Even though 3Chics Politico is written and curated by three women: Ametia, Rikyrah, and SouthernGirl2, I must nominate this as one of the most engaging blogs I've found. Devoted to politics and culture, these three shine a light on contemporary life with humor and spirit.
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BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://youtu.be/1UaIqU5LAFc
Little birdie, why do you fly upside-down?
It’s amazing at the way you get around
Little birdie, why you worry like you do?
Don’t you worry, you just do what you can do….
Josh posted this in our family group. I told him, I see you, Joshua! I cook a lot of food. LOL!
I can see you and Josh and family are having a good time! 😀
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“A ‘Routine’ Stop Almost Ended My Career Before It Started Sometimes there’s danger in speaking out against perceived police misconduct.”
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/11/15/a-routine-stop-almost-ended-my-career-before-it-started?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=opening-statement&utm_term=newsletter-20171116-893
Grassley rips up ‘blue slip’ for a pair of Trump court picks
11/16/2017 03:30 PM EST
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is burning the blue slip for some judicial nominees.
The Iowa Republican will announce later Thursday that he is going ahead with a confirmation hearing for a nominee to the powerful appellate courts despite the objections of a Democrat who had been blocking the nomination for months.
The move will likely escalate the judicial wars in the Senate.
Grassley says he has scheduled hearings for David Stras, a nominee to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Stras’ home-state senator, said earlier this year that he would not return the so-called blue slip for Stras because of his conservative ideology.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/16/chuck-grassley-trump-court-picks-245367
From POU:
Just for laughs
https://youtu.be/S_qAN6RusrU
https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/930993836133888000
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/931232325135949824
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4m9WtMXOA
Rikyrah, did you watch last night?
I have it on the DVR for this weekend.
This is my “representative” Congress. I can’t even troll her Twitter TL without a blood pressure spike. When will this end????
https://twitter.com/RepMcSally/status/926194589391867906
I feel you, Liza.
The “We need to Seize it.” comment is exactly what Martha and the rest of the GOP CABAL are trying to do. SEIZE OUR $$$$.
Fuck her with the rustiest of PITCH FORKS.
The Buffoon (as eliihass calls him), is back from his 12 day suck-up tour.
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/931215736927899648
Call for an Ethics Committee review of Trump too. He bragged about grabbing women’s private parts on video.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/931204106651389952
The tax bill Senate Republicans are championing would give large tax cuts to millionaires while raising taxes on American families earning $10,000 to $75,000 over the next decade, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’ official nonpartisan analysts.
President Trump and Republican lawmakers have been heralding their bill as a win for hard-working Americans, but the JCT report casts serious doubt on that claim. Tax hikes for households earning $10,000 to $30,000 would start in 2021 and grow sharply from there. By the year 2027, Americans earning $30,000 to $75,000 a year would also be forced to pay more in taxes even though people earning over $100,000 continue to get substantial tax cuts.
Quantifying the Influence of Black Consumers
Perennially noted for cultural innovation and being on the cusp of the latest trends that embody America, Black consumers are one of America’s greatest assets. “What’s next?” for Black consumers is actually happening right now. Recognizing the contributions of African-Americans is steeped in a storied tradition of celebrating trailblazers and those less-familiar hidden figures whose advancements and contributions have impacted science, technology, manufacturing, media, and entertainment.
http://sites.nielsen.com/africanamericans/
During the Weinstein story, CNN had a clock counting the hours it took Hillary Clinton to respond. Seven days later and Donald Trump, the president and GOP leader, still hasn’t said a single word on Roy Moore.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 16, 2017
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
Alabama GOP standing by Roy Moore despite new lurid accusations
Rachel Maddow relays reports that despite four new women coming forward today with stories of being pursued by Roy Moore as schoolgirls, the Alabama Republican Party is sticking with Roy Moore as their candidate for Senate.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
Democrats feeling new energy, flipping seats in red Oklahoma
Anna Langthorn, new chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, talks with Rachel Maddow about recent blue victories in her very red state and the momentum she hopes to build with her party.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
Senator Warren: GOP tax bill a “double punch” to middle class
Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about the consequences for the American middle class if the Republicans are able to pass their their tax/health care bill.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
Warren: New Consumer chief needs record resisting Wall Street
Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about the resignation of Richard Cordray from the Consumer Financial Protection Board and the kind of person the American people need to replace him.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
GOP follows string of failures with ill-conceived tax plan
Rachel Maddow reviews the string of failures by the current Republican Congress which it hopes to break with a new, wildly unpopular tax plan that they have not done a good job of disguising as not being designed to benefit rich people.
no lie told in the comment at BJ:
‘This is surreal’: descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation
At Prospect Hill in Mississippi, people came from as far as Liberia for an unlikely gathering that led to a scene of visible emotion – with ‘a lot to talk about’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/16/us-slavery-descendants-plantation-mississippi
How fabulous that this history has been preserved and that the descendants have been able to take part in the deeply moving reunion!
Thank you so much for finding and posting this wonderful article, Rikyrah!.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/931179575870095361
Uh huh
Uh huh
White on White Voting
I’ve told you…I believe it’s ALL TRUE.
Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled an explosive dossier of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, believes it to be 70% to 90% accurate, according to a new book on the covert Russian intervention in the 2016 US election.
The book, Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist Luke Harding, quotes Steele as telling friends that he believes his reports – based on sources cultivated over three decades of intelligence work – will be vindicated as the US special counsel investigation digs deeper into contacts between Trump, his associates and Moscow.
“I’ve been dealing with this country for 30 years. Why would I invent this stuff?” Steele is quoted as saying.
One of the reasons his dossier was taken seriously in Washington in 2016 was Steele’s reputation in the US for producing reliable reports on Russia, according to Harding’s book.
Between 2014 and 2016, he authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine, which were commissioned by private clients but shared widely within the state department and passed across the desks of the secretary of state, John Kerry, and the assistant secretary Victoria Nuland, who led the US response to the annexation of Crimea and the covert invasion of eastern Ukraine.
The sources for those reports were the same as those quoted in the dossier on Trump, which included allegations that the Kremlin had personally compromising material on the US president, including sex tapes recorded during a trip to Moscow in 2013, and that Trump and his associates actively colluded with Russian intelligence to influence the election in his favour.
Years earlier, Steele shared the results of his investigation of the global football organisation, Fifa, with a senior FBI official in Rome; that led to an investigation by US federal prosecutors, and ultimately the arrest of seven Fifa officials.
“The episode burnished Steele’s reputation inside the US intelligence community and the FBI. Here was a pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian espionage and its subterranean tricks. Steele was regarded as credible,” Harding writes.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/15/17
Still more women report past lurid Roy Moore behavior
Beth Reinhard, Washington Post investigative reporter, talks with Rachel Maddow about two more women describing being sexually pursed as school girls by grown man Roy Moore, including one who was literally called on the phone by Moore at school.
On taxes, Republicans prioritize corporations over people
11/16/17 09:20 AM—UPDATED 11/16/17 09:39 AM
By Steve Benen
One of the most memorable lines of the 2012 presidential campaign came when Mitt Romney lectured an Iowa voter, “Corporations are people, my friend.” Several years later, Romney’s Republican Party seems quite eager to help those “people” – even at the expense of actual people.
The headline on today’s New York Times report is both brutal and accurate: “Republican Tax Plans Put Corporations Over People.”
The polling on the GOP’s tax plan is starting to look almost as bad as the numbers on their health care plan. https://t.co/tqHKThZRzW pic.twitter.com/IVEIHzQajw
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 15, 2017
Anyone else getting some health care deja vu? https://t.co/niq3JdePsu
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 16, 2017
All I want for Christmas is for Republicans to lose their precious tax cut because they got greedy and couldn’t resist taking one more shot at Obama’s legacy.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 16, 2017
GOP hopes to boost its popularity with woefully unpopular tax plan
11/16/17 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) boasted yesterday that the goals of the Republican Party’s tax plan “are shared by many Americans.” I’m not sure which polling data the West Virginia senator is reading, but before GOP policymakers radically overhaul the nation’s finances, they may want to consider the actual attitudes of the American mainstream.
Take, for example, a national Quinnipiac poll released yesterday.
Social Security on the chopping block: How the GOP plans to fix its own budget mess
Republicans are going back to their dream: Cutting Social Security and Medicare
CHARLIE MAY
11.15.2017•10:27 AM
For access to a fabulous resource, you can click on this link to see (and read by downloading) all of the past issues of the Teaching Tolerance magazine:
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/archive
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Teachers reading here may be interested in this curriculum program:
Video: “Perspectives for a Diverse America”
https://youtu.be/bsw39SCzLtE&rel=0
“Teaching Tolerance’s Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based curriculum that marries anti-bias content with the rigor of the Common Core.”
perspectives.tolerance.org
On this day, November 16, in 1923, tenor Roland Hayes “…made his official debut in Boston’s Symphony Hall singing Berlioz, Mozart, and spirituals, conducted by Pierre Monteux, which received critical acclaim.” (Wikipedia)
https://youtu.be/8Sibe38cQPQ&rel=0
Published on Youtube Oct 17, 2013 by Edmund StAustell who writes:
“Roland Hayes (1887-1977) was born in Curryville, Georgia, the son of former slaves. He studied singing at Fisk University in Nashville and began performing publicly in 1911. He studied further in Boston and then London. His early career was in Europe, and when he returned to the United States, in 1923, he was able to come under professional management, and undertook an extensive concert tour that gained him both fame and significant income. If you are interested in Hayes, I would like to invite you to see the latest article on my blog, Great Opera Singers.”
During the Christmas season you may wish to look up Roland Hayes album. It is beautiful. Here are two of the selections:
https://youtu.be/OkKRZMGqv_I&rel=0
https://youtu.be/G1Kmf6YpQ_8&rel=0
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah and Everyone. Wishing all of you a blessed day!
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Good Morning, 3 Chics Family & Friends!