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Happy Birthday to our Forever First Lady!!
Happy Birthday to our Forever FLOTUS!! (Tried to make this comment on my ipad so I could do emojies. Wouldn’t let me post. Couldn’t even sign in.)
Edith Piaf – La vie en rose
A beautiful year to the fab forever Michelle Obama and the man she loves.
–wishing you a very happy birthday !!!
Congrats on your books wonderful from start to finish, just like my love for the Obamas.
only intended to be one song by Piaf….
Happy Birthday to Our Forever FLOTUS!
Happy Birthday Michelle!!!!
Wishing our Forever FLOTUS a very Happy Birthday. 💖🌟🎂🥂🥳🎵🎵🎶💃🏾
I love this photo of the Birthday Girl!
https://instagram.com/stories/lupitanyongo/3017811479013918607?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Ellen making up all sorts about her friend, love this video.
A very nice cover of a classic
fab
That’s cute. Loved that song! Memories!💞
can you hear me Mither…?
Failed GOP candidate arrested after a string of shootings targeting New Mexico Democrats, including Adriann Barboa, Bernalillo County Commissioner and Vice Chair.
(ReidOut)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifF1KNjgkUc)
—e.g. Mr “Entitled To Rule” fired shots through Ms. Barboa’s front door, out the back window, through living room where she’d been playing with grandbaby and getting ready for Christmas.
–S & M at their finest.
What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report
The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say
Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima and Drew Harwell:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/17/jan6-committee-report-social-media/)
How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low
The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/politics/restaurant-workers-wages-lobbying.html?smid=url-share)
Secret Video Reveals Twitter Team Warned of ‘Shooting in the Streets’ Ahead of Jan. 6
The video shows Twitter managers shrugging off staff warnings of coming violence — one day before the attack on the Capitol
Adam Rawnsley, Asawin Suebsaeng:
(https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/january-6-video-twitter-files-1234661943/)
—“Tech people saw January 6 coming from a mile away.” (Wagner)
New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch
Isaac Stanley-Becker and Rosalind S. Helderman:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/16/george-santos-andrew-intrater-columbus-nova/)
LIST: McCarthy defectors land plum committee assignments
Virginia Aabram: (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/lists-committee-assignments-20-mccarthy-detractors)
—the very small children say they’ll remove Congressmen Swalwell and Schiff from Intel Committee and Congresswoman Omar from Foreign Affairs in retaliation.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has defended and advocated for the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on 1/6.
Now she will serve on the Homeland Security Committee.
Easley: (https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/17/domestic-terrorist-support-marjorie-taylor-greene-named-to-homeland-security-committee.html)
–rewarding the hardboiled who keep trashing you.
Asking for a friend:
At what point do we stop setting ourselves up to be shat on?
Greene isn’t the only one sending the msg — why bother, even though you’re grounded and believe in yourself and you’re great, this is all you’re getting and all you damn well deserve.
imho,
we’re here to serve while in the divine process of waking up to what we already are.
A foot in both worlds. But along the way of course you must realize when the truth is that, hey on this side of the road over here despite the purity of your heart, you’re getting kicked. So move on.
About the Obama Foundation Scholars Program
https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/about-obama-foundation-scholars-program
Obama Foundation
Announcing the Obama Foundation Leaders USA program
The Obama Foundation Leaders USA program is a six-month, non-residential leadership development program that seeks to inspire, empower, and connect emerging leaders across the country. Together, Leaders will accelerate positive and lasting change in their communities with a focus on strengthening institutions across sectors toward a more inclusive, participatory democracy.
We’re looking for values-driven changemakers between the ages of 24-45 who are working to create lasting, positive change in the lives of people in their community. The application for the 2023 Leaders USA program is now open on obama.org and will close on Friday, February 3, 2023.
Full list Golden Globe 2023 winners:
(https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/golden-globe-winners-full-list-2023/507-7f8974ec-1c8e-45df-8f01-e01f248f008b)
-mega braviiii to all.
-imo stunning and talk about diverse and supportive awards event.
Happy Birthday Michelle Obama.
This woman is a fount of wisdom. I love her.
Yay Maryland! 💙
so gorgeous, congrats !!
would love to be there, thx Dudette.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIOQzs5YcGw)
Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s inauguration speech
Wes Moore made history when he became Maryland’s first Black governor, only the third African-American to hold a governor’s seat in American history
“Brazen” Fraud: David Cay Johnston on How Trump’s Tax Returns Show He Fleeced U.S. & Enriched Himself
AMY GOODMAN: …with Juan González.
After years of legal battles between former President Donald Trump and Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns Friday, including thousands of documents from the years he ran for president and was in office. The records reveal Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes during his first year in office in 2017. In his last year in office, 2020, he paid no federal taxes.
They also showed the tax law Trump signed in late 2017 opened new opportunities for him, and disclosed income from a wide range of foreign countries, including Canada, Panama, the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, the Philippines, United Arab Emirates, China and Britain. Trump responded to the release in a video statement.
Interview: (https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/3/trump_taxes_david_cay_johnston)
our two guys.
Obama Leaders program
Rachel Maddow Highlights The Connection Between Election Denial And The New Mexico Shooter
Maddow said:
“Now, you heard the mayor reference this was about a right-wing radical, an election denier who was arrested today. What that references, I believe, are the frequent public statements, online social media statements by this Republican candidate maintaining that he didn’t actually lose this election in which he was the Republican candidate this past November.
Again, the Republican party nominated him to be their candidate for the state legislative seat outin Albuquerque in November. He lost by a large Marge en, by more than 3500 votes. Since then he has maintained that he didn’t really lose and the election was rigged against him.
Local coverage of his candidacy has noted that he is a, in the words of the Santa Fe New Mexican, gushing supporter of former president Donald Trump. He appears to have emulated Trump in rejecting the results of the election that he lost, but police in Albuquerque tonight say he went much further than that, accusing him tonight formally, charging him with having pulled the trigger himself and led a conspiracy with four other men to shoot into the homes of other Democratic officials.”
(Easley, politicus.usa)
Yep.
Police Confirm That New Mexico Shooter Was Motivated By Trump Election Lies
(https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/18/police-confirm-that-new-mexico-shooter-was-motivated-by-trump-election-lies.html)
>>Monster<< Florida Governor.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their students who sought gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions, according to a survey released Wednesday."
(https://thegrio.com/2023/01/19/first-he-asked-for-names-of-college-staff-linked-to-critical-race-theory-now-desantis-wants-info-on-transgender-students/)
imo,
what is the lawyer perspective? Under federal law University professors in this state are NOT allowed to hand out student information to ANYONE. DeSantis is asking Universities to hand out information to one of his nefarious state agencies. What does the ACLU and other watchdogs have to say about it – pls act fast to end this gross invasion.
“Kevin McCarthy is playing with fire over America’s debt ceiling. Joy Reid and her panel explain how after maxing out the national credit card when they were in charge, Republicans are threatening to simply stop paying America’s bills with dire consequences.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAQZI69M1Ts)
The New York Times
@nytimes
4h
Florida will not allow a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies to be offered in high schools. The state’s education department said the course content was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law,” but did not cite what was objectionable. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/desantis-florida-ap-african-american-studies.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Rest in peace David Crosby 😔
thanks and peace to Mr. Cosby and family.
–thx Dudette.
Ronald Klain
Two years ago today, in the midst of overwhelming crises and division,
@POTUS and @VP were sworn in.
While there is much to be done, here’s a 🧵about the incredible two years of progress we’ve seen.
– Greatest two years of job creation in history: 11 million new jobs
– The most sweeping economic recovery and investment plan since FDR
– 700m COVID shots given for free; COVID deaths down 80%
– 100 new judges with unprecedented diversity, including 1st black woman on SCOTUS
United States government official
– Unemployment rate at 50 year low
– Largest infrastructure bill since Ike was President
– Major bipartisan legislation after skeptics said it was not possible: infrastructure, CHIPS, PACT Act
– Most Americans w/ health coverage than EVER
– First cabinet ever equally divided male/female
– Cap on insulin costs and first-ever prescription drug negotiations
– Global leadership to confront Russian aggression in Ukraine
– Pardoned all marijuana possession offenders
– Unprecedented success in midterm elections
Executive action on student loan debt to help 40m borrowers
– Most sweeping legislation enacted by any govt on Earth to combat climate crisis
– SPR releases to bring down the price of gas
– PACT Act to help vets hurt by burn pits
CHIPS Act bringing high-tech manufacturing back to USA
– Historic lows in Black and Hispanic unemployment
– Ended America’s longest war
– Unprecedented police reform exec order
– Best two years ever for small business creation
This is just a PARTIAL list of progress. And there’s so much more to do. But it’s been an incredible two years of action — thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.
VP Harris speaking at Tonopah clean energy groundbreaking
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1ptbfUDRQ)
Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell En Route Santa Clara County, CA
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/01/19/press-gaggle-by-principal-deputy-press-secretary-olivia-dalton-and-fema-administrator-deanne-criswell-en-route-santa-clara-county-ca/)
Golden Globes Red Carpet 2023 Photos:
By Renan Botelho
(https://footwearnews.com/gallery/golden-globes-red-carpet-2023-arrivals-photos/nbcs-80th-annual-golden-globe-awards-arrivals-4/)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLx9MJa61c)
Laurence Tribe:
What matters is SCOTUS abortion decision, not the leak
—About the “non investigation” that failed to find the leaker of the draft abortion ruling and who he thinks is responsible.
(Pls don’t miss !!)
Can the Fourth Amendment Survive Digital Surveillance?
Advances in technology used by law enforcement to gather information about people without a warrant has eroded Americans’ right to privacy.
Corbin Barthold:
(https://www.thebulwark.com/can-the-fourth-amendment-survive-digital-surveillance/)
HBCUs are getting creative to meet growing student housing demand
From shipping containers to hotels, Black colleges and universities are finding innovative ways to ease the HBCU housing crisis.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/hbcus-are-getting-creative-meet-growing-student-housing-demand-rcna61022)
um…Ritchie.
Mj Rodriguez
Congrats big time to Mj Rodriguez.
First openly transgender woman to win a Golden Globe !!
America Hit Its Debt Limit, Setting Up Bitter Fiscal Fight
The Treasury Department said it would begin a series of accounting moves to keep the U.S. from breaching its borrowing cap and asked Congress to raise or suspend the limit.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
“The period of time that extraordinary measures may last is subject to considerable uncertainty, including the challenges of forecasting the payments and receipts of the U.S. government months into the future,” Ms. Yellen said. “I respectfully urge Congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States.”
“Newly empowered House Republicans have vowed that they will not raise the borrowing limit again unless President Biden agrees to steep cuts in federal spending. Mr. Biden has said he will not negotiate conditions for a debt-limit increase, arguing that lawmakers should lift the cap with no strings attached to cover spending that previous Congresses authorized.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/debt-limit-economy.html)
—gopers don’t understand the debt ceiling – or do they?
—ask them what happens when they don’t make their mortgage payment?
—it’s about paying for expenses ALREADY INCURRED.
—been done umpteen times up the wazoo already.
—what happened to ending this process once and for all?
—Global. Depression: does gop understand the meaning of these words
Since 1960, Congress
has acted 78 separate times
to permanently raise, temporarily extend, or revise the definition of the debt limit –
49 times under Republican presidents
and 29 times under Democratic presidents.
The debt limit does not authorize new spending commitments. It simply allows the government to finance existing legal obligations that Congresses and presidents of both parties have made in the past.
Failing to increase the debt limit would have catastrophic economic consequences. It would cause the government to default on its legal obligations – an unprecedented event in American history.
(https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service/debt-limit)
Happy 93rd Birthday Buzz Aldrin! 👩🏼🚀🚀
Happy B-Day to the extraordinary Mr. Aldrin !!!
H.R.61 – Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023
The wonderful Congresswoman Jackson Lee introduces bill to fight white supremacy, ‘the largest part of domestic terrorism’
HR61
A bill to fight white supremacy has been introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and has been met by outrage from the far-right. “White supremacy is the largest part of domestic terrorism, and domestic terrorism is larger than our fears of years back of Al-Qaeda,” Lee tells Joy Reid. “I only wanted to make sure that we had a bill that addressed that.”
New post.