Trump campaign runs ads with marking once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners

Is Facebook changing its attitude toward Trump, or is Trump getting more odious? https://t.co/uRA8OmkfmZ
— Slate (@Slate) June 19, 2020

Trump campaign runs ads with marking once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners.

The red inverted triangle was first used to identify Communists, and applied as well to members of other opposition parties. https://t.co/RHfK6ZM29a
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 18, 2020

88, is that so https://t.co/SsVQsIcTmn
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 18, 2020

Funny how these things keep happening — scheduling a rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, using a Nazi symbol in campaign ads. Why, it's almost as if the Trump campaign is full of white supremacists and fascists, who can't help themselves https://t.co/jFt6QAWYbP
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 18, 2020

Facebook takes down ads run by President Trump’s re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate https://t.co/cCdwEl15fJ
— CNN (@CNN) June 18, 2020

Supreme Court upholds DACA

Republicans will complain but their position is not shared by the majority.

NEWS: Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration's recession of DACA. Chief Justice Roberts writes the opinion, joined in full or part by the four liberal justices.

DACA survives.https://t.co/qzI1YGgzNA
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 18, 2020

Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I'm happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

I get the impression that you do a lot of things that the Supreme Court regards as illegal. https://t.co/dqeTVAjIQG
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 18, 2020

Images like this do more for America’s standing in the world than anything we could do through our foreign policy. https://t.co/Y2jGfyV6wm
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 18, 2020

Nearly 75% of Americans Support Legal Status For DACA Beneficiaries, Poll Finds#DACA https://t.co/85l1IKVOqY
— Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) June 18, 2020

But 70% of Americans support DACA. It will energize the base, but Trump cannot win with with 30%, no matter how energized they may be. https://t.co/c7qntoZwSn
— No Malarkey Spoon (@Political_spoon) June 18, 2020

Sorry you didn't get to screw over millions of American dreamers for your racist base.https://t.co/Eex2C0yzA6
— 'Stache Exotic (@Stache2020) June 18, 2020

2/ 69% of Trump voters don't want to see Dreamers deported. Protecting Dreamers is one of the most popular, bipartisan issues in America. Rescinding DACA was always for the purpose of using Dreamers as bait to get the Wall and deport others. That blew up. https://t.co/IYwvN5h433
— Alan Cross (@AlanLCross) June 18, 2020

Reminder: Democrats offered Trump *$25 billion* for wall/border in return for a path to citizenship for the DACA-eligibles. WH rejected.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 18, 2020

Trump could have had a deal

DACA is safe. For now. And Sotomayor makes clear that POTUS’ intent was bigoted in her concuring decision:

“Taken together, ‘the words of the President’ help to ‘create the strong perception’ that the recission decision was ‘contaminated by impermissible discriminatory animus.’” pic.twitter.com/sC7YJlRUlW
— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) June 18, 2020

He mad. https://t.co/k6Ib0UQ0hc
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 18, 2020

Playbook PM: TRUMP has spent 3yrs delighting in flouting governing conventions and cutting corners.

BUT TODAY, the SUPREME COURT slapped him across the face with the rulebook, upholding DACA because the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION did not follow the correct procedures in repealing it.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 18, 2020

This is a sobering reminder that how we vote matters. #Election2020 is about what kind if country we choose to be. I choose caring and cohesive. #VoteOutHate https://t.co/KaEiZNz4dF
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) June 18, 2020

Opinion: In big DACA ruling, Trump’s bad faith blew up in his face https://t.co/WqYLiqm1bb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 19, 2020

Don’t forget about Breonna Taylor

No police officers have been arrested for her murder. We cannot forget about her and her killers must be held accountable.

#BreonnaTaylor’s killers have still not been arrested.

We had to fight to get her name said. Fight to get her family heard. Fight to get the activists heard.

And we’ll keep fighting. #SayHerName
— brittany packnett cunningham does not do remixes. (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2020

Breonna Taylor's family is demanding answers about her death from the City of Louisville, Kentucky, an attorney for her family says in a letter.

It ends by saying Taylor's mother, Tamika, "deserves the truth" and that "the city deserves the truth." https://t.co/ti1N0EyISR
— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2020

It has been 96 days since Breonna Taylor was killed. Her killers have not been arrested. If the system will continue to protect her killers, then we must change the system.
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) June 17, 2020

Breonna Taylor’s police report said she had “no injuries” when she in fact had 8 gunshot wounds. And the 3 cops responsible still walk free. WT fucking F?
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 17, 2020

For 21 days, protesters in Louisville have gathered in the name of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by Louisville Police. https://t.co/Cdpx0g35cA
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 18, 2020

Trump lies about Veterans Choice over and over

I am sure he has told this lie dozens of times. Does anyone ever correct him to his face?

Trump lies that he got Veterans Choice passed after others had tried for almost 50 years, though Choice was a Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014, and he's said this more than 142 times and how do I not have a keyboard hot key for this yet
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2020

Tuned in to the president's ongoing Arizona "tele-rally" just in time to hear him claim he got Veterans Choice approved
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

Trump, who signed a 2018 law that modified the Choice program but did not create the Choice program, has now claimed more than 145 times to have created the Choice program. (I never have an exact count because by the time I've caught up he's said it more.) https://t.co/1ub4h7iyFl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 22, 2020

LIE. @BarackObama signed the VA Choice Act — sponsored by @BernieSanders — into law in 2014. https://t.co/4GKFDQ0mhv
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 4, 2020

Trump slams Obama and Biden over their handling of the VA, then says he, conversely, approved Veterans Choice. Obama signed Veterans Choice into law in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 17, 2020

Trump talks about school choice, then, because he said "choice," proceeds to repeat his lie that he is the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program created.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 11, 2020

“We got Choice approved for the vets,” Trump lies about the Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2020

During somnambulant coronavirus speech at the White House, Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/Bgfa1e6UNz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2020

Is any reporter EVER going to call him on the veterans choice LIE?
— Justice13_ (@Justice13__) June 17, 2020

Wow. At this veterans event in the east room, @realDonaldTrump is talking about how “we got VA accountability passed” instead of repeating his done-to-death lie about having signed VA choice into law.

cc: @GlennKesslerWP @ddale8
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 17, 2020

Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/0SDjkN3hm1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020

Donald Trump said his administration passed veteran's Choice after a 50-year wait. The policy dates to the Obama administration: https://t.co/7eBPaPRPoe #TulsaTrumpRally
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 21, 2020

Asked what his greatest accomplishment is, Trump lists, among other things, how "we got" Veterans Choice, a program actually created in 2014 under Obama.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2020

Excellent thread on coronavirus stats

Plus other recent articles on coronavirus stats

Helpful thread with charts: https://t.co/T4KN4QihcZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 17, 2020

Sad day: ARIZONA has crossed the rubicon… its epidemic now exceeds Brazil and Peru to be one of the hardest hit regions in the world. Exceeding all European countries as well.

Today: Record cases, record positivity %, record ER, record hospitalizations, record ICU. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/czTCaSeOJ4
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 17, 2020

JUST IN: Florida reports record-high one-day increase of 2,783 new coronavirus cases. https://t.co/k29SZrnemO
— ABC News (@ABC) June 16, 2020

Don't you hate liberals? They kept saying that red states that rushed to reopen would see a spike in Covid-19 cases. And as usual, they were … completely right pic.twitter.com/SKY5qDJ6x5
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 16, 2020

What an indictment of our leadership. pic.twitter.com/OwuA8KmrmF
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) June 15, 2020

Trump asked China for reelection help according to Bolton

He should have testified about this before Congress during the impeachment process. Trump is a liar but Bolton could be one, too.

BREAKING: Career official who reviewed John Bolton's book & determined it no longer had classified info alleges extraordinary irregularities & political interference as White House/DOJ sought to block publication & opened criminal investigation.w/ @nytmike https://t.co/OEMQZl9u2G
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 23, 2020

Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book https://t.co/K1jYnumeSF
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) June 17, 2020

Seeing the headlines from John Bolton’s book. Hard to imagine someone more in a position to have affected the course of history, and his place in it, had he participated in the House impeachment inquiry, and blowing it.
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) June 17, 2020

So trump asked China to help win the election. No wonder he kept looking the other way when he was being warned about Covid.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 17, 2020

Hakeem Jeffries, an impeachment manager, on John Bolton: “It's curious to me that now he has something to say when he could have stepped forward as a patriot when the stakes were high and the President was on trial – and he ran and hid in the other direction,” per @alizaslav
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 17, 2020

Film: Why Don’t You Just Die!

Why Don’t You Just Die? is a 2018 Russian film recently released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video. It’s my favorite film that I have seen so far this year. It’s an amazing combination of humor and gruesome violence. Almost everyone lies about really important things with disastrous consequences.

The song “Fuck You” by the Hatters plays over the credits. It’s a lot of fun, too.

Blobfest 2020: The Home Edition

Blobfest is an annual celebration of the 1958 film The Blob. It is held in Phoenixville, PA where most of the movie was filmed. The best part is that you can watch the film in the theater that is in the movie. I have been four times. They always show double bills of The Blob and a similar film from that era. Blobfest raises money for the Colonial Theatre and I encourage you to support it.

This year, Blobfest will be virtual.

The Criterion Collection has excellent Blu-Ray and DVD releases of the film.

Pence is lying about the coronavirus

It’s not over. What he is saying is misleading and dangerous.

Mike Pence's latest lies are much more dangerous than they first appear. His and Trump's constant efforts to create the *illusion* that we're roaring back to greatness make it less likely that we'll take steps to reduce future misery and death. New piece:https://t.co/AYbzNyR5Wa
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 16, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence tries to declare the coronavirus pandemic over as President Trump pushes for reopening and campaigning https://t.co/McNuXkEhXa pic.twitter.com/6E9ZtCuXuk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 17, 2020

From POLITICO Nightly tonight…https://t.co/ggo2XGgUMR
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 17, 2020

About Pence's claim we aren't seeing a second spike: For the past month, the first spike of new cases hasn't declined much at all. https://t.co/N1N6LBAuf1 pic.twitter.com/5ToODzBNMu
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 17, 2020

The Vice President is writing about how 750 American deaths per day is a sign of good progress or something and honestly I feel like we will look back on this time in horror and shame. We could have been South Korea. https://t.co/xGfeopE5yx
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 17, 2020

Despite the administration's efforts to declare the pandemic over, several states are currently experiencing an increase in cases.

Health officials have implored Americans to heed coronavirus task force guidelines — including masks and social distancing. https://t.co/MlZUoi4j3L
— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2020

Pence: "The number of cases in Oklahoma has declined precipitously."

Oklahoma health department: "Oklahoma has begun experiencing over the past two weeks an increase in the number of cases and hospitalizations due to COVID-19…"

From @HolmesLybrand: https://t.co/TnNBdtEb9K
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 16, 2020

“Vice President Pence is only telling part of the story,” @VinGuptaMD says of U.S. coronavirus projections. “The real story here is that cases are increasing out of proportion to the number of tests in 20 states." ⁰https://t.co/28jMQM8UCz
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 17, 2020

Leaked CDC document contradicts Pence claim that U.S. coronavirus cases 'have stabilized' https://t.co/9jeez1QSi8 pic.twitter.com/7WdEyiA0Zj
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) June 17, 2020

Live updates: Nine states hit record highs for covid-19 cases as Pence calls fear of a second wave "overblown" https://t.co/YjRDbsOilo
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 17, 2020

Bonnie Pointer

Bonnie Pointer, one of the Pointer Sisters who left the group for a solo career, died recently. In the late 1970s, she released two albums on Motown of mostly 1960s Motown covers backed by musicians including James Jamerson and Eddie Hazel. Both albums were called Bonnie Pointer.

I am not a disco fan but many of the tracks were excellent because of her singing. “Heaven Must Have Sent You”, a 1978 cover of a song originally recorded by the Elgins, was the most popular. There are two mixes including a disco 12″ version.