In Dallas visit, Michelle Obama talks about mentoring women, her next 'chill' life chapter, and why we shouldn't complain on Twitter https://t.co/dkV5Tvd5Vt
I feel a sliver of hope after this week. Doing a lot of volunteer work with Indivisible, Swing Left, and Moms Demand Action. We have a local leader for All on the Line and are due for another meeting. Other than giving them donations, it’s hard to know what more to do here in Oregon where we have automatic voter registration and vote by mail. Be of good cheer, TOD!
We are on a path Judith…I am not sure what that path is..or where it leads…
as far as 2020 goes..i am not sure who the nominee will be… i am concerned about how many of the nominees understand that it is not just Trump but Trump-ism that has to be defeated…some of the candidates have spoken about Trump-ism…Harris has…Castro has…Booker has…Biden has….which one of them will win the nomination and then go on to defeat Trump and Trump-ism…this Ukraine affair…has brought about Impeachment but it has also cast a shadow over Biden…
I don’t feel that this has cast a shadow over Biden. That’s a GOP talking point that we should not give breath to. Ukraine spokespeople have said the Biden’s are innocent and that’s what we should be repeating over the msm’s version of the situation. trump and his gang are good at twisting a story, we have to stand strong and push back with conviction.
whenever mud is thrown…there is always something that sticks…and that was Trump’s intention…to cause doubt…i remember all the jive that was thrown at Hillary Clinton…the insanity of it all…but even for so- called sane people…they told me… well there must be something…and of course…now as it was then…there are members of the media…who help spread the manure around…
On behalf of jojothecat, I’m here to say her thanks for every birthday greeting she receives today. She’s still unable to Comment via her cellphone or computer.
The big tell on the ridiculousness of the Biden part of this is that, as far as I can tell – and I’ve looked – not a *single* Republican criticized Biden or the Obama admin on its push to oust Shokin *at the time.* Total silence!
What we have here is called a CONFESSION by the accused, Lindsay, corroborated and amplified by hearsay so reliable that it would suffice even in a criminal trial. Anyway, evidence rules in an impeachment trial are looser because a convicted POTUS is just removed, not imprisoned. https://t.co/vjP2B5FoZt
Just now on CBS: "@60Minutes has obtained a letter that indicates the government whistleblower…is under federal protection because he or she fears for their safety"
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the president did nothing impeachable. “I see two leaders having admiration, not intimidation,” he tells Scott Pelley about President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky https://t.co/68FhBmgQsJpic.twitter.com/sKrdQSalfh
Attorney for whistleblower posts the letter sent to acting DNI Joseph Maguire thanking him for activating the proper resources to ensure the whistleblower’s safety pic.twitter.com/7Kta9RdIF1
NEWS ALERT: 60 Minutes completely misinterpreted contents of our letter, which is now published online at https://t.co/HjmBrEQLEi. Nor have we, as we stated earlier today, reached any agreement with Congress on contact with the whistleblower. Discussions remain ongoing. https://t.co/3XSwmtuRrn
We need to get this unhinged and dangerous SOB out… before he gets more people killed
18 USC 2383
"Whoever incites… any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States… shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." https://t.co/9P9rfcpNXH
We need to get this unhinged and dangerous SOB out… before he gets more people killed
18 USC 2383
"Whoever incites… any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States… shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." https://t.co/9P9rfcpNXH
On October 10, our entire city will stand not behind the President, but behind the communities and people who continue to make our city – and this country – great. pic.twitter.com/IGw2qis3h5
I watched the De Niro interview and what pissed me off the most was the host. This fucking guy was more worried about De Niro’s language that he was about the fact that our democracy is literally on fire.
Before the whistleblower filed a formal complaint with ICIG, he tried to do it through the CIA’s internal watchdog system. The WH found out and quashed it. So the whistleblower escalated. A revealing story of how fragile the whistblower system is: https://t.co/QwA2NRP9xO
I’ve heard Coates’ name being brought up as the Whistle Blower. Coates doesn’t strike me as someone that talks out of school. Whomever the Whistleblower is has a conscious and was bothered by Trump’s actions, Coates has been around the block to many time to lose sleep over someone like Trump. I also think that the Whistleblower isn’t someone from Trump’s world, Trump’s people don’t suffer guilt no matter if its illegal.
McConnell, surely you jest, the only thing that bothers McConnell is not being in on the swindle. McConnell isn’t in Washington to legislate, he’s there to do the bidding of the lobbyist and the ultra-conservatives.
MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
This is the utter contempt that Vlad has for trump. Vlad knows who to play with and not to play with, he would have never tried this with President Obama. Trump has no choice but to sit back and swallow whatever Putin dishes out.
Oh my Goodness…..Here Comes CA’s Gov……leading yet again.
Good Morning, TODville Community.
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Breaking: California will allow college athletes to profit from endorsements, despite warnings from the NCAA that the measure will upend amateur sportshttps://t.co/TmG2uLRcxo
Oh my Goodness indeed! This is epic, this is a game-changer, this is a coup de grace for the sham this is amateur athletics. These student athletes bring in billions for the NCAA and their perspective universities. And yet they aren’t allowed to make money, now we can get into the fact that they also receive free scholarships costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in the end it is all about allowing these student athletes to gain some sort of control over the NCAA’s archaic rules.
I’m so incredibly proud to share this moment with all of you. @gavinnewsom came to The Shop to do something that will change the lives for countless athletes who deserve it! @uninterrupted hosted the formal signing for SB 206 allowing college athletes to responsibly get paid. pic.twitter.com/NZQGg6PY9d
So much disinformation out there. Independent investigators here in Ukraine have told me, repeatedly: Joe Biden did NOT stop an investigation into his son. In fact, US officials, including Biden, were pushing for MORE oversight of the company where Hunter Biden was a board member
Correct. Biden pushed to replace a corrupt and ineffective prosecutor with a competent, aggressive one—with the backing of European allies, the IMF, and democratic reformers in Ukraine. I explained here: https://t.co/iL0kRD8mNZ
Absolutely. Needs to be shared every way we can… though I must say, I thought it was well known that this squatter is a known liar. I don’t know why anyone would believe a word out of his flabby mouth. Especially when he’s in deep doo doo and trying to squeeze out.
Remember GOP Rep Christopher Collins (NY) charged last year for insider trading? Dood just changed his plea to guilty. His son & son’s fiance dad are also changing their pleas! 😏
Poor fella, the one Republican to get caught for insider trading. He must not have attended the “How not to get caught for insider trading” seminar that the GOP hosts every year.
New: Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry has announced that he will not run for reelection next year, Dallas Morning News reports, making the 13-term lawmaker the 6th Texas Republican in Congress to head for the exits ahead of the 2020 election. https://t.co/7wfIIeU5G6
All these Republicans that are not seeking reelection has me thinking. If I were a Republican I’d sit out for a couple of years at let this trump thing blow over. Then I’d reemerge and run for office again.
– Demands Adam Schiff’s “arrest for treason” – Makes up idiotic hashtag #fakewhistleblower – Last night he called for a Civil War – He’s panicking like an asshole because he knows it’s all over for him – Trump is going to prison – It’s still only 11am
I’m sorry, but did you say Civil War. I was on twitter before I got to work, I saw tweets about a Civil War but I glanced at them. I just thought maybe someone was making a joke or a meme about a Civil War.
If Trump weren’t too ignorant and unhinged to take seriously, his ludicrous talk of arresting @RepAdamSchiff for “treason” would be terrifying. Actually, it’s terrifying anyway. If there’s a traitor in this picture, it sure as hell isn’t Adam Schiff. https://t.co/SAkBKIXzdb
New context for this poll: Sources tell @kwelkernbc and me that Trump told allies days ago that he would start worrying about losing Republican support if national polls went above 50 percent of Americans supporting impeachment. This online CBS poll shows 55 percent support: https://t.co/W8zpcvhD59
democrats are beginning to see how acquittal in the face of actual wrongdoing doesn't necessarily help trump or assist the GOP (a point i've been making all year( https://t.co/bstdftfcuL
He probably threatened to have them killed if they voted to impeach and remove him… or maybe this would be their excuse to cut him loose and get that monkey off their backs and run someone else
14 Republican senators voted to impeach/remove Clinton:
1. Roy Blunt 2. Richard Burr 3. Mike Crapo 4. Mike Enzi 5. Lindsey Graham 6. Chuck Grassley 7. Jim Inhofe 8. Mitch McConnell 9. Jerry Moran 10. Rob Portman 11. Pat Roberts 12. Richard Shelby 13. John Thune 14. Roger Wicker pic.twitter.com/jbp0bdRK1d
All those GOP appointments to the Supreme Court despite the fact that Democrats have won the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. https://t.co/cIg3q7FHgn
(BRIEF THREAD) Trying to understand the two completely insane Ukraine-based, resolutely pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories that Trump, Giuliani, and diGenova are trying to push on the American people? I unpack them both here—and boy, are they wild. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET. pic.twitter.com/0iS4CE7I1M
(BRIEF THREAD) Trying to understand the two completely insane Ukraine-based, resolutely pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories that Trump, Giuliani, and diGenova are trying to push on the American people? I unpack them both here—and boy, are they wild. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET. pic.twitter.com/0iS4CE7I1M
Trump suggested on Twitter last night that the country may have to endure a civil war should he be impeached and removed from office. So a timeline detailing how Trump got to this point is in order. And…he’s been avoiding paper trails his entire life https://t.co/0saeqTm2dA
Trump + handlers want us to know only ‘the most powerful’ authoritarians make the rules.
As he is in service to Putin we are too. After firing Mr. Comey, Trump leaked secrets to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office, telling them he didn’t mind Putin interfering in our elections ‘because the U.S. has done the same to other nations’. Wow. So after insisting that Russia DIDN’T meddle in our presidential election + badmouthing 17 United States Intelligence agencies, he gave the Kremlin the green light (imo again) to meddle in our elections and help him win a 2nd time.
May all the (hidden) memos be found and to hell with Putin ‘requiring consent’ to make them public.
For Trump America IS Trump. Meaning we all go under the bus to solve his personal messes.
imo, Trump’s pattern behavior towards Putin above demonstrates Timothy Snyder’s Lesson Number One in his superb pocket-sized “On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century”.
= Anticipatory obedience.
= “Do Not Obey In Advance”.
Jonathan Alter:
“Why just the tyrants (Putin and bin Salman) who get the high secret classification?”
“Why just the “thugs and killers?”
Meanwhile Trump seems proud to be creating a mafia state, and proud to be in that club.
Obama bent over backwards — often against the wishes of many progressives — to accommodate the concerns of Republicans, conservatives and critics, and they still called him 'divisive."
There’s mounting evidence that the ACA — and Medicaid expansion in particular — is transforming care and saving lives, WaPo’s @goldsteinamy writes. https://t.co/lndOLugkW4
Trying to make trouble when there was none. Typical
An important detail sometimes lost in the Ukraine story is that Trump and Giuliani were pushing for a Biden investigation even though the Ukrainian prosecutor had already concluded there was no evidence of any crime. https://t.co/MMimGMrnA4
To reiterate what I said on @Morning_Joe, the Trump narrative about the Biden's is verifiably false.
Not only was the entire Western alliance for Shokin's ouster, Hunter Biden didn't serve on the board of Burisma until 2 YEARS after the period at issue. https://t.co/C1YdLtxCZb
Yep. All of ’em crooks, and going down. Just not fast enough.
New York Rep. Chris Collins is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to federal charges in an insider trading case in which he was originally charged in August 2018, according to court documents filed Monday and a person familiar with the matter.
Chris Collins ran for (& won) reelection to Congress in 2018 while under criminal indictment, falsely professing his innocence, w Trump tweeting his support & criticizing the prosecutors. Also, Collins reportedly made one of the allegedly criminal calls from the White House lawn.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Anyone would be better than who is there
Now but how we miss the grave charm and humour of Michelle.
Our former FLOTUS44 is the BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW: Pete Buttigieg holds Grassroots Event in Sacramento, CA –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2
I feel a sliver of hope after this week. Doing a lot of volunteer work with Indivisible, Swing Left, and Moms Demand Action. We have a local leader for All on the Line and are due for another meeting. Other than giving them donations, it’s hard to know what more to do here in Oregon where we have automatic voter registration and vote by mail. Be of good cheer, TOD!
We are on a path Judith…I am not sure what that path is..or where it leads…
as far as 2020 goes..i am not sure who the nominee will be… i am concerned about how many of the nominees understand that it is not just Trump but Trump-ism that has to be defeated…some of the candidates have spoken about Trump-ism…Harris has…Castro has…Booker has…Biden has….which one of them will win the nomination and then go on to defeat Trump and Trump-ism…this Ukraine affair…has brought about Impeachment but it has also cast a shadow over Biden…
I don’t feel that this has cast a shadow over Biden. That’s a GOP talking point that we should not give breath to. Ukraine spokespeople have said the Biden’s are innocent and that’s what we should be repeating over the msm’s version of the situation. trump and his gang are good at twisting a story, we have to stand strong and push back with conviction.
whenever mud is thrown…there is always something that sticks…and that was Trump’s intention…to cause doubt…i remember all the jive that was thrown at Hillary Clinton…the insanity of it all…but even for so- called sane people…they told me… well there must be something…and of course…now as it was then…there are members of the media…who help spread the manure around…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dallas-man-went-back-bed-after-killing-burglar-police-say-n1060086
I can’t wait to hear the real truth.
Yo, Jojo,
Sending birthday greetings from the northeast!
May your day – and your year ahead – be blessed, fun, and joyful!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
Happy Birthday, Jojo!
Hi, VC!
Good Evening, TODbots.
Happy Birthday, Jojo.
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Thank You, NW🙇♀️☺😍
On behalf of jojothecat, I’m here to say her thanks for every birthday greeting she receives today. She’s still unable to Comment via her cellphone or computer.
Send her 💕
She sends ❤ back to you ma cheri 🙂
Hope you can help her get back here soon. I know how frustrating it was not to be able to post some here. Miss her.
Thanks ggail! Happy Happy Birthday JoJo! Semding you hugs! Sending you love!
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Please tell jojothecat, happy late birthday for me. Hope she had a very special day. Hope you are doing well too ggail44!
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
As jojo’s personal secretary (hahahaha), she’s happy to have received greetings from her TOD family.
I’m doing pretty good Marilyn, thanks for asking. ❤
How about that!
Important Point
Yeah, this thread pulls no punches and lays the truth bare
While I’m saddened to hear that, I’m also relieved. And totally agree the protection is warranted.
Who’s with me?!!
https://www.abc15.com/National/deadline-approaching-to-put-your-name-on-mars
Wow
Watching 60 Minutes. Wondering if ANYONE watching believes MBS. I know I don’t.
Thank you for watching for us. I couldn’t handle listening to any of it.
Love Michelle Obama.
Had to share this 😆
Not sure who the bring (somebody) back is about, but this is soooo good!
Go ahead and do the church lady shimmy! 😂
We need to get this unhinged and dangerous SOB out… before he gets more people killed
We need to get this unhinged and dangerous SOB out… before he gets more people killed
Idiot tool
Goodnight TOD …
I watched the De Niro interview and what pissed me off the most was the host. This fucking guy was more worried about De Niro’s language that he was about the fact that our democracy is literally on fire.
Exactly. Which is why I said to fuck him, too! Unbelievable.
Thanks for posting the Viola interview, NW! She cracked me up! 💞😂
Happy Monday!
The most adorable, infectious laugh:) So cute
Buckle Up everyone…We are in for much turbulence….
i pray that we are able to come out better on the other side…
May God give us the couarage and widsom needed to see it thru…
So apparently someone in the C.I.A tipped off the Whitehouse, which means more than likely the Whitehouse has a mole inside the C.I.A
WOW…what a thought!…
i read that there was some speculation about who the whistle blower could be….they thought it might be Dan Coates…what do you think about that
I’ve heard Coates’ name being brought up as the Whistle Blower. Coates doesn’t strike me as someone that talks out of school. Whomever the Whistleblower is has a conscious and was bothered by Trump’s actions, Coates has been around the block to many time to lose sleep over someone like Trump. I also think that the Whistleblower isn’t someone from Trump’s world, Trump’s people don’t suffer guilt no matter if its illegal.
hmmm….i suppose that Coates has seen a bit.. Do you think that any of this bothers McConnell
McConnell, surely you jest, the only thing that bothers McConnell is not being in on the swindle. McConnell isn’t in Washington to legislate, he’s there to do the bidding of the lobbyist and the ultra-conservatives.
hahaha…surely i jest…ohh well
Morning everyone. Hell no, Vlad!
Morning everyone.
DF … Vlad is joking . Trump is not Putin’s counterpart, he is simply someone who follows orders … /s
This is the utter contempt that Vlad has for trump. Vlad knows who to play with and not to play with, he would have never tried this with President Obama. Trump has no choice but to sit back and swallow whatever Putin dishes out.
Exactly. Putin knows how to pick his servant.
We don’t need to ask Russia’s permission for a damn thing!
Oh my Goodness…..Here Comes CA’s Gov……leading yet again.
Good Morning, TODville Community.
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AZ gov pondering the same. Don’t know if he’s done anything yet
Oh my Goodness indeed! This is epic, this is a game-changer, this is a coup de grace for the sham this is amateur athletics. These student athletes bring in billions for the NCAA and their perspective universities. And yet they aren’t allowed to make money, now we can get into the fact that they also receive free scholarships costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in the end it is all about allowing these student athletes to gain some sort of control over the NCAA’s archaic rules.
Oh Yes!
A task for everyone
Hold up!!! Wait!! There’s more corruption!!!
Cuteness on Monday morning:)
Thanks DF for posting this. We in social media have an obligation to debunk false narratives.
Absolutely. Needs to be shared every way we can… though I must say, I thought it was well known that this squatter is a known liar. I don’t know why anyone would believe a word out of his flabby mouth. Especially when he’s in deep doo doo and trying to squeeze out.
#notmypresident
Remember GOP Rep Christopher Collins (NY) charged last year for insider trading? Dood just changed his plea to guilty. His son & son’s fiance dad are also changing their pleas! 😏
Poor fella, the one Republican to get caught for insider trading. He must not have attended the “How not to get caught for insider trading” seminar that the GOP hosts every year.
Yikes… I feel like I need a shower from reading about the corruption of these Republicans
Another one bites the dust
All these Republicans that are not seeking reelection has me thinking. If I were a Republican I’d sit out for a couple of years at let this trump thing blow over. Then I’d reemerge and run for office again.
I’m sorry, but did you say Civil War. I was on twitter before I got to work, I saw tweets about a Civil War but I glanced at them. I just thought maybe someone was making a joke or a meme about a Civil War.
Yup. Said Civil War. Another impeachable offense. Just keeps racking them up. Stupid ass.
Texodus continues in Texas.
I’m just waiting for the “resignation in lieu of charges” trial balloon to go up.
😃
Sometimes the bark is worst than the bite.
Looking at this….why…do you think McConnell will head for the hiills too
Truth
Did I read this right????
He probably threatened to have them killed if they voted to impeach and remove him… or maybe this would be their excuse to cut him loose and get that monkey off their backs and run someone else
The squatter is causing them to see resignations galore and the distinct possibilities of losing state houses and US Senate races . He’s a liability
could it be his signal to Trump…that he is not going to save him
And so many are still there!
Like I said… consensual blow job or national security?
Another explainer
Another explainer
Thread
Let’s review the stupid
Trump + handlers want us to know only ‘the most powerful’ authoritarians make the rules.
As he is in service to Putin we are too. After firing Mr. Comey, Trump leaked secrets to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office, telling them he didn’t mind Putin interfering in our elections ‘because the U.S. has done the same to other nations’. Wow. So after insisting that Russia DIDN’T meddle in our presidential election + badmouthing 17 United States Intelligence agencies, he gave the Kremlin the green light (imo again) to meddle in our elections and help him win a 2nd time.
May all the (hidden) memos be found and to hell with Putin ‘requiring consent’ to make them public.
For Trump America IS Trump. Meaning we all go under the bus to solve his personal messes.
imo, Trump’s pattern behavior towards Putin above demonstrates Timothy Snyder’s Lesson Number One in his superb pocket-sized “On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century”.
= Anticipatory obedience.
= “Do Not Obey In Advance”.
See Maddow full Friday interview with Snyder:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-impeachment-probe-confronts-russian-way-of-doing-politics-70136390000)
Jonathan Alter:
“Why just the tyrants (Putin and bin Salman) who get the high secret classification?”
“Why just the “thugs and killers?”
Meanwhile Trump seems proud to be creating a mafia state, and proud to be in that club.
Truth . To a fault, I often thought.
😂😂😂😂
Trying to make trouble when there was none. Typical
Yep. All of ’em crooks, and going down. Just not fast enough.
I bet it was. You’d be honored to clean the latrines.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/a-story-as-old-as-time/