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  #3106628 21-Jul-2023 12:03
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The Guardian: I took RFK Jr’s phone call long ago. Now I regret it

When I was the New York Times public editor, Kennedy vented on the phone – his ugly theories have sullied the family name
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The most recent example came just last week, and it was appalling. At a dinner on New York City’s Upper East Side, Kennedy (foolishly) thought he was talking off the record and therefore could drop his guard.

So he went full conspiracy theory – suggesting that Covid could have been a bioweapon intended to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while targeting “Caucasians and Black people”. The remarks, heard on a widely circulated video published by the New York Post, “feeds into Sinophobic and antisemitic tropes”, an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told the Washington Post. The director of the Stop Asian Hate Project called them irresponsible and hateful.

Kennedy has denied any antisemitic sentiment, or even that he intended that the “ethnic effect was deliberately engineered”. But the recording tells a different tale.

It’s not as if this latest chapter is an aberration. RFK Jr has consistently spread Covid conspiracy theories and even once compared US vaccine mandates – unfavorably! – to “Hitler’s Germany”. (He later apologized for that one.)
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  #3106853 22-Jul-2023 10:04
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The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix

 

Students in Florida must now be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery

 

today

 


Florida now says that students in the state should be taught that enslaved people “developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit” and that when teaching about mob violence directed at Black Americans, teachers should make sure to note acts of violence that Black Americans committed ...

 

Democrats and teachers are aghast at this new rule. Florida’s largest teachers union said this was “a disservice to Florida’s students” and “a big step backward.” 

 

A Democratic state representative declared this a “scary standard for us to establish.”

 

And Vice President Harris (D) took this on the campaign trail: “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”

 

 

 

 

EDIT:  Further quotes from VP Harris:

 

 

"Adults know what slavery really involved. It involved rape. It involved torture. It involved taking a baby from their mother. It involved some of the worst examples of ... depriving people of humanity."

 

"How is it that anyone could suggest that, in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanisation?"

 

 

 





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  #3106854 22-Jul-2023 10:06
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Lauren Boebert
Mark Meadows
Scott Garrett
Matt Gaetz
Marjorie Taylor Greene

Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the United States House of Representative


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  #3106925 22-Jul-2023 12:43
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Our future president from Florida (no, the other one) showing the preparedness of a butterfly

I'm keeping Florida in my thoughts and prayers :)

Florida Politics: Florida governor Ron DeSantis says insurers will return to Florida after hurricane season

While another insurance company bids the Sunshine State farewell, Ron DeSantis is urging patience for those homeowners stuck in what he calls a “challenging market.”

“I think what’s going to happen is because we did those reforms, it now is more economical for companies to come in. I think they’re going to wait through this hurricane season and then I think they’re going to be willing to deploy more capital to Florida,” DeSantis said.

“So, knock on wood, we won’t have a big storm this summer. Then I think you’re going to start to see companies see an advantage” DeSantis added.

The Governor’s comments came in the wake of another large insurer’s decision to discontinue its policies in the state
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In an attempt to boost the reinsurance market during his world tour this spring, he met with British reinsurance companies, and “secured a commitment from companies in attendance to increase access for carriers serving Florida policyholders,” according to a media release from the Governor’s Office.

Requests for more details on that “commitment” went unaddressed from the Governor’s Office.
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  #3107882 25-Jul-2023 14:03
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An excellent rant about what MAGA Republicans have descended to ...

 

The NY Times - Opinion - There’s No Escaping Trump

 

24 July 2023

 

 

     If there were truth in advertising, Republicans would have to rename themselves the Opposite Party: 

 

  • They were the party of law and order. Now they want to abolish the F.B.I. 

  • They were the party that revered the symbols of the nation. Now they think the Jan. 6 riots were like a “normal tourist visit.”

  • They were the party of moral character and virtue. Now they couldn’t care less that their standard-bearer consorted with a porn star.

  • They were the party of staring down the Evil Empire. Now they’re Putin’s last best hope.

  • They were the party of free trade. Now they’re protectionists.

  • They were the party that cheered the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which argued that corporations had free speech. Now they are being sued by Disney because the company dared express an opinion they dislike. 

  • They were the party that once believed that “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” as George W. Bush put it. Now some of them want to invade Mexico.





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  #3107971 25-Jul-2023 16:35
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The Guardian - Rudy Giuliani ally, pardoned by Trump, gives trove of papers to special counsel

 

25 July 2023

 


The former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik, a leading Trump ally who worked with Rudy Giuliani on attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has given the special counsel Jack Smith thousands of documents, Kerik’s lawyer said on Monday.  ...

 

The news was another blow to Donald Trump, who last week caused a sensation when he said Smith had in a letter told him he was a target in the investigation, likely to face criminal charges. ...

 

In early 2020, Trump pardoned Kerik for crimes including tax fraud and lying to investigators, for which Kerik had been sentenced to four years in jail.

 

 

A bent cop helps convict a bent politician - karma!   🙂





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  #3108085 25-Jul-2023 20:44
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Would that Jason Aldean singer-guy count as a deplorable? To be honest I've heard very little about what's got some peopled rarked up about him.


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  #3108091 25-Jul-2023 21:00
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quickymart:  Would that Jason Aldean singer-guy count as a deplorable? ...

 

 

The NY Times - Jason Aldean, Decrying ‘Cancel Culture,’ Has a No. 2 Hit

 

24 July

 

 

“Try That in a Small Town” went from overlooked to almost topping the charts after a week of controversy.

 

In May, the country star Jason Aldean released a single, “Try That in a Small Town,” with lyrics that paint contemporary urban life as a hellscape of crime and anarchy ...

 

“You think you’re tough,” Aldean sings. “Well, try that in a small town.”

 

The song’s music video became a culture-war battlefield, with some accusing Aldean of employing racist dog-whistle tactics ...

 

Three days after it was released, the video was pulled from rotation on Country Music Television, without explanation. But it has been widely criticized as a thinly veiled attack on the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

 



 





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  #3108205 26-Jul-2023 11:35
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The NY Times - Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Scheme Tied to Trump-Inspired Border Wall

 

25 July 2023

 


A Colorado man convicted last year of conspiring to defraud people who donated money to build the kind of border wall championed by Donald J. Trump was sentenced on Tuesday to five years and three months in prison.

 

The defendant, Timothy Shea, began raising money for a wall between the United States and Mexico in late 2018 ... In early 2019 Stephen K. Bannon*, the former Trump adviser, and Andrew Badolato, a financier from Florida, joined them to form a group called We Build the Wall.

 

The group raised more than $25 million, saying that everything it took in would go toward the wall. ...

 

Prosecutors said that instead the defendants stole more than a million dollars from the group, spending some on jewelry, boat payments and [50,000!] cans of a Trump-themed energy drink that claimed to contain “liberal tears.”

 



*  Bannon was dropped from the federal case after Trump pardoned him but is now facing trial on state charges related to We Build the Wall.  😏





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  #3108368 26-Jul-2023 14:50
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The NY Times - McCarthy, Pressured by the Right, Escalates Talk of Impeaching Biden

 

25 July 2023

 


Speaker Kevin McCarthy, under pressure from the hard right to take aggressive steps against the Biden administration, suggested on Tuesday that the House was moving toward opening an impeachment inquiry against President Biden ...

 

It was a striking escalation by Mr. McCarthy, who had previously resisted calls to impeach Mr. Biden, arguing that he had yet to see anything that would warrant such an extraordinary step. 

 

It comes as Republicans are stepping up their efforts to target Mr. Biden and his son Hunter, who is set on Wednesday to enter a plea in a tax case, while working to deflect attention from a potential third indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, their party’s presidential front-runner.

 

 

Deflect. Deflect. Deflect. Attack. Attack. Attack. ...





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  #3108413 26-Jul-2023 16:05
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The NY Times - Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Scheme Tied to Trump-Inspired Border Wall



The man sentenced was Timothy Shea. He was Trump's "only the brightest and best" appointee to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA.

He was "close confidant" to Trump's Attorney General William Barr and "Barr's right-hand man" at the Justice Department, according to Fox News.

Timothy Shea must have had very little faith in Americans in general, and the justice system specifically, to pull such a public crime.

I love this "excuse" from his lawyer: “Mr. Shea is a very good man who succumbed to some bad activity because he was carried away with the prospect of making a really big income”

I'm sure when he dies, and he's at the pearly gates he'll say "I was a very good man who succumbed to bad activities because I got carried away with being evil. Now where's my harp and wings? What do you mean 'I hope you packed some asbestos undies'?"

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  #3108555 26-Jul-2023 19:32
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Isn't it strange how a sizeable portion of Trump's "bestest and brightest" end up failing or, in some cases, going to jail? He hand-picked them himself, didn't he? So much winning 🙄


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  #3108558 26-Jul-2023 19:41
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quickymart:  Isn't it strange how a sizeable portion of Trump's "bestest and brightest" end up failing or, in some cases, going to jail? He hand-picked them himself, didn't he? So much winning 🙄

 



They were all victims of the Deep State.

 





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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/26/trump-lawyers-65-project-00108120 I wonder if that photo will end up being Rudy's legacy?


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  #3108646 27-Jul-2023 08:21
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quickymart:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/26/trump-lawyers-65-project-00108120 I wonder if that photo will end up being Rudy's legacy?

 

 



 

The NY Times - Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers

 

July 26, 2023

 


Rudolph W. Giuliani has conceded that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements by asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020 election. ...

 

He also admitted that his statements were “actionable” and “false” and that he no longer disputed the “factual elements of liability” the election workers had raised in their suit.

 





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