Hope you’re enjoying the week. I’m listening to some of my all time favorite songs from Earth, Wind and Fire.
Here’s one of many:
And it’s not Friday, and I don’t care. I’m already FUNKED UP.
Hope you’re enjoying the week. I’m listening to some of my all time favorite songs from Earth, Wind and Fire.
Here’s one of many:
And it’s not Friday, and I don’t care. I’m already FUNKED UP.
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.
https://twitter.com/WilDonnelly/status/1017564940968845313
CHICAS…….Craig Hickman got burned.
Winthrop legislator recovering from severe burns makes appearance at island event
Rep. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, was in good spirits Thursday, wearing gauze bandages and with visible wounds resulting from a fire accident at his farm.
https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/07/12/winthrop-legislator-recovering-from-severe-burns-makes-appearance-at-island-event/
Hope that he gets better soon and heals 🙏🙏
Anyone with a brain knows that the GOP are so fake and thuggish. holding a hearing to attack the fucking FBI & staff, instead of holding that POS 45’s feet to the fire.
JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL.
Crooks, liars, thugs, hypocrites – there’s not a decent person left among them.
Thread.
https://twitter.com/_CharlesPreston/status/1017398587771293696
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/1017438146290704384
A stranger saved their beach wedding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/07/12/a-storm-was-ruining-this-beach-wedding-then-a-total-stranger-made-the-bride-an-offer/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s
Peter Strzok went ALL
on Gowdy & Nem…
Check out the Democrats going all ROGUE on the GOP today.
GIVING ME THAT LIFE!
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1017461833614151680
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Sheila Jackson lee holding up That photo oF Paulie Manafort is like placing an oxygen mask on me and turning the O2 up to 100 liters!
LOL
They were giving out free samples.
Ice Cream bar said
gluten-free
soy-free
dairy-free
So, you know, I gave it the side eye, but it said Chocolate, and I’ll give anything chocolate a try.
IT.WAS.EXCELLENT.
The name is
Luna & Larry’s
Organic Coconut Bliss
Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bars
I was stunned.
Charges dropped against Stormy Daniels after Ohio strip club arrest https://t.co/If3l8fA5Z8 pic.twitter.com/GAZTsABo5O— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1017458006320021509
https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1017460340450213889
Lil Kimmi only wanted the photo op with POS 45.
https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1017448429939765249
Doesn’t look bad for his age. I’d bet he’s had work done on his face.
He needs to ROT in prison.
THE END
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace
@KensingtonRoyal
The Duchess of Cambridge, @Wimbledon Patron, and The Duchess of Sussex will attend the Ladies’ Singles Final on Saturday 14th July #Wimbledon
Peter Strzok just DESTROYED the false narrative the Trump Administration and GOP have been trying to use against him in under 2 minutes. pic.twitter.com/787xootd1h
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) July 12, 2018
Obama-Era White House Film Plotted With Acquisition Of Ben Rhodes’ ‘The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House’
https://shadowandact.com/obama-era-white-house-film-being-plotted-with-acquisition-of-ben-rhodes-the-world-as-it-is-a-memoir-of-the-obama-white-house
Ok, this just made me LOL.
YEP
PROOF
Stormy Daniels Touched a woman in a friendly, nonsexual way = JAIL
Trump accused of:
– Raping a 13-year-old
– Walking in on Naked Teens at Miss Univ Dressing room
– Admitting to grabbing women by the Pussy
– Raping, groping or sexually assaulting 17 other women
= NO JAIL
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/ErickFernandez/status/1017431534536740866
https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1017437360588513280
A RIGHTEOUS BEATDOWN
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1017437179507814400
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1017431950984863744
LOOK AT THIS ISH, Y’ALL
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1017433423214936064
***SIGH****
https://twitter.com/Fiorentina5/status/1017431345981579264
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1017433135594770432
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1017419746512457728
GO ELIHAH!
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1017430008892198914
https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1017429378744115200
OOPS!
UH HUH
UH HUH
WATCH: Republican try to stop Elijah Cummings from listing guilty Trump officials at Strzok hearing
Travis Gettys
12 JUL 2018 AT 11:12 ET
Republican lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to stop Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) from listing the guilty pleas by Trump campaign officials obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Cummings called out GOP lawmakers for promising not to interfere with the Mueller investigation, but he said they had recently changed course.
“Now they’re doing the opposite. behind closed doors, they’re asking individuals involved in the Russia investigation hundreds of questions about confidential human sources, FISA applications and potential witnesses in the special counsel’s criminal probe,” Cummings said. “In public, they’re holding emergency hearings, issuing unilateral subpoenas and threatening contempt and impeachment. They even demanded that the top Justice Department law enforcement officer in charge of this investigation said, and I quote, ‘Finish it the hell up.’”
“So what has changed?” Cummings continued. “What has changed?”
Interns held up five large posters showing the faces of three Trump campaign officials and two campaign associates who have pleaded guilty to charges in the special counsel probe.
“Let me underscore, these are not allegations — these are admissions,” Cummings said. “Trump’s national security adviser admitted that he committed these crimes.”
Cummings then moved on to Rick Gates, the president’s deputy campaign chairman, who also pleaded guilty to crimes in the Mueller probe, when committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) cut his microphone.
Goodlatte questioned whether the signs were appropriate, but Cummings and other Democratic lawmakers asked him to cite a rule against them.
The Virginia Republican was unable to do so, and Cummings continued with his list.
https://twitter.com/DanteB4u/status/1017432991977693184
Those images on that screen are POWERFUL. These MOFOs can’t hide the truth of GUILT.
Minutes into the hearing Peter Strzok f’d it up…………😂😂😂#StrzokHearing
https://twitter.com/BarbaraRacek/status/1017431087872643073
His facial expressions look like “I am cool, calm and collected with these clowns”
DA PHUQ?
In his book, Sean Spicer calls Trump “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow” https://t.co/WRUy1hQuvu
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 12, 2018
#StrzokHearing Peter Strzok has republicans shook. They’re an effing disaster. This is a total clown show.
It is truly amazing how stupid they are.
Exclusive: Secret money funds more than 40% of outside congressional ads
Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY
Published 10:58 a.m. ET July 12, 2018
WASHINGTON – Secret donors funded more than four out of every 10 television ads that outside groups broadcast this year to influence November’s high-stakes congressional elections, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Kantar Media data.
Leading the way: Organizations affiliated with billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, whose conservative donor network plows hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and policy debates each election cycle.
Two Koch-affiliated groups account for more than one-quarter of the House and Senate advertising from groups that don’t disclose their donors, according to a tally of broadcast ads tracked by Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG).
Those Koch advocacy groups, Americans for Prosperity and Concerned Veterans for America, have trained their advertising fire on five Democratic senators up for re-election from red and purple states: Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1017424394707177473
They’re know ISH is about to get fugging real and they’re trying everything to stop it but that bullet train is heading down the tracks full speed…. #StrzokHearing
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1017428233724317696
H looks cool as a cucumber.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1017425720857985024
https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1017424044214366209
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1017423168150081536
OMG! Peter Strzokhearing is nothing but got damn drama. I can’t believe what I’m hearing.
This question continues to need to be asked.
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1017391393319346176
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1017220882660544517
Oversight of FBI and DOJ: Testimony by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1017409360484372480
Be vigilant people. Take nothing for granted. We’re living in very dangerous times. These people are emboldened now. He was going to kill that girl by pushing her into traffic.
https://twitter.com/rjoseph7777/status/1017392799182802950
https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1017402113134129152
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1017411020615106561
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1017410767698575361
Uh oh….
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1017355661376712706
US Navy now allows women to wear ponytails, lock hairstyles
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said it makes the Navy more inclusive.
Many black women had asked for changes to the female grooming standards. A female sailor, Yeoman First Class LaToya Jones, announced the new policy during a Facebook Live event Tuesday with Richardson. The new standards went into effect Wednesday.
Lock hairstyles, or ropelike strands, are also now allowed. Wider hair buns too. And women can wear ponytails while in uniform.
Capt. Thurraya Kent is the senior member of the working group that recommended the changes. The group told the Navy that adding grooming options would eliminate a distraction, be more inclusive of different hair textures and enable people to keep their hair natural instead of processing it chemically.
Kent, who has been in the Navy for nearly 26 years, said her hair has been an issue throughout her career, whether it’s figuring out what to do with it while she’s deployed or trying to quickly make sure it conforms to regulations after exercising.
She recalled being told to take out her braids early in her career even though her hairstyle was allowed.
I simply don’t believe them.
………………………..
Trump administration reunites 57 immigrant children with parents after missing court-imposed deadline
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 9:56 a.m. ET July 12, 2018
The Trump administration claims it completed the first round of reunifications Thursday of families separated at the border, but it will be up to a federal judge to decide whether government officials moved fast enough to comply with his order.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw imposed a series of deadlines for the administration to reunite nearly 3,000 children separated from their parents, mostly under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement policy. The first group, children under 5 years old, were supposed to be reunited with their parents by Tuesday.
Sabraw made clear during a court hearing Tuesday that his deadlines were firm, and he raised the possibility of punishment for the government if those children were not reunited by the deadline “or within the immediate proximity” of it.
Trump sounds sour note at NATO summit, lack of eggs upsets Kelly
Rachel Maddow reports on a White House explanation that Chief of Staff John Kelly’s apparent displeasure while Donald Trump was fustigating the bedrock of Western international security was actually because of his unhappiness with the breakfast menu.
Azar’s HHS tempts judge’s wrath over botched reunifications
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, talks with Rachel Maddow about the struggle HHS Secretary Alex Azar is having overcoming an apparently broken system to meet a judge’s deadline for returning kids to families separated by Trump policy.
Manafort judge not amused, orders move to new jail
Rachel Maddow explains the story of former Donald Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort complaining about the location of his jail, getting the judge to agree to a move, withdrawing his request for a move, and now the judge, not interested in games, forcing the move anyway.
GOP stunt to smear counter-intel expert Strzok ripe for backfire
Rachel Maddow tells the story of the FBI spying on Russian spies in the U.S., “Donald Heathfield” and “Tracey Foley,” and notes the extensive biography of Peter Strzok, who led many of those operations – the same Peter Strzok that Republicans are trying to smear in order to discredit the Mueller investigation.
Sigh..
Left like a $2 Ho that didn’t even get the $2
………………………………..
North Koreans Are No Show at Scheduled U.S. Talks
July 12, 2018 at 7:49 am EDT
North Korean officials didn’t show up for a planned meeting with U.S. counterparts to discuss returning the remains of American war dead… in the latest sign of tensions between the two sides, Bloomberg reports.
U.S. negotiators arrived Thursday at the militarized border between the two Koreas as previously announced by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and were kept waiting,
Why does this creep me out?
Like, just leave it alone…
Migrants describe hunger and solitary confinement at for-profit detention center
By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates
Updated 1:58 PM ET, Wed July 11, 2018
Word of the Day : July 12, 2018
Cerebrate play
verb SAIR-uh-brayt
Definition: to use the mind : think
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/cerebrate-2018-07-12?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=c&file=cerebr04&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
This makes no sense 😒😒
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1017174441967738880
What’s really going on here?
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah, Rikyrah & 3Chics Family.
Good morning, everyone