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Posts Tagged ‘jonathan
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Sep
20
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, 2020WE DESERVE BETTER. BLACK WOMEN DESERVE BETTER. BREONNA TAYLOR DESERVES BETTER.
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Lexi Underwood (@LexiCUnderwood) September 23, 2020****
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, 2020no reforming this twitter.com/ajplus/status/…
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defund as a means to abolish (@awkward_duck) September 22, 2020****
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, 2020burn. it. down.
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(@Kehlani) September 23, 2020****
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, 2020charging 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****
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, 2020Breonna 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, 202011
Sep
20
181 Days
Still thinking about you #BreonnaTaylor. 181 days.
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) September 11, 202011
Aug
20
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, 2020150 Days since #BreonnaTaylor’s death. https://t.co/Yvgy16GuRF
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Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) August 10, 2020****
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, 2020I 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
Jonathan Goldsmith: How The World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended The World’s Most Powerful Man
Damn,” he said in a half-hushed whisper. “This guy’s good.” I could hear President Obama as he walked up the path behind me and spied the multiple arrows I had placed, undetected, in the bull’s-eye. I waited until I could sense him close by. Then, with the casual swagger that had become my calling card, I turned, and feigning annoyance, delivered the line I had prepared: What took you so long?” Obama, recognizing me immediately, clapped his hands and doubled over in laughter. There’s no way he could have been as happy and amazed as I was to be there. The president and I had met earlier that year at a fundraiser in Vermont when he was just preparing for his reelection campaign. He had impressed me with his encyclopedic recall of the outrageous escapades of my TV character.
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Still, I was more than surprised when I later got a call from one of his deputies. Would I like to be part of a special surprise for the president’s 50th birthday celebration at Camp David? Ten of Obama’s best friends—most of them people he had known as far back as high school—were on the list. And me. All top secret. Life didn’t get any more interesting than this. Would I like to come? You bet I would. The first time I met President Obama, I was part of a welcoming committee in the state of Vermont, where I now live. He was just starting his second run for the presidency, and we were invited to be in a greeting line of about 200 people. Our 10-second photo-op turned into a several-minute conversation. Still, I thought, this must be a setup. Someone has to be playing a joke on me, and they had prompted him with information. But when Obama mentioned that he loved a New Yorker article about me and quoted from the commercials, I knew he was being sincere. I drove home feeling as if it was a dream. The president of the United States is interested in me, the imaginary most interesting man in the world.
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12
Nov
13
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****
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, 2013Clinton’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, 2013Broadly 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.
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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****
22
May
13
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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18
May
13
Rise and Shine
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Saturday: The President has no public events scheduled
Sunday:
8:0 AM The President departs the White House
9:50: Arrives Atlanta, Georgia
11:0: Attends Morehouse College commencement and delivers the commencement speech
2:10: Delivers remarks at a DSCC event at The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Atlanta
3:10: Departs Atlanta
4:55: Arrives the White House
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(Photo: Pete Souza, 2009)
The Week Ahead:
Monday: The President will welcome President Thein Sein of Myanmar to the White House. Since President Obama’s historic trip to Rangoon last November, the United States has continued to advocate for continued progress on reform by President Thein Sein’s government, in close cooperation with Aung San Suu Kyi, civil society leaders, and the international community.
Tuesday: Will attend meetings at the White House.
Wednesday: Will attend meetings at the White House, and in the evening, as part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and the First Lady will host a concert honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Thursday: Will attend meetings at the White House.
Friday: Will travel to Annapolis, Maryland, to deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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This week started with Three! Huge! Scandals! It ends with #umbrellagate. Well played, Mr. President. Well played.
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) May 17, 2013
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Media Matters: ABC News & The Whitewater Tactics At The Center Of The Scandal Machine
…. ABC’s flawed reporting on the emails, based on selective leaks, has led to questions about reporter Jonathan Karl’s future, vividly demonstrating the consequences of this type of press manipulation. But whether fellow journalists – and viewers – will demand accountability from Karl remains to be seen.
It’s the Whitewater experience, which GOP leaders are reportedly skittish of repeating, that provides a blueprint for accountability over this type of press manipulation.
…. Will the media, which once again saw one of their own get burned by relying on selective leaks in furtherance of a hunting of a president, demand accountability this time?
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The more you look at this report, the more (literally) incredible it is – and thrown in, for good measure, edits of Jay Carney (from 0:18) to make him look like a bumbling fool. Truly, Fox out-Foxed by ABC.
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Michael Tomasky: Will ABC Finger the Liar?
….. ABC News, if you ask me, has had a worse week than Obama, not that as many people are paying attention. But consider. CNN and Jake Tapper got the actual emails, proving beyond a doubt that ABC and Karl were wrong. And on CBS, Scott Pelley and Major Garrett took the unheard of step of basically calling news gatherers at a fellow network liars.
…. The record up to today suggests that the government is a good measure more trustworthy than ABC News–and, don’t forget, than whoever it was (surely a GOP source of some kind) who lied to Karl in the first place.
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More at Mediaite
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Mediaite: Does Jon Karl Have The Juice To Survive Benghazi Email Controversy?
….. Even the best reporter can get played by a source with an ax to grind, but by presenting that source’s misinformation as a series of direct quotes from emails that the source made up, Jonathan Karl bought and paid for the consequences, and so did ABC News. They both owe their viewers, and this White House, an apology.
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In light of current events, an interesting read from 2011:
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