Michelle Holliday

Keynote Speaker. Facilitator. Author of The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

For anyone who doubts Trump will be even worse than Biden is on Gaza, here's Trump saying Netanyahu "is doing a good job, Biden is trying to hold him back... and probably should be doing the opposite. I'm glad that Bibi decided to do what he had to do."

[John Mitnick @JohnMitnick]

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A thread addressed to my fellow conservatives who are planning to vote, or considering voting, for Trump. 1/13

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power. (After all, if you’re hellbent on staying in power but aren’t likely to win the next election, you can’t have your political opponents running around free.)

To keep fascism out of our lives, vote for democracy!

[Salome Zourabichvili @Zourabichvili_S]

As the last independent institution, I cannot recognize these elections - it would legitimize Russia’s takeover of Georgia. Our ancestors endured too much for us to surrender our European future.

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

https://t.co/lZ9rM29eK8

[Acyn @Acyn]

Manner: The threshold for turning the National Guard into his personal police force is quite low as long as he has a consenting governor he can authorize the funds to pay them as the commander in chief, and he can use the National Guard almost in any way that he wants.

[Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 @ifindkarma]

“Project 2025 and its evil architects envision an America where women will be monitored, prosecuted, and jailed for exercising their own bodily autonomy. We are not going back!” @ProjectLincoln

#VoteBlueToProtectYourRights #StopProject2025AtTheBallotBox

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Last night, what JD Vance didn’t say said everything.

[Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 @ifindkarma]

“Lesley Stahl, speaking at the Deadline Club Awards [in 2018], says she asked Trump why he attacks the press. His answer: ‘I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.’” @RVAwonk

[Michelle Holliday @thrivability]

@Sys_innovation It seems like the link doesn't work. Could you please check?

[Michelle Holliday @thrivability]

What if [tourism | agriculture| education | investing | your organization | everything] could be a practice ground for a more thrivable world?
https://t.co/j0Dg8oMUJN

[Clay Thompson. @harryt59_harry]

Trudeau Liberals kept Canadians safe during the pandemic. They kept businesses from going bankrupt.They have brought inflation down & interest rates down.They invested in the auto industry, mining industry, & even the oil industry.
Canada is strong because of the Trudeau Liberals

[CIVIC SQUARE @CIVIC_SQUARE]

‘The challenge is to improve the health of the planet at the same time as the health of people. We are preparing for the worst by building something much better’

Thank you @hazelsheffield for a lovely feature with many of our friends in the @guardian.

📰https://t.co/uEVxn9wmgY

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

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[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

I don’t think folks appreciate what we’re seeing from the Ds right now.

Newsom, Whitmer, Shapiro- every top tier Democrat- has put personal ambitions aside to come out and help the party coalesce around Kamala Harris because they know if we all unite behind her, we can’t lose.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

The fact that being an adjudicated rapist isn't disqualifying for a presidential candidate says everything you need to know about their political ideology.

And that the media isn't reminding people of that in every interview/story, as if it's secondary to fraud, says even more.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Today’s Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s immunity claim is far worse than anything I imagined...

Effectively giving a president immunity for any crimes committed while in office as long as that president can plausibly claim the action was taken in some form of official capacity.

It must now be presumed that the president, as king, is immune from accountability.

The rule of law applies to everyone except the most powerful person on Earth.

It would be difficult to overstate how much this opinion shifts the balance of power away from Congress and towards the presidency, and how unshackled a corrupt president will now be. The Court gives the president absolute power, and it will corrupt him, absolutely.

As Justice Sotomayor says so powerfully, this new immunity ‘now lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation.’

The Court holds that when a president acts within his ‘core’ authority, he is fully immune.

And when he acts outside his core authority, but in an official capacity, the presumption of immunity is so strong as to be nearly absolute.

Even if he acts in a purely personal capacity, and the Court majority gives no indication of when that would be, his statements while acting officially may not be used as evidence, and his motives may not be questioned.

Having taken up a case they never should have, having waited until the last day to issue the opinion, having known it was the defendant’s strategy to deny justice by delaying it, the Court now remands the case for further proceedings of indeterminate length, ensuring there will be no accountability for Trump’s insurrectionist crimes before the election.

During his abortive coup attempt, Trump told his acting attorney general and other top Justice Department officials to ‘just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.’

Now the Supreme Court says he is immune from ordering his Justice Department to lie, and the evidence of his malice, his very words, may not be used as evidence against him.

Under this ruling, a president can order the assassination or jailing of their political rival, and be immune. They can take a bribe in exchange for an official act, and still be immune. They can organize a military coup to hold onto power, and still be immune. If that sounds mad, that’s because it is.

This is a day that will live in legal infamy.

When justices on the Court that bears Roberts’ name, paid back their appointment by a corrupt president with an opinion that provides immunity to all corrupt presidents, and weakened our democracy and the rule of law for the ages.

Our only remedy is the ballot box, a new congress, and a new Court — that has more reverence for the Constitution than the lust for power.

[Dave Pendle @luminous2707]

Co-creating this event with @Thrivability and Marielle van Hemert
'Thrivability: Embracing Life Aligned Principles for Conscious Leadership'.
Early Bird Price (by May 1st): €99 with special book or card deck as as a bonus!
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[Michelle Holliday @thrivability]

@PaulHHodson @ProfDonnaHall I've taken to referring to "careholders."