Rep. Omar used dumb language while criticizing Israel. President Trump spread a conspiracy theory that led a right-wing extremist to murder 11 American Jews in a synagogue. Enough. https://t.co/JO4Id1nIAX
oldy moldy double standard:
“The fact that Omar apologized under pressure, and that Trump and McCarthy have never faced real consequences for their use of anti-Semitic tropes, tells you everything you need know about the politics of anti-Semitism in modern America.”
Tab journalist Rosenburg: “Omar has just begun her congressional career, and she has expressed a genuine willingness to reexamine her prior beliefs. She deserves all the denunciation today, yes, but tomorrow, she deserves a chance to move beyond it.”
Thus VOX explains the problems with Rep Omar’s tweets, reminds us of the many offensive GOP McCarthy, Trump, Gaetz tweets in 2017: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/12/18220241/ilhan-omars-twitter-tweet-anti-semitism
– And Trumpsky can sling his hook anytime for a thousand reasons –
'Yes. no precedence exists. Create one. ' I agree, after all doesn't a legal precedent exist b/c some lawyer/judge(?) made a decision WHEN the circumstances demanded it? The fact the US presidency is now in uncharted waters demands unprecedented action NOW imo, not in 2020. https://t.co/L8r5zqv4u2
Local issue. Idiot GOP has been fighting public transit for yrs in the state’s largest & fastest growing county, because they’re scared RayRay and Pedro will steal their tvs and hop on the bus or the train with them! Meanwhile, we suffer with hellish gridlock every freaking day! Ugh!
“We can’t talk about economic opportunities if people in Gwinnett can’t get to college,” Abrams said in her address to a crowd of 400. “Economic mobility requires actual mobility.” https://t.co/lwti5gDQ1J
This is *fantastic* news. For just one thing, Captain Kelly respects science. As an astronaut, his life depended on it perhaps more than most. But he knows that we *all* depend on it, and for that reason alone I’d support him. https://t.co/o7z2U7l2Yo
The House of Representatives is a separate and coequal Branch of government. And unlike last term, we are going to act like it.#TuesdayMotivationhttps://t.co/nn9fqrEOLX
Why doesn't Mitch McConnell want to make Election Day a federal holiday? Here's what would happen if every eligible voter actually voted. pic.twitter.com/8IB2Ud0YPQ
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -President Abraham Lincoln (b. Feb 12, 1809) #LincolnsBirthdaypic.twitter.com/pp9JL4LZX2
Inbox: Today, Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced legislation (H.R.1137) to prevent President Trump from diverting disaster-recovery funds from Army Corps civil works projects to build his border wall.
More than 1,100 American children were killed by guns during the 12 months that began with the Parkland school shooting. Teen reporters have collected their stories at https://t.co/fhW1UhY50N — an unprecedented account of how gun violence affects our country’s kids. pic.twitter.com/3zyEvCJz4Z
Chinua Achebe: “Wherever something stands, something will stand beside it. … There’s no absolute anything … We’re a world of dualities.” In another words, we’re multi faceted, able to think & absorb our worlds. Not in fear, but resolute in our humanity.
"So my kids school had a genuine lock-down today… I say to her, why did you write that on your arm? She says, 'in case the bad guy got to us and I got killed, you and daddy would know that I love you,' and she started to cry." -Shelley Harrison Reed pic.twitter.com/blKjrzIfJX
Hello friends! 👋🏼 While I am a #GunSense advocate, and share this outpouring of pain at our kids' new reality, I want to point out that the child involved in the story had a bomb scare, not a gun scare. I'm posting the mother's full public Facebook post for context. pic.twitter.com/r6EKEiGhvZ
Think I’ll skip it. But I have started watching Don Lemon more these days. Used to all the time, a while back, but got away from him somehow. He’s a riot when he mocks trump.
If people in Washington were as machmir (strict) about anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bigotry as they are about anti-Semitism, almost every Republican in Congress (and some Democrats) would have to apologize, if not resign. pic.twitter.com/psJb0d4wi6
Even at the apex of its power, the US failed to contain Iran. Today, the US is much weaker. Pompeo & Bolton know this, but they may be pushing Trump down this failed path hoping it'll trap him in a war with Iran.https://t.co/t38MDCzhPP
"So my kids school had a genuine lock-down today… I say to her, why did you write that on your arm? She says, 'in case the bad guy got to us and I got killed, you and daddy would know that I love you,' and she started to cry." -Shelley Harrison Reed pic.twitter.com/blKjrzIfJX
It’s been like ten minutes and I’ve now seen enough of Howard Schultz that I want to strap him to a Elon Musk rocket, fire him into the sun, and charge him for the ride. #SchultzTownHall
The President's demands for a wall have diverted attention from the real challenges we face at our border. I wanted to share with you my takeaways from our trip as I joined my colleagues in search of the facts. https://t.co/DvASAJDvla
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin
Economic red flag: A record 7 million Americans are 90 days or more behind on their auto loan payments — even more than during the wake of the financial crisis. An important read from @byHeatherLong: https://t.co/dvvRRcPVYl
Most of the blue-streaked lory's general plumage is bright red. Against this intense red background, there are scattered electric blue feathers near the ears and on the nape of the neck, which is where the bird gets its name https://t.co/MnrmhOeSicpic.twitter.com/HFF3TYL2Wa
Meet one of my sheroes for #BlackHistoryMonth — Katherine Johnson. Katherine was a mathematician at NASA whose manual calculations were critical to multiple US space missions. In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine the Presidential Medal of Freedom. #WomenInSciencepic.twitter.com/oG2lfFzHcI
We’re delighted to reveal the winner of the @LumixUK#WPYpeopleschoice Award is @davidllo with his heart-warming image, Bond of Brothers! 🦁 Congratulations, David!
In our latest film @davidllo reminds us that all animals are individuals. His image ‘Bond of brothers’, featuring a pair of male lions, is shortlisted for the @LumixUK#WPYPeoplesChoice Award.
Such horseshit. GASP HOW DARE HE DO FUN, AWESOME PROJECTS. Pssh. Let an artist be the artist they wanna be. Time to stop levying false expectations onto writers, artists, performers. https://t.co/4gXv7GsYZG
And doing fun, awesome projects that create and promote joy above all else might be the most artistic as fuck thing someone can do in this goddamn hellscape of a timeline.
This is what happens when folks start to think they *own* an artist, just because they enjoyed some of the artist’s work. The nerve of this jerk could choke a whale.
Dear Dudette: thank you for being our science geek with a sense of wonder, our history professor with a PhD in eclecticism, our musicologist who always has the right tune for the right occasion, our goddess of earth and sky who shares their beauties with us, our comedian who always finds something to lift us up, and for being a fierce member of Team Obama. I appreciate all that you have given us to enrich our lives during good and bad times. Light and love to you❤️
Very interesting indeed. Tulsi Gabbard hired a FARA-registered agent for Azerbaijan and Kuwait who apparently worked with Putin's agents in 2016. https://t.co/GpRfmPOQtX
Here’s what it looked like when @MichelleObama walked on stage in #Phoenix. The guy working at @ComericaTheatre told me it’s the biggest crowd they’ve ever seen – and outside there was a line around the building.
To say Comerica Theatre was crowded on Tuesday, Feb. 12, is an understatement. Security divided the sea of people into nine lines to see former first lady Michelle Obama during a book-tour stop in Phoenix supporting her autobiography "Becoming." https://t.co/cJgsxV8vZn
According to a confidential memo: The investment firm founded by Tom Barrack, the Chairman of Trump's Inaugural Committee, sought to profit financially from connections to the upcoming administration, and foreign countries….. Now, we know which countries. https://t.co/6cNyHIlLp3
Maria Ressa, a brave Philippine Journalist critical of authoritarian Duterte, is arrested. Trump’s “enemy of the people” rhetoric is radicalizating violent supporters in America, & is a global green light to tyrants who lock up & brutalize journalists. https://t.co/00dMaxGoEs
Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are included on list. #ThanksTreasontrump45! Saudi Arabia, Panama and 21 other nations were blacklisted by the EU in a drive to stem the risks of money-laundering and terrorist financing https://t.co/5BTsGxffRp via @business
In response to Tom Barrack's assertion that Saudi "rule of law" is just different than ours, read this. In Saudi there is not rule of law, just might makes right. https://t.co/mtRaFk9Am6
1/ Full Segment with Bannon up. Take a watch. Giving him a platform has its hazards, but I'd contend that ignoring his prescience as a strategist would also be a mistake with 2020 on the horizon. Also HEMP???https://t.co/70uDrXyfXA
Bannon/Koch/Putin think they have us by the throat.
Trump’s plan to move cash from Disaster relief and critical areas for his wall must not happen. And after the terrible damage from his shutdown and so little survival protection for our families, he bald-faced lies to his base about “finishing the wall”.
Beto told the truth about the low crime in El Paso. “Here, a city that has been one of the safest in the United States of America for 20 years and counting…Walls do not save lives. Walls end lives.” We mustn’t give in when we can spend the money saving lives in peril.
Enough of Trumpsky verbal diarrhea about saving lives while he abducts, abuses, drugs, traffics thousands of our children to crazed right wing Christian families linked to billionaire DeVo$$.
No Wall means No Wall.
I have a better idea. HIS FAMILY can stay at the toxic waste dump and the kids can stay at Maralago
The Trump admin proposed a former landfill as a place to house immigrant children. A new report finds that that site poses health risks such as exposure to multiple toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and contaminated groundwater. https://t.co/vjddHZSUaD
3) Imagine if all the misogyny aimed at Warren, Harris, Klobuchar, Gillibrand etc were aimed just at one woman. Or if Trump/GOP had one name to browbeat endlessly for 20 months. The financial waste of the election is a real problem — but big slate is good for Dems strategically
Huge achievement for @TomPerez & @TheDemocrats: a new plan to give our party and our campaigns the best data — closing the gap with the GOP (and thank you @GovHowardDean for stepping up)!
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
WTH?
oldy moldy double standard:
“The fact that Omar apologized under pressure, and that Trump and McCarthy have never faced real consequences for their use of anti-Semitic tropes, tells you everything you need know about the politics of anti-Semitism in modern America.”
Tab journalist Rosenburg: “Omar has just begun her congressional career, and she has expressed a genuine willingness to reexamine her prior beliefs. She deserves all the denunciation today, yes, but tomorrow, she deserves a chance to move beyond it.”
Thus VOX explains the problems with Rep Omar’s tweets, reminds us of the many offensive GOP McCarthy, Trump, Gaetz tweets in 2017:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/12/18220241/ilhan-omars-twitter-tweet-anti-semitism
– And Trumpsky can sling his hook anytime for a thousand reasons –
Steve Benen (MaddowBlog): “The challenge Republicans face going after Ilhan Omar.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-challenge-republicans-face-going-after-ilhan-omar#break
–“what the president should try to understand is that credibility counts – and on this issue, he doesn’t have any.”
Ha! Go Hillary!
Local issue. Idiot GOP has been fighting public transit for yrs in the state’s largest & fastest growing county, because they’re scared RayRay and Pedro will steal their tvs and hop on the bus or the train with them! Meanwhile, we suffer with hellish gridlock every freaking day! Ugh!
Awww! ❤️
Wow!
Woah! I wuz holding my breath! Wow! ❤
😁😁😁🐶
Dudette! Thank you for the best cackle this week! Dawg Glenn is having his moment of Zen. 😎😂
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I love this:) I shared it all over the place😎 little sweetness even has a smile on his face! The power of music
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Selling the Children…My God…Save the Children…
Reminiscent of what was done to Indigenous children who were forcibly taken away from their families and sent to residential schools.
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THANK YOU, JER!!
How wonderful is that! Thanks, JER!
Michelle Obama visit tribal students before Phoenix book tour stop.
BEAUTY LOVE BREAK.
Meghan sure is looking stunning! Time flies.
Yes Thanks JER.
Love to see Michelle sitting down talking to young people, old ones too.
Chinua Achebe interview, thought you might enjoy! Parts 1-3. Grab a cuppa something & kick back, away from Minus. 😎
Chinua Achebe: “Wherever something stands, something will stand beside it. … There’s no absolute anything … We’re a world of dualities.” In another words, we’re multi faceted, able to think & absorb our worlds. Not in fear, but resolute in our humanity.
Thank you so much,Gazelle, for sharing Chinua Achebe’s wisdom.
Thanks for sharing this!
Good old Abe.
Wow, this amazing!
It is!
Never forget the GOP did this to our society.
Unbelievable horror.
Funny. Not funny.
Think I’ll skip it. But I have started watching Don Lemon more these days. Used to all the time, a while back, but got away from him somehow. He’s a riot when he mocks trump.
You gotta read the comments! 😄
This looks good. Interesting premise. 😁
This is pretty much where Democrats are. I like the way this guy put it – hysterical!
Truth ….
Yup …
Goodnight TOD …
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Hearts together and bird running for a hug…you said it. Thanks Bobfr.
I guess we’re done with that spoiler.
These two, LOLOLOLOLz!!
LOL!
Incredible! Beautiful!
Morning everyone. So it begins again
More here:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/february/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-lumix-peoples-choice-winner-2018.html
Read this whole article. 😳
Dear Dudette: thank you for being our science geek with a sense of wonder, our history professor with a PhD in eclecticism, our musicologist who always has the right tune for the right occasion, our goddess of earth and sky who shares their beauties with us, our comedian who always finds something to lift us up, and for being a fierce member of Team Obama. I appreciate all that you have given us to enrich our lives during good and bad times. Light and love to you❤️
Can I say “Amen” to this!
And also me! 🙂 🙂 🙂
❤️❤️❤️❤️ YES!!!
DEFINITELY!!
Yes! I so agree with this.
thanks Dudette, great work, love.
Well stated CEB!! Thank you to you and Dudette!!
Important read
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-ilhan-omar-has-sparked-panic-in-aipac-1.6935041
Oh look
LOL…
Hilarious, and it worked….LOL!
This will work because the ultimate goal isn’t to raise money for a wall, oh no, the ultimate goal it is to separate a fool from his money.
HAHAHA!!!
From the Infinite Wisdom of one named Don~~~~~~~~
Bannon/Koch/Putin think they have us by the throat.
Trump’s plan to move cash from Disaster relief and critical areas for his wall must not happen. And after the terrible damage from his shutdown and so little survival protection for our families, he bald-faced lies to his base about “finishing the wall”.
Beto told the truth about the low crime in El Paso. “Here, a city that has been one of the safest in the United States of America for 20 years and counting…Walls do not save lives. Walls end lives.” We mustn’t give in when we can spend the money saving lives in peril.
Enough of Trumpsky verbal diarrhea about saving lives while he abducts, abuses, drugs, traffics thousands of our children to crazed right wing Christian families linked to billionaire DeVo$$.
No Wall means No Wall.
I have a better idea. HIS FAMILY can stay at the toxic waste dump and the kids can stay at Maralago
Saw the Dicktraitor photo-shopped in a Hillary suit on Colbert last night.
-Just a little hate-filled man hanging on to his pretenses and lies.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/02/13/go-chicago/
I think Perez is doing a great job….