Morning everyone. Beautiful family… the Obama’s AND my TOD family:)
NEWS UPDATE: I can confirm this report of a second #whistleblower being represented by our legal team. They also made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against. This WBer has first hand knowledge. https://t.co/zYkUYgJ0mE
NO! Pls contest this!
“Simone Biles penalized for having skills other gymnasts can’t pull off.”
“In an effort to deter other gymnasts from trying skills they are not physically capable of doing, the International Gymnastics Federation watered down the value of a new element Biles plans to do at the world championships.”
Ms. BIles: “Am I in a league of my own? Yes. But that doesn’t mean you can’t credit me for what I’m doing,” Biles told NBC.”
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2019/10/04/gymnastics-simon-biles-penalized-championships-being-too-good/3866255002/)
—WTF
—Trying to diminish superstar Simone Biles and make her less of a threat to other gynasts.
—Would they do this to a white woman or white man? Whiffs of sexism as well as racism.
Hi Dudette,
You can’t fit superstars into a box. End of story.
Gearing the Olympics to the average white girl is not the goal. Is it?
This cannot stand!
Attorney Andrew Bakaj tells me his legal team is representing MULTIPLE officials who will be making disclosures to the Intelligence Community Inspector General. He says "No further comment at this time."
I wish the attorney would have said he’s representing a couple of WB’s, because a couple is two. But when he said he’s representing Multiple, he threw me for a loop. Like when my son says ‘dad, I need some money,’ then I ask him how much is some. Then he goes, dad, just give me some money. Then we are right back at square one.
You guys all saw this, right? Rudy said the words, but I heard Putin. Congress needs to drag Rudy’s ass in.
In declaring his mission is to “disrupt the world,” he is claiming he is a anarchist — a kind of terrorist? Did Donald Trump place his in charge of anarchy? https://t.co/7FEDoQuNrL
More news this morning. Another beautiful, perfect call. The Novichok deployed on UK soil was proven to come from Russia & two Russian Intelligence officers were later identified by cctv tape in Salisbury.
The idiot squatter called PBO a pussy?? Hilarious!
Rick Perry made you do it? What happened to your toughness & decision making? Blaming Perry is pathetic, even for you. Time to face reality. You’ve been caught red-handed. Resign.
I would love the press to ask Trump what does he mean by the word “PUSSY”? It is a very confusing word :). Grab them by the PUSSY vs Pussy in the white house…..so no Pussy in the white house is good? My oh my…. ask him these hard questions 🙂
Now you see why so few Republicans are on tv. There is no way to excuse Trump’s behavior except to spout conspiracy theories or defend the indefensible. https://t.co/EHdQKA7VMl
Well, the crimes are even simple enough for HIM to understand!
Something has happened to Chuck Todd. I view @MeetThePress almost every week. Today his tone — I mean his voice itself — was different, as if the gravity of events had sunk in and his patience with denial had run out. Now go to 0:32 in this clip and watch. pic.twitter.com/e7h7VpxFx5
… Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vows to stop any Democratic push for impeachment in a social media campaign ad that he’s using as a platform to raise campaign funds off the inquiry of President Donald Trump.
In the brief Facebook video, McConnell makes it clear that the Republican-controlled Senate with him in charge will be a firewall against efforts to remove Trump from office. …
The Prime Minister of Israel is accused of corruption. Not one WH reporter has asked the Trump Administration or its defenders in Congress whether the WH has considered withholding aid to Israel as a result??
U.S. president ‘merely’ using public funds to pressure a foreign leader to investigate his political rival…
Trumpsky thinks he has the divine right of kings. Above the law. Claiming the crime iis OK has always worked for him. He knew it was illegal, provided the evidence, and has already confessed. Game shot.
Lock.Him.Up.
So if the tennis gods are anything like the International Gymnast Federation who are punishing Simone Biles, will they say Osaka is too good and will have to forfeit a set or two to make it fairer for other athletes?
This is not the local city play-offs here,
where parents can whine until the most talented children who train hardest are not rewarded with the roles they truly deserve. This is the Olympics. If not call it something else.
Here's what's especially notable: According to the legal team, this whistleblower hasn't filed a separate complaint AND DOESN'T NEED TO. That strongly suggests the second whistleblower's account is wholly or largely in-line with the original complaint. #corroborationhttps://t.co/KcSw747GKD
Public support for President Trump's impeachment is higher than it was for Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton when the House launched impeachment inquiries against them. https://t.co/nYvubn6Mhg
"This entire country should be scared that at a moment when we need patriots, what we are getting is blind partisan loyalty." pic.twitter.com/VsNKt7PTqP
I wondered what triggered it until I finally got around to going to see Ad Astra. I’m really happy to see their brilliance is being enjoyed by new audiences everywhere.
Good Sunday Afternoon from a cool, finally cloudy but Sunny day in My Neck of the woods in MN.
😍😍😍💪🙏😍😍😍
To be clear, I'm someone who thinks 1) Warren is also doing well and is at least a co-favorite to win the nomination & 2) Biden's strategy over Ukraine hasn't been good. But I'm not sure if there's a candidate other than Trump for whom strong polling is so dismissed by the press.
“The Republican party has got to get a grip on itself,” Former Secy. of State Colin Powell on the state of the current GOP. “Republican leaders and members of the Congress… are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen [to] any one of them if they speak out." pic.twitter.com/zkCScy8uA1
Hey but if they came out altogether on the side of truth they’d be fine, right?
–But just to make sure, McConnellsky has churned out 2 opposing stories: First adamantly that he would and now that he won’t. (Per Barr’s strategy)….the base and gop media glom on for dear life to the !st versio = the one Trumpsky wants them to believe.
Election insiders have decided these phrases include controversial BMDs: “voter verifiable paper ballots,” “voter marked paper ballots,” & “paper ballots” (w/o the “hand marked” prefix). Do NOT use these misleading catch phrases. Demand HAND MARKED paper ballots instead. TY. https://t.co/ZPUF3vAmCx
CENTCOM veteran @pravalgi: Support for Trump among a large segment of the US military is downright cult-like. None of this makes sense.
Trump is everything the military should despise: a draft dodger, adulterer, lazy, unread, a tabloid joke for decades, and TV reality show star. https://t.co/vdghuQtQCh
Black woman who filmed Jean’s last moment, where he asked Amber Guyger, “Why did you shoot me?”: fired from job, film confiscated by police. Black man who testified against Guyger: murdered, suspects still at large. Botham Jean: dead. National conversation: black forgiveness.
And don’t forget the huge hug she got from the judge and the stroking of her hair from the court deputy. I can understand the family forgiving her but the actions of those two women were a bit much. Does this mean that everyone who is tried in that court will get the same treatment??
Fixing our elections system;
“Just like in Alcoholics Anonymous, the first thing you have to do is admit the problem…
We have to admit that we as Americans, and our officials, are purging legitimate voters from the voter rolls and blocking Americans from voting. I just returned from Switzerland, where, by law you’re required to vote.
You don’t register, you don’t have any games about your ID, they don’t have any games about removing people from the voter rolls.A lot of the world is stunned that the font of democracy, the United States, has become the font of democratic voter suppression. And I don’t like that phrase — “voter suppression” — because it’s very polite. When someone steals your car, you don’t say, “My car has been suppressed.”
They’re stealing our votes and we have to say it out loud. It ain’t the Russians.
Americans are doing this to Americans.”
(https://www.gregpalast.com/assault-on-voting-rights/)
— By various means “last year alone, 14 million voters were purged from the voter rolls.”
Must read thread. As @realDonaldTrump was accusing the Biden family of corruption, his people were running a scheme to shake down Ukraine's natural gas company to transfer millions to themselves.
BREAKING: As President Trump urged Ukraine’s leaders to investigate his political rival Joe Biden, associates of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani were looking to profit from the country’s state-run natural gas company, AP sources say. https://t.co/yhOu9ZliTf
"Perry made clear that the Trump administration wanted to see the entire Naftogaz supervisory board replaced, according to a person who attended both meetings…"
Wildest part of this story is when Rick Perry tells the Ukrainian president to fire the board of the state gas company and replace them with Americans who have made large donations to the GOP.
President Obama withheld the aid over concerns that if we gave Javelin missiles to Ukraine our military technology would in short order fall into the hands of Russian invaders in Crimea, so the fact Trump didn't care about this whatsoever is hardly an argument in his favor Gaetz https://t.co/iKcwm13Bhj
Trump and Giuliani allies driving the attempt to change the senior management at Ukraine's Naftogaz appear to have had inside knowledge of the U.S. government’s plans in Ukraine. They told people that Amb. Yovanovitch would be recalled 3 months in advance.https://t.co/y88hhNceql
So he’s abandoning the Kurds, too. This is what happens when you don’t know either current events OR history
Turkey will be invading Syria shortly and US forces will be getting out of the way, apparently abandoning the US’s Kurdish allies in Syria, per WH statement. pic.twitter.com/PSJhMSrrn3
But he thinks he knows everything. He knows nothing about anything
Won’t just affect the area Turkey invades either. You’ll see YPG/SDF fighters from further south abandon their positions to joint the fight up north. I’d be amazed if ISIS didn’t take advantage of this sideshow conflict, as is their wont. https://t.co/dbrhL04iuJ
I just finished reading Rachel Maddow’s new book “Blowout”. It is immecably researched and kind of horrifying how the oil and gas industry has ruled this country for the past 100+ years, since Standard Oil. She ties in Russia’s involvement, Ukraine and the USA and how they are all interconnected. What a mess.
One of the most shameful episodes of American history is about to take place: the genocide of our staunch former allies, the Kurds, in the fight against ISIS. [photo via @AFP] pic.twitter.com/6FFGUIchu9
Fun Fact: The studio lots of Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox and Sony could fit inside @TylerPerry’s studio lot at the same time – and there would still be 60 acres to spare. All on a former Confederate Army base. A stunning achievement that will echo through the generations. https://t.co/XCeXE09y77
Long, interesting thread. Click on to read the rest…
Thread: Because much of our history has been purposely hidden, we are taught stories like the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere. But stories of black rebellion and freedom fighters aren't told unless white people win in the end.
Most of the stories about Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America involve three kinds of black people: 1. The enslaved Africans 2. Africans who bought their freedom or were freed by whites;. 3. Enslaved Africans who escaped north.
But slavery in America started in 1619 and what we call the "north" really wasn't free territory until 1820. So where did black people run to before then?
Well, the answer is simple:
These slaves lived free and sometimes thrived in places where white people were afraid to go.
This will get many of these Kurds killed, people who have been helping the U.S. fight ISIS in Syria. To distract from impeachment, perhaps Trump won’t start a war. He’ll just act as though he’s pulling out of one—all while creating conditions for genocide. https://t.co/varA5dXkhw
Of course we won’t be trusted again, nor should we. When this whole mess of an administration finally leaves the Whitehouse either by vote, resignation or in handcuffs. We will have a lot of do in terms of regaining the trust of our allies and strategic partners.
This sounds interesting, doesn’t it?! FLOTUS, always 8 steps ahead.
New book play from @MichelleObama – "Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice'' billed as "companion" to bestselling memoir. First printing of 500,000 copies. From Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. @penguinrandom
What’s your journey of becoming? A companion to BECOMING, this gorgeous journal features an intimate and inspiring introduction by @MichelleObama and thought-provoking questions and prompts to help you discover the power of your own story. Available on 11/19/19. #IAmBecomingpic.twitter.com/6MQ3bFeKH9
Tina Tchen, a former chief of staff to Michelle Obama, will be the next chief executive of Time’s Up, the advocacy organization founded by powerful women in Hollywood https://t.co/evNIRUDvID
A federal judge in New York has ruled that Trump can't stop his accountants, Mazars USA LLP, from turning over his taxes and other financial documents to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Bloomberg News reports. https://t.co/KJZZfIlTV7
Federal court orders Trump to turn over his tax returns. Judge calls Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution “repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values.”https://t.co/TwKYwgHsYd
The Obama Diary 
Morning everyone. Beautiful family… the Obama’s AND my TOD family:)
The second whistleblower has to be a career government employee. I don’t see one of trump’s people talking out of school…..Good morning TOD
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NO! Pls contest this!
“Simone Biles penalized for having skills other gymnasts can’t pull off.”
“In an effort to deter other gymnasts from trying skills they are not physically capable of doing, the International Gymnastics Federation watered down the value of a new element Biles plans to do at the world championships.”
Ms. BIles: “Am I in a league of my own? Yes. But that doesn’t mean you can’t credit me for what I’m doing,” Biles told NBC.”
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2019/10/04/gymnastics-simon-biles-penalized-championships-being-too-good/3866255002/)
—WTF
—Trying to diminish superstar Simone Biles and make her less of a threat to other gynasts.
—Would they do this to a white woman or white man? Whiffs of sexism as well as racism.
Exactly
Hi Dudette,
You can’t fit superstars into a box. End of story.
Gearing the Olympics to the average white girl is not the goal. Is it?
This cannot stand!
Maxine Waters was just on MSNBC and she dragged those Senators and Congress people that are afraid to stand up to Trump, it was a thing of beauty.
Multiple patriots
I’m confused, how many WB’s are there? I know of the first one, and the one that recently came forward. Is this Attorney saying that there are more?
Multiple . As in MANY. Things are about to go to another level
I wish the attorney would have said he’s representing a couple of WB’s, because a couple is two. But when he said he’s representing Multiple, he threw me for a loop. Like when my son says ‘dad, I need some money,’ then I ask him how much is some. Then he goes, dad, just give me some money. Then we are right back at square one.
😂😂😂 You know , SOME. More than a couple and less than a bizzillion!
LOL….
You know I’m right. Some is dangerous
I love Rep.Swalwell’s tweet about Rick Perry making him drop out of running for President. Can’t recall where I saw it … either here or at DU.
I saw that:)
You guys all saw this, right? Rudy said the words, but I heard Putin. Congress needs to drag Rudy’s ass in.
Yup. Many patriots
Hahaha! Trolls are stupid. 😆
😂😂😂😂
The idiot squatter called PBO a pussy?? Hilarious!
I would love the press to ask Trump what does he mean by the word “PUSSY”? It is a very confusing word :). Grab them by the PUSSY vs Pussy in the white house…..so no Pussy in the white house is good? My oh my…. ask him these hard questions 🙂
Yikes
Well, the crimes are even simple enough for HIM to understand!
Chuck is causing a commotion!😂😂😂
… Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vows to stop any Democratic push for impeachment in a social media campaign ad that he’s using as a platform to raise campaign funds off the inquiry of President Donald Trump.
In the brief Facebook video, McConnell makes it clear that the Republican-controlled Senate with him in charge will be a firewall against efforts to remove Trump from office. …
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mcconnell-vows-stop-impeachment-fundraising-video-66087785?cid=referral_taboola_feed
Shocker.
❤️
There’s that
Good interview
U.S. president ‘merely’ using public funds to pressure a foreign leader to investigate his political rival…
Trumpsky thinks he has the divine right of kings. Above the law. Claiming the crime iis OK has always worked for him. He knew it was illegal, provided the evidence, and has already confessed. Game shot.
Lock.Him.Up.
So if the tennis gods are anything like the International Gymnast Federation who are punishing Simone Biles, will they say Osaka is too good and will have to forfeit a set or two to make it fairer for other athletes?
Right? Smh
This is not the local city play-offs here,
where parents can whine until the most talented children who train hardest are not rewarded with the roles they truly deserve. This is the Olympics. If not call it something else.
Sweet.
Great News.
Thnx, Dudette.
😍👟🎾 N. Osaka.
The perfect stooge
Good Sunday Afternoon from a cool, finally cloudy but Sunny day in My Neck of the woods in MN.
😍😍😍💪🙏😍😍😍
Hey but if they came out altogether on the side of truth they’d be fine, right?
–But just to make sure, McConnellsky has churned out 2 opposing stories: First adamantly that he would and now that he won’t. (Per Barr’s strategy)….the base and gop media glom on for dear life to the !st versio = the one Trumpsky wants them to believe.
Then: 1) He will be fair.
Now the truth: 2) He won’t be fair.
MoscowMitch says that with him at the helm impeachent “will fail”.
errors apologies…having trouble with all dark format.
The crux. They should never be in charge
Could have something to do with this?
Common knowledge to anyone that cared to know
For SO MANY reasons she needs to go!!
If you can afford to donate to Mark Kelly for this important Senate seat, please do!!
Dangerous place
And don’t forget the huge hug she got from the judge and the stroking of her hair from the court deputy. I can understand the family forgiving her but the actions of those two women were a bit much. Does this mean that everyone who is tried in that court will get the same treatment??
Good question.
Go, Navy! Go, Marine Corps!
Fixing our elections system;
“Just like in Alcoholics Anonymous, the first thing you have to do is admit the problem…
We have to admit that we as Americans, and our officials, are purging legitimate voters from the voter rolls and blocking Americans from voting. I just returned from Switzerland, where, by law you’re required to vote.
You don’t register, you don’t have any games about your ID, they don’t have any games about removing people from the voter rolls.A lot of the world is stunned that the font of democracy, the United States, has become the font of democratic voter suppression. And I don’t like that phrase — “voter suppression” — because it’s very polite. When someone steals your car, you don’t say, “My car has been suppressed.”
They’re stealing our votes and we have to say it out loud. It ain’t the Russians.
Americans are doing this to Americans.”
(https://www.gregpalast.com/assault-on-voting-rights/)
— By various means “last year alone, 14 million voters were purged from the voter rolls.”
(Don’t think about elephants, the Koch brothers, or Kris Kobach.)
Follow the $$$$$$. Always follow the $$$$$.
There’s always more swamp
Add this, to that. Crime family
Well holy shitbirds
FFS
I dare those sonofabitches to say this is fine!!!
Yeah, how about that
What forethought looks like
When is the ousted Ambassador going to talk to Congress? I think tomorrow or Tuesday. Fireworks 💥
So he’s abandoning the Kurds, too. This is what happens when you don’t know either current events OR history
But he thinks he knows everything. He knows nothing about anything
He’s got to be doing all this because Putin told him to, I’d imagine. He knows nothing about any of this, otherwise.
And if not Putin, than another maniac in the area who has his ear.
I just finished reading Rachel Maddow’s new book “Blowout”. It is immecably researched and kind of horrifying how the oil and gas industry has ruled this country for the past 100+ years, since Standard Oil. She ties in Russia’s involvement, Ukraine and the USA and how they are all interconnected. What a mess.
Goodnight TOD ….
Also, this ….
Did Trump ask turkey to investigate the Bidens too?
@ava’s ig tour:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/ava/?hl=en
Long, interesting thread. Click on to read the rest…
And the entire world will know that they can never depend on or trust the US ever again. I hate this ignorant POS
Lindsey MUST have gone to bed early!
1/3 of those brave and tenacious Kurdish fighters are women. Maybe he thought they were expendable
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/homepage2/kurdish-female-fighters/index.html
Blast from the past
Hope is everywhere, hold on, Love is coming.. “there are many people, but few humans” ~
We will all survive this fearful time, and the world will become a better place for all forms of life.
Keep You All The Heart
Change that from ‘ who in the ME’ to ‘ who n the world ‘ and you’d be right
Of course we won’t be trusted again, nor should we. When this whole mess of an administration finally leaves the Whitehouse either by vote, resignation or in handcuffs. We will have a lot of do in terms of regaining the trust of our allies and strategic partners.
Good morning, TODville.
This sounds interesting, doesn’t it?! FLOTUS, always 8 steps ahead.
Good Morning! Check this out! 🚀
Best damn band in the land!! 😃
Hmmmmm……..
Things are going to get interesting
Sounds about right
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/a-dignified-president/