Freshman Ayanna Pressley on Chris Hayes and showing why she is a future House leader.

Well prepared, showing the experience she gained from sitting on the Boston City Council and ripping Trump apart with a smile.

Bernie will deliver his own SOTU response

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will deliver his own response to President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday for the third year running.

The senator's office confirmed to The Hill that his response will follow Trump's speech and be streamed on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Sanders has made responding to Trump's televised addresses a habit, delivering a response to the president's speech on border security last month in addition to responding to previous State of the Union addresses.

Sanders, who is an independent but caucuses with Democrats, will be delivering his response at the same time that former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams delivers the official Democratic Party response.


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/428430-bernie-sanders-to-deliver-his-own-state-of-the-union-response

Ocasio-Cortez bringing woman who confronted Flake in elevator to State of the Union

Ana Maria Archila, the woman who had a widely seen confrontation with former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) last year over his support for then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Tuesday will attend the State of the Union address as a guest of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Archila, who is the co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, in September, confronted Flake in an elevator when he was on his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee vote to advance Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor.

Archila, who is from Queens and is one of Ocasio-Cortez's constituents, told The Intercept that she was "moved" by Ocasio-Cortez's decision to invite her to the address.

“I just feel particularly moved that in her first participation in the State of the Union she is inviting me to join and inviting that moment of the elevator, my confrontation with the men who do not understand the life of women and the lives of people who are not in power, that she’s inviting that into the imagination of people again,” Archila said.



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/428299-ocasio-cortez-bringing-woman-who-confronted-flake-in-elevator-as-state-of-the

Migrant workers and xenophobia in the UK labour movement

There has been a growing climate of xenophobia towards migrant workers in the UK in recent years. Unfortunately, parts of the labour movement have been complicit in it.

The UK Labour Party leadership has been receiving a lot of criticism for its handling of Brexit. In its defence, a significant number of people in constituencies in its traditional heartlands of Wales, the midlands and the north voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Less defensible is Labour’s failure to support EU migrants in the UK. The prime minister, Theresa May, has introduced an incredibly bureaucratic and arbitrary ‘settlement scheme’, which, in practice, creates different categories of guest workers, yet opposition criticism has been muted and circumspect.

Labour’s apparent abandonment of EU freedom of movement has not been driven by the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, however disappointing his response. Arguably, it represents a trend which has enveloped all aspects of the UK labour movement in the last 20 years.

Labour’s apparent abandonment of EU freedom of movement has not been driven by the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, however disappointing his response. Arguably, it represents a trend which has enveloped all aspects of the UK labour movement in the last 20 years.




https://www.socialeurope.eu/migrant-workers-and-xenophobia

Raiders to Play 2019 Season at San Francisco Giants' Oracle Park

The Oakland Raiders will remain in the Bay Area for the 2019 season but will reportedly play in San Francisco.

According to Raj Mathai of NBC Bay Area, the team will play its home games in Oracle Park, the current home of the San Francisco Giants.

The franchise has spent the last 24 years in Oakland but is set to relocate to Las Vegas in 2020.

The team's lease ran out on Oakland Coliseum this past year, and the divorce has been ugly, with the city filing a federal antitrust lawsuit against the Raiders in December.

With the new Nevada stadium not expected to be ready until 2020, it left the organization with limited options.



https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2819180-report-raiders-to-play-2019-season-at-san-francisco-giants-oracle-park

Twitter CEO claims Trump is no worse than Obama on Joe Rogan podcast

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared on the podcast run by comedian Joe Rogan and as the Daily Beast characterized it, claimed “Trump Is No Worse Than Obama.”

In the podcast, which was posted Saturday, Dorsey echoed previous comments in which he said that he would “talk about” what to do if Trump asked his followers to murder a specific journalist on his platform, though also said he would “take action.”

“Public figures might be in violation of our terms of service, but the tweet itself is of public interest,” Dorsey said “But the tweet itself is of public interest. It should be talked about. That is probably the thing people disagree with the most, and where we have a lot of internal debate. If we had a public leader, like the president of the United States, make a violent threat against a private individual, we would take action.”

Rogan asked if Trump tweets that could be seen as encouraging violence might be seen as violating Twitter’s terms of service and Dorsey said Trump’s tweets should be seen in “context.”

Specifically, he claimed that former President Barack Obama also made threats to other countries, such as North Korea, on Twitter.

“It was the context that presidents of this country have used similar language on different mediums,” Dorsey told Rogan. “They say it on radio, they say it on television. If you were to look at President Obama, it wasn’t the exact same tone, but there were threats surrounding the same country. We have to take that context into consideration.”

You can watch the podcast below.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/twitter-ceo-claims-trump-no-worse-obama-rightwing-podcast/

Bonus Tweet of the Day

Tweet of the Day

THE HANDMAID'S TALE Season 3 Super Bowl Trailer - "Wake Up, America. Morning Is Over."

Does this look like a happy child to you?