****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.
“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.”
Reminder that Maxine Waters is one of few elected officials in Congress who've been speaking the flat truth about the corruption of this admin since day one & not mincing words.
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.
One of the most unexpected and remarkable things about this entire part of this saga is that this newly appointed attorney general, who is a seasoned D.C. pro, is Making. It. Up. As. He. Goes. pic.twitter.com/eTveNxwfUq
AG Barr’s performance today reminded me of Nixon’s AG John Mitchell, who ended up in jail. Not saying Barr committed a crime but he sure established himself as a tool of the POTUS. He stonewalled Congress to use Watergate vernacular! https://t.co/fKneCT6vH7
Really? Two questions. What is he hiding? And on exactly what basis is the Trump Administration going to LAWFULLY not disclose the tax returns in response to a legitimate Congressional request? This is a direct affront to the rule of law. Serious. https://t.co/3H1OprIklR
Dear @RepJerryNadler, Did you permit #AGBarr to flaunt his best #RoyCohn impersonation in order to document his ACTIVE role in OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE to save #Trump & others?
Your tweet could point out that his remarks are pure bullshit, and also that not one reporter in that room challenged him and said “sir—that is untrue”. https://t.co/vKctTOmNNC
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.
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!
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
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
But what also has to be stated is that the Republican Party aided and abetted this profound attack on the Rule of LAW…in fact it could not have been successful with out their cooperation https://t.co/oMGGobWh3Z
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.
WARNING: Now the REAL Trump-Russia scandal. Barr is now openly preparing to cover up Trump & Russia’s malfeasance by investigating Obama admin & FBI for doing their duty detecting an insider attack on the country. The DOJ is now a Dictator’s Weapon. https://t.co/tUuUstYAjW
@realdonaldtrump Why are you abdicating your presidential powers to Stephen Miller? Why are you not using the entire structure of the established, experienced, vetted federal government, to remain in charge of the executive branch? Why is he in charge?
These comments directly contradict what DOJ previously told us. I’ve asked DOJ to brief us immediately. In the meantime, the AG still owes us the full Mueller report. #ReleaseTheReporthttps://t.co/DFOP5igcnO
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.
The black hole seen in the photograph is 6 billion times more massive than our sun. An international team of more than 200 people spent more than a decade working to capture the image released today. https://t.co/5zBDboq5yU
First ever direct image of a black hole! The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 — 6.5 billion times as massive as the Sun! #EHT#BlackHole The image is better than I expected! pic.twitter.com/Tv7I36v4xQ
Black Maternal Health Matters. The U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and it's unacceptable. Women, especially women of color, shouldn't have to risk death to bring life into this world. So we're fighting back. https://t.co/d3UXKd5rdE
New York City has declared an official public health emergency, with the largest measles outbreak in three decades. Here’s what’s happening: pic.twitter.com/FBvK77Msu0
A Muslim woman who traveled across the world from Abu Dhabi to the United States so her 4-year-old could undergo a liver transplant meets the woman who saved her son's life.
Today I co-sponsored a bill with my Democratic colleagues, to guarantee Medicare for All because everyone should have easy access to quality, affordable health care. It’s time for all of us to jump into action and fight for this right.
@MichelleObama#Stockholm You have to practise becoming you, don’t get comfortable, travel,see the world and see that everyone is trying to belong, we are all afraid of change sometimes, practise stubbornly and you will realise that you actually belong in that dream #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/rPK87qw3fP
”People who say you don’t belong there, it is because they don’t want you there. Have a bigger view of what a world can be” Right now in Stockholm, listening to experiences many of us have or had. Thank u for never stop trying @MichelleObama#IamBecomingpic.twitter.com/nH5JNB2fxi
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….
You see how dangerous this is?
You see where it's going?
Anyone who questions Trump — that's the guy who's speaking about himself in the 3rd person here by the way — is a traitor.
What's coming next are purges, that's why Trump put a Nazi in charge of DHS. https://t.co/vNEC9zHZe5
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.
This effort by the press to down play the hijacking of Rule of Law by Trump…will only stop on the day that armed forces show up at the studio to arrest reporters for criticizing Trump..
Was Mnuchin's whole goal yesterday to waste time by making a mnuisance of himself? Whatever the case, it was worth it to see Maxine Waters hand him his mnuts on a plate.
Rachel Maddow crushed the conspiracy theory that the government spied on the Trump campaign by pointing out that foreign governments caught Trump people constantly interacting with Russians. https://t.co/M2Gm015K0Qpic.twitter.com/0VQp2KieWJ
It's nice to wake up to a day where the breaking news is that scientists have captured the first image of a black hole. Let us pause to rejoice in the creativity, determination, hard work, and collaborations of those who extend the frontiers of human knowledge. Yay science!
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’ !!!!)
Worked for the federal government for 30 years; have been a federal retiree for 20 years. No agency is as efficient as the Office of Personnel Management. OPM is responsible for a good part of the management of SECURITY CLEARANCES, so I'm guessing trump's disrupting that. AGAIN.
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..
For all the outlets and people saying that the black hole photo "isn't very good."
Y'all-we turned our *planet* into a telescope. A telescope as big as the Earth! We went back in time 55 million years to look at an object that eats light. Melt your icy hearts you monsters! pic.twitter.com/LqD3O9JPEi
Humans used the most powerful radio telescopes they could get their hands on and pointed it towards a BLACK HOLE in ANOTHER GALAXY that is 55 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY and 5 petabytes later turned it into a PHOTO. OF A BLACK HOLE. Get a grip internet.
Breaking: A federal grand jury in California has indicted Michael Avenatti on 36 counts. US Atty Nick Hanna & the IRS are holding a news conference in Los Angeles at 9am Pacific time.
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.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
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.
🤓
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/
👍🏾
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/