Saturday, October 5, 2024
Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors
Republican nominee claims Harris is threat to democracy in recording of top-dollar fundraiser in Colorado in August…
Jack Smith SKEWERS Trump with NEW SURPRISE Evidence
Michael Popok provides a deep cut of Jack Smith’s new evidence filled 165 page brief against Trump in the DC Election Interference case, and provides a map of how to read it, and where the golden nuggets are buried.
'Daily Show' Tears Apart 'Shameful' New Election Development | HuffPost Entertainment
"Daily Show" host Michael Kosta on Thursday broke down how the stakes just got even higher in the 2024 election.
That's because betting on congressional elections may be legal, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling on Wednesday. The decision has heightened concerns about the impact of betting on election integrity.
George Conway Flips A Republican Dog Whistle Right Back On Trump | HuffPost Latest News
The former president is actually the "DEI candidate," Conway declares in a new 60-second ad from his Anti-Psychopath PAC that will air on Fox News, ESPN and the Golf Channel.
The "D" stands for "deranged," Conway explains over footage of Trump falsely claiming that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating people's pets…
Report: Elon Musk Has Been Funding Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Mastermind – Mother Jones
So much for claiming to be politically moderate…
Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of Republicans
"…Jankowski pioneered Redmap, short for the Redistricting Majority Project. That 2010 strategy, coordinated when he worked at the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), flipped state legislative chambers in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee and several other states just ahead of the decennial redistricting. Then, with complete control of those processes, as well in Florida, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere, the RSLC helped draw some of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in history, locking in huge Republican advantages in state legislatures and congressional delegations…"
Leonard Leo is the other.
Oklahoma School Official's Bid To Purchase Bibles Under Scrutiny | HuffPost Latest News
The controversy is the latest in a long series for Walters, a former state teacher of the year who won election in 2022 to the superintendent's office in part by repeating the lie that students were identifying as cats in schools and asking to use cat litter in bathrooms...
Far-right extremists flee from Telegram to SimpleX over privacy features
"For terrorists and violent extremists looking to avoid detection, SimpleX Chat provides significant advantages over Telegram, largely due to its design and features that prioritize privacy and anonymity."
JD Vance's Claim About Trump's 'Common Sense' Leads To Reminders | HuffPost Latest News
The vice presidential candidate was given a quick trip down memory line...
Jamie Raskin and AOC question John Roberts on Samuel Alito flag controversy
"Your decision suggests that you recognized that Justice Alito's partisan ideological activity called into question his impartiality with regard to the Fischer matter," Raskin, who is the committee's ranking member, and Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.
"Yet, Justice Alito, like Justice Clarence Thomas, whose own ties to the 'Stop the Steal' movement are well established, was allowed to participate in the Fischer case, in violation of the Court's institutional commitment to the principle that a Justice must 'disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice's impartiality might reasonably be questioned.'"…
Friday, October 4, 2024
Special counsel reveals new details of Trump bid to overturn 2020 election
Newly unsealed court filing argues former president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution…
The Untold Link Between Justice Alito and Trump's Election-Denying Efforts
Records from the January 6 committee and other sources show Martin helped float a radical theory: that state legislatures had "plenary," or absolute, authority over the selection of presidential electors, regardless of what their respective state laws or courts might say. This theory is often credited to Eastman. But records show Martin spread it to an influential state legislator, Mark Finchem of Arizona, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Arizona "fake electors" case and who repeatedly based his own actions on his "plenary" authority as a state legislator…
11 damning details in Jack Smith’s new brief in the Trump election case - POLITICO
Much of Smith's brief focused on Trump's state of mind in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Smith described a slew of conversations suggesting that the then-president knew his claims of election fraud were spurious. And Smith laid out evidence that Trump's sole objective was to stay in power — not, as he and his lawyers have claimed, to exercise legitimate authority over election integrity.
Here's POLITICO's look at the most significant and striking details in Smith's brief...
Trump says DOJ violated its own election rules. Lawyers disagree. - The Washington Post
Justice Department officials have argued that once a case is in front of a judge, they must follow the court's schedule — even if that schedule collides with a presidential election. The justices also have stressed that the lower courts should resolve immunity-related questions as soon as possible...
Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing - POLITICO
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan released to the public on Wednesday a redacted version of an important court filing from special counsel Jack Smith in the federal election case against Donald Trump.
Read the filing here.
Trump’s newest economic claim is even more wrong than usual
Donald Trump says he's responsible for creating the best economy ever — even if we include data from 2020. That's demonstrably ridiculous...
Georgia Judge Lifts Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women — ProPublica
"It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from 'The Handmaid's Tale' to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb," McBurney's ruling states.
"The Court finds that, until the pregnancy is viable, a woman's right to make decisions about her body and her health remains private and protected, i.e., remains her business and her business alone. When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then — and only then — should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it."
What Conservatives Mean by ‘Freedom of Speech’ - The Atlantic
They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored...
Thursday, October 3, 2024
US justice department announces investigation into Tulsa race massacre
"We honor the legacy of the Tulsa race massacre survivors, Emmett Till, the Act that bears his name, this country and the truth by conducting our own review and evaluation of the massacre," Clarke said, announcing that the review should be finalized by the end of the year. "We thus are examining available documents, witness accounts, scholarly and historical research and other information on the massacre. When we have finished our federal review, we will issue a report analyzing the massacre in light of both modern and then-existing civil rights law."…
The Murder Rate Fell at the Fastest-Ever Pace Last Year—and It’s Still Falling – Mother Jones
Contrary to Republican claims, the drop is real. "It is an astounding feat," one crime analyst says...
Jack Smith Lays Out New Evidence in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case - The New York Times
"The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct," prosecutors wrote. "Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one."…
Jack Smith filing lays out new evidence against Trump Jan. 6 immunity - The Washington Post
In a filing that argues Trump is not immune from prosecution, Jack Smith offered new details of the former president's alleged efforts to overturn the election…
Economists agree: Another Trump term would be a disaster for the economy
Even the deeply conservative National Interest publication says "Trump's tariffs would be a disaster for America, sparking 20 percent inflation or more for many goods and burdening average consumers with high costs. The conservative Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates Trump's plans could cost the average household $2,600 a year, with low-income Americans suffering most…
J.D. Vance's 'brazen lying' leaves veteran health care reporter stunned - Raw Story
Even after the GOP health care plan failed in the Senate, Cohn continued, Trump kept trying to find ways to sabotage the law.
"He cut funding for outreach and enrollment counselors, and had the federal government join a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to declare the entire program unconstitutional," Cohn explained...
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided (Reveal podcast)
A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.
In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child.
He describes going to the tribe’s president and offering to use his connections to broker an international sale of the tribe’s buffalo. At the same time, he was asking the president for his blessing to adopt the child.
That video eventually leaked to a local TV station, and the adoption became the subject of a federal investigation into bribery. To others, the adoption story seemed to run afoul of a federal law meant to protect Native children from being removed from their tribes’ care in favor of non-Native families.
This week on Reveal, reporters Andrew Becker and Bernice Yeung dig into the story of this complicated and controversial adoption, how it circumvented the mission of the Indian Child Welfare Act, and why some of the baby’s Native family and tribe were left feeling that a child was taken from them.
Interview:
He describes going to the tribe’s president and offering to use his connections to broker an international sale of the tribe’s buffalo. At the same time, he was asking the president for his blessing to adopt the child.
That video eventually leaked to a local TV station, and the adoption became the subject of a federal investigation into bribery. To others, the adoption story seemed to run afoul of a federal law meant to protect Native children from being removed from their tribes’ care in favor of non-Native families.
This week on Reveal, reporters Andrew Becker and Bernice Yeung dig into the story of this complicated and controversial adoption, how it circumvented the mission of the Indian Child Welfare Act, and why some of the baby’s Native family and tribe were left feeling that a child was taken from them.
Interview:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Opinion | Kamala Harris is the Only Patriotic Choice for President - The New York Times
"…In 2020 this board made the strongest case it could against the re-election of Mr. Trump. Four years later, many Americans have put his excesses out of their minds. We urge them and those who may look back at that period with nostalgia or feel that their lives are not much better now than they were three years ago to recognize that his first term was a warning and that a second Trump term would be much more damaging and divisive than the first.
Kamala Harris is the only choice."
Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills | Louisiana | The Guardian
Officials class mifepristone and misoprostol as 'controlled substances' – which medics say could imperil women's lives…
California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care – Mother Jones
…Nusslock's water broke at 15 weeks—far too early for the fetuses to survive—leaving her in excruciating pain and at high risk of developing a severe infection if treatment was delayed. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the standard of care in such cases is to remove the fetuses in a procedure akin to an emergency abortion. One of the twins had already died. But medical staff at the Catholic hospital allegedly told Nusslock that because the other twin still had a detectable heartbeat, Catholic ethical rules prevented them from ending the pregnancy until Nusslock's life was in danger…
The Christian Radicals Are Coming - The Atlantic
"I am not on the Earth to be blessed; I'm on the Earth to be armed and dangerous." He went on: "I am not on the Earth to feel good. I'm not on the Earth to do my own thing. I'm on this Earth as a God-appointed warrior in a dark time."
That is what four days of carefully choreographed sermons and violent imagery had come to with only weeks to go before the presidential election. And just as the crowds had in Arizona, Michigan, and Georgia, people in Eau Claire cheered. They said amen, and then 2,000 Christian warriors headed into the Wisconsin evening, among them a young man named Josh Becker, a local who'd attended all four days. He said he felt inspired. He said he wasn't sure exactly what he was supposed to do, only that "we have to do something—we have a role."
"I believe the father is going to lead us through a dark time," he said, referring to the election and whatever God might require of him. "The Kingdom of God is now."…
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/eau-claire-tent-revival/680097/Senate Democrats seek probe into DOJ investigation of Trump and Egypt - The Washington Post
A secret Justice Department investigation into whether Trump accepted $10 million from the Egyptian president was closed in 2020, despite prosecutors and FBI agents having sought to take additional steps, The Post previously reported...
The right’s newest false outrage centers on misrepresented federal data - The Washington Post
The reality is more complicated, as you might have expected. CNN's Daniel Dale has a thorough explanation of what the numbers are and how they work, but the simplest explanation is that the 13,099 number extends back for decades, not simply since the start of the Biden administration. In fact, it unquestionably includes a number of individuals who arrived during the Trump administration...
Mass shootings upended their lives. Now survivors are making the gun industry pay | Law (US) | The Guardian
While suits against the gun industry have happened before, their increased use now is, in part, due to the rise of large, well-resourced violence-prevention groups backing them as a tool for change – to shift the narrative about who bears responsibility for mass shootings, and to force the gun industry, social media companies and the federal government to shift their practices...
Donald Trump Tells Unforgivable Whopper About 'Transgender' Classes In School | HuffPost Latest News
"We want reading, writing and arithmetic," Trump said in a conversation about his plans for education reform if he wins the election next month. "Right now, you have mostly transgender. Everything's transgender."
Martin Sheen sounds the alarm on voter suppression from ‘MAGA vigilantes’
"The fact that they are attacking newly registered voters — young people, people of color and immigrants, or people with foreign-sounding names — it's very egregious, it's racist and it's going to have a powerful effect on the outcome of the election," the actor said.
"Our purpose in making this film is to make sure that the voters — not the vigilantes — pick our next president," Palast said.
"That's the entire point. I'm not being partisan. I'm not trying to elect Kamala Harris. I'm trying to let the voters make that decision, not the vigilantes. And so we're exposing them and helping people to save their votes," the filmmaker and author added...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate
A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump's supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned…
The significance of Vance’s appearance at event hosted by far-right Christian nationalist | PBS News
"I can't think of a single national political figure in American history who has as many religious narratives and religious attachments foisted onto him as Donald Trump. He is someone that is seen as a figure of destiny.
He is seen as someone who is anointed by God for this role. And that's a very dangerous sentiment to have in a democracy, where elections are about the will of the people, not the will of God. Elections are about how we negotiate our differences. And as you have all these attachments of religious ideas to Donald Trump, the language of these movements has become more and more Manichaean.
It's good versus evil. It's angels versus demons. It's Trump versus evil. And as that becomes the ethos of the Trump campaign and of the Christian nationalist sentiments around him, people are becoming much more apocalyptic in their expectations around these elections..."
Trump condemned for suggesting ‘one really violent day’ to combat crime
He then trailed off in a digression to falsely accuse Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, of introducing a practice in California when she was attorney general that exonerated thieves from prosecution of items worth less than $950.
Politico said the remark appeared to be a reference to proposition 47, which downgraded some offenses from felonies to misdemeanor and was signed into law by the state's former Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, four years before Harris took office...
Mark Cuban Fact-Checks Unhinged Elon Conspiracy Using Elon's Own Tech | HuffPost Latest News
No, Democrats are not flying people "directly into swing states" to change the vote there…
WATCH LIVE: Vance and Walz debate — PBS News simulcast of CBS’s 2024 Vice Presidential Debate | PBS News
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are meeting Tuesday for their first and only scheduled vice presidential debate.
The 90-minute CBS 2024 Vice Presidential Debate will air at 9 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 1. PBS News coverage starts with the News Hour at 6 p.m. EDT, then stay tuned for special analysis following the debate. You can watch live in our player above...
Vance’s car seat concerns add to the GOP candidate’s headaches
JD Vance's "childless cat ladies" comments have taken a toll on his public standing. His concerns about car seat rules probably won't help, either...
Spirit & Power Episode 1: The Media Makers (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
In episode one of Spirit & Power, Dr. Leah Payne speaks with Sam Kestenbaum – an award-winning journalist covering religion in America who writes widely for national magazines and newspapers, including Harper Magazine’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone.
Leah and Sam discuss some of the influential conservative charismatic media makers who are energizing the religious right: pastor Greg Locke, rabbi Jonathan Cahn, entrepreneur Clay Clark, worship leader Sean Feucht, and head of Charisma News, Stephen Strang.
Interview:
Monday, September 30, 2024
JD Vance appears at event hosted by Lance Wallnau, Christian nationalist - The Washington Post
MAGA ideology is woven throughout the movement, with prophets and apostles sharing pro-Trump visions and declaring "spiritual warfare" against his opponents — sometimes invoking biblical language that extremism researchers say masks violent or racist messaging. Video footage documents the movement's presence among the crowds that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"It's a conquest narrative. That, combined with the election denialism, is concerning," said Karrie Gaspard-Hogewood, a sociologist at Tulane University who studies Christian nationalism...
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
Sailer, 65, of Los Angeles, California, has no known academic qualifications in biology or any other scientific field. He has publicly claimed a BA, an MBA and a period of corporate employment that ended in 2000.
But he has been instrumental in the revival of eugenic thinking under the euphemism "human biodiversity" (HBD), has drawn on the ideas of self-described eugenicists and scientific racists, and has appeared on conference stages alongside prominent white nationalists and antisemites.
His work in turn is cited by white supremacists: the Guardian found dozens of favorable references to Sailer on the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront.
His central claims include the idea that social racial categories – Black, white or Hispanic – have a biological basis, and that this is revealed in differences in intelligence and other attributes.
Scientists say this is wrong...
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