#vp kamala harris

[whosurisold]

Where democracy goes to die - where justice is corrupted by the wealthy

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Bill Bramhall

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 16, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

FEB 17, 2024

At the Munich Security Conference, where leaders from more than 70 countries gather annually in Germany to discuss international security policy, Vice President Kamala Harris today responded to Trump’s recent attacks on America’s global leadership with a full-throated defense of global engagement.

People around the world have reason to wonder if the United States is committed to global leadership, she acknowledged. Americans, she said, must also ask themselves “[w]hether it is in America’s interest to continue to engage with the world or to turn inward. Whether it is in our interest to defend longstanding rules and norms that have provided for unprecedented peace and prosperity or to allow them to be trampled. Whether it is in America’s interest to fight for democracy or to accept the rise of dictators. And whether it is in America’s interest to continue to work in lockstep with our allies and partners or go it alone.”

Harris spoke at least in part to people at home, saying that upholding international rules and democratic values “makes America strong, and it keeps Americans safe.” Isolating ourselves and embracing dictators while we “abandon commitments to our allies in favor of unilateral action” is “dangerous, destabilizing, and indeed short-sighted,” she said. “That view would weaken America and would undermine global stability and undermine global prosperity.”

The Biden administration’s approach to global engagement is not “based on the virtues of charity,” Harris said, but rather is based on the nation’s strategic interest. “Our leadership keeps our homeland safe, supports American jobs, secures supply chains, and opens new markets for American goods. And I firmly believe,” she added, “our commitment to build and sustain alliances has helped America become the most powerful and prosperous country in the world—alliances that have prevented wars, defended freedom, and maintained stability from Europe to the Indo-Pacific. To put all of that at risk would be foolish.”

Turning to the defense of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion, she said: “we have joined forces with our friends and allies to stand up for freedom and democracy…. The world has come together, with leadership from the United States, to defend the basic principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity and to stop an imperialist authoritarian from subjugating a free and democratic people.” 

The European Union has recently committed $54 billion to support Ukraine in addition to “the more than $100 billion our European allies and partners have already dedicated,” she said, noting that that support makes it clear that Europe will stand with Ukraine. 

“I will make clear President Joe Biden and I stand with Ukraine,” Harris said. “In partnership with supportive, bipartisan majorities in both houses of the United States Congress, we will work to secure critical weapons and resources that Ukraine so badly needs. And let me be clear: The failure to do so would be a gift to Vladimir Putin.”

“If we fail to impose severe consequences on Russia” for its invasion of Ukraine, she warned, “other authoritarians across the globe would be emboldened, because you see, they will be watching…and drawing lessons. “In these unsettled times, it is clear,” she said. “America cannot retreat. America must stand strong for democracy. We must stand in defense of international rules and norms, and we must stand with our allies.”

“[T]he American people will meet this moment,” Vice President Harris said, “and America will continue to lead.”

News that arrived just before Harris began to speak underscored her argument: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison a day after being recorded on video in court, seemingly healthy. Navalny’s crusade against Putin’s corruption had led Putin to try repeatedly to murder him, then finally in 2021 to imprison him on trumped-up charges. Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, took the stage after Harris and vowed that Vladimir Putin and his allies “will be brought to justice, and this day will come soon.”

Russian elections will be held next month, and while Putin is assumed to be the certain victor, his recent disqualification of Boris Nadezhdin, who was running on a platform that opposed the Ukraine war, suggests he is concerned about opposition. Eliminating Navalny at this moment sends a warning to other Russians that, as Anne Applebaum noted in a piece today in The Atlantic, courage in opposing Putin is pointless. 

In the U.S., Navalny’s apparent murder creates a political problem for Republicans. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) yesterday recessed the House for two weeks without taking up the national security supplemental bill that would support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, just as its supplies are running out. 

On Saturday, former president Trump told an audience he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries that are not devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to building up their militaries. Meanwhile, former Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson has been in Moscow, interviewing Putin and favorably comparing Russia to the United States.

On Monday, in Dubai, Egyptian journalist Emad El Din Adeeb asked Carlson why, when interviewing Putin, he “did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about restrictions on opposition in the coming elections.” Carlson replied by equating Russia and the U.S., saying: “Every leader kills people…. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.”          

The death of Navalny at just this moment appears to tie the Republicans to Putin’s murderous regime, and party leaders scrambled today to distance themselves from Putin. House speaker Mike Johnson, who has resisted passing aid to Ukraine and insisted the House would not be “rushed” into passing such a measure, released a statement saying that “as international leaders are meeting in Munich, we must be clear that Putin will be met with united opposition…. [T]he United States, and our partners, must be using every means available to cut off Putin’s ability to fund his unprovoked war in Ukraine and aggression against the Baltic states.” 

Republicans trying to carve out distance between themselves and Trump’s MAGA Republicans used the occasion to call out MAGAs, saying, as former vice president Mike Pence did, “There is no room in the Republican Party for apologists for Putin.” Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who has pushed hard for Ukraine aid, wrote: “Putin is a murderous, paranoid dictator. History will not be kind to those in America who make apologies for Putin and praise Russian autocracy. Nor will history be kind to America’s leaders who stay silent because they fear backlash from online pundits.”

Navalny attacked the Putin regime by calling attention to its extraordinary corruption, and somewhat fittingly, the corruption of former president Donald Trump, who won the White House with Putin’s help, was also on the docket today. 

In Manhattan, in the case concerning Trump and the Trump Organization’s manipulation of financial statements in order to get better loan terms and to pay fewer taxes, Justice Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and the Trump Organization to disgorge about $355 million in ill-gotten gains as well as more than $98 million in interest on that money from the time Trump obtained it through fraud. The total came to just under $454 million. Engoron also barred Trump from running a business or applying for a loan in New York for three years. The judge ordered Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric to pay more than $4 million each and barred them from serving as officers or directors of any New York corporation or legal entity for two years.  

“[D]efendants submitted blatantly false financial data to…accountants,” Engoron wrote, “resulting in fraudulent financial statements. When confronted at trial with the statements, defendants’ fact and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility….” Engoron detailed the reluctance of the Trumps, including Ivanka, to tell the truth on the witness stand, and concluded: “Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.” 

New York attorney general Letitia James, who brought the lawsuit, commented: “Donald Trump is finally facing accountability for his lying, cheating, and staggering fraud. Because no matter how big, rich, or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.”

In his 2022 documentary about Alexei Navalny, director Daniel Roher asked Navalny what message he would leave for the Russian people if he were killed. “Listen,” Navalny answered. “I’ve got something very obvious to tell you. You’re not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. We need to utilize this power to not give up, to remember we are a huge power that is being oppressed by these bad dudes. We don’t realize how strong we actually are.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[msclaritea]

Still shaking with shock and DISGUST, knowing now that some Men, worship themselves SO HARD, the weak ones have convinced themselves that they can replace women. We should not be going through this! And Tuberville can grovel all he likes. It won't help.

[chucksrus84]

The 2022 Midterm Election is on November 8, 2022 (Tuesday). That's next week.

Vote for Democrats and make your voice heard. You ALL have the power to change the world and you all can do that by changing this country for the better.

Good luck, and God speed.

[smcclintonjr]

America goes #246. And guess what? We have more work to do. Really we do.

Happy 4th folks. The whole country just flipped the page for another year of life. And yet we’re still working on the struggle to slam every day. It’s been 14 days since we were celebrating Juneteenth Day. You know the formally other Independence Day that is for Black Americans. And still many were all in a joke fest because they think its humor theater. Well its a conflict because they don’t…

[paulthepoke]

UN Security Council Votes for Ceasefire in Gaza

The prophets spoke of a time when Israel would be isolated against the world.

Zechariah 12:1-4 The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the…

[colishia]

The State of The Union

President Biden speech was on point he gave the American people what some wanted to hear. Some of the key points from his speech were cutting credit card fees from $38 dollars to $8 dollars. Raising minimum wages and making the 1% pay more in taxes instead of paying nothing. He also talked about putting more restrictions on gun control, upping border control, and stopping the smuggling of…

[jewrocker]

Our 'Accountability Tumor' is Metastasizing By the Day, With No Cure In Sight

Let’s pretend our democracy is a human body. What do you do when it seems as if your body’s first, second, third, fourth, fifth - okay, every single line of defense, fails you? What do you do when all forms of treatment, no matter how high the hopes of the doctors, fall short, leaving the tumor to continue growing, unabated.  

Don’t look now, but our ‘body’ is in danger of falling into sepsis shock. To some, it may feel like a cold - nothing to worry about. Until you wake up in the ER, your arms and legs black from the flesh-eating parasites that have made their way into your circulatory system. At the risk of using another anatomical metaphor, our Justice system is the heart of our democracy. And the prognosis isn’t good. 

When the ‘antibodies’ of our system, the judges, prosecutors, Attorneys General, elected officials, the media, law enforcement, as well as the highest court in the land, fail to hold the most stentorian traitor to ever come down the pike, accountable for ANY of his deplorable actions, it threatens every cell in our ‘body.’ And, it’s contagious. Don’t think for a minute we’re the only ones who’ll suffer if our democracy dies. The disease that is Trumpism will spread like wildfire around the world. The political version of Covid-19. 

Before you say, “Well, Trump’s being forced to pay $400 million in civil judgements,” has he paid a dime, yet? Sure, the clock on the interest is ticking, but has he paid?  Anyone with an IQ over five knows Trump is going to do everything he can to try and figure out a way to avoid civil accountability, just like he’s always done. Be it through his usual delay tactics, finding an appellate judge(s) sympathetic to his cause, a willing foreign government happy to give him the money for 'favors later on', turning to his millions of dim-witted followers, or all of the above, to bail him out.  But, I digress, as we’re not talking about civil penalties, here. Compared to this incurable cancer of a man, the civil cases are just the sniffles.  

Call it what you want; due process, the slow turning wheels of Justice, etc. At the end of the day, when it comes to the problem of Donald J. Trump, why does it seem as if We The People are getting the shaft every time we turn around?  Sure, there might be a lone, courageous official, or court, here and there doing their best to uphold their oath(s), but, with each passing day, it appears as if nearly every time we get close, our bubble bursts. Every time we focus on a person(s) in a position to hold Trump criminally accountable for his innumeralbe crimes against the Constitution, they’re either bending over backwards at every turn to make sure he gets away with it, or watching helplessly as their hands are tied behind their backs by the grinding garbage disposal of Justice.

Be it a Department of Justice, led by a meek Attorney General, who sat on their hands for more than a year after an attempted violent coup - only to move after a Congressional committee, one with no prosecutorial authority, made it all-but-impossible for them to continue to ignore - (for what it’s worth, I still say appointing Merrick Garland Attorney General was the biggest mistake Joe Biden ever made);  A Congress so beyond broken, so full of cowards and stone-cold traitors, half of them should be prosecuted, themselves, for aiding/abetting insurrection - amongst other things. But, they won’t be.

And, of course, our irreproachable, infallible SCOTUS. These arrogant, dystopian hacks seem to be doing everything they can to afford the most treasonous president in history, by a landslide, every possible accommodation, in the hopes he ends up back in the oval before he can be held accountable for his actions. If anyone really is above the Law in this Republic, it’s our Supreme Court. Even the scandalous appearance of a sitting Justice about to hear a case in which his wife is a co-conspirator, doesn’t move the needle an inch.  Zero accountability. Zero concern. 

Jack Smith, the ‘Lancelot’ of this saga. Even the unflappable patriot that is Mr. Smith didn’t feel he had the cards - or the stones - to charge the architect of the coup, a coup that saw thousands sentenced to prison and several officers die, with insurrection.  

For Goodness sake, there were calls to execute the Vice President of the United States, as well as the Speaker of the House, and now, it’s all but forgotten. A blip on the radar. Now, they’re the victims. At least, as far as an appeals court that just ruled against Smith and his team, are concerned. The ruling, which will, no doubt, see hundreds of sentences reduced/commuted, will do nothing but aid the toxic, carcinogenic narrative of the wannabe (soon to be?) fascist and his cronies. 

Poor Fani Willis. She went on a date with someone in her office, and suddenly, she’s as corrupt as Trump? One minute, all the cards in the deck are finally looking like they’re stacking against him, then, Poof! Suddenly, she’s the one on trial? WTF is wrong with this picture? Reminds one of former Senator Al Franken’s scandal that was only a scandal because his own colleagues in the Senate climbed over themselves to prove to everyone watching they could eviscerate their own, better than anyone on the Right. This unjust, relentless persecution of a champion of democracy illustrates what we’re really best at: Attacking the righteous from all sides, like wild hyenas, while letting the real bad guys off the hook. 

Then, there’s Aileen “MAGA” Canon. If she were any more pro-Trump, she’d don a pair of Ivanka’s red lingerie behind the bench. Although, it’s quite possible she may wear it underneath. Of course, there are still members of the media, like respected MSNBC pundit, Ali Velshi, who refuse to see the galactically obvious evidence all around us, and continue to utter incomprehensibly obtuse phrases such as, “It appears Trump is receiving ‘somewhat preferable’ treatment from Judge Canon.” That’s like saying, “It appears Hannibal Lecter is somewhat preferable towards meat.” The odds of this beyond corrupt jurist being held accountable and removed, are less than zero. 

What about the antithesis to Elliot Richardson? Former AG, Bill Barr, single-handedly derailed years of investigations into the Trump/Russia connection - then, in an effort to avoid any/all accountability, goes on a whirlwind media tour ranting against his former boss. So far, it’s worked.

Bob Mueller’s not free from blame, either. He could’ve chose to be more forceful, to rise to the call, to see where we were heading. One simple sentence could’ve changed the course of history - and save he, and his colleagues, years of wasted effort: “It is our finding the president of the United States acted criminally.” Boom. Instead, as the late great Sean Connery said, the former director of the FBI brought a knife to a gun fight.  

Let’s not forget the man of the hour. The one who, with one vote, with one flick of his pen, made all this suffering possible: The insatiably power-hungry, anti-democratic lap dog, Moscow Mitch McConnell. He could’ve seen to it Trump was held accountable. Once again, he failed us. History will not be kind, but as far as any real repercussions for a lifetime of treachery and corruption, don’t hold your breath.

Fox News: They were forced to fork over nearly $1 billion, yet, the network of lies continues to operate with impunity, as if nothing happened.  

All of this should come as no surprise, however. Because, if there’s one area of criminality our Justice system has a hard time with, it’s scammers. Be it identity thieves who make millions stealing from insurance companies, retail stores, etc., and who never do a day in jail, or if they do, it’s a token sentence, then, they’re back on the streets doing it again. 

Financial scammers using burner phones and phony gmail addresses to trick millions, especially the elderly, into giving up their passwords, thus draining their bank accounts; only to have law enforcement tell you it’s virtually impossible to track them down; translation; zero accountability. 

Heck, even the recent Amazon documentary Operation Landslide, detailing the downfall of the Net’s biggest kiddie porn king, ends by reminding us over four thousand members of this disgusting, illegal site have yet to be questioned, let alone, arrested/prosecuted. 

One just needs to look around to see the side effects of this ‘treatment’ by our crack team of judicial ‘quacks.’ It infects our everyday lives everywhere we go. Where we work, how we work, where we eat, how we treat one another, etc. 

Poll workers, nationwide, resigning due to threats and stress; State/local congressmen abandoning ship every time you turn around; Teachers telling anyone/everyone thinking of getting into the noblest of professions to ‘run in the other direction’, due to the erosion of reverence/respect, as well as zero accountability on the part of parents who, instead of listening to an educated professional, point fingers at everyone but themselves for their child’s problems. 

The gold standard of customer service - Restaurant owners - refusing to take responsibility/ownership of an issue, and instead, boldly taking to social media to lambast/attack their customers in grandiose fashion; 

Heck, just today I went to my local market to return a simple bad piece of meat, and, instead of simply apologizing and offering me a credit, the owner accused me of ‘not cooking it properly.’ 

We can’t capitalist corporations, can we? The ‘life’s blood’ of this democracy;  UPS breaks kids’ Xmas presents, ruining their holiday, forever, and, instead of simply crediting the parents for their irreplaceable loses, tells them they’re ‘shit out of luck’ and ‘there’s nothing we can do.’

Frontier Airlines, the company that makes the cable companies look like humanitarians, leaves a mother and her kids stranded for two days after closing all counters over an hour before take-off, costing them close to $2000 in additional expenses, not to mention untold stress/heartache, and responds with $135 in travel credits; credits that expire in three months. 

Even Amazon, the bastion of amazing customer service/accountability, rather than simply crediting you the difference on a product that you find cheaper at Costco, Target, etc, refuses to price match any of its competitors; instead, daring you to take the time to box it back up and deliver it to a drop, yourself. After all, what are you gonna do about it? Not shop there anymore? Ha!  

And now, as we speak, for the pièce de résistance,

the cherry on top of this ‘zero accountability’ sandwich, we get to have a front row seat as our bumbling, stumbling judicial system flails about like the Keystone Cops after a few beers, chasing the biggest scammer and con-artist in the history of history down the rabbit hole of legal loopholes, false narratives, glaringly obvious guilt, an apathetic public, an obtuse media, and massive inexplicable inaction. 

If Justice is blind, there is no doubt, our Justice System is Helen Keller. If one didn’t know better, you’d think we are intentionally protecting one man’s interests over an entire nation.

Hear that sound?  That’s us, flatlining. 

[dicapiito]

Realizing the misogyny and more importantly the misogynoir that’s going to happen when Biden is re elected towards MVP Kamala Harris from 2024-2028 ( and hopefully beyond for her two terms) is…

[whosurisold]

DelayDon biggest problem - His Pecker

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Michael de Adder, Washington Post

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 31, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson

The second Summit for Democracy organized by the White House concluded yesterday with an invitation to a third summit, to be held in Costa Rica later this year. The second summit was not just a United States party: its virtual sessions were co-hosted by Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia. Over the course of three days, participants from more than 100 countries discussed ways to surge resources to reformers during democratic openings, address inequality, promote economic growth, combat corruption, advance the status of women, promote media freedom, encourage youth political participation, combat hate speech, strengthen unions, and defend the rule of law.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden congratulated the attendees for helping to make democracy work, turning the tide against autocracies. In the U.S. he said, “we’ve demonstrated that our democracy can still do big things and deliver important progress for working Americans.” As ordinary Americans have seen lower costs for prescription drugs and health insurance premiums, progress on rebuilding infrastructure, innovation, and policies to address climate change, they have, Biden said, “resoundingly and roundly rejected the voices of extremism attacking and undermining our democracy.”

Biden highlighted the ways other countries are advancing democracy: Angola is trying to build an independent judiciary, the Dominican Republic and Croatia have combated corruption. Biden called out “many other countries…from countries taking the first steps toward reform to well-established democracies of people making real changes to protect and strengthen their democracy.” The work of democracy “has never been easy,” he said. It “is hard work. The work of democracy is never finished. It’s never laid down and that’s it, all you have to do. It must be protected constantly.”

He continued: “We have to continually renew our commitment, continually strengthen our institutions, root out corruption where we find it, seek to build consensus, and reject political violence, give hate and extremism no safe harbor.”

The U.S. has invested in global democracy by committing more than $1 billion to shore up government transparency and accountability, support media freedom, fight international corruption, defend elections, and promote technology that advances democracy. It intends, Biden says, to commit $9.5 billion over three years.

Protecting democracy, the president said, “is a defining challenge of our age.”

Today, Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, wrote to Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary; Bryan Steil (R-WI), chair of the House Committee on House Administration; and James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, to warn them that their attacks on Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and his office were “unlawful political interference.”

Jordan, Steil, and Comer have tried to intervene in the district attorney’s investigation of former president Trump. Even before a grand jury of ordinary citizens voted to file charges against Trump, the three men demanded the district attorney share with them confidential information about the state of the investigation. The district attorney did not give it to them because, as Dubeck said, “our Office is legally constrained in how it publicly discusses pending criminal proceedings,… as you well know. That secrecy is critical to protecting the privacy of the target of any criminal investigation as well as the integrity of the independent grand jury’s proceedings,” she wrote.

She called their interference “unnecessary and unjustified” and reminded the men that Congress has no jurisdiction over individual criminal investigations. Nor does it have jurisdiction over state investigations. “The Committees’ attempted interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation—and now prosecution—is an unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on New York’s sovereign interests,” she wrote.

Dubeck noted that the men were reportedly working closely with Trump to attack the district attorney’s office and the grand jury process, making it seem that “you are acting more like criminal defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client than a legislative body seeking to achieve a legitimate legislative objective.”

Dubeck noted that Trump has been threatening Bragg personally and warning that his indictment might unleash “death & destruction.” She pointed out that the three men, as committee chairs, “could use the stature of your office to denounce these attacks and urge respect for the fairness of our justice system and for the work of the impartial grand jury.” Instead, they and their colleagues were collaborating with Trump to attack the justice system as politically motivated. “We urge you to refrain from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw your demand for information, and let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference,” she wrote.

Dubeck concluded by noting that subpoenaing the district attorney for information about an ongoing state criminal prosecution, as they threatened to do, was “unprecedented and unconstitutional” and expressed hope they would “make a good-faith effort to reach a negotiated resolution.”

Also today, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled in favor of Dominion Voting Systems in a key point of the company’s lawsuit against the Fox News Corporation for defamation. The ruling also established the central point for dismissing the story that Trump had won the 2020 election. Davis wrote—in italics—“The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that [it] is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”

The Fox News Corporation had argued that the false statements of its hosts claiming that the voting system had thrown the 2020 presidential election to Biden were not defamatory because they were opinions. In his decision the judge went through the statements, calling out 20 occasions on which lies were stated as facts and similar occasions on which deliberately omitted material changed the meaning of what was presented.

The judge has determined that the hosts’ statements were false. Now the case will go to a jury trial in April to determine whether Fox hosts knew they were lying and whether Dominion sustained damages from the defamation. The company is suing for $1.6 billion.

In the last stop of her Africa visit, Vice President Kamala Harris today was in Zambia, which co-hosted this week’s Summit for Democracy. Neither Harris nor Biden will comment in any way about the impending indictment of the former president. At a press conference in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, today, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal reminded Harris that she had “spoken about democracy and the rule of law at every stop in Africa,” and asked her to comment on news of the indictment.

When she declined, Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema stepped forward. “[L]et’s remove names from your question,” he said.

“Let’s put what we decided we will do to govern ourselves in an orderly manner. First, our constitutions, bedrock law. Then, secondary laws, other regulations create a platform or framework around which we agreed, either as Americans or as Zambians, to govern ourselves.  And so, to live within those confines.

“And when there’s transgression against law, it does not matter who is involved. I think that is what the rule of law means.”

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[msclaritea]

Well, the DC Establishment made sure he got in. So, was Obama allowed the win, so they could start beating this stupidity drum? The GOP sets things up, to use as a weapon, down the line. Our country is FUCKED, right now, because they keep using Race the divide us.

[queenvlion]

[yamimichi]

[whenweallvote]

Today we’re wishing a very happy birthday to our nation’s Vice President, Kamala Harris! 🎉🎈

[rafaelsilvasource]

thank you @/vp and Second Gentleman, Mr. Emhoff, for inviting me into your home to celebrate the end of #pride month. it was truly an honor and a privilege, and quite humbling experience to be surrounded by people who make it their life’s mission to fight for the right of this community to exist. God bless this community and its unsung heroes. thank you @/glaad @sarahkateellis and @anthonyramosah for your leadership. a private shout out to Opal, stunning in 💚 we went to college together, were RA’s together (in nyc dorms no less), and now works beside our vp and i’m really proud of you.

RAFAEL SILVA at the Vice President's Mansion in Washington, DC | via Instagram - June 30, 2023