Every American who worries about getting health care when they get sick can breathe a sigh of relief today.
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Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 24, 2017Leader Nancy Pelosi @NancyPelosi just took off her heels and did a victory jump outside the U.S. Capitol @MoveOn https://t.co/xBlQEKNkpH
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Sara Kenigsberg (@skenigsberg) March 24, 2017****
.@JoeBiden met a puppy named Biden buzzfeed.com/lissandravilla…? https://t.co/WxKZuQYgwQ
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David Mack (@davidmackau) March 22, 2017Pre-register at 16. Vote at 18.
Now all eligible 16 & 17 Californians can pre-register at rtvote.com/preregister… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Rock the Vote (@RockTheVote) March 23, 2017****
True dat. twitter.com/isaacdovere/st…
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Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) March 24, 2017House Rs voted over 60x to repeal Obamacare while Obama was president. They voted 0 times on it under Trump, and are now ready to move on.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 24, 2017****
Oh the irony that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan have no Plan B
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Margarita Noriega (@margarita) March 24, 2017The good news is: They can still come to Planned Parenthood. #IStandWithPP twitter.com/margarita/stat…
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Planned Parenthood (@PPact) March 24, 2017****
For anyone who has ever wondered whether marching, speaking out at town halls, & making calls to Congress works—today is proof that it does.
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Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) March 24, 2017I guess if you don't believe in contraceptives, you go for the pull out method. twitter.com/AP/status/8453…
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Lauren Bans (@LaurenBans) March 24, 2017
The Obama Diary 
When my son got his permit to drive last summer (he was 17) he was also registered to vote here in MD. He now has his voter id card and will turn 18 in July—- in time to vote in 2018. So this is awesome that CA is also doing it.
Great! Nice going, Sherijr.
Yes it was really awesome.
greattttttt
yep another democrat in the family (it’s all I allow 😉
🙂
That would be a HELL YES!
to.his.FACE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/keystone-pipeline-trespassing-across-america-ken-ilgunas/
It’s high time the complicit media be called out publicly. #CNNFAIL.
The media seems to have a problem in giving people a name – click bait is why they mention President Obama when the discussion is no-way related to him.
99 hope you are safe. Don’t know what your proximity is to the storm. But stay safe.
ty africatimes – we are well away from the cyclone – I replied to arapaho down below
I saw that. It was awesome.
Could this be true?
We can only hope so with all our hearts.
Yes I believe it is, and if so…Wowie! I mean if you’re a conservative Republican and you’ve lost Clarence Thomas, well, WOWIE! So either Gorsuch is out or Trump will disband the Supreme Court.
CJ Robert’s letter is devastating …..
Yes Bob it is
Dayum! this has never happened (there was not such a need). So glad they spoke out.
WOW! KABOOM! That’s all I have. 👍🙂
Is this a Joke?
If true, why did were they Mute in 2016?
😳 Why were they Mute……
This headline is a little misleading The 8 justices ruled against one of his decisions.
Good evening TOD folks! Thanks for this great round up. Such a relief from the relentless news.
This 8 mins vid mostly features a ‘younger’ Obama but I feel sure it’ll add a smile to some faces. [I counted only 2 pics I don’t remember seeing before. 😉 ]
PBO always tries to get eye to eye level with kids. This is an extra-ordinary family. I am forever grateful that they graced our presence.
Totally agree with you, K. In addition to being grateful for their service, I also feel forever blessed (not to mention “proudful”).
How have you and your ‘young man’ been?
Indeed. I miss them so much.
Thanks for asking, VC!
We are doing fine. Hope you are, too. 🙂 🙂
Yes, I’m fine, though I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be thus if the men working in my basement don’t wrap things up soon. Mind you, their work in progress looks great, but the dust, oh the dust!
Can you get some masks? Be careful with inhaling that stuff.
I think it’s too late, though I do have one mask and try to stay away from wherever they are sanding. Hopefully they’ll finally be done in another two weeks!
Thanks for sharing this lovely tribute to our favorite POTUS & FLOTUS!
YVW, JF! IMO it’s great to be able to remind ourselves that we had *the best* for 8 years.
GA/GE TODville.
Scrolling down @imillhiser’s twitter feed for info on Gorsuch, and came across these from Friday:
😀
BBL
Just look at Pence, he has always been a nasty bigot.
He is such a smug, soul-less bastard. I want him gone even more than I want 45 out of the way.
MUST READ:) Excellent long term strategy to do what he did…and to think they all made fun of the “community organizer”:)
Al Giordano is one of the best political analysts. All of us liberals, but especially the “purity progressives,” should pay heed to his writings because he understands how politics works in the U.S. Thanks DF for sharing this.
Brillaint!
*Brilliant*
PBO always played chess while the others did not even know a game was going on. While it enraged us when the rethugs and the lefty purists attacked him, the fact that they underestimated him allowed PBO to get so much done and to tie things up so tightly that it would be difficult to unravel them. He knew his enemies better than we did and planned defense accordingly. The community organizer knew how to get shit done.
@thehill 16 minutes ago
RYAN PLEADED ON ONE KNEE FOR OBAMACARE REPEAL VOTE: REPORT — http://hill.cm/JDXEHTd
pathetic groveller…
That fake smart number guy should resign. Why doesn’t he call Boehner who would have explained to him that the GOP has been possessed by Demon since the election of the first Black President and have been mounted by evil spirit since. They are all crazy. As for Shameless Ryan who called Agent Orange for what he was during the campaign then quickly locked steps with the Demagogue once it became clear that the GOP (because of a lot of shenanigans) won the presidential election, he should have known better. But he was too eager to use the American people for his experiment of no-government-in-health-care that all that mattered was the numbers he was crushing and not the millions who would have been put in peril with the AHCA. All the while, he should have used simple arithmetic to realize that he never had the votes for his People-killing bill.
This is one way to handle it. And I’m good with this way.
Tank you Rep. Waters, you spoke the truth.
Oh I have fallen big time for Ms Maxine Waters. She is not playing and she means business.
She’s been “reborn” in her #Resistance !!! And so are all of us, of course.
Yep she is and we are indeed )
READ THE ENTIRE THREAD, ASAP ……
NW, recommend you ‘front page’ this thread …..
Holy Moly. A real life James Bond…. Can his testimony save us and the world, from this nightmare?
I hope Chris Steele is being closely protected and wearing a bullet-proof vest.
We need 45 and Pence to go down; Pence is a true-believer and will do more harm than First Clown. It still amazes me that we have been in this nightmare for just over two months; it feels as if this horror show has gone on much later.
Bob, I hope he is somewhere safe. Because these Putin folks are some nasty murderers.
Asking for my friends …. the 47% (and most everyone else including those too stupid to not vote against themselves & their families) ….
Ha. My friend in Florida (who is not one) keeps kidding me about “preparing” for this!
I’m for whatever works- go for it witches of the world, do your best. please.
Pretty much how I feel! 🙂
I do not care how it’s done, just get him out of our White House and all of his corrupt hires with him, back to Putin or to jail.
Cyclone Debbie update.
It’s veered north, expected landfall approximately 670 miles north of Brisbane (which is about the distance from Los Angeles to Medford, Oregon — quite a distance).
However, it is a severe storm, anticipated to be onshore at 6am Tuesday (it’s 11:20ish am Monday there now).
And where is our 99ts in relation to this storm?? Stay safe, Aussies!
thanks df – I think we are in more danger from the US administration/president than from the weather.
🙂 Don’t give up on us! We’re working on the crimes of DT and his cronies…..we just had to see the error of our ways…
We’re in Brisbane – not in any danger from the cyclone – but often when cyclones hit to the North – my town floods in the aftermath low depression. And just to add – it is Autumn – Storm season used to be October to February – the world weather is upside down.
The organisation seems good – I have a cousin who has been evacuated out of the area. We just hope it hits land outside of a populated area.
The same quote can be applied to PBO.
Lying lardass.
I’ll bet he was winded when he got to the top of the stairs. We need to post the parkour-style move PBO made when he was touring ancient sites in Egypt when he and the Doctor of Egyptology jumped from a ledge.
Thanks, JER! This is one of my favorites.
Me, too. This is so James Bondnesque!
Growing up surfing, always know where your center of gravity is! Woot! (Mmm mmm)
JER, not fair to plaster this picture when I am about to go to bed. Now, I must sit for an hour until my heartbeat is regular again.
Courageous
Yes, I’m in awe of them.
I hope thousands more join them everyday. I remember when the Polish people protested for weeks in large numbers until they won their freedom from the USSR.
Oh good for them- very courageous indeed.
@NYDailyNews 51 minutes ago
MEXICO’S CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS WORK ON TRUMP WALL BY MEXICAN COMPANIES IS TREASON. http://nydn.us/2nDfltG
That’s fabulous. Pope Francis has inspired these responses from church leaders worldwide. #NoWalls
“One person has been killed and at least 15 injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, police say.
Gunfire erupted inside the crowded Cameo Night Club about 1:30am on Sunday (local time), authorities said, adding that there was no indication the incident was terrorism-related.”
{news from my world}
If I was out at a nightclub and one person was killed – 15 injured in a shooting – I would DEFINITELY call it terrorism. Seems only people from certain countries can engage in trump world terrorism
Thank you, President Obama. Thank you.
Thanks, Obama. Saving lives in many different ways.
For those in TODville who have television(s) and watch news reports, let me know if this has been mentioned by broadcast MSM (nary a peep on my radio source, @cbsradionews).
Update: US State Department did send a tweet — at 5:11 pm PDT, which would be after 8pm for most MSM (EDT).
They should remind police around the US about this idea.
WTF????
Talk about a shadow government– is this even legal?
‘ President Donald Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises – such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction – by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.
The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements. ‘
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-taps-Kushner-to-lead-overhaul-of-government-11029365.php
oh ffs- to that whole bit of BS.. but the “reforming care for vets” – I just knew he’d be coming after us real soon. And to put his corrupt son-in-law doing this. I’m sick at heart all over again.
Sorry for the cruel news, sherijr– can’t help thinking DT is announcing this shit now because he knows we were happy for a minute. He’s a vindictive SOB, with a cruel mouth, and he will hurt as many good folks as he can before he’s yanked out of there. Just wish we could get rid of him today!
I agree with all that you said, Susanne- and he can’t be gone soon enough- just keep fighting I guess.
GE Susanne, thanks for the link to a non-paywall-limited site.
Honestly can’t wrap my brain around what’s happening. DJT is a doddering, senile, vindictive, shallow, functionally illiterate with a mindset of an adolescent who is incapable of even comprehending what it means to be president — he only knows brand management/(self)promotion and lining his pockets by any means possible.
Ivanka and Jared both now have offices in the West Wing…
And MSM act like this is perfectly normal, to have the German version of the costa nostra as leaders of this country, extorting foreign governments to line the costa nostra’s pockets, impoverishing and suppressing anyone who isn’t in a position to do them favors, expanding law enforcement across the country (while turning a blind eye to supervising LEOs who gleefully racially profile and use excessive force), propping up the dying fossil fuels industry because it means profits to those who desecrate our landscape and pollute our water and air. And heaven help us all on the foreign policy front.
Just cannot believe this country is being run by self-serving, ignorant and greedy people like Bannon, Ivanka and Jared Kushner. JHC.
This is dangerous and a clear abuse of power. We need articles of impeachment now.
This is the beginning of privatizing and profiteering, and this is something the small government conservatives will join. These people do not understand the purpose and the role of a federal government. They think it is only about defense, but if the things that make life better are dissolved, we will not have anything worth defending. Marginalized people, the poor and the disabled do not do well when things that affect them are left to the states, especially the Red ones (case in point is a mofo governor here in Florida who did not extend Medicaid).
Goodnight TOD …..
Now, THIS will be worth seeing.
“Leadership, not salesmanship,” amen.
not allowing the man to gloat. wimmins/smh.
This finally came to me, what he’s doing. (I’m part Irish, I know things.) 🙂
And goodnight, TODville – and all the ships at sea.
One more quick one. Tom Perez seems to be blossoming this spring, in front of our eyes.
Master shade, though Ryan has no where near the wit and intelligence of Alexander Hamilton. Lin-Manuel must be laughing and feeling so gratified at the same time.
I think that this is whom he has always been…we just did not know him..
PBO handed Ryan his ass on his budget ideas at that now famous Republican retreat. He did it again at American University when he McConnell and others were sitting in the first row. PBO did a masterly comparison/contrast of his budget proposal and Ryan’s; it was a beauty to behold.
That sounds right to me, now that you opened up my eyes!
😀 Good Morning, JER. Enjoy your day.
“I’m unhappy, but I am not depressed,” he said of the election results. “To all who share our views and values, it’s not a time to to be sad. It’s not a time to recede. It’s a time to fight harder.” … De Blasio pointed to Friday’s collapse of a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare as a sign that [45’s] proposals — like a budget that would strip hundreds of millions of dollars from New York City — can be defeated.
The conditions at these plants are criminal…often untrained temp workers are pulled to work on the assembly lines. Often the already dangerous equipment is in need of repair.
Alabama has been trying on the nickname “New Detroit.” Its burgeoning auto parts industry employs 26,000 workers, who last year earned $1.3 billion in wages. Georgia and Mississippi have similar, though smaller, auto parts sectors. This factory growth, after the long, painful demise of the region’s textile industry, would seem to be just the kind of manufacturing renaissance President Donald Trump and his supporters are looking for.
Except that it also epitomizes the global economy’s race to the bottom. Parts suppliers in the American South compete for low-margin orders against suppliers in Mexico and Asia. They promise delivery schedules they can’t possibly meet and face ruinous penalties if they fall short. Employees work ungodly hours, six or seven days a week, for months on end. Pay is low, turnover is high, training is scant, and safety is an afterthought, usually after someone is badly hurt. Many of the same woes that typify work conditions at contract manufacturers across Asia now bedevil parts plants in the South.
In 2014, OSHA’s Atlanta office, after detecting a high number of safety violations at the region’s parts suppliers, launched a crackdown. The agency cited one year, 2010, when workers in Alabama parts plants had a 50 percent higher rate of illness and injury than the U.S. auto parts industry as a whole…In 2015 the chances of losing a finger or limb in an Alabama parts factory was double the amputation risk nationally for the industry, 65 percent higher than in Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in Ohio.
This is what happens when you do not have unions. The plutocrats on one side and greedy union bosses on the other (think GM before the crash) have brought us to the point. Teachers’ unions (I was a member throughout my teaching career) are assailed and demonized on all sides, but it was the only thing that gave us any power of our lives.
In reading the article, it all, of course, came down to the bottom line….rejecting safety upgrades for less reliable modifications that saved maybe a few thousand dollars; using untrained temp employees on assembly lines around dangerous machines; overworking employees to meet unreasonable quotas to avoid financial penalties for unrealistic contractual agreements made.
Governors…and now 45…want accolades for bringing businesses to their states. But this article infers that few benefit at the expense of workers who want nothing more than to make a decent living and earn a decent wage.
Morning everyone. Happy Monday:) Wonder what little shitstorm is in store for us TODAY?
Not so fast, Little Puppy!
Adding to this:)
Yes…I would like to know how many “deals” that DT and Kushner have done while in the WH….on behalf of THEMSELVES
Given the constant revelations of 45 associates/staffers who have had direct/indirect ties to Russia, it’s becoming harder for *any* of them (and I include Pence in this) to stand behind claims of “I didn’t know”.
I hope they are merciless in their questioning. This is one that I may actually watch if it is televised.
I am not in the habit of having ill wishes and I must check myself every day to keep darkness away. I remind myself daily to focus on thoughts, wishes, and prayers for the full truth to be revealed before too much harm is done and justice to be meted out. I also meditate on the line from the bible , “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” to push away the violent thoughts. Everyday, almost every hour, more information comes out about what these greedy, traitorous, incompetents are doing to destroy us and it is almost too much to bear. Well, on to the next fight; what are our new marching orders?
check Indivisible…there is a list
Thanks.
Read the thread, actually. Little nuggets all over the place
Christ it’s effing incest with these people.
good way to put it. Yeah, it is.
PBO’s people are NOT having it; they are unleashed and coming hard. During the weekend of the Women’s March, I mentioned that the foot soldiers would be joined by the smart, talented, hardworking Obama staff in pushing back against the crooks and criminals that make up this current administration. They are all over the country involved in developing ways and means to resist and to move forward toward PBO’s vision of what this country can be. They are self-starters who watched the master for years and they know how to get shit done. So good to see Josh (he was my favorite press secretary and the most effective) out and about doing battle.
“principle”
Otherwise, totally right.
Good morning desertflower
Gee, Ya think!!
Over the past 7 years, they relied on the excuse that PBO would veto any bill that repealed the ACA. Now that they control both houses and the oval office, they have no excuse. Not only that, it has become apparent that they were never serious about repealing — and especially replacing — the ACA; that it was just all about being obstructionists. I wonder if GOP constituents are taking note of this and understanding the lack of substance in the people they elected to represent them.
If you don’t get the emails from Indivisible, make sure that you get on the mailing list. Important TO DO LISTS…
Indivisibleguide.com
Ugh
Oh dear….
Thread. Their arrogance will contribute to their undoing….
All throughout history this has been the case. May it happen sooner rather than later. Have a good day at school, Df.
Thanks, CEB:) I will!
https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/27/boris-epshteyn-named-in-july-fisa-application-did-nunes-obstruct-justice/
Boris Epshteyn Named in July FISA Application; Did Nunes Obstruct Justice?
MARCH 27, 2017 ~ PATRIBOTICS
On November 7th, I reported at Heat Street that the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant covering the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
I reported that the FISA warrant had been granted after an earlier, failed application to the court in the summer named Trump and “at least three other men, who have either formed part of his campaign or acted as his media surrogates“.
Those names, sources said, were Donald Trump, with Paul Manafort and Carter Page (two men that had formed part of Trump’s campaign) and Boris Epshteyn, who at the time I reported, the eve of the election itself, had only acted as Mr. Trump’s media surrogate.
Since that time, Mr. Epshteyn has become a part of government as a Transition Team official and now at the White House and I feel able to be explicit as to the names sources gave me as forming part of the summer application to the court.
It is important to note that the application to FISC made by the FBI in July was denied. The FBI must, by definition, have represented to the FISA court that they believed Trump, Page, Manafort and Epshteyn were either actual Russian agents, or Russian “agents of influence”, which can be unwitting, as Brad C Moss, a national security lawyer, pointed out in my report for Heat Street.
MORNING MUST READ. OMG…makes my head spin
We may need this conversion table for later use. Posting now:)
🙂
All of this was organized by Women’s March of London. PBO told us over and over that one person could start a chain reaction that could bring about change and this is another huge example of it.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/27/trumps-reality-distortion-field-is-shattering/
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post has long been making the case that Trump’s main communications strategy is to assault the notion of shared objective reality itself. In Trumpworld, the only arbiter of crowd sizes or climate science or wiretapping is Donald Trump himself, and everything else is “fake news” regardless of what facts might invalidate his narrative.
And for a while, it was working. During the presidential campaign, Trump lied with reckless abandon but never seemed to suffer for it. That’s partly because his opponent also suffered from perceived credibility issues, but it’s mostly because the news media treats presidential elections like a game where any claim is in bounds as long as a candidate can get people to believe it. And because Trump is the sort of figure it’s hard to take one’s eyes off of, his tweets and pronouncement manage to derail news cycles and capture attention. It was thought that perhaps we were entering a new political era in which reality simply no longer mattered.
But campaigns are one thing. Governing is another. And Trump’s reality distortion field is failing him now that he has to grapple with something more than campaign coverage.
Sargent himself noted this fact almost a week ago, referencing reports that Trump’s tweets were no longer having the narrative-driving force they once did. But the failure of the Republican health plan has cemented the degree to which Trump is losing his ability to gaslight and confuse enough people to get his way.
The French are out protesting as well against Le Pen, I believe. I hope they show out at the ballot box and keep this Putin ass-kisser and racists out of their government. I firmly believe that the Women’s March and the other nation-wide and world ones that followed have encourage the people of Russia and France to resist. And lest we forget, all of them were inspired by MLK and the Civil Rights protests of the 1960’s.
Why wouldn’t the creep hide future Trump/Russia hearings, remember how he hide all the Hillary Clinton Benghazi hearings?
true that.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 3/24/17
Schumer: Wrong to vote on Gorsuch while Trump under investigation
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about why Senate Democrats should oppose Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, and why the confirmation should be postponed until investigations of Donald Trump are resolved
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 3/24/17
Schumer: ‘Art of the Deal is out the window’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about the failure by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and the power of the grassroots effort to thwart Trump.
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/jared-kushner-thug-landlord
White Man Who Allegedly Went to NYC to Hunt Black Men Says He Meant to Kill Younger, More Successful Person: Report
by DANIELLA SILVA
The white supremacist accused of fatally stabbing a black man with a sword in New York City said he would have rather killed a younger — or older and more “successful” black victim.
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Jackson, 28, told the newspaper he would have killed “a young thug” or “a successful older black man with blondes … people you see in Midtown.”
NOPE NOPE NOPE
Trump son-in-law met with a Russia bank who was under sanctions.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/03/27/you-have-to-stand-for-something/
Artificial Intelligence is and will have the biggest impact on just about every sector of our lives. I think if Dems. want to get out ahead they should be pushing for adult retraining and state a plan or vision to address to future of work and technology.