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LeftInTX's JournalReally enjoying this article about Kamala's parents
How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study GroupShe definitely favors her father!
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At an off-campus space at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1962, a tall, thin Jamaican Ph.D. student addressed a small crowd, drawing parallels between his native country and the United States.
He told the group, a roomful of Black students, that he had grown up observing British colonial power in Jamaica, the way a small number of whites had cultivated a “native Black elite” in order to mask extreme social inequality.
At 24, Donald J. Harris was already professorial, as reserved as the Anglican acolyte he had once been. But his ideas were edgy. One member of the audience found them so compelling that she came up to him after the speech and introduced herself.
She was a tiny Indian scientist wearing a sari and sandals — the only other foreign student to show up for a talk on race in America. She was, he recalled, “a standout in appearance relative to everybody else in the group of both men and women.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/kamala-harris-parents.html
Ex-Army worker dubbed 'Gucci Goddess' sentenced to 15 years for stealing $108.9M
A former civilian employee who stole nearly $109 million from the Army and used the money to live in luxury has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, apologized in court for her crime — the largest theft in San Antonio history — minutes before U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez handed down her sentence Tuesday.
“After all of my actions that were unlawful, foolish and just irrational, I have really tarnished the good reputation that I have worked for all my life,” she said. “I will forever be sorry, and I will continue to work to make things right.”
Mello pleaded guilty on March 7 to mail fraud and tax charges for the scheme, which went undetected by the Army for almost seven years.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/janet-mello-sentenced-15-years-stealing-108m-army-19589450.php
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Holy Cow! A civil servant had a job managing resources for the Army and she stole it!
Lloyd Doggett (the first to ask Biden to withdraw) wants an "open convention". Texas may not have the pledges.
But others were urging the party to have an open discussion about who the nominee would be, making clear there was some dissent within the ranks of the 273 delegates. U.S. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, said the party “should be open to all talented individuals who wish to be considered.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/21/joe-biden-texas-delegates-nomination-process/
Carol Burnett: Slavic Airlines
The amount of dust created in this sketch is incredible.
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Watch the DNC Rules Committee C-Span!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?537205-1/dnc-rules-bylaws-committee-meets-ahead-democratic-conventionHey, I googled it and found out that it's online!
Fmr Rep Sean Patrick Maloney former chr of DCCC is now a big cryto bro & may be behind today's anti-Biden text messages
The Ambassador for CryptoSean Patrick Maloney, an adviser to Coinbase, is nominated as the U.S. representative to the OECD, which is building regulatory frameworks for crypto.
It’s been more than three months since Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) temporarily stepped down as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in light of his indictment for allegedly taking cash and gold bars in return for political favors. Now, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) has the difficult task of restoring credibility to a committee that was led for years by a man alleged to have been accepting bribes from a foreign nation.
But Cardin will face another lingering conflict of interest, one that he could nip in the bud, though he has so far failed to do so. President Biden’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Sean Patrick Maloney, is waiting to be discharged from the committee for a vote by the Senate. In a clear conflict of interest, Maloney has used his time outside of government to cash out from the crypto industry.
Like Menendez, Maloney is a prominent Democratic insider with all the same opportunities to receive special privileges and favors. Most recently, Maloney was a member of the House who led the Democrats’ campaign arm in the 2022 midterms, in which the party narrowly lost control of the chamber—including Maloney’s own seat. Like Menendez, Maloney could easily advance his career in the Democratic Party if he could simply avoid the temptation of payouts. But instead, his consolation prize for years of party loyalty—a cushy ambassadorship in Paris—has become a means of making money from the shady crypto industry.
On the same day that Biden publicly announced Maloney’s nomination last May, cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase announced their appointment of Maloney to their five-person “Global Advisory Council.” Less than a month later, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Coinbase with operating as an unregistered securities exchange
https://prospect.org/power/2024-01-18-ambassador-crypto-sean-patrick-maloney-oecd/
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According to Open Secrets, today's text messages are coming from Stop MAGA PAC, which was previously known as Hudson Valley PAC (Maloney) PAC Expenditures during the 2016-2022 cycles. Toggle the date and the PAC name changes: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/hudson-valley-pac-maloney/C00549014/expenditures/2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Maloney
He is now an ambassador..
In other news: Watch Trump stroll into the hospital
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-rally-shooting-investigation/#post-update-d89144f7Kamala, Kamala, Kamala. is the theme of the RNC speakers tonight
"Kamala has not kept the border safe. She has not kept America safe."
They're calling the Biden admin, the Kamala/Biden admin.
Trump is the new Marcia Brady. Biden is the new Jan
I can't believe how everyone is picking on Biden and Trump has all that freak'n adoration. What does the world see in Trump? And why do they hate Biden? It wasn't that way in 2020.
The media never liked Trump, (at least the media I watch) but now it's a 180.
Even when he was falling asleep during the convention that were saying, "Poor baby is pain medicine".....
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