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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1488038
Love it, Let the howls begin
Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19, including Pelosi and Ledecky (msn.com)
Mike Bloomberg:
- Gregory J. Boyle: A Jesuit Catholic president who founded Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention and rehabilitation program based in California.
Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.)
Elizabeth Dole
Phil Donahue
- Medgar Evers: The World War II veteran and civil rights activist fought to desegregate Mississippi. A white supremacist fatally shot the 37-year-old Evers in his driveway in 1963. He was 37.
Al Gore
- Clarence Jones: The lawyer and longtime civil rights activist helped write Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech. Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, once lauded Jones as “the ultimate inspiration” who helped “bend the arc of history toward justice and freedom.”
John F. Kerry
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Frank Lautenberg: The Republican served five terms as senator from New Jersey, the longest senatorial tenure in the state’s history. He died in 2013.
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Katie Ledecky: The swimmer won seven Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, more than any other woman in the sport.
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Opal Lee: The educator and civil rights activist is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her efforts to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Decades after a mob of 500 white supremacists set fire to Lee’s childhood home as the 12-year-old Lee and her family fled, she was at the White House in 2021 as Biden signed into law legislation establishing the Juneteenth holiday.
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Ellen Ochoa: The onetime director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center also was the first Hispanic woman to fly to space.
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Nancy Pelosi: The congresswoman from California led House Democrats for two decades and became the first woman elected House Speaker, a position she stepped away from in 2023. Pelosi continues to serve in Congress, where she’s represented a San Francisco-area district for more than 30 years.
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Jane Rigby: The NASA astrophysicist became a senior project scientist in 2023 of one of the world’s most powerful telescopes. (She also grew up in Delaware, Biden’s home state.)
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Teresa Romero: The president of the United Farm Workers was the first Latina woman to lead a national union in the United States.
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Judy Shepard: She co-founded an organization to reduce hate crimes after her son, Matthew, was killed in a violent anti-gay attack in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998. The foundation she began was instrumental in the 2009 passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which broadened the definition of a hate crime.
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Jim Thorpe: The first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal later became a hall-of-fame football and baseball player. He died in 1953.
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Michelle Yeoh: After a decades-long Hollywood career, Yeoh last year became the first Asian artist to win best actress at the Academy Awards for her role in the offbeat action comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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What kind of asshole carries pizza at that angle? Has he never eaten a pizza before? Someone, please, ask him how he eats his pizza. No matter what he says half the NY jury will hate him even more than they already do.
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Mike Flynn “Breaks News” To Steve Bannon: “I Received 8 Subpoenas Last Night” (msn.com)
Former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mike Flynn was a guest on Steve Bannon ‘s podcast yesterday, where the controversial MAGA adherent announced: “I received eight, count ’em, eight, subpoenas last night.” He added, “These people are going to do everything they can. These Marxists, this communist takeover of the United States of America.”
Though Flynn said he was “breaking news,” he did not reveal where the subpoenas had come from.
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Has this been verified? Because Flynn is a lying liar who lies.
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NY times, see its all good
Opinion | Donald Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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No , I couldn’t find any verification
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Florida’ governor will not be cowed by the Globalists’ fake meat. No matter how you slice it, they will steer you away from “near steer” and “fake fillet.”
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It’s another one of his “man of the people” stunts to distract from his trial. Every problem for Trump is ultimately an exercise in PR.
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The shiny thigh high boot of justice comes down hard.
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Rats. Pwned again.
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So he is not a free market Capitalist, but insists on Government control? Isn’t that called COMMUNISM!
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Via ABC news…
LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station after forgetting to bring ID to vote in the U.K.'s local elections.
British media reported Friday that Johnson — who introduced the requirement for voters to provide ID with a photo when he was in office — was told by polling station staff in South Oxfordshire Thursday that he would not be able to vote without proving his identity.
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(SNICKER)
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Bootsie is struggling with his own irrelevance; it would be sad if he weren’t such an a-hole.
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To paraphrase Billy Madison - it’s cool to shit your pants!
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This shirt is for people who didn’t understand Monty Python’s Lumberjack Song skit.
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That’s all sorted, then.
Trump has ‘absolute right’ to testify at his trial, says judge
Judge Juan Merchan is now addressing the court about Donald Trump’s false claim the he wasn’t allowed to testify.
The judge says it had come to his attention that “there maybe a misunderstanding” over whether the gag order impacts Trump’s right to testify at trial. Merchan says:
I want to stress Mr Trump that you have an absolute right to testify at trial.
He continues:
That is a constitutional right that will not be denied or abnegated in any way … It is a fundamental right that cannot be infringed upon … the order prohibiting extra-judicial statements does not prevent you from testifying in any way.
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