President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and First Daughter Sasha Obama touring the Balinese rice fields in Indonesia. pic.twitter.com/rHWeqoXcDf
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) June 26, 2025
Our beloved First Family and President Obama's sister's family hanging out in Bali. #Ubud #Bali #Indonesia pic.twitter.com/fvwLxc6ICD
Greetings from lovely Toronto, hope your weekend has been great and the week ahead blessed with good health and much success, trying to keep up in fits and starts hope everyone is well and enjoying life in spite of the orange pretzel on Pennsylvania Ave, off to catch up
Malia and Natasha have such a rich heritage by birth and connection: Irish, African (Kenya), American (Black and white), Indonesian, Maylasian Chinese Canadian. They have been to Cuba, 4 countries in South America, Italy (Rome and Milan), Spain, France, Russia, the UK, Germany, various African nations, China, and now Bali and Indonesia (I may have missed some). While I would have voted for Barack anyway, I was also very pleased at the idea of Black (I know they are mixed but in the US, Black trumps everything) girls being raised in the White House and having the types of experiences that they have had.
So glad that PBO has some time to soak in Indonesia, and could bring everyone in the family along.
IIRC, when PBO was in Indonesia while President, there were all sorts of things going on — volcano eruption and typhoon (?) which curtailed his visit there. 😦
Wikipedia tells me that Bali is majority-Hindu, and has some photos of the intriguing culture and breathtaking landscape.
Hope the girls know how fortunate they are, to have so many places on Earth as part of their heritage.
Hope everyone had a great weekend (it’s hotter than heck in SoCal now — too hot for me to hang out with my patio plants 😦 — just moved them into the shade and waiting for the sun to go down, hoping it’ll cool off.
DT: Russia please hack! Fox: Yay! DT: They didn't hack! Fox: Nope! DT: They did, Obama's fault! Fox: Yup! DT: I'm guilty! Fox: Not a crime! https://t.co/aVneohIi9E
— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) June 25, 2025
Fox's Brit Hume: Even if the Trump campaign did collude with Russia, “it’s not a crime” https://t.co/NeVTEJWMol
Brain Stokes Mitchell singing This Nearly Was Mine. It was just a few years ago, 2009 I think at Ted Kenndy’s memorial service, that I found out he was a singer. I remember him on Trapper John MD TV series.
Congratulations to Humanitarian Award winner @chancetherapper, who donated $1 million to Chicago public schools. Thank you Chano! #BETAwards pic.twitter.com/C8FZ8FmNW1
If we look at the GOP health care bill as NOT a health care bill but as a bill to give the wealthiest of Americans a Tax break….than it all makes perfect sense…it does not matter how many folks are hurt…the wealthiest of Americans will be ok…we have known for quite awhile that the GOP has disdain for Americans…but now white folks will learn that they have disdain for them as well….as their family members die…will that change their perspective…who knows….their racism is a believe system…it is in their DNA….they just might be willing to die if it means that they had to give up their whiteness…
Hey governors! Take those CSRs and spend them however you like!!
Indefensible: Senate bill would allow governors to spend their state's (reduced) Obamacare funding on whatever they want for whatever reason https://t.co/Ukr5X33Cut
Some of those Republican governors that bankrupted their states will no doubt spend that money to shore up their budgets only to find themselves in the same predicament later on down the line because their fucking economic theories are fucking insane.
One would think that nursing home chains would be instructing employees to call the contact numbers of their clients, telling them that Trumpcare would have Grandma and Grandpa kicked out.
.@realDonaldTrump who are the "snowflakes" again? u say ur tough, but not too tough on Russia or when challenged on Twitter pic.twitter.com/HuCxOWj3pz
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) June 25, 2025
Clint Watts is a wise, truthful patriot. That @realDonaldTrump blocked him, should tell America the truth about #ConManTraitorDonald. https://t.co/yqAk2iLRG5
And she’s still going to vote for the bill despite it making absolutely no sense to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Ladies and gentleman I present to you Susan Collins’ well known game of being totally outraged by something and then voting for whatever it is that she’s outraged about.
Sue, I found out if you put the title of the article in quotations in google search, then when it comes up you click on it, it bypasses the paywall. That’s what I do now. If you don’t put the title in quotes, then you get that wall. I hope this helps.
THANK YOU — so many articles I see on Twitter link to WaPo, and because of their limitation I rarely see the article (unless it’s on Windows 10 newsfeed).
Trump lost the pop vote by 2,868,691 votes Dems in the Senate won 24,001,570 more votes than GOP Sens Remind them of this fact this week. pic.twitter.com/nXabIjZZr2
I think my niece Mali has the best seats at #BETAwards. Arm's reach away from hip hop royalty. This show was her 12th bday gift. #coolaunt pic.twitter.com/24IzQXSSmD
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) June 26, 2025
Welp, there goes my "Cool Auntie" crown! It's yours, Queen. Well done. 😄👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/C28nQP2IV5
General Anatoly #Antonov, #Russia's new ambassador to #WashingtonDC is partly responsible for the war against #Ukraine & shooting down #MH17 pic.twitter.com/ITG89IhoIv
— GorseFires Collectif (@GorseFires) June 25, 2025
Maybe i have become too pessimistic about the people who identify as republicans. But this future hearing frightens me because I believe that the 5 conservative on the court will side with the homegrown demagogues & install the travel bandabire. I hope that I am wrong
Thank you so much meta! I needed that! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Hey Nerdy, if you catch this, would you consider this tweet thread as the subject of an upcoming TOD post, cause it is pure magic!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Senate Judiciary questions Jared Kushner security clearance
Rachel Maddow reports that the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has sent a letter to the FBI and the White House questioning Jared Kushner’s security clearance and Donald Trump’s role in his clearance process.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Russia 2016 cyberattacks seen as dry run for future elections
Ellen Nakashima, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about her reporting on Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. election and the Obama administration’s deliberations on retaliation.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Uptick in Russian visa requests ahead of 2016 election: WaPo
Ned Price, former NSC spokesman and senior director, shares with Rachel Maddow insights on the reporting by the Washington Post of an uptick in visa applications from Russia ahead of the 2016 electio
ALERT: This is a GO. RSVP for Capitol human chain event here (starts 5pm & keeps going), and RT the hell out of it! https://t.co/owOPg7fO0g https://t.co/6K7rP044bA
Called my senators. Left a message because, of course they aren’t answering their phones. Also asked Flake why he was spending time in CO at Koch Bros retreat and not giving Town Halls for the constituents of his state!! WE.SEE.YOU!
Read this from Justice Sotomayor's dissent in a closely-watched case about the separation of church and state: https://t.co/dn7xTz8CN7 pic.twitter.com/RqF2zdaFdZ
1/ I haven’t tweeted much about healthcare because it’s a painful subject for me. But it’s important, so let me tell you my story pic.twitter.com/n2kaC6tLI8
Wrote about this oath and the awful place this bill puts doctors/hospitals in…
BREAKING: American Medical Association slams Senate bill. "First, do no harm. The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels." pic.twitter.com/AClpmaCR48
1990 Roger Ailes ad for Sen. McConnell. Parents “almost went broke.” when Mitch had polio, so he fights for “decent, affordable health care” pic.twitter.com/vwUmJ61vmj
I know many of the Medicaid directors, Democrats and Republicans. I would listen to them. They are not political; they are pragmatic. https://t.co/BtOSMomycu
Last night I received my very first #HumanitarianAward, so proud to be honored for my work in Flint and anti-bullying #blessed pic.twitter.com/coIwXvpvLd
— Little Miss Flint (@LittleMissFlint) June 26, 2025
The jig: no conviction. Cities/taxpayers that can't afford it left to pay MILLIONS for police incompetence. But we don't need reform, tho. https://t.co/06sEeHobjd
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) June 26, 2025
Minnesota town offers settlement almost as large as its entire police budget in Philando Castile killing https://t.co/SJHWwDsCKS
#GOES16 captured this awesome visible imagery of Hurricane Dora spinning in the Pacific today. Latest storm info @ https://t.co/cSGOfrM0lG pic.twitter.com/iV3hv7iHED
love them in the Balinese Light!
They belong everywhere in the world they wish to go!
This is weird, but it feels like it was so long ago that we had this intelligent, decent, competent and trustworthy president.
Gosh yes!
It’s like a breath of fresh air and a moment to pretend they are still in office! Thanks Nerdy
My sentiments exactly, those glorious days
AN AWESOME PICTURE OF UNITED HAPPINESS………
Greetings from lovely Toronto, hope your weekend has been great and the week ahead blessed with good health and much success, trying to keep up in fits and starts hope everyone is well and enjoying life in spite of the orange pretzel on Pennsylvania Ave, off to catch up
Malia and Natasha have such a rich heritage by birth and connection: Irish, African (Kenya), American (Black and white), Indonesian, Maylasian Chinese Canadian. They have been to Cuba, 4 countries in South America, Italy (Rome and Milan), Spain, France, Russia, the UK, Germany, various African nations, China, and now Bali and Indonesia (I may have missed some). While I would have voted for Barack anyway, I was also very pleased at the idea of Black (I know they are mixed but in the US, Black trumps everything) girls being raised in the White House and having the types of experiences that they have had.
GE CEB.
So glad that PBO has some time to soak in Indonesia, and could bring everyone in the family along.
IIRC, when PBO was in Indonesia while President, there were all sorts of things going on — volcano eruption and typhoon (?) which curtailed his visit there. 😦
Wikipedia tells me that Bali is majority-Hindu, and has some photos of the intriguing culture and breathtaking landscape.
Hope the girls know how fortunate they are, to have so many places on Earth as part of their heritage.
A couple of days ago Dudette posted some tweets about Justin Trudeau’s socks…
Ha! PM JT is so cool! 😍
Hope everyone had a great weekend (it’s hotter than heck in SoCal now — too hot for me to hang out with my patio plants 😦 — just moved them into the shade and waiting for the sun to go down, hoping it’ll cool off.
Here’s more this turn of events:
EGG-ZACKLY!!! RONTFLMAO!!
Breath of fresh air - thank you Nerdy
Hang in there, TOD ….
…. and, goodnight ….
You, too, Bob - and goodnight, TODville!
Love love loved that whooooole movie’
Brain Stokes Mitchell singing This Nearly Was Mine. It was just a few years ago, 2009 I think at Ted Kenndy’s memorial service, that I found out he was a singer. I remember him on Trapper John MD TV series.
Yes, yes! Excellent pick! 👏🏾
By the way, BSM isn’t just a singer, he is Broadway royalty! 😀
So true. One day I hope to see him live I think he has one of the most beautiful.
Found this!
Bali welcomes Obama and Najib
A lovely tourism video of Bali
Published on Jun 23, 2025
The best of the Beautiful Island of Bali, Indonesia.
Locations in the video: Sanur (0:01), Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud (0:22), Pura Taman Ayun (0:35), Pura Ulun Danu Bratan (1:07), Jatiluwih Rice Terraces (1:48), Tanah Lot (2:52), Goa Gajah (3:50), Pura Ulun Danu Batur (4:22), Pura Besakih (5:56), Taman Gili (7:21), Gunung Kawi (7:52), Pura Tirta Empul (8:41), Monkey Forest, Ubud (9:50), Pura Luhur Uluwatu (10:53).
Simply gorgeous, Dudette, great find!
Relaxing send off to the Land of Nod for me (hasn’t cooled off much here, unfortunately, outside thermometer reads 76F 😦 ).
Love the lotus. 😀
Wishing you more cool, Arapaho! 🙂
For.Ever!
Morning everyone….can’t be on vacation without hooked up WiFi:) I’m on vacation, first stop of 3….near a beach:) Happy Day!
Have marvelous time, df. You deserve it!🍹
Have * a * marvelous time! [Ugh! I’m so sorry!] 🙄
CBO score comes out today. What to look for.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/06/26/reading-the-bcra-cbo-score/
So much winning
Welp, we’ll see just how much they care about the “small business owner like Joe the fake plumber.”
If we look at the GOP health care bill as NOT a health care bill but as a bill to give the wealthiest of Americans a Tax break….than it all makes perfect sense…it does not matter how many folks are hurt…the wealthiest of Americans will be ok…we have known for quite awhile that the GOP has disdain for Americans…but now white folks will learn that they have disdain for them as well….as their family members die…will that change their perspective…who knows….their racism is a believe system…it is in their DNA….they just might be willing to die if it means that they had to give up their whiteness…
Good morning, good people. I hope this new Monday is a good one!
Please encourage all in your circle to to keep calling, keep making your voices heard. The GOP must face their malfeasance.
I’m on vacation, but I will call and write today. Then make them sorry they ever thought they could do this to the American people. Little fuckers
Thanks so much, df. And a very happy vacation to you.
What an adventure!
😍
Hey governors! Take those CSRs and spend them however you like!!
Some of those Republican governors that bankrupted their states will no doubt spend that money to shore up their budgets only to find themselves in the same predicament later on down the line because their fucking economic theories are fucking insane.
I love these pictures, good morning everyone.
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
Lovely to see the forever First Family ❤️
Yes GGail, it is so lovely to see our forever First Family.
PBO WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID HE MIGHT BE OUR LAST PRESIDENT..LOL……….DANCING ABOVE THE DUNG!..WHEN THEY GO LOW..WE GO HIGH!
One would think that nursing home chains would be instructing employees to call the contact numbers of their clients, telling them that Trumpcare would have Grandma and Grandpa kicked out.
And she’s still going to vote for the bill despite it making absolutely no sense to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Ladies and gentleman I present to you Susan Collins’ well known game of being totally outraged by something and then voting for whatever it is that she’s outraged about.
The screws tighten.
I DON’T USE WASH. POST..THEY CHARGE FOR CONTENT AND I’M NOT DOING THAT…
Sue, I found out if you put the title of the article in quotations in google search, then when it comes up you click on it, it bypasses the paywall. That’s what I do now. If you don’t put the title in quotes, then you get that wall. I hope this helps.
GA Betsy.
THANK YOU — so many articles I see on Twitter link to WaPo, and because of their limitation I rarely see the article (unless it’s on Windows 10 newsfeed).
Will try my luck with this method soon!
THANK YOU BETSY..:) FOR THE TIP…I’VE BEEN PASSING ON WP.WILL GIVE YOUR ADVICE A TRY..BLESS YOU!
I LOVE THESE RAFTING PHOTOS..UNFORTUNATELY MY ACTION IS INTERRUPTED BY A BROKEN SHOULDER THAT WON’T HEAL …SINCE DECEMBER 20TH…
Good Morning! 🌻🌼🌺🌸🌷
Hmmmm……….
Hmmmm…….thanks, JER!!
OMG! She liked it! She really Liked it! 😆
Squeeeeee!
Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito
I wonder what was Roberts reasoning for agreeing with this order?
I was surprised by that, too.
Welp, coming to a theater near you in October……..
Maybe i have become too pessimistic about the people who identify as republicans. But this future hearing frightens me because I believe that the 5 conservative on the court will side with the homegrown demagogues & install the travel bandabire. I hope that I am wrong
Ooops, Travel ban😀 autocorrect added the other word from my language. FYI it means greetings to them 😀 thank heavens it was not an embarrassing word
You have a right to be pessimistic. Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch have already stated their support for Trump’s ban. What is happening is INSANE.
“Wild” isn’t the word I would use.
Cody’s thread will lift your spirits:
Thank you so much meta! I needed that! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Hey Nerdy, if you catch this, would you consider this tweet thread as the subject of an upcoming TOD post, cause it is pure magic!
Thank you meta…..we (I) need these reminders that Progress (with hard work) can happen…in these days of trial and tribulation…we must remember that
one my fav tweets from the thread
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
“…ask actual DEMOCRATS about how democrats can move forward and the plans on how to do it.”
What a concept!!!
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS IN GOD’S HANDS..MAN CANNOT DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HIM!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Senate Judiciary questions Jared Kushner security clearance
Rachel Maddow reports that the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has sent a letter to the FBI and the White House questioning Jared Kushner’s security clearance and Donald Trump’s role in his clearance process.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Russia 2016 cyberattacks seen as dry run for future elections
Ellen Nakashima, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about her reporting on Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. election and the Obama administration’s deliberations on retaliation.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/23/17
Uptick in Russian visa requests ahead of 2016 election: WaPo
Ned Price, former NSC spokesman and senior director, shares with Rachel Maddow insights on the reporting by the Washington Post of an uptick in visa applications from Russia ahead of the 2016 electio
Amen to this.
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Hey Arapaho, check it out! PM JT’s socks weren’t just rainbow socks. They were rainbow Eid Mubarak socks! Epic!!! 😎
For real though.
Can we borrow him? I love him.
I know, right? 😍
LOL, love it!
(Catching up now, after new thread has opened up.)
Thanks for keeping us up to date on PM Trudeau’s socks!
😉
UGH, the three amigos
Called my senators. Left a message because, of course they aren’t answering their phones. Also asked Flake why he was spending time in CO at Koch Bros retreat and not giving Town Halls for the constituents of his state!! WE.SEE.YOU!
https://malaysiandisgest.com/world/683087-michelle-obama-to-visit-seoul-for-1st-time.html
Fear/ignorance rules
Must be a drug for that
Cat food, in honor of what your constituents will have to eat if you all vote for this mess! ???
Good
This may have been posted … but here’s what hope and change look like (thread):
🙂 So they will do as much damage as humanly possible before they go. A big FU to America. Got it. Don’t bend over for soap, asshole…or do.
😆😆😆
Teehee! 😄
“You mean you have my balls in a vice, like this?”
LOLz
😆
Thread
Perfect, Dudette. Can you send this to Republicans? They need a dose of reality to go with that vindictive/cruel/mean juice they drink..
Wrote about this oath and the awful place this bill puts doctors/hospitals in…
Share widely…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/06/26/the-time-is-now-5/
Truly!
WOW
Whoa!