The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Houston Rockets 117-109 behind 28/11/9 from LeBron James to even the series at 1-1
While Trump Was Golfing, His Campaign And Republicans And Republican News Attacked Joe Biden For Attending Church And Visiting Church Cemetery Where His Son Is Buried. Trump Never Goes To Church.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f558c32c5b6578026d00c93
Reminder: Trump stole $750,000 worth of art from the home of the US ambassador to France in 2018 after canceling a World War I cemetery visit, and 100% of the officials around Trump helped him. And of course they turned out to be fakes. It's like the fake Renoir in his plane that he insists is real.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-took-art-us-ambassador-france-home-canceling-wwi-event-2020-9
The artwork turned out to be fakes, replicas and copies, just like Trump's presidency
Michael Cohen says Trump once said after meeting evangelical Christians: 'Can you believe people believe that bulls---?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-evangelicals-condescending-remarks-michael-cohen-2020-9
Trump says the Department of Education will investigate use of the 1619 Slavery Project in schools, labelling the Slavery Project and the teaching of slavery in the US as "anti-American"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/politics/trump-education-department-1619-project/index.html
But if you don't teach slavery then you can't cheerlead the confederacy or the KKK because if you want to pretend slavery never happened then you're eliminating the reason why the confederacy and the KKK were created. No different than "the Holocaust never happened and Hitler is my hero! And if the Holocaust happened only a few Jews were killed, Hitler is still my hero!". If the Holocaust never happened you have no Hitler. If the Holocaust did not wipe out most Jews, Hitler accomplished nothing. If slavery never happened, you have no confederacy or civil war or kkk etc.
Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-under-fire-for-alleged-comments-about-veterans-has-a-long-history-of-disparaging-military-service/2020/09/06/76aba4b8-f053-11ea-9279-45d6bdfe145f_story.html
Washington GM Mike Rizzo ejected for yelling at the umpires from a luxury suite. Crew chief Joe West says: "I wouldn't take that from a player. I wouldn't take that from a manager.
https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1302786259694350338
Meanwhile Joe West is one of the WORST umpires ever, and the GM was 500 fucking feet away from Joe. Shut the fuck up and do your fucking job criminal trash Joe West.
It's September, and the Tigers and Orioles are both 2 games back the Yankees for the final wild card spot in the AL.
Andrew Yang discusses what he would do as labor secretary under Joe Biden
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/09/06/andrew-yang-labor-secretary-biden-harris-cabrera-nr-vpx.cnn
Tokyo Olympics: Games will go ahead 'with or without Covid', says IOC VP
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-54052669?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/09/07/olympics/summer-olympics/tokyo-olympics-ioc-john-coates-coronavirus/
Russia's Navalny out of coma after poisoning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54061370
The NBA sent a memo to teams alerting medical staffs to be aware of increased risk of blood clotting (which can result in venous thromboembolism) associated with COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1303001567767953415
Postmaster General Urged to 'Immediately Step Aside' as North Carolina AG Backs Probe Into Campaign Finance Fraud Allegations
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/07/postmaster-general-urged-immediately-step-aside-north-carolina-ag-backs-probe
Probe launched after bags of mail dumped in 2 spots in L.A. area
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mail-dumped-glendale-probe-launched-los-anagles-area/
Animal rights group sues US government to prevent aquarium from acquiring 5 beluga whales
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/515282-animal-rights-group-sues-us-government-to-prevent-connecticut
They will all vote for him again in 2020, not because they are suckers or losers,but because they are racist haters. As long as trump keeps hurting the right people, it doesn't matter what else he does. Ever. He is the evolution of 50 years of racism and hate mongering by conservatives in this country. Why do you think he STILL has 90+% of conservative support?
Trump is turning everybody into an anti-vaxxer by pushing a non-existent vaccine that, coming from the US government, nobody will trust, nobody wants a rushed vaccination created by the same government that cheerleaded bleach injections and heartattack-inducing hydroxychloroquine
Colorado Secretary of State: In Colorado, we take double voting seriously and refer all suspected cases for legal enforcement. If it makes sense, I will include @realDonaldTrump in the referral for prosecution. He may not have presidential immunity anymore depending on the election.
https://twitter.com/JenaGriswold/status/1302976594626056193
Trump is using garbage math to make it look like he's doing a good job. We lost something like 40 million jobs thanks to covid. We've gained 10.6 million jobs in four months. Most of those jobs were always going to come back because of temporary furloughs and firings. If we do the math, we see that we're still 30 million jobs in the hole. Record high unemployment.
He can't hold rallies so this is the substitute. These are even broadcast by major news outlets.
✔ Today Trump will boast about his like nobody has ever seen before "job recovery" despite the fact that virtually all these "new jobs" are not new at all, they are simply due to reopening of businesses.
✔ I'm gonna go ahead and throw in some fake news, ✔ dishonest reporters, ✔dying magazine and a ✔dash of far left extremists while I'm at it.
"Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!" --Donald Trump
"They should immediately apologize for their anti-vaccine rhetoric." --also Donald Trump
Trump is still popular among 99% of Republicans
Biden/Harris campaign starting to make in-person appearances in battleground state Florida: Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff will be there this Thursday.
The White House is usually not where a President seeking re-election would be on Labor Day
"When it is reported—first in The Atlantic, then by WaPo, the AP, CNN, and Fox News—that multiple sources have heard Trump sneer and jibe at America's fallen, the reporting rings true because it is consistent with the public record."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/everyone-knows-its-true/616138/
Trump on Labor Day, days after publication, remains deeply furious about TheAtlantic article
.@jeffmason1 asks POTUS if he's asked John Kelly to refute the Atlantic story. POTUS doesn't respond to that question, talks instead about the story.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1303028859680567298
New from Biden in PA: "I'm worried if we do have a really good vaccine people are going to be reluctant to take it & so [Trump] is undermining public confidence. But pray G/d we have it. If I could get a vaccine tomorrow, I'd do it. If it cost me the election, I'd do it."
https://twitter.com/albamonica/status/1303028819708776448
"John McCain liked wars," says Trump "I will be a better warrior than anybody" he adds, famously not serving in Vietnam because of bone spurs while, of course, McCain served with heroism and was a POW.
Trump at tax-payer funded "news conference" campaign rally at WH: "Biden is a stupid person."
"I'm not saying the military's in love with me, the soldiers are," says Pres Trump. He cites the defeat of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate on his watch, even as the ISIS RIGHT NOW are murdering Syrians in Syria, Yemeni in Yemen, Afghani in Afghanistan, etc
Honestly stop wasting your life telling the deranged mentally ill criminal terrorist media to stop covering Trump: They won't stop because they love him and want him to win.
He just said China is building aeroplanes, as if the year is 1920 instead of 2020
Watch this clip while reminding yourself that the unemployment rate has nearly doubled since Trump took office. He's peeing on your shoes and telling you it's raining.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1303023247341084672
Just in case anyone was still not clear on this, China does not and will never pay for these tariffs.
Biden wants to surrender our country to the virus? Uh, no. You've already done that. He's the one who's prepared to actually fight it, because you gave it a try for a couple of weeks and then got bored. Past 193,000 dead today. It didn't have to be this way.
The reason the farmers are at risk is because his stupid tariffs has driven away international markets. If it wasn't for him they wouldn't need a bail out.
Completely unhinged, I've watched plenty of these travesties, but even for Trump, this is nuts.
Blaming Obama/Biden for everything. Check. Still talking about the Steele dossier. Check. Witch hunt. Check. Police are right and BLM is wrong. Check. Chinavirus, making fun of mask wearers, and pie in the sky vaccine dreams. Check. Shitting on McCain. Check. Interrupting reporters. Check. Rage quitting after ten minutes or less. Check. Yep... That was a typical Trump Q and A. Well that was one of the shittiest shit shows yet. Nothing of substance, complete arrogance and ignorance on display. Showed that he thinks everyone he deals with are "customers." Called himself the most honourable and innocent person ever. Literally nothing about labor day except "Soooo, happy labor day" at the end of the ramble before taking questions.
They set it up the speaking area so he could walk away level, so he wouldn't have that problem he had last time of almost falling off the dais while making a single step down.
Trump closes the news conference by claiming "I am not a believer in cancel culture" in the context of ranting about why he wants "The 1619 Project" to be canceled
Trump's Secretary of Veterans Affairs - a neoconfederate - defended Trump's insults toward the military, saying it's just politics and heat of the moment
https://www.businessinsider.com/va-secretary-robert-wilkie-defends-trump-mccain-military-insults-2020-9
California begins sending extra $900 to those unemployed due to COVID-19
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-07/california-unemployment-900-payment-covid-19-jobless-trump
Rhys Hoskins hits his 6th homer in 9 games. Nice.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/310f327c-f895-4a38-b931-72d32430ea5c.mp4
Clippers' Patrick Beverley has been fined $25,000 for verbal abuse of referee in Game 2 against Denver.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1303015505918332928
Giannis Antetokounmpo is with the Bucks today, has been getting treatment and is walking with the hint of a limp that suggests he's sprained his ankle twice in the last four days. In other words, things are as one would expect them to be. He just left with the protective boot on - which, we must stress, is standard in these situations to keep weight off the damaged area
https://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds/status/1303013366013792257
Marc Gasol has the 2nd highest Net rating among all Raptor regulars in this series vs Boston and is one of only 2 Raptors to even be in the positives
This is truly outrageous: The new live-action Mulan THANKS the Turpan Public Security Bureau (in southern Xinjiang) in the credits. That specific public security bureau has been deeply involved in the Xinjiang concentration camps.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhUQu-tXsAMPF-U?format=jpg
In an unprecedented public attack by a sitting US president on the leadership of the US military, Trump accused US military leaders of seeking to start wars to boost the profits of defense contractors: "I'm not saying the military's in love with me, the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy"
What's also notable about Trump now railing against the "military industrial complex" is that he spent most of his first term touting how much funding he got for the military for those very same planes and bombs. The White House is aware that they don't have a bench of top military officials willing to defend the president. But denigrating them as mainly serving the military-industrial complex is quite something.
We have more troops in war zones than in 2016
Trump says Biden and Harris "should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric." Harris said she would not trust Trump's word alone on a vaccine, but "would trust the word of public health experts." Trump CAMPAIGNED ON A PLATFORM OF ANTI-VACCINATION. Trump has repeatedly touted ideas against scientific advice, going as far as to order the navy to go back to steam power
LOL Trump says postmaster general Louis DeJoy should be removed from his post if found guilty of campaign finance violations at his old company, as alleged by several news outlets over Labor Day Weekend
- "I only care about saving lives."
- "Take that mask off because covid19 is a hoax, and if it's real, you're a COWARD for being scared of it"
The only ones who think we're number one are the trailer trash of America who think that wrapping themselves in the flag and professing love for baby Jesus and death to everybody else
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
The idea that "prosecute corrupt politician, follow science, address pandemic" is a lot to ask for just shows how sad America in 2020 truly is
Trump Sued Other People Named Trump For Using Their Own Name. | The Real Deal, a New York real estate publication, noted in 2009 that Eddie and Jules, who still use the Trump Group name, have "quietly built an empire on luxury real estate development" in Florida and other places. Eddie was even placed 35th on a 2013 list of the world's 50 most "influential" rich people, a list on which Donald did not appear.
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/trump-files-donald-sued-other-people-named-trump/
All the funnier since Donald J Trump's last name is an assumed name taken by his family when they immigrated
Jamal Khashoggi murder: Saudi court overturns five death sentences. A Saudi court has overturned five death sentences over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants for between seven and 20 years, state media reported. Five of the convicts were given 20 years in prison and another three were jailed for seven to 10
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/07/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-court-overturns-five-death-sentences
Never forget: Jared Kushner advised Saudi prince on how to 'weather' Khashoggi slaying, report says
Other quotes: "He murdered him, no question in my mind," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said of Mohammed bin Salman's role in the killing. "The crown prince directed the murder and was kept apprised of the situation all the way through." According to Cockburn's source about the seven whistleblowers, there's more. It is that Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A second source tells Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump to roll over and pull American troops out of northern Syria before the Turks invaded.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/09/jared-kushner-advised-saudi-prince-after-khashoggi-murder-report-says/2257098002/
Phillies pen blows yet another lead as Jeff McNeil crushes a 3-run home run into the second deck
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/5b4dd7ed-8388-4bd7-8928-d1512e638b0b.mp4
For years, President Trump and Republicans have waged a war on America's labor unions. It will end on my watch. I'll sign the PRO Act — making it easier for workers to organize and collectively bargain — and be the strongest labor president workers have ever had.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1303036310177951747
Teoscar Hernandez has an oblique injury, per #BlueJays manager Charlie Montoyo. But he has not yet had a second MRI yet, as swelling needs to come down. So next steps are not certain yet. But Montoyo said "He's not going to be playing in the next couple of days, for sure."
https://twitter.com/kaitlyncmcgrath/status/1303053311252344832?s=21
Here's A Labor Day Reminder That Trump's Covid-19 Mismanagement Left 27 Million Unemployed, 189,000 Dead, And Food Banks Overwhelmed. Let's be clear: this is a very sad—and should be a very somber—Labor Day.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/07/heres-labor-day-reminder-trumps-covid-19-mismanagement-left-27-million-unemployed
How social media has boosted conspiracy theories, in one graph. This measures how often "Rothschild," a common name in antisemitic conspiracies, appears in the Google ngrams corpus. The steep climb begins in 2004, the year that Facebook was founded.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rothschilds&year_start=1996&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3
https://twitter.com/inetextremism/status/1303065144281292800
Vandalism is wack no matter what. My point as a younger man I despised the icon upheld Nixon USA hero who clearly was on drugs-while watching my community wrecked by govt drug game. I saw this as a young man & spat at the hypocrisy. In hindsight it wasnt the man it was the poster
https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1303075004385378305
But I totally could care less about John Wayne at all because his undrugged attitudes that spilled out clearly had us folk as inferior. The Elvis who started out in 1954 wasn't the one that finished in 1977 but society kept on pushing that narrative over everyone else's artistry
https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1303075978650902529
Anyone who personally knew Elvis will tell you that he absolutely loved the black community and the black community loved him. It breaks my heart to see his memory tarnished this way.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/elvis-presleys-graceland-mansion-vandalised-22615333
The Trump campaign has spent more than $1 million on ads aired in the D.C. media market even though 98% of the residents there vote Democrat
It's not the warriors who have seen combat who say, "I love war." It's Trump who said it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMArIc5Hn_g
It's Trump, not any American general, who fantasizes about a second Civil War: ....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal." Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178477539653771264
It's Trump, not any American general, who mused about ending the Afghanistan war by committing genocide: Trump casually says that if he wanted to, "Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth -- it would be over literally in 10 days." Flushed face
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1153352075016835072
It's Trump, not any American general, who yearns to wear medals for valor he did not earn: Trump jokes that he wanted to give himself the Medal of Honor while speaking at national veterans | Trump joked at the AMVETS national convention in Kentucky Wednesday that he wanted to give himself the Medal of Honor, but decided against it after being counseled by aides.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/08/21/donald-trump-jokes-he-wanted-give-himself-medal-honor/2077813001/
It's Trump, not any American general, who threatened pre-emptive nuclear war against North Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwsTM6dMeCs
It's Trump, not any American general, who vowed a limitless bailout for US aerospace companies https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-u-cannot-let-185011419.html
It was Trump, over the opposition of the military senior command, who pardoned persons convicted of war crimes
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/11/16/trump-grants-clemency-to-troops-in-three-controversial-war-crimes-cases/
It was Trump , not any American general, who boastfully threatened war against Iran: The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without hesitation!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213689342272659456
It was Trump who mouthed "so good" on seeing the French Bastille Day parade in 2017 - and the generals he accuses of war-mongering who thwarted his wish to stage such a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIczORTY0DA
It was Trump who wanted to use American soldiers to wage war in the streets of Washington DC - and the generals who refused to do it. *That's* why he hates them. (and because they hate him.....)
https://cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/troops-deploying-washington-dc/index.html
From 2005: Trump, to be fair, would also concentrate on the oil fields held by ISIS. "I have a plan," he told an Iowa rally. "I would bomb the shit out of them." Big cheer. "I would just bomb those suckers. And that's right, I'd blow up the pipes; I'd blow up the refineries; I'd blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. And you know what, you'll get Exxon to come in there, and in two months, you ever see these guys? How good they are, the great oil companies? They'll rebuild that sucker brand new. And I'll take the oil." These victories-by-bombing promises are crowd-pleasers. And so, unfortunately, is torture. At a rally in Ohio last week, attended by thousands, Trump confirmed that he would bring back waterboarding. "You bet your ass, in a heartbeat," he said. Indeed, he would do "more than that." He rejected a Senate Intelligence Committee report, part of which was released last year, that found that harsh interrogation techniques used by the Bush Administration had failed. "Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work," Trump said. "If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway for what they're doing to us." The "they" who "deserve" torture in this appalling formulation can probably remain unspecified for now.
https://newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-escalating-slurs
Since 2017, the Trump camp and RNC have routed $227 million through a single LLC linked to campaign officials. An FEC complaint argued the firm was used to disguise the final destination of spending, which included paychecks to Lara Trump & Kim Guilfoyle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html
I can't believe we are debating whether or not the United States was founded on oppression. I don't understand how this is a debate. There are things to debate with the 1619 project but the premise is not one of them. And Native Americans OWN AMERICA. THEY WERE HERE 30,00+ YEARS BEFORE WHITE PEOPLE. (fuck black people already).
Trump accuses Obama of treason...not a peep from a reporter
Trump campaign "paid nearly $110,000 to Yondr, a company that makes magnetic pouches used to store cellphones during fund-raisers so that donors could not secretly record Mr. Trump and leak his remarks."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html
Trump has steered, along with the GOP, about $4 million into Trump family businesses since 2019: hundreds of thousands to Mar-a-Lago, lavish donor retreats at Trump hotels, office space in Trump Tower, and thousands at the Trump DC hotel steakhouse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html
An important observation: "Mr. Biden fully embraced Zoom fund-raisers," which "took less than 90 minutes of the candidate's time, could raise millions of dollars and cost almost nothing. Mr. Trump has almost entirely refused to hold such fund-raisers."
Brad Parscale, accused by many of mismanaging the Trump campaign's money, points his finger right back at the Trump family: "No decision was made without their approval."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html
The bankruptcy of his campaign isn't surprising to anyone who has ever followed a Donald Trump business into the ground.
Yes Trump supporters, Michael Cohen is a convicted felon in crimes in which Trump remains an unindicted co-conspirator
"Mr. Trump's former bodyguard and White House aide has been paid more than $500,000 by the R.N.C. since late 2017"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html
Just as many American millennials have been quietly supporting their parents as boomers who have been supporting their adult children. These are some of their stories.
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/millennials-parents-stereotypes-boomers-data
PA Attorney General on mail-in voting: "What [Trump's] trying to do, at the end of the day, is ... make the American people feel powerless in this process. And what I want people to understand clearly is that, you're the ones with the power. You're the ones with the vote."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303099528837500928
Lots of Twitter comments and pundits mocking Brad Parscale for enriching himself rather than spending Trump re-election fund wisely. But isn't a second (or third or fourth) Ferrari for Brad Parscale a more socially positive use of Trump funds than spending them to re-elect Trump?
.@JoeBiden continues to escalate his attacks against Trump...
When asked to respond to questions about claims he's "lost a step," Biden told a Harrisburg affiliate: "Look at how [Trump] steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and how he stumbles down ramps, okay?"
https://twitter.com/MariannaNBCNews/status/1303098064375287809?s=20
Raptors playing like they were out partying until 5am
Van Vleet have a real messy game so far
Tatum's work on the defensive boards this game is the key factor
Kemba laughing it off with Brown is the polar opposite of what Kyrie would have done
Tatum didn't have any points until the last minute of the quarter, Raptors shot 20% from the floor, the teams are a combined 4/20 from 3 (Boston 3/11, Toronto 1/9), Raptors players not named OG shot 1/13. Ugly sh!tty basketball
Biden in PA: "He asks, what's in it for them? Does that surprise you, coming from a man who only thinks about what's in it for him? ... He'll never understand our cops, our firefighters, because he's not made of the same stuff that the people who serve this nation are made of."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303112081198243840
1/6: In regard to today's @realDonaldTrump presser, particularly the conversation about the weather in France on November 10, 2018: https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-white-house-september-7-2020/67
If there's one thing we in the Fact Cave, it's straight data. And data we got. So let's take a look...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111596500230144
(Quote - Press Conference: Donald Trump Holds a Labor Day Press Conference - September 7, 2020
Now, what was true is that we had the worst weather. I think it was as bad a rain as I've just about ever seen. And it was a fog you -- you literally couldn't see. I walked out, and I didn't have --...
https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-white-house-september-7-2020/67)
2/6: On that day, 0.05" of rain were reported in Paris. Note there were 154 days w/precipitation in Paris in 2018. Of those, 89 exceeded the rain on Nov. 10, 2018. The METARs for that time (1:40 pm - 3:20 pm) ranged from Light Rain to Light Drizzle...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111597704052736
3/6: ... with visibility ranging from 2.8 to 6.2 miles. https://f2.link/france-wx. In terms of flight safety, we found at least 51 instances of Marine One flying in rain during @realDonaldTrump's presidency. Of those 51 instances, 4 were when thunderstorms were reported...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111598710632448
4/6: ...in the area, and 9 had instances of rain exceeding what was reported in Paris on that day. In terms of visibility, 18 of those 51 days were the same or less than what was reported in Paris. We put together this handy spreadsheet with:...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111599897612288
5/6: -- Hourly data for Nov 10, 2018, -- The exact weather at the time in question -- The 51 instances of Marine One flying in similar or worse conditions. -- And more. All data via the NWS/NOAA. Please check the data yourself to validate. https://f2.link/france-wx ...
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111600832905218
6/6: Conclusion: In terms of the weather being as @realDonaldTrump described, the National Weather Service and the global aviation weather data doesn't have a record of it. It was rain and reduced visibility, and nothing unusual, per the weather data.
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1303111601894154241
Footage from Salem, Oregon: The right-wing crowd crossed the street and began pursuing the left-wing crowd, knocking one guy to the ground, punching him, then spraying him with mace.
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1303107729158844416
The right wing crowd now ran in a large group towards a single person, attacking them in the park. Police came in to make arrests.
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1303110261717434368
Police are pleading with the right-wing crowd, which includes many Proud Boy members, to move back to where their rally was supposed to be
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1303111233801916417
I've done all I can to respect and defend them but when they won't stop literally ESCORTING the violent white supremacists groups into downtown Portland like a few weeks ago and won't stop the Proud Boys from endless havoc... The whole police system needs to be reformed.
https://twitter.com/NaziandChief/status/1303109228886806528
Catching COVID19 and having a $10,000 electric bill to own the libs
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1303112910638444544
Mariners complete the 4-game sweep of Texas. The Rangers are now 3-17 since the Fernando Tatis Jr. "3-0 Count Grand Slam"
After her roundtable with Black biz owners in Milwaukee, @KamalaHarris walked out to address ~45 fans standing across the street. "I need your help in Milwaukee, OK? We're going to get this done. Make sure everybody votes early, right?" @axios
https://twitter.com/alexi/status/1303105447176605697
"FRICK" -bradley stevens
Toronto suffocating
At the University of Iowa, 1,569 students have tested positive for covid-19 since the beginning of the semester.
https://dailyiowan.com/2020/09/07/university-of-iowa-reporters-175-new-covid-19-cases/
The president's continued dishonoring of Senator McCain's memory is disgraceful — it shouldn't be hard for an Arizona senator to say that. Those who serve understand the gravity and risk of going to war and don't take it lightly.
https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1303114293848743936
Lithuania fears Lukashenko will sign away Belarus independence to Russia
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-lithuania-integratio-idUSKBN25Y1XH
Q: Do you condemn Antifa?
BIDEN: Yes, I do -- violence, no matter who it is.
https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1303111601864704006
Biden: "This pandemic has slammed states and cities with rising costs, shrinking tax revenues. And Trump passed the buck, turned his back and stuck states with the bill. You notice he says, 'it's not my responsibility.' What in the hell is his job if it's not his responsibility?
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303117120121774086
Remember when we were going to have a health care plan in two weeks?
Biden has been running for president for 501 days by count... He's been ahead of Trump for each of those 501 days. No challenger has ever led for that long.
This is it. The boys' final pick is @SenDougJones in AL. A former US Atty who brought justice in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, he's a great Senator w/an uphill battle. Give what you can: http://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-doug-jones Alabamians, get your absentee ballots: http://sos.alabama.gov/alabama-votes/voter/absentee-voting
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1303135653576704003
The Boston Celtics blow out the Toronto Raptors, 111-89, to take a 3-2 series lead.
The Los Angeles Clippers defeat the Denver Nuggets 113-107 in a game with 12 lead changes to take the series lead 2-1; Paul George with 32/4/4 on 67/71/100 shooting
According to ESPN Stats and Info, the Yankees pitchers threw 67 pitches in the 6th inning, their most in a single inning since 2009, and the most by any MLB team in an inning this season.
https://twitter.com/MarlyRiveraESPN/status/1303151691601080321
1) So let me get this straight @Mlb...I was not allowed to wear #FreeJoeKelly cleats. You threatened to levy unprecedented fines against me. You threatened to eject me from the game if I took the field in them. You threatened to suspend me if I wore them. "Free Joe Kelly" doesn't
https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1303181876929142785
violate the policy. Meanwhile...a player wears cleats that DIRECTLY VIOLATE YOUR OWN POLICY and one of your official accounts promotes it?! In case you need a reminder, "designs that contain corporate or commercial logos [...]are prohibited"...here's your words on the matter 👇🏻👇🏻
https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1303181882423734273
And here is the screenshot of your official account promoting it. Can you please explain to me how this situation isn't as blatantly hypocritical as it seems? I mean, why even have rules at this point, right? Kermit meme. 🐸🥃
https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1303181887830192129
Dinelson Lamet is the first @Padres pitcher with multiple 11+ K, 0 BB games in a season. (Also, the only players to do this multiple times in 2020: Lamet, Shane Bieber)
https://twitter.com/MLBStats/status/1303180466795708416
The A's made Cy Sneed throw 40 pitches in the 8th inning
https://twitter.com/matthewkawahara/status/1303181703976857601
The #BlueJays have scored 10 runs B6, their most productive inning of the season. Over the past three days they've erased deficits of four, three and four runs. They've also come back from scores of 8-0 and 7-0 this year. Wild. They lead #Yankees 12-6
https://twitter.com/ShiDavidi/status/1303148299352977408
Grand Slam, Danny Jansen. Makes it a 10-run inning. There's 1 out
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/ddf8d6ae-a5c3-4784-97fa-b8e5225a8b28.mp4
Adam Ottavino tonight: 0 IP, 4 H, 6 ER, 2 BB
Murray tries to posterize Kawhi but gets stuffed
https://streamable.com/59j2t2
Paul George with an another excellent game in WCSF series against the Nuggets, finishes with 32/4/4 on 12/18 FGs and 5/7 3PTs
Bob Myers on the playoffs: "That two feet of space you had in the regular season is two inches. You watch how many players cannot make a shot in the playoffs and shoot 42% in the regular season."
https://streamable.com/cpiqs
Paul George since disabling his Instagram comments (5 games): 24.6 PPG 6.2 RPG 4.0 APG 49.4 FG% 43.6 3P%
Jokic's 32/12/8 effort in vain as he shoots 13-24 from the field in a losing effort
Disney criticised for filming Mulan in Xinjiang and for thanking an agency involved in Uighur concentration encampment and enslavement
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-54064654
Michael Cohen: Trump was a mobster, plain and simple
Me: We know, that's EXACTLY why he won and is still winning
Speaker At Far-Right Salem Rally Demands Democrat Leaders Be Shot Dead In The Streets | The man, who has not been identified, is seen speaking at the Labor Day rally which was attended by supporters of President Donald Trump, members of far-right groups Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys, as well as believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
https://www.newsweek.com/salem-protest-far-right-qanon-democrats-shot-1530230
Yikes NFL regular season Sept. 10th begins
https://www.espn.com/nfl/schedule
Tom Brady = Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cam Newton = New England Patriots
Philip Rivers = Indianapolis Colts
Andy Dalton = Dallas Cowboys
Nick Foles is a Bear but not the starter
Rapist Jameis Winston is a Saint
Teddy Bridgewater is a Panther
Marcus Mariota is a Raider
Reminder: According to The Times, which spoke to dozens of current and former campaign aides and reviewed thousands of finance documents, the Trump campaign has spent $800 million of its $1.1 billion war chest between the beginning of the year and July. 99% of the money was personally pocketed and used for persoal spending.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-blows-cash-advantage-super-bowl-dc-ads-nyt-2020-9
Trump defenders are trying to justify Trump's slurs against the military by comparing them to Eisenhower's farewell address, the military-industrial complex speech. Anyone who says that is counting on you not to know what Eisenhower really said. He was defending and championing the military-industrial complex and pressing for the military industrial complex might to be used responsibly. Here is the speech, read it
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
Eisenhower, who inherited the Korean War, did reduce defense spending over his eight years by some 27%. Over Trump's four years in office, he boosted defense spending from just over $600 bn to just over $700 bn. Eisenhower was particularly concerned that military spending would overwhelm the private economy - and push the US into debt. Even before covid19, Trump had put the US on the path to trillion-dollar deficits forever: As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
Proud Boy/KKK caravan in Oregon again today. In this clip every single license plate is illegally covered: Many, many obscured license plates. Do you suppose the police turnaround point cops will care?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1303065175264620544
The Trump campaign has illegally and unconstitutionally personally pocketed - and squandered into debitude - most of the $1.1 billion it raised, blowing millions on Super Bowl ads to rival Bloomberg and targeted DC ads to please Trump
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-blows-cash-advantage-super-bowl-dc-ads-nyt-2020-9
Proud Boys repeatedly rush, attack Black Lives Matter supporters in Salem
https://www.newsweek.com/proud-boys-rushed-attacked-black-lives-matter-supporters-1530187
Clippers' Patrick Beverley on Nuggets' Nikola Jokic after Game 3 win: "He presents the same thing Luka Doncic presents: a lot of flailing. He puts a lot of pressure on the referees to make the right calls."
https://streamable.com/76k7kn
Nikola Jokic when asked about Patrick Beverly's 'flailing' comments geared towards him: "What is a flailing mean?". After understanding it, Jokic pointed to the box score: "They had 26 free throws. We had 10. I am just showing the ref it is a foul."
https://streamable.com/k1t4h7
Jaylen Brown throws the hammer down over Anunoby
https://streamable.com/5p2jvt
Michael Porter Jr throws it down on Harrell
https://streamable.com/e9mpa8
Siakam accidentally kicks Daniel Theis in the face when going up for the contest
https://streamable.com/08uhtq
Serge Ibaka frustrated with Kyle Lowry after his technical: "Come on man, we're losing!"
https://streamable.com/vhsqv0
Kawhi Leonard with the accurate description of his finger-block late in Game 3: "I seen at the end he was gonna try to dunk and just, you know, reached and tried to block the shot, you know, I ended up getting a block. "
https://streamable.com/98mcv1
Paul George on Kawhi's middle-finger block: "That's an extra long middle finger — it kept growing or something."
https://twitter.com/jovanbuha/status/1303183275339390977
That play by Kawhi was amazing, I didn't know it was with one finger. I thought he just blocked it, but it was impressive. I didn't even know where he came from.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29834689/nba-playoffs-intense-game-3-why-clippers-chased-kawhi-leonard
Denver made it difficult for Kawhi who shot 9-for-19 and just 1-for-6 from 3-point range. Kawhi returned the favour with his 9.75 inches long hand.
House subcommittees launch investigation into Fort Hood deaths
https://www.axios.com/house-investigation-fort-hood-deaths-army-vanessa-guillen-e1f092bd-1b3e-4992-9636-b3e1558138a1.html
Most White People With College Degrees And Most Minorities Support Trump LOL | Demographics are not yet destiny in American elections — millions of people don't align with the party their race and ethnicity or education would predict. Case in point: In 2016, more than a third of President Trump's support nationally came from non-Hispanic white Americans with college degrees (26 percent) and Asian, Black and Hispanic voters (12 percent), according to Pew Research Center data. On the flip side, about a quarter of Hillary Clinton's supporters were non-Hispanic white Americans without degrees.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-big-chunk-of-white-americans-with-degrees-and-people-of-color-are-behind-trump/
I'll be glad when this election is over. There's really nothing left to say. Let's just get it over with.
In yesterday's NYY @ TOR game, there was 37 and a half minutes between the first and second out in the 6th inning.
It remains to be seen, but anything can happen, there's a lot of time between now and the election, it all comes down to turnout, and the only poll that matters is on election day.
Isn't calling for the murder of someone else a crime? Barr: I'm not an expert on those laws. I'd have to look into it.
https://www.newsweek.com/salem-protest-far-right-qanon-democrats-shot-1530230
Republicans have ordered the shut down of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has been on the front lines of the battle with the coronavirus, is about to shut down the task force it set up to tackle the still-ongoing pandemic.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/usaid-shuts-down-coronavirus-task-force-409885
US Army's top officer says sending troops to war is a last resort after Trump accuses military leaders of wanting to do nothing but fight wars
https://www.businessinsider.com/armys-top-officer-leaders-send-troops-to-war-last-resort-2020-9
Old enough to remember when Republicans pretended to be concerned about Bill Clinton's impromptu tarmac meeting with AG Lynch? And reporters pretended to believe them? And everybody screamed for the death of Hillary?. Now the WH chief of staff is publicly admitting getting briefed on an ongoing investigation: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows admits he has seen "additional documents" that spell "trouble" for ex-officials in John Durham's investigation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-additional-documents-spell-trouble-for-ex-officials-in-durham-investigation
In late July, America was briefly enthralled with "Unsolicited Seeds from China," which started showing up in mailboxes in all 50 states. These mystery seeds prompted warnings from the USDA, which said people should not plant them, and should instead alert their state agricultural authority and mail them to the USDA or their local officials. Many Americans heeded this advice. Many more decidedly did not. | According to a spreadsheet compiled by Michigan, 677 people filed official complaints with the state about the receipt of unsolicited seeds; 30 reported planting them. "I planted them in my hydroponic system in my home, I thought they were the strawberry seeds I ordered from Amazon. They turned Black and green mold so I threw them away," one person wrote. "If I had known these seeds were going to originate from China, I would not have purchased them from Amazon. I am still waiting on at least 4 other orders of seeds. Will burn them if they come." | "Our seed lab has identified the following: rose, amaranth (not Palmer), 2 mints, False Horse Balm, Self Heal, Lespedeza and Sweet Potato. Our APHIS-PPQ plant health director wants us to destroy the seeds by sterilization or incineration," the person who analyzed them wrote. A similar analysis in New Mexico found that some of the seeds were "noxious weeds" that exist in huge numbers in the United States but which people are banned from planting in many states. Those include oxeye daisy, and hedge bindweed. New Mexico also identified onion, cucumber, tomato, radish, peppergrass, alfalfa, corn, lettuce, hollyhock, and spearmint seeds. The USDA also gave states an official guide to destroying the seeds, which included baking them in an oven, suffocating them in two ziplock trash bags, and soaking them in bleach. If the seeds were planted, the USDA is currently advising people not to plant anything in that area for at least one year, and to destroy any plants that happen to grow there naturally. Another officially endorsed disposal method is encasing the seeds entirely in duct tape. Amazon announced over the weekend that it would ban all international plant sales.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akz9qk/hundreds-of-americans-planted-chinese-mystery-seeds
Domestic Terrorist Newt Gingrich: Twenty-one years after Biden spearheaded Bill Clinton's push to bomb Belgrade, including targeted strikes against civilian journalists, the Trump administration achieved the unthinkable: the normalization of relations between Serbia & Kosovo
https://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-bombed-belgrade-trump-brokered-economic-normalization-between-serbia-and-kosovo
Gingrich has executed this maneuver before. In 1994, NATO expansion to the Baltic republics was literally Point 6 in Gingrich's 10-point Contract with America. Then came Trump's pivot to Putin, rapidly followed by Gingrich's pivot to Trump, and ...
https://www.nato.int/docu/review/1997/9701-3.htm
The number of newsroom jobs in the United States dropped by 23% from 2008 to 2019. And THEN the pandemic hit. COVID-19 Is Crushing Newspapers, Worsening Hunger for Accurate Information
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/09/08/covid-19-is-crushing-newspapers-worsening-hunger-for-accurate-information
Biden has not pledged to abolish suburbs. The AFFH is designed to reduce racial bias in housing and have communities report on segregation patterns. Trump in the 70s got in trouble for violating the 1968 law that mandates the AFFH rules https://washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/08/obama-administration-to-unveil-major-new-rules-targeting-segregation-across-u-s/
Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump making calls "when he had to let a parent know that their son had been killed." Except such news isn't delivered via phone. Sanders later admitted she lied.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/08/us/trump-vs-biden/sarah-huckabee-sanders-makes-a-misleading-claim-to-defend-trump-from-reports-that-he-belittled-american-troops
Biden will begin a new push on the economy tomorrow in Michigan. He'll offer a new policy proposal on offshoring and go after what his campaign sees as Trump's broken promises on offshoring, outsourcing and Buy American.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-08/biden-to-unveil-offshoring-plan-as-trump-s-edge-on-economy-dims
Donald Trump Jr.: "As we drove past the rows of white grave markers [at Arlington Cemetery], in the gravity of the moment...I also thought of...all the sacrifices we'd have to make—giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals."
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-jr-arlington-cemetery-family-sacrifices-7623b1d0-34b2-4744-8f94-a8fce4e7892c.html
Trump said 'only blacks could live this way' about Chicago and hates Obama because he's Black, Michael Cohen claims (
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-racism-obama-michael-cohen-chicago-b419763.html
There has been discussion about whether John McCain, Barack Obama, and Kamala Harris were eligible for the presidency) due to false rumors they weren't natural born citizens (NBCs). But why should only NBCs be allowed to run? Let any citizen run, natural-born or not.
Most people are not Upstanding Citizen or Spawn of Satan, yet these things get polarized so fast that even media that is supposed to be impartial or objective usually picks one and runs with it.
In 2017, after a career year, Isaiah Thomas famously proclaimed that teams better 'back up the brinks truck' to sign him. Instead of finally getting his first big pay-day, IT's next 2 contracts would be for the $2M Minimum. Thomas is now out of the league.
https://sports.yahoo.com/isaiah-thomass-quip-twitter-brings-193254296.html
Rockets CEO Tad Brown on Davis' shot on Jeff Green: It would be greatly appreciated if opposing players would stop punching our players in the balls during the game. Seems to be a thing lately, not sure why.
https://twitter.com/tadbbrown/status/1302785744906399750
The NBA announced that Rockets guard James Harden has been assessed a technical foul after the fact for hitting Davis in the face with his left arm in the first quarter of Game 2
https://twitter.com/NBAOfficial/status/1303367949512781825
https://streamable.com/n2lpmg
The U.S. Chicken Industry Must Stop Boiling Birds Alive
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-u-s-chicken-industry-must-stop-boiling-birds-alive/
The bigger issue is that 2000 chickens - not counting any from the egg industry - are slaughtered every second.
Americans know he is a racist. Him being racist IS WHY HE WON.
At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University's Costs of War project
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html
Employer-based health plans used to be the "gold standard" for comprehensive coverage. No longer. New commonwealthfnd survey finds that 1/4 of adults with employer-based health coverage are "underinsured." https://commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/Collins_looming_crisis_affordability_biennial_2020_sb.pdf
This has been a running trend for a while but it's so important to understanding US health care politics. https://vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/14/18117917/medicare-for-all-explained-health-insurance-deductibles
The fundamental bargain of our employer-based insurance scheme seems to be falling apart.
Top police leaders in Rochester, New York, retire amid outrage over handling of Daniel Prude's suffocation death. | Seven police officers were suspended a day later, and state Attorney General Letitia James said Saturday she would form a grand jury and conduct an "exhaustive investigation" into Prude's death. Police union officials have said the officers were following their training. They seriously believe intentionally smothering him to death is "following training".
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/09/08/us/ap-us-rochester-police-death.html
Trump claimed back in 2016 he would spend a billion dollars of his own money. In the end he spent a total of $66 million (while funneling some $11 million of that back into his own cash registers) and was cranky about spending even that much.
Michael Malone on Patrick Beverley's assertion that Nikola Jokic flails a lot: "Well I don't listen to Patrick Beverley a lot. If Kawhi Leonard was talking, I might listen."
https://twitter.com/NotoriousOHM/status/1303421300187127809
Fred VanVleet on having to see Celtics players on campus: "Personally speaking, from what I know I like the guys, but right now I hate 'em. I don't wanna see 'em, I don't wanna look at 'em, I don't wanna talk to 'em. So, yeah, it's a little weird, but it's where we're at.
https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/1303370933919510529
Playoff Jokic is a real thing. Probably the best center in the league bar none
Melania Trump's Remodeled Rose Garden Is Already Crumbling
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/melania-trump-rose-garden-remodel-crumbling
1,000 People Double-Voted In Georgia Primary. 0.045% of all votes cast. And they got caught. And the outcome was not affected. "It's possible, however, that some of those cases could be attributed to data errors on behalf of election officials, noted Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political science professor who runs the United States Elections Project." And I think this is exactly the case. I suspect this story is nothing more than a tempest in a teacup, as my grandmother would say.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/1000-people-double-voted-in-georgia-primary-secretary-of-state-says
Expect Trump followers to try this since he explicitly told them to. Hopefully they will get caught just like these alleged extra votes were caught.
Remember that 200,000 Georgians were illegally and unconstitionally removed by Republicans from voter rolls and denied their right to vote.
As usual they were 'horrified' for reasons not related to being human: The three oldest Trump children privately worried that their father's attacks on Mexicans and immigrants could damage their brands and social standing, ...
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/08/horrified-ivanka-and-don-trump-jr-wanted-trump-to-quit-his-racist-campaign-michael-cohen-writes/
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event' that cost public health $12.2 billion: analysis
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/515453-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-was-superspreading-event-that-cost-public
Marcus Smart guarded Kyle Lowry on 18 possessions and held him scoreless. He guarded Fred VanVleet on 6 possessions and held him scoreless. Combined he allowed them to take 1 FGA
https://twitter.com/StoolGreenie/status/1303317830343983104?s=20
Media: @Acosta to @wolfblitzer: "Despite @realDonaldTrump once touting the use of #masks as 'patriotic,' the president just wrapped up an event in #FL, very few masks in sight." And in #NC, a crowd is gathering for his next event: "Very little social distancing, very few masks."
https://twitter.com/Porter_Anderson/status/1303440623022768132
today in Biden fundraising land, we're taking aim at all these 8x matches Trump seems to love so much cuz they're absurd and it's just fundamentally lying to donors. once again, and as always, proud to run a program that treats grassroots supporters w respect
https://twitter.com/_clarkekent/status/1303337232460382210
Junior's death was a tragedy that the entire *actual* Upper Manhattan community felt very deeply. Also praising the Trinitarios is just absolutely bonkers and her pronunciation of everything was weak. What a horribly offensive fraud this woman was. || Pretty deranged video of that Jessica Krug person essentially praising the machete murder of a 15-year old Dominican kid in the Bronx by a gang as an act of revolutionary violence. How the hell was anyone saying stuff like this let alone her: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4S6pH8RPKBA
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1303439005107851269?s=20
Everytime I do this, Trump wins
https://www.270towin.com/maps/Vovd0
Today, Sen. Richard Blumenthal led a group of 14 senators in filing an amicus brief in support of legal challenges to recent operational changes implemented by the USPS that have resulted in "unreliable service and widespread delays" ahead of the 2020 election.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303448041639337984
Really am sorry about this: Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is out for Game 5 vs. Miami with right ankle sprain, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.National Writer
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1303447015154683905
MRI on the left ankle of Los Angeles Lakers center JaVale McGee came back negative and he will play tonight against the Houston Rockets
https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1303445276234055683
Rochester PD has a wild history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Police_Department
So they have a team in place exactly for dealing with people like Daniel Prude with mental health issues - but, having been told by his brother precisely what the situation was from the 911 call, dispatch sent regular cops who intentionally put a bag over his head and intentionally smothered him to death.
Meanwhile in North Carolina, where state rules cap outdoor gatherings at 50 people
https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/1303451961623277569
THOUSANDS showed up for Trump's Florida event. The North Carolina event looks the same. Democrats are done.
Trump is accusing the military leadership of scheming to send young men and women into harm's way for corrupt purposes. And this from a POTUS who has bragged about the money he's spent on weapons and arms sales he's brokered to countries like Saudi Arabia.
Comes as Trump steps up rhetoric that vaccine could be ready before Election Day: AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction in participant in the U.K.
https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1303442872050515970
Here's the head of the EPA, publicly campaigning for Trump (which is illegal) by touting the president's preferential treatment of swing states with Republican governors (which is gross). twitter.com/EPAAWheeler/st…
https://twitter.com/drvox/status/1303447168406020096
Megyn Kelly attacks Kamala Harris for saying she's 'proud' of Jacob Blake while Kelly proudly campaigns for the man1) that continues to this day to call for the death of the factually innocent Central Park Five defendants, the same man who is accused by at least 25 females of sexual assault and/rape
The Miami Heat franchise needs to start getting some serious respect on their name. Drafting D-Wade then a few years later signing late prime Shaq was outstanding. Crafting the "Super Team" with Wade, Bosh, and James was brilliant. Rebuilding with Jimmy Butler and the current squad, just shows how good this front office and Spolestra is.
Bucks win Game 4, without Giannis and in OT, and are leading after one quarter. The game is nowhere close to being over
And just like that, Dragic and Herro and Nunn and Olynyk turn up the Heat. Bucks burn a time out to cool things down.
The officiating (and lack thereof) makes these games borderline unwatchable
Bledsoe, throw it down or kick it out. Bledsoe crashed bad.
I was told this team was better without Giannis...lol
Q1 and Q2 have been complete opposites
Down to their last strike, the Phillies walk off the Red Sox on a 2 run single by the rookie Alec Bohm
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/67f9680d-cbd1-4c9c-932c-d710714afd0e.mp4
The NBA and NBPA have agreed to push back key dates such as Oct. 16 draft, Oct. 18 free agency and 2020-21 season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. New dates will be determined later.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1303465955100684288
Mike D'Antoni said that Danuel House, Jr. will not play today due to personal reasons. Huge loss.
Justice Dept. Illegally And Unconstituionally Intervenes to Help Trump in E. Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/nyregion/donald-trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit-rape.html
No, Joe Biden doesn't want to impose a federal tax on homes
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/08/facebook-posts/no-joe-biden-doesnt-want-impose-federal-tax-homes/
Bucks offence is a mess....
....please Heat win this game....
Trump has long been unhappy with Defense Sec. Mark Esper, and WH officials have talked to VA Sec. Robert Wilkie about taking the top Pentagon job should Trump decide to fire Esper, 3 senior admin. officials say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/white-house-has-talked-va-secretary-about-taking-pentagon-job-n1239007
Very disturbing new numbers. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association reports more than 513,000 American children have come down with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Of those, some 70,630 tested positive between Aug. 20-Sept. 3.
https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1303437046401429505
However, covid19 is levelling off in the US
Sarah Sanders lied because she's a liar, lying is what Republicans do best
Trump: Nobody has been through what I've been through as president, nobody
Me: Except Lincoln and JFK, who were assassinated, except Nixon, who resigned, etc
I think this pov is wrong. They don't care. A contested election result will be a great "show". (Think Florida/hanging chads). Names and careers can be made. Advertising revenue will go up: TV news and other Big Media have exactly 8 weeks to grasp the threat to America from a contested election result. Top News execs should hold a summit and agree on how to cover uncertain results, when and how to declare a winner
https://inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/journalism-media-election-day-2020-results-trump-biden-20200908.html
This tweet was four days before Trump declared a national emergency: So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1237027356314869761
If you are looking for a clear example of radical modern institutional racism, take the fact that 65% of Floridians voted to get rid of a Jim Crow disenfranchisement law, but state legislators blocked them by putting a fines-and-fees poll tax in its place.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/who-gets-to-vote-in-florida
Mike Trout's past 15 PA's: HR (1st PA on Friday) BB BB 1B BB K 2B HR 2B BB BB 2B Flyout BB 1B (in his first PA tonight) .778/.867/1.778/2.644
https://twitter.com/PassonJim/status/1303490203974164481
Marvin Williams has been the unsung hero for the Bucks today
Iguodala is hilariously brutal on offense at this point
If I were a member of the Milwaukee Bucks I would simply never pass the ball to Eric Bledsoe
Met Robert Gsellman Pitching line vs the Orioles: 1.2 IP 4 ER 3 H 1 BB 1 K good for an ERA of 30.00
Zack Greinke, asked about the Astros' recent stretch: "It doesn't matter, everyone makes the playoffs. We'll be all right still. If we don't make the playoffs, we didn't deserve to make the playoffs."
https://twitter.com/chandler_rome/status/1303497445540638720
Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan won't be returning to the Thunder next season. Donovan's contract expired at season's end and the sides have decided against pursuing an extension.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1303498899034984449
Tyler Herro with a big AND1 to extend the lead as the 4th Quarter winds down.
https://streamable.com/jx53xj
If the Heat make the Finals, Andre Iguodala to go 6 straight Finals, the longest streak by an active player behind Lebron.
The Miami Heat defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 103-94 behind 17/10/6 from Jimmy Butler as they win the series 4-1
Dragic drills the big mid-range jumper to extend the lead to 7 with over a minute left
https://streamable.com/yn35fe
Press Secretary: "The president never downplayed the virus."
Trump to Woodward, on tape: "I wanted to always play it down."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob-woodward-he-knew-february-covid-19-was-n1239658
"The president never downplayed the virus." - White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Sept. 9, 2020
"This is a flu. This is like a flu," President Trump, Feb. 26, 2020
Press Secretary: "The president never downplayed the virus."
Trump Jan. 22: "It's going to be just fine. We have it totally under control."
Trump Jan. 24: "It will all work out well."
This is a stunning disparity, Republicans almost always outraise Democrats, and outraise them substantially: Trump campaign and RNC raise $210M in August compared to $364.5 million in August for Biden and DNC
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-august-fundraising
Air pollution is returning to pre-covid levels
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/05/air-pollution-is-returning-to-pre-covid-levels
Shohei Ohtani is hitting .192 with 5 homers this year but his name isn't Gary Sanchez so people don't talk about how he sucks all day everyday
With tonight's loss the 15-28 Arizona Diamondbacks could be eliminated from the NL West as early as tomorrow with another loss to the Dodgers
Matt Olson launches a missile into space, 3-run shot gives the A's a 4-0 lead over Houston.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/ba10dcf2-40d0-4164-b111-1c7ed6e296f4.mp4
AL East Standings:
1. Tampa Bay Rays 2020 payroll: $28.2M
2. Toronto Blue Jays 2020 payroll: $53.77M
3. New York Yankees 2020 payroll: $109.6M Gerrit Cole + Masahiro Tanaka + Aroldis Chapman make more than the entire Tampa Bay Rays roster.
The Yankees lose for the 15th time in the last 20 games and are now 21-21. It's the first time they've been .500 or worse in the month of September since 1995.
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1303509398426329088
Chi Chi Gonzales against the Padres today: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 3 BB, 1 HBP, 4 ER
Sixto Sánchez against the Braves today:6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, *6 Ks. Marlins up 6-0.
The Miami Heat are the lowest seed to reach the Eastern Conference Finals since 1999
Giannis: "Some have put the team over the players health, I love the organization for that, they protected me..my organization put my health over game 5 and that's big for me"
https://streamable.com/dnc9tj
Heat Rookie Tyler Herro with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists took over the 4th quarter in absence of Butler, finishes with team high +23
Sigh....The Lakers held the Rockets to 38 second half points. Absolutely clamped the Rockets down.
Danuel House was suspended by the Rockets for bringing a girl to the bubble who wasn't his wife/girlfriend. That was the "personal reason" for not playing.
Rockets are now 16-2 when shooting 40% or better from 3. The two losses have come against Lakers in last 2 games
Days after rejecting the measure, Virginia House passes bill eliminating qualified immunity for police
https://www.wric.com/news/politics/days-after-rejecting-the-measure-virginia-house-passes-bill-eliminating-qualified-immunity-for-police/
Republicans Cut And Run, Islamic Terrorists Win: US announces troop drawdown in Iraq because Islamic terrorists have been repeatedly bombing the US base in Baghdad 24/7 for nearly a year with zero response from coward military. The Iraqi government is funding the Islamic terrorism against American forces at the US base in Baghdad. Big win for Islamic terrorists.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/us-troops-iraq/index.html
Denver went from 99 degrees to first snowfall in 48 hours
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/910677557/in-48-hours-colorados-wild-weather-sets-records-for-both-heat-and-snow
A three-time cancer survivor who reached out to Republican Sen. Thom Tillis for help with her health insurance dilemma said the response from Tillis' office left her "hurt and angry." Tillis staffer: "Sounds like something you're going to have to figure it out."
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/cancer-survivor-pleading-for-help-with-health-insurance-angry-and-hurt-over-tillis-staffer-s-response/19276097/
Republicans need to take a hard look before advocating laws that actually do limit the franchise of otherwise qualified voters. Calling elections "fraudulent" & results "rigged" with almost nonexistent evidence is antithetical to being a rule of law party.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/08/republicans-have-insufficient-evidence-call-elections-rigged-fraudulent/
"14 firefighters were forced to deploy emergency shelters as flames overtook them and destroyed the Nacimiento Station, a fire station in the Los Padres National Forest on the state's central coast. They suffered from burns and smoke inhalation."
https://apnews.com/4e293277165179809eab95c8b139a67c
Yankees season so far: 7-0 vs. Red Sox, 14-21 vs. everyone else
Biden lays out a new set of tax proposals aimed at discouraging U.S. companies from basing manufacturing or services overseas and encouraging U.S. companies to create jobs in the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-09/biden-plan-sets-tax-penalties-for-companies-offshore-profits
Rockets forward Robert Covington's nose is not broken and he passed a concussion protocol test. He is expected to be available for Game 4.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1303684145059635201
The smoke from the California fires is so darkening in Oakland today that the Coliseum has all the stadium lights on
https://i.redd.it/i7p39ilz25m51.jpg
The Chicago White Sox are 13-0 this year when facing a left-handed starting pitcher
Earth will temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major new report says | This first overshoot beyond 1.5℃ would be temporary, likely aided by a major climate anomaly such as an El Niño. However, it casts new doubt on whether Earth's climate can be permanently stabilized at 1.5℃
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-earth-temporarily-dangerous-limit-major.html
California's Republican Senate leader has covid19 and was in quarantine. She dismissed her doctors as liars and spoke in a church without a mask in front of thousands of maskless "worshipers" - all packed shoulder-to-shoulder - telling them that covid19 was a hoax and only by keeping the church open would they defeat covid19. | "I declare that after all of this is over tonight, the remnant, the residue of this worship will saturate this ground and seep into that building," Grove told the crowd, the Sacramento Bee reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/09/shannon-grove-church-quarantine-california/
Republicans illegally and unconstitutionally geliminate constitutionally-protected EPA standards for toxic metals dumped into U.S. waterways by coal-fired power plants, including biggest polluter on Lake Michigan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-trump-epa-coal-plant-pollution-rollback-20200909-2hwywrlojna7rjjx3aw7pl5g64-story.html
Deutsche Bank Hires Longtime Friend of Bill Barr to Help End DOJ Investigations Against Them
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/deutsche-bank-hires-longtime-friend-of-bill-barr-to-help-clear-log-jam-of-doj-investigations-report/
Trump says he deliberately played down threat of pandemic in recorded interview with Bob Woodward | Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly. "You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed," Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu." "This is deadly stuff," the president repeated for emphasis. At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear, and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control. It would be several weeks before he would publicly acknowledge that the virus was no ordinary flu and that it could be transmitted through the air. Trump admitted to Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. "I wanted to always play it down," the president said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
And Woodward waited until he could put it in a book to sell instead of, oh I don't know, tell the world?
The audio is located right here. He literally acknowledges how covid19 affects people of all ages, and says "play it down" verbatim. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html
I'm glad this was recorded and all, but we already knew this. They hoped it would hit blue areas the hardest. This is biological warfare aka terrorism flat out as honest and open as it gets and the media continues to act dumbfounded as to how to frame the correct narrative. Republicans are constantly given the benefit of the doubt and are treated seriously. It's beyond ridiculous. It's completely beneath what our fourth pillar of Democracy should be.
I think he gets off on making people believe something incorrect through force of will and then watching the chaos and destruction it causes. It's a sadistic exercise of power.
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the original article contains audio clips
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was 'deadly' and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
September 9, 2020 at 11:55 a.m. EDT
President Trump's head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
"This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency," national security adviser Robert O'Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. "This is going to be the roughest thing you face."
Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, agreed. He told the president that after reaching contacts in China, it was evident that the world faced a health emergency on par with the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly.
"You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed," Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."
"This is deadly stuff," the president repeated for emphasis.
Listen: In a Feb. 7 interview, when asked what President Xi told him about the virus, Trump says, "This is deadly stuff."
At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear, and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control. It would be several weeks before he would publicly acknowledge that the virus was no ordinary flu and that it could be transmitted through the air.
Trump admitted to Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. "I wanted to always play it down," the president said.
Listen: In a March 19 interview, when asked what made him pivot on the gravity of the virus, Trump says, "To be honest with you, I wanted to always play it down."
Aside from exploring Trump's handling of the pandemic, Woodward's new book, "Rage," covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years.
The book also includes brutal assessments of Trump's conduct from former defense secretary Jim Mattis, former director of national intelligence Daniel Coats and others.
The book is based in part on 18 on-the-record interviews Woodward conducted with the president between December and July. Woodward writes that other quotes in the book were acquired through "deep background" conversations with sources in which information is divulged and exchanges recounted without sources being named.
"Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilize the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states," Woodward writes. "There was no real management theory of the case or how to organize a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced."
Woodward questioned Trump repeatedly about the national reckoning on racial injustice. On June 3, two days after federal agents forcibly removed peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square to make way for Trump to stage a photo opportunity outside St. John's Episcopal Church, Trump called Woodward to boast about his "law and order" stance.
"We're going to get ready to send in the military slash National Guard to some of these poor bastards that don't know what they're doing, these poor radical lefts," Trump said.
In a second conversation, on June 19, Woodward asked the president about White privilege, noting that they were both White men of the same generation who had privileged upbringings. Woodward suggested that they had a responsibility to better "understand the anger and pain" felt by Black Americans.
"No," Trump replied, his voice described by Woodward as mocking and incredulous. "You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you? Just listen to you. Wow. No, I don't feel that at all."
Listen: In a June 19 interview, when asked if his privilege means he has to work harder to understand the anger fueling protests, Trump says, "You really drank the Kool-Aid didn't you?"
As Woodward pressed Trump to understand the plight of Black Americans after generations of discrimination, inequality and other atrocities, the president kept answering by pointing to economic numbers such as the pre-pandemic unemployment rate for Blacks and claiming, as he often has publicly, that he has done more for Blacks than any president except perhaps Abraham Lincoln.
In another conversation about race, on July 8, Trump complained about his lack of support among Black voters. "I've done a tremendous amount for the Black community," he told Woodward. "And, honestly, I'm not feeling any love."
They spoke again about race relations on June 22, when Woodward asked Trump whether he thinks there is "systemic or institutional racism in this country."
"Well, I think there is everywhere," Trump said. "I think probably less here than most places. Or less here than many places."
Asked by Woodward whether racism "is here" in the United States in a way that affects people's lives, Trump replied, "I think it is. And it's unfortunate. But I think it is."
Listen: In a June 22 interview, when asked whether there is institutional racism in the U.S., Trump says, "Well I think there is everywhere."
Trump shared with Woodward visceral reactions to several prominent Democrats of color. Upon seeing a shot of Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California, now the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, calmly and silently watching him deliver his State of the Union address, Trump remarked, "Hate! See the hate! See the hate!" Trump used the same phrase after an expressionless Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) appeared in the frame.
Trump was dismissive about former president Barack Obama and told Woodward he was inclined to refer to him by his first and middle names, "Barack Hussein," but wouldn't in his company to be "very nice."
"I don't think Obama's smart," Trump told Woodward. "I think he's highly overrated. And I don't think he's a great speaker." Trump added that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un thought Obama was "an asshole."
"Rage" includes the first-reported excerpts of letters Trump exchanged with Kim, and quotes Trump in his interviews with Woodward using expletives to defend their pen-pal relationship. Even as U.S. intelligence chiefs warn that North Korea is unlikely to ever surrender its nuclear weapons and that Trump's approach is ineffective, the president told Woodward he is determined to stay the course and dismissively says the CIA has "no idea" how to handle North Korea.
"I met. Big fucking deal," Trump told Woodward, waving off criticism of his three face-to-face meetings with Kim. "It takes me two days. I met. I gave up nothing."
Foreign affairs experts say Trump gave up much — including by postponing and then scaling back the U.S. joint military exercises with South Korea that had long angered North Korea, as well as by granting Kim the international stature and legitimacy the North Korean regime has long craved.
Trump told Woodward he evaluates Kim and his nuclear arsenal like a real estate target: "It's really like, you know, somebody that's in love with a house and they just can't sell it."
Kim welcomed Trump's overtures with over-the-top prose in letters. Kim wrote that he wanted "another historic meeting between myself and Your Excellency reminiscent of a scene from a fantasy film." And he said his meetings with Trump were a "precious memory" that underscored how the "deep and special friendship between us will work as a magical force."
In another letter, Kim wrote to Trump, "I feel pleased to have formed good ties with such a powerful and preeminent statesman as Your Excellency." And in yet another, Kim reflected on "that moment of history when I firmly held Your Excellency's hand at the beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched with great interest and hope to relive the honor of that day."
Trump was taken with Kim's flattery, Woodward writes, telling the author pridefully that Kim had addressed him as "Excellency." Trump remarked that he was awestruck meeting Kim for the first time in 2018 in Singapore, thinking to himself, "Holy shit," and finding Kim to be "far beyond smart." Trump also boasted to Woodward that Kim "tells me everything," including a graphic account of Kim having his uncle killed.
Trump did not share his letters to Kim — "those are so top secret," the president said — though Woodward writes that Trump sent Kim a copy of the New York Times featuring a picture of the two men on the front page. "Chairman, great picture of you, big time," Trump wrote on the paper in marker. (Trump falsely boasted to Woodward, "He never smiled before. I'm the only one he smiles with.")
Trump reflected on his relationships with authoritarian leaders generally, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "It's funny, the relationships I have, the tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them," he told Woodward. "You know? Explain that to me someday, okay?"
In the midst of reflecting upon how close the United States had come in 2017 to war with North Korea, Trump revealed, "I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There's nobody — what we have is incredible."
Woodward writes that anonymous sources later confirmed that the U.S. military had a secret new weapons system, but they would not provide details, and that the sources were surprised Trump had disclosed it.
The book documents private grumblings, periods of exasperation and wrestling about whether to quit among the so-called adults of the Trump orbit: Mattis, Coats and former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."
In a separate conversation recounted by Woodward, Mattis told Coats, "The president has no moral compass," to which the director of national intelligence replied, "True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."
Woodward describes Coats's experience as especially tortured. Coats, a former senator from Indiana, was recruited into the administration by Vice President Pence, and his wife is quoted as recalling a dinner at the White House when she interacted with Pence.
"I just looked at him, like, how are you stomaching this?" Marsha Coats said, according to Woodward. "I just looked at him like, this is horrible. I mean, we made eye contact. I think he understood. And he just whispered in my ear, 'Stay the course.' "
Pence was the president's one constant booster publicly and privately in Woodward's book. When Coats considered resigning because of Trump's handling of Russia, Pence urged him to "look on the positive side of things that he's done. More attention on that. You can't go."
The loathing was mutual. "Not to mention my fucking generals are a bunch of pussies. They care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals," Trump told White House trade adviser Peter Navarro at one point, according to Woodward.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, is quoted by Woodward as saying, "The most dangerous people around the president are overconfident idiots," which Woodward interprets as a reference to Mattis, Tillerson and former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn.
Kushner was a frequent target of ire among Trump's Cabinet members, who saw him as untrustworthy and weak in dealing with heads of states. Tillerson found Kushner's warm dealings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "nauseating to watch. It was stomach churning," according to Woodward.
Kushner is quoted extensively in the book ruminating about his father-in-law and presidential power. Woodward writes that Kushner advised people that one of the most important guiding texts to understand the Trump presidency was "Alice in Wonderland," a novel about a young girl who falls through a rabbit hole. He singled out the Cheshire cat, whose strategy was endurance and persistence, not direction.
The book charts the Trump administration's failings and missteps on the pandemic, including the decisions and actions of Pottinger, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci and others.
Fauci at one point tells others that the president "is on a separate channel" and unfocused in meetings, with "rudderless" leadership, according to Woodward. "His attention span is like a minus number," Fauci said, according to Woodward. "His sole purpose is to get reelected."
In one Oval Office meeting recounted by Woodward, after Trump had made false statements in a news briefing, Fauci said in front of him: "We can't let the president be out there being vulnerable, saying something that's going to come back and bite him." Pence, Kushner, chief of staff Mark Meadows and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller tensed up at once, Woodward writes, surprised Fauci would talk to Trump that way.
Woodward describes Fauci as particularly disappointed in Kushner for talking like a cheerleader as if everything was great. In June, as the virus was spreading wildly coast to coast and case numbers soared in Arizona, Florida, Texas and other states, Kushner said of Trump, "The goal is to get his head from governing to campaigning."
Woodward writes that Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) suggested former president George W. Bush speak personally with Trump about global vaccine efforts, but that Bush demurred.
"No. No," Bush told Graham, according to Woodward. "He'd misconstrue anything I said."
In their final interview, on July 21, Trump vented to Woodward, "The virus has nothing to do with me. It's not my fault."
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@NYGovCuomo
has authored restaurants in New York City to offer indoor dining. They must:
+ Offer 25% of seating capacity
+ Check temperature checks of all
+ Leave info for contact tracing
+ No bar service
+ Masks when not sitting
+ Starts on 9/30
https://twitter.com/JimmyVielkind/status/1303743546076401664
Sri Lanka donated 1,675kg of tea to the victims of the Beirut explosion. The Lebanese "president" distributed it to his guards instead. Imagine what the Hizollah-controlled government will do with financial aid.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2020/Sep-09/511435-sri-lanka-tea-storm-swirls-around-lebanon-president.ashx
Press Sec: "We are leading the world in having the lowest case-fatality rate."
Per Johns Hopkins, we have the 11th highest case-fatality rate (deaths per 100 COVID-19 cases) globally.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Former DNI Dan Coats could not shake his "deep suspicions" that Vladimir Putin "had something" on Trump, seeing "no other explanation" for the president's behavior, according to Bob Woodward's new book "Rage."
https://www.axios.com/bob-woodward-book-trump-putin-russia-dan-coats-b3994f91-8791-4fdc-9adb-ad093141592b.html
Pence to attend event hosted by FBI-DESIGNATED NEO-NAZI ARYAN CONSPIRACY-THEORIST DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP
https://apnews.com/8e610effec6e294be01f25035393b6b9
Trump administration tax cut for military service members must be repaid in 2021 | Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey said young families will spend the apparent pay raise and then get "kicked in the chops" when they must repay the taxes in 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/trump-administration-tax-cut-service-members-must-be-repaid-2021-n1239576
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Harwood
Today, Chairman Schiff announced that the Intelligence Committee received a whistleblower reprisal complaint alleging serious wrongdoing by officials at the Department and reprisal against former I&A Acting Under Secretary Brian Murphy for making protected disclosures.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303763857584934912
We've received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress. This puts our national security at risk. We will investigate:
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1303763125204811776?
Joni Ernst, in a tough race, ignores questions about Trump's comments to Woodward downplaying the virus. Sen. Martha McSally, an Arizona Republican also in a tough race, also didn't weigh in when asked to respond to the comments. "Haven't heard them."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1303763269715480578
Picture taken in Southern California this morning
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhflvobU0AAagOr?format=jpg&name=900x900
Why does smoke turn the skies orange and red? Normally, small atmospheric molecules scatter sunlight into a blue color. But larger smoke particles "scatter blue light and only allow yellow-orange-red light to reach the surface, causing skies to look orange.". Deep orange skies, 'snowing' ash as fire smoke swamps Bay Area. From San Francisco to Yosemite, social media was filled with images of ominous red and orange skies as smoke from a variety of fires blocked the sun.
latimes.com
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-09/california-fire-smoke-sun-bay-area-red-orange-sky
Trump erodes public trust and embarrasses his office. Join me in not voting for him
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/never-trump-now-more-than-ever-11599668567
Here are 32 timesTrump said Covid-19 would go away
https://washingtonpost.com/video/politics/32-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html
Trump, who was elected president, is the ultimate decider and calls himself a genius, decided to talk on the record with Woodward 18 separate times, in many instances without any aides present or listening in. There is an epic amount of finger-pointing going on at the White House right now about who's to blame for a group of grown adults in serious positions in government - and in one case the president - talking to Woodward. A number of top advisers talked. Kushner is on the record extensively. The president spoke 18 times.
White Catholics love Biden
https://prri.org/spotlight/trump-favorability-holds-remains-substantially-down-from-march-peak/
@JoeBiden is headed to Florida next Tuesday, exactly one year to the day of the last in-person event he held in the Sunshine State in Little Havana, Miami. Biden was expected to visit Tampa & Miami in March, events that were cancelled due to growing virus concerns.
https://twitter.com/MariannaNBCNews/status/1303762025940688896
Senior DHS official alleges in whistleblower complaint that he was told to stop providing intelligence analysis on threat of Russian interference
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senior-dhs-official-alleges-in-whistleblower-complaint-that-he-was-told-to-stop-providing-intelligence-analysis-on-threat-of-russian-interference/2020/09/09/9d0661c4-f2b6-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
Biden: "On the day we hit 190k dead in the US because of Covid, we just learned that POTUS admitted on tape in February, he knew [Covid] passed through the air. He knew how deadly it was. He knew & purposely played down. Worse, he lied to the American people ... it's a disgrace"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1303772865091833856
A senior DHS official has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that he was told to stop providing intelligence analysis on the threat of Russian interference in the 2020 election, in part because it "made the President look bad."
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1303772406801022977
Acting DHS Secretary Wolf told Murphy on July 8 that "the intelligence notification should be 'held' because it 'made the President look bad.' Mr. Murphy objected ... In response, Mr. Wolf took steps to exclude Mr. Murphy from relevant future meetings."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303772747986808832
Too many scandals today. In other words, it's just another day in Trump's presidency.
Trump said he feels no responsibility to understand 'the pain' Black Americans experience, and suggested those who do 'drank the Kool-Aid'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bob-woodward-rage-no-responsibility-understand-pain-black-americans-2020-9
15 states sue Trump administration over plan to illegally and unconstitutionally open Arctic refuge to drilling
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/515692-15-states-sue-trump-administration-over-plan-to-open-arctic-refuge
Some unproven theories that HHS adviser Paul Alexander pressed to include in Dr. Fauci's talking points:
- There is "zero" risk for kids to get Covid
- Kids shouldn't wear masks
- Testing asymptomatic people "makes no logical sense."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/emails-show-hhs-muzzle-fauci-410861
Feb. 7: Trump tells Woodward he knows of airborne risks and covid is worse than worst flus
Feb 10-Mar 2, 2020: Trump holds five #MAGA rallies each attracting thousands of people in confined spaces
Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and U.S. Response with Woodward's revelations included
https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-u-s-response/
I cannot keep up with the news and I work in the news
The Trump campaign says he will be traveling to Nevada this weekend anyway even though the Nevada campaign rallies were cancelled because Trump refuses to follow Los Vegas' mandatory covid19 mask and social distancing mandates
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/trump-weekend-rallies-in-nevada-canceled-2114497/
From Bob Woodward's Rage:
Trump's former director of national intelligence Dan Coats: Trump doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie
Trump's former defense secretary James Mattis: Trump is dangerous, unfit, has no moral compas
Dr. Fauci: Trump's attention span is like a minus number
People really don't know what to do right now. Everyone on the Embarcadero is stopping to record the sky and chit chatting in a way I haven't seen since pre-pandemic
https://twitter.com/jachristian/status/1303775642303913984
HOW ABOUT YOU CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS JOIN THE FIREFIGHTERS? DONATE YOURSELF TO FIGHTING THE FIRES. THEY NEED PEOPLE TO FIGHT FIRES. DONATE YOURSELF. IT'S YOUR STATE, THAT'S YOUR WILDERNESS BURNING DOWN.
Wisconsin Conservative Voice Charlie Sykes Is Voting For Joe Biden
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-conservative-voice-charlie-sykes-voting-joe-biden
Trump called the generals under his command a 'bunch of p---ies'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-called-generals-under-his-command-bunch-of-pussies-book-2020-9
Woodward book confirms NSA/CIA knew that Russia put malware in Florida voter registration systems.
Joe Biden speaks on his Made In America Plan in Michigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEVmG4-RDA
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ENSURING THE FUTURE IS MADE IN AMERICA, BY AMERICANS
Joe spoke to America yesterday and laid a bold new vision to ensure the future will be made in America, by Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13VAvHV9Fks
Here are the many highlights of that plan:
• $400 billion Procurement Investment in clean energy and infrastructure plan to power new demand for American products, materials, and services and ensuring shipping on U.S.-flagged cargo carriers
• Retool and Revitalize American Manufacturers, with a focus on smaller manufacturers through incentives, additional resources, and new financing tools
• $300 Billion Investment in Research and Development (R&D) and Breakthrough Technologies, including electric vehicle technology, lightweight materials to 5G and artificial intelligence
• Ensure investments reach all of America and not limited by race, zip code, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or national origin
• Pursue Pro-American Worker Tax and Trade Strategy to fix harmful policies of Trump Administration to give manufacturers and workers the fair shot they need to compete for jobs and market share
• Bring back critical Supply Chains to America to eliminate dependency on China or other countries for critical goods in a crisis
• Create 5 million new jobs in manufacturing and innovation
• Use government's purchasing power to buy American, boosting U.S. industries through historic procurement
• Tighten domestic content rules
• Eliminate loopholes which allow products to be stamped "Made in America"
• Close loophole currently allowing procurement officers within federal Agencies yo waive buy American rules without explanation or scrutiny
• End false advertising from companies that label products as Made in America even if they're coming from China or elsewhere
• Require all steel, iron, and manufactured products used in transportation projects are melted, mined, and manufactured in the U.S.
• Work with allies to modernize international trade rules and associated domestic regulations regarding government procurement, making sure U.S. and allies use their own taxpayer dollars to spur investment in their own countries
• Take steps to ensure American cargo is carried on U.S.-flag ships, leading to additional demand for American-made ships and U.S. merchant mariners
HISTORIC PROCUREMENT INVESTMENT
• Purchasing tens of billions of dollars of clean vehicles and products and ensure other countries will be buying the next generation of battery technology and electric vehicles manufactured by American workers
• Commit to purchasing American steel, cement, concrete, other building materials, and equipment, and in the process not only help rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and retrofit our buildings, but position our domestic companies to lead in resilient, sustainable production for the future
• Purchase critical medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, ensuring sufficient stockpiles to weather any crisis so Americans get best possible care
• Commit future purchases in advanced industries like cutting-edge telecommunications and artificial intelligence to only creating new, lasting American jobs and protecting our intellectual property and national security
• Require companies receiving procurement contracts, provide paid leave, fair overtime scheduling, pay at least $15 per hour and guarantee choice to join a union and bargain collectively
• Support small businesses including those owned by women and people of color
• Ensuring at least 23% of federal contracts get awarded to small businesses
RETOOL & REVITALIZE
• Provide capital for small to medium manufacturers to invest and compete
• Establish credit facility to supply capital, especially to smaller manufacturers, so aging factories can modernize, compete, and reduce carbon
• Quadruple Manufacturing Extension Partnership to help America's small and medium-sized manufacturers compete for Buy American contracts and modernize (Trump tried to eliminate this program - Biden will quadruple it)
• Provide manufacturing tax credit to Retool and Revitalize
• Projects receiving credit will have to benefit local workers and communities, meeting strong labor standards, including paying workers a prevailing wage, employing workers trained in registered apprenticeship programs
• Expand Manufacturing Innovation partnerships
FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
• Accelerated Research & Development investment of $300 billion over 4 years to create millions of good jobs and to secure our global leadership in the most critical and competitive new industries and technologies
• Major increases in federal R&D spending, including new National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and other peer-reviewed science research grants to colleges and universities
• Investments in breakthrough technology R&D programs including 5G, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, biotechnology, and clean vehicles
• Competitive capital financing to encourage small businesses to commercialize cutting-edge technology, such as a scaled-up version of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, "America's seed fund," which provides capital to small businesses pursuing R&D commercialization in concert with research institutions
• Funds for creation or expansion of technical training programs around digital, statistical, and technology skills, funded by the Labor Department
• Infrastructure for educational institutions and partners to expand research
• Ensure technological change benefits workers, creates jobs, and strengthens the middle class
• Ensure U.S. government captures a share of the royalties of high-profitable products developed with federal R&D funding
• Give workers a voice in innovation and are first in line to benefit
USE FULL U.S. TALENTS & INVEST IN COMMUNITIES AND WORKERS
The economic opportunities from investment in innovation are not being shared throughout the U.S. - 25% percent of venture capital investment is concentrated in the San Francisco area, and 75% flows to just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts. There are a significant number of diverse communities across every region of the country which can become new centers of job-creating innovation and production.
• Direct new federal investments to more than 50 communities across our nation that have the capabilities but have too often been overlooked
• Creating at least 200 new centers serving as research incubators and connect students underrepresented in fields critical to our nation's future
• Dedicating additional and increased priority funding streams at federal agencies for grants and contracts for HBCUs and MSIs
• Requiring any federal research grants to universities with an endowment of over $1 billion to form a meaningful partnership and enter into a 10% minimum subcontract with an HBCU, TCU, or MSI
• Require competitive grant programs give similar universities opportunities to compete against each other, for example, ensuring that HBCUs only compete against HBCUs
JOB & EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
• Career and technical education for high school students
• Free high-quality training programs
• Free community college and free tuition for 4-year degrees for families earning less than $125,000
• Invest $50 billion in high-quality training programs that give workers a chance to earn an industry-recognized credential without debt
• Create and expand community college-business-union partnerships to develop effective training programs
• Scale up work-based learning programs with a focus on building a diverse workforce, through opportunities like registered apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeship, and other labor-management training programs
• Work with unions to bring forward a new generation of registered apprenticeships in fields ranging from technology to manufacturing to care work, allowing workers who have lost their jobs during the pandemic to train for jobs of the future while earning a decent income
• Help develop pathways for diverse workers to access training and career opportunities
• Extend unemployment Insurance benefits for the duration of training, up-skilling, and reskilling programs while unemployment rates are elevated
• Invest $70 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions
• Invest $35 billion in HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs to create research centers of excellence, build high-tech labs and other facilities, and strengthen graduate programs in fields including STEM
• Tackle workplace discrimination and harassment keeping so many women, especially women of color, from earning equal pay or fully realizing their professional goals
PRO-AMERICAN-WORKER TAX AND TRADE STRATEGY
• Take aggressive trade enforcement actions against China or any other country seeking to undercut American manufacturing through unfair practices, including currency manipulation, anti-competitive dumping, state-owned company abuses, or unfair subsidies
• Coordinated effort to pressure the Chinese government and other trade abusers to follow the rules and hold them to account when they do not
• Confront foreign efforts to steal American intellectual property
• Address state-sponsored cyber espionage against American companies
• Set forth clear demands and specific consequences if China's government does not cease cyber espionage
• Develop new sanctions authorities against Chinese firms which steal U.S. technology,which will cut them off from accessing the U.S. market and financial system
• Establish a "claw-back" provision to force a company to return public investments and tax benefits when they close down jobs here and send them overseas
• Apply carbon adjustment fee against countries who are failing to meet their Paris Climate commitments
• Reverse tax policies that encourage outsourcing
• End incentives in the Trump tax giveaway that allow multinationals to dramatically lower taxes on income earned overseas and allow the largest, most profitable companies to pay no tax at all
• Confront global tax secrecy and avoidance, taking on individuals and businesses that stash their profits in tax havens to avoid paying their fair share
• Tighten anti-inversion rules that Obama-Biden put in place and which Trump has sought to weaken
• Support strong and independent trade unions here in the United States and in every one of our trading partners
• Enforce existing labor provisions and aggressively push for strong and enforceable labor provisions in any trade deal his administration
BRING BACK CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAINS
• Never again face shortages of critical products such as medical equipment when confronting a national crisis.
• Put Americans to work making critical products, from medical equipment and supplies to semiconductors and communications technology, here in the United States
• Close critical U.S. supply chain gaps by immediately directing a comprehensive and ongoing process to evaluate and protect key U.S. supply chains, starting in the first
• Leverage federal buying, including the Defense Production Act, BARDA, and federal procurement, to make sure that we make critical products in America
• Change the tax code to eliminate the incentives for pharmaceutical and other companies to move production overseas and establish new incentives for companies to make critical products in the U.S
• Rebuild critical stockpiles, ensure adequate surge manufacturing capacity in times of crisis, and regularly review supply chain vulnerabilities
• Work with allies to reduce their dependence on competitors like China while modernizing international trade rules to secure U.S. and allied supply chains
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Judge Promoted by Trump Administration Threatened a 2-Year-Old With an Attack Dog
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/judge-promoted-by-trump-administration-threatened-a-2-year-old-with-an-attack-dog/
James Harden has scored 40.4 points per 100 possessions in this year's playoffs. If he can keep it up, he'll join LeBron (x2), Shaq (x2), and Jordan (x10) as the only players to have multiple 40 points/100 playoff runs.
"During camp in a limited scheme environment, Newton completed less than 60 percent of his passes, threw five picks, and took several would-be sacks waiting for someone to get open outside of Julian Edelman."
https://twitter.com/32beatwriters/status/1303658186218647553
Jalen Ramsey and the LA Rams have agreed to terms on a massive extension that totally resets the cornerback market. The 5 year $105M extension averages $21M per year and is the largest contract signed by a cornerback.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1303697426180714497
#Broncos pass-rusher Von Miller suffered a lower leg injury in practice today, per me and @MikeGarafolo. The fear is that he's done for the season. But the MRI will tell all.
http://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1303478041260240896
The specific diagnosis for #Broncos star Von Miller is a dislocated peroneal tendon, per me & @MikeGarafolo. Essentially, the tendon flipped over the ankle bone. Best option is usually surgery, with a general recovery time of 5-6 months. Absolute best-case scenario is 3 months.
http://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1303712772140789762
Von Miller's MRI is over, and the results indicated a season-ending tendon injury. That's what the initial fear was. He has an appointment with respected foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson in Green Bay on Thursday for a second opinion.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1303505917871353857
Aqib Talib officially retires... and joins the media. And he'll be very good.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1303715743066882054
Can't wait for the narratives after Sunday... If the Saints win, it's because the Bucs are new (new quarterback means team has to get used to new quarterback). If the Bucs win, they're officially the greatest team in the world (because of their new quarterback)
Browns QB Baker Mayfield said on Zoom having a new coaching staff amid offseason altered by pandemic could be an excuse if you wanted to use it, but we're not using that
https://twitter.com/bynateulrich/status/1303714290080382977
Sunday's Rockets-Lakers second round NBA playoff Game 2 averaged a 2.9 rating and 5.43 million viewers on ABC, marking the highest rated and most-watched NBA game since Christmas.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/09/nba-ratings-rockets-lakers-abc-viewership/
"We're in an unprecedented fire event," Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday on Twitter. "Several significant, growing fires across the state continue to spread due to hot, dry weather and high winds. Oregonians' lives are at risk. Follow evacuation orders, try to reduce your smoke exposure – and take care of each other." | Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said on Tuesday that fires scorched a total of 330,000 acres in a 24-hour span, a number that is higher than what was burned in 12 of the 18 previous fire seasons in the state. Like Brown, he noted the unparalleled nature of the wildfire outbreak. "It's an unprecedented and heart-breaking event,″ Inslee said at a news conference, according to The AP. "The list of fires is long.″ | The Washington Department of Ecology said Wednesday morning that much of the of the state was dealing with unhealthy air quality levels and recommended that residents limit time outdoors. The wildfire smoke is so thick that it is blocking out the sun in parts of Oregon and California. | It's been a hellish wildfire season across the West, with a record-setting number of acres burned in California, in addition to the unusually active seasons in Oregon and Washington. Numerous large blazes have also scorched Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah. Red flag warnings this week stretched from the California-Mexico border to the Washington-Canada border. The unusually strong wind event that permeated throughout the Northwest was a product of a vigorous storm system that also brought heavy snow to parts of the Rockies.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/unprecedented-and-relentless-wildfire-danger-grips-northwest/810142
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/can-the-worst-california-wildfire-season-on-record-get-worse-officials-say-yes/810179
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/denver-frostbitten-as-winter-seemingly-overtakes-summer-in-a-day/809472
Corbin Burnes: 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 11 K
Celebrating Roberto Clemente day
https://i.redd.it/z1dj2zscu6m51.jpg
Boris Johnson has always governed by the seat of his pants. But his reversals this week on Brexit and Covid19 policy were breathtaking, even by his brashly improvisational standards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/world/europe/boris-johnson-brexit-coronaviras.html
Speaking of Trump and courts, a federal judge ruled the Trump admin violated federal law by failing to provide sign language interpretation for covid19 briefings:
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2020cv2107-18
Deranged Mentally Ill Terrorist Republicans Rally at the State Capitol on the state's recommendations against fall football
https://ctsenaterepublicans.com/2020/09/ct-senate-republicans-question-dphs-guidance-against-high-school-football/
I hate being "what if national media covered California like they cover New York" guy, but if the sky looked like this in Brooklyn there would already be 142 essays and 17 commissioned TV specials about "our orange tomorrow" or whatever.
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1303744572632125442
Ok, used an app to turn off the iPhone color correction. Here's what it really looks like out there in San Francisco, at 10 in the morning. (It's getting darker)
https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1303743332598784001
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https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1303302313176571905
"Many businesses have been burned down," he said. "Certain neighborhoods, including my own have been burned down. There are many, many, many homes that are gone."
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/09/unprecedented-wildfires-continue-to-rage-across-oregon-as-thousands-are-forced-to-flee-live-updates.html
Six months ago today: So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1303805799798538241
Speaker Pelosi: "The President's own words spell out the devastating truth: Trump was fully aware of the catastrophic nature of the coronavirus but hid the facts and refused to take the threat seriously, leaving our entire country exposed and unprepared."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303806654207660039
Pelosi: "So much of this pain could have been avoided, but Pres. Trump refused to tell the truth or to act to protect the American people. The horrifying toll of Trump's deadly disinformation and negligence in the lives of grieving families ... is a historic national tragedy."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1303807936016285707
Freak natural disasters — most with what scientists say likely have some kind of climate change connection — seem to be everywhere in the crazy year 2020. But experts say we'll probably look back and say these were the good old days.
https://apnews.com/3570f775ee3007888cd651d37fcbd465
Would cable news hosts devote the same nonstop coverage to fires as they do for hurricanes if more of their executives woke up each morning to falling ash?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/california-fires.html
I Need You to Care That Our Country Is on Fire. Would you feel more urgency about climate change if all you could see was smoke?
By Charlie Warzel
Sept. 9, 2020
If you've never experienced a fire season before, it's hard to explain the emotional, physical and sensory effects of having the world immolate before your eyes.
I spent decades with only a passing knowledge of wildfires. I'd read about smoke jumpers and fire seasons, sure. I'd seen the news videos of planes and helicopters dumping water on burning hillsides. I have distinct memories of images of the California countryside at night with a raging fire threatening a neighborhood development and reports of evacuations and deaths. It seemed awful and cruel and arbitrary — but also like something happening in a distant part of the world. I empathized, but I didn't understand.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/pictures-photos-california-fires.html
Then I moved West. I arrived in my new home in Montana in 2017 only 10 days before a July thunderstorm tore through the Bitterroot Valley and ignited a fire that burned for two months and devastated 53,902 acres of land 20 miles from my home.
If you're lucky, it comes on slowly. You awake one morning and you notice the smell. For me, it was the distinct smell of a campfire having just been extinguished. It's an uncanny sensation that doesn't fade. The air is hazy; the blue sky fades to a cloudy white in the direction of the fire. Before long, the smell and the haze increase. For me, a dull headache begins alongside a tickle in the back of my throat, similar to the way I feel when spring allergies begin.
If the fire isn't contained, every hour gets worse from there, and the world takes on an apocalyptic quality. That first Montana summer, I remember sitting in the bleachers of Missoula's minor league baseball stadium. At the beer stand, I gazed out across the valley and to see an unmoving column of smoke shaped like the funnel of a tornado thousands of feet high.
Its plume widened until it mingled with the clouds above, forming an oppressive ashy dome over my town. Behind it the sun set, drawing out otherworldly reds and yellows. It felt like living on an uninhabitable planet. They never told me that the sunsets at the end of the world would be so striking.
Then even those colors fade. You wake up in darkness and you're left with soot — in the sky, on your car, your windows, your driveway, your trees, your lawn. Eventually, those allergy feelings turn into a deeper malaise, which is fed by the sepia skies that resemble nuclear winter.
@MTFireRelief @Rosie Lolo Peak Fire from DT Missoula. Photo credit @iamrossmperkins pic.twitter.com/Npf22lsJE4
— MTChad ⚓️ (@MTChadMT) September 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/MTChadMT/status/906290247843045377
Leaving the house feels both pointless and dangerous. My first fire season, I was stopped during a run by a police officer who told me to go home immediately. It simply wasn't safe to be breathing the air outside, he told me.
This is what happens if you're one of the lucky ones who are affected only by the byproduct of those raging fires. I consider myself fortunate to have never seen one from more than a dozen or so miles away. But for those who encounter them — or have to live in their proximity, and grapple with the long-term health ramifications — it is hell on earth.
https://www.mtpr.org/post/lung-function-decline-continued-one-year-after-rice-ridge-fire-research-shows
At a biometrics conference in 2019, I listened to a Department of Homeland Security official give a presentation on the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., which was fueled by nearly 90-mile-an-hour wind gusts. He was there to talk about the use of cutting-edge technology to identify the charred remains of some of the fire's more than 80 victims. The presenter's anecdotes included the story of one couple who awoke in the night because their Amazon Alexa smart speaker was chirping that it had been disconnected. When they came to, they saw two-thirds of their house ablaze. They managed to escape; their pets and possessions did not.
Since I moved West, I've been preoccupied with this question: Would Americans feel a greater sense of alarm about our rapidly warming planet and the disastrous, perhaps irreversible effects of climate change if everyone could experience a fire season in person? Would cable news hosts devote the same nonstop coverage to fires as they do for hurricanes if more of their executives woke up each morning to falling ash? Would more lawmakers care if it looked like this outside the Capitol at high noon?
This is nuts. Downtown Stayton at 12:22pm. Be safe, everyone. #KGW #Oregon #Fire #Smoke #LionsheadFire @KGWNews pic.twitter.com/ff4MKKU4qm
— Christine Pitawanich (@CPitawanichKGW) September 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/CPitawanichKGW/status/1303417488814698496
The American West does not have a monopoly on climate-related disasters. Hurricane seasons grow worse each year and devastating earthquakes loom. The flooding in the Midwest and storms like the recent derecho in Iowa are calamities that deserve equal attention. They're also urgent alarm bells. Everyone on earth l right now is experiencing unpredictable and dire weather. No region is alone in experiencing the tragedy of our dying planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/iowa-derecho-storm.html
I'm not so naïve as to think that all Americans would, say, support a Green New Deal if they had to confront a California fire season head-on — that's not even the case for California residents! But there is a surrealness to these wildfires and their profound impact that remains difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced them.
Unlike a storm that makes landfall and barrels through, leaving destruction in its path, the encroaching infernos descend for days, weeks, even months, and become part of our lives. It feels both like the end of days and like the new normal — a stultifying Instagram filter fitted over our eyes at all times.
The point of this column isn't to guilt people for where they live or what they've experienced, but to convey the desperation that so many Americans are feeling right now. It's an anxiety that deepens each year. One that turns cloudless summer days in July into harbingers of misery. It's a psychological toll, as much as it is physical. One that, while you're living through it, renders it difficult to see a healthy future for the earth through all the smoke.
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"They all do it". "Biden is worse". "It didnt really happen" - which excuse applies this time?.....: Ivanka Trump has a new conflict of interest. This time it's a new Canadian trademark, awarded months after she apparently shut down her fashion brand.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/ivanka-trump-received-a-new-canadian-trademark-after-shutting-down-her-business/
Following their meeting at the DMZ last year, Trump sent Kim 22 photographs documenting the encounter. "These images are great memories for me and capture the unique friendship that you and I have developed," Trump wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/kim-jong-un-trump-letters-rage-book/index.html
Another problem for Trump, with the Woodward stuff, is that it takes whatever juice there was out of the argument that China lied to us about how dangerous the coronavirus2019 was
The last time the Raptors were eliminated by a non-LeBron team was April 26th 2015: The Wall/Beal/Pierce/Porter/Gortat Wizards
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How did February 2020 go, you ask?
February 1st: golf
February 2nd: golf
February 2: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
February 7: Woodward tape: "This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward in a Feb. 7 phone call. You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed," Trump told Woodward, according to The Washington Post. "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."
February 10: Trump campaign rally.
February 5th: Democratic Senators propose emergency funding bill to prepare for virus.
February 15: golf
February 19: Trump campaign rally.
February 19: "I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along"
February 20: Trump campaign rally.
February 21: Trump campaign rally.
February 23: "We had 12, at one point. And now they've gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered"
February 24: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
February 25: "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus." "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away." "We're going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up."
February 25: "I think that's a problem that's going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we're very close to a vaccine."
WH @PressSec @kayleighmcenany: "We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here, and isn't that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?"
February 26: "The 15 [cases in the US] within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero." "We're going very substantially down, not up."
February 27: "One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."
February 28: Trump campaign rally. "We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical."
February 29th: "This is their new hoax," he said, referring to the coronavirus.
February 29: "STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus" –U.S. Surgeon General
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DC's small businesses are getting absolutely crushed by the pandemic. It's horrible. "D.C. is one of the five cities nationwide that has experienced the most acute drops in restaurant revenue, bringing in only 50 percent of last year's daily earnings."
https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1303816281364271109
.@ABC analysis of traffic stops shows that Black drivers or pedestrians were more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers or pedestrians in several major U.S. cities. See the story TONIGHT on @Nightline. https://abcn.ws/3higiQm #TurningPointABCImage
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1303816475116015621
This is UNBELIEVABLE video! A relative took this from their deck in Berkeley, CA at 9:45am!! It shows how scary and widespread these fires are out west.
https://twitter.com/AlisonStarling7/status/1303814723712974854
Listen to Trump privately say in February that coronavirus is 'more deadly' than the worst flu as he publicly lied about the threat
https://www.businessinsider.com/listen-trump-tells-woodward-february-covid-19-deadlier-than-flu-2020-9
Turns out when Trump said he could murder someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it, he really meant he could murder nearly 200K and counting Americans from coast to coast and get away with it. #TrumpKnew"
https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/1303803218015784960
House Dems passed a $15 minimum wage after they took the majority. Biden similarly calls for a $15 minimum wage. He talks about this a lot.
Remember this: Trump is *still* downplaying the Coronavirus. The deliberate disinformation is not confined to his misleading dismissals in the spring. Just a week ago, he shared a conspiracy theory questioning the death toll.
This had real effect on countless Americans' perceptions of risk, and the president they trusted lied to them.
There are more than 100 instances in which Trump downplayed the coronavirus
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-timeline/
The Trump campaign's co-chair in Nevada, Adam Laxalt, blamed political retribution from a Democratic governor -- despite the fact that the governor's office had no involvement in the planning, or canceling, of the Trump campaign events: the Trump campaign does.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/trump-rally-nevada.html
Trump, Feb. 7, to Woodward: "This is deadly stuff."
Trump publicly:
Feb. 26: Cases to fall to "close to zero."
Feb. 27: Virus to disappear "like a miracle."
Feb. 29: "Everything is under control."
To Woodward, March 19: "I wanted to always play it down."
Mattis: "When I was basically directed to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else, that's when I quit."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/trump-generals-attacks.html
Ibuckets
Why is Ibaka still always open. Dude is shooting 53% on threes in the postseason
Celtics need to guard Ibaka already
For months many dismissed seriousness/need for distancing/need for masks, citing Trump. Reporting that Trump said privately how deadly covid19 is/that it spread airborne could have changed those people's behaviour & saved lives
Martha MacCallum is describing the New York City subways over b-roll of 2 week old footage from Kenosha, WI
https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1303840300251652097
The Toronto Raptors defeat the Boston Celtics in a double overtime thriller, 125-122, to even up the series at 3-3 and force a game 7
The Los Angeles Clippers defeat the Denver Nuggets 96-85 behind 30/11/9 from Kawhi Leonard to take a 3-1 series lead
Ramon Laureano gets revenge on the Astros by walking it off
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/261ce6b5-40ad-4e72-aec3-ec93c8c5a500.mp4
The #Braves have a 29-9 lead. 29-9 They're the first NL team in the modern era to score 29 in a game.
https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/1303891198332076032
Adam Duvall hits his 3rd home run of the night, a grand slam, Braves lead 29-9
https://streamable.com/h9s9xz
Trevor Bauer vs. the Chicago Cubs: 7.2IP, 0R, 3H, 0BB, 10K on 112 pitches
There's history being made in Atlanta, but not just by the Braves. The Marlins are losing, 25-9. Which puts them in position to become the first team ever to score 9+ runs in a game - and still lose by 16+.
https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/1303889016354373633
Marlins have matched a dubious club record by allowing 25 runs tonight. Good news: Marlins won the World Series the last time that happened. Lost 25-8 to Boston in June 27, 2003. According to Stathead, this is only the 20th time an MLB team has scored 25 runs in a game.
https://twitter.com/Manny_Navarro/status/1303886079985094656
The #Braves have scored 44 runs (so far) in Tommy Milone's three starts with Atlanta. The #Mets have scored 44 runs in Jacob deGrom's eight starts this season.
https://twitter.com/grantmcauley/status/1303884910617395202
Pete Alonso gives the Mets the lead with his 11th home run of the season
https://streamable.com/i98gjk
Jordan Yamamoto in relief for the Marlins: 2.2 IP, 11 H, 13 R, 12 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO, 4 HR on 94 pitches
World wildlife plummets more than two-thirds in 50 years
https://www.france24.com/en/20200909-world-wildlife-plummets-more-than-two-thirds-in-50-years-index
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54091048
USPS illegally and unconstitutionally removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/usps-removed-711-sorting-machines/index.html
2 million Texans have registered to vote since 2016. Beto O'Rourke shares why that's important for this election | Democrats in Texas are operating on three major fronts for the 2020 election: president, U.S. Senate and majority in the Texas House. One of the three, O'Rourke told the Jasons, is more than wishful thinking. "The state House is the most exciting and will be the most impactful and also happens to be the most realistic," said O'Rourke. Currently, Democrats are down nine seats in the state House, after picking up 12 in 2018, when O'Rourke ran against Cruz. "But in 2018, I also happened to win more votes than did Ted Cruz in nine of those state house districts that we need to pick up this year," O'Rourke said. "So, you know, by the math not only can we do this, in some ways, we've done this before." Part of his enthusiasm is fueled by the fact that there are so many new voters in Texas. "Remember, more than two million of our fellow Texans have registered to vote just since the last presidential election cycle. Two million. I mean that sounds crazy even by Texas numbers. We do everything bigger here," the former Congressman said. "You have those net two million new voters in a state that is rapidly diversifying and changing. And this is a brand-new electorate that you're looking at." O'Rourke said he's been in touch with the Biden campaign, pleading the case for a Texas-sized investment in the state. | "One of the things that M.J. told me afterwards is she said pre-COVID, pre, you know, lockdown, at her events that people would physically come to, it was the already converted. It was preaching to the choir," said O'Rourke. "When she holds these virtual town halls now, she's getting a lot of curious independents, perhaps some disaffected Republicans. In other words, she may be expanding the electorate that she can appeal to."
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/yallitics-beto-o-rourke-2020-election-democrats/287-7d1821db-4696-4302-bb15-372dbb0ec725
Russian state hackers suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber-biden-exclusive/exclusive-russian-state-hackers-suspected-in-targeting-biden-campaign-firm-sources-idUSKBN2610I4
Houston Texans vs Super Bowl Champions Missouri, Kansas City Chiefs. Yep it's here already.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401220225
Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets 7:00pm. Really a must-win game for Rockets. Everybody expects the Lakers to win this series but everybody also expected the Rockets to prestigiously grind down the Lakers, and they have. The Rockets are under the Lakers' skin. Their playing style is the extremest of the extreme and they've mastered it, their players are locked in near-perfect unison, playing almost robotically. The Lakes are barely winning, even when they're blowing out the Rockets they're barely winning. The Rockets are in their head and wrecking them mentally.
https://www.espn.com/nba/game?gameId=401242804
Mysterious craters have been popping up in the Arctic tundra in recent years, and the latest example is 50 meters deep.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jng4/a-mysterious-crater-suddenly-opened-up-in-the-arctic-tundra
Houston Rockets guard Danuel House Jr. under investigation for allowing a female COVID-19 testing official into his room.
https://twitter.com/chrisbhaynes/status/1304049510008737794
Trump health official Seema Verma illegally and unconstituionally spent $3.5+ million in taxpayer funds on herself. Taxpayers were charged $977 to place an oped for Seema on the Fox News website. $13,000 to help her win an award from Washingtonian Magazine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/cms-chief-seema-verma-spent-millions-in-taxpayer-funds-to-boost-personal-brand-democrats-say.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/10/seema-verma-medicaid-expenses-411539
US layoffs remain elevated as an additional 884,000 people fired/laid-off because of covid19 seek unemployment compensation
https://apnews.com/ca1ea8035ed8702e2a8f2142899479f3
"This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency." - Robert O'Brien to Trump on 1/28/20
Four weeks later —
"This is something that is a low risk." - Robert O'Brien on Face The Nation
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1303849181614927875
Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous -- melting, exploding or even...When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra's home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/business/amazonbasics-electronics-fire-safety-invs/index.html
Microsoft has alerted one of Joe Biden's main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people briefed on the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber-biden-exclusive-idUSKBN2610I4
Derkach is a key figure in the scandal surrounding Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson allegedly laundering Russian disinformation through his nebulous Ukraine probe.
https://justsecurity.org/71947/how-sen-ron-johnsons-investigation-became-an-enabler-of-russian-disinformation-part-i/
The Treasury Department has designated Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian promoting discredited allegations against Joe Biden, for sanctions related to foreign interference in the U.S. election
https://politico.com/news/2020/09/10/treasury-designates-anti-biden-ukrainian-lawmaker-for-sanctions-for-election-interference-411750
The FBI is warning police nationwide to expect an increase in election-related threats — and, potentially, violent attacks — from domestic extremists, according to a recent bulletin reviewed by Yahoo News. Domestic violent extremists "across the ideological spectrum likely will continue to plot against government and election-related targets to express their diverse grievances involving government policies and actions," the FBI said in a recent election-focused bulletin sent to law enforcement across the country. | While the bulletin, which is dated Aug. 21, refers only to extremists and does not specify left- or right-wing groups, two of the cases cited in the document are individuals or groups concerned about a potential Trump electoral loss. The FBI refers to one case from this summer when "members of a self-described violent extremist militia" discussed plans to attack elected officials or storm "the state capitol building while the legislature was in session, with the intent to kill all inside. "Members stated the need to act prior to a possible democratic presidential administration, due to the belief that stricter firearms regulations would be enacted quickly thereafter, according to a FBI reporting," the bulletin states. In a separate case from late last year, an unnamed Ohio-based extremist discussed plans to set off a homemade bomb in the hopes of starting a race war. The extremist, the FBI bulletin reads, "stated an intent for his group of followers to be operationally ready for the 2024 election, based on a belief that the President would win re-election in 2020; if the President did not win in 2020, however, the plan would be accelerated, according to FBI reporting."
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-warns-of-increasing-extremist-threats-to-the-2020-elections-155602354.html
Pro-Trump Republican-Owned Hair salon at centre of Nancy Pelosi news retires after GoFundMe raises $300,000 for Pro-Trump Republican owner/grifter/racketeer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nancy-pelosi-erica-kious-hair-salon-esalon-facemask-b421557.html
The reigning champs Missoury City Chiefs play tonight and we're all excited to see their high powered offense. Let's not forget that one of the main players that drives this offense is Tyreek Hill. Tyreek is the face of talent allowing domestic abuse to be put to the side. If you've forgotten about exactly what happened in Tyreek's past. I encourage you to please read the section about his personal life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyreek_Hill#Child_abuse_investigation
The police in NYC have long chafed at tough oversight. The rise of Assistant Chief Chris McCormack tells you a lot about why.
https://www.propublica.org/article/over-a-dozen-black-and-latino-men-accused-a-cop-of-humiliating-invasive-strip-searches-the-nypd-kept-promoting-him
Western wildfires break records as devastating toll on lives and homes begins to emerge
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/10/western-fires-fatalities-homes/
Trump bragged to Bob Woodward that he protected Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. "I saved his ass," Trump said in 2018. "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone."
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-woodward-i-saved-his-ass-mbs-khashoggi-rage-2020-9
US sanctions Ukraine lawmaker who disclosed Biden recordings. The administration's move was especially notable because the statement announcing it said Derkach's recordings advance anti-Biden claims that rely on "false and unsubstantiated narratives." Trump and Republicans have promoted those recordings.
https://apnews.com/592cf64c0673266346935fbd73df28fd
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has ordered the Trump admin to release internal documents related to its decision to shorten the 2020Census schedule, specifically docs dated 4/13 - 8/3 from officials including Census Bureau director and commerce secretary
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7205410/National-Urban-League-Sept-10-2020-Order.pdf
A whistleblower says Trump political appointees at DHS modified intelligence reports to downplay the threat of white supremacists. In 2019, we asked DHS what they were doing about white nationalist terror. They sent us a report about environmentalists.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/dhs-whistleblower-white-supremacist-threat/index.html
Changer D'Image - Lettre À La Bien-Aimée (1982) [Short Film; Jean-Luc G-dard]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1934207/
Decadence: Decline Of The Western World (2011)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1857666/
Puissance De La Parole (1988) [Short Film; Jean-Luc G-dard]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095923/
Microsoft says that Russian government hackers have targeted at least 200 organizations tied to the 2020 presidential election in recent weeks
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/russian-hackers-have-targeted-200-groups-tied-to-presidential-election-microsoft-says-11599763502
So much of US covid policy seems to be driven by trying to fulfill two somewhat incompatible mandates ("we can't let people get covid!" / "we can't keep society shut down!") rather than any acknowledgment of the trade-offs, etc.
Unanimous Ohio Supreme Court decision ruling that Kanye West won't appear on the ballot https://supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2020/2020-ohio-4380.pdf
A new GAO report breaks down where federal tactical teams from different agencies deployed to respond to "nationwide civil unrest and protests" in May and June (starts at p. 53):
https://gao.gov/assets/710/709297.pdf
Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers have all attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 US presidential election
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/politics/microsoft-election-hacking-report/index.html
Contradicting Trump: The Russian military intelligence unit that attacked the DNC in 2016 is back with new hacks aimed at campaign staff, consultants and think tanks associated with Democrats and Republicans. Beijing is mostly targeting Biden officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/politics/microsoft-election-hacking.html
Yadi hits a 2-run homer wearing 21 for Roberto Clemente Day.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/2831a8fb-bd35-472a-ba49-82a28b6d4ac2.mp4
We have been 'rounding the corner' since March according to him. Only 15 cases.
Unless his opening remark is "I hereby resign," nothing this mass murderer says is relevant. He should be dragged out of the press room in handcuffs.
Republican-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court illegally and unconstitutionally suspends mailing of absentee ballots because of Green Party lawsuit to get libertian who does not qualify for ballot onto ballot
https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-temporarily-suspends-mailing-of-absentee-ballots/article_fc835ffc-3ac3-5783-a13e-1288ac341bb0.html
Pelosi: Climate change will be early part of Democrats' 2021 agenda. Pelosi specifically singled out the Climate Action Now legislation, passed by the House in May, which would recommit the U.S. to the Paris Agreement on climate change. She pointed to the Democrats' "Moving Forward" green infrastructure package, which would require states to account for climate change before undertaking projects and meet certain greenhouse gas emission goals when they accept funding. Pelosi also highlighted a report by the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis that Democrats and scientists see as a "road map" for fighting climate change. | But on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) also turned his attention to the fires wreaking havoc in the West as he rolled out Senate Democrats' THRIVE Act addressing climate change, racial injustice and the economy. "The proof of the urgency of this situation is literally in the air around us right now. Wildfires are rampaging across the West, across an area the size of the entire state of Connecticut, polluting the lungs of countless Americans. If anyone needed any proof of how disastrously and quickly climate change is affecting our globe, look out West," Schumer told reporters. "Right now, millions of Americans are witnessing climate change in the ash and orange skies outside their windows. These catastrophic events have instigated and exacerbated climate change, and they're not new," Schumer continued. "Worse yet, Trump and the GOP poured gasoline on the fire by recklessly ripping apart vital environmental regulatory protections and recklessly pursuing more, not less, fossil fuel consumption production."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/515875-pelosi-climate-change-will-be-early-part-of-democrats-2021-agenda
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/503941-dems-detail-their-15t-green-infrastructure-plan
Italy and France did NOT experience 50% more deaths yesterday. We had 1,044. France had 38. Italy had 14.
It doesn't matter that the virus is China's fault. What matters is how the US government and the American people responded to the virus.
Today is the first day ever that the NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, MLS and NHL will all play on the same day
Trump has illegally and unconstitutionally nominated Chad Wolf as DHS secretary, sending his nomination to the Senate. The GAO said Wolf has been serving in his position as acting DHS secretary illegally and unconstitutionally, and yesterday a whistleblower alleged Wolf was suppressing intel about Russian interference.
A three-judge panel BLOCKS the Trump admin's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from census apportionment. The Presidential memorandum is declared unlawful," the judges wrote.
https://courthousenews.com/challenge-of-trump-census-change-put-on-fast-track/amp/
Even in what should be a bland, nonpartisan statement celebrating a vital public-private partnership, DHS's acting secretary can't resist making the subtly misleading gesture of mentioning Russia last on his list of adversaries.
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1304170282710716422
Rhode Island Senator Harold Metts, a 30-year Democratic lawmaker who supports the two-state solution, lost Tuesday's primary against a 26-year old non-Democratic antisemitic racist leftist (Tiara Mack) who advocates 1) removing Jews from the Middle East by any means necessary and 2) legalizing pedophila and sex trafficking
Biden on Trump: "He talks about can you repeat four words in a row or whatever his little IQ test or dementia test he took, he doesn't understand duty, honor, service, country. He doesn't get it."
This is an election strategy, and a very effective one in Florida. Democrats are done: Bienvenido a Miami, Sen. Harris. Via pool: "A woman holding a pro Trump sign, standing in the parking lot, shouted slogans in favor of President Donald Trump. She identified herself as Mariela Jiménez and told reporters that 'Kamala Harris represents communism and socialism.'"
https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1304112418151370761
Gov. Whitmer announces tuition-free college for frontline workers in first-of-its-kind program
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/09/10/gov-whitmer-announces-tuition-free-college-for-frontline-workers-in-first-of-its-kind-program
NBA's L2M confirms OG Anunoby should have been called for a foul on Kemba Walker's attempted game winner at the end of regulation
https://twitter.com/jaredweissnba/status/1304169529317171201
NBA basically doubling down by assigning Scott Foster for game 7. Anybody know what the record is for the Raptors and Celtics when Scott Foster refs either of their playoff games?
The NBA also says Nick Nurse did nothing wrong on the Celtics' pass that people keep talking about. "Coaches may be on or off the bench from the substitution box line. ... Nurse's presence in the corner is not illegal and he does not directly interfere with the play."
https://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds/status/1304171187484921857
U.S. Route 50—one of the busiest roads in the D.C. metro area—remains flooded and completely impassable east of Kenilworth Avenue hours after the heaviest rains with water rescues ongoing
https://twitter.com/DildineWTOP/status/1304153036164608000
This text just went out from the POTUS who doesn't want to panic the American people: ANTIFA THUGS WILL RUIN SUBURBS! ENOUGH! Pres Trump needs you to step up. 7X MATCH LIVE! Get on donor list. Donate to America DEFENSE Fund NOW:
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1304182400281243649
Almost 9 times as many New Yorkers have died from coronavirus (23,741) as from the Sept. 11 attacks (2,753)
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/09/10/sept--11-anniversary-will-take-place-in-the-shadow-of-another-disaster
CYlan Bundy today: 7.1IP, 2ER, 4H, 1BB, 12 SO, 105 pitches, 6 straight perfect Innings (2-6)
Laureano's wild catch finishes off the series win against the Astros
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/6447fcf4-caf5-4e95-8a77-d0b7dce8bb8e.mp4
Trout goes fishing for his MLB-leading 16th home run
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/6abb564e-d928-4afa-b9e5-a515a2bec6a4.mp4
"ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a pace on par with the worst-case climate scenarios scientists have predicted"
https://earther.gizmodo.com/antarctica-and-greenland-are-on-track-for-the-worst-cas-1844983642
Court Greenlights Lawsuit Alleging Trump's Inaugural Committee Funneled Money to His Personal Businesses
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/court-greenlights-lawsuit-alleging-trumps-inaugural-committee-funneled-money-to-his-personal-businesses/
Republicans vote against covid19 relief for Americans and will not take up the issue. Republicans accomplished what they wanted. They very quickly passed bailouts for their corporate donors, and stiffed the American people because they wanted to give even more of our money away.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/515909-gop-senators-say-coronavirus-deal-dead-until-after-election
Trump Says He Lied About COVID-19 To Avoid 'Panic.' He Incites Panic All The Time.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-incites-panic-fear_n_5f5a2a00c5b6b48507fcc6be
Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate 'Denial and Disinformation'
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/09/10/delaware-climate-lawsuit-30-fossil-fuels-american-petroleum-institute
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler bans use of CS tear gas in ongoing protests
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/10/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-bans-use-of-tear-gas-in-ongoing-protests/
Heartbreak after heartbreak... Rockets just can't catch a break
Harden legacy will be so tarnished if he can't at least get into a Finals...
Rockets look like they're done and like they want to head home. Maybe they're exhausted from the previous series or maybe they're just demoralized due to Westbrook's struggles. They look cooked. No fire or hunger in a must win game.
I wonder if AD falls down doing regular house chores. Maybe he's just very sensitive to contact
Rivers got the whole right wing right there, but rather than shooting the easiest mid range of the series he decides to wait for 2 seconds then pass to a contested three.
Apparently these Rockets have never watched Danny Green in the playoffs
Trump is accusing Biden of putting lives at risk with "dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracy theories." Biden hasn't touted conspiracy theories. He's declined to express trust in a vaccine proffered by the Trump admin, saying he wants to hear from scientists about it.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1304214122851119105
All but one of the Missouri Chiefs NFL players stood for the national anthem because they don't want to upset their racist fans. The Houston Texans stayed in the locker room. The racist KKK White Aryan Missouri fans booed during the moment of silence. Fucking disgraceful, booing equality. Hey Missouri YOU HAVE A BLACK FUCKING QUARTERBACK. B. L. A. C. K.
Rockets just look like they gave up in this series mad weird
David Johnson looking good. What a steal by the Texans
Wtf are the chiefs doing? They have so many weapons and they keep running screens and runs
Animal populations worldwide have declined nearly 70% in just 50 years, new report says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/endangered-species-animal-population-decline-world-wildlife-fund-new-report/
The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Houston Rockets 110-100 behind 29/12/5 from Anthony Davis to take a 3-1 series lead
Harden shot 4 more free throws than the Lakers did as a team tonight
The Rockets lost tonight despite making five more 3-pointers and 15 more free throws than the Lakers. It's the first time in NBA history a team has lost a postseason game with differentials of at least +5 3PM and +15 FTM
Trump held six indoor maskless rallies with no social distancting after acknowledging the coronavirus was airborne and deadly
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rallies-after-coronavirus-airborne/
Guess who's not showing respect to victims on 9/11, Trump. Guess who's going to two of the three sites of 9/11, Biden. I'm sure Trump will dedicate one of his putts to all the fallen police.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania was the "flight that fought back" site.
While mumbling the pledge of allegiance at Shanksville, Trump didn't even mouth the words"under g/d" which is a weird thing for a Republican President to do on 9/11. He stayed on script for close to all of it. Though with his "acting Presidential" it came off cold, tired, disconnected and his inability to read made it just tedious. He really had no personal emotion in the speech which seems alien since most people have a memory or sincere feeling about the tragedy and attack.
Perfect timing for this story to come out: I hope everyone reflects today about the brave people that ran into the towers to save lives and then sees how Trump doesn't give a fuck about them: Trump administration siphoned money away from 9/11 fund. The Trump administration siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses. The Treasury Department stopped payments - nearly four years ago - meant to cover medical services for firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics treated by the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, documents obtained by The News reveal. The payments were authorized and made by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which oversees the program. But instead of sending the funds to the city, the Treasury kept the money.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-fdny-911-health-program-treasury-20200910-s7yam67j6vhmhbdzg6ordanfdm-story.html
With VP Pence going to NYC to hail first responders on 9/11 tomoro, we reveal that the Treasury Dept has secretly withheld nearly $4 million from the FDNY's 9/11 treatment program, and has refused to give it back, or explain.
https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1304178646496796673
9/11: When Trump bragged he now had 'tallest building' in downtown Manhattan hours after World Trade Center collapsed | In the hours following the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, New Jersey's local TV channel WWOR had Donald Trump on the line. Known primarily at the time as a real-estate owner, Mr Trump was asked about one of his own buildings situated near the World Trade Center site. It was just a minute into his phone interview, and the multi-millionaire spoke about the size of his property. He said: "40 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest. And then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest. "And now it's the tallest."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/911-memorial-trump-2001-video-world-trade-center-manhattan-new-york-a8532891.html
The Trump campaign played a song (Fortunate Son by CCR) with lyrics criticizing rich kids dodging the Vietnam War draft — which Trump himself did 5 times
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-michigan-rally-plays-fortunate-son-song-avoiding-vietnam-war-2020-9
People evacuated statewide because of fires had climbed to an estimated 500,000 — more than 10 percent of the 4.2 million people in the state of Oregon
https://apnews.com/429f97bdf66aaa28a4dd43879a412503
The Ukraine state-owned natural gas company caught up in Trump's impeachment investigation has appointed U.S. businessman Robert Bensh - pushed by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry - to its board | The appointment adds to questions about Perry's role in Ukrainian energy politics and whether the former Texas governor had pressured the government there to buy U.S. energy supplies to win favor with the Trump administration. Perry had originally pushed Naftogaz to accept Bensh and another Perry associate, Texas oil and gas executive with ties to Ukraine, Michael Bleyzer, onto its board. More recently, Time.com and WNYC-ProPubliica on Thursday reported that federal prosecutors had probed Perry's efforts to broker a $20 billion contract for a company called Louisiana Natural Gas Exports to deliver U.S. liquefied natural gas to Naftogaz. The report said Bensh had promoted the company as one that the Ukrainian government could hire to deliver natural gas to the country.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/10/ukraine-gas-company-to-add-rick-perry-pick-to-board-412261
https://time.com/5887230/rick-perry-deals-energy-ukraine/
The Trump campaign played a song about rich kids dodging the Vietnam War draft — which the president did 5 times — at a Michigan rally. Any former/current member of the military that votes for him needs to be exterminated.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-michigan-rally-plays-fortunate-son-song-avoiding-vietnam-war-2020-9
PJ Tucker in game 4: 33 minutes, 0 points, 0 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 block, 4 fouls, and 0 steals
The Grizzlies hired MIT women's coach Sonia Raman as an assistant coach
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1304443132176670722
McConnell's 'Skinny Stimulus' Corporate Bailout Bill Is Dead. Good Riddance
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/09/mcconnells-skinny-stimulus-bill-is-dead-good-riddance.html
Joe Biden, doing that thing that Joe Biden does, but that we haven't seen much of during the pandemic
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1304404920456695811
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is using COVID-19 relief funds to pay for a $5 million tourism ad campaign, despite a surge in coronavirus cases following the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
https://www.insider.com/south-dakota-kristi-noem-covid-19-funds-5-million-ad-2020-9
Thick clouds of mosquitoes kill livestock after Hurricane Laura | Researchers estimates that hundreds of cattle and a few horses have been killed in a five-parish area. | Veterinarian Craig Fontenot of Ville Platte says the swarms drain animals' blood and animals also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the biting insects.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/weather/hurricane/thick-clouds-of-mosquitoes-kill-livestock-after-hurricane-laura/289-8590688d-e106-431c-ac8f-1d4e9ad01a84
Adviser appointed by Judge Sullivan in FLYNN case urges him to deny DOJ's motion to dismiss the case, calling its decision a clear pretext for Trump's pressure campaign. Flynn's guilt is "obvious" he argues.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1304450096948482048
The adviser, John GLEESON, argues that Flynn's lies were obviously "material" to the FBI's ability to protect national security and that DOJ's determination they were not "material" conflicts with its handling of other cases — and its prosecutors' arguments earlier in the case.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1304451872443568136
I cannot exaggerate the bewilderment in Washington over what UK government is doing over #GoodFridayAgreement. Why, a senior official asked me, is Britain doing something that will lead to a no deal Brexit, and result in no trade deal with the US either?
https://twitter.com/BBCJonSopel/status/1304401871730286592
This detail from conversations with antisemitic racist mentally ill deranged pro-Trump conspiracy theorists in Wisconsin is beyond horrifying: "I think if Biden wins, the world is over, basically," adds Arthur. "I would honestly try to leave the country. And if that wasn't an option, I would probably take my children and sit in the garage and turn on my car and it would be over"
https://time.com/5887437/conspiracy-theories-2020-election/
Joe and Jill Biden with relatives of First Officer Leroy Homer, a victim of the Flight 93 crash. They arrived at the Shanksville 9/11 Memorial to lay a wreathe at the Wall of Names.
https://twitter.com/sarahmucha/status/1304466191122157573
Emails show that Thiel hosted a dinner with Kevin DeAnna, founder of Youth for Western Civilization and prolific author of pseudonymous white nationalist writings, the same month that he spoke at the RNC in 2016:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support
You can draw a direct line from 9/11 and anti-Muslim sentiment to today's divisiveness. It essentially fast-tracked immigration into a national security issue versus an economic necessity and a defining characteristic of America.
We basically have the clouds of insects, dying livestock, darkness, disease, lightning fires. Just need some frogs and water turning to blood and we have most of the plagues about covered.
Republican officials have been inundated with calls from worried activists and donors who complain about constant Biden ads in their local media markets, with very few paid Trump responses. Some Republicans close to Trump have been baffled at the decision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-worries-rise-as-trump-campaign-pulls-back-from-television-advertising/2020/09/10/92db20e4-f2b7-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
Nobody is appropriately gauging how quickly racist antisemitic mentally ill deranged conspiracy theory FBI-designed domestic terrorist entity QAnon (and Q by other names) has taken over among suburban and rural white women. It is everywhere. I, too, am mentally and emotionally struggling with how many people have come to believe something simultaneously so stupid and dangerous. But pretending like it isn't happening and that we're better than this isn't working. It's a crisis happening in a mom group text near you. QAnon is legitimately a national security threat at this point. People are getting radicalized from the stuff. Radicalize people commit acts of terror. This is such a wake up call. We mistakenly say that Gen Z and Millennials are more politically aware...but with Q they are the ones leading this. This is a "young movement" rooted in social media. Jim Watkins, creator of 8/4chan, created it. And this is why Trumpism is likely to win. Again. The same people that were obsessed with the idea of satanic ritual cults in the 80's and 90's are QAnon. These people vote at all times, more than Democrats, and they vote Republican at all times, unlike Democrats.
QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
The Trump admin triggered a huge coronavirus19 outbreak at a Virginia immigration jail this summer when it brought in detainees from AZ & FL, using flights whose main purpose was to rush ICE tactical teams to the DC protests
https://washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/ice-air-farmville-protests-covid/2020/09/11/f70ebe1e-e861-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html
Talked with a Trump advisor a couple months back and this wasn't even on their radar. They weren't worried about former felons voting in Florida one bit. Now this: The 11th Circuit has ruled en banc that Florida can require people with a past felony conviction to pay off all fines and fees before they can get their right to vote back even if they can't afford it https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7206660/9-11-20-Jones-v-Florida-11th-Opinion.pdf
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1304468430519758853
$7 Million total fines and fees for voter registration - and the Fines and Fees Fund is just 27% of the way there. The average person owes only about $500. Share and donate if you can.
https://wegotthevote.org/finesandfees/
LeBron James' group to donate $100K to pay fines for ex-felons seeking to vote in Florida
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/509000-lebron-james-group-to-donate-100k-to-pay-fines-for-ex-felons-seeking-to
False Rumors About Antifa Starting West Coast Fires Follow Months-Long Conservative Hysteria
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/false-rumors-about-antifa-starting-west-coast-fires-follow-months-long-conservative-hysteria
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oregon-wildfire-antifa-false-rumors-1058252/
66 percent of Oregon voters disapprove of protests in Portland
https://www.newsweek.com/66-percent-oregon-voters-disapprove-protests-portland-poll-finds-1531315
For the first time since the 2004 French Open, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic are all missing from a Grand Slam Final. The consistency these players have had. We're privileged to have seen them playing.
Azarenka advances to the final with a win over Williams 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
Trump declares Oregon emergency, federal relief might be package deal for Western states
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/11/wildfire-federal-relief-oregon/
Six combined offensive rebounds for Danny Green and Rajon Rondo last night, five in the second half. Brutal box out work by Houston in a must-win. That's how you get beat 17-3 in second chance points. Lakers continue to do the little things.
https://streamable.com/5420l3
Kevin Durant (referring to Rudy Gobert....): "I see guys on the Defensive team and I'm all like it's so easy to score against this guy. I see a lot of DPOYs who teams have targeted in the playoffs and had them play off the court because they couldn't guard the pick and roll or they couldn't guard a wing player in the switch. "
https://streamable.com/wzdaye
Forget off ball movement, Harden has never been big on that but what's disappointed me more this particular series is his activity when he actually does have the ball. He literally stands there holding the ball waiting for the trap to arrive, wasting precious shot clock time. The Lakers know this and often don't bring the double until there's like 5 seconds left on the shot clock.
All Harden can do then is pass to a contested shooter to chuck up a prayer 3 pointer because the Lakers have been good at their defensive rotations off double teams. The Rockets have been at their best this playoffs when the ball is moving and Harden doesn't seem to have any interest in that this series. Harden doesn't exactly have a lot of weapons in his arsenal, though he is really really good with what he has. The problem is in playoffs, you will be against the same opponents 4-7 games consecutively. At some point they will lock into your rhythm and you need to adapt, which Harden (and the Rockets) can't.
Taliban prisoners linked to killing U.S. troops are released ahead of 9/11 anniversary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/11/daily-202-taliban-prisoners-linked-killing-us-troops-are-released-ahead-911-anniversary/
Trump lied about bringing Michigan 'so many damn car plants.' Zero new major plants have opened during his presidency.
https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-car-plant-trump-presidency-2016-2020-9
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assigned official government work to one of his top advisers through his wife, Susan, who used a private email account to relay his requests, according to newly released testimony. The spouse of a Cabinet member would not be expected to have a government email account if they are not employed by the government. But Susan Pompeo's influence over official personnel and activities at the State Department, as a private citizen, has raised concerns on Capitol Hill and within the department. It has become part of an ongoing inquiry in the State Department inspector general's office on the misuse of government resources.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article245664835.html
Nora Dannehy, top aide to John Durham's Trump-Russia investigation, quietly resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr
https://news.yahoo.com/nora-dannehy-top-aide-john-183000456.html
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/report-prosecutor-resigns-from-durham-probe-citing-concerns-about-political-pressure
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/durham-aide-quits-russiagate-412699
This guy is going to get people killed. Kurt Schlichter. This veteran took an oath to defend the constitution from a tyrannical president who is killing Americans by #COVID19 by calling for Trump's resignation.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1304522013696983040
(1/2) On September 11, 2001, I was sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet at the end of the runway 24L in Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California, awaiting orders to engage any aircraft that might be en route to another attack.
https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1304425032802852864
(2/2) That order never came that day. But the reality is, the call to defend our nation in times of crisis isn't a one-time thing. It's one our leaders should take seriously—today, and every day.
https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1304425034539302913
Deputy assistant AG David Morell — a member of the DOJ legal teams handling Bolton lawsuit, Census matters, Portland protest issues and more — has announced he is leaving DOJ today, withdrawing form all those cases.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1304525996574597124
Is this yet another Friday Night Massacre (Pro-Trump Barr firing Republican prosecutors for prosecuting Trump-related cases)
Chairman Schiff: "If indeed this is why this career prosecutor retired or resigned from the case, it makes a lot of sense. We are completely reliant right now on good people at the Justice Department deciding they cannot be a part of this craven effort by Bill Barr."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1304525123618299906
Just interrupting the 9/11 stuff to say that on the West Coast, 500,000 people have been displaced by fires in Oregon alone and where I live in California, the air quality index is 240, which means the air outside my window is hazy and it's dangerous to step outside.
While hosting a large house party, Miami University students admit to police they recently tested positive for COVID-19
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1304502679482310659
Democrats for the first time suing to rightfully remove Kanye from ballot: Idaho Democratic party, two voters sue to get Kanye West removed from Idaho ballot https://idahopress.com/eyeonboise/idaho-democratic-party-two-voters-sue-to-get-kanye-west-removed-from-idaho-ballot/article_43dc37a6-b6be-54b8-957b-1a1cc7af4749.html
Your question has an underlying assumption. Namely, that people are rational and sift through data to find the best possible course of action. People are not rational. They navigate life with built up worldviews. Some environmentalists worldviews do not include the idea of controlled burns. They don't see the logic of the situation supported by data. they just see their worldview.
Rhys Hoskins hits a 3-run homer to put the Phillies up 9-0 against the Marlins
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/617909ee-e5ee-4d45-bdaf-e09c644e9cca.mp4
Gerrit Cole line: 7IP, 2H, 0R/ER, 1BB, 9K's, 114P
The Tampa Bay Rays make history by starting all left-handed batters for the first time in MLB history
https://www.mlb.com/news/rays-all-left-handed-lineup-makes-history
Attorney General William Barr makes yet another false claim, this time wrongly claiming that mail voting means "there's no secret vote" and that "the government" can find out who you voted for.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/politics/barr-secret-vote-fact-check/index.html
Lots of commentary on that Marjorie Green race from people who clearly don't realize that Trump won the district by 53 points in 2016. It doesn't matter if she has an opponent or not, either way she doesn't have an opponent.
NBA investigation showed that Danuel House had a guest in his hotel room for multiple hours on Sept. 8 who was not authorized to be on campus.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1304537671478501381
In other words he exposed his team and the Lakers to covid19 and now the NBA Commission is scrambling to avoid saying that because saying that means suspending the playoffs for 2 weeks to make sure nobody tests positive in that time span
Danuel House 3 weeks ago: "Last year I felt like I let people down, including myself. So this year I came in with a new mindset and a new mentality." But did not come with a girlfried.
https://twitter.com/Rockets_Insider/status/1296576193098141696
Kawhi corkscrews through the lane for a dunk
https://streamable.com/cp4tzn
Kyle Lowry has played in 13 elimination games since joining the Raptors. In those games, he averages: 21/6/7 on great efficiency
No offense Nuggets, but I hope the Clippers close out tonight just because this has by far been the worst and least-entertaining series so far in the playoffs. It needs to end.
Beverly trying to go ISO
Randal Grichuk loses a fly ball to the lights, leads to a Jeff McNeil RBI double (.020 xBA)
https://streamable.com/1ilx20
Aaron Nola @ MIA: 7 IP, 0 ER, 3 H, 10 K, 106 Pitches
Six of the biggest fires in California's history have happened in 2020. The biggest is still burning uncontrolled. "This is a climate damn emergency," @GavinNewsom said. "This is real and it's happening."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-11/california-wildfires-climate-change-gavin-newsom-trump
Nuggets tweaking their offense this half. Keeping Jokic out at the 3 and dragging Zu away from the rim, letting the other Nuggets players get space in the key to score
Like the Lakers, the Clippers are trying to give this game away, but luckily for both, the teams they are playing aren't trying to win either.
Clippers keep letting the Nuggets get close. Take silly ISO shots and let the Nuggets get shots on the other side
Vote 4 Millsap 😂
The Denver Nuggets defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 111-105, outscoring the Clippers by 13 in a 4th quarter eruption to stay alive 3-2; Nikola Jokic and Jamaal Murray combine for 48/22/12
Sigh.......The Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 111-105, outscoring the Clippers by 13 in a 4th quarter eruption to stay alive 3-2; Nikola Jokic and Jamaal Murray combine for 48/22/12
The Boston Celtics defeat the Toronto Raptors 92-87 behind 29/12/7 from Jayson Tatum to win the series in 7
Kyle Lowry: "When we got swept by the Wizards I read every single article. I read every single thing that was said about me - good, bad, evil, terrible, awesome, and I used it as motivation. And that's what (Siakam) is going to do. That's the advice I would give him."
https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/1304633238061809665
Lowry on Siakam: "I think this is a learning experience. I think it's only going to make him a better basketball player, a better man, a better everything. And I would not be surprised to see him come back even hungrier and destroying people."
https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/1304633587921285120
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf subpoenaed for hearing next week after refusing to testify
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/politics/chad-wolf-subpoena-refuse-testify/index.html
Taxpayers Paid More Than $1M For Barrier Erected Around White House Amid Protests
https://www.thedailybeast.com/taxpayers-paid-more-than-dollar1-million-for-barriers-erected-around-white-house-amid-george-floyd-protests
DeVos Loses Latest Fight Over Illegaly And Unconstitutionally Rerouting Aid To Private School Students
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/11/911869208/devos-loses-latest-fight-over-rerouting-aid-to-private-school-students
Maeda out duels Bieber, 7 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 0 R, 7 K
Ryan "Cubs Killer" Braun walks-off the Cubs on a sac-fly
https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2020/2020-09/11/3b35b506-7bd8be03-41953ccc-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
Shane Bieber reached 100 K in the fewest innings (66.1 IP) in MLB history.
Luis Castillo tonight @STL: CG, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 112 pitches
Alex Dickerson tested positive for the @SFGiants and here's hoping he's ok and that it's a false positive. Tonight's game postponed in San Diego and also tomorrow's.
https://twitter.com/adamhousley/status/1304618174021685248
Charlie Blackmon crushes a 438 foot walkoff slam to beat the Angels in the 9th
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/35c8e695-3268-45ec-93aa-1ca02dcc3075.mp4
Michael A Taylor walks off the Braves in the 12th inning
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/85cbb9a3-1eb3-4809-b4ec-a8e6bbd6b152.mp4
This ends the 12-day streak of not having a player test positive, with at least 2 games postponed between the #Padres-#SFGiants
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1304597552440934401
Byron Buxton hits a 2 run laser off Shane Bieber for his first homer allowed in 31 innings
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/c9e7fa4d-6a77-4ac6-af8e-d3a31ee26990.mp4
Luis Garcia vs OAK: 0.0 IP, 3BB, 1H, 4ER, 23 pitches
https://veganactivism.org/
Pence drops plan to go to fundraiser hosted by designated domestic terrorists QAnon
https://apnews.com/35a881fb3e95ff8421efe57d05a5c374
QAnon is a designated domestic terrorist group
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-warns-against-qanon-pizzagate-in-report-highlighting-dangers-of-fringe-conspiracy-theories
By Tuesday, as many Americans will have died of covid19 since the morning of this 11th Sept 2020 as died on 11th Sept 2001. Yet there will be no reading of their names, no wider marking their deaths, no collective action from the government to care for the survivors and their families.
From 2019: Is This the End of Recycling? Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won't take our papers and plastics, they're ending up in the trash. After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country have bins for plastic bottles and aluminum cans and newspapers. In some cities, you can be fined if inspectors discover that you haven't recycled appropriately. But now much of that carefully sorted recycling is ending up in the trash. For decades, we were sending the bulk of our recycling to China—tons and tons of it, sent over on ships to be made into goods such as shoes and bags and new plastic products. But last year, the country restricted imports of certain recyclables, including mixed paper—magazines, office paper, junk mail—and most plastics. Waste-management companies across the country are telling towns, cities, and counties that there is no longer a market for their recycling. These municipalities have two choices: pay much higher rates to get rid of recycling, or throw it all away. Most are choosing the latter. "We are doing our best to be environmentally responsible, but we can't afford it," said Judie Milner, the city manager of Franklin, New Hampshire. Since 2010, Franklin has offered curbside recycling and encouraged residents to put paper, metal, and plastic in their green bins. When the program launched, Franklin could break even on recycling by selling it for $6 a ton. Now, Milner told me, the transfer station is charging the town $125 a ton to recycle, or $68 a ton to incinerate. One-fifth of Franklin's residents live below the poverty line, and the city government didn't want to ask them to pay more to recycle, so all those carefully sorted bottles and cans are being burned. Milner hates knowing that Franklin is releasing toxins into the environment, but there's not much she can do. "Plastic is just not one of the things we have a market for," she said. The same thing is happening across the country. Broadway, Virginia, had a recycling program for 22 years, but recently suspended it after Waste Management told the town that prices would increase by 63 percent, and then stopped offering recycling pickup as a service. "It almost feels illegal, to throw plastic bottles away," the town manager, Kyle O'Brien, told me. Without a market for mixed paper, bales of the stuff started to pile up in Blaine County, Idaho; the county eventually stopped collecting it and took the 35 bales it had hoped to recycle to a landfill. The town of Fort Edward, New York, suspended its recycling program in July and admitted it had actually been taking recycling to an incinerator for months. Determined to hold out until the market turns around, the nonprofit Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful has collected 400,000 tons of plastic. But for now, it is piling the bales behind the facility where it collects plastic. This end of recycling comes at a time when the United States is creating more waste than ever. In 2015, the most recent year for which national data are available, America generated 262.4 million tons of waste, up 4.5 percent from 2010 and 60 percent from 1985. That amounts to nearly five pounds per person a day. New York City collected 934 tons of metal, plastic, and glass a day from residents last year, a 33 percent increase from 2013. | Americans are going to have to come to terms with a new reality: All those toothpaste tubes and shopping bags and water bottles that didn't exist 50 years ago need to go somewhere, and creating this much waste has a price we haven't had to pay so far. "We've had an ostrich-in-the-sand approach to the entire system," said Jeremy O'Brien, director of applied research at the Solid Waste Association of North America, a trade association. "We're producing a lot of waste ourselves, and we should take care of it ourselves." | About 25 percent of what ends up in the blue bins is contaminated, according to the National Waste & Recycling Association. For decades, we've been throwing just about whatever we wanted—wire hangers and pizza boxes and ketchup bottles and yogurt containers—into the bin and sending it to China, where low-paid workers sorted through it and cleaned it up. That's no longer an option. And in the United States, at least, it rarely makes sense to employ people to sort through our recycling so that it can be made into new material, because virgin plastics and paper are still cheaper in comparison. Even in San Francisco, often lauded for its environmentalism, waste-management companies struggle to keep recycling uncontaminated. I visited a state-of-the-art facility operated by San Francisco's recycling provider, Recology, where million-dollar machines separate aluminum from paper from plastic from garbage. But as the Recology spokesman Robert Reed walked me through the plant, he kept pointing out nonrecyclables gumming up the works. Workers wearing masks and helmets grabbed laundry baskets off a fast-moving conveyor belt of cardboard as some non-cardboard items escaped their gloved hands. Recology has to stop another machine twice a day so a technician can pry plastic bags from where they've clogged up the gear. Cleaning up recycling means employing people to slowly go through materials, which is expensive. Jacob Greenberg, a commissioner in Blaine County, Idaho, told me that the county's mixed-paper recycling was about 90 percent clean. But its paper broker said the mixed paper needed to be 99 percent clean for anyone to buy it, and elected officials didn't want to hike fees to get there. "At what point do you feel like you're spending more money than what it takes for people to feel good about recycling?" he said. | If we can somehow figure out how to better sort recycling, some U.S. markets for plastics and paper may emerge. But selling it domestically will still be harder than it would be in a place such as China, where a booming manufacturing sector has constant demand for materials. The viability of recycling varies tremendously by locale; San Francisco can recycle its glass back into bottles in six weeks, according to Recology, while many other cities are finding that glass is so heavy and breaks so easily that it is nearly impossible to truck it to a place that will recycle it. Akron, Ohio, is just one of many cities that have ended glass recycling since the China policy changes. For now, it's still often cheaper for companies to manufacture using new materials than recycled ones. Michael Rohwer, a director at Business for Social Responsibility, works with companies that try to be more environmentally friendly. He told me that recycled plastic costs pennies more than new plastic, and those pennies add up when you're manufacturing millions of items. Items made of different types of plastic nearly always end up in the trash, because recyclers can't separate the plastics from one another—Reed equates it with trying to get the sugar and eggs out of a cake after you've baked it. But because companies don't bear the costs of disposal, they have no incentive to manufacture products out of material that will be easier to recycle. The best way to fix recycling is probably persuading people to buy less stuff, which would also have the benefit of reducing some of the upstream waste created when products are made. But that's a hard sell in the United States, where consumer spending accounts for 68 percent of the GDP. The strong economy means more people have more spending money, too, and often the things they buy, such as new phones, and the places they shop, such as Amazon, are designed to sell them even more things. The average American spent 7 percent more on food and 8 percent more on personal-care products and services in 2017 than in 2016, according to government data. Some places are still trying to get people to buy less. The city of San Francisco, for instance, is trying to get residents to think of a fourth r beyond "reduce, reuse, and recycle"—"refuse." It wants people to be smarter about what they purchase, avoiding plastic bottles and straws and other disposable goods. But it's been tough in a place centered on acquiring the newest technology. "This is our big challenge: How do you take a culture like San Francisco and get people excited about less?" Debbie Raphael, the director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, told me. The city passed an ordinance that required that 10 percent of beverages sold be available in reusable containers, and it is trying to make reuse "hip" through an online campaign and dedicated website, Raphael said. San Francisco and other Bay Area cities have banned plastic bags and plastic straws, but that option isn't available in many other parts of the country, where recently passed state laws prevent cities from banning products.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/
https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news17_e/impl_03oct17_e.htm
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-07/documents/2015_smm_msw_factsheet_07242018_fnl_508_002.pdf
From today Sept 2020: Here's the basic problem: All used plastic can be turned into new things, but picking it up, sorting it out and melting it down is expensive. Plastic also degrades each time it is reused, meaning it can't be reused more than once or twice. On the other hand, new plastic is cheap. It's made from oil and gas, and it's almost always less expensive and of better quality to just start fresh. All of these problems have existed for decades, no matter what new recycling technology or expensive machinery has been developed. In all that time, less than 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. But the public has known little about these difficulties. It could be because that's not what they were told. Starting in the 1990s, the public saw an increasing number of commercials and messaging about recycling plastic. "The bottle may look empty, yet it's anything but trash," says one ad from 1990 showing a plastic bottle bouncing out of a garbage truck. "It's full of potential. ... We've pioneered the country's largest, most comprehensive plastic recycling program to help plastic fill valuable uses and roles." These commercials carried a distinct message: Plastic is special, and the consumer should recycle it. It may have sounded like an environmentalist's message, but the ads were paid for by the plastics industry, made up of companies like Exxon, Chevron, Dow, DuPont and their lobbying and trade organizations in Washington. Industry companies spent tens of millions of dollars on these ads and ran them for years, promoting the benefits of a product that, for the most part, was buried, was burned or, in some cases, wound up in the ocean. Documents show industry officials knew this reality about recycling plastic as far back as the 1970s. Many of the industry's old documents are housed in libraries, such as the one on the grounds of the first DuPont family home in Delaware. Others are with universities, where former industry leaders sent their records. At Syracuse University, there are boxes of files from a former industry consultant. And inside one of them is a report written in April 1973 by scientists tasked with forecasting possible issues for top industry executives. Recycling plastic, it told the executives, was unlikely to happen on a broad scale. "There is no recovery from obsolete products," it says. It says pointedly: Plastic degrades with each turnover. "A degradation of resin properties and performance occurs during the initial fabrication, through aging, and in any reclamation process," the report told executives. Recycling plastic is "costly," it says, and sorting it, the report concludes, is "infeasible." And there are more documents, echoing decades of this knowledge, including one analysis from a top official at the industry's most powerful trade group. "The costs of separating plastics ... are high," he tells colleagues, before noting that the cost of using oil to make plastic is so low that recycling plastic waste "can't yet be justified economically."
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
'I'm not comfortable living here': More Americans did actually move to Canada since Trump's 2016 election
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/i-m-not-comfortable-living-here-more-americans-did-actually-move-to-canada-since-trump-s-2016-election-1.5064819
The Celtics have made the ECF in 3 of the last 4 years, only missing in the year Kyrie Irving played a full season for the team
Smart with a clutch rejection on PowellHighlights
https://streamable.com/atcal9
Giannis Antetokounmpo just unfollowed all of his teammates and the Milwaukee Bucks on Instagram
https://twitter.com/AravantinosDA/status/1304798605891510274
https://twitter.com/AravantinosDA/status/1304801822092259329
Kyle Lowry's Final Thoughts, "The Bubble Was A Success... Time To Leave This Mother******"
https://streamable.com/6v1byl
Fred VanVleet shoots up an airball and the Celtics gain possession
https://streamable.com/c2x1rp
Pirates are delayed at team hotel in KC as there's a standoff with a shooting suspect in the Arrowhead parking lot adjacent to Royals Stadium. Team is on hold, understandably.
https://twitter.com/jonheyman/status/1304867167985373192
Cole Hamels had a strong 3 inning outing at the Braves' Gwinnett Alternate site today. He and Max Fried will be back next week, Mike Foltynewicz is back to 95 MPH w/ good slider and if all goes well Sunday, will be back next week as well.
https://twitter.com/pgammo/status/1304531832164233219
Banner scheduled to fly over Dodger Stadium to have direct message: ASTROS CHEATED
https://twitter.com/latimessports/status/1304822553551142913
Minnesota's Sergio Romo suspended a game
https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1304874693242097666
Republican-controlled USPS is mailing all Americans voting postcards with misinformation and lies about voting to confuse and obstruct people from voting. The same USPS that refuses to deliver the mail they already have - including mail-in ballots and absentee ballots - but is mailing hundreds of millions of postcards to people containing lies to prevent people from voting.
https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-voting-postcards-with-misinformation-2020-9
This is the damage Republicans have done to USPS:
https://uspsimpact2020.com/
The Trump administration admitted in a court declaration from a top Border Patrol official yesterday it has, using covid19 as justification, immediately expelled 8,800 unaccompanied kids here at the border, otherwise forbidden under an anti-trafficking law.
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1304828058591952898
From here on out I'm calling covid19 the Wuhan China virus because that is where it originated from and that is the country that allowed it so spread
Nope. This is a total lie. Designed to undermine the legitimacy of the coming election. Trump and Republicans are telling you they already have the legal arguments ready to go to sue the judicial system to invalidate mail-in and absentee ballots.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304875170860015617
911 dispatchers overwhelmed as designated domestic terrorist entity QAnon spread fake claims about real fires in Oregon
https://cnn.com/2020/09/11/tech/qanon-oregon-fire-conspiracy-theory/index.html
Something I never thought I'd see: the inimitable John Fogerty, of Creedence Clearwater, explaining why the a he wrote *50 years ago* (Fortunate Son) referred explicitly to the likes of Trump (who is now using it at rallies)
https://facebook.com/johnfogerty/videos/684304458871117
Lindsey Graham wants to know what a politician who hasn't released his tax returns is hiding.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1304873445637922818
Green Party candidate admits Republicans are helping him get on the ballot in Wisconsin:
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-ballot-green-party/2020/09/11/797aa4d2-f44a-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html
The Florida @ACLU legal director says of the ruling in the Florida felons case, it's "unconstitutional, wrong, and appalling to anyone who cares about democracy."
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1304510387644248064
The #SFGiants player who had a positive Covid-19 test has since had two negative tests and if everything is clear tonight, the #SFGiants and #Padres will play a doubleheader Sunday.
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1304900321664053249
Sergio Romo was suspended more games for being fired up than any Houston Astros player was for cheating their way to a championship lmfao I'm done.
https://twitter.com/matthew_btwins/status/1304882983707443200
Astros got off so easy, fucking brutal
The commissioner devalued the entire point of playing the game
California made it easier for inmate firefighters to become professionals, allowing them to have their nonviolent criminal records wiped clean
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-makes-it-easier-for-inmate-firefighters-to-become-professionals-2020-9
In just the pst week, American colleges and universities have recorded more than 36,000 additional Wuhan China virus, bringing the total to 88,000 since the pandemic began.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/college-campus-outbreak-covid.html
The death toll from the fires plaguing the West Coast has reached 27, and is expected to rise sharply. Choking smoke is a serious hazard for millions who live there.
https://apnews.com/56216039822719d0760198f4560c0030
Think about all the low-income people who could have gotten healthcare using the millions in taxpayer dollars Verma spent on her personal PR | When Seema Verma, the Trump administration's top Medicaid official, went to a reporter's home in November 2018 for a "Girl's Night" thrown in her honor, taxpayers footed the bill to organize the event: $2,933. | But the probe — conducted by Democrats across four congressional committees — found that Verma surrounded herself with a rotating cast of at least 15 highly paid communications consultants during her first two years in office, even as she publicly called for fiscal restraint and championed policies like work requirements for Americans on Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/10/seema-verma-medicaid-expenses-411539
Having read more deeply into the Woodward book, the major revelation seems to not the Trump quotes but just how close the U.S. came to a possible nuclear exchange with North Korea.
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1304780574054404097
Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA
https://npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa
Photo of plane flying over Dodger Stadium right now that reads "Houston Cheats Bang Bang."
https://i.redd.it/4ctlc81zpsm51.jpg
PJ Tucker ran out of gas playing center
I feel like old Russ would take this game personally and be super aggressive from the start. Maybe he doesn't feel like it's his team yet.
The things LeBron has done to Westbrook in this series are unforgivable
Cannot believe lebron is 35 doing this
LeBron really sonning Westbrook this whole series
Yikes this already ugly
Rockets only down by 15, Rockets are more than capable of overcoming that, they've already done that before
Willians Astudillo takes Zach Plesac deep to make it 3-0 Twins
https://streamable.com/whntif
Alex Caruso with the chasedown block on Harden
https://streamable.com/c1k77w
LeBron thunders down the lane for a dunk
https://streamable.com/z92480
McLemore has ended each of the first two quarters with corner threes. If he can do that again in the 3rd and 4th from the corners, he can pull off the rare Four Quarter Quadrant Quota. He'll be in quite a quandry if they don't give him a chance to meet this quota.
LeBron has been resting, Harden has played two full quarters
California’s wildfire smoke plumes are unlike anything previously seen. Smoke plumes have reached 55,000 feet in height with embedded thunderstorms, lightning and tornadoes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/12/california-wildfires-smoke-plumes/
This is why Trump already won re-election: The #2 most-shared post by a U.S. Facebook page in the last 24 hours is a video of a Christian musician folding money at a Five Guys to prove that 9/11 was an inside job. 4.1 million views in less than a day.
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1304838954051543040
The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Houston Rockets 119-96 behind 29/11/7 from LeBron James to win the series 4-1 and advance to the Western Conference Finals
LeBron James is a pirouetting locomotive
A lot of great players and teams didn't win the title. Look at the Nash Era Suns from 05-10. T-Mac and Yao Rockets, Lob City Clippers, Gary Payton-Kemp-Schrempf Sonics, Reggie Miller Pacers, Charles Barkley Suns, Tim Hardaway-Mitch Richmond Warriors, Brad Daughtry-Price Cavs, Jason Kidd- VC- Kenyon Martin Nets, etc.
I, a Golden State Warrior Steph/Klay/Dray/+KD fan, have now experienced the closing of two doors: the Dubbs era (that's over, we all felt it when Golden State finished second last season and finished with endless serious injuries and the departure of KD and the departure of their best secondary players and the departure of their best bench players), and the Harden-D'Antoni-Morey era Rockets. Thank You Houston Rockets for NEVER giving up. For being a role model of consistency (winning records, playoff fixture, Harden breaking records, etc). You went for it. In a 5 year brief block of time when almost all but two teams (Cavaliers, Rockets) decided to wait out the Golden State dynasty and sneer at them, James Harden and Mike D'Antoni and Morey went for it. The Rockets constantly took big swings at the Golden State Warriors, and took big swings at the technical structure of NBA playmaking itself, constantly challenging fundamentals and techniques and the rule book itself, pushing the technical playmaking to the extreme edge. It's a shame James Harden and the Rockets are hated on so much. They went for it all at a time teams were punting for a few years until Golden State's run was over. (By the way, the Warriors aren't going away: Steph and Klay and Dray are back next season, and they make shake things up before the new season begins). NBA fans should be respecting what the Rockets accomplished, especially Rockets fans and fans of individual Rockets players: the Rockets have been one of the most dominant, fearsome, winning teams to play the last five years. They have winning seasons, they deliver an endless variety of spectacular play all regular season long, they reduced the referees to tears, they are a playoff fixture, and they've advanced deep into the playoffs. They nearly broke Golden State a few years ago. They never quit, they played the highest most elite level of basketball they could, and succeeded. The Harden-era Rockets will never be forgotten.The Rockets had a run of solid to elite basketball for about 8 years now without blatantly tanking.
James Harden on constantly falling short in the playoffs: "It's very, very frustrating. Especially with the amount of work that I individually put in. I'm going to keep chipping away. We're a piece away. We're going to keep trying to grow and put the right pieces around me and Russ."
https://streamable.com/2chvqp
James Harden on the Danuel House situation and whether it affected the Rockets: "Very, very disappointing. And it affected us... It affected us because it was a distraction and he was a huge part of our rotation."
https://streamable.com/8a6hpt
In game 7 against the Lakers, James Harden scored more (30) than the rest of the Rockets starters combined (28).
Every Rockets stayed to congratulate the Lakers, except for Russell Westbrook who straigh to the locker room.
Lebron James tonight: 29-11-7 in 31 minutes on 9-18 shooting to close out the Rockets and lead the Lakers to their first WCF since 2010
Houston bench watching their season slip away
https://streamable.com/k1x21k
He's right, the Lakers beat the Rockets by adjusting their "let the players play however they want because they're superstars" system to match the Rockets' small ball slow iso system: When Mike D'Antoni was asked if small-ball works in the playoffs, his response: "Ask the Lakers. That's what they beat us with."
Russell Westbrook yelling: "You better double me!" as Rockets are down by 29. Lebron James is entertained.
https://streamable.com/nfrboe
Rockets' James Harden approves of smallball strategy: "Before these last few games, we were No. 1 in defense. It was the small things like rebounding. We just weren't disciplined enough. The Lakers went on runs and it's deflating when you get stops & they get offensive rebounds."
https://streamable.com/t2uq4b
Giants and Padres tests all came back negative. Plan is to play a doubleheader starting at 1:10 p.m.
https://twitter.com/sdutKevinAcee/status/1305043680160489472
The Clippers should be concerned with the way Lakers supporting cast has showed up in the semis
In 5 of his last 6 starts, Justus Sheffield has gone 6 IP or more and has allowed 2 ER or fewer. 32.2 IP, 35 K, 10 BB. One hiccup a couple weeks ago vs LAA but has been brilliant otherwise, including tonight
https://twitter.com/SteveSandmeyer/status/1304974944871133187
Kenley Jansen had allowed six runs all season. The Astros scored five against him in the ninth
https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1304987564445630464
Brent Rooker suffered a fractured forearm. His season is over. #MNTwins
https://twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1304986326505271296
The Astros remind Kenley Jansen who broke him in the first place as he gives up 6 hits and 5 runs (4 earned) without recording a single out in the 9th. Jansen entered the inning trying to protect a 5-2 Dodger lead and left the game down 6-5 after allowing every batter he faced to record a hit.
Justus Sheffield vs Arizona: 7IP, 5H, 2ER, 3BB, 7K
Dodgers organist plays "I Saw the Sign" as Josh Reddick comes to the plate
https://v.redd.it/lotryzkbktm51
Jason Heyward gets to Hader in the 9th as he takes the Brewers' closer deep to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/9d3cfab9-dbdb-4518-b5eb-d4069505ce59.mp4
Byron Buxton immediately punishes Plesac for the HBP on the next pitch, hits a 2 run blast to restore a 3-run lead
https://streamable.com/hmnn8l
The Oakland A's scored 7 runs in the top of the 2nd inning against the Texas Rangers, A's lead 7-0.
https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2020/2020-09/12/0e3527ec-65e128bc-508485ec-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
Jose Abreu hits his 15th HR of the year, a 435ft 3-run shot. Chicago leads 12-0.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/a90b3795-cad8-4196-b0c6-137adb0b5369.mp4
No, really??? Disposable masks causing enormous plastic waste
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54057799
Saudi officials must testify in 9/11 lawsuit
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sept-11-saudi/u-s-judge-says-saudi-officials-must-testify-in-lawsuit-related-to-september-11-attacks-idINKBN26305P
World Wildlife Fund: Human activities have caused the world's wildlife populations to plummet by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911500907/the-world-lost-two-thirds-of-its-wildlife-in-50-years-we-are-to-blame
A 26 year old US woman has acted as super spreader for one of Germany's currently largest outbreak of Covid-19 when she visited multiple clubs and bars in one evening despite showing coronavirus-like symptoms.
https://pledgetimes.com/coronavirus-us-citizen-as-a-super-spreader-in-garmisch-welt/
Rise in sea level from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica match worst-case scenario: study | Rate of the melt matches the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/rise-in-sea-level-caused-by-melting-ice-sheets-study-leeds-1.5716021
Up to 48 species saved from extinction by conservation efforts since 1993, study finds: Extinction rates for birds and mammals would have been 'three to four times higher' without action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/10/up-to-48-species-saved-from-extinction-by-conservation-efforts-study-finds-aoe
Earth Hasn't Warmed This Fast in Tens of Millions of Years - study | In just a few centuries, the Earth could once again reach a temperature threshold not seen for at least 34 million years. Before the industrial era, such a magnitude of warming would have taken thousands of years to occur
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/
Mike Bloomberg to spend at least $100 million in Florida to benefit Joe Biden
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bloomberg-money-florida-biden/2020/09/12/af51bb50-f511-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html
QAnon's Scam "Save Our Children" campaign is causing significant collateral damage to legitimate anti-trafficking organizations.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f4eacb9c5b69eb5c03592d1/amp#click=https://t.co/pYAqqNsk7e
Giuliani Pleads Ignorance On Bombshell Report That His Ukraine Contact Is A Russian Spy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrii-derkach-rudy-giuliani-trump-russian-spy_n_5f5d69a4c5b6b485080163cc
Trump Loses Significant Voter Support After Allegedly Disparaging U.S. Soldiers, Woodward COVID Tapes
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-loses-significant-voter-support-after-disparaging-us-soldiers-woodward-covid-tapes-1531549
Federal judge blocks USPS from sending mailers containing incorrect voting information to Coloradans
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/12/jena-griswold-usps-lawsuit-election-misinformation/
Trump: "There has to be retribitution, police should murder anyone they think is guilty": activist who killed alt-right militant intentionally who was intentionally murdered U.S. Marshals at Trump's order
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/13/there-has-be-retribution-trump-openly-endorses-extrajudicial-killings-suspects-law
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-described-antifa-activist-killing-as-retribution-2020-9
Former NFL coach Mike Holmgren slams Trump pandemic response, throws support to Biden
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/516163-former-nfl-coach-mike-holmgren-slams-trump-pandemic-response
Forest fire management is done by the national Park service, national Park service is part of the executive branch of the government. Guess who's in charge of that? And Republicans gutted funding to the NPS.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/trump-breaks-silence-on-devastating-wildfires-blames-them-on-bad-forest-management-20200913-p55v64.html
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/fy2020_bib_bh075.pdf
Oregon's Governor Brown tried to get a forestry management plan passed earlier this year and Republicans literally ran away from the state capitol and hid.
https://www.opb.org/news/article/forestry-bills-dead-oregon-legislature-republican-walkout/
https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-timber-deal-salem-forests-conservation-logging-legislature/
Cardiac MRI Reveals Myocarditis In Competitive Athletes Recovered From COVID-19
https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/cardiac-mri-reveals-myocarditis-in-competitive-athletes-recovered-from-covid-19
To those who say these are "peaceful protests," this is exactly what will reelect Donald Trump. If this continues to happen after the debates, voters will rebel: To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling "We hope they die" referring to 2 LA Sheriff's ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through.
https://twitter.com/LASDHQ/status/1305039075884187648
(1/3) #LASD Century Sheriff's Station Watch Commander reports the following: After deputies issued a dispersal order for the unlawful assembly of a group of protesters blocking the hospital emergency entrance & exits, a male adult protester refused to comply & cooperate…
https://twitter.com/LASDHQ/status/1305073565037858816
(2/3) During his arrest, a struggle ensued at which time a female adult ran towards the deputies, ignored repeated commands to stay back as they struggled with the male and interfered with the arrest…
https://twitter.com/LASDHQ/status/1305073655244677121
(3/3) The female adult, who was later identified as a member of the press, did not identify herself as press and later admitted she did not have proper press credentials on her person. Both individuals have been arrested for 148 P.C.
https://twitter.com/LASDHQ/status/1305073750895812611
I'm old enough to remember when the news that two police officers were gunned down would lead to a vigil at the hospital, with people praying for their recovery. How did we get to this sickening moment when people are gathering at the hospital to pray for their death?
CNN kicks Trump adviser off air after he refuses to address Woodward revelations
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cnn-jake-tapper-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-kick-woodward-b434297.html
Leaked Emails Reveal Effort by Trump Aides to Censor and Alter CDC Covid Reports Behind Closed Doors
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/12/downright-criminal-leaked-emails-reveal-effort-trump-aides-censor-and-alter-cdc
Amazing how many times people in red states say this unironically while taking money from blue states which are economic powerhouses. And many of these older people take Social Security while pledging to vote for a man who will destroy it for the next generation. I don't know if they believe any of this or they're just awful people. Wanted to deny education to someone else is just dumb, cruel and making your own country worse off. And those immigrants aren't getting a free ride anyway, dumbasses. Those immigrants that work for very low wages keep your costs at the grocery store down. They make the economy of California actually workable so you can take those blue state revenues for your own state that doesn't have a booming economy. People sure like to ruin their lives with dumb circlejerk thinking.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/norvelt-pennsylvania-trump-biden-socialism-20200913.html
That history has shaped how people distinguish between what helped lift their families and government support today, said Tim Kelly, who chairs the history department at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe and who cowrote Hope in Hard Times. "In my experience hardworking is a stand-in for white in Westmoreland County and Western Pennsylvania," Kelly said. "So the story that Norvelters tell themselves is: 'Our grandparents were poor, but they were hardworking. And they needed assistance, but they didn't need a handout.' " "They've [made] a clear distinction between hardworking and the undeserving, the lazy," Kelly added. "And I think that's a stand-in for racism today."
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/norvelt-pennsylvania-trump-biden-socialism-20200913.html
Shamet bricks a lot of open 3s for someone supposed to be a 3 point sniper
Gary "Kawhi Leonard" Harris
Denver playing scrappy
Wow Pat Bev😐
Always be hustling- Jimmy Butler
I'm so tired of players complaining about fouls and running to their coach to argue
You can't have Trez in against jokic. We know this story.
Nuggets twitter loves when Malone gets T'd up so I'm sure they will say this is good actually
Most Denver players putting in bare minimum effort just to say they didn't give up.
Denver playing sloppily like they have a 20-pt lead and leading the series
End of an era: Houston coach Mike D'Antoni is informing the franchise's ownership today that he's becoming a free agent and won't return to the Rockets next season.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1305205037354954752
Mike D'Antoni will not be returning to coach the Rockets next season.
https://twitter.com/NBATV/status/1305207657893036033
Malone gets Td up
https://streamable.com/upqjcc
Vote 4 Triplllsap
Clippers better not blow this lead
I like this aggressive PG
Clipper starters: Build lead Clipper bench: Lose lead
That seems to be the pattern the last two games.
Jerami Grant what was that shot you aren't Kawhi
Malone is a fucking idiot. You don't go from a 2 point lead to a 16 point lead without a timeout in between. Especially when your team is literally tossing the ball over. Clueless coach.
Gary Harris and Jerami Grant need to get hot in the second half for the Nuggets to even have a shot. Murray is still too easy for the Clippers to clamp when they focus on him.
This series reminds me a lot of Clippers-Warriors series last year. Both Clippers and Nuggets giving a great fight, gave their 100%, but you just know the Nuggets are outmatched and know the ultimate result
Sixto Sánchez in his first game against his former team, the Phillies: 7IP (CG) 3 H, 1 R/ER, 3 BB, 4 Ks
Ozzie Albies hits a go-ahead 2 run homer on Max Scherzers 119th pitch. Atlanta now leads 6-4 in the 6th
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/10fb181e-5985-4539-befa-5e720ace5a24.mp4
It's a grade 1 strain for Choi. He will head to the IL.
https://twitter.com/juanctoribio/status/1305164372621307905
As bad as I want the Los Angeles Clippers to win it all, neither of these teams is beating the Los Angeles Lakers
I don't see Clips winning this one. Doesn't look like they want it
Jokic crosscourt passes are insane
Kawhi shook
This Denver team's offense is unstoppable when it's on
This is honestly embarrassing for the Clippers
Jokic hits the three to give the Nuggets a huge 13 point lead
https://streamable.com/3yqxc3
Patrick Beverley fouls out in the 4th and finishes the game with 2/2/4 in 18 minutes
Gary Harris with nothing but net to extend the lead to 10 points
https://streamable.com/0q7k5b
Jokic "flails" but makes the shot anywaysHighlights
https://streamable.com/p1t9nv
Nikola Jokić puts up an unreal 34-14-7 on 13-22 shooting to help the Nuggets overcome another 16 points deficit and force a game 7
Austin Rivers!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1304968521328328704
Kawhi and PG scored 58 points. The other Clippers' starters combine for 9 points together.
The Clippers have now blown 2 straight double digit leads in back to back closeout games
Game 5: Clippers blow 15-point third quarter lead
Game 6: Clippers blow 19-point third quarter lead
The Nuggets in the Jokic-era have gone to Game 7 in every playoffs game they've appeared in
2019 Round 1 vs Spurs W4-3
2019 Semi's vs Trailblazers L4-3
2020 Round 1 vs Jazz blow a 3-1 lead
2020 Semi's vs Clips comeback down 3-1 to force Game 7
The Denver Nuggets defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 111-98 behind 34/14/7 from Nikola Jokic to force a game 7
Denver Nuggets are really just living in 2016 while everyone else is stuck in 2020
Are the Nuggets down 3-1 the Greatest Team of All Time?
Their resilience is incredible
The Clippers seem to be stuck in 2015
https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/2015-nba-western-conference-semifinals-clippers-vs-rockets.html
The Clippers were up 73-55 with 8:20 to go in the 3rd quarter.
They were outscored 56-25 the rest of the way
What a leader would say:
Yes, we face a deadly pandemic. Here's how we're going to beat it.
Yes, climate change is real and destructive. Here's how we're going to turn it back.
Yes, racism in America is systemic and pervasive. Here's how we, as one people, will overcome.
Carson Wentz should be bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's
Maybe the NFL would be *slightly* more popular in the year 2020 if they made it easier to watch your team out of market, instead of questing through 17 streaming apps and bootlegging a janky stream off some message board
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. deputies were shot Saturday night in an ambush near a transit station.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-deputies-shot-ambush-los-angeles-area-train-station-n1239970
Not to mention President John Kerry's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina: Joe Biden can't run from his disastrous record responding to the coronavirus. The truth hurts, Joe!
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1305145784455827456
If you see a Biden campaign ad while watching the game today (NFL), get used to it. The Biden campaign has reserved national ad spots for every single NFL game between now and election day.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/912174551/settling-in-for-the-nfls-return-get-ready-for-campaign-ads-too
Trump is currently participating in a "Latinos for Trump" roundtable in Las Vegas and all the "Latinos" look white
The two LA County Sheriff's Deputies who were shot and injured Saturday night are out of surgery, according to a LACSD spokesperson. The officers -- a 31-year-old mother and a 24-year-old man -- were taken to a local hospital where they were listed in critical condition.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1305236054757249024
Patrick "The Next 5 Years Are Mine" Beverly: 2/2/4 on 50% shooting, 2 turnovers, and fouled out in 18 minutes
Murray on Jokic: "He's hitting step backs, fading away, off one leg, with a hand in his face, consecutive times. I'd say he's the best player in the world..."
https://streamable.com/r4ajyo
Kawhi Leonard Calmly Responds To If Clippers Choked, "We Just Went Cold"
https://streamable.com/mke0km
Paul George today: 33 points, 4-9 (44%) from 3, 11-11 (100%) FT, 5 steals, 1 block
Cam Newton doesn't disappoint with his first postgame, post-win attire as a Patriot.
https://twitter.com/JumboHart/status/1305249206395953152
Brad Keller CGSO vs. PIT - 9.0 IP / 0 R / 5 H / 1 BB / 2 K
Lance Lynn dominated the first place A's: 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 Ks (110 pitches)
Alec Mills (Chicago Cubs) has no-hit the Milwaukee Brewers. 9 IP, 5 K, 3 BB, 0 Hits
Chad Kuhl's day vs KC: 2 1/3 IP, 4H, 9R, 6BB/5K, 1HR allowed, 1WP, 1HBP. 70 pitches/31 strikes
Page spent $4k to host off-the-record party for Trump appointee. Page is moderating one of the Trump/Biden debates.
https://washingtonpost.com/media/2020/09/10/susan-page-hosts-event-for-seema-verma/
Sec. Pompeo is illegally and unconstitutionally relaunching his extravagant, taxpayer-funded dinner series known as the "Madison Dinners," even as Congress scrutinizes his use of government resources to entertain CEOs, donors and television anchors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pompeo-bringing-back-madison-dinners-mid-pandemic-n1239986?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Good: Joe Biden will give a speech tomorrow on the wildfires in the west and climate change.
I like the leadership of LeBron telling Rondo to guard someone else, because things were getting heated and the team didn't want to lose Rondo to a stupid suspension in the next round.
Keeping composure is one of the most crucial leadership quality
Westbrook and embarrassing playoffs exits
Harden and embarrassing playoff exits
I'm a Westbrook fan but he did not look good during that last game. Just angry and immature and combative, you can tell he wasn't having any fun.
Biden: "Acts of lawlessness and violence directed against police officers are unacceptable, outrageous ... as are the actions of those who cheer such attacks on. Those who perpetrate these crimes must be brought to justice, and, if convicted, face the full brunt of the law."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1305257483775156224
Biden: "Jill and I were devastated to learn of the cold-blooded shooting of two Los Angeles County deputies yesterday, as well as the horrific death of Deputy Ryan Hendrix ... These attacks are absolutely unconscionable — they bring only greater violence, injustice, and grief."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1305256196820082696
The Trump's campaign rally violates the state of Nevada's restriction on gatherings of 50 people or more. Don't expect the Democratic-controlled state of Nevada to order law enforcement to stop the rally and arrest everybody because Democrats are cowards.
Mitch Trubisky in today's game: 20/36, 242 yards, 3 TDs
A monster performance from Aaron Rodgers
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1305258273461825537
Another quick TD by Kamara to put the saints up
https://streamable.com/gni50w
Brady intercepted
https://streamable.com/t3n9mt
Packers 43, Vikings 34 The Vikings' new-look defense was shredded for 523 yards. It's the most points the Vikings have allowed since Mike Zimmer took over in 2014. There's a long way to go for a young unit. But that's an awful start.
https://www.twitter.com/ChadGraff/status/1305238308541181952
Gardner Minshew just completed 95% of his passes (19-for-20), the fourth-best single game completion percentage of all time (min. 10 attempts). Long live the 'stache.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1305233772233789445
Swift drops game winning pass for Lions
https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1305239558095806469
The first touchdown of the Patriots' season: a 4-yard run by Cam Newton. He now has 59 career rushing TD, the most by any QB in NFL history.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1305198773707116544
Cam Newton will become the first QB to start for the Patriots…that wasn't drafted by the Patriots…in 472 games.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSiciliano/status/1305142941191602178
The #Jets just got a delay on 1st down after a kickoff against fake crowd noise
https://twitter.com/Jason_OTC/status/1305206052007354375
Baker Mayfield will become the first QB in NFL history to make his first 30 career starts for the same team but under four different head coaches.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSiciliano/status/1305149987630637058
#Lions LB Jamie Collins was ejected for making contact with a referee. Looks like he was trying to demonstrate what a #Bears player did to him.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1305202218489073664
LOL T.Brady pass short right intended for J.Watson INTERCEPTED (again) by J.Jenkins at TB 36. J.Jenkins for 36 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
The White Sox are now done playing the Royals and Tigers. They went a combined 18-2 against the two clubs. Against all other opponents they are 12-14.
The Twins sweep Cleveland in a 3 game series in Minneapolis
Prospect Braxton Garrett in his MLB debut against the Phillies: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R/ER, 2 BB, 6 Ks.
Pujols hits his 660th HR, ties Willie Mays
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/d5764c1c-460d-409c-b909-cef77227687e.mp4
Mike Clevinger today: CG, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 7 K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Rigg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_Hibbert
Overlooked: Biden writes op-ed on Iran policy: This past month has proven that Trump's Iran policy is a dangerous failure. At the United Nations, Trump could not rally a single one of America's closest allies to extend the UN arms embargo on Iran. Next, Trump tried to unilaterally reimpose UN sanctions on Iran, only to have virtually all the UN security council members unite to reject his gambit. Now there are reports that Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had when President Barack Obama and I left office. | I have no illusions about the challenges the regime in Iran poses to America's security interests, to our friends and partners and to its own people. But there is a smart way to be tough on Iran, and there is Trump's way. He ignored our closest allies and walked away -- alone, without a plan -- from a deal that put the world's eyes and ears inside Iran's nuclear program and was verifiably blocking Iran's pathways to a nuclear weapon. | Because Trump violated an agreement that America itself negotiated and then acted recklessly, other world powers now devote their energies to opposing US policy instead of working alongside us to counter Tehran. This mix of confrontation and isolation will leave us with the worst of both worlds: no arms embargo or snapback of UN sanctions, but also no deal to constrain Iran's nuclear program -- and no plan except to recklessly double down. Five years ago, Iran was a bad regional actor requiring active deterrence and pushback. But it had not conducted a major attack on US forces in the region in years. Since Trump took office, Iran or its proxies have killed two American service members and a US contractor, severely injured more than 100 US troops, damaged Saudi oil facilities and disabled commercial ships transiting the Gulf. Before Trump, years went by without a militia rocket attack on US facilities in Iraq. Now they happen regularly. Instead of restoring deterrence, Trump has emboldened Iran. Instead of ending "endless wars," Trump has repeatedly brought America to the brink of a new one. If this is what Trump considers success, I would hate to see what failure looks like. The good news is that there remains a better way. | Second, I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy. If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. With our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal's provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern. This includes working aggressively to free unjustly detained Americans and calling out the regime for its ongoing violations of human rights, including the execution of wrestler Navid Afkari this week and the wrongful detention of political prisoners, such as human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. And we will work to help our partners reduce tensions and help end regional conflicts, including the disastrous war in Yemen. I will also take steps to make sure US sanctions do not hinder Iran's fight against Covid-19. And on day one, I will repeal Trump's disgraceful travel ban targeting a number of Muslim-majority countries, among others. Third, we will continue to push back against Iran's destabilizing activities, which threaten our friends and partners in the region. Drawing on the record-setting US-Israel security assistance agreement signed when I was Vice President, America will also work closely with Israel to ensure it can defend itself against Iran and its proxies. We will continue to use targeted sanctions against Iran's human rights abuses, its support for terrorism and ballistic missile program.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/13/opinions/smarter-way-to-be-tough-on-iran-joe-biden/index.html
Lying aside, how did Trump careen from denouncing American generals as war mongers and war profiteers on September 9 to endorsing the Bay of Pigs invasion on September 13?....The Trump campaign says the proof that Trump got the (nonexistent) Bay of Pigs Award is that, when he spoke to the Bay of Pigs vets' association upon accepting their endorsement, they gave him a painting of their brigade shield.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1305270931175223298
I wonder if Brady is regretting his decision right now
Brady feels the pressure even when it's not there. No faith in his line
This Tampa Bay Buccaneers team had a lot of work to do. Way too many stupid mistakes and penalties. This isn't just on Brady. They all failed today. Tampa could be such a good team if they pretended like they knew how to work the field. They're also playing a very very seasoned Saints team.
New York Jets' Adam Gase upset he put hurt Le'Veon Bell back in game
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29880045/new-york-jets-adam-gase-upset-put-hurt-leveon-bell-back-game
The Mets outscored the Jays 23-11 over the last three games but lost the series 2-1
Saints run a trick play, as Brees throws back to Taysom Hill, who throws deep to an uncovered Kamara for a 38 yard gain, down to the Bucs 9.
https://twitter.com/pewterreport/status/1305289093375578114
https://streamable.com/ixzjwd
The Lions fired Jim Caldwell for going 9-7. Matt Patricia took over and is now 9-23-1
Burrow runs it in for his 1st TD
https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1305246362720755724
Russell Wilson today: 31/35, 322 yards, 4 tds
Atlanta recover an onside kick (Younghoe Koo does it again)
https://twitter.com/thecheckdown/status/1305237510918815744
How predictable that Trump's buddy Ellison was "selected" to purchase TikTok? We've known since August with all the backdoor handwringing - watch how they treat those who post anti-Trump shit on TikTok now
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821
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Why flipping Texas is possible and why it matters even if it's not successful.
Should the Biden campaign spend a significant amount of resources in Texas? YED. But I don't think they need to. Here's my arguments for why Texas could flip, I'll try to keep it as coherent as possible:
Beto. Beto. Beto. Say what you want about his presidential campaign and ensuing remarks about gun confiscation. Those things don't matter right now. Beto's 2018 Senate campaign completely reignited the Texas Democratic Party in a way that I don't think many outside of Texas understand. Texas flipped purple thanks to Beto. The campaign was incredibly organized and effective, and thus collected a huge amount of voter data. In loss he cultivated a data goldmine for Democrats in Texas. Beto hasn't gone anywhere, either. He's now running PoweredByPeople which is probably the single most effective state-level voter outreach program in the entire country at the moment. They are not explicitly campaigning for Biden but they are generally trying to get people to commit to voting for Democrats down the ballot. This is one of the biggest reasons why it doesn't matter if the Biden campaign spends money in Texas to win it: there's people here doing the work for him.
In 2016, Texas was one of the few red states that was actually less red than 2012. Hillary did the best any Democratic presidential candidate has done here since her husband in 92 and 96, both also years in which Ross Perot received a significant amount of the popular vote here. Before that, you have to go back to Carter in 76. Texas certainly has plenty of your run-of-the-mill MAGA idiots all over the state, but Texas also has a huge amount of "normal" Republicans who do not like Trump. These people live in the sprawling suburbs of Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. These are the 10% of voters who voted for Beto and Abbott on the same ballot in 2018 (all the love to Lupe Valdez but she was not a good candidate for this state). Not only are more of them going to vote blue this time, there's just more of them. The Texas suburbs are highly sought after and continue to grow at a crazy pace year after year. There's a lot of talk about the Latino vote in the state, and we're trying to turn them out, but the gains Democrats make in Texas are going to come from the massive suburban vote.
State-level activity points to Democrats widely expecting to outperform 2018. 6-7 R held U.S. House seats are in sight, and Democrats are almost definitely going to win 2-3 of those at a minimum while holding on to the two gains from 2018. There is also a major chance the state house flips.
The data. We've all seen the polls. The 538 average is Trump +1 at the moment. Of course no national media outlet wants to be the first one to predict that Texas is going to turn blue, but the data says it's a toss-up. Period. Even Beto at this point was pretty consistently polling behind Cruz - he didn't close the gap until a week or two before the election. Follow that same kind of trend this year, Biden wins, maybe even by a couple points.
Why it matters and should be in the conversation even if Biden ends up losing Texas:
Beto will continue to do the work and if he gets a job someone will pick up in his place. The data and movement isn't going anywhere. The Texas Democratic machine, basically nonexistent before 2018, is going to be set for years to come. This will help flip the state in 2024, 2028, 2032...you get it. As long as the Republican party sticks with Trumpism, Texas is gonna go blue, even if it's not this year. Momentum will hopefully get Dan fucking Patrick out of office in 2022 and at least give Abbott a competitive election (which he's never experienced).
The state house and U.S. House. Flipping the state house means the end of gerrymandering which means a more fair map for the whole state legislature and the congressional seats. Even if Democrats don't win the biggest prize, the Republican lock on the state government is going to be broken.
Texas democrats are alive and well. The suburbs will keep growing and the state will flip within the decade, following the same path as Arizona except with 4x the population.
Democrats have a chance in Texas and there's a lot more at stake there than just the presidency.
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