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They are both strong,caring, and smart women.
****Some good news: HB1380, Arming K-12 school employees with guns has been taken off notice by the bill sponsor. The power of using our voices. #RESIST #RESISTAGAIN
Still got a big battle regarding vouchers. I made 9 calls this afternoon. Ran out of time. Will try my best to cover the Senate Education Committee and also my senator tomorrow morning.
Great job, Tnmtngirl! Thank you for all you do.
Damn!
“Obama, who wouldn’t win the White House for another three years, recalled at the time the inspiration he drew from Johnson’s magazines.
“When I was growing up, basically the only black men on television were criminals or Flip Wilson dressed in drag as a character called Geraldine,” the future president said in 2005.”
“Stories in Ebony and Jet helped Obama and others aspire to lofty positions, he said.
“It gave you a sense that strong, capable black men were out there and you didn’t have to assume that your fate was automatically working in some menial job or getting involved in crime,” Obama said.”
Wow. That is shocking and sad. What a shame.
There was a time when many many black familes subscribed to Jet and Ebony…
Yep. Mine included.
Just getting here with this (after being late seeing it myself), so I’m sure you’ve already celebrated it, but allow me to add my own HELL YEAH!
Auntie M rules!
Love her!
I’m glad Bree Newsome – and you – remind us of that!
If he has to go to an “important” meeting, she needs to subpoena his behind to finish the hearing. He’s not more important than Congressional oversight.
More serious by the day …
Goodnight TOD ….
Good Morning Family! ❤️
Trump is not just a liar, he’s a Pathological Liar.
And as always the media won’t stand up to him. They will stand there and listen to him tell lie after lie and won’t say a word to correct him. But if it was Barack Obama they would call him a lie to his face.
Because the MSM has been an ally of the Trump administration. They play along and get along to continue covering Trump and getting ratings based on his outrageous outbursts. It’s as simple as that. They’re never going to call out his lies.
So true, pkd!
Totally! 😆
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough
The breakthrough image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes spanning locations from Antarctica to Spain and Chile, in an effort involving more than 200 scientists…When observations were launched in 2017, the EHT had two primary targets. First was Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, which has a mass of about four million suns. The second target, which yielded the image, was a supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87, into which the equivalent of six billion suns of light and matter has disappeared. The success of the project hinged on clear skies on several continents simultaneously and exquisite coordination between the eight far-flung teams. Observations at the different sites were coordinated using atomic clocks, called hydrogen masers, accurate to within one second every 100 million years. And, on one night in 2017, everything came together. “We got super lucky, the weather was perfect.”
“At the event horizon, light is bent in a perfect loop around the black hole,
meaning if you stood there you would be able to see the back of your own head.”
= 💖 to infinity!
BEAUTY BREAK THREAD
-thanks to Colbert for thoroughly debunking Trump’s gross lie about PBO on the topic yesterday.
-Please remove the sick monster(s) in the WH.
House Dems preparing a measure to:
“1. Increase federal resources at border entry points for processing refugees, counseling children and treating people needing medical care.
2. Create centers in Central America where asylum applications could be processed, and
3. Provide aid to reduce poverty and violence in the region so fewer people would flee.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/10/trump-is-losing-it-as-democrats-write-new-laws-for-border.html
WATCH LIVE: Attorney General Barr faces Senate after end of Mueller probe.
Oregon Senate passes bill to decide presidential elections by popular vote, not Electoral College.
http://hill.cm/cim957G
TRUMP WONDERED WHY WASHINGTON DIDN’T NAME MOUNT VERNON AFTER HIMSELF: REPORT
President Trump reportedly wondered during a visit to Mount Vernon last year why George Washington did not name his historic compound after himself. “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it” … “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you,” he reportedly continued. … http://hill.cm/omt5I0G
Heh how about a slight amendment to an old joke.
Q. How many gross evil Trumps can you fit into a cop car?
A. Three in the front and three in the back.
National sibling day from our forever FLOTUS44 to her brother. How lovely.
❤️❤️❤️
So Adorable
Then – and now – they look like they were well loved!
You can not trust William Barr, he is a Trump puppet, who got the job to be Trump’s Roy Cohn, to do Trump’s dirty work. It is ashame when you can not trust the Attorney General.
Senator Van Hollen to Barr: “But the thing about it is, you put your conclusion out there. And now you refuse to talk about any basis of your conclusion. I’m not asking for you what is in the report. I’m asking you how you — last question. Can you assure us that the key factual evidence relevant to charges of obstruction of justice will be included in the public report?”
(Easley): “Attorney General Barr created a narrative where he weaved his own opinions in with a dash of Mueller’s findings.
Barr testified today that he would redact all sections of the Mueller report, so the American people aren’t going to get to see the full report. What Sen. Van Hollen did was show that Trump was “exonerated” on the basis of Barr’s opinion, not Mueller’s facts.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/10/sen-chris-van-hollen-just-exposed-barrs-obstruction-cover-up-for-trump.html
Barr is part of the Trump mafia.
What we’re hearing is a lot of blah blah blah words from would-be consigliere Barr.
Not interested in ANYTHING Barr has doctored or coughed up.
Just the facts = Just the Mueller report.
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A great thread here with lots more detail
Idiot anti-vaxers. 😡
Yep 😐
Michelle is looking good.
UGH
Thank you jer44 for these photos.
(And the Colbert video earlier.)
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Donald Dodo says he is running the United States Department of Homeland Security by himself:
“Stephen is an excellent guy. He’s a wonderful person. People don’t know him . . . He’s been with me from the beginning. He’s a brilliant man. And frankly, there’s only one person that’s running it. You know who that is? It’s me.”
Trump has a stooge…in charge of Homeland Security..a stooge in charge of the DOJ…he controls the military…we are on very thin ice….TRUP is breaking the law everyday….
Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver investigated since 2018:
“And his company has profited even more from anonymous purchases since Trump ran for president:
Some 70% of the Trump Organization’s sales have gone to anonymous shell companies since Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016.
The ability to anonymously purchase Trump-branded units has raised serious ethical concerns about both national security weaknesses and the potential for undue influence over a sitting president.
But while much attention surrounding Trump’s foreign interests has focused on other projects — including allegations of drug-running at the Panama property, or deals with post-Soviet kleptocrats in Azerbaijan — the pending legislation in Vancouver will likely offer extraordinary insight into who is investing in the president’s brand while choosing to remain anonymous.”
https://thinkprogress.org/identity-shell-companies-trumps-vancouver-hotel-
-c/o mafia don.
Folks, I am getting more frightened for our nation by the hour. Can anyone talk me down?!?!
We will be at Laura’s (daughter) in about 45 minutes. Tomorrow is our grandson’s angelversary and we like to be together.
Yes they have been class acts, I have watch them play for a while and they were , is class acts.
PHOTOS: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6909187/Michelle-Obama-dons-custom-suit-Acne-Studios-Stockholm.html
OMG. One of her best suits, yet.
She looks good.
She sure does.
Soon, with hope, they will ALL be living in Russia.
No. Soon they will all be IN PRISON! FOR LIFE!
Yay! Much better.
Muuuuuch better! 🙂
I’ll sew their names on their orange jumpsuits. And I don’t even sew, so this offer is BIG. 🙂
I heard she retired to avoid further investigation and makes it go away.
Yes, but think that was an internal court-related investigation. Don’t think it’ll help her if it’s handled more broadly. Ugh.
My best LOL & giggle of week. Sometimes we have to laugh in these horrendous times.
Thanks, Gazelle:) I needed that! Hilarious
😂😂 DF, laughs do your body good!
Still laughin’.
Woof! 🐶
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. (Off to think of something pleasant after seeing this, so I can sleep. Ugh. Goodnight, TODville – and thanks for all you do for us and our sanity, Nerdy darlin’ !!!!)
Well, it’s put up or shut up time …
Goodnight TOD ….
I know that prior to the election you implored the still living Presidents to speak out and warn Americans….
although i knew what a man Trump was and what the power of the Presidency would do..I did not expect the decimation of the Executive Branch.i suppose i thought that GOP had some love of country…but i was wrong…they have no soul…they are the reason why Trump still stands…they aid and abet him at every turn…they are as much to blame as Trump…more so..
Agree Shelia, sadly ….
MSM needs to use a photo from his perp walk w/ London cops. And dude struggled all the way to the van! 👀😂😂
She is FIERCE.
Some perspective and context
Watch this video:
“[Taking a picture of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is]
equivalent to taking an image of a grapefruit on the moon, but with a radio telescope.”
The history: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a27099934/eht-black-hole-picture/
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OMG…..you can be sure if gets convicted…he will not get 4 years…
He opened the door to Trump cover up. And I thank him for that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47891470
Sudan coup … wondering how this will turn out
Saw that & wondered same thing. 😏
White supremacists name Holden Matthews the son of Louisiana sheriff arrested for burning down three black churches. Now imagine if that was a Muslim, or Mexican, or Black man, we would have been heard from that moron in the White House.
Wow and this after Putin used the excuse of the big protests in Russia against him in 1991 and 2011 to blame the U.S.A.
Putin is so full of it.
Morning everyone. Nice to see they grabbed the criminal out of his hidey hole in the Embassy. Time to pay!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/what-the-obamas-have-been-doing-since-they-left-the-white-house/2017/02/08/392c7116-eda6-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_gallery.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.515cb9d5d299
Morning everyone. Nice to see they grabbed the criminal out of his hidey hole in the Embassy. Time to pay!
Check this out. 113 beautiful photos to make you smile and yearn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/what-the-obamas-have-been-doing-since-they-left-the-white-house/2017/02/08/392c7116-eda6-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_gallery.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.515cb9d5d299
DF, thanks! They did lots of great stuff!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/04/11/celebrating-siblings/