Happy birthday, @MichelleObama. Thank you for pouring every ounce of yourself into empowering the next generation of leaders. Our country, and myself, are better off because of you. pic.twitter.com/Hlvymr2Ndq
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 17, 2021
Happy Birthday Mrs. @MichelleObama !! Thank you for inspiring me! pic.twitter.com/S4wnqTaYYq
— Tyler Gordon (@tygordonsworld) January 17, 2021
Happy birthday, @MichelleObama!
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) January 17, 2021
In honor of her birthday, learn more about how the Obama Presidential Center will enrich the community she grew up in at https://t.co/jIFGK7T59P pic.twitter.com/KlXDwUc1yK
Happy Birthday to “Forever First Lady,” that little girl from Southside Chicago, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama!! pic.twitter.com/wQb09UiHup
— It’s Madam Vice President Harris to YOU in 3 days (@flywithkamala) January 17, 2021
We’re wishing our co-chair @MichelleObama a happy birthday! 🎉 🎁
— When We All Vote (@WhenWeAllVote) January 17, 2021
Celebrate Michelle Obama’s birthday with us by sharing how you’re making a positive difference on Monday’s Day of Service: https://t.co/YHcBDAyRuS pic.twitter.com/gqE0wCL1qD
Happy 57th Birthday to our forever First Lady @MichelleObama 💕 pic.twitter.com/scANrggX2M
— MEFeater Magazine (@mefeater) January 17, 2021
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Former First Lady Michelle Obama celebrates her birthday today!
— ABC News (@ABC) January 17, 2021
MICHELLE OBAMA THROUGH THE YEARS: https://t.co/R9byxuxOxK pic.twitter.com/V93lhBH6jN
GALLERY: Happy Birthday Michelle Obama! We've gathered her most stunning looks to celebrate our forever First Lady. #ESSENCE https://t.co/CHugiwmyKT
— ESSENCE (@Essence) January 17, 2021
The Obama Diary 
Happy Birthday, Michelle O! You have made such positive contributions to #WeThePeople, and we have been encouraged repeatedly by your warmth and your service. God bless you today, and always!
LOL.
And Mohammad Ali birthday today
Ok, now god is a braggart.
So President Elect and Vice President Elect are going to have a memorial service for the COVID dead as part of inauguration. So nice to have people of conscience and compassion in the White House again. And he is going to Mass before swearing in ceremony as he does every Sunday, not just for a photo op. I’ve missed the Obama Diary family so much these past 4 years. I just couldn’t take even the mention of the occupier of the White House on this forum. I hope to not see a story or hear mention of his name through the Biden and Harris administrations. (Notice what I did there.) Anyway, Happy Birthday Mrs. Obama and many happy returns.
Good to see you!
Happy Birthday Forever Flotus Michelle Obama. Hope you have a fabulous birthday ☺
Dudette … wishing your niece a speedy recovery. And that you stay safe while staying quarantined.
Thanks todjey! 🙏🏾
their whites only kkk site asked for their ssn before they could join? fucking morons.
Cruz is cool with it though.
party of terrorists.
I can’t watch boxing, but loved the greatest! Happy Birthday, Mohammed Ali!
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52988605
At a minimum, 40% of us of a is fucked up radicals rw loons.
Lotsa house cleaning need to be done from day one.
resurrection or football game? hmmm, such a conundrum.
😄😂🤣
pathetic gutless jack strikes again.
Are the magats finally realizing what a cowardly con don is and has been all along?
No no and no.
In the words of the great Tracey Morgan…
Hopefully warren will get on board now instead of sniping at the heels.
There used to be an ‘environment activist’ whiner during Obama years. Surprise, surprise haven’t heard of that useful idiot in the past 5 years.
what a fucked up country.
Indeed.
All that 24×7 screeching noise is gone. Hopefully the traitorous thug will go diaf too.
The Cult. In serious need of reality. They’re beyond reason.
A woman POC veep swearing in a jew, a black and a hispanic senators. Historic moment.
Awesomeness! So, that means GA has certified our 2 Senators by 20th! 💃💞
GA voter fraud alone should put this seditious thug in prison.
Apologies do not negate what has been done and the resulting damage.
An impeached traitorous thug issuing pardons left and right. Only in murkkka.
Pigs are flying, hovering over these arses! 😖
Good. Biden has to play hardball with the rethugs.
FYI, everyone.
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One thing I noted was his response, “Miss, I’m here to do my job and you interrupting me is keeping me from that.”
Isn’t this the same justification police use when they shoot and kill POC for no real reason?
While I don’t think “Defund the Police” is the right phrasing, there definitely needs to be reform.
I have to wonder why the other officers present didn’t speak up.
Thank you. I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks, Dudette. I meant to go back and grab the threadreader.
Fifth columnists everywhere. Vet them all including ss.
Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition.
Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?
On Oct. 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)
Fox’s decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com.
But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. The exhausted plaintiffs agreed.
Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period? Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?
The unusual arrangement underscores how deeply entwined Fox has become in the Trump camp’s disinformation efforts and the dangerous paranoia they set off, culminating in the fatal attack on the Capitol 11 days ago. The network parroted lies from Trump and his more sinister allies for years, ultimately amplifying the president’s enormous deceptions about the election’s outcome, further radicalizing many of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
YUP.
Goodnight TOD.
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Love her!
Yawn. I have laundry to fold.
Folks still out here blaming PBO for THEIR FAILURE to lobby the correct end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Like Superman, PBO was supposed to eradicate 400 years of racism, white supremacy, Jim Crow, immigration discrimination, etc with just the swoop of his hand…
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The Donald Trump baby blimp, which flew over Parliament Square during the US president’s visit to the UK, has found a new home.
The Museum of London has bought it so it can rest in its protest collection.
The 6m-high (19.7ft) inflatable, blimp was flown over Parliament Square during the US President’s working visit to the UK in July 2018.
The Museum of London said the blimp was an “extraordinary and imaginative idea” and a “response from Londoners”.
The huge inflatable depicts the US president wearing a nappy and clutching a mobile phone.
Following a global tour it will now be conserved by the museum and could go on display in the future.
In a statement, the effigy’s creators said they hoped it would be “a reminder of the politics of resistance that took place during Trump’s time in office”.
The Museum of London’s director, Sharon Ament, said the museum was “not political and does not have any view about the state of politics in the States”, but the balloon had touched on the typical British response of satire.
“We use humour a lot. And we poke fun at politicians. This is a big – literally – example of that,” she said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-55694910
Would be better if the instructions were to fly him straight to Rikers.
I prefer GITMO; however, the Constitution requires due process…
Make it so!!!
2 MORE DAYS!!!
Glory!!!
What are they planning to do with this? Sell it to Russia?
This has to be a wire or telecommunications theft of some sort.
LOL! Chris Krebs – former election security guy! 😄
Good morning TOD.
Please #TweetLoveToRebekah – @GeoRebekah
Thank you.
I hold Deathsantis and his enablers are crushed into oblivion by the lawsuits coming their way.
With passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act…there was a mass exodus of dixiecrats that went to the Republican Party…
you will hear a great deal about how great the GOP was before Trump….i suppose they forgot about the hell that the GOP repr4esented since the adoptgion of the Souther Strategy…
What is needed more than ever…is #TruthSpokenTo Power #TruthAndReconciliation
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This makes me so happy:)
Fingerprints?
WHO EXACTLY IS AT WAR….
I often feel that the war is between white folks…that when the pundits say that we are a divided nation…and that there will be a cicil war…i wonder who the combattants will be…Once again i think that this is between white folks
When the 1st Civil War took place it was over slavery..once again it was between white folks…blk folks were the bounty..the prize…
the prize today is WHO gets to decide in the democracy..who has the power to determine it all…
Happy MLK Day – National Day of Service!
They must be made to repay the money they took to spread lies to a sick and dying country
I just don’t how women could become enamored of this serial reprehensible rapist womanizer.
Radiant and brilliant Dr. Bernice King…thank you. Every word like a rocket to the heart.
Peace and love to your family on MLK Day.
“The Capitol riot wasn’t a fringe ‘uprising’. It was enabled by very deep pockets”
“Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network,
which has contributed millions to the Republican Attorneys General Association (Raga), listed as one of the participating organizations in the rally. Raga’s fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, sent robocalls encouraging Trump supporters to march on the Capitol ahead of the 6 January rally, at which the former chairman of Raga, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, spoke. But major donors to Raga include not only rightwing bogeymen like Koch Industries, Walmart, or the Adelson family but also household corporate names like Comcast, Amazon and TikTok.
Likewise, although Koch Industries is the single largest corporate donor
to Republican representatives who pledged to try to overturn the election results,
the next biggest contributors included defense companies like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, as well as tech (Amazon) and finance (Goldman Sachs) and insurance (Aflac), according to the Center for Media and Democracy. And while Charles Koch has maintained a posture of personal ambivalence, verging on distaste, for Donald Trump, super Pacs heavily funded by the donor network he and his late brother founded have spent millions supporting congressional Republicans who rejected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Dick Uihlein, the chief executive of the Uline shipping company and a contributor to the Koch donor network,
spent at least $2m getting Josh Hawley elected to the US Senate and has contributed more than $4m to the Tea Party Patriots, another one of the 11 groups listed as participating in the Stop the Steal coalition. In 2019, more than $20m was funneled through DonorsTrust…”
more ugh: (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/18/the-capitol-riot-wasnt-a-fringe-uprising-it-was-enabled-by-very-deep-pockets)
So very, very true.
I lived among many who were thrilled when he was assassinated. None of them would feel differently now, if they were alive. In fact, they’d be as anti-BLM as the most ardent Trumpians.
Interesting
MLK Thread
America’s Senator resigns today.
In two days, she becomes America’s Vice President!
Vice President Elect Harris: “Thus, as I leave the United States Senate, this is not goodbye. This is hello.”
Trailblazing on MLK Day.
This young woman is gonna have lots to share with the FBI if she wants to spend less than the remainder of her life in a Federal prison.
22 years old. What an absolute fucking waste
Reverend Warnock is taking the podium at the Atlanta MLK Commemoration. VP-Elect will also make remarks.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/live
MLK in color. A thread.
“March 28, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. on Meet The Press to discuss his historic five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.”
He should no longer have access to intelligence info.
nor the means to disseminate any part of it for his own ends, or his party’s ends.
–PERMANENTLY BAN the seditious former President from all social media.
Always a tweet with the Trumpers
According to a statement sent by the transition team, President Elect Biden:
“will spend the National Day of Service volunteering at hunger relief organization Philabundance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will spend the day volunteering in Washington, D.C.
The Biden inaugural committee also announced it will host a national memorial to remember those lost to the novel coronavirus, to be held Tuesday, one day before the inauguration. Scheduled for Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m. ET, the event will include a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the ringing of church bells, according to a statement put out by the committee.
“On January 19, we will host a memorial to honor those who have died, with the first-ever lighting around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” the statement read.
The inaugural committee added that it is asking cities and towns across the country to join the memorial by “illuminating buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m. ET in a national moment of unity and remembrance.”
Organizers have said Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration will be 75 to 80 percent virtual, in an effort to slow the spread of the virus, cases of which are spiking across the country.”
(https://people.com/politics/biden-inauguration-committee-day-of-service-martin-luther-king-jr-day/)
Amanda Gorman reads her poem, ‘The Miracle of Morning’.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/1963-is-not-and-end-but-a-beginning/
OMG…..
Can anyone confirm this???