Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Donald Trump on 9/11

His reaction? To brag that his building, 40 Wall Street, was once again the tallest building in lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell.

Absolutely sick. And weird. And un-American.

‘Something every woman watching the debate probably noticed: Trump could not bring himself to say the name of the serving vice president, his opponent for the presidency. For him, Harris was just a pronoun: a nameless, identity-less “she,” “her,” “you.” … Harris bruised his feelings, and Trump reacted by shutting his eyes and pretending that Harris had no existence of her own independent of President Joe Biden, whose name Trump was somehow able to speak.’ David Frum https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/

New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review:

"This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse."

Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/

Publicly declaring "I will give you a child" to someone you have no consenting relationship with is a threat of sexual assault, full stop.

Another great Philly Inquirer editorial: "For perhaps the first time, many Americans saw there was nothing there but a deranged, old man. Harris delivered a master class in how to take down a bully. She pummeled Trump and put him in short pants. And she did it with style and substance."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/harris-trump-debate-performance-20240911.html

The #NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
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The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated.

It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current #police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.

#NYC #News #Law #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Government #EdwardCaban

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban

Trump saying he has "concepts of a plan" is hilariously idiotic but it's something we should take literally.

He doesn't have the discipline to draft plans.

That's why the Heritage Foundation (along with 140 people who worked for Trump in the past) wrote Project 2025 for him.

7. Fires consume 9% of the world's LARGEST Wetland area, the Pantanal, in South America.
8. Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced last Saturday.

PLEASE share this post to raise awareness

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Trump claims he has nothing to do with Project 2025.

Except that all of Trump’s senior staffers wrote it and he took a private jet trip with the head of Project 2025 on the way to a dinner honoring Project 2025 where Trump delivered the keynote speech.

Minor details.

"Over and over, Harris deployed the same formula. She’d answer a question from the moderators on her terms, hitting her marks and making the points she wanted to make. But along the way, she’d make a quick digression: dangling some shiny object for Donald Trump to fixate on.

And time after time, he couldn’t help but take the bait. The result: He was perpetually embroiled in rhetorical dead ends while she was already onto the next thing."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-trump

#HarrisWalz #Harris

We live in Florida, a state which is in the “likely GOP” column. Our daughter attends college in Pennsylvania, which is shaping up to be an important state for Democratic victory in this election. So our daughter has changed her voter registration to PA.

If you have college age children in battleground states, you might want to have a conversation with them about this idea. Just sayin’.

UN says lives of staff endangered in Israeli halt of #Gaza #polio vaccine convoy - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/un-says-lives-of-staff-endangered-in-israeli-halt-of-gaza-polio-vaccine-convoy so #israel wants to help polio spread, that's nice...

Trump praised Viktor Orban, the dictator of Hungary — a pro-Putin lapdog who’s supported the slaughter of Ukrainians, eliminated freedom of speech and press, and now runs a one-party state where he’s ruled for 14 years and can’t be voted out.

That’s what Trump wants for himself.

No matter what Trump says during tonight's debate, tariffs aren't paid by the other country.

They're paid by you.

His tariff plan would be a regressive tax — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people, costing a typical family an extra $3,900 per year.

Ahead of tonight's debate, we look back at this story from last month.

Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/07/trump-mental-health-linguistic-analysis-suggests-potential-cognitive-decline-experts-say/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

JD Vance and other MAGA Republicans are claiming that "Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating pets" in rural Ohio.

Understand that the point of this vile accusation is for one reason only—dehumanization. It's a white supremacy tactic to push the Overton window into justifying punishing, caging, deporting, and killing immigrants.

It's disgusting, shameless, & deliberate. It mandates we actively call it out as the violent, racist, and fascist claim it is.

In Texas, GOP's Ken Paxton has used the police to target Latino voters by searching activists homes and seizing computers, phones. Now the GOP wants to do that nationwide with the SAVE Act that House GOP are saying must pass to fund the govt. My article https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/texas-gops-voter-intimidation-is

‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial #Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto - https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/10/the-bibi-files-netanyahu-documentary-toronto "Netanyahu is prolonging the devastating war in #Gaza – which has amassed more than 40,000 casualties – to avoid possible prison time stemming from corruption charges."

The Biden administration announced it would finalize a highly anticipated proposal meant to force health insurers to cover mental health care on the same basis as physical health conditions.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/insurance-mental-health-parity-addiction-treatment/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic