First men on the moon: July 20, 1969

I remember watching the first moon walk in my parents’ bedroom on their black and white TV. A great film composed primarily of NASA footage is Al Reinert’s For Al Mankind,

It's #NationalMoonDay! History was made 49 years ago #today when the first humans set foot on the Moon during Apollo 11. Watched live on television by a worldwide audience, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went where no one had gone before. #NASA60th pic.twitter.com/ZBqQoABsFs

— NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) July 20, 2018

Apollo 11 lunar module on moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong after landing 49 years ago: #NASA pic.twitter.com/gAL4uWG6UF

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 20, 2018

Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit, worn 49 years ago: pic.twitter.com/b7WON0WKiy

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 20, 2018

On #ThisDayinHistory 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” #NationalMoonDay pic.twitter.com/V1DBPMOrzj

— HISTORY (@HISTORY) July 20, 2018

A picture is worth a thousand words. Neil Armstrong took this first lunar spacewalk photo on this day in 1969. #Apollo11 pic.twitter.com/sxDUQPA1PO

— SmithsonianAirSpace (@airandspace) July 20, 2018

At exactly 10:56pm EDT, 49 years ago, #Apollo11’s Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon. #FirstMan will share the story of the mission. Learn more about the journey – visit @NASA at https://t.co/vR7P01lhB9 pic.twitter.com/2nT3cSzcqA

— First Man (@FirstManMovie) July 21, 2018

Political Science – Randy Newman (1972)

I have posted this before but it seems pertinent after Trump’s attacks on our allies. It was a satire when it was released but it sure sounds like Trump.

Judicial nomination withdrawn

Where does Trump find these people? Don’t they vet them or don’t they even care what they have said?

I will vote NO on Ryan Bounds for a lifetime appointment to the 9th Circuit. Some backstory: breaking with a 100-year-old Senate practice, Republicans moved his nomination forward over the objections of both Senators who represent the state that Bounds will be appointed to.

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) July 18, 2018

Facing opposition from some GOP Senators, the judicial nomination for Ryan Bounds was just withdrawn.

Here’s a May WaPo story about some of his writings while a college student that led to some of the the opposition. https://t.co/W02rM8EjsN

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 19, 2018

McConnell withdraws nomination nomination of Ryan Bounds to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit after concerns about racially insensitive writings from his past, GOP senators say — amounting to a significant loss for the White House.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 19, 2018

IMPORTANT: Republicans are taking another step to destroy the judicial nominations process as we know it by confirming Ryan Bounds without approval from home-state senators @RonWyden & @SenJeffMerkley. The Congressional Research Service says this has never happened. #CourtsMatter

— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) July 18, 2018

Tim Scott, in his quiet disapproval of Ryan Bounds today, has done more to check the President than Jeff Flake or Bob Corker have done with all of their speeches and soundbites.

— Sam Rubinstein (@Sam_Rubinstein) July 19, 2018

Nunes used political contributions for tickets, tours and trips

Corruption

Report: Rep. Devin Nunes used political dollars for $15K in Celtics tickets, winery tours and Vegas trips https://t.co/egWlhb6BHH

— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) July 20, 2018

Walk Back Week

Worst week for Trump since Charlottesville comments. Pathetic.

Trump is a Russian stooge and pathological liar. He is totally incompetent.

Inside Trump’s tumultuous “Walk Back Week.” Behind-the-scenes with a WH staff trying to manage, cajole, and placate an angry president. by ⁦@AshleyRParker⁩, ⁦@PhilipRucker⁩, ⁦@jdawsey1⁩, and ⁦@CarolLeonnig⁩, w/ an assist from me. https://t.co/nJtCMcspDU

— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) July 21, 2018

Fmr. W.H. official: "You have a lot of people who are just a bunch of small-timers and clowns, so when they fuck up a response, you almost can’t blame them because you knew what you were getting, you know?" https://t.co/WSYjxdbZXH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2018

Trump digs into a familiar playbook of digging in. ⁦@katierogers⁩ and me https://t.co/YlqJ9izSlA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 19, 2018

Trump complained about the coverage being “so negative.” But by late morning today, he knew he needed to course-correct, and Stephen Miller drafted a statement was repeatedly revised. W ⁦@MarkLandler⁩ https://t.co/9HF3upE9Pc

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2018

“By the time he arrived home, the parade of critical statements had become a stampede, leaving Trump the most isolated he'd been in the White House since last year's controversy over white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville” https://t.co/ofyibI8c3P

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 21, 2018

Russia has targeted at least three 2018 candidates

The same Russian intelligence agency charged with hacking Democrats’ emails in 2016 has targeted at least three candidates running for election in 2018, a Microsoft executive said https://t.co/RrtJDyUBtl

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 20, 2018

Kompromat

This is the week where it became impossible to laugh off the idea that Russia has "kompromat" on Trumphttps://t.co/zNAbOivWHv pic.twitter.com/a6ZDthDv3k

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 20, 2018

Biggest impact of Helsinki so far: the big wigs and respectable folk are starting to think Putin has something on Trump. https://t.co/yKAC4c77RM via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 20, 2018

Former CIA senior analyst Ned Price: “Vladimir Putin has leverage over Donald Trump and as we saw this week, he’s going to exact that any way he can.” https://t.co/PziKMmdbmr

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 21, 2018

Does Putin have kompromat on Trump?

It is WAY worse than that.

Trump is trapped in a massive system of compromise and corruption that he fears and barely understands. https://t.co/BX0EkefLPg pic.twitter.com/eXOgTJ3F76

— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) July 21, 2018

A reminder that the idea of any"kompromat" anyone has on Trump has to be financial or legal because his personal life already contains enough to bring down entire generations of other politicians. https://t.co/XAjow2YBLN

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 20, 2018

Pelosi and Schumer move closer to a “kompromat” theory of Donald Trump: https://t.co/m38Jtf0a2a pic.twitter.com/IxwRFpNNi9

— Slate (@Slate) July 18, 2018

Ask: WHY would the President be afraid?? Looking for somebody to give me a reasoned response against the analysis that it’s kompromat. I’m hoping there is one. https://t.co/TftAAuCM3u

— Steven L. Hall (@StevenLHall1) July 21, 2018

Trump is so bad, a conservative misses Obama!

Just 18 months ago — can you believe it was so recently? — we had a president with whom I could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. We can have one again. My latest in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/agWLMw3REE

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 21, 2018

Yet another reason I miss Obama. I don’t recall so much open anti-Semitism and racism online when he was in office. https://t.co/N0wc88LTCY

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 21, 2018

It's slowly dawning on the right that Barack Obama was not actually a race-baiting demagogue. @JonathanChait writes on how Republicans convinced themselves of their own propaganda https://t.co/W8NhuCGIBt

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 21, 2018

Trump administration says veterans program can’t be funded without budget cuts

But it was alright to give rich people massive tax cuts.

TYPICAL: After Massive Tax Cuts For Rich, Trump Says U.S. Can’t Afford To Expand Veterans’ Health Care https://t.co/LTxZyoP97x via @NYMag @2HawkEye2018 @ToConservatives @StarryEyed48 @democracynow @NoFascistLies @lipsoneric @gdtrble @shondi99 @NeverMorebush @AKADonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/99t0LqV8Sh

— Allan Margolin (@AllanMargolin) July 21, 2018

Trump can always appeal to his base by attacking the NFL players

Of all weeks, the president is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on patriotism or respect for our country. https://t.co/FigmDuLQ2a

— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) July 21, 2018

“Trump has struggled with low approval ratings since entering the Oval Office and must keep the support of his base to maintain the numbers he currently has. Appealing to their cultural anxieties reminds them of why they supported Trump in the first place.” https://t.co/c9f4Nz05zG

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) July 21, 2018

When #Trump tries to resurrect the #NFL issue in the middle of the baseball season, you know he's in trouble. https://t.co/NrVMjEpTof

— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) July 21, 2018

when people hate your new album so you go back to your greatest hits https://t.co/SiYr9ak9Ro

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 20, 2018

no one is protesting the anthem https://t.co/ikiTgEgO9p

— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) July 21, 2018