Congrats, VC. Chiming in to wish everyone a lovely weekend. It will be our first without either of our mothers on this earth, so we must focus on the next generation.
Hope all in TODville enjoyed Mother’s Day, as did I. Judith – this will be my second Mother’s Day without my son on this earth, but I thank God every day that I will continue to be his mother forever and he is in a much better place! Celebrated long distance with his five kids and two grandsons – how lucky am I. ❤
Today, the Defense Department will divert another $1.5 billion from our military to the "big & beautiful" border wall. The Pentagon has now reprogrammed 12 times more money to the wall than for repairs at Tyndall AFB, destroyed by Hurricane Michael. We should put troops first!
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) May 10, 2019
After GOP Rep Nancy Mace shared the story of her own rape at 16, GOP Rep Magnuson blamed her for the rape, passing out cards that read: “It is a twisted logic that would kill the unborn child for the misdeed [rape] of the parent [the victim].”
Thread by @djrothkopf: "Note to old school Dems, The "center" is not where you left it. It's not that warm place where bi-partisan compromise was king and Wall St. […]" https://t.co/wtneGGIUCU
Respectfully, from an 'old white guy,' forget #SexStrike.
Women should DENY men their vote, their respect, & their monetary support (of any kind) unless each & every man seeking those considerations PROVES they're an ally in obtaining & preserving equity for EVERY female.
Hi @SenWarren@KamalaHarris, Vlad’s kleptocracy is ridiculously fragile. It’s power dissolves when its off shore capital is seized, liquidated & structured so it can only flow to lawful institutions within Russia solely to benefit RU citizens not sanctioned by US, EU & Ukraine.
Whether you read Synder (Road to Unfreedom), Unger (House of Trump: House of Putin), Corn & Isikoff (Russian Roulette), Nance (Plot to Destroy Democracy), Section 1 of the Mueller Report or any combination of the above you’ll discern Putin’s worst nightmare – that folk with the capacity to do so will place a lock on all the capital he & his fellow oligarchs have swindled from the Russian (and Ukrainian, Georgian, Uzbek, & Kazakhs) and sequestered ‘off shore.’
The EU, US, UK (in or out of the EU) & Japan have all the necessary tools to not only lock those accounts but destroy the mechanisms – shell companies, lax real estate regulations, & corrupt banks – that enable laundries like those operated by Trump for the past 3+ decades to function.
What will freak him and his fellow oligarchs even more than locking their access to their stolen treasures is adopting a strategy to return the funds to the Russian (and other) people who’ve been the victims of their criminal activities by creating and advertising the existence of those agencies.
If you think any of the ‘color revolutions’ of the past Century disrupted Czars and other versions of tyrannical oligarchs, just watch what happens when we point precisely the same cyber tools used against us, the EU and NATO during the past 8 years to inform Russians, Ukrainians, etc of the corruption of Vlad and his buddies.
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris have the knowledge and professional aptitude to lead that type of counter offensive.
Today I joined students @SpelmanCollege, @CAU, and @Morehouse to talk about the importance of celebrating our stories. By embracing our whole truth, we don’t just understand ourselves better, we open ourselves to a better understanding of everyone else’s stories too. #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/2vhABDbeo5
We’re honored to have @MichelleObama on campus to discuss “Becoming” with our “Black Women: Developing Public Leadership Skills” class, led by political science professor Dr. Marilyn Davis. The class studied the autobiography as a part of the course curriculum. #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/Nwu4AJAENt
Dear VP @JoeBiden, how do you propose disabling Vlad's international crime syndicate & absolutely essential laundromats like those operated by Trump, NRA, etc?
What legislation will you craft to make it impossible for Vlad to move money through any US Bank or shell corporation?
Did last of my interviews w/ @MichelleObama for her #IAmBecoming book tour & it sure was fun. So much candor, wisdom & laughter. As she rounds the corner to the end of the tour, a round of applause for her vision to make her book come alive for readers around the world pic.twitter.com/i48fL3miA6
#CrystalMason, the TX woman sentenced to 5 years for voting, has been released from prison! The ACLU and Texas Civil Rights project is helping her appeal her conviction. She needs your help! https://t.co/Av01mX72vV
Excited to see Michelle Obama in the ATL with my best paralegal and friend cause this is how great our law firm is! #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/ttcSGXGANA
UPDATE: Metro Atlanta welcomes former first lady Michelle Obama with a standing ovation as she takes the stage at State Farm Arena https://t.co/2dRu8jB6sf
Robert Reich:
“By issuing a blanket refusal to respond to any congressional subpoena, Trump is saying Congress has no constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch. He’s telling America that Congress is a subordinate branch of government rather than a co-equal branch. Forget separation of powers.
By spending money on his “wall” that Congress explicitly refused to authorize, Trump is saying that Congress no longer has any constitutional authority over spending. Goodbye, checks and balances.
By unilaterally shuttering the government in order to get his way, Trump is saying he has the constitutional right not to execute the laws whenever it suits him. Farewell, Congress.
By directing the attorney general, the justice department, the FBI, and the secretary of the treasury to act in his own personal interest rather than in the interests of the American people, Trump is saying that a president can run the government on his own. Adios, constitution.
By unilaterally threatening to cut off trade with the second-largest economy in the world, Trump is saying he has sole authority to endanger the entire American economy. (Make no mistake: if he goes through with the threat, the US economy will go into a tailspin.)
By doing whatever he could to stop an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including firing the head of the FBI, Trump has told America it’s OK for a president to obstruct justice. Goodbye, law.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/11/impeach-trump-house-checks-balances
“The core purpose of the US constitution is to prevent tyranny. That’s why the framers of the constitution distributed power among the president, Congress and the judiciary. That’s why each of the three branches was designed to limit the powers of the other two.
In other words, the framers anticipated the possibility of a Donald Trump.
The framers also put in mechanisms to enforce the constitution against a president who tries to usurp the powers of the other branches of government. Article I Section 2 gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment”. Article I Section 3, gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments”.
Donald Trump surely appears to be usurping the powers of the other branches. Under these circumstances, the constitution mandates that the House undertake an impeachment inquiry and present evidence to the Senate.”
STOP.FASCISM.
Did you see McConnellsky’s 20-second mentally suspect speech, saying as long as he and Trumpsky are tyrannizing and abusing their powers
at the same time, “There’ll be Medicare for none.”
Thread. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!
1. Can I please make one observation about Lindsey Graham’s absurd contention that we should start investigating Obama-era DOJ officials for hating Trump and trying to get Hillary Clinton elected? Here is just how idiotic that claim is: During the 2016 presidential campaign…
Economists in the Agriculture Department's research branch say the Trump admin is retaliating against them for publishing reports that shed negative light on White House policies, spurring an exodus that included six of them quitting on a single day. https://t.co/cQUixco1MI
For Duchess Meghan’s first ever Mother’s Day, the Sussexes have shared an adorable photo of baby Archie’s little foot on Instagram🦶🏻 pic.twitter.com/VStGLE76kR
Poignantly, the photo of Meghan holding Archie (which was taken at Frogmore Cottage) features Princess Diana’s favourite forget-me-not flowers in the background. pic.twitter.com/N1vWe8hb4T
I liked her, too. Sorry to hear that. She was married to Quincy jones. I believe Rashida Jones is their daughter. She was on The Office and Parks and Rec.
Happy Mother's Day to the most caring, brilliant, funny, and grounded woman I know—a perfect role model not just for our daughters, but so many others. Love you, @MichelleObama. pic.twitter.com/liWmYaEPVk
My mother didn’t have much, but she knew that her kids had a fighting chance to build a future. Today, not every family has that fighting chance. That’s what I’m fighting for to honor my mother, on Mother’s Day and every day. https://t.co/DUi5ZcVI0h
Let’s talk about the politics of fear. Trump uses fear to manipulate, to divide, to destroy. It is essential that our side not act out of fear. We must not fall into this trap.
I HATE seeing that effin bloated orange jackass’s image here…… I know, we can’t just stick our head’s in the sand. But I LONG FOR THE DAY when that P.O.S. is just GONE. Not to be seen or heard from. Total radio silence.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful TOD moms and their moms!!
This thread is a gift to my long departed mother and paternal (Italian) grandmother who instilled in me the need for unconditional empathy.
Thus, those with the power, capital, empathy, and enlightened understanding of the need to end the perpetuation of any form of warfare must act now to help immunize EVERY PERSON against any and all variants of the #UnfreedomVirus, today and forever. #YesWeCan.
‘You' now have the opportunity & obligation to distribute, globally, an efficacious vaccine against Putin’s messianicm, megalomanic lethal #UnfreedomVirus. @TimothyDSnyder's #RoadToUnfreedom can serve as an Anti-Kleptocrat geopolitical equivalent to Salk’s Polio Vaccine.
Wrongly convicted as teenagers for a crime that shocked New York City, the five exonerated men are subjects of a new Netflix miniseries, "When They See Us" https://t.co/fC5duwYHAopic.twitter.com/0xLFCjvvyn
The evidence suggests the UAE secretly paid an Israeli business intelligence group to do work for Trump during the election—and Trump Jr. (at a minimum) knew about it. Now the UAE wants us at war with Iran. America is on the doorstep of paying a blood price for Trump's collusion.
Hi, Everyone! I’m sending my Mother’s Day greetings early! May all who ‘mother’ have a special, blessed and loving day!
Congrats, VC. Chiming in to wish everyone a lovely weekend. It will be our first without either of our mothers on this earth, so we must focus on the next generation.
❤ <3, Judith.
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Hope all in TODville enjoyed Mother’s Day, as did I. Judith – this will be my second Mother’s Day without my son on this earth, but I thank God every day that I will continue to be his mother forever and he is in a much better place! Celebrated long distance with his five kids and two grandsons – how lucky am I. ❤
Such a beautiful message VC! I hope your day is also filled with love and and blessings! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, VC. the same to you and Happy Mother’s day to all who “mother”
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
I would also like to send blessings to all who mother today and every day ❤
Same to you, VC, and all of the other OD commenters and frontpagers.
Ha!
This is just one of the many reasons why so many of us still feel she is our First Lady.
I love New York:)
What till they start calling HIS deadbeat ass 7 days a week!
Wait:)
Bastards
Will we recover…
First this …
Then this …
And, this …
Yes, they are related.
Whether you read Synder (Road to Unfreedom), Unger (House of Trump: House of Putin), Corn & Isikoff (Russian Roulette), Nance (Plot to Destroy Democracy), Section 1 of the Mueller Report or any combination of the above you’ll discern Putin’s worst nightmare – that folk with the capacity to do so will place a lock on all the capital he & his fellow oligarchs have swindled from the Russian (and Ukrainian, Georgian, Uzbek, & Kazakhs) and sequestered ‘off shore.’
The EU, US, UK (in or out of the EU) & Japan have all the necessary tools to not only lock those accounts but destroy the mechanisms – shell companies, lax real estate regulations, & corrupt banks – that enable laundries like those operated by Trump for the past 3+ decades to function.
What will freak him and his fellow oligarchs even more than locking their access to their stolen treasures is adopting a strategy to return the funds to the Russian (and other) people who’ve been the victims of their criminal activities by creating and advertising the existence of those agencies.
If you think any of the ‘color revolutions’ of the past Century disrupted Czars and other versions of tyrannical oligarchs, just watch what happens when we point precisely the same cyber tools used against us, the EU and NATO during the past 8 years to inform Russians, Ukrainians, etc of the corruption of Vlad and his buddies.
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris have the knowledge and professional aptitude to lead that type of counter offensive.
Mrs O took Atlanta by storm today!
Yaaaaaaay!
Praises and more praises! After this week, what wonderful news. 😍👏
Yes indeed!
So happy to hear that!
Find your flame and keep it lit!
Amen!
Reality sucks especially when you don’t hear it roaring straight at your life; at civilization.
Wishing you a beautiful and Happy Mother’s Day.🌹🌷🌸💐🌿🌾🌱🌺
Robert Reich:
“By issuing a blanket refusal to respond to any congressional subpoena, Trump is saying Congress has no constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch. He’s telling America that Congress is a subordinate branch of government rather than a co-equal branch. Forget separation of powers.
By spending money on his “wall” that Congress explicitly refused to authorize, Trump is saying that Congress no longer has any constitutional authority over spending. Goodbye, checks and balances.
By unilaterally shuttering the government in order to get his way, Trump is saying he has the constitutional right not to execute the laws whenever it suits him. Farewell, Congress.
By directing the attorney general, the justice department, the FBI, and the secretary of the treasury to act in his own personal interest rather than in the interests of the American people, Trump is saying that a president can run the government on his own. Adios, constitution.
By unilaterally threatening to cut off trade with the second-largest economy in the world, Trump is saying he has sole authority to endanger the entire American economy. (Make no mistake: if he goes through with the threat, the US economy will go into a tailspin.)
By doing whatever he could to stop an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including firing the head of the FBI, Trump has told America it’s OK for a president to obstruct justice. Goodbye, law.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/11/impeach-trump-house-checks-balances
“The core purpose of the US constitution is to prevent tyranny. That’s why the framers of the constitution distributed power among the president, Congress and the judiciary. That’s why each of the three branches was designed to limit the powers of the other two.
In other words, the framers anticipated the possibility of a Donald Trump.
The framers also put in mechanisms to enforce the constitution against a president who tries to usurp the powers of the other branches of government. Article I Section 2 gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment”. Article I Section 3, gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments”.
Donald Trump surely appears to be usurping the powers of the other branches. Under these circumstances, the constitution mandates that the House undertake an impeachment inquiry and present evidence to the Senate.”
STOP.FASCISM.
Did you see McConnellsky’s 20-second mentally suspect speech, saying as long as he and Trumpsky are tyrannizing and abusing their powers
at the same time, “There’ll be Medicare for none.”
Happy Mother’s Day…TOD
Happy Mother’s Day to you all.
LOVE
I love this picture of them. Our Forever First Family. Happy Mother’s Day to Michelle and her Mother.
Gosh I remember when Malia and Sasha first came to the White House, now look at them. Lovely young ladies.
I loveeeeeeeeee this picture…so very wonderful….thank you so much for posting it…What a beautiful picture of them
I loveeeeeeeeee this picture…so very wonderful….thank you
wow. wow. four shining planets.
Beautiful sentiment and photograph. I miss the Obama’s so much!
Thread. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!
Have beautiful day filled with hugs and kisses everyone!
Thank you Dudette! Back at ya!
Feature, not a bug.
SWEET
Seems about right
Oh no! I always watched her… I think she was married to Quincy Jones
I liked her, too. Sorry to hear that. She was married to Quincy jones. I believe Rashida Jones is their daughter. She was on The Office and Parks and Rec.
Yup:) sad that she died
President Obama tweet to Michelle is so sweet
My Forever POTUS44 and FLOTUS44.
Hearing a voice
the doe takes up her stand
beside the fawn.
(Yuasa)
–love to Moms and all who lift up our children everywhere.
Meta, ❤️😍💙❤️😍💙 the picture of the Obama ladies. Thanks a million for posting it.
🌷💜🌺Happy Mother’s Day to all! 💙🌺💐❤️
Biden way ahead of Bernie—Lord, please let it remain that way!! Rev Al had Bernie on yesterday. Couldn’t listen. Muted until he was off.
Happy Mothers Day to all our mothers and nurturers here! ❤️🌹
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I HATE seeing that effin bloated orange jackass’s image here…… I know, we can’t just stick our head’s in the sand. But I LONG FOR THE DAY when that P.O.S. is just GONE. Not to be seen or heard from. Total radio silence.
Oh, also Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful TOD moms and their moms!!
This thread is a gift to my long departed mother and paternal (Italian) grandmother who instilled in me the need for unconditional empathy.
Will be forever grateful to Professor Timothy Synder.
bbl …
Link to the entire thread:
#YesWeCan
bbl …
Is Michelle Obama book tour in Tennessee tonight? Do anyone know?
Yes, Nashville. I kept checking ticket prices, but they never went down to being even close to doable. 😥😥
Dear God in heaven
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/443221-states-fight-trump-rollback-of-obama-lightbulb-rules
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/05/12/a-happy-mothers-day/