Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now. And it’s why I’m proud to announce @allontheline’s in-person training initiative, Redistricting U. Join us: https://t.co/yrWJ50wSdE pic.twitter.com/HiKvGd2XyE
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 26, 2019
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TY, NW.
Hi everybody (just a note to remind you I’m around).
Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Furst.
👒💁♀️🥂🍾👊👏🏆
^5
Wavin at VC🖑
Hi {{Sheila}}. It’s always encouraging to see you ‘fighting the good fight’, even when spirit grows weary.
((((hugs))))
Hello, sugar!
/blushing furiously ……. ‘sugar’? /
Greetings to you, JO’B, and also to my old young-unmet-Florida boyfriend. 😀
(I’m originally from New Jersey, so the “sugar” part creeps back in, occasionally!) Ha!
Hi VC! Nice to see you. How are things up in Canada?
Hel-lo, Betsy. In my corner the sun is shining, the grass is dry, and life is looking good.
Me too. Still grateful for the goldmine of sanity here
Any rules anymore?
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Congrats VC. Listen to the master organizer!
Hi Judith. I’m listening.
Maria Isabel Bueso was recruited and INVITED to move here at 7 years of age by medical research doctors
who needed her help in clinical trials for a rare genetic disease. 16 years of participation has resulted in medication approved and many lives extended, but suddenly she and others in the medical deferred action program are threatened with rapid deportation. Bear in mind the deportation process is extremely costly.
n.b. The sick people being targeted are not illegal. So why?
–While a temporary reprieve may be possible for Isabel, we know the sadistic games played by Doom and WH.
–imo the stench of despicable hell belongs to Steve Miller.
Anyone with sane mind knows that Stephen Miller is behind most, if not all, of these policies.
https://twitter.com/usclimatestrike/status/1169347349338120192?s=20
So far, Senator Harris had the best town hall, because she has deep experience in environmental issues as a leader in California!
Yes she does! She’s a pragmatic doer, very important to her to get things done.
I remember when we used to get things done! Go, Senator Harris!
Cool!
“Trump Alters Official Hurricane Center Map With Sharpie
To Falsely Include Alabama In Warning.”
Mersereau: “The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward Alabama so he didn’t have to admit he was wrong in a tweet.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/04/trump-sharpie-hurricane-map.html)
= DOOM doctors the Inauguration photos, part 2.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2AROoPFk7x/
Happy to play god with the pen while BS-ing on climate change.
More down
Good. But let’s see some RWNJ senators bow out, too!
Good for him, and he’s not afraid to give President Obama credit for all of his environmental goals and achievements!
Agree with you Jacqueline!!!!
Glad we’re on the same page, COS!
We go way back Jacqueline, and have been on the same page for many years. 🙂
And I smile when I think how many years it’s been, dear COS – always glad to see you and my/our other long-time O’friends still here with me. Thanks for continuing “the saga,” Nerdy!
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election. http://hill.cm/IL82b0Z
you know…i have a problem with this kind of data ….does this mean that rest of us can stay home…
Hi, Sheila, and a happy Thursday to you (and the rest of TODville).
My problem is that I’ll NEVER understand *why* Trump has been normalized to the point that people casually, and seriously, talk about him vying for a *second* term. Imo he *should not be* even considered in contention! He got gifted one term – nobody sensible is now denying he was helped – why does his stolen term automatically qualify him for a second go around? I don’t get it!!! To me the way Trump has been allowed to play out his thievery sets up a precedent for anyone to steal another presidency and be legitimized. I really don’t get it.
i know….interesting…because no one wants to be that real about what he represents…might cost them too much
oh does this mean triple elections protections?
Compare and contrast. Not really fair because one was a REAL elected President and the other is a fraud squatter, but still.
Goodnight, TODville!
A singular talent!
Amazing!
For real
Morning everyone
https://twitter.com/LuluLemew/status/1169588502650077184?s=20
“3.6 million Americans will lose food stamps under a regulatory maneuver nobody in Congress likes. 1.9 million of them live in Trump country….One in every twelve people who receives food stamps nationwide will lose them under the policy…34% of elderly Texans receiving benefits will lose them through this rule…
Almost 400,000 people in Texas currently receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would lose them. Another 328,000 in Florida, 200,000 in New York, 97,000 in Georgia, and 176,000 in Washington state face cuts, to name just a few standouts…
Almost one in five Wisconsin households currently getting help with their groceries will lose the benefit, as well as 16% of such households in Oregon, Nevada, Iowa, and Delaware. Two of every 13 SNAP households in Minnesota and Texas will have to find food money elsewhere…
Ending the expanded eligibility system for SNAP will also boot roughly half a million kids out of free school meal programs nationwide…
The administration forecasts a $10 billion total draw-down in SNAP spending over the next five years once the policy is enacted. It didn’t estimate the long-term costs of making families hungrier and more desperate.”
(https://thinkprogress.org/the-trump-administration-plans-to-gut-food-stamps-hitting-red-states-hardest/)
–We the People are now the Enemy.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
This is how PBO is helping keep Biden. Every time our forever President does or says something good or cool, it reminds people of the Obama-Biden great team. ✌🏾😎
Good morning Gail! Have been thinking of you. Hope all is well with you.
I so agree about Obama. Remember what a wonderful sane president was like.
Good east coast early afternoon to you, Gx2! 😀
“10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell.” (Jim Carrey)
Gun deaths in 2019:
10,118; Unintentional 120; Mass shootings 291.
(https://www.gunviolencearchive.org)
–MassacreMitch and the Party of Doom giving their peeps the ‘freedom’ to hate, bully and kill.
–And make those who disagree, those of us who vote for rule of law and civil rights, go away.
Is this true? [I’m only sharing because a) there’s no pic of the current vp, and b) the look of the streets remind me of the time Pres O visited. 😉 ]
https://twitter.com/JesusChrysler15/status/1169315906763337728
Contrast (none) with the end of this vid clip from 2011
Good Afternoon, Beloved TODville Community.
🙇♀️👒🎩💁♀️😍💙❤😍🥂
😘
Wegman’s did
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/09/05/wegmans-open-carry-debate-shannon-watts-julieanne-moore-mums-demand-action-kroger-walmart/2219617001/
San Francisco City Counci passed a resolution declaring the NRA a domestic terrorist organization.
Supervisor Stefani: “They (NRA) buy off politicians, prevent common sense gun violence legislation, prevent gun violence research and tell us and everybody that it’s the video games, movies or mental illness.”
Easley: “The NRA is trying to use 1990s culture war tactics, but they don’t realize that the ground has shifted beneath them, the culture has changed around them, and they are on the verge of extinction.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/05/nra-terrorist-organization.html))
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1169281711370321921
Deplorable.
Afternoon everyone:)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2C5kqKFxgK/
Serena won tonight, she is in the finals of the U.S. Open.
I haven’t been following, but that’s so great!
That’s my girl!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
👑🎾
Just came across this one. Sweet.
🐶
Too funny!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I love the dictionary people! 😆
Amazing to watch. Wow! What a great voice!!! I never knew RD Jr could sing. Some people have all the talent.
I know right?
WOW!
So beautiful!
❤
Arizona . I detest these Republicans that don’t give a good damn about laws and rules and people.
All my love to the Bahamian people who have endured this terrible experience. Thank you for this good gesture to Hampton University. sorry have been struck dumb about it…waiting for news of daughter and in-laws who have brushed with Dorian or about to encounter.. If only the climate crisis was just in our heads.
-pls may all be protected.
All everywhere.
Hugs to you and I just know all is well with your family members! Let us know when that’s confirmed. Goodnight. ❤
Bridgeriverpass, praying everybody is safe.
In my thoughts. Please let us know❤️
thanks! Last on worry list was VA. Looks like everyone I know has been fortunate. Cannot begin to imagine what it is like down there in the floods and the devastation in the Bahamas. To hell with
the deniers!
Goodnight TOD …
Goodnight, Bob – and TODville.
Morning everyone
Happy Friday! 😄😁😘
thank you! am so curious about this young man, who he is and where this is.
He’s on Twitter @jayversace and YouTube.
Apparently this is a Vine from several years ago.
Must read thread…. which is why we must vote in numbers never seen before
https://twitter.com/xtrixcyclex/status/1169896782349733890?s=20
Exactly.
Thank goodness . Use all your $ for good
what will he do with all the money he collected during his campaign run
Sure doesn’t! Ditch Mitch, KY!! Moscow Mitch doesn’t work for you!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2EgwAgoKmu/
I wonder what happened to Baldie…the SS guy
adorable photo
Well THAT took forever!
New post.