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  1. 1 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 10:37 am

    Let’s go!

  2. 2 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 10:39 am

  3. 9 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 10:44 am

  4. 10 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 10:54 am

    Good Morning!

  5. 12 No Child Left Behind
    April 3, 2025 at 11:01 am

    The scandals the Obama Administration put us through are like no others. LatteGate, Tan Suit, Pizza Gate! I wish those were the scandals I’d lived through right now.

  6. 13 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 11:07 am

    • 14 bridgeriverpass
      April 3, 2025 at 12:31 pm

      Guessing she is speaking trumpfully. Watch for trump take downs because ‘boxing match pre-show’ is how he operates.
      By contrast, our Joe wrote the book on VAWA and passed it.

  7. 15 bridgeriverpass
    April 3, 2025 at 11:26 am

    On the gop strategy of declaring victory before the results are in + using rabid media to parrot it as if true.
    Flash back to 2000 and the Florida election scam:
    “Republicans count on the national media to quickly repeat their conclusion. … That allowed Republicans to insist Bush had won, even after legal challenges to restrictive Florida voting laws and paid GOP protesters pressured officials in Miami-Dade County to halt their recount. When serious concerns emerge about the results, Republicans stand by the initial declaration of victory. Meanwhile, [they] charge that Democrats are being “sore losers” by asking legitimate questions about what is going on. The GOP then tries to force an ending to the controversy by running out the clock.” (Historian Julian Zelizer)
    https://www.salon.com/2019/04/01/trump-and-bill-barr-thought-theyd-put-the-russia-scandal-behind-them-they-havent/

    • 16 bridgeriverpass
      April 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

      “This past week showed that strategy working pretty well at first and then starting to lose strength as the Democrats fought back and the media began to look more closely at what they actually knew. The pressure grew enough that Barr felt the need to release another letter late in the week attempting some damage control.”

  8. 17 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Thread 🙂

    • 18 bridgeriverpass
      April 3, 2025 at 11:42 am

      If you were innocent you’d want the whole report out there asap. You wouldn’t need a Barr fixer with an Iran/Contra and Iraqgate resumé.
      Lies on top of lies make life like a bowl of oranges.

  9. 19 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Oh! Excellent news!

  10. 20 bridgeriverpass
    April 3, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    Happening. Cities and States are Modeling what a Green New Deal could look like: “In February, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the Green New Deal resolution, a blueprint for overhauling the entire U.S. economy and transitioning to emissions-neutral energy sources within a decade.”
    “As of March, at least 19 states are considering or have already set 100 percent clean or renewable electricity targets, according to EQ Research, a policy group that works on issues like energy efficiency and renewables. Not all of those efforts resemble the full spectrum of changes called for under the Green New Deal, however, as they focus predominately on electricity goals. But several of the plans incorporate language about jobs and social justice, with some directly referencing the Green New Deal as a source of inspiration. That’s significant because, without federal support, ground-up implementation could be how the Green New Deal ultimately becomes a reality. Ambitious energy targets alone are notable in several areas. Hawaii and California have enacted legislation to hit a 100 percent clean or renewable electricity target by 2045, while Washington, D.C., is aiming for 2032. And already this year, 10 more states have followed suit, introducing their own legislation to reach a clean electricity standard by 2050 or earlier.”
    https://thinkprogress.org/cities-states-green-new-deal-ocasio-cortez-b87147b4b47d/
    -Speed of the essence, smaller scale easier to implement.

  11. 21 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    View this post on Instagram

    ……

    A post shared by obama2012Germany (@obama2012germany) on

  12. 23 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 12:47 pm

  13. 24 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 3, 2025 at 1:25 pm

    • 25 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      April 3, 2025 at 1:25 pm

  14. 26 jacquelineoboomer
    April 3, 2025 at 1:25 pm

    I just thank God that President Obama wasn’t wearing the tan suit on that same day. Woulda been WWIII. 🙂

    Good afternoon, TODville!

  15. 28 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 3, 2025 at 1:30 pm

  16. 29 Nerdy Wonka
    April 3, 2025 at 1:34 pm

    Two fantastic threads on abortion

  17. 30 nena20409
    April 3, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    Hello TODbots.
    Good Afternoon.
    🙏😍🙏

  18. 31 nena20409
    April 3, 2025 at 3:26 pm

    • 32 nena20409
      April 3, 2025 at 3:31 pm

  19. 33 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 3:28 pm

  20. 35 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 4:03 pm

    Maine… you need to vote her out. Enough is enough.

  21. 36 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 4:06 pm

    POC know this. Now everyone else needs to

    • 37 vcprezofan2
      April 3, 2025 at 8:37 pm

  22. 38 No Child Left Behind
    April 3, 2025 at 4:06 pm

    Who are the women is the question of he day.

  23. 39 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 4:07 pm

    Trump claims wind turbine ‘noise causes cancer.’ http://hill.cm/Te29PlQ

  24. 40 Sheila
    April 3, 2025 at 4:12 pm

  25. 42 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 4:39 pm

  26. 43 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 4:41 pm

  27. 44 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 4:45 pm

  28. 45 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 4:48 pm

    There are some really good people in the world.

  29. 46 bridgeriverpass
    April 3, 2025 at 5:26 pm

    Um I see you Huffington Post going out on a limb to make instant assumptions and demands, showing your true colors.
    1) Anytime I’ve seen VP Biden on screen he is very personable with everybody = Everybody.
    2) Yes the media response to guys who treat women like old shoes is long overdue.
    3) Joe is the opposite of those guys.
    4) Yes this could mean being less personable in politics in the current nasty Trump culture.
    5) But you understand that EVERY guy running against Trump is at risk of him using this kind of attack.
    6) Trump = Over 20 accusations of assault + underage rape, philanderer, self-confessed sexual predator, and ‘brutal’ Roy Cohn copycat strategist.
    Huffpo: Instead please focus on stopping the faker and insane would-be dictator in the WH who is treating thousands of fleeing males and females of all ages in American jails like objects of his wrath and disgust. Like worthless slaughterhouse fodder. Can you do that?

    • 47 Obama Grandmama
      April 3, 2025 at 10:39 pm

      Many young women are going to extremes these days. I say this as one of my daughters just told me she is not voting for Biden due to his inappropriate touching complaint against him. That she believes the women. I am gathering my info before countering her thoughts. There is a definite difference between people that touch your shoulder or arm while speaking to you or hugging you while talking to you to show their support than a person that gropes, touches in a sexual manner or rapes women and under age women. I know I actually appreciated people that would hug me or touch my arm or shoulder after my husband had died and I so missed the sense of touch in my life. Besides look at Biden’s record of sponsoring bills championing women’s issues. Instead of immediately believing what you hear look at the information carefully. Is that in their general character or part of their history? Does it meet the indecent criteria? Is there a reason someone would profit from the accused person being accused? Like I said I am gathering my info, but wonder if his age and being in office for so many years might give him a hard time anyway.

  30. 48 nena20409
    April 3, 2025 at 6:05 pm

  31. 49 nena20409
    April 3, 2025 at 6:06 pm

  32. 50 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 6:34 pm

    POLICE INVESTIGATING REPORT OHIO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS BULLIED BIRACIAL STUDENT WITH ‘MAGA’ COUNTRY TAUNTS

    Police in Ohio are reportedly investigating a bullying incident at a middle school where a group of boys allegedly told a biracial, female student “this is MAGA country and all black people should die.” … hill.cm/RAGocqK

  33. 53 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 7:15 pm


    SOON - Julian Castro campaigns at US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce - https://abcnews.go.com/Live

  34. 54 jacquelineoboomer
    April 3, 2025 at 7:53 pm

    This word came from the IRS back in 2016.

  35. 58 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 8:02 pm

    Give me a break.

  36. 59 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 8:03 pm

    OH, AND

  37. 60 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 8:07 pm

    SOME MUELLER TEAM MEMBERS SAY FINAL REPORT MORE DAMAGING TO TRUMP THAN BARR SUMMARY SUGGESTS: NY TIMES

    Some members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team have said Attorney General William Barr’s summary of their report did not sufficiently portray the results of their investigation, suggesting their findings could be more damaging to President Trump than Barr conveyed, The New York Times reported Wednesday. … https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/437281-mueller-team-members-say-final-report-more-damaging-to-trump-than

  38. 61 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 8:24 pm

    Yay New Mexico!

    • 62 todjey
      April 3, 2025 at 8:45 pm

      It is about time. Thanks for sharing. I wish the Cdn government can announce something similar. I would like to see more acknowledgement for Indigenous communities, a national holiday is a good start.

      • 63 Magapie (@magapietime)
        April 3, 2025 at 9:03 pm

        That’s like the WORST picture of Gov. Michelle ever. She’s an absolute force of nature, fun, warm, brilliant person.
        I have never accomplished posting a pic here, directly or through the twitterss or I would post a nice pic. (I need lessons! Ok, I don’t care enough to figure it out.)

  39. 64 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 8:29 pm

    A moment of nerdy-geeky cool!

  40. 65 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 8:44 pm

  41. 66 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 8:45 pm

  42. 67 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 9:07 pm

  43. 70 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 9:35 pm

  44. 71 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 9:45 pm

  45. 72 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 9:47 pm

  46. 73 jer44
    April 3, 2025 at 9:54 pm


    President Obama sees “a challenge” to break down barriers to women.

  47. 74 meta
    April 3, 2025 at 10:06 pm

    I’ve been struggling how to process and articulate how I feel about all this stuff with VP Biden. But I think Christine Pelosi says it for me just now:

  48. 77 jacquelineoboomer
    April 3, 2025 at 10:59 pm

  49. 78 jacquelineoboomer
    April 3, 2025 at 11:09 pm

    I almost can’t believe a member of Congress tweeted this, but I’m loving it.

  50. 79 Dudette
    April 3, 2025 at 11:17 pm

    Yay Stacey!

  51. 80 marleysperson
    April 3, 2025 at 11:35 pm

    Need a reason NOT to eat pork??

  52. April 4, 2025 at 12:04 am

    Stephen Colbert had a great monologue tonight. Couldn’t find it yet online to post a link. Maybe it’ll be online tomorrow. Hope to find it then & post it here. Meanwhile, see if you can catch it on your teevees. 😂😏😎

  53. 84 jacquelineoboomer
    April 4, 2025 at 12:12 am

    We need some ol’ Ray Charles around here!

  54. 85 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 12:50 am

  55. 86 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 1:01 am

  56. 87 jacquelineoboomer
    April 4, 2025 at 1:05 am

  57. 88 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 1:34 am

    • 89 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      April 4, 2025 at 1:35 am

      Barr’s coverup is going to fail …

  58. 90 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 2:17 am

    Good insight and probably true given that Rep Nadler is an honorable person ….

  59. 92 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 2:20 am

  60. 93 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 4, 2025 at 2:28 am

  61. 94 pkayden
    April 4, 2025 at 7:28 am

  62. 95 globalcitizenlinda
    April 4, 2025 at 8:25 am

    Good morning everyone! Have a great day!

  63. 96 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 8:38 am

    Morning everyone. Well, BS isn’t a Democrat, but he plays one on tv, so there’s that.

  64. 97 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 8:43 am

    If only we would. We both can save a life.

    • 98 marleysperson
      April 4, 2025 at 8:45 am

      😂😂😂😂 Ha! No life saving here!! LOL… seems like I lucked up the cut and paste feature:) be right back….

  65. 99 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 8:46 am

    Ok… WE both save lives:)

  66. 100 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 8:49 am

    Sewergate

    • 101 Don
      April 4, 2025 at 8:57 am

      In choosing which hill to die on, it is preferable that the hill you select is worthy to die on. This guy Barr has chosen a hill that may or may not enjoy getting pissed on.

      • 102 marleysperson
        April 4, 2025 at 9:04 am

        He’s a mess. Times have changed since IranContra… he won’t get a pass on this one. This cover up is gonna bite his ample ass

  67. 103 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 8:56 am

    Thread

  68. 104 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 9:02 am

    Thread

  69. 107 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 9:09 am

    Ha! Well, according to RM last night, it was the RECEPTIONIST that actually did the work!! SS let her stay!

    • 108 globalcitizenlinda
      April 4, 2025 at 9:50 am

      On multiple occasions, I have sent a message to the FBI asking them to treat that garbage property as a crime scene … there is simply too much corruption going on right there … just consider the little that we have learned from different incidents or news reports

    • 109 meta
      April 4, 2025 at 10:12 am

    • 110 Sheila
      April 4, 2025 at 12:30 pm

      My daughter thinks that this woman was a decoy…do we think that other foreign intelligence agencies are that bumbling…i think not…while we are looking at her…who did get thru???

  70. 111 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 9:14 am

    Best explanation of how I think about this non issue that I have read. Totally agree

  71. 112 globalcitizenlinda
    April 4, 2025 at 9:44 am

    it is shocking to see the number of corrupt people, who also hold public office, or are supposed to represent the levels of government.

  72. 113 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 10:13 am

    It would totally mess up Arizona, too…since we have robust trade between us…but he knows everything!

  73. 114 bridgeriverpass
    April 4, 2025 at 10:23 am

    Trouble at mill yesterday.
    1. “The day started bad when the House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize a subpoena of the Mueller report.
    2. The committee also voted to subpoena five top Trump White House aides who have direct knowledge of the president’s obstruction of justice.
    3. Members of Mueller’s special counsel team, who helped him write the 400 page report, began leaking that the report is actually rather bad for Trump, and that Attorney General William Barr had grossly misrepresented what the report says.
    4. In what appears to be a coordinated effort by House Democrats, the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested that the IRS turn over Donald Trump’s tax returns within seven days.
    5. The Miami Herald also reported that the FBI has secretly been running a counterintelligence probe for some time now into what Chinese operatives and other foreign spies have been doing at Mar-a-Lago.
    6. Also yesterday, the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas in Trump’s White House security clearance scandal.
    7. It was revealed that Jared Kushner was given a White House security clearance by Trump even though he poses a clear national security risk.”
    https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/04/attacks-from-every-direction-will-soon-bring-down-the-trump-presidency.html

    • 115 bridgeriverpass
      April 4, 2025 at 10:24 am

      “It is clear that his attempt to bury the Mueller report has failed, so the report and its underlying evidence will eventually come out. Soon we will find out what he’s been so desperately hiding in his tax returns. We’ll soon discover what caused Trump’s top advisers and family members to be rejected for security clearances. We’ll also find out how he has let spies into Mar-a-Lago, and continually threatened U.S. national security.” (Leo Vidal)

  74. 116 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 10:43 am

  75. 117 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 10:46 am

  76. 119 bridgeriverpass
    April 4, 2025 at 10:58 am

    The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would reform the Electoral College by having states award their electoral votes to the
    winner of the national popular vote, has a difficult but plausible path to enactment in time for the 2024 presidential election.
    Map + details: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/4/1847546/-New-Mexico-just-joined-the-National-Popular-Vote-Compact-Here-s-how-it-could-take-effect-by-2024

  77. 120 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 11:08 am

  78. 121 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 11:09 am

    Thread

    • 122 Sheila
      April 4, 2025 at 12:34 pm

      It is not like Trump has not had dealings with Russia…their relationship goes back pretty far…i am sorry…they were not innocent dupes

  79. 123 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 11:17 am

    A good read…

  80. 124 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 11:19 am

    Not coming to play

    • 125 marleysperson
      April 4, 2025 at 11:33 am

      Or if you prefer…

  81. 126 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 11:23 am

  82. 128 marleysperson
    April 4, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Bad day, Don??

  83. 129 bridgeriverpass
    April 4, 2025 at 11:53 am

    Remember when gop constantly accused Dems of “ramming things through” after long, meticulous, public processes such as the ACA.
    Well Rammer-in-Chief McConnell now wants to ram through 130 judges before the next election.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/03/senate-republicans-trigger-nuclear-option-to-speed-trump-nominees-1253118
    Even as McConnell is lumbering the courts with long term judges…the corrupt illegitimate little russian president is going down. Are we at all curious about the hidden backstory on the compromised destroyer of the Senate?

  84. 130 jacquelineoboomer
    April 4, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Tell it, Chef!

  85. 131 jer44
    April 4, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    View this post on Instagram

    A letter from Joe Biden in 2016 to my then 90-year-old mother as a follow up to their belated birthday phone call. (when I asked her if she’d be okay with me posting, she said, Of course. I love Joe Biden.) “Dear Lilly I truly enjoyed our conversation last night. I apologize for keeping you on the phone so long. But I felt like I was talking to my mom. Lilly you are a remarkable lady. I told Pete what you said when I said he was such a fine man––“Mr. Vice President I have two wonderful daughters. I thank God every day that I have them.” Spoken like my mom. Lilly I love you as well and I truly look forward to meeting you sometime soon. Thanks for all the lovely things you said about {me}. I wish my wife Jill could have listened. Love you/adopted son Joe”

    A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on

  86. 132 globalcitizenlinda
    April 4, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    By trying to bow to the evil corrupt Individual 1’s whims, barr put the DOJ in an untenable situation …. now every action will be scrutinized , …. the DOJ is in the line of fire;

    millions saw with their own eyes or read reports about, members of Team Treason engage in wrong-doing (for me read criminal actions) before, during, and after the election.

    …. now forces were activated to make these millions believe that what they in fact saw or read is “nothing to see here” ……. why does anyone expect people not to be outrage and suspicious????

  87. 134 globalcitizenlinda
    April 4, 2025 at 12:25 pm

    can anyone know the role of Rosenstein in all this mess???

  88. 135 jacquelineoboomer
    April 4, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    From my old home state and the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office:

    “TODAY is the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr … One week earlier in 1968, he visited New Jersey & spoke to students at Newark’s South Side High School, as well as a small congregation in Paterson, NJ.”


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