Deceptive anti-Biden video

It was altered. More lies. Sad!

From @donie: the latest in the long series of videos dishonestly altered to make Biden look confused was viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter. https://t.co/PDHkWciCRi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 2, 2020

That video people are sharing of Biden saying “Hello Minnesota” in front of a sign saying Tampa is doctored.

He was in Minnesota. The sign has been altered to say Tampa.

See 28:30 here:https://t.co/ZqK3dV2tkV
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 1, 2020

Biden picture without a mask was from 2019

Another lie

There’s a reason Joe Biden was on a plane without a mask in a photo that’s circulating online: It was taken in 2019. Some social media users suggested the lack of a mask was hypocritical. But, as @AmandaSeitz reports, the photo predates the pandemic. https://t.co/m9dx8DLGQ4
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) November 2, 2020

A combined 27K RTs on photo from 2019 before there was a pandemic. These people tweet in all caps about fake news. pic.twitter.com/n8J9icJkyc
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) November 2, 2020

Trump campaign’s fake newspaper page

They lie about everything

It was supposed to illustrate why you can’t trust the media. But it really showed why you can’t trust anything coming out of Trump’s team. https://t.co/NVuLFuemrS
— Slate (@Slate) November 11, 2020

For younger readers who have been confused by the term “fake news…” this deleted tweet from a Trump campaign spokesman showing a doctored newspaper front page is a textbook example of actual “fake news.” The newspaper corrects the record below… pic.twitter.com/YutiE3sqmA
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 8, 2020

Can’t think of a more vivid illustration of the consequences of cloaking yourself in lies and misinformation. https://t.co/jGt9S0oKGW
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) November 8, 2020

Uhh, the Trump campaign plastered its headquarters with a fake newspaper front page that never existed, then its communications director tweeted out the image. (H/t to @KFILE) pic.twitter.com/1OmhOCEPbh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2020

Covers: Money (That’s What I Want)

The original version of “Money (That’s What I Want)” from 1959 was Motown’s first hit. I like early Motown records better than the later ones with strings – they are rougher R&B and less mainstream. I’ll take the Marvelettes over the Supremes any day. This song was co-written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford and sung by Barrett Strong. Strong is best known as a co-author of many Temptations records rather than as a performer. It’s a great song with a very simple theme – “I need money”.

The Beatles covered it in 1963. This is the best Beatles cover – John Lennon just screams it out. There was an odd cover by the Flying Lizards in 1979 and there are many other versions.

https://twitter.com/motown_museum/status/1619847909071261696?s=43&t=m6a0aIgiyhEYdCe0icWdww

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Sturgis is still part of the coronavirus increase

I continue to think the evidence for the Sturgis Motorcycle rally being one of the most disastrous public health events in decades is provisional but quite strong. https://t.co/GYfGE590h9
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 11, 2020

Read @bymarkwalker @jackhealyNYT from STURGIS >https://t.co/rtsC4viNnd
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 9, 2020

How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest https://t.co/cq1rp5qKp4
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 17, 2020

The Trump cult believes his lies about the election

70-80 percent of Republicans say in surveys that they don't believe Joe Biden legitimately won the election.

A question that's been nagging at me for a couple weeks: How many of them really mean it? https://t.co/c7C23xl5Oa
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) November 30, 2020

A grim new poll suggests that Trump's lies about the election are working with his base: 86 percent of Trump voters say Biden didn't legitimately win. https://t.co/Hp0TC3hVVl
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 11, 2020

Our latest YouGov/The Economist poll has a host of troubling findings about public confidence in the election.

Most shocking is that 86% of Trump voters say that Biden "did not legitimately win the election." 73% say that we'll "never know the real outcome of this election."
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 11, 2020

Trump’s Crazy and Confoundingly Successful Conspiracy Theory https://t.co/mWF040fIQn via @politico
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 13, 2020

I agree with Chief Justice Roberts on the ACA

I don’t agree with Roberts on much but he’s right on this one.

from the article linked to below:

“I think it’s hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act,” Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law. “I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that’s not our job,” Roberts added.

Roberts is right. Republicans are trying to get the court to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) since they failed in dozens of attempts to do it in Congress. It was passed as a law. If it is going to be repealed, it should be done the same way – by Congress.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that it wasn't the Supreme Court's role to invalidate the entire, 900-page Affordable Care Act, signaling the key parts of Obamacare will survive the latest court challenge https://t.co/mheVhIm6IA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 11, 2020

There was no widespread voter fraud

Trump and his cult are lying. The New York TImes investigation is very thorough.

🚨🚨🚨——> @nytimes reporters called election officials in almost every state:
They all said there was no evidence of voter fraud or other irregularities that affected the outcome of the presidential race.
By @NYTnickc @reidepstein @jimrutenberg https://t.co/7zbMHM6mYy
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) November 11, 2020

ICYMI, here's the op-ed by Todd Bice, a Republican and one of the most respected lawyers in Nevada who knows a little bit about election law:

"The current cries of voter fraud are the fraud"https://t.co/8BDNR6NdBc
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 10, 2020

A team of 28 international observers from the Organization of American States, invited by the Trump administration, issued a preliminary report in which it praised last week’s U.S. elections while criticizing baseless allegations of systematic fraud.https://t.co/stflqLeL0y
— Axios (@axios) November 10, 2020

An #APFactCheck finds President Trump is spreading false claims about voter fraud and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/MhocOHAq8P
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 11, 2020

.⁦@thekoreanvegan⁩ and I drop the hammer.

No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump’s Election-Fraud Claims – The Atlantic https://t.co/w6rH1eRW0V
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) November 11, 2020

A Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia says that he has not seen any evidence of widespread fraud: "I have seen the most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all" https://t.co/W4OychxSiA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 11, 2020

It looks like Republicans might have found one possible case of fraud — one ballot — in Nevada and even that remains unproven.

By comparison, Biden leads Trump by more than 36,000 votes in the state and nearly 5 million nationally. https://t.co/TGVEyz9FhN
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 11, 2020

I wrote a piece for The Washington Post on the way misinformation about the election results is being spread across social media under the guise of "statistical analysis."https://t.co/5QcHBtyKxZ
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) November 11, 2020

Election officials in red and blue states cite smooth election contrary to President Trump's baseless claims of fraud. https://t.co/x62tnWlq27
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 11, 2020

Note this on this #VeteransDay: GOP List of Alleged Voter Fraud in Nevada Contains Hundreds of Military Addresses https://t.co/dlMwxzOCDj
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 11, 2020

Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims https://t.co/s5MFhDPYhr
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) November 11, 2020

So far @realDonaldTrump has 16 losses and 0 wins in court because courts require evidence. You can’t just make stuff up & Trump’s lawyers are not going to risk being disbarred for lying. And higher courts won’t help @POTUS because once the judge makes findings of fact, it’s over. https://t.co/6aAqQOCdsU
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 11, 2020

"When it comes to claims about mass voter fraud, let's be clear. Trump supporters, you're being lied to."

—@JohnAvlon pic.twitter.com/3mCbnTpuPO
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 11, 2020

BREAKING: Trump lawsuit affidavits don't show proof of widespread fraud in Michigan https://t.co/SSGncRwOTL
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) November 11, 2020

The Republican National Committee, which has made a decision to go Trump-level dishonest, has delivered one of the most laughable fraud arguments of the week: https://t.co/KTuogtrhRW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 11, 2020

In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting https://t.co/jIZ0c2MOGv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

This is EXACTLY what is happening. The Trump campaign tried to suppress the Black vote and was unsuccessful. Now they want to discount their votes by claiming they were cast fraudulently. https://t.co/qzzutDZKnr
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) November 12, 2020

Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on 'extraordinary failure to understand how elections function' https://t.co/oGAmt30rJY pic.twitter.com/rkCopuzWh8
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 12, 2020

Election officials in every swing state say there's no evidence of voter fraud https://t.co/TMWg43F8cD
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 12, 2020

Fraudulent claims on dead voters

CNN just spoke with yet another Georgia voter Trump and Tucker Carlson falsely accused of fraudulently casting their ballot under the name of a dead person. More to come. pic.twitter.com/v7LpjGWDVx
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 18, 2020

CNN dug into 50 names that the Trump folks are pointing to as evidence of dead people voting in Michigan.

The upshot: 37 were dead and didn’t vote. 5 are alive and did vote. 8 are alive but didn’t vote. ⁦@CNN⁩ https://t.co/CjtjwIxSkC
— Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ (@jbsgreenberg) November 11, 2020

and there’s this:

Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner says they looked into a list claiming dead people voted. "Between everything else that we're doing, we looked it up — each one of them to see what their vote history was. Not a single one voted in Philadelphia after they died."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 11, 2020

Fact check: Evidence undermines Trump campaign's claims of dead people voting in Georgia https://t.co/kEDTO4NWEx pic.twitter.com/G5bT1jghAk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 13, 2020

The Trump administration itself disputes this. https://t.co/N0u0FUonoB https://t.co/jOMFHc1ryS pic.twitter.com/LRwJYaYy6r
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 11, 2020

This happens over and over. Republicans say they've found dead voters. It goes viral. Someone looks into it. They're either alive, or the dead person didn't vote. But the debunking never goes viral. Rinse, repeat, and more and more people continue to believe blatant lies. https://t.co/fJx90WZTP6
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 16, 2020

'Dead' people alleged to have voted in the Georgia election are actually alive. Linda Kessler is a registered voter with the same name as a former, dead one. Another is a widow registered as Mrs. James E. Blalock. The voter print out doesn't include 'Mrs.'https://t.co/8h5DtJ2JDT
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 13, 2020

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

The Derek and the Dominos album “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” was released 50 years ago today. The source of Clapton’s pain was his love for Pattie Boyd. She was then married to George Harrison but later married Clapton. The rest of the band besides Clapton had been part of Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. Duane Allman played slide guitar on most of the album. This is one of the few albums from that era that I like much better now than I did then.

It was 50 years ago today..- 9 Nov 1970 saw the release of the Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs LP from Eric and the wonderful group of musician friends he assembled as Derek & The Dominoes. I still love the record today.
My favourite track is probably 'Bell Bottom Blues'. 1/2
— Pattie Boyd (@thepattieboyd) November 9, 2020

I asked Eric to bring me back some jeans from Miami where the LP was recorded and I think that he wrote the song in homage to my request!
And then we have the small issue of the title track..
Here's a pic of the painting which made the LP's sleeve which I took this morning. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/8yItOjeRFi
— Pattie Boyd (@thepattieboyd) November 9, 2020

Great live performance by Derek and the Dominos of a Chuck Willis song: