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Cindi Leive: Michelle Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kerry Washington: The Important Cause Bringing Three Powerhouse Women Together
First Lady Michelle Obama and actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington are sitting in the Blue Room at the White House. This trio of female forces, who know one another through their work on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, aren’t here just to catch up on life. They’re here today to spread a crucial message: This Memorial Day, America’s servicewomen, veterans, and military wives—courageous women—need our help. Over a decade ago, during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, our servicemen and -women were constantly in the public eye, in newspapers, music videos, car commercials. Today, most of the more than 2.5 million men and women who deployed are home safe—but they deserve just as much attention as when they were braving IEDs and insurgents.
During this reentry period, advocates point out, many veterans face hardships (from homelessness and unemployment to post-traumatic stress disorder and the effects of sexual trauma), and we can’t underestimate the support they need. MO: One thing I want to clarify—that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember—is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy…. But when we do come across someone who is struggling…we have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, “I’m a veteran. And by the way, I need little help.” Think about the amount of training the average veteran has received through the military—physical training, project management training, public relations work. Think of an average tour of duty in a foreign land, the money we put into developing that, and then they’re discharged, and what, we let that investment go? Absolutely not. These are some of the best-trained people in our society.
More here
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Worth a read: @FLOTUS, @SJP & @KerryWashington on our #vets and #JoiningForces in @GlamourMag: glmr.me/1y97sNN http://t.co/ZI87U12RFh
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Joining Forces (@JoiningForces) April 07, 2015Hello, power women! Why @SJP, @FLOTUS, & @kerrywashington are teaming up for our May issue: glmr.me/1JhjzJr http://t.co/fPHdX672Fc
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Glamour (@glamourmag) April 07, 2015****
Honored to #JoinForces with @FLOTUS + @SJP for @glamourmag. We gals gotta stick together. glmr.me/1y97sNN. http://t.co/p3daW7nZCp
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kerry washington (@kerrywashington) April 07, 2015In awe of these women & so proud of this cover: @FLOTUS @sjp @kerrywashington @joiningforces. http://t.co/RZZeNyLQTt
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Cindi Leive (@cindi_leive) April 07, 2015****
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in the unveiling of the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp, at the Warner Theater in Washington. From left are, Eleanor Traylor, English Professor at Howard University; poet Nikki Giovanni; Mrs. Obama; Postmaster General Megan Brennan; Oprah Winfrey, and artist Ross Rossin
The Obama Diary 
Beautiful First Lady!!
Goooooooooooorgeous post Nerdy, thanks a gazillion!!
Thanks for posting it, Chiparoo. I was stuck in the wormhole of the new Twitter update. LOL.
[Strong Language Advisory]
Hey, Chips. I need you to go to this tweet on Twitter and keep clicking the links that show up underneath subsequent tweets. Don’t click on everything because you’ll be trapped on Twitter forever. It’s like freaking Inception. Twitter is taking us to a tweet within a tweet within another tweet within another tweet.
NW, you are making it easy to stay away from Twitter!!
Don’t be scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaared, MP.
MUAHAHAHAHAHA 🙂
OMG, that is insane!!!! 😆 I couldn’t resist clicking and I got hopelessly lost!!!!
Hahahaha. It’s insane. Now, we have to wait for them to clear up the kinks so we know who can see the tweets in their mentions and who can’t.
Imagine them rolling this out on Monday. People would have thought they’d gotten high by osmosis.
Thanks NW and Chips. What a stunning, powerful First Lady we have. She makes me proud everyday!
Donna, Chuck Schumer is fraying my last nerve. I hope Harry Reid changes his mind and picks Durbin or Patty Murray instead!
It will only happen if we force the issue. It’s the good ole boy system in the Senate and only a Democrat can openly defy his sitting President and then be handed the leadership role. It makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya can’t do anything other than love ’em! 🙂
He has always said he will speak what’s on his mind. This. ^10 ❤ 🐻
Whoa…. I think I see COS McDonough’s brother , the Priest there….hel ooks just like Dennis
Gotta love him. 🙂 Definitely told the truth.
The full Video from C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org/video/?325232-1/president-obama-remarks-2015-easter-prayer-breakfast&live
This is perfection. The President didn’t take a jab. It was the audience’s reaction that was the real jab. I have played this several times because it is AA peeps at their best – understanding what is actually being said and responding and supporting the President in the best way possible.
GOP and Libertarians: #puttingthemockindemockracy Back to the 20th century and beyond..
Hahahahahaha. Nice.
Thanks, JER.
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Thanks too JER. Being a visual person myself, I tucked the picture beneath the tweet. 😀
He has one hand in his pocket as well, unlike many GOP who still need to drag their knuckles on the ground, for balance.
Three million small(under $200.00) donors helped PBO over the finish line in 2012 up from one million in 2008. (enthusiasm gap, my ass)
3 million donations are 3 million Guaranteed votes. Koch and Boeing commercials will not impress them.
In my next e-mail to Sen. Schumer I will point out that those 3 million votes may very well be history if the Democratic Party continues to disappear. Stand with President Obama or lose again, just like in 2014.
Vicki ,,,”this is my greatest fear,,,,that we may lose the WH in 2016,,,never underestimate the enemy…although they put up another Bush…Rand Paul or Ted Cruz…..those voters will come out….(they don’t much care who wins as long as it is not a Dem)….will the Dems come out
I share the fear, pf.
People laughed when I said that Alison L Grimes ran to lose. The “distancing from PBO” was a deliberate strategy to depress our turnout and insure a GOP takeover. We lost in too many races for the exact same reasons to be able to make any case for coincidence.
Nobody is laughing now. We all can see that the democratic party is in trouble.
I’m not clear on what the end game is. Other than undermining Our President every chance they can make for this.
Scorched earth? Schumers annointment feels like the destruction of liberal hope that Rahm dreamed of. Remember when he called progressives F—g idiots?
For me—I will enjoy every second of PBO’s term and do whatever I can to elect decent dems. If and when i can find them.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
Bad news:
Russian hackers behind the damaging cyberintrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
The White House has said the breach affected an unclassified system. But that gave the hackers access to such sensitive information as real-time nonpublic details of the President’s schedule.
The State Department computer system has been bedeviled by signs that despite efforts to lock them out, the Russian hackers have been able to re-enter the system. One official says the Russians have “owned” the State Department system for months.
Get complete coverage of breaking news on CNN TV, CNN.com and CNN Mobile.
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Hope we can return the favor a thousand times.
Doesn’t sound good for Eddie Snowjob’s negotiating options – as if he had any.
Yep. And those fools who planted a bust of him in a Brooklyn park should be charged as well.
Hello TOD
Congrats Allison on your Au ⭐
Fantastic post, NW.
Thanks, Nena. These poor, ignorant Repubs don’t know how to connect dots as our President can – they (try to) block one path, he finds another.
“President Obama needs to stop and think – how does this end?” What is this messaging, other than to call your senators? I find this confusing in how it portrays PBO as carrying on a series of wars which were already in progress, which created the situations he has spent his presidency defusing.
Bigotry runs in their circle.
I did not watch Chris’ rant on post, but saw him yesterday mentioning he personally would like Rand for President. I thought “What!!!”
Well…after his rant earlier, he just played part of the ad he ranted about
of course Chris wants such a thing. Rand is a scumbag just like Chris.
So as a so-called liberal, Chris would discount everything else Paul stands or based on an ad? I can’t wait for Rachel or someone to lay out Paul’s voting record. His rhetoric does not match his voting record.
The hypocrisy that is Matthews, always.
His show played the exact tape…..on 4-6-15 that he attacked Roberts for.
Having lived through the hostage crisis and revolution in Iran, never thought I’d see the day in my lifetime when it is the UNITED STATES Congress who may make it impossible to forge a deal and work to kill it while in Iran the hardliners are being silenced. The world has turned upside down with these elected idiots. Can’t even imagine what our allies in Europe are thinking reading what is happening here.
OMG 🙂 😯 🙂
He and his campaign staff are complete idiots!!!
They think they can run the country, but they can’t run a YouTube account. The funniest thing is that Rand Paul fans are still tweeting the video, unaware that it’s blocked – which means they didn’t even click play!
They are Just blindly following this idiot. What a joke. He misspells “education” then has a “Jew” for Rand banner on his website and retweets a fake photo of the Aurora Shooter holding a “Stand With Rand” Sign. The cherry on the top is having the Youtube announcement taken offline. He has hit the JACKPOT for dumbness and its just the first day 🙂
I just saw this one on Twitter…
How ANYONE can run for government when their sole platform is “get rid of government” is beyond comprehension.
Not if the bought- and paid-for MSM covers for them and never tries to inform voters of their true agenda.
Where is Mrs. Biden? I don’t see her and the First Lady together too much anymore. Did they not work together on military issues?
She’s been doing quite a bit looking at her Twitter account. Looks like she’s still involved in military matters but maybe just too much going on lately for for both of them to be able to attend the same events together.
She is going to be an exceptional First Lady!!
The Iran Project Statement on the Announcement of a Framework for a Comprehensive Nuclear Agreement with Iran April 6, 2015
We welcome the announcement that the U.S. government and other major world powers have reached a framework accord to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. This achievement is the result of the sustained effort of the Foreign Ministers of seven governments spanning nearly 18 months, to put in place a set of constraints and inspections that would limit Iran’s nuclear program to peaceful purposes. While technical details are still to be fully resolved, important U.S. objectives have been achieved:
*uranium enrichment only at the Natanz plant and no enrichment at the underground facility at Fordow;
*prohibition of the Arak heavy water research reactor from producing weapons grade plutonium or reprocessing to recover plutonium from spent fuel;
*a reduction and then a limit on Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium to 300 KG for 15 years; broad and sweeping inspections and other constraints;
*a two-thirds reduction in installed centrifuges for ten years; a range of limitations and inspections that will be in force over a 10-25 year period and some permanent inspections of the program. We recognize that full evaluation must await a final comprehensive agreement. Important, difficult, and ambiguous issues still remain. Their resolution will be key to the solidity of the final agreement and its support in this country. They include:
*what means will be used to limit the stockpile of Iran’s enriched uranium to 300 Kg of LEU for 15 years …continued
Afternoon LP! Thanks a billion trillion gazillion for the brilliant toons last night, huuuuuuuuuugely appreciated!
My pleasure, Chips! …and good afternoon to you as well!
Thank you kindly, sir!! 🙂
As a surrogate for Amk – GARYT (did I get that right?)
BTW, LPlains, thank you for sharing that list. I’ve already RT’d & favourited it. [ah the words we make up!]
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Thanks, VC! Looking over the signatories, it is one impressive bi-partisan list!
😳 #younoticedmefinally
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Well it was not a direct reply to me (follow instructions) 😀 ….anyways, I was working on a post about a photography exhibit in New York city documenting the history of Hip-Hip. Just now got around to refreshing this thread and snuck in on the the new one 😎
*excuses* *excuses*
Wake up and recognize your name, used directly or not! I suppose I should mosey on over to your site to see the photography exhibit…….later.
Hook. Line. Sinker.
Where is General Betrayus ?
Preparing for prison? We might need to check with his “biographer”. 🙂
Linda, that is so funny….”Betrayus”
I wonder if his Boo is going down, also?
She probably left him a long time ago.
I do not mean to judge.
But all of the years these wives put into their lives and chose to “stand by your man” is heart wrenching.
So that brings me to this o/t subject…….
So what do you do? Go and work for the most intelligent President in history. Run for president yourself after you see how it’s done correctly and show your lying, cheating good for nothing husband/ex-president how it’s done.
I am having thoughts why HRC is doing this? Is it to get back at us or Bill?
Either way, I am not comfortable with her and Chuck Schumer in the Situation Room deciding shit!
I had a great walk this morning and I am not playing with the backstabbers. I have called Schumer’s number so many times I took a nap on the last one. I am ready to start over tomorrow. I never felt good about him. Now, I know why.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=1
Video catches cop shooting black man running away from him and planting a stun gun on his corpse.
Cop is charged with murder.
Horrific……..thank goodness for this video
yep, because we all know the cop would have gotten away with it to because the system is that corrupt.
OMG I just watched that video. I think I’m going to be sick!!!
Lawd Have Mercy!!!!!!!!!! 😯 😡 😯
The ease at which they murder is beyond comprehension. The guy that took that video I’m sure was scared for his life. Videotaping a cop I’m sure is more cause for being killed by them than driving a car with broken tail light.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WalterScott?src=tren
ALL BECAUSE OF A BROKEN TAILLIGHT IN A LUXURY CAR!
Not only did they stand around – they HANCUFFED a man who was probably dead and then go get a taser & place it near his body. Utterly corrupt.
AND – they searched his body for a weapon!
Taser prongs were found in the victims back!
I’m sorry and maybe it’s the cynic in me after the mid-term elections but I just think it’s a damn shame the way we have to push and prod and beg our voters to get out to the polls. Republicans just keep up on election day and go vote.
I hope they have a decent turnout. I am reading on FB that there is some flooding near St. Louis this evening.
i think GOP voters are driven to the polls based on hatred and evil…they are tricked into voting against their own interests….their hatred is stoked within them….this is how they get their voters to the polls…we have to inspire Hope and Change to get our voters to the polls…The DNC needs to do what it can to organize folks to vote..my question is …why don’t they
The weather was bad during the day but has now cleared up.
One precinct that had a turnout of 12—yes, 12—the last election had seen 80 voters a few hours ago. Reason to be cheerful!
Donna, I wonder if instead of pushing and prodding a ‘fun’ way could be found to educate (dem) voters at local levels. Maybe if they understand or are reminded that their lives are intimately impacted at the local level, leading up to the state level they’d wake up? I don’t know.
May we have this taken out of Instagram so we can capture it. Essentially beautiful.
Please.
OK, Southern California TODers, we’ve had some good rain today. Not sure how long it will last but I hope it’s headed your way!!
Rain in CA – very good to hear, Meta! Does that last picture mean there was some actual snowfall? 🙂 It looks like a healthy amount. 😎
I know, it looks so good I have to pinch myself to even think it’s possible. Echo Summit is in the northern Sierra Nevadas, near Lake Tahoe. I’ll have to listen to the news reports later.
Well, I hope the evening news will say there was a HEAVY snowfall, and take it easy on the pinching. Black and blue do not denote happiness. 😉
It is cloudy and cool in SoCal Meta, but I have not seen one drop of rain where I live.
Fingers crossed for you, COS.
This is about using Israel as a rouse to advance the global neocon agenda, which has seen its influence wane in the wake of the Obama doctrine and in the aftermath of America’s two longest wars. Bibi Netanyahu has evidently proven a worthy heir to Dick Cheney and George Bush for neocons worldwide, and they have enlisted Schumer as one of their frontmen.
Election results will begin posting here at 8:00 Central Time
http://www.stlouisco.com/yourgovernment/elections
I hope the turnout is much, much higher than last time.
Long before payday loans became a multi-million dollar industry, Primas’ business was a place you could buy groceries on zero-interest credit during hard times. “If you couldn’t pay, take your groceries and pay when you could,” Jackson Lee said. “That was an important thing in our community.”
She’s also been active in Houston’s First Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1890. “We’re part of a historical community,” said Pastor John Fields, who accompanied Primas to the White House. “She represents a large part of that history.”
Primas is also a link to the struggle for voting rights, remembering a time when Texas and other southern states required payment of a poll tax to vote, a practice that hit the poor and minorities hard.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/At-109-black-Houstonian-never-thought-she-d-meet-6184864.php
Ah wow, what a life story – thank you good Sir, that’s one post sorted for tomorrow!
#100bucks
One day you’re going to say, “no charge petal, my pleasure”. One day.
that reminds me, where are my flowers?
trust you to find the grumpiest of the flowers/smh.
#toohappy
Who’s *picky* *picky* now?
😀 😀 Dreams can be fun, eh? Of course if you’re not careful you might start getting a bill for your dreams.
He can flip off!! 🙂
not if you are dreaming of me.
Dream? DREAM???
that’ll be double the usual price.
Does he read? Does he display any belief in what he reads? #importantquestions
I think he just reads the same book over and over. And over and over.
Who is Ein Zombie Weihnachtsmarchen?
You.
who you calling Ein?
The ein and only Amk – gawd, we couldn’t cope with zwei of them.
I can read … enough.
stand with rand?
And here I thought bt was bad at punny slogans.
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Good morning amk
GM Bob.
Good evening Nerdy, Chips & TOD! What gorgeous pics!! I’m playing catch-up these past few days (and weeks). Things should calm down considerably after June 🙂
‘sup?
I am with top left.
Definitely 😀 😀 😀
#donttellmewehavesomethingincommon – it irritates me profoundly when any other method is used!
#pickypickypicky
#potcallingkettle
There IS NO DEBATE. Left, and left ONLY! sheesh
LOL.
Laura Rozen is tweeting that Dem anti-nuclear deal support is fading. So glad to hear this! The sooner this crazy threat is cut short the better.
Maybe all of the calls and e-mails have alerted democratic leaders to the fact you are playing with fire when you oppose a Beloved President.
Lots of cool new photos here:
New post/
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/07/a-tweet-or-two-278/