As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s important to remember that we shouldn’t treat this month as though it is somehow separate from our collective American history. Black history is American history.
IMO, those yahoo’s who rowed their happy azz over on the Mayflower should be celebrating every Month as Black History Month. There would NOT be an America without the sweat and blood of my ancestors; the Slaves.
Let’s keep it real, people.
Chloe Kim claims second straight Olympic halfpipe gold
Liam Nee
“Rejuvenated after taking time off between Olympics, Chloe Kim of the U.S. successfully defended her halfpipe gold Thursday at the 2022 Winter Games to become the Olympic event’s first-ever repeat champion and multi-title winner.
Kim opened up her first run with a huge method air, after which she nailed a frontside 1080, a cab 900, a switch backside 540 and a cab 1080. Emotional while awaiting her eventual score of 94.00, Kim revealed to the camera she’d just had the worst practice of her life.”
Nathan Chen shatters world record in historic figure skating short program.
1st with a personal-best 111.71 points — the second-highest score ever recorded in the short program.
Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
—-beauty runs deep…brilliant kool enchanted artistry…
Nathan Chen’s four-minute free skate program in Beijing,
set to “Rocket Man” by Elton John,
he landed five quadruple flip jumps, including a quad lutz — the most difficult jump in figure skating.
A score of 218.63 in the free skate, and a combined score of 332.60, all added up to gold for the Salt Lake
City-born figure skater.
“It’s just a whirlwind right now. Everything’s happening so fast, but I’m so happy,”
Chen told NBC after winning the gold medal.
Watch Lindsey Jacobellis Snowboard Her Way to First U.S. Gold Medal of 2022
“American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis won the women’s snowboard cross big final early Wednesday morning. Not only is it the first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics for the U.S., but it’s Jacobellis’ first gold medal in her career.”
America, As Told By Black Teens
HuffPost talked to several Black teens about the issues that matter to them most. They’re creating their own rules in a society with systems that have failed them time and time again.
Fifteen years ago, Barack announced his candidacy in Springfield. It was bitter cold, but as far as my eyes could see, there were people everywhere. People from all over the state, from different backgrounds and identities—all who believed in his promise. All who believed in us. pic.twitter.com/3n0YkeJGFH
GOP congressman felt lawmakers’ wrath after harassing the Black Caucus chair
Rep. Hal Rogers was forced to apologize after a deeply troubling encounter with Rep. Joyce Beatty,
chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Video shared online showed Beatty, an Ohio Democrat, confronting her colleague as they exited the train.
”I’m a member of Congress like you, and I’m a woman,” Beatty can be heard saying.
“You will not disrespect me.”
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty speaks out after Rep. Hal Rogers apologized for allegedly telling her to “Kiss my a**” after her request that he wear a mask. ‘Everyone who knows me–I’m not going to be bullied,’ Rep. Beatty tells Joy Reid.
when they’re not undermining the Government and the sitting U.S. President, overturning elections, organizing violent sieges on Capitols and borders, genuflecting to Putin/Duterte/Murdoch/Oil and Gas, funding the illegal activities of an emperor with no clothes conman who knowingly killed Americans of all ages by various means, stinking up the planet for their children while trashing American Democracy.
–no big deal.
The federal government recorded a monthly surplus in January for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, showing spending on emergency programs is receding. https://t.co/uGiGRVjocU— Amara Omeokwe (@TheAmaraReport) February 10, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia getting hold of Macron's DNA, two sources in Macron's entourage told Reuters https://t.co/xhvZ9HoGF6 1/5 pic.twitter.com/PIlfoKCnUH
February 11 – 1752: U.S. – America's first hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, opened in Philadelphia ~ founded by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond. #history
–that we can laugh at this travesty is really something. Bless you Secretary Clinton. What you went through for these a-holes is beyond belief, much love.
Shaun White Finds the Glory in Falling Short
Trying for a fourth Olympic gold medal, the 35-year-old snowboarding champion was surpassed by his heirs apparent. That, in itself, was enough.
“ZHANGJIAKOU, China — It all came to an end here, on a tilted chute of ice on an unnamed mountain in China, and the only surprise was that 35-year-old Shaun White did not have one more trick in him. He had made a career of such things. His final ride down the Olympic halfpipe came after a fall. He popped onto his feet and took off his helmet, raising it to the air. He slid downhill slowly on his snowboard, into the warm embrace of adulation and off toward the unknown.”
“I’m proud of this life I’ve led, and what I’ve done in this sport, and what I’ve left behind,” he said afterward, during a long slog of interviews in which he swung from laughter to tears and back again. “You’re watching it — these younger riders,” White said. “They’ve been on my heels every step of the way, and to see them finally surpass me is, I think deep down, what I always wanted.”
“Maybe fourth was the right spot for White’s story, leaving his three gold medals to stand on their own.
When White stood at the top of the pipe for his final run, he raised his hand and circled his finger as if to say,
“Let’s go.” He had one shot to get onto the podium. He tried to add an extra rotation to his cab double cork,
but fell on his backside and slid into the trough of the pipe. That is when White took off his helmet and slowly slid back into the next phase of his life.”
about our PBO “violating the peaceful transition of power” by talking to Democrats on zoom yesterday:
Pls check out how many times Netanyahu came and spoke to Republicans in Congress, and without White House permission, about getting rid of the critically important US-led Iranian nuclear negotiations.
—Your problem trumpies is that we remember.
—WE REMEMBER.
On this day in 1990 South African leader Nelson Mandela is finally released from prison in after serving more than 27 years. Mandela came out of prison a compassionate thoughtful empathetic humble leader who pushed us to the light instead of the dark. A poem he often read: pic.twitter.com/mM02xoJcsg
Frankly, to many of us, it was not the least bit surprising. But it did pierce the hopes of many who were counting on the Macron channel/a "softer" Euro approach to produce results. Once again, Putin by being Putin has added to NATO resolve, validated the US message/leadership.
P.M Trudeau clearly delineated all the points. Thank Heavens.
Thank you Prime Minister Trudeau for being there for all of us, for peace, for law and order.
Prime Minister Trudeau Says Blockades “Cannot and Will Not Continue”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he spoke with President Biden by phone about the blockades taking place along the U.S.-Canada border, saying they were in agreement that the closures, “cannot and will not continue.” The prime minister called the actions of the protesters illegal and offered support to law enforcement to end the protests. He went on the discuss the rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.”
Canadian insurrectionists are now getting home visits from the police – natural consequences are the best ones. And yes, Karen, the police monitor socials. All of them. pic.twitter.com/qeXDgGjKQi
Fifteen years ago, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president during an event witnessed by thousands at the Old State Capitol in Springfield.
A historical marker will be placed on the grounds of the Old State Capitol later this year
“To commemorate both Obama’s historic announcement that day — Feb. 10, 2007 — and a later one to introduce running mate Sen. Joe Biden, the Old State Capitol Foundation and Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that a historical marker will be erected on the Old State Capitol grounds.”
“From his official presidential announcement to his service in the Statehouse,
President Obama’s legacy of leadership began with his service to the people of Illinois,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday in a state release announcing the historical marker. “This marker of Obama’s historic announcement at the Old State Capitol will ensure his story will forever be a part of Illinois’ history.”
On that day 15 years ago,
Obama received an enthusiastic welcome on what was a sun-drenched but frigid Saturday.
“Thousands of people came out on that cold, wintry day 15 years ago to hear Barack Obama’s historic announcement,” said David Joens, president of the Old State Capitol Foundation in a press release about the marker. “He chose to announce his candidacy at the Old State Capitol because of its historic ties to Abraham Lincoln, but he was also making history himself. That history needs to be recognized,
and a permanent marker will do that.”
“It’s humbling to see a crowd like this, but in my heart, I know you didn’t come here just for me,” Obama told the crowd that day.”
#Ukraine Know what’s missing from the Western news media narrative? The UKRAINIAN ARMY. It’s their land. They have weapons. They know how to make IEDs & Ambush tank columns. They have combat experience. THEY WILL FIGHT. Ask this guy: pic.twitter.com/g5jCBHy3XT
After 113 years the NAACP continues to champion civil rights, voting rights, and human rights. A critical mission as we work for liberty and justice for all. Congratulations to this pivotal American organization. https://t.co/0d49VUfysk
🙂 I finally arrive before nightfall! Hi, everybody.
Here’s a wee bit of Black Cdn. history. Sadly I only got 9/10 correct, but I’m hopeful some of you may remember about Viola Desmond from when she became the first black woman on one stream of the Canadian $10 bill.
Just found out one of my techs is currently at the AB border protesting in a company issued work vehicle!!! I’ve already ordered a private tow company to pick up the vehicle. His position has been terminated and I’ve decided to let him figure it out for himself.— IndignantMaple (@IndignantMaple) February 12, 2022
Koalas nearing extinction, the Australian government says. Climate change, habitat destruction have wiped out 30% of population in just three years pic.twitter.com/2TIKkaqU83
Photons Received:
Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
Seven of the eight members of America’s women’s World Cup bobsled team…are Black,
as are four of the five at the Beijing Olympics.
They include Evans; the pilot Elana Meyers Taylor, a three-time Olympic medalist who sought out the sport after watching Flowers win gold but briefly saw her hopes jeopardized by a positive coronavirus test;
Sylvia Hoffman, a former college basketball player who once trained to be an Olympic weight lifter;
and Kaysha Love, a one-time sprinter discovered in a virtual scouting session.
A medal for one or several of them appears to be in the cards:
The United States women have claimed at least one medal in every Games since bobsled was added for women in 2002. But their success also reflects a rethinking of what an American bobsledder looks like, and where they can be found.
“She’s the reason why I’m in bobsled,” Meyers Taylor said. “Looking at her and seeing someone who looks like me, it showed that it was possible. Without her, there’s no way I would have thought winter sport was for people who looked like us.”
Flowers never had that kind of role model.
“Getting into the sport of bobsled, I didn’t know anyone that looked like me,” Flowers said. “And so now that I’ve inspired Elana and she’s inspired the next generation, hopefully this will just inspire a whole new group of people to try a sport they never would have tried.”
#UkraineCrisis REMEMBER: If Putin invades Ukraine all of the nice young men and woman in these photos and the civilians we met may likely die for the sake of protecting their new Western Democracy while many Americans won’t even vote to save our own. #IStandWithUkrainepic.twitter.com/aXfmcCWCDe
I love Malcolm Nance but hadn’t caught up with him on twitter much for a while, until recently. Glad I’m seeing his posts again now, because he isn’t afraid to share his real-life experience and expertise with the rest of us.
Can’t believe I watched the entire Super Bowl game and enjoyed the hell out of it! Normally, I stay true to the fact that I belong to Athletics Anonymous. 🙂
70 year old grandmother in Ukraine today: “I want to be able to defend (grandchildren) myself if Putin keeps going after us. I will go to territorial defense. I will keep learning to shoot. And if I can’t, then I’ll be cooking borscht for our soldiers.” pic.twitter.com/YFVnBA9ZDO
Golden years: Jacobellis, 36, and Baumgartner, 40, win in team snowboard cross.
“Jacobellis became the oldest American woman to win an Olympic medal when she took gold in the women’s snowboard cross this week.
Baumgartner, a four-time Olympian, hoped that his age-defying Olympic run “inspires people to never give up on their dreams,” he wrote on Instagram before competing in Beijing, adding: “You’re never too old to fight for what you want!” He builds a practice track around his house every year to stay in the game.” (gold)
I so should have done my G’nite & crashed. Blame on Olympics. Had to watch Erin Jackson win all the damn gold! I caught myself trying to push her along via my teevee screen! 😂 I love her story too!
I did enjoy the bobsledders too! That was some fierce women! 💞
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Thanks for new thread, NW. #BlackHistory ‘month’ is every month. My opinion, anyway. 🤎✊🏾🖤🙂
Well said, Mr. President!
IMO, those yahoo’s who rowed their happy azz over on the Mayflower should be celebrating every Month as Black History Month. There would NOT be an America without the sweat and blood of my ancestors; the Slaves.
Let’s keep it real, people.
Glad to see Keith is coming out to mock her, too!
Here’s another one:
Laughter is the best medicine!
MTG gave Twitter a lot of material 🤣😂
Think I heard tonight that President Obama was asked to speak at the House Democratic Retreat. Nice!
Goodnight, TODville and all the ships at sea! Except for the Russian ships. They can all go f***. themselves!
Love that tweet. Love Nancy Smash!
Chloe Kim claims second straight Olympic halfpipe gold
Liam Nee
“Rejuvenated after taking time off between Olympics, Chloe Kim of the U.S. successfully defended her halfpipe gold Thursday at the 2022 Winter Games to become the Olympic event’s first-ever repeat champion and multi-title winner.
Kim opened up her first run with a huge method air, after which she nailed a frontside 1080, a cab 900, a switch backside 540 and a cab 1080. Emotional while awaiting her eventual score of 94.00, Kim revealed to the camera she’d just had the worst practice of her life.”
(nbcolympics.com)
Watch all three runs from Chloe Kim’s repeat halfpipe win | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
—–Congrats Chloe!! 축하합니다!!! toutes nos félicitations !!!
drat and double drat on the video…will put up another later.
Nathan Chen shatters world record in historic figure skating short program.
1st with a personal-best 111.71 points — the second-highest score ever recorded in the short program.
Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
—-beauty runs deep…brilliant kool enchanted artistry…
If you click on the Youtube link, it works….don’t miss.
Nathan Chen’s four-minute free skate program in Beijing,
set to “Rocket Man” by Elton John,
he landed five quadruple flip jumps, including a quad lutz — the most difficult jump in figure skating.
A score of 218.63 in the free skate, and a combined score of 332.60, all added up to gold for the Salt Lake
City-born figure skater.
“It’s just a whirlwind right now. Everything’s happening so fast, but I’m so happy,”
Chen told NBC after winning the gold medal.
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVL9WY3dUw)
—–Decades of dedication, determination…beautiful…so beautiful Congrats to Nathan Chen !!!!
sooo
Watch Lindsey Jacobellis Snowboard Her Way to First U.S. Gold Medal of 2022
“American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis won the women’s snowboard cross big final early Wednesday morning. Not only is it the first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics for the U.S., but it’s Jacobellis’ first gold medal in her career.”
(https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/sports/beijing-winter-olympics/watch-lindsey-jacobellis-snowboard-her-way-to-first-u-s-gold-medal-of-2022/2966104/)
Supercongrats and wow to the nth, Ms. Jacobellis !!!!
Great tweet
America, As Told By Black Teens
HuffPost talked to several Black teens about the issues that matter to them most. They’re creating their own rules in a society with systems that have failed them time and time again.
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-told-by-black-teens_n_6202ed64e4b0835708990ea0)
That was a wonderful day!
Congrats to PBO on the anniversary of this auspicious date with destiny in Springfield, Illinois !!!
The magic that surrounds him…and that trail of love….we must’ve done something good.
Nicely stated!
GOP congressman felt lawmakers’ wrath after harassing the Black Caucus chair
Rep. Hal Rogers was forced to apologize after a deeply troubling encounter with Rep. Joyce Beatty,
chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Video shared online showed Beatty, an Ohio Democrat, confronting her colleague as they exited the train.
”I’m a member of Congress like you, and I’m a woman,” Beatty can be heard saying.
“You will not disrespect me.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/cbc-joyce-beatty-republican-rcna15485)
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty speaks out after Rep. Hal Rogers apologized for allegedly telling her to “Kiss my a**” after her request that he wear a mask. ‘Everyone who knows me–I’m not going to be bullied,’ Rep. Beatty tells Joy Reid.
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joyce-beatty-says-rep-hal-rogers-poked-her-said-kiss-my-ass-over-mask-request-132819013797)
—-yessss….pls more response to the angry teens still rebelling against their fathers in Congress.
when they’re not undermining the Government and the sitting U.S. President, overturning elections, organizing violent sieges on Capitols and borders, genuflecting to Putin/Duterte/Murdoch/Oil and Gas, funding the illegal activities of an emperor with no clothes conman who knowingly killed Americans of all ages by various means, stinking up the planet for their children while trashing American Democracy.
–no big deal.
Makes You Wonder—
Lokia, Matt Grey
–hope you can hear the howling from here !!!
I absolutely love this moment! The Mum is just lovely & joyous, in celebration of her daughter!💞😂
really gorgeous Gazelle, pls play her music.
Here’s one I love. 💞 Hope y’all do too!😘
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thx pkayden, the BIDEN BOOM is well underway !!!
Good evening/night, everyone.
And any other World Leader should also refuse to take a PCR test or any test where you are giving your DNA to another World Leader.
Perfect!
–that we can laugh at this travesty is really something. Bless you Secretary Clinton. What you went through for these a-holes is beyond belief, much love.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Thanks BTS, that’s fantastic!
고마워, 정말 환상적이야!
Now, fight climate change with EXO.
EXO and infinitely capable others like Cha Eun-Woo, we need you.
We need you now….
Shaun White Finds the Glory in Falling Short
Trying for a fourth Olympic gold medal, the 35-year-old snowboarding champion was surpassed by his heirs apparent. That, in itself, was enough.
“ZHANGJIAKOU, China — It all came to an end here, on a tilted chute of ice on an unnamed mountain in China, and the only surprise was that 35-year-old Shaun White did not have one more trick in him. He had made a career of such things. His final ride down the Olympic halfpipe came after a fall. He popped onto his feet and took off his helmet, raising it to the air. He slid downhill slowly on his snowboard, into the warm embrace of adulation and off toward the unknown.”
“I’m proud of this life I’ve led, and what I’ve done in this sport, and what I’ve left behind,” he said afterward, during a long slog of interviews in which he swung from laughter to tears and back again. “You’re watching it — these younger riders,” White said. “They’ve been on my heels every step of the way, and to see them finally surpass me is, I think deep down, what I always wanted.”
“Maybe fourth was the right spot for White’s story, leaving his three gold medals to stand on their own.
When White stood at the top of the pipe for his final run, he raised his hand and circled his finger as if to say,
“Let’s go.” He had one shot to get onto the podium. He tried to add an extra rotation to his cab double cork,
but fell on his backside and slid into the trough of the pipe. That is when White took off his helmet and slowly slid back into the next phase of his life.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/sports/olympics/shaun-white-olympics-halfpipe.html)
—Beautiful, thanks Shaun for showing them the way…thx nyt, nbc.
Remarks by President Biden on the Biden-Harris Administration’s Work to Lower Healthcare Costs
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/10/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-biden-harris-administrations-work-to-lower-healthcare-costs/)
Remarks by President Biden at a Roundtable with CEOs of Electric Utilities to Discuss His
Build Back Better Agenda
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/09/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-roundtable-with-ceos-of-electric-utilities-to-discuss-his-build-back-better-agenda/)
Statement by President Biden on the
Introduction of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/09/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-introduction-of-the-violence-against-women-act-reauthorization-act-of-2022/)
imo fakery
about our PBO “violating the peaceful transition of power” by talking to Democrats on zoom yesterday:
Pls check out how many times Netanyahu came and spoke to Republicans in Congress, and without White House permission, about getting rid of the critically important US-led Iranian nuclear negotiations.
—Your problem trumpies is that we remember.
—WE REMEMBER.
😂
Ugh! (But a good one!)
LIVE NOW:
The Biden-Harris Plan to Boost the Capacity of the Economy and Lower Costs for Working Families
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/10/prices-week-fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-plan-to-boost-the-capacity-of-the-economy-and-lower-costs-for-working-families/)
Remarks by Vice President Harris Encouraging All Americans to Take Advantage of Critical Tax Credits
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/02/08/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-encouraging-all-americans-to-take-advantage-of-critical-tax-credits/)
Agree with that one!
Indeed…Biden and his people have been around the block more than a few times…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2JwImlmzW/
I stumbled onto this in my twitter feed and thought it might be appreciated in this Black History feed. And yes, I noticed that it’s a Canadian ad.
Excellent, so well done
{{{VC}}}
💎
Nite nite
Big hugs all around
{{{TOD}}}
🕊💙🪔💙🕊
Hugs right back atcha, dear MP!
P.M Trudeau clearly delineated all the points. Thank Heavens.
Thank you Prime Minister Trudeau for being there for all of us, for peace, for law and order.
Here: (https://www.c-span.org/video/?517913-1/prime-minister-trudeau-blockades-cannot-not-continue)
Prime Minister Trudeau Says Blockades “Cannot and Will Not Continue”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he spoke with President Biden by phone about the blockades taking place along the U.S.-Canada border, saying they were in agreement that the closures, “cannot and will not continue.” The prime minister called the actions of the protesters illegal and offered support to law enforcement to end the protests. He went on the discuss the rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.”
Feb 11 2022
.https://twitter.com/ItsDeanBlundell/status/1492215591733809164
Fifteen years ago, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president during an event witnessed by thousands at the Old State Capitol in Springfield.
A historical marker will be placed on the grounds of the Old State Capitol later this year
“To commemorate both Obama’s historic announcement that day — Feb. 10, 2007 — and a later one to introduce running mate Sen. Joe Biden, the Old State Capitol Foundation and Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that a historical marker will be erected on the Old State Capitol grounds.”
“From his official presidential announcement to his service in the Statehouse,
President Obama’s legacy of leadership began with his service to the people of Illinois,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday in a state release announcing the historical marker. “This marker of Obama’s historic announcement at the Old State Capitol will ensure his story will forever be a part of Illinois’ history.”
On that day 15 years ago,
Obama received an enthusiastic welcome on what was a sun-drenched but frigid Saturday.
“Thousands of people came out on that cold, wintry day 15 years ago to hear Barack Obama’s historic announcement,” said David Joens, president of the Old State Capitol Foundation in a press release about the marker. “He chose to announce his candidacy at the Old State Capitol because of its historic ties to Abraham Lincoln, but he was also making history himself. That history needs to be recognized,
and a permanent marker will do that.”
“It’s humbling to see a crowd like this, but in my heart, I know you didn’t come here just for me,” Obama told the crowd that day.”
(https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/government/2022/02/10/springfield-il-marker-commemorate-barack-obama-campaign-events/6737697001/)
—magic surrounds him, love in his wake wherever he is in the world.
—we were in all the way then, let’s be in all the way now.
I wish them peace for their famiiies, for their communities, not blood and death.
—May have to cut off Putin oil…and e.g. Germany finally get serious about alternative energy.
(meant Putin gas going to Germany)
Explainer: How a German ‘climate’ fund set out to help Russia dodge U.S. sanctions
(https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-german-climate-fund-set-out-help-russia-dodge-us-sanctions-2022-02-10/
btw, Germany has done very nicely out of the EU, maybe the best.
🙂 I finally arrive before nightfall! Hi, everybody.
Here’s a wee bit of Black Cdn. history. Sadly I only got 9/10 correct, but I’m hopeful some of you may remember about Viola Desmond from when she became the first black woman on one stream of the Canadian $10 bill.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/quiz/cc-quiz-black-history-easy?twclid=11492630842732130304#
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Can we look into laws to exclude using trucks for protests?
Great idea.
Readout of President Biden’s Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/12/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-president-vladimir-putin-of-russia/)
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials Previewing the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/11/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-previewing-the-u-s-s-indo-pacific-strategy/)
Barack Obama:
“Yes we can.
Yes we did.
Thanks to all of you who believed, volunteered, voted—and then carried the baton forward in your communities. Keep at it.”
—-hey TOD is missing the last few PBO tweets and videos, a loss to us.
Plus:
“THIS CAMPAIGN CAN’T ONLY BE ABOUT ME.”
A look back at the 2007 announcement in Springfield and the campaign that inspired so many to serve.
(https://www.obama.org/15years/)
Photons Received:
Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
This is a goooood thang…because NO Way will i vote for John “shotgun man” Fetterman
Agree. Can’t believe he had gotten as far as he did to this point.
Wish Kenyatta would be happy to remain in the state legislature for now. He is very good there, I think. His time will come.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
Seven of the eight members of America’s women’s World Cup bobsled team…are Black,
as are four of the five at the Beijing Olympics.
They include Evans; the pilot Elana Meyers Taylor, a three-time Olympic medalist who sought out the sport after watching Flowers win gold but briefly saw her hopes jeopardized by a positive coronavirus test;
Sylvia Hoffman, a former college basketball player who once trained to be an Olympic weight lifter;
and Kaysha Love, a one-time sprinter discovered in a virtual scouting session.
A medal for one or several of them appears to be in the cards:
The United States women have claimed at least one medal in every Games since bobsled was added for women in 2002. But their success also reflects a rethinking of what an American bobsledder looks like, and where they can be found.
“She’s the reason why I’m in bobsled,” Meyers Taylor said. “Looking at her and seeing someone who looks like me, it showed that it was possible. Without her, there’s no way I would have thought winter sport was for people who looked like us.”
Flowers never had that kind of role model.
“Getting into the sport of bobsled, I didn’t know anyone that looked like me,” Flowers said. “And so now that I’ve inspired Elana and she’s inspired the next generation, hopefully this will just inspire a whole new group of people to try a sport they never would have tried.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/sports/olympics/us-bobsled-team-black-athletes.html)
—-been following Meyers Taylor…gosh.
making pizza w/almond flour + other…haffa fun Super Bowl!
I love Malcolm Nance but hadn’t caught up with him on twitter much for a while, until recently. Glad I’m seeing his posts again now, because he isn’t afraid to share his real-life experience and expertise with the rest of us.
Can’t believe I watched the entire Super Bowl game and enjoyed the hell out of it! Normally, I stay true to the fact that I belong to Athletics Anonymous. 🙂
Leave it to the grandmothers!
Once rivals, Lana Meyers-Taylor and Kaillie Humphries (now U.S.) take silver and gold respectively.
—New olympic sport: Monobob!
(Meyers-Taylor, when she’s not squatting 400 pounds in training…ahh. Missed 4 training runs!)
–nbc has all these fun back stories!
Golden years: Jacobellis, 36, and Baumgartner, 40, win in team snowboard cross.
“Jacobellis became the oldest American woman to win an Olympic medal when she took gold in the women’s snowboard cross this week.
Baumgartner, a four-time Olympian, hoped that his age-defying Olympic run “inspires people to never give up on their dreams,” he wrote on Instagram before competing in Beijing, adding: “You’re never too old to fight for what you want!” He builds a practice track around his house every year to stay in the game.” (gold)
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/sports/olympics/lindsey-jacobellis-nick-baumgartner-snowboard-cross.html)
I so should have done my G’nite & crashed. Blame on Olympics. Had to watch Erin Jackson win all the damn gold! I caught myself trying to push her along via my teevee screen! 😂 I love her story too!
I did enjoy the bobsledders too! That was some fierce women! 💞
Here comes Monday–Friday, my TOD Fam. You gotta shake d’leg! 💃💞🎼
Wishing a happy Valentine’s Day to our FLOTUS AND POTUS!! (hearts)
And all at this White House !!
—phenomenal amount of work just pouring out of our WH, thanks so much for all you’re doing.
Readout of President Biden’s Call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
Feb 13 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/13/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-3/)
Statement by President Biden Four Years After the Parkland Shooting
Feb 14 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/14/statement-by-president-biden-four-years-after-the-parkland-shooting-2/)
Biden Commemorates 4-Year Anniversary of Parkland Shooting,
Says Congress Must Act on Gun Control
ttps://www.politicususa.com/2022/02/14/biden-commemorates-4-year-anniversary-of-parkland-shooting-says-congress-must-act-on-gun-control.html)
America!
We must send the love and feed the Afghan people. Don’t let them starve.
happy you got your wish ggail…great!
New post.