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The Miami Heat defeat the Boston Celtics 125-113 behind 32/14/5 from Bam Adebayo to win the series 4-2 and advance to the NBA Finals

Andre Iguodala winds back the clock with 15/3/1 on 100% shooting 5/5 (4/4 from downtown), 2 steals and +20 in a series clinching win.

Reminder: Trump holds half a billion dollars in debt, owes the IRS at least $100 million in penalties
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34183748/donald-trump-tax-returns-new-york-times/

Here's the play where Carson got hurt. Remarkably dirty from Trysten Hill.
https://twitter.com/Joe_Fann/status/1310366841861148672?s=20

Washington Football Team remains in 1st place in the NFCE with a record of 1-2

Saints entire offensive playbook:
Kamara checkdown
Taysom Hill RPO
Emmanuel Sanders drag route
Kamara checkdown
Kamara checkdown
Stuff 1st down
Stuff 2nd down
Penalty 3rd down

Brees didn't retire, but his arm did

Collinsworth trying to sell the onside kick as if every team in the NFL is as incompetent as the Falcons.

Russell Wilson has now thrown 14 TD passes this season, the most by any QB through his team's first three games in NFL history.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1310364740632412160

Dak somehow avoids the sack but throws a game ending interception
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/keyawe

Over the last 20 seasons, no team has blown multiple 15-point fourth quarters leads in a single season. The Falcons just did it in back-to-back weeks.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1310315625571643392

Trysten Hill twists Chris Carson's knee after he's ruled down
https://www.twitter.com/TheRealAdam_H/status/1310363592194224128

Dirty plays like that should result in a permanent expulsion and ban for life from the dirty player. We've seen many players intentionally and maliciously attempt to murder other players. There was a game last season with a player who intentionally and maliciously swung his helmet at another player's head to basically murder him, and the player who was almost murdered had suffered a concussion previously. The NFL banned him for the remaining of the season then quietly revoked the ban seven days later, allowing the player to resume playing. Another player around the same time did the same thing and was given an indefinite ban, the NFL then quietly revoked the indefinite ban seven days later. The NFL protects these players at all times. I really need to abandon football already.

ATL decided to punt to CHI from the CHI 40 on 4th & 5 with 3:47 remaining in the 3rd while winning 26 to 10. With a Surrender Index of 9.64, this punt ranks at the 96th percentile of cowardly punts of the 2020 season, and the 92nd percentile of all punts since 2009.
https://www.twitter.com/surrender_idx90/status/1310297443754553350

The winless Eagles are a half game out of first place in the NFC East. The problem here is the fact that if the playoffs began today, teams with zero wins would be in the playoffs while teams with three wins and no losses would be eliminated. The division title playoff rules have always been and always will be garbage for all the major league sports. The playoff rules need to be based on total number of wins over the entire season.

Lions win it with a FG
https://streamable.com/qlbemd

Three former admin officials say that Trump "pressured" government officials to direct border wall contracts to Fisher Sand and Gravel. The biz has been awarded billions. Last month, reports surfaced that one of their private walls was falling apart.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southern-border-wall-erosion-fisher-sand-and-gravel-60-minutes-2020-09-27/

"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News. Redfield voices alarm over influence of Trump's new coronavirus task force adviser
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/redfield-voices-alarm-over-influence-trump-s-new-coronavirus-task-n1241221

We've all learned a great deal about epidemiology this year. Now we're about to learn a great deal about accounting...

Andre Iguodala only won one playoff series until age 31 – now the 2015 FMVP will play in his sixth consecutive NBA Finals

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have welcomed a healthy Baby Boy. They have named him, River 💙
https://twitter.com/jphoenixupdates/status/1310306966523252739

Congratulations to Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara on welcoming their new new son River into the world. Hopefully he grows up in a less cruel and more loving world

Hurricane Laura's 17.2-foot storm surge took everything from Louisiana resident. The Category 4 storm produced a storm surge so high it destroyed houses built on stilts, which were specifically designed to withstand that exact disaster. Never before has a Category 4 hurricane made landfall in southwestern Louisiana, making it the strongest storm on record by wind intensity for that part of the state, according to Colorado State University Meteorologist Phil Klotzbach. The monstrous storm packed maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and something most residents tend to underestimate — storm surge. 
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/hurricane-lauras-17-2-foot-storm-surge-took-everything-from-louisiana-resident/820647

Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-28/trump-s-tax-returns-show-he-s-a-national-security-threat

Bombshell Report Shows How Trump Paid Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Taxes to Foreign Governments While Paying Nothing In Taxes To American Government. So Much For Making America Great Again! The records obtained by the Times show that Trump reported paying taxes on a number of his overseas ventures. In 2017, Trump's $750 U.S. tax payment was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, $145,400 in India, and $156,824 in the Philippines.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4eme/bombshell-report-shows-how-much-trump-paid-in-taxes-to-foreign-governments

The House of Representatives has introduced a bipartisan resolution rejecting designed domestic terrorist entity QAnon. H. Res. 1154.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/1154/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22h.+res.+1154%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=4

Police took 10 guns from Trump associate's Florida home after wife showed them bruises. The campaign's initial reaction was to blame Democrats and "RINOs." Now, a police report shows Parscale's wife said he hits her.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246062390.html

TreyAdell: Kemba really rebounded on defense as soon as Stevens stopped switching everything. Had a plus 42 net rating differential in the last two games. Ended the Conference Finals as a plus 5. Hes fine. Anyone saying hes washed or w/e is way off-base.
https://twitter.com/TreyAdell/status/1310484570039607298

Much respect to Jaylen Brown. He was Celtics best player during this series, tonight as well. 26 points (10-17 FG, 3/7 3PT), 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals
https://twitter.com/Timi_093/status/1310403361821384704

YEP: Brad Stevens on the Heat: "I think they're the best team in the East and deserve to be representing the East the way they've played."
https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/1310402617433042945

#Bears safety Tashaun Gipson on the Falcons passing 3 times after taking over with a 3-point lead and 4:23 remaining: "It was a big shock as a defensive player." Adds: "Their play calling was a bit confusing on my end." All three passes were incomplete for an 11-second drive.
https://twitter.com/JJStankevitz/status/1310321749465149441

YEP: Adam Gase is going to take Sam Darnold down with him
https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/adam-gase-and-sam-darnold-are-running-out-of-jets-chances/

Unfathomably bad stat alert: Giants running backs this season, through 3 games, have rushed only 40 times for just 72 yards. How??
https://twitter.com/fbgchase/status/1310571309701779457

Lamar Jackson has never thrown an interception or lost a game during primetime, and Patrick Mahomes has never thrown an INT or lost a game in September.

Re-watched the 4Q of Bears-Falcons. Just a failure in all 3 phases by ATL. Missed FG, missed tackling, Ryan couldn't buy a completion. Koetter abandoned the run and despite being up 10 with 6 min left and first down, ATL never forced CHI to call a single timeout

#Seahawks RB Chris Carson is believed to have suffered just a knee sprain Sunday, source said, one that should have him back on the field shortly — pending today's MRI. Meanwhile, #Cowboys DT Trysten Hill will likely be fined, but not suspended, for rolling with Carson's leg.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1310535846127448064

If you want to know what kind of season #Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is having so far, consider that he threw for 315 yards, 5 touchdowns and no interceptions Sunday, and his season passer rating went down.

Jerry Jeudy is three games into his NFL career and already has caught passes from three different QBs.

Matt Ryan's contract makes him unmovable for the next three seasons (two at the least before a giant buyout). If they get the No. 1 overall pick, they might sell it for the highest draft price we've seen in a long, long time.
https://www.twitter.com/TampaBayTre/status/1310425294881411073

Pederson won't consider benching Wentz: 'That is a knee-jerk reaction'
Me: Maybe putting Wentz and knee-jerk in the same sentence isn't a good idea

The New York Giants are 12-40 since the Boat Party

Trysten Hill of the Cowboys gator rolled Chris Carson's leg on purpose. Carson was ruled out of the game after that. Then Hill followed it up with an intentional helmet to helmet hit on Russell Wilson. NFL Commission refusing to suspend him.

We know everyone hates Thurs Night Football anyways

But can we interest you in Jets vs Broncos?

LaFleur has the guts McCarthy never had on 4th downs

The Packers defense let Kamara run like he won a billion dollar lottery

Brees looks like he's putting everything into a throw and then it's just an 8 yard out

Packers AND Saints fan here. I don't understand why the Saints didn't just keep running the ball. They were smashing the packers that way. I was relieved every time they threw the ball on 1st and 2nd down. If the Saints just kept running the ball they would have kept GB's offense on the sidelines and prevented them from getting hot. The only thing the commentators were right about was how GB's defense is built to thrive against shootouts and situations where the opposing QB gets desperate to make plays. Brees trying (and failing) to play gunslinger mode was exactly what GB wanted. He was actually lucky that Alexander dropped that easy pick.

Lazard is the king of getting 50 yards and then tackled at the one yard line lol

Lizard King fast enough to consistently get open but not fast enough to make it to the end zone. When he's in open space he tries to run faster and instead goes faster than he can handle and trips.

Rodgers always looks high in every post game interview

Kinda sad to think that this might be the last time we see Rodgers vs Brees

I'd still rather have Drew Brees than any of the Denver or Jets QBs

Drew Brees is currently averaging 4.7 yards per attempt. They could upgrade and go with back-up Jameis Winston's 4.7 interceptions per game instead

After yesterday's debacle, which included being outscored 20-0 in the fourth, 0-3 Falcons have now been outscored 74-33 in the second half this season. So much for no more tale of two halves.

The FL thing often gets compared to a poll tax, but it's arguably worse. They used to actually tell you how much the poll tax would be. Here's the conundrum: Florida law states felons can't vote before paying all their sentence-related debts. Problem is: many can't find out how much they owe. There's no centralized system. We saw old debts handwritten on index cards.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1310357340344942599

In 2017, I paid $32 million more in federal taxes than Donald Trump. He's a cheat, and he stinks at business. In November he's going from the White House to the outhouse.
https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/status/1310629710901252097

A major hospital chain has been hit by what appears to be one of the largest cyberattacks on medical infrastructure in US history. | Computer systems for Universal Health Services, which has more than 400 locations, primarily in the U.S., began to fail over the weekend, and some hospitals have had to resort to filing patient information with pen and paper, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. | Ransomware is a type of malicious software that spreads across computer networks, encrypting files and demanding payment for a key to decrypt them. It's become a common tactic for hackers, though attacks of this scale against medical facilities aren't common. A patient died after a ransomware attack against a German hospital in early September required her to be moved to a different hospital, leading to speculation that it may be the first known death from ransomware.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/cyberattack-hits-major-u-s-hospital-system-n1241254
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-another-city-dies-rcna125

"Half of America doesn't even pay a single penny in federal income taxes!" because they're not working (retired, elderly, children, disability) and also because they do work but make nothing and don't have to pay because they make nothing (income below poverty line)

Trump wants to run on his record. We hope he does. It's been a disaster for America. Trump's historically, mind-bogglingly bad record is on the ballot. He has destroyed lives and livelihoods, weakened America and risked our democracy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/28/donald-trump-disastrous-record-2020-election-referendum-column/3517533001/

Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters. It reveals that 3.5 million Black Americans were categorised by Donald Trump's campaign as 'Deterrence' – voters they wanted to stay home on election day. Tonight, civil rights campaigners said the evidence amounted to a new form of voter "suppression" and called on Facebook to disclose ads and targeting information that has never been made public. The 'Deterrence' project can be revealed after Channel 4 News obtained the database used by Trump's digital campaign team – credited with helping deliver his shock victory to become president four years ago. Vast in scale, it contains details on almost 200 million Americans, among more than 5,000 files, which together amass almost 5 terabytes of data – making it one of the biggest leaks in history. It reveals not only the huge amounts of data held on every individual voter, but how that data was used and manipulated by models and algorithms. In 16 key battleground states, millions of Americans were separated by an algorithm into one of eight categories, also described as 'audiences', so they could then be targeted with tailored ads on Facebook and other platforms. One of the categories was named 'Deterrence', which was later described publicly by Trump's chief data scientist as containing people that the campaign "hope don't show up to vote". Analysis by Channel 4 News shows Black Americans – historically a community targeted with voter suppression tactics – were disproportionately marked 'Deterrence' by the 2016 campaign. In total, 3.5 million Black Americans were marked 'Deterrence'. In Georgia, despite Black people constituting 32% of the population, they made up 61% of the 'Deterrence' category. In North Carolina, Black people are 22% of the population but were 46% of 'Deterrence'. In Wisconsin, Black people constitute just 5.4% of the population but made up 17% of 'Deterrence'. The disproportionate categorising of Black Americans for 'Deterrence' is seen across the US. Overall, people of colour labelled as Black, Hispanic, Asian and 'Other' groups made up 54% of the 'Deterrence' category. In contrast, other categories of voters the campaign wished to attract were overwhelmingly white. The 2016 campaign preceded the first fall in Black turnout in 20 years and allowed Donald Trump to take shock victories in key states like Wisconsin and Michigan by wafer-thin margins, reaching the White House despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Trump's digital campaign, called 'Project Alamo' and based in San Antonio, Texas, involved a team from the now defunct British company Cambridge Analytica, working with a team from the Republican National Committee. Two senior members of the Cambridge Analytica team are working on the Trump 2020 campaign. Cambridge Analytica collapsed after investigations by Channel 4 News, The Guardian and the New York Times in 2018. | But Channel 4 News has uncovered evidence that the campaign did target Black voters with negative ads designed to crush Hillary Clinton's turnout. These included videos featuring Hillary Clinton referring to Black youths as "super predators" which aired on television 402 times in October 2016 and received millions of views on Facebook. In one confidential document seen by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica admitted the Trump campaign did target "AA" (African Americans) with what it called the "Predators video" – spending $55,000 USD in the state of Georgia alone. Reacting to the Channel 4 News revelations, Jamal Watkins, vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branded it a modern-day suppression campaign, using data and digital technology to keep Black voters at home. He said: "The thing that's shocking slash troubling about this is that there's this category of suppression. That 'Deterrence' part. So, we use data – similar to voter file data – but it's to motivate, persuade and encourage folks to participate. We don't use the data to say who can we deter and keep at home. That just seems, fundamentally, it's a shift from the notion of democracy.
https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strategy-to-deter-millions-of-black-americans-from-voting-in-2016

Former Trump aide Omarosa claims she has secret tapes of Pro-Trump MAGA Lara Trump "badmouthing Donald, Melania and Ivanka." She made the revelation on the Michael Cohen podcast. https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8774883/Omarosa-claims-secret-tapes-Lara-Trump-badmouthing-Donald-Melania-Ivanka.html

YEP: I love these wonderful little moments where the populist veil slips and they don't even realize: "depreciation, itemizing deductions all of these are things that probably most of us do."  Nope!
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1310641718254075906

Federal govt will distribute millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urge governors to use them to reopen schools for K-12 students. Trump admin to announce it this afternoon.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-donald-trump-archive-elections-7ad94115ac126ce1eb7a38bee6c5eedf

Trump approaches debates not as an airing of ideas and policies, but as a reality TV show...Be the center of attention, say outrageous things that take time off the clock and use easily digestible catchphrases that will get repeated on the news the next day

Shitstain Chris Wallace dismisses moderator role as "invisible". Great, if the job is to be "invisble", why did they hire a seven-figure $$ anchor do the job. Imagine thinking that "staying invisible" in the age of Trump's lies, disinformation and gaslighting...on a daily basis...is acceptable in making sure the public has the facts that they need. Disgraceful. He's also the piece of shit who was screaming endlessly that Biden refused to do one-on-one interviews, and when Biden did, the shitstain said Biden wasn't asked anything of relevance. The same shitstain who interviewed Trump and let Trump take control of the interview and go off-topic and spend the entire time lying and babbling and ranting and raving, never answering any questions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/business/media/debate-trump-biden-tv-preview.html

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Halt USPS Cuts Ahead Of 2020 Election
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/28/judge-halts-usps-cuts-ahead-of-election/

That cop's tackle of Parscale seems pretty gratuitous but it's sure a lot better than getting shot or strangled to death by the police.

I say that reading this story caused me physical pain. 100% of these people are deranged mentally ill domestic terrorists. Exterminate them already. They are your Nazis and KKKers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/undecided-voters-2020-presidential-debates/2020/09/27/0911c650-fd9e-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html

1/ The New York Times #TrumpTaxReturns story is terrific. I had about a million thoughts as I was reading though. I'll be annotating those here, in this thread, for the next few hours.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310342791336284160

2/ Story starts with this bombshell, that Trump paid just $750 in taxes in 2016 and another $750 in 2017. Shocking numbers for someone who we estimate is worth $2.5B. (Yes, you can still be really rich and disclose a tiny income or even huge losses. More on his net worth later.)
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310344654253162496

3/ Then we get to this part about the current state of his business, which highlights the amount of debt that Trump has coming due. We actually already know a lot about his debt -- far more than most people who follow the news might think. Let's pause here and dig into it.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310346161816064000

4/ We'll start at Trump's old home, Trump Tower, where he owes $100M. This document shows that it has a $100M loan against it, with a 4.2% interest rate, due 9/6/2022. Trump, as you can see, has not paid down a dime of the principal.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310347555646169089

5/ Then we'll go to 40 Wall Street, where he owes $139M, split into several chunks. You can see the interest rate on all are 3.665%, and all of those come due on 7/6/25. Total debt accounted for so far: $239M million.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310350775730737153

6/ We'll next look at 1290 Ave. of the Americas, in which Trump owns a 30% interest alongside publicly traded Vornado. VNO discloses that there's $950M of debt against it in doc below. Due in Nov 2022. Trump's 30% share then equals $285M. Total debt accounted for so far: $524M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310352616489132033

7/ Then we'll consider 555 California St., in which Trump also owns a 30% interest alongside Vornado. VNO discloses there's $543M against that building, with a 5.1% interest rate, due Sep 2021. Trump's 30% share is then 0.3 * 543 = $163M. Total debt accounted for so far: $687M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310354115411808256

8/ Now let's look at Doral, Trump's golf resort in Miami. It has 2 mortgages against it, totaling $125M. Both mature in 2023 and have variable interest rates. You can see the first pages of the mortgages, with the amounts circled, here. Total debt accounted for so far: $812M
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310356315395497984

9/ There's also a loan against the DC hotel. The mortgage, which you can see below, lists it at $170M. The NYT reports that the balance is $160M. Trump may have paid down some principal here. We'll use the NYT figure for our tally. Total debt accounted for so far: $972M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310357880537841666

10/ In New York, Trump owes a combined of $20M against a two smaller properties, Trump Plaza ($13.2M) and Trump International Hotel & Tower ($6.5M). Total debt accounted for so far: $992M
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310360374567481344

11/ At Trump Park Ave, where Ivanka and Jared used to live (in a condo owned by Donald), there's another loan, which was at $15.3M in 2010, according to the doc below. Trump has been paying that one down. Probably closer to $10M now. Total debt accounted for so far: $1 billion.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310363081730658304

12/ In Chicago, Trump lists two loans on his financial disclosure report. One for $25-50M and one for $50M+. These are complex liabilities that I won't go too much into right now, but that's another $75M+ in debt. Total debt accounted for so far: $1.1 billion.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310364815710453760

13/ Trump has other small loans against a golf club in DC, one in New Jersey and a couple of mansions. Those add up to about another $35M or so in additional debt. The total accounted for still rounds to $1.1 billion. A lot of that, as the NYT story says, is coming due soon.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310369495454801920

14/ Going to to take a break to write a story. I'll be back when I'm done, with a LOT more to say about this great reporting from the New York Times.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310370342720942083

15/ And... we're back. 14 hours and a whole lot of math later, Donald Trump is still a billionaire, which makes the $750 tax payment even more scandalous. Lots more to dive into.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310587182311247874

16/ Okay, we've made it to the 3rd paragraph of the Times story. Let's keep moving. This next line, about the possibility that an adverse ruling could cost Trump $100M, is a huge scoop. It's also exactly the sort of reason why everyone was so eager to see Trump's tax documents.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310591690705641476

17/ We peg Trump's cash pile at an estimated $160M. A $100M hit would be absolutely devastating. Also, remember the other $100M that Trump was supposedly thinking of putting into his campaign? Seems even more far-fetched now.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310592808517013504

18/ A key point that the Times says explicitly: Tax returns don't tell you how rich someone is. Let's dig in a little deeper on this one.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310594849704415235

19/ Figuring out Trump's net worth is just a big math equation. You add up the assets and then you subtract the debt. Since we've already spent a lot of time on the debt, let's look closer at the assets. In order to value them, you want to know their net operating income.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310599689067270145

20/ Here's where you'll see a big discrepancy from the NYT story. Taxable income takes into account a lot of financial gimmicks. Operating income cuts through that and focuses on the profitability of the actual businesses.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310600779565346821

21/ We'll start, again, inside Trump Tower. In 2019, it produced a net operating income of $13.3 million, as you can see on the document below.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310602300805844992

22/ At 555 California Street, Trump's partner Vornado disclosed 2019 net operating income of $60 million for its 70% share. Trump's 30% then works out to $25.6 million. Total operating profit so far: $38.9 million.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310603994067333121

23/ A document connected to the debt on 1290 Avenue of the Americas, where Trump also owns a 30% stake alongside Vornado, lists net operating income of $96M. So Trump's cut of that would be $28.7M. Total operating profit so far: $67.6M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310605977830465536

24/ 40 Wall Street, a skyscraper the president controls in downtown Manhattan, produced net operating income of $18.1 million in 2019, as you can see here. Total operating profit so far: $85.7M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310609790192758784

25/ A spokesperson for the Trump Organization told me in September 2019 that 6 East 57th Street, formerly known as Niketown, generated $10.7M of profit annually. Total tally so far: $96.4M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310615015955877889

26/ Trump Plaza, a property the president controls on Third Avenue in New York City, turned an operating profit of $1.7 million in 2019, as you can see here. Total now at $98.1M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310616573237964801

27/ The president has leased the garage, restaurant space, and antennas at Trump International Hotel & Tower in Columbus Circle, on the southwest corner of Central Park, for a while now. That produced net operating income of $600,000 in 2019. Total tally so far: $98.7M.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310618225382764545

28/ Trump has a handful of other properties, where NYC estimates net operating income. That includes the commercial spaces in Trump World Tower ($1M), Trump Parc ($600K), Trump Parc East ($900K) and Trump Park Avenue (~$2.4M). Brings tally to $103.6M
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310629535986089986

29/ Some of those buildings also include luxury apartments that Trump still owns. That's the case at Trump Park Avenue (17 units), Trump Parc East (12), Trump World Tower (1) Trump Int'l H&T (1), Trump Plaza (2). We'll come back to the Trump Tower penthouse.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310630653394853889

30/ If you add up the value of all of those buildings, before subtracting debt, you get an estimated $2.3 billion. So that's a big chunk of the president's assets.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310631042181738496

31/ But there's more, in Vegas, Chicago, DC, Miami, Palm Beach, and so on. I'll spare you the details on each one of those assets. But if you want to review the final numbers, you can see them here: https://forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/09/08/trumps-net-worth-drops-600-million-in-a-year-to-25-billion/#220e2ee02363.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310632373172817920

32/ Back to the Times story, which we've still only just begun. But first, a break. Heading on CNN to talk about Trump's money around 2ish.
https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1310633689714434055

One million Americans have already cast 2020 vote in 'historic' early voting surge
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

It actually is a pressing question, it's just that the answer is they're not getting their work done because of systematic underfunding by Grassley's own party. We need to dramatically expand funding for the IRS.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-keeps-cutting-back-on-audits-of-millionaires-and-big-businesses

Speaker Pelosi: "This president appears to have over $400 million in debt, 420, whatever it is, million dollars in debt. To whom? Different countries? What is the leverage they have? So for me, this is a national security question."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1310663065503805440

Trump tweet criticizing poor Americans and children/seniors/disabled for not paying taxes, despite "crippling" government debt
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/172772609627394049

Packers Should Get Odell From Cleveland

"Covid is great, it's going away"
Dems using it as a hoax, it'll go away in november
Best numbers ever, best testing ever
Dem cities are under anarchy
Notorious ABC bullshit
Fake news
Under audit
Greatest taxes ever, you'll see
Failing NYT
More nonsensical lies
OANN softball
Nasty question
Storms off."
There. I summarized it. Don't watch the propaganda rallies.

I wonder if there's ever a moment of insight among Trump supporters when they realize that everyone who works for Trump is at best a bad person and at worst a full-blown criminal?

Yeah. The Times said yesterday was just the beginning and they would be releasing stories in in the coming weeks and months. Can't imagine that's a good thing for Team Tangerine.

Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: 'Bomb on donkey' used to ambush Borno governor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54331260

Cam Newton said he's looking for recommendations for good local restaurants that can fit his vegan diet. "Just because I'm Vegan, it doesn't mean I just go outside and pick up grass and put ranch on it."
https://twitter.com/BenVolin/status/1309285057249583108

Democrats have gained 9 Democratic Trifectas (Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Virginia) since Trump's inauguration back in 2017. This year, we can gain 5 more in the states of Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania
https://cnalysis.com/articles/the-democratic-trifecta-opportunities-in-2020

YEP: @NFL this needs to be addressed ASAP!! Doing dirty dumb malicious shit like this can end someone's season! This is clearly intentional and getting fined isn't enough. Im all for guys playing hard but I have zero tolerance for this @NFL
https://twitter.com/kj_wright34/status/1310628640363671552

Lamar is 23. Mahomes is 25. First matchup in NFL history between MVP winners aged 25 or younger. Tonight.

Seeing the Texans are 0-3 and while they've played three damn good teams, I do think there's some confirmation that it is in fact an awful idea to trade a superstar wide receiver for an expensive running back.

Bears' QB Nick Foles will start Sunday vs. Indy, per source.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1310627771429851137

Allen Lazard had 146 receiving yards yesterday. He's one of 16 players to have a 100 receiving yard game from Aaron Rodgers and the 10th to have at least two
https://twitter.com/pfref/status/1310588841250697216

The #Broncos have lost Von Miller and Courtland Sutton for the season, and now likely Jurrell Casey — who they traded for. Meanwhile, AJ Bouye, Mark Barron, Dre'Mont Jones and Justin Strnad are all on IR… and Drew Lock is out with an injury. Just brutal luck in Denver.
http://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1310631417576067073

The Steelers have recorded 15 sacks in the first three weeks of the season. No NFL team has had more over its first 3 games of the season since 2006.
https://twitter.com/SteelersPRMike/status/1310392579188547585

#Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo is expected to miss some time with a groin strain, per source. He gutted it out Sunday, but couldn't kick off. Short-term IR a possibility
https://www.twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1310636861145206786

Good, if you can't decide between Biden or Trump you're a terrorist, stay the fuck home: "But amid intense political polarization, comparatively few undecided voters remain, raising questions as to how, or if, the debate might shape a race that has been defined by its bitterness and, at least so far, its stability."
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-virus-outbreak-donald-trump-health-4116f4fe2b66c2a51c4c214935c9c8b8

This week marks the 2 year anniversary since Khashoggi's death. "Kingdom of Silence" examines the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as a backdrop to the Khashoggi's assassination.
https://twitter.com/postlive/status/1310691882939412481

Tomorrow at 11am nakashimae will be joined by former U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.
Mark your calendars and tune in here --->
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2020/09/29/conversation-with-former-us-national-security-advisor-hr-mcmaster/

Republicans want fresh sanctions on Iran, with latest targets including 14 banks. Proposal includes labeling Iran's entire financial sector as off-limits. The move would basically end the Democratic party's vow to re-enter nuclear deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/trump-team-weighs-tough-new-sanctions-on-iran-s-financial-sector

This is why Trump wins, major Republicans are campaigning door-to-door while Democrats really are in hiding: HUD Secretary Ben Carson visits Milwaukee, fourth Trump cabinet official in Wisconsin in recent days https://jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2020/09/28/ben-carson-latest-trump-cabinet-official-visit-wisconsin/3560857001/

The Republican Chief Financial Officer of Florida sent letters to 100,000 businesses and entities asking if they were "owned or controlled by the Communist Party of China," as part of an effort to assign blame for covid19, WLRN reports
https://www.wlrn.org/2020-09-28/floridas-hunt-for-chinese-communist-ties-comes-up-empty-handed

For three weeks in August, USPS Postermaster DeJoy illegally and unconstitutionally stopped fully updating a national change of address system that most states use to keep their voter rolls current. "at least 1.8 million new changes of address had not been registered in the database."
https://time.com/5893881/exclusive-as-states-prepared-mail-in-ballots-postal-service-failed-to-update-at-least-1-8-million-addresses/

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has become the fourth to issue a nationwide injunction against the U.S. Postal Service over disruptive operational changes initiated by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/usps-hit-with-fourth-injunction-over-changes-during-election

Imagine being in deep trouble and the first person you turn to is Rudy Giuliani, followed by Chris Christie

A conservative activist in Houston, the Harris County Republican party and a number of Republican officials and candidates are asking the Texas Supreme Court to block in-person and absentee voting options for Harris County voters during the pandemic.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/28/houston-republicans-lawsuit-voting/?

Judiciary Dems and Republicans have added at least 20 new staff members to prepare for the fight over Barrett, with more to come.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/28/senate-judiciary-staffs-up-for-barrett-fight-422595

This feels almost biblical: A lot of ash, some of it scary large, is falling on my sister's street in #SantaRosa because of the #GlassIncident #GlassFire #SonomaCounty
https://twitter.com/ailworth/status/1310627258328133634

Biden's public option has received much more attention but his plan to enhance ACA subsidies would reduce the cost of  premiums and deductibles dramatically for Bronze and Gold plans, including in battleground states. Of course he has to pay for it.
https://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/affordability-in-the-aca-marketplace-under-a-proposal-like-joe-bidens-health-plan

National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233

Pelosi and Mnuchin are speaking tonight in what could be the final shot at securing a coronavirus aid deal before the election.

Already this year, 8,100 wildfires have burned more than 3.7 million acres throughout California. 26 people are dead. And yet "Race and Violence in Our Cities" is a debate topic and not climate change.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/28/california-wildfires-glass-fire-zogg-fire-wine-country-evacuations/3559145001/

Multiple Louisville SWAT Team Members Told Investigators They Had Serious Concerns About Raid on Breonna Taylor's Apartment
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8q3w/louisville-swat-team-told-investigators-they-had-concerns-about-raid-on-breonna-taylors-apartment

The war on drugs is a war on people....it is almost never enforced against actual "kingpins" but it is enforced every day against poor people struggling with addiction

California Elk "Trapped and Dying" As Cattle Ranchers Block Wildlife's Access to Water | Hundreds of elk have already perished at the Point Reyes National Seashore, as campaigners urge the government to take action to stop beef and dairy ranchers from destroying the park. The world's largest remaining herd of rare native Tule elk are dying at worrying rates as they struggle to access water at their home in the Point Reyes National Seashore, California.
https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/california-elk-trapped-and-dying-as-cattle-ranchers-block-wildlifes-access-to-water

Doc Rivers is out with the Clippers. Doc Rivers had two years left on his contract. Doc Rivers has most wins as a head coach in Clippers history with 356 and the top winning % (.631) in franchise history over seven seasons
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1310689859191951360

Paul George causes trouble for the Rivers family once more, remember he cheated on Doc Rivers' daughter

Blowing a 3-1 lead as the title favourite is bad but the blame goes to Paul George and Harrell who battled each other all season long straight through the playoffs

Doc Rivers rebuilt the Clippers team and culture and kept the Clippers afloat and ultimately helped greatly in bringing the Clippers the team they have today. Doc Rivers is a legend, too bad player egos derailed the team's playoff run and too bad they lost one of the best coaches ever. Would have preferred it if they traded Paul George instead....

House Democrats unveil their pared-down Heroes Act covid relief package, which comes in at price tag of $2.2 trillion. TEXT here: https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/SUPP_SEP_01_ALL_xml.2020.9.28.1753.pdf

36 days sounds a lot shorter than five weeks

Then arrest him: Commerce secretary says 2020 U.S. census will end Oct. 5, despite judge ordering it to continue to end of October
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1310708554698051584

Judges have no power to enforce their own decisions? What's going on? How come rich white men get to say "no" to a judge's order with impunity and get away with it?

A post claims to show over 1,000 mail ballots in a California dumpster when it actually depicts empty envelopes from 2018.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/28/facebook-posts/ballots-california-dumpster-were-actually-old-empt/

There is a strand within the Democrat Party which is secular and hostile to faith. That's different from the political leadership having that position, or Joe Biden holding that position. But the Trump campaign will try and make enemies out of anyone. Ditto for the Democratic party's antisemites: they are a powerless minority.

Trump Denounces Anti-Catholic Bias Even as He Attacks Biden's Faith. Gov. Phil Murphy called it "the faith version of the Merrick Garland hypocrisy"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/trump-biden-catholics.html

As 21 States Report Surge in Covid-19 and Flu Season Looms, Nursing Homes Implore Congress for Urgent Relief
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/28/21-states-report-surge-covid-19-and-flu-season-looms-nursing-homes-implore-congress

Landl-rds Are Still Illegally Filing Eviction Cases After CDC Order, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. 5,214 evictions were filed in the month following the nationwide moratorium
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jz43/corporate-landlords-are-still-filing-eviction-cases-after-cdc-order-data-show

Amy Coney Barrett Worked on Bush v. Gore — Donald Trump says he expects the Supreme Court to decide the 2020 election, as it did in Bush v. Gore. If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, the court will have three justices who worked directly on the case that illegally and unconstitutionally and undemocratically determined the 2000 election.

I thought the Clippers would run the same team one more year, with a few tweeks

If Kawhi wanted to play with LeBron (he made it clear he did not), he would've signed with the Lakers this past off-season.

Francona to miss postseason
https://www.mlb.com/news/terry-francona-will-not-manage-indians-in-2020-postseason

World leaders urged to ban all trade in wild animals and birds for eating to prevent pandemics
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/wildlife-trade-pandemics-coronavirus-ban-import-world-leaders-b673860.html

Is this, pasta?...."We didn't know if we could get anybody. We just showed him guys that we thought would match him and when he saw Paul George's name he said, 'I want to play with him.'
https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2019-09-18/doc-rivers-hero-clippers-signed-kawhi-leonard-paul-george

The James O'Keefe video about "ballot harvesting" and Ilhan Omar:
• The man in the vid runs a nonexistent "Somali Watchdog Group," isn't an Omar employee
• Alleged ballots were for a city council race, not Omar
• Ballot harvesting isn't illegal in MN
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/project-veritas-ilhan-omar-jamal-somaliaa-watchdog-group/

Trump denounces Biden's ahem Catholic faith even as he denounces anyone who questions Barrett's "people of praise" scam cult
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/trump-biden-catholics.html

Pennsylvania voters, who have long depended on jobs in coal & natural gas industries, are torn between wanting things like clean water & fresh air & needing work to put food on their tables. We see the impact of fracking on Pennsylvania on #VICENewsTonight at 11PM on @VICETV.
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1310735012724178944

Breonna Taylor and Robert Kraft: A tale of America's two justice systems — If we want to be the kind of country where all people are created equal, we need a criminal justice system that treats all people fairly, regardless of income, race or power.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/breonna-taylor-robert-kraft-tale-america-s-two-justice-systems-ncna1241187

Mahomes runs it in the endzone for a Chief's touchdown
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1310739338129408000

Lamar Jackson 32-yard run
https://streamable.com/ffmgm6

Jets will fire Adam Gase with loss Thursday, report says | 'He's lost the locker room' and team is 'calling big-time agents'
https://www.nj.com/jets/2020/09/jets-will-fire-adam-gase-with-loss-thursday-report-says-hes-lost-the-locker-room-and-team-is-calling-big-time-agents.html

Tonight is not just a battle of standout QBs. It's also standout kickers. Justin Tucker and Harrison Butker are No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in FG% in NFL history.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1310702482952278017

Records show Supreme Court nominee Barrett and her family have been involved with the secretive religious cult for decades
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-donald-trump-amy-coney-barrett-us-supreme-court-courts-1be61f7c3427e41326038e5cdab54839

The Obama Justice Department Had Reforms And Protocols To Hold Police Accountable For Abuses. The Trump DOJ Eliminated Them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-obama-justice-department-had-a-plan-to-hold-police-accountable-for-abuses-the-trump-doj-has-undermined-it

Armenia- Azerbaijan conflict is a sad example of the effect Trump's failed leadership has had on the world. Yet four years of Trump's disengagement, the pandemic, Russia's increased confidence and Turkey's bold regional posturing have created a new dynamic where the old norms can be discarded and destructive opportunities sought. Even if diplomacy suddenly shuts the fighting down in the coming hours, the renewed vigor of rhetoric on both sides means this could flare up again soon.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/28/why-are-armenia-azerbaijan-heading-to-war-nagorno-karabakh/
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/28/europe/azerbaijan-armenia-clashes-explainer-intl/index.html

France to ban use of wild animals in circuses, marine parks
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-ban-wild-animals-circuses-marine-parks-73307384

Half a million sharks could be killed for Covid-19 vaccine
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/29/half-a-million-sharks-could-be-killed-for-covid-19-vaccine-say-experts

IMF Purchases and Loans By Country VS Trump Personal Debt
https://i.redd.it/z4b8jya4x0q51.jpg

Peter Strzok's lawyer has sent a letter to Judge Emmet Sullivan claiming that "some" of Strzok's notes "appear to have been altered" in exhibits that Flynn's lawyers filed.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/peter-strzoks-lawyer-sends-letter-to-judge-in-michael-flynn-case-flynns-lawyers-filed-altered-notes-and-irrelevant-texts/

Mark Cuban confirmed that he picked up Delonte West today at a Dallas gas station and is working with West's family to try to help the homeless former NBA player get his life back on track.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1310774579082801152

Video Shows Mark Cuban Picking Up Delonte West at Dallas Gas Station
https://www.complex.com/sports/2020/09/mark-cuban-picks-up-delonte-west-at-dallas-gas-station

Trump Privately Mocks His Christian Supporters. Trump Aides Say That In Private, Trump Has Spoken With Cynicism And Contempt About Christians. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. But in private, many of Trump's comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they've heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/

Pro-Trump MAGA Dr. Birx reportedly played a central role in pressuring CDC to advise for school reopening despite surges in coronavirus cases this summer
https://www.businessinsider.com/birx-pressure-cdc-advise-school-reopening-nyt-2020-9

Ohio Just Ordered GM to Repay $28 Million in Tax Breaks for Closing the L/rdstown Auto Plant
https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-just-ordered-gm-to-repay-28-million-in-tax-breaks-for-closing-the-lordstown-auto-plant

One of the most notable moments came at the beginning of the debate came when independent candidate Max Linn tore up a few face masks at his podium in protest of government mandates to wear them for public safety. He was frequently antagonistic, goading Collins and Gideon to look at him and attack him, while calling them pawns for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.  Both major party candidates deftly handled him. Collins urged viewers to have fun with their masks to promote causes; she said hers said "eat Maine potatoes." After Linn said that Collins and Gideon gave "bulls***" responses, and urged Gideon to "woman up" and direct a response to him, the state speaker responded, "Thank you very much for that opportunity." "The only request I have is actually that we do not allow people to swear on the stage because I do know that there are many children watching our debate today," added Gideon.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/maine-senate-debate-susan-collins/index.html

Lamar Jackson called the Chiefs "our kryptonite". Jackson is 21-1 against the rest of the NFL in the regular season but 0-3 against the Chiefs.

Lamar Jackson has 4 career regular season losses and 3 of them are to Patrick Mahomes.

The good news for Carson Wentz is he gets the 49ers, Steelers, and Ravens over the next three weeks.

Every time I watch Mahomes, I'm shocked the 49ers shut this man down for almost an entire game

YEP: Neo-Nazis Are Using Eco-Fascism to Recruit Young People
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqmey/neo-nazis-eco-fascism-climate-change-recruit-young-people

Trump has billions of dollars of debt all over the globe and right here in the USA, everybody knew and voted for him anyway

Trump directed this statement to be redone to attack Democrats and other Trump critics, per sources familiar with what happened, moving quickly to capitalize on Parscale before the full picture emerged. When news of Brad Parscale's police altercation broke Sun night, the campaign first released a supportive statement. But after Trump was briefed on the incident, they updated it — using Parscale's personal struggles as a cudgel to attack Trump's opponents. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/parscale-suicide-threat-abuse/2020/09/28/34644958-01aa-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html

Harris tweeted a link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (a bail fund), which some Biden staff donated to. By definition that money wasn't used to "bail out rioters" in Kenosha two months later: In just a few seconds, the Kenosha County sheriff goes from accusing Joe Biden's campaign of paying "to keep the rioters going" to wanting to hear "where are we going to heal" division.
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1310910322744733698

Donald Trump and Joe Biden, will meet on the debate stage for the first time tonight night in Cleveland. Going up against MLB playoffs.

Christian group raises over $500K for Kenosha murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. Video proves he murdered people.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/christian-group-raises-500k-for-kenosha-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse/

On Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani warned practicing Catholic Joe Biden that he'd better not attack non-practicing non-Catholic scam cult member Amy Coney Barrett over her cult scam.

Armenia Claims Turkish F-16 Sho Down Armenian SU-25 In Armenian airspace, pilot killed
https://globalnews.ca/news/7366059/armenias-defense-ministry-warplane-shot-down-turkish-fighter-jet/

The International Space Station is leaking and Republican-controlled Nasa doesn't know why
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nasa-international-space-station-air-leak-mysterious-b692177.html

With casualties rapidly mounting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, the Trump Administration needs to call the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan immediately to de-escalate the situation. It must also demand others — like Turkey — stay out of this conflict.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1310962034813485057

This is what a true leader, like Mr. Biden, does. Raises concerns for what's going on in other parts of the world and encourages leaders to de-escalate any kind of heated situations flaring up worldwide.

Remember: Trump's resort business is collapsing which is why he pushed to reopen the economy?
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/29/trumps-resort-business-is-collapsing--is-that-why-he-pushed-to-reopen-the-economy/

There was no aha moment or event that led to the Clippers' and Doc Rivers' decision to mutually part ways on Monday afternoon, league sources told The Athletic. This was not an impulsive overreaction to the organization's early playoff exit — or, specifically, the blown 3-1 series lead to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals — but rather an accumulation of philosophical differences through the years and, especially, recent weeks. | Following the Clippers' premature postseason ouster, Rivers and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer held several candid meetings and conversations, league sources said. They discussed where things went wrong for the Clippers in the playoffs and forecasted their visions of the organization's future, including the team's style of play, the makeup of the roster, player development and on- and off-court leadership. After hours of back-and-forth, the sides concluded they had differing visions of the team's path forward, leading to the mutual decision to separate after seven seasons together, league sources said. Two philosophical points of contention between Rivers and the organization were, more recently, his insistence on playing backup center Montrezl Harrell over starting center Ivica Zubac and, at large, his reluctance to develop or empower the team's younger talent throughout his tenure. After a Sixth Man of the Year regular-season campaign, Harrell missed a month in the bubble due to the sickness and eventual passing of his grandmother. Upon returning, he was visibly not himself, offensively or defensively. Yet Harrell's postseason role was that of an effective rotation player (18.7 minutes per game), despite the Clippers posting a team-worst minus-11.6 net rating with him on the floor in the playoffs, including a mind-blowing minus-30.1 net rating while sharing the floor with Leonard and George. In comparison, the Clippers had a plus-17.7 net rating with Zubac on the floor in the playoffs and a plus-11.1 net rating with Zubac alongside Leonard and George, both marks ranked No. 1 among the team's rotation players. It was clear to many that Zubac was the better matchup on both ends versus Dallas and Denver. There was an internal thought process of "How does Rivers not see that Zubac is the more productive player and the better postseason matchup?" A common criticism from some within the team — inside and outside the locker room — was that Harrell's energy and effort was only consistent on the offensive end of the floor, multiple league sources said. Meanwhile, Rivers maintained, publicly to the media and privately to his staff and the organization, that Harrell was the better player, in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary. | Back in mid-February, right before the All-Star break, the Clippers were on the road in Philadelphia in a game hyped as potential Finals preview. With 12.9 seconds remaining in the first half and the Clippers inbounding the ball, Landry Shamet checked into the game for Leonard. As Leonard walked toward the Clippers' bench, he demonstrably gestured towards Rivers, yelling "There's 12 seconds left! We're down two!" while throwing up his arms in disappointment at the decision to bench him so late in the half. An outward display of emotion like that was rare from Leonard. Before Leonard could sit down, Rivers retracted his decision and instead subbed out Lou Williams. Williams, who was setting up on the left block to come off of a Harrell screen, sauntered off the floor, pausing for a second to throw his arms up at Rivers to display his displeasure. The interaction was jarring and awkward. | Rivers, in the undeniably difficult position of juggling multiple egos and sensitive personalities, never struck the necessary balance in the locker room. It's telling that, as of this writing, no Clipper player has publicly thanked or defended Rivers on social media after his departure.
https://theathletic.com/2100899/2020/09/29/an-inside-look-at-the-clippers-and-doc-rivers-decision-to-part-ways-after-another-collapse

A Delonte West update, as people close to the ex-NBA player going through very difficult personal struggle continue to offer help: Sources say Mavs owner Mark Cuban reunited West with his mother in Dallas on Monday — and now West has checked into rehab facility in Florida.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1310969208633790471

'Sully' Sullenberger savages Trump's 'lethal lies and incompetence' in new Lincoln Project ad
https://theweek.com/speedreads/940288/sully-sullenberger-savages-trumps-lethal-lies-incompetence-new-lincoln-project-ad

Trump said in 2011 lower-income Americans should pay taxes to be 'part of the game,' though he paid nothing to the federal government for many years
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-taxes-poor-americans-should-pay-be-part-game-comments-2020-9

Too little too late, New York to investigate Trump's state tax fraud
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-donald-trump-taxes-bill-de-blasio-20200929-ipudjf42dbavffaxotmv7fnfxa-story.html

Arizona man who voted Trump in 2016 switching vote to Biden after wife died of covid-19
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/518718-arizona-man-who-voted-trump-in-2016-switching-vote-to-biden-after-wife

More Detained Women Say ICE Doctor Pressured Them Into Gynecological Surgery | The New York Times has spoken to 16 women who say they were concerned about the gynecological care they received while detained at the center. One, Wendy Dowe, was told that menstrual cramping she had was caused by large cysts and masses that needed to be removed. Despite her skepticism, she felt pressured to consent and went ahead with the procedure. Later, after she was deported to Jamaica and had her case reviewed, a radiologist found that her case would not usually require surgical intervention. The Times reports that Mahendra Amin, who treated all 16 women interviewed, consistently overstated risks associated with cysts in his patients.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/ice-hysterectomies-surgeries-georgia.html

This was done to trigger Trump: British Member of Parliament nominates Biden for a Nobel Peace Prize
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/518705-british-member-of-parliament-nominates-biden-for-a-nobel-peace

Judge orders Georgia officials to provide backup paper poll books ahead of election
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/518654-judge-orders-georgia-state-officials-to-provide-backup-paper-pollbooks

The NHL completed its postseason without one coronavirus case in the bubble. It was no small feat. Also Congrats Tampa Bay Lightning on winning the cherished Stanley Cup. Enjoy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/29/nhl-stanley-cup-bubble-ends/

With a total tax bill of $299,346, the Bidens paid an effective tax rate of 31.6%. Joe and Jill Biden released 2019 tax returns ahead of debate.
Total income: $944,737.
Total tax payment: $346,204
Refund: $46,858
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1310989582067019778

In case it isn't obvious, criminal defendants and their attorneys typically don't get access to the President of the United States to ask him for his help in defeating the case brought by the Justice Department, which is ultimately controlled by the President.
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1310991201978458116

Judge Sullivan asked Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, if she talked about Flynn's case with Trump. She tried to invoke executive privilege!!! Then she said she updated Trump personally on the Flynn case!!!
https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1310989460146925568

There is no basis for Sidney Powell to refuse to answer the judge's questions about her recent conversations with Trump. Powell can't invoke executive privilege because she's not a government employee.  Trump is also obviously not her client.

Powell argues Sullivan is biased and appointed Gleeson as amicus to support the judge's own views that Flynn should go to prison. Sullivan stops her, says he doesn't recall her filing a recusal motion. Powell says she's doing it now. Sullivan says she needs to do it in writing.
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1310991934656327680

"This is a lie and it never happened. The Biden campaign is trying to distract from the facts that he won't submit to an inspection for earpieces, won't take a drug test, and needs multiple breaks during the 90-minute debate." Fine. If we're playing that game, then you know, the Trump team asked Chris Wallace not to mention the number of deaths from covid19 or discuss how pro-Trump alt-right rightwing militants murdered Democratic protestors during the debate.

Cambria County, home to Johnstown and once represented by the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha for decades, flipped its voter registration to a GOP majority this month. In Nov. 2000, the county had 57,060 Democrats and 28,818 Republicans.
https://tribdem.com/news/cambria-goes-red-as-the-gop-gains-county-registration-edge/article_0c8c8c24-f250-11ea-8cfd-47d0dd04f99a.html

The Trump campaign has been aggressively targeting Cubans in Florida, and Latino voters generally. This is part of that effort
https://tmz.com/2020/09/29/jorge-masvidal-campaigning-donald-trump-jr-florida-rally-against-socialism/

Joe Biden Should Propose a $750 Tax Credit Tonight—Then Drop the Mic

Tax Returns Show Trump Looting Treasury to Stave Off His Own Financial Disaster
https://truthout.org/articles/tax-returns-show-trump-looting-treasury-to-stave-off-his-own-financial-disaster/

John Gleeson, court-appointed amicus, says of DOJ's arguments to dismiss the debate: "These reasons are so patently pretextual that the government feels the need to keep coming up with more of them."
https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1311005587807916034

Explore the #FirstAmendment & the freedom to assemble with historic lessons, First Amendment insights, downloadable posters & social media filters, plus live & recorded programs with key practitioners of the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.
https://www.freedomforum.org/assembly/

So far this is consistent with my suspicion that Sullivan will just use the hearing as an opportunity to make the United States Department of Justice look really super skeevy and debase itself further.

Wake Co Board of Elections is processing today 33,899 civilian, 1,054 overseas and 121 military absentee ballots returned by voters,  recommended by staff for approval. In 3 hours this morning the board examined about 14,000 of those envelopes. 2 pm return to processing. #ncpol
https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/1311001988742733826

Of the first 14,000, stacks of 50 being jogged then sliced open. About 30 bipartisan teams will remove ballots from envelopes and flatten the ballots in preparation for scanning. Scene shows just a few of the teams
https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/1311005587929550854

Video feed shows full board, staff, public observers, scanners, boxes with approved envelopes, jogger, slicer and about 1/3 of bi-partisan processing teams. Slicer sounds like a shofar FWIW
https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/1311008101747888129

"Joe Biden Gave 1.5% of Income to Charity in 2019; Trump Gave Entire Salary to Government" and also billed the government millions of dollars by insisting on staying at his own properties....he could have, for example, charged them nothing since he owns those places. Gee, I wonder why he might not let them use the facilities on his own dime? Trump also should have kept the money considering he's 100% financally bankrupt and owes billions of dollars everywhere, including to the federal government and IRS

The pace of requests for absentee ballots by NH voters continues to set records. @NHSecretary Gardner tells @WMUR9 that as of this a.m., 148,360 absentee ballots have been requested. The most absentee ballots cast so far in NH was 75K in 2016.  #nhpolitics #fitn #WMUR
https://twitter.com/jdistaso/status/1311015530187325452

Construction crews are illegally and unconstitutionally working 24/7 to build illegal and unconstitutional border wall as quickly as possible ahead of the election, with Biden threat to halt project looming
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-push/2020/09/29/689bc740-f8f5-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html

The Biden earpiece conspiracy theory (which originated in a tweet from a single anonymous source to a NYPost reporter, and was instantly denied by the campaign) is everywhere on Facebook. Absolutely everywhere.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1311008457894629376

Re: govt saying it's no longer confident what Flynn said about contacts w/ the Russian ambassador in 2016 was material to the counterintel investigation into Trump campaign-Russia ties, Gleeson says it's "about as straightforward a case of materiality as this court will ever see"
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1311020301828972546

Breitbart is considered by Facebook to be a "trusted news source" and is, therefore, included in the Facebook news tab. Here is a Breitbart article about tonight's debate based on the latest QAnon conspiracy theory. It's been shared 3K times on Facebook in one hour
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1311016080064815104

Biden camp denies Trump campaign request to cut him open and see if he is cake

As Covid19 Surges in Wisconsin, Federal Judges Stay an Order to Extend Ballot Counting
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/wisconsin-ballots-stay-appeals-court/

Good: Pennsylvania Court: Federal law that protects gun makers from lawsuits is unconstitutional
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/controversial-federal-law-that-protects-gun-makers-from-lawsuits-is-unconstitutional-pa-court-says.html

Erik Spoelstra is 3-0 against Frank Vogel in playoff series they've coached against each other. Back then, Spoelstra had LeBron on his team. This time, Vogel has LeBron. How the LeBrons have Jamesed. How the playoffs have peed. How the Docs have Riversed.

The #Titans had three new player positives and five new personnel positives for COVID-19, sources tell me and @MikeGarafolo. Both Titans and Vikings, who hosted them Sunday, will suspend in person club activities starting today.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1310946413879197697

How bad could it be really though. Sources say the players are known as Ryan Tannehill, Derrick Henry, and Stephen Gostkowski...."Oh".....That explains so much about the Vikings' start. Vikings should be safe, they weren't near those players on Sunday. Their defense wasn't hot garbage, they were just practicing social distancing. Personal foul - distance interference. 6-yard penalty. Shutdown.

Russell Wilson could throw 46 INTs on his next 46 pass attempts, and he'd still have a better QB rating than Carson Wentz.
https://twitter.com/JimmyKempski/status/1310965777437204488

Unfortunately, I can confirm, via a league source, that all of these COVID-19 tests have been CONFIRMED positive. The NFL has completed the protocol that would have determined if any were false positive. They weren't.
https://twitter.com/SeifertESPN/status/1310955002236669959

#Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick asked by @AdamSchefter what's his favorite NFL city: "I'm gonna get in trouble if I answer that one. ... It's Buffalo. Why? "Because it's Buffalo. That's why."
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1310997017297063936

While there inevitably have been isolated COVID-19 cases around the NFL, this is the first example of a bunch of cases within one team since camps began. Under NFL-NFLPA protocols, the expectation is Tennessee's facility will be shut down for several days. No other decisions yet.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1310951802125328385

The Vikings confirm they have not had any positive COVID-19 tests, but have suspended in-person club activities and closed their facility immediately.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1310961502803894274

What will happen when the Falcons face the Ravens? The team that can't hold a double digit lead vs the team that can't come back from a double digit deficit

Pulling a pitcher too early seems like a very un-Dusty move. It seems like a very Rays-type move though. I wonder if that order came from Click (Astros vs Twins, GREINKE! had a shaky start and gave up 1 run). Dusty doing Dusty things. Taking Greinke out was absolute madness.  He should have been allowed to pitch the 5th and possibly the 6th.

Adam Engel: first White Sox postseason home run since Jermaine Dye 4,376 days ago.
https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1311026418378252289

Maeda strikes out Reddick, strands the bases loaded
https://streamable.com/7tnzon

Adam Engel is the first player in White Sox history with a home run in his first career postseason at-bat.
https://twitter.com/slangsonsports/status/1311027576488501249

Bregman guns out Sanó at first to get Greinke out of a bases-loaded jam in the 1st.
https://streamable.com/mcjoe6

This Dusty fella just cost the Cheatros the series by taking out GREINKE. LEAVE THAT MAN PITCH AT LEAST ONE MORE INNING AND START THE 6TH.

The thing to remember about the debate: 99% of the country is decided and the other 1% are pro-Trump racists who pretend to be "undecided" to prevent you from calling them racist.

When you get LeBron James, coaches will get fired, Draft Picks/Young Players will get traded to get him his help, but LeBron will take you to the Finals (barring any injuries).

"I know every last one that was drafted ahead of me. It definitely does fuel me." Tyler Herro says being drafted 13th motivates him

Jeff Van Gundy has the best agent in the world. He hasn't been on the sidelines in a decade and every single coaching job that comes open over the last decade, his name is mentioned.

If you are going to play Kelly Olynyk, you have to make sure Lebron is not on the court. Lebron attacks Kelly every single time when they play together in the PnR......the film on that should not be viewed by Olynyk's family, unless there is a lot of alcohol around

Zack Greinke decided to sit in the front row seats instead of the dugout after he was taken out of the game
https://i.redd.it/d1gd3g3eb5q51.jpg

Pro-Trump Intel chief Ratcliffe releases Russian disinformation (Lies) on Hillary Clinton that was rejected by Republica-controlled Senate panel | A former senior intelligence official said it was "a surprising choice to release this information — that is not new and that seems unconfirmed — now and in an unclassified letter," adding: "I don't know what good purpose is served."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/29/john-ratcliffe-hillary-clinton-russia-423022?s=09

Our intelligence chief is a Russian asset.

House Intelligence Committee Subpoenas Department of Homeland Security for Documents and Open Hearing with Acting I&A Head
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1081

Greinke is National Treasure. If only there was a way that he could win and the Astros could lose at the same time...

Greinke pulled early in back to back starts. A reverse Dusty by Dusty

Republicans, China, Australia and Brazil refuse to sign pledge to reverse damage to natural world
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/biodiversity-summit-un-30x30-us-china-australia-brazil-scott-morrison-jair-bolsonaro-b693593.html

Trump Campaign Asked Debate Moderator Not to Mention Covid19 Deaths
https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-campaign-claims-trump-campaign-asked-debate-moderator-not-to-mention-200000-covid-19-deaths

La Stella breaks up Giolito's perfecto in the 7th
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/04d2bdbe-3658-4585-8cec-4ffce3ce4881.mp4

Wildlife officials in Zimbabwe say they suspect a bacterial disease is responsible for the deaths of more than 30 elephants since late August. Earlier this year hundreds of elephants were found dead in Botswana from a type of bacterial poisoning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54345439

Tyler Herro was 3 years old when LeBron James was drafted in 2003

Nordstrom will no longer sell fur and exotic animal skins
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/business/nordstrom-fur-exotic-animal-skins/index.html

Justice Ginsburg was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband, Martin, and near some of her former colleagues on the court.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-ruth-bader-ginsburg-archive-courts-930731526f8e0d90309a9b183bfeddd2

The mythical audience split in the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, 60 years ago
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/516568-revisiting-the-first-presidential-debate-and-its-improbable-audience

Pennsylvania law requires anyone participating in partisan political activity to stand 10 feet distant from the polling place. I know it's boring to keep pointing out all the ways that Trump wants to break the law, but here's another.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311051647687307264

History repeats, over and over: Roger Stone Group Planned To Send Out Poll Watchers With Fake Credentials https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-stone-vote-protectors-voter-intimidation-fake-badges-recording

These are the same people who threw a fit about the Steele Dossier because it was "unverified" and based on unreliable sources. But here's the DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE laundering unverified, and even fabricated foreign "intelligence assessments" into the public sphere: ???: DNI Ratcliffe has declassified a Russian intelligence assessment — which Ratcliffe says could be false or exaggerated —  to suggest Clinton hatched a plan to pin Russian hacking onto Trump.
https://judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-29-20_Letter%20to%20Sen.%20Graham_Declassification%20of%20FBI's%20Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Investigations_20-00912_U_SIGNED-FINAL.pdf

Just saw two NYPD officers from the 115 precinct come out of a Starbucks with coffees in hand, but no masks on their faces. Everyone else in the Starbucks had a mask because, as the governor said today, it's the law
https://twitter.com/jdavidgoodman/status/1311057092506275846?

Umpire in Astros/Twins game called a strike "ball", walking in Altuve to give Astros 1 run lead. Umpire has called multiple strikes "ball" all game long, against all pitchers.

A strike three call that isn't made happened multiple times in this game. That 3rd pitch has been a strike all day. ELIMINATE UMPIRES, BRING IN ELECTRONIC STRIKE ZONE. UMPIRES ARE DESTROYING GAMES.

In a very rare move, Schumer files cloture - to cut off debate - to bring legislation to the floor. This is a right usually reserved for the majority leader. He did so on the PPACA Protection bill. Anybody is legally allowed to file cloture, it's simply evolved into tradition for the majority leader to do so.

Trump: Roided-out Joe Biden will use his hidden earpiece, advance answers, and sinister basement lair to cheat his way to victory

Scott Reed, the senior political strategist at the US Chamber of Commerce, confirms reporting that he has been fired. He has been forced out because the Chamber's Tom Donohue and Suzanne Clark blocked him from illegally and unconstitutionally spending money on Senate Republican races: "They would not let me spend Senate money down the home stretch," he said. Scott Reed prefers the Trump economy, which includes Disney firing 28,000 employees today (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/media/disney-parks-layoffs/index.html)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/29/chamber-of-commerce-scott-reed/

The Trump admin cannot pause an order blocking the president's memo excluding undocumented immigrants in determining the political heft of U.S. states in the census, a three-judge panel found in a blistering ruling Tuesday.
https://www.courthousenews.com/panel-rejects-trump-bid-for-stay-of-order-blocking-census-memo/

Disney in Trump's home state firing 28,000 employees. Republicans relentlessly refuse covid19 stimulus. Since June.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/media/disney-parks-layoffs/index.html

YEP: "This is a state that perhaps better than any other understands the costs and consequences of Donald Trump," O'Rourke said during a pre-debate press call hosted by the Texas Democratic Party. "And it's a state by the way — not unrelated to that — that is Joe Biden's to lose."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Beto-O-Rourke-says-Texas-is-Joe-Biden-s-to-15607037.php

Mitch McConnell 'refusing to debate his election rival if there is a female moderator. The release continues, "Sen. Mitch McConnell has not participated in a debate in Kentucky where the candidates took questions from a female moderator in nearly 25 years, and he continues to resist allowing women to host debates."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/mitch-mcconnell-refuses-debate-female-moderator-amy-mcgrath-b699089.html

Pelosi to Biden ahead of presidential debate: 'Be yourself. Save the planet'

While the right wing in Tex's is the gun toting cliche, gun control is popular with ore supporting AW buyback than opposing.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/02/03/texans-overwhelmingly-want-gun-background-checks-are-open-to-red-flag-laws-dmn-ut-tyler-poll-finds/

Hey Texans, you have until October 5 to register to vote.
Early voting starts October 13.
VOTE
https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/register/index.htm

With Minnesota's loss to the Houston Astros, the Twins have the longest Playoff losing streak at 17, passing the 1970s Chicago Blackhawks from the NHL. Twins have lost 17 straight postseason games. Seventeen.

Lucas Giolito Final Line In Playoff Debut: 7 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 SO, 1.29 ERA, 100 pitches

Umpire walks Jose Altuve to force in the go-ahead run for the Astros
https://streamable.com/dblfcv

Blake Snell vs TOR: 5.2IP 1H 0R 2BB 9K on 82 pitches

Matt Shoemaker @ TBR: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER,0 BB, 2 K, 35 P

Brazil moves to transfer deforestation and fire monitoring to the military, in Bolsonaro administration's latest move to censor the release of satellite data on Amazon deforestation, after firing key leaders at space agency in 2019 and 2020
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/brazil-moves-toward-transfer-of-deforestation-fire-monitoring-to-military/

Trump revives false earpiece conspiracy before debate but it's not the first time Biden has heard it
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/earpiece-conspiracy-trump-biden-presidential-debate-b702954.html

AOC condemns U.S. system that allows Trump, Amazon to pay almost no taxes but doesn't fund health care for all
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-condemns-us-system-that-allows-trump-amazon-pay-almost-no-taxes-doesnt-fund-health-care-1535097

Court upholds Wisconsin ballot extension
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-wisconsin-elections-courts-39646260cd6574be6a4d671301c0d7a4

Trump, minutes after offering Amy Coney Barrett the Supreme Court nomination, and she accepted, told reporters before his departure for Ohio that he had NOT made up his mind yet. "Five women are being looked at," he said. "Five. And we'll make a decision probably Saturday."
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1311093214364004352

It's bad enough that our presidential debates are compared to boxing, where it's less about substantive debate and more about landing punches, but to see that we've reached a new low, where we're now talking about drug testing for performance-enhancing Adderall, that's idiocracy.

Doing drugs (Yerba mate, raw vegan strawberry advocado chocolate mousse pie slice) before the debate in solidarity with the president and his opponent........

Of 9 million voters mail ballots requested so far in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa:
-52% Dem
-28% Repub
-20% unaffiliated
https://twitter.com/mateagold/status/1311091114858946561

Bankrupt piece of shit Ivanka Trump wears a $3,210 blazer to tonight's debate.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjHx6SCX0BA1W0j?format=jpg&name=large

Treasury announces it will give 7 triple-digit million dollar airlines that are not bankrupt and don't need money regardless of their screams billions of welfare dollars they will never pay back

Still befuddled that people are watching various predebate prorgrammes when there is playoff baseball on

After more than 120 days of racial justice marches in St. Petersburg, right-wing republican counter-protesters showed up Saturday waving American flags. One had a gun and aimed it at protestors.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2020/09/27/counter-protesters-confront-st-pete-demonstrators-on-busy-saturday-night/

Shane Bieber having his first bad start of this truncated MLB season
https://www.espn.com/mlb/playbyplay?gameId=401246333

Biden should start tonight's debate by asking Trump to recite the L'rd's Prayer.

Chris Wallace, 72, will be the youngest man on stage tonight.

Shane Bieber started 12 games this season and didn't allow more than three runs in any of them. He's gotten 10 outs tonight and the Yankees already have scored four in Game 1 of their wild card series against Cleveland.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1311098580975915011

Manuel Margot 2-run homer puts Rays up 3-0 over Blue Jays
https://streamable.com/1cbl4c

They wanted names like Timberlake and Lady Gaga. They got Quaid — who's already quit. Inside the sputtering ad blitz to "defeat despair" about coronavirus, with celebrities ditching the Trump-backed campaign as scrutiny grows.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/29/hhs-ad-blitz-sputters-as-celebrities-back-away-423274

YEP: Only 6% of likely voters are watching tonight's debate because they're still deciding how to vote. Most are rooting for their candidate or watching for the entertainment factor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/cbsnews-eye-on-trends/

ESPN just deadass mixed up Blake Snell with some middling Pirates pitcher from the 2000s. Jesus Christ guys.

ARod is a fucking moron, unsurprising since he is also a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist shitstain

"Socialized" is a vague term, but the Biden-Sanders unity task force does not propose Sanders-style medicine. You can read it here:
https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf

So many presidential debates have been rehearsed talking points against rehearsed talking points. This is not that debate.

We are 10 minutes into this debate and Donald Trump far beyond unhinged

Shane Bieber's postseason debut: 4.2IP, 9H, 7ER, 2BB, 7K

"I can let him speak, I'm the best at letting other people speak. Nobody shuts up and lets other people speak like I do. Many people, many people are saying that they've never seen someone shut up and let someone else speak like I can. It's beautiful how I can hold my tongue for others to speak. Maybe people, it's so beautiful."

This is such a shitshow. Trump is an ass but he's going a very good job at going at Biden, I gotta hand him that.

"It was Jina's fault. Millions would be dead if not for me." What the fuck

We are now in the "Chaina" section

"You should get out of your bunker and off your golf course."

That supreme court segment was such a disaster

Biden, WTF, not even bringing up the fact that Trump called it a hoax

CNN's Jake Tapper declares the debate 'a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck'
https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/940611/cnns-jake-tapper-declares-debate-hot-mess-inside-dumpster-fire-inside-train-wreck

Trump heckled, bullied and lied through the debate. We knew he would. Trump's thing has always been to trample all over rules and laws and regulations and order and agreements and decorum. He's thing has always been to attack and destabilize and bully. It won't help him beat Biden. Trump is polling behind in all the swing states, fighting on TV won't turn things around or win over the sliver of undecided voters left. In a bar-room brawl, who wins the fight? The guy swinging his fists or the guy clutching his drink? From the very first minute of the first presidential debate, Trump behaved as he has for the last four years: as unpresidential as possible. He heckled. He bullied. He blustered and he lied. Biden sounded unsettled by the first round of the Trump onslaught. He lost his train of thought as Trump never ceased to barkingly talk over him. Biden's most effective response was to laugh at the brawling around him. But something funny happened on the way to Trump's next swing of the fists: a pandemic. Covid-19 stopped the presidential yapping, briefly. Then Biden made a statement of the obvious, by questioning whether Trump was smart enough to handle the coronavirus19. "Did you use the word smart," Trump barked. "Don't ever use the word smart with me." So easily offended, yet so quick to offend. Soon it was Biden's turn to interrupt. "You're the worst president America's ever had," Biden heckled. As a debating tactic, Trump's choice of endless chatter succeeded in dominating the debate. As a pitch for the sliver of undecided voters left in America, it wasn't. It wasn't a debate. It was a shameless, dangerous tantrum.

Sheriff Mike Reese: In tonight's presidential debate the President said the "Portland Sheriff" supports him. As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him.
https://twitter.com/sheriffreese/status/1311125507757416449

"Because Biden has spoken publicly about trying to manage his stutter, I feel comfortable noting, as another person with a stutter: there is no greater nightmare than this. None. If he makes it to the end of this standing, he has steel in his bones."
https://twitter.com/nathanheller/status/1311123147589025792

Trump endorses the KKK and Aryans and neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and right-wing domestic terrorist groups and tells them to stand by for orders
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/518871-trump-refuses-to-denounce-white-supremacy-says-stand-back-and-stand-by-on

'Would You Shut Up, Man': Disastrous, Chaotic, Nearly Unwatchable Presidential Debate After First 20 Minutes "This is a sad state of affairs when thousands are dying from a pandemic, an economic crisis is destroying millions of lives and climate change is burning down the planet's ecosystem."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/29/would-you-shut-man-disastrous-chaotic-nearly-unwatchable-presidential-debate-after-0

'Did I dream Herman Cain's death?': Trump attacked for claiming campaign rallies don't spread coronavirus
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rallies-coronavirus-spread-presidential-debate-b712493.html

Joe Biden has 66% of Texas Latino vote
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Joe-Biden-has-66-of-Texas-Latino-vote-new-poll-15606555.php

Appeals court allows extension of Wisconsin's absentee ballot deadlines
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/29/appeals-court-allows-extension-wisconsin-absentee-ballot-deadlines/3581401001/

The Federal Government Promised Native American Students Computers and Internet. Many Are Still Waiting
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-federal-government-promised-native-american-students-computers-and-internet-many-are-still-waiting

Donna Shalala, again, failed to disclose stock sales in violation of federal law
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246072375.html

Republicans Planning Pre-Election ICE Raids Of Sanctuary Cities As Political Ploy. | The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz next month that would target arrests in U.S. cities and jurisdictions that have adopted "sanctuary" policies, according to three U.S. officials who described a plan with public messaging that echoes the Trump's law-and-order campaign rhetoric. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, known informally as the "sanctuary op," could begin in California as soon as later this week. It would then expand to cities including Denver and Philadelphia, according to two of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive government law enforcement plans. Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will travel to at least one of the jurisdictions where the operation will take place to boost Trump's claims that leaders in those cities have failed to protect residents from dangerous criminals, two officials said. Trump has inveighed against sanctuary jurisdictions throughout his presidency, and he has expanded those attacks to include Democratic mayors in cities convulsed by racial justice demonstrations and sporadic rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The immigration operation would sync with two themes of Trump's reelection campaign: his crackdown on immigration and his push to vilify cities led by Democrats, whom he blames for crime and violence. Two officials with knowledge of plans for the sanctuary op described it as more of a political messaging campaign than a major ICE operation, noting that the agency already concentrates on immigration violators with criminal records and routinely arrests them without much fanfare.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-ice-raids-sanctuary-cities/2020/09/29/99aa17f0-0274-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html

People who follow Trump's advice and hang around watching polling places will be prosecuted, Nevada's attorney general says
https://www.businessinsider.com/nevada-attorney-general-prosecute-people-watching-polls-trump-suggestion-2020-9

Jimmy Butler has been right about everything all along
https://theathletic.com/2102252/2020/09/30/harper-jimmy-butler-has-been-right-about-everything-all-along/

Judge begins contempt proceedings for Wilbur Ross for defying court order
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/518933-judge-begins-contempt-proceedings-for-wilbur-ross-over-allegedly

Missouri House candidate's adult children say he physically and sexually abused them
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article246067965.html#storylink=sectionheadlines

Appeals Court Says ICE Detainees Should Be Able To See A Judge In 48 Hours, Just Like Criminal Suspects. The Fourth Amendment says law enforcement needs probable cause to effect an arrest. Further probable cause is needed -- as determined by a neutral judge -- to continue holding this person. This isn't even controversial. It has been established law for years. And yet, when ICE goes hunting for people it wants to deport, the Fourth Amendment just kind of vanishes. This happens even when ICE is wrong, and the person officers want to eject from the country is actually a US citizen. It seems awful to have to describe this recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as "upending" the Fourth Amendment status quo. It really isn't. It simply affirms what's far too often been ignored by ICE and other border security agencies.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200926/17263245388/appeals-court-says-ice-detainees-should-be-able-to-see-judge-48-hours-just-like-criminal-suspects.shtml
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7215959/20-55175.pdf

Virginia House Approves Budget Focused on Police Reforms: The package includes legislation to make it easier to decertify officers who commit misconduct
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-house-approves-budget-focused-on-police-reforms/2431088/

Hillary Clinton warned us. Four years ago, as she was bidding for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, she delivered the strongest speech of her campaign, on the subject of the United States Supreme Court. The address she presented was not a reflexive response to the news of the day. It was not a set of talking points repackaged to fill a passing news cycle. It was a major policy address—comprehensive in scope and character, ambitious in its goals, yet nuanced in its recognition of the challenges facing her party and her country. I was in the room when Clinton delivered her remarks and, as someone who was often critical of the former secretary of state, I wrote that "Clinton's speech on the importance of filling Supreme Court vacancies, and on the values and ideals that should guide judicial nominations, was a deep and detailed discussion of a fundamental responsibility of presidents." Yet I also noted that the speech was largely neglected, observing, "In this absurd campaign season, when media outlets devote hours of time to arguments about which Republican candidate insulted which wife, about violent and irresponsible campaign aides, about whatever soap-opera scenario comes to mind, thoughtful discussions of issues get little attention. And deep and detailed discussions of issues get even less coverage." Indeed, to the extent that the speech was covered at all, it was in reference to what the Democratic contender had to say about the race for the Republican nomination, especially Clinton's observation, "What the Republicans have sown with their extremist tactics, they are now reaping with Donald Trump's candidacy." That neglect of the substance of Clinton's comments on the courts was unsettling at the time, and it remains unsettling, because of what it says about the challenge of making judicial selection a campaign issue. We face that challenge again, in the midst of another campaign and an even more pitched battle over the court's future. President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the high court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has put this country at a critical juncture where a Republican president and his Senate allies are rushing to reconfigure the Supreme Court before the voters deprive them of the power to do so. Yet, much of the media is already on to the next story: Trump's tax troubles, Trump's outrageous tweeting, Trump's latest outburst. We did not pause, as Clinton asked us to do in 2016, to consider the crisis that was emerging with regard to the courts. And I fear that we will not pause sufficiently this fall. It was with this in mind that I revisited Clinton's speech, which remains as salient today as it was when she delivered it on March 28, 2016. Clinton spoke that day as a Yale Law School graduate, the author of scholarly articles on children and the law, a former law school instructor, and a former board chair of the Legal Services Corporation, with a long history of engagement with legal issues and the judicial-nomination process. She recognized that "the Court shapes virtually every aspect of life in the United States—from whether you can marry the person you love, to whether you can get healthcare, to whether your classmates can carry guns around this campus." And that "If we're serious about fighting for progressive causes, we need to focus on the Court: who sits on it, how we choose them, and how much we let politics—partisan politics—dominate that process." What stood out was the way in which Clinton put the 2016 debate over judicial nominations into historical, political, and legal context. She delivered a compelling response to the question of how and when to fill the Supreme Court vacancy that had been created with the February 13, 2016, death—before either party had nominated its presidential candidates and long before the fall campaign—of Justice Antonin Scalia. But she also observed, correctly, that "this battle is bigger than just one empty seat on the Court." "By Election Day, two justices will be more than 80 years old—past the Court's average retirement age. The next president could end up nominating multiple justices," she explained, after presciently referencing Justices Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy. "That means whoever America elects this fall will help determine the future of the Court for decades to come." Clinton then—in a move 2020 Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would do well to emulate—worked her way through the Court's 2016 docket: • "The Court is reviewing how public-sector unions collect the fees they use to do their work. The economic security of millions of teachers, social workers, and first responders is at stake. This is something the people of Wisconsin know all too well, because your governor has repeatedly attacked and bullied public-sector unions, and working families have paid the price. I think that's wrong, and it should stop." • "The Court is reviewing a Texas law imposing unnecessary, expensive requirements on doctors who perform abortions. If that law is allowed to stand, there will only be 10 or so health centers left where women can get safe, legal abortions in the whole state of Texas, a state with about 5.4 million women of reproductive age. So it will effectively end the legal right to choose for millions of women." • "The Court is also reviewing whether Texas should have to exclude non-voters when drawing its electoral map. That would leave out, among others, legal residents, people with felony convictions, and children. The fair representation of everyone in our society—including 75 million children—hangs in the balance." • "And on top of all that, the Court is reviewing affirmative action and President Obama's executive actions on immigration, which called for halting the deportation of DREAMers and undocumented parents of citizens and legal residents. It's also put a hold on the president's clean-power plan. Either America can limit how much carbon pollution we produce, or we can't. And if we can't, then our ability to work with other nations to meet the threat of climate change under the Paris agreement is greatly diminished." "In short," said Clinton, "in a single term, the Supreme Court could demolish pillars of the progressive movement. And as someone who has worked on every single one of these issues for decades, I see this as a make-or-break moment. If you care about the fairness of elections, the future of unions, racial disparities in universities, the rights of women, or the future of our planet, you should care about who wins the presidency and appoints the next Supreme Court justices." Finally, Clinton took on the Court's biggest failure—addressing an issue that her rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, had made central to his campaign. Describing "the dangerous turn the Court has taken in recent years toward protecting the rights of corporations over those of people," she decried the 2010 Citizens United ruling that knocked down barriers to corporate influence on elections. "If the Court doesn't overturn Citizens United, I will fight for a constitutional amendment to limit the influence of money in elections," she said. "It is dangerous to our country and poisonous to our politics." But, to her credit, Clinton did not stop with Citizens United. "This Court has voted on the side of corporations—against the interests of workers, unions, consumers and the general public—in case after case," said Clinton, who explained that the Court has "made it harder for consumers to band together to sue a corporation, even if they are collectively suffering from corporate behavior. So 2 million Comcast subscribers in Philadelphia were told they each had to hire a lawyer if they wanted to sue for fairer prices. One-and-a-half million women working at Walmart each had to hire a lawyer if they wanted to sue for sex discrimination. That's a burden that the vast majority of people cannot afford." Clinton closed by putting the arguments that Democrats always make about the Supreme Court into political perspective—and into language that should have resonated far beyond legal circles. "The Court used to—in the 20th century anyway—protect the little guy against the rich and powerful. More and more, it's doing the opposite—protecting the rich and powerful against the little guy," said the former secretary of state. "If I'm fortunate enough to be president, I will appoint justices who will make sure the scales of justice are not tipped away from individuals toward corporations and special interests; who will protect the constitutional principles of liberty and equality for all, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or political viewpoint; who will protect a woman's right to choose, rather than billionaires' right to buy elections; and who will see the Constitution as a blueprint for progress, not a barrier to it." What Hillary Clinton said in 2016 was right. It's even more right now. Democrats should make a deep and determined discussion of the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the future of the rule of law central to the 2020 campaign—so central that it cannot be neglected by the media or by the voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcPtKZo7yE

Trevor Bauer pulls the McGregor strut after striking out Dansby Swanson
https://streamable.com/98tj1r

Dinelson Lamet and Mike Clevinger are not on the Padres' 28-man roster for the first series. They are listed on the 12-man taxi squad, which includes MacKenzie Gore and Ryan Weathers.
https://twitter.com/dennistlin/status/1311342871816019968

Los Angeles County authorities say a man has been arrested in the ambush shooting of 2 deputies.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1311354169723412480

#FinCENFiles | Los hallazgos derivados del SAR de Standard Chartered evidencian las profundas fallas que existen en México en materia de combate al lavado de dinero, y que reportó el Grupo de Acción Financiera (GAFI) en un amplio informe en enero de 2018.
https://twitter.com/proceso/status/1311127382493933572


Sen. Kennedy to Comey: "How many copies of your book have you sold?" Comey: "I don't know _ a lot. I have another book coming out and I hope that sells a lot too"
https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1311361644484755456

Judge Walton is ordering additional material from the Mueller report to be unredacted and released by November 2nd in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews and @EPICprivacy's #FOIA lawsuit
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1311361335393808384

Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, said Trump 'misspoke' answering white supremacy question
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/tim-scott-says-trump-misspoke-answering-white-supremacy-question/2020/09/30/ef351335-ae78-4489-91af-7c7694ec0297_video.html

ESPN should be ashamed. Put some respect on Fried's name. I'm saying that as a Bauer fan.

Yep but fuck the Cheatstros regardless: Jose Altuve's error forced Jose Urquidy to throw eight extra pitches in the first. A 26-pitch frame
https://twitter.com/chandler_rome/status/1311357749025026052

Trump is scared sh**less: He can't handle the truth, so he wouldn't let Biden talk

Forget the euphemistic language being used by much of the mainstream press to describe Tuesday night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. That wasn't a "contentious debate," nor were the candidates "bickering." Biden showed up to do normal politician things, only to find himself trapped on stage with Trump, a shit-flinging monster whose only purpose was to prevent anything resembling truth from slipping through and touching the ears of the public.Trump was trying to silence Biden the entire debate to prevent the truth from being spoken. For an hour and a half, the same thing kept happening over and over. (And over, and over.) Biden would try to talk, about literally anything - Trump's failures, his own policy ideas, the state of the nation, hell, possibly the weather - and Trump would immediately interrupt the second he heard a truth about to be stated, ranting over Biden and silencing any factual information or expression of decency under a blanket of lies and vitriol. Trump and his supporters no doubt imagine that his performance was a triumphant display of animalistic dominance. But like all bullies, their posturing is a thin disguise for the cowardice underneath. What was really on stage was a man so incredibly terrified of being held to account, even a little, and so fearful of the facts that he lashed out like a terrorist at even the barest hint that his opponent might say things that are true. Trump did not want the world to hear Biden pointing out Trump's failures and lies and corruption. Trump lied about everything discussed except one thing: Trump was entirely sincere about his unwillingness to condemn white supremacists and right-wing militias and neo-nazis and aryans and kkkers etc. We can go ahead and trust Trump was telling the truth when he asked such groups to "stand by," building on his already extensive history of encouraging armed far-right militants to use violence and intimidation to help him steal the election. (These groups heard Trump loud and clear, and are celebrating Trump's support for their violent desires: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/30/trump-debate-rightwing-celebration/). It is customary for post-debate takes to focus on the question of who "won" the debate. In this case, that's a little like trying to determine who "won" a football game where one team showed up to play and other team set fire to the field, tore off their jerseys, and ritually sacrificed animals while howling at the moon. To be certain, Biden has a real talent for not suffering fools gladly, when he chooses to use it. He famously deployed this skill in the 2012 vice presidential debate against Paul Ryan (https://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/joe_biden_gets_the_job_done/), deliciously wiping that smug expression off Ryan's face repeatedly throughout the night. After a shaky start, Biden dug in and found that part of his personality again Tuesday, smiling condescendingly at the raving Trump and repeatedly calling out Trump's bullying act for what it was (stopping people from pointing out he's a failed president, a liar, corrupt, etc). "Will you shut up, man? This is so unpresidential," he zipped.  (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1311165123093037056). "Maybe you can inject some bleach into your arm," he quipped. (https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1311116460421513217) "It's hard to get any word in with this clown, excuse me, this person," he zapped. (https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1311121663333937153). The zingers were scripted and rehearsed, of course - the T-shirts went on sale immediately (https://store.joebiden.com/will-you-shut-up-man-black-t-shirt/) - but that didn't diminish their impact, since anyone with a shred of remaining decency left fiercely agreed with the sentiments. Still, contempt usually works its magic by triggering shame in its target. That's how it worked on Ryan in 2012, leaving him sputtering in the face of Biden's ridicule. Trump, however, is shameless. There was little Biden could do to staunch the flow of lies and nonsense.  It was overwhelming, and frankly triggering for anyone who has residual trauma from being abused or bullied. I'm usually pretty calm watching these live political events, pouring my thoughts into twitter or this blog. But I found myself losing control, yelling, "SHUT UP" in response to Trump's grating voice, a mixture of fingernails on the chalkboard and cats fighting, as he poured out another bucket of lies. Understandably, a lot of Democratic viewers saw Trump's display last night and freaked out. And yes, it is legitimately scary, and emotionally overwhelming, to have a man who is legally the president of the United States acting like an imperious bully who shouts down criticism and encourages armed men to use violence to suppress dissent. (And here I thought the right was against "cancel culture"!) Again, if you've ever been the victim of abuse or a hate crime, it's hard to watch Trump act out like that without feeling a powerful, involuntary reaction. What's critical to understand here, however, is that none of this is the behavior of a man who thinks he's winning. Trump is lashing out because he knows he's a failure and a loser, and he's trying to hold that truth at arm's length with a torrent of lies and violent threats. He's resorting to drastic measures because he's lost control of the situation. He knows Americans want to throw him out - leaving him to face possible criminal charges and bankruptcy (https://www.vox.com/21459231/trump-tax-returns-evasion-fraud) - and he's panicking. He's threatening people and making false fraud allegations because he wants people to give up on voting, as he knows that's how they can drive him out. Trump is a coward who uses bullying and threats to conceal his fear. He can be defeated, if people see him for what he is.

Those riled by Trump tax report use Wesley Snipes as example of IRS bias — Social media users say Snipes, other Black celebrities served time, but Trump has not faced consequences tax evasion
https://www.ajc.com/news/those-riled-by-trump-tax-report-use-wesley-snipes-as-an-example-of-irs-bias/A2QK7D7USFEZVCN33XQUWSQNHE/

Undecided voters praise Biden's debate performance while labeling Trump "unhinged" and a "crackhead". Biden debating Trump was "like trying to win an argument with a crackhead," Ruthie from Pennsylvania says
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/30/undecided-voters-praise-bidens-debate-performance-while-labeling-trump-unhinged-and-a-crackhead/

Max Fried Final Line: 7 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO, 0.00 ERA, 78 pitches

Huge blow for the Milwaukee Brewers: Rookie right-hander Devin Williams, the best reliever in baseball this year, has been left off the roster for their wild card series against the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers, sources tell ESPN. He's dealing with an arm issue, sources said.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1311364339300007936

5,000 pets found dead in boxes at Chinese shipping depot. It's disgusting and horrible animal abuse. We need to stop buying Chinese goods to force them to change their abusive and often unsafe behavior.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dead-pets-cats-puppies-guinea-pigs-found-dead-in-boxes-at-china-shipping-depot-henan/

40% of the world's plant species are threatened with extinction
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/30/world/kew-gardens-plants-report-scli-intl-gbr-scn/index.html

Republicans Illegally And Constitutionally Blocked C.D.C. Order to Keep Cruise Ships Docked. The C.D.C. director wanted a "no sail" order extended until February. The White House has blocked a new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep cruise ships docked until mid-February, a step that would have displeased the politically powerful tourism industry in the crucial swing state of Florida. The current "no sail" policy is set to expire on Wednesday. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., had recommended the extension, worried that cruise ships could become viral hot spots, as they did at the beginning of the pandemic. But at a meeting of the coronavirus task force on Tuesday, Dr. Redfield's plan was overruled, according to a senior federal health official who was not authorized to comment and so spoke on condition of anonymity. The administration will instead allow the ships to sail after Oct. 31, the date the industry had already agreed to in its own, voluntary plan. The rejection of the C.D.C.'s plan was first reported by Axios.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/health/covid-cruise-ships.html
https://www.axios.com/scoop-white-house-overruled-cdc-cruise-ships-florida-91442136-1b8e-442e-a2a1-0b24e9a39fb6.html

Six whistleblowers allege misconduct by government media boss | In a 32-page complaint shared with Congress, former employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media say its new CEO abused his authority
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/30/whistleblowers-allege-misconduct-agency-for-global-media-423758

Trevor Bauer dominates in his Game 1 start: 7.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 0 BB, 12 SO (a Reds postseason record) on 103 pitches

Trevor Bauer is the first pitcher in postseason baseball history to go at least 7.2 shutout innings with no walks and at least 12 strikeouts.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1311374894907691013

Sunday's game between the Steelers and Titans is being postponed per multiple sources. They are considering all options to reschedule, Monday night as one of them. This will all be based on test results.
https://twitter.com/diannaESPN/status/1311321551665586176

NFL sent another strongly-worded memo to team executives, GMs and HCs today, urging all to be in compliance with game-day protocols (wearing masks). "We will address lack of compliance with accountability measures that may include...suspensions and/or forfeiture of draft picks."
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1311318680735756290

Washington Football Team pass-rusher Chase Young suffered a moderate groin strain on Sunday and is expected to be out vs. the #Ravens, sources say. Young, the No. 2 pick who already has 2.5 sacks, is considered week-to-week.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1311307770738675712

JuJu Smith-Schuster wants to reunite with Sam Darnold on the Steelers if Jets move in another direction
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/juju-smith-schuster-wants-to-reunite-with-sam-darnold-on-the-steelers-if-jets-move-in-another-direction/

Our union has to keep advocating for player health and safety in all areas. The next frontier on this: our game and practice fields. The data proves turf is worse than grass and we need to do better: nflpa.com/posts/only-nat…
https://twitter.com/jctretter/status/1311309423239991299

Bengals want Joe Burrow to be smarter about taking hits. Bengals blame Joe Burrow for getting hit during games and refuse to adapt their offensive line to protect their quarterback. I'd imagine Joe Burrow wants the Bengals to be smarter about the 5 large men that are supposed to help keep him from taking hits
https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-want-joe-burrow-to-be-smarter-about-taking-hits

#Colts released QB Chad Kelly from their practice squad.
http://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1311330999230509056

The Texans sent Earl Thomas home prior to his scheduled workout today and will not be signing him. The move is not COVID19 related
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1311037763341484033

Successful team drops you  (Earl Thomas) in the offseason mid-contract, you sit at home through the first three weeks of the season and then the only team that's brought you in changes their mind? Yeah, there's definitely a lot more going on with this guy than we're hearing about.

Marc Gasol is signing with FCB in Barcelona
https://twitter.com/sergi_carmona/status/1311357168751386624

Anthony Davis: "You see the work and preparation LeBron puts in every day, and you understand why this is his 10th NBA Finals appearance. He never stops. I plan to follow this motherf---er to hopefully nine more Finals."
https://sports.yahoo.com/you-know-i-wanted-this-anthony-davis-ready-to-embrace-nba-finals-moment-155129984.html

Trump says Biden "can't say the words" law and order, saying "you saw" this at the debate......the debate at which Biden said, "Yes, I'm in favor of it. Everybody's in favor of law and order" and continued, "Law and order with justice, where people get treated fairly."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1311381791010414592

That debate was the worst thing I've ever seen & I was in The Star Wars Holiday Special.
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1311198722001235968

Why won't Trump unequivocally denounce white supremacists? They're his supporters.

Trump cleans up what he said about the Proud Boys in debate last night. Says he doesn't know who they are even though he EXPLICITALLY SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT THEIR NAME AND TOLD THEM TO STAND BY
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1311381520804982791/photo/1

Trump: "I don't know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you'll have to give me a definition. 'Cause I really don't know who they are. I can only say they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work. Law enforcement will do the work."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1311381170400169985

Essentially the president is saying, "Here's what I want from these people that I correctly identified as a white supremacist group and, by the way, I have no idea who I am talking about."
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1311381119569453062?s=20

- Trump didn't know who they were, allowing his ignorance to encourage a far-right aryan kkk neo-nazi group to "stand back and stand by" for his orders
- Trump knew who they were and misspoke
- Trump knew who they were but as Rick Santorum said didn't want to upset them because they are his supporters

Donald Trump's absurd claim that he knows nothing about former KKK leader David Duke: "I don't know anything about David Duke. okay? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/02/donald-trump/trumps-absurd-claim-he-knows-nothing-about-former-/

"I hear he doesn't want to go forward" with the next two debates, Trump says of Biden, whose campaign says he is absolutely still committed to the next two debates.

One thing not joining the mlb postseason is the extra-inning rule instituted this season as a supposed time-saver. Both teams started the 10th inning with a runner on second base. The rule received poor reviews from players and coaches among the Nationals. It will be gone for the postseason, and, hopefully, for good. This is something I remembered while watching the Reds/Braves game, 10th inning.

Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more. Its owners, including Leonard Green & Partners and Prospect's CEO, have cashed out. | Leonard Green extracted $400 million in dividends and fees for itself and investors in its fund — not from profits, but by loading up the company with debt. Prospect CEO Sam Lee, who owns about 20% of the chain, made $128 million while expanding the company from five hospitals in California to 17 across the country. A second executive with an ownership stake took home $94 million. The deal hasn't worked out quite as well for Prospect's patients, many of whom have low incomes. (The company says it receives 80% of its revenues from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.) At the company's flagship Los Angeles hospital, persistent elevator breakdowns sometimes require emergency room nurses to wheel patients on gurneys across a public street as a security guard attempts to halt traffic. Paramedics for Prospect's hospital near Philadelphia told ProPublica that they've repeatedly gone to fuel up their ambulances only to come away empty at the pump: Their hospital-supplied gas cards were rejected because Prospect hadn't paid its bill. A similar penury afflicts medical supplies. "Say we need 4x4 sponges, dressing for a patient, IV fluids," said Leslie Heygood, a veteran registered nurse at one of Prospect's Pennsylvania hospitals, "we might not have it on the shelf because it's on 'credit hold' because they haven't paid their creditors."
https://www.propublica.org/article/investors-extracted-400-million-from-a-hospital-chain-that-sometimes-couldnt-pay-for-medical-supplies-or-gas-for-ambulances

Nearly 100,000 NYC voters receive ballot envelopes meant for someone else
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nearly-100000-nyc-voters-get-ballot-envelopes-meant-for-someone-else

Eddie Rosario ejected after arguing strike zone
https://streamable.com/b5z82y

Lebron can't speak up against China, because China has more power than you possibly imagine. If he spoke up, the NBA loses Billions in revenue - but not just that, the US could be pulled into a larger media war. Disne y(Parent Company) could lose further Billions in profits, and the same goes for all US networks broadcasting in China. It would be devastating. I'm not a billionaire ass-kisser. I couldn't care less about their profits. But I do think the criticism against Lebron is broadly unfair. China is a true shithole. They are an authoritarian communist dictatorship. Only government action can stop their human rights and animal rights and environmental rights abuses - athletes literally have 0 power, other than to shed light on the issues to convice people to vote for Democrats. Why the hell can't Lebron talk about black lives without being bombarded with criticism about China? He can't do anything about it without destroying the NBA, literally. Why blame Disney and refuse to blame Trump who has done jack-shit about China? TLDR - Lebron has no real power here, he is a small domino in the media empire. Blame Trump and Republicans and CHINA and the Chinese people in China AND the US (who remain silent and generally are Republicans and support China) figures for doing nothing about the rights abuses, because they actually have the power to force change. If you blame Lebron and refuse to blame Trump as well, you are ignorant.

It's incredible that the Dodgers lost Kenta Maeda, Rich Hill, Hyun-Jin Ryu yet finished the season as the best team

Byron Buxton pulls a postseason TOOTBLAN to end the 8th inning
https://streamable.com/dz6pli

Corey Dickerson 3-run homer
https://streamable.com/7thwh0

Just Cancel the Last Two Debates. America Has Suffered Enough
https://time.com/5894500/presidential-debate-review/

Reds/Braves game = Superb exhaustive pitching duel between all the pitchers in the game. These types of mlb games where everyone goes delirious together

You just know manfred is gonna implement the runner on 2nd rule in the playoffs after watching this

Khris Davis D E M O L I S H E S a shot to left and the A's lead 5-0
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/02837dfa-39e0-4292-ab49-a1e08881a565.mp4

The Reds and Braves have combined for more strikeouts in this game (36 and counting) than there were in the entire 1976 World Series, when the Reds swept the Yankees (32).
https://twitter.com/TylerKepner/status/1311402767739740161

Jesus Aguilar 2-run homer
https://streamable.com/pwou3l

Hey ESPN, can we maybe not interview a fielder playing defense live during an inning in an elimination game?

All of this happening simultaneously:
- Reds and Braves in a scoreless tie in 13th
- Astros three outs from advancing and sending Twins to 18th straight playoff loss
- Corey Dickerson hit a three-run HR off Kyle Hendricks to put Miami up 3-1 over Cubs.
- A's up 5-0 on White SoxNews

Minnesota Twins first team eliminated, eliminated by Cheatstros, who played terrible all season long. Thank Greinke, Framber, and all the batters

Twins should have started Berrios Game 1 and Rich Hill Game 2.

Hunter Renfroe breaks open the game with a GRAND SLAM against Ryu in the 2nd
https://v.redd.it/o6vdvsq8mcq51

Yadier Molina has played in 98 post-season games. The Padres have played 34 post-season games as a franchise.

Today, the Cincinnati Reds scored zero runs in 13 innings, despite having a better batting average than usual. The team had 11 hits and 39 outs, meaning they hit .220 collectively. In the regular season, they hit .212.

Hyun-Jin Ryu's final line vs. Rays in Game 2: 1.2 IP, 8 H, 7 R/3 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO

4 runs were unearned because of a Bichette error that ended up scoring on Renfroe's grand slam, but the Rays absolutely shelled the Toronto ace

Don't be mad with Ryu (deserved Cy Young last year....), he's been solid for Toronto all year. Pitchers have bad nights, it is a real thing for top pitchers who rarely have bad games to have their worst games during the playoffs and world series. Also his defense (infielders) made mistakes.

The 2020 Houston Astros are the first ever MLB team with a regular season losing record to win both a Postseason game and series.

The Houston Astros, meanwhile, just shut down the No. 3 seed in the American League and are the first team to advance to the division series. Between Framber Valdez and Cristian Javier, they were gifted with some incredible old-school relief performances. They'll play next at Dodger Stadium.

This Reds-Braves game is precisely the type of game that the MLB is trying to eliminate and that is an utter travesty. Scoreless game for 13 innings. No cheap runs allowed by a cold pitcher allowing a slow base hit through the hole between first and second. Multiple times loading the bases up fairly without scoring. This is baseball at its best. Fuck off Manfred.

The Minnesota Twins have lost 18 straight postseason games. That is the longest postseason losing streak in American Big 4 sports history

LaMelo Ball has withdrawn from the remainder of the NBA combine. Ball participated in a media session and the standard league interview this week, but did not interview directly with teams.

SLAM DIEGO

SLAMPA BAY

Hunter Renfroe and his .157 batting average LOL, Padres hitting slams for other teams now, just channeling his inner Padre

Furthermore, the Clippers felt that the team's on-court metrics — i.e. its elite offense, defense and net rating — belied the eye test. They were really good, with the potential to be great on a given night. But they weren't consistent.    There was a distinct lack of joy and on-court chemistry, made worse by the team's rash of injuries throughout the season and the layoff from the pandemic.    The organization ultimately determined that the locker room, as currently constructed, lacked the requisite leadership and mettle to be a true championship team. Players weren't necessarily put in the best position to unlock a better version of themselves, either, with the team not always making appropriate or timely adjustments, league sources said.    For as disastrous as the Nuggets series was, the Clippers viewed their first-round Mavericks series — being pushed to six games with Kristaps Porzingis out for half the series and Luka Doncic on one good ankle for half of the series — as nearly as embarrassing of an outcome.    It didn't all fall on Rivers or his coaching staff. There was plenty of fault to go around, from ownership, to the front office, to the players, to the rest of the staff. But a significant slice of the blame could be attributed to Rivers' decision-making, particularly after another disappointing postseason outcome.
https://theathletic.com/2100899/2020/09/29/an-inside-look-at-the-clippers-and-doc-rivers-decision-to-part-ways-after-another-collapse/

U.S. Statue Removals Inspire Indigenous People In Latin America To Topple Monuments
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/917046641/u-s-statue-removals-inspire-indigenous-people-in-latin-america-to-topple-monumen

Dusty Baker on the #Astros' sweep: "These guys aren't afraid of the big stage. They grew up on the big stage.''
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1311411221988438016

Feels weird to call it a sweep in a Best of 3 Series.....

LeBron James recruits 10,000 poll volunteers to assist in Black districts
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/519018-lebron-james-recruits-10000-volunteers-to-help-at-polls-in

Paul Goldschmidt goes deep early as the Cardinals tag Chris Paddack for 4 runs in the first inning
https://v.redd.it/9sllq8dgqcq51

Padres are only down by a grandslam, I don't see a problem here.....

We've spent decades working assiduously to remake the court, and spent millions of dollars to bring us to this point and are ecstatic about this nominee all because...she won't really be that important or change anything much.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/29/amy-coney-barrett-wouldnt-transform-court-more-than-any-other-justice/

Yesterday, DNI Ratcliffe released discredited Russian propaganda about Hillary Clinton on the day of the first debate. Today, we learn that he did so over the objections of career intelligence officials. CIA, NSA, ODNI officials urged Ratcliffe not to release information fearing it "would give credence to unsubstantiated Kremlin-backed material."
Ratcliffe did it anyway. And Lindsey Graham lapped it up and promoted it today.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-officials-urged-trump-spy-chief-not-to-disclose-unverified-russian-claims-about-clinton-11601499238

Biden's campaign has booked $248m in airtime over the next 5 weeks. Trump's campaign: Just $130m. My look inside Biden's advantage in the coming air wars -
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/518969-biden-prepares-ad-onslaught-to-overwhelm-trump

Oh my g/d, Katie Porter.
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1311380433939189760

A real surprise that a candidate who thrives on attacking rules and regulations and laws and status quo and the establishment, who thrives on relentlessly trampling over everybody and evrything at all times, including HIS OWN BLOOD FAMILY  AND HIS OWN LIFETIME FRIENDS AND HIS OWN APPOINTEES AND MOST REPUBLICANS AND HIS OWN FUCKING VOTING BASE, who THRIVES ON HATRED AND BULLYING, would attack the entire debate process and the moderator and the other candidate...: "I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did," said Chris Wallace about moderating the debate last night. "I didn't realize — and there was no way you could, hindsight being 20/20 — that this was going to be the president's strategy."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/media/chris-wallace-debate-moderator.html

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https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-left-wants-no-part-of-liberal-israel/

Jonathan S. Tobin

The left wants no part of liberal Israel

AOC's snub of Rabin event means more than just hurt feelings at Peace Now. The star of "The Squad" is sending a message to pro-Israel Democrats: The party's over.

(September 29, 2020 / JNS) In the world of politics, celebrity and name recognition is priceless, so in that sense, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is among the richest members of Congress. In two years, the freshman went from being an unknown to being one of the most consequential members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

It's true that as a newcomer, her influence on Capitol Hill with respect to advancing or blocking legislation is minimal. But in an era when Beltway gridlock has made the passage of landmark bills rare, AOC (as she is commonly known) has a different kind of influence that in many respects is far more consequential. That is why pro-Israel Democrats who hoped to make common cause with her were dealt a devastating blow this past week.

By accepting and then rejecting an invitation to appear at a virtual event hosted by Americans for Peace Now that honored the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, AOC sent a loud message to Jews who hoped that the increasingly influential activist wing of their party could be persuaded to line up with the Israeli left. If, as many claim, Ocasio-Cortez represents the future of the Democratic Party, then that is a future in which it will be aligned with the BDS movement and opposed even to Israelis who cling to forlorn hopes for a two-state solution.

https://www.jns.org/ocasio-cortez-withdraws-from-event-to-commemorate-yitzhak-rabin/

AOC came into the House as just the most prominent member of "The Squad." The quartet of four young radicals who burst onto the scene in 2018 is composed of Ocasio-Cortez, and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). While they have all managed to seize far more attention than would normally be possible for House backbenchers, AOC has become a pop-culture icon with a national following.

Establishment Democrats may still try to dismiss her significance. But the results of the 2020 primaries illustrated that AOC is a political powerhouse whose endorsements proved decisive in key races. It was her intervention on behalf of aging incumbent Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who had co-sponsored a radical "Green New Deal" program with the congresswoman that galvanized his campaign and easily fended off a challenge from the seemingly more popular and better-funded Rep. Joseph Kennedy III. AOC also helped make the difference in ensuring the primary defeat of Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, as well as one of the most stalwart defenders of the state of Israel in the House.

With respect to Israel, liberal Democrats assumed that AOC was willing to stake out a different position than her buddies. Omar and Tlaib are the only members of Congress who support the anti-Semitic BDS movement. They had hoped to take AOC with them on a tour of "Palestine" that was canceled by the Israeli government's refusal to grant them entry. Yet Ocasio-Cortez had never explicitly endorsed BDS. But the kerfuffle over the Rabin commemoration makes it clear that her sympathies are very much in sync with that of the anti-Israel movement.

Americans for Peace Now once represented a growing demographic of Jews who sympathized with Israelis who backed the peace process with the Palestinians. In the last decade, it has been supplanted by J Street, as well as by groups like Jewish Voices for Peace and IfNotNow, which brazenly oppose Zionism. Nevertheless, for the first time in a very long time, Peace Now made news last week.

AOC initially accepted the group's invitation to help honor Rabin. However, once that became known, she received an avalanche of criticism from her allies on the intersectional left and immediately backed down. She later claimed that her hosts had misrepresented the nature of the event and withdrew from it.

https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=36360

To the party's activist base, anything associated with Israel—even a program dedicated to the memory of a man who was assassinated by a right-wing extremist because of his efforts to make peace—is beyond the pale.

BDS supporters smear Rabin, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for signing the Oslo Accords in 1993, as a war criminal because of his service during Israel's 1948 War of Independence and as Minister of Defense during the First Intifada, when he is supposed to have urged the troops under his command to "break the bones" of those Palestinians committing violence.

Arguments about Rabin's record are beside the point. Those who, like "The Squad" and their fellow travelers on the left, believe in intersectional canards about the Palestinian war on the Jewish state being morally equivalent to the struggle for civil rights in the United States see all Israelis as alike. If they think the one Jewish state on the planet has a right to exist or defend itself, in the eyes of the BDS movement, they are evil oppressors exercising "white privilege" over "indigenous people," even if they are persons of color who are indigenous to the land of Israel.

AOC is someone who, as we have repeatedly seen these last two years, doesn't blink an eye about defying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. That she thought it necessary to acquiesce to the demands of a Twitter mob—led in this instance by an anti-Zionist writer for the far-left Jewish Currents publication—speaks volumes not only about her ideology, but about the disciplined nature of the intersectional left when it comes to policing its adherents with respect to Israel. Her overt snub of liberal Jews sends a loud message that there is no place for them in the party base if they are not willing to renounce support for Israel's right to exist.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1309510065163038720

This is yet another wake-up call for Jewish Democrats who may think Biden's defeat of AOC ally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ensured that their party is going to remain solidly in the pro-Israel camp. AOC and her allies can no longer be dismissed as noisy non-entities. Unless and until they are explicitly repudiated by Biden, rather than appeased and coddled, they can be forgiven for thinking the future of the Democratic Party belongs to them.
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Trevor Bauer is right, his batters produced zero runs in 13 innings while the pitchers pitched their asses off: Trevor Bauer low-key threw his teammates under the bus in his postgame interview. He's obviously mad that he and others pitched great and the team didn't win. "You can't fault the pitching."
https://twitter.com/ByJasonFoster/status/1311418595440766976


Trump's rhetoric is often just one part of a larger problem: an administration that promotes hard-line right-wing policies that encourage white nationalist supporters. Stephen Miller has been the architect of the administration's Muslim-country travel ban, the defender of zero-tolerance family separation, the advocate of reducing refugee admissions, and more.
https://www.americanoversight.org/in-the-documents-stephen-millers-emails-with-top-ice-official

Olivia Troye: "I'm, quite frankly, grateful that Pres. Trump showed his true colors to the entire nation and put on display exactly what I've been talking about about what it's like to brief him. What you saw is literally what it was like inside the White House every day."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1311425590981918721?s=20

The NYPD is likely to face 100 lawsuits from protestors and observers who have put in paperwork that they planned to sue the city. https://nypost.com/2020/09/30/nypd-response-on-george-floyd-protest-violated-human-rights-report/
https://nypost.com/2020/09/30/nypd-response-on-george-floyd-protest-violated-human-rights-report/

If the Athletics advance, they will be playing the Astros, where Mike Fiers will be pitching against his former teammates for the first time since rightfully blowing the whistle on the Astros cheating scandal

Appeals court (three Trump appointees) upholds order to restore reporter's White House press pass. Journalist Brian Karem traded insults with Trump ally Sebastian Gorka after a Rose Garden event
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/brian-karem-white-house-press-pass-303395

Chris Paddack Final Line: IP:2.1 H:8 R:5 ER:6 SO:1 ERA: 19.29

It's hard to be an effective starter when you have 2 pitches and just 1 of them good

Police arrest far-right protester who pointed gun at Portland rally
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/30/police-arrest-far-right-protester-who-pointed-gun-at-portland-rally/

A day after a turbulent debate, Joe Biden embarked on an old-fashioned train tour to cities where Trump won over working-class white voters four years ago. Short article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/biden-ohio-pennsylvania-train.html

Touchscreen voting machines were essentially banned in Florida after a botched 2006 congressional race: Memory sticks used to program Philly's voting machines were stolen from elections warehouse https://inquirer.com/politics/election/philadelphia-election-trump-equipment-stolen-usb-laptop-20200930.html

Drudge Report readership way down amid his seeming turn against Trump per the NYT. It had 1.4 million unique visitors in August, down 42 percent from a year earlier, according to Comscore data provided by The Righting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/media/drudge-report-trump-coverage.html

Horrifying fact buried in this NYT story: US intelligence and homeland security officials fear that during last night's debate  Trump was intentionally sending Putin a message to ramp up attacks on our ballots in order to disrupt a Biden victory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-debate-election.html

McConnell Dismisses New Covid Relief Bill as 'Political Stunt'. Survey Shows 60% of US Families Struggling to Get By. "He's been blocking the original HEROES Act for 138 days. As always, his priorities are appalling."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/30/mcconnell-dismisses-new-covid-relief-bill-political-stunt-survey-shows-60-us

Democrats postpone House vote on COVID-19 stimulus bill to give more time for negotiations because Republicans refuse bill altogether
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/30/covid-19-stimulus-house-vote-bill-more-1-200-checks/3588650001/

The death toll in ICE custody is the highest it's been in 15 years
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/us/ice-deaths-detention-2020/index.html

Democrat MJ Hegar hauls in $13.5M in 3 months for Texas Senate race vs. GOP incumbent John Cornyn
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/09/30/democrat-mj-hegar-hauls-in-135m-in-3-months-for-texas-senate-race-vs-gop-incumbent-john-cornyn/

We treat these innocent creatures worse than criminals
https://i.redd.it/ng8sf37jbcq51.jpg

Federal Judge Calls Trump's Voter Fraud Claims a 'Fiction,' Denies Campaign's Attempt to Restrict Mail-In Voting
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/federal-judge-calls-trumps-voter-fraud-claims-a-fiction-denies-campaigns-attempt-to-restrict-mail-in-voting/

Marlins outfielder Starling Marte suffered a non-displaced fracture of his left pinkie after being hit by a pitch in the ninth inning, sources tell me and @JesseRogersESPN. There is optimism that Marte could continue playing through it. 
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1311439587043168257

Yankees-Indians Game delayed due to "incoming rain

Carlos Correa: "I know a lot of people are mad. I know a lot of people don't want to see us here. But what are they going to say now?" (me: you're cheaters and should be stripped of the World Series title, suspended, heavily fine, be stripped of all awards won that year, and set all player stats for that year to zero. because you cheated for years.)
https://twitter.com/chandler_rome/status/1311422522508873728

José Berríos makes a fantastic jump throw
https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2020/2020-09/30/fddb96d5-167ed844-37fb37d3-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4

Nelson Cruz plates Marwin Gonzalez on an RBI double
https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2020/2020-09/30/0466c9ce-2fdf10c6-1a9b1cd6-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4

This umps eyes are offset or something. The right side of his strike zone is enormous. Missing calls against all pitchers all game long.

I totally understand that players should have confidence in themselves. But Paddack continually talks himself up like he's one of the best in the game and he just isn't. Dude should maybe tone it down from "I'm going to go out there and dominate" (which he did say he would do today) to "I'm feeling good and looking forward to a good game" or some generic BS

This Cards/Padres game is retribution for having to watch the Reds leave eight men on base in extra innings and the Braves swing at any ball within three feet of the strike zone.

South Carolina's witness requirement for mail ballots remains blocked, after a federal appeals court refused to put a lower-court ruling on hold. Absentee voting has begun in the state, and the court said that reversing the order "would engender mass voter confusion."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1311448238638194689

If Republicans really wanted to nuke the lawsuit threatening to nuke the PPACA, they could pass a 1-sentence bill rendering it moot. Last time I checked, no one has proposed such a bill.

Layoff news, past 24 hours:
* Disney: 28,000 jobs cuts
* Shell: 9,000
* Dow: six percent of workforce
* Marathon Petroleum: began cutting jobs on Tuesday across the company
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-refinery-layoffs-marathon-galvestonba/top-u-s-oil-refiner-marathon-petroleum-begins-widespread-job-cuts-sources-idUSKBN26K3I4

Medicaid expansion could bring Texas $5.4 billion in federal dollars
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/medicaid-expansion-texas-money-healthcare-study-15608802.php

Freudian slip: Trump nods when Biden says "or he was watching the stocks" in regards to his response in February knowing how bad covid19 was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW1lY5jFNcQ

The Yankees-Indians game was delayed for 46 minutes due to rain, during which time no rain fell. In the bottom of the first inning, it has begun to pour.

Not everything is about a coronavirus vaccine. A medication could be lifeline that could give people confidence to return to normal life even once vaccines are developed.

Profar doesn't understand why he's out
https://streamable.com/fjod32

Beyond being extremely insensitive, it doesn't seem like a great strategy to mock someone who has worked to overcome his/her addiction when opioid addiction and alcoholism are such major problems for the vast major-majority of Americans and their families

Based on intel provided by the @FBI, last night we removed approximately 130 accounts that appeared to originate in Iran. They were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first 2020 US Presidential Debate.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1311462538056544258

Millionaire Coal Mine Owner Bob Murray, Who Fought Against Black Lung Regulations As A Coal Operator, Has Filed For Black Lung Benefits. | Robert E. Murray, the former CEO and president of the now-bankrupt Murray Energy, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for black lung benefits. For years, Murray and his company fought against federal mine safety regulations aimed at reducing the debilitating disease. | Like other coal operators, Murray's companies have disputed the claims made by miners who seek black lung benefits. The coal magnate, who for decades ran the largest privately owned underground coal mining company in the United States, has also been at the forefront of combatting federal regulations that attempt to reduce black lung, an incurable and ultimately fatal lung disease caused by exposure to coal and rock dust. In 2014, Murray Energy spearheaded a lawsuit against the Obama administration over a federal rule that strengthened control of coal dust in mines. The Obama-era standard reduced the acceptable amount of coal dust exposure for miners, increased the frequency of dust sampling, and required coal operators to take immediate action when dust levels are high. The reforms were the first in more than four decades to tighten exposure standards to coal dust and came at a time that evidence was mounting that Appalachia was seeing a deadly resurgence in the most severe form of black lung, after reaching historic lows in the 1990s. "It's ironic that Murray's company fought hard to block the 2014 resbirable coal dust rule we put in place to prevent the black lung disease," said Joe Main, who served as assistant secretary of the Mine Safety and Health Administration under President Barack Obama.
https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2020-09-30/bob-murray-who-fought-against-black-lung-regulations-as-a-coal-operator-has-filed-for-black-lung-benefits

If you are living with physical abuse or think someone you know might be, don't stay silent. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is always available on your phone or by chat. And they have quick exits if you need to get offline right away.
https://www.thehotline.org/

Once again we agree to change the rules to accommodate the charlatan, the criminal. From show us your taxes, to how you treat the press, to profiting from the presidency, to secret calls with foreign leaders to how we run a f*cking debate. Over and over we bend to the charlatan.
https://twitter.com/StephenMCarter4/status/1311463272198082560

Former FBI Director Comey defends FBI's decision to launch its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and the agency's general conduct — but says he would not have approved a controversial part if he had known newly released facts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/comey-defends-russia-investigation-gop-senators-remain-skeptical-n1241579

Naylor dives for home to make it a 4-0 lead early
https://streamable.com/aojycv

Police arrest Proud Boy member on assault and gun charges hours after Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/proud-boy-donald-trump-charged-assault-guns-white-supremacist-debate-biden-alan-swinney-b723887.html

American Airlines says it will begin furloughing 19,000 workers after Republicans refuse relief deal, dismissing it at "political ploy by Democrats"

Tyler Herro isn't afraid of big moments.
Big moments are afraid of Tyler Herro.
Criminal Lebron steps on a guy and acts like he got stepped on. Arrest him for assault already.
Herro missed that so bad he made it.
Tyler "Klay Thompson" Herro
H3rro
Tyler Herro is the anti-Danny Green, he actually makes his 3s
Watch out Lakers about to file a report asking for more free throws

Goran Dragic's status for the rest of the NBA Finals remains TBD, according to a league source, after he sustained a plantar tear in his left foot. A return in this series has not yet been ruled out
https://twitter.com/thesteinline/status/13115180273602969601

Bam Adebayo has been ruled out for the game with a shoulder strain. Miami is already without one of their stars in Goran Dragic, who left the game with a left foot injury after stepping on Rajon Rondo's foot incidentally in the second quarter.
https://twitter.com/jaredweissnba/status/1311506773027717120

Bam Adebayo Injures His Shoulder Driving into Dwight Howard. He was also wringing his wrist from a prior wrist injury/issue during the Celtics series.

Miami's Jimmy Butler is staying in Game 1 of Finals after left ankle sprain.

Duncan Robinson had 0 points in 27 minutes tonight

Tweet conveniently leaving out why people are mad. This isn't a "hate us because they ain't us" situation: Stay mad, we'll stay winning.
https://twitter.com/astros/status/1311449921820782593

You cheated in 2017 and stole a WS you didn't deserve. Last time I checked doing something in the present doesn't erase your misdeeds in the past. What, does you beating the Twins in 2 games mean Osuna isn't guilty of domestic abuse anymore either? Well actually the team's assistant general manager defened Osuna and mocked domestic violence activists so.....(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/houston-astros-fire-exec-who-taunted-reporters-about-domestic-violence-n1071566)

Brent Suter vs Dodgers: 1.2 IP 3 H 3 ER 5 BB 0 K

Kendrick Nunn finding his groove: makes 3, layup over LeBron, sets up Iggy for 3
https://streamable.com/2t45fv

Adam Silver says he expects they will be able to have fans in arenas at some point next season, possibly with a limited capacity, even without a vaccine depending on availability of rapid testing.
https://twitter.com/highkin/status/1311465789396983808

Kendrick Nunn scores 18 points off the bench in 20 minutes on 8/11 shooting.

Jimmy Butler finds Jae Crowder with a touch pass, who sinks the three to give Heat a 13 point lead halfway through first quarter
https://streamable.com/ll0epj

Every single one of Trump's debate claims about mail-in voting is a lie
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/fact-check-trump-first-debate-mail-voting-fraud/index.html

Chris Cuomo Reminds Ted Cruz That Donald Trump 'Said Your Wife Was Ugly' and 'Called You A Liar'
https://www.newsweek.com/chris-cuomo-reminds-ted-cruz-that-donald-trump-said-your-wife-was-ugly-called-you-liar-1535508

Brad Parscale unsurprisingly leaves Trump campaign
https://www.axios.com/brad-parscale-leave-trump-campaign-2afbfcc4-03d8-4f99-844f-34bf3bfe6a6f.html

California bans chokeholds, will independently review police shootings, under newly signed laws
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/09/30/newsom-to-sign-chokehold-ban-police-shooting-oversight-bill-1319013

Internal document shows Trump officials were told to make comments defending Kyle Rittenhouse
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/internal-document-shows-trump-officials-were-told-make-comments-sympathetic-n1241581

Sn election worker's decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not "intentional fraud," the state's top elections official said Wednesday. Workers in the elections office in Luzerne County are getting training on handling mailed-in military and overseas ballots, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said during an online news conference. "The investigation is still going on, but from the initial reports we've been given, this was a bad error," said Boockvar, a member of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration. "This was not intentional fraud. So training, training, training."
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-state-elections-pennsylvania-elections-dccd3f68f7d533c3e2a1c571d5affa7b

Donald Trump Personally To Blame For 38% Of The World's Covid-19 Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-misinformation.html

Weird Al Presents: 'America Is Doomed, the Musical'
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007370133/presidential-debate-weird-al.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaWwt1BZIwc

Historic California law establishes path to reparations for Black people, descendants of slaves
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/historic-california-law-establishes-path-reparations-black-people-descendants-slaves-n1241627

US Attorney says Portland police will remain federal deputies, against mayor's wishes
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/30/federal-government-refuses-to-rescind-local-law-enforcement-deputations/

Trump signs stopgap bill to prevent government shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/senate-stopgap-spending-bill-shutdown.html

The debate revealed the Trump's true nature better than any policy discussion ever could. As if you already did not know his true nature. The purpose of a debate is to reveal useful things about the candidates. We pretend that we learn by observing a careful exchange of policy positions, and sometimes that happens. But has there ever been a debate where one of the candidates revealed more about himself than this one? Wasn't it far more clarifying than most debates? And Wallace was, for that reason, pretty perfect.  He inserted himself enough to clarify that Trump was breaking the rules. That was hard to do; he defiantly, on the spot, did not engage in false equivalence. That Trump blew right past him was great for the country—because we got to see Trump in his rawest, truest sense. We didn't learn about the differences in approaches to health policy—but we did learn about character, temperament, and personality. We also got to see how Biden handled such a volatile situation. He mostly showed self-restraint and calm. Isn't that more telling than a few more minutes of him explaining his buy America procurement rules? Journalists are sometimes criticized for not 'nailing' the subjects that they interview. That misunderstands the journalist's role. The job is often to reveal not rebut. And the debate revealed Trump for everything Democrats told you he was way back in 2015.

FINALLY, NOT SOON ENOUGH, FAR TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: Biden poised to launch in-person canvassing in key states
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-1e4e392fff3fed0a7925ef9cd9ca33e1

The Biden campaign will resume door-to-door canvassing in battleground states. Beginning this weekend, the campaign will send out volunteers in Nevada, Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, with the efforts expanding to 17 battleground states.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-campaign-resume-person-canvassing-key-battleground-states-n1241722

Kansas could do something in November it hasn't done in almost 100 years | The last time Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby was all over the news. "Tarzan the Ape Man" was a hit movie. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first term, crushing incumbent Herbert Hoover. That was 88 years ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/kansas-barbara-bollier-roger-marshall-senate-race/index.html

Biden CM to reporters three weeks ago: "While you might hear our opponent spend a lot of time talking about the millions of door knocks or attempts that they're making week to week, those metrics actually don't have any impact on reaching voters" | For months, down-ballot Democrats followed Joe Biden's lead and stopped door-to-door campaigning in an effort to prevent people from catching Covid-19 and appear more socially responsible than Republicans. Donald Trump's campaign and other Republicans candidates, by contrast, have downplayed the pandemic and been knocking on voters' doors for months. | Fearful that they might be out-organized by Trump's campaign — aides to the president have bragged that they are knocking on 1 million doors a week nationwide — some outside groups have pressed Biden's campaign to hit doors again. But if the campaign resumed, Biden could open himself up to criticism: It would be an implicit admission that he thinks the public health crisis has eased after making Trump's mishandling of the coronavirus the centerpiece of his campaign. | Even so, canvassing has been a constant topic of debate among Democrats in recent weeks. In calls between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its "frontline" candidates — those vying for the most competitive seats in the country — some campaigns are bringing up door-knocking nearly every week, said a person familiar with the talks. The candidates have expressed concerns about the DCCC's decision to avoid door-knocking, the source said. Some campaigns are looking to restart canvassing in the final stretch regardless of what the Biden campaign does, according to one Democratic campaign official. | Some Pennsylvania Democrats are not waiting for Biden's imprimatur and have taken matters into their own hands. The Democratic Party in Erie County, Pa. — a key area that Trump won in 2016 after former President Barack Obama carried it four years earlier — said it has engaged in what it calls "soft talk" with voters while dropping off literature and materials at their homes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/down-ballot-democrats-canvassing-414715

Colorado Governor Pardoning More Than 2,700 People Convicted for Possessing an Ounce or Less of Marijuana
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/colorado-governor-pardoning-more-than-2700-people-convicted-for-marijuana-possession/

After Trump and RNC Fail to Cite 'Single Instance' of Fraud, Federal Judge Rejects Effort to Block Mail-In Voting in Montana
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/01/after-trump-and-rnc-fail-cite-single-instance-fraud-federal-judge-rejects-effort

Ballmer grew tired of spending all this money on a high-priced coaching staff that wasn't listening to the high-priced analytics staff to play Zubac over Harrell, specifically. Plus, there was the whole 3-1 blown lead. | The loss of trust in the Front Office, though, was interesting, due to the connection to Michael Porter, Jr. playing well against them in the Nuggets series. If you recall, in the 2018 draft, the Clippers had the 12th & 13th picks they ended up with SGA (trade w/CHA for Miles Bridges) & Jerome Robinson—both who are no longer with the team. | Meanwhile, MPJ was taken with the 14th pick by the very team that just knocked them out of the playoffs. Ballmer was very familiar with him, being from Seattle, and wanted the team to draft him. Apparently, the Front Office said he was undraftable, as did many FO's at the time, according to Russillo. That didn't seem to matter to Ballmer, however, now that he seems to be a young star on the rise. | And so, to watch him playing well against his team, who has given up their first round picks for the next 8 years and has no young stars waiting in the wings in case Kawhi & PG leave after next season, that was just too much. And, so, he took the reins and decided he was going to do what he wanted to do: Fire Doc. But, I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't more roster changes. Sounds like he is still really angry.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ryen-russillo-podcast/id1433966613?i=1000493195314

Religious cult scam scrubs all references to Amy Coney Barrett from its website
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-website

Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd's Burial
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz7zd/border-patrol-snipers-were-authorized-to-use-deadly-force-at-george-floyds-burial

AD is absolutely feasting on these free baskets. Seeing all of his FGs again one can argue only two were even difficult and one of those was a OREB followed by a dunk where he outmuscled smaller players.
https://stats.nba.com/events/?flag=3&CFID=&CFPARAMS=&PlayerID=203076&TeamID=1610612747&GameID=0041900401&ContextMeasure=FGM&Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Playoffs&RangeType=0&StartPeriod=1&EndPeriod=10&StartRange=0&EndRange=28800&section=game&sct=plot

(When you go to the scores section and go to a box score of a specific game you can see most plays on video that are recorded as stats)

Heat will lose if they go small. Simple as that really. The Nuggets ran into the same issue when they tried to play just Jokic against AD and Dwight with a smaller PF in Millsap. What ends up happening is either Jokic got in early foul trouble (I believe BAM got 2 fouls in the 1st) or they got cleaned out on second chance points. The Heat don't have great options for a two big lineup, but they're going to have to throw more of those out if they want to have a chance at winning this series. Anytime you're letting Dwight Howard throw some HEEHEEs like Magic Johnson to AD down low you know shit is ba. The narrative that the Heat have the best players 3-10 or whatever was so dumb. The Lakers have an excellent team. Not just the two stars. But the whole team. They play well and together, and that defense as a whole is the best in the league. The Heat have an uphill battle now, but I think they can be encouraged by the Nunn minutes at the end of the game at least. If they stop playing zone against AD and LeBron, and play bigger lineups, the games will be a lot closer.

How much longer until umps are replaced by AI for balls and strikes?

"Oldest team in the National League". Excuse me? Oldest team in Baseball sir.

Today's Cubs game has been cancelled, @670TheScore has learned. It's 100% weather-related.
https://twitter.com/JayZawaski670/status/1311707734946066432

A bus driver who drove the Tennessee Titans last weekend in Minnesota also drove MLB's Houston Astros on their trip for a playoff series this week against the Twins, per sources. After the Titans' COVID-19 outbreak surfaced, the Astros removed the driver.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1311706101881200640

Ian Anderson, 90mph Changeup and 97 mph Fastball, Individual Pitches + Overlay
https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1311702464744353798

L/rd help the team that has to face one of these two teams (Reds/Braves) next round. The starting pitching is locked and loaded.

"What if we started a runner on second every inning?" Manfred right now while watching Reds/Braves game....

At this point Bauer could make more contact than our hitters. Same thing with Fried.

Gov. Abbott illegally and unconstitutionally issues illegal and unconstitutional proclamation CLOSING (as of Oct. 2) satellite offices where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots. He is ILLEGALLY AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY TRYING TO STOP REGISTED VOTERS FROM VOTING. He's claiming that his move to BLOCK VOTERS FROM VOTING is an "election security measure". Read the proclamation, which amended Abbott's July 27 order that extended early voting and allowed early dropoff of mail ballots, here: https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/PROC_COVID-19_Nov_3_general_election_IMAGE_10-01-2020.pdf
https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1311718569189806089


The $10.8 billion election: 2020 campaign spending is smashing records. This money should be sued to eliminate student loan debt for low-income people. Or morgtage debt for low-income and some middle income people. Or medical debt for low-income and middle-income people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/election-2020-campaign-spending-set-to-hit-record-11-billion.html

A Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 election has posed as a news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of the November election, two people familiar with an FBI probe into the activity tell Reuters.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/russian-operation-masqueraded-right-wing-news-site-n1241710

After Schumer forced a procedural vote to make senators take a position on the Trump administration-backed lawsuit to dismantle the ACA, four Republican senators up for re-election break ranks and join Democrats because otherwise they lose their elections: Ernst, Collins, McSally, Sullivan. (Murkowski voted with Dems also)
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1311723919657889793

So how will they be able to vote to confirm Amy Barrett when they KNOW her First Act would be to STRIKE DOWN the PPACA & Deny 22 MILLION+ Americans health insurance?

SenMcSallyAZ before losing her Senate bid in 2018: Rep. Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' on vote to repeal 'Obamacare'
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/29/martha-mcsally-im-getting-my-ass-kicked-obamacare-vote-senate-sinema/1764519002/

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa votes with Democrats. Background on the vote: https://rollcall.com/2020/09/30/supreme-court-schumer-force-vote-affordable-care-act/

As much as Trump's evangelical fans praise his policies, his approach to courting religious voters misses the importance of visuals like this. Videos of Paula White at the WH don't have quite the same effect as a fellow parishioner praising a candidate's weekly church attendance: The Biden campaign is unveiling a big advertising push for religious voters — a seven-figure ad buy that will air on religious TV stations and Christian radio networks in nine battleground states. The new ads prominently feature Biden's Catholic faith | The new ads show Biden speaking from a pulpit, head bowed in prayer, or standing in front of church's stained-glass window. A radio ad includes a parishioner from his home church talking about how Biden is a regular at Sunday Mass. "That's Joe Biden, a man guided by faith."
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1311670295833567232

Ian Anderson in his first career postseason start: 6 IP, 0R, 2H, 2BB, 9K, 99pitches

Schumer bill to protect ACA fails, 51-43 (needed 60). Several vulnerable Republicans supported it but most of Republicans shot it down.
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1311722320403279874

lol Andrew Cuomo, who has faced near-constant criticism and primary threats from the left and almost lost his re-election to LEFTIST CYNTHIA NIXON, gets a seat on the Radical Left train
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1311709292827901952

The president does not get to dictate the rules of the debate. The rules are decided by the commission. Trump can agree to them or choose not to debate.

Absentee ballots as of today in Wisconsin: 1.97 million issued, 395,082 returned. This time 4 years ago: 120,000 issued, 50,000 returned
https://twitter.com/cheyennehaslett/status/1311733108039974912

Trump and Republicans illegally and unconstitionally ban refugees, and depictsthem on campaign trail as a terrorists and criminals and "burdens" even though they all have degrees and money and find work easily and/or set up their own businesses and do not receive any federal "welfare" or state "welfare"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-cuts-refugee-cap/2020/10/01/a5113b62-03ed-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html

Many women I've known who have lost children through late miscarriage have similar photos. You will never get family photos; it's the *only* thing to document. As someone who has suffered through this pain, seeing my grief reflected in this photo is comforting, to say the least:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1311548769901502465
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/style/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-baby.html

Kyrie Irving on Steve Nash: "We don't need someone to come in with their coaching philosophy and change everything we're doing."
https://twitter.com/alec_sturm/status/1311703754069114880
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-kyrie-irving-part-2/id1532060379?i=1000493239405

Note that Kyrie's not doing anything, he quit playing for the Nets last season after 20 games.

Kyrie Irving speaks on the coaching situation: "I don't really see us having a "head" coach. KD could be a head coach, I could be a head coach (some days)." KD adds: "Jacque Vaughn could be a head coach could do it one day. It's a collaborative effort."
https://twitter.com/alec_sturm/status/1311707180907855872
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-kyrie-irving-part-2/id1532060379?i=1000493239405

AT&T took $283 million but didn't deploy required broadband, Mississippi says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-million-but-didnt-deploy-required-broadband-mississippi-says/

'Illegal and Immoral': Experts Say 'Self-Promoting' Trump Letter in Covid-19 Food Aid Boxes Clear Hatch Act Violation
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/01/illegal-and-immoral-experts-say-self-promoting-trump-letter-covid-19-food-aid-boxes

House Republicans Matt Gaetz (FL), Louie Gohmert (TX), Clay Higgins (Louisiana), Steve King (Iowa) and Thomas Massie (KY) voted no on House resolution for peaceful transition if Trump loses election
https://www.newsweek.com/these-5-republicans-voted-no-house-resolution-peaceful-transition-if-trump-loses-election-1535715

Soul-crushing home run by Ozuna

The umpire has also missed dozens of strikes all game long, one of which resulted in a 2-run homerun benefitting the Braves (Albies was out on pitch 5).

It's incredible the number of people, Adams and MSM people included, who treat this (refusal to denounce white terrorism) as a debate/messaging error and not fundamental to Trump's worldview -- if he just denounces the Proud Boys all would be fine.

We will find ballots in a ditch. There's no perfect election. We should not allow cynical political operatives to parlay small-bore errors into a full-scale attack on the integrity of the November vote.
https://latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-25/absentee-ballots-luzerne-county-pennsylvania-william-barr-department-of-justice

Bauer and Castillo combined: 13 IP 8 H 1 ER 1 BB 19 SO
Record: 0-1

#Braves held Reds scoreless for all 22 innings in the series, an MLB postseason record.
https://twitter.com/dobrienatl/status/1311746287231008770

The Cincinnati Reds have become the first team in MLB history to be shutout for a full postseason series

Welp he sent a severely injured Le'Veon Bell back into the game and that player ended up carted off the field, season over, the NFL knows and refuses to suspend him, his team won't fire him: Adam Gase's job not in jeopardy tonight vs Broncos
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1311732425240834049
https://www.nj.com/jets/2020/09/jets-adam-gase-im-mad-at-myself-for-letting-leveon-bell-return-to-game-after-hamstring-injury.html

The Carolina Panthers will use a $125,000 virus-killing robot in their stadium as fans return with Covid-19 restrictions
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/01/carolina-panthers-use-virus-killing-robot-covid-19-stadium-nfl-fans.html

NFL had 6 months to think about this & plan around Covid. The fact that this is where they are, w no clear contingency plan, w no built-in, league-wide bye weeks looks like the may have completely blown it. If this happens 2-3 more times, which would seem likely, they're screwed
https://twitter.com/DavidMTodd/status/1311670662084415488

The NFL and NFLPA have been in discussions about the photos of maskless #Raiders players at a fundraiser, I'm told. Any discipline would come from the team. But a team employee forwarded the invite, which said players would have a private dining area and not mingle with guests.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1311682372149096448

Trump Goes Full White Supremacist at Minnesota Campaign Rally | The president warned supporters that their state will be "inundated" by nonwhite people whom he labels terrorists and criminals if Joe Biden wins the election.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-minnesota-racist

Trump cancels Wisconsin rally amid surge in COVID-19 cases
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-donald-trump-la-crosse-wisconsin-a28b98709dbed5072239db5fb7a7d341

Trump administration policing panel broke transparency law
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/01/court-trump-administration-policing-panel-broke-transparency-law-424519

1,600 former Justice Department lawyers accuse Barr of illegally and unconstitutionally using DOJ to help Trump in election
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/01/william-barr-accused-1-600-lawyers-using-doj-help-trump-win/5881731002/

Bills OK'd by Republican-controlled Michigan House protect employers from Covid-19 lawsuits
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/09/25/michigan-legislation-covid-19-liability-protections/5829434002/

Republicans made up lie that Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from wife of Moscow ex-mayor
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/sep/30/examining-trump-claim-hunter-biden-got-35-million-/

South Carolina Republicans Asks Supreme Court To Restore Illegal And Unconstitutional Ballot Witness Rule To Stop People From Voting Absentee And To Invalidate All Absentee+Mail-In Ballots Without [Illegal And Unconstitutional] Witness Signature
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/south-carolina-gop-asks-top-court-to-restore-ballot-witness-rule

Illinois 'White Rabbit' white supremacy group shut down by federal authorities
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-white-supremacy-group-shut-down-by-federal-authorities/6679524/

H.R. McMaster, Trump's ex-national security adviser, says president is 'aiding and abetting' Putin
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/01/former-national-security-adviser-trump-putin-424458

To the fans in my mentions right now: @Reds fans: I love you all. Thanks for an amazing season! Wish you could've been at the ballpark! Braves fans: Seems like y'all hate me and I wouldn't be embraced here! What a shame... 😕 Astros fans: LOL, why are y'all here? Stay mad.
https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1311774207072763906

Amazon says more than 19,000 workeres tested positive for Covid-19. "We have been conservative in this analysis."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/amazon-says-more-than-19000-workers-got-covid-19.html

Good, now fucking arrest them already: Jacob Wohl & Jack Burkman face felony charges in Michigan for robocalls aimed to discourage voters from participating in the November election.
https://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,4534,7-359-92297_99936-541052--,00.html

Turkey's state-run Halkbank CANNOT dismiss their indictment related to a multibillion dollar money laundering scheme involve Iran sanctions-busting, a federal judge ruled.
https://www.courthousenews.com/the-government-is-in-on-it-an-insiders-account-of-the-reza-zarrab-conspiracy-hold-for-sunday/

Prosecutor quoted here: "While it is true that the bank helped Iran secretly transfer approximately $20 billion-worth in violation of a host of international sanctions... the more than $1 billion... passed through domestic accounts." Read the ruling here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7221246-Halkbank-Ruling-10-1-2020.html

Next debate is a Town Hall format. If the commission changes the rules and Trump says he's pulling out, Biden says should do the Town Hall and pimp domestic policies hard (environment, health care, immigration, taxes, manufactouring, student debt)


Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third Debates when I easily won last time?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311731462589292544

Easy answer: So you can back out because You can't handle the truth and don't want to spend another 2hrs rampaging over everybody to cover up the truth

Protip: your felony should not incorporate personal branding: The call that has Wohl in trouble, where the woman clearly references Burkman and Wohl  twitter.com/JocelynBenson/…My office has received a recording of a robocall targeting Detroit voters using racially-charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail. It is an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote. https://youtu.be/JVodAUh9kL0
https://twitter.com/JacobWohlReport/status/1299073138425237512

Harris County, which includes much of the city of Houston, has a population of more than 4.7M people, according to Census Bureau. The county is home to 25% of the state's Black residents and 18% of the state's Hispanic population. Whick is why Republicans are blocking absentee and mail-in ballots in Harris County.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/texas-gov-abbott-restricts-absentee-ballot-drop-locations-n1241736

"Bannon could not remember who it was, but someone on the campaign was relaying that someone who was not on the campaign was trying to take credit for the timing of the WikiLeaks releases and getting Assange to release the information." https://buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mueller-memos-the-latest-trove-of-documents-reveals-new
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mueller-memos-the-latest-trove-of-documents-reveals-new

After a rapid courtship and negotiation, Doc Rivers has reached agreement on a deal to become the next coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, sources tell ESPN.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1311782806780088322

Doc rivers is simultaneously overhated and overrated lol
Either way a big upgrade over Brett Brown

The Kings should fire Walton and Hire D'Antoni
Fox in a D'Antoni system... 😳
They were so fast paced last year and had their best season in a decade then Walton, whom I relentlessly defended when he coached the Lakes, slowed everything down.

Suicide rate among active-duty troops jumps to six-year high, COVID-19 stress could make it even worse
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/01/suicide-rate-among-active-duty-troops-jumps-six-year-high/5879477002/

And she has access to Din Jr's children: In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of [Kimberly] Guilfoyle's assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. | According to a dozen well-informed sources familiar with her complaints, the assistant alleged that Guilfoyle, her direct supervisor, subjected her frequently to degrading, abusive, and sexually inappropriate behavior. | The draft complaint also alleged that Guilfoyle spoke incessantly and luridly about her sex life, and on one occasion demanded a massage of her bare thighs; other times, she said, Guilfoyle told her to submit to a Fox employee's demands for sexual favors.
https://newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox

The fact that so many American police officers, soldiers, and veterans are drawn to right-wing terrorist organizations should be a wakeup call for our society. We desperately need to change the institutions that attract and produce these kinds of people.
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/

After pledging not to he did, HE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT. PRIMARY HIS ASS ALREADY: Manchin quietly met with Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday evening, becoming the first Democratic senator to sit down with the Supreme Court nominee since her confirmation battle began in earnest
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1311802395484139520

Astros announced pitcher Justin Verlander underwent Tommy John surgery yesterday. Recovery time for the surgery is expected to be approximately 12-14 months.
https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/1311758914271223811

Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Committee her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned and ending the "barbaric  legacy" of the law, two Democratic committee aides confirm to NBC News
https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1311758489920909313

Hope Hicks, who traveled with Trump aboard Air Force One to and from the presidential debate on Tuesday, and to his Minnesota rally yesterday, has coronavirus with symptons
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/trump-aide-hope-hicks-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-infection

AOC Accuses Ted Cruz of Riding 'White Supremacist Express' After Senator Shares 'Radical Left' Train Meme
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-accuses-ted-cruz-riding-white-supremacist-express-after-senator-shares-radical-left-train-1535784

Game 1 of NBA Finals sees lowest viewership in recorded ratings history because the current Lakers players play like criminal thugs who should be charged with assault

Repuplicans Illegally And Unconstititoonally Remove EPA Requirement For Curbing Toxic Air Pollutants
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-10-01/us-epa-removes-requirement-for-curbing-toxic-air-pollutants

From the debate transcript:
1:12:11 TRUMP: I want beautiful clean air.

Pearland Police enlisted six sniper teams -- including two from CBP's secretive BORTAC squad -- to provide security at George Floyd's funeral, documents show. | "What the hell we were we going to destroy in Pearland? A city that does not have hardly any street lights, doesn't have sidewalks, doesn't even have accomodations to even protest," he said. "Where the hell would we even go?"
https://houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/police-presence-george-floyd-pearland-burial-15613213.php

Judge Blocks Trump's Ban on Foreign Workers | The court overruled limits on visas for hundreds of thousands of foreign workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/foreign-workers-visas-h-1b-trump.html

The body of a 22-year old women, gang raped and murdered, was cremated by the UP-police, in Hathras village in INDIA, without permission of the family. The police restricted the family members from performing the last rites and allegedly locked up relatives of the victim to stop them from protesting.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/up-hathras-rape-victim-cremated-by-cops-family-begged-to-pay-last-respects-2303004

Indigenous woman films Canadian hospital staff taunting her before death
https://nypost.com/2020/09/30/indigenous-woman-films-hospital-staff-taunting-her-before-death/

Trump and Melania have tested positive for covid19 | Trump Knew He Had Covid19 And Exposed Everybody Around Him Anyway, Holding Rallies And Attending Events, Maskless At All Times. Now He Is In "Quarantine".
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-confirms-he-first-lady-melania-trump-tested-positive-for-coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-positive-coronavirus.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919385151/president-trump-and-first-lady-test-positive-for-covid-19
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-hicks-int-idUSKBN26N0FV
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/president-donald-trump-says-he-has-tested-positive-for-coronavirus.html

Think of all the people who are currently fast asleep who have this news waiting for them when they wake up.

Trump calls coronavirus 'hysteria' the Democrats' 'new hoax' -Yahoo News, February 28, 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-coronavirus-democrats-new-hoax-n1145721

Trump made fun of Biden's mask-wearing habits at the debate
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/02/trump-biden-masks-debate-dpx-vpx-sot.cnn

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday touted her efforts to prevent substance abuse less than two days after her husband mocked Hunter Biden's drug addiction. Donald Trump Jr. followed that by calling Hunter a "crackhead."
https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-urges-kids-reject-drugs-trump-mocks-hunter-bidens-addiction-2020-10

In Recordings, Melania Trump Attacked First Lady Role, Christmas, Border-Crossing Latin American Children Removed From Parents And Placed In Detention, And Of Course Barack Obama:  "Who Gives a F**k About Christmas" | "Who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff and decoration?" | "Ooh what about the children, that they were separated? Give me a f***ing break." (which means, fuck them)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/melania-trump-tapes/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/politics/melania-trump-tapes.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-spouts-off-in-secret-recording-who-gives-a-fk-about-christmas-stuff

Fox News paid Kimberly Guilfoyle's former assistant $4 million after sexual harassment accusations against Guilfoyle
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/media/kimberly-guilfoyle-fox-allegations/index.html

Press Secretary Calls Amy Coney Barrett a "Rhodes Scholar" Because She Went to a Place Called Rhodes College
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/white-house-amy-coney-barrett-rhodes-scholar-rhodes-college.html

I'm old enough to remember when Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask... like 48 hours ago

Here he is mocking Biden at the debate three days ago for wearing a mask: I don't wear a mask like him. Every time you see him he's got a mask. He could be 200 feet away and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.
https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1311865051029135360

And here he is arguing to Biden, in front of 73 million Americans watching at home, that scientific experts are against the use of masks: BIDEN    Oh. Masks -- masks make a big difference. His own head of the CDC said if we just wore masks between now -- if everybody wore masks and social distancing between now and January, we'd probably save up to 100,000 lives. It matters,
TRUMP    And they've also said the opposite. They've also said the --
BIDEN    No serious person has said the opposite --
https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1311882175709687808

Fox News is unhinged right now. Almost every image of Trump they show is him wearing a mask. They're talking about Hope Hicks "being adamant about wearing a mask" and questioning how she could have gotten it and questioning whether we can even say masks are effective.

Is covid19 transmissible through ass kissing? Hope Hicks is the superspreader and she was hanging around all the top Trump people knowing she had tested positive, including Mitch McConnell

QAnon in shambles

No amount of disproving qanon will ever make any believer change their mind

Has anyone pointed out to Trump that if he had refused the test, he'd be one fewer case?

THEY KNEW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Why didn't she isolate with her first positive test? If Hope Hicks became symptomatic Wednesday, she was likely most contagious 2-3 days beforehand.

Hope Hicks tested negative for COVID-19 Wednesday morning. So she boarded AF1. She developed symptoms during the day and received a second test, which came back positive. The White House knew about this Wed evening but Trump still had a fundraiser Thursday.
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1311923578993025024

I'm told a small group of officials were aware Thursday a.m. that Hope Hicks had tested positive. Despite that, President Trump traveled to New Jersey for a fundraiser and his press secretary held a briefing.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1311917943182233600

1600 DOJ Alumni send warning about Bill Barr using his influence to undermine free and fair elections
https://medium.com/@dojalumni/doj-alumni-open-letter-on-protecting-free-and-fair-elections-78bea0575e1a

Four years ago, today -- Trump mocking Hillary for pneumonia:
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1311923016620748802

No matter the health outcomes of Trump & other White House staff, this is a national security failure on Trump's behalf. His reckless irresponsibility has put the Executive Branch of government at risk; not to mention all the people he and his staff have been in contact recently... which includes Biden at the debate.

The fact that Melania has it is proof that social distancing doesn't work. SAD!

Reminder: Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired by Obama after attacking Obama and Biden, endorses Biden for president
https://www.independent.co.uk/us-election-2020/general-stanley-mcchrystal-backs-joe-biden-president-b740858.html

No one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the President" for the debate, said former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who helped President Trump with presidential debate prep. "The group was about five or six people in total."
https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1312004497233907713

Now, people at the WH are wearing masks. No one who traveled with POTUS — which was everyone — did this week. By Thurs, it was clear something unusual was happening at the WH. Several staff members who have avoided masks were suddenly wearing them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-positive-coronavirus-test.html

Hey Trump fundraiser attendees: NJ just launched a contact tracing app Thursday
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/newjerseyplaybook

Biden hasn't put a statement yet and their camp has to be considering a lot right now. Do they continue to travel? Do they pull down ads? How do they respond to this news?

Trump is symptomatic, he has cold-like symptoms, too bad. Keep in mind: the WH did not voluntarily disclose ANYTHING about this. Republicans are evil. Vote them all out already.

Reminder: The US lost 22.2 million jobs in March and April. So far, 11.4 million jobs - 51.5% - are back.  But 10.7 million Americans who were working are still unemployed/laidoff/furloughed/fired. And that doesn't count people who are working again but at reduced hours or lower pay.
https://twitter.com/BLS_gov/status/1312007057004990466
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Bernie Sanders resuming in-person campaigning to back Biden
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-new-hampshire-9f535e2b04bbdc55cd51b94738e1783a

RNC chair Ronna McDaniel tested positive for coronavirus |  Bernie Sanders is returning to in-person campaigning for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, heading to the battleground states of New Hampshire and Michigan to promote Joe Biden and sooth any lingering tensions between the Democratic Party's progressive and centrist wings. Spokesman Mike Casca says the Vermont senator will hold a socially distanced, outdoor rally Saturday in Lebanon, New Hampshire which will be capped to keep crowds from growing too large. On Monday, Sanders will host a drive-in rally in Macomb County, Michigan — a Detroit suburb that voted Republican in 2016 and was instrumental in clinching the White House for President Donald Trump.
https://www.axios.com/rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-coronavirus-positive-d361fcf6-061c-4af2-ad1d-55eeadba50d9.html

The disgrace wasn't the debate, it was the president's conduct at the debate, Trump was the disgrace, the national embarrassment, the shitshow. He's a menace to life, liberty, and democracy and America. The problem wasn't the debate; it was the last four years (dating back to 2015-2016 campaign) with this miserable human being polluting our minds, a living, breathing doom scroll equipped with the nuclear codes. Trump is one of the meanest, most bullying, dishonest, dangerous, malicious and corrupt persons to occupy the White House. He is one of the meanest, most bullying, dishonest, dangerous, malicious and corrupt persons alive. He is destroying what's uniquely good about the country, he's tearing us apart, and standing by as a pandemic kills an outsized number of those he's supposed to be protecting because it wouldn't help him, the Dow Jones, open a school or a football stadium, or insure his re-election. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government just released an investigation that found 3,400 ethics violations by Trump and his family, including Ivanka. (https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/new-report-president-trump-has-3400-conflicts-of-interest/). There are punishments for those violation. Trump is a vile, crass, feral, snarling creature who went after two of Biden's sons - whom are factually not-guilty of all the things Trump/Republicans are accusing them of and not part of the political campaign and will not be part of a Biden Administration - including the one son whose death will always be a fresh wound. The overpowering stench of Trump's hate was so heavy it was hard to take in anything Biden said. But he had one that went to the heart of our darkness. Biden took Trump's execrable line about the mounting virus deaths, and added one of his own: "It is what it is because you are who you are."

Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1312010736604979201

Trump met with Amy Barrett and Mitch right before he tested positive for covid19 which means they must quarantine for 10-14+ days. So I hopefully no senate hearings till after that.

Tere was no contact from the Trump campaign or the White House to alert the Biden campaign of exposure to COVID-19: There was no contact from the Trump campaign or the White House to alert the Biden campaign of possible exposure. The campaign learned of the situation from the news reports, a Biden campaign aide tells me.
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1312035990240985091

Clayton Kershaw's game last night was his best ever postseason performance by Game Score (88). 8 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 13 Ks. Previous high in strikeouts was 12 in 2013.
https://twitter.com/CarlosACollazo/status/1312036309737893891

The I.R.S. Is Outgunned - The agency doesn't have the resources to battle the tax lawyers of the ultrarich. Trump's returns are just one example of how little the wealthy pay | But the responsibility for his meager $750 tax bill does not lie with President Trump alone, nor with his tax advisers. Instead, the newest revelations put a very famous face on a problem that has long existed: The wealthy aren't paying what they owe, and our tax system allows it. This is not a new problem, but it is one that has gotten worse in the last decade, the result of a partisan attack on the I.R.S. that has deprived it of the resources it needs to police evasion aggressively. In the last decade, the I.R.S.'s budget has fallen (in real terms) by nearly 15 percent. Its enforcement budget has fallen 25 percent over this period, and its work force has been slashed by 20 percent. | As my work with the former Treasury Lawrence Summers shows, the result of this underinvestment is that the I.R.S. today cannot administer tax laws effectively. Based on current trends, in the next decade the I.R.S. will fail to collect an estimated $7.5 trillion in owed tax. That "tax gap" corresponds to nearly 3 percent of G.D.P. annually. The beneficiaries of a gutted I.R.S. are the elite. Even if all taxpayers were equally likely to evade their liabilities, the benefits to the top 1 percent from underpaying would still be significant: 1 percent of this $7.5 trillion, or $75 billion. But the top 1 percent share of the tax gap is at least 30 times this amount, more than $2 trillion in the coming decade. | Why are the wealthy skirting the tax laws most aggressively? It's a feature of our tax collection system. Compliance rates for ordinary wage and salary workers are 99 percent because their taxes are automatically withheld. In contrast, richer Americans are more likely to have items like capital gains, rental income and proprietorship income — and the I.R.S. estimates that up to 55 percent of the income from such sources can be unreported, and thus untaxed. As a matter of equity and efficiency, then, it seems obvious that the I.R.S.'s limited enforcement dollars should go to policing high earners, both because they have the largest tax bills and because they have the most opportunity to shirk their liabilities by accumulating income from opaque categories and making shady deductions (think of Mr. Trump's listing of $70,000 to hairstylists as a "business expense"). Yet that is not at all where the enforcement attention focuses today. While audit rates have nose-dived across the board over the past decade, they've fallen inversely with income level, with the most precipitous drop for the highest earners: Examination rates for those making $10 million or more annually have plummeted by nearly 80 percent. On the other end of the distribution, examinations of low-income households decreased by less than half as much. As a result, today you are as likely to be audited if you make so little that you qualify for the earned-income tax credit as if you are in the top 1 percent. The I.R.S. commissioner, Charles Rettig, is explicit about why this is happening: Going after the poor is more efficient in a narrow sense (despite the low stakes in any individual case), because it's cheaper and faster than pursuing the rich and the corporations they own. It is David versus Goliath, with an understaffed I.R.S. faced with wealthy individuals and large corporations that have high-paid tax advisers and plenty of resources to drag out a fight with the agency. So it is no surprise that the I.R.S. has shifted its focus. Why spend years on complex investigations of the ultrarich that you are unlikely to win? The result is both direct losses to the government in additional tax liability imposed (which has fallen in lock step with the decline in I.R.S. enforcement) and indirect losses as potential tax cheats realize there are few risks to evasion. | The far more common outcome for wealthy evaders, though, is absolutely no penalty at all. Indeed, just a few hundred taxpayers deprived the government of $10 billion from 2014 to 2016 by committing the most blatant form of evasion, failing to file tax returns all together. The I.R.S. lacked the resources to even work these cases. | But cracking down on illegal evasion should be first order in a new administration. Investing in the I.R.S. would allow for hiring and training agents to go up against the wealthy and the battalion of accountants and lawyers they employ. More resources will also facilitate a much-needed technological overhaul — enabling the I.R.S. to better leverage all it knows about taxpayers and even to collect additional information from third parties so it can focus attention on the most egregious evaders. The result would be a substantial increase in revenue: We estimate more than $1 trillion could be collected in a decade, while a former I.R.S. commissioner, Charles Rossotti, suggests even greater potential, of $1.6 trillion. Perhaps more important, a robust attack on the tax gap will signal an end to our two-tiered tax system, where those with enough money are able to subvert the tax laws with little fear of repercussions. At a time when inequities in the criminal justice system are appropriately a cause of significant concern, those same inequities in tax administration deserve the attention of policymakers. A quotation from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is etched on the wall at I.R.S. headquarters: "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." President Trump is one insidious example of the wealthy not paying their fair share. We have to invest in tax compliance so they are forced to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/irs-tax-income-inequality.html
https://www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-today-federal/compliance/shrinking-tax-gap-approaches-and-revenue-potential/2019/11/18/2b47g
https://www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-federal/compliance/tax-noncompliance-and-measures-income-inequality/2020/02/17/2c3y5
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1415.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6430680-Document-2019-9-6-Treasury-Letter-to-Wyden-RE.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher
https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2020reports/202030015fr.pdf
https://www.nber.org/papers/w2757
https://tcamodernization.com/
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/eitc-audit

Voters, voting rights groups sue Gov. Greg Abbott over order to close ballot drop-off locations
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/02/texas-greg-abbott-ballot-drop-lawsuit/

GOOD. AND START CROSS-CROSSING ALL OVER PENNSYLVANIA ALREADY, SEND BERNIE TO PA: Biden has no plans to scale back campaign
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/519331-biden-has-no-plans-to-scale-back-campaign

Senate Republicans moving forward with Supreme Court hearings even though Trump will not be well enough to pay any kind of attentionto the hearings, even though many top Republicans are now testing positive for covid19
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/519318-senate-gop-moving-forward-with-supreme-court-hearings-after-trump-test

Sen. Mike Lee tests positive for COVID-19
https://kutv.com/news/local/sen-mike-lee-tests-positive-for-covid-19

Coronavirus deaths in red states add up to second-highest in the world
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/joe-biden/yes-coronavirus-deaths-red-states-add-second-highe/

Judge Extends Census Counting, Rails Against Admin For Violating Her Previous Order
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/census-counting-extended-again-order-violated

This Woman Could Be the First Democratic Senator From Kansas Since 1932 — Polls show Barbara Bollier is running a competitive race against her Republican opponent
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/10/01/this-woman-could-be-the-first-democratic-senator-from-kansas-since-1932/

Why 'Stand Back and Stand By' Should Set Off Alarm Bells | Watchdog groups and analysts have debated about how to classify the Proud Boys. Its members explicitly disavow white supremacy in a bid for respectability, but its ideology is clearly white supremacist: Photographs of members flashing the white power sign, the presence of members at white power events and at rallies and expert analyses of the group's online content make this clear. They should be seen as fellow travelers with white power groups and activists. Names and tactics vary, but the white power movement is united in ideology and intent. Its adherents include propagandists calling for the end of non-European immigration, those who carry out attacks mislabeled "lone wolf" violence in places like El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charleston, S.C., and Christchurch, New Zealand, and groups that train secretly for war, like the Base, and even for nuclear war, like Atomwaffen Division. It also includes members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi and racist skinhead groups, and large segments of the Boogaloo Boys and extralegal militias. This is why it is a mistake to understand Mr. Trump's statement as directed solely to the Proud Boys — which had, before the night was over, incorporated "Stand Back, Stand By" into a badge logo. Other groups aligned with the white power movement will certainly interpret Mr. Trump's message as including them. This complex web has worked exactly this way since the late 1970s, with disastrous results. The white power movement is, in many ways, an incredibly diverse array of activists. I found in my research that though it is a fringe movement, its supporters represent a cross-section of American life: rich and poor and middle class; religious leaders and felons; men and women and children; people in cities and suburbs and rural areas. What binds these disparate groups is that they espouse the violent defense of white supremacy. They see the white race as under attack — from immigration, from the rise of the nonwhite population, and from the acceptance of multiculturalism by much of the nation. For them, defending the white race and white culture from these forces requires a violent attempt to stop the country's demographic changes. Some of them wish to provoke race war, overthrowing the nation itself. Others simply wish to attack immigrants and keep people of color from voting. But both positions unite in a war on American democracy. | But there is something new today: The president and his administration are at war on the democratic process, as we see in his weakening of the Post Office and the credibility of mail-in ballots, in calls for "poll watchers" that are clear invitations for intimidation, and in statements by Mr. Trump that cast doubt on his willingness to accept the results of the election. Not only does "Stand back and stand by" fail to denounce and disavow white supremacist violence, it seems to be a call to arms and preparedness. It suggests that these groups, who are eager to do violence in any case, have the implicit approval of the state. The day after the debate, Mr. Trump claimed not to know who the Proud Boys were, and told them to "stand down." But even the most generous interpretation of his comments does not release Mr. Trump from accountability. The Proud Boys — some of whom were involved in the Charlottesville rally — should be well known to the president. And no matter what he says now, he can't unring the bell. | They are teachers and librarians and parents worried about what to do when they meet young people headed down the road to violence. And they are even people who have worked in the Trump administration, people in his own Department of Homeland Security and F.B.I., who have repeatedly identified white power as the most prominent source of domestic terrorism. Whistle-blowers like Elizabeth Neumann and Brian Murphy at the Department of Homeland Security have been warning of insufficient resources and will to confront this problem at the highest levels of the Trump administration. Many of these people predict increasing violence from now through the election, and after, regardless of winner. The white power movement has long sought not only to intimidate voters — which it has done — but also to inflict mass casualties. There is no reason to think that strategy will change. We are talking about a resurgence of the movement responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, the largest deliberate mass killing on American soil between Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks. The fact that most people don't remember the Oklahoma bombing as the work of a movement reveals how deeply entrenched the white power movement is as an American problem. This is a movement that has been using online social network activism since 1983, that has repeatedly targeted people and infrastructure, that has not been effectively confronted. As I found in the extensive archives of the white power movement, we have not allocated sufficient resources to surveil and stop white power violence. Criminal trials of its activists have often failed. Piecemeal responses to the coordinated recruitment of active-duty military personnel and other groups with similar expertise have not sufficiently stopped the flow of weapons, tactics, and training to these groups. We are decades, if not generations, into this problem. A call to arms like "stand back and stand by" is nothing less than catastrophic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/trump-proud-boys.html
https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/ok-hand-symbol-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/proud-boys-attack-black-lives-matter-protester-video/
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/proud-boys-0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/08/13-white-supremacists-acquitted-in-arkansas-murder-and-sedition-trial/21c30cbe-c120-40ac-8fec-33420d1b0d2e/
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286078

Facebook Is Still Showing Ads About Election Fraud to Millions of Users. Biden needs to sign into law Elizabeth Warren's plan to have the government take over Facebook and break it down.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kpgkx/facebook-is-still-showing-ads-about-election-fraud-to-millions-of-users

U.S. Jobs Rise Less Than Forecast as Economic Rebound Downshifts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/u-s-jobs-rise-less-than-forecast-as-economic-rebound-downshifts

U.S. jobs rose by 661,000 in September, vs. 800,000 estimate
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/jobs-report-september-2020.html

Poll watchers have been part of elections in the US — and around the world — for a long time, but despite Trump's request for supporters to show up at the polls, people can't just go to a polling place to check out what's going on there. There's a process — and rules on how to do it — and it varies by state. Some states don't allow observers at the polls, while others permit poll watchers to observe nearly every stage of the election process, from the testing of voting machines to the counting of ballots. In Pennsylvania, for example, where the incident Trump referred to occurred, people can only observe voting at traditional polling locations on Election Day. Poll watchers are not permitted to observe satellite elections offices in Philadelphia, and the city has not yet certified any election observers for the general election, according to elections officials. On Thursday, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia County Board of Elections for not allowing the uncertified poll watchers to monitor voting at the satellite offices. "We can't just have people ... going to places they think are going to be hot spots for election fraud and showing up there without any accreditation or authorization," said Nina Jankowicz, an international election observer and disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC. "I worry that with that open invitation for his supporters to come and 'protect' the election without all of that background information things could get very ugly very quickly." | Poll watchers, or elections observers, are typically appointed by parties, campaigns, or nonpartisan groups to literally observe various parts of the election process, including the casting of ballots at polling places and early voting sites, the tabulation of ballots at government elections offices, and recounts. The whole practice of poll watching is an exercise in building confidence in the integrity of elections. For observers who are sent to the polls by a party or campaign, the main objective of poll watching is to make sure that their party or candidate has a fair chance at winning the election by ensuring proper procedures are followed. They also track turnout, but aside from notifying election officials or party officials of any issues they see, they are not allowed to intervene in or interfere with the process. "The observer just observes and reports on what they see," Jankowicz told BuzzFeed News. "The election observers aren't there to change any outcome. They are there to document what they see." | Poll watchers cannot campaign inside polling locations, and they cannot wear or provide any campaign material. Some states expressly forbid election observers from taking photos and sitting in certain places. Poll watchers are also — and this is VERY important — not allowed to intimidate voters by any means, which is punishable by state and federal laws. "It's illegal in every state to harass or intimidate a voter away from voting," said Suzanne Almeida, interim executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania. "There are specific rules in the election code about not standing in the way of a voter and their franchise, and so poll watchers can't do that either." While the rules differ from state to state, they are generally not allowed to interact with voters and state laws usually dictate where they can observe the process at the polling place — if they're allowed there at all. For example, poll watchers can't walk by people waiting in line to vote and say, "You know it's a felony to vote if you're not registered," said Bob Brandon, president and CEO of the Fair Elections Center.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/poll-watchers-election-trump
https://twitter.com/kadiagoba/status/1311850629460103169

YEP: 'Know Who Didn't Get a F***ing Break? The Children': Outrage Over Melania Trump's Recorded Comments on Imprisoned Kids
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/02/know-who-didnt-get-fing-break-children-outrage-over-melania-trumps-recorded-comments

Breonna Taylor grand jury audio recordings are expected to be released Friday
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/cnn10/breonna-taylor-grand-jury-recordings/index.html

What Happens If The President Is Incapacitated? The 25th Amendment Charts A Course
https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/02/919400859/what-happens-if-the-president-is-incapacitated-the-25th-amendment-charts-a-cours

Republican-Controlled Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Major New Case That Lawyers Fear Will Dramatically "Weaken" Landmark Civil Rights Law | And as a reminder, they have already dealt a historic blow along partisan lines to the Voting Rights act. With everything else we know about Republicans' efforts, they could not make it more clear that they view dismantling the ability for every American to vote as their only path to victory. The Republican party are traitors to this nation. Regardless of what they say, the fundamentally do not believe that voting is a right for every person. I repeat - they believe this country will be better when they restrict the right of the poor and minorities to vote in elections.
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/scotus-agrees-to-decide-major-new-case-that-lawyers-fear-will-dramatically-weaken-landmark-civil-rights-law/

John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame, and attendant of the SCOTUS announcement, tests positive for COVID-19
https://abc57.com/news/university-of-notre-dame-president-john-jenkins-tests-positive-for-covid-19

Tribes defend themselves against a pandemic and South Dakota's state government | Cultural Survival, a leading Indigenous rights organization, says this kind of behavior — strong-arming Indigenous nations into removing pandemic protections — is not uncommon among repressive governments that oppose Indigenous human rights. The group, which advocates for tribal communities' self-determination, has found dozens of pandemic-related human rights violations against Indigenous peoples in North America, including four in the Western United States. In June, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed a complaint against the federal government, alleging that forcing tribes to shut down COVID-19 checkpoints would undermine tribal sovereignty and the people's health and well-being. | Tribal nations, whose citizens have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, have often maintained strict COVID-19 measures, including lockdowns, for protection, while non-Native governments in the U.S and beyond have been loosening their public health orders. Cultural Survival began tracking the spread of the virus in Indigenous communities and monitoring resulting human rights violations after realizing that Indigenous peoples were being excluded from COVID-19 data and government public health responses.  They have documented how Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro — who denies the dangers of COVID-19 — continues to ignore illegal mining and logging in Amazonian Indigenous territories, as well as the pandemic threat. In Mexico, a municipality in Chiapas closed off a neighboring city's access to food and medical facilities in late April. When Indigenous peoples protested, police and vigilantes shot and detained Ch'ol protestors, accusing them of carrying COVID-19. In North America, Cultural Survival has documented and mapped 27 human rights violations against Indigenous peoples. In the Western U.S., both the Navajo Nation and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon already face long-term water crises, a critical issue during a pandemic in which hand-washing is one of the few effective defenses. Indigenous immigrants in California allege discrimination by state and federal agencies, citing language barriers and their exclusion from health-care access. This isn't an exhaustive list of all Indigenous human rights violations; Juárez López expects to be mapping abuses and COVID-19 for months to come. Since May, Gov. Noem has continued to take a heavy-handed, anti-Indigenous position, threatening to pull essential COVID-19 relief aid and end law enforcement contracts — even asking President Donald Trump for federal intervention to end "these unlawful tribal checkpoints/blockades." New COVID-19 cases in the state began climbing in August and peaked in the beginning of September, according to state data compiled by The New York Times. As of Sept. 21, CDC data shows South Dakota's infection rate surpassing California and New York. Cases fell in May for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, but began rising again in August. "We did curtail the spread," said John Mousseau (Oglala Sioux), who manages the Oglala Sioux Tribe's checkpoints through his private security company, Canksa' Yuha. The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux have maintained their tribal checkpoints, guarding against the virus while waiting for a court date. After speaking with High Country News, Cultural Survival added South Dakota's opposition to the Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes' COVID-19 checkpoints to its map of Indigenous human rights violations. "Governments are not really doing much to try to reduce the spread of the virus," said Juárez López. "Indigenous peoples are really being affected. It's important that they take action, because no one is going to do that for them."
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-covid19-tribes-defend-themselves-against-a-pandemic-and-south-dakotas-state-government

"How dare you use footage of words I said to make me look like an asshole? That's one of the few things I care about!" Not sorry she said it, mad she was caught saying it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/melania-trump-child-detention-leaked-tape-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-book-b746007.html

Slowing U.S. job growth leaves nearly 4 million Americans permanently unemployed
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy/wrapup-3-u-s-job-growth-slows-in-september-permanent-unemployment-increasing-idUSL1N2GS23C
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/02/trump-republicans-nebraska-nice-420691

Fed Up in Flyover Country

Donald Trump has alienated many of his former supporters in the heartland. It's not his policies. It's him.

By ANNA GRONEWOLD

10/02/2020 04:30 AM EDT

Anna Gronewold is a reporter for POLITICO and the co-author of New York Playbook.

ROCA, Neb.—Elaine Dlouhy calls herself a "crazy crafting woman," adopted a dog named Spinks during the pandemic and has been married to the same man for 30 years. They put off an August anniversary trip to Belize or Costa Rica when the pandemic hit. "My husband and I both look like heart attacks waiting to happen (we like beer) but we really enjoy hiking and bike riding," she said. Like a lot of people in Nebraska's capital, in 2016 she cast a ballot for Donald Trump.

Trump's oratory left something to be desired, she remembers thinking back then, but she reasoned his brashness was likely born from years as a businessman—experience she thought would translate to strong leadership and sound economic decisions. He might not have been her ideal candidate, but she assumed Trump would surround himself with "good people" like both George Bushes had done.

It didn't take long for her to discover—to her horror—her assumptions were wrong. Within just a few months, Dlouhy lost count of the shocking things the president had said, and she noticed he had begun to alienate any advisers who disagreed with him. The president who had said on the campaign trail that the world was laughing at the United States was, she realized, embarrassing the nation on the world stage.

"Every time he opens his mouth, it is a cringeworthy moment for the world. I don't know how to say that in a nice way," Dlouhy told me last month.

As a Nebraska native, I'd been picking up signals in recent months from my conservative family and friends that they're uncertain how they'll vote this November. And when I've asked why, they said they are simply appalled. I wasn't surprised, but it didn't match up with the narrative of diehard Trump voters dominating the 2020 coverage. So, on an extended trip back home, I decided to see just how widespread this sentiment was. I asked legislators I knew from my years covering the statehouse, and they had no trouble pointing me to constituents, which is how I found Elaine Dlouhy, a 57-year-old client services manager at a Lincoln staffing agency who is now planning to vote for Joe Biden. She's hesitant about the Democrat's stance on late-pregnancy abortion, but that's not enough to dissuade her.

"It's comical and it's embarrassing," she said of the current commander in chief. "I used to try to support him, to see something good in something he said. I can't do that anymore."

In this volatile and unpredictable election cycle, pundits have obsessed over slices of the Republican electorate they believe could decide the outcome in November—the vaunted college-educated suburban women, for example, and less-educated blue-collar men. But there's a group of voters, scattered across the vast American interior, that has gotten almost no attention at all and might be just as decisive in November. They live in states so reliably red that no one from either party generally pays them much attention. Nebraska went for Trump in 2016 by 25 percentage points and will almost certainly do so again this November; indeed, the last time the state voted for a Democrat, it was for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-09-29/joe-biden-gains-ground-over-trump-in-electoral-college-analysis

But their distaste might be a telling indicator of why Trump is floundering in polls across the country. It isn't necessarily about a policy or a broken promise, it's about Trump as a person. Trump's bare-knuckled personality—which was on full display at the Tuesday debate—has been his calling card. He has said things that no one else dares, and his base loves him for it. But for this group of former supporters, Trump's personality has become his biggest liability.

I spent a month in my home state trying to learn what Nebraskans believe is at the roots of defections like Dlouhy's. Why are conservatives like her quietly questioning whether they can cast a presidential vote in good conscience? In so many ways, their views haven't changed—they are still passionately pro-life, and they remain suspicious that Democrats will reach too far into their lives and pocketbooks. But they believe equally that their highest elected official must display a sense of decorum worthy of the White House.

Very simply, Trump offends a deeply ingrained culture of politeness and compromise that, until recently, earned Cornhuskers the very vanilla tourism slogan "Nebraska Nice." They are generally not on the news screaming at protesters, waving confederate flags or brandishing firearms wildly. At its core, Nebraska Nice isn't so much a syrupy sweetness but rather a shared aversion to petty and therefore unproductive conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ZuJ9vl3V0

"These folks are not political ideologues. They march in the March for Life, they vote Republican, but they are not enamored by the kind of identity politics that Trump brings," said Max Mueller, a classics and religious studies professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who has written about his personal struggle to live out his Christianity in a moment of heightened political division. "They just want things to get back to normal—in some ways like I do. We all want to get to a place where we don't have to think about what the president does every day."

https://religionandpolitics.org/2017/07/11/why-i-went-back-to-church/

Progressive Democrats on the coasts might expect a break with the president to be driven by disagreements over Trump administration policies that have enraged and animated their own opposition—immigration, climate change, for example. But the discrepancy—between a culture of polite coolness and a president who tweets out political punches all day in all caps—is more rooted in the foundational moral principles of a state where more than half of adult residents rank as "highly religious" and many adhere to an ethic of commonsense collaboration that persists, in part, due to a collective memory from when their forebears worked together to survive harsh Great Plains winters.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/29/how-religious-is-your-state/?state=nebraska%5d%5d

Erik Miller, 36, describes himself as somewhat conservative with a libertarian lean. He is, he said, "totally down" for much of Trump's policy agenda. But he's unsure if he'll vote for either candidate. The "us versus them" rhetoric he has heard from Trump—even more than the lies, affairs or cover-ups that have emerged during the Trump administration—is hard to justify to the family he's building in Lincoln.

"I get that politics can be dirty," he said. "But it's the bullying and the 'winning' that bothers me, because that's a hard one to explain to my kids."

Miller, who has spent several years involved in Christian college campus ministries, is wary of concepts he's hearing from Biden like a new, national Medicare plan or a federal mask mandate, but he doesn't know how he can preach traits like respect and compromise to his five children, ages 4 through 11, if he supports Trump for another term.

"Am I, by November, going to be cool with separating the personal from the policy?" he asked. "Am I OK with sitting down with my family and saying, 'Hey guys, we're on board with this guy [Trump] … but we're going to ignore—just set aside—all the other things? That might be a little bit tricky."

In Nebraska, adherence to Republican precepts is so common that it would seem a "shy voter" is more likely to be quiet about supporting Biden than Trump. That sentiment generally grows stronger the further west you drive from the two largest cities of Omaha and Lincoln, across dizzying miles of sandhills and cornfields that stretch hundreds of miles to an endless horizon.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-28/new-study-suggests-polls-are-missing-shy-trump-voters

So it doesn't make much sense for anyone uncertain about another four years of a Trump administration to make waves by announcing it out loud, said Robert Joseph. Joseph owns Peppermill & E.K. Valentine Lounge (2013 winner of Nebraska Beef Council's coveted "Best Burger" award) in Valentine, a north-central town of about 2,700 in cattle country that is well known as a launching point for a lazy day of drunken rafting down the Niobrara River. His customers certainly don't want to hear it.

"If I had a Biden sign, they absolutely wouldn't come," Joseph told me. "I could never do anything in the restaurant but answer people's questions [about politics]. I know that because the first Biden sign went up, and it is the biggest, silliest topic of conversation in town."

While people might still be wary of announcing their support for Biden, some are nevertheless beginning to find it easier to describe their dissatisfaction with Trump.

Joseph, 42, doesn't like the way Trump has emboldened his community to talk divisively about minority groups—especially on Facebook. To him it seems counterintuitive because the town has a tangled but symbiotic relationship with the Rosebud Indian Reservation, roughly 10 miles north of town and just over the South Dakota border.

"There's been race tension all the time—we know how to deal with it," Joseph said. "But the way that people are willing to speak out against African Americans is shocking to me, when many of them, maybe, haven't even met an African American person for a while."

Joseph, too, is feeling a nudge from his future self; he leans conservative libertarian, he said, but doesn't want to have to confess to his children, currently 8 and 3, that he voted for Trump in 2020.

"Through the whole Trump presidency, I've raised a kid to 8 years old. I'm here to tell you, I just think he's the sweetest, nicest, most empathetic young man," he said. "And the problems I have with Trump are exactly in opposition to how I've raised him, whether it's discipline in what you say and what you do or teaching kids to admit when they're wrong."

He doesn't have a problem voting for a Democrat but said he finds it absurd that Democrats, "in an election with these kinds of consequences," chose Biden. "I don't think that any weird leftist army is going to turn us into a socialist country. I just think he's a poor candidate."

He is personally friendly with members of the congressional delegation, such as Republican Senators Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse, who have stopped into the restaurant over the years. But he's "appalled by the senators cowing" to Trump's whims, he said. He hopes that a Biden presidency might persuade some of them to embrace a spirit of bipartisanship, and that in time a conservative party might survive Trump and produce a candidate he'd support.

Even in the most Western part of the state—just across the border from Wyoming—it's possible to find hints of the same discontent. In Chadron, 27-year-old Jacob Rissler isn't hearing other Republicans talk about what he sees as clear concerns conservatives should have with Trump. The close-knit community and college town of about 6,000 is largely agricultural—a place where ranching gets you by, but maybe doesn't get you rich, meaning everyone works hard and makes the most with what they have.

Rissler said he is confused that his friends, family and neighbors aren't more upset about the tariffs taking a scalpel to their farming livelihoods. Last year, the state's farm bureau estimated Nebraska would lose about $1 billion from retaliatory tariffs from Trump's trade wars. That's not the fiscal responsibility that drew him to the party, he said.

https://journalstar.com/business/agriculture/report-nebraska-farmers-could-lose-close-to-1b-this-year-from-tariffs/article_347a8bbb-d70d-5158-84a1-175180342fde.html

"To me, this is not what traditional conservatism is," Rissler said.

In college a few years back, Rissler was president of the Chadron State College Republicans. He was worried about Trump's "character" on the campaign trail and wrote in Jeb Bush on his 2016 ballot. But he realized a couple years into the administration that Trump—and by extension the Republican Party—was no longer open to new ideas or disagreement. He's voting for Joe Biden this November.

"This kind of sucks because sometimes I feel like I'm on an island," Rissler said. "Most of the people I knew in the College Republicans are full-throated supporters of him [Trump] still, and I have just learned 'I'm not going to talk to you about it.'"

Rissler, who is Roman Catholic, was grateful a moderate Democrat like Biden got the nomination—there weren't any others in the crowded field he would have crossed a party line for. And while he disagrees with Biden on a couple issues, primarily abortion, it doesn't compare to the multiple frustrations he has with Trump.

This makes him something of an outlier. For the state's religious voters, abortion can be the beginning and end of any conversation about national politics. The reasons are myriad: a thriving evangelical community, an emphasis on large families, and the fact that the Lincoln diocese is considered one of the most conservative in the nation. Even the strictest anti-abortion views aren't necessarily bad politics: Five state senators this year said abortion shouldn't be allowed even to save a mother's life.

https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/lincoln-diocese-attracts-conservative-catholics/article_418e8cd2-089c-59c7-b883-a757bcd2b08c.html
https://journalstar.com/legislature/abortion-survey-shows-some-nebraska-candidates-would-not-make-exception-to-save-mothers-life/article_0f22878b-1c5f-5a6c-ba2e-c0008e1d959f.html

Concerns that the former vice president has become over the years—and even during the current campaign—more expansive in his views on abortion could prevent Trump defectors from driving up too many additional votes for Biden, said Mueller, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln religious studies professor.

"They see what a lot of people see is blatantly obvious: [Trump] is a threat to democracy, he demonizes the other, he's a racist, he's a bully, he's corrupt," Mueller said. "But in the end, most or all of them are one-issue voters and that's abortion."

There's another reason beside politeness that Nebraskans generally avoid talking about national politics: In the center of the country, Washington seems far less consequential than state and local governments, where farmers and suburbanites alike know the most important decisions about their property taxes—higher by far than the national average—are calculated. In most counties, a presidential vote is largely symbolic.

https://taxfoundation.org/nebraska-property-tax-reform/

But this year in Omaha, the presidential votes could matter quite a bit.

Nebraska, which has three congressional districts, is one of two states (Maine is the other) to split its electoral votes. The biggest district is the 3rd, which covers most of the state—and most of its farmers. The 1st covers most of eastern Nebraska, including Lincoln, and is only a shade less red than the 3rd. But the tiny 2nd district, which is composed almost entirely of the city limits of Omaha and the two counties around it, has so many Democrats it earned the nickname "Obamaha" in 2008, when it added a single electoral vote to Barack Obama's landslide 2008 victory.

Though it still leans Republican by about 4 percentage points, there are some scenarios this year in which the 2nd is the deciding factor in a presidential race that is tied in the Electoral College. Cook Political Report currently has the 2nd as "Lean Democrat." The district is flippable for Biden, according to Cook's Dave Wasserman, because it has the highest percentage of whites with college degrees, a group that holds promise for Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/electoral-college-maps-analysis/index.html
https://cookpolitical.com/sites/default/files/2020-09/EC%20Ratings.090920.pdf

The mood of the district, which counts 164,254 Republicans to 159,102 Democrats and 109,227 nonpartisan voters, is reflected in the razor-thin polling margins for the rematch between Republican incumbent Rep. Don Bacon and his 2018 challenger, nonprofit executive Kara Eastman.

https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/sos.nebraska.gov/files/doc/elections/vrstats/2020vr/Congressional-District-September-2020.pdf

Eastman, who lost by just 2 points in 2018, this year has the national backing of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after rebuilding bridges that were burned with her campaign's criticisms of the organization's effectiveness during the previous cycle. But her strategy has also shifted to wooing the Nebraska Nice voter, a switch from 2018, when she embraced a progressive agenda to excite new voters. This year, she's distinguished herself with independents and disenfranchised Republicans, she said in an interview, all while tying Bacon to Trump in the ways she believes are already causing voters to stray from the GOP.

https://omaha.com/news/local/kara-eastman-softens-unapologetic-edge-as-she-eyes-2020-rematch-with-rep-bacon/article_6eb85d3d-1584-5c9d-9c0f-49d1f0afaec3.html
https://omaha.com/news/plus/in-bid-for-congress-kara-eastman-is-throwing-out-the/article_360aa090-2a24-5d28-9d73-975e10598ae5.html

"The Republican Party used to be the party of fiscal responsibility, environmentalism, family values. That is all gone out the window with Donald Trump," she said. "There are Republicans out there that are tired of the rhetoric that keeps coming out of the White House; they feel like Trump doesn't represent things that are important pieces of not just the Republican Party, but American values."

Some summer polls have Biden leading Trump by as many as 7 points in NE-2, with Eastman and Bacon within 1 or 2 points of each other. Both Eastman and Biden will likely depend on suburban turnout in the metro areas of Douglas and Sarpy counties, where an abundance of jobs (at least before the pandemic) has drawn large numbers of Hispanic immigrants. And that's generally meant more Democrats: The past two years, registered Democrats in Douglas County, which makes up most of the district, have jumped from outnumbering Republicans by 5,285 to 11,014.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/nebraska/2/
https://omaha.com/sarpy/sarpy-leads-metro-area-population-growth-expert-says-but-still/article_3756f01a-f741-5b26-a822-aa1d6242e8c2.html
https://www.votedouglascounty.com/vr_counts_archive.aspx
https://www.votedouglascounty.com/vr_counts.aspx

Pat Borchers, 58, a law professor at Creighton University in Omaha, is one of those newly registered Democrats.

Borchers heartily supports Biden, he said, but "up until 2016 was playing for the other team." He ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Legislature as a Republican in 2016 but held his nose and voted for Hillary Clinton. He had stayed a registered Republican—hoping the Republican Party would "rediscover its soul"—until this May.

"I'm not on the fence at all," Borchers said. "It's been kind of a long journey, but Trump's handling of the pandemic has just been worse than awful and the racist dog whistles—they're like racist bullhorns—just disgust me so much."

He believes his district could provide an early indicator in an election where vote counting drags on for days, even weeks.

"By midnight or so on Nov. 3, the results are going to be pretty complete in NE-2," he said. "And if Biden carries NE-2, Trump's lost."

In the summer of 2019, two mass shootings happened within hours of each other in places hundreds of miles from Nebraska. In El Paso, Texas, a gunman who killed 22 people at a Walmart store was charged with federal hate crimes for targeting people of Mexican heritage. Then, in Dayton, Ohio, a man shot and killed nine people outside a bar. Shortly afterward, in Omaha, a Republican state senator took to social media. "The Republican Party is enabling white supremacy in our country," John McCollister tweeted. "As a lifelong Republican, it pains me to say this, but it's the truth."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-el-paso-issue-report-active-shooter/story?id=64753896
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/us/dayton-ohio-active-shooter/index.html
https://twitter.com/SenMcCollister/status/1158178237899522048

Over the years, McCollister has frequently crossed traditional party lines for larger issues with moral or economic arguments, like eliminating the state's death penalty in 2015 or ending the state's ban on driver licenses for DACA recipients. But he had never taken on his party or its leader so directly.

"We have a Republican president who continually stokes racist fears in his base. He calls certain countries 'sh*tholes,' tells women of color to 'go back' to where they came from and lies more than he tells the truth," McCollister continued in a multi-tweet barrage. "We have Republican senators and representatives who look the other way and say nothing for fear that it will negatively affect their elections. No more."

His tweets received hundreds of thousands of likes and tens of thousands of retweets. He was at a conference in Nashville as his tweets went viral; he recruited his son to help him navigate a short national media tour. The reception at home was not as a warm. The state party leadership asked him to leave. He refused. A year later, he's still at war with his party. McCollister estimates 10 to 15 percent of the communications he gets from constituents are Republicans who feel the same way, though his staff said the opposition mail is equal or greater in volume.

"I'm not looking to make publicity—I'm a term-limited, relatively obscure state senator from Nebraska," McCollister told me by phone last month. "That tweet—what did it have? 16 million impressions? I was one of the first to call out Donald Trump for being a racist. But since that time, a good number of Republicans have joined the group, including Chuck Hagel, Colin Powell, [John] Kasich, and I'm not the voice in the wilderness anymore."

So what does that mean for you this November, as a politician? I asked, after the Republican laid out his frustrations with the state and national branches of the GOP.

"You mean how am I going to vote?" McCollister asked, after a brief pause. "Well, I'm going to vote for Joe Biden, for sure. And it's not even a close contest for me. Donald Trump has just in so many ways bankrupted the country." (Hours after we spoke, McCollister's public endorsement of Biden went nearly as viral as his tweets on white supremacy.)

https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/mccollister-endorses-biden-invites-other-nebraska-republicans-to-join/article_ee4589ac-bd92-524b-8615-5ef5fb0432ef.html

McCollister doesn't know what's next for Republicans at the federal or state level ("you'll have to call me Nov. 4"), but he's convinced that the Republican Party under Trump is a departure from decency and that it might be having a corrosive effect on norms of governing closer to home. He's concerned, he told me, the nominally nonpartisan state Legislature is losing its handful of centrists, like himself, that allow Nebraska's unicameral body to succeed, albeit slowly.

The body of 49 nonpartisan senators (all limited to two terms) is in many ways a symbol of an ideal governmental format in the eyes of some Nebraskans. It is neither quick nor efficient—each bill, with the exception of some technical bills, gets a public hearing and a maximum three rounds of voting (which includes the potential for three rounds of filibusters). There are no party leaders whipping votes, and accomplishing anything takes intentional across-the-aisle compromise where no one leaves entirely happy. While most senators largely stick to party lines and hear from their constituents if they don't, a last-minute change of heart vote—even if it's on the third vote—is neither uncommon nor disparaged.

That's not to say Nebraskans aren't polarized or carry wildly different opinions about what's best for the collective good, but they have historically been more open to the idea of an inch-by-inch accomplishment toward common goals.

"Nebraskans on balance are not big fans of being confrontational people. We have so few people, part of the culture is: You better work to get along with your neighbors because they're all you've got," said Kirk Brown, the now-retired attorney who handled Nebraska's death penalty litigation on behalf of the state for 30 years. "Your barn catches on fire? You need neighbors and you don't want to spend your whole life pissing people off because you might need them. Frankly, I'm very comfortable with that."

Brown, 72, left the Republican Party in 2017. What he saw happening in the executive branch in Washington was the political equivalent of a barn fire, and neither party in Congress—which he believes is constitutionally responsible to slow presidential action—was working to put out the flames. Brown said he is concerned about the long-term state of both parties, because he doesn't just see differences of opinions on how to accomplish common goals—he doesn't see people willing to set common goals at all.

"Although I am not a person particularly famous for my willingness to compromise, I'd be the first to say I think the whole theory of American government is not the rule of like mind, but that we continue to function because we find ways to compromise on difficult issues," Brown said. "If you start with the issue and the person advocating that issue, saying they're wrong, you've left yourself room to compromise. But if in the opening gambit, you say the issue and the person in favor of it is evil, you have nowhere to go."

"My entire life, Democrats could never convince me I was a Democrat. It took the Republicans to convince me I wasn't a Republican anymore. The Democrats couldn't do it, but the Republicans managed to in the end."

The next generation of conservative political junkies aren't any more optimistic either.

Grahm Peschel, 21, wasn't old enough to vote in 2016 but said he would have supported Trump to keep Clinton out of the White House. He's been involved in state and local campaigns since he was 14 and worked for Republican Rep. Don Bacon in 2018. This November, the geography major at University of Nebraska-Omaha said he might write in his own name.

It was about year two of the Trump administration when Peschel started to realize he couldn't support Trump.

"All of the rude, disrespectful and inappropriate comments that he's made during the presidency really started coming to light for me, because I wasn't paying attention to them before he was elected," he said.

Peschel said he doesn't think Trump has fulfilled campaign promises that initially drew conservative voters: Mexico is not paying for a wall, Planned Parenthood is not being sufficiently defunded and Peschel doesn't believe the 2017 tax bill did enough for the middle class. But, for Peschel, those policy failures pale in comparison to Trump's failure as a leader.

"The most important issue for me in politics is not an actual political issue," he said. "I just don't see Trump pushing a unity viewpoint to the American people. I see him dividing us in every way he can. In his eyes, Democrats are evil people and hate America. And I don't believe that. They are just people who look at things from a slightly different perspective than me."

The first person who told me confidently that Trump would win the 2016 election was the bartender at a steakhouse and golf course on the outskirts of Lincoln where I picked up waitressing shifts in between reporting jobs.

It was late in 2015, and I scoffed when Scott Hayes said "Donald Trump will be our next president" one night as he snuck me pours of wine and quizzed me on the tannins I detected. But Hayes, 60, a native Nebraskan who has worked up and down the East Coast, knows the pulse of a community is best read by those who see its businessmen, golfers and football fans when their inhibitions are diluted by alcohol. At the time, that was the exact crowd Hayes said was excited by Trump's pitches for a strong economy and small business growth. Part of that was a curiosity about whether an "anti-establishment" candidate could disrupt the political system in a positive way. "They said, 'Let's just vote for him and see how crazy it can be.'" Hayes said.

I dropped by the Wilderness Ridge recently to see if Hayes was hearing some of the same rumblings of discontent that I was picking up. In between sending rounds of white wine and Bud Light to his tables of barely socially distanced regulars, he said he still sees and serves the Trump fans and believes the base will turn out in full force. But there's something else at play, he told me. The peripheral voters he's seen in Nebraska—those who might judge a candidate on merits rather than strict party line—aren't inclined to ignore their misgivings.

"The luster has worn off. People have seen it, and it's not that pretty," he said. "I think there's some Trump supporters who in secret will go 'Yeah I can't.' Once they get in that voting booth they'll realize 'Yeah, not him.'"

He offered me another prediction: "Biden all the way."
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Happy reminder: Yankees 2-8 vs Rays

Amy Coney Barrett Had COVID-19 In Recent Months, Friends of Supreme Court Pick Say. Not a big deal.
https://time.com/5895544/amy-coney-barrett-covid-19/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barrett-coronavirus-court-trump/2020/10/02/ecf7c7ce-04cf-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html

17 Republicans Voted Against Condemning Designed Domestic Terrorist Group QAnon After A Democrat Received Death Threats From Its Followers
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/house-condemns-qanon-trump-death-threats-republicans

Notre Dame president apologizes after not wearing mask at SCOTUS nomination
https://www.wndu.com/2020/09/28/notre-dame-president-apologizes-to-campus-after-not-wearing-mask-at-scotus-nomination/

Eleven Alaska Native tribes offer new way forward on managing the Tongass
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.10/indigenous-affairs-forests-eleven-alaska-native-tribes-offer-new-way-forward-on-managing-the-tongass

Trump had close contact with "dozens" on fundraising trip after White House learned he was exposed
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/02/trump-had-close-contact-with-dozens-on-trip-after-white-house-learned-he-was-exposed-to-covid-19/

Cameron's spokeswoman acknowledged Monday night that prosecutors never recommended charges to the grand jury against Mattingly and Cosgrove. I mean most people assume when it's impaneled that they will not recommend charges, not because that's fair, but it's because there is no historical support for charging the police in cases like this. The mechanism by which they expect no charges is the issue here. You would expect the question of charges to be posed, and then for some justification, even if it's qualified immunity, to be presented which quashes the whole thing.Instead what we are finding out is that it's like the Mueller Investigation. Charges are impossible and so there was never even a discussion as to whether the conduct was warranted. It's so far from justice that they will not even review actions taken in light of a justification.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/02/what-breonna-taylor-grand-jury-recordings-tell-us/5878170002/
https://www.wkrn.com/news/listen-to-the-full-audio-breonna-taylor-grand-jury-recordings-released/

At his fundraiser at Bedminster yesterday, Trump, already feeling sick for several days, held a roundtable indoors with 18 donors without informing them Hope Hicks had just tested positive.Attendees were 6+ feet from Trump, but no one wore masks. Per 1 source, one of Stanley Chera's sons was in the room.

Trump campaign: All events featuring president, family postponed after COVID-19 diagnosis, Pence to continue campaigning: Statement from Trump Campaign: "All previously announced campaign events involving the President's participation are in the process of being moved to virtual events or are being temporarily postponed."
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1312089330270326785

Trump has not tweeted in 13 hours, since announcing his positive Coronavirus diagnosis.

A Senate Republican aide, on background, tells the Post that some Republicans are now discussing asking Leader McConnell to "take the Senate out of session next week" before the ACB hearings start in mid-October. "If some in the Republican caucus get sick, we are screwed," the aide says.
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1312074358651748358?s=20

From yesterday (October 1, 2020): President Trump returns to White House from fundraiser in New Jersey.
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1312088816786776064

The University of Utah is set to host the VP debate as planned this Wednesday, spokesman Shawn Wood tells me. Their policy will require everybody inside the security perimeter — save for the three people onstage — "to wear masks at all times," Wood says.
https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1312086891089534976

Yu Got This (Marlins/Cubs)

Sixto'clock (Marlins/Cubs)

Cubs started 13-3 then shifted to completely mediocre since then. Hoping for the best but I won't be surprised or devastated if Cubs lose this series. The Cubs/Marlins/Cards/Padres will not defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers LOL

This was made a few weeks ago
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/17/160-words-trump-reveals-how-little-he-cares-about-pandemic/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjWBHuQWsAExDCc?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

It takes about 10 minutes to fly from the South Lawn to Joint Base Andrews on Marine One, where POTUS and his staff transferred to Ait Force One and took off for the fundraiser. So "White House Operations" made the assessment in those minutes?: —@PaulaReidCBS presses @PressSec on who assessed it was OK for Trump to have attended fundraiser after WH learned of possible exposure. McEnany says White House operations made the assessment in consultation with others, then ends briefing.
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1312090452263399425

Did anyone see the stat about Cubs hitting below .200 against fastballs? Barely saw it on broadcast. It was specifically any pitches over 95 mph, with also a point that they were 2/19 against such pitches in Game 1.

Republican Senator Mike Lee May Have Infected Senate Judiciary Committee Members With Covid-19 |     Sen. Mike Lee said he first began feeling sick Thursday morning ― right around the time he was attending a nearly 90-minute Senate Judiciary Committee hearing without a mask on for at least part of the time.    Most members of the committee attended the Thursday hearing. Those in attendance included Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Lee.    Lee was there for the entire hearing. He spoke for more than 10 minutes straight when it was his turn to talk, at times shouting into the room. He sat feet away from Cruz. He did not have a mask on when talking, and at times did not have it on when not talking.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lee-covid-supreme-court-hearing-amy-coney-barrett_n_5f775beec5b6d4e948b523fb?r6e

Top White House staffers still not wearing masks
https://news.yahoo.com/top-white-house-staffers-still-not-wearing-masks-164206885.html

Republicans are winning the voter registration battle against Biden in key states | It may not be enough to erase the former VP's polling lead but could boost Trump if the race tightens. | In Florida, Republicans added a net 195,652 registered voters between this March's presidential primary and the end of August, while Democrats added 98,362 and other voters increased 69,848. During the same period in 2016, Republicans added a net 182,983 registrants, Democrats 163,571 and others 71,982. In 2016, Trump prevailed in Florida by just 112,911 votes. Even in heavily blue Miami-Dade County, where Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 29 points in 2016, Republicans added a net 22,986 additional voter registrations between March and the end of August, compared to 11,142 for Democrats. In Pennsylvania, Republicans added a net 135,619 voters between this June's primary and the final week of September, while Democrats added 57,985 and other voters increased 49,995. Between the April 2016 primary and the November 2016 general election, Republicans added 175,016 registrants, Democrats added 155,269 and others 118,989. That fall, Trump won the state by just 44,292 votes. | In North Carolina, Republicans added a net 83,785 voters between this March's presidential primary and the final week of September, while Democrats added 38,137 and other voters jumped 100,256. During the same period in 2016, Republicans added 54,157 registrants, Democrats added 38,931 and others 140,868. In 2016, Trump carried North Carolina by 173,315 votes. In Arizona, Democrats out-registered Republicans 31,139 to 29,667 on a net basis between the March presidential primary and the August state primary, compared to Democrats topping Republicans 66,523 to 53,185 over the same period in 2016. This data doesn't include new registrations from late August or September, and Arizona's registration deadline is Oct. 5. And in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republicans have steadily been closing the registration gap for years as older, rural and conservative voters who used to affiliate as Democrats either die or formally switch their registrations to the GOP. In each of these states, several counties that voted strongly for Trump still have overwhelming Democratic voter registration advantages. But privately, several Democratic strategists are deeply disturbed by their party's failure to keep pace with its registration successes in 2016 and fault the Biden campaign's lack of in-person outreach for the lag. The Trump campaign is well aware of the opportunity it has to expand its core demographic base through registration and mobilization: in 2016, there were 2.4 million eligible whites without college degrees who didn't vote in Pennsylvania; 2.2 million in Florida, 1.6 million in Michigan and 872,000 in Wisconsin, according to estimates compiled by the Cook Political Report.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-winning-voter-registration-battle-against-biden-key-states-n1241674

- Hitting 100 is hard
- Hitting 100 middle up is easier
- Cubs suck against fastballs
- If they do not hit Sixto Sanchez's fastball,, especially the most hittable of Sixto Sanchez's fastballs, they will lose

All top 3 NL pitchers will be out of the playoffs within 1 game if Cubs lose....

To the fans in my mentions right now: @Reds fans: I love you all. Thanks for an amazing season! Wish you could've been at the ballpark! Braves fans: Seems like y'all hate me and I wouldn't be embraced here! What a shame... 😕 Astros fans: LOL, why are y'all here? Stay mad.
https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1311774207072763906

Joe Biden is traveling to Michigan today
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312073665408716800

People who eat animals: if you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights movement: you're doing it right now.

Jake Diekman on #Athletics playing three noon playoff games in a row: "I think that's horseshit. And I'm sorry but we're the second seed and we play three noon games in a row. That's terrible."
https://twitter.com/matthewkawahara/status/1311699097997307904

5 Republican attendees of Trump's SCOTUS nomination speech test positive for COVID-19
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attendees-scotus-nomination-rose-garden-test-positive-covid/story?id=73391378

Biden with that BIG MASK ENERGY. Democratic nominee Joe Biden tests negative for coronavirus after potential exposure
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/democratic-nominee-joe-biden-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-after-potential-exposure.html

Chairman Nadler issues Statement in Support of Resolution Condemning High Rates of Hysterectomies Performed on Immigrant Women Detained at Irwin County Detention Center
https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394449

White House SCOTUS announcement is suspected as Covid super-spreader event as video shows infected senator hugging attendees
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/scotus-nomination-coronavirus-superspreader-white-house-senator-mike-lee-b749466.html

Flash back to Trump mocking Biden for mask wearing during the debate. Trump's whole side of the room with no masks and now he ran around knowing he was exposed spreading it to others. Ghastly. That happened ages ago this week. Also flash back to Trump mocking Hillary in the last election for being weak and catching pneumonia. Why did he take the test?! If he didn't take the test he wouldn't have covid19!

The most beautiful thing is how, through his own callousness, he has supplied people with their responses:
- It is what it is
- Inject bleach
- He knew what he signed up for
- I really don't care, do you (assist from Melania)
- I don't think science knows

Judge rules Barr violated law in selecting law enforcement panel members
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/attorney-general-barr-ruling-law-enforcement-commission/index.html

Federal judge says Census count must keep going until Oct. 31
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-census-count-oct-31-trump-administration/story?id=73389671

https://vegancheatsheet.org/

POTUS becoming super spreader. Really representing his people. Two White house reporters have tested positive and a White House staffer according to CNN.

Cleveland reports at least 11 cases of coronavirus linked to presidential debate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/cleveland-debate-coronavirus-2020-election-b750050.html

Yu Darvish Final Line: 6.2 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO, 1HR, 2.70 ERA, 94 pitches

White House doctor: Trump received experimental antibody cocktail, remains 'fatigued' after COVID-19 diagnosis
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312125210569572352

Texas should lead energy transition | Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sent a campaign representative to the heart of the nation's energy industry to discuss his energy policy this week.

Texas native and energy industry veteran Mike Collier said Biden recognizes an energy transition to carbon neutrality is underway and believes Texas – and the Texas oil and gas industry – should lead the way. "The industry is going in that direction, we should follow," he said. "We need oil, we need gas, we need to invest in them. The industry has to participate in achieving carbon neutrality. It's a challenge for all of us." There is no one solution to achieving carbon neutrality, Collier said, but companies – from the oil industry to farming and ranching – should be very good at a lot of things, including carbon capture, sequestration and use. While Biden calls for aggressive investment in renewable energy and in technology like smart grids, electricity storage, carbon capture and sequestration, solar, wind and geothermal, Biden sees fossil fuels remaining a part of the energy balance. He has no plans, for example, to ban hydraulic fracturing, Collier said. Biden's energy policy, he said, sees natural gas as a very important part of the nation's energy balance. Collier, who began his working career at Exxon and later PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said he knows the industry and believes Texas, with its leadership in technology, can dominate in development of oil, gas and renewable energies. And he said Biden wants the jobs created by those efforts to be good-paying jobs.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/insider/article/Biden-rep-Texas-should-lead-energy-transition-15614555.php

Trump being taken to Walter Reed Military Medical Center as a 'precautionary measure'
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/president-trump-being-taken-to-walter-reed-military-medical-center-as-a-precautionary-measure.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919697784/trump-makes-unannounced-visit-to-walter-reed-following-coronavirus-diagnosis

Trump Sued Over U.S. Sanctions on War Crimes Investigation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/trump-is-sued-over-u-s-sanctions-on-war-crimes-investigators

The walk to Marine One will be perhaps the most scrutinized walk of Trump's life. The last outing the president had yesterday: he attended this fundraiser - 6-foot distanced pictures but POTUS wasn't wearing a mask according to one attendee
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zybw/trump-mingled-mask-less-at-golf-club-fundraiser

I'm excited for Biden to continue ignoring all you losers when he's president too: Joe Biden ignoring all the "basement" and "lid" mockery is indicative of his philosophy to tune out the near-term political chatter and trust his gut on what matters. It paid off in the primary and now, 32 days out, he spends today in Michigan as his rival recovers in isolation.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1312117831962554370

Folks, none of these negative tests mean anything for at least a week or so. It's called incubation.

The ruling to strike down the 1945 law that Whitmer used to continually extend the pandemic emergency was 4-3. Four Republicans in majority, three Democrats in minority
https://twitter.com/DavidEggert00/status/1312145510002696192

The 11th Circuit ruled illegally and unconstitutionally to reinstate Georgia's Election Day illegal and unconstitutional deadline for accepting absentee ballots — the court halted an injunction that would have required the state to count ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within three days. The 11th Circuit majority that granted the stay of the lower court injunction features two of Trump's nominees to the 11th Circuit — Judge Britt Grant, who wrote the opinion, and Judge Barbara Lagoa, who you may remember as a recent SCOTUS frontrunner.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7221569/10-2-20-New-Georgia-Project-v-Raffensperger.pdf

Trump labored for months to focus the race on Joe Biden's health. Now Trump, sick with coronavirus, is being airlifted to the hospital on live TV:
https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/1312142549713219584
https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/1312142549713219584/photo/1

"The president is struggling with a low-grade fever, a cough and nasal congestion, among other symptoms, two people familiar with his condition."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312145491623251968

There were debate watch parties at the Trump Hotel and Matt and Mercy Schlapp's house this week. They creating a dizzying number of connections to some of the positive cases.
https://news.yahoo.com/as-covid-spread-through-white-house-top-trump-allies-and-family-members-mingled-at-events-in-dc-213300887.html

Biden campaign official says the campaign is pulling its negative advertising from their rotation of paid media
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1312148543197437953

The Melania tapes bust the "Free Melania" myth | Turns out the first lady is a lot like her husband.
https://www.vox.com/21497443/melania-trump-recording-tapes

Four different playoff series this year have been closed out by a former Twins pitcher (Ryan Pressly-Astros, Liam Hendriks-A's, Brusdar Graterol-Dodgers, Brandon Kintzler-Marlins) with a fifth being ended by a former Twins farmhand (Nick Anderson-Rays)

Three NL Central teams - the 1st-place Cubs, 3rd-place Reds and 4th-place Brewers - went 0-6 in wild-card round, combining to score just four runs in 58 innings. The 2nd-place Cardinals, 26th in majors in OPS during regular season, have scored 16 runs vs. Padres in two games.
https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1312145281601814528

Last year, the Marlins lost 105 games. This year, they've swept the Cubs and are heading to the NLDS

I wish Trump a recovery. He needs to recover, lose the election, and go to jail with his children and see himself disgraced.

WH Comms Director Alyssafarah confirms to CBSNews there has NOT been a transfer of power to VP Pence as the President heads to Walter Reed Medical Center. "The President is in charge."

Walter Reed has a special suite available for the president with multiple rooms for rest, treatment, work and dining.  It is seldom used but made for this purpose.

This is incredible. Lee said he *woke up* that morning with symptoms. Yet he still came into a room with his colleagues, including several in high risk categories, and didn't wear a mask: Mike Lee was sitting next to Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, without a mask, when he had COVID symptoms. They did use social distancing while seated.
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1312121805465763840

I'm sorry sir but you only qualify for $750 worth of Medical Care

What a year this week has been

He received the maximum dosage of an experimental treatment not approved by the FDA before going to the hospital. The drug, called REGN-COV2, is given as a single dose by injection (an infusion). Trump received the high dose being tested by the company – 8 grams.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919697784/trump-makes-unannounced-visit-to-walter-reed-following-coronavirus-diagnosis

Him actually dying from Covid-19 would be one of the greatest ironies of the century. Hope he makes it, so he can lose the election and go to jail for tax fraud.

We still hear about Reagan from Republicans, we'll hear about Trumpism for the rest of our lives

It's really a disaster for his campaign. The guy who belittled the virus, dismissing it as a hoax, being hospitalised by it. The guy who mocked his rival's health, being hospitalised.

WH Last Night:
"The President is feeling fine, we are going to quarantine to be safe!"
WH This Morning:
"The President is in such great spirits. He's a little tired, but he's having a good time, we got this!"
WH This Afternoon:
"The President has a bit of a fever and is feeling sleepy. We are going to administer an experimental cocktail, but it's all good."
WH Now:
"The President is on his way to Walter Reed."

The President remains well
The President feels lethargic and has mild symptoms
The President is in high spirits
The President has a low grade fever
The President is on an experimental antibody cocktail
The President is going to Walter Reed

Amazing how he's suddenly heeding expert advice when it's his ass on the line.

Trump has not tweeted anything in the 17hrs since announcing his positive test. This is unpresidented territory. It's unlikely that tweet was written by him, either. It's coherent, written in complete sentences, doesn't abuse caps lock, and actually calls the disease "COVID" instead of something racist and offensive. 99% sure that wasn't Trump himself doing the tweeting.

It's been four years to the day since Trump called Hillary Clinton weak for getting pneumonia.
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1311923016620748802

Being hospitalized for an infection he downplayed for the last nine months is a huge blow to the perception his base has regarding his health and longevity. He wouldn't have gone eagerly. Makes him look weak.

It's all precautionary until it isn't. Not saying it's a huge deal but I wouldn't gamble on it not being one

If nothing else, it prevents him from dismissing it as a nothing virus. Hard to spin that from a hospital bed.

The Biden campaign has pulled down negative advertising until further notice. As of right now, the Trump campaign has not.
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1312153915295580160

I witnessed a Cleveland Clinic doctor remind Trump's guests to wear a mask, even offering them surgical ones on the off chance they didn't have one. None of them put on a mask. The doctor looked frustrated as she stepped away, prompting a staffer to say, "That's all you can do."
https://twitter.com/MariannaNBCNews/status/1311981108821712902

I have never seen so many WH staffers wearing masks at the same time throughout this entire pandemic
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjWzn27XsAAJKBh?format=jpg&name=900x900

It's actually terrible for the country if Trump dies. It's important moving forward that he gets held accountable for his crimes and misdeeds. If he dies, I doubt there will be enough political will to do it. People will think it's unseemly.

It was only about 24 hours ago that Biden and Trump spoke at the virtual Al Smith Dinner.
Trump: "The end of the pandemic is in sight."
Biden: "These are difficult times for our country. ... We have to guard ourselves from rationalizing that this is normal."
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1312158393541357569

Trump just walked across White House lawn to Marine One and climbed a few stairs with ease. That is a positive sign, and less consistent with hospitalization for cause. Hopefully, we will be told reliable and precise information as this case unfolds, to minimize speculation.
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1312158369613053954

Trump, who has never overnighted at a hospital in his life, will spend the next few days at Walter Reed military hospital as he battles coronavirus19 infection.

"I think I'm doing very well," Trump says in a video message about his hospitalization. "But we're going to make sure things work out."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312158400352972800

Cliff Sims, who sued President Trump after the Trump campaign accused him of violating a NDA when writing a tell-all book, has returned to the Trump administration as a senior adviser to the director of national intelligence, per an admin. official.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/02/cliff-sims-white-house-odni-425579

Russian Editor Dies After Setting Herself On Fire In Front Of An Interior Ministry Office
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54392005

France said Tuesday it planned to "gradually" ban mink farms in the country as well the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and the breeding of dolphins and orcas in captivity. The country's three dolphinariums will also no longer be able to breed or bring in new dolphins or killer whales.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200929-france-to-ban-mink-farms-and-wild-animals-in-travelling-circuses

New Investigation into Dog Meat Market in South Korea Found Over 200 Dogs Being Kept in Crates
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/investigation-dog-meat-market-south-195842031.html

Graham has his own debate tomorrow evening against Jaime Harrisonja for the South Carolina Senate election.
LindseyGrahamSC underwent a coronavirus19 test today "out of an abundance of caution" after SenMikeLee tested positive. Graham's results came back negative.

I hope he recovers from this hoax. Thoughts, prayers, and hydroxychloroquine. May the disinfectants work their magic in his bloodstream.

Pelosi is going to get a stimulus deal passed because of this like a fucking boss. Shit feels real to you now, doesn't it assholes? Let's deal.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/pelosi-optimistic-on-relief-says-trump-s-illness-alters-dynamic

Would be interesting to see what Twitter would've done to a rookie Troy Aikman that went 0-11 and first-year Peyton Manning that threw an NFL record 28 INT. Some of these young QB are in really bad situations right now. Circumstance matters.

Two more Titans' players tested positive today in Tennessee
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1312027602140434434

Gregg Williams' defense allowed a 3rd string QB to score 38 points. Adam Gase's 0-4 #Jets scored only 5 offensive touchdowns in four games with -66 point differential. There isn't one game on the Jets schedule you can confidently say they have a chance to win under this regime.
https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1312032480573128705

Adam Gase calling unnecessary timeouts in a game they already lost. Vic Fangio is having none of that bush league BS, tells team to go straight to locker room.
https://twitter.com/thedirtysports/status/1311877260056518657

The NFL should immediately mandate that the Jets and Giants remove that turf and replace it with grass. Unsafe working conditions for players are obvious.
https://twitter.com/davidcanter/status/1311839341367439361

While COVID-19 spread, White House officials urged scientists to downplay the risks, watered down official CDC guidelines and just dropped $300 million on a campaign to make Americans feel "hopeful" about the pandemic: Trump Admin officials orchestrated at least 47 separate instances of political interference since Feb, putting their partisan agenda over Americans' health. This Admin must #EndTheInterference and put science before politics.
https://twitter.com/RepMaloney/status/1312038812059566081

23% of those that have returned their ballot in North Carolina so far didn't vote in North Carolina in 2016.
This is what it looks like by party registration:
Dem: 21%
Repub: 23%
Non-Partisan: 26%
https://twitter.com/lbronner/status/1312163693648519176

The Trump campaign just sent out a fundraising email with the subject line "Lyin' Obama." The email goes on to mock Joe Biden for being "asleep in his basement." The Biden campaign, meanwhile, has pulled all negative ads.
https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1312164464876118018

Speaker Pelosi on Friday vowed additional payroll support for airlines was "imminent" and asked them to pause furloughs for tens of thousands of workers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/pelosi-asks-airlines-pause-thousands-furloughs-more-aid-imminent-n1241859

The Biden campaign pulled negative ads. In response, the Trump campaign said it would not pull negative ads. The campaign made a nonsensical argument, claiming that Joe Biden "attacked" the president during his speech in Michigan. Biden did not attack Trump. That's a lie.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312173056945655808

We buried over 200,000 Americans and it still wasn't enough to move the needle for him or his people to take this seriously. Two hundred thousand dead and he was still making fun of people for wearing masks as recently as this past week. It had to be the president. It had to be him. Now it's serious and now the masks come out. How many would be alive if they had acted with this sense of urgency back in February?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Reddy

As Barack and Michelle Obama sent out their thoughts and prayers. The Trump campaign sent out a mailer calling Obama a liar and saying Biden is already back in his basement. This is also as Biden as pulled his negative advertising. Such class. He doesn't deserve our sympathies but he will get them nonetheless.

And here I was thinking September lasted for about 6 months, we're already 4 years into October.

Sen Thom Tillis also tests positive for covid-19, his office says. Tillis is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, was at the White House SCOTUS event Saturday, met with Barrett on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1312184139827703808

Incredible footage of illegal and unconstitutional border wall construction in Arizona's Guadalupe Canyon, where terrain is so rugged and remote that blasting crews have to build new roads just to bring their equipment in. This area is critical habitat for jaguar migration: 09/02/2020 in Guadalupe Canyon. The amount of dynamiting that is happening is scary. Remember that 5 months ago there was NO wall or road! This area is SO remote that people and drugs to not cross here!
https://twitter.com/iamKurc/status/1312172547937501184

Lindsey Graham tests negative, says Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing still planned, possibly virtually.

"You've never seen him sick. You've never seen him without energy," Brenden Dilley, a self-described "MAGA life coach," told his viewers on his radio show Friday. "[He's] not walking around with weak-ass, p---- f------ genetics. He ain't got those liberal genes. These are, like, god-tier genetics; top 1-percentile genetics." | A stunned MAGA world offers blame, adulation after Trump's diagnosis
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/02/maga-world-blame-adulation-trump-covid-425624

Word of RBG's death emerged at this exact hour only two weeks ago

The White House hosted a coronavirus19 super spreader event on Saturday for the highest elected Republican officials in America.

Tillis always wears masks at the Capitol, and was wearing one at Saturday WH event, per this helpful Zachary_Cohen screen grab, yet still tested positive
https://twitter.com/Zachary_Cohen/status/1309970004809519104

Natural herd immunity is an excellent idea until you're in the herd.

Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting. Yesterday a judge approved an $800M settlement lawsuit against the Mandalay Bay Resort for the victims in the shooting. To this day there has been no definitive motive discovered regarding the shooter.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/us/las-vegas-shooting-settlement-approved/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

Secret Service agents expressed their anger and frustration to colleagues and feiends Frida, saying that Trump's actions have repeatedly put them at risk. "He's never cared about us." "This administration doesn't care about the Secret Service."
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-seemed-to-defy-the-laws-of-science-and-disease-then-the-coronavirus-caught-up-with-him/2020/10/02/5b4c5232-04bf-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html

Kellyanne Conway Tests Positive for Covid-19
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-conway-tests-positive-for-covid-19

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien tests positive for Covid-19
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/02/trump-campaign-manager-tests-positive-for-covid-19-425722

A Republican state lawmaker in Pennsylvania tests positive for Covid-19, canceling House session
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pennsylvania-9b1ce2507027ba8119a07b4e33a8bc0f

A Republican Senator Ron Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wisconsin-gop-senator-ron-johnson-tests-positive-for-coronavirus

Eric Trump set to speak with N.Y. investigators Monday about family business
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1241966

Hundreds of alumni from Amy Coney Barrett's undergrad school declare opposition
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-03/alumni-at-barretts-undergrad-school-sign-letter-of-concern

Native Voters Could Swing the 2020 Election—If They're Able to Vote: Menominee tribal citizens are working to make Native votes count in Wisconsin
https://inthesetimes.com/article/native-voters-voting-rights-menominee-navajonation-2020-election-sharicedavids-menominee

Former NJ Governor Chris Christie, Who Helped Trump Prepare For Biden Debate, Tests Positive For Covid-19
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/03/chris-christie-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html

Patriots-Chiefs game postponed after Cam Newton tests positive for Covid19
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/03/sports/cam-newton-reportedly-tests-positive-covid-19-will-miss-game-vs-chiefs/

The president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery." --A source familiar with the President's health, to pool reporters
https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1312424326788976641

Sen. Graham and his Democratic challenger are set to meet in their first face-to-face matchup Saturday, amid record-breaking fundraising and a Supreme Court nomination debate that means Graham may be spending much of the remaining campaign in Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sen-graham-harrison-face-first-debate-close-s-carolina-race-n1241964

McConnell announces that the Senate will be our until October 19. SCOTUS confirmation hearing will begin Oct 12 in a hybrid manner (virtual and remotely). Two Republican Senators that must be part of the process tested positive for covid19 and should not be allowed - being sick and in quarantine - to participate. Democrats need to ACT NOW.
https://twitter.com/LACaldwellDC/status/1312424678854721536/photo/1

"About 48 hours ago the president received a special antibody therapy directed at the coronavirus" - Dr Garabaldi, Walter Reed.

48 hours ago?  Thursday morning?  Before he tested positive?  His doctor just briefed the press, sharing few specifics, but inadvertently revealed Trump tested positive 72 hrs ago—meaning he was contagious far earlier. And then the pool shared a background analysis—below—saying his vitals are "very concerning."

Trump was administered supplemental oxygen at the White House on Friday before going to hospital
https://apnews.com/article/archive-75ae554ce5d092d50dad7c0c7dbcf70e

Lincoln Project won't pull anti-Trump ads, vows to "defeat Trumpism" after president's COVID diagnosis
https://www.newsweek.com/lincoln-project-wont-pull-anti-trump-ads-vows-defeat-trumpism-after-presidents-covid-diagnosis-1536155

It's time we come together. It's time we see each other as fellow Americans, who don't just live in red states and blue states, but who live in — and love — the United States of America. That's who we are — and there is nothing we cannot do if we do it together.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1312471229207543809

I seriously cannot believe that representatives of states and our country are stooping to the lowest of lows in the most unethical ways. If there is ONE thing you do over the next few weeks, it's to remember when Joe said that all Americans have to do to get rid of this clown is VOTE.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1311809048971415554?s=21

Lindsey Graham photographed with leader of FBI designated domestic terrorist group white nationalist group Proud Boys
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-photographed-leader-195832167.html

Aaron Coleman, a 20-year-old candidate for a Kansas House seat in Wyandotte County, was arrested and charged in 2015 with threatening to shoot a student at a Turner School District school.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article246171185.html#storylink=mainstage_lead

YEP: Biden Needs to Stop Talking Down Bernie Sanders and Medicare for All

"I'm not sick, I have no symptoms, I certainly didn't anticipate testing positive, so there was no reason to quarantine." https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/after-testing-positive-for-covid-19-ron-johnson-says-hes-still-against-mask-mandates/article_779c1b9f-e725-55cf-944c-03122be174e7.html

A federal judge has ruled that Gov. Steve Bullock was within his authority to allow Montana's counties to mail ballots to every voter to avoid spreading COVID-19. Bullock's order had been challenged by Trump's campaign and Republican election committees.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-montana-lawsuit/judges-rule-for-mail-voting-in-montana-and-alabama-idUSKBN26L3VC

They think he's a hero for getting infected with covid19. What if Trump was infected with aids or syphilis instead? Portraits from what has turned into a Trump rally outside Walter Reed military hospital.
https://twitter.com/PhilipinDC/status/1312520620182171648

Since last Saturday's Rose Garden SCOTUS announcement, these people have tested positive for Covid-19:
• President Trump
• Melania Trump
• Rev. John Jenkins
• Sen. Mike Lee
• Sen. Thom Tillis
• Kellyanne Conway
• Chris Christie

Good: Democrat Cal Cunningham "hurt" family with romantic texts, doesn't plan on ending campaign
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-thom-tillis-cal-cullingham-texts-1536190

Chris Christie Checks Himself Into Hospital Due to Covid-19
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-03/former-new-jersey-governor-christie-tests-positive-for-covid-19

Miami's Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic being listed doubtful for Game 3 of NBA Finals against the Lakers, sources tell https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1312501098670821376

In consultation with my doctors, I checked myself into Morristown Medical Center this afternoon. While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we decided this is an important precautionary measure.
https://twitter.com/GovChristie/status/1312510988478889985

Trump here looks sick, but not deathly ill. (Which can be deceiving with this virus, but a good sign). A little rambly - he's Trump, after all - but if Trump sounded like this all the time, he'd be doing a lot better politically.
https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1312531329561452545

I am glad to see our financially bankrupt president getting treatment for his illness from a government hospital and government doctors. Wouldn't it be a cool idea if all Americans could get similar medical treatment? Or even just insurance for such medical care? Call me crazy. Radical idea, I know.

RANA ZOE MUNGIN, a beloved 6th grade social studies teacher in Brooklyn, New York, died of COVID-19. She was 30 years old. She was turned away from an emergency room twice after initially developing a fever.
https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/beloved-brooklyn-teacher-loses-battle-with-covid-19-sister-says

Texas Attorney Ken Paxton took bribes, abused office, executives in his office say | Top aides of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked federal law enforcement authorities to investigate allegations of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential crimes against the state's top lawyer.
https://www.statesman.com/news/20201003/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-took-bribes-abused-office-executives-in-his-office-say

It's not just New England: #Chiefs practice squad QB Jordan Ta'amu has tested positive for COVID-19 and is being added to the reserve list, per me and @MikeGarafolo.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1312421062303453185

"Patriots have been doing mass testing and re-testing and, so far, there is no spread, per source."
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1312408986264760325

Another record number of new positive COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin: 2,892 new cases. 19 more deaths. Wisconsin has surpassed 130,000 positive cases total since March. One month ago there were 77,856 cases.
https://twitter.com/MollyBeck/status/1312470644538318848

Joe Biden said today that he has discouraged some governors from endorsing him, warning them that if they do so, the Trump administration may retaliate by withholding critical COVID-19 supplies
https://axios.com/biden-governor-endorsements-trump-aid-covid-453fc546-df25-45c5-91f0-0ef3b0af78d7.html

If they keep gathering in crowds without masks, soon they'll be Trump supporters inside Walter Reed:
https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1312531318480101376

The NBA has, in my mind, been the gold standard. They have constant, accurate rapid tests, but its not enough by itself. They also use the bubble and masks.

REMINDER from 2016: Trump ad uses Hillary Clinton's coughing to question her commander-in-chief fitness https://politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ad-clinton-health-229603  #RoseGardenMassacre #GOPSuperSpreaders

Twitter bans posts wishing for Trump death. The Squad wonders where that policy was for them
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html

REMINDER: Republican Sen. Ron Johnson Went to Oktoberfest Party After Testing Positive for COVID-19
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-sen-ron-johnson-went-to-oktoberfest-party-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19

As someone who lost my own father to this virus and seen the pain it causes, I do not wish it on anyone. "Over 200,000 people have now died while this Administration actively ignores public health guidance and suppresses science. For months, we have been hoping for a simple acknowledgment from the President—to hear the words, 'We will get through this together.' And now we only hear those words when it is about him—not the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their lives, and the millions whose families have been touched by it because of his malfeasance. "Their cruelty is a direct threat to my constituents. This week, the President held a rally and fundraiser in Minnesota, flouting the guidance of his own health agencies by failing to wear a mask. In doing so, he exposed hundreds in a state that is already suffering from an uptick in cases. Republican members of our Congressional delegation travelled with him on Air Force One and have not quarantined. In fact, they came to the Capitol today, risking the lives of additional elected leaders and staff. "The President of the United States and Republicans in Minnesota are actively spreading a deadly virus. They are a risk to the public health of my constituents and our country."
https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-statement-trump-s-covid-19-positive-diagnosis

Trump said Biden was a medically fragile liability whose VP might seize control. Now Trump has Covid-19 and his VP might seize control.

The White House releasing photos of Trump working in hospital: publicity stunt. Trump mocked for signing blank paper in staged photos at Walter Reed
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-coronavirus-photo-op-staged-walter-reed-b778464.html

The photos released by the WH tonight of the president working at Walter Reed were taken 10 minutes apart at 5:25:59 pm and 5:35:40 pm ET Saturday, according to the EXIF data embedded in both @AP wire postings that were shared by the White House this evening.
https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1312616578773446656

Democrats shield candidate from Lindsey Graham with plexiglass wall in election debate. Why would anyone trust being face to face with a republican especially after what has happened in the past few days? Jaime Harrison is SMART.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-senate-debate-plexiglass-covid-b765866.html

White House acknowledges Trump's condition had been worse than revealed
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meadows/white-house-acknowledges-trumps-condition-had-been-worse-than-revealed-idUSKBN26P0HV

Director of Oval Office Operations Nick Luna tests positive for COVID-19
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/02/nation/pelosi-says-shes-been-tested-is-awaiting-results-ronna-mcdaniel-tests-positive/

Trump rolled the dice repeatedly by holding event after event with very few masks and little or no social distancing. Then came the pageantry of the Amy Coney Barrett debut, and there are now at least eight cases among attendees, including Trump himself:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-04/trump-tempted-fate-long-before-rose-garden-coronavirus-cluster

Trump campaign's Jason Miller says Joe Biden has "used the mask as a prop" and that "we can't all just stay in our basement for the rest of our lives.": .@GStephanopoulos presses Jason Miller: "We've all seen the rallies without the masks. The Rose Garden event without the masks. (Trump's) family refused to wear masks at the debate and the president seem pretty proud of that…will it change going forward?" https://abcn.ws/2GhYiJI
https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1312744815826808833

Trump Megadonors and Business Execs Are Bankrolling QAnon-Friendly Candidates
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-megadonors-and-business-execs-are-bankrolling-qanon-friendly-candidates/

Trump's refusal to wear face masks turned them into a sad national symbol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/03/trumps-refusal-wear-face-masks-turned-them-into-sad-national-symbol/

Rural Pennsylvania voters don't hate Biden as much as they hated Clinton, and Trump may need them to
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/rural-pennsylvania-voters-trump-biden-clinton-20201004.html

US contractors are dropping heaps of taxpayer-funded border wall in Mexico where it's being sold as scrap metal
https://www.insider.com/us-border-wall-sold-in-mexico-as-scrap-metal-2020-10

Patriots-Chiefs will kick off at 7:05 ET with full telecast on Monday night on CBS; Falcons-Packers kicks off at 8:50 et, per source
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1312768788954259459

After a long night for the #Saints and FB Michael Burton, his sample came back as a false positive. In the words of one source, "Everything that should have happened, did happen, protocol-wise." The #Lions-#Saints game is on.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1312718375068594177

This should have already happened: Multiple coaches have suggested this weekend the possibility of pressing pause on the season, reconfiguring the schedule to have 12 total regular-season games, and putting teams in hotels for the nine games left to be played.
https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1312620946520498176

Quentin Nelson playing Left Guard and Left Tackle in the same play
https://v.redd.it/473p3lt47yq51

In light of the #Titans COVID-19 outbreak, the NFL scheduled a call for Monday that will include all head coaches and GMs, per sources. The message will be clear: If we want to finish the season, can't get complacent. Everyone has a role. Protocols aren't failing, people are.
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1312702802678996993

Meanwhile: There are no other positive tests around the league, source said. So that's good news.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1312728122664587266

All other Patriots' tests returned negative tonight, source tells ESPN.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1312576790204997632

After a sluggish start, the #Texans and coach Bill O'Brien will change the way they call plays, sources say. O'Brien will have a heavy hand in play-calling and game-planning.
http://www.twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1312726465134374913

Preventing spread keeps getting framed as this unanswerable question. The NBA, NHL have shown the U.S. how to do it: Mandate masks, rapid testing, social distancing, no large gatherings. There is, literally, a blueprint.
https://twitter.com/SIChrisMannix/status/1312446336147488768

The Rays are 8-1 against the Yankees this season. While the Yankees have a good record against bad teams, they're clearly not able to beat the Rays, who are the best team in the AL and 2nd in all of baseball. It's one of those david vs Goliath scenarios where you have the big bad Rays who basically owned them all season long versus the Yankees who basically stumbled into the playoffs miraculously. I just can't see the Rays losing this series with the kind of track record they had this year. My prediction? A clean 3-0 sweep. Probably won't even be a competitive series sadly and too bad...Let's Go Flappy Boys!

Coalition announces $7 million to help Miami ex-felons pay fines to be able to vote again
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article246172615.html

*** Asked why he didn't mention Trump was on oxygen yesterday: Dr Conley says he was trying to reflect an upbeat attitude and in doing so it came off we were trying to hide something but that isn't the case ***
--- Narrator: It *is* the case

Conley was asked 4 times whether Trump had ever been on oxygen, and kept saying he wasn't. There was no ambiguity in what he was trying to avoid saying. He REPEATEDLY lied.

You know what has been an axiom of the Trump years? Expect the worst. This guidance has never let me down.

I thought we could at least trust doctors at Walter Reed to tell us the truth.

Once again, this is completely unacceptable: "I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction," Dr. Conley says when asked why he was reluctant to answer specific questions about the president's health yesterday). Conley is a member of the United States Navy, where making false official statements is an offense punishable by court martial. COURT MARTIAL HIM. NOW.

Mollie Hemingway on Fox News complaining that the media isn't asking tough questions about Joe Biden's health. Philippe Reines points out Joe Biden is not in the hospital: Also, the media hounded the Biden campaign yesterday about Biden's next COVID test result, to the point that the campaign eventually agreed to start publicly releasing the results of every single test he takes.
https://twitter.com/mollyhc/status/1312789219778199554

Mayor de Blasio, pending approval from state, announces plans to close non-essential businesses, public and private schools in nine ZIP codes starting Wednesday in an attempt to contain COVID clusters http://4.nbcny.com/z9RzsN8https://twitter.com/NBCNewYork/status/1312789639036653571

One other problem with the White House (and Trump's doctors) relentlessly lying about Trump's condition is the election is in 30 days, and a 74-year-old hospitalized patient is likely to have some persistent symptoms for weeks after discharge.

The one that is currently blowing my mind is that Trump had a second low oxygenation episode on Saturday morning prompting the doctors to prescribe a third medication (dexamethasone), and right after that they walked out of the doors and told the American people nothing about it. REPEATEDLY LYING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH. JUST TELL THE DAMN TRUTH.

Also, Trump putting on a brave "I'm doing great, I'll be back soon" face is the most normal human thing Trump has done. What do you expect ANY President/PrimeMinister to say, "I feel like shit, I can't breathe, my heart rate is out of control, I'm hooked up to many machines, I can't eat, I may die"?

This photo tells at least 1,000 words about this weekend: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows rubs his head as U.S. Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, speaks to the media about President Donald Trump's health. Photo by @erinscottphoto
https://twitter.com/corinne_perkins/status/1312793102474784770

Tens of Millions in PPP Loans Went to Corporate Polluters After Companies Were Fined $52 Million, Analysis Shows - "Our federal government should not be essentially giving back portions of the penalties they've paid, but that's exactly what the Trump administration is doing through the PPP."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/04/tens-millions-ppp-loans-went-corporate-polluters-after-companies-were-fined-52

Michael Moore is floating conspiracy theory that Trump may be faking Covid19 diagnosis. The problems are: 1) It wouldn't explain everyone else getting sick, unless it's a vast conspiracy. 2) Republicans aren't even capable of coordinating making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, let alone something of this magnitude.

Bill O'Brien the GM is realy enamored with promising young playcaller Bill O'Brien the OC. expect this to be his top choice for the interim position when and if he moves on from head coach Bill O'Brien
https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/1312790329066696705?s=20

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/03/kenosha-shooting-victims/

A mentally ill man, a heavily armed teenager and the night Kenosha burned

Cast by conservatives as a battle between antifa agitators and a right-wing 'patriot,' this summer's deadliest protest-related incident was not quite what it seemed

By Robert Klemko and Greg Jaffe

October 3, 2020

KENOSHA, Wis. — Anti-police-brutality demonstrators were converging on Kenosha from all over Wisconsin for a second night of marches. An armed right-wing group had put out a call for "patriots willing to take up arms and defend [our] City tonight from the evil thugs."

Joseph Rosenbaum — depressed, homeless and alone — didn't belong to either side. He had spent most of his adult life in prison for sexual conduct with children when he was 18 and struggled with bipolar disorder. That day, Aug. 25, Rosenbaum was discharged from a Milwaukee hospital following his second suicide attempt in as many months and dumped on the streets of Kenosha.

His confrontation hours later with Kyle Rittenhouse, a heavily armed teenager who had answered the call for "patriots," kicked off a chain of violence — the deadliest of the summer — that left Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, dead. A third victim, Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, lost a chunk of his right biceps but survived.

Within hours, the three men and the teenager who shot them were assigned roles in the country's churning partisan drama. On the right, Rosenbaum, Huber and Grosskreutz were cast as antifa foot soldiers, bankrolled by shadowy forces and determined to set fires and spread anarchy. On the left, the three shooting victims, all of them White, were celebrated as anti-racist martyrs battling armed vigilantes who had coalesced to support police departments accused of racism and brutality.

The fight has spilled into this year's presidential campaign, with Trump blaming left-wing extremists for the violence in Kenosha and elsewhere. "Somebody's got to do something about antifa," he fumed during Tuesday's debate. Former vice president Joe Biden called antifa "an idea, not an organization" and accused white supremacist groups of fomenting unrest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/01/trump-laura-ingraham-conspiracy-theory/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/30/trump-debate-rightwing-celebration/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-antifa/2020/09/11/527071ac-f37b-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html

The real story of the Kenosha shootings offers a different view of the sometimes-chaotic protests and counterprotests that have shaken American cities this summer. The confrontation between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum, and the bloodshed that followed, was more accidental than political — the product of anger, alienation and a tragic, chance encounter between a mentally ill man and a heavily armed teenager.

This story is based on court documents, videos from the demonstrations and interviews with more than three dozen of the victims' friends and relatives. Some of them, such as Rosenbaum's fiancee and Huber's girlfriend, spoke at length for the first time, providing the most comprehensive account to date of Rosenbaum's and Huber's often painful childhoods, past encounters with police and paths to the protests that night.

Each of the three shooting victims was drawn for different reasons to the demonstrations that erupted after the Aug. 23 wounding of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a White police officer. Their lives, forever linked by the bullets from Rittenhouse's assault-style rifle, had proceeded along different routes, and each carried objects that shed light on their journeys and motivations.

The real story of the Kenosha shootings offers a different view of the sometimes-chaotic protests and counterprotests that have shaken American cities this summer. The confrontation between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum, and the bloodshed that followed, was more accidental than political — the product of anger, alienation and a tragic, chance encounter between a mentally ill man and a heavily armed teenager.

This story is based on court documents, videos from the demonstrations and interviews with more than three dozen of the victims' friends and relatives. Some of them, such as Rosenbaum's fiancee and Huber's girlfriend, spoke at length for the first time, providing the most comprehensive account to date of Rosenbaum's and Huber's often painful childhoods, past encounters with police and paths to the protests that night.

Each of the three shooting victims was drawn for different reasons to the demonstrations that erupted after the Aug. 23 wounding of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a White police officer. Their lives, forever linked by the bullets from Rittenhouse's assault-style rifle, had proceeded along different routes, and each carried objects that shed light on their journeys and motivations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/05/jacob-blake-whose-shooting-led-violence-kenosha-appeals-calm-his-hospital-bed/

Grosskreutz, who attended close to 100 protests this summer, carried a medical kit, tourniquets and a pistol.

Huber was attending his second protest. He carried his skateboard, a source of joy and affirmation during a depressing and, according to court documents, violent adolescence, as well as a cellphone to document one of the most consequential nights in his town's history.

Rosenbaum had never attended a protest, and seemed caught up in this one almost by accident. He carried a clear plastic bag containing a deodorant stick, underwear and socks that the hospital had given him upon discharge following his suicide attempt. In the seconds before he was shot, Rosenbaum threw the plastic bag at Rittenhouse and chased him behind some parked cars.

"Oh, he got a gun! " a woman screamed of Rittenhouse. "He got a gun!"

'I want to fix things'

Hours after he was released from the hospital, Rosenbaum stopped by a pharmacy in Kenosha to pick up medication for his bipolar disorder, only to discover that it had closed early because of the unrest.

He visited his fiancee, who was living in a cheap motel room, but she told him he couldn't stay the night. She had pressed charges against him a month earlier after a fight in which he knocked her down and bloodied her mouth. If Rosenbaum violated his no-contact order, she warned, he could be sent back to jail.

"I want to fix things," she recalled him telling her. "I want to get myself right."

She was open to reconciling. "I just want you to be you," replied the fiancee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she has received threats to her life.

The weeks leading up to Rosenbaum's death had been as chaotic as his life. Raised in Texas and Arizona, Rosenbaum met his father only twice and told his mother that he was molested by his alcoholic stepfather "on an almost daily basis," according to court documents.

When he was 13 his mother was sent to prison for two years, and Rosenbaum was sent off to a group home, where he began using heroin and methamphetamine, according to court documents. By 18, he was in prison for sexual conduct with five preteen boys, the children of people who had taken him in after his mother told him to leave her house, according to a presentencing report. He spent most of the next 14 years behind bars.

Not long after he was released in 2016, he met a woman in Arizona and fathered a child, but the relationship didn't last. When the woman fled to Kenosha, Rosenbaum chased her.

Sometimes, he posted pictures of his daughter on Facebook. "That is my lil princess," he wrote in September 2019, a few months after arriving in Kenosha. "She is a daddy's girl all the way i miss her so much."

Three months later, he wrote that he was still struggling to see his child. "I got to fight to get custody," he posted. "I'm trying to get her back."

At the time, he and his new fiancee, who he met in a Wisconsin hospital, were braving the winter in a tent they had pitched in an overgrown lot behind an abandoned department store. Rosenbaum had bought her engagement ring at Walmart and proposed on one knee in the middle of a busy sidewalk.

"That was Jo Jo; he was just goofy," said his fiancee. "He'd make you laugh out of nowhere."

They spent their days at nearby fast-food restaurants where the staff sometimes gave them free meals. At night Rosenbaum, his fiancee and her cat huddled under piles of blankets. "We lived off of each other's body heat," she said.

In the spring, the police confiscated their tent, so they slept for a while behind dumpsters in town. Eventually, the county's social services department helped them get a room at a cut-rate motel, where a sign by the front desk offers $2 condoms and one in the room warns "no refunds after 10 mins."

Rosenbaum did odd jobs for the owner, who complained in an interview about his shoddy work. Aside from one supervised visit, he never saw the child for whom he had moved to Kenosha. In June, he attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. A month later, his fiancee confronted him after finding pornography on his phone. Rosenbaum body-slammed her, according to police, who took him to jail and then released him.

One week later, Rosenbaum called a suicide crisis line. Police found him vomiting and having convulsions outside a McDonald's. He spent a few days in the hospital followed by a few more days in jail for violating the no-contact order with his former girlfriend. Then he was sent for more treatment to the mental hospital in Milwaukee.

Two hours before he was killed, Rosenbaum left his fiancee's motel room and caught a bus for downtown, where a second night of protests had erupted.

"He wasn't down there as a rioter or a looter," his fiancee said. "Why was he there? I have no answer. I ask myself that question every day."

In videos from that night, Rosenbaum often appeared agitated. When a member of the Kenosha Guard, a self-proclaimed militia, pointed his gun at him, Rosenbaum became enraged and dared the man, who was White, to kill him. "Shoot me, n-----!" he shouted. Several protesters rushed to calm Rosenbaum.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/kenosha-shooting-victim-seen-in-video-confronting-armed-men/

"You're going to get us all shot," one of them recalled telling him.

At 11:45 p.m., Richie McGinniss, a reporter with the conservative Daily Caller, spotted Rosenbaum, his T-shirt wrapped around his head, chasing Rittenhouse down the street. It's unclear what provoked the confrontation, though Rittenhouse's attorneys speculated in a video released last week that Rosenbaum may have mistaken the teenager for a similarly attired member of the Kenosha Guard he confronted earlier at the gas station.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1009924546119190

Rosenbaum pursued Rittenhouse down Sheridan Road and into the parking lot of a car dealership that would soon go up in flames. He threw his hospital bag at Rittenhouse, missing him, and charged at the teenager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouvPFfBWZGM

Someone nearby fired a shot. "F--- you!" someone else screamed. Rosenbaum tried to grab Rittenhouse's rifle, and the teenager — who was just feet from Rosenbaum — began shooting, striking Rosenbaum in the back and groin. Another bullet grazed Rosenbaum's head. In the seconds after the gunfire, Rittenhouse is caught on video trying to call a friend for help.

Rosenbaum sprawled on the ground between two cars. McGinniss pulled his own T-shirt off and searched for the wound.

"Put pressure on it!" a young woman begged.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298485363795623936

"Where?" McGinniss asked. "Where's the hole?"

"It's in his f---ing head!" the woman cried.

Rosenbaum, his eyes open and nose bloodied, lifted his skull slowly off the pavement as if trying to speak. Then he lowered his head and shut his eyes for the last time.

By then, Rittenhouse was jogging down Sheridan Road, chased by a crowd of demonstrators, including Huber with his skateboard.

'Stop him'

On the night he was killed, Huber sat on the porch of his childhood home with his girlfriend of five months, Hannah Gittings. They smoked cigarettes, charged their phones and talked about the need to bear witness to the night's protests.

Blake had been a friend of Huber's. Two days earlier, Blake had ignored commands from police responding to a 911 call, fought off Taser shocks and attempted to climb into his car. As a bystander recorded the scene, Officer Rusten Sheskey fired seven rounds into Blake's back and side, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Police said they recovered a knife that Blake was carrying from the floorboard of the car; Sheskey has not been charged with a crime.

Blake and Huber weren't close enough to share cellphone numbers, but they had friends in common and had smoked marijuana together, friends said. When Huber learned Blake had been shot, "he was in a f---ing state," Gittings said.

They talked under the moonlight about how police shootings had been happening for decades in America, and how the difference today was the ability to record it and instantly broadcast it to the world.

So that became the mission: Documenting the protests for posterity. They sketched out a plan on the porch of the crumbling, paint-chipped house that had been the source of so many problems in Huber's life.

Huber said his mother was a hoarder, according to Gittings and Huber's friends. The layers of garbage and cat feces that accumulated in the house had been a source of constant stress for Huber, who also was battling a bipolar disorder that went undiagnosed until he was an adult.

In 2012, Huber brandished a butcher knife and threatened to "gut" his brother "like a pig" if he didn't clean the house. The family told police that Huber choked his brother with his hands for 10 seconds before letting him go and retreating to the skate park. Convicted of strangulation and false imprisonment, he was placed on probation but violated the terms and was sent to prison in 2017. When he came home, he got into another argument over the state of the house. This time, he kicked his sister, and went back to prison on a charge of disorderly conduct in 2018.

Huber's mother declined to comment for this story, but Huber's family issued a statement describing him as a hero.

Upon release from his second prison stint, Huber met Gittings at The Port, a Kenosha bar. He told her he was seven years sober from heroin, the same drug Gittings had recently decided to quit. As an alternative to shooting up, he offered a hit from his vape pen loaded with DMT, a psychedelic.

"He had just gotten out of prison and was having a hard time finding a job that doesn't make you want to f---ing kill yourself every day," Gittings said. She was coming off the breakup of her marriage. Both were on the verge of homelessness, sleeping on friends' couches.

Huber helped Gittings stay off heroin. "I totally credit my sobriety to him," she said.

They spent much of their free time at Basik Skate Park in Kenosha, where Huber had been a mainstay since he was a child, skating through bloody forearms, elbows and palms. "It was his life" Gittings said. "It was his escape. That's all he ever did to get out of that disgusting house."

Then, in May, came a stroke of luck, Gittings said: Huber's mother was evicted, and Huber's uncle, who owned the house, offered to let Huber stay there until it could be sold. Gittings couldn't guess how many bags of trash were hauled out — Huber did much of the work by himself — but friends described the house as "unrecognizable" by the time Huber and Gittings were done scrubbing the muck-stained floors.

"We made that place livable," Gittings said. Cleaning it out after so many years of anger, frustration and decay was "such a redemption for him."

After Blake was shot, Huber attended the first night of demonstrations. The next morning, they headed to the beach with Gittings' 3-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, skipped rocks and gazed out at Lake Michigan.

Huber's friends said he didn't talk much about politics or activism, but they weren't surprised he took to the streets. "I wouldn't say he was political," said one close friend, "but I think he definitely hated racists."

Huber was part of the crowd at the gas station trying to calm Rosenbaum down after a self-styled militia member pointed his gun at the protesters. And he was standing just down the street from the car dealership when Rittenhouse fired the shots that killed Rosenbaum.

"Stop him," a voice screamed as Rittenhouse jogged down Sheridan Road, according to Grosskreutz's video footage.

"Get his a--!" someone else yelled.

Huber told Gittings to take cover in a nearby alley. "I tried to grab him," Gittings said. "I tried to stop him."

But Huber, skateboard in hand, adrenaline pumping, was already gone.

'Like a war zone'

Rittenhouse was now jogging down Sheridan Road with Huber and a handful of others in pursuit. He passed Grosskreutz, who was standing on the sidewalk, live-streaming the increasingly chaotic scene.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Grosskreutz asked without emotion as Rittenhouse, his rifle hanging off his shoulder strap, approached. "You shot somebody?"

"I am going to get the police," Rittenhouse replied.

It took a few seconds for Grosskreutz to realize what was happening. "Who's shot?" he asked. Seconds later, Grosskreutz gave chase, his pistol drawn.

In a recent interview, Grosskreutz said he had been attending protests since late May, when George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody. He had grown up in a working-class neighborhood just outside the Milwaukee city limits. His mother was a dental assistant and his father did not work, he said. After high school, he had spent a few years as a paramedic, but the steady diet of gunshot wounds, drug overdoses and poverty wore on him. So he decided to attend Northland College, a small liberal arts school where he majored in outdoor education.

When his summer internship in Milwaukee was curtailed because of the pandemic, Grosskreutz decided to focus on the protests. He joined a new group, the People's Revolution, which was calling for an end to police brutality, and he used his training to provide basic medical aid to the marchers and others. He and some friends outfitted a black pickup truck with a red cross and packed it with gauze, water, tourniquets, bandages and quick-clotting agents.

Grosskreutz, a gun owner with a concealed-carry permit, brought a pistol to most of the rallies. As the summer progressed, the protesters were frequently joined by self-described pro-police militias whose members carried rifles.

Some of Grosskreutz's fellow protesters bought their own firearms for protection. Grosskreutz said he never felt threatened. But the night he was shot felt different from earlier marches.

"For lack of a better term, it felt like a war zone," he said.

That evening, crowds had gathered around the Kenosha County Courthouse chanting anti-police-brutality slogans and berating officers. Police used stun grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and armored vehicles to disperse the crowds, and Grosskreutz provided medical aid to an 18-year-old woman who had been hit in the arm by a rubber bullet.

After dark, police began pushing the protesters away from the courthouse toward the armed pro-police groups, who had taken up positions to defend businesses on Sheridan Road. Some trained their guns on the protesters as they passed. A few of the protesters began lighting dumpsters on fire.

"Gunshots," said Grosskreutz on his live-stream video, moments after Rittenhouse fired on Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse passed, then Huber. Grosskreutz fell in just behind him.

After a few yards, Rittenhouse stumbled and fell to the ground. An unidentified man ran toward him and delivered a flying kick. Rittenhouse fired at him but missed.

Then came Huber, who swung a skateboard at Rittenhouse's shoulder and reached for his rifle. Rittenhouse fired again, hitting Huber in the chest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg

Last came Grosskreutz, who ran toward Rittenhouse with his pistol drawn. Rittenhouse raised his rifle and shot. A bullet tore through Grosskreutz's right biceps.

"Medic!" Grosskreutz screamed as he stumbled away. "I need a f---ing medic!"

He was kneeling on the side of the road when live-streaming independent journalist C.J. Halliburton approached.

"I have a tourniquet in the bag," Grosskreutz told him. The journalist dropped his camera and slipped the tourniquet over Grosskreutz's arm, fumbling with the strap.

"That's not how you use it," Grosskreutz yelled.

"Help me," replied the journalist, who started to cinch it.

"Make it tight!" Grosskreutz told him.

"This is going to hurt," the journalist worried.

"Do it!" Grosskreutz ordered. "Do it!"

'Just another cog'

In the days that followed the shooting, conservatives proclaimed Rittenhouse a victim of leftist mob rule. "Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder?" asked Fox News's Tucker Carlson. "How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/foxs-tucker-carlson-takes-heat-for-kenosha-commentary/2020/08/27/b47a8698-e896-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

The next day, Rittenhouse was charged with reckless homicide and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon; he is being held near his Illinois home while fighting extradition to Wisconsin. Trump opined on the charges at a White House briefing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/31/trump-biden-live-updates/

"He was trying to get away from them," the president said of Rittenhouse. "He was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed."

Others hailed the three victims as heroes. In Germany, a Berlin skateboard park was named for Huber. "Never again fascism," his fellow skaters wrote in German and English on the sign paying tribute to his bravery. GoFundMe pages for Rosenbaum, Huber and Grosskreutz raised a combined $251,000.

https://twitter.com/ZSKberlin/status/1301883051115458561

"I did not know JoJo [Rosenbaum], but I will remember his name along with the list of those who have wrongfully lost their lives in support of equality and justice," wrote one woman, who gave $200.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/249yn2bzqo

One man donated the minimum — $5 — so he could blast Rosenbaum as a "child molester and a piece of sewage."

Rosenbaum's fiancee struggled to make sense of it all. She hadn't known about Rosenbaum's criminal history. "I'm slowly learning who Joe was," she said.

She started to read a five-page presentencing report from his 2002 conviction for child sexual conduct, which described in graphic detail the abuse that Rosenbaum suffered as a child and the harm he inflicted on others. But she stopped after a few sentences: She wanted to remember him as a goofy, kindhearted, boisterous man.

"I have to remember him that way or I get too down," she said. "If he could make you laugh, he'd do it. Everyone has demons they fight. He was trying to get his life back together. All he really wanted was a job, a home and a family."

In Milwaukee, doctors stitched up Grosskreutz's arm. A bullet from Rittenhouse's rifle had torn through a tattoo of a caduceus, the medical staff and snake, on his biceps.

Grosskreutz complained to friends that he sometimes felt like "just another cog in this big political agenda." He hated that the shooting and its aftermath were being used to widen divisions in the country.

"People are ascribing motives to people that don't even exist . . . communist, antifa, whatever," he said in an interview. "I'm just a person. I'm a human being. I was never there to hurt anybody."

Shortly after the shooting, Grosskreutz called Huber's girlfriend to offer his support. "We're bonded for life," he told her.

She had watched the video of Huber's final moments before he was shot. The hardest part was seeing how close Huber got to wresting the gun from Rittenhouse in the split second before he was killed. "He almost got it away from him," Gittings said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg

She hopes to use $150,000 from Huber's GoFundMe to provide for her daughter and to build an indoor skateboarding park to help foster a sport that Huber complained was waning in popularity. Huber's family had a private funeral for him, but Gittings said they didn't invite her. Once the police investigation concludes, she plans to hold her own ceremony with the skateboard Huber struck Rittenhouse with. She'll gather his friends at the end of a pier and roll the board into Lake Michigan.

On a warm afternoon in late September, about a month after the shooting, she and a group of Huber's friends headed off to the skate park that had been his refuge. Gittings had scabs on her knees and bruises up and down her calves from recent falls.

She skated until she was out of breath, took a swig of water and plopped down on the concrete next to her friends. They talked about skating, police-shooting victim Breonna Taylor, the upcoming Trump-Biden debate and a drug-addicted friend who needed to go to rehab.

Ever since Huber's death, Gittings' social media feed had been overwhelmed with people writing to either praise Huber as a hero or castigate him as a criminal. One man she didn't know had sent a message containing taunts about her dead boyfriend, along with a picture of himself exposing his genitals.

"I'm so sorry about your small penis," Gittings had responded.

She took a drag on a cigarette and began scrolling through her Twitter feed.

"So @hannahgitts thinks she is going to cash in on her 'boyfriends' death," someone had written minutes earlier. "Nothing more than a money-grubbing opportunist. Maybe he shouldn't have been a communist attacking people and he would be alive."

https://twitter.com/tkdrick/status/1309497441213911041

Her friends tried to reassure her, telling her the commenter was out of line.

"I don't give a s---," she told them. "Anthony would've thought it was so funny how many people are calling him a communist."

Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
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Mom loses her job, goes on unemployment. Finds a job cleaning buses, goes off unemployment. 2 days later, tests positive for covid19 & loses job. Then deemed ineligible to go back on unemployment, faces homelessness -- until local news intervenes.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/10/02/news-6-deo-help-single-mom-unlock-12-weeks-of-unemployment-benefits/

The NIH's treatment guidelines for Covid-19 say dexamethasone should be used only in hospitalized patients who are on ventilators or who require supplemental oxygen, and recommends against using it in patients who don't require oxygen
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/04/trump-receiving-dexamethasone-steroid-usually-given-patients-with-severe-covid19/

The 2020 midterms have begun: Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey will not run for governor or reelection in 2022. Announcement expected Monday.
He'll serve out his current senate term.
https://fusion.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pat-toomey-reelection-pennsylvania-governor-race-20201004.html

In the Q universe, Q+ is the president. They believe Q is a secret government insider, and posts signed by/referencing Q+ are from or about Donald Trump. It's interesting to see a Q follower believe the president is really sick. Most believe he's healthy, taking down the cabal.
https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1312826032001605633

After Donald Trump's reference to the extremist group at the first presidential debate, people have taken over the #ProudBoys hashtag with photos of gay men celebrating their lives and their love. The goal of the movement is to take back the hashtag from the Proud Boys, a far-right men's organization with a history of violence. | Even the official Twitter account for the Canadian forces in the US got in on the action. | It's not clear exactly who started the takeover, but actor George Takei tweeted the idea on Oct. 1. | I wonder if the BTS and TikTok kids can help LGBTs with this. What if gay guys took pictures of themselves making out with each other or doing very gay things, then tagged themselves with #ProudBoys. I bet it would mess them up real bad. #ReclaimingMyShine
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/proud-boys-hashtag-reclaimed-gay-love-photos
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1311791729767526400

As the higher seed, the Oakland Athletics get the home clubhouse (home field advantage, but in the bubble) here at Dodger Stadium, which is a HUGE difference. The visiting clubhouse here is small and a pain to get to. Also: I am guessing the Dodgers wouldn't super love having the Astros in their clubhouse.

Lamar Jackson fastest to 5K yards passing, 2K rushing. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson reached 5,000 yards passing and 2,000 yards rushing quicker than any player in NFL history.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30039586/lamar-jackson-fastest-5k-yards-passing-2k-rushing

Jarvis Landry finds OBJ in the end zone for the TD
https://v.redd.it/6nwxzp0o14r51

Herbert airs it out to Tyron Johnson for a 53 yard TD
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/xrdpxd

4th Brady pick-6 in last 6 games 💀💀 (twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/sharpfootball/status/1312806718460624896
https://streamable.com/sncnrz

Lamar Jackson 50 yard TD run
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1312812608852901888

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CF7eqZhhoSz/
https://www.instagram.com/cameron1newton/

This is the first time the @Browns have scored 28+ points in the first half of a game since 1991.
https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1312820942188486656

Brees is tipped off and picked on his first pass attempt
https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1312803186713952257

Baker finds OBJ in the end zone for his second receiving TD of the day
https://v.redd.it/p33dwzmw84r51

Browns: 50 plays, 398 yards 204 rushing yards at 8.9 a pop. It's an ass kicking up front. And the game still has the 4th quarter to play.

The Dallas Cowboys have given up 38 points for the third week in a row

Dak Prescott has completed 13/16 passes for 197 yards and 2 TDs, the Cowboys currently trail 31-14 to the Browns at halftime

Texans' offense after one quarter: one first down, 12 plays, 21 yards, 1.8 yards per play. Doesn't matter who's calling the plays, the glaring lack of production and points hasn't stopped

Some solid Mormon pandering from Kamala here including her urging people to "put our shoulders to the wheel," a line from a well-known LDS hymn. Mormons could make the difference in AZ and NV
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/13/trump-biden-mormons-church-412234

Even before his diagnosis, Trump and the coronavirus19 were already dramatically dividing Black and white churches in Georgia.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/coronavirus-black-churches-evangelicals-georgia

Bam Adebayo (neck), Goran Dragic (foot) still listed as doubtful on 2 p.m. NBA injury report.
https://twitter.com/iraheatbeat/status/1312815066438422530

CeeDee Lamb got another touchdown. Amari Cooper converts for 2 pts. It's now only a 3 point game.
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1312846027234312192

Dallas Cowboys have just completed THREE 8-point touchdowns (touchdown plus two-point conversion) in a row in the 4th to get back into the game, now trailing by a field goal with less than four minutes to go. Odell Beckham Jr. responds with a 50 yard touchdown....Browns accidentally score a 2-pt conversion on a point-after attempt, 11 point lead for Browns LOLLLLL...Dallas blocked the point-after and Cleveland recovered the ball for the 2 point conversion
https://streamable.com/lfj2ka
https://v.redd.it/ywnk4qpkx4r51

Browns seal it with an interception
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/qayley

For only the second time since 1990, the Browns have score 49 or more points

Dak Prescott is the first player in NFL history with 450+ passing yards in 3 consecutive games

Alvin Kamara through 4 games: 557 Yards, 7 TDs, ridiculous 7.0 Yards per touch.

The Texans are 0-4. The Dolphins own their first and second round picks.

OBJ with an amazing running TD
https://v.redd.it/u78g0is1x4r51

Bruce Arians says O.J. Howard has a ruptured Achilles tendon and is done for the year.
https://twitter.com/gregauman/status/1312850928337383424

The Mike McCarthy Era in Dallas is off to a 1-3 start (and should be off to an 0-4 start)

The Browns are 3-1 for the first time since 2001
https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1312850928689713155

Browns beat the Cowboys for the first time since 12/10/1994

Bengals put up 33 points, 28 first downs, 505 yards despite getting 3 yards on 5 targets to A.J. Green. New era.
https://twitter.com/greggrosenthal/status/1312850753766129664

Dak Prescott threw for 4 TDs, 502 yards passing and lost by 11 points
https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1312850484957532161

Tom Brady, who was reported as washed as recently as an hour or so ago (during first half of Chargers/Buccaners game) completed 30 of 46 passes for 369 yards, 5 TDs and 1 INT today. Bucs are 3-1. Tom Brady, at 43 years old, just put together a second-half performance that included 15 of 17 completions for 263 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 INT. That's a perfect passer rating of 158.3. Still got it.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401220147

Where Dak threw up a bunch that could be picked earlier, I'm not sure that one was on him. Denzel Ward just drove way harder on the ball than Amari Cooper.

Overrated Tempest In A Teapot (a nickname he was given while a Patriots System Coach) Bill O'Brien: 'We've got to find a running game, a consistent running game. Our red area (offense) was terrible today.'
https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/1312848536631943173

The Browns rushed for 307 yards against the Cowboys, the most rush yards allowed by the Cowboys in a game in franchise history. The Cowboys fall to 1-3 which is their worst record through 4 games since 2010, when they finished 6-10.
https://twitter.com/espnstatsinfo/status/1312857910121312256

Indian opposition leaders arrested when they tried to visit the family of woman who was raped and had her body cremated by police at night against their wishes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/rahul-gandhi-arrested-way-indian-rape-victim-family/

Farmers call on UK to commit in law to ban chlorinated chicken - The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has called on the UK government to make a legal commitment to ban chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef from supermarket shelves.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/04/farmers-call-on-uk-government-ban-chlorinated-chicken

Pelosi, who is next in line after Pence to become President if anything happens to Trump or Pence, says she's receiving Trump health updates through the media, not briefings
https://www.axios.com/pelosi-trump-health-updates-media-32f9a9b6-5f36-4b07-8499-0d82a8c3e67a.html

Joe Burrow is the first rookie QB in NFL history to have three consecutive 300-yard games
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2020/10/04/joe-burrow-first-nfl-rookie-three-consecutive-300-yard-passing-games/3618279001/

The Secret Service personnel put in an enclosed space with a contagious Trump for a photo op. The president has clearly been changed by this experience. A public servant was made to drive Trump in a car in close quarters while he has covid?  So that he could wave at people? I'm confused. Doesn't the president have a highly contagious disease? Why would he leave the hospital to interact with large groups of people?
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1312866037675814913

Trump didn't disclose a positive result from a rapid covid19 test on Thursday while awaiting the findings from a more thorough coronavirus screening, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://wsj.com/articles/trump-didnt-disclose-first-positive-covid-19-test-while-awaiting-a-second-test-on-thursday-11601844813

So...immediately after releasing a video in which he boasted of his superior real-world knowledge of the coronavirus19, Trump had public employees get in a vehicle with him, windows closed, while he is infected with the coronavirus19? Trump in new Twitter video: "It's been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about Covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the REAL school. This isn't the 'let's read the book' school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it's a very interesting thing."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312864232711520257

Just sent this video to a Secret Service source who responded: "So reckless and careless and heartless"
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1312869333446598659

This is insanity. The world has gone even more insane then I thought possible. It's so sad that the medical staff at Walter Reed and the Secret Service are so afraid of Trump they'd allow him to pull this stunt.

Becky Hammon is not the only woman NBA teams should be interviewing for coaching vacancies | Like Nash, San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon retired from her playing career as one of the game's greatest point guards — a six-time WNBA All-Star who ranks among the league's all-time scoring and assist leaders. Only she has been toiling and rising in the NBA coaching ranks for the past six seasons. In those three years, Hammon was the only woman to interview for one of the NBA's 22 head-coaching openings, joining a list of at least eight male candidates who lost out on the Milwaukee Bucks job to Mike Budenholzer in 2018. He was reportedly their top target all along. Fellow former Spurs assistant Ettore Messina was the other finalist. Hammon will get her second interview this offseason, with the Indiana Pacers, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, along with retread Dave Joerger and 12 other men. | That two years will have passed between Hammon's interviews illustrates just how slow this process is moving for women. And she is not the only woman whose résumé warrants serious consideration. Here are six of the most qualified female coaching candidates (among many) with whom the five NBA teams still searching for head coaches could request an interview, three years after Silver began addressing the issue. | Dawn Staley: The 50-year-old has coaching credentials no Hall of Fame player could claim prior to accepting a possible NBA head-coaching position. The six-time WNBA All-Star guard led the South Carolina women's team to the NCAA championship in 2017, her second Final Four appearance. After posting a program-best record in eight years as the Temple women's head coach, she began her tenure with the Gamecocks in 2008. She has held the position ever since, now amassing a 477-178 career record in two decades as a head coach. Staley has also been the head coach of the USA women's national team since 2017, leading the program to a gold medal at the 2018 FIBA Women's World Cup. She also won three Olympic gold medals as a player. Per South Carolina's WACH-TV, Staley is open to interviewing in her hometown for the vacant Philadelphia 76ers job. The Sixers "will consider at least one woman for the position," the Philadelphia Inquirer's Marcus Hayes reported, but it is unclear if Staley is a candidate. She is every bit as accomplished as Jay Wright, the Villanova men's coach who removes himself from consideration every time the job opens. Heck, the Chicago Bulls, also in need of a coach, hired Fred Hoiberg in 2015 with nowhere near Staley's credentials. Nancy Lieberman: It has been a decade since Lieberman became the first head coach of a professional men's team. In her lone season at the helm of the Dallas Mavericks' G League affiliate, she led the Texas Legends to a playoff appearance in the 2010-11 season. The organization has made the playoffs just once in the 10 years since, despite a list of coaches that includes longtime NBA head coach Del Harris and multiple ex-NBA players. A Hall of Fame player at Old Dominion in the late 1970s and in multiple women's leagues throughout the 1980s, Lieberman first served as a head coach for the WNBA's Detroit Shock from 1998-2000, when she was also the franchise's general manager. She has been a mainstay in NBA circles over the past decade, serving as a studio analyst for the Oklahoma City Thunder before taking an assistant coaching position with the Sacramento Kings from 2015-17. She currently serves as a broadcaster for the New Orleans Pelicans. Lieberman also became the first female head coach of the BIG3 basketball league in 2018, leading former NBA players Quentin Richardson, Ryan Gomes and Chris Andersen to a title in the three-on-three league. However you consider that accomplishment, it was the opportunity she was given, and she performed it better than someone like Reggie Theus, another BIG3 coach who had his NBA head-coaching opportunity. Natalie Nakase: The former UCLA standout began her coaching career in 2008 with a women's team in Germany. Two years later, she joined longtime NBA coach Bob Hill's staff in Japan's top men's pro basketball league. She eventually became the league's first female head coach before returning stateside to pursue her NBA goal. In 2012, Nakase accepted a position as a video coordinator with the Los Angeles Clippers. By 2014, she was the first woman to sit on an NBA bench as an assistant for the organization's summer league squad. She joined the Clippers' G League affiliate as an assistant in 2017 and was promoted to Rivers' staff as a player development assistant a year later. Her meteoric rise is not unlike Erik Spoelstra's on the Miami Heat. "The coaches that I look up to most are Erik Spoelstra and Mike Brown," Nakase told Clips Nation in 2018, when she became an assistant for a team that is now contending. "They both started in video and their transition up the ladder, for me, was a great example of 'I can do that too.' Erik has also given me great advice about staying the course, working extremely hard and trusting that everything will fall into place." Stephanie Ready: After her playing career at Coppin State, Ready joined her alma mater's men's program as an assistant in 1999, while also serving as head coach of the school's women's volleyball team. Two years later, she was named an assistant for the National Basketball Development League's Greenville Groove, with whom she won a title in 2002. She joined the WNBA's Washington Mystics as an assistant after the Groove folded. In 2004, Ready left the Mystics to become a sideline reporter for the Charlotte Bobcats broadcast. Her work earned her a spot alongside Eric Collins and Dell Curry in the Hornets booth in 2015, when she became the first full-time female analyst for an NBA team. They formed one of the league's best broadcasting teams. Almost two decades after her trailblazing turn as a developmental coach, Ready is working as an NBA analyst for Turner Sports. It is a role that Kerr, Rivers and others have ridden to head-coaching interviews. Jenny Boucek: The University of Virginia defensive standout began her coaching career as an assistant on the Mystics in 1999. Boucek spent the next 16 years on WNBA benches, winning two rings as an assistant for the Seattle Storm. Her players included Sue Bird and Swin Cash, both of whom now have roles in NBA front offices. Cash is a vice president of basketball operations for the Pelicans, who just fired head coach Alvin Gentry. Boucek worked in player development for the Sacramento Kings from 2015-17, between stints as head coach of the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs and Storm. After earlier stints studying under fellow Virginia product Rick Carlisle with the Dallas Mavericks, Boucek officially joined his staff as an assistant in 2018. If you think her sub-.500 record in six seasons as a head coach in the WNBA — four of which ended in playoff appearances — should preclude her from interviewing for the top job on an NBA bench, you must also think Joerger should not have been among the Pacers' first calls for their vacant coaching position. It has now been two years since Carlisle told ESPN, "I've known for a long time she was qualified to be an NBA coach. Once you spend time with her, there is no doubt. ... This is an important moment for our league. Qualified women are a reality. They are bright. They are ass-kickers. They belong in this league."
https://sports.yahoo.com/becky-hammon-is-not-the-only-woman-nba-teams-should-be-interviewing-for-coaching-vacancies-131324393.html
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/28744241/trailblazing-nba-women-coaches

Bam Adebayo (neck) and Goran Dragic (plantar fascia) are out of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, source tells AP.News
https://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds/status/1312867351340122113

Right decision for Adebayo to not play, the 2020 NBA Season is right around the corner (end of Dec, early Jan), he has many years of NBA games ahead of him

Danny 'Gruesome' Green's playoff stats: Averaging 8/1/1 on brutal 35/34/61 shooting splits... with the ridiculous +- of 158.

Shame such a great bubble experience caps off with one of the NBA worst finals ever

I can't tell you how often crowds have gathered near the venues where @JoeBiden is speaking despite the fact that his events are open to press. Many have hoped Biden would greet them after, but most often he doesn't. The reason? 1/
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1312875313110474754

The Biden campaign has repeatedly said he's doing everything he can to DISCOURAGE the kinds of crowd gatherings that in many states and localities are against COVID-19 regulations. If it's greeting these crowds became routine, it would encourage more elsewhere 2/
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1312875676936990720

This in addition to all the steps they take to keep a COVID-free Biden COVID-free. But even a distant drive-by, let alone what a COVID-affected POTUS just did, has most often been opted against 3/
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1312876316723535873

Now, this has often severely disappointed those who showed up. Even Biden supporters have complained to me about why he wouldn't acknowledge them and the fact they waited often hours hoping to just glimpse him. But campaigning has been trying to adapt to see how he can do this

This text just went out to Trump supporters
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1312879938219978753/photo/1

From WHCA President ZekeJMiller: "It is outrageous for the president to have left the hospital — even briefly — amid a health crisis without a protective pool present to ensure that the American people know where their president is and how he is doing..."
https://twitter.com/albamonica/status/1312879738831228929

"... Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they can be reliably informed about his health."
https://twitter.com/albamonica/status/1312879933438464008

The president is currently hospitalized but PressSec only took two questions from reporters after her interview on Fox News just now. The lack of straightforward communication coming out of the White House right now is unacceptable at a time like this.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1312879724407017473

Given that upwards of 75% of voters think the president has not taken covid-19 seriously enough or taken the right precautions, and 70% are now personally worried about the virus, I'm not sure that exposing his security detail in order to get a photo-op is the best political move

That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play.
https://twitter.com/DrPhillipsMD/status/1312869454385229827

Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential "drive-by" just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.
https://twitter.com/DrPhillipsMD/status/1312867868028141568

There's a vent in that mask, usually have these one way valves but = increased open air opportunity time. Not great when sitting in a sealed space with a known positive person

AG Bill Barr is now self quarantining

Open hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia began last week. Today,Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja, came under attack Sunday, with government officials saying Armenia had launched missiles into residential areas. Armenia has denied the charges. Azerbaijan should end this by rounding up the entire population of Armenians in Azerbaijan and dumping them in Armenia where they belong.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/04/920120169/destruction-mounts-as-azerbaijan-and-armenia-increase-hostilities

In a twist of irony, the secrecy and confusion enveloped Trump on Saturday: When the WH sent out an anonymous statement contradicting the president's own physician, Trump quickly dialed up an adviser.  "Who the f— said that?" Trump demanded. Answer: Mark Meadows. What are the betting markets on Mark Meadows tenure as Trump's chief of staff?
https://wsj.com/articles/trump-didnt-disclose-first-positive-covid-19-test-while-awaiting-a-second-test-on-thursday-11601844813

Secret Service agents agree to take a bullet *for* the President not *from* the President.

"Blue Lives Matter" - NO THEY DON'T, THEIR JOB IS TO LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OTHER LIVES
"Red Lives Matter" - NO THEY DON'T, THEIR JOB IS TO LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OTHER LIVES

It's now confirmed that when Trump went on Hannity on Thursday night and said "I just went for a test, and we'll see what happens, I mean, who knows," he already has the positive result and knew he had coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1312890037483245571

I want the chaos timeline of Foles getting benched for Trubisky

He Didn't Even Try to Keep His Own People Safe | The president apparently took no measures to protect his political advisers, aides, and donors, and largely left them in the dark once he had tested positive.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/trump-reckless/616610/

NBA Finals Game 1: WTF am I watching
NBA Finals Game 2: WTF am I watching
NBA Finals Game 3: WTF am I watching

Lakers look like the Clippers out there. Shooters who can't shoot, stars who can't do star-like things. Halfway through 1st quarter, 7 TOs, 3 missed 3s, down by 12.  LeBron and AD have 5 points and 5 TOs combined lol

I'm looking forward to the new cnn series on First Ladies that begins tonight. Prepare to watch, and learn more about these dynamic figures in American history, by delving into WhiteHouseHstry resources:
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/first-lady-biographies

There is no bottom with Donald Trump. Even hospitalized, he manages to sink lower and lower.

How many more people have to get sick and die before before someone one puts their damn foot down and tells this sick bastard "NO!" The Secret Service Director should've stood up and said no way is he going to unnecessarily expose his agents like that.  

It would've been 3-2 nuggets right now if it wasn't for AD's shot. That series.

LeBron in the ref huddle. LMFAO

Short of digging moats by zip code, what is to prevent a resident of high infection area from walking to and shopping in less infected zip codes? (referring to N.Y.C. closing down hard-hit zipcodes)

Pauldwell Pope

KCP idolized Paul George as a kid....

Playoff (KC)P

KcPg13

Screw the refs for not calling the foul on Lebron to Duncan on the three point shot. Landed in I'm his space

KCP with the Playoff P shot

Pandemic P

KCP doing his best PG impression

Butler 19+6+6: incredible first half
LeBron: 16+6+6: average first half

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope's three point attempt bounces off the glass
https://streamable.com/0ozvoy

JR Smith gives too much room to the 3 point shooter and gets shot over. Redeems himself by shooting a three the other way.
https://streamable.com/0kdw6g

JR Smith ignores two wide open teammates and sprints to the corner to take a contested fadeaway three
https://streamable.com/eka22e 

LOL TIL I don't even know what the fuck a foul is anymore. Thanks NBA! You're a clown show in the finals.

Jimmy Butler driving with LeBron guarding him and Dwight and AD waiting in the paint
JVG: yOu GoTTa drIVE tO sCoRe tHErE