It Takes a Village is a reminder of Democratic Party values – especially the values of long time Democrats whose lives have been dedicated to helping people.
Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama
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Morning meese…It’s gonna be a tweet day!
The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee report that they have evidence showing the Trump Organization was actively negotiating a business deal during the campaign with a Russian bank that U.S. law made it a crime to deal with. Mueller’s subpoena will nail that down.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 16, 2018
Scoop: The National Reconnaissance Office has a leak. A former contractor was fired, allegedly stole $340,000 worth of military equipment, and posted classified code online. Follow with me.
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) March 15, 2018
Grifting right along…Fuck Mnuchin!
CREW FOIA’d Steve Mnuchin’s travel records, says that the docs show that between the spring and fall of 2017, Mnuchin took 7 separate trips on military aircraft at a total of nearly $1 million. https://t.co/sgAfVWhuyQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 15, 2018
Fuck you Bernie!
Bernie Sanders spoke earlier on behalf of the #NationalWalkoutDay and gave a nice speech. It would've been nicer if he wasn't one of the biggest impediments to gun legislation in this country. He's taken many funds from the NRA. Upsetting and opportunism.
— Carlos (@blazingxmexican) March 14, 2018
.@MomsDemand @shannonrwatts @ParentsPromise @Everytown @Marie4Congress was the former Illinois spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action.
Her primary in #Illinois #IL03 is March 20!#GunReformNow #NoRA #NeverAgainIsNow #EnoughPlease help spread awareness of this election #GOTV 👇🏼 https://t.co/1Dm2XA1VvK
— Sally Deal (@SallyDeal4) March 15, 2018
LMAO!!!!!!!!
Stephen just told Me to tell you to fuck off. https://t.co/EDiFm3IJhx
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) March 15, 2018
Also, your father is burning in hell.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) March 15, 2018
New selfie! pic.twitter.com/GQlPgYnOdi
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) March 16, 2018
Great thread!
🔥WHOA🔥
A longtime #NRA attorney reportedly expressed “concerns” about the NRA’s ties w/#Russia🇷🇺and possible involvement in ILLEGALLY funneling Russian money into the 2016 election to help Donald Trump‼️🤬1/
h/t @traciemac_Bmorehttps://t.co/IVVa2v5tgJ
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 16, 2018
I'm with her.
Democrat challenges Maine Republican behind "skinhead lesbian" remark https://t.co/MrwTZiXD01 via @nbcnews
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) March 16, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: @BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief says they've sent a letter to Trump requesting he preserve all records relating to Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
WATCH @AriMelber report on White House lawyer Ty Cobb's response: https://t.co/hhg3jCZWod
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 16, 2018
Oh boy!
Mueller will fall into a 3 decade rabbit hole of 🇷🇺 mafia dealings galore. Mueller can take down all the worldwide main players of Russian organized crime members especially the ones that connect to the Kremlin by reviewing Trumps businesses.. https://t.co/nqN2ZCeZZI— Olga_Lautman NYC .. (@olgaNYC1211) March 16, 2018
WTF!!!
No Tillerson? No problem. S. Korea's foreign minister, originally scheduled to meet Rex in Washington, will meet Ivanka instead.https://t.co/TSnA5vqC9a
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) March 16, 2018
Sick bastard Republicans!!
18 Republicans just sent a letter to Jeff Sessions asking him to approve $1/day prison labor https://t.co/gcm9be39aH via @anteksiler
— Batch Stable Genius (@Batch4Change) March 16, 2018
I’ll close out today with the reason we all came together…
#HillaryInIndia pic.twitter.com/Yu8sLcM9gO
— Hillary In Pictures (@HillaryPix) March 16, 2018
Fire away!
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Leaflet issued by the Women’s Political Council calling for a boycott of Montgomery busses.
There are trailblazers and torchbearers. The trailblazer is the pioneer; the torchbearer follows and amplifies the path of the trailblazer. (There is no judgment implied in these designations, and one can be a trailblazer at one moment, while a torchbearer at another.) The students who sat at lunch counters in Greensboro and Nashville were trailblazers; one could make the argument that the Freedom Riders were torchbearers. Moms Demand Action/Everytown for Gun Safety are trailblazers; the students of Parkland and the March for Our Lives are carrying the torch. The Women’s Political Council of Montgomery, AL and Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, and Rosa Parks were trailblazers; Dr. King and the residents of Montgomery, who organized and conducted the Montgomery bus boycott, were the torchbearers. Today’s post is about the Women’s Political Council, without whom there would never have been a Montgomery bus boycott.
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Open concept; unified color theme; minimal clutter. What more could a person want? (Pets, children, and red wine drinkers not allowed.)
There’s not going to be a political post today for the Village; I once again swapped my day with janesaunt at DK, so Thursday will be my Village political post both here and at the Orange. In the meantime, since so many of us are involved with or considering downsizing, moving, and decluttering, I thought it would be a good time to review many of the hints and tips available to us from the HGTV-like perspective, as well as the “been there, done that, still don’t have my own tv show” viewpoint.
The Dream: The KonMari Method of Decluttering
One of the tenets of Marie Kondo’s Japanes method of decluttering is to hold each object in your hand and ask yourself if the item sparks joy. If it does, it’s a keeper; if not, it gets tossed.
The Reality: There’s a Method?
And do bags count as an object, or do we have to open them up and hold each individual piece that was jammed into them 5-10 years ago?
The Dream: KonMari not for you? Use the Toss, Donate, or Save approach.
This is a way to declutter that is more clinical than emotional. Decisions still need to be made, but with boxes clearly marked as toss, donate, or save, the pressure is on.
The Reality: Check your local ordinances.
The Dream: Stainless steel appliances are still high on homebuyers’ wish lists.
The Reality: Does this count?
The Dream: When preparing your home for sale, it should be depersonalized so that potential buyers can envision it as their space, rather than as your home.
The Reality: Stock up on spackle, find the touch-up paint, and plan on spending hours patching holes.
The Dream: When selling one’s home, paint walls in neutral colors and utilize pops of color in your decor.
The Reality: Oh, c’mon…just took down all the pictures and patched the holes, and now it’s time to make my home look like a rental apartment? If bold is good enough for this house, it’s good enough for mine!
The Dream: If you have a room that has become a dumping ground, clean it out and give it a defined purpose.
The Reality: Your realtor might cry.
The Dream: Be creative, and keep to a budget by upcycling or repurposing existing pieces.
The Reality: Or not…
Happy spring cleaning, decluttering, staging, or moving!
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Good morning meese…
Florida Republicans are assholes!
Got nothing else to say this morning, other than Fuck you, Bernie…
Yay…You go Emma!
Sorry if you think we want you to pass laws protecting us “just because we feel like it” https://t.co/lXKC0P6c29
— Emma González (@Emma4Change) March 8, 2018
Emma’s tweet is in answer to this asshole
WATCH: Florida state Rep. Elizabeth Porter dismisses Florida shooting survivors calls for increased gun control.
"Do we allow the children to tell us that we should pass a law that says no homework?"https://t.co/Lrjygjriqh pic.twitter.com/iYBpePcpYG
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 7, 2018
SCOOP: @BarackObama has long been animated by technology, media and politics. Now, he might become a new media producer himself as he looks for a platform to remain relevant in the @realDonaldTrump era. https://t.co/3YxnV4lKXb
— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) March 9, 2018
Utter bullshit!
So the manager of the Phoenix Theater in North Versailles called a group of little black girls who were playing in the game room animals, had a cop forcibly eject these girls, and then this officer ended up arresting a black woman who tried to speak up for these girls. pic.twitter.com/vxSyOeh8Xq
— ✊🏿Black Aziz aNANsi✊🏿 (@Freeyourmindkid) March 8, 2018
Fuck the Keebler elf…SOME SICK SHIT.
A draft strategic plan obtained by HuffPost lays out the Trump administration’s plans for the Justice Department through 2022. https://t.co/IMp5L4XkWZ via @HuffPostPol
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) March 8, 2018
Mueller's not just following the money, but the debt.
Watch @AriMelber explain: https://t.co/ZsfqzHQpaL
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 9, 2018
Former Clinton Cabinet member Donna Shalala is vying to become the Democrat who flips a Florida congressional seat held for three decades by a popular GOP congresswoman: https://t.co/EMr7z08748
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) March 8, 2018
WATCH: Protester throws Russian flag at Manafort after he pleads not guilty https://t.co/hjglQBKsya pic.twitter.com/YOLdFr5doO
— The Hill (@thehill) March 9, 2018
— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) March 9, 2018
This is your Friday open thread.
Fire away!
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Rembrandt, 1635
I was raised in the Christian, United Methodist tradition, and it’s a tradition I still [mostly] embrace. I don’t proselytize, but sometimes there is a universality to a message one hears in church, and yesterday was one of those days.
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Morning Meese…
The investigation seems to be moving along quite nicely.Seems like everyone and his brothers mother is being investigated for a lot of different offenses. How Mueller is keeping it all in order and moving along smoothly is very impressive.
I’ve been thinking Tad has already been questioned or we would have seen his name come up before now seeing as how he and Manafort and Gates were in cahoots together in Ukraine. I hope Bozo is tossing and turning in the wind worrying about what Tad knows and what he’s done becasue we all suspect by now that Manafort was using Tad to use Bozo.
I’ve been thinking that this whole mess was started by Putin years ago. Maybe as far back as 2011 when Trump started talking about running in 2016 and he’s been Putins stooge ever since..What happened was the perfect storm for them when Hillary won the nomination. IF you really think about it the Republicans are so afraid of Hillary they have been demonizing her since the 90’s because they saw the day she would run for President. We knew how impressive she was back then and still is.
If a lot of people in the country weren’t so goddamned stupid Hillary would be President and nothing that has happened in the last 13 months would have.
Fuck the Conservatives and all the faux Christians…
I don't care how many indictments happen, I won't be satisfied until Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her rightful position in the White House. We were robbed. #shewon pic.twitter.com/yCelCMmjXW
— Maggie Klaus (@Maggie_Klaus) March 2, 2018
You know something is really wrong with Huck when the Country Music Association says he’s too conservative..
This is SUCH a big story.
The CMA Foundation has dumped #MikeHuckabee for being the vile homophobic racist he's been for decades.
It's great news that CMA recognizes LGBT people and families matter.
An error corrected. https://t.co/1kbNdwWURC
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) March 2, 2018
Dumbest asshole ever born…Hard to fathom that the other idiots in the WH are as stupid.
Trump tries to kill bad headlines with erratic tariff announcement https://t.co/b9UFpxKe0J
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) March 2, 2018
Fuck this fool…He can take the NRA and shove it up his ass. We knew Trump was lying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP. We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA
— Chris Cox (@ChrisCoxNRA) March 2, 2018
Yeah, the moral to this is don’t vote for damn Republicans!
Quick Economics lesson:
George H.W. Bush broke economy
Bill Clinton fixed economy & created surplus
George W Bush broke economy again & almost created 2nd Great Depression until
Barack Obama pulled economy out of tailspin & fixed it
Now dotard is breaking economy again ¯_(ツ)_/¯— Edan Clay 🌊 (@EdanClay) March 2, 2018
100% should say he’s racist…Even the racist’s know he’s racist…
.@AP-NORC Poll: Most Americans say #Trump is racist https://t.co/GNBZRIaqRG
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) March 2, 2018
Whoa!: “Hicks has been secretly keeping…a 'diary of her White House work, and her interactions w/Trump.'” If true, belongs to USG not her, must be preserved in WH under Pres Recds Act, raises issues about her handling of classified & WILL be subpoenaed. https://t.co/oPKBlBRtvL
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) March 2, 2018
Another sick demented conservative…
Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, tries to prevent teen girls under his control from acessing abortions to which they have a legal right. pic.twitter.com/gleYlms1IW
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 2, 2018
Yes please…Perp walks galore…Lock them up…
If you've been waiting for the charges related to the crime at the center of the whole Trump Russia scandal, the hacking of Democratic e-mails by Russia, NBC reports today that those charges are coming. pic.twitter.com/1efyBo30vY
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 2, 2018
Smile to start your Friday off…
When a doggie and a mini horse are the best of friends. I truly wasn’t prepared for this dosage of adorableness. 😍💚pic.twitter.com/3EFFXc45HT
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) March 2, 2018
Fuckoff Bernie!
Fire away!
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The Mouth of Truth in Rome; legend has it that if one were to stick their hand inside the disc’s mouth and tell a lie, one’s hand would be bitten off.
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Morning Meese…
Lots of stuff happening to give us smiles in the last week or so after so much sorrow with the kids getting killed by a weapon that should be illegal to own.
Bobby Mueller has been breaking bad on Dotard associates and implicating Bozo in his indictments as likely knowing what was going on. Of course Bozo tried unsuccessfully to blame Hillary…Of course he did…Nothing is ever Bozo’s fault, just ask him.
Looks like Manafort and Gates are toast…Here’s hoping Tad’s name comes up soon in Mueller’s investigation as we all know he’s as crooked as Manafort. The added joy that when the investigation turns to Tad it can’t help but embroil Bozo right in the middle. Bad days ahead I suspect for Bozo which make me a happy camper.
Wondering though, what’s going on with Mike Flynn?…We haven’t heard much of anything about Flynn in quite a few weeks.
Here’s hoping for another good week from Bobby…Might even get a new round of indictments today!!!!
Gaining momentum…
#BanAssaultWeapons now trending #30
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 23, 2018
I am tired of watching stories go unheard by politicians who continue to drag their feet on laws to protect Americans. I am pledging $1 million dollars for a nationwide initiative to register high schoolers to vote ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. pic.twitter.com/JrshyFanQn
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) February 23, 2018
Robert Mueller unsealed 32-new charges against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. The new indictment claims Manafort and Gates concealed years of lobbying work for the pro-#Russia gov't in Ukraine, laundered millions, and misled investigators.
These are the charges: #LastWord pic.twitter.com/qrQrCEW5Jq
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) February 23, 2018
This is funny…
So ya know that "brilliant" idea Donald Trump had yesterday to "ARM teachers"?
Well I fixed it ;) Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/xNlr0JN4pg
— Pin Head (@SpikedCranium) February 22, 2018
Might we get a Friday surprise?
Reuters reporting that both National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Chief of Staff John Kelly may be on the verge of quitting.https://t.co/ioJ1l02TpY
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) February 23, 2018
Panicked Billy Graham Realizes He Took Wrong Turn Into Heaven’s Largest Gay Neighborhood https://t.co/eU9gWLPbbo pic.twitter.com/ReyTvuGpzC
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 21, 2018
The mother of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg says her family has received death threats online.
“I’m under so much stress,” she said describing her state a week after the shooting. “I’m angry and exhausted. Angry, exhausted and extremely proud.” https://t.co/uqhzE0ycAN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 23, 2018
Fire away!
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Years later though she could recall almost every physical detail of what it had been like to sit there in that course on English literature, Diane Nash could remember nothing of what Professor Robert Hayden had said. What she remembered instead was her fear. A large clock on the wall had clicked slowly and loudly; each minute which was subtracted put her nearer to harm’s way….It was always the last class that she attended on the days that she and her colleagues assembled before they went downtown and challenged the age-old segregation laws at the lunch counters in Nashville’s downtown shopping center. No matter how much she steeled herself, no matter how much she believed in what they were doing, the anticipatory fear never left her.
Excerpt from the prologue of The Children by David Halberstam
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