Through August 1, 2020
Weekend
Atilis Gym Reopens Saturday Just Days After Owners Arrested For Repeatedly Defying New Jersey Shutdown Order
August 1
BELLMAWR, N.J. (CBS) — The owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, have reopened again Saturday just days after they were arrested. On Monday, Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti were taken into custody for repeatedly defying Gov. Phil Murphy’s shutdown order.
If you can join us in support this Satruday, it is greatly appreciated. This is day 136 of the 14 days that Murphy asked us to stay closed and he crushing small businesses around the state and trampling on our Constitutional rights.
Please share and get the word out. Every little bit of help counts. Thank you all.
northwest side is unorganized and all rain showers are rather scattered. rain forecasts declined already. we may get more tonight.
In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals
A large club of Trump administration evictees have turned their bracingly bad experiences into a new genre: political revenge literature.
But faced with the inevitable reality of Mr. Trump, the party was forced to perform what the British tabloids call a “reverse-ferret” — a messaging U-turn in which you abruptly take the opposite position of the one you espoused a moment earlier.
“It began to dawn on me,” Anthony Scaramucci, who went on to (briefly) work in the Trump White House, wrote of hearing about the then-candidate’s tax proposals. “Donald J. Trump wasn’t the extreme, unhinged, unserious candidate that I thought he was.”
Mr. Spicer: “I sometimes felt like a scuba diver, abandoned in the middle of the ocean, treading water.”
Mr. Comey: “The demand was like Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump, in the role of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a ‘made man.’”
Ms. Manigault Newman: “The selection process for his cabinet was like an episode of ‘The Bachelor.’”
Mr. Bolton: “It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine.”
Anonymous: Working for Mr. Trump was like “showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria food.”
Trump's Republican Party is defined by racism and those who tolerate it: GOP strategist
I’ve worked on winning Republican races across the South, and I’ve never seen a racist appeal like Trump's succeed. Why won't his party challenge him?
Stuart Stevens Opinion contributor
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/02/republicans-embrace-trump-racism-give-up-on-black-voters-column/5559249002/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
I’m a seventh generation Mississippian who has worked on winning Republican races for governor and Senate across the South, and I’ve never seen Trump’s level of direct racist appeal work. While there is still an angry racist constituency, not just in the South but in every state, it is small and growing smaller. Your average white teenager in the South looks to black rap stars as cultural icons more than Robert E. Lee.
Stuart Stevens, a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, was chief strategist for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. His latest book, "It Was All A Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump," will be published Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter: @stuartpstevens
Trump Is the One Who Wants to Burn It All Down
Maybe stop worrying about the Never Trumpers and start worrying about the guy actually blowing up the GOP?
https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/trump-is-the-one-who-wants-to-burn-it-all-down/
Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers Planned for ‘Day X’
Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/europe/germany-nazi-infiltration.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/elections/biden-vs-trump.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#link-5d840c86
Bloomberg’s gun control group will release new ads geared toward Latinos in swing states.
The group, Everytown for Gun Safety, said it planned to spend more than $2 million on digital, radio and television advertising in both English and Spanish, starting in Texas. Bloomberg’s group.
The group’s advertising criticizes Mr. Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, for not doing more to enact stricter gun control laws since the El Paso attack, accusing them of “empty words and empty promises.” The police said that the suspect in the shooting told them he had been targeting Mexicans and that he had left a manifesto saying he was carrying out the attack in “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
https://twitter.com/i/events/1289344779180863489 James Murdoch resigns from News Corp board due to 'disagreements over editorial content' published by the company's news outlets
James Murdoch, the younger son of News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, tendered his immediate resignation to the News Corp Board of Directors on Friday, "due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions." Following the announcement, his older brother Lachlan Murdoch and father Rupert Murdoch released a joint statement thanking him for his "years of service to the company."
‘I’m paying the price for it’: Kansas 20 year old warns others about coronavirus
“I went out to restaurants, hung out with friends, you know, and now I’m paying the price for it, and I regret it, if I could take it back, I would,” said Erker.
Cecilia Erker developed a secondary infection. It destroyed most of her right lung and she’s having surgery next week.
House committee subpoenas Pompeo for records on Biden investigations
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Friday subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for records related to the State Department's involvement in attempts to link former Vice President Joe Biden to corruption in Ukraine.
Why it matters: Engel alleges that Pompeo has turned over similar documents to Senate Republicans but not House Democrats and claims that he "has turned the State Department into an arm of the Trump campaign" by using its resources to attempt to investigate Biden
GOP Senate candidate’s claims about his foundation for ‘inner city’ kids don’t add up
— Bryant “Corky” Messner, GOP candidate running for Senate in New Hampshire, during a Merrimack County (N.H.) Republican Committee Happy Hour, May 27, 2020
Delaying the Election Would Be Grotesque and Un-American
July 30 - "The Editors"
The opinion piece actually DEFENDS Trump while making a lot of NOISE otherwise.
Delay the election? Take Trump seriously. Laws and the Constitution haven't stopped him yet.
Look at Trump's track record and don't take his threats lightly, no matter how far-fetched or outrageous they seem. They reveal him for who he is.
The Constitution was written based on the principle that we are a nation of laws and yet, Trump has worked ceaselessly to undermine the rule of law in the United States. It is was drafted to ensure that no American is above the law — and yet Trump and his abettors, like Attorney General William Barr and the GOP leadership in the Senate, have worked to ensure that Trump is.
Even the casual observer must conclude that Trump has, with impunity, broken campaign finance laws, tax laws, laws against the abuse of women. It is not an aberration for him. It is what he does. It is who he is.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/a-campaign-to-defraud-2/
https://campaignlegal.org/update/yes-president-trump-violated-campaign-finance-law-asking-ukraine-favor
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
https://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13205842/trump-secret-recording-women
DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents
Some of the leaked DHS documents the journalists posted and wrote about revealed shortcomings in the department’s understanding of the nature of the protests in Portland, as well as techniques that intelligence analysts have used. A memo by the department’s top intelligence official, which was tweeted by the editor of Lawfare, says personnel relied on “FINTEL,” an acronym for financial intelligence, as well as finished intelligence “Baseball cards” of arrested protesters to try to understand their motivations and plans. Historically, military and intelligence officials have used such cards for biographical dossiers of suspected terrorists, including those targeted in lethal drone strikes.
Pentagon strips out training language that refers to protesters, media as 'adversaries'
Esper directed that officials update the language to identify those trying to obtain information as "unauthorized recipients," a spokesperson said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/pentagon-protesters-journalists-adversaries-386854
Esper raised alarms over unauthorized leaks after The New York Times reported allegations that the Russians had paid bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops. The media training is now mandatory for all Defense Department personnel.
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.
Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral.
July 30
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html
A federal judge blocked Trump’s rule creating a wealth test for immigrants
The “public charge rule” has had a chilling effect on immigrants seeking testing and treatment for Covid-19.
July 30
The so-called “public charge” rule, published last August by the Department of Homeland Security, established a test to determine whether an immigrant applying to enter the US, extend their visa, or convert their temporary immigration status into a green card is likely to end up relying on public benefits in the future.
My Eulogy for Congressman John Lewis - ObamaMichael Flynn case to be reheard by full federal appeals court in D.C.
Michael Flynn case to be reheard by full federal appeals court in D.C.
11AM EDT Update 31 July 2020 http://flhurricane.com/?morenews=5&moreblog=6
Hurricane Watches are now up for Florida, from north of Deerfield Beach northward to the Volusia-Brevard County Line. A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for portions of the Florida east coast from north of Ocean Reef northward to Sebastian Inlet and for Lake Okeechobee.
Winds have dropped to 75mph, but movement is to the west northwest. At the closest approach to Florida, the forecast windspeed is 85mph. 90mph while closer to the Bahamas
Trump tried to shut him down, but Robert Mueller was his own worst enemy
Jeffrey Toobin’s new book argues that the special counsel’s sense of honor and fairness undercut the impact of his investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/30/trump-tried-shut-him-down-robert-mueller-was-his-own-worst-enemy/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/mueller-report-illustrated/about/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15
You have echoed lies and defended demagoguery. It must sting to still be defending Trump.
Opinion by Joe Scarborough
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/30/what-tremendous-burden-it-must-be-you-still-be-defending-donald-trump/
Terrific summary of Trump/Russia
Senate adjourns without extending expiring unemployment benefits
July 30
The Senate has adjourned until 3pm on Monday, as Congress failed to reach an agreement on extending extra unemployment benefits that are set to expire on Friday.
Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles for added COVID-19 protection
Undocumented immigrant who worked for Trump’s company facing deportation proceedings
July 30
An undocumented immigrant who worked for President Trump’s private company — and then spoke publicly about Trump’s longtime reliance on undocumented workers — is facing deportation proceedings, her attorney said Thursday.
Victorina Morales, 47, had asked the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to grant her asylum because of violence in her home country of Guatemala.Morales, who entered the United States illegally in 1999, worked for five years as a housekeeper at Trump’s golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., cleaning the villas used by Trump and his family. She was close enough to see family arguments and to learn Trump’s personal habits: Irish Spring soap in the shower, two and a half containers of Tic Tacs on the bureau, and Bronx Colors face makeup at the ready, The Washington Post reported last year.
George Floyd All Over Again’: ICE Guard Drove Knee Into Detainee
‘HE’S HITTING ME’
A guard at an ICE detention center drove his knee into the upper back of a detainee, Carlos Rivas Monsano, eyewitnesses say. They haven’t seen the man in the two weeks since.
Since the incident on Monday, July 13, the detained men said that they have not seen the beaten man, identified as 31-year old Carlos Rivas Monsano. “Right now, we don’t know where he is,” a second detainee, whom The Daily Beast will call Jerry, said on Monday. A third detainee gave a similar account.
EXCLUSIVE: Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs
J Toobin
On Media-Thirst Guys, and the horrifying knowledge that you can only relate with people just as brain-sick as you.
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