Last week, it was Virginia Beach. But day after day and year after year, too many families and communities are shattered by senseless gun violence. We can't get numb to this. On National Gun Violence Awareness Day, pledge to speak out, #WearOrange — and vote — to protect lives.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 7, 2019
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Thank you, President Obama. Wear orange, raise awareness. This killing by gun violence is not normal. Do not accept it as such. Be the change.
Pathetic is an understatement
Sorry Lindsey, you are a disgusting disgrace.
John McCain was one of his dearest friends. When we play golf “its fun”? Sounds like a 16 year old.
Happy Birthday:)
Valerie is in my office speaking at one of our forums! 💞 Bye, gotta go listen.
THE Valerie???? !!!!!
Yes! Ms. J. Herself! This wasn’t a public event, but was about her life & book. Excellent & a warm person.
So wonderful!!! What a great day it must have been:)
DF, it made my Friday fabulousity! 🎶💃😂
No doubt!!! What a wonderful way to spend a Friday at work:)
Thanks for the subliminal reminder to once again check for a tour schedule; there wasn’t one… I think the publisher has done a lousy job rolling out her book — the timing was wrong, wrong, wrong…
Good news is she’s the September speaker at the Fels Institute Public Policy in Practice Forum! I’ve signed up! Here’s the link for the Philly area folks > > > https://www.fels.upenn.edu/events
Yahoo!!!!
Fake News…
Really!!??? Damn it
He’s challenging Devin Nunes:)
Good
Can someone tell the rest of us?
Never mind. All right there in it’s corrupt glory
NOW: 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke hosts town hall in Knoxville, Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
You’re the best, jer44!!
❤❤❤
OMG.OMG.OMG.
After all those lies about supporting LBGTQ rights…
From MaddowBlog:
* Remember when Trump was a candidate vowing to fight for the LGBTQ community? That was then; this is now: “The Trump administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag on embassy flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, three American diplomats told NBC News.”
Beautiful, take a moment to hear this:
Hey TOD Family! Forgive me if you’ve seen this, but I just saw that President O is featured among the luminaries interviewed in a new Netflix documentary about Clarence Avant “The Black Godfather.” Here’s the trailer. 👇🏾
Not even a full week worth of bullshit
😂 😂😂
Wait, WHAT???!!!!!
Goodnight TOD …
Sung to the tune of “That’s Amore”:
When your loving granddaughter, here for a month, comes up behind you, while you’re staring at your computer “deep” in thought, and she says, “Goodnight, dahling, I love you,” while trying to put your upper body in a vise aka giving you a hug and scares the living bejesus out of you:
“That’s Amore” !!!!
#HowLuckyAmI
OMG, that’s so sweet and beautiful. You’re a treasure to all of us, {{{{Booms}}}}.
Your comment’s what’s “so sweet and beautiful,” meta! As are you!
Morning everyone
Morning, df! There’s a lesson in that tweet, for sure!
Hey, Booms!❤️
More B.S. from Trump, N.Y. Times said deal was work out months ago.
Pay no attention to that climate change thingy.
Tantrum ‘diplomacy ‘….. how many more days do we have to deal with this monster?
NOW: Beto O’Rourke holds meet and greet in Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
NOW: 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg holds house party in IA – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
“A study finds 1 in 5 police officer have made bigoted or violent public posts on Facebook”.
“Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/8/1862387/-A-study-finds-1-in-5-police-officers-have-made-bigoted-or-violent-public-posts-on-Facebook)
–Can we please not have police center stage in full battle regalia at the NBA finals?
What does TOD think about this plan of Prof Tribe
= Leave the Senate Out of it.
Lawrence Tribe said Speaker Pelosi: “is assuming that launching an impeachment inquiry puts you on a collision course with the stone wall represented by McConnell and the GOP in the Senate. It doesn’t.
If the Senate continues to shirk its duty and say, ‘case closed,’ the House can say,
‘It’s not closed at all. We are reaching our own conclusion after a full and fair hearing. We find that Donald J. Trump has committed the following serious criminal offenses, the following high crimes and misdemeanors.
It is possible they’d acquit him. They shouldn’t decide before they have the inquiry, but the likelihood is he would be convicted.
And there would be a negative verdict and he would carry it around his neck. His forehead would be stamped with a scarlet I.
He would bear the mark of Cain when he goes into the election. I think it is a silly prospect to say that he would be strengthened. He would claim vindication. He could always claim vindication, that is his style, but the American people are not as stupid as he seems to think. They are not.
They need to be educated by an impeachment inquiry that could be begun and ended in the House of Representatives. ”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/08/laurence-tribe-tells-dems-to-leave-gop-controlled-senate-out-of-impeachment-process.html)
Frankly, Sheila, I’m for anything that gets his hateful, ignorant fat ass out of here. I’m over him and ALL HIS ENABLERS. May they all end up impeached and/or in prison for the rest of their lives.
I agree. These hearings need to start. And people need to either be fined or put in jail if they don’t testify.
Who’s surprised? They are all frauds and takers!
Just saying…by law U.S. asylum seekers are not under the purview of Mexico.
Schumer tweeted:
“This is an historic night!@realDonaldTrump has announced that he has cut a deal to “greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States.” Now that that problem is solved, I’m sure we won’t be hearing any more about it in the future.”
–Trump made the problem with Mexico before shamming and faking a fake non-solution.
This movie sounds interesting:
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco-is-a-poetic-explosion-of-love-and-home/#ftag=CAD0610abe0f
NOW: 2020 Dem candidates deliver remarks at Des Moines Pride Fest – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
Exactly.
😂 😂😂
Actually scary
Oh
Very cool
Happy Birthday 🎊🌸
Because President Obama was a REAL President. For ALL PEOPLE.
Peeeeete! King of Shade! ❤️
Damn regulations!!! Oh, wait!
Diluted with what? What will make that toxic sludge safe?
I don’t feel sorry for these folks. They voted for this.
They did at that
Lying POS. But we knew that.
Good one! I’ll have to go check out that hashtag!
You betcha …
Thank goodness
Not sure why you posted that, but it’s one of my favorite songs!
Nothing. Never said a word. PP.
CBC news has a really good documentary hosted by veteran anchor Peter Mansbridge called The Future of War.
I am not able to copy the link but if anyone else is able to … would be much appreciated. It is very informative.
https://www.cbc.ca › news › the-future-o…
The Future of War – CBC.ca
Eureka! It worked … I hope ☺
… or not *sigh*. I have had this tablet for a long time but have still not mastered copying / pasting links.
Thanks JER.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/asu-air-cleaning-mechanical-tree-to-be-commercially-built/75-8d24be9f-7a15-4f9f-85cc-387c55154816
If MOC haven’t done the work, then they need to be fired. Voted out. I’m not paying them NOT to do the job of the people.
Horrible.
Goodnight TOD ….
Morning everyone.Share
Start here: this one is 18 pages of Executive Summary. Share
Good morning, peeps.
Please look at this thread and share it with everyone you know who might benefit from it.
Great! Now couple that with the link I provided above to the 18 pages of Executive Summary, and maybe, just maybe, more people will read and understand!
Thanks for posting that
This is OUtstanding
He would abuse the dog like he abuses people. Spare the dog, just get rid of this jackass.
He doesn’t deserve a dog.
Trump already have two dogs, Lindsey Graham and William Barr,excuse me Roy W. Barr Cohen.
🤣
Yeah, no doubt.
This
Duh
What is up with Axelrod?
Something’s up with him. Seen this snark waaaay too much where he’s concerned.
He’s been a bit looney and a big disappointment for a while. I unfollowed him and rarely care what he has to say about anything anymore. It’s a shame.
Axe has been off the rails every since he started working for CNN.
It’s not Obama’s birthday. Not until August. I didn’t understand the tweet.
Rafaaaaa!!! 👑
If the idiot’s “deal” with Mexico was so good….
Kinda like the “great healthcare plan” we can get AFTER the 2020 election??? Like that?
I couldn’t help myself.
I do not agree with Perez on this. Way way way too important not to focus on this issue.
The climate crisis is the central issue = the Common Good issue for the entire globe and every living species.
What teflon planet is Perez on?
And which KOCH supported congressional is against national TV exposure to this topic?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/06/09/he-aint-wrong/
“There Aren’t Many True Independents, and They Aren’t Into Politics.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/true-independent-voters-are-few-in-number-often-apolitical.html
–Obviously anyone appealing to a ‘national unity’ ticket is off their rocker.
–If they ever were friends as folklore would have it, Republicans are ‘friends’ no more and certainly not to the United States of America.