Jim’s courage and persistence helped change America for the better. And so did every American who marched, organized, stood up, came out—or changed their own heart because they love someone who did. Happy anniversary, everybody. https://t.co/t8ULh2c0P5
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 26, 2020
Just a few moments after 10 am ET on June 26th, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision when they legalized same-sex marriage and struck down same-sex marriage bans across the country.
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 26, 2020
In that moment, love won. Watch part one of our three part series: pic.twitter.com/2cSxEXO6cs
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In the afternoon of June 26, 2015, @BarackObama traveled to Charleston to eulogize Reverend Pinckney after a racist shooting at Mother Emanuel AME church. President Obama began to speak of grace. Then he sang. Go behind the scenes of this moment in part two of our series. pic.twitter.com/VV0RTrmVzv
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 26, 2020
Barack Obama Says Progress Happens When 'We Stand Up, Speak Out and Demand Change' in Stonewall Day Speech https://t.co/GdGMh5oQ71
— People (@people) June 26, 2020
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This was one of the few times I apologized to @BarackObama for a draft. I had nothing left. And even though he didn’t have to be, he was so cool about it.
— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) June 26, 2020
Then he dunked on me by crossing out two pages, rewriting them by hand, and hitting E-Flat. https://t.co/AC5KdBTvTZ
The Obama Diary 
Yaaassssss Ms Nerdy!
😀 Hey Gail!
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Hey, Gail! So good to see you; CONGRATS on kicking the door open… 🎉🎉🎉
Nerdy, as always, THANK YOU! You’re saving lives with your work here! 💐💖💐✨
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Hi, sweet girl:) How’s everything?
Hey there DF, how are you? We can facetime any day, my schedule is wide open! LOL!!
Let’s do that soon! I would love that! Maybe Sunday??
Sunday is a date! I’ll be sure to wash my face beforehand 🤣🥰
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Hi GGail! Congrats on your Fabulous First! 😃
Hey sis! Thanks 🌟🌟💖😎
Hey, y’all! 💙❣️ Thanks for new thread, NW. Love this tweet from his speech writer. 😘
We are hanging in there as we are packing up our daughter’s house for her move back to TN. Last minute things this weekend for the guys to load the truck Monday morning. Grandson working his last day Monday (until 2:30). After he gets home and showers, we will all hit the road. Drive a few hours that afternoon/evening. Lots of prayers and good thoughts and vibes appreciated!
We
All the best to your family!
Today before work I had a lovely three hour Tete-de-tete with some guy on twitter. The topic of conversation was racism, you guys should have saw me. I was at my absolute best, I was dripping with charm and sarcasm. Untimely I grew bored with the conversation and after carrying him for a time I finally put him out of his memory. One can say I’m almost generous to a fault.
*misery
In your honor tonight, I shall toast you with my cocktail:)🍸
What do you drink, you drink like that Chateau Lafite Rothschild? That stuff is like what, two hundred grand a bottle? Oh stop it, marleysperson, you know I’m just kidding.
Was this a DM or an open tweet thread? If open, you must share a link…
Agree. 😘
It started out on an open thread and quickly went to DM. I can’t send the like out now because I’m at work and the nature of my employment does not allow to send out something that hasn’t been cleared.
Don’t ask.
We’ll be here when you get off. You’ll have to share the beginning…
BTW, what’s your twitter handle?
Give me a sec, I need to go see if there’s anything that might be inappropriate on it. I need to scrub it first, now I’m sweating bullets.
Well done Sir! A toast to you! 🍞😁
Don, what is you twitter name? Do I follow you? I need to update my list of TOD family on twitter.
I should have kept my mouth shut.
That’s ok Don. You don’t need to share it. I’m mtmarilyn2.
Hi, mtmarilyn, I’m in very sensitive job that has rules about outside activities, espically how we conduct ourselves on social media.
Don’t put your job in jeopardy.
I’m retiring next year anyway, I’ll go out at 54 yrs old, I’m done. My health and happiness is more important.
Snapper on a bed of cabbage, my wife made it for me. Bless her heart she doesn’t want her old man going hungry at work.
I really, really hope that someone makes an ad about this. He’s no friend to our troops OR our country!!
https://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/music//294127
Pride Live’s Stonewall Day 2020:
PBO speaks…includes Ellen, Perry, Kesha, Kiyoko, Hall, Lambert, Kesha, Rime and others.
Full show.
Imara Jones:
“We know historically that when you try to prioritize some rights for some people over others, those gains don’t last very long. We have to make sure both movements learn from history (BLM and Pride). In other words, we all go or nobody goes. And this Pride I want everyone to know – we are going.”
President of Pride Live, Yvette C Burton:
“When Barack Obama was asked, why the focus on Black Lives Matter and not all lives matter?
Or blue lives matter? He warned that we underscore: Of course all lives matter. But the impact of violence that Black people experience…and the urgency of it now? Is not equal.”
The Bidens add their voices.
They’ve had a couple of LGBTQ conversations online in recent weeks…so good.
Aiding an enemy… we have a name for that, don’t we???
I think we call it TREASON . We need to get this SOB outta there!
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No problem, even though I have crohn’s I’m still going to stand in line for however long it takes to vote.
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WHAT A TRAVESTY
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ggail44
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I mean, not to split hairs.
yeh! hey Don
I guess the heart can only be denied for so long for what it wants.
Wait, what??? You mean that nasty plastic Barbie doll was Mrs. Newsom? I’m gonna be sick.
Newsom comes from a very wealthy high profile society circle SF family. So does she. I don’t understand their marriage but suffice to say it didn’t last long. Next thing you know, she’s a Fox TV celebrity. And now the mommy girlfriend of a despicable pathetic shell of a son. Meanwhile, Gavin went on to have an affair with the wife of one of his staffers, went into rehab, is now married with 4 kids and Gov of Ca. So, there you have it.
Wow. Life sure is funny.
LOLz, yas it is!!
Don’t get me wrong. I like Newsom, glad he’s our governor. But it took me a bit to trust him because he kind of fucked up while he was our Mayor.
Rehab for what?
Alcohol. It was widely reported that he entered rehab, but he only admits he sought counseling from Mimi Silbert, president of the Delancey Street Foundation.
Interesting.
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O-town claps back. Epic.
Is this the same Senator Kelly Loeffler that had no problem dumping her stock after receiving inside information?
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“If someone’s knee is on your neck, you cannot take it halfway off and call it progress.”
“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and only pull it out 6 inches, that’s not really helping me”
Malcolm X said the exact same thing years ago in his fight against a racist system that was only interested in half-measures.
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As if closing bars and limiting the number of people that can go eat out is going to help. We need a mass shutdown, stop nibbling around the edges.
Good, in Federal prison we quarantine all incoming inmates anyway. Just so we can mitigate the spread of covid should/if it enters a correctional facilities.
The lying liars are lying. Again.
At this point Farce-book is the propaganda wing of the Republican Party.
What does that make all those Republicans politicians on Capitol Hill ? The same, traitors.
Bloop!
Every one of them, wouldn’t you say?
Such a simple and true statement.
I will always regret I had to use, once in my life, that word but I’m at my absolute wits end as to how to drill into the being of white people just how STUPID, let alone EVIL they are.
My sincerest apologies to all of you for having to use that hateful word in your presence.
‘I am not a racist’ has always been the LAMEST thing I could possibly say.
I AM ABSOLUTELY, TO THE CORE OF MY BEING, ANTI-RACIST.
Goodnight TOD.
Bob, we know who you really are. Rest well, our friend. 💖
Thank you Gail.
All of my torment about racial hate and injustice since the afternoon in 1968 that I heard, via car radio, that Dr King had been murdered – all of it – doesn’t equate to EVEN 1 SECOND of the TERROR, BRUTAL HATE & CONSTANT DERISION that Black, other POC & Native Americans, have experienced EVERY SECOND OF THEIR PRECIOUS LIFE.
We appreciate your empathy Bob.
((((( Bobfr )))))
Mistyonpointe is not just her Twitter handle.
But her emails, episode 6780
I hope the entire hearing somehow revolves around dumb and dumber WH edition. Every word out of HRC should be Ivank…
There really is no cure for Conservatism is there?
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Um yeh
JHC!!!
Indeed
War. Treason
We did indeed
LOL! 😆
Every time I see the chef’s kiss at the end of a tweet it kills me LOLOLOLOL.
JUST SAYING
A very good Saturday morning to you, Meta. 🙂
I assume Sarah C didn’t intend this, but the really silly thought that popped into my mind is that her hand (movement) showcases as quite a contrast to The idiot’s hands. 😀
Hello! Sarah is a much needed treasure and that’s that!
🙂 🙂
The same House who, though they can’t stop Georgian’s from voting absentee, passed a bill to make it not as easy by prohibiting the SoS from sending out applications to all registered voters. All the more reason to be defiant and take those extra steps needed to vote absentee…just like voters get defiant and will stand in long lines for hours and hours in order to cast their votes..
Good… but where will they go?
Please hold them to it and follow it all start to finish.
Must read. Do it!
… keep reading on Twitter
100% correct.
It amazes me how the Duke of Peaches and Beaches has moved back under the radar since he seemed to be the one to jump the gun initially.
IMO, were it not for many of the local government leaders and the vigilance of many citizens, things here would be a lot worse than it is… although we too are seeing an uptick.
I couldn’t agree more.
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Might I suggest THESE??? And for a good cause, too! I have several things:)
https://www.resistancebydesign.com/
Excellent!
The mayor of St Louis was doxxing folks live on air for petitioning to defund police. She essentially put a contract out on these folks…
This is rank intimidation, she needs to be charged with whatever statute that deals with this type of behavior. And now the police know where these people live.
This morning: She’s sorry. Didn’t mean to harm anyone. 🙄
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thx Dudette! looked it up:
Exoplanets: “All of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun. Planets that orbit around other stars are called exoplanets. Exoplanets are very hard to see directly with telescopes. They are hidden by the bright glare of the stars they orbit. So, astronomers use other ways to detect and study these distant planets. They search for exoplanets by looking at the effects these planets have on the stars they orbit.”
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-exoplanets/en/
“Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Miltiants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says” (NYT)
“AmerIcan intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalitions forces in Afghanistan – including targeting American troops amid peace talks to end the long-running war there.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html)
—Maddow reporting that Trump was told, briefed in March, did nothing.
I love Laura Mvula’s music.
Goodnight! 🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔
Needs to be stated over and over and over and over …….
… and, for the record ….
Orange man used to always say that no one loves the military more than he does. Aside from wanting military parades and giving *him* the appearance of being tough, does he even *pretend* to care about our military and the men and women who serve?!?!?
To those republicans who always pretend that they don’t know what’s going on or they haven’t heard it, it’s out there now!!!
If you don’t know….now you know.
2020 ain’t playin’ with y’all!
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Beauty Break. In the neighborhood next to mine, one of my favorite houses to walk by.
Beautiful, Meta! Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome! Hope you and your family are safe and well.
Yes, we are are. Thank you! Hope all is well with you and your family.
I’m doing OK. Just very very stir crazy!
Morning everyone . Because I love you all❤️
Traitor-in-Chief
Are they going to release the parents, and if not, where are they going to place these children, has been my concern, too.
Into the arms of the rich people who paid for them p
This story needs to blow up right the HELL NOW!!!
Yes, *that* Doug Jones.
Whether he will ever admit it publicly Mr Hayes actively contributed to the catastrophe he is now condemning.
Happy that he’s using his MSNBC platform to speak forthrightly, now.
Bob, how did he do that? I don’t get it.
Promoting Bernie Sanders & subtly attacking Hillary Clinton…was my recollection.
Hi bridgeriverpass,
These two paragraphs summarize why I made the statement about Mr Hayes:
“MSNBC host Chris Hayes has spent years using his show to give a platform to anti-Democrat liberals like Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore. Hayes played up the phony Hillary Clinton email scandal more than any other host on his network during the 2016 election. Hayes spent the 2020 Democratic primary doing everything he could to smear every candidate not named “Sanders.” Hayes has built his audience around anti-Democrat liberals, and based on the angles he takes, it’s fairly clear that his first priority is keeping this niche happy.
So it perhaps wasn’t surprising that on Wednesday night, Chris Hayes used the final few minutes of his show to not only play up the accusation against Joe Biden, but to falsely characterize it as credible and corroborated. It was the kind of dishonestly constructed segment you’d have expected to find on Fox News – and it set off a firestorm of backlash online.”
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/chris-hayes-gets-destroyed-for-running-dishonest-story-about-joe-biden/28118/
Also, the manner in which he tried to extract himself from culpability in the “… her emails …” saga was disingenuous at best.
Having him call for #Trump’s resignation via a widely distributed medium is great. Just hope he can avoid the temptation of having Michael Moore or any other creature of the extremist Left opining on VP Biden prior to 3 Nov 2020.
Stay Safe!!
Hi Bob thanks for the response!
All I can say is Hayes has fought tooth and nail to get the truth out for as long as I’ve been watching him.
Extraordinarily talented at discussion and open exchange. Has not held back from going after Trump at any point. Yes I remember the Joe Biden moment you mention…
Hayes was trying to take the side of a woman accuser on principle, prior to investigation. Something guys have been accused of not doing. And that is how I took it and was not offended. Being a victim as a teen myself and for other reasons, it didn’t take me long to join the dots about her. And I spoke up.
Plus…hearing all the spin about Michael Moore, I listened to him, first on O’Donnell. And I like him a lot. But he may be uncomfortable for some = Ça m’est égal.
–me and thee shall wear our masks!!
–have a good week!
And maybe lucky for me, I literally missed the months immediately around the 2016 election.
Thank you for your thoughtful response, bridgeriverpass. Please stay safe!!!
DeSantis is a damn murderer
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/chicago-connected/