DREAMers hugging and crying over Obama's #immigrationaction speech http://t.co/OrdypJLGoH
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Esther Y. Lee 李御璽 (@estherindc) November 21, 2025Astrid Silva, the DREAMer that Obama just name-checked, is here. Breaks down in tears when she hears her name http://t.co/LzDVtMuycZ
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Amanda M. Sakuma (@iamsakuma) November 21, 2025****
5M lives changed for the better
"Gracias Presidente Obama!" - chanted outside the White House
#ImmigrationReform http://t.co/XNnKJEVWWc
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) November 21, 2025When you step back from the politics of the moment, lives are changing for the better tonight and that's why we come to work everyday
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Dan Pfeiffer (@pfeiffer44) November 21, 2025****
The President did what was right, fair, and just to bring our fellow human beings out of the shadows and into the light.
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John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) November 21, 2025I just hugged my crying neighbor, a hard working Mexican immigrant with two beautiful kids
She sees a future now.
Thanks to our President.
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) November 21, 2025****
By now you should know the truth as we've witnessed it: President Obama is about healing. Republicans are about power.
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meta (@metaquest) November 21, 2025Carlos and Lupe Santibanez watch the President's #ImmigrationAction address in Denver.
Tomorrow is a bright new day. http://t.co/A0soavGSj9
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) November 21, 2025****
President Barack Obama:"You can come out of the shadows."
5M lives will be changed for the better.
Bravo, sir. http://t.co/I6nhbb3YlV
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) November 21, 2025In Chelsea shedding tears Obama offer to extend legal status to many of city's undocumented residents.#wcvb http://t.co/SzIclsMhBs
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Jorge Quiroga (@JorgeWCVB) November 21, 2025****
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we elected this man twice.
Thank you, Mr President.
#ImmigrationAction http://t.co/7N0dmbcwgR
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) November 21, 2025Mr. President @BarackObama there are no words to adequately describe your character, your compassion and your leadership. We stand with you.
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(@LiberalPhenom) November 21, 2025****
Reality check: No one who promises to reverse this executive order will be elected president in 2016.
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David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 21, 2025This is where Obama's immigration actions will help the most people ti.me/1uYP1Ho http://t.co/x4x8rj2pDb
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TIME.com (@TIME) November 20, 2025****
Even a government shutdown won't prevent Obama's immigration plan from taking effect
politicalwire.com/2014/11/20/def…
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Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) November 20, 2025Defunding Obama's immigration is not possible because agency is funded entirely by user fees
politicalwire.com/2014/11/20/def…
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Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) November 20, 2025****
"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." —President Obama #ImmigrationAction
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 21, 2025Thank you, President Obama, for taking a reasonable first step to fix our nation's broken immigration system.
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Julián Castro (@SecretaryCastro) November 21, 2025****
As an immigrant, I know firsthand the importance of having a smart/effective immigration system that supports families SJ #ImmigrationAction
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Sally Jewell (@SecretaryJewell) November 21, 2025****
Enrique Iglesias wins Latin Grammy song of year, calls tonight "historic night ... for all the Latino people living in the U.S."
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(@michaelscherer) November 21, 2025Astrid said she had no idea the president was going to tell her story http://t.co/ZnnCH07ytI
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Amanda M. Sakuma (@iamsakuma) November 21, 2025****
“Our family’s going to be able to know that these won’t be our last holidays together." on.msnbc.com/1vuHWR9
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Amanda M. Sakuma (@iamsakuma) November 21, 2025Obama's #ImmigrationAction speech piped into the #LatinGRAMMY feed and audience. #history http://t.co/ng05FeKleK
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Mari Santana (@MarielenaSan) November 21, 2025****
I am grateful for the President's leadership. By calling for action on comprehensive reform legislation, he has not ignored… (1/5)
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Deval Patrick (@MassGovernor) November 21, 2025the Congress's authority, and by using his executive authority as he has, he has not ignored his own. America's enduring strength is… (2/5)
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Deval Patrick (@MassGovernor) November 21, 2025****
her appeal to the hunger in the human heart for freedom, equality, opportunity, and fair play. That has brought aspirants to our... (3/5)
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Deval Patrick (@MassGovernor) November 21, 2025shores for centuries, to renew and replenish our culture and our economy. We need to fix the rules that govern how they come and deal…(4/5)
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Deval Patrick (@MassGovernor) November 21, 2025****
with the reality that, in the land of the free, some of our neighbors, friends and coworkers live in the shadows. (5/5)
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Deval Patrick (@MassGovernor) November 21, 2025Group outside White House chanting: "Obama. Amigo. El Pueblo esta contigo." Translation: "Obama. Friend. The public is with you."
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Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) November 21, 2025
White House.gov
I LOVE MY PRESIDENT!
Congrats Dudette :)
Lovely new post, NW! Thank you!
And …
Let us all remember that We The People OWN the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that the FCC provides to ABC, NBC, & CBS (and others) to broadcast radio and TV.
It’s long past time that we demand their licenses be revoked and issued to one or more enterprises willing to use the public’s spectrum to promote the public’s good.
This is not the first time I’ve tweeted (and written letters) on this issue, and, after tonight’s affront to our President and our Fellow Citizens, it will certainly not be the last.
#BackBarack … and be forever grateful he was willing to serve ….
Is it still ok to use your words to write the networks?
Dudette!! #!
I left a comment on the last post and it didn’t show up.
Am I in moderation
Waving Hello!
BOOM.
The President must have read DonnaDem’s tweets and comments here, LOL. :)
#Back Barack
#PassABill
The man does his job with due diligence.
Wish the fucking, clueless, lazy voters did the same.
(saw the great news in beebs. had to vent. bye.)
AMK - Just want you to know how much we have missed your insight and humor. Please come back and post anytime the spirit moves you!!!
AMK!!!!!!!
Don’t run now…you’re baaaaaaack?!?!?!?!?
Thought you’d duck in and make a comment and peeps wouldn’t notice? NO WAY MISTER! :smile: Good to see you however fleeting
You magnificent bastard, you’d better be back in the saddle soon.
AMK Hey Hey Hey! It’s good you’re here to share this momentous occasion with us. You have been missed. <3
{{{amk}}}
HEEEEEEYYY!!!! You’re BACK!!! YAY!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
OMG! I’m sooooo happy to see you!!!
So glad to celebrate with you, amk! Bye.
Hey, you, get back here, some of have words for youse! ;) (scalawag)
;-)
Good to see you AMK. Miss you.
OMG.
AMK, how good to see you!
Hope you’ve lurked here and there, and have seen how much you are missed!!!
Your lexicon, however survives.
egg.sack.lee
wimmin, smh…
not too many fursts since you’ve been gone
and except for DF in the mornings, pretty much toonless too
I guess DF’s taken your place in the teasing department — Chips would be beside herself if she didn’t have someone to (lovingly) abuse.
Won’t you rejoin us for #PBOunleashed / #PBOunplugged?
Pretty please?
This^ Arapahoe, beautifully stated.
Ah, James Moriarty? Did You Miss Me? Did You Miss Me? Did You Miss Me? Miss Me, Miss Me, Etc. ;-)
Google if you don’t know. . . ;-)
Did you, amk? ;-)
this is our venting place and also our place for hugs- you’re getting both!
AMK, you’re back!!!😄😄😄😄🍷🍷🍷🎈🎈👍👍💐💐
AMK!
My humble request to Ganesha worked :-) Yay!
So glad I peeked back in to see your vent.
Come back again anytime!
My fav Hindu god. . .
Yea I know. . .
AMK - welcome home!
OMG!! amk, we miss you a TON!!
BRAT.
Its not time to lean into the dysfunction but into the blessings. If we do we will see the honor, self sacrifice, and heart of our fellows multiply. I think its some law of nature or something :) Just look how that works on this site. We don’t put stones on each others chests of criticism, judgement and complaint (well most of the time anyway). We bless one another, the President that serves at this time, and every positive action and reaction that comes. No one said we would find this easy, right? Just worth it. It think I read that here.
LOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEEE YOU AMK!!!!!!!!
scoots over to give you a spot at the TOD table.
we have been holding down the fort for you.
egg.sack.lee
AMK….
i heard you tipped back in…so very glad to see you…we have missed you so much… smiling a big smile!
Hey, :) Hey ;), Hey, ;) Amk. Howdy?
How are the Family Unit: Wife, Daughter and Son ……plus Jenny?
All units safe and sound. son unit has aced 3 sem exams so far. two more to go. keeping toes crossed.
Thank you for this and all of your soul-stirring posts, Legend!
{{{{{ NerdyWonka }}}}}
Thanks, Dudette.
Thank you everyone for your comments and thoughts about this momentous news! Tears of joy for this most incredible man…bound to do the right thing for America and her immigrants. I’m so proud right now. I couldn’t wait to get home and watch this speech! One for all time:)
Love you. President Obama!!!
Dear df, what a momentous moment for humanity, truly!! Our President leads with a brilliance only exceeded by his empathy for every person - even those who hate him.
Truly:) He makes me proud and want to live my full potential…just like everyone has a right to do.
This is absolute truth, dudette. They will not miss a moment of their Thanksgiving vacation and as they toast the courage of the ‘immigrant’ Pilgrims on the First thanksgiving and gorge themselves on food, they will utterly miss the irony.
Thank you Chips, NW and all here at TODville for this great community. I wasn’t able to watch the speech, but have been able to catch up via this wonderful place.
I love this President, he is such a man of the world in understanding this great country.
117MightyPamela
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 pm
And here is some important (and FUN) data: Sun moves into Sagittarius (0 degrees of course) (party, party) on Saturday 22 November 2014 at 4:38amEST (1:38amPST). New Moon follows shortly afterward at 0.07 Sagittarius conjunct the Sun at 7:19amEST (4:19amPST). I might add I think PBO’s address today was excellently timed, astrologically speaking. New Moon = New Hopes, new energy, and many millions will be riding on the joy which accompanies today’s action by our finest leader. Ever.
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Hard working TOD team is amazing! Thanks for the great coverage.
I LOVE CHIPS TOO!
Thank you 28 Million Times for giving us this home to celebrate and communicate the mountain of achievements of this great President!
{{{{{ Chips-Chica! }}}}} :-D
I know, Dudette, I will never, ever be able to thank Chips, adequately, for the amazing community she created!!!
Hope amk is lurking … we love you, fella!
THIS! On BOTH counts:)
I couldn’t agree more Bob! It’s on days like today I miss amk the most! I too hope he’s out there lurking and celebrating another PBO triumph.
AMK just posted up thread ducked in and ducked out :smile:
Thanks purpleshoes!! :)
But of course! :smile:
I just saw that! The old poo-poo head better come back again… AND SOON DAMMIT, or else…!!!
Re Axelrod’s tweet, Republicans are such expert deceivers that they won’t make promises to repeal in this instance. They’d simply promise whatever works, then try repeal when/if they got in (as in ‘Read my lips. No new taxes’).
you don’t even have to go back that far. ‘Member The Orange one in 2010? and the “Laser focus on jobs”? and then passing bills to rename post offices and repealing Obamacare when they weren’t “on break”?
Yea, I had forgotten ;
‘Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!’
What a landmark evening! Wonderful to share it with TOD thanks to Chips and NW!
It’s great isn’t it? Haven’t read all of it, but nobody does it better than TOD!
Has this been posted??
http://www.thenation.com/blog/191049/when-networks-snub-presidential-address-democracy-biggest-loser
How has the American circumstance so decayed in a nation that once so well understood the wisdom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s observation that “democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s [and women’s] enlightened will”?
There’s plenty of blame to go around. But let’s start with broadcast media that are so indefensibly irresponsible that television networks cannot take time away from their relentless profiteering to present a short address by the president of the United States—an address announcing an executive order on an issue that is universally recognized as consequential and controversial.
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox—four major broadcast networks—all declined to interrupt prime-time programming to air President Obama’s Thursday evening address on immigration policy. Though cable news channels, public television stations and Spanish-language stations cleared time for the president’s speech, the big broadcast networks stuck with fare such as The Biggest Loser.
The absurdity of the choice made by the networks was only heightened by the fact that the network-aligned local television stations that were set to broadcast entertainment programs rather than the president’s address just pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars for airing the slurry of negative campaign commercials that have become the crude lingua franca of our politics. A good many of those commercials focused on the issue of immigration. And the stations that aired those ads would gladly accept more cash from groups seeking to attack or embrace the president’s position.
The result is a democratically dysfunctional imbalance where viewers of the major broadcast networks and of local television stations that carry their programming can get more information from paid political advertisements about a policy than from the policymaker himself.
Great tweet roundup, NW.
Chips’ twitter timeline is must-see TweetView tonight. Very heartwarming, uplifting and special.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, NerdyWonka. Always and forever, you bring the deep, sweet, rich, worthy, funny, and the etc. Fast, too! High joy.
Thanks, Nancie.
And watching #Scandal!
THIS! ALL OF THIS!!!
And Zizi2 posted this on the last thread:
Fortunately, @latimes, unlike rest of MSM picked up on this, and headlined on their home page this morning:
And it’s not over!! Pres Obama will be speaking in Las Vegas tomorrow. I would say 90% or more of the tweets in my TL are about the President’s speech tonight. This is such a BFD. So much hope and joy.
HF2 posted the @RalstonReports tweet early yesterday.
Here’s my response to him (before the timing of events was announced):
LOL -you were right on target araphaho! :) :) It happened exactly as you’d hoped :)
As y’all know, I’m in Nashville. Watching 9:00 Fox News. Did a report from Fort Campbell about an entire unit being totally disbanded. Three times in the report, reporter said that President Obama did this/made this decision. Or words to that effect. Get that? PO specifically makes decisions like that-what unit to cut from the Army. Stupid??
Also, at top of newscast was coverage of his speech. Interviews with Corker and Alexander-what you would expect. Worst president in history, weak, needs to resign- yes that!!!!! Can we say they are way off that deep end???!!!
This is a blow to the local community. It looks like 2,400 Army personnel will no longer be part of the military. Having grown up in a Navy town, I had no idea this could happen.
Sounds like this may be repeated in other areas of the country too as we exit from Afghanistan.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/fort-campbell/2014/11/20/fort-campbell-lose-159th-cab-2400-soldiers/70007544/
“‘No great surprise’
Area military and civic leaders have anticipated the announcement of the deactivation of the 159th CAB since March this year when the Army released a report indicating the loss of three aviation brigades.
At the time, Fort Campbell was the only post with two CABs, including the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade.”
At least PBO got the last laugh today, though apparently it sailed over the heads of GOP/MSM/Kochs:
Hang in there tnmtgirl, I think the best is yet to come. . .
Well, to the surprise of no one, Sheriff Arpaio is suing the President tonight.
Stupid racist fucker. Great idea, Joe…let’s waste even MORE of AZ taxpayer $$$!!! When will these idiots here get half a clue??
Jackass should spend more time worrying about his stuff and forget about this …..wish the DOJ would just arrest him.
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/judge-issues-stern-warning-to-sheriff-joe-arpaios-office-
Git outta here! For real?
He loves to beat his sagging chest and spout BS from time to time…he has his own problems, but he sure does like revving up the ignorant haters. It’s what he does and how he’s made his living.
Hahaha! Good waste LOTS of money on that! Yeh, go for it!
A rerun.
They’re running his speech again on MSNBC now. Guess what I’m doing? :-D
Watching it! :)
Off to bed…I need to process all of this in solitude. see you all tomorrow. :) :) Today was a good day. a really good day.
If I stayed up all night I might know all that’s going on.
thanks for posting these tweets in support of the president, jer.
I’m here too…
Okay, just had a moment to watch the speech.
We’ve never deserved this man. But we’ve never needed a person like him as much as we do now.
Normally I’d be tweeting gleefully. But with my URI/fever, I really didn’t feel like having trolls infest my mentions. I’ll just savor the moment and get back in the fight when I feel better.
Stay safe everyone. See you all tomorrow.
hope you’re better after a good sleep, lib.
oh, yeah!
Just foooor the funk of it! :-)
Because having PBO as President is funking amazing!
Daughter just texted and said she had to unfollow some people because of their comments after speech. Hate-eating them alive.
Glad she recognizes the hate and disassociates from these people! Good for her!
That is so sad. We have been overtaken by hatrd — thank you republicans and MSM.
It must be just awful to live with the hatred inside we see manifested outside………
Actually, there is still a lot of positivity despite the hate generated by the relentless GOP/MSM campaign. For every hater that tnmtngirl’s daughter had to unfollow, there were many many more who LOVED and appreciated PBO’s speech.
For six years we have seen the racists hatred from these right wing radical racists. Your daughter did the right thing. And the people I blame for this is the so call common sense Republicans, who allow their party to be taken over by these racists terrorists.
CNN is announcing that Darren Wilson is resigning from Ferguson police. Wonder what that says about grand jury report.
Darren Wilson should have been fired months ago
He should be in jail serving a life sentence for murder.
Agree 100%.
Exactly!
He can afford to resign now. Didn’t many of his supporters raise Huge amount for him on two known separate accounts? The last reported was over $700K combined. I am sure that more have been raised since then.
If he is Not indicted, those Cash would be his.
That’s P-funk as in POTUS Funk Baybeeeee! :-D
Good, good night! Off to get some much needed shut eye.
I won’t even add ‘sleep well, everybody, ’cause I somehow think that’s a given tonight.
So true, oh quiet one :)
Irrespective of whether DEMS had anything to do with PBO delaying his EO until after 4 Nov, the reality is that his doing so only AMPLIFIES the core values he enunciated, tonight, and that he always represents.
bbl …
John McCan’t said the President did this to try to regain all the votes lost for 2016
McWar is an IDIOT and that is his BEST quality …
PBO has never disappointed me. I am so glad I researched his voting record and decided to support him early on before 2008. The past actions predict future behaviors. PBO is a man of action. He acts on what he believes and does his best to keep his promises in whatever way he can legally manage it to produce the best results for Americans. We are used to politicians that take the easy route thus Lame Duck title comes to mind. Our guy is not that kind of person.
And yet another chance to bring back my favorite ’08 campaign song!
LOL - Snowjob’s services are no longer needed. Russia is in shambles. PBO is flying high…The great libertarian takeover is gone bust…
He fizzled. . .
LOL
Pretty much crickets from the MSM, BFFs with #Snowdenwald, on the GOP obstructing the USA FREEDOM Act:
NW, I can’t keep-up, but I thank you for putting the information here. :-)
This is a very insightful piece, and contains some reminders that would serve us all well when we despair over the ugliness currently out in full force:
“It wasn’t just that [PBO] promised both bipartisan reconciliation and progressive change. It’s that Obama understood American history well enough to know that progressive change only arrives through bitter, divisive, even ugly, struggle.
….
In his second inaugural, he said, “Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.” Then he name checked “Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall,” places where powerful and privileged Americans ridiculed, arrested, beat, and killed other Americans for demanding equal rights.
The part of Barack Obama that knows how change really happens in America has long been quietly at war with the part that wanted to stay on good terms with Republicans, and with powerful elites in the business and financial worlds.
…
Yes, Obama is a pragmatist. Yes, he is professorial. Yes, he wants to be liked by his ideological opponents and by the powers that be. But he also knows that were he in his twenties today—a young man of color with a foreign parent and a foreign-sounding name—he might be among those activists challenging the vicious injustice of America’s immigration system. When Obama talked about “the courage of students who, except for the circumstances of their birth, are as American as Malia or Sasha; students who bravely come out as undocumented in hopes they could make a difference in a country they love,” he wasn’t only comparing them to his daughters. He was comparing them to himself.
For progressives, this was always the real promise of Barack Obama. It was the promise that a black man with a Muslim name who had worked in Chicago’s ghettos—a man who had tasted what it means to a stranger in America—would bring that memory with him when he entered the White House. It’s a promise he fulfilled tonight.”
On Immigration, Obama Fulfills His Promise to Progressives, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/with-immigration-obama-fulfills-his-promise-to-progressives/383022/
This article gives even more depth and poignancy to his line and scripture about “strangers”
More on the Latin Grammys:
Nerdy’s laughs:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/20/hump-day-means-laughter/
Tonight, President Obama offered hope and a small measure of security to millions of immigrants who are now living in the shadows. What did you think of the President’s announcement?
English: http://sp.lc/1yvl7K4
Español: http://sp.lc/1ufJGXa
The new Constitution has accordingly with great propriety made provision against them, and all others proceeding from the defect of the confederation, on this head, by authorizing the general government to establish a uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States.
— James Madison, Federalist 42, January 22, 1787.
testing…
It worked!
Just chilling now.