https://twitter.com/astuesse/status/1305114051878547456
Biden Creates Legal War Room, Preparing for a Big Fight Over Election Legal Battles. With two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers, the Biden campaign is bracing for an extended legal battle and hoping to maintain trust in the electoral process. | Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s campaign is establishing a major new legal operation, bringing in two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers in what the campaign billed as the largest election protection program in presidential campaign history. Legal battles are already raging over how people will vote — and how ballots will be counted — this fall during the pandemic, and senior Biden officials described the ramp-up as necessary to guard the integrity of a fall election already clouded by President Trump's baseless accusations of widespread fraud. The new operation will be overseen by Dana Remus, who has served as Mr. Biden's general counsel on the 2020 campaign, and Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel during the Obama administration who joined the Biden campaign full-time over the summer as a senior adviser. Inside the campaign, they are creating a "special litigation" unit, which will be led by Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and Walter Dellinger, two former solicitors general, who are joining the campaign. Hundreds of lawyers will be involved, including a team at the Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, led by Marc Elias, which will focus on the state-by-state fight over vote casting and counting rules. And Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general in the Obama administration, will serve as something of a liaison between the campaign and the many independent groups involved in the legal fight over the election, which is already raging in the courts. "We can and will hold a free and fair election this fall and be able to trust the results," Ms. Remus said in an interview.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/biden-legal-challenges-trump.html
California, 19 other states, sue Trump administration for weakening methane rules
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-lawsuit/california-19-other-states-sue-trump-administration-for-weakening-methane-rules-idUSKBN2652EB
Over 170 environmental leaders urge supporters to vote for Biden, not Green Party
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516270-over-170-environmental-leaders-urge-supporters-to-vote-biden-not-green
The Founders of The Environmental Movement Have a Message: Don't Vote For The Green Party | A group of some of the most revered and longest-active environmentalists issued a dire warning to the next generation of activists on Monday: Don't vote for the Green Party this year. And don't sit out the election either. The warning, coming in the form of a letter signed by more than 170 top environmental leaders, is an explicit recognition that third-party voting—including from within their own community—has tipped presidential elections in the past. It's also a plea to those who remain on the fence about Joe Biden, or who believe that they should cast a protest vote for someone else, that the stakes are simply too high. "Angry right-wing voters and liberal absentees put Trump in the White House in 2016," the letter reads. "In 2020 the same unholy team could keep him there. Progressives who vote for the Green Party candidate, or write in Henry David Thoreau, or refuse to vote at all for lack of an ideal choice will give Donald Trump precisely what he wants, and enough such pious gestures will produce catastrophic results." | What's different in 2020 is the fresh proof of Obama's argument. The margins by which Trump won the three critical Midwest states—Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania—were all smaller than the total vote counts for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. And for those who have been in the trenches of environmental battles over the past five decades, the risk of it happening again are petrifying. "If you don't get somebody in office that you can work with, then protests and demonstrations don't make a difference," said Earth Day founder Denis Hayes, a letter signatory. "I'd much rather have somebody I can work with than a symbolic vote." "There is a strong motivation among disillusioned radical young people to vote third party now or sit out the election," added Peter Harnik, the coordinator of Environmental Action, a pioneer activist environmental organization. "We felt like we've been there and done this in the past. This is not the election to make a purity statement." | To this point, public data suggests that the third-party vote will be less of a factor in 2020 than it was in 2016. But two semi-prominent third-party candidates are running: the Green Party's Howie Hawkins and Libertarian Party's Jo Jorgensen. And as of early September, Hawkins was on the ballot in 31 states and the District of Columbia while Jorgenson was on the ballot in 45 states and the D.C.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-founders-of-the-environmental-movement-have-a-message-dont-vote-for-the-green-party
Trump Pulls TV Ads Off the Air Entirely in Key States
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-pulls-tv-ads-in-key-swing-states.html
China has Been Doing 'Mass Surveillance' on Millions of Citizens in US, UK, Australia and India
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg89aj/china-has-been-doing-mass-surveillance-on-millions-of-citizens-in-us-uk-australia-and-india?utm_source=viceworldnewsfb
Time 'is rapidly running out to save oceans': Protecting at least 30% of oceans by 2030 is critical to prevent the collapse of Earth's life-support system
https://www.reutersevents.com/sustainability/time-rapidly-running-out-save-oceans
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-criminal-case.html
The People v. Donald J. Trump The criminal case against him is already in the works — and it could go to trial sooner than you think.
By Jeff Wise
The defendant looked uncomfortable as he stood to testify in the shabby courtroom. Dressed in a dark suit and somber tie, he seemed aged, dimmed, his posture noticeably stooped. The past year had been a massive comedown for the 76-year-old former world leader. For decades, the bombastic onetime showman had danced his way past scores of lawsuits and blustered through a sprawl of scandals. Then he left office and was indicted for tax fraud. As a packed courtroom looked on, he read from a curled sheaf of papers. It seemed as though the once inconceivable was on the verge of coming to pass: The country's former leader would be convicted and sent to a concrete cell.
The date was October 19, 2012. The man was Silvio Berlusconi, the longtime prime minister of Italy.
Here in the United States, we have never yet witnessed such an event. No commander-in-chief has been charged with a criminal offense, let alone faced prison time. But if Donald Trump loses the election in November, he will forfeit not only a sitting president's presumptive immunity from prosecution but also the levers of power he has aggressively co-opted for his own protection. Considering the number of crimes he has committed, the time span over which he has committed them, and the range of jurisdictions in which his crimes have taken place, his potential legal exposure is breathtaking. More than a dozen investigations are already under way against him and his associates. Even if only one or two of them result in criminal charges, the proceedings that follow will make the O. J. Simpson trial look like an afternoon in traffic court.
It may seem unlikely that Trump will ever wind up in a criminal court. His entire life, after all, is one long testament to the power of getting away with things, a master class in criminality without consequences, even before he added presidentiality and all its privileges to his arsenal of defenses. As he himself once said, "When you're a star, they let you do it." But for all his advantages and all his enablers, including loyalists in the Justice Department and the federal judiciary, Trump now faces a level of legal risk unlike anything in his notoriously checkered past — and well beyond anything faced by any previous president leaving office. To assess the odds that he will end up on trial, and how the proceedings would unfold, I spoke with some of the country's top prosecutors, defense attorneys, and legal scholars. For the past four years, they have been weighing the case against Trump: the evidence already gathered, the witnesses prepared to testify, the political and constitutional issues involved in prosecuting an ex-president. Once he leaves office, they agree, there is good reason to think Trump will face criminal charges. "It's going to head toward prosecution, and the litigation is going to be fierce," says Bennett Gershman, a professor of constitutional law at Pace Law School who served for a decade as a New York State prosecutor.
Here, according to the legal experts, is how Trump could become the first former president in American history to find himself on trial — and perhaps even behind bars.
You might think, given all the crimes Trump has bragged about committing during his time in office, that the primary path to prosecuting him would involve the U.S. Justice Department. If Joe Biden is sworn in as president in January, his attorney general will inherit a mountain of criminal evidence against Trump accumulated by Robert Mueller and a host of inspectors general and congressional oversight committees. After the DOJ's incoming leadership is briefed on any sensitive matters contained in the evidence, federal prosecutors will move forward with their investigations of Trump "at the fastest pace they can," says Mary McCord, a former deputy assistant attorney general.
They'll have plenty of potential charges to choose from. Both Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee — a Republican-led panel — have extensively documented how Trump committed obstruction of justice (18 U.S. Code § 73), lied to investigators (18 U.S. Code § 1001), and conspired with Russian intelligence to commit an offense against the United States (18 U.S. Code § 371). All three crimes carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison — per charge. According to legal experts, federal prosecutors could be ready to indict Trump on one or more of these felonies as early as the first quarter of 2021.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter73&edition=prelim
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371
But prosecuting Trump for any crimes he committed as president would face two significant and perhaps fatal hurdles. First, on his way out of office, Trump could decide to preemptively pardon himself. "I wouldn't be surprised if he issues a broad, sweeping pardon for any U.S. citizen who was a subject, a target, or a person of interest of the Mueller investigation," says Norm Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats during Trump's impeachment. Since scholars are divided on whether a self-pardon would be constitutional, what happens next would depend almost entirely on which judge ruled on the issue. "One judge might say, 'Sorry, presidential pardons is something the Constitution grants exclusively to the president, so I'm going to dismiss this,' " says Gershman. "Another judge might say, 'No, the president can't pardon himself.' " Either way, the case would almost certainly wind up getting litigated all the way to the Supreme Court, perhaps more than once, causing a long delay.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/robert-mueller-report-encyclopedia-reference.html
Even if the courts ultimately ruled a self-pardon unconstitutional, another big hurdle would remain: Trump's claims that "executive privilege" bars prosecutors from obtaining evidence of presidential misconduct. The provision has traditionally been limited to shielding discussions between presidents and their advisers from external scrutiny. But Trump has attempted to expand the protection to include pretty much anything that he or anyone in the executive branch has ever done. William Consovoy, one of Trump's lawyers, famously argued in federal court that even if Trump gunned someone down in the street while he was president, he could not be prosecuted for it while in office. Although the courts have repeatedly ruled against such sweeping arguments, Trump will continue to claim immunity from the judicial process after he leaves office — a surefire delaying tactic. "If federal charges were ever brought, it is unlikely that a trial would be scheduled or start anytime in the foreseeable future," says Timothy W. Hoover, president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. By the time any federal charges come to trial, Trump is likely to be either senile or dead. Even if he broke the law as president, the experts agree, he may well get away with it.
But federal charges aren't the likeliest way that The People v. Donald J. Trump will play out. State laws aren't subject to presidential pardons, and they cover a host of crimes beyond those committed in the White House. When it comes to charging a former president, state attorneys general and county prosecutors can go places a U.S. Attorney can't.
According to legal experts, the man most likely to drag Trump into court is the district attorney for Manhattan, Cyrus Vance Jr. It's a surprising scenario, given Vance's well-deserved reputation as someone who has gone easy on the rich and famous. After taking office in 2010, he sought to reduce Jeffrey Epstein's status as a sex offender, dropped an investigation into whether Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. had committed fraud in the marketing of the Trump Soho, and initially decided not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein despite solid evidence of his sex crimes. "He has a reputation for being particularly cautious when it comes to going after rich people, because he knows that those are the ones who can afford the really formidable law firms," says Victoria Bassetti, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice who served on the team of lawyers that oversaw the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. "And like most prosecutors, Vance is exceptionally protective of his win-loss rate."
But it was Vance who stepped up when the federal case against Trump faltered. "He's a politician," observes Martin Sheil, a former IRS criminal investigator. "He's got his finger up. He knows which way the wind's blowing, and he knows the wind in New York is blowing against Trump. It's in his political interest to join that bandwagon."
Last year, after U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District dropped their investigation into the hush money that Trump had paid Stormy Daniels, Vance took up the case. Suspecting that l'affaire Stormy might prove to be part of a larger pattern of shady dealings, his office started digging into Trump's finances. What Vance is investigating, according to court filings, is evidence of "extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization," potentially involving bank fraud, tax fraud, and insurance fraud. The New York Times has detailed how Trump and his family have long falsified records to avoid taxes, and during testimony before Congress in 2019, Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen stated that Trump had inflated the value of his assets to obtain a bank loan.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
Crucially, all of these alleged crimes occurred before Trump took office. That means no claims of executive privilege would apply to any charges Vance might bring, and no presidential pardon could make them go away. A whole slew of potential objections and delays would be ruled out right off the bat. What's more, the alleged offenses took place less than six years ago, within the statute of limitation for fraud in New York. Vance, in other words, is free to go after Trump not as a crooked president but as a common crook who happened to get elected president. And the fact that he has been pursuing these cases while Trump is president is a sign that he won't be intimidated by the stature of the office after Trump leaves it.
In writing up an indictment against Trump, Vance's team could try to string together a laundry list of offenses in hopes of presenting an overwhelming wall of guilt. But that approach, experts warn, can become confusing. "A two- or three-count indictment is easier to explain to a jury," says Ilene Jaroslaw, a former assistant U.S. Attorney. "If they think the person had criminal intent, it doesn't matter if it's two counts or 20 counts, in most cases, because the sentence will be the same."
There are two main charges that Vance is likely to pursue. The first is falsifying business records (N.Y. Penal Law § 175.10). During Cohen's trial, federal prosecutors filed a sentencing memorandum that explained how the Trump Organization had mischaracterized hush-money payments as "legal expenses" in its bookkeeping. Under New York law, falsifying records by itself is only a misdemeanor, but if it results in the commission of another crime, it becomes a felony. And false business records frequently lead to another offense: tax fraud (N.Y. Tax Law § 1806).
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.10
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/RPT/1806
If Trump cooked his books, observes Sheil, that false information would essentially "flow into the tax returns." The first crime begets the second, making both the bookkeeper and the tax accountant liable. "Since you have several folks involved," Sheil says, "you could either bring a conspiracy charge, maximum sentence five years, or you could charge each individual with aiding and abetting the preparation of a false tax return, with a max sentence of three years."
To build a fraud case against Trump, Vance subpoenaed his financial records. But those records alone won't be enough: To secure a conviction, Vance will need to convince a jury not only that Trump cheated on his taxes but that he intended to do so. "If you just have the documents, the defense will say that defendant didn't have criminal intent," Jaroslaw explains. "I call it the 'I'm an idiot' defense: 'I made a mistake. I didn't mean to do anything.' " Unfortunately for Trump, both Cohen and his longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg, have already signaled their willingness to cooperate with prosecutors. "What's great about having an accountant in the witness stand is that they can tell you about the conversation they had with the client," Jaroslaw says.
Through appeals, Trump has managed to drag out the battle over his tax returns. The case has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, back down to the district court, and back up to the appeals court. But Trump has lost at every stage, and it appears that his appeals could be exhausted this fall. Once Vance gets the tax returns, Eisen estimates, he could be ready to indict Trump as early as the second quarter of 2021.
Sheil, for one, believes Vance may already have Trump's financial records. It's routine procedure, he notes, for criminal tax investigators working with the Manhattan DA to obtain personal and business tax returns that are material to their inquiry. But issuing a subpoena to Trump's accountants may have been a way to signal to them that they could face criminal charges themselves unless they cooperate in the investigation.
Once indicted, Trump would be arraigned at New York Criminal Court, a towering Art Deco building at 100 Centre Street. Since a former president with a Secret Service detail can hardly slip away unnoticed, he would likely not be required to post bail or forfeit his passport while awaiting trial. His legal team, of course, would do everything it could to draw out the proceedings. Filing appeals has always been just another day at the office for Trump, who, by some estimates, has faced more than 4,000 lawsuits during the course of his career. But this time, his legal liability would extend to numerous other state and local jurisdictions, which will also be building cases against him. "There's like 1,037 other things where, if anybody put what he did under a microscope, they would probably find an enormous amount of financial improprieties," says Scott Shapiro, director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Yale University.
Even accounting for legal delays, many experts predict that Trump would go to trial in Manhattan by 2023. The proceedings would take place at the New York State Supreme Court Building. Assuming that the judge was prepared for an endless barrage of motions and objections from Trump's defense team, the trial might move quite quickly — no longer than a few months, according to some legal observers. And given the convictions that have been handed down against many of Trump's top advisers, there's reason to believe that even pro-Trump jurors can be persuaded to convict him. "The evidence was overwhelming," concluded one MAGA supporter who served on the jury that convicted Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman. "I did not want [him] to be guilty. But he was, and no one is above the law."
Trump's conviction would seal the greatest downfall in American politics since Richard Nixon. Unlike his associates who were sentenced to prison on federal charges, Trump would not be eligible for a presidential pardon or commutation, even from himself. And while his lawyers would file every appeal they can think of, none of it would spare Trump the indignity of imprisonment. Unlike the federal court system, which often allows prisoners to remain free during the appeals process, state courts tend to waste no time in carrying out punishment. After someone is sentenced in New York City, their next stop is Rikers Island. Once there, as Trump awaited transfer to a state prison, the man who'd treated the presidency like a piggy bank would receive yet another handout at the public expense: a toothbrush and toothpaste, bedding, a towel, and a green plastic cup.
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Mike Pompeo's wife asked State Department staff to work the week of Christmas so they could help her write personal holiday cards
https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pompeo-wife-state-department-staff-work-christmas-report-2020-9
Trump Gets More Extreme Because His Audience Is Addicted to Outrage
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/09/14/trump-gets-more-extreme-because-his-audience-is-addicted-to-outrage/
Every Trump lie is a confession. We call that projection.
The House oversight committee examines U.S. postal service and the mail-in voting process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBlze7AoTG4
https://www.c-span.org/video/?475718-1/house-oversight-subcommittee-hearing-us-postal-service&live
The Chief White House Ethics Lawyer for freakin' BUSH II is saying this? The sleaziest, most corrupt administration since Reagan and only outmatched by Trump? When that guy is throwing you under the bus, you know you done goofed.
Okay sure, there have been problems with the post office for years, but that doesn't explain why it is okay for sweeping changes to be made by a newly elected Pro-Trump Big Trump Donor Postmaster General just months before an election that have been exceedingly detrimental to service. In typical Republican fashion, they've spent years gutting it, creating impossible rules and now are "surprised" it's not perfect and put the blame on the people attempting to fly the crippled command module on zero power/resources. It's a systematic destruction of anything that is deemed "public" but "public" means it's not making profit. Kill the USPS, force people to use private mail delivery services, the upper management of which all donate to...Republicans
The biggest shock to me so far has been the lack of Gym Jordan. Absolutely not a complaint, just an observation.
Everything is partisan when one party absolutely refuses to cooperate with investigations into their own members.
You Republicans are on an OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, shouldn't you CARE about political contributions that go against the FUCKING LAW
And they're accusing someone who was the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2007 of being a Democrat
Their boy DeJoy removed and destroyed the highly efficient sorting machines
Carson Wentz has 19 fumbles in 17 games since the start of 2019. That's an insane amount and it's a disturbing trend because he's just not getting better at avoiding sack fumbles by holding on to the ball too long. #Eagles
https://twitter.com/eaglescentral/status/1305332302227144715
NFL exec Troy Vincent sent a "sharply worded" memo to clubs today, reminding coaches on importance of wearing face coverings on sideline, as @SeifertESPN reported. Different coaches approached mask rules in different ways -- and many noticed. If it continues, fines will ensue.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1305511920712253440
Tom Brady is the first QB to have 3 straight games with a pick six since Matt Schaub and Blaine Gabbert, who both did it in 2013
https://twitter.com/pfref/status/1305283748062269440
Jameis Winston "I took that personally"
DeJoy Gave $600,000 to Republicans After Postmaster Job Opened Up
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/dejoy-gave-600-000-to-gop-after-postmaster-job-opened-up
Oregon residents are illegally stopping drivers at gunpoint during wildfire evacuations
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/us/oregon-armed-checkpoints-wildfires-looting-trnd/index.html
South Dakota's Attorney General Told Deputies He Hit a Deer, But a Man Is Dead
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/south-dakotas-attorney-general-told-deputies-he-hit-a-deer-but-a-man-is-dead-investigators/
How Republicans Spread a False Rumor About Antifa and Wildfires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oregon-wildfire-antifa-false-rumors-1058252/
Joe Biden Speaks about Climate Change and Wildfires in California, Oregon, & Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUfJ4vr0g2E
Biden campaign adds more staff in Texas
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/14/biden-texas-campaign-staff-president-election/
Biden: You know what is actually threatening our suburbs? Fires.
A chunk of ice twice the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland in the last two years
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/europe/greenland-arctic-ice-shelf-intl/index.html
Burned jaguars, fire tornadoes: Blazes in Brazil wetland deliver climate warning
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-brazil-pantanal-insigh/burned-jaguars-fire-tornadoes-blazes-in-brazil-wetland-deliver-climate-warning-idUSKBN2651DZ
Dismay as huge chunk of Greenland's ice cap breaks off
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/dismay-huge-chunk-greenlands-ice-cap-breaks-rcna117
Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints. Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers already contribute 5 percent of sea-level rise. | Located along the coast of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, the enormous Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers already contribute around 5 percent of global sea-level rise. The survival of Thwaites has been deemed so critical that the United States and Britain have launched a targeted multimillion-dollar research mission to the glacier. The loss of the glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough ice to eventually raise seas by about 10 feet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/
https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912890117
America is fucked on the world stage. No one will trust us to keep our promises or keep things secret after Trump's pulling out of agreements and relentlessly attacking allies and cheerleading dictators and war criminals and attacking war crimes prosecutors and attacking women's rights globally and attacking international ngos and sharing intel with anyone in ear shot. Our economy is being eclipsed by others, and this pandemic is showing us to be a nation in decline.
A Federal Appeals Court Has Allowed The Trump Administration To End A Program That Allows 300,000 Legal Immigrants - Who Are Also Legal Residents With The Option To Become Citizens - To Live In The US. These People Will Now Be Immediately Deported.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/tps-court-decision-immigrants
Certainly defining moment of the day & a defining moment for the gamble Trump has imposed on his party: maxing out on non-col, evangelical, rural voters open to disparaging experts as "elitists" at price of worst performance ever w/col+ voters who tend to, you know, trust science
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1305607385466064896
CDC reports that STD testing has plummeted during the pandemic, with clinics closures and shortages of testing supplies. Rates of gonorrhea/chlamydia/syphilis were already at record levels before Covid, and health officials warn it could get worse.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/std-testing-drops-coronavirus-414521
"Through Friday, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Iowa had added more recent cases per capita than all other states."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/13/us/coronavirus-cases-midwest.html
Trump just retweeted this. The tweet includes a TikTok of people taking off their face coverings to the song "We're Not Gonna Take It."
https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1305617130596040704
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Asssociation just reported that nearly 550,000 children in the U.S. have tested positive for coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Of those, nearly 73,000 children tested positive between Aug. 27-Sept.10.
https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1305611966124261378
Just spent a few hours text banking for the Democrats in PA. The complaints about Biden were consistent across the board: 1. Biden is mentally/physically unfit, and 2. Biden is a pedophile. The propaganda machine is hard at work!
https://twitter.com/sharonasoks/status/1304896521402568705
You can't talk about accountability for war crimes in the Navy's Twitch chat, but apparently they'll happily engage with people celebrating mass slaughter and racism: After banning Twitch users who asked about war crimes in Twitch chat, the Navy streamed with "close friends" that used names such as "Nagasaki" and "Japan 1945," referring to the nuclear bombing of Japan, as well as "Gamer Word," a reference to the N-Word
https://vice.com/en_us/article/7kp3db/a-us-navy-twitch-stream-included-jokes-about-nagasaki-and-the-n-word
In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court keeps the Green Party ticket off of Wisconsin's ballot. Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joins the court's three liberals to form a majority. This means clerks do not have to reprint ballots and can now mail them.
https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1305623674062503938
Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins series begins tonight. Imagine a Chicago White Sox vs Chicago Cubs series....played in....Arlington, Texas
Federal Judge Rules Pennsylvania pandemic restrictions unconstitutional
https://6abc.com/health/judge-pennsylvanias-pandemic-restrictions-unconstitutional/6422411/
Pennsylvania's blue-collar Democrats back Trump, Democrats are done (as I keep saying)
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-15/trump-tries-to-run-up-the-score-in-former-obama-counties
Qhat incredible determination and love of country. This wasn't the 1st time Navalny was poisoned, but it was by far the deadliest: He's not planning to go into exile in Germany,...He wants to go home to Russia and he wants to continue his mission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/world/europe/navalny-novichok.html
.@defede says the Trump campaign has been effective in courting evangelical Cuban-American voters in Florida, with an anti-socialism message that's resonating: "Joe Biden appears to be getting blown out among Cuban-American voters" http://cbsnews.com/live
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1305631858995220481
Trump and Republicans claim to support peaceful protest. What is more peaceful than taking a knee or staying in the locker room?
Horrifying whistelblower complaint detailing ICE sterilizing people in immigration detention. "It was like they're experimenting with our bodies"
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center
Indoor Trump Nevada rally site fined $3,000 for violating state ban on large gatherings
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/516414-indoor-trump-nevada-rally-site-fined-3000-for-violating-state-ban-on
Navarro blocked from testifying to House panel about ventilator deal
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/peter-navarro-ventilator-deal-testimony-blocked-414799
Five days? Trump has been refusing to release his tax returns for more than five years.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1305664118033182722
I know we are all immune to his lying, but he has led events where people are maskless inside, and people have died. And he still does it. I will ask again: isn't this manslaughter?
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1305666903269142528
Donald Trump used federal agents to fire on protesters, is undermining the post office to screw up mail ballots and has continually attacked legitimate voting, but the real threat to democracy is Pletka's fever dream of a Foxnewsified Biden. This is not remotely serious.
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1305666141566775296
Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/trump-ad-asks-people-to-support-the-troops-but-it-uses-a-picture-of-russian-jets-414883
.@JoeBiden: "If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze? If you give a climate denier four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is underwater?"
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1305566987523891201
Mercedes-Benz fined $1.5 billion for emissions cheating
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mercedes-benz-daimler-emissions-cheating-1-5-billion-fine/
Nationally, Covid19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline driven by sharp improvement in the sunbelt; but concerning trends in the Midwest present challenges for our national picture heading into the Fall.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1305652262040211458
The new 20k jobs in the US will be sold as the payment: That payment to the US Treasury that Trump was demanding from the buyer of TikTok - not going to happen.
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1305570595120328706
https://www.ft.com/content/0ccd4a25-381f-46a7-a9e6-ee12ecf1aa88
I'm waiting for the "Fascism is good for democracy" opeds and "we need fascism to protect against antifa and BLM" panels on cable news.
US officials shepherding Trump's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE have been worried for years they could be charged with war crimes over deaths in Yemen. But State Dept. leaders have concealed the legal risks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/us-war-crimes-yemen-saudi-arabia.html
Medicaid rolls swell amid the pandemic’s historic job losses, straining state budgets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-medicaid-enrollment-increases/2020/09/14/84b6249a-e6f1-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html
Trump wants to jail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to keep him quiet, extradition hearing told
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40049201.html
Judge rules Chad Wolf unlawfully served as Homeland Security secretary and blocks some asylum restrictions
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/judge-chad-wolf/index.html
Reminder: Russian jets identified in Trump campaign ad calling on support for the troops
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516421-trump-ad-mistakenly-uses-image-of-russian-jets-in-call-to-support-the
Drew Pomeranz since being converted to a reliever by the Giants last July: 47.2 IP, 1.33 ERA, 75K
Kershaw records a loss against the Padres for the first time since 2013
Will Myers hits his 13 home run of the season to extend Padres lead 7 to 1
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/a49b985e-27c1-4c7c-b8f8-b6fb907620f8.mp4
Dinelson Lamet is the first pitcher to strike out 10 Dodgers in a game this season
Dinelson Lamet tonight vs. the Dodgers: 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 11 K on 98 pitches. His season ERA is now 2.12
Trent Grisham crushes a monstrous solo shot off Clayton Kershaw to tie the SD-LAD game up at 1-1
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/792a55a0-061b-4f93-a72e-4f1c17e14bfa.mp4
Mike Minor gets complete-game shutout: 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 2 BB, 8K on 102 pitches
The Orioles scored 3 runs in 4 games against the Yankees. Tonight, they have 14 runs in 8 innings against the braves.
Health officials worldwide are receiving death threats because of their work to educate the public and stop the spread of COVID-19
https://www.businessinsider.com/health-officials-worldwide-receive-death-threats-for-covid-19-response-2020-9
Tribal nations face continued voter suppression
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.10/ideas-election2020-tribal-nations-face-continued-voter-suppression
Sewage from US Embassy, NATO headquarters dumped into Kabul River due to aging infrastructure
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/sewage-from-us-embassy-nato-headquarters-dumped-into-kabul-river-due-to-aging-infrastructure-1.644860
"You know what’s actually threatening our suburbs? Wildfires." - @JoeBiden👇
https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1305653481680764928
The first chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden Unit is now urging a civil war against the "terrorists" of Black Lives Matter and millions of other Americans. He represents this summer’s phenomenon of the war on terror being aimed at home.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-scheuer-hunted-bin-laden-for-cia-now-he-wants-americans-dead
He read the whole book in one night between tweets: Trump says he read Bob Woodward’s new book last night. "I read it very quickly. And it was very boring."
Facebook will not change its approach to combating climate misinformstion
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-unveils-new-climate-initiative-won-t-change-policy-misinformation-n1240091
Public health experts say it's unlikely a vaccine will be approved for use before the election
[2012] No surprise. @DNC displayed Russian ships in tribute to vets. Did they mean to honor the Russians?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/245972395532365824
Repeated Reminder: Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/trump-ad-asks-people-to-support-the-troops-but-it-uses-a-picture-of-russian-jets-414883
[2013] Only the Obama WH can get away with criticizing Bob Woodward
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/307582196196188160
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-criticize-obama-woodward/
Today: Trump says he read Bob Woodward’s new book last night. "I read it very quickly. And it was very boring."
We've hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach.
https://twitter.com/memgrizz/status/1304445300153757697
The Memphis Grizzlies today announced the team has added Sonia Raman as assistant coach. Raman (SOHN-ya RAH-mun) comes to Memphis following 12 seasons (2008-20) as the head women’s basketball coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Engineers enjoyed unprecedented success under Raman, winning the program’s first two New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championships (2018, 2019) and reaching the championship game in 2020.
https://www.nba.com/grizzlies/news/memphis-grizzlies-add-sonia-raman-as-assistant-coach-200911
Questionable hysterectomies of illegal immigrants at Georgia detention centre
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-nurse-questionable-hysterectomies-shoddy-covid-care-georgia-immigrant-detention-center-dawn-wooten/
Kyler Murray ran the ball 13 times for 91 yards. He slid, went out of bounds or scored on 12 of the 13 runs. He was only tackled one time (pulled down by the shirt). He's mastered the ability to protect himself on the move. It's teaching tape for athletic QB's.
https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/1305547245601787905
DeAndre Hopkins made his debut for the Cardinals with a career high 14 receptions for 151 yards
Gostkowski is first kicker to miss 3 FGs and 1 PAT in the same game since Mason Crosby missed 4 FGs and 1 PAT for Packers vs Lions 10/7/18
https://twitter.com/JoshDubowAP/status/1305728830296842242?s=20
TJ Watt picks off Daniel Jones
https://streamable.com/f71h0i
The #Cowboys had the third-worst graded offensive line performance in Week 1 by @PFF
https://twitter.com/marcus_mosher/status/1305854638286135296
Daniel Jones was the highest graded player on offensive last night with an 82.1 overall, best of his career so far. Jones was under pressure on 26 drop-backs, 6 more than any other QB in week 1. Not a bad start to the season for the 2nd year QB.
https://twitter.com/pff_giants/status/1305866788509552642
Cam Heyward intercepts Daniel Jones in the redzone
https://streamable.com/6rywik
Titans LB Rashaan Evans ejected for throwing punch
https://twitter.com/_SteveFrederick/status/1305701310554165249
Of Saquon Barkley's 9 rushes in the first half, 6 went for negative yardage. One went for 1 yard. 9 carries, -3 rushing yards in the first-half for Barkley. Nowhere to run.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1305667090687422464
Republican-controlled Ohio state budget board rejects Ohio Republican Sect of State plan to pre-pay postage for mail ballots | Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose came up short on Monday, after members of his own party on the Ohio Controlling Board voted 4-2 to deny his request for $3 million to cover postage costs for ballots this fall."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/ohio-postage-absentee-ballots/index.html
Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Administration’s 'Legally Dubious and Illogical’ Gutting Of Diversity Visa Policy
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-halts-trumps-administrations-legally-dubious-and-illogical-diversity-visa-policy/
U.S. Justice Department subpoenas publisher of John Bolton's book
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bolton/u-s-justice-department-subpoenas-publisher-of-john-boltons-book-report-idUSKBN2662T2?il=0
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/912871341/grand-jury-issued-criminal-subpoenas-in-connection-with-john-bolton-book
Information cannot be both false AND classified. Are these authors liars making up fake news or are they part of an evil cabal leaking classified information? Both? Neither? Projection, yeah.
More than 20,000 Mail Ballots Were Tossed Out in Pennsylvania’s 2020 Primaries | That's half of Trump's margin of 40,000 votes in the state in 2016.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kp33a/more-than-20000-mail-ballots-were-tossed-out-in-pennsylvanias-2020-primaries
The lesson here is to fill out the paperwork SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY, AND DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR WORK.
World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/15/every-global-target-to-stem-destruction-of-nature-by-2020-missed-un-report-aoe
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden In First-Ever Presidential Endorsement
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/
There is tremendous pressure on the LA Clippers organization tonight, especially with the Lakers rested and waiting for the conference finals. Everything the Clippers organization has done over the last couple of years is to go through the Lakers.
Heat renew a bitter rivalry vs Celtics from earlier this decade, when the two teams faced off in three consecutive playoffs. Miami is embracing this new underdog version of the Heat, a role they certainly never played when they were winning championships with LeBron and Dwyane Wade.
http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/
The Arctic Is Shifting to a New Climate Because of Global Warming
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/climate/arctic-changing-climate.html
Staggering Number of Hysterectomies Happening at ICE Facility, Whistleblower Says
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93578d/staggering-number-of-hysterectomies-happening-at-ice-facility-whistleblower-say
Wildfires in the West are so bad that Washington DC is getting smokey skies today: Smoke in D.C.'s skies today traveled thousands of miles from the West Coast | The smoke is graying out what would otherwise be sparkling blue skies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/15/wildfire-smoke-dc-maryland-virginia/
Donald Trump called voting by mail "refreshingly democratic" in 2000 New York Times op-ed
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/15/donald-trump-called-voting-by-mail-refreshingly-democratic-in-2000-new-york-times-op-ed/
He also called the Clintons wonderful people who he loved hanging out with and praised Hillary Clinton and hoped she'd win the Senate. Never ceases to amaze me how this guy can reverse course, lie, and scapegoat on such easily documented positions and there's still a huge swathe of voting Americans who gleefully wrap everything they own in his brand.
North Carolina Senate Debate: I liked the part where Tillis (R) listed all of "communist" Cunningham’s (D) accomplishments. I didn’t know half of them! So impressed. Cunningham was like "seriously dude?"
Thom doesn't believe that restaurant employees should be forced to wash their hands. Thom Tillis a one dumb mother fucker. I will let you come to the correct conclusion that he was NOT joking when making reference to the issue of hand washing. He very explicitly states that restaurants should NOT be forced to make employees wash their hands. HE IS NOT JOKING. You are welcome to pretend that he was joking, but the reality is that he was NOT.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/politics/tillis-washing-hands-bathroom/index.html
Cal Cunningham
https://www.calfornc.com/get-involved/
The West is on fire. Smoke is raining on baseball games. And MLB has another big problem. "I'm a healthy 22-year-old. I shouldn't be gasping for air," A's pitcher Jesús Luzardo said. "I'll leave it at that."
https://twitter.com/nickgroke/status/1305917769125257216
Official announcement. No off-days during wild-card round, Division Series and League Championship Series. Will be played straight through.
https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1305927832267304968
Not going the full series just got very important. Could see some postseason 5-man rotations then. Three bullpen games for the Toronto Blue Jays....Disastrous for the Atlanta Braves.....Bullpen management just got reaaaaaaaaaaaaal tricky....Great job MLB for pushing this after the trade deadline has passed and teams have constructed their rosters based on the assumption of a traditional postseason schedule 👍 Dodgers are loving this. Only team in the league that has 6 above average starting pitchers healthy and ready to go right now. As if they needed another advantage
2020 MLB Postseason Schedule
https://twitter.com/JDJohnDickinson/status/1305927181072097280
2020 MLB Postseason Brackets
https://i.redd.it/blg1u25bncn51.jpg
Egyptologists and conservationists say the highways could cause irrevocable damage to one of the world's most important heritage sites.
https://af.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-antiquities-idAFKBN2662BL
Republicans are seeking authority to expand the counterterrorism drone war to Kenya
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/shabab-drone-authorities-kenya.html
Good, close all bars: Hilton Brothers to Close Seven Bars 'for Foreseeable Future' on Halloween
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/322381/hilton-brothers-to-close-seven-bars-for-foreseeable-future-on-halloween/
Trump admits truth of Bob Woodward report he lambasted as 'fiction' two years ago,
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/fact-check-trump-fox-and-friends-assad-mattis/index.html
(1/5) Here's the sequence of events so far: On August 7, a wedding was held in Millinocket. Approximately 65 people attended. It was indoors. There wasn't much mask compliance. It has now become a COVID-19 super-spreading event, the biggest so far in Maine.
https://twitter.com/PPHEricRussell/status/1305935762236604416
(2/5) One adult wedding guest saw a parent some time after the event. That parent then saw another child, an adult who works at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation Center in Madison. @MEPublicHealth
believes that's how the Millinocket wedding outbreak spread to the nursing home.
https://twitter.com/PPHEricRussell/status/1305935763239063555
(3/5) As of Tuesday, six residents of of Maplecrest have died and that number could go up. In all, there have been 39 cases between residents and staff at the nursing home.
https://twitter.com/PPHEricRussell/status/1305935764199542784
(4/5) The Aug. 7 wedding also has been linked to an outbreak of more than 70 cases at the York County Jail. A staff member at the jail was confirmed to have attended the wedding. York County is now the biggest COVID-19 hot-spot in Maine and has public health officials worried.
https://twitter.com/PPHEricRussell/status/1305935765248135168
(5/5) Another outbreak in York County is at the Calvary Baptist Church, whose pastor, Todd Bell, officiated the Millinocket wedding and has openly defied the state's guidelines on masks and physical distancing.
https://twitter.com/PPHEricRussell/status/1305935766317682688
Good point from Woodward about the travel ban on China that Trump cites constantly: "If this was such a big deal, he would have gone out and announced it. Instead, he sent the secretary of health and human services, [Alex] Azar, to announce it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/woodward-trump-book-coronavirus/2020/09/15/34778718-f771-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html
13+ injuries in Ashdod, Israel: rockets fired by Palestinian Islamic terrorists from Gaza during White House "peace accord" signing. Israel has had normalized relations with the UAE and Bahrain for 70+ years. Israel and the UAE and Bahrain never went to war with each other, they've been diplomatically engaged from 1947 to the present. The "normalization agreements" between the UAE and Bahrain are not worth the ink with which they were written when Palestinian terrorism is permanent thanks to Republicans.
https://apnews.com/49a8e30bbb90077c641f7f0f78aa770e
LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday that most of his team has contracted COVID-19. "Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron told reporters.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29892180/lsu-coach-ed-orgeron-most-team-contracted-coronavirus
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday the House will remain in session until lawmakers deliver another round of COVID-19 relief.
https://apnews.com/fbbce48bf37ec9917edd1f65dd83c155
Interesting that both Ryan and Johnson, icons of Obama-era Republican success, dramatically under-rated Biden. Ryan suggested he couldn't win primary, and Johnson didn't start a too-late probe until Biden won a primary.
Johnson's comments here: https://wclo.com/episode/9-15-20-bill-smith-president-of-the-the-wisconsin-civil-justice-council-followed-by-senator-ron-johnson/. Says this is tit-for-tat for Trump's impeachment. Importantly, this is an investigation into Biden's conduct as VP that ended 4 years ago, but only began when Biden started winning primaries, and is being rushed for pre-election.
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1305928068163350528
So the chairman of the committee is acknowledging that he is using taxpayer funds and a Congressional committee for direct political ends, as he tries to influence the presidential campaign.
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1305929963594547200
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream. Sara Goldrick-Rab is coeditor of Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability and has written on education issues for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and the Atlantic, Slate, and NPR have covered her work. She founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation's first research laboratory aimed at making college affordable, and is a noted influence on the development of both federal and state higher education policies. Dr. Goldrick-Rab is professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. Follow her on Twitter @saragoldrickrab.
https://www.amazon.com/Paying-Price-Financial-Betrayal-American/dp/022640434X
We FOIA'd the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for communications with Mitch McConnell's staff. We obtained documents that show McConnell's office requested special consideration for Kentucky interests in trade negotiations.
https://www.americanoversight.org/document/ustr-communications-with-sen-mitch-mcconnells-office
Not preparing for climate is going to be much, much worse than even not preparing for the evil COVID virus.
This is why Trump and Republicans WIN: Trump boasts that Nevada's governor 'failed' to stop him breaking covid-19 rules to hold a rally indoors
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-brags-nevada-gov-failed-stop-indoor-rally-pandemic-2020-9
I feel like the President of the United States criticizing a Governor for not doing more to stop them from breaking state rules is weird, right? Especially when that same president has a political ad that is praising Trump for implementing "Safety Precautions" to stop coronavirus19. Watch what he does, not what he says.
It's interesting to watch him give an important statement. He'll read his prepared statement like a kid being forced to read aloud in class, wriggling with boredom and annoyance. When he goes off script and starts making shit up, then he comes to life. The written statement is what FoxNews reports, the off script is what the rest of the world watches with horror.
U.S. drops tariffs on Canadian aluminum
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/u-s-drops-tariffs-on-canadian-aluminum-1.5105292
ICE Has Deported a Woman Who Said Guards Sexually Assaulted Her While the Investigation Is Ongoing
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-has-deported-a-woman-who-said-guards-sexually-assaulted-her-while-the-investigation-is-ongoing
NBA players will debut new warm-up shirts displaying "VOTE" for the remainder of the Eastern and Western Conference Finals and 2020 NBA Finals.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1305945477817434118
WTO rules Trump tariffs on Chinese goods illegal
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/516501-wto-rules-trump-tariffs-on-chinese-goods-illegal
The lead NSC classification official told Bolton she did not believe it contained classified information, and Trump called everything in the book lies, the Republican lawsuit is dead on arrival
Gardner ran for Congress in 2010 as a fierce opponent of Obamacare, voted numerous times to repeal it in the House, and voted to advance the repeal push in the Senate in 2017. He has not rescinded his support for repeal, which would overturn existing preexisting condition laws.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1305881678175498240
Sad to see the US tumbling in international esteem in a new @pewresearch survey, apparently partly because of Trump and partly because of mishandling of Covid-19. This is 75 years of carefully banked American soft power that is being lost.
https://apnews.com/452aa6fcfda71c3e47857752aea79395
Michael Caputo called emergency meeting to apologize to staff for his actions, is meeting with Azar to discuss his future
https://politico.com/news/2020/09/15/michael-caputo-apology-hhs-staff-415206
OF Giancarlo Stanton, 3B Gio Urshela, and RHP Jonathan Loaisiga activated from the IL
https://twitter.com/yankees/status/1305947582192119813
It's unclear yet as to whether Rhys Hoskins will need Tommy John surgery to repair the UCL in his non-throwing arm. It's still being evaluated.
https://twitter.com/m_montemurro/status/1305948190932447232
Aaron Boone said they just learned this week that there will not be off days during the ALDS and ALCS. That indicates teams didn't know this before the trade deadline.
https://twitter.com/lindseyadler/status/1305965929893974017
The SF Giants - Mariners games are officially postponed because of poor air quality in Seattle, with those games now expected to be played at Oracle Park in San Francisco. The Athletics and Mariners voiced complaints Monday playing under those conditions
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1305975940254580736
The San Francisco Giants are flying home after their scheduled game against the Seattle Mariners was postponed due to smoky and very unhealthy air from wildfires burning in the Northwest. Seattle air quality Tuesday afternoon was indexed at 267.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Giants-flying-home-as-smoke-forces-postponement-15569552.php
It's Likely Washington Will Be Working From Home Until Next Summer
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/15/its-likely-washington-may-be-working-from-home-until-next-summer/
The health department's top spokesperson Michael Caputo might be soon departing his role. Caputo lied that the CDC was harboring a "resistance unit." There has been some anonymous White House criticism about Caputo's mental health.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1305982239688331269
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We reached out several times to @TeamTrump, the @GOP and @NRSC to ask about these Designated-Domestic-Terrorist QAnon contributions. None of them returned @BusinessInsider's messages.
https://businessinsider.com/qanon-donations-trump-republican-party-elections-2020-9
Trump's gains with Asian-Americans according to APIA and NAAS from 2016:
Vietnamese +15%
Indians +12%
Koreans +8%
Filipino +6%
Japanese +5%
Chinese -15%
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1305979430075019267
Eric Trump is currently on Sean Hannity's radio show claiming that his father will win New Jersey (!) unless the Democrats do fraud: The president is on Fox & Friends claiming that the governor of Nevada trying to stop his campaign from holding an indoor rally means that he's definitely going to try to rig the election and that's the only way he can lose the state, insane and dangerous stuff with no pushback.
https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1305842266184048641
There is no peace between Israel and Arabs/Muslims or between pro-Palestinian Americans and pro-two-state-solution Americans: A New Jersey man who authorities said sought to aid the Islamic militant group Hamas and threatened to "shoot everybody" at an unspecified pro-Israel demonstration pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge.
https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1305980653205422083
About 3.7% of adults reported that their household had "not enough to eat" sometimes or often in the 12 months of 2019, CBPP analysis of USDA data show, compared to about 10% of adults reporting this problem in the past week in August Household Pulse data
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/food-need-very-high-compared-to-pre-pandemic-levels-making-relief-imperative
As part of the settlement, Louisville agreed to changes in policing aimed at preventing future deaths, including more oversight by top commanders and mandatory safeguards that were common department practice but were not followed the night of the raid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/breonna-taylor-settlement-louisville.html
Only two years ago, Central Park removed a statue of J. Marion Sims, a white man who made a name for himself by experimenting on the bodies of black enslaved women without anesthesia. The statue honoring him had been in place since the 1890s.
https://twitter.com/theferocity/status/1305931928919519235?s=20
just a shitty reminder that ICE performing hysterectomies on immigrant women is just an extension of american empire and modern gynecology (see: j marion sims)
https://twitter.com/e_alexjung/status/1305929268430503937
Trump's federal budget is bigger than Biden's war chest. Analysis: Democrats are excited by Joe Biden's record fundraising haul. But the Democratic nominee is facing a president who's happy to use tax dollars to win re-election.. You can't underestimate the immense platform we have as an incumbent to get our message out and project a presidential message for free...That is worth billions of dollars.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-federal-budget-bigger-biden-s-campaign-war-chest-n1240166
Texas Supreme Court Illegally And Unconstitutionally Orders Green Party Candidates - All Of Whom Are Republicans, None Of Whom Met The Election Process Criteria - On The Ballot, Necessitating Some Delay in Printing and Mailing Ballots (Court Also Barred Harris County from Sending Absentee Ballot Applications Pending Further Order)
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=115251
You've heard of "Shy Trump voter." How bout "Shy Miami Latino Biden voter"? "I really feel a lot of people are shy to say that they're not for Trump," said Melissa Breda, who told me she was born in Italy to Venezuelan parents.
https://twitter.com/NewsbySmiley/status/1304141618518335490
In the Clippers vs Nuggets Series the Clippers have shot 146 Free Throws while the Nuggets have shot 132
https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/2020-nba-western-conference-semifinals-nuggets-vs-clippers.html
Coach Michael Malone on potentially upsetting the Clippers in Game 7: I almost feel like we're The Bad News Bears and I'm Coach Buttermaker, we're a team that nobody really looks at and takes us seriously. And our guys, I think, have taken that personally. But we don't believe (that label). We don't believe that's what we are. We feel that we're just as good as anybody. We feel like we're an NBA championship-caliber team. Everybody counted us out in the Utah series. Everyone's counted us out going into this (Clippers) series. I think on ESPN, they had polled 19 of their 'experts' and most had us losing in four games or five games, a few in six. And not one person picked us to get to Game 7 or win the series. And I understand that. But I think it's something that we've embraced. We've enjoyed playing the role of a spoiler. This is, hey, it's all about the Boston Celtics, the Miami Heat, the Lakers. And everybody can't wait for the (All-) Los Angeles Western Conference finals. But there's a little city in Colorado called Denver. And you know, we're trying to do our part to make some noise and kind of further cement our position in the Western Conference and the NBA hierarchy. Because we feel we belong there.
https://www.dailynews.com/2020/09/14/kawhi-leonard-michael-malone-nuggets-clippers-game-7-preview-nba-playoffs-2020/
Jamal Murray in Game 7's (3 games) - 19/3/3 on .344/.083/.940 splits
GASE'D: Jets place Bell on IR
https://twitter.com/kimjonessports/status/1305962624660766720
A Florida judge today ordered free-agent WR Antonio Brown to turn over within 15 days text messages and other evidence requested by attorneys for the woman who has accused him of rape and sexual assault in an ongoing civil case, I'm told. Trial is set for December.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1305959118365130753
The judge also denied without prejudice a request to order a psychiatric evaluation for Brown, who is suspended for the first eight games of the 2020 NFL season over two unrelated incidents. The league has kept the door open for additional discipline if new evidence emerges.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1305959251366608896
The last time the Saints and Raiders played, down 34-27, Derek Carr would lead the Raiders down the field and score with a TD pass to Seth Roberts. A gutsy call was made by Jack Del Rio to go for 2. Derek Carr would connect with Michael Crabtree for the 2pt Conversion. Raiders win, 35-34
https://streamable.com/i1y2t6
Republican Oregon state senator who stopped climate change vote loses home to wildfire and makes it clear he only cares about whether or not he can rebuild in the same spot and nothing more
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oregon-fred-girod-house-wildfires-climate-change-b448017.html
Top aides to South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Jaime Harrison have made anti-Semitic, sexist, and homophobic remarks online.
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/top-aides-to-graham-challenger-have-history-of-anti-semitic-sexist-homophobic-comments/
Defense Secretary Mark Esper promised more diversity at the Pentagon. Instead, the Trump administration moved or promoted at least 11 white men to senior positions at the Pentagon in the past three months.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/esper-pentagon-diversity-white-house-414901
The HHS secretary revoked the FDA's authority to review the quality of private labs' coronavirus tests. The head of the FDA "viewed the move as inappropriate and ill-timed ... during a public health crisis." Trump officials keep ignoring experts.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/hhs-alex-azar-overrode-fda-testing-rules-415400
Trump has decimated civility and dragged all of us down with him. Example: CNBC's awful Jim Cramer calls Speaker Pelosi "Crazy Nancy" to her face, as if that's ok to say to the Speaker of the House.
https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/1305895371546202112
Best part of this story is the Trump supporters and bots threatening to cancel their subscriptions, as if they had ever read the magazine in the first place. Christian Science Monitor in shambles amid inexplicable subscriber exodus
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-receives-endorsement-scientific-american-magazine-s-first-175-year-n1240134
The main Election Protection coalition (866-OUR-VOTE)
https://866ourvote.org/
DOJ to announce Chinese hacking charges (and arrests!) tomorrow.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eh_T4PxWsAEEVIg?format=jpg&name=900x900
Done. Now do President Trump.
https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime/status/1305967288311582721
With all the other things in this interview, a President even considering and then openly expressing the potential of the assassination of another nation's leader is jaw-dropping: Trump is confirming that he wanted to order an assassination against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which Bob Woodward reported in his first Trump book, "Fear" "I would've rather taken him out," Trump says, claiming there was an opening to do so
https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1305848207981842432
Charlie Kirk's c4 enlists minors in "troll farm" spreading coordinated pro-Trump messaging
-Thousands of identical posts lifted from shared doc
-Users nowhere disclose ties to Turning Point
-Twitter and Facebook acted after our questions
https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1305992812840837126?s=20
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a 'troll farm,' prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
Kamala Harris Said Biden Administration Would Decriminalize Marijuana
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-joe-biden-administration-decriminalize-marijuana
In Florida, as race tightens, Biden outlines a plan for Puerto Rico’s recovery
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article245724355.html
More Woodward Audio Reveals Trump Insisting COVID-19 Is A Deadly Plague #TrumpKnew: New Woodward audio from April 13 via CNN:
TRUMP: This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance.
WOODWARD: Yes, yes, exactly.
TRUMP: So this rips you apart.
WOODWARD: This is a scourge. And--
TRUMP: It is the plague.https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1305665212201275396
That is some of the best defense I have seen this Celtics team play
Gets the brooms ready for this series
I have heard so much Theis slander this season and I love watching him prove everyone wrong
Great perimeter defense by Theis
Miami has a team filled with good, hard working players and a smart coach leading them. Even if Miami looses this game, they will make adjustments and come back better
Crowder's 3 pt shot trajectory is so flat I never think it's going in
The Heat are struggling so much to create anything off the dribble because outside of Bam the Celtics just have better athletes. The Heat also are struggling with their motion stuff because Boston is just switching it. Maybe more Jimmy/Bam PnR could help with this.
Crowder shot very well in the Milwaukee series (and since he was traded to Miami in general, apart from round 1). Whether he's able to continue that could be a big factor - mid-40's % from 3 vs mid-30's is big difference
Celtics defense is scary. The Heat have to respond because they look lost.
Theis says NO
Well that's the Marcus we know
It's probably frustrating as hell when Smart takes rash shots like that at the start of the shot clock but it's still fucking terrifying for the other team, in this case, the Heat, who are feeling the Celtic heat
The most important Senate primary of 2020 is happening today in the state where I was born and raised. I talked to @JessforDelaware for @discourse_blog about her race and how the path to power in the Senate runs through small states
https://twitter.com/pblest/status/1305881616879882241
https://discourseblog.substack.com/p/the-most-important-senate-primary
Fascinating reporting on how Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group, has built a troll farm to secretly enlist teenagers in spreading Trump talking points and disinformation designed to evade social media guardrails: "In 2016, there were Macedonian teenagers interfering in the election by running a troll farm and writing salacious articles for money," said Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. "In this election, the troll farm is in Phoenix."
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
We wasted our chance to get a better summer in the spring. We wasted our chance to plan for the fall in the summer. We’re wasting time again now. Next year isn’t that far away. https://nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/coronavirus-precautions.html
The Slovenian Dragon👀
Kemba needs to get it going
Theis has never intentionally made a basket in his life. His entire reality is a disjointed amalgam of marginally understanding positive feedback when he performs certain actions. Some youth coach told him to seem mad whenever he got fouled. Another youth coach told him to look happy when the ball went in the basket and he last touched it. Sometimes you can see hints of this, like how elated he seems when he goaltends.
Did I just see Kevin Smith next to a nun in the virtual stands?
Bruh is that a nun in the virtual
3 points, 3 threes attempted, 3 fouls in 3 minutes
Iggy was deadass running as hard as he could LMAO
Are the announcers even watching this game? They just keep telling stories and talking about the next game
Not sure I had Brad Wanamker causing trouble for the Heat on my game 1 bingo card
Heat depth might be a big problem for the Celtics. Imagine playing Wannamaker and you see the Heat bring Iggy off the bench
Trainer Nick Paparesta said Matt Chapman had hip labrum repaired and a cleanup of femoral head. They were told 4-month recovery.
https://twitter.com/matthewkawahara/status/1306001932738150400
Jae Money
LeBron is on virtual screen lol
Miami’s offense is relentless
.@ricky_martin speaks ahead of Biden appearance in Kissimmee, Fla. "After Hurricane Maria, we saw how he tossed paper towels for a photo op," Martin says of Pres. Trump. "while asking the Cabinet if he could sell Puerto Rico."
https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1306018317614940161
"If you told me 4 years ago that Seminole would go blue, I would’ve laughed in your face. But...It’s spreading from Orlando into the surrounding areas. Just look at the highway system, it’s like a heart pumping blue blood in every direction from Orlando"
https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1306016673980350465
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This story is light in tone, and young people voting against Trump may be enough for the Dems to win this time, but if Biden wins the party may want to ponder exactly how it's going to address the gap between younger and older Dems' vision for the future:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/joe-biden-youth-vote-turnout/616168/
Is This the Secret to Selling Joe Biden?
Young people aren’t particularly excited about Joe Biden. One strategy to change their mind? Convince them that they’re voting for a big, progressive crew.
Olga Khazan
September 12, 2020
Ben Wessel was nervous. Joe Biden had just won the Democratic nomination, and the youth-focused super PAC Wessel runs, NextGen America, now had to figure out how to persuade the generation of TikTok and trigger warnings to turn out to vote for a 77-year-old man best known for record players and malarkey.
https://apnews.com/857ff63c9dbd4ac9988f51a30df00f05
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/02/unexpected-nostalgia-bidens-malarkey/
Much of NextGen’s staff supported Senators Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. Wessel, who is 31 and a D.C. native, liked Warren best too. "There are so many people on our staff who were like, I don’t know if he was in my top three," Wessel told me recently.
And Wessel’s worries about Biden weren’t just personal. Although the former vice president still leads Donald Trump in the polls overall, Trump backers are more likely to "strongly support" Trump than Biden backers are to strongly support Biden. Biden supporters said they were not as "excited to vote" for him as Trump supporters were to vote for Trump, nor are they as "enthusiastic" about their candidate, according to polls done in recent months. This problem is especially pronounced among young people, whose votes Sanders, not Biden, won in every state on Super Tuesday. Today, Biden’s net favorability rating is negative among voters under 35, according to a recent CNN analysis. (In response to a request for comment about these figures, Biden campaign spokesperson Jamal Brown said, "Poll after poll shows Joe Biden leading the race, and our campaign will be working hard to win every vote.")
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/biden-trump-polling.html
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/the-2020-trump-biden-matchup/
https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/axios-trump-voters-protests/
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/31/reality-check-trump-biden-enthusiasm-gap
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/super-tuesday-2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/youth-voters-biden-analysis/index.html
Biden’s victory in the primary launched a period of mourning and freaking out among young people, Wessel said. A dozen years ago, Barack Obama seemed like liberal Millennials’ cool college friend—slightly older, much smarter, potentially willing to get you weed. Millennials had a crush on Obama. He was our new bicycle. And Joe Biden—well, he was also there!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/obama-talks-smoking-weed-with-college-students/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-meme-to-paperback-barack-obama-is-your-new-bicycle/
All of this left Wessel with a problem, given that his job is to get Democrats into office, regardless of whether they are cool. In May, NextGen announced it planned to spend $45 million to help Biden beat Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-05-27/biden-scores-45m-commitment-from-steyer-backed-youth-voter-group
To see what messages might resonate with young voters, Wessel and his colleagues turned to Global Strategy Group, a polling firm they often work with. In April, the firm began conducting focus groups through Zoom with young Democrats. Andrew Baumann, a senior vice president with Global Strategy Group, would moderate the discussion among a handful of voters, with Wessel and his colleagues messaging him on the side, suggesting ideas to test out.
At first, these focus groups only underscored Biden’s enthusiasm problem. In the words of one Hispanic Gen Z participant, "I honestly don’t know enough about Biden to really form an opinion."
https://nextgenamerica.org/research/
Some of the messages Baumann tried on the group didn’t perform very well. For instance, participants didn’t like being told that Trump is so bad, they simply must vote for Biden, even if they don’t particularly want to. "They needed positive reasons to do it," Baumann told me. The "You must stop Trump" strategy didn’t work.
The message that did work would spring from Wessel’s mind, but he doesn’t remember exactly how it came to him. Wessel had been talking with Gretchen Barton, a researcher at Olson Zaltman, a firm that studies what makes consumers and voters tick. Barton told him about a study she did of young voters. These voters, she found, "had a rebellious hope in the face of overwhelming odds." When asked to describe what voting felt like, one participant imagined Katniss Everdeen, from the Hunger Games franchise. "I feel like we’re living in this kind of dystopia where elites are using us as pawns for their own benefit, and people at the bottom are suffering," the participant told Barton and her colleagues. "I identify with Katniss trying to give the people in my community a little more dignity and love and trying to make the world a better place. I feel like voting is an expression of this."
Wessel thought back to the image of Katniss—a heroic underdog trying to defeat evil. He thought about how Millennials have been kicked in the butt by 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, and the pandemic and the current economic collapse. He thought about how, though many of the young people he knew liked Sanders better than Biden, others preferred Andrew Yang, or Warren, or Beto O’Rourke. "It was pretty all over the place," he said. There wasn’t just one person they expected to swoop in and save them.
He came up with what NextGen now calls "the Democratic Avengers," after the Marvel movie featuring an ensemble of superheroes. The idea is that by voting for Biden, you’re voting not just for him; you’re voting for all of the Democrats—many of them cool and hip!—that Biden will have in his orbit. Biden might borrow policies from Warren, for example, or have Sanders as an adviser. "If he is elected, it won’t just be Joe Biden," this message reads. "Biden has pledged to build an administration filled with progressive leaders, experts, and activists from inside and outside of politics."
https://nextgenamerica.org/research/
This idea went over really well, according to Wessel and Baumann. In the focus groups, one white Millennial said "the saving grace of this (potential) presidency would be his crew. If he actually chooses true progressives and activists, I will be surprised but happy to admit I misjudged him."
The Democratic Avengers has since become one of the group’s most popular messages about Biden, according to its surveys, and the idea has made its way into ads. One features action-movie music, a comic-book font, and various Democrats stylized as cartoon characters. Bernie Sanders, it reads, "supports a $15 minimum wage!" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is "champion of [the] Green New Deal!" Joe Biden, meanwhile, "is building the team that we want to run things!" A similar theme has also made its way into an ad by Students for [Ed] Markey, another old guy who recently triumphed somewhat unexpectedly. Recently, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert made a loving send-up with a similar Avengers theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678wgwQLpa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6qT3vzfhE
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/ed-markey-defeats-joe-kennedy-massachusetts-senate/615937/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26XPaQ3YpK4
The prospects of the Avengers strategy are still murky. The Avengers-style ad by NextGen had 145 views on YouTube when I last played it. Young voters’ cynicism about Biden and other traditional politicians might extend to a PAC’s dorky attempt to convince them that senators are superheroes.
I pointed out to Wessel that this message is exactly what conservative pundits say about a potential Biden presidency: that the aging moderate will be easily manipulated by more radical Democrats, such as Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders. He didn’t seem concerned. "The Republican Party saying it’s the Biden-Bernie agenda? Yeah, that’s totally motivating for our voters," he said. "Keep it up."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/hannity-rips-biden-bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/sen-john-kennedy-joe-biden-may-be-the-nominee-but-bernie-sanders-is-the-head-of-the-democratic-party
It was motivating for one woman I interviewed who was depressed about Biden’s nomination. Gemma Rose Cohen, a 33-year-old from San Francisco, told me it wasn’t that she didn’t like Biden, "just that I felt like he was from the last generation of Democrats." She was still planning to vote for him, but she felt a little meh about it. But when I told her that Biden might surround himself with other, more leftist Democrats, she sounded more enthusiastic. "He’s already incorporating those progressive ideas and working with people that I love," she said.
If the Avengers model works beyond focus groups and the occasional YouTube video, it could suggest that young people, or at least Democrats, or at least young Democrats, are actually more interested in liberal policies than they are in charismatic candidates. Rather than get fired up about Biden’s personality, 20-somethings might thrill to a coterie of technocrats who have concrete proposals to change the way the country works. Brent Cohen, the executive director of Generation Progress Action, another youth-voting advocacy group, told me that he’s not worried about the Biden enthusiasm gap because "young people vote based on policy." And he and other Democratic strategists believe that when it comes to policy, the choice for young voters is clear.
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These two teams are very good at basketball
The foul calls have been whack - as they always are each and every game all game long in the NBA and NFL and MLB (balls/strikes) but let's not act like the Heat haven't been sloppy with those turnovers
That wasn't even a shot. He legit just threw that shit at the backboard
Brandon Nimmo puts the Mets on the board with his seventh homer of the season
https://streamable.com/4rtwyw
Adam Duvall hits his 15th homer of the year and 10th of September to extend the Braves lead to 2-0 over the Orioles
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/91cc159d-e29c-4c46-bf99-c8504d5e7aef.mp4
Tanner Houck in his MLB debut: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 3 BB, 7 K on 86 pitches
DJ LeMahieu hits a bases clearing double to give the Yankees an 11 run lead
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/e6813670-1ef1-488c-b5ab-e04ff83c48a5.mp4
Luke Voit hits his league leading 17th HR of the season to put the Yankees up 6-1 in the 2nd inning
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/d39af2f1-4688-4ac8-8108-3527ac7736c9.mp4
For the first time in almost 50 years, the Atlantic Ocean has five tropical cyclones simultaneously.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/atlantic-sees-5-simultaneous-tropical-180756575.html
"How do you know your team is ready for a Game 7. What signs do you look for?" Mike Malone - "When we get down 16 points in the 3rd quarter, I know we're ready."
https://streamable.com/ha7gyh
Texas Supreme Court blocks Harris County again from sending mail-in ballot applications to all voters
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/15/harris-county-mail-in-ballot-applications/
Biden: "I happen to believe statehood would be the most effective means of ensuring that residents of Puerto Rico are treated equally, with equal representation on a federal level, but the people of Puerto Rico must decide, & the US federal government must respect & act on that"
https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/1306025818703966214
Perhaps more important, Biden could survive a 2016 (3-ish point in battleground states) polling error and probably hold on. Take 3 points off Biden's current polling margin in each state, and he's still ahead in PA/AZ (narrowly) and MI/WI/MN (more comfortably) and FL is a tossup.
https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1306006316922658818
The Miami Heat defeat the Boston Celtics, 117-114, to take a 1-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals
Tatum got fucking boomed/Bammed
"He got me," Tatum said of Adebayo's block. "That f***ing Adebayo bammed boomed me."
Tatum added, "He's so good," repeating it four times.
Tatum then said he wanted to add Adebayo to the list of players he works out with this summer.
IS THAT BAM ADEBAYO OR THREE TIME DPOY DWIGHT HOWARD WITH AN AFRO
Adebayo skies for the bammed boomed block on Tatum's potential game-tying dunk
https://streamable.com/w7myrb
The Denver Nuggets defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 104-89 behind Murray's 40 and Jokic's triple-double to comeback from a 3-1 series deficit and advance to the Western Conference Finals
Murray hits the crazy fadeaway three to give the Nuggets an 18 point lead
https://streamable.com/wagarf
Jamal Murray with 40 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal, on 15-26 shooting (6-13 from 3) in WCSF game 7 win against the LA Clippers.
Los Angeles Clippers extend their Conference Finals drought to 50 years, leading all teams across all 4 major American sports
The Denver Nuggets have become the first team in NBA history to overcome two 3-1 deficits in the same postseason.
Jamal Murray had more points in that game (40) than the Clippers scored in the second half (33)
Assange defence questions why Obama didn't seek to prosecute him. Basically the argument is the Obama administration didn't want to pursue a prosecution. As nothing has changed but the administration, the challenge is that the Trump administration wants to prosecute now solely so they can shut Assange up about the election interference in 2016. A politically motivated prosecution is much harder to press for extradition on than a legal prosecution. And, of course, Assange is making the not so subtle hint to the Trump administration that he's not happy sharing Epstein's fate, and he is quite able to talk should push come to shove. It's all very odd stuff. Assange is a man who, a few months ago, was still in conversation with Roger Stone and also smearing his own shit on the wall. And this prosecution has no hope of happening before the November election, so it's not going to impact trump. Who knows. Unless Assange decides to go back to his old role of whistleblower, and forget about the whole Russia Trump collaboration, we might never find out. Or we might find out tomorrow.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/assange-defence-questions-why-obama-didn-t-seek-to-prosecute-him-20200915-p55w09.html
Thank you to all the NBA players who agreed to participate in the NBA Restart, which was not just about finishing the 2019-2020 season, but also about creating a socially-distanced test bubble where public health covid19 guidelines would be implemented and followed and shown to succeed in flushing out covid19. These players and coaches and supporting staff agreed to paticipate in a national project designed to be a national model for how to overcome covid19. None of them had to agree. These players lead by example when they didn't have to. They had to remove themselves from their lifestyles, their daily way of living, their families, friends, trusted medical professionals, creature comforts, habits, pets, etc, for up to three months, locked down in holocaust-heat Florida, subjected to repeated invasive covid19 medical testing and rigid social distancing guidelines, expected to remain professional and obedient with nary a bad word about the bubble for up to three months, all the while playing the most elite level of basketball on the planet. Incredible and amazing and thank you to all the NBA players who stepped up. America owes them a big Thank You for leading the way to fight covid19 (the bubble paradigm works), and NBA fans need to stop attacking players and coaches and teams and start showing these people RESPECT.
The Clippers fans should not be foaming at the mouth: the Clippers finished with the second best record, have one of the greatest players ever on their team, they have one of the most feared coaches in the league, they have the best assistant coach - a man who coached LeBron James and the ramshackle Cavaliers to 4 NBA finals in a row versus Golden State, their team is a defensive powerhouse, they defeated the Mavericks in the first round, they fought to the death to win the second round, one team must finish first and one team must finish second, that's how game end. We all watched the Clippers players do everything they could and fail because the Denver Nuggets players clearly played far better, with mesmerizing cohesion and chemistry and choreographed patters/routines. They had extraordinary passing routines that boggled the Clippers players, literally left them speechless on the court. Denver's offensive style was identical to Golden State Warrior's offensive style and they really unleashed that style in every single 4th quarter of every single elimination game this playoffs. I'm a Clippers fan who suspected the Clippers would finish second because Denver's offensive style was a replica of Golden State's played to perfection, perfectly in-sync and symmetrical and flowing and super-polished. Not helping either was Harrell ballhogging the entire Denver series and Zubac's three fouls by the second quarter. I still can't understand why Doc kept trying to make Harrell vs Jokic work. It was never going to work. Everyone knew before the series that it wouldn't work, it didn't work when he tried it the first six times, so why the hell did he expect it to start working in game 7? Harrell was scoring a lot but giving it right back on defense.
Patrick Beverley dangerously fouls Jamal Murray with 0:27 left in the game
https://streamable.com/kzfa2k
Nikola Jokic Describes Chemistry With Jamal Murray, "We're Like A Couple... We're That Close"
https://streamable.com/f5uq39
Yadier Molina called for catcher's interference, benches clear
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/benches-clear-in-cardinals-brewers-game.html
Bumgarner: "2020 sucks. I'm pretty much on board with that now."
https://twitter.com/ZHBuchanan/status/1306101536431300608
Joe Kelly has served his five-game suspension and will be active for series finale Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1306090863034994688
The Los Angeles Dodgers have clinched the first playoff spot in the 2020 MLB postseason
Bumgarner (ARI) vs. Angels: 5.1IP, 13H, 8R, 1BB, 2SO on 81 pitches
Gonsolin (LAD) v. Padres, 7.0 IP, 4 H 1 ER, 0 BB on 90 pitches
The Phillies signed Jon Lucroy and Greg Bird to minor-league deals. They are going to Allentown as depth.
https://twitter.com/mattgelb/status/1306077337050664960?s=21
Antonio Senzatela tonight: 9.0IP CG, 6H, 1ER, 1BB, 3K, 109 pitches
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401226396
#Braves' Freddie Freeman now leads the NL in batting average (.352), doubles (18) and RBIs (46), and ranks second in majors in OBP (.465) and (OPS (1.118) and third in majors in walks (35)
https://twitter.com/DOBrienATL/status/1306063817189842949
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George combine for 24 points on 10-38 shooting in a Game 7 loss to the Nuggets
Jimmy Butler hits the go-ahead three giving the Heat a 1 point lead
https://streamable.com/gc474d
Bam Adebayo Calls His Block "The Number One Play" He Has Ever Done In Basketball At Any Level
https://streamable.com/w1a3sh
Miami Heat Rookie Tyler Herro Tonight: 12/11/9 and fantastic HUSTLE!
Murray on the L*kers: "They gotta worry about us too"
https://streamable.com/8bdc6m
The Clippers traded more first-round draft picks for Paul George (5) than Paul George had field goals made last night (4)
Several Clippers were so fatigued during Game 7 against Denver that they struggled to play stints longer than three minutes and asked out of the game for a breather in the fourth quarter, sources told @TheUndefeated.
https://twitter.com/marcjspears/status/1306087442320183296
Paul George says that while the Clippers wanted the pressure of the title expectations, they also just could never find the chemistry. He adds "internally" the Clippers never felt it was "championship or bust" this season. They feel they got more contending ahead.
https://twitter.com/NotoriousOHM/status/1306084213980946432
The Brewers have scored 18+ runs twice in the last week, and both times there was another team in the MLB that scored more.
Francisco Lindor blasts 2-run homer in the top of the ninth to tie the game.
https://streamable.com/9gnepg
Javier "El Mago" Baez scores from 1st on a strikeout
https://streamable.com/k365rn
Yankee starting pitching last seven games: 43 IP, 1.26 ERA, 6 BB, 5.86 H/9, 10.47 K/9, 8.33 K/BB
Kole Calhoun torments his former team in his return to Anaheim, as he hits his 2nd home run of the game in as many at-bats for a total of 5 RBIs
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/8840f9f1-56fe-40bf-a265-c47846ec506b.mp4
Tim Anderson hits his 8th bomb of the year
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/6b5b935c-46fd-480a-a215-bd719638df28.mp4
Goran Dragic drops 29-7-4 on 11-19 shooting as Heat pull off gutsy win vs Celtics
Kawhi Leonard shot 1-11 tonight in the 2nd half. That is his worst shooting half of his career, regular season or playoffs (min. 10 FGA)
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1306084637719044102
Clippers guard Lou Williams: "We had championship expectations. We had the talent to do it. We didn't have the chemistry to do it." (
https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1306080609677307905
Montrezl Harrell and Nikola Jokic went head-to-head for 35 minutes over the final three games of this series. The Los Angeles Clippers were outscored by 47 points in those minutes.
During all the season Kawhi and Paul George never looked comfortable playing together, they didn't show any relevant sign of a good chemistry.
Paul George falls asleep on defence and leaves Jamal Murray open from downtown
https://streamable.com/fr2gjf
I still can't believe they traded 15 first round picks for PG. And then the Thunder turn right around and have a better season without Westbrook and George in OKC than they did with them.
Remember: The L.A. Clippers have acquired six-time NBA All-Star Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, forward Danilo Gallinari and the Clippers' first round draft picks in 2022, 2024 and 2026, along with two first-round choices via Miami (2021 and 2023), and OKC obtained the right to swap first-round picks in 2023 and 2025.
There were obviously other reasons why he chose the Clippers, including and especially his desire to go home, but one of the things Kawhi told the Raptors when he met with them in Toronto last summer, according to a source, was that he didn't think they were good enough to repeat. He may not regret his decision – Kawhi doesn't strike me as a person that lives with many regrets, and he did get to go play at home, after all – but, if nothing else, now he knows what he left behind in Toronto. They would have been good enough.
No, really??? "The rapport simply wasn't there for the Clippers, and it certainly wasn't there in Game 2 when Montrezl Harrell and George got into a heated verbal exchange during a timeout, league sources told Yahoo Sports."
https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/disappointment-frustration-lack-of-chemistry-portrait-of-the-clippers-collapse-172338674.html
Patrick Beverley makes a questionable play on Jamal Murray after getting beat by an absolute dime from Nikola Jokic. Murray hits both free throws as the camera and commentary pan to a dejected Kawhi Leonard and Paul George on the bench.
https://streamable.com/agsqdr
Trump Repeatedly Shares Fake Video Showing Biden Playing NWA's 'Fuck tha Police' - Twitter labeled the video as "manipulated media," but hasn't taken it down.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9357ez/trump-repeatedly-shares-fake-video-showing-biden-playing-nwas-fuck-tha-police
ICE Prepares to Deport Jailed Immigrant Who Says She Was Forcibly Sterilized
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/headlines/ice_prepares_to_deport_jailed_immigrant_who_says_she_was_forcibly_sterilized
Republicans Ramming Through More Lifetime Alt-Right Right-Wing Racist Antisemitic Mysognist Anti-American Terrorist Judges While Blocking Covid Relief
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/16/everyone-america-should-be-outraged-mcconnell-quietly-rams-through-more-lifetime
Fox News said Trump was 'ambushed' in abc news town hall where undecided American voters asked him basic questions
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-trump-ambushed-town-hall-voters-asking-basic-questions-2020-9
Sean McElwee Is Begging the Left to Grow Up. The leftwing pollster has a simple message for his compatriots: Rigid doctrinarianism doesn't win elections.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/joe-biden-sean-mcelwee-and-future-progressive-power/616213/
"Dark money" groups that keep their donors secret have spent more than $182 million on political ads during the 2020 election cycle, with only a fraction of that spending reported to the Federal Election Commission during the same period.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/09/dark-money-pouring-920/
Ohio judge overturns Republican plan to allow only one ballot box in each county; the limitation in the battleground state is arbitrary and unreasonable and illegal and unconstitutional.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/ohio-judge-blows-gop-plan-allow-only-1-ballot-box-n1240191
Trump and Republicans have repeatedly lied out the impact of Trump policies on Black American: an Associated Press fact-check in June found that African American unemployment dropped to a historic low of 5.4% last August but that this was a continuation of a trend that began during the Obama administration.
https://apnews.com/16a926cc5f932d984a16646fbdf7f4ea
Smoke from the US West Coast wildfires has reached Europe
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/weather/us-wildfires-smoke-europe-copernicus-intl/index.html
Venezuela government accused of grisly crimes against humanity in UN report
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/venezuela-un-report-crimes-against-humanity-maduro-government
Thousands of migrating birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/16/birds-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-mass-die-off-in-south-western-us-aoe
In my lifetime (44 years), we've doubled the human population on the planet. And 70% of all the animals have disappeared.
White House Staff Members Test Positive For COVID-19 Less Than 24 Hours After Trump Visited Philadelphia
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/09/16/white-house-staff-members-reportedly-test-positive-for-covid-19-less-than-24-hours-after-president-donald-trump-visited-philadelphia/amp/
173 Members of Congress Demand Investigation into Allegations of Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/173-members-of-congress-demand-investigation-into-allegations-of-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-facility/
CDC Director: Face Masks Offer More Protection Than a Vaccine; Contradicting Trump, CDC director says universal masking could control the pandemic in weeks
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cdc-director-facemasks-better-protection-than-vaccine-1061032/
Trump repeated his lie "the cupboards were bare" of ventilators before him. Again, he inherited more than 16,000, as his administration acknowledges. The Strategic National Stockpile has to be certified YEARLY. This excuse would maybe be excusable in 2017 but in 2020, it's 100% on Trump and his failed administration.
https://cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/fact-check-trump-16000-ventilators-stockpile-obama/index.html
So when do conservatives declare Trump unfit because he said "herd mentality" instead of herd immunity? Or because he talked about covid19 with a woman who said her mother died of cancer? That's how it works, right? Because that's what they've said about Joe Biden over far less.
He's blamed Biden for not making a national mandate to wear masks. Trump, who is president, just tried to blame Joe Biden, who is not president, for not implementing a national mask mandate.
To be clear: I am not currently president. But if you chip in now, we can change that in November: https://joe.link/35LrCCJ
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1306055202290544640
The ABC town hall was a disaster for Trump because he was unable to discuss policy, his record is objectively bad, almost all the people asking questions asked hard "you're a liar destroying everything" questions, and he's not on Fox & Friends. I'm surprised he'd agree to do this.
Trump is trying really hard to lose but his voters are so caught up in him, they can't process anything negative about him. It doesn't matter what he does, his supporters will defend him. If he insulted and then spit on their mom, they would say thanks and vote twice for him.
A voter tells Trump that the PPACA brought protections for people with pre-existing conditions, like her, into existence. Trump tells her that Democrats won't provide protections for people with pre-existing conditions and he will do everything he can to eliminate the PPACA and replace it with a health care plan he promised on the 2015-2016 campaign trail that Republicans will release in two weeks.
Video of Trump saying "herd mentality" because he's too dumb to remember "herd immunity":
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1306043097999048705
Considering how often Trump must hear the phrase "herd immunity" from his staff and from Fox News, it's pathetic that he can't remember it.
Asked by a Black American about when exactly America has been "great" for Black people in ghettoes that've faced redlining and other problems, Trump says, "We have tremendous African American support in the polls." The Black voter continues to talk about the long history of racism and Black communities being failed by various presidents. Trump says, "I hope there's not a race problem...there's none with me."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306042417242689538
Trump, by only doing rallies and almost never doing town hall forums, has been insulated from the kind of voter interactions that usually help incumbents as they're running. But he craves adulation and many of his aides enable it, so this town hall is bracing for him.
Trump also criticised Woodward for not warning the public about his ineptitude. And criticized the governor of Nevada for not stopping him from holding his indoor rally.
A crying voter tells Trump at length about how her mom, a fellow immigrant, died of cancer, and asks a question on her mom's behalf about immigration. Trump repeatedly talks about how her mom died of "Covid."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306055155364888588
Trump to the woman who explained how her mom died of cancer: "Did YOU have Covid? You didn't have it, right? You didn't have it? Your mother. Uh, we'll have it taken care of. It's going to get taken care of. The vaccines are gonna make a big difference."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306055500056928256
Even if her mother had died of the Wuhan China virus, that had absolutely nothing to do with the woman's actual question about what Trump/Republicns would do to help working class immigrants.
Fox News is calling the townhall event an "ambush" of Trump. American citizens asking direct questions to their president is apparently an ambush.
Republicans this afternoon: "You won't see scaredy-cat Joe Biden do a town hall like this!'
Republicans now: "Oh my g/d he never should have done a town hall like this!"
Also, Biden has a CNN townhall this Thursday, scheduled before Trump's abc townhall.
Remember when Obama destroyed Republicans and answered all their questions on the PPACA? It was amazing. Trump can't even answer simple questions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/jan/29/barack-obama-republicans
Isn't it interesting how Republicans are allowed to single out "Democrat-run" so-called hellholes? Imagine if Obama campaigned against Republican run shitholes like all of those lovely, meth-ravished, barefoot, inbred, toothless, illiterate, poor rural Trumpain towns in West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, Louisina, Kentucky. They would scream racism and call scream about him being an anti-American terrorist. Democrats and Biden don't attack Republican areas that are similar to what you'd see in the third world.
Does this asshole not realize that more Republicans votes for him in California (blue state) than almost any other single state state? Nearly 4.5 million people in California, 2.8 million in New York, 2 million in Illinois. In an election where he actually lost the popular vote already, he could stand to lose almost 10 million more votes by refusing to help so-called Democrat-run states. And Republicans live in those so-called Democratic-run states.
As he boasts about stocks, Trump is reminded by Stephanopoulos that only half the jobs are back.
Trump says, "George: stocks are owned by everybody."
Just over half of Americans own stock, according to 2020 polls.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306048307920334849
Trump repeats his false claim that he fired James Mattis, who resigned
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306049465313366024
TRUMP: If you look under Obama and Biden, the income inequality was phenomenal
STEPHANOPOULOS:: It's getting worse now
TRUMP: Well, we're talking about a plague coming in
So apparently it's a plague again even though yesterday he said we've rounded the corner on the virus.
House lawmakers unveiled the "I Am Vanessa Guillén Act" today to change sexual harassment reporting in the military. Pelosi committed to bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor this fall
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/vanessa-guillen-house-bill-military-sexual-harassment/index.html
Nothing like seeing the dorm I lived in when I first moved to NYC 25 years ago placed entirely under quarantine today bc my two-time alma mater found it prudent to draw students from around the world together during a pandemic despite every warning
https://people.com/health/nyu-places-dorm-under-quarantine-students-test-positive-coronavirus/
"I'm not going to give you a readout of what our health care plan looks like and who's working on it. if you want to know, come work here at the White House" -- Kayleigh McEnany
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306287619291127810
Asked to explain why the US has more than 20 percent of the world's Covid deaths despite having only 4 percent of the population if Trump's response has been so great, Kayleigh McEnany makes false statements about how US excess mortality stacks up relative to Europe
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306291086181257217
Because there hasn't been enough news today, DOJ just announced ANOTHER indictment. Two Iranians hackers allegedly stole "hundreds of terabytes of data" including national security info, IP, unpublished research, financial data, and other PII.
https://justice.gov/opa/pr/two-iranian-nationals-charged-cyber-theft-campaign-targeting-computer-systems-united-states
Things have gotten testy between USPS and election administrators, suggesting a preemptive blame game over possible chaos on Election Day & beyond. The finger-pointing and communication breakdown is increasing the odds of such chaos, those involved say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/postal-service-mail-voting.html
Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust. So within a decade more young people will know more about the 1619 project based on dubious history than the holocaust that happened less than a century ago and is most well documented mass murder in history.
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study
The New York Times just announced that it will soon start printing The Wall Street Journal at its Queens plant. In the heyday of print newspapers, that would have been unthinkable -- sort of like the Red Sox producing the bats and gloves for the Yankees.
Louisiana Federal Court ORDERS ten days of early voting AND greater flexibility in who can cast an absentee ballot.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1306311077815291904
The CDC now confirming what other officials have been quietly trying to tell us: a vaccine won't be widely available until "the second or third quarter" of next year.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913560563/cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-likely-wont-be-widely-available-until-next-year
Two months ago this week: President Trump told Chris Wallace "We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan..."
Last time I checked, my country was, unfortunately, the United States: On a Rosh Hashanah White House (not campaign) call, Trump calls on Jews to vote for him because he says Democrats will be ruinous for Israel, signs off, "we love your country."
Trump has not repaid USPS for postcard it sent out in March prominently displaying his name alongside guidelines for combating COVID-19. The cost of producing and sending was $28M. USPS spox said Trump negotiating payment in May, but no reimbursements so far
https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/28/coronavirus-post-card-trump-cost-post-office-28-million/5274034002/
As students return to classrooms, a CDC report finds that the majority of children, teens and young adults who die from COVID-19 are Hispanic, Black or Native American.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/16/covid-deaths-cdc-finds-majority-kids-who-die-black-hispanic/5814985002/
China-Backed Hackers Broke Into 100 Firms and Agencies, U.S. Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/china-hackers.html
Michael Caputo resigned. He's pretending he's taking a two-month break but if Biden wins, he won't be back. The move comes after Caputo reportedly said in a now-deleted video posted Sunday on his personal Facebook page that scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were engaged in "sedition" against President Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/hhs-spokesman-caputo-to-take-medical-leave-after-reportedly-accusing-cdc-officials-of-plotting-against-trump.html
Joe Biden: "How does it make you feel to hear the president say he wouldn't have done anything differently? And if he gets 4 more years, why should we expect anything to change? All the president had to offer last night, President Trump, was the same weak and feckless inaction."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1306321984008130566
Joe Biden: "Let me be clear: I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. but I don't trust Donald Trump. And at this moment, the American people can't either."
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1306323628427014146
Down to the last strike, Brandon Lowe hits #13 to tie the game
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/4bc56b01-3c34-4b01-be78-ba29938ad87d.mp4
Cardinals manager Mike Shildt has received a one-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for "actions that contributed to inciting the benches-clearing incident" Tuesday against the Brewers. Shildt will serve the suspension during the second game of today's STL-MIL doubleheader.
https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1306330880710004737
Ken Giles to the IL. "Same thing" with his elbow, Montoyo says. #BlueJays
https://twitter.com/KeeganMatheson/status/1306333499880865792
The "big three" asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street — are enabling destruction of the world's rainforests.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/09/15/largest-us-investors-undermine-efforts-halt-rainforest-destruction-new-report
http://foe.org/news/largest-us-investors-undermine-efforts-to-halt-rainforest-destruction-new-report-finds/
US wedding 'superspreader' event is now linked to 7 deaths. None of those people attended
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/us-wedding-superspreader-event-is-now-linked-to-7-deaths-none-of-those-people-attended-20200917-p55wda.html
US scientists estimate the total amount of synthetic microfibres going into the wider environment as we wash our clothes to be 5.6 million tonnes since we first started wearing those polyester and nylon garments in a big way in the 1950s.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54182646
Trump slips in a dig on Biden, attacking his "anti-vaccine theories" ... but does not elaborate what he means by that ... (Biden is not an anti-vaxxer. And Trump himself has broadly supported anti-vaxxers (as do I, vaccinations should be a choice, not mandatory)
https://insider.com/how-donald-trump-became-an-anti-vaccinationist-2019-9)
Trump accused Biden of having "anti-vaccine theories." Biden said today he trusts the scientists but does not trust Trump on a vaccine.
Biden says he thinks Trump has an edge on economy because he's "been out of office for four years. It's a long time."
Biden had been in public office since 1970s
"I'm calling on Biden to stop promoting his anti-vaccine theories," Trump says. Trump is the one who has questioned the safety of vaccines in the past. And Biden says people should take the vaccine if scientists vouch for it.
Earlier this afternoon, the Speaker and Secretary Mnuchin spoke on the status of bicameral negotiations on the Continuing Resolution. At the end of their phone conversation, the Speaker reiterated the points made in the joint statement she and Senator Schumer put out... (1/2)...earlier today on the President's tweet calling for Republicans to "go for the much higher numbers." (2/2)
https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/status/1306338970083700742
https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/status/1306338970998059009
Because of pandemic, Supreme Court will begin new term with teleconference arguments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-teleconference-arguments/2020/09/16/7c952bf4-f84d-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html
Jaime Harrison campaign aides apologize for old homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets https://thestate.com/news/politics-government/article245772060.html
Gingrich is out here claiming "the number one problem in all these cities" is a wealthy Jewish financier whose handpicked district attorneys are intentionally letting criminals run wild and people are still asking if it's really antisemitism.
https://twitter.com/mattduss/status/1306336971036344322
52% of people ages 18-29 are now living with their parents due to the pandemic, according to Pew.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/young-people-are-moving-home-more-ever-during-pandemic-n1240258
A 13 year old boy will spend 10 years in prison for "using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend." All blasphemy laws must be abolished.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html
The president is now trying to pick and choose states to count in the U.S. COVID death toll: "If you take the blue states out, we are at a level I don't think anybody in the world would be at."
Trump undermines CDC director, who said earlier today COVID vaccine won't be available until Summer 2021. "I think he made a mistake when he said that. It's just incorrect information," Trump says, adding it will go "very quickly." Trump:"I think he misunderstood the question."
https://twitter.com/chrisjohnson82/status/1306347179926323200
I live in LA and it blows my mind that I am still forced to alter my daily life because people can't get it through their thick skulls that exploting animals causes zoonotic diseases that lead to worldwide pandemics
Nikola Jokic was the best player in the Nuggets/Clippers series. Once the Nuggets realized he was unguardable in Game 5, they never looked away from him. Unlike in Game 6 where he operated mostly at the top of the arc, in Game 7 he punished them either in the post or through that high screen and roll action with Murray. The Clippers would do their best to double him and each time he Jokic found an open man who can either score a basket or draw a foul. If you count the amount of FT's Denver players got from Jokic assist, he'd probably end the game with 20 assists.
All those assists wouldn't be credited if players weren't cutting and making shots. Millsap, Harris and Morris made key shots. Jerami Grant and Torey Craig played as great defense on Kawhi as I've seen anyone guarding him. And MPJ, even if he didn't score as much today, showed enough hustle and grabbed key rebounds down the stretch.
Jamal played great. He single-handedly kept them close in the 2 quarter when the Clippers could have blown it wide open. They were throwing so many different guys at him and he was still making bucket after bucket. And I think he played decent defense as well. Lou Williams and Paul George would hunt him on the other end through switches but he held his ground well.
The Nuggets have Golden State Warrior endurance.
The Clippers were completely rudderless in the second half. They spent the second half watching Jokic and Jamal. The Clippers spent a ton of time on every possession in a panic scramble mode. Even by the end of the 2nd quarter they were gassed and it never really got better. It was too much to expect Kawhi and Paul to play 40+ minutes, score 30+ points, and guard the best 2 players on the other team in a blitzing scheme.
The 2019-2020 Los Angeles Clippers had last year's FMVP, and traded their entire future to acquire a person who was 3rd in MVP voting the previous season. They had the last 2 reigning 6MOY. They had players on the All Defense Team. They had a bench that would be better than starters on some teams. They had a coaching staff with strong championship experience. They had an "on/off" switch. They gave up a 3-1 series lead. They disappointed. They were and still are the LA Clippers.
Really not sure why the Clippers didn't attack Jokic in the paint more, especially in the 2nd half. He was in foul trouble early on, picking up 2 in the 1st quarter and 1 more pretty early in the 2nd quarter. Would've been a way to get PG and Kawhi going too since their shots weren't falling. I feel like the Jazz were better overall at making Jokic work on the defensive end. Especially early in the 4th when it was Plumlee at the rim. I'm not a saying he's a bad defender but they could have at least tried to draw fouls. I rewatched that 4th quarter again and if you didn't know anyone you'd think JaMychal Green was the one who was suppose to bail then out in the 4th. Also in the second half the referees stopped calling fouls.
Nuggets just showed to everyone that they clearly are the better team at this moment. They beat the Clippers straight up in a 7 game series, no injuries, no weird ejections, no bad refs (well, some bad reffing, but not egregious). Clippers may be the better team on paper (even that might be debatable at this point), but it's not just about how many all-stars or 6MOTY candidates you have. Coaching, chemistry, heart, resilience, all that goes into the equation of who the better team is. And the Nuggets owned Clippers in all those categories. Clippers may be the better team on paper (even that might be debatable at this point), but it's not just about how many all-stars or 6MOTY candidates you have. Coaching, chemistry, heart, resilience, all that goes into the equation of who the better team is. And the Nuggets owned Clippers in all those categories. I'm not saying the Lakers are losing the WCF, or that it's going to a game 7 even, but if they win easily, that's just a testament to how great Lakers are, because this Nuggets team is clearly no joke. The Clippers are a great team, I mean they got #2 seed while coasting through the season, but the Nuggets were better.
What sucks is that Kawhi and PG played absolutely excellent basketball all series before Game 7 (maybe outside of Game 2 for Kawhi).
The Nuggets really pulled off a shonen anime "surpassing our limits" moment in the middle of this series. To come back from a 3-1 deficit against a good team like the Jazz is one thing, but to do it again right after against the Clippers? That resilience is impressive. Even moreso when you compare it to their performance in last year's Tournament Arc where they looked pretty gassed from two 7-game series in a row. They've obtained a new form in this year's playoffs.
Clippers offense had the same problem they had as the day they put the team together: zero high level passing/playmaking.
Another reminder that the governor doesn't oversee elections - in Nevada it's the job of a Republican Secretary of State: Trump says the Nevada governor can't be trusted to oversee the election because he enforced the state's public health guidance last week that forced Trump's campaign to relocate a rally.
https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1306349443747377159
The White House -- after holding a big outdoor signing ceremony this week, only rarely wearing masks and traveling to big rallies, some of them indoors -- is now declining comment on reports that members of the administration have tested positive for the virus.
https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1306286042513895424
Rep. Conor Lamb, who showed Democrats how to win in Trump districts, works to deliver Pennsylvania for Biden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/biden-pennsylvania-democrats-congress/2020/09/16/2fe2b97e-f83a-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html
Trump said today he read Woodward's book "last night," after saying yesterday on Fox and Friends that he read the book "last night"
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1306350944729419779
This seems like a big moment in the campaign. Trump explicitly told the nation that he should be trusted over his own CDC on the vaccine. That's headline news. It unequivocally confirms what critics -- including scientists inside the administration -- have warned of.
And 35-40% of the voters will say "of COURSE he should be trusted over those government eggheads! He tells it like it is!"
Why would the president ever — ever — when talking about American COVID deaths, start a sentence with, "If you take the blue states out..."?
Trump's intelligence chief reverses decision to halt in-person election briefings for congressional
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/ratcliffe-election-security-briefings/index.html
He finally answered my question about how many on his staff tested positive but didn't want to answer "you admitted on tape you misled the American people. How can you claim any credibility on the virus?"
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1306358701847183366
When I said I trust vaccines, and I trust the scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump — this is what I meant: vaccinated.https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1306357192262590467
Trump contradicts Redfield on when vaccine will be widely available saying of the CDC director: "I think he made a mistake when he said that. It's just incorrect information." Redfield estimated it could take 6-9 months to get public
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1306349584055181312
Trump said in the campaign that if I voted for Hillary, I'd be stuck with a criminal president under constant federal investigation from day one. Turns out he was right. I voted for Hillary and I'm stuck with a criminal president under constant federal investigation since BEFORE day one.
I 100% believe in the importance of vaccines and the importance in particular of a #COVID19 vaccine. A COVID-19 vaccine is the thing that will get Americans back to normal everyday life.
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1306362536992952320
The best defense we currently have against this virus are the important mitigation efforts of wearing a mask, washing your hands, social distancing and being careful about crowds. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1306362537924079616
Chris "An amount of bags" Taylor launches one into the second level to further extend the lead over San Diego
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/e972ea2e-b3ac-4101-b403-935a9664147e.mp4
Luis Castillo tonight: 7IP 0R, 3H, 1BB, 10K
Jacob deGrom's injury has been reported as a right hamstring spasm
Cole Hamels Braves Debut: 3.1IP 3H 3ER 1BB 2K
Ryan Braun stays hot, launching a 3-run HR in the first against the Cardinals for his 350th career home run
https://streamable.com/vsej7r
LeMahieu hits his second bomb of the game to put the Yankees up 6-0
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/a5f33616-75ab-4417-a771-32b8e4f3103c.mp4
Before today, deGrom had an 1.67 ERA. After today's outing of 2IP, 4H, 1BB and 3ER, he has an ERA of 2.09, an increase of 0.42. Depending on upcoming outings of Bauer and Darvish, deGrom may have lost the Cy Young in the span of 2IP.
Jacob deGrom is finished after two innings. He met with trainers in Mets' dugout after giving up three runs in the second inning. Michael Wacha is coming on to begin the bottom of the third."
https://twitter.com/ScottLauber/status/1306382917615128579
Dodgers take 2 of 3 from the Padres in San Diego to extend division lead to 2.5 games
Adam Wainwright Final Line: 7 IP (CG), 4 H, 2 ER, 1BB, 9K
Even if you accept the absurd premise, Trump is wrong: "...more than 90,000 deaths have occurred in red states. If that were the country's total, we would have seen the second-most number of deaths globally, trailing only Brazil."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306405544023003139
Trump blames blue states for the coronavirus death toll — but most recent deaths have been in red states
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/16/trump-blames-blue-states-coronavirus-death-toll-but-most-recent-deaths-have-been-red-states/
Even if Biden wins, Trump and Mitch McConnell's Alt-Right, Right-Wing, Ultra-Conservative Republican Pro-Trump judges will block U.S. progress for 50+ years. That was McConnell's plan all along. Appoint unqualified judges so conservatives can impose their will on the United States long after Republicans become unelectable due to their toxic ideology. We should systematically impeach and remove all Republican judges. The vast majority are utterly unqualified and should never have been let near a courtroom.
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-judges-biden-2020-election-mcconnell-20200917.html
When the Nuggets arrived in Orlando in mid-July, they did not have enough players to practice 5-on-5. Nikola Jokic had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in Serbia.
Javier Baez and the Cubs walk-off Cleveland
https://streamable.com/rp2tz0
Twins bullpen tonight vs. CWS: 5.1 IP, 7 K, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 R
Kyle Gibson tonight: CGSO, 4 H, 9 K, 3 BB
Belt's 423ft bomb and bat drop to make it 5-0 vs. SEA
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/0f1886b7-9f76-4410-84f6-0a92f5cff017.mp4
Gerrit Cole won his 100th career game
Jose Abreu hits his 16th homer of the year to put the Sox on the board
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/02161b48-4c2c-45a6-a19f-e8dfcc06f290.mp4
Doc Rivers messed up coaching against the Nuggets because he refused to make any adjustments and kept playing Lou and Harrell even when it was clear they were getting destroyed on both ends. The Clippers had a net rating of minus-11.7 with Harrell on the floor in the series and plus-8.8 with him off. It plummeted to minus-27.1 in 72 minutes when both Harrell and Nikola Jokic were in.
Doctors horrified by placentas of non-smokers in Albury, Australia that look like placentas of pack-a-day smokers due to last summer's bushfire smoke. The babies are damaged for life.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/bushfire-smoke-poses-risk-to-pregnancies/12665412
Mentally Ill Twitter suspends account of Chinese virologist who worked in Wuhan virus lab on the virus itself who has scientific evidence that the virus was intentionally created in the lab to be used as a wmd against the United States
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/516754-twitter-suspends-account-of-chinese-virologist
Trump ABC town hall pulls in fewer viewers than 'America's Got Talent,' NBA, Fox News
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/516832-trump-abc-town-hall-pulls-in-fewer-viewers-than-americas-got-talent-nba-fox
From Feb 2020: Trump is making a third attempt to eliminate the Higher Education Grant Program, which is administered by the Dept. of Interior and provides federal funding for scholarships to tribes, including the Navajo Nation through a P.L. 93-638 contract. The Trump Administration zeroed out funding for tribal scholarships in the FY 2021 federal budget.
https://onnsfa.org/stories/f/trump-administration-proposes-to-eliminate-tribal-scholarships
American Jews Know Israel's Only Real Peace Deal Is With the Palestinians. U.S. Jews see through the Trump-Netanyahu 'peace deal' spin: Israel's only existential conflict is with the Palestinians, and it is with them that Israel must make peace.
860,000 Americans filed jobless claims last week
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/860000-americans-filed-jobless-claims-week/story?id=73069508
Chinese fishing armadas stripping the ocean.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/17/chinese-fishing-armada-plundered-waters-around-galapagos-data-shows
Landslide Vote by Nurses in North Carolina Delivers Biggest Hospital Unionization Win in US South in 45 Years
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/17/landslide-vote-nurses-north-carolina-delivers-biggest-hospital-unionization-win-us
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Removes Green Party Candidate Off November Ballot. The Green Party's candidate for president did not strictly follow procedures for getting on Pennsylvania's ballot in November's election and cannot appear on it, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, delivering a win for Democrats as Joe Biden tries to recapture the battleground state's electoral votes.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/decision-2020/pa-supreme-court-boots-green-party-candidate-off-november-ballot/2536242/
The Green Party is collaborating with Republicans to delay ballots
More Republican Candidates Are Embracing Designed-Domestic-Terrorist-Group QAnon And Republican Supporters Are Happy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-qanon-candidates_n_5f62974ac5b6c6317cff477c
Seems like a bad idea for Republicans to give him a voice again, this benefits Democrats: James Comey to testify before Senate committee
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/politics/comey-senate-testimony-graham/index.html
I'm not a Comey fan, but he's going to make the Republicans look like morons and will also likely make Trump look stupid as hell.
Biden Volunteers Are Encountering A Shocking Number Of Voters Pushing "Biden Is A Pedophile" Conspiracy-Theory
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/biden-volunteers-are-encountering-a-shocking-number-of-voters-pushing-an-unhinged-smear/
Trump supporters elected a guy who was being sued for raping a 13 year old and is on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women and bragging about walking through the dressing room of Miss Teen USA that's the angle they are taking against Biden. Wow, so much projection.
Jed Lowrie went home. That Mets officials have refused to say publicly that he is out for the year or offer any update is the latest twist in this bizarre injury saga, which has featured virtually zero transparency from the player and organization.
https://twitter.com/timbhealey/status/1306628291340767237
It's amazing how he manufactures events to get on camera every day, multiple times. Other presidents might do something like this, make an announcement and be done. But Trump has to call the reporters in, get on camera, and talk.
So we're giving them back to the native Americans?
https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1306630050985451521
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Thursday also extended the deadlines for mail ballots to several days after the election, a decision that could see thousands more ballots counted.
https://www.axios.com/pennsylvania-supreme-court-mail-in-ballot-ed5f3644-47bc-4192-9d56-95885a4b8014.html
After appeal by victim, Epstein's former chef cooperates with feds. Listen to how Virginia Guiffre tries to convince chef Adam Perry Lang to do the right thing: Broken: Jeffrey Epstein, which premiered this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/broken-seeking-justice/id1478460758
Epstein's Former Chef Is Cooperating With Feds on Sex Ring Investigation https://thedailybeast.com/epsteins-former-chef-adam-perry-lang-is-cooperating-with-feds-on-sex-ring-investigation
Biden's policy director Stef Feldman indicates he doesn't intend to deficit-finance his agenda despite low interest on U.S. borrowing, says he believes there's "certainly enough revenue" to raise from taxing the "super wealthy and corporations" to cover his "long-term spending."
Rep. Elissa Slotkin: "There are these homegrown terrorists ... how many of them of white supremacists?"
FBI Dir. Chris Wray: "Within the domestic terrorism bucket, category as a whole, racially motivated violent extremism is I think the biggest bucket within that larger group."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1306646599825793026
Berry Creek, Calif. spent two years working to get approval from the state for a plan to thin trees and protect itself from wildfires. It was finally ready to go on Sept. 4. Four days later, the town burned down. Truly a must-read account.
https://wsj.com/articles/a-california-towns-fire-protection-plans-hit-red-tape-then-it-burned-to-the-ground-11600335002
Republican tell outright lies at all times, and believe many of them. Democrats leave out key pieces of truth that would lead to a more nuanced arguments. It's all fake.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-towns-fire-protection-plans-hit-red-tape-then-it-burned-to-the-ground-11600335002
A California Town's Fire-Protection Plans Hit Red Tape, Then the Flames Came. North Complex fire hit Berry Creek just as work was to start on forest-thinning projects
By Jim Carlton
Sept. 17, 2020 5:30 am ET
BERRY CREEK, Calif.—As the smoke from the nearby fire-devastated town of Paradise cleared in 2018, local officials were trying to gain approval of forest-thinning projects to help this mountain community avoid a similar fate.
Nearly two years after they first applied for approval from the state of California, the contract for one of the projects went out for bidding on Sept. 4. At the same time, work was about to start on the other after a monthslong wait caused in part by the coronavirus pandemic.
Then just four days later, the North Complex fire roared through this community of 2,500, wiping out most of the homes and leaving at least 10 people dead, more than one-third of the total fatalities from wildfires this year in California.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fires-in-california-and-oregon-trump-to-visit-as-potentially-dangerous-winds-expected-monday-11600091189
"I tried to work with anyone who would listen to avoid what happened," Denise Bethune, a Berry Creek fire safety coordinator, said from her son's residence in the nearby city of Chico, where she and her husband have been living since their two-bedroom home burned to the ground.
Among the factors contributing to this year's exceptional wildfire season are climate change, which causes higher temperatures and longer droughts, and poor forest management, according to scientific experts. State and local governments haven't done enough to thin dry brush and dead trees that burn easily around populated areas, they say.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-wildfires-are-so-bad-this-year-in-california-oregon-and-washington-11599768604
Few places have felt the consequences more severely than Butte County, a rural area north of Sacramento where 19 large fires have scorched some 400,000 acres since 1999.
Earlier this week, Loren Gill drove into what remains of Berry Creek in an SUV to pick through some of the rubble of what had been a park community center. Nearby lay the ruins of Berry Creek Elementary, with a sign of its mascot, a Native American brave, charred.
"This is unbelievable," Mr. Gill, 78 years old, said as he drove past dozens of leveled homes, some with only the chimneys still intact. "Just a nightmare."
The Butte County Fire Safe Council on Oct. 26, 2018, received an $836,365 grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, to remove trees and brush from 234 acres. The plan was to create fire breaks along two of the main evacuation roads and for a development of homes around Lake Madrone.
Getting approval to spend the money would take almost two years.
While it is impossible to determine how Berry Creek would have fared if the thinning projects had been implemented, local officials said videos of other nearby areas where trees and brush were trimmed showed lower flames that moved slower.
Bald Rock and Rockerfeller roads, the two evacuation routes, now have charred cars and trucks on them. Around Lake Madrone, more than 50 homes were destroyed.
"Somebody dropped the ball," said Becky North, 41, whose family of four lost the house they lived in since building it in 2011. "I think some homes would have been saved."
After the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise on Nov. 8, 2018, officials of the Butte County Fire Safe Council—which acts as an umbrella group for fire safety in the area—urged state lawmakers to streamline regulatory red tape.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the Camp Fire with a slew of directives, including fast-tracked authority for 35 thinning projects to protect 200 communities. Cal Fire said some of the projects had helped slow fires including one in Butte County completed last December.
The Berry Creek projects languished as the Butte County Fire Safe Council struggled to gain landowner approvals for the thinning, a requirement of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. One of the strictest such laws in the nation, CEQA makes it easy for local residents and interest groups to oppose construction and development projects.
In addition, Cal Fire officials kicked back some of the paperwork filed by the local leaders because it had been improperly formatted. "It's about lawsuits and if there is not enough information for us to sign we have to ask for more," said Dave Derby, unit forester for Cal Fire's Butte area.
A spokesman for Gov. Newsom said his administration is committed to doing more forest-clearing work and that additional projects will be announced in the coming weeks.
To help move the Lake Madrone thinning, which was planned for 54 acres, Butte County Fire Safe Council officials decided to split that environmental review from the one for the evacuation routes because most landowners had signed on, said Calli-Jane DeAnda, executive director of the Butte County Fire Safe Council.
It took 17 months to get the final go ahead from Cal Fire in March. Then a new problem hit: the coronavirus pandemic, which Ms. Bethune said put some of that work on hold.
After approval for the plan to create fire breaks along the evacuation roads came in July, Ms. DeAnda said her group had hoped to start both projects this fall and complete them within a month.
"We were just waiting on the contractor to get started," she said.
The fire has effectively negated the need for that fuel work, now. The forest of pine and oaks surrounding the town was burned so severely that in some places only skeleton trees are left, devoid of leaves.
Volunteer Fire Chief Reed Rankin, who lost his own home, said all he and other first responders could do was evacuate people ahead of a firestorm driven by 40 miles-per-hour winds.
"We've got to rethink how we are going to manage the forests," said Mr. Rankin, after sifting through the rubble of a destroyed fire station. "I'm still at a loss, still numb."
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North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters'
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/north-carolina-is-already-rejecting-black-voters-mail-in-ballots-more-often-than-white-voters/
295,000 were illegally and unconstitutionally sold without background checks during pandemic
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article245761015.html
The man who has been identified as the doctor who allegedly gave unnecessary hysterectomies to women detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility settled a Medicare, Medicaid federal lawsuit years ago. Dr. Mahendra Amin, who is himself an immigrant, was the subject of a Justice Department investigation in 2015 for making false claims to Medicaid and Medicare. As a result, he and other doctors involved paid $525,000 in a civil settlement, according to the Justice Department.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/nurse-questions-medical-care-operations-detainees-immigration-jail-georgia-n1240110
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/hospital-authority-irwin-county-resolves-false-claims-act-investigation-520000
Wooten was demoted in July from a full-time nurse to "as-needed" after missing work because she had coronavirus symptoms. She said she believes the demotion was in retaliation for raising coronavirus protocol concerns, according to the complaint.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/nurse-questions-medical-care-operations-detainees-immigration-jail-georgia-n1240110
Republicans cancelled USPS plan to send face masks to every household in US
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/516893-white-house-nixed-plan-to-send-facemasks-to-every-household-in-us-report
Jose Abreu hits his 17th homer of the year to tie the game. He's also the first player this season to hit 50 rbi
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/e7f1fd63-0eb4-4708-bfd2-bff1bf75bd34.mp4
Mariners' three-game series against Padres this weekend, scheduled to be played in Seattle, likely will move to San Diego, sources tell The Athletic. Air quality in Seattle remains unhealthy. Teams finalizing details.
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1306668087413035008
Byron "I'll steal 30 bases before I hit 30 home runs" Buxton hits his second home run of the game, 12th of the season
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/0c9643fb-148f-4da6-b88c-50f34f5a0833.mp4
Warren and Schumer urge student debt cancellation of up to $50,000 for all federal borrowers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/senate-democrats-student-debt-50000-151406953.html
A U.S. judge has blocked Postal Service changes that slowed mail and prompted concerns about absentee voting
Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump's 'flat out disregard for human life' during pandemic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/olivia-troye-coronavirus-white-house/2020/09/17/d3f67ede-f8ed-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html
Josh Donaldson homers to put the Twins in front, is ejected as he crosses home plate
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/7bc2f058-d2ff-44e0-a01c-fa0183c994d6.mp4
The Republican-controlled Justice Department explored whether it could pursue either criminal or civil rights charges against city officials in Portland, Oregon after clashes erupted there night after night between law enforcement and demonstrators, a department spokesperson said Thursday.
https://apnews.com/2f50d659d4e5267755125cc7ddd0a146
This is why leftists reject dumb Democrats: Speaker Pelosi: "We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting. They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1306642824469725185
It's NOT lawlessness to use violence to stop lawlessness, it's NOT lawlessness to use violence to stop people from destroying the environment and destroying animals, it's NOT lawlessness to stop the very people destroying this planet. Without the left's violence, there is no environmental protection, animal rights, worker rights, female rights, etc.
Josh Venable, the former chief of staff to Education Secretary Betsy Devos, has joined an anti-Trump group.
https://politico.com/news/2020/09/17/devos-aide-joins-anti-trump-group-417234
Joe Rogan lies to his millions of listeners that left-wing activists are starting forest fires in Oregon. This dangerous claim has been completely debunked.
Democratic lawmakers are blasting Kodak after its internal review found no evidence of insider trading even though Kodak PUBLICALLY engaged in insider trading
Jaden Smith Will Host New Snapchat Series "The Solution Committee" | The unscripted series will feature Jaden speaking with activists and celebrities regarding political issues of importance, and what people can do to help enact change. Eight new episodes will air every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Snapchat Discover. For the first two episodes, Jaden teams up with Hailey Bieber, Yara Shahidi, and activists Gabe Fleisher (founder of the non-partisan organization Wake Up To Politics) and Winter BreeAnne (national student leader for Women's March Youth Empower who helped launch the #PowerToThePolls campaign) to educate viewers on the process and voting, and how powerful voting can be. Future episodes will talk about race, racism, and inequality, with appearances from Common, Willow Smith, Janelle Monáe, Phoebe Robinson, and Lena Waithe. | Previously speaking with Teen Vogue, Jaden had expressed a desire to see more young people get involved in politics and activism, saying, "My goal is to motivate as many as I can to become solution-based activists. The goal is to become experts in not just the issues we face, but around the solutions we have in our hands…I want my generation and the next one to understand that the private and public sectors are both needed to solve big issues. We need to put pressure on both by voting — with our dollar and the ballot. Vote, vote, vote, vote!"
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/jaden-smith-will-host-new-snapchat-series-the-solution-committee
https://www.snapchat.com/discover/The_Solution_Committee/3590333574
H.R. McMaster says Trump policy in Afghanistan partners with Taliban against Afghan government | Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and partnering with the Taliban has made the United States less safe, says H.R. McMaster, President Trump's former national security adviser. The retired lieutenant general speaks to Scott Pelley in his first interview about his new book on the 53rd Season Premiere of 60 Minutes, Sunday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT on CBS.
McMaster calls the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan a big mistake and writes in the book, "Battlegrounds," that the region is a hotbed of terrorism. "Terrorist organizations who pose a threat to us are stronger now than they were on September 10, 2001. Those who perpetrated the mass murder attacks of 9/11 were the mujahideen-era alumni of the resistance to Soviet occupation in Afghanistan," he tells Pelley. "Today, we are facing an Al-Qaeda and an ISIS alumni that is orders of magnitude greater than that mujahideen-era alumni ever was. And they also have access to much more destructive capabilities," says McMaster. McMaster says the president partnered with the Taliban ahead of this month's peace talks in Doha. "I think what [President Trump] did with this new policy, is he, in effect, is partnering with the Taliban against, in many ways, the Afghan government. And so, I think that it's an unwise policy. And I think what we require in Afghanistan is a sustained commitment to help the Afghan government," says McMaster. McMaster tells Pelley the U.S. is more vulnerable in the eyes of its adversaries. COVID-19, the recession and racial divisions have made the U.S. weaker. China, Russia and others are now exploiting those weaknesses.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hr-mcmaster-trump-afghanistan-policy-taliban-60-minutes-2020-09-17/
34 times Trump said the coronavirus would go away
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/34-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html
Lev Parnas, Giuliani Associate, Faces New Fraud Charges
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/nyregion/lev-parnas-charged.html
C.D.C. scientists didn't write the virus testing guidance on its website last month, and it was published against their objections, officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/health/coronavirus-testing-cdc.html
Trump finds his own supporters disgusting is shocking. We need as many people to see this as possible. Please distribute to all your networks, including social media. This is impactful and we should make sure this goes massively viral.
In this new ad @OliviaTroye reveals that during a COVID task force meeting, President Trump said "Maybe this COVID thing is a good thing. I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people." WOW.
https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1306686243422511108
The fact that every household in the US almost received 5 masks in the mail in April, until the WH killed it, ought to be a screamer headline everywhere. What other story hits home like that? Trump and Republicans cancelled a USPS plan to send 650 million masks to Americans during the early part of the pandemic.
https://washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usps-announcement-to-send-5-masks-to-every-american-household/39cd11c9-3e38-4d8a-9d70-7c3215ab9cf8/
1. The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (Native Americans, the First Peoples Of The Americas) are the Founders of America.
2. Native Americans date back 30,000+ years
3. Patriotism includes recognizing the nation's flaws and working to resolve those flaws, not whitewashing history.
4. AMERICA BELONGS TO NATIVE AMERICANS
The White Sox take three out of four from the Twins, and punch their first ticket to the postseason since 2008
Didi Gregorius goes back to back to back with Alec Bohm and Bryce Harper
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/0f18c0a8-1c4f-4272-ae91-9d5677d961a0.mp4
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/4201a66a-8a57-493d-80e7-e631e9b1a427.mp4
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/68fa25b2-2fa7-444d-8e43-40fb107227ba.mp4
Brazil is burning. Thousands animals dead and the forest devastated.
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-54095561
Celtics are exposing every weakness of Heat and Spo hasn't made an adequate adjustment.
Denver has taught me leads like this at the half mean nothing
Jayson Tatum's Kobeball at the end of halfs/games is seriously hurting the Celtics
Biden just did, during CNN's town hall, a very subtle walkback on a mask mandate — in one response he said he couldn't do a mandate, then in another said he would do one that applied to federal government property.
My kids were in small-group camps for much of the summer and I feel like they'd be better off if they could keep doing that, maybe with an hour a day of reading built in, rather than zoom school, which increasingly seems not just useless but actively harmful.
If Biden owes Wisconsin an apology for canceling the convention there, Trump owed an apology to North Carolina and Florida for canceling the RNC convention
Biden says he would pressure governors to institute mask mandates and, if they don't, he'll call the mayors.
I like angry Joe Biden
I can't wait for the debate when Joe can tell Donald how much of a failure he is at being POTUS to his face
Biden is frustrated. So are Americans. They will vote for someone who feels like they do.
A leader who believes in context and relativity is bound to be more effective than one who is absolute in their actions. Good answer, Joe.
Biden is discussing vaccines like a man who has been briefed on this and actually paid attention to the briefers.
These stories: a teacher with MS who is scared to return to school unless students are vaccinated, a cancer advocate who is trying to buy his groceries, a nurse who lost her husband last year. These stories are everywhere. This is our country right now. #BidenTownHall
The Split Screen in our household tonight: Biden townhall and the Heat/Celtics game and the Browns game and multiple MLB games SIGH......
Biden is implicitly fact checking Trump by uttering many consecutive coherent sentences, which Trump has repeatedly said Biden cannot do.
The president is yelling at his FBI director on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306749921173762049
"Talk about LOSERS!" Joe is on fire.
I must admit I underestimated Biden at the beginning of this whole process, but I grown to understand why people like him. He exceeded my expectations and I'm excited to be voting for him.
Wow... you can really tell that it still chokes Biden up to talk about Beau. I'm reading his memoir Promise Me, Dad right now, and you can really tell how much he loves and adores his family.
Anybody that knows anybody with dementia knows Biden clearly doesn't have it. He answers immediately and on topic, pulls out statistics, making multiple points, and calls back to things he said before. A dementia patient can do none of those things. Stumbling over words is not dementia.
My brain is just so in Trump mode that it is hard to watch and process actual intelligent answers that don't involve the speaker lying, deflection or obviously being on Adderall. It's almost an alien feeling.
Biden remembers him from forever ago!
Dementia alert!
Wait, did he just say "Someone like Trump who did a line [of cocaine] gets probation?"
Shots fired.
Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face. It powerfully captures two basic truths, which are at the core of his plan: (1) the United States urgently needs to embrace greater ambition on an epic scale to meet the scope of this challenge, and (2) our environment and our economy are completely and totally connected.
https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/
These are not softball questions. These are policy questions for fundamental change.
So....he's standing upright...speaking coherently....no monitor....we're going to be here at least an hour.
Is this stupid narrative about Biden's health over?
The fracking stuff is disappointing but its where we are as a nation. People still are trying to push an idea that coal can come back.
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn Declares 'We Will Never Rewrite the Constitution,' Forgets She Co-Sponsored Constitutional Amendments
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/gop-senator-declares-we-will-never-rewrite-the-constitution-forgets-she-co-sponsored-constitutional-amendments/
Rep. Jackson Lee stops deportation of woman claiming Fallopian tube removed without consent
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-jackson-lee-stops-deportation-of-woman-claiming-fallopian-tube-removed-without-consent-91942469521
Gleyber Torres hits a solo shot to put the Yankees up 9-2. That's their 5th homerun in 6 batters.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/88fb9739-ebe6-4e22-9579-f409380d36e8.mp4
Voit hits his 20th homerun of the season as the Yankees go back to back to back to go up 7-2.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/dd8d2eca-93a4-4355-b330-aa3eb355c9b6.mp4
Stanton hits his first homer since returning from the IL to make it 8-2
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/2dbde171-596d-49be-ba2a-e90511ca8773.mp4
Rangers' Jeff Mathis cleaves a cutout in half with a foul ball
https://streamable.com/ev1dhw
Gavin Newsom signs laws requiring companies to report COVID-19 infections, provide workers' comp
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article245807985.html
The Miami Heat defeat the Boston Celtics 106-101 behind 25/3/5 from Goran Dragic to take a 2-0 series lead
Jimmy Butler with another clutch steal
https://streamable.com/148uvh
Butler makes it a 2 possession game with 7.4 remainingHighlights
https://streamable.com/s2q6xs
The Miami Heat are officially 10-1 in these playoffs
The Americans made two major mistakes, one of the interviewees said: 1 they invaded and 2 they withdrew
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-iraq-documentary-special/
Judges are showing signs of frustration with emergency orders from governors and mayors that, many months into the pandemic, override normal rulemaking and legislative processes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pennsylvania-judge-restrictions-coronavirus/2020/09/16/18c1dbc4-f814-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html
Duncan Robinson shooting the ball before he caught the ball
https://streamable.com/lmhxye
Butler deflects it to end the game
https://streamable.com/glcpy0
Goran Dragic drains the three to extend the Heat lead to 5
https://streamable.com/x6dk9t
Marcus Smart is screaming in the Celtics locker room and there is a bunch of arguing going on. Smart comes out say "y'all on that bullshit!" Team is imploding. Smart is in bathroom and there is still screaming coming from locker room.
https://twitter.com/GwashburnGlobe/status/1306771306613014528
YEP, Stan Van Gundy: When Lakers forced Harden to give up the ball. See what he does compares once he gives up to Steph Curry. Curry will immediately be on the run, flying around, still very hard to guard. Versus Harden, once he gives it up, he just stands out, the possession is basically over.
http://www.espn.com/espnradio/play?id=29908155
Stan made this point very empathically that Harden is only effective when he has the ball because he chooses to have zero motion once he gives it up. Comparing him to Steph who still trying to run plays for his teammates. Steph is so underrated, those off ball motions won't show up on stats sheet, won't get him triple doubles, but real analysts and coaches know.
Seth Lugo's Start tonight: 1.2IP 8H 6ER...Mets Bullpen following his departure: 7.1IP 1H 0ER
Jean Segura reaches base in 8 consecutive plate appearances, but pays the price of leaving the game after taking 98mph to the elbow
https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2020/2020-09/17/4a5734e5-8c98c271-d394ed75-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
Yankees sweep the Blue Jays, outscore them 43-15, extend win streak to 8 games
Framber Valdez today vs the Texas Rangers: 6.1 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 K
Steven Brault against the Cards: 9 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 110 Pitches
YEP: Celtics' Jayson Tatum on emotional postgame locker room scene after Game 2 loss to Heat: "That's team sports. We're not supposed to be happy we're down 0-2. Nothing out of the ordinary. Talking about the game. It's cool."
https://streamable.com/l0y55f
Jimmy Butler on what's motivating him inside the bubble "I'm here sacrificing what I'm sacrificing for my family, I'm going to bring them a championship"
https://streamable.com/xoyr3n
Biden calls on Trump to step down over his covid19 response as he holds first town hall
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/joe-biden-town-hall-cnn-trump-coronavirus-william-barr-b475300.html
Reminderf: Trump Attacks FBI Director Christopher Wray For Warning Public About Current Russian Election Meddling
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-attacks-fbi-director-christopher-wray-for-warning-on-russian-election-meddling
Turning Point spam network shut down by Facebook, Twitter. The Al-Right Republican organization is accused of secretly paying teenagers to spread pro-Trump content.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/turning-point-spam-network/
Internal Records Reveal Republican-controlled Treasury Department Attempted Unprecedented And Illegal And Unconstitutional Takeover of USPS
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/internal-records-reveal-treasury-department-attempted-unprecedented-and-arguably-illegal-takeover-of-usps/
Biden Highlights Middle Class Economic Pain in Town Hall
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/biden-highlights-middle-class-economic-pain-in-town-hall
U.S. Admits That "Putin's Favorite Congressman" Offered Pardon to Assange If He Covered Up Russia Links | Lawyers representing the United States at Julian Assange's extradition trial in Britain have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon by a Congressman on the condition that he would help cover up Russia's involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee. Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer, told the court that she had attended a meeting between Assange, then Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and pro-Trump troll Charles Johnson at Assange's hide-out, the Ecuadorian embassy in London, on August 15, 2017. Robinson said the two Americans claimed to be emissaries from Washington and "wanted us to believe they were acting on behalf of the president." The pair allegedly told Assange that they could help grant him a pardon in exchange for him revealing information about the source of the WikiLeaks information that proved it was not the Russians who hacked Democratic emails. "They stated that President Trump was aware of and had approved of them coming to meet with Mr. Assange to discuss a proposal—and that they would have an audience with the president to discuss the matter on their return to Washington, D.C.," Robinson said. | The claim itself is not new—Assange's lawyers previewed the allegation in a pre-trial hearing in February—but this is the first time Robinson's testimony has been heard in full. The WikiLeaks lawyer said Rohrabacher offered Assange the deal a year after emails that damaged Hillary Clinton in the presidential race had been published, when the Russia investigation was gathering pace. The stolen DNC emails posted by WikiLeaks were hacked by Russian operatives.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-admits-that-putins-favorite-congressman-offered-pardon-to-assange-if-he-covered-up-russia-links
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offered-assange-pardon-if-he-covered-up-russian-hack-court-hears
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer
The Phillies' bullpen has a 7.05 ERA, which would be the second-worst in baseball history to the 8.01 ERA by the 1930 Phillies. Seven of the 13 worst bullpen ERAs in history are by Philadelphia baseball teams, and it's poetic.
https://twitter.com/MattGelb/status/1306581597194539010
No positive tests among #MLB players for 19 consecutive days as everyone heads into hotels next week to be isolated before postseason
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1306958695373238275
Yikes: Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo has won his second consecutive MVP award
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1306967778163789825
The team effort from the Heat has been insane this postseason. Dragic and Butler have been huge for them leading them as well.
Heat/Celtics: What a game of runs. What another close game. Whatever hype was about these two teams matching up well did not disappoint at all. We get backdoor cuts, pick-n-roll actions, weakside actions, misdirections, and different defenses.
Great to see Duncan Robinson (18 points on 6/12 shooting from 3) play with confidence. In the playoffs so far he'd either pass up on open looks, or drive to the basket and turn the ball over. Since he was so hot from 3 today, the driving lanes for Miami opened up today. Also, that shoot-and-catch shot was amazing (https://streamable.com/lmhxye);
Bam and Herro had an amazing two-man game in that third quarter run with their pick and roll plays and backdoor cuts. Bam finished with 21/10/4/2/1 on 62% shooting. That's crazy efficient. Plus, he anchors that Miami defense so well. Herro actually shot 1/8 from three today but he didn't seem fazed as he finished the game with 5 assists and grabbed FOUR offensive boards
Eurobasket Dragic: He's playing so free out there and he's such a joy to watch. I mean, just look at this dagger of a shot. Part of me thinks he purposely lost that dribble to free up space. His calmness is such a perfect balance to the fire that is Butler and the rest of this team
Speaking of Jimmy Butler: those late steals down the stretch were amazing. It's like watching an nfl cornerback hide behind the defensive line, track the ball then just pounce for an interception
We've seen in the Toronto series how much the zone defense bothers Boston. What I think Miami brings differently, aside from having more length for their personnel, is that each time down the court they mix the defenses up. Boston doesn't really know what kind of defense, zone or man-to-man, or what kind of zone even happens each time they cross the court.
Jaylen played great. I wish his last shot went in because it was so wide open and he just hit the last 2 to keep them within the game.
I feel at times Smart forces too many things down the stretch. I get that he's the heart and soul of this team, but at key moments, that ball still has to be in the hands of Kemba or Jayson. But to be fair to him as well, they also had their own struggles with turnovers;
Glad to see a Kemba sighting, but he'll need to do more, not just as a scorer but as a playmaker as well. I think Brad needs to get more off ball action and cutting from Kemba cause he's really quick enough to lose his man off ball
I hope Boston comes out swinging and winning in Games 3 and 4 because I favour the Celtics
I see that a lot of people are impressed by Miami's zone. Deservingly so, but this is something they have also played in Game 1, and something to which Celtics have responded a lot better than in Game 2. Here is a video which shows how the Celtics attacked the 2-3 zone in game 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSYKISX2iEs
There are several key things when attacking such zone:
- Ball movement on the three point line
- Playing through the high post (while also moving the ball)
- Off the ball players should move on the low post along the baseline
- And using the freeze dribble which is essentially: take one or two dribbles down the middle until the 2 guys from zone get tight and kick the ball out. Repeat until there is space for shot
Now Celtics did ALL of the above things in Game 1, and responded nicely in game two with Kemba dishing the ball to Smart in 2nd quarter on the first play in which Heat brought out the zone. But everything fell apart in 3rd quarter. And most of the times it was because of Tatum, he slowed down the ball movement and because ot that they were left with little time and all they could've done was drive into three players. They also stacked the players in the corners, but that isn't the best way to attack the 2-3 zone, as the lower players (so the left and right one from the 3 players down low) can cover it easily. The 2-3 zone is designed to stop the drive and penetration, and that's the area where Celtics played great in the first half. Tatum was a completely different player in Game 2 than the one in Game 1. In first game he forced a bunch of tough shots, even those shots he made were really hard. I get that they are his shots but they are still bad shots. He corrected all that and drove with ease against Crowder, whenever he got that matchup. Celtics shot just 28 three pointers (14 in each half) in a game where Heat played most of the time in a 2-3 zone, and as mentioned, that zone is weak against ATB three pointers. Their percentage was really good for the game as well, 35.7% compared to Miami's 32.6%.. And Tatum, as their main shooter/scorer took only 1 three pointer in second half.. But turnovers from those drives against the zone caused the low number of shots for Cs. And yeah there were other issues, for example broken Pick and Roll plays where Adebayo gets his points, but you pick your poison, and they decided to defend the three point shot instead of easy bucket. There were situations where there was no need for that and could have helped on Adebayo, but it's easy to say now...I don't mean to take away anything from the Heat, they played another amazing game, Dragić was so good on offense, and gave a lot of problems to Kemba on defense, he was much better than Herro/Robinson in defending him. Butler and Crowder as the two top guys in 2-3 zone showed A LOT more aggression on defense and it payed off (4 and 3 steals, respectively). Robinson was on fire from 3 point range, and Herro kept hustling on offense again and pulling down offensive rebounds. They did have weak spots on offense as well, and Celtics did play good defense (as they did in game 1), but the main takeaway definitely were the struggles against the zone. I would be upset as hell if I'm hardcore Celtics' fan (I prefer the Celtics over the Heat but am not a hardcore Celtics fan, if the Finals are Heat versus Lakers I'm rooting for the Heat) because this is something they already tackled successfully but then they botched it in Game 2.
Brad Stevens had a late night Thursday meeting with Celtics leaders – Kemba Walker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart – to work through emotions of post-Game 2 locker room. A lot of yelling in locker room, but nothing escalated to a physical confrontation.
Michigan ballots postmarked by Nov. 2 must be counted in election, judge rules. This is absolutely huge. Prior to this, ballots had to be received by election day before 8pm to count. That meant that delays from the USPS could affect anyone who sent their ballots in within like a week of the election and could miss the deadline. Now, all those ballots will count in a big win for democracy here.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/18/absentee-ballot-mail-michigan-election-2020-usps/3492609001/
Judge blocks Michigan's ban on transporting voters to polls
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2020/09/18/judge-blocks-michigans-ban-on-transporting-voters-to-polls.html
In-Person Early Voting Begins Friday in Virginia
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/in-person-early-voting-virginia-where-deadline/2419304/
Massive line of voters in Fairfax, Virginia, on the FIRST DAY of in-person early voting. Some voters say they showed up because they lost faith in USPS to deliver ballots. Officials tell CNN they've never seen anything like this on Day One.
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1306961499085209602
The White House is expected to announce massive disaster relief for Puerto Rico 3 years after Trump tossed paper towels to survivors of Hurricane Maria
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-expected-announce-disaster-relief-puerto-rico-2020-9
Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat
https://uk.reuters.com/article/usa-tiktok-ban/exclusive-trump-to-block-u-s-downloads-of-tiktok-wechat-on-sunday-officials-idUSL1N2GF039
Federal Judge Says USPS Delays Were "Intentional Effort" to Undermine Fair Elections
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/federal-judge-says-usps-delays-were-intentional-effort-to-undermine-fair-elections/
Packed BLM protests are much safer from COVID than packed Trump rallies, everybody around Trump keeps getting sick and testing positive, the BLM and Antifa people are not sick and none have tested positive
Frank Gore averages more YPC than LaDainian Tomlinson, Emmitt Smith, Curtis Martin and Jerome Bettis but folks tell me he only got to where he is on the all-time rushing list by sticking around too long.
https://twitter.com/MattBarr_/status/1306941152004845570
Joe Burrow has been hit more times tonight than his entire 2019 season at LSU
https://twitter.com/KNegandhiESPN/status/1306794250542215168
The Bad O-Line Club is the least fun Club in the league, isn't it?
The Bengals still have to play the Steelers and Ravens twice. Much luck to Burrow.
Joe Burrow throws the first passing TD of his career
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1306763541572022273
Mark Sanchez passing stats are misleading because he wins. Geno Smith's passing stats are misleading because his WRs are terrible and Rex Ryan doesn't know offense. Sam Darnold's passing stats are misleading because Jets have nobody around him.
Trump's running out of money and can't afford ads so he's having these "press conferences" as free campaigning.
The White House is preparing a shortlist of candidates to replace Christopher Wray as FBI Director
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1307008186436792330
Four FBI directors in just as many years
Police brutality, white privilege, racism — it's all real. It's time we stop pretending, or defending, or just closing our eyes to what's right in front of us. We have to listen, and we have to keep having these hard conversations. And it's not like this is just our history. This is right now. These are not political problems. These are human problems. It should not be seen as a political statement to discuss this stuff honestly. And I'm sure there are people out there who simply don't want to hear it. But let me just tell you a quick story. Shortly after George Floyd was killed, I was down in Atlanta doing my off-season workouts. It was obviously complicated because of COVID, so I had arranged to use a field where I could do some work with my receivers. The first one who could make it to Atlanta was Danny Amendola. Danny and I spent four days working out together. No problems at all. It was great. A week later, I went to do the same thing, at the same field, with four of my black teammates. We were just starting to dump all the footballs out on the field and some of the guys were still stretching when a gentleman came out and told us that we were trespassing — and to leave immediately. We didn't even have our cleats on yet. I remember I was standing there in my socks, just kind of stunned and confused, like, What? But he didn't even want to listen. We were still gathering up the footballs and trying to figure out another spot where we might be able to go when the gentleman pulled out his cellphone. He said, "I'm calling the police." After everything that we've witnessed over the last few months, and how situations can escalate for no reason at all … and here the police are being called. We were there for maybe 10 minutes total. Nobody said a bad word to him. And he still called the police and told them that we were being "uncooperative" and "not leaving the property." Obviously, we got out of there immediately. | I was embarrassed to have put my teammates in that situation, especially when I was told that it was cool to use the field. Especially when I had been on the same field with Danny with no problems. The only difference is what we all know in our hearts. Danny and I are white. We don't get the cops called on us in those situations. We don't immediately get called uncooperative. And if even if Danny and I somehow did get the cops called on us, we all know how that interaction would've gone. "Hey, what are you doing here? O.K, well, move along now. Have a good day." It's just a different dynamic. It's just the reality of this country, and it's O.K. to talk about it. Situations that I take for granted are different for my black teammates, and I am learning just how deep that goes every single day. After the Jacob Blake incident happened, our team came together and guys shared some very emotional and raw stories of their own experiences. The level of trauma that guys and their families were feeling — I mean really feeling — was just so deep. Multiple guys were saying how whenever they would leave their house to go to the facility, their parents were begging them to text them as soon as they arrived and as soon as they got home. Just to know that they were safe. That's the level of trauma that you feel as a parent when you see these videos and you instantly think, That could be my child. But the one story that stuck with me so much was when Trey Flowers talked about how he copes with the anxiety of dealing with the police. Trey was explaining that if he were to ever get pulled over in his car — something that I have experienced many times without even thinking twice about it — he would roll down his window, put both hands on the wheel, and ask the officer if he would like him to step out of the car so he can handcuff him. Just so that he is not seen as a threat. Just so the officer can't say, "Oh, he was reaching here, he was reaching there.…" Just so he makes it back home. If you're a white person, all I'm asking you to do is to really think about that. Imagine that being your first instinct when you see police lights in your rearview mirror. No one in America should have to feel this way. Listen, I'm not some perfect person. I'm not trying to lecture anybody. I've made a million mistakes. I grew up in Highland Park, Texas, which is probably one of the most privileged places in the country. It's a place that I still love very much, but it's a bubble. That's just a fact. I was not exposed to a lot of diversity or different ideas growing up. I was not educated on these issues, and I probably said a bunch of stupid things when I was young that I regret. But a big part of life is about looking inside yourself and trying to evolve as a person. And when you hear your teammates telling these stories — and getting so emotional that they're breaking down crying — you can't just sit there and be silent. These were the same guys who had supported me last off-season during the darkest months of my life, when my wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It's still very hard for me to talk about, honestly. But I will just say that when you're going through hell like that, and you're still trying to be the quarterback of an NFL team and a guy who people can rely on, you absolutely can't do it alone. I would come into the facility at five in the morning and try to get my work in, and then I'd leave to go be with my wife just as guys were coming in for meetings. I remember passing my teammates in the hallway on my way out to the car, and they never once looked at me like I was letting them down. It was always, "We got you. Is there anything we can do to help? Is there anything you need? We're praying for you." This is what it means to be a part of a brotherhood. You have your brother's back when they're in pain. You listen to them. You try to help. I wish that we could do that as a country. There are still people, as sad as it is to say, who are simply not listening. After we canceled our practice, I received text messages that made me realize just how far we have to go in this conversation, and how people just assume I feel a certain way about all of this. Things like, "Sorry you had to miss practice, or, "Sorry you have to deal with this stuff, man." The fact that anyone would feel sorry for me, or be thinking about a football practice at a time like that, really speaks volumes. There are still people in this country who just want sports to be a distraction, and that's their right. But I beg to differ. I was drafted by the Lions in 2009, when the city was struggling due to the economic crisis. The city was bankrupt and they couldn't even afford to tear down the abandoned buildings all over downtown. Then you see how many of Detroit's public schools have been shut down over the last 15 years, and the unbelievable amount of rec centers that have closed, especially in low-income neighborhoods. A lot of people growing up in those communities have only known inequality and struggle for their whole lives. Michigan has been home to me and my family for a long time now. People have welcomed us with open arms, and we've always embraced that love. I visit schools from time to time where maybe kids don't have access to Wi-Fi or even to a computer nearby, and you just want people to have a chance. But the thing is, you wouldn't know the hardship they're experiencing based on some of the smiles on these kids' faces. And just their attitude toward life — despite what their families are going through. And now, after all these years of economic hardship, we're in the middle of a pandemic, and these same kids have been in lockdown for months, where they have been exposed to video after video of people who look just like them having these incidents with police. I didn't grow up like that. I didn't have to deal with anything remotely close to what those kids have to deal with. And if you grew up the way I did, and you still happen to live in one of those bubbles where you don't have to worry about these things, maybe you're tired of hearing about all this. Maybe you want to pretend it doesn't exist, because you don't see it with your own eyes. Maybe you just want us to "shut up and play football." That's your right. I probably can't change your mind. All I can ask you to do, as we continue through this NFL season, is to close your eyes and really put yourself in other people's shoes. Try for a minute to put all the social media and the politics and the arguing aside, and look within yourself. Ask yourself hard questions. But more than anything, listen. It's time.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/matthew-stafford-detroit-lions-nfl-racial-injustice
I fucked up on the podcast with Douglas Murray and said that people got arrested lighting fires in Portland. That turns out to not be true. I was very irresponsible not looking into it before I repeated it. I read one story about a guy getting arrested for lighting fires...
https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1307020061215993856
...turned out to be true, but the other shit I read about people getting arrested for lighting fires in Portland was not true. I repeated it without looking into it and it was a really fucking stupid mistake that won't happen again.
I'm sorry.
https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1307020294406709248
Take a moment today to think of the brave men and women fighting the fires that are threatening California. America has a lot of challenges, but it also has a lot of heroes.
Heartbreaking story from a 57-year-old unemployed CSPAN caller in SC who left her job temporarily because she has underlying conditions. Through tears, she said she can't find any work, and will soon be living in her car. She called in because she just needed someone to hear her
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1307027020526821376?s=20
She she was unable to keep her certified nursing assistant job at a nursing home because of sarcoidosis, sickle cell, and diabetes. Since she wasn't able to work, she lost her insurance. Hasn't been able to get unemployment. Foreclosure on her house due to no job and she is having to ask her kids for money at 57 years old. I feel so bad for these people out here. Politicians should be forced to listen to these real American stories. Maybe then they would think about their policy decisions.
This email demonstrates the incredible wishful thinking within the administration on the coronavirus -- and how much attention was paid to browbeating scientists to echo the administration's happy spin. --> Read the Email Between Caputo and Dr. Alexander
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1307017309740036098/mqN3S7qD?format=png&name=small
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/18/us/read-the-email-between-caputo-and-dr.html
Last night's CNN Town Hall with JoeBide averaged 3.328 million total viewers and 718k in the key demo adults 25-54 – CNN's highest single candidate Town Hall ever (Nielsen Fast National data).
https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1307008550879797248
The Qatari government is paying Trump $135,000 a year for an unused office in a San Francisco skyscraper, an apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause
https://vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/how-everyone-is-quietly-lining-trumps-pockets
Mass Death has been normalized: The number of Americans dying from coronavirus each day is now roughly equal to the average number of Americans who died each day in the Civil War, World War I, World War 2 and Korea - combined
https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/1306998239594455044
A pastor in Idaho who called himself a "no-masker" during a service and repeatedly questioned the veracity of coronavirus case reporting is in the ICU after contracting Covid-19
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/us/idaho-pastor-covid-masks-trnd/index.html
The CDC has reversed a recommendation suggesting that people who have had close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus do not need to get tested if they have no symptoms. The phrasing now clearly instructs them: "You need a test."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1307024086481076225
Pandemic leads to $90M in cuts to University of Virginia budget this year
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/pandemic-leads-to-90-million-in-cuts-to-university-of-virginia-budget-this-year/291-15896be2-22a3-44ea-a7db-051976f4735e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Goodkind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Irazoqui
Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions to Protect the National Security of the United States
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/09/commerce-department-prohibits-wechat-and-tiktok-transactions-protect
"I'm the best thing that has ever happened to Puerto Rico"- Donald Trump, 9.18.20. Trump says Biden was a disaster for Puerto Rico, as if Biden was President the last 3 years 9 months. Trump EXPLICITALLY says "Biden's devastated the island of Puerto Rico." As if Biden was the President for the last 3 years 9 months, as if Biden was the hurricane that wrecked Puerto Rico.
I can't believe I have to say this, but if I'm elected president, I won't put a climate change denier — one who called the scientific community "a bunch of thugs" — in charge of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1307025345082724352
https://washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/13/noaa-hires-david-legates-climate/
Twitter Expands FBI-Designated-Domestic-Terrorist QAnon Ban To Political Candidates, Elected Officials
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-qanon-ban-expanded-politicians_n_5f64c18ac5b6b9795b0f7d9c
José Abreu asked about potentially winning the AL MVP: "I'm my mom's MVP every single day, and that's what matters to me."
https://twitter.com/VinnieDuber/status/1307045332593848327
Giannis Antetokounmpo, when asked about his future during his MVP Award acceptance speech, said: "As long as everybody's on the same page and as long as everybody's fighting for the same thing, fighting for the same thing every single day, which is to be a champion, I don't see why not to be in Milwaukee for the next 15 years."
https://twitter.com/eric_nehm/status/1307020736566042624
On the Denver Nuggets' resilience throughout these playoffs: It takes a lot of energy, effort, a lot of desperation to be able to come back from a 3-1 deficit. They did it twice. So the respect level is out of this world. Fuck the Lakers. Lets Go Nuggets!
Giannis - "I have two great agents...I know they're gonna put me in the best situation to be successful. With the team or another team...But at the end of the day we gotta want the same thing which is a championship."
https://streamable.com/jjskgh
There were a number of steps the Obama-Biden Administration took to prepare the nation for the next pandemic, one of which was putting together the pandemic playbook which was handed to the incoming Administration. The playbook listed novel pathogens that could emerge and among the first it listed were novel coronaviruses. Recommendations were made for how to plan for pandemic-like situations, including the execution of tabletop exercises. Here are a few of the many things the Obama-Biden team learned dealing with Zika, Ebola, and H1N1 that they passed on to the new Administration:
- Global leadership and cooperation is essential. Viruses don't respect borders which means an outbreak in one nation puts all nations at risk
- Ensuring accurate, widely available testing is essential
- Ensuring adequate supply and distribution of protective equipment was critical
- Acting early was at the heart of the response. Once spread accelerates, it becomes harder to contain
- Public communication had to be frequent, clear, consistent, and, above all, accurate
- All agencies in the government needed to work together in lockstep with leadership from the White House
- Partnerships with states and community organizations were essential for an effective response
Pro-Trump super PAC uses Hungarian stock photo in ad attacking Biden. In the ad, under text that attacks Biden as weak on American jobs, is a stock image of a car repair station. It's in Budapest.
cbsnews.com
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-trump-super-pac-uses-hungarian-stock-photo-in-ad-attacking-biden/
Reminder: Julian Assange was offered a presidential pardon if he helped to resolve the "ongoing speculation about Russian involvement" in the hacking of Democratic National Cmte. emails leaked during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a London court was told Friday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/assange-offered-pardon-if-he-helped-resolve-speculation-about-russian-n1240424?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Surely this good apple's sense of entitlement over an $8 burrito doesn't ever show itself in grotesque abuses of power: Homeland security at a Chipotle in Atlanta.
First employee: "We can't serve you without a mask."
Officer: "Steak burrito."
Second worker: "We can't—"
Officer: "Everything but cheese."
Manager at register: "Sir, we can't serve you without a mask—"
Officer: "Ring it up."
https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1306997119157444610
https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1306999490176602113/photo/1
1. Animals are raped and tortured and brutally murdered from the moment of CONCEPTION through birth to death for that "food"
2. 100% of the process (industrial food production) by which that "food" was manufactured is destroying the planet
3. 100% of that food destroys human health
4. Which is why vegans don't give fuck about covid19
I agree: It's time for the obsessive mask-wearing to wear off.
https://hermancain.com/police-haul-man-library-not-wearing-mask-meeting-wearing-masks/
One factor in the inevitable slow vote count is that Republicans in MI/PA/WI have resisted letting mail ballots get processed earlier, like they are routinely in heavy mail states that normally have a quick Election night count.
The Trump Administration has managed to do what was previously deemed impossible: They made the pharmaceutical industry look like the good guys for refusing to take part in a White House gimmick that would send $100 "Trump cards" to elderly voters.
https://nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-drug-prices.html
Worries about the federal government putting unacceptable things into children's minds are understandable. This is not just a conservative or liberal problem: both sides are to blame for the real and present danger of federally-approved thought.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
Despite 2,000 U.S. troops leaving Iraq, about 60,000 remain deployed to the Middle East. Hours before 6 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Sentinel radar systems arrived in Syria, U.S.S. Nimitz entered the Persian Gulf to fly missions over Syria and Iraq to protect American troops.
https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1307070351072022530
Pentagon sending troops to Syria after clashes between U.S., Russian military
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/pentagon-sending-troops-syria-after-clashes-between-u-s-russian-n1240319
Hello from Bemidji, MN, where thousands await @realDonaldTrump's rally tonight. As has become the norm, no social distancing and vanishingly few masks to be seen. Minnesota does not require masks outdoors. Mass gatherings officially capped at 250.
https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1307069891539857409
#Rays put Meadows on IL
https://twitter.com/tbtimes_rays/status/1307058401864806402
Ah, Friday evening, when I give up on the 27 articles I've kept open all week with the intention of reading. #closealltabs
Veteran RB C.J. Anderson, who went to the Pro Bowl and won a Super Bowl, is retiring from NFL at age 29. A great run for an undrafted free agent. Anderson now plans to pursue a career in coaching and initially is likely to do it at a big power 5 college. "Details soon," he said.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1307011466130849795
The #49ers ruled out TE George Kittle for Sunday's game vs. the #Jets.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1307055924784312323?s=21
#Browns S Andrew Sendejo, penalized last night 15 yards for lowering his head on a hit against #Bengals WR Tyler Boyd, won't be suspended. His hit will be reviewed as part of the standard discipline process, and he may be fined. Sendejo is a repeat offender of this rule.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1306959740669435904
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How Onside Kick Legend Younghoe Koo bested the Seahawks on Sunday:
Only 12.7% of onside kicks were recovered in 2019. However, Atlanta Falcons Kicker Younghoe Koo (Pronounced Young-Way Koo) has been successful in 5 consecutive attempts. Koo's onside wizardry can be attributed to masterful technique, effective scheming/recovery execution, and a dollop of good luck. Here's how he pulled off his latest brilliant onside kick against the Seahawks on Sunday:
https://www.nfl.com/news/will-4th-and-15-be-better-than-8-out-of-63
First a moment of kickoff Technique:
In a typical deep kickoff, kickers generally take 7-12 steps backwards away from the ball and 3-6 steps over to the side. They usually progress from a walk, jog, and run toward the football and aim about one third up from the bottom of the ball for a backspin (which creates maximum distance).
However, non-surprise onside kicks operate much differently. Kickers usually take just a couple steps back and over (similar to field goals). Instead of propping the ball up on a tee like deep kickoffs, they place the front end of the ball on the grass/turf with the point facing the aim point with the back point propped up toward them(most kickoff tees have a notch on the front to balance the ball for this). After stepping into the ball, Koo actually uses his toe to hit the top of the ball straight into the ground, creating an end-over-end topspin.
https://imgur.com/0z2Sfjo
https://imgur.com/VW3av4c
From there, a non-surprise onside kick must have two elements to succeed:
1). The ball must be slow enough or spend enough time on the ground for your team to travel the minimum required 10 yards to receive the kick. On this play it was ~1.6 seconds
2). The ball must pop up into the air or scuttle along the ground in such a way that your teammate can make a play on the ball 10-11 yards downfield. This is much harder given the often unpredictable bounce of the football - and where Koo's mastery really shows up.
Now to Sunday's play against the seahawks:
Pre kick, Younghoe aims for the gap between the top three seahawks defenders and #28 Ugo Amadi (Oo-go Uh mod-E), whose responsibility is to block Falcons Linebacker #54 (Foy-eh-sa-day Oh-lou-a-con) Foyesade Oloukun for a clean recovery for the hands team behind him.
https://imgur.com/pW2YxKa
Koo mashes the ball into the ground with his toe, and it rises to about waist height before a controlled bounce 6 yards downfield, where it pops up around 7 feet above the ground 10 yards downfield where it can first be legally recovered.(Oh-lou-a-con) Oloukun impressively sneaks inside Amadi's block where the ball drops right in his outstretched arms like a Russell Wilson deep ball. Recovery Falcons.
https://imgur.com/PvpcOdX
https://imgur.com/XNhghqd
https://imgur.com/l30ueef
After watching his previous successful onside kicks, it is clear this was not an accident. In a 2019 Thanksgiving matchup against the Saints, Koo bounced the ball 5-and-a-half yards downfield and popped it up in the air right around the same spot when facing the same alignment as Sunday. It is hard to emphasize how difficult this is, especially under pressure. It takes just the right power and aim to even give your team a chance at the highest level which is why onside kicks are converted at such a low rate year after year.
https://imgur.com/w5fC9bV
It is important to note he has almost certainly been aided by extreme good luck along with great scheming and fortunate teammate recoveries. Former NFL specialist Pat MacAfee also mentioned his success is also due in part to new rule changes to kickoffs making it harder to convert onside kicks so opposing teams don't simulate recovering them much in practice.
However, with a (very impressive) consistent ball flight he can practice perfect timing with teammates he can continue to fool opponents for years to come.
TLDR: Younghoe "Onside Kick Legend" Koo can consistently and masterfully bounce the ball down the field in such a way that his teammates are able to make a play on the ball either high in the air or rolling across the ground the required 10 yards downfield.
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ATL's defense is awful anyway, just do it every time. Let. Younghoe. Cook.
Why is that clip of Cornel West on Tucker Carlson going around again it's from 2018
- Polarize mail-in vs in person voting
- Declare victory before votes are counted
- Work to stop votes from being counted
Bernie Sanders is done but his fans in Pa. keep winning primaries. The Bernie Sanders revolution continues to reshape Democratic politics in Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/nikil-saval-rick-krajewski-progressive-2020-pennsylvania-primary-harrisburg-20200616.html
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel announces his committee received 16,000 pages of State Department records provided to Senate Republicans as part of their Biden probe. State Department had shut down requests to House Dems for their impeachment inquiry last year
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1307081456280383488
Yes, the mayor did not listen to warnings from principals and teachers about the school staffing crisis that led to yesterday's delay. But he also brushed aside worries from his own staff, scrambling to make reopening work, about the exact same issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/nyregion/schools-reopen-delay-nyc.html
Zach Eflin today: 7IP (CG), 0ER/R, 4H, 2BB, 8K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
Today is the day the United States and Democracy and Humanity Died. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon has died.
Justice Ginsburg dictated a statement before her death: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-died-of-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer-at-age-87/2020/09/18/770e1b58-fa07-11ea-85f7-5941188a98cd_story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-at-87.html
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/18/20917757/justice-ginsburg-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies
Mitch McConnell said March 2016 that he'd never fill a SCOTUS seat during an election year. That was the Republican excise for blocking Democrats replacing Scalia with a Democrat. What will be their excuse for replacing RBG less than two months before the election? Republicans left Scalia's seat open for almost 10 months so that they could steal an election and steal the seat. There's no rush to appoint another Justice now, 6 weeks before this election. But they will. America is dead.
March 2016: The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. #Scalia
https://twitter.com/senatemajldr/status/698666807167549440
From 2020: And Senator McConnell stated that he would confirm a new Supreme Court Justice during an election year. Something he vehemently denied President Obama, stonewalling any and all nominations.[1] In 2016, he left a vacant Supreme Court seat open until after a Republican won the White House so that his party could fill it. In 2020, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is willing to do the opposite. "Oh, we'd fill it," McConnell told supporters in Kentucky on Tuesday when asked what he would do if a Supreme Court justice died in 2020 while President Trump was still in office, as CNN reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/29/oh-wed-fill-it-how-mcconnell-is-doing-supreme-court-vacancies-an-election-year/
Go ahead. Tell me how appointing a Supreme Court Justice in a Presidential election year is different this time. Their guy is at the helm. They don't care about optics or being fair. They accomplished what they sought out to do.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1307104888963428357
If you are a journalist, please do not write "there were lines as far as the eye can see" when the wait is 20 minutes long. Studies show that voters will stand in line without being all that bothered by it for half an hour. Don't make people afraid to go out and vote.
Here's what Lindsey Graham, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, had to say in 2018 about a possible presidential election year SCOTUS vacancy: Sen. Lindsey Graham justifies his treatment of Merrick Garland: "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election"
https://twitter.com/i/status/1047509950778335232
https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1047509950778335232
Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she says. My colleague @kcgrove will have a story shortly.
https://twitter.com/lruskin/status/1307102957947715584
I should say, Sen. Murkowski spoke this afternoon, before RBG's death was announced. It was a hypothetical.
https://twitter.com/lruskin/status/1307105915846434820
Get ready for The Biden Rule, 2016 edition | For Vice President Joe Biden, who spent half of his 36-year Senate career as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Republicans' refusal to consider Obama's high-court candidate marks a further breakdown of the norms and traditions of an institution he still reveres. His longtime Senate colleague Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had vowed to restore the Senate's great deliberative tradition as he campaigned in a successful bid to become majority leader in 2014. But now McConnell is using Biden's own words to underscore his strategy to obstruct the confirmation process by denying a hearing and vote to Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland. He and other Republicans point to a speech Biden made as a senator nearly a quarter-century ago in which he cautioned a Republican president against trying to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year. After video of the speech was unearthed, Republicans dubbed his assertion the Biden Rule and said it applies now just as the Delaware senator argued it did then: putting off a politically charged confirmation fight in the midst of a heated presidential election was not only sound, but fair to the nominee.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-biden-supreme-court-20160323-story.html
"I even said, I'm putting Ted Cruz as one of the people for the Supreme Court, right? ... We have about 45 unbelievable people, unbelievable, the smartest, the best, the absolute creme de la creme. ...Ted's the only man I know that could get 100 votes in the Senate," Trump mused.
Merrick Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court 237 days before the 2016 election. He couldn't get a hearing, or even a meeting with Republican Senators. The 2020 election is in 46 days. Voting has already begun (started today in several states).
Murkowski said earlier today she is against an appointment before the inauguration. But that was theoretical. Now it's real. She's not up for election this year. Neither is Romney.
If McConnell wants to ram through a SCOTUS judge 45 days before the election (after saying in 2016 that the people should decide in an election YEAR), then Biden must respond with pledging to pack the Supreme Court. Full stop.
Biden's capital gains tax hike wouldn't deter long-term investors
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/wall-street-democrat-roger-altman-on-bidens-capital-gains-tax-plan.html
Last Month: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says it would be a "double standard" to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before 2021 & "would not support it."
https://twitter.com/alexanderbolton/status/1290248244682018816
It makes me so sad that such a monumental woman in our country’s history won’t get a second of rest before these vultures come in to desecrate everything she fought for
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who blocked Obama's SCOTUS nominee in 2016 citing the upcoming election, says he will back an effort by Trump to fill the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat this fall. "We will keep our promise."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/mcconnell-trump-replace-ginsburg-supreme-court-election
McConnell, in statement, says whoever Trump nominates will get a vote in the Senate: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
https://twitter.com/tomlobianco/status/1307122486627258370
No vote for Judge Garland but there will be one now says McConnell: “Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda..his nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate”
"Each GOP Senator must now demonstrate whether previous protests about filling SupCt seats during an election year were sincere beliefs or a shameless example of the cynical hyper-partisan grandstanding and obstruction that Americans detest"
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1307129501588115458
It takes 2-3 months to confirm a Supreme Court Justice, Gorsuch's process took 65 days. Kagan took 87 days. Sotomayor took 66 days. Alito took 82. Roberts 62 days. Breyer 73 days. Ginsburg 42 days.
The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Denver Nuggets 126-114 behind 37/10/4 from Anthony Davis to take a 1-0 series lead
Rich Hill vs. the Cubs: 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
The #Reds win their 6th consecutive game to pull to .500 (26-26) for the first time since Aug. 3
Zach Plesac vs DET: 7.2 IP 5H 0ER 1BB 11K
Manny Machado hits his 2nd home run of the game to tie Mookie Betts atop the NL home run leaderboard
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/638c0192-e0a3-41bf-8e55-1ad6d56576a8.mp4
Altuve, Bregman, Springer, Reddick, & Gurriel's batting averages have dropped by an average of 50.2 points from last year to this year. If that doesn't tell you something about getting caught I don't know what will.
Altuve: .298 -> .216
Springer: .292 -> .241
Bregman: .296 -> .259
Reddick: .275 -> .236
Gurriel: .298 -> .256
DJ LeMahieu gives the Yankees the lead in the 12th
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/b7153158-d70f-4c01-9b07-7e9c088d4bdb.mp4
Kole Calhoun homers twice against the Astros; 5 HR in last 4 games
AL MVP candidate Luke Voit rips an 11th inning single to put the Yanks up 5-4
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/663fce64-f0e4-4e0a-a855-5935424db6ee.mp4
Albert Pujols hit HR 661, passing Willie Mays to move alone into 5th all time
https://twitter.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/1307149400662110208?s=19
Kyle Hendricks's final line vs Twins: 8 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 K
A Long List of GOP Senators Who Promised In 2016 Not to Confirm a Supreme Court Nominee During an Election Year
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/a-long-list-of-gop-senators-who-promised-not-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee-during-an-election-year/
Pointing out all the hypocrisy won't get Democrats very far in what will be one of the most contentious nomination fights in the court's history. But it should at least clarify who they're dealing with.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): "I think we're too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision."
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/02/would-gardner-argue-for-delay-as-he-did-four-years-ago/21327/
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas): "I believe the American people deserve to have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court Justice, and the best way to ensure that happens is to have the Senate consider a nomination made by the next President. Confirming a new Supreme Court Justice during a presidential election year for a vacancy arising that same year is not common in our nation's history; the last time it happened was in 1932. And it has been almost 130 years since a presidential election year nominee was confirmed for a vacancy arising the same year under divided government as we have today. In 1992, while serving as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and with a Republican in the White House, Vice President Joe Biden said his committee should "seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings" on any potential nominees until the campaign season was over." (source)
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/content/cornyn-op-ed-public-should-have-voice-picking-next-supreme-court-justice
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): "It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don't do this in an election year." (source)
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/cruz-rubio-twist-court-precedent/
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election" (This was actually what he said in 2018, doubling down on his previous stance. )
https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1047509950778335232
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): "I don't think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president's term — I would say that if it was a Republican president ." (source)
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8661213/republicans-blocked-merrick-garland-democrats-neil-gorsuch/
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.): "It makes the current presidential election all that more important as not only are the next four years in play, but an entire generation of Americans will be impacted by the balance of the court and its rulings. Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid have all made statements that the Senate does not have to confirm presidential nominations in an election year. I will oppose this nomination as I firmly believe we must let the people decide the Supreme Court's future." (source)
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470664561/mcconnell-blocking-supreme-court-nomination-about-a-principle-not-a-person
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): "A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn't be denied a voice." (source)
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470664561/mcconnell-blocking-supreme-court-nomination-about-a-principle-not-a-person
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination." (source)
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/25/joni-ernst-supports-delay-supreme-court-appointment/80947374/
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): "Vice President Biden's remarks may have been voiced in 1992, but they are entirely applicable to 2016. The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president." (source)
https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2016/2/n-c-senator-cites-biden-rule-in-opposing-any-obama-court-nominee
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): "The very balance of our nation's highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people." (source)
https://www.perdue.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-david-perdue-us-supreme-court-appointment-should-wait-until-elections
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "The next President must nominate successor that upholds constitution, founding principles."
Saddened by Justice Scalia's passing. The next President must nominate successor that upholds constitution, founding principles.
https://twitter.com/SenatorTimScott/status/698644480367263745
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): "I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate." (source)
https://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/johnson-feingold-differ-on-obama-nominating-scalias-successor-b99670013z1-368778231.html/
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.): "The next Court appointment should be made by the newly-elected president." (source)
https://www.toomey.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/toomey-releases-statement-on-supreme-court-vacancy
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): "In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president." (source)
https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/statement-on-the-death-of-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): "The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president."
The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president. (2/2)
https://twitter.com/RoyBlunt/status/698682864573902848
Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.): "There is 80 years of precedent for not nominating and confirming a new justice of the Supreme Court in the final year of a president's term so that people can have a say in this very important decision." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/17/upshot/scalia-supreme-court-senate-nomination.html
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): "I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn't be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it's been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year."
https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-statement-supreme-court-vacancy
164 Republicans Voted Against a Resolution Condemning Covid19 Racism Against Chinese-Americans
https://www.newsweek.com/164-republicans-voted-against-resolution-condemning-covid-racism-against-asian-americans-1532750
LeBron James deserved the MVP because he assembled the team on track to win the NBA Finals. He brought in all those battle-hardened NBA veterans who have seriously crushed every team all season and playoffs long. He is the NBA MVP.
According to Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
The floating "time bomb" threatening millions of Yemenis: A rusting oil tanker which has been moored off the coast of Yemen for five years could crack open at any moment, releasing around 1.2 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea, according to the UN.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2020/09/floating-time-bomb-threatening-millions-yemenis
Ex-Pence Aide: Trump Derailed COVID-19 Meeting For 45 Minutes With Fox News Rant
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pence-staffer-donald-trump-coronavirus-anchor_n_5f65a545c5b6b9795b10dcde
It's not hard to draw a line from Weiner --> laptop --> Comey --> Comey's letter --> Trump's razor thin win in key states in 2016 --> Republicans on verge of 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court for decades and decades
Hundreds of people are already lined up to vote early in Fairfax County, spanning across the Fairfax County Government Center, and have been here for hours. Polls don't open for another 30 min. Numerous voters tell me the death of #RBG motivated them to vote this morning
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1307296601271078918
Schumer will hold a call with his caucus at 1 p.m. today to discuss the SCOTUS vacancy, per source familiar.
Democrats have been clear: they want McConnell to wait 'till January on SCOTUS.
McConnell has been clear: right after the announcement of RBG's passing, his office released a statement saying they would he having a vote to replace her ASAP
One Virginia voter told @alivitali: "I've been waiting four years to cast this vote." Lines are out the door on the first day of early voting in Virginia. Watch NOW: http://nbcnews.com/NOW
https://twitter.com/NBCNewsNow/status/1307065792677269504
Navalny in Instagram post: "There are many problems yet to be solved but amazing doctors from Charite hospital have solved the main one. They turned me from a 'technically alive human being' into someone who has high chances to become... a man who can quickly scroll Instagram..."
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1307281520634331141
Arctic sea ice is being increasingly melted from below by warming Atlantic water
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-arctic-sea-ice-increasingly-atlantic.html
Mark Kelly's campaign this morning after news spread that he could be sworn in by November 30th (and thus be a major vote against Republican SCOTUS nominee) if he wins against McSally.
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1307306020847448069
For those unaware: Schumer is quoting what McConnell said in 2016.....: The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1307104888963428357
Biden proposes 401(k) changes to give low-income savers bigger tax benefits
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/biden-plan-retirement-savings-tax-benefits/index.html
A Mark Kelly win in Ariz. Senate race could spoil McConnell's plans to replace Ginsburg | If he's victorious Nov. 3, the Democrat, former astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords might take office in time for the vote
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/mark-kelly-win-ariz-senate-race-could-spoil-mcconnell-s-n1240541
This season Lakers had 50 games where they led after 3rd quarter. They are 50-0.
Nuggets were blown by Utah and the Clippers early on so it's all about adapting now. Adjustments on their end start with their primary offensive engine, Jokic. He did not fare well against Dwight's physicality, and a lot of his foul-drawing moves backfired on him (he'll hook his defenders arms to try and draw a foul, but Dwight's strong enough to keep his hands straight up while bodying up Jokic). I think Jokic plays smarter from here on out as a result - if he drops those cheap foul-drawing tactics, he'll stay out of foul trouble more - and Denver absolutely needs him on the floor to stand a chance. I was surprised reading the box scores after the game that he was credited with only 2 assists; he made a lot of great passes, especially to a cutting wing who had a smaller Laker guard on them for a quick deep post-up multiple times in the 1st half.
Murray was also good for the Nuggets - shooting 7-12 from the field and 3-5 from 3. Many of his looks were wide open, which we got to do a better job on. One came off a brain fart from Danny Green, who helped off Murray to aid KCP on a Millsap post-up iso - we live with that IMO instead of a wide open Murray 3. We can survive a good (say 20-30 pts) Murray game if we contain Jokic, but still need to keep him from getting in a rhythm because as seen in these playoffs he's capable of huge red hot scoring nights.
I didn't have too many observations on the rest of the Nuggets, mainly because they looked so physically overwhelmed by LeBron & AD. I will say that in the 1st quarter (especially when McGee was on), the paint was packed and LeBron didn't do a good job finishing, often taking close shots fading away from the basket. They may have to try just completely packing the paint all night long and conceding open 3's to Laker role players instead of the steady diet of AD dunks & FT's which they couldn't do anything to stop. They also conceded a lot of Danny Green floaters and post ups, which I thought was smart on their behalf.
After losing our first two game 1's and adjusting our gameplan afterwards, the onus is on the Nuggets to tweak their strategy. They're limited by their personnel, but Malone is a good coach and I'm sure we'll see a better Denver team next game
Here's the President of the United States celebrating an American journalist getting shot with a rubber bullet while using his First Amendment right to cover a protest *in America*. Trump says it was a "beautiful sight" and frames it as "law and order." The crowd cheers: "He got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas," President Trump says, of @AliVelshi, who was actually hit by a rubber bullet. "Wasn't it really a beautiful sight? It's called law and order."
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1307318498205425665
Thousands, and tens of thousands, of people are showing up for Trump's tarmac rallies. Democrats are done.
Bill Nelson losing the 2018 Florida Senate race to Rick Scott is looming very large at the moment.
Justin Verlander announces that he would need Tommy John surgery and miss the 2020 season and most likely 2021 season | After consulting with several of the best doctors, it has become clear that I need Tommy John surgery. I was hopeful that I would be able to return to competition in 2020, however, during my simulated game unfortunately the injury worsened. Obviously I'm extremely disappointed, but I will not let this slow down my aspirations for my career. I will approach this rehab the only way I know, attack and don't look back. I'm confident that with a proper rehabilitation program and my unwavering commitment that this surgery will ultimately lengthen my career as opposed to shorten it. I can't thank my teammates, coaches, the front office and my fans enough for the support they have given me so far in this process. I'm eager to get through this recovery and back on the field to continue to do what I love.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFUnuWDgt8a/?igshid=12027fhg5unhh
Collins opposes the Senate voting on Trump's nominee before the election and says whoever wins the White House should get to fill the vacancy, her office's news release:
https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1307412600397987842
Somewhere there's a working group thinking about how to use a new more solid conservative majority to revive state power to execute juveniles and the mentally disabled and minorities, and eliminate legal abortion, environmental protection, animal rights, civil rights for females and lgbtq and minorities, health care rights, worker rights, and the first amendement, and eliminate birthright citizenship and public education, and ban all immigration and deport all non-white persons.
Democrats napped through the 2014 midterm election and they will be paying the price for generations. Voter turnout that year was an estimated 36.4%, the lowest since World War II. If McConnell gets replacements for Scalia, Kennedy, *and* Ginsburg through the Senate within 4 years, we may look back on the 2014 elections as one of the most consequential in American history.
Trump says there have been "many cases" when a Supreme Court nominee has been confirmed in a presidential election year and "in all cases they've moved forward." Of course this neglects recent history: 2016 when Obama named Garland in March and the GOP refused to move on the pick
Hundreds of "Arizona Republicans for Biden" signs stolen, defaced in cities across the state
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/09/19/hundreds-arizona-republicans-biden-signs-stolen-defaced/5821317002/
The Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers should still do a 7 game series on ESPN after the season. We still want to see that. Because LeBron and AD versus Kawhi with Doc Rivers and Ty Lue coaching.
The Boston Celtics defeat the Miami Heat 117-106 behind 26 points from Jaylen Brown and now trail in the series 2-1
Miami missed 15 straight 3-pointers at some point in this game
The Celtics consistently losing leads is a big problem. I feel like they have built a lead every game this playoffs just to play slower and fuck up to make it close
Celtics have lead 75% of this series. Concerns for both teams at this point - Celtics inability to close out games, Heat needing to pull together to come from behind. The Celtics are the better team but once they are up by a solid margin they immediately slack off. Near the end of Game 3, early 4th quarter, they were up by 20, near the end, they were up by only 5, the Heat nearly came back to tie. Enjoy the off days Celtics and Heat.
Trevor Bauer Vs. CHI: 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 5 SO, and the loss
J.A. Happ vs. BOS: 8.0 IP, 4 H, 0 BB, 0 ER, 9 K
White Sox hit Back-to-Back-to-Back HRs (Anderson, Grandal, & Abreu) in the 8th
https://streamable.com/sh0nry
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Trevor Bauer wearing cleats with Trash Cans on them)
https://twitter.com/Reds/status/1307460848319901699
Draymond Green on inside the nba has been refreshing. He brings some really good analysis every time he's appeared and it makes the rest of the guys also actually try and analyse the game. It's led to some really good discussions and takes about actual basketball. Kind of depressing when you realize that this is probably the last time it happens for awhile as the Warriors will probably be playing in at least the conference finals the next few years.
Cetics defensive hustle causes turnovers and contested shots for the Heat, as Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum get 3 easy buckets in transition
https://streamable.com/jkehid
Court blocks Trump's WeChat ban from taking effect today
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/court-blocks-trumps-wechat-ban-from-taking-effect-today/
AGREED. EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT AND FEDERAL COURTS AND STACK THEM WITH DEMOCRATS: US Attorney General Eric Holder: If Reublicans Creates 'Illegitimate Majority' on Supreme Court, More Justices Should be Added
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-supreme-court-eric-holder-1533125
Jerry Nadler says Democrats should 'immediately' move to expand the Supreme Court if the Republicans pushes a lame duck vote
https://www.businessinsider.com/jerry-nadler-house-judiciary-democrats-republicans-ginsburg-supreme-court-expansion-2020-9
Trump Can't Recall Boasting He Has 'World's Best Memory' In Awkward Deposition Video
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-university-video-forgets-great-memory-boast_n_5f669400c5b6480e896ff8af?xhl
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-university-fraud-lawsuit-deposition-full-video/
"Are you having a good time with your refugees?" -- Trump immediately pivots to full blown racism
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1307098293848207360
Trump mocked and disparaged refugees. Which is ugly in any context. But here is pretty clearly a reference to the state's Somalian population. So he did that, in the same speech in which he complemented his white supporters for their good genes.
I wonder if an extremely contentious Supreme Court confirmation fight will be the thing that gets people talking about how the structure of the Senate gives a massive, undemocratic advantage to sparsely populated states. We talk about this with the electoral college and the House but the Senate may be the most structurally undemocratic of them all.
An impeachment trial would stop a SCOTUS vote. It would be a huge undertaking, for sure, but the Senate can still conduct confirmation votes outside the hours set for any impeachment trial and proceedings.
YOU COWARD WORTHLESS DEMOCRATS BETTER: Pelosi on ABC does not rule out the possibility of impeaching Trump in order to force the Senate to take up a trial, thereby delaying a SCOTUS nomination. "We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now," she said.
Virginia voters consistently said in exit polls that healthcare was their #1 issue in the state's 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 elections — and Dems swept the board. It is THE issue, even though media hardly covers it. People know the ACA is at risk under Trump.
https://twitter.com/AllisonMY/status/1307686485034971137
"Focusing on health care instead of Trump outrages" is the sort of strategy Democrats rejected before 2015-2016. Trump's messaging has been more varied, but the monomaniacal Biden focus on health care has, in polls, held the winning 2018 D coalition.
More than 200,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus and, according to the pool report, the president has just arrived at his own golf club in Virginia. His 95th visit to this club out of 207 golf outings spanning 278 days.
Too bad: Roy Blunt, a member of Senate Republican eadership, says he's not sure if a pick will get confirmed before Election Day. To get it before Election Day, Blunt says on CBS, "everything will have to get done pretty precisely."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1307695192691089409
Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States abusing the power of the office to control private business and get a cut for his personal interests, which include teaching American children an alternate version of history as part of "patriotic education.": Trump wants $5 billion from companies creating a new U.S.-based TikTok venture directed toward teaching American children "real history, not the fake history."
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/trump-wants-5-billion-from-tiktok-deal-for-new-history-project
Trump likely needs Murkowski to be for his eventual SCOTUS nominee. And yet...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1307661825928986625
Republicans March 2016: 269 days until election: "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
Republicans September 2020: 45 days until election and hundreds of thousands of people are VOTING IN PERSON RIGHT NOW AND MAILING IN MILLIONS OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS AND MAIL-IN BALLOTS RIGHT NOW: "It's a crime against humanity for that seat to be empty and it's a crime against humanity for voters to decide which party selects the justice. Trump will have a nominee ASAP and we will put that person on the court ASAP because it looks like America wants Biden and he's leading almost all polls everywhere and early voters are exit-polling heavily in favour of Biden so fuck America, we're appointing a biblist ASAP."
Small-dollar donors have now given $100 million on ActBlue since 8 p.m. ET Friday, investing in candidates up and down the ballot and orgs on the front lines of the impending judicial confirmation fight. The grassroots is ready to fight to honor Justice Ginsburg's legacy.
https://twitter.com/actblue/status/1307687952454160387
This would be a good use of your donations: Democrat Theresa Greenfield has slight lead over Ernst in Iowa Senate race
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/19/poll-democrat-greenfield-has-slight-lead-over-ernst-in-iowa-senate-race-418591
There's a school of thought that Democrats had a stronger hand with their initial case against Kavanaugh - he'd kill Roe v Wade (which does NOT legalize all abortion, only early trimester abortion, and allows heavy regulation thereof) - than with the accusation circus. Accusation transformed it into a culture war that hurt deep red state Democrats. (I think this is correct.) Democrats very coordinated on messaging, from Biden to Schumer to Pelosi — making scotus all about health care rather than cultural issues
Biden on the anniversary of Hurricane Maria: "While families and communities banded together, Donald Trump lied about relief, blocked aid, and mocked survivors. He blamed the island for its loss. The way Donald Trump botched Maria was a terrible precursor to COVID-19."
Michael "I'm sick and can't work and I'm hiding from angry Democrats" Caputo just went on his local MAGA radio station to double down on his comments from his dangerous, crazy Facebok rant. Out of the earshot of the national media, he's defending everything he said and did.
After Judge Emmet Sullivan said he wouldn't dismiss Michael Flynn's case just yet, 52-year Frank Caporusso of Long Island allegedly left him this scary voice mail. Caporusso was arrested in late August.
https://newsday.com/long-island/threat-federal-judge-flynn-case-1.49152996
For a second straight week, no players tested positive on Saturday morning on their COVID-19 tests. All clear for Week 2.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1307681523764793344
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Murkowksi: "For weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up a potential Supreme Court vacancy this close to the election. Sadly, what was then a hypothetical is now our reality, but my position has not changed."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1307709954732756992
"I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia. We are now even closer to the 2020 election – less than two months out – and I believe the same standard must apply," she says
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1307709957765246976
Biden inspired a lot of confusion and suggestions that he's not fully engaged by spending his whole day at home in Delaware, while Trump campaigned last night. Today, Trump is spending his day playing golf (again), while Biden is giving a speech on the Supreme Court.
Democratic donors are giving in droves to Mike Espy, the Democrat challenging Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Espy has raised nearly $200,000 since Ginsburg's passing. That total is a single-day fundraising record for Espy this cycle.
https://mississippitoday.org/2020/09/19/espy-breaks-single-day-fundraising-record-as-democrats-appear-galvanized-by-rbgs-death/
Barring a setback it appears Daniel Jones will have all his top weapons (Saquon, Engram, Tate, Shepard and Slayton) for the first time! Has not played a single snap with all those guys.
https://twitter.com/jordanraanan/status/1307534118633320453
Minnesota Twins vs Chicago Cubs 7:00 PM Jose Berrios vs Yu Darvish
https://www.espn.com/mlb/game?gameId=401226463
Democrats need to fucking nut up and realize the republicans are not going to play by any rules, written or traditional. This is a shit fight, and you can't win a shit fight if you're not willing to get shitty. Republicans are lining up pawn senators to lose elections just to ram through votes and pack the court. They're evil, but damn are they organized and in 100% lock step. Nancy is not a wartime consigliere.
Meanwhile the UK has gone to shit and fascism has taken hold in many countries around the world. Many people outside the US have been focusing mainly on the US's downturn while the ground has been eroding beneath their own feet. One could argue that Boris is worse than Trump because he's probably more skilled at politics. And Brexit is an utter disaster and plays right into Putin's hands, again. Shit, he can assassinate people on British soil with impunity.
If you vote for the lesser of two evils enough times eventually you arrive at no evil. It is ALWAYS the right choice to do so.
Trump and Republicans are not fit to make the appointment. They're not even fit to be free citizens, they should be in prison for aiding the attacks on our elections. They're compromised traitors and have no business making this appointment
To cram through a Ginsburg replacement, GOP needs the vote before election. The lame duck project - a defeated Senate majority pushing through a nomination by a repudiated President - sounds ruthless now. It will look nakedly illegitimate after 11/3- and legitimacy matters
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1307724586734227456
Republicans is trying to fire up the base and scare swing voters over Democrats possibly expanding the court, but this is a fight we can win. Court expansion is not a radical idea. There is ample precedent and an ordinary process, here's how to talk about it.
The number 9 is not in the Constitution. The founders left the size of the court up to the other two branches. The size of the court has changed many times in our history including in response to a political crisis from a corrupt President.
https://twitter.com/danpfeiffer/status/1307723355848495104
https://messagebox.substack.com/p/making-the-case-for-court-expansion
It is absolutely critical that Democrats keep court expansion on the table. Screaming from the rafters about the dangers of a rigged conservative court and then not using the one power given by the Constitution to resolve it is not reasonable, it's weak.
https://twitter.com/danpfeiffer/status/1307723356934864897
https://messagebox.substack.com/p/making-the-case-for-court-expansion
Democrats, even with control of all branches, will figure out a reason not to do it and let us down again
Court expansion should be immediately explained simply and clearly. The idea that this is not a radical concept should he emphasized.
Pederson is on track to return Tuesday. Buehler, after throwing 75 of his 90 pitches with his finger uncovered in a sim game, is on track to return Thursday.
https://twitter.com/dodgerinsider/status/1307728859115081728
Secret documents show North Korea laundering money through U.S. banks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/secret-documents-show-how-north-korea-launders-money-through-u-n1240329
White House bars FDA commissioner from testifying before House committee | The lawmakers noted the committee's "concerns about the Trump Administration's ongoing political interference into the COVID-19 response efforts of our public health agencies," and stressed that "the American people deserve to hear" from Hahn to "ensure that the agency's COVID-19 decisions remain science-based."
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-bars-fda-commissioner-from-testifying-2020-9
Laws that were meant to stop financial crime have instead allowed it to flourish. So long as a bank files a notice of suspicious activity, it all but immunizes itself and its executives from criminal prosecution.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks
Last year, banks and other financial institutions filed more than 2 million SARs. Government investigators who combat money laundering told BuzzFeed News that the sheer volume of SARs made it impossible to pay close attention to them all.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1307748874841403394
The #FinCENFiles are an unprecedented look into how banks move money for corrupt actors on a global scale. Our reporting is built on secretive documents called suspicious activity reports (SARs). Here's what they are, and how many we looked at
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1307747604353232898
All SARs have two parts: a set of data tables and a narrative. The data tables lay out details like the amount of money under suspicion and details about the people and organizations involved. We wrote software to extract these details and put them in a database. #FinCENFiles
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1307747721688817665
The #FinCENFiles contain reports submitted by nearly 90 banks and other financial institutions. This particular collection of documents is not a representative sample of what banks file overall.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1307748248770183168
The #FinCENFiles also provide information on more than 10,000 people and organizations spanning more than 170 countries and territories. They also touch almost every state in the US.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1307748440462495753
In the middle of the worst global health crisis in living memory, Donald Trump is before the Supreme Court trying to strip health coverage away from tens of millions of families & to strip away the peace of mind from more than 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1307753455445053440
Should Democrats have discussed a replacement on the Supreme Court sooner? Probably...we had no business talking about her as if she were already gone. And we were hoping she would live for longer," @BillClinton tells @margbrenan
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1307694933466386433
The people crying about the lighting/sound quality are Trump terrorists. Biden could go up with 5 masks on holding only a candle for light and he'd sound far more cognizant than our resident spray tanned charlatan
HSBC allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world even after it had learned of their scam, leaked secret files show http://bbc.in/3ci3p8a #FinCENFiles
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1307737952211132421
Joe Biden: I appeal to those few Senate Republicans, the handful who really will decide what happens, please follow your conscience. Don't vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances President Trump & Senator McConnell have created. Don't go there.
Joe Biden: If Donald Trump wins the election, the Senate should move on his selection and weigh the nominee he chooses. But if I win this election, President Trump's nominee should be withdrawn and as a new president, I should be the one who nominates Justice Ginsburg's successor
Joe Biden called on Senate Republicans "who know deep down what is right for the country and what is consistent with the Constitution" to do what is best for the nation and respect Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish to not have her replacement chosen by Donald Trump. For now, he's refusing to publically pledge to expand the Supreme Court and federal courts. But plenty of Democratic leadership - Democrats who are top decision makers who outrank Biden - have already pledged to expand the Supreme Court if Republicans appoint somebody who is not a Liberal Female Democrat to that seat. Biden is straddling the middle, for the worse in my opinion, I already see Trump winning so.....
The Reds are slashing .077/.520/.077 through 4 innings today. 1-for-13 with 10 walks and 2 HBP
The Reds batters have 1 hit but 5 runs. They've also got 10 walks and a HBP.
The Reds have "batted" around the White Sox in the bottom of the 4th, recording only one hit.
Winker: BB
Goodwin: BB
Galvis: BB
Pitching Change: Detwiler replaces Cease
Barnhart: Groundout, 1-0 Reds
Aquino: Groundout, 2-0 Reds
Castellanos: IBB
Votto: BB
Suarez: BB, 3-0 Reds
Moustakas: Single, 5-0 Reds
Winker: HBP
Goodwin: Strikeout swinging
6 walks, 1 hit, a HBP, all equating to a 5-0 lead.
John Means today vs. Tampa Bay: 5.2IP, 3H, 1ER. Career high 12K on 97 pitches
Ronald Acuña Jr. leads off the 6th inning with his 13th homerun of the year to give the Braves a 1-0 lead over the Mets
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/63afd3a0-9637-4940-bf4f-959cd782c8ec.mp4
The Jets kicked the field goal to make it a three-score game instead of going for it. That makes sense, because if they went for it and missed it it would still be a three-score game. The Adam Gase Experience.
Jets kicking FGs down 24-3 at the 5 yard line with 18 minutes left in game. Easiest money I've ever made in my life
https://twitter.com/JohnMiddlekauff/status/1307757410853945345
In the first half, there were five leg injuries between the two teams. This is the second game on brand new turf at MetLife Stadium. This is ridiculous. #49ers #NYJets
https://twitter.com/MaioccoNBCS/status/1307756506155163648
Recap: 49ers are playing without: Starting QB: Jimmy Garoppolo (ankle) Top runner: Raheem Mostert (knee) Top WR: Deebo Samuel (foot) Top CB: Richard Sherman (calf) Top defensive lineman: Nick Bosa (knee) Best player: George Kittle (knee) They are winning on road, 24-3
Ryan Tannehill throws his fourth touchdown of the day.
https://twitter.com/NFLBrasil/status/1307758239308709888
The president of the United States, retweeting an internet rando, responding to an account called catturd2, about hashtag called "fartingsound" Having a normal one
https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1307669687136907264
If Biden has early stage dementia then Trump is basically brain dead.
SCOTUS balance is pretty important when it comes to fighting fascism and ensuring any potential M4A bill (or even what's left of ACA) doesn't get overturned by the courts.
Voting is literally underway right now. They'll be tens of millions of votes cast by the time a confirmation hearing would occur. If February 2016 was too close to the election ("the voters must decide") how in the hell is it fine to confirm someone while voting has started?
GOOD: Furious Democrats are considering profound changes to two branches of government, and even adding stars to the flag — if Republicans jam through a Supreme Court nominee then lose control of the Senate.
https://www.axios.com/democrats-supreme-court-ginsburg-options-871f3e66-e7a4-4f40-9691-d20de1f4be61.html
Aristedes Aquino punishes one to the upper deck, one inning after pinch hitting for Shogo Akyiama.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/1d675524-0f0c-4948-b6ae-0b780f0f984b.mp4
Carlos Carrasco vs. the Tigers: 7 innings, 0 runs, 11 strikeouts/3 walks, 1 hit
Functionally, the structure of the U.S. Senate takes about 1/3 of the political power of urban areas and reallocates it to rural areas. | But here's what I do know: the Senate is an enormous problem for Democrats given the current political coalitions, in which Democrats are dominant in cities while Republicans triumph in rural areas. And because the Senate is responsible for confirming Supreme Court picks, that means the Supreme Court is a huge problem for Democrats too. Sure, Democrats might win back the Senate this year — they were slight favorites to do so before the Ginsburg news. But in the long run, they're likely to lose it more often than not. | You can probably grasp intuitively that a legislative body which provides as much representation to Wyoming (population: 580,000) as California (population: 39.5 million) will tend to favor rural areas. But it's a bigger effect than you might realize, so let's run some numbers. | As it happens, the overall U.S. population (including Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico) is split almost exactly evenly between these buckets: 25 percent rural, 23 percent exurban/small town, 27 percent suruban/small city, and 25 percent urban core/large city. But what does representation look like in the Senate? | Because there are a lot of largely rural, low-population states, the average state — which reflects the composition of the Senate — has 35 percent of its population in rural areas and only 14 percent in urban core areas, even though the country as a whole — including dense, high-population states like New York, Texas and California — has about 25 percent of the population in each group. That's a pretty serious skew. It means that the Senate, de facto, has two or three times as much rural representation as urban core representation … even though there are actually about an equal number of voters in each bucket nationwide. And of course, this has all sorts of other downstream consequences. Since rural areas tend to be whiter, it means the Senate represents a whiter population, too. In the U.S. as a whole, 60 percent of the population is non-Hispanic white and 40 percent of the population is nonwhite.1 But in the average state, 68 percent of people are white and 32 percent are nonwhite. It's almost as if the Senate has turned the clock back by 20 years as far as the racial demographics of the country goes. (In 2000, around 69 percent of the U.S. population consisted of non-Hispanic whites.) | A red state is most likely to decide the Senate | Despite their current 47-53 deficit in the Senate, Democratic senators actually represent slightly more people than Republicans. |
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-senates-rural-skew-makes-it-very-hard-for-democrats-to-win-the-supreme-court/
Make no mistake on TikTok -- Trump got nothing he asked for. There's no sale of the company. There's no key money. TikTok is still 80% owned by China's Bytedance. All that Trump did was funnel a 20% stake in a successful company to supporters Larry Ellison and Doug McMillon.
The Falcons blew a 28-3 lead
The Falcons 20-point blown lead is their largest since Super Bowl LI against the Patriots (led by 25) in Houston.
Dak Prescott: 468 YDS, 4 TD (3 Rushing), 0, INT 1 FUMBLE. Leads big comeback
Not gonna lie... they had us in the first 59:56..........
Dallas "The Denver Nuggets And The Miami Heat" Cowboys
The fact that the Cowboys won this despite having one of the worst quarters of football I've ever seen is simply insane
4 freaking fumbles. Unreal. Turnovers, 2 fake punts that didn't work. LOL what a game.
Atlanta Falcons: Live by the onside kick, die by the onside kick.
"The Falcons had a 98% chance to win-" .... Hey, I've seen this before! Wow. Just wow Atlanta....
Seems that Dan Quinn is trying to compete with Gase and Patricia for first coach fired this year.
Matt Ryan on the season: 61/90, 723 Yards, 6 TDs, 1 INT, 109.6 Rating
The Falcons are 0-2. Fire Quinn today.
Josh Allen's 417-yard, 4- TD passing performance marks only the second time in Bills' history that a QB has thrown for 4+ touchdowns and 415+ yards. Joe Ferguson previously threw for 419 yards and 5 touchdowns vs. the Dolphins in 1983.
https://twitter.com/buffalobillspr/status/1307782676431228935
Ryan Tannehill today: 18/24, 239 yards, 4 touchdowns, 0 interceptions
#Giants RB Saquon Barkley suffered an ACL tear, based on the manual tests and initial diagnosis, source said. He'll have an MR to tell the full story, but the belief is the star is done for the season. Coach Joe Judge said they are holding out hope.
http://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1307781761145987072
An NFL player couldn't recover a slowly rolling football at a set yard line. This is babytown frolics from the Falcons.
https://twitter.com/MichaelKistNFL/status/1307779799042097170
The Falcons watch the onside kick go 10 yards instead of just jumping on it. Allow cowboys to get the ball back.
Cowboys recovers the onside kick
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1307780111945457664
https://streamable.com/w8lywx
This sunday nfl has begun with 45+ player injuries, including Saquon Barkley, Nick Bosa and Christian McCaffrey in just the 1:00 PM games
Jared Goff: 20/27, 267 yards, 3 TDs (all to Tyler Higbee), no interceptions and a 142.1 passer rating
An unbelievably bad Sunday of injuries. Eliminating Pre-Season Games is dead forever now. No pre-season straight to playing 4 quarters. List of the early afternoon injuries:
- Drew Lock, shoulder: https://twitter.com/Broncos/status/1307739251040108544
- Takkarist McKinley, groin: https://twitter.com/robphillips3/status/1307738570346704896
- Jimmy Garoppolo, leg: https://twitter.com/profootballtalk/status/1307737875040088066
- Saquon Barkley, right knee: https://streamable.com/5dni73
- Parris Campbell: https://twitter.com/christomasson/status/1307736537254240258
- Nick Bosa, knee: https://twitter.com/49ersPR/status/1307735375927021571
- David Montgomery: https://twitter.com/BradBiggs/status/1307740275687686147
- Solomon Thomas, knee: https://twitter.com/49ersPR/status/1307735375927021571
- Anthony Barr, shoulder: https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/1307740620010803202
- Byron Jones, groin: https://twitter.com/schadjoe/status/1307730771835260928
- Jaylen Reagor, hand (back though!): http://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1307740540444848128
- Bills v. Dolphins, the fucking feed: https://twitter.com/footballzebras/status/1307739165925179396
- Rock Ya-Sin, illness: https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1307709587651428353
- Troy Dye, ankle (but he's back!): https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/1307741076854370305
- Breshad Perriman, ankle: https://twitter.com/nyjets/status/1307741110874378240
- Kaleb McGary, knee: https://twitter.com/ChaseGoodbread/status/1307739123088871426
- Tyler Lancaster, leg: https://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/1307741253614874624
- Isaac Seumalo, knee: https://twitter.com/Jeff_McLane/status/1307741865236729857
- Jerry Jeudy, ribs (probable): https://twitter.com/bepryor/status/1307742264018579456
- Ricardo Allen: https://twitter.com/DOrlandoAJC/status/1307742637189926920
- Cam Akers, ribs: https://twitter.com/LindseyThiry/status/1307743426943897600
- Shaq Lawson: https://twitter.com/JaySkurski/status/1307743919019560967
- Marques Valdez-Scantling: https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1307744801710919683
- Quincy Wilson: https://twitter.com/Connor_J_Hughes/status/1307744131444338689
- Foye Oluokun: https://twitter.com/FalconsKelsey/status/1307745662860242944
- Malik Hooker: https://twitter.com/ActionNetNFLInj/status/1307746075751723008
- Sterling Shepard, foot: https://twitter.com/JordanRaanan/status/1307746245344100357
- New York Giants, franchise: https://twitter.com/jordanraanan/status/1307746608247963649
- Courtland Sutton: https://twitter.com/bepryor/status/1307748587594485760
- Raheem Mostert: https://twitter.com/WirthTM/status/1307750602294718465
- Matthew Adams: https://twitter.com/AWalkerColts/status/1307751150054146056
- Mike Boone: https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/1307752354415030274
- Brandon Linder: https://twitter.com/TDickman89/status/1307752978250698760
- Xavier Rhodes: https://twitter.com/AWalkerColts/status/1307756104378613760
- Cam Sutton: https://twitter.com/BrianBatko/status/1307756208745598976
- Kerry Hyder Jr.: https://twitter.com/nwagoner/status/1307756306762280967
- Joe Noteboom: https://twitter.com/ByMikeJones/status/1307756888130572288
- Chris Hogan: https://twitter.com/RVacchianoSNY/status/1307758374923239424
- DeMarcus Lawrence (nvm): https://twitter.com/SlaterNFL/status/1307759282016976898
- Rayne Dakota Prescott (nvm): https://twitter.com/JoeTrahan/status/1307760777726693381
- Laken Tomlinson: https://twitter.com/Eric_Branch/status/1307761722770386944
- Johnathan Joseph: https://twitter.com/TDavenport_NFL/status/1307762565766840320
- Arthur Mallet: https://twitter.com/Connor_J_Hughes/status/1307764411952586752
- Davante Adams: http://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1307764366901678080
- Darius Slay: https://twitter.com/EliotShorrParks/status/1307763899777810432
- Kelvin Byard (nvm): https://twitter.com/MGsports_/status/1307765369956859904
- Connor McGovern: https://twitter.com/MMehtaNYDN/status/1307765960259047428
- Christian McCaffrey: https://twitter.com/JamesPalmerTV/status/1307767316218818560
- Ed Oliver: https://twitter.com/BradleyGelber/status/1307767318357962753
- Dre'Mont Jones: https://twitter.com/MaseDenver/status/1307768064432275457
- Dawson Knox: https://twitter.com/BuffaloBillsPR/status/1307769709606076422
The 49ers vs Jets game a trauma centre
Denver Vs Denver as well
Giants vs Bears too
Carson Wentz just threw a pick in the end zone and the Eagles' fake crowd noise booed him.
https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1307755609215827970
Dan Quinn said his players should have made an aggressive move to get the ball on the onside kick.
https://twitter.com/vxmcclure23/status/1307786518631776256
Dan Quinn should have made an aggressive move to not let Dallas score 30 points in the 2nd half
Falcons are so used to attempting the onside kick and having to recover it after 10 yards that they forgot how it works on the other side.
Sunday at the Supreme Court. Still hundreds here bringing flowers and posters in honor of RBG.
https://twitter.com/TinaSfon/status/1307792069726003203?s=20
Very haunting listening now to the bells at Washington National Cathedral tolling for the 200,000 killed by the coronavirus in the United States.
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1307790605330927616
Packing the court, ending the filibuster and giving Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood should all be on the table, if all norms are off the table
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-mcconnell-s-supreme-court-plan-justifies-anything-democrats-do-ncna1240575
NPR has jumped onto the pro-Trump bandwagon by attacking Biden. ACTUAL FACT CHECK: Biden said there's no Supreme Court term until after election. That is FACTUALLY TRUE. They are already in session NOW because they began in September 2020. First arguments of the new term began Septe
Biden also said Trump campaign only started asking for his SCOTUS list after Ginsburg's death. Not true either.
The Eagles did not complete a single pass when Jalen Ramsey was the nearest defender to the receiver today at time of ball arrival, per Next Gen Stats. Targeted twice.
https://twitter.com/SethWalder/status/1307775085638545408
Matt Ryan has now lost 5 games where he hit 125+ in passer rating and threw for 250+ yards. That includes the Super Bowl and today. No other QB has lost more than 3 such games.
https://twitter.com/fbgchase/status/1307792427961507842
Massive 'Climate Clock' Urging Governments to #ActInTime Unveiled on Metronome in New York City
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/19/massive-climate-clock-urging-governments-actintime-unveiled-metronome-new-york-city
John Kerry takes the climate change fight to Wall Street
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/20/business/john-kerry-takes-climate-change-fight-wall-street/
The donations are illegal: Mitch McConnell aligned Super PAC "Senate Leadership Fund" gets another $25M from conservative mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam—bringing the couple's total to $50M donated to SLF this cycle.
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00571703/1440194/
Michael A Taylor fires a two run laser blast into left-center
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/c74acdba-52c5-43e9-b4ad-474fd8df9dfd.mp4
Teoscar Hernández missile to dead center for his 16th of the season
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/83e2056b-adfa-481c-8632-9ed3f4dfb02c.mp4
Julio Teheran continues his domination in today's start: 1.0IP, 2H (both HR), 2BB, 3 ER, 0Ks
This evening, Washington National Cathedral tolled its funeral bell 200 times to mourn the 200,000 lives lost to COVID-19 — once for every 1,000 deaths. It took around 20 minutes. Here's one minute.
https://twitter.com/erinruberry/status/1307792822934872073
Washington National Cathedral Bell Tolling 200 Times For 200,000 Covid19 Deaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElK0nt2FuBQ
Unredacted sections of the Mueller report obtained by @JasonLeopold in a FOIA action show Russian "active measures" at work to divide Americans and discredit @HillaryClinton
https://twitter.com/fbajak/status/1307132031319576576
From the newly unredacted Mueller report snippets obtained by @JasonLeopold - did they redact it because it mentioned that Russia's infowarfare was a counterbalance to US foreign policy?
https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1307086687802142720
DeAndre Hopkins now has 20 catches (and counting) in his first two games with the Cardinals. That's the most catches for any player in his first two games with a team in NFL history (h/t @CardsMarkD ). Instant impact.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1307802178850099200
#Chiefs: 6 #Chargers: 14. For the first time in the Chiefs last 15 games, they head into the locker room at half trailing. The Chargers put up 301 total yards in the first half. That more than doubles KC's output of 137 yards. #ChiefsKingdom
https://twitter.com/wibwmitchel/status/1307800164086800385
Dinelson "El Flaco" Lamet on the first clinch day in San Diego since 2006: 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 K. Now leads the NL in strikeouts.
El Gallo does it again and hits his 14th homer to put the Padres up 3-1
https://streamable.com/m/wil-myers-homers-14-on-a-line-drive-to-center-field-eric-hosmer-scores-mitch-mor
Mike McCarthy's first win with Dallas Cowboys a comeback for the ages. Coach Mike McCarthy's first home game with the Dallas Cowboys appeared headed for disaster, but turned into a rally for the ages as the Cowboys came away with a 40-39 win over the Atlanta Falcons.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29931601/mike-mccarthy-first-win-dallas-cowboys-comeback-ages
Sad news to report. Patriots' RB James White's father was in a car crash today and did not survive. His mother was also in the car and is in critical condition. White's father, Tyrone, was a captain with the Miami-Dade Police Department. James was told and is inactive tonight.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AndySlater/status/1307815134111379456
Missed unsportsmanlike conduct call on Tyreek Hill
https://streamable.com/6qlcr6
Taijuan Walker with the Jays since being acquired right before the deadline: 5GS, 2-1, 1.54 ERA, 23.1 IP, 4ER, 21K
Yadier Molina's go-ahead 2-run home run to give Cardinals a 2-1 lead in the 7th. Clutch and ageless.
https://streamable.com/yqzje2
Kansas City Missouri: Harrison Butker 58 yard field goal is GOOD, Center-J.Winchester, Holder-T.Townsend.
DG going from 3 & D to Layup & D. Danny Green has stopped being Danny Green and is now LeBron, a block and then transition layup.
Those disappearing and reappearing Ads on the court are tripping me out nba needs to stop that bs
Jokic is getting abused on defense
AD is frying Jokic
Nuggets defense is gone in this series
It's frustrating to see a team like Denver play good defense for 80% of a possession and then make a minor mistake that gives up easy points.
LeBron already has 20 points and sitting on the bench. He only played 14 minutes
Murray needs to take over for Denver to have any chance this series
Jokic is setting some insanely illegal screens
JOKIC PLEASE PASS TO MURRAY
Dwight's literally almost kicked Jokic in the face. Fuck the Lakers.
Lakers can just have Howard maul Joker all game, and there's no consequences other than a couple FTs.
Announcers talking about how Dwight committed a malicious foul, then say "I LOVE WHAT HE'S DOING!"...YIKES
This lowkey kinda hopeless, Dwight is literally there just to swallow the fouls and make Jokic tired. It's actually a really good strategy, knowing that Denver literally have almost no other options on offense.
The players LeBron recruited to the Lakers were recruited for a reason, they're battle-hardened and battle-scarred NBA veterans bound for the Hall of Fame who experienced extreme highs and extreme lows. These particular Lakers players are willing to kick the opposing players in the face and break fingers and poke out eyes and crush noses and don't care if they foul out because another veteran has their back. The Lakers are deeper and more experienced and consistent and BATTLE HARDENED. Many of the Lakers players went straight from high school to the NBA. They grew up playing Old School 80's era basketball. They have been there done that ad infinitum for more than a decade. They are masters of switching between free gritty street basketball and rigidly controlled systematic choreographed basketball. LeBron assembled those players for that reason and that is why he is the MVP.
Padres take 2 of 3 against the Mariners clinching a playoff berth at home as the away team
Flaherty & Musgrove duel for supremacy as both combine for 12.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 22 SO on 196 pitches
Melting ice sheets will add over 15 inches to global sea level rise by 2100
https://www.space.com/melting-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-2100.html
If a Laker falls on his own, it's a Denver foul?
Caruso rises for the slam in transition
https://streamable.com/yrkh3e
Danny Green rejects Millsap at the rim
https://streamable.com/qxmlqn
Caruso with the steal and finger roll layup
https://streamable.com/5lqcn0
Lebron denies Jamal Murrays lay in attempt, gets the same treatment at the other end by Craig
https://streamable.com/wdu965
MPJ knocks down a three with Lebron in his face
https://streamable.com/56ivhl
MPJ hits a heavily contested 3
https://streamable.com/967lse
Murray dances around the Laker D to the rim
https://streamable.com/448ugw
Caruso swats away MPJ shot
https://streamable.com/eho3mz
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