Here's our breakout of county exposure to potential gyrations from new China tariffs
65 percent of the jobs in targeted industries are in counties carried by Trump
Comment by @ThePlumLineGS https://t.co/Ge0N8dmQJe@jimtankersley @matthewsdolan @ObsoleteDogma @JohnCassidy pic.twitter.com/q8EfcDApxe
— Mark Muro (@MarkMuro1) July 9, 2018
Month: July 2018
Numbers on gun violence
Here are the latest numbers on gun violence in America, according to @teamtrace. pic.twitter.com/uGHgz2mRUZ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 9, 2018
Pruitt’s legacy of damage to the environment
Pruitt is gone but he did a lot of harm to our country and people.
Health researchers have argued that Scott Pruitt's kind of environmental agenda would lead to an additional 80,000 deaths per decade. https://t.co/nIYdTEHrGI
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 8, 2018
Scott Pruitt's efforts to roll back environmental regulations could have a lasting impact on low-income communities and people of color — who are more likely to suffer the harms of polluted water, air, and soil. https://t.co/8gEoIr2X8L
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 10, 2018
5 polluting industries that won big from Scott Pruitt’s tenure at the EPA https://t.co/yX6nE5v1XO
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 10, 2018
In the final hours of Scott Pruitt’s tenure as administrator, the EPA moved to effectively grant a loophole that will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel… https://t.co/2a7xRzwgQA
— Baltimore Fiber (@BmoreFiber) July 9, 2018
Good riddance! We’ll All Be Paying for Scott Pruitt for Ages https://t.co/26iCVouZxV
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 7, 2018
update:
Environmental Defense Fund, Center for Biological Diversity, and Sierra Club have jointly just sent a letter to Acting Administrator Wheeler asking him to reverse last day of Pruitt era move re so-called "Super Polluting" glider trucks pic.twitter.com/ZYay90T1RD
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) July 10, 2018
Trump calls Russia a competitor. They’re an enemy.
Trump’s friendliness to Putin is very alarming.
Q: Is Putin a friend or foe?
TRUMP: I really can’t say right now. As far as I’m concerned, he’s a competitor. I think that getting along with RUssia, getting along with China, is a good thing.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 10, 2018
As Trump says of Putin meeting: "Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of them all." a reminder:
-Putin annexed Crimea
-Putin invaded E. Ukraine
-Putin interfered in 2016 to aid Trump
-Putin supports Assad in Syria & targets civilians to do so
-Putin used nerve agent to murder in UK— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 10, 2018
If someone in the UK had died in a terrorist attack (even if at the hand of another British citizen), Donald Trump would have belligerently weighed in by now. But when someone in the UK, a NATO ally, dies as a result of an attack on British soil by Putin's government…crickets.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 9, 2018
Excellent satire on the Supreme Court pick
This was a funny column posted before the nomination,
.@BorowitzReport: Putin Reportedly Has Made Final Supreme Court Choice https://t.co/INtMUd4Ieh pic.twitter.com/ixDpgoggpB
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 10, 2018
76% of Trump’s statements at his Montana rally were “false, misleading or lacking evidence”
Trump made 98 factual statements at his Montana rally. 76 percent of them were "false, misleading or lacking evidence." Just astonishing. https://t.co/jIzo705qBx
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) July 10, 2018
Trump lie (or false statement) about NATO
NATO members don't owe money for failing to meet the NATO guideline of spending 2% of national GDP on defence. That's not how it works. You can argue, if you want, that they've been metaphorically delinquent, but Trump regularly suggests they're in actual debt, which is not true. pic.twitter.com/ucAFSzOOTv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 10, 2018
Once again, the 2% commitment is a goal set by NATO allies for 2024. https://t.co/0fIiCfyP5a
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 10, 2018
Once again, Trump has this wrong. The 2% spending target is not a current commitment but a goal set for 2024, still six years away. No one is "delinquent" or owes the US any payments. https://t.co/cmWjSPZBKk
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 10, 2018
Just for context, pls remember that “delinquent for many years in payments” does not apply to any real occurrence in the real world.
-NATO does not have “dues”
-Its “collective defense” clause has been invoked only once in history: for *other nations* to help the US after 9/11 https://t.co/WmiF59ZMjm— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 10, 2018
There are no accounts by which the U.S. is "paying for 90% of NATO." In terms of total defence spending by members of the alliance, the U.S. is paying 72%, according to NATO's most recent annual report. And the U.S. pays an agreed-upon, consistent 22% of NATO's actual budget. pic.twitter.com/IXg9yEOUUs
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 9, 2018
The only way it's "Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer" is if Trump thinks that if European countries spent more on their militaries, we'd spend less on ours. Given that he wants US military spending to be as large as possible, that seems unlikely. https://t.co/efb6Jnhykn
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) July 10, 2018
What if Trump isn't trying to get NATO to pay more for defense? What if he's trying to precipitate a split? https://t.co/KSSseBSIG5 pic.twitter.com/3LCU95HW3R
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 10, 2018
update 7/12 – almost identical to Trump’s lie documented by Dale on 7/9. Trump lies endlessly.
Daniel Dale has to be one of the most exhausted people on the planet. https://t.co/2iX26M7yBm
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 12, 2018
More bad Trump pardons
Trump pardons arsonists.
To the cheers of right-wing militias, Trump issues pardon to child-abusing, serial arsonists https://t.co/v6lEKiJpoN
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) July 10, 2018
This is astonishing. It's an arson on federal lands case, prosecuted by the US Atty's Office in Oregon. Press release at conviction, here: https://t.co/xiKOpnXIfW There is no good reason for these pardons. Trump is using a tool meant to do justice in a wholly arbitrary fashion. https://t.co/JwSrA7OqPP
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 10, 2018
Twice this past month, Trump has added “firefighters” to the usual list of people he says he’s standing up for, along with ICE and the military. Steven Hammond was convicted of setting a 2006 fire that jeopardized the lives of four federal firefighters he knew were nearby.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 10, 2018
The hypocrisy at the heart of Trump's rancher pardon | By Peniel Joseph via @CNNOpinion https://t.co/xAbD1xAXI9 pic.twitter.com/WUsrhuxmJy
— CNN (@CNN) July 10, 2018
update 7/12/18:
After Trump's pardon, Oregon ranchers catch a ride home on Pence ally's private jet https://t.co/eXbrrICWKK
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 12, 2018
“We’re very lucky that my boss has been friends with the vice president,” said David Duquette, an aide to the magnate who pushed for the ranchers’ pardon. “That makes it easier for us to get our issues looked at.” https://t.co/eUXm1X2Bs4
— julieturkewitz (@julieturkewitz) July 12, 2018
Anti-Government Groups Cheer Trump’s Pardons of Ranchers Who Inspired Militia
Never forget how Republicans treated Garland
Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat. That has permanent ramifications.
Don’t worry @SenateMajLdr.
So long as Brett Kavanaugh is treated with the same courtesy and respect that Merrick Garland was given, everything will work out just fine. https://t.co/awvuJyzBwh
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) July 10, 2018
White House: "The last Supreme Court nominees, the last two, one from this president and one from the last president, went from nomination to confirmation in 66 days. We think that's a pretty good benchmark."
Merrick Garland was nominated from March 2016 until January 2017. pic.twitter.com/F7CEBnDbrw
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 10, 2018
McConnell announced his opposition to confirming any Obama nominee within an hour or so after news broke of Justice Scalia’s death on February 13, 2016, 32 days before Judge Garland was nominated. https://t.co/2ehDLfZw0i https://t.co/bFH0m70vwG
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 28, 2018
The Republicans kept a Supreme Court seat vacant for nearly a year, refusing to give Merrick Garland a hearing. Yet Trump claims voting “no” is unprecedented? https://t.co/prIo0tLQBp
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 23, 2018
I wonder who said this in 2016 while refusing to hold a vote on Merrick Garland: "The American people deserve to have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice."
Nov elections are in only 4 months. There should be no confirmation vote until after the elections https://t.co/Byh7pgUCvy
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 10, 2018
Hatch voted against Kagan and Sotomayor, and then said Garland shouldn't get a hearing. https://t.co/LtZzPWTIGs
— Adam Smith (@asmith83) July 10, 2018
"In his forthcoming memoir, President Obama will reflect on his 'no drama Obama' governing style, so radically different from that of his successor," writes @EleanorClift. "But will he acknowledge the limits of his signature restraint?" https://t.co/ZAMw81X7O6
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 10, 2018
Judge rejects Trump bid to hold children longer/Flores Settlement
CNN's @miguelmarquez :The judge who rejected the Trump admin.'s bid to modify the Flores Settlement, reportedly called the bid "a tortured interpretation of Flores, called it cynical, and saying they were only in this position because of an ill-considered executive action" pic.twitter.com/0epnDsiE7x
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) July 10, 2018
BREAKING: A judge has rejected the Trump administration's bid to change a 1997 settlement that limits how long kids can be held in immigration detention — getting that settlement changed was a central part of Trump's executive order last month https://t.co/C2413bEoxy pic.twitter.com/XSdCtTQdcC
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 10, 2018
Recall Trump claiming he signed an exec order aimed at creating a challenge to Flores settlement because he said he didn’t like the visual of kids being taken from parents. Today: https://t.co/nGDDxHdD2Y
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 10, 2018
What is the Flores settlement? https://t.co/lxztj3mcyN pic.twitter.com/3YDPp2vOak
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 10, 2018
Here’s DOJ’s response to the judge declining to amend the Flores agreement on long-term detention of immigrant kids pic.twitter.com/et2ZuhNwpG
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) July 10, 2018
Listen to this "All Things Considered" episode to understand the importance of the Flores Agreement, and why this (or any other) administration should not be allowed to rescind it: https://t.co/NjBDhdnRNW
— Valeria Luiselli (@ValeriaLuiselli) July 10, 2018
Sad! 