Great news for parents: The COVID-19 vaccine is approved for kids under 5. As appointments ramp up, you’ll be able to find a vaccine at pediatricians’ offices, pharmacies, and more. It's safe and effective—this is another big step to protect our loved ones and communities.
Award winning Anika Noni Rose starts the #USOpen today with the national anthem. #Serena Williams is set to bring what might be the last time she plays in a major singles tournament, as she has announced her upcoming retirement. pic.twitter.com/9U2ijnb9bd
"She endured racism, reached the mountaintop anyway, then planted herself there, breathing easy in the thin air." @avarwallace https://t.co/csd1hmSt46
Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words
BY SERENA WILLIAMS
As told to Rob Haskell
“This morning, my daughter, Olympia, who turns five this month, and I were on our way to get her a new passport before a trip to Europe. We’re in my car, and she’s holding my phone, using an interactive educational app she likes. This robot voice asks her a question: What do you want to be when you grow up? She doesn’t know I’m listening, but I can hear the answer she whispers into the phone. She says, “I want to be a big sister…”
After coming through his first round match earlier today, Andy Murray was asked about Serena Williams:
“When I played with her, she was extremely competitive. You don’t have the results that she had and won as much as she had over time without being super competitive.
“The side that I got to see with her – she has a really good sense of humour. We had a lot of fun, a good time on the court. she cracked a lot of jokes when we were playing the mixed doubles (at Wimbledon 2019) and that was really important for me.
“I was nervous playing with her, I hadn’t played that much coming into Wimbledon that year and obviously she is an unbelievable player and I didn’t want to let her down. She made me feel very comfortable being on the court with her, and that was nice.”
Two relics of our founding used to perpetuate slavery – the Connecticut Compromise (2 Senators per state) and the Electoral College, along with the segregation-sustaining filibuster, continue to give far too much influence over American life to a minority of the population.
Rachel Maddow Shows How Trump’s Attacks On The National Archives Threaten Democracy
Rachel Maddow said that Trump’s attacks on the National Archives are the sort of thing that push people out of public service and kill democracy.
“In this political environment on the right they can generate a murderous rage about the National Archives apparently or the FBI or school boards or librarians or teachers or doctors or county public health boards or the little old ladies who work at the polls on election day.
No one is beyond being threatened, doxed, harassed, driven out of public service. It is hard to stay a democracy just on a practical level. It is hard to stay a democracy when all forms of public service, large and small, all jobs in the public life of our democracy come with threats of violence.
You can’t long hold free and fair elections when it takes bravery to be a poll worker. It should not take bravery to be a poll worker or a file clerk at the archives or an immunologist. The threat of political violence takes normal people out of public life. which puts you on a very fast track to the end of democracy at a very practical level.
As with almost everything that Trump does, the long-term consequences of his self-serving attacks have a lingering impact on democracy and institutions. Thanks to Donald Trump, there are Americans who will think that there is something evil and untrustworthy about the National Archives.
The people who work at the National Archives facilities are public servants who act as the caretakers of presidential history. The National Archives is not the villain in the story.”
Easley: “Donald Trump violated the law, and in his effort to escape responsibility for his actions, the former president has launched an attack that even if batted back successfully will erode confidence in public servants and democracy among his supporters.”
Public Service Agencies, Large And Small, Chilled By Violent Threats From Trump Supporters
“Rachel Maddow remarks on the unlikelihood of turning something as benign as the National Archives into a villain, and rounds up the litany of public service agencies, from the FBI to local election workers, that have drawn the ire of Donald Trump and incurred threats of violence from his supporters, noting the deleterious effect of such threats on democracy in the United States.”
“How can you be in a fervor against the National Archives?
The National Archives is where we keep our country’s documents. It’s the filing cabinet !
It’s the library. How can you be mad at the library? Oh yes, that’s what we’re doing now.”
(Maddow)
“My Administration’s student loan repayment plan would cut Americans’ monthly undergraduate loan payments in half.
That means hard-working folks can get on top of their rent and their utilities. They can think about buying a home, starting a family, or starting a business.”
Over the last few years, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has organized volunteers and activists to keep Republicans from redrawing electoral maps in their favor. And it worked. This fall, voters will have the fairest maps in a generation.
PBO
“Over the last few years, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has organized volunteers and activists to keep Republicans from redrawing electoral maps in their favor.
And it worked. This fall, voters will have the fairest maps in a generation.”
Public service agencies, large and small, chilled by violent threats from Trump supporters
Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives
The agency has been hit with a wave of threats and vitriol since the FBI retrieved scores of classified records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club
Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden’s Daughter’s Diary
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy in which Ashley Biden’s diary ended up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign.
NEW VIDEO: In a battle for MAGA supremacy, will Sarah Huckabee Sanders make Ron Desantis look like Bernie Sanders? Do we really want to find out? #StopSarahSanderspic.twitter.com/XWQArMNuPJ
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People by Ava DuVernay trailer
“Director Ava DuVernay’s short-form film entitled “August 28: A Day in the Life of a People” will make its national television debut on Tuesday, August 28 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on OWN. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Regina King, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, André Holland, Michael Ealy and Glynn Turman, DuVernay’s 22-minute scripted film uses a robust combination of both documentary and narrative techniques to transport viewers through six stunning historical moments that all actually occurred on the same day in various years.
Written, produced and directed by DuVernay, “August 28” traverses a century of black progress, protest, passion and perseverance of African-American people. The project gives historical perspective within the creative framework of one date that has had a profound effect on America including: the passing of The Slavery Abolition Act on August 28, 1833, the lynching of Emmett Till on August 28, 1956, the first radio airplay from Motown Records on August 28, 1961 with The Marvelettes “Please Mr Postman,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech during the massive March on Washington on August 28, 1965, Hurricane Katrina making its tragic landfall on August 28, 2005 and then-Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the presidency on August 28, 2008.”
“Hundreds of farmworkers concluded a 24-day march to Sacramento
spanning 335 miles to demand California Governor Gavin Newsom support legislation
that would make it easier for farmworkers to cast their ballots in union elections by mail.
Newsom has threatened to veto the bill,
which would keep farmworkers safe from employer retaliation,
explains Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers, the labor union that helped organize the march.”
55 years ago, on #ThisDayInHistory, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
Intelligence officials assess fallout of Trump mishandling of U.S. secrets
“Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the DOJ and current executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a professor at Georgetown Law, talks with Rachel Maddow about what it means that intelligence officials are conducting a “classification review” and “damage assessment” in the wake of Donald Trump’s mishandling of national secrets.”
so funny amk…right after he first started in 2017 a friend visited here from India. She was saying she might come back to the US and I said “But not now, don’t come now.”
She says “why not?” and without thinking I came back with, “because he’s a SPY.”
“The fact that this radical theory has migrated from footnotes and far-flung lawsuits to the center of our political universe is highly concerning. We do not know how the justices will accept or apply the theory, but the stakes couldn’t be higher.”https://t.co/7A39FmoIX9
No running water in Jackson. The heat index is 102 degrees. Schools and universities are closed. No way to cook, clean, bathe. This is capital city, and the biggest city in Mississippi. #jxnwatercrisis
At inflection points in history some leaders rise, others falter. Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away today, rose to make our world safer. He was imperfect, as we all are. But he had a vision for stability over chaos and ultimately freedom over repression. We need more of that.
“Plaintiff has shown no basis for the Court to grant relief. Plaintiff is not likely to succeed on the merits; he will suffer no injury absent an injunction—let alone an irreparable injury; and the harms to the government & the public would far outweigh any benefit to Plaintiff”
Thank you President Biden for the game changer on student loan forgiveness.
It is beyond caring and brilliant and so many young people, families with all kinds of politics are celebrating with relief.
“Louisiana law is making Nancy Davis carry her baby just to bury her baby! I joined Ms.Davis on the ReidOut as she shared her story about the medical CRISIS she’s facing! We need to call on Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards & state legislature to clear up their abortion laws!”
Another Russia
The story of one man and one family who was, and still are, fighting for another Russia.
About this podcast:
“In 2015 Putin’s number one public enemy, Boris Nemtsov, was shot and killed in front of the Kremlin. He was a relentless critic of Putin, corruption, and war in Ukraine. Then, he was assassinated. His daughter, journalist Zhanna Nemtsova, and co-host Ben Rhodes tell his story to find out what happened to an entire country – and what happens next. Is another Russia possible?
Boris Nemtsov was at the center of every major turning point in Russia’s modern history. He was an activist for democracy as the Soviet Union collapsed. He went from being heir apparent to President Yeltsin in the 90s, to leading the opposition movement when Putin took power in the 2000’s. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, he was the first to ring alarm bells about endless war. Then, he was assassinated.
This is the story of what happened to an entire country, which has now unleashed war on an unspeakable scale in Ukraine. But, more than that, it’s the story of one man and one family, who was, and still are, fighting for another Russia.”
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests
The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Trump promotes barrage of QAnon content via social media platform
As part of an online tantrum, Donald Trump didn’t just promote QAnon content, he also pushed the line that Democratic leaders are Americans’ “enemy.”
“It was two years ago last week when Donald Trump first started saying positive things about QAnon and its adherents. “I’ve heard these are people who love our country,” the then-president said from behind a White House podium. The Republican added that he didn’t know much about the deranged theory or its followers, “other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”
Even at the time, it was jarring. By that point, the FBI had already classified QAnon as a
domestic-terror threat in an internal memo. A month before Trump made the comments, the West Point Combating Terrorism Center published a study characterizing QAnon as a burgeoning threat to public safety. The then-president didn’t seem to care.”
NBC News reported:
“Former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting inflammatory messages on social media, including many explicitly promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. While Trump has in the past promoted QAnon-inspired accounts and theories, the posts on his Truth Social account were his most explicit, unobscured, QAnon-promoting and
QAnon-baiting posts to date.”
NBC News’ report added:
“In addition to the QAnon-adjacent posts, Trump shared several conspiracy theories Tuesday on his Truth Social site and he re-posted a picture of [President Joe] Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the words
“Your enemy is not in Russia” written in black bars over their eyes.”
This DOJ filing claims recovered documents showed that “certain pages of presidential records had been torn up” in violation of 18 U.S. C. § 2071, a crime that purports to “bar anyone from ever again holding a political office in the United States.”https://t.co/yJOPDPADOP
Ya ya ya… Trump did this, Trump did that… on & on this goes on forever… don’t tell us what crimes Trump has committed TELL US WHAT CRIMES HE’s BEING CHARGED WITH !!!!!!!
It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.
— Anthony "Scientific Marbles" Citrano (@acitrano) September 7, 2020
exactly. jen and joyce are spouting rethug talking points. before election is the actual time to know if you are going to vote for a convicted criminal, not after. The whole framing is the usual rethug bs.
yup, garland needs to step up and set an example. despite the whiners and the magats. it’s been over 18 fucking months and all these traitors are still running free with their diarrhea mouths spewing lies 24×7.
Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
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1h
If Trump’s lawyer, EVAN CORCORAN, and his custodian of records, CHRISTINA BOBB, are charged with obstructing justice, as DOJ’s midnight 8/30 filing implies they should be, the question is: Will they lie again or will they point their fingers at their boss, the former president?
Okay, here's my pitch for President @BarackObama and his Netflix deal: civics. There is a deeply deficient knowledge of how government works both philosophically and practically. Obama Teaches Civics, 9 episode series. Shoot it in a high school classroom with students.
‘She holds a place in so many people’s hearts’ — Tributes to Princess Diana appeared in public spaces in London and Paris on August 31, the 25th anniversary of her death pic.twitter.com/apvN1jZcVL
'Every day, I hope to do her proud' — Prince Harry reflected on his mother Diana's legacy, just days before the 25th anniversary of her death on August 31 pic.twitter.com/UF3A6YPRgb
.@FLOTUS talks about supporting, properly compensating teachers in her first public event since recovering from covid-19. @POTUS popped his head in, said “whatever she says, I agree with” and left pic.twitter.com/Wp805tMQRJ
Southlake, TX, parent Sravan Krishna confronted the local school board about a law requiring public schools in the state to hang posters reading, 'In God We Trust.’ Krishna offered additional signs—only this time, one was written in Arabic and the other featured rainbow colors. pic.twitter.com/juqxkfvSSV
This effort is aided by the Claremont Institute (where Trump atty John Eastman is a Sr. Fellow) which launched last year a new “Sheriffs Fellowship.” Why a fellowship for Sheriffs at a right-wing think tank you ask? Here an excerpt from a fundraising ltr. Take this seriously. https://t.co/pjLIj7jYGipic.twitter.com/5x5nze2AHg
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
BREAKING. Sarah Palin has just LOST the Alaska special election for Congress! Good!
5:07 PM · Aug 31, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
NEW: Pres. Biden will host former Pres. Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at the White House on Sept. 7 for the unveiling of their official portraits. https://t.co/OlnaZuymGHpic.twitter.com/RBJYpOwfoE
U.S. Open Live: Serena Williams Advances to the Third Round
Williams faced the No. 2 seed, Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, and eliminated her in three sets to continue her run at a tournament celebrating her career.
Second round·Arthur Ashe StadiumFinal
United States
S. Williams 77 2 6
Estonia
2
A. Kontaveit 64 6 2
SerenaWilliams
AnettKontaveit
11 Aces 5
6 Double faults 5
64% First serve % 59%
73% Win % on 1st serve 69%
40% Win % on 2nd serve 50%
5/11
Break points
5/11
1 Tiebreaks won 0
41 Receiving points won 41
100 Points won 99
15 Games won 14
2 Max games won in a row 3
7 Max points won in a row 6
59 Service points won 58
9 Service games won 9
Please join me in congratulating Colonel @YVindman on his retirement from the @USArmy . This is his last day in uniform after 25 years of military service. pic.twitter.com/ZwKbpipAEC
Thank you @SerenaWilliams for inspiring people around the world with your talent, grace, and determination both on and off the court. We celebrate all that you have been, all that you are, and all that is to come.
In filing tonight, Trump's legal team says he "agrees that it would be appropriate for the special master to possess a Top Secret/SCI security clearance," despite claims he declassified what was taken to Mar-a-Lago. Don't see the word declassified mentioned here either.
NEW: Pres. Biden will host former Pres. Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at the White House on Sept. 7 for the unveiling of their official portraits. https://t.co/OlnaZuymGHpic.twitter.com/RBJYpOwfoE
3. If you *really* think something should be public, then you want to take steps to protect the sources of the intel before you release it. But Trump claims he did it secretly. That means he *intentionally* wanted to leave these sources and methods exposed
4. Why would you want that? Only if you wanted the secrets to have value to someone. Similarly, if he had asserted declassification to DOJ, they 'd ask, "Which ones?" He'd have to show what he had. Again, once the USG knows, the secrets get protected, i.e. no value as "secrets"
Why aren’t dem establishment, Biden downwards, not touting Alaskan dem’s incredible victory? First native american from AK. First flip in over 50 years. Tom, tom, it, dammit.
p.s. Local rules in S.D. Florida limits reply briefs to 10 pages absent permission of the court. You think they had permission for their 18-page rant? Nope, no they did not. The rules don't apply. Wonder where they learned that.
Let's be completely honest here: the entire White House press corps knew who he was – all four years, hell from the escalator on down – and pretended he was a legitimate political figure. The failure is astounding. Not of skill – but of character and ethics.
Mary Peltola's victory is a clear message from AK voters that they will not compromise their values or their rights at the ballot box. Mary is a pro-choice, pro-fish, common sense leader who knows what it takes to protect and create AK jobs. On to November!
During my time in office, we've banned police chokeholds, restricted no-knock warrants, and required the creation of a national database so officers can’t hide misconduct.
My Safer America Plan builds on those steps to strengthen public trust and make our communities safer.
The wife of ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to ten years in prison on each of three bribery charges.
Rosmah Mansor was found guilty on three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes to help a company win a 1.25bn ringgit project ($279m, £240m).
The High Court said the jail terms would run concurrently.
It comes days after her husband began serving a 12-year jail sentence for corruption.
The 70-year-old is known for her love of luxury goods and jewellery. When Malaysian police raided the couple’s properties in 2018, they found a $1.6m gold and diamond necklace, 14 tiaras and 272 Hermes bags.
She has also been fined a total of 970m ringgit. However, it is unclear when she will start serving a prison sentence, as she has been granted a stay of execution pending her appeal.
Rosmah still faces 17 other charges of money laundering and tax evasion. She has pleaded not guilty to these charges.
Curiously, the latest Russian oligarch/journalist/official to jump out of a window to commit “suicide” was the only oil magnate to make statements against the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/pSUCZReycM
Listen. If you did not experience #GladysKnight in the 70s you may not fully understand the range & depth of her talent. She was effortless. Joyful. While singing the mess out of just one line of songs sung by Barbara Streisand, Maria Muldaur, Olivia Newton John, Helen Reddy. https://t.co/aZLubVEa3e
So appealing. Why wouldn’t everyone vote Republican? 😏
“No, we didn’t vote for anything that would help you, the economy or the planet. Yes, we tried to take away your healthcare a gazillion times. Yes, we’re into forced-birth & fascism. We’ll be taking your student loan assistance & grandma’s social security. Now vote 4 us please!”
— THEE Dudette – Vaxxed & Still Masked 😷💛🐝 (@Dudette9t9) September 1, 2022
The Republican Party cannot be the tough-on-crime party they claim to be when their leader is the biggest criminal in America. pic.twitter.com/tpkSYkMSvD
The closure of the Atlanta Medical Center on November 1st will leave Georgians in a medical crisis caused entirely by the current governor’s refusal to expand Medicaid. And worse, 19 more rural hospitals across Georgia are also at risk of closing. pic.twitter.com/rLyKvm2UGK
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Diving in head first, Baby!
Thanks Coach Nerdy! 😁😘❤️
Hey NW, with you and all at tod.
Because you need to see a cute doggie on the beach
Statement by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Announcing the Date of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
AUGUST 29, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/29/statement-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-announcing-the-date-of-the-white-house-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health/
The White House:
“Pell Grants once covered nearly 80% of the cost of a four-year public college degree.
Now? They only cover a third of the cost – making students borrow more.
The Administration’s plan will relieve up to $20,000 in student debt for 27 million Pell Grant recipients.”
Serena’s playing now!
Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words
BY SERENA WILLIAMS
As told to Rob Haskell
“This morning, my daughter, Olympia, who turns five this month, and I were on our way to get her a new passport before a trip to Europe. We’re in my car, and she’s holding my phone, using an interactive educational app she likes. This robot voice asks her a question: What do you want to be when you grow up? She doesn’t know I’m listening, but I can hear the answer she whispers into the phone. She says, “I want to be a big sister…”
Aug 9, 2022: (https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words)
Serena really is a GOAT and she loves the adoration 💖💃🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥
💖💃🏾
Go Serena, the GOAT.
Serena wins!!!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥💃🏾🎾
Inspiring the young’uns!
Giant Congrats Ms. Serena !!!
After coming through his first round match earlier today, Andy Murray was asked about Serena Williams:
“When I played with her, she was extremely competitive. You don’t have the results that she had and won as much as she had over time without being super competitive.
“The side that I got to see with her – she has a really good sense of humour. We had a lot of fun, a good time on the court. she cracked a lot of jokes when we were playing the mixed doubles (at Wimbledon 2019) and that was really important for me.
“I was nervous playing with her, I hadn’t played that much coming into Wimbledon that year and obviously she is an unbelievable player and I didn’t want to let her down. She made me feel very comfortable being on the court with her, and that was nice.”
Ukrainian qualifier Daria Snigur dedicated her shock US Open victory over seventh seed Simona Halep to the people of her war-torn nation.
Making her Grand Slam main draw debut, Snigur won 6-2 0-6 6-4 in New York to record the biggest win of her career.
The 20-year-old prepared for the tournament in Riga after her training base in Kyiv was bombed by Russia.
“This is a victory for Ukraine, for all Ukrainian people, for my family, for my team,” said the world number 124.
“The situation is bad, of course. I try to do the best for Ukraine, I try to support my country.
“It’s not so easy because the war is continuing. Sometimes it’s impossible to play but I try to do my best because I want to live in Ukraine.”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/62718326
Lol.
🙄
Looks like traitorous treasonous thug is trippin’. Good.
Simple. Secede.
Rachel Maddow Shows How Trump’s Attacks On The National Archives Threaten Democracy
Rachel Maddow said that Trump’s attacks on the National Archives are the sort of thing that push people out of public service and kill democracy.
“In this political environment on the right they can generate a murderous rage about the National Archives apparently or the FBI or school boards or librarians or teachers or doctors or county public health boards or the little old ladies who work at the polls on election day.
No one is beyond being threatened, doxed, harassed, driven out of public service. It is hard to stay a democracy just on a practical level. It is hard to stay a democracy when all forms of public service, large and small, all jobs in the public life of our democracy come with threats of violence.
You can’t long hold free and fair elections when it takes bravery to be a poll worker. It should not take bravery to be a poll worker or a file clerk at the archives or an immunologist. The threat of political violence takes normal people out of public life. which puts you on a very fast track to the end of democracy at a very practical level.
As with almost everything that Trump does, the long-term consequences of his self-serving attacks have a lingering impact on democracy and institutions. Thanks to Donald Trump, there are Americans who will think that there is something evil and untrustworthy about the National Archives.
The people who work at the National Archives facilities are public servants who act as the caretakers of presidential history. The National Archives is not the villain in the story.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/29/rachel-maddow-national-archives.html)
Easley: “Donald Trump violated the law, and in his effort to escape responsibility for his actions, the former president has launched an attack that even if batted back successfully will erode confidence in public servants and democracy among his supporters.”
Public Service Agencies, Large And Small, Chilled By Violent Threats From Trump Supporters
“Rachel Maddow remarks on the unlikelihood of turning something as benign as the National Archives into a villain, and rounds up the litany of public service agencies, from the FBI to local election workers, that have drawn the ire of Donald Trump and incurred threats of violence from his supporters, noting the deleterious effect of such threats on democracy in the United States.”
See: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0E7PVfGmQ)
“How can you be in a fervor against the National Archives?
The National Archives is where we keep our country’s documents. It’s the filing cabinet !
It’s the library. How can you be mad at the library? Oh yes, that’s what we’re doing now.”
(Maddow)
We cannot cower to their threat of violence…our country will not be run this way,
imho.
President Biden:
“My Administration’s student loan repayment plan would cut Americans’ monthly undergraduate loan payments in half.
That means hard-working folks can get on top of their rent and their utilities. They can think about buying a home, starting a family, or starting a business.”
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Celebrating Serena 👏🏾👏🏾💖💃🏾🎾
A word from President Obama on the work former AG and friends have been doing at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. 💙💙💙
PBO
“Over the last few years, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has organized volunteers and activists to keep Republicans from redrawing electoral maps in their favor.
And it worked. This fall, voters will have the fairest maps in a generation.”
(more…video)
Public service agencies, large and small, chilled by violent threats from Trump supporters
Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives
The agency has been hit with a wave of threats and vitriol since the FBI retrieved scores of classified records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club
Jacqueline Alemany, Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey:
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/)
Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden’s Daughter’s Diary
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy in which Ashley Biden’s diary ended up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign.
Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/politics/ashley-biden-diary-project-veritas-guilty.html)
Arkansas!
I Will Vote!
#IWillVote
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People by Ava DuVernay trailer
“Director Ava DuVernay’s short-form film entitled “August 28: A Day in the Life of a People” will make its national television debut on Tuesday, August 28 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on OWN. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Regina King, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, André Holland, Michael Ealy and Glynn Turman, DuVernay’s 22-minute scripted film uses a robust combination of both documentary and narrative techniques to transport viewers through six stunning historical moments that all actually occurred on the same day in various years.
Written, produced and directed by DuVernay, “August 28” traverses a century of black progress, protest, passion and perseverance of African-American people. The project gives historical perspective within the creative framework of one date that has had a profound effect on America including: the passing of The Slavery Abolition Act on August 28, 1833, the lynching of Emmett Till on August 28, 1956, the first radio airplay from Motown Records on August 28, 1961 with The Marvelettes “Please Mr Postman,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech during the massive March on Washington on August 28, 1965, Hurricane Katrina making its tragic landfall on August 28, 2005 and then-Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the presidency on August 28, 2008.”
Wow!! Spectacular
✨✨🌌
“See the stars in me.” (Xiumin, EXO)
😆😂🤣
“Hundreds of farmworkers concluded a 24-day march to Sacramento
spanning 335 miles to demand California Governor Gavin Newsom support legislation
that would make it easier for farmworkers to cast their ballots in union elections by mail.
Newsom has threatened to veto the bill,
which would keep farmworkers safe from employer retaliation,
explains Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers, the labor union that helped organize the march.”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/29/california_governor_gavin_newsom_united_farm)
—Governor Newsom, what is it about the bill that is making you do this?
—Pls explain!
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_JA-mped4)
Intelligence officials assess fallout of Trump mishandling of U.S. secrets
“Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the DOJ and current executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a professor at Georgetown Law, talks with Rachel Maddow about what it means that intelligence officials are conducting a “classification review” and “damage assessment” in the wake of Donald Trump’s mishandling of national secrets.”
they knew from day one that the traitorous thug was a russian puppet. and yet they all kept silent. now they are ‘assessing’? what a joke.
so funny amk…right after he first started in 2017 a friend visited here from India. She was saying she might come back to the US and I said “But not now, don’t come now.”
She says “why not?” and without thinking I came back with, “because he’s a SPY.”
just knew all kinds of bad stuff coming down.
More like decades ago. Like from tricky dick days.
lol. the yung’un is going places.
No safe water. No safe abortion. Vote for us, ladies. Which most rethug women would.
Gorbachev dead at 91
wow change and wow the President’s statement.
Wooooot! Vamos Rafa!
Will suffer no irrepairable injury to him? WTF? Wasn’t it the main if not the sole point?
Good.
Thank you President Biden for the game changer on student loan forgiveness.
It is beyond caring and brilliant and so many young people, families with all kinds of politics are celebrating with relief.
Ben Crump:
“Louisiana law is making Nancy Davis carry her baby just to bury her baby! I joined Ms.Davis on the ReidOut as she shared her story about the medical CRISIS she’s facing! We need to call on Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards & state legislature to clear up their abortion laws!”
—-Joy Reid interviewed Ms. Davis tonight.
woman denied abortion after heartbreaking diagnosis
traitorous thug’s platform of lies, hatred and venom barred from google play.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62733451
Remarks by President Biden on the Safer America Plan
AUGUST 30, 2022
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/30/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-safer-america-plan/)
Federal Student Aid
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan Explained
What the program means for you, and what comes next
(https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/)
crooked.com
podcast, 6 episodes
Another Russia
The story of one man and one family who was, and still are, fighting for another Russia.
About this podcast:
“In 2015 Putin’s number one public enemy, Boris Nemtsov, was shot and killed in front of the Kremlin. He was a relentless critic of Putin, corruption, and war in Ukraine. Then, he was assassinated. His daughter, journalist Zhanna Nemtsova, and co-host Ben Rhodes tell his story to find out what happened to an entire country – and what happens next. Is another Russia possible?
Boris Nemtsov was at the center of every major turning point in Russia’s modern history. He was an activist for democracy as the Soviet Union collapsed. He went from being heir apparent to President Yeltsin in the 90s, to leading the opposition movement when Putin took power in the 2000’s. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, he was the first to ring alarm bells about endless war. Then, he was assassinated.
This is the story of what happened to an entire country, which has now unleashed war on an unspeakable scale in Ukraine. But, more than that, it’s the story of one man and one family, who was, and still are, fighting for another Russia.”
(https://crooked.com/podcast-series/another-russia/)
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests
The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Glenn Thrush, Charlie Savage, Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman: (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html)
Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge
Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney: (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/30/trump-justice-department-filing-warrant-00054319)
Go joe. Tell it like it is.
The thugs’ latest poutrage. Abolish fbi.
Trump promotes barrage of QAnon content via social media platform
As part of an online tantrum, Donald Trump didn’t just promote QAnon content, he also pushed the line that Democratic leaders are Americans’ “enemy.”
“It was two years ago last week when Donald Trump first started saying positive things about QAnon and its adherents. “I’ve heard these are people who love our country,” the then-president said from behind a White House podium. The Republican added that he didn’t know much about the deranged theory or its followers, “other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”
Even at the time, it was jarring. By that point, the FBI had already classified QAnon as a
domestic-terror threat in an internal memo. A month before Trump made the comments, the West Point Combating Terrorism Center published a study characterizing QAnon as a burgeoning threat to public safety. The then-president didn’t seem to care.”
Steve Benen: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-promotes-barrage-qanon-content-social-media-platform-rcna45526)
NBC News reported:
“Former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting inflammatory messages on social media, including many explicitly promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. While Trump has in the past promoted QAnon-inspired accounts and theories, the posts on his Truth Social account were his most explicit, unobscured, QAnon-promoting and
QAnon-baiting posts to date.”
NBC News’ report added:
“In addition to the QAnon-adjacent posts, Trump shared several conspiracy theories Tuesday on his Truth Social site and he re-posted a picture of [President Joe] Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the words
“Your enemy is not in Russia” written in black bars over their eyes.”
imo a dangerous Anti-American if ever there was one.
Happy Birthday Richard Gere!
Mmm-hmm, yeh!
An Officer and a Gentleman is one of my favorite movies.
Mine too! Superb performances the entire cast!
Yeah, yeah, enough with the talk, start the perp walk. In handcuffs.
Exactly.
What right does he have to tear up government documents which are classified? What the !!!
Happy Birthday Chris Tucker!
old still gold.
What kinda we can’t indict this close to the election bs is this? Are there any laws? Can all criminals use this excuse to run in elections?
Exactly
trump’s not running for office. mitch mc connell does whatever he wants regarding how ‘close to election’ we are.
exactly. jen and joyce are spouting rethug talking points. before election is the actual time to know if you are going to vote for a convicted criminal, not after. The whole framing is the usual rethug bs.
He can file it right now before Trump shares any more docs with our enemies.
yup, garland needs to step up and set an example. despite the whiners and the magats. it’s been over 18 fucking months and all these traitors are still running free with their diarrhea mouths spewing lies 24×7.
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family.
Let’s let AG Garland do his job without all of the back seat driving! Be silent you do nothing people.
Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
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1h
If Trump’s lawyer, EVAN CORCORAN, and his custodian of records, CHRISTINA BOBB, are charged with obstructing justice, as DOJ’s midnight 8/30 filing implies they should be, the question is: Will they lie again or will they point their fingers at their boss, the former president?
Yes, this please! Civics!
Great idea!
25 Years Ago today, Princess Diana died at 36. 😔
😭
FLOTUS Jill and POTUS Joe are so cute! 😆
Love this!
If it doesn’t open, please go and click it to see Mr. Handsome💖
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
BREAKING. Sarah Palin has just LOST the Alaska special election for Congress! Good!
5:07 PM · Aug 31, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
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16m
Breaking: Mary Peltola (D) defeats Sarah Palin (R) in the #AKAL special election.
Dancinggggggggggg💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Yaassssss!!!
I”m so looking Forward to This
Gail Brown
@GGail26
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3m
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Quote Tweet
connectpoliticditto.
@cpoliticditto
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I can hear Sarah Palin crying from my house
😂
Boom! Just the facts ma’am. Periodt!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lawyer-john-eastman-refuses-to-answer-questions-from-georgia-grand-jury/ar-AA11kwoA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=630ff51b02a1476aa4192dff79a56942
Trump lawyer John Eastman refuses to answer questions from Georgia grand jury
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY – 1h ago
A twofer. Yay.
U.S. Open Live: Serena Williams Advances to the Third Round
Williams faced the No. 2 seed, Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, and eliminated her in three sets to continue her run at a tournament celebrating her career.
Second round·Arthur Ashe StadiumFinal
United States
S. Williams 77 2 6
Estonia
2
A. Kontaveit 64 6 2
SerenaWilliams
AnettKontaveit
11 Aces 5
6 Double faults 5
64% First serve % 59%
73% Win % on 1st serve 69%
40% Win % on 2nd serve 50%
5/11
Break points
5/11
1 Tiebreaks won 0
41 Receiving points won 41
100 Points won 99
15 Games won 14
2 Max games won in a row 3
7 Max points won in a row 6
59 Service points won 58
9 Service games won 9
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💝🎾🔥💃🏾
Yes M’am!!! Go Serena! 💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Colonel. So Biden did the right thing and restored his rank?
Serena into 3rd round. While the seeded players became birdfeed. Go Serena.
“I’m a pretty good player, this is what I do best. I love a challenge and I’m rising to the challenge,” added the six-time US Open champion.
You, you do and yes, you can.
she beat the world no. 2, no less. I am looking forward to a fairy-tale record smashing ending.
27 years.
23 Grand Slams.
Not done yet.
lol.
I love My VP!
Make that OUR VP – and I love her, too! 🙂
From the Lady herself.
That was one of the best news items today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to her!
Amazing how the left scores own goals by accepting whatever the rethug framing is.
Stupid lies tripping over each other. How could a judge not see how ridiculously stupid this is?
Oh my goodness. I forgot this was coming up!
How much more a open and shut case could be?
The whole mobster gang is involved in this espionage trading.
Why aren’t dem establishment, Biden downwards, not touting Alaskan dem’s incredible victory? First native american from AK. First flip in over 50 years. Tom, tom, it, dammit.
Incompetence at every level from top down. How the trumpturds worship him beats me.
Another stupid challenge? How much more white privilege does the justice system bends backwards to provide to this traitorous thug?
yup, fucking fifth columnists from fourth estate.
Lol. From one goat to another.
Per beebs, tundra twit spent 4 to 1 just to lose.
treason is a full time job. can’t blame the traitor.
The wife of ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to ten years in prison on each of three bribery charges.
Rosmah Mansor was found guilty on three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes to help a company win a 1.25bn ringgit project ($279m, £240m).
The High Court said the jail terms would run concurrently.
It comes days after her husband began serving a 12-year jail sentence for corruption.
The 70-year-old is known for her love of luxury goods and jewellery. When Malaysian police raided the couple’s properties in 2018, they found a $1.6m gold and diamond necklace, 14 tiaras and 272 Hermes bags.
She has also been fined a total of 970m ringgit. However, it is unclear when she will start serving a prison sentence, as she has been granted a stay of execution pending her appeal.
Rosmah still faces 17 other charges of money laundering and tax evasion. She has pleaded not guilty to these charges.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62747420
#consequences
This murderer war criminal is traitorous thug’s and white nazis’ hero.
LOL! 😆😂😂😆😂🤣
🐐Talk!
My girl said: Slurp!!! 😆😂🤣
Biden-Harris admin addressing air traveler concerns…
Gladys did that!
Not Gladys Knight 😠
The ads will write themselves!
So appealing. Why wouldn’t everyone vote Republican? 😏
Good neighbors!
A muhfekkin word!
Hahahahaha! Right 👏🏾👏🏾
🙌🏾
The Education FLOTUS!
Wow, Lincoln Project kicking ‘em in the whatever!
Yeh Baby! It’s that time of year! 😁🎹🎸🎶🥁🎺😄
New post.
We must elect Stacey Abrams!