This is an excellent podcast. Please share with your networks.
This is an urgent and important discussion of the state of science in our government with lots and lots of very important examples of why it's so important to have credible science advisors. https://t.co/uR6fTjNz7n
Let’s hold hands while we stroll through this, shall we?
Breh. What just happened?
A fashion blogger presumably being interviewed about such, is suddenly asked about nuclear Iran, gives a thoughtful critique, is told she doesn't sound like an American, gives thoughtful response, and then we're back to fashion. pic.twitter.com/CHFrsBAFd6
"Such adorable designs you've developed for young brown women DO YOU PLEDGE LOYALTY TO STARS AND STRIPES YOU SECRET ISIS FUCK. Let our viewers know where they can find more of your work!" pic.twitter.com/KdVIrwwod8
Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.) died last year. He was 77. In 1996, he was responsible for banning the CDC from doing gun-related research. It stopped potentially important studies cold.
This person waved a musket over his head at an NRA convention in 2014. He has a 93 percent rating with the NRA and does not support the bare minimum of gun reform that would protect children. But he has thoughts and prayers to offer. https://t.co/bVDP5d7z9Z
Schools should be places where children can learn, and faculty and staff can work, without fear of violence. My colleagues from Florida will carry home the prayers of the whole Senate, for victims and their families, for the community of Parkland, and for the first responders.
“They weren’t always right; sometimes I was. But they were right to do that because they knew they had to tell me what I needed to hear rather than what I wanted to hear,” he added.
Directing his comments toward Priebus, he added: “That’s the most important function of a chief of staff. Presidents need that. And I hope you will do that for President Trump.”
According to the book, others in attendance at the meeting later expressed their concerns that Priebus did not fully grasp the role he would play after Trump’s inauguration.
THAT’S RIGHT, SENATOR HARRIS. KEEP SAYING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SEN KAMALA HARRIS 🔥 : "We cannot tolerate a society and live in a country with any level of pride when our babies are being slaughtered." pic.twitter.com/zx22UKc7dC
She spoke about shocking the public into understanding with autopsy photos.
That’s exactly what Emmett Till’s mother did – via her son’s open casket – to sear the gruesome image of a murdered teenager in people’s minds and associate it with the KKK.
I had wondered if some of the parents of Sandy Hook would do this.
I wonder if one of the parents of this latest – and White Supremacist-fueled – massacre will take a page from Mamie Till’s book.
Three years ago I made a video series called Every Single Word where I edited down popular movies to only the words spoken by people of color. In honor of #BlackPanther I'm gonna re-share some of them here.
The entire Harry Potter series runs 1,207 minutes. POC speak for 5 minutes and 40 seconds. That's 0.47% which is represented by 12 characters (and 13 actors), two of whom are CGI. On average, each character speaks for 28.33 seconds. https://t.co/JeBjtU41Bk
None of these stories are about race, yet they have cast white people by default. They each deal with fantastical elements yet seem to have found it “unrealistic” to cast POC in anything but the periphery.
So if you see people celebrating #BlackPanther and don’t understand why, just remember that cinema has long been telling universally accessible stories that represent everyone with bodies that only represent some.
Student reporter David Hogg at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spoke with his classmates while hiding from the deadly shooting: "I wanted to be a junior NRA member … now I can't even fathom the idea of a gun in my house." https://t.co/X550dpgA88pic.twitter.com/T7s1uEieOk
We know you didn’t serve but the AR-15 recovered is almost identical to what our troops carry today in combat. Maybe you should do something about that besides pray. https://t.co/gLsdfXUuKE
The en banc Fourth Circuit has issued 285 pages worth of opinions affirming the district court’s injunction against #TravelBan 3.0, and staying the decision pending the forthcoming review of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling by #SCOTUS:https://t.co/negfsRJFN4
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 15, 2018
Trump is arguably the meanest, most hateful and disrespectful foul-mouthed con man ever to inhabit the WH, so spare me the sugar coated pablum somebody thought he should peddle. https://t.co/m1rfuxPq7K
Don’t bother debating gun-stroking dorks over what is or isn’t an “assault weapon.” Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
* The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was written to make it impossible to sue gun makers when people used their products, as designed, to kill people.
* Not only does the law set up almost insurmountable barriers to holding gun makers accountable for their decisions to flood the market with killing power, but if a victim’s family tries challenge the protections and fails, they are forced to pay the gun maker’s legal costs.
* It passed in 2005 with 65 votes in the Senate and 283 votes in the House, and was signed by George W. Bush.
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who voted to make it impossible for survivors to sue the people who made or sold the guns used to murder their loved ones, are running for reelection to the Senate this year.
Hello dears ♥️ I posted a lovely detailed note about today’s eclipse, and darn if it didn’t just vanish into the mysterious void we embrace as the interwebz. So I sighed, and gave up. I’m sure my WP site has been whacked by Putin’s bots. I wish I could stay off the internet for what’s left of my rapidly diminishing lifespan. Big big hugs all around! ♥️ {{{ TOD }}} ♥️ 🙏🏻🕯👊🏼
We are grieving with Parkland. But we are not powerless. Caring for our kids is our first job. And until we can honestly say that we're doing enough to keep them safe from harm, including long overdue, common-sense gun safety laws that most Americans want, then we have to change.
I could just weep in sadness at the absence of the kind of person who led us with dignity and pride for 8 full years. We absolutely must return to our cherished values and honest leadership.
NO to $25BILLION for Trump's vanity wall, a complete waste of money NO to ending "chain migration"more rightly called family reunification@NancyPelosi@SenSchumer
It sickens me that at a time when border crossings have been trending down for years, these politicians have swallowed Trump's "it's time to fix border security" BS. $25B for a vanity wall is an insult to our nation. @SenAngusKing@SenSchumer@NancyPelosi
Please read this thread, and then contemplate the cruelty of what Republicans have done with regard to healthcare. America should be better than this. https://t.co/pI2UZ3WR0r
BREAKING: Nikolas Cruz, alleged perpetrator in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was associated with white supremacist group Republic of Florida & participated in the group’s training exercises, according to the group’s leader. More info: https://t.co/eTCTx1fUdP
Sick of the sensationalizing of immigrant crime coming from this WH with ZERO concomitant attention, condemnation and plans to confront the increasing violence of white supremacy.
David Duke was ecstatic about a Trump win because “Make America White Again” is really the true meaning of MAGA.
Jeff Sessions is there to bring the Confederate / Jim Crow style laws back.
Hopefully like Al Capone, the Trump/Russia money crimes will set their downfall in motion, since Congress is complicit and won’t hold the Trump administration accountable for failing to hold TRUE terrorists accountable.
this is a ‘shithole’ country that assassinated two of its own most charismatic and intelligent presidents is never gonna change its white supremacist gun ‘rights’ underpinning, kids be damned. the turd is their ultimate nirvana.
We just won a major victory in federal court, making clear that Citizens United can no longer shroud its biggest donors in secrecy. pic.twitter.com/iiucp3looR
The news – reported by AP – that the Florida shooter was a member of a white nationalist group underscores what Trump's own Justice Dept. has said: that such groups are responsible for far more attacks than the immigrants and Muslims that Trump has preferred to focus on
In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1–35 days.
This dramatic rise in white supremacist terrorism starts at the top with the White House. We must remove the racist-in-chief along along with his entire corrupt administration. Only then can we "Make America Great Again."https://t.co/9iEAlydmov
I've twice corrected this on Twitter…bad math indeed, So make it 45 days, discount the non-dangerous incidents and you still have one hell of a problem. https://t.co/NnhUwlZXxA
Better gun laws won't stop all rampages. But consider: "Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"–Camus.
Florida AG Pam Bondi is touting how much she's been on the phone and how GoFundMe sites can pay for funeral and hospital expenses. A sheriff is demanding more money for his department.
These people have no answers for gun violence. None.
14 day waiting periods No sales by private owners No sales at gun shows 10 rounds magazine limit No bump stocks No cranks Licenses for all arms Child lock requirements Minimum age of purchase at 21 Assault rifle ban Universal background checks Domestic violence ban#GunReformNow
Yeah, I just about feel out of my chair when Bondi mentioned “Go Fund Me,” the greatest country in the world is reduced to begging for help on a Go Fund Me page. Maybe the Governor of Florida can help pay by tapping into all the loot he’s ripped off from Florida.
One reason there hasn’t been action is that Republicans have not paid a political price for blocking every single proposal, from background checks to bump stocks, for years. This kind of nonsense helps keep it that way. https://t.co/P8eFz882Yw
NEWS via @kenvogel and me, the Trump inaugural committee wraps with $5 mill donated to charity and $26 mill to an entity created by an advisor to Melana Trump https://t.co/Nlw5aJyKFx
At some point, honesty will require us to stop calling them victims and acknowledge that they are the ritual sacrifices we're willing to accept in order to uphold our current interpretation of the Second Amendment. https://t.co/ojlcmmZGDF
Hmm. 🧐Something’s not *quite* right here. Try replacing everything after “they are” with “… the ritual sacrifices Republicans are willing to allow in order to keep their NRA overlords happy.”
And something must be done about this along with churches who violate political advocacy.
REMINDER: NRA is a "tax-exempt social welfare organization under IRS section 501(c)(4)" and does not pay taxes on any of its net income. Under the same rules, it need not disclose its significant contributors to the public.
Putin is way smart enough to leverage America's gun fetish + hate of non-white folk as a sure fire way to control the @GOP via cash flow — happily managed by the @NRA.
Is there ANYONE in Trump's scandal ridden WH and cabinet that isn't being investigated for some sort of criminality or grift? Who isn't in the pocket of one or more industries and lobbyists?
I'm watching ppl who supported W ending the assault weapons ban mourn the FLA violence as if it didn't directly fucking allow Nikolas Cruz to get an AR-15. #GunReformNow
I feel a kind of anger today. The custom is don’t speak about it, just express grief the day after. Well, I’m tired of just doing that. We become culpable when we do nothing to stop it. #GunReformNowpic.twitter.com/pfjg1xORyd
In the wake of yesterday’s school shooting, Russian bots flooded Twitter in an attempt to stoke tension in the gun control debate https://t.co/betXXGTw0C
FUN FACT: The top two reasons for security clearances being held up or denied are concerns surrounding foreign influence or financial issues 🤔 https://t.co/vTEZRtEk0y
BREAKING: More than 130 political appointees working in white house didn't have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Don McGahn, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News @carolelee@mikememoli@kwelkernbc
When I got my Federal job they did a background, it got held up because ( I swear to god ) I had an unpaid cable bill from god knows when. Me and my girlfriend, that’s now my wife, didn’t pay a cable bill, supposedly. My wife is obsessed with paying bills on time but for some reason this one got past us. Anyway, it was a funky $50 or $60 dollar cable bill that almost derailed my career before it even got started. Needless to say I paid the bill and provided the proof, no harm no foul. If these people can’t get a background check favorably adjudicated then something must not smell right.
The President and his supporters created a power racist symbol that is used and embraced by violent extremists. Racists yell "Trump" at black and latino kids and everyone knows what they mean. The President bears responsibility for that.
Mr. Speaker, the answer to your prayers is written across the face of every shattered parent, every devastated child, every innocent life lost: Do something. https://t.co/sj0QT0VBfR
Florida lags behind the majority of states on Medicaid spending per enrollee. The legislature rejected Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA. Medicaid $ are frequently used to bolster mental health services for low-income people. https://t.co/3s6B8IWHvT
The leader of a white nationalist militia group says Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group & participated in their paramilitary drills in Tallahassee. This terrorists just confessed to have trained a terrorist who murdered 17 peoplehttps://t.co/9DlO2dLVDh
The bipartisan DACA bill got a majority and would pass if Republicans agreed not to filibuster it. The Trump bill fell 11 votes short of even a majority.
Rubio would never, ever apply this cowardly, fatalistic approach to counterterrorism policies or funding. This happens because @marcorubio is scared shitless of the NRA and wants to be President. https://t.co/HYPrw4lLEW
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on gun control debate after Parkland school shooting: "I'm trying to be clear and honest here, someone who has decided to commit this crime, they will find a way to get the gun to do it." https://t.co/caXk5gmjAtpic.twitter.com/hMKPnmMbnq
He & his GOP colleagues keep telling us they think laws are superfluous. They’re not interested in solving problems to help people. They are just there to collect protection money for their bosses, um, donors, & line their own pockets along the way. 💰 pic.twitter.com/uCqTFpnJBH
President Trump created a crisis when he unilaterally ended DACA. He asked Congress to clean up his mess, so we did—with a bipartisan plan to protect Dreamers and fund border security. But Trump refused to take yes for an answer and tanked the deal.
From Parkland, a student there: “We’re children, you guys are, like, the adults. Take action, work together, come over your politics, and get something done.” We need more than the usual “thoughts and prayers”. Act! No tension between 2nd Amendment and sane gun safety measures
Earlier today, the House passed the shameful #HR620, which undermines the Americans with Disabilities Act & denies discrimination victims access to federal courts. Beyond all doubt, it's an insult to the 55 million Americans living w/ a disability.
… and children and grandmothers/grandfathers and … lots of other people who would be considered full citizens worthy of rights, if only they were rich donors or lobbyists.
Every time I see Dotard & GOP Co., I wish we could just simply wash them away. Sorta like those Clorox commercials. This one still makes me laugh. (And the one with the young boy with the mop in the toilet as he diligently mops the bathroom floor.)
Some News: I wrote a book about politics in the age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump. It's out on 6/19, but you can preorder YES WE (STILL) CAN now. A portion of the proceeds from every book sold in the presale will be donated to @swinglefthttps://t.co/45Ty1FQOxRpic.twitter.com/tQoEKH4gBV
Some News: I wrote a book about politics in the age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump. It's out on 6/19, but you can preorder YES WE (STILL) CAN now. A portion of the proceeds from every book sold in the presale will be donated to @swinglefthttps://t.co/45Ty1FQOxRpic.twitter.com/tQoEKH4gBV
Stoneman teacher on Fox: With all due respect to your station, you'll be here today, tomorrow, maybe next week. But by the following week … it'll just be a passing memory. Like Columbine, Sandy Hook, the Vegas shooting. And everybody goes about their life and nothing gets done. pic.twitter.com/KSWHoUw3aH
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning all. I hope you have a wonderful day despite the awfulness of what is happening in our country daily now. I miss President Obama so much.
Hi Betsy! I think of PBO calming words and indomitable spirit in times like these. Missing him so much.
This is an excellent podcast. Please share with your networks.
YEP..WHO COULD FORGET THIS ONE..PBO PROBABLY HAS ONE IN HIS HOME!..LOL!
Let’s hold hands while we stroll through this, shall we?
https://twitter.com/kyalbr/status/96379569719475404
Ah but of course!!!
I know right?
WHAT BARACK OBAMA TOLD REINCE PRIEBUS ON HOW TO HANDLE DONALD TRUMP
http://www.newsweek.com/reince-priebus-barack-obama-donald-trump-807988
Excellent piece. Thank you, JER.
“They weren’t always right; sometimes I was. But they were right to do that because they knew they had to tell me what I needed to hear rather than what I wanted to hear,” he added.
Directing his comments toward Priebus, he added: “That’s the most important function of a chief of staff. Presidents need that. And I hope you will do that for President Trump.”
According to the book, others in attendance at the meeting later expressed their concerns that Priebus did not fully grasp the role he would play after Trump’s inauguration.
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Truth teller, always!
THAT’S RIGHT, SENATOR HARRIS. KEEP SAYING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
She spoke about shocking the public into understanding with autopsy photos.
That’s exactly what Emmett Till’s mother did – via her son’s open casket – to sear the gruesome image of a murdered teenager in people’s minds and associate it with the KKK.
I had wondered if some of the parents of Sandy Hook would do this.
I wonder if one of the parents of this latest – and White Supremacist-fueled – massacre will take a page from Mamie Till’s book.
fabulous thread. thank you.
👊🏾
Dylan is speaking some tough truth!
Thanks for posting his tweets.
Dayum!!!
AP: Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declares Trump travel ban unconstitutional.
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) February 15, 2018
Yesterday…
But what drew him to the NRA in the first place?
Glorification of guns.
Movies and TV make them seem pretty attractive when you see on-screen gunslingers stylistically dispatching the enemy or the perpetrators.
The reason the sanitized images of gun ownership work so well is that people have become so distanced from the reality of what guns do.
Now that this high schooler has seen the blunt reality, he has a new perspective.
The en banc Fourth Circuit has issued 285 pages worth of opinions affirming the district court’s injunction against #TravelBan 3.0, and staying the decision pending the forthcoming review of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling by #SCOTUS:https://t.co/negfsRJFN4
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 15, 2018
UGH, so nauseating.
Tom Scocca
@tomscocca
Don’t bother debating gun-stroking dorks over what is or isn’t an “assault weapon.” Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
* The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was written to make it impossible to sue gun makers when people used their products, as designed, to kill people.
* Not only does the law set up almost insurmountable barriers to holding gun makers accountable for their decisions to flood the market with killing power, but if a victim’s family tries challenge the protections and fails, they are forced to pay the gun maker’s legal costs.
* It passed in 2005 with 65 votes in the Senate and 283 votes in the House, and was signed by George W. Bush.
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who voted to make it impossible for survivors to sue the people who made or sold the guns used to murder their loved ones, are running for reelection to the Senate this year.
Hello dears ♥️ I posted a lovely detailed note about today’s eclipse, and darn if it didn’t just vanish into the mysterious void we embrace as the interwebz. So I sighed, and gave up. I’m sure my WP site has been whacked by Putin’s bots. I wish I could stay off the internet for what’s left of my rapidly diminishing lifespan. Big big hugs all around! ♥️ {{{ TOD }}} ♥️ 🙏🏻🕯👊🏼
Love you and your posts, Mighty Pamela! Hugs!
❤️
MY FOREVER HERO.
MY FOREVER POTUS44.
Still my President
Once again, truth from a true leader. Thanks Obama
I could just weep in sadness at the absence of the kind of person who led us with dignity and pride for 8 full years. We absolutely must return to our cherished values and honest leadership.
LIVE NOW: Bi-partisan presser on immigration.
Be sure to play this video. See the palette Kehinde worked with, the development of the light as it hits PBO’s face.
I’m awestruck! Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for posting this! Love it 😊.
It’s coming from within.
Unfortunately by design.
David Duke was ecstatic about a Trump win because “Make America White Again” is really the true meaning of MAGA.
Jeff Sessions is there to bring the Confederate / Jim Crow style laws back.
Hopefully like Al Capone, the Trump/Russia money crimes will set their downfall in motion, since Congress is complicit and won’t hold the Trump administration accountable for failing to hold TRUE terrorists accountable.
I see your little hands President Bonespurs!
this is a ‘shithole’ country that assassinated two of its own most charismatic and intelligent presidents is never gonna change its white supremacist gun ‘rights’ underpinning, kids be damned. the turd is their ultimate nirvana.
They say this cat, Eric, is a bad mutha… (shut yo mouth)! 👏🏾
🙂 🙂 🙂
But I’m talking’ bout Schniderman….
😄🙌🏾
Love it!
Things are moving!
Where are the evangelicals at? Why aren’t they speaking out against this school mass murders, against those AK-15 murder machines.
They’re thinking & praying.
Yeah, I just about feel out of my chair when Bondi mentioned “Go Fund Me,” the greatest country in the world is reduced to begging for help on a Go Fund Me page. Maybe the Governor of Florida can help pay by tapping into all the loot he’s ripped off from Florida.
Ya know? 🙌🏾
And something must be done about this along with churches who violate political advocacy.
Without any doubt ….
No.
its almost as if these people sit around with toothpicks in their mouths trying to figure out their next scam.
The only thing missing is the fucking badabing.
That’s for damn sure. Jesus.
Their treachery is a competitive sport.
When I got my Federal job they did a background, it got held up because ( I swear to god ) I had an unpaid cable bill from god knows when. Me and my girlfriend, that’s now my wife, didn’t pay a cable bill, supposedly. My wife is obsessed with paying bills on time but for some reason this one got past us. Anyway, it was a funky $50 or $60 dollar cable bill that almost derailed my career before it even got started. Needless to say I paid the bill and provided the proof, no harm no foul. If these people can’t get a background check favorably adjudicated then something must not smell right.
It stinks of organized crime and treason.
Hello TODbots.
Congrats, Betsy on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks, NW!
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❤ TODville Community.
This man is gonna be President someday!
Was their governor indicted for Medicaid fraud?
MSN said they found NO ties to white-nationalist. Must be a rwnj site…faux news.
Smartest tweet ever.
12 Democrats
I just emailed my disappointment in the HR 620 vote to my Rep Kurt Schrader. Thank you for the info.
Every time I see Dotard & GOP Co., I wish we could just simply wash them away. Sorta like those Clorox commercials. This one still makes me laugh. (And the one with the young boy with the mop in the toilet as he diligently mops the bathroom floor.)
“We have a situation!”
So I just notice that Black Panther is playing here tonight, early evening. I thought the debut was tomorrow? Anybody going tonight?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/02/15/a-sobering-reminder/
Michelle Obama spoke today in Vancouver at 12 pm and 5pm.