"You can feel people saying enough is enough." President Obama rallied for Democratic congressional candidates in California, and called for voters to change Washington in November https://t.co/ccpZq3rEzapic.twitter.com/bxo7sU56mo
Good Evening TODbots.
I’m so sorry Serena lost.
I’m also so sorry that Serena lost her cool.
I do feel bad for Naomi Osaka. It wasn’t her fault for what the umpire did. At 20yo, She played her best Tennis thus far.
Serena Williams was cheated because an umpire you've never heard of, Carlos Ramos, had his feelings hurt, and needed to exert his authority. Serena is right that it was unfair and wrong. Ramos should have been overruled, and his penalty should he never to umpire a match again.
Tennis star Naomi Osaka reminds another reporter she’s “Haitian-Japanese” & grew up in a Haitian Household.” On Friday, Naomi became the 1st Haitian-Japanese woman to reach a Grand Slam final. She defeats Madison Keys 6-2, 6-4 & will face Serena Williams on Sat at the US Open. pic.twitter.com/6DqsftzZCc
Serena Williams didn't have a meltdown. She defended her honor on one of the grandest stages in a sport she's dominated for her entire adult life that continually disrespects her. Don't reduce her justified frustration to sexist behavioral stereotypes.
Tennis applies the rules inconsistently. This is not up for debate. Serena is penalized for things the men do and that white players so. She is drug tested far more frequently. There are two sets of rules and it’s obscene.
@serenawilliams thank you for paving the way for the girls who will come after you. Today was a sad day for tennis fans in many ways, although we celebrate the history making win by @Naomi_Osaka_pic.twitter.com/9vbH0n2wrJ
Watching 3Billboards again I'm reminded about Mildred's monologue to Fr. Montgomery and how it parallels to today's #CULPABLE, complicit, #KremlinGOP Aiding & Abetting Russian asset Trump & attempting to install #FELONKavanaugh to avoid prison. pic.twitter.com/4Vmbi7VFMW
@realDonaldTrump is right. @BarackObama is good for sleep. I could sleep when Obama was POTUS because I felt SAFE. I wasn't worried about Russia stealing our elections/being poisoned by the environment/losing my healthcare/ SS/Medicare/Future or the @GOP being Russian assets.
Amen, sister! I slept like a baby….since this fraud has parked his ass in the Oval I haven’t had a good night since. Reason enough to get him the hell out.
Everybody on the Republican side of the dais knows Kavanaugh’s nomination is purely to further the Republican agenda. Everybody's in on it. It is maddening. So I wrote about it for USA Today. https://t.co/x0GEEtia5X
HOLY COW. Just realized that when Trump got his first classified security briefing in August 2016, and he was told Russia was trying to infiltrate his campaign—which it already had—surely the CIA/FBI briefers asked if he had any info to report, and surely he lied. That's a crime.
🏆 20 years old 🇯🇵 First Japanese woman to win a Grand Slam 🇭🇹 First Haitian woman to win a Grand Slam 💪 Played against her idol, Serena Williams pic.twitter.com/tzfJphBHs8
a propaganda network for a narcissist who said “I alone can fix America” & buys paintings of himself with his charitable foundation’s $ is quoting a damned Nazi to smear a black man who saved America from another Great Depression caused by economic policies they want to repeat. https://t.co/bxJeGMmZ6B
"She felt that she was insulted" — Serena Williams' coach gives his perspective on her dispute with the chair umpire that led to her being penalized a game in the #USOpen final.
There are fewer than 60 days until the midterm elections. If we’re going to flip the House and Senate, we’re going to need all hands on deck. Volunteer with a campaign. Get some friends to register to vote. Every single interaction you make today matters.
Fired up! Ready to go! I wrote gotv cards to Dems in TX 14 today– Adrienne Bell is a terrific candidate, and we’re going to get her elected. Yes we can!
Hearing our forever President speaking to all of us again is shifting my attitude from fight to the death to We Can Do This!
💝@pintsize73 👸🏼🌺@evawut 🍃💛 Traveling is like the awakening of a dream ✨🌌✨the sky embraces us with its splendid light🤗🌞🤗wishing everyone a spectacular new week ahead 🌾🐞🍃🍄🌻🍀warm hugs & kisses 🤗😘🤗😘😘 Ela pic.twitter.com/uNzuFncda8
The point about Colin’s and Murkowski’s impending vote for Kavanaugh exposes them as titanic frauds who have gamed the choice issue for their personal benefit for decades. Sincere people have committed points of view on this difficult issue. These two are not amongst them .
In the first TV interview about his upcoming book "Fear," Bob Woodward tells @CBSSunday that "people better wake up to what's going on" in the Trump administration. "You have to say, 'Let's hope to God we don't have a crisis'" https://t.co/G73fNN4KHJpic.twitter.com/wHJQ3ZfAFF
Same. I haven’t really slept a solid night since the election. Every day filled with disgust and repulsion, sad for my country. Sad for everyone who is the target of all these draconian policies and practices, which will eventually touch every last one of us.
Me too df. Haven’t slept well since Nov 2016. Gained weight, now can’t seem to lose it. Constantly anxious…cry alot. I miss President Obama so much more now, just because I could sleep.
North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map — which was drawn to replace an earlier map struck down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — easily ranks as one of the most aggressive gerrymanders of the decade. https://t.co/1vuEEOTS23
Morning everyone. Wonder why Rick Perry would need to go to Moscow for 2 days?
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will visit Moscow over Sept. 11-13, Russian news agency RIA reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source.
Is this white bias? Viz. the critique of Serena’s outfit in France and what just happened in New York.
Isn’t it the MALE COACH who should have been cautioned? She has to go back and WIN.
Billy Jean King: “When a woman is emotional, she’s “hysterical” and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s “outspoken” and there are no repercussions. Thank you Serena Williams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same.”
In 2016, @realDonaldTrump won West Virginia's 3rd congressional district by 50 points. Now Democrat and veteran Richard Ojeda is LEADING his Republican opponent in the latest poll. Why? Watch this video and you will believe too in @Ojeda4congress.https://t.co/Gxvbm9jQ9J
I see dudes complain that Serena Williams is rude and I wonder if they grew up, like me, watching McEnroe and Connors be celebrated for irascible court douchebaggery or nah
A new analysis from a nonpartisan research firm finds that almost 2,000,000 low-income Americans will lose benefits under the version of the farm bill being considered by the House. That includes nearly half a million households with young children. https://t.co/DdqWhwYv1k
These mfk**rs are just piling on. They are hell bent on humiliating her and breaking her spirit. No white champion, male or female, of her caliber would have been treated like she was.
The sheriffs who cheered on Trump's press attacks this week have been held accountable by local journalists for incidents like the leaving of a service pistol in a casino bathroom, alleged mistreatment in jails, and the wearing blackface by an officer. https://t.co/2HL7X8GLr1
"What Trump is trying to do is cover up crime with scandal, and mask the consolidation of an increasingly autocratic regime with the appearance of chaos." — me on #AMJoy this morning discussing the anonymous op-ed and more pic.twitter.com/By4w60YNu8
i think that folks continue to underestimate Trump…is he a statesmen worthy of the presidency…NO!…does he know anything about American History and the like…NO, but many Americans don’t either…but what he does know is how to manipulate…and evade …con…as he has done all his life…
These scandals that emanate around TRump….i always feel that he knows much about them ….but he has been able to overcome them all his life…..
Trump is vile, dishonest and corrupt. He is stoking a cold civil war in our land. He is assailing our institutions, traditions, alliances and is a party to the global regression of democracy. He is incompetent and mentally unfit. This is a national emergency.
Ronan Farrow is Back with 6 more Women exposing Les Moonves of CBS.
6 women raise new, more serious claims of sexual assault or harassment against Les Moonves and say the CBS board failed to hold him to account. Some board members were aware of an LAPD investigation into one claim of violent, forced oral sex since January: https://t.co/4JgM7OV6cw
Sexual affairs are now baked in. The distractions now are solely about the new book by Bob Woodward that will dominate this week & next. 40%+ of #RightWingMedia would ignore. Like Woodward said this AM on CBS: Wake Up.
BREAKING: It's a done deal. Les Moonves is stepping down from CBS as part of a wide-ranging corporate settlement. The deal is expected to be announced by Monday morning. https://t.co/nV57srRMjq
This year and this election is not about what party we belong to or if we believe in parties at all. It's not about who we voted for before or if we voted at all. It's about the future of this state and this country, the big things we want to do together. pic.twitter.com/Y4BWaiz5It
I understand what he is trying to do…but we MUST point out the criminality of the Republican Party who has enable the criminality of Trump…and just as Pres Obama pointed out yesterday…Trump is only a symptom of the problem…the GOP is about hoiding on to power at the expense of democracy…and has used undemocratic practices to undermine the rights of Americans…
it is important to point out that it is the Democratic party that is fighting to hold onto democratic norms and principles…We Can Not Be Afraid to say it!
My Brothers @kstills and @ithinkisee12 continue to show their unwavering strength by fighting for the oppressed! They have not backed down, even when attacked and intimidated. Their courage will move the world forward!
by Leslé Honoré.
The world owes you an apology
Not just the umpire
Not just the French Open
Not just racists who ask if you feel
intimidates by the Sharapaova’s basic looks
Or being drug tested more than
The basic looking actual drug user
The nurses and doctors who ignored
Your knowledge
Of your own body
Almost causing your death
Every time they questioned your
Femininity
Ability
Strength
Integrity
Victory
They did so because of your skin
Asian parents who mold their children are
Tiger mothers
White parents who risk everything
Turn sex tapes into millions
Are momagers
But your father who made legends out of
Compton Concrete
Shaping you and your sister
Like Michelangelo chiseled David
He is loud
Obnoxious
Insane
The world owes you an apology
But we know it will never come
Because first they would have to
acknowledge
The hatred
The racism
It isn’t your black panther suit
Your beauty
Your millions
Your venting to an umpire
A broken racket
Or a demand of proper medical care
It’s your blackness that offends
Your power when you should be powerless
Your confidence
Who you should always grovel
Always remind yourself
That you should thank them
for allowing you
To be on the courts at all
As if a Queen tells the jester
thank you for her
Throne
You are the living breathing embodiment of
#blackgirlmagic
The dream of our ancestors
The power of our foremothers
The strength that the
Middle passage
Slavery
Jim Crow
and America
Could not break
You are more than the
GOAT
You are the goddess
Fearless
More than tennis
You are a living black legend
Thanks for sharing this beautiful praise poem for Serena Williams. My daughter is 8 months older than Serena and she greatly admires her strength and her fearlessness. I am so proud of Serena and Venus who are such an inspiration to young black women like my daughter.
THAT is what AMERICA is about! Supporting and Helping each other no matter your station in life, color of your skin, male, female, etc. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS and that is what the GOP hates the most.
"Serena Williams was punished for showing emotion, for defiance, for being the player she has always been—driven, passionate, proud and fully human," writes @rtraisterhttps://t.co/E4yfpPIqgo
Afghanistan veteran Salil Puri: "…the flag is not a symbol reserved for the military. It is a symbol of the United States of America, and it belongs equally to all citizens, including Americans who kneel during the anthem…" #TakeAKneehttps://t.co/Pad1MFFhCO
Wow….It looks like, this must be a tad of Good News.
New: 3 hours after this story ran, CNN reported Moonves will step down. We can now report that he will no longer receive any exit compensation, pending outcome of investigation, and that a portion of those funds will go to #MeToo causes. Updates here: https://t.co/4JgM7OV6cw
Les Moonves' exit will be announced tonight or tomorrow morning, according to 3 sources… Internally, it is being called a "global settlement," meant to resolve the corporate tug-of-war with Shari Redstone at the same time https://t.co/B3cCfDqJqbpic.twitter.com/yfGHnyaLUL
"How the Republican party has changed." CNN's @DonLemon plays flashbacks of Republican attacks on presidential candidate Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/BJ5PDSkO4z
When Americans wear t-shirts that say "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat," they are saying they'd rather have this than in a country where people can freely express disagreement with their government 👇🏾 https://t.co/fpAIOyjZzi
I ugly cried during Serena & Naomi’s match and took a day to process. Serena was every woman I know standing up for themselves, having to point out misogyny, having to get the job done, and then making sure the woman coming behind you is supported despite the discrimination faced
My top priority is to ensure that Florida's natural resources are protected and not sold off for short-term profits. Read more about my plan to protect our environment here: https://t.co/qnTJQQJ6VNpic.twitter.com/IkrSiGDlcS
I happen to be one of handful of people in US who has prosecuted a seditious conspiracy case (to conviction). Claims that the anonymous op-ed is treasonous or seditious are lunacy, with an icky cult vibe. Please stop. Thank you.
President Obama is slated to fundraise with Sen. Casey in Philadelphia on Sep. 21, while the NRCC cancels ad spending in Pittsburgh during September. Here is the Playbook. https://t.co/GHvUScJiAXpic.twitter.com/F0k5ZhDVVe
New voter registrations in Minnesota are more than double this same point in 2014. Two-thirds of new registrants are between 18-30. #2018Midtermshttps://t.co/weMBjzyb2S
BREAKING: Texas Department of Public Safety says a white Dallas police officer has been arrested on a manslaughter warrant in the shooting of a black man at his apartment. https://t.co/AwjlSBwh23
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Nothing/nobody inspires like President Obama!
Good Evening TODbots.
I’m so sorry Serena lost.
I’m also so sorry that Serena lost her cool.
I do feel bad for Naomi Osaka. It wasn’t her fault for what the umpire did. At 20yo, She played her best Tennis thus far.
My Forever President calls us all to action. I’m there.
Amen, sister! I slept like a baby….since this fraud has parked his ass in the Oval I haven’t had a good night since. Reason enough to get him the hell out.
Carlos Ramos is trash.
NY Post has always been trash.
Oopsie!
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Congratulations, Naomi!!!
Wowzers
G’Night TOD.
That’s a lot of $$$, Sen. Collins
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1038559741323210752
Just had to come back & post this.
Ewwww.
https://mobile.twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1038546513260175360
O.M.G. This is what Russian female spies are trained to do, to use their bodies for barter.
So it would seem.
Dana Loesch…???
How many GOP congresspeople are sweating it out right now?
Gross.
All of this. Every last bit
https://mobile.twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1038601635457585152
https://mobile.twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1038601635457585152
Good grief:)
🙂
^5 Well done, Df. 🙂
thanks, vc:)
Fired up! Ready to go! I wrote gotv cards to Dems in TX 14 today– Adrienne Bell is a terrific candidate, and we’re going to get her elected. Yes we can!
Hearing our forever President speaking to all of us again is shifting my attitude from fight to the death to We Can Do This!
Sending Aloha to all the TOD ohana 💜
Thanks for sending those gotv cards, Susanne! We Obama people are gonna start taking back our country!
Trump fans …
… in other words, terrorists.
McConnell & The Hammer and Sickles are the experts in this area.
Not shown: Russian expansion in the U.S.A.
Goodnight TOD …
Schmidt is right. Is there a Democrat running against these two?
President Obama will high-five you.
I say this every day. We are so completely vulnerable right now because Trump is so ignorant, so compromised, so self-absorbed and reckless.
It’s why I don’t sleep well and wake up in the middle of the night. Done it every night since he stole the spot.
Same. I haven’t really slept a solid night since the election. Every day filled with disgust and repulsion, sad for my country. Sad for everyone who is the target of all these draconian policies and practices, which will eventually touch every last one of us.
Me too df. Haven’t slept well since Nov 2016. Gained weight, now can’t seem to lose it. Constantly anxious…cry alot. I miss President Obama so much more now, just because I could sleep.
Today I am more of a Serena Williams fan then I ever was. Keep standing up for all women.
https://twitter.com/BrennanCenter/status/1038798935668736000….
The vote is precious…almost sacred-Congressman John Lewis
Morning everyone. Wonder why Rick Perry would need to go to Moscow for 2 days?
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will visit Moscow over Sept. 11-13, Russian news agency RIA reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source.
Is this white bias? Viz. the critique of Serena’s outfit in France and what just happened in New York.
Isn’t it the MALE COACH who should have been cautioned? She has to go back and WIN.
Billy Jean King: “When a woman is emotional, she’s “hysterical” and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s “outspoken” and there are no repercussions. Thank you Serena Williams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same.”
I almost passed out when all those white haired officials came out. At the very LEAST it looked gender discrimination. What now?
****** https://twitter.com/SuitUpMaine/status/1038615562715361286
Collins b-sing that the phone calls are from around the country – and not from Mainers. Not an excuse as the vote will affect everyone.
SO POWERFUL!! This is what Democrats stand for!
Why we need new leaders
As far as I can tell the Russian Oligarch Party would like the rest of us to eff off and die.
They have for quite some time now. We will rise and take our country where it is meant to go.
Fuck, the US Open officials and fuck Carlos Ramos as well.
What was the umpire fine?
These mfk**rs are just piling on. They are hell bent on humiliating her and breaking her spirit. No white champion, male or female, of her caliber would have been treated like she was.
Then there’s these mofos
THIS
ON POint!…
i think that folks continue to underestimate Trump…is he a statesmen worthy of the presidency…NO!…does he know anything about American History and the like…NO, but many Americans don’t either…but what he does know is how to manipulate…and evade …con…as he has done all his life…
These scandals that emanate around TRump….i always feel that he knows much about them ….but he has been able to overcome them all his life…..
Exactly. His entire life has been about greed and corruption and racism, things he learned at his father’s knee.
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Good Afternoon, TODbots.
Good afternoon, Nena!
STUPID CREEP AND CROOK.
Russia didn’t help Roy Moore, that’s why!
Sanity, wins.
Ronan Farrow is Back with 6 more Women exposing Les Moonves of CBS.
Wow. The Piece is something else.
Sexual affairs are now baked in. The distractions now are solely about the new book by Bob Woodward that will dominate this week & next. 40%+ of #RightWingMedia would ignore. Like Woodward said this AM on CBS: Wake Up.
Les Moonves will now step down.
Karma. It was reported that he’d tried to destroy Janet Jackson’s career after the Super Bowl ‘wardrobe malfunction’.
He tried to destroy Michael Jackson’s career too. I remember Michael calling him out for being deceitful.
I hope she still sues for defamation because he lied on her. I hope the courts will not let him get away with this.
I understand what he is trying to do…but we MUST point out the criminality of the Republican Party who has enable the criminality of Trump…and just as Pres Obama pointed out yesterday…Trump is only a symptom of the problem…the GOP is about hoiding on to power at the expense of democracy…and has used undemocratic practices to undermine the rights of Americans…
it is important to point out that it is the Democratic party that is fighting to hold onto democratic norms and principles…We Can Not Be Afraid to say it!
by Leslé Honoré.
The world owes you an apology
Not just the umpire
Not just the French Open
Not just racists who ask if you feel
intimidates by the Sharapaova’s basic looks
Or being drug tested more than
The basic looking actual drug user
The nurses and doctors who ignored
Your knowledge
Of your own body
Almost causing your death
Every time they questioned your
Femininity
Ability
Strength
Integrity
Victory
They did so because of your skin
Asian parents who mold their children are
Tiger mothers
White parents who risk everything
Turn sex tapes into millions
Are momagers
But your father who made legends out of
Compton Concrete
Shaping you and your sister
Like Michelangelo chiseled David
He is loud
Obnoxious
Insane
The world owes you an apology
But we know it will never come
Because first they would have to
acknowledge
The hatred
The racism
It isn’t your black panther suit
Your beauty
Your millions
Your venting to an umpire
A broken racket
Or a demand of proper medical care
It’s your blackness that offends
Your power when you should be powerless
Your confidence
Who you should always grovel
Always remind yourself
That you should thank them
for allowing you
To be on the courts at all
As if a Queen tells the jester
thank you for her
Throne
You are the living breathing embodiment of
#blackgirlmagic
The dream of our ancestors
The power of our foremothers
The strength that the
Middle passage
Slavery
Jim Crow
and America
Could not break
You are more than the
GOAT
You are the goddess
Fearless
More than tennis
You are a living black legend
Beautiful poem. Plus she is raising a future Black legend and an inspiration to another, Ms. Osaka, who gives props to the Queen of Tennis.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful praise poem for Serena Williams. My daughter is 8 months older than Serena and she greatly admires her strength and her fearlessness. I am so proud of Serena and Venus who are such an inspiration to young black women like my daughter.
That is so powerful!
When Folks like Maurice Cheeks step up. It made me cry.
THAT is what AMERICA is about! Supporting and Helping each other no matter your station in life, color of your skin, male, female, etc. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS and that is what the GOP hates the most.
She is still the Best, despite them trying to bring her down.
Why we teach and strive to get children to love to learn:)
While trump looks for the author of an op-ed.
Lawdddddd…..it cannot be stated enough…the price that US and the world continues to pay for not electing Hillary Clinton..
Wow….It looks like, this must be a tad of Good News.
👀🤔😮
Thank you Don Lemon.
Never forget that Manafort handpicked Pence and convinced Trump to go with Pence and not Christie.
As President Obama said what have happen to the Republican Party?
Reality …
… when destroying the Rule of Law is precisely the target for both Putin and Trump.
Just Because…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/09/09/camping/
It’s Official Now.
Les Moonves is Bye, Bye, Bye 😉 now.