Saturday August 8, 2020 and Sunday August 9
Trump antagonizes GOP megadonor Adelson in heated phone call
Trump chided the Las Vegas mogul — a financial linchpin of his reelection effort — for not spending more. And now, he might not.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-antagonizes-sheldon-adelson-phone-call-392688
This is actually a review of the PAC situation in both campaigns.The Center for Voter Information in Washington sent letters with wrong information
https://wlni.com/news/virginians-get-mail-in-ballot-letters-with-wrong-information
This seems to be the same org that sent Lyndsey a pre-filled application for an absentee ballot.
https://twitter.com/MichaelArt123/status/1291818689810042880 US Intel reveals that Members of the US Senate, Ron Johnson & Lyndsey Graham are acting as Russian agents disseminating Russian propaganda to disrupt our election and denigrate Biden. I want to credit Congressman Schiff for his role in making intel public. Eric Swalwell, MSNBC.
Senate Republicans advance Ukraine probe aimed at Biden despite foreign interference concerns
August 5, 2020
These articles are about the two lawyers who were involved in molotov cocktail construction and deployment in New York City during the protest and riots.
The Making of a Molotov Cocktail Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.
August 4, 2020
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/lawyers-arrested-molotov-cocktail-nyc-protest.html
Urooj Rahman holds a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a van in the early-morning hours of Saturday, May 30.
https://creepingsharia.tumblr.com/ Rahman got blogged there, but I don’t know the exact link.
Right to Repair movement gets congressional action
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/08/congress-to-consider-national-right-to-repair-law-for-first-time/
America’s Authoritarian Governor
Georgia had an early surge of the virus, and now cases are spiking again. Brian Kemp has refused to learn a thing.
First-term Republican Governor Brian Kemp presided over a late shutdown so short that his reopening drew a public rebuke from President Donald Trump, who has frequently opposed shutdowns altogether. Kemp’s administration has repeatedly been accused of manipulating data to downplay the severity of the outbreak. He has sparred publicly with the state’s mayors and sued to stop them from implementing safety restrictions or even speaking to the press.
Kemp has emulated strongmen since he entered state government. In 2018, as Georgia’s secretary of state, Kemp administered his own election by a thin, contested margin, despite calls to resign the office before running for governor. In his previous role, Kemp systematically purged more than 1 million voters from the state’s rolls, disproportionately disenfranchising Georgians of color. More than half a million of those voter registrations were voided in July 2017 alone, months into Kemp’s campaign for governor. Kemp’s office did not respond to a request for an interview, but in the past, he has repeatedly denied that these actions amounted to voter suppression.
Some of Georgia’s school districts opened this week, and already the system is buckling under the weight of infection: Yesterday, we learned that the state’s outbreak had claimed its youngest victim yet, an otherwise healthy 7-year-old boy. One Cherokee County elementary-school class has already had to be quarantined after a second grader received a positive test result on the first day of school. Earlier this week, a photo from inside North Paulding High School in exurban Atlanta showed a crowded hallway with few teenagers wearing masks. An outbreak has already sickened members of the school’s football team, and students say they fear expulsion if they don’t show up. Two students were suspended for distributing photos of the school’s lax safety measures; at least one of those students has been reinstated following a public outcry over her right to free speech.
More on Beirut explosion
Beirut explosion: cruise ship owner sues 'those responsible', as more protests loom
Legal action could be first of many moves as anger builds over disaster, with protests planned on Saturday
https://youtu.be/fnuSUhKDabg video from the article, <5 minutes
The Lebanese owner of a cruise ship sunk by the huge explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut is filing a lawsuit “all those responsible”, the country’s state news agency has said, as anger builds over the disaster.Two crew members of the Orient Queen were killed and seven others wounded
Beirut police fire teargas at protesters demanding justice over explosion
Thousands turn out to call for accountability for one of world’s biggest non-nuclear blasts
Earlier, Lebanon’s Kataeb party, a Christian group that opposes the government backed by the Iran-aligned Hezbollah, announced the resignation of its three MPs on Saturday, after one of their senior officials had been killed in the blast.
Lebanon’s president, Michel Aoun, vowed on Friday that all officials responsible for the explosion would be brought to justice regardless of their positions.
‘We need justice’: seething protesters descend on the streets of Beirut
Anger rises in the capital as crowd demands resignation of the Lebanese government following Tuesday’s explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hmj6BegDUU Beirut explosion: CCTV captures moment blast struck hospital
‘Like Groundhog Day’: Republicans fret over Trump’s fading fortunes
Negotiations for coronavirus relief have fallen apart. Coronavirus deaths continues to rise. Several Trump allies acknowledged that if the election was held today, Trump would likely lose.
“It is kind of like Groundhog Day,” said one of the Republicans close to the White House. “You think it’s better, but then it is not.”
TikTok’s fate was shaped by a ‘knockdown, drag-out’ Oval Office brawl
This Is Exactly What Susan Rice Feared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs69mZ0OCm0 Most Dangerous Anti-Abortion Extremists UNMASKED
Identity Politics Conservatism
Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
John Roberts’ Stealth Attack on Abortion Rights Just Paid Off
A federal appeals court will allow Arkansas to create degrading new hurdles for people seeking abortions.
N.Y.P.D. Besieges a Protest Leader as He Broadcasts Live
A helicopter and dozens of officers, some in tactical gear, were deployed for an arrest at a Manhattan apartment but withdrew after protesters arrived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmC6XZC3qd0 Trump's Favorite Donor Sits Out 2020
in re The Mercers, who backed K. Conway, Bannon/Breitbart, David Bossie (Citizens United),
Interview with Dave Levinthal https://twitter.com/davelevinthal
Senior Washington correspondent, @businessinsider. Buffalonian emissary, fake arctic explorer, free agent placekicker. DMs open, news tips welcomed.
Secret Recording Reveals NRA's Legal Troubles Have Cost The Organization $100 Million
April 21, 2020
These figures, not previously reported, are the first time that LaPierre has put a figure to how much the ongoing legal battles have cost the organization. For context, the NRA and its affiliates raised more than $412 million and spent more than $423 million in 2018, the last year for which there is public reporting,
And legal costs remain a heavy burden on the organization: In the ongoing litigation between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen, its former public relations firm, a brief filed by the firm on April 15 indicates its belief that the NRA has paid its outside legal counsel "over $54 million" in the last two years.
Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis
Gun rights organization may struggle to support Trump in 2020 election amid layoffs and furloughs
June 29, 2020
After spending over $30m to help elect Donald Trump in 2016, the National Rifle Association faces a deepening financial crisis with over 200 staff layoffs and furloughs in 2020, according to three NRA sources, gun analysts and documents.
The situation is likely to hinder efforts by the gun rights group to help Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election.
The 200-plus layoffs and furloughs, which have not previously been reported and were mainly at NRA headquarters in Virginia, were spurred by declines in revenues and fundraising, heavy legal spending, political infighting, and charges of insider self-dealing under scrutiny by attorneys general in New York and Washington DC, the sources say.
In 2018, the NRA’s financial problems caused it to spend a relatively lackluster $9.4m on the midterm elections, and gun control groups outspent the NRA for the first time, which analysts say helped the Democrats win the House majority.
Due to the pandemic, the NRA earlier this year canceled its annual meeting in Nashville, which Trump has faithfully attended since taking office to solidify his NRA ties. It is now slated to be held on 5 September in Springfield, Missouri.
‘The NRA is in grave danger’: group's troubles are blow to Trump's 2020 bid
May 6, 2019
The NRA reported that it spent $54.4m on the 2016 elections to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). But two NRA sources with ties to the organization’s board told McClatchy last year that the NRA’s total spending in 2016 was at least $70m, a figure that includes spending on its field operations to mobilize voters and online ads, neither of which have to be reported to the FEC.
When Democrats regained the House in the 2018 elections, the NRA’s spending was an anemic $9.4m, only about a third of what it spent in the 2014 midterms. For the first time ever, the NRA was outspent by pro-gun control groups.
Cash-strapped NRA discloses spending on foreign fundraising for first time
A September 2019 report by Senate Finance Committee Democrats found that the NRA acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the leadup to Trump’s 2016 election. In the heat of congressional inquiries probing the NRA’s ties to Russian actors, the NRA also admitted to taking Russian money. The organization said the cash wasn’t used for political purposes.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/11/nra-russia-money-guns-516804
NRA-supported foreign hunts have recently attracted controversy, such as an elephant-hunting expedition in Zimbabwe that coincided with the Trump administration overturning an Obama-era ban on importing hunted elephant carcasses.
Donald Trump Jr. also came under fire after ProPublica reported he killed an endangered argali sheep during a hunting trip to Mongolia purchased at an NRA charity auction. The Mongolian government retroactively granted the younger Trump permits after the killing took place. His spokesperson said the trip was a purely personal expedition, though it was supported by U.S. government and Mongolian government resources, including security details.
The Kanye Con Job
In fifteen years practicing election law, I have never seen anything as craven and shameful as the Kanye con job Donald Trump and his sycophants have attempted in Wisconsin.
Why That Falwell Jr. Yacht Photo Was the Final Straw
Ruth Graham https://slate.com/author/ruth-graham
The Street Corner Where George Floyd Was Killed Has Become a Christian Revivalist Site
And it’s attracting a bunch of enterprising evangelists who have traveled there from outside the state.
Republicans called her videos ‘appalling’ and ‘disgusting.’ But they’re doing little to stop her.
Outside groups haven't worked to squash Marjorie Taylor Greene's controversial candidacy, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is remaining neutral in the runoff.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/09/republicans-marjorie-taylor-greene-392735
How This Conservative Florida County Became A Surprise 2020 Battleground
August 9, 20207:00 AM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIkl2QnJeI Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSmtbSYE8pg Foreign Teacher Lands in Rural America: ‘I Was Surprised’ | VOA Connect
Charmaine Teodoro is a Filipina recruited to teach math at a rural school in Colorado experiencing a teacher shortage. Now in her second year and on a J-1 visa, Teodoro talks about her future plans, the challenges she faced in her first year, and the cultural differences between the two countries, especially when teaching teenagers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTRKG_ovjsA Defunctland: The History of the 1964 New York World's Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjUu0DTATn4 "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Isn't a Real Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcC_W6OZtw0 Young Voters Can't Mail-In Vote?!
Donald Trump: If Reelected, I will “Terminate” Social Security
Here’s what is actually in Trump’s four executive orders
‘Christianity Will Have Power’
Donald Trump made a promise to white evangelical Christians, whose support can seem mystifying to the outside observer.
In January 2016, Donald J. Trump gave a campaign speech at a small Christian college in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Standing in front of a three-story pipe organ, he said, “I have the most loyal people.”
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
Time to Sound the Alarm
Trump is trying to steal the election by messing with the mail
The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through
The electorate is split into separate information bubbles. But unconventional messengers, appeals to patriotism, and even jokes can reach voters who don’t want to listen.
The Spies Who Hijacked America
As a doctoral candidate at Cambridge working under "FBI Informant" Stefan Halper, I had a front-row seat for Russiagate
Global scandals now labeled Russiagate, Spygate, and what President Trump calls “Obamagate” shook the political world, but hit me closer to home. I’m the reason the so-called FBI “spy” at the center of Spygate, Stefan Halper, met Carter Page, the alleged “Russian Asset” in Russiagate’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The NRA is a cesspool. That doesn’t mean it should be dissolved.
Fact check: Photograph does not show Robert Byrd; Byrd was not the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
County commissioners support open carry of guns, lowering minimum gun purchase age
HOMELAND SECURITY WORRIES COVID-19 MASKS ARE BREAKING FACIAL RECOGNITION, LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS
The rapid global spread and persistent threat of the coronavirus has presented an obvious roadblock to facial recognition’s similar global expansion.
July 16
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/face-masks-facial-recognition-dhs-blueleaks/
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