January 17, 2017

Look at our cool President singing with BB King and Jagger....

and he hits the high notes. God, I love him.

January 16, 2017

Welcome to America, where we can celebrate a man who fought racism on a Monday & inaugurate a racist

John Fugelsang ?@JohnFugelsang · 5h5 hours ago

Welcome to America, where we can celebrate a man who fought racism on a Monday & inaugurate a racist that Friday.

January 16, 2017

A lady followed a troll who said he was gonna use the N word as many times as he could today

This is pretty amazing. A lady followed a troll today and you won't believe how it ends. Happy MLK Day.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/1/20/1359055/-An-amazing-woman-feeds-a-troll-on-MLK-Day-and-it-was-nothing-short-of-inspirational?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=0d4400d4ac5814a808028b00d882edf0&source=email-trump-finally-lands-an-a-list-celebrity-to-show-up-at-his-inauguration&email_referrer=trump-finally-lands-an-a-list-celebrity-to-show-up-at-his-inauguration&email_subject=trump-finally-lands-an-a-list-celebrity-to-show-up-at-his-inauguration

January 14, 2017

Thom Hartmann reports Penthouse Magazine offering a million dollars for the tape

Thom Hartmann reports Penthouse Magazine offering a million dollars for the tape. 3 guys have copies. I still have hope.

January 13, 2017

Right wing sting to get our activists to do violence at Inauguration stung by UNDERCURRENT

Lauren Windsor on Thom Hartmann today. She is Exec Producer of THE UNDERCURRENT. Stung the sting. The O'Keefe operative who infiltrated Russ Feingold offices and got kicked out, is now working trying to promote violence at Inauguration. Trying to get OUR activists to do it... throwing tons of $$ at them. Running a false flag operation in our own country. These folks are evil to the core.

January 13, 2017

Charlie Pierce 1 o'clock in the morning ACA died

As only Charlie can tell it.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 12, 2017

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Wednesday night began cute, with folks talking about "Vote-a-Rama" with the Senate sitting in session well into Thursday morning, and rookie Republican Senator Todd Young sending snack food to the press gallery. It gradually became less cute as the night became the morning. The Democratic minority kept offering amendment after amendment, all of which failed by the narrow margin by which the Republicans control the Senate.

Then, around one o'clock in the morning, the actual mugging occurred, and millions of Americans awoke to the news that their newly acquired healthcare—and the newly acquired peace of mind that came with it—was going up in smoke.

The key moment came at about one in the morning when Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, withdrew his amendment that would have pushed the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act back to the beginning of March. Defenders of the law had set great store by the Corker amendment, which seemed to indicate that the Republican majority was both a) afraid to stand the gaff that will come when people lose their healthcare, and b) realizing that repealing the ACA without a viable replacement would cause actual chaos. That unicorn died in the dead of night.

The Republican congressional majorities want this law dead because they have a theological belief that this is not the job of government. They want what they want when they want it, and they have the power to get it and the towering gall to get it done by any means necessary. The president-elect doesn't know enough about the subject to throw to a cat. So there we are.

From The New York Times:

The final vote, which ended just before 1:30 a.m., followed a marathon session in which senators took back-to-back roll call votes on numerous amendments, an arduous exercise known as a vote-a-rama. The approval of the budget blueprint, coming even before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated, shows the speed with which Republican leaders are moving to fulfill their promise to repeal President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement — a goal they believe can now be accomplished after Mr. Trump's election. The action by the Senate is essentially procedural, setting the stage for a special kind of legislation called a reconciliation bill. Such a bill can be used to repeal significant parts of the health law and, critically, is immune from being filibustered. Congress appears to be at least weeks away from voting on legislation repealing the law.

But don't worry. Help is on the way. Pay your doctor with cheesy metaphors. And, as the Reverend Ike used to say, pie in the sky by and by when you die.

"The Obamacare bridge is collapsing, and we're sending in a rescue team," said Senator Michael B. Enzi, Republican of Wyoming and the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. "Then we'll build new bridges to better health care, and finally, when these new bridges are finished, we'll close the old bridge." Republican leaders say they will work closely with Mr. Trump developing legislation to repeal and replace the health care law, but it is unclear exactly how his team will participate in that effort.

The amendments proposed by the Democrats and defeated by the Republicans were designed to put the majority on the wrong side of the most popular aspects of the law. It was really all they had left, but, in six months, when all those people who voted for the president-elect secure in the knowledge that he'd never do what he promised to do, discover that their pre-existing conditions suddenly matter again, the odds are that they will blame themselves or The Government or liberals or Barack Obama and nobody will remember how the mugging happened, and the rain will wash away the chalk outline of the victim from the sidewalk. And the death of the Affordable Care Act will become a cold case, an unsolved mystery mouldering in a pauper's grave.

ProPublica has an easily readable rundown of the details of the crime.
Who's the Illegitimate President Now, Mr. Birtherism?
Who’s the Illegitimate President Now, Mr. Birtherism?
Trump spent five years trying to delegitimize Obama. Now he's taking office under a cloud of suspicion, and only has himself to blame.

January 13, 2017

George Soros has pledged $10 million to help combat the rise in hate crimes following Trump win

mia farrow ?@MiaFarrow · 22h22 hours ago

George Soros has pledged $10 million to help combat the rise in hate crimes following Trump win

January 13, 2017

Sign petition for press to call out Trump on his crap

Dear MoveOn member,

At Donald Trump's first press conference as president-elect, he berated and blacklisted CNN reporter Jim Acosta for daring to ask questions in reference to CNN's bombshell reporting on Trump's relationship with Russia. The incoming White House press secretary threatened to throw Acosta out for daring to do his job and ask questions, and another Trump adviser verbally attacked him, too.1

Will you sign my petition calling on the White House Correspondents' Association to stand strong against Trump's outrageous bullying of the media?
If Trump blacklists or bans one of you, the rest of you need to stand up. Instead of ignoring Trump's bad behavior and going about your business, close ranks and stand up for journalism. Don't keep talking about what Trump wants to talk about. Amplify your colleague's inquiry or refuse to engage until Trump removes that person or media outlet from the blacklist.

You would expect that the press would be outraged at such behavior from the administration. But you would be wrong. The press acted like none of this happened.2 They ignored that their colleague was being punished and shut out right in the middle of the press conference and continued engaging with Trump as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on.

Trump has a history of doing this to the press—and worse.

He banned The Des Moines Register from covering his events. He banned Univision from attending his events. He revoked The Washington Post's credentials for a length of time in retaliation for a headline that he didn't like. He revoked Politico's credentials for a while to punish them for an article that he didn't like.3 BuzzFeed—which Trump called a "failing pile of garbage" during the press conference—has been on a blacklist since June of 2015.4 The Daily Beast is on the blacklist and is almost always denied credentials as a result.5 And this list isn't exhaustive.

But journalists covering Trump don't learn. Time and time again—as one outlet after another is frozen out—reporters continue to go about their interactions with Trump and his people as if nothing is wrong.

Enough is enough. Some principles are more important than competition among news outlets.

If a free press has any hope of surviving the next four years, we need the journalists covering Trump to pledge: If Trump blacklists one of you, the rest of you need to stand up.

Tell the White House press corps: If you see Trump blacklisting a reporter or a media outlet, speak up and fight back. If not, you could be next.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Angelo Carusone, Media Matters

Sources:

1. "Acosta: Trump spokesman threatened to expel me," CNN, January 11, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/7504?t=5&akid=176195.25888201.dWfiJj

2. "Trump Just Shot Jim Acosta In The Middle Of Fifth Avenue And The Press Didn't Blink," Media Matters, January 11, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/7505?t=7&akid=176195.25888201.dWfiJj

3. "'The Blacklist': Here are the media outlets banned by Donald Trump," CNN, June 14, 2015
http://act.moveon.org/go/7506?t=9&akid=176195.25888201.dWfiJj

4. "Furious Trump torches BuzzFeed: It's a 'failing pile of garbage,'" Business Insider, January 11, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/7507?t=11&akid=176195.25888201.dWfiJj

5. "'The Blacklist': Here are the media outlets banned by Donald Trump," CNN, June 14, 2015
http://act.moveon.org/go/7506?t=13&akid=176195.25888201.dWfiJj

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January 13, 2017

Both Bidens on the VIEW at 10AM today

they may give them the entire hour. Whoopsi and Joy Behar are good hard hitters for us.

January 12, 2017

Best accessory ever: Actress Lola Kirke wore a 'F**k Paul Ryan' pin to the Golden Globes

Best accessory ever: Actress Lola Kirke wore a 'F**k Paul Ryan' pin to the Golden Globes

Last night, Mozart in the Jungle actress Lola Kirke seriously upped the red carpet fashion game with a tiny accessory that packs a lot of punch. Kirke emblazoned her designer gown with a pink pin that says three little words: “Fuck Paul Ryan.”

Kirke explains why she wore the pin:

Paul Ryan is talking about defunding Planned Parenthood. I think that, along with a number of other decisions that are being talked about being made by the new administration, is atrocious. As a person with a platform, no matter what size it is, I think it's important to share your views and maybe elevate people that might agree with you, that maybe won't feel like they can have the same voice. My body my choice, your body your choice.