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July 9, 2018
Luckovich-Sharpshooter
July 8, 2018
Looks like the Trump Administration has now shelved its Middle East peace plan.
https://twitter.com/Martin_Indyk/status/1015928344905437184
July 7, 2018
Rachel Maddow Is Crushing Fox News With Viewers That Democrats Need To Get Out To The Polls
This makes me smile https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/07/rachel-maddow-fox-news-ratings-midterm.html
The numbers via a press release provided to PoliticusUSA by MSNBC:
MSNBC total day (M-Su, 6am-6am) ranked #2 across cable networks in total viewers (ahead of #3 Nickelodeon, #4 TNT and #8 CNN). MSNBC averaged 930,000 total viewers and 196,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNNs 658,000 total viewers) and was up from #3 in 2Q17, while CNN was down two places from #6 in 2Q17. Beating CNN for the 5th quarter in a row, MSNBC was also the only cable news network to grow in total viewers, up +5% (vs. FOX News -4% and CNNs -16%) compared to 2Q17.
The Rachel Maddow Show was the #2 most-watched show across all cable news in total viewers, up +9% (vs. CNNs -15%) compared to 2Q17 and beating CNN in total viewers for the 35th straight quarter. In addition, The Rachel Maddow Show was #1 across all cable news in A18-49, beating both FOX News and CNN at 9 pm for the 5th straight quarter. At 9pm, Maddow averaged 2,752,000 total viewers (vs. CNNs 1,004,000), 559,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNNs 333,000) and 399,000 viewers A18-49 (vs. FOX News 388,000 and CNNs 265,000).
MSNBC total day (M-Su, 6am-6am) ranked #2 across cable networks in total viewers (ahead of #3 Nickelodeon, #4 TNT and #8 CNN). MSNBC averaged 930,000 total viewers and 196,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNNs 658,000 total viewers) and was up from #3 in 2Q17, while CNN was down two places from #6 in 2Q17. Beating CNN for the 5th quarter in a row, MSNBC was also the only cable news network to grow in total viewers, up +5% (vs. FOX News -4% and CNNs -16%) compared to 2Q17.
The Rachel Maddow Show was the #2 most-watched show across all cable news in total viewers, up +9% (vs. CNNs -15%) compared to 2Q17 and beating CNN in total viewers for the 35th straight quarter. In addition, The Rachel Maddow Show was #1 across all cable news in A18-49, beating both FOX News and CNN at 9 pm for the 5th straight quarter. At 9pm, Maddow averaged 2,752,000 total viewers (vs. CNNs 1,004,000), 559,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNNs 333,000) and 399,000 viewers A18-49 (vs. FOX News 388,000 and CNNs 265,000).
July 6, 2018
TRMS-Joy Reid showed this chart on the Gender Gap
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1015050591901503488
July 4, 2018
Luckovich--Remember when Obama wore a tan suit?
July 4, 2018
No fireworks tonight
https://twitter.com/TravisABC13/status/1014561882844401664
Houston has to name its floods
https://twitter.com/DougDelonyKHOU/status/1014565574402338828No fireworks tonight
https://twitter.com/TravisABC13/status/1014561882844401664
July 4, 2018
Kobach will not defend himself on appeal
https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/1014450237530951680
July 4, 2018
Happy Fourth of July from Hillary Clinton
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1014508849544364033
July 3, 2018
Luckovich-Hard to Celebrate
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July 2, 2018
Court Orders Trump Admin To Give Asylum-Seekers Fair Parole Hearings
This is a big deal https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/court-orders-trump-admin-to-give-asylum-seekers-fair-parole-hearings
A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday that the Trump administration is violating its own policy by uniformly denying parole to asylum-seekers who have passed their credible fear interviews a key step in the asylum process.
In the decision, the court sided with the immigrants who brought the class action and ordered the Trump administration to restore the practice of granting fair, individual parole hearings to asylum-seekers who have passed that initial threshold. Prevailing at the parole hearing means that an asylum-seeker is released from detention and allowed to remain in the country pending a decision on their asylum petition, a process that can take several years.
To mandate that ICE provide these baseline procedures to those entering our countryindividuals who have often fled violence and persecution to seek safety on our shoresis no great judicial leap, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg observed dryly.
Under the Trump administration, Boasberg wrote, parole rates have plummeted from over 90% to nearly zero and the Department of Homeland Security has shifted from individually considering whether each asylum-seeker should be granted parole until their hearing to uniformly denying such requests.
The numbers here are irrefutable, he notes in his opinion.
In the decision, the court sided with the immigrants who brought the class action and ordered the Trump administration to restore the practice of granting fair, individual parole hearings to asylum-seekers who have passed that initial threshold. Prevailing at the parole hearing means that an asylum-seeker is released from detention and allowed to remain in the country pending a decision on their asylum petition, a process that can take several years.
To mandate that ICE provide these baseline procedures to those entering our countryindividuals who have often fled violence and persecution to seek safety on our shoresis no great judicial leap, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg observed dryly.
Under the Trump administration, Boasberg wrote, parole rates have plummeted from over 90% to nearly zero and the Department of Homeland Security has shifted from individually considering whether each asylum-seeker should be granted parole until their hearing to uniformly denying such requests.
The numbers here are irrefutable, he notes in his opinion.
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