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Excellent!
Deeply moving and uniting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQCVDJtfqI
FULL Speech:
Unless I’m missing something, this is what I see…
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/955282110608224261
Answers: No, No, and No.
Anti-immigration hawks really believe they can reverse demographic trends in this country.
Chuck Schumer says…
Chuck Schumer
Verified account
@SenSchumer
3h3 hours ago
The GOP Majority now has 17 days to prevent #Dreamers from being deported. In every possible way, urge your Senators to vote yes on our bipartisan compromise to #ProtectDreamers when it comes to the floor.
@SenSchumer
3h3 hours ago
I expect @SenateMajLdr to fulfill his commitment to the Senate & abide by this agreement. If he does not honor our agreement, he will have breached the trust of not only the Democratic Senators but the members of his own party as well.
@SenSchumer
3h3 hours ago
I am confident that there are sixty votes in the Senate for a DACA deal. And now there is a real pathway to get a bill on the floor and through the Senate. It is a good solution and I will vote for it.
@SenSchumer
3h3 hours ago
We will vote today to reopen the government, to continue negotiating a global agreement, with the commitment that, if an agreement is not reached by Feb 8th, the Senate will immediately proceed to consideration of legislation dealing with DACA. The process will be neutral & fair.
Senator Ed Markey…
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@SenMarkey
2h2 hours ago
The futures and families of #Dreamers will not be assured by a promise from Republican leadership. We need a long-term budget proposal that includes real protections for our Dreamers, not a short-term IOU.
@SenMarkey
2h2 hours ago
I remain deeply skeptical of any short-term budget agreement that relies on the good faith commitment of @realDonaldTrump. A budgetary vision without funding is a hallucination.
@SenMarkey
2h2 hours ago
I cannot support a budget deal that falls so far short of fulfilling our moral and Constitutional obligation to the American people.
HELL NO!
https://twitter.com/dumptrump33/status/955513554278539264
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/955517919550693378
This is good news.
John Kelly’s racist ass need to be GONE! Please end this nightmare. Get them all out of our White House…..
Ivanka reportedly takes charge in firing Chief of Staff John Kelly after Trump calls him ‘nut job’
John Kelly’s time as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff may be coming to an end.
On Monday, author Gabriel Sherman reported that Ivanka Trump had been put in charge of finding a replacement for Kelly.
“Ivanka is the most worried about it. She’s trying to figure who replaces Kelly,” someone who has spoken with the president’s daughter told Sherman.
According to Sherman, Kelly’s days as Trump’s chief of staff “may finally have gone past the point of no return.”
“He wants to stay longer than Reince [Priebus],” an outside adviser explained to Sherman.
Kelly recently came under fire by the president’s defenders after he told lawmakers that Trump had “evolved” on the issue of a border wall.
“The more Kelly plays up that he’s being the adult in the room—that it’s basically combat duty and he’s serving the country—that kind of thing drives Trump nuts,” one Republican close to the White House explained.
Trump recently suggested to a friend that Kelly had overstayed his welcome.
“I’ve got another nut job here who thinks he’s running things,” Trump reportedly said.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ivanka-reportedly-takes-charge-firing-trumps-chief-staff-john-kelly-trump-calls-nut-job/
Hmmm. Well, Kelly is in it for the power he has because of Trump’s incompetence. There would be no other reason for him to subject himself to Trump’s abuse.
However, it is interesting that Trump (presumably) has just enough lucidity to see that.
Well, let the rats eat.
2018, y’all.
Kelly is another failure in “extreme vetting,” along with all of the rest of the toadies Trump has hired to work with him in the WH. I’m glad that Trump’s desire for “extreme vetting” for refugees and immigrants is coming back to bite him in his *ss. He’s all talk and zero substance. He gets away with it because millions of Americans are more than willing to lie to themselves and refuse to note the difference between the things he says and the things he does. If Kelly leaves the WH, Stephen Miller should be leaving with him.
Takes a NUTJOB to know a nut job. Good riddance to Kelly.
That cold-hearted, SOULESS Stephen ,Miller needs to be GONE, LIKE YESTEDAY, ALSO, TOO!
and for the love of GOD, get thee #45 POS out of our White House, along with Ivanka & Jared, ALSO TOO
https://twitter.com/ZachJCarter/status/955142282096922624
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/955510833563521025
https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/955498153247232005
https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/955498804425392128
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/955494847925882880
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/955497646478757889
Malia Obama is spotted smiling and chatting with her posh British boyfriend who enjoys a cigarette in New York
Former First Daughter spotted enjoying company of beau Rory Farquharson
The pair were caught kissing at a Harvard-Yale football game in November
Couple are both 19 and met at Ivy League school in Cambridge, Massachusetts
By Shari Miller For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 04:14 EST, 21 January 2018 |
There was plenty of love – and laughter – as former First Daughter Malia Obama was spotted enjoying the company of her British beau, Rory Farquharson, in New York city at the weekend.
Princess Eugenie is getting married to her London socialite boyfriend in the 2nd royal wedding of 2018
Kieran Corcoran
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, a London socialite, are getting married.
Buckingham Palace announced the engagement on Monday morning, adding that they got engaged in Nicaragua earlier this month. The palace also published official engagement photos of the couple.
Eugenie, 27, is the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew, the queen’s second-born son. She is eighth in Britain’s line of royal succession, though she will drop to ninth when Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have their third child.
Brooksbank, 31, has been described by the UK society magazine Tatler as the king of the London club scene. He is the manager of the Kensington branch of the Mahiki nightclub, a venue popular with the younger generation of the royal family.
He’s also a brand ambassador for Casamigos, the tequila company set up by George Clooney.
Brooksbank and Eugenie have been together for more than seven years. They started dating in 2010, while Eugenie was still a student at Newcastle University, where she studied English literature, art history, and politics.
Lips pursed
‘Today’ feud brewing as hosts trade jabs on air
The atmosphere is so bad around Megyn Kelly at “Today” that producers of the 7-to-9 a.m. slot, hosted by Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, are openly sniping at her.
Kelly, who takes over “Today” at 9 a.m., had “congratulated” Kotb, “Mean Girls”-style, when the latter landed Matt Lauer’s job. On Jan. 2, Kelly said to Kotb, live on air, “We talked recently about how, 10 years ago, your life was very different. You were going through a dark period.”
Chuck Schumer has been huddled with all Senate Democrats for an HOUR to talk about how they’ll vote on plan to reopen the government but without strong assurances about how immigration and DACA will go. Vote will be called at noon
— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) January 22, 2018
Good Morning Everyone1
Stephen Miller’s Plan Has Always Been to Hold the Dreamers Hostage
by Nancy LeTourneau
January 22, 2018
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham finally said out loud what many legislators are saying behind closed doors.
The reason there will be no agreement as long as Miller is in charge of negotiations is because he is holding Dreamers hostage in order to force changes to legal immigration. He made that clear during a meeting last fall that he arranged with people from Breitbart.
OMG @PressSec is such a buffoon trying to pretend @SenSchumer doesn’t understand big policy negotiations. Like the WH has someone competent to send over and educate him? Girl stop! #GoSitDown
Dangerous to have an incompetent, addled fool of man in the Oval Office.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/955444607176888320
I heard on the radio that he is play “Hide and Tweet.”
Fuckery…………..
Trump: I alone can fix it. Deals are my art form.
Let’s see:
Bots are going apeshit ✔
Hitpieces are sprouting like weeds ✔
Said hitpieces all have RU ties ✔
Writers of hitpieces have RU ties ✔
Manning, Posopiec, & Fairbanks all become bosom buddies ✔
Trump is in hyperpanic mode ✔
We are close my friends 😊
— Pinche-Rolled Up Forbes (@Pinche_Pi) January 22, 2018
This rabid racist here…
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/955403395891736577
https://twitter.com/TheAvgBlackMan/status/955440600194613250
After Four Months Without Power, A Puerto Rican Town Strings Its Own Lines With Volunteers …The “police chief – a retired employee of the utility – and a bunch of other men from this municipality, all volunteering to restore power to their town”https://t.co/Y1xQmLGN4l
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 21, 2018
As millions participated in Women’s Marches, Trump sought credit
01/22/18 08:40 AM—UPDATED 01/22/18 08:50 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump was probably feeling a little antsy on Saturday. On the first anniversary of his presidential inaugural, the Republican expected to be at his private club in Florida, but was instead stuck at the White House, detached from the process surrounding the government shutdown, pretending to be busy.
Assuming Trump turned on the television – as is his wont – the president likely saw coverage of a shutdown he helped create, but was powerless to end, coupled with coverage of massive national protests, featuring legions of activists who are resisting his agenda.
So, naturally, Trump thought it’d be a good idea to take credit for the progressive activism. “Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months,” the president declared.
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Indeed, I continue to wonder if activism of this scope, and on this scale, is an underappreciated national story. In 2010, if a few dozen guys with tea bags and tricorn hats got together in a park, it was seen as an important development. Nearly eight years later, news consumers are treated to “Trump voters still like Trump” stories with unsettling frequency – as if supporters of a historically unpopular president are the constituency that deserves the most attention right now.
But whether those who marched over the weekend are able to keep the spotlight or not, the fact remains that the Women’s Marches represent some of the most impressive political activism in a generation.
After last year’s events, I said, “The political world may be frequently jaded and cynical about the electorate’s whims, but Saturday’s marches and rallies demanded attention. To look past them is to ignore a brewing backlash of national significance.” A year later, that backlash is bigger, louder, and hopefully more intimidating for those who stand in their way.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18
Terrifying reality for children’s health is a game in Congress
Rachel Maddow points out that while Republicans are trying to use funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program as a bargaining tool, millions of American children are losing vital health insurance.
We’re talking about AT LEAST FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18
Trump admin ducking accountability on inaugural slush fund
Fredreka Schouten, campaign finance reporter for USA Today, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Trump administration’s evasiveness on what it did with the extra millions of dollars raised for the Trump inauguration that were not spent.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18
Democrats hold ground on key issues ahead of government shutdown
Senator Mazie Hirono talks with Rachel Maddow about the issues that Republicans have refused to address, like security for DACA recipients, that have Senate Democrats standing against the House-passed CR with just hours before a government shutdown.
Shutdown is obviously huge story. But still striking the major Sunday shows booked more than dozen lawmakers/officials the morning after massive women’s march and none were women: https://t.co/FIYkGlFfo9
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/955447898518548482
Reminder: Claire McCaskill tried to pass a bill guaranteeing military pay and death benefits during the government shutdown and Mitch McConnell blocked it. https://t.co/EeKHwD6EEy https://t.co/9Ib5QYvwjn
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 22, 2018
No One Elected Stephen Miller or Tom Cotton President
Trump is allowing even worse nutcases to run the circus.
by David Atkins
January 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/955445933629739008
The Government Shutdown Began November 8, 2016
by D.R. Tucker January 22, 2018
Let’s face it: it’s not the Trump Shutdown, it’s the People’s Shutdown.
The 62 million people who decided to turn the United States into a shithole country by electing Donald Trump fourteen months ago deserve the blame for the disorder and chaos in the District of Columbia. There is no logic or basis to the nonsense that officially began at midnight on January 20, 2018…but there was no logic or basis to the nonsense that was the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Think about the argument that those who voted for Trump wanted to “shake things up in Washington.” The problems affecting Washington could not be solved by “shaking things up”; those problems were caused mainly by right-wing hyperpartisanship and big money in politics, and voting for Trump would not have done a damn thing to remedy either problem. Those who claimed to have voted for Trump because he would “shake things up” actually did so because they wanted him to prevent the government from providing any assistance or fair treatment whatsoever to people they consider “undesirables.”
They’re loving this shutdown, because they figure that a profoundly dysfunctional federal government is preferable to a federal government that’s providing “handouts,” “welfare,” “food stamps,” “Obamaphones,” etc.
Their hatred–their fear and loathing for anyone not like them–is responsible for this government shutdown. If they had their way, armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would smash into the homes of every DACA beneficiary and force those beneficiaries to get on the first plane back to their countries of origin. If they had their way, every woman who marched this weekend would be denied equal pay for equal work, the right to control their own bodies and possibly even the right to vote. If they had their way, the bill that made Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday would have been repealed long ago–even though their previous hero, Ronald Reagan, signed that bill into law.
https://twitter.com/Boutaina/status/955430623962738688
if trump and pence still in office
Paul Ryan and the GOP Take Legal Bribes from the Kochs
by David Atkins January 21, 2018
The corruption is right out in the open:
The GOP’s commitment to the defense of Donald Trump was in large part about this: helping their billionaire donors. The donors made it clear that they wouldn’t keep funding their bought-and-paid-for congressmembers without a tax cut payoff. And they needed a president with five working digits to sign the legislation.
Where is Shirley Chisholm when we need her? :
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Debunking the Lie that Dreamers Can Wait
By Tom Jawetz Posted on January 19, 2018, 5:10 pm
As the Trump administration and Congress continue to drive the country toward an unnecessary and chaotic government shutdown, there appears to be substantial confusion about whether Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are already losing their protections or if Congress has until March 5, or later, to address the issue. The answer to this question is important, as well as simple: Dreamers are losing protections now, and many more are losing their DACA status each day that Congress refuses to act. That’s why bipartisan groups in both the House and the Senate are pushing right now for legislation to provide permanent protections to Dreamers and address various other aspects of the U.S. immigration system, including border security.
On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration ended DACA. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded the memorandum that created DACA, stopped granting DACA to new applicants, and gave certain current DACA recipients a small window of time to apply for a final two-year extension. According to DHS statistics, 22,000 DACA recipients whose status was set to expire between September 5 and March 5 failed to meet the 30-day deadline set by the administration—a deadline that the administration refused to extend even for DACA recipients living in areas devastated by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
As a result, nearly 17,000 young people are estimated to have already lost DACA protections. Every day that passes, an average of 122 additional DACA recipients lose protection. Moreover, the Migration Policy Institute estimates that by March 5, 2018, approximately 23,000 children who are turning 15 and would have become eligible to apply for DACA will instead remain vulnerable to detention and deportation. Finally, hundreds of thousands of Dreamers and their family members—including hundreds of thousands of U.S.-citizen children—continue to live with fear and uncertainty about their future in this country.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Graham: “Every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating on immigration, we are going nowhere.”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 21, 2018
It’s telling Kelly culled so much dead weight but Miller holds steady. https://t.co/L2QCcOQ3W8— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/TomthunkitsMind/status/955323054401490944
WTF?
He should resign.
“The company Trump has kept includes the American mafia, the Russian mafia, arms traders, pedophiles, money launderers, other white collar criminals…”https://t.co/T3fhMbpib2— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/955438594809847814
It was going to be the CRIMINALS remember?
That’s who they were going to round up and deport. Those that were a drag on Society.
This man is a goddamned DOCTOR!
ICE is phucking out of control 😠😠😠
https://mobile.twitter.com/jessesingal/status/955088992130695169
https://twitter.com/crooksandliars/status/955441435104415745
Arrested for ‘ over-obeying’.
Yep, this is real.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RawStory/status/955171285776158721
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄
Good morning, everyone! My little sweetie is here.
Awe….picture please :)
I’ll get one today. He just fell asleep. He played until he got tired and sleepy.
Looking forward to photo!