Sir Iam Holm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Holm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000453/
Joel Schumacher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Schumacher
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001708/
Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty BOK Center in horror. Trump, who had been warned that crowds were smaller than expected, was stunned and he yelled at aides backstage while looking at endless rows of empty blue seats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/trump-tulsa-rally.html
The Department of Justice announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Ethan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, for allegedly planning an attack on his U.S. Army unit by sending sensitive details about the unit – including information about its location, movements, and security – to members of an extremist organization named Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), an occult-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group. Melzer is charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country. The FBI and the U.S. Army thwarted Melzer’s plot in late-May 2020, and the FBI arrested Melzer on June 10, 2020. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods.
His indictment charges six counts, including material support for terrorism and plotting to murder U.S. service members.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his-unit
A half-dozen senior advisers to Trump have repeatedly voted by mail, according to election records obtained by the AP. The aides include Betsy DeVos and Brad Parscale. https://nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/22/us/politics/ap-us-election-2020-trump-advisers-voting.html?searchResultPosition=8
The Taliban killed at least 291 Afghan security personnel over the past week, a top government official said Monday, accusing the insurgents of unleashing a wave of violence ahead of potential talks. The week was the "deadliest" in the country's 19 years of conflict
https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-killed-291-afghan-security-personnel-past-week-052844020.html
House Judiciary Committee prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr
https://www.axios.com/house-judiciary-nadler-subpoena-attorney-general-bill-barr-4b3aa4de-a8cd-4bd9-93b2-5c51dd19c60b.html
In his letter, Jordan says Barr "remains willing to testify voluntarily once the pandemic concludes." Barr was in Boston last week; he met with the police chief (and others, and with no mask), why can't he testify in front of House Judiciary?
Secret Service tells press to leave White House grounds in highly unusual and unconstutional move
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/white-house-secret-service-press/index.html
Absentee ballot requests, number of early in-person votes point towards historically high voter turnout for Kentucky's primary
https://www.lex18.com/news/state-of-the-commonwealth/absentee-ballot-requests-number-of-early-in-person-votes-point-towards-historically-high-voter-turnout-for-kentuckys-primary
Arizona Mega-Church Set to Host Trump Rally Falsely Claim Its Air Filter Zaps COVID-19https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-mega-church-set-to-host-trump-rally-falsely-claim-its-air-filter-zaps-covid
Today, voters in Kentucky and New York head to the polls to cast votes in Presidential, Congressional and State level primaries. Voters in certain districts in Virginia are also headed to the polls for Congressional races, and voters in certain districts in North Carolina and Mississippi are also headed to the polls again to vote in runoff elections. While both major parties now have presumptive nominees for the 2020 Presidential Election, competitive primaries exist at the Congressional level in Kentucky and New York. In New York, incumbent Congressman and Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Elliot Engel is facing a stiff competition in his primary against challenger Jamaal Bowman in New York's 16th District, following leaked audio of Engel apparently expressing disdain for a campaign event he was attending. In Kentucky, the Democratic primary to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November has become competitive, with former fighter pilot and 2018 KY-06 nominee Amy McGrath trying to fend off a sudden surge in support for State Representative Charles Booker. For voters in Kentucky, please note that the number of polling locations in the state has been dramatically cut as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Please give yourself extra time to wait in line if you intend to cast an in-person ballot, and remember to follow all safety guidelines when doing so. The Kentucky results will be released at the end of the month.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/n-scott-momaday-words-from-a-bearabout-the-film/12052/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-kentucky-primary-elections.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-virginia-primary-elections.html
14th Congressional District Democratic Primary
This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first re-election campaign, and she drew a well-financed challenger in Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor. A.O.C. took the challenge seriously enough that she paid for a late attack ad calling her opponent a former Republican.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-14-primary-election.html
16th Congressional District Democratic Primary
Eliot Engel faces one of the stiffest challenges of his decades-long career as Jamaal Bowman rides a wave of progressive support. Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi lined up behind Mr. Engel, while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backed Mr. Bowman.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-16-primary-election.html
U.S. Senate Democratic Primary
Amy McGrath, a powerhouse fund-raiser endorsed by Chuck Schumer, faces a tightening race against Charles Booker, an upstart progressive. The winner takes on Mitch McConnell.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-kentucky-senate-primary-election.html
Reporting with @WindhorstESPN: Nuggets star Nikola Jokic tested positive for the coronavirus in Serbia and his return to the U.S. is temporarily delayed. He’s been asymptomatic since testing positive last week. Jokic is expected to be cleared to travel to Denver within a week.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1275528393640075264
The FBI has just released a statement about the NASCAR noose incident at Talladega, indicating it was a misunderstanding. No crime was committed. The noose was already there as early as last year.
https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/1275537836020690944
Apologies for not knowing who originally created this image, but it has been making the rounds on Twitter and turned out to be correct. You can see in the left photo the rope was in noose form — apparently as a handle — last year and then cut for evidence Sunday.
https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/1275542160868175872
It was used as a garage pull to help pull the rolling door down
John Mark Byers, of West Memphis 3 notoriety, once a suspect, has died in a car crash. John Mark Byers, who was Chris Byers’ adoptive/step father, was a controversial figure. For many people he seemed like a perfect suspect; an abusive alcoholic who abused Chris and behaved erratically in the aftermath of the crime. He was also a suspect in his wife's death. After the 2nd installment of the Paradise Lost series was released, he became a popular suspect in the discourse surrounding the crime. That suspicion has been largely discarded in recent years, after his timelines were thoroughly vetted and it became apparent that it was impossible for him to commit the crime. At first, he was one of the most vocal supporters of the West Memphis Three’s conviction, though he eventually came to believe in their innocence, and was supportive through their release from prison in 2011. JMB was definitely interesting. I go in and out of ‘liking’ him, if that makes sense. Everything I’ve read or seen about him makes him seem like a real asshole. That being said, he’s no dummy, no matter how hard the media tried to portray him as a bumbling redneck. He was capable of the personal growth necessary to advocate on behalf of the men he once was sure had killed his stepson, that’s no small feat. It hurts my heart that he never experienced closure.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2020/06/20/john-mark-byers-west-memphis-three-figure-dies-in-car-crash
RNC won't return illegal donations that they used to illegally set up illegally pay-to-play access to Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/rnc-wont-return-donations-that-bought-chinese-officials-access-trump-1512969
Appeals court orders judge to dismiss Flynn charges. A friendly reminder that any active judge on the D.C. Circuit can ask the full Court of Appeals to vote whether to rehear a panel decision “sua sponte”—that is, even without any party formally petitioning for such an “en banc” rehearing. If none of them do, the Judiciary is extremely compromised. Also one of the judges who ordered the charges dismissed is a conservative pro-Trump Republican who WORKED WITH FLYNN AND HIS FRIENDS WITH HIM. Should also be making judicial ethics complaints for "Judge" Neomi Rao's failure to recuse despite a 2017 work relationship w/Flynn in the WH irrespective of full CoA action. She worked w/Flynn in 2017 as Adm of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/504273-appeals-court-orders-judge-to-dismiss-flynn-charges
A friendly reminder of on why any decision penned by Neomi Rao should be suspect.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/11/21173437/trump-judge-neomi-rao-mueller-grand-jury-dc-circuit
Rao penned the widely regarded as a very embarrassing dissent that said Trump can't be investigated for anything citing just "the constitution" and ignoring the supreme court cases that say the opposite. She's 47, on the 2nd most important court in the nation. Trump and the Republicans fucked us for a generation no matter what happens in November.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/trump-subpoena-mazars-neomi-rao.html
Over the last 3 years, we’ve been so weary in these dark times. The lies. The corruption. The hate. Every day. We wondered what happened to our country that people support this? But if we work our hearts out over the next 4 months, we can end Trump’s reign. And end Trumpism.
A humbling night for the Democratic foreign policy establishment last night who got off the sidelines to endorse a party elder whose foreign policy was largely indistinguishable from a mainstream Republican: rightfully a hawk on Israel-Pal, Syria, Russia, Latin Am, defense spending. If Engel is unseated as polls suggest, leadership may easily pick another hawk w/ similar views as him to chair the Foreign Affairs Committee. Ted Deutch and Brad Sherman, who both defied progressives and voted against the Iran deal, would be top contenders. The more progressive options would be Reps. Gregory Meeks and Gerald Connolly who supported Iran deal and take a more dovish approach in general on issues like U.S.-Saudi policy, Latin America, etc. There's obviously long been a gap between the party's leadership & the grassroots on foreign policy. There aren't many entrenched interests that play in favor of dovish lawmakers whose preferences track more consistently with polling preferences of Dem rank-and-file on war/peace.
A new proposal calls for New York City to build the first new bridge to Manhattan in decades — one just for cyclists and pedestrians
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/nyregion/nyc-bridge-bike-pedestrians.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytmetro
The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today involving assistant US Attorney Aaron Zelinsky, who handled the Roger Stone case, but withdrew after the Justice Department recommended a lighter prison sentence. Republicans have two strategies: Deflect and make shit up. They love yelling that there are no eye witnesses. Here we have two and they refuse to allow them to talk. Today we received notes that prove both the president and vice president were personally interfering in criminal cases for political purposes. We have the president's words on transcript giving the order to his officials to interfere, and after he gave the order, they went out and committed acts of corrupt investigative and prosecutorial misconduct, all with a proven political agenda.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?473163-1/house-judiciary-hearing-justice-department-oversight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8P2EMIh7rk [pbs on youtube]
I just want one, only one, "shut your fucking mouth" from Nadler.
Best moment so far was when Gohmert was banging on the table as Ayer obliterated Barr and someone said "Can the sergeant at arms please remove Gene Krupa?" Rep. Louie Gohmert, TX 1st District, is an insufferable child. He banged on his desk to disrupt proceedings, and then when given his 5 minutes he just slandered and character assassinated every witness and didn't even ask a question. What a complete disgrace.
Video of Gohmert throwing a hissy fit and tapping during witness testimony: https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1275835459667521537
In Scathing Letter, More Than 80-Percent of Faculty at Bill Barr’s Law School Call for His Censure and Resignation
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/in-scathing-letter-more-than-80-percent-of-active-faculty-at-bill-barrs-law-school-call-for-his-censure-and-resignation/
Middle school principal Jamaal Bowman unseats Eliot Engel in New York
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/24/21299037/jamaal-bowman-defeats-eliot-engel-new-york-bronx-congress-election
Malcolm Brogdon tests positive for coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/fantasylabsnba/status/1275831999677243398?s=21
Epidemiologist at Emory University: "Extremely concerning" on NBA attempting to finish its season in Orlando. Florida reported 11,365 new coronavirus cases over three days, its three worst days on record.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-florida-coronavirus-disney-orlando-orange-county-cases-162243057.html
The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists | Last August, more than 4 million hectares of forests in Siberia were on fire, according to Greenpeace. This year the fires have already started raging much earlier than the usual start in July
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-arctic-siberian-alarms-scientists.html
Canada Drops Charges Against Indigenous Chief Assaulted in Video
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/canada/canada-allan-adam-indigenous.html
A cruel training method for baby elephants known as “the crush” has been revealed in rarely-seen footage. The practice sees calves bound with chains and confined in narrow enclosures for days at a time to make them submissive enough to interact with tourists.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/elephant-baby-training-video-thailand-tourism-the-crush-a9582081.html
Walmart Canada Faces Backlash For Selling ‘All Lives Matter’ T-Shirts: The company is also selling T-shirts with “Blue Lives Matter” and “Irish Lives Matter” printed across them
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/walmart-all-lives-matter-tshirts_ca_5ef34593c5b663ecc8559560
They also still sell products with confederate insignia despite claiming they removed those products.
Germany is banning the sale of single-use plastic straws, cotton buds and food containers, bringing it in line with a EU directive intended to reduce the amount of plastic garbage that pollutes the environment.
https://news.yahoo.com/germany-bans-single-plastic-straws-102034468.html
Locusts are devastating East Africa: A fourth generation of locust eggs is now hatching, which experts predict will create a locust population 8,000 times larger than the current infestation.
https://www.rescue.org/article/other-plague-locusts-are-devastating-east-africa
Fifty-nine baby crocs went missing from a Darwin reptile park last month. "I’d like to know who’s doing it," says the park owner. "What are you going to do with 59 crocs?"
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/n7weyz/someone-in-australia-is-stealing-baby-crocodiles-authorities-dont-know-why
Ontario new math curriculum to introduce coding, personal finance starting in Grade 1
https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/ontario-s-new-math-curriculum-to-introduce-coding-personal-finance-starting-in-grade-1-1.4995865
Bayer to pay $10 billion to settle Roundup cancer lawsuit
https://m.dw.com/en/bayer-to-pay-10-billion-to-settle-roundup-cancer-lawsuit/a-53931554
136 earthquakes in 24 hrs, Philippines Volcano Enters Period of Unrest.
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2020-06-23-136-earthquakes-24-hours-philippines-volcano-enters-period-of-unrest
European Union considering recommendation to block entry to Americans due to coronavirus surge
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/eu-us-coronavirus-travel/index.html
Brazilian judge tells Bolsonaro to behave and wear a face mask - President reminded he is not above the law and risks fine if he continues to break rules
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/23/brazilian-judge-tells-bolsonaro-to-behave-and-wear-a-face-mask
GOOD. RELOCATE THESE INNOCENT CREATURES OF EARTH TO SANCTUARIES. All Mink Fur Farms To Shut In The Netherlands Due To COVID-19 Outbreaks
https://raisevegan.com/all-mink-fur-farms-to-shut-in-the-netherlands-due-to-covid-19-outbreaks/
The president of the international criminal court has accused the US of acting unlawfully by threatening an economic and legal offensive against the institution following a decision by judges to open an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan.
'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53151106
STOP MURDERING THESE INNOCENT CREATURES OF EARTH. RELEASE THEM TO SANCTURIES. END THE ANIMAL EXPLOITATION INDUSTRY ALREADY. Horrifying undercover footage from the UK shows pig farm worker slamming piglets into concrete floor while others are thrown into metal troughs as food regulators launch investigation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8446663/Horrifying-undercover-footage-shows-pig-farm-worker-slamming-piglets-concrete-floor.html
Islamic Terrorists Murder 251 Afghan Security Forces (all Muslims), 550 wounded
https://www.voanews.com/usa/afghan-security-forces-suffer-bloodiest-week-19-years
U.S. sanctions five Iranian ship captains for bringing oil to Venezuela: Pompeo
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-iran-gasoline/u-s-sanctions-five-iranian-ship-captains-for-bringing-oil-to-venezuela-pompeo-idUSKBN23V25I?il=0
China dog meat festival goes ahead despite coronavirus visitor decline
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/06/23/china-dog-meat-festival-goes-ahead-despite-coronavirus-visitor-decline/
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=291665
Israel should postpone annexation until after US elections. If Republicans win, then do it. If Democrats win, don't do so as not to lose US support. If Democrats win, they will have the power to inflict serious damage in already derailed US-Israeli relations.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and nine other former separatist fighters were indicted Wednesday on a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes charges, including murder, by an international prosecutor probing their actions against ethnic Serbs and others during and after Kosovo’s 1998-99 independence war with Serbia. Because of the indictment, Thaci has postponed his trip to Washington, where he was to meet Saturday for talks at the White House with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
https://apnews.com/e3024e62476315436534d8a896d10ff4
Biden is running a great campaign because he's doing little while clobbering Trump Human Wise and in the polls. Joe Biden spent months stumbling through the Democratic primary, only to prevail in the end through a fantastical combination of circumstances. Now he is stumbling through the basement-confined general election to a double-digit lead. Biden has done an effective job of using the most popular parts of the "Black Lives Matters" protesters' message while distancing himself from its unpopular elements. Biden speaks for the transracial majority that supports systematic police reform and opposes defunding the cops. Trump is left to represent the racist minority that sees Floyd’s death as an outlier requiring no serious changes. He has appealed to leftists (dangerously rebranded as "progressives" by the Sanders movement when labels such as "leftist" and "socialist" and "democratic socialist" sunk Sanders) by adopting some of the most popular pieces of their program, while steering clear of its controversial aspects. And he is winning in the very conventional way: by stealing Republican voters in the Republican middle who are conflicted. Those conflicted voters tend to give Trump high marks for his handling of the economy and illegal immigration, but recoil at his ugly persona. A Democratic campaign premised on transformational economic change would have given Trump the chance to make those voters choose between style and (what they perceive as) substance. Biden from the beginning has tailored his message precisely for what they want: a president who will act like a president without scaring people about the pace and extent of social and economic change. Biden is running on a progressive platform - more progressive than most people think, and almost certainly more progressive than even a fully Democratic Congress would pass into law. But his choice to avoid unpopular issues (Medicare for All, the Green New Deal) - which the left assailed not only on substantive terms but as a bad choice that would deflate his voters - is looking shrewder than ever. Biden probably wouldn’t be yielding rapturous mass rallies even if there was no virus. Nor has he inspired armies of idealistic volunteers. But all the evidence we have suggests Biden and Democrats actually knows what they're doing.
Barr agrees to testify after facing subpoena threat
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/24/william-barr-testify-congress-338113
If he shows up: Three previous attempts to bring him in were aborted. The first, in spring 2019, was canceled after Barr refused to submit to questioning from committee staff, in the weeks after he released the report of special counsel Robert Mueller. The second occurred in March, when the coronavirus crisis led the House to call off most committee proceedings. The hearing was rescheduled for early June, but Barr again canceled after the White House objected, citing a prohibition on congressional testimony during the coronavirus emergency. Regardless, the spineless Senate Republicans will hold nobody accountable. Who's ready for the "I don't recall" marathon?
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced on Wednesday he had filed a consumer protection lawsuit against oil companies that he claims defrauded Minnesotans about climate change. The lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute includes claims for fraud, failure to warn and separate violations of Minnesota statutes that prohibit consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false statements in advertising, according to a statement from the Attorney General's Office. "We're here suing these defendants — API, ExxonMobil and Koch — for hiding the truth, confusing the facts and muddling the water to devastating effect," Ellison said in a news conference.
https://kstp.com/news/live-video-minnesota-attorney-general-ellison-files-lawsuit-against-exxonmobil-koch-industries-american-petroleum-climate-change/5770393/
Ken Burns: 'Confederate monuments have to go'
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/504329-ken-burns-confederate-monuments-have-to-go
Gun Violence Spikes in N.Y.C., Intensifying Debate Over Policing. More than a dozen people have been fatally shot, including a teenager at her college graduation party and a clothing designer who was washing his car.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/nyregion/nyc-shootings-surge.html
Trump Administration to end support for coronavirus testing sites - While state governments scramble to contain the accelerating outbreak, the Trump Administration announced it will cut funding and support for testing sites on June 30.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-administration-to-end-support-for-coronavirus-testing-sites-85916741677
A grand jury has indicted three men on murder charges in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot to death by two white men in Georgia in February while he was out running, a prosecutor says.
https://apnews.com/f7090f3db3599c0f14fcb2499d6559a6
How did the phrase "decolonize" get appropriated from Indians facing British batons and gunfire, Algerians waging a rebel war against French military, etc. to let's make our language more like Tumblr
The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design - which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by black Civil War soldiers - but the act of commemoration here doesn't deserve to be torched. This is why Trump easily wins re-election: DC Police are lining up at Lincoln Park. A protest called “Shut Down The Capitol” is scheduled for 7pm. Residents say they want to see changes because it depicts Lincoln standing over a freed slave.
https://nbcwashington.com/news/local/capitol-hill-residents-call-for-changes-to-statue-of-lincoln-standing-over-freed-black-man/2335507/
So Democrat protestors in Madison knocked over the statue of an abolitionist immigrant who died fighting for the union, a statue commemorating women's suffrage and beat up a 60 year old democratic state senator and left him lying on the ground.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/24/madison-police-protest-senator/
Democrats are why Lindsey Graham 1) is alive and 2) an elected official. Without Democrats fighting for decades for gay rights and equality, he would have been lynched decades ago by the KKK
Hard to count the reasons Engel's loss in #NY16 (after 32 years) is so monumental. Just a few:
1) Pelosi loses a top ally & sitting Foreign Affairs chair
2) Desire in majority non-white districts for reflective representation
3) New York Democrats voting for antisemites who ran on a platform of "Jews control everything, kill them and all the wars end and capitalism ends"
Quinnipiac OHIO poll: "A majority (57 percent) oppose cutting some funding for police departments in their community and shifting it to social services, while 39 percent support it."
https://poll.qu.edu/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=3665
They're not really arguing about it, they're just whistling tunes from Les Miserables (gay Lindsey Graham) ... Logs onto Twitter. Sees people vehemently arguing about the French Revolution. Logs off of Twitter...
A shift from House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler: After saying Sunday impeaching AG Bill Barr is a “waste of time,” he says his committee “may very well” pursue Barr’s impeachment. Asked why his view had changed, Nadler said: “I think the weight of the evidence and of what’s happens leads to that conclusion.”
If you were born after November 1974, you have never voted in an election where an incumbent President was defeated. So the gal between polling (Trump down 10) and voter expectations (of course he’ll win again) isn’t super surprising.
Twitter has confirmed to @Gizmodo that @DDoSecrets was "permanently suspended". We @derSpiegel
portrayed the work of the #DDoSecrets transparency activists @NatSecGeek & @bbhorne
a while ago:
https://spiegel.de/international/database-exposes-offshore-holdings-of-prominent-germans-a-065050b7-88f9-48b3-83b9-d474599de2ed
It’s nearly impossible to imagine how police reform is revived this year after Wednesday’s spectacle on the Senate floor. Republicans want to bring bill back up and dare Democrats to block again. Democrats want bill in Committee; “waste of my time,” said Chairman Lindsey Graham. Police reform not surprisingly killed by Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/24/how-police-reform-collapsed-in-the-senate-338332
We can’t have selective laws based upon political leanings. Just because you agree politically with the lawlessness should not make the act lawful. If roving mobs turned and began destroying Abolitionist or Civil Rights Movement statues, we cannot then choose to only prosecute them because we disagree with their agenda. We need a safe and legal process to dismantle racist statues that doesn’t involve burning and decapitating them in the middle of the night.
A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indictment
The US must first return to normal - which simply means SETTLING DOWN - and then move forward.
In light of the DC Circuit's order this morning that the judge grant DOJ's motion to dismiss the case, the judge has put the hearing date on hold. He hasn't ordered dismissal yet, however. He’s waiting to see if another member of the DC Court of Appeals will want it to go to the full court
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/michael-flynn-case-dismissal-court-rules-trump
The DNC has outlined its adjusted 2020 convention plans:
- Biden to accept nomination Milwaukee
- State delegations to conduct business remotely
- Venue moved from Fiserv Forum to Wisconsin Center
- Additional health precautions to come
https://www.axios.com/dnc-convention-milwaukee-bc909ff0-0203-449c-969a-020783f36990.html
In this case they ought to move the convention back to mid July (ditto for Republicans) to allow states to start mass producing mail-in ballots and to allow Democrats access his general election money a month sooner.
Yet another senior White House economic official is leaving -- in the middle of an economic crisis. This time it's Tom Philipson, chair of the WH Council of Economic Advisers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/24/white-house-economist-philipson-departure/
MSNBC is expected to tap political analyst Joy Reid to anchor a 7 p.m. daily news and opinion program, people familiar with the matter said, filling the vacancy created at the cable news channel when Chris Matthews resigned abruptly
https://www.wsj.com/articles/msnbc-expected-to-tap-joy-reid-to-anchor-daily-news-and-opinion-program-11593041370
Joy Reid, an MSNBC host and a prominent liberal figure who blamed hackers for some of the homophobic blog posts found on her decade-old blog in the past several months, apologized again on Friday after more incendiary posts emerged this week. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed News reported that Ms. Reid’s old blog had promoted a Sept. 11 conspiracy by suggesting that readers watch “Loose Change,” which posits that the attack was planned by the United States government. And on Thursday, BuzzFeed News surfaced a post that contained an image of Senator John McCain’s head Photoshopped onto the body of Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people in the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech. Meghan McCain, the senator’s daughter, wrote on Twitter that the post was “beyond disgusting and disgraceful.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/business/media/joy-reid-msnbc-apology.html
Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents on site for Trump's Tulsa rally have been ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus—part of the fallout from Trump's insistence on the event.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/dozens-of-secret-service-officers-and-agents-told-to-self-quarantine-after-trumps-tulsa-rally/2020/06/24/22c08b36-b55f-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html
The state of Texas reported 5,551 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest number of reported cases in one day yet.
Nunes cannot sue Twitter over accounts posing as his mother and a cow, judge rules
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/devin-nunes-twitter-lawsuit-cow/index.html
https://fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article243664982.html
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has forced out the commissioner of his public health bureau hours after he publicly questioned the accuracy of the state’s coronavirus data and detailed growing outbreaks in about a dozen counties.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/west-virginia-gov-jim-justice-forces-out-top-health-official-n1232066?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
During tonight's "Community of Pride" event, JoeBiden says that if the U.S. wants to live up to being the beacon of hope in the world, they need to pass the Equality Act, ban conversion therapy & bring back pride celebrations to the White House. He promises to do that if elected
That fake cow had something like 18 followers when all this blew up. It gained hundreds of thousands more very quickly. No idea what the current total is, but this would have never been noticed if Nunes had just shut his yap. Just checked. 724,000 followers. That's how the show Married with Children became popular. An uptight lady got her panties in a twist and campaigned to have the show dropped, but the publicity around the conflict improved the popularity of the show. Every year the show was on air, the showrunners sent flowers to the woman for her birthday.
White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/white-house-ordered-nih-to-cancel-coronavirus-research-funding-fauci-says/
Kings guard Buddy Hield has tested positive for coronavirus
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1275956022499258377
90-percent of the worlds Elephant population has been killed off in the last 70 years as habitat loss and https://dailycolumn.com.au/90-percent-the-worlds-elephant-population-has-been-killed-off-in-the-last-70-years-as-habitat-loss-and-wildlife-trade-on-the-rise/
400 DC National Guard Members Activated, on Standby to Protect Monuments
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/400-dc-national-guard-members-activated-on-standby-to-protect-monuments/2342789/
This is Elijah McClain. He helped at animal shelters by playing the violin to the animals and doesn't eat meat. Elijah was killed after the police put him in a carotid hold and the paramedics injected him with ketamine.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/2-million-people-signed-petition-203000562.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-for-elijah-mcclain-petition-gets-over-2-million-signatures-one-year-after-death/
https://www.change.org/p/adams-county-district-attorney-justice-for-elijah-mcclain-48a81830-f891-4b04-ba28-c2625b916b96
Over the last 2 weeks, cases have risen by 84% in states that don't require wearing masks in public. In states where mask wearing is mandatory, cases have fallen by 25%.
https://inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-19-coronavirus-face-masks-infection-rates-20200624.html
Moot, I'm still not wearing a mask and don't have any reason to, I actually healthy for real, never smoked anything, never drank, no drugs, organic+vegan for almost 20 years, etc. Nobody FACTUALLY healthy has been hospitalized, let alone died. Covid19 attacks people who destroyed their own health with smoking, drugs, alcohol, shit food, etc
Ah yes, that famous reactionary icon commissioned by Wisconsin women, sculpted by one, and designed explicitly as a symbol of progressivism in the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment: Lady Forward statute has been removed by mentally ill deranged Democrats at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Statue is now in the middle of the street.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1275751415038820353?s=20
For the first time, Miami-Dade County will send teams to neighborhoods with the highest number of coronavirus cases to educate people about social distancing and masking and distribute hand sanitizer and mask. The county is also providing hotel rooms for people to self-isolate.
https://twitter.com/PatriciaMazzei/status/1275894479212462080?s=20
In Miami-Dade County, the number coronavirus cases among 18 to 34 year olds has increased fivefold in a month to more than 1,000 as of June 18, Mayor Carlos Gimenez says.
https://twitter.com/PatriciaMazzei/status/1275895499783094273?s=20
18 to 34 year olds in South Florida = 100% of whom smoke cigarettes/marijuana and/or vape, take other drugs, drink alcohol like crazy, and eat shit
"It's on the table" to start enforcing penalties against people failing to wear masks, Gimenez says. The penalties are on the books as a criminal citation. The mayor says the county is considering if a civil citation is also a possibility.
https://twitter.com/PatriciaMazzei/status/1275896045009080321?s=20
A massive plume of dust from the Sahara desert in northern Africa has been traversing the atmosphere, thousands of feet above the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and is now cloaking the Caribbean and closing in on the southeastern United States. While summer dust plumes are a common occurrence, this appears to be one of the most extreme in recent memory. It's so large it has been nicknamed the Gorilla Dust Cloud.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saharan-dust-plume-gorilla-dust-cloud-drifting-united-states/
About 1.3M more workers filed jobless claims, signaling slow recovery
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/24/layoffs-least-1-3-m-workers-expected-have-filed-jobless-claims/3241700001/
Heat forward Derrick Jones Jr. tests positive for coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/IraHeatBeat/status/1276141013577412614
Vince Carter announced his retirement today after 22 seasons in the NBA. He was drafted on June 24, 1998, when 4 of his Hawks teammates from this season weren’t even born yet.
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Sues Trump and Team Over Forcing them to Dismantle their Covid-19 Checkpoints by Pulling Law Enforcement Funding
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/cheyenne-river-sioux-river-sues-trump-and-team-over-checkpoint/
Colorado governor directs officials to reexamine death of Elijah McClain in police custody
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504508-colorado-governor-directs-office-to-reexamine-death-of-elijah-mcclain-in
Native American activists planning protests for Trump's Mount Rushmore visit
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504513-native-american-activists-planning-protests-for-trumps-mount-rushmore
Supreme Court bolsters Trump administration's ability to quickly deport people who enter country illegally, refuses to give asylum seekers broad right to make case to federal judge. That's the only Scotus opinion today. 7-2, with only Sotomayor and Kagan dissenting -- definitely not a party-line decision here.
https://twitter.com/gregstohr/status/1276154418661113857?s=21
Trump's Fireworks Show at Mt. Rushmore Is a Dangerous Idea (And Sacrilegious)
https://www.ecowatch.com/mt-rushmore-fireworks-trump-public-health-2646260174.html
California Set to Require Zero-Emissions Trucks; The new rule, expected Thursday, would mean more than half of trucks sold in the state must be zero-emissions by 2035, and all of them by 2045
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/climate/zero-emissions-trucks-california.html
World Health Organization announces end to Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo that killed 2,280 people
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/25/world-health-organization-announces-end-to-ebola-o/
The entire planet is going to have to live with covid19, get fucking over it already
Trump keeps losing in the courts. You love to see it: Judge rejects Trump family attempt to block publication of niece's tell-all
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/25/judge-rejects-trump-family-attempt-to-block-publication-of-nieces-tell-all-lawyer-says.html
Hey Joe Bye Don
4.7 Million Uninsured Adults Could Become Eligible for Medicaid by 2021 if All Remaining States Expanded the Program under the ACA
https://www.kff.org/uninsured/press-release/4-7-million-uninsured-adults-could-become-eligible-for-medicaid-by-2021-if-all-remaining-states-expanded-the-program-under-the-aca/
Pres uses shipyard speech to trumpet Government contract to build ten next generation guided missile frigates worth $5.5-billiion. Says it will create 1,000 new jobs at the shipyard, and 15,000 more in the supply chain in WI and MI, both must-win states for his reelection.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1276265680342564864?s=20
Today I signed an Executive Order designating Attorney General Phil Weiser to investigate and, if the facts support prosecution, criminally prosecute any individuals whose actions caused the death of Elijah McClain.
https://twitter.com/GovofCO/status/1276251394412961792?s=20
This is innumeracy masquerading as accountability. $1.4 billion out of $269 billion—a 0.5% error rate—going to people it shouldn’t have really isn’t that big a deal for money that had to get out the door immediately.
https://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/06/25/irs-stimulus-checks-dead-people-gao/
Because people on this website love travel problems: Hertz now calls several times a day, claiming (incorrectly) that I never returned my New Mexico car. And instead of being connected to a rep I have to call and wait on hold. So, totally mystery why they went bankrupt
DC statehood vote to make history in the House — and that's about all. Senate Republicans Not Interested. Republican arguments against DC statehood are so empty it’s like they aren’t even trying. They are saying that there aren’t enough miners and loggers in DC. Plus, I kid you not, something about Marion Barry, and DC residents not being well rounded enough.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/d-c-statehood-vote-make-history-house-s-about-all-n1232099?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Dozens Arrested In NYC For Illegal Fireworks, Guns, Alligator Carcasses
https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-two-dozen-arrested-nyc-illegal-fireworks-guns-alligator-carcasses
Previously Convicted Felon Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and CEO Roland Marcus Andrade charged in SF with fraud in connection with $5 mill cryptocurrancy deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/lobbyist-abramoff-charged-in-crypto-currency-case-u-s-says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
DeVos issues illegal rule illegally steering more virus aid to Christian schools
https://apnews.com/7b035436a7abf06588dcf5cb65a3a9a9
"What had happened was wrong, and I did not want to be a part of what had happened," Zelinsky, who quit the case with three other prosecutors after the intervention, said. ". . . Roger Stone was treated differently because of politics. He received breaks that are, in my experience, unheard of, and all the more so for a defendant in his circumstances: a defendant who lied to Congress, who remained unrepentant and who made threats against a judge in his case. And what I heard repeatedly was that this leniency was happening because of Stone's relationship to the president."
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/25/house-democrats--we-may-very-well-impeach-william-barr-for-reigning-terror-on-the-rule-of-law/
One of those great coincidences that one Trump scandal involves someone named Zelensky who didn't want to be a part of something shady, while another one involves someone named Zelinsky who didn't want to be a part of something shady. There was also a Zelenko (malaria drug) who was very eager to get involved with something shady, but the email accidentally went to one of the other Zel names (Aaron Zelinsky, Baltimore prosecutor) that wasn't interested in shady business.
Vandals Cause Estimated $100K of Damage to Indian Restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico | Restaurant vandalised with racist slurs, White supremacist and Trump 2020 messages
Siberia Heatwave Sees Buildings Split in Two As Permafrost Thaws | A two-story residential building broke apart as layers of permafrost thawed during a summer heatwave in Yakutsk, Russia — often referred to as the "world's coldest city"
https://www.newsweek.com/siberia-heatwave-buildings-split-permafrost-thaws-1513455
Earlier this year, the narrative being projected by some around Trump was that the pandemic was a blue state problem, and, in the way some view the world, that it wasn’t “our people” dying. Then there’s this: Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina and Florida are now all reporting their highest single-day totals of the coronavirus ever
https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1276281917403541504?s=20
Barr spent weeks in 2019 questioning SDNY prosecutors over their decision to charge Michael Cohen with violating campaign finance laws. At one point, Barr told DOJ officials to draft a memo that could have undermined that part of Cohen's conviction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-william-barr-michael-cohen.html
So Barr tried to interfere in a case that *directly* implicated Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. How much more of this are we going to take?? IMPEACH BARR
Three wildfires burning in Arizona rank in the top 10 largest in the state’s history. The Bush Fire, Bighorn Fire and Mangum Fire have burned more than 323,000 acres combined as of Wednesday morning, according to InciWeb.
https://ktar.com/story/3333221/3-wildfires-burning-in-arizona-rank-in-top-10-largest-in-state-history/
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
There's a tendency to dismiss TX and its latent competitiveness at the Presidential level by dismissing 2018 as a function of Ted Cruz being, well, Ted Cruz. But remember, by the time Beto got 48% and came within 3 points, Cruz JA was net positive and Trump was at 49% in exits.
Dr. Rick Bright, who was removed from a key pandemic response job, updates whistleblower complaint with additional allegations of retribution and says the Trump admin. is "on the warpath" against him.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ousted-coronavirus-whistleblower-says-trump-administration-warpath-against-him-n1232177?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Arizona is getting hit worse over coronavirus than Florida. And the tone of both politicians reflect it. But the warning and details from AZ’s governor are orders of magnitude greater than FL’s. If FL’s trajectory continues, will this rhetorical disparity still exist? We’ll see
NASA will name its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer! Her story inspired the book and film "Hidden Figures." She is hidden no more.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/us/mary-w-jackson-hidden-figures-nasa-building-trnd/index.html
For people who want to help realize this moment and turn Texas blue, please consider supporting today:
https://poweredxpeople.org/
School districts around our nation should consider how to improve, rather than eliminate, school resource officers. Defunding school safety isn’t the answer. Communities should let data guide their decision.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/opinions/removing-law-enforcement-from-schools-mistake-petty/index.html
YEP: Oglala Sioux President says Mount Rushmore should be 'removed': What's behind the site's controversial history (at least file down the faces)
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/25/mount-rushmore-oglala-sioux-president-removal-president-trump/3198922001/
Trump cancels golf trip to New Jersey after new coronavirus quarantine rule
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/covid-19-trump-cancels-new-jersey-trip-after-coronavirus-quarantine-rule.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bedminster-new-jersey-coronavirus-quarantine-golf-club-white-house-a9588161.html
A 14-year-old girl fought off two rapists in India but was burned to death when her attackers became enraged at her resistance. Indians shrug.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8458767/Girl-14-fights-gang-rapists-burnt-death-enraged-attackers-India.html
Trump Administration Files Supreme Court Brief To End Obamacare Amid COVID-19 Crisis
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamacare-supreme-court-brief-trump-coronavirus_n_5ef57235c5b612083c4b567a
Trump administration illegally wants drilling on more than two-thirds of the largest swath of U.S. public land | The nearly 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska provides a critical refuge to migrating caribou, waterfowl and other wildlife
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/06/25/national-petroleum-reserve-alaska-trump
Sen. Tom Cotton praises Wyoming as a white pro- state in arguing against D.C. statehood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-senator-says-dc-residents-dont-measure-up-to-wyomings-working-middle-class/2020/06/25/39e66312-b721-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
His supporters only want one thing: to hurt the people that they don't like. That's it. He doesn't need to help a single person, fix a single problem, nothing. As long as him being president makes life worse for everyone that doesn't look or think like them, he will be their only choice.
Ninth Circuit Hands Trump Admin a Big Loss: the Transfer of Military Funds to Build the Wall Was ‘Unlawful’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ninth-circuit-hands-trump-admin-a-big-loss-the-transfer-of-military-funds-to-build-the-wall-was-unlawful/
DOJ Refusing to Release Secret Memo Detailing Rationale for Not Charging Trump with Obstruction in Mueller Probe
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/doj-refusing-to-release-secret-memo-detailing-rationale-for-not-charging-trump-with-obstruction-in-mueller-probe/
Witness in the Mueller investigation and informal Trump adviser gets 10 years in prison in child sex case
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/george-nader-prison-sentence-mueller/index.html
House Passes DC Statehood Bill Friday in Historic Vote. With more than 220 co-sponsors, the bill has enough support to pass but is not expected to go anywhere in the Senate. Sen. Mitch McConnell already said he wouldn't bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/house-passes-dc-statehood-bill/2344609/
COVID-19 Cases in FL are up 205% from 2-weeks ago now a particularly dangerous hotspot. Disney World is under pressure to push back its reopening.
https://www.si.com/nba/2020/06/26/nba-bubble-coronavirus-breaking-point
Disney World re-opening will make covid cases sky rocket. They need to shut down the entire state. All the states that got hit hard back in April-March shut down for much less than what Florida is seeing right now, and NYC still suffered greatly for it. Florida fucked Disney by opening too early. Disney made the correct decision to wait until after July 4th to open. If the whole state had done the same thing I’m confident that we wouldn’t be seeing the issues we are seeing now.
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops | The intelligence finding was briefed to Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said. He wanted Russia back into the G7 late in April. A month after he learned about this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html
https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/trump-wants-russia-back-in-the-g7-says-putin-outsmarted-obama/
People think he accidentally bungled the pandemic response. He's successfully tricked everyone into thinking it's incompetence instead of evil.
"Putin said he didn't do it, and I believe him."
Supreme Court of Canada rules against Uber, allowing $400M class-action lawsuit to move ahead
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stefanovich-supreme-court-uber-class-action-decision-1.5626853
Jaguar poaching has increased more than 200-fold in the last five years, driven by demand from Chinese consumers for claws, teeth and bone powder used in medicinal paste
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/jaguar-poaching-has-increased-more-than-200-fold-in-the-last-five-years-driven-by-demand-from-chinese-consumers-for-claws-teeth-and-bone-powder-used-in-medicinal-paste
Major Fuel Spill in Russia’s North Spreads Toward Arctic Ocean: A diesel spill has released about half as much petroleum into the environment as the Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska. The fuel is flowing toward the Arctic Ocean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/europe/russia-arctic-oil-spill.html
Most U.S. travelers will be barred from E.U. when 27-nation bloc reopens. Travelers from China welcomed as long as EU travelers not blocked by Beijing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/world/europe/europe-us-travel-ban.html
The lawsuit seeking to block the tell-all book of the president's niece Mary Trump has been refiled in Dutchess County, N.Y., the day after the same effort failed in Queens.
https://www.courthousenews.com/court-wont-block-tell-all-book-by-presidents-niece-mary-trump/
Mandatory measures for face masks: NC, WA, CA, CT, DE, HI, IL, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI. District of Columbia introduced measures on face coverings. Palm Beach County has a new mask mandate.
Nothing can make me wear a fask mask, unlike 100% of the people hospitalized and dead, I'm actually healthy. My body my choice. Fuck you and your masks. Covid19 really is a "kung flu". REAL healthy people are asymptomatic and unaffected. Unhealthy people are and that's not my problem. You destroyed your health, you pay the consequences, not me. Quit dictating to me what I can wear and where I can go. Democrats on track to lose.
Blackstone Group Inc. is more than 30 days delinquent on $273.7 million of debt tied to a portfolio of business hotels, a sign that large real estate investors are considering walking away from properties in the pandemic
economy.
“The panel held that the Executive Branch lacked independent constitutional authority to authorize the transfer of funds. The panel noted that the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress. The panel held that the transfer of funds violated the Appropriations Clause, and, therefore, was unlawful.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ninth-circuit-hands-trump-admin-a-big-loss-the-transfer-of-military-funds-to-build-the-wall-was-unlawful/
Guess this one will be going to the Supreme Court...Taking this to the Supreme Court would be like asking them to rule whether someone under 35 can be president. But here we are.
The NBA and NBPA have announced the following: 1 out of every 19 NBA players has coronavirus right now. What about the results from staff members?
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1276540626255917056
CANCEL THE SEASON ALREADY AND POSTPONE NEXT SEASON INDEFINITELY.
"If we didn’t test there would be no cases"
Adam Silver said “there will not a law enforcement presence” on the campus and that players will be free to leave the bubble, as opposed to being prevented.
https://twitter.com/VinceGoodwill/status/1276609508345876482
Native American Leader Challenges Players on Washington’s NFL Team to Sit - The National Congress of American Indians, which represents over 500 tribal nations, calls for athletes to stay home rather than play under the team's racist name
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/26/native-american-leader-challenges-players-on-washingtons-nfl-team-to-sit/
Court Orders DeVos to Cancel Loans for Mass. Students Defrauded by Corinthian Colleges
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/huge-win-court-orders-devos-cancel-loans-mass-students-defrauded-corinthian-colleges
Good, Democrats need to stop closing down everything and attacking everybody already: Federal Judge Blocks Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio’s Coronavirus Limits on Religious Gatherings.
https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/federal-judge-blocks-andrew-cuomo-and-bill-de-blasios-coronavirus-limits-on-religious-gatherings/
The simple fact that trump’s tax returns are the first and only set of returns deemed meritorious of a safe speaks volumes
Florida would’ve been better off with the guy who was caught with a possible male prostitute and cocaine at a hotel room.
“He showed some concern when his personal valet, who serves his food, was diagnosed with the coronavirus and Mr. Pence’s press secretary tested positive. But since then, Mr. Trump has maintained a posture of denial and dismissiveness.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html
Citing COVID-19 concerns, a federal judge has ordered ICE to release all immigrant children, detained inside its three family detention centers for more than 20 days, by July 17. Yesterday we reported that 11 people inside one of these facilities tested positive for the disease.
https://twitter.com/aflores/status/1276663159927996423
Texas was among the first states to reopen during the pandemic, but now the state is rolling back reopening plans. Houston is locking back down even further. The surrounding county is at “level one,” its highest threat level, as hospitals are filling up.
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1276646831930462208
Jenniffer Gonzalez, the current Resident Commissioner elected by Puerto Rico to be a non voting member of the House, is a shitstain deranged Republican: if DC and Puerto Rico become states, "I will be the last Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee forever because they will pick up four Democratic seats that will never flip over. ... Republicans will never be in the majority in the United States Senate." | The only reason to believe this is if you think the GOP could never, at any point, be competitive in an election where most voters are people of color. And if that’s your view, then man do I have some news for you about the demographic future of this country.
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1276663674183323650?s=20
For everyone claiming that protests caused the #COVID19 surge, here’s the case curve in D.C., site of some of the biggest protests. Meanwhile, Tom Cotton thinks D.C. isn’t responsible enough to be a state. So let’s check in on Arkansas.
https://twitter.com/ChrisLu44/status/1276656993097314306?s=20
US saw a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day Friday, with 40,173 new cases reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1276676463996133376?s=20
The previous record was set yesterday, surpassing the record set the day before that.
Barr admits he has no evidence to support his voting by mail conspiracy about counterfeit ballots
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/26/barr-admits-he-has-no-evidence-to-support-his-voting-by-mail-conspiracy-about-counterfeit-ballots/
Judge orders Roger Stone to begin sentence on July 14
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/26/judge-orders-roger-stone-to-begin-sentence-on-july-14/
This is the REAL TikTok: TikTok reportedly waited nearly 3 hours to call police in Brazil after a teen's death was livestreamed on the platform, but the company notified its own PR team almost immediately
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-suicide-livestream-brazil-teen-waited-3-hours-call-police-2020-2
In India, Father And Son Sodomized In Police Custody (in custody for keeping business open during shutdown) die from injuries.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/tuticorin-custodial-death-kin-say-father-son-duo-was-sexually-abused-in-police-custody-outrage-in-tamil-nadu-1692411-2020-06-25
Hundreds of dead dolphins washing up on French coast after being trapped in fishing nets
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dolphins-dead-france-fishing-brittany-a9588606.html
Feds Point to Daily Caller Writer as Part of Abramoff Payola Scheme
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-point-to-daily-caller-writer-as-part-of-jack-abramoff-payola-scheme
Democrats have zero credibility and are done, I'm a registered Democrat who did not support Clinton or Sanders in 2016 and stayed home, did not vote in the 2018 midterms or any local/state elections (pointless, 100% of the candidates are evil lying mentally ill deranged criminal terrorists), and already see Trump easily winning re-election. I went from voting in all elections at the local/state/federal level for 25 years (never missed a vote) and being an actual Democratic national delegate in 2008 to basically abandoning the party altogether when the Zimmerman/Martin case happened. That is the moment Democrats destroyed their party.
Texas Bar Owners Plan Protest Against New Shutdowns as Coronavirus Cases Spike
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-bar-owners-plan-protest-against-new-shutdowns-coronavirus-cases-spike-1513811
New vegan film They're Trying To Kill Us examines intersection of diet, poverty, and systemic racism.
https://vegnews.com/2020/6/new-vegan-film-they-re-trying-to-kill-us-examines-intersection-of-diet-poverty-and-systemic-racism
Florida is actively suppressing death counts related to covid, abysmal testing, and even trying to under report cases.
They say “g/d will protect them” from coronavirus-19 so they shouldn’t have to wear masks. My favourite argument to that is if g/d is protecting them why do they need to carry a gun?
If g/d meant for you to see, he would’ve given you better vision. Might as well stop wearing tampons as well, g/d created periods too. You know what, stop putting diapers on babies. G/d clearly wanted your baby to be covered in its own excrement and develop sores. Why even bother having doctors? Our bodies are perfect temples and can magically heal themselves with the power of prayer!
9000 is 1/4 of ALL new cases in the entire U.S. Florida is being completely overrun by this thing. They're about to reach Italy levels of death and exhaustion of hospitals. Ron DeSantis should be in a cell right now.
I hate meat-eaters who let meat/dairy go bad, and throw it out. What the hell?? As if contributing to murder isn’t bad enough. Flat-out throwing the animal products away disgusts me on such a visceral level. It’s unreal, the utter disregard for the animal. These murderers would just chuck one into the bin like nothing’s wrong. If someone is going to justify eating meat with “at least every part gets used” but said person has let an animal product go to waste, they’re a piece of sh*t. It's really depressing how disconnected people are. The whole everyone calling cops "Pigs" bothers me too since it's happening so much right now. Pigs have suffered their entire miserable lives for nothing, and only to be treated as worthless and as a joke by our society. It's so different from how Native Americans treated the animals that died to sustain them with dignity and respect, American Buffalo for example were considered Sacred beings and their lives were honored in many prayer and spiritual/religious rituals.
How would Fox, Lindsey Graham, and Republicans react if any other President knew for months that Russia was paying bounties on our troops, did literally nothing about it, praised Russia, invited Putin back to the G-7, and used our military for campaign photo ops? Vote them all out
Linking the repeal of the individual mandate to repeal of the entire law is exactly what Senate Rrepublicans say they did not do when they wrote the tax bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administrations-move-to-end-obamacare-amid-pandemic-reignites-political-fight/2020/06/26/9c1ddb98-b7bf-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html
Florida sets another one-day record with 9,585 new coronavirus cases
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504847-florida-sets-another-one-day-record-with-9585-new-coronavirus-cases
Mississippi governor says he would sign bill to remove Confederate emblem from state flag
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/27/mississippi-flag-vote/
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement, died Friday in prison. He was 82.
Trump was asked by Spectrum News put the phrase "Black Lives Matter" into this own words and what this civil rights moment means now. His answer: "It means a lot to me and the civil rights means a lot to me. And nobody has done more for African-Americans."
https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-interview-jeevan-vittal-spectrum-news-june-22-2020
I’ve been digging into some of the stories of people getting fired for supposed racism. What I found was companies cravenly sacrificing employees—some of them working-class people of color—who did nothing wrong: Those of us who want to build a better society should defend the innocent because movements willing to sacrifice justice in the pursuit of noble goals have, again and again, built societies characterized by pervasive injustice.
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/
A Toronto police officer who beat a Black teenager so badly he lost an eye has been found guilty of assault, but not aggravated assault.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ep4pbz/toronto-cop-found-guilty-in-assault-on-black-teenager-who-lost-an-eye
A cloud with tiny levels of radioactivity, believed to originate from western Russia, has been detected over Scandinavia and European Arctic.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2020/06/various-reactor-related-isotopes-measured-over-scandinavia-and-svalbard
Radiation level increase in northern Europe may ‘indicate damage’ to nuclear power plant in Russia
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/radiation-scandinavia-nuclear-power-plant-russia-a9589301.html
A slice of the Australian outback almost the size of greater London will be turned into a national park to help protect threatened species. Narriearra Station, 592-square-mile property in northwest New South Wales, is the biggest purchase of private land for national parks ever made
https://www.france24.com/en/20200627-australian-outback-station-turned-into-national-park
A bear in Italy has been sentenced to death after attacking hikers. Activists want a stay of execution
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/world/bear-sentenced-to-death-in-italy-scli-intl/index.html
The Environmental Justice Foundation has found Taiwanese fishing crews have been intentional killing or illegal capture of protected marine mammals, including killer whales and dolphins
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202006240026
Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday. The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought. | Bosch, who is president of the Spanish Society of Virologists, said that an early detection even in January could have improved the response to the pandemic. Instead, patients were probably misdiagnosed with common flu, contributing to community transmission before measures were taken.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/26/world/europe/26reuters-health-coronavirus-spain-science.html
Mississippi lawmakers have paved the way for legislation to remove the Confederate symbol from their state flag.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/27/mississippi-flag-vote/
Before the pandemic, the San Antonio food bank was feeding approximately 60,000 people per week. That number is now closer to 120,000, many are families accessing a food bank for the first time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/opinion/san-antonio-food-bank-coronavirus.html
What a ridiculous lie. Of course he was briefed. The alternative is dereliction of duty because you don’t read your PDB. This raises the obvious and very serious question: The US had intelligence that Russia was paying militants to kill US & allied troops, and officials decided NOT to tell the president or VP about it? Team Trump's line s always "anybody who says otherwise is a liar!". Kayleigh and the White House have zero credibility.
https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1276981842026082307
Four Heroes Charged in Federal Court for Attempting to Tear Down Statue of Genocider Of Native Americans. Boy. Thank g/d! Such a HUGE priority right now. I know that if anything else were going on—rampant unemployment, racism, police brutality, a pandemic—you guys would be laser focused on those things instead. Trump promised to make America great, but delivered only corruption, mass unemployment, hunger, homelessness, and 125,000 deaths. Fuck your little statue obsession.
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1277043316903890944
Kings' Jabari Parker seen playing tennis after positive coronavirus test
https://sports.yahoo.com/kings-jabari-parker-seen-playing-231843934.html
While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/dharavi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19
While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/dharavi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19
Senate Republicans voted to authorize 53 subpoenas in its investigation of Obama. Almost all the subpoenas are for former Obama-era officials. To counter the Republican subpoenas, Democrats sought subpoenas for people in Trump’s inner circle, including former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump personal attorney Rudy Guiliani, his former attorney Michael Cohen, former deputy campaign manager Rich Gates, Trump campaign advisers George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Those votes failed. This is going to be their angle and they will plan on using it from now to November. Expect this on the front page of FauxNews everyday as they rush schedule hearing after hearing, led by the Shrieking Eel Gym Jordan demanding Obama be charged with treason. Apparently, all this shit we're in as a country is the corrupt Dems' fault...and Trump is a true American hero; honest, brilliant, scholarly, and eloquent. Every day is opposite day now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-committee-approves-over-50-subpoenas-investigation-mueller-probe-n1229986
Hundreds of complaints, zero penalties for bars, restaurants violating Florida reopening rules
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200622/hundreds-of-complaints-zero-penalties-for-bars-restaurants-violating-florida-reopening-rules
Republicans cancel Pence's campaign tour because the Tulsa rally was a flop and many people tested positive within days, and because the states Republicans were targeting have rapidly increasing covid19 cases.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, plans to file a resolution calling for an investigation into whether Barr has committed impeachable conduct and circulated a letter asking other Democrats to support it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/26/attorney-general-william-barr-impeachment-probe-341296
Twitter user appearing to be Trump appears to promote electronic images appearing to be a video appearing to show a human appearing to be a supporter appearing to shout words appearing to sound like "white power"
https://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-promotes-video-appearing-show-supporter-shouting-white-power-n1232356
Donald Trump also just killed the tweet where he amplified the video of The Villages contretemps where a supporter had yelled "white power."
Trump arrives Sunday morning at his Virginia golf club for the second time this weekend, his 272nd time at one of his golf clubs in his presidency. This time, he’s with Lindsey Graham
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1277246121035943936
Mississippi Senate, House both approve resolution to suspend rules, create committee to change flag
https://www.wdam.com/2020/06/27/live-miss-house-begins-discussion-changing-state-flag/
The Obama Administration did everything they could to investigate and counter Russian election interference. Republicans controlled Congress and blocked many of the investigations being conducted by the entire government. Because Obama appointed Republicans to the government in a sign of bipartisonship, those Republican-appointees were also obstructing the investigations.
His response was a Lose-lose. He thought responding publically (announcing to the world that Trump and his campaign and all the people around him were under investigation) would polarize the electorate even more. I suspect he was right. So he made the decision he thought had the greatest possibility of electing Hillary and helping Democrats win back Congressional seats.
Hawaii Group Sets Record For Largest Haul of Plastic Removed From The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hawaii-group-sets-record-for-largest-haul-of-plastic-removed-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
YEP: This year has taught us in the bluntest possible terms how much can change in four months. Between now and November 3rd, we have to work every day with urgency, and hope, to replace this president and elect @JoeBiden.
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1277230830163722241
Joaquin Phoenix Pays Tribute To Regan Russel At Slaughterhouse Vigil
https://raisevegan.com/joaquin-phoenix-pays-tribute-to-regan-russel-at-slaughterhouse-vigil/
Houston hospitals hit 100% base ICU capacity. Then they stopped reporting data.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-hospitals-hit-100-base-ICU-capacity-15372256.php
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which last night said Trump and Pence never got a briefing on Russia bounty intel, is declining this morning to say whether the intel was included in a written President's Daily Brief
https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1277266631694188545?s=20
Reported death toll in coronavirus pandemic exceeds 500,000
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Pence pivots to adhering to CDC guidelines on masks — imagine the difference if the VP and POTUS started encouraging mask wearing and wearing masks themselves on April 3 when the CDC recommended it
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1277353969258356736?s=20
Whelp, there it is. The Texas Medical Center has deleted its helpful charts showing base and surge ICU capacity. No longer part of the daily updates. Comes 3 days after Gov. Abbott ordered hospitals in Houston to stop doing elective surgeries to preserve ICU beds.
https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1277204625217720320?s=20
In the past 72 hours we've learned:
1. Trump knew Putin was hunting US soldiers
2. Putin successfully killed US soldiers
3. The Republican Administration intentionally and knowingly sold faulty anti-body testing kits
4. Covid19 had its largest ever single day cases
5. Trump tweeted a "white power" video
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