I fucking hate every one of you assholes who made this possible. He is a disgrace to our country and to the men & women who've died for it. https://t.co/Q7a9dAH7lF
— Jon@ScratchPolitics (@ScratchPolitics) May 29, 2017
It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media.
But the leaks are coming from the very people he’s hired, those that are close to him are leaking. And for them to leak so early into a new administration is very telling. Most criminal organizations are brought down from within, someone gets caught and then they start to talk to avoid jail time.
Good West Coast Memorial Day to my TOD family and to all who have served & serve, and my gratitude to those who gave their lives for our freedom. You are loved. ❤
IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Today, cities across the North and South claim credit for establishing the first Decoration Day—from Macon, Georgia to Richmond, Virginia to Carbondale, Illinois. Yet, a key story of the holiday has been nearly erased from public memory and most official accounts, including that offered by the the Department of Veterans Affairs.
During the spring of 1865, African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina—most of them former slaves—held a series of memorials and rituals to honor unnamed fallen Union soldiers and boldly celebrate the struggle against slavery. One of the largest such events took place on May first of that year but had been largely forgotten until David Blight, a history professor at Yale University, found records at a Harvard archive. In a New York Times article published in 2011, Blight described the scene. While it is difficult to pinpoint the precise birthplace of the holiday, it is fair to say that ceremonies like the following are largely erased from the American narrative of Memorial Day.
During the final year of the war, the Confederates had converted the city’s Washington Race Course and Jockey Club into an outdoor prison. Union captives were kept in horrible conditions in the interior of the track; at least 257 died of disease and were hastily buried in a mass grave behind the grandstand.
After the Confederate evacuation of Charleston black workmen went to the site, reburied the Union dead properly, and built a high fence around the cemetery. They whitewashed the fence and built an archway over an entrance on which they inscribed the words, “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
On This Day. 1917: John F. Kennedy was born. He was the 35th president, serving between 1961-63. Youngest elected—youngest to die pic.twitter.com/nZdUBtWp9n
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) May 29, 2017
Texas Capitol on Memorial Day 2017, end of racist, bigoted, woman-hating, anti-local control state legislative session. No public galleries. pic.twitter.com/jN4YNovpFs
No, my darling, not b/c of you.But b/c we,the grown-ups,have been unwilling to do what is necessary to end bigotry & violence in our country https://t.co/6Ka0TpKOG3
No tweet from your President about the terrorists attack in Portland, wonder why? Oh that’s right the terrorists wasn’t a Muslim, he was a white man. A white supremacists like the ones that supported him.
A staffer posted a tweet this afternoon from the @POTUS (official) account, which we know he never uses. You could tell from the use of proper syntax and punctuation that it did not come from him.
Imagine a courageous, intellectually curious, unifying, serious, truth-telling leader…Yes, Macron has me suffering Acute President Envy. https://t.co/176EtIc9a3
My Great grandUncle. Pvt William H Nance. Civil war Charlie Co. 111th US Colored Troops & Lima Co. 9th Cav. Buffalo soldiers. Age 37, 1889 pic.twitter.com/shPwDkaDel
Which Russian media outlets were INVITED into the oval office while all our American outlets were banned? The French must be proud of their new leader! We Americans ( well most of us ) are horrified, embarrassed and disgusted with our new leader.
My response to a right-wing blogger who called me a kook and a loser for stating that Donald Trump is a liar / water is wet: pic.twitter.com/pAp18w2x3W
Tiger spent all those years insisting he was "Caniblasian"
But when they arrest your ass…
You BLACK https://t.co/dVRskxcFYI— This Is Rochelle (@RR416) May 29, 2017
When the white folks no longer like you or consider you honorary priviledged on of them, they cut you loose real quick…see OJ Simpson. He too thought the white folks would never turn on him.
Zakiya Randall the youngest and first female African-American in history to win the 1st place medal in LPGA U.S. Women’s Open.🏆 pic.twitter.com/YxTRqOviHa
Congrats, Don on your Gold ⭐
I just read about Tiger Woods.
This guy just can’t get a Break. DWI? Unbelievable.
TOD, Thanks to all the Photos of Pres Obama & Mrs Obama.
JFK, always Loved, We will Never forget You. RIP.
#JFK100.
To All our Veterans here at TOD, ❤ ❤ ❤ always. Thank You for your Individual Service. Thank You for Your Families.
I salute you and thank you for all those who died in their service for this country, and my thoughts and prayers for those that lost their loved ones through their sacrifice to our country.
At the Vatican today, meeting with Pope Francis to talk about climate change, migration and reconciliation – it was an honour. pic.twitter.com/6dtmjbYM6u
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." #jfk100pic.twitter.com/SJ1XkXlP0X
Thanks for sharing, Df. The article features an excerpt from an interview between Mr. Stevenson and Ezra Klein and (as Mr. Stevenson usually is) it is thought-provokingly interesting. Klein shared some good questions too.
Here’s one question and the answer given. [Afterwards i recommend you go read the article.]
// ………………………………..
Ezra Klein
It seems to me that our politics at the moment, and the rise of this president in particular, is built on a rejection of the idea that we should feel shame. It’s built on a desire to not feel that shame — to in fact say that what has been given back is now more than enough, that the class that should be considered aggrieved, that should be considered disrespected, that should be considered in need of sympathy and empathy and understanding has actually changed to rural whites.
The project you’re undertaking here feels to me— and I don’t mean this in the way I think the term is often used — un-American. Un-American in the sense that America has been a society that is particularly resistant to shame, that believes in the value and forgetting things quickly and moving on from things fast. Do you see the project of trying to rehabilitate shame and its role in American life as something that is counter to our history and culture?
Bryan Stevenson
I agree that we don’t have a political culture that rewards those who recognize they’ve made a mistake. We have a political culture where most of our politicians think that if they stand up and say, “I made a mistake, and I’m sorry,” that makes them look weak.
In our personal lives, in our familial lives, we understand the importance of remorse and regret. You show me two people who’ve been in love for 50 years, I’ll show you two people who’ve learn how to apologize to one another when they hurt each other, when they fall down. That’s a stronger union. As I mentioned, in the criminal justice context, we insist on it. We insist on offenders expressing their shame before we trust them again.
I don’t have an interest in humiliating people. In fact, one of the reasons why I think we struggle so much with confronting our failures is that we’ve created such a punitive society. We’re so punitive in America that I think most people think if they say, “I’m wrong,” or, “I made a mistake,” that they’re going to punished for that. I don’t want to punish this country for these decades of abuses. I want to liberate us.
I actually believe in redemption. I believe in recovery. I believe in rehabilitation. That’s why I advocate for people on death row and children who committed violent crimes and people who have broken the law. I believe in it for our country too. We cannot get to the reconciliation without the truth. We cannot get there if we don’t acknowledge what it is we are struggling to recover from.
………………………… //
@NYDailyNews 2 minutes ago
EXCLUSIVE: @SenSchumer blasts Trump’s proposed budget that slashes anti-terror funds to help keep NYC safe. http://nydn.us/2r5LD23
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
1st!
Thanks JER! ❤
THE REAL. PRESIDENT…………..
Thank you!
But the leaks are coming from the very people he’s hired, those that are close to him are leaking. And for them to leak so early into a new administration is very telling. Most criminal organizations are brought down from within, someone gets caught and then they start to talk to avoid jail time.
Good West Coast Memorial Day to my TOD family and to all who have served & serve, and my gratitude to those who gave their lives for our freedom. You are loved. ❤
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-calls-for-the-opposite-of-trumpcare-76d8414bfaa2
Well he can start by paying the subsidies that will help the consumer to keep their Obamacare.
Thank you for your service…we honor you today
More from his thread…
Thank you for posting this, Dudette:)
Happy to share, df! Good stuff there.
http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/thepoem.html
IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/untold-story-memorial-day-former-slaves-honoring-and-mourning-dead
Today, cities across the North and South claim credit for establishing the first Decoration Day—from Macon, Georgia to Richmond, Virginia to Carbondale, Illinois. Yet, a key story of the holiday has been nearly erased from public memory and most official accounts, including that offered by the the Department of Veterans Affairs.
During the spring of 1865, African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina—most of them former slaves—held a series of memorials and rituals to honor unnamed fallen Union soldiers and boldly celebrate the struggle against slavery. One of the largest such events took place on May first of that year but had been largely forgotten until David Blight, a history professor at Yale University, found records at a Harvard archive. In a New York Times article published in 2011, Blight described the scene. While it is difficult to pinpoint the precise birthplace of the holiday, it is fair to say that ceremonies like the following are largely erased from the American narrative of Memorial Day.
During the final year of the war, the Confederates had converted the city’s Washington Race Course and Jockey Club into an outdoor prison. Union captives were kept in horrible conditions in the interior of the track; at least 257 died of disease and were hastily buried in a mass grave behind the grandstand.
After the Confederate evacuation of Charleston black workmen went to the site, reburied the Union dead properly, and built a high fence around the cemetery. They whitewashed the fence and built an archway over an entrance on which they inscribed the words, “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
DF, thanks! I was searching for this to post
My pleasure, Gail:) History needs to be told. ALL of history!
ALL of history, yup!
thanks for posting..there are so many moments of “Hidden Figures” in our history
Wow! The GOP really is screwing college students!
RIP Frank Deford
Michelle packs her lunch when she goes to her office, Melania wears $51,500 coat.
No tweet from your President about the terrorists attack in Portland, wonder why? Oh that’s right the terrorists wasn’t a Muslim, he was a white man. A white supremacists like the ones that supported him.
A staffer posted a tweet this afternoon from the @POTUS (official) account, which we know he never uses. You could tell from the use of proper syntax and punctuation that it did not come from him.
I hope they send a loud message to Putty Put he is not welcome after trying to interfere in their elections as well.
This is what the Dems should have done
Which Russian media outlets were INVITED into the oval office while all our American outlets were banned? The French must be proud of their new leader! We Americans ( well most of us ) are horrified, embarrassed and disgusted with our new leader.
@thehill 20m20 minutes ago
Trump to reverse Obama’s Cuba policies: report. http://hill.cm/tLBo6rC
Media Alert.
Still Star-Crossed debuts tonight on ABC at 10 pm EST.
No Trump hotel is in Cuba is it? Trump need to go.
He is such an a–hole. W need to get rid of him before he destroys all of the good President Obama has done.
?
When the white folks no longer like you or consider you honorary priviledged on of them, they cut you loose real quick…see OJ Simpson. He too thought the white folks would never turn on him.
Yup
Memorial Day is a Day to remember all those Brave Men & Women who died Defending This Nation. Freedom. Liberty. Constitution.
❤ ❤ Rest In Eternal Peace ❤ ❤ .
No amount of Thanks is Ever Enough.
Congrats, Don on your Gold ⭐
I just read about Tiger Woods.
This guy just can’t get a Break. DWI? Unbelievable.
TOD, Thanks to all the Photos of Pres Obama & Mrs Obama.
JFK, always Loved, We will Never forget You. RIP.
#JFK100.
To All our Veterans here at TOD, ❤ ❤ ❤ always. Thank You for your Individual Service. Thank You for Your Families.
Thank you young man for what you did.
I salute you and thank you for all those who died in their service for this country, and my thoughts and prayers for those that lost their loved ones through their sacrifice to our country.
Love.
Frightening … and not surprising. #TrumpWorld
Apples didn’t fall far from the rotten tree.
The price of a populace that does not vote ….
LOL
Repulsive
So true!!
Goodnight TOD ….
‘Night Bob! You are wonderful! 😘
Thanks for sharing, Df. The article features an excerpt from an interview between Mr. Stevenson and Ezra Klein and (as Mr. Stevenson usually is) it is thought-provokingly interesting. Klein shared some good questions too.
Here’s one question and the answer given. [Afterwards i recommend you go read the article.]
// ………………………………..
Ezra Klein
It seems to me that our politics at the moment, and the rise of this president in particular, is built on a rejection of the idea that we should feel shame. It’s built on a desire to not feel that shame — to in fact say that what has been given back is now more than enough, that the class that should be considered aggrieved, that should be considered disrespected, that should be considered in need of sympathy and empathy and understanding has actually changed to rural whites.
The project you’re undertaking here feels to me— and I don’t mean this in the way I think the term is often used — un-American. Un-American in the sense that America has been a society that is particularly resistant to shame, that believes in the value and forgetting things quickly and moving on from things fast. Do you see the project of trying to rehabilitate shame and its role in American life as something that is counter to our history and culture?
Bryan Stevenson
I agree that we don’t have a political culture that rewards those who recognize they’ve made a mistake. We have a political culture where most of our politicians think that if they stand up and say, “I made a mistake, and I’m sorry,” that makes them look weak.
In our personal lives, in our familial lives, we understand the importance of remorse and regret. You show me two people who’ve been in love for 50 years, I’ll show you two people who’ve learn how to apologize to one another when they hurt each other, when they fall down. That’s a stronger union. As I mentioned, in the criminal justice context, we insist on it. We insist on offenders expressing their shame before we trust them again.
I don’t have an interest in humiliating people. In fact, one of the reasons why I think we struggle so much with confronting our failures is that we’ve created such a punitive society. We’re so punitive in America that I think most people think if they say, “I’m wrong,” or, “I made a mistake,” that they’re going to punished for that. I don’t want to punish this country for these decades of abuses. I want to liberate us.
I actually believe in redemption. I believe in recovery. I believe in rehabilitation. That’s why I advocate for people on death row and children who committed violent crimes and people who have broken the law. I believe in it for our country too. We cannot get to the reconciliation without the truth. We cannot get there if we don’t acknowledge what it is we are struggling to recover from.
………………………… //
The Pope’s expression sure is different than when he met Trump.
Kids know:)
@NYDailyNews 2 minutes ago
EXCLUSIVE: @SenSchumer blasts Trump’s proposed budget that slashes anti-terror funds to help keep NYC safe. http://nydn.us/2r5LD23
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/05/29/honoring-sacrifice/