https://t.co/GHOCz8KtDE My comments about Trump's use of presidential power in the campaign. @PrincetonSPIA @jonallendc
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) September 15, 2020
Month: September 2020
Pro-Trump troll farm
Fascinating reporting on how Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group, has built a troll farm to secretly enlist teenagers in spreading Trump talking points and disinformation designed to evade social media guardrails. An @isaacstanbecker scoop —> https://t.co/2WrAdHKdcR
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 15, 2020
Trump supporters may get violent if he loses
He’s trying to make sure they think he can’t lose unless there is fraud. Disgraceful and dangerous.
“Trump isn’t actually running for re-election—or at least not running in the traditional manner…It is not a campaign to persuade the public…It’s a campaign to hold on to power using every tool available to him as president of the United States.” https://t.co/aH4oevmRkK
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 15, 2020
Eric Trump is currently on Sean Hannity's radio show claiming that his father will win New Jersey (!) unless the Democrats do fraud. https://t.co/PDLaOk30jk
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 15, 2020
In case you don't have enough to worry about, Trump has laid the groundwork for a period of violence if Joe Biden becomes president: https://t.co/4UiKIqFOk9
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) September 15, 2020
Trump just declared once again on Fox News that the outcome of the election cannot be legitimate if he loses. This is the third time he's made this claim explicit. Yet the political media just seems to largely tolerate it. That's insane. New piece:https://t.co/6eGo2DizV1
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 15, 2020
Mouchette is coming to Blu-ray
Robert Bresson‘s great Mouchette (1967)will be released on Blu-ray by Criterion on Decemeber 8, 2020. I wish they would release his next two films (his first in color) Une Femme Douce (1969) and Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971). They have never been on Region A DVDs or Blu-ray discs. Une Femme Douce was on VHS.
Trump tells four lies in one sentence
This is an amazing achievement, even for him. Sad!
No, donations to Jill McCabe's 2015 campaign weren't illegal.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2020
No, Hillary Clinton didn't make the donations.
No, Andrew McCabe didn't get the donations.
No, Andrew McCabe wasn't head of the FBI at the time.
Fact check of ONE SENTENCE of a Trump tweet: https://t.co/niNohzI0SK
That is a lot of falsehoods.
— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) September 12, 2020
1) $675,000 to wife’s unsuccessful state sen campaign
2) NOT from Clinton. From a PAC controlled by Terry McAuliffe, clinton pal
3) came in 2015 when HRC was NOT under FBI investigation
4) McCabe was not running bureau at the time https://t.co/iN81GPHx58
Michael Caputo’s outrageous charges
Where does Trump find these crackpots?
Michael Caputo’s weekend statements were politically toxic. But his personal comments also revealed an isolated and despondent man. He should step down for the good of the country, but also for his own personal health. https://t.co/QsZfq149Xl
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) September 15, 2020
A top Trump health aide, without evidence, accused government scientists of “sedition.” He also warned of a left-wing revolt after the election. https://t.co/aVLRifkfs7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 14, 2020
A Trump political appointee accuses CDC scientists of “sedition.”
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 14, 2020
Trump’s allies have already undermined the FBI and DOJ. We can’t afford to have them drive out the public health professionals we need to manage this pandemic. https://t.co/r00jpedsgi
He tweeted the below and it sincerely took me a second to figure out who was talking. https://t.co/D2mxaUjB1T
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 14, 2020
Caputo… @HHSGov's top communication official: "When Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin…If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies & gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.” https://t.co/D6YSCWJNSD
— Daniel Kraft, MD (@daniel_kraft) September 14, 2020
You said everybody is aghast. Does this include any Republicans or just the rest of us? As you say, it's not far from what Trump says. The Republican Party is now a Trump cult. They won't disagree with Caputo.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 14, 2020
Selfish people who won’t wear masks
Selfish people ignoring science who don’t care about the health of everyone else.
One of the signs of Covid-19 is lack of taste. https://t.co/shG9pyyaQJ
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 16, 2020
*sigh*
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) September 12, 2020
Please let’s name her. I’m curious to read her statement of regret that is eventually coming. https://t.co/ejV3byQ0PS
From Trump's rally in Freeland, MI, last night:
— The Recount (@therecount) September 11, 2020
CNN's Jim Acosta: "Why are you not wearing your mask?"
Rallygoer: "Because there's no COVID. It's a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America."
It gets even worse. pic.twitter.com/4c3KPqbYEO
"You have no authority over me!"
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 30, 2020
That's the battle cry of all these guys. You're not the boss of me. https://t.co/DIzGRcUqon
Assaulting a worker who is enforcing face mask policies can now be prosecuted as aggravated battery in Illinois – a felony charge. https://t.co/im33CRtBmD
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 17, 2020
A teen working at a children's theme park in Pennsylvania was punched in the face for enforcing the park's face mask policy, police say https://t.co/1LiCyQEWdO
— CNN (@CNN) August 12, 2020
This is entirely the fault of Trump and the GOP. They spent months encouraging this behavior https://t.co/5A3WTGTVOB
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) August 11, 2020
In case @WyndhamHotels monitors its Twitter feed, you should know the LaQuinta at Central & Meadow in Dallas is having trouble enforcing the mask policy. Big percent of guests only wear them when they pass the front desk. No masks in elevators & hallways. Staff feels helpless.
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) August 30, 2020
The crowd at Trump’s NH rally just booed an announcement telling people to put on their masks
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) August 28, 2020
The CDC advises retail and restaurant workers not to argue with customers who refuse to wear masks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirushttps://t.co/VqwnqlTnX9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 26, 2020
. @flotus now shaking hands and talking closely with the 30 or so children at the art event, also hugging some of them. No masks on Melania Trump or the children.
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) August 24, 2020
A White House East Wing official tells me they were tested this morning. But the no-mask message is evident. pic.twitter.com/y52LDnRzmE
So we ask a guy, who is standing with his little kid and older father, if they could put on masks. His response: “You must be voting for Biden.” Our country was driven into a ditch. Supporters of the driver cheer him rather than listen to those trying to get us out of the ditch.
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) August 15, 2020
Marion County, Fla., Sheriff Billy Woods bans deputies from wearing face masks https://t.co/3ja8eYIDOj
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) August 12, 2020
Death cult.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 11, 2020
The thing is, they know they're wrong. It's not enough for them to reject wearing masks, they want *you* to *affirm* them in it because the last little bit of rationality in them is making them feel humiliated and it's intolerable to them. https://t.co/YeIj7QHcpa
American men are still resisting wearing masks. The problem, experts say, is they’re afraid of looking weak. https://t.co/6quqUxyIS9
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 10, 2020
Why do the people who won’t wear a mask for other people care if people won’t stand for the anthem for other people?
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) August 10, 2020
Many Americans don’t just dislike masks — they see them as a fundamental intrusion on their personal liberties, and don’t believe the pandemic is nearly as bad as scientists say it is. Anti-maskers share why they're anti-mask: https://t.co/DQcKZiLjkw
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 9, 2020
The arguments anti-mask advocates use are nearly identical to what anti–seat belt lobbyists used https://t.co/SJgyuT6NfE
— CNN (@CNN) August 8, 2020
If you've ever wondered, "what the hell are anti-mask people thinking???" @EmilyStewartM talked to nearly a dozen of them to find out, including a Florida State rep and a woman banned from her local Menards. https://t.co/9f1wfVdnhw
— Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) August 7, 2020
She’s not a whiz https://t.co/CpnGgh25Dn
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 19, 2020
White anti-mask protesters jeered a black pastor demanding Tulsa race massacre reparations https://t.co/RdLJ8Ph0JI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 18, 2020
A defining characteristic of the virus surge across the Sunbelt from FL/GA to TX/AZ: GOP Govs, following Trump's cues, who have prevented local Ds from acting as caseloads soar: "Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks." https://t.co/Mws1oKWpd9
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 16, 2020
Georgia's Gov Kemp is demanding Georgians not wear masks. This is frightening. https://t.co/vgg9gmvbxY
— Touré (@Toure) July 16, 2020
A middle-aged man in a Make America Great Again hat — and no mask — walked into a Kansas City BBQ. When chided by employees, the man said he had an exemption to the mask order: He then lifted up his shirt, revealing a gun in a holster on his hip. #moleg https://t.co/ENx3kRZu4B
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 13, 2020
imagine the pathology that’d be ascribed to black people if they were behaving like this in such large numbers. https://t.co/XOwN2j7S77
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) July 13, 2020
The mask culture war has got to be one of the dumbest and most destructive political/cultural disputes in modern American political history. And we're continuing to pay the price.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 11, 2020
Ohio man in his 30s dies from Covid two months after vowing to not wear mask and dismissing them as “damn hype” https://t.co/v1Z6x9z96R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 11, 2020
Yet, the stereotype is that Black women are angry. Go figure. https://t.co/r13WQlXojk
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) July 11, 2020
Fox News contributor Dan Bongino declared this week that he “will not comply” with his county’s mandatory mask orders, boasting on his podcast that he will tell those mandating masks amid a deadly pandemic to “shove it right up your ass”https://t.co/jIpU5NjMX2
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 9, 2020
Retail workers are being pulled into the latest culture war: Getting customers to wear masks https://t.co/6s5p18aq5U
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 9, 2020
Tucker Carlson, who said “masks work,” now claims they have “no basis” in science https://t.co/P0ry2PsBrT
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 8, 2020
On the first day of Oregon’s statewide mask order, a group of Oregon State troopers refused to wear face coverings inside a Corvallis coffee shop despite being asked to so.
— Shane D. Kavanaugh (@shanedkavanaugh) July 2, 2020
“F— [Gov.] Kate Brown,” one of the troopers reportedly said. There’s video, too. https://t.co/Lt8kIPxDCK
NYPD cop calls straphanger a male Karen when asked why he isn't wearing a mask https://t.co/rjhq7jDaoI via @nypmetro
— Patrick LaForge (@palafo) September 16, 2020
Claims that cloth masks offer 0% protection are false. While mask effectiveness varies, medical experts say that the benefits are greatest when face coverings are used in conjunction with other practices, such as social distancing. https://t.co/8aK1Yuu5sK
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 3, 2020
"Sometimes, if you try to convince them on the benefits of wearing a mask, it does feel like you’re talking to a brick wall sometimes,” Rep. Ami Bera says of trying to convince some fellow members of Congress to wear face coverings inside the Capitol https://t.co/5PYrcjF8JB
— POLITICO (@politico) December 9, 2020
Republican sabotage in Minnesota
They’ve done similar things in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina when Democratic governors were elected.
Are national reporters aware what's happening in Minnesota?
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 11, 2020
Because we have a Dem governor, the Senate is beheading state agencies one by one, knocking off commissioners once a month as an act of sabotage. Today they're removing the Commerce Commissioner. https://t.co/gzAv2Yh65M
Steve Kelley, Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce and champion for the transition to a clean energy future was fired by the Minnesota Senate for doing his job.@FreshEnergy’s public statement:https://t.co/inoV2OgDX9
— Michael Noble (@NobleIdeas) September 11, 2020
On a 33-31 vote, the GOP-led Minnesota Senate ousted Commerce Commissioner Steve Kelley, the second state agency head in two months to get the boot. https://t.co/UAV1ArN8Vi
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) September 11, 2020
Trump’s Opportunity Zone scam
just another way to help rich people
From @strickdc and @ReporterBlayne Trump says Opportunity Zones have created thousands of jobs, but experts say most investment has been in real estate deals that don't create long-term jobs. https://t.co/cPEeashE2f
— NBC Investigations (@NBCInvestigates) September 12, 2020
“Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, pushed for Opportunity Zone tax breaks to be included in Trump's 2017 tax overhaul. The breaks offer investors big cuts in capital gains taxes”
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 5, 2020
Value went from $5 m 3yrs ago to $25m
But Hunter Biden nothing. https://t.co/LUENNEUB4h
On the same day Kushner cashes in on the "opportunity zone" scam, Trump touts it as a huge favor for black America https://t.co/ytDDFrf2zD
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) March 5, 2020
Treasury watchdog probing Trump administration's Opportunity Zone program
— Cameron Lewis (@yoURDATAisyours) September 12, 2020
Entire program is a real estate tax scam for wealthy investors
Trump friends & family (Kushner) have reaped tax benefits.
https://t.co/y7j5jaTq9n via @nbcnews
Shameless LIES!
— Sylvia Cox (Take 2 … ) (@CoxTake) August 30, 2020
This ONLY benefited your greedy family and your rich, greedy corporate cronies.
Opportunity Zone knocks: Kushner-linked firm buys hot real estate under program that is SUPPOSED to be for the poor.
#TrumpFailure #TrumpRiots https://t.co/NGA8WPZUbl
1) Opportunity Zone has been a benefit for wealthy investors like the Kushner Family.https://t.co/c8VghubrnO
— DawnO (@dmol79) September 12, 2020
2)I find no info regarding trump personally donating to Black Colleges. Please cite your source.
3)Biden’s crime bill was 26yrs ago. I’m sure he will make revisions.
Hogan has hurt Baltimore
Killing the Red Line was a terrible decision.
Five years ago, Gov. Larry Hogan canceled the $2.9 billion Red Line, scrapping a project touted as a windfall of jobs, development and environmental sustainability, especially for some of the city’s Black neighborhoods. https://t.co/91k4Juriz3
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) September 11, 2020
Just one of the devastating consequences of killing the Red Line: ‘A Baltimore transit passenger could get to only 11% of the region’s jobs within an hour in 2014.. By 2018, after BaltimoreLink, they could reach only 9% within an hour.’ https://t.co/jPlcTcDQ4w by @cmcampbell6
— Jean Marbella (@Jean_Marbella) September 11, 2020
Good for @cmcampbell6 and the Sun for publishing this comprehensive piece on @GovLarryHogan's decision to kill the Red Line, which will no doubt go down as one of the most consequential and racist decisions in the history of urban planning. 1/2 https://t.co/jPyvQrClek
— (((Evan Serpick))) (@Serps) September 11, 2020
It’s fashionable for many to dunk on #Baltimore w/o understanding the deliberate disinvestment that has disabled revitalization of the city. The cancellation of the Red Line 5yrs ago was an outrage. We sued. The investigation was killed by the Trump DOT. https://t.co/URKZdud6dr
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 11, 2020
Hogan killed the Red Line—and then used money that had been headed to Baltimore to enrich himself, spending it on highway and road projects near his company’s properties. via @monthly @EricCortellessa https://t.co/0l34m1NZ2L
— Indivisible Baltimore (@indivisible410) September 12, 2020
Sad! 