President Obama's "A Promised Land" sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. https://t.co/aUFc8opkfY
Just in: @BarackObama 's memoir "sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on the first day of its publication." These sales, including preorders, are "the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House."
WaPo confirms: Trump called a GOP canvassing board member in Wayne County who announced Wednesday she wanted to rescind her decision to certify the results of the presidential election, the member said in a message to The Post. https://t.co/T346W1qOS4
No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms – and has *weaker* institutional safeguards for democracy – than peer wealthy democracies.
David Frum is an irritant….it is not the democracy…it is the GOP who have brought us to this place…and folks like him who have helped to lead the way in the past 50 years…it is the people with the most to lose who have bent that arc toward freedom…fighting for democracy and Freedom and Justice
As a pundit said today on msnbc, America has lived with a gentlemen’s agreement for 230 years. So much of whaty Trump was able to demolish was because we don’t have legislation to contain such abuses.
Don’t crack open the champagne: they are working on the Boards of Elections in numerous states, including MI, the state legislatures, Secretaries of State in a full-on effort to nullify the election of Biden/Harris. We are now at the mercy of terrified weasly and/or deranged sociopathic GOP.
Interesting read…Do not waste your time reaching out to Trump voters. Move forward and organize, register voters and build on a growing majority. Trumpers have no interest in unity, productivity or building a better America https://t.co/4pZX8Xutpg
Today in PA was supposed to be an evidentiary hearing, where the president's lawyers could give proof of their claims, if they had any. The hearing was canceled. That was the backdrop of the press conference Giuliani held instead.
Rudy Giuliani's press conference today on ‘voter fraud’ was one of the wildest, most unsubstantiated diatribes I’ve ever listened to and I say that as someone who has sat in a room with Col Gaddafi for three hours.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says going without a mask in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic is like driving 80 miles per hour and running over an innocent pedestrian.https://t.co/a49AsAWee1
The nutjob militiamen accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer had a backup plan: takeover of the state capitol building and televised executions of public officials, a report says.
This was fun. I heard Tim and Fred were listening to some of the songs on my A Promised Land playlist, so I decided to drop in and surprise them. We talked about a lot, from Bob Dylan to old-school mixtapes to the role music played in my memoir. https://t.co/8A0cuVNHZIpic.twitter.com/rQwW8r0wBX
Hate to say it, but none of this matters unless there is legal push back to make Emily do her job despite whatever threats the deplorable one have sent to her. It is all well and good to wait for the courts to throw out the frivolous lawsuits, but we need some indication that Joe will be and is a fighter. Our laws, traditions and rules have been flouted for 4 years and all that we do is wring our hands and call it out. Propane Jane warned for years that we would come to this situation and here we are. She was just one of many women that people refused to listen to, falsely believing that our laws would keep the unimaginable happening. The opposition is becoming entrenched and when there is violence it will be Black communities that will be the victims because we dared to exercise our rights and end his reign of terror. We do not have faith in our so-called rule of law because it has never protected us. Supposedly, state legislators cannot choose electors and that the latter must vote the will of the people of that state, but who knows what will happen. I know that Joe has lawyers who are looking at this even closer and with more knowledge than any of us have and that there is a strategy, but the mistake is in not addressing what is going on now. People are anxious and afraid and losing hope.
Former President Barack Obama’s memoir sold more than 887,000 copies on Tuesday, a sizzling debut that publisher Penguin Random House said marked the largest first-day sales for any book it had ever published https://t.co/gRsF2njbUw
That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky.
So @Jack, you had no reason to listen to me, but maybe being told by @KeithOlberman that you are now ENABLING SEDITION, you'll close #Trump's PERSONAL ACCOUNT.
I'm thrilled that we won, but it's depressing that in a country of 330 million, the difference between an inept, corrupt, and racist moron and, well, sanity is 6 million votes.
Tonight at 10 pm ET, don't miss @BarackObama alongside MBK youth and community leaders on @MSNBC for a special conversation on leadership, democracy, and opportunity.
Earlier today @JoeBiden and I met with some of our nation's governors. Our message to them and all of our state and local leaders is simple: the President-elect and I will make sure you have the resources and support you need to save lives and help get our economy back on track. pic.twitter.com/trVUh6sTim
🚨🚨BREAKING: Georgia Federal Court REJECTS Republican effort to block certification of election results. There are no remaining lawsuits currently pending in Georgia.
Under horrific circumstances, governors across our country are stepping up and working to keep Americans safe. Tune in now as @JoeBiden and I deliver remarks after our meeting with @NatlGovsAssoc. https://t.co/BMX3k1Fjfr
On BBC, a reporter said dems are losing the airwaves to thugs by ‘letting the court cases play out’. The rw wurlitzer machine is on full throttle and the dems are losing the narrative.
If I had a dollar for every “dems suck at messaging” I’d be rich. The media, including the BBC, are always making sure the Dems are seen or portrayed at a disadvantage and I’m watching it happen again. The media gave us Donald Trump, and they’re at it again. It won’t matter what President-Elect Biden does b/c the media will twist it however they want. I’m not sure shouting stuff to be louder would change that.
A year ago today I testified in a public hearing about @realDonaldTrump’s attempted corruption & efforts to extort a foreign leader’s help to steal the 2020 election. During the past year—emboldened by a complicit @GOP— he has continued his corruption efforts. That is who he is.
@realDonaldTrump is relying on the complicity of a few unscrupulous people, but the will of nearly 80m Americans will prevail. This is America…and #HereRightMatters
One very important reason: Democrats need to win both seats to flip control of the Senate. Picking off just one of them won’t get them there. #gasenhttps://t.co/3aUUt7FgWC
Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.
How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?
Here in Texas, the president’s team still owes the city of El Paso a 2-year-old debt of more than half a million dollars.
In February 2019, Trump held a campaign rally at the El Paso County Coliseum that cost the city $470,000 in security and other related expenses. After that initial invoice went unpaid, city officials tacked on an additional $99,000 in late fees.
Developing next live at 5 on @wsbtv – @GaSecofState tells me the statewide audit results are in and there's "not a thimble full of difference" between the hand & manual recount. He says he has no doubt Joe Biden has won Georgia pic.twitter.com/9PO9C6t8Bu
NEWS: A federal judge (appointed by Trump) has rejected the Trump campaign’s efforts to block the vote certification in Georgia. Judge Steven Grimberg found it "would breed confusion and potential disenfranchisement." -via @PeteWilliamsNBC
It is possible that today was the lowest point in the history of the Republican Party. So far. The Judiciary, on the other hand (Trump appointees included) is standing firm for the rule of law.
Georgia's election audit and hand re-count is done and the Secretary of State says there is almost no difference between the results of the state's hand count audit and the original machine count. https://t.co/tXoBuNYf02
A federal judge in Georgia has rejected an election lawsuit of a Republican elector, Lin Wood, who had alleged in court constitutional violations and perceived fraud.
The Georgia decision was the third against Republicans just on Thursday. https://t.co/1lPFbNBMCX
This is the perfect representation of the entire GOP's behavior during Covid. Haven't done a single thing to help anyone, but just continue charging full-speed ahead with partisan bullshit. https://t.co/rD5bbbVECC
Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain, his debut novel about a boy in 1980s Glasgow trying to support his mother as she struggles with addiction and poverty.
Chair of judges Margaret Busby said the judges’ decision was unanimous and they only “took an hour to decide”.
The book is “challenging, intimate and gripping… anyone who reads it will never feel the same” she said.
Stuart, 44, said he was “absolutely stunned” to win.
He dedicated his book and his prize to his mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16.
The novel follows the life of Agnes Bain, who is descending into despair and struggling with alcohol after the breakdown of her marriage.
All but one of her children have been driven away by her deterioration, and that child, Shuggie, struggles to help Agnes while suffering huge personal problems of his own.
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The ceremony, broadcast from London’s Roundhouse, included contributions from the Duchess of Cornwall and former US President Barack Obama.
Mr Obama added: ‘I’ve always turned to writing to make sense of our world … And at their best, Booker Prize-listed books remind me of fiction’s power to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, understand their struggles, and imagine new ways to tackle complex problems and effect change.”
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The Booker prize is open to any novel written in English by an author of any nationality and four of this year’s nominated books were written by debut novelists. All of this year’s nominees are based outside the UK.
"I'm more troubled that you're seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it," fmr. Pres. Obama says of Pres. Trump's attempts to overturn the election results.
That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky.
Breaking NYT: Two separate New York State fraud investigations into Trump and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, have expanded to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump. https://t.co/wu5jbMv2ia
Trump told an ally that he knows he lost but is delaying the transition and is trying to sow doubt about election results to get back at Dems for questioning the legitimacy of his own election.
"Many of the things we have said for the last four or five years about Donald Trump, we're reaping it right now. We are reaping what this country has sowed over the last four or five years by putting someone like Trump in the White House" – @SykesCharlie w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/dWysMRam9R
We are in the midst of a public roll call of which elected officials are willing to defend the laws and democratic practices of the United States – now and hereafter.
Trump is asking the Michigan legislators to meet with him in person because he knows that way he cannot be wiretapped or listened in on. Lesson learned from the Ukraine scheme.
— Lincoln Party™ 🇺🇸Exploratory Committee (@Lincoln_Party_) November 20, 2020
Watch: Rachel @Maddow reports that she's been off the air for most of the past two weeks because her longtime partner Susan Mikula is sick with Covid-19 – so sick that "at one point we really thought that there was a possibility that it might kill her." Mikula is recovering now. pic.twitter.com/MwN7cvQBRz
.@maddow puts this in terms we all need to hear: even if you are willing to put yourself at risk of getting #COVID19, it could be the person you most love in the world whom you get sick.
Watch Now: @BarackObama joins @MBK_Alliance youth and community leaders and @CapehartJ for a conversation about leadership, democracy, and opportunity. Tune in on @MSNBC.
BREAKING: GSA Admin Emily Murphy just got a Congressional demand letter to brief House leaders “immediately” on why she has not started the transition.
Barack Obama on a special January 2021 cover of InStyle Magazine. He was asked to wear the same jacket he sank the three pointer in while campaigning with Joe Biden.
Maddow: Don't get this thing. Do whatever you can to keep from getting it.
Rachel Maddow reveals that her partner, Susan, tested positive for Covid-19 and is still recovering, and implores viewers to consider their loved ones when they calculate their own Covid-19 risk. pic.twitter.com/oUz2DBLG63
If the humanity shown by @maddow talking about Susan’s COVID infection doesn’t grab you in the heart AND make you take this pandemic seriously you’re beyond reach.
President Trump's lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they claim was fraudulent. It can certify the other races, decided on the same ballots, they say. pic.twitter.com/nbrBMJQULN
When, on Sept. 11, nearly 3,000 people were killed, we reorganized the entire federal government. We're now losing that many people every three days, and the Senate went home early for Thanksgiving.
Engaging in conduct you’re accusing Democrats of & calling illegal is reprehensible, yet very on brand for Trump & Co. Hard to see so many Americans still taken in by this scam.
You know why Trump is so pi**d about Biden winning? Because HE had it rigged. The USPS was fixed; certain people were paid off; Russia was helping out; some Govs were delaying mail-ins & suppressing. The race was close enuf that it should've worked. But it didn't. Unlike 2016.
Obama: "I'm less surprised by Donald Trump doing this. He has shown only a flimsy relationship to the truth. I'm more troubled that you're seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it, not because they actually believe it, but because they feel intimidated by it." pic.twitter.com/TYQWqKErDz
Once asked “What do you do after you’ve defeated everyone there is to defeat?” Tiger Woods said:
“Beat ‘em again!“
#BREAKING Georgia presidential election audit is COMPLETE and the result is confirmed: Joe Biden will be certified Friday by the Georgia Secretary of State as the winner of Georgia's 16 electoral votes.https://t.co/33hDNlDENe
#OTD Nov 20, 1958: Althea Gibson is photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Gibson, a tennis player & pro golfer, was one of the 1st Black athletes to cross the color line of int’l tennis. In 1958 she was named Athlete of the Year winning both Wimbledon & the U.S. Open.#Historypic.twitter.com/f4C60K4UGB
Good Morning #TeamJustice. Another day to fight against Trump’s attempts to undermine the will of the American voters, to overthrow the election results, to convert our country from a democracy to an autocracy. HE WILL FAIL. #LestRollpic.twitter.com/vxQDb8P2gs
I’m no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught me a lot & I’ve also sat a fair amount of poker w serious players & l’ll say this: I do not think Trump is trying to ‘make his base happy’ or ‘laying the groundwork for his own network’…
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger confirms Biden has won Georgia: "I'm a passionate conservative, and as I've said before, I'm a proud Trump supporter … Like other Republicans, I'm disappointed our candidate didn't win Georgia's electoral votes."
The Obama Diary 
A-hem…
Best-selling-Author-of-ALL-TIME!!
Thank you a gazillion times, NW!!
And we still have to hear how many are sold in the 15 languages it’s being released in!!
🕊♥️🌏🙏🏼🕯♥️🕊
Good West Coast morning dear Nerdy and TOD family!
I have my nose pressed against the window because my copy of PBO’s book will arrive today!!!
Mine too!!
Do you really think it will arrived today. If they didn’t mail till yesterday it takes more than a day to get here. I can’t wait.
Not at all unexpected. He is the best president of all time too!
Typical mob thug. How is this not seditious?
Hence the thug’s direct threat to the ballot certifiers.
David Frum is an irritant….it is not the democracy…it is the GOP who have brought us to this place…and folks like him who have helped to lead the way in the past 50 years…it is the people with the most to lose who have bent that arc toward freedom…fighting for democracy and Freedom and Justice
As a pundit said today on msnbc, America has lived with a gentlemen’s agreement for 230 years. So much of whaty Trump was able to demolish was because we don’t have legislation to contain such abuses.
Don’t crack open the champagne: they are working on the Boards of Elections in numerous states, including MI, the state legislatures, Secretaries of State in a full-on effort to nullify the election of Biden/Harris. We are now at the mercy of terrified weasly and/or deranged sociopathic GOP.
Write letters, make calls and donate so that we can win in Georgia. Let’s go!!
LOL
LOL to the 10th power!
🤣😂😆
Koup Klutz Klan
Now to the real news
I’ll take fucking moron for $1000
Trump invited Michigan lawmakers to the WH.I think they call that a bribe. Lock him up and let him rot there
Michigan STATE lawmakers. In order to subvert the election. Per NYT
Outrageous.
DEAD 😀 😀 😀
LOL!!!
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
🙏💪🤲💪🙏
In other words, Trump supporters.
COMING UP… President-elect Joe Biden gives remarks after meeting with governors.
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
Hate to say it, but none of this matters unless there is legal push back to make Emily do her job despite whatever threats the deplorable one have sent to her. It is all well and good to wait for the courts to throw out the frivolous lawsuits, but we need some indication that Joe will be and is a fighter. Our laws, traditions and rules have been flouted for 4 years and all that we do is wring our hands and call it out. Propane Jane warned for years that we would come to this situation and here we are. She was just one of many women that people refused to listen to, falsely believing that our laws would keep the unimaginable happening. The opposition is becoming entrenched and when there is violence it will be Black communities that will be the victims because we dared to exercise our rights and end his reign of terror. We do not have faith in our so-called rule of law because it has never protected us. Supposedly, state legislators cannot choose electors and that the latter must vote the will of the people of that state, but who knows what will happen. I know that Joe has lawyers who are looking at this even closer and with more knowledge than any of us have and that there is a strategy, but the mistake is in not addressing what is going on now. People are anxious and afraid and losing hope.
Well said,,,,,,and I agree 100%.
I am hoping that Kamala Harris can convince him on this.
Yep. That entire group of white suffragettes were racist AF.
They also did not want Jews, Irish or Italians to vote.
That’s beyond hilarious!! Can’t stop laughing.
I’m in tears, 🤣
🤔🤔🤔🤔&🤲🤲🤲🤲
Jack must close Trump’s twitter account.
On BBC, a reporter said dems are losing the airwaves to thugs by ‘letting the court cases play out’. The rw wurlitzer machine is on full throttle and the dems are losing the narrative.
Absolutely nothing new under the sun. The Dems suck a messaging! Always!!!! No matter the issue, Dems lose the messaging wars. Beyond frustrating.
If I had a dollar for every “dems suck at messaging” I’d be rich. The media, including the BBC, are always making sure the Dems are seen or portrayed at a disadvantage and I’m watching it happen again. The media gave us Donald Trump, and they’re at it again. It won’t matter what President-Elect Biden does b/c the media will twist it however they want. I’m not sure shouting stuff to be louder would change that.
💙🐶
Never thought I would cite demon sheep carly.
laughed out loud at this comment you added.
Really missed your play with words. Glad you are here again.
Yup. The so called ‘checks and balances’ is just a hollow slogan.
Mine arrived 💃🏽🕺❤️❤️❤️❤️🥂🌹😎
Your = A Promised Land?
Congratulations!
Here in Texas, the president’s team still owes the city of El Paso a 2-year-old debt of more than half a million dollars.
In February 2019, Trump held a campaign rally at the El Paso County Coliseum that cost the city $470,000 in security and other related expenses. After that initial invoice went unpaid, city officials tacked on an additional $99,000 in late fees.
Cute kids. The whole goodness, right here
yup. there is no bottom for rethug corruption.
Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain, his debut novel about a boy in 1980s Glasgow trying to support his mother as she struggles with addiction and poverty.
Chair of judges Margaret Busby said the judges’ decision was unanimous and they only “took an hour to decide”.
The book is “challenging, intimate and gripping… anyone who reads it will never feel the same” she said.
Stuart, 44, said he was “absolutely stunned” to win.
He dedicated his book and his prize to his mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16.
The novel follows the life of Agnes Bain, who is descending into despair and struggling with alcohol after the breakdown of her marriage.
All but one of her children have been driven away by her deterioration, and that child, Shuggie, struggles to help Agnes while suffering huge personal problems of his own.
///
The ceremony, broadcast from London’s Roundhouse, included contributions from the Duchess of Cornwall and former US President Barack Obama.
Mr Obama added: ‘I’ve always turned to writing to make sense of our world … And at their best, Booker Prize-listed books remind me of fiction’s power to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, understand their struggles, and imagine new ways to tackle complex problems and effect change.”
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The Booker prize is open to any novel written in English by an author of any nationality and four of this year’s nominated books were written by debut novelists. All of this year’s nominees are based outside the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54976523
Wow! Thanks for posting, AMK.
That’s awesome.
Brutal. Perfect.
Hurry up.
ugh, what a creepy photo, what a creepy ‘family’.
bbl
This is one of the states without a mask mandate… 😕
He’s on!!!!
This was awesome!
LOL.
Yasss!
Emily Murphy should be held accountable for standing in the way of saving lives. She is a tool alright.
Rachel!
Ain’t gonna let nobody…
Arrrgh! Missed it. Will post the interview when I find it.
OK, dood’s seriously certified. 😳
My question to my cosmetology friend: Does hair dye rivulet like Rudy’s, or did he use Crayola arts & crafts? 😂😷
The day will come when we never hear the Loser In Chief’s name in the headlines anymore.
Goodnight TOD.
Make me president somehow.
Why is the court even admitting such ridiculous and frivolous ‘lawsuits’?
by mistake… sure, sure.
wimmin/smh
Ain’t that some shit?
Good Morning, TODbots…TGIF❣
The Jimmy interview with Pres Obama.
💜💙❤🤎💛🧡🖤🙌🙌
da kenyan still got it. great interview.
😍😍😍
That was great!!!! Thanks, nena! 😊😊😍❤🧡💛💚💙❣
Good morning everybody!
Have a great day.
61 more days to President Biden and Madam Vice President Harris taking over and starting to clean up the chaos.
I’m intrigued by this series from Steve McQueen, via Amazon:
Vox.com: Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s new Amazon Prime film series, is revelatory.
https://www.vox.com/culture/21563837/small-axe-review-amazon-mangrove-lovers-rock-red-white-blue-mcqueen
Good Morning! Be the change! Speak the change!
This!
😔🙏🏾
Interesting. I didn’t recognize it was him.
Happy Birthday Mr. President-Elect!
Once asked “What do you do after you’ve defeated everyone there is to defeat?” Tiger Woods said:
“Beat ‘em again!“
Wishing a very happy 78th birthday to our very own, President Joe Biden!
These people
True dis.
Happy Friday. Morning everyone
Yup! My take too!
IDCDY?
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/public-servant/