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Lauren Sher and Danielle Genet: Behind The Lens: Michelle Obama’s White House Photographer Shares Candid Stories
Photographer Amanda Lucidon had a front-row seat to the events in the Obama White House. For four years, Lucidon was the only female photographer on the White House staff and tasked with covering first lady Michelle Obama. “To be one of the few female photographers in [White House] history was really special. But on top of that, just to work for the administration that had appointed more women and minorities than any other administration; that was a real special thing,” Lucidon said in an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts for “Good Morning America.”
Lucidon, 38, is stepping out from behind the lens for the first time and sharing her personal reflections in a new book, “Chasing Light.” The book is a collection of her candid photographs of the first family and is filled with the lessons she learned along the way. “What the first lady has traveled around the country and the world saying candidly, which I learned from her, is that you can be anything; how you grew up and your circumstances do not define you,” Lucidon told Roberts. “Working at the White House was a very transformative time for me. I found confidence. I learned about myself. I learned about pushing boundaries. I learned about embracing my own story and my own background. … The first lady always taught us the challenges that you’ve encountered in your life are actually your strengths. They’re not your weaknesses. They’re the things that teach you resilience.”
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The Obama Diary 
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
From the previous post:
Meet the Trumpkins
A crop of Republicans are betting that a Trump-style mix of crassness and white grievance will bring them victory in 2018.
by Saahil Desai
Yes, Ma’am! ❤️
“Chasing Light” holds a place of honour here, displayed as a work of art, which I believe it is! 🕯🎶
I haven’t gotten the book Chasing Light yet, but I will.
8 years of grace, wit and class. Sigh.
She has left the most luminous mark on history. BELOVED.
agree amk for obama
agree meta.
Otherwise, Trump will remain unchallenged in the White House for at least four straight years.
I hope to buy at least 3 of these beautiful books for Christmas present… and a 4th for me 🙂
PLEASE hold your MOCs accountable for this
And Congress yawns and does absolutely nothing.
Per kyle Griffin, senators are stunned that we have 1,000 troops in Niger.
I thought they had to approve first… not to even KNOW?? Something is wrong here
fucking facebook again.
The widow of a soldier who died in Niger earlier this month says a Facebook post circulating under her name defending US President Donald Trump is fake.
Myeshia Johnson says the post criticising Congresswoman Frederica Wilson – who has been in a war of words with Mr Trump – was written by someone claiming to be her.
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ABC journalist Michael Del Moro tweeted confirmation of the now debunked post. He told the BBC: “Myeshia Johnson confirmed this post was fake to me in person”
Fact checking site Snopes explains that while the date of the post corresponds with the day President Trump made the call to Mrs Johnson, the time does not: “The time listed is actually more than an hour before the reported time of President Trump’s phone call, which was 4.45pm Eastern time.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41719914
Facebook is such a mess. So glad I have never registered there. Zuckerberg needs to do a much better job of quality control.
Read the thread.
Good morning TOD folks! Can’t wait to get a copy of that book!
IT’S A NICE LIFE IF YOU’VE GOT IT….I USE GE BULBS MYSELF!
Take your light where you can get it. I am a sunshine girl myself!
GA JER.
Yes, that’s Steph Curry on the right. 🙂
Can’t find the article on @Politico, but a Google search tells me that SF Chronicle and SJ Mercury News also have articles on this get-together.
Pres Obama seems to have gotten thinnner
LMAO!
Au ⭐ & Ag ⭐ for Rikyrah 🙂 Furst. Congrats!
Thanks, NW for this Post! ❤ It!
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❤ TODbots Village!
INcredible….
OIL MONGERS..YOU OWE THE TRUTH!
Whoa. Just noticing that the evil clown is Trump. Horrifying.
I tell you that this country is moving slowly towards fascism. So now we have a situation where Putin gets to dictate who can and cannot visit the U.S.? Really? Putin’s Puppet is fully in control and showing it.
Finally, his Visa is Restored.
HAPPY TO SEE THIS..I SAW HIS INTERVIEW TODAY…
Truly good to hear this news. Things are getting scary out here.
WE REAP WHAT WE SOW…THEY VOTED FOR TRUMP..GIFT WRAPPED IN INSANITY AND ALL!
Just, 😉 Football Disreaction on a Manic Monday.
😳 Pardon Me 🙂
Distraction is what I meant to type.
She stood her ground against Trump. Bravo!! I can’t imagine what she’s going through right now. I really wish Trump hadn’t called her in the first place since he lacks empathy and decorum. He’s not fit to hold any position in the White House.
HE’S NOT FIT FOR A PULSE IN THE MORNING!
Just an awful human being.
JOIN!!
http://www.carolduhart.com/whitehouse/2017/10/23/for-everyone-who-has-visited-this-blog-today/
Thank you and sorry I don’t blog all that often. Right now I effectively work a 50 hour week, and I’m pretty tired on the weekend. With retirement coming up shortly, I hope to have more time to write.
they can find and feed the people…
AND SOMEHOW FEMA CAN’T GET TO THESE PEOPLE
I CAN HARDLY WAIT UNTIL FAT BURGER BOY TRUMP FINDS HIS FRIDGE..EMPTY!..BOOMERANG!
our supreme court shoves the forced faux patriotism back on the modi gov’s throat and it’s own wingnut judge’s.
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/dont-need-to-stand-up-in-movie-halls-to-prove-patriotism-sc/20171023.htm
HUH?????
??????
So all those NO-Bid Contractors can still millions and billions of $’s and by Zero dollars and provide Zero products, then disappear.
HA!!
After Senators John McCain & Cardin(sp) tweeted & then Issued a Letter of Inquiry, Hmm, Visa is RESTORED!
One thing that I know for sure, Mr. Flint will Print his findings.
Good. All hands on deck to get this poser out of the White House.
OMG
I was listening to Randi Rhodes on Friday and she said his GPS was pinging which means he activated and was probably taken alive and tortured.
OMG. Just horrific suffering.
It’s appears that Sgt. Johnson must have been brutally tortured beyond recognition. Still, I feel that his widow should have been allowed to view his body, no matter how horrific the condition it was in. Without viewing his remains, how will she ever come to closure that the person she buried was truly her beloved husband? I think it’s cruel for the government to deny the widow of a fallen soldier to touch her husband and say goodbye to him; especially since it took the U.S. military two days before his remains were discovered. Moreover, were the other three men killed with Sgt. Johnson buried in closed caskets? If not why is Sgt. Johnson an exception?
For me, here is a nagging question that keeps running through my mind: What if the body in that closed casket was not that of Sgt. Johnson?
ALL THINGS ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT LIES.
SHE NEEDS TO DEMAND TO SEE HIS BODY..START DIGGING!
..AND RUN A MONITORED DNA TEST…………
Wow. This is beyond sad. I feel so sorry for Mrs. Johnson given all that she’s going through right now. Times like these are when we need a good Consoler-in-Chief instead of an idiot without a drop of empathy.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/learning2017
smart kid
WHY?
🙂 🙂 🙂
LOL I needed that laugh more than I can say. Thanks amk.
Oh, no no no no
oookay, how about this?
wut
HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
That kid’s a little genius of a sort!
From AltNPS – 4 hours ago
“The EPA is expanding Pruitt’s security detail with an additional 12 agents, meaning his total security fleet stands at 30 bodyguards. This will cost the department $2 million a year in salaries alone and does not include training, equipment or travel. Pruitt also installed a $25,000 soundproof communications booth this year. While Pruitt expands his spending Trump’s budget blueprint would cut the EPA’s funds by more than 30 percent.”
From me: they sure love spending tax dollars, which they likely do not contribute to.
epa should be renamed as pruit protection agency.
LOLz. Good one.
EricHolder on Maddow right now.
too cute for words
what a doll.
No, I meant the dog.
Uh-dorable! 😍
Well, if you can carry it, you can have it.
buncha lying pos.
Iraq rebuffs Tillerson call to disband Iran-backed militias.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41721565
First, Qatar said fu to drillerson.
Then, Iraq said fu to drillerson.
And then, Afghanistan said fu to drillerson.
A trifecta of maga and all that winning.
Hell yeah! I’m in for a second donation! 🙌🏾
all the fired pox news scums turning on each other and throwing more poo at each other. karma.
Thread
Renato MariottiVerified account @renato_mariotti
2/ Illinois @GovRauner is trying to get Congress to pass a law that would take away the Illinois Constitutional right to keep your pension.
3/ Due to the supremacy clause of the constitution, Congress and Trump
could try to undo a state constitutional right without an amendment.
4/ Can you imagine working your whole life for a pension you thought was guaranteed and then have it reduced after retirement?
5/ That shouldn’t be lawful. If we don’t stop this, what rights could they take away next? /end
POS Republicans.
When a Dem is in the WH, they tout States’ Rights to defy Federal authority.
When an R is in there, take States’ Rights away so they HAVE to bend to the will of the Federal government.
Fuckers. Karma can’t get here fast enough.
this is who they are.
😄
Finally, an excuse to post an Idris gif! 😄
It’s interesting that Bannon left the White House but is even more powerful within the GOP now. And look at the cretins he hangs around with in public. You can just imagine the garbage human beings he communicates with in private.
BANNON AND TRUMP ARE WORKING BOTH ENDS..IT’S A ‘SQUEEZE’ TO THE MIDDLE..THEN THEY WILL PULL THE PLUG AND DRAIN IT ALL!
Bannon and his friends are hell-spawn minions of the orange-haired demon clown.
Good morning everyone. Have a great a great day
Has anyone here been (begun) following the recently confirmed Twitter account for Director Comey. Apparently it is
It is @FormerBu
Damn! Truth on Tuesday morning:) Thanks, Senator! No more fucks to give.
Gnats have more integrity than this idiot. He was a Navy SEAL? REALLY?
Y’all!
hat tip – BJ for this story.
Everyday, they do something that brings up the blood pressure.
EVERY.DAMN.DAY.!!!!!
Because, everyday, I ask myself…
” What if 44 had done this?”
There is SO much wrong with this, I can barely begin to list what’s wrong.
Trump sought dissident’s expulsion after hand-delivered letter from China – report
Wall Street Journal says the US president called for Guo Wengui’s deportation after casino owner Steve Wynn brought letter from Beijing government
My question is why Wynn and not Mark Brown or Sheldon Adelson, who Trump speaks with frequently…
— Linnoh (@NohYSLin) October 23, 2017
Wynn is the official finance chair for RNC. They don’t even TRY to hide the graft anymore.
— P. S.™ R. I. P. (@Patrixmyth) October 23, 2017
Two things
1) this is astoundingly corrupt
2) this is what they mean by “America First” apparently https://t.co/7s3wM3SMsU
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2017
I don’t think Americans are ready, psychologically, for how fast China is gong to overtake us as a world power on the current course.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 23, 2017
Jesse FergusonVerified account @ JesseFFerguson
NEW. Admin give $300m contract to fix power in Puerto Rico to firm with only 2ppl from Sec. Zinke’s hometown.
For the love of money.
“Indonesia demands answers after military chief denied U.S. entry”
* James Walcott asks, “Will We Ever Return to Normal After Trump?
If he still votes with the pos on the tax cuts, Ocare repeal, etc., this is all meaningless.
Good morning, TODville. Let’s gear up to help.
This BISH here
UGH UGH UGH. The worst dregs of society and they think they own everybody.
Hope in one hand…. (Hint: YOU HAVE TO BE THE CORRECTION ON THE MADMAN)
This thread is sickening.
Interesting comment from Corker. Does he mean EVER? For ANYTHING?
Sen. Corker says he wish he hadn’t supported Trump, guess what Senator. Too dam late.
Hello there everybody.
This has proooobably already been discussed here left right and centre but I watched “Barry” on Netflix yesterday and really liked it. Have any of you seen it already?
Lazy moron
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/23/16522456/trump-bartiromo-transcript
There you go. After all that showboating, the fucker’s agenda is the same as that of pos.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/10/24/theres-still-time-to-give/
GM, TOD ohana.
Another sexual predator and his hostile organization has fallen. John Besh, the new Orleans based chef and restauranteur, has left his organization to “focus on family” after the Times Pecayune published articles with interviews from at least 9 people who had suffered sexual harassment in the workplace. This, like Hollywood, is an industry-wide problem that has been going on for decades, and finally a respected news outlet has given time and space to listen to survivors’ stories and get them out there. Besh has a PBS cooking show that I watched for years. He presents himself as a dedicated family man, has had his sons on the show over the years, and tries to present himself as just a down home Southern boy, when he has actually cooked from a one time US ambassador to France and owns restaurants all over the country in prime locations. The Times investigation started months ago and is independent of the Weinstein investigations. The ultimate justice is for the man who would be president to be brought down by those he has abused over the years. Everyday he is in office is a terrible affront to those he preyed upon and to all who have suffered such from other predators who are not so highly placed. His election told millions of women that we do not have the rights to our own bodies and that anyone who has any power over us can do as he/she chooses. While I am encouraged by the recent developments in which women are being heard and their abusers beginning to be called to account, as long as a confessed sexual predator is allowed to hold the highest office in the land and possibly the world, the message remains that women do not matter, that we are property to be used and discarded at the desire of any man who holds and real or perceived power over us.