Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
NW, Lady….You simply Rock! 👒💁♀️
Just my 1st check in today, & Leave a Message appears……How freaking Luck, ‘am I?
😍💚💜💙❤😍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The Notre Dame cathedral is holding its first Mass since the April fire that ravaged the edifice's roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. https://t.co/mjzYqJeSiR
The residence for the presidential visit is so pristine, so elegant, so classy just like President Obama, ForeverFLOTUS and the First Daughters. https://t.co/ST6phP4Pmt
@BarbMcQuade and @JoyceWhiteVance It appears DOJ Office of Legal Counsel is relying on the Kilbourn Test. Could you discuss the test and how it might be interpreted by the Courts in a congressional hearing that is not yet a formal impeachment inquiry. @maddow
The arresting cops: •Turned off their dash cams & body cams •Lied in their reports & omitted their threats to murder the Black family •Claimed they “feared for their lives” that the Black mom would kill them
Pentagon, intelligence officials fear they cannot trust Trump enough to brief him fully on new US cyber operation against Russia for fear he will "countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials" as he did before with Russians. pic.twitter.com/BgSF3zi8nm
It's not reassuring when the guys who just opened a new front in our cyberwar with Russia are simultaneously saying the guy who controls the nuclear codes is a national security risk.
Pentagon, intelligence officials fear they cannot trust Trump enough to brief him fully on new US cyber operation against Russia for fear he will "countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials" as he did before with Russians. pic.twitter.com/BgSF3zi8nm
Read the entire CNN interview!!!
Buttigieg argued that while Trump’s behavior would likely prompt legal prosecution on its own merits, the Justice Department, not the White House, should make that determination.
“Right now, we have a President who seems to think that the president can just dictate what the DOJ is going to do, call for political opponents to be jailed,” Buttigieg told Tapper. “I believe that the rule of law will catch up to this President. It doesn’t require the Oval Office putting any kind of thumb on the scale.”
He added: “I trust the DOJ to make the right determinations, at least the DOJ that I would appoint and set up. And the less that has to do with directives coming out of the White House, the better.”
………….. that nobody is above the law, and that prosecution decisions should have nothing to do with politics and should come from the DOJ itself, not from the Oval,” he said.
Thanks for the clarification. I have wondered if Kamala is getting too dictatorial (like Trump) with her exclamations of what she will do by executive action or ask her DOJ to do and I am a KH fan.
“Cory Booker
To
Democratic Leadership:
Damn The Politics And Hold Trump Accountable Now.”
“I sat with my core team and we had a very honest conversation about … some people brought up the issues of politics and I said, wait a minute, this is one of those moments that 10, 50 years from now, people are going to look back and say, when a president stood up and said I am no longer part of the constitutional framework, I am above the law, I am above checks and balances, my question to my team is, what will history say? I can’t sit here, having sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, to stand idly by as the president trashes that Constitution and wants to step towards authoritarianism. So I know the politics may be very difficult. The politics might not be right for the Democratic Party right now, but in the long arc of history, I swore this oath to do what is right and the right thing to do is when someone wants to violate our Constitution and not subject themselves to the checks and balances, that we must hold them accountable.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/15/cory-booker-to-democratic-leadership-damn-the-politics-and-hold-trump-accountable-now.html)
FINALLY, you acknowledge it's Father's Day. While families across the nation are celebrating their dads, you are tweeting and inserting your hatred for all. What – no cards or gifts or calls or tweets from your kids, so you're taking it out on America? You reap what you sow.
Happy Father’s Day to Charles, one of our @ObamaFoundation Fellows, and all the dads at Fathers’ Uplift. Today, we’re celebrating fathers like these who provide a powerful example—not only for their kids, but for the rest of us, too. pic.twitter.com/GJsxi8DozY
And Happy Father's Day to you, President Obama. Your example is one of integrity, compassion and hope. Thank you for your leadership and love, then and now.
Just “Daddy” here, making sure his little girl’s shoes are on right. Grateful for my father and for the men who stepped up in my life after he was assassinated, including my uncles, A.D. King and Isaac Farris, Sr. #HappyFathersDay#MLKpic.twitter.com/zStK2a5aKC
“Don’t Accept the “New Normal” — Keep Outrage Alive.
Speaking of Wednesday, that was also the day Trump blithely announced he would happily accept dirt on campaign opponents from foreign governments…The comments, according to interviews with nearly a dozen law enforcement veterans, have undone months of work, essentially inviting foreign spies to meddle with 2020 presidential campaigns and demoralizing the agents trying to stop them,” reports Politico……..
When Trump ties everyone in knots with outrageous gibberish comments, when he fries everyone’s shock circuits with all the terrible things he says and does, it opens a window for even more terrible stuff to come sailing through untouched … like, say,
another shooting war in the Middle East based on murky intelligence and inspired (again) by John Bolton,
or detaining migrants for weeks in a dangerous outdoor “human dog pound,”
or refusing to obey lawfully issued subpoenas in a concerted effort to destroy the powers of congressional oversight.” https://truthout.org/articles/dont-accept-the-new-normal-keep-outrage-alive/
“A callus has grown over the tender spots within where hope resides.
To stay in the fight, that callus must be torn off, again and again if need be.
Fury must be fresh,
else it curdles into despair, and despair is exactly what Donald Trump is shopping for.
Do not give him what he wants.”
“Trump isn’t a president, he’s a gangster.”
“The FBI had to wiretap mafia bosses like John Gotti and Vincent “The Chin” Gigante to catch them breaking the law.
All they had to do to catch Donald Trump on Wednesday night was turn on ABC News. Trump proceeded to commit multiple felonies out in the open on national television when he told George Stephanopoulos he would be happy to accept dirt on his opponent from foreign governments in his 2020 re-election campaign.Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,’ do you call the FBI?” Trump asked rhetorically. “It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it,” Trump said. “I’ll tell you what, I’ve seen a lot of things over my life. I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don’t call the FBI. You throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever you do.” He paused for a moment. “Oh, give me a break — life doesn’t work that way.” https://truthout.org/articles/dont-accept-the-new-normal-keep-outrage-alive/
“But perhaps Trump was right. Maybe Stephanopoulos needs a good talking to from the Capo du tutti capo on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Doesn’t George get it that politics in the age of Trump is a criminal enterprise, that politicians are no different from gangsters? They don’t go to the FBI and turn each other in. They don’t report crimes. They commit them, and they keep their mouths shut.
My buddy’s having sex with underage girls? Call the FBI? Are you kidding?”
“The only thing that’s new is that Trump has dropped any pretense he’s going to follow the law. He doesn’t care what the law is. When Stephanopoulos reminded him that Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, had testified to Congress that any campaign receiving a solicitation from a foreign government should report that fact to the FBI, Trump told him, “The FBI director is wrong.”
Trump just warned the chief law enforcement officer of the land that if he does his job, he’ll be fired.
…Impeach him? Is it even a question anymore?”
My cousin in England told her colleagues she wanted a Mariah Carey birthday cake. They misunderstood, and is the cake they made her instead. It’s Marie Curie, looking very festive. pic.twitter.com/LMHJnMATqD
Today I’m thinking of the fathers who can’t be with their children because they were ripped from their sons and daughters at the border. The fathers who can’t celebrate today because they can’t afford bail. The fathers who are deployed. Don’t forget them. #FathersDay
That idiot Russia help put in the White House, says that Obama had to know about the effort to stop him from becoming President. What effort. Now you know why I say that the top of my list is to defeat Trump.
Bless my daddy, your daddy and all the daddies who love their families today.
Bless Barack and Joe for taking care of us however they could.
-May we protect and love all the children wherever they are.
But, of course, that same ILLEGITIMATE @WhiteHouse occupant is remorseless at causing life long trauma to the children he has caged & the parents he has tortured by abducting their children.
We have failed to reconcile & offer retribution to the descendents of slaves – the slaves who were the unpaid labor force that created the wealth of 18th & 19th Century America.
And, We have allowed the wealthest Nation to now be 2nd only to Russia as the most inequitable.
Focus your intellect, decades of journalistic skill & articulate communication talent to highlight for Americans that their Freedom is sustainable only if they focus on eliminating inequity irrespective of the race, gender, & ethnicity of EVERY American & those seeking asylum.
Michelle Obama will be on Late Late Late Show Tuesday morning ( James Corden) they will be playing dodgeball, US versus UK. I remember playing dodgeball when I was growing up. Just want to remind those who can stay up and watch.
People are shedding their coats. Biden will be the nominee. I just hope and pray Bennet will be on the ticket. Bennet reminds me of President Obama and Rep Joe Kennedy. If VP Biden picks Bennet, we get up to four terms or at a minimum three.
Here's the thing: there's a reason Bernie is at 9% in South Carolina. He's a fucking awful politician. All he's ever done is talk, and never built the alliances one needs to build to move one's agenda. He's always been too fucking pure.
LL is so right about Sanders. He is arrogant and pure, like the far, far left. I love Randi Rhodes but I hear her saying negative things about Biden every time she mentions him. That’s to be expected about any candidate, but she never points out anything negative about Sanders. I am sure he has baggage just like any of the candidates.
To the Dads who’ve given a kid a moment of love like this. To the Father Figures who smile back at kids like this. To kids who’ve been fortunate in their lives to lean in for a kiss like this. To kids who never did, but will be this for someone else. Blessings to all on this day. https://t.co/tYMOoW0InE
Wow, these two young women are so gorgeous. Love how they spent the day with their father doing what they seem to love best. The article says Malia is 6’1″ – wow!
President Obama spent Father's Day with his daughters in the South of France touring the Palais des Papes, the biggest gothic palace in the world built by popes in the 1300’s. https://t.co/g6NFBfgvbppic.twitter.com/eDbpdQ6fVR
Kamala continuing her tradition of taking her message directly to Black voters. She has spoken with more Black outlets and been to more Black events than anyone. Not just during the election but before as well. My candidate SHOWS UP BEFORE she is sent for. #KamalasCorner#KHivehttps://t.co/CufPV5nIZS
— Black Women Views (@blackwomenviews) June 17, 2019
In Gamble v. United States, #SCOTUS reaffirms “separate sovereigns” exception to Constitution’s double jeopardy clause; ruling means that federal and state governments can prosecute defendant for same conduct without violating Constitution
In Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, #SCOTUS rules that Virginia legislators lack the legal right to appeal a lower-court ruling that requires 11 state legislative districts to be redrawn to correct racial gerrymandering
Voting 6-3, the court upheld a Virginia law that bans mining at the nation’s largest known uranium deposit, rejecting a challenge pressed by the owners of the property with help from the Trump administration.
I am watching some Democratic candidates self-deporting themselves from any valid consideration by the nonsense they spew or the attacks they launch against their brethren. I’ll vote for anyone who is capable to take on Orange Composite, though I pray it is not the PURE one.
“Trump axed the pollsters who’d provided him with the news….
In Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states vital to the president’s 2016 win and his 2020 strategy — Trump was behind Biden by double digits. Voters in Georgia, a reliably red state, favored Biden by six points. Voters in Minnesota, which Trump has targeted as an aspirational state, seem beyond reach, as he’s down 14 points.”
(http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/trump-team-fires-pollsters-after-leak-of-polls-bad-for-trump.html)
-Trump has to jigger everything to suit hisself, including the truth about Iran.
Illegitimate Trump withdrew from the P5+1 nuclear accord in 2018 and re-introduced sanctions on Tehran.
Fully in compliance with the nuclear deal before asshole Trump opened his big lying mouth, Iran now says it will violate that deal’s limit on nuclear enrichment within the next few days.
NO distraction war.
Begin.Impeachment.Inquiry.
4 years ago, a white supremacist opened fire during service at a historically Black church, Emanuel AME, in Charleston, SC. The pastor and 8 worshippers were killed. Today we remember the victims, send love to the community & renew our resolve to #DisarmHate in all of its forms. pic.twitter.com/8wr9Is2ZdL
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The Obama Diary 
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
NW, Lady….You simply Rock! 👒💁♀️
Just my 1st check in today, & Leave a Message appears……How freaking Luck, ‘am I?
😍💚💜💙❤😍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Congrats on first Nena! We’re ALL lucky that we have our Nerdy to keep the TOD home fires burning! Love to you both! 😘
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Good Afternoon, Nena! Congratulations on first.
So agree, NW rocks!
Hope you all have a great weekend and Happy Father’s Day tomorrow to all the “fathers” here.
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Look at all that EXCELLENCE!
I love this so much because it’s not just EXCELLENCE. It’s socially responsible excellence in the service of others. So much love.
🙌🏾
That was so nice what Michelle said honoring Missy Elliot.
FFS. The cops are out of control!
When it concerns black people that is what they are taught to say in police school……they fear for their lives.
Pretty remarkable…..
Don’t tell this fraud a DAMN thing!!
Disqualified
Read the entire CNN interview!!!
Buttigieg argued that while Trump’s behavior would likely prompt legal prosecution on its own merits, the Justice Department, not the White House, should make that determination.
“Right now, we have a President who seems to think that the president can just dictate what the DOJ is going to do, call for political opponents to be jailed,” Buttigieg told Tapper. “I believe that the rule of law will catch up to this President. It doesn’t require the Oval Office putting any kind of thumb on the scale.”
He added: “I trust the DOJ to make the right determinations, at least the DOJ that I would appoint and set up. And the less that has to do with directives coming out of the White House, the better.”
………….. that nobody is above the law, and that prosecution decisions should have nothing to do with politics and should come from the DOJ itself, not from the Oval,” he said.
Thanks for the clarification. I have wondered if Kamala is getting too dictatorial (like Trump) with her exclamations of what she will do by executive action or ask her DOJ to do and I am a KH fan.
“Cory Booker
To
Democratic Leadership:
Damn The Politics And Hold Trump Accountable Now.”
“I sat with my core team and we had a very honest conversation about … some people brought up the issues of politics and I said, wait a minute, this is one of those moments that 10, 50 years from now, people are going to look back and say, when a president stood up and said I am no longer part of the constitutional framework, I am above the law, I am above checks and balances, my question to my team is, what will history say? I can’t sit here, having sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, to stand idly by as the president trashes that Constitution and wants to step towards authoritarianism. So I know the politics may be very difficult. The politics might not be right for the Democratic Party right now, but in the long arc of history, I swore this oath to do what is right and the right thing to do is when someone wants to violate our Constitution and not subject themselves to the checks and balances, that we must hold them accountable.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/15/cory-booker-to-democratic-leadership-damn-the-politics-and-hold-trump-accountable-now.html)
Hey the barn door is open. Trump said of course – wtf he’d do it again!
What are we waiting for…a fkn red carpet?
Or for a 2nd Iraq?
Yeh, that’s it.
What a breath of fresh air, this morning! Thank you for posting this!
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads of TOD!
To the non-dad:
An example of the Peale method = Trump states what he wants to be true as fact.
Actually “fewer and fewer” no. We know his critics are more and more.
Happy Father’s Day to President Obama.
To all the wonderful dads out there, Happy Father’s Day to you too.
This is such a wonderful tribute to her father, from Michelle Obama..
A proud father.
carla4obama, Yes indeed
So good to see him and know him better, thank you.
THIS IS INSANE.
So then?
IM..
PEACH.
begin
impeachment
inquiry.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByxllJMI-xd/
the Fab Wans.
Happy Father’s Day! Hope it’s a beautiful day for everyone! 😘❤️❤️❤️
“Don’t Accept the “New Normal” — Keep Outrage Alive.
Speaking of Wednesday, that was also the day Trump blithely announced he would happily accept dirt on campaign opponents from foreign governments…The comments, according to interviews with nearly a dozen law enforcement veterans, have undone months of work, essentially inviting foreign spies to meddle with 2020 presidential campaigns and demoralizing the agents trying to stop them,” reports Politico……..
When Trump ties everyone in knots with outrageous gibberish comments, when he fries everyone’s shock circuits with all the terrible things he says and does, it opens a window for even more terrible stuff to come sailing through untouched … like, say,
another shooting war in the Middle East based on murky intelligence and inspired (again) by John Bolton,
or detaining migrants for weeks in a dangerous outdoor “human dog pound,”
or refusing to obey lawfully issued subpoenas in a concerted effort to destroy the powers of congressional oversight.”
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-accept-the-new-normal-keep-outrage-alive/
“A callus has grown over the tender spots within where hope resides.
To stay in the fight, that callus must be torn off, again and again if need be.
Fury must be fresh,
else it curdles into despair, and despair is exactly what Donald Trump is shopping for.
Do not give him what he wants.”
“Trump isn’t a president, he’s a gangster.”
“The FBI had to wiretap mafia bosses like John Gotti and Vincent “The Chin” Gigante to catch them breaking the law.
All they had to do to catch Donald Trump on Wednesday night was turn on ABC News. Trump proceeded to commit multiple felonies out in the open on national television when he told George Stephanopoulos he would be happy to accept dirt on his opponent from foreign governments in his 2020 re-election campaign.Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,’ do you call the FBI?” Trump asked rhetorically. “It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it,” Trump said. “I’ll tell you what, I’ve seen a lot of things over my life. I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don’t call the FBI. You throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever you do.” He paused for a moment. “Oh, give me a break — life doesn’t work that way.”
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-accept-the-new-normal-keep-outrage-alive/
“But perhaps Trump was right. Maybe Stephanopoulos needs a good talking to from the Capo du tutti capo on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Doesn’t George get it that politics in the age of Trump is a criminal enterprise, that politicians are no different from gangsters? They don’t go to the FBI and turn each other in. They don’t report crimes. They commit them, and they keep their mouths shut.
My buddy’s having sex with underage girls? Call the FBI? Are you kidding?”
“The only thing that’s new is that Trump has dropped any pretense he’s going to follow the law. He doesn’t care what the law is. When Stephanopoulos reminded him that Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, had testified to Congress that any campaign receiving a solicitation from a foreign government should report that fact to the FBI, Trump told him, “The FBI director is wrong.”
Trump just warned the chief law enforcement officer of the land that if he does his job, he’ll be fired.
…Impeach him? Is it even a question anymore?”
LOL!
Beautiful message.
That idiot Russia help put in the White House, says that Obama had to know about the effort to stop him from becoming President. What effort. Now you know why I say that the top of my list is to defeat Trump.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BywsZEZIZEo/
The greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother.
Bless my daddy, your daddy and all the daddies who love their families today.
Bless Barack and Joe for taking care of us however they could.
-May we protect and love all the children wherever they are.
Father’s Day thread …
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, granddads, & great granddads in the TOD community!
Michelle Obama will be on Late Late Late Show Tuesday morning ( James Corden) they will be playing dodgeball, US versus UK. I remember playing dodgeball when I was growing up. Just want to remind those who can stay up and watch.
I think Corden show comes on at 12;30am, right after Stephen Colbert.
I’m with this guy.
I’ve never been into Beto O’ Rourke
I was pushing for him to beat out Ted Cruz for the Senate, but now I’m not into him at all.
People are shedding their coats. Biden will be the nominee. I just hope and pray Bennet will be on the ticket. Bennet reminds me of President Obama and Rep Joe Kennedy. If VP Biden picks Bennet, we get up to four terms or at a minimum three.
^^^Good thread from LL.
LL is so right about Sanders. He is arrogant and pure, like the far, far left. I love Randi Rhodes but I hear her saying negative things about Biden every time she mentions him. That’s to be expected about any candidate, but she never points out anything negative about Sanders. I am sure he has baggage just like any of the candidates.
Sorry to hear she’s putting down Joe Biden, at this point. Ugh.
She gets her digs in Jacqueline. I have never heard her say anything positive about him. She plays positive clips from Sanders’ speeches often.
Double Ugh!
Bernie is in the Mueller Report (redacted) Vol. 1 page 23. Nuf said.
Yep. Nuf said.
https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/a-guy-walks-into-a-bar#story
Here is a story from my nephew, an actor in NYC, on stage and in film. You may know of him already!
Thank you for letting us know, MP, about this project from your nephew. Good luck to him. I contributed to this fund.
Goodnight TOD …
Morning everyone
Gorgeous!
Wow, these two young women are so gorgeous. Love how they spent the day with their father doing what they seem to love best. The article says Malia is 6’1″ – wow!
Thank you, JER!
❤❤❤
I told my 5’11” granddaughter how tall Malia is now, and she also said WOW!
I think Michelle is 5’11”. So Malia is about level with her dad!
This makes so much freakin’ sense.
This is the person who has my primary vote…
GREAT NEWS!!!!
And more!!
Good Morning TODVille,
How is everyone?
I am watching some Democratic candidates self-deporting themselves from any valid consideration by the nonsense they spew or the attacks they launch against their brethren. I’ll vote for anyone who is capable to take on Orange Composite, though I pray it is not the PURE one.
Happy Monday!
Sounds like – if I read that right 🙂 – we’re on the same wavelength, NCLB!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/06/17/championing-dreams/
“Trump axed the pollsters who’d provided him with the news….
In Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states vital to the president’s 2016 win and his 2020 strategy — Trump was behind Biden by double digits. Voters in Georgia, a reliably red state, favored Biden by six points. Voters in Minnesota, which Trump has targeted as an aspirational state, seem beyond reach, as he’s down 14 points.”
(http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/trump-team-fires-pollsters-after-leak-of-polls-bad-for-trump.html)
-Trump has to jigger everything to suit hisself, including the truth about Iran.
Illegitimate Trump withdrew from the P5+1 nuclear accord in 2018 and re-introduced sanctions on Tehran.
Fully in compliance with the nuclear deal before asshole Trump opened his big lying mouth, Iran now says it will violate that deal’s limit on nuclear enrichment within the next few days.
NO distraction war.
Begin.Impeachment.Inquiry.