Posts Tagged ‘jonathan
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Disarm, Dismantle, Defund
Praying for Breonna’s mother and family. Because they knew and loved her before her name became a hashtag.
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Be A King (@BerniceKing) September 23, 2020
WE DESERVE BETTER. BLACK WOMEN DESERVE BETTER. BREONNA TAYLOR DESERVES BETTER.
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Lexi Underwood (@LexiCUnderwood) September 23, 2020
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A system that allowed Breonna Taylor to be murdered in the first place is never going to punish itself. We have to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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abolish dem (@telushk) September 23, 2020
no reforming this twitter.com/ajplus/status/…
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defund as a means to abolish (@awkward_duck) September 22, 2020
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It's always justified...
When they shoot us in the back.
When we are unarmed.
When we are safely gaming or sleepin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Tynisa the Cynical Gen X Witch Walker (@Kalarigamerchic) September 23, 2020
burn. it. down.
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(@Kehlani) September 23, 2020
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It’s like asking klansmen to clean up your yard after they’ve burned a cross.
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Saeed Jones (@theferocity) September 23, 2020
charging one of Breonna Taylor's killers with, essentially, damaging property while ignoring the fact that they kil… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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ML Kejera (@KejeraL) September 23, 2020
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Just made a donation to the law school @HowardU in the name of Breonna Taylor, and the spirit of Thurgood Marshall.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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stan verrett (@stanverrett) September 23, 2020
Breonna Taylor's and Emmett Till's murders were let off scott free on the same day 65 years apart.
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naya (@curlynaya) September 23, 2020
181 Days
Still thinking about you #BreonnaTaylor. 181 days.
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) September 11, 2020
Stay Loud For Breonna
It's 150 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered. Too often Black women who die from police violence are forgotten.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Viola Davis (@violadavis) August 10, 2020
150 Days since #BreonnaTaylor’s death. https://t.co/Yvgy16GuRF
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Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) August 10, 2020
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Every person taken by police violence leaves a family behind.
Months after Breonna Taylor’s murder, her sister sti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Women's March (@womensmarch) August 11, 2020
I think it’s time we demand for the resignation of everyone who is implicated in #BreonnaTaylor’s murder, from the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Angelica Ross (@angelicaross) August 11, 2020
Silence Is Sometimes Golden
‘Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt’ ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Today in 1999 Bill Clinton signed a law blurring lines between banks, insurers and investment firms and that all went just super.
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(@pourmecoffee) November 12, 2013
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Jonathan Cohn: Bill Clinton’s Obamacare Comments Are Wrong
in a new interview already getting attention and sure to get more, Clinton didn’t explain things very well. He made a statement that’s likely to create some misimpressions about the possibilities of health care reform, while giving the administration and its allies yet another political headache.
He said that some young people facing higher premiums under the new system should have the right to keep their old plans, even if it requires a change in the law. Clinton framed it carefully: He said specifically he had in mind only those young people whose incomes were higher than four times the poverty line, making them ineligible for subsidies. (That’s about $45,000 for a single adult.) But he also suggested it was a matter of principle, because those people had heard the vow that they could keep their plans: “I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”
Obama is leaning toward fix for people who find that "even though the coverage is better, the cost may be a challenge for them," Carney says
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Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) November 12, 2013
Clinton’s statement makes it seem as if there is some simple way to let people keep their current plans—to avoid any disruption in the existing non-group market while still delivering the law’s benefits. As readers of this space know, no such magic solution exists.
.@presssec says the Upton Obamacare bill is "not an effective fix … would cause more problems and create more problems and do more harm."
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Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 12, 2013
Broadly speaking, the Affordable Care Act seeks to make two sets of changes to what’s called the “non-group” market. It establishes a minimum set of benefits, which means everything from covering “essential” services to eliminating annual or lifetime limits on payments. At the same time, the law prohibits insurers from discriminating among customers: They can’t charge higher prices, withhold benefits, or deny coverage altogether to people who represent medical risks. They have to take everybody, varying price only for age (within a three-to-one ratio) and for tobacco use.
More here
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If you're looking to get past the Clinton-Obamacare click-bait headlines, read @CitizenCohn's great piece on this: newrepublic.com/article/115570…
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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 12, 2013
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Rise and Shine
Four years ago: President Obama looks out the window of Marine One as it lands at the White House, May 22, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Today:
11:0: VP Biden Gives the Commencement Address at the United States Coast Guard Academy (audio only at WH Live)
1:0 Jay Carney’s press briefing
7:25: President Obama hosts a concert honoring Gershwin Prize winner Carole King
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NYT: The bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday has many serious hurdles ahead. It is the most serious and worthy attempt to fix immigration in a generation, but it cannot help reflecting the poisoned politics of today, with its heavy tilt toward needless border enforcement and a deficiency in equal rights.
In the most moving and wrenching moment in three weeks of committee markup, the committee’s chairman, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, sought to amend the bill to allow gay Americans to sponsor their wives and husbands for green cards. The other Democrats, including Charles Schumer of New York, implored him not to put that amendment forward, saying this measure of basic fairness would drive off Republican support and kill the entire bill. Mr. Leahy withdrew it.
With that unhappy capitulation, the bill survives, with a possible battle over same-sex marriage still to come on the Senate floor. And then the bill will need to find some path through the Republican-led House….
More here – and see ThinkProgress
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You know the economy is rockin and rollin when the press is focused on fake scandals
— John Sunununu (@JohnSunununu) May 21, 2013
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U.S. sales of existing homes climbs to three-year high | bloom.bg/10LM8Xc
— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) May 22, 2013
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The Dow is on track for its best May performance since 1997, up 4.55% month-to-date. (via @giovannymoreano)
— CNBC (@CNBC) May 22, 2013
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‘Tesla, labeled a “loser” by Romney, giving Obama green-energy strategy its biggest win: paying off loan 9 yrs early’ businessweek.com/news/2013-05-2…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 22, 2013
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Jonathan Capehart: Here we go again. President Obama’s critics in the African American community are hammering him for doing nothing for black people …. this thinking drives me crazy because the president’s detractors fail to take a 360-degree view of what they are demanding from him and ignore what he’s actually done.
…. Coates’s criticism emanates from Obama’s commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta …. Obama spoke to the black men of Morehouse not as a distant president but as a familiar peer. He used his troubled past as a real-life example of how one’s limited circumstances are neither destiny nor a hindrance to achieving the American Dream, as they define it. He urged the graduates to not make excuses, to aim high and to give back. Yet, Coates calls this “‘convenient race-talk’ from a president who ought to know better.” Obama can’t win.
… what’s missing from most African American critiques of Obama: an appreciation for Republican resistance to his agenda. To expect the president to introduce an explicit and definable “black agenda” in a Congress filled with people who believe him to be a socialist destroying the country while illegitimately occupying the Oval Office is seriously naive.
Full article here
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