August 30, 2020

Fakebook did a great job of filtering violent posts last night...

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) Tweeted:
Thanks Zuck!! https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1299937828919443457?s=20

August 30, 2020

Than they MUST do this and do it NOW!

If they can't withhold funds until Oct 1 than they need to let the GOP know that is exactly what they will do, no excuses or threats.

August 30, 2020

Two things to read and join...

https://protecttheresults.com/
"FIGHTING TO PROTECT THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION
We are building a coalition of voters ready to mobilize if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election."
GET ALERTS

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/hillary-clinton-says-biden-should-not-concede-2020-election-under-n1238156
"Hillary Clinton says Biden should not concede the election 'under any circumstances'"
"The former Democratic presidential nominee predicted Republicans could try to “mess up absentee balloting” for a narrow advantage in the Electoral College."

August 30, 2020

Keith: retweeted Rittenhouse punching a girl on video

Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) Tweeted:
While Tucker Carlson is praising the Kenosha killer - here is his boy Kyle Rittenhouse sucker punching a GIRL a few months back...https://t.co/wgOeUQdVDC https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1299847372185403392?s=20

August 29, 2020

ODNI cancels future election security briefings for Congress

"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has canceled future in-person briefings on election security issues to the congressional intelligence committees and will only provide written updates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced in a statement on Saturday."

"Why it matters: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center said in early August that the Russian government is actively "using a range of measures" to "denigrate former Vice President Biden" before the November election."

https://www.axios.com/odni-cancels-in-person-election-security-briefings-congress-00b1ac4b-cf41-4f34-9457-8e58363d4237.html

*They will lie, cheat and steal this election any way they can! We can NOT be complacent and think we will easily win...anything can and will be done to prevent a Biden victory.

August 29, 2020

Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings

Source: The Hill

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, panned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Saturday for canceling all election security briefings for Congress."

"The two Democrats said the ODNI canceled briefings scheduled for September on foreign election interference and informed them it will hold no others, likely infuriating lawmakers who have pushed the Trump administration to be more transparent about intelligence regarding threats to the November elections."

“This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and a betrayal of the public’s right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy,” Pelosi and Schiff said in a joint statement. “This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian. And the American people have both the right and the need to know that another nation, Russia, is trying to help decide who their president should be.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/514280-pelosi-schiff-pan-director-of-national-intelligence-for-cancelling-election

August 29, 2020

"Melania Did. Not. Care": In a Blistering New Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump

sound a Lot Like Her Husband"
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/melania-did-not-care-in-blistering-new-book-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-the-first-lady-sounds-like-her-husband

"Wolkoff... saved everything. And there was plenty to hold onto because they had all communicated so much, through Signal messages and texts, emails, contracts, phone calls."

"What makes it all the more marked is that Melania has been so unknowable for so long, quiet and coiffed and largely out of view. This is the first real look at what’s under her hood, backed up with receipts. And what’s there, according to the book, is much more callous and uglier than it has appeared."

"So many people assumed that no sane woman could see Trump and his administration for what it was and still prop it up, and then projected this belief onto the women closest to him. Wolkoff’s book helps detail that this is not the case. These women were never saviors trying to break free. Melania is not cloistered away, above the muck. She is rolling around in it. As Wolkoff writes at the close of her book, making sense of why she decided to write it, “[Melania] told me in her way that she was not part of the solution, she was part of the problem. Not speaking up, and not fighting, against the problem, is being part of the problem, and I learned that the hard way.”

August 28, 2020

Latest Jonathan Pie rant: "Moral Duties"

He makes it sound almost as bad in England as it is here.

August 27, 2020

I'm an Activist in Russia. I Can't Believe What My Life Has Become.

"I’m an Activist in Russia. I Can’t Believe What My Life Has Become.
As a founding member of the activist band Pussy Riot, I’ve fought for years against autocracy. My country has only slid deeper."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/navalny-russia.html#click=https://t.co/viMYEdZJFS

"Three fellow dissidents whom I’ve known personally have been murdered (Boris Nemtsov, Anastasia Baburova, Stanislav Markelov) and two beaten almost to death (Mikhail Beketov and Oleg Kashin). I myself was sent to prison for two years just for singing a song, and many, many activists in my country have been sentenced to more time and suffered far worse fates. This is the reality I live with day to day, that we in Russia and my friends in Belarus are living with day to day. You learn to live with it, to fight it as you can, deal with it how you can, but it becomes your life."

"And of course it’s not just activists who are targeted by Mr. Putin’s authoritarianism: The greed and corruption of this president and a handful of families that are close to him affects everyone, every day. Inequality is skyrocketing in Russia. Unrest is growing. Many Russians are tired of backward-looking, post-imperial, oppressive, Cold War-style politics and ready to become a forward-looking country focused on building infrastructure, better schools and health care. Since the 2018 election, Mr. Putin’s popularity has been on the decline, hitting an all-time low of 59 percent in May."

"Our president has only just recently had the law changed so that he can stay in power until 2036, but his program of repression didn’t start out this blatantly. These things happen in pieces, bit by bit, small acts. And each one may even seem relatively benign at first, perhaps bad, but not fatal. You get angry, maybe you speak out, but you get on with your life. The promise of our democracy was chipped away in pieces, one by one: corrupt cronies appointed, presidential orders issued, actions taken, laws passed, votes rigged. It happens slowly, intermittently; sometimes we couldn’t see how steadily. Autocracy crept in, like the coward it is."

*Nadya Tolokonnikova is an artist and activist and a founder of the band Pussy Riot.

August 22, 2020

National Protest Sat...Join "Save the Post Office Saturday" on 8/22

National Protest Sat...Join "Save the Post Office Saturday" on 8/22
Join "Save the Post Office Saturday" on 8/22
https://www.savethepostoffice.net/survey/save-the-post-office-from-trump/

"On Saturday, August 22, at 11 a.m. (local time), we will show up at local post offices across the country for "Save the Post Office Saturday" to save the post office from Trump and declare that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must resign.
The number of planned protests at hundreds of post offices grew as DeJoy testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday, telling lawmakers he has “no intention” of returning hundreds of mail sorting machines that have been decommissioned in recent weeks, severely cutting postal workers’ ability to deliver mail quickly. The postmaster general claimed the machines are not needed."


*Go to the link for your local event (700 already organized). Wear masks and social distance.