#Obama ran for POTUS pledging engagement + diplomacy. Promise made; promise kept. #IranDeal #GiveDiplomacyAChance huffingtonpost.com/christine-pelo…
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(@sfpelosi) August 30, 2015Watch President Obama gnaw on a bear's leftover salmon vnty.fr/1JRtmY1 http://t.co/QGJdH9taeE
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VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 08, 2015****
Colin Powell Defends 'Pretty Good’ Iran Deal on Meet the Press bit.ly/1NjHX2q (VIDEO) http://t.co/0nioIyB3Id
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(@Mediaite) September 06, 2015The moment that doomed efforts to kill the Iran deal? @Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, according to Dem lawmakers. washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
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Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 06, 2015****
just like Serena Williams. http://t.co/4KY8zFH1tW
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deray mckesson (@deray) September 07, 2015"She's my sister today. She's my sister next week. She's my sister next year." instagram.com/p/7Xx2gGjq8A/ #USOpen #ESPNTennis
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(@ESPNTennis) September 08, 2015****
Bravo
► Get a first look at the inspiring trailer for #ABallerinasTale, in theaters & VOD Oct 14th. ow.ly/RNSuR http://t.co/gOoluOkCp0
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IFC Films (@IFCFilms) September 04, 2015Hunger Games' Amandla Stenberg pens comic to celebrate POC women bit.ly/1M0fZbm "We need more badass girls!" http://t.co/IwkahUxvSc
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Tech Times (@TechTimes_News) September 04, 2015****
BREAKING: The city of Baltimore says it has reached $6.4M wrongful death settlement with family of #FreddieGray. nbc4dc.com/qGL5Pxl
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NBCWashington (@nbcwashington) September 08, 20155 facts exposing the media’s lies about police shootings usuncut.com/black-lives-ma…
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) September 08, 2015****
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Food For Thought
Caskets of 100s of African refugees who drowned off EU, while the world stood silent. #solidarityWithAfricanRefugees http://t.co/84cvZ16Wnh
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African Refugees (@Somaliadev) September 07, 2015THE AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS HAD HARSHER TREATMENTS THAN THE MIDDLE EASTERN/ ARAB ONES #solidarityWithAfricanRefugees http://t.co/weHIGfuqi8
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Sundus✨ (@sundus_9) September 07, 2015****
#SolidarityWithAfricanRefugees No welcome committees http://t.co/Es1lZdcFNB
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mango (@lunarnomad) September 07, 2015#SolidarityWithAfricanRefugees b/c when they tried crossing the border from Italy to Switzerland, nobody offered them food, shelter or help!
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Shae (@ShayGatsby) September 07, 2015****
#SolidaritywithAfricanRefugees b/c africans have been dying on the shores of European countries since 2011 and the EU has yet to respond
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Shae (@ShayGatsby) September 07, 2015While...thousands of African refugees are kept in horrible detention camps. Oh the irony of Israelis. twitter.com/irinnews/statu…
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African Refugees (@Somaliadev) September 07, 2015****
Israel building Syrian border fence, won't accept refugees, Netanyahu says nbcnews.to/1K01thK http://t.co/GX90ZPa48w
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NBC News (@NBCNews) September 06, 2015#SolidarityWithAfricanRefugees Somali & Eritrean refugees make desperate attempt to escape Italian detention. http://t.co/Fz6Ry01W3C
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African Refugees (@Somaliadev) September 06, 2015****
MORE: Cameron: UK to re-settle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees from camps over 5 years: apne.ws/1VIW2I5
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The Associated Press (@AP) September 07, 2015****
A man who has spent years accomplishing nothing in the Senate has the nerve to lie about President Obama. Privilege is a hell of a drug
.@BernieSanders You're either a LIAR or IGNORANT of recent political reality. Neither a presidential qualification. http://t.co/tc6srhajMh
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(@Only4RM) September 07, 2015Barack Obama has been the most successful liberal president since Roosevelt. Running against him is offensive, Bernie.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) September 07, 2015****
Hugs & cheers all around at pro-#IranDeal event on Capitol Hill after news of latest Dem support of deal @BBCNewsUS http://t.co/Z3rhqWYnzd
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Suzanne Kianpour (@KianpourWorld) September 08, 2015Senate Dems clinch enough votes for Iran deal, could spell major victory for President Obama bit.ly/1Fw4i4Q http://t.co/WIS5JWcpdw
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 08, 2015****
I'm introducing a bill today that would hold gun sellers responsible for sales to felons or other prohibited persons: kaine.senate.gov/press-releases…
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Senator Tim Kaine (@timkaine) September 08, 2015.@presssec reacts to 41 votes in Senate for #IranDeal, Says, "we feel gratified today." snpy.tv/1iuIyRS
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Emmanuel Touhey (@netouhey) September 08, 2015****
Tempers Flare on the Bullshit Express as the Iran Deal Opposition Goes to Down to Spectacular Defeat ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tempers…
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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 08, 2015Thank you, Rep. @JaredPolis for supporting the #IranDeal and telling the world #NoWarWithIran! http://t.co/rXwX7xXvdh
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MoveOn.org (@MoveOn) September 08, 2015****
To @SenSanders and @HillaryClinton - a message from those of us who elected President Obama twice: http://t.co/SCHxsSP71f
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Leesa Brown (@ReasonVsFear) September 07, 2015Thanks @VP Joe Biden for shaking my son's hand at the #Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade! (via @markrodgers29) http://t.co/n3R3o82y4h
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Shelley Rodgers (@Shelley_Rodgers) September 07, 2015****
Cops: Police Chief Responded to Racism Complaint by Comparing Black People to Monkeys gawker.com/cops-police-ch… Y'all. #BlackLivesMatter
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) September 07, 2015Gay veterans are increasingly seeking the honorable discharges they were denied nyti.ms/1LdMTQ6 http://t.co/gfi8cIMfp7
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The New York Times (@nytimes) September 07, 2015****
Go inside the operation to rescue 733 migrants adrift on the Mediterranean Sea nyti.ms/1Qiz73j http://t.co/Q6GsANyC0B
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The New York Times (@nytimes) September 06, 2015Watch German crowds and clergy greet asylum-seekers with claps and cheers wapo.st/1KyC94u
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 07, 2015****
Wow. wapo.st/1OmeXE3 http://t.co/v6hAHOXxE5
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Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) September 06, 2015Syria today.
I'd do anything to get to Europe too. http://t.co/bU28f9KrFW
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ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 05, 2015****
Here's How Every Argument Against a Minimum Wage Hike is Bullshit bit.ly/1IReswM
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Wagatwe Wanjuki (@wagatwe) September 06, 2015Oakland Whole Foods security guard fired after allegedly assaulting customer gaw.kr/EZcm4Tt
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(@Gawker) September 05, 2015****
Fox News says Black Lives Matter incites violence. Critics said the same of MLK. bit.ly/1JNQMKM
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Vox (@voxdotcom) September 05, 2015There is no point in American History when the demand by black people for equality was not declared by powerful people to be criminal. None.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) September 05, 2015****
Damn
The United States is the only country in the world that sentences children to life without parole.
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) September 04, 2015****
"Mass incarceration has fundamentally changed our world." -Bryan Stevenson in Ch. 18 of Solutions by @BrennanCenter
brennancenter.org/sites/default/…
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EJI (@eji_org) September 04, 2015****
.@theweeknd's Beauty Behind The Madness debuts at No. 1 on the @billboard 200. thefader.com/2015/09/06/the… http://t.co/fg7ox7Fgs9
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The FADER (@thefader) September 06, 2015Maria on "Sesame Street," Sonia Manzano, tells of her own childhood nyti.ms/1NPlRor http://t.co/mgkQrC2tMH
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The New York Times (@nytimes) September 06, 2015****
Good
Black executives in Silicon Valley are going into communities in search of young talent nyti.ms/1KvIj5l http://t.co/FrOHXigzDM
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The New York Times (@nytimes) September 06, 2015Article: Voter ID Battle: Texas Seeks Rehearing, DOJ Seeks Injunction voteriders.org/node/1214
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(@VoteRiders) September 05, 2015****
Why a former Army Ranger and a Marine veteran are joining Kurdish fighters to combat Islamic State in Syria: on.wsj.com/1Foe7lh
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Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) September 06, 2015The Fed Should Remember the 90s nyti.ms/1Lagqdu
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Paul Krugman (@NYTimeskrugman) September 05, 2015****
Learn about what the U.S. is doing to assist those affected by the crisis in #Syria and how you can help: usaid.gov/crisis/syria
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Department of State (@StateDept) September 05, 2015"The darker your skin - the further down you go: The hierarchical system on boats that governs who lives & who dies" independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
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ruq (@ruqxx) September 06, 2015****
.@RepBonamici Happy that you're supporting #IranDeal & the cause of diplomacy>war. You've handled town halls well & listened to Oregonians.
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Judith Fardig (@FardigJudith) September 05, 2015Luján backs Iran deal: U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján supports the deal with Iran over nuclear weapons that supporters say… dlvr.it/C3l75w
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Politics Santa Fe (@POLSSantaFe) September 04, 2015****
How Obama won on Iran: hill.cm/ZEUy7AG http://t.co/zYvZOorXUt
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The Hill (@thehill) September 07, 2015The unemployment rate is now lower than it was at any time during Reagan's presidency vox.com/2015/9/5/92626… http://t.co/xamNQvV5PN
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Vox (@voxdotcom) September 05, 2015
I’m not worthy!
You are Don! And we are together at the door.
Thank you NW. So many news. Some very sad, though. My heart aches for those that died in search of a better life.
Wow NW this is pure perfection…
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Thanks, Donna.
I hope public pressure will make this happen.
Chucky should not get anywhere near Dem leadership.
Agree, Vicki!!!
Donna, this is a message we have to keep delivering loud and clear for the next year. Schumer is not qualified to be a senate leader–his loyalties are divided and when pressed, he will side with Israel over the US. That is unacceptable.
Heeee!!
Congrats on 1st NCLB 🙂
Another excellent selection of tweets, NW!!! Thank you for all your efforts!!!
Thanks, Bob.
I just learned that Maria Cantwell finally came through for the Iran Deal. Wonderful!
I’m NEVER going to let him live this down!
Rumor is that Senate/House @GOP will bring their Iran Deal garbage to a vote on 9/11.
I truly hope they do.
#TrustBarack
Yes We Can
If you hear a (D) cautioning PBO not to celebrate this Win—you know that such a (D) is not a friend.
I caught a snippet of Bill Richardson saying that POTUS shouldn’t gloat and he would have voted “No.”
Must still be paying penance to the Clintons. Hoping for another cabinet post. Good luck with that, ex-Gov.
WTH?
richardson who?
Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama saved his stupid ass during one of the first debates because he was day dreaming and did not hear the question…..Good job ex-Gov-haven’t-been-anything-since-2008.
Powerful Tweets…ty NW
Thanks, PF.
#DiplomacyHasConsequences
Isn’t it 42?
In_Deed it is, amk. Trita’s tweet was released before Senator Cantwell announced her decision to support the deal – and become #42 🙂
good. I thought I had woken up to a nightmare of some boneless dem backstabbing. pun was intended.
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A spectacular round-up Nerdy, enormous thanks, Legend!!
Thanks, Chips.
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/641396233974644736
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/641396233974644736
OOPSS!! Sorry about the duplicate, the first one was supposed to be ….
The second is my response …
😆 😆
“Chris Pine is an attractive guy,” one commenter wrote, “But he looks like a block of uncooked tofu next to Idris Elba.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/movies/idris-elbas-toughest-role-yet-going-brutal-with-grace-for-beasts-of-no-nation.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
😀 😀 😀 😀
LOL. Terrific coverage of this TOD favorite. The author absolutely gets what the fuss is about.
LOL! 😀 😀 😀
LOL
I tuned into US Open coverage and The Donald and his wife showed up at the entrance gate.
Boos from the crowd and the only one to approach the couple and shake his hand was a Police officer.
New Yorkers will not support the Trump.
Oh please. Why is Trump showing up to watch the black women, there are white women playing. His racists supporters might get mad.
ICYMI
BEST Press Secretary EVER.
Yes, it’s a BIG F*^*ing DEAL ….
YIKES!!!
An engine on a British Airways jet caught fire while the plane was preparing to take off from Las Vegas, forcing passengers to escape on emergency slides.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the plane’s left engine caught fire Tuesday afternoon. A plume of black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky but firefighters quickly doused the aircraft with fire retardant.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-plane-catches-fire-las-vegas-20150908-story.html
Talk about amazingly good luck … 1 min later and that 777 would have been ascending from the runway!!!!
What a great for peace and those that seek peace.
i love love ❤ this pic of them…
I am so nervous for them that it is always hard for me to watch the two sisters play. I wish them luck. I just can’t watch.
v vs s
here we go.
I am such a wreck waiting for the Williamses to play. I want them both to win! Wish Michelle were at the match!
Maybe FLOTUS can make the U.S. Open championship match, specially if one of the Williams ladies is in the finals.
Let’s hope!
In spite of the Millions of Dollars spent, the awful cheering and willing enablers such as the US News Media, the vast rightie Media echo chamber……..wow….it is a heck of a BFD that Dems stuck it out and not Only supported Pres Obama, but the stood up for PEACE!
Blessed are the Peacemakers……….Amen!
yes Nena…yes it is….kudos to Pelosi and Reid…as well…
sister/sister act pretty good. It’s gonna be a tie-breakers galore match
Congrats NCLB and Don on your Twin Au ⭐ ⭐
Thank you so much Nerdy Wonka on these Newsy Tweets. Brilliant.
wow, what a hard hitting rally.
They know each other well and it shows.
buncha carnival barkers
serena clevah. breaks.
5-2 now, per US Open Tennis TL
younger one is playing much better and smarter.
serena wins 6-2
LA Times article on Ava & ARRAYNow > > > http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ava-duvernay-20150908-story.html
venus starting second set much better
😀 😀
3-1
v breaking s for the furst time 3-1. sisters are really slugging it out.
wow, venus is a roll. 4-1 just like that.
Venus consolidates the break in the 2nd.
They really couldn’t have two more horrible people calling the match….Everett (most jealous person ever) and Fowler (the most smug SOB…it was bad enough having to listen to him and Herbsteit do the Ohio State game last night)
I lowered the volume, so I didn’t have to hear the announcers
The only way they could make it worse would be to switch out Pam Shriver w/ M.J. Fernandez.
Cute photo 🙂
some magical tennis folks.
venus 5-1. go gals.
Can’t watch because I’m on a conf call, but the comments on Twitter are really intense – almost all of them in a good way. So many folk they’d both be able to win 🙂
e.g. …
SOOOOOOOOOOO Very True!!!!
what the deuce!!!
sisters split act. set a piece.
come on serena. history.
🙂
YUP!!!!!
Silicon Valley, Seeking Diversity, Focuses on Blacks
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
SEPT. 3, 2015
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than a decade before diversity became a hot issue in Silicon Valley, Jason Young came home on winter break from Harvard to discover that his family was being evicted.
Having grown up in a single-parent home with an absent father who was frequently incarcerated, Mr. Young, 33, can identify with other young black men he now calls “hidden geniuses” — the promising male teenagers who grow up in challenging circumstances mere miles away, but light-years apart, from Silicon Valley’s tech money machine.
That experience led Mr. Young to found the Hidden Genius Project two years ago. The program immerses high school men of color in coding, web and app design, team building and other skills intended to give them a leg up in the tech economy. Mr. Young says he focused on young men because similar groups existed for young women, and because young males face particular challenges in school and their communities.
As part of an initiative to put more women into top positions at Salesforce, a cloud software company, Cindy Robbins was promoted to head of human resources. She and a colleague raised concerns with the chief executive that women’s pay might not be on par with that of their male counterparts. A companywide review of salaries confirmed their suspicions.
Google’s leaders have said that they are unhappy about the firm’s poor gender diversity, and about the severe underrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics among its work force.Bits Blog:
His project is one of a multitude of grass-roots efforts that have sprung up recently to address one of Silicon Valley’s most acute diversity problems: the scarcity of African-Americans in the tech industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/technology/silicon-valley-seeking-diversity-focuses-on-blacks.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
the big sis is not making easy for the lil sis. AT ALL.
purrrfuct.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/08/chat-away-662/