The cast of the West Wing ✓
@PressSec ✓
Cheese puns ✓
Big Block of Cheese Day is coming back.
Watch → youtu.be/ex_jJlv5HKk #AskTheWH
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 16, 2015Pew poll finds broad support for Obama's #Cuba changes: pewrsr.ch/1KQQaIa
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lesley clark (@lesleyclark) January 16, 2015****
An early look at next week’s cover, by Barry Blitt: nyr.kr/1ylvsww http://t.co/jpZw3K34hB
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The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 16, 2015Leaving K's class. Her journal entry from yesterday. Teacher called me at 8 last night to tell me how powerful it was http://t.co/yySmMkwN7L
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brittany. (@bdoulaoblongata) January 16, 2015****
When people of color talk oppression we are not bluffing. It's never been a game. There is no race card.
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Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) January 16, 2015Stevie Wonder is developing a musical about the Underground Railroad ti.me/1yswALU
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TIME.com (@TIME) January 16, 2015****
Saw Selma yesterday at Loews on Broadway, the gaggle of schoolchildren were brought to respectful silence and awe as the story unfolded.
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Susan Fales-Hill (@susanfaleshill) January 16, 2015I keep thinking about how casual the officers were around Tamir's still-living self after Tamir was shot. No assistance, no urgency.
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deray mckesson (@deray) January 16, 2015****
Happy to see that tickets are sold out in Philadelphia...still available in NJ
selmastudenttickets.com http://t.co/QA9cXg8qOp
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Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) January 15, 2015Obama to Host ‘Selma’ Screening at White House on Friday bit.ly/1AW7ndM
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(@Variety) January 16, 2015****
UPDATE: US Supreme Court to decide whether same-sex couples nationwide have right to marry under Constitution: abcn.ws/1sHrmwe
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ABC News (@ABC) January 16, 2015Medicare Chief Marilyn Tavenner steps down nbcnews.to/1ysemf2 http://t.co/ypZmPb734o
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NBC News (@NBCNews) January 16, 2015****
N. Miami Beach cops reportedly using mugshots of black guys as shooting targets for training: bit.ly/1Alptmt http://t.co/eCPftz38UQ
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Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) January 16, 2015Only reason we found out about mugshots of black men being used for shooting practice is because one cop recognized her brother on target.
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Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) January 16, 2015****
Awww. Aren't white criminals just adorable?
#CrimingWhileWhite http://t.co/9ihypSeDfc
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(@JRehling) January 16, 2015Sweethearts? "@NBCNews: Teen sweethearts believed to be on Bonnie-and-Clyde-style crime spree nbcnews.to/1IPLK0q http://t.co/JvOkKjkz2a"
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Ferrari Sheppard (@stopbeingfamous) January 16, 2015****
First execution in Oklahoma since last year's botched lethal injection bbc.in/1IQpH9V
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BBC News US (@BBCNewsUS) January 16, 2015Opinion: Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko confronts her Kremlin captors — bit.ly/1BCVNFY http://t.co/JnQPnWVmJB
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(@Newsweek) January 16, 2015****
It took special effort to bring 'Selma' to Selma - the town has no commercial movie theater. n.pr/14MASDb http://t.co/dpJf6Rqmhd
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NPR News (@nprnews) January 12, 201590K students in the U.S will now see #SelmaMovie for free thanks to black business leaders bit.ly/1tZgPrD http://t.co/SW9QGJIrCs
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The Root (@TheRoot) January 12, 2015****
Joe Paterno gets his wins restored, Woody Allen gets a new show on Amazon. This is 2015 ladies and gentleman.
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Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) January 16, 2015From the sickening reaction of the deranged #Paterno family, it seems some boys were just magically un-raped. What horrible people.
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Dan Bernstein (@dan_bernstein) January 16, 2015****
BREAKING: NCAA announces proposed deal that would restore wins for Penn State, late coach Joe Paterno.
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 16, 2015To the NCAA, systematic and institutional coverup of child rape is more easily forgiven then accepting a house from a rogue agent.
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Chris Yoshonis (@seegeewhy) January 16, 2015****
.@DukeDivinity students supporting the Duke Muslim Student Association and call to prayer at #DukeChapel http://t.co/ps8LrfTRax
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Taylor Ross (@taycross) January 16, 2015Big Block of Cheese Day Is Back #WestWing reunion:) youtu.be/ex_jJlv5HKk
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Allison Janney (@AllisonBJanney) January 16, 2015****
BREAKING: Malawi's vice president says the death toll from floods triples to 176.
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 16, 2015New York state allocates $500 million for broadband expansion: cir.ca/news/us-pushes… http://t.co/Qhn9T48VwI
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(@Circa) January 16, 2015****
GOP to give Elizabeth Warren's consumer protection agency the Darrell Issa treatment bit.ly/1yr6kl1 http://t.co/HW310svzv4
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 16, 2015The biggest lie The Devil ever told is when he convinced Americans they don't need unions.
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Bubba Bo-Bob Brain (@eclecticbrotha) January 16, 2015****
Thailand may soon recognize a third gender category: cnn.it/1u8RQYF http://t.co/8dzb378OCC
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CNN International (@cnni) January 16, 2015West Virginia wanted to teach students anti-science nonsense. Teachers fought back—and won bit.ly/1G33GZn http://t.co/BqrgPV5vPA
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 16, 2015****
Jessica Chastain accepts first #CriticsChoice MVP award & stresses need for diversity in the industry w beautiful speech: "please speak up."
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Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) January 16, 2015This year's Oscar nominees are so white, they just became the frontrunner for the 2016 Republican nomination. #fallonmono #OscarsSoWhite
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jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) January 16, 2015****
Parents file $100M suit in gym-mat death of Kendrick Johnson on.11alive.com/1B7PMSI
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11Alive News (@11AliveNews) January 15, 2015A Florida police station reportedly used the mugshots of black suspects for target practice. gaw.kr/fsx1Ixy http://t.co/ghvUgyfQcT
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(@Gawker) January 16, 2015****
BREAKING: Arizona passes nation's 1st law requiring high school students to pass civics citizenship test.
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 15, 2015MORE: The plan requires students to correctly answer 60 of 100 questions on civics portion of U.S. citizenship test: apne.ws/17MT95a
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 15, 2015****
69 percent of NYers disapprove of police officers turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio, Q Poll finds quinnipiac.edu/news-and-event… …
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Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) January 15, 2015Liam Neeson says America has "too many f--king guns" huff.to/1y0fc2b
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Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) January 15, 2015****
*Fox News*
"The roads are dangerous tonight watch out for that black guys"
Umm tom you mean black ice
"Haha no Sarah I know what I said"
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Cocaine Cola (@SatansTongue) January 09, 2015So many GOP candidates debates will have to be, "State your name, why Obama is bad, Reagan is good and who we should fear. Keep it moving."
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(@pourmecoffee) January 14, 2015****
The NYT headline on Einstein's relativity theory is a thing of beauty (h/t @StartsWithABang) medium.com/starts-with-a-… http://t.co/fOf7yyMQIs
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(@pourmecoffee) January 14, 2015Best headline I’ve seen in so very long… http://t.co/O54QBA2T0L
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Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) January 16, 2015
The Obama Diary 
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Buenas tardes / noches Sr Bibliotecario 😎
Well lookit you speaking all Spanishy! Buenas tardes, Señorita Cheesy Poofs.
Gracias Sr Bibliotecario – y estoy totalmente de no utilicé Google Translate
Bueno, si lo usastes, pero no se lo digo a nadie.
Gracias de corazón Sr Bibliotecario, será nuestro pequeño secreto
Used to visit a blog that banned anyone who posted in other than english. Probably before the days of google translate and Charlie.
即禁止其他语言的一个博客？赶快行动吧！
🙂
That’s meant to read: A blog that banned other languages?? Nuts!
But I did a reverse translation and it reads: A blog that prohibit other languages? Act now!
Nuts = Act now! in Chinese.
536000 web sites eat nuts or say act now!
I can see this being a campaign slogan, 99ts:
‘Act Now – Eat Nuts!’
Must pass that on to Rand Paul in his quest to be the No 2 ruler of the world
🙂
Googled it
About 536,000 results (0.53 seconds)
Translated it
A blog that prohibit other languages? Act now
Nothing is secret any longer – I blame Obama
😆 I Googled it too – apparently in north east China it means ‘Cheesy Puffs rock!’
A completely brilliant collection Nerdy, thank you sooooOOOoooOOoooOOoooooo much!!
Thanks, Chips.
You call him Mr. Bain Capital. I call him Mr. 47%.
Love them all and retweeted the ones I hadn’t done so.
Dang everyone must be watching Big Block of Cheese Day vid bc I can only play it once, then it can’t reload. Damn Damn Damn
Fantastic!
Hail, everyone! TY, NerdyW for ‘the gathering’.
You’re welcome, VC.
😳 My goodness ………!
Goooooooood evening VC!!!!
…… you both remembered me! 😀 😀 I’m tickled pink.
Flushing with joy! 🙂 🙂
😕
Ugh! smh
You sure know how to put out an emotional fire quickly!
Ah ha ….. so you’re not Cat Woman?
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You’re a Labrador Lady, I knew it!!!
YEP! THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE MY ANGEL….SHE’S HOPING BOEHNER JUST WENT RIVER RAFTING!!!…CLOSE THE LID FOR CRYING OUT LOUD BEFORE HE FINDS HIS WAY OUT!!!!!
Great collection of tweets NW, as usual. I am struck by the way the white criminals are glorified by being called “Bonnie and Clyde” while blacks doing the same shit would be called lawless thugs, (similar to how the white folks getting supplies from a store during Hurricane Katrina were said to have “found” the goods they were carrying away, while the black folks were referred to as “looters”). This disparate treatment of blacks and whites in the media shows me that people of color are not the media’s intended audience (white folks are the intended audience, so they are not to be demeaned, offended or challenged). It also illustrates the huge role the media, and its disparate treatment of black and white folks, plays in maintaining the white racist power structure that has plagued this country since its founding. Being black in America is increasingly being criminalized.
Thanks, EricFive.
Very profound and truthful commentary.
Wake to my daily news roundup – thanks NW. As I mentioned a few threads ago – the usual suspects asked the usual stupid questions at the press conference & the adults in the room gave the deserved responses
totally agree 🙂 and nothing is more amazing than the expression on PBO’s face as he gets the mitten’s 2016 redux question. Just priceless. I know no one is supposed to be perfect but my President is PERFECTION.
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Morning 99ts!!
Morning Ms Chips – grandbabe & mother visiting for the weekend – forces the tidy up to keep the little one safe – busy busy
We’re a hoot 99ts, happy enough to live in rubble, then go cleany uppy nuts when visitors are due 🙂 Hope your weekend is blissful!
Those folks who like to arrive unannounced – grrrrr
Oh, when I rule the world ….. all visitors must give one month’s notice.
This world of yours is turning into something I imagine coming from the current congress – we live by decree – well Rand Paul thinks people have too much say in how they are governed – you could have yourself a deputy ruler
Rand Paul Thinks People Have Too Much Say In How They’re Governed: The Land That Aqua Buddha Made
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Rand_Paul_And_His_Wayback_Machine
😀 My attitude to this type of visitor is that you arrive unannounced, you take what you get with no apologies on my part. You don’t like my rubble, you don’t have to stay. 😉
Wonder if nasa will be allowed to continue to produce these reports with the current congress oversight?
“Last year was the Earth’s hottest on record, which America’s space agency NASA says continues a long-term trend towards a warming planet.
NASA’s data shows that not only was 2014 the warmest year recorded since 1880, 10 of the hottest years on record have happened since 1998.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-17/2014-was-hottest-in-modern-history-say-us-scientists/6022714
Yet another SUPERB collection, NW. Thank you!!!
Thanks, Bob.
Today we began our study of Dr. King and the history of the civil rights movement. (We kind of interrupt our history unit which is still back in the 1700’s and the catch up with ourselves later). Before reading a bout about him, I asked my class what they knew about Dr. King. Several children had heard of him and had a general idea of what he had done. I loved one girl’s response. “Well, back then the brown people were treated differently than the peach people and Dr. King didn’t think that was fair so he worked to make it so that brown people and peach people were treated the same.” The ‘brown’ and ‘peach’ part really caught my ear. It really highlighted to me how divisive even the words we’ve chose to describe ourselves are. Black and white are harsh and opposite – and that defines things right away. Brown and peach, however, seems lo more descriptive and gentler. They are not opposites; one complements the other. Or maybe it’s just been a very long day. 😉
Thank you Mary for sharing a very special story and your student should be commended for crafting a meme – brown and peach establish an entirely new dimension in which to explore how much more alike we actually are.
Thank you, Bob.
Solidarity ….
Ugh, this Chris Rock fake is a complete creep:
Nerdy, the best in the biz! So busy at work this past few days that I haven’t been able to keep up with the news but here it all is!! Thanks so much – have a fantastic Friday night! TGIFN!!
Thanks, Forus50.
Wishing you the same!
Knoller hasn’t learned the rule about not asking a lady her age – but seeing as he must do the counting – FLOTUS could pass for 41 or younger
You are so right 99ts, FLOTUS doesn’t look 51.
She is a delight Bella and your support of flotus is a delight to see.
Thank you.
I ❤ My President and I ❤ my fellow Tar Heel, Sweet Baby James! 😀
Good to see #OscarsSoWhite trending again !!!!
I’m loving it. #OscarsSoWhite
They can’t say they weren’t warned ….
And, this dude needs to be replaced ….
While awaiting moderation ….
Found and freed, Sir Bob!
Thank you Chips!!! 🙂
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Perfect Dudette – banned from one workplace – ban them from all workplaces – exactly as what happened with cigarettes (unless your name is Boehner)
Yep. Another example of public “servants” thinking they should be exempt from the rules they impose on the rest of us.
It’s sickening.
“I don’t want the people who are on the floor being fearful of doing their job,” Owen said earlier Friday. “I don’t want parents concerned about the safety of their kids as pages.”
http://www.theolympian.com/2015/01/16/3529248_legislature-weighs-change-on-openly.html?
Shame they don’t care about the safety of kids at school – trying to ban the guns in the statehouse via legislation that has NOTHING to do with guns
Really. This should be intensely interesting. Heart of Koch Country with their utter failure of a Governor—Sam Brownback.
See downthread.
Mark Knoller says PBO is touring college campuses next week, but in reality he is making inroads in trolling all 31 Republican Governors.
(That’s 2 more than when I Googled last week, so two new GOP Governors since then.)
I leave this without comment.
Wow, so powerful, Japa.
Thank you John. RT’d!!
Thanks for bringing this to TOD Japa – else I would not have seen it. My only comment – no country leaders should have gone to Paris – unless they intend going to every country where religious extremists commit murder
GE TOD! Great collection of tweets NW – Brittany’s heartbreaking and the pic of the target practice – ugh. Seriously. Then on the other hand: Big Block of Cheese Day. What’s not to like about cheese? ( I live next door to Wisconsin) thx!
You’re welcome, a4alice.
Sue Duvall Smith has it right… our energizer bunny President!’
After PBO shell-shocks Congress with his historic SOTU, he goes on the road again, this time to Idaho and Kansas!!!
I’ve said before that Boise is the cutest state capitol city in the USA. It really REALLY reminds me of the town in Back to the Future.
BSU is in the heart of downtown, so hopefully the local broadcasts will include some of the downtown area.
Guessing game for TODville…
How will PBO troll Idaho and Kansas’ Republican Governors on his visits there next week???
alaassska?
AF1 routinely stops in Alaska or Hawaii to refuel when PBO is coming/going from/to Asia, so he’s been there as President. 🙂
THE SS NEEDS TO BE ON THEIR TOES MIGHTILY IN THOSE MILITIA/WACKO SURVIVALIST STATES…THEY’LL PROBABLY ALL SHOW UP WEARING CAMOUFLAGE AND BUSHES…UGH…BUSHES…SORRY I MENTIONED THEM….YES IT IS WIERD OUT THERE IN THOSE STATES AND I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST POTATOES! REMEMBER…DOROTHY AND TOTO AND KANSAS…WATCH OUT FOR GREEN,UGLY WOMEN ON BROOMSTICKS AND THE GANG OF FLYING MONKEYS!!!!…DON’T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY I DON’T SMOKE ANYTHING!
BTW…IF YOU HAPPEN TO SIEZE A FLYING PAIR OF RUBY RED SLIPPERS…HOLD ONTO THEM…IT’S YOUR TICKET HOME!
And a week from PBO’s Idaho visit, will be this…
What a wild ride in January!
This country’s infrastructure is shameful, and topping the list are the services offered by our neglected capitol city:
#forgotmypassword – try it.
It’s her birthday! 😀
❤ ❤ ❤
My Brother is a long time Sade fan,…introduced me to her…this was his favorite song
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/16/the-presidents-day-43/
POTUS to Idaho and Kansas. Not venues we’d necessarily expect, but Good. PBO bringing his message to his people
It seems to me a big story we at TOD have been discussing but I don’t know if anyone else is talking about is that The President’s party seems to be MIA. Or worse, opposing the Presidents initiatives.
Today President Obama was very clear, as was PM Cameron in warning Senate Dems to back off trying to impose new Iran sanctions.
What will all this mean for the future?
If the Democrats are not with The President, then what exactly are the democrats doing?
And where will TOD and the rest of The Obama Coalition be in a few months?
I have no idea but maybe some of you do.