Tuesday, August 6, 2019

This is going to end with Air Force One arriving at the El Paso airport and being confronted by a collection agency


Notable: Ohio Republican @RepMikeTurner Mike Turner, who represents Dayton & whose daughter was across the street when the shooting took place, announces support for "preventing military style weapon sales to civilians, magazine limits, and red flag legislation."


No one was targeted or harassed in my post. You know that. All that info is routinely published. You’re trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP and the fact that President Trump spends donor money on thousands of ads about Hispanics “invading” America.


Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant will not seek reelection in 2020, two sources confirmed to The Texas Tribune. He is the fourth member of the Texas delegation to announce his retirement in recent days.


Huge crowd is holding a silent candlelight vigil outside of Moscow Mitch’s Louisville office right now


#WheresMitch Moscow Mitch and his wife are about to go on a 40 day vacation while families and the towns El Paso and Dayton Ohio plan funeral. That’s where he is


A donation is a political act. It s a public act.


When the president and Republicans in Congress tell you that what they're really concerned about is the mentally ill getting access to guns, you can prove to them that that is bullpucky. You can prove it to them not by what they have said but by what they have done.


So tweets the senator who will not meet with me after my daughter was murdered because he’s paid by the NRA. Sit down, Rafael. You’re embarrassing yourself.


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is ignoring demands to call the Senate into session to vote on gun safety measures which passed by the House of Representatives this year


We worked to defeat the Islamic State. White nationalist terrorism is an equal threat, writes @BrookingsInst President John R. Allen and @brett_mcgurk


On the cover of @NYmag: the making of Ivanka Trump


THREAD: 1/ The reaction to the Castro tweets identifying Trump donors is interesting to me. when I came out against Trump, his political allies and his pet media organs when after me, my family, and my company and clients. We've lived with three years of death threats and harassment.


Who funds Donald Trump?


PBS. RICK STEVES —FACISM IN EUROPE WWII. How did it happen? Charismatic leader... “only I can do this”. Simple answers to complex problems. Fear of outsiders. Free press suppressed. Extreme nationalism. Absolute control police/armed forces. The big lie.


Moscow Mitch wants the ditch socialism and go straight to Communism!


LA Times: ‘We were safe until he started talking’: El Paso residents respond to President Trump


Emma Watson announced that she's helping launch a free legal advice line for those experiencing sexual harassment at work in England and Wales


A state of emergency has been declared in Siberia where a fire at a military warehouse used to store artillery shells set off a series of huge explosions, state media says


Jeffrey Epstein's endgame was one last shot to stay in Wall Street's favor


China retaliation is "11" on a scale of 1 to 10, Wall Street warns


Columbia, SC student from elite political family just got arrested following his racist hate videos. This 11th grader and a mass shooter in the making was also expelled from Cardinal Newman Catholic School.


Fixed it


Here it is. This site is owned/run by a leading GOP digital operative. He runs systems on servers physically located in Russia, and advertised it. Mitch McConnell is a client. Ben Carson is a client. Gingrich is a client. And many more. Tell the world.


What are Republicans afraid of?


Donald Trump is enabling white supremacy—and Republicans are enabling him. And when Congress and the American people have tried to fight the gun violence epidemic, @SenateMajLdr has put the NRA first. If we want action, we need to take back the Senate and end the filibuster.


Amy McGrath blasts Mitch McConnell for tweeting out an image of a mock graveyard with a tombstone bearing McGrath's name just hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. McGrath is the most prominent Democrat vying to take on McConnell in 2020.


Stocks plummeted on Monday after China escalated its trade battle with the U.S. by letting its currency sink to an 11-year low; the Dow lost more than 760 points -- nearly 3%.


Twenty-year sentence for Florida man who sent explosives to Trump critics


Meanwhile at Starbucks in Texas... Terrorist or tiny penis?


Military-Style Surveillance Technology Is Being Tested in American Cities


Obama, our last legitimately-elected real president, has issued a statement, saying Americans "should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments."


#BREAKING Beijing warns Hong Kong protesters: 'those who play with fire will perish by it'


Wait, I thought conservatives were ALL about states rights?!?


Senate Republicans Are Quietly Advancing a Radical Gun Plan: They’re confirming judges who want to render us powerless to stop mass shootings


The administration is full of neo-Nazis who use coded ways to taunt us, and to taunt the targets of their supremacist plans.


This really happened in 2019 & not the 1800s???


Ohio lawmaker Candice Keller blames gay marriage, 'drag queen advocates' for Dayton shooting


Two gun safety bills have been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk since @HouseDemocrats passed them in February. If Trump means what he said this morning, he should tell the Senate to pass them, too. We know what will happen if they do nothing.


Now why would the Russian embassy be defending Tulsi Gabbard?


"Jesus Christ, of course he's racist!" - Beto O'Rourke, thinking up the bumper sticker every Democrat should be using.


Republican Senator Mitch McConnell tweeted out a picture with the name of Amy McGrath on a headstone just hours after the El Paso shooting. This is not only a direct threat against a decorated veteran, but is inciting violence against opponents of McConnell. He should resign.


This is the “Dewey Defeats Truman” of racism.


Unbelievable. — Beto O'Rourke


#BREAKING: mayor of #Achinsk #Russia (Southern Russia) has told 100,000 residents of the city to prepare for evacuation after explosion at near-by Uran-14 ammunition depot at a military base; 11,000 people have been evacuated


USDA Office Relocations Are Illegal, IG Says


97% of Americans agree that we need universal background checks. Tell #MassacreMitch @SenateMajLdr & @RealDonaldTrump to DO something about it.


Four former Fed chairs are calling for independence for the Federal Reserve System and its chair, Jerome Powell


Trump ignores elephant in the room: his own racist rhetoric


Two days of deeply misleading banner headlines from the paper of record. We are not a “bewildered nation” and we don’t have a president who urges “unity vs. racism.” We know what’s happening, and we know how his activities exacerbate it.


Version 1 and version 2 of Tuesday’s front page repeat the same mistake, granting an utterly gullible summary of a press event the honor of the paper’s lead headline while burying contradictory information on Trump’s actual efforts to influence the country on page A13.


"This is the most racist President we've had perhaps since Andrew Johnson in another age and another century," says Democratic presidential candidate and El Paso, Texas, native Beto O'Rourke. "He is responsible for the hatred and the violence that we're seeing right now."


NEWS: Since January, Trump’s campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on Facebook including the word “invasion.” They are part of a Facebook ad buy for Trump immigration spots that total $1.25 million since late March,


White nationalist domestic terror reaches crisis point for U.S.