Oh my!!! I just watched this!!! Crying with happiness. The joy those students have and the love their teaches show them…this is the best of who we are. Thank you to our amazing forever FLOTUS and Ellen for bringing so much joy to those that are so often forgotten. These children know who Michelle Obama is!!!
Watch this TOD family! This will make you smile on the inside.
The principal, the vice principal, all of the staff at Randle Highlands Elementary School were going above and beyond just teaching but nurturing these students and by extension their community with limited resources. They and the school deserve everything they received tonight! #OneVoiceCanChangeARoom
Folks, seeing many bots and trolls feeding negativity and depressive narratives. Don’t buy into it. Things look tough and oppressive, but they truly aren’t. Trump is against the ropes. GOP MOC are “retiring” by the truck load. Pleas are being taken and Trumpers are serving 1/
In all fairness. Americans have to ax themselves. If Donald J. Trump wasn’t a orange president. Let’s say he was the first black president, and behaved in the same fashion! What would you want to do America?
As Attorney General, Barr is a threat to democracy. He has distorted facts and misled the public. He appointed Durham to run a concurrent investigation because he knew the Inspector General would debunk his conspiracy theories, and he needed someone he could control. /1
Why would we have any diplomatic contact at all with Russia after election 2016? Why are we allowing a Russian foreign minister to stand in the US and publicly spout these lies and call us liars on our own soil? https://t.co/5JhQw2gS4B
Hope and Change, everybody! Hope and Change. I remember! >>> Jon Bon Jovi – A Change Is Gonna Come (Washington, D C, 18-JAN-2009) https://t.co/fYYlk3d0cq via @YouTube
"There's never been anything like this… Up through before President Trump was elected, presidents stayed out of IG reports and Attorneys General, generally reacted in the same way that Director Wray reacted" – @mrbromwich w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/ig183wgbuW
The simplicity of the two Trump Articles is a great virtue. It’s also a bit of an illusion: #Both Articles contain language pointing to a “consistent” pattern of similar “previous” conduct — language that opens a multitude of windows. https://t.co/qH0GZmHMki
On Tuesday, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives announced that they would move forward with two articles of impeachment — involving abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — against President Donald Trump.
At first, I shared the frustration of many liberals and progressives that these articles are too limited in scope, and leave a great many of Trump’s apparent misdeeds unmentioned. But further reflection and exchanges with legal experts have convinced me that appearance is misleading. In fact, Democrats have performed a deft feat. In a single stroke — OK, two strokes — they have elevated the process of holding Trump accountable above the realm of partisan politics, and have also given the Democratic nominee (whoever that is) an excellent case to use against Trump in next year’s presidential election.”
NOTE: The Senate impeachment trial will primarily be a vote on whether to abolish the Impeachment Clause of the Constitution—because if a president can categorically deny Congress all witnesses and all documents whenever he feels like it, there *is* no Impeachment Clause anymore.
This to me is the real issue…who is America and Who gets to say who America is..
I question whether Republicans really care about democracy if it gets in the way of maintaining their POWER….if it gets in the way of their redefining who America is for…which is at the heart of all of this.. https://t.co/OGrAFMC1MW
Former Vice President Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of the "Reckoning Crew" in South Carolina, a group of 100 predominately black female activists that previously supported Sen. Kamala Harris's presidential campaign https://t.co/fpH4DeB2GO
Whether you’re a supporter or not, why people continue to go to orangeman rallies to hear him whine about how mean the Democrats and media treat him is beyond me. I can’t believe that even the actors/plants are being paid enough to endure this.
The greatest part of being on the Secret Service detail for @MichelleObama was seeing the overwhelming joy she brought to people she encountered. I can attest that she is one of the most genuine and caring individuals I have ever me & it was an honor to protect her.#Renaissancehttps://t.co/R4X6VkrrI2
I’m just so moved by things like this these days. Watching the video really made me tear up for all that she represents to our children, to our country. All she has given and sacrificed for us. It’s just so wonderful that she can now bask in the bright light of all her success.
-it is so moving to see the children’s amazement. They had not thought it possible. Such generosity, thank you FL Michelle, Ellen and all who plotted and planned for this day.
"The greatest evil is now conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." – C.S. Lewis
REAL billionaire and 2020 presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's nickname for FAKE billionaire and REAL Russian agent donald trump is #him Pretty soon it will be #himImpeached
Voting matters. Register or check your registration and VOTE!
Kentucky's new governor Andy Beshear pledged during his inaugural address to restore voting rights to more than 100,000 people with felony convictions: "By restoring these voting rights, we declare that everyone counts in Kentucky. We all matter." https://t.co/eoQI2SypFN
As Trump talks about the FBI, listen for the code. Leadership is bad (Wray who didn’t go along w/the misrepresentation of the IG report). Others are good. Trump is dividing the Bureau into those who support him & those who don’t & will dangerously politicize FBI if unchecked. https://t.co/iu8XsmzNQ4
What Trump desires in his next @FBI Director is a Dirty Cop who will do his bidding. He wants to transform them in an org to investigate, intimidate & perhaps even threaten to “legally” eliminate his political enemies. He won’t stop till he gets his Heinrich Himmler. #NotJokinghttps://t.co/otxCEVmr9N
yes viz the firings of Comey, Strzuk and all the others…
imo this is an unconcealed warm up for a Russia style hit job on whoever goes against Trump and Barr,
–the super-goal being a mafia state.
I wouldn’t hire Lindsey Graham to mow my lawn. He’s one of those vile, unhappy, insecure creeps who’d run down the street after a burrowing animal, yelling it had created a hole in the grass that trapped his foot.
Where did that come from? Well, if you mute Graham at this hearing and just watch his arms and head move around, you’ll see. Guy’s crazy.
While I have him muted, I’m playing Bruce Springsteen’s version of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, just to keep my own personal sanity. 🙂
Lindsey Graham: "It was the Russians, ladies and gentleman, who stole the Democratic National Committee emails, Podesta's emails, and screwed around with Hillary Clinton. It wasn't the Ukrainians. it was the Russians. And they're coming after us again."
Progressive Mayor Michael Stubbs of Stockton, Ca was using a variation of Kamala’s Lift Act and Yang’s UBI as a pilot for his city. The results are awesome. He supported Kamala prior to her suspending her campaign.https://t.co/5vVs2Qfkvx
Lavrov’s appearance in the WH yesterday may have consoled doomers on a tough day.
But regarding the Impeachment Articles event tonight:
Could be Lavrov is here to remind Trump party to keep playing ball with Russia.
1) The full William Barr interview with NBC is now online, and it's much worse than we thought.
There's a very serious deception at the core of Barr's effort to validate Trump's lies that is more dangerous than it first appears.https://t.co/SPZbDtx7zw
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE.
Yesterday…
“Chairman Nadler Announces the Introduction of Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump”
Chairman Nadler:
“Over the last several months, the investigative committees of the House have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections—efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections.
Throughout this inquiry, he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and the American people.
Our President holds the ultimate public trust. When he betrays that trust, and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution, he endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security. The Framers prescribed a clear remedy for Presidents who violate their Oath of Office. That is the power of impeachment.
Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, the House Committee on the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,
with committing high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Chairman Nadler:
“The first article is for Abuse of Power.
It is an impeachable offense for the President to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest.
That is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 Presidential Election—thus damaging our national security, undermining the integrity of the next election, and violating his oath to the American people. These actions, moreover, were consistent with President Trump’s previous invitations of foreign interference in our 2016 Presidential election.
And when he was caught—when the House investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry—President Trump engaged in unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry.
This gives rise to the second article of impeachment for Obstruction of Congress.
Here, too, we see a familiar pattern in President Trump’s misconduct. A President who declares himself above accountability, above the American people, and above Congress’s power of impeachment—which is meant to protect against threats to our democratic institutions—is a President who sees himself as above the law.”
Chairman Nadler:
“We must be clear: no one, not even the President, is above the law.
I want to recognize (lists the great work of Dem team)….
Later this week, the Judiciary Committee will meet to consider these articles of impeachment, and to make a recommendation to the full House of Representatives. We do not take this action lightly. But we have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and—unlike President Trump—we understand that our duty, first and foremost, is to protect the Constitution and the interests of the American people. That is why we must take this solemn step today.Elections are the cornerstone of democracy and are foundational to the rule of law. But the integrity of our next election is at risk from a President who has already sought foreign interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and who consistently puts himself above country.
That is why we must act now.” https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394173)
When she was sworn in as Finland's new prime minister yesterday, @marinsanna became the world's youngest prime minister—and the head of a coalition government led entirely by women. Hyvä Suomi! 🇫🇮 pic.twitter.com/HOwdy5rogV
Mark up tonight at 7pm: “House Democrats will begin work on completing their articles of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday evening, setting the stage for a vote by the full House.
The Judiciary Committee is expected to convene at 7 p.m. ET to amend the impeachment legislation introduced Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her top committee chairmen and women.
A second session is expected on Thursday morning at 9. This process, called a markup, would involve proposed changes by committee members to the text of the bill before a vote on whether to refer the measure to the full House. Democrats control the majority on the panel and in the chamber…”
(https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786861542/house-democrats-to-begin-amending-impeachment-articles-wednesday-evening)
Horowitz just made it crystal clear that the law wholly protects the confidentiality of the Ukraine whistleblower. Making Lindsey Graham, who has called for outing him, someone who has openly called for violation of the law for blatant partisan purposes. Shameful to the max.
– He’s being impeached – Ha ha what a loser – IG Horowitz is owning #LindseyGraham in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing – Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine Person of the Year – Trump’s gonna shit himself – Trump is going to prison – It’s still only 11am
TV ad spend by 2020 Dems, thru week of 12/17: Bloomberg – $100.6 million Steyer – $81.2 million Sanders – $8.6 million Buttigieg – $7.2 million Yang – $4.7 million Biden – $2.2 million Warren – $1.9 million Klobuchar – $1.8 million Bennet – $1.1 million Gabbard – $1 million
I'm heading into the Judiciary Committee hearing right now to question the DOJ Inspector General. We need to get to the bottom of political interference in Barr's Justice Department.
News: A Trump-appointed judge ruled Wednesday that @SecPompeo must prove he complied with the Federal Records Act by collecting and preserving interpreter notes from Trump's meetings with Putin. https://t.co/rsCaewMDqR
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Investigation of Rogue FBI Agents' Leaks to Trump Campaign Pre-election, Which Helped Convince Comey to Reopen Clinton Email Investigation and Swung Election to Trump, Remain Under DOJ Investigation; DOJ Inspector General Says Witnesses Are Stonewalling Him https://t.co/BVgzbHd3Z2
LOVE her and still really sad that she’s gone from the presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris details Bill Barr's extensive efforts to exonerate Russia, calls upon Horowitz "to investigate misconduct committed by the AG of the US, who is doing the bidding of POTUS to undermine our intelligence community. I trust you take that seriously."
imo Senator Harris knew she had to do this.
This is about the imminent and far future of America + our planet. I believe this is her dharma right now and all else will follow. OK just the way it unfolds…
–thank you Kamala!!
I really was a Kamala supporter for Prez or VP for Biden, then Prez. I was very disappointed with her campaign withdrawal. However, she needed to do that in order to be a future VP candidate. Also with the current administration antics going on WE need her in the Senate serving on the Judicial Committee. Some say as the next US Attorney General.
Hello!!!!!!! Quit calling it NEWS! It’s propaganda, plain and simple!
Garrett Graff: "Fox News is now a threat to national security. The network's furthering of lies from foreign adversaries and flagrant disregard for the truth have gotten downright dangerous."https://t.co/pgyO8GIKQZ
SCOOP: SDNY asked a federal judge to revoke the bail of indicted Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, for lying about his income and concealing a $1 million payment he got from RUSSIA in Sep 2019, a month before he was charged.
Oh I cant WAIT to start writing the follow up book. I got ALOT to say 🤔 I'm thinking of calling it "This Shit Requires Tequila" 🥴🤗🤨 https://t.co/ZTcVqmw2BP
The Obama Diary 
Thanks, Nerdy! Good evening, TODville!
These images from Vietnam are wonderful and powerful, of the amazing Obama couple!
Thanks:) I needed that!
Ditto! Rays of sunshine in our days. 💞
Oh, well said!
Our Forever Flotus bringing hope and cheer around the globe. And Ellen Degeneres too.
Oh my!!! I just watched this!!! Crying with happiness. The joy those students have and the love their teaches show them…this is the best of who we are. Thank you to our amazing forever FLOTUS and Ellen for bringing so much joy to those that are so often forgotten. These children know who Michelle Obama is!!!
Watch this TOD family! This will make you smile on the inside.
Ditto! That’s joy! 💞
This is so beautiful. It makes my heart ache. Thanks for bringing it here.
Pure giving! Those children will carry the experience in their core for their entire lives.
The principal, the vice principal, all of the staff at Randle Highlands Elementary School were going above and beyond just teaching but nurturing these students and by extension their community with limited resources. They and the school deserve everything they received tonight! #OneVoiceCanChangeARoom
So wonderful. Cried the whole time. I miss the Obama’s so, so much.
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Easy to see how disease could hit the prisons and kill. Is that the idea?
Remember? Check out @1:59.
Jersey Boy!
He’s a good man
“Matthew Rozsa
December 10, 2019 8:15PM (UTC)
On Tuesday, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives announced that they would move forward with two articles of impeachment — involving abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — against President Donald Trump.
At first, I shared the frustration of many liberals and progressives that these articles are too limited in scope, and leave a great many of Trump’s apparent misdeeds unmentioned. But further reflection and exchanges with legal experts have convinced me that appearance is misleading. In fact, Democrats have performed a deft feat. In a single stroke — OK, two strokes — they have elevated the process of holding Trump accountable above the realm of partisan politics, and have also given the Democratic nominee (whoever that is) an excellent case to use against Trump in next year’s presidential election.”
Goodnight TOD
So simple even Trumpsky can understand it…
right?
Morning everyone. Important thread
This to me is the real issue…who is America and Who gets to say who America is..
The President the PEOPLE chose!
Whether you’re a supporter or not, why people continue to go to orangeman rallies to hear him whine about how mean the Democrats and media treat him is beyond me. I can’t believe that even the actors/plants are being paid enough to endure this.
BRAVA!!!!
POWERFUL
So deserving:)
The Force is with you!! Brava Greta!!
-love
WOW!!!!
How wonderful that he wrote this:)
I’m just so moved by things like this these days. Watching the video really made me tear up for all that she represents to our children, to our country. All she has given and sacrificed for us. It’s just so wonderful that she can now bask in the bright light of all her success.
Wholeheartedly agree:)
how wonderful this is
Watching that program last night was WONDERFUL. To see the joy on those kids faces was heart warming. Love Michelle Obama.
👀👀
LOVE. Saw McCoy Tyner many years ago and he blew me away. A true great.
-it is so moving to see the children’s amazement. They had not thought it possible. Such generosity, thank you FL Michelle, Ellen and all who plotted and planned for this day.
BTW. I’m supporting VP Joe Biden in the primaries.
Works for me.
Voting matters. Register or check your registration and VOTE!
Again
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/us/naval-air-station-corpus-christi/index.html
yes viz the firings of Comey, Strzuk and all the others…
imo this is an unconcealed warm up for a Russia style hit job on whoever goes against Trump and Barr,
–the super-goal being a mafia state.
I wouldn’t hire Lindsey Graham to mow my lawn. He’s one of those vile, unhappy, insecure creeps who’d run down the street after a burrowing animal, yelling it had created a hole in the grass that trapped his foot.
Where did that come from? Well, if you mute Graham at this hearing and just watch his arms and head move around, you’ll see. Guy’s crazy.
While I have him muted, I’m playing Bruce Springsteen’s version of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, just to keep my own personal sanity. 🙂
But will you side with the liar on impeachment?
Doom cannot use military funds for wall:
“Judge David Briones of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said Tuesday that the administration cannot use military construction funds to build additional barriers on the southern border.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/11/trump-loses-again-federal-judge-blocks-him-from-using-military-funds-for-border-wall.html)
–already received $1.375 billion via Congress.
wow, I’m blocked from Chris Evans. I wonder why.
Lavrov’s appearance in the WH yesterday may have consoled doomers on a tough day.
But regarding the Impeachment Articles event tonight:
Could be Lavrov is here to remind Trump party to keep playing ball with Russia.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE.
Yesterday…
“Chairman Nadler Announces the Introduction of Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump”
Chairman Nadler:
“Over the last several months, the investigative committees of the House have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s efforts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections—efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections.
Throughout this inquiry, he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and the American people.
Our President holds the ultimate public trust. When he betrays that trust, and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution, he endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security. The Framers prescribed a clear remedy for Presidents who violate their Oath of Office. That is the power of impeachment.
Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, the House Committee on the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,
with committing high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Chairman Nadler:
“The first article is for Abuse of Power.
It is an impeachable offense for the President to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest.
That is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 Presidential Election—thus damaging our national security, undermining the integrity of the next election, and violating his oath to the American people. These actions, moreover, were consistent with President Trump’s previous invitations of foreign interference in our 2016 Presidential election.
And when he was caught—when the House investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry—President Trump engaged in unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry.
This gives rise to the second article of impeachment for Obstruction of Congress.
Here, too, we see a familiar pattern in President Trump’s misconduct. A President who declares himself above accountability, above the American people, and above Congress’s power of impeachment—which is meant to protect against threats to our democratic institutions—is a President who sees himself as above the law.”
Chairman Nadler:
“We must be clear: no one, not even the President, is above the law.
I want to recognize (lists the great work of Dem team)….
Later this week, the Judiciary Committee will meet to consider these articles of impeachment, and to make a recommendation to the full House of Representatives. We do not take this action lightly. But we have taken an oath to defend the Constitution and—unlike President Trump—we understand that our duty, first and foremost, is to protect the Constitution and the interests of the American people. That is why we must take this solemn step today.Elections are the cornerstone of democracy and are foundational to the rule of law. But the integrity of our next election is at risk from a President who has already sought foreign interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and who consistently puts himself above country.
That is why we must act now.”
https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394173)
Mark up tonight at 7pm: “House Democrats will begin work on completing their articles of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday evening, setting the stage for a vote by the full House.
The Judiciary Committee is expected to convene at 7 p.m. ET to amend the impeachment legislation introduced Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her top committee chairmen and women.
A second session is expected on Thursday morning at 9. This process, called a markup, would involve proposed changes by committee members to the text of the bill before a vote on whether to refer the measure to the full House. Democrats control the majority on the panel and in the chamber…”
(https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786861542/house-democrats-to-begin-amending-impeachment-articles-wednesday-evening)
Read Articles of Impeachment here:
(https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump)
“This week marked only the fourth time that articles of impeachment have been introduced against a president and, if the House votes to pass them, would be only the third such instance in the history of the Republic.” (npr)
Good Morning, Good Day, Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Thank you, NW👒💁♀️🤗😍🙇♀️
Congrats, JO’B on your Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐Furst
🙌🙌💙💜❤🙏💪🙏
‘IMPEACH TRUMP. SAVE AMERICA”
“It is the only thing to do if our country’s democracy is to survive.”
(NYT)
Reminiscing: December 13, 2018. 😂😇
Thanks, Gazelle for posting the actual date.
NOW: Joe Biden in Las Vegas – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-3
RE: O’care @ Supreme Court:
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/10/21004821/obamacare-supreme-court-risk-corridors-maine-community
Try to post this again
Thank you, Nena, for this format of link. So much more satisfying! 💞
LOVE her and still really sad that she’s gone from the presidential campaign.
imo Senator Harris knew she had to do this.
This is about the imminent and far future of America + our planet. I believe this is her dharma right now and all else will follow. OK just the way it unfolds…
–thank you Kamala!!
I really was a Kamala supporter for Prez or VP for Biden, then Prez. I was very disappointed with her campaign withdrawal. However, she needed to do that in order to be a future VP candidate. Also with the current administration antics going on WE need her in the Senate serving on the Judicial Committee. Some say as the next US Attorney General.
Hello!!!!!!! Quit calling it NEWS! It’s propaganda, plain and simple!
Dear god, take them all away
😂😂😂
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/obamacare-the-gift-list/