Tom Marino quits three weeks after being sworn in.
Tom Marino decided to pack it up. The four term lawmaker decided to quit to return to private sector.
That puts his seat up for a special election and a political fight.
The Republican lawmaker decides to quit after three weeks on the job. This is the latest nonsense that the junk food media refuse to cover. They're too busy worrying about comments made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
The Republicans aren't concerned about the government shutdown.
Speak of that. Donald J. Trump will make an announcement on Saturday. It is likely he will declare a national emergency and force our military to fund the border wall. That will be a legal challenge and a risky move.
After being elected on November 6, 2018 to a fifth term to the Pennsylvania 12th Congressional district, Marino announced his resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives on January 17, 2019.
Marino's resignation is effective January 23, 2019. After Pennsylvania's congressional districts were redrawn in 2018, he won re-election with 66% of his district's votes, defeating Democrat Marc Friedenberg.
Marino described his decision to resign as follows: "Having spent over two decades serving the public, I have chosen to take a position in the private sector where I can use both my legal and business experience to create jobs around the nation."
Marino's resignation requires a special election by Gov. Tom Wolf, who must issue a writ of election within 10 days of Marino's resignation becoming effective on January 23, 2019. Per Pennsylvania law, a special election must then occur no fewer than 60 days following the gubernatorial proclamation being made.
He was an early Trump supporter among congressional Republicans. He was nominated to be the president's Drug Czar but withdrew after a joint CBS "60 Minutes" and Washington Post report revealed he took nearly $100,000 from pharmaceutical lobbyists.
Dirty cop who killed Laquan McDonald is going to the iron college.
Jason Van Dyke was sent to the iron college for 81 months (about seven years) in the iron college for the 2014 murder of an unarmed suspect. The Chicago Police managed to cover up this act by saying the ad nauseam excuse, "He feared for his life."
The judge sentenced the 40 year old former cop today. He was convicted of second-degree murder.
He killed Laquan McDonald in October 2014. Van Dyke, a white officer, was handed his sentence about three months after he was convicted of multiple charges for fatally shooting McDonald, a black 17 year old holding a knife. His sentence was handed down only a day after the court acquitted three Chicago cops of covering up the incident.
It was going to be swept under rug.
Many believe the story that McDonald was the aggressor.
It turns out that a video showed a different outcome. Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times after witnessing the disoriented teen walk in the middle of the street.
Van Dyke was arrested and charged the day of the video's release. He testified in court that he feared for his life when approaching McDonald and Van Dyke's attorneys argued that if he would have dropped his knife, he would be alive today. He had been the first Chicago police officer to be charged with first-degree murder since 1980.
Justice for Laquan McDonald.
McDonald had PCP in his blood and was not in his mind.
The shooting had results. Cook County prosecutor Anita Alverez was defeated. The Chicago police commissioner at the time, Garry McCarthy was fired out the cannon. Chicago's embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel decided to not run for reelection. He lost confidence in the community and now there's a race to replace him.
Laquan McDonald is one of many incidents where Chicago Police managed to abuse their power when it come to the rights of people of color.
R. Kelly fired out the cannon. Sony Music dropped him.
Did you see this coming?
They meant business. His official website was pulled. They pretty much fired him out the cannon.
The Sony Music Group has decided to dissolve its ties to Robert Sylvester Kelly. You may know him as R. Kelly.
RCA Records which was home to R. Kelly's catalog of music will still remain with Sony. However, his album was shelved and he has no plans on how to push his music to the masses without a label.
The move comes after years of public calls and even a petition from members of the #MuteRKelly movement, for the company to part ways with the troubled entertainer.
Multiple women have accused R. Kelly of sexual misconduct. The blockbuster documentary Surviving R. Kelly has got so much attention. Over 40 million people watched this. This documentary has gotten the federal and state authorities to investigate allegations.
The allegations go back for 20 years. Most infamously, the entertainer was charged with child pornography in 2000 after a video surfaced that purported to show him having sex with an underage girl. Kelly was cleared of the charges in 2008 after the key witness declined to testify against him.
He also had a brief marriage with Aaliyah. The late singer who was at 15 at the time married R. Kelly. The allegations that he forged Aaliyah's birth date on the marriage license are true. Some of R. Kelly's former allies said that Aaliyah and R. Kelly had sex together.
Kelly essentially holding women captive in a "sex cult" were published back in 2017. That launched the movement to take him down.
Many rappers and pop singers are distancing themselves from him.
R. Kelly continues to deny allegations. He said that its a smear campaign and threatened to sue those who make false allegations against him.
Anger in Washington. Democrats and Trump are feuding. The month long government shutdown is not ending.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) secret trip to Afghanistan was postponed. The Speaker of the House and Donald J. Trump are feuding. Pelosi is now set to no longer negotiate any deal with Trump.
Trump on Thursday abruptly denied military aircraft to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart, in a stunning decision that followed her call to delay the State of the Union address amid the government shutdown.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted the statement from the White House today.
Pelosi and congressional Democrats have urged Republicans to open the government. The Republicans and Trump refuse to sign any continuing resolution
Trump canceled her trip in spite. Matter of fact, he told her to fly commercial to Afghanistan, a country that continues to be ground zero for the longest war in American history.
A place where the Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban vow revenge on American and western influence.
Pelosi and the Democrats slam Trump for being childish.
According to sources, the president pulled the plug on Pelosi's aircraft as she was about to leave for her overseas trip. Her congressional delegation's military aircraft was slated to depart at 3 p.m. ET.
After watching Fox News and talking to Sean "Softball" Hannity, Trump decided to play dirty bull.
Melania Trump was on a military flight to Florida at Mar-a-Largo. This flight happened hours after Trump canceled Pelosi.
The Women's March continues despite controversy. Tamika Mallory faces heat for praising Louis Farrakhan.
Women of color dominate the Democratic Party. The current freshman lawmakers who became the de jour of the right are being slammed for being honest.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and every other woman of color who became a lawmaker: Keep doing your thing!
Ignore the Republican Party. They are distracting Americans from their failures to open up the government.
On Saturday, the Women's March is happening.
One of the founding members is finding herself embroiled in a controversy. She took a picture with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who often says things many believe are anti-Semitic.
Writer Tamika Mallory is being slammed by the right for taking a picture with Farrakhan.
And she called him the GOAT.
Mind you that she is a Black woman. Tamika Danielle Mallory is an American activist who currently serves as co-president of the 2019 Women's March. She was one of the leading organizers of the 2017 Women's March, for which she and her three other co-chairs were recognized in the Time 100 that year.
Mallory is also an advocate of gun control, feminism, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2018, Mallory drew criticism for her attendance at an event with controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, which prompted calls for her resignation from the 2019 Women's March.
Mallory is currently one of the co-presidents of the anticipated 2019 Women's March. She has assumed leadership of the march along with her co-chairs from the 2017 March: Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Bob Bland.
Mallory has been criticized for her relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and support for Assata Shakur, a former Black Liberation Army member convicted of murder.
On February 25, 2018, Mallory attended a Saviours' Day speech led by Farrakhan where he made various anti-Semitic remarks, and later posted positive comments about the event on social media accounts.
On Twitter she called Farrakhan the "greatest of all time".
This led some supporters of the march calling for Mallory and other Women's March leaders to resign. Teresa Shook, who co-founded the March, wrote that the "community has totally lost faith in the Women’s March because they have lost faith in" Mallory and other leaders. In December 2018, The New York Times reported that "charges of anti-Semitism are now roiling the movement and overshadowing plans for more marches next month."
Mallory responded by releasing a statement that condemned racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia, also writing "I do not wish to be held responsible for the words of others when my own history shows that I stand in opposition to them." She added that she believed building coalitions required working with people with whom she disagreed.
The right are offended by a picture.
An early Women's March co-founder, Vanessa Wruble, said that she had been "pushed out" of the Women's March by Mallory and others because of her Jewish identity, and that during her time as a central organizer of the movement, she had been told that Jews played a "large role in the slave trade and the prison industry", views espoused by Louis Farrakhan in his 1991 book "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and the Jews", referred to by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as the “bible of the new anti-Semitism.”
Another organizer, Evvie Harmon, said that she witnessed Mallory and her co-chair Carmen Perez berating Wruble, saying "your people hold all the wealth," remarks that Harmon described in an account to both The New York Times and Tablet.
Mallory denied Wruble and Harmon's allegations but said in a statement to the Times, “Since that conversation, we’ve all learned a lot about how while white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy, ALL Jews are targeted by it."
On The View Mallory stated that she didn't agree with all of Farrakhan's statements and wouldn't use his language, but declined to condemn his previous anti-- semitic statements.
Again, I believe everyone has the right to exist & to be free. That means EVERYONE. & ppl who were living comfortably there should be included - EVERYONE! I want to see the ppl of Palestine treated w/ dignity & respect. U can twist it any way u choose but it’s called equality!
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) June 4, 2018
Check out my interview on the @breakfastclubam. I’ve grown a lot and won’t allow Meghan McCain or anyone else to FORCE me to match ignorance with ignorance. pic.twitter.com/4EP1PTFuEO
This is a campaign by the junk food media to distract Americans from the Republican Party's failure to open up the government. They are just mad that Black women are speaking against injustice.
Tamika doesn't speak for Louis Farrakhan.
Louis Farrakhan speaks for himself. He never called for the death of innocent beings. He has criticized the Israeli government and Zionist leaders who wage an information campaign against opposition. He has criticize homosexuality but called it "other issues." There's nothing I've heard wrong from Farrakhan.
Black leaders don't often agree with spiritual leaders.
Republicans often find savior in Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, Jr. They found savior in Pat Robertson and other white religious leaders who said far worse than Farrakhan.
So I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear any pearl-clutching white folks crying that Tamika has to stand down. Y'all need to chill on that faux outrage. You better worry about getting your tax refunds.
We're coming close to the end of January and Donald J. Trump ain't doing shit about opening up the government. He wants you the taxpayer (not Mexico) to pay for a worthless wall.
The government shutdown is way more important that click bait.
Fuck Meghan McCain. Ever since she got married to that right wing lunatic, her once charming demeanor became the "bitch no one likes." I am sick of her and those who act like her.
If you want to be Rush Limbaugh and Sean "Softball" Hannity. Fine. Go forth.
But best believe, boycott work both ways. If you want to boycott Tamika Mallory, that's you.
But don't get mad when we call for a boycott of Meghan McCain, Laura Loomer and Fox News.
The troll who was banned from social media is appearing with two Republicans. The right has been outraged over comments by the freshman Democrats. They rather have you angry over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Lauren Underwood and Ayanna Pressley instead of worrying about the government shutdown.
Most Americans fault Donald J. Trump and the Republicans for the gridlock in Washington, DC.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) and Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) were caught on camera with the infamous alt-white agitator Charles C. Johnson (Chuck Johnson).
Johnson (not to be confused with Little Green Footballs progressive blogger Charles Johnson) is an internet provocateur, yellow journalist and kookspiracy nut. He has often won praise from the likes of alt-white celebrities Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopolos, Tomi Lahren, Laura Loomer and Alex Jones.
Johnson was best known for his website that I will not mention. He was trying to expose Black Lives Matter. He made the claim that Shaun King, prominent Black Lives Matter activist and agitator was not authentically Black.
He got banned indefinitely from Twitter and Facebook after threatening DeRay McKesson online.
Johnson has been described as an internet troll, and has been involved in the proliferation and spread of multiple fake news stories.
The fool got his business shutdown after he made allegations that the white terrorist who killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville wasn't the one. He pinned the blame on two individuals who had nothing to do with it.
The Southern Poverty Law Center which follows this troll said that he tried to blame Joel and Jerome Vangheluwe for the death. The two men got death threats and harassment.
The fool was forced to shelf out a lengthy sum to those slandered.
Now as for Roe and Harris, no comment to why they have a well-documented Holocaust denier and white extremist associated with them.
Roe released a statement trying to act like he didn't know this guy.
"At the request of another member, Congressman Roe agreed to meet with an individual to discuss DNA sequencing. During the meeting this individual shared what seemed like legitimate information about the work his company is doing and advocated for increasing the number of sequenced genomes for research. Congressman Roe was not aware of this individual's viewpoints nor were they discussed during their brief meeting, and had the congressman been aware he would not have agreed to take the meeting. White supremacist and anti-Semitic views are abhorrent and have no place in our society."
Harris also released a statement.
"I am unaware of his previous associations, but we had a discussion involving his business with genetic sequencing,” the statement read. “Of course I disavow and condemn white supremacy and anti-semitism."
See two can play this game.
You go after Rashida Tliab and Ilhan Omar, expect us to go after you. We are no longer going to allow the right to distract us from the real threat in this country.
Far right extremism is growing and Donald J. Trump and allies are making it possible. We have to hold Congress accountable for the laws they pass. I don't really care what they say.
We know the Republican Party is the party of the White nationalist. That's a fact. We just have to keep pressure on them by boycotting them, exposing them, and voting their asses out in the general election.
Metro Louisville Airport is renamed in honor of Muhammad Ali.
You fly with the greatest.
Louisville International Airport will be renamed after the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
City officials announced Wednesday that Louisville International Airport will be renamed after the boxer and humanitarian often called "the Greatest."
The Louisville Regional Airport Authority has voted in favor of changing the name of the airport to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The move was praised by his widow, Lonnie Ali.
Muhammad Ali was the boss. He never shy away from his views of America.
Louisville/Jefferson County board member and current mayor Greg Fischer went to social media to praise Ali.
Muhammad Ali belonged to the world, but he only had one hometown. Today’s decision to change @flylouisville’s name to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is a major piece of a broader effort to celebrate those deep ties. pic.twitter.com/mxXyX4pILl
Louisville should champion Muhammad Ali’s legacy, and renaming Louisville International Airport in his honor is a wonderful first step. I’m speaking now to the @flylouisville Board to support this change. https://t.co/xsyltkVKJL
Louisville, Kentucky a city with 704,000 residents is a consolidate-county community. It is a home-rule community and it has at least 50 hamlets are incorporated but recognized as Louisville.
It's a step in the right direction.
Now if we can get those TSA employees working at Louisville/Muhammad Ali paid, it would be very good. Unfortunately, we're entering the 28th day of the government shutdown.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) who is getting hernia surgery in Toronto, Canada and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuse to open the government. McConnell is the Majority Leader and he is refusing to push through House bills to open up the government.
Donald J. Trump won't sign off any legislation without border wall funding. He is putting 1 million American government workers at risk of economic collapse.
I wish Muhammad Ali was alive today. He would have torn into Trump and Republicans.
Muhammad Ali passed away in 2016. This week would have been his 77th birthday.
