Music has always played an important role in my life—and that was especially true during my presidency. In honor of my book hitting shelves tomorrow, I put together this playlist featuring some memorable songs from my administration. Hope you enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/xWiNQiZzN0
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are confronting a pandemic, an economic crisis, widespread racial injustice, and climate change. The team being assembled will meet these challenges on day one.https://t.co/umtZMG8BbH
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) December 7, 2020
Georgia voters turned out in record numbers this year — and we plan to do it again in the runoff. Cutting the number of early vote locations in half is unacceptable.
Your vote is your voice and we will not allow our voices to be silenced. Cobb County must reverse this decision https://t.co/G1tNdEfiQX
Today, we’re thrilled to announce @ValerieJarrett will lead the management of the Obama Foundation as @WallyAdeyemo pursues his confirmation as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department. Read more about our plans at https://t.co/XPiAtvnWb3
Thank you, Wally, for your incredible contribution to the @ObamaFoundation. You are a perfect example of the kind of public servant our country needs right now. I am excited to help execute the Foundation’s mission and build the OPC in the neighborhood where I grew up. https://t.co/X7NmAzcZO6
Our mission is to restore economic prosperity and financial stability.
We’ll do that by pursuing an investment agenda to rebuild our infrastructure, create better jobs, advance racial equity, and fight the climate crisis. pic.twitter.com/IDUKBlcFDs
In between campaign stops in Georgia, @JulianCastro took a tour of affordable housing in Athens.
A quarter of Georgians couldn’t make rent last month—there’s a $338M rent backlog here. Loeffler and Perdue haven’t lifted a finger to help them. #GASenpic.twitter.com/ODpwsB025p
Victories in Georgia and around the country were driven, in no small part, by ensuring access to the ballot. Voter suppression is not done yet – and we’ve got to be vigilant as we head to Jan. 5. Don’t get distracted by the drama. Watch the shadows and beware. https://t.co/MaPNXlRVQw
Today we honor and remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor. My father was a World War II veteran, and I saw first hand the service, selflessness, and sacrifice of his generation. May we live up to the example they set.
Today, on the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we remember the more than 2,400 Americans who were killed on that horrific day and pay tribute to the selfless men and women who had the courage to answer the call to serve.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to be sworn into office on January 20th, 2021 — but he could be waiting longer than usual to actually enter the White House after that.
The reason for this is that it is not clear what level of cleaning will need to be performed inside the building, which for months has served as a petri dish in which multiple Trump administration officials have been infected with the novel coronavirus.
The threat posed by COVID-19 in the West Wing is only being amplified by the fact that the White House is defying its own coronavirus task force’s public safety recommendations by holding massive Christmas parties this month.
Cobb County, Georgia election officials plan to slash the number of early voting locations from eleven to five for the upcoming runoff election. This move will harm Black and Latinx voters as many of these polling places serve communities of color. https://t.co/H9SZxzAqPQ
Biden will reportedly nominate retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of Defense. He would be the first Black Defense secretary in the U.S. https://t.co/894STTd89Epic.twitter.com/nz2w4yoQdu
This is unreal. Trump abruptly walked out of Dan Gable’s Medal of Freedom ceremony today, leaving Gable shrugging and at a complete loss about what he was supposed to do. pic.twitter.com/mOzlLn8poC
He should’ve asked for his medal to be mailed to him. Oh wait … that would go thru postal service. 😏 On a more serious note, why would any sane person go to this WH & take their children?! 😳😷
Lindsay Graham stated that the Senate will not seat any Biden appointee for attorney general if crimes that trump committed are pursued.He can do this if we don't get both Senate seats in Georgia.
Trump has now personally called at least three Republican leaders in three different states in an attempt to overturn the election, and he’s effectively been told to blow a goat all three times.
The ER physician who publicly criticized Trump's decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's schedule starting in January. https://t.co/LSwWuvXYNq
I just hope Biden admin reinstates all the good people this treasonous traitor has fired to their original positions and let them retire from that position if they so desire. Start with Sally Yates first.
Rick Bright is on Biden’s Covid task force. Fauci. I’m waiting for the Vindman brothers, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara. I believe they will all be welcome to help fix what Trump and the sociopathic GOP have destroyed.
Did Lou Dobbs just tell Stephen Miller that Republicans should hire me for $500,000,000 (yes, 1/2 billion dollars) so they can start winning in court?👀 pic.twitter.com/2s9uM1hOAY
I suspect judges are trying to act with restraint to get the country through this, but at some point, an irate judge somewhere is going to pop off and impose sanctions. https://t.co/zWLe7VgJNy
SCOOP: In a complaint unsealed on Friday, two security officials working on President Trump’s BORDER WALL said that contractors were illegally smuggling in armed Mexican guards to protect construction sites. https://t.co/iEAxNoRazu w/ @SeamusHughes@kitty_bennett
#DeathSantis is what happens when 'good Americans' DON'T VOTE! #DeathSantis is what happens when no matter the issue YOUR WHITENESS is more important than CAGED CHILDREN, SEDITION, & rampaging #DeathByCOVID. #DeathSantis is what happens when YOUR WHITENESS is ALL YOU HAVE.
Sure wish you & every other Republican had been ALARMED when #Palin incited the rise of the #TeaParty and even more so, when #Trump began his RACIST BIRTHER attack on President @BarackObama.
THIS! I’ll never forgive McCain for picking that loon, signaling any moron can run govt as long as they’re GOP. That one act destroyed this country and led to Trump.
The Trump admin has fully restored the DACA program that shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation, complying with a federal judge's order. https://t.co/FX2BljpTeT
"As somebody who had to decide whether to speak out, and risk getting criticized… let me tell you, it is so much greater to be on the other side of freedom, to speak the truth, and to have your conscience clear." – @NeuSummits w/ @NicolleDWallacepic.twitter.com/1uzBlKPoYZ
Dems should employ people Elias permanently in think tanks like the rw’ers do. Strategize 24×7 on how to attack the rethugs preemptively in courts instead of 24×7 rearguard fight backs.
Has this already been posted? I’m late to the party!
MORE: Retired General Lloyd Austin would be the first Black U.S. secretary of defense. Austin oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama https://t.co/FEUFMzVGAbhttps://t.co/FEUFMzVGAb
Fr @VictoriaYeage11 It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.
Fr @VictoriaYeage11 It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.
"I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew – And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God". #RIP@GenChuckYeager
The newspaper that endorsed two white candidates with close to zero appeal to Black voters for the Democratic presidential nomination runs an op-ed opposing the first Black man ever chosen to be Secretary of Defense.
What is this Susan Glasserwoman’s deal? All these great picks and she’s trying to erase them already.
“No women in any of the positions I listed specifically because Biden happened to put men in these positions while putting women in so many other key cabinet positions, including his Vice President.”
Just like Trump!
— Jake and The Derg Win Georgia ⚖️💛🐝 (@JakeReif) December 8, 2020
Bonjour, please find the unroll here: @ASlavitt: COVID Update December 7: The first tranche of Joe Biden’s health team was announced today. The picks have… https://t.co/iBs7KBgQrK Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖
Fuck the 3rd rate 4th estate 5th columnists bellyaching over Biden/Harris’s picks when the same scummy pos kept silent over the traitorous thug’s illegal cabinet picks all of whom were corrupt thugs.
Or better yet, Happy Today Is When Federal Law Says the States’ Determinations of Who Their Presidential Electors Are Becomes Conclusively Binding on Congress When Counting Electoral Votes Day! https://t.co/Zd1YnCh9mI
Success! At 1:40pm ET, @SpaceX's upgraded Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the @Space_Station.
🐉 This is the 1st automated docking for a SpaceX cargo resupply mission & the 1st time two Dragon spacecraft are on station simultaneously: pic.twitter.com/Qj6n9KLnxO
I don’t know which one is more of idiot, the thug giving away ‘the award’ as a quid pro quo or the tool who let the thug use him and then threw him away.
Obviously, tRump did this ceremony only because he was “advised” to do so. Just another example of how you’re useful to him until you’re not useful anymore.
This is why many who think they are protected by being in his bubble should be leery.
This is unreal. Trump abruptly walked out of Dan Gable’s Medal of Freedom ceremony today, leaving Gable shrugging and at a complete loss about what he was supposed to do. pic.twitter.com/mOzlLn8poC
50 years ago today, the @EPA was created to safeguard our environment, hold polluters accountable, and protect public health. As climate change continues to threaten our planet, it’s critical we #RestoreEPA and take urgent action together to solve this crisis.
The Sun unleashes a spectacular solar flare and coronal mass ejection, launching a massive cloud of particles that mushrooms out and falls back down to the surface. Captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft. Credit: NASA/GSFC pic.twitter.com/sLwWljnUdc
I remember when Pfizer and Moderna called Pres-E Biden BEFORE 45 on that Monday after the Election to tell him abt the developments of their vaccines. And I remember when 45 wanted to claim those two Companies as part of Operation Warp Speed when they said ‘NAW SON, we ain’t.’ 😂 pic.twitter.com/5oWVuQOlqW
I began my medical career at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and I've spent my life ever since working to research, treat, and combat infectious diseases.
I'm honored to be called to lead the brilliant team at the CDC. We are ready to combat this virus with science and facts.
Arguing that "a license to practice law is not a license to lie," nearly 1,500 lawyers are calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of Trump's legal team — including Rudy Giuliani. https://t.co/g2TjfpjSP8
Spoiled by the excellence of Jared and Ivanka, Rick Perry and Ben Carson, Grenell, Ratcliffe and Whitaker, Republicans are concerned that a Biden appointee doesn’t meet their exacting quality standards. https://t.co/4mQmDXSAQr
It’s like “Qualified” and “Competent” (and dare are say “Integrity” and “Humane”) are qualities/concepts Republicans don’t understand when it comes to nominating and confirming people to key positions in an administration. People who would actually do their job rather than being complicit to their corruptness and kowtowing to their whims.
(Selfishly I also long to see and hear as close to ZERO as possible of the bloated orange filthbag and his gang of criminal offspring and henchmen. The only thing I’d welcome hearing is announcement of his indictment, arrest and booking, followed by conviction and a life sentence. I guy can dream, right?)
We can’t get so focused on the GOP in-fighting that we missed the underhanded tactics being put in place.
Victories in Georgia and around the country were driven, in no small part, by ensuring access to the ballot. Voter suppression is not done yet – and we’ve got to be vigilant as we head to Jan. 5. Don’t get distracted by the drama. Watch the shadows and beware. https://t.co/MaPNXlRVQw
Vaccines AND Mask Use…Hopefully, people don’t think that a vaccine in the pipeline means they can stop wearing masks; at least anytime soon.
The rollout of vaccines will not be scaled up rapidly enough to have an impact on the ongoing winter surge in #COVID19 cases and deaths. With vaccines and increased mask use, more than 66,000 lives could be saved by April 1, 2021.
“A massive stimulus now can save money later….[it] will be worth it in the long run if it helps the economy—and ultimately tax revenue—get back onto its pre-covid track faster.” @crampell makes the right case against “premature belt-tightening.” https://t.co/KkgPDQsinl
This is what real election rigging looks like: Cobb County is closing early voting polling locations for the Senate run-off election, including those in heavily persons of color communities https://t.co/oIoDl2r4vi
Leader Schumer says Joe Biden is "considering" forgiving $50,000 in federal student loan debt for low-income and middle class students. https://t.co/NzNFcJjBXq
.@CBSNews: With these two historic firsts, "President-elect Joe Biden is tasking two Latinos with containing COVID-19 and dismantling Mr. Trump's hard-line immigration policies — major issues that have harmed many Latino and immigrant households." https://t.co/2YeqBczqly
Ex-CISA director Chris Krebs has sued the Trump campaign and one of its lawyers, Joe diGenova, for defamation, asserting that they conspired to falsely claim the election was stolen, attack dissenting Republicans and fraudulently reap political donations. https://t.co/taJ9OsMiln
Thank you Chris Krebs.
And imo when Dems don’t respond to their behavior, the new and old style of Gop think you are weak. All they understand is hardball. And it will come down to the new AG not Joe, he has already made that clear.
“Gop officials have to step up” or “Gop has to come back to peaceful transfer of power” is really painful to the ears. And total pie in the sky. Even when Michael Steele explains laughingly ‘they don’t want to be primaried.’ No it’s not that. The right wing is way to far down the river towards authoritarian control.
–They just want to make it permanent.
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The Obama Diary 
Our forever POTUS and FLOTUS have such good taste!
Hi Judith! Congrats! 😘
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Thanks for the new post Nerdy!
So great!
Yeah – WTF is this about?
That’s not a lot of money for such a great catalog but I guess that’s up to him if he’s okay with that amount.
Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon.
My God! Have y’all seen this thread? 😳
Yes…I saw her tweets 2 hrs ago.
I’ve been tweeting and making sure that other News Outlets get her tweets in their circulation.
Good! Thanks for doing that. This needs to be seen and heard everywhere!
SUE.
For real! 👏🏾
Fascism.
Yay Valerie!
He’s right. 😔
Wait, what? The debate he was too cowardly to attend?
Voter suppression will only get worse unless we control the Senate.
Trump said nothing.
It’s ok. Even when he opens his mouth to talk, he’s saying nothing.
Heh
🤪🤓
Yes…i know!! Too funny 🙂
Hilarious! And true.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to be sworn into office on January 20th, 2021 — but he could be waiting longer than usual to actually enter the White House after that.
The reason for this is that it is not clear what level of cleaning will need to be performed inside the building, which for months has served as a petri dish in which multiple Trump administration officials have been infected with the novel coronavirus.
The threat posed by COVID-19 in the West Wing is only being amplified by the fact that the White House is defying its own coronavirus task force’s public safety recommendations by holding massive Christmas parties this month.
Deep cleaning!!
Back to their tattered playbook! Umm-Kay! Carry on. (Hush, don’t tell them it’s way past expiration date.) 😏 😷
SecDef Scoop
Insanity
Before our eyes.
And they’re going to treat this as normal? This is nutjob certifiable stuff. THIS IS NOT NORMAL
what a pathetic pos, which 70 million mostly white folks worship.
He should’ve asked for his medal to be mailed to him. Oh wait … that would go thru postal service. 😏 On a more serious note, why would any sane person go to this WH & take their children?! 😳😷
Exactly. How many White House aides and staff members have contracted the Coronavirus?
go suck an egg is more apt.
But Trump’s actions are still illegal.
It’s election interference. It’s a crime. He should be indicted and put in jail.
I just hope Biden admin reinstates all the good people this treasonous traitor has fired to their original positions and let them retire from that position if they so desire. Start with Sally Yates first.
Rick Bright is on Biden’s Covid task force. Fauci. I’m waiting for the Vindman brothers, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara. I believe they will all be welcome to help fix what Trump and the sociopathic GOP have destroyed.
LOL. The stench of desperation.
I apologize for showing these fugly thugs in that vid.
Nah, it’s a reminder of all the desparado fuglys whose times up! The End, MoFo’s!
what are they waiting for? a century of lies masqueraded as lawsuits?
Paying Mexico to build your wall. #maga
OK, this cracked me up! Just the bizarreness! 😂
Impressive young lady. Well done Maryam.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-maryam-tsegaye-khan-1.5829840
Awesome young lady! 💞
THIS! I’ll never forgive McCain for picking that loon, signaling any moron can run govt as long as they’re GOP. That one act destroyed this country and led to Trump.
Kudos to that judge standing up to the thug unlike some in SC.
Dems should employ people Elias permanently in think tanks like the rw’ers do. Strategize 24×7 on how to attack the rethugs preemptively in courts instead of 24×7 rearguard fight backs.
Poor choice of wording from Kyle though making it as if she is the one doing the threats.
Donating, big time!
Has this already been posted? I’m late to the party!
What is this Susan Glasserwoman’s deal? All these great picks and she’s trying to erase them already.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The other Rashida Jones 😁
Wow. Poignant and tragic.
Fuck the 3rd rate 4th estate 5th columnists bellyaching over Biden/Harris’s picks when the same scummy pos kept silent over the traitorous thug’s illegal cabinet picks all of whom were corrupt thugs.
Let’s see if the treasonous rethugs break one more law for the treasonous traitor.
🚀🛰
You can’t make the lies come true despite your desperation.
I don’t know which one is more of idiot, the thug giving away ‘the award’ as a quid pro quo or the tool who let the thug use him and then threw him away.
Obviously, tRump did this ceremony only because he was “advised” to do so. Just another example of how you’re useful to him until you’re not useful anymore.
This is why many who think they are protected by being in his bubble should be leery.
Good Morning Family!
Never any goddamned consequences! 🤬🤬🤬
Much more easier for the judges to sanction these seditious as well as inept thugs.
Exactly. Fuck the 3rd rate 4th estate too.
It’s like “Qualified” and “Competent” (and dare are say “Integrity” and “Humane”) are qualities/concepts Republicans don’t understand when it comes to nominating and confirming people to key positions in an administration. People who would actually do their job rather than being complicit to their corruptness and kowtowing to their whims.
Good Morning, TODers!!! 43 DAYS!!!
YES! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes YES – YEEESSSSSS!!!! HALLE-F*CKING-LUJAH!!!!
(Selfishly I also long to see and hear as close to ZERO as possible of the bloated orange filthbag and his gang of criminal offspring and henchmen. The only thing I’d welcome hearing is announcement of his indictment, arrest and booking, followed by conviction and a life sentence. I guy can dream, right?)
We can’t get so focused on the GOP in-fighting that we missed the underhanded tactics being put in place.
I am with her. Watch what the thug and the rethugs are doing behind the scene.
That’ll make time to fumigate, decontaminate, sterilize, etc. before January 20th.
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Raw Story @RawStory 1h
Trump heading to Mar-A-Lago before Christmas — and may spend the rest of his presidency there: Report
Vaccines AND Mask Use…Hopefully, people don’t think that a vaccine in the pipeline means they can stop wearing masks; at least anytime soon.
likely? little ?
What weaselly words.
Morning everyone
As a hugely populous country, we run our elections much much better. So much better.
one is a child and the other is the temper throwing toddler.
When the thugs ask for an ‘off-set’, increase the taxes on wealthy.
Help is on the way.
Excellence 👍🏾
Fiiinally. Why aren’t the dems countersuing the seditious thugs?
Thank you Chris Krebs.
And imo when Dems don’t respond to their behavior, the new and old style of Gop think you are weak. All they understand is hardball. And it will come down to the new AG not Joe, he has already made that clear.
“Gop officials have to step up” or “Gop has to come back to peaceful transfer of power” is really painful to the ears. And total pie in the sky. Even when Michael Steele explains laughingly ‘they don’t want to be primaried.’ No it’s not that. The right wing is way to far down the river towards authoritarian control.
–They just want to make it permanent.
I want THIS guy back in government!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/the-brand-is-presidential/