Even with all of the backlash, this is a great time to be a woman or a girl all over the world. We are rising. We are loud and proud. We are smart, skilled and capable and not afraid to show it. So proud of the women and girls who are owning who they are and will not take “no” for a final answer. They are not asking for permission or apologizing for their ambitions or their very existence. While there are still too many who cower in fear or who have attached themselves to toxic patriarchal systems, we will save them as well.
Derecka Purnella wrote an article in the NY Times title Why Do Obama Scold Black Boys? I guess she didn’t loke Obama comments he made at the MBK event he held in Oakland.
He talked about toxic masculinity, asking them to respect themselves, to respect women and to do their best in their communities. To take pride. Why some people view that as a scold is beyond me.
1) THREAD: After a week of fevered speculation about the Mueller report, it's worth taking stock of the investigation as it stands now. There seems to be a general sense that if "Mueller doesn't nail Trump" he's "failed" in the investigation. That's not true. …
The less you feel "Becoming" is the right book for you, the more you might benefit from reading it. I did, @NeilSteinberg writes. https://t.co/oAE3b8kFZe
#SheThrives: @NBCBLK is telling the stories of 10 black women who are shaping their communities and making waves in 21st century America. Meet the honorees. https://t.co/Yjggxnxnvn
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) February 24, 2019
Aloha TOD peeps! I’m confused by the issues in Venezuela. My instinct is to oppose whatever individual 1 is promoting. But, still, I’d like to get a fuller picture. Can anyone recommend a source for a general overview? Thanks 😘
“book out this week by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reveals Trump privately discussed going to war with Venezuela in 2017. McCabe writes, quote, “Then the president talked about Venezuela. That’s the country we should be going to war with, he said.
They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” https://truthout.org/video/a-maduro-critic-in-venezuela-slams-us-plan-to-push-regime-change/
–Venezuelans are desperate for food, medicine and genuine political negotiations. Possibly a new presidential election.
–Trump has billion$$ in oil sanctions on Venezuela that is hurting them. Pence plans to announce squeezing them with more sanctions.
–Venezuelans want to be allowed to LIVE, not be pawns for global oil oligarchs and autocrats.
Cause of the great success of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming”, I don’t talk much about that President Obama book suppose to be release this year. I think it is this year, can’t wait for that one too.
Just saw the movie – talk about attention to detail and love in every frame. Thoughts about why no Oscar:
From a family who lost a darling via suicide (hanging): It is No solution, doesn’t end cause and effect and hurts a lot of people. In an alternative world, the ‘logic’ to end it all might have passed in the following 20 minutes/hour.
-But from the perspective of plot and writer’s endless choice of resolution: imo it’s a rookie choice, an easy plot exit, maybe even a lazy one.
-For the troubled viewer, suicide may seem to be a timely suggestion, an idea to act on. And for the writer too, it may mean something more.
I believe Oscar did the right thing in not giving the brilliant Cooper the award. Hope he goes on and let’s us in again + again.
I went to the closest bun cha restaurant near the WH press hotel in Hanoi. Turns out to be the place where Obama and Anthony Bourdain ate in 2016. Featured plate is the Combo Obama. pic.twitter.com/Ad6kdFmjQ7
Harry Reid is on his death bed, fighting advanced pancreatic cancer and Trump decides it's a good time, during a "National Emergency" to attack the man in a tweet".
BIG & BREAKING on MSNBC. Trump directly implicated in conspiracy. The attorney for Brittany Kaiser, from Cambridge Analytica, said Bannon briefed Trump on CA’s capabilities. Trump wanted the info here right away & the connection to CA & Mercer hidden. Kaiser has met w/ Mueller
THREAD Why did Andrew Weissmann, from Mueller’s team, say “This goes to the larger view of what we think is going on & what we think is the motive here,”. The polling data he's referring to is part of the bigger puzzle palace that Mueller is about to demolish. Here's what it is:
“Mr Guaido hopes (to) will wrest control of the nation’s massive oil reserves from Mr Maduro.”
“Mr Guaido will need funds if he is to assemble an interim government, and controlling Citgo, the oil firm’s US subsidiary and most valuable foreign asset, would go some way towards fulfilling that requirement.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-crisis-us-special-forces-cuba-maduro-president-juan-guaido-a8779461.html
“Cuba said it was clear the US wanted to “forcibly establish a humanitarian corridor under international protection, invoking the obligation to protect civilians and applying all necessary measures”.
-War Is Peace.
Here we go…reported minutes ago:
“The vice president announced an increase in U.S. economic sanctions aimed at ousting the Venezuelan autocrat and alluded to the possibility of military action.” https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/mike-pence-venezuela-1184338
= Billion$$ in Venezuelan Oil has been sanctioned by Trump. Now Pence announces a second round of sanctions.
=Venezuelan inflations has rocketed to 13 thousand 779% in the last year, with shortages of food and 80 – 90% of all medications nationwide. =Mothers are resort to things like selling sporadic food to buy cigarettes to sell with which to buy a little more food to feed their children – often just chicken skin and bones, bananas and yucca. 70% are Catholic and abortion is forbidden. With no prospects for survival, Moms use dangerous ways to try and abort. Women and children are expendable items as the Oil Oligarchs fight for control over the biggest oil resource in the world.
–Power mad Trump/Pence/Putin GET OUT OF VENEZUELA!
–Stick with your Rosneft/Exxon oil shares and attempts to lift sanction on the mega-trillion$$ in the Siberian Arctic.
BREAKING: Putin just threatened America again, via Russian tv. They said if Russia got nuked, they’d fire hypersonic missiles at the Pentagon, Camp David and across the US. They claim it’d hit America in less than 5 minutes. Trump’s response? Nothing. Weakest on Russia ever.
The Russian economy is sick. Trump is sick. Are we prepared to become a sick and obedient nation? In denial. Living and breathing on behalf of the privileged: Who are openly subverting the existing order in the name of the global oil and fossil fuel capitalists, autocrats.
The world needs to hear your story. That’s the message I had for the students at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona—one of the brightest, most resilient, most inspiring groups I’ve met. I have a feeling we’ll hear more from them in the years ahead. #MondayMotivationpic.twitter.com/ogMkV6UytG
I remember my son had to sign up for the Selective Service, when he turned 18 (way back in 1987) but I pretty much never thought about it, after that. The U.S. went to an all-volunteer military in 1973, so – luckily – he missed the draft (said his mother back then!). And now his son turns 18 this year – I must remember to ask him if he knows about this, since his older sisters did not have the same requirement and are beyond age 25 at this point. But my youngest granddaughter would be hit with this in a couple years, if this ruling holds (a scary thought). Here’s the link where I confirmed this info:
ICE just released a statement on a "24-year-old Honduran woman went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby at the Port Isabel Detention Center." https://t.co/0nc1Tnci4g
On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data. Chilling find by @emptywheel https://t.co/vNLZcXUGS3
The moderators for Michelle Obama up coming book tour will be Rachel Ray in Austin, Texas Feb. 28. And March 2 it will be Michele Norris in Houston, Texas.
… Becoming was released on November 13, 2018, in the U.S. and Canada by Crown Publishing, a part of Penguin Random House, and is being published in 44 languages around the world. Since its publication, Becoming became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller after one week of sales, and has sold more than 5.9 million units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada. According to NDP BookScan data, the hardcover edition of Becoming has sold more copies than any other book published in the United States in 2018 and more copies than any other hardcover nonfiction book published since 2007. … https://radiofacts.com/racheal-ray-and-michele-norris-announced-as-next-round-of-moderators-for-michelle-obama-book-tour/
Why, when given the opportunity did you choose not to vote for:
• The Magnitsky Act • Sanctions against Russia (twice) • The Senate bill that would have halted Trump Administration efforts to lift sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska?
For two years, I sounded the alarm about DOJ’s deviation from just that principle as it turned over hundreds of thousands of pages in closed or ongoing investigations. I warned that DOJ would need to live by this precedent.
Almost fell out of my chair laughing! Accidentally caught Brian William’s show, & he had short Fox skit w/ Don Jr. doing some BS explaining. He’s now wearing beard, etc. I was like: dood, no one is supposed to see yr loose ski mask as you run out of yr robbery! 👀 😎😂
“How exactly top counterintelligence officials in our nation’s capital came to the shocking conclusion that Donald Trump really might be working for the Kremlin is the big question lurking at the heart of the entire Department of Justice investigation into the current administration. Answering that will reveal the core secrets of this presidency and perhaps change American politics forever.”
If you’ve read Mr McCabe’s book you have reason to consider the above statement a sober, accurate assessment.
"In other words, the Bureau had a mole. Protecting that source was deemed more important in the summer of 2016 than stopping the Trump campaign, which the FBI knew or at least strongly suspected was in bed with Vladimir Putin."https://t.co/r6EAnvOi5w
I’m now more confident than ever that the reason President Obama didn’t drop a ton of bricks on Comey is precisely because he knew that what the United States faced was (is) a massive scale attack by State and Non-State organized crime that is enabled by extensive cooperation of numerous elected and appointed US Officials.
I think this image of trump is from when he beckoned Comey to come out from behind the curtains, and walk over so he could plant a kiss on him. Same creepiness.
Morning everyone:) Saw this over on DU and thought I’d bring this over. Remember when we had a President that WENT to the Kennedy Center Honors and CELEBRATED music and all kinds of human talents???? Fabulous rendition if you missed it
JUST IN Two weeks into campaign, @ShuttleCDRKelly has raised more than $2 million from 29,000 donors – avg $70 a piece – after back-to-back rallies in PHX & Tucson. #AZSENpic.twitter.com/16DGpMWc3H
It’s a no brainer. Don’t understand why this is really a question
Who has more credibility: someone who has admitted to lying, or someone who lies as frequently and casually as the rest of us breathe oxygen but has never once admitted to it? Seems to me it's the former.
let there be love.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love that Black Panther portrait of the Obamas! Congrats, Bridgeriverpass!
Me too. They look so regal.
Congrats bridgeriverpass!
What a tool ….
And ….
Gosh I love Serena.
I do too!
Even with all of the backlash, this is a great time to be a woman or a girl all over the world. We are rising. We are loud and proud. We are smart, skilled and capable and not afraid to show it. So proud of the women and girls who are owning who they are and will not take “no” for a final answer. They are not asking for permission or apologizing for their ambitions or their very existence. While there are still too many who cower in fear or who have attached themselves to toxic patriarchal systems, we will save them as well.
WOW..WOW
Thank you for this video, Dudette. So worthy to be posted and viewed twice. Or Thrice. Or ? Hmmm, what is it called for 4 times?? 😜
😆
🥰. Thanks for this amazing video Nerdy, and for all you do for us to keep this safe and loving place for us to visit with each other.
Derecka Purnella wrote an article in the NY Times title Why Do Obama Scold Black Boys? I guess she didn’t loke Obama comments he made at the MBK event he held in Oakland.
that’s “like”
He didn’t scold, he answered a question by someone in the town hall.
He talked about toxic masculinity, asking them to respect themselves, to respect women and to do their best in their communities. To take pride. Why some people view that as a scold is beyond me.
Fabulous illustration!
Thank heavens for TOD ♥️
Good Afternoon, TODville community
I read the article written by Neil Steinberg. All I can say is I could have told him how wonderful Michelle Obama is.
wow
Good answer!
Michelle Obama will be in Austin Texas Feb. 28th for her Book Tour, I wonder if G.W. and Laura Bush might be there.
Oh. Not good
Anybody watching the Oscars tonight?
Just saying
Wow. So Trump is copying Nixon. Quelle Surprise!!
Aloha TOD peeps! I’m confused by the issues in Venezuela. My instinct is to oppose whatever individual 1 is promoting. But, still, I’d like to get a fuller picture. Can anyone recommend a source for a general overview? Thanks 😘
“book out this week by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reveals Trump privately discussed going to war with Venezuela in 2017. McCabe writes, quote, “Then the president talked about Venezuela. That’s the country we should be going to war with, he said.
They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
https://truthout.org/video/a-maduro-critic-in-venezuela-slams-us-plan-to-push-regime-change/
–Venezuelans are desperate for food, medicine and genuine political negotiations. Possibly a new presidential election.
–Trump has billion$$ in oil sanctions on Venezuela that is hurting them. Pence plans to announce squeezing them with more sanctions.
–Venezuelans want to be allowed to LIVE, not be pawns for global oil oligarchs and autocrats.
Thanks for all this info, bridgeriverpass!
I think every woman can feel his incredible generosity, knowing she was very likely tripping in a big way!!
Cause of the great success of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming”, I don’t talk much about that President Obama book suppose to be release this year. I think it is this year, can’t wait for that one too.
Night all:)
Further bulletins from the Ministry of Truth as events warrant.
Just saw the movie – talk about attention to detail and love in every frame. Thoughts about why no Oscar:
From a family who lost a darling via suicide (hanging): It is No solution, doesn’t end cause and effect and hurts a lot of people. In an alternative world, the ‘logic’ to end it all might have passed in the following 20 minutes/hour.
-But from the perspective of plot and writer’s endless choice of resolution: imo it’s a rookie choice, an easy plot exit, maybe even a lazy one.
-For the troubled viewer, suicide may seem to be a timely suggestion, an idea to act on. And for the writer too, it may mean something more.
I believe Oscar did the right thing in not giving the brilliant Cooper the award. Hope he goes on and let’s us in again + again.
Congrats and so proud to see the diversity last night!! Oscar has taken a couple of steps forward. Bravo!
ICYMI, Chef Andres was magnificent. AGAIN.
Yes, I saw him last night – and damn near cried! Fabulous!
A few moments of pure emotion last night, for sure. It was enjoyable and heartening!
Agree. We needed the lift!
Morning everyone. Ewww. Again.
THREAD!
Yep, Mueller has trump’s world, butt and balls.
Wow…
Van Jones has long ago ripped his last pair of you know what with us.
Agreed Don.
i remember how the Sanders’ people…were so disrespectful to him!
i love this..
“Mr Guaido hopes (to) will wrest control of the nation’s massive oil reserves from Mr Maduro.”
“Mr Guaido will need funds if he is to assemble an interim government, and controlling Citgo, the oil firm’s US subsidiary and most valuable foreign asset, would go some way towards fulfilling that requirement.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-crisis-us-special-forces-cuba-maduro-president-juan-guaido-a8779461.html
“Cuba said it was clear the US wanted to “forcibly establish a humanitarian corridor under international protection, invoking the obligation to protect civilians and applying all necessary measures”.
-War Is Peace.
CAN we please join the fkn dots?
We have to think OUTSIDE of the gaslighter bullsh*t Dicktraitor box.
Not just some of the time – all of the time.
Here we go…reported minutes ago:
“The vice president announced an increase in U.S. economic sanctions aimed at ousting the Venezuelan autocrat and alluded to the possibility of military action.” https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/mike-pence-venezuela-1184338
= Billion$$ in Venezuelan Oil has been sanctioned by Trump. Now Pence announces a second round of sanctions.
=Venezuelan inflations has rocketed to 13 thousand 779% in the last year, with shortages of food and 80 – 90% of all medications nationwide. =Mothers are resort to things like selling sporadic food to buy cigarettes to sell with which to buy a little more food to feed their children – often just chicken skin and bones, bananas and yucca. 70% are Catholic and abortion is forbidden. With no prospects for survival, Moms use dangerous ways to try and abort. Women and children are expendable items as the Oil Oligarchs fight for control over the biggest oil resource in the world.
–Power mad Trump/Pence/Putin GET OUT OF VENEZUELA!
–Stick with your Rosneft/Exxon oil shares and attempts to lift sanction on the mega-trillion$$ in the Siberian Arctic.
FACT: “Venezuela’s annual inflation rate at the end of 2018 was 80,000%.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevehanke/2019/01/01/venezuelas-hyperinflation-hits-80000-per-year-in-2018/#1d7e2daf4572
= instability, poverty, and the world’s highest inflation rate in the nation with world’s largest Oil resource.
So today the brave baby killers announce another round of sanctions.
I hope that he tell all and I also hpe that he has lots of trusted bodyguards.
“hope”
The Russian economy is sick. Trump is sick. Are we prepared to become a sick and obedient nation? In denial. Living and breathing on behalf of the privileged: Who are openly subverting the existing order in the name of the global oil and fossil fuel capitalists, autocrats.
Wow….
This will change things….but i did not know that men signed up for the draft…when there is no draft
I remember my son had to sign up for the Selective Service, when he turned 18 (way back in 1987) but I pretty much never thought about it, after that. The U.S. went to an all-volunteer military in 1973, so – luckily – he missed the draft (said his mother back then!). And now his son turns 18 this year – I must remember to ask him if he knows about this, since his older sisters did not have the same requirement and are beyond age 25 at this point. But my youngest granddaughter would be hit with this in a couple years, if this ruling holds (a scary thought). Here’s the link where I confirmed this info:
https://www.selectiveservicenumber.org/
OMG OMG OMG
Don’t worry. No collusion.
The moderators for Michelle Obama up coming book tour will be Rachel Ray in Austin, Texas Feb. 28. And March 2 it will be Michele Norris in Houston, Texas.
I wonder how many copies have Becoming sold?
… Becoming was released on November 13, 2018, in the U.S. and Canada by Crown Publishing, a part of Penguin Random House, and is being published in 44 languages around the world. Since its publication, Becoming became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller after one week of sales, and has sold more than 5.9 million units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada. According to NDP BookScan data, the hardcover edition of Becoming has sold more copies than any other book published in the United States in 2018 and more copies than any other hardcover nonfiction book published since 2007. … https://radiofacts.com/racheal-ray-and-michele-norris-announced-as-next-round-of-moderators-for-michelle-obama-book-tour/
There’s more where these came from
THIS!!!!
Damn right. I’m sick of the holier-than-thou attitude of bernbots. His campaign needs to go down hard, and soon.
Go onnnnnnnnn with your BAD Self!!!
Am just going to drop this tune here, just because I like it’s simplicity & rawness of emotion. (Hey, Dudette, tell me what you think.)
Wow! Felt that in my gut! Beautiful!
Almost fell out of my chair laughing! Accidentally caught Brian William’s show, & he had short Fox skit w/ Don Jr. doing some BS explaining. He’s now wearing beard, etc. I was like: dood, no one is supposed to see yr loose ski mask as you run out of yr robbery! 👀 😎😂
“How exactly top counterintelligence officials in our nation’s capital came to the shocking conclusion that Donald Trump really might be working for the Kremlin is the big question lurking at the heart of the entire Department of Justice investigation into the current administration. Answering that will reveal the core secrets of this presidency and perhaps change American politics forever.”
If you’ve read Mr McCabe’s book you have reason to consider the above statement a sober, accurate assessment.
I’m now more confident than ever that the reason President Obama didn’t drop a ton of bricks on Comey is precisely because he knew that what the United States faced was (is) a massive scale attack by State and Non-State organized crime that is enabled by extensive cooperation of numerous elected and appointed US Officials.
Whoa. Think I’ll put that out of my mind, Bob, just long enough to get some sleep – and then revisit it tomorrow!
Goodnight to you and TODville!
Understood, Jacqueline, and hope you had a good night’s rest.
In the light of a new day, i’m confident in the assessment, above.
I’m confident, too, Bob!
O. M. G.
“I wish Hillary Clinton was running…We need someone like her more than ever”…as told to me by a co worker
Morning everyone:) Saw this over on DU and thought I’d bring this over. Remember when we had a President that WENT to the Kennedy Center Honors and CELEBRATED music and all kinds of human talents???? Fabulous rendition if you missed it
Thank you! We need to remember what good is still out there!
That’s my next Senator:)
It’s a no brainer. Don’t understand why this is really a question
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/02/26/book-clubs-unite/