With 60 million households still uncounted, the bureau said it would wrap up the survey a month early. Critics called it a bald move to politicize the count in favor of Republicans.
National nonprofits and community activists are putting together urgent persuasion campaigns in an attempt to cram three months of work into two — driving through neighborhoods with bullhorns taped to vehicles, pouring funds into geotagged digital advertising, and phone-banking.
“We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and they might be shortchanging every Latino community for 10 years to come. This is cruel,” said Lizette Escobedo, who leads the census program for NALEO Educational Fund, a nonpartisan Latino rights organization.
Populations that are considered hard to reach are further behind in responding.
Given that 40% of census data is collected in person, Sarah Brannon, managing director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, said she doubts the Census Bureau will be able to reach everyone under the new timeline.
A TRO has come from a Federal Judge.
The order is expected to remain in effect until a court hearing is held on Sept. 17 for the plaintiffs' request for a court order that would require counting to continue through the end of October.
Friday September 4, 2020
Anti-Trump Lincoln Project to unleash Facebook army to get out the vote for Biden
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/anti-trump-lincoln-project-to-unleash-facebook-army-to-get-out-the-vote.htmlLincoln Project set to launch new Facebook attack on Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515011-lincoln-project-set-to-launch-new-facebook-attack-on-trumpPostal Chiefs Warn: Workers’ ‘Heroic’ Efforts Won’t Save the Vote
“Despite the heroic efforts ...the reality is, that’s going to be a difficult situation for that voter to have their vote counted,” one official said.
The Lawyer Raising Money for Kyle Rittenhouse Nearly Sank His Own Law Firm
“This dude’s on Twitter like a complete lunatic, trying to rile up people and get money,” a former colleague said.
But Rittenhouse’s attorney, John Pierce, is mounting a more impassioned, perhaps novel, case to win his client’s freedom. Rittenhouse, Pierce argues, is the first hero of a new American Revolution.
Despite not being a criminal-defense attorney, Pierce has become the public face of a growing legal and financial effort to acquit Rittenhouse, appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, promising to send a “special forces team” of lawyers to Wisconsin, and taking the unusual step of posting audio from a jailhouse phone call with Rittenhouse on Twitter to thank his supporters.
Trump ‘Swears on Whatever’ He Never Called Slain Soldiers ‘Losers’
Trump has, in fact, in the past described McCain as a “loser,” and even tweeted out a quote of himself issuing the insult in 2015, along with an article recounting his comments. At that time, he also called McCain a “dummy” and insisted he could not be considered a war hero because he was captured.
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
Trump said U.S. soldiers injured and killed in war were ‘losers,’ magazine reports
many details and recollections.
Trump Went to Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Fred’s Widow Is None Too Happy
“I’m alone now,” she said. “I don’t do a program for children.”
She made clear her feelings about Trump: “I think he’s just a horrible person.”
She did not hesitate to say how she will react if Trump is re-elected.
“I will probably go into mourning,” she said. “I can’t even imagine. I would feel so badly.”
She was asked why she feels as she does about our current president.
“I think maybe the fact that Mr Trump seldom tells the truth,” she said. “If he does, it’s just a fluke, I think. But the fact [is] that I can’t believe anything he says, not even the simplest thing.”
She was speaking what she feels is the simple truth when she said, “This man is pathologically ill. Mentally ill.”
Rogers then said he wanted to sing a song both with and for Jeff. The boy joined in.
Trump was 22 when Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood debuted in 1968, so he never had even a chance to learn another little song from the show.
“I’m learning to know the truth
I’m learning to tell the truth
Discovering the truth will make me free.”
The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason
Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers
In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15 including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”
Senators to Esper: Reverse Your Decision to Kill Stars and Stripes
"We trimmed the support for Stars and Stripes because we need to invest that money, as we did with many, many other programs, into higher-priority issues," he said during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, following DoD's $740 billion budget submission to Congress. Stars and Stripes is published in print and online.
Esper defends stripping Stars and Stripes of all funding, says news organization is not a priority
Feb 21
Russia is working to undermine confidence in voting by mail, DHS warns
Russia is seeking “to undermine public trust in the electoral process” by spreading false claims that mail-in-ballots are riddled with fraud and susceptible to manipulation, according to a new intelligence bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security.
Many of the claims made by Russian sources are identical to repeated, unsupported public statements aired by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr, who have said that mailed ballots aren’t trustworthy while warning of the potential for rampant fraud in November’s elections.
Homeland Security’s intelligence office has assessed that Russian actors “are likely to promote allegations of corruption, system failure, and foreign malign interference to sow distrust in Democratic institutions and election outcomes,” the bulletin states. Russia spreads these claims through a network of state-controlled media, proxy websites and social media trolls, it adds.
Last month, a senior ODNI official in charge of protecting elections from outside interference referred to “a range of measures” Russia was taking, including the use of a pro-Russian lawmaker from Ukraine — who has met with Trump’s personal lawyer — “to undermine former vice president [Joe] Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party.”
Democratic lawmakers criticized the statement for appearing to equate Russia’s covert intelligence operations with overt political efforts by China to influence U.S. policy positions. Lawmakers who have seen classified intelligence said China’s efforts aren’t comparable to Russia’s attempts to manipulate and mislead voters.
Russia has been trying to undermine mail-in balloting for at least the past six months, according to the DHS bulletin.
“Since March 2020, Russian state media and proxy websites have denigrated vote-by-mail processes, alleging they lack transparency and procedural oversight, creating vast opportunities for voter fraud.”
Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased. Prosecutors say that’s not what happened.
September 3, 2020 at 7:50 p.m. EDT
“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr told CNN on Wednesday. “For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected, he — from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. Okay?”
Federal prosecutors brought no such indictment. And while a Justice Department spokeswoman said Barr was referring to a local prosecution involving suspected mail-in voting fraud in a city council election, the assistant district attorney on that case said Barr’s description doesn’t match the facts.
“That’s not what happened at all,” said Andy Chatham, who is now in private practice.
“Unfortunately, it speaks volumes to the credibility of Attorney General Barr when he submits half-truths and alternative facts as clear evidence of voter fraud without having so much as even contacted me or the district attorney’s office for an understanding of the events that actually occurred,” he added later.
After being asked about Chatham’s account, Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in a statement: “Prior to his interview, the Attorney General was provided a memo prepared within the Department that contained an inaccurate summary about the case which he relied upon when using the case as an example.”
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Chatham said that in Dallas County it was “incredibly simple to ferret out” fraudulent ballots, and investigators also tried to work with election officials to mitigate any possible disenfranchisement.
In an interview with National Public Radio, Dr. Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser of the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine and treatment initiative, called Operation Warp Speed, explained that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance to states to prepare for a vaccine as early as late October — a notification Dr. Slaoui said he had learned of through the news media — was “the right thing to do” in case a vaccine was ready by that time. “It would be irresponsible not to be ready if that was the case,” he said.
Operation Warp Speed Top Adviser On The Status Of A Coronavirus Vaccine
September 3, 20203:48 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
Hydroxychloroquine prescriptions soar on President Trump’s say-so.
Even so, the C.D.C. reported that more than 1.3 million prescriptions — new and refills — were written in March and April, up from about 819,000 during the same period last year. The strong spike in usage suggests the influence that Mr. Trump and emergency waivers from the F.D.A. can have in driving medical decision-making — even in the absence of limited evidence of a drug’s effectiveness.
But perhaps the most striking finding was that “nonroutine prescribers” — specialists who would not typically have a reason to prescribe the drug — wrote more than 75,000 hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine prescriptions in the month of March alone. That is 80 times the number written during March 2019.
I’m Doomsday Prepping for the End of Democracy
Even if Trump loses, there’s no guarantee we’ll make it to the other side.
By Farhad Manjoo
Helen thinks I’m being alarmist — that I’m LARPing “The Handmaid’s Tale,” nursing some revolutionary fantasy of escape from Gilead. But I think she — like a lot of other white, Gen X native-born Americans who’ve known mostly domestic peace and stability — is being entirely too blasé about the approaching storm.
As an immigrant who escaped to America from apartheid-era South Africa, I feel that I’ve cultivated a sharper appreciation for political trouble. To me, the signs on the American horizon are flashing blood red.
Armed political skirmishes are erupting on the streets, and scholars are tracking a rise in violence and instability as the election draws near. Gun sales keep shattering records. Mercifully, I suppose, there’s a nationwide shortage of ammo. Then there is the pandemic, mass unemployment, natural disasters on every coast, intense racial and partisan polarization, and not a little bit of lockdown-induced collective stir craziness.
In a new book, “Presidents, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy,” the political scientists William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue that Trumpism is largely a symptom of growing populist disaffection with the American government’s inability to solve people’s problems. Even if Trump does lose, they argue, our democracy will still face serious questions about its viability. I asked Moe, a professor at Stanford, how America might recover from this damage.
“It’s not clear that we can,” he told me. “I think the Republicans, for now, are an anti-democracy party.” Their only chance of political survival is to continue to “make the country as undemocratic as they can so that they can win elections.”
The United States also still has a free press, and there remains widespread support of the basic ideals of democracy.
N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video
“I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention.
Facebook said it removed a militia event associated with the shooting of three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It didn’t. Here’s what really happened, and why it could happen again.
Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s previous statements that the company had removed a militia event where people discussed gathering in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to shoot and kill protesters, the company never took any such action, BuzzFeed News has learned. The event was taken down by the militia group itself after two people were killed.
Activists call on Facebook to ban armed event listings after Kenosha shooting
Change The Terms is also calling for better automated flags
In the aftermath of the Kenosha shooting, an activist group called Change the Terms is calling on Facebook to institute new policies around potentially dangerous content, including a blanket ban on “event pages that encourage people to bring weapons to events.”
Going Postal
A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive
MAX READ
Thursday September 3, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112270823363411 This is Zuck on preps for election season (he's late, of course) and bragging about what he and "Priscilla" are doing or have done (aren't they so generous?), but the headlines read "will block ads" because everyone expects October Surprise BS.
Facebook will block new political advertising the week before Election Day
The social network’s move is in response to criticism that Facebook fuels misinformation
Woman assaults 12-year-old boy in Boulder over Trump yard sign, police say
Police are looking for woman in her 20s or 30s who was riding moped
Pentagon restarts projects defunded for Trump’s wall, helping some GOP senators
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper announced in April that funding would be restored to 22 of the 34 construction projects at domestic military bases that were defunded last year. In a memo, Esper indicated that the Pentagon would obtain the $545.5 million needed to revive the projects by diverting funds from projects overseas — many designed to shore up defenses against Russia.
Some of the revived projects are in states with two Democrats representing them in the Senate. But others are hot-button projects in states such as North Carolina, Colorado and Arizona, where Republican senators in competitive races had been taking heat over their defunding.
“This is 2020 in a picture”: Truck dumps 40,000 pounds of chicken poop on C-470 ramp in Golden
“Firefighters on scene say the pictures don’t do the smell justice,” Golden Fire Rescue said
“Firefighters on scene say the pictures don’t do the smell justice,” Golden Fire Rescue said Thursday morning on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/GoldenCOFire/posts/3508827972509658
The exit ramp stayed closed for hours as crews held their noses, scooped up pooop and hauled the truck away.
Bigger hauls, fewer choices: How the pandemic has changed our grocery shopping habits forever
A permanent shift toward online shopping means less innovation, fewer new brands and, for some people who lack choices, reinforcement of unhealthy eating patterns
Video in Black man’s suffocation shows cops put hood on him
How Daniel Prude suffocated as Rochester police restrained him
Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The incident occurred in March — two months before George Floyd's very similar death in Minneapolis touched off nationwide protests — yet it didn't become public until now.
Covid-19 has killed more police officers this year than all other causes combined, data shows
Most Democrats fear Trump could reject election defeat, poll shows
As many as 75% of Biden voters worry that if Trump loses election he will refuse to concede defeat, triggering a constitutional crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/02/democrats-fear-trump-reject-election-defeat-poll
President Trump’s Stupid Tweets Are A Heck Of A Lot Better Than Joe Biden’s Evil Policies
Trump kept his word on abortion, religious liberty, and the rule of law. The radicals running the Democratic Party have shown they'll do anything for power.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/02/president-trumps-stupid-tweets-are-a-heck-of-a-lot-better-than-joe-bidens-evil-policies/Twitch's Prime Video watch parties are now available to everyone
https://www.engadget.com/twitch-watch-parties-prime-video-worldwide-launch-131525054.html
That means anyone can broadcast anything listed on Prime Video — another Amazon-owned service There’s a few caveats, though. Both the streamer and viewer need an active Prime Video subscription to participate, for instance. (Otherwise, millions of people could tune in and watch a new Amazon show without paying the company a dime.) The Prime Video catalog also varies between regions, so if you live in the US and tune into something that’s UK-only, you won’t get in. Finally, you can’t view Watch Parties on a mobile device, though Amazon has promised that it’ll be available “in the coming months.”
Elliott Broidy stories
How a Trump Ally Tested the Boundaries of Washington’s Influence Game
August 13, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/us/politics/elliott-broidy-trump.htmlWASHINGTON — Elliott Broidy had the kind of past that might have given a more traditional White House reason to keep him at a distance: A wealthy businessman, he had pleaded guilty in 2009 to giving nearly $1 million in illegal gifts to New York State officials to help land a $250 million investment from the state’s pension fund.
A spokesman for Mr. Broidy, Christopher Clark, told The A.P. in a statement that his client “regrets the actions that brought about this course of events, but is pleased to have resolved this matter with the N.Y. A.G. and will be cooperating in the ongoing investigation.”
He said Mr. Broidy had resigned from all operational and supervisory roles at Markstone, one of the largest private equity firms investing in Israel.
As part of his plea bargain, Mr. Broidy has agreed to forfeit $18 million. He was freed on bail after entering his plea on Thursday and will be allowed to travel, with restrictions. He could get up to four years in prison, but his cooperation could lead to a lighter sentence.
The gifts involved in the case against Mr. Broidy were lavish, the attorney general’s office said. One official had Mr. Broidy funnel payments of $90,000 to his girlfriend to cover rent and hospital bills, plus $44,000 in payments to the girlfriend’s relative, prosecutors said.
Another state official, prosecutors said, was rewarded indirectly when his relative was given a fake consulting contract worth more than $380,000.
Mr. Broidy also paid for a “very high-ranking” senior official in the comptroller’s office to travel with his family to Israel and Italy on a trip that included helicopter tours. The vacation cost $75,000, the attorney general’s office said.
In addition, prosecutors said, Mr. Broidy put up $300,000 that was ultimately invested through an intermediary in the movie, “Chooch,” an obscure independent film set in Mexico and Queens that was produced by Mr. Loglisci’s brother.
The movie was financed with contributions from a number of people trying to land investments from the New York State Common Retirement Fund, valued in May at $109.9 billion. It was distributed on DVD by a company owned by the Quadrangle Group, the private equity firm founded by Steven Rattner, the former head of the Obama administration’s auto industry task force.
Even Fox’s ‘Hard News’ Shows Don’t Want to Book Trump’s Favorite New COVID Adviser
ATLAS SHRUGGED
“It makes no sense to have him on,” a source said of Trump’s newly instated pandemic adviser who critics say lacks needed credibility and expertise.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-foxs-hard-news-shows-dont-want-to-book-trumps-favorite-new-covid-adviser-scott-atlas?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
The Broken Windows Presidency
Republican acquiescence to Trump’s low-level disorder invited more heinous corruption and lawlessness.
https://thebulwark.com/the-broken-windows-presidency/
This references the original Atlantic article re Broken Windows but explains how this was misapplied, sometimes intentionally, with brutal results.
Why This Pro-Life Conservative Is Voting for Biden
by MONA CHAREN AUGUST 27, 2020 5:41 AM
https://thebulwark.com/why-this-pro-life-conservative-is-voting-for-biden/
Abortion washing shuts down moral reflection. Rather than do the work of analyzing how one good thing weighs in the balance against other considerations, abortion washing permits the brain to snap shut, the conscience to put its feet up.
Many GOP Voters Value America’s Whiteness More Than Its Democracy
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/many-gop-voters-value-whiteness-more-than-democracy-study.html
In Donald Trump’s America, democracy dies in broad daylight.
But a new paper from Vanderbilt University political scientist Larry Bartels suggests an alternative hypothesis: Many Republican voters value “keeping America great” more than they value democracy — and, by “keeping America great,” such voters typically mean “keeping America’s power structure white.”
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/26/2007747117
In a January 2020 survey fielded by YouGov, a slim majority of GOP voters agreed with the statement “The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.” Nearly three-fourths agreed with “It is hard to trust the results of elections when so many people will vote for anyone who offers a handout.” More than 40 percent agreed that “a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.” More than 47 percent concurred with the premise that “strong leaders sometimes have to bend the rules in order to get things done.” And on all of these questions, most of those who did not agree were merely unsure.
C.D.C. Halts Evictions, Citing Covid-19 Risks
The agency said it wanted to keep renters out of shelters. Apple and Google are making it easier for states to adopt contact tracing apps. Australia’s economy fell into recession.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Although at the top it says “briefing has ended”, the first story details the CDC related eviction order restraints. Links lead to references.
Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-19654.pdf
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/04/2020 and available online at federalregister.gov/d/2020-19654, and on govinfo.gov
The New Eviction Moratorium: What You Need to Know
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/your-money/eviction-moratorium-covid.html
Soon after the order appeared, the Legal Innovation and Technology lab at Suffolk University Law School created an interactive tool that can help people determine if they are eligible. It can also generate a declaration to give to a landlord.
https://massaccess.suffolklitlab.org/housing/#CDC
The order says every adult who is on the lease should draft and sign a separate declaration.
How Has Donald Trump Survived?
DONALD TRUMP V. THE UNITED STATES
Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
By Michael S. Schmidt
Dems have only a 15% or so chance of taking the Senate
In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.’s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control
A new book from a controversial former executive accuses the National Rifle Association of “appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members.”
IRS Chief Makes More Than $100,000 Per Year Off Trump Property, Documents Show
I speak with a computerized voice. Republicans used it to put words in my mouth.
Last week, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise tried to use my computer-assisted voice to rob me of my agency, too. In a video aimed at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, shared his team’s manipulated footage of an interview I conducted with Biden to make it appear I had said words that I never uttered, in an effort to distort Biden’s views and harm his electoral prospects.
Col. Larry Wilkerson: White House Is Full Of ‘Basically Mediocre People’
What if Trump Won’t Go? – Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
June 29, 2020
National Task Force on Free and Fair Elections (public list) Dr. Osterholm, Col. Wilkerson, Chuck Hagel, Michael Chertoff, Norm Ornstein
Transition Integrity Project (behind the scenes)
Silver Linings (out in front)
A Freelance Writer Learns He Was Working for the Russians
A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/technology/peacedata-writer-russian-misinformation.html
Colin Munro Wood was not shocked when he learned that federal investigators believed the new website he had been writing for was a facade for a Russian troll operation looking to sway Americans ahead of the November election.
Mr. Wood, a 50-year-old who lives in Binghamton, N.Y., and has been writing for various online publications for years, was one of dozens of American and British nationals who wrote for the site Peace Data. The authorities said on Tuesday that it was part of a covert operation run by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, which conducted extensive election meddling in 2016.
Trump's Base Is Shrinking As Whites Without A College Degree Continue To Decline
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/907433511/trumps-base-is-shrinking-as-whites-without-a-college-degree-continue-to-decline
That's a key finding of an analysis of how the U.S. electorate has changed since 2016, based on census data analyzed by the Brookings Institution and NPR.
In 2016, Trump was helped to victory by winning a record margin among white voters without a college degree. But in the last four years, they have declined as a share of the voting-eligible population across the U.S. and in states critical to the presidential election. Nationally, the group has gone from 45% of eligible voters to 41%.
Meanwhile, some other demographic cohorts — whites with a college degree, Latinos and, to a lesser extent, Asian Americans and other groups — have all gone up.
https://www.facebook.com/153080620724/posts/10165384569280725/ Based on the massive number of Unsolicited & Solicited Ballots that will be sent to potential Voters for the upcoming 2020 Election, & in order for you to MAKE SURE YOUR VOTE COUNTS & IS COUNTED, SIGN & MAIL IN your Ballot as EARLY as possible. On Election Day, or Early Voting, go to your Polling Place to see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted). If it has you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly. If it has not been Counted, VOTE (which is a citizen’s right to do). If your Mail In Ballot arrives after you Vote, which it should not, that Ballot will not be used or counted in that your vote has already been cast & tabulated. YOU ARE NOW ASSURED THAT YOUR PRECIOUS VOTE HAS BEEN COUNTED, it hasn’t been “lost, thrown out, or in any way destroyed”. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Michael I. Krauss / Wall Street Journal:
I Was Never Trump. Not Anymore
https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-was-never-trump-not-anymore-11599087108?mod=djemalertNEWS
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.
It monitors and harasses families across the county.
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/
Trump and the right loved Clay Travis. The fight over college football sealed their bond.
Why Are Children of Color Getting COVID-19 at Huge Rates?
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/09/why-are-children-of-color-getting-covid-19-at-huge-rates/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
But it was perhaps an even bigger moment for Clay Travis, who reportedly brokered the phone call, completing his only-in-2020 transformation from abrasive sports blogger to influential conservative sports radio host to apparent Trump campaign surrogate.
For years, Travis, who also hosts a gambling show on Fox Sports and runs a website called Outkick, has been building a brand partly rooted in attacking progressive athletes and accusing ESPN of liberal bias. But this summer, as the pandemic, protests over racial injustice and the approaching election collided with the return of sports, Travis’s nascent mini-media empire has morphed into the go-to platform for Republicans hoping to win over sports fans.
He’s done it with the help of a new business partner, the former Fox Sports personality Jason Whitlock, whose work, like Travis’s, shares political DNA with Trump’s: Sports as red meat in the culture wars, racial grievances, media-bashing.
New Jobless Claims Drop Below 1 Million, But There's A Caveat
Without the seasonal adjustment, state unemployment claims rose by more than 7,500.
Unemployment has declined since April when much of the U.S. economy was shut down in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But it remains very high by historical standards. As of Aug. 15, more than 29 million Americans were collecting some form of unemployment insurance. That figure was up more than 2 million from the previous week.
Active shooter drills are meant to prepare students. But research finds 'severe' side effects.
A new report examining nearly 28 million social media posts tied to 114 schools finds higher rates of depression and stress following active shooter drills.
Active shooter drills became one of the most common school safety measures implemented nationwide in recent years, despite widespread fears that the procedures heighten anxiety, and evidence that school shooters, like the one in Parkland, Florida, use knowledge of the drills to their advantage. Teachers unions in February called for schools to not conduct active shooter drills with students. Now, new research adds data to those concerns.
Experts: Trump may have ‘committed a felony’ by telling supporters to commit voter fraud
Man Linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense
Moderna mRNA-1273 SARS-COV-2 Vaccine
Meet the company that has just begun testing a coronavirus vaccine in the United States
With a re-intro dated March 25, 2020, but this is from Feb 1, 2017.
CureVac and BioNTech are German companies working on mRNA based vaccines. BioNTech's output is headed to Canada. CureVac to Germany but also worldwide distribution. Trump tried to lock up CureVac's output and was shrugged off months ago.
Curevac COVID-19 vaccine scale production seen this year: investor
September 4, 2020
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
September 2, 2020
(Reuters) - Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.
Snowden, who fled to Russia in the aftermath of the 2013 disclosures and still faces U.S. espionage charges, said on Twitter that the ruling was a vindication of his decision to go public with evidence of the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping operation.
“I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them,” Snowden said in a message posted to Twitter.
Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.
Up until that moment, top intelligence officials publicly insisted the NSA never knowingly collected information on Americans at all. After the program’s exposure, U.S. officials fell back on the argument that the spying had played a crucial role in fighting domestic extremism, citing in particular the case of four San Diego residents who were accused of providing aid to religious fanatics in Somalia.
U.S. officials insisted that the four - Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, Mohamed Mohamud, and Issa Doreh - were convicted in 2013 thanks to the NSA’s telephone record spying, but the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that those claims were “inconsistent with the contents of the classified record.”
The ruling will not affect the convictions of Moalin and his fellow defendants; the court ruled the illegal surveillance did not taint the evidence introduced at their trial. Nevertheless, watchdog groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped bring the case to appeal, welcomed the judges’ verdict on the NSA’s spy program.
“Today’s ruling is a victory for our privacy rights,” the ACLU said in a statement, saying it “makes plain that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records violated the Constitution.”
Wednesday September 2, 2020
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail
The report, set to be filed in federal court this week, confirms reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune that found portions of the wall were in danger of overturning if not fixed due to extensive erosion just months after it was built.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-engineering-report-finds-privately-built-border-wall-will-fail
Feds investigate pilot’s sighting of ‘a guy in a jet pack’ flying at 3,000 feet near LAX
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/fbi-launches-investigation-after-pilot-reports-seeing-a-guy-in-a-jet-pack-near-lax/
Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-elliott-broidy/2020/09/01/1eaff4fa-ea16-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html
Gunfire in a Tallahassee parking lot leads to arrest of armed couple, complaints of racism
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2020/09/01/gunfire-tallahassee-parking-lot-leads-arrest-armed-couple-complaints-racism/5654072002/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/trump-and-his-allies-seize-on-pelosis-salon-visit-407664
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnbojIPgXY Trump BLOWS UP mask debate w/ the Soup Guy! "No Soup for Trump?", sign says "No Mask, No Soup!™
https://boomernaturals.com/pages/soup
Florida couple kidnapped, beat, drugged, sexually battered woman for 2 days, deputies say
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-bronson-kidnapping-assault-20200902-6tzkow4vcran7aunhssnjahb5y-story.html
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MelaniaTapes&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1300996430023274498 Lordy, there are tapes. #MelaniaTapes
https://fetlife.com/users/359968/statuses/27079599 NC Absentee ballot request can be done fully online now
https://votebymail.ncsbe.gov/app/home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIkl2QnJeI Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2020
This is the one with the smiling woman introducing this and that policy - don't worry, she says, we have This policy for That! and it's all going to be fine.
Kennedy lost to Markey in the primary in Mass. last night. It wasn't close. Kennedy had to give up his 4th District House seat to run for Senate. The results with about 40% of precincts reporting showed no clear leader among Dems.
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2020/09/2020-massachusetts-primary-house-4th-congressional-district-live-election-results.html
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/07/29/fourth-congressional-district-race-republican-democrat-candidate-profiles
https://twitter.com/TMJ4Steve/status/1300874702987165697 :: Mayor of Kenosha calls out
@POTUS:
"I want to dispel the President’s statement that angry mobs were trying to get into my house last night. Nothing of the sort happened. The statement in the President’s video is completely false."
- Mayor John Antaramian, City of Kenosha
https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1300765081270194176 Susan Collins is taking care of at least ONE Mainer—her husband.
The lesson Susan Collins taught Donald Trump
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/09/01/opinion/contributors/the-lesson-susan-collins-taught-donald-trump/
According to an account in The New York Times, Trump’s response to valid criticisms of this law-breaking was glee. According to the news story, “Mr. Trump’s aides said he enjoyed the frustration and anger he caused by holding a political event on the South Lawn of the White House, shattering conventional norms and raising questions about ethics law violations. He relished the fact that no one could do anything to stop him, said the aides, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal conversations.”
Recently Miles Taylor, a high-level Trump appointee at the Department of Homeland Security who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign, revealed that when Trump was told what he wanted to do was illegal, he replied that he would just pardon the law-breakers. Promising pardons for illegal acts is not only corrupt, but shows a contempt for the rule of the law.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
What 'Law and Order' Really Means
The message is coming from all sides: it's time to bring Black people into line.
https://discourseblog.substack.com/p/what-law-and-order-really-means?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNTMyODQwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo5MjE2MTQsIl8iOiJJcENWaiIsImlhdCI6MTU5ODk5MDQ2MCwiZXhwIjoxNTk4OTk0MDYwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzg2MDYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.D-TCg73MnsiEjO_g2_VLAfjOzLHgIy3iuWH045GmJQ4
This is a long rambling thing...
Larry Flynt: My Final Farewell to the Falwells
https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-flynt-on-his-final-farewell-to-the-falwells?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Many of the flock were not convinced by these rationalizations. Dozens of graduates from Liberty University returned their diplomas in protest, accusing Falwell Jr. of having corrupted the university’s “core mission and defiled its core beliefs, substituting the worship of power and influence for the worship of God.” Another former Liberty student, Kaitlyn Schiess, summed it up best in a recent New York Times editorial: “At Liberty, our minds may have been receiving correct content, but our hearts were being trained to love wrongly: to love political power, physical security and economic prosperity as higher goods than they are… A thirst for political power—and sometimes, obtaining that power—begets more than corruption: It often involves sexual immorality, degraded moral judgment and financial malpractice.”
It’s possible Jerry Falwell Jr. will find forgiveness from his flock, but even if he doesn’t, the $10 million severance payout from Liberty University will surely ease his pain. As for the rest of the country, I repeat the sentiment that has guided me for decades: If there were ever to be a Second Coming of Jesus Christ, I have no doubt that his first order of business would be picking up a whip and banishing forever all the hucksters and false prophets who have perverted his message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gbT_QG75Z4 Masks - Kelly (Liam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwvknRAd9w Trump Confesses He's Hearing Voices
Antifa super soldiers went to DC for the RNC to commit a terror attack Trump confesses that’s he is seeing shadow-men and hearing voices. John Iadarola and Dan Evans break it down on The Damage Report.
https://twitter.com/nytmike Michael S. Schmidt
Donald Trump v. The United States
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/604656/untitled-4667-by-random-house/9781984854667
An unlikely state tightens up
The president is fixated on winning Minnesota this year after nearly capturing it in 2016.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/01/2020-minnesota-trump-406280
Russian Darkweb shares personal data of nearly every voter in Michigan, plus a million more voters in four other states
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/09/01/russian-hackers-leak-personal-data-of-nearly-every-voter-in-michigan-plus-a-million-more-voters-in-four-other-states
https://twitter.com/i/events/1300820244328407042 Biden-Harris campaign launches Animal Crossing yard signs, The Verge reports
Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can now decorate their island homes with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign signs, according to The Verge. The move is part of the campaign's effort to organize voters online.
Totally Real Source Reveals How Trump Discovered the Planeload of Looters
By Jonathan Chait
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-looters-rioters-anarchists-plane-antifa-laura-ingraham.html
At first, I was suspicious about the veracity of the anecdote. But then I found a secret source who works closely with the looters, anarchists, and rioters. This source, highly placed within a top anarchist organization, gave me a confidential interview. I have called this source “Deep Loot.” We spoke at his surprisingly well-appointed office in downtown Washington, D.C.
An Election Night ‘Red Mirage’ Is a Nightmare for Democrats
By Ed Kilgore
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-could-have-election-night-lead-due-to-mail-in-voting.html
Since, for the most part, Election Day in-person ballots will be counted before mail ballots, Trump and other Republicans may assume an early lead on Election Night that will inevitably be reduced and in many cases erased as mail ballots drift in. Trump being Trump, it doesn’t take much imagination to envision him claiming victory on Election Night and then attacking subsequent Democratic-leaning mail ballots as fraudulent.
Trump is trying to grab some of Biden's most valuable supporters. Here's how.
Analysis: The president is distracting attention from COVID-19 and making a strong appeal to non-college-educated white voters who are key in battleground states.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-trying-grab-some-biden-s-most-valuable-supporters-here-n1238951
It's too soon to say whether last week's Republican convention made any dent in the polls. But it did make clear President Donald Trump's chief line of attack going forward: After months of drifting between calling Joe Biden senile or soft on China, Trump and Republicans have settled on recasting him as a "Trojan horse for the radical left" who would promote lawlessness and disorder, "abolish" the suburbs and crash stock markets.
It's an admission that Trump needs to distract attention from voters' top concern — COVID-19. And Trump's rhetorical fusillades against "Democrat-run cities" are a tell of a fall strategy heavy on pumping up his base from 2016: small-town, working-class white voters.
Florida DEO chief resigns months after unemployment compensation debacle
Ken Lawson, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity chief, resigned Monday, making official what had been implied in April when Gov. Ron DeSantis removed him from overseeing the state’s beleaguered unemployment system.
Florida cuts ties with Quest over data dump of nearly 75,000 ‘stale’ coronavirus results
The state Department of Health delayed its daily reporting of coronavirus numbers Tuesday because of what DeSantis said was “unusable and stale data” from the company.
DeSantis called the test reporting error “the most egregious example we’ve seen.”
The state reported that without the Quest results, the positivity rate for new cases totaling 3,773 for Aug. 31 is 5.9%. With the Quest results, that total rises to 7,643 cases with a positivity rate of 6.8%. The state said the majority of the Quest results were for tests more than two weeks old, and some as old as five months.
DeSantis extends eviction moratorium again, but since he changed its wording hundreds of cases have been filed
Since Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly changed the wording of Florida’s eviction moratorium, landlords in Orange County have filed hundreds of cases to remove tenants, outpacing the entirety of filings that streamed into the court from April to July when a stricter ban on evictions was in place.
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