Just a few quick markers tonight because I need some sleep. Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. Fourteen wide-bodied aircraft from the U.S. and the European Union delivered anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, guns, and ammunition to Ukraine today to help it hold on against Russia. The extra aid was approved less than a week ago, and the munitions began flowing two days later.
Like you said, quite the day! Great interview with President Biden. Couple that with the letter tonight, and I find solace in the strength we have. Thank you for your exceedingly fine work. Sleep well, Heather💛🕊💙
What a treat to watch a conversation between a kind, thoughtful, and humble man who happens to be the president of the United States and a student of American history who has so deep an understanding of the moral struggle that lies at the core of the American experiment. This is the America that gives me hope.
Stone is also on film saying that Trump should be impeached and then tried and imprisoned because "He betrayed all of us!"
BTW - great interview with President Biden, Dr. Heather. That must be one of the high points you'll remember forever. Very cool that they reached out to you, recognizing your influence with LFAA.
Dear Prof Richardson. Thanks for taking the time tonight to post the essentials. You keep us focused. I watched your interview with President Biden. Thumbs up to you both. You obviously had a good rapport going. Your questions and observations were excellent and his responses and elaborations were outstanding. He was so good in a relaxed setting--I wish we could here him more in such a way with an outstanding conversation partner (!). His command of the issues and the way he put his intentions, dreams (in a way), and programs was first rate (not what the detractors would have us think!!!). He showed real empathy with history/historians and the craft of teaching---a bit surprising but I know less than I should about the "person". THANK YOU for what you have done for all. I just hope this video gets to a million views---. I'm putting it on my FB page. One takeaway -- the Civil Rights Movement was a catalyst (it was for me too at Duke Div.School in the sit-in/picket days.) Thank you for everything that you do. Peace and Courage. Have a good weekend!
I don’t know how it’s possible, no matter how many people are intoxicated with Trump, not to see and respect the devastation and genocide Putin is inflicting upon Ukraine. Where is their humanity? Where is their compassion when we see small children who need medical care, a baby who needs brain surgery, a 9-year old boy who has been orphaned saying, “I hope someone will adopt me”, where? If the war is a picture of man’s inhumanity to man, where do maga people fall on the spectrum? I can’t wrap my head around this. If Trump is siding with Putin, he should be tried for treason for siding with the enemy.
You were amazing today, and I thank you deeply for the hard, daily, insightful work you have done for years. You caught the President’s attention and your interview allowed him to discuss his commitment to democracy. At the end of a grueling week, you and he together helped me feel hope in the power of people everywhere to elect knowledgeable leaders who really can change how we think and talk about ideas, and then hold our elected officials to a high standard based in the values of democracy and equality. I also very much hope you got that personal tour and that next they appoint you as “historical pattern finder” for the 1/6 Committee! Sleep deep and long and restfully.
Dr. Richardson, Having listened to your interview with the President earlier this evening, I was impressed by how your questions enlisted responses that were both thoughtful and detailed. I also noted that you asked, early on, why the President focused initially on Build Back Better. Typically, when interviewers have asked that question, the rest of it, spoken or implied, has been “instead of voting rights.” Obviously, I don’t know whether you were thinking the same.
Frankly, I raise this point because I had expected more of us to be vocally alarmed by the fact that presently no impactful federal legislation exists that would supersede state laws slated increasingly to restrict voting and to nullify votes. I also find it curious that no one seems outraged by the fact, that since the 2021 Brnovich ruling, DOJ no longer can sue for violating Section #2 of the irreparably dismantled 1965 Voting Rights Act unless DOJ can show “intent” to discriminate.
Though I imagine many take heart in the deluge of citizen activism, in my experience, while getting people registered and turbo-charging our turnout initiatives certainly can help to mitigate voter suppression measures, no amount of organizing is going to get us around the increasing number of election subversion measures advancing through GOP-controlled state legislatures that would change state election rules to change who can be in charge, how votes are counted, and how they’re certified.
Though I could be wrong, my felt sense is that too many of us expect others somehow will resolve this issue, all evidence to the contrary. Still, I would maintain, however important other things are, they can’t be as important as focusing our minds on whether states are laying the groundwork for our opponents to return to or to retain power whether or not they win enough votes.
You've just completed double duty! So I am wont to repeat what I said last evening:
Whenever I think of you, Heather, I think of the innumerable number of hours that you spend on keeping us all abreast of what is happening in the world. Watching you today, in this exquisite interview with President Biden and seeing the two of you together, made me remember these words from Khalil Gibran:
"And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching."
You are the epitomy of what it means to work with love!
I was very impressed with Biden's talk - obviously someone in terminal dementia and, OK what? -- oh yes Parkinsonism.... snark. Will send this to everyone I can.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician, former actor, and comedian who is the sixth and current president of Ukraine. Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of central Ukraine. Wikipedia
Height: 5′ 7″ Trending
Born: January 25, 1978 (age 44 years), Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
In her OpEd yesterday, Pulitzer Linda Greenhouse posed the optimistic to help us address the pessimistic. She cites Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in support of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She mentions the transition of Justice O'Connor in hope that such a Justice might be lurking today..
Linda Greenhouse is a brilliant journalist... and historian of The Court. She is critically aware of what racism has done to all aspects of American life... as exemplified by what is never stated by Heather Cox Richardson here.
Linda Greenhouse is an optimist. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's smile and talent justify optimism.
In TCinLA's post yesterday, Allen Hingston commented 16 hours ago:
"We are leaving for Lviv and Poland in the next couple of days. When my wife is terrified it is time to go. We have read what Putin has in mind for Ukraine and it mirrors Stalin. It is hard to leave everything but if we are dead or the house is destroyed, it amounts to the same thing.
Dr. Richardson, thanks for your interview with Joe Biden and for sending it to us. One of the best, most mutually respectful interviews I have ever seen.
In the interview Biden looks like the man he is: Honest, mostly sincere and when you try to give him credit he deflects and says it is too much credit. Not too many men like this in the upper echelons of (anything).
Thank you for the interview and for representing President Biden accurately, which, is also well representing him.
Lastly, as for Trump feeling he can get away with anything he wants, well, so far, his data supports his perceptions.
Trump has been a hard core criminal all of his life with REWARDS as a consequence. Certainly not any negative consequences for him.
It would be a suprise to see any consequences applied to him for attempting to overthrow the US government either.
Some folks, in America, are above the law. I hate to say it, but, it is true.
We can do it if we learn from mistakes like trump. We need to remember him as we do hitler. Anomalies. People to NOT imitate. To not hold in high esteem. To not embrace.
Hopefully, not elect. Please!!! Let’s dodge that bullet. 🙏
Take your rest, since this situation in the Ukraine may run and run. Thank you for your words, and Happy Birthday to the US constitution. From Christopher in Ireland.
Like you said, quite the day! Great interview with President Biden. Couple that with the letter tonight, and I find solace in the strength we have. Thank you for your exceedingly fine work. Sleep well, Heather💛🕊💙
What a treat to watch a conversation between a kind, thoughtful, and humble man who happens to be the president of the United States and a student of American history who has so deep an understanding of the moral struggle that lies at the core of the American experiment. This is the America that gives me hope.
Stone is also on film saying that Trump should be impeached and then tried and imprisoned because "He betrayed all of us!"
BTW - great interview with President Biden, Dr. Heather. That must be one of the high points you'll remember forever. Very cool that they reached out to you, recognizing your influence with LFAA.
Dear Prof Richardson. Thanks for taking the time tonight to post the essentials. You keep us focused. I watched your interview with President Biden. Thumbs up to you both. You obviously had a good rapport going. Your questions and observations were excellent and his responses and elaborations were outstanding. He was so good in a relaxed setting--I wish we could here him more in such a way with an outstanding conversation partner (!). His command of the issues and the way he put his intentions, dreams (in a way), and programs was first rate (not what the detractors would have us think!!!). He showed real empathy with history/historians and the craft of teaching---a bit surprising but I know less than I should about the "person". THANK YOU for what you have done for all. I just hope this video gets to a million views---. I'm putting it on my FB page. One takeaway -- the Civil Rights Movement was a catalyst (it was for me too at Duke Div.School in the sit-in/picket days.) Thank you for everything that you do. Peace and Courage. Have a good weekend!
I don’t know how it’s possible, no matter how many people are intoxicated with Trump, not to see and respect the devastation and genocide Putin is inflicting upon Ukraine. Where is their humanity? Where is their compassion when we see small children who need medical care, a baby who needs brain surgery, a 9-year old boy who has been orphaned saying, “I hope someone will adopt me”, where? If the war is a picture of man’s inhumanity to man, where do maga people fall on the spectrum? I can’t wrap my head around this. If Trump is siding with Putin, he should be tried for treason for siding with the enemy.
You were amazing today, and I thank you deeply for the hard, daily, insightful work you have done for years. You caught the President’s attention and your interview allowed him to discuss his commitment to democracy. At the end of a grueling week, you and he together helped me feel hope in the power of people everywhere to elect knowledgeable leaders who really can change how we think and talk about ideas, and then hold our elected officials to a high standard based in the values of democracy and equality. I also very much hope you got that personal tour and that next they appoint you as “historical pattern finder” for the 1/6 Committee! Sleep deep and long and restfully.
Dr. Richardson, Having listened to your interview with the President earlier this evening, I was impressed by how your questions enlisted responses that were both thoughtful and detailed. I also noted that you asked, early on, why the President focused initially on Build Back Better. Typically, when interviewers have asked that question, the rest of it, spoken or implied, has been “instead of voting rights.” Obviously, I don’t know whether you were thinking the same.
Frankly, I raise this point because I had expected more of us to be vocally alarmed by the fact that presently no impactful federal legislation exists that would supersede state laws slated increasingly to restrict voting and to nullify votes. I also find it curious that no one seems outraged by the fact, that since the 2021 Brnovich ruling, DOJ no longer can sue for violating Section #2 of the irreparably dismantled 1965 Voting Rights Act unless DOJ can show “intent” to discriminate.
Though I imagine many take heart in the deluge of citizen activism, in my experience, while getting people registered and turbo-charging our turnout initiatives certainly can help to mitigate voter suppression measures, no amount of organizing is going to get us around the increasing number of election subversion measures advancing through GOP-controlled state legislatures that would change state election rules to change who can be in charge, how votes are counted, and how they’re certified.
Though I could be wrong, my felt sense is that too many of us expect others somehow will resolve this issue, all evidence to the contrary. Still, I would maintain, however important other things are, they can’t be as important as focusing our minds on whether states are laying the groundwork for our opponents to return to or to retain power whether or not they win enough votes.
As always, you are so admired and appreciated.
You've just completed double duty! So I am wont to repeat what I said last evening:
Whenever I think of you, Heather, I think of the innumerable number of hours that you spend on keeping us all abreast of what is happening in the world. Watching you today, in this exquisite interview with President Biden and seeing the two of you together, made me remember these words from Khalil Gibran:
"And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching."
You are the epitomy of what it means to work with love!
A reminder for those who missed it:-
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/interview-with-president-biden
I was very impressed with Biden's talk - obviously someone in terminal dementia and, OK what? -- oh yes Parkinsonism.... snark. Will send this to everyone I can.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician, former actor, and comedian who is the sixth and current president of Ukraine. Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of central Ukraine. Wikipedia
Height: 5′ 7″ Trending
Born: January 25, 1978 (age 44 years), Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Spouse: Olena Zelenska (m. 2003)
Party: Servant of the People
Children: Aleksandra Zelenskaya, Kiril Zelenskiy
Parents: Rimma Zelenskaya, Oleksandr Zelensky
In her OpEd yesterday, Pulitzer Linda Greenhouse posed the optimistic to help us address the pessimistic. She cites Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in support of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She mentions the transition of Justice O'Connor in hope that such a Justice might be lurking today..
Linda Greenhouse is a brilliant journalist... and historian of The Court. She is critically aware of what racism has done to all aspects of American life... as exemplified by what is never stated by Heather Cox Richardson here.
Linda Greenhouse is an optimist. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's smile and talent justify optimism.
In TCinLA's post yesterday, Allen Hingston commented 16 hours ago:
"We are leaving for Lviv and Poland in the next couple of days. When my wife is terrified it is time to go. We have read what Putin has in mind for Ukraine and it mirrors Stalin. It is hard to leave everything but if we are dead or the house is destroyed, it amounts to the same thing.
Do not hate the Russian people."
Dr. Richardson, thanks for your interview with Joe Biden and for sending it to us. One of the best, most mutually respectful interviews I have ever seen.
In the interview Biden looks like the man he is: Honest, mostly sincere and when you try to give him credit he deflects and says it is too much credit. Not too many men like this in the upper echelons of (anything).
Thank you for the interview and for representing President Biden accurately, which, is also well representing him.
Lastly, as for Trump feeling he can get away with anything he wants, well, so far, his data supports his perceptions.
Trump has been a hard core criminal all of his life with REWARDS as a consequence. Certainly not any negative consequences for him.
It would be a suprise to see any consequences applied to him for attempting to overthrow the US government either.
Some folks, in America, are above the law. I hate to say it, but, it is true.
234 years so far…
Here’s to another several centuries.
We can do it if we learn from mistakes like trump. We need to remember him as we do hitler. Anomalies. People to NOT imitate. To not hold in high esteem. To not embrace.
Hopefully, not elect. Please!!! Let’s dodge that bullet. 🙏
Take your rest, since this situation in the Ukraine may run and run. Thank you for your words, and Happy Birthday to the US constitution. From Christopher in Ireland.