199 Responses to “#BlackGirlsRock: ‘Reclaiming My Time’”


  1. August 24, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    Good Afternoon, Everyone 🙂

  2. August 24, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    OH MY, Pete is not having any of this mess. LOVE HIM every day!!

  3. 13 Gazelle
    August 24, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    LONDON — Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran on Thursday, the latest volley in an 11-week-old geopolitical feud that has set the tiny yet fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf nation against its neighbors and rattled a previously placid part of the Middle East.

    .
    More here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/world/middleeast/qatar-iran-boycott-saudi-arabia.html

  4. 14 vcprezofan2
    August 24, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    GA, Rikyrah & all others! Blessed Thursday.

  5. 15 pkayden
    August 24, 2017 at 2:28 pm

    Hoping that Rep Waters’ courage and strength is contagious and that other Democrats speak out fearlessly like she has been doing since Trump’s election.

  6. 16 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    enjoy your hate, wwc

  7. August 24, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Good afternoon Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Thursday afternoon. Congrats rikyrah, on being first this afternoon.

    Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤

    To all, I hope you have an enjoyable, entertaining, and pleasurable day today. ❤ ❤ ❤

    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 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆

  8. 19 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 2:49 pm

  9. August 24, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    Congress woman Waters I take a bow to you I commend you I admire your strength I’m proud of you you make us proud. Thank you ms Water and congratulations 🎉🎈you are truly working for the people. Thank you again and God bless you real good 😊 ❤️👍🎉🎈✅

  10. 24 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Great Afternoon To All TODbots across the Globe.
    Congrats, Rran your Solid Au ⭐ Furst 😉
    ❤ hear Rep xine Waters Roar like a Lioness that she is.
    Thanks, NW 🙂

    {{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}

  11. August 24, 2017 at 3:17 pm

  12. August 24, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    DREAM TEAM
    Inside Robert Mueller’s Army
    To probe alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, the special counsel has essentially built his own miniature Justice Department. Meet the experts he’s recruited.

    Betsy Woodruff
    08.24.17 12:49 AM ET

    In a secure location in southwest Washington, D.C., with access to a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility for classified material, 16 of the country’s top lawyers have passed the last several months working on an investigation that will likely be as consequential as it is secretive.

    The following details—gleaned from conversations with people familiar with President Donald Trump’s legal team, as well as intelligence experts and friends of the people working for special counsel Robert Mueller—help explain the broad range of legal and counterintelligence experts he’s assembled. Mueller has essentially built his own miniature Justice Department.

  13. 28 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 3:37 pm

  14. 31 ydavis00
    August 24, 2017 at 3:46 pm

  15. 32 ydavis00
    August 24, 2017 at 3:47 pm

  16. 33 ydavis00
    August 24, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    • August 24, 2017 at 4:11 pm

      –grandfather died of black lung though we called it siliconiosis. He’d have jumped for joy if there’d been an option to the brutal life
      he and his sons led. Solar tops on every new roof!!! Please. Green Re-training for every wretch coal mining family in the land.

      • 36 jacquelineoboomer
        August 24, 2017 at 10:39 pm

        My grandfather was sent into the coal mines in Western Pennsylvania in 1896, when he was 11 years old, to help support his family. He was able to make sure his sons never went. He did not have black lung, but died with other conditions that no doubt started in the coal mines. God bless your grandfather, his sons, and all the others in and out of that occupation today … who – I agree – should never have to return to the mines.

        “We cut the coal … ” — from Winston Churchill’s address to a conference of coal-mine operators and miners, 1942, on the importance of their work during WWII

  17. 38 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 3:48 pm

  18. 40 ydavis00
    August 24, 2017 at 3:50 pm

  19. 41 ydavis00
    August 24, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    • 42 idon
      August 24, 2017 at 5:36 pm

      Roger Stone is one dumbphuck

    • 43 nathkatun7
      August 24, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      Is this “deplorable” scum threatening the assassination of members of Congress who are trying to carry out their Constittional responsibilities? As far as I am concerned, Roger Stone is advocating/encouraging terrorism! He needs to be treated the same way advocates of terrorism are treated!

      • 44 idon
        August 24, 2017 at 10:57 pm

        I’m sure he is being treated as a terrorist/Russian agent. He doesn’t realize that those who follow him, feed on his violent rhetoric are being tracked by Homeland Security and the FBI and probably intel agencies. That’s why I referred to him as the cheese.

  20. 45 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 3:57 pm

  21. 46 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 3:59 pm

  22. 47 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 4:06 pm

  23. 48 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 4:08 pm

    • 49 0388jojothecat
      August 24, 2017 at 4:11 pm

      So sad to hear, I like him in many television shows and movies like Mr. Hollands Opus as the coach who taught the kids how to march in the band.

      • 50 Dudette
        August 24, 2017 at 4:36 pm

        Yep. Loved that movie. Loved him in it.

  24. 51 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 4:15 pm

  25. 52 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 4:17 pm

  26. 53 Nena20409
    August 24, 2017 at 4:18 pm

  27. 54 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 4:20 pm

  28. August 24, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

  29. August 24, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    Slowly but surely…….

  30. 66 Obama Grandmama
    August 24, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    Speaking of eyeglasses, I saw a posting right after the eclipse that Astronomers without Borders are asking people to save their eclipse glasses to send them as they will be donating them to needy schools and places in South America and Asia for a future eclipse. They said to be watching for the address to send them to at a later time. They did say if you could not wait you could send them now to:

    Explore Scientific
    %Astronomers without Borders
    621 Madison Street
    Springfield, Arkansas
    (No zip code was listed so you will need to look that up)

    Seems like it should be Explore Science grammatically so it could have been a misprint on the title.

  31. 67 Dudette
    August 24, 2017 at 6:17 pm

  32. 69 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 6:52 pm

  33. 70 JER
    August 24, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    • 71 idon
      August 24, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      This is not OK

      • August 24, 2017 at 8:25 pm

        idon, I was thinking the same thing. For pete’s sake leave the girl alone.

        • 73 idon
          August 24, 2017 at 8:59 pm

          Hey Bella,
          Thank you. I think we need to tweet the Secret Service every time this happens because for me this is a matter of her security. This should not happen. Students should be disciplined for sharing pics of her because it jeopardizes her safety. That’s my main issue – her safety.

      • 75 Nena20409
        August 25, 2017 at 1:49 pm

        Secret Service protection Coverage is limited for the Children after 6 months out of office unless it was requested & then approved for additional months of coverage by the next POTUS. VPs generally have 6 months protection after office. The Dick Cheney requested for additional 6 months coverage of which Pres Obama OK’ed for the Dick. Pres Obama & his wife would have SS protection for life. Bill Clinton signed a law that terminated Lifetime coverage protection…….starting with GWBush. After 9/11, it was changed back to almost how it used to be. The law kept the salary increase. With Clinton, it was annually at $200K or $250K. Starting with GWB, it became $400K.

    • 76 SUE DUVALL SMITH
      August 25, 2017 at 9:32 am

      FOR SECURITY REASONS..THIS SHOULD NOT BE ADVERTISED….TOO MANY TRUMPIANS WHO AIM AT OBAMA…

  34. 77 Nerdy Wonka
    August 24, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    • 78 arapaho415
      August 24, 2017 at 7:26 pm

      GE NerdyW.

      Thanks for all you do, for keeping us well-fed and nourished. 🙂

      Everything I see about #HurricaneHarvey looks ominous for south Texas and Louisiana — I know that Austin is hundreds of miles from the Gulf Coast, but it looks like you may be in for (another) deluge of rain 😦 .

      Has this been posted here yet?

      Via Meta, IMHO, the best take on FUBAR’s idiot RT, with a special dig at FUBAR’s self-consciousness about his #tinyhands.

  35. August 24, 2017 at 7:55 pm

  36. August 24, 2017 at 7:59 pm

  37. August 24, 2017 at 8:24 pm

  38. August 24, 2017 at 8:58 pm

  39. August 24, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    I’ll have none of this …..

  40. 90 mtmarilyn
    August 24, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    I love Auntie Maxine! She is who we all should emulate.

    Nerdy Wonka and all inTexas stay safe!

  41. 91 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    exactly. do your fucking job, toadys and lemons.

  42. 92 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.

    The online campaign is using fake Antifa (an umbrella term for anti-fascist protestors) Twitter accounts to claim anti-fascists promote physically abusing women who support US President Donald Trump or white supremacy.

    Researcher Eliot Higgins of website Bellingcat found evidence that the campaign is being orchestrated on internet messageboard 4Chan by far-right sympathisers.

    One image shows the slogan “53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this”, above a photograph of a woman with a bruised and cut face and an anti-fascist symbol.

    The woman pictured is actually British actress Anna Friel and the photograph was taken for a Women’s Aid anti-domestic violence campaign in 2007.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41036631

    hiding under hoods and lies. cowards.

  43. 93 jacquelineoboomer
    August 24, 2017 at 9:43 pm

  44. 94 jacquelineoboomer
    August 24, 2017 at 9:52 pm

  45. 95 globalcitizenlinda
    August 24, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    I know that if this is to happen, then it may still be a looong time coming. But, should there be any chance that the homegrown demagogue is indicted or resigns, I don’t want to miss more than 1 minute. So could you someone sign me up on an alert for this moment

  46. August 24, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    NECESSARY

  47. 98 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 10:11 pm

  48. 99 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 10:11 pm

  49. 101 jacquelineoboomer
    August 24, 2017 at 10:20 pm

    Where are you, Karma?

  50. August 24, 2017 at 10:20 pm

    I just listen to Rep. Maxine Waters speaking, I love it. You go girl.

  51. 112 whenpamelawandered
    August 24, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    👋🏼🙌🏼🖖🏼👊🏼👏🏼

  52. 113 GGAIL
    August 24, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    Auntie Maxine had her moment to shine and SHINE she did! 💃🏾

  53. 115 amk for obama
    August 24, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    The corruptest sheriff scum doesn’t like what the law did to him while he did it to others unlawfully.

  54. 116 globalcitizenlinda
    August 24, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    my take:

    one of the reasons why the homegrown demagogue has been blatantly lying about his reaction to Charlottesville is not because he has a conscience.

    rather, the venom and denials is mainly because he is loosing money as more organizations disassociate themselves from having a business relationship with him.

    money, power, and attention are among the things he treasures most … there is a hollow or dark mass where a heart ought to be

    • August 25, 2017 at 8:55 am

      I agree that if it were not affecting his pocket, he would have given the “somber”, “serious???” speeches.

      The problem for him is that he is not taking responsibility for his words and (in)action. He’s not even saying he was wrong. Instead, he is blaming others. For that reason — and others — his lack of sincerity shines through whenever he attempts to explain away Charlottesville.

  55. August 24, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    Goodnight TOD ….

  56. 119 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 12:11 am

    How about a little music?

  57. 120 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 12:16 am

  58. 123 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 12:28 am

    Like everyone else, I’m hoping Mr. Mueller and friends drop the hammer before the worst happens…

  59. 124 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 12:40 am

    Sometimes you just gotta take a deep breath…

  60. 125 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 12:51 am

  61. 126 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 1:01 am

    Hmm, guess I’m entertaining myself tonight. Oh well.

  62. 127 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 1:02 am

  63. 134 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 1:08 am

  64. August 25, 2017 at 3:30 am

    Can’t say how many times i have watched this video. I love it

  65. 138 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 3:37 am

  66. 139 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 3:54 am

  67. 140 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:06 am

  68. 141 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:06 am

  69. 142 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:09 am

  70. 143 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:27 am

  71. 148 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:31 am

  72. 149 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:40 am

  73. 150 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:43 am

  74. 151 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 4:43 am

  75. 156 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 5:00 am

  76. 157 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 5:01 am

  77. 158 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 5:03 am

    See ya later! 😘

  78. 161 No Child Left Behind
    August 25, 2017 at 5:17 am

  79. 163 No Child Left Behind
    August 25, 2017 at 7:55 am

  80. 166 No Child Left Behind
    August 25, 2017 at 8:25 am

  81. 167 Jey
    August 25, 2017 at 8:38 am

    Amazon slashing prices at Whole Foods … where will the likes of Louise Linton and her rich friends shop now???? 😅
    Surely she won’t be caught shopping with the peasants … 😨. Oh nooooo. LOL LOL.

    Have a lovely day everyone.

    Thank you NW. For keeping the lights on at TOD … and everyone else for keeping this community alive ☺

  82. 168 No Child Left Behind
    August 25, 2017 at 8:41 am

  83. 169 No Child Left Behind
    August 25, 2017 at 8:50 am

  84. 170 amk for obama
    August 25, 2017 at 9:03 am

    Today on the other side of the oceans and mountains, today a guru was found guilty of raping many women, after ten years of multiple court hearings. And thousands of his women ‘followers’ turned out at the court to block him from getting into the court for the verdict. And his goons have so far turned two states into a war zone.

    Fucking religious nuts.

  85. August 25, 2017 at 9:20 am

    I can’t really even fathom the wickedness involved in this:

  86. August 25, 2017 at 9:27 am

  87. 185 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 9:39 am

    Thinking of Nerdy Wonka and all our TOD Fam in Texas during Hurricane Harvey. Stay safe.

  88. 188 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 9:40 am

  89. 189 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 9:46 am

  90. 190 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 9:47 am

  91. 191 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 9:47 am

  92. August 25, 2017 at 9:52 am

    I know that I had never thought of this, but Mayhew at BJ, is bringing up possible healthcare issues during a Hurricane/Natural Disaster.

    …………………………………

    Harvey, evacuations and narrow networks

    by David Anderson
    at 8:30 am on August 25, 2017

    ………….

    Instead the concern that I have is for urgent but not life threatening emergency care. If an evacuee has an asthma attack and needs to go to an urgent care, that clinic might not be in network although every in-network clinic could be under water. If someone is having a significant anxiety flare-up and needs to talk with a mental health professional and there are no in-network mental health professionals within 100 miles that is currently open, that is a problem. If someone has a tumor where the current course of guideline concordant care is watchful waiting and needs an advanced scan to continue the watchful waiting, the nearest available in-network scanner might be seven counties away.

    These are the tough cases of narrow networks in a major, prolonged evacuation. Most people in a short term evacuation will be able to defer their care needs without significant harm. But there are a class of cases which are urgent and should not be deferred but will not qualify as standard emergency care. These are the problems.

    If you are in this class of people, the first thing to do is call your insurance company and try to get a pre-authorization. They don’t want to pay out of network prices but they really don’t want to be sued for breach of contract for denying you medically necessary care that their network is incapable of providing. They really don’t want to be highlighted on the 6 o’clock news for doing that. You might not get pre-authorized to the doc that you want but you should get a pre-authorization. Secondly, save the bills. Save all your documentation. Save your notes from the phone calls including the first and last name of the person you talked with, time, date, questions, answers and follow-up questions needed for clarification. If things get messy, a complete contemporary paper trail is a wonderful thing.

  93. 193 ydavis00
    August 25, 2017 at 9:53 am

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  94. 195 Dudette
    August 25, 2017 at 10:06 am

  95. 199 JER
    August 25, 2017 at 10:34 am

    …Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Friday that former President Barack Obama should avoid the spotlight or he might help his successor. … “It’s our job to coach. It’s our job to lift up. I think the former president is trying to do that, as are a lot of us,” Dean said. “I’m hoping the next presidential candidate is under 50, at least under 55 in our party. We have got to transfer this over to the next generation.” …


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