Nerdy, do you know of any way that we could all sign an e-card for Chips? I haven’t the foggiest idea of how to go about it, but sometimes at Christmas I get one of these online. Do you think it’s possible for such a large group?
Trump Adviser Claims Tax Plan Won’t Cost Money And Expects People To Take His Word For It
BY BRYCE COVERT
JUN 27, 2025 3:36 PM
In its analysis, Moody’s included the finding of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, which concluded that Trump’s tax plan would cost the government $9.5 trillion over a decade based on its own complex modeling. It wasn’t the only place to come to a similar conclusion. The more progressive Citizens for Tax Justice found it would cost $12 trillion over a decade; the more conservative Tax Foundation, which takes into account assumptions that tax cuts spur economic growth, still found it would cost $10.14 trillion over a decade.
But Navarro argues those findings can’t be true because Trump says his tax plan will be revenue neutral. “One of the worst mistakes of the Moody’s report is to ignore the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s tax reform plan, revenue neutrality. This principle is clearly stated on the Trump website,” Navarro’s report says. “It follows that under revenue neutrality, none of the downstream negative effects predicted by the Moody’s report occur.”
Navarro doesn’t offer his own modeling or analysis. “I don’t have the elaborate model of Moody’s,” he told the Washington Post in an interview. “The basic foundation of my analysis is, ‘garbage in, garbage out.
Justice Thomas Passionately Argues That Convicted Domestic Abusers Need Easier Access To Guns
BY LAUREL RAYMOND
JUN 27, 2025 2:25 PM
Today the Supreme Court handed down two decisions: The first is a monumental, headline-grabbing defeat for anti-abortion groups. The second is a highly technical case about gun rights that’s being mostly overlooked.
In the dissenting opinion for the latter case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argues that convicted domestic abusers have been defrauded of their right to deadly weapons.
At-issue in Voisine v. United States is a technical question of whether two men with convictions for “reckless” domestic assault fall under a federal law prohibiting people convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” from possessing a firearm. The law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing firearms wasn’t the question under discussion — instead, the question was how far that law reached over certain states’ differing domestic assault laws.
Justice Thomas, however, was very concerned in arguments about the broader law that domestic abusers at large can’t have guns — breaking 10 years of silence on the Court to complain at arguments in February.
Justice Thomas cannot retire soon enough. His opinions have never shown the slightest concern for human life and he seems always to drip contempt for women.
The closest I ever came to being physically abused in my marriage (emotional abuse was constant) was when I ordered the wrong thing from Boston Chicken for my husband. He threw the plate at the wall and came really close to hitting me.
It’s just amazing to me that something so trivial — a meal (it’s not as if it’s a lifetime experience, you’re gonna eat something else in a few hours) can trigger such anger and abuse in some people, leading to tragic outcomes at times.
But in my mind it underscores why firearms should not be accessible to people who are prone to violence over a perceived slight.
Those who “support the second Amendment” regardless of whether there’s reason to believe that others may be harmed/killed choose to cling to the “shall not be infringed” phrase of the Amendment, and nothing else.
Mentioned before that after the Roseburg OR shooting, heard an interview with a woman who said that mentally ill people are entitled to firearms because the second Amendment right “shall not be infringed.”
Its about control. There is no conflict just control issues. Things build inside the abuser, tension of sorts, until the top blows off again. Its a vicious cycle. Eventually the cycles happen almost constantly, there is not interval in between. Nothing the other person can do to ward it off but get away and even that is incredibly risky with the inconsistant way our society deals with this issue.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats Jackie, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD”ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you lookout for the health, interest, and well-being of others today. ❤ ❤❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Yes, our First Lady and First Daughters look stunning! Here are a few more nice ones. It’s from that UK tabloid so I don’t read the ignorant comments, I just enjoy the gorgeous pics!
"You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right. Nobody wants you to act like a boy. People want and need to value you because of who you are, because of your story, because of your challenges. That’s what makes you unique." —@MichelleObama talking with young girls in Unification Town, Liberia. Follow along with the First Lady during her #LetGirlsLearn trip to Africa & Spain on Snapchat 👻 'MichelleObama'
A photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on
You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right. I love the fact that FLOTUS told those young girls that. Wow, it touches my heart..
28 JUN: US First Lady Michelle Obama has started her Let Girls Learn tour in the West African state of Liberia. Accompanied by her mother and two daughters, Ms Obama is promoting the importance of education for girls worldwide. #BBCShorts @BBCNews #MichelleObama #Obama #Liberia #62MillionGirls #LetGirlsLearn
TODers. This is a site that allows us all to sign a group sympathy card for Chips. Please take a look and we can decide if we want to go this route. The cost is minimal. I’ve got to run out for a few hours, but if you think it’s the right thing to do and anyone wants to start this, please go ahead.
What if I told you that billionaires who avoid taxes are screwing you worse than immigrants who want to pay taxes?https://t.co/zZvuVzqtZk
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 28, 2025
Greedy rich men want you to blame minorities for the things greedy rich men do. Any bigotry is an attack on workers, the middle class and America.
Trump is using racism to scam white voters and make them poorer. And he’s doing it the same way conservatives have for decades.
The reactionary economic agenda made possible by dog-whistle politics is responsible not just for the devaluing of black lives but for the declining fortunes of the majority of white families. College costs have soared because anti-government dog whistling has mainstreamed extreme cuts to state budgets. Union busting, which drives down wages and benefits for all workers, has become popular because the image of the union worker has been tarred: now not a white man in a hardhat but a black woman behind a bureaucrat’s counter. When conservatives vilify every modest public benefit, from healthcare subsidies to unemployment insurance, as handouts to the undeserving, the social contract is shredded for everyone. By exposing how the political manipulation of racial anxiety has hollowed out of the middle class, [we] can elevate a simple message: When racism wins, everyone loses.
It’s time to point out that thing that conservatives hate most about government is that it’s the only thing that can stop them from ripping off the middle class. And if we stand together, we can have a future where guys like Donald Trump are actually held responsible for their rhetoric and their back taxes.
This same issue regarding the “whiteness narrative” is exquisitely addressed in the HBO movie #AllTheWay, which is about LBJ’s successful efforts to pass the 1964 Civil Rights bill. I have never seena movei so beautifully and perfectly confront the real purpose behind the “whiteness narrative.”
swbluega, I drive by the tobacco fields here in North Carolina, and who do I see in that field? It isn’t the ones who are claiming that the immigrates are taking their jobs.
Dear TOD folk, I wonder if you could help me with a little problem I’m having. A little while ago I read a quote about leadership - I was pretty certain it was from President Obama. I wanted to make a nice print of it to give to my principal as I retire. I think it fits his leadership style quite well. I asked my son to design it and of course, now I can’t find it. I thought I had bookmarked it, and also sent it to my school email and saved it on my computer. Can’t find it anywhere, and a google search is doing me no good. It was about how leaders identify talented, competent people and then empower them to solve problems. It was a great quote. If anyone recognizes it or something close to it, I would DEEPLY appreciate you pointing me to it. My last day is Thursday, but he might not be in the office that day. I know he will be there tomorrow, which gives me some time to get it done, but not much!
maryl1, I remember tweeting about that quote because I loved it so much. But I just did a search and can’t find it. I think it’s from one of his town halls abroad…….I’ll keep searching and will post if I find it.
OK, so I found these tweets that I posted on April 23rd.
Paving the way to encourage greatness in others.
— meta (@metaquest) April 23, 2025
This is the UK Town Hall quote where I heard these concepts:
“Two things I’m pretty good at — one is attracting talent. And anybody who wants to be a leader, I would advise you to spend a lot of time thinking about how am I helping other people do great things. Because, as President of the United States, I am dealing with so many issues and I can’t be expert on everything, and I can’t be everywhere. And the one thing I can do is assemble a team of people who are really good and really smart and really committed, and care about their mission, and have integrity, and then give them the tools, or get rid of the barriers, or help coach them so that they can do a great job.
And I think leaders who think that their primary job is to make everybody do exactly what they want, as opposed to helping to organize really talented people to collectively go to where we need to go typically stumble. You should be predisposed to other people’s power — how can I make the people around me do great things. If they do, then, by definition, I’ll succeed, because that’s my job, is to get this team moving in the right direction.”
Great! Thanks, Meta. I saw it in a more abbreviated form, but this will work! I was beginning to think I’d dreamt it because it didn’t show up in any search, no matter how I worded it!
The right wing haters can complain about FLOTUS trip to Africa and Spain, as a waste of taxpayers money, but they have no problem with investigating Benghazi for the 100 time.
Already wobbling with accusations, some by its own Republican members, that it’s been running a Hillary Clinton hit squad since May 2014, leaders of the panel struggled Sunday to fend off new charges that they had mischaracterized the former secretary of state’s handling of sensitive intelligence.
In a letter on Sunday, Representative Elijah Commings, the panel’s top Democrat, blasted committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) for accusing Clinton of sending emails from her private server containing “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but human lives.”
“The problem with your accusation—as with so many others during this investigation,” Cummings responded in a letter Sunday, “is that you failed to check your facts before you made it, and the CIA has now informed the Select Committee that you were wrong.”
Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi…
You know… The republicans love to point to the movie 13 hours?
I watched that move…
And nothing in that movie points to Hillary as a evil person.
You could have drawn the same conclusion about General petreas who was CIA director at the time.
Coke to think of it… Why didn’t he order his assets tongue area? Where the hell
Was he?
Oh ya he was banging his mistress in Tampa. I forgot.
Just saying.
What about the funding for security requested and denied by Congress? Did I imagine hearing this at some point, because no one seems to bring it up? Or is Congress not doing *its* job not permissible to include in explaining the events?
Tnmtngirl on June 28, 2025 at 6:58 am
GM, TOD. R.I.P. Pat Summit. A legend.
We aren’t in Knoxville. Made a quick trip back to northern OH (where we lived for 18 years). Two “young” men who my husband hired in 1978 are retiring so we came back for their event. Also, my husband’s former boss has had numerous TIA’s fairly recently. We knew we needed to get back to see him………stop talking about it and do it. Well also see a few other folks. Head back tomorrow.
So, a meaningful day for us: www. thespiritofvillarosa.com, official publication release date today!! Much excitement and anticipation for my daughter, who has been the social media and media relations representative, working very hard with great dedication towards this day! Check it out! Especially if you have ties to or interest in Haiti, where much of the tale is set. This is the true life story of a White House photographer in the Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft administrations. Fascinating!
Hey, I’ll be bold and ask everyone who tweets to please tweet out the link; you will be making a tremendous contribution to changing the way many people see history! Trust me!
Oh! Fabulous, amazing isn’t it? I know there is much more to be seen in a story like this, I find I’m left with a deep interest in the chieftesses of Voudoo. There must be some powerful energy around those women.
Full disclosure: It is sitting in the number two position on my “To Read” stack… Occupying #1 spot is Quilt of Souls by Phyllis Lawson. Started reading it last summer, however, put it down because I didn’t have time to give my full attention. This book is like a fine wine, to be savored and enjoyed. I’ve scheduled two days mid-July to sit in my backyard sanctuary and drink it all in. I gave this book to several relatives for Christmas, they LOVED it!
from the website: http://www.quiltofsouls.com/home
“Quilt of Souls is a book the world needs to have. It is more than my personal memoir; it is a historical unveiling of hushed bloodlines and stories of a time and place that got swept under the carpet- powerful, intense, poignant stories that need to be heard.
At the age of four years old, I was plucked off my front porch, from the only family I knew, and delivered sixteen hours away to land on the doorstep of Grandmother Lula, who I never met before. I was abandoned by my mother, pure and simple. I needed a miracle and that miracle took the form of an old tattered quilt (a family heirloom) that my grandmother made out of the clothing of long lost loved ones who died in the face of extreme bigotry, racism and ugliness that was pervasive to that time.
Lula Horn (1883-1986), through oral tradition, and through the weaving of ripped up pieces of clothes transformed into quilts, told me the tragic stories of my ancestor’s lives and deaths. Each piece of cloth woven into the quilt had the blood, sweat and tears of Black people living and dying at the hands of unconscionable injustices. The weaving of their clothing into a quilt mended each broken life back together with each pull of the thread.
No matter your ethnicity, this book will transport you back in time and will break your heart wide open. It will make you laugh, cry, and swell with hope and resilience. Out of the grave agony of despair comes healing for many generations. Quilt of Souls is about the strength of Black women who prevailed before and after the turn of the century, a demographic that has gone unrecognized, with no celebration of the lives they endured and upheld. The untold stories of these women who were quilt makers, laundresses, and butter churners are revealed in this book. It tells of how they survived and provided for their children and the grandchildren they raised.
Seamlessly written, Quilt of Souls is a book that needs to be brought to the forefront. It is a rare story not only due to the complexities and intricacies of the quilt as a physical object, but also what it stands for metaphorically. It speaks about, and unearths, the taboo subjects that were only heard in whispers during that era.
The quilt on the cover of my memoir is the actual quilt that’s the subject of my book.
The RNC Has a Plan: Go After Clinton’s VP Pick
by Nancy LeTourneau
June 28, 2025 8:59 AM
As we watch the fissures within the Republican Party deepen with the candidacy of Donald Trump, Sam Stein reports that the RNC has a plan for the presidential race. It basically comes down to that old schoolyard taunt of saying, “yeah I’m one, but so are you!” In other words, they’ll pretend that the Democratic Party is as ruptured as they are. How quaint is it that they’ve named this effort “Project Pander?”
In a detailed memo outlining its strategy to combat Clinton’s VP choice, the committee says it will frame the selection as both a cynical play to certain constituencies and as an emotional letdown for voters who backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic primary.
The goals, the memo says, are to “drive wedges between these top contenders and either Clinton and/or traditional Democrat constituencies, such as labor, environmentalists, and gun control advocates, and other traditional left-wing constituencies;” and “[w]here applicable, frame the choice as an insult to the large, deep base of Bernie Sanders supporters who are struggling with the notion of supporting Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democrat nominee.”
Here’s how it plays out: no matter who Hillary Clinton picks as her running mate, the RNC plans to cast them as an “emotional letdown” to voters who supported Sanders. Apparently they’ve already done their opposition research on the top six contenders. For example:
I blame this on Sanders…if he had conceded and backed Hillary…they would not be able to do this….i am willing to bet that they had the same strategy in 2008
President Obama On ‘Brexit’, Trump, and the Politics of Middle-Class Revolt
“Mr. Trump embodies global elites and has taken full advantage of it his entire life,” the president said. “So, he’s hardly a spokesperson…a legitimate spokesperson for a populist surge of working class people on either side of the Atlantic.”
You know desertflower, In FLOTUS interview with Oprah, we put the focus on what FLOTUS said about POTUS’s swag, but what she said after that was just as important.
The GOP’s Shameless Politicization of Zika
by Martin Longman
June 28, 2025 12:07 PM
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But Zika is particularly frightening because it appears to cause birth defects in utero, including microcephaly, a severe brain abnormality.
And it can be transmitted by the mosquitos that are swarming around me right now. All they need is a population of infected people to bite, and that is fortunately what they do not yet have here in Pennsylvania. There was a baby down in Florida born with Zika-related microcephaly recently, but the mother contracted the disease in Haiti. So far, they’ve found about two dozen cases of Zika in my state, but they are likewise cases of people coming home from the tropics. Unless a mosquito bites one of those travelers and then bites me, I don’t have to worry because I don’t think I’ll be having intimate relations with any of them (which could also transmit the virus to me). It’s easy to see how the virus could go from being extremely rare to a full blown epidemic if we aren’t very vigilant.
And that’s why the president has requested $1.9 billion in emergency spending. But the Republicans in Congress see this emergency as an opportunity to win concessions from the Democrats and the administration that they could not otherwise get. That the Republicans’ funding bill is $800 million short of what was asked of them is a concern, but I also assume that the administration highballed them knowing that they’d get shortchanged. So, I’m not all that worried that the funding level will be inadequate. What concerns me is that the Democrats in the Senate feel compelled to filibuster the bill and that the administration has issued a veto threat.
Why, for example, was this funding tied to a bill for the Veterans’ Affairs administration? And why does the bill remove language that already passed in Congress to limit the display of the Confederate Flag in veterans’ cemeteries? What does Robert E. Lee have to do with the Zika virus? And why does it block spending for Planned Parenthood and contraceptive efforts that could be key to preventing tragic pregnancies? Even Pope Francis has relaxed the Catholic Church’s traditional opposition to contraception in response to the Zika outbreak, but Congressional Republicans can’t make the same concession?
Meanwhile, the Republicans are eager to blame the Democrats if they refuse to go along with their hardball tactics.
While Donald Trump’s campaign claimed that the candidate personally donated millions to charity between 2008-2015, Washington Post investigation out Tuesday only managed to find one donation amounting to less than $10,000.
Only 11 out of 167 charities to which Trump had some link told the Post that they had received a personal donation from the real estate mogul. Another 77 said they never received such a gift, 39 declined to comment and 40 didn’t respond to the newspaper’s inquiries.
The most recent personal gift discovered by the Post was submitted to the Police Athletic League in 2009 and amounted to under $10,000. The donations to the league were counted in $5,000 blocks, making it impossible to determine the precise amount, but Trump’s contribution was between $5,000-$9,999.
Donald Trump is having trouble putting together a full-fledged presidential campaign. Trump has a staff of little more than 70 people, compared to more than 700 for Hillary Clinton.
The problem: many experienced Republican operatives do not want to work for him.
Today Trump was able to fill a key role. Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for Ted Cruz, signed up to be Trump’s communications director.
Before Miller signed on, however, he had some cleaning up to do. Miller deleted dozens of harshly anti-Trump tweets from his Twitter account, many of them authored just a few weeks ago.
ThinkProgress was able to recover cached versions of Miller’s deleted anti-Trump tweets.
Hello TOD.
Thanks NW, LP, Amk & the rest of the TOD Twitter Brigades, TOD Contributors/Commenters & Lurkers.
{{{{❤ Chips & Family ❤ }}}}
Congrats to Gold⭐ winners since last night.
WH Presser with Josh "The Voice" Earnest is Now LIVE.
Brenner profiled Trump for the magazine in 1990, and the mogul hated the piece. “The story was, in fact, one of the worst ever written about me,” he complained in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback. He also noted that Brenner was an “unattractive reporter.”
Trump got his revenge, though. Another Trump profile, this one in New York magazine, reported in 1992 that he “boasts about having poured a whole bottle of wine down Marie Brenner’s back after she wrote a story on him that hated.” Trump was still boasting five years later: The New Yorker’s Mark Singer, who profiled the mogul in 1997, relates in his new book, Trump and Me, that Trump told him he’d gotten even “by pouring red wine down Marie’s dress at a charity dinner.”
There’s more examples of his bullying, petty and vindictive self at the link. What a fucking moron.
House Republican lawmakers sought to reverse previously passed legislation restricting the display of the Confederate flag in federal cemeteries by slipping a provision stripping the legislation into a larger appropriations bill that included Zika funding. The House bill passed last week on largely partisan lines, but was blocked in the Senate Tuesday by a Democratic filibuster.
The Confederate flag language was just one of a number controversial provisions included in the bill, which also included an amendment cutting Planned Parenthood funding and other swipes at the Obama administration’s public health initiatives.
White House.gov
Morning.
Nerdy, do you know of any way that we could all sign an e-card for Chips? I haven’t the foggiest idea of how to go about it, but sometimes at Christmas I get one of these online. Do you think it’s possible for such a large group?
Jackie, I believe it can be done on Hallmark.com or http://www.inkandmain.com by Hallmark.
Thank you, RanMan.
Good Morning, Everyone
RIP Pat Summitt.
She was a trailblazer.
Gone entirely too soon.
So agree. RIP Pat Summitt.
We’ve lost two greats in two days; Pat Summitt and Buddy Ryan. May they play and coach for all of eternity in perfect peace❤
❤
TARGET SIGNAGE IN MY BACKYARD?..I WENT SHOPPING AND BOUGHT SOME BIG ONES!
Trump Adviser Claims Tax Plan Won’t Cost Money And Expects People To Take His Word For It
BY BRYCE COVERT
JUN 27, 2025 3:36 PM
In its analysis, Moody’s included the finding of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, which concluded that Trump’s tax plan would cost the government $9.5 trillion over a decade based on its own complex modeling. It wasn’t the only place to come to a similar conclusion. The more progressive Citizens for Tax Justice found it would cost $12 trillion over a decade; the more conservative Tax Foundation, which takes into account assumptions that tax cuts spur economic growth, still found it would cost $10.14 trillion over a decade.
But Navarro argues those findings can’t be true because Trump says his tax plan will be revenue neutral. “One of the worst mistakes of the Moody’s report is to ignore the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s tax reform plan, revenue neutrality. This principle is clearly stated on the Trump website,” Navarro’s report says. “It follows that under revenue neutrality, none of the downstream negative effects predicted by the Moody’s report occur.”
Navarro doesn’t offer his own modeling or analysis. “I don’t have the elaborate model of Moody’s,” he told the Washington Post in an interview. “The basic foundation of my analysis is, ‘garbage in, garbage out.
There’s no other way to put this:
He’s just a phucking embarrassment.
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Justice Thomas Passionately Argues That Convicted Domestic Abusers Need Easier Access To Guns
BY LAUREL RAYMOND
JUN 27, 2025 2:25 PM
Today the Supreme Court handed down two decisions: The first is a monumental, headline-grabbing defeat for anti-abortion groups. The second is a highly technical case about gun rights that’s being mostly overlooked.
In the dissenting opinion for the latter case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argues that convicted domestic abusers have been defrauded of their right to deadly weapons.
At-issue in Voisine v. United States is a technical question of whether two men with convictions for “reckless” domestic assault fall under a federal law prohibiting people convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” from possessing a firearm. The law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing firearms wasn’t the question under discussion — instead, the question was how far that law reached over certain states’ differing domestic assault laws.
Justice Thomas, however, was very concerned in arguments about the broader law that domestic abusers at large can’t have guns — breaking 10 years of silence on the Court to complain at arguments in February.
Justice Thomas cannot retire soon enough. His opinions have never shown the slightest concern for human life and he seems always to drip contempt for women.
History will certainly show that we should have listened to Anita.
GM rikyrah.
Someone should pass this along to Justice Thomas (from Jan):
The closest I ever came to being physically abused in my marriage (emotional abuse was constant) was when I ordered the wrong thing from Boston Chicken for my husband. He threw the plate at the wall and came really close to hitting me.
GM maryl1.
Sorry to hear about your experience.
It’s just amazing to me that something so trivial — a meal (it’s not as if it’s a lifetime experience, you’re gonna eat something else in a few hours) can trigger such anger and abuse in some people, leading to tragic outcomes at times.
But in my mind it underscores why firearms should not be accessible to people who are prone to violence over a perceived slight.
Those who “support the second Amendment” regardless of whether there’s reason to believe that others may be harmed/killed choose to cling to the “shall not be infringed” phrase of the Amendment, and nothing else.
Mentioned before that after the Roseburg OR shooting, heard an interview with a woman who said that mentally ill people are entitled to firearms because the second Amendment right “shall not be infringed.”
JHC.
But our right to life can be infringed like billy-o.
Its about control. There is no conflict just control issues. Things build inside the abuser, tension of sorts, until the top blows off again. Its a vicious cycle. Eventually the cycles happen almost constantly, there is not interval in between. Nothing the other person can do to ward it off but get away and even that is incredibly risky with the inconsistant way our society deals with this issue.
Step down, you stupid fool. 10 years of silence, all the while collecting your compensation, and this is the best you can do? Step down.
This!
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats Jackie, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD”ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you lookout for the health, interest, and well-being of others today. ❤ ❤❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!
Congrats Jackie on #1, and Happy Tuesday everyone,
NBC/national poll (change from last week):
Hillary 49 (+1)
Trump 41 (-1)
Hillary’s biggest lead since NBC began tracking poll.
Good Morning Everybody.
First Lady Michelle Obama & daughters in Morocco recieved by HRH Princess Lalla Salma Marrakech
Everyone in this image looks gorgeous. I love the slanted hemlines on both FLOTUS and Sasha and Princess Lalla’s dress is glorious.
Yes, our First Lady and First Daughters look stunning! Here are a few more nice ones.
It’s from that UK tabloid so I don’t read the ignorant comments, I just enjoy the gorgeous pics!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3663330/Next-stop-Morocco-Michelle-Sasha-Malia-Obama-arrive-Marrakesh.html
Such lovely ladies!
You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right. I love the fact that FLOTUS told those young girls that. Wow, it touches my heart..
TODers. This is a site that allows us all to sign a group sympathy card for Chips. Please take a look and we can decide if we want to go this route. The cost is minimal. I’ve got to run out for a few hours, but if you think it’s the right thing to do and anyone wants to start this, please go ahead.
http://www.groupcard.com/cr/n4jQ0sIGHol
Looks good jackie. Let us know when we start.
Jackie, I think this is a great idea, and I’m sure the cost is small; I’d be happy to pay it.
I’m for it Jackie.
Absolutely!
Yes, I’m in.
I think this is a great idea.
Good Tuesday, Nerdy…TOD Family.
Greedy rich men want you to blame minorities for the things greedy rich men do. Any bigotry is an attack on workers, the middle class and America.
Trump is using racism to scam white voters and make them poorer. And he’s doing it the same way conservatives have for decades.
The reactionary economic agenda made possible by dog-whistle politics is responsible not just for the devaluing of black lives but for the declining fortunes of the majority of white families. College costs have soared because anti-government dog whistling has mainstreamed extreme cuts to state budgets. Union busting, which drives down wages and benefits for all workers, has become popular because the image of the union worker has been tarred: now not a white man in a hardhat but a black woman behind a bureaucrat’s counter. When conservatives vilify every modest public benefit, from healthcare subsidies to unemployment insurance, as handouts to the undeserving, the social contract is shredded for everyone. By exposing how the political manipulation of racial anxiety has hollowed out of the middle class, [we] can elevate a simple message: When racism wins, everyone loses.
It’s time to point out that thing that conservatives hate most about government is that it’s the only thing that can stop them from ripping off the middle class. And if we stand together, we can have a future where guys like Donald Trump are actually held responsible for their rhetoric and their back taxes.
http://www.eclectablog.com/2016/06/the-one-word-we-have-to-use-to-describe-trumps-racism-strategic.html
Excellent MUST READ. Thanks for this, swbluega:)
This same issue regarding the “whiteness narrative” is exquisitely addressed in the HBO movie #AllTheWay, which is about LBJ’s successful efforts to pass the 1964 Civil Rights bill. I have never seena movei so beautifully and perfectly confront the real purpose behind the “whiteness narrative.”
swbluega, I drive by the tobacco fields here in North Carolina, and who do I see in that field? It isn’t the ones who are claiming that the immigrates are taking their jobs.
That’s a very true statement. Thanks sw for posting it!
GM, TOD! Getting ready for houseguests…
Serena won 6-2, 6-4.
Dear TOD folk, I wonder if you could help me with a little problem I’m having. A little while ago I read a quote about leadership - I was pretty certain it was from President Obama. I wanted to make a nice print of it to give to my principal as I retire. I think it fits his leadership style quite well. I asked my son to design it and of course, now I can’t find it. I thought I had bookmarked it, and also sent it to my school email and saved it on my computer. Can’t find it anywhere, and a google search is doing me no good. It was about how leaders identify talented, competent people and then empower them to solve problems. It was a great quote. If anyone recognizes it or something close to it, I would DEEPLY appreciate you pointing me to it. My last day is Thursday, but he might not be in the office that day. I know he will be there tomorrow, which gives me some time to get it done, but not much!
maryl1, I remember tweeting about that quote because I loved it so much. But I just did a search and can’t find it. I think it’s from one of his town halls abroad…….I’ll keep searching and will post if I find it.
OK, so I found these tweets that I posted on April 23rd.
This is the UK Town Hall quote where I heard these concepts:
“Two things I’m pretty good at — one is attracting talent. And anybody who wants to be a leader, I would advise you to spend a lot of time thinking about how am I helping other people do great things. Because, as President of the United States, I am dealing with so many issues and I can’t be expert on everything, and I can’t be everywhere. And the one thing I can do is assemble a team of people who are really good and really smart and really committed, and care about their mission, and have integrity, and then give them the tools, or get rid of the barriers, or help coach them so that they can do a great job.
And I think leaders who think that their primary job is to make everybody do exactly what they want, as opposed to helping to organize really talented people to collectively go to where we need to go typically stumble. You should be predisposed to other people’s power — how can I make the people around me do great things. If they do, then, by definition, I’ll succeed, because that’s my job, is to get this team moving in the right direction.”
Full speech here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/23/remarks-president-obama-town-hall-young-leaders-uk
This is the video:
Great! Thanks, Meta. I saw it in a more abbreviated form, but this will work! I was beginning to think I’d dreamt it because it didn’t show up in any search, no matter how I worded it!
Anyway, hope this helps. If not the one you’re looking for, maybe it will help jog your memory or other TODers’.
GM TODville.
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The right wing haters can complain about FLOTUS trip to Africa and Spain, as a waste of taxpayers money, but they have no problem with investigating Benghazi for the 100 time.
“ANOTHER BAD DAY FOR THE BENGHAZI COMMITTEE”
http://www.newsweek.com/another-bad-day-benghazi-panel-384592
Already wobbling with accusations, some by its own Republican members, that it’s been running a Hillary Clinton hit squad since May 2014, leaders of the panel struggled Sunday to fend off new charges that they had mischaracterized the former secretary of state’s handling of sensitive intelligence.
In a letter on Sunday, Representative Elijah Commings, the panel’s top Democrat, blasted committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) for accusing Clinton of sending emails from her private server containing “some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but human lives.”
“The problem with your accusation—as with so many others during this investigation,” Cummings responded in a letter Sunday, “is that you failed to check your facts before you made it, and the CIA has now informed the Select Committee that you were wrong.”
Most people with any darn sense see the Trumps for what they are. Except the racists folks here in America.
PRICELESS!
Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi…
You know… The republicans love to point to the movie 13 hours?
I watched that move…
And nothing in that movie points to Hillary as a evil person.
You could have drawn the same conclusion about General petreas who was CIA director at the time.
Coke to think of it… Why didn’t he order his assets tongue area? Where the hell
Was he?
Oh ya he was banging his mistress in Tampa. I forgot.
Just saying.
I agree….it is Betrayus that was at fault.
Well where the report on him? That’s my question media …afraid to ask that question?
What about the funding for security requested and denied by Congress? Did I imagine hearing this at some point, because no one seems to bring it up? Or is Congress not doing *its* job not permissible to include in explaining the events?
Oh!!!! Someone else *did* remember it… not just my imagination…
Gowdy refuses to say that Hillary Clinton was ” culpable “. hahahahaaaaa
Rest in Peace Coach Pat Summitt. I had so much admiration for this woman. A great human being.
Sad day in Knoxville. See my post on previous thread. If someone could bring it over (end of thread), would appreciate.
Tnmtngirl on June 28, 2025 at 6:58 am
GM, TOD. R.I.P. Pat Summit. A legend.
We aren’t in Knoxville. Made a quick trip back to northern OH (where we lived for 18 years). Two “young” men who my husband hired in 1978 are retiring so we came back for their event. Also, my husband’s former boss has had numerous TIA’s fairly recently. We knew we needed to get back to see him………stop talking about it and do it. Well also see a few other folks. Head back tomorrow.
So, a meaningful day for us: www. thespiritofvillarosa.com, official publication release date today!! Much excitement and anticipation for my daughter, who has been the social media and media relations representative, working very hard with great dedication towards this day! Check it out! Especially if you have ties to or interest in Haiti, where much of the tale is set. This is the true life story of a White House photographer in the Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft administrations. Fascinating!
Hey, I’ll be bold and ask everyone who tweets to please tweet out the link; you will be making a tremendous contribution to changing the way many people see history! Trust me!
MP,
(darn finger slip…) MP, received my autographed copy several weeks ago. Thanks for the recommendation!
Oh! Fabulous, amazing isn’t it? I know there is much more to be seen in a story like this, I find I’m left with a deep interest in the chieftesses of Voudoo. There must be some powerful energy around those women.
Full disclosure: It is sitting in the number two position on my “To Read” stack… Occupying #1 spot is Quilt of Souls by Phyllis Lawson. Started reading it last summer, however, put it down because I didn’t have time to give my full attention. This book is like a fine wine, to be savored and enjoyed. I’ve scheduled two days mid-July to sit in my backyard sanctuary and drink it all in. I gave this book to several relatives for Christmas, they LOVED it!
from the website: http://www.quiltofsouls.com/home
“Quilt of Souls is a book the world needs to have. It is more than my personal memoir; it is a historical unveiling of hushed bloodlines and stories of a time and place that got swept under the carpet- powerful, intense, poignant stories that need to be heard.
At the age of four years old, I was plucked off my front porch, from the only family I knew, and delivered sixteen hours away to land on the doorstep of Grandmother Lula, who I never met before. I was abandoned by my mother, pure and simple. I needed a miracle and that miracle took the form of an old tattered quilt (a family heirloom) that my grandmother made out of the clothing of long lost loved ones who died in the face of extreme bigotry, racism and ugliness that was pervasive to that time.
Lula Horn (1883-1986), through oral tradition, and through the weaving of ripped up pieces of clothes transformed into quilts, told me the tragic stories of my ancestor’s lives and deaths. Each piece of cloth woven into the quilt had the blood, sweat and tears of Black people living and dying at the hands of unconscionable injustices. The weaving of their clothing into a quilt mended each broken life back together with each pull of the thread.
No matter your ethnicity, this book will transport you back in time and will break your heart wide open. It will make you laugh, cry, and swell with hope and resilience. Out of the grave agony of despair comes healing for many generations. Quilt of Souls is about the strength of Black women who prevailed before and after the turn of the century, a demographic that has gone unrecognized, with no celebration of the lives they endured and upheld. The untold stories of these women who were quilt makers, laundresses, and butter churners are revealed in this book. It tells of how they survived and provided for their children and the grandchildren they raised.
Seamlessly written, Quilt of Souls is a book that needs to be brought to the forefront. It is a rare story not only due to the complexities and intricacies of the quilt as a physical object, but also what it stands for metaphorically. It speaks about, and unearths, the taboo subjects that were only heard in whispers during that era.
The quilt on the cover of my memoir is the actual quilt that’s the subject of my book.
Sincerely,
Phyllis Lawson”
The RNC Has a Plan: Go After Clinton’s VP Pick
by Nancy LeTourneau
June 28, 2025 8:59 AM
As we watch the fissures within the Republican Party deepen with the candidacy of Donald Trump, Sam Stein reports that the RNC has a plan for the presidential race. It basically comes down to that old schoolyard taunt of saying, “yeah I’m one, but so are you!” In other words, they’ll pretend that the Democratic Party is as ruptured as they are. How quaint is it that they’ve named this effort “Project Pander?”
Here’s how it plays out: no matter who Hillary Clinton picks as her running mate, the RNC plans to cast them as an “emotional letdown” to voters who supported Sanders. Apparently they’ve already done their opposition research on the top six contenders. For example:
I blame this on Sanders…if he had conceded and backed Hillary…they would not be able to do this….i am willing to bet that they had the same strategy in 2008
President Obama On ‘Brexit’, Trump, and the Politics of Middle-Class Revolt
“Mr. Trump embodies global elites and has taken full advantage of it his entire life,” the president said. “So, he’s hardly a spokesperson…a legitimate spokesperson for a populist surge of working class people on either side of the Atlantic.”
I love him. Love his calm, intelligent and rational self….I will miss this most of all.
You know desertflower, In FLOTUS interview with Oprah, we put the focus on what FLOTUS said about POTUS’s swag, but what she said after that was just as important.
I am with you 100%, DF!
The GOP’s Shameless Politicization of Zika
by Martin Longman
June 28, 2025 12:07 PM
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But Zika is particularly frightening because it appears to cause birth defects in utero, including microcephaly, a severe brain abnormality.
And it can be transmitted by the mosquitos that are swarming around me right now. All they need is a population of infected people to bite, and that is fortunately what they do not yet have here in Pennsylvania. There was a baby down in Florida born with Zika-related microcephaly recently, but the mother contracted the disease in Haiti. So far, they’ve found about two dozen cases of Zika in my state, but they are likewise cases of people coming home from the tropics. Unless a mosquito bites one of those travelers and then bites me, I don’t have to worry because I don’t think I’ll be having intimate relations with any of them (which could also transmit the virus to me). It’s easy to see how the virus could go from being extremely rare to a full blown epidemic if we aren’t very vigilant.
And that’s why the president has requested $1.9 billion in emergency spending. But the Republicans in Congress see this emergency as an opportunity to win concessions from the Democrats and the administration that they could not otherwise get. That the Republicans’ funding bill is $800 million short of what was asked of them is a concern, but I also assume that the administration highballed them knowing that they’d get shortchanged. So, I’m not all that worried that the funding level will be inadequate. What concerns me is that the Democrats in the Senate feel compelled to filibuster the bill and that the administration has issued a veto threat.
Why, for example, was this funding tied to a bill for the Veterans’ Affairs administration? And why does the bill remove language that already passed in Congress to limit the display of the Confederate Flag in veterans’ cemeteries? What does Robert E. Lee have to do with the Zika virus? And why does it block spending for Planned Parenthood and contraceptive efforts that could be key to preventing tragic pregnancies? Even Pope Francis has relaxed the Catholic Church’s traditional opposition to contraception in response to the Zika outbreak, but Congressional Republicans can’t make the same concession?
Meanwhile, the Republicans are eager to blame the Democrats if they refuse to go along with their hardball tactics.
SOON: Hillary Clinton in Denver, CO - http://www.cbsnews.com/liveFeed/widget.shtml AND http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1
Any questions?
And then some….the total is actually MUCH higher on the Republican side….
Here’s a thought, Americans: VOTE! 10% of the electorate nominated Trump.
The white entitlement vs the ‘other’ white entitlement cage fight is fun to watch.
indeed it is, however, just stunning in a negative way at the same time.
Liar.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wapo-trump-charitable-giving-only-10k
While Donald Trump’s campaign claimed that the candidate personally donated millions to charity between 2008-2015, Washington Post investigation out Tuesday only managed to find one donation amounting to less than $10,000.
Only 11 out of 167 charities to which Trump had some link told the Post that they had received a personal donation from the real estate mogul. Another 77 said they never received such a gift, 39 declined to comment and 40 didn’t respond to the newspaper’s inquiries.
The most recent personal gift discovered by the Post was submitted to the Police Athletic League in 2009 and amounted to under $10,000. The donations to the league were counted in $5,000 blocks, making it impossible to determine the precise amount, but Trump’s contribution was between $5,000-$9,999.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/27/3793360/11-anti-trump-tweets-trumps-new-communications-director-tried-delete-anyone-noticed/
Donald Trump is having trouble putting together a full-fledged presidential campaign. Trump has a staff of little more than 70 people, compared to more than 700 for Hillary Clinton.
The problem: many experienced Republican operatives do not want to work for him.
Today Trump was able to fill a key role. Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for Ted Cruz, signed up to be Trump’s communications director.
Before Miller signed on, however, he had some cleaning up to do. Miller deleted dozens of harshly anti-Trump tweets from his Twitter account, many of them authored just a few weeks ago.
ThinkProgress was able to recover cached versions of Miller’s deleted anti-Trump tweets.
Go see>>>>
She’s so good:) Nailed it again!
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/samantha-bee-explains-trump-brexit
Similar to Kenneth Star’s White Water fiasco that only netted WJC bj.
What a beautiful ‘painting’ this is!
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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/06/28/the-president-speaks-on-brexit/
He’s a petty, vindictive little snit.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-files-time-donald-dumped-wine-reporter
Brenner profiled Trump for the magazine in 1990, and the mogul hated the piece. “The story was, in fact, one of the worst ever written about me,” he complained in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback. He also noted that Brenner was an “unattractive reporter.”
Trump got his revenge, though. Another Trump profile, this one in New York magazine, reported in 1992 that he “boasts about having poured a whole bottle of wine down Marie Brenner’s back after she wrote a story on him that hated.” Trump was still boasting five years later: The New Yorker’s Mark Singer, who profiled the mogul in 1997, relates in his new book, Trump and Me, that Trump told him he’d gotten even “by pouring red wine down Marie’s dress at a charity dinner.”
There’s more examples of his bullying, petty and vindictive self at the link. What a fucking moron.
House Republican lawmakers sought to reverse previously passed legislation restricting the display of the Confederate flag in federal cemeteries by slipping a provision stripping the legislation into a larger appropriations bill that included Zika funding. The House bill passed last week on largely partisan lines, but was blocked in the Senate Tuesday by a Democratic filibuster.
The Confederate flag language was just one of a number controversial provisions included in the bill, which also included an amendment cutting Planned Parenthood funding and other swipes at the Obama administration’s public health initiatives.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/confederate-flag-zika-funding