I love this! This is exactly why we created Ada Twist, Scientist, through Higher Ground – to inspire budding young scientists like yours to experiment on their own. Hoping he makes some great discoveries! https://t.co/KoD2Js96Fb
My daughter wanted to be Ada Twist the scientist and there was only one costume that wasn’t available in time. Mama made it herself + baby girl nailed it. 😍 pic.twitter.com/cOXvcpO96B
— IG: @kenniquamona | Neek Nilly (@kenniquamona) October 29, 2021
The epidemic of gun violence in America has gotten worse during the pandemic. This article points to the ways in which the proliferation of guns magnifies the consequences of bias in policing, and makes reform of police practices that much harder. https://t.co/fbK38QMCkV
If Kyle Rittenhouse was a black man who crossed state lines to shoot proud boys would you still support him? This is how you know if you are racist or not.
Rupert Murdoch is the Enemy of Truth & Democracy—the World's Chief Minister of Propaganda. A parasite prospering at others' expense—inflicting incalculable destruction & polarization on the UK, USA, and Australia—poisoning democratic societies with lies, hate, fear, and violence. pic.twitter.com/yrtFOaIa86
— 🇺🇸 The 🔥Resistance🔥 Patriot 🇺🇸 (@WiseAsASerpent) November 16, 2021
weird how Biden's infrastructure plan doesn't punish the states that didn't vote for him, or make governors compete for resources. what the fuck, you people assured me that Joe Biden knew how to president
the only solace in this moment is knowing that LDF will remain in the care of the one of the fiercest, most brilliant civil rights advocates. I still don’t have the words to express my sadness at @Sifill_LDF departure or my joy for @JNelsonLDF in her new role https://t.co/2NczSOKHh4
Join members of Congress, advocates and me live at the U.S. Capitol for a press conference on the importance of passing the Build Back Better Act and its $555 billion of investments in #ClimateActionNow. https://t.co/CkLjeRD5wB
Economist Goolsbee saying inflation is happening all around the world. (Pod Save America)
Looks like virus is driving it and supply shock. Estimates things going back to normal one year after the initial impact of Coronavirus. The infrastructure bills are paid for and Build Back Better is spread over ten years. As for the ‘polls’….the incredible rollout of actions and responses on so many levels by President Biden and the WH is what I see, bravi.
Three major highways connecting the B.C. Interior to the Lower Mainland have been washed out by flood waters and it remains unclear when they will reopen.
—-All highways connecting Lower Mainland and rest of the country are shut down. No trains to or from the Port of Vancouver. Farmers will run out of food in 5 days. No one saying it is not happening.
Look at this awesomeness! Promise made. Promise kept.
In 2011, my Administration made a pledge to prepare 100,000 new STEM teachers over the next 10 years. I couldn't be prouder to hear that @100Kin10 not only met that goal, but trained an additional 8,000 teachers who will make a difference for our kids. https://t.co/NI2J779IYSpic.twitter.com/uLqbuRjEeF
Local TV Stations Love Democrats’ Job-Creating Infrastructure Bill
GOP Called Out for Voting Against Their Constituents
“From the Speaker’s Press Office:
Local TV stations across the country are promoting President Biden and Democrats’ infrastructure bill for the once-in-a-generation investments coming to their communities – creating jobs, expanding access to affordable internet, building a world-class supply chain for small businesses, filling potholes, repairing roads and bridges, cleaning our kids’ drinking water – the list goes on and on.
In red districts, Republican representatives are getting called out by their local news stations and on front pages for their vote against the single biggest infrastructure investment in American history.
200 House Republicans tried to block this historic boon for communities,
Democrats delivered, and virtually every local TV station is talking about it.
See below for a glimpse of the wave of good coverage Democrats are riding – and the awkward questions Republicans are getting from their own local news stations:”
Nikole Hannah-Jones:
The case for considering 1619 as America’s origin point
“We are a country that was founded both on the ideas of freedom and the practice of slavery,” says Nikole Hannah-Jones. “If you want to really understand that, these defining tensions, you have to go back to 1619.”
Offline: Megan Rapinoe on Social Media and Mental Health
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe talks to Jon about the toll social media takes on professional athletes, what it’s like to become an online Resistance hero and a right-wing villain, and whether she will ever run for office. New episodes of Offline with Jon Favreau drop every Sunday on the Pod Save America feed.
Pfizer to share license for covid-19 pill,
potentially opening up treatment to millions in low-income nations
“U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to a license-sharing deal that would allow its experimental covid-19 drug to be manufactured more widely around the globe. It’s an agreement that the company says could give more than half of the world’s population access to the treatment, even as Pfizer rebuffs calls to grant poorer countries access to its coronavirus vaccine formula.
The company said earlier this month that the drug, a pill regimen called paxlovid, reduced the risk of covid hospitalization or death by 89 percent when administered within three days of the onset of symptoms. It has not yet received regulatory approval in the United States, but Pfizer said that it plans to seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration as soon as possible.”
Maybe Don’t Blow Up Satellites in Space
The aftermath can create countless shards of debris that can menace space stations and satellites for years.
By Marina Koren
“NASA had just received word that a satellite had shattered into pieces. The cloud of debris was about to pass dangerously close to the space station, and everyone on board—four American astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts, and one German astronaut—had to hunker down.”
President Biden this afternoon to visit General Motors’ Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant,
and deliver remarks
on how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
creates a future made in America and builds electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
Good news to share: I got my results back from my first 6-month post-cancer exam & everything was clear. I'm so grateful to be healthy and thankful for my family, friends, and the incredible doctors and nurses who have helped me.
President Biden says Bureau of Labor Statistics now confirm 710,000 more jobs than previously reported, over the last 4 months. (Plus the 5.6 million we already knew about.)
—cripes.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President Of The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Is Stepping Down
Ifill and her successor Janai Nelson spoke to Essence about the racial issues facing
the country and what’s next for the organization.
“Ifill has led the racial justice organization for nearly a decade, taking the position in January 2013. ”
“Under Ifill’s leadership, the LDF has grown both its staff and funding, leading legal fights for voting rights, economic justice, and racial equity.”
There will plenty of pursed lips and squinted eyes on both sides of the border tomorrow. Let ‘em stay mad. I, on the other hand, will fully enjoy watching My VP thrive and delight. pic.twitter.com/gE6mq2iTZe
— THEE Dudette is Vaxxed & Masked 😷💛🐝 (@Dudette9t9) November 18, 2021
I’m begging my West Michigan representative @RepHuizenga to plead with his supporters to get vaccinated. Many of them are not, and their unwillingness to do so is bringing the healthcare infrastructure of his district to its knees. https://t.co/BXd4BaVwyj
People need to back off @VP Harris. She’s a powerful woman. She’s a powerful Black woman. She’s been given some of the toughest political assignments in the face of two Dem senators who—under the lie of being so-called “moderates”—have blocked $15/hr min wage, voting rights, etc.
As a lot of folks know, I’m a car guy. I’ve gotten a chance to drive some pretty incredible vehicles over the years, but I never could have imagined ones like the electric vehicle I took for a spin today.
As House Speaker, it is my official honor to welcome @JustinTrudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, back to the United States Capitol. For over 150 years, our nations have been more than neighbors — we have been ironclad allies and partners. pic.twitter.com/yv2UqoGevK
Today, we continued to strengthen this relationship by discussing COVID-19 response and recovery, global security, the climate crisis, trade and advancing North American economic prosperity. pic.twitter.com/62cm7Mu613
Kyle Rittenhouse was permitted to choose his own witnessses via picking numbers out of a box!!
That is not normal. Elie Mystal points out that this Judge’s decisions are all one way, that when you ook at the totality they are biased at every stage.
Did we see what happened before the numbers went into the box?
—Perhaps it was a fix to exclude jurors who did not look favorable to Rittenhouse.
Maya Wiley, Civil Rights Attorney, to Chris Hayes:
“Well first of all,
I think unless I hear a defense attorney say:
“Well when I had a Black defendant or a Latino defendant (you know Kenosha is only 10% Black) he behaved exactly the same way – completely biased for the defendant”.
Then I would be willing to say OK he’s just pro-defense.
I think the two things
I would point to that really for me were so deeply troubling about how he handled this trial was one: Obviously there’s recently when he threw that 6th count out,
that weapons possession.
Remember Kyle Rittenhouse 17 years old, under Wisconsin law is not allowed to open carry.
He wasn’t even in lawful possession of that semi-automatic rifle.
And was breaking curfew.
And yet (the judge) throws out that charge that says it was a misdemeanor,
that literally says he was breaking the law by carrying that firearm.
That I just could not understand based on reading the statute.
And on this very bizarre argument he seemed to be making for kids who are 16 and under who can open carry if they’re hunting.”
When it comes to climate change, we can’t afford to go backward—or even stay where we are. If we are going to act on the scale that’s required to combat this climate crisis, we all need to step up and meet this moment together. https://t.co/jyk0ZBcv0S
AOC Calls For Censure Vote Of Rep. Gosar After He Shared Violent Anime Video
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke on the House floor ahead of a vote to censure Rep. Paul Gosar
and remove him from committees after he shared an anime video depicting violence against her and
President Biden.
“In 2016, he tweeted another anime video with a death note…
So he tweeted that he was a hero again and there was a death note,
and it was Joe Biden and Representative Ocasio-Cortez among others.
And here he is escalating it.
And what we haven`t pointed out about that killing on the anime video
is it`s sinister
to the point of bone chilling,
slices their spinal cord with two samurai swords
moving in opposite directions.”
The White House is offering more aid for winter heat and utility bills.
And big news: The Administration has already secured agreements from utility companies guaranteeing no shutoffs for customers seeking assistance. https://t.co/qFQBzVT6bV
Opinion:
My skin color should not prevent me from attending the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s accused killers
“When Ahmaud Arbery’s parents reached out to invite me to attend the trial of the men who chased and killed their unarmed son in Brunswick, Ga., I agreed to come because I am a pastor.
For 30 years, I have walked and prayed with people in hospitals and courthouses, on picket lines and in jail cells. I pastor a congregation in eastern North Carolina, but I am also ordained as a bishop to minister among those who hunger and thirst for justice in this world.”
Threatened By Blackness:
Rev. Barber Condemns Attorney’s ‘Black Pastors’ Remarks
“Rachel Maddow shares highlights of a op-ed in the Washington Post by Rev. Dr. William Barber
in response to a defense attorney in the trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery arguing that “Black pastors” are intimidating to the mostly white jury hearing the case.”
Up, up, and away! NASA releases some of the first video footage of Ingenuity actually flying across Mars. This is from the small helicopter's 13th flight, in September.https://t.co/lT4sxMp4IE
“We Are At A Moment Of Reckoning”: Ifill On Finding Encouragement In Difficult Times
“Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about stepping down to make room for new leadership, and where she finds encouragement in what feels like a very racially fraught time.”
Sherrilyn Ifill,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, President and Director Counsel, is stepping down.
She speaks to Rachel Maddow:
“Well you know, this is life’s work for me.
I started my career first with a fellowship at the ACLU and then at the Legal Defense Fund.
When I left the legal defense fund the first time to go into academia, I didn’t leave behind being a civil rights lawyer. I worked with my students and started clinics on environmental justice.
I started one of the first clinics in this country on the rights of formerly incarcerated persons.
I started clinic on reparations. I wrote a book about lynching. I headed up a foundation that supports civil rights organizations, and then I returned to LDF.
Whatever I am doing, this is the work.
The decision to step down is really about what is right for an institution,
and I have been unapologetic about my love for LDF And I will say Rachel, especially seeing what has been revealed in this country over the last five years about the need for Black institutions to be strong.
I have worked very hard to make LDF strong and to help Americans see that civil rights institutions and civil rights work is critical, not just for the citizenship and dignity of Black people, but for the health of American democracy.
And in order to keep those institutions strong, we have to nurture leadership,
which is kind of my thing which I love doing. I love doing it teaching. I loved leading our young lawyers.
I loved working with my deputy, Janai Nelson, who I had hoped would succeed me and who will succeed me.”
Maddow:
“I realized in reading The New York Times coverage this morning
about the reinvestigation of the Malcolm X assassination, that that is a case I’m very familiar with.
The shortcomings of the convictions of those men, something I was very familiar with.
I realized I was shocked, literally shocked, and actually kind of thrown back in my chair by this sense that it might be undone. That there are not just current indignities and injustices that I don’t feel hopeful about in terms of the way they’re going to resolve, but these historic ones that we have lived with our entire lives. The idea that they might be revisited, that those things might not be set in stone, that we could fix those things. It shocked me. I don’t know if it makes me feel more hopeful or not, but it made me want to ask what kind of touchstone it is for you.”
Ifill:
“Yes I have to say this is a very difficult time.
It feels awful in many ways, but I don’t see it that way.
Again with the lens of a lifetime of doing civil rights work, I always feel best and most hopeful when the truth is being surfaced.
It is the periods when the truth is being denied, when people are saying ‘Racism isn’t a problem’.
When people are not recognizing the truth about police violence, or problems with our criminal justice system. When people would tell me when I first started this job, ‘You have a Black president and a Black Attorney General. We don’t need the legal defense fund anymore. We don’t need civil rights work. What is voter suppression?’ Those were the darkest days.
The days when we are surfacing the truth,
the days when we are recognizing the truth about lynching, about historical murders.
About papered-over and covered-over incidents.
About histories people didn’t know about – whether it’s the Tulsa massacre or Elaine, Arkansas.
That time, those incidents make me feel hopeful.
It’s not pleasant. It doesn’t feel joyous, but it does feel like we are finally getting to the root of the thing.
And I frequently paraphrase Malcolm X who talked about the importance of “surfacing the tension”.
A civil rights work in activism doesn’t create the tension.
It surfaces the tension that exists below the surface.”
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated After Decades
The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.
Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
“First, two of the leading rating agencies on Wall Street confirmed today —
not a liberal think tank, two Wall Street outfits — that the economic proposals we put forward for the nation —
the infrastructure law we just signed and the Build Back Better plan are being considered this week in Congress — will not add to inflationary pressures in the economy. (Applause.)
And at one — and here’s what one of the agencies said, and I quote, “
The bills do not add to inflation pressures.” Let me repeat that: “do not add…inflation pressures.”
The reason? Because the policies I proposed, quote, “help…lift long-term economic growth via stronger productivity… labor force growth,” as well as taking “the edge off of inflation.”
The Build Back Better Act will lower prescription drug costs and ensure no one pays more than $35 a month for insulin. These reforms are needed, and they’re needed now. pic.twitter.com/pIXniesEat
Thank you @ciara for coming to the @WhiteHouse to help spread the word about the importance of getting kids aged 5 and up vaccinated against COVID-19! https://t.co/vP2Kf5cy8M
Sen. Warren on oil prices: This isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging.
“Democrats are pushing back on the false narrative on inflation and the economy being promoted by many Republicans, because on many measures the economy is doing very well. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins Joy Reid with her accurate analysis of the true state of affairs.”
“We know exactly who the oil companies, what the oil companies pay attention to.
What is their number one priority? Profits.
And so think about it this way. If this were just ordinary inflation, we might see prices go up, but prices at the pump have gone up – why?
Well, let me give you a hint: Chevron, Exxon have doubled their profits.
This isn`t about inflation.
This is about price-gouging for these guys.
…we have got to pay attention to the fact that folks like the oil companies say,
‘I think it’s just another opportunity to make profits’. And we need to call them out on that.”
n.b.
Fossil fuel companies should be falling over themselves to PAY US,
to fund reparations for the colossal damage they have and will inflict on all life that exists on our planet.
The Obama Diary 
Hello TODVille!
Hello Scientists!
Hello and congrats on first. What a heartwarming post!
Hello, NCLB and Judith! And thanks for the sweet post, Nerdy!
Nerdy always seems to know what we need
So glad she’s with us all the way! ❤
I looooove this post! 😁
Love it!
Good morning!! Happy Wednesday
Good Wednesday evening to you! I’m late to the party!
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. Happy Hump-Day!!!
Naming rights were sold to a crypto company in Singapore. Sad 😦
Economist Goolsbee saying inflation is happening all around the world. (Pod Save America)
Looks like virus is driving it and supply shock. Estimates things going back to normal one year after the initial impact of Coronavirus. The infrastructure bills are paid for and Build Back Better is spread over ten years. As for the ‘polls’….the incredible rollout of actions and responses on so many levels by President Biden and the WH is what I see, bravi.
Job growth numbers off by 626,000….
The government dramatically underestimated job growth this summer
“Initial reports underestimated job growth by a cumulative 626,000 over four months”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/16/government-underestimated-job-growth/)
Huge error! Go President Biden
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voILzBxI_6s)
3 major B.C. highways washed out by flood waters
Three major highways connecting the B.C. Interior to the Lower Mainland have been washed out by flood waters and it remains unclear when they will reopen.
—-All highways connecting Lower Mainland and rest of the country are shut down. No trains to or from the Port of Vancouver. Farmers will run out of food in 5 days. No one saying it is not happening.
Speaker Pelosi Remarks
at the White House Bill Signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/111521)
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Advances Environmental Justice
Clean Drinking Water
Legacy Pollution
Public Transit
Clean School Buses
Modern and Clean Infrastructure
Resilience
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/16/the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-advances-environmental-justice/)
Look at this awesomeness! Promise made. Promise kept.
That is so wonderful!
Local TV Stations Love Democrats’ Job-Creating Infrastructure Bill
GOP Called Out for Voting Against Their Constituents
“From the Speaker’s Press Office:
Local TV stations across the country are promoting President Biden and Democrats’ infrastructure bill for the once-in-a-generation investments coming to their communities – creating jobs, expanding access to affordable internet, building a world-class supply chain for small businesses, filling potholes, repairing roads and bridges, cleaning our kids’ drinking water – the list goes on and on.
In red districts, Republican representatives are getting called out by their local news stations and on front pages for their vote against the single biggest infrastructure investment in American history.
200 House Republicans tried to block this historic boon for communities,
Democrats delivered, and virtually every local TV station is talking about it.
See below for a glimpse of the wave of good coverage Democrats are riding – and the awkward questions Republicans are getting from their own local news stations:”
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/111621-0)
—–Here the local radio and independent newspaper were ended by the right…must…bring…back.
Dan Goldman,
Counsel in Trump Impeachment, to Run for New York AG
“Daniel Goldman, a former Russian-mob-busting federal prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan who served as counsel for House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment probe,
said he would run for New York Attorney General on Tuesday.”
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-16/dan-goldman-counsel-in-trump-impeachment-to-run-for-n-y-ag)
….yes that guy, imo unforgettable during the impeachment.
Mr. Goldman in a tweet:
“Our nation faces an existential threat to our democratic ideals and the rule of law.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones:
The case for considering 1619 as America’s origin point
“We are a country that was founded both on the ideas of freedom and the practice of slavery,” says Nikole Hannah-Jones. “If you want to really understand that, these defining tensions, you have to go back to 1619.”
Megan Rapinoe
Offline: Megan Rapinoe on Social Media and Mental Health
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe talks to Jon about the toll social media takes on professional athletes, what it’s like to become an online Resistance hero and a right-wing villain, and whether she will ever run for office. New episodes of Offline with Jon Favreau drop every Sunday on the Pod Save America feed.
Pod Save America
Hear here: (https://podcasts.podinstall.com/crooked-media-pod-save-america/202111140800-offline-megan-rapinoe-social-media-and-mental-health.html)
Pfizer to share license for covid-19 pill,
potentially opening up treatment to millions in low-income nations
“U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to a license-sharing deal that would allow its experimental covid-19 drug to be manufactured more widely around the globe. It’s an agreement that the company says could give more than half of the world’s population access to the treatment, even as Pfizer rebuffs calls to grant poorer countries access to its coronavirus vaccine formula.
The company said earlier this month that the drug, a pill regimen called paxlovid, reduced the risk of covid hospitalization or death by 89 percent when administered within three days of the onset of symptoms. It has not yet received regulatory approval in the United States, but Pfizer said that it plans to seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration as soon as possible.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/16/pfizer-license-covid-pill-paxlovid/)
—–Thank you Pfizer!!
—-new pill paxlovid.
Maybe Don’t Blow Up Satellites in Space
The aftermath can create countless shards of debris that can menace space stations and satellites for years.
By Marina Koren
“NASA had just received word that a satellite had shattered into pieces. The cloud of debris was about to pass dangerously close to the space station, and everyone on board—four American astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts, and one German astronaut—had to hunker down.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/nasa-russia-anti-satellite-test-orbital-debris/620728/)
—who has not thought about this?
President Biden this afternoon to visit General Motors’ Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant,
and deliver remarks
on how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
creates a future made in America and builds electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
Noah B – Cruzer [wave 003]
PM Trudeau is coming to town!
So cool!!!!
Fabulous!
Devastating:
Great news!
Soon – President Biden visits General Motors’ electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
President Biden says Bureau of Labor Statistics now confirm 710,000 more jobs than previously reported, over the last 4 months. (Plus the 5.6 million we already knew about.)
—cripes.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President Of The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Is Stepping Down
Ifill and her successor Janai Nelson spoke to Essence about the racial issues facing
the country and what’s next for the organization.
“Ifill has led the racial justice organization for nearly a decade, taking the position in January 2013. ”
“Under Ifill’s leadership, the LDF has grown both its staff and funding, leading legal fights for voting rights, economic justice, and racial equity.”
(https://www.essence.com/news/sherrilyn-ifill-stepping-down/)
——will miss hearing and seeing Ms. Ifill in this role very much.
greetings everyone…i want to find out what Republicans joined the DEMs to censure Gosar…can anyone tell me how i could find this…thanks
It was Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/republicans-who-voted-censure-gosar-kinzinger-cheney/index.html
Magic meets Magic!
How fabulous is that!
Magnificently fabulous!
💗💗🌟🌹
Go Beto!!!
Beautiful on so many levels
Anybody wanna pool our coins together? Seems like a bargain to me.
🙋🏾♀️💖😎
THIS!
America’s finest welcomes Canada’s finest
No not imagining it…hello.
Kyle Rittenhouse was permitted to choose his own witnessses via picking numbers out of a box!!
That is not normal. Elie Mystal points out that this Judge’s decisions are all one way, that when you ook at the totality they are biased at every stage.
Did we see what happened before the numbers went into the box?
—Perhaps it was a fix to exclude jurors who did not look favorable to Rittenhouse.
What is our response?
Maya Wiley, Civil Rights Attorney, to Chris Hayes:
“Well first of all,
I think unless I hear a defense attorney say:
“Well when I had a Black defendant or a Latino defendant (you know Kenosha is only 10% Black) he behaved exactly the same way – completely biased for the defendant”.
Then I would be willing to say OK he’s just pro-defense.
I think the two things
I would point to that really for me were so deeply troubling about how he handled this trial was one: Obviously there’s recently when he threw that 6th count out,
that weapons possession.
Remember Kyle Rittenhouse 17 years old, under Wisconsin law is not allowed to open carry.
He wasn’t even in lawful possession of that semi-automatic rifle.
And was breaking curfew.
And yet (the judge) throws out that charge that says it was a misdemeanor,
that literally says he was breaking the law by carrying that firearm.
That I just could not understand based on reading the statute.
And on this very bizarre argument he seemed to be making for kids who are 16 and under who can open carry if they’re hunting.”
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEUiE-Zi9Qk)
AOC Calls For Censure Vote Of Rep. Gosar After He Shared Violent Anime Video
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke on the House floor ahead of a vote to censure Rep. Paul Gosar
and remove him from committees after he shared an anime video depicting violence against her and
President Biden.
Please note:
Jennifer Gosar,
sister of Rep. Paul Gosar:
“In 2016, he tweeted another anime video with a death note…
So he tweeted that he was a hero again and there was a death note,
and it was Joe Biden and Representative Ocasio-Cortez among others.
And here he is escalating it.
And what we haven`t pointed out about that killing on the anime video
is it`s sinister
to the point of bone chilling,
slices their spinal cord with two samurai swords
moving in opposite directions.”
Democrats deliver
The Rev William J. Barber II
Opinion:
My skin color should not prevent me from attending the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s accused killers
“When Ahmaud Arbery’s parents reached out to invite me to attend the trial of the men who chased and killed their unarmed son in Brunswick, Ga., I agreed to come because I am a pastor.
For 30 years, I have walked and prayed with people in hospitals and courthouses, on picket lines and in jail cells. I pastor a congregation in eastern North Carolina, but I am also ordained as a bishop to minister among those who hunger and thirst for justice in this world.”
The Rev William J. Barber is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/17/ahmaud-arbery-trial-exclude-black-pastors/)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhi6OYzqJs)
Threatened By Blackness:
Rev. Barber Condemns Attorney’s ‘Black Pastors’ Remarks
“Rachel Maddow shares highlights of a op-ed in the Washington Post by Rev. Dr. William Barber
in response to a defense attorney in the trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery arguing that “Black pastors” are intimidating to the mostly white jury hearing the case.”
LIVE NOW…
Black Pastors hold Ga. vigil at trial of 3 white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery
I love this!
This is so cool! 👍🏾🤓
“We Are At A Moment Of Reckoning”: Ifill On Finding Encouragement In Difficult Times
“Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about stepping down to make room for new leadership, and where she finds encouragement in what feels like a very racially fraught time.”
Sherrilyn Ifill,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, President and Director Counsel, is stepping down.
She speaks to Rachel Maddow:
“Well you know, this is life’s work for me.
I started my career first with a fellowship at the ACLU and then at the Legal Defense Fund.
When I left the legal defense fund the first time to go into academia, I didn’t leave behind being a civil rights lawyer. I worked with my students and started clinics on environmental justice.
I started one of the first clinics in this country on the rights of formerly incarcerated persons.
I started clinic on reparations. I wrote a book about lynching. I headed up a foundation that supports civil rights organizations, and then I returned to LDF.
Whatever I am doing, this is the work.
The decision to step down is really about what is right for an institution,
and I have been unapologetic about my love for LDF And I will say Rachel, especially seeing what has been revealed in this country over the last five years about the need for Black institutions to be strong.
I have worked very hard to make LDF strong and to help Americans see that civil rights institutions and civil rights work is critical, not just for the citizenship and dignity of Black people, but for the health of American democracy.
And in order to keep those institutions strong, we have to nurture leadership,
which is kind of my thing which I love doing. I love doing it teaching. I loved leading our young lawyers.
I loved working with my deputy, Janai Nelson, who I had hoped would succeed me and who will succeed me.”
Maddow:
“I realized in reading The New York Times coverage this morning
about the reinvestigation of the Malcolm X assassination, that that is a case I’m very familiar with.
The shortcomings of the convictions of those men, something I was very familiar with.
I realized I was shocked, literally shocked, and actually kind of thrown back in my chair by this sense that it might be undone. That there are not just current indignities and injustices that I don’t feel hopeful about in terms of the way they’re going to resolve, but these historic ones that we have lived with our entire lives. The idea that they might be revisited, that those things might not be set in stone, that we could fix those things. It shocked me. I don’t know if it makes me feel more hopeful or not, but it made me want to ask what kind of touchstone it is for you.”
Ifill:
“Yes I have to say this is a very difficult time.
It feels awful in many ways, but I don’t see it that way.
Again with the lens of a lifetime of doing civil rights work, I always feel best and most hopeful when the truth is being surfaced.
It is the periods when the truth is being denied, when people are saying ‘Racism isn’t a problem’.
When people are not recognizing the truth about police violence, or problems with our criminal justice system. When people would tell me when I first started this job, ‘You have a Black president and a Black Attorney General. We don’t need the legal defense fund anymore. We don’t need civil rights work. What is voter suppression?’ Those were the darkest days.
The days when we are surfacing the truth,
the days when we are recognizing the truth about lynching, about historical murders.
About papered-over and covered-over incidents.
About histories people didn’t know about – whether it’s the Tulsa massacre or Elaine, Arkansas.
That time, those incidents make me feel hopeful.
It’s not pleasant. It doesn’t feel joyous, but it does feel like we are finally getting to the root of the thing.
And I frequently paraphrase Malcolm X who talked about the importance of “surfacing the tension”.
A civil rights work in activism doesn’t create the tension.
It surfaces the tension that exists below the surface.”
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated After Decades
The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyregion/malcolm-x-killing-exonerated.html)
LIVE NOW…
Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
“First, two of the leading rating agencies on Wall Street confirmed today —
not a liberal think tank, two Wall Street outfits — that the economic proposals we put forward for the nation —
the infrastructure law we just signed and the Build Back Better plan are being considered this week in Congress — will not add to inflationary pressures in the economy. (Applause.)
And at one — and here’s what one of the agencies said, and I quote, “
The bills do not add to inflation pressures.” Let me repeat that: “do not add…inflation pressures.”
The reason? Because the policies I proposed, quote, “help…lift long-term economic growth via stronger productivity… labor force growth,” as well as taking “the edge off of inflation.”
Full: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/17/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-2/)
Sen. Warren on oil prices: This isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging.
“Democrats are pushing back on the false narrative on inflation and the economy being promoted by many Republicans, because on many measures the economy is doing very well. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins Joy Reid with her accurate analysis of the true state of affairs.”
Senator Warren to Joy Reid:
“We know exactly who the oil companies, what the oil companies pay attention to.
What is their number one priority? Profits.
And so think about it this way. If this were just ordinary inflation, we might see prices go up, but prices at the pump have gone up – why?
Well, let me give you a hint: Chevron, Exxon have doubled their profits.
This isn`t about inflation.
This is about price-gouging for these guys.
…we have got to pay attention to the fact that folks like the oil companies say,
‘I think it’s just another opportunity to make profits’. And we need to call them out on that.”
n.b.
Fossil fuel companies should be falling over themselves to PAY US,
to fund reparations for the colossal damage they have and will inflict on all life that exists on our planet.
President Biden yesterday:
“What we found out today is when they looked back at the last four months,
we actually created 710,000 more jobs in the country than was previously reported —
on top of the 5.6 million we already had created and had been counted that we knew about.”
—-Pls can we see Major Headlines on the booming economy?
Opinion:
The U.S. Economy is Booming. Why Do Americans Feel Bad?
“Few Americans are aware of later revisions (for August and September)
that added more than 200,000 jobs.
And some news organizations have been doing all they can
to convey the impression
of a troubled economy,
whatever the reality.”
(Krugman: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/economy-inflation-supply-chain.html)
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