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The People’s View
- Follow me at my new venture: Reclaim the Fight Spandan Chakrabarti
- Ignore the bait: Why it’s the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care Spandan Chakrabarti
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census Spandan Chakrabarti
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesn’t matter. Spandan Chakrabarti
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul Spandan Chakrabarti
Smartypants
- GOP Dysfunction on Display in Republican Primaries
- Some Perspective on Biden's Approval Ratings and What They Mean for the 2022 Midterms
- How the Media Covers Republican Obstruction
- Mollie Hemingway Isn't Actually Interested in Election Integrity
- How Trump's Big Lie Could Hurt Republicans in the 2022 Midterms
Steve Benen
- After Biden conference, will allies be left wondering if U.S. will waffle on Ukraine?
- 'As bad as it gets': Trump took hits from all sides this week. What hurt him most?
- Florida health official put on leave after promoting Covid vaccines
- He lost everyone he knew due to his obsession with QAnon. Then came Jan. 6.
- Biden disappointed but not deterred after Senate fails to pass voting rights reform
The Obama Diary 
I remember that episode! Happy, safe Thanksgiving to all!
Happy Thanksgiving to you Judith!
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thank you, Nerdy, so much! So grateful for you and everybody here.
Happy Thanksgiving Judith, sjterrid, Nerdy and all our wonderful TOD family. Always grateful for you! – D
❤️❤️❤️
Happy Thanksgiving!! Thank you for being here all together – quite the ride.
love
LOVE to the Obama, Biden, Harris families, everyone working to lift us up.
–Thanks to all who protect the rule of law and the journalists who are telling us the truth.
Happy Thanksgiving, Dudette!
yes…me tooo…love it!
Happy and safe Thanksgiving to you, too, Judith – and to all in TODville (past and present!) and especially to Nerdy!
Happy FriendsGiving, Judith & all our TOD family! And especially to our Nerdy! Bless! 💞💖😷
Justice for Ahmaud!
Rev has a point!
I could finally cry. Held everything deep inside my soul after that rotten brat in WI. Then today … tears just coursed their way down my neck, & somehow cleansed my heart.💜💞💖
I feel you. It’s exhausting and depressing having to constantly assert ourselves as humans whose lives matter. ❤️
Truly exhausted of receiving crumbs so to be recognized & acknowleged as beings, persons. We are human, more humane than what history has shown of their acts. What are they so afraid of, that minor % of America? (Of course media perpetuates huge % of BS.) Well now. If Lady Karma (I heard she’s a bitch, we’re probably related, gotta check Ancestry.com one of these days😇) scares them into gerrymandering/gun toting murderers/etcetera arseholics, then let me tell ya! Karma Lady Bitch doesn’t play your game! That’s their fear.
So relieved and frankly, amazed!
I am too!
Amazed is a good word for it. But I’m so thankful.
Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny.
State of Terror: A Novel
Ms. Clinton in a great interview with Rachel Maddow yesterday: “I’m thrilled they like the thriller”.
Congratulations Ms Clinton, Ms. Penny !!!
Remarks by President Biden
on the Economy and Lowering Prices for the American People
(excerpts)
“It starts with my Port Action Plan — a proactive three-month effort to invest in our ports and relieve bottlenecks. Forty percent of the goods, for example, that come into this country on the West Coast come through two ports: Los Angeles and Long Beach. To help ease the congestion at these ports, I brought together labor and management and asked them to step up and cooperate, to move from operating the ports at 40 hours a week at those ports to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
“The price of gasoline has reached record levels recently in Europe and in Asia.
In France, at the end of last month, it reached about $7 per gallon. In Japan, it’s about $5.50 per gallon — the highest it’s been in years.”
“It’s a testament to the grit and determination of the American people, as well as our unique approach to this recovery and our focus on rebuilding our economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.
Because of that approach, we’re the only leading economy in the world where household income and the economy as a whole are stronger than they were before the pandemic hit.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/23/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-economy-and-lowering-prices-for-the-american-people/)
The ports got unclogged when businesses were going to get fined for not returning empty containers and container companies for not shipping them back to China.
Thanks POTUS BIDEN AND PETE.
Thank you Georgia.
LIVE NOW…
Thank you for Justice to prevail 💖🙏🏾
This young man, Ahmaud Arbery can now Rest in Eternal Peace.
So very glad for his family.
So glad for Black people in America. This is a message loud and clear that Hunting Season of “the Blacks” is coming to an End!!!
And may I add that so many of us who are white are in tune with this message, 100 percent! Happy Thanksgiving!
Next!
Yes!
I’m so very exhausted – but, most of all, thankful for these verdicts today. Rest in peace, Ahmaud Arbery. Praying for his loving family.
When ever i think of Justice under the law i think of Ronald Green who was tortured and killed at the hands of the Louisiana State Police in 2019. it did not come out till a video surfaced of Ronald Green begging for his life…it tears me apart every time i think about…i have not heard anything more about this case…
This article is from May of this year..
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/us/ronald-greene-louisiana-police-death-friday/index.html
Any TOD Fam visiting DC these dates? Here you go!
Love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁
Love you back! Happy Thanksgiving.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING from Albuquerque to my TOD friends!! Today was monumental. YES, only one battle in the struggle. But a BIG WIN I did not expect, especially after the murder-brat got off.
Still, savor it and have a great holiday!
(Don’t eat and drink anything………… 😋 )
RE-RUN… Chaka Khan vs Stephanie Mills Verzuz Battle LIVE
A little PBO retro times to bring smiles & love:
OMG! What a wonderful treat! Happy Thanksgiving!
Nite nite everyone, have a good day tomorrow, stay strong, keep you all the Heart..
Big hugs all around
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Happy Thanksgiving, MP!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Love to you and yours! ❤️
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
To all my TOD family 💖.
Thank you President Biden and First Lady Dr Biden for everything you are doing to heal this nation.
Thanksgiving Message from the International Space Station
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and
Kayla Barron and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer shared their thoughts
about spending Thanksgiving in orbit and the foods they plan to enjoy.
—- looked up at the stars tonight and thought about our fab community in space. Best wishes!!
Somebody reminded me I wrote this poem a while back. Still works for me! Hope everyone had a Happy Turkey Day. Thanks for being here for us, Nerdy darlin’ !!!
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The beauty of not being the chef or the cook
Is that tonight I don’t have to pore through any recipe book
I don’t have to wonder if there will be enough
Or if tom turkey has turned out a little too tough
All I had to do was play my cards right to get an invitation
And smile when I wish Happy Thanksgiving …
… to everyone in the nation.
Like to get one of those t shirts
Check it out: https://etsytees.com/product/straight-blue-the-only-way-2022-shirt/
Me too!
Me too!
I”m late with this…but this family looks so joyful
ha..forgot the tweet
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to the Obama family!!!
Thank you PBO and forever Michelle for all the work you are doing. And for inspiring young people to make a difference in their communities and in their countries around the world.
–love you so much.
I would like for him and Attorney Ben Crump to find a way to sue the State of Missouri for wrongful incarceration.
Good West Coast Friday morning Nerdy & TOD family.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/who-meeting-covid19-variant-concern-south-africa-2340336
The latest update
Big hugs, stay smart and stay safe…
🕊🕯🙏🏼🕯🕊
Chef José Andrés Pours Sherry,
Shows Stephen How To Cook Red Snapper For Thanksgiving
Our good friend Chef José Andrés
stops by for a holiday cooking segment and gets the party started with a fancy pour of some fancy Spanish sherry. For more information on Chef José’s amazing organization World Central Kitchen go to http://www.wck.org.
Soon – President Biden attends Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Nantucket, Massachusetts
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Co-managing public lands: ‘The idea is ripe’
Coming up, tribal co-management of public lands is gaining traction. Plus, more on the complex governance issues facing Alaska Natives
“Chickasaw citizen Kevin Washburn has worked to improve federal Indian policy both from within the federal government and from the outside. He is the dean of the University of Iowa College of Law — and served as the assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the Department of the Interior in the Obama administration. He joins the ICT newscast to talk about how tribal nations could seek to contract with the federal government to co-manage public lands.”
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/newscasts/kevin-washburn-11-18-2021)
—-consultation becoming more like co-management.
Indigenous activists want to change a California town’s racist name. Officials are pushing back.
“In September, the popular Lake Tahoe ski resort Squaw Valley
announced it would change its name,
recognizing that the term was “derogatory and offensive”.
It became official with a press release and a new sign.
But that’s not the end of the name in California. Hundreds of miles south in Fresno county, near Kings Canyon national park, there is another Squaw Valley. The central California town of about 3,500 people dates back to the 19th century, and is one of nearly 100 places in California to use the controversial term in its name.
Derived from the Algonquin language, the word “squaw”…has become a misogynistic and racist term
used to disparage Indigenous women.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/25/squaw-valley-california-indigenous-racist-misogynistic)
‘Squaw’:
“is also a commonly used place name in the US – more than 650 federal sites include it in their names”.
Not a kernel of truth:
After 400 years it’s time to take down the monumental insult
The Wall Street Journal needs to cease its incorrect ‘Pilgrim Journal’
by Randy Ritkausky
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
“I am sending a gift, a box of “Indian corn,” to the Wall Street Journal editorial board
as a reminder of what really happened in colonial North America and is commemorated by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
On this 400th anniversary of what we believe to be the first Thanksgiving, the Wall Street Journal is poised to print its insulting Pilgrim Journal version of early colonial history for the 60th time.
Not only is the account suffused with the racist sentiment,
but it is also factually incorrect to a grotesque degree.
The newspaper is impugning its own credibility and not just its core values.
In 2020, I wrote to the Wall Street Journal imploring them to retire the editorial and was ignored.
This year I organized a Change.org petition to remove the offending commentary. (change.org)
The offending editorials by the Wall Street Journal refer to the Indigenous people who gave Pilgrims corn and taught them how to grow the life-saving source of food as less than human. The diary showcased by the Wall Street Journal characterizes this bountiful continent as “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men.”
Such de-humanization contributed to the genocide
that extinguished 90 percent of the Indigenous population
and produced residential schools that took Native children from their families,
as was the case with my grandfather who attended three of them.
This dehumanization is not a thing of the past.
It continues today with the disappearances of thousands of Indigenous women
whose fate is often not even investigated.”
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/not-a-kernel-of-truth-after-400-years-its-time-to-take-down-the-monumental-insult)
“Song from the Kitlinuharmiut (Copper Eskimo)
translated by Knud Rasmussen, attributed to ‘The Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924’.
“And I think over again
My small adventures
When from a shore wind I drifted out In my kayak
And I thought I was in danger.
My fears,
Those small ones
That I thought so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing.
To live and see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world.”
Forgive me if this is a duplicate posting!
Love!
Hair Curlers in Public? That’s Just How They Roll.
The young South Korean women who wear them say they are not only functional, but also a sign of shifting ideas about beauty and a reflection of the country’s generational divide.
(Jin Yu Young)
“Hair rollers in public are not an uncommon sight on the streets of Seoul. “You only have to look good in front of the people you care about,” one frequent curler-wearer explained.”
“SEOUL — In a subway car on a recent fall afternoon, seven young South Korean women stood quietly among a crowd of commuters. They wore seasonal jackets and wind breakers just like other passengers, but one accessory made them stand out: old-fashioned hair curlers locked tightly into their bangs. These plastic cylinders, usually Velcro-covered, can be seen nearly everywhere around Seoul — in cafes and restaurants, on public transportation, on the street.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/style/korea-hair-curlers-gen-z.html?action=click&module=card&pageType=theWeekenderLink)
CDC: 74.1% over 5 years of age, one dose. 196.2 million fully vaccinated.
(https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total)
imo,
Qtrump strategy seems to be to FAIL the national optimal vaccination goal so they can blame our President…and who cares which party loses its voters…who cares the endless fallout into the future.
= That’s how worthless our lives are to the overlord global corporate predator$.
telling us how it is…and no one heeding
Happy Saturday. My Buckeyes got their asses kicked today. Honestly. It was pathetic. Getting ready to make dinner but thought I would pop in to say hello….
Hello to you, a little late! 🙂
Mark Levine:
“Hard to believe there is such a massive loophole
in the vaccine requirement for int’l arrivals but here it is on the CDC website:”
(https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/proof-of-vaccination.html)
“The good news:
U.S. requires air travelers entering the country to be vaccinated.
The crazy news:
this rule doesn’t apply to U.S. citizens.
This needs to be fixed NOW.”
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heh. thx D.
imo…hi…
let’s go deeper,
ask who is behind QAnon,
ask who Koch is working with globally,
ask who FB is working with globally.
It serves O & G + Coal when the right bashes science and denies climate change.
It serves O & G + Coal when thugs attack School Boards, want to burn books and make Education a crime.
It serves O & G + Coal if the move to electric cars and clean energy is not financed sufficiently.
It serves O & G + Coal if Americans are intimidated and threatened when they protest.
It serves O & G + Coal if fair elections become a thing of the past.
It serves O & G + Coal if elections if a legitimate elected Congress becomes a thing of the past.
BuzzFeed News: Virgil Abloh, The First Black Man To Be An Artistic Director At Louis Vuitton, Has Died At 41.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/virgil-abloh-the-first-black-man-to-be-an-artistic-director
Happy Monday! 🎄🕊✨
It’s Christmas at the White House!
Statement by President Joe Biden on Hanukkah
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-hanukkah/)
—-beautiful.
Missouri gives Strickland his freedom, but no compensation for decades lost in prison
Ali Velshi reports on the local outrage that the state of Missouri is not offering Kevin Strickland any compensation for the 43 years he spent in prison on a wrongful conviction, discharging him from prison with essentially nothing to his name.
—-Mr. Strickland has nothing personally after being wrongfully incerated. Missouri must make amends.
“Unlike guilty prisoners,
a parole officer won’t help Strickland with housing, counseling, or work.
Unlike exonerees in other states, he will not be eligible through a compensation package for social services, such as participating in the state’s healthcare program.
In Missouri the wrongly convicted are almost always spit out of the system with nothing from the government that imprisoned them.
The federal standard for compensation is $50,000 a year for each year of wrongful imprisonment.
Kansas, which in 2018 passed a measure making the wrongly convicted eligible to receive $65,000 in compensation for each year they were incarcerated. For Strickland, that law would have made him eligible for more than $2.7 million.” (Kansas City Star).
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Welp! 😏