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
“From all the information we’ve learned, I believe my brother to be a co-conspirator in a coup attempt against the United States government. So I think expulsion is actually the most appropriate next step,” says Jennifer Gosar, younger sister of Rep. Gosar https://t.co/ib3mHnhxId
Good News For Democrats
CBO Score Means Build Back Better Is Fully Paid For
The White House explained why this is good news for Democrats
in a statement provided to PolitcusUSA:
–Good news for Democrats – the cost elements came in lower than the White House estimates – in the ballpark of $50bn lower cost.
–The savings from the prescription drug reforms came in $50bn higher – at $300bn compared to the White House’s estimate of $250bn.
–That means that the bill will be more than fully paid for.
–As long understood, CBO’s numbers on tax enforcement are lower than the Treasury’s estimates. Democrats have long known and anticipated this – will not be an issue.
Chart of the updated numbers for Build Back Better here:
Flipped on C-Span to see how the vote was coming. Found a lying sack of s**t – McCarthy – telling the worst whoppers about the BBB plan one could ever imagine. He's SICK. All for trump.
Today, as House Speaker, I was proud to sign HR 5142, to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 Servicemembers who died in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021 during the evacuation of citizens of the United States & Afghan allies at Hamid Karzai International Airport. pic.twitter.com/nxxjuRKENz
Ahead of House passage of Build Back Better, @AmbRice46 details how the legislation will be transformational & make America more competitive: ✅Cut taxes for working families ✅Lower child care costs & provide universal pre-K ✅Lower Rx drug costs ✅Tackle the climate crisis pic.twitter.com/JoO0niXCUf
What a happy news! Congratulations to Madam Speaker Pelosi and her tireless Democratic Representatives, fearless, focused, consumed only with the goal of helping the American people.
I will refrain from saying anything about the rambling I witnessed last night around 2am EST.
Argh…protonic reversal weirdness.
Of course HR 3654 was signed into law 4 days ago !!
—U.S. House today passed President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, congrats!!
Rep. Jayapal reacts to House passing Build Back Better: ‘We are delivering’
“Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA),
joined Chris Jansing just moments after the House voted to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. She reacts to the key win for Democrats and discusses what comes next for their agenda in the Senate.
“I am so proud of Democrats today. I am so proud of President Biden,” Jayapal says.
—-Congresswoman Jayapal was truly unrelenting and of good cheer throughout.
—–Giant congrats to Speaker Pelosi, all House Democrats, their staffs, and the WH !!!
Senator Warren:
“My minimum tax (bill)…the one I have with Senator King…we`re going to get it through.
The one that says giant corporations, Amazon, pay nothing in taxes even when they’re reporting billions in profits. 15% minimum tax. It`s going to raise $300 billion.”
The WTA says it may pull out of China over the disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai. She has been missing since Nov. 2, when she accused a government official of sexual assault.
The UN is demanding proof of tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts and an investigation into her sexual assault claims against government official Zhang Gaoli.
Peng has been missing since posting the allegation. China's censors removed the post and blocked coverage on the case. pic.twitter.com/qndqaMFA8A
Businesses worked so hard to get our veterans hired. Today, their unemployment rate is below the national average. We need the same focus and dedication for our military spouses. And it starts by creating flexible, transferable, remote work opportunities. #JoiningForcespic.twitter.com/CvKfva87pJ
BREAKING: Pfizer and Moderna say the FDA has opened up COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, letting them choose another dose of either vaccine. The CDC still must OK expanding the government’s booster campaign to get ahead of rising coronavirus cases. https://t.co/Fz0rbRzcdP
The FDA has just authorized Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 boosters for all adults — a move that will make boosters available to everyone ages 18 and up.
BREAKING: FDA has just authorized Pfizer and Moderna boosters for all adults, 6 months after initial doses, regardless of age or risk factors. (All J&J recipients should receive boosters 2 months after first dose.) This is really important as #covid19 infections are on the rise.
Vaccines are our greatest defense against this virus. Our administration has delivered 250 million doses to 110 countries. We all have a role to play in ending this pandemic.
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA):
“I don`t mean any disrespect. I don`t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Saule Omarova, Kazakh-American Attorney:
“Senator, I`m not a communist.”
“My family suffered under the communist regime. I grew up without knowing half of my family.
My grandmother herself escaped death twice under the Stalin regime.”
“Professor Omarova, I know that the giant banks object to your willingness to enforce the law to keep our system safe and that you may cut into big bank profits. So they and their Republican buddies have declared war on you. The attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal.
We’ve just seen them, sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s red scare tactics.
It is all there on full display. Welcome to Washington in 2021.
Now, one claim is that you intend to nationalize the banking system. So, let`s just get this nonsense out of the way. Does the OCC have the power to end private banking and to move all consumer deposits to a public ledger?”
You can bet GOP John Kennedy
would have given his eyeteeth to meet with Putin on Thanksgiving 2017, along with the all the other Republican congress members, e..g. Daines (MT)
Remember when they were openly in bed with Putin….but now this pretense with Prof. Omarosa.
Letter from President of the United States Joe Biden to Senator Leahy on the Temporary Transfer of the Powers and Duties of President of the United States; Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris is temporarily, Acting President of the United States Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/mVsoaTJkLT
.@POTUS spoke with @VP and @WHCOS at approximately 11:35am this morning. @POTUS was in good spirits and at that time resumed his duties. He will remain at Walter Reed as he completes the rest of his routine physical.
A side “big deal” about all this is that when Joe selected our VP and other members of his administration in so many areas of expertise, he said he was “building a back bench.” VP Kamala Harris was #1 on the list. I’m hoping Joe finishes out his full term, but he cares enough about our country to find the right people in the right roles to carry on the work.
This “Acting President” milestone today was historic!
Joy Reid:
“More than 100 high-profile religious and civil rights leaders joined the family of Ahmaud Arbery for a wall of prayer, as the trial of 3 men accused of killing the 25-year-old continues. Reverend Al Sharpton led the effort.”
Rev. Sharpton:
“And we had well over 350 pastors and Martin Luther King III and others, Reverend Jesse Jackson and others, with us today. Because he (the Judge) insulted all of us that have gone into courtrooms for years. AND have seen people on the other side bring who they want to court.”
Reid
“And (Paul Butler) said that the description of the way these men chase down Ahmaud Arbery,
it was like the old slave catchers or like an old-time lynching. Where they just chase a man through the streets, demanding he do what they say. Just because these white men are telling you to do it, you must do it. And then killed him! And then thought nothing of it, never even told the police this excuse that they’re now using. But just sitting in that trial, tell us how this looks to you, having dealt with so many civil rights cases and murders of Black people.”
Rev. Sharpton:
“This is the most blatant example of a mentality that ‘We are allowed, we are empowered to do we want to any Black’.
For him to admit today on the stand, one of the defendants,
they never even said ‘You’re under arrest, this is a civil arrest, a private arrest’.
Or whatever he want to call it, so then what is it?
If you’re claiming you were making a citizen’s arrest, and you didn’t say that.
If you’re claiming self-defense, which you never said until now. Then it really was saying, ‘We have the right to do whatever we want to do’.
We’re back to Dred Scott: that a Black man has “No Rights Which the White Man was Bound to Respect”.
And they were not arrested for days, they were not dealt with for many weeks until this video came out until some of us starting exposing this. And stood with this family.”
“Until the local police understand there’s federal law and they will be prosecuted,
and they will be treated like anybody that breaks the law, they will continue to edit, leave out what they wanted to do and did not want to exposed. As they did in the Malcolm X case, until they understand that we will not tolerate it, and there will be federal law, it will not go municipality to municipality, county by county.
We need federal law.
As they vote tonight (Infrastructure Bill), they need to come in with Voting Rights, and they need to come in with the George Floyd bill immediately. We cannot keep being policed by people that need to be policed, and there’s no federal law to protect us.”
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Counts: Live Updates
The jury deliberated three and a half days in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three men, two of them fatally, during demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis.
(nyt)
The judge overseeing Kyle Rittenhouse's trial was -re-elected again & again for ~40 years, often running unopposed.
If you want to run for a judicial position — or any other role that might bring real accountability — @runforsomething will help you. https://t.co/0Op0rhvfxv
As Elie Mystal pointed out this was not normal. The judge was biased towards Rittenhouse at every stage.
100% his decisions were all one way, like it was his son on trial.
Rittenhouse choosing his witnesses out of a hat was embarrassing.
What was on those pieces of paper and who did they represent? Where is the proof?
imo should’ve been enough to throw it out right there.
“Today’s verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son. It sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people.” -family of Anthony Huber
But Trayvon Martin deserved to die because he fought back against an aggressor with no weapon. This is the legacy of white supremacy in action. https://t.co/ZzCMaDPmCt
Yes. As we’ve been saying – for decades.Truth? How we do forward is largely in the hands of white Americans. Is this the country you want? Because these outcomes reflect a system designed to protect your privilege.Are you speaking out, protesting, advocating, voting to change it? https://t.co/s3gcOS57kb
Yes. As we’ve been saying – for decades.Truth? How we do forward is largely in the hands of white Americans. Is this the country you want? Because these outcomes reflect a system designed to protect your privilege.Are you speaking out, protesting, advocating, voting to change it? https://t.co/s3gcOS57kb
We have a right to be angry & disappointed. To be mad at the judge and the jurors. To decry injustice. To mourn with the families of the victims who weren’t allowed to be called victims. And to wish for and work for further justice.
Let's face it. The judge set Kyle Rittenhouse free. He did so from the day he said those murdered were not victims. Vigilante murder in Wisconsin is now a thing.
Take care of yourself today. Uplift love as well as anguish… "Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth Into the throat with which you sing… Hold hands. Share water. Keep imagining. So that we, and the children of our children’s children
Galveston TX A Test Case For Republicans Redrawing Districts To Make Elections Irrelevant
“Ari Berman, senior reporter for Mother Jones, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans in Galveston, Texas, no longer encumbered by the Voting Rights Act, are redrawing voting districts to eliminate Democratic voter power, making elections an empty exercise unless Congress passes new voting rights legislation.”
Opinion: The redistricting apocalypse is here
(Waldman)
“The word “redistricting” doesn’t carry the same inherent drama as a crowd of rabid thugs breaking doors and windows to storm the Capitol. But the way it’s proceeding right now, in its own way it’s just as much of an assault on our democracy.”
A few highlights:
—In Texas, Republicans essentially eliminated electoral competition. Only one of the state’s 38 congressional districts will be competitive under the new map; 13 will be safely Democratic, and 24 will be safely Republican. If recent trends persist, the majority of the state’s voters will be voting for Democrats within a few years, but Republicans will still control nearly two-thirds of the House seats.
—In North Carolina, one of the most closely divided states in the country, Republicans drew maps that created 10 GOP seats, just three Democratic seats and one competitive seat.
—In Georgia, where Democrats recently won the presidential contest and two Senate races, state Republicans just released a map that would give them control of nine of the state’s 14 congressional districts. They essentially made it impossible for Rep. Lucy McBath, a prominent Black Democrat, to win reelection.
—In Utah, legislators rejected a map drawn by an independent commission in favor of one that divides Salt Lake County, which Joe Biden won, among four districts so that all will be Republican.
In perhaps the most egregious gerrymander of all, Republicans in the Ohio legislature are pushing through a new map that will ensure that as many as 13 of the state’s 15 congressional seats will be held by Republicans.
In perhaps the most egregious gerrymander of all, Republicans in the Ohio legislature are pushing through a new map that will ensure that as many as 13 of the state’s 15 congressional seats will be held by Republicans.
All these gerrymanders are being duplicated in maps for state legislatures. This is a key part of the system: If Republicans can draw state legislative lines that make it impossible for Democrats to gain power, they can then use control of the legislature to keep drawing its lines and those of congressional districts to maintain their grip.
Mask-Wearing Cuts New COVID-19 Cases by 53%,
Study Says
“When people wear face masks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus,
the number of new COVID-19 infections drops by 53%,
according to a new study published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
Speaker Pelosi:
Floor Speech on H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
“With the passage of the Build Back Better Act, we – this Democratic Congress – are taking our place in the long and honorable heritage of our democracy, which – with legislation that will be the pillar of health and financial security in America. It will be historic in forging landmark progress for our nation. We talk about history as we look and prepare for the future.
Much has been said since the distinguished Democratic leadership spoke last evening. Much has been said on this Floor. But the facts are these: following the vision of President Biden, guided by the expertise and energy of our Chairs, Members and staff, we have a Build Back Better bill that is historic, transformative and larger than anything we have ever done before. We are Building Back Better. ”
‘Building Back Better with tribal sovereignty as the foundation’
Each tribe, like each state, has unique needs based on population, geography and capacity
by Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis
Gila River Indian Community
“In October 2020, I met with then-candidate Joe Biden and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Both promised an administration that would not only recognize tribal sovereignty, but leadership committed to making decisions based on that sovereignty. Tribal nations, they vowed, would be treated as equal partners in all government-to-government relationships and agreements.
In Indian Country, we have heard such promises many times before. As the White House Tribal Nations Summit has approached, a quick review of the actions taken by the administration to date shows that this White House has, in fact, shown a sustained commitment to Indian Country during the first year of the Biden presidency. Something else is noticeable as well: This administration has taken the foundation of the federal-tribal relationship and built upon it.”
Indigenous airline takes off
Canadian-based airline Iskwew Air has commenced its first scheduled flight
Kalle Benallie
Indian Country Today
The first 100 percent Indigenous woman-owned airline launched its first scheduled flight on Aug. 16 after a delay from the pandemic.
“COVID has been absolutely devastating to Iskwew Air and the entire industry,”
Founder and Lead Executive Teara Fraser, Métis, told Indian Country Today. “An airline startup in a global pandemic is literally next level impossible.”
The flight departed from Vancouver International Airport, where it was welcomed by Musqueam and Qualicum First Nations. The airline first asked the Musqueam people to do business on their lands.
Musqueam cultural knowledge keepers, Thelma and Art Stogan, greeted them with a celebratory water salute, blessing and cedar brushing.
The flight headed west, across the Strait of Georgia, the arm of the Salish Sea, to Qualicum Beach Airport.
There, it was welcomed by Qualicum Chief Michael Recalma with a blanketing ceremony and welcome song from local cultural representatives.
“It is important to uplift Indigenous land story, sovereignty, and stewardship at every opportunity,”
Fraser said in a news release.
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indigenous-airline-takes-off)
Renowned Minnesota Native artist George Morrison to be honored with new stamp series
by Dan Kraker
“Celebrated Minnesota artist George Morrison — who was born in a Native American fishing village along the North Shore of Lake Superior in 1919, but whose art career took him around the world — will be featured on a new stamp series to be released next year by the U.S. Postal Service.
Morrison is regarded as one of the greatest American abstract expressionist painters, a contemporary and friend of artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning during the modern art movement that flourished in New York after World War II.
Five of Morrison’s colorful, abstract landscape paintings will be featured as part of the Postal Service’s Forever Stamp release in the spring of 2022.”
And the PA GOP is still jealous. Not to worry, they’re rigging the system with HB 1800. We can’t have folks accessing their ballots and voting with ease… https://t.co/IptExcMAPz
It did not surprise me that Rittenhouse got off, with that right wing sorry Judge, all white jury. I am expecting those three white men in Georgia to get off too. I hope not.
Happy Birthday President Biden. The news are always talking about your poll numbers, but my opinion he is doing a good job. Much better then that pathological lying racist wacko Russian crook Trump.
Very Happy Birthday wishes to President Biden !!!
Go for the ice cream, the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
HD – any media spin that said otherwise honestly did not register with me.
From the get-go Joe has been doing an impossibly marvelous job, and i could feel the lights coming back on. Think of the humungous mess doom left behind him and the horrific daily death toll. We’d all been mentally abused soo severely. Remember babies dying on the border in jails alone, without their mothers, and nothing you could do about it. It was an endless nightmare for the country. And then ahhh we were blessed with President Biden and Dr. Biden and the Harrises. Ahh what a godsend. Am so grateful
every day.
President Biden pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey
President Joe Biden hosts his first turkey pardoning ceremony. President Biden will chose the official National Thanksgiving Turkey between two turkeys, named ‘Peanut Butter’ and ‘Jelly’.
Statement by President Biden on Transgender Day of Remembrance
“This year, at least 46 transgender individuals in this country—and hundreds more around the world—
were killed in horrifying acts of violence. Each of these lives was precious. Each of them deserved freedom, justice, and joy. Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans, as well as the countless other transgender people—disproportionately Black and brown transgender women and girls—who face brutal violence, discrimination, and harassment.
In spite of our progress strengthening civil rights for LGBTQI+ Americans,
too many transgender people still live in fear and face systemic barriers to freedom and equality.
To ensure that our government protects the civil rights of transgender Americans, I charged my team with coordinating across the federal government to address the epidemic of violence and advance equality for transgender people. I continue to call on state leaders and lawmakers to combat the disturbing proliferation of discriminatory state legislation targeting transgender people, especially transgender children. As I have said before, these bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation, they are un-American, and they endanger the safety and well-being of our children. I also continue to urge the Senate to swiftly pass the Equality Act so that all people are able to live free from fear and discrimination.
Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know. But no person should have to be brave just to live in safety and dignity. Today, we remember. Tomorrow—and every day—we must continue to act.”
(whitehouse.gov)
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good evening, Everyone!
Thank you for this post, Darling Nerdy Wonka! 😘❤️
MVP and the PM
Afternoon everyone. I see that BBB will get a House vote this evening. Let’s do this!!
Yes!!!!
It’s happening! She’s got the votes! SHE’S GOT THE VOTES! Build Back Better, Baby!!!! Let’s goooooo!
I cannot wait!!!! #NancySmash
Good News For Democrats
CBO Score Means Build Back Better Is Fully Paid For
The White House explained why this is good news for Democrats
in a statement provided to PolitcusUSA:
–Good news for Democrats – the cost elements came in lower than the White House estimates – in the ballpark of $50bn lower cost.
–The savings from the prescription drug reforms came in $50bn higher – at $300bn compared to the White House’s estimate of $250bn.
–That means that the bill will be more than fully paid for.
–As long understood, CBO’s numbers on tax enforcement are lower than the Treasury’s estimates. Democrats have long known and anticipated this – will not be an issue.
Chart of the updated numbers for Build Back Better here:
Here: (https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/18/cbo-build-back-better.html)
👏👏👏👏👏👏. Yea!!!! ……….. Then my next thought is Manchin and what he will come up with as an excuse.
Thanks for calling attention to that!
I love Chaka Kahn.
Bless her heart. She’s still my queen. Bless Stephanie Mills for having Chaka’s back and keeping things going. Such a class act!
I love Stephanie Mills.
Me too!
Love how President Obama is getting his voice out there, on all of these highly important topics!
It’s ALL HATE all the time with these A-HOLES REPUGGLIANS.
I know, just let it go.
I did! 🙋🏾♀️
🇺🇸🇨🇦
and a better world for all living beings
🙏🏾😔🎖
Morning everyone. Happy Friday! It’s BBB Day💙🌈🙏🏼
Did McCarthy stop vomiting words yet?
Good Morning! Watch the BBB vote here!
Ambassador Rice details what’s in the BBB bill.
It is about time, that nut head Trump put in there has really messed the mail up.It is about time for Biden to get rid of him.
Speaker Ms. Nancy just announced that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act HR 3684
has passed!!
–The Doom Q Collective all voted nyet.
Good morning TODVille!
What a happy news! Congratulations to Madam Speaker Pelosi and her tireless Democratic Representatives, fearless, focused, consumed only with the goal of helping the American people.
I will refrain from saying anything about the rambling I witnessed last night around 2am EST.
Happy Friday, TODVille!
Argh…protonic reversal weirdness.
Of course HR 3654 was signed into law 4 days ago !!
—U.S. House today passed President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, congrats!!
https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/11/eclipse.html
Something stunning to wake up to!
bbl
{{{TOD}}}
🕊🕯💕🌟💕🕯🕊
Rep. Jayapal reacts to House passing Build Back Better: ‘We are delivering’
“Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA),
joined Chris Jansing just moments after the House voted to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. She reacts to the key win for Democrats and discusses what comes next for their agenda in the Senate.
“I am so proud of Democrats today. I am so proud of President Biden,” Jayapal says.
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/rep-jayapal-reacts-to-house-passing-build-back-better-we-are-delivering-126658117761)
—-Congresswoman Jayapal was truly unrelenting and of good cheer throughout.
—–Giant congrats to Speaker Pelosi, all House Democrats, their staffs, and the WH !!!
Wooooot! 💃🏾🕺🏾
Senator Warren:
“My minimum tax (bill)…the one I have with Senator King…we`re going to get it through.
The one that says giant corporations, Amazon, pay nothing in taxes even when they’re reporting billions in profits. 15% minimum tax. It`s going to raise $300 billion.”
Where is Peng Shuai? 🎾
I ❤️FLOTUS Jill!
Good News on the Vaccine Front!
Here’s what’s NOT in the BBB bill that passed the house today – thanks to SineManchin. Still, it’s progress. There’s always more work to do.
Feels great to be fighting the climate emergency – more to come in the BBB.
Yep, on to the Senate. 🤞🏾
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA):
“I don`t mean any disrespect. I don`t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Saule Omarova, Kazakh-American Attorney:
“Senator, I`m not a communist.”
“My family suffered under the communist regime. I grew up without knowing half of my family.
My grandmother herself escaped death twice under the Stalin regime.”
Senator Warren:
“Professor Omarova, I know that the giant banks object to your willingness to enforce the law to keep our system safe and that you may cut into big bank profits. So they and their Republican buddies have declared war on you. The attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal.
We’ve just seen them, sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s red scare tactics.
It is all there on full display. Welcome to Washington in 2021.
Now, one claim is that you intend to nationalize the banking system. So, let`s just get this nonsense out of the way. Does the OCC have the power to end private banking and to move all consumer deposits to a public ledger?”
Omarosa: “Absolutely not.”
You can bet GOP John Kennedy
would have given his eyeteeth to meet with Putin on Thanksgiving 2017, along with the all the other Republican congress members, e..g. Daines (MT)
Remember when they were openly in bed with Putin….but now this pretense with Prof. Omarosa.
Professor Saule Omarova.
History made again today – First Female Acting President of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Transfer of power !!!
First, but definitely not the last! 😁🙌🏾
A side “big deal” about all this is that when Joe selected our VP and other members of his administration in so many areas of expertise, he said he was “building a back bench.” VP Kamala Harris was #1 on the list. I’m hoping Joe finishes out his full term, but he cares enough about our country to find the right people in the right roles to carry on the work.
This “Acting President” milestone today was historic!
Joy Reid:
“More than 100 high-profile religious and civil rights leaders joined the family of Ahmaud Arbery for a wall of prayer, as the trial of 3 men accused of killing the 25-year-old continues. Reverend Al Sharpton led the effort.”
Rev. Sharpton:
“And we had well over 350 pastors and Martin Luther King III and others, Reverend Jesse Jackson and others, with us today. Because he (the Judge) insulted all of us that have gone into courtrooms for years. AND have seen people on the other side bring who they want to court.”
Reid
“And (Paul Butler) said that the description of the way these men chase down Ahmaud Arbery,
it was like the old slave catchers or like an old-time lynching. Where they just chase a man through the streets, demanding he do what they say. Just because these white men are telling you to do it, you must do it. And then killed him! And then thought nothing of it, never even told the police this excuse that they’re now using. But just sitting in that trial, tell us how this looks to you, having dealt with so many civil rights cases and murders of Black people.”
Rev. Sharpton:
“This is the most blatant example of a mentality that ‘We are allowed, we are empowered to do we want to any Black’.
For him to admit today on the stand, one of the defendants,
they never even said ‘You’re under arrest, this is a civil arrest, a private arrest’.
Or whatever he want to call it, so then what is it?
If you’re claiming you were making a citizen’s arrest, and you didn’t say that.
If you’re claiming self-defense, which you never said until now. Then it really was saying, ‘We have the right to do whatever we want to do’.
We’re back to Dred Scott: that a Black man has “No Rights Which the White Man was Bound to Respect”.
And they were not arrested for days, they were not dealt with for many weeks until this video came out until some of us starting exposing this. And stood with this family.”
Rev. Sharpton:
“Until the local police understand there’s federal law and they will be prosecuted,
and they will be treated like anybody that breaks the law, they will continue to edit, leave out what they wanted to do and did not want to exposed. As they did in the Malcolm X case, until they understand that we will not tolerate it, and there will be federal law, it will not go municipality to municipality, county by county.
We need federal law.
As they vote tonight (Infrastructure Bill), they need to come in with Voting Rights, and they need to come in with the George Floyd bill immediately. We cannot keep being policed by people that need to be policed, and there’s no federal law to protect us.”
✊🏾
Another white murderer goes free
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Counts: Live Updates
The jury deliberated three and a half days in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three men, two of them fatally, during demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis.
(nyt)
—-show the evidence that was banned by the Judge.
As Elie Mystal pointed out this was not normal. The judge was biased towards Rittenhouse at every stage.
100% his decisions were all one way, like it was his son on trial.
Rittenhouse choosing his witnesses out of a hat was embarrassing.
What was on those pieces of paper and who did they represent? Where is the proof?
imo should’ve been enough to throw it out right there.
The person who would throw it out is the person who perpetrated and nurtured the bias – the judge.
Yes
have no idea how it would be done if warranted – impeachment?
have no answers but clearly this process was suspect.
—-Are we hypnotized? What?
Huh?
This!
Turkey Pardon
Wisconsin GQP
Trouble for DeJoy?
Biden makes new choices for USPS board
President Joe Biden can’t legally fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, but he can pick USPS board
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trouble-dejoy-biden-makes-new-choices-usps-board-n1284273)
Yes!!!!
Galveston TX A Test Case For Republicans Redrawing Districts To Make Elections Irrelevant
“Ari Berman, senior reporter for Mother Jones, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Republicans in Galveston, Texas, no longer encumbered by the Voting Rights Act, are redrawing voting districts to eliminate Democratic voter power, making elections an empty exercise unless Congress passes new voting rights legislation.”
Opinion: The redistricting apocalypse is here
(Waldman)
“The word “redistricting” doesn’t carry the same inherent drama as a crowd of rabid thugs breaking doors and windows to storm the Capitol. But the way it’s proceeding right now, in its own way it’s just as much of an assault on our democracy.”
A few highlights:
—In Texas, Republicans essentially eliminated electoral competition. Only one of the state’s 38 congressional districts will be competitive under the new map; 13 will be safely Democratic, and 24 will be safely Republican. If recent trends persist, the majority of the state’s voters will be voting for Democrats within a few years, but Republicans will still control nearly two-thirds of the House seats.
—In North Carolina, one of the most closely divided states in the country, Republicans drew maps that created 10 GOP seats, just three Democratic seats and one competitive seat.
—In Georgia, where Democrats recently won the presidential contest and two Senate races, state Republicans just released a map that would give them control of nine of the state’s 14 congressional districts. They essentially made it impossible for Rep. Lucy McBath, a prominent Black Democrat, to win reelection.
—In Utah, legislators rejected a map drawn by an independent commission in favor of one that divides Salt Lake County, which Joe Biden won, among four districts so that all will be Republican.
In perhaps the most egregious gerrymander of all, Republicans in the Ohio legislature are pushing through a new map that will ensure that as many as 13 of the state’s 15 congressional seats will be held by Republicans.
In perhaps the most egregious gerrymander of all, Republicans in the Ohio legislature are pushing through a new map that will ensure that as many as 13 of the state’s 15 congressional seats will be held by Republicans.
All these gerrymanders are being duplicated in maps for state legislatures. This is a key part of the system: If Republicans can draw state legislative lines that make it impossible for Democrats to gain power, they can then use control of the legislature to keep drawing its lines and those of congressional districts to maintain their grip.
Let’s consider Ohio in detail:
Here: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/republicans-making-elections-irrelevant/)
Mask-Wearing Cuts New COVID-19 Cases by 53%,
Study Says
“When people wear face masks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus,
the number of new COVID-19 infections drops by 53%,
according to a new study published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
(https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211118/mask-wearing-cuts-new-covid-cases-study)
Speaker Pelosi:
Floor Speech on H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
“With the passage of the Build Back Better Act, we – this Democratic Congress – are taking our place in the long and honorable heritage of our democracy, which – with legislation that will be the pillar of health and financial security in America. It will be historic in forging landmark progress for our nation. We talk about history as we look and prepare for the future.
Much has been said since the distinguished Democratic leadership spoke last evening. Much has been said on this Floor. But the facts are these: following the vision of President Biden, guided by the expertise and energy of our Chairs, Members and staff, we have a Build Back Better bill that is historic, transformative and larger than anything we have ever done before. We are Building Back Better. ”
Full: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/111921)
‘Building Back Better with tribal sovereignty as the foundation’
Each tribe, like each state, has unique needs based on population, geography and capacity
by Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis
Gila River Indian Community
“In October 2020, I met with then-candidate Joe Biden and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Both promised an administration that would not only recognize tribal sovereignty, but leadership committed to making decisions based on that sovereignty. Tribal nations, they vowed, would be treated as equal partners in all government-to-government relationships and agreements.
In Indian Country, we have heard such promises many times before. As the White House Tribal Nations Summit has approached, a quick review of the actions taken by the administration to date shows that this White House has, in fact, shown a sustained commitment to Indian Country during the first year of the Biden presidency. Something else is noticeable as well: This administration has taken the foundation of the federal-tribal relationship and built upon it.”
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/building-back-better-with-tribal-sovereignty-as-the-foundation
Indigenous airline takes off
Canadian-based airline Iskwew Air has commenced its first scheduled flight
Kalle Benallie
Indian Country Today
The first 100 percent Indigenous woman-owned airline launched its first scheduled flight on Aug. 16 after a delay from the pandemic.
“COVID has been absolutely devastating to Iskwew Air and the entire industry,”
Founder and Lead Executive Teara Fraser, Métis, told Indian Country Today. “An airline startup in a global pandemic is literally next level impossible.”
The flight departed from Vancouver International Airport, where it was welcomed by Musqueam and Qualicum First Nations. The airline first asked the Musqueam people to do business on their lands.
Musqueam cultural knowledge keepers, Thelma and Art Stogan, greeted them with a celebratory water salute, blessing and cedar brushing.
The flight headed west, across the Strait of Georgia, the arm of the Salish Sea, to Qualicum Beach Airport.
There, it was welcomed by Qualicum Chief Michael Recalma with a blanketing ceremony and welcome song from local cultural representatives.
“It is important to uplift Indigenous land story, sovereignty, and stewardship at every opportunity,”
Fraser said in a news release.
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indigenous-airline-takes-off)
Renowned Minnesota Native artist George Morrison to be honored with new stamp series
by Dan Kraker
“Celebrated Minnesota artist George Morrison — who was born in a Native American fishing village along the North Shore of Lake Superior in 1919, but whose art career took him around the world — will be featured on a new stamp series to be released next year by the U.S. Postal Service.
Morrison is regarded as one of the greatest American abstract expressionist painters, a contemporary and friend of artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning during the modern art movement that flourished in New York after World War II.
Five of Morrison’s colorful, abstract landscape paintings will be featured as part of the Postal Service’s Forever Stamp release in the spring of 2022.”
(https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/11/16/renowned-minnesota-native-artist-george-morrison-to-be-honored-with-new-stamp
Mei Yaochen:
“The more defenses you induce your enemy to adopt,
the more impoverished your enemy will be.”
(The Art of War, Sun Tzu)
—imo we have to go bigger than this trumpQ strategy plus exceed their speed and energy.
Happy House BBB Friday for starters…congrats!!!!
ICYMI earlier this week; a thread…
This gives me hope.
It did not surprise me that Rittenhouse got off, with that right wing sorry Judge, all white jury. I am expecting those three white men in Georgia to get off too. I hope not.
I know the feeling!
Happy Birthday President Biden. The news are always talking about your poll numbers, but my opinion he is doing a good job. Much better then that pathological lying racist wacko Russian crook Trump.
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Very Happy Birthday wishes to President Biden !!!
Go for the ice cream, the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
HD – any media spin that said otherwise honestly did not register with me.
From the get-go Joe has been doing an impossibly marvelous job, and i could feel the lights coming back on. Think of the humungous mess doom left behind him and the horrific daily death toll. We’d all been mentally abused soo severely. Remember babies dying on the border in jails alone, without their mothers, and nothing you could do about it. It was an endless nightmare for the country. And then ahhh we were blessed with President Biden and Dr. Biden and the Harrises. Ahh what a godsend. Am so grateful
every day.
🙂 ❤
President Biden pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey
President Joe Biden hosts his first turkey pardoning ceremony. President Biden will chose the official National Thanksgiving Turkey between two turkeys, named ‘Peanut Butter’ and ‘Jelly’.
—-a delight !!
Statement by President Biden on Transgender Day of Remembrance
“This year, at least 46 transgender individuals in this country—and hundreds more around the world—
were killed in horrifying acts of violence. Each of these lives was precious. Each of them deserved freedom, justice, and joy. Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans, as well as the countless other transgender people—disproportionately Black and brown transgender women and girls—who face brutal violence, discrimination, and harassment.
In spite of our progress strengthening civil rights for LGBTQI+ Americans,
too many transgender people still live in fear and face systemic barriers to freedom and equality.
To ensure that our government protects the civil rights of transgender Americans, I charged my team with coordinating across the federal government to address the epidemic of violence and advance equality for transgender people. I continue to call on state leaders and lawmakers to combat the disturbing proliferation of discriminatory state legislation targeting transgender people, especially transgender children. As I have said before, these bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation, they are un-American, and they endanger the safety and well-being of our children. I also continue to urge the Senate to swiftly pass the Equality Act so that all people are able to live free from fear and discrimination.
Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know. But no person should have to be brave just to live in safety and dignity. Today, we remember. Tomorrow—and every day—we must continue to act.”
(whitehouse.gov)
Wise words from Amber Ruffin
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New post.