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
And I so want the large population of Minorities (Brown & Indigenous people) to be aware of what's happening and that they have the Voting power to affect Change! https://t.co/U3lP3Qi6yr
President Joe Biden’s policies are having direct positive impacts on Long Beach and the LA region. The supply chain crisis has dramatically improved, unemployment continues to drop, vaccines are widely available, and we are preparing for billions in infrastructure support.
I’m into distraction & enjoying some older WH fab concerts. So glad I never deleted them from my DVR! 💃 And thanks be to PBS! And PBO/M-FLOTUS (meaning M for our Michelle).💞
BTW, Kennedy Center Honors will be on TV December 22. Check yr local channels. 🎶
Thanks Booms! Yes, I saw some of the stories about her Farewell Celebration at Comic-Con. ❤️
A friend of mine, who’s working on a project with her, sent me some of his pictures with her this weekend. I’m so jealous! It would’ve been great to be there and see her in person again. I hope I get the chance to again sometime. 🖖🏾
Good Morning Lovely Family!
Here’s something beautiful for your eyes and ears. Enjoy!
Originally choreographed in a living room, Robert Battle's Takademe has traveled the world. Performed by Jamar Roberts, this excerpt uses humor & syncopation to mirror the Indian Kathak dance rhythms of Sheila Chandra's Speaking in Tongues II.
The attacks on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, launched the U.S. into World War II, when more than 16 million Americans served. On National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, VA salutes the Americans who died and the survivors who fought in the years following the attack 80 years ago. pic.twitter.com/szKongILhm
Today I will mark the first ever @WhiteHouse Maternal Health Day of Action. We must do everything we can to protect and strengthen maternal health and reproductive health. This is about the rights of women and the future of our nation. https://t.co/ydslUE8mfX
77 yrears ago: My grandmother, Alice Virginia Robinson Nelson, was the first Black woman on the east coast, and the second in the US, to launch a ship when she christened the SS Vincennes at the Sun Ship Dry Dock and Shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1942. pic.twitter.com/vKFeoS6CGD
Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity.
Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.
“Until the day comes where we discover how to extract more information from the universe than presently seems possible, we have no choice but to face our ignorance. The Big Bang still happened a very long time ago, but it wasn’t the beginning we once supposed it to be.”
I’ve been struggling with some complex situations that I must get out of my head. Here goes…
I’m reading and hearing about President Biden and the Beijing boycott and his reasons for our Diplomats boycotting the Olympics. Well, here’s where my confusions come in – I just received some items I ordered from the White House Souvenirs. One item had a label that said “Made in Taiwan” and another was labeled as “Made in China”.
If the White House boycott is due to “ongoing crimes against humanity”, why are we supporting their labor abuses?
I’m struggling with this y’all. Aren’t we contributing to the labor abuse? Why aren’t these items “Made in America”?
Saks Fifth Avenue Launches Holiday Campaign
in Support of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance
NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Saks Fifth Avenue today celebrates the launch of its holiday campaign in support of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance. The campaign kicks off with the unveiling of Saks Fifth Avenue’s iconic holiday window display and ten-story-tall theatrical light show at its New York flagship, featuring a special appearance by former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, Michelle Obama, and a performance by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. The event, presented by Mastercard for the benefit of Saks, can be enjoyed online by viewers across the globe on Saks Live starting at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 23.
“A Moment of Hope”:
Xiomara Castro’s Likely Win in Honduran Election Ends Years of Right-Wing Rule After Coup
“We go to Honduras, where thousands took to the streets to celebrate the leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro’s lead in the polls ahead of the right-wing National Party candidate Nasry Asfura.
The historic election saw a record voter turnout and could signal the end of the 12-year brutal regime under the conservative National Party, which rose to power after a coup backed by the U.S. in 2009 overthrew democratically-elected leftist President Manuel Zelaya.
Castro, who is Zelaya’s wife, would become the first woman to serve as president of Honduras I
f her victory is confirmed. “It’s brought hope to the entire country,” says Faridd Sierra, a high-school teacher in Comayagua, Honduras. Years of corruption and conservative law-making “showed the Honduras people just how cruel the [National] Party was and … they voted in response,” adds Honduran scholar Suyapa Portillo.
Castro’s likely win “is a testament to bottom-up organizing,” she says.”
When people ask me "What does feminism mean," or "What does it mean to be a feminist?" I say: it means that you are in favor of the full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic and cultural life. pic.twitter.com/2l32sQYPxq
“Rosanne Boyland hated politics.
She was shy, and she rarely left her home in Georgia. But then her family got a shocking call:
Rosanne had died at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in the middle of a crowd trying to force its way past a police line.
From the depths of their grief, the Boylands vow to figure out what happened to Rosanne.
Her brother-in-law, Justin Cave, reaches out to an old high school friend he hopes can help:
MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.
The quest for the truth takes Ayman back to his hometown of Kennesaw, Georgia, where he retraces the last six months of Rosanne’s life and picks up a trail that leads to childhood haunts, missing boyfriends, and down shadowy internet rabbit holes.” (Nov 22 episode)
—American Radical latest episode: “Who killed Rosanne Boyland?” now on Spotify.
Summit for Democracy will follow the money
One of the key issues at the summit will be to crack down on global money laundering.
By Sheldon Whitehouse
“America is engaged in a clash of civilizations,
pitting democracy and the free market on one side against kleptocracy and corruption on the other.
We have vital national security stakes in this contest: Almost all the international evil that has come America’s way in recent decades has come from regimes outside the rule of law, from terrorist attacks to election subversion. That’s why it is a contest we must win.”
NASA Selects New Astronaut Recruits to Train for Future Missions
“NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the United States and work for humanity’s benefit in space.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson introduced the members of the 2021 astronaut class, the first new class in four years, during a Monday, Dec. 6 event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Today we welcome 10 new explorers, 10 members of the Artemis generation, NASA’s 2021 astronaut candidate class,” Nelson said. “Alone, each candidate has ‘the right stuff,’ but together they represent the creed of our country: E pluribus unum – out of many, one.”
Putin keeps West guessing with dangerous brinksmanship
“Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia,
talks with Rachel Maddow about whether Russia’s military build-up on the border with Ukraine is a genuine threat, and how the U.S. should approach Russia diplomatically given this belligerence.”
Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Maternal Day of Action Summit
“But the truth is women in our nation — and this is a hard truth — women in our nation are dying. Before, during, and after childbirth, women in our nation are dying at a higher rate than any other developed nation in our world.
And we know that, for some women, the risk is much higher. When we know that, we should do something about it. When we know that, today, Black women are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we should do something about that.
When we know that Native American women are more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we got to do something about that.
When women who live in rural America, which has many maternal care deserts — meaning there are no maternal care facilities — and when we know that women in rural America, for that and other reasons, are about 60 percent more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we need to do something about that.
And think about it: Regardless of income level, regardless of education level, Black women, Native women, women who live in rural areas are more likely to die or be left scared or scarred from an experience that should be safe and should be a joyful one.”
Trump’s ‘propaganda ecosystem’ priming supporters for violence: Gellman
“Barton Gellman, staff writer for the Atlantic magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow
about how Donald Trump and his supporting media have so thoroughly imbued Trump supporters
with contempt for their political opposition that they’ve made violence an obvious and permissible conclusion.”
TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN
January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
(Barton Gellman)
“Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup.
It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place.
If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024.
Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect.
The winner will be declared the loser.
The loser will be certified president-elect.
“The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act.
They are acting already.”
The Election That Could Break America
“If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?”
Eighty years ago today, over 2,400 Americans lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today we remember them, and all those who fought to protect our freedom. pic.twitter.com/rf9eihYS1O
I had so much fun with these bright young people from Hyde Park Academy! I loved hearing about their ideas, passions, and resilience. My message to them—and to every young person out there—is to keep learning and never give up on your dreams. Barack and I believe in you! pic.twitter.com/hdTIrEodRt
Just thinking back to the last week of September where people on here were convinced that the bipartisan infrastructure bill was going to fail, the government was going to shutdown, and we were going to default on the debt.
Congresswoman Omar on calls for ‘condemnation and punishment’ for Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments
Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments are condemned by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is the target of Boebert’s hate speech, in conversation with Joy Reid
A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it
Who is behind the Utah Voter Verification Project?
A Tribune investigation uncovers some troubling tactics and connections.
“Last week, residents in Hurricane alerted Washington County officials that strangers were coming to their doors asking questions about the 2020 election.
The questioners did not wear name tags and refused to identify themselves or what organization they were with, according to the complaints.
“When UVVP volunteers knock on a door, they’re instructed to record audio or video
without the consent of the person being recorded.
This is legal as Utah is a single consent state,
which means only one person needs to know they’re being recorded.
“We can record anyone without telling them. We don’t need permission…”
—-Again if you’re trying this on nationwide, pls come to my door. Just call me outraged.
Seven days: Following Trump’s coronavirus trail
(Parker, Dawsey)
“When he first learned he had tested positive for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was already aboard Air Force One, en route to a massive rally in Middletown, Pa.
With him on the plane that Saturday evening were dozens of people — senior aides, Air Force One personnel, junior staffers, journalists and other members of the large entourage typical for a presidential trip — all squeezed together in the recirculating air of a jetliner.
“Stop the president,” White House physician Sean Conley told Chief of Staff Mark Meadows,
according to a new book by Meadows set to publish Tuesday that was obtained by the Guardian newspaper.
“He just tested positive for covid.”
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with President Macron of France, Chancellor Merkel of Germany,
Prime Minister Draghi of Italy, Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom
Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump.
Here’s proof.
(Quotes list of headlines.)
“Artificial intelligence can now measure the negativity with precision.
At my request, Forge.ai, a data analytics unit of the information company FiscalNote,
combed through more than 200,000 articles —
tens of millions of words —
from 65 news websites (newspapers, network and cable news,
political publications, news wires and more) to do a “sentiment analysis” of coverage.
Using algorithms that give weight to certain adjectives based on their placement in the story,
it rated the coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of 2021
and the coverage President Donald Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020.
The findings, painstakingly assembled by FiscalNote vice president Bill Frischling, confirmed my fear:
My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.”
Remembering how certain media gave Doom a free pass and handed him the 2016 election.
How about now?
Was the money worth it if you wake up with your children
to a Russian-style authoritarian mafia state?
Really? Can you see WSJ conducting a survey among Latino’s? The WSJ? I bet they don’t have 50 upper management white collar Latino’s working at WSJ. Please! This is a compilation of GOP points from perhaps a poll taken in Cuban heavy Florida.
I want to talk abt one aspect of the brilliant @bartongellman piece on the threat of a Trump coup.The ongoing resistance to facing the centrality of racism & white supremacy to the unraveling of our democracy cost us valuable time. The “economic anxiety” crowd searching diners / https://t.co/1ZsFvrXvNHpic.twitter.com/YX1OrZad1O
many on the white left cannot admit to this…they want to talk about Economic Anxiety no matter how many benefits that Biden and the Democrats enact…they will give it all up in the name of white supremacy..
As Chancellor, Angela Merkel served with integrity, leading Germany and Europe through many storms. Drawing on her wise pragmatism and her unrelenting moral compass, she made hard decisions and became a role model for many. Thank you for your leadership. pic.twitter.com/l5zjYhfXBr
The US will hit 800,000 Covid deaths by next wk. Without vaccine mandates we’ll reach one million Covid deaths in America by Q1-2 next yr. For last 6 months + from now until Q1-2 2022, almost all of these deaths among unvaccinated. Roughly 350,000 lives senselessly thrown away— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) December 9, 2021
President and First Lady paying respects to the late Robert Dole this morning; the remains of the senator and World War II hero resting atop the famed Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda. Fitting tribute to a great American patriot (#CSPAN feed) pic.twitter.com/TwulmNNLR4
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) December 9, 2021
A "maskhole" attacked the 68-year-old owner of Kaufman’s Army & Navy Store in Times Square in a caught-on-camera hit — after he was asked to wear a mask 😷✖️https://t.co/IERylXt4AG— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 8, 2021
Remarks By President Biden At The Summit For Democracy Opening Session
Dec 09 2021
“My late friend Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of American democracy and for civil rights around the world, learning from and gaining inspiration from other great leaders like Gandhi and Mandela.
With his final words, as he was dying, to our nation last year, he reminded our country, quote,
“Democracy is not a state, it is an act.” “Democracy is not a state, it is an act.””
Addressing Insider Threats in Elections
There is an active effort to recruit rogue election officials to sabotage elections across the country.
(Norden, Tisler)
“Election officials were some of the biggest heroes of the 2020 election. After a grueling year that saw a pandemic, unprecedented disinformation efforts, and the highest turnout in over a century, they stood up to pressure from political actors seeking to overturn or cast doubt on the election results in key states. This collective, bipartisan effort helped avoid a constitutional crisis last year.
But the effort to sabotage our elections has only intensified, which is why Congress and state and local governments must take critical steps to protect against insider threats.”
Meadows sues Pelosi, Jan. 6 panel and its members
Donald Trump’s former chief of staff has claimed he can’t discuss matters that could be covered by executive privilege.
“The Select Committee acts absent any valid legislative power and threatens to violate longstanding principles of executive privilege and immunity that are of constitutional origin and dimension,”
the suit filed by Meadows’ attorney George Terwilliger contends.”
Running out the clock…what ‘Executive privilege’?
Hello step to deligitimize Congress as an Institution, and say it has no power to subpoena? Local trumpy tv channel here immediately did some biased reporting.
imo one can view everything they do as trump reverse-finger pointing. From QAnon and trump’s likely pedaphilia…to accusing others of ‘stealing the election’ when it was trump who did so in 2016 with Putin’s help…to blocking the vaccine and manufacturing preventable death tolls.
—When will we respond fast, and in like manner put trumpQ on the back foot?
The Obama Diary 
I’m into distraction & enjoying some older WH fab concerts. So glad I never deleted them from my DVR! 💃 And thanks be to PBS! And PBO/M-FLOTUS (meaning M for our Michelle).💞
BTW, Kennedy Center Honors will be on TV December 22. Check yr local channels. 🎶
One of my favs was tribute to Ray Charles! Yolanda had everyone standing up! All performances were stellar!
Such good times & memories! 💞🎼🎶💃
What a beautiful way to start my morning!
Hugs MT! Keep on keeping on w/ joy & yr purpose! 💞
too fab, yeh!
Woot!💃💞
Goooaaaaal ! ⚽🎶🎵🎶💃🏾💜
GG-Gooaal⚽⚽🎶🎶😂😷
😎😘
Cool!
Got the Dec 22 on my calendar and DVR ready to record! 😁
You may already have seen this, Dudette!
Thanks Booms! Yes, I saw some of the stories about her Farewell Celebration at Comic-Con. ❤️
A friend of mine, who’s working on a project with her, sent me some of his pictures with her this weekend. I’m so jealous! It would’ve been great to be there and see her in person again. I hope I get the chance to again sometime. 🖖🏾
The recognition is awesome and well deserved. 👏🏾👏🏾💖
I couldn’t agree more.
Love!
Beautiful! 🎇🎆
TOD-fist, Dudette!👊👍
I don’t understand why my tweets are showing up like this.
My tweets aren’t showing up here. Sigh.
Hi PK! Remind of your Twitter name. Let me try.
Morning everyone. Happy Tuesday.
Good Morning, Sweet Flower of the Desert!
Good Morning Lovely Family!
Here’s something beautiful for your eyes and ears. Enjoy!
Oh my, Dudette, that was wonderful. Im going to search for more of his work.
Isn’t he great? I want to see more from him too. The link in the tweet is a YouTube of the entire show!
Wow! Lovely & (ahem!) the Artist too! 😂😇
Girl, watch the whole show! It’s a feast for the eyes, I’m telling you!
Awesome!
Oooh!💞💞
MVP Live on Maternal Health
79 years ago today…
How Awwwwwwwsome is this
Oh my goodness. How wonderful!
Indeed, Alycee, this story is strong and beautiful, so much we never knew, thank you for bringing it back into the Light! Awesome indeed!
🕊🕯🪔🕯🕊
Oh my! Awesomeness! 💞💞
Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity.
Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.
“Until the day comes where we discover how to extract more information from the universe than presently seems possible, we have no choice but to face our ignorance. The Big Bang still happened a very long time ago, but it wasn’t the beginning we once supposed it to be.”
(https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/)
…..um no idea how i got on this topic this snowed-in morning.
…imo authentic don’t-know-mind is good for a lot of things.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
I’ve been struggling with some complex situations that I must get out of my head. Here goes…
I’m reading and hearing about President Biden and the Beijing boycott and his reasons for our Diplomats boycotting the Olympics. Well, here’s where my confusions come in – I just received some items I ordered from the White House Souvenirs. One item had a label that said “Made in Taiwan” and another was labeled as “Made in China”.
If the White House boycott is due to “ongoing crimes against humanity”, why are we supporting their labor abuses?
I’m struggling with this y’all. Aren’t we contributing to the labor abuse? Why aren’t these items “Made in America”?
Our local football team paraphernalia is made in China, when we could have a great rag trade indu$try right here in our town and state.
Saks Fifth Avenue Launches Holiday Campaign
in Support of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance
NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Saks Fifth Avenue today celebrates the launch of its holiday campaign in support of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance. The campaign kicks off with the unveiling of Saks Fifth Avenue’s iconic holiday window display and ten-story-tall theatrical light show at its New York flagship, featuring a special appearance by former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, Michelle Obama, and a performance by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. The event, presented by Mastercard for the benefit of Saks, can be enjoyed online by viewers across the globe on Saks Live starting at 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 23.
(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/saks-fifth-avenue-launches-holiday-campaign-in-support-of-the-obama-foundations-girls-opportunity-alliance-301430605.html)
“A Moment of Hope”:
Xiomara Castro’s Likely Win in Honduran Election Ends Years of Right-Wing Rule After Coup
“We go to Honduras, where thousands took to the streets to celebrate the leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro’s lead in the polls ahead of the right-wing National Party candidate Nasry Asfura.
The historic election saw a record voter turnout and could signal the end of the 12-year brutal regime under the conservative National Party, which rose to power after a coup backed by the U.S. in 2009 overthrew democratically-elected leftist President Manuel Zelaya.
Castro, who is Zelaya’s wife, would become the first woman to serve as president of Honduras I
f her victory is confirmed. “It’s brought hope to the entire country,” says Faridd Sierra, a high-school teacher in Comayagua, Honduras. Years of corruption and conservative law-making “showed the Honduras people just how cruel the [National] Party was and … they voted in response,” adds Honduran scholar Suyapa Portillo.
Castro’s likely win “is a testament to bottom-up organizing,” she says.”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/30/xiomara_castro_first_woman_president_honduras)
Reporting says that Alyssa Scott and Nick Cannon’s infant son died of a brain tumor.
—pls recover, w/love.
American radical.
“Rosanne Boyland hated politics.
She was shy, and she rarely left her home in Georgia. But then her family got a shocking call:
Rosanne had died at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in the middle of a crowd trying to force its way past a police line.
From the depths of their grief, the Boylands vow to figure out what happened to Rosanne.
Her brother-in-law, Justin Cave, reaches out to an old high school friend he hopes can help:
MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.
The quest for the truth takes Ayman back to his hometown of Kennesaw, Georgia, where he retraces the last six months of Rosanne’s life and picks up a trail that leads to childhood haunts, missing boyfriends, and down shadowy internet rabbit holes.” (Nov 22 episode)
—American Radical latest episode: “Who killed Rosanne Boyland?” now on Spotify.
Readout of President Biden’s Video Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/07/readout-of-president-bidens-video-call-with-president-vladimir-putin-of-russia/)
Summit for Democracy will follow the money
One of the key issues at the summit will be to crack down on global money laundering.
By Sheldon Whitehouse
“America is engaged in a clash of civilizations,
pitting democracy and the free market on one side against kleptocracy and corruption on the other.
We have vital national security stakes in this contest: Almost all the international evil that has come America’s way in recent decades has come from regimes outside the rule of law, from terrorist attacks to election subversion. That’s why it is a contest we must win.”
(https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/06/opinion/summit-democracy-will-follow-money/)
Sen. Whitehouse Discusses Attacks on Democracy at Home and Abroad
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse speaks with Chris Hayes about dark money, attacks on democracy in the U.S., and President Biden’s Summit for Democracy,
video is go for launch >>>
NASA Selects New Astronaut Recruits to Train for Future Missions
“NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the United States and work for humanity’s benefit in space.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson introduced the members of the 2021 astronaut class, the first new class in four years, during a Monday, Dec. 6 event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Today we welcome 10 new explorers, 10 members of the Artemis generation, NASA’s 2021 astronaut candidate class,” Nelson said. “Alone, each candidate has ‘the right stuff,’ but together they represent the creed of our country: E pluribus unum – out of many, one.”
(https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-new-astronaut-recruits-to-train-for-future-missions)
Biden Administration Unveils Plans to Fight Corruption
One proposed measure would raise reporting requirements for all-cash property purchases to avert money laundering
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-unveils-plans-to-fight-corruption-11638792000)
Putin keeps West guessing with dangerous brinksmanship
“Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia,
talks with Rachel Maddow about whether Russia’s military build-up on the border with Ukraine is a genuine threat, and how the U.S. should approach Russia diplomatically given this belligerence.”
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxcP0iPy17U)
Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Maternal Day of Action Summit
“But the truth is women in our nation — and this is a hard truth — women in our nation are dying. Before, during, and after childbirth, women in our nation are dying at a higher rate than any other developed nation in our world.
And we know that, for some women, the risk is much higher. When we know that, we should do something about it. When we know that, today, Black women are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we should do something about that.
When we know that Native American women are more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we got to do something about that.
When women who live in rural America, which has many maternal care deserts — meaning there are no maternal care facilities — and when we know that women in rural America, for that and other reasons, are about 60 percent more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, we need to do something about that.
And think about it: Regardless of income level, regardless of education level, Black women, Native women, women who live in rural areas are more likely to die or be left scared or scarred from an experience that should be safe and should be a joyful one.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/07/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-maternal-day-of-action-summit/)
LIVE NOW:
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0tFloho1KI)
Trump’s ‘propaganda ecosystem’ priming supporters for violence: Gellman
“Barton Gellman, staff writer for the Atlantic magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow
about how Donald Trump and his supporting media have so thoroughly imbued Trump supporters
with contempt for their political opposition that they’ve made violence an obvious and permissible conclusion.”
TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN
January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
(Barton Gellman)
“Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup.
It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place.
If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024.
Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect.
The winner will be declared the loser.
The loser will be certified president-elect.
“The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act.
They are acting already.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/)
Barton Gellman’s prediction:
The Election That Could Break America
“If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?”
Barton Gellman: The Atlantic, Sept 23 2020
She’s so wonderful. Such a beautiful heart.
And here it is “only” 2021.
And tired of hearing how ‘gop is taking the House’.
So wrap it up with a bow or get Trump off the streets.
Congresswoman Omar on calls for ‘condemnation and punishment’ for Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments
Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments are condemned by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is the target of Boebert’s hate speech, in conversation with Joy Reid
A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it
Who is behind the Utah Voter Verification Project?
A Tribune investigation uncovers some troubling tactics and connections.
“Last week, residents in Hurricane alerted Washington County officials that strangers were coming to their doors asking questions about the 2020 election.
The questioners did not wear name tags and refused to identify themselves or what organization they were with, according to the complaints.
Residents said they also appeared to have the personal voter information of the people they were questioning.”
(https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/)
—–yeh i hope they come to my door.
“When UVVP volunteers knock on a door, they’re instructed to record audio or video
without the consent of the person being recorded.
This is legal as Utah is a single consent state,
which means only one person needs to know they’re being recorded.
“We can record anyone without telling them. We don’t need permission…”
—-Again if you’re trying this on nationwide, pls come to my door. Just call me outraged.
What the …?
Seven days: Following Trump’s coronavirus trail
(Parker, Dawsey)
“When he first learned he had tested positive for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was already aboard Air Force One, en route to a massive rally in Middletown, Pa.
With him on the plane that Saturday evening were dozens of people — senior aides, Air Force One personnel, junior staffers, journalists and other members of the large entourage typical for a presidential trip — all squeezed together in the recirculating air of a jetliner.
“Stop the president,” White House physician Sean Conley told Chief of Staff Mark Meadows,
according to a new book by Meadows set to publish Tuesday that was obtained by the Guardian newspaper.
“He just tested positive for covid.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-positive/2021/12/05/b1a55fda-544f-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html)
STOP TRUMP.
Disgusting. He didn’t care about putting the health of others at risk. He was not fit to be President.
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with President Macron of France, Chancellor Merkel of Germany,
Prime Minister Draghi of Italy, Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/07/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-european-allies-2/)
Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump.
Here’s proof.
(Quotes list of headlines.)
“Artificial intelligence can now measure the negativity with precision.
At my request, Forge.ai, a data analytics unit of the information company FiscalNote,
combed through more than 200,000 articles —
tens of millions of words —
from 65 news websites (newspapers, network and cable news,
political publications, news wires and more) to do a “sentiment analysis” of coverage.
Using algorithms that give weight to certain adjectives based on their placement in the story,
it rated the coverage Biden received in the first 11 months of 2021
and the coverage President Donald Trump got in the first 11 months of 2020.
The findings, painstakingly assembled by FiscalNote vice president Bill Frischling, confirmed my fear:
My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.”
Dana Millbank: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/)
Remembering how certain media gave Doom a free pass and handed him the 2016 election.
How about now?
Was the money worth it if you wake up with your children
to a Russian-style authoritarian mafia state?
i wonder what these Hispanic voters think they will get out of Trump that they won’t get out Biden…
a division in the world of POC….🤝🏽
Really? Can you see WSJ conducting a survey among Latino’s? The WSJ? I bet they don’t have 50 upper management white collar Latino’s working at WSJ. Please! This is a compilation of GOP points from perhaps a poll taken in Cuban heavy Florida.
Don’t believe this poll.
👍🏼👍🏼
Highlighting This…
The ongoing resistance to facing the centrality of racism & white supremacy to the unraveling of our democracy cost us valuable time.
many on the white left cannot admit to this…they want to talk about Economic Anxiety no matter how many benefits that Biden and the Democrats enact…they will give it all up in the name of white supremacy..
PBS in my area has Natalie Cole’s full concert. Listening to it, the one word that came to my mind in regards to her voice: Elegant. 💞💜
Oh yes, I agree. I love all of her Albums. 💜🌟🎵🎶
Just stopping by to wish you all a very good evening. Be safe and stay well TODVille!
Sharing a little distraction joy! 💃
DJ Cassidy is one-of-a-kind. 🎵🎶😎👏🏾👏🏾 It was good to see some of our treasured artists.
A message to Angela Merkel
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Simply Astounding
missed ya being there pkayden, glad you’re solving the comp issue.
only thing that fixed mine was a new system update..whistles and bells, magic.
Thanks. I figured out that I have to embed my tweets for WordPress.
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Remarks By President Biden At The Summit For Democracy Opening Session
Dec 09 2021
“My late friend Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of American democracy and for civil rights around the world, learning from and gaining inspiration from other great leaders like Gandhi and Mandela.
With his final words, as he was dying, to our nation last year, he reminded our country, quote,
“Democracy is not a state, it is an act.” “Democracy is not a state, it is an act.””
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/12/09/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-summit-for-democracy-opening-session/)
https://mobile.twitter.com/BidenVaccine/status/1468984564290830337
BRENNAN CENTER
Addressing Insider Threats in Elections
There is an active effort to recruit rogue election officials to sabotage elections across the country.
(Norden, Tisler)
“Election officials were some of the biggest heroes of the 2020 election. After a grueling year that saw a pandemic, unprecedented disinformation efforts, and the highest turnout in over a century, they stood up to pressure from political actors seeking to overturn or cast doubt on the election results in key states. This collective, bipartisan effort helped avoid a constitutional crisis last year.
But the effort to sabotage our elections has only intensified, which is why Congress and state and local governments must take critical steps to protect against insider threats.”
Full: (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/addressing-insider-threats-elections)
Meadows sues Pelosi, Jan. 6 panel and its members
Donald Trump’s former chief of staff has claimed he can’t discuss matters that could be covered by executive privilege.
“The Select Committee acts absent any valid legislative power and threatens to violate longstanding principles of executive privilege and immunity that are of constitutional origin and dimension,”
the suit filed by Meadows’ attorney George Terwilliger contends.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/08/meadows-sues-pelosi-jan-6-select-panel-523968)
Running out the clock…what ‘Executive privilege’?
Hello step to deligitimize Congress as an Institution, and say it has no power to subpoena? Local trumpy tv channel here immediately did some biased reporting.
imo one can view everything they do as trump reverse-finger pointing. From QAnon and trump’s likely pedaphilia…to accusing others of ‘stealing the election’ when it was trump who did so in 2016 with Putin’s help…to blocking the vaccine and manufacturing preventable death tolls.
—When will we respond fast, and in like manner put trumpQ on the back foot?
New post.