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- www.nytimes.com Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day
The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.
It wouldn't be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?
- www.rawstory.com Fear of a 'mean, bully Trump' showing up at Harris debate has his advisers on edge: NYT
In a deep dive into the debate preparations currently underway for Tuesday night when Donald Trump will face off with Vice President Kamala Harris, the New York Times is reporting that some of the former president's advisers are worried he may come on too strong and alienate voters who have tuned .....
- www.salon.com The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots
Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American
>Curiously, the agrarians, ur-Americans of Southern Protestant extraction, were influenced by the leading figure of the French Counter-Enlightenment, the arch-reactionary ultramontane Catholic Joseph de Maistre. Even in the present day, a Southern apologist for slavery has written a screed for something called the Abbeville Foundation extolling Maistre’s hatred of republics. Evidently, despising the very governmental foundation of the United States has become fashionable for a certain type of reactionary conservative.
>Émile Faguet, a French author and critic, called Maistre “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity composed of pope, king and hangman, always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism, a dark figure out of the Middle Ages, part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner."
>Maistre hits many of the key themes of American conservatism: religious dogmatism, belief over evidence, anti-scientism, the imperative of obedience to hierarchy and a habitual brooding over violence.
The author then continues on to wealth accumulation.
Wiki Link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre
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Trump and Musk lawyer reminds any Kremlin-backed MAGA assets to stop talking without an attorney
abovethelaw.com Trump And Musk Lawyer Reminds Any Kremlin-Backed MAGA Assets To Stop Talking Without An AttorneyHire a lawyer before talking to law enforcement... but also make sure it's a lawyer who isn't going to make matters worse.
- • 89%theintercept.com Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a human rights activist, was protesting an illegal West Bank settlement when she was reportedly shot in the head by Israeli soldiers.
- www.mediaite.com Trump Says Change 25th Amendment To Oust VPs Who Conspire to ‘Cover Up’ Incapacity of President: ‘That’s What They Did!
Former President Donald Trump vowed to change the 25th Amendment to allow for the removal of the vice president if they hide the "incapacity of the president."
Former President Donald Trump vowed to change the 25th Amendment to allow for the removal of the vice president if they hide the “incapacity of the president.”
During a Saturday rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, Trump offered a new proposal to modify the 25th Amendment. Trump and his supporters have often attacked Joe Biden by alleging he is mentally unfit to serve as president while claiming Kamala Harris has hid this fact from the public.
The 25th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution is designed to set up a line of succession if the president dies or becomes incapacitated. It allows the vice president to become president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office by impeachment.
- • 98%www.cbsnews.com Nikki Haley, asked if she thinks Trump is a "good candidate," replies "I think he is the Republican nominee"
Nikki Haley tells CBS News' Margaret Brennan she doesn't agree with Trump's style, approach or communications, but she backs his policies.
- www.rawstory.com 'It's a lie': Trump's 'own campaign' failed to substantiate ex-president's new rally claim
Donald Trump's own presidential campaign has failed to substantiate the former president's Saturday rally claim about children and schools, according to CNN, which deemed the statement a "lie." Trump recently spoke at a Moms for Liberty event where the former president made an eye-popping claim .....
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- newrepublic.com Unsealed FBI Doc Exposes Terrifying Depth of Russian Disinfo Scheme
New court documents reveal that Russia is keeping a very, very long list of influencers to spread its propaganda.
New court documents reveal that Russia is keeping a very, very long list of influencers to spread its propaganda.
The Russian disinformation plot revealed in a Justice Department indictment this week may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to newly unsealed court documents.
On Wednesday, the DOJ announced it would seize 32 internet domains linked to a larger Kremlin scheme to promote disinformation and influence the 2024 election. The Russian campaign, known as Doppelganger, uses AI-generated content to create “fake news” boosted through social media with the aim of electing Donald Trump.
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Of particular note, the documents released Wednesday included an affidavit that noted a Russian company is keeping a list of more than 2,800 influencers world wide, about one-fifth of whom are based in the United States, to monitor and potentially groom to spread Russian propaganda. The affidavit does not mention the full list of influencers, but is still a terrifying indicator of how deep the Russian plot to interfere in U.S. politics really goes.
- • 94%www.cbsnews.com California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill aimed at helping undocumented immigrants buy homes in the state
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have made some immigrants in the country illegally eligible for home loans backed by the state.
- www.rawstory.com Russian media asks Putin to offer asylum to unwitting MAGA dupes
Russian state media this week asked for a welcoming hand to be extended to a group of right-wing media influencers who were caught up as unwitting dupes in an alleged illegal Russian influence scheme this week.As reported by Julia Davis at The Daily Beast, Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov app...
- www.rawstory.com Russian propaganda makes Republicans weird
The US Department of Justice said yesterday that Russia is once again attacking the sovereignty of the United States by mounting yet another campaign to influence the outcome of a presidential election.Attorney General Merrick Garland said a federal indictment alleges that a Tennessee company got mi...
- • 99%www.rawstory.com 'Some folks need killing': Mark Robinson’s 13 most extremist controversies and scandals
Republican candidate has apologized for antisemitic statements and backed off from hardline positions
How you can say something like that and not be run out of politics is stunning, but that’s how far we’ve fallen. Dude also was addicted to porn booths in the 90s.
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A surge of Black women and young people registering to vote in Pennsylvania spells trouble for Trump
www.independent.co.uk Pennsylvania sees surge in Black women and young people registering to vote‘This data is suggesting that women, younger voters, voters of color, and then especially younger women of color are going to vote at a much higher rate than they did in 2020,’ one strategist says, predicting that it could have ‘a significant potential impact on the outcome of this election’
New voter registrations surged among Black women and young people in Pennsylvania when Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, according to newly released data.
In the week that Joe Biden announced he would not run for re-election, new registrations increased by 262 per cent among Black women under 30 compared to the same week in 2020.
Registrations among Black voters increased by 110 per cent, and among voters under 30 years old by 59 per cent, also compared to the same week in 2020.
All of those demographic groups lean heavily towards voting for Democrats.
> But evangelical leaders warn that’s no guarantee their rank and file will stay involved in politics if Republicans abandon socially conservative issues, like abortion and gay marriage, even as they lean in on others, like banning transgender kids from participating in youth sports. In July, Trump nearly sparked a platform fight at the Republican National Convention over language that couched abortion as primarily in the hands of the states, a position anti-abortion advocates almost uniformly oppose.
We can only hope that he continues to piss them off and they abandon him.
- www.rawstory.com 'Extremely unhelpful': Republicans lash out at rep who predicted they would lose majority
One member of the House Republican Conference isn't bullish on his party's chances to keep the speaker's gavel in Republican hands. Now, his colleagues are blasting him over his public pessimism about the November election.The Hill reported Saturday that comments Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) made du...
- www.nytimes.com Judge Sets Deadlines in Trump Election Case, Saying Campaign Is ‘Not Relevant’
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan laid out a swift schedule for the election interference case against Donald J. Trump after lawyers on both sides shared how they believed the case should proceed.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/22599
- www.mediaite.com Neo-Nazi Ex-Trump Dinner Guest Bitterly Rages At Trump For Admitting He Lost — Rants ‘You Deserve To Be Charged!’
Nick Fuentes — who notoriously dined with Kanye West and Trump at Mar-a-Lago — raged at Trump for his recent admissions that he lost the 2020 election.
- www.nj.com Trump’s team scrambles after JD Vance’s response to Georgia school shooting
Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe."
>Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a “fact of life” and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.
>Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”
>And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vance’s comments against them.
>“Kamala’s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,” Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.”
>Except Harris’ campaign shared the same video.
>Here’s what Vance had to say:
>“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
>Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”
>All of that was in what Harris’ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didn’t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.
- • 98%apnews.com Biden set to sign an order to prioritize federal grants for projects with higher worker wages and benefits
President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order for federal grants that would prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs.
President Joe Biden on Friday plans to sign an executive order for federal grants that would prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards, and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs.
The Biden administration is trying to make the case that economic growth should flow out of better conditions for workers.
“A good job is a job with security and benefits, where workers have the right to join a union, advocate for better working conditions, come home safe and healthy, and retire with dignity,” said Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.
- • 97%www.nytimes.com Trump, Trailing Among Women, Lashes Out at His Female Accusers
Mr. Trump’s news conference had little to do with the issues in the 2024 presidential race, and seemed like more of a venting exercise over his frustrations about his legal travails.
If any voters had forgotten that Donald J. Trump was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, he spent roughly 45 minutes reminding them on Friday, eight weeks before Election Day.
At a lectern in the lobby of Trump Tower, Mr. Trump, flanked by seven of his lawyers, laid out years-old allegations from the women in detail as he denied that they were telling the truth. He had just attended a federal appeals court hearing related to a civil case in which he was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming a New York writer, E. Jean Carroll, decades earlier. Mr. Trump was not required to attend the hearing, but decided he wanted to.
When the hearing was over, he went to his eponymous building for what the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign called a “press conference.” But he ended it without taking questions, and the session — during which Mr. Trump criticized his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, for avoiding reporters — was more like a venting exercise over his frustrations about his legal travails.
- newrepublic.com Pro-Trump Media Firm Abruptly Folds After Russia Scheme Exposed
Tenet Media has met a hilarious demise.
Tenet Media is no more.
The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being funded by Russian state-controlled media, according to Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.
The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.
- • 100%www.rgj.com Nevada Supreme Court rules Green Party will not be on the state's general election ballot
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled the Green Party ineligible for the general election ballot on Friday, after lawsuit filed by Nevada Democrats.
>The Green Party submitted 29,500 petition signatures so its candidates could be included on the ballot, which was roughly three times as many as needed. Nevada Democratic Party then sued, claiming some were signed too far in the past or seem altered, making them invalid.
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California Governor Unveils Emergency Rules To Ban Hemp Products With Any 'Detectable Amount' Of THC
www.marijuanamoment.net California Governor Unveils Emergency Rules To Ban Hemp Products With Any 'Detectable Amount' Of THC - Marijuana MomentSix years after Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp at the federal level, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is attempting to rein in the proliferation of products that contain intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids. While many support the aims of the proposal, some stakeholders c...
- • 25%jacobin.com Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.
Compare the response to Israel’s murder of a US citizen in the West Bank to the response to Hamas’s killing of a US citizen hostage last week, and the takeaway is clear: arming Israel is more important to Joe Biden than even the life of an American.
- www.voanews.com Republican bill to avoid government shutdown requires proof of citizenship to vote
Lawmakers need to approve a stopgap measure to prevent a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins October 1
- www.commondreams.org Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election | Common Dreams
From Georgia to Arizona, Nevada to Michigan, Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”
Conservative media is facing a rare moment of introspection, rocked by a series of scandals that have drawn new scrutiny to the right's favorite influencers.
- • 99%arstechnica.com Internet picks “werewolf clawing off its own shirt” as new Michigan “I Voted” sticker
"It was just so hot in that voting booth!"
- • 96%www.theguardian.com Harris campaign raised $361m in August, triple the amount of Trump campaign
The Trump team raised $130m in same month, with $285m cash in hand compared with Harris’s $404m
Kamala Harris raised triple the amount of her opponent in this election, Donald Trump, last month, in what her campaign claimed was the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history.
With less than 60 days until the 2024 presidential election, the campaign team for Harris, the Democratic party’s nominee for president, following the departure of US president Joe Biden from his re-election race in July, announced on Friday that it raised $361m in the month of August.
Harris, the US vice-president, outpaced the $130m raised by the Trump campaign almost threefold, the Associated Press reported.
- www.cnn.com Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead proposed government efficiency commission as ex-president unveils new economic plans | CNN Politics
Donald Trump unveiled a slate of new economic plans Thursday, including the creation of a government efficiency commission that he said Elon Musk has agreed to lead if the former president is elected in November.
Because Musk did such a good job with that at Twitter... "I don't understand what it is you do, you're fired."
- www.nbcnews.com Judge delays Trump sentencing in hush money case until November
The former president was scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18.
- www.theguardian.com We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism | Gabor Maté
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
- www.commondreams.org JD Vance's Solution to Childcare Crisis? 'Maybe Grandpa or Grandma Wants to Help' | Common Dreams
Republican VP nominee JD Vance suggests grandparents should help with childcare costs, ignoring struggling families. He also proposes lowering standards for childcare workers. Is this a viable solution or just passing the buck? #ChildcareCrisis
It is easy to forget how tuned the Internet is at capturing attention and what kind of motivation is behind it. https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
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Snopes: [True] Project 2025 Wants All Public High School Students To Take Military Entrance Exam?
www.snopes.com Project 2025 Wants All Public High School Students To Take Military Entrance Exam?Social media users claimed students would have to take the ASVAB exam "in an effort to combat military recruiting issues."
- deadline.com Judge Moves Donald Trump’s Sentencing In Hush Money Trial To Nov. 26
A New York judge has moved the sentencing in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial to after the election, on November 26. “The public’s confidence in the integrity of our judicial system demands a sentencing hearing that is entirely focused on the verdict of the jury and the weighing of aggravating and mi...
A New York judge has moved the sentencing in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial to after the election, on November 26. “The public’s confidence in the integrity of our judicial system demands a sentencing hearing that is entirely focused on the verdict of the jury and the weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors free from […]
- • 98%www.cnbc.com Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box
The letter is meant as a political show of force for Kamala Harris in a tight race with Donald Trump. The first presidential debate is less than a week away.
- • 97%apnews.com Trump accepts key endorsement from police union while celebrating sentencing delay on felony charges
Donald Trump has accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation's most influential law enforcement lobbies.
- • 41%newrepublic.com Kamala Harris Doesn’t Need Policy to Win
In fact, a detailed platform will hurt her campaign more than it will help.