O'Rourke refuses to engage on Cruz's campaign song mocking his name, saying: "I just don't think that's what folks in Texas want us to focus on … We can focus on the small, mean, petty stuff or we can be big, bold, courageous and confident" https://t.co/6Woz2mxiqXpic.twitter.com/uDMxgOuC7U
Secretary of education Betsy Devos spoke to me and only a hand full of students. She did not properly answer my only question. She did not sit down with any students and asked what we wanted. Douglas has 3,000 students. None of them were invited. pic.twitter.com/1RXYDZJtTb
I spoke to college students today who genuinely fear for their safety on campus, going so far as taking roundabout routes to their classes to avoid potential shooters. This shouldn’t ever happen in a free country.
People keep forgetting the 100 Follower Rule. Don't engage with critics who have <100 followers. They haven't persuaded 100 people that their tweets are worth reading. They waste your time and are using your more popular account to increase their visibility. Mock, block, move on.
Only in the chaotic era of Trump would the story or Nader, who attended the meeting in Seychelles to establish a backchannel between Trump and Russia set up by the crown prince of the UAE, and is now cooperating with Mueller, barely get covered. https://t.co/H2q7wQ2i08
Don't overlook George Nader. Mueller's latest cooperatin' witness has enough goodies to bring down Trump all by himself. This prize witness comes courtesy of the Mike Flynn plea deal. Tea promises this ain't the last we've heard of ol' George!https://t.co/rwDCUoeRn0
Scoop: Sinclair has a new promo campaign. Local anchors are required to read this script. It sounds a lot like pro-Trump propaganda. https://t.co/o8vWJXJKcV
"I believe that just like the civil rights movement, it was the young people who said we've had enough…I believe that we're on the verge of something really, really big" says @Oprah on Parkland students pic.twitter.com/jBMco5JSva
Ollie Mae Cooper. Howard Law Class of 1921. First black woman to be admitted by exam to the DC bar. The first black woman to open a law firm in the United States. Founder of Epsilon Sigma Iota, a legal sorority for black women. @howardlawschool#WomensHistoryMonth#HowardHistorypic.twitter.com/1Pr5VRApkf
California Gov. Jerry Brown responds to federal immigration lawsuit against the state: "I do think this is pure red meat for the base … but this is pure speculation — that Jeff [Sessions] thinks Donald [Trump] would be happier with him." https://t.co/YVbTYKJhnkpic.twitter.com/Cd4Ab8RLfk
Gov Brown will go down as the greatest governor California has ever had and will have. There is NO one like him. I pray that our future Democratic Governor use Brown’s policies as a good template. Don’t let the Democratic legislator over-spend and see our Billion $ surplus as some kind of personal social piggy-bank. We need to save for future disasters and sabotage by Republican presidents.
[Just found this from three years ago – had written it in honor of the 50th commemoration of Selma – and thought I’d share again. Obviously, I was speaking to whatever contemporaneous events were occurring, which doesn’t matter either! But that old bridge matters. And those heroes still matter.]
The Bridge to Everywhere
This day, many hadn’t come
But all that was for naught
Because no one really noticed.
Those who came could have
Closed their eyes and still felt
The singular beauty of the place.
Could have still heard the silenced voices
Of the old warriors, and could have
Heard the sound the old bridge made
With the wind softly moving through it
And the shoes passionately walking over it
All voices still silent.
See and hear the beauty of the place
Look out into the rivers of time
Touch each other in
Warm embrace
And feel the beauty of the day.
The remarkable memories it brought
Were enough. I wouldn’t change a thing.
No need to change the name of the bridge, either.
That bridge belongs to everyone and no one, anyway.
I have been out of town for 5 glorious days. i have kept up on things thru TOD. One of the best things to happen was the viral video put out by our Arlee Warriors basketball team. The suicide prevention video has been viewed almost 1 million times. I know this town well. It’s 20 minutes from my home and I have many friends there. The High School basketball team just won it’s 2cd state championship this year they were undefeated. I will post an article and the video. Please watch and read about the great kids. Montana is #1 in teen suicides. Maybe it will change.
This morning, I questioned security officials before the Senate Intelligence Community about the risks that come with this Administration’s over-reliance on interim security clearances. pic.twitter.com/nNH8F3LbUL
Scoop: In 2015, Donald Trump met two men at Trump Tower. Those same two men went on to arrange the infamous 2016 meeting where Don Jr, Jared Kushner, & Paul Manafort hoped to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/4fLH9iv5ZUpic.twitter.com/hoNXE9Xugy
The former CEO of a payday lending company that had been under investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked to be considered for the top job at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, AP reports. https://t.co/iJoA8CBDYn
Loesch uses California as her example of why the NRA's leaders don't want universal background checks. CA's firearm death rate is below every red state on the map.https://t.co/aijm5mBkcP
Ari Melber talks with Michael Schmidt, reporter for The New York Times, about new reporting that Donald Trump talked to Reince Priebus and Don McGahn about their testimony to Robert Mueller and pressed McGahn to deny a story about Trump’s desire to fire Robert Mueller.
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Ari Melber about the kind of legal jeopardy Donald Trump could be in based on new reporting from The New York Times, and the role of the White House legal counsel.
Sari Horwitz, national reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Ari Melber about Trump backer Eric Prince trying to set up a back channel of communication with the Kremlin at a secret Seychelles meeting with a Russian official close to Vladimir Putin, officials from the UAE, and UAE adviser George Nader, who is reportedly cooperating with Robert Mueller.
Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Ari Melber about the Republican effort to end the House Intelligence Committee’s Trump Russia investigation without trying in good faith to fulfill its mission.
It doesn’t really matter at this point. Nunes’ tactics make it clear that Republicans aren’t serious about getting to the bottom of Russian interference so they might as well end the charade. Mueller’s investigation is the only one that matters.
I celebrate my grandmother, Odessa Williams on #InternationalWomensDay she told me to be the Best that i could be. To always strive towards excellence. To never let racism be an excuse for Failure. pic.twitter.com/uQqcCIeWKj
We celebrate her too. Thank you for sharing your grandmothers wise words of wisdom that her generation understood that there would be a better future for her grandkids and future generations if they believed in working hard and not let barriers stop them.
YES….she was full of such gems…i hear her words coming back to me when i need them the most….she is now gone from me but her presence is very much with me..
If only the press would give as much attention to the fact that TRUMP has NOT placed sanctions on Russia and that his GOP enablers in Congress seem not to care…but alas they are fixated on the Porn star sex story…is that because the media is mostly men? #TiTilation
Instead of the USA leading and creating the rules…we are left on the outside looking in …watching China taking our place on trade…just as Pres Obama said..Indeed…you now have Trump starting trade wars that hurts us as well as our allies #PutinSmiling
Under normal circumstances, the President of the United States would contact its greatest ally and offer condolences, support and assistance, while denouncing such a heinous attack.
Wow, the Obama’s are EVERYWHERE! I am so glad they are enjoying their lives after the WH. I was just thinking, once Sasha goes off to college the Obama’s can leave D.C. and maybe buy a second home in Hawaii or California. They don’t need to have a permanent base because they are travelling all the time. They are still young and able to just travel lift up women, girls, minority young men, and then settle into retirement at 60. 🙂
The Russian chemical weapon’s attack on the exSpy, his family & policeman is a Weapon of Mass Destruction Assassination. It is a #ChemicalTerroristAttack on the UK. https://t.co/fTbIMwQWLF
TPP was the most progressive trade deal in history. It would give us an enormous advantage. Clueless, ignorant “progressives” demagogue it and forced Hillary Clinton – who knew better – to pretend she was against it.
This country never deserved Barack Obama.
— BWD 🤢 You People Replaced Obama With This (@IrisRimon) March 8, 2018
Truer words never spoken. Stupid progressives like Sanders, Thom Hartmann and the looney left who fail to realize that we are in a global economy and that we are getting something in exchange for doing business with other countries. Instead of innovating our government has allowed the “cheaters” to cheat and stood by doing nothing then blamed “others” for the loss of jobs by the lazy privileged who wants to live as though having a high school diploma will give them a high paying job like their parents or grandparents.
Just out from Paul Manafort's arraignment in Virginia: – He pleaded not guilty – Trial date set for July 10 (earlier than the Sept. 17 DC trial date and earlier than the November date his lawyer wanted) – Put on home confinement with GPS monitoring (same as DC)
We're all on the front lines of an information war, where hostile governments and others want to spread disinformation to divide us and push us to extremes. They need our help to do it. We must arm ourselves with the facts and think before we click. @StandUpIdeaspic.twitter.com/LOAjnd2Pzt
Tybre Faw traveled 7 hours to see his hero, Rep. John Lewis, who was in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The boy became emotional when they met, and Lewis invited him to march with him toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge https://t.co/VGMmKKUJ3F pic.twitter.com/XhZ2Yd8sdt
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Can someone please replace all Trump’s pictures wherever they are in the world with the one above? The people of the world thank you in advance.
Congrats Prayer Warrior on your gold this afternoon!
What a lovely idea!
Congrats, Prayer Warrior on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks, NW!
Just a tad of bragging for my State ;). We are also known to be Minnesota Nice 🙂
They have ND wrong, that just isn’t so- at least not western ND.
Cool. And in some states, girls as young as 10 are getting married. Just awful.
https://wonkette.com/630959/tennessee-must-let-adults-marry-children-or-else-the-gays-have-won
That picture up top just makes me SMILE 🙂
FOREVER FLOTUS ROCKS!!
Meaning that they know who the potential shooters might be…..goodness
good rule of thumb
Just block ….
i agree ..just block
Wouldn’t that depend on how long the account’s been open? Like if I were to join Twitter tomorrow? Just saying.
With all of Us!
I love this painting! He is so present, calm, powerful- gorgeous!
YES!! A thousand times YES!!
Powerful!! Absolutely love this.
That’s my Governor. I love and respect the courage and integrity of Gov. Brown.
He’s really wonderful, a man of pure integrity for our time.
Yep he was a wonderful governor back in the ‘old days’ too – my favorite (when I was a youngin’) 🙂 He has always done right by California.
Yes indeed & me too, Nath ✌🏾
I share your respect for Gov Brown, nath, 100 %!!!!
Gov Brown will go down as the greatest governor California has ever had and will have. There is NO one like him. I pray that our future Democratic Governor use Brown’s policies as a good template. Don’t let the Democratic legislator over-spend and see our Billion $ surplus as some kind of personal social piggy-bank. We need to save for future disasters and sabotage by Republican presidents.
[Just found this from three years ago – had written it in honor of the 50th commemoration of Selma – and thought I’d share again. Obviously, I was speaking to whatever contemporaneous events were occurring, which doesn’t matter either! But that old bridge matters. And those heroes still matter.]
The Bridge to Everywhere
This day, many hadn’t come
But all that was for naught
Because no one really noticed.
Those who came could have
Closed their eyes and still felt
The singular beauty of the place.
Could have still heard the silenced voices
Of the old warriors, and could have
Heard the sound the old bridge made
With the wind softly moving through it
And the shoes passionately walking over it
All voices still silent.
See and hear the beauty of the place
Look out into the rivers of time
Touch each other in
Warm embrace
And feel the beauty of the day.
The remarkable memories it brought
Were enough. I wouldn’t change a thing.
No need to change the name of the bridge, either.
That bridge belongs to everyone and no one, anyway.
Thank you so much {{{{{{{{{{Jacqueline}}}}}}}}}}} for, once again, sharing your artistry with all of us.
Could not be a more relevant, timely reminder that Together + Hope = a Sustainable Future.
#FORWARD
Bob, I am very, very honored by that little gift you just gave me. Thanks so much, fellow Obama warrior!
I’m the one ‘honored’ to know you, Jacqueline, and to have had the opportunity to share your compassionate artistry with others.
Goodnight TOD ….
❤️ I remember . . . {{{ JO’B }}} ❤️
❤
I have been out of town for 5 glorious days. i have kept up on things thru TOD. One of the best things to happen was the viral video put out by our Arlee Warriors basketball team. The suicide prevention video has been viewed almost 1 million times. I know this town well. It’s 20 minutes from my home and I have many friends there. The High School basketball team just won it’s 2cd state championship this year they were undefeated. I will post an article and the video. Please watch and read about the great kids. Montana is #1 in teen suicides. Maybe it will change.
DUH! Morning everyone. It’s only Thursday…
Mother Jones dropping another scoop:
Makes perfect sense, kinda like being the manager of a bank that you intend to rob.
Trump wanted WH counsel McGahn to deny Mueller firing story: NYT
Ari Melber talks with Michael Schmidt, reporter for The New York Times, about new reporting that Donald Trump talked to Reince Priebus and Don McGahn about their testimony to Robert Mueller and pressed McGahn to deny a story about Trump’s desire to fire Robert Mueller.
McGahn is White House lawyer, not Trump lawyer, Trump should know
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Ari Melber about the kind of legal jeopardy Donald Trump could be in based on new reporting from The New York Times, and the role of the White House legal counsel.
Pursuit of Kremlin link by Trump backer eyed by Mueller: WaPo
Sari Horwitz, national reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Ari Melber about Trump backer Eric Prince trying to set up a back channel of communication with the Kremlin at a secret Seychelles meeting with a Russian official close to Vladimir Putin, officials from the UAE, and UAE adviser George Nader, who is reportedly cooperating with Robert Mueller.
GOP aims to shut down incomplete House Trump Russia investigation
Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Ari Melber about the Republican effort to end the House Intelligence Committee’s Trump Russia investigation without trying in good faith to fulfill its mission.
It doesn’t really matter at this point. Nunes’ tactics make it clear that Republicans aren’t serious about getting to the bottom of Russian interference so they might as well end the charade. Mueller’s investigation is the only one that matters.
Her interview with David Letterman comes out tomorrow on Netflix.
i have to watch that…
We celebrate her too. Thank you for sharing your grandmothers wise words of wisdom that her generation understood that there would be a better future for her grandkids and future generations if they believed in working hard and not let barriers stop them.
YES….she was full of such gems…i hear her words coming back to me when i need them the most….she is now gone from me but her presence is very much with me..
That’s so wonderful, pf!!
smilin….thank you
60 minutes is planning a story on prince in Saudi Arabia…too much of a coincidence.
And somewhere President Obama is smiling to himself and saying “I told you so.”
WH occupant is still in 1990’s re-doing NAFTA and dragging the USA back to 1920 the good ol’ days.
Wow, the Obama’s are EVERYWHERE! I am so glad they are enjoying their lives after the WH. I was just thinking, once Sasha goes off to college the Obama’s can leave D.C. and maybe buy a second home in Hawaii or California. They don’t need to have a permanent base because they are travelling all the time. They are still young and able to just travel lift up women, girls, minority young men, and then settle into retirement at 60. 🙂
I think they’ll definitely have a house in Hawaii. PBO does love to golf in California. And they both love Italy. So maybe 3 homes?!!!!
TRIAL DATE for Manafort now set for July 10 in Virginia. Charges include bank and tax fraud.
Must be several different trials for different charges.
😂😂 In VA & DC, thus far. Money laundering could cross jurisdictions?
The charges include money laundering and tax evasion.
UGH UGH UGH
Ye gads. Throw up in my mouth. Sorry for that image but that’s how I feel. These people make me furious!!!!!!!!!
SAME. It’s totally nauseating.
This worries me….
Me too.
Truer words never spoken. Stupid progressives like Sanders, Thom Hartmann and the looney left who fail to realize that we are in a global economy and that we are getting something in exchange for doing business with other countries. Instead of innovating our government has allowed the “cheaters” to cheat and stood by doing nothing then blamed “others” for the loss of jobs by the lazy privileged who wants to live as though having a high school diploma will give them a high paying job like their parents or grandparents.
Speaking Truth to Power
Thread on Manafort’s court appearance.
Tybre Faw traveled 7 hours to see his hero, Rep. John Lewis, who was in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The boy became emotional when they met, and Lewis invited him to march with him toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge https://t.co/VGMmKKUJ3F pic.twitter.com/XhZ2Yd8sdt
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 8, 2018
GA, TODbots.
Happy Thursday 😉 to all TODable TODbots.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/03/08/2018-happy-international-womens-day/
WAIT WAIT WAIT.
The Daily Caller published an op-ed from oligarch Oleg Deripaska on Mueller? https://t.co/N4fd4EHFq2
He’s the guy in the MIDDLE of the insane Trump/sex worker/Thailand jail scandalhttps://t.co/MfHJ8dT5cT
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) March 8, 2018