195 House Republicans vote against the guarantee of right to contraception

You don’t think the extremist Supreme Court (R) won’t try to eliminate rights like contraception and gay marriage? This is clearly the Republican agenda.

228-195-2, House votes to guarantee rights to contraceptives. 8 Rs vote yes; two vote present. The 8, per @kristin__wilson: Liz Cheney, Nancy Mace, Fred Upton, Anthony Gonzalez, John Katko, Brian Fitzpatrick, Maria Salazar and Adam Kinzinger. Two present: Bob Gibbs and Mike Kelly
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 21, 2022

Great Twitter thread on crime in East Hampton

This thread is awesome. https://t.co/47d1HWg4Qc
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) July 14, 2022

Nothing will convince Big Lie believers of the truth

It has been over a year and a half since the 2020 election. There has been no evidence of significant fraud. Yet, 28% still think Trump won. This isn’t going to change. Nothing will convince the Trump cult that he lost. At least the majority knows what happened.

Which candidate do you think was the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election?

Joe Biden 65%
Donald Trump 28%

(New York Times/Siena College Poll, RV, 7/5-7/22)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) July 13, 2022

We have reached the apex of election-fraud debunking https://t.co/Jb6QL0FYgu
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) July 14, 2022

Politico-Morning Consult poll:

66% of voters say Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election

66% say Trump claimed the election was fraudulent without evidence

59% say Trump misled the public about the outcome of the election
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2022

Before the #January6thHearings began, 67% of Republicans thought the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump. And after 8 hearings? Down to 55%. (Reuters/Ipsos) Still ridiculously high but suggests the #January6Committee has had an effect even with Trump’s party.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) July 25, 2022

VHS tapes are going for high prices

I picked the wrong side of the Beta-VHS video war. In 1983, I paid about $750 for the first Beta hi-fi VCR. It weighed 32 pounds and basically was an old VCR retrofitted with hi-fi design. In 1986, my house was broken into and the bad guys took the VCR from the third floor to the first floor and left it. Was that because it was too heavy or because it was a Beta? I did eventually buy a VHS VCR.

Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment opportunities. https://t.co/nl4UVTvt5F
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) July 8, 2022

VHS tapes with colored shells look so freaking cool, man. pic.twitter.com/q17DlZseuU
— 🎄Home Video History ❄ (@VhsHistory) July 2, 2022

Oh look- we’re in the news again! https://t.co/rbfVZfZfgO
— Matt Landsman (@MattLandsman) March 19, 2024

It's VCR Day! #VCRDay #NationalVCRDay #Retro pic.twitter.com/xxW1FALU2Q
— HeyWhatDay (@HeyWhatDay) June 7, 2024

Covers: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

“The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” (1966) is a great Smokey Robinson song recorded by The Marvelettes. Jerry Garcia, Grace Jones, and Blondie are among the artists who covered it.

Do you believe that the Comey and McCabe audits were random?

I don’t. I think it is more likely that Trump made IRS do this. Trump treated everything as political. He had no respect for government integrity and impartiality.

update 11/17/22

It’s strange that this story about how Trump allegedly told his chief of staff to sic the IRS on Comey and McCabe – who were later hit with rare intrusive audits – doesn’t name his IRS appointee – Charles Rettig – or mention he finally stepped down Friday.https://t.co/GrF3mGgMr5
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) November 14, 2022

How unlikely were those Comey-McCabe audits? See for yourself. https://t.co/IRB2PbO1bU
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) July 7, 2022

If you have 154 million marbles (roughly the number of tax returns filed per year), and a few of them are red (including those of James Comey and Andrew McCabe), what are the chances you’ll draw two or more red marbles if you randomly draw a few thousand? https://t.co/64d3VyvevX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 7, 2022

NEW:
IRS says for ‘17 it randomly picked 5,000 taxpayers out of 153 million who filed for a highly invasive audit
IRS says for ‘19 it randomly picked 8,000 out of 154 mil for same audit
Among those picked: former FBI dir Jim Comey and his dep. Andy McCabehttps://t.co/AV4MzEoze5
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) July 6, 2022

Accountabilty: outrageous that both former FBI Director James Comey & Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were "randomly selected" for most intrusive form of IRS audits under leadership of Trump IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig – this screams for Congressional oversight investigation.
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) July 7, 2022

NEW: The head of the IRS asks a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct rare tax audits of former FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe https://t.co/iiJG9cx8VX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 7, 2022

The news that James Comey and Andrew McCabe mysterious got the worst level of IRS audit isn't surprising on one level.

Authoritarians always turn the power of the state against their enemies.

Last week we learned Mark Meadows tried to get Bill Barr to go after @ProjectLincoln.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 7, 2022

Am I correct in understanding that Trump's own IRS commissioner was faster to call for an investigation into this potential abuse of power than the Democratic congressional leaders https://t.co/u6z4dOgQ8i
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) July 7, 2022

Here's my column on the tax audits targeting Comey and McCabe and why Trump's IRS Commissioner – who is still there – needs to be walked out of his office now: https://t.co/UlcTUESbv0 @MSNBC @MSNBCDaily
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) July 9, 2022

Every New Deal Project map

A web map of every New Deal project!https://t.co/LnvAKedV49 pic.twitter.com/nokInAKumy
— Chris Whong (@chris_whong) July 6, 2022

Tweets on an emotional support turkey

Read the replies which even include a picture

My flight is being held up because a woman has an emotional support Turkey on the plane and they aren’t sure if that’s allowed. YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP
— Elle Duncan (@elleduncanESPN) July 4, 2022

More on the bad Independent State Legislature theory

Republicans want the Supreme Court to support their plan to give state legislatures more power over elections.

How the Supreme Court could turbocharge gerrymandering — just in time for 2024: https://t.co/aiTqU9NmD3
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 8, 2022

I’m honored to be in full agreement with the great @judgeluttig on this fundamental matter. My op-ed, coauthored with @DennisAftergut, explains the fatal constitutional defects of the misleadingly named “independent state legislature” theory and spells out how to confront it. https://t.co/XTFPCk74UG
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 5, 2022

Here’s my op-ed explaining why the so-called “independent state legislature” theory SCOTUS has agreed to consider in Moore v Harper (the North Carolina redistricting case) is dangerous and doubly unconstitutional — and describing what you can do about it. https://t.co/AMdwkcnOjg
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 5, 2022

The logic of the Independence Day legislature theory Can then be applied to federal elections – if state courts have no role in electors, the Supreme Court has no role in federal elections. Meaning Shelby County, Brnovich, Citizens United and their progeny are null and void https://t.co/uatIKJwbd3
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 3, 2022

Judge Luttig has warned that the GOP’s “independent state electors” theory is part of their strategy to steal the 2024 election.

In this thread, he explains why this right-wing theory is inconsistent with the Constitution. Our constitutional system and democracy is at stake. https://t.co/Xo6btc3eXI
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 2, 2022

Opinion by Greg Sargent: If the Supreme Court embraces a radical legal theory, election subversion becomes more likely.https://t.co/8ZZvg0TuQg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 6, 2022

The fringe independent state legislature theory is a threat to our democracy. I'm worried, because this Supreme Court has already shown that it is willing to overturn precedent that undermine fundamental rights. pic.twitter.com/MP7cNTYWnv
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 15, 2022