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Seriously Bash? SERIOUSLY? #Harris dispensed of this beautifully and effectively. With dignity.
Via Griffin:
CNN's BASH: [Trump] suggested that you happened to turn black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.
HARRIS: Yes.
BASH: Any—
HARRIS: Same old tired playbook. Next question, please. (Laughter)
BASH: That's it?
HARRIS: That's it.
“Merchan, who chastised Blanche for imploring jurors not to send Trump to prison, told the jury that the lawyer's comment was "improper, and you must disregard it."
"If there is a verdict of guilty," the judge added, "it will be up to me to impose a sentence."
He went on to explain that a "prison sentence is not required in the event of a guilty verdict."
This is essential reading. I recently had a brief and ultimately inconsequential inreraction with Lorenz over her COVID misinforming. Didn’t know jack about her then. (I don’t get out much.) Here are receipts.
Our scandalous "health care" system now features hospitals that encourage patient crowdfunding. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/02/gofundme-health-care-hospitals/677353/?utm_source=press.coop
This image shows how Africans were stored on a slave ship. Shit they don't even treat animals like this !
Just thinking every African American would have had an ansestor brought to the US like this!.
And when they were on the plantation they would have been given they last name by they owner.
Shit my last name came from a slave owner.
This just fks my brain up the more I think about it 🤦🏾
#blackhistorymonth
Between blocks of the Auschwitz I camp. It's our duty to preserve the authentic site and allow contemporary people access to the very site where this human tragedy happened.
(📷 instagram.com/chris__rober)
As it’s #BlackHistoryMonth I would like to mention here the radical and important ideas of Anna J Cooper, an early African-American Feminist, and her ideas of LOVE “as a political practice connected to the pursuit of a sovereign mind, heart and body” (May 2017, p. 41)
And the FCC had to approve Trump's December 2020 sale of Univision to the foreign Searchlight Capital.
Ajit Pai was then chairman of the FCC.
Ajit Pai is now partner at Searchlight Capital !!!
I guess this was just a bonus with the sales conditions.
Next to the bonus that Biden can no longer advertise on Univision.
Oy.
Via Victor Shi:
Holy shit. Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, has decided to cancel ad-buys by the #Biden campaign in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, & Florida after #Trump met with their executives last week. Our media continues to fail us. This is how our democracy dies.
UPDATE: H/t: @LibraryofBabble
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/trump-univision-biden-election/
@GottaLaff Sharing the full reporting on this by WashPo here (link through paywall): https://wapo.st/3ugUTDy
"The Democratic alarm further spiked two days later, when Univision advertising representatives told the Biden campaign that spots already purchased to run during the Trump interview in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Florida had been canceled — owing to a heretofore unannounced policy about opposition advertising in single-candidate interviews."
TLDR, Spanish language broadcaster Univision has been purchased and is pulling a “Goya”, whose leadership chose fascism over democracy.
“People familiar with the situation inside Univision described alarm and discomfort in the newsroom last week about corporate’s role setting up the Trump interview, the selection of the interviewer and the decision to shut out Biden’s response.”
Good. Keep slamming.
“#Biden compares #Trump's 'vermin' remarks to #Nazi rhetoric
Biden slammed former President Donald Trump's remarks last weekend that characterized his political opponents as "vermin" who pose threats within the country.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-compares-trumps-vermin-remarks-nazi-rhetoric-rcna125266
“FTC sent warning letters to American Beverage, a lobbying group whose members incl Coca-Cola & PepsiCo, as well as Canadian Sugar Instit & health influencers who collectively have over 6 mil followers on TikTok & Instagram. The agency flagged nearly 36 social media posts that it said failed to clearly disclose who was paying the influencers to promote artificial sweeteners or sugary foods.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/11/15/ftc-food-industry-dietitians-tiktok/
Hammer it home, never stop.
Pres #Biden: "Let's be absolutely clear what Trump's bragging about. The only reason there is an #abortion ban in America is because of Donald #Trump. The only reason teenagers in Ohio are being forced to travel out of state to get their healthcare is because of Donald Trump. The only reason a fundamental right has been stripped away from the American people for the first time in American history is because of Donald Trump."
"The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing."
~ Ian Milhiser
#SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #ClarenceThomas #JohnRoberts #GinniThomas #SamuelAlito #Alito #SugarDaddies
The shutdown looms, and Speaker Mike Johnson has nothing
Americans wondering about Mike Johnson's worldview should simply “pick up a Bible” and read it.
It’s funny, though — my copy doesn’t say anything about funding the U.S. government (or foreign policy, climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, gun policies and much more, for that matter).
And MAGA Mike, as he’s affectionately dubbed on the right, must also be having a hard time locating the pertinent passage.
He adjourned the House on Thursday for a long weekend, still without a funding plan that would avert the government’s shutdown Friday at midnight.
4/ The massive headhunting quest aims to recruit 20,000 people to serve in the Trump next administration — as a down payment on 4,000 presidential appointments + potential replacements for as many as 50,000 federal workers who are "policy-adjacent."
This is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. Johnny McEntee — one of Trump's closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025.
One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller.
3/ The most elaborate part of the machine is a résumé-collection project:
Applicants are asked to "name one person, past or present, who has most influenced the development of your political philosophy" — and to do the same with a book.
Another query: "Name one living public policy figure whom you greatly admire and why."
2/ 100s of people spending tens of millions of $ to install pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across govt to rip off restraints imposed on previous presidents.
Social media histories are already being plumbed.
If Trump were to win, 1000s of Trump-1st loyalists would be ready for legal, judicial, defense, regulatory, domestic policy jobs. His inner circle plans to purge anyone viewed as hostile.
& the people leading these efforts aren't clownish figures like Rudy Giuliani.
Via Kyle Griffin 🧵 1/…
Important Axios scoop:
#Trump's allies are *pre-screening the ideologies* of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election/
