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Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali
twitter.com/WajahatAli
12 july 2020
https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1282465658358333441
[THREAD]
How Cancel Culture really works: During my year at CNN, which was a great experience, I was "warned" a total of 3.5 times. Each warning was because some Republicans, who defended Trump's cruelty & abuses, complained about the most innocuous statements. Here's the official list:
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1282746095270010881
#BREAKING: President Trump says federal government may "take over cities" to combat rising crime: "Numbers are going to be coming down even if we have to go and take over cities."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.
Opinion by Jonathan Karl
July 11, 2020 at 6:41 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-the-duty-of-the-white-house-press-secretary-to-hold-briefings-but-not-like-this/2020/07/10/1a61ae78-c2cc-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
Jonathan Karl, the author of “Front Row at the Trump Show,” covers the White House for ABC News and is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
On the Monday following President Trump’s Independence Day weekend speeches, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany opened her briefing as she often does: by reprimanding “the media” for mischaracterizing the president’s words.
“This vision is not a culture war, as the media seeks to falsely proclaim,” McEnany said. The very next day, in an interview with RealClearPolitics, the president said: “We are in a culture war.”
Such head-spinning contradictions are routine at Trump White House briefings, where the press secretary often admonishes reporters for asking about the president’s exact words.
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mcc
twitter.com/mcclure111
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1282721448608575489
So. Trump flunky Lindsay Graham has announced Mueller will be testifying in his committee. The way *Graham* is describing it it sounds like a punishment, he's grilling Mueller for writing an anti-Trump op ed. Salon thinks it's a gift to Democrats and a serious break with Trump.
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT URL]
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Weijia Jiang
twitter.com/weijia
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1282737458350821377
NEW—Last week Attorney General Bill Barr described Roger Stone’s sentence as “fair”.
Just now he had no comment on the President’s decision to commute Stone:
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Dr. Jessica F. Hebert
twitter.com/Dame_DNA
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Dame_DNA/status/1282776694479192064
The protests in Portland are ongoing and the police and feds have been violent, even toward peaceful protesters and medics. They are ongoing, even now.
And thanks to twitter.com/thursdayb and the PDX Bail Fund, not so many folks in jail.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Keaton Thomas
twitter.com/keaton_thomas
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/keaton_thomas/status/1282748500782899200
[THREAD]
Today,realdonaldtrump said...
"We've done a great job in Portland. Portland was totally out of control. They went in and I guess they have many people right now in jail. We very much quelled it. If it starts again, we'll quell it again, very easily. It's not hard to do."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[SEE ALSO:
Still Socially-Distanced Burt Likko
twitter.com/burtlikko
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/burtlikko/status/1282775377425780736
1. Portland isn't out of control and hasn't been. Protests here are mostly peaceful; if this diagnosis seems dubious to you, please dig into local news sources here and get other perspectives on how PPB and other LE have conducted themselves during the last seven weeks.
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Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It
The problem with a fraud as big as this president is that once you start collaborating with him, it’s impossible to get out.
By Dahlia Lithwick
July 13, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/mary-trump-book-psychoanalysis-enablers.html
Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump’s devastating indictment of how the Trump family created, as her subtitle characterizes him, “the world’s most dangerous man,” hits bookstores this week. Its publication coincides with—as she predicted—record-shattering COVID-19 cases, a fragile economy, and a half-formed government plan to open schools this fall at any cost. By now you have doubtless ingested the greatest hits of her family gossip: Donald Trump ogled his own niece in a bathing suit and sought to fill one of his books with hit lists of “ugly” women who had rebuffed him; Donald Trump paid someone to take his SATs; Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, once described her brother as a “clown” with no principles; Donald Trump was a vicious bully even as a child; Freddy Trump—the author’s father—died alone in a hospital while Donald went to a movie. The details are new, and graphic, yes, but very little about it is surprising: The president is a lifelong liar and cheater, propped up by a father who was as relentless in his need for success as Donald Trump was to earn his approval. Check please.
But not quite. What is new and surprising is also that Mary Trump, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, has given us a granular portrait of Trump’s profound impairment: She says that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for narcissism, although she insists that this diagnosis is only the tip of the psychological iceberg—he may also suffer from antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and/or dependent personality disorder, along with an undiagnosed learning disability that likely interferes with his ability to process information. I leave it to the mental health experts to determine whether some or all of that is accurate. But what Mary Trump surely adds to the growing canon of the “Trump is unwell” book club is not limited to family gossip or mental health diagnostics: At bottom, Too Much and Never Enough may be the first book that stipulates, in its first pages, that the president is irreparably damaged, and then turns a clinician’s lens on the rest of us, the voters, the enablers, the flatterers, the hangers-on, and the worshippers. It is here that Mary Trump’s book makes perhaps the most enduring contribution to the teetering piles of books that have offered too little too late, even while telling us that which we already knew. Because Mary Trump begins from the assumption that other analysis tends to end with: Donald Trump is lethally dangerous, stunningly incoherent, and pathologically incapable of caring about anyone but himself. So, what Mary Trump wants to know is: What the hell is wrong with everyone around him? As she writes in her prologue, “there’s been very little effort to understand not only why he became what he is but how he’s consistently failed up despite his glaring lack of fitness.”
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Washington state AG Bob Ferguson files for restraining order to halt plan to revoke international student visas
By Katherine Long
Seattle Times staff reporter
July 13, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/washington-state-ag-bob-ferguson-files-for-restraining-order-to-halt-plan-to-revoke-international-student-visas/
State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has asked a federal judge to put a halt to a plan by the Trump administration to make international students return to their home countries if their colleges go to all-online instruction. The administration’s rule, which has been condemned by university leaders across the country, is set to take effect Wednesday.
Last week, Ferguson filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the proposed rule. On Monday, Ferguson also requested that a judge issue a temporary restraining order to stop the rule.
Meanwhile, more than 200 universities across the country are backing a separate legal challenge to the restrictions, and have signed court briefs supporting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, filed in federal court in Boston. A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in that case.
- How Cancel Culture really works
- Trump threatens to "take over cities."
- It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.
- Trump flunky Lindsay Graham has announced Mueller will be testifying in his committee.
- Last week Attorney General Bill Barr described Roger Stone’s sentence as “fair”. Just now he had no comment on the President’s decision to commute Stone.
- The protests in Portland are ongoing and the police and feds have been violent, as Trump takes credit for having "quelled" Portland.
- Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It
- Washington state AG Bob Ferguson files for restraining order to halt plan to revoke international student visas
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Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali
twitter.com/WajahatAli
12 july 2020
https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1282465658358333441
[THREAD]
How Cancel Culture really works: During my year at CNN, which was a great experience, I was "warned" a total of 3.5 times. Each warning was because some Republicans, who defended Trump's cruelty & abuses, complained about the most innocuous statements. Here's the official list:
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1282746095270010881
#BREAKING: President Trump says federal government may "take over cities" to combat rising crime: "Numbers are going to be coming down even if we have to go and take over cities."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.
Opinion by Jonathan Karl
July 11, 2020 at 6:41 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-the-duty-of-the-white-house-press-secretary-to-hold-briefings-but-not-like-this/2020/07/10/1a61ae78-c2cc-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
Jonathan Karl, the author of “Front Row at the Trump Show,” covers the White House for ABC News and is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
On the Monday following President Trump’s Independence Day weekend speeches, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany opened her briefing as she often does: by reprimanding “the media” for mischaracterizing the president’s words.
“This vision is not a culture war, as the media seeks to falsely proclaim,” McEnany said. The very next day, in an interview with RealClearPolitics, the president said: “We are in a culture war.”
Such head-spinning contradictions are routine at Trump White House briefings, where the press secretary often admonishes reporters for asking about the president’s exact words.
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mcc
twitter.com/mcclure111
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1282721448608575489
So. Trump flunky Lindsay Graham has announced Mueller will be testifying in his committee. The way *Graham* is describing it it sounds like a punishment, he's grilling Mueller for writing an anti-Trump op ed. Salon thinks it's a gift to Democrats and a serious break with Trump.
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT URL]
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Weijia Jiang
twitter.com/weijia
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1282737458350821377
NEW—Last week Attorney General Bill Barr described Roger Stone’s sentence as “fair”.
Just now he had no comment on the President’s decision to commute Stone:
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Dr. Jessica F. Hebert
twitter.com/Dame_DNA
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Dame_DNA/status/1282776694479192064
The protests in Portland are ongoing and the police and feds have been violent, even toward peaceful protesters and medics. They are ongoing, even now.
And thanks to twitter.com/thursdayb and the PDX Bail Fund, not so many folks in jail.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Keaton Thomas
twitter.com/keaton_thomas
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/keaton_thomas/status/1282748500782899200
[THREAD]
Today,
realdonaldtrump said..."We've done a great job in Portland. Portland was totally out of control. They went in and I guess they have many people right now in jail. We very much quelled it. If it starts again, we'll quell it again, very easily. It's not hard to do."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[SEE ALSO:
Still Socially-Distanced Burt Likko
twitter.com/burtlikko
13 July 2020
https://twitter.com/burtlikko/status/1282775377425780736
1. Portland isn't out of control and hasn't been. Protests here are mostly peaceful; if this diagnosis seems dubious to you, please dig into local news sources here and get other perspectives on how PPB and other LE have conducted themselves during the last seven weeks.
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Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It
The problem with a fraud as big as this president is that once you start collaborating with him, it’s impossible to get out.
By Dahlia Lithwick
July 13, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/mary-trump-book-psychoanalysis-enablers.html
Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump’s devastating indictment of how the Trump family created, as her subtitle characterizes him, “the world’s most dangerous man,” hits bookstores this week. Its publication coincides with—as she predicted—record-shattering COVID-19 cases, a fragile economy, and a half-formed government plan to open schools this fall at any cost. By now you have doubtless ingested the greatest hits of her family gossip: Donald Trump ogled his own niece in a bathing suit and sought to fill one of his books with hit lists of “ugly” women who had rebuffed him; Donald Trump paid someone to take his SATs; Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, once described her brother as a “clown” with no principles; Donald Trump was a vicious bully even as a child; Freddy Trump—the author’s father—died alone in a hospital while Donald went to a movie. The details are new, and graphic, yes, but very little about it is surprising: The president is a lifelong liar and cheater, propped up by a father who was as relentless in his need for success as Donald Trump was to earn his approval. Check please.
But not quite. What is new and surprising is also that Mary Trump, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, has given us a granular portrait of Trump’s profound impairment: She says that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for narcissism, although she insists that this diagnosis is only the tip of the psychological iceberg—he may also suffer from antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and/or dependent personality disorder, along with an undiagnosed learning disability that likely interferes with his ability to process information. I leave it to the mental health experts to determine whether some or all of that is accurate. But what Mary Trump surely adds to the growing canon of the “Trump is unwell” book club is not limited to family gossip or mental health diagnostics: At bottom, Too Much and Never Enough may be the first book that stipulates, in its first pages, that the president is irreparably damaged, and then turns a clinician’s lens on the rest of us, the voters, the enablers, the flatterers, the hangers-on, and the worshippers. It is here that Mary Trump’s book makes perhaps the most enduring contribution to the teetering piles of books that have offered too little too late, even while telling us that which we already knew. Because Mary Trump begins from the assumption that other analysis tends to end with: Donald Trump is lethally dangerous, stunningly incoherent, and pathologically incapable of caring about anyone but himself. So, what Mary Trump wants to know is: What the hell is wrong with everyone around him? As she writes in her prologue, “there’s been very little effort to understand not only why he became what he is but how he’s consistently failed up despite his glaring lack of fitness.”
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Washington state AG Bob Ferguson files for restraining order to halt plan to revoke international student visas
By Katherine Long
Seattle Times staff reporter
July 13, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/washington-state-ag-bob-ferguson-files-for-restraining-order-to-halt-plan-to-revoke-international-student-visas/
State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has asked a federal judge to put a halt to a plan by the Trump administration to make international students return to their home countries if their colleges go to all-online instruction. The administration’s rule, which has been condemned by university leaders across the country, is set to take effect Wednesday.
Last week, Ferguson filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the proposed rule. On Monday, Ferguson also requested that a judge issue a temporary restraining order to stop the rule.
Meanwhile, more than 200 universities across the country are backing a separate legal challenge to the restrictions, and have signed court briefs supporting Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, filed in federal court in Boston. A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in that case.
