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riversedge's JournalGov Jay Inslee of Washington State says Trump may have his goons in the Evergreen State today
Gov Jay Inslee of Washington State says Trump may have his goons in the Evergreen State today
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/24/1963448/-Gov-Jay-Inslee-of-Washington-State-says-Trump-may-have-his-goons-in-the-Evergreen-State-today
Friday July 24, 2020 · 10:19 AM CDT
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2 companies scrap Rep. Hagedorn donations after BLM comments
Source: bringmeMNthenews
One company has asked for its donation back.
Updated: Jul 24, 2020
Some companies that have supported U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn's campaign are disavowing his recent comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and are asking for their money back or vowing not to contribute to his campaign in the future.
Hagedorn in a post on Facebook in June, wrote:
"The Democrat 'Black Lives Matter' Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture. Their radical movement is orchestrated and growing. We must never let them take power. We must stand up and defend our country, our nation’s identity, our Judeo-Christian values and our American way of life."
Critics say the notion of protecting "western culture" has been linked to the white nationalist movement, and has been invoked, among others, controversial Iowa Rep. Steve King, who has a long history of racist remarks. Now the Minnesota Republican's remarks have led to at least two companies who've donated to his campaign disavowing his remarks.
UnitedHealth Group has donated $7,500 to his reelection campaign (one of his largest corporate contributors), including $2,500 on June 30, and Intel last donated $4,000 to his campaign in late 2018, Popular Information said...........................
Read more: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/2-companies-scrap-rep-hagedorn-donations-after-blm-comments?fbclid=IwAR2sjCAZr_PwqfHCMApx56AAsStFbsGilzR3iw2g0jMF-HopunILAiNQRss
vote the bigot OUT of politics.
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Marine assigned to Trump's helicopter squadron tests positive for Covid-19
Source: politico
A Marine assigned to the military helicopter squadron responsible for transporting the president has tested positive for Covid-19, a Marine Corps spokesperson told POLITICO.
07/23/2020 03:58 PM EDT
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The Marine, assigned to Marine Helicopter Squadron 1, was tested on Tuesday and received the positive result on Thursday, said spokesperson Capt. Joseph Butterfield, adding that the squadron administers 80 to 100 tests per week.
The squadron was informed of the positive test on Thursday, ahead of the president's planned travel to Bedminster, N.J., this weekend, Butterfield said.
The squadron is sanitizing all aircraft in the squadron and beginning the process of contact tracing.
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A White House official confirmed that the Marine “had no contact with the president or any administration personnel.”...............................................
The Defense Department has reported 32,728 cases of Covid as of Wednesday, including 22,769 among members of the military. Overall, 51 department personnel have died, including three service members. The Marine Corps has 2,600 cases.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/23/marine-one-helicopter-covid-positive-380444
It is everywhere. everywhere.
Every player and coach on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight in
Take that Trump!!!
Every player and coach on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight in D.C.
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Gov. Tony Evers Opposes Trump Administration Sending Federal Agents To Milwaukee
Source: WPR
Governor Says Federal Agents' Presence Will Create 'Turmoil'
Thursday, July 23, 2020, 4:05pm
Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday he doesn’t support the Trump administration sending federal agents to Milwaukee to assist local law enforcement — something the White House said Wednesday it plans to do within the next three weeks.
Federal agents have already been deployed — or are soon to be deployed — to Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque. The White House says their missions are focused on combating violent crime.
Federal agents in camouflage uniforms have already been clashing with protesters in Portland since last week.
Speaking on a call with reporters on Thursday, the governor said he doesn’t support agents coming to Milwaukee because he believes it will escalate tensions between protesters and police.
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Evers said he sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday to express his concerns.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said Thursday he likewise opposes the federal presence................................................................
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Kellyanne Conway Throws Republican Governors Under The Bus For Reopening 'Too Early'
Source: Crooks and Liars
7/23/20 1:31pm
This is what happens when you hitch your wagon to a congenital liar who is loyal to no one but himself, and who has already said "I take no responsibility at all" when it comes to the coronavirus.
3 hours ago by Heather
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Trump already threw Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp under the bus once back in April, when he turned on a dime and "went from celebrating that “Our Country is starting to OPEN FOR BUSINESS again” to criticizing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen businesses, including hair salons and gyms."
Despite that flip-flop, Trump has continued to demand that businesses open back up, continued pushing the conspiracy theory that the pandemic is just a hoax created to keep him from being reelected, and has been just as reckless with his demands that schools reopen for in-person class, consequences be damned.
This Wednesday, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway took her turn tossing GOP governors such as Kemp and others who went along with Trump's push to reopen their economies too quickly under the bus as well during a press briefing outside of the White House, and did her best to pretend her boss never tweeted this back in April...................
Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/kellyanne-conway-throws-republican
Trump and his thugs lyin again and again and
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The Complete Guide to How Trump Lied, Bungled, and Screwed America into the COVID-19 Crisis
The Complete Guide to How Trump Lied, Bungled, and Screwed America into the COVID-19 Crisis
https://thebulwark.com/complete-guide-to-trump-covid/
March 26, 2020 12:37 pm
COVID-19 Is Not a Black Swan. Trump Is the Black Swan.
These Evangelical Women Are Abandoning Trump and the Church
It is great to see that for some--Enough is Enough!
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Judy Abrams holds a necklace with a cross. After voting Republican her entire life, Abrams recently registered as a Democrat.
These Evangelical Women Are Abandoning Trump and the Church
https://gen.medium.com/these-evangelical-women-are-abandoning-trump-and-the-church-ee8899837fe
The #MeToo movement, pandemic, and protests for racial justice have divided the evangelical community from their strongman
Jul 23 · 17 min read
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In exit polls from the 2016 election, 80% of white evangelicals and the majority of self-identified Christians said they voted for Donald Trump. The thrice-married, profane, biblically illiterate, sexually predacious candidate mirrored no beatitudes. While some believers rejected Trump for lack of decency, for many Christian voters, his personal failings were not disqualifying — here, at last, was a president who could muscle forward their political interests.
In her 2019 book, Red State Christians, journalist and Lutheran pastor Angela Denker describes traveling across the country after the election, talking to Christian voters and trying to understand their relationship with Donald Trump. Denker argues Trump may not know much about the Bible or evangelical Christianity, but his rhetoric resonated with a civic religion common in many Evangelical churches, especially in the South, “with its unique blend of nostalgia, plus a little misogyny and dog-whistle race politics on the side.” There’s a degree to which many churches have adopted a Christian nationalism that has wrapped faith tightly in patriotism and relies, in some cases, less on the gospel and more on “God, guns, and country.”
Many Southern Baptist churches celebrate the Sundays closest to the Fourth of July and Veterans Day with as much fervor as Easter, with services that might feature the Pledge of Allegiance, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” sermons on American exceptionalism, and video montages of war veterans. It’s a church-country linkage popularized during the Cold War, a perceived battle against threats to “Christian America” rooted in a dominionist theology that portrays the white European settlement of America as a fulfillment of God’s promise. Winning the culture wars and “restoring” Christian political primacy became a spiritual mandate, a restoration of God’s promise. By the time Obama’s administration championed same-sex marriage and birth control coverage, “Democrats sounded like foreigners to Red State Christians across the South and rural America,” writes Dennker.
When Churches Stay Open, It May Be to Chase the Almighty Dollar
Pastors don’t want to miss out on lucrative holidays or essential donations—even during a pandemic
gen.medium.com
Despite Obama’s regular church attendance, his administration’s progressivism was perceived by many evangelical Christians as sweeping the country far from an idealized nation of school prayer and father-headed nuclear families toward one that was liberal, predominantly non-Christian, and often not white. To Denker, it was no coincidence that Donald Trump, who kept dog-whistling Obama as being Muslim and not a U.S. citizen, became these voters’ candidate. “Actual church attendance and Bible knowledge mattered less than a politician’s ability to catalog their list of perceived cultural wrongs and manufactured fears.”.................................
It is time for Congress to investigate the emergency authorities given to the chief executive.
How Powerful Is the President?
It is time for Congress to investigate the emergency authorities given to the chief executive
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opinion/trump-presidential-powers.html?referringSource=articleShare
By Gary Hart
Mr. Hart is a former Democratic senator from Colorado and former presidential candidate.
July 23, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
In 1975, after public revelations of intelligence abuses concealed from all but a handful of members of Congress, the United States Senate created a temporary committee to study the nation’s spy agencies — something no standing committee had ever attempted.
What came to be known as the Church Committee, after its chairman, Senator Frank Church of Idaho, recommended broad reforms, including the creation of a permanent Intelligence Oversight Committee. Former Vice President Walter Mondale and I are the last surviving members of the Church Committee.
We have recently come to learn of at least a hundred documents authorizing extraordinary presidential powers in the case of a national emergency, virtually dictatorial powers without congressional or judicial checks and balances. President Trump alluded to these authorities in March when he said, “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about.” No matter who occupies the office, the American people have a right to know what extraordinary powers presidents believe they have. It is time for a new select committee to study these powers and their potential for abuse, and advise Congress on the ways in which it might, at a minimum, establish stringent oversight.
Secret powers began accumulating during the Eisenhower years and have grown by accretion ever since. The rationale originally was to permit a president to exercise necessary control in the case of nuclear war, an increasingly remote possibility since the Cold War’s end. An obscure provision in the Communications Act of 1934 empowers the president to suspend broadcast stations and other means of communication following a “proclamation by the President” of “national emergency.” Powers like these have been deployed sparingly: A few days after the Sept. 11 attacks, a proclamation declaring a national emergency, followed by an executive order days later, invoked some presidential powers, including the use of National Guard and U.S. military forces.
What little we know about these secret powers comes from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School, but we believe they may include suspension of habeas corpus, surveillance, home intrusion, arrest without a judicial warrant, collective if not mass arrests and more; some could violate constitutional protections.
A number of us have urged immediate congressional investigations concerning what these powers are and why they have been kept secret. Public hearings should be held before the November elections, especially with rumors rife that the incumbent president might interfere with the election or refuse to accept the result if he felt in jeopardy of losing.......................................
Florida Sen. Rick Scott says his grandchildren will start 'distance learning'
Source: wtsp.com
Several school districts across Florida are delaying the start of the school year because of increasing COVID-19 cases and concern over safety. Credit: AP
Published: 10:20 PM EDT July 21, 2020 Updated: 10:20 PM EDT July 21, 2020
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida Sen. Rick Scott asserted parents need to be given a choice whether their children should return to in-person learning amid the COIVD-19 pandemic.
His grandchildren, Scott said Tuesday, will be "distance learning" in the meantime to ensure their safety.
"You ought to give parents as many choices as possible," said Scott on Fox Business' "Varney and Co." "My daughters are going to be more focused on, you know, distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe.
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The debate over whether children should go back to in-person schooling took a new turn this week when the state's largest teachers union, the Florida Education Associated, sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education following the department's emergency order to reopen physical school classrooms five days a week in August.
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The Florida Department of Education responded to the lawsuit, in part, the FEA "hasn't read nor understands the ... guidance (and) emergency order."
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Read more: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/florida-senator-rick-scott-says-grandchildren-will-be-distance-learning/67-182a968c-afd5-4513-8a21-9e39c179c78b
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Scott makes sure he gets the word subsidized and free lunches into his demeaning and snob
comments.
The contrast between the two articles is so stark!
Rick Scott’s grandchildren will be ‘distance learning’ when school starts
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/350852-distance-learning-rick-scott
Some parents might want to send their kids to school for ‘a subsidized meal.’
By A.G. Gancarski
on July 22, 2020
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott wants schools to reopen, but he said his grandchildren won’t be in them.
On Tuesday’s edition of Varney and Co. on the Fox Business Network, the first-term Republican from Naples said, while parents should have “choice,” that choice should include distance learning, in addition to five days in brick-and-mortar buildings.
“My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe,” Scott told Varney. “Other parents are going to want to make sure their kids are in the classroom.”
Scott said parents have their own reasons for sending their kids to school, such as free lunches.
“Some [parents] are going to do it because it’s a way for students to get a subsidized meal, things like that,” Scott said..............................................
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We need to vote out every last one of these elitist, lying, self serving pricks! #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare
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Rick Scott’s grandchildren will be ‘distance learning’ when school starts
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