Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

One of the Nation’s Largest Auto Lenders Told Customers, “We’re Here to Help.”

Then It Took Their #Money and Their #Cars.
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CarMax partner Exeter Finance makes high-interest loans to people with troubled financial histories.

It allows borrowers to skip payments but often adds thousands of dollars in new charges — costs that customers say Exeter didn’t tell them about.

#News #PersonalFinance #Transparency #ConsumerProtection

https://www.propublica.org/article/exeter-finance-skip-payments-debt

💪🏼BREAKING: #Arizona Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party chair that challenged Gov. Katie Hobbs' (D) executive orders expanding voter registration and ballot drop off locations in the battleground state.— Democracy Docket

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.

I was not anticipating my state’s Supreme Court to allow abortion access to be put on the ballot, but I’m very pleasantly surprised. Way to go Missouri Supreme Court!

#uspol #missouri #abortion

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