Thomas Farr update

update 12/3/18

The Loneliness of Tim Scott or how nearly the entire Republican mainstream, including its intellectual class, has either embraced voter suppression or turned a blind eye to it. https://t.co/8O19BudVN2

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 3, 2018

update 11/29/18:

CNN: GOP Senator Tim Scott has decided to oppose the nomination of federal judge Thomas Farr, effectively ending his chance of being confirmed.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 29, 2018

The vote on Farr will be soon. He would be a terrible pick for a judge. Gutless Republicans will probably approve him.

Two highly-qualified women of color had their nominations blocked by the GOP to serve on the Eastern District Court in North Carolina. And now the GOP want to fill this vacancy with Thomas Farr, whose nomination represents a historic injustice to the people of NC. I will vote no. pic.twitter.com/fYHbvpSKZD

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) November 28, 2018

WOW, under immense pressure, SC Sen. Tim Scott votes yes to move forward on judicial nominee, supporting the president and not civil rights groups who say the nominee has a history of supporting voter suppression, including with minorities.

Unclear if he is a yes on final

— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) November 28, 2018

I've worked on judicial nominations in DC for 30+ years, and I've never seen a worst nominee than Thomas Farr.

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 27, 2018

North Carolinians deserve better than Thomas Farr. #StopFarr https://t.co/mDmDha8HWK

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 27, 2018

Sen. Scott on Farr nomination: “I don’t really have a good answer for you. I have no answer, actually”

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) November 27, 2018

A vote for Thomas Farr this week is a vote in support of voter suppression. His confirmation for a life-long judgeship would be a travesty for American democracy. That is not an exaggeration. https://t.co/SvUb4I4WYU

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 27, 2018

Today, the Senate will vote on whether to advance one of Trump's most controversial court picks, Thomas Farr.

Farr helped draft NC's voter suppression law, defended racist gerrymandering + may have lied to senators about aiding Jesse Helms in disenfranchising black voters. https://t.co/5DBhsLwJ2f

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 26, 2018

Thomas Farr’s record of hostility to voting rights & civil rights disqualifies him for a lifetime appointment as a judge. That’s why @staceyabrams and I are calling on every Senator who reveres our democracy to reject his nomination. https://t.co/3pAymqoCki

— Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) November 27, 2018

Sen. Susan Collins told me she would support the district court nomination of Thomas Farr, saying she met with him and he alleviated her concerns, while also noting the American Bar Association’s position on him — a big boost for GOP with his nomination hanging by a thread

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 27, 2018

Here is a link to that previously unreleased DOJ "j-memo," obtained by the Post: https://t.co/988QicBPpK https://t.co/nEODdLl4c1

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 28, 2018

Right wing conspiracy – the mother fleeing tear gas photo was staged

The conspiracy theorists can’t accept the truth.

examples (and there are more if you search Twitter for fake photo):

Word to the #Media.

Next time you want to stage a fake photo-up of an Hispanic mother and her kids running from tear gas, don't put her in a Disney "Frozen" shirt and don't put the 5 year old's in diapers.

Something about Disney doesn't scream, "starving 3rd world." pic.twitter.com/KW1WflZPIl

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 26, 2018

Hey Fake News we are on to you. You are wasting your time trying to divide America. We are stronger and better than that!

Hoaxed: The 'Illegal Alien Mom with Barefoot Kids' Photo was a Setup – Another Staged #FakeNews Production

https://t.co/dBIZHGZpQW via @gatewaypundit

— ❌GuysForTrump❌ (@GaysForTrumpFL) November 26, 2018

the facts:

Dear Trump supporters,

This is a real photograph. NOT a fake. The photographer is Kim Kyung-Hoon. The news agency is @Reuters. Reuters was founded in 1851. You know almost a hundred years before Trump. They are a news agency. Not the ghost and goblins deep state. THIS HAPPENED. pic.twitter.com/5HpJ923YuU

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 26, 2018

A conspiracy theory bubbling in right-wing media today: The idea that the widely-circulated photo of a migrant woman with two children at the border was "hoaxed" or "staged." pic.twitter.com/Padb9xynLu

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 26, 2018

A photograph of a woman and two children in diapers fleeing a smoking tear gas canister at the U.S.-Mexico border has prompted outrage at American authorities and the Trump administration https://t.co/30LPCAHrjP

— NYT National News (@NYTNational) November 27, 2018

We need a president who understands climate change is real

What a moron!

I think everyone in the world except Trump and his cult understand that climate change is a problem requiring immediate action.

update 11/27/18

Trump says he is among those who 'have very high levels of intelligence' but are not 'believers' in climate change https://t.co/9weQ3Nf2vB

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 28, 2018

BREAKING: Trump on dire warning issued by his administration on economic effects of climate change: 'I don't believe it'

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 26, 2018

BREAKING: "I don't believe it."

President Trump passively rejects the findings of the major new US government multi-agency report that says climate change will wallop the US economy in years to come. https://t.co/YdptYPKn20 pic.twitter.com/hJx7IA0S5F

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 26, 2018

This report contained too many facts, and not enough alternative facts.
So he buried it.
It is time for Congress to bury this presidency. He's a disgrace.

Donald Trump buried a climate change report he doesn't believe @CNNPolitics https://t.co/YBICU7h0AN

— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) November 26, 2018

‘It’s Accepted Science’: Shepard Smith Hits GOP, Trump For Making Climate Change a ‘Political Issue’ https://t.co/OrSSbVr4qr pic.twitter.com/mMWAylMEVd

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 26, 2018

Why did Trump admin release the climate report on black Friday? Because they don’t want you to know the devastating effects of their failure to address climate change.

Any infrastructure package considered by Congress next year MUST invest in clean energy and climate resiliency.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 26, 2018

Trump will leave many terrible legacies. But undermining climate policy for profit and ego satisfaction is the sin for which future generations will truly curse his name. https://t.co/D079wUVIoy

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 26, 2018

Soon to be overheard in elementary schools across America:

Teacher: “Jimmy, you got an F on your science test. Did you even read the assignment?”

Jimmy: “Yes. I just don’t believe it.” https://t.co/SxfsdeRV9l

— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) November 27, 2018

ICYMI
Do you think the United States is doing enough to address climate change, doing too much, or do you think more needs to be done to address climate change?
Doing enough 18%
Doing too much 10%
Needs to do more 64%
(Quinnipiac U. Poll, 8/9-13/18)https://t.co/SbYaMCuW9R

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) November 26, 2018

Almost two-thirds of voters say the US needs to be doing more to address climate change, according to a poll by Quinnipiac University https://t.co/SDI2Ulunbk pic.twitter.com/5nYhbDhpH5

— CNN (@CNN) November 26, 2018

President Trump buried a climate change report he doesn't believe | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/PE7XGkzikM pic.twitter.com/4pk1pQWceU

— CNN (@CNN) November 26, 2018

Rick Santorum skeptical of climate change research: "A lot of these scientists are driven by the money."

As a PhD who went to graduate school and eventually left academia because research funding was at an all time low, I can say this is the dumbest statement ever.

— Devin Duke (@sirDukeDevin) November 26, 2018

update 11/27/18

Sarah Sanders responds to Trump saying he doesn't believe a federal report that climate change will impact the economy: "We think that this the most extreme version and it's not based on facts … it's based on modeling which is extremely hard to do" https://t.co/wcQ6ydSciD pic.twitter.com/EVCpomUHIY

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 27, 2018

CNN airs live ‘Facts First’ graphic contradicting Sarah Huckabee Sanders on climate change https://t.co/9DCiv5G721 pic.twitter.com/40kr2sTZ83

— UPROXX (@UPROXX) November 27, 2018

Massive staff reductions at General Motors

Looks like they were partly caused by Trump’s tariffs. Now he is threatening GM.

Is Trump to blame for GM’s 15,000 layoffs? https://t.co/stjSGKAeMf pic.twitter.com/dp50dIbRxG

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) November 26, 2018

from the article:

GM may have been forced to restructure to accommodate a changing market regardless of whether Trump instituted tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, but the effect these tariffs — and the threat of potential tariffs on all imported automobiles — exacerbated the pressure to do so. GM announced on Monday that Trump’s tariffs have cost the company $1 billion, and that while they are not directly responsible for the layoffs, they are among the “headwinds,” as Barra put it on a conference call, that the company is facing as it struggles to remain profitable.

Donald Trump never cared about the men and women who build cars in places like Michigan and Ohio. He lied to them. He made promises he could not keep. Now, the plants are closing and the workers are looking at the prospect of a future without work. ⁦ https://t.co/vsTlaflgEv

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) November 26, 2018

“If I’m elected you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that.”
— Donald Trump addressing MI autoworkers 2016

5 plants to close, 14K layoffs
— GM 2018 https://t.co/jZ779dXdCg

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) November 26, 2018

In June, General Motors warned of the "fallout within the auto industry" from the @realDonaldTrump tariffs.

GM also said the tariffs "risked 'undermining GM’s competitiveness against foreign auto producers by erecting broad brush trade barriers that increase our global costs.'” https://t.co/5ULO3Ipbau

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 26, 2018

How the GM layoffs rank among the auto industry’s biggest job cuts: https://t.co/wJQd29jrHD pic.twitter.com/uxP4URS0gf

— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) November 26, 2018

President Trump's economic moves fail to prevent GM closures https://t.co/SJBQfCP1n3 pic.twitter.com/a93EqHEGFY

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 27, 2018

Trump blasts GM for plans to close Ohio factory: “You’re playing around with the wrong person” https://t.co/tp4FxUlYu9 pic.twitter.com/GLpeTci5tu

— The Hill (@thehill) November 26, 2018

The GM layoffs are another victory for capital over laborhttps://t.co/xOMd23XBgm pic.twitter.com/ojDKqXjnpY

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 26, 2018

General Motors plans to halt production at 3 assembly plants in Canada, Ohio, and Michigan by not allocating new products, Reuters reports.

Cost pressures have increased. GM also has said Trump-imposed tariffs on imported steel have cost it $1 billion.https://t.co/h2Bzl0DlAM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 26, 2018

Remember the conservative freakout about Obama's "gangster government" for bailing out GM? Since then, Republicans elected an almost literal mob boss. Today he threatened GM not to screw up a swing state for him: https://t.co/IJVx5PVpVi

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 26, 2018

General Motors plans to halt production at 3 assembly plants in Canada, Ohio, and Michigan by not allocating new products, Reuters reports.

Cost pressures have increased. GM also has said Trump-imposed tariffs on imported steel have cost it $1 billion.https://t.co/h2Bzl0DlAM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 26, 2018

Covers: I Want to Take You Higher

Tina Turner’s birthday reminded me of “I Want to Take You Higher”. The great original version was by Sly and the Family Stone from 1969. Ike and Tina Turner covered it in 1970. The Ike and Tina version hit #34 on Billboard while the Sly single hit #38 in 1970.

If you didn’t see Sly and the Family Stone in their prime, you missed one of the best bands of the era. I saw them in 1969 and 1971 and they were much better than their records. They were so loud, they made the built-in hockey rink wall in the Philadelphia Spectrum vibrate. They were great in the film Woodstock too.

This is the album version which is longer than the single:

The 45 version:

Look at the amazing dancing by Tina and the Ikettes before the song:

Ike and Tina Turner – River Deep Mountain High

Really just Tina

A great video for a great performance of a great song.

Tina Turner made this one of greatest love songs of all time and this mysterious, artistic, I would even say avant-garde, promo has haunted me (in a good way) since I first saw it. Always wondered who shot it. Happy Birthday to the goddess, Tina Turner. https://t.co/ibxalkiS8Q

— Kim Morgan (@SunsetGunShot) November 27, 2018

other later versions:

Trump’s tariffs are causing Ford layoffs

24,000 Ford workers could lose their jobs thanks to Trump’s tariffs. They are also affecting other auto companies and their workers.

How many more tens of thousands of US auto workers must lose their jobs over @realDonaldTrump's stupid tariffs? Ford has already lost 24,000. New auto tariffs threaten tens of thousands more workers in six states that he won in 2016. Forget about 2020. https://t.co/KghSL1icWn

— So-called Dave (@DavidWetherell) November 14, 2018

Trump tariff, China trade war: Ford, BMW, automakers feeling pain https://t.co/NJw39QTkpZ

— Gregory Dale Holland (@GregDHolland) November 24, 2018

GM is offering buyouts and talking layoffs. The company should also be worrying about morale, experts say. https://t.co/UKXcgljtYD pic.twitter.com/wqXynPbpnE

— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) November 21, 2018

happy tax cut day GM workers https://t.co/gSv5JxdDX7

— jenifer daniels 🧘🏾‍♀️ (@jentrification) November 20, 2018

GM Offers Buyouts to 18,000 Workers, Months After Warning About Layoffs Over Trump's Tariffs https://t.co/6IXHjEu4gg

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) November 1, 2018

Tariffs on auto imports will hurt our workforce here in Alabama, plain and simple. I'm calling on the Trump Administration to reconsider before they drive jobs out of our state. https://t.co/p135RKu1sE

— Rep. Terri A. Sewell (@RepTerriSewell) November 19, 2018

Dealing with Trump’s lies

Three years into the Trump era, mainstream media outlets continue to blast out his lies to millions of people without pointing out they're not true. https://t.co/VPKS4ADh6m

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 12, 2018

Have Trump’s lies desensitized the American people?@BretStephensNYT @K_JeanPierre @KimberlyEAtkins @JonLemire w/ @NicolleDWallace https://t.co/VV2VvpvOXo

— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) November 23, 2018

My Sunday column, posted early, argues that we in the media have to ask ourselves the same tough questions we ask Facebook. Too often we've allowed Pres Trump and others to use our platforms to spread lies to manipulate voters. https://t.co/jwQk0I8mRJ Read and post your thoughts.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) November 23, 2018

Trump's lies are a virus, for which the news media has become an unwitting host. They can do better, argues @DKThomp https://t.co/hmKQ7cJWHw

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 25, 2018

Marvin Gaye stamp coming in 2019

Check out my new US Postage Stamp! Coming in 2019. Marvin Gaye.
With this new stamp in the Music Icons series, the U.S. Postal Service honors Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) — the “Prince of Soul” by @KadirNelson #marvingaye #kadirnelson #stamps #motown pic.twitter.com/PwXvqfDWeg

— Kadir Nelson (@KadirNelson) November 20, 2018