Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you find a proverb, a scripture, or a philosophical creed, and write it on the tablet of your heart, recite it often, and work to live your life by it everyday. ❤ ❤ ❤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Hey Dudette, the other week when you were posting pictures and videos of the wonderful Lena Horne, I finally remember the name of Lola Falana, who I was crazy about when I was 10yrs old. 😂😂😂
Hello TODable TODbots.
Congrats to DF for your Au ⭐ & Ag ⭐ as well. 😉
Thanks, NW…… 🍸 Obrigada!
{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}
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Stormy Weather was more like it early this AM, after Midnight.
Humid & Dull now.
Saw this earlier, and added to my thread (which I’ve posted here before, but good reminders in the thread):
From early April:
pic.twitter.com/gc5dth0oV4
— Lilac (@PrplLilac) April 1, 2025
10/ Circling back to @Forbes Nov 2016 (see first tweet in this thead): "Kushner eventually tipped the states that swung the election."
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) April 3, 2025
6/ An unnamed Obama Adm. official said the third step in Russian interference would be for Russia to "download the online voter rolls." pic.twitter.com/EKUz9pUvQb
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) April 3, 2025
8/ can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters." (i.e., #RussianbotsDeliverNewsToYou)https://t.co/mEJ38uemxY
Donald Trump Jr. Was So Far Out of His League
by Martin Longman
July 12, 2025 2:54 PM
If, as seems likely, Julia Ioffe is correct that Yury Chaika, the prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation, is the “Crown Prosecutor” referred to in Donald Trump Jr.’s email chain, everyone involved should be concerned about their physical safety.
According to Ioffe, Chaika should be considered the Russian equivalent of Jeff Sessions, the U.S. Attorney General. That might not seem so scary, but Russia’s government is so violent and so intertwined with organized crime, that crossing their Attorney General is a perilous decision.
This is important for understanding why Rob Goldstone is insisting without the remotest plausibility that he was referring in his email to Trump Jr. to Natalia Veselnitskaya when he said that “the Crown prosecutor of Russia met with … Aras [Agalarov] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.”
Put simply, Mr. Goldstone doesn’t want to be killed and if he confirmed that he was referring to Mr. Chaika his death would be a distinct possibility.
Decided I'm going to spend next week in 2 places: Washington, DC and Nevada. https://t.co/J5gumnwNmP
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) July 12, 2025
Had a great meeting in Las Vegas last week w/ leaders in the healthcare community. I remain committed to finding solutions that work for #NV pic.twitter.com/O4N7EDYLWx
If the Kremlin ever turns on Trump, it won't be on the main news first, or all at once. They want protracted chaos, not a clean resolution. https://t.co/FC1n5TYimO
This is the biggest line of absolute bullshit EVER! Hillary had Putin’s number. He was terrified of her. She was too smart for him. He’s so desperate. What a pathetic pos he is.
I’m sure he thinks this is what success would look like.
The nonpartisan analysis also finds Trump tax cuts would give the poor $40 each on average & the ultra-rich $937,700 https://t.co/jmk8hSOLhg https://t.co/b1uJbpvq80
The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material. Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York lawyer whom President Donald Trump has hired to defend him in these inquiries, told ProPublica through a spokesman that he does not have a security clearance — the prerequisite for access to government secrets. Nor does he expect to seek one.
Several lawyers who have represented presidents and senior government officials said they could not imagine handling a case so suffused with sensitive material without a clearance.
“No question in my mind — in order to represent President Trump in this matter you would have to get a very high level of clearance because of the allegations involving Russia,” said Robert Bennett, who served as President Bill Clinton’s personal lawyer. Like many Washington lawyers, Bennett has held security clearances throughout his career.
As the spotlight on Russia intensifies with new email disclosures that his son, son-in-law, and then-campaign manager met in June 2016 with a Russian attorney who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Kasowitz’s lack of a security clearance could hinder the president’s legal and political response to the scandal.
One possible explanation for Kasowitz’s decision not to pursue a clearance: He might have trouble getting one.
Happy 20th Birthday, @Malala (awarded the 2014 #NobelPeacePrize)! Read her Nobel lecture: https://t.co/NckEfiMAiS #MalalaDay pic.twitter.com/Em2Wru3Bck
Spending my 20th birthday with girls in Kurdistan / Iraq. Read more https://t.co/fzLOmkv9aY & follow @MalalaFund for updates. #GirlPowerTrip pic.twitter.com/G4hW3YFPab
— Malala (@Malala) July 12, 2025
On my last night as a teenager, I bumped into my new friends in Iraq. 🚘 pic.twitter.com/4RfSBhoyUE
Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began
U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates
WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed associates of Donald Trump, several months before he declared his candidacy for president, according to current and former U.S. officials.
In some cases, the Russians in the overheard conversations talked about meetings held outside the U.S. involving Russian government officials and Trump business associates or advisers, these people said.
YES! I’ve never trusted him because he strikes me a raving Bernie bro/Libertarian (Snowdenista/Greenwaldian) who tries to disguise his true feelings by pushing complicated, but ultimately meaningless analyses and punditry, or propaganda designed to depress Democratic voters and Obama supporters. I mean the guy posted a 10-part thread just to say that Trump supporters still support him in the wake of evidence of Russian collusion. DUH!?!?
And Hayes feigns great surprise, like this is such a shocking revelation…
Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that nothing would change Trump supporters’ minds short of Trump openly stating that “Barack Obama is full fledged American patriot and one of the GREATEST presidents ever” because their support for him hinges on (1) his anti-Obama positions, and (2) his white supremacist ideological positions.
We do not need 10-20 part Twitter threads from the likes of Peter Daou and Chris Hayes on why Trump still has support when we all know the simplest explanation, which is that Trump is criming while white…
Help me connect the #TrumpRussia dots. Submit your tips & we'll follow the evidence & post online. Join us here: https://t.co/eCIzvhsYrJ pic.twitter.com/fPZYWIR9wp
I've called #netneutrality free speech issue of our time bc it embraces our most basic constitutional freedoms. It's vital to our democracy. pic.twitter.com/FV1rkiZodk
W/o #NetNeutrality corporations like Comcast & Verizon can pick & choose which voices are heard on the Internet—& which voices are censored. pic.twitter.com/5jOmATSdUF
The BlueCross BlueShield Association, a bigger player in the individual insurance market, has also come out against the Cruz plan. pic.twitter.com/jJTeAfCMAj
T'Challa, Nakia and Killmonger grace the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly #BlackPantherSoLit 🙌🏾https://t.co/bnVBNWYt4X pic.twitter.com/vE4p9wSSBt
— NPOC (@nerdypoc) July 12, 2025
Check out T'Challa, Killmonger, Nakia and Shuri on these new images from @EW 's Comic-Con issue 🙌🏾 #BlackPanther #BlackPantherSoLit pic.twitter.com/TwsYJtZoRk
For more images and details on #BlackPanther, check out the article by Entertainment Weekly. #BlackPantherSoLit 🙌🏾https://t.co/x7jqXNgIA4 pic.twitter.com/LyxZ2ostP9
The map of Antarctica may have to be redrawn because of a trillion-ton iceberg that just broke off the continent https://t.co/OiPnwBtP7E pic.twitter.com/LI2ZWrvWdF
Be sure to tune into the @ESPYS tonight on @ABC. My Aunt Eunice believed in full participation & changed the world forever! @SpecialOlympics pic.twitter.com/WOhnEPjVis
— Ted Kennedy Jr. (@TedKennedyJR) July 12, 2025
I admire my Aunt Eunice, creator of @SpecialOlympics, who believed in equality and opportunity for all Americans. https://t.co/5KUz5qoPeh
why do I think that this is an evil plan hitched by turtle to get two outcomes:
(a) use the votes of the conservatives to destroy Obamacare and Medicaid;
(b) save the republican senate majority because all we have heard throughout this short debate is the strong opposition to it from the “moderate” republicans. these senators can use “their well-publicized public opposition” to show the voters that they were “fighting for them” and so can’t be voted out.
maybe I have become so cynical where these evil republicans are concerned
Happy Birthday, @Malala! Your courage inspires us all to keep fighting for girls everywhere to get the education they deserve. pic.twitter.com/oTXwRWL1mU
House Judiciary Dems flag concerns w/ Sessions on DOJ settlement of fraud case this year handled by same Russian lawyer who met w/ Don Jr. pic.twitter.com/VacHCnh3OY
Fox put an ellipses where the actual email actually said the assistance was "part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump" 🙃 pic.twitter.com/dcY75sXL2l
While GOP bosses privately meet/fight among themselves, Dems work on budget in open meeting w/ bdgt agency. Which approach do you prefer? pic.twitter.com/B3IB0C6W0H
The nonpartisan analysis also finds Trump tax cuts would give the poor $40 each on average & the ultra-rich $937,700 https://t.co/jmk8hSOLhg https://t.co/b1uJbpvq80
Posted this yesterday, article from @NYTimes was published last December, and (surprise! not) ignored by MSM.
1/ @nytimes headline from Dec 2016 should have read: "NRCC and @SpeakerRyan #SuperPAC colluded w/ Russia to influence 2016 House election" https://t.co/QE6KBcT9n2
1/ @nytimes headline from Dec 2016 should have read: "NRCC and @SpeakerRyan #SuperPAC colluded w/ Russia to influence 2016 House election" https://t.co/QE6KBcT9n2
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) July 11, 2025
3/ The seats that Guccifer 2.0 targeted in the document dumps were some of the most competitive House races in the country. pic.twitter.com/hWOJi5bicY
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) July 11, 2025
4/ States targeted in the tens of thousands of pages of hacked DCCC documents included: IL NC NH NM OH PA pic.twitter.com/2RFxBmakL8
There’s likely a video tape or email or such document with said Trump acknowledging the meeting…just waiting for that explosive info to be released…Hahahahaha! 🙂
republicans trying to protect the homegrown demagogue by blocking the congressional and senate investigation.
but they may regret this, hearings makes most people more familiar with the details and make lessen the shock value.
The investigative journalists in the different media outlets are not going away and they will continue breaking stories as details are leaked from different quarters.
Most importantly, Special Counsel Mueller is not going away. His investigations will continue. one can only if the gop quashes exposure through congressional hearings and then next we know when people are being arrested and taking pleas.
I guess, once Director Comey was fired and Special Counsel Mueller was appointed, there is no turning back now … unless he is fired
Morning everyone:)
⭐️
Such an important site for info on healthcare
http://www.kff.org/
🌟
Little details
✨
Morning!! 🙂
Required read.
Sick bastard….how about we build it with his retirement money you waste of a life asshole.
How about build it from this racists bigot salary. Or what about Trump making Mexico pay for it like he said.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you find a proverb, a scripture, or a philosophical creed, and write it on the tablet of your heart, recite it often, and work to live your life by it everyday. ❤ ❤ ❤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Hi RanMan! What a lovely greeting - as always. 😀
Hey Dudette, the other week when you were posting pictures and videos of the wonderful Lena Horne, I finally remember the name of Lola Falana, who I was crazy about when I was 10yrs old. 😂😂😂
I remember her! I think my Dad had a crush on her too!
In that case, I know I was in good company. 👌👊👍
“family issues”… TRUMP family issues, maybe??
… maybe we will know why …. WH is leaking more than a sieve
SMDH
looking forward to hearing from PBO during his campaign appearance in Virginia …. yes it is still a while away but ……
Good afternoon, TODville!
Howdy-do, J’OB!
Hi, honey bunch!!!!
Wouldn’t this be nice …
Hello TODable TODbots.
Congrats to DF for your Au ⭐ & Ag ⭐ as well. 😉
Thanks, NW…… 🍸 Obrigada!
{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}
❤ ❤ ❤ TOD Twitter Brigades, Lurkers & Commenters.
Stormy Weather was more like it early this AM, after Midnight.
Humid & Dull now.
Hi Nena!
Hello Sweet Dudette 😉
Hi Nena Honey!
Earlier I said the ESPYS would be on ESPN, but they will be on ABC at 8pm.
GA Nena.
Saw this earlier, and added to my thread (which I’ve posted here before, but good reminders in the thread):
From early April:
Hello Arapaho 🙂
I RT’ed.
Thanks for the info.
I cordially invite you to follow me on my new twitter account. Thank you kindly. 🙂
It’s the size of DE. 😦
Which Queen? 😜
Barely funny, I know … but I always like to commend liberals for actually HAVING a sense of humor, upon which to draw!
Donald Trump Jr. Was So Far Out of His League
by Martin Longman
July 12, 2025 2:54 PM
If, as seems likely, Julia Ioffe is correct that Yury Chaika, the prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation, is the “Crown Prosecutor” referred to in Donald Trump Jr.’s email chain, everyone involved should be concerned about their physical safety.
According to Ioffe, Chaika should be considered the Russian equivalent of Jeff Sessions, the U.S. Attorney General. That might not seem so scary, but Russia’s government is so violent and so intertwined with organized crime, that crossing their Attorney General is a perilous decision.
This is important for understanding why Rob Goldstone is insisting without the remotest plausibility that he was referring in his email to Trump Jr. to Natalia Veselnitskaya when he said that “the Crown prosecutor of Russia met with … Aras [Agalarov] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.”
Put simply, Mr. Goldstone doesn’t want to be killed and if he confirmed that he was referring to Mr. Chaika his death would be a distinct possibility.
Do you need another reason to call about saving healthcare???? Here it is.
This is the biggest line of absolute bullshit EVER! Hillary had Putin’s number. He was terrified of her. She was too smart for him. He’s so desperate. What a pathetic pos he is.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-tells-pat-robertson-that-putin-favored-hillary-and-her-passive-military-stance-in-election/
I’m sure he thinks this is what success would look like.
JHC.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-russia-lawyer-marc-kasowitz-alcohol-security-clearance?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1499887212
The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material. Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York lawyer whom President Donald Trump has hired to defend him in these inquiries, told ProPublica through a spokesman that he does not have a security clearance — the prerequisite for access to government secrets. Nor does he expect to seek one.
Several lawyers who have represented presidents and senior government officials said they could not imagine handling a case so suffused with sensitive material without a clearance.
“No question in my mind — in order to represent President Trump in this matter you would have to get a very high level of clearance because of the allegations involving Russia,” said Robert Bennett, who served as President Bill Clinton’s personal lawyer. Like many Washington lawyers, Bennett has held security clearances throughout his career.
As the spotlight on Russia intensifies with new email disclosures that his son, son-in-law, and then-campaign manager met in June 2016 with a Russian attorney who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Kasowitz’s lack of a security clearance could hinder the president’s legal and political response to the scandal.
One possible explanation for Kasowitz’s decision not to pursue a clearance: He might have trouble getting one.
Thread
Aw! Good for her! She’s an extraordinary young woman.
Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began
U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates
WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed associates of Donald Trump, several months before he declared his candidacy for president, according to current and former U.S. officials.
In some cases, the Russians in the overheard conversations talked about meetings held outside the U.S. involving Russian government officials and Trump business associates or advisers, these people said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-officials-overheard-discussing-trump-associates-before-campaign-began-1499890354
That stop might not have been “random” for more than one reason
Chris Hayes irritates to me the core!
I can’t tolerate him. There something insidious and pernicious about him, that makes him dangerous to Democratic causes.
YES! I’ve never trusted him because he strikes me a raving Bernie bro/Libertarian (Snowdenista/Greenwaldian) who tries to disguise his true feelings by pushing complicated, but ultimately meaningless analyses and punditry, or propaganda designed to depress Democratic voters and Obama supporters. I mean the guy posted a 10-part thread just to say that Trump supporters still support him in the wake of evidence of Russian collusion. DUH!?!?
And Hayes feigns great surprise, like this is such a shocking revelation…
Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that nothing would change Trump supporters’ minds short of Trump openly stating that “Barack Obama is full fledged American patriot and one of the GREATEST presidents ever” because their support for him hinges on (1) his anti-Obama positions, and (2) his white supremacist ideological positions.
We do not need 10-20 part Twitter threads from the likes of Peter Daou and Chris Hayes on why Trump still has support when we all know the simplest explanation, which is that Trump is criming while white…
OH DEAR…
Beauty Break
why do I think that this is an evil plan hitched by turtle to get two outcomes:
(a) use the votes of the conservatives to destroy Obamacare and Medicaid;
(b) save the republican senate majority because all we have heard throughout this short debate is the strong opposition to it from the “moderate” republicans. these senators can use “their well-publicized public opposition” to show the voters that they were “fighting for them” and so can’t be voted out.
maybe I have become so cynical where these evil republicans are concerned
Because it is an evil plan
They will STILL show WHO voted for the Shitburger AHCA….how will the republican moderates be saved? Don’t they still need their votes to get to 50?
not all of them. as long as they get 49, they have VP
Kushner is everywhere …..?????
Forever FLOTUS’ first tweet since Father’s Day
Happy Birthday Malala.
Still trying to take credit for the positive; casting blame when things go the other way
Ya know…
🤸🏽♂️
Paging Mr. Mueller!
When I first read the above, I saw Trump will beheaded to Paris……
😉
[Sigh!]
PLEASE PROCEED GOP!
Tick tock!
WOW!!!!!
GE Dudette.
Posted this yesterday, article from @NYTimes was published last December, and (surprise! not) ignored by MSM.
From @nytimes Dec article:
There’s likely a video tape or email or such document with said Trump acknowledging the meeting…just waiting for that explosive info to be released…Hahahahaha! 🙂
most likely there is … remember he is “smarter than everyone else”
someone will produce the evidence - exhibit A
[Another heavy sigh!]
Thread
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/07/12/set-thine-dvrs/
republicans trying to protect the homegrown demagogue by blocking the congressional and senate investigation.
but they may regret this, hearings makes most people more familiar with the details and make lessen the shock value.
The investigative journalists in the different media outlets are not going away and they will continue breaking stories as details are leaked from different quarters.
Most importantly, Special Counsel Mueller is not going away. His investigations will continue. one can only if the gop quashes exposure through congressional hearings and then next we know when people are being arrested and taking pleas.
I guess, once Director Comey was fired and Special Counsel Mueller was appointed, there is no turning back now … unless he is fired