Republican voter suppression

The Trump campaign is contacting local election offices, telling them to ignore their states' election laws –>

“The NC Republican Party advises you to not follow the procedures,” Trump campaign operative Heather Ford wrote in an emailhttps://t.co/NkwkN8KPej
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 5, 2020

Ohio GOP has made it so that there is only 1 early voting location & 1 location to drop off mail ballots per county, regardless of population size. Dem counties are much bigger than GOP ones. Heavily Dem Franklin (1.3 million people) has the same as heavily GOP Vinton (13,000) https://t.co/AlGvQr9TsY
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) October 6, 2020

John Oliver urged Americans to come up with a concrete voting plan after breaking down the ways President Donald Trump and other Republicans are trying to suppress votes or undermine confidence in the results https://t.co/joMaIcd5KN pic.twitter.com/cRkf9g4pzP
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 5, 2020

BREAKING: Conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November presidential election, Michigan authorities said https://t.co/ux04qFxHIb
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020

More voter suppression. Still think your vote doesn’t matter? https://t.co/xEhQpL5GB9
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) October 1, 2020

This is very bad. Donald Trump Jr. is now telling supporters that millions of mail ballots *will inevitably* be fraudulent, as part of a plot to "steal the election." Let's be clear: This is an effort to create cover for mass voter suppression. New piece:https://t.co/lgUdk8DpLz
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 22, 2020

NEW: Colorado's Secretary of State @JenaGriswold tells me she urged @USPS not to send postcards she says contain "misinformation" about voting in Colo.

USPS did it anyway.

Now, she is suing LOUIS DeJOY & USPS, alleging an "attempt at voter suppression." https://t.co/IYSsaeLfKT
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 12, 2020

Colorado is suing Dejoy and the @USPS for making false statements to Colorado voters–including military voters– that will result in voter suppression.

It's only September… pic.twitter.com/tlDUQ99pdy
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 12, 2020

The results are astonishing. Of the more than 300,000 names that were purged from the rolls — nearly 4% of the total number of registered voters in the state — the study discovered that 198,351 Georgia voters were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error rate. https://t.co/QgkbIMD67I
— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) September 4, 2020

BREAKING: New expert analysis of GA long-lines during primary shows outrageous racial disparity:

➡️Average minimum voting wait time in the evening in minority areas was 51 minutes.

➡️In white areas, the average was 6 minutes.

This is why we sued and why we must win! pic.twitter.com/lpHghKOEwq
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 2, 2020

“The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration, when in fact they never moved…” https://t.co/vvGFoQAI2a
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) September 2, 2020

Trump is moving in unprecedented ways to suppress voting by any means (including Election Day intimidation). But as on many fronts he's not a departure 4 GOP but a culmination of red state voter ID, closing polls, limiting early vote etc since John Roberts eviscerated #VRA in 13
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 23, 2020

Hi yes the GOP was under a 36 year restriction from that kind of active voter suppression under the guise of “security.” @TheDemocrats @DNC @DNCWarRoom and @ACLU and state AGs must challenge this in court IMMEDIATELY.https://t.co/IdL8rjHAKR
— Locke's Valentine (@LockeUnfiltered) August 21, 2020

This is extremely disturbing voter suppression

In 1980s GOP placed police officers at black & Hispanic precincts in NJ to intimidate voters of color. That led to 30 year consent decree against party

Now Trump campaign recruiting 50,000 poll watchers to challenge Dems at polls https://t.co/bEg5nGeR0c
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 21, 2020

“Trump believes that his unfounded claims about mail voting are enough to discourage voters — that he can use the presidential ‘bully pulpit’ to achieve vote suppression" https://t.co/0SUvwYgr4c
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 17, 2020

Facebook remove Trump post and Twitter adds warning label

Trump’s lies about the virus are dangerous.

Facebook has removed a post from President Trump in which he falsely claimed that Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu https://t.co/C4XmsNW9hr
— CNN (@CNN) October 6, 2020

Facebook removed a @realDonaldTrump post comparing COVID-19 to the flu this morning while Twitter has flagged it & hidden the post behind a warning. The closer we get to the election, the more the censorship. Expect them to deplatform Trump by Nov. 3rd. https://t.co/DUyRyHlesB pic.twitter.com/XXQBPOFgqp
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) October 6, 2020

Twitter and Facebook flag "misleading and potentially harmful" Trump COVID post https://t.co/jMx9N0zA7a pic.twitter.com/QG9dkgxADq
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 6, 2020

Facebook removes Trump Covid-19 post, Twitter labels it as "misleading and potentially harmful" but leaves it up.

The latest: https://t.co/MUlChm5ZBo pic.twitter.com/4MkvnZjEGL
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 6, 2020

Facebook has removed a post from President Trump that made a false claim about COVID-19, saying it violated their rules against harmful misinformation.

Twitter added a warning label to Trump's tweet but didn't take it down.https://t.co/Zk2oECByer
— NPR (@NPR) October 6, 2020

FB & Twitter need to do much more of this!https://t.co/Cv0XHVVaei
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 6, 2020

Twitter has placed a label on Trump’s tweet saying it breaks the company’s rules on “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19.”
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) October 6, 2020

Facebook is letting Trump's campaign run ads where he says he may be "immune" to COVID-19 now. The ads are targeting 13 specific states: FL, PA, OH, WI, MI, NC, GA, IA, AZ, MN, ME, NE, & NV. pic.twitter.com/G1bvZ71SGj
— Natalie Martinez (@natijomartinez) October 6, 2020

Facebook is still letting Trump do this. How can he say he’s immune? Liar!

Vaccine polls update 10/6/20

Wow:

69% of Americans don't have confidence in Trump vouching for a coronavirus vaccine, new ABC/Ipsos poll finds. Only 27% have confidence in him:https://t.co/NYxcG0BdMl

Reupping this piece and thread on how Trump completely destroyed his own credibility on this matter: https://t.co/eRQTl3y5yH
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 20, 2020

It’s bizarre that Trump thinks getting a vaccine out by Nov 3 will help him.

His voters, per CNN poll, are much more skeptical of vaccine now, only 41% would get it (vs. Biden voters 60%).

Overall. trust in vaccine from has dropped dramatically. No one trust this admin.
— Michelangelo Signorile, subscribe to my newsletter (@MSignorile) October 6, 2020

A recent poll found that even fewer African Americans would be willing to get a COVID vaccine than White or Hispanic people. Less than 30% of Black people said they would be willing to take the vaccine compared to 51% of White and 56% of Hispanic people.https://t.co/saFBEikrO2
— Children's Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) September 28, 2020

The share of Americans who say they would get vaccinated for the coronavirus has declined sharply since earlier this year. https://t.co/SpYEnP5yRh pic.twitter.com/Ec6P0NEQCr
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 22, 2020

Cunningham is hardly alone on this. Only 42% of Americans say they'd get a vaccine if one is available before 11/3; 62% would worry it was not safe or effective. https://t.co/56ifGhRDb1 https://t.co/kuOK5oCtPF
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) September 14, 2020

The biggest thing missing in the Covid-19 vaccine development process is the public's trust. https://t.co/8gprBx5aZ0
— Brian Resnick (@B_resnick) September 4, 2020

White supremacists are the deadliest US terror threat

DHS: White supremacists = deadliest US domestic terror threat:

“I am concerned about any form of violent extremism. However, I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks” -Sec Wolf
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 6, 2020

White supremacist extremists remain the deadliest domestic terror threat to the US, according to the Department of Homeland Security's first annual homeland threat assessment https://t.co/PoFyXYZJf3
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) October 6, 2020

#SCOOP More from Homeland Threat Assessment 2020 first obtained @CBSNews https://t.co/zqVo4qOo9B While report found white supremacist groups have killed more people than any other “DVE” group, Acting Secretary Wolf said report is "also very clear to call out anarchist threats"
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) October 6, 2020

In its first-ever "Homeland Threat Assessment," DHS identifies white supremacists as posing the "most persistent and lethal threat" of all domestic violent extremist groups https://t.co/iIaI7bXWra
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) October 6, 2020

Political ads do work

I was wondering about this. Campaigns are raising obscene amounts of money (which could be used instead to offset the damage caused by the virus crisis). I’m still going to give more money to causes like food banks than politicians.

I think that people know Biden and Trump well and most people have made up their minds already.

Cool paper on the impact of TV ads:

a) They work!
b) Efficacy is higher downballot than in presidential races
c) Little evidence of diminishing returns
d) Good evidence that early ad spending is largely wasted because ad effects fade out https://t.co/0g3MpaICUc
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 5, 2020

Job losses related to the coronavirus

Among the unemployed, the number of people who have permanently lost their jobs has more than doubled in the last six months, the fastest pace of increase on record. https://t.co/gRjjKNx5gn
— CNN (@CNN) October 5, 2020

Wow. This is such an unequal recovery.

Barely a third of jobs are back for African-American men and women compared to 60% for white men and women.

Jobs recovered:
Black men: 34%
Black women: 39%
Hispanic: 55%
Asian: 59%
White men: 60%
White women: 60%

Chart by @andrewvandam pic.twitter.com/yNjq77Jym8
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) October 2, 2020

Trump has not brought coal back

another lie, another failure

JUST POSTED: President Trump seized on coal miners as powerful symbol of the working class during 2016 campaign against Clinton, promising to revive coal industry & bring jobs back. He failed. NYT takes a deep look at this failure & the people left behind. https://t.co/j9QXu16Khn
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 5, 2020

Trump bashes Biden for working to kill coal jobs, then says he, Trump, put the miners back to work and saved the industry.

Here is the chart. There are 5,300 fewer coal mining jobs than there were when Trump took office. As of January, it was a Trump-era gain of…100 jobs. pic.twitter.com/V86bvvyKxV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2020

Fact-checking Trump’s claim in Pa. that he’s ‘putting our great coal miners back to work' https://t.co/pBPbdsLCsa
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) October 14, 2020

The coal industry comes tumbling down in the American West – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Covers: Nadine

“Nadine” (1964) was Chuck Berry’s first release after he got out of jail in 1963. The records Berry recorded right after his release are among his best – “No Particular Way to Go”, “Promised Land” and best of all, “You Never Can Tell”. There are several cover versions but none were popular singles.

How to clean face masks

CDC guidance

How to Clean a Cloth Mask, According to Doctors

Yeah, you have to clean it. https://t.co/LNDoaDzunH
— Men's Health Mag (@MensHealthMag) October 2, 2020

How to Clean Your Cloth Face Mask: https://t.co/gFWzmRLmHd via @wordpressdotcom #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #healthylifestyle
— Oldham Co. Extension (@oldham_co) September 30, 2020

#FaceMaskFacts
Keeping your mask clean is key to protecting yourself and others from #COVID19. Learn more about how to handle and care for your mask at https://t.co/P5ejp4iWkM. pic.twitter.com/74b9yESaWj
— Rhode Island Department of Health (@RIHEALTH) September 12, 2020

Face mask etiquette: How often should you change or clean? Best ones? https://t.co/ORL2wb1Gte
— The Points Guy (@thepointsguy) September 12, 2020

How should I clean and store my face mask? It should be washed regularly.https://t.co/PfsRHekITK
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 2, 2020

Face mask do's and don'ts that can help slow the spread of COVID-19. Experts answer key questions about how to clean and store face masks. @nkagetsu @EvanKirstel @NathanGrunewald @GraceCordovano @DrLindaMD @iamzapgirl @LouisSerge @rstraxMD @drchrysopoulo https://t.co/Hh3k1QyIo4
— Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeissman) August 25, 2020

Covers: Seven Year Ache

“Seven Year Ache” by Rosanne Cash is the title track of her 1981 album. Trisha Yearwood covered it in 2001 with Cash on background vocals. It’s not a bad cover but doesn’t add anything.

The Paranoid Style covered it in 2022.