Pete’s admiration clearly comes through in each word he uses to describe PBO. I am so touched and glad he was chosen to be the recorder of this Administration.
JoyReid’s #AMJoy ScoresBiggest Audience in its TimeSlot inMSNBC History https://t.co/3aULi9r1Ix Congrats @amjoyshow NO 1 Deserves THIS MORE! pic.twitter.com/XdzclrNTnS
President Barack Obama aka Badass Commander-In-Chief.https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/CFJBXmIhxC
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
President Obama dictates his SOTU address. What a privilege to have had such a brilliant mind for 8 years.https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/bEPsRJMdpH
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
President Obama helps Personal Aide Ferial Govashiri practice her wedding dance.
A generous kind man.https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/VWsyMuISKY
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
No one can ever take away how important and special it was to have President Barack Obama as our first Black POTUShttps://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/1deuR1LfAC
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
Vice President Joe Biden - Best Vice President EVER.
No contest.https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/d12nmtEMmz
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
Vice President Joe Biden surprises President Barack Obama with some birthday cupcakes.
Our First Family visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (@NMAAHC)https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/8JfI1Janx5
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
President Obama aka Nerd In Chief watches a virtual reality video of his visit to Yosemite. #FindYourParkhttps://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/h69ie8XIBR
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 30, 2025
First Daughter Malia Obama acts as a Spanish interpreter for her dad, President Obama during the trip to Cuba.https://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/c3YAYhAiKP
What a privilege it has been to have a thinking, compassionate, intelligent POTUS for 8 years.#ThanksObamahttps://t.co/f9bpLx2BFL pic.twitter.com/XM1ZJfrMLB
I could only see half or little more of the pictures (from the link on last thread). I kept scrolling and only got muted colors but nothing eve close to a picture. Could read the description but no picture. Hope I can see them from another link. What a family!!!! We have been blessed more than we deserve.
Good day TOD Family! Vetivera Congratulations on FIRST! NerdyWonka, another day of greatness and generosity and brilliance in curation and commentary. How do you do TOD AND also rock Twitter in the most brilliant badass thoughtful varied and irresistible way. It’s impossibly wonderful and good. HOW??? Thank you.
Nerdy, thank you so much for maintaining this space and posting the lovely photos. It is one of the few things keeping me sane these days. You have done so much in these months, and we are so grateful to you.
Beautifully said Foxfire TX! Same here. The sanctuary, the hearth, the kitchen table, the comfy sofa where good people are gathered. Today’s tweets with pix are good medicine and sweet treats.
Snowden’s bigger problem is that Putin now has a more powerful useful idiot. Snowden is a liability to Putin’s bromance with Trump. https://t.co/gRwC3HJahc
Today, I worry we may be watching rise of illiberal democracy in US, something that should concern anyone: My column https://t.co/6AjZ8YiEXY
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) December 30, 2025
“What stunned me as this process unfolded was that laws and rules did little to stop this descent. Many countries had adopted fine constitutions, put in place elaborate checks and balances, and followed best practices from the advanced world. But in the end, liberal democracy was eroded anyway. It turns out that what sustains democracy is not simply legal safeguards and rules, but norms and practices — democratic behavior. This culture of liberal democracy is waning in the United States today.”
good grief 53,828 people “liked” that ignorant, pathetic tweet… and might I add- very Unpatriotic- you fine upstanding republican patriots. Hypocrites all.
Lots of helicopters flying overhead (guessing news media) as the Russian Consulate staff are being escorted out of the building about a 1/2 mile away………
The head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) personally ordered that the agency praise President-elect Donald Trump through its official Twitter account, according to emails obtained by The Daily Dot in a Freedom of Information Act request. The contrversial series of tweets were in response to Trump’s promises to reduce the conflicts of interest between his soon-to-be role as president and his current role as chief executive of the Trump Organization. The email obtained by The Daily Dot shows that Walter M. Shaub personally ordered the exact wording of each tweet, writing: “Post the following tweets. I would like them posted first thing—8:30 if possible or as soon as possible thereafter. Post them all at once.” The tweets included the phrases, “Brilliant!” “Good call!” “Right decision!” and “Bravo!” Trump has faced questions about how he will separate his business interests from his work as president, but has yet to hold a press conference to answer for those concerns.
Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont
Source: Washington Post
A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.
While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who asked for anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nations electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability. Government and utility industry officials regularly monitor the nations electrical grid because it is highly computerized and any disruptions can have disastrous implications for the function of medical and emergency services.
American officials, including one senior administration official, said they are not yet sure what the intentions of the Russians might have been. The penetration may have been designed to disrupt the utilitys operations or as a test by the Russians to see whether they could penetrate a portion of the grid. Federal officials have shared the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe with utility executives nationwide, a senior administration official said, and Vermont utility officials identified it within their operations.
According to a report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, the hackers involved in the Russian operation used fraudulent emails that tricked their recipients into revealing passwords.
most of us always knew that republicans & their home-grown demagogue can do the most extreme things to get and preserve power.
but with each new steps, we get even more astonished at how brazen they can be.
I am now very close to going past the anger stage, and will be headed to the vengeful stage … not a proud moment for me personally and certainly not for the Franciscan nuns who helped in nurturing my soul.
Yes, PBO & FLOTUS, I know you expect me to go high …. but it is getting very hard now => the current behavior of most is disgusting and the policies they are planning to enact are heinous … where does one find any positive thing to say about the gop & the scoundrel they imposed on us???
ok, it is important to explain that the vengeful part does not include any form of physical violence or harassment;
I mean that I am one of those people who becomes very competitive when a challenge is placed in front of me … so my vengeance will be doing ALL I can to make sure that the gop loses that people that its members are using to intimidate and deprive people of their basic human rights and survival
21 January 2025 is taking shape as the defeat of a super power & democracy beyond any event in human history ….
@docrocktex26 which constitutes an #ActOfWar by Putin. Inaugurating Trump will conclude a bloodless coup unprecedented in human history.
— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) December 31, 2025
It’s just what it is.
Daily, I’m ever more impressed by how many folk are sleep walking their way to an event that Jefferson Davis, Hitler, Stalin, Osama bin Laden …. could have ever imagined doing to the United States of America ….. without ONE SINGLE SHOT ….
Do you suppose that behind the scenes that our intelligence services are connecting the dots and finding the source of the Bromance of Putin/Trump so we can dispense with the pleasantries and nail his sorry ass to the wall before its too late?
Although I detest McCain and the horse he rode in on, and every thought in his damn head because of how he treated “that one,” I’m thinking he’ll have some impact as he continues his anti-Trump involvement - which is all pay back for the last decade or so of his not getting to be Prez, from my POV. But, you know, he’s playing with the rough crowd now and could turn up dead. Hope he has extra protection along, as he and Graham and Amy K are out visiting NATO allies. Hope they all do. I think you know I’m not just being paranoid.
I appreciate that he’s voicing his disapproval…HOWEVER, I really feel that he should have come out against this sham election from the start. It’s good for him to agree with the sanctions etc…but he never disavowed the legitimacy of this election. That bothers me.
Oh, yes, of course - bothers me, too. He’s filled with hate, and as long as he now directs it against Trump, McCain might suddenly serve a purpose for a change - he hasn’t in a decade and a half, IMO.
A constitution is not a guarantee against authoritarianism. Ask ppl of Germany in 1930s or recently Turkey. Both countries had constitutions https://t.co/fnbT9okc53
— A Once Great Nation (@USARedOrchestra) December 31, 2025
🙂 People basically have the same fears and concerns as we do…We need to not be paralyzed by our fear though…we need to get outraged OUT LOUD and make demands of our elected officials. Time for taking our country back. FOR REAL.
Not yet, but I’ll keep that in mind:) Wish I could do more than just pay attention and fight back online, and contribute a little to a few organizations. Have to watch myself otherwise because I’ve already had a “bad Trump dream” in the middle of an afternoon nap! Gotta keep calm and my head straight.
Heard this on the radio too — not a hack, WaPo peddling unconfirmed info, apparently.
Apparently hackers just breached a *non-grid-connected* laptop owned by the public utility Burlington Electric. https://t.co/R24rX7hcqi pic.twitter.com/wEIdFrSGIy
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) December 31, 2025
Statement from the Burlington utility, per that BFP story. pic.twitter.com/25cHENWh0a
If we could guarantee that’s all he did in Russia, I’d say all is forgiven if he agrees not to be inaugurated. Go back to your ruined organization with your ruined reputation (as though you had a good one). Unfortunately, whatever they have on him is gonna be deeper than this and hurt our country - in addition to how we’ve already been hurt - and his a$$ will be needing to do some time in a federal prison. Or the Russians will do away with him, and we’ll be at war.
Excuse the head on the right in the pic, but otherwise this captures things.
Crude, ignorant, vindictive, unpredictable and treasonous is the new "being presidential" replacing dedicated, dignity, and knowledge. pic.twitter.com/1HoWybYdXK
For nightowls… our democracy hinges on the action of our elected officials in Congress.
Good thread. Bad news: this exact metaphor was applied to describe how Mussolini & Hitler behaved in immediate years after assuming power https://t.co/o9Y6Gr4oya
— Elias Itzkovitz (@eliasisquith) December 31, 2025
3. Trump's entire campaign & post-election behaviour has been all about testing boundaries: seeing what voters & GOP will put up with.
among all the thoughts that I am have been having about the election of the home-grown demagogue, two stand out:
- although many have an appreciation of the enormity of what occurred during this election, the fact that so many gop voters & their elected republicans are defending these events, creates a huge handicap of what can be done;
- of all people, SoS HRC is one person who was involved in the:
(a) resignation of Nixon as young girl & also with the …
(b) republicans impeachment of her husband.
Unfortunately she is the candidate who was robbed of her win this time. therefore, she cannot publically say anything without being labelled a sore loser.
ps: I do not want the gop to bring up the subject (that is why my comment is here & not other places) …. but I have been wondering why SoS HRC’s connection to the investigation of Nixon has not been widely discussed during this time.
White House.gov
Good morning TOD folks! Thank you 🤓 Nerdy.
Loving and inspiring interview….i loved it…esp when the children asked questions
ty NW for your clear and unyielding resistance to the BS that ever threatens to over take us….
((huggs))
Pete’s admiration clearly comes through in each word he uses to describe PBO. I am so touched and glad he was chosen to be the recorder of this Administration.
I want the Dems to fight and fight to the bitter end.
yep me too, Bella.
The author calls Sanders a Democrat…i know that was not a mistake…he is not a democrat
Propane Jane is spot-on! All the time Trump was talking about the election being rigged he was projecting what he and Putin were scheming to do.
Right On!
One person’s journey to be active…via OFA. Just Do It.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/12/30/do-something/
I love these Nerdy! Especially PBO in mountain pose. Thank you!
I could only see half or little more of the pictures (from the link on last thread). I kept scrolling and only got muted colors but nothing eve close to a picture. Could read the description but no picture. Hope I can see them from another link. What a family!!!! We have been blessed more than we deserve.
Nerdy,
You are the best. Thank you. For everything.😎😎😎
❤🌹🙏🏻🌹❤
Good day TOD Family! Vetivera Congratulations on FIRST! NerdyWonka, another day of greatness and generosity and brilliance in curation and commentary. How do you do TOD AND also rock Twitter in the most brilliant badass thoughtful varied and irresistible way. It’s impossibly wonderful and good. HOW??? Thank you.
I love watching the interview of the First Couple with People Magazine. I watch it last night and enjoy it so much.
Interesting…
Nerdy, thank you so much for maintaining this space and posting the lovely photos. It is one of the few things keeping me sane these days. You have done so much in these months, and we are so grateful to you.
Beautifully said Foxfire TX! Same here. The sanctuary, the hearth, the kitchen table, the comfy sofa where good people are gathered. Today’s tweets with pix are good medicine and sweet treats.
Yes, yes, yes! Nerdy, Chips, and all who create the homespace here-mahalo nui loa❤
Trump praises Putin for response to U.S. sanctions and spy expulsion: “I always knew he was very smart!” http://nydn.us/2iyomzi
“What stunned me as this process unfolded was that laws and rules did little to stop this descent. Many countries had adopted fine constitutions, put in place elaborate checks and balances, and followed best practices from the advanced world. But in the end, liberal democracy was eroded anyway. It turns out that what sustains democracy is not simply legal safeguards and rules, but norms and practices — democratic behavior. This culture of liberal democracy is waning in the United States today.”
There is something very, very wrong here.
When i get tired of volunteering for Dems & subsequent elections, i will think of this statement. It will be a key motivator or morale booster
good grief 53,828 people “liked” that ignorant, pathetic tweet… and might I add- very Unpatriotic- you fine upstanding republican patriots. Hypocrites all.
Lots of helicopters flying overhead (guessing news media) as the Russian Consulate staff are being escorted out of the building about a 1/2 mile away………
Wow. “This is not normal,” as the current saying goes.
No, not normal at all.
Adios, punks.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/30/emails-gov-t-ethics-chief-ordered-tweets-praising-trump.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
The head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) personally ordered that the agency praise President-elect Donald Trump through its official Twitter account, according to emails obtained by The Daily Dot in a Freedom of Information Act request. The contrversial series of tweets were in response to Trump’s promises to reduce the conflicts of interest between his soon-to-be role as president and his current role as chief executive of the Trump Organization. The email obtained by The Daily Dot shows that Walter M. Shaub personally ordered the exact wording of each tweet, writing: “Post the following tweets. I would like them posted first thing—8:30 if possible or as soon as possible thereafter. Post them all at once.” The tweets included the phrases, “Brilliant!” “Good call!” “Right decision!” and “Bravo!” Trump has faced questions about how he will separate his business interests from his work as president, but has yet to hold a press conference to answer for those concerns.
I love this OGE head!
Speak Out! Be Active! They want to take EVERYTHING from us!
So this is the vision shithead has for America? This is the guy he praises?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-way/
Has anyone heard from Alycee recently? Wonder every now and then how she and Dudette are doing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141652265
Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont
Source: Washington Post
A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.
While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who asked for anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nations electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability. Government and utility industry officials regularly monitor the nations electrical grid because it is highly computerized and any disruptions can have disastrous implications for the function of medical and emergency services.
American officials, including one senior administration official, said they are not yet sure what the intentions of the Russians might have been. The penetration may have been designed to disrupt the utilitys operations or as a test by the Russians to see whether they could penetrate a portion of the grid. Federal officials have shared the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe with utility executives nationwide, a senior administration official said, and Vermont utility officials identified it within their operations.
According to a report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, the hackers involved in the Russian operation used fraudulent emails that tricked their recipients into revealing passwords.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
Keep right on walking into that trap, GOP.
most of us always knew that republicans & their home-grown demagogue can do the most extreme things to get and preserve power.
but with each new steps, we get even more astonished at how brazen they can be.
I am now very close to going past the anger stage, and will be headed to the vengeful stage … not a proud moment for me personally and certainly not for the Franciscan nuns who helped in nurturing my soul.
Yes, PBO & FLOTUS, I know you expect me to go high …. but it is getting very hard now => the current behavior of most is disgusting and the policies they are planning to enact are heinous … where does one find any positive thing to say about the gop & the scoundrel they imposed on us???
ok, it is important to explain that the vengeful part does not include any form of physical violence or harassment;
I mean that I am one of those people who becomes very competitive when a challenge is placed in front of me … so my vengeance will be doing ALL I can to make sure that the gop loses that people that its members are using to intimidate and deprive people of their basic human rights and survival
see, I can’t even write correctly, “loses that power” not people
Well said, Linda!
Have we celebrated this number recently? Congrats to you, Nerdy Wonka and Chips!
37,509,458 hits
21 January 2025 is taking shape as the defeat of a super power & democracy beyond any event in human history ….
It’s just what it is.
Daily, I’m ever more impressed by how many folk are sleep walking their way to an event that Jefferson Davis, Hitler, Stalin, Osama bin Laden …. could have ever imagined doing to the United States of America ….. without ONE SINGLE SHOT ….
EVERY.WORD.TRUTH. 😫😥😫😥. I get more scared every.day. Feel helpless and hopeless.
So damn true !
Anyone not terrified, by now, is either brain dead or a big fan of totalitarian fascism, Tnmtngirl & edp4bho!
what ideas do you have about what the possible remedies are?
I feel very powerless as person and extremely fearful of the present and future
Man 2016 has NO CHILL. Cali’s first dog, Sutter Brown gone today. Such a lil cutie.
This is our Governor’s doggie.. 😦
So sad. I know what that hurt feels like. My condolences to the Governor and his family.
Wow, he will be sorely missed in the Capitol bldg.
Do you suppose that behind the scenes that our intelligence services are connecting the dots and finding the source of the Bromance of Putin/Trump so we can dispense with the pleasantries and nail his sorry ass to the wall before its too late?
I’m thinking deals are being made behind the scenes, left and right, to find out. It’s the only hope we have.
God I hope so.
Although I detest McCain and the horse he rode in on, and every thought in his damn head because of how he treated “that one,” I’m thinking he’ll have some impact as he continues his anti-Trump involvement - which is all pay back for the last decade or so of his not getting to be Prez, from my POV. But, you know, he’s playing with the rough crowd now and could turn up dead. Hope he has extra protection along, as he and Graham and Amy K are out visiting NATO allies. Hope they all do. I think you know I’m not just being paranoid.
I appreciate that he’s voicing his disapproval…HOWEVER, I really feel that he should have come out against this sham election from the start. It’s good for him to agree with the sanctions etc…but he never disavowed the legitimacy of this election. That bothers me.
Oh, yes, of course - bothers me, too. He’s filled with hate, and as long as he now directs it against Trump, McCain might suddenly serve a purpose for a change - he hasn’t in a decade and a half, IMO.
Agreed:)
thanks!
What he has wrought
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/chandler/police-investigating-after-chandler-menorah-turned-into-swastika
He and his followers. Awful.
THE PERFECT ANALOGY: MJ retires and the Bulls replace him with Lumpy Rutherford.
(OMG, Eff me in the heart.)
How quickly lives can be turned around. That’s why we’re all in shock about it. Hope we get it resolved. #Resist
Bingo. That’s what I think!
First, T-rump is too dumb to hide it (which further feeds into what Putin wants). Second, how and why was he turned? And, good lord, what’s next.
Read the thread
Okay.
🙂 People basically have the same fears and concerns as we do…We need to not be paralyzed by our fear though…we need to get outraged OUT LOUD and make demands of our elected officials. Time for taking our country back. FOR REAL.
Sure is. Read the thread for as long as I could stand it … awful.
Do you feel a poem bubbling up? You could really be impactful:)
Not yet, but I’ll keep that in mind:) Wish I could do more than just pay attention and fight back online, and contribute a little to a few organizations. Have to watch myself otherwise because I’ve already had a “bad Trump dream” in the middle of an afternoon nap! Gotta keep calm and my head straight.
Hard to do, isn’t it?
It is. Right there with you, sister. Wake in the night. Have day terrors…little panic attacks. Not ok. We have to channel this to good use…
(Forget the Trump reference.) This is a beautiful way to describe President Obama.
It’s called BEING RESPECTFUL. Never will see another like him. Another reason for my panic.
GE JER.
Heard this on the radio too — not a hack, WaPo peddling unconfirmed info, apparently.
Good guess
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/308511/trump-sex-tape-russian-orgy-rumor-mother-jones/?utm_source=share-tw&utm_medium=button
Makes more sense to me than I’d like it to. His past history will lend credence to this being plausible.
If we could guarantee that’s all he did in Russia, I’d say all is forgiven if he agrees not to be inaugurated. Go back to your ruined organization with your ruined reputation (as though you had a good one). Unfortunately, whatever they have on him is gonna be deeper than this and hurt our country - in addition to how we’ve already been hurt - and his a$$ will be needing to do some time in a federal prison. Or the Russians will do away with him, and we’ll be at war.
Excuse the head on the right in the pic, but otherwise this captures things.
Smile!
GE TODville.
For nightowls… our democracy hinges on the action of our elected officials in Congress.
Good night, TOD… only one more day left in this (deplorable) year.
Goodnight, Arapaho - Happy New Year’s Eve (when we all get there)!
Goodnight TOD ….
…. unfortunately, none of this is a nightmare, it’s reality ….
among all the thoughts that I am have been having about the election of the home-grown demagogue, two stand out:
- although many have an appreciation of the enormity of what occurred during this election, the fact that so many gop voters & their elected republicans are defending these events, creates a huge handicap of what can be done;
- of all people, SoS HRC is one person who was involved in the:
(a) resignation of Nixon as young girl & also with the …
(b) republicans impeachment of her husband.
Unfortunately she is the candidate who was robbed of her win this time. therefore, she cannot publically say anything without being labelled a sore loser.
ps: I do not want the gop to bring up the subject (that is why my comment is here & not other places) …. but I have been wondering why SoS HRC’s connection to the investigation of Nixon has not been widely discussed during this time.