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igualdad https://www.dailykos.com/user/igualdad/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:38:52 +0000 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:38:52 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Walmart workers invite Bernie to attend shareholders meeting: "Workers deserve a seat at the table!" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/21/1859264/-Walmart-workers-invite-Bernie-to-attend-shareholders-meeting-Workers-deserve-a-seat-at-the-table <h2><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/21/walmart-workers-invited-special-guest-crash-companys-annual-meeting-bernie-sanders/?utm_term=.a823fb13628c" target="_blank"><span>Walmart workers invited a special guest to crash the company’s annual meeting: Bernie Sanders</span></a></h2> <blockquote> <p>For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules.</p> <p>This year they’ll have someone new delivering the message on their behalf: Sen. Bernie Sanders.</p> <p>The presidential candidate, who has repeatedly called on Walmart to improve its working conditions, is heading to Bentonville, Ark., on June 5 to introduce <strong>a shareholders’ proposal that would give hourly Walmart workers a seat on the company’s board.</strong></p> <p><strong>“These workers need and deserve a seat at the table,”</strong> Sanders (I-Vt.) told The Washington Post. “If hourly workers at Walmart were well represented on its board, I doubt you would see the CEO of Walmart making over a thousand times more than its average worker."</p> </blockquote> <p>The board is currently comprised of a dozen of wealthy executives from corporations like NBCUniversal and McDonalds along with Walmart heirs. But if this measure, filed by<span> Walmart employee Cat Davis and leader of United for Respect, is implemented, it will “require the retailer to consider its 1.5 million hourly U.S. employees when nominating candidates to its board.” </span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:left">According to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, the<span> </span></span><strong>Walmar</strong><strong>t </strong><span style="text-align:left"><strong>heirs </strong>now have a combined<span> </span></span><strong>wealth</strong><span style="text-align:left"><span> </span>of <strong>$163.2 billion,</strong> which is more than Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. In fact, they are<span> </span></span><strong>worth</strong><span style="text-align:left"><span> </span>more than $70 billion more than the <strong>second-richest<span> </span></strong></span><strong>family</strong><span style="text-align:left"><span> </span>in the United States.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Not only does Walmart fail to pay their workers a decent wage, over half of their employees are part time which allows them to skip out on providing healthcare or retirement benefits. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Low unemployment doesn&amp;#39;t mean a thing when we can&amp;#39;t survive on the wages being offered. We need $15 and good jobs for all workers. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Tell your Rep. to support the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RaiseTheWage?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#RaiseTheWage&lt;/a&gt; Act &lt;a href="https://t.co/qgkglMBLke"&gt;https://t.co/qgkglMBLke&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightFor15?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#FightFor15&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/Vh7hxUOUM5"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Vh7hxUOUM5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/fightfor15/status/1130284545335615488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 20, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Low unemployment doesn't mean a thing when we can't survive on the wages being offered. We need $15 and good jobs for all workers. <br><br>Tell your Rep. to support the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RaiseTheWage?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RaiseTheWage</a> Act <a href="https://t.co/qgkglMBLke">https://t.co/qgkglMBLke</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FightFor15?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FightFor15</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vh7hxUOUM5">pic.twitter.com/Vh7hxUOUM5</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) <a href="https://twitter.com/fightfor15/status/1130284545335615488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="AlignCenter"> <br> ***</p> <p>Last November, Bernie and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the Stop Walmart Act which would prevent corporations from stock buy backs if they fail to pay their employees at least $15.00 an hour.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong><em><span>Stop WALMART: </span></em></strong><em><span>Stop <strong>W</strong>elfare for <strong>A</strong>ny <strong>L</strong>arge <strong>M</strong>onopoly <strong>A</strong>massing <strong>R</strong>evenue from <strong>T</strong>axpayers.</span></em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@SenSanders&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@RepRoKhanna&lt;/a&gt; introduced legislation called the "Stop &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Walmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@Walmart&lt;/a&gt; Act" to prevent wealthy &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/corporations?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#corporations&lt;/a&gt; from buying back its stock unless it pays employees at least $15 per hour. Support it by adding your name: &lt;a href="https://t.co/GnrBHlgvlu"&gt;https://t.co/GnrBHlgvlu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LivingWage?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#LivingWage&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Walmart?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Walmart&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/X045gJShWm"&gt;pic.twitter.com/X045gJShWm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— CREDO Mobile (@CREDOMobile) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CREDOMobile/status/1077929284474454016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSanders</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRoKhanna</a> introduced legislation called the "Stop <a href="https://twitter.com/Walmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Walmart</a> Act" to prevent wealthy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/corporations?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#corporations</a> from buying back its stock unless it pays employees at least $15 per hour. Support it by adding your name: <a href="https://t.co/GnrBHlgvlu">https://t.co/GnrBHlgvlu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LivingWage?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LivingWage</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Walmart?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Walmart</a> <a href="https://t.co/X045gJShWm">pic.twitter.com/X045gJShWm</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” CREDO Mobile (@CREDOMobile) <a href="https://twitter.com/CREDOMobile/status/1077929284474454016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=RA2fo7FGP8g" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RA2fo7FGP8g" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Last year, Bernie introduced “Stop Bezos” which helped lead to raises for Amazon workers:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://amazon.com/">Amazon</a><span><span> </span>last year raised its starting hourly wage to $15 an hour after Sanders introduced a bill that called on the company to pay its workers a “living wage.” (Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Bernie refuses to take credit for it, noting the change was brought about by the workers:</p> <blockquote> <div> <p>Sanders declined to take responsibility for the change, saying it was the workers who deserved credit for the raises.</p> </div> <div> <p><span>“I think the workers have stood up and fought back,” he told HuffPost. “What we have done is call attention to the fact that it is a disgrace that the wealthiest person in this country and in this world are paying wages so low that workers are forced to go on food stamps and Medicaid.</span></p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><em>Change never comes from the top, it always comes from the bottom on up! </em></strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Walmart workers are sick and tired of being paid poverty wages, while the Walton family is worth over $170 billion. I’m honored to have been invited by Walmart workers to demand they have a seat on the company’s board. &lt;a href="https://t.co/hIYWI3hSbw"&gt;https://t.co/hIYWI3hSbw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1130833256826494981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 21, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Walmart workers are sick and tired of being paid poverty wages, while the Walton family is worth over $170 billion. IÃ¢Â€Â™m honored to have been invited by Walmart workers to demand they have a seat on the companyÃ¢Â€Â™s board. <a href="https://t.co/hIYWI3hSbw">https://t.co/hIYWI3hSbw</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1130833256826494981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p><strong><em></em></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BernieSanders FightFor15 Recommended UnionStrong Walmart _1859264 Tue, 21 May 2019 13:00:36 +0000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders take on Wall St. Greed with the Loan Shark Act (Video) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/9/1856439/-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-and-Bernie-Sanders-to-take-on-Wall-St-Greed-with-new-legislation <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed facebook-embed-responsive center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder facebook dk-embed" href="//www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders/videos/363251157730281/&show_text=0&width=560" data-frameborder="0" data-height="315" data-src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsenatorsanders%2Fvideos%2F363251157730281%2F&show_text=0&width=560" data-width="560">Facebook Content</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders to unveil new legislation today to take on Wall Street greed. <a href="https://medium.com/@SenSanders/senator-bernie-sanders-and-representative-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-plan-to-stop-big-banks-and-1817c205587b" target="_blank">The bill, titled the Loan Shark Act,</a> will cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent. </p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">Today’s loan sharks wear expensive suits and work on Wall Street, where they make hundreds of millions of dollars in total compensation by charging sky-high fees and usurious interest rates,” Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement accompanying the plan.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;There is no reason a person should pay more than 15% interest in the United States.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It’s common sense - in fact, we had these Usury laws until the 70s.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(Max interest rates are record-high for ppl with excellent credit, too.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It’s a debt trap for working people + it has to end. &lt;a href="https://t.co/tYf4J892KQ"&gt;https://t.co/tYf4J892KQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1126499462107607040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 9, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>There is no reason a person should pay more than 15% interest in the United States.<br><br>ItÃ¢Â€Â™s common sense - in fact, we had these Usury laws until the 70s.<br><br>(Max interest rates are record-high for ppl with excellent credit, too.)<br><br>ItÃ¢Â€Â™s a debt trap for working people + it has to end. <a href="https://t.co/tYf4J892KQ">https://t.co/tYf4J892KQ</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1126499462107607040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div id="fLGXKe27GmMlpr"> <div id="article-topper"> <div id="topper-headline-wrapper"> <div> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/09/bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez-want-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-percent/?utm_term=.b39d7585f20f" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent</a></p> </div> <div id="save_pennant_wrapper" style="text-align:right"> <div> <div></div> <p class="AlignLeft is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignLeft"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/09/bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez-want-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-percent/?utm_term=.b39d7585f20f" target="_blank"><em>They have been reaching record levels as the Fed raised key interest rates and the industry prepares for the next recession.</em></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce legislation on Thursday to cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent, a steep reduction from current levels.</p> <p>Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will introduce the House version of the bill.</p> <p>Under the legislation, in addition to an 15 percent federal cap on interest rates, states could establish their own lower limits.</p> <p>The proposal is sure to meet stiff resistance from the banking industry, which brought in $113 billion in interest and fees from credit cards last year, up 35 percent since 2012, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>The new legislation would “effectively put the payday-lending industry out of business, paving the way for postal banking.”</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-bank-legislation/" target="_blank">The bill is called the Loan Shark Prevention Act,</a> and it’s only two pages long. It includes language that would prevent lenders from adding fees to “evade” the interest rate cap and sets penalties for violators, including a forfeiture of all interest on the illegal loans.</span></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><span style="text-align:start">***</span></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">The real consumer savings from the Loan Shark Prevention Act would come from other short-term, small-dollar loans, which in an age of precarious finances at the low end have become commonplace. Payday loans carry annual percentage rates<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/states-with-the-highest-payday-loan-rates.html"><span>as high as 667 percent</span></a><span style="text-align:start">.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AOC&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BernieSanders&lt;/a&gt; team up on new legislation that would effectively put the payday-lending industry out of business, paving way for Postal Banking &lt;a href="https://t.co/OYIilOvYDc"&gt;https://t.co/OYIilOvYDc&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ddayen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@ddayen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1126481287529811968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 9, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> team up on new legislation that would effectively put the payday-lending industry out of business, paving way for Postal Banking <a href="https://t.co/OYIilOvYDc">https://t.co/OYIilOvYDc</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/ddayen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ddayen</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1126481287529811968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><em><span>“I have a radical idea, maybe Congress should stand up for ordinary people.” Bernie Sanders</span></em></h2> <blockquote> <p>The 15 percent cap would be the same as the one Congress imposed on credit unions in 1980, Sanders said. (The National Credit Union Administration, the industry’s regulator, raised that cap to 18 percent in 1987 and has repeatedly renewed it at that higher level.)</p> <p>Credit card rates have recently reached a record high, according to<span> </span><a href="http://creditcards.com/" target="_blank">Creditcards.com</a>, which has been tracking the data since 2007<strong>.<span> </span></strong>The median interest rate was 21.36 percent as of last week compared with 20.24 percent at about this point last year and 12.62 percent about 10 years ago, according to<span> </span><a href="http://creditcards.com/" target="_blank">Creditcards.com</a>, which compiles data from 100 popular cards</p> <p></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"><strong><em><span> </span></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em><span>Americans will pay $122 BILLION in credit card interest this year. Thats the equivalent of every household funneling $1,000 to Wall Street. </span></em></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Rising credit card rates hit those with the lowest credit scores the hardest. “<span>And even small increases in rates can be crippling to a cash strapped borrower, he said. “It is the ultimate slap in the face when you’re already down.”</span></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders/" target="_blank">Watch the conference LIVE TODAY at 12 p ET</a></strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;THURSDAY, MAY 9TH. HIGH NOON. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@SenSanders&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AOC&lt;/a&gt; take on Wall Street Greed. &lt;a href="https://t.co/hf9tVwtoVt"&gt;pic.twitter.com/hf9tVwtoVt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1126309224886165504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 9, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>THURSDAY, MAY 9TH. HIGH NOON. <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSanders</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> take on Wall Street Greed. <a href="https://t.co/hf9tVwtoVt">pic.twitter.com/hf9tVwtoVt</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1126309224886165504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></blockquote></div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez BernieSanders InterestRates LoanSharkAct PaydayLenders Recommended WallStreet _1856439 Thu, 09 May 2019 13:35:28 +0000 UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline Unprecedented. Species Extinction Rates Accelerating. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/6/1855727/-UN-Report-Nature-s-Dangerous-Decline-Unprecedented-Species-Extinction-Rates-Accelerating <p>The most comprehensive report of its kind just released today, the “<span>Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (</span><a href="http://ipbes.net/">IPBES</a><span>) summary,” describes a catastrophic and urgent environmental crisis whereby ecosystems are deteriorating more rapidly than earlier thought. This landmark UN report warns that up to 1 million species are on the verge of extinction.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <h2><a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" target="_blank" title="">Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’<br> Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’</a></h2> <h3><a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" target="_blank" title="">Current global response insufficient;<br> ‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature;<br> Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good</a></h3> <p>“The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a wide range of different fields of knowledge, presents an ominous picture,” said IPBES Chair, Sir Robert Watson. “<strong>The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.”</strong></p> <p>“The Report also tells us that it is not too late to make a difference, but only if we start now at every level from local to global,” he said. “Through ‘transformative change’, nature can still be conserved, restored and used sustainably – this is also key to meeting most other global goals. By transformative change, we mean a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values.”</p> <p>“The member States of IPBES Plenary have now acknowledged that, by its very nature, transformative change can expect opposition from those with interests vested in the status quo, but also that such opposition can be overcome for the broader public good,” Watson said.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Over 1,000,000 species on the planet are facing extinction, says the UN&amp;#39;s first comprehensive report on global biodiversity &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IPBES?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IPBES&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/1JGs0Ee5yh"&gt;pic.twitter.com/1JGs0Ee5yh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1125395458078183427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 6, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Over 1,000,000 species on the planet are facing extinction, says the UN's first comprehensive report on global biodiversity <a href="https://twitter.com/IPBES?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IPBES</a> <a href="https://t.co/1JGs0Ee5yh">pic.twitter.com/1JGs0Ee5yh</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1125395458078183427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>The report is based on thousands of scientific studies and provides the “most exhaustive look yet at the decline in biodiversity across the globe and the dangers that creates for human civilization.”</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html" target="_blank">NYT: <span>Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History’</span></a></strong></p> <p>The 1,500-page report, compiled by hundreds of international experts and based on thousands of scientific studies, is the most exhaustive look yet at the decline in biodiversity across the globe and the dangers that creates for human civilization. A<span> </span><a href="https://www.ipbes.net/" target="_blank">summary of its findings</a>, which was approved by representatives from the United States and 131 other countries, was released Monday in Paris. The full report is set to be published this year.</p> <p>Its conclusions are stark. In most major land habitats, from the savannas of Africa to the rain forests of South America, the average abundance of native plant and animal life has fallen by 20 percent or more, mainly over the past century. With the human population passing 7 billion, activities like farming, logging, poaching, fishing and mining are altering the natural world at a rate “unprecedented in human history.”</p> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p>In most major land habitats, from the savannas of Africa to the rain forests of South America, the average abundance of native plant and animal life has fallen by 20 percent or more, mainly over the past century. With the human population passing 7 billion, activities like farming, logging, poaching, fishing and mining are altering the natural world at a rate “unprecedented in human history.”</p> <p>At the same time, a new threat has emerged: Global warming has become a major driver of wildlife decline,<span> </span>the assessment found, by shifting or shrinking the local climates that many mammals, birds, insects, fish and plants evolved to survive in.</p> </div> </div> <div id="story-ad-1-wrapper" style="text-align:center"> <div id="story-ad-1-slug" style="text-align:center"></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>As the NYT reports, the IPBES Global Assessment is not the first to sound the alarm on the existential threat the climate crisis poses, but “it goes further by detailing how closely human well-being is intertwined with the fate of other species.”</p> <blockquote> <p>“For a long time, people just thought of biodiversity as saving nature for its own sake,” said Robert Watson, chair of the<span> </span><a href="https://www.ipbes.net/" target="_blank">Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,</a>which conducted the assessment at the request of national governments. “But this report makes clear the links between biodiversity and nature and things like food security and clean water in both rich and poor countries.“</p> </blockquote> <p>The IPBES Global Assessment warns that piecemeal efforts are no longer sufficient. The climate crisis is so severe that it demands transformative changes.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" target="_blank">ipbes</a></p> <p>Despite progress to conserve nature and implement policies, the Report also finds that global goals for conserving and sustainably using nature and achieving sustainability cannot be met by current trajectories, and goals for 2030 and beyond may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors. With good progress on components of only four of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, it is likely that most will be missed by the 2020 deadline. Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% (35 out of 44) of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 and 15). Loss of biodiversity is therefore shown to be not only an environmental issue, but also a developmental, economic, security, social and moral issue as well.</p> <p>“To better understand and, more importantly, to address the main causes of damage to biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, we need to understand the history and global interconnection of complex demographic and economic indirect drivers of change, as well as the social values that underpin them,” said Prof. Brondízio. “Key indirect drivers include increased population and per capita consumption; technological innovation, which in some cases has lowered and in other cases increased the damage to nature; and, critically, issues of governance and accountability. A pattern that emerges is one of global interconnectivity and ‘telecoupling’ – with resource extraction and production often occurring in one part of the world to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><em><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2019/05/where-our-new%e2%80%a8-world-begins-green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/" target="_blank">If we are to survive and meet the greatest challenges of our time we must ignore those who deride the idea of transformative change. </a></em></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:left">We find ourselves today in much the same place, confronted by an array of emergencies—seemingly disparate, but in fact closely connected—that threatens to destroy us. Braced against them is a set of ideas put forward in a congressional resolution by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the notorious AOC), a twenty-nine-year-old freshman congresswoman, and her young, ad hoc brain trust. They have put into words the growing convictions of many over the years that we cannot go on the way we have been if we are to survive and continue to keep our liberties. It is altogether fitting and proper that this effort has been named the Green New Deal, for it seeks to draw what worked best from the original New Deal and to learn from its mistakes. How well we do in putting its ideas, goals, and promises into effect will determine what our world will be like for a very long time to come.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Climatechange?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Climatechange&lt;/a&gt; is different because we have an expiration date... My concern is that we are going to be the frog in the pot of boiling water, and we are going to debate and debate and debate... and our kids are doomed." &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActOnClimate?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#ActOnClimate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#GreenNewDeal&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#cdnpoli&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AOC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/6Acw9dLA6H"&gt;pic.twitter.com/6Acw9dLA6H&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1125253939107069953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 6, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Climatechange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Climatechange</a> is different because we have an expiration date... My concern is that we are going to be the frog in the pot of boiling water, and we are going to debate and debate and debate... and our kids are doomed." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActOnClimate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ActOnClimate</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> <a href="https://t.co/6Acw9dLA6H">pic.twitter.com/6Acw9dLA6H</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1125253939107069953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Climate change is here + we’ve got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#GreenNewDeal&lt;/a&gt; is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How did we get here?&lt;br&gt;What is at stake?&lt;br&gt;And where are we going?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please watch &amp;amp; share widely ⬇️&lt;a href="https://t.co/IMCtS86VXG"&gt;pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1118520320653238272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Climate change is here + weÃ¢Â€Â™ve got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half.<br><br>A <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for.<br><br>How did we get here?<br>What is at stake?<br>And where are we going?<br><br>Please watch & share widely Ã¢Â¬Â‡Ã¯Â¸Â<a href="https://t.co/IMCtS86VXG">pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1118520320653238272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasioCortez Climate GreenNewDeal IPBES Recommended speciesextinction _1855727 Mon, 06 May 2019 15:44:09 +0000 Bernie Sanders has a 'campaign machine that's crushing it' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/2/1854861/-Bernie-Sanders-has-a-campaign-machine-that-s-crushing-it <h2><a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-pol-bernie-sanders-campaign-machine-20190501-story.html" target="_blank"><em>Bernie Sanders never had this before: A campaign machine that’s crushing it</em></a></h2> <p>Bernie Sanders continues to be the indisputable frontrunner among the grassroots. Sanders boasts the largest online fundraising numbers, has won the DailyKos straw poll for 6 consecutive times with a gain of over 6,000 more votes in the May 1 poll up from April, and has organized online, thousands of house parties that were held in April. And he’s just getting started. </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/2020-fundraising-numbers-quarter-1/index.html" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders still dominates 2020 fundraising</a></p> <p>WASHINGTON (CNN)<span>Bernie Sanders, a one-time political insurgent, has cemented his role as the fundraising frontrunner of the 2020 Democratic field -- as many of his rivals report pulling in just a fraction of<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/bernie-sanders-18-2-million-raised-first-quarter/index.html" target="_blank">the $18.2 million the Vermont senator collected<span> </span></a><span>during the first 41 days of his presidential campaign.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Bernie has both raised more than any other candidate and beats all other candidates in the number of donors: <span>Biden 97k, Beto: 128k and Bernie: 525,000.</span></p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-fundraising-18-million-2020.html" target="_blank"><span>Bernie Sanders Raised $18 Million in 6 Weeks, His 2020 Campaign Says</span></a></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div></div> </div> <p>Mr. Sanders received almost 900,000 contributions from 525,000 individual donors, his campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, said. The average donation was $20, compared with $27 in Mr. Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, he said.</p> <p>Mr. Shakir said that a majority of Mr. Sanders’s donors were under the age of 39, and that 20 percent of all donors had not contributed to Mr. Sanders’s previous campaigns. He said that 88 percent of the total money raised came from donors giving $200 or less.</p> <p></p> </blockquote> <h2><em><span>'The Bernie campaign has evolved from an unruly movement four years ago into a highly disciplined, highly structured, proactive machine that is the envy of the Washington establishment.'</span></em></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>Bernie’s movement continues to expand but this time, it’s with a campaign machine that is crushing it. With over 1 million supporters who have signed up online, the Bernie campaign has begun organizing activists on the ground in preparation for GOTV efforts. In April, Bernie supporters held 4,700 house parties where <a href="https://app.berniesanders.com/" target="_blank">a minivan GOTV app called BERN</a> was introduced. </span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">The February day<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-bernie-sanders-president-election-20190219-story.html" target="_blank">Sanders launched his 2020 bid</a><span style="text-align:start">, the campaign was prepared when some 4,000 volunteers immediately emerged. Aides put them to work. They sent 1.3 million texts to other potential donors and volunteers. The campaign that limped into California the last time now may be<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sanders-money-20190402-story.html" target="_blank">better equipped there</a><span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>than anyone. There was no Iowa team in place at this point in the 2016 race; Sanders now has among the largest of all the Democratic presidential contenders.</span></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">The scale and organization of what Sanders and his aides have built was on display over the weekend as the campaign mustered its resources to pull off a project none of its rivals would be able to match: Activists coming together at 4,700 house parties, with gatherings in every state and 30 countries.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Bernie’s staying power certainly is not in question having the most diverse base of any candidate coupled with an increasing number of new supporters, up from 2016 and still growing. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Via the Emerson 2020 Democratic primary poll released yesterday:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- 53% (55/103) of Bernie Sanders supporters were black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Asian&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-46% (39/85) for Biden&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-45% (13/29) for Beto&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-44% (12/27) for Harris&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-33% (8/24) for Warren&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-19% (6/32) for Buttigieg &lt;a href="https://t.co/Mcmx3wkmBY"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Mcmx3wkmBY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jonathan Walczak (@jonwalczak) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalczak/status/1118134538423631872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 16, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Via the Emerson 2020 Democratic primary poll released yesterday:<br><br>- 53% (55/103) of Bernie Sanders supporters were black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Asian<br><br>-46% (39/85) for Biden<br><br>-45% (13/29) for Beto<br><br>-44% (12/27) for Harris<br><br>-33% (8/24) for Warren<br><br>-19% (6/32) for Buttigieg <a href="https://t.co/Mcmx3wkmBY">pic.twitter.com/Mcmx3wkmBY</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jonathan Walczak (@jonwalczak) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalczak/status/1118134538423631872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2 class="AlignCenter"><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bernie20?refcode=thermometer" target="_blank">Donate to Bernie Sanders for President!</a></h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="ScreenShot2019-05-02at1.18.25PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/671718/large/ScreenShot2019-05-02at1.18.25PM.png?1556817557" title="ScreenShot2019-05-02at1.18.25PM.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <h2 class="AlignCenter"><em>We’re gonna win!</em></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The Senator’s plan to win hinges on a massive mobilization effort jump started by thousands of house parties across the country and a new app to connect volunteers and voters. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernie2020?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Bernie2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://t.co/ecR4gMBAgh"&gt;https://t.co/ecR4gMBAgh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kerry Born (@BornKerry) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BornKerry/status/1123803827193380869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The SenatorÃ¢Â€Â™s plan to win hinges on a massive mobilization effort jump started by thousands of house parties across the country and a new app to connect volunteers and voters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernie2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bernie2020</a><a href="https://t.co/ecR4gMBAgh">https://t.co/ecR4gMBAgh</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kerry Born (@BornKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/BornKerry/status/1123803827193380869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2 class="AlignCenter"><a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/" target="_blank" title="">Bernie on the Issues</a></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=2gptYV-JtpQ" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2gptYV-JtpQ" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) bern BernieSanders Democraticpresidentialprimary OrganizeWithBernie Recommended _1854861 Thu, 02 May 2019 17:27:43 +0000 Over 70 Civil Rights groups urge Democratic candidates to support voting rights for the incarcerated https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/5/1/1854523/-Over-70-Civil-Rights-groups-urge-Democratic-candidates-to-support-voting-rights-for-the-incarcerated <h2><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil-rights-groups-felon-disenfranchisement_n_5cc8595de4b05379114b490b?fcq" target="_blank"><em><span>Felony disenfranchisement is not just anti-democratic and bad for public safety, it is an unpopular practice that sprang from the most shameful era of American history.</span></em></a></h2> <p><em>Revoking the right to vote from those who are incarcerated remains a vestige of Jim Crow. </em></p> <p>A mechanism to suppress the vote of black and brown citizens, revoking the right to vote of prisoners remains a deeply racist and flawed tactic. One need only consider the case where <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/new-york-school-bus-driver-no-jail-time-rape/3622221002/" target="_blank" title="">a white convicted rapist who will not serve jail time will retain his right </a><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/new-york-school-bus-driver-no-jail-time-rape/3622221002/" target="_blank" title="">to vote (like the many violent offenders who do not get jail time) </a>while millions who are incarcerated for minor drug offenses are stripped of their right to vote. </p> <p>The issue has emerged as part of the Democratic primary discussion when a student at a town hall asked Bernie Sanders if he supports the right to vote to extend to prisoners. Bernie is on the side of the civil rights advocates; he believes prisoners should retain their right to vote. </p> <p>In response to this and to push the issue further into the national discourse, over 70 civil rights group have written an open letter to Democratic presidential candidates urging them to support the right to vote extend to<em> all citizens</em>, even those incarcerated. </p> <p><em><strong><span>Seventy-three groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, Center on Race and Inequality NYU, Harvard Law School National Lawyers Guild, Racial Justice Action Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Greenpeace signed the letter. </span></strong></em></p> <blockquote> <p><span><strong>More than 70 civil rights and advocacy groups are urging candidates seeking the presidency to allow people to vote while they are incarcerated, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5983400-Open-Letter-to-Presidential-Candidates-on-Voting.html" target="_blank">signing an open letter</a> on Tuesday </strong>to push an issue </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2020-democratic-candidates-felon-disenfranchisement_n_5cc32661e4b0fd8e35bbd061"><span>already dividing the Democratic field</span></a><span>. </span></p> <div> <p><span>Only Sen. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/bernie-sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-Vt.) has said people incarcerated should be able to vote. He is the only 2020 presidential candidate so far to take that stance.</span></p> </div> <div> <p>Democratic Sens. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/elizabeth-warren">Elizabeth Warren</a> (Mass.) and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> (Calif.) both have indicated they’re open to the idea, but want to focus on restoring voting rights to people after they’re released from prison. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politics/beto-orourke-prison-voting/index.html">said last week</a> they are open to allowing nonviolent felons to vote in prison. Almost all of the other candidates seeking the Democratic nomination say they support restoring voting rights <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2020-democrats-felon-disenfranchisement_n_5cae58dde4b09a1eabf75616" target="_blank">once someone either</a> is released from prison or completes his or her criminal sentence.</p> </div> <div> <p><span>Seventy-three groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Greenpeace signed the letter. </span><span>The longstanding practice of banning people convicted of felonies from voting in the United States is “as senseless as it is cruel,” the groups wrote. <strong>They say the practice is tinged with racism and that many felon disenfranchisement laws were drafted <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/24/the-race-infused-history-of-why-felons-arent-allowed-to-vote-in-a-dozen-states/?utm_term=.80a019d9277b" target="_blank">in the Jim Crow south</a> as a way to keep African American men from voting after they gained the right to vote.</strong> </span></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Bernie Sanders is the first and so far only candidate who supports the right to vote for all citizens but Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris have expressed they are open to the idea. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again: Every American citizen should have the right to vote, even if they are in jail. &lt;a href="https://t.co/xyTA5wyYzU"&gt;pic.twitter.com/xyTA5wyYzU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121496704614899712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 25, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I've been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again: Every American citizen should have the right to vote, even if they are in jail. <a href="https://t.co/xyTA5wyYzU">pic.twitter.com/xyTA5wyYzU</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121496704614899712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Vermont, Maine, Puerto Rico and over 30 countries do not strip the right to vote from those incarcerated. </h2> <blockquote> <p>This growing movement against felony disenfranchisement is a promising endorsement of American values, but it raises a key question: Why disenfranchise people in prison to begin with? Why not let them continue to vote while they are incarcerated?</p> <p>Throughout Europe, people in prison retain their right to vote while incarcerated. Unlike most American states, these 28 countries have enacted various measures to ensure that incarcerated people remain fully engaged in society. People who are incarcerated in Germany, for example, not only vote, but earn wages on par with the rest of the workforce. They have the right to be incarcerated near their families, and, upon release, have access to a “network of rights meant to promote their integration with and membership inGerman society.”</p> <p>In Europe, mandatory and permanent disenfranchisement is as unusual as it is anti-democratic. America, too, can honor every citizen’s right to vote and still flourish. Maine, Vermont, and Puerto Rico treat the right to vote as a bedrock democratic principle for all citizens, including those in prison. Advocates, people in prison, and even corrections officials say voting allows incarcerated people to maintain a sense of connection to the community and society at large, which in turn helps prepare them for life after prison. Protecting every American’s right to vote isn’t only popular, it’s also endorsed by those with the most intimate knowledge of our criminal legal system.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Any cursory glance at history makes clear that one of the central functions of mass incarceration is that it serves as another insidious tool of voter suppression. This isn’t a matter of opinion, the people who built this system named it outright.&lt;/p&gt;— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1120704512459714560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 23, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Any cursory glance at history makes clear that one of the central functions of mass incarceration is that it serves as another insidious tool of voter suppression. This isnÃ¢Â€Â™t a matter of opinion, the people who built this system named it outright.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1120704512459714560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <h2><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5983400-Open-Letter-to-Presidential-Candidates-on-Voting.html" target="_blank">OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON VOTING RIGHTS</a></h2> <blockquote> <p>Dear Presidential Candidates:</p> <p>When Brianna Ross was 19, she was convicted of a felony for stealing diapers for her son. At hers entencing hearing, a judge told Ross that she'd face a lifelong punishment for her mistake: She would never be allowed to vote. Ross said she was made to feel "empty and unimportant" for decades, as she was forced to sit on the sidelines of democracy. But her fortune finally changed in 2016, when VirginiaGov. Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to Ross and more than 150,000 formerly incarceratedVirginians. A year later, at age 53, Ross participated in her first election, where she says she finally had the opportunity to say, "I count.</p> <p><strong>”The right to vote is a fundamental component of American citizenship. Yet millions of Americans have been stripped of this right and made to feel like second-class citizens because of laws that exclude people from voting due to a criminal conviction.</strong> An estimated 6.1 million American citizens with felony convictions were barred from voting in the 2016 presidential election alone, a race that was decided by just 79,316 votes. In short, felony disenfranchisement is not just anti-democratic and bad for public safety, it is an unpopular practice that sprang from the most shameful era of American history, a vestige of our past wildly out of step with international norms. And now is the moment for its abandonment.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The truth is that our country has had a long and shameful history of voter suppression. This should not devolve into a debate about whether certain people are “good enough” to have the right to vote. Voting is not a privilege. It is a right. &lt;a href="https://t.co/x7gvokiMqk"&gt;https://t.co/x7gvokiMqk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1123573995801120768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;May 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The truth is that our country has had a long and shameful history of voter suppression. This should not devolve into a debate about whether certain people are Ã¢Â€Âœgood enoughÃ¢Â€Â to have the right to vote. Voting is not a privilege. It is a right. <a href="https://t.co/x7gvokiMqk">https://t.co/x7gvokiMqk</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1123573995801120768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BernieSanders ElizabethWarren felondisenfranchisement JimCrow KamalaHarris MassIncarceration Racism Recommended righttovote VoterSuppression _1854523 Wed, 01 May 2019 13:35:25 +0000 Hero Ady Barkan testifies before Congress for Medicare For All: My health care costs $9000 per month https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/30/1854301/-Hero-Ady-Barkan-testifies-before-Congress-for-Medicare-For-All-My-health-care-costs-9000-per-month <div> <p>Health advocate and hero, Ady Barkan, testified today before Congress using a synthetic voice as he is no longer able to speak due to advanced ALS. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;⁦&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AdyBarkan&lt;/a&gt;⁩ testifies before Congress: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#MedicareForAll&lt;/a&gt; will save enormous amounts of money. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We will no longer delay care until it’s too late and expensive. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeaHero?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BeaHero&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/N5pXej2MfR"&gt;pic.twitter.com/N5pXej2MfR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— 🔥BERNforBernie2020🔥 (@BernForBernie20) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernForBernie20/status/1123236791576866817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 30, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã¢ÂÂ¦<a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdyBarkan</a>Ã¢ÂÂ© testifies before Congress: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MedicareForAll</a> will save enormous amounts of money. <br><br>We will no longer delay care until itÃ¢Â€Â™s too late and expensive. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeaHero?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeaHero</a> <a href="https://t.co/N5pXej2MfR">pic.twitter.com/N5pXej2MfR</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ã°ÂŸÂ”Â¥BERNforBernie2020Ã°ÂŸÂ”Â¥ (@BernForBernie20) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernForBernie20/status/1123236791576866817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <h2></h2> <h2><em><strong><span><span> “</span>It [Medicare for All] means that we can finally start to eliminate the atrocious racial and economic disparities that destroy so many lives, that rob our communities of so much dignity, that strip us all of our common humanity.”</span></strong></em></h2> <blockquote> <p><strong><span> </span><a href="https://medium.com/@beahero/ady-barkans-testimony-on-medicare-for-all-submitted-to-the-house-committee-on-rules-april-30-acf98a381894" target="_blank">I am here today to urge you to enact Medicare For All.</a> </strong></p> <p>[Read his full testimony at link]</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>First, Medicare For All will deliver to everyone living in America the high quality care that we deserve. The law will provide comprehensive care, including primary and hospital care, dental, vision, reproductive, and mental health care. We will all be allowed to see the doctors and specialists we want. And, crucially, the program will provide for long-term services and supports that will allow people like me to stay in our homes and communities, with the people we love. This will dramatically improve life for the tens of millions of people whose families include older or disabled people.</p> <p>Second, Medicare For All will save the American people enormous sums of money. Under the program, there will be no premiums, no deductibles, and no copays. That means that we will no longer need to choose between paying the rent and filling a prescription. It means we will no longer delay necessary care until it is tragically late and tragically expensive. It means that we won’t have to worry every year when our employer announces the new rates. It means that we can finally start to eliminate the atrocious racial and economic disparities that destroy so many lives, that rob our communities of so much dignity, that strip us all of our common humanity.</p> </blockquote> <h2><em><strong>It is very important to emphasize the following point: these cost savings are only possible through a genuine Medicare For All system.</strong></em></h2> <blockquote> <p><span>Any proposal that maintains financial barriers to care — any proposal that continues to charge patients exhorbitant copays, deductibles, and premiums — will necessarily leave people out. Any proposal that maintains the for-profit health insurance system will require that some people don’t get the healthcare they need. Without the generous support of my family and friends, this would include me.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;“...we are cobbling together the money, from friends &amp;amp; family &amp;amp; supporters...But this is an absurd way to run a healthcare system. GoFundMe is a terrible substitute for smart Congressional action.”&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AdyBarkan&lt;/a&gt; moving mountains for all of us to advance &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareforAll?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#MedicareforAll&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeAHero?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BeAHero&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/lkatPUNvnY"&gt;pic.twitter.com/lkatPUNvnY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Daniel Altschuler 🦋 (@altochulo) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/altochulo/status/1123234171437056000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 30, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã¢Â€Âœ...we are cobbling together the money, from friends & family & supporters...But this is an absurd way to run a healthcare system. GoFundMe is a terrible substitute for smart Congressional action.Ã¢Â€Â<a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdyBarkan</a> moving mountains for all of us to advance <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareforAll?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MedicareforAll</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeAHero?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeAHero</a> <a href="https://t.co/lkatPUNvnY">pic.twitter.com/lkatPUNvnY</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Daniel Altschuler Ã°ÂŸÂ¦Â‹ (@altochulo) <a href="https://twitter.com/altochulo/status/1123234171437056000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Chairman McGovern recognizes &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AdyBarkan&lt;/a&gt;, who "quite literally put his life on line to join the hearing" today. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That is how important &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#MedicareForAll&lt;/a&gt; is for our country. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeAHero?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BeAHero&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/KuxKsUrTsF"&gt;pic.twitter.com/KuxKsUrTsF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kumar Rao (@KumarRaoNYC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KumarRaoNYC/status/1123230421251166208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 30, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Chairman McGovern recognizes <a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdyBarkan</a>, who "quite literally put his life on line to join the hearing" today. <br><br>That is how important <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MedicareForAll</a> is for our country. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeAHero?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeAHero</a> <a href="https://t.co/KuxKsUrTsF">pic.twitter.com/KuxKsUrTsF</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kumar Rao (@KumarRaoNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KumarRaoNYC/status/1123230421251166208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>FULL TESTIMONY:</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Take 10 minutes to watch &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AdyBarkan&lt;/a&gt;’s testimony for &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Medicare4All?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Medicare4All&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://t.co/UXAhX0YCxh"&gt;pic.twitter.com/UXAhX0YCxh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Amanda DoAmaral (@AmandaDoAmanda) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaDoAmanda/status/1123248659334946816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 30, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Take 10 minutes to watch <a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdyBarkan</a>Ã¢Â€Â™s testimony for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Medicare4All?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Medicare4All</a>. <a href="https://t.co/UXAhX0YCxh">pic.twitter.com/UXAhX0YCxh</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Amanda DoAmaral (@AmandaDoAmanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaDoAmanda/status/1123248659334946816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <h2 class="AlignCenter"><a href="https://www.beaherofund.com/" target="_blank" title="">Be a hero</a></h2> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AdyBarkan BeAHero healthcareisahumanright MedicareForAll Recommended _1854301 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:16:40 +0000 Labor Leader Chuck Jones who took Trump to task endorses Bernie Sanders https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/29/1854155/-Labor-Leader-Chuck-Jones-who-took-Trump-to-task-endorses-Bernie-Sanders <p>Chuck Jones, labor leader who was attacked by Trump when Jones called him a liar, has endorsed Bernie Sanders. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Chuck Jones, the labor leader that got into a Twitter war with President Trump early in his presidency, has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and is organizing an effort called Labor for Bernie &lt;a href="https://t.co/2mEIXOlrde"&gt;pic.twitter.com/2mEIXOlrde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1122977019959099397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 29, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Chuck Jones, the labor leader that got into a Twitter war with President Trump early in his presidency, has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and is organizing an effort called Labor for Bernie <a href="https://t.co/2mEIXOlrde">pic.twitter.com/2mEIXOlrde</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1122977019959099397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>Jones, a union leader in Indianapolis, represents the Carrier workers whose jobs Donald Trump has pledged to save. He said the sudden attention from the country’s next leader didn’t feel real.</p> <p>--</p> <p><span><strong>Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999, told The Post on Tuesday that he believed Trump had lied to the Carrier workers last week when he visited the Indianapolis plant</strong>.<span> </span></span><span>On a makeshift stage in a conference room, Trump had applauded United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, for cutting a deal with him and agreeing to keep 1,100 jobs that were slated to move to Mexico in America’s heartland.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Trump responded in his typical fashion, he attacked Jones on twitter:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806660011904614408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 8, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806660011904614408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2016</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806678853305384960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 8, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806678853305384960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2016</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Mr. Trump should not be attacking strong union leaders like Chuck Jones. Trade unions have helped build the middle class of this country.&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/806881910605680640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 8, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Mr. Trump should not be attacking strong union leaders like Chuck Jones. Trade unions have helped build the middle class of this country.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/806881910605680640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2016</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Trump had promised the workers of Carrier he would save their jobs. Of course, that’s not what happened. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;A year after Trump promised to save jobs at Carrier, workers at the plant are still losing their jobs to offshoring. Chuck Jones, the former president of United Steelworkers 1999, says that workers feel "betrayed". &lt;a href="https://t.co/M9UmuJS82y"&gt;https://t.co/M9UmuJS82y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/936569321093873664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;December 1, 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>A year after Trump promised to save jobs at Carrier, workers at the plant are still losing their jobs to offshoring. Chuck Jones, the former president of United Steelworkers 1999, says that workers feel "betrayed". <a href="https://t.co/M9UmuJS82y">https://t.co/M9UmuJS82y</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/936569321093873664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2017</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>At the Carrier plant on the west side of Indianapolis, we’re coming up on a bitter anniversary. One year ago this week, President-elect Donald Trump<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/01/bernie-sanders-carrier-just-showed-corporations-how-to-beat-donald-trump/?utm_term=.467be909d89e">stood before hundreds of cheering workers</a><span> </span>and declared that he had saved our jobs from moving to Mexico. It was a symbolic moment that cemented Trump’s campaign image as a working-class champion — a blue-collar billionaire who would stand with workers, not CEOs.</p> <p>I have been a worker at the Rexnord plant in Indianapolis for 48 years, and president of United Steel Workers Local 1999 for more than 30. As the leader of the union representing the Carrier workers, I was part of the negotiations with the company regarding the coming layoffs when Trump intervened. Standing in front of the president-elect at Carrier during Trump’s first victory rally after the 2016 election, I realized that he was delivering a powerful message of hope not only to Carrier workers, but also to all working people in America: You finally have a president who will fight for the interests of ordinary workers, Trump seemed to say.</p> <p style="text-align:start">A year later, <strong>we feel betrayed.<span> </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/08/more-layoffs-planned-at-carrier-plant-trump-promised-to-save.html">Carrier has announced</a><span> </span>that more than 600 workers are being laid off, </strong>with the last line scheduled to work their final shift right after the holidays.</p> <p style="text-align:start">The workers at Carrier aren’t the only ones who feel victimized by Trump’s false promises. United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, is laying off another 700 workers right up the road from the Carrier plant in Huntington. And Rexnord, another plant in Indianapolis, just closed its doors, too. Workers at both plants hoped that Trump would come to the rescue, but he never showed up.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Bm-vBZyD83k" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Bm-vBZyD83k" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>Bernie has a long history of fighting for workers’ rights and he’s taking the fight straight to Trump.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Today I am calling on Donald Trump and all presidential candidates to support a trade policy that protects jobs and guarantees living wages for American workers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We need a president who will actually fight for American workers and stand up to corporations who outsource jobs. &lt;a href="https://t.co/6P60VJoLan"&gt;https://t.co/6P60VJoLan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1122950661665120261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 29, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Today I am calling on Donald Trump and all presidential candidates to support a trade policy that protects jobs and guarantees living wages for American workers.<br><br>We need a president who will actually fight for American workers and stand up to corporations who outsource jobs. <a href="https://t.co/6P60VJoLan">https://t.co/6P60VJoLan</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1122950661665120261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="ScreenShot2019-04-29at6.10.24PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/670623/large/ScreenShot2019-04-29at6.10.24PM.png?1556575880" title="ScreenShot2019-04-29at6.10.24PM.png"> <figcaption><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bernie20#social">CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO BERNIE FOR PRESIDENT!</a></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://laborforbernie2020.org/" target="_blank">LaborForBernie</a></strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BernieSanders ChuckJones FightFor15 laborforbernie LaborUnions Recommended UnionStrong WorkersRights _1854155 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:49:53 +0000 Bernie Sanders: Every American citizen should have the right to vote https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/26/1853529/-Bernie-Sanders-Every-American-citizen-should-have-the-right-to-vote <h2><span>⁦</span><a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders"><s>@</s><strong>BernieSanders</strong></a><span>⁩: Every American citizen because of their *citizenship* has a right to vote even if they are in jail. </span></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again: Every American citizen should have the right to vote, even if they are in jail. &lt;a href="https://t.co/xyTA5wyYzU"&gt;pic.twitter.com/xyTA5wyYzU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121496704614899712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 25, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I've been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again: Every American citizen should have the right to vote, even if they are in jail. <a href="https://t.co/xyTA5wyYzU">pic.twitter.com/xyTA5wyYzU</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121496704614899712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Bernie Sanders has a strong record advocating for voting rights. He supports automatic voter registration at the age of 18, voted for the Voting Rights Act and he supports the right to vote for all citizens, even those in jail or prison, as is legal in Vermont, Maine and Puerto Rico.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"One of the things I love most about Bernie is Bernie will tell you how he feels regardless of what the polls say... And Bernie believes in the right to vote." -&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@shaunking&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/pxQE31aHVu"&gt;pic.twitter.com/pxQE31aHVu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121955875105624069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"One of the things I love most about Bernie is Bernie will tell you how he feels regardless of what the polls say... And Bernie believes in the right to vote." -<a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shaunking</a> <a href="https://t.co/pxQE31aHVu">pic.twitter.com/pxQE31aHVu</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1121955875105624069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>This is celly. That’s a tool.</em></p> <p>Mass incarceration has long been used as a racist tool to suppress the vote of black and brown Americans. It is one of the most shameful manifestations of institutionalized racism and the time to correct it is long overdue. As is legal in Vermont, Maine and Puerto Rico, all states should follow suit and allow those in jail or prison to vote. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Any cursory glance at history makes clear that one of the central functions of mass incarceration is that it serves as another insidious tool of voter suppression. This isn’t a matter of opinion, the people who built this system named it outright.&lt;/p&gt;— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1120704512459714560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 23, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Any cursory glance at history makes clear that one of the central functions of mass incarceration is that it serves as another insidious tool of voter suppression. This isnÃ¢Â€Â™t a matter of opinion, the people who built this system named it outright.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1120704512459714560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;To avoid looking completely + utterly out of touch w/ the reality our prison system:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Instead of asking, “Should the Boston Bomber have the right to vote?”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Try, “Should a nonviolent person stopped w/ a dime bag LOSE the right to vote?”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bc that question reflects WAY more people.&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1121421715324772354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 25, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>To avoid looking completely + utterly out of touch w/ the reality our prison system:<br><br>Instead of asking, Ã¢Â€ÂœShould the Boston Bomber have the right to vote?Ã¢Â€Â<br><br>Try, Ã¢Â€ÂœShould a nonviolent person stopped w/ a dime bag LOSE the right to vote?Ã¢Â€Â<br><br>Bc that question reflects WAY more people.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1121421715324772354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/prisoners-convicts-felons-inmates-right-to-vote-enfranchise-criminal-justice-voting-rights-213979" target="_blank"><span>Why Prisoners Deserve the Right to Vote</span></a></strong></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/prisoners-convicts-felons-inmates-right-to-vote-enfranchise-criminal-justice-voting-rights-213979" target="_blank">Giving inmates the vote isn’t just constitutionally the right thing to do, it could also help the country solve one of its most intractable problems.</a></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://eji.org/news/race-voting-and-a-gaping-loophole-a-critical-look-at-the-14th-amendment" target="_blank" title=""><strong>Race, Voting, and a Gaping Loophole: A Critical Look at the 14th Amendment</strong></a></p> <p><span>Louisiana and Alabama today remain legal and political battlegrounds. The once-controversial question of "Negro suffrage" has given way to debates over the electoral fitness of people with criminal convictions, but the racial results are still striking: 2.2 million black Americans are disenfranchised – that is one in 13, and four times the rate of all other racial groups combined. In 23 states, including Louisiana and Alabama, at least 5 percent of black voting-age residents are banned from the ballot box.</span></p> </blockquote> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p><a href="https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/without-representation-prison-based-gerrymandering-and-felony-disenfranchisement-375bc0366434" target="_blank"><strong>Without Representation:<span> </span></strong>Prison-based Gerrymandering and Felony Disenfranchisement</a></p> </div> </div> <h2><em>If you are an American citizen of at least 18 years old, you should have the inalienable right to vote. This is America.</em></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VYOjWnS4cMY" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>America, I just checked my following list and you motherfuckers owe me...</em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BernieSanders felondisenfranchisement InstitutionalizedRacism MassIncarceration Recommended VoterSuppression VotingRights _1853529 Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:00:41 +0000 Bernie Fox Town hall ratings crazy high! More Democrats to follow. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/17/1851075/-Bernie-Fox-Town-hall-ratings-crazy-high-More-Democrats-to-follow <p>Bernie’s recently aired Fox town hall ratings are through the roof! In fact, the town hall ratings bested all 2020 presidential candidate town halls held thus far:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-fox-news-town-hall-was-a-ratings-smash-as-pete-buttigieg-and-other-democrats-consider-one/" target="_blank">Bernie’s Fox News Town Hall Was a Ratings Smash. </a></strong></p> <p>According to early Nielsen data, more than 2.5 million viewers tuned in to hear<span> </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-2020-fundraising-haul-dollar182-million-raised-in-first-quarter">Sanders</a>, a self-described “democratic socialist,” make his case on Fox News during the 6:30pm hour, prior to primetime. That total viewership bested CNN’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-brings-a-gun-to-a-democratic-primary-knife-fight">Bernie Sanders</a><span> </span>town hall event from back in February; and it doubled MSNBC’s during the same time period on Monday evening, and nearly tripled CNN’s.</p> <p>The prior town hall ratings record for the 2020 cycle was a CNN-hosted event with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), which drew<span> </span><a href="http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2019/01/29/cnns-town-hall-with-sen-kamala-harris-was-most-watched-cable-news-single-candidate-town-hall-ever/">1.95 million</a> total viewers.</p> <p>Additionally, per Nielsen, Fox’s Sanders event brought in 489,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54—a key demographic for cable-news advertisers—trouncing CNN’s 281,000 tally and MSNBC’s 208,000.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Reaching out to voters in red districts and swing voter areas is part of any good Democratic strategy and other Democrats are following Bernie’s lead. Presidential candidate Amy Kloubachar (D-MN) has already scheduled a Fox town hall. Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) and <span>Julián Castro are</span> currently in talks with Fox regarding a town hall. Gillibrand and Booker are open to the idea:</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/fox-news-democrats-2020.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank"><span>2020 Democrats Seek Voters in an Unusual Spot: Fox News</span></a></p> <p><span>On Wednesday, Senator Amy<strong> </strong>Klobuchar of Minnesota<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-to-host-town-hall-with-sen-amy-klobuchar" target="_blank">said she had agreed</a><span><span> </span>to a Fox News town hall next month. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., is in advanced talks with the network. Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, is close to signing on, and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey say they are open to the idea.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1118322885418987521" target="_blank">Bernie’s town hall was hugely successful and clearly got under Trump’s skin who posted three angry tweets about the town hall. </a></strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-aides-keep-an-eye-on-fox-news-make-sure-it-stays-loyal-to-me?ref=home" target="_blank">Trump has a history of deep paranoia about what he considers his media outlet and freaks out any time he feels they’ve betrayed him. This time was no exception.</a></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Trump validating Bernie’s decision to go on Fox by showing that it clearly is messing with his head.&lt;/p&gt;— Sam Stein (@samstein) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1118319475063967745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump validating BernieÃ¢Â€Â™s decision to go on Fox by showing that it clearly is messing with his head.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Sam Stein (@samstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1118319475063967745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>What better way to scare Trump than to go straight to his voters and tell them the truth:</strong> Trump is a pathological liar who has not and will not deliver on his promises. And that’s precisely what Bernie Sanders did.</p> <h2 class="AlignCenter">Bernie on Fox: “Trump is a pathological liar.”</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Bernie Sanders at a Fox News town hall: "Whether you&amp;#39;re conservative or moderate or progressive, I don&amp;#39;t think the American people are proud that we have a president who is a pathological liar...Trump cannot even tell the truth as to where his father was born." &lt;a href="https://t.co/bLyTbxSJVz"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bLyTbxSJVz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Axios (@axios) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/axios/status/1117923976758669312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 15, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bernie Sanders at a Fox News town hall: "Whether you're conservative or moderate or progressive, I don't think the American people are proud that we have a president who is a pathological liar...Trump cannot even tell the truth as to where his father was born." <a href="https://t.co/bLyTbxSJVz">pic.twitter.com/bLyTbxSJVz</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Axios (@axios) <a href="https://twitter.com/axios/status/1117923976758669312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em><strong><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fox-news-bernie-sanders-town-hall-823303/" target="_blank">The president’s favorite network treated viewers to a rare dose of common sense on Monday night</a></strong></em></p> <h2>On Fox, ‘Bernie attacked Trump’s medicare plans----uninterrupted. Not sure I’ve ever seen that happen.’ </h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Bernie Sanders spent more than 2 minutes of his Fox News town hall to defend Medicare for All and attack Trump’s Medicare plans — uninterrupted. Not sure I’ve seen that happen on Fox News before. &lt;a href="https://t.co/kuONJdbcB3"&gt;pic.twitter.com/kuONJdbcB3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1117970303890620421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 16, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bernie Sanders spent more than 2 minutes of his Fox News town hall to defend Medicare for All and attack TrumpÃ¢Â€Â™s Medicare plans Ã¢Â€Â” uninterrupted. Not sure IÃ¢Â€Â™ve seen that happen on Fox News before. <a href="https://t.co/kuONJdbcB3">pic.twitter.com/kuONJdbcB3</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1117970303890620421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Looks like President Trump is scared of our campaign. He should be.&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1118328486916165633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Looks like President Trump is scared of our campaign. He should be.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1118328486916165633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AmyKlobuchar BernieSanders CoryBooker FoxTownhall JulinCastro KirstenGillibrand PeteButtigieg Recommended _1851075 Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:39:35 +0000 Trump attacks Congresswoman Ilhan Omar using 9-11 footage. Despicable. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/12/1849905/-Trump-attacks-Congresswoman-Ilhan-Omar-using-9-11-footage-Despicable <p>Trump has joined in the outrageous attacks against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar putting her in great danger. </p> <blockquote> <div> <p>President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> tweeted a video Friday fanning the flames of the recent right-wing uproar over comments Rep. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ilhan-omar" target="_blank">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-Minn.) made about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p> </div> <div> <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ilhan-omar-attack-video_n_5cb109a5e4b082aab085d1d8" target="_blank">“WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” Trump tweeted with the video, which alternates between an out-of-context remark Omar made during a speech last month and footage of the terrorist attacks,</a> an attempt to characterize her as dismissive of the tragedy.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;WE WILL NEVER FORGET! &lt;a href="https://t.co/VxrGFRFeJM"&gt;pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>WE WILL NEVER FORGET! <a href="https://t.co/VxrGFRFeJM">pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span>The video Trump posted includes footage of the planes crashing into the towers despite broadcast networks moving away from showing that specific imagery in recent years. </span><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-changing-mental-health/" target="_blank">Research</a><span> has shown that just watching footage of the Sept. 11 attacks can be enough to trigger clinically diagnosable stress responses in people, even those who were nowhere near the attacks when they happened. </span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Trump joins a chorus of conservative media </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-omar-9-11-comments_n_5caf4801e4b0308735d5f1df" target="_blank">voices</a><span> that have tried to paint Omar saying “some people did something” during that speech as being flippant about Sept. 11. In reality, Omar was speaking about why the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) ramped up its efforts to combat </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post-911-islamophobia_n_57d075dfe4b0a48094a75bc1" target="_blank">Islamophobia in the wake of the attacks</a><span>.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This is ugly &lt;a href="https://t.co/R2XVyS4dq8"&gt;pic.twitter.com/R2XVyS4dq8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/1116313105884172289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This is ugly <a href="https://t.co/R2XVyS4dq8">pic.twitter.com/R2XVyS4dq8</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) <a href="https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/1116313105884172289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Just last week, a man was arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/06/ilhan-omar-death-threat-man-arrested-contact-details?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank">A western New York man has been charged with threatening to kill US representative<span> </span></a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ilhan-omar">Ilhan Omar</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/06/ilhan-omar-death-threat-man-arrested-contact-details?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank"><span> </span>of Minnesota, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.</a></p> <p>Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that Patrick Carlineo Jr was arrested after placing a threatening call to Omar’s office in Washington DC last month.</p> <p>The FBI said in a criminal complaint Carlineo called Omar a “terrorist” and threatened to shoot her. The bureau also said Carlineo sounded angry during the call but “spelled his name correctly and provided contact information” to a staffer.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>While some remain silent, a number of Democrats are not afraid to <em>say her name</em> and stand up for Rep. Ilhan Omar. </strong></p> <h2><strong>This is what solidarity looks like: </strong></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It&amp;#39;s disgusting. It&amp;#39;s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.&lt;/p&gt;— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1116859387199533057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The President is inciting violence against a sitting CongresswomanÃ¢Â€Â”and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It's disgusting. It's shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1116859387199533057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won&amp;#39;t back down to Trump&amp;#39;s racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1116855482038272000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1116855482038272000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Enough is enough. No more silence, with NY Post and now Trump taking Ilhan’s words out of context to incite violence toward her, it’s time for more Dems to speak up. Clearly the GOP is fine with this shameful stunt, but we cannot stand by.&lt;/p&gt;— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1116832719185567745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Enough is enough. No more silence, with NY Post and now Trump taking IlhanÃ¢Â€Â™s words out of context to incite violence toward her, itÃ¢Â€Â™s time for more Dems to speak up. Clearly the GOP is fine with this shameful stunt, but we cannot stand by.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1116832719185567745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;President Trump&amp;#39;s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric towards Ilhan Omar is jeopardizing her safety. He is deliberately putting her and all Muslim Americans in harm&amp;#39;s way.&lt;/p&gt;— Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JayInslee/status/1116864067082133504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>President Trump's inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric towards Ilhan Omar is jeopardizing her safety. He is deliberately putting her and all Muslim Americans in harm's way.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) <a href="https://twitter.com/JayInslee/status/1116864067082133504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The threats against the life of &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt; make clear what is at stake if we fail to to do this, and to beat back hate in all all its forms.&lt;/p&gt;— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1116905331219685376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The threats against the life of <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> make clear what is at stake if we fail to to do this, and to beat back hate in all all its forms.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1116905331219685376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;How low we have sunk as a country for the president to weaponize terrorism purely for political purposes against ⁦&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt;⁩, the first of two Muslim Congresswomen. It is so dangerous--to her life and to our country. &lt;a href="https://t.co/3oeMpOSuFi"&gt;https://t.co/3oeMpOSuFi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1116904963958018049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How low we have sunk as a country for the president to weaponize terrorism purely for political purposes against Ã¢ÂÂ¦<a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a>Ã¢ÂÂ©, the first of two Muslim Congresswomen. It is so dangerous--to her life and to our country. <a href="https://t.co/3oeMpOSuFi">https://t.co/3oeMpOSuFi</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1116904963958018049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;My sister in service &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt; is on my heart tonight. The occupant of the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@WhiteHouse&lt;/a&gt; is putting her, her family, her team &amp;amp; Muslim Americans across the country in jeopardy. It’s unconscionable and I’m furious &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithIlhan?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#IStandWithIlhan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1116915026089205760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>My sister in service <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> is on my heart tonight. The occupant of the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> is putting her, her family, her team & Muslim Americans across the country in jeopardy. ItÃ¢Â€Â™s unconscionable and IÃ¢Â€Â™m furious <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithIlhan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithIlhan</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1116915026089205760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I am grateful for &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s courage and leadership and I stand with her - and with others targeted by the President&amp;#39;s anti-Muslim rhetoric.&lt;/p&gt;— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1116900307995377665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I am grateful for <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a>'s courage and leadership and I stand with her - and with others targeted by the President's anti-Muslim rhetoric.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” JuliÃƒÂ¡n Castro (@JulianCastro) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1116900307995377665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;9/11 was a tragedy that I will never forget. And I saw firsthand at the Department of Justice the backlash against Sikh and Muslim communities.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Stoking these sentiments has real consequences. The president&amp;#39;s post on &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt; is dangerous and needs to be taken down now.&lt;/p&gt;— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1117041062600695808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>9/11 was a tragedy that I will never forget. And I saw firsthand at the Department of Justice the backlash against Sikh and Muslim communities.<br><br>Stoking these sentiments has real consequences. The president's post on <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> is dangerous and needs to be taken down now.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Tom Perez (@TomPerez) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1117041062600695808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Someone has already been charged with a serious threat on Congresswoman Omar’s life. The video the President chose to send out today will only incite more hate. You can disagree with her words—as I have done before—but this video is wrong. Enough.&lt;/p&gt;— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1116910364065660930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Someone has already been charged with a serious threat on Congresswoman OmarÃ¢Â€Â™s life. The video the President chose to send out today will only incite more hate. You can disagree with her wordsÃ¢Â€Â”as I have done beforeÃ¢Â€Â”but this video is wrong. Enough.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1116910364065660930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Trump wants to divide us. He wants us to fight each other, to give in to hate. He embarrasses us and demeans his office by inciting violence and spreading Islamophobia. Don’t let him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Right behind you &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://t.co/6YjFQznt8w"&gt;pic.twitter.com/6YjFQznt8w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1116900743842271239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump wants to divide us. He wants us to fight each other, to give in to hate. He embarrasses us and demeans his office by inciting violence and spreading Islamophobia. DonÃ¢Â€Â™t let him.<br><br>Right behind you <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a>. <a href="https://t.co/6YjFQznt8w">pic.twitter.com/6YjFQznt8w</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1116900743842271239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;For two years, this President has used the most powerful platform in the world to sow hate &amp;amp; division. He&amp;#39;s done it again. Putting the safety of a sitting member of Congress &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt; at risk &amp;amp; vilifying a whole religion is beyond the pale. I&amp;#39;ll be blunt — we must defeat him.&lt;/p&gt;— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1117127507717906432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>For two years, this President has used the most powerful platform in the world to sow hate & division. He's done it again. Putting the safety of a sitting member of Congress <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> at risk & vilifying a whole religion is beyond the pale. I'll be blunt Ã¢Â€Â” we must defeat him.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1117127507717906432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can&amp;#39;t accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump&amp;#39;s dangerous rhetoric against &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt; is disgusting. It’s a false choice to suggest we can’t fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at once—a president should do both.&lt;/p&gt;— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1117127662215008257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 13, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can't accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump's dangerous rhetoric against <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> is disgusting. ItÃ¢Â€Â™s a false choice to suggest we canÃ¢Â€Â™t fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at onceÃ¢Â€Â”a president should do both.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1117127662215008257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt;’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We must speak out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“First they came...” &lt;a href="https://t.co/ygOX1vhE9j"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ygOX1vhE9j&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1116848329776934912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the PresidentÃ¢Â€Â™s explicit attack today.<a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a>Ã¢Â€Â™s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.<br><br>We must speak out.<br><br>Ã¢Â€ÂœFirst they came...Ã¢Â€Â <a href="https://t.co/ygOX1vhE9j">pic.twitter.com/ygOX1vhE9j</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1116848329776934912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2 class="AlignCenter">First they came for…</h2> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><sup>If you’d like to show your support for Rep. Ilhan Omar and the squad, you can donate here:</sup></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-sm"><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/squad" title=""><img alt="" src="https://secure.actblue.com/goals/70077.png?size=short"></a> <figcaption>The Squad</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>This is a defining moment, not only for the Democratic party but for our nation. Which side are you on? </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasioCortez BernieSanders DonaldTrump ElizabethWarren IlhanOmar JayInslee RashidaTlaib Recommended _1849905 Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:59:31 +0000 Joe Biden praises Jeb! for being a "hell of a governor" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/12/1849733/-Joe-Biden-praises-Jeb-for-being-a-hell-of-a-governor <h2>Say it ain’t so, Joe! Praising Jeb Bush?</h2> <p>Appearing together at a panel on opioid addiction in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden made a point to give a big shout out to Jeb Bush:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Biden, appearing at a University of Pennsylvania panel on opioid addiction with Jeb Bush, complimented Bush as “</span><a href="https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1116430928606314499">a hell of a governor</a><span>.” From the Democratic perspective, Bush’s tenure as the governor of Florida was probably most notable for his relentless effort, supported by right-wing evangelical groups, to prevent Terri Schiavo’s husband from<span> </span></span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/15310/public-supports-removal-feeding-tube-terri-schiavo.aspx">removing her feeding tube</a><span><span> </span>after she’d been in a vegetative state for 15 years; Bush also signed the “stand your ground” law that came under<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/10/29/was-the-stand-your-ground-law-the-cause-of-trayvon-martins-death/?utm_term=.815b6c36051a">national scrutiny</a><span><span> </span>after George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>As governor of Florida, aside from helping to hand the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida" target="_blank" title="">2000 election to his bro’ George </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida" target="_blank">W</a>, one of Jeb Bush’s greatest achievements was implementing the pro gun “Stand your Ground” law (aka a license to kill). <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/how-stand-your-ground-relates-to-george-zimmerman/277829/" target="_blank">SYG played a role in the George Zimmerman case</a>, (yes that Zimmerman who murdered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin" target="_blank">17 year old Trayvon Martin</a>). Wannabe cop and racist Zimmerman was acquitted of murder after he hunted down and brutally shot the unarmed teenager for the crime of walking to his dad’s finance’s home.</p> <p>If this weren’t offensive enough, on the same day, newly released letters Biden wrote to segregationists asking for support for his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/politics/joe-biden-busing-letters-2020/index.html" target="_blank">anti-busing</a> measure were published.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>CNN published a piece about letters that Biden, then a young senator from Delaware, wrote to Mississippi Democratic Sen. James Eastland in 1977. Eastland believed that desegregation would “</span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YjLeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=james+eastland+%22mongrelization%22&source=bl&ots=znmEpXbTiC&sig=ACfU3U3Vk4azI4TcdT0Fnv4rcq9Z02fshA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmkaz9-MjhAhWod98KHYElBSAQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=james%20eastland%20%22mongrelization%22&f=false">mongrelize</a><span>” the white race and had denounced the<span> </span></span><em>Brown vs. Board of Education</em><span><span> </span>decision, calling it a “</span><a href="https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=honorsprojects">monstrous crime</a><span>“; in 1977, Biden sought his support for a bill that would cut down on the practice of busing students between neighborhoods to integrate schools. Wrote Biden to Eastland: “My bill strikes at the heart of the injustice of court-ordered busing.” (It doesn’t appear that the bill in question was ever<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/senate-bill/1651/actions">passed by the full Senate</a><span>, but other anti-busing measures that Biden pursued were<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968">successful</a><span>.)</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Remember, it was not long ago that Biden praised VP Pence:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;In Omaha, Joe Biden calls Mike Pence "a decent guy, our vice president."&lt;/p&gt;— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1101240631010213893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 28, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>In Omaha, Joe Biden calls Mike Pence "a decent guy, our vice president."</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1101240631010213893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Although Biden has yet to formally announce his run for president, a theme is already emerging, can you hear the dog whistles?</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Joe Biden’s presidential campaign hasn’t been formally announced, but it already has a theme, which is that Biden is the only Democrat with the kind of bipartisan appeal and common touch needed to win<span> </span></span><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/joe-biden-white-working-class-voters-record-mixed.html">white working-class voters in key swing states</a><span><span> </span>back to the Democratic Party. Two events on Thursday underlined that theme, then circled it in red ink and drew a bunch of big exclamation marks around it.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Please clap.</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="pleaseclap.gif" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/664270/large/pleaseclap.gif?1555076919" title="pleaseclap.gif"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) JebBush JoeBiden OpioidAddiction Recommended StandYourGround TrayvonMartin WhiteWorkingClass _1849733 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:50:15 +0000 7 women have now come forward to disclose Joe Biden violated them with inappropriate touching https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/3/1847628/-7-women-have-now-come-forward-to-disclose-Joe-Biden-violated-them-with-inappropriate-touching <p>After Joe Biden issued a video on Wednesday whereby he failed to apologize to the women he has offended and demonstrated that he lacks an understanding that he abused his position of power to exert dominance over women, three more women have come forward bringing the total to seven.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437301-three-more-women-come-forward-with-allegations-against-biden-report?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank">Three additional women came forward on Wednesday to say former Vice President<span> </span></a><span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a></span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437301-three-more-women-come-forward-with-allegations-against-biden-report?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank"><span> </span>touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable shortly after Biden,</a> in<span> </span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437214-biden-pledges-to-be-more-mindful-about-respecting-personal-space">a two-minute video</a>,</strong> pledged to be more mindful of women’s personal space.</p> <p>The women, Vail Kohnert-Yount, Sofie Karasek and Ally Coll, recounted instances in which they said Biden touched them in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-says-hell-adjust-his-physical-behavior-as-three-more-women-come-forward/2019/04/03/94a2ed2c-5622-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.48cb1418218d" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> article published late Wednesday.</p> <p><span>He then put his hand on the back of my head and pressed his forehead to my forehead while he talked to me," she told the Post in a statement. "I was so shocked that it was hard to focus on what he was saying. I remember he told me I was a 'pretty girl.'"</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>One of the women who has bravely come forward was only 19 years old when Joe touched her inappropriately. She had just disclosed to Joe that she had been sexually assaulted when he put his hand on her thigh without her permission and continued to hug her even after she expressed discomfort. </p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>The list of women coming forward is growing.<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/politics/joe-biden-women-me-too.html" target="_blank" title="">Caitlyn Caruso, a former college student and sexual assault survivor, said Mr. Biden rested his hand on her thigh — even as she squirmed in her seat to show her discomfort — and hugged her “just a little bit too long” at an event on sexual assault at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. <strong>She was 19.</strong></a></p> <p>Ms. Caruso, now 22, said she chalked up the encounter at the time to how men act, and did not say anything publicly. But <strong>she said it was particularly uncomfortable because she had just shared her own story of sexual assault</strong> and had expected Mr. Biden — an architect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act — to understand the importance of physical boundaries.</p> <p>“It doesn’t even really cross your mind that such a person would dare perpetuate harm like that,” she said. “These are supposed to be people you can trust.”</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Joe Biden may chalk up his inappropriate touching and kissing of women without their consent to “changing social norms,” but the fact is, Joe’s views of women and autonomy over their own bodies are deeply held as reflected in his early voting record.</p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/joe-biden-isnt-the-answer-for-president-in-2020.html" target="_blank">A young Joe Biden was <strong>reliably anti-abortion</strong></a>, claiming that<span> </span></span><em>Roe<span> </span></em><span style="text-align:start">v.</span><em><span> </span>Wade</em><span style="text-align:start">“ went too far” and that <strong>he did not believe that “a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”</strong> He <strong>voted consistently for the Hyde Amendment</strong>, the 1976 legislative rider which forbid government-funded insurance programs from paying for abortion, making abortion all but inaccessible to poor people. In 1981, he proposed the “Biden Amendment,” prohibiting foreign aid to be used in any biomedical research related to abortion. The next year, he <strong>supported Jesse Helms’s amendment barring foreign NGOs receiving United States aid from using that aid to perform abortion. </strong>Biden was one of two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary to <strong>vote for the 1982 Hatch Amendment, which would have effectively nullified<span> </span></strong></span><strong><em>Roe </em></strong><span style="text-align:start"><strong>by turning abortion rights back to federal and state legislatures</strong>. At the time, he expressed concern about whether he had “a right to impose” his anti-abortion views on the nation. Then he went ahead and imposed those views anyway.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Joe lacks a clear understanding of the concept “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.”</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>"There’s been a lack of understanding about the way that power can turn something that might seem innocuous into something that can make somebody feel uncomfortable," she told the paper. She added that <strong>Biden's video represented "a continued lack of understanding about why these stories are being told and their relevance in the #MeToo era."</strong></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;My response to &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@JoeBiden&lt;/a&gt;’s 3rd statement: &lt;a href="https://t.co/QICADgg0AF"&gt;pic.twitter.com/QICADgg0AF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/LucyFlores/status/1113555641862217728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 3, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>My response to <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a>Ã¢Â€Â™s 3rd statement: <a href="https://t.co/QICADgg0AF">pic.twitter.com/QICADgg0AF</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) <a href="https://twitter.com/LucyFlores/status/1113555641862217728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2 class="AlignCenter">“Our bodies belong to us.” </h2> <blockquote> <p><span>Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon, said politicians needed to set parameters: “The way out is simple.<span> </span></span><strong>Our bodies and voices belong to us — that should be the first step in democracy.<span> </span></strong><span>Just ask before hugging.”</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Voters need to ask themselves, is Joe Biden worth it?</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Pressing ahead with Joe Biden is gonna force a lot of unfortunate stances on a series of issues we&amp;#39;re otherwise making progress on. So the question is: Is Joe Biden worth all that? &lt;a href="https://t.co/d8YQTDpuPX"&gt;https://t.co/d8YQTDpuPX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— elizabeth bruenig (@ebruenig) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1113564868169412608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 3, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Pressing ahead with Joe Biden is gonna force a lot of unfortunate stances on a series of issues we're otherwise making progress on. So the question is: Is Joe Biden worth all that? <a href="https://t.co/d8YQTDpuPX">https://t.co/d8YQTDpuPX</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” elizabeth bruenig (@ebruenig) <a href="https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1113564868169412608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;imagine throwing away your feminist principles of bodily autonomy and believing women so that you can instead protect *joe biden*&lt;/p&gt;— Avery Edison (@aedison) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aedison/status/1113583768378515456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 3, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>imagine throwing away your feminist principles of bodily autonomy and believing women so that you can instead protect *joe biden*</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Avery Edison (@aedison) <a href="https://twitter.com/aedison/status/1113583768378515456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) JoeBiden Recommended WomensRights _1847628 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:46:31 +0000 BERN: Bernie's $18.2m haul of small donations represents a resilient movement https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/2/1847330/-BERN-Bernie-s-18-2m-haul-of-small-donations-represents-a-resilient-movement <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Bernie_Sanders_2020_-_BERN_Logo.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/658134/large/Bernie_Sanders_2020_-_BERN_Logo.png?1553634304" title="Bernie_Sanders_2020_-_BERN_Logo.png"> <figcaption><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bernie20#social">Chip in a few bucks to be part of the progressive movement!</a></figcaption> </figure> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>Welcome to BERN, Bernie Election, & Revolution News, a project of The Political Revolution group, where we bring you the latest BERNin' news of the week!</div> <div>.</div> <p style="text-align:start"><strong>Bernie Sanders' impressive $18.5m haul of small donations represents a strong grassroots movement!</strong></p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p><strong><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sanders-money-20190402-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0kr_BkZhGSfD6pqKbcA9WAMxZr0oK96GCWnkzTV8WkeleNqApmgPXJj10" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders’ immense fundraising haul reflects a resilient movement</a></strong></p> <p>Sanders’ fundraising reflects not just financial strength, but a grassroots momentum that other candidates envy. One hundred donors kicking in 20 bucks provides considerably more value to a campaign than one person who writes a check for $2,000.</p> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p>The small donors can give again and again without hitting the federal limit. They are also likely to invest in the campaign in other ways, such as knocking on doors or phone banking. They elevate the profile of the candidate as a reformer who walks the walk of disavowing big money, unlike rivals who must still rely in part on big checks and well-connected fundraisers.</p> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Bernie's strength in numbers did not surge out of nowhere. His policy ideas and principles have deep roots and voters know it. If you roll back the tape ten years, 20 years or even 30 years, there is a video of Bernie fighting for economic, racial, social and environmental justice. And he is still walking the walk!</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"><em><strong>Human Rights</strong></em></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We&amp;#39;ll take the candidate who has believed in human rights for Palestinians since 1988. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/feelthebern?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#feelthebern&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bernie2020?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#bernie2020&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/W8Wd73e3bS"&gt;pic.twitter.com/W8Wd73e3bS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Arabs For Bernie (@ArabsForBernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ArabsForBernie/status/1111038694994128904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We'll take the candidate who has believed in human rights for Palestinians since 1988. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/feelthebern?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#feelthebern</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bernie2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bernie2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/W8Wd73e3bS">pic.twitter.com/W8Wd73e3bS</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Arabs For Bernie (@ArabsForBernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabsForBernie/status/1111038694994128904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The voices of the Palestinians are rarely heard. This is what life is like for those who are living in Gaza under a 10 year blockade: &lt;a href="https://t.co/pZHOljjDHL"&gt;pic.twitter.com/pZHOljjDHL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1004505722648870912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;June 6, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The voices of the Palestinians are rarely heard. This is what life is like for those who are living in Gaza under a 10 year blockade: <a href="https://t.co/pZHOljjDHL">pic.twitter.com/pZHOljjDHL</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1004505722648870912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em><strong>Peace</strong></em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/27/war-and-peace-and-2020-presidential-candidates" target="_blank">"Senator Sanders has the best voting record of any candidate on war and peace issues, especially on military spending."</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Bernie Sanders</strong></p> <p>Senator Sanders has the best voting record of any candidate on war and peace issues, especially on military spending. Opposing the oversized Pentagon budget, he has only voted for 3 out of 19<span> </span><a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/98-756.pdf">military spending bills</a><span> </span>since 2013. By this measure, no other candidate comes close, including Tulsi Gabbard. In other votes on war and peace, Sanders voted as requested by Peace Action<span> </span><a href="http://thescore.peaceactionwest.org/votes/sen-bernie-sanders">84% of the time</a><span> </span>from 2011 to 2016, despite some hawkish votes on Iran from 2011-2013.</p> <p>One major contradiction in Sanders' opposition to out-of-control military spending has been his<span> </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/smart-finds-to-reduce-your-single-use-plastic-waste?ref=scroll">support</a><span> </span>for the world’s most expensive and wasteful weapon system: the trillion-dollar F-35 fighter jet. Not only did Sanders support the F-35, he pushed—despite local opposition—to get these fighter jets stationed at the Burlington airport for the Vermont National Guard.</p> <p>In terms of stopping the war in Yemen, Sanders has been a hero. Over the past year, he and Senators Murphy and Lee have led a sustained effort to shepherd his historic War Powers bill on Yemen through the Senate. Congressman Ro Khanna, whom Sanders has chosen as one of his 4 campaign co-chairs, has led the parallel effort in the House.</p> <p>Sanders' 2016 campaign highlighted his popular domestic proposals for universal healthcare and social and economic justice, but was criticized as light on foreign policy. Beyond chiding Clinton for being<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUQn6agMQrI">"too much into regime change,"</a><span> </span>he seemed reluctant to debate her on foreign policy, despite her hawkish record. By contrast, during his current presidential run, he regularly includes the Military-Industrial Complex among the entrenched interests his political revolution is confronting, and his voting record backs up his rhetoric.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><em>Climate</em></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BNeidhardt/status/1111241501349216257" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders has highest possible score on climate from 350.org</a></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Equal Rights</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Today LGBTQ people are more than 4.5% of our population but only hold 0.1% of elected offices. We must support the LGBTQ community in achieving the representation they deserve. Consider a run or nominate your friends at &lt;a href="https://t.co/Glilr6fpau"&gt;https://t.co/Glilr6fpau&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OutToWin?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#OutToWin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1113178745244971010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Today LGBTQ people are more than 4.5% of our population but only hold 0.1% of elected offices. We must support the LGBTQ community in achieving the representation they deserve. Consider a run or nominate your friends at <a href="https://t.co/Glilr6fpau">https://t.co/Glilr6fpau</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OutToWin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OutToWin</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1113178745244971010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Women on average make just 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it’s even lower for women of color:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-61 cents for Black women&lt;br&gt;-57 cents for Native women&lt;br&gt;-53 cents for Latina women&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Equal pay for equal work is an issue of basic justice. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EqualPayDay?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#EqualPayDay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1113116883488833536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Women on average make just 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and itÃ¢Â€Â™s even lower for women of color:<br><br>-61 cents for Black women<br>-57 cents for Native women<br>-53 cents for Latina women<br><br>Equal pay for equal work is an issue of basic justice. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EqualPayDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EqualPayDay</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1113116883488833536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://slate.com/business/2016/01/bernie-sanders-made-burlingtons-land-trust-possible-its-still-an-innovative-and-effective-model-of-affordable-housing-today.html" target="_blank"><strong>How Bernie Sanders Made Burlington Affordable</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://slate.com/business/2016/01/bernie-sanders-made-burlingtons-land-trust-possible-its-still-an-innovative-and-effective-model-of-affordable-housing-today.html" target="_blank"><strong>As the city’s mayor in the 1980s, he championed an unusual model of publicly supported housing. It’s still working.</strong></a></p> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/caucus/2019/03/28/bernie-sanders-president-2020-caucus-agribusiness-factory-farming-rural-america-iowa-flood-trump-ceo/3297096002/" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders: I'll fight for farmers against powerful agribusiness</a></p> <p style="text-align:start">Whether it’s in Iowa, my home state of Vermont or anywhere else, the crisis in America’s small towns and rural communities is the result of deliberate policy choices by a political class that neglects rural America, rather than investing in it.</p> <p style="text-align:start">In the end, the desperation felt by families in rural communities is about basic economic rights and freedom. Farmers have been systematically stripped of their ability to control their own futures and no longer know whether their hard work will earn them future success and stability. Storefronts are empty and farmers have been forced to sell their land that has been kept in families for generations to massive corporations.</p> <p style="text-align:start">For the massive agribusinesses that control much of rural America, it’s a different story. These corporations have seen profits skyrocket and compensation packages for CEOs increase to record levels.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div></div> </div> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/04/02/daily-202-bernie-sanders-is-more-pragmatic-than-you-may-think/5ca2b7371b326b0f7f38f2e3/?utm_term=.0f795a431764" target="_blank">The senator from Vermont might be the only Democrat running for president who doesn’t need to pander to the left to be able to win the nomination. He has credibility with the base, </a>he's near the top of the early polls, and he doesn’t need to climb out on limbs to get coverage in a crowded field. <strong>His campaign announced this morning that it raised $18.2 million during the first quarter from 525,000 donors — who gave an average contribution of about $20 — and that it has $28 million cash on hand.</strong></p> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BernieSanders&lt;/a&gt; on labor law reform: "The legis that we&amp;#39;ve introduced says that in America, workers have the constitutional right to organize, its called freedom of assembly, and in that legis we outlaw states ability to pass and maintain right-to-work legislation" &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeThePeople19?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#WeThePeople19&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/N8E44ROAip"&gt;pic.twitter.com/N8E44ROAip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1112819983573106688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> on labor law reform: "The legis that we've introduced says that in America, workers have the constitutional right to organize, its called freedom of assembly, and in that legis we outlaw states ability to pass and maintain right-to-work legislation" <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeThePeople19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeThePeople19</a> <a href="https://t.co/N8E44ROAip">pic.twitter.com/N8E44ROAip</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1112819983573106688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div>Bernie has receipts. He’s been fighting for human rights, peace, climate justice, and economic rights for decades and it’s the fight he will take to the White House.</div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Bernie’s greatest hits!</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="ScreenShot2019-04-02at8.08.31PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/660805/large/ScreenShot2019-04-02at8.08.31PM.png?1554250134" title="ScreenShot2019-04-02at8.08.31PM.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=RU3NKvvxcSs" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RU3NKvvxcSs" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;My hope is that when future historians look back at our time, they will see how regular people came together to build a desperately-needed movement to reverse the drift toward oligarchy. That is what this campaign is all about.&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1111013774922670080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>My hope is that when future historians look back at our time, they will see how regular people came together to build a desperately-needed movement to reverse the drift toward oligarchy. That is what this campaign is all about.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1111013774922670080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Bernie is headed back to Iowa! </strong> H/T benny</p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <pre><strong>Friday, April 5th, Davenport</strong>: 7 p.m. rally (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) in the Mississippi Hall at the RiverCenter, located at 136 E 3rd St. The event is free and open to the public, though<span> </span><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/event-190405-davenport/" title="">RSVPs are encouraged</a>. SATURDAY, APRIL 6 <strong>Muscatine:</strong><span> </span>12 p.m. town meeting (doors open at 11 a.m.) at West Middle School, at 600 Kindler Ave. The event is free and open to the public, though<span> </span><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/event-190406-muscatine/">RSVPs are encouraged</a>. <strong>Burlington:<span> </span></strong>3 p.m. town meeting (doors open at 2 p.m.) at Aldo Leopold Middle School, 3075 Sunnyside Ave. The event is free and open to the public, though<a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/event-190406-burlington/"><span> </span>RSVPs are encouraged</a>. <strong>Fairfield:<span> </span></strong>6:30 p.m. rally (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center, 200 N. Main St. The event is free and open to the public, though<span> </span><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/event-190406-fairfield/" title="">RSVPs are encouraged</a>. SUNDAY, APRIL 7 <strong>Oskaloosa:</strong><span> </span>12 p.m. town meeting (doors open at 11 a.m.) in the Musco Technology Center at William Penn University, 319 R Ave. West. The event is free and open to the public, though<span> </span><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/event-190407-oskaloosa/" title="">RSVPs are encouraged</a>.</pre> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) bern BernieSanders Recommended _1847330 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:12:40 +0000 Trump doesn't know Puerto Rico is part of the USA. Seriously. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/2/1847132/-Trump-doesn-t-know-Puerto-Rico-is-part-of-the-USA-Seriously <p>In yet another racist twitter tirade, Trump bashes Puerto Rico pols who <strong>“only take from the USA!”</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, &amp;amp; all their local politicians do is complain &amp;amp; ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, &amp;amp; only take from USA....&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1113041708730802176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1113041708730802176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;You should take this up with the president of Puerto Rico. &lt;a href="https://t.co/kqizpqcaZO"&gt;https://t.co/kqizpqcaZO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1113071792049086466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>You should take this up with the president of Puerto Rico. <a href="https://t.co/kqizpqcaZO">https://t.co/kqizpqcaZO</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1113071792049086466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We should fire the President of Puerto Rico. &lt;a href="https://t.co/V2dRwLSyDj"&gt;https://t.co/V2dRwLSyDj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Andrew Learned (@AndrewLearned) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewLearned/status/1113071010021027840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We should fire the President of Puerto Rico. <a href="https://t.co/V2dRwLSyDj">https://t.co/V2dRwLSyDj</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Andrew Learned (@AndrewLearned) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewLearned/status/1113071010021027840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;He should really get the President of Puerto Rico on the phone to hash this out. &lt;a href="https://t.co/9zMhqWCNXh"&gt;https://t.co/9zMhqWCNXh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Anonymous Fed (@EvilBobJ) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/EvilBobJ/status/1113052854007353345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>He should really get the President of Puerto Rico on the phone to hash this out. <a href="https://t.co/9zMhqWCNXh">https://t.co/9zMhqWCNXh</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Anonymous Fed (@EvilBobJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvilBobJ/status/1113052854007353345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We need to fire the President of Puerto Rico. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PuertoRicoUSA?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#PuertoRicoUSA&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PuertoRico?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#PuertoRico&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/ej3eaBDAaa"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ej3eaBDAaa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Beth Frank (@farbav) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/farbav/status/1113070223458959361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We need to fire the President of Puerto Rico. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PuertoRicoUSA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PuertoRicoUSA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PuertoRico?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PuertoRico</a> <a href="https://t.co/ej3eaBDAaa">pic.twitter.com/ej3eaBDAaa</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Beth Frank (@farbav) <a href="https://twitter.com/farbav/status/1113070223458959361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <h2>What can we expect though from a President who gets his information from sources like Fox News?</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Of course 45 doesn’t know Puerto Rico is the USA, he gets his policy from a network that thinks Mexico is 3 countries and Africa is 1 &lt;a href="https://t.co/NXncjSjdSD"&gt;pic.twitter.com/NXncjSjdSD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Exavier Pope (@exavierpope) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/exavierpope/status/1113057018024267777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Of course 45 doesnÃ¢Â€Â™t know Puerto Rico is the USA, he gets his policy from a network that thinks Mexico is 3 countries and Africa is 1 <a href="https://t.co/NXncjSjdSD">pic.twitter.com/NXncjSjdSD</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Exavier Pope (@exavierpope) <a href="https://twitter.com/exavierpope/status/1113057018024267777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Trump’s recent outburst was in reaction Democrats’ refusal to accept a package for Puerto Rico that falls short:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/02/crazed-incompetent-trump-hits-out-puerto-rican-leaders-after-disaster-bill-fails/?utm_term=.671afb95ffd6" target="_blank">On Monday, Democratic leaders balked at the $600 million for Puerto Rican food stamps in the $13.45 billion package, arguing it wasn’t enough. </a></strong>But Republicans refused to back a Democratic House bill that failed to account for the historic Midwestern flooding, as it passed before that catastrophe. Democrats<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/massive-disaster-relief-bill-faces-likely-defeat-in-senate-over-puerto-rico-dispute/2019/04/01/957330c6-54a7-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html?utm_term=.2894c72afb39" target="_blank">have said they support paying for flood relief<span> </span></a><span>and attempted Monday to amend their House bill with that money, a move the GOP blocked.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In his tweets, Trump raised a familiar, contested figure for disaster relief in Puerto Rico. Although the president has repeatedly<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/28/heres-why-trump-says-puerto-rico-is-getting-billion-disaster-relief/?utm_term=.69c8a3e0c598" target="_blank">claimed that $91 billion</a><span> </span>has been spent there, that figure actually reflects a high-end, long-term estimate for recovery costs;<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/26/trump-seems-inflate-price-tag-puerto-ricos-recovery-deny-funding-puerto-ricos-recovery/?utm_term=.c7fd5bc71c3c" target="_blank">a fraction of that has so far been budgeted,<span> </span></a>and even less has been spent.</p> <p><em>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/28/heres-why-trump-says-puerto-rico-is-getting-billion-disaster-relief/?utm_term=.69c8a3e0c598">Here’s why Trump says Puerto Rico is getting $91 billion in disaster relief</a>]</em></p> <p>The president also took aim at Cruz, San Juan’s outspoken mayor<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-mayor-of-san-juan-as-he-touts-readiness-for-hurricane-florence/2018/09/12/e55291ae-b673-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html?utm_term=.83f75a427dcb" target="_blank">who has often taken Trump</a><span> </span>to task over the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-hurricane-maria-and-its-aftermath-caused-a-spike-in-puerto-rico-deaths-with-nearly-3000-more-than-normal/2018/08/28/57d6d2d6-aa43-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.c506a72cb52e">killed an estimated 2,975 people</a><span> </span>on the island.</p> <p>“FEMA & the Military worked emergency miracles, but politicians like the crazed and incompetent Mayor of San Juan have done such a poor job of bringing the Island back to health,”<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1112922221037719552" target="_blank"><span> </span>Trump tweeted</a>. “91 Billion Dollars to Puerto Rico, and now the Dems want to give them more, taking dollars away from our Farmers and so many others. Disgraceful!”</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This is a flat out lie. Puerto Rico has NOT “got $91B.”&lt;br&gt;•$91B is due incrementally over the next *20 years*&lt;br&gt;•~$11B has been delivered&lt;br&gt;•3,000 Americans still died due to Federal Govt failures&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We must demand better from our leadership. This is wrong. &lt;a href="https://t.co/MLTCEVryb6"&gt;https://t.co/MLTCEVryb6&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/hN2v7UX88n"&gt;https://t.co/hN2v7UX88n&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1113079500122853381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This is a flat out lie. Puerto Rico has NOT Ã¢Â€Âœgot $91B.Ã¢Â€Â<br>Ã¢Â€Â¢$91B is due incrementally over the next *20 years*<br>Ã¢Â€Â¢~$11B has been delivered<br>Ã¢Â€Â¢3,000 Americans still died due to Federal Govt failures<br><br>We must demand better from our leadership. This is wrong. <a href="https://t.co/MLTCEVryb6">https://t.co/MLTCEVryb6</a> <a href="https://t.co/hN2v7UX88n">https://t.co/hN2v7UX88n</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) <a href="https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1113079500122853381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) PuertoRico PuertoRicoIsTheUSA Recommended trump _1847132 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:59:27 +0000 The youth have spoken. Bernie Sanders is not too old to be President. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/4/1/1846865/-The-youth-have-spoken-Bernie-Sanders-is-not-too-old-to-be-President <p>In poll after poll, Bernie Sanders outpaces every Democratic presidential candidate with young voters from both the Millennial generation and Gen Z (those born 1990s to early 2000s) The new Harvard youth poll released today is no exception.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/01/bernie-holds-double-digit-lead-over-2020-rivals-among-young-democratic-voters-poll" target="_blank"><span>Bernie Holds Double-Digit Lead Over 2020 Rivals Among Young Democratic Voters: Poll</span></a></strong></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/01/bernie-holds-double-digit-lead-over-2020-rivals-among-young-democratic-voters-poll" target="_blank">For the young, survey suggests, <strong>Sanders not too old</strong></a></p> <p>A new national poll of young Democratic voters released Monday shows Sen. Bernie Sanders leading the crowded 2020 field with a double-digit lead over the second most popular candidate, Joe Biden.</p> <p>According to the<span> </span><a href="https://iop.harvard.edu/about/newsletter-press-release/18-29-year-olds-likely-democratic-primary-voters-prefer-sanders-biden">survey</a><span> </span>by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School, the U.S. senator from Vermont is preferred by 31 percent of likely Democratic primary voters between the ages of 18 and 29 years old.</p> <p>While Biden came in second place with 20 percent and Beto O'Rourke of Texas nabbed the third spot with 10 percent, none of the other candidates garnered more than single digits in the poll. After O'Rourke, IOP noted the following support for the remaining candidates:</p> <blockquote> <p>Sen. Kamala Harris (5%), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (4%), Sen. Cory Booker (3%), Andrew Yang (2%), Mayor Pete Buttigieg (1%), former Sec. Julian Castro (1%), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (1%), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (1%), Gov. Jay Inslee (1%) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (1%). Several other candidates polled at less than one percent at this early stage.</p> <p><strong>Proving that young voters see more than age,</strong> it's notable that the candidates with the most experience in government service are leading a diverse field at this early stage in the process," said John Della Volpe, IOP's director of polling.</p> <p><strong>"Compared to this point in the last presidential cycle," he added, "young Democratic voters are more engaged and likely to have an even greater impact in choosing their party's nominee."</strong></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Bernie leads the youth vote by a HUGE margin!&lt;br&gt;Bernie – 31%&lt;br&gt;Biden – 20%&lt;br&gt;O&amp;#39;Rourke – 10%&lt;br&gt;No other candidate tops 5%!&lt;a href="https://t.co/9aPA86BhCP"&gt;https://t.co/9aPA86BhCP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Sarah for Bernie (@sarah4bernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sarah4bernie/status/1112709015446974464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bernie leads the youth vote by a HUGE margin!<br>Bernie Ã¢Â€Â“ 31%<br>Biden Ã¢Â€Â“ 20%<br>O'Rourke Ã¢Â€Â“ 10%<br>No other candidate tops 5%!<a href="https://t.co/9aPA86BhCP">https://t.co/9aPA86BhCP</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Sarah for Bernie (@sarah4bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarah4bernie/status/1112709015446974464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>In the 2020 election, Millennials and Gen Z will comprise the biggest voting bloc and it’s no surprise both gens are supporting Bernie Sanders. Not only will these young voters comprise the largest voting bloc in 2020, they are the most diverse generation in U.S. history. And they are paying attention. Engagement and turn out of young voters increased in 2016 to 51%. While the rate still remains below the overall 61% turn out rate for all voters, it leaves room for growth.</span></p> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-11-07/young-voters-turned-out-in-historic-numbers-early-estimates-show" target="_blank" title="">Young Voters Turned Out in Historic Numbers, Early Estimates Show</a></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>In 2016, Bernie won more young voters than Hillary and Trump combined. His bold progressive platform resonates with young voters who are more economically, environmentally and socially conscientious than previous generations. In fact, nearly half, support socialism, once considered radical but now mainstream.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.people-press.org/2016/07/07/4-top-voting-issues-in-2016-election/" target="_blank">Economy, Bernie’s signature issue, was the number one issue for young voters in the 2018 midterm election.</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left">Asked if they agreed with the statement: “Prefer living in a socialist country,” 49.6 percent of Millennials and members of Generation Z, when combined, said they agreed according to the survey conducted by Harris poll given<span> </span><a href="https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-young-americans-embracing-socialism-b051907a-87a8-4f61-9e6e-0db75f7edc4a.html" target="_blank">exclusively to Axios</a>. That differed from the 37.2 percent of the total adult group surveyed.<span></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left"><span>Young voters get it; free market solutions are not working for them.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:left"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"40 years of free market solutions have not changed our position" -&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AOC&lt;/a&gt; on how climate change is the biggest market failure in human history &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AOCAllIn?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#AOCAllIn&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/A9TuiAMVFD"&gt;pic.twitter.com/A9TuiAMVFD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Brian L Kahn (@blkahn) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1111800246865141760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 30, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"40 years of free market solutions have not changed our position" -<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> on how climate change is the biggest market failure in human history <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AOCAllIn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AOCAllIn</a> <a href="https://t.co/A9TuiAMVFD">pic.twitter.com/A9TuiAMVFD</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Brian L Kahn (@blkahn) <a href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1111800246865141760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://iop.harvard.edu/about/newsletter-press-release/18-29-year-olds-likely-democratic-primary-voters-prefer-sanders-biden" target="_blank">In previous polling and today’s Harvard Youth poll, Bernie leads not only with the youth vote in general, but also with women, Latinos and ties for first place with young African-American voters.</a></strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p>Ms. Larson is part of Generation Z, one of the<span> </span><a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/11/15/early-benchmarks-show-post-millennials-on-track-to-be-most-diverse-best-educated-generation-yet/" target="_blank">most ethnically diverse and progressive age groups</a><span> </span>in American history. People born after 1996 tend to espouse similar views to the age cohort just ahead of them, the Millennials, but they are far more open to social change than older generations have been, according to the findings of a<span> </span><a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/01/17/generation-z-looks-a-lot-like-millennials-on-key-social-and-political-issues" target="_blank">new report by the Pew Research Center</a>. The findings mark a shift that could substantially reshape the nation’s political and economic landscape.</p> </div> <p></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>It may be the young generation that saves us after all.</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_XC2mqcMMGQ" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><sup>Update: <span style="text-align:start">This poll of <strong>N=3,022</strong> 18- to 29- year-olds, organized with undergraduate students from the Harvard Public Opinion Project (HPOP) and directed by<span> </span></span><strong>John Della Volpe</strong><span style="text-align:start">, was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs using the KnowledgePanel Calibration approach. In this approach, the calibrating sample was provided by the KnowledgePanel probably-based sample source, while the sample to be calibrated was provided by non-probability, opt-in web panel sample sources. Interviews were conducted between March 8 and March 20, 2019. The margin of error for the total sample is +/- 2.64 percentage points at the <strong>95 percent confidence level.</strong></span></sup></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Bernie2020 BernieSanders harvardyouthpoll Recommended _1846865 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:37:36 +0000 Former Assemblywoman Lucy Flores discloses inappropriate incident where Joe Biden kissed her https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/29/1846294/-Former-Assemblywoman-Lucy-Flores-discloses-inappropriate-incident-where-Joe-Biden-kissed-her-neck <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.19PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/659168/large/ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.19PM.png?1553893665" title="ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.19PM.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <h2>This is not ok. </h2> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.thecut.com/amp/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank">An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden</a></p> <p></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “</span><em>tragame tierra,</em><span style="text-align:start">” it means, “earth, swallow me whole.” I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me. My name was called and I was never happier to get on stage in front of an audience.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This was an incredibly difficult thing to do, but something that felt necessary. It took awhile before I found the words and the support that made me feel like this was finally a story I could tell. &lt;a href="https://t.co/Sr5Go3xuTe"&gt;https://t.co/Sr5Go3xuTe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/LucyFlores/status/1111717902087004160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 29, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This was an incredibly difficult thing to do, but something that felt necessary. It took awhile before I found the words and the support that made me feel like this was finally a story I could tell. <a href="https://t.co/Sr5Go3xuTe">https://t.co/Sr5Go3xuTe</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) <a href="https://twitter.com/LucyFlores/status/1111717902087004160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>It’s no secret that Joe Biden has a history of inappropriately smelling females’ hair and touching or kissing them without their permission.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18241598/joe-biden-lucy-flores-touching-women-media-history-explained" target="_blank">Lucy Flores isn’t alone. Joe Biden’s got a long history of touching women inappropriately.</a></p> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18241598/joe-biden-lucy-flores-touching-women-media-history-explained" target="_blank">The media gave Biden a pass for years. It won’t in 2020.</a></p> <p>Flores’s experience isn’t unique. It is no secret in Washington that Biden has touched numerous women inappropriately in public. It’s just never been treated as a serious issue by the mainstream press.</p> <p>Biden’s been caught on camera embracing a female reporter from behind and gripping her<span> </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2015/02/18/6-joe-biden-gaffes-that-prove-the-vp-dances-to-the-beat-of-his-own-drum/">above her waist, just below her bust</a>. At a swearing-in ceremony for Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Biden put his hands on the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, Carter’s wife, and then<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSDACKjdIA">leaned in and whispered into her ear</a>. (He’s whispered into many<span> </span><a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/02/9-times-joe-biden-whispered-in-womens-ears.html?gtm=top&gtm=top">women’s ears</a>.) He’s also touched women’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524748/Thats-high-Joe-Hilariously-awkward-picture-White-House-reporter-fending-Bidens-close-Christmas-embrace.html">faces and necks</a><span> </span>during other photo ops. Once at a swearing-in ceremony for a US senator, he held the upper arm of the senator’s preteen daughter, leaned down and whispered into her ear, as she became visibly uncomfortable. Then he kissed the side of her forehead, a gesture that made the girl<span> </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4521296/biden-kiss">flinch</a>.</p> <p>It’s all out in the open. News outlets wrote about these incidents. But the stories ran under light-hearted headlines like, “Photo of<span> </span><a href="https://www.today.com/news/photo-famously-friendly-biden-goes-viral-2D11758793">famously friendly Joe Biden</a><span> </span>goes viral” or “<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/02/18/heres-joe-biden-being-joe-biden-with-ash-carters-wife">Here’s Joe Biden being Joe Biden with Ash Carter’s wife</a>” or “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/biden-brings-sexy-back-081912">Joe Biden: Sex symbol?</a>,” a piece that I edited and now regret.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Joe Biden to Heitkamp at swearing in: “Spread your legs!”</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=NO2I61S-3lM" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NO2I61S-3lM" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In the case of Lucy Flores, Joe Biden abused his power as Vice President of the United States to violate the personal boundaries of a Latina woman. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">By then, as a young Latina in politics, I had gotten used to feeling like an outsider in rooms dominated by white men. But I had never experienced anything so blatantly inappropriate and unnerving before. Biden was the second-most powerful man in the country and, arguably, one of the most powerful men in the world. He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job. Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused. The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners — and I felt powerless to do anything about it.</span></p> <h2><span>Joe Biden "was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job. Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused."</span></h2> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>Time passed and pictures started to surface of Vice-President Biden getting uncomfortably close with women and young girls. Biden<span> </span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/joe-biden-holds-whispers-defense-secretarys-wife-29029109">nuzzling the neck</a> of the Defense secretary’s wife; Biden<span> </span><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/joe-biden-senate-swearing-in-chuck-grassley.html">kissing</a><span> </span>a senator’s wife on the lips; Biden<span> </span><a href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yfmksi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-audacity-of-grope">whispering in women’s ears</a>; Biden<span> </span><a href="https://gawker.com/joe-biden-we-need-to-talk-about-the-way-you-touch-wome-1686648038">snuggling female constituents</a>. I saw obvious discomfort in the women’s faces, and Biden, I’m sure, never thought twice about how it made them feel. I knew I couldn’t say anything publicly about what those pictures surfaced for me; my anger and my resentment grew.</p> <p>[...[</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Yep. There&amp;#39;s dozens of videos like this, so imagine the number of times this wasn&amp;#39;t caught on tape... anyway, he&amp;#39;s really into smelling their hair &lt;a href="https://t.co/yinwAvQFbk"&gt;pic.twitter.com/yinwAvQFbk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Thomas! (@ThomasIsOnline) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1111728246897475584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 29, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Yep. There's dozens of videos like this, so imagine the number of times this wasn't caught on tape... anyway, he's really into smelling their hair <a href="https://t.co/yinwAvQFbk">pic.twitter.com/yinwAvQFbk</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Thomas! (@ThomasIsOnline) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1111728246897475584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.32PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/659169/large/ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.32PM.png?1553893665" title="ScreenShot2019-03-29at5.07.32PM.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <h2>Should the Democrats take a risk on Joe Biden as their candidate for the Presidency in the era of MeToo?</h2> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) JoeBiden LucyFlores MeToo Recommended SexualHarassment _1846294 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:10:43 +0000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trolls GOP Senator: "If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything!" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/26/1845374/-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-trolls-GOP-Senator-If-this-guy-can-be-Senator-you-can-do-anything <p>Senate majority leader and climate denier Mitch McConnell has brought a ‘bluff vote’ to the floor on the Green New Deal, which he believes is a socialist manifesto that will destroy the economy!</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others “on the record”, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, &amp;amp; that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for. &lt;a href="https://t.co/ELzpQhlezo"&gt;https://t.co/ELzpQhlezo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1109490843197628417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 23, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The GOPÃ¢Â€Â™s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others Ã¢Â€Âœon the recordÃ¢Â€Â, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace.<br><br>Stop wasting the American peoplesÃ¢Â€Â™ time + learn to govern. Our jobs arenÃ¢Â€Â™t for campaigning, & thatÃ¢Â€Â™s exactly what these bluff-votes are for. <a href="https://t.co/ELzpQhlezo">https://t.co/ELzpQhlezo</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1109490843197628417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>But wait, it’s gets better. Climate Denier Republicans have shown up with Aquaman posters as visual aids to make their case that CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT REAL!</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;GOP Senators are using their Congressional allowances to print Aquaman posters for themselves to argue that a &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#GreenNewDeal&lt;/a&gt; saving our nation from climate change is a ‘waste of money’ 😂 &lt;a href="https://t.co/iMNY0dJmCy"&gt;https://t.co/iMNY0dJmCy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1110586439409025024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>GOP Senators are using their Congressional allowances to print Aquaman posters for themselves to argue that a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> saving our nation from climate change is a Ã¢Â€Â˜waste of moneyÃ¢Â€Â™ Ã°ÂŸÂ˜Â‚ <a href="https://t.co/iMNY0dJmCy">https://t.co/iMNY0dJmCy</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1110586439409025024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Not only have they shown up with ridiculous posters, Sen. Mike Lee stated that the solutions lie in ‘falling in love, getting married, and having kids.’ Huh? That’s the best they’ve got?</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And they thought this bluff vote on the Green New Deal and farce of a presentation would make AOC look ridiculous? Oh, the irony!</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But then they do things like this to clear it right up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything. &lt;a href="https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr"&gt;https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1110591219804049408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.<br><br>But then they do things like this to clear it right up.<br><br>If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything. <a href="https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr">https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1110591219804049408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2 class="AlignCenter">“If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything!”</h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Screen%20Shot%202019-03-26%20at%201.33.13%20PM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/658055/large/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-26%20at%201.33.13%20PM.png?1553622661" title="Screen%20Shot%202019-03-26%20at%201.33.13%20PM.png"> <figcaption>THIS IS NOT PHOTOSHOPPED</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;WATCH: Sen. Mike Lee uses Reagan, a machine gun, and a velociraptor to argue against &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AOC&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s Green New Deal &lt;a href="https://t.co/q30t3Johaq"&gt;https://t.co/q30t3Johaq&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/hluEacyvNE"&gt;pic.twitter.com/hluEacyvNE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1110591692778950656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>WATCH: Sen. Mike Lee uses Reagan, a machine gun, and a velociraptor to argue against <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>'s Green New Deal <a href="https://t.co/q30t3Johaq">https://t.co/q30t3Johaq</a> <a href="https://t.co/hluEacyvNE">pic.twitter.com/hluEacyvNE</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href="https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1110591692778950656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasioCortez GreenNewDeal MikeLee MitchMcConnell Recommended _1845374 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:05:01 +0000 Netanyahu, Pence, Schumer & Hoyer attack Ilhan Omar at AIPAC https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/26/1845314/-Netanyahu-others-attack-Ilhan-Omar-at-AIPAC <h2>US Rep. Ilhan Omar has been the target of attacks from numerous men attending this year’s AIPAC conference including Pence and Democrats Hoyer and Schumer. The most recent comes from Netanyahu:</h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;🤔 This from a &amp;nbsp;man facing indictments for bribery and other crimes in three separate public corruption affairs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Next! &lt;a href="https://t.co/BX6qLpISKx"&gt;https://t.co/BX6qLpISKx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1110544748098580480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã°ÂŸÂ¤Â” This from a man facing indictments for bribery and other crimes in three separate public corruption affairs.<br><br>Next! <a href="https://t.co/BX6qLpISKx">https://t.co/BX6qLpISKx</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1110544748098580480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Benjamin Netanyahu announced last month<span> “that he was forging an alliance<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/netanyahu-strikes-election-deal-far-right-parties-challengers-respond-own-n973891" target="_blank">with a fringe extremist party inspired by an American-born rabbi, Meir Kahane, who advocated a Jewish theocracy and the forced removal of Palestinians</a><span>.”</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/435739-omar-controversy-looms-over-aipac-conference" target="_blank">Omar controversy looms over AIPAC conference</a></p> <p>Talk at the first couple days of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, D.C., has been dominated by a lawmaker who is not even there: Rep.<span> </span><span><a href="https://thehill.com/people/ilhan-omar">Ilhan Omar</a></span><span> </span>(D-Minn.).</p> <p>From the speakers on stage at the general session to smaller panels in conference rooms throughout the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, attendees at the pro-Israel lobby’s gathering have offered implicit rebukes of the freshman Democrat, who has been accused of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Sen. Chuck Schumer at &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIPAC?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#AIPAC&lt;/a&gt;: "When someone looks at a neo-Nazi rally and sees some, &amp;#39;very fine people&amp;#39; among its company, we must call it out. When someone suggests money drives support for Israel, we must call it out." &lt;a href="https://t.co/6UIQTOwAom"&gt;pic.twitter.com/6UIQTOwAom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The Hill (@thehill) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1110381120305156096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Sen. Chuck Schumer at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIPAC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AIPAC</a>: "When someone looks at a neo-Nazi rally and sees some, 'very fine people' among its company, we must call it out. When someone suggests money drives support for Israel, we must call it out." <a href="https://t.co/6UIQTOwAom">pic.twitter.com/6UIQTOwAom</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1110381120305156096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>In his speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual conference, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/435784-schumer-seemingly-calls-out-omar-in-aipac-speech" target="_blank">Schumer drew a parallel between Omar’s remarks in February that she wanted “to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country” and<span> </span></a></span><span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/435784-schumer-seemingly-calls-out-omar-in-aipac-speech" target="_blank">President Trump</a></span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/435784-schumer-seemingly-calls-out-omar-in-aipac-speech" target="_blank"><span>’s remarks following a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017.</span></a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Hoyer is a disgrace. At the same time as his female non-white colleague is getting death threats, he decided to unilaterally re-up the pile on just to get some applause at AIPAC &lt;a href="https://t.co/L9X8VU2fR0"&gt;https://t.co/L9X8VU2fR0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1110219875438329856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 25, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hoyer is a disgrace. At the same time as his female non-white colleague is getting death threats, he decided to unilaterally re-up the pile on just to get some applause at AIPAC <a href="https://t.co/L9X8VU2fR0">https://t.co/L9X8VU2fR0</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1110219875438329856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>* snark alert *</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Hearing everyone from both parties ritually bash Ilhan Omar at the AIPAC conference yesterday has really driven home that AIPAC money has nothing to do with US policy and that the organization always has the best interests of the USA at heart.&lt;/p&gt;— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1110534109703487488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hearing everyone from both parties ritually bash Ilhan Omar at the AIPAC conference yesterday has really driven home that AIPAC money has nothing to do with US policy and that the organization always has the best interests of the USA at heart.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1110534109703487488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>All of the major 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates signed the MoveOn pact to not attend this year’s AIPAC conference.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;amp; the list of 2020 presidential candidates who have made the decision to &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SkipAIPAC?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#SkipAIPAC&lt;/a&gt; continues to grow. Thank you for your leadership here &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@PeteButtigieg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@ewarren&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BernieSanders&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@KamalaHarris&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@JulianCastro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BetoORourke&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JayInslee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@JayInslee&lt;/a&gt;... who is next? &lt;a href="https://t.co/Bol61vv8Bc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Bol61vv8Bc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— MoveOn (@MoveOn) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1108828706984939520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>& the list of 2020 presidential candidates who have made the decision to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SkipAIPAC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SkipAIPAC</a> continues to grow. Thank you for your leadership here <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JulianCastro</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetoORourke</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JayInslee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JayInslee</a>... who is next? <a href="https://t.co/Bol61vv8Bc">pic.twitter.com/Bol61vv8Bc</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” MoveOn (@MoveOn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1108828706984939520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <h2>Despite the attacks from VP Pence, McConnell and Netanyahu to Democratic leaders Hoyer and Schumer, Ilhan Omar continues to persist!</h2> <div class="live-update-wrapper" data-epoch-time="1553617167000"> <div class="live-update-content"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Can we all just take a minute to admire &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@IlhanMN&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s moral clarity, unshakable courage and sense of humor in the midst of... everything?!!?? &lt;a href="https://t.co/IqYi3p2wCD"&gt;https://t.co/IqYi3p2wCD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1110545512367878155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Can we all just take a minute to admire <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a>'s moral clarity, unshakable courage and sense of humor in the midst of... everything?!!?? <a href="https://t.co/IqYi3p2wCD">https://t.co/IqYi3p2wCD</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1110545512367878155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AIPAC BenjaminNetanyahu IlhanOmar Israel Palestine pence Recommended trump _1845314 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:41:58 +0000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on cover of Time: 'Represents vision of the future of the Democratic Party' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/21/1843934/-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-on-cover-of-Time-Represents-vision-of-the-future-of-the-Democratic-Party <h2><a href="http://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/?utm_source=twitter.com&xid=time_socialflow_twitter&utm_medium=socialflowtw&utm_campaign=time" target="_blank">Change is more likely than we think...</a></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;TIME’s new cover: “Change is closer than we think.” Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s unlikely rise &lt;a href="https://t.co/qV0hB6qDRd"&gt;https://t.co/qV0hB6qDRd&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/L0RUIvuC3U"&gt;pic.twitter.com/L0RUIvuC3U&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— TIME (@TIME) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1108709241781661696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>TIMEÃ¢Â€Â™s new cover: Ã¢Â€ÂœChange is closer than we think.Ã¢Â€Â Inside Alexandria Ocasio-CortezÃ¢Â€Â™s unlikely rise <a href="https://t.co/qV0hB6qDRd">https://t.co/qV0hB6qDRd</a> <a href="https://t.co/L0RUIvuC3U">pic.twitter.com/L0RUIvuC3U</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1108709241781661696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">This is the daily reality for America’s newest human Rorschach test. Wonder Woman of the left, Wicked Witch of the right, Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked-about politician in America, after the President of the United States. Since beating 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary to represent New York’s 14th District last June, the 29-year-old former bartender has pressured 2020 presidential candidates into supporting her Green New Deal, made campaign-finance reform go viral and helped activists banish Amazon from Queens with a couple of tweets. No lawmaker in recent memory has translated so few votes into so much political and social capital so quickly. Her Twitter following has climbed from about 49,000 last summer to more than 3.5 million. Thousands of people tune in to watch her make black-bean soup or re-pot her houseplants on Instagram Live. Immediately after she tweeted the name of her signature red lipstick—Beso, by Stila—it sold out online.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=YEY" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YEY__2VcQHE" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <div class="align-center" style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:center"> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Last year, I woke up to organize w/ my community &amp;amp; waitressed to make ends meet. Today, staggeringly, I woke up to this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I believe in an America where all things are possible. Where a basic, dignified life isn’t a dream, but a norm. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That’s why I got up then,&amp;amp; why I get up now. &lt;a href="https://t.co/1vTMe9c8Uv"&gt;https://t.co/1vTMe9c8Uv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108773344655097857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Last year, I woke up to organize w/ my community & waitressed to make ends meet. Today, staggeringly, I woke up to this.<br><br>I believe in an America where all things are possible. Where a basic, dignified life isnÃ¢Â€Â™t a dream, but a norm. <br><br>ThatÃ¢Â€Â™s why I got up then,& why I get up now. <a href="https://t.co/1vTMe9c8Uv">https://t.co/1vTMe9c8Uv</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108773344655097857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">Ocasio-Cortez represents one vision of the Democratic Party’s future. She’s a young Hispanic woman, three cornerstones of the party’s electoral coalition. She’s a democratic socialist at a time when confidence in capitalism is declining, especially among progressive millennials. The issues she ran on—a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, a federal jobs guarantee, abolishing ICE—are animating a new generation of Democrats. She’s a political phenomenon: part activist, part legislator, arguably the best storyteller in the party since Barack Obama and perhaps the only Democrat right now with the star power to challenge President Donald Trump’s.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=wcM11G1lbL0" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wcM11G1lbL0" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasioCortez AOC DemocraticSocialism DSA Recommended Time _1843934 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:05:12 +0000 In an outpouring of grief and in solidarity with the Muslim community, vigils held around the globe https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/17/1842963/-In-an-outpouring-of-grief-and-in-solidarity-with-the-Muslim-community-vigils-held-around-the-globe <p>In a show of solidarity with the Muslim community, people around the globe have held vigils and offered support to the victims of the New Zealand massacre where 50 Muslims were murdered by a white supremacist. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Can you imagine having a leader of a country showing this kind of empathy?&lt;br&gt;Thank you, Jacinda Ardern, for reminding the world what a Leader is and could be.&lt;a href="https://t.co/uYcGGS9ccB"&gt;pic.twitter.com/uYcGGS9ccB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JonnyGeller/status/1107261539634040833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Can you imagine having a leader of a country showing this kind of empathy?<br>Thank you, Jacinda Ardern, for reminding the world what a Leader is and could be.<a href="https://t.co/uYcGGS9ccB">pic.twitter.com/uYcGGS9ccB</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonnyGeller/status/1107261539634040833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;How an attack that was meant to divide people ended up bringing them together. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealand?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#NewZealand&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristChurch?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#ChristChurch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/QYRJFxmj2J"&gt;pic.twitter.com/QYRJFxmj2J&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— THE HERETIC (@admit2sin) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/admit2sin/status/1107417837239439361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How an attack that was meant to divide people ended up bringing them together. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealand?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NewZealand</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristChurch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChristChurch</a> <a href="https://t.co/QYRJFxmj2J">pic.twitter.com/QYRJFxmj2J</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” THE HERETIC (@admit2sin) <a href="https://twitter.com/admit2sin/status/1107417837239439361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Beautiful scenes on a beautiful night here for the Wellington Vigil for Christchurch. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wgtnvigil?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#wgtnvigil&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristchurchShootings?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#ChristchurchShootings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/WgtnCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@WgtnCC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@NewshubNZ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NZStuff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@NZStuff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/nUbhlvtAcN"&gt;pic.twitter.com/nUbhlvtAcN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Basin Reserve (@BasinReserve) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BasinReserve/status/1107161512223760384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Beautiful scenes on a beautiful night here for the Wellington Vigil for Christchurch. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wgtnvigil?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wgtnvigil</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristchurchShootings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChristchurchShootings</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WgtnCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WgtnCC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewshubNZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NZStuff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NZStuff</a> <a href="https://t.co/nUbhlvtAcN">pic.twitter.com/nUbhlvtAcN</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Basin Reserve (@BasinReserve) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasinReserve/status/1107161512223760384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Thousands of people come together across the globe at vigils to pay tribute to victims of New Zealand terror attack &lt;a href="https://t.co/adXrT5aE0x"&gt;https://t.co/adXrT5aE0x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1106767297828524034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 16, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Thousands of people come together across the globe at vigils to pay tribute to victims of New Zealand terror attack <a href="https://t.co/adXrT5aE0x">https://t.co/adXrT5aE0x</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) <a href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1106767297828524034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;A Pittsburgh Jewish group is raising money for New Zealand’s Muslim community &lt;a href="https://t.co/QwWaH0NVbR"&gt;https://t.co/QwWaH0NVbR&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/SiAXltomEe"&gt;pic.twitter.com/SiAXltomEe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— #Politics 🌊 (@ZaibatsuNews) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ZaibatsuNews/status/1107444898494480389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 18, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>A Pittsburgh Jewish group is raising money for New ZealandÃ¢Â€Â™s Muslim community <a href="https://t.co/QwWaH0NVbR">https://t.co/QwWaH0NVbR</a> <a href="https://t.co/SiAXltomEe">pic.twitter.com/SiAXltomEe</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” #Politics Ã°ÂŸÂŒÂŠ (@ZaibatsuNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaibatsuNews/status/1107444898494480389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;“I am here in solidarity with the worldwide movement to stop white supremacy."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Global vigils and demonstrations held after New Zealand mosque attacks. &lt;a href="https://t.co/eO7wmpW6hQ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/eO7wmpW6hQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1107359697370152960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã¢Â€ÂœI am here in solidarity with the worldwide movement to stop white supremacy."<br><br>Global vigils and demonstrations held after New Zealand mosque attacks. <a href="https://t.co/eO7wmpW6hQ">pic.twitter.com/eO7wmpW6hQ</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href="https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1107359697370152960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Incredibly emotional display of the famous &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealand?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#NewZealand&lt;/a&gt; Haka performed to honor the victims of the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealandMosqueAttack?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#NewZealandMosqueAttack&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/v66ACLq7Fx"&gt;pic.twitter.com/v66ACLq7Fx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Safwan Choudhry (@SafwanChoudhry) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SafwanChoudhry/status/1107146750891053056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Incredibly emotional display of the famous <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealand?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NewZealand</a> Haka performed to honor the victims of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewZealandMosqueAttack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NewZealandMosqueAttack</a> <a href="https://t.co/v66ACLq7Fx">pic.twitter.com/v66ACLq7Fx</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Safwan Choudhry (@SafwanChoudhry) <a href="https://twitter.com/SafwanChoudhry/status/1107146750891053056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p> H/T:DFH1</p> <p class="AlignCenter"> <br> <strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/16/1842618/-Let-us-remember" target="_blank" title="">Let us remember them.</a></strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LRP8d7hhpoQ" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Survivors and local community members are honoring the victims of the mosque attacks in New Zealand. &lt;a href="https://t.co/bcjJnAkF3J"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bcjJnAkF3J&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— AJ+ (@ajplus) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1107366492671229954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 17, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Survivors and local community members are honoring the victims of the mosque attacks in New Zealand. <a href="https://t.co/bcjJnAkF3J">pic.twitter.com/bcjJnAkF3J</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1107366492671229954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-left"><img alt="Screen%20Shot%202019-03-18%20at%2012.37.33%20AM.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/655222/large/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-18%20at%2012.37.33%20AM.png?1552883969" title="Screen%20Shot%202019-03-18%20at%2012.37.33%20AM.png"> <figcaption><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6819235/Two-days-terror-attack-Christchurch-fresh-details-50-innocent-victims.html?ito=social-facebook">This beautiful child was the youngest victim, three year old Mucad Ibrahim, who died in the arms of his father and brother. </a></figcaption> </figure> <h2>If you would like to donate to the victims, <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/tree-of-life-stands-with-christchurch-mosques" target="_blank" title=""><strong>Tree of Life Congregation, Pittsburgh, has set up a fundraiser.</strong></a></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"> </p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Islamophobia Muslimcommunity NewZealand Recommended TreeofLife WhiteSupremacy _1842963 Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:20:47 +0000 BERN: Bernie Launches 2020 Campaign for Justice, Peace & Freedom https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/4/1839446/-BERN-Bernie-Launches-2020-Campaign-for-Justice-Peace-Freedom <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="bern5.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/648140/large/bern5.png?1551127835" title="bern5.png"> <figcaption><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bernie20#social">If you are able to chip in for racial, economic, social and environmental justice, please donate to Bernie Sanders 2020!</a></figcaption> </figure> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Welcome to BERN, Bernie Election, & Revolution News, a project of The Political Revolution group, where we bring you the latest BERNin' news of the week!</div> <div style="text-align:start">.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Speaking of bernin', last week, Bernie Sanders’ ActBlue account was on fire following his announcement for a 2020 run raising a record setting $10,000,000!</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Following an historic fundraising week of grassroots small donors, Bernie headed to Brooklyn to launch his campaign in what was said to be a test of whether or not could still draw huge crowds. And that he did. 15,000 were estimated to have turned out at Brooklyn College on the snow covered, historic campus where Bernie Sanders attended his first year of college stomping his 2016 kick off rally in Vermont where 5500 were in attendance.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Bernie chose Brooklyn to launch his campaign to honor his family history as the son of immigrants who landed on the shores of the United States with little money and big dreams.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><span>"I learned a great deal about immigration as a child because my father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17, without a nickel in his pocket. He came to escape the crushing poverty that existed in his community, and to escape widespread anti-Semitism. And, it was a good thing that he left Poland when he did because virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Nazi barbarism."</span></p> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I believe that the question of whether &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BernieSanders&lt;/a&gt; can still make it happen has been answered.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Everything about 2020 looks bigger than 2016.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BernieInBrooklyn&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/EGdGCShe4q"&gt;pic.twitter.com/EGdGCShe4q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/1101989490573230080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I believe that the question of whether <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> can still make it happen has been answered.<br><br>Everything about 2020 looks bigger than 2016.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieInBrooklyn</a> <a href="https://t.co/EGdGCShe4q">pic.twitter.com/EGdGCShe4q</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) <a href="https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/1101989490573230080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"><span>Bernie headed to Selma, Alabama the following day to commemorate Bloody Sunday where he spoke along with other Presidential candidates at the </span><span style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.967thecoyote.com/2019/03/03/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-and-other-2020-hopefuls-honor-march-on-selma/" target="_blank">2019 International Unity Award at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast</a>.</span> Hillary Clinton was honored with their Unity Award.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Sunday, Bloody Sunday.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Selma?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Selma&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amelia Boynton. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She Persisted.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensHistoryMonth?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#WomensHistoryMonth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/bWYL8wHSH4"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bWYL8wHSH4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter/status/1102268543398236166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 3, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Sunday, Bloody Sunday.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Selma?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Selma</a>.<br><br>Amelia Boynton. <br><br>She Persisted.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensHistoryMonth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://t.co/bWYL8wHSH4">pic.twitter.com/bWYL8wHSH4</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” The King Center (@TheKingCenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter/status/1102268543398236166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/hillary-clinton/">Hillary Clinton</a><span><span> </span>along with Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen.<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/corey-booker/">Corey Booker</a><span><span> </span>(D-NJ), Sen.<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bernie-sanders/">Bernie Sanders</a><span><span> </span>(I-VT) and Julián Castro gathered with civil rights leaders including<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jesse-jackson/">Jesse Jackson</a><span><span> </span>to commemorate the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”—the day in 1965 when peaceful marchers were battered and teargassed by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Clinton was there to receive the 2019 International Unity Award and delivered a speech, saying, “We are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy.”</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"><span>And then it was off to Chicago where he rallied at the Navy Pier, not far from the college where he graduated from and was a student activist who protested housing discrimination and was arrested for protesting school segregation. </span></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The revolution continues, 2020 edition&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernieinchicago?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Bernieinchicago&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/Intay8i0Ec"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Intay8i0Ec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Faiz (@fshakir) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/fshakir/status/1102380623430381569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 4, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The revolution continues, 2020 edition<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernieinchicago?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bernieinchicago</a> <a href="https://t.co/Intay8i0Ec">pic.twitter.com/Intay8i0Ec</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Faiz (@fshakir) <a href="https://twitter.com/fshakir/status/1102380623430381569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div><a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/03/04/city/sanders-talks-economy-race-in-second-campaign-stop-for-2020-presidential-race/" target="_blank">Sanders talks economy, race in second campaign stop for 2020 presidential race</a></div> <div></div> <div>In Chicago, where he graduated from college in June 1964 less than a month before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, Sanders recalled his activism — and arrest a year earlier at a protest against school segregation on the city's South Side — more enthusiastically, but still paused at the conclusion to explain why he told the story.</div> <div></div> <div>"The reason I tell you all of this is because my activities here in Chicago taught me a very important lesson that I have never forgotten," Sanders said. "And that is that whether it is the struggle against corporate greed, racism, sexism, or homophobia, environmental devastation, or war and militarism, real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up."</div> <div></div> <div><span>But even as Sanders broadened the scope of his stump speech to include more details about his youth, his message never strayed far from the core argument that would vault him to political stardom decades later. Sanders' vow to uproot and discard the private health insurance industry and deliver a single-payer system still drew the loudest applause from an already spirited crowd. The twin spectacles of Brooklyn and Chicago will also validate the belief among Sanders' allies that his support is stickier than many observers, including some wishful Democrats, might have hoped or predicted.</span></div> </blockquote> <div> <div style="text-align:start">Recognizing the interconnected nature of of racial, environmental, social and economic justice, Bernie's platform is built on these four pillars of interdependent and overlapping categories because one cannot be achieved without the others.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"><span>“I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies. It will not be racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and religious bigotry. That is going to end. <strong>The principles of our government will be based on justice: economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice</strong>. Today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which tells the powerful special interests who control so much of our economic and political life that we will no longer tolerate the greed of corporate America and the billionaire class – greed which has resulted in this country having more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth."</span></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <div><strong>RACIAL JUSTICE</strong></div> <div></div> <h2><span>"Our campaign, as you know, is about fundamentally ending the disparity of wealth and power in our country, when so few have so much and so many have so little. But as we do that," he said, "we must end the disparity within the disparity."</span></h2> <div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Today, black men are sentenced to 19 percent more jail time for committing the exact same crime as white men, and African Americans are jailed at more than 5 times the rate of whites. We must finally bring about real criminal justice reform in this country.&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1102689676606033921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 4, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Today, black men are sentenced to 19 percent more jail time for committing the exact same crime as white men, and African Americans are jailed at more than 5 times the rate of whites. We must finally bring about real criminal justice reform in this country.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1102689676606033921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/03/04/city/sanders-talks-economy-race-in-second-campaign-stop-for-2020-presidential-race/" target="_blank">Sanders did not shy away from race in his speech.</a></p> <p style="text-align:start">While indicating his support for criminal justice reform and an end to cash bail, Sanders noted police violence against “people in the minority community,” naming Chicago’s Laquan McDonald. He said that black men are sentenced to 19 percent more jail time for committing the same crimes, and the war on drugs has disproportionately targeted people of color.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"I did not come from a family that taught me to build a corporate empire through housing discrimination. I protested housing discrimination." Bernie Sanders took a few swipes at Trump during his campaign launch &lt;a href="https://t.co/pXV39dACCE"&gt;https://t.co/pXV39dACCE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/rpYqXh1OLm"&gt;pic.twitter.com/rpYqXh1OLm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— CNN (@CNN) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1101924149642121217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"I did not come from a family that taught me to build a corporate empire through housing discrimination. I protested housing discrimination." Bernie Sanders took a few swipes at Trump during his campaign launch <a href="https://t.co/pXV39dACCE">https://t.co/pXV39dACCE</a> <a href="https://t.co/rpYqXh1OLm">pic.twitter.com/rpYqXh1OLm</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1101924149642121217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <div style="text-align:start"><strong>SOCIAL</strong></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span>600,000 PEOPLE, DISPROPORTIONATELY PEOPLE OF COLOR, WERE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA IN 2017.<br> <br> IT IS TIME TO DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA, EXPUNGE PAST MARIJUANA CONVICTIONS AND END THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS.</span></p> <span>BERNIE SANDERS (@SENSANDERS) <a href="HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/SENSANDERS/STATUS/1101171170005708802?REF_SRC=TWSRC%5ETFW">FEBRUARY 28, 2019</a></span></blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"><strong>ECONOMIC</strong></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"><span>"When people talk Bernie Sanders as if he's a communist, they show a profound ignorance" of the market and of history, Strine said. He added that while he doesn't agree with all of S<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/delaware-chief-justice-leo-strine-says-bernie-sanders-is-not-radical-2019-2" target="_blank">anders' proposals, they're not actually radical from a historical or global perspective. Per Strine, Sanders is actually a centrist by the standards of some of our closest and most prosperous European allies.</a></span></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"><span>There is profound economic insecurity. That is the sort of thing that happened in the late '20s and 1930s and that we overcame with New Deal democracy, which became a role model for market dynamism that was tempered by fairness for everybody," Strine said.</span></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"><span>Even Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, appointed by President Donald Trump, has stated that income and wealth inequality are diminishing the country's overall prosperity and </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/07/federal-reserve-chair-calls-income-inequality-americas-biggest-challenge-next-years/?utm_term=.ffbb0678c5f7">need to be corrected through policies</a><span>.</span></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan"><strong><strong>Ady Barkan<span> </span><span>🔥</span><span> </span><span>🌹</span></strong>‏<span><span><span>Verified account</span></span></span><span> </span></strong><span>@AdyBarkan</span></a></p> <div></div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p>The best news of the Democratic presidential campaign so far? Both <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders">@BernieSanders</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren">@ewarren</a> are talking about the interconnected struggle for racial & economic justice, which is the narrative we need to build a winning electoral coalition.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"Today I want to welcome you to a campaign which tells corporate America, the billionaire class... that we will no longer tolerate their insatiable greed" &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@BernieSanders&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInChicago?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BernieInChicago&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/bogLcjiCbV"&gt;pic.twitter.com/bogLcjiCbV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1102395726003200000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 4, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"Today I want to welcome you to a campaign which tells corporate America, the billionaire class... that we will no longer tolerate their insatiable greed" <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInChicago?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieInChicago</a> <a href="https://t.co/bogLcjiCbV">pic.twitter.com/bogLcjiCbV</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1102395726003200000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div></div> <div><strong>ENVIRONMENTAL</strong></div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Bernie Sanders: Government ‘Cannot Go Too Far’ in Addressing Climate Change &lt;a href="https://t.co/RrWGoB1iYW"&gt;https://t.co/RrWGoB1iYW&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jackrcrowe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@JackRCrowe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/7mqytb1CJ7"&gt;pic.twitter.com/7mqytb1CJ7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— National Review (@NRO) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1101570305238188033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bernie Sanders: Government Ã¢Â€Â˜Cannot Go Too FarÃ¢Â€Â™ in Addressing Climate Change <a href="https://t.co/RrWGoB1iYW">https://t.co/RrWGoB1iYW</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/jackrcrowe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JackRCrowe</a> <a href="https://t.co/7mqytb1CJ7">pic.twitter.com/7mqytb1CJ7</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” National Review (@NRO) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1101570305238188033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Bernie Sanders blames deadly Alabama tornado on climate change &lt;a href="https://t.co/OG2EZbPZUh"&gt;https://t.co/OG2EZbPZUh&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/rdS620GpVU"&gt;pic.twitter.com/rdS620GpVU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— New York Post (@nypost) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1102699450550636544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 4, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bernie Sanders blames deadly Alabama tornado on climate change <a href="https://t.co/OG2EZbPZUh">https://t.co/OG2EZbPZUh</a> <a href="https://t.co/rdS620GpVU">pic.twitter.com/rdS620GpVU</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1102699450550636544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Today, we say to Trump and the fossil fuel industry: climate change is not a hoax but is an existential threat to our country and the entire planet. All of us have a moral responsibility to leave our children and grandkids a healthy and habitable planet. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BernieInBrooklyn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1101904011081457664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Today, we say to Trump and the fossil fuel industry: climate change is not a hoax but is an existential threat to our country and the entire planet. All of us have a moral responsibility to leave our children and grandkids a healthy and habitable planet. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieInBrooklyn</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1101904011081457664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div><strong>PEACE</strong><br> </div> <blockquote> <div>Bernie Sanders, Feb 2019:</div> <div></div> <div><span>"American troops have been in Afghanistan for nearly 18 years, Iraq since 2003 and in Syria since 2015.The American people do not want endless war. Congress must reassert its Constitutional authority over the use of force and responsibly end these interventions"</span></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <blockquote> <div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/common-defense-congress-forever-wars-pledge/" target="_blank"><strong>SANDERS, WARREN, OCASIO-CORTEZ, AND<span> </span></strong><strong>OTHER LAWMAKERS SIGN PLEDGE TO END AMERICA’S “FOREVER WARS”</strong></a></div> <div></div> <div> <p style="text-align:start"><strong>EIGHT MEMBERS OF</strong> Congress have taken a pledge to work to bring ongoing U.S. global military conflicts to a “responsible and expedient” end, the result of a first-of-its kind lobbying effort by military veterans on Capitol Hill.</p> <p style="text-align:start">The pledge was written and organized by a group called Common Defense, made up of veterans and military families, which advocates for scaling back U.S. military commitments overseas. Common Defense boasts of more than 20,000 veteran members in all 50 states, and it threw its endorsement behind almost 30 candidates in the last midterm election cycle.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=LlY90lG" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LlY90lG_Fuw" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter">FREEDOM</p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em><span style="text-align:start">Man's red flower</span><br> <span style="text-align:start">It's in every living thing</span><br> <span style="text-align:start">Mind, use your power</span><br> <span style="text-align:start">Spirit, use your wings</span><br> <span style="text-align:start">Freedom</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><a href="https://berniesanders.com/" target="_blank">There is only one way we win — and that is together. Add your name to tell Bernie you’re in!</a></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Next stops on Bernie’s rally schedule are the first primary states in the nation, Iowa and New Hampshire!</p> <p><a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/03/02/election-bernie-sanders-2020-president-iowa-caucus-des-moines-council-bluffs-city-campaign-events/3036152002/" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders plans three rallies for his first Iowa trip ahead of 2020</a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) 2020PresidentialCampaign bern BernieInBrooklyn BernieInChicago BernieSanders Recommended _1839446 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:01:21 +0000 BERN Liveblog: Bernie kicks off his 2020 campaign in Brooklyn! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/2/1838843/-BERN-Liveblog-Bernie-kicks-off-his-2020-campaign-in-Brooklyn <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="bern4.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/648053/large/bern4.png?1551107477" title="bern4.png"> <figcaption><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bernie20#social">If you are able to chip in a few bucks for racial, social, economic and environmental justice, please donate to Bernie Sanders for President 2020!</a></figcaption> </figure> <h2>Thousands (13,000) have turned out in Brooklyn for the launch of Bernie’s 2020 Presidential campaign!</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We’re here getting down to live music and their set just finished with them saying “let’s get Bernie elected!” And the crowd started chanting “BERNIE! BERNIE! “ &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BernieInBrooklyn&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/ziTnxLUXvz"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ziTnxLUXvz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1101876595193716736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>WeÃ¢Â€Â™re here getting down to live music and their set just finished with them saying Ã¢Â€ÂœletÃ¢Â€Â™s get Bernie elected!Ã¢Â€Â And the crowd started chanting Ã¢Â€ÂœBERNIE! BERNIE! Ã¢Â€Âœ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieInBrooklyn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieInBrooklyn</a> <a href="https://t.co/ziTnxLUXvz">pic.twitter.com/ziTnxLUXvz</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1101876595193716736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Well a few people showed up today in Brooklyn &lt;a href="https://t.co/wSIHMUhHjL"&gt;pic.twitter.com/wSIHMUhHjL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ari Rabin-Havt (@AriRabinHavt) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AriRabinHavt/status/1101904663002136577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 2, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Well a few people showed up today in Brooklyn <a href="https://t.co/wSIHMUhHjL">pic.twitter.com/wSIHMUhHjL</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ari Rabin-Havt (@AriRabinHavt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriRabinHavt/status/1101904663002136577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong><span>“You can watch the entire speech<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?458403-1/senator-bernie-sanders-launches-presidential-bid-brooklyn-york&live=" target="_blank">here</a><span> by scrolling to 46:25.” (h/t <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/2/1838848/-Sanders-launches-his-2020-campaign-with-a-rally-speech-in-the-city-where-he-was-born" target="_blank">Meteor Blades</a>)</span></strong></p> <h2>Watch live:</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=PUK1vpdWe84" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PUK1vpdWe84" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) bern BernieInBrooklyn BernieSanders Recommended _1838843 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:34:09 +0000 Recently unearthed 1980s footage of Bernie could be fatal for his campaign https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/3/1/1838641/-Recently-unearthed-1980s-footage-of-Bernie-could-be-fatal-for-his-campaign <div style="text-align:start">The Trump opposition team has finally gotten their hands on evidence that proves Bernie Sanders is a Socialist. Such damning evidence could potentially shut down the Bernie 2020 Presidential campaign!</div> <div style="text-align:start">.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">As Trump laid out in his SOTU speech and VP Pence declared yesterday at the CPAC convention, the Republican campaign strategy will be built on the idea that Democrats are lazy freeloading socialists who want to steal money from the rich and offer handouts to "people who are unwilling to work" or are <a href="http://%20https://www.foxnews.com/shows/next-revolution-steve-hilton" target="_blank" title="">'too dumb and poor to go to college.'</a></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div></div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;No I did not. I support a minimum wage. I do not however believe in a minimum guarantee for people “unwilling to work” which was the question asked of me. &lt;a href="https://t.co/NTzw8Bimaj"&gt;https://t.co/NTzw8Bimaj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1100521555090726912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 26, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>No I did not. I support a minimum wage. I do not however believe in a minimum guarantee for people Ã¢Â€Âœunwilling to workÃ¢Â€Â which was the question asked of me. <a href="https://t.co/NTzw8Bimaj">https://t.co/NTzw8Bimaj</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1100521555090726912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <h2>Because <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank">cheating on inheritance taxes</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/02/28/president-trump-jared-kushner-security-clearance-nyt-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn" target="_blank">nepotism</a> are the pathways to success, just ask Ivanka and Donnie, Jr.</h2> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;People are against free college because it would make it harder to use having a college degree as a sign of class disguised as a sign of intelligence&lt;/p&gt;— Chad Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PrettyBadLefty/status/1101114167254286338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 28, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>People are against free college because it would make it harder to use having a college degree as a sign of class disguised as a sign of intelligence</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Chad Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrettyBadLefty/status/1101114167254286338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start">Watch the newly discovered footage of Bernie from his time as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the 1980s that reveals Bernie Sanders engaging in a *Socialist party below:</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Proof Bernie is a socialist! &lt;a href="https://t.co/RyJacV0mql"&gt;pic.twitter.com/RyJacV0mql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— BERNforBernie2020 (@BernForBernie20) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernForBernie20/status/1101504140088393728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Proof Bernie is a socialist! <a href="https://t.co/RyJacV0mql">pic.twitter.com/RyJacV0mql</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” BERNforBernie2020 (@BernForBernie20) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernForBernie20/status/1101504140088393728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p>*A Halloween party, that is.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight &amp;amp; give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism. &lt;a href="https://t.co/3ie9C0jv2G"&gt;pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/925495970032443392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 31, 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>IÃ¢Â€Â™m going to take half of ChloeÃ¢Â€Â™s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. ItÃ¢Â€Â™s never to early to teach her about socialism. <a href="https://t.co/3ie9C0jv2G">pic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/925495970032443392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2017</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <h2>Clearly...</h2> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Clearly, Pence and Trump are afraid of our campaign because when 1 million people volunteer in a week, the president and VP know our grassroots campaign is the strongest challenge to their chances for re-election. They know our ideas are widely supported by the America people. &lt;a href="https://t.co/tfJplW92MF"&gt;https://t.co/tfJplW92MF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1101534431632867329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Clearly, Pence and Trump are afraid of our campaign because when 1 million people volunteer in a week, the president and VP know our grassroots campaign is the strongest challenge to their chances for re-election. They know our ideas are widely supported by the America people. <a href="https://t.co/tfJplW92MF">https://t.co/tfJplW92MF</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1101534431632867329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BernieSanders donniejr IvankaTrump pence Recommended Snark trump _1838641 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:01:20 +0000 Like a boss, AOC comes at Trump for tax evasion and insurance fraud https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/27/1838218/-Like-a-boss-AOC-comes-at-Trump-for-tax-evasion-and-insurance-fraud <p>At the end of the sometimes heated and raucous Cohen hearing before Congress today, it was the laser focused questioning by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that may well prove to the most productive. AOC was even successful in getting Cohen to name names:</p> <blockquote> <p>OCASIO-CORTEZ: Did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?</p> <p>COHEN: Yes.</p> <p>OCASIO-CORTEZ: Who else knows the president did this?</p> <p>COHEN: Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari.</p> </blockquote> <p>Laying the ground work for possible future investigations for tax evasion and insurance fraud, AOC put Trump on notice: We are coming for you. </p> <div></div> <div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This was a good use of the time allotted. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RepAOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@RepAOC&lt;/a&gt; not only asked Cohen questions that revealed newsworthy information which merit further investigation, but ones pertinent to her district. If you missed it live, as I did, this is her questioning in full. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://t.co/fUxgq4e5BN"&gt;pic.twitter.com/fUxgq4e5BN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1100888741701275648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This was a good use of the time allotted. <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepAOC</a> not only asked Cohen questions that revealed newsworthy information which merit further investigation, but ones pertinent to her district. If you missed it live, as I did, this is her questioning in full. <a href="https://t.co/fUxgq4e5BN">pic.twitter.com/fUxgq4e5BN</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1100888741701275648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div><span style="text-align:start">She was crisp, succinct, and very focused on raising some previously undiscussed potential criminal liability issues for Trump that Cohen’s testimony suggested (e.g, insurance fraud), including several where the hot-button issue of Trump’s missing tax returns might be germane. </span></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <h2><a href="https://twitter.com/studiomogura?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100917759704293377&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F1838215%2Fedit" target="_blank"><span> </span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/studiomogura?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100917759704293377&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F1838215%2Fedit" target="_blank"><s>@</s><strong>AOC</strong></a><a href="https://twitter.com/studiomogura?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100917759704293377&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F1838215%2Fedit" target="_blank" title=""><span> may have implicated Trump in a whole new case altogether in less than 5 minutes. No wonder Republicans are terrified of her. </span></a></h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-sm"><img alt="beyonce.gif" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/648851/large/beyonce.gif?1551314120" title="beyonce.gif"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Welcome to &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@OversightDems&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://t.co/s69m87sQy4"&gt;https://t.co/s69m87sQy4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100918842052747264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 28, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Welcome to <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OversightDems</a>. <a href="https://t.co/s69m87sQy4">https://t.co/s69m87sQy4</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100918842052747264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"> </p> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AlexandriaOcasioCortez MichaelCohen Recommended trump _1838218 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:48:33 +0000 Rep. Cummings: 'The question will be, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/27/1838186/-Rep-Cummings-asks-In-2019-what-did-we-do-to-make-sure-we-kept-our-democracy-in-tact <p>In impassioned closing remarks during the Cohen testimony held before Congress today, Representative Elijah Cummings calls on Americans:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>As a country, we are so much better than this… When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: In 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Rep. Elijah Cummings delivers an emotional closing statement as the Michael Cohen hearing ends: "Hopefully this portion of your destiny will lead to a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better United States of America and a better world." &lt;a href="https://t.co/55qPzPJjvk"&gt;https://t.co/55qPzPJjvk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/y4k4v7M570"&gt;pic.twitter.com/y4k4v7M570&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ABC News (@ABC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1100884484646297600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rep. Elijah Cummings delivers an emotional closing statement as the Michael Cohen hearing ends: "Hopefully this portion of your destiny will lead to a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better United States of America and a better world." <a href="https://t.co/55qPzPJjvk">https://t.co/55qPzPJjvk</a> <a href="https://t.co/y4k4v7M570">pic.twitter.com/y4k4v7M570</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1100884484646297600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Twitter is giving Rep. Cummings a standing ovation!</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Elijah Cummings holy shit &lt;a href="https://t.co/w9JXvCsen4"&gt;pic.twitter.com/w9JXvCsen4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— 🇨🇦Monica⚓️ (@Jakiemon) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Jakiemon/status/1100883791449673734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Elijah Cummings holy shit <a href="https://t.co/w9JXvCsen4">pic.twitter.com/w9JXvCsen4</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ã°ÂŸÂ‡Â¨Ã°ÂŸÂ‡Â¦MonicaÃ¢ÂšÂ“Ã¯Â¸Â (@Jakiemon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jakiemon/status/1100883791449673734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I’d like to nominate Elijah Cummings to be our nation’s official conscience.&lt;/p&gt;— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1100883934949400576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>IÃ¢Â€Â™d like to nominate Elijah Cummings to be our nationÃ¢Â€Â™s official conscience.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1100883934949400576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Elijah Cummings is a hero.&lt;/p&gt;— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1100887585025601537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Elijah Cummings is a hero.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1100887585025601537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Elijah Cummings just blew the roof off the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dennisdiclaudio/status/1100883908831469568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Elijah Cummings just blew the roof off the Capitol.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/dennisdiclaudio/status/1100883908831469568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Rep Cummings is a true American Icon. Every word of his closing was TRUTH! &amp;nbsp;GOP could not defend there criminal King because Trump is more filthy than Cohen. Trump is corrupt. He needs to leave.&lt;/p&gt;— william eby (@williameby6) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/williameby6/status/1100893260174815233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rep Cummings is a true American Icon. Every word of his closing was TRUTH! GOP could not defend there criminal King because Trump is more filthy than Cohen. Trump is corrupt. He needs to leave.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” william eby (@williameby6) <a href="https://twitter.com/williameby6/status/1100893260174815233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Elijah Cummings made the best closing remarks. We deserve better than having a President who calls Michael Cohen a “rat” to be treated as a snitch in prison. We deserve better than people dying on the streets after rationing their insulin. We deserve to make America normal again.&lt;/p&gt;— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1100885785115471874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Elijah Cummings made the best closing remarks. We deserve better than having a President who calls Michael Cohen a Ã¢Â€ÂœratÃ¢Â€Â to be treated as a snitch in prison. We deserve better than people dying on the streets after rationing their insulin. We deserve to make America normal again.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1100885785115471874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The grace and dignity of Rep. Cummings is a thing to behold. What a heartbreaking day. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CohenTestimoney?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#CohenTestimoney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— CD in CHI 🐼 (@TheCubanPanda) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TheCubanPanda/status/1100893120714162176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The grace and dignity of Rep. Cummings is a thing to behold. What a heartbreaking day. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CohenTestimoney?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CohenTestimoney</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” CD in CHI Ã°ÂŸÂÂ¼ (@TheCubanPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCubanPanda/status/1100893120714162176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) ElijahCummings MichaelCohen _1838186 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:47:00 +0000 Cohen: When Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and get away with it, he wasn't joking https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/27/1838163/-Cohen-When-Trump-said-he-could-shoot-someone-on-5th-Ave-and-get-away-with-it-he-wasn-t-joking <div style="text-align:start">Michael Cohen has spent months being interrogated by federal officials, racking up legal bills, and being publicly humiliated as the President tweeted out threats against him and his family. But today, Donald Trump's former fixer, whose ten year relationship with President Trump can be best described as a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/trump-v-cohen-the-breakup-of-a-new-york-relationship.html" target="_blank">"</a><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/trump-v-cohen-the-breakup-of-a-new-york-relationship.html" target="_blank">a mix of the bond between a father and son, the professional distance of a lawyer and client, and the blind loyalty of a mafia henchman to a crime boss" </a>is publicly breaking his code of honor and loyalty to his boss.</span></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote><span>During a morning of lurid testimony, the president’s once-loyal lawyer and fixer gave an accounting under oath of his years of service to Mr. Trump. He recalled shady business deals and racist comments, and spoke in devastating, uncomfortable detail about his private conversations with the man he had idolized. </span><span>He was Mr. Trump’s enforcer, a role he once seemed to relish. </span></blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start">In today’s testimony, Cohen has described Trump as a racist, which comes as no surprise and has detailed some of Trump's illegal dealings including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/27/us/politics/michael-cohen-testimony.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank" title="">being instructed by Trump to lie about hush money payments </a>which he claims to have receipts for. But it's Cohen's warning to Republicans in Congress and Republican voters, those that are protecting him, that is most horrifying:</div> <h2 style="text-align:start">"When Trump said he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, he's not joking, he's telling you the truth. You don't know him, I do."</h2> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;‘The more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that I’m suffering’: Cohen warns GOP not to protect Trump. Watch live: &lt;a href="https://t.co/vOqOxKrnWF"&gt;https://t.co/vOqOxKrnWF&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/TGko6aKz7b"&gt;pic.twitter.com/TGko6aKz7b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1100836631567876097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 27, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã¢Â€Â˜The more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that IÃ¢Â€Â™m sufferingÃ¢Â€Â™: Cohen warns GOP not to protect Trump. Watch live: <a href="https://t.co/vOqOxKrnWF">https://t.co/vOqOxKrnWF</a> <a href="https://t.co/TGko6aKz7b">pic.twitter.com/TGko6aKz7b</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Reuters Top News (@Reuters) <a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1100836631567876097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div></div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"><strong>Trump has told us who he is. Republican politicians should believe him. And stop protecting him.</strong></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) DonaldTrump MichaelCohen Recommended _1838163 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:29:23 +0000 Another Victim comes forward and accuses VA Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax of rape. McAuliffe weighs in. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/8/1833348/-Another-Victim-comes-forward-and-accuses-VA-Lt-Gov-Justin-Fairfax-of-rape <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#BREAKING&lt;/a&gt; — Our 1st few paragraphs of Lt Gov &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustinFairfax?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#JustinFairfax&lt;/a&gt; RAPE allegation...&lt;br&gt;• As if the week couldn’t get any worse...&lt;br&gt;• The capital is now in def com, as is the law firm that sent out the letter&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/wusa9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@WUSA9&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/RQwWASxtHI"&gt;pic.twitter.com/RQwWASxtHI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MikevWUSA/status/1093983791931146240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 8, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> Ã¢Â€Â” Our 1st few paragraphs of Lt Gov <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustinFairfax?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JustinFairfax</a> RAPE allegation...<br>Ã¢Â€Â¢ As if the week couldnÃ¢Â€Â™t get any worse...<br>Ã¢Â€Â¢ The capital is now in def com, as is the law firm that sent out the letter<a href="https://twitter.com/wusa9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WUSA9</a> <a href="https://t.co/RQwWASxtHI">pic.twitter.com/RQwWASxtHI</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikevWUSA/status/1093983791931146240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="pt" dir="ltr"&gt;Horrendous. &lt;a href="https://t.co/IecPiMQ8tc"&gt;pic.twitter.com/IecPiMQ8tc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Nick Rathod (@nick_rathod) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nick_rathod/status/1093979489934237698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 8, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Horrendous. <a href="https://t.co/IecPiMQ8tc">pic.twitter.com/IecPiMQ8tc</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Nick Rathod (@nick_rathod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_rathod/status/1093979489934237698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2019</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/second-woman-accuses-va-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-of-sexual-assault/2019/02/08/19e6bb6c-2bdf-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.9dbf45fa0432" target="_blank"><span>Second woman accuses Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault</span></a></p> <p>A woman said Friday she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) in a “premeditated and aggressive” assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University.</p> <p>Through her attorney, Meredith Watson said she shared her account of sexual assault immediately after it happened with several classmates, who have provided statements. Her lawyer also said she shared her account with friends in a string of emails and Facebook messages.</p> <p>Watson was friends with Fairfax at Duke but they never dated or had any romantic relationship, her lawyer said.</p> <p>“At this time, Ms. Watson is reluctantly coming forward out of a strong sense of civic duty and her belief that those seeking or serving in public office should be of the highest character,” said her attorney, Nancy Erika Smith in a statement Friday. “She has no interest in becoming a media personality or reliving the trauma that has greatly affected her life. Similarly, she is not seeking any financial damages.”</p> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>This is a breaking story and will be updated as the calls for Justin Fairfax’s resignation start rolling in.</p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Fairfax Recommended sexualassualt _1833348 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:32:08 +0000 Trump on Syria Strikes: "Mission Accomplished" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/14/1757009/-Trump-on-Syria-Strikes-Mission-Accomplished <h2>Following what some <a href="https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/984959628768370689" target="_blank" title="">Democrats are calling a dangerous and ineffective strike on Syria, </a>Trump resorts to his classic boasting on twitter:</h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;NEW: President Trump says Friday&amp;#39;s military strikes in Syria was "perfectly executed" and "could not have had a better result... Mission Accomplished!" &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://t.co/X873rYGEeG"&gt;https://t.co/X873rYGEeG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/q4vyAQW7wm"&gt;pic.twitter.com/q4vyAQW7wm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— CBS News (@CBSNews) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/985132436047753217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NEW: President Trump says Friday's military strikes in Syria was "perfectly executed" and "could not have had a better result... Mission Accomplished!" <a href="https://t.co/X873rYGEeG">https://t.co/X873rYGEeG</a> <a href="https://t.co/q4vyAQW7wm">pic.twitter.com/q4vyAQW7wm</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/985132436047753217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <h2><a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/985140285276598273" target="_blank" title=""><span>Air strike over. Done. "Mission accomplished" .97% of U.S. deaths in Iraq came after Bush announced "mission accomplished."</span></a></h2> <p>The attack on Syria is highly controversial and concerns are growing over the fact Trump lacks an overall strategy. A number of Democrats warned the action should be brought to Congress for a vote and ensure Trump does not have a blank check to go to war ‘in the Middle East or anywhere else.’</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"We must do all we can to prevent Syria from using chemical weapons and prevent an unhinged president, or a hinged president, from taking us to war in the Middle East without a plan."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@RepSwalwell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://t.co/8UU8dqR7Ve"&gt;https://t.co/8UU8dqR7Ve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— MSNBC (@MSNBC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/985004764047044609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"We must do all we can to prevent Syria from using chemical weapons and prevent an unhinged president, or a hinged president, from taking us to war in the Middle East without a plan."<br><br>- <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSwalwell</a><a href="https://t.co/8UU8dqR7Ve">https://t.co/8UU8dqR7Ve</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/985004764047044609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Of course citizen Trump said President Obama couldn’t strike Syria without congressional approval—but now President Trump doesn’t think he needs Congress.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“I just can’t wait to be king!” &lt;a href="https://t.co/7JignYnE4G"&gt;pic.twitter.com/7JignYnE4G&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/985142333657288704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Of course citizen Trump said President Obama couldnÃ¢Â€Â™t strike Syria without congressional approvalÃ¢Â€Â”but now President Trump doesnÃ¢Â€Â™t think he needs Congress.<br><br>Ã¢Â€ÂœI just canÃ¢Â€Â™t wait to be king!Ã¢Â€Â <a href="https://t.co/7JignYnE4G">pic.twitter.com/7JignYnE4G</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Tim Kaine (@timkaine) <a href="https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/985142333657288704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;It’s long past time that we impose reasonable limitations on the president’s authorization for use of military force. &amp;nbsp;Congress needs to uphold its Constitutional obligations. &amp;nbsp;No more blank check — not for Syria, North Korea, or anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MikeLevinCA/status/984979162048774145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>ItÃ¢Â€Â™s long past time that we impose reasonable limitations on the presidentÃ¢Â€Â™s authorization for use of military force. Congress needs to uphold its Constitutional obligations. No more blank check Ã¢Â€Â” not for Syria, North Korea, or anywhere else.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeLevinCA/status/984979162048774145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Trump doing everything possible to distract from his bad domestic headlines, and willing to spill blood in Syria to do so. He has NO congressional authorization to do this, thus these strikes are illegal. We&amp;#39;re monitoring. Emergency resource coming ASAP. &lt;a href="https://t.co/G8AZawdrpL"&gt;https://t.co/G8AZawdrpL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/984960741198516224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump doing everything possible to distract from his bad domestic headlines, and willing to spill blood in Syria to do so. He has NO congressional authorization to do this, thus these strikes are illegal. We're monitoring. Emergency resource coming ASAP. <a href="https://t.co/G8AZawdrpL">https://t.co/G8AZawdrpL</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/984960741198516224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Whether or not Trump’s lust for power will lead to a broader escalation is not known. But what is clear, the attack on Syria is looking to be more and more like a wag the dog reaction.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;They know perfectly well that the current commander-in-chief is a man of no honor whatsoever -- dishonest, corrupt, quite possibly being blackmailed by a hostile foreign power. 2/&lt;/p&gt;— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985124117316857856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>They know perfectly well that the current commander-in-chief is a man of no honor whatsoever -- dishonest, corrupt, quite possibly being blackmailed by a hostile foreign power. 2/</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985124117316857856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Could such a man deliberately wag the dog? That is, might he engage in military action -- killing people, and putting U.S. servicemen and women at risk -- to distract from his scandals? Of course he could. 3/&lt;/p&gt;— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985124646541516800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Could such a man deliberately wag the dog? That is, might he engage in military action -- killing people, and putting U.S. servicemen and women at risk -- to distract from his scandals? Of course he could. 3/</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985124646541516800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Was the Syria strike an example? Not clear. But the suspicion is obvious and unavoidable. And who knows what comes next? So if you&amp;#39;re in the military, you have to be asking yourself: how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a pee tape? 4/&lt;/p&gt;— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985125477965877248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Was the Syria strike an example? Not clear. But the suspicion is obvious and unavoidable. And who knows what comes next? So if you're in the military, you have to be asking yourself: how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a pee tape? 4/</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/985125477965877248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a pee tape?”<br> </h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) MissionAccomplished Recommended Syria trump _1757009 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:45:21 +0000 Pompeo can't recall if Trump asked him to interfere with the Russia Investigation https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/12/1756498/-Pompeo-can-t-recall-if-Trump-asked-him-to-interfere-with-the-Russia-Investigation <p><strong>Pompeo stated both that, Trump ‘did not ask him to do anything improper’ and, “I don’t recall what he asked me that day.”</strong></p> <p>Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo, facing his first day of confirmation hearings before the Senate,<span> refused to clearly answer the question as to whether or not Trump asked him to interfere with the Russia investigation. </span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, asked Pompeo about<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-intelligence-official-told-associates-trump-asked-him-if-he-could-intervene-with-comey-to-get-fbi-to-back-off-flynn/2017/06/06/cc879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.81302fa5faa0">a Washington Post report</a><span><span> </span>that in March last year that he and National Intelligence director Dan Coats were alone with Trump when he complained about the FBI investigation and James Comey’s handling of it.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>This account strongly suggests that the president asked you and Director Coats to interfere with then FBI director Comey’s investigations into the Trump campaign’s contacts with<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</a>,” Menendez said. “What did President Trump say to you and Director Coats in that meeting?”</strong></p> <p>Pompeo replied: <strong>“Senator, I’m not going to talk about the conversations that the president and I had </strong>… But I will tell you this. <strong>The article’s suggestion that he asked me to do anything improper is false.”</strong></p> <p>Under further questioning, he added: <strong>“I don’t recall what he asked me that day, precisely.</strong> But I have to tell you, I’m with the president an awful lot – he has never asked me to do anything that I considered remotely improper.”</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;MENENDEZ: Did [Trump] ask you to do anything as it relates to that [Russia] investigation?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;POMPEO: Senator, I don&amp;#39;t recall. (via CBS) &lt;a href="https://t.co/z3si6lrHOR"&gt;pic.twitter.com/z3si6lrHOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/984457449385136128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>MENENDEZ: Did [Trump] ask you to do anything as it relates to that [Russia] investigation?<br><br>POMPEO: Senator, I don't recall. (via CBS) <a href="https://t.co/z3si6lrHOR">pic.twitter.com/z3si6lrHOR</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/984457449385136128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <h2><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/12/mike-pompeo-mueller-trump-russia-investigation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2FtufO+%28The+Guardian%29" target="_blank"><span>Secretary of state nominee acknowledged he spoke with the Trump-Russia special counsel, but declined to say what they discussed</span></a></h2> <p><span>Pompeo also confirmed that he was questioned as part of the Mueller investigation but dodged questions regarding it.</span></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Pompeo dodges questions on Mueller probe on Politics Today - &lt;a href="https://t.co/RJV0hXneJf"&gt;https://t.co/RJV0hXneJf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/P5Kb3Xdk33"&gt;pic.twitter.com/P5Kb3Xdk33&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Politics Today (@InPoliticsToday) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/InPoliticsToday/status/984486944095776768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Pompeo dodges questions on Mueller probe on Politics Today - <a href="https://t.co/RJV0hXneJf">https://t.co/RJV0hXneJf</a> <a href="https://t.co/P5Kb3Xdk33">pic.twitter.com/P5Kb3Xdk33</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Politics Today (@InPoliticsToday) <a href="https://twitter.com/InPoliticsToday/status/984486944095776768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><span>When asked if he would resign if Trump fired Mueller, Pompeo said he would not. </span></h2> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;BREAKING: Pompeo says he&amp;#39;s confident he would not resign as secretary of state if Trump fires Mueller.&lt;/p&gt;— The Associated Press (@AP) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/984460439462596608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>BREAKING: Pompeo says he's confident he would not resign as secretary of state if Trump fires Mueller.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/984460439462596608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>Pompeo’s remarks today are deeply troubling and signal that he will embolden Trump’s quest to shut down the Russia investigation. </span></p> <p><span>If that’s not disturbing enough, Pompeo goes into the confirmation with strong opposition from progressive groups based on his history of homophobia, Islamophobia, support of torture, warmongering and climate change denial.</span></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;As Mike Pompeo’s confirmation hearing begins, the Senate must weigh the extent of damage to human rights that can be caused by confirming a person with a long record of supporting torture and demonizing a religion. &lt;a href="https://t.co/5Sd1bM3sHS"&gt;https://t.co/5Sd1bM3sHS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ACLU (@ACLU) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/984442130163613701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>As Mike PompeoÃ¢Â€Â™s confirmation hearing begins, the Senate must weigh the extent of damage to human rights that can be caused by confirming a person with a long record of supporting torture and demonizing a religion. <a href="https://t.co/5Sd1bM3sHS">https://t.co/5Sd1bM3sHS</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” ACLU (@ACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/984442130163613701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Pompeo even stated today, that he thinks being gay is a “perversion.”</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;At his confirmation hearing, secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo refuses to answer if he thinks that being gay is a perversion. &lt;a href="https://t.co/59HhAhoIqi"&gt;pic.twitter.com/59HhAhoIqi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Social Life N Sydney (@SocialNSydney) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SocialNSydney/status/984483326621822976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>At his confirmation hearing, secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo refuses to answer if he thinks that being gay is a perversion. <a href="https://t.co/59HhAhoIqi">pic.twitter.com/59HhAhoIqi</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Social Life N Sydney (@SocialNSydney) <a href="https://twitter.com/SocialNSydney/status/984483326621822976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mike-pompeo-secretary-of-state-senate-confirmation/" target="_blank">Pompeo could go down if Senate Democrats put up a fight. </a></h2> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><span><u>DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISTS AROUND</u><span> </span>the country have become energized by the nomination of Mike Pompeo as the new secretary of state, kicking off a bout of organizing around foreign policy that has little precedent outside the lead-up to an imminent invasion.</span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span>The question now is whether that enthusiasm will transfer to Senate Democrats themselves, or whether they will usher him through as they did in January 2017 when he was confirmed as CIA director. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted to confirm Pompeo last year.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Call on your Senators today and demand they put up a fight! </strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) pompeo trump TrumpRussia _1756498 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:47:35 +0000 Republican Governor Greitens (MO) Accused of Sexual Assault, New House Report Reveals https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/11/1756342/-Republican-Governor-Greitins-MO-Accused-of-Sexual-Assault-New-House-Report-Reveals <h2><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/11/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-groped-and-initiated-unwanted-sexual-contact-with-woman-she-testifies/?utm_term=.9be6f2cba8be" target="_blank" title="">Woman testified that Mo. Gov. Eric Greitens initiated unwanted sexual contact and assaulted her, legislative committee report says</a></h2> <p>A new House Report on the investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Missouri Republican Governor Greitens contains graphic, detailed descriptions of “unwanted sexual contact,” in other words: <a href="https://www.rainn.org/articles/sexual-assault" target="_blank">Sexual Assault.</a> The report also details incidents of physical assault where Greitins, “grabbed, slapped and shoved” the woman.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder dk-x-embed" href="#" data-height="480" data-src="//drive.google.com/file/d/10DAJM1LW2a2Uei5Dfv4b9yP9kiyGCvNg/preview" data-width="640">Embedded Content</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/greitens-house-committee-blackmail-allegations" target="_blank">MO House Report Contains Graphic Claims Of Greitens’ Alleged Sexual Misconduct</a></p> <p>A woman who carried out a 2015 affair with Gov. Eric Greitens (R) accused him of coercing her into unwanted sexual contact while she wept on the floor of his basement, according to testimony included in a highly-anticipated Missouri House committee report released Wednesday evening.</p> <p>The 25-page report includes graphic, disturbing claims about a March 2015 encounter at Greitens’ St. Louis home. According to the woman, Greitens held her down in a “bear hug,” fondling her while she wept “uncontrollably,” before pulling out his penis and putting it near her face.</p> <div> <div>The woman said she proceeded to give him oral sex because she thought “that would allow me to leave” and feared for her “physical self.”</div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In addition to these shocking new claims, the woman testified about previously surfaced allegations that Greitens<span> </span><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/missouri-governor-eric-greitens-allegedly-slapped-woman-having-affair">slapped her</a><span> </span>and threatened to blackmail her with a nude photo that he took of her without her consent.</p> </blockquote> <p>TPM reports that the Missouri House report comes after a month of investigation “<span>which first convened in March after Greitens was indicted on a felony invasion of privacy charge for the alleged blackmail. That trial is set to begin in mid-May.”</span></p> <p><span>Demands for Greitens’ resignation began when it was found he had taken a nude photo of the woman without her consent and threatened to use it against her to protect his political career. </span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/11/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-groped-and-initiated-unwanted-sexual-contact-with-woman-she-testifies/?utm_term=.9be6f2cba8be" target="_blank">The report significantly adds to the deepening crisis facing Greitens, once considered a rising star of the Republican Party who is now facing trial on a felony charge </a></strong>of invasion of privacy after officials said he took a nude photo of the woman and used it to blackmail her. The state’s predominantly Republican chamber voted 154-0 to launch the investigation into his conduct earlier this year.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Asked another senior-ish Missouri GOP lawmaker to describe the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MOLeg?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#MOLeg&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s Greitens report: &lt;a href="https://t.co/zSciE2Spo5"&gt;pic.twitter.com/zSciE2Spo5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/984172713773322242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Asked another senior-ish Missouri GOP lawmaker to describe the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MOLeg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MOLeg</a>'s Greitens report: <a href="https://t.co/zSciE2Spo5">pic.twitter.com/zSciE2Spo5</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Eli Yokley (@eyokley) <a href="https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/984172713773322242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Just hours after the House Report was issued, <em>The Kansas City Star</em> editorial board published a demand for Geitens’ resignation, threatening impeachment if he refuses to step down.</p> <blockquote> <div> <h3><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article208648249.html" target="_blank">Step down, Gov. Greitens, or prepare to be impeached</a></h3> </div> <div> <div> <p><em>By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board</em></p> </div> <div></div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens should step down, or prepare to be impeached.</p> <p>Because<span> </span><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article208375284.html" target="_blank">what happened between him and his former hairdresser<span> </span></a><strong>wasn’t an affair, but a physical and sexual assault on the woman,</strong> according to the description of his despicable behavior detailed in the<span> </span><a href="https://www.house.mo.gov/Committees.aspx?category=all&committee=1840&year=2018&code=&cluster=true&viewCode=R" target="_blank">unsparing report the House committee<span> </span></a>investigating the governor released on Wednesday.</p> <div> <p>Over many hours, the woman told the panel under oath that the governor had slapped her more than once, and had coerced her sexually. On one occasion, she said, he “out of nowhere just, like kind of smacked me and grabbed me and shoved me down on the ground.” All five Republicans and two Democrats on the committee signed the report, and said they believed the woman’s story and found her “to be an overall credible witness.”</p> <p class="AlignCenter">***</p> <p><span style="text-align:start">Greitens could have appeared before the committee, but chose not to. Instead, he appeared on TV on Wednesday, and called the woman a liar who doesn’t know dreams from reality. That’s a reference to her testimony that since she was blindfolded when she saw a flash go off, she’s really not sure she ever saw his phone, or whether the image she has of it is one she dreamed later. But after what happened in his basement, some nightmares wouldn’t be surprising. The governor also referred to the investigation as a witch hunt, and compared himself to Donald Trump. In that, at least, he has a point. But he shouldn’t keep his job.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) GovernorEricGreitens Recommended SexualAssault _1756342 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:41:58 +0000 Retired Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is now a Pot Dealer https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/11/1756185/-Retired-Republican-Speaker-of-the-House-John-Boehner-is-now-a-Pot-Dealer <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>John Boehner’s long held position of opposing legalization of weed has gone up in smoke. </h2> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">(NORML)<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/OH/John_Boehner_Drugs.htm" target="_blank">had rated</a><span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>Boehner "hard on drugs" and given him a "zero percent" rating on legalization, meaning he was opposed to "all forms of marijuana decriminalization." In 2011, Boehner<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/boehner-future-son-in-law-might-disagree" target="_blank">claimed</a><span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>to be "unalterably opposed to the legalization of marijuana" and said, "I remain concerned that legalization will result in increased abuse of all varieties of drugs, including alcohol."</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Boehner has seized upon an opportunity to accept a very lucrative position as a spokesperson for Acreage Holdings, an<span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>"investment company with an established footprint in the cannabis industry in the United States." </span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I’m joining the board of &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AcreageHoldings?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#AcreageHoldings&lt;/a&gt; because my thinking on cannabis has evolved. I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AcreageCannabis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AcreageCannabis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/f5i9KcQD0W"&gt;https://t.co/f5i9KcQD0W&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerBoehner/status/984022770752290818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>IÃ¢Â€Â™m joining the board of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AcreageHoldings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AcreageHoldings</a> because my thinking on cannabis has evolved. IÃ¢Â€Â™m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities. <a href="https://twitter.com/AcreageCannabis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AcreageCannabis</a> <a href="https://t.co/f5i9KcQD0W">https://t.co/f5i9KcQD0W</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerBoehner/status/984022770752290818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=6n4e92r4Cw4" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6n4e92r4Cw4" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Imagining John Boehner high as a giraffe&amp;#39;s ass and giggling while he watches Paul Ryan&amp;#39;s retirement press conference and now I feel zen.&lt;/p&gt;— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/984067732432764928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Imagining John Boehner high as a giraffe's ass and giggling while he watches Paul Ryan's retirement press conference and now I feel zen.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/984067732432764928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Boehner isn’t the only one laughing all the way to the bank...</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Paul Ryan got what he wanted, he made so much on that so called tax bill his kids are already retired! &lt;a href="https://t.co/hRMijdY3Tl"&gt;pic.twitter.com/hRMijdY3Tl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jeff farkas (@magickingdom29) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/magickingdom29/status/984080730979553280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Paul Ryan got what he wanted, he made so much on that so called tax bill his kids are already retired! <a href="https://t.co/hRMijdY3Tl">pic.twitter.com/hRMijdY3Tl</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jeff farkas (@magickingdom29) <a href="https://twitter.com/magickingdom29/status/984080730979553280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) JohnBoehner MarijuanaLegalization Recommended _1756185 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:15:21 +0000 Trump Taunts, "Nice and new and 'smart'" missiles "will be coming," as Syria Braces for Attack https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/11/1756142/-Trump-Taunts-Nice-and-new-and-smart-missiles-will-be-coming-as-Syria-Braces-for-Attack <h2><span>“I don’t want to telegraph what I am doing or what I am thinking,” Mr. Trump said. “I am not like other administrations, where they say, ‘We are going to do this in four weeks.’ It doesn’t work that way. We’ll see what happens.”</span></h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, &amp;nbsp;because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984022625440747520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 11, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and Ã¢Â€Âœsmart!Ã¢Â€Â You shouldnÃ¢Â€Â™t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984022625440747520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Syria airspace has been cleared, US and French guided missile destroyers have been positioned within firing range of Syria and <strong>Trump tweets a warning of a missile attack, showing his hand, something he often boasts he’d never do.</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/watchdog-agency-to-investigate-syria-chemical-strike-site-1523383551" target="_blank">U.S. Presses Allies to Back a Military Strike on Syria</a></p> <p>President Trump and aides confer with international counterparts as American and French guided-missile destroyers move within firing range of Syria</p> <p>The Trump administration worked Tuesday to rally international support for a possible military strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for an alleged chemical-weapons attack, drawing initial backing from France, the U.K. and Saudi Arabia, who vowed a forceful response.</p> <p>As President Donald Trump and top administration officials conferred with international counterparts, the U.S. and France positioned guided-missile destroyers within firing range of Syria.</p> </blockquote> <p>Syria is on high alert as an attack appears to be imminent. </p> <blockquote> <div> <p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-syria-russia-20180410-story.html" target="_blank">As Trump considers military action on Syria, Pentagon worries it could put Russian soldiers in the crosshairs</a></p> <p>Syrian government forces and their allies were on alert Tuesday and taking precautionary measures at military bases and posts in government-held areas amid fears of a U.S. strike, war monitors said.</p> </div> <div> <div> <p>Hundreds of Russian contractors and mercenaries are reported to be working in Syria. On Feb. 7, U.S. airstrikes hit a Syrian-backed militia as it approached a valuable oil and gas field held by U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria. Russia later acknowledged that five of the dead were Russian citizens, but the incident drew little attention and Moscow did not publicly complain, in part because the deconfliction line was used to try to warn the column away.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>The U.S. response to the recent chemical attack which killed over 40 Syrians, including women and children, is likely to be more severe than last year’s.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>The expanding support for a unified response suggested that the U.S. and other nations could carry out a series of strikes more extensive than last year’s U.S. attack on a Syrian airfield. Possible options included salvos aimed at crippling Mr. Assad’s chemical-weapons capabilities, while not seeking to push him from power.</span></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><span>***</span></p> <p><span>The military movements and international consultations suggest the possibility of broader strikes than last April, when<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-launches-cruise-missiles-at-syrian-regime-airbase-in-response-to-chemical-attack-1491528268">the U.S. fired nearly 60 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield<span> </span></a><span>used to carry out a chemical attack that killed scores of people.</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>Trump’s tweet of announcing a missile strike, is likely a first for a world leader and contradicts his own words that it’s something, “he’d never do.”</h2> <blockquote> <p><span><strong>Mr. Trump’s early morning comments were remarkable in that he is, in some way, telegraphing</strong> the<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-military-strike-syria.html">United States’ response</a><span><span> </span>to a<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attack-ghouta.html">suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria</a><span>, which is something he had previously criticized other leaders for doing. Mr. Trump has said publicly that sharing military plans could give enemies information they could use to their advantage.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Regardless of whether one is in agreement that an attack on Syria is warranted, it cannot be denied that this serves a convenient distraction for Trump. Last week, prior to the FBI raid on his fixer and personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Trump stated the U.S. should pull out of Syria. His erratic behavior and lack of diplomatic skills is alarming, to say the least. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) DonaldTrump Russia Syria _1756142 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:06:22 +0000 FBI Raid on Trump's Fixer included Cohen's Taxi Business Ties to Russian Investors, Organized Crime https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/10/1755941/-FBI-Raid-on-Trump-s-Fixer-included-Cohen-s-Taxi-Business-Ties-to-Russian-Investors-Organized-Crime <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>The FBI raid carried out Monday on the offices and home of Trump’s most loyal minion and personal attorney Michael Cohen, not only targeted hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, but documents related to Cohen’s Taxi business were also seized. </p> <h2><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/382482-fbi-search-warrant-on-cohen-inquired-into-taxi-medallion-ownership" target="_blank"><em>FBI search warrant on Cohen covered taxi medallion ownership</em></a></h2> <p>Cohen has a long history of shady business dealings with ties to Russian business partners and organized crime. </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/taxis" target="_blank">Taxis!</a></p> <p>We’ve been telling you for years that Michael Cohen’s business history couldn’t survive first contact with serious investigative scrutiny. <strong>He’s been tied his entire life to emigres from Russia and Ukraine; he’s been their business partners, and they’ve been the source of rivers of money </strong>from that part of the world which Cohen has used to make himself a very wealthy man. <strong>A number of them have reputed ties to organized crime. Taxis, real estate, casino cruise boats.</strong> These are all businesses that require large amounts of cash to operate. They’re all good ways to channel cash into the United States. With <strong>Cohen taxis have always been the biggest red flag in our reporting.</strong></p> <p>For years, Cohen was a big operator in the NYC taxi business, a business which involves the ownership of one or more of the finite number of medallions that allows you to drive a taxi. These used to be worth more than a $1 million apiece. They’ve dropped considerably with the rise of Uber. <strong>We’ve been waiting for a year for attention to turn to Cohen’s taxi business and his business partners, especially Simon Garber, a taxi magnate who has or has had major taxi holdings in cities ranging from New York to Chicago to New Orleans to Moscow</strong>. Allegra Kirkland’s July 2017<span> </span><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/michael-cohen-business-family-ties-ukraine">article</a><span> </span>goes into various aspects of Cohen’s businesses, including some<span> </span><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/michael-cohen-business-family-ties-ukraine">details on the taxi business</a>.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <h2><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-treating-cohen-like-hes-a-mob-lawyer-say-attorneys-fbi-had-to-clear-high-bar-to-search-cohens-home-2018-04-10" target="_blank">Feds treating Cohen like he’s a mob lawyer, say attorneys | FBI had to clear high bar to search Cohen’s home.</a></h2> <p>Cohen has been part of Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election for some time. “The pugnacious Manhattan lawyer’s name has cropped up in various subplots involving the Trump administration and Russian interests, from a largely unverified dossier compiled by a former British spy to an effort to get a secret Ukraine “peace plan” that would end U.S. sanctions against Russia on the desk of Trump’s first national security advisor. He’s also reportedly a<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-russia.html?_r=0">person of interest</a><span> </span>in the sprawling federal investigation into Russian election meddling.”</p> <p>But the investigation continues to expand and now includes Cohen’s business dealings that are very likely entangled with Trump’s business endeavors. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Michael Cohen is the most important non-Trump in the Trump business world. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He oversaw nearly all the foreign deals as the Trump Org shifted its focus to sketchy third-tier overseas oligarchs. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1/&lt;/p&gt;— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/983670699884793856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 10, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Michael Cohen is the most important non-Trump in the Trump business world. <br><br>He oversaw nearly all the foreign deals as the Trump Org shifted its focus to sketchy third-tier overseas oligarchs. <br><br>1/</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/983670699884793856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Trump has been secretive about his business and denies dealings with Russian investors but investigative reporting reveals <a href="http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/" target="_blank">ties to Russian oligarchs</a> and <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910" target="_blank">the mob.</a> Cohen, who likes to refer to himself as Ray Donovan, runs his own deals but has also served as a “deal guy” for Trump.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/current/michael-cohen-raid#EricLach951a32" target="_blank">What Michael Cohen Knows About the Trump Organization</a></p> <p>Cohen is often described as Trump’s personal lawyer. He is a lawyer, and he did work for Trump personally, but not in a traditional lawyerly capacity. What he did for Trump and the Trump Organization is bring in business deals. <strong>It’s more accurate to say that Cohen was one of Trump’s deal guys. Maybe the most important deal guy, after Trump’s children.</strong></p> <p>• <strong>Cohen was directly involved in the Trump Organization’s pursuit of international deals in the years leading up to Trump’s Presidential campaign. During this period, the Trump Organization<span> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal">did business</a><span> </span>with corrupt politicians, sanctions violators, and money launderers.</strong> A key question, which carries significant legal ramifications, is how much the company knew about these partners’ records and reputations. Michael Cohen can answer this question.</p> <p>• Trump might have reason to worry about Cohen coöperating with federal investigators, but his two oldest children—Donald, Jr., and Ivanka—likely have even more reason. Cohen, Donald, Jr., and Ivanka were essentially the Trump Organization’s entire global development team when the company was shaking hands with questionable business partners around the world.<strong> If Cohen were to coöperate with investigators, they would surely ask him about Trump’s children.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adamdavidson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@adamdavidson&lt;/a&gt; has done a lot of investigative reporting on the Trump Organization. He shares (via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ericlach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@ericlach&lt;/a&gt;) some key facts to keep in mind about as we watch the drip, drip on Michael Cohen. &lt;a href="https://t.co/h33QiWp21v"&gt;https://t.co/h33QiWp21v&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/983765102636797952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 10, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/adamdavidson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adamdavidson</a> has done a lot of investigative reporting on the Trump Organization. He shares (via <a href="https://twitter.com/ericlach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ericlach</a>) some key facts to keep in mind about as we watch the drip, drip on Michael Cohen. <a href="https://t.co/h33QiWp21v">https://t.co/h33QiWp21v</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Michael Luo (@michaelluo) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/983765102636797952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Cohen’s business entanglements and deep involvement with the Trump Organization along with the fact that the recent FBI raid on his offices targeted documents related to business dealings, may signal <strong>an FBI raid on the Trump Organization is coming.</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) cohen Recommended trump _1755941 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:49:05 +0000 Trump's Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert Resigns at the Request of John Bolton https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/10/1755906/-Trump-s-Homeland-Security-Tom-Bossert-Advisor-Resigns <p><a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbossert" target="_blank">Whitehouse reporter for Bloomberg, Jennifer Jacobs</a>, reports that in what appears to be a Bolton shake up, Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor has been “essentially fired.”</p> <p>Bossert’s resignation comes at the request of John Bolton.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/trump-s-homeland-security-adviser-tom-bossert-said-to-resign" target="_blank" title=""><span>Trump Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert to Resign</span></a></p> <p>President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, will resign at the request of new National Security Adviser John Bolton, a person familiar with the matter said.</p> <div>Bossert has served in the White House since Trump’s inauguration. He’s been a key adviser to the president on cybersecurity and headed up the White House’s response to major hurricanes that struck Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands last year.</div> <div></div> <div><span>But he resisted a reorganization of the National Security Council last year that made him subordinate to the national security adviser, then H.R. McMaster, the person said.</span></div> <div><span>***</span></div> <div><span><strong>Bossert is the second high-ranking national security official to leave the White House since Bolton began his job on Monday,</strong> following Michael Anton, a spokesman for the National Security Council. Anton’s resignation was announced on Sunday; he’ll leave the post at a future date that hasn’t been announced.</span></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Another exit from the White House: Thomas Bossert, the homeland security adviser, is leaving. It’s a sign John Bolton will name his own people. &lt;a href="https://t.co/DD5e76yBrL"&gt;https://t.co/DD5e76yBrL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— The New York Times (@nytimes) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/983723814851940352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 10, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Another exit from the White House: Thomas Bossert, the homeland security adviser, is leaving. ItÃ¢Â€Â™s a sign John Bolton will name his own people. <a href="https://t.co/DD5e76yBrL">https://t.co/DD5e76yBrL</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/983723814851940352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Bossert’s forced resignation is a signal that Bolton is moving to consolidate power:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Still, the action indicates Bolton is moving to put his own stamp on White House personnel. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/trumps-top-homeland-security-advisor-tom-bossert-to-resign.html" target="_blank">When a CNBC reporter pointed out that Bossert was seen as one of the most effective people in the Trump administration, another White House official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, responded: <strong>"That was likely the problem."</strong></a></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Top Trump Departures*&lt;br&gt;Yates&lt;br&gt;Flynn&lt;br&gt;Walsh&lt;br&gt;Comey&lt;br&gt;Dubke&lt;br&gt;Shaub&lt;br&gt;McFarland&lt;br&gt;Corralo&lt;br&gt;Spicer&lt;br&gt;Short&lt;br&gt;Priebus&lt;br&gt;Mooch&lt;br&gt;Bannon&lt;br&gt;Gorka&lt;br&gt;Icahn&lt;br&gt;Lotter&lt;br&gt;Price&lt;br&gt;Powell&lt;br&gt;Manigault&lt;br&gt;Dearborn&lt;br&gt;McCabe&lt;br&gt;Porter&lt;br&gt;Brand&lt;br&gt;Sorensen&lt;br&gt;Raffel&lt;br&gt;Hicks&lt;br&gt;Cohn&lt;br&gt;Tillerson&lt;br&gt;McEntee&lt;br&gt;McMaster&lt;br&gt;Shulkin&lt;br&gt;Anton&lt;br&gt;Bossert&lt;br&gt;*My count&lt;/p&gt;— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/983716277473677312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 10, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Top Trump Departures*<br>Yates<br>Flynn<br>Walsh<br>Comey<br>Dubke<br>Shaub<br>McFarland<br>Corralo<br>Spicer<br>Short<br>Priebus<br>Mooch<br>Bannon<br>Gorka<br>Icahn<br>Lotter<br>Price<br>Powell<br>Manigault<br>Dearborn<br>McCabe<br>Porter<br>Brand<br>Sorensen<br>Raffel<br>Hicks<br>Cohn<br>Tillerson<br>McEntee<br>McMaster<br>Shulkin<br>Anton<br>Bossert<br>*My count</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/983716277473677312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) bolton Bossert HomelandSecurity Recommended trump _1755906 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:13:16 +0000 Electrical Malfunction in Unit with No Sprinklers, No Smoke Alarm caused Deadly Trump Tower Inferno https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/9/1755698/-Electrical-Malfunction-in-Unit-with-No-Sprinklers-No-Smoke-Alarm-caused-Deadly-Trump-Tower-Inferno <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Saturday evening, fire fighters entered a 50th floor Trump Tower residence that was ablaze. The unit had no sprinkler system, allowing the fire to spread quickly. Sprinkler systems are now required by code in NYC but buildings built prior to 1999 which have not undergone major renovations are not required to be retrofitted with sprinklers because Trump successfully lobbied to have existing buildings exempted from the code.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="https://nypost.com/1999/01/04/survivor-of-culkin-fire-a-crusader/" target="_blank">Trump has called a dozen council members to lobby against sprinklers,</a></strong> including Speaker Peter Vallone. <strong>He has also donated $5,000 to retire Vallone’s campaign debt, </strong>and personally telephoned committee chairman Archie Spigner, and Walter McCaffery, the sponsor of the bill.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Trump says he can’t afford to install sprinklers in all his building</p> <p class="AlignCenter">***</p> <p style="text-align:start"><strong>“I would inform Trump there must be sprinklers in every apartment and hallway,” Rose responded.</strong></p> <p style="text-align:start">“I would tell him if there has been a sprinkler in the Culkin apartment, the fire would have been out in 30 seconds, and nobody would have died. I will gladly pay a small rent increase to have sprinklers.”</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Video: FDNY responds to fire on 50th floor of Trump Tower in NYC; at least one person seriously injured, officials say. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumptower?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#trumptower&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumptowerfire?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#trumptowerfire&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/1zJgOsQBtV"&gt;pic.twitter.com/1zJgOsQBtV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Steven Romo ABC13 (@StevenABC13) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/StevenABC13/status/982767818830745600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 7, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Video: FDNY responds to fire on 50th floor of Trump Tower in NYC; at least one person seriously injured, officials say. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumptower?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trumptower</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumptowerfire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trumptowerfire</a> <a href="https://t.co/1zJgOsQBtV">pic.twitter.com/1zJgOsQBtV</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Steven Romo ABC13 (@StevenABC13) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenABC13/status/982767818830745600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em><strong><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/09/trump-aggressively-fought-sprinkler-system-law-could-have-saved-man-trump-tower-fire" target="_blank"><span>Trump Aggressively Fought Sprinkler System Law That Could Have Saved Man in Trump Tower Fire</span></a></strong></em></p> <p>Sprinkler systems are relatively inexpensive, but Trump was too cheap to install them in his buildings which has endangered first responders and likely cost a man his life. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/status/983465563795046400" target="_blank"><em><strong><span>To Trump, regulation is a pain. Human lives are cheaper than the cost of sprinklers.</span></strong></em></a></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Trump Tower resident, Todd Brassner, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trump-tower-fire-victim-called-crazy-jew-prez-friend-article-1.3922739" target="_blank" title="">who Trump had allegedly called “a crazy Jew” </a>was found alive but unconscious and died from smoke inhalation shortly after being taken to Mt. Sinai hospital. Since Trump’s election, Brassner had been trying to sell his apartment but could not find a buyer. </p> <p>Four firefighters were injured battling the blaze. Trump Tower residents were terrified and reported they received no notice from management when the fire broke out:</p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left"><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/07/fire-at-trump-tower/" target="_blank" title="">We were smelling the smoke, and it was really scary</a>, and we had to leave the store,” one witness told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner.</p> <p style="text-align:left">“I saw like a load of debris smashing windows, and then that’s when they were like you’ve got to get out,” said witness Will Hammonds.</p> <p style="text-align:left">“Then all of a sudden, as we were going up the escalator, there was this massive noise,” a woman added.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=YiaS49jl1-s" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YiaS49jl1-s" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>Fire alarms were not triggered in the building. There was no evacuation plan and there was no working smoke alarm in Brassner’s apartment. </p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fire-Trump-Tower-479181183.html" target="_blank">No Working Smoke Alarm Found in Trump Tower Inferno Apartment: FDNY Official</a></strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>NYC Fire Marshalls report the inferno appears to be caused by an electrical malfunction.</strong></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Fire marshals are still investigating the cause of Saturday&amp;#39;s Trump Tower fire but preliminarily it appears to be an accidental electrical malfunction inside the apartment where there was no working smoke alarm&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JoshMargolin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@JoshMargolin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/983413613141676033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 9, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Fire marshals are still investigating the cause of Saturday's Trump Tower fire but preliminarily it appears to be an accidental electrical malfunction inside the apartment where there was no working smoke alarm<a href="https://twitter.com/JoshMargolin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoshMargolin</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/983413613141676033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fire-Trump-Tower-479181183.html" target="_blank">This is the second fire caused by an electrical malfunction in the “well built” Trump Tower in the past three months.</a></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Two people were injured in the fire, which officials said may have been caused by electrical heaters inside the cooling tower.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Jerome Rose, who in 1999, directly called on Trump to support having sprinklers installed in all residential NYC high rise buildings had this to say about the recent inferno at Trump Tower:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-fought-efforts-retrofit-high-rises-fire-sprinklers/story?id=54323329" target="_blank"><span style="text-align:start">It's criminal ... that people who live in these high-rise buildings without sprinklers do not have any protection," Rose told ABC News on Sunday.</span></a></p> </blockquote> <p>Trump has made no mention of Todd Brassner, the man who died in a fire in his building. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;To review: There was a fire in the residential section Trump Tower where there are no sprinklers, in part because Trump lobbied against regs requiring them. Someone died, which Trump didn’t mention, instead praising &amp;nbsp;the safety of his building. &lt;a href="https://t.co/KMBe7O6Im7"&gt;https://t.co/KMBe7O6Im7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/983015124033253376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 8, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>To review: There was a fire in the residential section Trump Tower where there are no sprinklers, in part because Trump lobbied against regs requiring them. Someone died, which Trump didnÃ¢Â€Â™t mention, instead praising the safety of his building. <a href="https://t.co/KMBe7O6Im7">https://t.co/KMBe7O6Im7</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/983015124033253376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Although Trump successfully fought the code requiring sprinklers be installed in all residential high rises in NYC, that may be changing after the recent deadly blaze at Trump Tower, a building owned and operated by the Trump Organization:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/law-requiring-fire-sprinklers-in-nyc-high-rises-may-return-e2-80-94against-trump-e2-80-99s-wishes/ar-AAvGZ97" target="_blank">Law Requiring Fire Sprinklers in NYC High-Rises May Return—Against Trump’s Wishes</a></p> <p><span>A New York City lawmaker is looking to mandate that residential buildings—including Trump Tower—adopt fire sprinkler systems after one civilian was killed and six firefighters were injured in a<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/07/us/trump-tower-fire/index.html">fire</a><span><span> </span>at Trump’s Fifth Avenue headquarters over the weekend.</span></p> <p>Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy, chairman of the Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings, put in a request on Monday to draft legislation that would require buildings like Trump Tower, as well as residential buildings with four units or above, to be retrofitted with sprinklers.</p> <p>Cornegy insists that the sprinkler requirement is a “tool in a toolbox” that can ultimately result in the safety of “hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.”</p> <p>“We would like to think that at the very least, it provides an extra cushion of time to seek safety—if not putting out a fire in due time,” he said at a press conference announcing the legislation at City Hall on Monday afternoon.</p> <p>In 1999, now-President Donald Trump, a developer,<span> </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-fought-efforts-retrofit-high-rises-fire-sprinklers/story?id=54323329">fought against</a><span> </span>a bill that required residential complexes to have sprinklers, Cornegy noted.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Recommended TrumpTowerFire _1755698 Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:17:31 +0000 Keeping America Safe? Man dies in fire in Trump Tower where there are no sprinklers on upper floors. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/7/1755326/-Keeping-America-Safe-Man-dies-in-Trump-Tower-Fire-where-there-are-no-sprinklers-on-upper-floors <p>A fire broke out Saturday evening on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York city. The blaze took the life of one man whose apartment became quickly engulfed in flames and injured four fire fighters. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Video from the scene shows the moment fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower; at least one person seriously injured, FDNY says. &lt;a href="https://t.co/sYR3Dw4wZ1"&gt;https://t.co/sYR3Dw4wZ1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/khMYXDJcql"&gt;pic.twitter.com/khMYXDJcql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ABC News (@ABC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/982759689720131584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 7, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Video from the scene shows the moment fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower; at least one person seriously injured, FDNY says. <a href="https://t.co/sYR3Dw4wZ1">https://t.co/sYR3Dw4wZ1</a> <a href="https://t.co/khMYXDJcql">pic.twitter.com/khMYXDJcql</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/982759689720131584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <h2><strong>Trump Tower does not have sprinklers on the upper floors.</strong></h2> <p><strong>Trump chose to skimp on installing sprinklers on the higher floors of his building when codes changed </strong>requiring sprinkler systems in new residential buildings. The code requires older buildings to be retrofitted if major renovations have been undertaken. </p> <p>Trump Tower is grandfathered in <strong>if </strong>no major renovations have been done to the luxury building.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.startribune.com/fire-breaks-out-at-trump-tower-in-nyc/479062593/" target="_blank">1 Killed in Trump Tower Fire</a></p> <p>Fire sprinklers were not required in New York City highrises when Trump Tower was completed in 1983.</p> <p>Subsequent updates to the building code required commercial skyscrapers to install the sprinklers retroactively, but owners of older residential highrises are not required to install sprinklers unless the building undergoes major renovations.</p> <p>The 664-foot Trump Tower has 58 stories, though the top floor is numbered 68.</p> <p>Trump's family has an apartment on the top floors, but he has spent little time in New York since taking office. Nigro said no member of the Trump family was in the building Saturday.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><sup><span>The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has promoted research, development, testing and demonstrations of residential fire sprinklers for more than 30 years. <a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/about/sprinklers_position.html" target="_blank">The research has indisputably demonstrated that residential fire sprinklers can:</a></span></sup></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/about/sprinklers_position.html" target="_blank"><sup>Save the lives of building occupants.</sup></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/about/sprinklers_position.html" target="_blank"><sup>Save the lives of firefighters called to respond to a home fire.</sup></a></li> <li><sup>Significantly reduce the risk of premature building collapse to firefighters by lightweight construction components when they are involved in a fire.</sup></li> <li><sup>Substantially reduce property loss caused by a fire.</sup></li> </ul> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I guy that doesn&amp;#39;t care enough to put sprinklers and fire alarms in his namesake building ought not to be trusted to Protect America &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/justsaying?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#justsaying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— KAT TALES TV (@KatTalesTV) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KatTalesTV/status/982795863205429248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 8, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I guy that doesn't care enough to put sprinklers and fire alarms in his namesake building ought not to be trusted to Protect America <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/justsaying?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#justsaying</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” KAT TALES TV (@KatTalesTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatTalesTV/status/982795863205429248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Trump tweeted about the fire Saturday night---to brag about his building. He’s made no mention of the man who perished in the fire in his building or the injured fire fighters. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Donald Trump used the fire at Trump Tower to brag about it being a “well built building” despite someone being seriously injured. Even tragedies aren’t off limits when it comes to his compulsive bragging.&lt;/p&gt;— Adam Best (@adamcbest) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/982761497435738112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 7, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Donald Trump used the fire at Trump Tower to brag about it being a Ã¢Â€Âœwell built buildingÃ¢Â€Â despite someone being seriously injured. Even tragedies arenÃ¢Â€Â™t off limits when it comes to his compulsive bragging.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Adam Best (@adamcbest) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/982761497435738112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;✅ Bragging about Trump Tower while it’s on fire&lt;br&gt;✅ Managing to be sexist while thanking firefighters &lt;br&gt;✅ Ignoring civilian and first responder injuries&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;🎯 Yep - Donald Trump wrote this tweet &lt;a href="https://t.co/q2NDIBIm0L"&gt;https://t.co/q2NDIBIm0L&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/982767907749818368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 7, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ã¢ÂœÂ… Bragging about Trump Tower while itÃ¢Â€Â™s on fire<br>Ã¢ÂœÂ… Managing to be sexist while thanking firefighters <br>Ã¢ÂœÂ… Ignoring civilian and first responder injuries<br><br>Ã°ÂŸÂŽÂ¯ Yep - Donald Trump wrote this tweet <a href="https://t.co/q2NDIBIm0L">https://t.co/q2NDIBIm0L</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/982767907749818368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2018</a></blockquote></div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Recommended TrumpTower _1755326 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 02:11:15 +0000 Cruz Challenger Beto O'Rourke Sets Fundraising Record. "No PACS. No Special Interests. Just People." https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/4/4/1754356/-Cruz-Challenger-Beto-O-Rourke-Sets-Fundraising-Record-No-PACS-No-Special-Interests-Just-People <p>Democratic Senate candidate, Beto O’Rourke, is posing the greatest threat to Republican Senator Ted Cruz of his entire political career. Beto, a rising star in Texas Democratic circles, is not only generating an “<span>Ann Richards-level enthusiasm,” drawing large crowds, he’s outraised Ted Cruz in the first three of four FEC reporting periods.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/texas-ted-cruz-orourke-senate.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Fus%2Ftexas-ted-cruz-orourke-senate.html&eventName=Watching-article-click" target="_blank">In Texas, Ted Cruz Is Facing an Unusual Challenge: A Formidably Financed Democrat</a></p> <p><strong>For the first time in Mr. Cruz’s rise to political prominence in Texas, he is facing a serious Democratic challenger,<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/us/politics/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-election.html">Representative Beto O’Rourke</a><span> </span></strong>from El Paso, who has stunned political observers by raising more money than any Democrat who has ever run for a Senate seat in Texas.</p> <p>Mr. O’Rourke, a former punk-rock bassist and El Paso city councilman, has raised $13.2 million in the race so far, and <strong>outraised Mr. Cruz in three of four Federal Election Commission reporting periods.</strong> (Mr. Cruz has not yet reported his latest fund-raising.) <strong>In the first three months of 2018, Mr. O’Rourke raised $6.7 million, more than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the country in that period.</strong></p> <p>Mr. O’Rourke’s campaign has given Texas Democrats a burst of hope. They view Mr. Cruz as politically vulnerable and disconnected in Texas after his failed run for president, especially as anger against President Trump rises even in red states such as Texas. And they see in Mr. O’Rourke — an Irish-American congressman who is fluent in Spanish and has gone by<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/politics/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-texas-senate.html">Beto, a Spanish nickname of Roberto</a>, since childhood — a model of the future of the Texas Democratic Party.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"All without the support from corporations and PACs." &lt;a href="https://t.co/AvlmHMiuaB"&gt;pic.twitter.com/AvlmHMiuaB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Beto O&amp;#39;Rourke (@BetoORourke) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/981539541994688517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 4, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"All without the support from corporations and PACs." <a href="https://t.co/AvlmHMiuaB">pic.twitter.com/AvlmHMiuaB</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/981539541994688517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>Cruz has not released his first-quarter fundraising numbers yet, but O'Rourke's $6.7 million total is on a different level than his previous hauls, which ranged from $1.7 million to $2.4 million. Those alone were good enough to outraise Cruz for three of the last four reporting periods.</p> <p>Furthermore, the<strong> $6.7 million total came from more than 141,000 contributions — another record-busting number for O'Rourke.</strong></p> <p></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-xl align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-04-04_13.17.12.png" class="width-xl" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/527885/large/Screenshot_2018-04-04_13.17.12.png?1522862294" title="Screenshot_2018-04-04_13.17.12.png"> <figcaption>Beto at March for Our Lives protest</figcaption> </figure> <p><em><strong><span>“I feel like there are so many amazing people who have so much to contribute, and age or experience shouldn’t be a limiting factor,” he said. Speaking about young voters, O’Rourke says: “They get that the political system really is rigged, and to some degree it’s fixed by people who have this extraordinary concentration of wealth or power or influence, and opening it up to everybody is a real change in our democracy for the positive.”</span></strong></em></p> <p><span>Beto O’Rourke, current member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is running a grassroots style campaign. He’s not using pollsters or political consultants and he’s getting a big boost from young voters. </span></p> <p><span>Beto supports single payer healthcare system, a ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines and holds <a href="https://betofortexas.com/issues/" target="_blank">progressive positions on immigration, LGBT and women’s rights.</a></span></p> <p><span>A Democratic surge is taking hold in the Lone Star state ahead of midterms. For the first time in decades, Democrats are running in all 36 Congressional seats. </span></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/texas-primary-2018-03-06-voting-election-results-winners-live-stream-updates-tonight/" target="_blank">What results of Texas primaries could foreshadow for November</a></p> <p style="text-align:left">Some of Democrats' energy is reflected in the number of candidates running. For the first time in a quarter century in Texas, Democrats are running in all 36 congressional seats. And Democrats are expected to pick up some vulnerable seats from Republicans.</p> <p><span></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong><span><em>“No Texas Democrat has won a U.S. Senate seat in nearly 30 years or any statewide office since 1994. But U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is optimistic he can break the streak, in part by eschewing consultants, pollsters and PAC money.”</em></span></strong></p> <p>O’Rourke is determined he can shake things up in Texas and he may be right. Democrats are proving they can win areas Trump handily won. Tuesday, a Democratic candidate won a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court after “<span>a major swing in Democrats' favor in a state Senate race in Wisconsin earlier this year, it's the latest indication that the political ground has shifted since President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson won there in 2016.”</span></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/walker-warns-that-gop-is-at-risk-of-a-23bluewave-after-democratic-win-in-wisconsin-court-race/ar-AAvrcEZ" target="_blank">Walker warns that GOP is 'at risk of a #BlueWave' after Democratic win in Wisconsin court race</a></p> <p>The run began in November 2017, when they handily won the Virginia governor's race and nearly flipped control of a state assembly that had been two-thirds Republican.</p> <p>Even more worrying for Republicans is that Democratic candidates have had success in areas Trump won easily in 2016, including a special election for a US Senate seat in Alabama in December, and then in March when Democrat Conor Lamb won a House seat in western Pennsylvania's deep-red steel country.</p> </blockquote> <p>The early success of Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is part of a growing blue wave across the nation and has left NRA shill Ted Cruz, who kicked off his “Tough as Texas” campaign last night at the Redneck Country Club, shaking in his boots. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Beto O&amp;#39;Rourke is literally giving Ted Cruz a run for his money—making every Republican in the deep red South tremble.&lt;/p&gt;— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/981177181198942208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 3, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Beto O'Rourke is literally giving Ted Cruz a run for his moneyÃ¢Â€Â”making every Republican in the deep red South tremble.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/981177181198942208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p><a href="https://betofortexas.com/" target="_blank">BETO FOR TEXAS</a></p> <p>@BetoORourke</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BetoORourke BlueWave BoycottNRA MarchForOurLives NeverAgain Recommended TedCruz Texas TX-Sen TX-Senate _1754356 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:14:40 +0000 Ted Nugent, NRA Board Member and Child Predator, Attacks Parkland Kids, Calls them 'Soulless' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/31/1753447/-Ted-Nugent-NRA-Board-Member-and-Child-Predator-Attacks-Parkland-Kids-Calls-them-Soulless <div style="text-align:start"><strong><em>Crazed Ted Nugent fetishizes guns and young girls. He is the epitome of toxic masculinity. This is the face of the NRA.</em></strong></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-31_10.23.41.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/526592/large/Screenshot_2018-03-31_10.23.41.png?1522506247" title="Screenshot_2018-03-31_10.23.41.png"> <figcaption>Birds of a feather...</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">Nugent,<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-hosts-ted-nugent-white-house-c0da4b94c51/" target="_blank"> washed up rock singer, often seeks out the spotlight with "incendiary commentary"</a> and his abusive comments about the Parkland teen, gun violence victims is no exception. During a call in appearance on NewsMax’s, The Joe Pag’s Show, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-nugent-evidence-is-irrefutable-the-parkland-student-activists-have-no-soul/" target="_blank" title="">Nugent attacked the Parkland victims as “mushy brained children” who “have no soul.”</a></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p style="text-align:start">TED NUGENT: The level of ignorance goes beyond stupidity. Again, the National Rifle Association are a bunch of American families who have a voice to stand up for our God-given Constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. We have no blood on our hands. No NRA member have ever been involved in any mass shootings at all, in fact the National Rifle Association is the lone organization that has taught firearm safety in schools, and for law enforcement, and for military, and for childrens organizations and family organizations around the country for 100 years. So once again, this poor pathetic individual is a liar.</p> <p style="text-align:start">JOE PAGLIARULO (HOST): I’m going to pick it up from there. And then she continues and then the David Hogg kid who everybody’s talking about lately jumps in.</p> <p style="text-align:start">[…]</p> <p style="text-align:start">NUGENT: The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies. I really feel sorry for them because it’s not only ignorant and dangerously stupid, but it’s soulless. To attack the good law-abiding families of America when well known predictable murderers commit these horrors is deep in the category of soulless. These poor children, I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul.</p> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/03/30/nra-board-member-ted-nugent-calls-parkland-students-poor-pathetic-liars-no-soul/219803" target="_blank">VIDEO</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong><a href="https://genius.com/Ted-nugent-jailbait-lyrics" target="_blank"><span style="text-align:start">Nugent: "I am a Predator"</span></a></strong></p> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Well, I don’t care if you’re just 13</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>You look too good to be true</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>I just know that you’re probably clean...</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Jailbait you look fine, fine, fine...</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>It’s quite alright, I asked your mama</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Wait a minute, officer</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Don’t put those handcuffs on me</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>Put them on her, and I’ll share her with you</em></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><em>***</em></p> Nugent, who is an official board member of the NRA and has campaigned for a number of Republicans, including Mitt Romney, has a history of boasting about sexually assaulting young girls and allegedly molested Courtney Love when she was just 12 years old.</div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="http://www.samefacts.com/2007/07/everything-else/more-on-ted-nugent/" target="_blank">Child molester</a></p> <p style="text-align:start">Reportedly Nugent admitted/bragged about multiple sexual encounters with minors in his interview with<span> </span><a href="http://www.roctober.com/roctober/behindthemusic1.html">Behind the Music</a>. On the same show, Nugent explained how<span> </span><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/ted-nugent?cat=entertainment">he persuaded the parents of his seventeen-year-old girlfriend to make him her legal guardian</a><span> </span>on the theory that this would allow him to bang her with impunity. </p> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:start"></p> <p style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2004/03/courtneys-underage-ted-nugent-sex.html">Courtney Love reportedly told Howard Stern</a><span> </span>that she gave Nugent oral sex when she was 12 and he was 28.</strong> Apparently when Nugent wrote the song “Jail Bait” he knew what he was talking about. Too bad he never experienced the “jail” part.</p> </div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> </div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=ckgSVi7G" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ckgSVi7G_Qw" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Ted Nugent has never liked children who say no.&lt;a href="https://t.co/wdfYM8YIx9"&gt;https://t.co/wdfYM8YIx9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/980052047797129218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 31, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ted Nugent has never liked children who say no.<a href="https://t.co/wdfYM8YIx9">https://t.co/wdfYM8YIx9</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) <a href="https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/980052047797129218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>This degenerate’s abusive comments come amid a long stream of attacks from so called adults on the right:</p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/28/tech-s-moral-obligation-parkland-survivors/219766" target="_blank">It’s also inspired a steady stream</a> of<span> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/26/breitbart-and-other-right-wing-outlets-push-claims-compare-parkland-survivor-david-hogg-nazi/219736">harassment</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/26/Here-are-the-hoaxes-surrounding-the-Parkland-shooting-and-the-Stoneman-Douglas-students/219743">hoaxes</a><span> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/27/right-wings-conspiracy-theory-network-now-going-after-high-school-kids/219752">from the right</a>.</p> <p style="text-align:start">The latest attacks on the students, right after their<span> </span><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/380321-more-than-a-million-people-participated-in-anti-gun-violence-marches">wildly successful march</a>, are particularly vile. They<span> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/26/Here-are-the-hoaxes-surrounding-the-Parkland-shooting-and-the-Stoneman-Douglas-students/219743">include</a> doctored images, memes suggesting that the students support communist dictators or Nazis (apparently communism and fascism are one and the same now), and accusations that student David Hogg wasn’t actually present for the shooting (just for the record, we know Hogg was there<span> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/david-hogg-profile-florida-shooting/index.html">because he recorded interviews</a><span> </span>with his fellow students during the shooting). Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took things to another level entirely when<span> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/03/27/alex-jones-infowars-releases-video-depicting-parkland-survivor-emma-gonzalez-member-hitler-youth/219754">he released videos</a><span> </span>depicting a Parkland survivor as a Hitler Youth member and transposing a Hitler speech over another’s words. The students<span> </span><a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/steve-kings-facebook-page-mocks-parkland-survivors">were even mocked<span> </span></a>by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, a congressman, on his Facebook page.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Right when you think that people will stop the personal attacks directed at shooting survivors, they become even more cruel. They continue to defend their guns more than they defend innocent lives. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ask yourself “what if it was my kid?” &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And hope you never have that answer.&lt;/p&gt;— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/980070140225183744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 31, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Right when you think that people will stop the personal attacks directed at shooting survivors, they become even more cruel. They continue to defend their guns more than they defend innocent lives. <br><br>Ask yourself Ã¢Â€Âœwhat if it was my kid?Ã¢Â€Â <br><br>And hope you never have that answer.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/980070140225183744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>And there’s more. <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/26/1751964/-NRA-Hustler-Rick-Santorum-gets-PWNed-by-Student-NeverAgain-Activist-David-Hogg" target="_blank">NRA shrill Rick Santorum publicly stated that students should stop advocating for gun safety and learn CPR.</a> Disgraced NC <span>Rep. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bb4nchouse/" target="_blank">Beverly Boswell (R-Devil Hills)</a> who was recently outed for fraudulently claiming to be a nurse, commented on her FB page, ‘Speakers at March For Our Lives rallies were calling for the murder of citizens who would not turn their guns over to the government.’ </span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>Most of these attacks by adults on the Parkland teen, gun violence victims have gone unpunished. But not all. <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/30/1753407/-After-18-brands-pull-ads-from-her-show-Laura-Ingraham-says-she-s-taking-a-week-off" target="_blank">Laura Ingraham has been dumped by eighteen of her advertisers after David Hogg called for a boycott. </a>This may not lead to the shut down of her program, but…</span></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2017/02/07/when-do-consumer-boycotts-work" target="_blank"><strong><span>If the boycott reflects a movement — rather than a moment — it can change the world around it.</span></strong></a></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I would normally call for a boycott of Ted Nugent, but nobody is buying anything he is selling already. &lt;a href="https://t.co/jdwmSfFsa3"&gt;pic.twitter.com/jdwmSfFsa3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/980058915923775488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 31, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I would normally call for a boycott of Ted Nugent, but nobody is buying anything he is selling already. <a href="https://t.co/jdwmSfFsa3">pic.twitter.com/jdwmSfFsa3</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/980058915923775488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2018</a></blockquote></div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BoycottNRA DavidHogg EmmaGonzalez GunViolence LauraIngraham MattDeitsch NeverAgain Recommended RickSantorum SexualPredator TedNugent _1753447 Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:10:45 +0000 NYT: Stephon Clark was Shot by Police 8 Times from Behind or the Side, Independent Autopsy Finds https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/30/1753315/-NYT-Stephon-Clark-was-Shot-by-Police-8-Times-from-Behind-or-the-Side-Independent-Autopsy-Finds <p>An independent autopsy contradicts Sacramento Police’s narrative that they shot and killed Stephon Clark because he was aggressing toward them while holding a gun. </p> <p>The autopsy shows Stephon Clark, who was unarmed, was hit 8 times, mostly in the back and two from the side. </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/us/stephon-clark-independent-autopsy.html" target="_blank">Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds</a></p> <p>Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was killed by the Sacramento police in his grandmother’s backyard, was shot eight times from behind or the side, according to a private autopsy commissioned by his family. The autopsy concluded that Mr. Clark’s death was not instantaneous, taking an estimated three to 10 minutes, raising questions about why Mr. Clark was not given more immediate medical care after the shooting.</p> <p>Mr. Clark, whose death has sparked protests throughout the city, was shot at more than 20 times by officers responding to a vandalism report in a Sacramento neighborhood last week.</p> <p>At least eight of those bullets struck Mr. Clark, according to an analysis by Dr. Bennet Omalu, a private medical examiner his family’s lawyer hired to conduct an independent autopsy, which was released Friday.</p> <p>According to Dr. Omalu, Mr. Clark was shot four times in the lower part of his back, twice in his neck, and once under an armpit. He was also shot in the leg. One of the neck wounds was from the side, the doctor found.</p> </blockquote> <p>22 year old Stephon Clark was gunned down in his grandmother’s backyard after police conducted a foot search for an individual who allegedly broke windows in the area. As officers approached Clark, they did not identify themselves as the police, but shouted the command, “Show your hands.” It’s possible that it was at this point, Clark followed the command and put his hands out with a cell phone in one hand. </p> <p>WARNING GRAPHIC:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=7avxbmMkyXo" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7avxbmMkyXo" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/stephon-clark-and-what-we-still-dont-know-about-the-sacramento-police-shooting" target="_blank">Stephon Clark and what we still don’t know about the Sacramento police shooting</a></p> <p style="text-align:start"><strong>“One officer appears to confirm after the shooting that Clark had obeyed their commands to show his hands,</strong>” said Mark Reichel, a civil rights attorney who reviewed the body camera footage for the Sacramento Bee.</p> <p style="text-align:start">One important element to note about the officers’ commands: They do not appear to identify themselves as police, Reichel told the Bee.</p> </blockquote> <p>Initially, police stated they believed Stephon Clark held a crowbar and later stated they believed he was a pointing a gun in their direction. </p> <p>Police body cam video reveals just seconds after the command, they began to fire over 20 shots, eight hitting Stephon Clark. Seven of those shots had a “fatal capacity” according to <span>Dr. Bennet Omalu, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy but Stephon Clark’s death took an estimated three to ten minutes. </span></p> <p><span>As Stephon Clark lay bleeding out in his grandmother’s backyard, police did not administer first aid but muted their body cams. </span></p> <blockquote> <p><span>About seven minutes after Sacramento police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandmother's backyard last week, officers were instructed to mute their body cameras. </span></p> <p><span>In both videos, an officer can be heard saying, "Hey, mute." Directly after, the video goes silent and officers talk among themselves.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div> <h3><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/us/sacramento-shooting-body-camera/index.html" target="_blank">'It builds suspicion'</a></h3> </div> <div> <div>The shooting has sparked<span> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting-protests/index.html">nationwide outrage</a>, with the muting of the body cameras raising questions about the officers' actions. CNN has called and emailed the police department, but has not heard back.</div> <div>Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn told<span> </span><a href="http://www.kcra.com/article/chief-hahn-talks-about-deadly-sacramento-police-shooting/19568093" target="_blank">CNN affiliate KCRA</a><span> </span>that the action has added to the tension after the shooting.</div> </div> </blockquote> <p>California AG has announced the state department of Justice will provide independent oversight of the investigation into Clark’s death:</p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that the California Department of Justice will be stepping in to provide independent oversight of the investigation into Clark’s death.</p> <p style="text-align:start">“We take on this responsibility in full recognition of the importance of getting it right – because there is nothing more important than respect and trust between law enforcement and the communities that they are sworn to protect,” Becerra said.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>President Trump has been silent on the issue of police killings. When asked if the White House had a comment on the killing of Stephon Clark, Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated, “It’s a local issue.”</p> <p>Clearly it’s not. Nearly 1,000 people per year have been shot and killed by police in the last three years, nationwide. </p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">Since 2015, nearly 1,000 people have been fatally shot by police each year, according to the Washington Post’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/?utm_term=.e4bb834333ff">fatal police shooting database</a>, which began collecting and analyzing data in 2014, after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Close to 250 people have been fatally shot by police so far this year, according to the Post’s database. Clark was the 225th.</p> <p style="text-align:start">In the years since Brown’s death, there have been growing calls for greater police transparency and accountability. Many police departments — including Sacramento’s — have changed their policies on things like use of lethal force and transparency around officer-involved shootings.</p> </blockquote> <p>An alarmingly high number of unarmed individuals being murdered by the police each year, with a disproportionately high number of black people being shot down, demands federal intervention. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Black skin is not made of steel. You don&amp;#39;t need 20 bullets. That&amp;#39;s not "fear", that&amp;#39;s rage. School shooters, church shooters, concert shooters, cinema shooters and fedex bombers are scary. Not a young father in his grandmother&amp;#39;s backyard with a cellphone. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StephonClark?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#StephonClark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Terruuu (@terruuu) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/terruuu/status/977396623046094848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 24, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Black skin is not made of steel. You don't need 20 bullets. That's not "fear", that's rage. School shooters, church shooters, concert shooters, cinema shooters and fedex bombers are scary. Not a young father in his grandmother's backyard with a cellphone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StephonClark?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StephonClark</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Terruuu (@terruuu) <a href="https://twitter.com/terruuu/status/977396623046094848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BlackLivesMatter GunViolence PoliceBrutality Racism Recommended StephonClark _1753315 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:11:14 +0000 Kentucky Teachers Shut Down Schools after GOP Slips through Bill that Robs Teacher Pensions https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/30/1753224/-Kentucky-Teachers-Shut-Down-Schools-after-GOP-Slips-through-Bill-that-Robs-Teacher-Pensions <div style="text-align:start">In what teachers are calling a Sewage bill (a bill that originally was for sewage services), late Thursday, Kentucky Republicans snuck through a bill through which robs teachers of their pensions.</div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"><span style="text-align:start">Thursday night,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/29/kentucky-house-committee-approves-surprise-pension-reform-bill/470723002/">as the pension bill passed</a><span style="text-align:start">, many continued to voice their outrage, stunned and furious by lawmakers' quick unveiling and voting on the measure. They chanted objections throughout, like "Shame on you.”</span></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;7 things teachers need to know about Kentucky’s surprise pension bill&lt;a href="https://t.co/QNxunwVROX"&gt;https://t.co/QNxunwVROX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/ThyxDZLqw8"&gt;pic.twitter.com/ThyxDZLqw8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BGPolitics/status/979719634965467136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 30, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>7 things teachers need to know about KentuckyÃ¢Â€Â™s surprise pension bill<a href="https://t.co/QNxunwVROX">https://t.co/QNxunwVROX</a> <a href="https://t.co/ThyxDZLqw8">pic.twitter.com/ThyxDZLqw8</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/BGPolitics/status/979719634965467136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"> <h2><a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/03/30/Teachers-outrage-over-pension-bill-closes-Kentucky-schools/9381522412024/" target="_blank">Teachers' outrage over pension bill closes Kentucky schools</a></h2> <div style="text-align:start"><strong>Teachers protested late into Thursday night as SB151, the pension bill, passed and many called in sick Friday morning causing over 20 school systems to close. </strong></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> </div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <div style="text-align:start">SB151, according to <span style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taw06gnzW_E" target="_blank">Brent McKim, President of Jefferson County Teachers</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taw06gnzW_E" target="_blank"> Association</a>, will cap sick days for calculating pensions at whatever number it is at the end of this year for current teachers. By doing so, the bill robs teachers' retirements by severely limiting the number of sick days eligible for use to enhance pension benefits. This means current teachers will be forced to work more years in order to receive the same benefits raising retirement age to 65. </span><span>In a rush to slide the sewage bill through, the Kentucky GOP failed to provide an actuarial analysis which is required to pass a bill out of committee. </span></div> <div style="text-align:start"> <div style="text-align:start"></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align:start"><span style="text-align:start">McKim said the union will challenge the bill on constitutional grounds because he said lawmakers broke state law by passing the bill without an actuarial analysis.</span></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h3><a href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article207418159.html" target="_blank">Pension bill tactics came from the sewers. They show GOP majority can’t be trusted.</a></h3> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">It was fitting that Republicans rammed their newest secret pension plan through the General Assembly in a matter of hours Thursday as an amendment to a bill about sewer system regulations. The whole process stank.</p> <p style="text-align:start">This overhaul of Kentucky’s public employee pension systems was sent to Gov. Matt Bevin for his likely signature with no legally required actuarial analysis, no fiscal statement, no Senate committee hearing, no input from the people most affected and no public discussion.</p> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article207317709.html" target="_blank">Few lawmakers had read the 291-page bill they voted on<span> </span></a>while angry teachers protested outside their chamber doors. No member of the public had seen it.</p> <p style="text-align:start">No wonder every Democrat and several Republicans voted against this travesty. No wonder lawmakers needed police escorts out of the Capitol last night.</p> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:start"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">This is one more sign that America is becoming an oligarchy, funded by wealthy business interests and dutifully administered by the Republican Party using any means necessary.</p> </blockquote> <p>Next week, as Spring Break starts, protests are expected to continue and court challenges will begin.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>And come November, Kentucky will not forget.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This pension robbery stinks as much as the sewage bill it was tacked onto.&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RememberInNovember?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#RememberInNovember&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/120Strong?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#120Strong&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/BiXeJuoOCA"&gt;pic.twitter.com/BiXeJuoOCA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kentucky Democrats (@KyDems) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KyDems/status/979502081290711042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 29, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This pension robbery stinks as much as the sewage bill it was tacked onto.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RememberInNovember?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RememberInNovember</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/120Strong?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#120Strong</a> <a href="https://t.co/BiXeJuoOCA">pic.twitter.com/BiXeJuoOCA</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kentucky Democrats (@KyDems) <a href="https://twitter.com/KyDems/status/979502081290711042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) 120Strong Recommended RememberInNovember SB151 _1753224 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:17:20 +0000 Baton Rouge Braces for Protests as AG Announces: "No Charges to be Filed" in Alton Sterling Case https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/27/1752462/-Baton-Rouge-Braces-for-Protests-as-AG-Announces-No-Charges-to-be-Filed-in-Alton-Sterling-Case <p>Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Tuesday morning that the two white police officers, who shot and killed Alton Sterling while they had him pinned to the ground, will not face criminal charges. </p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">WARNING, GRAPHIC:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=jBZPCDqymyo" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jBZPCDqymyo" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:start"></p> <p style="text-align:start">Prosecutors in Louisiana said Tuesday that the Baton Rouge police officers involved in the<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/06/video-captures-white-baton-rouge-police-officer-fatally-shooting-black-man-sparking-outrage/?utm_term=.87a2c9d085c8">fatal shooting of Alton Sterling</a> will not face criminal charges, a decision announced nearly two years after his death prompted<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/09/arrests-in-baton-rouge-where-black-panthers-confront-state-troopers/?utm_term=.830557833bf4">intense protests</a>.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Sterling was killed in July 2016 by officers responding to a call about a man who had threatened someone with a gun. The Baton Rouge officers then encountered Sterling, 37, selling CDs outside of a convenience store, and fatally shot him during an encounter that<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/03/five-key-takeaways-from-the-justice-dept-investigation-into-alton-sterlings-death/?utm_term=.20c5c0e4e782">lasted less than 90 seconds</a>.</p> <p style="text-align:start">“This decision was not taken lightly,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said while announcing Tuesday morning that no criminal charges would be brought.</p> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:start"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Louisiana AG declines to bring charges against two officers in shooting death of Alton Sterling:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"After a thorough and exhaustive review of the evidence... the Louisiana Department of Justice cannot proceed with a prosecution." &lt;a href="https://t.co/c4O8wr7xXK"&gt;pic.twitter.com/c4O8wr7xXK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/978662936280489984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Louisiana AG declines to bring charges against two officers in shooting death of Alton Sterling:<br><br>"After a thorough and exhaustive review of the evidence... the Louisiana Department of Justice cannot proceed with a prosecution." <a href="https://t.co/c4O8wr7xXK">pic.twitter.com/c4O8wr7xXK</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/978662936280489984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>Louisiana State police are preparing for more protests in reaction to today’s announcement. </p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-27_12.19.33.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/524793/large/Screenshot_2018-03-27_12.19.33.png?1522167791" title="Screenshot_2018-03-27_12.19.33.png"> <figcaption>Protests in cities around the nation took place following the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile which occurred less than 48 hours apart.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Attorney General's Office staffers were told not to report to work at the Livingston state office building on Tuesday, according to a department-wide email that told employees to treat the day as "an unexpected day off" if they do not have other business outside the office.</p> <p>The email included new security protocols described as being put into effect for the office indefinitely starting Wednesday. Security will remain tight, and staffers were admonished not to respond to any "questions/comments from non-employees outside the building."</p> <p>The State Police were also mobilizing additional manpower ahead of Tuesday's announcement. A law enforcement source said the agency was bringing in a mobile field force normally assigned to the northern part of the state, with even more backup on standby. Some troopers were being told to pack eight days worth of clothing.</p> </blockquote> <p>Within a mere 90 seconds, police approached Alton Sterling as he stood in front of a convenience store and shot him three times in the chest and three times in the back, killing him on the scene.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>“At the beginning of the interaction, Officer Salamoni put his gun to Alton Sterling’s head and said, ‘I’ll kill you, bitch.’” 90 seconds later Alton Sterling was dead.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>The incident sparked protests throughout Baton Rouge and around the nation. The officers were not wearing body cams but a by stander captured the incident on cell phone video which was widely circulated.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alton-sterling-protests_us_577d3bc7e4b0a629c1ab812b" target="_blank">Alton Sterling Protesters Remind You What America Keeps Forgetting</a></p> <div><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alton-sterling-protests_us_577d3bc7e4b0a629c1ab812b" target="_blank">“Black Lives Matter” is still an issue because “All Lives Matter” isn’t a reality.</a></div> <div> <div> <p>Citizens have gathered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling to protest his death by police and call for justice in what some residents say is unwarranted police violence against black residents.</p> </div> <div> <p>Sterling, a 37-year-old <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/13-painful-facts-about-alton-sterlings-life-and-death_us_577d1220e4b09b4c43c1b14e?section=">father of five</a>, was killed by Baton Rouge police early Tuesday morning after officers responded to reports of a man carrying a gun, threatening others and selling CDs in front of a Triple S convenience store. </p> <p class="AlignCenter">***</p> <div> <p>After a bystander’s cellphone footage of the shooting spread over social media, protesters gathered at the scene of Sterling’s death Tuesday night.</p> </div> <div> <p>More protesters turned out Wednesday with memorials for Sterling that included flowers and photos of him with his family. Others carried signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice 4 Alton Sterling.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>The decision comes as yet another blow to the struggle against state violence that targets black people. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The Baton Rouge police officers involved in the July 2016 fatal shooting of Alton Sterling won’t face criminal charges from &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AGJeffLandry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AGJeffLandry&lt;/a&gt;. Second verse, same as the first. &lt;a href="https://t.co/3ng0OwWtWZ"&gt;https://t.co/3ng0OwWtWZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/978656514662543360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The Baton Rouge police officers involved in the July 2016 fatal shooting of Alton Sterling wonÃ¢Â€Â™t face criminal charges from <a href="https://twitter.com/AGJeffLandry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGJeffLandry</a>. Second verse, same as the first. <a href="https://t.co/3ng0OwWtWZ">https://t.co/3ng0OwWtWZ</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/978656514662543360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We continue to mourn the brutal murder of Alton Sterling. Black people continue to be betrayed by this country, a country that claims liberty and freedom for all, yet continues to allow for the murders of Black people with impunity. I am saddened and sickened. &lt;a href="https://t.co/GP4Nw7ByEL"&gt;pic.twitter.com/GP4Nw7ByEL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— patrisse cullors (@OsopePatrisse) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OsopePatrisse/status/978660415642025984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We continue to mourn the brutal murder of Alton Sterling. Black people continue to be betrayed by this country, a country that claims liberty and freedom for all, yet continues to allow for the murders of Black people with impunity. I am saddened and sickened. <a href="https://t.co/GP4Nw7ByEL">pic.twitter.com/GP4Nw7ByEL</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” patrisse cullors (@OsopePatrisse) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsopePatrisse/status/978660415642025984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Alton Sterling’s family, still reeling in anguish over the unnecessary loss of their loved one has made a public statement, “The system has failed us.”</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Alton Sterling’s family say they have no more tears left to cry &lt;a href="https://t.co/E8VpGzPTSZ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/E8VpGzPTSZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Kristin Pierce WWLTV (@KPierceTV) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/KPierceTV/status/978664133393633282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Alton SterlingÃ¢Â€Â™s family say they have no more tears left to cry <a href="https://t.co/E8VpGzPTSZ">pic.twitter.com/E8VpGzPTSZ</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Kristin Pierce WWLTV (@KPierceTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/KPierceTV/status/978664133393633282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="es" dir="ltr"&gt;STOP&lt;br&gt;GUN&lt;br&gt;VIOLENCE.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Register&lt;br&gt;Educate&lt;br&gt;Vote. &lt;a href="https://t.co/pQyDbWZI7W"&gt;https://t.co/pQyDbWZI7W&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/978619559484813314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>STOP<br>GUN<br>VIOLENCE.<br><br>Register<br>Educate<br>Vote. <a href="https://t.co/pQyDbWZI7W">https://t.co/pQyDbWZI7W</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/978619559484813314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Matt Deitsch, Community Outreach director for MarchForOurLives on the decision:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;This is gun violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We have to fight for Alton Sterling.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We have to stop the senseless violence and death.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pressure your public servants — The universe is on the side of justice. &lt;a href="https://t.co/6NHEWum0t2"&gt;https://t.co/6NHEWum0t2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/978670445548523520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This is gun violence.<br><br>We have to fight for Alton Sterling.<br><br>We have to stop the senseless violence and death.<br><br>Pressure your public servants Ã¢Â€Â” The universe is on the side of justice. <a href="https://t.co/6NHEWum0t2">https://t.co/6NHEWum0t2</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/978670445548523520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) altonsterling BlackLivesMatter GunViolence MarchForOurLives PoliceBrutality _1752462 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:26:59 +0000 Retired SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens: 'Repeal the 2nd Amendment. A Relic of the 18th Century' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/27/1752441/-Retired-SCOTUS-Justice-John-Paul-Stevens-Repeal-the-2nd-Amendment-A-Relic-of-the-18th-Century <p>Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was appointed by Republican President Gerald Ford, has penned a searing indictment of the Second Amendment in an Op-Ed in the NYT.</p> <p>Referring to ‘the concern a potential threat a national army could pose to the security of separate states’ as a “relic of the 18th century,” <strong>Justice John Paul Stevens calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment. </strong></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank">John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment</a></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">"Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century," wrote Stevens. </span></p> </blockquote> <p>Justice John Paul Stevens opens his essay by praising the civic engagement of the #NeverAgain activists stating that it is a strong signal to lawmakers to enact sensible gun safety legislation.</p> <blockquote> <p>Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.</p> <p>That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.</p> </blockquote> <h2>In his Op-Ed, Stevens cites SCOTUS Justice Warren Burger’s public criticism’s of the NRA as being a special interest group who is perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public.”</h2> <blockquote> <p><span>During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/03/05/590920670/from-fraud-to-individual-right-where-does-the-supreme-court-stand-on-guns">publicly characterized</a><span><span> </span>the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Justice John Paul Stevens closes his essay by stating appealing the Second Amendment would remove the only legal barrier that protects arms dealers in the United States. </p> <blockquote> <p><span>That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform. It would eliminate the only legal rule that protects sellers of firearms in the United States — unlike every other market in the world. It would make our schoolchildren safer than they have been since 2008 and honor the memories of the many, indeed far too many, victims of recent gun violence.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Retired Justice John Paul Stevens compelling argument to repeal the Second Amendment is demonstrative of the paradigm shift on gun control that is taking place in United States. But while Steven’s call for a repeal of the Second Amendment likely wont gain wide support, one thing is certain, it will continue to keep the debate of gun safety laws in the national spotlight and shift the dialogue to the left.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;lol... seeing a lot of liberals and progressives run as far away from JPS&amp;#39;s "Repeal the Second Amendment" piece as they possibly can. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And that&amp;#39;s why the NRA regularly has its way with them. You can&amp;#39;t be reasonable with unreasonable people, people.&lt;/p&gt;— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/978616899180384256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>lol... seeing a lot of liberals and progressives run as far away from JPS's "Repeal the Second Amendment" piece as they possibly can. <br><br>And that's why the NRA regularly has its way with them. You can't be reasonable with unreasonable people, people.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/978616899180384256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We cannot, should not, and will never repeal the Second Amendment. The only Amendment that was ever repealed was the 18th which prohibited alcohol. Amendments serve to expand our rights—not limit them. We can have commonsense gun control while still defending our Constitution.&lt;/p&gt;— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/978641597712687109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We cannot, should not, and will never repeal the Second Amendment. The only Amendment that was ever repealed was the 18th which prohibited alcohol. Amendments serve to expand our rightsÃ¢Â€Â”not limit them. We can have commonsense gun control while still defending our Constitution.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/978641597712687109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;We don’t need to repeal the second amendment. We just need to reverse Heller. That decision is only 10 years old, ffs.&lt;/p&gt;— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/978641161840558081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 27, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We donÃ¢Â€Â™t need to repeal the second amendment. We just need to reverse Heller. That decision is only 10 years old, ffs.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/978641161840558081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"> </p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) 2A BoycottNRA GunViolence JusticeJohnPaulStevens NeverAgain _1752441 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:21:16 +0000 Linda Brown, Center of Landmark Case to End Segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, Dies at 76 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/26/1752298/-Linda-Brown-Center-of-Landmark-Case-to-End-Segregation-Brown-v-Board-of-Education-Dies-at-76 <p>Linda Brown was just 9 years old when her father tried to enroll her in an elementary school near their home in Topeka, Kansas in 1951. The all white school refused to enroll Linda because of the color of her skin, insisting she travel miles from her home to attend an all black school. </p> <blockquote> <p>Linda Brown’s father, Oliver Brown, became the lead plaintiff in the Brown v. Board case after attempting to enroll her in 1951 in the all-white Sumner Elementary School near the family’s home in Topeka.</p> <p>He was rebuffed and told his daughter had to attend the all-black Monroe School, two miles from their home. The Topeka school district maintained 18 elementary schools for white children and four for black children.</p> <p>Oliver Brown responded by joining a dozen other plaintiffs in the NAACP’s legal challenge of segregated schooling in Kansas. Cases from the District of Columbia and four states — South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas — were then consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.</p> </blockquote> <p>Facing tremendous pressure, Linda Brown and her parents, <span style="text-align:start">Leola<span> </span></span>and Oliver Brown, along with 12 other families, became the center of a landmark case brought by the NAACP.</p> <p><span>Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's special counsel and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, argued the case before the Supreme Court:</span></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-26_18.21.36.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/524576/large/Screenshot_2018-03-26_18.21.36.png?1522105282" title="Screenshot_2018-03-26_18.21.36.png"> <figcaption>Linda Brown (left)</figcaption> </figure> <p>In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in<span> </span><em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em><span> </span>that “separate but equal” accommodations in railroad cars conformed to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. That ruling was used to justify segregating all public facilities, including elementary schools. However, in the case of Linda Brown, the white school she attempted to attend was far superior to her black alternative and miles closer to her home. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/naacp">NAACP</a>) took up Linda’s cause, and in 1954<span> </span><em>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka</em><span> </span>reached the Supreme Court. African American lawyer (and future Supreme Court justice)<span> </span><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thurgood-marshall">Thurgood Marshall</a><span> </span>led Brown’s legal team, and on May 17, 1954, the high court handed down its decision.</p> <p>In an opinion written by Chief Justice<span> </span><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/earl-warren">Earl Warren</a>, the nation’s highest court ruled that not only was the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional in Linda’s case, it was unconstitutional in all cases because educational segregation stamped an inherent badge of inferiority on African American students. A year later, after hearing arguments on the implementation of their ruling, the Supreme Court published guidelines requiring public school systems to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”</p> <p><span>The<span> </span></span><em>Brown v. Board of Education</em><span><span> </span>decision served to greatly motivate the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately led to the abolishment of racial segregation in all public facilities and accommodations.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Linda Brown said of the case, thirty years after it’s ruling:</p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">I feel that after thirty years, looking back on Brown v. The Board of Education, it has made an impact in all facets of life for minorities throughout the land. I really think of it in terms of what it has done for our young people, in taking away that feeling of second class citizenship. I think it has made the dreams, hopes and aspirations of our young people greater, today.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Linda Brown went on to complete her degrees and continued to speak out against segregation throughout her life.</p> <blockquote> <p><span style="text-align:start">Nonetheless, she has continued to speak out on segregation and reopened the Topeka case with the American Civil Liberties Union in 1979, arguing that the district's schools still weren't desegregated. It was eventually ruled by the Court of Appeals in 1993 that the school system was indeed still racially divided, and three new schools were built as part of integration efforts.</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>Linda Brown, who as a child, changed the world, has died at 76 years old, in Topeka, Kansas. </h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Linda Brown’s courage made our nation stronger. She blessed all of us. Sending deep appreciation for her and her family. &lt;a href="https://t.co/KL8jSm2rph"&gt;https://t.co/KL8jSm2rph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ben Jealous for Governor (MD) (@BenJealous) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BenJealous/status/978397046939029505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Linda BrownÃ¢Â€Â™s courage made our nation stronger. She blessed all of us. Sending deep appreciation for her and her family. <a href="https://t.co/KL8jSm2rph">https://t.co/KL8jSm2rph</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ben Jealous for Governor (MD) (@BenJealous) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenJealous/status/978397046939029505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Rest in power to Linda Brown, the young girl at the center of the 1954 Brown v. The Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation. &lt;a href="https://t.co/EdkXuVgIF9"&gt;https://t.co/EdkXuVgIF9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/blackvoices/status/978393261172756481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rest in power to Linda Brown, the young girl at the center of the 1954 Brown v. The Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation. <a href="https://t.co/EdkXuVgIF9">https://t.co/EdkXuVgIF9</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) <a href="https://twitter.com/blackvoices/status/978393261172756481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Linda Brown, lead plaintiff in our landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, has died. As a young girl, her courage in the face of one of the darkest forces in American history fundamentally changed our nation. For that, we owe her our eternal gratitude. &lt;a href="https://t.co/qMgpy67n6h"&gt;https://t.co/qMgpy67n6h&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_LDF/status/978389125286985728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Linda Brown, lead plaintiff in our landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, has died. As a young girl, her courage in the face of one of the darkest forces in American history fundamentally changed our nation. For that, we owe her our eternal gratitude. <a href="https://t.co/qMgpy67n6h">https://t.co/qMgpy67n6h</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_LDF/status/978389125286985728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter"><strong>Rest in Power, Linda Brown.</strong></p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned width-md"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-26_19.05.58.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/524577/large/Screenshot_2018-03-26_19.05.58.png?1522105634" title="Screenshot_2018-03-26_19.05.58.png"> <figcaption>Linda Brown in 2004</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BrownvBoardofEducation InstitutionalizedRacism lindabrown NAACP Recommended Segregation ThurgoodMarshall _1752298 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:57:01 +0000 NRA Hustler Rick Santorum gets PWNed by Student #NeverAgain Activist David Hogg https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/26/1751964/-NRA-Hustler-Rick-Santorum-gets-PWNed-by-Student-NeverAgain-Activist-David-Hogg <p><strong>NRA Hustler, Rick Santorum, says Parkland #NeverAgain Activists Should Stop Pushing for Gun Reform and Learn CPR</strong></p> <p>In what has to be one of the most callous, repugnant comments to fall out of the mouth of a Republican since young activists have taken the nation by storm in their push for gun safety laws, Rick Santorum stated on CNN Sunday morning and I quote:</p> <blockquote> <p>SANTORUM: Yeah, I mean, this is the bottom line. Is this a political effort? Is this a political movement? It very well may be, and that's fine. If the organizers, who certainly supported it, the Hollywood elites and the liberal billionaires who funded this, it's all about politics.</p> <p>Is this really all about politics, or is it all about keeping our schools safe? Because if it is about keeping our schools safe, then we have to have a much broader discussion than the discussion that's going on right now.</p> <p><strong>How about kids, instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes, or try to deal with situations where there is some violence and how you actually respond to that?</strong></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=iAAgxOsFVlw" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iAAgxOsFVlw" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p>#NeverAgain activist and victim of gun violence, David Hogg, was fast to clap back at Santorum’s provocative statement.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I think &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RickSantorum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@RickSantorum&lt;/a&gt; might need to learn CPR for the NRA following midterms&lt;/p&gt;— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/977997229989515264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 25, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I think <a href="https://twitter.com/RickSantorum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RickSantorum</a> might need to learn CPR for the NRA following midterms</p>Ã¢Â€Â” David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/977997229989515264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Monday morning in an interview on CNN, David Hogg and his sister Lauren, further addressed Santorum’s statement:</p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><span>“I just think it’s completely absurd that he’s even thinking about teaching us CPR when with we’re having gun violence all across America and even in our schools,” Miss Hogg said. “The fact that he’s saying CPR when my friends are dying on my floor and nothing is being done about it — he’s just using it as a distraction away from guns.</span></p> <p><span>“I saw it last night on the news,” Mr. Hogg said. “Students are able to respond and administer whatever first aid they can assuming the person’s still alive. At the end of the day, if you take a bullet from an AR-15 to the head to no amount of CPR is going to save you because you’re dead.”</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;David Hogg calls BS on Rick Santorum: If you’re ‘shot in the head no amount of CPR will save you — you’re dead’ &lt;a href="https://t.co/niB2NHxelS"&gt;https://t.co/niB2NHxelS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Raw Story (@RawStory) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/978258721888522240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>David Hogg calls BS on Rick Santorum: If youÃ¢Â€Â™re Ã¢Â€Â˜shot in the head no amount of CPR will save you Ã¢Â€Â” youÃ¢Â€Â™re deadÃ¢Â€Â™ <a href="https://t.co/niB2NHxelS">https://t.co/niB2NHxelS</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Raw Story (@RawStory) <a href="https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/978258721888522240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Dear Rick Santorum: CPR is good for heart stoppage. Not good for victims of multiple AR-15 bullets, which typically impart 3 times the lethal energy upon impact than a 9mm handgun bullet. AR-15 bullets obliterate organs and cause so much bleeding that victims die very quickly. &lt;a href="https://t.co/5E0HBUFT9b"&gt;https://t.co/5E0HBUFT9b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/977956137042497536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 25, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Dear Rick Santorum: CPR is good for heart stoppage. Not good for victims of multiple AR-15 bullets, which typically impart 3 times the lethal energy upon impact than a 9mm handgun bullet. AR-15 bullets obliterate organs and cause so much bleeding that victims die very quickly. <a href="https://t.co/5E0HBUFT9b">https://t.co/5E0HBUFT9b</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/977956137042497536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Doubting the motives of <a href="https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives/status/978256128873086977" target="_blank" title="">hundreds of thousands of Americans who gathered in cities for a massive March for Our Lives to call for sensible gun safety laws</a>, Santorum’s depraved statement that kids “should take CPR” classes exemplifies precisely what the Republican party and their NRA sponsors seek to do: Silence the people and suppress their votes to in order to protect their megadonors.</p> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-25_11.22.10.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/524239/large/Screenshot_2018-03-25_11.22.10.png?1522072749" title="Screenshot_2018-03-25_11.22.10.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Santorum and the Republican party are both heavily funded by the NRA, an organization that expanded it’s mission in the 1980s to become a military grade arms dealer:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-lobbyist-arms-dealer-played-key-role-in-growth-of-civilian-market-for-military-style-guns/2013/05/03/4ee1945a-b268-11e2-baf7-5bc2a9dc6f44_story.html?utm_term=.1c190bc65075" target="_blank">NRA lobbyist, arms dealer played key role in growth of civilian market for military-style guns</a></strong></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">The legislative changes that LaPierre supported as the NRA’s chief lobbyist in the mid-1980s opened the door to the import of military-surplus weapons, which effectively had been banned for two decades. The legislation helped make a new, more powerful class of firearms more readily available to civilian gun owners and begin to shift the profile of American gun ownership.</span></p> <p><strong>The arms deal put together by Vos’s company — a $58 million venture to import 50-year-old American-made M-1 rifles from South Korea back to the United States — proved so lucrative that other gun merchants immediately tried to follow its lead. </strong>Other importers would seek to bring in more military weapons, not just American but also foreign-made arms such as Russian Kalashnikovs and Israeli Uzis, and new business associations sprang up to represent their interests in Washington.</p> <p style="text-align:start">The Blue Sky deal may have helped whet the appetite of American consumers for more and more military-style weapons. Before long, American manufacturers stepped up domestic production of such firearms, including semiautomatic assault rifles and high-capacity pistols, to meet the burgeoning demand.</p> </blockquote> <p>The United States has become a war zone where a small handful of arms dealers, gun manufacturers and the NRA are making a killing flooding the streets with weapons which comes with a high cost to the nation. </p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/03/25/nra-has-long-history-suppressing-data-gun-violence/ZryFdYf3WIAIlQkQRcwf9J/story.html" target="_blank">NRA has long history of suppressing data on gun violence</a></strong></p> <p><span>Most important, Webster and others found a huge disparity in gun dealers: <strong>Roughly 1 percent of all gun stores in the country accounted for more than half of the crime guns the ATF traced in the late 1990s,</strong> according to a Hopkins report. And in some cities, Webster found that just a few stores were responsible for selling weapons recovered in 70 percent to 90 percent of all gun crimes.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <div> <h4><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ar-15-style-weapons_us_5a84cf09e4b0ab6daf45ab2d" target="_blank">Assault-style rifles are relatively cheap and easy to buy.</a></h4> </div> <div> <p><span>The average price of an assault-style rifle fluctuates somewhat with supply and demand. Online distributors currently offer versions for under $200, though the average price appears to be around $1,000. A SIG Sauer MCX like that used by the Orlando gunman retails for about $1,700.</span></p> </div> <div> <p><span>In most states, anyone legally allowed to possess a handgun can also purchase an AR-15 or other assault-style rifle, with no further requirements. In Florida, for example, there is <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-shop-owner-orlando-nightclub-shooter-omar-mateen-passed-background-check/" target="_blank">no waiting period</a> for would-be buyers of rifles or other long guns.</span> </p> </div> <div> <p>Not even people on the terrorist watch list are barred from purchasing assault-style rifles. An attempt to close that loophole was <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-blocks-bill-stop-terrorists-buying-guns" target="_blank">voted down</a> by Senate Republicans in 2015, and was blocked again <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/284188-senate-votes-down-closing-terror-loophole" target="_blank">shortly after the Orlando shooting</a> the folllowing year.</p> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> <div style="text-align:center"></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Santorum and other shrills for the NRA who speak for a very small minority, (wealthy gun manufacturers and arms dealers), should expect to continue to get called out for stomping out the voices of the majority of Americans.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/25/1752108/-Millions-Marched-And-Today-Parkland-Students-Launched-A-Nationwide-Call-For-Townhalls-on-April-7" target="_blank">April 7th, Townhalls around the nation will be held to open up the debate on gun safety. </a></strong></p> <p>The NRA will no longer be able to hijack the debate and our democracy. Time’s up.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Great video: How the NRA hijacks gun control debates &lt;a href="https://t.co/9SYIqzAAnk"&gt;https://t.co/9SYIqzAAnk&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/978265543756124160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Great video: How the NRA hijacks gun control debates <a href="https://t.co/9SYIqzAAnk">https://t.co/9SYIqzAAnk</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/978265543756124160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"This is just the beginning." Florida school shooting survivor David Hogg says the March for Our Lives against gun violence was "a great start" and "the birth of a revolution." &lt;a href="https://t.co/gMlvfK5BxY"&gt;https://t.co/gMlvfK5BxY&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/AxaMNFyCjC"&gt;pic.twitter.com/AxaMNFyCjC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— CNN (@CNN) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/978253424604205056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 26, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"This is just the beginning." Florida school shooting survivor David Hogg says the March for Our Lives against gun violence was "a great start" and "the birth of a revolution." <a href="https://t.co/gMlvfK5BxY">https://t.co/gMlvfK5BxY</a> <a href="https://t.co/AxaMNFyCjC">pic.twitter.com/AxaMNFyCjC</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/978253424604205056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BlackLivesMatter BoycottNRA DavidHogg GunSafetyLaws GunViolence LaurenHogg MaryStonemanDouglas NeverAgain Recommended Santorum ShutDownArmsDealers _1751964 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:02:32 +0000 Trump Flips, Threatens to Veto Spending Bill and Shut Down Government. Hours later, Signs the Bill. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/23/1751135/-Trump-Starts-to-Cave-to-his-Extremist-Base-Threatens-to-Veto-Spending-Bill <p>After pressure from his extremist base and the realization that the spending bill will not fully fund his big, beautiful border wall, Trump wavers on his position, threatening to VETO it.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/trump-threatens-to-veto-omnibus-spending-bill-over-daca-and-the-border-wall.html" target="_blank">Trump threatens to veto omnibus spending bill over DACA and the border wall</a></p> <p><span><strong>The about-face comes a day after White House officials issued public assurances the president would sign the legislation,</strong> despite his misgivings about it. The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Saturday if Trump does not sign a funding bill into law.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977166887493799936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 23, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977166887493799936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>In his tweet Friday morning, Trump claims DACA and lack of funding for the border wall are reasons why he may veto the bill but Democrats had offered a deal that was rejected:</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Reminder: Democrats offered Trump *$25 billion* for wall/border in return for a path to citizenship for the DACA-eligibles. WH rejected.&lt;/p&gt;— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/977171296843976704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 23, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Reminder: Democrats offered Trump *$25 billion* for wall/border in return for a path to citizenship for the DACA-eligibles. WH rejected.</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/977171296843976704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p>The House Freedom Caucus, The Heritage Foundation, Laura <span style="text-align:start">Ingraham<span> </span></span>and other Right Wing Extremists are demanding Trump stand up to the GOP who agreed on a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/omnibus-bill/index.html?sr=twCNN032118omnibus-bill0842PMStory" target="_blank">2000 page omnibus Spending Bill</a> in large part because the bill lacks funding for the border wall but includes funding for Planned Parenthood. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@freedomcaucus&lt;/a&gt; officially opposes the omnibus. Statement attached. &lt;a href="https://t.co/qU526aA6W5"&gt;pic.twitter.com/qU526aA6W5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/976638597192470529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 22, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@freedomcaucus</a> officially opposes the omnibus. Statement attached. <a href="https://t.co/qU526aA6W5">pic.twitter.com/qU526aA6W5</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) <a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/976638597192470529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The omnibus spending bill unveiled last night is an embarrassing rundown of broken promises and leaves zero doubt Congress has turned its back on its commitments to the American people. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For too long, members of Congress have pledged to break Washington&amp;#39;s spending addiction...&lt;/p&gt;— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/976783193918631936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 22, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The omnibus spending bill unveiled last night is an embarrassing rundown of broken promises and leaves zero doubt Congress has turned its back on its commitments to the American people. <br><br>For too long, members of Congress have pledged to break Washington's spending addiction...</p>Ã¢Â€Â” Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/976783193918631936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Congress had reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening on the $1.3 trillion Spending Bill that includes $1.6 billion for border barriers. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/976654851684945920" target="_blank">Trump had previously boasted on twitter that the bill includes money for his wall </a>when in fact there are design limits attached to the border barriers money which will prevent the construction of any of Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” prototypes. </p> <p>The bill does not include DACA protections but does include protections for Sanctuary Cities. It also allocates a <span style="text-align:start">$3 billion increase over 2017 spending levels to be directed at tackling the Opioid addiction epidemic. Democrats were successful in including funding for Planned Parenthood, and Community Health Centers, and blocking employers from pocketing workers’ tips, among other measures.</span></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/22/heres-what-congress-is-stuffing-into-its-1-3-trillion-spending-bill/?utm_term=.af0790419d62" target="_blank"><strong>Here’s what Congress is stuffing into its $1.3 trillion spending bill</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Overall spending:</strong><span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>The “omnibus” appropriations bill doles out funding for the remainder of fiscal 2018 — that is, until Sept. 30 — to virtually every federal department and agency pursuant to the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/spending-deal-in-jeopardy-as-pelosi-issues-last-minute-demand-on-immigration/2018/02/07/a07e4e68-0c1b-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html">two-year budget agreement</a><span style="text-align:start"><span> </span>Congress reached in February. Under that agreement, defense spending generally favored by Republicans is set to jump $80 billion over previously authorized spending levels, while domestic spending favored by Democrats rises by $63 billion. The defense funding includes a 2.4 percent pay raise for military personnel and $144 billion for Pentagon hardware. The domestic spending is scattered across the rest of the federal government, but lawmakers are highlighting increases in funding for infrastructure, medical research, veterans programs and efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Civilian federal employees get a 1.9 percent pay raise, breaking parity with the military for the first time in several years.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Just yesterday, Ryan was confident Trump would sign the bill.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;NBCNews: Speaker Ryan yesterday: "The President supports this bill. There’s no two ways about it."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;President Trump tweeted this morning he&amp;#39;s "considering" a veto of the spending bill, citing lack of DACA deal and border wall funding. &lt;a href="https://t.co/sGtOcayaFY"&gt;pic.twitter.com/sGtOcayaFY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Maximiliano Valdes (@maxvaldes) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/maxvaldes/status/977175235169587200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 23, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NBCNews: Speaker Ryan yesterday: "The President supports this bill. ThereÃ¢Â€Â™s no two ways about it."<br><br>President Trump tweeted this morning he's "considering" a veto of the spending bill, citing lack of DACA deal and border wall funding. <a href="https://t.co/sGtOcayaFY">pic.twitter.com/sGtOcayaFY</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Maximiliano Valdes (@maxvaldes) <a href="https://twitter.com/maxvaldes/status/977175235169587200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>If Trump refuses to sign the bill by the end of today, there will be a government shut down.</h2> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Trump threatens to veto spending bill, raising specter of another shutdown &lt;a href="https://t.co/MJGPLpA0Xb"&gt;https://t.co/MJGPLpA0Xb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Jmds Course (@JmdsCourse) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JmdsCourse/status/977177798723981312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 23, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Trump threatens to veto spending bill, raising specter of another shutdown <a href="https://t.co/MJGPLpA0Xb">https://t.co/MJGPLpA0Xb</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Jmds Course (@JmdsCourse) <a href="https://twitter.com/JmdsCourse/status/977177798723981312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote></div> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BorderWall GovernmentShutdown Omnibusspendingbill Recommended trump _1751135 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:40:47 +0000 NYC Dept. of Buildings Launches Investigation into "Illegal Activity" on Kushner Building Permits https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/21/1751055/-NYC-Dept-of-Buildings-Launches-Investigation-into-Illegal-Activity-on-Kushner-Building-Permits <p class="AlignCenter">...</p> <p>The AP is reporting that the NYC Department of Buildings has launched an investigation of “illegal activity” involving applications for permit applications made on 13 of Kushner Co.’s buildings.</p> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <p class="AlignCenter">…</p> <p class="AlignCenter is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://apnews.com/307b69c25cb24b9184a9989543428a8a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP" target="_blank">NYC agency investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings</a></strong></p> <p><span>Kushner Cos. stated in more than 80 permit applications that it had zero rent-regulated tenants in its buildings when it, in fact, had hundreds.</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>The false filings were made while Kushner Cos. was run by Jared Kushner</strong>, now senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. The false filings were all signed by a Kushner employee, sometimes by its chief operating officer. None were signed by Jared Kushner himself.</p> <p>The false documents allowed the Kushner Cos. to escape extra scrutiny during construction at 34 of its buildings, many which showed a sharp decline in rent-regulated units following the work. Housing Rights Initiative, a watchdog group that uncovered the false filings, says that made it easier for the Kushner Cos. to harass the low-paying, rent-regulated tenants so they would leave, freeing up apartments for higher-paying tenants.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Kushner Co. falsified the documents in order to push out rent controlled tenants and raise rents. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://time.com/5204940/jared-kushner-company-false-paperwork-new-york/" target="_blank">Jared Kushner's Company Regularly Filed False Paperwork on New York City Housing, Report Says</a></p> <p>(NEW YORK) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.</p> <p>But that’s exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.</p> <p>Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Kushner is following the classic NYC slumlord game plan: using construction to push out rent-regulated tenants. We have enacted laws to stop this, but he in part was able to skirt them by lying on DoB filings. Laws were broken. There will be consequences. &lt;a href="https://t.co/gdAo6jDBtg"&gt;https://t.co/gdAo6jDBtg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/975779696595144704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 19, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Kushner is following the classic NYC slumlord game plan: using construction to push out rent-regulated tenants. We have enacted laws to stop this, but he in part was able to skirt them by lying on DoB filings. Laws were broken. There will be consequences. <a href="https://t.co/gdAo6jDBtg">https://t.co/gdAo6jDBtg</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/975779696595144704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p> Kushner Co. has a long history of predatory practices. In a feature by ProPublica, <span style="text-align:start">Alec MacGillis exposed Kusher Co.’s exploitative tactics used on low income tenants of a Baltimore property:</span></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-beleaguered-tenants-of-kushnerville" target="_blank">The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’</a></p> <p style="text-align:start">Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Kushner Co. owns and manages over 30,000 units in distressed, multifamily buildings, many of which were purchased from Freddie Mac Mortgage company in 2012. </p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>Jared Kushner stepped<span><span> </span>down as chief executive of Kushner Companies in January. <strong>But he remains a stakeholder in the company</strong> — his share of company-related trusts is estimated to be worth at least $600 million — and the company says it has no intention of selling off its multifamily holdings. (JK2 Westminster was formally dissolved in December, but Kushner Companies still owns the complexes through other entities; lawsuits against tenants are now typically filed in the names of the complexes themselves.) Because Kushner retains his interest in the complexes, the White House<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/investigations/bs-md-jared-kushner-housing-20170226-story.html">told The Baltimore Sun</a><span><span> </span>in February that he would recuse himself from any policy decisions about Section 8 funding, as many of his tenants rely on it for their rent. But even as Kushner now busies himself with his ever-expanding White House portfolio, his company is carrying on its vigorous efforts in court.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Despite charges of illegal activity while still CEO of Kushner Co., <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-trump.html" target="_blank">Jared Kushner maintains a Secret level Security Clearance in the White House,</a> which had recently been downgraded from Top Secret.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) kushner NY SlumLord _1751055 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:12:15 +0000 NRA Approval Ratings Nosedive After Parkland Shooting Tragedy Spurs #NeverAgain Movement. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/21/1750915/-NRA-Approval-Ratings-Nosedive-After-Parkland-Shooting-Tragedy-Spurs-NeverAgain-Movement <p>Since the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/florida-shooting.html" target="_blank" title="">Parkland tragedy where 17 were killed</a>, <strong>NRA approval ratings have dropped to a low point not seen in nearly two decades.</strong></p> <blockquote> <h2><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-poll-popularity-favorability-more-americans-dislike-2018-3" target="_blank" title="">Something historic is happening with how Americans see the NRA</a></h2> <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-21_14.58.43.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/521683/large/Screenshot_2018-03-21_14.58.43.png?1521661611" title="Screenshot_2018-03-21_14.58.43.png"> <figcaption>NRA Approval Ratings tank</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-master-political-insult-declines-chide-putin-n858621" target="_blank">The NRA’s fav/unfav rating is underwater</a>, with 37 percent viewing the organization positively and with 40 percent seeing it in a negative light (-3). That’s a noticeable shift from April 2017, when it was 45 percent positive, 33 percent negative (+12).</p> <p>In fact, it’s the first time since before 2000 when the NRA has been viewed more negatively than positively in the NBC/WSJ poll.</p> <figure><span>The biggest drops for the NRA came from white married women (50 percent positive in April 2017, 35 percent now), urban residents (43 percent positive in April, 28 percent now), white women (47 percent positive in April, 33 percent now) and moderate/soft Republicans (72 percent positive in April, 60 percent now).</span></figure> </blockquote> <p>Parkland student activists working in unity with other activists are changing the dialogue about gun safety laws. #NeverAgain activists have inspired school walk outs around the nation and have brought about an intensified national discussion of gun violence and reform.</p> <p>These young change agents are not only shifting attitudes about sensible gun safety laws, but have already made some gains legislatively. Recently, <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/florida-governor-signs-major-gun-reform-law.html" target="_blank">Florida governor signed a bill into law, raising the minimum wage to 21 years old for gun purchases and extending the waiting period to three days.</a></p> <h2><em><strong><span style="text-align:left">Gonzalez, 18, began the panel by leading a moment of silence for all the victims of recent school shootings before explaining why it is important to her, coming from a place of privilege, to speak up for victims of gun violence everywhere.</span></strong></em></h2> <p>March 20th, the Harvard Kennedy School held a forum with Marjory Stoneham Douglas High survivors to speak about,<span style="text-align:left"> <a href="https://dailyfreepress.com/blog/2018/03/21/parkland-students-discuss-advocacy-gun-violence-conversation-at-harvard-kennedy-school/" target="_blank">“advocacy and the socioeconomic disparity in the gun violence conversation.”</a></span></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left"><span>Six survivors of the February school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spoke at a forum Tuesday night at the Harvard Kennedy School about advocacy and the socioeconomic disparity in the gun violence conversation.</span></p> <p style="text-align:left"><span>The panelists included Marjory Stoneman Douglas seniors David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Ryan Deitsch, juniors Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind, and recent graduate Matt Deitsch. The conversation also revolved around their fight against the National Rifle Association.</span></p> <p style="text-align:left"><span>Gonzalez, 18, began the panel by leading a moment of silence for all the victims of recent school shootings before explaining why it is important to her, coming from a place of privilege, to speak up for victims of gun violence everywhere.</span></p> <p style="text-align:left"><span>She said speaking with students like Alex King, a senior at Chicago’s North Lawndale College Prep High School who lost his nephew in a drive-by shooting last year, opened her eyes to the racial and socioeconomic divide that propels certain gun violence stories on national television, while lower income communities suffer in silence every day.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=gbJLywjLq60" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gbJLywjLq60" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2><em><strong>‘As we’ve seen with other youth led movements, such as Black Lives Matter and the Dreamer activists, Parkland students are taking a moment and making it into a movement.’</strong></em></h2> <p>And they are just getting started. In what’s expected to be hundreds of thousands of individuals, March For Our Lives participants will take to the streets on March 24 around the nation.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://marchforourlives.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhcjVBRBHEiwAoDe5xz-_7roknCTDQcxFc1mO5TQ_TN6LKM0L615zF5SZxo3qhCtuVA6ZMBoC8GYQAvD_BwE" target="_blank"><strong>March For Our Lives</strong></a><span style="text-align:start"><a href="https://marchforourlives.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhcjVBRBHEiwAoDe5xz-_7roknCTDQcxFc1mO5TQ_TN6LKM0L615zF5SZxo3qhCtuVA6ZMBoC8GYQAvD_BwE" target="_blank"><span> </span></a>is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar. In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short in Florida, politicians are telling us that now is not the time to talk about guns. March For Our Lives believes the time is now. </span></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington, DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority. The collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard. </span></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">School safety is not a political issue. There cannot be two sides to doing everything in our power to ensure the lives and futures of children who are at risk of dying when they should be learning, playing, and growing. The mission and focus of March For Our Lives is to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues. No special interest group, no political agenda is more critical than timely passage of legislation to effectively address the gun violence issues that are rampant in our country.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Andra Day is honored to perform at &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@AMarch4OurLives&lt;/a&gt; in DC to show her support for students whose lives have been affected by gun violence across the country. Join March 24th: &lt;a href="https://t.co/sd3VEWdWHB"&gt;https://t.co/sd3VEWdWHB&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarchForOurLives?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#MarchForOurLives&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/N6CXsOlrzX"&gt;pic.twitter.com/N6CXsOlrzX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Andra Day (@AndraDayMusic) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/AndraDayMusic/status/976189336478609408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 20, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Andra Day is honored to perform at <a href="https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AMarch4OurLives</a> in DC to show her support for students whose lives have been affected by gun violence across the country. Join March 24th: <a href="https://t.co/sd3VEWdWHB">https://t.co/sd3VEWdWHB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarchForOurLives?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MarchForOurLives</a> <a href="https://t.co/N6CXsOlrzX">pic.twitter.com/N6CXsOlrzX</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Andra Day (@AndraDayMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndraDayMusic/status/976189336478609408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) BlackLivesMatter BoycottNRA Florida GunViolence MarchForOurLives MDs NeverAgain ParklandShooting _1750915 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:53:10 +0000 Deceased Austin Bomber was a Homeschooled, 23 Year Old White Male who had Considered a Mission Trip https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/21/1750834/-Deceased-Austin-Bomber-was-a-Homeschooled-23-Year-Old-White-Male-who-had-Considered-a-Mission-Trip <p>Little is known of the Austin bomber’s motives but police have confirmed the 23 year old man’s identity as Mark Anthony Conditt. In 2013, a female relative posted on Facebook that she had “graduated Mark from high school” and that he was considering a “Mission Trip.” </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;BREAKING NEWS: Austin bombing suspect identified as 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt. &lt;a href="https://t.co/8EJu55ueoe"&gt;https://t.co/8EJu55ueoe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/6Ix8UEYCda"&gt;pic.twitter.com/6Ix8UEYCda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Mary Huber (@marymhuber) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/marymhuber/status/976452200414302208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>BREAKING NEWS: Austin bombing suspect identified as 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt. <a href="https://t.co/8EJu55ueoe">https://t.co/8EJu55ueoe</a> <a href="https://t.co/6Ix8UEYCda">pic.twitter.com/6Ix8UEYCda</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Mary Huber (@marymhuber) <a href="https://twitter.com/marymhuber/status/976452200414302208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>After examining video from the Fed Ex office where Conditt had dropped two packages that contained explosive devices and numerous tips, police had identified the suspect and located his vehicle. Conditt detonated an explosive device as police approached his car. He died on the scene.</p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p" style="text-align:start"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-21_10.59.48.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/521590/large/Screenshot_2018-03-21_10.59.48.png?1521644457" title="Screenshot_2018-03-21_10.59.48.png"> <figcaption>Conditt, wearing gloves, a wig and hat, drops packages at Austin Fed Ex</figcaption> </figure> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="https://www.theroot.com/suspect-in-austin-bombings-killed-himself-in-explosion-1823949141?utm_source=theroot_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow" target="_blank" title="">“Beginning within the past 24-36 hours we began to get information [on a] person of interest that moved to a suspect,”</a> Manley told reporters. “Late last night and this morning we felt very comfortable that he was the suspect.”</p> <p style="text-align:start">The man was tracked to a hotel in Round Rock, Texas, after a car he was known to be driving was found. Police and federal agents moved in on the hotel, but were waiting for tactical backup—like armored vehicles—in order to take the suspected bomber into custody “as safely as possible.”</p> <p style="text-align:start">“While we were waiting for those vehicles to get here, much time had passed, and the vehicle started to drive away. We began following the vehicle, again waiting to get the tactical vehicles here so we could make a stop,” he added.</p> <div style="text-align:start"></div> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The Austin serial bombing suspect is dead. Here&amp;#39;s what to know about him &lt;a href="https://t.co/XV43ztRZ4x"&gt;https://t.co/XV43ztRZ4x&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/DFak1ZJfPt"&gt;pic.twitter.com/DFak1ZJfPt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— TIME (@TIME) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/976455487133806592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The Austin serial bombing suspect is dead. Here's what to know about him <a href="https://t.co/XV43ztRZ4x">https://t.co/XV43ztRZ4x</a> <a href="https://t.co/DFak1ZJfPt">pic.twitter.com/DFak1ZJfPt</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/976455487133806592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;A look at the suspected bombers vehicle and where he ended his life in Round Rock. AP just identified the bomber as Mark Anthony Conditt &lt;a href="https://t.co/a22h0lfpX4"&gt;pic.twitter.com/a22h0lfpX4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Michael Garofalo (@mikegaroNews4) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mikegaroNews4/status/976452530275340288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 21, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>A look at the suspected bombers vehicle and where he ended his life in Round Rock. AP just identified the bomber as Mark Anthony Conditt <a href="https://t.co/a22h0lfpX4">pic.twitter.com/a22h0lfpX4</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Michael Garofalo (@mikegaroNews4) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikegaroNews4/status/976452530275340288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>Conditt is suspected to have terrorized Austin and the greater area with 8 explosive devices over the past three weeks.</p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/mark-anthony-conditt-suspect-austin-bomber-identified-854839?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social" target="_blank">WHO IS MARK ANTHONY CONDITT? AUSTIN BOMBING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED BY POLICE</a></p> <p style="text-align:start">The<span> </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/austin-tripwire-bomb-attack-what-we-know-about-incident-police-are-linking-850582">first package bomb exploded</a><span> </span>on March 2 at 6:55 a.m., killing Anthony Stephan House, 39, at his home on the 1100 block of Haverford Drive in Austin.</p> <p style="text-align:start">On March 12, Draylen Mason, 17, was killed, and a woman seriously injured in a package-bomb explosion in the kitchen of a home on the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive at 6:44 a.m.</p> <p style="text-align:start">At 11:50 a.m. the same day, Esperanza Herrera, 75, was severely injured in a package explosion while visiting her mother's home on the 6700 block of Galindo Street.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Two men in their 20s were seriously injured by the explosion on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Drive at about 8:30 p.m. on March 18.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Police said the device was left on the side of the road, and the two men were either cycling or pushing their bikes when the explosion occurred.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Both patients are in serious but not life-threatening condition, a spokesperson at St. David's South Austin Medical Center told CNN.</p> <p style="text-align:start">One person received a minor injury at<span> </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/austin-serial-bomber-nail-bomb-explosion-texas-fedex-warehouse-852695">a FedEx distribution facility in San Antonio</a><span> </span>on March 20 when a parcel destined for Austin exploded at around 12:30 a.m.</p> <p style="text-align:start">It contained an incendiary device. Police were called to a second suspicious package at a FedEx warehouse in Austin later that afternoon and found it contained a bomb.</p> </blockquote> <p>Police are warning Austin residents to remain on alert for any suspicious packages that the bomber may have planted in the area.</p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) AustinBomber MarkAnthonyConditt Recommended _1750834 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:02:47 +0000 Fourth Bomb Explosion in Austin Injures Two. Entire Neighborhood on Lockdown. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/19/1750173/-Fourth-Bomb-Explosion-Austin-Injures-Two-Entire-Neighborhood-on-Lockdown <p><strong>A fourth bomb explosion in a month in Austin, Texas, has put an entire neighborhood on lockdown. </strong></p> <blockquote> <p><span>Police told residents of a neighborhood in southwest Austin to stay at home until 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) Monday after the fourth explosion in less than a month hit Texas' capital, injuring two men.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>The bomb, thought to have been triggered by a tripwire, was left on the side of the road where two men were riding or pushing bicycles. Both men are hospitalized but in good condition.</p> <p>School buses will not be allowed in the area on Monday and residents have been instructed to stay inside their homes until the crime scene can be examined and the area can be security swept for additional devices. </p> <blockquote> <div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/us/austin-explosion/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Police are working under the belief that the explosions are related</strong></a>.</div> <div></div> <div>Manley said they'll get a better idea with a post-blast analysis and examination of the device components. In the meantime, Manley told residents not to touch or go near anything that looks suspicious.</div> <div></div> <div>On Monday morning, he warned: "We now need the community to have extra level of vigilance and pay attention to any suspicious device -- whether it be a package or a bag, a backpack -- anything that looks out of place. And do not approach items like that."</div> </blockquote> <div></div> <p><em><strong><span>The recent explosive incidents that have occurred in the city of Austin were meant to send a message.</span></strong></em></p> <p>The first three bombings of a string of four that has put Austin on edge, all targeted families of color. Two black males have been killed, one 39 years old and one only 17, a 49 year old black woman was seriously injured and a 75 year old Latina woman suffered non-life threatening injuries. </p> <blockquote> <p><span>Many in Austin have been on edge since the bombings, as some residents of color in the Texas capital say<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/austin-explosion-packages/index.html">they feel under threat.</a></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Austin Bombs Appear to Be Targeting Prominent Black Families &lt;a href="https://t.co/abGO1M06Z0"&gt;https://t.co/abGO1M06Z0&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/intelligencer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@intelligencer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Riyam (@RayofLight99) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/RayofLight99/status/975712487659245569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 19, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Austin Bombs Appear to Be Targeting Prominent Black Families <a href="https://t.co/abGO1M06Z0">https://t.co/abGO1M06Z0</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/intelligencer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@intelligencer</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Riyam (@RayofLight99) <a href="https://twitter.com/RayofLight99/status/975712487659245569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned width-md align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-19_09.04.47.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/520833/large/Screenshot_2018-03-19_09.04.47.png?1521466346" title="Screenshot_2018-03-19_09.04.47.png"> <figcaption>Seventeen year old Draylen Mason (center) who was killed March 12 was a gifted musician.</figcaption> </figure> <p><span>Stephen House, 39,<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/one-hurt-in-home-explosion-in-north-austin/1031530359">was killed on the morning of March 2</a><span>, and Draylen Mason, 17, died on the morning of March 12. <strong>Both were African-American members of the same church</strong>, Nelson Linder, the local NAACP chapter president, told NBC News last week.</span></p> <p><span>Mason's 41-year-old mother was critically injured in the explosion. Just before noon on March 12, a third bombing critically injured a 75-year-old Hispanic woman, Esperanza Herrera.</span></p> <p><span>Linder added that someone connected to the House or Mason families was the intended target in the third explosion, although he declined to provide additional details.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>The fourth Austin bombing in a month occurred just hours after police issued a plea to the bomber, “We are listening and want to talk.” </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/18/austin-police-plead-serial-bomber-we-hope-you-watching-and-call-us/436387002/" target="_blank">Austin Police plead with serial bomber: We hope you are watching and will call us</a></p> <p><span style="text-align:start">Austin Police sent a message Sunday to the person behind a string of deadly bombings that have rocked the city: We are listening and want to talk.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Police believe the fourth bombing is connected but have not ruled out a copy cat crime.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>President Trump has yet to comment on the Austin bombings. </strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Austin Racism _1750173 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:37:51 +0000 Police Investigating String of Deadly Bombings in Austin, Texas as Potential Hate Crimes https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/12/1748452/-Police-Investigating-String-of-Deadly-Bombings-in-Austin-Texas-as-Hate-Crimes <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Police in Austin say they&amp;#39;re treating a series of bombings across Austin, with two already dead, as a potential hate crime. &lt;a href="https://t.co/8BH5kSy4cH"&gt;https://t.co/8BH5kSy4cH&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/5u4Iadp8ly"&gt;pic.twitter.com/5u4Iadp8ly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/973273583442153472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Police in Austin say they're treating a series of bombings across Austin, with two already dead, as a potential hate crime. <a href="https://t.co/8BH5kSy4cH">https://t.co/8BH5kSy4cH</a> <a href="https://t.co/5u4Iadp8ly">pic.twitter.com/5u4Iadp8ly</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/973273583442153472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><em><strong>In what police are speculating to be targeted racist attacks, bombs were left on the steps of the homes of three families of color in Austin, Texas. The first two deadly attacks occurred at the homes of black families. Police suspect the third bomb attack which seriously injured a Latina woman may also be related.</strong></em></p> <p>The first attack occurred March 2nd at the home of Anthony Stephan House who was killed by the deadly package which had been left on his door step. </p> <p>The second attack which occurred today before 7 am left a 17 year old boy dead and injured a 40 year old woman. There are similarities between the March 2nd attack and the deadly incident today. The third explosion which occurred today in Austin at the home of a 70 year old Latina woman may also be related. </p> <blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Screenshot_2018-03-12_17.32.50.png" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/517870/large/Screenshot_2018-03-12_17.32.50.png?1520890405" title="Screenshot_2018-03-12_17.32.50.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p style="text-align:start"><strong><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-texas-deadly-package-explosion-home/" target="_blank">Police: "Similarities" indicate link in deadly Austin package explosions</a></strong></p> <p style="text-align:start"><strong>AUSTIN, Texas --<span> </span></strong>Police in Austin say "similarities" between two deadly package explosions in Texas' capital city this month lead them to believe the incidents are related. The latest incident, reported Monday morning, killed a 17-year-old boy and wounded a woman, Austin police chief Brian Manley said.</p> <p style="text-align:start">The boy died at the scene and the woman in her 40s was taken to the hospital with potentially life threatening injuries after the explosion at the East Austin home before 7 a.m. In an earlier incident March 2, Anthony Stephan House, 39, was killed when a package exploded at his northeast Austin home,<span> </span><a href="http://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/police-package-explodes-at-home-in-east-austin-killing-one-person" target="_blank">CBS affiliate KEYE reports. </a></p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:start">Five hours later, another explosion was reported in another residential area, this time in the city’s southeast region. A woman in her 70s was taken to an area hospital “with serious potentially life threatening injuries,” according to the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service.</p> <p style="text-align:start">Relatives on the scene identified the woman injured in the third blast as Esperanza Herrera. They also said her mother, Maria Moreno, suffered minor injuries.</p> </blockquote> <p>Police and local authorities are warning residents to not open any packages left on their door steps. </p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Austin police chief encourages residents to be vigilant amid series of package explosions, alert authorities to unexpected or suspicious packages. &lt;a href="https://t.co/daqx5Z3p3m"&gt;https://t.co/daqx5Z3p3m&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/vRty6yfJv0"&gt;pic.twitter.com/vRty6yfJv0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— ABC News (@ABC) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/973286187250081792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Austin police chief encourages residents to be vigilant amid series of package explosions, alert authorities to unexpected or suspicious packages. <a href="https://t.co/daqx5Z3p3m">https://t.co/daqx5Z3p3m</a> <a href="https://t.co/vRty6yfJv0">pic.twitter.com/vRty6yfJv0</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/973286187250081792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/12/police-warn-of-suspicious-packages-as-more-explosions-rock-austin/?utm_term=.3cf289e13fb9" target="_blank"><strong>Police warn of ‘suspicious’ packages as deadly explosions rock Austin</strong></a></p> <p style="text-align:start">AUSTIN — Local and federal authorities rushed Monday to respond to a pair of explosions in Austin, just days after another blast fatally injured a man in the Texas capital.</p> <p style="text-align:start">These three explosions at homes or in residential areas, which have not all been linked by authorities, set officials and residents alike on edge, with police urging residents to call 911 rather than opening unexpected packages.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;URGENT: If you are in Austin, DO NOT TOUCH any packages left on your doorstep. Don&amp;#39;t open them or touch them. Period. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a red alert if you are Black and live in Southeast Austin. &lt;a href="https://t.co/RVK5jXpcDi"&gt;https://t.co/RVK5jXpcDi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/973267375490588672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>URGENT: If you are in Austin, DO NOT TOUCH any packages left on your doorstep. Don't open them or touch them. Period. <br><br>This is a red alert if you are Black and live in Southeast Austin. <a href="https://t.co/RVK5jXpcDi">https://t.co/RVK5jXpcDi</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Shaun King (@ShaunKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/973267375490588672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <h2>Under the Presidency of Donald Trump, hate crimes are on the rise.</h2> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/news/360106-fbi-hate-crimes-went-up-last-year-in-the-us" target="_blank">FBI: Hate crimes on the rise in the US</a></strong></p> <p>Hate crimes increased in the U.S. last year, according to new data released by the FBI.</p> <p>There were 6,121 hate crimes reported in 2016,<span> </span><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016-hate-crime-statistics" target="_blank">according to the FBI's data</a>, an increase from the around 5,800 incidents<span> </span><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015-hate-crime-statistics-released" target="_blank">reported</a><span> </span>in 2015.</p> <p>According to the data, most of the reports were "single-bias incidents." Of those, about 58 percent were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry bias, while 21 percent were motivated by religious bias and about 18 percent were motivated by sexual orientation bias.</p> <p><span>There was also an increase in the number of crimes reported targeting Jews, Muslims and LGBT people in 2016,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/13/hate-crimes-in-the-united-states-increased-last-year-the-fbi-says/?utm_term=.d8650c720d64" target="_blank">The Washington Post reported</a><span>.</span></p> <p>Of the incidents motivated by religious bias, slightly more than 54 percent of the reported offenses were anti-Jewish and about one-quarter were anti-Muslim, according to the FBI's data.</p> </blockquote> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;3 bombs in Austin, Texas this month. 1 earlier this month. 2 today.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;m literally just now hearing about it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Victims are Black. Silence from the WH. Can&amp;#39;t imagine why. &lt;a href="https://t.co/cub7FytY0o"&gt;https://t.co/cub7FytY0o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/973296847790985217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>3 bombs in Austin, Texas this month. 1 earlier this month. 2 today.<br><br>I'm literally just now hearing about it. <br><br>Victims are Black. Silence from the WH. Can't imagine why. <a href="https://t.co/cub7FytY0o">https://t.co/cub7FytY0o</a></p>Ã¢Â€Â” Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/973296847790985217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2018</a></blockquote></div> <p><em><sup>*The victims in the Austin bombings include two black males who were killed, a black woman who was injured and a Latina woman who was seriously injured. </sup></em></p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (igualdad) Austin DomesticTerrorism HateCrimes Racism Recommended _1748452 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:41:01 +0000