Here’s an example of a smart policy that gets rid of unnecessary college degree requirements and reduces barriers to good paying jobs. I hope other states follow suit! https://t.co/ik8SOeoMem
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 19, 2023
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The People’s View
- Follow me at my new venture: Reclaim the Fight
- Ignore the bait: Why it’s the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesn’t matter.
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul
- Rule 44: Why Obamacare is not lost even in a deadlocked Supreme Court, but only if Biden wins
- Time to suit up. This is war.
- BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed
- Bothsidesism comes to fact-checking: CNN's “fact-check” calling Biden ad 'misleading' proves the opposite
- Pardon me: How Donald Trump's stooges conspired with Julian Assange to exonerate Russia and undermine US Intlligence
Smartypants
- Durham to Right Wingers: "Blame Hillary"
- That Time When Refusing to Negotiate With Hostage-Takers Worked
- The Other Christian Nationalists: Leonard Leo and Opus Dei
- Hawley Demonstrates That He's an Ignorant Liar
- DeSantis Board Votes to Counter-Sue Disney Over Something...Anything
- Hunter Biden's Laptop Is a Total Nothingburger
- What DeSantis Couldn't Say in Response to Disney's Lawsuit
- Disney Skewers DeSantis With His Own Words
- Populism Without Civil Rights Is Fascism
- Glenn Greenwald gets triggered by smart competent women like Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Steve Benen
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The Obama Diary 
I love this! But am so concerned that our babies might not make it to middle school, high school, college, graduating, or that right of adulthood — getting that joyous job. If we don’t do everything about guns & the sickness surrounding that stupidity of equating 2nd amendment & military grade guns. For goodness sake, there has been a people will for change. Yet I keep hearing “lack of political will”! WTH is that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_of_Donald_Trump
Thank you, Dawn. Pat Summit would have supported your reply 100%.
Remarks by Vice President Harris and President Hichilema of Zambia Before Bilateral Meeting
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/03/31/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-and-president-hichilema-of-zambia-before-bilateral-meeting/)
She had a fantastic trip. Thanks to NW and the posters here for giving us a glimpse since no one in the media even mentions it, much less any information about it.
President Obama
The Obama Foundation
IT’S TIME TO CHARGE TRUMP. BRING BACK THE RULE OF LAW!
How fitting it is that the Exonerated Five, formerly the Central Park Five, get to watch the Manhattan justice system descend upon the MAGA movement’s main man.
Karma is a … well, you know the rest.
Does this text format look familiar to you? It should. It’s roughly the same format Donald Trump used in a 1989 newspaper ad calling for the return of the death penalty in the state of New York after five innocent Black and Latino teenagers were falsely accused of a vicious attack in New York’s Central Park. The teenagers — all of whom served hard prison time for a crime they didn’t commit — are men now and are known collectively as the Exonerated Five.
Ja’han Jones: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-indictment-central-park-exonerated-five-rcna77657)
Fox News Loses Big As Judge Rules They Have No 1st Amendment Protection In Dominion Lawsuit
Jason Easley: (https://www.politicususa.com/2023/03/31/fox-news-loses-big-as-judge-rules-they-have-no-1st-amendment-protection-in-dominion-lawsuit.html)
Big Law
Author: Ron Liebman
Reflections: The Twelve Bar Mystery (2017)
“A classic mystery plot, in which a cop or a detective solves a crime, follows a time-tested pattern, much as most blues music follows a distinctive 12 bar pattern (“Twelve Bar Mystery”). A “bar” here is a measure of time with a specific number of beats. For dance music: 4 beats to the bar.” (Ron Liebman)
Safe Haven Center to honor MLK’s death Tuesday
James Jones: (https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2023/03/31/safe-haven-center-to-honor-mlks-death-tuesday/)
——same day as Trump arraignment.
David Cay Johnston
Another Trump/MAGA lie exposed.
George Soros, who Trump and his like claim controls Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg,
tells @SCClemons of @semafor:
“I did not contribute to his campaign and I don’t know him.”
—the endless story of guns and human fallibility.
–imo that you can control a gun is an utter conceit. Admit it.
Opinion We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too?
by Martin Baron
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/24/journalism-objectivity-trump-misinformation-marty-baron/)
—objectivity is not neutrality.
Democrats Reintroduce Federal Trans Bill of Rights Amid GOP Attacks
The bill declares the federal government has a duty to protect trans and nonbinary people from discrimination.
Orion Rummler: (https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-reintroduce-federal-trans-bill-of-rights-amid-gop-attacks/)
Statement from President Joe Biden on Transgender Day of Visibility
“I want every member of the trans community to know that we see you. You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.”
Full: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/31/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-transgender-day-of-visibility/)
Senator Fetterman
Sen. Fetterman urged people who are suffering with depression to get help, “I am so happy to be home. I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs. I am extremely grateful to the incredible team at Walter Reed. The care they provided changed my life. I will have more to say about this soon, but for now I want everyone to know that depression is treatable, and treatment works. This isn’t about politics — right now there are people who are suffering with depression in red counties and blue counties. If you need help, please get help.”
(Easley): (https://www.politicususa.com/2023/03/31/john-fetterman-released-from-walter-reed-and-will-return-to-the-senate.html)
History offers a bleak legal prognosis for Donald Trump
Rachel Maddow looks at some of the parallels between Donald Trump’s reaction to being indicted and how Spiro Agnew and his supporters reacted to Agnew’s indictment.
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/history-offers-a-bleak-legal-prognosis-for-donald-trump-167341125768)
What to expect from the prosecution of Donald Trump
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLISKSU0aec)
Marc Agnifilo, former Manhattan assistant district attorney, who has dealt with cases similar to Donald Trump’s, talks with Rachel Maddow about what the charges (to the extent that we understand them) mean, what it takes to prosecute a case like Trump’s, and what sort of timeline to expect as the case plays out.
teachers front lines of resistance against fascism in FL
Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Law That Restricts Drag Performances
A federal judge put a hold on the law hours before it was to take effect, saying there were legitimate questions about whether it violated the First Amendment.
NASHVILLE — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the implementation of a Tennessee law aimed at restricting public drag performances, hours before it was set to go into effect.
Emily Cochrane: (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/us/politics/tennessee-drag-law.html)
—-trump appointed judge.
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett:
“Justice doesn’t move at the speed that we want but it does move.”
VP Harris convenes private sector leaders in Zambia
Readout of White House Roundtable Affirming Transgender Kids
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/01/readout-of-white-house-roundtable-affirming-transgender-kids/)
Damar Hamlin with President Biden
Opinion: Michelle Obama empowers tall girls everywhere by sharing her struggles with height
(https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/opinions/michelle-obama-podcast-conan-obrien-tall-vulnerability-wyman/index.html)
…So lovely. My very tall Vogue runway Dad told us his Mother was 6 feet tall. My sister’s daughter is 5 feet eleven. All the boys in the family are tall/very tall. So far in mine the boys, including in-laws, have married women a foot shorter…go figure. Thanks to MO for telling about trying to stretch her pant legs “nothing fits” as a girl. Seems I’ve been wrong about ‘Amazon’ women – always thought it was a compliment.
ooops! “Vogue runway Dad” is just shorthand for how he looked to me.
Fear pervades Tennessee’s trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter’s gender identity
“We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it’s even worse,” one transgender advocate in the state said.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/fear-pervades-tennessees-trans-community-focus-nashville-shooters-gend-rcna77066)
Governor thanks President Biden
Adam Kinzinger on NATO
The White House
@POTUS signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – requiring people under 21 to undergo enhanced background checks before purchasing a gun, narrowing the “boyfriend loophole,” and expanding mental health services in schools to help address trauma resulting from gun violence.
Ban Assault Weapons
Timothy Snyder
War diary of executed Ukrainian writer recovered
Earthjustice
The fight for justice starts with allowing yourself to be free. 🏳️⚧️
As @janetmock said, “There’s power in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. [This] is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it’s also a very visible one.” #TransDayOfVisibility
—-Earthjustice is suing to protect the Arctic.
NYT and LA Times announced they won’t pay for Twitter Blue, saying “Verification no longer establishes authority or credibility.”
Judge puts last minute temporary hold on Tennessee drag ban
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z44YbKYB_W4)
“On International Transgender Day of Visibility, Rachel Maddow looks at efforts to protect the rights, safety and medical care of trans people around the United States, and reports breaking news of a federal judge putting a temporary hold on Tennessee’s new drag ban just hours away from taking effect.”
Jen Psaki show at noon ET.
The Inside.
—fmr AG Eric Holder interview.
AG Holder last week – this week fmr Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr, Congressman Schiff, Andrew Weissman.
This is what a peaceful protest inside a government building looks like
Airing on April 2, “The Culture Is: AAPI Women”
will feature big names like author Min Jin Lee; “Turning Red” writer Julia Cho;
former Hillary Clinton chief of staff Huma Abedin; and Rise CEO Amanda Nguyen.
They will sit for a meal and a raw discussion on love, parenthood, professional struggles and what it means to be Asian American in this era. (Sakshi Venkatraman)
–10pm ET tonight.
–Katie Phang sits down with some powerful Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the intro to Asian American Heritage month.
Who’s Using Vocal Fry in the Ocean? Dolphins and Whaaaaales.
“Dolphins, pilot whales and sperm whales use echolocation clicks to hunt and subdue their prey. But the animals, known as toothed whales, also produce other sounds for social communication, like grunts and high-pitched whistles. For decades, scientists speculated that something in the nasal cavity was responsible for this range of sounds, but the mechanics were unclear.
Now, researchers have uncovered how structures in the nose, called phonic lips, allow toothed whales to produce sounds at different registers, similar to the way the human voice functions, all while conserving air deep beneath the ocean’s surface. And the animals use the vocal fry register for echolocation. Yes, that vocal fryyyy.”
Sam Jones (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/dolphins-whales-vocal-fry.html)
Toothed whales use distinct vocal registers for echolocation and communication
Secrets of whale vocal anatomy
Odontocete (“toothed”) whales are well known for using echolocation to forage underwater, but they also produce a wide array of sounds used for social communication. Precisely how all of these sounds are produced was characterized by Madsen et al. in living animals (see the Perspective by Ravignani and Herbst). The authors found that the wide array of sounds are produced through the nasal passages but in a way analogous to laryngeal and syringeal sound production. Using the nasal passages facilitates complex sound production at depth, where laryngeal sound would be hampered by pressure. Furthermore, they found that odontocetes use different vocal registers, such as those we associate with falsetto or vocal fry in humans, to convey information. —SNV
Madsen, Siebert, and Elemans: (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9570?)
Amma
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
What They Are Reading in the States: President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda is Delivering for Americans
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/03/what-they-are-reading-in-the-states-president-bidens-investing-in-america-agenda-is-delivering-for-americans/)
Artemis II: Meet the Astronauts Who will Fly Around the Moon (Official NASA Video)
Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.
Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.
(nasa.gov)
To The Moon! 🚀👩🏼🚀🧑🏾🚀🧑🏻🚀🧑🏻🚀🌖✨
Meghan to receive Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award
by Glenn Gamboa
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/03/meghan-duchess-sussex-ms-foundation-award/4d3f6cbe-d218-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html)
Congrats to our fave Ms. Markle !!!!
🌹 ⭐️
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4skowUa_osU)
Fmr. Manhattan DA Vance: Trump’s comments about Bragg are ‘inappropriate’ and ‘wrong’.
Jen Psaki
“Here’s the bottom line: this is an example of our judicial system working like it should work, and how it works in democracies across the globe.”
Congressman Schiff
The indictment of a former president is unprecedented.
But so too is the unlawful conduct in which Trump has been engaged.
A nation of laws must hold the rich and powerful accountable, even when they hold high office. Especially when they do.
SC anti-truth bill
Mary Trump
JUSTICE IN PUBLIC SAFETY PROJECT
FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
(https://www.naacpldf.org/framework-for-public-safety/)
(with Jen Psaki)
—-“We were just about to post the Thursday Pod when we heard the Trump indictment news.”
–Real life Bagman, Epi 6.
Nicole Hockley, Sandy Hook Promise
“Too many people love guns more than children.”
imho, seems obvious but please may we cherish, respect and honor our children…they cannot earn or deserve our support or self-advocate, speak or even speak up. Despite the ads, human babies and children do not self-nurture, and like adults, are mentally damaged by isolation of any kind. Saw something this weekend that’s prompting me to say this, thx.
btw, you cannot tell by merely looking if someone is enlightened, or if they’re subject to domestic abuse/bullying/other. Like everybody else on the planet, children are equal absolutely without exception.
😆😂🤣
MARY
Speaker Emerita Pelosi Joins Moderated Conversation With Secretary Hillary Clinton
—fabulous to the nth.
💙💙💙
Marc Elias
Ben Wikler urging WI folk to get out and cast a ballot early B4 bad weather hits.
–Polls open 7am, close 8pm.
This is a weakass case and watch the traitorous thug walk away with a simple rap on the knuckle.
Fuck #feckless #gutlessgarland for not indicting the scummy pos first for more serious and far more important sedition and espionage.
Heeeeey AMK! Hi Darling! Missed ya! 🤗
Hi princess. Glad to see you. tod is not everyday visit, only for moments for me. Looks like one man/woman spam here now a days.
The thug and his klan openly threaten the judge & his family, DA & his family every fucking day and yet no gag orders on the carnival barker scum from the judge despite DA asking for it. What are these judges afraid of?
Great news though from WI today. Court flip is more important since they have more powers than the pols.
Yeh, my visits to the village have been less frequent too! Good to see you! I hope the spousal unit and offspring are all well. Hugs to all y’all! 🤗
Yay for Wisconsin! I hope that victory is a model for upcoming elections – big turn out from young voters will be crucial to saving democracy.
I’m with you that there should be some consequences for the Orange Menace’s threats to the DA and his wife. They simply cannot let that slide! It’s ridiculous how much shit he gets away with. I look forward to seeing that lifelong criminal finally being held accountable for any of his crimes.
All units are fine. DU has been offered a very senior level fellowship in the most prestigious medical college in UK and has moved there in Feb 23. I was is in UK for about 6 weeks to help her settle in.
Impressive! Way to go DU! 👏🏾Wishing her the best success in her work!
“You all are excellence, and we want you to know that.” ❤️
Come on Wisconsin!
That’s My Vice President!
Witness the historic excellence of our MVP!
Finland is now a NATO member
Let’s GO Wisconsin!
I’m so disappointed in the Dem voters in Tennessee. Where is your spine? Your conviction of democratic process in government? How can you just let a few GOP members run over you? No excuses are acceptable unless there are only two /dems left in all of Tennessee?!!!
Stephen with the receipts
Merry Arrestmas Day! 😁
This.
Prayers up! 🙏🏾
Young people using their powers for good is a beautiful thing to see!
Get to know the Artemis II crew! 🧑🏾🚀🚀🌖✨
These Barbie movie posters are hilarious! 😆
… aaand here’s the Barbie movie trailer! 💗💖💞💓💕
DONALD TRUMP IS UNDER ARREST.
Donald Trump is now under arrest.
Celebrate Good Times! 🥂
Happy Heavenly Birthday Maya Angelou!
New post.
55 Years Ago