I was telling a guy just the other day that it’s hard to come back from being labeled an asshole. No matter what you do you’re still that guy that’s labeled an asshole. You can save a cat stuck up in a tree, you can start a community garden and give away free vegetables. Hey that’s Bob, he started a community garden and he gives away free vegetables, so what, fuck him, that guy is a real asshole.
MUST READ THREAD that illuminates quite clearly the fear and the dread and the constant dehumanizing manipulation. This is the fluency we all need. https://t.co/iVja2hSJte
1. The Rob Porter affair — the enabling and minimizing of Porter, followed by Trump's smear of the #MeToo movement — is a surprise in the way that rain is a surprise after thunder.
Joy speaks so much truth and makes it plain. I’m glad she’s not pulling any punches with her #Reiders in answering their questins and not trying to downplay the precipe that the country is standing at. Her article yesterday in the Daily Beast is a like a claxon.
Me three.Listening to her is both amazing and chilling. I agree with every point she made. In part, it is the unknown–when and how will this end for this once great democracy.
Listened to Making Obama…very enjoyable…despite all that we know about Pres Obama…it gives you a different vibe…the Pres story told in the words of the people who was there…looking forward to the next installment
Having a place to come and listen the Making Obama podcast makes me ever so grateful that this little spot in the intertubes is still alive and kicking. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Nerdy for keeping the lights on. Greatly appreciate you and my fellow TOD peeps and this enduring community more than words can say. ❤ ❤ ❤
YES! Don’t forget, people! It starts at 10am Eastern and will be live streamed at the Smithsonian website as well as their Facebook page. I’ll post another reminder in the morning. VERT EXCITED.
“You should have spoke like that back in 1989. You called for the death penalty. We were 14 & 15 years old kids.” @santanaraymond, one of the #centralparkfive.
I AM A GIRL. I am illiterate. I do not know that in #Pakistan every child has a constitutional right to a free education. Or United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26 says education is a right of all children. Do Human & Children's Rights apply to me? #4/4 pic.twitter.com/QHhCjNH05j
During Sochi, NBC ran a profile of Putin calling him a "man of peace" & saying Russia was "ready to join the world." Putin invaded Ukraine two weeks later.
Facebook sold everyone’s data to a company called Cambridge Analytica, who then used that data to develop profiles of people. Those profiles were used to micro target Americans with Political Propaganda and fake news through targeted advertising on Facebook. Zuck’s fucked.
There are exciting #Democrats running for office all over the country & dedicated #Resisters working to help get their names out there. #LucyMcBath of #Georgia who is running for #GA37 is one of those exciting candidates who has turned tragedy into a life of service. Go Lucy go! https://t.co/Iw5ZX9M6Vc
Thank you @CapehartJ for including me in your "Cape Up Black History Month Spotlight"! It was awesome being a included as an influential voice – I plan to be a voice for the people of Georgia's 37th district! To hear the podcast –> https://t.co/X1EkRtloNx
Yes indeed, meta. President Obama, as passionately as I’ve seen him do, warned us about dire consequences of electing Trump president Any one who says otherwise about President Obama is either a liar or did not take time to seriously listen to him. While I absolutely understand that Valdimir Putin did everything to disrupt and undermine the 2016 presidential election to help elect Trump, the fact remains that so many Americans chose not show up and vote, or voted for third party candidates who had absolutely no chance of being elected president. I especially loathe the “holier than thou purity progressives,” who were actively involved in demonizing both President Obama and the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. As far as I am concerned, people like Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, Cornel West and the rest of the purity progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton, are as complicit as Valdimir Putin in aiding and abetting the election of Donald Trump.
Absolutely AGREE with your every word, nath. I’m exhausted by the purity crowd who put so many other in danger. Let’s make sure 2018 produces results to put a real check on our country’s slide into fascism.
Right on. But what many white folks and white folks in the media fail to understand is that IS why he was elected. Coates told it all in his essay “The First White President”
“The President of the US needs to apologize for suggesting that people who come forward about domestic violence, including Porter’s ex-wives, are not telling the truth. That’s exactly the reason more victims don’t coming forward.” — @tedlieuhttps://t.co/fh6bG9pmy2
A girl with Down syndrome, got up during a regular papal service & went toward @Pontifex Security men quickly moved in 2 take her back to her mom. The Pope stopped them & said to her "come sit next to me.” She then sat down near him and he continued his homily, holding her hands pic.twitter.com/2QziweDRPX
America’s been invaded by a hostile foreign govt. Citizens can’t communicate with their govt representatives w/o extreme, aggressive interference from Kremlin bots/trolls, who are often abusive & whose purpose is to deceive & reign chaos in the dialogue. This should be outlawed.
Stop imagining how great it will be when the House of Representatives turn BLUE. Instead, make sure you are registered to vote today, and make sure that you and all of your friends and family members vote on Election day. It won't be GREAT unless it actually happens!!
Whatever that means. Kelly brutally presided over Gitmo and Homeland Security and now pals around with Trump. I'm not feeling any sentimentality whatsoever. https://t.co/wSOzA35iDr
Senators who voted NO on confirmation of Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security. Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Cortez Masto (D-NV) Gillibrand (D-NY) Harris (D-CA) Heinrich (D-NM) Merkley (D-OR) Udall (D-NM) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warren (D-MA) Wyden (D-OR)
Hey, not “my Greyhound ” please ….
I happen to be one of the people who ride it and would be very frightened of passengers with his political ideas and actions
“I talk to Flynn virtually everyday, if not multiple times a day,” @DevinNunes said in December 2016. “Seldom there's a day that goes by that I don't talk to Flynn, and especially right after the campaign, directly.” https://t.co/Xjy0DsGBFj
I always had an inkling that Nunes wasn’t the captain of his ship, more bluntly the guy is a numbnut, a fool if you will. You don’t really believe that some half-baked moron from Cali would be calling the shots do you? Russia has at its disposal a plethora of useful idiots.
It's the #GOPTaxScam all over again: Trump has designed this plan to, in broad strokes, shift money from people and places that didn't vote for him to people and places that did.
No. No. No. This headline is budget-illiterate. Trump's budget will include $200 billion in infrastructure spending, offset by 20% reductions in base funding for Depts. of Transportation and Energy. All told, he's basically proposing a $0 infrastructure plan. https://t.co/ceWRSSGLVG
Am covering the unveiling of @BarackObama, @MichelleObama portraits at the @NPG. Steve Spielberg is here. Spielberg and wife Katie Capshaw are major donors for the portraits. I just spotted Tom Hanks. Stay tuned. https://t.co/q8mW2BxcYM
This administration is openly planning to make up fake controversies to get attention & advance its white supremacist agenda, and media chumps hear that but still just nod & play along. Despicable. https://t.co/WGV3n0QljUpic.twitter.com/0Q8V26Tokb
The museum collects multiple images of the presidents and first ladies but also commissions a set of portraits. It’s the only place outside the White House where visitors can view a complete collection of presidential portraits. https://t.co/lDjFnTcV6zpic.twitter.com/ChvXgQH98W
Just the other day I saw a guy with a tattoo on his arm that said “I Am”….now I know why
50 years ago today, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike. They were joined by Dr. King and fought to bring the movements for racial and economic justice together. Today, we honor their legacy and continue their struggle. https://t.co/g1JHzCAgFI#FightFor15pic.twitter.com/Ol3OqZRIu9
Well, this is telling: The Economist has downgraded the US from “full democracy” to “flawed democracy” because of a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials under Trump.
Coming soon! The unveiling of President Obama and Mrs. Obama’s portraits, painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald — the first two African American artists chosen to paint the Portrait Gallery’s official portraits pic.twitter.com/JbpvGU1NDJ
The portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will be unveiled Monday. Get to know Amy Sherald, the Baltimore artist behind the first lady’s portrait: https://t.co/bH9uwgdNjXpic.twitter.com/sDtjfoTTPu
It's Abraham Lincoln's 209th birthday. Did you know the 44th President, Barack Obama was sworn in using Lincoln & #MLK's Bible? The NAACP was also founded on this day in 1909. pic.twitter.com/WaapnhVBzD
Smithsonian Secretary @DavidJSkorton: "Presidential portraits have a particular power to capture the public imagination, to move people to think about America’s leaders—and, indeed, American society itself—in new and unexpected ways." #ObamaPortraits#myNPGpic.twitter.com/dWSq12VRBd
"As First Lady, [Michelle Obama] helped give African American artists a greater presence on the walls of the White House—a commitment that her selection of Amy Sherald to paint her portrait reflects, and one that we at the Smithsonian here are proud to share." — @DavidJSkortonpic.twitter.com/46OeB7tHbM
Former First Lady @MichelleObama: “I am humbled. I am honored. I am proud. But most of all, I am so incredibly grateful for all the people who came before me on this journey—the folks who built the foundation on which I stand.” pic.twitter.com/k5B9ZDomxn
People snarking on the Michelle Obama portrait should really take 2 minutes to see it in the context of Amy Sherald's other portraits. pic.twitter.com/CbDYTFey4V
Michelle Obama: I'm “thinking about all of the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/u7EWLEnaUL
Michelle Obama recognizes late father, who "sacrificed everything to give me & my brother the opportunities he never dreamed for himself." pic.twitter.com/AHN7F1zjbx
Former President Barack Obama’s official portrait was just unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, a rite of passage for most former presidents, all of whom have their portraits hanging in the museum https://t.co/1w4arKRmcbpic.twitter.com/SSns8bFb95
hi everyone. Hope that you all have a great day
Thanks Linda. Congrats on First! Happy Sunday!
Good Morning Nerdy… TOD Family!!!
Congrats on first Linda.
I echo the hope that everyone has a great day.
Congratulations, Linda! Will check out this series.
Hello,Warrior Queen. How are you doing?
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Hugs backatcha MightyP! 😘
I was telling a guy just the other day that it’s hard to come back from being labeled an asshole. No matter what you do you’re still that guy that’s labeled an asshole. You can save a cat stuck up in a tree, you can start a community garden and give away free vegetables. Hey that’s Bob, he started a community garden and he gives away free vegetables, so what, fuck him, that guy is a real asshole.
True
I wonder what the count would be today if it were to strike down the Civil Rights Act?
I get inspired by stories like this, the fearlessness that young people show in the face of adversity.
These days, I have to search for the feel good articles to balance out what has become our daily news.
Amen!
That’s fabulous!
I want to say that this does not represent all men, but the truth is that it represents so many that the minority it does not, sadly, matters little.
Thank you so much, Nerdy, for supplying the link to Making Obama’s first episode.
OMG, this is so important.
Good Listen….sesp the last 15-20 minutes…
someone asked if there was going to be a civil war…listen for her answer
Joy speaks so much truth and makes it plain. I’m glad she’s not pulling any punches with her #Reiders in answering their questins and not trying to downplay the precipe that the country is standing at. Her article yesterday in the Daily Beast is a like a claxon.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-rule-week-55-there-is-no-bottom-to-this-bottom
me too
Me three.Listening to her is both amazing and chilling. I agree with every point she made. In part, it is the unknown–when and how will this end for this once great democracy.
We are not doomed….we will fight…half the battle is information…and awareness
Listened to Making Obama…very enjoyable…despite all that we know about Pres Obama…it gives you a different vibe…the Pres story told in the words of the people who was there…looking forward to the next installment
Really enjoyed this video of Joy. Thanks for sharing Shelia.
Hello TODbots on a Sunday Cold Afternoon.
Congrats, GCL on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks NW!
Thanks Chips!
Thanks TODbots!
Having a place to come and listen the Making Obama podcast makes me ever so grateful that this little spot in the intertubes is still alive and kicking. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Nerdy for keeping the lights on. Greatly appreciate you and my fellow TOD peeps and this enduring community more than words can say. ❤ ❤ ❤
Looking forward to seeing FLOTUS44 and POTUS44 portrait unveil tomorrow
YES! Don’t forget, people! It starts at 10am Eastern and will be live streamed at the Smithsonian website as well as their Facebook page. I’ll post another reminder in the morning. VERT EXCITED.
ditto
Thanks, bella – I was trying to remember when it would happen!
Still so sad.
Wonderful.
MY POTUS SAID IT ALL, SAID ALL THAT HAD TO BE SAID.
Yes indeed, meta. President Obama, as passionately as I’ve seen him do, warned us about dire consequences of electing Trump president Any one who says otherwise about President Obama is either a liar or did not take time to seriously listen to him. While I absolutely understand that Valdimir Putin did everything to disrupt and undermine the 2016 presidential election to help elect Trump, the fact remains that so many Americans chose not show up and vote, or voted for third party candidates who had absolutely no chance of being elected president. I especially loathe the “holier than thou purity progressives,” who were actively involved in demonizing both President Obama and the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. As far as I am concerned, people like Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, Cornel West and the rest of the purity progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton, are as complicit as Valdimir Putin in aiding and abetting the election of Donald Trump.
Absolutely AGREE with your every word, nath. I’m exhausted by the purity crowd who put so many other in danger. Let’s make sure 2018 produces results to put a real check on our country’s slide into fascism.
Right on. But what many white folks and white folks in the media fail to understand is that IS why he was elected. Coates told it all in his essay “The First White President”
Woooot! Adam Rippon and Mirai Nagasu out here doing it for Team USA! Go U S A!!!
Really, he was robbed. Judges were so wrong!
How ya like me now? 🔥
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And her parents are immigrants… just sayin’.
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The Shibutanis were AWESOME!
Hard-earned beautiful hardware!
But Canada’s Virtue & Moir were freaking INSANE!!! Kudos to them!
Bam! 🇺🇸🔥
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Leslie Jones’ Olympics tweets are EVERYTHING! They really should just make her an official commentator! 😂
😂
ROFLMAO 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Goodnight TOD ….
‘Night Bob!
Morning everyone.
I had to smile:)
Got that right
THIS
Not with this fraud in charge….but idea that is long overdue
Good morning, TODers!!
I REFUSE to romanticize this corrupt racist and misogynist.
He also had the nerve to mess with my POTUS.
BTW, Saint Bernie voted to confirm Kelly. Because of course.
Kelly is just the latest in a long line of vile people that have risen through and presided over some of our most sacred institutions.
I really hope his fall from grace continues and he is run out of town on a Greyhound bus.
Hey, not “my Greyhound ” please ….
I happen to be one of the people who ride it and would be very frightened of passengers with his political ideas and actions
I hear you on that.
LIVESTREAM for unveiling of the Obama portraits at 10AM!!!!
I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THEM!!! Of course, I’ll be at WORK! I know that I can peek in here and see them. SO excited:)
Simply great…..i will get a chance to watch it more thoroughly when i get home tonight….but they will always be a part of me…
Oh, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
I always had an inkling that Nunes wasn’t the captain of his ship, more bluntly the guy is a numbnut, a fool if you will. You don’t really believe that some half-baked moron from Cali would be calling the shots do you? Russia has at its disposal a plethora of useful idiots.
Like any Saturday morning cartoon villain with a plan, whatever Trump puts forth is designed with mischief in mind.
UGH
Tonight will be wild in NYC!!
I am so ready for the “Black Panther” and I’m here for all the majesty.
I’ll look for his runway show videos and post them if I can find them.
Just the other day I saw a guy with a tattoo on his arm that said “I Am”….now I know why
OOOOOOOOOOOOO doggies! Round them up!
From “full democracy” to “flawed democracy” to “fucked up democracy”.
SOON: National Portrait Gallery unveils Former President Obama’s official portrait – http://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-5?cid=share_twitter_widget
Loretta Lynch seems to be absent….does anyone know what she is doing…..that tarmac episode seems to have been used tarnish her storied career….
JER, thanks so much for all these awesome tweets!! CHILLS!!
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LOL!
I love My Forever President Obama and Firstlady Michelle Obama
NG YouTube livestream is tweaking out. Here’s another line:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?440988-1/smithsonian-unveils-obama-portraits
President Barack Obama! 😁
(Not former)
Go to cspan. Sound is working there.
OMG, seeing them on the stage makes me cry. With all the crap going on seeing two beautiful people celebrated gives me hope.
An oldie, but a goodie!
Obama diary,what do you guys think?
WOW
[ Gasp! ] Wow! Wow! Wow!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/02/12/the-unveiling/
Always love ❤️