City of Gold, the documentary about the food and culture of Los Angeles and the life and work of Jonathan Gold, is on Hulu. You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/KnvW8Od5n6
They were black Americans picked up for offenses like vagrancy, flirting with white women & petty theft. The state leased them to plantation owners. They worked in the fields til they “dropped dead in their tracks.” They were as young as 14 & as old as 70. https://t.co/28aZiOd0t9
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) July 22, 2018
The more American History is exposed the more American History is EXPOSED for the fraud that it is…
…..#TruthandReconciliation…and we cannot have Reconciliation without TRUTH
These craven, selfish bastards only care about their Tax Scam, crushing the safety net, packing The Court and taking us all back to 1958. It could actually be Charles Manson in The Oval and they would be fine as long as they get their jollies.
Watching all these old white @HouseGOP@SenateGOP men end their careers happily jumping off the cliff for a vile cretin traitor like Trump is in many ways validation of what a vile party it really is and has been all these years. BE A VOTER. The future is DEMOCRATIC.
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Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice says the Trump-Putin private meeting "was a historic mistake."
Somebody, bring his pills! He’s off his med again.
So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that’s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!
Why would you even put this idiot tweet up here? All he does is show his hatred for President Obama, he respect Putin more then he respect our President.
When you stand before Americans & humanity and APOLOGIZE for BEING the indisputable reason #TraitorInChief@realdonaldtrump currently TRESPASSES in OUR @WhiteHouse is the day you begin to EARN the right to offer advice to ANYONE.
I spent 20 years in the military, doing the things my country required of me. I would NEVER think myself morally righteous. I know better.
On the other hand, I know an enemy when I see one and you goddamned right I am prejudiced against a nation that attacks my own. pic.twitter.com/zGxpeypsrX
Someone called the police on the owner of a lemonade shop for simply standing in front of his own business. Here's a small bit of his interview. Full story tonight at 8 on #KRON4. pic.twitter.com/ndnekbpw2I
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 12 new moons have been discovered around Jupiter, bringing the planet's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 https://t.co/mvMzCXPxT9
This is a good, good guy who has done a lot for Peace. The guy who put solar panels on the WH and Reagan took them down.
You know, Reagan who said the trees “are polluting”. May this leasing of lands for solar be a great role model and spread far and wide.
Peaceful energies.
The Trump admin is planning to eliminate a vast trove of medical guidelines that for nearly 20 years has been a critical resource for doctors, researchers and others in the medical community, according to The Daily Beast. https://t.co/x70WdciU08
A few weeks before he passed away in March, my son had his son give him a Mohawk haircut (as he wore once when he was a teenager, among other crazy hair styles he would “try out” back in the ’80s – OMG – Ha! ), because he said he was “a warrior” in his fight against his battles with his health! And that’s what he was, and I’m forever grateful he found such strength in himself and from God.
I didn’t post that because I’m sad … I posted it because I’m proud and grateful, thinking about it! Thanks for being the kind of “Obama friendship circle” where I can feel it’s okay to share, TODville!
And my surprise-visiting teenage granddaughter (who’ll be here another two days) and I just had ice cream, so it’s all good. ❤
JO’B, your son passed? Stephen? I missed that; wrapped up in “Life 101…” Unfortunately, I know the pain of your loss. My love and condolences to, and prayers for, you and your family.
Oh, my dear, thanks so much. Yes, Steve passed away on March 29, and all of his adoring children were there with me to let him know how much he was and will continue to be loved! I’m sorry you, too, know the pain of such a loss, and my heart goes out to you. ❤
Oh thank you so much, Judith. He’s alive in our hearts forever. His 15-year-old daughter “surprise-visited” me for a week from Florida, and she just returned home tonight. So great to have all of his children and grandchildren in my life, especially when they show up at my front door as a surprise!
Someone can send this to the little shit. He doesn’t read his PDB’s…so why would he even listen when they were telling him this truth? Didn’t fit the narrative in his warped mind.
Thanks to @SecretService for their professionalism again on Day 7. Because of an earlier road closure during the Trump’s arrival, we have booked double drums for Monday and Tuesday. 7 PM. Tuesday is also the first appearance of the translator doing English to Russian for Trump.
Ppl in my city are starving & the GOP wants to sit in their cushy seats in Congress and lecture my constituents about the need to cut SNAP, a successful anti-hunger program, that feeds nearly 500K Philadelphians.
If that’s not a reason to vote in Nov, then I don’t know what is.
From the seller: ***Due to extremely high demand, at the moment, this item is back-ordered and will require 4-6 weeks of production time*** Hahahaaaaa!!
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Rachel Maddow looks at the timing between the theft by Russian military intelligence of DNC analytics data in September 2016, as described in the recent indictment brought by Robert Mueller, and an abrupt change in campaign strategy by the Donald Trump campaign in early October.
Former Rep. Brad Ashford, whose data was stolen in the hack of the DCCC by Russia military intelligence, talks with Rachel Maddow about how details of the hack were addressed by the Democratic Party, what it meant to his campaign, and what it means to American democracy.
Morning everyone:) This is a hot mess….watch what happens when things don’t fit the narrative. 30% of the country eats this shit at every meal, and swears by it!
This is incredible. @FoxFriendsFirst thought they booked pro-ICE Dem Ann Kirkpatrick on show, but accidentally booked Barbara L'Italien (@teambarbara) instead.
L'Italien delivers personal message to Trump saying "we must stop abducting children… stop putting kids in cages." pic.twitter.com/OnVAdBVjJB
-So proud of dem candidate L’Italien for speaking out on Fakes News. The Putin Party plan is that we will concede, normalize this atrocity and give up the ghost even as Trump continues amassing more children in his jails. The faux data about 900 out of 3000 captives not to be reunited “because their parents are criminals” is a double down racist attack. Trump’s obsession with torturing human children of color and his lack of empathy for families hurts us as a species. The human species is here today and survives because of empathy and cooperation.
This is the tweet NPR sent out regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant which is the irresponsible journalism.
Republicans claim the classified documents reveal FBI bias in favor of Hillary Clinton; Democrats say the documents are evidence of deep connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. https://t.co/94btCjbQEi
And this was my response. I didn’t reply or copy the original tweet because I didn’t want to amplify it.
@NPR Framing the heavily redacted FISA probable cause application as a truth contest between two political parties shows a lack of respect for federal LE and your listeners. I've read the entire doc and it's definitely NOT a truth contest. @msnbc@cnn@maddow@lawrence
New York Daily News cuts half of its staff
The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper.
by Jason Abbruzzese and Claire Atkinson / Jul.23.2018 / 8:38 AM ET
The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper.
Daily News staff was notified of the cuts in an email sent by the company’s human resources department that also detailed a new direction for the paper, with an increased focus on breaking news with particular attention paid to crime, civil justice and public responsibility. It will still cover local news and sports, the email said
"Conventional Wisdom" Month ago: Trump's dealings with North Korea will send a message to Iran – which has not changed its behavior. Now: Trump's threat to Iran will send a message to North Korea – which has not changed its behavior
I follow him. He has tons of funny ones that keep me in stitches. Folks in my apartment above thinks I’m probably loco. But I try to laugh a lot to keep me from going nuts, with that idiot on PA Avenue.
So Ambassador Michael McFaul spoke at his hometown Bozeman MT.
And people were “hanging from the rafters”! He explained how Putin gets leverage over others and that whatever Trump did in Moscow “they have a record of it.” On the 12 indicted Russian hackers + himself + Browder that Putin wanted to question, McFaul said “Just think about how absurd that is. We are U.S. government officials, that Putin is talking about. And President Trump went out to the press conference and said, ‘I think this is a great idea.’ That is not a Democrat or Republican thing, I’m sorry, that is not an American thing to say. To throw us under the bus.”
See video: https://www.rawstory.com/…/ex-ambassador-putin-foe-warns-whatever-trump-mosco.
-oh joy-
Dispatch from court this a.m. in Manafort's Virginia case: – Judge will grant govt's motion for use immunity to five potential govt witnesses. Judge ordered pleadings unsealed, so we'll find out who they are – Judge expects to rule this p.m. on Manafort's motion to delay trial
Jury selection for Manafort's trial set to begin on Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia. Judge will rule tonight on whether or not to delay, as requested by Manafort's attorneys.
Paul Manafort's trial is slated to start this Wednesday, almost exactly two years to the day after he, as Trump campaign chairman, gave this VERY COMPELLING answer to the question "So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs?" pic.twitter.com/Q3YlXlUoUl
Judge in Manafort’s Virginia case has granted the request for 5 witnesses to testify with immunity. He is also ordering the govt to tell Manafort’s team the approximately 30 witnesses they are going to use in the trial.
Paul Manafort was in court today, wearing a green short-sleeved jumpsuit with a white shirt underneath. His lawyers asked that he be excused from attending court this afternoon, judge said that was fine.
Saluti there is your unroll: Thread by @Sifill_LDF: "David I would love to have a discussion about this. It’s important b/c the history of racism & the struggle for civi […]" https://t.co/yVQYqxGdMR Have a good day. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) July 23, 2018
In the past five years, four states have engaged in illegal purges, and another four states have implemented unlawful purge rules.
Federal standards for purges were set in the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Since 2013, Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia have conducted illegal purges. Moreover, Brennan Center research has uncovered that four states (Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, and Maine) have written policies that by their terms violate the NVRA and provide for illegal purges. Alabama, Indiana, and Maine have policies for using data from a database called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program (Crosscheck) to immediately purge voters without providing the notice and waiting period required by federal law (Indiana’s practice has been put on hold by a federal court). Arizona regulations permit Crosscheck purges during the 90 days prior to an election, a period during which federal law prohibits large-scale purges. These eight states are home to more than a quarter of registered voters across the nation.
This from a longtime supporter of Susan Collins is powerful. "If she votes to confirm a Supreme Court justice who will gut and repeal my agency over my own body, she is not pro-choice, and I will remember." #mepoliticshttps://t.co/RI2m2xtODg
Dir. Comey: please, please don’t violate decades-old protocols & insert the FBI into the election 11 days out. Don’t personally attack @HillaryClinton, who was cleared, while never revealing Trump campaign is under investig. Don’t hand the White House to Trump. Oops. Too late. https://t.co/0zbw8Dv4nJ
WH press sec Sanders says Trump is exploring how to remove security clearance for John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, James Comey and Andrew McCabe – all of whom have been sharply critical of him.
Wow! Trump is desperately trying emulate the dictators he admires: Kim Jung Un and Vladimir Putin. Trump must be stupid if he thinks that removing security clearance for these distinguished public servants will stop them from exercising their First Amendment right.
BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday – when the Times story ran on one of them. pic.twitter.com/FrZNaawVt5— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2018
Breaking news from @PeteWilliamsNBC. Judge Ellis will delay the start of Manafort’s trial for 8 days. As @mitchellreports & I discussed this morning, the Judge wants to make sure Manafort has had enough time to prepare so there are no gounds for appeal if there is a conviction.
The Obama Diary 
Good afternoon TOD …
YES WE CAN
Hi, Bobfr. Congratulations on First.
Thank you for all your tweets highlighting the treasonous Trump and associates.
You are most welcome, sjterrid!!
YES WE CAN
Same although I’d put President in quotation marks.
Sorry for the cuss words but this is truth.
The more American History is exposed the more American History is EXPOSED for the fraud that it is…
…..#TruthandReconciliation…and we cannot have Reconciliation without TRUTH
This!
yes
“… #TruthandReconciliation…and we cannot have Reconciliation without TRUTH …”
Precisely.
yes
These craven, selfish bastards only care about their Tax Scam, crushing the safety net, packing The Court and taking us all back to 1958. It could actually be Charles Manson in The Oval and they would be fine as long as they get their jollies.
I am not sure that Impeachment is the core,,,,i want him trussed up and jailed…or at least held accountable by a Democratic Congress…
That’s Arnold Swarzneggar (sp…no idea!), isn’t it?
Yep! LOL
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Somebody, bring his pills! He’s off his med again.
Why would you even put this idiot tweet up here? All he does is show his hatred for President Obama, he respect Putin more then he respect our President.
Your CAMPAIGN and the ENTIRE GOP invited RUSSIANS to the GOP Convention and Inaugural plus PBO told you NOT to hire FLYNN!
That was my holiday gifts to many! Yes, palate cleanser.
For our Chips ( :eyes: ) only 😉
Billy Joel, ur Fav…… 🙂 Not so Favorite person.
The fact that America is back to REMINDING people of something so basic…
Just to be crystal clear ….
DA PHUQ?
White Supremacists and Nationalists – the common thread between the Party of Trump and Russia.
Great story
For You Dudette
IMPEACH and REMOVE trump. THEN: Indict, arrest, arraign, try, convict and incarcerate.
I don’t think Trump is eligible for impeachment. This may be why Nancy Pelosi wants to lower the volume on the i-talk.
This is SO GREAT.
This is a good, good guy who has done a lot for Peace. The guy who put solar panels on the WH and Reagan took them down.
You know, Reagan who said the trees “are polluting”. May this leasing of lands for solar be a great role model and spread far and wide.
Peaceful energies.
WHY?WHY?WHY?WHY THE FUCK WHY???
Can’t the medical community DO SOMETHING about this travesty? Don’t they have a voice?
This is so mind-boggling.
I hope so! He’s putting everyONE and everyTHING at risk. HIs ignorance will endanger all of us, as in THE PLANET.
I’m not religious, but this is somehow comforting.
It is! Beautiful.
A few weeks before he passed away in March, my son had his son give him a Mohawk haircut (as he wore once when he was a teenager, among other crazy hair styles he would “try out” back in the ’80s – OMG – Ha! ), because he said he was “a warrior” in his fight against his battles with his health! And that’s what he was, and I’m forever grateful he found such strength in himself and from God.
I didn’t post that because I’m sad … I posted it because I’m proud and grateful, thinking about it! Thanks for being the kind of “Obama friendship circle” where I can feel it’s okay to share, TODville!
And my surprise-visiting teenage granddaughter (who’ll be here another two days) and I just had ice cream, so it’s all good. ❤
JO’B, your son passed? Stephen? I missed that; wrapped up in “Life 101…” Unfortunately, I know the pain of your loss. My love and condolences to, and prayers for, you and your family.
Oh, my dear, thanks so much. Yes, Steve passed away on March 29, and all of his adoring children were there with me to let him know how much he was and will continue to be loved! I’m sorry you, too, know the pain of such a loss, and my heart goes out to you. ❤
What a comfort and Blessing that you could all be there with him.
Yes, totally. Thanks again.
My condolences to you JOB. I didn’t know either. Thank you for sharing his story. These are the memories which keep them alive in our hearts.
Oh thank you so much, Judith. He’s alive in our hearts forever. His 15-year-old daughter “surprise-visited” me for a week from Florida, and she just returned home tonight. So great to have all of his children and grandchildren in my life, especially when they show up at my front door as a surprise!
Thanks again.
Someone can send this to the little shit. He doesn’t read his PDB’s…so why would he even listen when they were telling him this truth? Didn’t fit the narrative in his warped mind.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/politics/james-clapper-trump-russia-hacking-cnntv/index.html
Love the protesters outside the White House!
Then he should make sure those 500k people are registered and that they VOTE
yup
YEP
Love her pins:) Due to high demand, this one is back ordered….many weeks:)
Dangerous idiot, and I DON’T mean Iran’s leader Rohani. He’s just priming the pump for his next shitty week. He’s a dumpster fire.24/7
The all-caps threatening tweet trump sent the Iranian President has gotten 44,000 replies. I’m thinking they weren’t all good.
Some good news before bed…
Goodnight, TODville.
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Trump camp changed strategy after Russians stole DNC analytics
Rachel Maddow looks at the timing between the theft by Russian military intelligence of DNC analytics data in September 2016, as described in the recent indictment brought by Robert Mueller, and an abrupt change in campaign strategy by the Donald Trump campaign in early October.
Candidate whose data was hacked in 2016 talks defending democracy
Former Rep. Brad Ashford, whose data was stolen in the hack of the DCCC by Russia military intelligence, talks with Rachel Maddow about how details of the hack were addressed by the Democratic Party, what it meant to his campaign, and what it means to American democracy.
Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) Tweeted:
The sheer number of tweets in which Trump predicted Obama would go to war with Iran for political purposes is staggering https://t.co/h3bVd4iQTL https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1021383923820003328?s=17
Bruce Japsen (@brucejapsen) Tweeted:
Kentucky’s Medicaid administration costs jumped more than 40% after implementing work requirements @FitchRatings https://t.co/tblc1NdYgq #PoliticsNation #CNNSOTU #ThisWeek #AMJoy https://twitter.com/brucejapsen/status/1021010378225053696?s=17
THIS
Morning everyone:) This is a hot mess….watch what happens when things don’t fit the narrative. 30% of the country eats this shit at every meal, and swears by it!
-So proud of dem candidate L’Italien for speaking out on Fakes News. The Putin Party plan is that we will concede, normalize this atrocity and give up the ghost even as Trump continues amassing more children in his jails. The faux data about 900 out of 3000 captives not to be reunited “because their parents are criminals” is a double down racist attack. Trump’s obsession with torturing human children of color and his lack of empathy for families hurts us as a species. The human species is here today and survives because of empathy and cooperation.
This is the tweet NPR sent out regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant which is the irresponsible journalism.
And this was my response. I didn’t reply or copy the original tweet because I didn’t want to amplify it.
YUP…we have Rand Paul’s number
This is sad.
New York Daily News cuts half of its staff
The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper.
by Jason Abbruzzese and Claire Atkinson / Jul.23.2018 / 8:38 AM ET
The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper.
Daily News staff was notified of the cuts in an email sent by the company’s human resources department that also detailed a new direction for the paper, with an increased focus on breaking news with particular attention paid to crime, civil justice and public responsibility. It will still cover local news and sports, the email said
WOW
Gave me a chuckle:)
Truly fabulous!
good dog:) Earns his keep, that’s for sure:)
Me, too, DF.
I follow him. He has tons of funny ones that keep me in stitches. Folks in my apartment above thinks I’m probably loco. But I try to laugh a lot to keep me from going nuts, with that idiot on PA Avenue.
So…now that the Manafort trial is coming up…
Tad Devine….
Co-Conspirator
or
Immunity Snitch?
BOTH
Pete Souza for King of the United States!
-there must be a fly buzzing around here.
So Ambassador Michael McFaul spoke at his hometown Bozeman MT.
And people were “hanging from the rafters”! He explained how Putin gets leverage over others and that whatever Trump did in Moscow “they have a record of it.” On the 12 indicted Russian hackers + himself + Browder that Putin wanted to question, McFaul said “Just think about how absurd that is. We are U.S. government officials, that Putin is talking about. And President Trump went out to the press conference and said, ‘I think this is a great idea.’ That is not a Democrat or Republican thing, I’m sorry, that is not an American thing to say. To throw us under the bus.”
See video: https://www.rawstory.com/…/ex-ambassador-putin-foe-warns-whatever-trump-mosco.
-oh joy-
Totally normal. NOT
“Putin’s Apprentice”…well said.
Today in treason court:
If these five are revealed, I doubt if the Judge will delay the trial. It may take several weeks just to seat a jury of 12 plus 6 alternates.
The judge is so far resisting the defense claim that they haven’t had time to read the volumes of documents recently released. We’ll know later today.
Oh my
AWESome Thread
I got chills.
No wonder President Obama chose her as his inaugural poet in 2009:) Simply beautiful.
A picture of Manafort in that fine outfit would be nice for my archives.
In the past five years, four states have engaged in illegal purges, and another four states have implemented unlawful purge rules.
Federal standards for purges were set in the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Since 2013, Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia have conducted illegal purges. Moreover, Brennan Center research has uncovered that four states (Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, and Maine) have written policies that by their terms violate the NVRA and provide for illegal purges. Alabama, Indiana, and Maine have policies for using data from a database called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program (Crosscheck) to immediately purge voters without providing the notice and waiting period required by federal law (Indiana’s practice has been put on hold by a federal court). Arizona regulations permit Crosscheck purges during the 90 days prior to an election, a period during which federal law prohibits large-scale purges. These eight states are home to more than a quarter of registered voters across the nation.
Do it NOW. Share with your friends and family and then have THEM do it NOW
Thank you!
Wow! Trump is desperately trying emulate the dictators he admires: Kim Jung Un and Vladimir Putin. Trump must be stupid if he thinks that removing security clearance for these distinguished public servants will stop them from exercising their First Amendment right.
You got that right!
get.that.popcorn 🙂
BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday – when the Times story ran on one of them. pic.twitter.com/FrZNaawVt5— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2018
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/07/23/survey-says-heck-yeah/