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  1. 1 Judith Fardig
    January 6, 2025 at 5:21 pm

    Love these! Happy Saturday, TOD!

    • 2 desertflower
      January 6, 2025 at 5:26 pm

      How are you feeling, Judith? Afternoon, TOD:) Thank you, Nerdy!

      • 3 Judith Fardig
        January 6, 2025 at 5:33 pm

        Hi DF - amazingly recovered from lumpectomy. Still bugged by a dry cough that I picked up before Christmas, but it’s just annoying, not infectious. No side effects at all from the estrogen blocker. Yippee! Thanks for checking up on me.

  2. 5 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    Huge $$$. They are all traitors now

  3. 7 Judith Fardig
    January 6, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    I have found a new form of meditation to get through these hard times when I’m not out on the streets at some OFA or Indivisible event: making origami boxes for a local artist’s soulbox project. https://soulboxproject.org/ The purpose is to remember and honor victims of gun violence in this country. My packrat tendencies have come in handy since I had a drawer full of homemade Valentines my kids and I created when they were in grade school. I scanned each image, and my husband printed them on nice computer paper. I think about each person’s life and the ripple effects on their bereaved families. The goal of the project is to gather enough (thousands) to hold a huge public display, perhaps in the state capitol to shock and engage people in action to change gun laws. You can make some and mail them. Details in the link.

  4. 13 bridgeriverpass
    January 6, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    5 Billion years of free heavenly sunshine available to all but Big Oil wants to drill and copper mine the Arctic, thus poisoning Alaskans
    into perpetuity and ending the salmon runs upon which the Lower 48 depend. Trump now on board with destabilizing and polluting
    all of our coastlines. So am thinking how the right corporate has a long history of manipulating haters and the Hater Brain. How fortunate
    for them that Trump is kept busy by a brain that gloms on to whatever Minutiae…and which he generously translates for us all into the lost
    and broken language of Abgpftrz!guggzh.

  5. 14 Nerdy Wonka
    January 6, 2025 at 5:57 pm

  6. 19 bridgeriverpass
    January 6, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    Just glimpsed headline saying Steph Curry making headway (with Diddy) on buying Carolina Panthers. Way to go!

  7. 22 amk for obama
    January 6, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    wtf does stable genius even mean?

  8. 23 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    Hey, Mitch! Fuck off!

    • 24 Sandy1110
      January 6, 2025 at 6:54 pm

      Yep.

      The ONLY reason McConnell would want “bipartisanship” is to take advantage of Dem numbers for GOP gain - or to shift the blame for bad policy.

      Congressional Dems had better be as woke as we need them to be.

  9. 25 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 7:02 pm

  10. 26 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 7:21 pm

    REALLY??? Morons. All of them

  11. 30 Nena20409
    January 6, 2025 at 7:22 pm

    GE, TODbots 😉
    Finally, it got to 11F, a high today. It’s been below Zero for many days now.
    Congrats, Judith on your Gold ⭐
    Thanks, NW.
    On a silly story: 🙂

  12. 35 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 7:27 pm

  13. 41 Nena20409
    January 6, 2025 at 7:44 pm

    I am with her…..if only for denying Gillibrand from NY.

    • 42 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 6, 2025 at 8:12 pm

      https://democracyguardian.com/al-franken-the-obvious-setup-and-liberals-took-the-bait-5f3515d379a0

      It’s not like a bunch of us weren’t fully aware that this was a Hannity, Roger Stone coordinated attack on Sen Franken because how aggressively he was making the case that Trump is owned by Putin.

      • 43 Nena20409
        January 6, 2025 at 8:28 pm

        I read the Arnold’s tweet yesterday. I was livid, yet again.
        What irks me most is that DC/NY Journos were so quick to investigate Weinstein once the Bridge broke. They were eager to investigate Moore, etc. But they were quick to get a Dem? Franken was that guy they will not investigate. How come?

        • 44 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
          January 6, 2025 at 8:38 pm

          Don’t know.

          What I do know is that Franken was targeted because of how effective he was being in the pursuit of Traitor Trump & the Trump Crime Family Syndicate.

          I just wish he had done what I and others requested: Host a press gathering across from the White House and offer to resign ONLY AFTER a brashly proud sexual predator and White House Trespasser resigned.

          Speaking of Trump Crime Family Syndicate, this is not the least bit surprising ….

          • 45 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
            January 6, 2025 at 8:43 pm

            • 46 Obama Grandmama
              January 6, 2025 at 11:28 pm

              What happened to Franklin so quickly reminds me of ACORN being set up early in PBO’s first term that appeared to be manipulating voter registrations and Dems voting along with the GOP in Congress to defund federal funding for them. Later a discovery of a GOP related set up surfaced, but they were already defunded.

          • 48 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
            January 6, 2025 at 10:12 pm

          • 49 pkayden
            January 7, 2025 at 3:24 pm

            Put the entire family in jail. They are using the White House to sell generate $$$ for their private businesses. Disgusting.

      • 50 COS
        January 6, 2025 at 10:54 pm

        Gillibrand would not be my first choice for President; she is an opportunist.

    • 52 nathkatun7
      January 7, 2025 at 1:19 am

      Thak you Nena for sharing this. I agree with Ms. Buell, 100%. Sen. Franken was denied due process and was railroaded by his fellow Democrats.

  14. 53 Nena20409
    January 6, 2025 at 7:50 pm

  15. 55 Nerdy Wonka
    January 6, 2025 at 8:17 pm

  16. 56 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 8:30 pm

  17. 60 lovelyplains
    January 6, 2025 at 8:34 pm

    Always thought this guy was a gasbag….haven’t watched cable news in a year…grea hire CNN!

    • 61 nathkatun7
      January 7, 2025 at 3:00 am

      My grandmother, may she R.I.P., callled people Chris Cillizza “two-faced S.O. Bs” I really don’t understand why CNN still employs this idiot.

  18. 62 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 8:41 pm

    So good.

  19. 64 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 8:41 pm

  20. 66 amk for obama
    January 6, 2025 at 8:43 pm

  21. 67 amk for obama
    January 6, 2025 at 8:44 pm

  22. 68 desertflower
    January 6, 2025 at 9:01 pm

    I didn’t turn the sound on…I just watched Kevin McCarthy and wondered WTH happened to his eyebrows?

    • 69 bridgeriverpass
      January 6, 2025 at 9:57 pm

      …after riding herd on his hatin’ brain - dronald ready to look down on the rest of us from a great height.

    • 70 pkayden
      January 7, 2025 at 3:37 pm

      Trump tweeted that pablum because he’s desperate to get the respect and adoration which President Obama got so easily.

  23. 71 No Child Left Behind
    January 6, 2025 at 9:10 pm

    Too late.

  24. 72 Nena20409
    January 6, 2025 at 9:22 pm

    Indeed, Thank a Democrat. With 12yrs of FDR, Dems controlled the House of Rep. Lost the Senate in 1981-1986.
    Since 1995 GOP has had the House for 19yrs. The Senate for 14yrs+.
    USA has Never been the same.

    G’Nite, TODbots, until Tomorrow!

  25. 73 prettyfoot58
    January 6, 2025 at 9:25 pm

    https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/01/julian-castro-expands-his-political-operation/

  26. 74 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 9:54 pm

  27. 75 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 9:54 pm

  28. 76 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 9:58 pm

    Any doubt that Mueller & Co. have been all over this territory would only reside in the minds of the clueless ….

  29. 78 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 9:59 pm

  30. 79 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 10:00 pm

  31. 81 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 6, 2025 at 10:11 pm

  32. 82 Sheila
    January 6, 2025 at 10:47 pm

  33. 83 Dudette
    January 7, 2025 at 1:28 am

    Looks like the setting from one of The Obamas State dinners (imho)

  34. 84 Dudette
    January 7, 2025 at 1:40 am

    • 85 amk for obama
      January 7, 2025 at 3:45 am

      and zero scandals

      and zero lawsuits

      and zero indictments

      and zero investigations

      despite rethugs trying their best

      hero of zeroes

    • 86 pkayden
      January 7, 2025 at 3:27 pm

      Beautifully said. Classy, decent, articulate and dignified. Everything we needed and wanted in a President. Thank you, President Obama.

  35. 87 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 4:07 am

  36. 88 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 4:10 am

    also. too. 8 years vs less than a year.

  37. 89 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 4:11 am

    fucking nutjob.

  38. 90 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 4:14 am

  39. 91 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 4:19 am

  40. 92 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 5:03 am

  41. 94 amk for obama
    January 7, 2025 at 5:05 am

    • 95 Jey
      January 7, 2025 at 7:02 am

      When is the Russian flag and anthem going to take it’s place in the US?

      Dear Puerto Ricans … please remember that while parts of Puerto Rico is still in darkness and people are suffering, your president (and the complicit GOP) will be announcing special awards to ‘fake news’ tomorrow.

  42. 96 Sheila
    January 7, 2025 at 7:39 am

    Greetings

  43. 97 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 8:09 am

    Morning everyone.

  44. 98 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 8:12 am

    Someone please give this dumbass some brownies. They know NOTHING. It’s all about putting brown/black people in jail. Does he own stock in private prisons? We should know that.

  45. 99 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 8:19 am

    • 100 TNmtngirl
      January 7, 2025 at 8:26 am

      Shameful. Heartbreaking. Disgusting. Wrong. Evil. 😦

      Good morning, TOD. Hugs and love to all here. Have a good day.

  46. 101 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 8:32 am

    It must be unmistakeable what the American people want. We MUST VOTE

  47. 103 arapaho415
    January 7, 2025 at 8:36 am

    GM TODville.

    In response to Nathkatum7’s comment upthread:
    “We need some billboards in his district proclaiming him “the # 1 Vladimir Putin’s Agent in the United States.” Nunes is such a disgrace to our great state of California.”

    Only have to wait a month, courtesy of Claude Taylor:

    Background:

    Obstacles facing Claude Taylor:

  48. 104 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 9:00 am

    Morning read

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/it-was-an-open-secret/549653/

    Who is also in on this open secret? Virtually everyone in a position to do something about it, which at the moment means members of the Republican majority in Congress.

    They know what is wrong with Donald Trump. They know why it’s dangerous. They understand—or most of them do—the damage he can do to a system of governance that relies to a surprising degree on norms rather than rules, and whose vulnerability has been newly exposed. They know—or should—about the ways Trump’s vanity and avarice are harming American interests relative to competitors like Russia and China, and partners and allies in North America, Europe, and the Pacific.

    They know. They could do something: hearings, investigations, demands for financial or health documents, subpoenas. Even the tool they used against the 42nd president, for failings one percent as grave as those of the 45th: impeachment.

    They know. They could act. And they don’t. The failure of responsibility starts with Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, but it doesn’t end with them. Every member of a bloc-voting majority shares responsibility for not acting on their version of the open secret. “Independent” Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski share it. “Thoughtful” ones, like Ben Sasse and Jeff Flake.

  49. 105 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 9:36 am

    It’s Sunday morning at 7:30. Already my head hurts

  50. 106 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 9:38 am

    • 107 globalcitizenlinda
      January 7, 2025 at 10:50 am

      Exactly on of the reasons that months ago, I resolved NEVER to share his treasonous bigotry garbage again. I refuse to be used by the homegrown demagogue when I retweet or sub-tweet his crap. As I previously mentioned here, I wish people would totally ignore his tweets

    • 108 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 7, 2025 at 3:02 pm

      Lakoff is a bull shit artist ….

  51. 109 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 10:39 am

  52. 110 desertflower
    January 7, 2025 at 10:47 am

    Be gone, hypocrite

    • 111 Nena20409
      January 7, 2025 at 1:00 pm

      I have been tweeting about this guy for months.
      He or his Office finally blocked me last month.
      It’s gratifying to see some report on this Serial Criminal Sexual Predator get a story on his atrocities.

  53. 112 bridgeriverpass
    January 7, 2025 at 11:15 am

    “Arab foreign ministers are calling for international recognition of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,
    aiming to nullify a controversial US decision on the holy city’s status.”
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/arab-league-aims-nullify-trump-jerusalem-move-180107101530055.html
    Jordanian Foreign Minister said “We [the Arab League] will confront the decision by seeking a [UN] resolution,an international one,
    to recognise a Palestinian state on 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.”
    -Right up your left nostril Dronald!

  54. 113 bella2758
    January 7, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Sloppy Brannon is on his knees begging for Trump and Trump Jr. to forgive him

    • 114 bridgeriverpass
      January 7, 2025 at 12:38 pm

      The Dicktraitor favors loud pre-boxing match dramatics. They are Co-Conspirators.
      Mr. ‘Fourth Turning’ has his end of world agenda to accomplish whilst Trump wants to rule the world w/ oil buddy Putin.

    • 115 bridgeriverpass
      January 7, 2025 at 2:09 pm

      The Dicktraitor favors loud pre-boxing match dramatics. They are Co-Conspirators.
      Mr. ‘Fourth Turning’ has his end of world agenda to accomplish whilst Trump wants to rule the world w/ oil buddy Putin.

  55. 117 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    Hello, Hello, TODbots. It will hit 37F today in MN of all places in Jan? It’s like Summer in Winter! Climate Change anyone?
    I have not seen any News today, I simply can’t deal with any Sunday Shows.
    ❤ ❤ ❤ TOD.
    {{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}
    Happy New Year, Danny O!

  56. 118 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 1:39 pm

    93yo.
    I wish him well.
    What it must have taken for this Warrior to be serving, yet again at 93yrs old.

  57. 120 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:03 pm

    • 121 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 7, 2025 at 3:08 pm

      Lots and lots of pictures ….

  58. 122 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    No question about it ….

  59. 123 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    • 124 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 7, 2025 at 3:11 pm

      • 125 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
        January 7, 2025 at 3:13 pm

        Precisely ….

        • 126 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
          January 7, 2025 at 3:22 pm

        • 127 Nena20409
          January 7, 2025 at 3:28 pm

          It looks like Jake is getting loads of praise.
          Hmm?

    • 128 Nena20409
      January 7, 2025 at 3:16 pm

      Pardon me.
      The above was the wrong Tweet.
      Below is the correct tweet intended to be posted.

      • 129 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
        January 7, 2025 at 3:25 pm

        NP Nena. Both are worthwhile; the 2nd just further evidence of how incapacitated Putin’s cuckold is …

      • 130 bridgeriverpass
        January 7, 2025 at 6:11 pm

        Man this here was a serious WH Press Corps follower throughout PBO’s terms — and Tapper was horrendous.
        Not just annoying but nasty with it.

        • 131 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
          January 7, 2025 at 7:20 pm

          He blocked me years ago.

          Having him go after a Trump surrogate so aggressively is helpful and anyone paying attention to his behavior toward President Obama knows he’s far from a lib partisan.

  60. 132 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:09 pm

    Yup

    • 133 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 7, 2025 at 3:09 pm

  61. 134 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:26 pm

  62. 135 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:28 pm

  63. 136 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 3:34 pm

  64. 137 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 3:38 pm

  65. 138 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 3:56 pm

    • 139 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      January 7, 2025 at 3:58 pm

      • 140 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
        January 7, 2025 at 4:00 pm

        • 141 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
          January 7, 2025 at 4:02 pm

          • 142 bridgeriverpass
            January 7, 2025 at 6:13 pm

            Let’s be having United States journalists, recordings etc…this time.
            Come on Media! Get on it. 3-2-1.

  66. 143 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Yup.

  67. 144 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 4:08 pm

    Absolutely …

  68. 145 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 4:11 pm

  69. 146 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 7, 2025 at 4:12 pm

  70. 148 Nena20409
    January 7, 2025 at 4:53 pm

    Good for them.
    It’s just Not……Never for me.


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