Trump’s endless lies

He propagated conspiracy nonsense about caravans. He took credit for Obama energy permits. He used a wildly inaccurate stat about migrants while saying he was making sure to be accurate. And more.

My fact check of Trump’s 13 false claims at Cabinet today: https://t.co/SBesQFYneE
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2019

Surprise! More lies from the White House! Traitortot was not under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service when he had his secret meeting with the Russian nationals at Trump Tower.#Traitortot https://t.co/9jb2JEcrIS
— Stone 🥶 (@stonecold2050) July 16, 2019

Trump’s lie that @IlhanMN “loves al Qaeda” is just more evidence of his racism.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 16, 2019

Last month, @realdonaldtrump claimed that Mexico had agreed to immediately begin buying large quantities of agricultural products from American farmers. That was a lie. https://t.co/GitNtw6m9A
— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) July 12, 2019

The AP didn't call Wisconsin for Trump until 2:30 a.m. the morning after Election Day. https://t.co/nnRf3xr5gK
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) July 12, 2019

Trump lost 300,000 followers in Twitter’s 2018 purge of fake accounts. (Obama lost 2 million, the Dalai Lama 375,000.) Trump has turned this into a conspiracy about Twitter impeding real people from following him. You click a button to follow him. https://t.co/Swwm4AIEhH
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

What Trump said Monday is weirdly and totally dishonest coming from a president who has since day one questioned the science behind climate change, and has relentlessly slashed away environmental regulations.https://t.co/aKhESaKoZG
— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) July 10, 2019

>@realDonaldTrump touted new car plants in the U.S. "We hadn’t had a plant built in years — in decades." He didn't mention the closing list. And that one of the new plants was unveiled in 2015. Mostly False: https://t.co/pTLwWvnQ4J pic.twitter.com/rAXCyXoQc2
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) July 10, 2019

“I've fact-checked every word Trump has uttered since his inauguration. I can tell you that if this President relays an anecdote in which he has someone referring to him as ‘sir,’ then some major component of the anecdote is very likely to be wrong.” https://t.co/BdGE6BBcO4
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 16, 2019

Blobfest 2019

I went to Blobfest for the fourth time on July 13, 2019. I saw a double bill of The Blob and Forbidden Planet. The audience is like the people who attended The Rocky Horror Picture Show events. They really know the movie and clap along with the rhythm of the theme song. For the first time that I have seen, the audience laughed at the end when the blob is taken to the Arctic because it is frozen. We know that it is thawing because of global warming.

I also posted YouTube videos I found about this year’s Blobfest.

Reading Fightin Phils

I attended the Reading Fightin Phils game on July 12, 2019. They have been the Phillies AA affiliate since 1967 and many well-known Phillies have played there. The slide show includes pictures of Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski when they played for Reading.

The stadium has more food options than most of the minor league parks I have been to.

Trump should shut up about anti-Semitism

Trump has a lot of nerve calling anyone else anti-Semitic. As a Jew, I will never forgive him for his “very fine people” remarks about neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. Trump is anti-Semitic and needs to shut up. His bigotry inspired the attacks on the synagogues in Pittsburgh and California where people were killed.

I have been pretty polite about this and so have other American Jews. But you really have to leave us out of your racist talking points. You are not helping us, you are not helping society, you are not helping Israel. Your racism is your thing and we are not your shield.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 15, 2019

You know who I have sympathy for today? The American Jewish community.
White Nationalists, most of whom are Anti-Semites, are trying to use faux-concern for Israel to justify MORE BIGOTRY, and there's just barely a large enough minority of the Jewish community willing to help.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 16, 2019

#AntiSemitism is on the rise.@realDonaldTrump using Israel to defend his blatant racism only hurts the Jewish community. He doesn't speak for any of us.

We call on ALL leaders across the political spectrum to condemn these racist, xenophobic tweets & using Jews as a shield.
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) July 15, 2019

Justifying a president’s racist tirade by using false charges of anti-Semitism is beneath the Senate.
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) July 15, 2019

Man who drew a cartoon the @ADL calls “blatantly anti-Semitic” says he was invited to the White House for a social media summit https://t.co/Fzckv4rJbD https://t.co/nmH1zyCV7C pic.twitter.com/hvz4BpLNVt
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 6, 2019

Republican tax policy failed in Kansas

This should serve as a lesson for the whole country. Republican tax cuts do not improve the economy, they just increase the deficit.

Kansas has now tested GOP tax orthodoxy twice. First it slashed taxes, promising an economic miracle; all it got was a huge deficit. Then it revoked the tax cuts, which the right says should have been a disaster; instead, the budget is back in surplus 1/ https://t.co/C0aLj6LavA
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 11, 2019

Kansas raises taxes and its economy booms–the exact opposite of what Art Laffer, Steve Moore and other right-wing economists predicted. https://t.co/PdQRGzbDWN
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) July 10, 2019

2020 Census update 7/11/19

Here’s a take on the census saga that zeros in well on the silver lining but that may be premature in celebrating the outcome:

Too many immigrants have been spooked into the shadows. And sinister hints about future threats were dropped by henchman Barr.https://t.co/prDl6ZF7xZ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 12, 2019

I learned a lot about this subject from @Dan_F_Jacobson, who represented the plaintiffs in the census case, who explained to me how the citizenship question could gain electoral votes and seats for the GOP. Check out our interview on my #OnTopic podcast: https://t.co/gtyKdNZSw9 https://t.co/IPybSLXnI1
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 11, 2019

Defying the Supreme Court’s directive would open a seal that no one should want to see broken. It betrays the admin’s belief that it cannot satisfy the Court’s requests and threatens the legitimacy of the census. More importantly, it would be a legitimate constitutional crisis. https://t.co/3HdgNWMhk7
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 11, 2019

Why Trump probably won't be able to add the citizenship question to the census via executive action https://t.co/LdBnzd3Y98 pic.twitter.com/56WtUkIRBz
— Michael Intoccia (@MichaelIntocci) July 11, 2019

The Supreme Court could have and should have taken a far stronger posture than it did, ruling not that the citizenship question was administratively imperfect, but that it was unconstitutional and un-American. https://t.co/Cu5Uc4uTUz
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) July 11, 2019

This is the latest example of how Donald Trump isn’t the only threat to this country. His presidency wouldn’t be possible without the lies spread by the propagandists in right-wing media—and those who believe them.

https://t.co/JNzQcf50UL
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) July 11, 2019

So proud to be a colleague go ⁦@JoshuaMatz8⁩ at ⁦@KaplanHecker⁩ and a friend of ⁦@LeahLitman⁩. https://t.co/eu7tuC4nr6
— Robbie Kaplan (@kaplanrobbie) July 12, 2019

Trump’s bad cabinet appointees

They’re sleazy like their boss. Read the whole thread.

In light of the news about Labor Sec. Alexander ACOSTA, herein a list of other current/former Trump cabinet officials who have been involved in controversies or suspected corruption:

—ELAINE CHAO, Transportation: Alleged financial conflicts of interest. https://t.co/ewht3JieS5
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) July 11, 2019