I keep thinking about how his four-year-old daughter was in the car. She watched her father murdered then she watched her country do nothing
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) June 16, 2017
"..the flag to which you have pledged allegiance has not pledged allegiance to you.. " -- James Baldwin🙏🏾😔 #PhilandoCastile #nojustice pic.twitter.com/1ulaVtdUnX
— marla rené (@theseMYtweetz) June 16, 2017
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Mom of #PhilandoCastile: "He had 1 tattoo...of the Twin Cities. My son loved this city & the city killed my son & the murderer gets away.” https://t.co/PCUd4AxBAr
— Jeffrey Wright 🥜 (@jfreewright) June 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/875807613837086720
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#PhilandoCastile should be alive today. We saw an officer choose to kill him & in this injustice system, it wasn't enough for a conviction.
— deray (@deray) June 16, 2017
1,155 people killed by police in 2016
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) June 16, 2017
13 cases where officer was charged
ZERO convicted to datehttps://t.co/vqURbJHXRj #PhilandoCastile
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Philando Castile had a permit to legally carry a gun. Philando Castile had a permit to legally carry a gun. Philando Castile had a permi-
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 16, 2017
He did everything he was "supposed" to do. He told the officer he had a gun. There's no way to justify his shooting. None.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 16, 2017
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What is left to tell a black child about interacting w/the police? Be courteous, follow directions & things will be fine? Even that is a lie
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) June 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/NYEverything/status/875817556371808257
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Rest In Power, #PhilandoCastile. No justice, no peace.
— deray (@deray) June 16, 2017
Remember #PhilandoCastile. Don't be satisfied. pic.twitter.com/iksgmJ6Q8R
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) June 16, 2017
The Obama Diary 
Whoa… what? 😄
Yes!!! 😀
Hey Neighbor! 😘
Hey to you too! I trust that you are continuing to do well. 🙂
Doing ok! Looking at new baby pictures! Trying to take my mind of the shitty justice system in this country and feeling of utter disgust Mr. Castile must be enduring now.
I meant “…Mr. Castile’s family…”
Congratulating you, Dudette through tears of anger for Philando Castile’s family.
Thanks JF!
❤️🖖🏼⭐️
Just saw a new post and stepped in. Hadn’t even read the headlines.
Really disgusted that cops keep getting away with shooting Black people down like dogs. As others have said, the system isn’t broken, it’s working the way it was designed.
Real question is what took *you* so long to wake up?!?!?!?
Fuck them
Exactly – thanks a whole fucking lot, for nothing. Stupid arseholes, will they ever take responsibility for this unholy mess? Or is that too honorable?
Amen, Dudette, what did they really think would happen.
With you on that!
STUPIDITY RUNNING RAMPANT!
Congrats, Dudette on your Furst Au ⭐
This Post is Greatly appreciated, NW. Thank you.
Thanks Nena!
Wooooot! Just got word that I have a new great-nephew! Born an hour ago. Cute as a button, of course. 👶🏼👣💫💃🏾
Well, that’s a bit of hope for the future on such a sad day!
Indeed. A beautiful ray of hope on a dark day.
Bless you and your family Dudette.
Thanks so much Don! Such an emotional roller coaster today. We’ve gotta make the world better for our little ones, like my new munchkin. They deserve better.
Of course he is! Congratulations, Aunt Dudette:) and family!
Thanks df! His grandma says he came out smiling. I sure plan to do all I can to keep him smiling.
🙂 🙂
❤ ❤ ❤
Oh! When you said you were looking at baby pictures, you were talking about NEW baby pictures. Welcome to the new great nephew and blessings to the new parents.
Thanks swbga!
Congratssssssssssssssssss
Thank youuuu! 😋
Congrats to your entire family! This little baby is following very big footsteps of the Dudette clan!
Thanks! 😄
Hurray! I’ve noticed in the young ones, a deeply serious and apparent consciousness, as if they know why they are here, and have an enormous task ahead. I see them look right into my eyes, can see their brain working, assessing, deciding, focussed. If I get a chance to interact, I always thank them for coming to earth now, and tell them how much we need them and the wisdom they bring. Sometimes I say I’m sorry for the mess we’ve made for them to clean up. . 🔥😟
Yeh, we’ve got a lot of explaining to do. Sadly, somethings just have no explanation.
❤️ {{{ GrandNephew }}} ❤️ When you get to meet him, give him a kiss from W/MPW, please!
I most certainly will add your kiss to the barrage of kisses I plan to lay on him as soon as I’m able! 😄💋
Squeee! 😂😍
Congratulations, Dudette!
Thanks sjt!
Blessings Dudette to you and your family ❤
Thanks GGail! He’s a little ball of sunshine!
Of course! Congrats to you and his entire lucky family!
Thanks JOB!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Thank you Betsy!
“To be Black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.” – James Baldwin
If not an outright rage then a low simmer, the next Philando Castile is just around the corner waiting to jump out and say here I am America. We stay at a low simmer, because if we didn’t we’d go insane just thinking about the injustice of it all. We expect this verdict, but we are always surprised and hurt when the verdict is given. Somewhere in the back of our minds we always hold out hope that this time it will be different, and it never is different. We want to believe, he have to believe because if we don’t believe then there is no hope. Just for once let our bullet riddled bodies know justice, just give us that small crumb, please, we need it.
The police in my all-too-white city managed to arrest a white supremacist, blood-soaked knife-wielding murderer at the MAX stop without hurting HIM, but young black men get killed by them all too often. So ashamed of my country right now!
Me too Judith. I am also hurt by those on twitter who seek to justify these cops’ actions and refuse to see the white privilege of white men or the fact that the innocent are killed, and those white criminals are kept alive.
A friend of mine just had a son. I was so thrilled for him and congratulated him and his wife. This beautiful young life is a biracial child. The moment I congratulated him, immediately my mind went fast forward to this beautiful child’s later years…and anger and then fear cursed through me….I can only pray that by the time this newborn grows into a young man, that we will have created justice for all by then.
Heads Up: Navy destroyer damaged in collision with commercial container ship
What a flipping mess, that’s some serious damage. And missing USNavy crew, not good. Not good.
I know. Somebody’s loved has been lost over what looks like some major stupidity. How the hell does this happen? Rachel says it was 2:30am local time when it occurred. Was somebody “asleep at the wheel” on both ships? Incredible!
* loved one *
GE Auntie Dudette, congrats on your new nephew, congrats to all in your family and his. 🙂
Heard on the radio that this destroyer is San Diego-based, so many USN families there are very anxious now. 😦
Don’t know anything about ships or weaponry, but man alive, we spend so much money on military…
From the CNN article:
“The Fitzgerald is an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer with a crew of approximately 330 sailors.
The ship completed $21 million in upgrades and repairs in February and is currently forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, the service said.”
$21 million on repairs completed 4 months ago, and just a couple of weeks ago…
Hi Arapaho! Thanks!
Ships can be repaired or replaced. So sad to hear that we may have lost good people in this incident. I’m thinking of them & their families. Hoping for the best.
I knew it!!!
They are European elite..they all know English
Dolt45-International outcast 🙂
This is a good read. Give it a gander.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-got-it-right-on-trump-so-why-is-he-being-ignored/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1
Stay focused and post, share, tweet please.
This made me smile. 😄
PRICELESS!
Precious…..Precious
Goodnight Family! Be good. Spread love.
Oh Dudette, you haven missed. You bring such joy here. Thank you.
Aww, thank you Sweetie Pie! 😘
You better know that reaching into the Parscale mess is going to explode this thing wide open.
Hmm….yes.
For a complete change from American politics, I am watching a documentary on Netflix (in French) “Emmanuel Macron: Behind the Rise” It is fun. His campaign team reminds of very much of PBO’s…young, intelligent, digitally forward, creative…..and Macron is always completely involved and present. I have a feeling he studied PBO for eight years, planning this run. One of the segments is PBO’s phone call to him, and he’s speaking French with his staff, and as soon as he hears PBO’s voice, he switches to perfect English. Have enjoyed watching the interaction between him and his wife…..they are obviously a team, and love each other. Oh yes, he has beautiful blue eyes.
Someone on my FB page said that he and others would be speaking English at the G7 until Trump would come in the room, and he would switch to French, and so would all the other Europeans…….just one more way to troll Trump. I’m watching and listening in French because I can’t get the English subtitles to work. This is very much like the documentary after PBO was elected.
❤️👏🏼⭐️
Thanks for your recommendation, carolyn. I’ve been seeing it pop up on my Netflix page and wondered if it was worth a watch. I’ll check it out!
We are now envying other countries for their leaders (Macron and Trudeau) the way they envied us for PBO.
OT: So whatever happened to that report I saw early this morning about Russia killing top ISIS person? Was that a false report? Because I didn’t see/hear anything about it since this morning!
As I read somewhere on the intertubes – trump sure is solving the problem of an over supply of lawyers.
good morning everyone!
have a great day
Good morning. Already hot and humid here.
Good Saturday, Linda, tnmtngirl, TOD Family!!!
Hot and humid here too.
Everyone enjoy your day.
I hope that I am pleasantly surprised by the results of 06GA election and Mr. Ossoff wins;
…. but there are three reasons I am waiting until the final vote tally is announced:
(a) a majority of republicans have a way to justify their votes even for someone (known criminal) or something they know is fundamentally wrong and/or will negatively affect the livelihoods of them, family and neighbors …. just as long as it hurts other people they consider unworthy or hate …. and these republicans vote enmass;
(b) reported purged voter roles and gaps and vulnerabilities in the voting machines which can and will be exploited by the unrepentant republicans;
(c) a majority of democrats who always find flimsy reasons not to vote for a candidate … and voters who choose not to exercise their right not to vote especially when reports indicate that the Dem is leading in the polls;
All of this^^^. Once I heard about the voter rolls purged, the machines’ vulnerability to hacking and the state’s lack of willingness to act, I’m afraid my hope for a win is fading….
My belief is that Ossoff team is doing all it can to win this important election and I am sending them positive vibes.
To all of you in GA06 who hang here on TOD, get out and do us PROUD! I believe you can do it!!!!!
Good Morning TOD.
Twelve minutes of pure bliss…thank you!
Oh my goodness. This is just scrumptious!
Great job JER. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, JER!!!
I suppose that first pic could be included in the Obama and children grouping (although that would be an insult to the children.)
Lots of memories. Lots of smiles. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you, JER! What a wonderful way to start the morning!
Just a reminder that WeThePeople got it right …not just once but twice….and We Can Do It Again!!
He might take that job if offer so he can keep an eye on Malia. Just kidding.
I think he would rather focus on mentoring, community service and the services that will come through his Presidential center.
Don’t forget that 45 tried to do business in Cuba in violation of the US embargo.
Also note, that as much as 45 claims that he is not a politician, he launched a bid for president back in 1999. Between his bids for office and his lobbying/bribing legislators, how does that not make him a politician…in addition to a carnival barker and a con man???
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“HOW DONALD TRUMP’S COMPANY VIOLATED THE UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA”
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/14/donald-trump-cuban-embargo-castro-violated-florida-504059.html
A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.
Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after the fact to a charitable effort.
The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami, where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.He did not disclose that, seven months earlier, Trump Hotels already had reimbursed its consultants for the money they spent on their secret business trip to Havana.
Morning everyone. Happy Weekend. sherijr….if this all goes through, your neighborhood is going to get a lot more dangerous. Is this what MAGA looks like? We don’t want it
Good gawd, this is brutal. You really can’t help but realize they are looking to FOMENT CIVIL UNREST.
Yes…is that BEFORE or AFTER they kill us off for lack of affordable and accessible healthcare?
ALL of it, all at once.
It has been very very strange here. As of this past week it has been more “police state” than anything. Due to the 7 people shot in different areas over a period of a few hours last weekend. So they are doubling shifts, bringing out helicopters for everything- many times each day. There never seems to be a norm or happy medium. We either don’t see a cop for weeks and things get out of hand… or we’re feeling underseige… or maybe that’s just me.
We constantly talk here about how we need cops walking a beat … last winter for a short time we had that on the “business” street – one block over from us.. but they never ventured into the neighborhood- where stuff happens. But more than that it is an opportunity for us and the police to meet/ communicate- and for them to know us and hopefully see us as people and families here. The dynamics would be healthier. Also due to the sex trafficking here- we get a LOT of men trolling the streets in their vehicles- sometimes from out of state even… and regular knowledge of our streets/families/ homes by patrols would make all the difference in that area. But on top of everything else I feel they don’t due sensibly (police) they change out the officers patrolling, so that we seldom see the same officers. How do they ever get to see us as people, and yes I include the junkies, the hookers and the dealers in that. It all seems so arbitrary and also reactionary.
The “community police” thing is a different entity from the police (911; etc) they aren’t (if I’m recalling correctly) not cops out patrolling, but who you contact regarding specific stuff within the community. None the less this is a detriment no matter their role here.
On the topic of Trump’s budget, I do not doubt that he will hurt every community – especially cities – however possible. Baltimore seems to rarely be on anyone’s uppermost list of cities to love and cherish.. imo.
LOLz
SO much MAGA. I detest this moron. I will dance in the streets when he’s removed
More and more…i lay the blame for all these mishaps and degrades of routine of the Executive branch at the feet of the GOP Congress,,,who refuse to rein in this President because they are on a destructive course themselves…a course to destroy the safety net….and the democratic essence of our country….
WeThePeople must find a way to stop them….and we must remember the lessons that PBO has taught us about how to win!!!…
I don’t know..this just made me smile:) The fan AND the pin:) Good for him.
President Trump says he’s received tens of millions of dollars in income from the golf courses and resorts whose profile he boosted during frequent visits since taking office, according to filings released Friday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
Properties that Trump frequently visited as president saw the largest boost in income. Trump claimed more than $37 million in income from Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach County resort in Florida he described as his “Winter White House,” as well as $20 million in income from the nearby golf club he owns in Jupiter, Florida. His claimed Mar-a-Lago income rose rapidly since his last two financial disclosures with the FEC: Trump reported more than $15 million in income from the resort in the 2015 report, followed by $29 million in the 2016 version.
Golfing and vacationing are bipartisan presidential traditions, as are the partisan critiques of the presidents who partake in them. But Trump has taken his leisure time to new levels both in volume and location.
This should be very helpful . Thanks, Don.
Boo Yah is right!!!
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today: Mistrial in Bill Cosby;
yesterday: Not Guilty in Philando Castile;
me: … I just can’t understand the US justice system;
…… being a just a couple hours away from Cleveland, I have never recovered from the way the justice system and regular citizens reacted to murder of a child, precious Tamir Rice ….. where can someone find hope
GM GCL.
Gotta run, BBL.
It’s very illuminating to sit on a jury panel — have you been seated on one?
I’ve only been on a single jury panel, 30 years ago — obstruction of justice for a 6’4″ 21 year old white man who needed medical attention after 2 (short 5’7″ or so) white police officers jumped him/ applied choke hold.
We were a hung jury because 11 of us voted “not guilty” but one woman (who seemed reasonable during jury selection process) crossed her arms and firmly stated “police can do no wrong” and wouldn’t budge.
(Everyone in courtroom was white, except for me and a Latino man on the jury.)
BBL.
In my corner of the world a jury decision can be made with 11-1 or 10-2. Tends to solve problems like yours.
$$$ seem to have much to do with justice – amazing what a well paid lawyer can do.
PLEASE take good care, everyone.
Morning meta. Here in Azusa, it’s currently 77 drgrees, with expected temp climb to 81 in 30 minutes. I have had my windows open since 6am with a nice breeze coming in, but, will be closing them and turning on the AC soon.
Stay hydrated and cool everyone 🙂
This battle between Marcus Johnson and the TYT on Twitter is epic…..the streak of racism and privilege revealed on the white left is breathtaking…
the epic struggle for freedom and equality is ongoing without end it seems…we battle those forces who to seek to enslave us on the right as well as the left……..
I guess I am always shocked at these folks and they say they are progressive.
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/
Heartbreaking.
More Jive to take a deep breath from…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/06/17/chat-away-923/