Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022
These are 17 of the 19 children identified by loved ones from Tuesday's tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Officials now say all of the victims were in the same fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School. INFO: https://t.co/I3DnXNz4MB pic.twitter.com/O91fkOVCGO
— CBS Austin (@cbsaustin) May 25, 2022
Michelle and I grieve with the families in Uvalde, who are experiencing pain no one should have to bear.
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022We’re also angry for them. Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook—and ten days after Buffalo—our country is paralyzed, n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022It’s long past time for action, any kind of action. And it’s another tragedy—a quieter but no less tragic one—for f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022May God bless the memory of the victims, and in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022
The Obama Diary 
Thread—please take a moment to read..
The money line
Indeed, mass death works in the rightwingers’ favor. When an electorate is scared enough, it will stop turning to democracy to solve problems. It will turn to the party that promises to restore “law and order,” that is, rule by white power.
Not if they belong to the cult cabal of trumpturds. The totus thug has corrupted the system at every level with eagerly willing participants.
President Biden tweeted:
“I’ve gotten to know George Floyd’s family over the years and I promised them that his name will not just become a hashtag. Today, I signed an Executive Order to deliver on that promise and enact the most significant police reform in decades.
Here’s what it will do:
First, the Executive Order promotes accountability. It creates a new national law enforcement accountability database, strengthens pattern and practice investigations, and mandates all federal agents wear and activate body cameras while on patrol.
Second, the Executive Order raises standards. It bans chokeholds, restricts no-knock entries, and tightens use-of-force policies to emphasize de-escalation and the duty to intervene.
Third, it modernizes policing with new tools to screen and vet officers.
This Executive Order includes reforms that have long been talked about, but we’re finally implementing. By building public trust, we can strengthen public safety and we can more effectively fight rising crime in our communities.
We can show what’s possible when we work together.”
Yup. Make the fucking 3rd rate msm notice you.
totally violating the first amendment rights of peaceful protesters. fucking hypocrites.
Aren’t the thugs already doing it?
Test
Hope this post actually posts.
Fucking 4th estate regurgitating the rethugs talking points.
posts with links not posting.
talk about heil hitler gestures
And the guy has a fucking gun in his pocket!
Typical what you gonna do about it white arrogance.
disgusting indeed.
why aren’t the dems demanding equal time?
Unlike any other country, every two years, americans get an opportunity twice to throw out the corrupt bums and yet they keep electing the same bums or worse bums.
A scummy pos.
Taliban are not the worst people, these scums are.
Dug out my gun control rant from some years ago. I know. But I’m so fucking furious, I’m posting it around again.
Obviously any of the following proposals will take a lot of time and debate to accomplish in a national culture of dehumanized adoration of guns. There’s probably only a chance for some pieces of sane control being slowly enacted piece-meal and requiring much compromise on both sides. But DOING NOTHING is no longer acceptable to the majority of rational Americans. SOMETHING has to happen. There has to be change in this country to address the insanity of gun violence that is ending or ruining too many men, women and CHILDREN’S lives. For the following ideas, please remember: 1) The NRA and gun worshipping ammosexuals are against ALL controls. They won’t accept ANYTHING but unlimited ownership and access to all types of readily available INSTANT DEATH DEVICES (IDDs), 2) Everyone of the ideas below ALLOWS for continued private ownership of guns-YOU CAN KEEP YOUR GD GUNS!, and 3) If you are a gun owner, which of these measures would be ok with you? Seriously, just NOTHING, not one change to save lives? Reasonable regulations for registration, safety requirements and insurance for automobiles make sense, but NOTHING for IDDs?? Why would a sane, responsible gun owner be opposed to every single measure to improve gun safety? 33,000K+ gun deaths in America per year and rising. NO OTHER ADVANCED SOCIETY IN THE WORLD HAS THIS PROBLEM OR ANYTHING CLOSE TO IT.
A few ideas:
1. Strict criminal and psychiatric background checks for gun purchases with a 30 day waiting period. Dealers that violate have their licenses permanently revoked. Dealers found to be in willful violation face criminal charges and jail time.
2. A permanent ban on all gun show sales, and private party sales. Sales will only happen through closely regulated and monitored dealers.
3. Registration of all guns by owners with annual renewal required; stiff penalties for violations.
4. Owners required to carry $500,000 liability insurance for each gun; stiff penalties for violations. Insurance is required on automobiles, why not something as deadly as IDDs?
5. An immediate ban on private ownership of military weapons and ammunition.
6. Strict and sane limits on the number of guns that can be purchased and possessed by each person.
7. Freeze on all manufacture of guns until the manufacturer retools to produce only guns with valid and approved security features (biometric lock-outs etc.).
8. Freeze on all manufacture of ammunition until manufacturers re-tool to produce only traceable ammunition.
9. Strict and sane limits on the amount of ammunition per gun that can be purchased and possessed.
10. A massive national gun and ammunition buy-back program with collected guns and ammunition going for destruction within 30 days. I’d happily pay more taxes for years for that program! This was done on a large scale and very successfully in Australia.
11. A sustained and multi-faceted national education program on the inherent danger of guns. It would emphasize the enormous toll of lost and ruined lives and the virtues of evolving as a society away from gun ownership. Stress how other advanced societies don’t have this problem.
Proponents of unlimited ownership and access to guns love to trot out the old cliché about the person kills not the gun AND we only need to address mental illness. But the quantum leap in the level and frequency of murder and MASS MURDER in America is directly connected to the obscene availability of guns. INSTANT DEATH DEVICES. I am ALL FOR a better system of mental health recognition and treatments. But we must work on all angles of this problem that OTHER ADVANCED SOCIETIES DO NOT HAVE. The insane mega-tons of privately owned guns in this country has ZERO beneficial effects and disastrous levels of destructive effects.
Thank you for this post, Nerdy.
Corrupt scums.
So the fleeing kids have to run past the murderer bursting through that one door? How do their voters not see their reps’ naked stupidity?
which was stirred up the same rethugs.
here is yet another chance for the texans to redeem themselves.
compare that with the obscenities from the thugs on stage.
BETO, thanks a million for your leadership.
Police were urged to charge into a deadly school shooting in Texas by onlookers, witnesses say, with one suggesting he considered doing so himself as he became frustrated.
Texas officials say gunman Salvador Ramos was inside the school in Uvalde for up to an hour before he was killed.
Nineteen children and two adults died, while 17 others were injured.
Eyewitness Juan Carranza told the Associated Press that women shouted at officers to “go in there”.
But the 24-year-old, who witnessed the scene at the Robb Elementary School from outside his house, said police did not enter.
Javier Cazares, whose daughter was killed in the attack, told the news agency he suggested running in with other onlookers because the police “weren’t doing anything”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61588274
Armed policemen were too chickenshit to even enter the school and yet the rethugs talking point is arm the teachers.
Cannot ignore this…the pretense about ‘more guns’ in a deadly situation, and particularly schools where the right would like to arm our educators must be exposed.
Q: Do GOP politicians have sons, daughters, grandchildren, spouses, in our schools?
“Rep. Fine should be getting a knock on the door from law enforcement, as he appears to be attempting to incite violence against the President Of The United States.” (Jason Easley)
(politicus.com)
—-Florida Rep Fine made a threat against the President if he pursues common-sense gun law. Hope this is addressed with all speed.
Quad Joint Leaders’ Statement
MAY 24, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/24/quad-joint-leaders-statement/)
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at Operation Fly Formula Event
MAY 25, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/25/remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-by-first-lady-jill-biden-at-operation-fly-formula-event/)
How Do Judges Become Judges? Here Are Five Main Ways
By Democracy Docket
(https://www.democracydocket.com/news/how-judges-become-judges/)
“Michelle and I grieve with the families in Uvalde, who are experiencing pain no one should have to bear,”
former President Barack Obama said in response to the Texas school shooting Tuesday.
By Shafiq Najib
“We’re also angry for them,” he continued. “Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook—and ten days after Buffalo—our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies.”
(https://people.com/politics/barack-obama-addresses-uvalde-shooting-nearly-10-years-after-sandy-hook-our-country-is-paralyzed/)
“The Newtown Action Alliance, a gun violence prevention organization
launched after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, also issued a statement on Twitter saying,
“We are devastated.
Our hearts are breaking for Robb Elementary & Uvalde families & community. We are angry.
These shootings are preventable
but those whose stood with the NRA
after Sandy Hook
nearly 10 years ago
did absolutely nothing
to prevent these tragedies.
We need change.”
imho
Senate Republicans who fear protecting children with life saving gun measures even more than their belief In an eternity in Hell, plan to block Bill intended to combat Domestic Terrorism.
Reports say the murderer was in the school for over an hour while the Police outside did not enter.
Please investigate.
Thanks to President Biden, who travels to Uvalde today to meet with the families of precious young Children who were shocked, terrified, then shredded by an assault weapon.
p.s. We have to stay awake, stay present in the dream in order to change the outcome.
President Biden says he will travel to Uvalde “in the coming days”.
(i made a mistake)
No problem! I think I saw he and Jill will go there on Sunday.
Why? They were not white kids is why.
Watch the corrupt coward walk away after his usual bs is questioned.
Or nazi uniforms. Both work.
imo
Someone please inform the Briton reporting’ for the garbage insult-fest Daily Mail:
Owned by Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth,
4th Viscount Rothermere,
inheritor of media empire founded by his great-grandfather Harold Sidney Harmsworth:
That Mr. George Floyd’s death by police officer was 2 years ago,
and police reform is still the issue.
= Is why PBO mentioned GW in his response to the Uvalde massacre and why it is absolutely relevant.
And then do the actual follow up, arrest their lying asses since you know they all gonna.
SENATE REPUBLICANS what did you do today, this year, last year and the years before that?
Pass H.R.1280 – George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
—overwhelmingly supported by your constituents.
Sherrilyn Ifill:
“I don’t have a lot of words today, except to say that there is a concerted effort right now to convince you that “nothing can be done.” It is designed to make you give in to the exhaustion of this moment. Don’t believe it.
It’s a lie. We have power if we mobilize it.”
Start by ensuring that those elected leaders who are standing in the way of passing sensible gun laws that would regulate access to weapons designed to literally liquefy human beings & destroy mass targets hear from you. Tell them what you want to see. Call them at 202-224-3121.
Here’s a list of the Senators who voted for and against the bill that would have regulated assault weapons in 2013. All Republicans voted nay. Some Dems too. Check the list. If they’re still in ofc, call them. 202-224-3121.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00101.htm
If you call no one else call Sen. McConnell,
who vowed to block the effort to pass gun legislation in 2013 after Sandy Hook. 202-224-3121
Tell him your thoughts about this issue.
Just start there. That’s enough for today.
If you call his D.C. office & get a recording saying they are experiencing “a high volume of calls & can’t receive messages at this time” remember he is on this platform
so you can go to his Twitter handle
and share your thoughts,
or email him https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=contact“
From 2013:
McConnell vows to block gun control measures
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/19/mcconnell-vows-block-gun-control-measures/1848103/)
Did we let one guy do all that to destroy our country?
McConnell
Manchin
Atta boy. Keep repeating it till election day.
Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety
MAY 25, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/05/25/executive-order-on-advancing-effective-accountable-policing-and-criminal-justice-practices-to-enhance-public-trust-and-public-safety/)
Sen Murphy begs Senate to “Find a Path Forward”
“We can change.”
—–imho the gun extremists will find things closing in on their very young children too. Their lives are at risk too.
An Assault wWapon In Every Hand will backfire for them too.
Do we want to be like S. America and flee for our lives from gun extremists?
Fleeing like millions in Ukraine?
Joy Reid:
“Replace four or five Republican senators and you can pass gun reform.”
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
David Hogg, Jaclyn Corn, Parkland High School massacre survivors:
Let’s make this time different.
Let’s get Americans from the left and right gun owners and non gun owners old & young to work together o
n what we can agree on and demand action from Congress to save our kids
Join us on June 11 for our second ever March
(https://marchforourlives.com/march22/
Yet another victim of rethuglican evil
That asshole racist for a mayor has been fired yet?
More guns. Thugs are forever in debt of nra.
Heard that a trained officer fully armed is still no match for a determined shooter. That could explain a lot. But hey, let a teacher have a go.
People need to go back to electing sane people.
Rimshot. Fucking coward.
Yup. This is entirely possible.
Bingo.
It would be interesting to know who this paper endorses during elections.
David Hogg:
If you saw me on @AC360.
and didn’t catch the text code to join
or start your own sister March on June 11
text March to 954-954
“The day he turned 18, he knew what weapon he was getting.
Why? Because the [gun] companies had been courting him for years.”
Joshua Koskoff, attorney for Sandy Hook families who sued Remington Arms, on the role of gun company
marketing in mass shootings
(Maddowblog)
Testing.
Hmmm. Not able to post tweets, so maybe I’ll give that a try tomorrow!
Goodnight, TODville, and all the ships at sea! And thanks for everything you do for all of us, Nerdy darlin’!
Morning everyone. Something, and someone, to make you smile.
I love this so much. ❤️
This guy seems to be presidential material. Dems should promote him like they did with kenyan.
do it texans for once at least.
don’t know if this is true, if it is, they need to wake the fuck up.
Trash vs class.
Yup, it’s 95% thugs, 5% dems. Looking at you, joe fucking manchin.
imo, new word.
We know their campaign theme meme words are carefully manufactured, we recently had the ‘gr…m’ word.
Now Abbott and the education terrorist crowd have a new one which makes me think of the armed fortresses they want for our children. Clue, it starts with an H…(Har…n). They probably find it amusing. Let’s not give them this one or the next.
Unlike the search and destroy right wing, children are tender, their minds are supple, evolving. Relative reality is constantly changing, impermanent, not fixed, tough, or hard. Words matter. Let’s not allow Abbot, De Santis and the hard cases to create the intractable and terrifying school environment (and world) they want. They want school to be Hard to learn in and Hard to teach in.
Uvalde Had Prepared for School Shootings. It Did Not Stop the Rampage.
Mike Baker and Dana Goldstein:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/us/mass-shooting-school-security.html)
Firearm-related death rate per 100K population per year
Canada 2.05
India 0.285
United Kingdom 0.23
South Korea 0.08
Japan 0.06
Cuba 0.
United States 12.21
(https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country)
—–Admiral James Stavridis (Ret) telling Colbert it’s the talk of the town in Europe. Western leaders keep asking him what is with all the mass killings in the United States of America?
Q: What will be our Act III Scene IV in America if we don’t act now to ban assault weapons?
imo with 400 million guns in America we must allow ourselves to anticipate and see what is out there, because we do know where this runaway goes.
Cuba: 0.5
BETO
To Abbott and the “Too Soon” crowd on the bench:
“This was totally predictable.”
“This is on you.”
“Something very dark and disturbing
is happening with respect to the investigation into the Uvalde mass shooting.
Unlike the countless other mass shootings
this country sacrifices at the altar of the 2nd Amendment,
Uvalde has unique circumstances such that many people directly involved in the matter,
parents, police, and other officials
were at the school property minutes after the shooter
and, somehow,
were forced to stand outside the property
while lives were being taken
over the course of an hour. ”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/27/city-official-uvalde.html)
New post.