It doesn’t seem that they defend black people who legally use guns. This man was a hero.
They didn’t defend Philandro Castile either.
The NRA’s internal split over Philandro Castile
update 11/17/18
update 11/24/18
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CNN was wrong
In their effort to be even-handed, CNN asked voters about extremist violence without pointing out that the great bulk of it is by right-wing extremists. Left wing extremists attack Tucker Carlson’s house. Right wing extremists kill people (such as the recent killings in Pittsburgh and Kentucky and the bombs).
I understand that they want to be fair but this is very misleading. The screen print above is from my iPhone.
Trump is interfering with science
Trump's Interference with Science is Unprecedented. via @TheAtlantic https://t.co/9CAEQMOuZH
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) November 11, 2018
Trump’s first reaction to California fires is to attack
That’s all he knows how to do.
First, my sympathy goes out to the victims and their families and my admiration goes out to the first responders. Trump’s initial tweet was vindictive but someone must have told him that he needed to do better because the second one was more appropriate. Of course, he’ll never acknowledge the impact of climate change on the frequency and size of the fires.
At least nine people dead, hundreds of homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people evacuated, terror from mountains to the sea. The president’s first tweet about the California fires misstates the cause of all the awful destruction to blame the state: https://t.co/NIvNe3dCBr
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) November 10, 2018
From @CAFirefighters Pres. Brian Rice: "The president's attack is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to victims and to our #firefighters on the front lines. #CA fire victims need support instead of recrimination and blame." Full statement HERE: https://t.co/femcjxC0PY https://t.co/tQHtqiWZEB
— CPF (@CAFirefighters) November 10, 2018
Some follow-up data: Nearly 60 percent of CA's 33 million acres of forests are owned by fed gov, ~25 percent privately owned, and ~14 percent owned by industrial owners like timber companies. State and local govts own 3 percent of the state's forests. https://t.co/sCvffE1gD7 …
— Jose A. Del Real (@jdelreal) November 10, 2018
No respect is due. Thousands of AMERICANS evacuated from their homes, many burned to the ground and our "President" points his little finger in the wrong direction to settle scores #ClimateChangeIsReal https://t.co/hV0fgkXW4j
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 10, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: What is wrong with you? Disaster victims deserve help & sympathy.
Oh, and guess who owns much of the forest land in CA? Your federal agencies. CA only owns 2%. Guess who cut funding to forest management in the budget? YOU DID.#SaturdayMorning Thoughts https://t.co/Es9oAOhQQc
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 10, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: FYI below from a first responder. Can you please get a briefing from your staff before you write anymore nonsense about the #CaliforniaWildfires? First responders and my constituents who were evacuated would appreciate it if you knew the facts. https://t.co/VKIOv63Slo
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 10, 2018
Important, sobering thread. https://t.co/uMU0iuAKw6
— Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) November 11, 2018
This is hilarious!
Uh oh, the president's Twitter has been hacked. https://t.co/YPoNCfqHms
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 10, 2018
Trump is wrong about what is causing the devastating fires in California. https://t.co/1YHb05DoED pic.twitter.com/TYAJqFEhx2
— Slate (@Slate) November 11, 2018
NEW: In response to Pres. Trump threats to halt federal funding to the state, governor's office of California tells @ABC: "Our focus is on the Californians impacted by these fires… not on the President’s inane and uninformed tweets." https://t.co/8zjvCnadSE pic.twitter.com/jR1Um534oU
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 11, 2018
Don’t target politicians or media members in restaurants or outside their home
Doing this just feeds into the right wing’s “mob” claim. Even Ted Cruz is entitled to eat dinner in peace.
Re Tucker Carlson: If you don't like him, what exactly is accomplished by terrorizing his family? Wouldn't something else — say, organizing a boycott of his advertisers — be a more effective means of protest?
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 8, 2018
This is Brownshirt/fascist behavior. Period. If you defend it because Carlson’s opinions are noxious or dangerous, you’re opening the door to the “other guys” doing the same thing to you. https://t.co/4V08iiOCfa
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) November 8, 2018
Tucker Carlson is a blight on journalism and our public discourse. But addressing that reality with this tactic is disastrous for any republic, chilling to all speech including dissent, and, in the end, serves only to engender sympathy and allegiance with those targeted. https://t.co/eiC4kcNpRl
— David Simon (@AoDespair) November 8, 2018
This trend of harassing media figures and others at their homes is really detestable https://t.co/jl9BUZL3M3
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 8, 2018
I, too, dislike what @tuckercarlson says on television, in books, etc. But this kind of doorstep intimidation is reprehensible. Please respect his family's domestic life. https://t.co/QB9nEvovdF
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) November 8, 2018
Fighting Tucker Carlson’s ideas is an American right. Targeting his home and terrorizing his family is an act of monstrous cowardice. Obviously don’t do this, but also, take no pleasure in it happening. Feeding monsters just makes more monsters.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2018
The @TheDemocrats have NO affiliation with Antifa. Let me repeat, NO affiliation with Antifa. Far Left mob, the Far Right mob that’s infiltrated the Republican Party is the #ProudBoys. To protest against Tucker Carlson’s views/lies; go protest #FoxNews not at his 🏡. Exhibit 1: pic.twitter.com/oBQyTkM6Kj
— BlackWoMANMajik (@CerebralGURL) November 8, 2018
People should not have done what they did at Tucker Carlson's house.
However…
I wrote something critical once about the calamitous CNN show hosted by TC and Bill Press. TC then shared my private e-mail with what passed for his audience. I, and my family, got death threats.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 8, 2018
“We know where you sleep at night,” they chanted outside Tucker Carlson’s home. @PeterBeinart says liberal protests targeting private lives "threaten the very norms of human decency that Trump and his supporters have done so much to erode.” https://t.co/3yXopGQhLe
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 16, 2018
Zinke must go
What a corrupt administration!
.@SecretaryZinke has sought out friendship and campaign donations from rich Montanans, including #Halliburton chief David Lesar, to whom he donated parking for a $90 million devt in Whitefish https://t.co/uSYQmT8ito
— Lisa Rein (@Reinlwapo) November 20, 2018
This is getting ridiculous.https://t.co/iwMeteE93V pic.twitter.com/uiMRAV2SKf
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 6, 2018
NEW: Emails obtained by the Post suggest Zinke engaged in family foundation business in 2017, after pledging to recuse himself from the group for one year after being confirmed: https://t.co/tk93ZSt7CQ
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) November 5, 2018
Donald Trump offered less-than-effusive praise Monday for embattled Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, while saying he might not “be happy” with the outcomes of the investigations into Zinke’s behavior https://t.co/fMV9CvCqMH
— POLITICO (@politico) November 5, 2018
When Donald Trump took office and we said he was filling his administration with white supremacists, many of the very serious people in the media guffawed and protested. Unfortunately, none of it was an exaggeration. https://t.co/luOBPFODQ6
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) October 31, 2018
Zinke charged taxpayers for a ridiculously expensive door and insisted a flag be flown overhead when he was in the building. He interfered with the IG who investigated his financial misconduct. Now he’s received a criminal referral to DOJ. Why hasn’t Trump fired him? https://t.co/7fz5SauO85
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 31, 2018
there are a million weird DC stories. not many weirder than this one. https://t.co/gEaeNTSjAd
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November 6, 2018
2018 elections update – 11/5/18 (part 2)
Will Harping on Immigration Do What Trump Wants It to Do? Evidence from @johnmsides, Tesler, and my Identity Crisis in advance of tomorrow’s votes. https://t.co/i9vGF0TnQo
— Lynn Vavreck (@vavreck) November 6, 2018
Yogi Berra famously said: "We made too many wrong mistakes."
People are so spooked by #Trump's unexpected victory that they are making the wrong mistake this year by underestimating the strong tilt to the Democrats. Here's why I think they'll do well:https://t.co/IAjMjHzRAm— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) November 6, 2018
ICYMI
A spate of House polls reinforces good news for the Democratic Party (@pbump) details: https://t.co/7RIc50qKPE pic.twitter.com/VLfIeyKGbW— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) November 6, 2018
Hugely important point just now by @ezraklein: if the outcome of the midterms is that Republicans lose the popular vote for House and Senate, as they did w/ the White House, but due to gerrymandering emerge still controlling all three (and the Supreme Court)? Legitimacy crisis.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 6, 2018
Top 10 Senate races by TV ad spending (gen elex), via @Kantar_Media:
1. Florida: $96.3 M
2. Nevada: $78.7 M
3. Indiana: $76.8 M
4. Missouri: $72.3 M
5. Tennessee: $59.4 M
6. Arizona: $51.7 M
7. New Jersey: $50.5 M
8. Texas: $47.1 M
9. W. Virginia: $33.9 M
10. Montana: $27.8 M— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) November 5, 2018
The inimitable @jmartNYT got a shoutout here in West Fargo at Heitkamp’s last rally of the campaign. As a tribute to her mother (and this article!) she and her daughter wore “SHE MADE US STRONG” sweatshirts https://t.co/B1iy7tTTll
— Catie Edmondson (@CatieEdmondson) November 6, 2018
Long considered a Republican stronghold, there is a razor-thin margin between the candidates competing to be the first female representative in New Mexico's 2nd district https://t.co/MxKdHXbx0P pic.twitter.com/n8sFLs4nd9
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 6, 2018
I guess we're about to find out how good Trump's favorite pollster is pic.twitter.com/Q09EpYFRsB
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 5, 2018
8 big questions for Election Day | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza https://t.co/LJNPMLuZa0 pic.twitter.com/KWaOYfn075
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 6, 2018
Two years later, Trump isn't different. We are. https://t.co/4tylQy07Bd
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) November 6, 2018
Trump effect? Candidates plow record amounts of their own money into congressional bids https://t.co/xZYIEKg4pT pic.twitter.com/nDRhKqNePo
— CNN (@CNN) November 6, 2018
In the midterms, President Trump’s unrelenting focus on immigration may not work the way it did in 2016 because voters have already sorted themselves out along partisan lines, say @johnmsides, Michael Tesler and @vavreck. https://t.co/6brYAY5ExP
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) November 5, 2018
Stunning. An estimated ONE in THREE black men are barred from voting in Kentucky, the highest rate in the country. Wild guess which veteran Kentucky politician has been a staunch defender of the state’s disenfranchisement law. https://t.co/mTaV45kcax
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 5, 2018
Democrats gained by more than 3 pts in our final polls over our initial ones, and this individual-level analysis indicates that's not merely because of identifiable changes in the composition of the sample, like more Dems https://t.co/zv2PSu8neT
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 5, 2018
"While female & minority lawmakers prepare to expand their influence within the opposition party, the House GOP is projected to become more white, male & conservative after its female & minority members face strong challengers at the ballot box." https://t.co/NOEogIQ840
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) November 6, 2018
So who's ahead in each race for governor?
(The closer the dot is to the center line, the tighter the race. And the wider the band, the less certain the model is about the outcome.)https://t.co/CGJ5zpSiPA pic.twitter.com/ZJeI2UC8Kf
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 6, 2018
3 bills in 30 years. 17 votes against protections for pre-existing conditions.
No, Mr. President. People in Orange County will replace the production of corruption, mediocrity, and extremism.
See you in January. https://t.co/hsRGQcjc1J
— Harley Rouda (@HarleyRouda) November 5, 2018
Regarding #GA06, it's possible Stacey Abrams (D) & Lucy McBath (D) are better-suited to turning out the Dem base than Jon Ossoff (D) & $30 million ever were. We'll see.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 5, 2018
"Most Americans say Trump is a deciding factor in their vote." @SusanPage on #Midterms2018. #hardball
— Hardball (@hardball) November 6, 2018
— icymi —
INDIANA
U.S. Senate:
Joe Donnelly (D) 45%
Mike Braun (R) 38%
Lucy Brenton (L) 5%
(Fox News Poll, LV, 10/27-30/18)— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) November 6, 2018
Regarding #GA06, it's possible Stacey Abrams (D) & Lucy McBath (D) are better-suited to turning out the Dem base than Jon Ossoff (D) & $30 million ever were. We'll see.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 5, 2018
Trump’s Indiana rally – 11/2/18
Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight is on stage at Trump’s Indianapolis rally, leading crowd in chant of, “Go get ‘em, Donald!”
"He’s been a great defender for the United States of America,” Knight says of Trump.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) November 2, 2018
I know I shouldn’t be shocked by anything the schmuck currently occupying the Oval Office does, and yet… still shocked. https://t.co/VG5WSVrSMv
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 3, 2018
Trump just called Obama at rally in Indiana “Barack H. Obama.” (Not very subtle)
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 3, 2018
Trump’s immigration announcement
update 11/2/18:
President Trump issued a warning to the migrant caravan headed toward the United States. His speech was filled with false claims. https://t.co/R5Um0Pk9Fo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 2, 2018
Opinion: MSNBC blows off Trump’s immigration fearmongering address https://t.co/eg8dQkIXyB
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 2, 2018
Trump’s immigration speech was riddled with false claims…take a listen#CuomoPrimeTime #LetsGetAfterIt pic.twitter.com/PrpBZM84P6
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) November 2, 2018
Daniel Dale’s thread:
Trump is so far saying his usual things about illegal immigration.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2018
So @jaketapper points out that the President, who said only 3% of asylum seekers show up court dates, was wrong.
Nope. It’s 76%, and was up to 99% under a new pilot program President Trump ended.
So just a completely entirely false misleading stat off by 10x.
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 1, 2018
A quick live fact check of some of Trump’s immigration falsehoods https://t.co/ilY1CFq5Ry @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 1, 2018
Trump: We’re going to ‘catch’ and no longer ‘release’ migrants https://t.co/fTwHMpmuJb @kaitlancollins and @Arianedevogue report @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 1, 2018
Trump falsely characterizing Hill immigration debate. Says Democrats, who are in the minority, are blocking action: "It's only the Republicans in unison who want to change them." Immigration bill foundered on Republican divisions.
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) November 1, 2018
I think this is true – Trump doesn’t want to solve the problem – he wants an issue to rigle up his bigots:
5 years ago, the Senate passed an immigration bill with bipartisan support. The House refused to take it up. Why can't Trump close the deal? It's because he prefers the issue and the fear it creates as opposed to a solution. We're talking about this on #Hardball tonight.
— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) November 1, 2018
Trump falsely claims GOP is in “unison” on immigration when two WH-backed bills were rejected in the House this year after a significant number of GOP defections, joining Dems to reject the measures
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 1, 2018
Analysis: 5 reasons Trump’s "immigration crisis" is a made-up one https://t.co/fpz60ptVap
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 1, 2018
Trump's not going to issue any such order, and there would be mass resignations if he tried to. It's all fake bluster by someone behaving as a fake commander-in-chief. But it goes without saying that this all is deeply embarrassing and utterly unworthy of an American president. https://t.co/RXY8zb3iKV
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 1, 2018
Trump lost television audiences on Thursday as he made fiery remarks on immigration and the nation’s asylum system that deviated from what was expected to be a meaningful policy speech https://t.co/3wqr3PB25s
— POLITICO (@politico) November 1, 2018
The stolen colon
Kansas City police recovered a stolen inflatable colon:
BREAKING: WE HAVE RECOVERED THE STOLEN COLON. Thanks to a tip, officers found the giant, inflatable, pilfered intestine in a vacant house in the 7100 block of Virginia. No one in custody yet. Investigation is continuing. #stolencolon pic.twitter.com/QAILIr3G6d
— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) October 29, 2018
Here’s background:
And if you had not been fortunate enough to hear about the stolen colon, here's the story on it: https://t.co/sWWc8JbmEl
— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) October 29, 2018
Someone stole a 10 ft long, 150 lb inflatable colon from the University of Kansas Cancer Center. Does anyone know the scope of the crime? Hopefully, there's no obstruction of justice. We need to flush out what happened here and get to the BOTTOM of it. https://t.co/1bPB1hynxr pic.twitter.com/tazoJx4Nsf
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) October 24, 2018
Kansas City Police Need Your Help Tracking Down a Giant, Inflatable Colon — https://t.co/8hkg6xuBRO pic.twitter.com/OsbvmMHU94
— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) October 24, 2018
The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has a large real colon and sells merchandise about it!
The inflatable colon reminds me of the giant heart at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Sad! 