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- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul
- Rule 44: Why Obamacare is not lost even in a deadlocked Supreme Court, but only if Biden wins
- Time to suit up. This is war.
- BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed
- Bothsidesism comes to fact-checking: CNN's āfact-checkā calling Biden ad 'misleading' proves the opposite
- Pardon me: How Donald Trump's stooges conspired with Julian Assange to exonerate Russia and undermine US Intlligence
Smartypants
- Durham to Right Wingers: "Blame Hillary"
- That Time When Refusing to Negotiate With Hostage-Takers Worked
- The Other Christian Nationalists: Leonard Leo and Opus Dei
- Hawley Demonstrates That He's an Ignorant Liar
- DeSantis Board Votes to Counter-Sue Disney Over Something...Anything
- Hunter Biden's Laptop Is a Total Nothingburger
- What DeSantis Couldn't Say in Response to Disney's Lawsuit
- Disney Skewers DeSantis With His Own Words
- Populism Without Civil Rights Is Fascism
- Glenn Greenwald gets triggered by smart competent women like Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Steve Benen
- Christie enters race, blasts Trump as 'lonely, self-consumed...mirror hog'
- Writer who left day job and traveled the country details experience in 'America the Beautiful?'
- Army Secretary: 'Woke military' criticisms are undermining our recruiting
- Everyone in the golf world caught off guard by merger, says writer
- The impact of big tech rolling back misinformation measures
- Steve Rattner breaks down what's driving America's sour mood
- Joe: Gov. Newsom is calling out 'abhorrent' moves by DeSantis
- Richard Haass: PGA/LIV Golf merger a question of 'when' and not 'if'
- Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, testifies before grand jury
- 'Kimberly Akimbo' star says show has taught her the preciousness of life
The Obama Diary 
GM everyone. As I said last time, this picture is truly soul-saving. Offers sanity and peace and helps remind what we once were and what we will be again. Difficult to believe sometimes, but we have to. PO expects us to move forward>>>>>>>> Blessed day to all. Hosting our Life Group tomorrow night so today I’m into cooking and preparing.
Congratulations, tnmtngirl!
good morning, all
Good Morning TOD.
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Good morning, TOD!
Love the picture of President Obama with the baby in Alaska.
I just love that hat on that cute little baby. Look at her eyes, she will treasure this picture one day. That is if she doesn’t grow up to be a conservative.
AWESOME PEEK AT THE MASTER OF HEARTFELT DIPLOMACY…THE ENERGIZER BUNNY DOESN’T NEED A KEY IN HIS BACK!
I LOVE THE FLOTUS VIDEO..QUITE A DEPARTURE FROM…WELL..I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH PUTER SPACE TO GO THERE!
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/03/535408609/white-house-veteran-david-simas-helps-forge-obamas-legacy-as-foundation-ceo
Fucking idiot.
I believe that I’m going to go out today and buy some flowers to plant. I need some lovely things …
Morning DF. It’s too hot for flowers. I have been so distressed over this so called President, the repugnants, healthcare, Putin and the idiot Christian Right that I have worked my fingers to the bone cleaning, scrubbing floors walls and baseboards, and polishing all my cabinets. I am exhausted but it has kept me partially sane. It doesn’t seem to matter that Flake and McCain hears from all of us, it’s all about the party and their perks for voting along party lines. Makes me sick.
š I can love my succulents:) My house is clean…I could stand to take the Bissell to the chairs….It’s a constructive way to channel that energy that makes me want to punch someone….I know. We will get through this…..I hope.
I call McCain and Flake daily…send emails. I did have a question about the reason why those protesters got arrested at Flake’s office…the police said they were on private property….that confused me. I believe that WE pay for those offices of our reps…with our tax dollars, so how is that “private property”?? Do you know?
I would guess Flake’s office is leased so it is private property.
Off to shop. Numbs the pain
The road is long….but we can make it thru…if we stay determined…once again i think of the long nights of the freedom fighters….i know that that they were not sure if they would ever see light….but still they were determined…because to give up meant death…this is the struggle of oppressed peoples…they cannot give up…even when i feel the edges of despair on my psyche…i think of the men and women who had courage and how they kept moving forward….
Forward…President Obama said that the end of the world is the end of the world…
HIS REFFERENCE MEANS..THE END OF THE WORLD AS IT IS…WE MOVE FORWARD ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL….
I know, pf:) Thank you for that potent reminder. We will get through. My heart aches, though.
mine does as well…i get involved to keep my fear at bay
I wish there was a way that ordinary people could send our encouragement and pleas directly to Special Counsel Mueller and his team of investigators.
My most urgent request would be to do their work fast and accurately so that the extent of corruption and destruction could at least stop.
then we can continue to mobilize and organize such ordinary people can do the rest at the ballot box.
through our vote, we can cleanup all these collaborators and enablers of this corruption and destruction;
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one day …. but it had better be soon
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Saturday morning. Congrats tnmtngirl, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. š«šššā¤
To all, I hope you take the time to send someone an encouraging word, get together for a positive chat even if it’s for just a minute, and go out your way to say something that’s honest and nice about that person to someone else today. ā¤ ā¤ ā¤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama āš āš āš
Substance and Style describes First Lady Michelle herself. š
It’s now a done deal, folks ….
My two favorite heads of state.
Each of these countries has a good healthcare system, way better and more accessible than ours.
And she’s on twitter, now!
Yep. Half a million followers in 1 day including me. š
By the way, look at who she follows š
Just cuz
Amazing thing just happened in my neck of So. Cal.
At 9:30am (twenty-five minutes ago, I check my iphone temp icon and it read 72 and that it would be 91 by 10am. I didn’t believe it would jump twenty degrees in 30 minutes. Well, I was wrong! It currently reads 91 degrees at 9:57am! WHAAAAAT???!!!!!!
YIKES.
meta, I’m in the San Gabriel Valley (city of Azusa) it is scheduled to be 104 by 4pm today.
What’s that again about climate change?
OMG, take care of yourself! It seems like each year is exponentially worse. This week is also super hot in NorCal valleys but still nice with am/pm fog here in my city, thank goodness.
GGail, A 104????? Omg. I hope all of you guys in the valley take care of yourselves.
ohhhh nooooo…stay kool
Whoa!
inorite?
I’ve had to close my windows and turn on the AC sooner than I had planned for today.
Goodbye dollar bills…
Stay cool!
Stay hydrated, Gail!
š Welcome to my world…
Thanks, GGail — so wanted to complain about the heat, but I know that whining is tiresome…
Radio tells me it was 117F yesterday in Phoenix (sorry, DF š¦ ) — and climate change is turning SoCal into Coastal Phoenix. š¦
As lifelong SoCalifornian, I expect, tolerate the God-awful heat of August and September, but climate change is making 2 months of unbearable heat into 4 (July-Oct), with a few heat waves added to Jan-Jun. š¦
I move my plants to the shade when it’s hot, but even so, except for the succulents, they really can’t tolerate successive days of 100F weather. š¦
Nerdy – Happy Saturday to you – and thanks so much for always being here when we latecomers return!
Hey, said the little whiner (me), I had to change over to a new twitter account (and if I haven’t bored you with that already) and would appreciate a follow at my new one: @joboomr44
Keep calm and carry on. When they go low, we go high. ā¤
Done!!
Did you annoy twitter or something??!!
Thanks! Twitter said there was “unusual activity” and I had to re-set my pw. However, it was connected to some e-mail address I no longer had access to, etc., etc. And the rest is history! (But what a pain!)
Hi J’OB, I found it and now follow you ā¤
Done!
FTW
Ivanka, Just like her crooky daddy.
A moment to remember forever ā¤
The sweetness of honey doesn’t compare.
And? I think that in THIS Cabinet, that behavior is a feature, not a bug. He should resign.
Trump leads – they follow – he should just tweet about fake news and all will be well.
Get on that voter fraud….
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/341108-iowa-woman-pleads-guilty-for-trying-to-vote-twice-for-trump
THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
Playing into Kobach’s hands! Dems cannot see that their voting histories and personal info is still there in the computing annals
whether they UNregister or not?
Gaahhh !!!
Fannie Lou Hammer was tortured and beaten because she wanted to vote…where is the courage to stand and fight for the right to vote…
Fear-mongering Fascist Right wants to know who will Vote for Trump.
Putin/KOCH/nra.
Exactly! Stand up and fight for your right to vote. Don’t make it easy for Hair Furor’s minions to take it away from you.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 45 AND BARACK OBAMA IN 12 PICTURES – https://www.indy100.com/article/12-pictures-angela-merkel-barak-obama-donald-trump-g20-white-house-hamburg-meeting-7829621
Thanks JER!
Here are comparisons in retweetable form…
I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE..ANYONE WHO DOESN’T..IS A FOOL!
PUTIN to press:
āThere was no basis to believe that Russiaā interfered in the elections. And “I feel as though my answers satisfied him (Trump).”
–Seems Putin and Trumputin colluded on U.S. Election interference and NOW AGAIN on the cover-up.
Thanks, Vlad. Some of us will wait to see what Robert Mueller and team have to say about it.
We cannot wait until Hell freezes over.
Don’t let Putin and Trump REWRITE the gross attack on this nation: “Vladimir Putin hired Russian hackers to help elect Donald Trump.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/putin-russia-hacking-us-election-trump-hillary-clinton-report-a7805541.html
—Thanks to Putin Junior, his mafia boss Putin now has a ‘credible’ western news platform upon which to LIE that he doesn’t have at home,
where he controls Russia’s news. Does Putin think we’ve forgotten how he made a show of FIRING people over the hacking?
Free Birdseed! š
Clever!
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-administrations-request-for-extensive-voter-data-raises-fears-of-suppression/
THREATS:
Fear-mongering Fascist Right wants to know if you will vote for Trump.
When we post these kinds of hair on fire, we should also post positive comments/reinforcements to push back and reassure that this WILL NOT HAPPEN ON OUR WATCH.
I know I will and so will OFA do all we can to reduce cynical hysteria from crippling our election process.
Hi again, GGail.
Just heard this on the radio, but could only find one tweet that links to the AP article:
From the AP article:
“California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Saturday that itās ‘awkward, to put it mildly’ that Kobach opted against attending the National Association of Secretaries of State conference in Indianapolis this weekend.”
snip /
“Padilla, a Democrat, said that if Kobach was serious about working with states to improve the integrity of U.S. elections, he would have attended the conference.
A spokeswoman for Kobach did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
P.S. My outdoor thermometer says 103.2F now. Too hot to tend to my patio plants. š¦
Thanks arapaho,
I just think that this, along with a lot of what trump does and says is designed to put fear out here and if we don’t push back, then they when without doing more than using threatening words.
We should not let it be that easy to defeat us.
Judith’s OFA team, WiW’s OFA team and teams around the US are working hard to rally the troups – this is what we should be posting too.
*they win*
Oh, and it has reached 104 here at 2:46pm PST
We will not roll over and play dead when they try to intimidate us!
I AGREE…i know i have this battle with myself…to not get caught up in despair….i will try to remain focused and energized…on doing what i can do…
YES. WE. CAN! ((((hugs))))
If we go to the OFA twitter site, we can find and post positive movement that will encourage resolve.
Great idea! Follow Indivisible, Eric Holder, Jon Favreau and any news people you respect (Joy Ann Reid) also.
Speaking of Jon Favreau
Right ON!
Thanks for your comment. We all play different roles.
If our ‘hair is on fire’ right now in response to a Fascist coup where No-Truth is happening as it did in the Soviet Union — imo that’s a good thing. Russia still wants to dominate the world and now here’s a no-nothing U.S. President with 30% backing who is openly facilitating the end of our Democracy. We’ve a limited time before it will be incredibly hard to reverse a Little Russia where truth and the veracity of words means little to nothing. The tone of my comments varies, often light and humorous. Not today!
From 1986: https://www.c-span.org/video/?101102-1/soviet-union-expansionism
Well, I am baffled, and I am a little sad. I’d appreciate any help or suggestions: a couple of weeks ago, I stopped getting email notifications for new TOD POSTS. So, have re-subscribed “successfully”, but still not getting mail. Okay. So I sign in from Safai, no biggie. But, for some reason in the past couple of days, comments I make are just not showing up. And I am really confused, especially as one I wrote earlier, with the full moon (critical info, I know) stats is nowhere to be found! šššÆ I humbly checked the last 3 threads, just in case I was wandering lost and alone through the interwebz, but alas, nothing turned up. So, okay. If this posts, I’ll be delighted, if it doesn’t, you guys will never know ~~~
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Clear your cache, de-frag your computer, and check with someone more computer-literate than me like Bobfr or Liberal Librarian.
Thanks , JF, only use phone or tablet, clear and reset Safari daily.. I remembered later on this failure happened right around the time I was locked out of my Twitter account for merely retweeting @RVAwonk… Still scratching my head over this.
JER, it is impossible to view what you post without smiling. Thank YOU!
Yes We Can!
Our next (Real) President inspecting vineyards š
Yup!~
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Regardless to what either said, we need to keep supporting Mueller and his team.
We know Putin & trump are crooks and liars.
And the dyavol is in the details.
There ain’t enough whiskey on the planet to make that task worthwhile ….
HA!
Cool …
Fantastic. Bravo Trudeau. Allons-y!!
A result of conversations with PBO no doubt.
Long game plans.
https://thinkprogress.org/congresswoman-health-care-op-ed-dc09980689b8
I wondered what happened to her. I always liked her.
Me too. Her voice in the Congress is sorely missed.
I appreciate you sharing this article. Thanks.
Adorable:)
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“You don’t miss the water until the well runs dry” is an old proverb that reflects how many in US feel re: PBO and the disaster that followed him. To many took his work and his care for us for granted, thought it was never enough or imperfect in some way; did not really realize that he was the glue that held us together with his honor, intelligence, love, courage and unrelenting work on our behalf and failed to heed his many warnings. Well, we are in the shit now and all of us have to shovel it to keep from expiring in it.
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GE DF.
How hot was it in Phoenix today?
LA set a record for this date (our scorching weather usually arrives in August), and the high temp on my outside thermometer (in the shade) was 105.3F. š¦
Junior’s meeting took place on June 9, 2016 and Wikipedia tells me that WikiLeaks published hacked DNC emails on July 22, 2016.
The @NYTimes story is on Windows 10 newsfeed now — here’s the link to avoid NYTimes’ paywall limitation.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-team-met-with-lawyer-linked-to-kremlin-in-2016/ar-BBE0Ib6?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartandhp
Between 112 and 115 I think… somewhere in there. When it gets that hot, a couple degrees here and there doesn’t matter:)
Hello TODers!!
Nerdy, thank you!!
((((((((((((((((((Chips))))))))))))))))))))))
Folks take a minute and watch this!!
While it makes me sad and embarrassed to hear, I can’t fault his reporting. He speaks truth.
Most certainly
Everyone should watch this. ESPECIALLY Media!
Nailed it!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/07/08/behind-the-scenes-of-the-obama-white-house/