As we await the results of the Senate runoff in Alabama today, your friendly reminder that Tommy Tuberville’s name is pronounced Tub-erville, not Tube-rville.
Kneeling on a flag = disrespecting America. But having the flag of a seceded nation that was defeated in a war on your state flag doesn’t?
Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Says “I thought this was a hoax,” the man told his nurse, a hospital official said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/30-year-old-covid-party-death.html
Supreme Court rejects Texas Republican bid for in-person convention
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200713/supreme-court-rejects-texas-gop-bid-for-in-person-convention
Possible that putting the nations most prominent conspiracy theorist in charge was a bad idea.
https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1282637185892716544
^When did gameshow hosts become the people we turn to for leadership? They appear to have all the answers and prizes, but it's a total setup. They're scam artists. How does he reconcile this with the whole rest of the world shutting down as well, and shut down long before the US? No tweets for 22+ hours and then comes with the full-on batshit craziness. As the WH attempts to the destroy the reputation of one of the world’s premier infectious diseases experts, the president is retweeting the covid19 conspiracy theories of the former host of “The Love Connection”.
Targeting Dr. Fauci (and other scientists) by the White House was both predicted and predictable.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jul/13/anthony-fauci-white-house-donald-trump-record-new-coronavirus-cases-live-updates
Mark Meadows was the leaker lol: Anonymous White House Officials Leak Meadows’ Scheme To Catch Leakers
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/anonymous-white-house-officials-leak-meadows-scheme-to-catch-leakers
Ted Cruz caught on commercial flight without a mask
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-mask-flight-american-airlines-plane-coronavirus-face-covering-a9616156.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-ted-cruz-flight-mask-20200713-7mhzjjiuqzcy7hroekvxmexkmy-story.html
Rudy Giuliani Just Destroyed Trump’s Excuse For Not Releasing Tax Returns
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f0bd942c5b67a80bc0964a6
Looks like the judge is pushing back here. If Stone's sentence has actually been commuted, then prove it. It's been three days and so far no actual paperwork has been filed with the court. Stone reports to prison tomorrow. "the parties are ORDERED to provide the Court by July 14, 2020 with a copy of the Executive Order commuting the defendant's sentence and to address the question of the scope of the commutation"
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-stone/judge-seeks-clarity-on-the-scope-of-trumps-clemency-order-for-roger-stone-idUKKCN24E25P
“In response to questions raised by the U.S. Probation Office, the parties are ORDERED to provide the Court by July 14, 2020 with a copy of the Executive Order commuting the defendant's sentence and to address the question of the scope of the commutation”
https://twitter.com/File411/status/1282700008383545344
"Lay out your latest crime in detail please. Sign your name to the corruption."
Rockets guard Russell Westbrook says he has tested positive for coronavirus and is in quarantine.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1282719368439357445
Two months after infection, COVID-19 symptoms persist | Almost 90 percent still have at least one symptom long after the virus has gone.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/two-months-after-infection-covid-19-symptoms-persist/
In order to be pardoned you have to accept guilt. Stone doesn't want to accept guilt. Also if you accept guilt, then you are compelled to testify on your crime and knowledge of the crime otherwise you will be held in contempt of court indefinitely.
Duckworth to Defense Secretary: Why Won’t You Confirm in Writing that You Didn’t Interfere in Lt. Col. Vindman’s Promotion?
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-to-defense-secretary-why-wont-you-confirm-in-writing-that-you-didnt-interfere-in-lt-col-vindmans-promotion
Over 15,000 Stores Ban Coconut Milk Brands That Use Slave Monkeys To Pick Coconuts
https://vegannewsnow.com/2020/07/13/monkey-coconut-picking/
Devastating report of unbridled sexual harassment, hazing, bullying, humiliation and hostility against women in the U.S. Coast Guard.
https://miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article238336883.html
“It’s absolutely critical that we get kids back to school,” experts say. Here’s what safety measures parents should look for.
https://wsj.com/articles/how-schools-can-reopen-safely-recommendations-from-health-experts-11594652649
Yikes -- just finished a statewide survey in a swing state. The quarter of the voters who plan to vote by mail or absentee break 15% Trump/75% Biden on the Pres. ballot. Republicans are skeptical about voting by mail, and that's a problem up and down ballot.
https://twitter.com/posglen/status/1282777432139931649
Absent from this list are Obamacare and Mueller grand jury cases, meaning they will be argued at SCOTUS no earlier than a day before the presidential election.
https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/1282748178324914176/photo/1
The government shouldn't be telling us what we can and can't wear in public.
Trump says federal government may "take over cities" to combat rising crime: "Numbers are going to be coming down even if we have to go and take over cities."
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1282789583155982336
There is no body count high enough for the president to actually pay attention to science. We could lose another 10,000, 50,000, 100,000. Nothing would compel him to listen to Dr. Fauci and others who are fighting to save lives.
Trump not only wiped out the prison sentence, but wiped out the fines and the supervised release (the federal equivalent of parole, a post-incarceration period of supervision, crucial to the process.)
https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1282781662401658885
The judge, Reggie B. Walton, previously read the entire Mueller report and ordered the DOJ to answer a spreadsheet full of questions about the report’s publicly hidden contents. Responses are now due next Tuesday, July 21, one week after the previous deadline [...] The redactions in the Mueller Report are long been controversial. The DOJ cited the need to protect intelligence sources and materials, information on uncharged third parties, information which could jeopardize future prosecutions, and grand jury information. But Judge Walton has expressed “grave concerns” about the DOJ’s “objectivity” under Attorney General Bill Barr’s leadership.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-orders-doj-to-explain-its-secret-portions-of-the-mueller-report-by-next-week/
The Trump administration has lifted their own ban on sales of silencers to private overseas buyers that was intended to protect U.S. troops from ambushes. The change was championed by a lawyer for the president who had worked for a firearms trade group.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/trump-gun-silencer-exports.html
Joe Biden, Emissary Of Grief
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/joe-biden-funeral-speech.html
Captured today at 10:45am — @TedCruz on a commercial flight, refusing to wear a mask.
https://twitter.com/hossehenad/status/1282498098858786818
Today would have been the first day of the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 2020 Olympics would have started next Friday in Tokyo, Japan.
Trump complains Biden and Obama stopped coronavirus testing even though it didn't exist during their administration
https://theweek.com/speedreads-amp/925307/trump-complains-biden-obama-stopped-coronavirus-testing-even-though-didnt-exist-during-administration
A NY judge has lifted the restraining order that barred Mary Trump from speaking publicly about her new book, per her attorney
https://deadline.com/2020/07/mary-trump-donald-trump-book-1202984730/
About 5.4 million Americans lost health insurance in the pandemic, more than have ever lost coverage through job losses in a year, an analysis found
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/coronavirus-updates.html
Israeli research center finds 28 new Hezbollah missile launch sites next to hospitals, restaurants, schools
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israeli-research-center-finds-28-new-hezbollah-missile-launch-sites-634911
Federal appeals court rules Trump admin can't withhold federal grants from California sanctuary cities
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/507173-federal-appeals-court-rules-trump-admin-cant-withhold-federal-grants
Republican-Delayed use of Defense Production Act leads to ongoing shortages of protective gear (c
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/delayed-use-defense-production-act-ppe-shortages/index.html
18 states suing to block Trump administration’s visa rule for international students
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/07/13/18-states-suing-to-block-trump-administrations-visa-rule-for-international-students-1300280
11 Major League umpires have opted out or decided not to participate. Some are said to have family members who are ill.
https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1283072276305457155
Biden pledges to make climate change action irreversible by later presidents
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-pledges-climate-change-action-irreversible-1517545
The KKK is featured in a Florida courthouse mural. Lawyers are demanding its immediate removal. | Since the day it was unveiled in 2001, lawyers and activists have tried to get it removed or relocated, repeatedly asking why images of the KKK, in any context, have been allowed to hang in the halls of justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/14/kkk-mural-florida/
The marquee race of the night is the Alabama Republican Senate primary runoff, where former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville and former Attorney General and Senator Jeff Sessions made the runoff election to take on Democratic Senator Doug Jones. The winner of the Republican primary is heavily favored to win the seat in November, as polling, including Senator Jones' internal polling, has shown the incumbent trailing either of the candidates.
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/walt-maddox-scott-beason-preview-alabama-s-gop-primary-runoff-election/33303148
In Texas, the Democratic primary runoff to take on incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn has heated up in recent weeks, with former TX-31 nominee and veteran MJ Hegar facing late momentum from Texas State Senator Royce West. Both candidates have received endorsements from influential groups, with Hegar receiving endorsements from EMILYS List, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and Brady PAC, and West receiving endorsements from the Congressional Black Caucus, Carol Mosley Braun, Democracy for America, and 5 of his primary opponents who did not secure slots in the runoff. Additional races of interest include the Democratic primary in TX-24, where progressive groups have endorsed Candace Valenzuela over frontrunner Kim Olson in an open seat race in a district that President Trump carried by only 6 points in 2016, and the Republican primary in TX-13, where former White House physician Ronny Jackson, who has received President Trump's endorsement, is facing off against Josh Winegarner to succeed retiring Representative Mac Thornberry in this safely Republican district.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-runoff-election-results/
Finally, Maine is holding its state primaries as well. There is a mildly competitive Republican primary in Maine's Second District to challenge incumbent Democratic Representative Jared Golden, and former State House Speaker Sara Gideon faces some competition for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collin. This will be Maine's second election utilizing a ranked choice voting method, and the first presidential general election where it will be used. Under ranked choice voting, voters rank their candidate preferences. If their preferred candidate receives the fewest votes in a round, they are eliminated and your vote is allocated to your second choice candidate, which continues until one candidate can reach a majority of the vote.
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/elections/everything-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-the-july-14-maine-state-primary-election/97-ba2b2083-7554-4cc2-97f7-79fe68c5eb7c
Nearly 1,000 U.S. Immigration Detention Center Employees Test Positive For Coronavirus
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-immigration-detention-center-employees-positive-coronavirus_n_5f0d8102c5b63b8fc10e3e29
California tosses 100,000 botched mailed-in ballots for presidential primary
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/california-tosses-100-000-botched-mailed-ballots-presidential-primary-n1233754
If someone like @bariweiss feels like she can’t do her best work at the @nytimes. they should make some real changes over there.
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1283084318110294018
RNC planning to hold Jacksonville convention outdoors. In Florida. In August. Fuck the Coronavirus, they're gonna have at least a half dozen people die of heat stroke.
https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-planning-to-hold-jacksonville-convention-outdoors-nyt-2020-7
The fact that in a Senate primary the overwhelming favorite isn't a former Senator and AG, but a former Auburn football coach shows you how much trouble we're in as a society. I'm not a Republican, and I hate Jeff Sessions. We have to stop valuing celebrity over experience. If in my Democratic primary the same example came up, I'd be saying the same thing. According to Wikipedia, "Tuberville's interests include 'NASCAR, golf, football, hunting and fishing...'" Sounds perfect for taking on complex, federal legislation, amirite? The fact that this man couldn't even articulate what a Senate committee does is scary, but perfectly on brand for Republicans. Sounds like he has a great resume for posting racist Michelle Obama "jokes" on Facebook alongside of photo of him wearing Oakleys in a Ford F-150, not so much for representing the great state of Alabama in the U.S. Senate.
There Is No Plan (For You) — Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn’t care.
Russia used Trump's naive intelligence sharing to try to assassinate Chechen dissidents in Europe
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-us-intel-sharing-to-pursue-chechnya-dissidents-sources-2020-7
NO, REALLY? Wolf culls do not protect caribou, new Canadian study suggests - Habitat degradation inflicts far greater harm on caribou populations than wolves, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/wolf-culls-do-not-protect-caribou-new-study-shows-aoe
Justice Ginsburg admitted to The John Hopkins Hospital for treatment of a possible infection, according to Supreme Court. Procedure successful. "The Justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment."
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1283150338279772160
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1283150496103043073
New record is nigh: today is the 22nd day this year with a 94°+ high in #Miami. The all-time record for an *entire year* is 23 days, and that just happened in 2019. The 24th day could happen this week. #ThisIsNotNormal @UMiamiRSMAS @capitalweather @EricBlake12 @FLClimateCenter
https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1282772242644865024
Cautious good news: an experimental mRNA vaccine study of 45 people found the vaccine was generally well tolerated and prompted antibody activity in healthy adults, according to interim results published today
https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
Today’s most watched race is the Alabama Senate primary runoff between Jeff Sessions, the former senator and attorney general, and Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn football coach.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/us/elections/alabama-election-runoff-primary-results.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/us/elections/results-texas-primary-runoff-elections.html
Remember: Republicans Are Afraid To Attend Their Convention But Want Your Kids In School
Pelosi "absolutely" would skip August recess to reach coronavirus stimulus deal
https://www.axios.com/pelosi-august-recess-coronavirus-stimulus-23cf2875-a38e-4a4a-bf73-d5ebbfaad770.html
A Mueller investigation prosecutor says Trump spared Roger Stone from jail as a reward for 'keeping his lips sealed'
https://www.businessinsider.com/roger-stone-spared-jail-silence-reward-mueller-lawyer-andrew-weissman-2020-7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Keough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Preston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Letourneau
Trump has now mentioned Biden 35 times in this definitely-not-a-campaign speech from the Rose Garden
Trump, who has repeatedly tried to terminate the DACA program a Democratic president created and who has rejected multiple Democratic offers to safeguard DACA without reductions to legal immigration, says he'll take care of DACA much better than Democrats.
George Stephanopoulos: "If you're in the Oval Office today, what would you tell [the president]?"
Mary Trump: "Resign."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/message-president-donald-trump-niece-resign/story?id=71779486
Your taxpayer dollars at work tonight: After stewing over canceled campaign rallies, Trump decides to hold one in the Rose Garden. This is not normal operating procedure for sitting presidents of either party seeking re-election.
Barack Obama takes on 'woke' call-out culture: 'That's not activism'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
The Alabama senate runoff is the most negative race in the country. Since March 1, both Sessions and Tuberville have aired exclusively negative attack ads aimed at each other, per @Ad_Analytics
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/alabamas-ads-negative.html
45 minutes and still going without taking questions.
Trump says that net-zero carbon emissions for buildings "basically means no windows." That is a lie, 100% of everything he is saying is a lie
Trump on school choice: "Here's a bad one, a really bad one. End school choice. There is nothing that the African American community wants more than school choice. And mothers and fathers are going to be very happy to see him be defeated just on that alone."
Some very fine reporters have a lot of questions in the Rose Garden, where it is 90 degrees and the president's opening statement has become Castro-length. Trump is doing a dramatic reading of Biden policy proposals.
The Trump campaign is running ads aimed at Black voters about Biden's tough-on-crime Senate record. But Trump himself is railing against Biden for now opposing the death penalty and mandatory minimum sentencing.
REMINDER: This is a news conference to announce policy on Hong Kong.
Senior Trump campaign lawyer critical of mail-in ballots voted by mail three times
https://cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/jenna-ellis-mail-voting-kfile/index.html
22 people showed up. To your rally. And they are not your supporters lol.
"Law and order" - like commuting the sentence of a criminal charged (by a jury) of numerous felonies?
Kansas Republican Congressman Steve Watkins charged with three felonies in illegal voting case
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article244232207.html
Just a note, the Washington Examiner uncovered that in 1999 Tuberville hid rape allegations made by an underage girl against a former player when Tuberville was HC of Auburn and only gave him a one game suspension. He is not better or worse than Sessions, he is just as bad.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/as-coach-tommy-tuberville-handed-a-one-game-suspension-to-player-charged-with-rape-of-15-year-old
Yep....: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood? | Ice Cube’s June 10 daylong series of tweets, which involved some creepy symbols and images, in general implied that Jews were responsible for the oppression of blacks. NFL player DeSean Jackson tweeted out several anti-Semitic messages, including a quote he incorrectly thought was from Hitler (not your go-to guy for why-can’t-we-all-get-along quotes) stating that Jews had a plan to “extort America” and achieve “world domination.” Isn’t that SPECTRE’s job in James Bond movies? These statements would be laughed at by anyone with a middle-school grasp of reason, but then former NBA player Stephen Jackson, a self-proclaimed activist, undid whatever progress his previous advocacy may have achieved by agreeing with DeSean Jackson on social media. Then he went on to talk about the Rothschilds owning all the banks and his support for the notorious homophobe and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. That is the kind of dehumanizing characterization of a people that causes the police abuses that killed his friend, George Floyd. June continued to bust out all over with anti-Semitism when performer Chelsea Handler, herself Jewish, posted videos of Farrakhan to her 3.9 million followers. That means almost 4 million people received a subliminal message that even some Jews think being anti-Jewish is justified. That same month, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign also has been criticized for exploiting anti-Jewish biases, even though Trump’s son-in-law and campaign honcho Jared Kushner is Jewish and his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism before they married. Playing on the same Rothschild’s trope, they issued a letter accusing three billionaires of Jewish descent of using their fortunes to “rig the November election.” This is the kind of “very fine people on both sides” Trump has employed throughout his political career — pandering to hate groups that has emboldened racists who feel like they’ve gotten the presidential OK to attack people they don’t like. | Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees | Despite those who wanted to suppress the song, it went on to sell a million copies that year and became Holiday’s best-selling record ever. The song was written by a white, Jewish high school teacher, Abel Meeropol, who performed it with his wife around New York before it was given to Holiday. The lesson never changes, so why is it so hard for some people to learn: No one is free until everyone is free. As Martin Luther King Jr. explained: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” So, let’s act like it. If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-is-outrage-anti-semitism-sports-hollywood-1303210
Trump Administration Bans CDC From Control And Use Of Coronavirus-19 Data
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-coronavirus.html
Another Monument to White Supremacy That Should Come Down? The Electoral College
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/another-monument-to-white-supremacy-that-should-come-down-the-electoral-college/
Possible Cover-Up in Progress as Trump Orders Hospitals to Stop Sending Covid-19 Data to CDC
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/warnings-possible-cover-progress-trump-orders-hospitals-stop-sending-covid-19-data
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. | Stitt advocated for President Trump’s in-person campaign rally in Tulsa last month. He attended the rally himself and was seen in images of the event not wearing a face mask
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/507453-oklahoma-governor-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
Trump’s been told he can’t win in Nov if the campaign is about him, that “sleepy“ sounds good to voters after 4 years of exhaustion & to focus attacks on Biden’s record. On Tuesday he tried to heed the advice
https://nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/inside-trump-campaign-s-struggle-land-punch-biden-
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094860/reviews/
Let's stop pretending children are immune. Of 171 COVID+ children in this study (median age 7) 42% had fever; 33% w/features of sick lungs/signs of viral pneumonia; 6 w/low white blood count; 3 placed on ventilation (had pre-existing condition); one died
https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2005073#article_citing_articles
Remember when Fox News lost its collective mind and spent weeks talking about Obama using a selfie stick? They called it “undignified” and accused him of “demeaning the office”
Biden (which means the Democratic Party) has stated explicitly that he opposes defunding the police, as The Post's Fact Checker has noted.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/14/trump-ad-falsely-suggests-biden-supports-defunding-police/
Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital and doing well
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-home-from-hospital/index.html
Mike Huckabee’s History For Kids Company Accused Of Scamming Parents | This isn’t the first time that Huckabee has cashed in on scams. The former Fox News host has spent much of his post-gubernatorial life shilling for grifters, including the sellers of a $74 biblical cancer cure and a diabetes “reversal” treatment containing a “secret ingredient”: cinnamon. (“Let me tell you that diabetes can be reversed. I should know because I did it — and today you can, too!” he said in a 2015 infomercial before railing against prescription drugs, Big Pharma and the “mainstream medical community.”)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-history-kids-company-scam-parents_n_5f0f2d39c5b6df6cc0b46c1c
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/agora-huckabee-conservative-bible-cures/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/may/13/ron-fournier/mike-huckabee-and-diabetes-cure-he-endorsed-no-hea/
You know, we wouldn’t have to worry about this sort of thing if cryptocurrency was illegal.....
Major Twitter accounts, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Uber, Apple and more, appear to be compromised by bitcoin scammers.
https://nbcnews.com/tech/security/suspected-bitcoin-scammers-take-over-twitter-accounts-bill-gates-elon-n1233948
Apple’s official Twitter account is the latest to be hacked. Pretty clear this is a big Twitter breach, potentially involving admin access over accounts.
Jeff Bezos' account. Kanye West's. More than $100K stolen so far. This is the most serious attack on Twitter's security systems in the history of the company and it is still fully underway.
WH trade adviser Peter Navarro, author of anti-Fauci op-ed that has roiled the WH, was scheduled to be on @CNNSitRoom this hour — but then canceled. “Earlier this morning, all of a sudden the White House told us he was no longer available,” @wolfblitzer says
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1283509922672582657
.@MichaelCohen212 has retained a new lawyer, Danya Perry, co-founder of Perry Guha and former Senior Trial Counsel and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division at the SDNY.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1283509867177598977
Meadows on Air Force One: "Peter Navarro's statement or op-ed or whatever you want to classify it as was an independent action that was a violation of well established protocols that was not supported overtly or covertly by anybody in the West Wing."
Rose Parade canceled for first time since World War II amid COVID pandemic; Rose Bowl game planning continues
https://abc7.com/health/rose-parade-canceled-amid-covid-pandemic/6318666/
Ice Cube uses an anti-semitic trope to attack Kareem Abdul-Jabaar for honorably calling out Ice Cube's anti-semitism.
https://twitter.com/anthonyLfisher/status/1283483660965085184
Instead of attacking #covid19 the president is attacking the doctors and scientists who won’t cover up his mistakes. Every day that this continues is an indictment of his enablers in the Senate.
https://twitter.com/RepValDemings/status/1283428485667721216
Disturbing memo reveals Trump's USPS chief has slowed delivery amid calls to expand voting by mail. Louis DeJoy, the new USPS boss is also the guy that got a $700 MILLION PPP loan for his trucking company that was valued at only $70 MILLION.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/15/disturbing-memo-reveals-trumps-usps-chief-has-slowed-delivery-amid-calls-to-expand-voting-by-mail/
Kellyanne Conway’s daughter calls mom ‘Smelly Kelly’ amid ongoing social media feud
https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/kellyanne-conways-daughter-trolls-mom-as-smelly-kelly/
23 state attorneys general sue DeVos over student loan forgiveness change
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507557-23-state-attorneys-general-sue-devos-over-student-loan-forgiveness
Sure, Voters Think Trump Is Incompetent – But Most Voters Thought That In 2016, Too
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-incompetent-democrats-worried_n_5f0f6e41c5b6cec246bdbd16
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is being demoted and replaced with Bill Stepien. Alsob worth noting the Trump campaign dismissed this story as "fake news" and it was clearly correct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-parscale-stepien-campaign-manager/2020/07/15/91aad9b6-c6fd-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html
Twitter suspending all patrician accounts and allowing the plebs to rejoice in their newfound power is a very 2020 way to belatedly celebrate Bastille Day.
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/128356702518960538
Ivanka Trump held up a can like it was a Wheel of Fortune prize and quoted the company slogan, but the White House chief of staff says it wasn’t a promotion of the company products
CNN has learned that MiamiDadeCounty has run out of ICU beds as Florida and many southern states experience explosive growth of coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/javimorgado/status/1283531072530153472
"Full-time minimum wage workers cannot afford a two-bedroom rental anywhere in the U.S. and cannot afford a one-bedroom rental in 95% of U.S. counties, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual “Out of Reach” report. "
https://cnbc.com/2020/07/14/minimum-wage-workers-cannot-afford-rent-in-any-us-state.html
Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance is asking the Supreme Court to immediately send to lower federal courts its recent ruling that Trump is not immune from having his tax returns subpoenaed, warning a delay could thwart the filing of possible criminal charges.
https://cnbc.com/2020/07/15/trump-continues-tax-records-fight-with-manhattan-da-after-supreme-court-loss.html
SCORCHING: 50 cities have their top 5 hottest starts to July ever @alroker
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing/status/1283724350957518848
ProPublica found at least 15 large companies that illegallt received over half a billion dollars in PPP loans using the same technique: Getting multiple loans sent to smaller entities they own. https://www.propublica.org/article/different-names-same-address-how-big-businesses-got-government-loans-meant-for-small-businesses
If you support Donald Trump you stand against rock n' roll [Face with medical mask] and every musician in America who has been put out of work because a reality television show host doesn't believe in science
https://twitter.com/metalliclown/status/1283630855362052098
One single US state - Florida - vs. Germany, UK and China.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1283721966978048001
If she's doing commercials on government time already ...
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1283586172204183552?s=20
Not helping. Also, Biden’s looking to make some logical reforms, not defund the police. It would of been a great sign the police are open to change if they endorsed Biden. Go with the guy looking to clean the place up, not side with the worst of your profession. If Biden wanted to defund them, I get they would not want to endorse him but he doesn’t. At least side with reform. Reforms are a dirty word for a lot of people. Changes in how a place operates means things might be harder for the workers, or they might have to change in the way they have been operating to accommodate these regulations. Added to how politicized this is, its almost not surprising to see these groups endorse the one person who will let them continue to do what they do now. As much as I wish these groups were looking to achieve a higher standard for themselves, I've lived in the real world long enough to know that usually takes an external force.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-association-police-organizations-endorses-trump-reelection-after-backing-biden
Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most
need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their
poets shall.
Chuck Woolery deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus. Typical right wing shitheel. Everything is fake and nothing matters until it affects them personally.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/507663-chuck-woolery-deletes-twitter-account-after-announcing-his-son-has-coronavirus
Russian Police Major Falls From Window After Testifying Against Boss
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/16/russian-police-major-falls-from-window-after-testifying-against-boss-reports-a70895
Russian hackers linked to the Kremlin have targeted coronavirus vaccine research facilities, according to the US and UK governments
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-hackers-persistently-hacking-organisations-involved-in-coronavirus-vaccine-development-2020-7
Trump Victory Committee illegally paid nearly $400,000 to Trump's Washington hotel in second quarter: analysis — Trump's properties have illegally laundered well over $20 million in political spending since he took office, per CPR data. Trump and his family are illegally pocketing campaign money. Which Democrats told you he would do.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/16/trump-victory-committee-paid-nearly-400000-to-trumps-washington-hotel-in-second-quarter-analysis/
13 years ago, I emailed Dr. Fauci out of the blue to ask if I might interview him for my undergrad thesis. He invited me to his office, where he answered all my questions. When I sent him the thesis, HE READ THE WHOLE THING (see his overly effusive review below). Who does that?!
https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1283824971312234497
I had hoped it was a glitch, but no...the CDC.gov hospital capacity dashboard has gone dark
Within weeks of the amendment’s passage, Florida’s Republican-led legislature moved to limit it. Last year, the state government passed a law that required former felons to pay all fees from their cases — even the costs accrued to have a public defender — before they voted. Those who didn’t could face another felony charge. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other groups sued on the grounds that the law constituted a poll tax that most could not afford to pay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/florida-felons-voting-rights.html
Supreme Court deals blow to felons in Florida seeking to regain the right to vote
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-felons-in-florida-seeking-to-regain-the-right-to-vote/2020/07/16/2ede827c-c5dd-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron suing Democrat Governor to block all of Democratic Governors orders regarding covid19
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/16/daniel-cameron-files-motion-block-all-covid-19-orders-kentucky-governor-andy-beshear/5450207002/
Top health official violated federal contracting rules, HHS inspector general finds: CMS Administrator Seema Verma spent more than $6M on politically-connected contractors to help raise her profile, do communications work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/16/verma-violated-contracting-rules/
Where's the symbol for all the dead due to the pandemic?...: On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a "red" truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a "blue" truck.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1283855477059747841
WAIT -- Isn't it illegal under the Hatch Act for federal employees to do such overt, egregious politicking on federal property on official work time?
https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1283857134850134016
U.S. coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC to HHS
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/us-coronavirus-data-has-already-disappeared-after-trump-administration-shifted-control-from-cdc-to-hhs.html
Trump now explicitly saying that minorities/people-of-colour are criminals: he claims fair housing regulations designed to combat housing segregation will "obliterate" the suburbs: "Your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise."
In his confirmation hearing, Bill Barr told Sen. Leahy that a presidential pardon issued in exchange for a promise not to incriminate the president "would be a crime." Leahy wants Barr to investigate Roger Stone's commutation and see if a crime took place.
https://www.leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/7.13.20%20PJL%20letter%20to%20Barr%20re%20Stone%20Commutation.pdf
Senate Republicans are eyeing subpoenas to current and former Biden advisers as part of their attempt to attack Biden campaign
https://politico.com/news/2020/07/16/joe-biden-advisers-burisma-subpoenas-366358
We’re investigating if the White House is using Covid-19 as pretext for interfering with USPS’s ability to facilitate an election, or if the president’s long-standing criticisms of the post office have led to undue political influence. Last month, we sued the Trump administration for failing to release documents that have the potential to shed light on political interference at the U.S. Postal Service, as well as its plans for vote-by-mail.
https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-files-lawsuit-for-records-of-political-interference-at-usps-related-to-covid-19-and-vote-by-mail
The Trump campaign’s legal adviser made an appearance on Russian government proganada television, the first time someone from the president’s orbit appeared on the Kremlin backed network since 2016.
https://thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-legal-adviser-jenna-ellis-appears-on-kremlin-backed-rt/
White House making noises about rejecting stimulus package if it leaves out a provision to end federal funding for Social Security and Medicare ("payroll tax cuts")
https://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/16/payroll-tax-cut-trump-coronavirus/
Spain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm in the northeast after confirming many were carrying coronavirus. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the Aragon region, said the cull would involve the slaughter of some 92,700 mink who are prized for their pelt.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200716-spain-to-cull-nearly-100-000-mink-with-coronavirus
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Cancer Again, Says She Will Remain On The Court. The statement added: "I am tolerating chemotherapy well and am encouraged by the success of my current treatment. I will continue bi-weekly chemotherapy to keep my cancer at bay, and am able to maintain an active daily routine. Throughout, I have kept up with opinion writing and all other Court work. I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam. I remain fully able to do that."
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892293736/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-cancer-again-says-she-will-remain-on-the-court
The US Supreme Court on Friday formally issued the paperwork that will allow the effort by a Manhattan district attorney to seek Trump's tax returns to proceed quickly. https://cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/vance-trump-taxes-grand-jury/index.html
In another signal that the Democratic convention is still on track to be largely virtual because of coronavirus concerns, convention officials told members of Congress not to travel to Wisconsin next month for the already-scaled back gathering
https://nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democratic-members-congress-told-not-go-milwaukee-convention-n1234133
James Harden said wearing this mask -- associated with "Blue Lives Matter" -- was not meant to make a political statement. He said he wore it because it covers his beard and wasn't aware of the association.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1284172027943886848
"It was just something that covered my whole beard. I thought it looked cool. That was it." Harden said he's in process of determining how he will voice his support for the Black Lives Matter while in NBA bubble, including whether he will have a message on jersey.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1284174400711995394
What a hypocrite @arod. Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell the players they need to change. What a joke. Good luck trying to get content from the very players you're trying to sell out to get your ownership group selected.
https://twitter.com/jerryblevins/status/1284196484309757952?s=21
Republican-controlled USPS slowing down mail service to force delivery delays and eliminated late mail delivery and overtime. Effective immediately it means all mail is delayed for at least 2+ days (which means the vast major-majority of mail-in ballots will be invalidated) and employee overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers is eliminated.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-mail-in-voting-usps-delivery-changes-times-2020-election-a9623271.html
The COVID-19 surge is spreading, deaths are rising, and cases are soaring across the country.
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1284233776067903491
Las Vegas Sands, run by Trump donor Sheldon Adelson, saw over $250,000 from president's joint fundraising committee in Q2. Trump's properties have been paid over $17m since '16 run. Trump's allies and his own biz have seen big payments from Trump's camp. They are illegally pocketing campaign money.
https://cnbc.com/2020/07/17/trump-properties-made-over-17-million-from-campaign-rnc-since-2016.htm
A federal judge has ruled that DACA be restored to its full status, following the Supreme Court's decision that the Trump admin violated federal law when it ended the program. https://axios.com/trump-daca-immigration-supreme-court-7e622eef-3f97-446e-a4f7-f9465efbd7a8.html
Making sequential payments below $10k to evade reporting requirements on a single larger payment is called “structuring” and it is a federal crime: In just two days, trump’s campaign pumped $380K into Trump’s private business, in 43 separate payments. Trump Org says this was for a weeklong “donor retreat,” held in early March at Mar-a-Lago.
Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1284137377028542467
Pentagon bans all Confederate flags, and LGBTQ flags, on military bases despite Trump's objections. Coming from a group that just says "USA, love it or leave it" yet they fly the flag that represents people that tried to leave it. And lost. They are not Patriots. They are traitors
"Fed up with remote education, parents who can pay have a new plan for fall: import teachers to their homes...It’s a 2020 version of the one-room schoolhouse, privately funded." https://washingtonpost.com/education/fall-remote-private-teacher-pods/2020/07/17/9956ff28-c77f-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html
Nadler schedules an HJC markup Thursday of legislation that would pause the clock on any statute of limitations for crimes Trump may have committed while in office. He also has a bill requiring DOJ to hand over materials in cases like Roger Stone's involving a pardon.
https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1284246896656121858
Trump interrupts interview to show proof that Biden plans to defund the police. It did not go well
https://twitter.com/brooklynmutt/status/1284205912283140096
I’ve released 21 years of my tax returns — why hasn’t Donald Trump?
We deserve to know what this president is hiding.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1284211267108868097
Judge rejects Trump administration challenge to California cap-and-trade program
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/507887-judge-rejects-trump-administration-challenge-to-california-cap-and
The interviews indicate that the attack was not the work of a nation-state or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html
Ed Mullins, the head of a major police union in NYC, has a Q Anon mug behind him
https://twitter.com/EricDKoch/status/1284230698547785731
He's right: The media is a criminal network that has very few honest people. They have zero intention to tell the truth. I have seen so many live in fear of a negative story.
https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1284205531436126208
Texas is reporting 174 deaths since yesterday due to COVID-19 -- by far the worst day since the pandemic began here. In 7 days 722 people have died, an average of 103 per day. During previous 7 days that was 63 per day.
https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1284238082800340992
Trump appears to be easily triggered by the sight of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush: The portraits of Trump’s two most recent predecessors — which once hung in the Grand Foyer where every visitor to the White House could see them — have been moved to a little-used room being used for storage
https://cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/white-house-portraits-clinton-bush-trump/index.html
US Attorney For Oregon Calls For Investigation Into Portland Protester Arrests . https://opb.org/news/article/us-attorney-oregon-investigation-portland-protester-arrests/
White House blocking CDC Director Redfield from testifying about reopening schools
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-blocking-cdc-head-robert-redfield-testifying-about-reopening-n1234250?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Video Doesn’t Show Biden Hosting ‘Black Face Skit’: A video clip of Joe Biden jokingly introducing a Black singer at a 1985 fundraiser as “Michael Jackson” has been manipulated and shared with a false claim that Biden was participating in a “black face” skit
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/video-doesnt-show-biden-hosting-black-face-skit/
Prosecutors drop felony charges against 87 Breonna Taylor protesters arrested at home of Kentucky AG. A Jefferson County attorney said they will work with protesters to expunge the felony from their records 30 days after the dismissal.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/prosecutors-drop-felony-charges-against-87-breonna-taylor-protesters-kentucky-attorney-general
Congressman John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 80. Rest in power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/792579944/rep-john-lewis-a-force-in-the-civil-rights-movement-dead-at-80
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-r-lewis-front-line-civil-rights-leader-and-eminence-of-capitol-hill-dies-at-80/2020/07/17/54a67e1a-c3ad-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
When Lewis asked Obama to sign a commemorative photograph at his 2009 inauguration, the newly sworn-in president wrote: “Because of you, John.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/507936-obama-remembers-john-lewis-i-stood-on-his-shoulders
He was beaten, skull fractured, arrested 45+ times, target of threats and hate speech, but he STILL accomplished an unbelievable amount. He was a leader of the movement which garnered African-Americans oting rights, and when he was in office, he started and managed welfare programs in his Georgia district.
John Lewis (center) after March on Washington with JFK and other leaders in Oval Office, August 1963
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdLyNU2X0AASa2Y?format=jpg&name=small
John Lewis lived long enough to see his legacy be undone. He was sitting in the Supreme Court chamber when Justice Antonin Scalia compared the Voting Rights Act to a “racial entitlement,” and he almost cried.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/john-lewis-legacy-is-the-right-to-vote-and-its-under-attack/
While so many today view what John Lewis did with reverence, at the time, only 22% of Americans approved of what the Freedom Riders were doing.
https://washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/black-lives-matters-and-americas-long-history-of-resisting-civil-rights-protesters/
Enes Kanter: What hurts me the most is other Turkish players in the league...Ersan Ilyasova...Cedi Osman...Furkan Korkmaz. Whenever we go against them, they don’t say a word. I actually try to talk to them. I’m like “hey dude, how’re you doing?” No answer. They turn their face the other way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gQqJsRegs
This is his 370th trip to one of his properties and 278th trip to one of his golf clubs since the beginning of his presidency. The president has justified the hypocrisy on his golfing by falsely he has golfed less than Obama: CNN images of Trump this morning at one of his golf clubs for the 278th time in his presidency, despite promising regularly in 2016 he wouldn’t golf as president and criticizing Obama’s golf habit.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1284511252031721472
85 infants under age 1 tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/health/texas-infants-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
More than 20,000 troops have contracted COVID-19, as numbers continue to rise
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/07/17/more-than-20000-troops-have-contracted-covid-19-as-numbers-continue-to-rise/
Federal appeals court now says in-person Texas Republican Houston convention can’t happen
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/07/17/federal-judge-rules-texas-gop-can-host-in-person-convention-in-houston/
Trump administration pushing to block new money for testing, tracing, and CDC in upcoming coronavirus relief bill
https://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/18/white-house-testing-budget-cdc-coronavirus/
“If he wants to make clear his honor for the life, the legacy, the activism, the heroism of John Lewis,” Sen. Kamala Harris tells @TheRevAl, Sen. Mitch McConnell must bring the Voting Rights Act to the Senate floor for a vote and name the bill after Lewis.
https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1284597333783719936
"One person involved in the talks said Senate Republicans were seeking to allocate $25 billion for states to conduct testing and contact tracing, but that certain administration officials want to zero out the testing and tracing money entirely."
https://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/18/white-house-testing-budget-cdc-coronavirus/
“By custom, headline writers refer to men such as Vivian and Lewis as ‘civil-rights icons.’ This understates who they were. They were the leaders of an incomplete revolution that remade American society.”
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-john-lewis-founded-third-american-republic/614371/
An amazing bit of history - how MLK and other civil rights leaders pressed a young John Lewis to temper his speech at the March on Washington
https://washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/18/john-lewis-was-last-living-speaker-march-washington-civil-rights-leaders-asked-him-tone-it-down/
Call Donald Trump a sinister demagogue … you don’t get to be a demagogue unless you show some concern for the demos.
How could someone in flesh and blood be so courageous, so full of hope and love in the face of so much hate, violence, and vengeance? Perhaps it was the Spirit that found John as a young boy in the Deep South dreaming of preaching the social gospel; the work ethic his sharecropper parents instilled in him and that stayed with him; the convictions of nonviolent civil disobedience he mastered from Dr. King and countless fearless leaders in the movement; or the abiding connection with the constituents of Georgia’s 5th District he loyally served for decades. Or perhaps it was that he was truly a one-of-a-kind, a moral compass who always knew where to point us and which direction to march. | John’s life reminds us that the most powerful symbol of what it means to be an American is what we do with the time we have to make real the promise of our nation — that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally. Through the beatings, the marches, the arrests, the debates on war, peace, and freedom, and the legislative fights for good jobs and health care and the fundamental right to vote, he taught us that while the journey toward equality is not easy, we must be unafraid and never cower and never, ever give up. That is the charge a great American and humble man of God has left us. For parents trying to answer their children’s questions about what to make of the world we are in today, teach them about John Lewis. For the peaceful marchers for racial and economic justice around the world who are asking where we go from here, follow his lead. For his fellow legislators, govern by your conscience like he did, not for power or party. He was our bridge — to our history so we did not forget its pain and to our future so we never lose our hope.
https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/statement-by-former-vice-president-joe-biden-and-dr-45b29170d16c
Federal tactics on the streets of Portland have infuriated local leaders. A criminal investigation is examining how one protester suffered a serious head wound. Others were seized by camouflaged officers and pulled into unmarked vans.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html
An internal Homeland Security memo warned this past week that tactical teams sent to control unrest in Portland had no training in managing such demonstrations.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/portland-protests.html
Republicans - Please make sure you’re posting pics with John Lewis & not Elijah Cummings. Come on
Joe Biden should announce that the first bill he’ll introduce as President is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2021, a law that would guarantee every American the right to vote and the right to equal representation. It would restore the Voting Rights Act, but also ensure:
1) Every American is registered to vote (through Automatic Voter Registration, and that includes those who’ve been incarcerated)
2) Every American receives a ballot (through the mail, like citizens in multiple states do now)
3) Every American has the opportunity to cast their ballot (through universal early voting, making Election Day a national holiday, and fully funding polling locations)
4) Every American has the right to full representation in government (including citizens of DC, Puerto Rico, and other territories if they choose)
5) Every American has the right to an equal voice in the House of Representatives (through the end of partisan gerrymandering)
6) Every American has the right to an equal voice in the U.S. Senate (through an end to the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold, as a start)
7) Every American has the right to an equal voice in their vote for President (every state’s electors go to the winner of the national popular vote, as 15 states have already chosen to do)
Many of these democratic reforms (but not all!) are already part of HR1, which already has the full support of Dems in the House and Senate, and which Biden has already said will be a “first priority.” That’s good. And Stacy Abrams in a cabinet level position on vote security including eradicating Russian interference and voter suppression.
“No Canada: Blue Jays barred from playing games in Toronto” https://apnews.com/72e93f0780cad703e4d6bd1d47ed2aef
May: Israel beats the first wave of COVID-19, reopening schools and lifting lockdown restrictions.
July: Israel approaches 2,000 daily cases as protests erupt over handling of the pandemic.
Ancient Buddha statue discovered in Pak, destroyed by construction workers for being 'unIslamic'
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/constructions-workers-pakistan-destroy-ancient-unislamic-buddha-statue-found-while-digging-1702000-2020-07-18
California Gov Was Reportedly Told He’d Have to Do the White House a Favor to Get Help With Testing Swabs. This is LITERALLY EXACTLY the scenario they painted during the Senate trial: what if instead of a foreign head of state, Trump tried to extort a US Governor? This is the EXACT thing Schiff and Democrats warned about, and sure enough, here we are. To the Republicans, he picked fights with the right people. If DeSantis, Ducey, Abbott, or Kemp hadn't already kissed the ring, they would have had to prostrate themselves or get nothing. Because they were already bootlickers, they just had to give Trump's wingtips a quick spitshine and like magic they got ventilators, PPE, and whatever else they needed (body bags. it was mostly body bags). Instead he picked fights with Democrats: Pritzker, Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, and Evers because they aren't Republicans and lead either blue or purple states and called him on his bullshit. He even picked fights with Hogan and Baker, because even though they're Republicans he's not winning Maryland or Massachusetts.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gov-gavin-newsom-was-told-hed-have-to-do-the-white-house-a-favor-to-get-help-with-testing-swabs-nyt
Twitter disables Trump 'campaign' tweet over copyright complaint
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/twitter-disables-trump-campaign-tweet-over-copyright-complaint-20200719-p55dfi.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/19/twitter-disables-donald-trump-tweet-linkin-park-copyright-complaint/
Missouri governor says he'd pardon St. Louis couple if they are charged for illegally aiming their guns as protestors
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/parson-say-pardon-likely-for-st-louis-couple/63-b1a940ad-bde7-43d5-99c8-b95d8932b04f
A California man was arrested and ordered held without bond Thursday on federal charges of fraudulently obtaining some $9 million in coronavirus relief funds and using some of the money to gamble in Las Vegas. Andrew Marnell, 40, a resident of the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, was accused of submitting a number of fraudulent loan applications in relation to the coronavirus pandemic and obtaining millions in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds. Prosecutors say he used some of the money to make risky stock market trades and squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino and other gambling establishments in Las Vegas as recently as last weekend.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-charged-with-gambling-some-of-millions-in-ill-gotten-ppp-funds-in-vegas-and-on-stocks/
Trump says we shouldn't change the names of Confederate-named military bases because that's from where "we won two world wars, two world wars, beautiful world wars, that were vicious and horrible."
It's hard to believe that 14 Medals of Honor were given out for the Wounded Knee Massacre. One of the, if not the foremost greatest injustice in the history of the American Military. The slaughter of unarmed innocent women and children deserve no such honor in any way shape or form. Imagine the outrage if 14 Medals of Honor were given to the men of Captain Calley's command at Mai Lai or the Marines of Haditha?
we’ve seen/heard/read all of this before. Trump hedging on whether he’ll accept the results of the upcoming election, doubling down on his handling of the pandemic despite the reality, maligning any detractor. Even when the comments are new, they’re not new.
Last interview thought: the most irritating thing about how Trump's lying has mostly gone unchallenged by even non-sycophant interviewers is that he tells the same lies over and over. He is uncommonly easy to prepare for. And yet. Interviews refuse to tear into him.
Trump again threatens to veto military funds because he wants to keep confederate names on forts. He asks derisively: "You gonna rename it after the Rev. Al Sharpton?"
“The military says they’re for” the bill, notes Wallace.
“I don’t care what the military says,” Trump replies.
Do you you hear that Pentagon folks? Trump doesn’t care what you think!! It probably won’t hurt to park a couple of M1 Abrams on the South Lawn 19 January 2021. Because why would you care what the military thinks about re-naming....military bases.....of which trump doesn’t even have a passing acquaintance with. He didn't have to say it out loud. He showed it by his total silence regarding bounties on our soldiers by his master Vlad. Still waiting, Bonespurs, for a response. What does he need military funds for anyway he claimed he has already rebuilt the military?
He doesn’t care what the military says.
He doesn’t care what our allies say.
He doesn’t care what the people say.
He doesn’t care what his advisors say.
He only cares about himself.
A 5x draft dodger doesn't care what the military thinks? Colour me shocked.
Under Trump’s watch
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How is this not a clear violation of the First Amendment by Kemp: In addition to being sued over a mask mandate and voluntary advisory guidelines on COVID-19, @GovKemp has asked for an emergency injunction to “restrain” me from issuing press statements and speaking to the press. Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent.
https://twitter.com/KeishaBottoms/status/1284836124821729281
There's many things insane about this but the fact that Trump continues to spout totally wrong things about the virus should be laid at the feat of Dr. Birx; she's his top expert in the White House. She doesn't correct this insanity.
TRUMP today: "We're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan”
REALITY: No one in the administration or on the Hill is working on a health care plan
https://thedailybeast.com/trumps-still-trying-to-kill-obamacare-but-he-and-his-party-have-given-up-on-replacing-it?ref=author
No one will follow up on this. 19 days ago Trump said he’d have a position on the minimum wage “in two weeks.” He didn’t. Nobody asked for it. Nobody will ask for this either. Every day reporters wipe their memories clean with the Men In Black flashy thing
NYT Visual Investigation tracks how some face masks shipped to the U.S. & other countries are connected to a contentious Chinese labor program. Companies are using Uighur workers through a program that experts say may be forced labor https://nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007226041/china-coronavirus-masks-uighur-labor-ppe.html
The answer is where he wants to take the USA...voters don’t matter and the less people the better for him. He doesn’t care. In here, I explained how his motivations meet the motivations of the most extreme of his movement, and what we can do about it https://medium.com/@darshansanghrajka/trump-is-inciting-the-far-right-to-fight-his-violent-civil-war-here-is-how-we-stop-it-a6ee091b419b
Sea turns red in Faroe Islands as 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sea-turns-red-faroe-islands-22379341.amp
Germany violated arms export regulations for decades, study says: Germany has authorized and exported weapons and military equipment to be used in countries with human rights violations and ravaged by war. Wars, including the Yemen conflict
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-violated-arms-export-regulations-for-decades-study-says/a-54235639
Top State Dept. Officials Enabled Misconduct by Pompeo, Whistle-Blower Said
A newly public copy of the whistle-blower’s complaint says that top officials who were protecting the secretary of state blocked the whistle-blower from addressing the issue internally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/pompeo-whistleblower.html
If you want to shut down schools over a disease that only poses a risk to unhealthy people who refuse to stop drinking and smoking and druggign and eating garbage, I don’t care. We home school. Just know that there’s no coming back after you admit that the public education system is inessential and expendable.
UK reporter asks China ambassador why hundreds of people are shaven, kneeling, bound, and being loaded onto trains in Xinjiang province, site of some of CCP’s concentration camps. "There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang"
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-53463242/china-s-ambassador-challenged-on-treatment-of-uighurs
"Economists are now predicting a Venezuela-style collapse, with acute shortages of essential products and services, runaway inflation and rising lawlessness — in a country at the heart of an already unstable region."
https://washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-lights-go-out-on-lebanons-economy-as-financial-collapse-accelerates/2020/07/19/3acfc33e-bb97-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html
"Every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”- '1984,' George Orwell
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