Michelle and I are proud to join @BChesky in announcing the first recipients of The Voyager Scholarship, which supports 100 rising college juniors as they pursue a career in public service.
Healing energy and help to all waiting for rescue, without power and food, seen the devastation of their homes. We will alter the trajectory of dirty energy in your honor.
Beyond thanks to our U.S. government for its support and tireless loyalty, and to volunteer organization(s?) like the United Cajun Navy.
With you all the way on that! And a personal thank you from me, NW, for always being here for us! Love seeing what the Obamas are up to, on behalf of our country and its people!
“We are not the problem. We are problem solvers.
…We have changed the world.
Tomorrow, we fight the inequity that remains.
Tonight, we celebrate.
Disability.
The Power and the Pride.”
Recognizing Components Is Key To Fighting Extremist Violence: Anita Hill
Anita Hill, author of “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence,”
talks with Alex Wagner about how societal ills like misogyny, racism, and homophobia exist as components of extremist violence and need to be addressed holistically to effectively right extremism.
Remarks by President Biden at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
“And if you’ll forgive me, I want to add one more warning. That’s a warning to the oil and gas industry executives: Do not — let me repeat — do not — do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people. (Applause.)
The price of oil has stayed relatively low. It kept going down. The price of gas should be going down as well.
My experts inform me that production of only about 190,000 barrels a day has been impacted by this storm thus far. That’s less than 2 percent of the United States’ daily production impacted for a very short period of time.
This small, temporary storm impact on oil production provides no excuse — no excuse for price increases at the pump. None.”
President Biden:
“If gas companies try to use this storm to raise prices at the pump, I will ask officials to look into whether price gouging is going on. America is watching.”
“Since 2016, I’ve done a great deal of reading, writing, thinking, talking, and brooding about the crisis of liberal democracy we’re now living through — how it originated, what powers it, and how possibly to defuse it or at least muddle through it. And what I’ve concluded is that this political crisis is one aspect of a much larger, deeper, global social crisis — a period of transition in which the long-term outlook for free and open societies, and for human wellbeing more broadly, swings all the way from catastrophe to transformational progress.”
E. Jean Carroll plans to sue Trump using new N.Y. sexual assault law
By Andrea Salcedo
“Writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has maintained that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her once during the 1990s, plans to sue the former president under a New York law that lets sexual assault victims file suit years later, she said in court records filed Tuesday.”
That photo of the pink flamingos locked away in a rest room for their safety really got me, when I saw it earlier! Anything to keep all of those beautiful creatures safe!
Listen to this episode from The Bakari Sellers Podcast on Spotify.
Bakari Sellers is joined by the political adviser and former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama…Cody Keenan.
Thing is without power you are relying on your phone, and e.g. your car battery to recharge it.
Make solar rechargers for accessible for all?
New tech for recharging phone, something…
Hi Everyone! Mrs. Obama will be one of the presenters tonight in New York for the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s inaugural Albie Awards ceremony. Here’s some info on the event.
Amal and George Clooney (@clooneyfdn) are hosting a new ceremony, the Albie Awards, to shine a light on individuals who are devoting their lives to justice, at great personal risk.
It’s part of their personal fight, which they say is a response “to what we see in the world.” pic.twitter.com/rggPIRb6qH
Today, as @POTUS and @VP join the investiture of Justice Jackson…
Pres. Trump's supporters often cited his judicial nominations as his most significant achievement… @POTUS has added 84 new judges at this point in his Presidency; Trump had added only 68.
Maxwell Alejandro Frost On Florida’s Climate Crisis
“Climate change contributed to Hurricane Ian’s intensity. Maxwell Alejandro Frost,
who is the Democratic nominee for a Florida House seat and would be the youngest member of Congress, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that he’s running to fight for “bold climate reform.”
Key takeaways from Biden’s conference on hunger and nutrition in America
“President Biden pushed for Congress to permanently extend the child tax credit,
raise the minimum wage and expand nutrition assistance programs to help reduce hunger rates as he opened the second-ever conference on food insecurity and diet-related diseases.
A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change.
A proposal to construct barriers for storm surge protection has forced South Floridians to reckon with the many environmental challenges they face.
By Patricia Mazzei
“South Florida, flat and low-lying, sits on porous limestone, which allows the ocean to swell up through the ground. Even when there is no storm, rising seas contribute to more significant tidal flooding, where streets fill with water even on sunny days. The expanding saltwater threatens to spoil the underground aquifer that supplies the region’s drinking water, and to crack old sewer pipes and aging septic tanks. It leaves less space for the earth to absorb liquid, so floodwaters linger longer, their runoff polluting the bay and killing fish.
And that is just sea-level rise.”
“Republican lawmakers, who have controlled the Florida Legislature for more than 20 years, acknowledged in late 2019 that they had ignored climate change for so long that the state had “lost a decade.”
imo thoughts,
hearing wishful talk
by developers about research to ‘seal limestone’.
When will we acknowledge that residents need to be relocated because the coastal land is gone, has receded? And not rebuild and risk lives over and over again.
“The National Association of Hispanic Journalists late last week expressed solidarity with its members and journalists in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic who are covering the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
“While the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Fiona is still being assessed, much of Puerto Rico has been impacted by a widespread power outage as well as catastrophic flash flooding, forcing journalists to work in challenging circumstances,” the media advisory read.
The organization, which has a professional chapter and several student chapters on the island of Puerto Rico, also called on media outlets to provide their journalists with the tools to protect their mental and physical health. “We also call on news media organizations at the national level to provide sustained coverage and monitoring of this disaster and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other regions hit by the storm,” the release stated.
The deadly storm sparked an island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico, five years after Hurricane Maria inflicted more damage there than any other disaster in recent history, according to The New York Times. Hurricane Fiona also tore through an area of the Dominican Republic with heavy tourism.”
“For more about the devastation and trauma still felt in Puerto Rico, listen to this nuanced “Post Reports” podcast episode featuring Washington Post reporter Arelis R. Hernández. There’s a lot of good reporting on both hurricanes’ impact on the lives of Puerto Ricans, but one report of note is Sin Luz: Life Without Power, an award-winning immersive video interactive from 2017 produced by Hernández and colleagues Whitney Leaming and Zoeann Murphy.” (Poynter staff)
—President Biden has pledged “I am committed to you” and to visit during recovery.
Ginni Thomas Denies Discussing Election Subversion Efforts With Her Husband
In a closed-door interview with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack,
Ms. Thomas reiterated her false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump.
BREAKING: Court REJECTS National GOP lawsuit aimed at preventing Pennsylvania counties from notifying and allowing voters to fix technical mistakes with their mail-in ballots. A huge victory for @DSCC
Section 2 of the VRA Could Be Next on SCOTUS’ Chopping Block
By Ellis Champion
Merril et al.
v
Merril et al.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — the most litigated provision of the VRA — currently prohibits any law that has the intent or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote “on account of race or color.” Since the VRA was enacted in 1965, Section 2 (which you may also see written as “§2”) has been used in redistricting litigation to strike down maps that dilute the voting strength of minority voters by “packing” and “cracking” them across districts to prevent a particular minority group from electing its preferred candidates, even when the minority group represents a significant portion of the state’s voting population.
Now, there is a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could change the future application of Section 2 as we know it. In Merrill v. Milligan…”
President Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Florida. If you are a resident or business owner affected by Hurricane Ian in one of the designated areas, you can begin applying for federal assistance at http://DisasterAssistance.gov.
David Plouffe, guest,
Pod Save America September 27 “Impeaching to the Choir”:
“Trump is not an aberration but a continuation and escalation of republican DNA.”
Native America Calling: Tribes respond to Biden’s clean energy challenge
Tribes respond to Biden’s clean energy challenge
Some tribes are already finding economic opportunities with clean energy.
Now the Biden Administration is appealing directly to tribes to add wind, solar, and other clean alternatives to help boost their budgets
The North Face is renaming its fleece jackets and spotlighting the Sherpa people
“The outdoor lifestyle has a huge debt to Indigenous people,”
Henry Navarro, a designer and an associate professor in fashion at Toronto Metropolitan University, said.
Thai Cave Rescue explores lives behind the Tham Luang mission
By Erin Chew
“Thai Cave Rescue is a unique re-telling of the rescue which takes a deep dive into the lives of the young Thai boys who were trapped and the rescue team who made the mission a success, aiming to allow the viewers to understand who these people were before the rescue occurred.”
Stardate: Friday, September 30, 2022
Love and protections to all who are suffering and all who are grieving after Hurricane Ian.
And to every precious person responding to this disaster.
“In infinite lands
The Guides appear in the world;
In accord with the power of their vows
They respond in every place.”
India abortion: Why Supreme Court ruling is a huge step forward.
Just weeks after the US Supreme Court passed a controversial order to ban or severely restrict the ability for pregnant women to get abortions, a similar case made headlines in India.
While the Roe v Wade ruling was described as “a huge step back for women’s rights”, Thursday’s order by the Indian Supreme Court – in contrast – is being hailed as “historic” and “a big step forward” for women’s rights.
The ruling – which said that all women, including those not married and persons other than cis-gender women, had equal rights to abortion – is indeed a progressive one in a country that’s home to 73 million single women.
The order came on a petition brought to the top court in July by a 25-year-old single woman who had been in a consensual relationship and was 22 weeks pregnant.
The judges pointed out that law can no longer be interpreted based “on narrow patriarchal principles” about what constitutes “permissible sex” as the Indian society and family has significantly changed over the years and live-in relationships, pre-marital sex and gay sex can no longer be “seen with the lens of criminality”.
“The law in modern times is shedding the notion that marriage is a precondition to the rights of individuals and that changing social mores must be borne in mind when interpreting a law. As society changes and evolves, so must our mores and conventions. A changed social context demands a readjustment of our laws,” the order said.
Another reason why the judgement has made headlines in India is because of what it says about marital rape.
An archaic colonial-era law that remains on the statue books in India says that sex “by a man with his wife” who is not a minor is not rape and the Supreme Court, at present, is hearing a petition to criminalise rape within marriage.
The judges clarified at the outset that their order was not really about the legality of marital rape as it was being heard by another bench – but they made it very clear that if a woman became pregnant “due to a husband’s act of sexual assault or rape, she should not be compelled to give birth to and raise a child with a partner who inflicts mental and physical harm upon her”.
The huge benefit of not having judge till you die SC judges. The current crop of our SC judges is exceptionally progressive. They are knocking down archaic oppressive ‘laws’ passed by the uneducated morons in our legislative branches.
President Biden has appointed 84 federal judges – more than any president since President Kennedy. Of the 143 nominations he’s made, 68% have been women, and 66% have been people of color.
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Investiture Ceremony
“The Supreme Court held a special sitting on September 30, 2022,
for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff attended as guests of the Court. On June 30, 2022, Justice Jackson took the oaths of office to become the 104th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
“According to the Supreme Court,
(Judge Jackson was to be) escorted by the Clerk of the Court, Scott Harris,
to the well of the Courtroom, where she will sit in the same chair used by Chief Justice John Marshall during the early 19th century. The chair has been used for the investiture of every member of the Court since Lewis F. Powell, Jr., took his Judicial Oath in 1972.
Chief Justice John Roberts was to then administer the judicial oath for a second time to Jackson and then Jackson would be escorted to her designated seat on the far right of the court. Once they were seated, the special session of the court would adjourn.”
The two freshmen Members of Congress who lectured us the most about the importance of marriage, Madison Cawthorn and Marge Greene, didn’t have theirs survive a single term in office.
“WARNING. Someone using the phone number +1 (202) 7549885 is impersonating me. If you connect on a video platform with this number, you will see an AI-generated
“deep fake” that looks and talks like me. It is not me. This is a new Russian weapon of war. Be careful.”
“I am told by experts that a quick way to detect if the caller is fake is to ask them to turn their head, as faking that on a computer-generated video is harder to do. But I’m not an expert.”
fyi,
Maria Ressa, facing 85 years in jail, has decided to return to the Philippines.
2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, the CEO of Rappler, was honored at the inaugural Albie Awards in New York 4 days ago, organized by the Clooney Foundation to highlight defenders of justice.
Amal Clooney:
“Amal Clooney is a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights. She represents clients before international courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Alongside court work, she provides advice to governments and individuals on legal issues in her areas of expertise.”
(https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/amal-clooney)
—-George Clooney: “Amal’s gotten journalists out of Egypt, out of Azerbaijan, prisons, out of — all over the world, Myanmar.”
“George and Amal created the Albie Awards, named after Justice Albie Sachs, to shine a spotlight on defenders of justice who are at risk for what they do.
Sachs received a lifetime achievement award Thursday for his heroic commitment to ending apartheid in South Africa.
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa was given the Justice For Journalists award while iAct — an organization that supports survivors of genocide in refugee camps — was honored with the Justice For Survivors award.
The Justice For Democracy Defenders award was given to Belarusian human rights group Viasna, and the Justice for Women honor went to Dr. Josephine Kulea for the Kenya-based Samburu Girls Foundation.”
Happy 98th birthday, Jimmy Carter (@CarterCenter)! I’m grateful for your lifetime of service, and I hope you and Rosalynn have a wonderful celebration.
Here’s something from Mrs. Obama on the the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s inaugural Albie Awards ceremony in NY this week. Looks like she was given the honor of presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Albie Sachs, the South African civil rights activist after whom the award is named. So cool!
I was thrilled to attend the #AlbieAwards hosted by the @ClooneyFDN, an event to celebrate those around the world who have dedicated their lives to standing up for justice—including Albie Sachs, who fought against apartheid in South Africa. pic.twitter.com/eWa5so878p
#FOIAFriday SCOOP: DOJ released a doc to me in response to a 5 year old #FOIA request. It's a doc I didn't specifically ask for. It's a transcript of an off the record discussion Obama had with reporters about Trump, et al, 3 days before he left office
Happy 98th birthday, President Carter! Your dedication to public service and the work you and the @CarterCenter have done to lift up others is an example we should all follow. pic.twitter.com/3bJl9RyUN0
Meeting this moment requires us — all of us. This moment demands humble, compassionate, and empathic public servants who are going to lift our communities up across Pennsylvania.
Dropping in, praying all our TOD eastcoast Fam are safe.💞💜
On an aside, apart from me saying “Dayum” when I watched it, the soundtrack is pretty good. (Just my thought: not sure about Lauryn hill song. Maybe her own regrets?
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Thank you NW – big time.
Healing energy and help to all waiting for rescue, without power and food, seen the devastation of their homes. We will alter the trajectory of dirty energy in your honor.
Beyond thanks to our U.S. government for its support and tireless loyalty, and to volunteer organization(s?) like the United Cajun Navy.
With you all the way on that! And a personal thank you from me, NW, for always being here for us! Love seeing what the Obamas are up to, on behalf of our country and its people!
THE PRESIDENT: Stand up, Susan.
THE FIRST LADY: Yeah. (Applause.) Yes.
All right, these are your words:
“We are not the problem. We are problem solvers.
…We have changed the world.
Tomorrow, we fight the inequity that remains.
Tonight, we celebrate.
Disability.
The Power and the Pride.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/28/remarks-by-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-anniversary-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/)
Evan Peters in ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ is just the latest hot actor to be cast as an absolutely evil man
Brittany Spanos: (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jeffrey-dahmer-netflix-serial-killer-thirst-1234596780/)
—-thanks, my youngest became a goth along with millions of others…imho Harry Potter was no magical children’s story…followed by vampire movies galore.
Recognizing Components Is Key To Fighting Extremist Violence: Anita Hill
Anita Hill, author of “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence,”
talks with Alex Wagner about how societal ills like misogyny, racism, and homophobia exist as components of extremist violence and need to be addressed holistically to effectively right extremism.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAqyRblu9Y
We need to call them out’:
Gov. Newsom wants Democrats to push back on GOP governors
Newsom: “GOP governors like DeSantis are nothing more than bullies.”
(Alex Wagner, msnbc)
“Healing divisions takes back seat to fight for rights: Newsom”
“Newsom knocks Democrats for poor messaging on successes versus Republicans”
Remarks by President Biden at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
“And if you’ll forgive me, I want to add one more warning. That’s a warning to the oil and gas industry executives: Do not — let me repeat — do not — do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people. (Applause.)
The price of oil has stayed relatively low. It kept going down. The price of gas should be going down as well.
My experts inform me that production of only about 190,000 barrels a day has been impacted by this storm thus far. That’s less than 2 percent of the United States’ daily production impacted for a very short period of time.
This small, temporary storm impact on oil production provides no excuse — no excuse for price increases at the pump. None.”
(FULL: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/28/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-white-house-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health/)
President Biden:
“If gas companies try to use this storm to raise prices at the pump, I will ask officials to look into whether price gouging is going on. America is watching.”
President Biden:
“If you look at your child and you can’t feed your child, what the hell else matters?
I really mean it. Worldwide.”
“In America, no child should go to bed hungry. No parent should die of disease that can be prevented.”
Every word he says is from the heart. I just love President Biden.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Unveils First-Ever Pacific Partnership Strategy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/29/fact-sheet-president-biden-unveils-first-ever-pacific-partnership-strategy/)
Remarks by Vice President Harris During Meeting with Groundbreaking Women Leaders From the Republic of Korea
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Chief of Mission Residence
Seoul, Republic of Korea
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/29/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-during-meeting-with-groundbreaking-women-leaders-from-the-republic-of-korea/)
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials Previewing the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit
Via Teleconference
(September 27, 2022)
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/09/28/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-previewing-the-u-s-pacific-island-country-summit/)
What Is the Permanent Problem?
Brink Lindsay
“Since 2016, I’ve done a great deal of reading, writing, thinking, talking, and brooding about the crisis of liberal democracy we’re now living through — how it originated, what powers it, and how possibly to defuse it or at least muddle through it. And what I’ve concluded is that this political crisis is one aspect of a much larger, deeper, global social crisis — a period of transition in which the long-term outlook for free and open societies, and for human wellbeing more broadly, swings all the way from catastrophe to transformational progress.”
(https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/what-is-the-permanent-problem?r=2py6i&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct)
Opinion: Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t?
“Surveying the transgressive malevolence of the radical right, one is forced to conclude: If this is not moral ruin, then there are no moral rules.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/michael-gerson-evangelical-christian-maga-democracy/
Indulgent
by Uygar Duzgun
E. Jean Carroll plans to sue Trump using new N.Y. sexual assault law
By Andrea Salcedo
“Writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has maintained that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her once during the 1990s, plans to sue the former president under a New York law that lets sexual assault victims file suit years later, she said in court records filed Tuesday.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/21/e-jean-carroll-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuit/)
for every rape victim everywhere, she must win.
Sannibel Island now cut off…Sec. Buttigieg reporting.
That photo of the pink flamingos locked away in a rest room for their safety really got me, when I saw it earlier! Anything to keep all of those beautiful creatures safe!
THE BAKARI SELLERS PODCAST
Cody Keenan and Speechwriting for Barack Obama
by Bakari Sellers
Listen to this episode from The Bakari Sellers Podcast on Spotify.
Bakari Sellers is joined by the political adviser and former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama…Cody Keenan.
(https://www.theringer.com/2022/9/29/23378363/cody-keenan-and-speechwriting-for-barack-obama)
GRACE: PRESIDENT OBAMA AND TEN DAYS IN THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA
By Cody Keenan
Chief White House Speechwriter
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Florida
Details: (https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20220929/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-major-disaster-declaration-florida)
3 ways to apply for Disaster Aid.
Rear Admiral Brendan McPhearson, Coast Guard.
About rescue operations which co-ordinates so many different critical groups:
“CALL 911.
DON’T USE SOCIAL MEDIA”
(to Alex Wagner)
It was great that he appeared and was so direct and reassuring to everyone who needed to hear his message!
Thing is without power you are relying on your phone, and e.g. your car battery to recharge it.
Make solar rechargers for accessible for all?
New tech for recharging phone, something…
(imho)
Got it…so in the future:
ALL phones will be chargeable by the Sun.
And cheap.
just stick it on/out the window.
Hi Everyone! Mrs. Obama will be one of the presenters tonight in New York for the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s inaugural Albie Awards ceremony. Here’s some info on the event.
Oh wow – how great! I love Mr. and Mrs. Clooney, too!
Introducing The Albie Awards
Interview clip.
Here’s more from George on the event
Can’t find much on Mrs. Obama’s participation. Just this.
Introducing The Albie Awards, names of honorees.
“Justice must be waged.”
Traitorous treasonous thug exploiting the corrupt and rotten systems and getting away with it. Yet again.
Happy KBJ Day!
Bloop!
Maxwell Alejandro Frost On Florida’s Climate Crisis
“Climate change contributed to Hurricane Ian’s intensity. Maxwell Alejandro Frost,
who is the Democratic nominee for a Florida House seat and would be the youngest member of Congress, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that he’s running to fight for “bold climate reform.”
Key takeaways from Biden’s conference on hunger and nutrition in America
“President Biden pushed for Congress to permanently extend the child tax credit,
raise the minimum wage and expand nutrition assistance programs to help reduce hunger rates as he opened the second-ever conference on food insecurity and diet-related diseases.
(https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125575122/biden-hunger-america-conference)
A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change.
A proposal to construct barriers for storm surge protection has forced South Floridians to reckon with the many environmental challenges they face.
By Patricia Mazzei
“South Florida, flat and low-lying, sits on porous limestone, which allows the ocean to swell up through the ground. Even when there is no storm, rising seas contribute to more significant tidal flooding, where streets fill with water even on sunny days. The expanding saltwater threatens to spoil the underground aquifer that supplies the region’s drinking water, and to crack old sewer pipes and aging septic tanks. It leaves less space for the earth to absorb liquid, so floodwaters linger longer, their runoff polluting the bay and killing fish.
And that is just sea-level rise.”
“Republican lawmakers, who have controlled the Florida Legislature for more than 20 years, acknowledged in late 2019 that they had ignored climate change for so long that the state had “lost a decade.”
Much more: (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/miami-fl-seawall-hurricanes.html)
imo thoughts,
hearing wishful talk
by developers about research to ‘seal limestone’.
When will we acknowledge that residents need to be relocated because the coastal land is gone, has receded? And not rebuild and risk lives over and over again.
“The National Association of Hispanic Journalists late last week expressed solidarity with its members and journalists in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic who are covering the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
“While the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Fiona is still being assessed, much of Puerto Rico has been impacted by a widespread power outage as well as catastrophic flash flooding, forcing journalists to work in challenging circumstances,” the media advisory read.
The organization, which has a professional chapter and several student chapters on the island of Puerto Rico, also called on media outlets to provide their journalists with the tools to protect their mental and physical health. “We also call on news media organizations at the national level to provide sustained coverage and monitoring of this disaster and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other regions hit by the storm,” the release stated.
The deadly storm sparked an island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico, five years after Hurricane Maria inflicted more damage there than any other disaster in recent history, according to The New York Times. Hurricane Fiona also tore through an area of the Dominican Republic with heavy tourism.”
(https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/dont-forget-puerto-rico-and-the-dominican-republic-nahj-advises/)
—From ‘Don’t Forget Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic’.
“For more about the devastation and trauma still felt in Puerto Rico, listen to this nuanced “Post Reports” podcast episode featuring Washington Post reporter Arelis R. Hernández. There’s a lot of good reporting on both hurricanes’ impact on the lives of Puerto Ricans, but one report of note is Sin Luz: Life Without Power, an award-winning immersive video interactive from 2017 produced by Hernández and colleagues Whitney Leaming and Zoeann Murphy.” (Poynter staff)
—President Biden has pledged “I am committed to you” and to visit during recovery.
The Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock: “I believe a vote is a kind of a prayer.”
Ginni Thomas Denies Discussing Election Subversion Efforts With Her Husband
In a closed-door interview with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack,
Ms. Thomas reiterated her false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump.
Luke Broadwater and Stephanie Lai:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/politics/ginni-thomas-jan-6-committee.html)
—imo Ms. Thomas fell foul of a cult in her earlier years and her mind seems to bend towards conspiracy.
MARK ELIAS.
BREAKING: Court REJECTS National GOP lawsuit aimed at preventing Pennsylvania counties from notifying and allowing voters to fix technical mistakes with their mail-in ballots. A huge victory for @DSCC
Democracy Docket:
Section 2 of the VRA Could Be Next on SCOTUS’ Chopping Block
By Ellis Champion
Merril et al.
v
Merril et al.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — the most litigated provision of the VRA — currently prohibits any law that has the intent or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote “on account of race or color.” Since the VRA was enacted in 1965, Section 2 (which you may also see written as “§2”) has been used in redistricting litigation to strike down maps that dilute the voting strength of minority voters by “packing” and “cracking” them across districts to prevent a particular minority group from electing its preferred candidates, even when the minority group represents a significant portion of the state’s voting population.
Now, there is a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could change the future application of Section 2 as we know it. In Merrill v. Milligan…”
(https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/section-2-of-the-vra-could-be-next-on-scotus-chopping-block/)
MERRILL et al.
v
MILLIGAN et al.
imho
DeSantis telling President Biden he was “thankful” for his help on Hurricane Ian:
—see now that was mighty big of him.
DeathSantis spent millions in Covid funds to send migrants out of Florida.
The migrants DeSantis sent away must be thanking him big time.
President Biden Delivers Remarks
on the Ongoing Federal Response Efforts for Hurricane Ian
…just ended. President Biden also comments on Putin’s sham annexation and the investigation into pipeline sabotage.
The White House
Hurricane Ian Update:
President Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Florida. If you are a resident or business owner affected by Hurricane Ian in one of the designated areas, you can begin applying for federal assistance at http://DisasterAssistance.gov.
The White House:
“President Biden just signed into law the Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act – ensuring FEMA’s reservists have job protection.
This law will make FEMA stronger and America stronger.”
Campaign HQ with David Plouffe
Cadence13
(https://podcasts.apple.com/ar/podcast/campaign-hq-with-david-plouffe/id1479487160?l=en)
David Plouffe, guest,
Pod Save America September 27 “Impeaching to the Choir”:
“Trump is not an aberration but a continuation and escalation of republican DNA.”
Declaration on U.S.-Pacific Partnership
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/29/declaration-on-u-s-pacific-partnership/)
Native America Calling: Tribes respond to Biden’s clean energy challenge
Tribes respond to Biden’s clean energy challenge
Some tribes are already finding economic opportunities with clean energy.
Now the Biden Administration is appealing directly to tribes to add wind, solar, and other clean alternatives to help boost their budgets
(https://www.indianz.com/News/2022/09/28/native-america-calling-tribes-respond-to-bidens-clean-energy-challenge/)
…
The North Face is renaming its fleece jackets and spotlighting the Sherpa people
“The outdoor lifestyle has a huge debt to Indigenous people,”
Henry Navarro, a designer and an associate professor in fashion at Toronto Metropolitan University, said.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/north-face-renaming-fleece-jackets-spotlighting-sherpa-people-rcna49143
Remarks by Vice President Harris Aboard the USS Howard Naval Ship
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Yokosuka Naval Base
Yokosuka, Japan
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/28/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-aboard-the-uss-howard-naval-ship/
..
Thai Cave Rescue explores lives behind the Tham Luang mission
By Erin Chew
“Thai Cave Rescue is a unique re-telling of the rescue which takes a deep dive into the lives of the young Thai boys who were trapped and the rescue team who made the mission a success, aiming to allow the viewers to understand who these people were before the rescue occurred.”
(https://asamnews.com/2022/09/29/thai-cave-rescue-netflix-untold-story-lives-behind-tham-luang-mission/)
A day for all Americans to be proud
Stardate: Friday, September 30, 2022
Love and protections to all who are suffering and all who are grieving after Hurricane Ian.
And to every precious person responding to this disaster.
“In infinite lands
The Guides appear in the world;
In accord with the power of their vows
They respond in every place.”
(Eulogies in the Tushita Palace)
India abortion: Why Supreme Court ruling is a huge step forward.
Just weeks after the US Supreme Court passed a controversial order to ban or severely restrict the ability for pregnant women to get abortions, a similar case made headlines in India.
While the Roe v Wade ruling was described as “a huge step back for women’s rights”, Thursday’s order by the Indian Supreme Court – in contrast – is being hailed as “historic” and “a big step forward” for women’s rights.
The ruling – which said that all women, including those not married and persons other than cis-gender women, had equal rights to abortion – is indeed a progressive one in a country that’s home to 73 million single women.
The order came on a petition brought to the top court in July by a 25-year-old single woman who had been in a consensual relationship and was 22 weeks pregnant.
The judges pointed out that law can no longer be interpreted based “on narrow patriarchal principles” about what constitutes “permissible sex” as the Indian society and family has significantly changed over the years and live-in relationships, pre-marital sex and gay sex can no longer be “seen with the lens of criminality”.
“The law in modern times is shedding the notion that marriage is a precondition to the rights of individuals and that changing social mores must be borne in mind when interpreting a law. As society changes and evolves, so must our mores and conventions. A changed social context demands a readjustment of our laws,” the order said.
Another reason why the judgement has made headlines in India is because of what it says about marital rape.
An archaic colonial-era law that remains on the statue books in India says that sex “by a man with his wife” who is not a minor is not rape and the Supreme Court, at present, is hearing a petition to criminalise rape within marriage.
The judges clarified at the outset that their order was not really about the legality of marital rape as it was being heard by another bench – but they made it very clear that if a woman became pregnant “due to a husband’s act of sexual assault or rape, she should not be compelled to give birth to and raise a child with a partner who inflicts mental and physical harm upon her”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63086321
The huge benefit of not having judge till you die SC judges. The current crop of our SC judges is exceptionally progressive. They are knocking down archaic oppressive ‘laws’ passed by the uneducated morons in our legislative branches.
thanks for this amk.
Hopefully they will change the current corrupt culture of judiciary.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, has blazed trails all her life.
BRAVA, BRAVA,
Congratulations to wonderful KBJ !!!!
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Investiture Ceremony
“The Supreme Court held a special sitting on September 30, 2022,
for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff attended as guests of the Court. On June 30, 2022, Justice Jackson took the oaths of office to become the 104th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
(https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/oath/investiture_jackson.aspx)
“According to the Supreme Court,
(Judge Jackson was to be) escorted by the Clerk of the Court, Scott Harris,
to the well of the Courtroom, where she will sit in the same chair used by Chief Justice John Marshall during the early 19th century. The chair has been used for the investiture of every member of the Court since Lewis F. Powell, Jr., took his Judicial Oath in 1972.
Chief Justice John Roberts was to then administer the judicial oath for a second time to Jackson and then Jackson would be escorted to her designated seat on the far right of the court. Once they were seated, the special session of the court would adjourn.”
(https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126126910/supreme-court-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-investiture)
Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges from Supreme Court after investiture ceremony
Ketanji Brown Jackson White House ceremony
April 8 2022
–very best wishes for the first day on Monday !!!
–we’re soo fortunate to have KBJ on the Court, wow.
the trumpturds are typical lying pos charlatans. just like their lying pos turd.
Celebration of the Investiture of Ketanji Brown Jackson. Starts at approx 3:29
This is epic, beautiful. Congrats to Justice Jackson !!! Hooray !!
Fmr Amb. Michael McFaul:
“WARNING. Someone using the phone number +1 (202) 7549885 is impersonating me. If you connect on a video platform with this number, you will see an AI-generated
“deep fake” that looks and talks like me. It is not me. This is a new Russian weapon of war. Be careful.”
“I am told by experts that a quick way to detect if the caller is fake is to ask them to turn their head, as faking that on a computer-generated video is harder to do. But I’m not an expert.”
MARIA RESSA
Philippines: UN expert slams court decision upholding criminal conviction of Maria Ressa and shutdown of media outlets
14 July 2022: (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/07/philippines-un-expert-slams-court-decision-upholding-criminal-conviction
fyi,
Maria Ressa, facing 85 years in jail, has decided to return to the Philippines.
2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, the CEO of Rappler, was honored at the inaugural Albie Awards in New York 4 days ago, organized by the Clooney Foundation to highlight defenders of justice.
Maria Ressa: Amal Clooney condemns court after Nobel laureate’s conviction upheld
2 mos ago: (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/maria-ressa-amal-clooney-condemns-court-after-nobel-laureates-conviction-upheld)
Amal Clooney:
“Amal Clooney is a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights. She represents clients before international courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Alongside court work, she provides advice to governments and individuals on legal issues in her areas of expertise.”
(https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/amal-clooney)
—-George Clooney: “Amal’s gotten journalists out of Egypt, out of Azerbaijan, prisons, out of — all over the world, Myanmar.”
“George and Amal created the Albie Awards, named after Justice Albie Sachs, to shine a spotlight on defenders of justice who are at risk for what they do.
Sachs received a lifetime achievement award Thursday for his heroic commitment to ending apartheid in South Africa.
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa was given the Justice For Journalists award while iAct — an organization that supports survivors of genocide in refugee camps — was honored with the Justice For Survivors award.
The Justice For Democracy Defenders award was given to Belarusian human rights group Viasna, and the Justice for Women honor went to Dr. Josephine Kulea for the Kenya-based Samburu Girls Foundation.”
(https://people.com/movies/george-clooney-couldnt-be-more-proud-of-wife-amal-at-albie-awards/)
Dear President Carter,
beautiful wishes on your birthday and for an inspiring year !!
***love***
Here’s something from Mrs. Obama on the the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s inaugural Albie Awards ceremony in NY this week. Looks like she was given the honor of presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Albie Sachs, the South African civil rights activist after whom the award is named. So cool!
You’ll want to check out this thread/article.
Two of the cleanest pols.
Heh, you vote for shit and get shit sandwich in return.
Trifecta.
Hallleluhiaaaaa
President Biden and Vice President Harris Deliver Remarks at the 2022 Phoenix Awards Dinner
VP Kamala Harris Speaks
At Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards Dinner
New post.
Dropping in, praying all our TOD eastcoast Fam are safe.💞💜
On an aside, apart from me saying “Dayum” when I watched it, the soundtrack is pretty good. (Just my thought: not sure about Lauryn hill song. Maybe her own regrets?