I'm proud of the @NBA for taking a stand against gun violence. Sympathy for victims isn't enough - change requires all of us speaking up.
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President Obama (@POTUS) December 23, 2025Leia: help me obi wan kenobi, you're my only hope
Obi Wan: sending thoughts and prayers
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Dani Fernandez (@msdanifernandez) December 18, 2025****
'“Without people like #DanielHoltzclaw patrolling the streets, what are we?” Rapist's attorney
A woman in the gallery responded: “Safe.”
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Tahjanè (@MyNameIsTahj) December 11, 2025That moment when you realize you ain't getting away with all that rape & the tears flow. #DanielHoltzclaw https://t.co/gACUbZutfB
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Elon James White (@elonjames) December 11, 2025****
Guns deaths >(drug deaths+terror wars/terrorism deaths)
Health groups urge lifting ban on gun research via @sfclem https://t.co/L5cxcT8Ptf
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(@igorvolsky) December 12, 2025https://t.co/pwhNXjts8f
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miles reed (@milesjreed) December 11, 2025****
Top Senate staff diversity's barely budged while makeup of top WH appointees have changed dramatically under @POTUS twitter.com/DavidNakamura/…
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Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) December 09, 2025On Capitol Hill, the United States is a very, very white place, reports @janellross wpo.st/Ojbv0
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David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) December 08, 2025****
Barack Obama's favorite film this year? #TheMartian peoplem.ag/sbkWpTp https://t.co/k3BHp87rr6
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People magazine (@people) December 09, 2025This Obama version of “Hotling Bling” is all you need today bzfd.it/1P468QM https://t.co/B1nauk8WtK
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(@BuzzFeed) December 15, 2025****
LATEST: New-home construction in the U.S. rebounded in November, led by gains in single-family dwellings bloom.bg/1O8nGOE
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Bloomberg Business (@business) December 16, 2025ICYMI: The unemployment rate is now at a seven-year low. ofa.bo/t9Qf
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 10, 2025
White House.gov
Hi TOD - Christmas Eve - busy busy
A very blessed Christmas to you an your lovely family, 99ts! Lots of :star: :star: :star: and joy in your new home! <3 love from MP
Thank you MightyP - and blessings to you as well. Grandbabe & her mother are running late - this is the usual happening - we add about 4 hours to the ETA
What is time but a fleeting manner to simplify our meal times!! :) <3
Congrats 99ts on #1!
Thank you hopefruit - I woke at 4am, said hello to TOD at 5am & went back to sleep at 6am. Rather like a child on Christmas morning :)
Happy Christmas Eve eve to everyone! :)
Thanks Nerdy for this excellent tweet thread!
You’re welcome, HF. :)
w/smh
(too soon?)
The White House has posted the Obama & the Biden’s Holiday tunes on Spotify 😎☃
TODobots, you have to hear this - I have had the absolutely best-EST Christmas, and New Year’s *present* today, and from a totally unexpected source!! You can have no idea how wonderfully great I’m feeling!
Hours ago I was sitting at my laptop and running around the internet….
… when out at my door there arose such a clatter (translation = the doorbell rang).
So, I crawled down the stairs to see what was the matter.
I opened the latch and pulled open the door,
When, what to my wondering eyes did appear
But …..
….one of my former teenage guests whom I hadn’t seen or spoken to in exactly a year! She is doing exceptionally well in school and life is looking up, and she wanted me to know that the (almost) year she spent with me had made a difference for her. She is currently carrying a 94% GPA and after Christmas she’ll be focused on putting together her application for college. You have to know the back story to know how terrific this visit was, but you can accept my word that seeing her again and hearing that she is doing so well has taken a load off my mind - and has been a monumental gift! ‘Life is good’, and you know what? I am blessed.
ps: She brought me a personalized Christmas card on which she had inserted three (3) pics of Pres O! Did she get to know me or what? :) :) :) This is the kind of thing that gives *me* a *high*!
{{{VC}}} that *is* a great gift! Thanks for sharing it with us. It just shows that we never know when what we do and say will influence someone’s life for the better. <3
^5+5 +5
Did I mention that the words in her card ‘blew me away’? We both had a bit of allergy acting up. ;)
Awwww, I see you smiling from ear to ear vc. ^5
Yea! :D :D
VC, what a fabulous gift and how wonderful that your former guest recognized how much her visit would mean to you! Every time we bless someone’s life, it comes back to us, doesn’t it?
JackieG, you cannot imagine how much this means! The truth is she left me unexpectedly and in such a way that *she* wasn’t sure what her welcome would be, so to me it’s a measure of her growth that she came anyway. It’s one reason I feel so good, because now I know she is maturing and has started to blossom as I dreamed she would. :D :D :D I can only keep muttering, ‘Life’s good!’
/smh/ Don’t know why my space bar has started to stick so it’s taken me forever to respond coherently.
:)
Wonderful! What a tremendous uplifting gift!
Bill, I bet you can see my glow/grin from way over there where you are! :D :D
Thank you, Nerdy for this timely compilation.
I especially enjoyed The President’s tweet praising the NBA.
I have been saying on TOD for some time that I thought an effort against the scourge of gun violence would be well served by a public campaign promoting gun safety and sanity.
Sports heroes, comedians, actors, singers and celebrities leading the way.
Does anybody at TOD remember when we saw celebrities telling us to buckle up? That public campaign worked really well. In every TV show or movie we saw people fastening their seatbelts and now it is second nature for all of us.
Michael Bloomberg was at the WH recently and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the topic he discussed with President Obama. It may be Mr. Bloomberg’s money we see on the screen.
Great insight, Vicki!
VIDEO: Hiker’s priceless reaction to meeting President Obama on the Koko Crater Trail.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ Love this JER!
:)
loveeee this…..
i was thinking…the Secret Service need to be fit to defend the President… :D
OMG, JER, that’s AWESOME! They reacted just the way one of us would - “OMG, we LOVE YOU”! :D :D
Thanks JER :-)
Oh that so very much made my night, JER - thank you!
Tut-tut….. such a lack of enthusiasm! His media critics better believe he could win a third term. :) :) :)
That is something!
Wow!
That guy resembles the Comedian that came out as the Angry Pres Obama this year at the WHCD. I do know that wasn’t him. My eyes see a resemblance. We all have a look alike somewhere.
Thank you Nerdy for the tweets - and all your posts - sorry - I got waylaid by Mr 99 turning up with shopping
:)
Nerdy, love all of your tweets. Noticed that the Senate staffers pictured are primarily male as well as white-says a lot about the way this body is divorced from the world the rest of us live in. Hope you and your family have a truly happy and blessed Christmas. You give so much to this site and every one here is grateful for your insight, passion, and determination. You are much loved.
Yes, jackieg, NW is indeed much loved and we are grateful that she is one of us <3
Thanks so much, GGail. :)
‘You give so much to this site and every one here is grateful for your insight, passion, and determination.’
So true, Ms NerdyW. May your holidays be ‘merry and bright’, and filled with humour and your favourite loved ones!
VC - May I share a little Christmas story, about my almost-five-year-old great grandson in Florida? He had an “old” girlfriend here, before they moved back to the Sunshine State. She’s a few months younger. They had a big “goodbye scene” before he left, with his taking her over to a bench, sitting her down and saying he’d be back to visit, when she cried a little and told him how much she’d miss him. She was at two of his birthday parties, he saw her maybe once or twice a month throughout the year, and I’m tellin’ ya, it was cute as a button watching them. They’ve both “moved on,” shall we say (Ha!), but for Christmas this year, unbeknownst to him, I got her a big chunky soft stuffed animal and said it was from the two of us. I have a video of her thanking me, and then my son reminded her to thank my great grandson, too, which she did in the cutest way, huge smile on her face, gleam in her eye.
I sent the video to his Mommy in Florida, asking her to show him. He looked at it and said, “Tell her I miss her and you’re welcome.” And then he confidentially asked his Mommy, “When did I get her THAT?”
You can’t fool ’em, much as we try. Well, apparently she was fooled, but not he.
The end. <3
<3 <3 :D :D :D
This reminds me of something I said to TS earlier - I love the truthfulness and naturalness of the little ones (before they get tainted by some of those around them).
BTW, what do you mean, 'May I share…'? I sure hope you haven't been cheating on me re 'my little pistol's stories!
Ha! No cheating. He’s just so busy now playing with a new crop of friends that our phone chats go something like, “Hi, how are you? What are you doing? Do you want to talk to Mommy, now? Bye! Love ya!”
Oh dear, you’ve truly *lost* your best daytime nap partner! :D :D Cheer up, at least the love is still being verbalized.
He was never my nap partner! The kid was too busy to nap. He’d be the one waiting for me to wake up and play his game with him! I’m okay about all the changes, but I sure would like to be able to say on Christmas to him when he smiled at me, “Get that dimple back in that cheek, boy!” He’d laugh and laugh.
I’m just so lucky to have all of them in my life. Big time lucky.
Isn’t it great how it’s mostly the small things/moments in life that bring us the greatest joy! On occasion while I’m waiting for my billionaire uncle/aunt to surface, *and* remember mine and their connection ;) ;) I forget to savour the beauty that *is* my life.
Happy December 24th, JO’B!
Happy December 24th to you, too, VC! Life is made of small pleasures!
Thanks, VC! :)
Gurl, you have been relatively silent (for you) lately, so I’m trusting you are simply recharging and not going through any major challenges. Blessings and <3 NerdyW! {{{{NerdyW}}}}
^5,000,000 !!!
I thank you so very much for your heartwarming words, Jackie and I wish your family a wonderful Christmas.
GREAT PSA
Steph Curry
(same post, different quote in tweet ↓)
You go, PBO!
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The federal government (and the President) are somewhat limited in what they can do to address the problem of mass incarceration.
That is because only 13% of those incarcerated are in federal prisons - 48% of those are drug offenders. Between the President’s Clemency Initiative and the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act, that number will be dramatically reduced in the coming year. But as the numbers above demonstrate, non-violent drug offenders are a small part of the enormous state prison population.
John Pfaff, professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, described President Obama’s commutations of the sentences of Butler and Axam this way:
“The most powerful thing Obama can do is shape the national conversation,” he said. “There’s certainly no downside to Obama having done this, but more governors have to have the courage to come out and actually start commuting violent offenders’ sentences.”
In other words, President Obama has opened the door for a conversation about the much tougher issues involved in ending mass incarceration. Time for governors to step up.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2015/12/president-obama-sends-signal-to.html
This is so sweet:
Dear VC: You’ve. Got. Mail! <3
@CivilBeat
JER - No kidding, honey bunch. Take the rest of the year off with this one. Your “job” is done. <3
Thank you JOB, and Good Night! :)
classy and fine
Glancing at the time, I think it might be a good idea if I sign off too. Tomorrow is going to be mega busy doing all the things that should have wisely been done today. :D
Good night, people of TODvillage.
Goodnight, TODville!
In memory of my mother, Renata, and my grandparents, Attilio and Matilda Sari, who made the difficult passage from Tuscany in Italy and endured much like the immigrant families of today so that their children and grandchildren might have a better life. The last words from my mouth to my mother at Christmas before her death three years ago were my singing Silent Night, my favorite Christmas hymn. She woke from the sleep of Alzheimer’s with tears and a smile in recognition as I kissed her goodbye and whispered, “Io ti amo.” This from a favorite Italian male vocalist, Andrea Bocelli, also from Tuscany, who sings Silent Night with the children.
Beautiful.
So Beautiful Bill…so Beautiful…your momma is smiling down at you..
{{{{Bill}}}}. You got me all teared up! Bless you and your mother. She raised a fine man.
What an amazing memory of your beloved Mother, Bill. Thank you for sharing it with us. May she forever rest in peace.
That’s a gorgeous Silent Night. I noticed the Biden’s had Bocelli’s Adeste Fidelis on their holiday list.
Blessings to you, Bill, and to each member of your family - May the grandtwins enjoy lots of memories as you tell them about their great grandma and others! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Thank you all for the kind responses to my remembrance.
A wonderful thought:
Well, TODobots, ‘Good Morning and Happy December 24th’ to you all! Since I’ve shirked my duties all week I will naturally have to finish my preparations today, which means I’m only looking in for now. My theory is that I’m not awake yet so I can squeeze out a couple of hours more online before legitimately waking up :D and starting my mad rush. Also too, I’m heading to my cousin’s place later this evening so we can have Christmas breakfast tomorrow - a tradition she started last year. IOW, I may not be online tonight. Oh, and yea, I won’t be driving there in heavy snowfall as happened last year - the weather currently looks great outside the window! Life’s good!
Japa, I don’t know what’s up with you but you are definitely on my mind this morning so if you are lurking today, *please* say ‘Hi’.
I do miss you; it is my hope that all is well with you, your wife, and the kids and grandkids. {{{Japa}}}
Merry Christmas Eve all you dear TODers!!!
One of my favorite movie finales ever ….
Will try to be back later in the day with some “news” ….
#Hope4ALL
Have a terrific holiday, Bob. And thank you for the clip.
have a beautiful holiday …Bob…thank you for this reminder of what is most important in ife
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Good Morning TOD Family. BillR that was beautiful and God Bless you for sharing your memories. Have a great day everyone and send prayers to those that were hit by Tornadoes in the South and central states. In my part of MN we finally got some snow, ice and rain yesterday. Hazardous driving today. I still have to go out in this crap tho. LOL. Have a good one. :-)
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/24/early-bird-chat-615/
Excellent Copious Newsy Tweets, NW.
Brava! >-I
Thank you!