As of today, we have officially gone through a full offseason's length of time since the last NBA game was played
An Indian Judge Just Threw a Rape Survivor in Jail for Shouting in Court. Police had made the 22-year-old repeatedly describe her ordeal, then leaked her identity to the neighbourhood
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzjxb/an-indian-judge-just-threw-a-rape-survivor-in-jail-for-shouting-in-court
A whistleblower complaint from a State Department employee about Mike Pompeo's conduct, made public for the first time, reveals that eyewitnesses made repeated attempts to inform executive leadership and legal advisers about his "questionable activities."
https://mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article244328882.html
My aunt, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, then @SpelmanCollege student, spent nearly 3 months in jail in Jackson, Miss as a Freedom Rider. She was one of the founders of SNCC and died at 26, before I was born. @repjohnlewis cried each time he spoke of her bravery to me. #GoodTrouble
https://twitter.com/KeishaBottoms/status/1285164387859300352
Federal judge Esther Salas' son killed, husband shot at home by gunman dressed as delivery driver. Salas has more recently taken on a lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank investors alleging the bank failed to follow its anti-money laundering policies by taking on “high-risk” clients including Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, the AP reported. Salas, 51, was New Jersey’s first Hispanic woman to serve as a U.S. district judge. President Barack Obama nominated her for the position in 2010, and she was confirmed by the Senate in 2011. Salas previously served as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She has presided over a number of high-profile cases, including the criminal trial of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” stars Joe and Teresa Giudice. Salas sentenced them each to prison for crimes including tax evasion. She’s been on the bench for recent cases involving the Grape Street Crips, according to NJ Advance Media, a gang charged with running a drug trafficking operation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/19/esther-salas-fedex-shooting/
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson wastes COVID-19 funds on luring tourists to pandemic hotspots. Wait, I don't remember this guy running for governor... oh yeah, that's right, he got given the job to replace the blackmailing adulterer that was forced to resign. Man, aren't the Republicans just a swell bunch? The worst part is that he didn't actually resign over this. He was going to fight those allegations, heinous as they were, to the bitter end. What did Greitens in was stealing the donor list from his own charity to fundraise off of, and that lawsuit threatened to expose who had been silently contributing to him. So to recap: for the Missouri Republican, extramarital rape is not quite as bad as revealing who is bankrolling them.
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article244340417.html
Republican governors have been holding secret conference calls to complain about Trump's chaotic coronavirus response,
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-governors-secret-calls-complain-trump-coronavirus-response-nyt-2020-7
Kasich expected to speak on behalf of Biden at DNC
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/your-local-election-hq/kasich-expected-to-speak-on-behalf-of-biden-at-dnc/
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/07/ex-gov-john-kasich-slated-to-speak-at-the-democratic-national-convention-for-joe-biden.html
Supreme Court denies Dems' bid to fast-track ongoing fight for Trump financial records
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/508092-supreme-court-denies-dems-bid-to-fast-track-ongoing-fight-for-trump
This will probably not happen, but I think the best use of Kasich at the convention would be to do a whole speech about Medicaid expansion and how many people it’s helped in Ohio with Trump and Republican Senators as a threat to that.
What's happening to the elephants in Botswana?
https://nbcnews.com/news/world/it-s-not-poachers-killing-elephants-botswana-worries-conservationists-n1234139
Since Friday, the number of U.S. military COVID-19 cases increased by 1,085, according to the Defense Department statistics. To date the total number of cases in the ranks since the outbreak first began is 21,909.
The clerk of the House of Representatives chokes up as she reads a resolution honoring the late Rep. John Lewis following a moment of silence on the House floor
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1285254382918012928
Biden has built a larger lead than any candidate in 24 years, since Clinton '96. Since then, most big leads have faded. Is Biden's lead different?
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/20/upshot/biden-trump-poll.html
Suspect in the shooting at the home of a New Jersey federal judge has died of what is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, two law enforcement sources tell CNN
https://cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/federal-judge-esther-salas-shooting-investigation/index.html
Homeland Security making plans to deploy 150 federal law enforcement agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown. Designed to provoke protests where there are none. DHS paramilitary force being used as a subsidiary of the Trump reelection campaign. This is sick. This is all part of Trump's campaign strategy.......He is trying to provoke violent interations with protestors, get coverage on Fox, and then blame the anarchy on Dem controlled cities/states. He will weave this narrative into his "Law and Order, I alone can fix it" themes......
https://chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-dhs-deployment-20200720-dftu5ychwbcxtg4ltarh5qnwma-story.html
Trump is bored dealing with covid19: “The president got bored with it,” David Carney, an adviser to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, said of the pandemic. He noted that Mr. Abbott, a Republican, directs his requests to Mr. Pence, with whom he speaks two to three times a week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/republicans-contradict-trump-coronavirus.html
Oregon Sues Federal Government for Grabbing Protesters in Unmarked Vehicle
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/oregon-sues-government-detaining-protesters-unmarked.html
Chris Wallace Laughs As Trump Insists Cognitive Test Was 'Very Hard'
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/wallace-laughs-trump-insists-cognitive-test-was-very-hard-1030897/
Congresswoman Maxine Waters jumps out of her car to intervene as black man stopped by police
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/maxine-waters-car-black-man-stopped-police-video-a9627846.html
Trump Holds Up a Chart on Fox News That Shows He’s Lying, Then Lies About What It Says
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/19/trump-holds-chart-fox-news-shows-hes-lying-lies-says/
Awesome, any plan by Team Sanders to ambush the virtual convention and/or delegate voting has been nullified: Voting will begin Aug. 3 and will end Aug. 15, when the state delegation chairs are asked to submit their final tallies to the DNC secretary. That means the party will know the tally of votes for its nominee before the four-day convention formally kicks off on Aug. 17.[51][52]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_National_Convention#Presidential_and_vice_presidential_balloting
Reminder: Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaign on Wednesday released a raft of policy recommendations crafted by allies of the former vice president and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, underscoring the party's unity less than four months from November's general election. The 110-page document is the product of weeks of negotiations between six- and eight-person "Unity Task Forces" appointed by Biden and Sanders, the former vice president's longest-lasting rival in the Democratic presidential primary. The task forces drafted a joint approach to climate change, criminal justice, the economy, education, health care and immigration. The recommendations are largely based on the more moderate positions Biden advocated during the primary, rather than adopting major progressive policy proposals such as "Medicare for All" health care coverage, a Green New Deal, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and defunding police departments.
https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf
The doctor behind a cognitive test Trump took says ‘it’s supposed to be easy’ for people with no cognitive impairment
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-doctor-behind-a-cognitive-test-trump-took-says-its-supposed-to-be-easy-for-people-with-no-cognitive-impairment-2020-07-20
We always hear demands for the U.S. to apologize for wrongdoings done unto the Native peoples yet we has yet to hear any apologies from the Mexican government for their wrongs they put tribal nations through. It really irritates me to hear Mexican nationalists from MEChA, La Raza, or similar groups chattering on about how evil gringos stole Aztlan from their people. In actuality most of the lands they refer to had never at any point been under Mexican control. In actuality most of what Mexico surrendered to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo were LAND CLAIMS, not actual regions of settlement, let alone of control. The operative political authority in at least 95% of the West and Southwest were the traditional governments of the Indian nations. Mexico had no, repeat No, repeat emphasize NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER over the Apache, the Comanche, the Navajo or any other Indians in the region except some poorPueblos who lived near Taos. Mexican officials or soldados rash enough to attempt to assert authority over the free Indians usually suffered a grisly death. In fact for decades before the American conquest, Nuevo Mexico had to pay an annual tribute to the Commanches to leave them in peace. As for the moral dimensions of Mexican Nationalist arguments, don't make me laugh. Indians have the right to speak about these matters because it was their people who lived in these regions before the rise of the American Empire. But Mexico? Their claim to the West was never anything but a legal fiction inherited from the megalomanic delusions of the Spanish Monarchy....Mexico still treats its Indian population like animals. All the conquerors of the Americas should realise that their countries are built on the blood of it's original inhabitants.
Zero NBA players tested positive for coronavirus out of 346 tested at Orlando campus since last results were announced July 13. This whole test/isolate your entire workforce every day for weeks until you’re down to 0 cases and then keep testing them seems like a model that could apply to other workforces if we had the resources
St. Louis’ top prosecutor on Monday charged a white husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for aiming their guns at protestors
https://apnews.com/85e4f25f10b73e8926f6602b6a76bfef
The police identified the gunman who shot into the New Jersey home of Judge Esther Salas, killing her son, as Roy Den Hollander.
An “anti-feminist” lawyer, he brought a lawsuit before Judge Salas in 2015 challenging the male-only military draft. Right wing terrorist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/nyregion/esther-salas.html
Roy Den Hollander, the anti-feminist incel activist and lawyer who ambushed a federal judge’s home railed against her in a self-published 1700-page, deeply disgusting, misogynistic memoir.
https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/suspect-federal-judge-s-home-ambush-railed-against-her-misogynistic-n1234408
Eric Holder: John Lewis fought for voting rights. If you're against that, you're against him. No other tribute is worthy of his life and work.
https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/20/john-lewis-voting-rights-eric-holder/
The South may surpass the peak hospitalizations in the Northeast any day. But the death rate, so far, is much lower. Amazing how far treatment has advanced in a couple months. All the more reason to slow the spread.
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1285336862102417413
Still would fuck their law careers over. Although they’re the new conservative darlings, so they’re going to come out of this far wealthier and better connected than they were before regardless. Fuck this place. Also, it wasn't their property. No gate was destroyed. They have no legal right to point the gun at anybody walking by. They pulled the gun on other people passing by. The area is PUBLIC. And if they are convicted then pardoned/commuted it means they are in fact guilty and will be disbarred and no longer allowed to own firearms or vote.
https://wsiltv.com/2020/07/20/prosecutor-charges-st-louis-couple-with-felony-unlawful-use-of-a-weapon-for-pulling-guns-at-protest-near-their-mansion/
They have a long track record of being hostile to people. They sued for their house, tried to ban gay people from living in their neighborhood and a bunch of other bad things: https://www.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
Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776:
• John Adams: 41
• Aaron Burr: 20
• Alexander Hamilton: 21
• James Madison: 25
• John Jay: 29
• Thomas Jefferson: 33
• George Washington: 44
• Benjamin Franklin: 70
Fox News knew details of sexual harassment allegations against Tucker Carlson four days before he announced his "pre-planned vacation" last week.
https://salon.com/2020/07/20/lawsuit-accuses-former-fox-news-anchor-ed-henry-of-rape-and-current-top-talent-of-sexual-harassment/
There's been an official declaration of emergency for the US-Mexico border since February 2019, but it's mellow enough down there for some CBP resources to head to Portland? https://federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/20/2019-03011/declaring-a-national-emergency-concerning-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states
The $600 Unemployment Benefit Expires This Weekend And The Republican Plan Is To End Payroll Taxes To Defund Social Security And Medicaire https://buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/600-unemployment-benefits-cares-act-expire
Trump’s vow to resume coronavirus briefings highlighted the fierce internal White House debate over how best to deploy its greatest and most volatile asset — him — as his poll numbers falter and he faces limited options for campaigning https://apnews.com/57bda0689a8f1d88cc3c532e76251c2d
Image of the late Rep. John Lewis projected onto the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia.
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1285229837284769792
The request was precipitated by information that Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was using his position on the Senate Homeland Security and Foreign Relation committees to propagate Russian disinformation. Senator Johnson was one of the Republican Senators who spent the Fourth of July in Moscow in 2018: Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Warner Send Letter to FBI Director Requesting Defensive Counterintelligence Briefing for All Members
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/72020-2
Michael Cohen Sues AG Bill Barr, Says He Was Jailed to Stop Tell-All About Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-sues-bill-barr-says-he-was-jailed-to-stop-book-about-trump
Biden to Unveil Child-Care Plan to Help Families Struggling in Pandemic. Offering $775B plan for “21st Century Caregiving.” Includes:
+12 weeks paid family/medical leave
+$5k tax cred for “informal caregivers”
+$450B for more elder care
+Caps childcare costs for low-income families at 7% income
=3M new jobs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-unveil-child-care-plan-to-help-families-struggling-in-pandemic-11595323802
E.U. leaders agree to $859 billion coronavirus plan to steer bloc out of what could be worst economic straits since World War II
https://washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-summit-coronavirus-crisis-spending-plan/2020/07/20/d22e183c-ca8a-11ea-99b0-8426e26d203b_story.html
The sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida said he can't provide security for the RNC because of a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough officers...."are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable." https://politico.com/news/2020/07/20/florida-sheriff-gop-convention-security-373089
Trump Seen At Event Without Mask Hours After Saying It’s ‘Patriotic’ To Wear One
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-no-mask-fundraiser_n_5f1681f9c5b615860bb6a80b
John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote Bush's 'torture memos,' confirms he's helping the Trump administration find ways to skirt Congress and impose his own policies
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-yoo-bush-torture-memos-confirms-working-trump-bypass-congress-2020-7
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (Republican) arrested in $60 million bribery case. You can tell he's a Republican because his party affiliation isn't in the official headline or url.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/21/ohio-bribery-case-state-official-charged-federal-prosecutors/5477862002/
Trump is not for Americans, he's for himself only, as are all Republicans and all people who support them
Remember when Trump said that he could make deals between Republicans and Democrats and be a "great unifier"? I wonder when he'll get around to that.
Misogonist Incel Lawyer Who Murdered Judge Salas Son And Injured Her Husband Was A Pro-Trump MAGA Who Volunteered For The Trump Campaign
https://www.newsweek.com/lawyer-suspected-salas-shooting-trump-campaign-volunteer-1519377
Tammy Duckworth: Trump ‘cares more about dead traitors than he does about our troops’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/cape-up/tammy-duckworth-trump-cares-more-about-dead-traitors-than-he-does-about-our-troops/
Trump illegally and unconstitutionally directs Census Bureau to illegally and unconstitutionally exclude minorities from census counts in the hope that doing so shrinks House reapportionment of Democratic state representation. In other words unconstitutional federal gerrymandering. Republicans cheer, they're the criminal terrorists telling Trump what to do. They already lost this battle at the Supreme Court level a few years ago. Trump and Republicans are ignoring an already-delivered Supreme Court dictum and flagrantly violating the Constitution. Every person must be counted because everybody uses everything. Pretending people you don't like don't exist does not result in stealing Democratic House representation, in means under-funding everything,m under-estimating everything, under-building everything, under-planning everything, etc.
https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1285623818078359553
"I think the next president should pick the Supreme Court nominee." -- Lindsey Graham, 2016
"I'd like to fill a vacancy." -- Lindsey Graham, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-scotus-vacancy/index.html
According to legal indictment, two Chinese hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies and targeted firms developing a vaccine for the coronavirus
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-chinese-hackers-in-targeting-of-covid-19-research-2020-7
Out of control wildfires in Siberia have torn through an area larger than Greece so far in 2020, Greenpeace Russia has said, imploring authorities to do more to tackle the fires which are choking towns and cities in smoke and hastening the climate crisis.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/siberia-wildfires-russia-size-greece-climate-crisis-a9630066.html
Luxury homes in Australia are falling into the ocean due to coastal erosion
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/australia/australia-coastal-erosion-homes-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
YEP: I am a fifth-generation Oregonian who will never again go to downtown Portland unless absolutely necessary. The rioting, looting and wanton destruction enabled by our spineless politicians has made the city a dirty, dangerous, plywood canyon. Yes, there has been bad police behavior, and that needs to be addressed. But nothing is said against those who trash the city nightly. The protest movements are way overplaying their hands, as most people do not support dismantling our system of government and letting criminals run rampant. Shame on House Speaker Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, the Portland City Council and Gov. Kate Brown for allowing this mess. When businesses depart Portland en masse, who is going to pay the taxes for their pet projects?
https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2020/07/readers-respond-downtown-is-now-downtrodden.html
After weeks of wrongly claiming the rise in cases was mostly a symptom of increased testing, Trump appears next to a chart showing that rise in cases. He cites "a concerning rise in the cases in many parts of our South."
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1285686487372173320
"Over 50 million tests," says Trump, as a slide alongside him says 45.7 million tests.
Trump says none of the 50 governors "need anything right now" to address new outbreaks in their states.
There's a crazy meme going around right-wing social media trying to blame President Obama (and then-VP Biden) for what's going on in Portland. In fact, DHS is relying on 40 U.S.C. § 1315—which was enacted in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (signed into law by President Bush).
After getting criticized by Democrats for not developing a clear national strategy, Trump says: “We are in the process of developing a strategy that’s going to be very, very powerful. We have developed it as we go along.”
One would be forgiven for thinking that if you were serious about holding informative coronavirus briefings and not, say, just serious about holding briefings to improve bad poll numbers, you would include health and medical professionals at those briefings.
"Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact"
It is not true that media coverage makes it sound like the US is the only country dealing with virus problems. It is true that the US is doing much worse than peer countries.
Trump specified he's calling people to wear masks when they can't socially distance, but the briefing room is an indoor space where everyone is close together. All the reporters wear masks.
We are now up to 𝟔𝟔 current or former 2020 congressional candidates who have endorsed or given credence to racist antisemitic mentally ill deranged incel QAnon. The newest addition is a Nevada candidate who previously shared a QAnon video. She won her primary & thus will be on the ballot in November. https://mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020
This is one of those New Trump prepared speeches that, historically, has been immediately followed by unscripted Trump/Twitter Trump sounding like he always sounds.
Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell: "I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years...I just wish her well, whatever it is"
“I wish her well,” @realDonaldTrump says of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of luring underage women whom she & Jeffrey Epstein allegedly abused
"We got Veterans Choice. Nobody thought that would be possible...it's been many decades," Trump lies again of the program signed into law by Barack Obama in 2014.
During the Q&A section of the coronavirus briefing, Trump seemed to contradict several statements he made when he was reading prepared remarks at the beginning of the briefing.
The US ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that Trump had asked him to see if the British gov’t could help steer the lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland https://nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/trump-british-open.html
QAnon followers have been targeting perceived political enemies of Donald Trump in recent weeks with harassment campaigns, sometimes with threats of violence, accusing them of being child-eating cannibals. Twitter is looking to stomp that out. Twitter has taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts and will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including in email, push, and follow recommendations and will take steps to limit content circulation.
https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-accounts-limits-150-000-others-n1234541
They still left up plenty of right wing propagandists, several of whom feed the conspiracies, don’t give them too much credit for cleaning up some bots. And the damage is far too deep and done, dating back to the late Obama Years.
Trump, who signed a 2018 law that modified the Choice program but did not create the Choice programme, has now claimed more than 145 times to have created the Choice programme. (I never have an exact count because by the time I've caught up he's said it more.)
Incredible news, @JoeBiden has called for passing our National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in his #BuildBackBetter plan. This, along with universal preschool and better pay and benefits for caregivers, is the right way to move our nation forward.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1285663320729624576
https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/the-biden-plan-for-mobilizing-american-talent-and-heart-to-create-a-21st-century-caregiving-and-af5ba2a2dfeb
One federal prosecutor on Trump's well-wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell: “in the aftermath of the Stone pardon, it reeks of the president indicating to her that he might reward her if she’ll stay silent about whatever she knows about him."
https://politico.com/news/2020/07/21/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-376820
DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency’s Reputation
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/dhs-employee-anger-over-portland-protest-response
Reality Winner, the U.S. Air Force veteran sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to leaking an NSA document about Russians hacking U.S. voting software, is one of the more than 500 women in a Texas Federal prison who have contracted Covid-19 her mother tells CNN.
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1285748478711345154
As coronavirus surges across the U.S., several properties owned by Pres. Trump have continued to host gatherings that skirt state and city-mandated face covering ordinances as well as the organization's own rules for resuming business during the pandemic
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1285745404538126336
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the L/rd (CSA) was a far-right terrorist organization dedicated to Christian Identity and survivalism active in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. The CSA developed from a Baptist congregation, the Zarephath-Horeb Community Church, founded in 1971 in Pontiac, Missouri. Over time, Zarephath-Horeb evolved into an extremist paramilitary organization and was rechristened CSA. The group operated a large compound in northern Arkansas called "the Farm". In April 1985, law enforcement officers investigating the group for weapons violations and terrorist acts carried out a siege of the compound. After a peaceful resolution, officers arrested and later convicted CSA's top leaders, and the organization dissolved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Covenant,_the_Sword,_and_the_Arm_of_the_Lord
Beto O’Rourke: Texas Republicans a death cult that wants you to do the dying
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-texas-gop-is-a-death-cult-that-wants-you-to-do-the-dying-88098373720
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia are the battlefronts for voting rights advocates and election lawyers in a year one national expert says could make Bush v. Gore look like "a walk in the park."
https://axios.com/states-to-watch-2020-voting-6211b139-656d-432c-adc4-61d067121558.html
Trump unconstitutionally and illegally asked U.S. ambassador to get British Open golf tournament held at a Trump resort. This hurts America. Ambassadors are supposed to represent US interests. Trump was basically enlisting ambassador to work for Trump Org.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/trump-british-open.html
According to NYPD, people left at Occupy City Hall encampment this morning got a 10 minute warning they needed to leave. Police said it was “peaceful” but 7 arrests were made. The area will be “locked down” over the next few days until it’s cleaned up:
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/07/21/de-blasio-takes-hands-off-approach-to-occupy-city-hall-encampment
The Republican Koch Brothers' Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service https://inthepublicinterest.org/the-billionaire-behind-efforts-to-kill-the-usps/
Pro-Putin Ukrainians gave materials to Republican Senator Ron Johnson on the Bidens. Johnson's office said they're not taking oppositional research from foreign entities even as they're using the Ukrainian materials to issue subpoenas to Obama-era Democrats to testify about Burisma. Johnson is required by law to hand over foreign information to the FBI. He's not.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1234536
US orders China to close its consulate in Houston
https://apnews.com/ffc84d09363ba0a1a0e6db3c05bb8322
A new Trump campaign ad depicting a police officer being attacked by protesters is actually a 2014 photo of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine. It's crazy that Trump's whole campaign strategy is pointing to chaotic events and saying "this is what will happen if Biden is elected" when it's what is happening right now while he's president.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-ad-police-officer-attacked-2014-ukraine-protests-2020-7
The breathtaking unconstitutionality of Trump’s new census policy | It’s a direct attack on the 14th Amendment.
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/22/21332879/trump-immigration-census-unconstitutional-supreme-court-constitution-14th-amendment
Star outfielder Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers are deep into negotiations on a long-term contract, sources tell ESPN. While the language of the deal is not completed, the expectation is that Betts will be signing a massive deal with the Dodgers in the coming days.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1285963112739491840
So Mookie Betts is going to go into the HOF with an LA on his cap. That's fun. (Mutes every tweet from Massachusetts, sorry)
https://twitter.com/mike_petriello/status/1285967031729377280
Republican-controlled Kansas state school board rejects Governor’s plan to postpone the restart in-person K-12 classes.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1285984081327591426
Matt Gaetz has privately engaged in spending practices in his nearly four years in office that are in conflict with the House's ethics rules
https://politico.com/news/2020/07/22/gaetz-florida-house-ethics-rules-377098
Yoho (R-FL): "The offensive name calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues, and if they were construed that way, I apologize for their misunderstanding."
https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1285936593635872768
McConnell Laughs When Asked If Covid-19 Bill Will Pass by End of Next Week—When Unemployment Benefits Expire for 30 Million
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/22/mcconnell-laughs-when-asked-if-covid-19-bill-will-pass-end-next-week-when
If it's trillions of taxpayer dollars handed out to your wealthy cronies in secret with no vetting and no strings attached - that's good policy. If it's giving anybody else some of their own money back in an unprecedented pandemic when 35 million people are out work - that's bad policy.
If you took a coronavirus test and are STILL waiting for results, know this: Not a single state reports those turnaround times. And they're not reporting tons of other important data either.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/21/coronavirus-states-data/
Pompeo declines to say that the US no longer wants to buy Greenland.
https://twitter.com/OKnox/status/1285987985645805569
Charles Evers, the brother of slain @NAACP leader Medgar Evers, died today. This is my favorite photo of him, campaigning with Bobby Kennedy, who won the US Senate seat — and was assassinated after winning the 1968 CA Democratic primary for #POTUS.
https://twitter.com/JMitchellNews/status/1286007063110463489
Can't stop thinking about this "apology"--how white male misogynist fury gets smoothly recast as "passion" (& faith & love of country). I wrote about this in Good & Mad but if I had imaginatively drawn out a scenario like this I would have been like "nah, too on the nose."
https://twitter.com/rtraister/status/1285963194863845376
I’m not selling ya coupons; just a snappy VP with a whole lotta gumption and half a mind to do it. Running for all fifty, jack. By the by, this is not Joe Biden
Let’s get me elected, just for the hell of it
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1235809247977324544
Beto wants me to read a “graphic” novel. If it’s any more graphic than Dean Koontz, I don’t think I have the constitution for it. G-d bless America, G/d bless the troops.
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1286005404229459975
“Imagine a world where” no. Pay attention to this one, how about
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1286004716262940672
Alternate history programs. Hell, we won’t even read regular history. Get your act together.
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1286004469872779264
I ask Beto how he’s doing. “Vibing,” he tells me. The hell is that
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1285798282413748229
A vote for me. Is a vote to save Jared Kushner from whatever they’re doing to him.
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1285735753591533568
I mean G/d’s sake they sucked the life out of his eyes
https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1285736841073827840
The House is poised to approve a bill to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol and replace the bust of the Supreme Court justice who authored the 1857 Dred Scott decision denying freedom to an enslaved man with one of Justice Thurgood Marshall.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/22/894165717/house-poised-to-pass-bill-removing-confederate-statues-from-capitol
Fired Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, wife charged with tax crimes. Each are charged with nine felony counts.
https://startribune.com/fired-minneapolis-officer-derek-chauvin-wife-charged-with-tax-crimes/571864051/
MONDAY: @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP hearing on Antitrust Law. Testimony from CEOs:
Mark Zuckerberg (@Facebook)
Tim Cook (@Apple)
Jeff Bezos (@amazon)
Sundar Pichai (@Google)
LIVE at noon ET on C-SPAN2, @cspanradio
& online here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?474032-1/heads-facebook-amazon-apple-google-testify-antitrust-law
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1286010623751405568
The drive to pour federal agents to quell unrest in Portland (and maybe elsewhere soon) has a name: Operation Diligent Valor. And its 'rapid deployment force' may be the camo-clad group that's been grabbing people off the streets there
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/federal-government-assembles-force-portland-unrest-377785
Trump's nominee to be director of the Office of Personnel Management spread the conspiracies about Democrats taking part in Satanic rituals, called Dems the party of 'Islam' and 'gender-bending' and defended a banned alt-right and ant-Semitic Twitter user.
https://cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/john-gibbs-opm-kfile/index.html
I love G/d so I call women b/tches is a twist I wasn’t expecting: Rep Yoho apologizing on House floor right now for nasty remarks to AOC. but says he can't apologize for his "passion, loving my G/d, my family or my country. "
A Federal Prosecutor Resigned After Using Anti-Gay Slurs And Asking “Do You Know Who I Am?” During A DUI Arrest
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/justice-department-prosecutor-resign-anti-gay-slur-dui
NBA ends relationship with academy in China
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29517957/nba-ends-relationship-academy-china
Trump says hundreds of federal law enforcement officers being sent to Chicago in response to violent crime
Republicans think of Beto as a flop because of the media adoration. He lost by 2 points. Texas is not the lock it used to be. Biden by 1 in Texas, 45 to 44 percent, per Quinnipiac
https://poll.qu.edu/texas/release-detail?ReleaseID=3667
"Protect citizens" by killing Black people
140k dead Americans from covid: "It is what it is"
Arrest numbers are not the appropriate metric. Federal officersarrest anyone they want and toss them in a van. So you’ve done that to 200 in Kansas City? That doesn’t make me feel safe, Bill.
He can't have his rallies, so he fabricated a reason to have a televised election rally. I'm sure his true believers are eating this up.
You heard him. If you see any crimes - people in unmarked vans throwing people in the back of the vans - call and report it at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Inb4 everyone calls that hotline to report police brutality
AG Barr, like Trump before him, links the recent rise in violent crime in some cities to recent protests against police + calls for defunding, calling the increasing violence "a direct result" of it. He offers no evidence, nor does he say why some crimes are up and others down
It's not about the number of arrests * seconds after bragging about the number of arrests *
The country is falling apart because the Republicans and all their criminal terrorist supporters have allowed a berserk dipshit narcissist and his cronies to run amok. All this mumbling about crime lol. You are the fucking criminals. Back to backing and defending and voting for Democrats.
House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney has announced that the Committee has invited the Commerce Secretary, Census Director, and Census Bureau Chief Scientist to an emergency hearing on July 29 on "the Trump Administration's latest attempt to undermine the 2020 Census."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1286035833351319553
Trump has warned federal aid would be withheld from schools that remain closed. Senate Republicans thinks that’s a bad idea. "I want schools to reopen, but I don't like that. I don't like the federal government getting involved,” Braun said, echoing his colleagues https://cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/stimulus-negotiations-school-funding/index.html
And now a brief rundown of Election Year Existential Threats:
2016: Mexico sending drugs, crime, and rapists over the border
2018: A caravan of thousands of South and Central American immigrants planning to rush the border
2020: Anarchists and criminals running wild on the streets of various cities
Trump is playing up yet another threat to the country to drum up support and justify one more step towards fascism and civil war
Outfielder Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a 12-year, $365 million contract extension, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. Combined with the one-year, $27 million deal he’s currently under, the total is 13 years and $392 million.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1286042491171504130
The BlueJays now get denied by Pennsylvania Department of Health from having their home games at PNC Park in Pittsburgh after earlier ironing out an agreement with the Pirates and MLB. Now, looking at other alternatives.
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1286014596898148352
Despite President Trump’s recent messaging shift on masks, a number of his closest allies in the House still aren’t wearing one on the House floor even when they’re not maintaining a social distance. Just spotted 18 maskless GOP members of 50 or so on the floor during votes
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1286045330421821443
I've seen other folks point this out already, but no, Whitmer didn't "defund the police" by executive order today. Michigan is using federal coronavirus relief funding to replace state funding for state police and corrections. It's an accounting move to balance the state budget.
https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1286044320802508800
Here's a look at some of the Michigan spending cuts (note: state will use $475M in federal funding to backfill state police and corrections)
https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1285924763349790720/photo/1
"the airplane [Loeffler] uses to commute to Washington is worth between $5MM and $25MM...there is no clear picture of the couple’s net worth. News reports often list it at $500 million, although recently Loeffler circulated an article that says the couple is worth $800 million."
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1286050401737826305
Trump Wants To Change Who Counts Toward Dividing Up Congressional Seats, Preserving White Political Power
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AB1ctAyAB0bTmubaaPxKZ
So. we've all been hearing stories of reinfection with the coronavirus. And they're alarming. But they are just that--stories, without solid evidence. It may seem like this virus is unique, but it's not. The infection starts in the chest and finishes in the colon. Covid19 can be a drawn-out illness for unhealthy people.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/22/health/covid-antibodies-herd-immunity.html
Tesla will build its next Gigafactory near Austin, Texas. Massive job creation.
https://cnbc.com/2020/07/22/tesla-will-build-its-next-gigafactory-near-austin-texas.html
The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a Chinese military researcher who is wanted by the FBI. Sheltering a defendant in a criminal case by using the diplomatic immunity of a consular building, if true, is really extraordinary." https://axios.com/san-francisco-consulate-harboring-chinese-military-researcher-fbi-17325706-7983-4b17-aa6f-f19a450b646b.html
Remember in April when Trump said Covid-19 would disappear.
Philadelphia SWAT cop Richard P. Nicoletti to be charged for pepper spraying Black Lives Matter protesters on I-676
https://www.inquirer.com/news/richard-nicoletti-philadelphia-police-swat-officer-arrested-charged-assault-pepper-spray-20200722.html
Trump ‘Surges’ Feds to Chicago Like It’s the New Iraq
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-surges-feds-to-chicago-like-its-the-new-iraq
Everything We Need to Know About Trump We Learned in 2016 ; As Maya Angelou might say, “When a candidate tells you who they are the first time, believe them.”
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/07/23/everything-we-need-to-know-about-trump-we-learned-in-2016/
Raskin, Bonamici, Blumenauer & 114 Members Demand Answers About Deployment of Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Personnel and Ongoing Actions in Portland
https://raskin.house.gov/media/press-releases/raskin-bonamici-blumenauer-114-members-demand-answers-about-deployment
113 House Republicans vote against removing Confederate statues from Capitol
https://www.newsweek.com/112-house-republicans-vote-against-removing-confederate-statues-capitol-1519794
Suspected Killer Of Judge's Son In New Jersey, An Incel MAGA Republican, Linked To Another Death In California
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/22/894374950/suspected-killer-of-judges-son-in-new-jersey-linked-to-another-death-in-californ
http://www.espn.com/mlb/schedule
http://www.espn.com/nba/schedule
Trump is pushing a racist theory for Covid-19’s spread. He is blaming black and brown people, wrongly claiming that Mexico and BLM marches caused the spike. So why have states like Florida and NC exploded while a center for BLM marches like New York has not? Because he’s lying.
Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the
excellence of things;
Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes
it out of the soul.
Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the
spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
Fox Sports has been working with NFL to roll out virtual fan technology for NFL games that are likely to be played in empty stadiums this fall. Video of what this will look like is embedded in this story. https://sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2020/07/23/Fox-virtual-crowd.aspx
Get ready for virtual crowds. Fox Sports will use fake crowds, pumped-in crowd noise on MLB games. https://sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2020/07/23/Fox-virtual-crowd.aspx
A 93-year-old former Nazi SS concentration camp guard has been found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners. The German Court refused to sentence him to prison, where he belongs. You know what they did to 93 year old concentration camp victims... they should put one through this guys skull in front of his children and grandchildren. Then burn him too... that would be fitting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53511391
Why Trump Isn't Sending Well Wishes To Epstein Victims?
20 men with guns confront solo armed black protester at Utah Capitol
https://www.newsweek.com/utah-armed-protesters-capitol-uca-1519925
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen by Friday afternoon. Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that Cohen was sent back to prison on June 9 in retaliation for balking at a condition that he not publish a book — about Trump or anyone else — while serving the remainder of his three-year prison term on home confinement. “I’ve never seen such a clause, in 21 years in being a judge and sentencing people,” Hellerstein said at a Manhattan federal court hearing held after Cohen sued this week to win his re-release from prison.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/michael-cohen-judge-orders-former-trump-lawyers-release-from-prison.html
Portland Mayor Tear Gassed By Federal Agents During Protests
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/portland-mayor-tear-gassed-by-federal-agents-during-protests
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Responds to Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0
We’re police officers. You should know our names. That goes for Portland, too. | Anonymity is for CIA officers (a job I also held), not for federal law enforcement countering protesters in America. It denies local accountability.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/23/anonymous-federal-officers-portland
Senate passes defense bill 86-14, with provision to rename Confederate bases. Veto-proof margin: By a tally of 86-14 #Senate PASSED S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2021 (NDAA), as amended Senators voting against: Booker, Braun, Brown, Gillibrand, Harris, Kennedy, Leahy, Lee, Markey, Merkley, Paul, Sanders, Warren and Wyden.
https://twitter.com/SenatePress/status/1286371691384442881
Department of Justice Inspector General announces investigations into use of force against protestors in Portland, Oregon, and also at Lafayette Square in Washington DC
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1286370952285167617
DOJ OIG also launching "review" into DOJ policies regarding the use of less-lethal munitions, chemical agents, and other uses of force. With regard to events in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, the DOJ OIG will coordinate the review with the Department of Interior OIG
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1286369133777391617
Can confirm that Juan Soto has tested positive for coronavirus. Soto will not play against the Yankees tonight. We will talk to Mike Rizzo soon, though not sure how much he'll be able to share on Soto's situation.
https://twitter.com/dougherty_jesse/status/1286366873773367301
Lanny Davis sent me an (unprompted) response at 9:40 this morning, "Please stop sending me message on Mr. Cohen. I no longer represent him officially or unofficially."
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1286369130573189120
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine reverses course, calls for repeal of energy bill in wake of $60 million bribery scandal.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1286367637338034178
One of his top aides apparently ran one of the dark money pipelines, so not surprisi
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/07/top-dewine-aide-previously-led-political-non-profit-identified-as-money-conduit-in-federal-racketeering-complaint.html
A White House spokesperson says Stephen Miller’s grandmother "did not pass away from COVID.” Even when shown a death certificate that says her death was a result of COVID-19, the White House called the claim "categorically false.” On July 4, David Glosser, the brother of Miller’s mother, posted a Facebook note announcing the death of his mother, Ruth Glosser, who was Miller’s maternal grandmother: This morning my mother, Ruth Glosser, died of the late effects of COVID-19 like so many thousands of other people; both young and old. She survived the acute infection but was left with lung and neurological damage that destroyed her will to eat and her ability to breathe well enough to sustain arousal and consciousness. Over an 8-week period she gradually slipped away and died peacefully this morning. David Glosser is a retired neuropsychologist and passionate Trump critic who has publicly decried Miller for his anti-immigrant policies, and he contends that Trump’s initial “lack of a response” to the coronavirus crisis led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans who might have otherwise survived. In an interview, he says, “With the death of my mother, I’m angry and outraged at [Miller] directly and the administration he has devoted his energy to supporting.” | Glosser, a former health professional, posted his mother’s death announcement on a public Facebook page. Responding to the White House statement, he writes in an email, “Keeping the tragic facts about COVID deaths of our countrymen and women, young and old, from the American public serves no purpose other than to obscure the need for a coherent national, scientifically based, public health response to save others from this disease. My mother led a long, satisfying, productive life of family and community service. She had nothing to be ashamed of, and concealing her cause of death to offer ‘privacy’ to me, our family, her hundreds of relatives and friends, does nothing to assuage our regret at her loss.” Moreover, Ruth Glosser’s death certificate—which her son shared with Mother Jones—lists her cause of death as “respiratory arrest” resulting from “COVID-19.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/stephen-millers-grandmother-died-of-covid-19-her-son-blames-the-trump-administration/
Biden said yesterday - "We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.” Biden seems to have forgotten how many presidents were slaveowners + Andrew Jackson + Woodrow Wilson.
MLB is straight up ignoring *its own protocols* in letting any Nationals who've had contact with Soto take the field tonight. They didn't even get one game into the season before giving up on the whole idea of player health and safety.
Soto returned to the stadium late last week. He has been around the team throughout and often not wearing a mask on the field (players are not required to do so).
https://twitter.com/todd_dybas/status/1286366754579546113
When I reached out to 48 governors' offices about a similar Trump claim two weeks ago, only Democrats were willing to go on record saying they did have outstanding requests. ABC's reporting makes clear it's Republican governors, too.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1286411306208198659
BREAK DOWN:
>Mississippi is waiting on 2,100 ventilators
>Wyoming awaiting 74,000 surgical gowns
>Georgia requested 700,000 N95 masks
>North Carolina has only received about half of their July allocation for coronavirus testing swabs * other testing supplies - more @ABC twitter.com/Santucci/statu…
https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1286382817157447680
So there could be 65 postseason games with the expanded playoffs compared to 43 in the past. The extra revenue from the games, MLB envisions, will be returned to FOX, Turner, and ESPN for the previously lost televised games earlier this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/07/23/mlb-playoffs-expansion-baseball-2020-season/5497025002/
COVID is leaking into Florida nursing homes as regulators allow exceptions
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article244401817.html
Trump: "It's time to cancel the Jacksonville component" to Republican convention
“We made a big, beautiful contract with Pzizer.” Beautiful?
Trump starts by saying he's canceling the public portion of the convention and then goes right into how important it is for schools to be open in the fall as if everything is just fine.
4 former EPA leaders said the Republocan-controlled Trump administration has completely destroyed the agency they once led and opined on the challenges Joe Biden would face on the environment and energy front should he win in November
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-epa-chiefs-environment-browner-reilly-perciasepe-whitman-trump-biden-2020-7
Climate change has never been and never will be a priority of the Democratic party. Democrats are no better than Republicans.
In summary: Trump hammered the Democratic governor of North Carolina for not guaranteeing months in advance he could have a no-masks, no-distancing, 19,000-person-arena convention...moving it to Republican-run Florida...which is now having too many problems for any event at all.
The RNC now has contracts for major venues in two cities that they will not be using. $$$$$
That 24 hour drive from Mt Rushmore Kimberly Guilfoyle was said to be making after contracting COVID - never happened. And there's more..."wait a few days"
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/23/kimberly-guilfoyle-trump-fundraising-380380
Who gets the impression the President of the United States’ most important meeting today was with a former baseball player?
Trump’s 2020 strategy is to deny/defy reality, try to pretend he succeeded instead of miserably failed. A live convention was an important part of the fantasy. Reality just bit back
Almost 100 days out, Democrats are favored to take back the Senate
https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/senate/senate-overview/almost-100-days-out-democrats-are-favored-take-back-senate
The DNC was mocked for scaling back its convention more and more, but accepting it early enabled there to be some convention component in Milwaukee and a head start on turning it into a TV show.
Trump conceded he won't be able to eliminate Social Security and Medicare ("payroll tax cut") he wanted in the next Coronavirus relief bill. He said he just can't get Democrats to vote for it. He originally said he would not sign a relief bill without the Payroll Tax cut, but now accepts he won't get it.
From the documents: "Trump asked the following question, 'Joe, are the Russians bad? Because they have more numbers are they worse than the Chinese?'" Intriguing document here, just declassified by ODNI, memorializing the FBI's counterintelligence & security briefing to Trump, Flynn, and Christie in August 2016: "You need to be mindful of the people on your periphery," FBI said. https://politico.com/f/?id=00000173-7d7b-d3de-ab7b-7d7b6dba0000
Last 3 senators to lose re-election while their presidential nominee carried the state were Ted Stevens, John Ashcroft and Larry Pressler. All were either convicted felons or facing a statewide officeholder.
Source involved in RNC planning says many “delegates just didn’t want to come.” They cited not just public health concerns but hotels requiring 4-night stays, RNC plans to scale down events, limit attendance, deny delegate guests venue access...
https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1286434969846452226
Health experts are urging parents to avoid a false sense of security about kids contracting COVID-19, as infections among children spike in hot spots. In Dallas County, Texas, 4,000+ children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1286430791715741701
There are 103 days until Election Day.
Senate Approves Proposal To Strip Confederate Names From Army Bases By Veto-Proof Majority
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-approves-proposal-to-strip-confederate-names-from-army-bases-by-veto-proof-majority
72 Republicans Join Democrats in Vote to Remove Confederate Statues From Capitol
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/republicans-join-democrats-vote-remove-confederate-statues-capitol.html
Derek Chauvin Charged With Multiple Tax-Related Felonies in Minnesota
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/derek-chauvin-tax-fraud.html
Federal Court Issues Restraining Order on Federal Agents in Portland
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-issues-restraining-order-federal-agents-portland
Federal Agents Shoot Portland Reporter Hours After Judge Issues Restraining Order to Protect Journalists During Protests
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-agents-shoot-portland-reporter-hours-after-judge-issues-restraining-order-to-protect-journalists-during-protests/
There are at least 81 front-line workers in the Capitol complex who have tested positive—or are presumed positive—for the novel coronavirus.
https://rollcall.com/2020/07/24/campus-notebook-coronavirus-keeps-hitting-capitol-community/
Millions of Americans will not get the extra $600 in benefits that Congress needs to extend because Trump wants to make sure the FBI HQ stays in downtown DC near his hotel because it's a great source of income for his family. You read that right.
See how many donors Trump and Biden had in your ZIP code last quarter https://nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/24/us/politics/trump-biden-campaign-donors.html
"Two rich people have decided to tell millions of unemployed people that all they need to do to feed their families and put a roof over their heads is 'find something new.'"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/ivanka-trump-find-something-new/
Trump Bragged About Gassing Portland’s Mayor: ‘They Knocked the Hell Out of Him’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqpvz/trump-bragged-about-gassing-portlands-mayor-they-knocked-the-hell-out-of-him
TV broadcasts of NBA Bubble games will soon incorporate video boards that display up to 300 fans cheering along from home in real time via Microsoft technology.
https://twitter.com/BenGolliver/status/1286719596481916933
Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them 'building maintenance' in federal disclosures
https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-purchase-face-masks-covid-coronavirus-trump-republicans-building-maintenance-2020-7
What a debacle. Over 70,000 new positive cases a day has become routine. Total incompetence that is killing Americans. We cannot become inured to this. At all.
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1286807828712259590
“There are tens of thousands of New Yorkers, and unfortunately it may be hundreds of thousands, who genuinely believe that their vote has been counted—for reasons that are absolutely appalling and egregious.” What New York's Election Failures Tell Us About November | The first large-scale test of mail-in voting in the pandemic has left 1 in 5 New Yorkers with their votes tossed out.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-york-election-failure-mail-in-voting/614446/
A federal judge *denied* a request by the Oregon attorney general's office for an order that would require federal law enforcement officers in Portland to identify themselves when making arrests and place limits on the detention and arrests of protesters.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/portland-federal-officers-judge-ruling-identify
Woody Johnson was under scrutiny for trying to steer the British Open to Trump’s Scottish resort. How did he respond? By serving Trump wine at an embassy dinner for Mike Pompeo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/world/europe/woody-johnson-trump.html
NYPD chief says D.A.s won't charge cops breaking chokehold law
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-chief-blows-up-says-cops-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-diaphragm-law-20200724-tu5pnvxggbftpceny2447k7hpi-story.html
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? “The political climate these days prevents me from saying things I believe because others might find them offensive.”
Agree 62%
Disagree 38%
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1286168790091411456
In a sign of the times, a federal judge heard remote arguments Friday on a lawsuit filed by Republicans to block remote proxy voting in the House, a historically unprecedented procedure initiated by Democrats to limit the spread of Covid-19.
https://www.courthousenews.com/republicans-urge-judge-to-shut-down-remote-voting-in-house/
The RNC ordered the masks at a time when Trump and other prominent Republicans were refusing to cover their faces in public. The purchases reveal that Republican leaders were taking the coronavirus more seriously than they'd been publicly letting on.
https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-purchase-face-masks-covid-coronavirus-trump-republicans-building-maintenance-2020-7
It’s Friday night and pretty quiet. Makes me very uneasy.
As the coronavirus death toll passes 146,000 in the United States, Trump has just arrived at his Bedminster golf club.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1286823657797562369
This is such a smart story that talks about climate change in super tangible ways: Sultry Nights and Magnolia Trees: New York City Is Now Subtropical. Winter is warmer and summer is sweltering, with torrential afternoon downpours. What’s next, palm trees?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/nyregion/climate-change-nyc.html
“And yet we gave less money to the entire child care sector than we gave to one single airline, Delta. I don’t mean to pick on Delta, but it seems crazy that we care more about saving Delta Airlines than we do about the entire child care industry.”
https://politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/07/23/child-care-crisis-pandemic-economy-impact-women-380412
Staggering numbers from a respected Republican firm. Trump disapproval at 60. Disapproval on coronavirus at 64. Biden +15 & Ds +14 in Congressional generic...all w/Biden fav-unfav only even. Cease and desist lawsuit from the Trump campaign coming?
https://twitter.com/EchelonInsights/status/1286761535214419969
A committee will deem which COVID-19 patients are likely to die and send them home with family, Jose Vasquez, the county health authority, said during a news conference Tuesday. COVID-19 patients will be ‘sent home to die’ if deemed too sick, Texas county says. So basically the death panels the Republicans lied about under the ACA aren’t from providing health insurance to everyone, but rather Republican death panels because they again lied about COVID-19. And in Texas..shocking
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article244443257.html
We're a little over 100 days from election (100 days and 11 hours)...
Judge Denies Oregon's Request For Restraining Order Against Federal Officers
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/24/895285174/judge-denies-oregons-request-for-restraining-order-against-federal-officers
You know who’s not surprised by 2020? The alumni of Trump University. Ex-students say that in the pandemic, Trump has re-used the tactics he used on them — trying to fix a failure by denying it exists, and attacking those who say it does
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/spin-deride-attack-how-trumps-handling-of-trump-university-presaged-his-presidency/2020/07/24/7d3a327a-bfb8-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
"Make America Normal Again" means vote for Biden, not Trump.....: Allies fear Trump might not win unless he can get the country out from underneath the virus and focus on Biden. “Trump against Trump will guarantee a loss.Trump against Biden will win.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/24/trump-backers-plead-virus-plan-381316
Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac co-founder and guitar great
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/peter-green-fleetwood-mac-dead-obit-1033950/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_(musician)
Yes, Trump is currently down in the polls. But he climbed out of an even bigger hole in 2016, when he was 15 points down in WI in August. This is a polarized country, and state. Don’t take ANYTHING for granted.
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/marquette-poll-hillary-clinton-opens-15-point-post-convention-lead-in-wisconsin/article_7d18006f-29c1-5381-bfc1-69eb1260569a.html
The body of Rep. John Lewis will cross the infamous bridge in Selma on Sunday morning, where Lewis became a wounded but more determined warrior in the fight for racial equity decades ago.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1287389474389921793?s=20
Olivia de Havilland, who starred in dozens of movies through the 1930s and '40s, 104 yrs
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000014/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland
The bridge once stained with blood in the violent clash was covered with rose petals Sunday, a somber moment honoring the fallen civil rights icon that stood in marked contrast to the scene in which Lewis was brutalized 55 years ago,
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/politics/john-lewis-memorial-edmund-pettus-bridge/index.html
After a 3 batter 18 pitch first inning, Corey Kluber has been taken out of the game....
Trump won't extend the weekly unemployment boost because it 'paid people to stay home'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-unemployment-because-it-paid-people-to-stay-home-2020-7
The risk of a huge shift towards absentee voting isn’t fraud that hurts Republiacans. It’s administrative dysfunction and voter inexperience that leads to millions of (disproportionately Dem) ballots not counting. The absentee ballot rejection rates from pandemic primaries (4-8% in KY, 20% in NYC) are many times higher than in past elections and should be setting off alarm bells for Democrats. No doubt postmarks/signatures will be intensely litigated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-month-later-this-new-york-city-primary-is-still-a-train-wreck-and-a-warning-to-us-all/2020/07/25/1c19f9c4-cb68-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html
Republican Tom Cotton describes slavery as "necessary evil" as he discusses his bill seeking to financially punish school districts that use 1619 Project curriculum
https://arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/26/bill-by-cotton-targets-curriculum-on-slavery/
Nearly half the guests at a Seattle cocktail party became sick with the coronavirus, even though nobody seemed sick at the time. It was another clue about silent spread.
https://apnews.com/33ce920720ee71dbabcd8db757b8dfd3
Here's a calculation we call the Voter Power Index. The states where, in elections since 1968, a voter had the greatest chance of determining the winner of the Electoral College. For instance, a VPI of 2.5x means a was 2.5 times more influential than an average American's.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1287499567446073344?s=20
Here are top states for average VPI since 1968 based on 538 backtested simulations:
1. New Hampshire 3.9
2. New Mexico 3.0
3. Nevada 2.8
4. Iowa 2.5
5. Ohio 2.5
6. Vermont 2.2
7. Maine 2.2
8. Colorado 2.1
9. Pennsylvania 2.1
10. Delaware 2.1
11. Wisconsin 2.0
12. Missouri 1.9
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1287499568117096450?s=20
And this is why Democrats are done (most Democrats are like me and plenty will not be voting): Democrats are criminal terrorists no different than Republicans (banning people from shopping because other shoppers are triggered by masks they don't like): A story close to home: 2 shoppers w/swastika face masks walked into my hometown Walmart. They were confronted & are now banned. I went searching: What exactly is going on in Walmart?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/swastika-masks-worn-at-my-hometown-walmart/
Obummer (Democrats refused to lift a finger to do anything about Sudan, in fact they sided with and defended and protected indicted mass murdering war criminal Omar al-Bashir: More than 60 killed in fresh violence in Sudan's Darfur region: UN
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1287492379499466753?s=20
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Trump keeps touting New Jersey fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he’s not telling the whole story.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-keeps-touting-new-jersey-fraud-case-to-attack-mail-voting-local-leaders-say-hes-not-telling-the-whole-story/2020/07/26/480466de-ca99-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html
Dusty Baker said that Justin Verlander has a forearm strain and will be shut down for a couple of weeks and then will be re-evaluated.
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1287508380307922952
Trump backs out of throwing first pitch at Yankees game
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/509100-trump-backs-out-of-throwing-first-pitch-at-yankees-game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Saxon
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768334/
Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
https://projects.propublica.org/nypd-ccrb/
2 teenagers have re-introduced COVID-19 to Queensland, Australia - they allegedly provided fake names to enter the state after heading to Melbourne to commit theft and attend illegal parties
https://7news.com.au/news/qld/why-pair-of-teenagers-travelled-to-melbourne-before-bringing-coronavirus-back-to-queensland-c-1203213
Joe Kelly WRONGLY suspended eight games. Dave Roberts gets one. Every major Astros player cheated for seasons and yet MLB decides to take this stand.
https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1288580533010694145
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1288581533951983621
8 games out of a 60 game season is the equivalent of 20 games in a 162 game season. That is a brutal suspension. Suspending players who never hit anybody more than an entire team that admitted to relentlessly cheating an entire season and playoffrun and worldseries and said would cheat all over again and did nothing wrong. The MLB is referring to Kelly’s past history. Let’s take a look at the past history of Bregman/Correa/Altuve/Springer. This is sickening. Taunting? You get suspended for that now? They better hammer the next guy who bat flips....That's quite the suspension for... *checks notes*...walking Alex Bregman and striking out Carlos Correa. 0 HBP. Seems excessive. How does he get a harsher punishment than literal cheaters.
"Little fucker" - Fine (Dusty Break The Pitcher's Arm Baker)
Whatever Dave Roberts did- 1 game
"Nice swing bitch"- 8 games
Seems like a moving bar here
GOOD:
The 'defund the police' movement:
Support 33%
Oppose 63%
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1288585381311582210
GOOD:
Proposals to completely dismantle police dept. and give more financial support to address homelessness, mental health, and domestic violence:
Support 27%
Oppose 71%
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1288585381311582210
Also good is that 4000 Democratic delegates voted against eliminating the PPACA and the health care insurance industry and stripping almost the entire population of their health care as a part of the party platform, and voted against legalizing drugs as part of the platform. The Sanders delegates are screaming endlessly. Fuck them.
Republicans to allow enhanced unemployment benefits will expire on Friday in order to get people to go back to work
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/509669-meadows-says-unemployment-benefits-to-expire-as-negotiators-struggle
Kevin McCarthy accidentally calls Louie Gohmert "Congressman COVID"
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1288577803387117572
Five months ago today, the United States reported its first coronavirus death. Later that day, @VP told @jaketapper on @CNNSotu that he wanted "to assure the American people that we're ready." Current death count: 150,034
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1288577896940883969
Trump, Oval Office address on coronavirus, March 11: "We must put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify together as one nation and one family."
Trump today, as the coronavirus death count passes 150,000: Trump on Democrats:“They are sick. Real sick.” “They don’t love our country” “They want to wipe out every trace of religion from our national life.” “They want to indoctrinate our children.” “They want to destroy our suburbs”
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who served under Trump: "I think at this point, we can definitively say hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. I'm not sure what more we need to do."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1288580057045270528
A federal judge in New York BLOCKS the Trump administration from enforcing the "public charge" rule for the length of the pandemic-related national emergency.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1288579527640219652?s=20
For all ink spilled on "deplorables," Trump just said radical Democrats "don't love our country in any way shape or form".
Former President Obama is expected to give the eulogy at John Lewis' funeral tomorrow
https://www.ajc.com/john-lewis/source-former-president-obama-to-deliver-eulogy-at-rep-john-lewis-funeral/AK7SD4DN6VELFMTZ3JTX6NHREA/#
A national museum honoring the U.S. Latinx community has been considered for decades, ever since a task force found that Latinos were "willfully neglected" by the Smithsonian. A bill passed Monday by the House moves that museum closer to reality.
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/07/28/896153157/house-passes-bill-to-create-smithsonian-american-latino-museum
Almost 30 million Americans didn’t have enough to eat last week. Just-released weekly U.S. Census survey shows new high.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/almost-30-million-in-u-s-didn-t-have-enough-to-eat-last-week
The bubble impact on sports:
NBA: 0 positive tests since July 13th
NHL: 0 positive tests in 4,256 administered in 7-day span July 18th-25th
MLS: 0 positive tests in last nine major rounds of testing
NWSL: 0 positive tests during its entire tournament
Huge.
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