View from the roof of the BBC #protest #gaza pic.twitter.com/ixt86RblXk
— Patrick Bodenham (@pjbodenham) August 9, 2014
“Stop the massacre in Gaza” and “Justice to Gaza” signs at the anti-war protest in Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/1r3lWfPR2j
— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) August 9, 2014
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Photographer Momen Fayez. Israeli airstrikes cost him his legs in 2008 and his home 2 wks ago. via @photospalestine pic.twitter.com/IV4nJmOx8D
— Mohammad Alsaafin (@malsaafin) August 9, 2014
U.S. airstrikes near Irbil, Iraq, killed at least 16 ISIS militants, officials say. http://t.co/4TF9caW1X0
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 9, 2014
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Food and water delivered to Yazidis trapped on the mountain. President Barack Obama: Definitely not George Bush. pic.twitter.com/zLBSnW1rbj
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 9, 2014
Funny that the GOP had a problem with Obama’s cult of personality when you see the religious devotion to Ted Cruz http://t.co/SrLoTNliLr
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) August 9, 2014
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Why we still need the #VotingRightsAct: http://t.co/znYJgnbYaf
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 8, 2014
My new article – North Carolina Becomes Latest Casualty of Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Decision http://t.co/mkfDxquyFi
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 9, 2014
On Tuesday, August 6, the country celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the most impactful civil rights law ever passed by Congress. Three days later, a federal judge in North Carolina denied a preliminary injunction to block key provisions of the state’s new voting law, widely described as the most onerous in the country. North Carolina’s new voting restrictions will now be in effect for the 2014 midterms and beyond, pending a full trial in July 2015, a month before the fiftieth anniversary of the VRA.
The federal government and plaintiffs including the North Carolina NAACP and the League of Women Voters argued during a hearing last month that three important parts of the law—a reduction in early voting from seventeen to ten days, the elimination of same-day registration during the early voting period, and a prohibition on counting provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct—disproportionally burdened African-American voters in violation of Section 2 of the VRA and should be enjoined before the 2014
election.
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Must be from Dems. GOP doesn’t talk impeachment “@MikeCzin: Some interesting impeach obama lit at #FLS2014 in Ames: pic.twitter.com/gwwGhCvx78”
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) August 9, 2014
The same people who told you the GOP would never be dumb enough to move to the right on immigration now says they would never impeach.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 9, 2014
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Al Jazeera reporting the Kurds have opened a road to Sinjar Mt and are rescuing the Yazidis. Did something good just happen in the world?
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) August 9, 2014
If I screwed up anything as badly as the GOP screwed up Iraq, I’d spend my life pointing to myself and saying, “This guy. Don’t trust him.”
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 9, 2014
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P.S., my answer to “when will you make Obama take responsibility for Iraq” is answered with “when conservatives do once, on anything.”
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) August 9, 2014
Anti-abortion tea party congressman who asked mistress to get abortion could win primary http://t.co/qXnNX1h3y3 pic.twitter.com/a5hTQSt2km
— KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) August 8, 2014
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Whenever I see a “Buzzfeed is just a cut & paste job from Reddit” example, I think of this Letterman top ten. pic.twitter.com/OXG00HMbis
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 8, 2014
Well, this is a rather awkward photo/headline juxtaposition. pic.twitter.com/xIdWQS67al
— Danielle B(enghazi) (@DCPlod) August 7, 2014
Love the tweets
Glad you liked them and congratulations on first.
Thanks Nerdy. You are the champ!
Thanks NW
Congrats vetivera🙂
Great tweets, NW!!!!
Thanks Bobfr
Fantastic tweets Nerdy, love them, thank yooooooou!!!
Thanks, Chips.
Thanks, NW. You always do a great job!
Thank you, Judith.
Oh I LOVE these charts for dipshits!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251373781
NerdyW: This is serious – what do I have to give you to get on your preferred list for advance /muffled voice/ = (personal) notice when you are about to post?
So…I told you that I had the men in my house all coming back home today. Before my daughter came with me to pick up hubby at the airport today, we decided to drop by In and Out for a bite…I was shaking I was so hungry! We ate and as we were leaving, I see a guy sitting at the outdoor tables smoking a cigarette. For starters, that’s not allowed…then he got up and started walking to his car and I noticed that he had a gun on his hip. WTF! I couldn’t contain myself and said, OUT LOUD…”What the hell does anyone need a gun to eat a burger for?” He had to have heard me…I was NOT quiet …he got in his car (CA license!) and shut the door. Honest to god.Why? Where is MY right to feel safe from this????
The dude had a CA license?
He must have moved to AZ for the right to open carry, because that’s not allowed in CA.
Is AZ an open carry state, or do they just not have any regulations whatsoever about handguns?
Fifteen years ago or so I drove from Houston to San Antonio and was shocked to see signs at the gas stations along the highway saying to leave guns in vehicle — naively I had no idea that toting weapons was legal.
HAHAHHAHA!! Regulations you say! What regulations! If they had their way, newborns would have their first gun snuggled next to them in the hospital nursery! No regulations, no classes, no training, no nothing…you need to breathe, that’s about it. Makes me sick. Chickenshit.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132801364/arizona-gun-laws-among-most-lenient-in-u-s
Read it…it will turn your stomach. I don’t belong here, I don’t belong here. I don’t belong here….
This made me think of you, Arapaho. How is *your* monarch caterpillar doing?
That Telegraph unfortunate juxtaposition was corrected same day in the later issue – I saw that somewhere yesterday.
Evening, y’all. WP eating comments for dinner tonight, eh? ;(
So a 17 yr-old boy allegedly shot 10 times by cops for stealing candy in a store…he was on the ground screaming and they continued to pump bullets into him.
Paging civil liberties Guru Glen Greenwald….
Wrong color Hopefruit, Glenn won’t be interested.
Another young man with candy shot dead? If anyone wonders about whether someone of color can walk around with a gun like those open-carry idiots, here is yet another example of, “no, they can’t”
Yes, protests by people of color are “mobs”; flood victims searching for food are “looters”; some guy shopping for a toy gun for his son is “threatening”.
This fear and prejudice is reflected on the grand scale with how the press speaks about the President; it is both conscious and subconscious. I remember my friend in Italy emailing me in 2008, after the President was elected and exclaiming, “Hopefully this means that racism is over.” At the time I smiled and shook my head at the naiveté of that statement. Still, I had no idea of the ugliness that would show itself in the coming years.
This has to stop. I know the world is changing ever so slowly as the old racists die off and less new ones get created. That doesn’t help this poor boy’s family tonight. My prayers go out to them.
TWEET RE: TED CRUZ…IF HE WERE PRESIDENT…GUARANTEED AMERICA WOULD BE GONE!
Really?:)
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/09/oil-industry-denies-climate-change-demanding-taxpayer-money-climate-change-protection.html
Good article about Pope Francis. One line: “The famous Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton once noted that “every age gets the saint it needs. Not the saint people want, but the saint they need–the saint who’s the medicine for their illness…….”
http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxville/life/terry-mattingly-a-look-at-pope-francis-rush-limbaugh-and-the-poor_91800155
The man in charge….
‘Jesus Shuttlesworth’ AKA Ray Allen, Ahmad Rashad, and President Obama hitting the lynx….
#SoSueMe
Thanks for this update, LPlains.
I put them in tweets so that we can share far and wide (because we all know MSM won’t).
Hear that Chucky Todd/WJS, everyone doesn’t hate our President.
Another day, another Black life lost.
the media has been strangely quiet on this, or is it just me? Been looking on HP and others. Why?
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/498269890986250240
New post:
https://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/09/again-and-again-and-again/