When you look at the history of big social movements, they’re usually started and sustained by young people who put in the work to make it happen. As we look to COP26, I’m inspired by the young people using their voices in the fight against climate change. https://t.co/IBdciqn8ml
Climate change isn’t a distant environmental issue—it’s already having an immediate impact on our lives, including huge national security implications as more communities come under stress.https://t.co/wLnJgynwCs
Young people have more at stake in the fight against climate change than anyone else. I had a chance to talk with some young people who are helping lead the fight, and could not be more impressed by their courage, creativity, and persistence. They give me hope. pic.twitter.com/muFbKl5WcF
“And then there’s Louisa Neubauer, an activist who leads Fridays for Future strikes in Germany.
During the global climate strikes in 2019, Louisa helped organize 270,000 marchers in Berlin, put pressure on German political parties to take climate change seriously. Climate change is frightening, she said.
So the question is, how can we turn this anxiety into something constructive?
That’s what these young leaders are already doing.
I’m really looking forward to sitting down and talking with some of them in a separate forum later today
because they’re not just working for their own countries. They are forming a movement across borders to make the older generation that got us into this mess see that we all have an obligation to dig ourselves out of it.
And if those older folks won’t listen, they need to get out of the way.”
A COMMUNITY
TOOLKIT FOR
ADDRESSING
HEALTH
MISINFORMATION
“If you’re wondering whether this toolkit is for you, let me assure you that the answer is yes.
It’s for all of us. Because health misinformation has reached nearly every corner of our society—and it poses an increasing danger to us and to our loved ones.
We all have the power to shape our information environment, but we must use that power together.
This resource is here to provide a set of tools for you to understand, identify, and stop misinformation, and help others do the same. Only then will we be able to work toward a better information environment—one that empowers us to build a healthier, kinder, and more connected world.”
Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials
Law enforcement has taken little action as backers of Donald Trump aim stark threats at election officials. Reuters tracked down nine of the harassers. Most were unrepentant.
Reuters Tracks Down ‘Untraceable’ Trump Supporters Who Threatened Election Officials
“Jason Szep (Reuters),
talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on threats made against election officials around the United States, and the ease with which he and his colleague were able to find and interview several of the people who made the threats, even after law enforcement authorities said the threats were untraceable.”
This response to our current POTUS looks like a “Thank you, Santa” note! I smiled!
Thank you Mr. President. We appreciate all that you are doing to bring our country back from the brink of disaster. What an undertaking it must be. Your hard work, devotion, and dedication does not go unnoticed.
Love the fact President Obama is more often back on the world stage! Love seeing him at these significant global events, where he adds so much to the discussions and way forward.
All jokes aside, this Judge is auditioning for the rising authoritarian movement. In 2018 he made it a condition of a woman who was convicted of shop lifting to announce she was a shoplifter every time she went into a store. He’s sick.
like there really is no good justification for Kyle Rittenhouse to be where he was, with the weaponry he had, and shooting four people. Literally none of that should have happened.
This Veterans Day, I want to share Tom Voutsos's story. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and has continued to live a life dedicated to public service. Through @LadderUpHousing, he’s helping hardworking folks buy their own home. https://t.co/wgWG9CBMf7
Today and every day, I could not be more grateful for the extraordinary service and commitment of our nation’s troops, veterans, and their families. I hope we all can find a way to give back to all those who have given us so much. #VeteransDaypic.twitter.com/vLPjkaPGBV
All three of my big brothers served in the military. I think of them every #VeteransDay, and I think about all the ways we as a country must honor the sacrifices and contributions of all our veterans and military families.
French President Emmanuel Macron greets @VP Kamala Harris at the Arc de Triomphe before a Parisian Armistice Day celebration. This very exchange was broadcast live nationally on French TV. 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸#VeteransDaypic.twitter.com/ctzkfHBfAf
— Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT! (@flywithkamala) November 11, 2021
VP Kamala Harris met King Felipe VI of Spain tonight at a dinner hosted by Pres Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace. The King is visibly smiling behind his mask. #Diplomacy 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/GolO7CKoyK
— Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT! (@flywithkamala) November 12, 2021
VP Harris in Paris: “I believe this trip also reaffirms the commitment of the United States to working with our partners worldwide.” pic.twitter.com/8xZmnVMZxc
The silence of the national press on the VP Kamala Harris’ successful trip is not new or unexpected….it is how they treated President Obama on his trips abroad…if it were not for the diary we would not have seen any of it…
Proud to support @RepNikema’s bill to rename Atlanta's main post office after John Lewis, who dedicated his life to confronting racism and injustice wherever he saw it.
Along with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, this is one of the ways we continue to honor his life and legacy.
Once we learn these facts and Truths…what do we do…What does Justice look like…what does Equity look like…and how do we prevent this from happening again…i feel on occasions that something like this is brewing again…
i believe that the press ignores the VP’s trip and tries to demonize Biden…they are terrified of the possibility that a Blk woman of color may become President….
last year there was a world wide reckoning of white supremacy and systemic racism….we were able to stop the march of Fascism in our country with the election Biden/Harris…keeping the HOUSE and gaining control of the Senate…..however the backlash has been huge…but not unexpected….while the cult party of the GOP remains focused on regaining power at the expense of democracy….the Democrats are not united…which is not unusual….a party as unwieldy as ours has trouble deciding on how to move forward and as always there are those who rather fail if they cannot get what they want…
how strong would we be if we had passed voting rights…if we had passed the George Floyd justice in policing bill…the infrastructure bill and BBB bill…
Here in PA…we must send a DEM to the Senate and to the Gov’s seat…i will be focused on that goal..
This thread right here! Reminiscent of PBO’s international trips; we had to go to the foreign press for accurate reporting!
Because of this trash inaccurate reporting about VP’s trip to France, I have decided to show you what real reporters and dignitaries are saying. This is a small sampling & shows @politico is once again full of BS.
Never forget powerful words from Vice President Kamala Harris at @ParisPeaceForum…that when the world joins together “there is no challenge we can’t take on.” pic.twitter.com/wSQzk2KxuF
“In 2013 Melissa Bumstead’s four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. While at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, she noticed there were many other families
that had children with cancer who lived extremely close to her in California’s San Fernando valley.
New documentary ‘In the Dark of the Valley,’ details Ms. Bumstead’s journey of learning that those families all live directly downhill from a nuclear research lab. Melissa Bumstead speaks to Joy Reid.
‘In the Dark of the Valley’ on Sunday 10 pm ET, MSNBC.
Email from President Obama: “What our veterans teach us”
This Veterans Day, President Obama sent a message to the Obama Foundation email list lifting up the service and sacrifice of our veterans, and the thousands of people who are doing their part to make positive change in their communities.
Trump Fired His Defense Secretary
For Opposing The Use Of The Military Against Americans
‘A newly public memo from the Trump administration shows that one of the reasons why Defense Sec. Mark Esper was fired was because he opposed using the military against US citizens.”
Army Captain Fights For Recognition Of Wounded Troops Denied By Trump
“Captain Geoffrey Hansen, former Army task force commander, one of the leaders of Task Force Scarecrow,
the Army unit that was attacked at Al Asad Airbase by Iranian missiles, talks with Rachel Maddow about the effort
to get more cases of soldiers wounded in that attack reviewed for Purple Heart commendations.”
Maddow: “And we now know that was the largest ballistic missile attack ever launched against U.S. troops,
13 missiles, each with an explosive payload of between a thousand and 2,000 pounds. These are missiles the size of trucks. We have the footage of the missiles hitting Al Asad base, we have footage of the aftermath at Al Asad.”
—-Trump lied through his teeth about it, calling the injuries of seriously wounded soldiers:
“Headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say — and I can report, it is not very serious.”
—-Remember when Trump called military personnel “Suckers and losers” and refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018.
Letter From Former High-Ranking National Security Officials To Congress:
Election Subversion Poses National Security Threat
“Dear Members of Congress,
We are former senior national security officials who have served Democrats, Republicans, or administrations
of both parties. We write to express our alarm at ongoing efforts to destabilize and subvert our elections, both through active disinformation campaigns and the related efforts to inject partisan interference into our professionally administered election process. We believe these efforts are profoundly damaging to our national security, including by making our elections more vulnerable to foreign interference and possible manipulation.
We call on Congress to confront these threats and safeguard our democratic process as we look ahead to the 2022 elections and beyond.
In the months following the 2020 election, we have seen an unprecedented, coordinated effort
to cast doubt on the U.S. election system. Disinformation and intimidation campaigns have targeted elected officials who oversee elections, nonpartisan civil servants who administer them, and companies that manufacture election equipment. And these disinformation campaigns have in turn fueled efforts to undertake hyper-partisan reviews of 2020 election results, like the one that recently concluded in Arizona,weakening both the security and integrity of elections. The rampant spread of election disinformation and the efforts to undermine confidence in the democratic process jeopardize our national security in a number of dangerous ways.”
“When Trump took office, I was clear-eyed about what it meant for democracy and the rule of law.
I was prepared for his vulgar authoritarianism. I was not surprised by his clownish demands of obsequiousness from his staff. I assumed Mitch McConnell would see Trump as little more than a useful idiot in his effort to pack the federal courts. And I knew that Trump had no respect for democratic norms or rules.
Trump ended up being the worst president in the history of our country.
He ridiculed the exceptionalism of American democracy, and he belittled our country and its institutions.
He celebrated neo-Nazis and hate groups and politicized the Department of Justice. He appointed corrupt cronies, attempted to interfere in criminal prosecutions and investigations and tried to overturn an election he lost.
As his final act in office, he incited an insurrection in the nation’s Capitol to overturn a free and fair election.
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election defeat and the launch of the Big Lie.
But today marks the five-year anniversary of how the national nightmare began.
The Big Lie was born in the aftermath of the 2020 election, but it was conceived on Election Day in 2016.
Without the 2016 election,
there is no Big Lie,
no violent insurrection,
no unraveling of democracy.”
A…slow…rolling…insurgency.
imo feels like looking through the window as armed trumpy guys burglarize the store.
Rittenhouse, clutching at straws, said he thinks AR-15s are “cool”.
Is why military style weapons and high-capacity magazines must be BANNED !!
Do we want the “patriots” to take to the streets?
While the neo-fascists backed by endless big$$ break every law in the book to seize power in perpetuity.
June 9 2021:
Missouri governor: Pardon of 4-decade inmate not a priority
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says addressing the clemency petition for Kevin Strickland isn’t a “priority,” even though prosecutors say Strickland didn’t commit the triple murder that put him behind bars more than four decades ago
Mr. Strickland has been in jail for 41 years.
Forty-one years!!!
One witness has confessed to the murders.
Prosecutors say he didn’t do it and they have exculpatory evidence.
Parson and his AG fighting the release of Kevin Strickland……looks like ville gross racism.
Chris Hayes Podcast with Jay Caspian Kang | Why Is This Happening? – Ep 187
“The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigration
to the United States. And while not necessarily appreciated at the time, it inaugurated a sea change in American society, setting the nation on the course towards multicultural democracy. Asian Americans now represent the fastest growing demographic group in the country, and yet the category itself feels insufficient for the sheer scope of experiences, backgrounds and cultures it encompasses. What exactly does it mean to be Asian American at this moment? What does it mean for an America whose central axis of political conflict seems to hover over the color line? New York Times opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang probes these questions in his new book,
“The Loneliest Americans.”
Jay Kang: The podcaster and son of Korean immigrants joins to talk about assimilation amidst a wave of anti-Asian violence, increasing wealth gaps, limited representation and the need for more solidarity in pursuit of upward mobility.”
COVID-19 in Indian Country
The Indian Health Service has begun rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to youth between the ages of 5 and 11 now that federal approval has been secured.
Indian Health Service (Department of Health and Human Services)
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus data, showing 277,984 COVID-19 cases through November 9, 2021.
More Covid data: (https://www.indianz.com/covid19/)
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by watching Indigenous cinema.
“The National Museum of the American Indian brings its annual Native Cinema Showcase to online audiences November 12–18. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and the Arctic.
The program includes a total of 47 films (seven features and 40 shorts) representing 39 Native nations in 13 countries: United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and the Solomon Islands.
Filmmaker panels, all 40 shorts and three of the feature films, What Happened to the Bees? (¿Qué les pasó a las abejas?), Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective, and Rez Metal, will be available for online streaming worldwide. Audiences in the United States also have access to Waikiki, Beans, The Song of the Butterflies (El Canto de las Mariposas), and Run Woman Run.”
FULL SCHEDULE: nmai.brand.live/c/native-cinema-showcase
Anime animosity: Critics demand Gosar be investigated for violent tweet
By Ulysse Bex
Cronkite News
“WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott,
refused to back down Tuesday from his weekend tweet of a violent cartoon that appeared to show him and other House conservatives attacking President Joe Biden and killing a liberal House Democrat.
The 90-second video was flagged by Twitter for violating its rules against “hateful content” and it sparked calls from House Democratic leaders and others for an investigation of Gosar and what one called his “sick behavior.”
Gosar tweeted a response Tuesday telling critics, “It’s a cartoon. Relax.””
“The documentary chronicles three years in the life of a young Native American woman in a thrilling and intimate tale of extreme bareback horse racing, young love, and hope when all seems lost.”
Native America Calling:
Triumph, heartbreak and bareback horse relay racing
The documentary film, “Pure Grit”
follows a young champion as she competes in the exhilarating and dangerous sport of horse relay racing.
“It’s more than a movie about competition, With visuals of both breakneck action and quiet, kitchen table confessions, it delves into the personal successes and setbacks of rider Sharmaine Weed and her family on the Wind River Reservation.”
"Self-surrender" is the rich white person version of having your apartment door knocked in and your apartment riddled with random gunfire from which you will probably not survive. https://t.co/BGZTcpOidp
BREAKING: Defense Department contractor, Jeremy K. Baouche, 24, who has secret security clearance, was arrested Wednesday, charged in connection with Jan. 6 used his work computer to search “Capitol building layout, guns, rifle scopes, lasers.”
Just sharing some music from Mozambique, sent by my friends in MOZ. Enjoy, make up your own lyrics if you don’t understand the originals. I do it all the time. My Portuguese is so lacking. I can actually understand Shangani or Zullven to those when it’s first language! Imagine that! 😇
New documents show Trump Admin silenced CDC at start of pandemic, tried to alter expert scientific reports, and then tried to delete evidence they were doing so.
We were the most prepared nation in the world but now more than 750,000 Americans have died. https://t.co/6OOMMy78Wn
Three snow leopards died from COVID at a children’s zoo in Nebraska this week. Ranney, Everest, and Makalu of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo caught the virus in October
“This loss is truly heartbreaking, and we are all grieving together,” the zoo wrote Fridayhttps://t.co/Kj51dZ25e4
Where Are the Snow Leopards?
Scientists publish results from massive snow leopard survey in Mongolia
“The Altai Mountain range and Eastern Soyon Mountain ranges were identified as strongholds of snow leopard populations, suggesting these habitats must be protected at all costs.
It is believed there are only between 3,500-7,000 wild snow leopards in the world dispersed across 12 countries. Mongolia is home to the world’s second-largest snow leopard population after China.
However, reliable snow leopard estimates are difficult to come by and most estimates are, at best, guesstimates. In 2017, the Bishkek Declaration endorsed by the governments of 12 snow leopard range countries expressed serious concerns about the continuing gaps in knowledge about snow leopard population and distribution. ”
“The data presented here on snow leopard signs were collected over a period of five months by 12 teams represented by over 210 field personnel. The teams traversed 19,923 km of transects, of which 6,794 km (roughly the distance from the capital to the western-most border of Genghis Khan’s empire) were covered on foot.”
“Long before Borge Ousland and Mike Horn, Knud Rasmussen was the undisputed king of the long-haul arctic expedition.
This year marks the centennial of his greatest achievement, the Fifth Thule expedition.
Rasmussen seemed destined for arctic travel.
Born in 1879, his father was Danish, his mother part-Inuit.
He was raised in Greenland and taught Kalaallisut, the local Eskimo–Aleut language, as his primary tongue. These early years exposed him to Inuit culture, traditional hunting methods, and a host of polar survival skills.
His first true expedition, the 1902 Danish Literary Expedition, examined Inuit folklore in Greenland’s northern reaches. He published The People of the Polar North on his return. The expedition, and subsequent publication, laid out a framework for the next 20 years of his life. Rasmussen devoted himself to scientific and anthropological expeditions in the Arctic”
“Give me winter, give me dogs,” he once said. “You can keep the rest.”
“Rasmussen, Qaavigarsuaq, and Arnarulunnguaq covered more than 30,000km of inhospitable terrain,
much of it unmapped. This longest-ever sled journey took more than three years. Along the way, they encountered many Inuit communities and amassed a collection of more than “20,000 specimens, of which 15,000 are ethnographical and archaeological.”
“Rasmussen avoided the pitfalls of many a European explorer. He did not presume to know all the answers. Rather, he approached the Inuit as equals, eager to learn all he could of their cultural heritage and history. One hundred years later, his fifth expedition remains an iconic moment in polar exploration.”
“Across Arctic America”
book by Knud Rasmussun (1927)
Reviewer wrote:
“Knud Rasmussen was a native Greenlander who was half Inuit and half Danish.
He was the first person to travel the Northwest Passage by dog-sled, around 1922, as re-told in this readable and enjoyable account first published in 1927.
Known as the “Fifth Thule Expedition”,
it was designed to be an ethnographic expedition to answer “that great question the origins of the Eskimo race”. A native speaker of Inuit, Rasmussen’s insights into the religion and inner-life, voice and spirit of the Inuit remains a classic of polar travel literature and ethnography. The Inuit language is difficult to translate and Rasmussen’s unique position of straddling both cultures proves indispensable.
Rasmussen traveled with two Inuit who had never before left Greenland.
On the return trip home by plane,
the group stopped in New York City and were awed by what they saw.
One said while looking over the city skyline from a rooftop:
“I see things more than my mind can grasp; and the only way to save myself from madness is to suppose that we have all died, and that this is part of another life.”
“The Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24.
The Danish Ethnographical and Geographical Expedition from Greenland to the Pacific”
journal 1926,
by Knud Rasmussen
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/1783138)
—-Just started reading “White Eskimo. Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless journey into the Heart of the Arctic’
by Stephen R Bown. wow.
Above the law? So how afraid are we?
What happened about ending global oil subsidies?
imo transnational Exxon and Big Oil purposely melted the Arctic for their own purposes.
After 50 years of lying to us about what their scientists graphically demonstrated behind closed doors,
how the hell do they still walk free while the future of our species and all life on Earth is in peril? What would Knud Rasmussen have said to them 100 years ago?
The lame question "What is your reaction to Trump's response on 'Hang Pence'?" is insufficient. How can you remain in a party in which calls to violence are acceptable? Why should Americans trust you with power. DO. BETTER. MEDIA.
Protected by federal marshals, a sweet little girl – Ruby Bridges – defied racial hatred this day in 1960, when she became the first black girl to attend what had been an all-white elementary school in the American south (more) pic.twitter.com/I3tU3xYjoD
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) November 14, 2021
Young people like @JackHarries and our @ObamaFoundation leaders are using their platforms to pressure the world on climate change. As we move forward with the Glasgow pact, we must listen and follow through on our commitments to protect our planet and secure a better future. pic.twitter.com/rNS08lWEuK
The sort of people who say this in the United States are the sort of people who are literally protesting wearing a piece of fucking cloth on their face https://t.co/ZmCzuNLZCE
The Obama Diary 
thanks NW, hi.
President Obama speaks at COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland
President Obama:
“And then there’s Louisa Neubauer, an activist who leads Fridays for Future strikes in Germany.
During the global climate strikes in 2019, Louisa helped organize 270,000 marchers in Berlin, put pressure on German political parties to take climate change seriously. Climate change is frightening, she said.
So the question is, how can we turn this anxiety into something constructive?
That’s what these young leaders are already doing.
I’m really looking forward to sitting down and talking with some of them in a separate forum later today
because they’re not just working for their own countries. They are forming a movement across borders to make the older generation that got us into this mess see that we all have an obligation to dig ourselves out of it.
And if those older folks won’t listen, they need to get out of the way.”
(rev.com)
Mick Jagger in the ATL
So cool!
Happy Birthday US Marine Corps!
Semper fi!
By Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General:
A COMMUNITY
TOOLKIT FOR
ADDRESSING
HEALTH
MISINFORMATION
“If you’re wondering whether this toolkit is for you, let me assure you that the answer is yes.
It’s for all of us. Because health misinformation has reached nearly every corner of our society—and it poses an increasing danger to us and to our loved ones.
We all have the power to shape our information environment, but we must use that power together.
This resource is here to provide a set of tools for you to understand, identify, and stop misinformation, and help others do the same. Only then will we be able to work toward a better information environment—one that empowers us to build a healthier, kinder, and more connected world.”
(https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/health-misinformation-toolkit-english.pdf)
—just wow.
This is excellent, thank you BRP!
Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials
Law enforcement has taken little action as backers of Donald Trump aim stark threats at election officials. Reuters tracked down nine of the harassers. Most were unrepentant.
(https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-threats/)
(Linda So, Jason Szep)
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9NM8qfO20A)
Reuters Tracks Down ‘Untraceable’ Trump Supporters Who Threatened Election Officials
“Jason Szep (Reuters),
talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on threats made against election officials around the United States, and the ease with which he and his colleague were able to find and interview several of the people who made the threats, even after law enforcement authorities said the threats were untraceable.”
Unrepentant because they face zero consequences for their threats. Good on Reuters for doing what law enforcement refused to do.
This response to our current POTUS looks like a “Thank you, Santa” note! I smiled!
Love the fact President Obama is more often back on the world stage! Love seeing him at these significant global events, where he adds so much to the discussions and way forward.
Me too, J’OB 💖
Prince Harry says he “warned” Twitter CEO “platform was allowing a coup to be staged” day before January 6 Capitol attack
Britain’s Prince Harry said on Tuesday that he “warned” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in an email exchange on January 5 “that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged,” a day before rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. … https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-harry-warned-jack-dorsey-twitter-allowing-coup-january-6-attack/
Wow! The Twitter CEO is as useless as Zuckerberg.
Meghan. DAYUM. Harry is Harry. Nice bloke. But MEGHAN.
Oh sorry. A piggish outburst.
They both are gracious and genuine people. 💖🌟🌟
https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/11/how-heroes-die-veterans-day-2021.html?m=1
🕊🕯🙏🏼🕯🕊
May we
bring peace to each other, bless and keep our Veterans, and all who serve and lift us up.
The first soft snow;
leaves of the awed
jonquil
bow low
(basho)
Our MVP in France…
The silence of the national press on the VP Kamala Harris’ successful trip is not new or unexpected….it is how they treated President Obama on his trips abroad…if it were not for the diary we would not have seen any of it…
Once we learn these facts and Truths…what do we do…What does Justice look like…what does Equity look like…and how do we prevent this from happening again…i feel on occasions that something like this is brewing again…
i believe that the press ignores the VP’s trip and tries to demonize Biden…they are terrified of the possibility that a Blk woman of color may become President….
last year there was a world wide reckoning of white supremacy and systemic racism….we were able to stop the march of Fascism in our country with the election Biden/Harris…keeping the HOUSE and gaining control of the Senate…..however the backlash has been huge…but not unexpected….while the cult party of the GOP remains focused on regaining power at the expense of democracy….the Democrats are not united…which is not unusual….a party as unwieldy as ours has trouble deciding on how to move forward and as always there are those who rather fail if they cannot get what they want…
how strong would we be if we had passed voting rights…if we had passed the George Floyd justice in policing bill…the infrastructure bill and BBB bill…
Here in PA…we must send a DEM to the Senate and to the Gov’s seat…i will be focused on that goal..
This thread right here! Reminiscent of PBO’s international trips; we had to go to the foreign press for accurate reporting!
Grrrrr. So true. Every damn day.
FACT SHEET:
How the Build Back Better Act Will Deliver Critical Investments in American Veterans and their Families
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/11/fact-sheet-how-the-build-back-better-act-will-deliver-critical-investments-in-american-veterans-and-their-families/)
FACT SHEET:
Biden Administration Announces Actions to Address the Health Effects of Military Exposures
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/11/fact-sheet-biden-administration-announces-actions-to-address-the-health-effects-of-military-exposures/)
“In 2013 Melissa Bumstead’s four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. While at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, she noticed there were many other families
that had children with cancer who lived extremely close to her in California’s San Fernando valley.
New documentary ‘In the Dark of the Valley,’ details Ms. Bumstead’s journey of learning that those families all live directly downhill from a nuclear research lab. Melissa Bumstead speaks to Joy Reid.
‘In the Dark of the Valley’ on Sunday 10 pm ET, MSNBC.
Email from President Obama: “What our veterans teach us”
This Veterans Day, President Obama sent a message to the Obama Foundation email list lifting up the service and sacrifice of our veterans, and the thousands of people who are doing their part to make positive change in their communities.
Here: (https://www.obama.org/updates/email-president-obama-veterans/)
Trump Fired His Defense Secretary
For Opposing The Use Of The Military Against Americans
‘A newly public memo from the Trump administration shows that one of the reasons why Defense Sec. Mark Esper was fired was because he opposed using the military against US citizens.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/10/trump-defense-secretary-military-protesters.html
Army Captain Fights For Recognition Of Wounded Troops Denied By Trump
“Captain Geoffrey Hansen, former Army task force commander, one of the leaders of Task Force Scarecrow,
the Army unit that was attacked at Al Asad Airbase by Iranian missiles, talks with Rachel Maddow about the effort
to get more cases of soldiers wounded in that attack reviewed for Purple Heart commendations.”
Maddow: “And we now know that was the largest ballistic missile attack ever launched against U.S. troops,
13 missiles, each with an explosive payload of between a thousand and 2,000 pounds. These are missiles the size of trucks. We have the footage of the missiles hitting Al Asad base, we have footage of the aftermath at Al Asad.”
—-Trump lied through his teeth about it, calling the injuries of seriously wounded soldiers:
“Headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say — and I can report, it is not very serious.”
—-Remember when Trump called military personnel “Suckers and losers” and refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018.
Letter From Former High-Ranking National Security Officials To Congress:
Election Subversion Poses National Security Threat
“Dear Members of Congress,
We are former senior national security officials who have served Democrats, Republicans, or administrations
of both parties. We write to express our alarm at ongoing efforts to destabilize and subvert our elections, both through active disinformation campaigns and the related efforts to inject partisan interference into our professionally administered election process. We believe these efforts are profoundly damaging to our national security, including by making our elections more vulnerable to foreign interference and possible manipulation.
We call on Congress to confront these threats and safeguard our democratic process as we look ahead to the 2022 elections and beyond.
In the months following the 2020 election, we have seen an unprecedented, coordinated effort
to cast doubt on the U.S. election system. Disinformation and intimidation campaigns have targeted elected officials who oversee elections, nonpartisan civil servants who administer them, and companies that manufacture election equipment. And these disinformation campaigns have in turn fueled efforts to undertake hyper-partisan reviews of 2020 election results, like the one that recently concluded in Arizona,weakening both the security and integrity of elections. The rampant spread of election disinformation and the efforts to undermine confidence in the democratic process jeopardize our national security in a number of dangerous ways.”
FULL: (https://medium.com/@FormerU.S.NatSecOfficials/letter-from-former-high-ranking-national-security-officials-to-congress-election-subversion-poses-69a269962ac)
Democracy Docket: Five Years Later
By Marc Elias
“When Trump took office, I was clear-eyed about what it meant for democracy and the rule of law.
I was prepared for his vulgar authoritarianism. I was not surprised by his clownish demands of obsequiousness from his staff. I assumed Mitch McConnell would see Trump as little more than a useful idiot in his effort to pack the federal courts. And I knew that Trump had no respect for democratic norms or rules.
Trump ended up being the worst president in the history of our country.
He ridiculed the exceptionalism of American democracy, and he belittled our country and its institutions.
He celebrated neo-Nazis and hate groups and politicized the Department of Justice. He appointed corrupt cronies, attempted to interfere in criminal prosecutions and investigations and tried to overturn an election he lost.
As his final act in office, he incited an insurrection in the nation’s Capitol to overturn a free and fair election.
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election defeat and the launch of the Big Lie.
But today marks the five-year anniversary of how the national nightmare began.
The Big Lie was born in the aftermath of the 2020 election, but it was conceived on Election Day in 2016.
Without the 2016 election,
there is no Big Lie,
no violent insurrection,
no unraveling of democracy.”
(https://www.democracydocket.com/news/five-years-later/)
United States Department of Justice:
Ten Months Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol
Progress report: (https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/ten-months-jan-6-attack-capitol)
A…slow…rolling…insurgency.
imo feels like looking through the window as armed trumpy guys burglarize the store.
Rittenhouse, clutching at straws, said he thinks AR-15s are “cool”.
Is why military style weapons and high-capacity magazines must be BANNED !!
Do we want the “patriots” to take to the streets?
While the neo-fascists backed by endless big$$ break every law in the book to seize power in perpetuity.
Is that all?
LIVE NOW:
She’s back after her COVID diagnosis? Great!
Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki
on President Biden’s Virtual Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/12/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-president-bidens-virtual-meeting-with-president-xi-jinping-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/)
RELEASE KEVIN STRICKLAND
June 9 2021:
Missouri governor: Pardon of 4-decade inmate not a priority
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says addressing the clemency petition for Kevin Strickland isn’t a “priority,” even though prosecutors say Strickland didn’t commit the triple murder that put him behind bars more than four decades ago
(https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-governor-pardon-decade-inmate-priority-78174382)
Mr. Strickland has been in jail for 41 years.
Forty-one years!!!
One witness has confessed to the murders.
Prosecutors say he didn’t do it and they have exculpatory evidence.
Parson and his AG fighting the release of Kevin Strickland……looks like ville gross racism.
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_45Rod2V6A)
Chris Hayes Podcast with Jay Caspian Kang | Why Is This Happening? – Ep 187
“The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigration
to the United States. And while not necessarily appreciated at the time, it inaugurated a sea change in American society, setting the nation on the course towards multicultural democracy. Asian Americans now represent the fastest growing demographic group in the country, and yet the category itself feels insufficient for the sheer scope of experiences, backgrounds and cultures it encompasses. What exactly does it mean to be Asian American at this moment? What does it mean for an America whose central axis of political conflict seems to hover over the color line? New York Times opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang probes these questions in his new book,
“The Loneliest Americans.”
Jay Kang: The podcaster and son of Korean immigrants joins to talk about assimilation amidst a wave of anti-Asian violence, increasing wealth gaps, limited representation and the need for more solidarity in pursuit of upward mobility.”
COVID-19 in Indian Country
The Indian Health Service has begun rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to youth between the ages of 5 and 11 now that federal approval has been secured.
Indian Health Service (Department of Health and Human Services)
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus data, showing 277,984 COVID-19 cases through November 9, 2021.
More Covid data: (https://www.indianz.com/covid19/)
2021 Native Cinema Showcase
November 12 – 18
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by watching Indigenous cinema.
“The National Museum of the American Indian brings its annual Native Cinema Showcase to online audiences November 12–18. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and the Arctic.
The program includes a total of 47 films (seven features and 40 shorts) representing 39 Native nations in 13 countries: United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and the Solomon Islands.
Filmmaker panels, all 40 shorts and three of the feature films, What Happened to the Bees? (¿Qué les pasó a las abejas?), Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective, and Rez Metal, will be available for online streaming worldwide. Audiences in the United States also have access to Waikiki, Beans, The Song of the Butterflies (El Canto de las Mariposas), and Run Woman Run.”
FULL SCHEDULE: nmai.brand.live/c/native-cinema-showcase
Anime animosity: Critics demand Gosar be investigated for violent tweet
By Ulysse Bex
Cronkite News
“WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott,
refused to back down Tuesday from his weekend tweet of a violent cartoon that appeared to show him and other House conservatives attacking President Joe Biden and killing a liberal House Democrat.
The 90-second video was flagged by Twitter for violating its rules against “hateful content” and it sparked calls from House Democratic leaders and others for an investigation of Gosar and what one called his “sick behavior.”
Gosar tweeted a response Tuesday telling critics, “It’s a cartoon. Relax.””
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/11/12/cronkite-news-republican-lawmaker-under-fire-for-violent-tweet/)
Exclusive Pure Grit Clip
“The documentary chronicles three years in the life of a young Native American woman in a thrilling and intimate tale of extreme bareback horse racing, young love, and hope when all seems lost.”
Native America Calling:
Triumph, heartbreak and bareback horse relay racing
The documentary film, “Pure Grit”
follows a young champion as she competes in the exhilarating and dangerous sport of horse relay racing.
“It’s more than a movie about competition, With visuals of both breakneck action and quiet, kitchen table confessions, it delves into the personal successes and setbacks of rider Sharmaine Weed and her family on the Wind River Reservation.”
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/11/12/native-america-calling-triumph-heartbreak-and-bareback-horse-relay-racing/)
That looks wonderful!
Happy Friday everyone, again, again!!
Nanquan’s Nothing Special
Capping Verse:
Rotating the heavens,
revolving the sun and moon.
Each and every action
contains the universe.
THIS!!!!
Good Saturday Morning, Family! Have great day! 😁
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Just sharing some music from Mozambique, sent by my friends in MOZ. Enjoy, make up your own lyrics if you don’t understand the originals. I do it all the time. My Portuguese is so lacking. I can actually understand Shangani or Zullven to those when it’s first language! Imagine that! 😇
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thx Pkayden.
Pls can we go big on this evidence = national headlines = no further cover up of Trump’s open crimes.
Bring this sick criminal to justice.
Yes, Democrats should be shouting this from the hilltops. Every day we need to hammer home just how dangerous and unhinged Trump and his enablers are
Where Are the Snow Leopards?
Scientists publish results from massive snow leopard survey in Mongolia
“The Altai Mountain range and Eastern Soyon Mountain ranges were identified as strongholds of snow leopard populations, suggesting these habitats must be protected at all costs.
It is believed there are only between 3,500-7,000 wild snow leopards in the world dispersed across 12 countries. Mongolia is home to the world’s second-largest snow leopard population after China.
However, reliable snow leopard estimates are difficult to come by and most estimates are, at best, guesstimates. In 2017, the Bishkek Declaration endorsed by the governments of 12 snow leopard range countries expressed serious concerns about the continuing gaps in knowledge about snow leopard population and distribution. ”
“The data presented here on snow leopard signs were collected over a period of five months by 12 teams represented by over 210 field personnel. The teams traversed 19,923 km of transects, of which 6,794 km (roughly the distance from the capital to the western-most border of Genghis Khan’s empire) were covered on foot.”
(https://snowleopard.org/where-are-the-snow-leopards/)
(Also: “Mapping the Ghost”)
—-must protect.
One Hundred Years On: The Fifth Thule Expedition
“Long before Borge Ousland and Mike Horn, Knud Rasmussen was the undisputed king of the long-haul arctic expedition.
This year marks the centennial of his greatest achievement, the Fifth Thule expedition.
Rasmussen seemed destined for arctic travel.
Born in 1879, his father was Danish, his mother part-Inuit.
He was raised in Greenland and taught Kalaallisut, the local Eskimo–Aleut language, as his primary tongue. These early years exposed him to Inuit culture, traditional hunting methods, and a host of polar survival skills.
His first true expedition, the 1902 Danish Literary Expedition, examined Inuit folklore in Greenland’s northern reaches. He published The People of the Polar North on his return. The expedition, and subsequent publication, laid out a framework for the next 20 years of his life. Rasmussen devoted himself to scientific and anthropological expeditions in the Arctic”
“Give me winter, give me dogs,” he once said. “You can keep the rest.”
“Rasmussen, Qaavigarsuaq, and Arnarulunnguaq covered more than 30,000km of inhospitable terrain,
much of it unmapped. This longest-ever sled journey took more than three years. Along the way, they encountered many Inuit communities and amassed a collection of more than “20,000 specimens, of which 15,000 are ethnographical and archaeological.”
“Rasmussen avoided the pitfalls of many a European explorer. He did not presume to know all the answers. Rather, he approached the Inuit as equals, eager to learn all he could of their cultural heritage and history. One hundred years later, his fifth expedition remains an iconic moment in polar exploration.”
(https://explorersweb.com/2021/06/29/one-hundred-years-on-the-fifth-thule-expedition/)
“Across Arctic America”
book by Knud Rasmussun (1927)
Reviewer wrote:
“Knud Rasmussen was a native Greenlander who was half Inuit and half Danish.
He was the first person to travel the Northwest Passage by dog-sled, around 1922, as re-told in this readable and enjoyable account first published in 1927.
Known as the “Fifth Thule Expedition”,
it was designed to be an ethnographic expedition to answer “that great question the origins of the Eskimo race”. A native speaker of Inuit, Rasmussen’s insights into the religion and inner-life, voice and spirit of the Inuit remains a classic of polar travel literature and ethnography. The Inuit language is difficult to translate and Rasmussen’s unique position of straddling both cultures proves indispensable.
Rasmussen traveled with two Inuit who had never before left Greenland.
On the return trip home by plane,
the group stopped in New York City and were awed by what they saw.
One said while looking over the city skyline from a rooftop:
“I see things more than my mind can grasp; and the only way to save myself from madness is to suppose that we have all died, and that this is part of another life.”
(https://archive.org/details/acrossarcticamer006641mbp)
“The Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24.
The Danish Ethnographical and Geographical Expedition from Greenland to the Pacific”
journal 1926,
by Knud Rasmussen
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/1783138)
—-Just started reading “White Eskimo. Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless journey into the Heart of the Arctic’
by Stephen R Bown. wow.
Above the law? So how afraid are we?
What happened about ending global oil subsidies?
imo transnational Exxon and Big Oil purposely melted the Arctic for their own purposes.
After 50 years of lying to us about what their scientists graphically demonstrated behind closed doors,
how the hell do they still walk free while the future of our species and all life on Earth is in peril? What would Knud Rasmussen have said to them 100 years ago?
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