"I’ve committed to doubling the pace at which we cut carbon pollution." —@POTUS #ActOnClimate http://t.co/q2ZFQCPKk2
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White House Live (@WHLive) May 20, 2015Climate change threatens every country on the planet.
No nation is immune.
RT if you agree we need to #ActOnClimate. snpy.tv/1PWKg8d
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 20, 2015****
Hail to the FLOTUS!
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Michelle Obama can kick your ass bit.ly/1EXPUkf http://t.co/3ui11UPF25
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 20, 2015Michelle Obama just one-upped the president’s workout and probably yours too. buff.ly/1EjnY9W http://t.co/QAY5S3xhQF
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The Root (@TheRoot) May 20, 2015****
Jesus. FLOTUS can kick all of our asses. huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/mic…
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jennifer bendery (@jbendery) May 20, 2015Michelle Obama is serious about her workouts nyti.ms/1R35xPP http://t.co/sSmfYQFp76
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The New York Times (@nytimes) May 20, 2015****
Where are the white leaders in the community?! Where are the fathers?!
BREAKING: Waco police now say they've found as many as 1000 weapons at Twin Peaks, including an AK-47. Many were hidden in toilets, food.
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KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) May 20, 2015Mugshots of the more than 150 people who were arrested in the Waco, Texas, biker fight: apne.ws/1efMqUO
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The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2015****
BREAKING: AG Lynch announces 5 international banks are pleading guilty in currency case » cnb.cx/136LsmZ
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CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) May 20, 2015BREAKING: 6 banks pay $5.8 billion in DOJ settlement, 5 plead guilty to market rigging bloom.bg/1Ht6v3m
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015****
Iran to allow U.N. inspection of Yemen aid ship in Djibouti reut.rs/1PWv5vL
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Reuters Iran (@ReutersIran) May 20, 2015Experts warn climate change could make Lyme disease-carrying ticks more common bloom.bg/1B9k17x http://t.co/UvXRdL1dN2
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015****
I'm sure if you asked the right kind of questions, you'd find that many Americans believe black neighbors inherently lower property values.
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Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) May 12, 2015@jbouie nymag.com/daily/intellig… http://t.co/qo9dVtnCkl
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Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) May 12, 2015****
More truth here
Listen. You can't 'visit' poverty. You can't vacation there. You can't even hope to understand it by artificial limitations for a week.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is pain. It's the anxiety of knowing you can't afford to move, so you have to put up with a bad place, bad neighbors, rent raises
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
Poverty is dire fear of eviction, of rent raises, of being late on the rent because of the fees charged.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is crying in the night because you haven't had enough to eat...not that day, but for DAYS, waiting on a paycheck just to eat.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
Poverty is terror for your children, trying to do the best you can by them while working insane hours, while they're in shit schools.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is having to make choices, like do you eat or do you keep lights on. Poverty is about inconvenience being a crisis, car repairs.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
Poverty is a constant sea of anxiety. Poverty is also shameful, when your stomach growls you feel deep shame because of the American mythos.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is about keeping your head barely above the violent seas of life, gasping at breath, and praying/hoping you don't end up homeless.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
Poverty is viewed as a sin, the fault of those mired in it, who are clearly failing to bootstrap themselves to successes they cannot have.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is waiting in line at a pantry and praying they'll not run out. Poverty is going behind grocery stores for produce others don't want
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
Poverty is day, after fucking DAY of despair, each day just like the last. Poverty is the hope that you can just survive it.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015Poverty is praying that you haven't condemned your children to the same damn life, poverty is seeing generations mired in the same shit.
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Emma Evans (@TrancewithMe) April 15, 2015****
This is horrific
Suicide rate for black children has nearly doubled since 1990s but lowered for white children. nyti.ms/1L2uCqe
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Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) May 20, 2015MORE: Military: 2nd Marine dies of injuries suffered in plane crash during Hawaii training exercise: apne.ws/1c52SoV
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The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2015****
"The left denying President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the #TPP is ugly to behold" seattletimes.com/opinion/the-le… via @seattletimes
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BWD (@theonlyadult) May 20, 2015Obama talks climate change at Coast Guard Academy buff.ly/1c4vMpp
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National Journal (@nationaljournal) May 20, 2015****
Adorable
It's not easy to steal the spotlight from NBA MVP Steph Curry, unless you're his 2-year-old daughter, Riley. es.pn/1R2bufT
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(@SportsCenter) May 20, 2015From @bobbycblanchard: Senate passes House bill on deregulation of hair braiding. Background here: texastribune.org/2015/04/06/bil… #txlege
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Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 20, 2015****
Melissa McCarthy shuts down sexist reporter who criticized her appearance bzfd.it/1Bco17n http://t.co/vjJ2FrhVIP
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(@BuzzFeed) May 20, 2015B.B. King to be laid to rest next week in Mississippi Delta (from @AP) bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:a…
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AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) May 20, 2015****
ECB will raise Greek bank emergency cash by 200 million euros, sources say bloom.bg/1efS7Cb
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015Germany wants the U.K. to have an E.U. referendum next year to reduce uncertainty bloom.bg/1efDm1W http://t.co/wyHyS88KPR
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Bloomberg Business (@business) May 20, 2015****
Federal court tells Notre Dame can't cut off birth control coverage to students thkpr.gs/3660980
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 20, 2015Pipeline ruptures in California, spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean thkpr.gs/3660974 http://t.co/rFGmkzXpi4
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 20, 2015****
Who could have possibly known that the Iraq War was a disgrace in 2003? http://t.co/v1U4PLQiGM
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(@LOLGOP) May 20, 2015.@marcorubio is a sniveling coward theweek.com/articles/55593… http://t.co/tpZsHcIX1G
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Ryan Cooper (@ryanlcooper) May 20, 2015****
Great @JamesFallows take on how BS media line of Qs on Iraq are producing "sanitized history": theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 20, 2015Five banks to pay fines totalling $5.7bn over foreign exchange rate manipulation - US regulators bbc.in/1FAJTAA
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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 20, 2015****
Record bank fines breakdown:
-Barclays $2.4bn
-Citigroup $1.26bn
-JPMorgan Chase $892m
-RBS $669m
-UBS $545m
bbc.in/1LaVzIu
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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 20, 20151433 suspects in UK child abuse inquiry
- 135 in TV, film, radio
- 76 politicians
- 43 in music industry
- 7 in sport
bbc.in/1K0tZNz
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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 20, 2015****
Thailand joins Malaysia and Indonesia in saying it will no longer push back boats carrying stranded migrants bbc.in/1FnexKr
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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 20, 2015Ukraine's President Poroshenko says Ukrainians should prepare for a major Russian offensive bbc.in/1AjIo7q http://t.co/dFEvQ0vDJz
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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 19, 2015****
Netanyahu and his cohorts are gross
Netanyahu reverses position, calls off segregation of buses in the West Bank: bit.ly/1EYecdW http://t.co/PHLMYRlioN
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 20, 2015.@JohnKerry's remarks earlier today with #Tunisia Minister for Political Affairs Marzouk: go.usa.gov/38tuB http://t.co/NJ9FvvdCh1
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Department of State (@StateDept) May 20, 2015****
On gay marriage in Ireland, from an Oklahoman in love with an Irishman bit.ly/1ILywGu http://t.co/6q422vzMVg
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 20, 2015DEA's "Operation Pillution" is cracking down on the illegal sale of painkillers in the South. bit.ly/1c51ym7 http://t.co/ZXeK1m221t
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 20, 2015****
ME: [sitting in kitchen writing out bills]
SON: I lost a tooth. I'm gonna leave it under my pillow tonight.
ME: I'd wait until next week.
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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) May 20, 2015POLICE: POLICE! OPEN UP!
ME: My parents never loved me.
POLICE: NOT EMOTIONALLY! OPEN THE DOOR!
ME: That makes way more sense.
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Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) March 21, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Hey Y’all!
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudette!!
Thanks a trazillion Nerdy, faaaaaantastic tweets!
Queen Chipsalini-Spaghettini!
Hmmm, guess you can tell I’m hongreh! 🙂
“Chipsalini-Spaghettini!”
😆
How ’bout a red martini?
Blood sugar high, anyone?? 🙂 {{{{{ Dudette }}}}}
Just wipe off the rim and chug away!
🙂
Cool! Now I can go back actually read the post! 😀
furst
Only with a big juicy -ish attached to it, Buster! 🙂
Say whut?
#youscary
This dog has got it goin’ on!! Perfect way to disappear for a while.
actually, this gives me a great idea. I think I’ll try it, let you know tomorrow how it goes. Seeing a shoulder surgeon tomorrow, not because I am interested in surgery, but I really need someone who might finally be able to get to a flippin’ diagnosis, instead of saying, gee, we really don’t know. UhHuh. Nite you delightful folks! Big hugs all around.
This is awesome, amazing and incredible! what a smart little thing!
Nerdy, how great thou art! Thanks 🙂
Amen to that hf!
How you doin’? 🙂
I’m doing well – thanks Lady D for asking! 🙂
Nice to see ya! Glad you are well, My Dear!
‘sup?
WTF?!? Twirly and Twisty?
jus’ watch the g (R) say ‘sup.
❤
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Yo!
Thanks, HF. 🙂
From last thread:
When is it EVER smaller than they ‘first thought’? I mean, really.. How many more times, before we wake the fuck up?? Or shall we wait until the words “From Sea to Shining Sea” refer to the oil slick which will cover all the water and the land on the damn planet?? I mean, really. Fucking BigOil.
This!
In_Deed, I’ve said it before ~ Mother Nature/Gaia knew exactly what she was doing when she pushed all that crap deep below the surface, where it belongs. Up top, it is ravaging everything she has built for many millennia. Then again, maybe we deserve what is coming, but the animals and plants do NOT! Aarrgghh. I’d better go.
Nerdy Legend rocks the news like no one else! A thousand thanks, M’am!
Thanks, Dudette. 🙂
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/may/20/michelle-obama-pays-tribute-to-military-caregivers/
Nerdy, this collection of tweets is compelling and the series on poverty is gut wrenching. Thanks for once again for being our truth provider. You truly are a legend.
Thank you, Jackie.
As America searches for ways to tackle the huge issues surrounding race and policing, one police chief believes he has the answers – and others are starting to listen.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32816247
Nerdy, THANKS for this cornucopia of info; I’ll be up reading all night! Fortunately, I’ve got great music in the background — WURD is jammin’ tonight! BB King, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and everybody else (late ’60’s, early ’70’s)
Of course, I post the link to WURD as the music ended… sorry…
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Senator Warren is fast approaching the all noise and no substance territory. *Sigh*
*scratches head*
I do wonder what’s so different about Pres. Obama.
*innocent look*
I’m on my 2nd Manhattan.
Carry on.
*clink * Cheers!!
“May 18, 2015 —
Among the sea of towering, six-foot tall, slender-built Marines in the marching companies at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., there is a small, select group that easily stand out in formation – the body bearers of Bravo Company.
The body bearers have the solemn and honorable duty of laying their brethren to rest at Arlington National Cemetery and other locations throughout the National Capital Region.
“The primary mission of the body bearers is to perform flawless funerals for the Marines and Marine family members at Arlington National Cemetery,” said Lance Cpl. Michael Ryder, guide, body bearer platoon, B Co…”
Many thanks NW – does that item on braiding remove any doubt that GOP legislatures believe in way too much government of the people. They say they are against “big government” but that appears to only relate to big business – they do like to overpower us ordinary mortals with nonsense. What an amazing person is Isis Brantley to keep up the fight.
THIS….THIS….THIS. 🙂
It describes every stupid of the GOP – almost perfectly.
For Scandal lovers!
Thanks for the great round-up. No better place for the news that counts.
Just discovered recently that he’s the grandson of the famous film baron of Goldwyn-Mayer. Made me like him a little more that he doesn’t seem to trade on that…
He is a tireless advocate for The Innocence Project, abolition of the death penalty, lobbying for arts, and for Democrats. A good person. He recently appeared at a fundraiser for The Atlantic Center for Capital Representation. He was so gracious, posing for endless photos and selfies until his face must have felt frozen.
I like him even more!! Thanks for all that additional info. Great to see he’s so engaged in the world.
Yay! Thanks, Taiping1 and Happy Birthday to Tony Goldwyn. He’s a great artist and advocate. 🙂
Watching that FLOTUS video made me break out in a sweat. I’m wiped out. Going to bed 🙂
Watching that FLOTUS video make me feel ashame of myself. About the only thing I can compete with her in is drinking water, and in that I still would lose.
Well I do think I can out work Rush Limbaugh and Chris Christie. 🙂
One question, if and that’s a big big if, Christie were to become President, can he walk up Air Force One steps?
Anyone staying up to Letterman’s last show?
The beauty of the DVR…?
Both of these men are amazing mimics! 😀
Oh that was fun.. I could watch those two all night, thanks Dudette!
OMG, Jamie Foxx doing John Legend was hysterical!
Dave’s last show just started! I’m already in tears!!! 😩
POTUS cameo to open up!
Darn, darn I missed it. I was busy texting and forgot to change the channel. What happened!?
Caught me by surprise. I didn’t really pay attention to the other guys. Noteworthy that Dave came onscreen w/ PBO. Very cute!
Cool, thanks for letting me know! I’m watching now, the kids segment was hysterical!
He’s always been hilarious with kids!
Love me some Dave!
Seinfeld’s face when she said: Priceless! 😀
Seinfeld’s face when she said: Priceless! 😀
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Dave just thanked his wife Regina and son Harry, who’re sitting in the audience.
Damn, here come the waterworks!
Dave said years ago Foo Fighters canceled a tour in South America to come play a song Dave requested on Dave’s first show after he came back from heart surgery.
Now I’m sobbing uncontrollably!
On Friday morning my left ear is going to have a piece of it removed (hopefully a small piece) in order to remove a cancerous growth. The good news is I could probably lose the whole ear and be just fine. The moral of this is – don’t forget your ears when you are applying sunblock. 🙂
Good luck Friday, Bill! Sounds as though you have the right attitude! 🙂
Best wishes to you Bill.
Hope it goes well Bill!
Good luck Bill R. I hope it is just a small section, we still like you with one ear but prefer two 🙂
Best wishes, Bill.
Good luck, Bill. Wishing you positive and healing vibes.
Thank you, friends,for the kind words.
The tweets on Poverty break me…the obscenity of it all is that we can solve poverty….there is no reason for it to exist…just as there was no reason for Americans to have no health care…
do we have the will to end poverty…we know what it takes…
one of the ways is to elect people into office who have the will…but Americans take their democracy for granted..we can’t be bothered to vote…
It is because some people would rather believe there will ALWAYS be poverty somewhere so why try and solve it if I have to pay more taxes because of “lazy” people. It is engraved in some people’ DNA so they can sleep at night.
Some Americans have bought the concept that poverty is a character flaw
why should they care? the sheeples elect them term after term after term after term …. so, they feel validated in whatever they are doing.
They don’t care because Americans do not VOTE….why should they be afraid of an electorate that doesn’t vote….If the citizens of America do not take their democracy seriously..then well…………. you fill in the sentence!
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/21/early-bird-chat-533/
Good Morning! In case you missed it!