From fighting the Nazis with the Soviets, to fleeing from Putin’s war.
“When Arkady Perchenko was 11 years old he fought alongside the Soviet Army,
as part of the local resistance against the Nazis.
At the age of 92, he was forced to leave his home in Ukraine to escape from Russian forces.
From safety in Israel, Arkady has been talking to the BBC about his view of both wars.”
Vice President Kamala Harris
to Deliver Pre-Recorded Remarks During the National Tribal Public Health Summit 2022
“Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver pre-recorded remarks at the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) Tribal Public Health Summit on Wednesday, May 11, where she will speak to the ongoing desperate outcomes of Native women and their maternal health journey and what she and Administration are doing to address it.”
‘We cannot go back’:
People share their stories of abortion and access
We asked our readers:
How has getting an abortion — or deciding not to — changed your life? Here’s what they said.
“My wife and I have three beautiful children. However, that would not be without access to abortion. [With] an ectopic pregnancy, it was devastating that we had to choose one life over another. But we did … and to our surprise the doctor recommended continuing to try. After the elective abortion, we had two more healthy babies.”
“The abortion I had was significant because it wasn’t. It didn’t disrupt my life. It didn’t financially devastate me. I was surrounded by support. I had the right to choose and the accessibility afforded by a liberal state.”
“I got pregnant when I was 15 in 1977. I was not prepared to be a mother. Fortunately my mother, who was not totally in favor of abortion, but knew I was not mature enough to be a mother, took me to Minneapolis for a safe abortion. I would not have the life I now have if I would have been forced to have a baby at that age.”
1-50:
Vice President Harris cast her 18th Senate tie-breaking vote to confirm Lisa Cook, who becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
warned that eliminating women’s access to abortion
would have ‘very damaging effects’ on the U.S. economy, keeping some women from completing their educations
and reducing their lifetime earnings potential and participation in the labor force.
Senator Debbie Stabenow to Alician Menendez yesterday:
“Tomorrow there will be the vote…and then we will go forward and continue to shine a light on what is happening across this country. All the way to November, when we have an opportunity to change it. By electing a bigger majority in the Democratic Senate, and keeping the US House and electing great people across the country.”
Sen. Stabenow:
“What I want to keep focus on is what has really brought us here.
Republicans for years. Mitch McConnell for years, and years, and years working hard to set up this situation. Right wing members of the United States Supreme Court, putting others on the federal benches that are right wing. Supporting those in state legislatures where Republicans have been chipping away at our freedoms now for years.
I mean there’s no mistake about it.
We are here because of the Republican party and the fact that they’re willing to say,
that THEY as politicians
should be making OUR decisions
about what we’re going to do
in terms of our most intimate reproductive decisions.
And so I find that incredibly outrageous.
And 50 years of settled law should be enough for all of us in the United States.
And tomorrow (vote today) is an accumulation of what the republicans have been doing for years.”
Sen Stabenow:
““Disproportionately women of color are affected by this because of their circumstances, their lack of other kinds of choices.”
“I watched what happened before Roe. And what happened when we were told as a country that in America, that we have a right to privacy, that we have the freedom to decide our most intimate health care decisions.”
Sen. Stabenow:
“We all know of situations of someone being raped, or incest, a 12 or 14 year old.
Why in the world
should government,
should politicians step in front of the family,
step in front of the woman with her faith,
her doctor, her family,
and say that politicians should make those decisions,
that Mitch McConnell should make those decisions,
other Republicans
should make those decisions?
Really,
I mean that is really quite extraordinary.
That is the fundamental question that we’re talking about is who decides, who decides.”
After warbling on about big government and individual rights, this Mickey Mouse operation
wants to sit around your living space, your doctor’s office, and dictate the how and what about your family.
This includes men and their family choices – what say they about it all?
Manchin and GOP openly don’t care about your well being or your privacy.
btw, trump went overboard to create a culture of cruelty towards infants, children, teens, and got away with it. Pls prepare for the worst by protecting and putting them front and center in every possible way now.
Oh please. Here. You can have it delivered on Tuesday. Comes in at least 5 colors. ALL IN STOCK. Stop whining. Your lack of ability to google is not a crisis. pic.twitter.com/dXUFB85DYf
So what’s my point? I guess it’s that in a moment of national consequence — of life or death for many Americans — the president of the United States wasn’t just unhelpful. He was a complete idiot. And we should really try to avoid putting ourselves in that situation again.
Yup. One of the most bizarre meetings we ever had with Trump was in preparation for a hurricane landing. He was far less concerned with saving American lives and more concerned with his burning question: “Do they always spin counterclockwise?” It got weirder after that. https://t.co/N2k3kB9NTU
BREAKING NEWS: A Judge rules that Mesa, Colorado’s pro-Trump election officials are barred from overseeing November’s midterm election for “neglecting their duties” in 2020 by pushing Trump’s Big Lie in attempt to help Trump steal Biden’s win. RT TO THANK THE JUDGE!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) May 11, 2022
I don't remember. The first choice is not receiving at all. the second is receiving from only contacts. The last is receiving from everyone. pic.twitter.com/ivPlZ3HYZC
Eliminating abortion access would have a damaging effect on the economy, Yellen says
“I believe eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and set women back decades,” Yellen said in response to a question while testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
She went on to address the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision directly, stating that “access to reproductive health care including abortion helped lead to increased labor force participation. It enabled many women to finish school.
That increased their earning potential. It allowed women to plan and balance their families and careers.”
A GOP senator (MT) likened ‘pre-born’ human beings to sea turtle eggs while arguing against a Democrat-led
abortion rights bill
“Sen. Steve Daines later tweeted claiming that an “unhatched sea turtle would have more protections than an unborn human baby” if Roe v. Wade were to be codified into law.
“Why do we have laws in place that protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles? Because when you destroy an egg, you’re killing a pre-born baby sea turtle or a pre-born baby eagle,” said Daines, while speaking against the bill on the Senate floor.
“Yet when it comes to a pre-born human baby, rather than a sea turtle, that baby would be stripped of all protections in all 50 states under the Democrats’ bill we’ll be voting on tomorrow,” he added. “Is that the America that the left wants?”
Daines made his speech while standing next to a poster displaying sea turtles and a row of babies.”
“Among other things, because sea turtles and eagles don’t have constitutional rights as equal citizens of the United States,” tweeted Democratic strategist Emmy Bengtson.
“But hey, apparently women don’t either.”
imo,
Daines conflating wildlife management with women’s rights using visual aids.
Ask him about regulating men’s bodies?
Let’s say women passed a law saying all men had to have a vasectomy. Suddenly it would be about men’s rights and the preservation of every sperm as a “pre-born human being”.
Donate now to keep Georgia blue and protect the Democratic Senate majority
“I’m no political insider or career politician. I’m the son of a Georgia preacher who’s committed my life to service. With your support, I flipped Georgia’s Senate seat blue – but I need your urgent help today.
I’m ready to restore moral leadership to our government – but the GOP is already coming after me, and I can’t do it alone. This people-powered campaign can ONLY win with a massive wave of grassroots support.”
“Truth is Power”
Legal Defense Fund
34th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner honored Stevie Wonder, featuring the Dance Theater of Harlem and video messages from Former First Lady Michelle Obama and Colin Kaepernick.
Former First Lady MichelleObama
congratulates the honorees of the 2022 National Equal Justice Awards —
Stevie Wonder, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Sherrilyn Ifill.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus, LDF,
accepts the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Occasionally, you come across someone who is unique, who is singular, and that’s who Sherrilyn Ifill is.”
Let me be clear: New Jersey will not cooperate with any out of state investigation into our health care providers that seeks to punish anyone – patient, provider, counselor, friend, or Uber driver – for providing abortion care.
I don’t know how to say it more clearly, but to young people especially: If you don’t vote this November, you might not have a country left in which you can ever truly be free again.
OAN Admits On The Air That There Was No 2020 Voter Fraud
OAN ran a thirty-second segment on the air admitting that there was no 2020 widespread voter fraud as part of their settlement with two Georgia election workers.
Today OAN
– Retracted their lies
– Admitted there was NO widespread voter fraud
– Paid Moss & Freeman
imo,
Can we join the dots between RT big lies…and FOX big lies that go on killing us?
Who in the U.S. cannot see Putin’s war and the death toll being lied about on Russian State Television?
How about FOX openly lying about trumpQ and the 2020 election?
—jointhedots.
Imagine a Republican brandishing Schumer for this vote because he got 49 YES votes from the Dems…when 50 Republicans voted NO…NADA… ZILTCH… How about calling out #MitchMconnell
— PrettyFoot💃🏾 is vaxed-boostered-wears a mask😷 (@PrettyFootWoman) May 12, 2022
I think at least some of the naysayers(myself included) are still traumatized by the lightening-fast speed trump used to dismantle our institutions & we hoped the response/punishment/justice would be as speedy…or at least quicker than the snail's pace we've seen this past year+
Just completed. Absolute dynamite, bravi.
Way to underestimate the ferocity of women when it comes to their bodies and their families…
Women across America are not messing about.
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar spoke about a woman sentenced to 30 years:
El Salvador woman jailed following obstetric emergency: NGO
The woman was given a 30-year sentence for homicide over the death of an unborn child.
“Abortion is illegal in El Salvador, even in cases of rape and when the woman’s health is in danger.
Rights observers say the law, which went into effect in 1998, is enforced to such an extent that women have been punished for having miscarriages, stillbirths, or other obstetric emergencies.”
The Catholic Church will not baptize a full term still born child that a mother gave birth to. Not only they won’t baptize the baby they WILL NOT allow the baby to have a funeral mass. Reasons is the baby never took a breath. Tell me how the CC believes life begins a conception.
The baby formula shortage reveals an amazing secret oligopoly: – 3 American companies control over 90% of the mkt – hugely restrictive regulations (thanks to big $ lobbying) prohibit foreign formulas
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Thank you for your voices, Mr. President, and FLOTUS, many people hear you clearly.
Thank you for your earnest dedication, NW/UTAL, for giving us all a place to use our own voice.
💙🕊💛🙏🏼🖖🏼💙🕊💛
And with my gold medal, I shall step aside for those who wish to be heard…
Many blessings
Keep us all the Heart
WMPW
🤗
💙🕊💛❣️💙🕊💛
Love ya!
😘❤️
Ffs, tried to post this, wp stinks
No Words Needed
https://freemovieswatch.tv/watch-movie/watch-suffragette-free-online-12450.5305429
Thank you, Nerdy, for keeping the lights for us here at TOD village. Love ya, Girl! 😘♥️
Co-sign! Love ya, NW – and you, Dudette!
Love you too, Dahhhling! 😘
From fighting the Nazis with the Soviets, to fleeing from Putin’s war.
“When Arkady Perchenko was 11 years old he fought alongside the Soviet Army,
as part of the local resistance against the Nazis.
At the age of 92, he was forced to leave his home in Ukraine to escape from Russian forces.
From safety in Israel, Arkady has been talking to the BBC about his view of both wars.”
(https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61388816)
Vice President Kamala Harris
to Deliver Pre-Recorded Remarks During the National Tribal Public Health Summit 2022
“Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver pre-recorded remarks at the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) Tribal Public Health Summit on Wednesday, May 11, where she will speak to the ongoing desperate outcomes of Native women and their maternal health journey and what she and Administration are doing to address it.”
(https://nativenewsonline.net/health/vice-president-kamala-harris-to-deliver-pre-recorded-during-the-national-tribal-public-health-summit-2022)
100 ways Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and allies have found solutions to racism and violence.
By Angela Yang, Kimmy Yam, Claire Wang, Brahmjot Kaur
Illustrations by Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants
May 2, 2022
(https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/asian-americans-pacific-islanders-allies-fighting-hate/index.html)
The FIGHT
‘We cannot go back’:
People share their stories of abortion and access
We asked our readers:
How has getting an abortion — or deciding not to — changed your life? Here’s what they said.
“My wife and I have three beautiful children. However, that would not be without access to abortion. [With] an ectopic pregnancy, it was devastating that we had to choose one life over another. But we did … and to our surprise the doctor recommended continuing to try. After the elective abortion, we had two more healthy babies.”
“The abortion I had was significant because it wasn’t. It didn’t disrupt my life. It didn’t financially devastate me. I was surrounded by support. I had the right to choose and the accessibility afforded by a liberal state.”
“I got pregnant when I was 15 in 1977. I was not prepared to be a mother. Fortunately my mother, who was not totally in favor of abortion, but knew I was not mature enough to be a mother, took me to Minneapolis for a safe abortion. I would not have the life I now have if I would have been forced to have a baby at that age.”
(https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/abortion-and-access-stories-around-the-country/index.html)
—–thx for sharing so many important stories.
1-50:
Vice President Harris cast her 18th Senate tie-breaking vote to confirm Lisa Cook, who becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Beautiful!
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
warned that eliminating women’s access to abortion
would have ‘very damaging effects’ on the U.S. economy, keeping some women from completing their educations
and reducing their lifetime earnings potential and participation in the labor force.
TODAY
Senate Republicans and Democrat Joe Manchin
teamed up to block the advancement of legislation that would federally codify abortion rights.
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/11/republicans-and-joe-manchin-block-bill-to-codify-abortion-rights.html)
Fuck that guy!
Senator Debbie Stabenow to Alician Menendez yesterday:
“Tomorrow there will be the vote…and then we will go forward and continue to shine a light on what is happening across this country. All the way to November, when we have an opportunity to change it. By electing a bigger majority in the Democratic Senate, and keeping the US House and electing great people across the country.”
Sen. Stabenow:
“What I want to keep focus on is what has really brought us here.
Republicans for years. Mitch McConnell for years, and years, and years working hard to set up this situation. Right wing members of the United States Supreme Court, putting others on the federal benches that are right wing. Supporting those in state legislatures where Republicans have been chipping away at our freedoms now for years.
I mean there’s no mistake about it.
We are here because of the Republican party and the fact that they’re willing to say,
that THEY as politicians
should be making OUR decisions
about what we’re going to do
in terms of our most intimate reproductive decisions.
And so I find that incredibly outrageous.
And 50 years of settled law should be enough for all of us in the United States.
And tomorrow (vote today) is an accumulation of what the republicans have been doing for years.”
Sen Stabenow:
““Disproportionately women of color are affected by this because of their circumstances, their lack of other kinds of choices.”
“I watched what happened before Roe. And what happened when we were told as a country that in America, that we have a right to privacy, that we have the freedom to decide our most intimate health care decisions.”
Sen. Stabenow:
“We all know of situations of someone being raped, or incest, a 12 or 14 year old.
Why in the world
should government,
should politicians step in front of the family,
step in front of the woman with her faith,
her doctor, her family,
and say that politicians should make those decisions,
that Mitch McConnell should make those decisions,
other Republicans
should make those decisions?
Really,
I mean that is really quite extraordinary.
That is the fundamental question that we’re talking about is who decides, who decides.”
imo,
manchin and gop vote No.
After warbling on about big government and individual rights, this Mickey Mouse operation
wants to sit around your living space, your doctor’s office, and dictate the how and what about your family.
This includes men and their family choices – what say they about it all?
Manchin and GOP openly don’t care about your well being or your privacy.
btw, trump went overboard to create a culture of cruelty towards infants, children, teens, and got away with it. Pls prepare for the worst by protecting and putting them front and center in every possible way now.
👏🏾
Ignorant idiotic whacko. Great job, rethuglican murkkka.
Yup.
Love his record!
A good reminder to iPhone users: Turn that Airdrop shit off or limit it to people you know.
‘My Body, My Decision’: House Democrats Protesting
as the Senate voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who was part of this protest,
joins Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss what Democrats plan to do next to preserve Roe.
U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen:
Eliminating abortion access would have a damaging effect on the economy, Yellen says
“I believe eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and set women back decades,” Yellen said in response to a question while testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
She went on to address the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision directly, stating that “access to reproductive health care including abortion helped lead to increased labor force participation. It enabled many women to finish school.
That increased their earning potential. It allowed women to plan and balance their families and careers.”
Sarah Ewall-Wice: (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eliminating-abortion-access-would-have-a-damaging-effect-on-the-economy-yellen-says/)
(But don’t look now…)
A GOP senator (MT) likened ‘pre-born’ human beings to sea turtle eggs while arguing against a Democrat-led
abortion rights bill
“Sen. Steve Daines later tweeted claiming that an “unhatched sea turtle would have more protections than an unborn human baby” if Roe v. Wade were to be codified into law.
“Why do we have laws in place that protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles? Because when you destroy an egg, you’re killing a pre-born baby sea turtle or a pre-born baby eagle,” said Daines, while speaking against the bill on the Senate floor.
“Yet when it comes to a pre-born human baby, rather than a sea turtle, that baby would be stripped of all protections in all 50 states under the Democrats’ bill we’ll be voting on tomorrow,” he added. “Is that the America that the left wants?”
Daines made his speech while standing next to a poster displaying sea turtles and a row of babies.”
(https://businessinsider.mx/gop-senator-compares-fetuses-to-sea-turtle-eggs-abortion-bill-2022-5/)
“Among other things, because sea turtles and eagles don’t have constitutional rights as equal citizens of the United States,” tweeted Democratic strategist Emmy Bengtson.
“But hey, apparently women don’t either.”
imo,
Daines conflating wildlife management with women’s rights using visual aids.
Ask him about regulating men’s bodies?
Let’s say women passed a law saying all men had to have a vasectomy. Suddenly it would be about men’s rights and the preservation of every sperm as a “pre-born human being”.
Lol
Time’s Next Generation of Leaders
https://time.com/collection/next-generation-leaders/
The war criminal corrupt thug is now threatening Finns and Swedes. War on 3 fronts at the same time while still losing the first one? LOL.
WARNOCK FOR SENATE
Donate now to keep Georgia blue and protect the Democratic Senate majority
“I’m no political insider or career politician. I’m the son of a Georgia preacher who’s committed my life to service. With your support, I flipped Georgia’s Senate seat blue – but I need your urgent help today.
I’m ready to restore moral leadership to our government – but the GOP is already coming after me, and I can’t do it alone. This people-powered campaign can ONLY win with a massive wave of grassroots support.”
(https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web)
President Biden:
“Chris Smalls is making good trouble and helping inspire a new movement of labor organizing across the country. Let’s keep it going.”
“Truth is Power”
Legal Defense Fund
34th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner honored Stevie Wonder, featuring the Dance Theater of Harlem and video messages from Former First Lady Michelle Obama and Colin Kaepernick.
Former First Lady MichelleObama
congratulates the honorees of the 2022 National Equal Justice Awards —
Stevie Wonder, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Sherrilyn Ifill.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus, LDF,
accepts the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Occasionally, you come across someone who is unique, who is singular, and that’s who Sherrilyn Ifill is.”
About Ms Ifill:
(https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/staff/sherrilyn-ifill/)
This ABC song has me up dancing! 😃
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. 💖💃🏾😎
Hiya GGail! 💕🙋🏾♀️😆
Remarks by President Biden at the Global COVID-19 Summit
MAY 12, 2022
(prerecorded)
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/12/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-global-covid-19-summit/)
OAN Admits On The Air That There Was No 2020 Voter Fraud
OAN ran a thirty-second segment on the air admitting that there was no 2020 widespread voter fraud as part of their settlement with two Georgia election workers.
Today OAN
– Retracted their lies
– Admitted there was NO widespread voter fraud
– Paid Moss & Freeman
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/10/oan-no-voter-fraud.html)
imo,
Can we join the dots between RT big lies…and FOX big lies that go on killing us?
Who in the U.S. cannot see Putin’s war and the death toll being lied about on Russian State Television?
How about FOX openly lying about trumpQ and the 2020 election?
—jointhedots.
—by this i mean find ways to join the dots in the minds of millions of viewer-victims.
FACT SHEET:
U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit in Washington, DC
MAY 12, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/fact-sheet-u-s-asean-special-summit-in-washington-dc/)
imo nothing short of thrilling…the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit underway in D.C. !!!
Background Press Call by a Senior Administration Official Previewing New Initiatives from the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit
MAY 12, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/05/12/background-press-call-by-a-senior-administration-official-previewing-new-initiatives-from-the-u-s-asean-special-summit/)
Yup. Every day, every crime. No consequences. Hopium sux.
That’s because 70% of murkans do not show up when it matters most.
Yet another techbros scam.
Also. Too. Virgin territory.
“Today we make our own good luck.”
Happy Friday the 13th when you get there!
It came to me how come i made such an insensitive remark about baby formula, of which there’s a dire shortage.
Was pretty sick over the last couple of weeks and somehow missed that news.
Sincere apologies, so sorry, love babies and moms so much.
What could be worse, how are families who need formula managing? Thanks to everyone helping.
Readout of President Biden’s Virtual Meetings with Retailers and Infant Formula Manufacturers
MAY 12, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/readout-of-president-bidens-virtual-meetings-with-retailers-and-infant-formula-manufacturers/)
This! ✊🏾
🙋🏾♀️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✊🏾
LIVE NOW:
Just completed. Absolute dynamite, bravi.
Way to underestimate the ferocity of women when it comes to their bodies and their families…
Women across America are not messing about.
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar spoke about a woman sentenced to 30 years:
El Salvador woman jailed following obstetric emergency: NGO
The woman was given a 30-year sentence for homicide over the death of an unborn child.
“Abortion is illegal in El Salvador, even in cases of rape and when the woman’s health is in danger.
Rights observers say the law, which went into effect in 1998, is enforced to such an extent that women have been punished for having miscarriages, stillbirths, or other obstetric emergencies.”
(https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/10/el-salvador-woman-jailed-following-obstetric-emergency-rights-group)
—-“Do you think it cannot happen here?”
Vice President Harris Hosts a Meeting on Climate
Soon – President Biden delivers remarks highlighting state, local leaders investing in ‘American Rescue Plan’
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
WATCH LIVE: Jen Psaki holds final news briefing as White House press secretary
Jen’s last day 🥺
Wow! Go California!
Here Fishy! 🐠
Thanks to Millions of dollars worth free ad time from the stupid stooges from media.
Or the worst voters.
New post.