This is terrible/makes us wonder how that chain-smoking Indonesian toddler is doing.
racism
Amy Cooper Faces Charges After Calling Cops on Black Birder in Central Park
THE FEED
A policy with no seeming point except to get foreign students out of the country
NEW: ICE just put down a notice to students in the US on student visas that they must leave the United States if their classes are going to be only online this fall. If they want to stay, ICE says they must transfer to a school with in person instruction. https://t.co/hAtfFaNIKn pic.twitter.com/8l0C2MmX34
—@BillFOXLA
vision 2020
Americans Reach Peak Partisan Polarization Under Trump
As the lockdowns ease, gun violence in New York is soaring
According to @NYPDDCPI there was a 130% increase in the number of shootings across the City during the month of June.
—@ZackFinkNews
Once again, Trump’s effort to block a tell-all book backfires
Publisher Simon & Schuster cited “high interest and extraordinary interest” in the book by Mary Trump titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The book will now arrive July 14. https://t.co/AWYXZperRs
—@MiamiHerald
coronavirus
Trump’s Latest Coronavirus Strategy: Hope Americans Learn to ‘Live With’ It
vision 2020
Supreme Court Lets States Punish ‘Faithless Electors’
The Truman model will be hard to replicate this time around
Approval ratings in June of re-election year via Gallup:
Johnson 74%
Eisenhower 72%
Nixon 59%
Clinton 55%
Reagan 54%
W Bush 49%
Obama 46%
*Ford 45%
Truman 40%
Trump 38%
*HW Bush 37%
*Carter 32%
*lost re-election
—@ryanstruyk
Johnson 74%
Eisenhower 72%
Nixon 59%
Clinton 55%
Reagan 54%
W Bush 49%
Obama 46%
*Ford 45%
Truman 40%
Trump 38%
*HW Bush 37%
*Carter 32%
*lost re-election
One of the more closely watched cases from this term ends with unanimity
In “faithless electors” cases, unanimous #SCOTUS rules that state laws that penalize or remove presidential electors who do not vote for candidate they pledged to support do not violate the Constitution
—@SCOTUSblog
trump tweets
Trump Attacks Bubba Wallace, Defends Confederate Flag
The first big senate poll of Maine in a long time
Trump goes after black NASCAR driver for having temerity to report noose he found
Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!
—@realDonaldTrump
encounter
Two Weeks With Rachel Noerdlinger, the Movement’s Publicist
coronavirus
Everything We Do and Don’t Know About New York’s Reopening Plan
coronavirus
Coronavirus Hot Spot States by the Numbers
One of America’s big pipeline projects has run out of gas
The builders of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are pulling the plug on the project as companies continue to meet mounting environmental opposition to new fossil fuel conduits in the U.S.
Duke Energy Corp. and Dominion Energy Inc. said Sunday that they were abandoning the proposed $8 billion pipeline—which aimed to carry natural gas 600 miles through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina and underneath the Appalachian Trail—citing continued regulatory delays and uncertainty, even after a favorable Supreme Court ruling last month. …
Duke and Dominion said Sunday that the ruling wasn’t enough to mitigate an “unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays” for the project. They cited a Montana court ruling last month that threw another roadblock in the path of the Keystone XL Pipeline as an example of the continued challenges such projects face.
crime
What We Know About the Killing of Elijah McClain
Some cold water for the Kanye takes
the belief that a singular celebrity or community leader is representative of all black voters without supplemental evidence is not just galaxy brain, it is an outgrowth of the racist attitudes about black electorates
—@AsteadWesley
vision 2020
Can Trump Pull Off an Upset Like Harry Truman’s in 1948?
the national interest
David Horowitz’s Book Predicting a Trump Victory Was Not Well-Timed
fourth of july
Trump Is Throwing a Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show. What Could Go Wrong?
john lewis
John Lewis’s Lifelong Struggle for Voting Rights Isn’t Over
interesting times
Andrew Sullivan: China Is a Genocidal Menace
the top line
To Reopen the Economy, Close the Bars
vision 2020
Is Biden’s Lead Strong Enough to Make Texas Competitive?
vision 2020
Rove Giving Trump Advice He Cannot Take
ghislaine maxwell
Will Ghislaine Maxwell’s Arrest Make Boldface Names Nervous?
foreign interests
Please Don’t Prolong a Pointless War Just to Show Russia Who’s Boss
california
Affirmative Action and Voting Rights Are on California’s November Ballot
Just a couple months late on this one
*TEXAS GOVERNOR IMPOSES MANDATORY FACE MASK REQUIREMENT
—@jeneps
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