We celebrate @barackobama’s, ‘A Promised Land,’ with this special cover. We asked Obama to wear the jacket he sank the three pointer in while campaigning with Biden. He was surprised: “I’ve got better jackets.” When reminded, he grinned. “I showed some swag in that one.” @instylepic.twitter.com/yhhje1JHix
President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, on this day in 1963. Fifty-seven years later, Americans are demanding an end to the daily gun violence that is robbing our communities of future leaders. pic.twitter.com/XPoMuI1c9v
While we're talking about a potential pardon for Trump, docs released THIS MONTH reveal, for the first time, that Trump was personally involved in the effort to work with Russian to undermine Obama.https://t.co/FeE2fu1ul9
I am so angry and will NEVER forgive the Republicans for doing this to our country, to Joe Biden and to Kamala Harris and to the 80 million of us who voted for them.
More than 80 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota were traced to this summer's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in neighboring South Dakota, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report. https://t.co/WWq9ezcryT
On Jimmy Kimmel, a woman thought she was going to simply hear a segment of Obama’s new book but Jimmy put her on live with the former President. The reaction is priceless. Obama is great. Can you imagine Trump trying to do this? 🙄 pic.twitter.com/UqUz3qnTVp
Still no answer to this question: Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat?
15 days ago Biden won the election. Today @chucktodd gave Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer 8 minutes on @MeetThePress to push the conspiracy theory that Biden did not win
You can lie about anything and the media will always invite you back
It should be considered malpractice in the news industry to give airtime to climate deniers, birthers, flat earthers, 9/11 truthers, and election deniers. This is how you misinform people. New journalism rules should stop news platforms from amplifying QAnon conspiracy theories
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) November 22, 2020
You’re watching the news media begin the process of slowly coming around to the idea, just as they did with “the Russia investigation was a hoax,” that Biden maybe isn’t a legitimate president simply because Republicans say so. The mainstream media is conservative https://t.co/0QaUSb5yw1
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) November 22, 2020
If Twitter can slap a warning on Trump's tweets they can turn off the retweet button on them. If you know it's false, why do you continue to allow it to be shared?
CDC officials reveal 'political operatives' were placed inside the agency, to monitor and adjust all reports to reflect Trump's assertions, that here is no epidemic. CBS.
Six years ago today, 12-year-old Tamir Rice lost his life to police violence.
This election would have been the first he could legally vote. We should act now so that what happened to Tamir never happens to anyone again. pic.twitter.com/jO1uA6cpaY
There is no level of entitlement greater than that displayed by @GSAEmily, who has been entrusted with a $30B budget, oversees $68B in federal contracts, is obstructing the peaceful transfer of power and has endangered lives, but thinks she owes you no explanation whatsoever.
Again, the takeaway from these Republican lawsuits is not that Trump can steal this election, it's that the @GOP is absolutely willing to steal elections if they are closer than this one. https://t.co/DT2HXEHoH3
If you had done your job, America's governors wouldn't have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland.
Just wanted to remind everyone that while trump is looking for election fraud, he should probably investigate Lindsey Graham for meddling in the Georgia election.
You know, if he's REALLY interested in election fraud.🙄
We don't need to cheat to win Georgia. We just need to GET OUT THE VOTE.
That's why we're arranging rides to the polls for GA voters to elect Reverend Warnock & Jon Ossoff to flip the senate. You can help with a RT and small donation. https://t.co/sbCXVIfZwr
What used to be one of the most reliably Republican areas in GA helped deliver Biden's victory. @RonSteslow and @madrid_mike unpack the "New Southern Strategy" and what it means for future elections in this episode of the The Lincoln Project Podcast."https://t.co/XvtLWO7TLkpic.twitter.com/8GEguzPbyK
Listen to the Trump legal team! It’s a coup attempt by Loeffler and Perdue! Georgia Republicans should stay home or vote them out! https://t.co/xXOjBGhfpO
I think, rather than ticket people who won't wear a mask, they should be sentenced to community service in the morgue. Let them move dead bodies all day. That seems a fitting punishment.
Like they did to Holocaust denying German villagers with death camps in their back yards. They marched everyone- men women and children -through the camps, and then made the men bury the dead. pic.twitter.com/dlWjIsG74J
In the state you have the honor of representing in the Senate, National Guard troops arrived yesterday in El Paso to assist with a backlog of dead bodies from COVID. Since you have denigrated public health measures that might have helped avert this, maybe you should go help. https://t.co/FsqePWIYi9
"It's working!" Check out the critters big and small who are using Utah's first wildlife overpass to cross Interstate 80. The @UtahDWR shared this video on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/H7d896eiYs
These are the ones just west of me (Banff area) – IIRC, they've been doing this for almost 25 years now. In areas where they aren't able 2 do the over pass, they've done culvert underpasses. Saw a pair of cougars exit 1, once, just east of the Banff highway exit, a few yrs ago. pic.twitter.com/MjtuPQhvKO
FILING AN APPEAL: President Trump has filed a notice of appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday after a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit that sought to block the certification of the vote in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/X5eytqtKA9
My 19-year-old son bought a car today. The guy who sold it to him took the cash, counted out $1000, and gave it back to him, saying “good luck in college. Pay it forward” Unbelievably kind, and brought tears to my eyes. ❤️
This attempt by Trump's legal team — Giuliani, Ellis — to distance themselves from Sidney Powell's insane conspiracy theories is going to be super awkward next time — oh, I dont know — say, Trump Giuiliani, or Ellis — tweet about the very same insane conspiracy theories.
Are you telling me that the Four Seasons doesn’t have a Landscaping Company, I beg to differ. Having stayed at a Four Seasons, I can assure you that the landscaping is on par or better than your most luxurious 5 star hotel.
p.s. it was on a family vacation, nothing untoward.
"Black voters are the heart and soul of the Democratic electorate here in Georgia; they cannot be taken for granted." GA Senate candidate @ossoff stresses the importance of a new Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act to @AliciaMenendez on #AmericanVoices. pic.twitter.com/S3APkRXs0P
— American Voices with Alicia Menendez (@AliciaOnMSNBC) November 22, 2020
If Twitter can slap a warning on Trump's tweets they can turn off the retweet button on them. If you know it's false, why do you continue to allow it to be shared?
These people are the most steadfast patriots I've ever had the privilege to work with. They just want people's voices to be heard. They just want a process that is fair, transparent, and efficient.
The fact that none of the have just thrown up their hands and gone home ought to tell you something about the mettle of election officials. They don't know the meaning of the word quit.
Rep. Bill Pascrell has filed legal complaints in five states seeking to disbar Rudy Giuliani and 22 other attorneys who have filed lawsuits seeking to change the results of the election, which Joe Biden decisively won. https://t.co/tgGAn7Ob40
If we could all set aside our usual routine of lamenting about "damage" and "norms" and "institutions" for a minute and pay attention to what's actually happening, we'd see that Trump is self destructing and the GOP is caught in his blast radius. War is hell, but we're winning.
On average in 2020, Trump spoke 8,398 words in public daily. On the last day of the campaign alone, he uttered more than 55,000. Since the election, he has gone virtually silent — speaking only 454 words in public per day since Nov. 3. @jdawsey1 https://t.co/Xhn15cdzuZ
On average in 2020, Trump spoke 8,398 words in public daily. On the last day of the campaign alone, he uttered more than 55,000. Since the election, he has gone virtually silent — speaking only 454 words in public per day since Nov. 3. @jdawsey1 https://t.co/Xhn15cdzuZ
Not worry about him suspending my account because I’m so unimportant, but he will never escape the legacy of being all in on the cash flow as his only priority that he’s as much a traitor as any other Trump enabler.
NYT confirms: Tony Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of Joe Biden's closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for Secretary of State.
Blinken was a former deputy secretary of state under President Obama. https://t.co/CpxuMxlKiM
He was nicknamed the “bling-bling” president for what many in France saw as his lavish tastes – but now Nicolas Sarkozy faces the stark reality of a soulless courtroom.
He is going on trial accused of corruption and influence-peddling, for allegedly trying to bribe a magistrate in return for information about an investigation into his party finances.
He will be the first ex-president in modern France to appear in the dock.
You waited until you KNEW you were so deeply COMPLICIT in #TrumpSEDITION that if you didn't start to cover your butt you'd be close to the FRONT OF THE LINE at what will be the American equivalent of the #NurembergTrials.
Yes YOU – a gutless #Trumpian now running for cover.
A watchdog group has filed a complaint on with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that Sen. David Perdue abused his office to enrich himself through insider trading. https://t.co/81sorKTppx
The person you saw on the stage with Trump’s legal team, who the GOP retweeted, and who has said she was his lawyer is actually not his lawyer, ok? It was a Hologram projected by Hugo Chavez, Dominion, and probably some RINOs. https://t.co/YQzevD7VrA
Trump has blamed dominion machines, black people, Hugo Chavez, martians, Brian Kemp, Georgia secretary of state, Bernie Sanders, Obama, Hillary, Toomey for stealing the election- the only person he has not blamed is the guy who beat him like a drum.
Yep… for the record so everyone can keep up: – A fortnight = 14 days – A Scaramucci = 11 days – A week = 7 days – A Powell = 4 days – A Trump = somewhere between 60 to 120 seconds (as reported by Stormy Daniels and MANY anonymous sources)
Help me with this. By the contours of the conspiracy theories they’ve been spinning, does this mean that some non-zero proportion of Americans is now gonna believe that Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump (himself!) are satanic child-eating puppets of dead Hugo Chavez? https://t.co/sZTi28ea4s
6 more working days and I’ll be retired, I’m going to burn a month’s worth of sick-time. The HR manager asked me if I wanted a gauntlet or a reception to say goodbye to my fellow coworkers, I politely declined. What am I going to do, sit around and listen to people tell war-stories about me, no thank you.
Good for you Don. I so love this being home. In all my years I have never had this many days in a row where I am staying at home and doing things in my own timing. It’s wonderful. Good luck to you.
Insofar as we can debunk their stupidity on other social media platforms, MSM, & grassroots, EFF them. They’re creating distraction & manufactured chaos. Eyes on prize right now. GA!
Inbox: President-elect Joe Biden spoke this evening with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. The pres.-elect thanked the prime minister for her congratulations, offered his own on her re-election, and expressed his intent to strengthen the U.S.-New Zealand partnership.
the rethugs (and frankly some dems too) can learn a few things from these yung’uns about courage and standing up for freedom against authoritarian thugs .
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong and two fellow campaigners are facing the prospect of prison after pleading guilty to unlawful assembly during last year’s mass protests.
Mr Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow appeared in court on Monday.
Mr Wong said he expected to go to jail, possibly facing five years behind bars.
However, as the alleged offences took place before China enacted a harsh national security law in June, they avoided a potential life sentence.
The prominent activist revealed he decided to change his plea after talking to his lawyer.
“We three have decided to plead guilty to all charges,” Mr Wong told reporters gathered at the court on Monday. “It will not be surprising if I am sent to immediate detention today.”
“We will continue to fight for freedom – and now is not the time for us to kowtow to Beijing and surrender,” he added.
The three were remanded in custody until 2 December, when they will be sentenced.
How refreshing: We’re going to have competent, passionate,
patriotic professionals in our government again.
Blinken, former US Deputy Sec State and Deputy NSA,had made a visit to India-Pakistan-Afghanistan in December 2015 just ahead of PM's visit to Kabul and Lahore. Was also key in Obama's Asia pivot, Indo Pacific policy. https://t.co/hKai7jFEw6
In 2019, Antony Blinken wrote that successful administrations need people "with the experience, temperament and intellectual honesty to give a president good ideas and to dissuade him from pursuing bad ones." https://t.co/XNXB4RmWaWhttps://t.co/FpiIqPscWd
“Blinken is also the stepson of a Holocaust survivor and has often spoken of the moral example the United States sets for the rest of the world.” https://t.co/AqqWWedcSU
FLASH: President-elect @JoeBiden to name Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his nominee for ambassador @UN Thomas-Greenfield served as the top U.S. diplomat to Africa under Obama, an assist sec job that capped her 35-year career in the Foreign Service. pic.twitter.com/jrhDGCfxk8
LTG became Ambassador in Liberia when I was working there. Pretty much the 1st thing she did was walk outside the gates of the (spectacular) embassy compound — startling the Marine guards to no end — and start picking up the trash that lined the road. She viewed it as her job /1 https://t.co/RAa9Z5tOYy
Foreign service veterans adore Linda Thomas-Greenfield. My texts have been filled with excitement that she is set to be nominated for UN Ambassador. https://t.co/7GQ6fnCksO
If true, amazing news! Amb. @LindaT_G is a diplomatic powerhouse respected around the world. I’ve witnessed her getting human rights activists freed and kleptocrats held accountable. https://t.co/QYNXWogygN
Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN Ambassador, Michele Flournoy as SecDef, and @ABlinken as SecState? This is great news. But I’m afraid we’re going to have to get used to expertise, professionalism, competence, and decency again. I think we can do it. 🙂
I'm not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially in reporting this: 21 Republican Sens–in convos w/ colleagues, staff members, lobbyists, W. House aides–have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump & his fitness to be POTUS. (1/3)
With few exceptions, their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct—including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system.
Irony Watch: The Dominion voting machines, which Trump alleges are at the heart of the "Democrat" conspiracy, were purchased and put in place by Georgia's Republican politicians. Over Democratic opposition.
And there was a rush to get the machines installed before the primaries….
“Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system”
August 19, 2019
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Georgia voters who want hand-marked paper ballots are challenging the new election system state officials are rushing to implement in time for next year’s presidential primaries, saying the new touchscreen machines remain vulnerable and their results unverifiable, even though they produce paper records.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the state’s purchase of a $106 million election system from Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems last month, with plans to replace the outdated election management system and paperless touchscreen voting machines in use since 2002. He then certified the new system on Aug. 9, and said it will be in place in time for the March 24 primaries.
“‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown”
Published June 9, 2020; Updated June 11, 2020
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Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s statewide primary elections on Tuesday were overwhelmed by a full-scale meltdown of new voting systems put in place after widespread claims of voter suppression during the state’s 2018 governor’s election.
Scores of new state-ordered voting machines were reported to be missing or malfunctioning, and hourslong lines materialized at polling places across Georgia.
Some people gave up and left before casting a ballot, and concerns spread that the problems would disenfranchise untold voters, particularly African-Americans. Predominantly black areas experienced some of the worst problems.
If you spend several years building, feeding, nursing a Frankenstein monster that feeds on ever-larger conspiracies to live, don’t be surprised when the stories they demand go beyond your capacity to bullshit
Sidney Powell was probably the most powerful person to have ever believed in deep, mystic, devout QAnonism. Her Twitter profile picture is a reference to The Storm, which is the roundup and execution of Democrats in the Q world.
As a young woman compares herself to Nazi resistance fighter Sophie Scholl at a 'Querdenker' (Covid-denier) rally in Hannover, the disgusted security guard quits on the spot. pic.twitter.com/k7QoTJw41d
8 days ago Trump said Sidney Powell was on the team, 3 days ago the official GOP account elevated her conspiracy theories, and today they disavow Powell altogether.
So am I correct that the GOP’s official position is the Dems carried out a massive, sophisticated, multi-state election fraud—with the help of dozens of GOP election administrators and US intel agencies—but forgot to also rig the House and Senate & thus lost all 27 toss-up races?
The dems lost all the toss ups (despite the fucking ‘polls’) as well as hyped flips in NC, TX etc. is an indication how fucked up murkkka (and the so called polls) really is.
The Obama Diary 
I adore this man
Girl, same! 😁
Me three, y’all. And I know we are in a enormous chorus of people who feel the same way. I love it here on TOD.
That makes 3 of us!!
4 of us 😁
I am just reading MO’s BECOMING. I had to wait for a bit to borrow it. Love MO, what a wonderful book.
Probably won’t get to read PBO’s book for a long time, but thats ok.
Could watch that clip with Joyce over and over a gazillion times. LOL
Me too! So very much!
Same, sigh.
Well played, Room Rater
Haha! Joe always been a real one!
Agreed, ” laser focused” on enforcing law, especially as in the Constitution.
Is this a real QUESTION??
df, Are you ignoring those of us that asked for your Twitter handle so we can follow you? 🙂 🙂 🙂
no…I put it up on the last thread….Would LOVE to have more than 4 followers 🙂
I missed it. Will text you.
I am so angry and will NEVER forgive the Republicans for doing this to our country, to Joe Biden and to Kamala Harris and to the 80 million of us who voted for them.
Fire Chuck Todd
Well, at least Biden knows now. Get rid of them!
RIP Tamir 🙏🏾
Hope she is held responsible for her obstructionist actions.
Exactly!
That’s a big fat hairy NO!
Hell naw!
I wholeheartedly agree.
As evil as they come.
bbl
This is also what the Indonesia government is doing to those who are not wearing masks etc.
This is cool! 🦌🐐🦫🐿🦝🐻🦊
Very cool
Added to the pile of Kanye, Ice Cube, 50 cents and Lil Wayne; judas goats who will never be invited to the barbeque again.
Am confused. Wasn’t that crap thrown out by PA Judge WITHOUT PREJUDICE? Meaning shit’s done?
There is goodness in the world.
Aw! Love this!
Good Climate News!
ROFL 🤣
CSPAN Alert 😁😆🤣
OH! Set the DVD!!
Bet you Emily will be awake all night with nervous diarrhea….
Is it mean to say ‘deservedly so’ ?
Katie! Am going to have my popcorn ready! 💃💞
😍😍😍
LOL!
Are you telling me that the Four Seasons doesn’t have a Landscaping Company, I beg to differ. Having stayed at a Four Seasons, I can assure you that the landscaping is on par or better than your most luxurious 5 star hotel.
p.s. it was on a family vacation, nothing untoward.
fuck jack.
That’s what I am talking about. Get some backbone and fight the traitorous thugs in the courts.
Good.
She’s useless as well. She’s just belatedly stating the obvious.
Yup.
Yes, this is very special…those of us here know this happy story well:)
bw hacks at their best. #inanity
lol. the sheep are so panicking.
Not worry about him suspending my account because I’m so unimportant, but he will never escape the legacy of being all in on the cash flow as his only priority that he’s as much a traitor as any other Trump enabler.
I thought it was going to be him or Susan Rice, either way its a good pick.
He was nicknamed the “bling-bling” president for what many in France saw as his lavish tastes – but now Nicolas Sarkozy faces the stark reality of a soulless courtroom.
He is going on trial accused of corruption and influence-peddling, for allegedly trying to bribe a magistrate in return for information about an investigation into his party finances.
He will be the first ex-president in modern France to appear in the dock.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55015479
See? It is possible to take corrupt presidents to court if only you had the guts and the system.
Excellent. As they should.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Trump, of course, becomes more dangerous by the second but you gotta laugh, all the same.
I thought Scaramucci was a wall street guy, shouldn’t he be somewhere selling bad debt to some sucker to finance his next ponzi scheme?
6 more working days and I’ll be retired, I’m going to burn a month’s worth of sick-time. The HR manager asked me if I wanted a gauntlet or a reception to say goodbye to my fellow coworkers, I politely declined. What am I going to do, sit around and listen to people tell war-stories about me, no thank you.
Congratulations on your Retirement Don.
Tell HR you’d like an all inclusive trip for two at a nice resort in The Bahamas … at a later date of course ☺.
Of course.
Congratulations on your retirement Don!
Congratulations Don!!!🍾🥂
Huge congratulations!
You are almost out of there.
May the future be all you are hoping for.
🙌🍾🍷🥂🥃🍸
🍿🎉🥁🎹🎸📯🎈🎶🎈🎶
Good for you Don. I so love this being home. In all my years I have never had this many days in a row where I am staying at home and doing things in my own timing. It’s wonderful. Good luck to you.
LOL.
lmao @ trumpturd cultists.
Insofar as we can debunk their stupidity on other social media platforms, MSM, & grassroots, EFF them. They’re creating distraction & manufactured chaos. Eyes on prize right now. GA!
The world is moving on, so should the 3rd rate 4th estate of murka.
the rethugs (and frankly some dems too) can learn a few things from these yung’uns about courage and standing up for freedom against authoritarian thugs .
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong and two fellow campaigners are facing the prospect of prison after pleading guilty to unlawful assembly during last year’s mass protests.
Mr Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow appeared in court on Monday.
Mr Wong said he expected to go to jail, possibly facing five years behind bars.
However, as the alleged offences took place before China enacted a harsh national security law in June, they avoided a potential life sentence.
The prominent activist revealed he decided to change his plea after talking to his lawyer.
“We three have decided to plead guilty to all charges,” Mr Wong told reporters gathered at the court on Monday. “It will not be surprising if I am sent to immediate detention today.”
“We will continue to fight for freedom – and now is not the time for us to kowtow to Beijing and surrender,” he added.
The three were remanded in custody until 2 December, when they will be sentenced.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55039622
Wow!
WOW
How refreshing: We’re going to have competent, passionate,
patriotic professionals in our government again.
Amen to this!
Naming names…
And there was a rush to get the machines installed before the primaries….
“Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system”
August 19, 2019
—–
Georgia voters who want hand-marked paper ballots are challenging the new election system state officials are rushing to implement in time for next year’s presidential primaries, saying the new touchscreen machines remain vulnerable and their results unverifiable, even though they produce paper records.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the state’s purchase of a $106 million election system from Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems last month, with plans to replace the outdated election management system and paperless touchscreen voting machines in use since 2002. He then certified the new system on Aug. 9, and said it will be in place in time for the March 24 primaries.
https://apnews.com/article/5f33c8168e47454eb8733cd5ff319dc7
“‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown”
Published June 9, 2020; Updated June 11, 2020
—–
Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s statewide primary elections on Tuesday were overwhelmed by a full-scale meltdown of new voting systems put in place after widespread claims of voter suppression during the state’s 2018 governor’s election.
Scores of new state-ordered voting machines were reported to be missing or malfunctioning, and hourslong lines materialized at polling places across Georgia.
Some people gave up and left before casting a ballot, and concerns spread that the problems would disenfranchise untold voters, particularly African-Americans. Predominantly black areas experienced some of the worst problems.
from a ICU RN
wait for the temper tantrum stomp off in the end. fucking karens.
The dems lost all the toss ups (despite the fucking ‘polls’) as well as hyped flips in NC, TX etc. is an indication how fucked up murkkka (and the so called polls) really is.
How did these places got to be a named after these guys in the first place?
New post
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/no-limits/