"Last night, America lost not just a coaching legend but a gentleman and a citizen." —President Obama on Dean Smith: http://t.co/xNFSOoin1J
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 08, 2015Dean Smith, civil rights champion and basketball coach, has died. For more on the former description, read this. es.pn/1D9OWEk
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 08, 2015****
Obama’s new budget puts billions toward fighting climate change thkpr.gs/3618406 http://t.co/p16I5nMM6Y
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Climate Progress (@climateprogress) February 07, 2015Obama is "polarizing" because a large part of this country would rather be wrong than admit the Black President is right. About anything.
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(@GrooveSDC) February 07, 2015****
R.I.P. to Tougaloo alum Anne Moody. She was heavily involved in the sit-in demonstrations. #blackhistory http://t.co/DgJNYEIs1W
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English Fields™ (@BougieIntellect) February 07, 201547 yrs ago today, officers killed 3 in student demonstrations in Orangeburg, S.C. clarionledger.com/story/journeyt… http://t.co/uVIXAaXcOs
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Jerry Mitchell (@JMitchellNews) February 08, 2015****
OK. We make resisting arrest a felony. But every cop who makes an unlawful arrest also gets a felony charge. Deal? nypost.com/2015/01/26/pol…
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Radley Balko (@radleybalko) February 07, 2015"Reagan said that he filmed a Nazi death camp as an army photographer, but he never left the country during WWII". politico.com/magazine/story…
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BWD (@theonlyadult) February 08, 2015****
So I was on the train to work this morning. Now, most women know that street harassers never think it's too early to street harass.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015So that was happening. This dude was aggressively hitting on this woman, who was about my age. She was ignoring him. Everyone else was too.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015****
He kept after her. I could hear him saying, "Come on. I want your number. You're so pretty. You don't want my number?"
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015She finally says, loudly, "NO, I don't want your number!" And what happened next was amazing.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015****
This young woman a few seats away, looks up and she says, also loudly, "AND NO, I DON'T WANNA GIVE YOU MINE."
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015And there was this awkward silence. Like, at first people just stared at her, myself include. But then I realized, and slowly so did others.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015****
The second woman's friend started laughing and she said (not as loud, but still audible) "NO, I DON'T WANNA MEET YOU NO WHERE."
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015And together they sang, really loudly (and off key) "NO, I DON'T WANT NONE OF YOUR TIIIIIME"
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015****
The dude trying to get the first woman's number just stared at them, and the woman he was harassing was just LAUGHING. He was done.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015And if you don't get the joke....well, maybe your sense of humor needs some....TLC. *chuckles*
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2015****
Nigeria is postponing its presidential elections until March due to security concerns. bit.ly/1xPAZF8 http://t.co/C0JSbWD6JH
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(@Newsweek) February 08, 2015Who is Kayla Mueller, the American held by #ISIS? Why her parents have not given up hope. @CBSEveningNews cbsnews.com/news/isis-host…
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Jim Axelrod (@JimAxelrod) February 08, 2015****
Cannot recommend more highly today this story on Dean Smith by @tommytomlinson that ran last year: espn.go.com/espn/feature/s…
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Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) February 08, 2015#BrianWilliams's helicopter lie is nothing compared with the misinformation spewed by US press in lead-up to Iraq War bit.ly/1yRfJ3f
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BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyersHQ) February 08, 2015****
Mossad has broken with Netanyahu on Iran, adding fuel to the fire in Washington. @joshrogin @elilake bloombergview.com/articles/2015-… via @BV
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Dr. Hatem Bazian (@HatemBazian) February 08, 2015If Netanyahu has lost the Anti-Defamation League, he's in real trouble lgf.bz/1DqzJiC
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Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 08, 2015****
She's the daughter of a New Jersey police sergeant. nydn.us/1KAUwA4 http://t.co/MPd0JkfvNm
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New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 08, 2015Emergency dispatcher to 13-year-old girl as her dad dies: "Stop whining" wapo.st/1vyQW8z
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 08, 2015****
Wait a minute... http://t.co/WcD45wHsyT
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MyFeminismRealAF (@FeministaJones) February 08, 2015Any campaign pushing abstinence that focuses on girls'/women's "reputations" loses http://t.co/hpLKCszs9z
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MyFeminismRealAF (@FeministaJones) February 08, 2015****
Gay marriages planned for Monday in Alabama unless US Supreme Court orders a stay: apne.ws/16EecWO
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The Associated Press (@AP) February 07, 2015Referendum To Bar Same-Sex Couples From Marrying And Adopting In Slovakia Fails buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/re… via @jlfeder
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Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) February 07, 2015****
LOLZ at the white people shitting their pants that Obama dared remind them that they've done some horrific shit too nyti.ms/1FajtRM
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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 06, 2015REMINDER: "Christian" America currently imprisons more black men than America enslaved in 1850 m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10073… http://t.co/BVuZiWmK56
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The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) February 07, 2015****
Kerry warns of 'additional' US assistance to Ukraine u.afp.com/KEH
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) February 08, 2015Five African nations pledge to deploy thousands of troops, police and civilians to fight #BokoHaram militants ab.co/1vy0gtd
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ABC News (@abcnews) February 07, 2015****
Five dead, including two children, in horrific domestic violence-related shooting in Douglasville, Georgia: every.tw/1KwCZLf
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Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) February 08, 2015Thousands cut off from aid in disastrous Malawi floods. aje.io/4tmn http://t.co/3oNdh7z2wS
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Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 07, 2015****
Brian Williams just couldn't live up to the high standards of a news org that employs Joe Scarborough and Luke Russert.
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Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) February 07, 2015BREAKING: Brian Williams to take a "brief leave." He becomes the first person ever to be punished for lying about Iraq.
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(@LOLGOP) February 07, 2015****
EDITORIAL: "The small but dangerous minority of American parents resistant to vaccinating their children"
sun-tim.es/1EqYo8k
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Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) February 07, 2015I was vaccinated as a child. 30 years later I am a complete failure. No way is that a coincidence.
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(@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 08, 2015****
That moment when President @BarackObama met boy who inspired $1 million @humansofny fundraiser bbc.in/1zIDL3g http://t.co/QjHf3XRZoA
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BBC Trending (@BBCtrending) February 07, 201540 bills introduced in 17 states so far in 2015 to make it harder to vote brennancenter.org/analysis/votin… @BrennanCenter http://t.co/YioUssniux
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 06, 2015****
Dancing in the streets of Baghdad: a curfew ends & the city is finally coming back to life http://t.co/qBCT1a0C1Z
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Liz Sly (@LizSly) February 07, 2015Finally got details of Putin peace plan proposal. #MSC15 http://t.co/W3HhKoMxgB
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ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 07, 2015****
Booming jobs and falling gas prices make this the best economy in 15 years wapo.st/16zMdHL
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Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) February 08, 2015This chart should be a question in the first 2016 GOP Debate cc @comebackdecade: http://t.co/Ma1YxhCHb0
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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 07, 2015****
Gladiators? You know exactly what this Scandal moment means 🙂
When you graduated 6 months ago and can't find a job so you walk into every business with your resume http://t.co/cpDSvqax94
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Brandon. (@BMarcTheBest) February 06, 2015"I smell steak on your breath, dude. And you serving us puppy chow. Fuck you mean?" http://t.co/2qCvesqYh8
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My Beard Looks Nice (@WinkWestwood) February 07, 2015
The Obama Diary 
Thank you Dudette and Congrats!!!
Yet another spectacular collection of tweets!! Thank you NW!!!
Thanks, Bob.
Thanks Bob! 🙂
He did you see AG Holder’s interview with MHP this morning. Before she ruined it with the ignorance with the quack like a duck request, she asked him what he’d be doing when he steps down. He mentioned taking a nice long rest (much deserved of course) and that he’s thinking about maybe working on some kind of “justice and reconciliation” effort in the future. I thought of your tweets immediately!
Thank you Dudette. I have not had time to listen to the interview, but would not be in any way surprised that AG Holder would be interested in pursuing ‘justice and reconciliation’ given all he has already contributed to both.
Beautiful statement from this young woman. Libraries have expanded the minds and probably saved the emotional lives of millions of young people over the years. I’ve always felt happy in a library. Every book is a journey and a chance for an adventure.
Thisssssssssssssssss!
I was a library nerd and aid from elementary school through my undergraduate years. Long before I could afford to build my own at home library, I too would trudge down the street carrying as many books as my skinny arms could hold. I loved everything about the library and it gave me so much; worlds to explore and solitude when I needed it (too many siblings and too much responsibility at home). At one time I thought about majoring in Library Science, but choose instead, Literature and Journalism. This allowed me to join my love of reading and writing with sharing both with others. I am always so outraged when communities, mine included, are so short-sighted that they would put Libraries on the chopping block because of budget concerns. Free societies require free libraries.
Maaaaaaaaagnifico Nerdy, thank you SO much!!!!
Thanks, Chiparoooooo.
LOL! The tweets about the women singing “No Scrubs” at the street harasser! PRICELESS!!! 😀
Congrats Dudette for your Gold ⭐
Thanks Nena! 🙂
Hooooowling – what a fantastic set of tweets about that incident, LOVED them.
Well done, Dudette 🙂
I know right! 😀 😀 😀
Ridicule is the best way to handle guys who are always trying to “holla” at women who do not want to be bothered by them. Sending a high five to the young ladies who gave such a masterly set down. “Scrubs” need not apply.
I’ll join you in that ^5 CEB!
Brava Nerdy! Brava!
Awww….thanks, Dudette!
Bwahahaha! Just saw the ones with the dogs – “Steak on your breath…” ROFL!!! 😀
That was freaking funny.
Excellent Tweets NW, Wow!
Fantastic!
Thanks, Nena!
Significant ….
Last thing #DAESH wanted to happen is to catalyze an Arab led war against them, but that’s just what they’ve done, big time.
The whole world should be grateful to these fighters for what they did in Shingal. How can these photos not touch everyone’s hearts.
Yes, JackieG. The Peshmerga crushed #DAESH in Kobane and did the same at Mt Sinjar. The Kurds are the most progressive, democratic, tolerant, egalitarian society in the ME/Central Asia.
extraordinary
Love this post, NW! Congrats to Dudette on her gold medal.
Thanks, Judith.
Thank you Judith! 🙂
This is what the media is jealous of. People loooooooooooooooove President Obama.
We love PBO so much we will even endure Ezra in order to see this outing by our Brilliant President explaining things. I plan to watch the entire interview when it comes on line tomorrow.
Terrific tweets, once again, Nerdy. Thank you so much.
Thanks, Vicki.
Nerdy..Outstanding Tweets….
looking forward to the interview
Thanks, PF.
Nerdy, the beauty of your tweet gathering is that every one of them can lead us off into some new topic that’s intriguing, educational, funny and awesome. It’s a great, great skill to do this and one that very smart and dedicated teachers know instinctively. I don’t know what you’re career path is in life, but you have the capacity to influence and lead a lot of people. I hope it carries you very far.
‘LIKE’. Agree, jackieg. Thanks for saying it.
Thanks so much, Jackie.
Well said Jackie about NW. NW, your are awesome!! ♛ ♛ ♛ ✩ ✩ ✩
A few years ago, I had the privilege of watching a presentation of the documentary, “Scarred Justice,” about the Orangeburg, SC massacre in 1968. There was a stunned silence after it was over and many were shocked by the stupidity, blundering and hatred that led to the killing of the three young men. Many in the audience wanted to believe that what happened in Orangeburg was “in the past,” but recent events have showed us that very little has changed in the intervening 47 years and much has actually gotten worse.
Yup!
That tweet above with the picture from Scandal, about handing out resumes everywhere, reminded me:
I took my Mom to go see Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer in Black or White yesteday. We both enjoyed the movie overal, but I was especially enamored with one standout character played by Mpho Koaho (you might have seen him on the TNT series “Falling Skies”), “Duvan” – a math tutor/all-around-whiz kid who comes in to help young Eloise, the little girl around which the movie is centered. Duvan often introduced himself to people with copies of his resume’ and papers he’d written on various topics. Sweet, adorable, erudite, goofy. Just like I ’em. I squealed with delight whenever he came on screen. 😀
Okay that didn’t come out right. Sorry. I’ll just post the tweet with a link to the Instagram.
#LoveHasNoColor
#TruthAndReconciliation will, from beginning to eternity, only happen because of our capacity to Love ….
Hope you’ve seen this interview, Dudette, but in case not ….
Oh neat! I hadn’t seen this interview. Thanks Bob!
Octavia is so right, the movie is so much more about family than race.
I like this guy’s review of the movie.
http://scottholleran.com/movies/movie-review-black-white/
Tweeted it!
Great!!
Be sure not to miss this, as well, Dudette ….
Thought it only appropriate to thank Kevin Costner for enabling the #TruthAndReconciliation process …
… and I hope Octavia Spencer continues to urge him to keep the conversation rolling ….
Don’t know how many of you saw what I shared last night–what the president of a local Southern Baptist college said about being at the Prayer Breakfast. He wrote a wonderful commentary (on FB) in defense of the PO. I mentioned that all the comments were thoughtful/insightful, no negative or ugly comments. (And there’s been some added and that theme continues.) I want to share one of the comments.
Just another suggestion to make peace: 1) ACCEPT the PAST as PAST, learning from it & what not to do, 2) FORGIVE self/others. 3) LET IT GO, since cannot change PAST, only present, 4) MOVE ON–transformed and good. These are steps taught in anger management and lead to RECONCILIATION and peace.
Thanks, Tn. This is wise advice for any of us at any time.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Words to live by tnmtngirl. Thank you!
Tn Thank you for what you said. It is important that part of accepting the past is an active listening with the heart to the emotion beneath the words and an acknowledgement of the other persons truth. I do not think we can really move on without an acknowledgement of shared pain.
Really? I thought he was losing… oh well.
Dratz – he won the vote of his parliamentary colleagues (ie like party members of congress) 61-39 – he will be more insufferable and there will be more calls to remove him. His popularity is at an all time low – poll shows his performance rating as 24% his party vs labor at 43-57.
His political party might want him – Australia does not. His only argument to be retained as PM was that we should not have change – it is bad for the party!
Election is due late next year (close to the US election) If he is still the PM his party will be resoundingly defeated – he will win his seat & probably resign. Our “right to rule” party guys get all upset when they are defeated at the polls.
Great conversation on OWN today with Richard Rohr and Oprah on #SuperSoulSunday on the topic of #TrueSelf.
Haha! Check it out! He retweeted me and responded! [squeeeee!] 😀
😆 Your life is complete, Dame Delectable!!!!!!
#NerdsRule! 🙂
Awesome. Congrats Lady D! 🙂
Thanks hf! 🙂
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I am watching cspan history and they are showing painting from the National Portrait Gallery…
This one is interesting. I think our President also has beautiful hands. This is FDR and his hands.
http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2008/12/fdr-and-the-end-of-prohibition.html
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I’ve always noticed President Obama’s beautiful, strong, graceful hands. I had never seen a picture of FDR’s before….but they have the same characteristics. In fact, I think both FDR and PBO have the same quality of innate elegance and grace, which is so rare.
What a good eye you have, carolyn! I see that now too.
Just like schoolgirls anywhere, hoping to learn and live a good life!
In_Deed, Jacqueline.
Launch postponed …
WATCH LIVE MONDAY: SpaceX to Make 2nd Launch Try for DSCOVR Satellite
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
Yep. They’ll get it going. This stuff is not easy.
the SELMA edition on 60 minutes was great loved how the director stood her ground against any critic ” STRONG BLACK WOMAN” loved her even more
Oh, sorry I missed that. I just gotten it the habit of skipping, I didn’t even look to see who was on.
She handled it like Olivia Pope! She let Bob Simon know that she had always had the confidence and the skill to do a big movie. Did you see the look in her eyes when she brought up the so-called criticism by whites who thought that our stories and successes required white voices and white knights? It was on and she was ready for any bs. Certain white people in Simon’s age group still have not realized that A-A’s and other people of color the world over are through asking them for permission or validation. Women like Anna and Susan Rice and men like PBO and Eric Holder are their worst nightmare.
Should be: when he (Bob Simon) brought up the criticism…”
Yay Sam! 😀
HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YaY!! Pharrell
I’m happy he won, but the shorts… just No.
Seriously hideous getup—but the song rocked the world
For some good laughs follow #Grammy2015
I know it’s wrong, but you kinda have to expect to take some ribbing when you show up at an event like the Grammys with your hair like this
Nerdy’s smiles!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/02/08/sunday-means-laugh-laugh/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/bill-nye-fan-autism_n_6631200.html#comments
Bill Nye is proving once again why he’s everyone’s favorite bow-tie wearing scientist.
Michael de Groot is a 15-year-old with autism, who loves science and has a big goal.
“My dream is to work with Bill Nye one day in Pasadena, California, when I’m older,” the 15-year-old told WRIC.
Aw! What a moment to cherish!