My self-titled album was released 20 years ago on this date! The project began with a call from my pal Morrissey, telling me he had written a song for me and if I recorded it I would be on the charts for the first time since 1972. That song was “Let Me Kiss You.” (1/5) My daughter, AJ Lambert, told me I had been trying to appeal to the wrong people, that it was this generation of musicians who loved my music. She took the reins and started reaching out for contributions from artists who had said they were influenced by my records. (2/5)

My father gave me away on his birthday in 1970 and I said “I do” to the love of my life, Robert Edward “Hugh” Lambert. Hugh was a wonderful man, a gifted dancer and choreographer, a devoted and loving husband, and an adoring father to our daughters, AJ and Amanda. We had a happy marriage that was tragically cut short by the beast called cancer.

My album covers: A Thread

Bubblegum Girl, Vol. 1 (2005)

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Dr. Paul Farmer, global humanitarian leader, dies at 62 nbcnews.com/news/obituarie… via @nbcnews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, who wrote the nonfiction book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World,”

NYC Taxi Drivers Win Debt Relief After 2-Week Hunger Strike truthout.org/articles/nyc-t… via @truthout On November 3, New York City reached an agreement with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), the union fighting to relieve drivers of thousands of dollars in debt they owe for medallions, the physical permits to operate taxis.

Steve Bannon Charged for Defying Jan. 6 Subpoena rollingstone.com/politics/polit… via @RollingStone "Steve Bannon has been indicted by a federal grand jury with two counts of contempt of Congress. The charges stem from Bannon’s failure last month to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6."

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Hello, friends. I would like to take a moment to address a few things that have been on my mind, and on the mind of my friends over at Nancy’s Bootique and @lightintheattic Records. (1 of 10) It has come to my attention that some of you have experienced delays in shipping and once the items do finally arrive to you (after long wait times), some have arrived damaged. As some of you already know, the world is short staffed right now. (2 of 10)

Q&A: What you should know about mixing and matching COVID vaccine boosters mercurynews.com/2021/10/21/qa-… via @mercnews First, they endorsed using Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines as boosters.

‘Relentless attack on the truth’: Adam Schiff says he caught Kevin McCarthy in a blatant lie rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy… "Schiff said that moral corruption flows down from the former president and has infected much of the Republican Party."

CNN's Erin Burnett lays out damning Capitol riot timeline showing Trump's complicity rawstory.com/trump-capitol-… "2:23 p.m., this is on television," said Burnett, showing CNN coverage of protesters breaching the Capitol. "At 2:24, Trump tweeted about the man presiding over the Senate floor that time, his vice president.

As DeJoy readies new assault on Postal Service, pressure grows for Biden to 'clean house' rawstory.com/louis-dejoy/ "We want a Board of Governors that understands fundamentally this is not called the United States Postal Business. It's not a profit-making business. It's here to serve the people."
—Mark Dimondstein, American Postal Workers Union

The courts could hold Trump accountable if Republican senators refuse: legal expert rawstory.com/could-courts-h… Trump didn't have to march with the crowd to do something illegal. Federal law says any person who "counsels, commands, (or) induces" anyone to commit a crime is also guilty. That means Trump. So, what happens to the former president after his Republican allies let him go?

'This is a very dangerous period': Author says Trump is the most 'traitorous' official since the Civil War rawstory.com/trump-traitoro… "The final year of Donald Trump's presidency has had such a negative impact that U.S. birthrates are predicted to decrease in 2021."

The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020 newyorker.com/news/letter-fr… via @NewYorker "The Trümperdämmerung is finally here, and it is every bit the raging dumpster fire that we, the unlucky audience for this drama, have come to expect."

‘These are Trump’s thugs’: Steve Schmidt pins responsibility for DC Proud Boy violence on presidential incitement rawstory.com/2020/12/these-… With reports of stabbings and gunfire, Schmidt linked to clips of the far-right white nationalists roaming the streets and stopping cars, calling the members of the group “Trump’s thugs.”

Pelosi can blackball Republicans who backed Trump’s election plot from serving in Congress: report rawstory.com/2020/12/pelosi… "That’s because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment literally says that anyone who has tried to rebel against the Constitution after having pledged to protect it can’t hold political office. "

WOW!

On first day as L.A. County D.A., George Gascón eliminates bail, remakes sentencing rules latimes.com/california/sto… "The dramatic reversals of deeply ingrained, traditional law enforcement strategies in the nation’s largest district attorney’s office, also will include a review of thousands of old cases to determine whether lighter sentences or prisoner releases should be sought,

Trump’s Republicans are not just attempting a coup — it’s worse than that rawstory.com/2020/12/trumps… "Still, the reality is that this cannot and should not be laughed off. As Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has written, this whole exercise is a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”

‘I’m very frightened about the future’: Paul Krugman warns Trump’s ‘cult of personality’ isn’t going away rawstory.com/2020/12/im-ver… As he wrote in his first tweet “The GOP spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a deadly pandemic; now it’s rejecting democracy in the face of a clear election loss. How did we get to this point? One step at a time. But I’d argue that the wrong turn began under Reagan

Trump escalates his ‘unprecedented assault’ on democracy as time runs out for him to steal the election: report rawstory.com/2020/12/trump-… The Washington Post reported Thursday. “By late afternoon, 106 GOP House members — a majority of the 196-member Republican caucus — had signed on to an amicus brief to support the Texas-led motion, among them Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA)

Obama national security official says Trump is slowing the transition to sabotage Biden’s presidency rawstory.com/2020/12/obama-… Mitchell noted that in the next 60 days, Iran will ramp up its nuclear weapons program, which was halted by a treaty that Trump broke.

“There’s a world full of these situations that are going to be challenging for the United States,” Donilan said, citing the coronavirus crisis.