American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data | The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/native-american-coronavirus-data-314527
Judge orders shutdown of controversial Dakota Access pipeline, citing environmental risks | A federal judge ruled Monday that the Dakota Access pipeline must be shut down by Aug. 5, saying federal officials failed to do a complete analysis of its environmental impacts. The decision marks the second setback for President Trump’s infrastructure push in just two days, underscoring the extent to which long-standing environmental laws represent an obstacle to his quest to expand domestic oil and gas production.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/07/06/dakota-access-pipeline/
Fox News removes Trump from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell photo.
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/fox-news-trump-epstein/
Ennio Morricone dies at 92
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone
Trump Defense confederate flag and wrongly accuses NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace of "noose hoax"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-attacks-black-nascar-driver-bubba-wallace-over-noose-hoax
The rape of Colombia's indigenous children: Indigenous women are often the victims of sexual violence in Colombia, but the gang rape of a young girl by soldiers shocked the country. Unfortunately, it was not an isolated incident
https://www.dw.com/en/the-rape-of-colombias-indigenous-children/a-54057486
This happens a lot, and 95% of the time it is a Republican that is using the song that the artist objects to.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-lists/stop-using-my-song-35-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-75611/brian-may-vs-donald-trump-113605/
Telemarkers get a real job: Supreme Court upholds law banning cellphone robocalls
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/06/supreme-court-wont-allow-political-robocalls-cellphones/3209646001/
The White House is hoping Americans "will grow numb" to the COVID-19 death toll
https://theweek.com/speedreads/923821/white-house-reportedly-hoping-americans-grow-numb-covid19-death-toll
Trump Organization website sells Heil Hitler $88 baseball: 88 has been symbolic of "Heil Hitler' because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
https://www.businessinsider.com/88-dollar-baseball-trump-organization-website-white-nationalism-hitler-2020-7
Supreme Court rules electoral college representatives must honor the choice of state’s voters
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-06/supreme-court-electoral-college-states-voters
When Democrats begin to burn the country down to stop the criminal animal exploitation industry that not only involves raping/torturing/killing animals from the moment of birth to death but also DESTROYS THE PLANET AND HUMAN HEALTH, then maybe I'll give a fuck about hoax-19 and voting.
Susan Collins trails Democratic challenger after approval rating plummets by 31 points under Trump | Collins had a 67% approval rating when Trump first took office back in 2017. It has collapsed to just 36% today
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/susan-collins-trails-democratic-challenger-after-approval-rating-plummets-by-31-points-under-trump/
Billionaire Kanye West’s Company Gets Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan From Trump Admin | The loan poses questions of conflict of interest, given West’s outspoken support for President Donald Trump and the outrageously lavish lifestyle he leads.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-kanye-wests-company-yeezy-llc-gets-multimillion-dollar-ppp-loan-from-trump-admin
JPMorgan says the consensus is wrong and a Biden victory may be positive for the stock market
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/biden-victory-may-be-positive-for-the-stock-market-jpmorgan-says.html
40 Trump-connected lobbyists secured over $10B in coronavirus relief for clients
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/506022-40-trump-connected-lobbyists-secured-over-10b-in
Amy Cooper charged for calling police on Black bird watcher in Central Park
https://www.axios.com/amy-cooper-central-park-christian-51329f8d-69d7-45d0-845c-8933f2544817.html
Billionaire Republican West Virginia Governor's Family Businesses Received Millions in Coronavirus Relief Loans
https://time.com/5863410/west-virginia-governor-companies-coronavirus-loans/
Treasury, SBA data show small-business loans went to private-equity backed chains, members of Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/06/sba-ppp-loans-data/
Bubba Wallace addresses attacks from Trump: 'Even when its HATE from POTUS.. Love wins'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506064-bubba-wallace-addresses-attacks-from-trump-even-when-its-hate-from
Chiefs and QB Patrick Mahomes have reached agreement on a 10-year -- 10-year! -- contract extension that ties him to Kansas City through the 2031 season, league sources tell ESPN.
http://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1280213581628411905
#Colts QB Philip Rivers raised a big question on NFLPA call Friday: If a player tests positive for COVID-19 during Super Bowl week but is asymptomatic, would he have no choice but to sit? Answer was yes -- but if he later has two negative tests 24 hrs apart, he could be cleared.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1280099722347319296
Richard Petty Motorsports co-owner calls Trump tweet about Bubba Wallace 'late, misinformed, and factually incorrect'
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/07/nascar-trump-bubba-wallace-andrew-murstein-response
They went from “this isn’t happening” to “this is happening and we don’t care” without ever sending out condolences to the families of the 132,000 dead. People are still going to ask where their family members went and very few of them will respond with "who cares". "I like lungs that aren't full of fluid." “Grandma would be very pleased that we reopened the country to bring our economy roaring back.”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/923821/white-house-reportedly-hoping-americans-grow-numb-covid19-death-toll
Remember when the conservatives told everybody that Obamacare would set up death panels and kill your grandparents? Now, gammy and pappy need to die in order to make sure the rich don't lose a tiny fraction of money, and the fact that we aren't willing to sacrifice the elderly is making conservatives rage. Remember kids, conservatives DO NOT care about people or other living things. Stop letting them tell you they do.
Pentagon draft policy would ban Confederate flag displays
https://apnews.com/c96c6ef9b36b162df22924020342b9d7
We should live in a country where our congressional districts are balanced enough to have to appeal across party lines and through different points of views. If we choose not to benefit one party, but instead choose the citizens, gerrymandering ends.
Reminder: 3 Kushner family enterprises received PPP loans, so did the Daily Caller, Newsmax , Grover Norquist, and David Bossie. Millions of taxpayer dollars funneled directly to Trump family and political interests
https://thedailybeast.com/trumps-small-biz-rescue-bailed-out-kushners-family-obamas-aides-and-other-political-elite
International students will be lablled "illegal immigrants" and deported if their universities transition to online-only learning and the students do not "switch" to another college that resumes normal in-person learning
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/international-college-students-ice-online-learning/index.html
Sen. Chuck Grassley will not attend the Republican National Convention in Florida due to coronavirus concerns. "I'm not going to go. And I'm not going to go because of the virus situation." https://nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/chuck-grassley-skip-gop-convention-over-coronavirus-concerns-n1233027
As the story says (and you curiously omitted), Jon and I haven’t worked at Fenway in several years. Ben Krauss runs the company, applied for the loan to keep employees on payroll, and the suggestion that an Obama connection helped him seems off to me!
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1280252932898738176
While Trump was getting in a pissing match with, Angela Wang was completing the searchable Jeffrey Epstein Black Book. Remember that 98% of these people simply charted his plane and never met him
Black book:
https://businessinsider.com/search-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-for-the-first-time-2020-7
Flights:
https://businessinsider.com/every-flight-made-by-jeffrey-epsteins-private-jets-2020-7
Cover of Mary Trump book says, “Donald is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning or evolving” and that Trump “suffered deprivations that would scar him for life.”
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/tell-all-book-by-president-trumps-niece-to-be-published-two-weeks-earlier-on-july-14/2020/07/06/a92342e8-bfbb-11ea-864a-0dd31b9d6917_story.html
He’s been president of Mexico for 19 months and AMLO leaves the country for the first time — to meet Trump, the world leader who “has perhaps been the most demeaning to Mexico. In the midst of a pandemic. And a U.S. election campaign.”
https://washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-lopez-obrador-trump-washington-meeting/2020/07/06/52d0bb7c-bbc5-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
Devin Nunes winery received a PPP loan
https://thedailybeast.com/trumps-small-biz-rescue-bailed-out-kushners-family-obamas-aides-and-other-political-elite/
Grover Norquist's ahem non-for-profit organization, Americans for Tax Reform which has a long record of railing against federal government aid, received between $150K and $300K in COVID small business aid from the Paycheck Protection Program...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcQS6QUWkAEg-0A?format=jpg
Does Trump think it was a mistake for Nascar to ban the Confederate flag? KAYLEIGH McENANY: "You're focusing on one word at the very bottom of a tweet. That's completely taking it out of context."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1280195854087917568
Every single person who has been shot in New York City this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community and 97% of shooting victims in June were members of the city’s minority communities, the NYPD says.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245015718121473
Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri told reporters today, “all murder victims in June were of the minority community.” The city’s spike in crime is now a bonafide trend, homicides are up 27% year to date and are running 11.3% higher than they were 5 years ago.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245167921025024
The city’s spike in crime is now a bonafide trend, homicides are up 27% year to date and are running 11.3% higher than they were 5 years ago. There’s been a 204% increase in shooting victims over the past 28 days compared to last year with 717 shooting victims on the year.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245382912577538
50% of the shootings have taken place in just 10 precincts, “those communities are being overrun by a small percentage of gang members who have little regard for their own life and no regard for their community”, Chief Lipetri says.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245479654244353
The bloodshed isn’t limited to New York City. Chicago’s recent crime fighting success has cratered with a homicide rate that has risen 34% this year compared to last, for a total of 324 deaths. Over the last 28 days compared to last year over the same period homicides rose 83%.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245823721349120
Philadelphia’s homicide rate has risen up 27% with 210 killings in total (more than NYC), a rate not seen in over 10 years.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1280245917849980928
Lotta folks who make a living banging on about how “big government sucks, abolish all welfare” got themselves some sweet PPP money.
Trump's tweet about NASCAR became more inaccurate this afternoon after television numbers from yesterday’s race at IMS were released. Viewership was up 46 percent from last year’s Brickyard 400 race on NBC. Ratings were also up.
https://charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/article244021927.html
Governor Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency for Georgia after 30+ people were shot statewide during the July 4th weekend, according to his office. Kemp's order authorizes as many as 1000 Georgia National Guard troops to be mobilized.
https://wgxa.tv/news/local/kemp-declares-state-of-emergency-allows-for-national-guard-troops-in-atlanta
NASCAR Brickyard 400 ratings up 42%
-- Caveat: last year's race aired opposite NFL games
-- Most-watched race since Darlington resumption
-- Among year's 40 most-watched sports programs
-- Ratings/viewership top only last year as lowest for Brickyard 400
https://sportsmediawatch.com/2020/07/nascar-brickyard-400-ratings-increase-nbc/
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem accompanied Trump to Washington aboard Air Force One on Friday night despite having had close contact with Kimberly Guilfoyle, who had tested positive for the coronavirus.
https://usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-07-06/south-dakota-governor-exposed-to-virus-joined-trump-on-jet
Mayor of Atlanta now has COVID-19: COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.
https://twitter.com/KeishaBottoms/status/1280256462674104321
It still blows my mind how in just a span of two weeks in Chicago we had a 10-year-old, 7-year-old, 3-year-old, and one-year-old shot and killed. 8 kids in total shot over that time period. We're living at the center of two emergencies in the US.
https://cnn.com/videos/us/2020/07/05/chicago-uptick-gun-violence-coronavirus-omar-jimenez-ndwknd-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/
Harvard obviously thinks the degree is more valuable than the instruction to receive it: Harvard announces all course instruction will be taught online for the 2020-21 academic year. Undergraduate tuition of $49,653 remains the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Daniels
Deaths are down again week-over-week, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate to compare a Monday coming out of a holiday weekend to a regular Monday. Possible we'll see a lot of deaths reported tomorrow and Wednesday. Plus, the high positive test rate today (9%) is not good news.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1280262114658127876
Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only black driver, wasn’t the one who found and reported the pull rope that was tied like a noose.
The capitalized “Flag” Trump wass referring to is the traitorous Confederate flag.
"MLB's regular season begins on July 23rd with two great matchups" and none of the great players, they're all bailing
November 2020 represents not only a once-every-20-years occurrence when redistricting falls in a presidential year, but perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime chance when an incumbent president appears so weak
https://politico.com/news/2020/07/06/democrats-trump-rout-redistricting-349053
Roger Stone is asking the DC Circuit to step in to delay his prison surrender date, after the district judge would only push it back to July 14
https://documentcloud.org/documents/6981920-7-6-20-Stone-DC-Circuit-Motion.html
The judge presiding over Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecution wants the arraignment and bail hearing to be conducted remotely. She proposes a video conference on either Thursday, July 9 or Tuesday, July 14, citing logistical constraints with Maxwell's jail.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1280261333255151618
On Aug. 13, 2019, the United States Marshals Service and Mexican law enforcement located Shirley and her daughter at a hotel in Mexico City.
https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1280260177137152001
While serving in the Air Force, DOJ says she worked with the NSA. Shirley also worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence, DoD, DoE, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, and at least 5 cleared defense contractors. Shirley held TOP SECRET/SCI security clearances.
https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1280259917438427142
Democrats ask Supreme Court to hear emoluments case against Trump | ...The brief says Trump has been violating this critical constitutional prohibition for his entire term in office." It was filed with the Supreme Court on Monday. "By maintaining ownership of his companies while they conduct business with foreign governments — without seeking or obtaining congressional consent for these transactions — the President is accepting unauthorized financial benefits from foreign states," it states.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506081-democrats-ask-supreme-court-to-hear-emoluments-case-against-trump
White House defends Trump's claim that 99 percent of COVID-19 cases are 'harmless' with chart showing 5 percent are fatal
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-99-percent-coronavirus-cases-totally-harmless-claim-mcenany-white-house-191725001.html
Election monitors allege Putin referendum saw unprecedented ballot fraud
https://abcnews.go.com/International/election-monitors-allege-putin-referendum-unprecedented-ballot-fraud/story?id=71609348
Black-Owned Vegan Food Truck Raises $80,000 Dollars
https://vegannewsnow.com/2020/07/06/malibus-burgers/
One ad, three accents: How Democrats aim to win Latino votes for Biden — Miami: a Cuban accent. Orlando, FL: Puerto Rican. Phoenix: Mexican. “Los cuentos no pagan las cuentas,” a play on words that roughly means: “Telling stories won’t pay the bills.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-06/how-democrats-aim-to-win-latino-votes-biden-micro-targeting
Animal agriculture causes pandemics, unleashes antibiotic-resistant infection strains, dumps its toxic waste in poor communities, abuses its labor force, and is a huge menace to the public health -- besides the moral atrocities done to animals every day.
I thought his dear friend Donald Trump said things were fine--go back to school, work, restaurants. I would hate to think Roger Stone is calling the president a liar. Awkward. Roger Stone seeks emergency action by federal appeals court to delay his prison surrender date to September 3, 2020. This motion should be given fair consideration right after the federal government releases every other non-violent offender in its custody over the age of 60. If I were the Judge I would respond by saying....The President himself states that the COVID-19 Virus is 99% harmless. And we have to live with it! I would love to see how Stone, and his Attorneys respond. Covid-19 disappeared on Easter and Memorial Day according to the White House. No reason to delay his imprisonment. When Trump wants businesses, schools, games open why can't Roger Stone and Manafort go back to prison?
https://documentcloud.org/documents/6981920-7-6-20-Stone-DC-Circuit-Motion.html
It’s a Who's Who of anti-federal-"welfare"-spending Republican entities obtaining PPC loans
McEninny's argument is that Trump, who has expressed views on everything from Saturday Night Live to horse racing controversies to the weekend lineup at Fox News, is opinionless about the Civil War’s most controversial symbol.
This is interesting because Democrats, especially the DCCC and Democratic House candidates, etc are banking on polling places in college/campus towns to turnout the youth vote in a presidential year. What happens when you can’t skip Bio 101 to vote? : Corrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats don’t want to open schools in the Fall for political reasons, not for health reasons! They think it will help them in November. Wrong, the people get it!
https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1280272915146199040
Federal judge throws out Republican lawsuit against Michigan redistricting commission
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/07/federal-judge-throws-out-republican-lawsuit-against-michigan-redistricting-commission.html
Spencer Cox wins Utah GOP gubernatorial primary, dashing Jon Huntsman’s hopes of a comeback
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/spencer-cox-wins-utah-gop-gubernatorial-primary-dashing-jon-huntsmans-hopes-of-a-comeback/2020/07/06/bc293232-bfd7-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
As many as 400 elephants have died in Botswana’s Okavango Delta since March, wildlife experts say. Conservationists have questioned the government’s handling of the mass deaths and rejection of assistance to test and investigate. They were murdered to force conservationists out of Botswana.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/science/elephants-dead-botswana.html
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/calls-for-swift-action-as-hundreds-of-elephants-die-in-botswanas-okavango-delta/
Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/rapid-arctic-meltdown-in-siberia-alarms-scientists/2020/07/03/4c1bd6a6-bbaa-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
Siberian Arctic 'up to 10 degrees warmer' in June | Temperatures in the Siberian Arctic reached record averages in June, with some areas seeing rises of as much as 10C (18F), according to EU data. One Siberian town, Verkhoyansk, reached a high of 38C on 20 June - 18C higher than the average maximum
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53317861
Televangelists, Dallas for-profit million dollar megachurch that hosted Pence illegally given millions in pandemic aid
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-religious-idUSKBN2480CB
I miss sports, but returning now is insane | More than 50 colleges have reported positive tests among athletes. Some schools have reported a dozen or more. And keep in mind, many schools — including Illinois — are not releasing positive test numbers to the public. Thirty-seven Clemson football players — more than 30% of the roster — had tested positive as of June 26, according to USA Today. At least 30 LSU players and staff were quarantined after several positive tests. And that’s with the most careful research-based precautions in place. That’s with limited groups of players simply lifting weights in the same room. What happens when other students return to campus? When classes resume? When they start tackling each other?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-college-sports-covid-19-cases-surge-20200706-khbmkvqp3fbvvd5axujjm6n3wu-story.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2020/06/21/coronavirus-college-sports-schools-reporting-positive-covid-tests-among-athletes/3231509001/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-sports-return-medical-experts-coronavirus-20200701-tdrpbruvzrcyddrzmlhhhxpr4e-story.html
Army veteran Sen. Tammy Duckworth hits back at Tucker Carlson for claiming she hates America: 'Walk a mile in my legs'
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/army-veteran-sen-tammy-duckworth-hits-back-tucker-carlson-claiming-she-hates-america-walk-mile-in-my-legs-071858474.html
Deutsche Bank hit with $150 million penalty for relationship to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-deutsche-bank-fined-150-million-penalty-for-relationship.html
This was repeately and widely reported back in March and April: Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/jair-bolsonaro-coronavirus-positive-test-brazil-president
UK to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite 'possible' war crimes in Yemen
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-arms-sell-saudi-arabia-military-exports-a9605636.html
'Alarming': Some Small Businesses Received Just $1 in Covid-19 Relief Loans as Kushner Family, Wall Street Investors Raked in Millions
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/07/alarming-some-small-businesses-received-just-1-covid-19-relief-loans-kushner-family
Russia is killing US soldiers. Trump's response is a shameful dereliction of duty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/07/trump-russia-us-soldiers-afghanistan-putin
Trump administration ilegally hands a loan to the nearly $2 billion dollar Church of Scientology as small businesses go bankrupt and permanently close
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/07/alarming-some-small-businesses-received-just-1-covid-19-relief-loans-kushner-family
Trump cheated on his SATs by paying someone to take it for him, according to Mary Trump's new book
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-cheated-on-his-sat-penn-wharton-mary-trump-2020-7
Gassed, Shot and Suffocated: How the meat monopoly is killing animals, people and the planet
https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/gassed-shot-and-suffocated-7196ea3632d7
O, Russian-Afghani bounties, White House is targeting leakers, not Russia or Afghani militants
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/alleged-bounties-white-house-targets-leakers-not-russia-n1233049
Sen. Duckworth on the Russia bounties: How dare Trump still call himself our commander in chief? "Trump should be outraged and we should be outraged that he's not. Whether he's incompetent or putting Russia first, he's a national security threat."
https://usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/07/trump-puts-russia-over-us-troops-bounties-duckworth-column/5380795002/
In her book, Mary Trump says: "I watched in real time as Donald shredded norms, endangered alliances, and trod upon the vulnerable. The only thing about it that surprised me was the increasing number of people willing to enable him.” @eelarson
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/mary-trump-s-new-book-alleges-that-president-led-life-of-lies
43 Florida ICUs Reach Capacity, Show No Beds Available as Coronavirus Cases Surge
https://www.newsweek.com/43-florida-icus-reach-capacity-show-no-beds-available-coronavirus-cases-surge-1516006
New Jersey, Delaware
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/us/elections/results-new-jersey-primary-elections.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/us/elections/results-delaware-president-democrat-primary-election.html
Trump administration informs Congress it is withdrawing from World Health Organization
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/us-withdrawing-world-trade-organization/index.html
Covid19 positives are rapidly increasing but the virus itself is nowhere close to as strong as it originally was, the death count is incrementally declining (less people are dying), the recovery numbers are rapidly increasing, almost all people (95 out of 100) who are testing positive are asymptomatic and fine, it's the other 5 out of 100 who seem to need immediate hospitalization, but almost all those hospitalized people are recovering. In the beginning, maybe 80 out of 100 people tested positive and were mostly asymptomatic (none were hospitalized but some required weeks worth of an antibiotics regiment to get better) while 20 of 100 needed immediate hospitalization and rapidly declined, and most of the 20 failed to recover. The virus itself has weakened and that is something the failed public health officials refuse to admit.
Kevin Durantisemite: Kevin Durant "liked" an IG photo of anti-semite Louis Farrakhan posted by Eagles WR DeSean Jackson
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcS7V-JXgAArJkx?format=jpg&name=large
DeSean Jackson posted some anti-Semitic messages on IG
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29422431/eagles-desean-jackson-says-hate-jewish-community-posting-anti-semitic-messages
These instances demonstrate that two heads of DHS were monitoring press related to family separation and working to mitigate bad publicity.
https://documentcloud.org/documents/5450132-CBP-Records-Regarding-CatchOfTheDay-Hashtag.html#document/p6
Soboroff also details former Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan’s inquiries regarding a Buzzfeed News story about a Central American man separated from his 1-year-old son.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1280613768712589315
Texas surpasses 10,000 confirmed new coronavirus cases in a single day for 1st time as record surges continue across US.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1280613765650829313
Soboroff discusses former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s emails in which she asked for information about a woman from Congo seeking asylum who was reportedly separated from her 7-year-old child.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1280613765562748930
.@jacobsoboroff’s new book “Separated: An American Tragedy” cites documents we obtained
through #FOIA to report on the Trump administration’s cruel and poorly coordinated family-separation policy.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1280613764367298561
Trump rejects assessment of government’s top infectious disease expert who is warning about the surge in covid cases. And Trump questions his judgment. “Dr. Fauci said don't wear masks and now he says wear them.“ Trump says in “2, 3, 4 weeks..We’re going to be in very good shape”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1280613498087788550
Pushing an ice cream cart seven miles a day through one of LA's poorest neighborhoods has always been hard. It's harder now. L.A. ice cream vendor adapts to life in a COVID-19 world.
For the past 16 years, Mauro Rios Parra has sold fruit bars and ice cream on the streets of Pico-Union, one of L.A.'s densest cities and among the hardest hit by the coronavirus.
https://latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-02/pico-union-paletero
Zuckerberg & Sandberg met with civil rights leaders.
Harsh response:
• FB reverted to “spin.”
• “Same old talking points."
• “They showed up to the meeting expecting an A for attendance. Attending alone is not enough.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/technology/facebook-ad-boycott-civil-rights.html
Trump had to wait ages to install an ally at CFPB, but thanks to that SCOTUS ruling, Biden could install his own pick as soon as he feels like it.
“Well," the aunt replied, “he has had five bankruptcies.” A devout Catholic, Berry was irate evangelicals were supporting her brother, and questioned what was "wrong with them." “The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. It’s mind-boggling.
https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1280611895096074240
Flynn lawyer Sidney Powell defends Flynn tweeting video w/ QAnon's "Where we go one we go all" slogan, claiming it wasn't about Q. But Flynn in 2018 used the phrase when signing books. His son also claimed it wasn't about Q. Amazing it keeps happening.
https://cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/michael-flynn-qanon-video/index.html
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1280611720193552389/photo/1
The irony of Trump's EOs and 11th hour decisions is that, if Biden wins, he can act very quickly on liberal priorities without doing much. A pen stroke and the US is back in the Paris agreement, for example.
New ad: "Has Your Party Left You?"
https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1280486725165502464
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6d4TgO2NY
Latest for The Athletic: Braves discussing use of Tomahawk Chop, but not their name. https://theathletic.com/1915056/2020/07/07/the-braves-are-discussing-their-use-of-the-tomahawk-chop-but-not-their-name/
A Woman Without a Country: Adopted at Birth and Deportable at 30
She grew up thinking she was American. When she realized that she wasn’t, her quest to fix the problem put her at risk of deportation.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/immigrants-adoption-ice.html
“Withdrawing U.S. membership could, among other things, interfere with clinical trials that are essential to the development of vaccines ... And withdrawing could make it harder to work with other countries to stop viruses before they get to the United States,” Alexander says
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1280610985632509955
Senate HELP Chairman Lamar Alexander says “I disagree” with Trump move to withdraw from WHO. “Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes...made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1280610282939781122
In new guidance, CDC recommends voters consider alternatives to in-person voting due to COVID, and shares safety precautions for in-person voting such as bringing your own black ink pen & touchscreen pens.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/in-new-guidance-cdc-recommends-alternatives-to-in-person-voting-safety-precautions-for-in-person-voting/2020/07/07/5b62cbba-c078-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
So the CDC encourages alternatives to in-person voting but supports the reopening of all schools
Protestors in DC handed the white dude who was about to provocate the protest to the police. He has been arrested and taken away.
https://twitter.com/s_Allahverdi/status/1267240521052946432
Fantastic news out of the D.C. Circuit for anyone who likes freedom of information. Special kudos to JasonLeopold, @_LightLaw, @katie_rcfp, and @rcfp: D.C. Circuit has reversed the D.C. District Court decision in @rcfp & @jasonleopold’s lawsuit to increase public access to electronic surveillance court records. The case will be sent back to lower court for further consideration.
https://twitter.com/rcfp/status/1280534299729592321
Trump posturing as a warrior against "cancel culture" is really rich. *Some* people and entities Trump has tried to get canceled:
Touré
Univision
Debra Messing
Macy's
Kneeling players
NYMag
Charles Krauthammer
Katy Tur
CNN
WSJ editorial board
Rich Lowry
Karl Rove
Vanity Fair
Glenfiddich
Bill Maher
Rolling Stone
Mexico
http://cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump-cancel-culture-boycotts-firings/index.html
Trump’s attacks on mail voting are turning Republicans off absentee ballots (lol). His unfounded accusations that voting by mail causes widespread fraud could end up undercutting Republican candidates, alarmed party strategists say. (lol)
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-attacks-on-mail-voting-are-turning-republicans-off-absentee-ballots/2020/07/07/640b6126-bbd4-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
South Korea Denies U.S. Request to Extradite Operator of Child Pornography Site
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/south-korea-child-pornography-extradition.html
Record number of fires in Arctic Circle amid ‘exceptionally high temperatures' | Intense wildfires are sweeping across the Arctic Circle, surpassing the numbers recorded in June 2019
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/fire-arctic-circle-siberia-record-climate-crisis-temperature-a9605891.html
The Arctic Is on Fire and Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Earth
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-wildfires-climate-crisis-2646355896.html
Intense Arctic Wildfires Set a Pollution Record | High temperatures and dry soil mean ideal conditions for fires. Blazes in June produced more carbon emissions than any other fires in almost two decades of monitoring.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/climate/climate-change-arctic-fires.html
At least eight Mississippi lawmakers have contracted COVID-19; many in Capitol did not wear masks or stay distanced
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2020-07-07/at-least-eight-mississippi-lawmakers-have-contracted-covid-19-many-in-capitol-did-not-wear-masks-or-stay-distanced
Manhattan DA Appeals Ruling In Bid To Revive State-Level Prosecution Of Paul Manafort
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/manhattan-da-appeals-ruling-in-bid-to-revive-state-level-prosecution-of-paul-manafort
Iowans younger than 40 are disproportionately testing positive for the novel coronavirus — and the counties with the state’s two largest universities are topping the trend. https://desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/07/06/young-adults-university-areas-testing-positive-covid-19-virus-coronavirus/5368128002/
Collins, Murkowski and Romney also will not attend the GOP convention, per aides. Joining Grassley/Alexander in planning to skip. Several other GOP senators have said they are undecided about attending amid coronavirus.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/506282-romney-collins-murkowski-wont-attend-gop-convention
This is an incredible map considering there was no blue on there after three contests. The Biden campaign really pulled something off. They don't get enough credit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-primary-elections/results-map
States sue U.S. Department of Education over diverted virus relief funds for schools
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/states-sue-u-s-department-over-virus-relief-funds-for-schools
Michigan sues Betsy DeVos over COVID relief money illegally given to private religious schools
https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/07/07/betsy-devos-covid-relief-money-private-schools/5392085002/
California sues to block more federal coronavirus money from illegally given to private religious schools
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-sues-to-block-more-federal-coronavirus-15392471.php
Judge declines to reverse Dakota Access Pipeline shutdown
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/506246-judge-declines-to-reverse-dakota-access-pipeline-shutdown
Vindman to retire from military. His lawyer blames White House 'campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation'
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/vindman-retiring-alleged-white-house-retaliation/index.html
Harvard, MIT Sue Feds Over Rules Barring International Students
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/harvard-mit-sue-feds-over-rules-barring-international-students-report/2155756/
Chief Justice Roberts was hospitalized a month ago after head injury from a fall. This is normally the kind of thing you announce to the public when it happens. The fact that this happened more than a month ago is arguably shocking. “A month? That’s nothing. Justice Roberts’ didn’t reveal who he really is for 15 years,” Michael Caputo, the spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department, quipped on Twitter. So government spokespeople are joking about the health of Supreme Court justices now? Of course they are, because they are shit human beings. And because Republican Chief Justice Roberts sides with the Democratic opinion on major cases far more often than the Republican opinion.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/roberts-scotus-head-injury-352066
Provisional ballots cast in New Jersey on Tuesday can’t be counted until after the 7-day period for mail ballots to arrive. So it might be a while before we get full results.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/us/elections/results-new-jersey-primary-elections.html
Normal Democrat Josh Gottheimer easily defeats anti-Democratic party antisemite alt-left Sanders-endorsed AOC endorsed Arati Kreibich whose last name is literally Aryan. 99% of these fake progressives who are really leftist and alt-left and racist and antisemitic have lost all over America and the local and state and federal level.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/us/elections/results-new-jersey-house-district-5-primary-election.html
DOJ Used Video From Russian Propaganda Site to Prosecute Confederate Statue Burning Case | The United States Department of Justice is using a video from Russian government-funded source Ruptly as evidence in prosecuting Jason Charter for allegedly burning a Washington, D.C., Confederate statue. According to the probable-cause affidavit, Charter allegedly poured an “unknown liquid” on the toppled Albert Pike Historical Statue and lit it on fire on June 20. In the DOJ’s affidavit, video evidence of the scene from WUSA9, a local D.C. news outlet, is presented alongside video from Ruptly. Ruptly is a subsidiary of RT, a Russian state-controlled network.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-uses-video-from-russian-propaganda-site-to-prosecute-confederate-statue-burning-case?source=TDB&via=FB_Page&fbclid=IwAR3fkg4ifUqA7lutQFpFAmlibHhrcvHYugoxX5ovqWLWfcW9DA027Q1Pd_Y
Trump Health Secretary Says US Healthcare Workers 'Don't Get Infected' With Covid-19 (94,000 Have Contracted Covid-19)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/08/trump-health-secretary-says-us-healthcare-workers-dont-get-infected-covid-19-94000
The very first rule of elections: those exciting things you & your highly committed, ultra-partisan friends care about?
Those are not the things the decisive voters care about. I care a lot about Trump's abject subordination to Vladimir
Putin. I regard it a supremely important concern for the security and sovereignty of the United States. But I understand
that the voters who will deliver the White House care first about health and jobs.
Somehow DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Kevin Durant and JR Smith praising Hitler is getting less coverage than Drew Brees' comments.
Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban | First, President Trump decided not to confront Putin about supplying arms to the terrorist group. Second, during the very times in which U.S. military officials publicly raised concerns about the program’s threat to US forces, Trump undercut them. He embraced Putin, overtly and repeatedly, including at the historic summit in Helsinki. Third, behind the scenes, Trump directed the CIA to share intelligence information on counterterrorism with the Kremlin despite no discernible reward, former intelligence officials who served in the Trump administration told Just Security.
https://www.justsecurity.org/71279/trump-pushed-cia-to-give-intelligence-to-kremlin-while-taking-no-action-against-russia-arming-taliban/
Biden vows to reverse Trump WHO withdrawal, something we already know. Democrats are the pro-international diplomatic engangement party.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53332354
"My values are not tied to a particular person. My values are tied to what it is that I believe, not wrapped up in some political personality. For folks that really want to go out and change the apparatus, people that want to remake the system, you have to have some solid core values. That sounds like common sense, but in reality I think that’s a problem for many people who get involved in politics. They get it twisted and they find their values are wrapped up in Obama, in Bernie Sanders, in Joe Biden, in some other political persona. I have immense respect for all three of those people, but my values are not wrapped up in any one of them. I didn’t go to work for Bernie because I was a die-hard Bernie fan. I went to work for him because the things he was talking about at the time and the way he was talking about them aligned with my values for the most part. And I asked for a particular job—basically I demanded a seat at the table—and they gave me the seat I asked for. That seat put me in a position to do real change-making work, and to put my career on the trajectory I wanted. [...] I didn’t 110 percent agree with Bernie on every issue while I was working for him. I don’t agree with Biden on every issue, in every instance. But I think in order to make change we have to make strategic decisions. That’s not sexy. Nobody wants to talk about it. No one wants to make choices or sacrifices or do the grunt work, but somebody’s gotta transcribe what was said, somebody has to run security, someone has to book the travel, and someone’s gonna be up till two a.m. the night before a debate, reviewing and reviewing and rereviewing talking points." -- Sanders, Symone D.. No, You Shut Up
I remember when Symone announced she was joining the Biden campaign at a time when his candidacy looked iffy and thinking it was a risky move for her. Now she's on top of the world, a close advisor to the presumptive next POTUS. Her joining Biden’s campaign made me realize he was a contender. I really find her brilliant.
They fly anti-American flags, flags that supported the killing of American union soldiers. They praise a succession from the United States as the pinnacle of their history, and now support a foreign government's interference in their own politics to prevent true patriots from helping the entirety of the USA. IN THEIR SUPPORT FOR TRUMP THEY SUPPORT THE KILLING OF U.S. TROOPS SINCE TRUMP KNEW ABOUT AND DID NOTHING TO STOP RUSSIAN BOUNTIES. They don’t consider people like me American. Let me repeat that. THEY ARE TRYING TO PERSUADE THE NATION THAT PERSONS-OF-COLOUR ARE NOT AMERICAN. They don’t want people to have the same rights. These people are criminal traitor terrorists. Trump and Republicans and all their supporters are single handily obliterating EVERYTHING ACCOMPLISHED IN THE NATION AND EVERYTHING ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE GLOBAL DIPLOMATIC EFFORT OF THE LAST 100+ YEARS. THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE US BACK TO PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA AMERICA. His supporters hate that the pre-civil war America they are in love with doesn't actually exist. His supporters hate that the America they are in love with doesn't actually exist. They hate that the America they want never actually existed and instead life has passed them by. This is why Trump won - these people hate that Obama brought the country forward and progressed, leaving them behind because they didn't want to follow along.
Trump and Republicans are not only threatening to cut off funding for schools that close, they already have the rules ready to be signed off and the legal briefs ready to defend the action. This is their wet dream, to end all federal funding for secular schools in order to forcibly shut down schools altogether. They want kids to be uneducated and "churched".
Republican-controlled US Supreme Court illegally and unconstitutionally rules that religious schools are exempt from discrimination suits.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/supreme-court-religious-schools-lawsuits-coronavirus-funding-a9608246.html
U.S. Supreme Court rulings due Thursday on Trump financial records cases
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-finances/u-s-supreme-court-rulings-due-thursday-on-trump-financial-records-cases-idUSKBN2492JH
Biden emerges from a contested Democratic primary with no serious threat on his left flank, according to Times/Siena polling in the battlegrounds. Sanders supporters back him 87-4. Warren supporters back him 96-0.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1280862834516275200
U.S. Supreme Court allows businesses to refuse to cover contraception for female employees
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-contraception/u-s-supreme-court-allows-broader-religious-exemption-to-birth-control-coverage-idUSKBN24929B
Facebook removes Roger Stone from Instagram after linking him to fake accounts
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/tech/roger-stone-proud-boys-facebook/index.html
"Dad, I’m sitting here today, in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected professionals—is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union. Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmg5hgawTMw
- Alexander Vindman's Opening Statement, November 19th, 2019
Americans are the dangerous, disease-carrying foreigners now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/08/covid-travel-bans-americans/
Mayor Turner, says a staff member & his sister told him, “Your mom was a maid working at these hotels. If your mom was alive today, working at one of these hotels, would you still allow this convention to go forward & run the risk of infecting your mom & the answer is no.”
Ivy League calls off fall sports, including football, for its eight schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ap-source-ivy-league-calls-off-fall-sports-including-football-for-its-eight-schools/2020/07/08/3a3d4570-c161-11ea-8908-68a2b9eae9e0_story.html
Children are dying every day in Yemen due to malnutrition.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/yemen-coronavirus-children-starvation-unicef
As Kayleigh McEnany leaves the podium, White House reporter Brian Karem shouts this question: "Kayleigh, if it's safe to send people back to schools, is it safe to send Manafort back to prison?"
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1280976280314249216
Facebook Removed Hundreds Of Fake Accounts Connected To Roger Stone, The Proud Boys, And PR Firms https://buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/facebook-removed-roger-stone-fake-accounts
Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa "likely contributed" to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said.
https://apnews.com/ad96548245e186382225818d8dc416eb
Passengers on a flight from Dallas to Newark were ordered back to their assigned seats after — in an attempt to gain more social distance —they moved to empty rows. They were told they had not paid for exit row seats, which are more expensive | “The irony of then hearing on the public address system, ‘Your health and safety is our top priority,’” said Ms. Gonzalez, who posted photos of the full and empty rows on Instagram. “Behind me, seats went empty and wasted while I was squished and touching someone.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/travel/airplanes-social-distancing-coronavirus.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
It’s not just the vaccine. The U.S. – and world – will need hundreds of millions of the other products (syringes, vials, alcohol swabs) for a vaccine campaign that will be bigger than H1N1 in 2009 and polio in the 1950s. Will there be enough syringes?
Tennessee governor says Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest bust should be removed from state Capitol, go to museum.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1280985069268566016
Opinions change over time, but my opinion right now is this, where they should be removed, but not destroyed. Museums where people can see them and learn about the terrible history of the person and why they're not able to be on display outside. It’s still insane to me that one of the most notorious KKK leaders was there to begin with. So much damage to undo, in terms of how venerating someone like that for so long has infienced those within that sphere of veneration, but this is a great first step. Good job, Tennessee! I don't mind history being on display in museums or historical centres with background and context, I can choose not to visit a place that praises traitors. Huge statues of Confederate traitors looming over me going into school, or work, or civic buildings, or public parks, or town squares, not so much.
Symone Sanders has warned Biden staffers against using the term "white working class" because it upsets some black activists
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/symone-sanders-bidens-top-african-american-aide-faces-pressure-from-all-sides/2020/07/03/3bebaa6e-b49c-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html
The FBI is examining exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui and the money used to fund his media efforts in the U.S., including his work with Steve Bannon, according to people familiar with the matter. https://wsj.com/articles/fbi-probes-chinese-exile-including-work-with-former-trump-aide-steve-bannon-11594248436
Missouri Summer Camp Closes After 82 Kids and Staff Infected with Coronavirus https://people.com/health/missouri-summer-camp-sees-dozens-infected-with-coronavirus-as-outbreak-raises-safety-concerns/
The Supreme Court Gave Religious Schools New Exemptions From Discrimination Claims And LGBTQ Advocates Are Worried
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/supreme-court-religious-school-teachers-discrimination-lgbtq
Steve Mnuchin’s exclusive LA country club scored a PPP loan worth at least $2 million. https://thedailybeast.com/steve-mnuchins-exclusive-riviera-country-club-got-millions-in-covid-relief
Another San Quentin death row prisoner died yesterday from COVID-19. California has a moratorium on the death penalty, but at least 6 death row inmates have died from the coronavirus
https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1280924955694321664
Showtime Releases Statement On Stephen Jackson’s Comments: “We are aware of Stephen Jackson’s recent statements. Regardless of his intentions, Stephen’s comments were hurtful and inconsistent with the values espoused by this network"
https://thespun.com/nba/showtime-releases-statement-on-stephen-jacksons-comments
YEP: Along with his anti-Semitism, we should also remember that Louis Farrakhan had a role in the death of Malcolm X. Very disappointing to see @KDTrey5 here. Spreading love is the Brooklyn way. This isn't it. https://sfgate.com/warriors/article/Stephen-Jackson-Kevin-Durant-DeSean-anti-Semitism-15394993.php#photo-19647155
Donald Trump openly embraces racist rhetoric and sends blatant signals of support for the causes of white supremacists -- and he does it from the highest office in the land.
One of the last cases SCOTUS could decide tomorrow on is whether a treaty with the Indian Nations was never revoked and Eastern Oklahoma including Tulsa must be returned to the tribes. Going by approximate county split, Trump would have won both new states by over 30 points
https://twitter.com/rudnicknoah/status/1281025658899107843
https://indianz.com/News/2020/03/30/supreme-court-churns-along-with-indian-c.asp
FUSION GPS (the company behind the TRUMP-Russia dossier) got a PPP loan worth between $350k & $1m, per @SBAgov data. The loan was issued through Trustar Bank to BEAN, LLC, which is the co. under which Fusion GPS operates. The application said the loan would help retain 15 jobs.
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1280910197163200513
Democrats rocking back and forth maniacally after realizing two years were spent reforming “superdelegates” before a virtual convention that might not have/need delegates
U.S. virus case map is unnerving:
• Exactly ZERO states have significant declines.
• Most states have increases.
• Some are level.
• 9,845 cases reported in Texas on Tuesday, single-day record.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#states
The only pattern-or-practice probe of a police department launched during the Trump administration found that narcotics officers in Springfield, Massachusetts, routinely punch citizens in the face and use "excessive force without accountability.”
https://huffpost.com/entry/doj-policing-investigation-springfield-massachusetts_n_5f065886c5b67a80bc0276f7
A reminder on Trump & schools: "We've seen this before. The CDC developed guidelines for reopening businesses. Trump didn’t like them, thinking that they were overly cautious ... So the CDC scaled them back. Businesses reopened. Coronavirus cases spiked."
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/08/trump-apparently-cant-help-make-reopening-schools-into-his-new-partisan-cause/
Supreme Court sides with House Democrats, Trump must turn over financial records: Today, the Supreme Court issued decisions for two highly anticipated cases involving subpoenas seeking President Trump's tax returns. The Chief Justice wrote for the Court in Trump v Vance, affirming the Second Circuit and rejecting the Government's position that, under Article II and the Supremacy Clause, the President was entitled to absolute immunity and a heightened standard for the issuance of a state criminal subpoenas. The case now goes back to the district court, where the Second Circuit permitted the Government to make alternative arguments. The vote was 5 in the majority (Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan), 2 in concurrence with the decision (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) and 2 in dissent (Thomas, Alito). The Chief Justice also wrote for the Court in Trump vs Mazars, vacating the lower court ruling affirming the Congressional subpoena and implementing a balancing test for the district court to consider in deciding whether to grant a Congressional subpoena and so on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records/2020/07/09/8f274352-c1e2-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/trump-taxes-supreme-court.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-advances-subpoena-of-trump-tax-returns/
Stephen Jackson on CNN last night. He has already compared the situation to Riley Cooper. Total fucking idiot. He said we are “twisting it”. Update 1: He refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. He apologized for his choice of words, but does not retract his statement. Was really quick, although Don Lemon looked absolutely apalled with Stephen Jackson.
https://streamable.com/u4omy2
Army Handout Suggests Trump's MAGA Slogan Is Considered 'Covert White Supremacy'
https://www.newsweek.com/army-handout-suggests-trumps-maga-slogan-considered-covert-white-supremacy-1516579
Ocean Plastic Turned Into Virus Protection Equipment
https://www.planetxyz.com/ocean-plastic-turned-into-virus-protection-equipment/
Trump granted another 45-day extension to file annual financial disclosure | Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and White House staff were initially granted a 45-day extension to submit their financial disclosure forms due to the coronavirus pandemic this spring. The extension deadline cutoff was on June 30, and shortly afterward, Pence's latest financial disclosure was made public by the Office of Government Ethics. Trump's disclosure, however, was not published.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/trump-financial-disclosure-extension/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure.html
Vehicle-ramming attacks on the rise: At least 66 in US since May 27. Thank Palestinian terrorists who are the inspiration for these attacks.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/08/vehicle-ramming-attacks-66-us-since-may-27/5397700002/
The U.S. officials who begged Trump to do something about Russian bounties on US soldiers are now on televison dismissing the entire sitaution as fake news and less than conclusive and Democrats grasping at straws.
Jacksonville attorneys sue to block Republican National Convention
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506512-jacksonville-attorneys-sue-to-block-republican-national-convention
Good, fuck Democrats about masks already: Ohio sheriff says he won't enforce governor's mask order: 'I'm not going to be the mask police'
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/506461-ohio-sheriff-says-he-wont-enforce-governors-mask-order-im-not-going-to
The governor of Illinois says the White House forced states into a 'sick Hunger Games' trying to outbid each other for PPE
https://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-gov-coronavirus-ppe-fight-hunger-games-2020-7
I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/journalist-arrest-seattle-chaz-protest-police-prison-black-lives-matter-a9606846.html
White House press secretary's parents received millions in PPP loans | McEnany Roofing, a million-dollar commercial roofing company in Florida owned by McEnany’s parents, Michael and Leanne McEnany, received somewhere between $1–2 million dollars from PPP. | According to the loan data, McEnany Roofing said it employs 141 people. In an interview with Fox News back in April, McEnany noted that the program was designed to go to companies with 10 or fewer employees. According to the loan data, McEnany Roofing said it employs 141 people. In an interview with Fox News back in April, McEnany noted that the program was designed to go to companies with 10 or fewer employees.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kayleigh-mcenany-parents-construction-ppp-loan/
Treasury Department data shows over 500,000 businesses received PPP loans but are listed as retaining zero jobs
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/over-500000-businesses-got-ppp-loans-but-are-listed-as-retaining-zero-jobs-treasury-department-data-show-2020-07-08
Jill Biden promises if Biden's elected 'no more Betsy DeVos'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506549-jill-biden-promises-if-bidens-elected-no-more-betsy-devos
Manhattan federal prosecutor ousted by Barr to testify before House panel
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/geoffrey-berman-house-testimony/index.html
Facebook Bans Roger Stone for ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Activity’
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/roger-stone-banned-facebook-instagram-1234701646/amp/
New York City starts painting Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/09/nyc-starts-painting-black-lives-matter-mural-front-trump-tower/5404111002/
Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma is Indian Reservation. No, the convicted child rapist does not walk free. He will be immediately re-tried (and convicted) by federal prosecutors. He was facing the death penalty under state law. He will still be facing the death penalty under federal law. On its surface, it might seem surprising that Gorsuch sided with the liberals on this case. But he has actually consistently sided with Native Americans over federal and state governments in his judicial career -- or at least with enforcing the clear language of the treaties between the United States and the various Native American peoples, treaties which in many cases had long been disregarded or ignored.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html#commentsContainer
36 COVID-19 cases connected to outbreak in Mississippi Legislature; 26 are lawmakers
https://www.wjtv.com/health/coronavirus/36-covid-19-cases-connected-to-outbreak-in-mississippi-legislature-26-are-lawmakers/
To anyone planning on leaking the tax returns: please wait until around October 25th or so. Thanks!
CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of 15m years ago | Sometime around 2025, Earth is likely to have CO2 conditions not experienced since the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum 15m years ago, around the time our ancestors are thought to have diverged from orangutans and become recognisably hominid
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/09/co2-in-earths-atmosphere-nearing-levels-of-15m-years-ago
After canoe chase, Madagascar authorities seize 144 endangered tortoises
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/after-canoe-chase-madagascar-authorities-seize-144-endangered-tortoises/
- Both opinions reject the idea that a POTUS has broad legal immunity
- Both opinions basically punt or return back to lower courts for further consideration/argument or resumption of the case
- There are still a lot of legal battles ahead, before Trump's taxes are seen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-new-york-prosecutor-can-get-trump-s-n1232086
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXS5d3UVg6I
"We need to think before we act, or before we post or tweet or do anything. Because when you're an athlete, your one tweet or post can inspire millions or it can do the opposite." Enes Kanter was recently on CNN talking about the Desean Jackson/Stephen Jackson anti-Semitism incident. He stated that fighting for equality in all forms is important and mentioned that in addition to marching alongside BLM, he has been outspoken about fighting antisemitism and has led Islamic-Jewish interfaith events. He posted the following clip of the interview to his Instagram: Kanter added the following caption to the post: "It’s important to stand against all kinds of discrimination. We must work TOGETHER to end all forms of hate and bring UNITY. - To all my Jewish brothers and sisters out there; I love you and no one can change that"
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCbPd6VlCFo/
"We reaffirm that principle today and hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need." - Justice Roberts
Ousted U.S. Attorney Berman testifies that Barr repeatedly pressured him to resign | "I said that there was no job offer that would entice me to resign from my position," Berman said in his opening statement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/09/geoffrey-berman-testimony-william-barr-355196
Michael Cohen Taken Back Into Custody After Restaurant Photo
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/michael-cohen-taken-back-into-custody-after-restaurant-photo/2507949/
Neo-Nazis encouraging followers to 'deliberately infect' Jews and Muslims with coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/uk/extremism-deliberately-covid-19-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
Republican-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court OKs Republican-authored lame-duck laws stripping Democratic governor and general attorney of power | The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before he took office in 2019. The court rejected arguments that the laws were unconstitutional, handing another win to Republicans who have scored multiple high-profile victories before the conservative court in recent years. The ruling marks the second time that the court has upheld the lame-duck laws passed in December 2018, just weeks before Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, both Democrats, took office. The actions in Wisconsin mirrored Republican moves after losing control of the governor's offices in Michigan in November 2018 and in North Carolina in 2016. Democrats decried the tactics as brazen attempts to hold onto power after losing elections. The Wisconsin laws curtailed powers of both the governor and attorney general, but the case ruled on Thursday dealt primarily with powers taken away from Kaul. The Supreme Court previously rejected a lawsuit that challenged the legality of the lame duck session itself.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/07/09/wisconsin-supreme-court-oks-gopauthored-lameduck-laws
When it takes seven paragraphs to say "Joe West is an idiot.": Statement from the umpires’ union. Clearly in response to comments made by Joe West to The Athletic. West later made similar remarks to USA Today.
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1281261936714399755
I fully expect Joe West to go on Fox News to rant about how he’s being oppressed by people telling him he’s wrong about the pandemic. I give it till Saturday before he’s on Sean Hannity or OAN.
Another note from Mr. Hartig: The schedule does *not* include a Cubs-Braves game... for the first time since 1873. That ends the longest non-interrupted series in American sports history after 146 seasons.
https://www.twitter.com/MLBastian/status/1280590240974098440
"After months of doing nothing - after predicting the virus would disappear, and suggesting if you drink bleach you'll be okay. He has given up. he has walked away."
https://twitter.com/BidenWarRoom/status/1281305215485063169
Why it's important to have vegans in Congress | But Booker realized there was a place that vegans and farmers could come together: Both of them hate the ways agribusiness had consolidated and mechanized the meat market, forcing farmers into using massive, cruel, and environmentally devastating confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. The agricultural industry has an unusual structure: Virtually every node in the industry is highly concentrated around a few megaproducers. That’s true for seeds, for pesticides, for machines, for production. And concentration has been increasing, and fast. In 1980, 34 percent of pigs were slaughtered by the four largest meatpacking companies. By 2015, that had nearly doubled, to 66 percent. | As farmers have lost control of their livelihoods, they’ve also lost control of their animals, their crops, and their land. They have no choice but to contract with companies that dictate the way they raise their animals, setting farmers in competition with one another for production speeds and efficiency. The way you win that competition is to pack more animals into your sheds, pump them fuller of antibiotics so they don’t die from infections that flourish amid overcrowding, raise breeds that live lives of pain but grow with astonishing speed, create massive manure lagoons that poison streams and turn air acrid. The result is a brutal incentive to mechanize the process of livestock production in ways cruel to the animals, the farmers, and their communities. | Booker realized that, as unlikely as it sounds, there was a space in the Venn diagram between the people who believe raising and killing animals for food is wrong and the people whose chose, as their livelihoods, to raise and kill animals for food. Both could agree that the way we are doing it now is cruel, both to animals and to people. | “This is not how we raised livestock 70 years ago,” Booker says. “We’ve gone from raising animals in a far more humane, pasture-based model to one where we’re producing food in hyper-confined, concentrated, enclosed buildings that produce these massive lagoons of waste that are poisoning our streams and our rivers.” | In December of 2019, while campaigning in Iowa, Booker unveiled the Farm System Reform Act. It’s sweeping legislation, but at its core it does four things: Imposes an immediate moratorium on the construction of new CAFOs and phases out the largest existing CAFOs by 2040 Imposes the liabilities and costs of pollutions, accidents, and disasters on the agricultural conglomerates that control the market rather than on the independent farmers who contract with them Creates a $100 billion fund to help farmers who are currently running CAFOs transition to other agricultural operations Strengthens the existing Packers and Stockyards Act to prohibit a range of contract terms and structures that let huge meat buyers put farmers in a race for the bottom while denying them political and legal recourse | David Coman-Hidy is the president of the Humane League, an animal welfare organization. In May, I had a conversation with him I’ve had trouble getting out of my head. My question was innocuous. I wanted to know what he was working on. “Switching from live shackling to the atmospheric killing of chickens,” he replied. Oh. I wasn’t familiar with these terms, and maybe you aren’t, either. And I’m sorry for what I’m going to force you to imagine as I explain them. “The process of how we slaughter broiler chickens is the cruelest thing imaginable,” says Coman-Hidy. These are, functionally, malnourished, young birds. Workers flip them upside down to shackle them by their legs. In many cases, the process dislocates their hips. Chickens aren’t meant to be upside-down. They have no diaphragm. Shackled and inverted, their organs crush into their lungs, making it hard for the birds to breathe. The point of the shackling is to put them on a conveyor that drags them through electrified water, stunning them before the kill. But the birds panic, thrashing in wild terror. Some of them miss the water, or the stun setting is too low. Those birds have their throats cut while they’re still conscious, and then they’re pulled through boiling water to defeather them. If the blade misses the bird, the bird boils alive. Coman-Hidy and his organization are working to convince agricultural producers to slaughter chickens by simply gassing them, en masse. It’s easier on the chickens, and less traumatizing for the workers. And the campaign is seeing some success. McDonald’s has pledged to move to atmospheric killing, for one. Coman-Hidy is vegan; he’s devoted his life to reducing animal suffering. Didn’t it feel strange, I asked him, to become part of this machine whose very existence he loathes? Even if atmospheric killing was more humane, wouldn’t it unnerve him to become one of the people shaping the architecture of animal slaughter? “The thought experiment that helped me is if I could die, or have a member of my family die, by being euthanized by gas, or have what I just described happen to them, what would I give to get the gas?” He replied. “And the answer is everything.” There are few movements as alienated from the consensus position as the animal suffering movement. They look at the world and see tens of billions of animals being tortured and slaughtered in ways that poison the earth, warm the planet, and — as we are seeing with particular clarity now, as scores die daily from a pandemic virus that likely began in a meat market — harm human health. The practices of industrial animal agriculture are so cruel that you can’t describe them in polite company, so traumatizing that suicide and abuse are too-common worker hazards, so disturbing that agriculture companies pass laws criminalizing efforts to show the world where their meals are made. It is a structure of suffering with no bottom, no end, and what is most astonishing about it is that almost everyone simply treats it as normal. And so the animal suffering movement has to practice, in the truest and most challenging sense of the word, politics. They have to find common purpose with those they disagree with profoundly. To have any chance of changing a system they loathe, they must become part of it, even complicit in it. They don’t get to realistically hope for success anytime soon, for a world they could be comfortable in, for an end to the horror they see all around them. They get to hope chickens will die from gas rather than shackled upside down with their throats cut. And they are finding that the best way to get to that world is to focus on human suffering, too. The coronavirus has created coalitions that didn’t exist before it by laying bare the close connection between animal and human suffering. Meatpacking plants have been epicenters of outbreaks, with the suffering concentrated among immigrant laborers who then transmit the virus to their communities. The League of United Latin American Citizens called for “meatless May Mondays” to protest conditions in the slaughterhouses. | In reporting for this piece, I’ve asked everyone the same question: If the Farm System Reform Act passed, how much would really change? “It doesn’t ban animal agriculture,” says Leah Garcés, the president of Mercy for Animals. “If you look for the part of the bill banning cages and crates, it’s not in there. But it would end animal agriculture as we know it. It wouldn’t let the system go forward as it does.” To Garcés, the key element of the bill is the reversal of liability. She’s spent years working with chicken farmers who’ve been driven by contract terms and debt loads to accept practices that repulse them, and who find themselves paying the bill when disease cuts through their flock, or pollution gushes into the waterways that feed the community. | In her work with farmers, Garcés has found many of them want to escape the industrial animal agriculture business, because they appalled by how they have to treat their animals, their land, or both. But the integrators load them up with so much debt that they have no way out but through. So the debt forgiveness and transition assistance thrills her. “The biggest hurdle to getting farmers to transition is the debt,” she says. “I think hundreds of farmers would sign up for this. They just need a bridge.” Maxwell, of the Family Farm Action Alliance, agrees. “Most of these farmers are just cogs in a big machine,” he says. “Once they borrow money from one of these big companies, they get stuck on a treadmill of poverty and debt that they can’t get off of. That’s why 70 percent of us live at or below the federal poverty level. So many farmers are looking for ways off that treadmill, and that’s what this bill offers.” | The danger, though, is that the bill could drive production overseas or to Latin America, where standards are lower and even crueler, more dangerous practices prevail. The bill establishes country-of-origin labeling, but there’s little reason to believe that would be much of a hurdle — Americans already buy strawberries from Mexico and steak from Brazil. | Right now, big agribusiness producers try to ease consumer consciences through lies that customers know and accept: Their packaging and advertising emphasize small farms, their ag-gag laws and contract provisions choke off the flow of actual information, the massive scale and mechanization of their processes hold down prices, and their political contributions repel real oversight.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/7/8/21311327/farmers-factory-farms-cafos-animal-rights-booker-warren-khanna
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/05/07/469385/fair-deal-farmers/
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-unveils-bill-to-reform-farm-system
https://lulac.org/news/pr/LULAC_Responds_To_Trump_Administration_Declaring_Meat_Plants_Critical_Infrastructure/
Gen. Mark Milley on military bases named after Confederate Generals: "The Confederacy, the American Civil War was fought, it was an act of rebellion, an act of treason... against the Union. Against the stars & stripes. Against the U.S. Constitution..."
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1281339312269864961
Politicians editing and censoring public health guidance in the midst of pandemic has catastrophic implications.
Texas reported 105 COVID-19 related deaths on Thursday, the highest single-day increase in coronavirus fatalities, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 2,918.
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1281337256649928711
Tireless researcher @windsormann unearthed today the origins of @greggutfeld often-expressed rage against me in Greg's 2015 autobiography. I have to confess, I have no memory of rejecting Gutfeld's submissions, but the record pretty strongly corroborates I did the right thing.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1281337489731403777
A 14th antisemitic, racist, mentally ill QAnon-supporting congressional candidate has now secured a spot on the ballot in November. New Jersey's Billy Prempeh has been declared the winner in his primary in his district. https://mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020
Of the more than 650,000 PPP loans of $150k+, only 143 Black-owned firms got loans, according to testimony today before the @FSCDems Subcommittee on Diversity & Inclusion. That's less than .00022%.
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1281335085770444800
Biden greets Anne Kearns, the current occupant of his childhood home on North Washington Ave in Scranton, from a distance.
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1281331801978556418
One example: Trump's DC hotel. The US govt ***owns the building.*** Yet House Dems have learned almost nothing about what's happened there. They sent letters with questions, got nothing, had no plan B ready: Trump pledged not to use his office to help his business. Then he did.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pledged-not-to-use-his-office-to-help-his-business-then-he-pitched-his-florida-club-for-the-next-g-7/2019/08/30/98b353c0-ca7b-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html
Asked Nadler what he's alleging could constitute bribery, and he said he was "very careful in my phrasing...The Attorney General repeatedly attempted to entice Berman to step down voluntarily even after Berman made clear that his leaving would disrupt certain sensitive cases."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1281334257877688325
DeSantis has directed his top fundraiser to tell donors not to give to the convention because of a personal dispute between the governor and Susie Wiles, his former campaign manager who is serving as an informal adviser to the convention planners. https://nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/trump-florida-convention-desantis.html
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on NBC: "Frankly, just because Donald Trump wants to take a risk with people who go to bars or beaches, those of us who have spent our life teaching kids are not going to take a risk with kids or with our members' lives."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1281333566849183747
Michael Cohen Taken Back to Prison Due to Planned Tell-All Book
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/michael-cohen-heading-back-to-prison-due-to-planned-tell-all-book-deal-report/
Biden's 'Buy American' Jobs Plan Undercuts Trump and Wins Left's Praise | Joe Biden's "Buy American" economic plan that calls for a $700 billion jobs package struck a populist tone that managed to thrill progressives and shock the Trump administration and allies because it undercuts the president on a signature issue that failed. In an economic speech after touring a Pennsylvania metal works facility, Biden outlined his plan—inspired by Senator Elizabeth Warren's platform—that calls for $400 billion to be spent on American manufacturing and is expected to create as many as 5 million jobs. The "Buy American" plan is part of his broader economic initiative called "Build Back Better," which includes improving infrastructure, investing in clean energy, and ensuring "historic investment" reaches communities of color. "I do not buy for a second that the vitality of American manufacturing is a thing of the past," Biden said, as it began to rain loudly during his speech. "When we spend taxpayer's money we should use it to buy American products and support American jobs." | Adam Green, a co-founder of Warren allies, The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), said the former vice president's economic plan "represents Biden going big" and says he's willing to embrace Warren-style policies. "It says he means it when he's embracing a massive infusion of money for millions of new jobs." By copying Warren, however, Trump allies cautioned that the president and his campaign must now be careful because Biden beat him to announcing a "buy American" plan. Although Trump has been languishing in national polls, he has held a consistent edge among voters on the economy, and allies worry that could slip if Biden gains a foothold on the issue.
https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-buy-american-jobs-plan-undercuts-trump-wins-lefts-praise-1516746
Why is Donnie afraid of a Michael Cohen book deal? He’s already been named and indicted as a co-conspirator by the legal system...
The Inside Story by Michael Cohen: Trump and all those who support him and give him the power to do whatever he wants will never be held accountable...The end.
Sources familiar w/ Berman's testimony say he repeatedly declined to answer q's about the nature of his work or thoughts on AG Barr's intentions, & hewed closely to his prepared statement. Nadler also said Berman wouldn't speculate on Barr's motive for seeking to remove him.
https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1281346096946647042
I am blown away by this decision. I cannot recommend Rebecca Nagle’s THIS LAND podcast enough. This is an incredible victory for First Nation Americans, and I have ancestors I wish could have seen this day: Today the #SCOTUS rules on the most consequential decision for indigenous land and treaty right in half a century. To understand the history behind the landmark ruling, listen to this series we produced with @rebeccanagle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-land/id1464954218?i=1000440454864
All large events in NYC will be canceled through September, @NYCMayor says on @CNN
https://twitter.com/GloriaPazmino/status/1281335161460752392
As many as 250,000 to 370,000 deaths may have been averted between March and May 15 as a result of the statewide stay-at-home orders enacted to mitigate spread of the coronavirus, a study published Thursday in Health Affairs projects.
https://axios.com/coronavirus-stay-home-orders-deaths-c1cd1182-4cb1-43bb-b0aa-b9d71fc0e7c2.html
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00719
House Democrats want the FTC to investigate TikTok, the DNC told campaign staffers to take it off their phones, and the U.S. Military has banned access to it. Concerns about the app aren’t just a Trump thing.
https://twitter.com/PeterHamby/status/1281344080589598720
"I’m sure purely coincidental on the day that the president succumbed to a major defeat by the Supreme Court in connection with the Manhattan DA’s attempt to get his tax returns, this was just coincidental that Mr. Cohen got popped,” Cohen's attorney Roger Adler told
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1281355619690262529
DeSantis: "If you can do Home Depot, if you can do Walmart, you can definitely do the schools." Uh-Huh, they work in sprawling, warehouse-like structures with 30' or 40' ceilings and industrial-grade ventilation systems. These employees aren't huddled together in small spaces 8 hrs a day.
A senior adviser to a top HHS official accused the CDC of "undermining the President" by putting out a report about the potential coronavirus risks to pregnant women. The adviser said the CDC's warning to pregnant women "reads in a way to frighten women."
https://washingtonpost.com/health/trump-sidelines-public-health-advisers-in-growing-rift-over-coronavirus-response/2020/07/09/ad803218-c12a-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
Bolivia's interim President Anez says she has coronavirus
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1281354114086178827
Another Pro-Trump Republican Mail Carrier Took People's Absentee Ballots Requests And Switched Their Party To Republican: A West Virginia mail carrier is facing prison time after admitting he attempted election fraud by changing the party registrations of people who had requested absentee ballots for the state's June primary, officials announced Thursday. Thomas Cooper, 47, of Dry Fork signed an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to defraud the residents of West Virginia of a fair election and one count of injury to the mail. In a May 26 criminal complaint, prosecutors detailed how the Clerk of Pendleton County discovered the eight 2020 primary election COVID-19 mail-in absentee requests appeared to have been altered using a black pen. Five of the requests had been altered so the voters' ballot choice was switched from Democrat to Republican. But the clerk knew some of the voters were not Republicans, and when she called them they told her they had used blue pens to request Democratic ballots before dropping off the requests at the post office.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/mail-carrier-election-fraud-absentee-mail-ballot-west
I shudder to think of all the bad, BS conclusions that are going to be drawn from misleading, incomplete results in the hours and days after polls close in November. We are going to have to be way more patient than we've ever been before.
Trump has cast himself in the starring role of the blameless victim of a deadly pandemic, of a stalled economy, of deep-seated racial unrest, all of which happened to him rather than the country.
Camp Ozark, a popular religious summer camp in Arkansas abruptly sent all campers home yesterday after at least 3 campers became sick with Covid-19.
https://katv.com/news/local/camp-ozark-sends-campers-home-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak
9 employees at Florida TV station WPLG have tested positive for Covid: Many of the station’s employees are quarantined at home, including news anchor Nicole Perez and her reporter husband Roy Ramos, and anchor Louis Aguirre, who all tested positive.
https://jacksonville.com/news/20200709/9-employees-florida-tv-station-test-positive-for-covid-19?
The Roman Catholic Church, worth more than $8 billion dollars, illegally and unconstitutionally received at least $1.4 billion in federal coronavirus aid
https://apnews.com/dab8261c68c93f24c0bfc1876518b3f6
Biden does not lack a history of scandal. He’s a man and a well known quantity because he used to be VP, and so he is getting way more of the benefit of the doubt. Which is what his primary voters anticipated would happen.
In the era of Trump, Democrats have become more and more reliant on suburban voters. Which is why they need to drop the anti-Israelism, the pro-druggism, and the Black Lives Matter shittism.
Even though the nation’s highest court rebuked several of Trump’s legal arguments, he got what he wanted politically — his financial records will likely remain private until after voters go to the polls in November. https://politico.com/news/2020/07/09/trump-political-victory-supreme-court-defeat-355454
New study suggests that sprinkling crushed calcium and silicate rock on farm soils could remove ~1 billion tons of CO2 from the air each year, at a cost of $80-$180/ton. Humans emitted 43 billion tons last year, so hardly a full solution, but maybe useful. | Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2448-9
Hong Kong closed its entire school system over less than 100 new COVID-19 cases. Trump is pushing to send 57 million kids back to school in the middle of the world's worst outbreak.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hk-closes-schools-covid-cases-trump-reopen-worst-outbreak-7-2020
Trump calls mail-in ballots 'dishonest' but says absentee ballots are 'fine.' They're the same thing.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/924774/trump-calls-mailin-ballots-dishonest-but-says-absentee-ballots-are-fine-theyre-same-thing
These Arizona teachers shared a classroom for summer school. All 3 contracted COVID-19. 1 died.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/07/09/covid-19-school-reopenings-arizona-teachers/5411122002/
MLB just released its final intake testing results: --There were 66 total positive tests, or 1.8% of the 3,748 total samples tested. --58 of these 66 positives were players, 8 were staff members. Since intake testing ended, another 17 individuals tested positive (0.2 percent).
https://twitter.com/anthonydicomo/status/1281612665354440704?s=21
"It’s been two weeks and Trump has done NOTHING about Russia’s bounties on our troops. He’s a coward who cares more about pleasing his Russian master than keeping our troops alive. What are you going to do about him this November??"
https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1281577666509000705
Hagia Sophia, built as the great Cathedral of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire by Roman Emperor Justinian I, to be reverted back to being a mosque again as Islamic terrorists officially comprise the major-majority of Turkey.
https://news.sky.com/story/hagia-sophia-istanbul-monument-to-become-a-mosque-again-as-turkish-islamic-conservatives-triumph-12025607
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia#Reversion_to_mosque_(2018%E2%80%93present)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit responded on Friday to a petition for rehearing en banc by halting a prior order for U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the Michael Flynn case.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dc-circuit-asks-flynn-to-respond-to-sullivan-petition-for-rehearing/
Trump threatens tax-emption for schools and universities while giving a billion welfare check to the $8 billion dollar Roman Catholic church
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-today-schools-tax-exemption-universities-colleges-a9612896.html
People "seem" bizarrely unwilling or unable to stop Trump is a lie. He's not surrounded by decent and ethical people, he's surrounded by grifters, parasites, and outright monsters.
DON’T BELIEVE THE POLLS showing a Biden blowout, Elissa Slotkin rightfully warns fellow Democrats. She rightfully thinks the data is dead wrong. “They fundamentally undercounted the Trump vote” in 2016, she says. “I believe that same thing is happening right now.”
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/10/elissa-slotkin-congress-trump-351513
A Baltimore police sergeant was unhappy with the renovation job a tradesman did on his patio, so he and three other on-duty cops kidnapped the guy and drove him to the bank to withdraw cash for a refund https://baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-bpd-detective-arrested-20200710-fb2ctzpkondxhdmreklugc75n4-story.html
Trump's failure to drain the swamp: At least 82 former Trump admin officials are now registered lobbyists. https://politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-administration-veteranslobbying-348273
Tropical Storm Fay cancels Trump's New Hampshire rally
https://theweek.com/speedreads/924848/tropical-storm-fay-cancels-trumps-new-hampshire-rally
He should have just altered the storm’s course with a sharpie...problem solved.
Trump campaign delayed rally to avoid ’embarrassment’ — not because of New Hampshire’s weather: Ex-RNC head
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-campaign-delayed-rally-to-avoid-embarrassment-not-because-of-new-hampshires-weather-ex-rnc-head/
Actual Saturday forecast for Portsmouth via NOAA: "Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. High near 81. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible." So, canceling because of a little rain? Me thinks attendance was looking a little non-existent. NOW he is all about keeping people safe. Yet when a pandemic threatens people, he could care less. He is all about ratings. He could do his whole rally on LIVE TELEVISION and get millions of views. But its not about ratings. It's about the thousands of people in front of him cheering him.
Adrian Wojnarowski Sends ‘Fuck You’ Email To Republican Senator Josh Hawley Who Suggested Pro Cop, Military NBA Jerseys
https://brobible.com/sports/article/adrian-wojnarowski-missouri-senator-email-nba-china/amp/
Lmao at that dumbass senator thinking NBA players would consider putting “Back the Blue” on their jerseys after spending the last month and a half protesting widespread police brutality
Republican Judge grants statewide restraining order against Democratic Kentucky Governor For Issuing Emergency Public Health Orders (Covid-19): Republican Judge Dismissed Covid19 As Non-Existent And Ruled Governor Was Both Arbitrarily And Intentionally Forcing Kentucky Republicans To Suffer Economic Hardship. Governor Is Being Sued By His State's Republican Attorney General
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/scott-circuit-judge-grants-statewide-temporary-restraining-order-against-gov-beshear
Republicans levys taxes on luxury goods from France - handbags and cosmetics - though the taxes will not take effect for 180 days, well into 2021. Wine and cheese are exempt.
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investigations/France_Digital_Services_Tax_Notice_July_2020.pdf
The alert lights are "blinking red" for a possible Roger Stone commutation this afternoon.....
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1281696488041611264
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hes-looking-at-pardoning-roger-stone-ahead-of-prison-term/2020/07/10/d1a1e5ea-c2b7-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
In an interview with Fox News, Goya Foods CEO Illegal Immigrant Spaniard Whose Ancestors Murdered At Least 25,000,000+ Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas Robert Unanue said he was “not apologizing” for praising President Trump at the White House. He also called the boycott of his company’s products “suppression of speech.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/robert-unanue-goya-ceo-fox-trump/index.html
Joe Biden Credits Elizabeth Warren With Helping Craft His New Economic Plan. Imagine having a President who can give credit to people who aren't himself.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-credits-elizabeth-warren-with-helping-craft-his-new-economic-plan_n_5f089e66c5b63a72c3414f28
Trump already claimed that Biden plagerized the Build America plan from his economic plan while also simultaneously claiming the Democrats' centrist progressive plan was an extreme left wing plan.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1281615665242214403
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/10/trump-joe-biden-plagiarizing-economic-proposals-356184
Judging by how much he has used twitter to attempt inciting a race war DURING HIS PRESIDENCY, I can only hope twitter removes his account no later than January 21st, 2021.
I'm stuck on imagining a President who can speak in complete logical comprehensible sentences
Campaign officials privately acknowledged there had been fears all along about how many people would attend the Portsmouth rally. Once the storm entered the forecast, even if the rain was expected to stop hours earlier, concerns about turnout only grew.
https://apnews.com/1dfdda0b79c7dc6e71f64090701353c4
Houston hospitals are telling ambulances not to bring them emergency patients because they're full.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1281707701396025344
July 16 hearing set in NY Trump tax case after Supreme Court ruling
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/10/business/july-16-hearing-set-ny-trump-tax-case-after-supreme-court-ruling/
Over 60 people have driven their cars into BLM protesters since May
https://www.mic.com/p/over-60-people-have-driven-their-cars-into-blm-protesters-since-may-29075259
Judge halts 1st federal execution (authorized by Trump Administration) in 17 years, citing virus
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article244151637.html
Federal loans for small businesses illegally and constitutionally went to thousands of churches and other religious organizations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/federal-loans-for-small-businesses-went-to-thousands-of-churches-and-other-religious-organizations/2020/07/10/da79ba8a-c244-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
7,000 Floridians hospitalized with COVID-19
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-county-hospitalizations-ahca-20200710-5fpnosf2m5feteib5gtwb3lkz4-story.html
Judge Tosses Trump Administration Rule on Billing for Abortion Coverage
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-07-10/judge-tosses-trump-rule-on-billing-for-abortion-coverage
Why it's logical to be wary of NBA restart or feel it shouldn’t be happening. There may be serious future impacts for some, such as lung scarring. Even for athletes who are young and otherwise healthy, the virus can have a severe effect.
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/2020-nba-restart-concerns-sixers-joel-embiid-shake-milton-brett-brown
Trump Commutes Convicted Traitor Against The United States (Whom Also Tried Publically Inducung People To Murder The Judge Who Handled His Trial) Roger Stone's Sentence. Stone and Trump have been VERY close friends and confidants and business partners for at least 40 years. for Stone was arrested in 2019 during the Mueller investigation, found guilty of making false statements and obstructing an investigation, and sentenced to 40 months in prison. Earlier on Friday, Stone's attempt to appeal the sentence was dismissed by the District of Colombia Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hes-looking-at-pardoning-roger-stone-ahead-of-prison-term/2020/07/10/d1a1e5ea-c2b7-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
Coronavirus: Here's 70,000+ new cases today! Conservatives: Let's pardon Roger Stone! Boy, I bet those Republican Senators have learned a good lesson! RIP American democracy, 2016-2020. Trump and Republicans are responsible for the death of over 100,000 DEAD AMERICANS. All Republicans are willing to do is work to save their friends, convicted traitors against the United States. Even Barr was against this. Remember that in November. Republicans don't care about justice. They don't care about family values. They don't care about free speech. They don't care about the constitution. Modern conservatism is defined solely by sectarianism and sadism, and the only thing they value is hurting anybody they don't like.
The words of the federal judge who handled more on the Mueller cases than any other court. "He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the President. He was prosecuted for covering up for the President"
https://cnn.com/2020/02/20/politics/amy-berman-jackson-quotes/index.html
Barr has pulled the U.S. Attorney for EDNY to take a role at Main Justice. Richard Donoghue was tasked with supervising DOJ investigations involving Ukraine. His office played a major role in the investigation into Trump's inaugural committee. Now he will be under the thumb of Republicans through at least January 2021. He is replaced by a pro-Trump Conservative Republican MAGA nutjob who just so happens to be one of Barr's main close aides. He will likely end all investigations into Trump and Team Trump.
https://thedailybeast.com/attorney-general-bill-barr-moves-edny-prosecutor-richard-donoghue-to-main-justice
The pattern continues: Barr replaces a US Atty with his own close aide, this time in EDNY. The other pattern is that these districts always have a tie to Trump. EDNY is investigating Trump inaugural committee. https://justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-appointment-richard-p-donoghue-principal-associate
Kids gotta go to school and if they get sick and die who cares, but Roger Stone is at risk in prison. Got it.
This statement again attacks the jury foreperson. The judge found zero evidence she acted improperly. In fact, a juror chosen by Stone’s team to testify said the foreperson urged them to take more time to consider a charge on which most had already decided Stone was guilty.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1281746621236158465
Trump has repeatedly sent a clear message: if you keep your mouth shut, you will be rewarded. Right now Michael Cohen is in prison while Roger Stone goes free. That’s not justice, it’s corruption.
Leader of House Russia investigation and impeachment inquiry Rep Adam Schiff comments on Stone commutation: Chairman @RepAdamSchiff statement on Roger Stone Commutation:"With Trump there are now two systems of justice in America: One for Trump's criminal friends and one for everyone else."
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1027
https://twitter.com/HouseIntel/status/1281744985902194690
Trump has fired the FBI director, fired his AG, had many US attorneys fired, pardoned a convicted sheriff, told police to be more abusive, refused congressional subpoenas, attacked the Supreme Court, wanted to order the military to actually literally murder protestors, and commuted the sentence of a convicted traitor, but says he's all about law and order. Remember that in November.
In Donald Trump's Republican-controlled America, Roger Stone is rewarded for committing treason against the USA and lying to federal law enforcement investigators and threatening to murder a Judge while Lt. Col. Vindman is punished for telling the truth.
In other words, the report indicates that Stone knew about the emails hacked by Russia and he told Trump about it; Mueller suspected that Trump lied to Mueller about it; and then Trump hinted publicly that Stone could be rewarded if he refused to contradict Trump.
"Roger Stone made several attempts to contact WikiLeaks founder Assange, boasted of his access to Assange, and was in regular contact with Campaign officials about the releases that Assange made and was believed to be planning."
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
"Stone spoke about WikiLeaks with senior Campaign officials, including candidate Trump.”
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
Michael Cohen told Mueller that he heard Stone tell Trump over the phone that Wikileaks would soon release information on Clinton. After the first Wikileaks dump in July, Trump “said to Cohen something to the effect of, ‘I guess Roger was right.’"
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
At another point, after a phone call with Stone, Trump turned to a campaign official and said "that more releases of damaging information would be coming."
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
But Trump gave Mueller contradictory written answers saying he had no memory of conversations with Stone about Wikileaks. Then, when it turned out Mueller was looking into Stone, he started tweeting flattering things about Stone.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
Mueller hints that Trump did this to prevent Stone from cooperating with Mueller, in order to prevent Mueller from figuring out that Trump had been untruthful.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
Mueller writes that Trump's statements "support the inference the President intended to communicate a message that witnesses could be rewarded for refusing to provide testimony adverse to the President[.]"
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
In other words, the report indicates that Stone knew about the emails hacked by Russia and he told Trump about it; Mueller suspected that Trump lied to Mueller about it; and then Trump hinted publicly that Stone could be rewarded if he refused to contradict Trump.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-new-unredacted-mueller-report
So what? Anything going to happen? Nope. Same old, same old. I'll just watch from my living room window for the tanks to roll down the street. Democracy is over.
Donald Trump cares more about his criminal friends and confederate statues than actual American soldiers or people at risk from COVID-19. The power to pardon should never be in the hands of a single individual. We need to reform the way pardon powers are distributed in the US. Many of Clinton's were just as bad. Obama refused to pardon people who were 100% factually innocent and were factually political prisoners. Some of Obama's pardoned people crashed and burned and went back to prison. The last 4 years shows that we need to reform a lot of things.
“Roger Stone is now a free man!” is how the White House statement announced Trump commuting his lifetime friend's sentence.
Earlier today, before the courts denied him his final appeal, Roger Stone confessed that the lied under oath to protect Donald Trump and implied he deserved a commutation for it: Just had a long talk with #RogerStone. He says he doesn’t want a pardon (which implies guilt) but a commutation, and says he thinks #Trump will give it to him. “He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.”
https://twitter.com/howardfineman/status/1281681337351626752
Many Constitutional lawyers have stated this is an illegal abuse of the President's pardoning powers. Congress is out of session for another week.
They use the excuse of Roger Stone being put at serious medical risk in prison. Wasn't Trump just ranting about kids needing to go back to school? The audacity of this administration never ceases to amaze me. I'm so over this insanity.
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Former aide and longtime friend of Trump, Roger Stone, was found guilty on all 7 counts including lying, obstructing, and tampering with a witness during an investigation into Russian election interference. Prosecutors said this was an attempt by Stone to protect Donald Trump.[1]
In 2016 candidate Trump was directing his advisers to find out about Wikileaks releasing illegally hacked damaging information on the Clinton campaign. Then candidate Trump had been warned by the FBI that foreign adversaries would try to interfere with the election. The Trump campaign was asked to alert the FBI of any suspicious overtures made to their campaign.[2] Despite the intelligence briefing then candidate Trump continued to deny any wrong-doing by the Russians during the 2016 presidential election.[3]
According to Special Counsel Mueller Roger Stone was directed by the Trump Campaign to find out about potential future wikileaks releases;[4]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROGER JASON STONE, JR.
4. ROGER JASON STONE, JR. was a political consultant who worked for decades in U.S. politics and on U.S. political campaigns. STONE was an official on the U.S. presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump (“Trump Campaign”) until in or around August 2015, and maintained regular contact with and publicly supported the Trump Campaign through the 2016 election.
5. During the summer of 2016, STONE spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about Organization 1 and information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. STONE was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by Organization 1.
11. By in or around June and July 2016, STONE informed senior Trump Campaign officials that he had information indicating Organization 1 had documents whose release would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. The head of Organization 1 was located at all relevant times at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, United Kingdom.
12. After the July 22, 2016 release of stolen DNC emails by Organization 1, a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization 1.
17. On or about October 7, 2016, Organization 1 released the first set of emails stolen from the Clinton Campaign chairman. Shortly after Organization 1’s release, an associate of the high-ranking Trump Campaign official sent a text message to STONE that read “well done.” In subsequent conversations with senior Trump Campaign officials, STONE claimed credit for having correctly predicted the October 7, 2016 release.
Over the course of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants. Several of those search warrants were executed on accounts that contained Stone’s direct communications with Wikileaks and Guccifer 2.0 (Russian military intelligence officers);[5]
Certain Netyksho defendants, through a fictitious online persona they created, Guccifer 2.0, also interacted directly with Stone concerning other stolen materials posted separately online.
...As alleged in the Netyksho indictment, in 2016, the Netyksho defendants stole documents from the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Clinton campaign chairman. Those defendants then released many of the stolen documents, including through a website maintained by Organization 1. In the course of investigating that activity, the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, as well as to discuss the timing and promotion of their release. Several of those search warrants were executed on accounts that contained Stone’s communications with Guccifer 2.0 and with Organization 1. Evidence obtained from those search warrants resulted in the allegations that the Netyksho defendants hacked and stole documents for release through intermediaries, including Organization 1, and that Stone lied to a congressional committee investigating, among other things, the activities of Organization 1 regarding those stolen documents. The relevant search warrants, which are being produced to the defendant in discovery in this case, are discussed further in a sealed addendum to this filing.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a full gag order on Roger Stone.[6] Roger Stone was charged on 7 counts for obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering.[7]
COUNT ONE (Obstruction of Proceeding)
41. From in or around May 2017 through at least December 2017, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendant ROGER JASON STONE, JR., corruptly influenced, obstructed, impeded, and endeavored to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry and investigation is being had by either House, and any committee of either House and any joint committee of the Congress, to wit: STONE testified falsely and misleadingly at a HPSCI hearing in or around September 2017; STONE failed to turn over and lied about the existence of responsive records to HPSCI’s requests about documents; STONE submitted and caused to be submitted a letter to HPSCI falsely and misleadingly describing communications with Person 2; and STONE attempted to have Person 2 testify falsely before HPSCI or prevent him from testifying.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1505 and 2.
COUNTS TWO THROUGH SIX (False Statements)
43. On or about September 26, 2017, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States, the defendant ROGER JASON STONE, JR., knowingly and willfully made and caused to be made materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations, to wit:
STONE testified falsely that he did not have emails with third parties about the head of Organization 1, and that he did not have any documents, emails, or text messages that refer to the head of Organization 1.
STONE testified falsely that his August 2016 references to being in contact with the head of Organization 1 were references to communications with a single “go-between,” “mutual friend,” and “intermediary,” who STONE identified as Person 2.
STONE testified falsely that he did not ask the person he referred to as his “go-between,” “mutual friend,” and “intermediary,” to communicate anything to the head of Organization 1 and did not ask the intermediary to do anything on STONE’s behalf.
STONE testified falsely that he and the person he referred to as his “go-between,” “mutual friend,” and “intermediary” did not communicate via text message or email about Organization 1.
STONE testified falsely that he had never discussed his conversations with the person he referred to as his “go-between,” “mutual friend,” and “intermediary” with anyone involved in the Trump Campaign.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1001(a)(2) and 2.
COUNT SEVEN (Witness Tampering)
45. Between in or around September 2017 and present, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendant ROGER JASON STONE, JR., knowingly and intentionally corruptly persuaded and attempted to corruptly persuade another person, to wit: Person 2, with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(b)(1).
1) Fox News - Roger Stone found guilty on all counts in trial stemming from Mueller probe
2) NBC - FBI warned Trump in 2016 Russians would try to infiltrate his campaign
3) NBC - Trump Says He Doubts U.S. Intel Officials On Russian Hacking
4) U.S. Department of Justice - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROGER JASON STONE, JR.
5) U.S. Department of Justice - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROGER STONE, JR., GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S OBJECTION TO NOTICE OF DESIGNATION OF PENDING RELATED CRIMINAL CASE
6) Fox News - Judge rips into Roger Stone, bars him from speaking publicly on case: 'There will be no third chance'
7) U.S. Department of Justice - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROGER JASON STONE, JR.
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Any coverage of the Stone commutation must make clear-this didn’t happen just because Stone is a friend of Trump’s. It happened because Stone clearly could have implicated Trump & didn’t & has made very clear that he wasn’t doing so in order to get this benefit.
As Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged during his confirmation hearings, exchanging clemency for obstruction of justice can itself be considered obstruction of justice. Congress should investigate whether commuting Stone’s sentence is itself an act to obstruct justice.
With Trump’s alleged knowledge and encouragement, Stone served as the Trump campaign’s backchannel to WikiLeaks, thus aiding and abetting Russia’s attack on American democracy. Stone then lied to Congress and intimidated witnesses to help Trump cover up his collusion.
The U.S. saw its highest single day of new COVID-19 cases today: 63,900 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University's tally of U.S. cases there are at least 3,181,846 cases of coronavirus in the U.S.; at least 134,059 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Speaker Pelosi on CNN: "There ought to be a law, and I'm recommending that we pass a law that presidents cannot issue a pardon if the crime that the person is in jail for is one that is caused by protecting the president, which this was."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1281763919325847552
Nadler and Maloney: "Republican tolerance of the President's disregard for the rule of law has helped bring us to this moment. This is a powerful reminder that Donald Trump has little respect for law and order, no matter how much he tweets about it."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1281762666571132929
Anyone check on Senator Susan Collins? Is she dismayed? Disappointed? Nope, she's eating pizza
https://twitter.com/SenSusanCollins/status/1281697314613202947
Joe Biden urges Turkey’s President Erdogan — who today ordered Hagia Sophia to be converted from a museum back into a mosque — to “reverse his decision and instead keep this treasured place in its current status as a museum, ensuring equal access for all.”
https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/1281767493233770498/photo/1
Joseph Arpaio, Scooter Libby, Dinesh D'Souza, Michael Milken, Bernard Kerik, Rod Blagojevich, and now, Roger Stone.
Ted Cruz in 2016: boycotting is peaceful protest
Ted Cruz in 2020: boycotting is cancel culture
https://twitter.com/hunterschwarz/status/1281681070509789185
Trump allies are pushing the president’s campaign to facilitate a comeback for Michae Flynn, either as a top surrogate or opening act at rallies.
https://politico.com/news/2020/07/11/trump-flynn-campaign-353315
Sudan ratifies law criminalizing female genital mutilation
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/sudan-ratifies-law-criminalizing-female-genital-mutilation
An Ancient Valley Lost to ‘Progress’; Turkey's government floods 12,000-year-old city Hasankeyf to build dam
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/world/middleeast/turkey-erdogan-hasankeyf-Ilisu-dam.html
Ted Cruz said his Nike boycott was exerting free speech, but people boycotting Goya Foods are silencing speech
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/10/ted-cruz-goya-boycott-ceo-praise-trump-after-nike-boycott/
Florida County Commissioner Who Voted Against Masks In Hospital With Covid19
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-county-commissioner-who-voted-against-masks-hospital-covid-1517121
U.S. sets record for new COVID cases third day in a row at over 69,000
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-sets-record-for-new-covid-cases-third-day-in-a-row-at-over-69000-idUSKBN24B2QI
Remember illegally appointed criminal William Barr orchestrated Iran-Contra pardons
https://npr.org/2019/01/14/684553791/william-barr-supported-pardons-in-an-earlier-d-c-witch-hunt-iran-contra
Trump is betting on a white suburban backlash to BLM that, to this point, is not existent. Not only is public opinion showing BLM sympathy, his handling of COVID matters more https://nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-white-voters-in-suburbs.html
We learn this lesson every time: what’s said at the beginning of a story continues to resonate, even when subsequent information overrides it. People hear a snippet and tune out, no matter how much that early perception is disproven.
4 of the top 5 worst coronavirus epicenters in the WORLD are U.S. STATES. Plus New York and California's numbers are still top of the US State heap.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Roger Stone's commutation is corrupt. Full stop. It's worth remembering what he did, and why it was right and necessary to investigate the Trump campaign's attempts to cooperate and/or collude with Russians and Russian assets to gain an advantage in the 2016 election.
Florida is now reporting hospitalization data where the primary cause of admission is Covid. Currently there are 51,000 Americans hospitalized with Covid. At the peak of the epidemic's first wave, centered in New York in April, there were about 60,000 Americans Hospitalized.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1281786741029052418
Julian Castro remembers his stepmother Alice: “She passed away from COVID-19 by herself, alone, without my father, without her family ... My father himself has COVID-19, so he’s not able to be around other people as he grieves the loss of his wife"
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1281785801400090624
The argument from the head butcher is this: People should be free to eat rotten hamburger, even if it wreaks havoc on their gastrointestinal tract, and the seller of the meat should not be the one to tell them which meat is good and which is bad
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/10/opinion/facebook-zuckerberg.html
When BLM protesters marched through an iron gate into the magnificent private street of Portland Place, they encountered a mentally ill deranged criminal terrorist couple who have for years, nearly constantly, sued other people and ordered people off their property.
https://stltoday.com/news/local/metro/portland-place-couple-who-confronted-protesters-have-a-long-history-of-not-backing-down/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.html
YEP: While she thought wine was a relatively healthy booze choice — "my whole life I thought it was just fermented grapes" — she discovered that it can be manipulated with over 70 additives. “When your mouth turns purple from drinking red wine? That's not natural. That's a coloring called Mega Purple,” Diaz says. Plus, wine isn't traditionally vegan-friendly, she adds. “People just assume the wine they’re drinking is vegan. Most wines are not — they're filtered through either egg whites or fish bladder lining.”
https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/food-drink/cameron-diaz-katherine-power-wine-brand-avaline
“It puts me in a very difficult moral conundrum, to choose between supporting my community, students, colleagues and my own family’s safety.”
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/virus-teachers-classrooms.html
The 7 day rolling average for positive tests in Manhattan, NY is 0.8%. That's the lowest during since this whole thing started. They've been at 1.0% or below for 7 day rolling average since June 15. https://forward.ny.gov/percentage-positive-results-county-dashboard
Keystone XL stalls—again—along with other pipeline projects. Legal and financial snarls for three major pipelines are signs of a shifting landscape for fossil fuel infrastructure.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/keystone-xl-stalls-again-along-with-other-pipelines/
Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?s=20
Republican-controlles Wisconsin Supreme Court Illegally And Unconstitutionally Nullifies Wisconsin Governor's Vetoes
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-3-evers-vetoes
Cancel the fucking season already: After hitting the only home run in yesterday’s intrasquad game, Cam Gallagher found out today that he tested positive for COVID-19. He’s asymptomatic. #Royals
https://twitter.com/joshvernier610/status/1281994125374402561
South Korea Denies U.S. request to extradite a convicted pedophile and operator of one of the largest child pornography dark web sites in history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/south-korea-child-pornography-extradition.html
The US is now exceptional where we should not be - in terms of our mishandling of COVID-19 and the subsequent human and economic costs - and we have joined the pack of countries where rule of law is in decline. We have it exactly backwards, and it is impossible not to be sad and worried
A “mistake”? A mistake is like when I turn left when I meant to turn right. This is utter corrupt lawlessness. These people should be ashamed as they sit silently by while their leader tries to torch the rule of law to protect himself and themselves: Republican Senator Pat Toomey says Stone clemency was a "mistake".
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so
By Robert S. Mueller III
July 11, 2020
Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019.
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.
Russia’s actions were a threat to America’s democracy. It was critical that they be investigated and understood. By late 2016, the FBI had evidence that the Russians had signaled to a Trump campaign adviser that they could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to the Democratic candidate. And the FBI knew that the Russians had done just that: Beginning in July 2016, WikiLeaks released emails stolen by Russian military intelligence officers from the Clinton campaign. Other online personas using false names — fronts for Russian military intelligence — also released Clinton campaign emails.
Following FBI Director James B. Comey’s termination in May 2017, the acting attorney general named me as special counsel and directed the special counsel’s office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The order specified lines of investigation for us to pursue, including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. One of our cases involved Stone, an official on the campaign until mid-2015 and a supporter of the campaign throughout 2016. Stone became a central figure in our investigation for two key reasons: He communicated in 2016 with individuals known to us to be Russian intelligence officers, and he claimed advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of emails stolen by those Russian intelligence officers.
In 2019, The Post's editorial board argued the president tried to manipulate the justice system, wrongdoing that Congress must not let go. (The Washington Post)
We now have a detailed picture of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel’s office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate. We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities. The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. It also established that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.
Uncovering and tracing Russian outreach and interference activities was a complex task. The investigation to understand these activities took two years and substantial effort. Based on our work, eight individuals pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, and more than two dozen Russian individuals and entities, including senior Russian intelligence officers, were charged with federal crimes.
Congress also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress.
The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.
Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.
We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.
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The fact that Nixon and Bill Clinton were subject to subpoena but Trump was able to flaunt investigators is a glaring indicator of the decay of presidential accountability and America's descent into failed state status.
The questions remain: why did he lie? And why did he claim to be helping the president by doing so? "He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks..He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks."-Mueller
https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/
Trump’s commutation of Stone's sentence allowed an old friend to jump to the front of the slowest and longest line of federal inmates seeking mercy in decades: “The grant of clemency to Stone is one of only 36 Trump has granted, with 180 denied. After more than three years in office, Trump’s six predecessors had acted on hundreds or thousands of petitions for clemency.”
https://washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-confidant-roger-stone-leaped-over-thousands-of-inmates-seeking-clemency/2020/07/11/bae59b04-c397-11ea-864a-0dd31b9d6917_story.html
Again, the disconnect between reality and the response we’re getting from the government is the gap through which this economy is about to take a free fall: 32% of U.S. households missed their July housing payments. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/32-percent-of-us-households-missed-their-july-housing-payments.html
Wonder if all the property will fall up to the rich again like 2008. Or will financial institutions do the ethical thing and work with the little guys to avoid them losing their homes. 2008 was absolutely criminal and diabolical. I don’t hold much hope in the banks or the rich.
Must be fun to cover politics as your job and be “confused” by the President’s failure to wear a mask. I enjoy that you find it amusing! I myself have only lost four friends to covid19 (Black and brown people over-index in mortality, just fyi). But I enjoy your sense of humor!
https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1282115029496733699
The Deep South’s Only Democratic Senator Still Has Hope. Alabama Democrat Doug Jones discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with the region’s Confederate legacy, and his hopes that
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/senator-doug-jones-confederate-covid/614008/
Trump dons mask in public for the first time, months after public health experts said everyone should
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dons-mask-in-public-for-the-first-time-months-after-public-health-experts-said-everyone-should/2020/07/11/8d948b64-c3ca-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
Adrian Wojnarowski has been suspended by ESPN after his "F*ck you" email to Senator Josh Hawley
https://twitter.com/Outkick/status/1282145878304788481
Okinawa demands answers from US after 61 marines contract coronovirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/okinawa-demands-answers-from-us-after-61-marines-contract-coronovirus
17.6 million unemployed Americans probably won't return to their pre-pandemic jobs
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/millions-of-unemployed-americans-wont-return-to-their-old-jobs.html
Sen. Cornyn as Texas reports 550 child cases: 'We still don’t know’ if kids can get, transmit COVID
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/cornyn-kids-covid-texas-cases-coronavirus-gop-15399723.php
Foreign policy will look drastically different if Joe Biden defeats Trump in November, advisers tell Axios — starting with a Day One announcement that the U.S. is re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement and new global coordination of the coronavirus response. | Biden's advisers look at the world they could inherit and feel a sense of dread and urgency in every time zone: Climate change, Iran’s breakout time for a nuclear weapon, North Korea’s missile advancement, a revanchist Russia and an assertive China. | Biden was for providing the Ukrainians Javelin anti-tank missiles; Obama was opposed. Biden was opposed to erecting a no-fly zone in Libya; Obama imposed one. Biden was against a troop surge in Afghanistan. Obama first added 17,000 and then 30,000. Biden was opposed to calling for Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to leave office. Obama hastened his exit.
https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-doctrine-allies-matter-foreign-policy-d0d37753-6701-415b-bb69-ab60d0354662.html
OH YES PLEASE YES, THIS WOULD BE A HUGE PERMANENT CRUSHING OF THE LEFT AND THE ANTISEMITES: Samantha Power, Obama’s second UN ambassador, is very involved in the Biden campaign and is talked about as a potential secretary of state.
https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-doctrine-allies-matter-foreign-policy-d0d37753-6701-415b-bb69-ab60d0354662.html
Los Angeles Apparel factory ordered closed after over 300 coronavirus cases and 4 deaths
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/11/health/coronavirus-los-angeles-apparel-factory-closed/index.html
Florida reports single-day record of 15,300 new cases
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-coronavirus-cases-july-12/33287426
Surgeon General Jerome Adams would really like you to stop asking him about Donald Trump. "It’s not my job to denounce the president every time people get mad at him."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/surgeon-general-jerome-adams-may-be-the-nicest-guy-in-the-trump-administration-but-is-that-what-america-needs-right-now/2020/07/11/39529cec-a1c1-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html
Commuting the sentence of a long time friend who has dirt on you, to keep him from incriminating you, is very different from commuting the sentences of hundreds of non-violent drug offenders who have no personal connection to you. Thanks for playing though!
Tommy Tuberville has an early lead over Jeff Sessions so far across south Alabama, which has been the focal point of Sessions’s campaign strategy for much of the runoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/us/elections/results-sessions-tuberville.html
As White House doctor, Ronny Jackson complained he had trouble keeping Trump on a diet. “We made ice cream less available,” and spiked mashed potatoes with cauliflower, he said. Looks like President Trump’s favorites are off to a good start in Texas. Tony Gonzales is leading in Southwest Texas and Ronny Jackson is ahead in his panhandle race.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/us/elections/results-texas-house-district-13-primary-runoff-election.html
LOL down goes Sessions! The man was the very first major endorsement Trump had, left his lifetime appointment as Senator to be his AG, and Trump rewards him by destroying his career in humiliating fashion... and Sessions STILL grovels at his feet. Couldn't happen to a more deserving little racist fucker, and it's a reminder that these fascist bootlickers are as hilarious as they are pathetic (oh yeah and #EverythingTrumpTouchesDies)
I'm really torn. On one hand, I love to see Sessions get absolutely nothing for kissing Trump's ass after getting fired and run through the mud. On the other hand I would have really liked to see the guy Trump endorsed lose.
It's a real Sophie's choice isn't it
Tuberville's victory (along with many other races so far) are showing that Trump-style candidates are not going away even with Trump's weaknesses right now.
Qanon is going to be a problem next midterm. There’s a lot of people who want to move past these past 4 years but even with a potential Biden victory in November, these types of people in congress/as governors are not going away and I hope people are preparing for that.
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