FUN FACT: More net jobs have been created under Obama than both Bushes combined zite.to/1rE9kK2
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Juan Cole (@jricole) October 04, 2025Yup. The ODS is real
Speaker @ Waukesha GOP rally: "We've gotta get past the margin of fraud. They're dragging people to the polls offering them BBQ and smokes."
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(@daveweigel) October 25, 2025****
Ebola isn't airborne. Bullets are. #justsaying
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Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) October 25, 2025Who's at risk of Ebola: People who touch bodily fluids of an Ebola victim.
Who's at risk of a school shooting: All kids who go to school.
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(@JRehling) October 24, 2025****
CNN has Bernie Kerik on right now as an ebola preparedness expert. I guess he was studying infectious diseases while in federal prison.
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Mark Horowitz (@markhor) October 25, 2025"Fauci's hug of Nina Pham is a victory for science, rationality and, most importantly, human decency." @nathangeffen http://t.co/VFowaLzx7M
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Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) October 24, 2025****
If you want to know who has the strongest opinion on a situation, it’s always the person with the least amount of facts about it.
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Erica (@SCbchbum) October 24, 2025Since 2000, there's been one billion votes cast & only 31 cases of voter impersonation. Not exactly a huge problem. bit.ly/1z4FyRM
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BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyersHQ) October 25, 2025****
If GOP takes Senate, climate deniers will control key commitees: Science, Environment, Oversight, Budget goo.gl/6DQ1XF
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Lee Fang (@lhfang) October 25, 2025It helps to be rich: Rauner just injected $3 million of his own money into his campaign; McConnell did same for $1.8 million. #ILGov #KYSen
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(@Taniel) October 25, 2025****
You could label opposition to a travel ban "political correctness." Another would be "what every expert keeps telling us over and over"
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Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 24, 2025How dare you tell me to listen to experts?
I'm a Republican!
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(@LOLGOP) October 25, 2025****
REMINDER: Gov Snyder hasn't taken $1 billion out of K-12 education, he's taken BILLIONS out of K-12 education fb.me/4wY4snsGx
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Chris Savage (@Eclectablog) October 25, 2025Des Moines Register again rips Joni Ernst for hiding behind campaign ads & ducking "tough questions": desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 25, 2025****
Not one voter ID law before 2006, which is, coincidentally, right when voters figured out that the GOP was terrible and deserved to lose.
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(@LOLGOP) October 25, 20251 billion votes cast since 2000.
31 cases of voter impersonation.
600k+ voters will be disenfranchised in Texas.
billmoyers.com/episode/fight-…
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(@LOLGOP) October 25, 2025****
Candidates who say "I'm not a scientist" should be tied to the podium so they don't float away because that might happen for all we know.
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(@pourmecoffee) October 25, 2025Reminder: There are vaccines for diseases much more contagious than Ebola. Get them npr.org/blogs/health/2… http://t.co/zPq5baxUXk
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(@pourmecoffee) October 25, 2025****
[Calls boss]
I won't be in today
"Why?"
*pulls truck up by the river*
"Well?"
*flops out of the cab in a homemade mermaid costume*
Diarrhea.
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GoaT FacE KillA (@EndhooS) October 20, 2025"Dad will they ever find Waldo?"
"I sure hope not son. *tosses red and white striped sweater into the fire* I sure hope not."
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(@Tommytoughstuff) October 23, 2025
White House.gov
Me!!!!!!!
😎 Thank you soooooooooo much Nerdy, I’m just sorry that your day will be ruined tomorrow by the #DutchRevolution
IN. YOUR. DREAMS.
Get your beer on standby, because there’s going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth by you.
WOW! Congrats on your FURST, Chips!
Thank you No Child, thank you.
Love that gif! Passing along to my granddaughter for her next job interview - Ha!
Oh WOW, Chips just barely crossed the line before vetivera …. wonders never cease at TOD ….😀😀😀
NW - another one still airborne as it clears the center field fence!! Well done & thank you.
#OWNthe114th
Yes We Can
Replying to Akismet right now to ask them to put you back in spam.
I think it worked, Chips …. see below ….😀😀😀😀😀😀 (but they only dumped me in the ‘lounge’ not the ‘party room’) ….😀😀😀
Thanks, Bob.
Evening folks!
Vetivera, another medal to you. ⭐ You landed at the same time as Chips, nanoseconds apart.
Clearly Chips is a superb athlete! It was a. Photo finish
Great and timely collection of tweets Nerdy. Wish I had the mermaid story before work yesterday.
I second that NW. May I add that you are always factual? Thank you.
Thank you, NCLB.
Hahahahahaha.
Thanks, Vetivera.
Now you have an excuse for the future.😉
Not sure if anyone remembers, but I used to comment here a while back. I still read a lot here and my better half got into it also and keeps me posted on the goings-on at TOD. Just wanting to thank all y’all who are out there doing the tough field work for this election cycle. All elections are crucial, but this one especially so.
That first tweet above is something I was pointing out a while back when just in President Obama’s first four years, he had more jobs created than all 12 Bush years combined, and that even includes the first 6-12 months when we were losing jobs each month in the 100s of thousands! If you take out those first 6 months or so when things were in freefall from the Republican created Great Recession, President Obama’s jobs total would be millions more on top of the already great jobs numbers from him.
Better run before I get roped back into this commenting addiction, but again, thanks again to those refusing to be played by the media and turning into chicken-littles, and instead are working phones, going door-to-door, data entry, and all those things that actually win elections. As the man says, FORWARD!!!
Great to see your Bonkers, I remember us often chuckling about me using your name as a slur
Hope all’s good with you, thanks so much for dropping in again.
I remember you from The Field too, if I’m remembering correctly…nice to see you..
Aw, hell, y’all are making want to keep typing but I must not….no….stop! Don’t do it! I’ll just leave this little gem behind before it’s too late and I’m here way too much again:
I remember you, bonkers! We appreciate your insight.
Well done, bonkers
bonkers, don’t hold back…jump back in…and…go…BONKERS!!!!😀😀
Good to see you again
Happy Saturday Night Nerdy and thank you for your work in Texas. Looks like it might be another tough election in the Lone Star state but maybe a nice surprise or two will happen?
I just saw this pitch; she’s so cool. Go Royals!!!
Thanks, Forus50.
truth!
Love that tweet!
BWD retweeted
Harold Itzkowitz @HaroldItz · 18m18 minutes ago
North Jersey’s Fear Leader Chris Jong-un has imprisoned an American nurse for leaving behind good deeds in another country. #Ebola
Here’s another…
Yeap.
To make it easy for folk to RT ….
And, then there’s this gem ….
This Forbes article is talking about the success of Medaid and CHIP enrollments in a way that emphasizes how well the insurance companies are doing. I see this as an instance where corporations going for money is a good thing . Insurance companies have tremendous influence in Congress and they are not going to let anyone take their money away.
….Enrollment of Americans in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Programs that contract with health plans is projected to jump by 13.5 million by 2016, according to Avalere Health, a research and advisory services firm on health policy issues tracking implementation of the health law. Avalere’s growth projections also assume 22 states, largely led by Republican governors or legislatures opposed to the law, continue to “opt out of the ACA Medicaid expansion in 2014 and beyond.”….
….The stocks of plans with Medicaid businesses have been soaring and that should continue, analysts say….
Paging Howard Fineman….
Good sense prevails for once!
They made fools of themselves in 2012 endorsing LOSER Willard only to see not only the election go for PBO, but the state of Iowa as well. So I guess they don’t want to “pass for ass” again.
GREAT tweet Chips!
I have not heard much about the WV race to replace Senator Rockefeller;
what happened to all those voters who used to vote for Sen Rockefeller and Sen Bryd and those who voted for Sen Manchin ?
I would have loved a fight over this seat like we have seen in KY
Good question. I get so annoyed with these “lifers” like Rockfeller who decide to bail at a critical time.
MSM is barely covering the race, though it’s the only one (I think) that pits two women against each other.
Republican Shelley Moore Capito has a 16 point advantage over Dem Natalie Tennant, so it’s doubtful this will be a “horserace,” but a given to be a GOP seat.
WV refuses to adapt to the realities of climate change and, yes, cling to their soul-and-lung-destroying strip and deep pit mining jobs. What they need is federal help to allow older workers to retire with pay, re-train younger workers in renewable energy, and invest in building the infrastructure to support that work.
Coal pollutes and kills so many people, but it’s the only source of income for so many West Virginians.
NW, a lot of these tweets should be enough to make people run to the Polls. Thanks!
ps, good luck tomorrow
Hi. I was out all day (offspring is home for the next week); why does NW need ‘good luck’ in particular tomorrow - job interview/moving to a new home/state/lottery ticket draw/…………? [ /frown/ I hate not knowing what’s going on.]
vc, tell my nephew ❤ I said "hello & welcome home". As for your question…all I'm gonna say is peep in to the village in the morning😀
1) will pass on your message to nephew
2) ‘Peep into the village’ - Duh, here I was thinking this was something serious….
Girl, stop stirring this pot😀😀😀
Not intentional…this time. Just a bit peeved my radar was raised for what I thought was a real issue. 🙄 Plus, if we are to talk of pot stirring, now that I know what’s being discussed I’d say you tipped the salt into the pot. Shameful of you!
Go to bed vc😀
I tried, though not my best effort. Hopefully you are enjoying your west coast dreams even as I write this. 😀
Thanks, GGail.
Hopefully they do.
All right folks, it’s been a hellishly long day. Gonna go relax and watch various forms of teevee. And tomorrow I’m doing data entry for calls we’re making into CO. I’ll let you know how that goes afterwards.
#ComeOnReds!!
Night LL, so so so happy you’ve seen the footballing light!
Yeah yeah yeah, you can change that back to the original hashtag at your earliest convenience. We shall meet on the pitch of honor tomorrow, Madam.
Wishing you a relaxing evening, LL. The ‘disappearing link’ is embedded in this tweet …
Had left you a response in the previous thread - actually 2 because my initial interpretation of your comment was inaccurate - but wanted to be sure you had access to, from all I’ve seen, the most complete info on Ukraine’s Parliamentary Election.
Cheers!
A rant:
I am 64+ years old. I’ve received requests from healthcare.gov to verify income (we are self-employed) and prove that 64 year old me and 74 year old Mr. 57 are citizens. Notwithstanding that we’ve both been paying taxes since we were about 15 years old. We will file a 2014 tax return - frankly I don’t understand why that isn’t enough to verify income, but whatever.
Okay. God knows where my birth certificate is, so I’ll get a certified copy. I was born in Milwaukee in 1950. So I go to the Milwaukee County website. There is NO way to order a birth certificate online. Office hours are 9-4:30 M-F. I can order one BY MAIL, for a $20.00 fee, payable by cashier’s check or money order only.
Okay. People were fluid with their names - names were Anglicized, etc. My mother’s name was “Ann”, but I remember her birth certificate said “Anna”. And she added an “e” to “Anne”, but when? Before I was born? Did my dad use his middle initial? If I don’t have all of these facts, will I get my birth certificate?
Should I just take a day off of work (which may get me fired), drive up to Milwaukee to do this?
What do people do who have no access to transportation or for whom $20 is the difference between their medication or voting?
How effing insane is this?!?!
Oh - Scott Walker was Milwaukee County Executive Officer before selling Wisconsin to the Koch Bros. You think these procedures started with him, or he decimated the funds in order to run a 21st century government office?
Fuming. I am fuming.
Did you call and talk to someone at Healthcare.gov? Isn’t Mr. 57 on Medicare? I would call Healthcare.gov and call the Milwaukee County office and ask your questions before driving there.
Whoa.
There’s got to be someone who can help you. Is your congresscritter a Dem? Someone in his office, or perhaps the congresscritter where the Milwaukee hospital is located can help you. That’s what their staff is paid to do.
Or maybe Tally (@BardGal, but she’s swamped right now with her performances) or Bill R @cmpnwtr can help you.
pls see answer below - typed in wrong spot
Dear 57,
Will give you the same advice I gave to africa. Go to the White House website and submit these details in a communication to President Obama. In this case, suggest you send the same information to both VP Biden and First Lady Obama.
Moreover, send the details to Mary Burke and call her campaign HQ and explain the situation.
Tweet a link to this comment (click on the date time stamp and copy the link) to @Burke4WI and @HHSGov.
Perhaps Chips or NW can highlight your comment on the front page of a new post, either tonight or tomorrow.
Hope one or more of these suggestions will help.
Thank you, Bob and the other commenters. I’m going to do everything you suggested, Bob and it’s a big “duh!” that I didn’t think of these things.
Hello TOD…..Good Evening.
Au⭐ for Chips and another Gold⭐ for Vetivera24.
So Ambassador Powers is heading to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Upon her return, Cuomo or Christie would have her quarantined for 21 days?
She posted this before the Breaking News of Amb Powers’ West African Visit.
Never, ever thought I’d respond to Ms Mitchell in any supportive manner, but ….
(given the number of @s in this tweet, it will be interesting to see if it escapes ‘moderation’) …..
Nope.
Paging a moderator😉
I’m not a statistician, but I think I’m reading this correctly. When I go to Gallop to check President Obama’s approval I see Democrats approving by as much as ever. Liberal Dems 84%. Moderates 71%. Conservative Dems 64%. They show the last 5 polling results and those numbers are about the same if not better across those results. Pure Independents at 30% and Conservatives at 20% are about the same across the 5 sets of data. And from the graphs it looks like the fluctuations in his approvals are reactions to current events among people who are influenced by them. So when anyone is talking about his approvals tanking, to me they are talking about Republicans and low-information voters. His base still has the same huge approval numbers as always.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx
Speaking of PO’s approval rating. I made myself read the front page article in the Perspective section of my Sunday paper. Title: American public losing faith in president (That’s in big bold letters.) Underneath is says: Voters also have negative views of Contress and U.S. Supreme Court. Written by Charles Lipson, Chicago Tribune. There is not ONE positive word about PO……all negative, putdowns, promises broken, blah, blah, blah. It is disgusting. Any of you that tweet, can you GO AFTER this guy. Please.
Won’t do any good.
The MSM is the GOP propaganda machine, and they will pull out all the stops to convince voters to side with the GOP between now and Nov 5.
There is a tweet making the rounds on twitter of a white couple in blk face dressing up as Ray Rice and his wife..for Halloween….there are not words I can say…
10 Reasons Democracy May Prevail Despite GOP Voting Restrictions
http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/24/10-reasons-democracy-will-work-despite-gops-voting-restrictions/
Good article, LH. Glad to see so many forces fighting back against voter suppression.
Just got back from a phone bank for Udall. (we are in CA). They had a predictive dialer which screens out answering machines and wrong #s so you talk to lots more folks in a short period of time. The entire thing is run from your phone, no need for a computer. You enter the results using your phone. I was really impressed, a volunteer would contact about 40 folks in 2 hours, and they were overwhelming in support of Udall, and many had already voted.
I love the predictive dialer because you get so much more done in a short period of time.
I am delighted that Colorado does absentee ballot to everyone, makes it more likely we will have a strong turn out.
One more little piece of election news - I have a friend who works for NextGen an Environmental PAC which is putting lots of resources into Iowa and sending folks from CA to do canvassing and GOTV. We are getting help from lots of sources.
So encouraging to hear about all the folks who volunteered today, it really lifts my spirts to read about your efforts.
Thanks for sharing your good news. There is a huge GOTV effort going on and I feel very good about the election.
Love this, WIW! We used the predictive dialer at a home phone bank today. The only downside I can see is that it is not okay to use to contact cell phone users (FEC rules), so a lot of the folks were way past 30.
Hi Judith and WiW, YAY, I like the predictive dialer too! And I agree Judith, I found that we were reaching more mature people than young people, but it was easier than getting so many answering machines.
You’re a CHAMPION, Linda!!!!
Thank you!!!
#OWNthe114th
Yes We Can
Colorado is a must-win for Dems, IMHO (but I have a very western-centric POV — cannot speak with any knowledge at all about what life/culture is like east of the Rockies).
CO ground game:
CO poll from last week:
wow, wiw.
https://twitter.com/alijim89/status/526015520764854272 ;
Here’s GCL’s tweet:
thanks a lot for this - didn’t realize earlier that content of tweet didn’t appear
This tweet is among my most recent series of updates that, thanks to Chips, you can easily access in the sidebar, but wanted to be sure all of you (especially lurkers) see it ….
#TrustBarack …. never to start a war, but always trying to end and repair the damage done by American neocolonialist #NEOCONSTERS ….
So beautiful in so many ways!
Thank you POB for giving PEACE a chance.
Thanks Bob. I saw it on your sidebar page. This is so touching!
lovely! thanks for posting, bobfr.
Upton is scrambling. Lawrence is throwing marbles in his path. Mr Clements may well be able to defeat the GOP slug that Upton is …
“The campaign team released the following fact-check on the Upton campaign’s continued response to the question of the propriety of their response to Mayday.US’s support for Upton’s opponent.
What’s striking is how the facts continue to, let’s say, evolve.
At first, it was Upton telling multiple outlets that he had spoken to our large Silicon Valley supporters (that’s an “s” at the end of that word) to complain about their support for Mayday.
As it dawned on everyone that there was something a bit odd (ethically speaking) about that behavior (at least from a committee chairman with power over the people he was allegedly speaking to), the story morphed.”
I guarantee you, Reince, Upton or anyone else saw this one coming … including the DCCC ….
I see that christie has fucked up the ‘quarantine’ of the nurse returning from west africa.
murkan exceptionalism has a new meaning now.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29775698
From Kobani to Donetsk ….
… if you’re committed to FREEDOM, you don’t ever give up ….
Goooood Evening Fabulous People of TOD!!! How y’all doin’? Anybody feel like dancin’?
Beyond their AVARICE (and the AVARICE of those they server) is this simple FACT ….
Me likey Mr. Mutombo! 😀
It’s just incredible that NOTHING is ever said by the media about how unpopular these two creeps are. I mean they aren’t even invited to the deep red states to help in their close elections. Or even in their own home states, right?
Okay, I’m just gonna dance with myself. 😀
a partial answer to ” tax filing as proof of citizenship” :
- whether or not you are a US citizen is not an issue that IRS checks when you are filing taxes;
- yes, an undocumented individual can (and is advised to) file income taxes - personally know many who do this and even get their refunds back if they are due - IRS is mandated by law NOT to verify immigration status for the purposes of tax filing;
- in fact one of the things that is often cited is the amount of money undocumented immigrants contribute to social security & other forms of revenue & often never claim
Thanks for posting that tweet amk. I followed them and saw this of interest too.
They are doing an amazing but a thankless job.
Yes, I think I will start donating to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Ms. Wendy Davis is doing all she can to win as an Unapologetic Dem in a red state and I really greatly respect that;
I understand the need for some red-state-Dems to take the decisions they have taken but I wish they had included a fight against bigotry & inequality as a crucial part of their platforms.
this would have contributed greatly to the marginalization of the bigots and also undermined gop’s constant use of coded language;
What you have said is so important..so very important//
Inquiring minds …..
Good question.
Love it. See NY axe murderer framing vs Ottawa shooter framing.
I’m dancing with you Dudette!!!
Yay! Hi Donna darlin!
Posted a tweet, earlier today, with a link to the article from which this excerpt is quoted, below:
“In the end it all comes down to business. Fighting off IS in Syria will certainly be aided by bringing in the Peshmerga. However, Turkey is walking a fine line with its policies, and barring its own Kurds from entering Syria does not seem like an appropriate, or sustainable, policy. If it leads to more deaths in Turkey its problems with Kurdish resistance will only get worse.”
Erdogan has been informed by lots of folk that his most direct path to stability, within Turkey, with Kurds is if he robustly enables the Kurds (Turkish and Iraqi) to crush #DAESH. The dude is too encapsulated in his Sunni (Salafi) hate to get it … yet.
http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2014/10/24/why-turkey-supports-iraqs-kurds-but-not-its-own/
Alright where are these blog tyrants? We need another thread. I’m about to throw down some moves…
😀😀
Thank you for all the fine tunes, Dudette!!
My sincere pleasure, Roberto!
Chips is working on a post.
So……
new thread.
https://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/25/chat-on-49/
Dead URL ….
have no idea why.
Me, either, amk. Still generating a 404 error ….
I see that it has been made private.
#Iblamebt.
😉
Alrighty then…
Think I’ll dedicate this to Joni Ernst, hog castrater from Iowa. Fake politician. Real live nutball.
Correction: Fake public servant. A politician, she definitely is, though not a very good one.
Please tweet that to @BruceBraley & @TeamBraley!!!!
bbl ….
sam wang will be scrapping with the loonies:
http://election.princeton.edu/2014/10/25/cnn-with-candy-crowly-sunday-at-900am-and-noon/
Hmm… a little waiting music.
This is for Donna! Can’t tell ya how much I truly appreciate all your brilliant tweeting and messages for the cause! Love ya Sis!
New post:
https://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/25/christine-byers-never-be-afraid-to-attack-wrong/