If this tweet were a chess move, Kasparov's opponent would resign.

This tweet from former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is the undisputed tweet of the week during a week when the White House and their Republican allies in Congress and the media have tried everything to subvert the Trump/Russia investigations with a much smaller, and completely diversionary, investigation of leaks.

The house is on fire, Trump is running around with a box of matches, and the GOP demands to know who called the fire department.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 20, 2017

The Tweet of the Day for January 30, 2017

The True Blue Liberal Tweet of the Day came from @TeaPainUSA who distilled two important events into a truth bomb of less than 140 characters: 1) Donald Trump's illegal and chaotic ban on refugees and people from seven countries, and 2) The terrorist attack on the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center yesterday, where six were killed and 17 were injured, by Alexandre Bissonnette, who seems from early information to be an anti-immigrant activist who was inspired by Marine Le Pen speeches and the timing of Donald Trump's Muslim ban.

More Muslims have been killed by Trump supporters in the past 24 hours than Americans killed by refugees from banned countries in 30 years.

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 30, 2017

As a bonus, I also have a True Blue Liberal word of the day that came from Twitter. Tonight there were massive anti-Trump demonstrations all across the U.K. inspired by Trump's draconian immigration policy alterations. I saw photos online of massive crowds in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Brighton, and elsewhere, but this photo from Scotland in a tweet from @TotallyCarolyn stood out for the poster it featured. It had nothing to do with the artistry of the hurried black scrawl on cardboard, but the words are priceless, especially the last one, which was new to me: "Yer Maw Was An Immigrant Ya Fucken Bawbag."

A message to @realDonaldTrump from Edinburgh #MuslimBan #ScotlandAgainstTrump pic.twitter.com/m0OdQvDlMQ

— Carolyn Scott (@TotallyCarolyn) January 30, 2017

Bawbag, n. Scots. Literally a scrotum (i.e., a "ball bag") and figuratively used for any annoying, useless, or stupid person. It should be used regularly in sentences about the half-Scots Donald Trump.

The Tweet Of The Day for December 30, 2016

I don't need to wait until later tonight to pick a winner. The TrueBlueLiberal.org tweet of the day -- the tweet that needs to be preserved and highlighted before it disappears under the relentless surge of Twitter's flood -- came from @SummerBrennan drawing attention to these words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister murdered by the Nazis in 1945, on stupidity and the rise of fascist power pic.twitter.com/4vQmMkJjc7

— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 30, 2016

Though this sounds like Bonhoeffer to me, I always like to confirm any quotation I'm given in a tweet or Facebook or blog post. It was easy to find the exact source of this on page 43 of his Letters and Papers from Prison, in case you want to read it in context.

The Tweet of the Day for Sunday, December 18

The TrueBlueLiberal.org tweet of the day for Keith Richards' birthday came from @HeadsNews:

A rolling, stony 73rd to Keith Richards, born today in 1943. Tripping at Stonehenge, 1967. https://t.co/W2BWcZb8Fy pic.twitter.com/m2VT3YbBBL

— Heads News (@HeadsNews) December 18, 2016

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/17/2016

The TrueBlueLiberal.org tweet of the day comes from @JohnFugelsang, who distilled the new word of the day, 'unpresidented,' to its dual meaning in a gem of a tweet.

Nixon was evil but he wasn't ignorant.
W was ignorant but he wasn't evil.
The incoming combo is #unpresidented

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 17, 2016

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/16/2016

The TrueBlueLiberal.org tweet of the day comes from a 1974 interview with Hannah Arendt that was published in The New York Review of Books in 1978 and excerpted in this tweet from @WoodCowBooks today:

We interrupt current programming to bring you this public service message from Hannah Arendt https://t.co/CIaozvWTcy pic.twitter.com/dHUUqLK34K

— Rick Johnson (@WoodCowBooks) December 16, 2016

Hannah Arendt wrote and spoke hundreds of thousands of words about totalitarianism that will seem vital (but hopefully not too prescient) in the coming years.

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/15/2016

Today was supposed to be the day that Donald Trump held a press conference to address his many conflicts of interest between the presidency and his businesses, but he weaseled out of the presser because he found more important things to do, standing up for one of his minor businesses. The morning was summarized well by @abwhite7:

Trump is too busy for press conf on conflicts of interest.

But it took less than 16hrs to attack Vanity Fair for Trump restaurant review. pic.twitter.com/grz0qmWKVo

— Abraham White (@abwhite7) December 15, 2016

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/14/2016

The trueblueliberal.org tweet of the day from @RexHuppke is a perfect summation of Donald Trump's half-hearted attempt to deal with his conflicts of interest:

Trump putting his kids in control of his business to avoid a conflict is like me putting a donut in my other hand to avoid eating a donut.

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 14, 2016

The TBL Tweet of the Day is from Garry Kasparov

Nobody gave @Kasparov63 any serious competition today for TrueBlueLiberal.org's tweet of the day:

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 13, 2016

The TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/8/2016

The trueblueliberal.org tweet of the day for today came from @LOLGOP, summing up the ridiculousness of the #WarOnChristmas and that messy intersection where militant anti-political-correctness meets right-wing conspiracy insanity, all in just slightly under 140 characters.

Trump supporters are so cheery now that they can freely say "Merry Christmas!" and "Sandy Hook was staged by child actors!" to anyone.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 8, 2016

(There may be a gap in picking a #TBLTweetOfTheDay for the next few days, but I'm sure that Donald Trump won't do or say anything idiotic between now and next Tuesday, will he?)

TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/7/2016

THE @JoyceCarolOates tweeted the following about the history of fake news this morning:

Original fake news known as "The Bible" in which conspiracy mongers can pick & choose their favorite outrages & persecute enemies.

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 7, 2016

TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/6/2016

The trueblueliberal.org tweet of the day is from @DaveWeigel. It's another quick reminder of how different the cost of health care can be in places where it's not completely driven by the profit needs of private insurers, hospitals, and others in the U.S. medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Just had an eye injury diagnosed, treated, and prescribed for in Vietnam and I think I'm a socialist now pic.twitter.com/vdAkdbfeRn

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 6, 2016

TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/5/2016

The trueblueliberal.org tweet of the day for Monday was one of the first I saw today, from @theDavidCrosby, which helped to get my day off to a good start.

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock (Cover) @RealSnarkyPuppy @beccastevensbsb @boutwillismusic https://t.co/JsMBTO6oYz

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) December 5, 2016

Here are David Crosby, Michael League, Becca Stevens, and Michelle Willis performing Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' beautifully in a green room. This is a song from the Nixon years; there will be artistic and musical beauty in the Trump years too.

Good Night.

TBL Tweet of the Day for 12/4/2016

One of the things I don't like about Twitter is the way that the past quickly disappears in the constant flow of the new; I think that's one of the reasons it was impossible for voters to keep a handle on the accumulating weight of Donald Trump's baggage as we chased the outrage of the moment (which tended with Comey's loose lips and the media's penchant for balance to be Hillary Clinton's emails in the latter days of the campaign).

One of the advantages of blogs is that they are organized with less clutter and with an easy-to-follow timeline, so today I'm starting something new here on trueblueliberal.org. I'm picking one tweet from the previous day to highlight, honor, and embed in amber. The first honor goes to @ezlusztig. I know nothing about Elliot Lusztig outside of his tweets and his Twitter cover photo showing one of the world's great artistic moments, Phillipe Petit's 1974 walk above lower Manhattan.

Because you're a racist? https://t.co/3TFEZNtH1O

— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) December 5, 2016

This tweet is not in my style (which prefers using all 140 characters in complete grammatical sentences), but the brevity was perfect here in response to racist Anne Coulter's racist rhetorical question about the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, "Why do these 'Native Americans' look exactly like the Trump protesters, Ferguson rioters, college hooligans, Occupy Wall St, etc?"

Unlike most of the new features that I have introduced on this blog from time to time, I am going to try to keep this up every day (except when I'm traveling or otherwise engaged in computer-free activities). If I follow you on Twitter, maybe you'll get to be the #TBLTweetOfTheDay soon.