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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
- Bill Barr explains why Christian nationalists are so loyal to Trump
- Did Zelenskyy play a role in Speaker Johnson's about-face on aid for Ukraine?
- Why did Speaker Johnson change his mind about aid to Ukraine?
- Israel owes Obama a huge debt of gratitude
- Trump doesn't care about abortions
- Right wingers use racism to deny systemic racism
- Why Christian nationalists fear freedom
- "I'd much rather be us than them"
- Right wing disinformation is fodder for fascism
- Sure, Trump is unfit for office. But his agenda would also be a monumental disaster!
Steve Benen
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The Obama Diary 
Thank you Nerdy Wonka.
Wishing you all the bells and whistles for 2024.
—from the land of sun on snow @ minus 10 degrees F. ❄️❄️
The Obama Foundation
New York AG James: ‘Trump violated the law’
New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke to reporters after closing arguments in the civil fraud trial against former President Trump and his company concluded.
Maybe this one will post?
beautiful and marvelous, thank you.
J. IVY Wins Best Spoken Word Poetry Album For ‘The Poet Who Sat By The Door’ | 2023 GRAMMYs
Ms. Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay on her new film ‘Origin’ and the ‘intellectual Indiana Jones’ at its center
(https://youtu.be/z9nwkFtpNrE)
“I knew I didn’t want to make a documentary. Documentaries are what I use to convey information. I wanted people to be able to feel emotion and empathy,” says writer, producer and director Ava DuVernay on adapting her new film, “Origin,” which is in theaters Jan. 19.
Isabelle Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ now an Ava DuVernay film.
A Word … With Jason Johnson
A Multiverse of Problems
Comic book movies boosted Hollywood diversity. Could a box office slump threaten that
Listen/transcript: : (https://slate.com/podcasts/a-word/2024/01/not-so-marvel-ous)
Dr. Jill Biden and Halle Berry
First Lady Jill Biden and actress Halle Berry in Chicago attending an event at UIC as part of the “White House Initiative on Women’s Health.”
Statement from President Joe Biden on Early Student Debt Cancellation for Borrowers Enrolled in SAVE
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/12/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-early-student-debt-cancellation-for-borrowers-enrolled-in-save/)
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials and Senior Military Official on Developments in the Middle East
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/01/12/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-and-senior-military-official-on-developments-in-the-middle-east/)
Julia Velleux:
Do you think I’m excited about the #GoldenGlobes for #AliWong and #StevenYeun?
It’s a triple win for Beef, a victory not only for diversity but for truth in storytelling. Congratulations to NetFlix and creator of Beef, Lee Sung Jin. Raw emotional drama with a comic touch about an everyday problem viewers related to.
ICYMI: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: White House hosts economic summit for Asian Americans in the metro area
Yesterday, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Co-Chair of White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), participated in a WHAANHPI Economic Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. At the summit, Ambassador Tai underscored how the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic and trade policies are supporting inclusive growth for local communities, including workers and small and medium-sized businesses.
More::
Mirtha Donastorg: (https://www.ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2024/january/icymi-atlanta-journal-constitution-white-house-hosts-economic-summit-asian-americans-metro-area)
Nancy Pelosi
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Advance Tribal Parity in Federal Law
A new bill would allow Tribal governments to benefit from the same opportunities for land acquisition as state and local governments currently do.
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen Tribal parity for the transfer of surplus federal property. The GSA Disposal Process Tribal Parity Act of 2024 would allow Tribal governments to participate in an existing process that allows the General Services Administration (GSA) to transfer surplus federal property to state and local governments below market value if those properties will be used for specified public purposes.
Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) are cosponsoring the bill.
(https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/senators-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-advance-tribal-parity-in-federal-law)
Diné ‘Land Defender, Warrior,’ Klee Benally Walks On
Diné activist and musician Klee Benally walked on on the morning of December 31, 2023. He was 48 years old.
The ReidOut
Andrew Weissman
Colman Domingo On Nailing His “Rustin” Character And Hanging With The Obamas
Greta Gerwig’s Favorite Thing About Margot Robbie: She Can’t Sing That Well
Vice President Kamala Harris
Gun violence prevention and student mental health
José Andrés
—a zillion billion thanks to Josê and WCK 🌎⭐️⭐️.
Nancy Pelosi
The White House
The White House
Dictionaries a casualty of right-wing book ban panic
(https://youtu.be/_ouehYqU4bw)
Alex Wagner reports on how vague book ban laws and threatening enforcement has succeeded in forcing the removal of books from classrooms and library shelves, with even dictionaries that contain the definition of “sex” being “pulled for further review” in one Florida county.
Florida School District Pulls Dictionaries Because They ‘Describe Sexual Conduct’
Webster’s Dictionary for Students among the tomes being reviewed for compliance with Florida’s new sex-education law
The Escambia County School District, part of the Florida panhandle, reportedly took The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary away from kids as part of its review into Florida’s HB 1069 bill.
The dictionaries’ definitions of words such as “sex” would potentially put them in violation of the law, which placed restrictions on children being taught about sexual conduct.
(https://themessenger.com/news/florida-school-district-dictionaries-escambia-county-sex-ed)
IN WIN FOR FREE EXPRESSION, JUDGE RULES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FL BOOK BANS CAN MOVE FORWARD
Judge Wetherell ruled that the government speech doctrine does not apply in this case and made clear that First Amendment protections are implicated when officials remove books based on ideology or viewpoint.
(https://pen.org/press-release/in-win-for-free-expression-judge-rules-lawsuit-challenging-escambia-county-fl-book-bans-can-move-forward/#)
PEN America has been at the forefront of documenting and defending against the unprecedented rise of school book bans nationwide. Black and LGBTQ authors and books about race, racism, and LGBTQ identities are disproportionately affected by the book bans cataloged by PEN America. The wave of book banning since the fall of 2021 is unprecedented and echoes the McCarthyism and Red Scare of the 1950s. From July 2021 to June 2023, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts.
Law firm to investigate book search in Great Barrington middle school, as reports of homophobic bullying prompt calls for action
Parents and students told school district leaders that the book search incident has sparked an uptick in homophobic bullying.
GREAT BARRINGTON — What began as a police investigation into a complaint about a book has turned into an investigation of both the police and the school.
(https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/gender-queer-book-search-police-great-barrington-berkshire-hills-middle-school-lgbtq/article_68d761c0-b160-11ee-aa20-e73ce587e2f0.html)
Jen Psaki and Jonathan Karl earlier this week:
Constitutional Courage
How our fears endanger our future
If we ignore the Constitution now, it will not protect our rights later. We are ignoring it now, because we are afraid.
“The Constitution is meant to handle our emotions, to “address itself immediately to the hopes and fears of individuals,” in Alexander Hamilton’s words.
But there is one fear it cannot address: fear of the Constitution itself. Too many of us, right now, are running in fear of the Constitution.
How did it come to this? An insurrectionist, Donald Trump, purports to be running for president, although the Constitution forbids this. Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment frankly disqualifies anyone who has taken part in an insurrection, or given aid and comfort to insurrectionists. Trump has done both, and boasts of having done both.”
Timothy Snyder: (https://snyder.substack.com/p/constitutional-courage?r=f9j4c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
The White House
President Biden
Michelle Obama
Be A King
@ Bernice King
Coretta Scott King
Leesa Carter-Jones
MLK
Lenny Kravitz
DanteJFurco
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
https://twitter. com/SenatorWarnock/status/1746883682931990854?s=20
Hakeem Jeffries
James Clyburn
https://twitter. com/SenatorWarnock/status/1746883682931990854?s=20
NASA
MARCH by John Lewis
“When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.”
— Mata Amritanandamayi
(c/o cnn)
—am overcome with the beauty in these photos.
Be a King
https://com/BerniceKing/status/1746901166766579750?s=20
photo mum
Congresswoman Cori Bush
Iowa caucus 2024 live updates: Trump, Haley, DeSantis, Ramaswamy vie for nomination
Follow along as the Republican presidential candidates compete in the Iowa caucuses as they vie for the GOP nomination in the November election.
The first electoral event of the 2024 presidential race has arrived.
MSNBC:
See Live: (https://www.msnbc.com/2024-election/live-blog/iowa-caucus-live-updates-rcna131529)
Iowa caucus 2024 live updates: Trump, Haley, DeSantis, Ramaswamy vie for nomination
Follow along as the Republican presidential candidates compete in the Iowa caucuses as they vie for the GOP nomination in the November election.
The first electoral event of the 2024 presidential race has arrived.
MSNBC:
See Live: (https://www.msnbc.com/2024-election/live-blog/iowa-caucus-live-updates-rcna131529)
—-Happening Now baby !!
POD SAVE AMERICA
CROOKED MEDIA
MSNBC
IOWA CAUCUSES:
PROJECTED WINNER: DONALD TRUMP
Palestinians must be able to stay in Gaza – Blinken
George Wright: (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67907336)
Rep Raskin
Gaza Strip in maps: How life has changed in three months
By the Visual Journalism Team
BBC News
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20415675)
Trump’s day-one dictatorship tops litany of contrasts targeted by Biden campaign
(https://youtu.be/5i60MtZ_XvI)
Rachel Maddow points out that while Donald Trump’s threat to democracy is the most urgent issue on which President Joe Biden wants to show American voters a distinction between himself and Trump, it is by no means the only point on which the two candidates contrast sharply. (last week)
Sec Blinken
VOTERS IN TAIWAN SAY NO TO BEIJING
President-Elect Calls Out Authoritarianism
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwan- ese politician Lai Ching-te has for years been reviled by China’s Communist Party as a dangerous foe who, by its account, could drag the two sides into a war by press- ing for full independence for his is- land democracy. Right up to Sat- urday, when millions of Taiwanese voted for their next president, an official Beijing news outlet warned that Mr. Lai could take Taiwan “on a path of no return.”
Yet, despite China’s months of menacing warnings of a “war or peace” choice for Taiwan’s voters, Mr. Lai was elected president.
Chris Buckley, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu and Da- mien Cave:
(Front page)
USAID
MEHDI HASAN
West Virginia Bill Would Mandate “Curing” Trans People Of Being Trans Under 21
West Virginia released a slew of new anti-trans bills on January 10th, including a bill that bans gender affirming care up to the age of 21 and mandates therapists “cure” trans people.
A new bill in West Virginia, Senate Bill 194, would enact a total ban on gender-affirming care for trans individuals up to 21 years old and mandates that all therapists and social workers in the state attempt to “cure” being transgender.
Erin Reed: (https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/west-virginia-bill-would-mandate#)
Governor DeWine Uses Anti-Abortion Tactic To Target Trans Adults With Defacto Ban
DeWine announced rules on trans care on Friday in order to stave off a potential veto override of the state’s youth gender affirming care ban. These rules would kick most adults off their care.
On Friday, Governor DeWine announced a new set of rules that would severely limit trans care at any age.
Erin Reed: (https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/governor-dewine-uses-anti-abortion)
Only 5 Days Into The Year, 125 Anti-Trans Bills Have Been Filed
Over 125 bills targeting the transgender community have been released in 2024, more than double the pace of 2023.
SEE SUMMARY AND MAP:
Erin Reed: (https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/only-5-days-into-the-year-125-anti)
LEGISLATIVE TRACKER
LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2024
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x8FDh50ouBldIpxnCdSb745pyYISYLLKp9lJligOQZk/edit#gid=0)
The Whitehouse
Justin J. Pearson
YAROSLAV TROFIMOV: “OUR ENEMIES WILL VANISH”.
No journalist has covered the war in Ukraine with greater knowledge, compassion, and insight than Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal.
Born and raised in Kyiv, Trofimov has written a powerful new book about the war entitled Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence, which will be published by Penguin Press in January 2024.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/01/11/our-enemies-will-vanish-book-talk-with-yaroslav-trofimov-event-8213)
JEN PSAKI
Michael McFaul
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