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Good morning TOD family. Madeleine Albright was an amazing hero of mine. She will be greatly missed.
I had to quit watching the KBJ’s session yestereay before I threw something at my TV. She is full of grace and strength. She will be a great addition to our court.
Have a wonderful day everyone.
thanks mtmarilyn, with best wishes.
Beautiful! And hello to you, dear Nerdy W!
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings
March 23, 2022, Day 3
What happened on Day 3 of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings
(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/live-blog/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-hearings-day-3-live-updates-rcna21063)
I love them both!
TrumpQ wanted to remind us that Kavanaugh, who was not investigated for sexual assault despite the massive number of tips sent in, went completely off his rocker? Please refresh us on how Justice Barrett questioned at her confirmation hearing. Their plan to bring down the tone of this Supreme Court confirmation hearing by dwelling on child abuse was more than obsessive…I want to see all of their computers.
Read the Full Text of Mark Pomerantz’s Resignation Letter
The former prosecutor who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations.”
“The following is the full text of the resignation letter by Mark Pomerantz,
who had investigated former President Donald J. Trump,
but left after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, halted an effort to seek an indictment.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/mark-pomerantz-resignation-letter.html)
“Dear Alvin,
I write to tender my resignation as a Special Assistant District Attorney and to explain my reasons for resigning.
As you know from our recent conversations and presentations,
I believe that Donald Trump is guilty of numerous felony violations of the Penal Law In connection with the preparation and use of his annual Statements of Financial Condition.
His financial statements were false,
and he has a long history of fabricating information relating to his personal finances
and lying about his assets to banks,
the national media, counterparties, and many others, including the American people.
The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump
harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.”
Full: (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/mark-pomerantz-resignation-letter.html)
FACT SHEET:
The Biden Administration Announces New Humanitarian, Development, and Democracy Assistance to Ukraine and the Surrounding Region
MARCH 24, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/24/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-announces-new-humanitarian-development-and-democracy-assistance-to-ukraine-and-the-surrounding-region/)
——President Biden news conference after meeting with Allies just ended.
Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake
By Madeleine Albright
Dr. Albright served as the U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.
This was her final piece for Times Opinion,
published Feb. 23.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/opinion/putin-ukraine.html)
I missed this yesterday! So cool! Thanks Obama! 😄
This beautiful! I’m so glad we have a First Lady who brings love and light to the White House.
Hmmmm,
(CNN)The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages, 29 in total, between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to multiple sources familiar with the messages.
These text messages, according to sources, took place between early November 2020 and mid-January 2021. Thomas recently revealed that she attended the pro-Trump rally that preceded the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, but says she “played no role” in planning the events of that day.
The text messages, reviewed by CNN, show Thomas pleading with Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the election results.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! … You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” Thomas wrote on November 10, 2020.
Thomas regularly checked in with Meadows to encourage him to push claims of voter fraud and work to prevent the election from being certified. Meadows often responded. On that same day as the previous text, he wrote: “I will stand firm. We will fight until there is no fight left. Our country is too precious to give up on. Thanks for all you do.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/ginni-thomas-mark-meadows-text-messages/index.html
In custody. Additional charges. Quick action. Something for gutless garland to ponder about.
The seriousness of this cannot be understated…
we must hold on and increase our footprint in all elections…
this is the time for us to get engaged and involved in whatever way that we can….
i meant ..cannot be overstated
what did mister closely monitor say about kavanaugh?
He said this…
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17939302/brett-kavanaugh-vote-joe-manchin
Good West Coast Fri-YaY morning Nerdy-girl and TOD family.
#notthereality
Listen up People. Thank you Dan Rather for saying this.
Tongue in cheek
Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election,
texts show
In messages to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after Election Day,
the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called Biden’s victory
“the greatest Heist of our History” and told him that President Donald Trump should not concede.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/)
WORLD
U.S. officially declares that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine
“The U.S. government is officially declaring that Russian military forces, led by President Vladimir Putin,
have committed war crimes in Ukraine by hitting civilian targets, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
The attacks on Ukraine have been ongoing for nearly a month and have resulted in nearly 5,000 civilian causalities, the statement said. Russian troops have targeted areas where civilians are present,
including apartment buildings, schools and hospitals.”
(https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088284715/u-s-officially-declares-that-russian-forces-have-committed-war-crimes-in-ukraine)
Hold the trump drool for mister carnage, terrorize, stop being mean to me, let me do what I want but buy my gas, baby killer, tough guy. If we want good citizens to stay engaged, to vote, there must be serious accountability for crimes by those in high office.
love that he’s ready to laugh or throw out a one-liner, in the moments between!
I love it, too. His first thought is to make the military members comfortable!
Joint Statement between the United States and the European Commission on European Energy Security
MARCH 25, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/25/joint-statement-between-the-united-states-and-the-european-commission-on-european-energy-security/)
With Biden in office, NATO members approve of U.S. leadership
Trump’s claims about improving the country’s standing were wrong. It’s Biden who’s actually accomplishing what his predecessor felt compelled to lie about.
“In reality, the United States’ reputation soared under Obama, repairing the damage done during the Bush/Cheney era. Now, it’s déjà vu all over again, as Biden restores confidence in the wake of Trump.”
Benen: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/biden-office-nato-members-approve-us-leadership-rcna21566)
THIS!
Remarks by President Biden and President Andrzej Duda of Poland
in Briefing on the Humanitarian Efforts for Ukraine
MARCH 25, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/25/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-andrzej-duda-of-poland-in-briefing-on-the-humanitarian-efforts-for-ukraine/)
Ali Velshi visits a massive refugee safe haven in Poland, capable of serving 20,000 people,
and talks with refugees about their plans for reestablishing their lives that have been uprooted by Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-anywhere-they-can-get-just-to-escape-all-of-this-refugees-pour-out-of-ukraine-136191557597)
—–4.3 million children, half of Ukraine’s children, have been displaced. (UNICEF)
Fact Sheet:
Biden-Harris Administration Releases Report on Native American Voting Rights
MARCH 24, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/24/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-report-on-native-american-voting-rights/)
Biden administration releases Native voting rights report
Updated: The report comes a year after President Biden signed an executive order to promote access to voting
By Kalle Benallie
“The Biden administration has released an interagency steering group report on Native American voting rights. The 54-page report, released Thursday, thoroughly chronicles the various issues Indigenous communities face when voting.”
((https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/biden-administration-releases-native-voting-rights-report)
Wet’suwet’en is ‘the same fight’ as Standing Rock
Hereditary chiefs, land defenders and allies help Wet’suwet’en fight pipeline projects and financial institutions
“Award-winning actor and environmentalist Mark Ruffalo is leading a campaign to help save the lands of the Wet’suwet’en First Nations in Northern British Columbia, Canada. After learning of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership and land defenders fight against a liquified natural gas pipeline being constructed in their unceded territories by Coastal Gas Link several months ago, the director and activist felt compelled to stand alongside the Wet’suwet’en.”
By Brandi Morin
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/wetsuweten-is-the-same-fight-as-standing-rock)
Black Elk, Oglala Sioux and Spiritual Leader (1863 – 1950)
“The Holy Land is everywhere.”
Stardate:
Friday March 25 2022
Where my Bridgerton crew at? Have ya seen Season 2 yet? Yes, I binged the who damn thing today! 😎
It’s my viewing for this lovely Saturday 🙋🏾♀️🥰
Enjoy!!!
It’s starts slow. Gets good from eps 5-8. I’ve already replayed 6 and 7 a bunch of times. 😄
👍🏾☺
Hillary!!!! 😁 I love her!
Yup, yup, yup.
Rethugs have embedded corrupt evil thugs at every branch and at every level of governance, from local to federal.
Fuck bad faith minimalizing, try evil, you media minion.
Eddie Glaude is a well-respected professor at Princeton University, not a member of the media. He has a little gentler way of addressing issues!
But it might be time to call a spade a spade…to stop sugar coating what is happening…the media continues its “bothsiderism”….these folks are on a mission to return us to the time of yesteryear…Mark Elias is right when he says that we might be an election or two away from loosing the democracy as we know it…
Then the professor had to know better than soft pedal the rethug evil as bad faith. Bad faith is their starting position.
Anyhoo, all the rules and all logic are off the table as long as the few can install a kleptocracy that gets rid of free and fair voting. So they can finally come after their enemies = you and me.
Lesson for dems and Biden. There is no/nada/zilch advantage to you by stupidly seeking bipartisanship with the thugs.
Also. Too. Stop voting for rethug nominees even if they are qualified, which is doubtful to begin with.
pootin’s fafo moment(s)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60807538
Lol. Hunter is omnipotent. He should run in 2024 to replace his dad . #fuckingmorans.
= Hold Donald Trump and co-conspirators, all sorts, accountable or start practicing your goose step.
Oct 15 2018
Sen. Joe Manchin announces he’ll vote for Brett Kavanaugh
He’s expected to help Republicans reach the 51-vote threshold to confirm the nominee.
(https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17939302/brett-kavanaugh-vote-joe-manchin)
—c/o our mtmarilyn.
💖💖
His voice seems to be lost – even with dems – amidst all the magat noise covered 24×7 by the fifth columnist fourth estate.
Yup, yup and fucking yup.
Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomas’s “Stop the Steal” Texts
Several experts say that Thomas’s husband, the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, must recuse himself from any case related to the 2020 election.
“Justices are subject to a federal law that prohibits them from hearing cases in which their spouses
have “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.
The statute, 28 U.S.C. section 455, also requires them to disqualify themselves from any proceedings in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
“Justice Thomas has already participated in two cases related to the 2020 election and its aftermath,
despite his wife’s direct involvement in the so-called Stop the Steal efforts.”
Jane Meyer: (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/legal-scholars-are-shocked-by-ginni-thomass-stop-the-steal-texts)
Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court’s January order rejecting Trump’s bid to withhold documents from the January 6 panel
(https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-only-justice-dissent-in-trump-january-6-bid-2022-3)
—–His wife was at the Jan 6 rally + was involved in the creation of that event. He must recuse or take the consequences. Critical to hold the two of them to account and not not look away. Cannot look away.
Twelve years after Joe Biden whispered to Barack Obama that the Affordable Care Act was a big bleeping deal, there’s little doubt that he was right.
“The ACA is working; it’s popular; it’s affordable; it’s withstood far too many legal challenges;
and it no longer has a Republican-imposed target on its back. Twelve years ago today, this dynamic was hard to predict, but to the benefit of millions of American families, it’s the truth.”
Benen: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/twelve-years-later-aca-getting-last-laugh-rcna21216)
President Biden Delivers Remarks on the United Efforts to Support the People of Ukraine
President Biden delivers remarks on the united efforts of the free world to support the people of Ukraine,
hold Russia accountable for its brutal war, and defend a future that is rooted in democratic principles.
Warsaw, Poland
Remember this? ❤
My favorite campaign song, back then!
AAaiiiIIIIIIIIII-YIII!!! ARRRRIBA!! ARRRRIBA!!!!
10/25/2008 RALLY AT UNM AND I WAS THERE!!! (With wife and sister.) The line to get in snaked for 10 blocks plus. SO WORTH THE WAIT!!!
Wow! What a memory! ❤
Feckless base.
Gotta love the plucky Ukrainians. Their leader sets the example.
Fucking whiny entitled white pig feeding off the public trough.
Lol. Another whiny white fucking asshole thug.
New post.