Elections matter
This. http://t.co/yjpaqF1Bd7
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Sara Lang (@SaraLang) June 26, 202522 photos of happy couples who got married right after the Supreme Court’s decision thkpr.gs/3674616 http://t.co/9nAuORjCR0
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 26, 2025****
On the eve of a major day for equality, the first openly gay active pro baseball player pitched a shutout: thkpr.gs/3674324
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Kiley Kroh (@kileykroh) June 26, 2025 vine.co/v/eJuJdLPLj7X
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Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) June 26, 2025****
LOL
all homophobes better beware cause my petty ass will marry your father on purpose .. respect me today or i'll be your stepfather by tomorrow
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shawty (@_chumm) June 26, 2025Here is a fainting couch for those worried about the sanctity of traditional marriage http://t.co/kvHq4TMmcD
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(@pourmecoffee) June 26, 2025****
Double rainbows over the White House. #LoveWins http://t.co/EYTxVjNv58
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Betsey Stevenson (@CEABetsey) June 26, 2025there's a rainbow over the White House right now, just the same as when Dublin had one the day Ireland legalized http://t.co/UYOenht21O
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vape dad (@lexsthetic) June 26, 2025****
This map shows every country with full marriage equality — now including the US vox.com/2015/6/26/8851… http://t.co/FvKS2RCkfH
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Vox (@voxdotcom) June 26, 2025Take a look back at the early days of the fight for gay rights ti.me/1fJDTtM http://t.co/44nylUsJA0
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TIME.com (@TIME) June 26, 2025****
Don't forget to vote for your favorite Senators, also. http://t.co/PRw8VOi4TH
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southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 26, 2025What would Jesus do? Officiate a gay marriage. And then cater it using only a loaf and a fish.
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God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 26, 2025****
I include our first truly pro-LGBT President on my list of marriage equality heroes. Obama wasn't forced. He played a long game very well.
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Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 26, 2025I would eagerly read a book about just these last 10 days of Obama's Presidency.
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Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 26, 2025****
Let's just say the @WhiteHouse is happy about today's ruling. http://t.co/coaJaX99dY
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Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) June 26, 2025New avatar for @WhiteHouse following #SCOTUS opinion on same-sex marriage: http://t.co/Y9mqVzCMVm
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David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews) June 26, 2025****
Everywhere you can get gay married in the United States, in one stunning map http://t.co/ysDDsVsURH
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 26, 2025Great step for equality, Supreme Court rules the Constitution guarantees right to gay marriage ind.pn/1LtSllT http://t.co/eZVojyjtcz
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The Independent (@Independent) June 26, 2025****
Okay? http://t.co/iPbqSfwK3D
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Chris Savage (@Eclectablog) June 26, 2025We’re on board. Diversity strengthens us all & today we celebrate #MarriageEquality & the landmark #SCOTUS decision. http://t.co/gqej2xMzIU
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American Airlines (@AmericanAir) June 26, 2025****
Good day. http://t.co/U06gWlD8rb
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Jason Goldman (@Goldman44) June 27, 2025Nailed it, right? [highfives, woot!] MT @Wayne952 @SCOTUSblog thanks for the contribution toward the end of America. Great job.
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(@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2025****
SCALIA: THIS COURT IS ASSUMING POWERS IT HAS NO BUSINESS EXERCISING BLARDY BLAR
ME: hey remember that time you picked the president
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ol' dougy bastard (@CaptainAnnoying) June 26, 2025It's a bad week to be a confederate-flag wearing homophobe who wanted to play Arkham Knight on PC.
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RAB FLORENCE (@robertflorence) June 26, 2025****
All. Of. The. Tears. :D
Jesus did do the best #hastags MT @GthesrvantofGod The Lord Jesus Christ defined marriage: #1man1woman4life! #Blasphemy
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(@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2025Ironically, Antonin Scalia actually anagrams to "I Sanction Anal."
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Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) June 26, 2025****
:)
Joe is running through the halls with a rainbow flagged tied on like a cape high fiving everyone. #MarriageEquaility #LoveWins #SCOTUS
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Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) June 26, 2025TAKING A VICTORY LAP IN THE WHITE HOUSE
@JillBidenVeep http://t.co/ce8VpGMA17
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darth!™ (@darth) June 26, 2025****
If the Founding Fathers were alive today they'd all start marrying each other.
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God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 26, 2025People say the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery, racism and oppression, but it’s also a symbol of getting your ass kicked.
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God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 24, 2025
A great day, was today!
And yes, NerdyW, elections matter!
Thank you.
:)
Thank you soooooooooooooooo much Nerdy!
:)
My only problem with Sir Derek Jacobi is that he’s an anti-Stratfordian. Other than that, I CLAUDIUS, YO.
I agree completely!
You know who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? SHAKESPEARE!
Drives me crazy, LL. These “researchers” ignore how important education was to the Elizabethan middle class. The classical references in the plays reflect a robust middle class education of the time. The school records no longer exist; but the notion that only someone of wealth could write these plays is nonsense. No questioned authorship at the time, for God’s sake. Were they collaborative? Of course. But the individual genius is clear throughout.
LOVE: I, Claudius.
WOW!
Written right after the 2012 election:
“…At various points during his first term, Obama convened evening round tables of historians at the White House. According to several in attendance, the discussions ranged widely, but the central question Obama pursued was what it would take to reach lasting greatness, beyond the color of his skin. These were not as frequent as monthly seminars, but the president talked with these scholars more often than he played golf with members of Congress (three such outings out of 104 presidential rounds on the links, according to Mark Knoller, a veteran reporter and the go-to guy for White House statistics). Since Obama is often criticized for his reluctance to play the political schmoozing game, some would argue that his pursuit of greatness might have been better served hacking around with congressmen than talking with historians, but that is not how this president operates.
…Although Obama is traditional and cautious in most respects, he moves to his own unusual rhythms. He has confidence in doing things his own way. At times he appears a bit slow to act, or detached, or overconfident, or unfocused or behind the curve. And then something happens, and all of a sudden he is not behind but ahead, and what seemed foggy becomes clear. He rationally figures out the traps and works around them in his own fashion. The trendy thing now is to give all credit for his reelection to his technologically precise and proficient ground-game-changing campaign team. It certainly worked wonders. But in the end, it always comes back to the nature of the man at the top. If he ran in some respects a disappointingly small campaign, it was in the service of something larger. Some people never grow or adapt but only become more of what they were, ending up caricatures of themselves. Throughout his life, Obama has shown a capacity to adapt, to learn from his experiences and mistakes and to become something more than he was..continued”
Even if 100% positive, I cannot read something headlined “Obama’s pursuit of greatness.”
President Obama does not pursue greatness. He just is.
You and VC are killing me today :) It is from Obama biographer/historian David Marinas and I basically pulled the interesting observation out…or so I thought :D Anyway cut me some slack, JB! I’m hunger and sleep deprived!
I will always cut you some slack, darlin’ - I just had to get my point in, before you eat and sleep! <3
I’ve got Cspan on, waiting for the president to come on so I can listen again. So glad we have these things available.
Re: deray and speechwriters…….I’ll tell you, as a white woman, no white boy named Keenan could have written that eulogy today! That speech came out of deep experience and suffering……..those phrases belong to Barack Obama, those thoughts and ideas are his, that poetry is his…..I’m sure there was some collaboration, but his speechwriters were busy with the SCOTUS case reactions. Those, they can handle. This…..belongs to the master.
no white boy named Keenan could have written that eulogy today
This is how I felt too, Carolyn, but honestly couldn’t dredge up the will to intentionally taint my euphoria by responding. ;)
carolyn, I agree with you 100000000000000%
your insights are probably correct - PBO Built This Speech!
Elections Matter. Thousand times this.
Now if we could only get the rwnj’s out of women’s vaginas.
Abortion is going to end up back at the court & it seems the RWNJs will probably lose that one as well
I hope so.
In important news; WIMBLEDON STARTS MONDAY!!!!
“Obama described himself to me then in terms of his limits—as “a relay swimmer in a river full of rapids, and that river is history.” More than a few columnists believed that Obama was now resigned to small victories, at best. But pause to think of what has happened, the scale of recent events….But the idea that Obama would play out his Presidency, after the political defeat of the midterm elections, as a professorial lame duck turns out to be without basis. And that gives a certain weight to his remarks in early 2014….I have strengths and I have weaknesses, like every President, like every person,” Obama told me. “I do think one of my strengths is temperament. I am comfortable with complexity, and I think I’m pretty good at keeping my moral compass while recognizing that I am a product of original sin. And every morning and every night I’m taking measure of my actions against the options and possibilities available to me, understanding that there are going to be mistakes that I make and my team makes and that America makes; understanding that there are going to be limits to the good we can do and the bad that we can prevent, and that there’s going to be tragedy out there and, by occupying this office, I am part of that tragedy occasionally, but that, if I am doing my very best and basing my decisions on the core values and ideals that I was brought up with and that I think are pretty consistent with those of most Americans, that, at the end of the day, things will be better rather than worse.”
“I think we are born into this world and inherit all the grudges and rivalries and hatreds and sins of the past,” he continued. “But we also inherit the beauty and the joy and goodness of our forebears. And we’re on this planet a pretty short time, so that we cannot remake the world entirely during this little stretch that we have. … But I think our decisions matter. And I think America was very lucky that Abraham Lincoln was President when he was President. If he hadn’t been, the course of history would be very different. But I also think that, despite being the greatest President, in my mind, in our history, it took another hundred and fifty years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality. I think that doesn’t diminish Lincoln’s achievements, but it acknowledges that, at the end of the day, we’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.”
http://wtop.com/dc/2015/06/national-cathedral-dean-wants-to-remove-confederate-windows/slide/1/
Go for it, I say!
{{{{{ VPBiden }}}}} Wish Jill would post a pic of him running the halls, high-fiving folks with that rainbow flag tied around his shoulders!! That could be front-paged, eh, Chipsticks?! :) <3
pssst, MP. FTR, I don’t think the VP was running around in a rainbow flag - that account is a parody account. Dr Jill’s twitter account is @DrBiden.
MP and I prefer to think it was real. Ha! (I can only speak for myself!)
:D :D
:) I can picture it anyway, and it is as cute as can be! <3
Ha! And universal healthcare!
Yep!
Bringing this over…
Thank you thank you everyone. This has truly been an amazing proclamation! I too went from every 3 months to every 6 months and stayed there for the last 4 years, to hear him say today “You don’t need me right now. Unless something develops, I don’t want to see you for another year.” I floated out of the office. It was Grace…
Congrats GGail! What a day, what a day.
Evening blog tyrant’s out there. I think I may have a comment in the moderation machine. If you would be so kind…
Found and freed, Dame Delectable!
Thank you, Love! You are most generous! :-)
the best imho.
Pure gold! :lol:
love the kenyan’s expression.
Stay in your lane :cool:
Oh my goodness, this is perfection!!!
<3 There is another very cool one, in Chipsticks' mailbox. After she gets a bit of well-deserved rest, she will bring it up!
LOL! Dear Sir, you do have quite a knack for spotting these gems! :-D
yeah, yeah, yeah. now, where is the munny?
Oh it’s coming. Keep a look out.. :-)
promises, promises, promises.
wimminz/smh
You lost that option when you kept your soul
On a rethink, I don’t need the entire soul. So …
Nononono - truth will out :)
Being as it’s almost 2pm I shall break my 4pm rule and drink to the rebirth of America.
25 comments!!!!!!!!!!!! - I’m never going to catch up today - still commenting back there
MUST READ
Reflections from PBO and David Remnick on this week’s events.
If I wake up in the morning to find that someone has written a Hosanna about PBO, I’m just gonna close the laptop and walk away…
As I’m re-watching the service tonight family, I have a serious question…
Does anyone know why Speaker Boehner showed up for the funeral today? What connection, if any, did he have with Rev. Pinckney?
It was the entire House GOP leadership (Boehner,McCarthy,Scalise…and some D House members) I guess it was like a codel but a domestic show of bi-partisanship. It was the first time Boehner ever rode of AF1 w/ President Obama as well…
Yes, I heard this was his first AF1 ride. I also don’t recall him ever showing up for any other such events where POTUS has spoken. Must’ve been shamed into this. Forgive my candor, but I swear the one and only reason I was glad he was in the building was because of this country’s rules of succession.
Ha…good point. VP Biden flew on a different plane for those exact reasons….he is also staying in SC for the weekend.
2016, he’ll have a challenger…
see m answer below
I guess according to Clarence Thomas slavery kept everyones dignity intact.
That man is a stooge. He’s an insult to my ancestors and his own. He is an affront to decent, honorable people everywhere and he repeatedly proves that he is wholly unfit for the position he holds. I’m disgusted and upset at the mere thought of him. Ugh!
it’s sad day when he made it to the supreme court.
A colossal mistake to nominate him and epic failure on the part of all who voted to confirm him.
He has served his masters well. He loves them more than he loves himself. He loves them more than they love themselves.
Indeed. Classic case, isn’t it?
Shakespeare famously said the past is prologue. The huge impact the past plays on the present and future. This is why PBO has been speaking a lot about America’s original sin, the institution of slavery. This is not a comfortable subject for anyone, but an understanding of it (and the mentality required to maintain and sustain it) is required, if we as a country will ever see meaningful improvement in race relations. Professor/Reverend PBO is giving this country an much needed history lesson. He is speaking a truth that desperately needs to be told. PBO is that rare man who is perfect for his time and position. The fact that this country elected and reelected PBO gives me hope.
TRUTH!
per bj, charlie pierce
He grabbed every live wire, unafraid.
Damn right, he did and and damn right, he is.
Well said!
No, it’s not. Both he and uncle joe were watching it happen.
Actually, that was yesterday after ACA decision.
See below for Pete Souza’s blog.
Yeah, saw it just now. Thanks. Great pics.
LOL! :-D :-D :-D
More retweetable tweets.
:)
I feel so lucky to be alive as a functioning adult at this moment’s history. To witness this Presidency in real time has been a real privilege, and to be surrounded with the love, passion and humanity of my fellow O’bots here on TOD, I can’t ask for too much more. :) :)
amen, hopefruit.
and much as i wish pbo could stay in office for a few more terms, i’m curious and excited to see his next steps-because i know they will always be on the path of righteousness.
I love the sequence of photos captured and the story as told by Mr. Souza
Dang, PBO and the Pope are just tag-teaming…
This guy is tweeting some truth today… Think about these!
Minneapolis:
Denver city/county building:
Little Rock, AR
Soooo beautiful. See now it’s times like this I wish I had some video editing skills. These just beg to be made into in a slideshow put to Ray Charles (or Beyonce) singing America the Beautiful!
Ray Charles…
:-)
Yes.
West Wing fans will understand… :-)
in fact, i think all the pundits and detractors will have to shut the fck up. this president will not only talk about whatever needs talking about, he’s getting more done than we can even imagine. anyone want to whine about being disappointed? stfu and watch.
THIS!
a few minutes to the end of my day - I don’t want this fantastic week to end!
so excited!
so full of hope - yes even the eulogy by PBO gave me so much hope because there is clearly a path forward for socio-economic and racial justice
I knew nothing about Bork until today. NY times 1987 & wiki filled in the story - mentioning many of those still around today
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/12/us/reagan-nominates-anthony-kennedy-to-supreme-court.html
Interesting speech by Sen Kennedy from wiki
“Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork declaring:
Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy … President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork#.22Saturday_Night_Massacre.22
Much of which the GOP seem to want today
THIS is the RW stupid of Australia - fear and hate - used to prop up a ghastly administration
“Terror attacks overseas show fundamentalist militants are threatening Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.
“This illustrates yet again, as far as the Daesh death cult is concerned, they’re coming after us,” he said in response to recent attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-27/abbott-condemns-spate-of-terror-attacks/6577786
How could any country elect such a government!
I’m with you there. He’s awful. One-term I say. He and his idiotic administration are nearing their end of days, let’s hope they don’t do too much damage beforehand. Our problem is the other side is not too much better. Let’s hope.
I hope you are right about the 1 term Berny - all they have tried to do such a turnaround in the last few months - I fear the others will not fight.
I am so very proud of the President of the United States.
Throughout this day I have occasionally hoped Putin and other white macho rulers like him are watching PBO. See. It’s so natural. And you’ll never have it. You’ll never have a clue.
OK friends, have to work tomorrow. See y’all then.
This is GREAT.
Just savoring the republican heads exploding and chuckling at the headlines like: Jindal: lets remove the court or Ted Cruz calls for judicial elections.
LOL
Yep. Sounds like they both think the members of the present court were elected.
And I laugh.
Did David Corn start celebrating early today?
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC - or has he just been reading @scotusblog
Gotta try to wind down. Stil 84F here in Seattle, whew. Too warm for MP. Need rain. Goodnight, y’all. Y’all means ALL!! <3 Thank you for sharing this most wondeful, love-filled day! {{{{{ TOD }}}}}
Good night! Sleep well! I’m headed to bed….finally.
of all the wondrous tweets and memes this week, i think this is my favorite, from jon favreau:
..then there was the time he sang Amazing Grace in a black church the week gay marriage and health care were enshrined as basic rights.
Night everyone:) What a week!
Yes! Excellent choice!
:) Thank you! You are the Empress of TOD music, so coming from you…this is high praise indeed! ( And I love Sting:)
Aw thanks {{{{{ desertflower! }}}}}
P.S. I love Sting too! <3
Might I just say that I LOVE all the buildings and landmarks lit up in the colors of the rainbow:) What heart is so hard that it won’t smile at the beauty of this? Fellow human beings just got the dignity they deserve today…life is good.
Question Ms Dudette asked : why did Speaker Bohner show up for the funeral in SC :
answer : it all about 2016 & its just the same reason Haley and Graham publicly claim to have changed their opinion on the confederate flag;
my take (which I shared here yesterday) is that the GOP in DC, just like the local GOP in SC, sense that there is huge sense of anger, shame and regret in much of the non-black population in the rest of the country.
they seem to feel a shift in the mood of the ordinary people who are increasingly vocal about the need to work towards elimination of bigotry and all kinds of injustice.
it is not just the “usual suspects” who are demanding changes to unfair structures. rather, other usually silent voices are joining the call and hitting the street based on their own people initiative;
in summary, the gop is beginning to think that it a significant number of voters, who they usually count on to maintain the gop in power, are uneasy with the status quo and are starting to ponder who they vote for.
the internal polling is making the gop try to put on a front that is more tolerant of racial diversity
also, they gop is hoping that the conversation doesn’t grow louder and more determined on the issue of gun control
The first two… :-D
Just gotta post this again!
With this, I say Good Night!
But wait…
So proud of our amazing President.
Okay, NOW I’m going! :-D :-D :-D
View profile at Medium.com
A few of these pictures have been posted by the whole timeline of the President’s hearing about the Health Care decision is wonderful and worth bookmarking. A victory well deserved and one that he never gave up on despite all the naysayers and vicious attacks. Yes We Can.
It’s never, EVER too late to work on your dream!
#HateWontWin <3
best president ever!
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/27/early-bird-chat-519/