The redistricting process in 2021 will be a snapshot of democracy in action, and @allontheline is working to ensure everyone has a voice. We’ve accomplished a lot together this year, but there's still so much work to do.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 29, 2020
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The Obama Diary 
Happy New Years Eve TOD Family!!! Thanks to Nerdy for hosting this haven.
20 MORE DAYS TO GO
Love and hope to all of TOD as we wait for Inauguration Day and the real new year to start. Just heard about Tommy Raskin’s death. Profoundly awful end to a terrible year! Please take good care of yourselves and be safe!
Thanks, Nerdy! Wishing you and all of TODville a Blessed, safe, healthy, prosperous, and happy New Year.
This took my breath away. I’m so sorry to hear this
RIP…ohhh myyy to lose your child
Oh my! Did they say what caused his son’s death? So young.
‘The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, has argued internally that the agency needs to focus on finishing new regulations the Trump administration plans to publish before the president leaves office, according to people familiar with the matter,” reported Nancy Cook.
“But experts on the federal budget say Vought’s refusal to give Biden’s team access to career OMB officials is unprecedented and could hurt Biden’s efforts to roll out big-picture, forward-looking ideas on everything from health care to climate change to taxes at the start of his four-year term.”
Mob boss must be brought…all..the…way…down.
It appears they are…
Might come in handy
Happyiest of New Year’s to all our TOD Fam, worldwide! Must say I was a tad jealous of New Zealand this morning! They were outta 2020! 💃💞🎇🎆 Thank you NW for this site that’s kept us sane, & to all TOD Fam brilliance & love! On my end, ready to kick 2020 butt outta here.⚽😂💃
⚽️Goooooal 2021 🥂🍾
This magical moment..on the cusp of 2021…
bowing…to you with respect and love.
No room at the inn ….
Absolutely he should say no. You don’t reward bad behavior with a cabinet position.
Here is to 2021 kicking the nuts of the rethugs making them impotent for life.
5 years ago, POTUS and FLOTUS warned the traitorous thug was a threat to democracy and now their prophecy is playing out in real time.
Happy New Year Todville.
Thank you Nerdy for everything.
Wishing everyone an amazing year ahead , here’s to better times.
Georgia, go get ’em girl !!! 😊
🥂🍾wishing Nerdy and my TOD family the best and prosperous 2021 ⭐️💫🌟✨👍🏾💃🏽🙏🏽
Same to you:)
Australians will sing a different version of their national anthem from 1 January after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a change to the words on Thursday.
The anthem will no longer refer to Australia as “young and free” in an attempt to reflect the country’s long indigenous history.
The announcement was a surprise but welcomed across the government.
Mr Morrison said he hopes the change will create a “spirit of unity”.
People inhabited Australia for tens of thousands of years before it was colonised by mostly white English settlers in the 18th Century.
The line to be removed in the anthem, which is called Advance Australia Fair, is “For we are young and free”. Instead people will sing “For we are one and free.”
Earlier this year, the leader of New South Wales state, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, suggested the change, saying the current wording ignored Australia’s “proud First Nations culture”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55494542
Come on, GA.
Anyone else watching The WayI See It? I’m crying…Happy New Year everyone. I pray for better days ahead
PS. Thank you for another year, Nerdy. I love you all. ❤️
Watched for the ? time, cry every time. So depressing that we had President Obama for 8 years and then a pile of manure for 4.
So many things made political by the traitorous thug and his henchmen. If the dems don’t care to fix them (yes, it’s a hard ask), the rethugs’ destruction of governance will never stop.
Yup, it’s a starting point for dems. The rethug pigs and their media minions will pull plenty of poutrage squeals but I am sure most americans want the dems to do it.
Yes! Saw it before, but still crying this time as well as the first time. I have Souza’s book Intimate Portrait about Obama. I received Shade for Xmas and a book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I also got Promised Land and Obama’s Speeches. Pretty set with reading material for the next year since I only read when I go to bed.
Happy New Year everyone!
NOW ON MSNBC…
Very happy New Year to dear Joe and Jill, Kamala and Doug, and fams!!!
Deep thanks for all you have endured on our behalf.
—May we all make each other proud!!
Happy New Year, Family! Love you! 😚😘❤️
Same to you Dudette and TOD family🥂🥂
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Wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!
😂 True.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ll see myself out.
Happy New Year, TODville! I love all of you!
No longer someday. It’s now. No more centuries.
Happy New Year, TOD Family!!!
May 2021 bring us peace, calm, and good health as we move away from the Twilight Zone marathon we’ve been in these past 4 years.
19 MORE DAYS!!!
I MISSED ALL THIS LAST NIGHT????? I’M SO SAD! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
If this is how we’re starting 2021…we’re going to be fine!:)
I JUST read this and thought it was so spot on!! Thanks for posting this here,jazziz
That’s a true and wonderfully sagacious observation.
Now tell me who are the real Christians?
Good!!
Because we need to remember
Nothing like starting my day with the waterworks flowing…
sorry:)
Hope the Biden admin kicks this nutjob on day one.
Great year in review! Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Happy New Year {{{{{{{TOD}}}}}}}
My totally superficial comment: Lemon is so good looking.
Say his name.
Write his name to Speaker Pelosi demanding his Impeachment by he 117th Congress.
As soon as we have an Acting Biden-appointed AG, write to the DOJ demanding he be indicted.
So true. Biden didn’t get out of his ‘basement’ and still won. This must rankle the thug 24×7.
A stupid moron for congress.
Happy New Year!
Georgia’s Changing! ❤️
This is what democracy looks like!
As a bit of context, my little white body was baptized in a Catholic church a few days after birth and I played the role of Jesus in the Christmas nativity play at age 7.
It has annoyed me to no end that — among its too numerous to count travesties the Catholic institutional system has perpetrated over the past two millennia — it peddles the propaganda that Mary & Jesus were white folk.
Good cash flow scam, but intellectually insulting.
Yes!!!!!
No Pass! Next time the republicans will succeed with their coup attempt. Too many seditious fascist in their party.
President Obama:
“After a year that has tested us in unimaginable ways, we’ve seen how people from all walks of life have stepped up to create change to make things better. Here’s to ringing in 2021 with optimism for what’s to come and a belief that our best days are still ahead. Happy New Year!”
Happy 2021 to the wonderful Obama family!!!
Billion$ and billion$ for the military, but gop can’t spare a pittance for the millions of hungry Americans being served by the military = definition of evil.
They are all self serving. I hope this doesn’t happen…
“Opinion: Trump Reveals Strong Connection Between Authoritarianism and Anti-Abortion Politics”
“And we need to stress that the autocratic urge in U.S. society is not a solo endeavor on Trump’s part.
The assault on democracy has been overt and brazen, carried out in plain and public sight, ardently and proudly, by significant sectors of the Republican Party, right-wing coalitions, and far too many Americans who have promoted voter suppression and still support Trump’s rallying cry that the election was stolen.
But these autocratic tendencies have deeper historical roots in right-wing politics, roots that were exposed last October when the Trump administration signed a global anti-abortion declaration with 32 member states of the United Nations, many of which are authoritarian regimes or seen as severely flawed democracies. The declaration was co-sponsored by the U.S., Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Brazil and Uganda; other nations signing on included Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all of which are classified as authoritarian regimes in The Economist’s 2019 Democracy Index. And apart from the U.S., none of signatories rated higher than 95th on Georgetown University’s Women, Peace, and Security Index….
Indeed, anti-abortion politics largely enable and normalize autocratic behavior by denying women
the very status of personhood and thus equal rights.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/01/opinion-trump-reveals-strong-connection-between-authoritarianism-and-anti-abortion-politics.html)
—Argentina just passed a strong bill for women. Trump signed an anti-abortion declaration with 32 countries.
This SOB needs to lose his license and go to jail
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That’s Senator Kelly! 😆
Veto-POOF! 💥
My wish for you is that you have many more “Diamond Days” during the next four years.
That’s right! Jan 20th cannot come soon enough!
Marvelous. We know the real thing when we see him/her.
Hi NerdyW & all TOD family members/friends.
It’s such a joy to know that 2020 is done and gone!
From my ‘corner’ of the world I wish you all a happier, more prosperous year in 2021, and send a prayer, or three 😉 , that 2021 will uplift us all in every way possible – physically, emotionally, financially, mentally, etc etc.
BLESSINGS, …
A vey Happy and Healthy New Year to you, VC!
Thanks, Terri. Maybe this is a year where there’ll be lots of moving forward, despite CO-VID.
sora no hashi mekurite hatsuhi idenikeri
turning over the edge
of the sky
New Year Day’s sun rises
Shugyo Takaha
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/optimism-3/
2021,
we the people:
No
doubts.