July 31 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Black women are the cornerstone of our communities, they are phenomenal, and they deserve equal pay. pic.twitter.com/XOHyIdbYPc
I spoke with my daughter earlier today, and she told me she has been promoted to a supervisory position on her job. My baby is very, very shy, and I’d been pushing her to assert herself and remind her boss of the contributions she’s been making to the job. Well, last month, she summoned the courage to do that, and she was informed of the promotion a few days ago. I congratulated her and told her how proud of her I am for lobbying for a step up the corporate ladder. She’ll travel from Alabama to South Carolina for training next month. We have to teach our girls to know their self-worth and to assert themselves on their jobs. My daughter’s boss knows she’s a good employee and knew he had to do something or lose her. She had applied for another job in her field with one of her employer’s competitors, and I think that news got back to her boss. Anyway, it’s a win-win for her.
Congratulations to your daughter for her promotion. I’m sure she will do well. The promotion will be a good motivator. And good for you, majiir, for encouraging her to step up and assert herself. 🙂
July 31 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Black women are the cornerstone of our communities, they are phenomenal, and they deserve equal pay. pic.twitter.com/r9fYWACyjp
July 31 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Black women are the phenomenal cornerstones of their communities and they deserve equal pay. pic.twitter.com/2QyW8XKVCE
Full-throated rebuke of Trump by Jeff Flake—and yet, doesn't say what he and colleagues will do to stop the mayhem. Talk is cheap right now. https://t.co/UCoLPEYaTw
Yep, They say one thing and vote another way and do nothing to stop this national nightmare. All they have to do is ask themselves what they would do if Obama or Hillary had done even one of the many outrages 45 has perpetrated on the country and the world. They would have come up with a quick answer and would have executed it by now. They are not moving to remove 45 because there are still some benefits to them to have him there. It is bs that their hands are tied. All of them can stfu until they move to impeach or to arrest.
I've to say: When you think abut the mindset that produced this Tweet on this day, it's in a way the most worrisome Tweet of them all. https://t.co/zqcngxpuxP
Jr. got himself in scalding hot water, so his dumb *ss dad just felt he had to intervene, but in doing so, he obstructed justice. Dude’s so dumb, he couldn’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag.
This is so true. Gorka and Bannon have direct ties with White Supremacists. They should be nowhere near the White House. But the “President” himself is a White Supremacists so that’s why he has such creeps around him.
#PresidentObama set a remarkable standard for personal decency.January 20 2017 will be remembered as, the day Grace left the White House. pic.twitter.com/43aPOlyHCo
They really want to see a woman president, just not that woman, and not that woman and not that woman and not that woman and not that woman https://t.co/B64JBrmmM9
Great question. What is she accomplishing anyways? What were her qualifications to have a White House position except that she is an offspring of the Bigot-in-Chief? Ditto her husband.
Please continue Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)…
“With hindsight, it is clear that we all but ensured the rise of Donald Trump…It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success…To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial…Too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, “Someone should do something!” without seeming to realize that that someone is us.” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
“My Party Is In Denial About Donald Trump”:
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Misty Copeland is a modern muse, and we don’t just mean in the dancing sense.
After teasing out on-point(e) imagery over the past few days, Estée Lauder announced Monday that the groundbreaking dancer, who became American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal ballerina in 2015, is their newest “Modern Muse.”
Named after Estée Lauder’s fragrance Modern Muse, the Modern Muse campaigns grew out of what the fragrance is meant to represent.
“When Estée Lauder launched the Modern Muse fragrance in 2013, we embraced the idea of women as muses, living life on their own terms, achieving great things and inspiring everyone around them,” Stephane de La Faverie, global brand president, said in a release.
This, and everything else Richard Painter warned the country about on BriWi’s show tonight … this is what all political people and news media types should be saying. This deranged orange puke needs to be out of the White House TOMORROW, one way or the other.
Our @VP44 will be in Oregon in November (not sure of the date), apparently his only west coast stop.
Would love to see him speak about his memoir:
.@JoeBiden will visit these states for his American Promise tour. His Nov 14 book title derived from convo w/ son Beau. CO NC NY OR PA TN https://t.co/v2lQKscctc
The plan changed because the president changed it. In fact, Trump Sr. reportedly dictated the statement’s language, making him directly responsible for misleading the public about a Trump campaign meeting with Russian nationals.
Peter Zeidenberg, the deputy special prosecutor who investigated the George W. Bush administration’s leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, told the Post, “The thing that really strikes me about this is the stupidity of involving the president. They are still treating this like a family-run business and they have a PR problem…. What they don’t seem to understand is this is a criminal investigation involving all of them.”
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17 Trump drafted Jr’s misleading collusion e-mail statement: WaPo
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about new revelations that Donald Trump was responsible for the misleading statement by Donald Trump Jr. to explain his meeting with Russians offering Clinton dirt and Russian government help.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17 Motive eyed in Trump’s misleading collusion e-mail story for Jr.
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the legal implications of Donald Trump personally drafting Donald Trump Jr’s misleading story about the meeting he took with Russians offering government collusion for dirt on Hillary Clinton.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17 Trump silent as Putin expels U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia
Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the Donald Trump administration’s odd silence in response to Russia expelling an unprecedented number of people from the U.S. embassy.
A fake news blog created by German university researchers found an eager audience among far-right sympathisers who shared racially charged stories.
The experiment by Hohenheim University researchers set up four fake profiles on Facebook.
One false story claimed that asylum seekers were having free sex with prostitutes funded by a local council.
That story reached 11,000 people within four days and was shared more than 150 times, German SWR radio reported.
Many readers reacted indignantly to the “news” about free prostitutes for asylum seekers. Few Facebook users spotted that the place where it was allegedly happening – Bad Eulen – does not exist.
The fake news blog now has prominent warnings in red above its stories, signalling “fake news”.
The researchers called it “Der Volksbeobachter” – an echo of the Nazi propaganda daily Völkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer) – and included an eagle’s wings logo, also reminiscent of the Nazis.
Priebus and the Mooch out, WSJ reports #45 dictated Jr.’s first lie about the Russian meeting, NC courts uphold ruling against repub. gerrymandering and gives them two month deadline to re-draw districts, courts ruled Pruitt must enforce Obama era pollution standards, China rebukes the lazy and ignorant Nikki Hailey re: NK, Healthcare battle stalled, and women kicking ass, running for office, and not taking any shit from anybody (Auntie Maxine, Kamala Harris, etc), Republican women holding firm on “no” votes after being demeaned and harassed by fellow male legislators and the hapless one in the White House: all of this in 5 days! Karma is on the march and is taking no prisoners. All of these things and more is wind beneath our wings to lift us up and out to continue the fight. Times are still uncertain, so many and so much is being threatened, but the cause is far from impossible to achieve.
Someone on Morning Joke (still a joke since he celebrated the nut job in the WH early on now sings a different tune) said this is NOT how you introduce a cabinet member this setting is reserved for visiting dignitaries. Many were saying this pick will not turn out well…smells of Nixon and Reagan mistakes.
They both have colossal egos and clashed on Day One. Kelly is going to see all the dirt up close now. Don’t see how anyone could respect Trump in any way, form or fashion.
Who has the heart to tell Trump that his fiscal year has yet to start!!He doesn't understand how US budgets work.THANK YOU, PRESIDENT OBAMA pic.twitter.com/7khzJjRq5G
YES, exactly. I think this would be a grave mistake on his part but we’ll see. Everyone claims he’ll sign it but for someone who just LOVES signing ceremonies, it just hasn’t happened.
ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior advisor Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series. During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Kushner may have inadvertently offered some insight into the negotiating tactics he is using in the Middle East.
Prior to Kushner’s talk, Katie Patru, the deputy staff director for Member Services, Outreach & Communications, told the assembled interns, “To record today’s session would be such a breach of trust, from my opinion. This town is full of leakers and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them. In this business your reputation is everything, I’ve been on the hill for 15 years. I’ve sat in countless meetings with members of congress where important decisions were being made. During all those years in all those meetings, I never once leaked to a reporter. …. If someone in your office has asked you to break our protocol and give you a recording so they can leak it, as a manager, that bothers me at my core.”
WIRED has obtained a recording of Kushner’s talk, which lasted for just under an hour in total.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
You know, if these guys owned a funeral home nobody would die.
Congrats on first, Don. And on the best response. My beverage just covered my entire desk top, and I don’t mean just my computer! You rule!
Barack Obama is one of the most consequential presidents in American history, I fixed the title of your article for you Vox.
🙂 so many fixes needed here 🙂
Love him. And ‘consequential’ is a carefully chosen neutral term. Correct term is ‘effective’. And they can drop that ‘one of the most’ part too.
👏🏾
Of course he is. The one in the White House now is one of the most consequential mess ups in human history.
Good Evening, Nerdy…TOD Family
I spoke with my daughter earlier today, and she told me she has been promoted to a supervisory position on her job. My baby is very, very shy, and I’d been pushing her to assert herself and remind her boss of the contributions she’s been making to the job. Well, last month, she summoned the courage to do that, and she was informed of the promotion a few days ago. I congratulated her and told her how proud of her I am for lobbying for a step up the corporate ladder. She’ll travel from Alabama to South Carolina for training next month. We have to teach our girls to know their self-worth and to assert themselves on their jobs. My daughter’s boss knows she’s a good employee and knew he had to do something or lose her. She had applied for another job in her field with one of her employer’s competitors, and I think that news got back to her boss. Anyway, it’s a win-win for her.
[Playing catch-up]
Congratulations to your daughter for her promotion. I’m sure she will do well. The promotion will be a good motivator. And good for you, majiir, for encouraging her to step up and assert herself. 🙂
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!
I saw this on Twitter and almost lost my mind! This is everything!
LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVe IT!!!
Scroll down below the tweet to the coffee mug “Reclaiming My Time” offered by Etsy. I want me one of those for sure!
GE, TODbots.
Congrats,Don Furst Au ⭐
Congrats, Meta Twin Au ⭐
Thanks, NW!
Love these Tweets on Equal Pay.
‘SCAREYMOOCHI…AN EVICTION RECORD FOR THE TRUMP DUMP…WHAT A CLUSTER MUCK WITH Donald Duck….CALL UNCLE JOE AND TELL HIM WE DON’T GIVE A………………
INCREDIBLE
Schmidt’s statement is powerful and summarizes the situation clearly.
So, Nikki, get to work and do your damn job!
Too late. Just too late.
https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/892159688069988352
https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/892159688069988352
Yep, They say one thing and vote another way and do nothing to stop this national nightmare. All they have to do is ask themselves what they would do if Obama or Hillary had done even one of the many outrages 45 has perpetrated on the country and the world. They would have come up with a quick answer and would have executed it by now. They are not moving to remove 45 because there are still some benefits to them to have him there. It is bs that their hands are tied. All of them can stfu until they move to impeach or to arrest.
Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.
Fake Flake is just trying to sell his latest book. That is all. He has voted in lockstep with Trump’s agenda.
She lies the same way she breathes so she’s perfect for this regime. They’re all about the lies.
As long as he has a pen, that’s what he will do. He has no clue nor any interest in anything serious.
Lying sonofabitch. Hope he sees the inside of a jail cell real soon.
Jr. got himself in scalding hot water, so his dumb *ss dad just felt he had to intervene, but in doing so, he obstructed justice. Dude’s so dumb, he couldn’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag.
Love it!
Thank you Jacqueline O.
Loved it, too! 🙂
Posted that Aunt Crabby tweet in the wrong place (and twice), but I hope ya like it, anyway!
kelly: guyz, guyz, wait for me.
Please let that be true! She’ll be carrying her hideous Inauguration Day costume slung over her arm!
I meant the other kelly. oh, well.
Oh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6EP3Z0PSU
This is so true. Gorka and Bannon have direct ties with White Supremacists. They should be nowhere near the White House. But the “President” himself is a White Supremacists so that’s why he has such creeps around him.
OMG! Tears…”Jan 20 2017 ….the day Grace left the White House.” Yes that was our President Barack Obama.
and crass replaced class.
Complicit!
❤️❤️❤️
Great question. What is she accomplishing anyways? What were her qualifications to have a White House position except that she is an offspring of the Bigot-in-Chief? Ditto her husband.
no probably, definitely. and mcangry will fold like the cheap suit that he really is.
Please continue Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)…
“With hindsight, it is clear that we all but ensured the rise of Donald Trump…It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success…To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial…Too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, “Someone should do something!” without seeming to realize that that someone is us.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
“My Party Is In Denial About Donald Trump”:
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I saw them talking about Jeff Flake article this morning.. You don’t have to many conservatives speaking like that. Hardly any.
Sorry for the double post … but I’m still laughing at this!
No problem J’OB, I laughed twice 😂😂
Loved it!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/misty-copeland-estee-lauder_us_597f74c5e4b0d6e28a0f6f00?6yd
Misty Copeland is a modern muse, and we don’t just mean in the dancing sense.
After teasing out on-point(e) imagery over the past few days, Estée Lauder announced Monday that the groundbreaking dancer, who became American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal ballerina in 2015, is their newest “Modern Muse.”
Named after Estée Lauder’s fragrance Modern Muse, the Modern Muse campaigns grew out of what the fragrance is meant to represent.
“When Estée Lauder launched the Modern Muse fragrance in 2013, we embraced the idea of women as muses, living life on their own terms, achieving great things and inspiring everyone around them,” Stephane de La Faverie, global brand president, said in a release.
Thanks GGail.
Misty is so gorgeous, and a spectacular role model for all girls and women, regardless of their age.
Thanks Arapaho 😊
Simply awesome……I want to attend one of her performances
lol, true or not.
Having fun with your various name changes amk.
Dan Pfeiffer is using the Mooch story as a stress reliever today … too funny.
lololol love your name
Ha! I love the ending to your name.
This, and everything else Richard Painter warned the country about on BriWi’s show tonight … this is what all political people and news media types should be saying. This deranged orange puke needs to be out of the White House TOMORROW, one way or the other.
Goodnight {{{{{{{Jacqueline}}}}}}} and TOD …..
Oregon leads in increased voter registration and participation. Automatic registration works!
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-oregon-increased-voter-turnout-more-than-any-other-state/
GM Bill R (for Judith Fardig, too):
Our @VP44 will be in Oregon in November (not sure of the date), apparently his only west coast stop.
Would love to see him speak about his memoir:
good morning everyone!
may you have a great day
Good morning TOD folks! Wonder what today will bring?
GM Alma, I had that very same thought!
Good morning, TODville.
A good explanation of what’s at stake:
Cover-up allegations raise awkward questions for Trump’s lawyer
08/01/17 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
…………………………………
The plan changed because the president changed it. In fact, Trump Sr. reportedly dictated the statement’s language, making him directly responsible for misleading the public about a Trump campaign meeting with Russian nationals.
Peter Zeidenberg, the deputy special prosecutor who investigated the George W. Bush administration’s leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, told the Post, “The thing that really strikes me about this is the stupidity of involving the president. They are still treating this like a family-run business and they have a PR problem…. What they don’t seem to understand is this is a criminal investigation involving all of them.”
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17
Trump drafted Jr’s misleading collusion e-mail statement: WaPo
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about new revelations that Donald Trump was responsible for the misleading statement by Donald Trump Jr. to explain his meeting with Russians offering Clinton dirt and Russian government help.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17
Motive eyed in Trump’s misleading collusion e-mail story for Jr.
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the legal implications of Donald Trump personally drafting Donald Trump Jr’s misleading story about the meeting he took with Russians offering government collusion for dirt on Hillary Clinton.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/31/17
Trump silent as Putin expels U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia
Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the Donald Trump administration’s odd silence in response to Russia expelling an unprecedented number of people from the U.S. embassy.
Morning everyone.
http://www.ericgarland.co/2017/08/01/panama-papers-putin-corruption/
A morning read with your coffee…..
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/01/14/opinion/trumps-ill-begotten-victory-intel-dossier-says-putin-helped-sanders-stein
A fake news blog created by German university researchers found an eager audience among far-right sympathisers who shared racially charged stories.
The experiment by Hohenheim University researchers set up four fake profiles on Facebook.
One false story claimed that asylum seekers were having free sex with prostitutes funded by a local council.
That story reached 11,000 people within four days and was shared more than 150 times, German SWR radio reported.
Many readers reacted indignantly to the “news” about free prostitutes for asylum seekers. Few Facebook users spotted that the place where it was allegedly happening – Bad Eulen – does not exist.
The fake news blog now has prominent warnings in red above its stories, signalling “fake news”.
The researchers called it “Der Volksbeobachter” – an echo of the Nazi propaganda daily Völkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer) – and included an eagle’s wings logo, also reminiscent of the Nazis.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40788032
This won’t turn out well. For them.
Priebus and the Mooch out, WSJ reports #45 dictated Jr.’s first lie about the Russian meeting, NC courts uphold ruling against repub. gerrymandering and gives them two month deadline to re-draw districts, courts ruled Pruitt must enforce Obama era pollution standards, China rebukes the lazy and ignorant Nikki Hailey re: NK, Healthcare battle stalled, and women kicking ass, running for office, and not taking any shit from anybody (Auntie Maxine, Kamala Harris, etc), Republican women holding firm on “no” votes after being demeaned and harassed by fellow male legislators and the hapless one in the White House: all of this in 5 days! Karma is on the march and is taking no prisoners. All of these things and more is wind beneath our wings to lift us up and out to continue the fight. Times are still uncertain, so many and so much is being threatened, but the cause is far from impossible to achieve.
WP, not WSJ.
Right ONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
Remember this? Liars gonna lie
I just don’t see this working out.
Someone on Morning Joke (still a joke since he celebrated the nut job in the WH early on now sings a different tune) said this is NOT how you introduce a cabinet member this setting is reserved for visiting dignitaries. Many were saying this pick will not turn out well…smells of Nixon and Reagan mistakes.
They both have colossal egos and clashed on Day One. Kelly is going to see all the dirt up close now. Don’t see how anyone could respect Trump in any way, form or fashion.
WH is lying about receiving this bill. Keep your eye out for this…….
He has 10 days to sign.
If this does occur…he is being advised on this…because Trump does not know the protocol…
YES, exactly. I think this would be a grave mistake on his part but we’ll see. Everyone claims he’ll sign it but for someone who just LOVES signing ceremonies, it just hasn’t happened.
This would indeed be tragic…and cause even the GOP to gasp…as they surely do not trust him…hence this bill
Wow. They can’t stop lying.
Someone forgot to delete this tweet!
Oh, this will make the Bernie Bros FREAK. LOLz.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/08/01/chat-away-935/
LOL.
https://www.wired.com/story/jared-kushner-middle-east
ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior advisor Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series. During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Kushner may have inadvertently offered some insight into the negotiating tactics he is using in the Middle East.
Prior to Kushner’s talk, Katie Patru, the deputy staff director for Member Services, Outreach & Communications, told the assembled interns, “To record today’s session would be such a breach of trust, from my opinion. This town is full of leakers and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them. In this business your reputation is everything, I’ve been on the hill for 15 years. I’ve sat in countless meetings with members of congress where important decisions were being made. During all those years in all those meetings, I never once leaked to a reporter. …. If someone in your office has asked you to break our protocol and give you a recording so they can leak it, as a manager, that bothers me at my core.”
WIRED has obtained a recording of Kushner’s talk, which lasted for just under an hour in total.
FINALLY! APS thinks that it owns the sun.
https://thinkprogress.org/arizona-investigation-solar-utilities-15bf28f10ae3
Who will come out and say firmly to homegrown demagogue that