Seems like too much news! To me the timeline is almost indisputable about obstruction and collusion. It also seems like Trump knows Russia made it possible for him to win and wants them to intrude again to elect him next time around.
Calling all MAGA workers, those jobs you think are being "stolen" from you are ready for you now. ~ California crops rot as immigration crackdown creates farmworker shortage https://t.co/Oafnyb02Qt via @FortuneMagazine
Thank you NW for showcasing this great poem. Am an and have always been an optimist, but theses times are testing me. I have great fear for this country. This poem touches me
While it may seem that the turd won’t be impeached, the scum can be checkmated if the dems regain the majority in both the houses. That’s my only hope.
Thanks for this; I did not know this history. Black folk are amazing; we keep on keeping on, insisting, persisting and resisting with creativity, strength, skill and knowledge. We survive and thrive and are hated for doing so, but in the final chapter, America’s true glory will be in all that we accomplished with so much was against us.
So many criminally-compromised republicans who are determined to protect a proven traitor to the nation. Wouldn’t now be a great time for Special Counsel Mueller to indict some of these scumbags who are determined to promote a fake memo in order to protect a renowned criminal
Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
Morning everyone. We made it to Friday! Florida will soon have NEW VOTERS!
Breaking: A federal judge has ruled that Florida's lifetime ban on restoring voting rights of convicted felons violates the constitution https://t.co/IOZaW81gb0
While I love Eugene Robinson, I believe his opinion is too naive. So far the FBI has done nothing to push back against Trump including when he fired the FBI director. I don’t see the FBI as a force of good since it was FBI agents who pushed Comey to release that ridiculous letter about Secretary Clinton’s investigation being reopened. That letter played a part in her loss since it was released just before the election.
I believe that the intelligence community has uncovered much more than we know…some may never be revealed…but much of it will be….Trump’s desperation…and the resignation of so many GOPers are connected….soon….soon we will know
To commemorate Black History Month, I offer this….from then Senator Obama. I remember this like it was yesterday because it was given on the day of my daughter’s birth. President Obama’s speech on race. March 18, 2008
My sister volunteered in her local Dem office in NC at the time, and sent me a commemorative copy of his speech that day, which I count among my Obama Treasures!!
Orwell in "1984": "if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth"
Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Mayan ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough.
Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications.
The landscape, near already-known Mayan cities, is thought to have been home to millions more Mayans than other research had previously suggested.
The researchers mapped over 810 square miles (2,100 sq km) in northern Peten.
Results from the research using “revolutionary” Lidar technology, which is short for “light detection and ranging”, suggest that Central America supported an advanced civilisation more akin to sophisticated cultures like ancient Greece or China, National Geographic reports.
“The Lidar images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist, told the magazine.
Amazing find, I remember reading books about ancient civilizations. What was so amazing about those books were the fact that those civilizations were built on top of even more ancient civilizations. Civilizations that were so old that they weren’t even known to have existed, not even our most advanced technology can calculate the origins of some civilizations. We know so little about the origins of mankind.
ICE has arrested a U.S. army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has two U.S. citizen children. His name is Miguel Perez Jr. and he has lived in the U.S. since he was 8 years old
“In July 2002 the manpower demands on the U.S. military of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted President George Bush to sign an Executive Order making all non-citizens on Active Duty during the Global War on Terror eligible for immediate American citizenship. Previously, non-citizens were required to serve on active duty for three years before they could apply for citizenship. By September 2003, there were approximately 37,000 active duty soldiers (or about 3 percent) who were not U.S. citizens. In addition, there were another 13,000 non-citizen reservists”.
If he was eligible to become an American citizen he should have applied immediately. I know so many adults who came here, married American’s, had children, and refused to become an American citizen. They pay taxes, have social security cards, good jobs, etc. I hope those that fought for this illegal war went ahead and applied. I understand it takes money to go through the process so maybe it was too expensive.
So many Americans still don’t know what it takes and the process to become an American citizen. Many think just marrying an American automatically makes you a citizen. That stopped years ago due to abuses of fake marriages.
She served six terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and in 2011, her colleagues elected her the House Minority Leader, the first woman to lead in either chamber of the Georgia State Assembly. She's widely-respected on both sides of the aisle.
During her time in the Georgia House, she garnered rave reviews statewide and nationally:
2012 JFK New Frontier Award from @Kennedy_School 2014 Rising Star Award from @emilyslist Named to lists by Georgia Trend, @TheRoot, @EBONYMag, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and more.
Y'all… candidates of this caliber don't come along often. Let's help get Stacey Abrams elected Governor of Georgia. Make history, sure, but more importantly: this is the kind of leader who can change the world. H
Georgia needs a leader that takes bold action in face of real problems. In 2014, that's just what @staceyabrams after she saw that 800,000 people of color weren't registered to vote. Just watch this: https://t.co/Jsa6tC1sQs#TeamAbrams#GAPol
The current lady in the WH is missing in action. What does the woman sitting in the WH care about America? American families? Her only claim to fame will be what she wears and so many of the deplorables that voted her husband into office can’t afford what she wears. At least FFL Michelle Obama was proud to wear clothes from unheard of designers that made them famous, Target, J.Crew., etc.
Unlike the missing in action lady in the WH she knows she can’t speak as well as FFL and won’t shame herself unlike her husband who shames himself everyday.
The party affiliation of those who serve our institutions is going to be an obscene RWNJ issue imposed by Trump until they ALL bow to his power and demagoguery. This is what treachery looks like.
Blowhard Trump gig should be quite apparent by now: Make a nothingburger, call it something else, blow it out of proportion, call your comrades at Fox and get the rest of the MSM to follow. Have everyone else do the work of predicting the worst. No shame.
The memo was released, contains nothing of substance, and Congressional Republicans are quite clearly complicit in this White House’s efforts to undermine and obstruct justice.
.@realDonaldTrump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief by releasing Nunes’ unredacted, classified memo. His decision undermines our national security and is a bouquet to his friend Putin. pic.twitter.com/kdUgIrCE6l
Hello TODbots!
TGIF, finally!
Bone Cold in MN!
We are in REAL time watching the Decline and Fall of USA. 😦 😦 😦
That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.
One of the few good things to come out of the @Snowden leaks was a statutory reform to FISA that created a “public advocate” position. Obama signed that reform into law years ago. https://t.co/GJiygn5Ljh
Why is MSM giving @MayorMeganBarry of Nashville after she had an affair with a subordinate, her bodyguard. A married woman she gets a pass while a man would be destroyed every other minute! Resign NOW! Hey #metoo movement where you at he was her subordinate? @APpic.twitter.com/uiZqzT0gr4
WOW the @GOP & #TrumpTreasonInc are IDIOTS. Carter Page has been under @FBI surveillance years before the Steele Dossier existed which has been public information for almost 2 years! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ https://t.co/Rz0je7csfg
Make no mistake about it. The reason the FBI and DOJ are so frantically trying to prevent the release of the Memo, isn't because they fear what's in it.
It's because they won't be able to disprove it without risking the lives of US spies and intel sources.
The Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives personally took a gun away from a legislator who was about to be expelled – https://t.co/Pgw683D4SG
You know what happens when you blow off intelligence briefings, watch Fox TV all morning and spend your evenings colluding with Hannity? You get stupid rot from a numbskull like Nunes and pretend it's going to save you.
In PA our gerrymandering suit, we just filed our U.S. Supreme Court brief opposing the application for a stay. You can read it here: https://t.co/28AV6kDGDt
Michelle Obama: "Real change doesn't happen from the top down here in Washington. Real change happens from the bottom up in communities across this country." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/Hi37c2QqCN
The memo was released, contains nothing of substance, and Congressional Republicans are quite clearly complicit in this White House’s efforts to undermine and obstruct justice.
Breaking: Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of The Temptations has died in Chicago – per family. He crooned the world over with “Cloud Nine" – “I Can't Get Next to You" & “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone.” Tomorrow, Edwards would have been 75. @cbschicagopic.twitter.com/HWESouATfl
Cutting through the noise, there is only 1 relevant question: was there probable cause to issue the #FISA warrants on Carter Page? The answer is yes. Nunes memo DOES NOT SAY there was no probable cause.
I wrote for @HuffPost about conspicuous blackness in the NFL, and why the kneeling was pure patriotism, asserting their right to push America to be better and to deliver on its centuries-old assurances. As Dr. King said, be true to what you said on paper. https://t.co/0mTCz3kfcd
Take heart because one day the homegrown demagogue & all members of the Team Treason will be rounded up & taken into custody by the same law enforcement officials that they are actively trying to destroy
….
AND HOW SWEET THAT DAY WILL BE 😀😀😁😁😀😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😀
Trump supporters have more respect for Russia Putin then they have for the black American President, but yet they want us to believe that they love America.
Michelle Obama: "Real change doesn't happen from the top down here in Washington. Real change happens from the bottom up in communities across this country." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/Hi37c2QqCN
Breaking: Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of The Temptations has died in Chicago – per family. He crooned the world over with “Cloud Nine" – “I Can't Get Next to You" & “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone.” Tomorrow, Edwards would have been 75. @cbschicagopic.twitter.com/HWESouATfl
Some news: Devin Nunes’ Democratic opponent, @JanzforCongress, raised over $100,000 today alone with news of the memo release, per a senior campaign aide.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
How is everybody?
Watching Rachel right now!
Seems like too much news! To me the timeline is almost indisputable about obstruction and collusion. It also seems like Trump knows Russia made it possible for him to win and wants them to intrude again to elect him next time around.
We are living in interesting times!!!!
And unfortunately Dudette, a lot of these jobs are in Trump and Nunes country in California.
I think that’s the point of his tweet.
Thank you NW for showcasing this great poem. Am an and have always been an optimist, but theses times are testing me. I have great fear for this country. This poem touches me
While it may seem that the turd won’t be impeached, the scum can be checkmated if the dems regain the majority in both the houses. That’s my only hope.
And yes, it’s a very good poem.
I have hope for this fall but there is still going to be tapering from the Russians. Our only hope is to overwhelm with numbers. I have almost hope.
Enjoy Michelle Obama today on the Ellen show.
The more I watch the news the more I realize that America is owned by Russia. How are the Deplorables not realizing this???
Tried to post this vid b4, not sure if WP is messing around. Trying again, oldie but goodie.
Beautiful!
Wow, I hadn’t heard this speech. Powerful.
🏎 https://twitter.com/ericasaidthat/status/959127552601227265
Thanks for this; I did not know this history. Black folk are amazing; we keep on keeping on, insisting, persisting and resisting with creativity, strength, skill and knowledge. We survive and thrive and are hated for doing so, but in the final chapter, America’s true glory will be in all that we accomplished with so much was against us.
So many criminally-compromised republicans who are determined to protect a proven traitor to the nation. Wouldn’t now be a great time for Special Counsel Mueller to indict some of these scumbags who are determined to promote a fake memo in order to protect a renowned criminal
Our FLOTUS will be with us this morning at 10:30am Eastern:
2018 School Counselor of the Year Celebration
Live from the Kennedy Center with Michelle Obama
https://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/school-counselor-of-the-year-award
Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem
“Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!”
― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
How beautiful.
yes
Morning everyone. We made it to Friday! Florida will soon have NEW VOTERS!
While I love Eugene Robinson, I believe his opinion is too naive. So far the FBI has done nothing to push back against Trump including when he fired the FBI director. I don’t see the FBI as a force of good since it was FBI agents who pushed Comey to release that ridiculous letter about Secretary Clinton’s investigation being reopened. That letter played a part in her loss since it was released just before the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/messing-with-the-fbi-trump-doesnt-know-history/2018/02/01/53f94f62-0788-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html?tid=pm_pop
I believe that the intelligence community has uncovered much more than we know…some may never be revealed…but much of it will be….Trump’s desperation…and the resignation of so many GOPers are connected….soon….soon we will know
“His judgment cometh and that right soon”
– Shawshank Redemption.
THIS!
a sad and sweet story.
RIP, nigel.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42916451
Hope so! Music to my ears! We shall see
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/02/white-house-lawyers-think-mueller-indict-trump-spring.html
To commemorate Black History Month, I offer this….from then Senator Obama. I remember this like it was yesterday because it was given on the day of my daughter’s birth. President Obama’s speech on race. March 18, 2008
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478467
My sister volunteered in her local Dem office in NC at the time, and sent me a commemorative copy of his speech that day, which I count among my Obama Treasures!!
The goal of Republicans. Even before now.
Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Mayan ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough.
Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications.
The landscape, near already-known Mayan cities, is thought to have been home to millions more Mayans than other research had previously suggested.
The researchers mapped over 810 square miles (2,100 sq km) in northern Peten.
Results from the research using “revolutionary” Lidar technology, which is short for “light detection and ranging”, suggest that Central America supported an advanced civilisation more akin to sophisticated cultures like ancient Greece or China, National Geographic reports.
“The Lidar images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist, told the magazine.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42916261
Amazing find, I remember reading books about ancient civilizations. What was so amazing about those books were the fact that those civilizations were built on top of even more ancient civilizations. Civilizations that were so old that they weren’t even known to have existed, not even our most advanced technology can calculate the origins of some civilizations. We know so little about the origins of mankind.
mankind is too busy being greedy and destructive to care about current lives let alone pass lives.
wow
But…CRIMINALS….remember?
ICE has arrested a U.S. army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has two U.S. citizen children. His name is Miguel Perez Jr. and he has lived in the U.S. since he was 8 years old
“In July 2002 the manpower demands on the U.S. military of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted President George Bush to sign an Executive Order making all non-citizens on Active Duty during the Global War on Terror eligible for immediate American citizenship. Previously, non-citizens were required to serve on active duty for three years before they could apply for citizenship. By September 2003, there were approximately 37,000 active duty soldiers (or about 3 percent) who were not U.S. citizens. In addition, there were another 13,000 non-citizen reservists”.
If he was eligible to become an American citizen he should have applied immediately. I know so many adults who came here, married American’s, had children, and refused to become an American citizen. They pay taxes, have social security cards, good jobs, etc. I hope those that fought for this illegal war went ahead and applied. I understand it takes money to go through the process so maybe it was too expensive.
So many Americans still don’t know what it takes and the process to become an American citizen. Many think just marrying an American automatically makes you a citizen. That stopped years ago due to abuses of fake marriages.
Good Morning Family! 🌞
Good afternoon, Ms. Adorable!
Well, hey there, Cutie-Pie! 😄
Program livestream open now:
Our FLOTUS Michelle Obama presents the 2018 School Counselor of the Year Award
https://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/school-counselor-of-the-year-award
Wishing you a lovely day!
Good Morning Dudette! Same to you and all my TOD family. I am taking a mental health day off. Thanks for the perfect music to start my day 🙂
((((( jojo )))))
She reminds me of Barbara Jordon from Texas.
I had a similar thought!
My next governor
The current lady in the WH is missing in action. What does the woman sitting in the WH care about America? American families? Her only claim to fame will be what she wears and so many of the deplorables that voted her husband into office can’t afford what she wears. At least FFL Michelle Obama was proud to wear clothes from unheard of designers that made them famous, Target, J.Crew., etc.
Unlike the missing in action lady in the WH she knows she can’t speak as well as FFL and won’t shame herself unlike her husband who shames himself everyday.
As Ellen said yesterday on her show to Michelle Obama, “We Miss Her”. We Love Her too.
We miss you.
Every day of 45’s dismal “reign” has seemed like Groundhog Day.
That’s a dayum good looking man!!!!
Happy to see that James Morrison is a Democrat. I liked the role he played on 24. 🙂
This is good. Printed for my wall.
Papadopoulos who is currently INDICTED for LYING to the FBI.
Yep!
Hello TODbots!
TGIF, finally!
Bone Cold in MN!
We are in REAL time watching the Decline and Fall of USA. 😦 😦 😦
The Culprits, Compliance Nyash Dirt bags and the Duplicity Wicked Politicians are the GOP in Congress and the #Dotard occupying the WH.
Good Afternoon, Beloved TODable TODville Community.
Someone give this guy another mint julep so he can go black to sleep, what an utterly useless man.
Ascertain the truth?
Give me ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH for $400.
reminds me of the reverse discrimination syndrome
For now. And by 3:00PM EDT, it will reverse back.
At this point you can’t convince the Republicans that this is treason because they have put party first and country somewhere lower down the line.
“It’s because they won’t be able to disprove it without risking the lives of US spies and intel sources.”
That sounds like treason, seasoned with blackmail.
why won’t anyone say it….
folks keep dancing around it
For your Friday afternoon pleasure.
And Jesus, wept.
Not!
His last name is Shooter. Can’t make this stuff up
No!
This was her 2nd re-nomination & now another back track.
bbl
ICYMI…
I love John Dingell
Take heart because one day the homegrown demagogue & all members of the Team Treason will be rounded up & taken into custody by the same law enforcement officials that they are actively trying to destroy
….
AND HOW SWEET THAT DAY WILL BE 😀😀😁😁😀😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😀
Trump supporters have more respect for Russia Putin then they have for the black American President, but yet they want us to believe that they love America.
FLOTUS speaking TRUTH
She is great.
Sad news.
Siedah Garrett wrote Micheal Jackson hit song Man In the Mirror.
Yep. She worked with a lot of the big stars back in the day.
RIP Dennis Edwards.
Let’s do this.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/02/02/speak-on-it/
OMG