Thread for the future - what were you doing when you heard about Comey's firing?

[NRaleighLiberal]

We were eating dinner - salad of fennel, apples, walnuts, manchego cheese, dressed with olive oil and sherry vinegar - recreated a Tapas dish we had a Jaleo in DC over the weekend.

Checked DU - there is was.

This seems - well, HUGE!

[superpatriotman]

1. Watching Futurama

And eating my afternoon Pop Tart (brown sugar)

[yardwork]

2. Eating Brownie Brittle from Trader Joe's.

Checked work email, saw headline from local news.

[MANative]

3. Settling down on Metro north for the commute home

From NYC. Just got off at my station; checked DU and FB incessantly for the whole trip. Phone battery draining from all the data use!

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I had just given my grandgirl a byebye kiss.

Hit the DU button, and BOOM!

[Ilsa]

5. Driving, listening to cnn on sirius radio.

Wolf had breaking news, then there was five minutes of commercials. Then the breaking news was the FBI letter correcting Comey's testimony. While they were talking, big breaking news interrupted the panel discussion for the big shocker.

[superpatriotman]

9. I think Wolf's show is called 'Breaking News'

Eom

[yallerdawg]

30. I knew it was BIG!

Wolf interrupted Breaking News with Breaking News.

[northoftheborder]

7. Working on project - had phone text ding from BBC

[icymist]

8. Just finished updating the WIN7 on this computer, turned on The Hill and nearly fainted!

Yup! Huge is an understatement.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. At the ER

Making sure I don't have walking pneumonia. Good thing my phone was fully charged.

[Leghorn21]

16. Hope you check out a-okay, Catherine - physical maladies on top of current national

nastiness are a bit much! Best wishes!

[Catherine Vincent]

47. Why thank you!

Caught early. On antibiotics and pain med. Staying home tomorrow so I will be able to read up on this Comey firing.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Watching the local news.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. I am watching Twitter feeds - Claude Taylor has some great stuff

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Reading DU and a Washington Post breaking banner popped up on my phone

Refreshed the front page for LBN and there it was all over.

[lpbk2713]

13. Browsing through GD on DU.

It was a big WTF moment for me.

[Leghorn21]

15. Relaxing after long day running around w/bum knee I banged up 2 weeks ago. Muscles

spazzing throughout body. No pain relief.

Sat down, clicked on cable news - there it is. I remember JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby K and my poor dear Stevie Ray Vaughn.

This is up there...I am momentarily collapsed, but hope to regain hope and energy in short order. Somehow.

[uppityperson]

17. checking du while crab thaws for supper. It is incredible

[rainbow4321]

18. Had just got back from a peaceful outing at Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve

In NorCal.

Started to scroll thru FB, saw a news outlet post, came directly to DU!

[Bucky]

19. Arguing Politics on Facebook.

My first reaction was, "damn, Donald Trump is such an ingrate"

[cynatnite]

20. Checking my email. I had to read it three times to make sure it was real. n/t

[nevergiveup]

21. I was driving to a "RESIST" protest

at my congressman's office. Heard it on the radio and almost ran a red light.

[lindysalsagal]

22. Treadmill at the gym.

[Staph]

23. Making dinner -- baked steak and mashed potatoes.

I was bopping back and forth between the kitchen and the family room, with CNN on the television. When Wolf Blitzer said that there was real Breaking News, I paused. When the announcement was made, I gasped aloud and had to sit down.

[csziggy]

24. Sweating onions to go with the five pounds of yellow squash I froze last night

It's a good thing I was finished with sliced them - I could have cut a finger off!

On the other hand, the squash and onion are truly locally grown - the squash is out of a home garden grown by inlaws - they gave away about twenty pounds this weekend and the acre of squash is still producing about an hour's drive west of here. The onions are Vidalia sweet onions, grown about the same distance to the east.

Yesterday I sliced the squash, parboiled it for about three minutes, plunged it into ice water to stop the cooking, drained it well, laid out the slices on cookie sheets covered with parchment paper, and put them into the freezer. Today I dumped the frozen slices into freezer bags. Tomorrow after the onion is chilled, I will portion it equally among the freezer bags with the squash.

I won't need to buy squash for a few months!

[nolabear]

25. Came out of a meeting, turned on car radio and OMG.

This is a shakeup of incredible proportions. I can only imagine the scrambling behind the scenes.

[Kber]

26. Meeting a friend for drinks at the local watering hole

Checked my email / news feed in the parking lot at 5:15 - so nothing.

Paid the check and got a text from my husband asking if I'd heard the news 7:00.

Got a clarifying text from him at a red light on the way home around 7:15.

on edit: This is why I'm an internet addict. Leave for 2 hours and all hell breaks loose.

[Dream Girl]

40. So you were texting and DUI?..double header

Kidding (I think)

[Kber]

46. for the record

one glass and I was at a red light.

But yeah.

[DODI]

27. Shopping at Macy's with my daughter. My sister called me

[neeksgeek]

28. Grading final exams. nt

[Freethinker65]

29. Heating up a snack when my college freshman son texted me "WTF is going on"

I thought he had gotten in trouble or failed a final exam or something. Then I saw the link

[footinmouth]

31. Taking a short nap

after taking Mr. Foot for his colonoscopy. Woke up at 10 minutes to 6 and Comey firing was plastered all over my screen. Then Greta got bumped for Brian Williams. It's 8 pm now and people are still all confused. Exciting news night.

[shanti]

32. watching dr. shill

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. I was in my local meat market, shopping for dinner when an employee told me!

He'd gotten a notice on his phone.

Now, THERE was a moment! I said "It's about time!"

[madokie]

34. Been out in the garden all day

except for the Nap I just took. Came in here and turned on my news source, DU, BTW, and there it was.

tRump is in his last throes if you ask me

[canetoad]

35. Up as usual at 4am

Made coffee, opened DU.....

[herding cats]

36. I was chilling on my patio playing on the internet and watching the birds eat their seed.

I opened twitter to see if my sister had replied and boom! The axis of the planet shifted beneath my feet.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

37. Reading a thread

on DU about Bill o'Reilly having phone sex.

[Dream Girl]

38. I was goofing off at work on DU...btw, that salad sound yummy

Recipe please?

[NRaleighLiberal]

39. Really easy!

mix 2 tbsp sherry vinegar, 6 tbsp olive oil, some salt and pepper

toast some walnuts

Thinly slice one bulb of fennel
chop one granny smith apple into small pieces
slice one granny smith apple into very thin slices
cut 4 oz manchego cheese into small matchstick pieces

Mix everything up together - we served it on a bed of leaf lettuce.

[Dream Girl]

43. Thanks I will try it when fennel is season. I always do fennel with oranges

[StevieM]

41. I was home, having just gotten back from the supermarket. And I was thrilled.

It won't help Trump cover up for Russia. And Comey should never have been FBI director to begin with.

[tallahasseedem]

42. I was reading DU...

when the thread popped up by LonePirate.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029036132

This is crazy.

[irisblue]

44. Sitting in the kitchen reading fan fiction.

And my my first thought was holy shit. This is gonna be ugly.

[bdamomma]

45. I was listening

to Randi Rhodes, when all of sudden she reported Comey was fired, I think I said OMG as many times she said it.

[Solly Mack]

48. Reading DU.

[Ezior]

49. I was just waking up

The first thing I heard after the alarm clock went off at 6:15 am local time (Germany) was my boyfriend reading out loud the major "SPIEGEL Online" headline "Trump feuert FBI-Direktor Comey".

I was shocked and immediately grabbed my phone to find out what's going on. I wish I could say that I couldn't believe it, but I was actually afraid of exactly this happening for some time now. House committee investigations killed, Senate committee investigations killed, Comey fired – I hope someone is still taking care of this.

[CottonBear]

50. I checked DU @ 8:15pm after leaving the skating rink w/ my kid.

It was school skate night at our local rink. I'd just spent two hours chatting with the other parents while watching my kid and his friends skate and play games.

I got in the car and checked DU before driving home. BAM! I was shocked.

I don't have cable news channels and my TV is rarely on during the school week so DU is my main source of breaking news.

[radical noodle]

51. Watching Meet the Press Daily

on MSNBC when Chuck Todd announced it.

[catbyte]

52. Watching Ellen & Nicole Kidman try to chew some pizza dough/clementine thing that

Giada DeLaurentiis made. Nicole was remarking how "tough" the dough was & it was hard to chew when ABC broke in with a Special Report. Now I'll never know if she managed to swallow that piece of whatever it was or not.

[True Dough]

53. I was on the elliptical at home

Had the Blue Jays/Indians game on and it went to commercial. I grabbed the remote and flipped it to CNN. There was the BREAKING NEWS! I wasn't expecting that, but I'm not shocked.

[enki23]

54. Going over my dissertation for formatting errors for the eleventy-billionth time.

Thank god I've already defended this pig, because this new pile of stress would have killed me last week.

[countryjake]

55. Landlady came over to tell me about their second loss in a month

Two tragic deaths in their family, both of us bawling together on the couch...I have CNN, muted, on the tv behind her, and saw the breaking Comey headlines. Never said a word.

[NRaleighLiberal]

56. kicking - anyone else want to add their experiences last evening as the news broke?

[TNLib]

57. Started making turkey sausage and red cabbage for dinner

Sat down to watch CNN waiting for the Husband to come home and they were talking about something then all of a sudden Breaking News right when the hubs walked in.

I was like WTF?

Then got on twitter and DU seeing what everyone was saying.

[workinclasszero]

58. At work

So I could only get the news in bits and pieces.

Another blow to freedom and democracy by Trump.

I hate to think what Orange Hitler's next move will be?