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BREAKING: Ex-US Marine released in Iran prisoner swap says he feels lucky, humbled to be free.
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 19, 2025VIDEO: Former U.S. Marine released by Iran appears in good health, Michigan congressman says: apne.ws/1Pe2Vl4
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The Associated Press (@AP) January 19, 2025****
The inside scoop on Obama’s long secret channel with Iran that led to today's deal. By @wrightr newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) January 16, 2025DETAILS: Islamic State confirms the death of 'Jihadi John' in airstrike: kvue.tv/23d3eRf
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KVUE News (@KVUE) January 19, 2025****
The fact that they approved this in the first place, just shows how f**ked up they are. Ditto for Jeb
Scholastic pulls children's book about George Washington and his Slaves after outcry huff.to/1ZvOqIK https://t.co/PMmTS4jcef
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HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) January 18, 2025Q: What shld govt do about police shootings in minority communities?
Jeb: "Most of the crimes are black on black" bit.ly/1n2X0TI
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Allegra Kirkland (@allegrakirkland) January 14, 2025****
WHOA
This quote from John Wayne's 1971 Playboy interview is something https://t.co/xGmnPh8LrL
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(@kept_simple) January 19, 2025John Wayne's family endorses Trump. That nails down the dead drunk racist vote.
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Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) January 19, 2025****
LOL…Yo, Bernie. You know she’s right
. @JoyAnnReid Best #DemsDebate Vine I've seen: vine.co/v/iOPAYu3ZFad
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Tyler Schrock (@TylerDSchrock) January 18, 2025Martin O'Malley at the #DemDebate like https://t.co/A4xQgIUSUk
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Henry Baumgart (@Baum__Diggity) January 18, 2025
Thanks for the tweets Nerdy.
Congrats COS….FURST!
Great Tweets as usual Nerdy. John Wayne was a well known racist pig. I think those comments were made then six years later he was dead. Good riddance. His daughter is right he would endorse Trump but then he would have endorsed any of those GOP buffoons.
Will never watch another racists bigot John Wayne movie. Probably alot more like John Wayne out there back then and now.
You’re welcome, COS.
Happy Tuesday……
Thanks Nerdy for the excellent compilation of info-tweets :)
But but but the Republicans told me that Obamacare was bad for the economy!
:)
Watching B.S. sending those “Bernning” daggers at HRC is so funny…….
YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT….AP RELEASE………………’CRUZ DONS FACE PAINT IN APPEAL TO HUNTERS,GUN OWNERS’…………………………………………..WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THAT PICTURE…I’M GOING TO GO AND TOSS MY DINNER NOW…ADIOS…AGAIN!
Wasn’t that from the new Duck Dynasty endorsement ad or something? Ugh.
gop: 4.5%? Just watch us double it.
voters: yay
Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much Nerdy!!
:)
Good evening TOD community! Great tweets. As always NW you are the best. You keep us so informed.
I don’t listen to Thom Hartmann anymore but I did today for just a little bit. I heard him say one of his concerns about Hillary is her getting indicted for something next year. I turned it then but I haven’t heard of anything new come up, have you? Still not excited about her but the longer I hear Bernie my disdain for him grows.
Concern trolling from a Bernie bot.
Exactly. There is NO chance that Clinton will be indicted - now those who should be indicted are very lucky that dems don’t even talk about same.
Also wish fulfillment, Mt. There is no “there there” in the whole faux e-mail scandal, but that doesn’t stop Hillary’s enemies from wishing there were.
Indeed, Bill R! Thom Hartman is one of the most vocal emoprog who loves Thomas Jefferson so much.
If I’m in my car, I usually ‘try’ to listen to Thom. However, that is becoming less and less! Much of the time, he is so full of himself and he is such a Bernie supporter…….getting further out of reality each day. Listened for just a few minutes and had to change it.
I use to admire him, but not anymore.
You’re welcome, MTMarilyn.
This is truth, 4 more. The Democratic Party is made up of a lot of local Democratic Committees. These local committees are as effective as the volunteers who work in them. There are limitless and important things you can do if you get involved.
And now we have Palin lending her infinite wisdom to the Trump camp….what a blessing.
2 Word salad specialists.
They speak a special language 😳
GE GGail.
You and @jonfavs are on the same page. ;)
Chips’ RT nails it:
Here’ the tweet Chips RT’d:
There’s a reason why Palin’s called “the Screech.”
She is also the “Quitter from Wasilla.” The moment she encountered some criticism she quit-halfway before he first term as Governor of Alaska was finished.
The thing is neither Palin or Trump know what they’re saying because neither one of them thinks clearly. They just open their mouths and let words flow out hoping that it will all have some vague general meaning to somebody. I honestly think Trump is too lazy to bother making sense and Palin wouldn’t know what sense was if it it hit her in the face.
It would be very satisfying to hit Palin in the face with some sense. Or anything, really. I’m not a violent woman, but a person can only stand so much.
She has grifted for 8 years on her 5 minutes of fame - and the media has assisted her money making endeavours - every step of the way. She raises money for political purposes and spends most of it raising it. Others have ended up in jail for less yet republications are too scared to attack her - I have no idea what hold she has on them - but John McCain well might know.
I think you’ve nailed them both quite well Jackie.
Hi there Arapaho. The language of an uneducated fool.
Didn’t she attend five Collages/Universities before earning a Bechelor’s degree? You would think she learned something from any of those institutions of higher learning. Ironically, If I am not mistaken, she finally received a B.A. In Journalism from some College/University in Idaho. She fits in perfectly with the current crop of the so called journalists- and especially those of the WHPC who ask stupid questions everyday.
Amen.
Calling the BLM protesters dogs, what a christian thing to do. What christian love she is showing..
nearly 60 MILLION republicans voted for this insane grifter to be one heartbeat from the presidency. all republicans you know are the problem:
And she’s next to another clown who is a candidate for President of the U.S. - This is the US media fawning to the GOP.
Fantastic economic news!
What the heck was Scholastic thinking???
I always despised John Wayne, even though I did not know he was such a racist pig
I am really getting tired of Sanders.
Thank you, Nerdy
Mary, Wayne played so-called tough guy, patriotic roles in the movies and some people confused the role with the actor. In reality, he never served his country and found ways to stay out of WWII when a lot of other A level stars put their careers on hold to sign up-Jimmy Stuart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, to name a few. I never got the Wayne mystic and I certainly never realized the depth of his racism.
I never liked all that super-patriotism.
It amazes me how people think President Obama show solve racism, that has never been put on a white President. And no I didn’t know John Wayne was such a racists either.
incredible any white “progressive” would still be saying this after all these years. as if massive investment in ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA, the democratic party, and barnstorming across the country for all kinds of candidates wasn’t “enough” for these clowns:
not to mention avoiding any scandals and family dramas. we here of course know what’s really driving these ideas of the privileged progressives.
Bulls—! So the state and local level is his responsibility too?!?! And then they would run away from him? S—!!! I’ve had a bad day and this crap puts me over the edge. 😭😭😭😭😭
GE 4morefor44, TNmtnGirl.
Don’t follow these tweople, but if you’re gonna blame any Dem, please blame DNC and #FeelTheBern emoprogs who are so self-important they don’t believe in GOTV, aka democracy.
NUFF SAID….you can’t get your a$$ up and vote then have a glass of poison water……on Snyder.
Well, actually, it did us no good when we did vote. There was a referendum on the emergency financial manager law- whether we should have such a law or not- and the voters overwhelmingly voted against having an EFM law. So Snyder and his Republican legislature tweaked the law and passed it again in such a way that it can no longer be changed by referendum. Now, electing Snyder in the first place was a big mistake. But the Democratic challenger was a very weak candidate. Virtually no one knew anything about him. His reelection, well, I can’t explain that. But we did try and do something about EFMs and it got us exactly nowhere. (It is the EFM appointed by Snyder to control Flint that switched the water source).
GM Maryl1.
Thanks for the Michigan perspective — still don’t understand how blue Michigan elected Snyder twice (!), and why they don’t have inspiring Dem leaders, especially after having seen the debacle of having local control shifted to the corrupt emergency managers who care nothing about restoring solvency and leadership to the local community (saw most of Rachel Maddow’s reports a couple of years ago on this subject).
Here’s hoping an inspiring Dem will make him/herself known now, one who can lead your wonderful state out of the abyss it’s in now.
Michigan is sometimes blue and sometimes purple. We are pretty reliably blue nationally, but the ‘blueness’ resides in Wayne County (Detroit) and areas around Benton Harbor and Flint. The outlying areas of the state are pretty red. Detroit has lost so much in population that it’s influence is declining. I don’t know why they couldn’t have found another, more inspiring, candidate but there it is. I have no idea why Snyder was reelected. :P
I am sorry maryl1 that Flint & all of MI has been subjected to bad political leaders both DEM and GOP. You are like IL, in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t vote. However any DEM would have been better than a GOP Gov. I hope California learned it’s lesson from voting for any GOP Gov. ever….
Our previous Dem governor was pretty good. The Repub before her basically bankrupted the state. We have excellent Senators and some strong Representatives. There just didn’t seem to be anyone ‘groomed’ to follow Granholm. Lots of people blamed her for declining economic conditions, when the reality was the previous Republican governor, Engler, pretty much bankrupted the state and then we began to feel the downturn well before the rest of the country. Granholm did the best she could with a bad hand, but it would have taken a Democratic star to win. Snyder came off so mild and commonplace a lot of people were fooled. I wasn’t.
The Rude Pundit can go pound sand. The intense training that OFA brought to local Democratic parties in 2008 and 2012 transformed the way that those groups carried out elections. I saw first hand the difference between 2004 and 2008, in terms of the level of skill in voter outreach and GOTV. And that skill has been honed in every year since then in local elections. Do we always win? No. Can we overcome voter apathy? Not always. But we are all more professional because of the skills the Obama campaigns taught us.
amen!!
100% of the 2010 apathy and 2012 losses is due to Dems running away from PBO for no GD reason. I was with OFA at the local Dem voting to get OFA elected and the DEM establishment was too heavily represented. OFA people didn’t have a chance because the students and first timers had no time to be bothered about their futures.
I can’t remember what year it was that I learned John Wayne’s thoughts about black peoples, but from then on, I refused to watch anything he appeared in. And this was while he was still alive.
I was the same. I was so disappointed but I couldn’t watch anything he did after I read what he felt.
Yes, you understand Marilyn 😌
GGAIL, I learned of his racism in 1963. I was eighteen years. Ever since then, I stopped watching his movies.
I learned around the age of 5 or 6; was watching a JW movie on tv one Saturday morning — Uncle turned the tv off and held school… Needless to say, JW was never again on our tv…
Also love how Sarah Palin says “God bless the United States America.” Not “of America.” I’ve heard her say it before, so I’m guessing she thinks that’s the real name.
OMG.
Well, JO’B, Sarah probably skipped school the day they learned prepositions.
Ha! No doubt!
My question, Jackie G, is how was Sarah Palin able to earn a Bechelor’s Degree in Journalism?
Vice-President Biden convenes international leaders in cancer research, cancer treatment and data science to discuss potential opportunities to advance the pace of progress in the fight against cancer. Video Here: http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2016/sessions/cancer-moonshot-a-call-to-action
GE JER.
Loving the pool reports from Davos:
Here’s the link to this pool report:
Another pool report from Davos, to cleanse your minds after that sh*tstorm that captivated cable TV (Il Douche and Tundra Twit):
Hi there, arapaho415. Loved watching him speak at the World Economic Forum.
Jer, this mission has really energized our VP and given him a great undertaking to lead. If intelligence, determination, focus and sheer will can get it done, Joe Biden will do it.
I imagine it is a healing, purposeful project for him. Our President saw it as a wise way to both help our country and help his VP.
Yes! I love this photo of him, bringing his full complement of intellect, authority, and awesome skills to a project he feels passionate about. Though I had hoped to call him Mr President, I’m happy if he’s happy. For him, because he deserves it, and also, when he’s happy, it means really good stuff is happening! :)
Very, very sad and tragic news from Iowa today.
Concerned about the icy road conditions the as the Feb 1 caucus nears.
Very sad to hear of that tragic accident.
His family must be going through unimaginable pain. young. I’m so very sorry for their loss.
Gone so young and so suddenly.😞
Looking at the link - the GOPers as usual - are sending prayers. That seems to be their solution to each and any event. Not sure it will work on the world stage.
That’s terrible news and a great tragedy for the family of the victim. I hope the remaining staffers recover.
Ferguson, Baltimore …where was HRC? smdh!!!
she did chime in late…glad that she is not late here..
But the damage Sanders does wouldn’t stop there. He isn’t content to stop at just putting the bulk of the cost on the back of the middle class and gambling with Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, it turns out that he is also gunning for women’s health care. His plan would end insurance access to abortions, and possibly even jeopardize access to birth control.
Fortunately, BernieCare is going nowhere and he will not win the nomination. He didn’t help himself with this ill conceived proposal.
That’s soooo nasty. I lone it. :lol:
I mean love dammit!
“F” Glen Beck.
A little light entertainment to end your day.
And this is pretty funny and could really explain Trump’s whole campaign…
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/18/we-have-a-serious-problem
I just received an email from Mayor John!
😎
speaking of Palin
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sarah-palins-son-arrested-in-alaska-on-suspicion-of-domestic-violence/ar-BBorRr6?ocid=spartanntp
Family values
Fundraisers are held for natural disasters. The governor is trying to equate this to a natural disaster. The media and the GOP are blaming “both sides” - because - the GOP can do no wrong.
B.S., Talking Loud and Saying Nothing……He has nothing to offer people in dire need NOW how is he going to help people as President?
I’m still confused how someone who is not a democrat can run as a democrat - weird. In my world you have to belong to the party to be endorsed as a candidate by the party (we don’t have primaries).
Not sure if y’all saw this segment today, but it was inspirational. #GoNavy
Bernie Sanders is a communist who hides it very well, he has spent all those years in Washington not producing as he doesn’t believe any of it that’s why he wants to dismantle everything
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/20/early-bird-chat-642/