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January 10, 2020

Here's who will be onstage for the January Democratic presidential debate in Iowa Business Insider

“In order to qualify for the January debate, candidates must secure 225,000 unique donors and earn 5% in four DNC-approved national polls or 7% in two DNC-approved early state polls released between November 16 and January 10” So far, these six candidates have qualified for the January debate, according to Politico's tracker of qualifying debate polls:

Former Vice President Joe Biden
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana
Businessman Tom Steyer”

https://www.businessinsider.com/january-february-democratic-debates-who-qualified-how-to-watch-2019-12

January 6, 2020

Phyllis Wheatley's poem from Elizabeth Warren's New Year's Eve speech in Boston

“After the lawsuit, while still an enslaved woman, Phillis wrote a poem entitled On Imagination. She asks her readers to embrace the power of possibility. Here are her words:

“We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th’ unbounded soul.”

“Phillis Wheatley’s spirit is the American spirit. It’s the enduring spirit of imagination fortified by courage. Patriotism infused with the dreams of the great country we can be.

Phillis Wheatley challenged the power structure of the 1770s — just a few years before our fledgling nation would challenge the worldwide power structure by taking on a British king in a revolution.”

“Yet in the face of hatred, injustice, and oppression, Black Americans throughout our history have never stopped imagining and fighting for a better tomorrow. Not just for themselves, but for our entire nation.”

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/12/31/read-the-full-text-of-sen-elizabeth-warrens-new-years-eve-speech-in-boston

January 3, 2020

The Warren Movie from My Google Pics and Videos

The little man in my Google iPhone sent me this montage from Elizabeth’s Town Hall last week.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B63r9J1g2TA/?igshid=1psnwdmgpx1ul

January 1, 2020

Beam Eye Bay Bee!

I'm loving the Barberettes:

December 31, 2019

Political Flashback: Paula Poundstone on Cheyney's friend apologizing for being shot

also about her drinking problems and single parenthood.

December 31, 2019

The Sound of Silence Wuauquikuna

Wuauquikuna


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