You do know that because Trump reneged on the Iran Deal and as Iran begins to react to being backed into a corner, there can be no renegotiation of the agreement because it will have been broken. And do you think Iran will be willing to enter into talks again after this CF?
This is not who we are. We should be better than this, bullshit! This is exactly who and what we are. America voted a mad-man into the highest office in the land, with or without Russian interference. I wish people would stop saying this is not who we are, history has proven that fact wrong time and time again. Because if this weren’t who we are we wouldn’t have children in cages down on the goddamn border.
I know..Don…this underbelly has always been there…blk folks and others have constantly struggled to make the words from the Declaration of Independence ring true..that We are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights…among them being Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…but from the beginning we were excluded…even when we were included by way of amendments…it was never quite enough…when were included by court order…it was never quite enough…and here we are with the latest SCOTUS decree…that after they derailed the VRA by gutting pre-clearance…they decide that they will be hands off re-garding gerrymandering and voter suppression…
but WE have been thru dark times…WE have struggled and prevailed…WE must do the same now…
The only thing we ever do, sad to say, is swing the pendulum back and forth, from good to bad, from bad to worse, etc. But without hope that we can change OURSELVES, no sense getting up in the morning. It gets harder and harder to hope.
We're off a very steep cliff,we ARE going left. The philosophy is no more crimes against humanity, no more brazen psycho lying, no more robbing the Treasury blind, no more courting insane dictators, no more self-dealing, no more shredding the Constitution, no more vanity projects https://t.co/WNmpYitTpQ
We're off a very steep cliff,we ARE going left. The philosophy is no more crimes against humanity, no more brazen psycho lying, no more robbing the Treasury blind, no more courting insane dictators, no more self-dealing, no more shredding the Constitution, no more vanity projects https://t.co/WNmpYitTpQ
Hi everyone. I’m actually really excited to be launching my very own YouTube Channel! It will be a destination all things Williams, my family, me, fitness, tennis, wellness, design and more . Today I will be posting my first episode ‘Wilmington to Wimbledon' pic.twitter.com/56PoyM9WrN
I swear the Defense Department pushed back on trump’s previous ask for a military parade. Hoping that’s the case – even at the last minute – here. Too depressing to actually read all this anti-democracy stuff, so who knows.
It seems Pres. Trump wants a militarized Fourth of July celebration more similar to the kinds of events overseen by dictators like his buddy Kim Jong-un. I prefer the Boston Pops, hot dogs, and Uncle Sams on stilts.
@DeptofDefense Let us know when you talk him out of this awful idea. Signed: Americans who love democracy and are against using our military to feed his sick ego
Members of a secret Facebook group for Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility and posted a vulgar illustration of Rep. @AOC, ProPublica reports. https://t.co/cqOFnv647U
imo,
Our next message from the stage = What was the GOP party is now Dead.
Democratic candidates must stand together in lockstep and denounce the party of Putin,
What we have in place of the old GOP party is promoting authoritarianism, corporate power and wealth, racism, bigotry in all its forms, misogyny and pornography, cronyism, against the rule of law, anti-science, anti-climate crisis, anti-truth, is against the welfare and future of humanity and all living beings. They don’t care.
–Next debate should be across the board platform for Denouncing the Republican Party,
The Party of no-election-protections has a deal with Putin.
Dems need a unified message – not about how ‘nice’ we are but how corrupt GOP is – and force that subject down the throats of the media. No more food fights. Make GOP answer to how they are destroying democracy, coddling up to the worst dictators and allowing them to invade our elections.
Imo way forward is demanding democratic leadership to run on a platform of denouncing gop party,
putting them on the ropes, collectively and powerfully. Put them on the defensive.
Tanks on July 4th next? We are already not the shining beacon on the hill.
We must to go on the offensive against the GOP and all they represent.
The Republican Party is Dead = key message.
Our guys can be eloquent sure, but they must unified and specific on critique of GOP.
Those who won’t critique GOP should be knocked out right away.
Or we will lose.
The most important job in our democracy is citizen. If you’re tired of politicians manipulating maps and ignoring the will of voters, I hope you’ll sign @allontheline’s Citizen Commitment today: https://t.co/CUAaoAGY6z
Russians hacked the vote count. Trump is a Russian agent and traitor. But when you read the Mueller Report, you realized Russia did a trail to by hacking into House and Senate races. Without interference MoscowMitch would not have been re-elected. This is what they’re hiding. The GOP stole the House and Senate in 2014, the presidency in 2016 and at least two Gov races in 2018, putting a white nationalist in the GA mansion and a Italian mobster in the FL one.
Democrats will fine some way to blow this 2020 election like 2016. Attacking one another ( and I don’t care who it is doing the attacking) is not the way to go. I don’t like it.
Made for the big stage ✨@CocoGauff becomes the youngest player since 1991 to win in the first round of the ladies' singles, beating Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4#Wimbledonpic.twitter.com/hfgcQGdZtq
ASTONISHING. 15 year old Cori Gauff defeats 39 year old five time #Wimbledon champion Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 in her grand slam debut. Gauff brought to tears as she defeats one of her idols. pic.twitter.com/jnGX5Lfs9G
Gauff on the exchange at the net on BBC: “She said congratulations. I told her thank you for everything that you did. I wouldn’t be here without you. I always wanted to tell her that."
Said this is the 1st time she’s cried after a win. #Wimbledon
And the ACLU is suing the state of Florida for this unconstitutional poll tax. Donate to them if you are able.
64% of Floridians voted to re-enfranchise released people. Republican legislature and governor gutted the bill-Afraid that these new voters would not be supportive of them. A purely political move. Republicans don’t respect the will of the people. Cowards https://t.co/0bTiRutFcA
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one nation to remove from office a cabal of corrupt traitors, a decent respect to the opinions of all its citizens requires that they should declare their just reasons. pic.twitter.com/e1TMMAuSxJ
"A lot of factors have contributed to American inequality: slavery, economic policy, technological change, the power of lobbying, globalization, and so on." https://t.co/VtxTn1Ht9y
JUST IN: @BernieSanders campaign manager @fshakir tells @CBSNews he thinks Buttigieg "probably will have more money raised than we will" in Q2 b/c the mayor "solicits money from corporate executives from their homes" unlike Sanders who focuses on small $$ donations. #Roadto2020pic.twitter.com/2AVhZNZ1jf
Hunter Biden, the son of 2020 contender and former Vice President Joe Biden, opened up about his struggle with addiction in a new interview, saying he did so in part to get ahead of future stories which could impact his father https://t.co/4zF0O3EIe0
No it is none of our business, but to me it just shows the Biden family is like most average families out there, it’s not perfect it has problems like all our families does. Beside we know how the media is,
I’ve been outside all the facilities she’s touring today around El Paso, and according to everything I’ve seen the part about her leaving the tour is a lie. @AOC was inside each one for the maximum amount of time—first one in, last one out. https://t.co/HeH53W2nTx
Just left the first CBP facility. The conditions are far worse than we ever could have imagined.
15 women in their 50s- 60s sleeping in a small concrete cell, no running water. Weeks without showers. All of them separated from their families.
This is a human rights crisis.
— Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) July 1, 2019
Spent the morning in TX at Clint and El Paso detention facilities. Big takeaways — 1) @CBP was very resistant to Congressional oversight. They tried to restrict what we saw, take our phones, block photos and video. Atmosphere was contentious and uncooperative.
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) July 1, 2019
Anna, the "Homeland Security reporter" for the right-wing Washington Examiner, is a former spokesperson for FAIR, an anti-immigration group. (She's a favorite go-to leak for Stephen Miller and his go-betweens) https://t.co/iUCCCymsEd
One slight correction, not a real president, but good question.
If DC's Independence Day celebration is all about Trump should we rename it Draft Dodger's Day? Felon's Day? Rapist's Day? Traitor's Day? What aspect of our president will we be celebrating?
I say we hold off on that "Independence Day" thingie until we're free from him. For now, we can just call it the Fourth of July. Let's hold off celebrating until he's at GITMO.
This is absurd and how much will this cost? I am old enough to remember when we had a budget for July 4th and had to go line x line to find ways to cut. We recycled so many decorations and rationed ice cream. Yo, these folks have completely lost it. https://t.co/Eb1Tp3ed5e
So John Bolton (the warmonger, do to Iran what was done in Iraq, etc., current NatSec Advisor to iQ45) was sent to Mongolia (not kidding 😂) while iQ45 hanged out w/ his bestie dictators & princely murderers. Out there in Mongolia, pauvre John had only one option: Tweet! Whoever “leaked” No. Korea deal needs to be quartered. 😂 Dood, yr iQ45 sent you to Mongolia, so he could “leak”, photo op, lie some more, & claim more infamy he calls “historic”, including stupid MSM. Wot! Hope John enjoyed Mongolia. Can’t quite figure out what a NatSec is doing there, unless it’s another avenue to steal elections, not just iQ45 sending him to “siberia”. 😯 😂😂😏
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday after a package at the social media company’s Silicon Valley mail facility tested positive for the toxic compound.
The people who came in contact with the suspicious package at about 11 a.m. did not show any symptoms of exposure to sarin, said Jon Johnston, fire marshal for the city of Menlo Park, where Facebook is based.
“The (Facebook) facility tests all of the packages that come in and they had a positive test, so they just initiated their standard protocol. Now we’re just waiting to verify whether that’s true or not,” he said.
2+ hours with Judiciary Committee in public 2+ hours with Intel Committee in public then in private with the Judiciary Committee and *then* in private with the Intel Committee 1 or 2 Mueller deputies will participate in closed sessions pic.twitter.com/LdKv4f9zTU
DF, am at that point where I say: just get up there SC Mueller & throw plenty f-bombs, just defend our democracy & yr own rep as you do so. They cannot be allowed to freebase our nation. Our sense of decency, morals. No more. 😔
Fiona Apple pledged 2 years of royalties from her hit "Criminal" to the While They Wait Fund we created with @BklynDefender and @ACLUSoCal to support immigrants.
Reading the busing issue comments made me want to share my own bussing experience as a substitute teacher in IL during Vietnam Nam years. My Air Force husband was stationed at Chanute AFB in ‘69-‘70. I was subbing in three school districts Rantoul, Urbana and Champaign K thru 12 grades. Bussing laws were in effect. There did not seem to be the outrage in the North as much as in the Southern states, but it was evident that choices made to enact the law were dictated by school boards, budgets and politics (underlying racism). I noticed that the Black students bussed into the schools I subbed in arrived together twenty to thirty minutes after school started on the same bus and left twenty to thirty minutes prior to the end of the school day together. The excuse was not to impact their budget for the cost of buses and not to impact the bus routes of the other students. In reality it created a division among the students and enabled the feeling of differences by all instead of fostering what was intended. The bussed students became a unified group that the other students viewed as outsiders. So how a program is run and implemented is huge in whether the effort works or does not work.
This is Never an issue for Blk Folks …..but it is Always an issue for white folks…because not only must they confront racism…white supremacy… white privilege with their fellow white brethren but they also must confront those same issues within themselves…. https://t.co/f0QOvEywcL
One detail you might have missed in our July 4th story: engineers are examining if the weight of stationing tanks will damage the Lincoln Memorial’s underground rooms. Those are the ones Zinke often liked to tour frequently w/ guests @jdawsey1@DanLamothehttps://t.co/G4k3qg5ZTO
Ya THINK?! "Another problem is that Arlington Memorial Bridge, which spans the Potomac River and connects Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, might not be able to hold the [tanks'] weight." Happy July 4th, @realDonaldTrump ! https://t.co/mFmT01lsGr
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey says that he's withdrawing all financial incentive dollars to have Nike open a manufacturing plant in the state… after a report said that Nike pulled a Betsy Ross Flag shoe. https://t.co/L2Plq0ubdI
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey says that he's withdrawing all financial incentive dollars to have Nike open a manufacturing plant in the state… after a report said that Nike pulled a Betsy Ross Flag shoe. https://t.co/L2Plq0ubdI
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey says that he's withdrawing all financial incentive dollars to have Nike open a manufacturing plant in the state… after a report said that Nike pulled a Betsy Ross Flag shoe. https://t.co/L2Plq0ubdI
The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise. The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free. The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
I heard the article on NPR this morning and it mentioned the stars on the Betsy Ross flag being redesigned. I missed the point, but did not think it had to do with flag code.
Ex-State Dept official confirmed Trump approved $2M to be paid to N Korea for Otto Warmbier’s release. So, Trump paid $2M to N Korean Gov’t for Warmbier, while in a coma that was caused by the N Koreans, then lied about it. This SHOULD end his presidency. It’s grotesque.
Pence was on his way to an event in NH. Plane turned around midway and he headed back to the WH for “a meeting.” Apparently no health or plane issues. Just a meeting.
Today is the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which broke down segregation and banned discriminatory hiring in the workplace. This act seeks to create a more perfect & equal union — for the US is only free when all its citizens are free. pic.twitter.com/wEt9lk3Ya9
— Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) July 2, 2019
Thank you, Nerdy!
Thank you, NW. Thank you, always. For always being here. Always bringing it. Thank you.
We are so so so screwed.
This is not who we are. We should be better than this, bullshit! This is exactly who and what we are. America voted a mad-man into the highest office in the land, with or without Russian interference. I wish people would stop saying this is not who we are, history has proven that fact wrong time and time again. Because if this weren’t who we are we wouldn’t have children in cages down on the goddamn border.
I know..Don…this underbelly has always been there…blk folks and others have constantly struggled to make the words from the Declaration of Independence ring true..that We are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights…among them being Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…but from the beginning we were excluded…even when we were included by way of amendments…it was never quite enough…when were included by court order…it was never quite enough…and here we are with the latest SCOTUS decree…that after they derailed the VRA by gutting pre-clearance…they decide that they will be hands off re-garding gerrymandering and voter suppression…
but WE have been thru dark times…WE have struggled and prevailed…WE must do the same now…
The only thing we ever do, sad to say, is swing the pendulum back and forth, from good to bad, from bad to worse, etc. But without hope that we can change OURSELVES, no sense getting up in the morning. It gets harder and harder to hope.
Respite from the madness
Oooops, sorry the for dupe and thanks, Booms!
I chuckled when I saw yours show up. But it was worth re-posting, in any event, darlin’!
Just wanted you to know I hang on your every word, and always learn something! 🙂
Oh wow, thanks, luv. You’re an amazing and beloved friend to me and to all of us here.
I may need a cool drink after that. Ha. *clink
I swear the Defense Department pushed back on trump’s previous ask for a military parade. Hoping that’s the case – even at the last minute – here. Too depressing to actually read all this anti-democracy stuff, so who knows.
I read that as well, the weight of the tanks alone would destroy the roads.
Even I, who knows nothing about that kind of stuff, thought of it! Ugh.
Excellent post👏👏
Thank YOU NERDY…Thank YOU!!!
Perfect thread.
imo,
Our next message from the stage = What was the GOP party is now Dead.
Democratic candidates must stand together in lockstep and denounce the party of Putin,
What we have in place of the old GOP party is promoting authoritarianism, corporate power and wealth, racism, bigotry in all its forms, misogyny and pornography, cronyism, against the rule of law, anti-science, anti-climate crisis, anti-truth, is against the welfare and future of humanity and all living beings. They don’t care.
–Next debate should be across the board platform for Denouncing the Republican Party,
The Party of no-election-protections has a deal with Putin.
Dems need a unified message – not about how ‘nice’ we are but how corrupt GOP is – and force that subject down the throats of the media. No more food fights. Make GOP answer to how they are destroying democracy, coddling up to the worst dictators and allowing them to invade our elections.
Imo way forward is demanding democratic leadership to run on a platform of denouncing gop party,
putting them on the ropes, collectively and powerfully. Put them on the defensive.
Tanks on July 4th next? We are already not the shining beacon on the hill.
We must to go on the offensive against the GOP and all they represent.
The Republican Party is Dead = key message.
Our guys can be eloquent sure, but they must unified and specific on critique of GOP.
Those who won’t critique GOP should be knocked out right away.
Or we will lose.
If we can turn it around here that anti-authoritarian wave will break around the world
Correct.
Just had to say it.
That made me cry. How could we go from that to this?
Russians hacked the vote count. Trump is a Russian agent and traitor. But when you read the Mueller Report, you realized Russia did a trail to by hacking into House and Senate races. Without interference MoscowMitch would not have been re-elected. This is what they’re hiding. The GOP stole the House and Senate in 2014, the presidency in 2016 and at least two Gov races in 2018, putting a white nationalist in the GA mansion and a Italian mobster in the FL one.
NOW: 2020 candidate Julian Castro attends a town hall in Frisco, Texas
https://abcnews.go.com/Live
Yay! I’m so looking forward to seeing him in next debate.
Hello TODbots on a truly manic Monday.
Excellent Post, NW…Obrigada😍
🙏💜❤💗💙💚👒💁♀️❣
Democrats will fine some way to blow this 2020 election like 2016. Attacking one another ( and I don’t care who it is doing the attacking) is not the way to go. I don’t like it.
She’s coming for the crime syndicate
I love her so much.
Osaka was also defeated in the 1st round.
Say her name, say her name, Skye news. It’s not about a 15 yr old, she’s a tennis champ.
She did it!!
What a way to make an entrance!
And the ACLU is suing the state of Florida for this unconstitutional poll tax. Donate to them if you are able.
Thread
@CNNPolitics – 3 hours ago
Fact check: Barack Obama never “begged” for a meeting with Kim Jong Un https://cnn.it/2J1dRUl
Am saying prayers that he gets off our collective lawns. He exhausted my capacity to give him anything but a yawn, at best.
I really feel like this is none of our business. Joe doesn’t deserve to be hit with any of this.
With you on that.
No it is none of our business, but to me it just shows the Biden family is like most average families out there, it’s not perfect it has problems like all our families does. Beside we know how the media is,
I feel for VP Joe & fam, I think if it was out there, maybe best to get ahead of it, control the narrative.
Heads up on that reporter:
Beautiful people, inside and out. Love them.
One slight correction, not a real president, but good question.
Interesting
Hey Everyone!
CSPAN3is running President Obama’s D-Day 70th Anniversary speech in Normandy (6/6/2014). It’s on now!
Goodness it’s so great seeing him on TV. I don’t care that it’s from 5 yrs ago. 😍
Thanks, Dudette. I needed to see something that would add a bright spot to the darkness that I am feeling with respect to the state of this country.
I’m with you symmetry11. 😒
This is just so off-the-scale NUTS.
Thank you, NW, for this post. 💞
So John Bolton (the warmonger, do to Iran what was done in Iraq, etc., current NatSec Advisor to iQ45) was sent to Mongolia (not kidding 😂) while iQ45 hanged out w/ his bestie dictators & princely murderers. Out there in Mongolia, pauvre John had only one option: Tweet! Whoever “leaked” No. Korea deal needs to be quartered. 😂 Dood, yr iQ45 sent you to Mongolia, so he could “leak”, photo op, lie some more, & claim more infamy he calls “historic”, including stupid MSM. Wot! Hope John enjoyed Mongolia. Can’t quite figure out what a NatSec is doing there, unless it’s another avenue to steal elections, not just iQ45 sending him to “siberia”. 😯 😂😂😏
This made me smile:)
This will put a smile on our faces! Sweet dreams, TODville.
Smiling here:) 🙂
Whaaaaaat!!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-possibly-exposed-to-sarin-at-facebook-california-facility-official/ar-AADHDAo?ocid=HPCOMMDHP15
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday after a package at the social media company’s Silicon Valley mail facility tested positive for the toxic compound.
The people who came in contact with the suspicious package at about 11 a.m. did not show any symptoms of exposure to sarin, said Jon Johnston, fire marshal for the city of Menlo Park, where Facebook is based.
“The (Facebook) facility tests all of the packages that come in and they had a positive test, so they just initiated their standard protocol. Now we’re just waiting to verify whether that’s true or not,” he said.
Another edition of ‘IOKIYA (white) R”
DF, am at that point where I say: just get up there SC Mueller & throw plenty f-bombs, just defend our democracy & yr own rep as you do so. They cannot be allowed to freebase our nation. Our sense of decency, morals. No more. 😔
Amen
^^^ THIS!
Lovely, & apt title. 😯
Reading the busing issue comments made me want to share my own bussing experience as a substitute teacher in IL during Vietnam Nam years. My Air Force husband was stationed at Chanute AFB in ‘69-‘70. I was subbing in three school districts Rantoul, Urbana and Champaign K thru 12 grades. Bussing laws were in effect. There did not seem to be the outrage in the North as much as in the Southern states, but it was evident that choices made to enact the law were dictated by school boards, budgets and politics (underlying racism). I noticed that the Black students bussed into the schools I subbed in arrived together twenty to thirty minutes after school started on the same bus and left twenty to thirty minutes prior to the end of the school day together. The excuse was not to impact their budget for the cost of buses and not to impact the bus routes of the other students. In reality it created a division among the students and enabled the feeling of differences by all instead of fostering what was intended. The bussed students became a unified group that the other students viewed as outsiders. So how a program is run and implemented is huge in whether the effort works or does not work.
Thanks for sharing your personal story. 😥😥
Morning Motivation:
When they come at you today, you bust out your Be Bruce Lee on ‘em! 🤨
The time has passed for all this Jive…
it is time for #TruthAndReconcilation..
James Baldwin — ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’
IDIOTS, ALL OF THEM.
Morning everyone. Look at our idiot Governor!!!
Morning everyone. Look at our idiot Governor!!!
Morning everyone. Look at our idiot Governor!!!
The flag rules don’t ALLOW for this to happen, so he’s just playing politics with this…Oh. And Colin Kaepernick.
Wow! Now EVERYONE has seen our idiot Governor!!
The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise. The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free. The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
From the Code
By the way, this is the REAL reason he pulled the incentives
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nike-nixes-betsy-ross-flag-sneaker-after-colin-kaepernick-intervenes-11562024126
“Many people” don’t even know there is a code.
Really????
Who knows at this point if anybody remembers any of the hardcore rules we all learned to follow – in grade school or in Scouts. Ugh.
I heard the article on NPR this morning and it mentioned the stars on the Betsy Ross flag being redesigned. I missed the point, but did not think it had to do with flag code.
No paywall
https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/01/colin-kaepernick-nike-flag-shoe-dropped-pulled-betsy-ross-july-fourth/
So it is not the flag code, but the fact that the Patriot Boys or whomever are using the Betsy Ross flag as their symbol.
Actions of ‘ a few’??? As Maria Teresa Kamari explained last night on LOD…. it was around 9,000!!!! That is not ‘a few’!!!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/citizen/
Hmph.
ICYMI. I did.
Pence was on his way to an event in NH. Plane turned around midway and he headed back to the WH for “a meeting.” Apparently no health or plane issues. Just a meeting.
Probably WW III, but maybe not.
Ugh.