He just came on stage, caught it on CNN TV live. Nothing outrageous yet, seems in a jovial mood. Supportive messages about disasters in Florida, Carribean, Texas and Mexico. Now says he's had a really productive week at the UN....the crowd chants "USA"....
Edit to add: live video available at the link
What must happen so that poor and middle-class families don’t end up paying for tax cuts for the rich.
Guest op-ed by Jacob J. Lew @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 22
Jacob J. Lew, a visiting professor of international and public affairs at Columbia, served as secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017.
The senator powerfully linked domestic and foreign policy in the context of massive global inequality.
By Ken Belsen @ NYTimes.com/Sports, Sept. 21
Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who committed suicide in April while serving a life sentence for murder, was found to have a severe form of C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma that has been found in more than 100 former N.F.L. players.
Researchers who examined the brain determined it was “the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron’s age,” said a lawyer for Hernandez in announcing the result at a news conference on Thursday. Hernandez was 27.
C.T.E., or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, can be diagnosed only posthumously.
Hernandez is the latest former N.F.L. player to have committed suicide and then been found to have C.T.E., joining Dave Duerson, Junior Seau, Andre Waters, Ray Easterling and Jovan Belcher, among others. Seau and Duerson shot themselves in the chest, apparently so that researchers would be able to examine their brain. Hernandez was found hanging in his prison cell.
Seau, Duerson and Waters were all older than 40, while Hernandez is one of the youngest former N.F.L. players to have been found with the disease. In July, researchers at Boston University released findings that showed that they had found C.T.E. in the brains of 110 of the 111 former N.F.L. players they had examined.[....]
MAGA Day 244, President of the United States compared to a barking dog by tinpot NK regime, whose leader revels in getting Trump's goat: “There is a saying that the marching goes on even when dogs bark,” Ri said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. “If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream,” he added. In Korean, a dog dream is one that makes little sense.
And some wonder why Dems keep losing. Part 2.
"Several years after private equity firm Carlyle Group LP successfully pushed the White House to relax Environmental Protection Agency rules to the benefit of two Carlyle-owned oil refineries in Pennsylvania, former President Barack Obama, as part of a series of paid speeches, made a stop at its conference last week."
By Kenneth P. Vogel & Jo Becker @ NYTimes.com, 12:10 pm
Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has continued soliciting international business even as his past international work is under investigation.
WASHINGTON — Paul J. Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Trump who is at the center of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is working for allies of the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region to help administer and promote a referendum on Kurdish independence from Iraq.
The United States opposes the referendum, but Mr. Manafort has carved out a long and lucrative career advising foreign clients whose interests have occasionally diverged from American foreign policy. And he has continued soliciting international business even as his past international work has become a focus of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into ties between Russia and Mr. Trump and his associates [....]
In fact, the work for the Kurdish group appears to have been initiated this summer around the time that federal authorities working for Mr. Mueller raided Mr. Manafort’s home in Virginia and informed him that they planned to indict him.
While the Kurdish referendum, scheduled for Monday, would not immediately trigger independence [....]
The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey: Only 26 percent of respondents can name the three branches of government (executive, judicial, and legislative)... 33 percent could not name any of the three branches, the same as in 2011...
Is 'Muricans learning...? Any guess how many of the 33% who knew not one of the 3 branches are hate radio Fox News junkies, i.e. - Trump's Base?
"Iran does not threat anybody and the same way will not bend to anybody’s threat." President Rouhani
This speech deserves attention by anybody who thinks that Trump's speech at the U.N. deserves attention. Maybe it will get fair coverage. We'll see.
The Black Women's Roundtable begins its annual meeting today. Among the presentations will be details of a poll taken by BWR and Essence magazine noting an 11% decrease in support for Democrats among black women. The scheduled presentation should help answer whether the decreased support is due to the fact that Obama is no longer President or due to a lack of focus of Democrats on issues important to black women.
94 % of black women voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Despite the decreased support for Democrats, black women are gearing up to run for office in increased numbers despite receiving limited support from the Democratic Party. It will be interesting to see if the study gives clues to black women moving to third-party options.
By Zachary Cohen @ CNN.com, Sept. 19
President Donald Trump's pick for US ambassador to Russia, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, told lawmakers Tuesday that there is "no question Russia interfered in the US election last summer."
Appearing in his nomination hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Huntsman said the interference in the election has directly led to the low level of trust between Moscow and Washington [....]
A reminder of several things - the shuttering of America's steel mills and greater competition from China and Japan was in full swing 16 years before Clinton took office, 20 years before NAFTA. Both Clintons spoke seperately in Youngstown in July and October last year, hardly ignoring the rust belt. No easy solution is going to be found by either party, aside from prepare better for more rapid change and make sure large industry is paying into those preparations while it makes a buck or a billion.
@ Politico.com, Updated 09/19 07:34 PM EDT
‘I think they want to do a middle-class tax cut — at least that is what most everybody has said,’ Sen. Orrin Hatch said.
Fairy tale ending turns out to be fairy tale, just another colonial racist and apologist.
By Renato Mariottt @ Politico.com, Sept. 18
Based on what we know so far, here’s a former federal prosecutor’s expert read on where the Russian investigation is heading.
By Matthew Yglesias @ Vox. com, Sept. 18
Okay, some of them are tables
By Peter Sullivan @ TheHill.com, Sept. 18
A last-ditch effort by Senate Republicans to repeal and replace ObamaCare is gaining steam, suggesting lawmakers could face another vote on ending the former president’s signature law later this month.Supporters do not have the 50 votes necessary to pass the bill yet, but pressure is growing on Republicans to back the measure, which could replace much of ObamaCare with block grants for states.
In a crucial boost for its chances on Monday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) offered his support [....]
I caught this paranoia on CNN this very minute.
So I googled or yahood or whatever and found this from Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/white-house-staff-worried-colleagues-are-wearing-wire-robert-mueller-666741
So maybe Trump is speaking with Alex Jones about Lizard People?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWieh7YIgY
On the other hand, if I were working for the Anti-Christ, I might wear a wire.
;hahahhahahah
By Peter Baker and Kenneth P. Vogel @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 17
The debate, which led to an angry confrontation between two members of the legal team, could shape the course of the special counsel’s investigation.
[....] The friction escalated in recent days after Mr. Cobb was overheard by a reporter for The New York Times discussing the dispute during a lunchtime conversation at a popular Washington steakhouse. Mr. Cobb was heard talking about a White House lawyer he deemed “a McGahn spy” and saying Mr. McGahn had “a couple documents locked in a safe” that he seemed to suggest he wanted access to. He also mentioned a colleague whom he blamed for “some of these earlier leaks,” and who he said “tried to push Jared out,” meaning Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been a previous source of dispute for the legal team [....]
Though not a news article, this personal account of police abuse is chilling. An excerpt:
i was arrested while sitting on a bench outside the church, drinking a water bottle, nursing an injured foot. the church is not only private property, but was agreed to be a sanctuary by the police. they pushed me off the bench with their nightsticks and jumped me when i couldn't move fast enough for them. the cops behind me discussed what they could pin on me in retrospect: Interference & Resisting Arrest. i was not allowed to keep my glasses, and they stole an expensive water bottle i'd borrowed. im told the church afterward was surrounded by cops who threatened to fire tear gas into the church if they opened their doors to let out those who they'd corralled in.
"I worry that we might not be able to recover from this because all our greatest cities are on the oceans and water's edges, historically for commerce, transportation. And as storms kick in, as water levels rise, they are the first to go," he said. "And we don't have a civilization with the capacity to pick up a city and move it inland 20 miles. That's -- this is happening faster than our ability to respond. That could have huge economic consequences."
