“My Baby Thinks He’s a Train” was written by Leroy Preston and recorded by Rosanne Cash on her excellent album Seven Year Ache in 1981.
Covers: Hometown Blues (Tom Petty song)
Tom Petty wrote it and recorded it in 1976. Rosanne Cash covered it on her outstanding album Seven Year Ache in 1981.
Polls show public opposes Trump nominating Ginsburg’s replacement now.
The margin varies but all polls I have seen have more people opposed to having Trump nominating someone now. Of course, that won’t stop Trump and McConnell. Public opinion supported having hearings on Garland. Public opinion supported having witnesses at the Senate impeachment hearing. Republicans did neither one and they won’t care about public opinion now. They only care about power.
A slim majority of voters nationwide oppose efforts by the White House and Senate Republicans to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court by election day, a new poll shows https://t.co/rxKbvO700O
— POLITICO (@politico) September 28, 2020
Takeaways from NBC News/Marist polls of MI & WI
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) September 27, 2020
1. Majorities of likely voters say 2020 winner should get to fill SCOTUS vacancy
Winner should fill vacancy
MI 54%, WI 56%
Trump should fill vacancy immediately
MI 35%, WI 37%
Trump should fill after election
MI 7%, WI 5%
BREAKING: Americans by a nearly 20-point margin say the next Supreme Court justice should be left to the winner of the presidential election and a Senate vote next year, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds. https://t.co/l3mWEJ0xHw
— ABC News (@ABC) September 25, 2020
CNN poll – Who should appoint RBG's replacement?
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 23, 2020
59% the winner in November
41% Trump
Women think the winner should pick by 30 points, 65-35, and independents by 18 points, 59-41.
The only groups that think Trump should choose: Republicans and whites without a college degree.
New CNN poll on who Americans want to make the choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. @jaketapper reports pic.twitter.com/Cvu605TjZl
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 23, 2020
Most Americans oppose filling Ginsburg's seat before the election. But Republicans, in a giant reversal from 2016, support it. And so here we are. https://t.co/InWiOPV8zg
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 23, 2020
The Economist/YouGov, however, find that 41% of adults think Trump should nominate someone while 46% think he should leave the seat vacant until inauguration day. https://t.co/G1bxhtUomE
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) September 23, 2020
🚨 New 🚨 Supreme Court polling:
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) September 21, 2020
53% – 39% Don't fill before election
51% – 39% Don't fill in lame duck if Biden wins
40% – 39% Expand Court if Trump fills
Democrats more likely to say Supreme Court increases their motivation. https://t.co/IgEgoLZD4U
Pretty consistent stuff here. Most voters in the polls taken after Friday have said wait on the Supreme Court pick… https://t.co/bdr8E7bRiv
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 21, 2020
More voters think the winner of November's election should appoint a new justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with a double-digit advantage over those who say President Trump should nominate someone before the electionhttps://t.co/JC1iGEFZHi
— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2020
If voters prefer waiting until after the election by a 13-point margin *and* D's are more fired up about the Supreme Court, this starts to look like a challenging issue for Republicans. Which is not to say they won't confirm someone, just that it could come at an electoral price. https://t.co/wsbllBsEgn
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 21, 2020
Trump aides feared his cult would cheer the passing of Ginsburg
Even his staff understands they have created a monster. This country will never be unified.
When news broke that Ginsburg had died, Trump was just five minutes into a campaign rally. Aides opted not to pass word to him onstage. If he announced the death of the liberal justice from the lectern, they feared the crowd would cheer. @maggieNYT https://t.co/pgUdOFBIel
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 23, 2020
Trump’s aides decided not to alert him of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death while he was onstage at a Minnesota rally because they feared that his crowd would cheer about her passinghttps://t.co/MhGH4zkBnf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 23, 2020
Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums
Our list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003. But no list is definitive, so we decided to remake it from scratch. The voters included Beyoncé, Stevie Nicks and many more. Here we present our new #RS500Albums: https://t.co/nv9ePSZ6Pg pic.twitter.com/smVdTSCrLL
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 22, 2020
The election will be a fiasco
Neither side will accept a loss.
Democrats will blame voter suppression, foreign interference and whatever Barr/courts/Republican legislatures do.
Republicans will blame illegal votes and mail in vote fraud.
There’s no limit to what Republicans will do to steal the election. I don’t think Trump is even trying to win the popular vote. He’s counting on Republicans in the legislatures, courts and Congress to steal the election if he doesn’t win the Electoral College vote.
The Trump campaign is discussing plans to ask state representatives to set aside the election results in their state and select Trump electors *even if Trump loses the vote in their state.*
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 23, 2020
That would be the death of American democracy. That is not an overstatement. It’s a fact. https://t.co/U28TTML396
I wonder how many people are ready for just how bad the next six weeks plus are going to be. This is going to be the most dangerous election since 1860, with substantial odds that America as we know it will be damaged or even destroyed 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 23, 2020
Ginsburg vacancy making Wall Street nervous that Trump vs. Biden will yield an 'illegitimate' result https://t.co/bEHQrDbaiu by @TeflonGeek pic.twitter.com/l5WwPmam5A
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) September 23, 2020
VISION 2020: Even if the election is messy and contested in court, the country will have a president on Inauguration Day. The Constitution and federal law ensure it.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) September 16, 2020
READ MORE: https://t.co/ruqrsdNJwJ pic.twitter.com/AZs79lLOzU
"If Bush v. Gore taught us anything, it’s that one should never say 'The Supreme Court would never do THAT.'”
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 23, 2020
Read @paulwaldman1: https://t.co/o2F0cJ0q4d
Trump tells reporters he wants a replacement for RBG quickly as he believes 2020 election will end up going to SCOTUS: “Yes, I think it’s very important. I think this will end up in the Supreme Court and I think it’s very important that we have nine justices."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 23, 2020
Trump is laying the ground work to steal the election by working with GOP state legislatures to appoint electors that will vote for Trump irrespective of their state's popular vote. This is a nightmare!https://t.co/Ug52jET4NW
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) September 23, 2020
"We should not think of the litigation and the wild claims of voter fraud as separate from one another. Instead, they are part of a play to grab power if the election is close enough." https://t.co/KPAGTeemRC
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) September 23, 2020
"At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on election night, millions of ads could show up on Facebook saying something along the lines of, 'We won—Donald Trump is president for four more years! MAGA!'—even if mail-in ballots haven't been fully counted." https://t.co/INqmoeK0W2
— David Gura (@davidgura) September 23, 2020
Trump won’t say if he would commit to a peaceful transition of power. “We are going to have to see what happens.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 23, 2020
Here’s the clip: pic.twitter.com/UHQW7KdQj4
— The Recount (@therecount) September 23, 2020
A clear threat by the president — to retain power even at the cost of American democracy. https://t.co/kR3oLWIYFH
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) September 23, 2020
More Republican fake videos
Another dishonest Republican snip to try to make Biden look confused.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 22, 2020
Biden was not reciting the pledge here. He was citing a few phrases from it to emphasize that he'll be president of the entire country. Full quote on the right: pic.twitter.com/QpPkWYysR1
A group of parents whose children were featured in a video shared on Twitter by Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and the creator of the “racist baby” meme video, according to reports https://t.co/OXobx6Xkqc
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 20, 2020
The false Biden video shared by Scavino (the false interview/sleep video) has been removed by Twitter due to a copyright claim.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) September 1, 2020
2.4 million views total. pic.twitter.com/oMQnd93SSm
The Trump campaign manipulated a video from @JoeBiden’s speech today because they could not challenge the content of the speech. This is their game. They cannot and will not compete on the facts.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) August 31, 2020
Mueller failed to fully investigate Trump
He also didn’t do anywhere near enough after Barr lied about the report.
Mueller's top prosecutor connects the Trump tax revelations to Russia https://t.co/Hywe19y8d8 pic.twitter.com/FgpJOOaqrX
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) September 29, 2020
Lots of books (A VERY STABLE GENIUS by @PhilipRucker/@CarolLeonnig, TRUMPOCRACY by @davidfrum, TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS by @JeffreyToobin and WHERE LAW ENDS by @AWeissmann_) have criticized Mueller's investigation.
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) September 29, 2020
Looks like Mueller's had enough: https://t.co/jrRayaVjw6
This is an indictment of Mueller but it’s also an indictment of the Dems on the other end of these conversations who opposed a broader impeachment only because Mueller didn’t storyboard it for them. https://t.co/ey1klxGzMU
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 22, 2020
NEW >>> Mueller team found sufficient evidence that Trump committed a crime, enough to charge him if he wasn't a sitting president. Prosecutor is still "flummoxed" that Mueller would not * just say it * in his report. https://t.co/FM58FybyW6
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) September 21, 2020
The same business account that Cohen used to send hush payments to an adult film star also received “payments linked to a Russian oligarch.” @charlie_savage https://t.co/mpc3uduA9Y
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 22, 2020
Climate update 9/22/20
If Biden is elected, he can roll back some of the damage done by Trump. He can’t undo the damage done to the climate during the Trump administration. That has caused permanent harm.
“I’ve been labeled an alarmist,” said Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist in Los Angeles, where smoke levels have been unhealthy for weeks. “And I think it’s a lot harder for people to say that I’m being alarmist now.” An elegy: @JohnBranchNYT @bradplumer https://t.co/u2lyi0sOEr
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) September 22, 2020
This melting wax panther is an artistic metaphor for the toll human-caused climate change is taking on Florida's wildlife and people. And scientists say it could get even worse. https://t.co/Eu0W1dLf18
— CNN (@CNN) September 22, 2020
“There’s sort of this sense that we can bend the world to our will,” said Kristina Dahl of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Climate change is exposing the vulnerabilities in the systems that we’ve engineered.”https://t.co/boRbbBp8HB
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) September 21, 2020
"A climate emergency unfolding before our eyes." Arctic sea ice has shrunk to almost historic levels https://t.co/O9X6Qm1aB4
— TIME (@TIME) September 22, 2020
The Trump administration has tried to roll back 100 environmental regulations over the past four years. Left in place, they could have a significant effect on future greenhouse gas emissions — an additional 1.8 billion metric tons by 2035. https://t.co/UOkdltDLKn
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) September 20, 2020
The Fire This Time: the irresistible force of accelerating weather disruption from #climatechange is colliding w/the immovable object of unyielding resistance to action from Republican voters & officials alike. My take. https://t.co/ZwtAz9g3L6
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 17, 2020
Dereliction of journalistic duty: “Between September 5 and September 8, ABC, CBS, and NBC aired 46 segments on the wildfires, but their link to climate change was only mentioned in seven of those reports across networks,” https://t.co/oES768v15F
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 17, 2020
Scientists say an enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be about 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles), has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic. They see it as evidence of rapid climate change. https://t.co/yIfzR109ye
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 15, 2020
President Trump baselessly asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President listen to the science https://t.co/7z1QufKj9E
— CNN (@CNN) September 14, 2020
Reminder that the Republican Party is the only major political party anywhere in the world that denies the reality of climate change.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 15, 2020
Climate change was the first thing @SenatorReid mentioned when I asked him what policy goals justify abolition of the filibuster. https://t.co/c7s8vfJbTf https://t.co/3fiVv82tkJ
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 13, 2020
During a rally in Minden, Nevada, where the air quality is currently rated "unhealthy" & you can smell smoke in the air from nearby wildfires, Trump is touting his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 13, 2020
The northwest part of Oregon has dried out this year, in large part because of climate change, enabling flames driven by strong winds. “We’re seeing fires in places that we don’t normally see fires. Normally it’s far too wet to burn.” https://t.co/0KNmdcV36L
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 12, 2020
Anyway, imagine how different the election would be if Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania were burning.
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway3d) September 12, 2020
Tucker Carlson calls climate change "systemic racism in the sky" https://t.co/rWSlkT09X0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 12, 2020
“If you’re denying this exists, you don’t ask for a report on it.” President Trump has dismissed climate change as a hoax, but a report commissioned by his Commodity Futures Trading Commission warns darkly of global warming's impact on financial markets https://t.co/38F6CXJuxv
— Coral Davenport (@CoralMDavenport) September 9, 2020
As the world heats up, cities with heat-trapping asphalt and little tree cover have left residents sweltering and breathing in more air pollutionhttps://t.co/WREhfR9rvI
— Emma Newburger (@emma_newburger) September 2, 2020
#ImVotingForJoe because he's a decent human being. The more I learn about @JoeBiden the more I like him. And most importantly Joe Biden has an aggressive plan to address climate change: https://t.co/jobJpCMpqr
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) September 1, 2020
Trump administration trashes another former high-ranking former official who criticized him
“Troye joins a long line and growing list of former Trump aides…who have spoken out in scathing terms about Trump. All but Mattis, Coats and Kelly have publicly called for Trump’s defeat in November.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 23, 2020
This. Is. Not. Normal.” https://t.co/twdDvKW9lz
Of note: Kellogg has been trotted out by the WH to deny other allegations, so perhaps he was being less than honest before as well? https://t.co/drAwL0x2xb
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 22, 2020
After Kellogg claims he fired her, Troye brings a receipt > https://t.co/8iffsTKTh1
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 22, 2020
Olivia Troye: "He's not actually looking out for you. He's not looking out for these people. He's not looking out for them. He just wants you in that audience so he can have the camera shot of his fanfare …The truth is, he's putting those lives at risk." https://t.co/WcNPQgOtWF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 22, 2020
SAD! @realDonaldTrump has created a lying epidemic, and people like Keith Kellogg have fallen victim. White House aide Olivia Troye wasn’t fired. She left on her own accord. You’re only saying that Keith because she’s speaking out. You’ve even waxed poetic about her to my face. https://t.co/yGtvUqTpz4
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) September 22, 2020
Gen Keith Kellogg, a VP national security advisor, is now pushbacking on Olivia Troye, a former VP aide who said, Trump’s response to the virus showed a "flat-out disregard for human life" because his "main concern was the economy and his reelection." https://t.co/OSfJ1ikgnV
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 22, 2020
Olivia Troye, who worked as an adviser to Vice President Mike Pence before quitting the coronavirus task force, says President Trump’s disregard for science is costing American lives. Troye spoke with @mitchellreports about why she resigned. pic.twitter.com/ga209Pd391
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 22, 2020
Your main priority Mr. President, should ALWAYS be the safety & lives of the American people.
— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) September 19, 2020
By the way, this also means respecting the national security community & our military who give their lives & sacrifice for the greater good of protecting our country. https://t.co/Wg0393cw9q
Analysis: Charge that Trump fumbled the pandemic is strongly supported by available evidence https://t.co/rifxfsR137
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 18, 2020
When we first spoke last week, Olivia emphasized her respect for her professional colleagues on the task force. In her gracious resignation letter she praised them (as Dr. Fauci praised her on TV this afternoon). In the letter Olivia is altogether silent about the president. https://t.co/fm05NLo1nn
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 18, 2020
"This is what struck me most during my conversation: she is young, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line…Olivia Troye, with much more to lose…had much more courage than all of them." https://t.co/wxFs6BHzmH
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) September 18, 2020
We've become inured to it, but a WH Staffer who worked there LAST MONTH coming out and saying, basically, the president is a sick f*ck who doesn't care if Americans die en masse; absolutely do not vote for him, is wild. https://t.co/ZoMjt3U2j1
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 17, 2020
At a lunch in the West Wing of the White House @VP Mike Pence once told me Olivia Troye was doing an “incredible job” as his Homeland Security Advisor and thanked DHS for referring her to his Office. https://t.co/6lZ9b4UDpf
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) September 17, 2020
Asked Trump about former VP aide Olivia Troye who criticized his handling of virus today. His response was a familiar one: “I have no idea who she is, she doesn’t know me.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 17, 2020
This is such a weird talking point. An organization that produces a shitload of disgruntled, troublesome ex-employees is ordinarily a poorly run organization. https://t.co/YcSpg5rpat
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 17, 2020
Pretty much sums it up. But @realDonaldTrump —Miles isn’t going anywhere. Neither am I. https://t.co/ldbEf19HO0
— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) September 26, 2020
I am being very sincere when I say this and talk about all of this. I think about my mom, and my family. I think about your families. https://t.co/HByvaO1WVr
— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) September 26, 2020
NEW testimonial from @OliviaTroye.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 24, 2020
“We will no longer be America after four more years of Trump…I would say to my colleagues, if you’re going to speak out, right now is when it matters most…Now is the time to tell the truth.”@RVAT2020 (h/t @barubin)pic.twitter.com/WN4W4xHkoS
One ex-Trump admin official, @MilesTaylorUSA, writing about another, @OliviaTroye: "The dam is breaking. The number of people once close to the President who are now speaking out is growing. Many aren't doing it for political reasons. They're doing it because…
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 22, 2020
Sad! 