Blip

[bodysong]

Although President Donald Trump often rails against the mainstream media
and insists that countless journalists are out to get him, he and his officials
will manipulate or deceive major news outlets whenever they can get away
with it.

July 16, 2020

This week, two such outlets have apologized for letting Trump officials get away
with lying: USA Today and National Public Radio.

- Alex Henderson July 16, 2020

Bill Sternberg, USA Today’s editorial page editor, is now saying that some
of Peter Navarro’s anti-Fauci claims don’t hold up when fact-checked.

For example, Navarro wrote:

In late January, when I was making the case on behalf of the president
to take down the flights from China, Fauci fought against the president’s
courageous decision — which might well have saved hundreds of thousands
of American lives.

USA Today’s Ledyard King King:
“There’s no evidence of a large-scale effort by the Trump administration to mobilize
supplies for the pandemic as early as February, although experts contend that a forceful
response then would likely have limited the spread and saved lives. Trump said little in
public about the virus during that time period and downplayed the the threat.”

Meanwhile, on NPR’s website, Public Editor Kelly McBride criticized the outlet
for letting Attorney General Bill Barr get away with lying during a “Morning Edition”
segment that aired on June 26 and was hosted by reporter Steve Inskeep.
That day, McBride writes, NPR listeners “heard U.S. Attorney General Barr
falsely declare that mail-in ballots will jeopardize the security of the upcoming
presidential election.”

Barr told NPR

There’s so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed.
I think it would be very bad. But one of the things I mentioned
would be the possibility of counterfeiting.

McBride writes:
“I agree with the audience members who have cried foul at how this was presented."

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/tw...ess-regret-after-letting-trump-officials-lie/

bodysong comment-
AG Bill Barr degrades his high office staus, to feed Trump's storyline about a stolen election.
Trump screams like a hit dog, that his future election results are getting stolen from him.
FFS, he has not stopped telling the press that Hillary gained her votes, because cheating.
/end bodysong comment

 

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With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats

NPR in News

July 21, 2020 10:28 AM

President Trump departs a July 2019 press conference on the census with U.S. Attorney
General William Barr (center) and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
in the White House Rose Garden

President Trump is signing a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change
to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion
of immigrants living here without legal permission from the numbers used to divide up seats
in Congress among the states.

"...the move by the president, who does not have final authority over the census,
is more likely to spur legal challenges and political spectacle in the last months
before this year's presidential election than a transformation of the once-a-decade
head count."

https://laist.com/2020/07/21/with_n...who_counts_for_dividing_up_congress_seats.php

President Trump released a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change
to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country —
the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divide up
seats in Congress among the states.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/8923...ange-who-counts-for-dividing-up-congress-seat

Legal experts slam Trump’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ attempt to corrupt the census

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum declaring undocumented
immigrants are not to be counted when the number of U.S. Representatives for each
state is allotted. That process, called “apportionment,” occurs every ten years after the
official national census is conducted.

The U.S. Constitution mandates the census, which is being conducted this year, count
“the whole number of persons in each state.” It makes no distinction as to their citizenship
status.

The move follows a hard-fought campaign by the Trump administration to add
a citizenship question to the census. The Supreme Court blocked Trump in that
fight and it was not included.

The Constitution says:
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according
to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of PERSONS in
each state.”

Trump says undocumented immigrants aren’t “persons” under the Constitution.
That’s Dred Scott stuff.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 21, 2020

Trump census memo today part of broader strategy to preserve white GOP electoral power
by excluding millions of immigrants, children & people of color from political representation

Read my @motherjones feature from earlier this year

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 21, 2020

President Trump, who has no final authority over #2020Census

Congress does

Hansi Lo Wang

NPR

 

[bodysong]

LA Times’s Matt Pearce:

Matt Pearce(@mattdpearce)

This turns journalists into an arm of the government.

We are not here to do surveillance for police.

July 24, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-election-coronavirus-portland-latest-updates

Judge denies Oregon attorney general’s motion to restrict federal police actions

Jul 24, 2020

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum had urged the judge to bar federal officers from
engaging in “unconstitutional police state-type tactics,” alleging they have violated
the rights of protesters to exercise free expression and assembly, be free from
unreasonable search and seizure and receive due process.

Jann Carson, interim executive director of the ACLU of Oregon, was dismayed
by Mosman’s decision but vowed to keep the pressure on the federal forces.

“While the decision in the state’s lawsuit is disappointing, federal agents should not for
a minute think their unconstitutional actions will go unanswered,” she said in a
statement. “The ACLU will be in court again to hold federal agents accountable
for their unconstitutional attacks on the right to protest.”

-- Maxine Bernstein

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...otion-to-restrict-federal-police-actions.html

 

[bodysong]

Today, in 2020, there are people that are still alive, that had American parents
that suffered under American slavery.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn commenting on the 1619 Project
during the ceremony for John Lewis at Black Lives Matter Plaza

"John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020"

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn will offer legislation Monday to rename a
House-passed voting rights bill after the late Rep. John Lewis

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rep. John R. Lewis worked to make the dream of another, to come into reality-

John Lewis spent 15 years fighting for the museum — now the dream is realized

September 15, 2016

Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Tex.) discovered that the most recent legislative efforts to have
the museum built in Washington, DC, had run aground a few years earlier because of an
attempt by Rep. Clarence Brown (R-Ohio) and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) to take the
project to Wilberforce, Ohio. A tragic plane crash ended Rep. Mickey Leland's life and
ended his fight to make it happen. Rep. John R. Lewis took up his fight for the museum,
for the next fifteen years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...b0ca10-64bb-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html

Honored

Rep. John Lewis Is the First Black Lawmaker to Lie in State in the Capitol under the Rotunda

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/john-lewis-memorial.html

1619 Project

There are Republicans that are fighting against the New York Times' 1619 Project.

“The 1619 Project” from The New York Times refers to the year that the first enslaved
people were brought to the U.S. and looks at how slavery continues to shape every aspect
of American culture.

Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton is serving as the figurehead and face of
the Saving American History Act of 2020 and “would prohibit the use of federal funds
to teach the 1619 Project by K-12 schools or school districts”, according to a statement
from the senator’s office.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her
introductory essay to the 1619 Project, said on Friday that Cotton’s bill “speaks to the power
of journalism more than anything I’ve ever done in my career”.

On Sunday, she tweeted: “If chattel slavery – heritable, generational, permanent, race-based
slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit – were a
‘necessary evil’ as Tom Cotton says, it’s hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is
a means to an end.

“Imagine thinking a non-divisive curriculum is one that tells black children the buying
and selling of their ancestors, the rape, torture, and forced labor of their ancestors for
PROFIT, was just a ‘necessary evil’ for the creation of the ‘noblest’ country the world
has ever seen.

“So, was slavery foundational to the Union on which it was built, or nah? You heard it
from Tom Cotton himself.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ry-necessary-evil-1619-project-new-york-times

Sadly the joke is over- both are now in their graves, but not in our hearts

John Lewis took the mix-ups in stride. Standing next to a portrait of Rep. Elijah,Cummings
on the House floor in October, Lewis paid tribute to his friend and talked about his service.

“Sometimes people would confuse us, and say, ‘Hello, Elijah,’ ‘Hello, John Lewis,’ to him,”
he said. “And we would joke about it. We would laugh about it.”

Cummings lay in state on at the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

https://www.boston.com/news/politic...tos-of-elijah-cummings-in-john-lewis-tributes

October 17, 2019 The death of Rep. Elijah Cummings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/17/elijah-cummings-dies-baltimore/

In 2019, Rucho v. Common Cause abdicated the responsibility of federal courts to take
on partisan gerrymandering claims, allowing politicians to protect and preserve their
power by choosing their voters. Most egregiously, the high court’s 2013 decision in
Shelby County v. Holder gutted the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to forces
of voter suppression and giving anti-voting entities permission to be bold in their
obstruction and clear in their intention to restrict the franchise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/20/john-lewis-voting-rights-eric-holder/

23 years old, Rep. Lewis was the youngest person asked to give a major address at the 1963 March on Washington

He fought all of his life, for equality, and the right to vote.

 

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Heralds, and their voices-

'In the last days and hours of my life you inspired me,' Rep. John Lewis wrote in final message

July 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic prevented Rep. John Lewis from having the big public
funeral someone of his stature might ordinarily get, a national occasion for mourning
together. But as Lewis is laid to rest on Thursday at 11 AM ET, you can stream the
service on CBSN, and he left us with some final words, to be printed in The New
York Times on the day of his funeral.


“While my time here has now come to an end,” Lewis wrote, “I want you to know that
in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the
next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference
in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down
the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class,
age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ired-me-Rep-John-Lewis-wrote-in-final-message

(former President) Barack Obama is very clear on what the United States faces:
“The endpoint of that we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago—what happens
when those things get unleashed,” he said in one event, according to notes on his remarks.
“You don’t nip that in the bud, bad things can happen.
"Among the most quote unquote civilized societies.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...r-Biden-and-told-some-dark-truths-about-Trump

 

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wow


(Is Trump filling the position with a "temp" that he will bully with threats ?)

Trump fires Tennessee Valley Authority chair in push against foreign workers

August 3, 2020

(Presiderp) Trump told reporters on Monday-

that he had fired Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) chair Skip Thompson
after signing an executive order that targeted the federally owned company
for outsourcing jobs to foreign countries.

What they're saying:

"All TVA employees are U.S. based citizens. All jobs related to TVA’s Information
Technology department must be performed by in the U.S. by individuals who may
legally work in this country," the company said in response to the president.

https://www.axios.com/trump-tenness...ers-2250bdab-f4fc-48d5-96cb-0c4a9ad58424.html

Alabama, a customer-

There was some confusion, as the president also railed about the pay for the TVA’s
chief executive and demanded his pay -- now $8 million, Trump said -- be trimmed
to no more than $500,000.

Trump told reporters at the White House that he was formally removing the authority’s
chair of the board and another member of the board, and he threatened to remove
other board members if they keep hiring foreign labor.

An Alabamian is chair of the TVA board. James “Skip” Thompson of Decatur,
is the president and CEO of Corporate Billing, a subsidiary of National Bank
of Commerce, Birmingham. Previously, he served as the president and CEO
of both First American Bank in Decatur and First Commercial Bank in Huntsville,
as well as serving on the board of Decatur Utilities. His term expires May 18, 2021.

Trump made the announcement as he signed an executive order to require all
federal agencies to complete an internal audit to prove they are not replacing
qualified American workers with people from other countries.

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/...eaders-cites-foreign-outsourcing-ceo-pay.html

Trump said the authority was replacing many of its in-house technology workers
with contractors who rely heavily on foreign workers under the H1-B visa program
for highly skilled workers.

Trump meets with tech workers and signs executive order on 'hiring American'

As Trump was meeting with workers who would shortly be laid off by the authority

President Donald Trump (may have) met with U.S. tech workers on Monday before
signing an executive order adding increased scrutiny to federal government contracts
hiring foreign workers.


Among other things, the executive order requires each agency to review contracts
from fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to determine whether opportunities for U.S. workers
were affected by the hiring of foreign workers.


On April 22, Trump issued a 60-day order suspending the issuance of green cards for people currently outside the U.S.

Two months later, the White House issued a new mandate extending the green card suspensions and barring people outside the U.S. from obtaining certain classes of nonimmigrant visas, including H-1B visas for workers in specialty jobs,


An analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center determined that industries with a prevalence
of green card applications do not match up with those hardest hit by the pandemic.



https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...thority-chair-cites-hiring-of-foreign-workers

 

[bodysong]

There was a TV series that ran for avery long time, that had a family of men with long grey
beards, and racist attitudes. Sarah Palin liked them.

Georgia Man reminds me of them. (2019 incident)

“When Terry Kielisch aimed and fired a high-powered rifle at a police helicopter, he
callously endangered the lives of the officers aboard the aircraft and of any people
on the ground,” U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine said in the release.

“The resulting sentence appropriately reflects the senselessness of this attack.”

He shot near the helicopter’s fuel lines, forcing the pilot to land, prosecutors said.
No one was injured.

(Fine and jail sentence.)

A Georgia State Police trooper was piloting the helicopter at the time, and a Richmond
County Sheriff’s Office investigator was sitting in the passenger’s seat, prosecutors said.

Air Force helicopter shot at while flying over Virginia, injuring 1

August 12, 2020

An Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at a Virginia airport
this week when someone shot at it, injuring a member of the crew, local and military
officials said.

https://triblive.com/news/world/air-force-helicopter-shot-at-while-flying-over-virginia-injuring-1/

 

[bodysong]

Mother Jones ✓
Twitter › MotherJones

Trump-appointed judges are already handing huge wins to the NRA.
“There are now more judges on the lower courts and the court of appeals
who take an extreme view of the Second Amendment and that are hostile
to most gun safety laws.”

1 minute ago

 

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Postal Service Sends Delaware Election Commissioner Mail-In Election Guidance

August 17, 2020


July 29, 2020

Honorable Anthony Albence
State Election Commissioner
905 S. Governors Avenue
Dover, DE 19904-4112

Dear Commissioner Albence: Re:

Deadlines for Mailing Ballots

Under our reading of your state’s election laws, as in effect on July 27, 2020,
certain state-law requirements and deadlines appear to be incompatible with
the Postal Service’s delivery standards and the recommended timeframe noted
above. As a result, to the extent that the mail is used to transmit ballots to and
from voters, there is a significant risk that, at least in certain circumstances
ballots may be requested in a manner that is consistent with your election
rules and returned promptly, and yet not be returned in time to be counted.

(...)

To be clear, the Postal Service is not purporting to definitively interpret the
requirements of your state’s election laws, and also is not recommending that
such laws be changed to accommodate the Postal Service’s delivery standards.
By the same token, however, the Postal Service cannot adjust its delivery standards
to accommodate the requirements of state election law. For this reason, the Postal
Service asks that election officials keep the Postal Service’s delivery standards and
recommendations in mind when making decisions as to the appropriate means used
to send a piece of Election Mail to voters, and when informing voters how to successfully
participate in an election where they choose to use the mail. It is particularly important
that voters be made aware of the transit times for mail (including mail-in ballots) so
that they can make informed decisions about whether and when to (1) request a
mail-in ballot, and (2) mail a completed ballot back to election officials.

(...)

Please reach out to your assigned election mail coordinator to discuss the logistics
of your mailings and the services that are available as well as any questions you
may have. A list of election mail coordinators may be found on our website at:

USPS (addy for pdf)

Sincerely,

THOMAS J. MARSHALL

The above letter was obtained by the Washington Post

https://firststateupdate.com/2020/0...ction-commissioner-mail-in-election-guidance/

 

[bodysong]

Watch out. Uncle Joe Biden! Putin tested out a sublte, but effective poison-

Putin's poison is wearing off, and Russia is releasing Putin's poisoned opponent

German healthcare workers of FAI Air Ambulance arrive at Omsk Ambulance Hospital No 1

Live: Russian doctors allow Navalny's transfer to Germany

The German medical team has ascertained Navalny is fit enough to be airlifted to Berlin.
Russian doctors have now given permission for his transfer which is expected to occur
on Saturday.

Deutsche Welle English- Service

video

https://www.dw.com/en/alexei-navalny-poisoning-omsk-berlin/a-54645234

 

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What Melania Trump has done to the Rose Garden can never be forgiven.
She literally gutted Jackie Kennedys garden tribute to her husband, JFK.
That Rose Garden was part of our history and she destroyed it.

(pic)

— J-Molls #BlackLivesMatter

https://digg.com/2020/melania-trump-white-house-rose-garden-before-and-after

Before- Tall, full, healthy, mature, rose bushes. Colorful, bright, perenial blooms.

After- Small, short, scraggly patches of annuals, so that the press and media can record
Malania's costly footwear. "They could not see my feet, because the rose bushes and trees
are in the way."

(The promise made is that "the trees that were removed will be replanted
elsewhere on the White House grounds. More likely Jackie's tree will suffer
the same fate, as what happened to the tree that France gave to America.)

What the actual f**k. It is literally no longer a Rose Garden. Holy shit.

(link)

— Vincent Frank (@VincentFrankNFL) August 22, 2020

The Rose Garden now looks like a cemetery, which perhaps is actually appropriate
given what your husband has done to our country.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) August 22, 2020

Cold. Austere. Bleached of color. So pretty much on brand.
Just missing the 175K tombstones.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) August 22, 2020

A nice side by side, showing the original glory of trees and tulips, lush from decades
of love and attention. Now? Cold and sterile with no love or thought -
a nice description of Melania herself.

Crooks and Liars

Pale flowering annuals, that will die from drought and neglect.

 

[KeithD]

What Melania Trump has done to the Rose Garden can never be forgiven.
She literally gutted Jackie Kennedys garden tribute to her husband, JFK.
That Rose Garden was part of our history and she destroyed it.

(pic)

— J-Molls #BlackLivesMatter

I don't see any roses in the "before" garden. I see tulips.

 

[bodysong]

Boris Epshteyn ✓
Twitter › BorisEP

Congratulations to @FLOTUS on the completion of her beautiful renovation
of the @WhiteHouse Rose Garden!

14 hours ago

response, shared by people that are paying attention to Trump's White House

"They appear not even to be able to manage watering properly
meaning this is going to be a checkerboard of dead stuff
by the time Biden moves in."

Boris helped Trump's campaign, then left. He's back, as strategic adviser for coalitions 2020!

Sinclair TV drops pro-Trump commentator Boris Epshteyn

December 11, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...80f2c8-1c47-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Removal of 10 flowering mini crab apple trees from Jackie Kennedy's rose garden

The shadows from the trees would have ruined her photo-op.

US First lady Melania Trump will deliver her Republican National Convention speech
on Tuesday, August 25, from the White House Rose garden.

(Mal-ania will not fall over on her face, because of her costly spike high heels. New path!)

Voice of America is not allowed to tell the truth, because Donald Trump removed journalists.

Everything is the property of Donald J. Trump, even if the Republicans only rented his name.

Molly Jong-Fast ✓
Twitter › MollyJongFast

I for one am thrilled that maga grifter Charlie Kirk is speaking at the RNC

5 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Atmospheric stage lights for Mal-ania Trump at the Rose Garden, and her unmasked audience.

Those fucking-apple-blossom-trees did not cast shadows, and Jackie Kennedy's rose thorns
did not ruin Mal-ania's ugly dress, or the costly clothing of her guests.

RNC Live Updates: Melania Trump Ends Night 2 of the Convention

The New York Times 19 mins ago

("Can you all see me? Can you all hear me, tonight ?")

The first lady spoke from the recently renovated Rose Garden, despite questions
about the propriety of using the White House for an overtly political purpose.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c49f56-e74c-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, famed bully of female journalists,
had a great stage set- the city of Jerusalem.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-25/rnc-pompeo-israel

Remember when Pompeo terrified NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/25/pompeo-npr-reporter-ukraine/

Pompeo’s taped appearance breaks with decades of tradition of secretaries of state avoiding
the appearance of involving themselves in domestic politics. That his video was filmed in
Jerusalem, where he was on an official foreign trip, has raised additional questions of propriety.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c7ba32-e72f-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

Pompeo takes off on first official direct Tel Aviv-Khartoum flight

The Times of Israel

19 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

On 15th Anniversary Of Katrina, Lower 9th Ward Resident Calls On
New Orleans Diaspora To Come Home

August 28, 2020

In 2018, there were 391,000 people living in the city of New Orleans, about 80%
of its pre-storm population. But the racial makeup of the Crescent City has changed
significantly. According to U.S. Census estimates from 2019, there are nearly 93,000
fewer Black New Orleanians living in Orleans Parish compared to before the storm.
In comparison, there are about 8,000 fewer white people.

Green says he wants the New Orleans diaspora to “realize there is something more
here than at the time Katrina hit … they can come back … and they can have a good
life as well.”

The call to come home, Green says, isn’t just limited to the ones who left.

“We need other families to help us replenish our community,” he says
of the Lower 9th Ward, still his home through it all.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/08/28/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-diaspora

Aug. 28, 2005, the National Weather Service issued an urgent weather alert

"Brownie," the George W. Bush minion, could not manage a smooth coordination
of agencies, to save humble, poor Americans from starvation, thirst, disease, and death.

The greatest need went neglected, while political need grabbed the lion's share for so long,
the few defenses against disaster crumbled.

"There's nothing out there that can be saved at all," said Col. Terry J. Ebbert,
the city's head of homeland security.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/...orleans-makes-gains-breadth-of-damage-is.html

 

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On tRump’s hair:

I called his plane Hair Force One, for good reason. Trump doesn’t have a simple combover,
as it would appear. The operation was much more involved than a simple throw-over of what
was left of his hair: the three-step procedure required a flop up of the hair from the back of his
head, followed by the flip of the resulting overhang on his face back on his pate, and then the
flap of his combover on the right side, providing three layers of thinly disguised balding-male
insecurity.

The concoction was held in place by a fog of TREsemme TRES Two, not a high-end salon
product. Flip, flop, flap, and there was the most famous combover in the world.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/10/1976507/-Republicans-Are-Crashing-Evening-Shade-Thursday

 

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She found a purpose, she found love, she found friends-

She found critics-

(Ruth Bader) Ginsburg said that she "can't imagine what the country would be —
with Donald Trump as our president." She also joked that her husband, who died
in 2010, would have said it was "time for us to move to New Zealand."

Trump responded harshly on Twitter, calling for Ginsburg to resign, the Washington Post
said her remarks were "inappropriate,"

and the New York Times editorial page sided with Trump.

Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb
political statements about me. Her mind is shot - resign!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016

(Supreme Court Justice) Ginsburg expressed regret Thursday morning and in a statement
and interview with CNN. On Thursday afternoon, Ginsburg further explained her actions
in an wide-ranging interview with Totenberg.

Asked why she felt it was time to say she was sorry about the remarks, Ginsburg said:

"Because it was incautious. I said something I should not have said and I made a statement
that reads, 'On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised.
I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
In the future I will be more circumspect.' And that's exactly how I feel about this whole
business."

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg caused a stir by expressing her opinion
on a presidential candidate — a line justices usually don't cross.

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/4860...ds-on-decision-to-apologize-for-trump-remarks

 

[bodysong]

Tadej Pogacar completes historic ride to Tour de France 2020 victory

 

[bodysong]

emptywheel
Twitter › emptywheel

...that made Russiagate such a failure

(graphic #1.) from realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/...

(graphic #2.) from from realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/...

Congratulations to Aaron Maté, who not only took a month to not-read
the Stone section -- dismissing it with 5 paragraphs w/no citation --
but still managing to find a month old tweet to dick-wag at.
Standards at the propaganda farm getting desperate.

5 hours ago

Aaron Maté ✓
Twitter › aaronjmate

It is so funny to see Russiagate cultists go from bragging about how many indictments
Mueller obtained to now throwing him under the bus and complaining that he didn't
interview Ivanka & was too intimidated to really go after Trump. Pick a narrative for
your crazy-ass cult!

2 hours ago

The recent Senate Intel report was widely greeted as a Russiagate vindication.
In fact, it offers more of the same: innuendo, ignoring countervailing info, &
new grounds to doubt Russia-mania. My new 2-part report:

(link to realclearinvestigations & another link realclearinvestigations)

12 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

oh, Texas

October 1, 2020

Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation requiring Texas counties to limit ballot drop-off sites
to one location.

The order, which goes into effect tomorrow (Oct. 2), effectively closes multiple satellite sites
where eligible mail-in voters could hand-deliver their ballots.

Abbott’s proclamation also requires that counties allow poll watchers to observe any activity
related to the in-person delivery of a ballot at one central drop-off site.

The Texas Democratic Party called Abbott’s new order a “blatant voter suppression tactic.”

https://www.austinchronicle.com/dai...-proclamation-limiting-ballot-drop-off-sites/

Austin Chronicle ✓
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The beginning of mail-in ballot drop-off began today just as Gov. Greg Abbott
announced that only one drop-off location will be allowed per county in Texas.
@JanaB04

8 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way
through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that
democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

- Issac Asimov

The Democrats did not get sick- Unless they put themselves in danger, to save others
see- doctors, nurses, aides, staff at hospitals. Trump and his entourage invaded hospitals
and they did not wear masks. Trump and his entourage failed to wear masks when they
used veterans to make a propaganda ad.

 

[bodysong]

First rule of Harry Potter world- Do not eat the Unicorns.

Has someone started to devour the llamas and the vicuñas ?



Are they hunting Baby Yoda, because they want to BBQ the Child ?

 

[bodysong]

Texas schools are required to return in person at some point in the fall semester
or face a loss of state funding.

Oct. 2, 2020

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-10-02/for-many-aisd-teachers-its-career-vs-family/