This afternoon was a difficult one for our family. We said goodbye to our best friend—Bo—after a battle with cancer. We are grateful for the love you showed him over the years. Please hug the furry members of your family a little closer tonight—and give them a belly rub from us. pic.twitter.com/zOk3SPABsT
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 8, 2021
Today our family lost a true friend and loyal companion. For more than a decade, Bo was a constant, gentle presence in our lives—happy to see us on our good days, our bad days, and everyday in between. pic.twitter.com/qKMNojiu9V
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 8, 2021
He tolerated all the fuss that came with being in the White House, had a big bark but no bite, loved to jump in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 08, 2021He was exactly what we needed and more than we ever expected. We will miss him dearly. https://t.co/CHweCxwJ7a
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 08, 2021My heart is with you @MichelleObama, @BarackObama, Sasha, Malia, and Sunny. Bo brought smiles to us all. https://t.co/VnSq6RlxP0
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) May 8, 2021
"This is exactly what he does at home. He tries to beat Malia and Sasha to my lap." RIP Bo Obama 😢💔💔 pic.twitter.com/n2US4PJ2NP
— Sshae (@shae90_shae) May 8, 2021
Chasing Bo around the Cabinet Room. pic.twitter.com/25cou6g8HD
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) May 8, 2021
Bo lifted my spirits every time I found him lounging in the chair outside the Oval Office. He was snuggly and sweet and chill. Like many, I will miss him. https://t.co/3FkKsMd3u5
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) May 9, 2021
@BarackObama he protec, he love his mama, rest in pawradise Bo Obama 🌈 https://t.co/yPuL06OOh0
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𝓓𝓸𝓰𝓮 𝓖𝓸𝓭 🐶 (@PAVGOD) May 08, 2021
The Obama Diary 
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Bo was a “good boy”.
Thanks Nerdy for this tribute to him 💗🐕
Good East Coast morning TODVille!
Bo was a good boy, indeed!
Hiya NCLB! Lovely to see you! 😄
Same here, Dudette. Hope everyone is OK. I had some trouble but I am fine now…. and all vaccinated!
Glad to hear you’re fine and vaxxed up!
Indeed 🐕
Good Morning Sunshine! 😃😘
🥰😎😘🙋🏾♀️
SOON – President Biden meets with members of Congressional leadership –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Beautiful tribute to FDOTUS Bo! Thank you Nerdy! ❤️
“Remarks by President Biden at a Virtual Meeting with a Bipartisan Group of Governors”
“Now, cases and hospitalizations and deaths are all down. Tens of thousands of moms and dads, brothers and sisters, grandparents, neighbors, friends are still with us who, I believe — whom would have otherwise — we would have lost but for the work of these governors.
And millions of Americans are starting to live life more normally after more than a year of sacrifice. And I know everybody is tired of hearing me say this online here, but it isn’t Democratic progress or Republican progress, it’s American progress.”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/11/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-virtual-meeting-with-a-bipartisan-group-of-governors/)
He was a beautiful pet!
WTH?!!!! SMH
The comments are hilarious!
Yes, I see
Thank You President Biden for the American Rescue Plan.
This is where I am with Liz Cheney
I’m having a hard time trying to garner sympathy for Liz.
It is hard for me to garner sympathy for any heartless Republican. Her voting record with Trump and the fact that she voted to put him in the office in the first place says it all for me.
Liz voted 98% for Trump policies, voted for him TWICE, was cool with ALL GOP lies pre-Trump, ok with Trumps lies through until he started down the road of stealing the election. Sorry Liz, your monster just killed your career…lucky for Democracy.
Bo Obama always lifted my spirits as well!! I treasure the little Bo Christmas tree ornament I found in the WH collections one year.. it is safely stowed with my few favorite Christmas goodies!!
Big hugs all around! Bbl
🕊🕯💙🕯🕊
Bo was a joy , he was a star of the Obama family too. RIP Bo.
Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent, the Nation,
talks to Chris Hayes:
Mystal:
“This was wrought by John Roberts.
The problem with everything happening in Congress today, everything happening in the Senate,
the For The People Act, or the John Lewis Act, is that John Roberts is still there!
Nothing has happened to make him go away!
Anthony Kennedy was part of the majority in Shelby County, joining Roberts in eviscerating the Voting Rights Act. Anthony Kennedy is being replaced by alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg who opposed John Roberts’ decision in Shelby Count,
has been replaced by Amy Coney Barrett. I cannot count to five. I cannot count to 5 votes on the Supreme Court that would uphold anything that gets passed by this Congress to secure the Voting Rights Act.
So I don’t know what we’re doing. If we’re not expanding the court.
If we’re not aggressively reforming the court, we are doing NOTHING to protect voting rights, because John Roberts and now SIX conservatives can destroy whatever Congress passes out of this Congress, just as easily as they destroyed the initial Voting Rights Act.”
Hayes:
“We have to do some deep work to keep democracy going right now, in a bunch of different directions.”
Mystal:
“This is the battle that we’re always fighting right?
Look there are as I count them, 4 amendments to the Constitution trying to get over our original sin of having a democracy where only rich, white people could vote. Right? We have the 15th Amendment, the 19th Amendment, the 24th Amendment which eliminated the poll tax, the 26th Amendment which dropped the voting age to 18. I could throw in the 17th Amendment which made popular elections…
That’s 4 to 5 amendments trying to expand the franchise.
Who’s been against them at every point? Conservatives. Whether those Conservatives called themselves Democrats in the 1860s, whether they call themselves Republicans today, whether they call themselves Democrats from West Virginia today, Conservatives are the ones who are against expanding the franchise. Why? Because when everybody votes, Conservatives can’t win. That’s just – they know it, I know it, everybody knows it. When everybody votes and everybody’s vote is counted, the current Conservative Party as it is currently constituted cannot win.”
So they’re not playing chess, right?
They’re not trying to arrange the white pieces so they can outflank the black pieces.
They are trying to throw the black pieces off the board and say check mate. Like that’s their actual political strategy and it has worked at various times in our country’s history very well.”
Mrs. O. on her continuing advocacy for healthy eating.
Hi –
sorry if i’ve been posting too much, will fix it. Been chugging along waiting for us all to come back…w/my best.
MELANIE ROCKS!!!
SOON – PRESIDENT BIDEN DELIVERS REMARKS ON COVID-19 RESOIBSEM VACCINATION PROGRAM
Also: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
How great!
May he rest in peace
Beautiful tribute.
Yes it is.
Sweet post, Nerdy! Loved Bo, too!
Vaccinating America: Town Hall
To air at 10 PM ET
on MSNBC and streaming on Noticias Telemundo’s digital platforms.
President Biden to be interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell:
Followed by a town hall with the administration’s Covid-19 team.
Less than an hour from now!!
lol.
Oh, AMK, don’t rub it in!
ya kidding? I have been studiously doing 15k steps every single effing day for the past one year and am yet to lose my tire. Only cholesterol dropped from high to normal. fffing fat.
nutsos’ weird world
checks and balances. what a cruel joke.
Joe’s just a normal guy. Like “one of us.” That’s all we need after the former guy. I’m also waiting for him to invite President Obama over for lunch – maybe this summer, outside, like they used to do when Joe was his VP – so we can see normal times two.
If the trumpies take House and Senate…(fill in the Orwell). Wow he is for Jim Crow II.
In denial about ‘bipartisanship’. And what does the coal industry have over him?
“Sen. Manchin Maintains Lucrative Ties to Family-Owned Coal Company”
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is more than just a supporter of his state’s influential coal producers — he’s a full-fledged industry insider.”
(https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/07/26/26greenwire-sen-manchin-maintains-lucrative-ties-to-family-64717.html)
“How W.Va. Miners With Black Lung Disease Are Navigating The Pandemic”
(death sentence)
(https://www.wvpublic.org/news/2020-08-18/how-w-va-miners-with-black-lung-disease-are-navigating-the-pandemic)
—retrain coal miners.
UNIONS
“West Virginia Unions Pressure Manchin To Back Biden On Infrastructure Plan”
(https://www.wkms.org/post/west-virginia-unions-pressure-manchin-back-biden-infrastructure-plan#stream/0)
Does he know anything at all about poor mining families. Give them a fkn fighting chance Manchin.
Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder!
😳😳😳
Lucy is awesome! 😍
So cute!!
“Biden flexes ‘power of the purse’ in ambitious new cybersecurity order”
Chris Krebs, former director of CISA,
talks with Rachel Maddow about President Joe Biden’s new executive order on cybersecurity,
comingin the wake of a hack that shut down the crucial Colonial Pipeline for several days.
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-flexes-power-of-the-purse-in-ambitious-new-cybersecurity-order-111841861639)
‘A massive problem’: Chris Krebs on the threat of ransomware
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-a-massive-problem-chris-krebs-on-the-threat-of-ransomware-111841861706)
“Chris Krebs: Trump’s election fraud fantasy evolved from long term “rigged election” complaint.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-election-fraud-fantasy-evolved-from-long-term-rigged-election-complaint-krebs-111842885725)
🎓👩🏾🎓🎓
It’s about time!
LIVE NOW:
As His Members Deny 1/6 Insurrection,
McCarthy Refuses to Meet With Police Officer Who Fought Off Rioters
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/51321)
Great discussion about the 1619Project..between Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Nikole Hannah-Jones
Last night:
‘Vaccinating America’
Interview followed by a town hall with the administration’s Covid-19 team.
President Biden was interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell:
Full transcript: (https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/full-transcript-msnbc-s-lawrence-o-donnell-interviews-joe-biden-n1267186)
–Loved it when Joe said, “I haven’t done this, this long…to do things that I don’t — I don’t believe.”
Fabulous.
Amen!!
LIVE NOW: First lady, Sen. Manchin and Jennifer Garner visit vaccination center in West Virginia –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-07
Dr. Walensky Announces New CDC Mask Guidance:
“According to new CDC guidance, fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks in most settings. ”
(To find a vaccine near you go to vaccines.gov)
for Heavens’ sake!!
thank you CDC, J and K, WH, medical community, everyone tied to vaccines in any way!!
just get Faucinated.
Pretty sure Project Lincoln’s a group of anti-45 Republicans. Love this.
And the dems are still sleeping.
😂
I said the same thing to an Argentine family who were fucking in the dinner I hosted.
Agreed! If you can’t pay your worker’s hourly salary, sick time, vacation, then why are you in business?
I think this is end of a heavy day music, a pick-me-up kinda thing, but w/ purpose! 😂💃
“Everything You Need To Know About The New CDC Mask Guidance”
“CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky talks with Rachel Maddow about the new CDC guidance for fully vaccinated people, essentially ending the mask requirement for vaccinated people in most situations.”
Congrats, a bazillion trillion thanks.
Happy Friday for all who are fully vaccinated!!
MVP and 2nd Gentleman attend their daughter’s graduation today.
“Red-state Republicans to ignore voters, reject Medicaid expansion”
“Most Missouri voters backed Medicaid expansion.”
“Missouri’s Republican-dominated legislature has decided not to care.”
“Medicaid expansion would cost Missouri roughly $130 million,
but the state would also secure a federal match of about $1.4 billion to pay for the program.
Just as importantly, thanks to the Democrats’ COVID relief package, states adopting Medicaid expansion would get additional federal resources for the next two years, more than covering Missouri’s $130 million commitment.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/red-state-republicans-ignore-voters-reject-medicaid-expansion-n1267345)
Disgusting.
The Death Party has been doing this
since PBO expanded Medicaid and provided funding in 2014.
Medicaid Expansion creates jobs and saves lives.
In 2021: Twelve red states still block Medicaid Expansion.
“Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map”
(https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/)
“Leaked Video:
Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country”
“We did it quickly, and we did it quietly” said the executive director of Heritage Action.
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/)
(Ari Berman, Nick Surgey)
Ari Berman to Chris Hayes:
“Heritage is literally writing these bills for Republican state legislators in Texas, in Arizona, in Georgia, in Florida.And that’s why we’ve seen so many bills suppressing the right to vote in such a short period of time, that are all basically exactly the same. It’s not a coincidence that’s happening. Heritage is literally co-ordinating this effort and bragging about it at this donor meet.”
(Jessica Anderson on video: “I was able to sit down with Governor Kemp three days before he signed the election package in Georgia and I had one message for him. ‘Do not wait to sign that bill. If you wait even an hour, you will look weak. This bill needs to be signed immediately.'”)
Berman:
”Yes, she (Anderson) was a Trump administration official.
I think what’s so revealing about that is Heritage from the very beginning, co-ordinated the entire campaign to pass voter suppression in Georgia. They helped write the legislation. They lobbied for the legislation. And then once the legislation passed they said to Brian Kemp ‘You have to sign it immediately’. And that’s what he did. He signed it within an hour.
They gave the same message to Republican governors in Arizona, in Florida, in Texas. They’ve done the same thing. The governor of Arizona rushed to sign a new voter suppression law just an hour after it passed in Arizona this week. Ron DeSantis signed the voter suppression bill in Florida as a ‘fox and friends’ exclusive.
So what you have here is one of the most influential dark money groups in Republican circles writing voter suppression laws in secret to make it harder for Black, Brown, and young people to be able to vote.
I mean this is a really shocking development for democracy.”
Hayes: “Jessica Anderson…who runs that heritage sister network…she talks about killing H.R.1 and S.1
as top priorities for them.”
Berman:
“She does. She says ‘if they don’t kill S.1 we lose our republic, period’. That’s the language she used. So they have a two-pronged approach here. They’re spending $24 million to make it harder to vote in 8 battleground states. And they’re trying to block the federal legislation that would make it easier to vote.
And the fascinating thing here is that you have dark money funding and organizing voter suppression. That’s the exact thing the For the People Act would stop!!
That’s why the For the People Act has money in politics and voting rights COMBINED because this is what we’re seeing. We are seeing an attack on voting rights that’s being organized and FUNDED by millions and millions of dollars in dark money.
So, these issues are connected. The only way to fix our democracy is to look at these issues holistically. And that’s why Conservatives and Republicans are so terrified of the For the People Act because they know it affects our democracy in the very ways that they’re trying to undermine it.”
New post.