Saturday, July 25, 2020

“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute...has demanded that President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) quit raising campaign money by using Ronald Reagan’s name and likeness.”


Abigail Disney, the granddaughter and heiress to company co-founder Roy Disney, is once again taking the gloves off in her critique of the conglomerate that bears her family name, accusing management of putting profit ahead of workers' health and safety.


Trump Is Golfing While A Hurricane Barrels Toward Coronavirus Hot Spot. "The taxpayer tab for the president’s golf hobby now stands at nearly $140 million."


Several of Eric Prince’s Blackwater contractors were convicted of multiple counts of homicide in a mass, UNJUSTIFIED shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians. These Prince contractors CANNOT be permitted to “police” political protests. CONGRESS???


Susan Collins likes to take credit for the Paycheck Protection Program. What she doesn't tell you is that big corporate chains scarfed up the taxpayer money before most of the small businesses in Collins’ home state of Maine had a chance to access the funds. — Stephen King


The casket of Rep. John Lewis, draped in an American flag, is carried into Troy University ahead of a memorial service celebrating the civil rights icon's life.


Kevin McCarthy tried to quietly restore racist Steve King’s committee assignments before King lost his primary. For those asking who the Democrat is that is running against Kevin McCarthy, that’s me. Help me defeat him. Please retweet and follow this account to join our campaign.


“Slow the testing down please.” - @realDonaldTrump


Yoyo quits the Christian group that called him out the other day:


The new Good Will Hunting reboot looks AMAZING ;)


Infamous Trump-Zelensky call was one year ago today, @AVindman reminds...


We also interviewed a medical expert who debunked Dr. Mikovitz’s claims as conspiracy theories. We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial. — Sinclair Broadcast Group


President Trump ordered his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, he tried to block CDC funding, and he has ignored the experts from day one. His actions defy both logic and humanity. What kind of president actively undercuts efforts that will save lives?


LeBron James' group to donate $100,000 to pay fines for ex-felons seeking to vote in Florida


Africa is starting to have second thoughts about that Chinese money


The Trump administration is moving as fast as it can to reverse decades of diplomacy between the U.S. and China

Trump trademarks tell a different story

Reprehensible by Bill Barr and Lindsey Graham: In their effort to help Trump, the duo declassified (Barr) and made public (Graham) info that revealed identify of FBI source. Risking his life, his family, at least one other source who’s been identified.


Millions of jobless Americans are anxiously waiting for Congress to decide whether to extend the $600 weekly boost to unemployment benefits that's been a key economic lifeline through the pandemic shutdowns. This was the last week of the enhanced payment


What fascism in America looks like


Why is Erik “Seychelles” Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos, lying to Congress and “supplying” contractors to gas Moms at the #PortlandProtests?


#AmericaOrTrump - it’s time to choose.


Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them 'building maintenance' in federal disclosures.


“We long ago became a narcissistic nation whose citizens believe they can become competent in almost any subject by watching enough television and spending enough time on the internet.”


Coronavirus symptoms can stick around for weeks, even in otherwise healthy people who don't have a severe case of the virus, according to the CDC


Hundreds of people gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Chengdu on Saturday as American employees prepared to leave after China ordered the shutdown of the mission

Until Xi and Trump walk away from the Trump trademarks recently granted, this is pure theater and costs innocent lives

“Justice requires people to stand up.” Watch


This is another good “what if” article about the Supreme Court that ignores the “why” — look at the man behind the curtain, or in this case the money machine behind the curtain.


It was four years ago that we first began to see evidence of Russian interference in our elections. The lights were flashing red then, and are again now. We must deter, disrupt, and expose foreign interference. And we must vote. Because Americans decide American elections.


We have met the enemy and they is us


Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker to @smerconish on violence in the US: “It’s the images that grab people's attention, but, of course, it's the data that determine your actual risk ... Overall, the trend for violence in the United States is down.”


More than 600 people in 11 states get infections linked to bagged salad


The founders would have tried Donald Trump for treason.


Trump has an unhealthy obsession with dictators, and a frightening disdain for our allies. Retweet if you agree: President Trump is trying to become #DictatorTrump


Trump has an unhealthy obsession with dictators, and a frightening disdain for our allies. Retweet if you agree: President Trump is trying to become #DictatorTrump

ICYMI

Promised confidentiality by the FBI, a Russia expert who had collected Trump-Russia chatter for the Steele dossier agreed to cooperate with agents vetting it. Barr directed the FBI to declassify a road map to identifying him


Ron DeSantis was supposed to star at Trump’s Florida convention. Not anymore.


Hanna is now the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, per @NHC_Atlantic's 8am update


Someone ask Trump if he can recall this in order: Putin. Russia. Bounties. Troops. Silent.


Robert Mercer, Trump's most important donor in 2016, is sitting out the 2020 election, according to Business Insider.


Hong Kong has gone missing again.


Hong Kong has gone missing again. Insecure Xi would crush out Asia's gem of innovation, Hong Kong because he does not posses actual leadership skills. China and her people deserve better.

Last I checked the GOP controlled the US foreign policy. John Bolton reports that Trump was fine with Xi's Uygher concentration camps. I wonder why?


The Hong Kong Crackdown Is A Financial Disaster For China: Is It Time To Fire The CEO?


Good to see like-minded leaders from across Europe (incl NL) voice concern to the Chinese govt. about its Hong Kong take over. Europeans & Americans are standing together to support the people of Hong Kong against unlawful & dangerous takeover by the CCP.


Hong Kong: Officials discussed six sites for autonomous city in Ireland


Potential pro-democracy candidates for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council elections have received questionnaires asking them to show they haven’t violated the recently imposed security law


How do people catch Covid-19? Here's what experts are saying about the route of contagion


If Congress needed this 302 for oversight, DOJ/FBI could have made it available without handing it over to be leaked. If true, this cld get people killed, and they don’t care. No source will trust the FBI, and they don’t care. They are doing generational harm, and they don’t care


TRUMP: "As soon as anyone kneels, the game is over for me, I'm not watching." *every single player kneels*


So, Sinclair is going to run that Qanon conspiracy theory BS "Plandemic", a "documentary" that claims, among other things, that Dr. Fauci invented #COVID19, on *three hundred* stations this weekend? The fantastic @kazweida has a list of Sinclair stations.


A day after boasting about his superior memory, Trump tells a detailed story about being booed at an event he didn't attend:


Black Lives Matter Portland, Oregon #BlackLivesMattters #Portland #PDX


The Trump Administration awarded $6.6 BILLION in taxpayer money to private companies for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. My colleagues and I are asking @SecAzar how the Administration plans to make the vaccine affordable for all, considering the public paid to develop it.


It would be unacceptable for U.S. armed forces to be surveilling protests in an American city. I’ve asked the Air Force to explain these flights, including why this plane is circling Portland, what data it is collecting and who approved the mission.


"Advisers convinced Trump that canceling...could help him politically as he tries to pay closer attention to the coronavirus, show that he cares about the health of Americans and improve his sagging poll numbers." Poll numbers matter, not people


Protesters marched to the Washington, DC home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday to call for an extension of federal pandemic unemployment benefits before they expire next week using the chant, "Mitch better have my money."


Bottom line: @RepTedYoho called another Congressmember a "fucking bitch" on the steps of the Capitol and is now actually trying to defend it and likewise raise money off of it. We need to bring some dignity back to Congress.


Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus


Every single American should read this. This is from one of the foremost military leaders of our time. Mike Mullen: I Cannot Remain Silent - The Atlanti


Trump's wrong-track economy means voters shrug at stocks rebound


Can we invoke Article 5 against the green men invading American cities? Asking for a friend.


"What the Canadian example does show, however, is what the United States could have looked like if the U.S. effort had not been led by malicious, self-seeking incompetents." from @davidfru


Mass. Issues Mandatory Travel Order; $500 a Day Fine for Violations


Over two million Texans were left out of the last round of stimulus checks. COVID-19 has disproportionately hammered Latino families.@JoaquinCastrotx — chairman of the @HispanicCaucus — is pushing to expand economic relief from Congress.


Florida GOP Congressman ‘Devastated’ After Longtime Staffer Dies From COVID-19


Coronavirus outbreaks could be stopped if everyone used masks, washed their hands and kept apart from others, a new study finds


Robert Mercer isn't bankrolling Trump in 2020


Hey Bill Barr, you’re next


A president.


10 crew test positive for COVID-19 on first Carnival Corp. ships scheduled to cruise


What does Ghislaine Maxwell have on @realDonaldTrump?


"We're asking schools to have zero spare cash to somehow build a fancy air filtration system, to somehow do testing, and somehow create additional classrooms. They. Don't. Have. Money."


I’m a patriot who loves my country. And Mitch McConnell is the swamp. He built it


A lapse in enhanced unemployment benefits is now unavoidable because the @senatemajldr adjourned the Senate without voting on the extension that the House passed TWO MONTHS AGO. Millions will struggle to pay rent/mortgages as a result. Shame on Mitch McConnell!


For context: Currently, -About 8600 US soldiers in Afghanistan -About 11,000 soldiers in 82d Airborne Division -About 30,000 soldiers serving in all of Europe Before deploying, soldiers spend time training, gaining intelligence, building teams, preparing to work with allies.


If they voted to acquit Trump they have no merit. The conservative view will only be revived if authoritarian accommodationists are repudiated. Vote all of them out.


Hugely important piece by ⁦@JoyceWhiteVance⁩ about Trump/Barr’s abuse of federal law enforcement for seemingly political purposes & the dangers that presents.


Dear @TheJusticeDept & @DHS_Wolf: For every video you show of graffiti, there are more videos of peaceful protestors and illegal arrests by your unmarked, untrained secret police. The American people are not the enemy. You need to leave.


Fox's banner: "HAS MATT DRUDGE TURNED ON CONSERVATIVES?" Tucker Carlson says Drudge "is now firmly a man of the progressive left."


BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects argument that restriction on church attendance during COVID-19 is unconstitutional.


"Failure": Lincoln Project video shows Trump's COVID response by timeline of surging cases, deaths


Opinion: Trump's tweet to the "Suburban Housewives of America" isn't a dog whistle. It is an air-raid siren.


A much-anticipated report said the U.K. government turned a blind eye to Russian interference in its elections


"SHUT IT DOWN, START OVER, DO IT RIGHT - An open letter to America’s decision makers, on behalf of health professionals across the country."


GOP governors in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Florida see approval sink


As a commercial fisherman, I know how important #BristolBay is to #Alaska’s economy and our way of life. Each year, it generates thousands of jobs & billions in economic activity. @SenDanSullivan has made it clear he won’t stop the #PebbleMine. As your Senator, I will.


Veterans at he fence, standing at ease


Day 58


"Protests over the arrest of Governor Sergei Furgal show populism is alive in Russia—and may create real problems for Putin,"


The US again accuses Russia of sending weapons and mercenaries to Libya


In the three and a half weeks since the enactment of the law at the end of June, a sense of fear and uncertainty has taken hold in Hong Kong, where anything seen to provoke hatred against the Chinese government is now punishable with up to life in prison


A newlywed couple who were among the first to be charged with the serious crime of rioting in connection with the protests in Hong Kong were found not guilty


Some TV stations may soon be airing the 'Plandemic' video. Here's our recent report on why it's not trustworthy.


Speaking of LOWLIFE, how was your call to VLADIMIR PUTIN, yesterday?


Dogs with a few days of training are capable of identifying people infected with the coronavirus, according to a new study


The first guest of Michelle Obama’s new podcast will have a familiar presidential voice: Barack Obama,


Be warned: Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a baseless, warped conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci is responsible for the creation of the coronavirus. It's all a lie.


Without widespread and frequent testing, it’s impossible to know how many people without symptoms may be carrying the virus that causes COVID-19.


You can't be pro-life and advocate kids going back to school in a pandemic


Jeez- THIRD WAVE—Hong Kong records fourth consecutive day of 100-plus new #Covid19 infections as it battles it’s 3rd wave of cases surging.


A little "Yankee Doodle" for the fence.#Portland


This is pepper shot that is being used in Portland


WATCH: #AmericasGreatestMistake


A reminder about DROPLETS and MICRODROPLETS. 6 feet rule is not enough indoors with now established aerosol based transmission


Wall of moms. Tear gas clouds. Day 58


American activism is best hope to save U.S. democracy from Trump


There are two different uniforms being worn. One group is in camo fatigues and there is this group with DHS.#Portland #PDX


Breaking—SCOTUS victory for public health limits on church capacity - Supreme Court just rejected a church's request to block NV state govt from enforcing a cap on religious services. Narrow 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice Roberts joining liberals.


NEW: Trump's convention cancellation is costing GOP donors millions. Most of the $38 million raised by the host committee for Charlotte has been spent.


Trump reveals his problem with female voters


I thought the Marines went first. Now it’s the kindergarteners?


White House hijacks CDC guidelines for school reopenings


Watching emergency school board mtg re:opening. A veteran just stood up & said “The ghosts of the people I’ve killed to keep you all safe haunt me every night. Are you prepared to be haunted by the ghosts of the children & faculty for whom you are responsible?”