillion tons of carbon hangs in the air, put there by the world’s rich, an existential threat to its poor. Can we remove it?
(David Wallace-Wells)
I. What Is Owed
II. ‘You Cannot Adapt to Extinction’
III. The Radical Case for Removal
IV. The Geopolitics of Drowning
V. Engineering a Century
“It won’t solve the problem of fossil fuels.
We need to get rid of them to start with.
But once we’ve gotten rid of them, this will help us clean up what’s called the residual emissions,
the really dirty industrial stuff.
And maybe even on a century or century and a half time scale,
to allow us to undo some of the damage
that we’ve done to this point
in inventing this climate crisis out of nothing.”
“Climate change is running faster than we are. We need much more ambition and urgency. Finance is key.
Developed nations need to meet their pledge to mobilise USD 100 billion dollars a year
for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.”
(https://www.greenclimate.fund/about))
—–the 100 billion USD pledged by the wealthiest nations for climate adaptation and mitigation has not been met.
Wallace-Wells points out that 10 times more is possibly needed. This is a moral debt to poor nations that have done the least to engineer this crisis yet are suffering the most impacts.
Native America Calling: Catholic reconciliation in Canada?
“Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with an Indigenous delegation when he visits Canada in December.”
“His trip is billed as part “of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.”
It comes after the discovery of hundreds of potential unmarked grave sites on the grounds of former residential schools operated by the church. The schools housed mainly Indigenous children who were forced to attend.
Native America Calling will explore the significance of the visit and what it might accomplish.”
Native America Calling: The shame of the Braves
November 2, 2021
“After a three game stretch in Atlanta during Major League Baseball’s premiere event,
audiences worldwide will have witnessed multiple examples of the objectionable “tomahawk chop” and a chant borne from ill-informed Native stereotypes.
As Atlanta and Houston battle for the World Series title,
Native America Calling revisits the ongoing efforts by professional sports teams
to hang on to names and images that denigrate Native people and culture.”
Joe Manchin driving a Maserati to and from his "negotiations" over how best to kill the bill that will help women and minorities and save the planet from extinction while flacking for coal, oil and dude jobs is actually the perfect symbol for this era.
Third day after my knee surgery. I am able to walk around the house and help prepare a simple meal. Went to PT day after surgery and got 5 exercises. Have been doing them 3x a day. One day at a time.
Remarks by President Biden on the October Jobs Report
“Over five and a half million jobs. Unemployment down at record pace to 4.6 percent.
And before we passed the Rescue Plan, forecasters said it would take until the end of 2023 — to the end of 2023 to get to 4.6 unemployment rate.
Today, we’ve reached that rate two years before forecasters thought it was possible.
I would humbly suggest this is a significant improvement from when I took office and a sign that we’re on the right track.
This did not happen by accident or just because.
We laid the foundation for this recovery with my American Rescue Plan
that Congress passed at the beginning of my term. It put money in working families’ pockets. It gave families with kids a tax cut each month. It helped keep small businesses going in the dark days earlier this year. And it provided the resources needed to launch one of the fastest mass vaccination programs ever.”
(whitehouse.gov)
“Seventeen Nobel Prize winners in economics have said — spontaneously wrote to me, together, and said this will lower inflationary pressure on the economy when we pass my bills.
A new analysis from the Wall Street firm of Moody’s Analytics found that it will ease the financial burden of inflation for middle-class families…..
That’s because the Build Back Better framework lowers your bills for healthcare, childcare, prescription drugs, and preschool. And families get a tax cut.”
Press Briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
“President Biden’s economic plan is working.
And thanks to his Rescue Plan and our successful vaccine program, America continues to add jobs at a record place — pace: 620,000 a month on average and over 5.6 million jobs created since he took office. Americans are getting back to work.
Because of the success of that effort, our economy has the resilience we need to weather the challenges posed by this virus, more Americans are going back to work, and more Americans feel safe going back to work.
That’s why we added 531,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent —
the lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, and a place that the CBO projected, before the Rescue Plan was passed, that we wouldn’t reach until the fourth quarter of 2023.
Unemployment has decreased this year more than any other year in U.S. history.
And the number of Americans filing for unemployment each week has declined from nearly 900,000 when President Biden took office to under 270,000 this week.
Because of the decisive action the President took with the Rescue Plan and his efforts to fight the pandemic,
our economy has rebounded at a rate unsurpassed in modern history, far outstripping those of our peer countries. And because of that, businesses were able to stay open, schools were able to reopen, and Americans are able to get back to work.”
“On Monday, we hit 80 percent of adults with at least one shot and 70 percent of adults fully vaccinated. And we’re still vaccinating hundreds of thousands of Americans every day.
Last Tuesday, CDC’s decision made 28 million kids age 5 through 11 eligible for vaccination. This was a huge sigh of relief for parents and means 95 percent of Americans are now eligible for vaccination.”
(whitehouse.gov)
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (Reuters) – New Delhi residents woke up on Friday under a blanket of smog darkening the city, the most dangerous air pollution of the year after Diwali revellers defied – as usual – a fireworks ban during India’s annual Hindu festival of lights.
JUST IN: Speaker Pelosi just called out Republicans on the House Floor after they laughed when she correctly said that the Build Back Better Act adds $0 to the debt: "Did I hear a laugh over there? From those who added $2 trillion in tax cuts for the richest people in America?"
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 6, 2021
Democrats who voted against the infrastructure bill did not mess up the total win (since some Rs voted for it), but felt they made their point. I’m good with that. My take: Let’s keep looking forward.
If you want, repeat after me: The bill passed. Everything else is history (like who voted for it and who voted against, among Democrats). Let's look forward – not back! Congratulations, @SpeakerPelosi !!
Here’s a thought. If your Member of Congress voted for the Infrastructure Bill. Give them a call and say thank you! Maybe rewarding good behavior will work! (Congressional switchboard 202.224.3121)
“This Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and rails, expand access to clean drinking water, ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind. The legislation will help ease inflationary pressures and strengthen supply chains by making long overdue improvements for our nation’s ports, airports, rail, and roads. It will drive the creation of good-paying union jobs and grow the economy sustainably and equitably so that everyone gets ahead for decades to come. Combined with the President’s Build Back Framework,
it will add on average 1.5 million jobs per year for the next 10 years.”
Last week of trump’s office 886,000 Americans filed for unemployment.
This week 269,000 = down by 70%, almost normal levels.
Payrolls up by 531,000.
Hiring for August and September was adjusted UPWARDS by 235,000.
(Trump’s first 2 yrs – 5 million jobs)
President Biden first 10 months – 5.8 million jobs.
—–congrats to our President for leaving doom in the dust.
Antiviral Pills On The Horizon Could Be Key To Covid Containment
“Dr. Vin Gupta, critical care pulmonologist,
talks with Rachel Maddow about new antiviral pills from Merck and Pfizer that could make important strides toward preventing hospitalization and death of people who test positive for Covid.”
Strzok Calls Out Durham’s Russia Scandal Investigation
For Pushing Pro-Trump Narrative
“Former FBI counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok
talks with Rachel Maddow about Trump special counsel holdover John Durham’s investigation
of the Trump Russia investigation. Strzok tells Maddow, “I’m certainly concerned when I read these indictments, both Mr. Sussmann’s and Mr. Danchenko’s…They have subtle dog whistles to these kinds of pro-Trump conspiracy theories…The indictment makes a point to note that the FBI was unable to corroborate Steele’s reporting, but at the same time it neglects to mention that we weren’t able to disprove it either.”
Durham spins Trumpian tale with Russia scandal investigation indictments
“Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump’s special counsel holdover John Durham,
in his mission to demonize the investigation of Trump’s associations with Russia,
is using indictments to make vague allegations in support of Trump’s conspiracy theories and provide Trump supporters with material to smear investigators.”
“The Trump administration and Bill Barr in particular viewed the Russia investigation as itself a scandal. They assigned John Durham to go investigate and try to find crimes among people who were involved in the investigation”
Speaker Pelosi Statement
on President Biden’s Leadership Delivering Historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation
“The American people sent President Biden to the White House and Democratic Majorities to Congress to deliver results that make their lives better. Last night, by sending an historic and bipartisan infrastructure package to the President’s desk, that is exactly what we have done.
I commend the President for his visionary and tireless leadership in securing the passage of this once-in-a-century infrastructure investment on a strong bipartisan vote. This landmark legislation will create millions of good-paying American jobs and make a lasting difference in our communities: strengthening our roads and bridges, improving public transit, expanding broadband, ensuring clean drinking water for every child and more. While our crumbling infrastructure has long held us back, these monumental investments will ensure America can outcompete any nation on earth for decades to come.
This week, Democrats have taken a momentous step toward realizing our transformative agenda.
When the House returns, we will pass our Build Back Better Act to bring down the everyday costs that burden working parents – from health care to child care to paid leave to prescription drugs and more – while also securing one of the largest middle class tax cuts in history. Together, our bills will forge the greatest progress for families in a generation.”
The latest CDC #FluView report shows that flu activity remains low across the U.S., however, the number of flu viruses reported to CDC by public health labs has increased in recent weeks. Protect yourself and your family today with a #FluVaccine: https://t.co/s9XLYIzBXD. pic.twitter.com/9CoHoMQn4g
I’d like to highlight the link to this YouTube channel, and encourage everyone here to take some time, tune in, and have your heart center strengthened and lifted by some of the women scientists and pathfinders, women who are making a difference, bringing their field research into focus, offering practical solutions toward truly fixing many of the problems this world is facing… it will be the women, world over, who find our way to the future.. we do it for the children, for the plants and animals, for each other, for ourselves..
It’s long, but all the segments of the symposium are available on YouTube, so easy to stagger your viewing to suit your lifestyles..
Vice President Harris Visits NASA to See Vital Climate Science Work
“The urgency of Earth science and climate studies took the spotlight Friday as Vice President Kamala Harris visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The vice president received a firsthand look at how the nation’s space program studies climate change and provides crucial information to understand our planet’s changes and their impacts on our lives.”
““I truly believe space activity is climate action. Space activity is education. Space activity is also economic growth. It is also innovation and inspiration. And it is about our security and our strength,” the vice president said.
“When it comes to our space activity, there is limitless potential. … So, as we go forth from here, let us continue to seize the opportunity of space.”
There is one week left to apply for my spring 2022 internship! Applications are due Friday, November 15. Visit the link below for more information and to apply today! https://t.co/2oZIZBnrGApic.twitter.com/w6FqQPgfnB
Dems: This moment is a test. And the answer is to ORGANIZE. @WisDems have a massive push to contact 100k voters by 11/8—exactly 1 year from the midterms—& add 200 new monthly donors. With VA in the rearview, read & amplify my #1Year2Win thread, & chip in: https://t.co/EAnkCWBxRE
Trying to remember the last time there were three such solidly good-news headlines on the front page above the fold. Happy Saturday! pic.twitter.com/RILp2rGt6i
Big Bird has been helping kids vaccinate since the beginning, I'm sure everyone remembers their lessons from Sesame Street, especially the ones about Kindness and taking care of each other. pic.twitter.com/L84kTjRWbV
Good West Coast Sunday morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who remembers the day a year ago today that Joe Biden became the President-elect when the election was called AND we got the gift of hilarity that was Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 🤣🤣
A day I will always remember as a day of relief. President Joe Biden makes another historic milestone with the beginning of restoration of our crumbling infrastructure.
Wow. All the hokey disinformation carry-on about VA and NJ elections,
when it was expected that the other party win those governorships following a presidential election… going all the way back to HW Bush. And Democrats won in New Jersey for crying out loud!
Why not compliment President Biden on leaving Doom in the dust on the economy? And now passing the BID?
The beltway didn’t go after Trump all those years when he was infinitely useless, and KILLING us all.
Ted stepped in it by going after Big Bird. Looking forward to your tee-shirts, bumper stickers and other campaign collectibles! I hope you’ll donate the proceeds to a good cause.
I have tickets to go see the Portraits and JOJOTHECAT is going with me! 👏🏾👏🏾🌟💖💃🏾 https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/obama-portraits-tour
From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018, the museum’s official portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama have become iconic. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former First Lady have inspired unprecedented responses from the public.
This five-city tour will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, High Art Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from June 2021 through May 2022 and is expected to reach millions of people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to view these remarkable paintings. In addition to the artworks themselves, the LACMA presentation of The Obama Portraits Tour will feature teacher workshops, curatorial tours, and a richly illustrated book. This special presentation will enhance the conversations surrounding the power of portraiture and its potential to engage communities.
The Obama Diary 
Good Afternoon Everyone!
Thank you Dear Nerdy!
Wintley Phipps @ Colin Powell’s service today, singing “How Great Thou Art”! Found the clip on CSPAN:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4985281/user-clip-wintley-phipps-how-great-thou-art
His incredibly powerful voice is always so soul-stirring! Perfect choice to honor Secretary Powell.
Was lucky enough to hear it real time and will play it again! So wonderful.
He’s a strong singer. Love to hear him sing!!
His voice is the balm you need in your every day, it’s the joy one needs at end of a tough day, it’s that voice you want to hear every time as you start your day, hug your kids, family. That richness of voice that touches the core of your being. That lovely part of your soul. It’s peace. 💜💞
Promise, am not his agent, or otherwise connected! 😂 I just love beauty of all kinds. 💞💃🎉
Promise, am not his agent, or otherwise connected! 😂 I just love beauty of all kinds. 💞💃🎉
“You write that growth has meant emissions, and emissions have meant growth.
The climate crisis is a result of that history as is the wealth of nations.” (Chris Hayes)
David Wallace-Wells, Editor at large, New York Magazine:
Climate reparations:
“I almost think it’s a mistake to think of it in terms of spending money.
90% of the world now lives in places where clean energy is cheaper than dirty energy,
which means it’s not markets that are slowing us. It’s obstacles to markets that are slowing us.
And so if we really unleashed the logic of market power, in fact we’d be heading towards a faster transition.
Every economist in the world today will tell you would bring us more prosperity and a more just equitable prosperity as soon as a decade or so from now if we undertook it now.”
Climate Reparations
A trillion tons of carbon hangs in the air, put there by the world’s rich, an existential threat to its poor. Can we remove it?
(David Wallace-Wells)
I. What Is Owed
II. ‘You Cannot Adapt to Extinction’
III. The Radical Case for Removal
IV. The Geopolitics of Drowning
V. Engineering a Century
Don’t miss:
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/climate-change-reparations.html)
Wallace-Wells on decarbonizing:
“It won’t solve the problem of fossil fuels.
We need to get rid of them to start with.
But once we’ve gotten rid of them, this will help us clean up what’s called the residual emissions,
the really dirty industrial stuff.
And maybe even on a century or century and a half time scale,
to allow us to undo some of the damage
that we’ve done to this point
in inventing this climate crisis out of nothing.”
The Green Climate Fund
“Climate change is running faster than we are. We need much more ambition and urgency. Finance is key.
Developed nations need to meet their pledge to mobilise USD 100 billion dollars a year
for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.”
(https://www.greenclimate.fund/about))
—–the 100 billion USD pledged by the wealthiest nations for climate adaptation and mitigation has not been met.
Wallace-Wells points out that 10 times more is possibly needed. This is a moral debt to poor nations that have done the least to engineer this crisis yet are suffering the most impacts.
“The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming”
by David Wallace-Wells
Speaker Pelosi news conference coming up.
Native America Calling: Catholic reconciliation in Canada?
“Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with an Indigenous delegation when he visits Canada in December.”
“His trip is billed as part “of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.”
It comes after the discovery of hundreds of potential unmarked grave sites on the grounds of former residential schools operated by the church. The schools housed mainly Indigenous children who were forced to attend.
Native America Calling will explore the significance of the visit and what it might accomplish.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/11/04/native-america-calling-catholic-reconciliation-in-canada/)
Native America Calling: The shame of the Braves
November 2, 2021
“After a three game stretch in Atlanta during Major League Baseball’s premiere event,
audiences worldwide will have witnessed multiple examples of the objectionable “tomahawk chop” and a chant borne from ill-informed Native stereotypes.
As Atlanta and Houston battle for the World Series title,
Native America Calling revisits the ongoing efforts by professional sports teams
to hang on to names and images that denigrate Native people and culture.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/11/02/native-america-calling-the-shame-of-the-braves/)
THIS!!!!
Hello all, Joe Manchin 🤮🤮. Sums it up for me.
Third day after my knee surgery. I am able to walk around the house and help prepare a simple meal. Went to PT day after surgery and got 5 exercises. Have been doing them 3x a day. One day at a time.
Remarks by President Biden on the October Jobs Report
“Over five and a half million jobs. Unemployment down at record pace to 4.6 percent.
And before we passed the Rescue Plan, forecasters said it would take until the end of 2023 — to the end of 2023 to get to 4.6 unemployment rate.
Today, we’ve reached that rate two years before forecasters thought it was possible.
I would humbly suggest this is a significant improvement from when I took office and a sign that we’re on the right track.
This did not happen by accident or just because.
We laid the foundation for this recovery with my American Rescue Plan
that Congress passed at the beginning of my term. It put money in working families’ pockets. It gave families with kids a tax cut each month. It helped keep small businesses going in the dark days earlier this year. And it provided the resources needed to launch one of the fastest mass vaccination programs ever.”
(whitehouse.gov)
“Seventeen Nobel Prize winners in economics have said — spontaneously wrote to me, together, and said this will lower inflationary pressure on the economy when we pass my bills.
A new analysis from the Wall Street firm of Moody’s Analytics found that it will ease the financial burden of inflation for middle-class families…..
That’s because the Build Back Better framework lowers your bills for healthcare, childcare, prescription drugs, and preschool. And families get a tax cut.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/05/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-october-jobs-report/)
Press Briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
“President Biden’s economic plan is working.
And thanks to his Rescue Plan and our successful vaccine program, America continues to add jobs at a record place — pace: 620,000 a month on average and over 5.6 million jobs created since he took office. Americans are getting back to work.
Because of the success of that effort, our economy has the resilience we need to weather the challenges posed by this virus, more Americans are going back to work, and more Americans feel safe going back to work.
That’s why we added 531,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent —
the lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, and a place that the CBO projected, before the Rescue Plan was passed, that we wouldn’t reach until the fourth quarter of 2023.
Unemployment has decreased this year more than any other year in U.S. history.
And the number of Americans filing for unemployment each week has declined from nearly 900,000 when President Biden took office to under 270,000 this week.
Because of the decisive action the President took with the Rescue Plan and his efforts to fight the pandemic,
our economy has rebounded at a rate unsurpassed in modern history, far outstripping those of our peer countries. And because of that, businesses were able to stay open, schools were able to reopen, and Americans are able to get back to work.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/11/05/press-briefing-by-principal-deputy-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-4/)
Press Sec. Jean-Pierre:
“On Monday, we hit 80 percent of adults with at least one shot and 70 percent of adults fully vaccinated. And we’re still vaccinating hundreds of thousands of Americans every day.
Last Tuesday, CDC’s decision made 28 million kids age 5 through 11 eligible for vaccination. This was a huge sigh of relief for parents and means 95 percent of Americans are now eligible for vaccination.”
(whitehouse.gov)
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (Reuters) – New Delhi residents woke up on Friday under a blanket of smog darkening the city, the most dangerous air pollution of the year after Diwali revellers defied – as usual – a fireworks ban during India’s annual Hindu festival of lights.
New Delhi has the worst air quality of all world capitals, but even by its sorry standards Friday’s reading – the morning after the end of Diwali – was extra bad, the price for celebrating India’s biggest festival in the noisiest and smokiest way.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/partys-over-diwali-leaves-delhi-wheezing-dangerously-unhealthy-air-2021-11-05/
Go, Nancy Smash!
Democrats who voted against the infrastructure bill did not mess up the total win (since some Rs voted for it), but felt they made their point. I’m good with that. My take: Let’s keep looking forward.
Nancy! And Joe!! Ahem, President Biden.
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Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. I love waking up to good news!
Here’s a great suggestion
Nancy Smash 💖
Hmmmm?
Fact Sheet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
“This Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and rails, expand access to clean drinking water, ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind. The legislation will help ease inflationary pressures and strengthen supply chains by making long overdue improvements for our nation’s ports, airports, rail, and roads. It will drive the creation of good-paying union jobs and grow the economy sustainably and equitably so that everyone gets ahead for decades to come. Combined with the President’s Build Back Framework,
it will add on average 1.5 million jobs per year for the next 10 years.”
This historic legislation will:
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/06/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/)
wowsers, giant Congrats to all !!!
Economy under first ten months of Biden outperforming first two years of Trump
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/economy-under-first-ten-months-of-biden-outperforming-first-two-years-of-trump-125551173585)
Last week of trump’s office 886,000 Americans filed for unemployment.
This week 269,000 = down by 70%, almost normal levels.
Payrolls up by 531,000.
Hiring for August and September was adjusted UPWARDS by 235,000.
(Trump’s first 2 yrs – 5 million jobs)
President Biden first 10 months – 5.8 million jobs.
—–congrats to our President for leaving doom in the dust.
Job creation roars back in October as payrolls rise by 531,000
(https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/jobs-report-november-2021.html)
Antiviral Pills On The Horizon Could Be Key To Covid Containment
“Dr. Vin Gupta, critical care pulmonologist,
talks with Rachel Maddow about new antiviral pills from Merck and Pfizer that could make important strides toward preventing hospitalization and death of people who test positive for Covid.”
Strzok Calls Out Durham’s Russia Scandal Investigation
For Pushing Pro-Trump Narrative
“Former FBI counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok
talks with Rachel Maddow about Trump special counsel holdover John Durham’s investigation
of the Trump Russia investigation. Strzok tells Maddow, “I’m certainly concerned when I read these indictments, both Mr. Sussmann’s and Mr. Danchenko’s…They have subtle dog whistles to these kinds of pro-Trump conspiracy theories…The indictment makes a point to note that the FBI was unable to corroborate Steele’s reporting, but at the same time it neglects to mention that we weren’t able to disprove it either.”
Full interview here:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-2AcwgRzIY)
Peter Strzok: “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J Trump.”
Durham spins Trumpian tale with Russia scandal investigation indictments
“Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump’s special counsel holdover John Durham,
in his mission to demonize the investigation of Trump’s associations with Russia,
is using indictments to make vague allegations in support of Trump’s conspiracy theories and provide Trump supporters with material to smear investigators.”
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/durham-spins-trumpian-tale-with-russia-scandal-investigation-indictments-125448261601)
“The Trump administration and Bill Barr in particular viewed the Russia investigation as itself a scandal. They assigned John Durham to go investigate and try to find crimes among people who were involved in the investigation”
Speaker Pelosi Statement
on President Biden’s Leadership Delivering Historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation
“The American people sent President Biden to the White House and Democratic Majorities to Congress to deliver results that make their lives better. Last night, by sending an historic and bipartisan infrastructure package to the President’s desk, that is exactly what we have done.
I commend the President for his visionary and tireless leadership in securing the passage of this once-in-a-century infrastructure investment on a strong bipartisan vote. This landmark legislation will create millions of good-paying American jobs and make a lasting difference in our communities: strengthening our roads and bridges, improving public transit, expanding broadband, ensuring clean drinking water for every child and more. While our crumbling infrastructure has long held us back, these monumental investments will ensure America can outcompete any nation on earth for decades to come.
This week, Democrats have taken a momentous step toward realizing our transformative agenda.
When the House returns, we will pass our Build Back Better Act to bring down the everyday costs that burden working parents – from health care to child care to paid leave to prescription drugs and more – while also securing one of the largest middle class tax cuts in history. Together, our bills will forge the greatest progress for families in a generation.”
(speaker.gov)
Live now
Calling it in, almost done for this day..
I’d like to highlight the link to this YouTube channel, and encourage everyone here to take some time, tune in, and have your heart center strengthened and lifted by some of the women scientists and pathfinders, women who are making a difference, bringing their field research into focus, offering practical solutions toward truly fixing many of the problems this world is facing… it will be the women, world over, who find our way to the future.. we do it for the children, for the plants and animals, for each other, for ourselves..
It’s long, but all the segments of the symposium are available on YouTube, so easy to stagger your viewing to suit your lifestyles..
Just do it, okay?
Night night, clocks changing, again… sheesh
Vice President Harris Visits NASA to See Vital Climate Science Work
“The urgency of Earth science and climate studies took the spotlight Friday as Vice President Kamala Harris visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The vice president received a firsthand look at how the nation’s space program studies climate change and provides crucial information to understand our planet’s changes and their impacts on our lives.”
““I truly believe space activity is climate action. Space activity is education. Space activity is also economic growth. It is also innovation and inspiration. And it is about our security and our strength,” the vice president said.
“When it comes to our space activity, there is limitless potential. … So, as we go forth from here, let us continue to seize the opportunity of space.”
(https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/vice-president-harris-visits-nasa-to-see-vital-climate-science-work)
The Struggle Continues~~ as it must…
“The Glasgow man who designed the kilt for Barack Obama
makes a climate emergency tartan before COP26.”
(https://timbarsky.com/the-glasgow-man-who-designed-the-kilt-for-barack-obama-makes-a-climate-emergency-tartan-before-cop26/)
—imo man’s aff his heid and mad wi’ it.
Good West Coast Sunday morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Good morning to all my TOD family.
A day I will always remember as a day of relief. President Joe Biden makes another historic milestone with the beginning of restoration of our crumbling infrastructure.
Wow. All the hokey disinformation carry-on about VA and NJ elections,
when it was expected that the other party win those governorships following a presidential election… going all the way back to HW Bush. And Democrats won in New Jersey for crying out loud!
Truth:
“Biden Had The Best Election Night Of Any First Year President In 30 Years”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/04/rachel-maddow-biden-election-night.html)
Why not compliment President Biden on leaving Doom in the dust on the economy? And now passing the BID?
The beltway didn’t go after Trump all those years when he was infinitely useless, and KILLING us all.
“Legal Advocates Call For Merrick Garland To Resign For Not Prosecuting Trump
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/06/legal-advocates-call-for-merrick-garland-to-resign-for-not-prosecuting-trump.html)
—Democrats are burned out for lack of bringing Trump and his cronies to Justice.
—We deserve Justice. The evidence is there.
you know i am exhausted by these folks…i am so weary that DEMs always have to bear this kind criticism when they are in office…
yes our children need truth, rule of law, and healing over political and economic gain.
https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/11/recap-november-7-2021.html
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NOW…
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Right now
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxyDBmqzLJM
Beautiful 💖
Ted Cruz pissed off the wrong Bird this time😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
I have tickets to go see the Portraits and JOJOTHECAT is going with me! 👏🏾👏🏾🌟💖💃🏾
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/obama-portraits-tour
From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018, the museum’s official portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama have become iconic. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former First Lady have inspired unprecedented responses from the public.
This five-city tour will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, High Art Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from June 2021 through May 2022 and is expected to reach millions of people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to view these remarkable paintings. In addition to the artworks themselves, the LACMA presentation of The Obama Portraits Tour will feature teacher workshops, curatorial tours, and a richly illustrated book. This special presentation will enhance the conversations surrounding the power of portraiture and its potential to engage communities.
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