Are you f'ing kidding me?
Has anyone else seen this court report from Scott McFarlane this morning before court ended?
#DOJ must investigate #ClarenceThomas
Are you f'ing kidding me?
Has anyone else seen this court report from Scott McFarlane this morning before court ended?
#DOJ must investigate #ClarenceThomas
Via Ron Filipkowski:
#Trump’s message to the NY Economic Club: You are all going to die in a nuclear war unless I win so nothing you are doing right now matters unless I run the country.
Trump to the NY Economic Club: “A couple of nukes and your bank doesn’t mean a thing”
Via Digby:
Well there you go. He sounded completely unhinged and dumb as a post, but they loved it.
These aren't the yokels out in rural America, folks.
Aaron Rupar:
"It was very policy-oriented ... he gave an impassioned defense of free market policies. I was impressed" -- Fox sane-washes #Trump's low energy screed to the NY Economic Club #ClusterFox
Judge Cannon Should Be Removed From #Trump Case, Watchdog Group Argues in New #Legal Filing
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Judge Aileen M. Cannon has shown bias in throwing out Trump’s classified documents case and must be replaced if the appeals court overturns her decision, argues public interest advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
#News #DonaldTrump #Law #Courts #Government #Politics #election2024
Via USA Today's Rex Huppke:
If you claim to care even a little about the environment, maybe don’t sit this election out.
Aaron Rupar:
#Trump says global warming “is not our problem” #ClimateCrisis
👏🏻 #Walz: There’s a saying in politics: if you’re explaining, you’re losing. Last night, 11 times Donald #Trump explained that he wasn’t weird…
It’s weird to be obsessed with people’s personal lives. It’s weird to be obsessed with people’s healthcare choices. It’s weird to continue to talk about sharks and batteries and boats
#trump still owes #albuquerque over $200,000.
Hopefully,he won't be campaigning here.
His 2016 visit turned into violence and civil unrest.
#newmexico #Election2024 https://citydesk.org/2024/trump-still-owes-albuquerque-200k/?utm_medium=email
Via Emptywheel:
1 thing that APPEARS to have happened is GOP spent so much time attacking #Walz, w/stolen valor etc (possibly bc they had ready, albeit shoddy GOP oppo on him but not on Kamala), they evened Walz' superb favorables but left VP space to improve hers.
Josh Marshall:
On July 2nd, days after Biden's last debate, #Harris had a net neg favorability of 17.6 pts (538 avg). Today is at .1 pt net neg favorability, unheard of turnaround. #Trump is -9.6; Vance -10.7; Walz +5; Harris -.1
Via Juliet Jeske “Decoding Fox News”:
#Project2025 has #Trump’s name all over it. Guess what else it has? The phrase “decertify government unions.” It’s incredibly anti-union. Trump praised Elon #Musk for busting a union. Wake up and see the fake populism. Trump does not support unions. Don’t be a Putz.
Aaron Rupar:
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien is still flirting with the idea of not endorsing Kamala #Harris
Via Ammar Moussa:
Donald #Trump and #JDVance nowhere to be seen on Labor Day
Taylor Popielarz:
The presidential campaign schedule on this Labor Day:
• #Harris will visit MI and PA
• #Biden will join Harris in PA
• Tim #Walz & Gwen Walz will visit MN and WI
• Douglas #Emhoff will visit VA
• Trump and JDVance don't have any public events scheduled
🤦🏻♀️ Via Rupar:
#Trump, with his lawyers flanking him, says "I'm disappointed in my legal talent, to be honest with you"
Wow. 🤦🏻♀️ Rapist Trump does it again.
Via Kyle Griffin:
UPDATE: #Trump says a sexual assault allegation against him is false because, "she would not have been the chosen one." #EJeanCarroll
Sighhhhhh 🤦🏻♀️
Via Kyle Griffin:
Reuters: JUDGE DELAYS DONALD #TRUMP'S SENTENCING IN HUSH MONEY CASE UNTIL NOV. 26
Bloomberg: US consumer confidence rose to a six-month high in August as more upbeat views of the #economy and inflation offset waning optimism about the labor market.
Via Brendan Duke:
New from me: an analysis of the #Project2025 tax plan coauthored by #Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore.
TLDR: the plan cuts taxes for the wealthy and raises taxes on the middle class. 🧵
The Apprentice averaged almost 21 million viewers in its first season and fewer than 5 million in its last.
#Election2024 #trump #HarrisWalz2024
Via Emptywheel 🧵1/…
Yesterday marked the 1/3 mark for Kamala #Harris' presidential campaign (36 of 107 days).
Yesterday marked the 9/10 mark for #Trump's presidential campaign (650 of 720 days).
Some things the press hasn't asked Trump in the 90% of his campaign:
#Biden, #Harris push scrutiny of #police. #Trump would halt such efforts
Trump is vowing to end the Biden admin’s wide-reaching efforts to curb abusive policing, promising if he returns to the WH to rein in federal #oversight of local #LawEnforcement & empower officers to aggressively “clean up” American cities.
#law #justice #PoliceAccountability #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/27/trump-policing-biden-harris-police-accountability/
Via Ammar Moussa:
It's not enough to institute a $3,900 tax hike on families - Trump wants to make gas more expensive for Midwest families too.
Patrick De Haan:
Heads up: if elected, #Trump's promise to tariff imports of oil from #Canada could cause #gasprices to surge 25-75c/gal in the Midwest if enacted. The bulk majority of refineries in this region have been processing Canadian crude, nearly exclusively, for decades.
💪🏼👠 ,La!
Via Kyle Griffin:
NBC Exclusive:
Vice President #Harris' political operation raised more than $300 million in the month of August — more than twice as much as #Trump's operation gathered in the same period.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-raised-300-million-august-extending-cash-windfall-rcna169759