The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Election Thread #1

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 9:09am |

    Woodward's Interviews with Jared Kushner

    By NCD on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 2:37pm |

    Kushner's two interviews with Woodward, April 18 and May 8, discussed in Woodward's book Rage, and on the CNN page at this link, which page also has audio from the interviews, which were recorded by Woodward:

    Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'

    Trump had given Woodward the go ahead to interview Kushner in a recorded interview on Feb. 19:

    Revolution #9: Belarus et al

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 3:48am |

    Not a minor free speech conundrum

    By artappraiser on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 1:29am |

    Social media companies don't seem to have any desire to block viral false rumors that precipitate rioting in American cities, suggesting that their commitment to censorship has its own limits.

    — Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 27, 2020

    more after the jump

    Listen to Obama, he knows, he was President for 8 years

    By artappraiser on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 3:32pm |

    And do note what topic he chose to put first here. And how he doesn't say "vote blue", he says "educate yourselves up and down the ticket."

    Biden Campaign Ads

    By artappraiser on Fri, 10/16/2020 - 6:31pm |

    Now that they are flush with dough, gonna use this thread to point to some of the things they are doing with it. Here's Kamala's current favorite:

    Trump/DoJ/GOP corruption XI

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 5:21am |

    Added GOP to the lede - they griftedd long & hard

    "Indigenous People's Day of Rage" protests

    By artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 2:07am |

    There is also supposed to be a social media blackout, supposed to be "IPOC" posting only (so Liz Warren can still do it?)

     

    one more thing, this has been going around for awhile and i thought i’d share this on here as well ! :) October 12 is Indigenous People’s Day and people are saying that if you ARENT indigenous, do not post on that day because it’s a blackout for us :)

    Whites Woke to Gaming Ballot Boxes Since 1865

    By NCD on Sat, 10/10/2020 - 12:57pm |

    Ballot box gaming is as old as the Civil War era, 14/15 Amendment, right to vote for all citizens, including freed slaves.

    More Stuff than u can shake a stick at

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 9:47am |

    McConnell: Trump a Dead Man Walking

    By NCD on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 1:20pm |

    Josh Marshall agrees with the perverse, Party over nation "scorched earth" GOP plan (behind paywall, Of Self-Sucker Punches and Bust Outs) - I have mentioned numerous times. McConnell sees Trump losing, the GOP losing the Senate. It will be back to obstructing Biden and the Democrats, crying "deficits" for a comeback in 2022.

    What he doesn't mention is how this will play out to return Republicans to the White House in 2024.

    A Caucus Race? + Belarus, Kyrgyz, HK...

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 7:55am |

    Lincoln Project going for the throat when the enemy is down

    By artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 12:45am |

    Via the loquacious Steve Schmidt:

    .@ProjectLincoln We are hearing from many sources within the Trump campaign about the fear and panic in the ranks. Staffers are scared. Some are terrified. They know the walls are crumbling. Some like Miller and Meadows are irredeemable and will face history’s brutal judgement.

    Trump/Barr/DoJ/WH Corruption XI

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 1:28am |

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    Black Lives Matter Goes In A Surprising Direction

    By Orion on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 12:23am |

    I was surprised to see that the BLM movement has been targeting elements of the eugenics movement. August Vollmer, the first police chief of Berkeley, actually made a show of appointing African Americans, while advocating for sterilizing the disabled and disproportionately policing African Americans. BLM supporters want to rename a park named after him:  

    REPUBLICANS AGAINST TRUMP & LINCOLN PROJECT ADS, PART IV

    By artappraiser on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 6:14pm |

    [PART III is here, 8/23 thru 9/26 (with links to Part I & II at the top]

    Intro before posting the latest ad after the jump, about Lincoln Project's latest plans, from Can Joe Biden Steer Debate Night Back to Reality?

    Schmidt, a former top Republican strategist, and his colleagues at the Lincoln Project are doing their best to make sure Trump arrives onstage off-balance. For months the group has been getting under Trump’s skin with digital and TV ads. It will be ramping up the mind games before Tuesday night’s debate in Cleveland. “We hear from people in the Trump campaign and in the White House all the time now. The leaks are endless. And these people tell us what he reacts to,” says Rick Wilson, another of the Lincoln Project’s cofounders. “The thing that he’s really mad about right now is that the campaign is broke. We’ll be talking about that. We’ll be talking about the fact that he’s losing in the swing states. Legally, we can’t speak to the Biden campaign directly. But we will be speaking very directly to Donald Trump in the coming days.”

    Belarus: women's crusade

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 2:06pm |

    For those still clueless, dense or myopic, a very nice chart! Go home. And Vote.

    By artappraiser on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 6:20am |

    #BLACKLIVESMATTER & BLM GROUPS PLEASE STOP ALL PROTESTS UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION

    PROTESTS CAN RESUME AFTER THE ELECTION. NO MATTER WHO WINS WE WILL STILL DEMAND JUSTICE FOR EXTRA-JUDICIAL POLICE KILLINGS, POLICE REFORM, & RACIAL EQUALITY. LET'S BE STRATEGIC & SAFE AT HOME. 09 pic.twitter.com/zNEGrNJ9QD

    Biden team doing the quick response thing!

    By artappraiser on Sun, 09/20/2020 - 12:35am |

    From tonight:

    Trump/Barr/DoJ/WH Corruption X

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/18/2020 - 10:26pm |

    Barr hid Russian IRA activity

    The Trump Plan - Lincoln Project Video

    By NCD on Fri, 09/18/2020 - 12:22am |

    Trump's COVID Plan, herd immunity, will kill millions.

    Lead Trump pandemic adviser, Dr Atlas, from the right wing libertarian Hoover Institute,  is pushing controversial ‘herd immunity’ as a COVID-19 national strategy, worrying public health officials. In video below, Trump admits, he wants to let COVID infect over 200 million Americans, 7 out of 10, 'saying his goal is 'herd immunity'. Epidemiologists predict that would result in over 3 million COVID deaths of Americans.

    Stuff-a-licious!!!

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/17/2020 - 4:34am |

    FBI recruiting black wimmin

    By artappraiser on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 4:01pm |
    Clicked on the ad at the bottom of a page, thought it was interesting:

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