President Barack Obama is of course talking about the horrendous 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder which struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. Deep South states with a history of racism no longer had to get federal preclearance for voting practices.
What happened after Shelby County V. Holder is that these Deep South states began immediately closing polling places in African American communities, passed strict voter ID laws akin to voting tests, and purged voter rolls to remove black voters. They went back to their old ways.
Cori Bush on ReidOut:
Winner in the Missouri 1st Congressional District Democratic Primary.
CORI BUSH:
“We’re talking about the place where the Ferguson uprising happened, we’re talking about where protests broke out for more than 400 days that sparked a revolution. We’re still having the ripple effects of it now. We’re always number one, number two for homicides and high on the list for violent crime, and high poverty and all of that. And it continues in this community. People are looking for the leader that is going to help us through it – but be here to help us through it. What people have seen with me is that I’ve been here, I’ve been that active leader. And I am the people I serve. I’ve been that person that has had to walk through these struggles. And I’ve been very open about it…”
JOY REID:
“At one point you had to leave your job, you’re working in pre-school education, you lived in your truck, in your car for a while with your young children. You’ve been through those times of struggles. You are a working class woman. Do you think that’s what’s missing in Congress? So many of those people are millionaires and multi-millionaires, so many of them are disconnected from the idea that $600 extra in your unemployment check could make all the difference in the world. That’s something they can’t relate to. Do you think the fact that you can relate to those kind of struggles, do you think that that will make you a different kind of Congresswoman, and in what way would you be different?”
Bush:
“Yes it will make me a different Congress person.
I think that we need to have different people from different walks of life that represent our country. And so this district, we have a lot of poverty. But we don’t just have poverty. So we need people who can represent on different levels in Congress. For me being someone who has lived out of my car, let me tell you, that pain of the struggle that I’ve been through, I can still feel that pain right now. So that pain is walking with me into the doors of Congress. And that’s what’s going to feed me, that’s what’s going to fuel everything that I do. That and then what I’ve seen the rest of the people in our community go through, how much we have had to fight. And when we’re looking at what happens in other places, its like why are we fighting so much, why do we have to struggle so hard? Especially black women in this community. You know we’re fighting so much. Where is the relief? I’m ready to bring the relief. I’m ready to be that champion because I’ve been fighting this thing, unpaid fighting it just because we need a different type of a life, we need quality to our lives. We have stop surviving St. Louis and start thriving here.”
Reid: “What’s the most important thing that you want to accomplish as a Congresswoman, what is the thing that you want to fight the most for?”
Bush:
“Equity. And it’s going to be in our healthcare system, in our school systems. It’s going to be dealing with wage equality, environmental justice, reproductive justice. All of this is going to start with equity. Because we have so many marginalized groups in our community”.
BREAKING: NY AG Letitia James just filed suit against the @NRA and four principals, including its leader Wayne LaPierre, with 18 causes of action, demanding the NRA be dissolved. She cited the dissolution of the Trump Foundation as precedent. https://t.co/tMelAcpEpA
Thank you NY AG Letitia James, chief law enforcement officer in New York, for following the facts and doing the work of the people.
The @NRA’s agenda has killed millions in order to enrich leaders like Wayne LaPierre and the gun manufacturers who bankroll this special interest. pic.twitter.com/vgpgI7L3RV
.@Everytown and @MomsDemand have been warning regulators and the public about the @NRA's corruption for years. They endangered millions and did unspeakable damage to our political system. We agree with NY AG Letitia James that dissolution and all other remedies must be considered
The @NRA is in a moment of crisis and reckoning. There's now a one-two punch that can end the NRA as we know it: the court of law and and the November elections. https://t.co/IQGlNEFqf1
We know we are in the fight of our lifetimes. Thanks, Nerdy, for keeping us together and taking action to make this country live up to its promise. We have SO much ground to regain after we vote out the Putin Puppet.
The governor of Ohio jas tested positive for COVID-19.
Governor DeWine Tests Positive for COVID-19
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Today, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine took a test for COVID-19 as part of the standard protocol to greet President Donald Trump on the tarmac at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland. pic.twitter.com/ZYc3E79Uan
Apparently, the notion of checks & balances & an independent judiciary is lost on the Vice President, who says the quiet part out loud, that supreme court justices should be beholden to the president who appoints them. Good judges rely on the facts and the law, not politics. https://t.co/ckEXTzk3Zz
There was a scandal during the Bush administration that led to an AG’s resignation, when US attys were fired for being insufficiently politically aligned with the WH. That Pence says this so casually raises a red flag about what commitments this WH asks of its appointees.
My mom helped my aunt get ready for her 50th wedding anniversary last year. They are both dead now. They died from #COVID19 this year… but @realDonaldTrump “It is what it is…” pic.twitter.com/3uVeHXf362
STEVE BENEN:
“Following recent Supreme Court rulings, there’s heightened interest in Donald Trump’s hidden financial records, including a New York prosecutor’s office that’s sought materials from the president’s accounting firm. Just this week, the Manhattan district attorney’s office suggested that Trump’s company is under investigation for alleged insurance and bank fraud.”
“Indeed, New York prosecutors, in defense of a subpoena, explicitly referred in a court filing to the possibility of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
But the president’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, isn’t the only institution of interest. The New York Times reported overnight on the same Manhattan district attorney’s office also subpoenaing Deutsche Bank — which loaned Trump $2 billion over the course of two decades — as part of a criminal investigation that increasingly appears to have a broad scope.”
“And while that’s important in its own right, this was even more striking:
Deutsche Bank complied with the subpoena. Over a period of months last year, it provided [Manhattan District Attorney Cy] Vance’s office with detailed records, including financial statements and other materials that Mr. Trump had provided to the bank as he sought loans, according to two of the people familiar with the inquiry…. The subpoena to Deutsche Bank sought documents on various topics related to Mr. Trump and his company, including any materials that might point to possible fraud, according to two people briefed on the subpoena’s contents.
The Times’ article added, “The bank’s cooperation with Mr. Vance’s office is significant because other investigations that have sought Mr. Trump’s financial records have been stymied by legal challenges from the president and his family.”
“Exactly. We’re accustomed to learning about a variety of efforts, launched by investigators, to learn more about the president’s financial records, which he’s fought vehemently to hide for reasons he won’t explain.
But this is new: if the reporting is accurate, New York prosecutors have successfully acquired Trump’s financial materials from his longtime lender.”
“The cases that reached the Supreme Court, and which are now being litigated in lower courts, deal with ongoing efforts that have yet to be resolved. But if Deutsche Bank has already complied with a subpoena, turning over detailed records, that probably ought to make the president a little nervous.
Or, given the scope of the multi-faceted allegations, more than a little nervous.”
(Benen)
55 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law — bringing us one step closer to that more perfect union. As we mark its anniversary, we’ve got to continue our fight to restore the VRA and protect the sacred right to vote.
“Lewis Lukens, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the unusual circumstances around the withholding of the State Department Inspector General’s investigation report on Donald Trump pressuring Ambassador Woody Johnson to ask
the UK to move the British Open to Trump’s Turnberry golf course.”
—“What is preventing the release of this inspection and if so what is the reason for the delay?” (Lukens)
—“It is a red flag if the report was classified.”
Thread that explains brain damage from COVID. We are just beginning to discover how devastating this virus is for people who recover, even those with mild cases. https://t.co/8rroyIQnGp
“Just this week,
New York prosecutor explicitly referred in a court filing to the possibility of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” and as we discussed earlier, the president’s principal lender has turned over financial records as part of a probe that’s apparently examining alleged insurance and bank fraud. What’s more, as we discussed several months ago, the president has already been implicated in alleged criminal misdeeds, though Trump appears to be shielded from prosecution so long as he’s in office. If he were to lose in November, that shield would disappear, and the prospect of an indictment would become quite real.” (Benen)
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/biden-vows-not-interfere-possible-trump-prosecution-n1236028)
“Biden vows to ‘not interfere’ with a possible Trump prosecution
If Trump loses in November and is indicted after leaving office, he apparently shouldn’t call the Oval Office looking for a favor from Biden.”
Our lawsuit charges the NRA as a whole and four senior leaders, including Wayne LaPierre, with failing to manage the NRA’s funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws.
These actions contributed to the loss of more than $64 million in just three years for the NRA.
For a year, @AOC and I have worked with communities on landmark legislation to ensure that as we fight the climate crisis, we center that fight in justice and equity.
Today, we're formally introducing the Climate Equity Act in Congress. https://t.co/vG86M8Kp6j
If your first reaction about #MichelleObama opening up about depression is "what does she have to complain about" then you're a shit person who doesn't understand depression. It doesn't care how much money or fame you have. Whether your rich or poor it's a monster. FU.
— Portia Ambitious Woman McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) August 6, 2020
I really recommend everyone listen to her latest podcast. It is honest, as she always is, and her conversation with Michelle Norris is just really so open and beautiful. They are so lucky to have each other and to share their experience with us.
Today the Voting Rights Acts turns 55. I’m proud of the work we did to restore voting rights for more than 170,000 Virginians. There’s a lot more work to do in the Commonwealth and our nation to protect the right to vote. I promise to keep leading the fight here in Virginia. pic.twitter.com/MsDF4dYjeZ
Nationally, it’s time for Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a bill that continues John Lewis’ legacy of protecting the right to vote.
"In the spacesuit, you're looking down and seeing the Earth from above, from the outside with your own human eyes. It changes you as a person." In the latest episode of Down to Earth, @Astro_Jessica recalls her time living and working aboard the station. #SpaceStation20thpic.twitter.com/0XgFIb9exm
Bingo!
CO Secretary of State Jena Griswold,
who has the most accessible election in the country, to Joy Reid:
“RUSSIA
AND
OTHER
COUNTRIES
CANNOT
HACK
A PAPER BALLOT.”
#Break: Paul Telegdy, the NBCUniversal Entertainment Chairman who is under investigation for allegations of misconduct, will leave the company amid a broader NBC restructuring to centralize television and streaming networks. Story at @NBCNews soon.
NEW: I went to a Black Voices for Trump event. The only Black people there were the speaker & myself.
Trump’s campaign has tried to make inroads w/ Black voters, but party leaders have struggled to make progress during a national moment of racial strife.https://t.co/fTvd75gAyp
But an important caveat: This is where the race stands *right now.*
It is possible/likely that the race could tighten, with soft GOP voters and soft GOP states like GA, IA and TX coming back home to the Republican side https://t.co/9X07TRS53U
Justices have a duty to uphold the law, not be a partisan hack for the Trump administration.
Pence did get one thing right though—the future of the Supreme Court is on the ballot in 2020, which is why we must vote for @JoeBiden on November 3rd.https://t.co/ABKYP9dxhb
This summer, we invited U.S. cities to sign a pledge committing to combating police violence and systemic racism within law enforcement.@vanitaguptaCR, @rondaviscp, @DrPhilGoff, and @changarocc joined us for an educational session on the first steps in igniting systemic change. pic.twitter.com/ndjj8wrbRs
DR. FAUCI
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Forum:
“The good news about Covid-19 is that about 40% of the population has no symptoms…the bad news, for messaging, is that 40% of the population get no symptoms.”
Dr. Fauci:
“The only way you’re going to win the race is that when all eight are rowing in unison.
You get one that catches a crab, as it were, with, an oar goes that way or you don’t row, you don’t win.
So as long as you have any member of society, any demographic group who’s not seriously trying to get to the end game of suppressing this, it will continue to smolder and smolder and smolder, and that will be the reason why in a non-unified way we’ve plateaued at an unacceptable level.”
—Absence of a presidential national call to unity will keep on killing us.
I have reviewed the attached manuscript authored by Dr. Ruth Gotian. Overall, I am impressed with Dr. Gotian's knowledge of the subject matter as it relates to my work.
Sincerely, Dr. Ruth Gotian
. p/s – AYFKM?
— Edna K., CIO, Globalist Cabal Inc. LLC (@EdnaK_) August 6, 2020
I will never forget the commitment to reconciliation and peace that I encountered in Hiroshima in 2016. The memory of August 6, 1945, must never fade; it allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change. https://t.co/A9lKu0c0PR
“An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent.
A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.
Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics now that an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits has expired.”
(https://apnews.com/aa0831653a319c66835631e90e25f93d)
“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are struggling to work out an agreement that would restore some federal jobless aid. Even if they do reach a deal, the amount is likely to be less than $600. And by the time the money starts flowing, it could be too late for many Americans who are already in dire straits.”
—Trump-McConnell abuse on a MASSIVE scale.
—Let’s hear the stories of American families, some starving, some on our streets, or about to be.
—We didn’t have to starve.
—We didn’t have to die.
—We don’t have to starve.
—We don’t have to die.
Chad Wolf thought he was gonna talk over Sen #KamalaHarris and got CHECKED. Did Y'all see how she snatched that bravado from his spirit?People shouldn't be getting tear gassed, period! Pregnant women shouldn't be tear gassed, period! pic.twitter.com/gYyaw9u4Xz
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) August 6, 2020
She’s great.
Wolf also needs to realize/consider that using tear gas/pepper spray impacts anyone living in the area (not just protesters).
She has been on the march for a long time. Some people are just now realizing that but whatever, I’m just glad she’s being heard. She’s the very best kind of FIERCE.
If Mike DeWine can be tested this morning and get his (positive) results back a couple of hours before meeting w trump, then in-person schools shouldn't re-open until students, teachers, and staff have the same ability.
— Thom, Democrat and Anti-Fascist (@ThomboyD) August 6, 2020
I was just watching Dr. Vin Gupta on Nicole Wallace’s show — Deadline: White House — when this topic was discussed. He was very indignant about the fact that affluent people and people in tRump’s bubble are able to get these rapid tests, but health care workers, teachers/students (in public school/lower income districts), essential workers, etc. cannot. He also said that these tests are very expensive. You would think that it would be crucial enough that the federal government would cover some or all of the costs so that people who NEED it can get it.
A family member teaches at this high school in Georgia (North Paulding High) that's made the news. Teachers and students were told they could be suspended if they posted photos of the school in a bad light. The student who took this photo for the yearbook has been suspended. pic.twitter.com/plds4vZPNN
Don't miss @EAlexTheGreat's takeover of my Instagram today, the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, with some very special guests. (Maybe even Erika's mom!)
JUST IN: @debates Commission declines Trump request for a fourth debate in early Sept: "The Commission has found that three 90-minute debates work well to fulfill the voter education purposes the debates are intended to serve." https://t.co/W6MTI8YY9H
The DC AG says “We want some of that action too, dammit!” 😊
#BREAKING: We are suing the NRA Foundation for misusing charitable funds.
Donors gave money to fund firearms safety, firearms education and marksmanship training. Instead, that money was diverted to support wasteful spending by the NRA and its executives: https://t.co/5uLweQ207l
We allege that the NRA Foundation broke DC law by:
◾️ Placing interests of NRA above its own ◾️ Paying millions in fees to the NRA without oversight ◾️ Issuing millions in risky loans to the NRA ($5mil that the NRA never repaid)
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, June 3 2020
“A conversation with President Obama:
Reimagining Policing in the Wake of Continued Police Violence
President Obama joins local and national leaders in the police reform movement, to discuss the tragic events of recent weeks, the history of police violence in America, and specific action steps needed to transform a system that has led to the loss of too many lives.”
I read @MichelleObama said she’s been in a low-level depression lately. I want to thank her for expressing what so many of us are experiencing. Now, when we have so little truth to go by, her humanity & honesty is especially reassuring to millions of us that we’re not alone.
FL Michelle spoke briefly about surrendering to the highs and lows (imo that we all feel).
Mentions the racial strife and the dispiriting hypocrisy of the White House. How a routine helps.
…inspiring and comforting and uplifting.
I do believe that the former First Lady is suffering from the same depression I suffer from. The resignation of living with a double pandemic, COVID-2016 and COVID-19, with the frustration of the impossibility to change either… like yesterday.
The fight for civil rights is what drove me to get involved in politics in the first place. It's why I fought for and helped secure a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act. And it's why as president, I'll immediately sign the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act into law. pic.twitter.com/fHqUvYahRR
.@JoeBiden: "Weapons of war have no place in our communities. When I was a senator, I took on the NRA and secured a 10-year ban on assault weapons — and as president, I’ll ban these weapons again."
i’ve covered many frivolous, dishonest political attacks
but this combination – a politician who appears non-religious distorting a picture of his religious opponent ACTUALLY PRAYING IN CHURCH, then claiming the opponent opposes religion – may be the most deranged i’ve ever seen https://t.co/Reb0zDem8B
After living the last 4 mos. with lingering symptoms like, vertigo, stomach abnormalities, irregular periods, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, zero short term memory, and general malaise, I went and got an antibody test from a blood draw (not the finger prick) from a lab.
I also want you to know, this illness is not a hoax. I thought I was dying. It felt like I was dying. I will be donating my plasma with hopes that I might save a life. Please take care of yourselves. Please wash your hands and wear a mask and social distance. ❤️
I'm absolutely against the injection of religion into politics but come the hell on, this is just so completely unfathomably stupid. Everyone knows VP Biden is a DEVOUT Catholic and Trump is a sleazy cheese bucket who's peddling the Bible like his busted Trump gristled steak. pic.twitter.com/Ni5hnMOlc1
.@SouthwestAir just announced they will no longer be cleaning seat belts and armrests between flights, only bathrooms and tray tables. This is to speed up flight turnaround.
Chris Hayes on Evictions:
“In New Orleans, Natasha Blunt a grandmother who also lost her job in the pandemic and owes thousands of dollars in back rent, told a reporter “I don’t have any money now. I don’t know what to do.”
People’s belongings piled up in front of their home – this is someone’s life you’re looking at. And beyond the cruelty, this is the stupidest thing you can do public health wise in the middle of a pandemic. Forcing people out of their homes to live either in increasingly crowded shelters, or into crowded houses with other family and friends. And it is something that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and president Donald Trump and the rest of republicans could end today, by passing the legislation that House Democrats passed months ago, and sign it into law. And they’re not doing it.”
Extending the Eviction Moratorium to March 2021:
“Senator Warren, Reps. Chuy García and Lee:
Introduce Legislation to Extend Nation-wide Moratorium on Evictions”
“The Protecting Renters from Evictions and Fees Act would extend and expand the eviction moratorium for renters that ends on July 24, 2020 unless extended; Lawmakers urge Congress to pass their bill to help mitigate the hardship many Americans continue to or will experience due to the economic ramifications of the coronavirus crisis.” https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-warren-reps-chuy-garca-and-lee-introduce-legislation-to-extend-nation-wide-moratorium-on-evictions
“Experts are warning that ending the moratorium now could lead to “an avalanche of evictions” as Americans continue to face high unemployment rates3 – which are as high as 16.8% for Black Americans and 17.6% for Latinx Americans, and 13.3% overall. The latest U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey finds that 30% of renters have no or little confidence they can make their next housing payment; and renters of color are disproportionately more likely to be concerned about making their next housing payment.”
“The Protecting Renters from Evictions and Fees Act
helps ensure renters will not lose their housing if they experience economic hardship during this crisis and need additional time to make their housing payments. The bill extends the federal eviction moratorium to March 27, 2021, one year after the date of enactment of the CARES Act, and expands the moratorium to cover substantially all renters. The bill also prohibits fees, fines, and extra charges due to nonpayment of rent. The HEROES Act, already passed by the House of Representatives, includes the same extension and universal expansion of the federal eviction moratorium.”
“In her will, the actress Lillian Gish, who died in 1993, dictated that the award should be given to ‘an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to the understanding of life.’”
The White House is playing "Live and Let Die" before Trump's arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state's governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19, the disease that killed over 1,400 Americans yesterday. pic.twitter.com/AGumBfSFb8
Congratulations @NiaDaCosta on breaking down barriers in the Marvel Universe! I cannot wait to see where you take Captain Marvel 2.https://t.co/80RZgSAArR
The Obama Diary 
Thank you Nerdy Wonka for everything, everyday! ♥️
Hey Dudette sis! ❤
Hey ggail! ♥️♥️
🥂🎉🥳🧉☕👒💁♀️🙂⭐🤩🤩⭐
Congrats, on your Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Furst
Thanks nena! 😘
Thank you.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family. YES.WE.CAN! and YES.WE.WILL! dammit!!!
Thank you President Obama for caring so very much and for your work.
Thank you NW.
Senator Booker is right!
Cori Bush on ReidOut:
Winner in the Missouri 1st Congressional District Democratic Primary.
CORI BUSH:
“We’re talking about the place where the Ferguson uprising happened, we’re talking about where protests broke out for more than 400 days that sparked a revolution. We’re still having the ripple effects of it now. We’re always number one, number two for homicides and high on the list for violent crime, and high poverty and all of that. And it continues in this community. People are looking for the leader that is going to help us through it – but be here to help us through it. What people have seen with me is that I’ve been here, I’ve been that active leader. And I am the people I serve. I’ve been that person that has had to walk through these struggles. And I’ve been very open about it…”
JOY REID:
“At one point you had to leave your job, you’re working in pre-school education, you lived in your truck, in your car for a while with your young children. You’ve been through those times of struggles. You are a working class woman. Do you think that’s what’s missing in Congress? So many of those people are millionaires and multi-millionaires, so many of them are disconnected from the idea that $600 extra in your unemployment check could make all the difference in the world. That’s something they can’t relate to. Do you think the fact that you can relate to those kind of struggles, do you think that that will make you a different kind of Congresswoman, and in what way would you be different?”
Bush:
“Yes it will make me a different Congress person.
I think that we need to have different people from different walks of life that represent our country. And so this district, we have a lot of poverty. But we don’t just have poverty. So we need people who can represent on different levels in Congress. For me being someone who has lived out of my car, let me tell you, that pain of the struggle that I’ve been through, I can still feel that pain right now. So that pain is walking with me into the doors of Congress. And that’s what’s going to feed me, that’s what’s going to fuel everything that I do. That and then what I’ve seen the rest of the people in our community go through, how much we have had to fight. And when we’re looking at what happens in other places, its like why are we fighting so much, why do we have to struggle so hard? Especially black women in this community. You know we’re fighting so much. Where is the relief? I’m ready to bring the relief. I’m ready to be that champion because I’ve been fighting this thing, unpaid fighting it just because we need a different type of a life, we need quality to our lives. We have stop surviving St. Louis and start thriving here.”
Reid: “What’s the most important thing that you want to accomplish as a Congresswoman, what is the thing that you want to fight the most for?”
Bush:
“Equity. And it’s going to be in our healthcare system, in our school systems. It’s going to be dealing with wage equality, environmental justice, reproductive justice. All of this is going to start with equity. Because we have so many marginalized groups in our community”.
Cori Bush speaks to Joy Reid: ‘I’m ready to bring that relief, be that champion’
“Cori Bush recently beat Rep. Lacy Clay in the Missouri 1st Congressional District Democratic primary, ousting an incumbent after 20 years in Congress.”
See: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/cori-bush-i-m-ready-to-bring-that-relief-be-that-champion-89613381840
—-Congrats Cori !!
WowWOwWowWww.
AG Letitia James…off the charts.
Badass For The People!
We know we are in the fight of our lifetimes. Thanks, Nerdy, for keeping us together and taking action to make this country live up to its promise. We have SO much ground to regain after we vote out the Putin Puppet.
The governor of Ohio jas tested positive for COVID-19.
* has *
Lady Karma is taking no prisoners. Don’t play with her.
Pence is just as crooked as Twitler.
❤
Ugh! This is so sad and so terribly wrong. 🙏🏾😔
OMG.
So, so sad.
“Prosecutors reportedly get Trump’s financial records from bank.
We’re used to hearing about efforts to acquire Trump’s hidden financial records. But what if prosecutors have already received materials from his bank?”
((https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/prosecutors-reportedly-get-trump-s-financial-records-bank-n1236010)
STEVE BENEN:
“Following recent Supreme Court rulings, there’s heightened interest in Donald Trump’s hidden financial records, including a New York prosecutor’s office that’s sought materials from the president’s accounting firm. Just this week, the Manhattan district attorney’s office suggested that Trump’s company is under investigation for alleged insurance and bank fraud.”
“Indeed, New York prosecutors, in defense of a subpoena, explicitly referred in a court filing to the possibility of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
But the president’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, isn’t the only institution of interest. The New York Times reported overnight on the same Manhattan district attorney’s office also subpoenaing Deutsche Bank — which loaned Trump $2 billion over the course of two decades — as part of a criminal investigation that increasingly appears to have a broad scope.”
“And while that’s important in its own right, this was even more striking:
Deutsche Bank complied with the subpoena. Over a period of months last year, it provided [Manhattan District Attorney Cy] Vance’s office with detailed records, including financial statements and other materials that Mr. Trump had provided to the bank as he sought loans, according to two of the people familiar with the inquiry…. The subpoena to Deutsche Bank sought documents on various topics related to Mr. Trump and his company, including any materials that might point to possible fraud, according to two people briefed on the subpoena’s contents.
The Times’ article added, “The bank’s cooperation with Mr. Vance’s office is significant because other investigations that have sought Mr. Trump’s financial records have been stymied by legal challenges from the president and his family.”
“Exactly. We’re accustomed to learning about a variety of efforts, launched by investigators, to learn more about the president’s financial records, which he’s fought vehemently to hide for reasons he won’t explain.
But this is new: if the reporting is accurate, New York prosecutors have successfully acquired Trump’s financial materials from his longtime lender.”
“The cases that reached the Supreme Court, and which are now being litigated in lower courts, deal with ongoing efforts that have yet to be resolved. But if Deutsche Bank has already complied with a subpoena, turning over detailed records, that probably ought to make the president a little nervous.
Or, given the scope of the multi-faceted allegations, more than a little nervous.”
(Benen)
“Lewis Lukens, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London,
talks with Rachel Maddow about the unusual circumstances around the withholding of the State Department Inspector General’s investigation report on Donald Trump pressuring Ambassador Woody Johnson to ask
the UK to move the British Open to Trump’s Turnberry golf course.”
—“What is preventing the release of this inspection and if so what is the reason for the delay?” (Lukens)
—“It is a red flag if the report was classified.”
😳
“Just this week,
New York prosecutor explicitly referred in a court filing to the possibility of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” and as we discussed earlier, the president’s principal lender has turned over financial records as part of a probe that’s apparently examining alleged insurance and bank fraud. What’s more, as we discussed several months ago, the president has already been implicated in alleged criminal misdeeds, though Trump appears to be shielded from prosecution so long as he’s in office. If he were to lose in November, that shield would disappear, and the prospect of an indictment would become quite real.” (Benen)
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/biden-vows-not-interfere-possible-trump-prosecution-n1236028)
“Biden vows to ‘not interfere’ with a possible Trump prosecution
If Trump loses in November and is indicted after leaving office, he apparently shouldn’t call the Oval Office looking for a favor from Biden.”
Tish James kicking NRA ass!
“Trump’s Bank Was Subpoenaed by N.Y. Prosecutors in Criminal Inquiry”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/trump-taxes-vance-deutsche-bank.html)
THIS.
I really recommend everyone listen to her latest podcast. It is honest, as she always is, and her conversation with Michelle Norris is just really so open and beautiful. They are so lucky to have each other and to share their experience with us.
GOP agreed to name the act after the Honorable John Lewis but have not agreed to pass it.
Totally on brand
Bingo!
CO Secretary of State Jena Griswold,
who has the most accessible election in the country, to Joy Reid:
“RUSSIA
AND
OTHER
COUNTRIES
CANNOT
HACK
A PAPER BALLOT.”
Griswold: “That’s why vote by mail is such a good thing for this country to expand immediately.”
Umsky.
Q: Why little russian in WH doing darnedest to stop mail-in voting?
A: Russia cannot hack paper ballot.
Duh!
Vote Blue no matter what the polls say.
For example,
Goes into the difference between police reform and policing reform….so fortunate for us that
MBK Alliance is on this.
🙌🏾✨
DR. FAUCI
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Forum:
“The good news about Covid-19 is that about 40% of the population has no symptoms…the bad news, for messaging, is that 40% of the population get no symptoms.”
Dr. Fauci:
“The only way you’re going to win the race is that when all eight are rowing in unison.
You get one that catches a crab, as it were, with, an oar goes that way or you don’t row, you don’t win.
So as long as you have any member of society, any demographic group who’s not seriously trying to get to the end game of suppressing this, it will continue to smolder and smolder and smolder, and that will be the reason why in a non-unified way we’ve plateaued at an unacceptable level.”
—Absence of a presidential national call to unity will keep on killing us.
🤭🤫
I kinda know this feeling. 😏
My President!
Oh, dear me. That trip was such a healing and inspiration.
Yes it was. 🙏🏾
“An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent.
A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.
Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics now that an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits has expired.”
(https://apnews.com/aa0831653a319c66835631e90e25f93d)
“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are struggling to work out an agreement that would restore some federal jobless aid. Even if they do reach a deal, the amount is likely to be less than $600. And by the time the money starts flowing, it could be too late for many Americans who are already in dire straits.”
—Trump-McConnell abuse on a MASSIVE scale.
—Let’s hear the stories of American families, some starving, some on our streets, or about to be.
—We didn’t have to starve.
—We didn’t have to die.
—We don’t have to starve.
—We don’t have to die.
My Senator-Soon-To-VP!
My Senator does not come to play. PERIODTTTTTT
The OG Badass for the People!
She has been on the march for a long time. Some people are just now realizing that but whatever, I’m just glad she’s being heard. She’s the very best kind of FIERCE.
Our Happy Warrior! Love her so much!
I was just watching Dr. Vin Gupta on Nicole Wallace’s show — Deadline: White House — when this topic was discussed. He was very indignant about the fact that affluent people and people in tRump’s bubble are able to get these rapid tests, but health care workers, teachers/students (in public school/lower income districts), essential workers, etc. cannot. He also said that these tests are very expensive. You would think that it would be crucial enough that the federal government would cover some or all of the costs so that people who NEED it can get it.
Yes one might think that if we actually had a functioning government led by people who give a damn.
😡😡🤬
Dang, I forgot about this!
The DC AG says “We want some of that action too, dammit!” 😊
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, June 3 2020
“A conversation with President Obama:
Reimagining Policing in the Wake of Continued Police Violence
President Obama joins local and national leaders in the police reform movement, to discuss the tragic events of recent weeks, the history of police violence in America, and specific action steps needed to transform a system that has led to the loss of too many lives.”
Mrs. O. is most definitely not alone.
FL Michelle spoke briefly about surrendering to the highs and lows (imo that we all feel).
Mentions the racial strife and the dispiriting hypocrisy of the White House. How a routine helps.
…inspiring and comforting and uplifting.
I do believe that the former First Lady is suffering from the same depression I suffer from. The resignation of living with a double pandemic, COVID-2016 and COVID-19, with the frustration of the impossibility to change either… like yesterday.
She is me. I push it down to function, but she is me.
And me.
And me.
BOOM
In other words, Trump being Trump
Same as it ever was.
DO NOT GO THERE
The WH occupant is not well. Such signs have been apparent for a long time.
I’ll say.
DO NOT fly Southwest Air!
Chris Hayes on Evictions:
“In New Orleans, Natasha Blunt a grandmother who also lost her job in the pandemic and owes thousands of dollars in back rent, told a reporter “I don’t have any money now. I don’t know what to do.”
People’s belongings piled up in front of their home – this is someone’s life you’re looking at. And beyond the cruelty, this is the stupidest thing you can do public health wise in the middle of a pandemic. Forcing people out of their homes to live either in increasingly crowded shelters, or into crowded houses with other family and friends. And it is something that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and president Donald Trump and the rest of republicans could end today, by passing the legislation that House Democrats passed months ago, and sign it into law. And they’re not doing it.”
Extending the Eviction Moratorium to March 2021:
“Senator Warren, Reps. Chuy García and Lee:
Introduce Legislation to Extend Nation-wide Moratorium on Evictions”
“The Protecting Renters from Evictions and Fees Act would extend and expand the eviction moratorium for renters that ends on July 24, 2020 unless extended; Lawmakers urge Congress to pass their bill to help mitigate the hardship many Americans continue to or will experience due to the economic ramifications of the coronavirus crisis.”
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-warren-reps-chuy-garca-and-lee-introduce-legislation-to-extend-nation-wide-moratorium-on-evictions
“Experts are warning that ending the moratorium now could lead to “an avalanche of evictions” as Americans continue to face high unemployment rates3 – which are as high as 16.8% for Black Americans and 17.6% for Latinx Americans, and 13.3% overall. The latest U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey finds that 30% of renters have no or little confidence they can make their next housing payment; and renters of color are disproportionately more likely to be concerned about making their next housing payment.”
“The Protecting Renters from Evictions and Fees Act
helps ensure renters will not lose their housing if they experience economic hardship during this crisis and need additional time to make their housing payments. The bill extends the federal eviction moratorium to March 27, 2021, one year after the date of enactment of the CARES Act, and expands the moratorium to cover substantially all renters. The bill also prohibits fees, fines, and extra charges due to nonpayment of rent. The HEROES Act, already passed by the House of Representatives, includes the same extension and universal expansion of the federal eviction moratorium.”
Bill text and summary: https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Protecting%20Renters%20from%20Evictions%20and%20Fees%20Act%20Bill%20Summary.pdf
Perfect choice
Damn that’s cold, even for them.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/08/06/hiroshima-the-memory-must-never-fade/