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Awesome news, about time!
Now let’s name all this anti abortion legislation going on. I’ve named it “Ghosting Penises”! Pardon the mind visuals. Could also go with “Gaslight Penises”! OK, let me go back to my corner chair!đ
LOL LOL Gazelle, That’s good.
Hi + heh Gazelle and tnmtgirl1, feels like summer here today – all right!
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Our Veterans | Biden-Harris 2024
Our troops deserve our respect and supportâboth on and off the battlefield.
Trump doesnât understand sacrifice. He thinks duty is a joke. And he is unfit to lead.
Biden-Harris Administration Releases Data Showing Historic Gains in Health Care Coverage in Minority Communities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued five new reports today showing historic gains in health care coverage and highlighting increases in coverage among minority communities since the implementation of the Affordable Care Actâs (ACA) coverage provisions. The coverage gains are in great part due to the Biden-Harris Administrationâs continuous efforts to increase access to affordable, quality health care, especially in underserved communities, and underscore the importance of the Inflation Reduction Actâs tax breaks that lower health care costs and make marketplace plans more affordable. HHS also announced a new, historic $500 million investment in Navigators, who play a key role in helping people across the country sign up for health care, particularly in underserved communities who have been too often ignored.
(https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/06/07/biden-harris-administration-releases-data-showing-historic-gains-health-care-coverage-minority-communities.html)
From a âmissing tooth and a bootâ to breastfeeding at the State Dept.: Lessons on self-advocacy
A new study shows mental health-related leaves of absences in the workplace are soaring, especially among women. Mika Brzezinski, Symone Sanders-Townsend, Jen Psaki and Huma Abedin discuss and share their own âbig askâ moments at work.
Steve Bannon ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 after failing to provide documents and testimony to the House Select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole: (https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/steve-bannon-jail/index.html)
—no one is above the law.
Rep. Schiff
SPLC Designates Genspect, SEGM As Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
SEGM members and associates were part of a secret advisory group for the Cass Review in England. Genspect and SEGM pushed anti-trans policies in the United States. Now, they are listed as hate groups
ERIN REED: (https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/splc-designates-genspect-segm-as)
Remarks by President Biden and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine Before Bilateral Meeting
InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel
Paris, France
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/06/07/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-before-bilateral-meeting-5/)
President Zelenskyy
“You’re my hero!”: WWII veteran shares emotional embrace with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared an emotional moment with a veteran during a D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France yesterday.
President Biden Delivers Remarks to Honor the Legacy of Pointe du Hoc and Democracy
Normandy, France.
KAMALA HARRIS
= 60 years since Griswold v Connecticut.
Barack Obama
—we must protect our local election officials.
How A Luxury Trip For Trump Judges Doomed The Federal Mask Mandate
Buried in the April 2022 ruling that struck down the Biden administrationâs mask mandate was a section that was unusual for a court decision.
The outcome itself was far from surprising. Places all over the country were dropping local mask requirements, and the judge hearing this case â a challenge to the federal mandate to mask on planes and other public transportation â was a conservative Trump appointee, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for the Middle District of Florida. Mizelle ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs mask requirement overstepped the agencyâs legal authority.
Molly Redden: (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa)
David Hillyardâs grandson:â¨
–n.b. wonderful interview on Reidout .
JOY REID
â-Why idealize the Black family under Jim Crow oppression? GOP Rep. Byron Donalds responds to Joy Reid.
—stunning, stunning Joy Reid. Respect..fearless!
Forty Years Later, Biden Seeks to Echo Reaganâs Legacy of American Leadership
At Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, President Biden plans to follow one of the former presidentâs most iconic speeches with his own testimonial to democracy and the need to resist isolationism.
(excerpt)
He will not name former President Donald J. Trump, but the contrast will be clear.
While Mr. Biden leads an international alliance against Russian aggression in Europe, as Mr. Reagan did, Mr. Trump as president came close to pulling out of NATO and was friendlier toward President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia than to Americaâs traditional European allies.
Since leaving office, Mr. Trump has not been a supporter of providing military aid for Ukraine to defend itself against Russian invaders. The former president even publicly declared that he would âencourageâ Russia âto do whatever the hell they wantâ against NATO members that do not spend enough on their militaries.
Peter Baker: (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/biden-reagan-normandy-dday-speech.html)
Dan Dicker
Joe Biden is the Greatest Oil Trader EVER
Trump says he’d have ‘every right’ to prosecute political foes if elected
What You Need To Know
Former President Donald Trump said he believes he would have “every right” to use the justice system to go after his political enemies if he returns to the White House
But in the interview Wednesday with Fox News, Trump softened his position from a day earlier on whether heâd ultimately pursue retribution following his conviction in New York
Trumpâs remarks reflect a 180-degree swing from a day earlier, when he told Newsmax âit’s very possible that it’s [criminal prosecutions] are going to have to happen toâ his political enemies under the next president, which he is running to be.
The Biden campaign said: âAmerica saw Donald Trump consumed by rage and visibly rattled following his felony conviction; a man who has clearly snapped and whose candidacy is becoming more dangerous by the day”
Ryan Chatelain: (https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/politics/2024/06/06/trump-says-he-d-have–every-right–to-prosecute-political-foes-if-elected)
DAN GOLDMAN
—This is not complicated. The FBI has Hunterâs laptop. Giuliani received a hard drive copy of the laptop, which he turned over only to the NY Post.
—Hard drives can be manipulated. While the hard drive has some authentic docs, no forensic analysis has found it all to be authentic.
imo, the irony is President Biden says he’ll accept the outcome of the trial and is an unequivocal NO on pardons. In his place convicted felon/dictator trump would do the opposite.
Meanwhile trump is accusing the sitting president – a relentless advocate of the rule of law – of doing what he would do.
imo this is why an interviewer has to drill down on the question and not
allow mister shifting sands to deflect and distract.
—thanks to Joy Reid for doing this yesterday.
The New-Old Authoritarianism
With US think tanks having already drawn up plans for instituting an authoritarian government under a second Donald Trump administration, the stakes in the year’s presidential election are difficult to overstate. Around the world, “strongmen” are turning democratic institutions on themselves and learning from each other.
RUTH BEN-GHIAT
Interview: (https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-authoritarian-leaders-dismantle-democracy-trump-orban-netanyahu-meloni-by-ruth-ben-ghiat-2024-06-1-2024-06)
then
“Over the past decade, Ruth Ben-Ghiat has emerged as one of the English-speaking worldâs leading experts on, and chroniclers of, authoritarian leaders in the twenty-first century. A professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, she warns against complacency in the face of growing threats to democracy around the world.”
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Voters Arenât So Sure About Voting for a Convicted Felon
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Crooked Media.
Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United States, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom on Gaza
As leaders of countries deeply concerned for the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, including many of our own citizens, we fully support the movement towards a ceasefire and hostage release deal now on the table and as outlined by President Biden on May 31, 2024. There is no time to lose. We call on Hamas to close this agreement, that Israel is ready to move forward with, and begin the process of releasing our citizens.
We note that this agreement would lead to an immediate ceasefire and rehabilitation of Gaza together with security assurances for Israelis, and Palestinians, and opportunities for a more enduring long-term peace and a two-state solution. At this decisive moment, we call on the leaders of Israel as well as Hamas to make whatever final compromises are necessary to close this deal and bring relief to the families of our hostages, as well as those on both sides of this terrible conflict, including the civilian populations. It is time for the war to end and this deal is the necessary starting point.
(wh.gov)
Michael Tyler
Heather Long
–jobs report.
Statement from President Joe Biden on the May Jobs Report
The great American comeback continues, but we still have to make more progress. On my watch, 15.6 million more Americans have the dignity and respect that comes with a job. Unemployment has been at or below 4% for 30 monthsâthe longest stretch in 50 years. And a record high share of working-age women have jobs.
I will keep fighting to lower costs for families like the ones I grew up with in Scranton. Iâm fighting corporate greed by calling on corporations with record profits to lower pricesâas Target and Walmart have for grocery prices. Iâm fighting to make rent more affordable by building 2 million new homes. Iâm fighting to lower the cost of health care and prescription drugs, like insulin and inhalers.
Congressional Republicans have a different visionâone that puts billionaires and special interests first. The Republican plan would increase inflation by repealing the Affordable Care Act, siding with Big Oil to raise utility bills, letting Big Banks rip off Americans, and blow up the debt by slashing taxes for billionaires. I will never stop fighting for Scrantonânot Park Avenue.
(wh.gov)
—Congressman Adam Schiff.
The Indian Citizenship Act at 100 Years Old
…While the 15th Amendment declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race, many states were able to find other ways to deny Native American people the voteâresidence on a reservation, tribal enrollment status, taxation, and incompetency were all used by states as reasons to disenfranchise Native people. One tragic outcome was that thousands of Native American veteransâ including American Indian Code Talkers returning from World War IIâ found themselves prohibited from participating in basic civil liberties in the nation that they had risked their lives to protect.
In reality, Native voting rights often have come about only because of extensive advocacy and litigation by Native American individuals, organizations, and Tribal Nations. Native voters have had to fight (sometimes repeatedly) to have their voices heard. So, on this 100th anniversary, we reflect on 100 years of Native American efforts to fully realize their citizenship and obtain equal access to their freedom to vote. We also honor 100 years of Native American citizens working tirelessly to make things better for future generations.
(https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/the-indian-citizenship-act-at-100-years-old)
Andy Kim wins Senate primary in New Jersey
Rep Andy Kim easily won the New Jersey primary to replace embattled U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) following his indictment on corruption charges.
The Bergen County Record reported the Associated Press called the race for Kim just 14 minutes after the polls closed.
The New York Times described Kim as the favorite to win the election in November in the Democratic state. He is poised to become the first Korean American ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
âIâm humbled by the results,â Mr. Kim said at his victory party in Princeton. âThis has been a very challenging and difficult race, a very dramatic one at that, and one that frankly has changed New Jersey politics forever.â
Randall: (https://asamnews.com/2024/06/05/korean-american-u-s-senate-first-election-victory/)
Congratulations Congressman Lee !! đđđŚ
Meet the first Asian woman elected to Oklahomaâs legislature
Raised by a South Korean mother and an Ohio-born father in Oklahoma since she was four, Oklahoma House Democratic Leader Cyndi Munson often felt like an âoutsiderâ next to her friends. Her insecurities grew in eighth grade when her parents divorced, leaving her and her sister to struggle financially under the care of their single father â which Munson described as crucial in solidifying her understanding of the importance of public service.
Matthew Yoshimoto:
(https://asamnews.com/2024/06/05/asian-government-oklahoma-munson-democrat-diversity-legislature-dlcc-women-appi-politics/)
Congratulations !! đşđ¸
Barack Obama
Friday is here again, happy weekend!
~love~
D-Day anniversary 2024: World leaders, veterans, commemorate Normandy landings
OMAHA BEACH, France, June 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the defence of freedom and democracy at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy on Thursday, urging Western powers to stay the course with Ukraine and not surrender to Russian tyranny.
At a joint ceremony with French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. veterans at the Normandy American Cemetery, Biden said it was “simply unthinkable” to surrender to Russian aggression and he promised no let-up in support for Ukraine.
Jeff Mason, Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish:
(https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/world-leaders-veterans-commemorate-d-days-80th-anniversary-normandy-2024-06-06/)
President Biden
FACT SHEET: The U.S.-France Partnership
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/08/fact-sheet-the-u-s-france-partnership/)
French-American Roadmap
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/08/french-american-roadmap/)
Statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Israeli Hostage Rescue Operation
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/08/statement-from-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-on-the-israeli-hostage-rescue-operation/)
President Biden and President Emmanuel Macron of France Deliver Statements to the Press.
President Biden
Emannuel Macron
–welcome to France
Slow but steady progress !
Michelle Obama
—so beautiful, Happy birthday Sasha đŚđđ
Barack Obama
–very fave photo.
‘We feel a sense of connection’: The US family trying to save a girl in Gaza with AHC
Three-year-old Julia Abu Zeaiter suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood. She was forced out of her home in northern Gaza and is now deteriorating rapidly. This is the story of how a US family is trying to save her.
(Sky news)
—cannot find video yesterday – Ayman Mohyeldin. Julia’s family needs help to get out of Gaza for life-saving treatment. Currently she is unable to move, painful attacks.
Her Mother said “She is dying next to me.”
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect and Preserve Our Nationâs African American History Ahead of Juneteenth National Independence Day
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/)
The White House
Joe Biden
—New Ad.
The MAGA Memory Hole
Many Republicans continue their collective amnesia about Trump.
Tom Nichols:
(https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/the-maga-memory-hole/678435/
The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: âFight Fire With Fireâ
Republican leaders in and out of government are publicly pushing to prosecute Democrats as legal retribution for Donald Trumpâs felony conviction.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/politics/trump-conviction-gop-revenge.html#)
Inside with Jen Psaki:
Mitch Landrieu:
âDonald Trump saying the world is going to hell because that is what he sees when he looks in the mirror.â
Trump to Meet with Probation Officer
Donald Trump is scheduled to sit for a virtual interview on Monday with a New York City probation officer with his attorney Todd Blanche at his side after he was found guilty on all counts in the hush money trial against him last month, NBC News reports.
The probation interview is required by the court as part of the former presidentâs pre-sentencing report.
Taegan Goddard : (https://politicalwire.com/2024/06/09/trump-to-meet-with-probation-officer/)
Trump and allies demand mistrial based on debunked post by Facebook troll
Judge Juan Merchan sent a letter on Friday asking prosecutors and Trump’s defense team about a Facebook post that appeared to preview the outcome of the former president’s hush money trial. The post has since been debunked. Ayman Mohyeldin is joined by Renato Mariotti, former federal prosecutor, and Tara Setmayer, former GOP communications director, to discuss.
Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access
Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions
Republican lawmakers in Missouri blocked a bill to widen access to birth-control pills by falsely claiming they induce abortions. An antiabortion group in Louisiana killed legislation to enshrine a right to birth control by inaccurately equating emergency contraception with abortion drugs. An Idaho think tank focused on âbiblical activismâ is pushing state legislators to ban access to emergency contraception and intrauterine devices (IUDs) by mislabeling them as âabortifacients.â
Lauren Weber: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/#)
Jewish officer resigns from US Army to protest Gaza war, citing lessons of the Holocaust
As the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing â my grandfather refused to ever purchase products manufactured in Germany â where the paramount importance of ânever againâ and the inadequacy of âjust following ordersâ were oft repeated,â Mann wrote in the letter.
âI am haunted by the knowledge that I failed those principles,â he added. âBut I also have hope that my grandfather would afford me some grace, that he would still be proud of me for stepping away from this war, however belatedly.â
Philissa Cramer: (https://www.jta.org/2024/06/05/united-states/jewish-us-army-major-harrison-mann-explains-why-he-resigned-over-us-support-for-gaza-war)
Israel rescues 4 hostages in operation that kills over 270 Gazans
Ayesha Rascoe, Daniel Estrin:
(https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4997130/israel-rescues-4-hostages-in-operation-that-kills-over-270-gazans)
Do you think it’s OK for Netanyahu to come here and deliver a speech to Congress?
—4 is not equal to 270.
—imo that gross willful skewing of reality has been his problem from day one.
Stop the pretense.
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israelâs Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israelâs military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html)
Trump vs. Biden: Two Starkly Different Ways of Honoring Fallen Troops at the beaches of Normandy
If you watch President Biden and Ronald Reaganâs remarks to honor the Americans who stormed the beaches of Normandy, itâs almost like they finish each otherâs sentences. Former President Trump, on the other hand, had a different way of acknowledging our fallen troops⌠(he didnât).
Liz Cheney-backed PAC hits Trump with subtle dig in new D-Day ad
Former Rep. Liz Cheneyâs (R-Wyo.) PAC made a subtle dig at former President Trump in a new D-Day-themed advertisement Thursday.
The ad, posted on the social platform X to mark the D-Day anniversary, features clips of presidents including former Presidents Eisenhower and George W. Bush discussing the military action in Normandy.
âToward Nakba as a Legal Conceptâ: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard
The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled âToward Nakba as a Legal Concept.â
(https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/5/harvard_columbia_law_school_nakba_censorship)
U.S. provided intelligence used by Israel in its hostage rescues.
The United States provided intelligence in support of Israel’s successful hostage rescue operation today, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the matter. The New York Times first reported the U.S. role.
(nbc news)
(n
George Clooney called White House to defend wifeâs work on Israel warrants
Biden had sharply criticized a move by the International Criminal Court to issue warrants for Israeli leaders.
Tyler Pager and Ashley Parker:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/06/george-clooney-biden-criminal-court-israel/
Marc E. Elias
Out of Hiding
Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can be Stopped
by Kathleen M. Blee, Robert Futrell, Pete Simi
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars
Oliver Darcy: (https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/alex-jones-assets-sandy-hook/index.html)
THE SIXTH (www.thesixthmovie.com)
is a feature documentary produced in collaboration with A24. From Academy AwardÂŽ winning filmmakers Andrea Nix Fine & Sean Fine, THE SIXTH takes you inside the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol through six personal accounts, including Rep. Jamie Raskin and MPD Chief Robert Contee. This harrowing yet hopeful film, is a powerful reminder that the fate of democracy is in all our hands.
2 viewer responses:
âOutstanding. It should be shown in every high school civics and every introductory political science course in America.â
âThis should absolutely be shown on every major network and weekly
throughout the country. You donât see Trump, or Hawley fist pumping or Trumpâs goons. This is a film featuring a photographer whose photos weâve seen but didnât know who was behind them. Iâve watched so much about Jan 6. If the party loyalists see this and their spell is not broken after watching this, then theyâre lost. They want America to disappear and have no clue what that means for them. Also, I wondered as I felt nauseous listening to the bloodlust by so many, how many of the thousands who showed up that day play violent video games. Itâs a leap to make the connection of the insurrectionists desire to actually perpetrate violence, but the blur of those who are desensitized by violent video games and the violent rhetoric shown and heard in this
film are chilling. Last, the magnitude of the crowd was also unbelievable. This film captures what law enforcement was up against. Thanks to the DCPD and those in blue who arrived from other states to assist. Thank you especially to the Capitol Police, those featured in this film and those we donât know who did everything they could to protect America that day! Thereâs still so much we donât know and known members of Congress who must be held accountable. Tell everyone you know to see this!â
League of Women Voters
–wear orange
Pod Save America
Crooked Media
Mehdi Hasan
https://twittercom/mehdirhasan/status/1799947805789671646
Faith-Based Groups That Assist Migrants Become Targets of Extremists
Mirian Jordan: (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html#)
Timothy Snyder
Ida Bae Wells
Court Blocks Fearless Fund’s Exclusive Grants For Black Women
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has halted the Fearless Fund, a Black-owned venture capital firm, from awarding grants solely to Black women entrepreneurs. The court ruled that this practice likely violates Title 42 of the U.S. Code, which ensures equal rights and prohibits racial discrimination in awarding and enforcing contracts.
What Do We Know?
Dasha Shunina: (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariashunina/2024/06/04/court-blocks-fearless-funds-exclusive-grants-for-black-women/)
Black History Uncensored: Jason Reynolds’ poetic ode to young dreamers
Award-winning author Jason Reynolds has been targeted with right-wing book bans nationwide. His poem “For Every One” shows why his work is so valuable.
Ja’han Jones: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/black-history-uncensored-jason-reynolds-rcna72720)
Jose Andres
Mata Amritanandamayi
—June 5 World Environment Day
NASA REMEMBERS BILL ANDERS
—with thanks and love to the Anders family. đ
—Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders Captures Earthrise, Dec 24 1968.
https://x.com/GGail26/status/1800551949147971810
Good West Coast morning Nerdy and TOD family. What’s the trick to get twitter to post now? đ
https://x.com/WendellPierce/status/1800584693970338124
New post.