I’m excited to announce that 105 inspiring young people from across Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe will be joining the @ObamaFoundation Leaders program.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 21, 2023
I am so proud of all of you, and I can't wait to see what you do. pic.twitter.com/ifQMoumj2Q
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The Obama Diary 
Hi Everybody! Thanks for the new post Nerdy Wonka! 😘❤️
I’m not sure I could function properly if President Obama showed up unannounced wherever I was. 😆😁
radiant selves.
Dudette, I know how I would handle it. Likely make a fool of myself. 🙂 Remember we used to hear recordings of phone calls of him surprising people and most of them were ‘blown away.’
Yep! 😁
–heard Tan (also on the fab Queer Eye) was at the Oscars last night.
-love him and his new show Next In Fashion.
I binged season 2 this weekend. Love it! I’m ready for season 3! 😄
me too…yes really fab.
José and WCK cookbook
Blue Lab Beats
—-love ya.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our-communities-safer/)
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Statement from President Joe Biden on February CPI Report
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/14/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-february-cpi-report/)
MO with Tyler Perry
❤️❤️
‘Our hair, our regalia, it’s who we are’
From Kilgore to the Capitol: Native moms who sued school after haircutting support bill seeking to protect students’ religious, cultural freedom
Alice Johnson stared down at the paper in her hands, the speech she’d practiced over and over until no amount of nerves could mask its message.
“Our hair, our regalia, it’s who we are. It’s who our ancestors were. It’s our identity,” she told the state senators, members of the Legislature’s Education Committee, on Feb. 13 at the Nebraska State Capitol.
Chris Bowling: (https://ictnews.org/news/our-hair-our-regalia-its-who-we-are)
ttps://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/1634192505246740483?s=20
UNESCO: Can a culture survive without a language?
imho and empty bookshelves curtail all children from language and the ability to parse what is happening, to stand up for themselves.
WOKE…
imho, DeSantis pls define “woke”.
Creating living hell for others at your level of unconsciousness…means waking up could take you a very long time. You know trans people are the most innocuous and have done nothing to cause you to hurt them. But being a slave to the recesses of your own mind, like Putin, you’re stuck in a prison of destruction and murder, hatred and ignorance.
Both of you can choose to unite instead of divide, transform the mind, and wake up.
What Florida Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Book Bans
My books are among those getting pulled off shelves, but here is why we should should care about all of them.
by Jodi Picoult
(https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-florida-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-its-book-bans)
—thx Ms. Klein for your precious 2007 book.
The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
-2007-
“At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts…. New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters — to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.”
(NaomiKlein.org)
imho we’re seeing DeSantis, trump and gop officials using U.S. public disorientation and collective SHOCK fallout of the Covid pandemic, to wipe out citizen resistance, democracy, and rewrite the Constitution = shock doctrine.
In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment
Sergio Olmos, Jim Urquhart: (https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1158344050/florida-far-right-extremism-politics-desantis)
Joy “It’s the fox news strategy: Just keep them there.”
Rachel Maddow dove into the political story of how Dodd-Frank was weakened, and she gave a shout-out to Kyrsten Sinema for voting with Republicans to set the stage for more bank collapses.
Maddow explained the 2018 vote to weaken Dodd-Frank:
Those new rules were very hard-fought after the 2008-2009 financial catastrophe. They were passed by the Democratic-led congress and signed by President Obama in 2010. What happened? Eight years later in 2018 after relentless lobbying by the banks and financial industry, once Republicans are in control of congress and President Donald Trump was in the white house, guess what happened? They decided it was past time to roll back those new safeguards.
It was passed and signed by then-president Donald Trump in 2018 and was passed by all of the Republicans and 17 Democrats and moderate and conservative Democratic senators who joined with the Republicans to pass it. In the House, 33 Democrats who joined with the Republicans to pass it, including future Democratic — no longer Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema. That would repeal the Dodd-Frank seatbelt and safety regulations in 2018 made it so those rules that were put into effect to stop there from being another crisis, they would not apply to banks anymore.
(https://www.politicususa.com/2023/03/13/rachel-maddow-shouts-out-kyrsten-sinema-for-voting-to-weaken-banking-rules.html)
Easley: “Republicans want to act like the weakening of the Dodd-Frank regulations was something both parties broadly supported. It wasn’t. Trump and the GOP’s deregulation of banks was voted for by Democrats like Sinema and other conservative Democrats who were worried about keeping their seats.”
(politicus)
President Biden:
No losses will be — and I want — this is an important point — no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. Let me repeat that: No losses will be borne by the taxpayers. Instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the Deposit Insurance Fund.
Because of the actions of that — because of the actions that our regulators have already taken, every American should feel confident that their deposits will be there if and when they need them.
Full: (wh.gov)
Do yourself a favor and read this Thread
The ugly comments on that thread. So much hatred. 😦
Rihanna brought Wakanda Forever to the Oscars! Beautiful to see such talented POC backing her! And, yes, I loved their hairdos. Gorgeous y’all!
The magic of books!
—for President and Mrs. Carter with love.
President Carter
imho in honor of President Carter:
I would like solar panels on every new building.
It would be a new world on so many levels.
Rest in peace Bobby Caldwell! 😩😔
Readout of White House Roundtable, Women Rebuilding America
Today, on Equal Pay Day, White House and Biden Administration leaders convened workers, union leaders, construction contractors, heads of tradeswomen organizations, and equal pay experts to discuss how President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is providing economic opportunities for women in fields where they are historically underrepresented, in turn helping to close the gender pay gap.
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/14/readout-of-white-house-roundtable-women-rebuilding-america/)
President Biden’s budget restores the full Child Tax Credit – which cut child poverty in half in 2021, to the lowest level in history.
President Biden Discusses his Plan to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
Ban Assault Weapons
List
DeSantis pleases Kremlin, annoys many in GOP with line on Ukraine
The Kremlin was reportedly “elated” with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ rhetoric about the war in Ukraine. Many Republicans were far less impressed with the Floridian.
Steve Benen: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desantis-pleases-kremlin-annoys-many-gop-line-ukraine-rcna75055)
Timothy Snyder speaking with Lawrence O’Donnell:
O’Donnell:
“So we have one party that is perfectly happy to tolerate and support a nominee who never says anything serious about foreign policy and therefore it ends up being very encouraging to Vladimir Putin.”
Snyder:
“I mean that’s the story of four years of Trump. Four years of Trump meant encouragement not just to Vladimir Putin but dictators around the world. Because he made it very clear that insofar as he had an interest in matters foreign, it was in buddying up to dictators.
And the thing is whether we like it or not, we are in this world.
And whether we like it or not, Russia invaded Ukraine.
And the Russian invasion of Ukraine matters for the international legal order which allows America to be prosperous.
It matters in that if we let the Ukrainians lose we’ll be encouraging nuclear proliferation.
It matters because the Ukrainians defeating Russia is key to preventing war in Europe down the line.
It matters because Ukrainian resistance is what is making Beijing think twice before starting an adventure over Taiwan.
It matters because of food supplies around the world.
We can’t just close our eyes to that.
Because if you do, those things will come back and they’ll make a great deal of difference to average Americans.
Ukrainians are doing a HUGE amount for America national security right now. Basically for nothing. I mean for a penny on our tax dollar.
They’re doing a huge amount for America national security.
And it would be sad to see major politicians of any party not recognize that.”
“My second point will be that the term “russophobia,” which we are discussing today, has been exploited during this war as a form of imperial propaganda in which the aggressor claims to be the victim. It has served this last year as a justification for Russian war crimes in Ukraine.”
(Timothy Snyder)
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks in Lviv, Ukraine
March 3 2023
(https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-lviv-ukraine)
Opinion: Minnesota’s vote to re-enfranchise felons is a victory for democracy
Jennifer Rubin:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/05/minnesota-voting-rights-felons-democracy/)
Dolly
“I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry,” state Sen. Steve Drazkowski said in his floor remarks. “I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don’t have access to enough food to eat.”
The bill passed the Democratic-led chamber with four GOP votes. Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, said he’ll be “proud to sign it into law.
Benen (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-claimed-s-never-met-hungry-person-state-rcna75023)
—I have yet to meet a person who is or who says….(fill in blank).
p.s.
“two proud boys at jan 6 said under oath they don’t know each other. prosecution has text messages showing they were close friends but the messages are so racist the judge says they’re too prejudicial to show the jury.”
Ssshh, Pence’s Gridiron speech!
Trump claims violence he inspired on Jan. 6 was Pence’s fault
The former president suggested the riot could have been avoided if his vice president had cooperated in overturning the results
Isaac Arnsdorf and Maeve Reston:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/13/trump-pence-iowa/)
Ron DeSantis Says Protecting Ukraine Is Not a Key U.S. Interest
The Florida governor, on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, broke with Republicans to attack President Biden’s foreign policy and align more closely with Donald Trump as he weighs a presidential bid.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/politics/ron-desantis-ukraine-tucker-carlson.html)
pls see Timothy Snyder’s comments above.
imo Putin’s boy…
DeSantis dismisses Russian war as “territorial dispute”.
Sen. Graham: “It’s not a territorial conflict. It’s a war of aggression.”
Lindy Li
Right wing billionaire Peter Thiel sabotaged our banking system
Right wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch sabotaged our media
Right wing billionaire Elon Musk sabotaged our public square
Right wing billionaire Koch family sabotaged SCOTUS
Oligarchs destroying America from within
After unusual delay, Texas judge announces abortion-pill hearing
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk wanted to minimize protests and threats in connection with the closely-watched case, people familiar with the plan said
Perry Stein, Ann E. Marimow and Caroline Kitchener:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/11/texas-abortion-pill-hearing-kacsmaryk/)
Hearing is today.
Three Texas women are sued for wrongful death after allegedly helping friend obtain abortion medication
In the first lawsuit of its kind since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a husband seeks damages from women who allegedly helped his ex-wife obtain the medications to terminate her pregnancy.
Eleanor Klibanoff: (https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/)
Um – death sentence for women is not ‘pro-life.’
“Members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty.”
But about freedom:
“Freedom is the right to die from Covid.” (Stuart Stevens)
Michelle Goodwin, author:
Policing the Womb: Invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood.
female squirrel on payroll.
…makin’ a bags of it.
Newly-released Justice Dept video court exhibit shows a time-lapse image of the Jan 6 siege.
Navajo Code Talkers: A Guide to First-Person Narratives in the Veterans History Project
Biography of Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel, Sr., together with a video recording of his oral history interview from the Veterans History Project archives.
(https://guides.loc.gov/navajo-code-talkers/profiles/john-kinsel)
Neo-Nazis Chanting ‘Sieg Heil’ Target Drag Queen Story Event
Christopher Wiggins
Hundreds of armed far-right extremists, including “Sieg Heil” chanting neo-Nazis, joined by right-wing Christian groups, converged on a park in Ohio where parents and children had gathered to enjoy a drag queen story event Saturday. The extremists clashed with rainbow umbrella-wielding supporters who had shown up to protect the event.
At Wadsworth Memorial Park outside Akron, the Rock-n-Roll Humanist Drag Queen Story Hour ended in chaos as tensions raged between activists and protesters.
A number of far-right extremist and religious groups, including the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, III Percenters, “White Lives Matter of Ohio,” Blood Tribe (a neo-Nazi movement led by former Marine Chris Pohlhaus, who was armed), and unaffiliated conservatives, attended the event to disrupt it.
(https://www.advocate.com/news/ohio-nazi-drag-story-hour)
“Children were shielded from the hatred on display by the Parasol Patrol throughout the raucous scenes. During events where detractors may appear, the Parasol Patrol uses rainbow-colored umbrellas to escort families safely to LGBTQ-friendly venues. Sometimes they also give kids headphones to wear, so they don’t hear people yelling outrageous things.
One protester pulled a gun and pointed it at a group of supporters at one point in the video and tried to shoot it twice but failed. The unidentified man was later arrested in another incident after he appeared to strike someone with a pole.”
(advocate)
Drag queens are being vilified by Republicans nationwide, who claim that reading to children in whimsical dresses and costumes constitutes sexualizing them.
—imo gop might want to stop plopping their children in front of the tv then. Donchaknow anything goes on there.
Uh-oh
McCarthy nonsense about Dodd Frank
Inside Ron DeSantis’s Politicized Removal of an Elected Prosecutor
The Florida governor accused the Democratic prosecutor of undermining public safety. But a close examination of the episode reveals just how fueled it was by Mr. DeSantis’s political aims.
By Alexandra Berzon and Ken Bensinger
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/us/politics/desantis-andrew-warren-liberal-prosecutor.html?smid=tw-share)
Arkansas Attorney General Establishes Election Integrity Unit
(https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arkansas-attorney-general-establishes-election-integrity-unit/)
ADVERSITY TO ADVOCACY:
Obama Foundation Leader uses the law to educate and protect the rights of women and girls
“My motto is: if not me, then who?” said Emma Minimbi.
She is a 2023 Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader, who knows firsthand the impact of violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
(https://www.obama.org/adversity-to-advocacy-emma-minimbi/)
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