Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

I'd let Kamala Harris and Tim Walz babysit my kids.

I wouldn't let trump or the JD anywhere near my kids.

#HarrisWalz2024

"That is: when you read a New York Times headline that, say, reads “Trump and Harris Agree to September Debate” you have both an error in fact (Harris had long ago confirmed her attendence at the debate. Trump had ducked it and is now surrendering on this one), and a journalistic sin of omission–leaving out the entire tenor of the press conference and the fact that it was mostly a tissue of lies."

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/08/08/yes-virginia-the-media-does-put-thumbs-on-scales-with-headlines/

David Badash quotes conservative political strategist Mary Anna Mancuso, who said yesterday, “Trump is quiet quitting his own campaign," and who said after today's press conference, "Trump is not okay."

He also quotes Susan Glasser, who stated today, "Trump looks ill."

Some of us are old enough to remember when the media were all over Biden with questions about age and illness….

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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https://www.alternet.org/trump-mar-a-lago-meltdown/

To my fellow USians: It doesn't matter if Israel is there or not. We should be. We do not get a pass on this.

White House Comment Iine is: 202-456-1111

What a nice kid.

"At age 19, he lost his father to cancer, leaving his mother strapped with medical debt, an experience that informed some of the policy priorities...In June, Walz signed legislation banning medical providers from withholding medically necessary care because of unpaid debt. The law also banned debt transfer to a widow."

https://rollcall.com/2024/08/06/walzs-personal-experiences-shape-his-health-policy-outlook/

#healthcare #MedicalDebt #PublicHealth #fertility #IVF #veterans #GunViolence #ACA #ReproductiveJustice #USpol #elections #elections2024

While the criminal Trump has absurdly tried to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation's nightmarish blueprint for American fascism, Project 2025, here he is on the foundation president's private jet on the way to their conference. https://wapo.st/4dbdIcX

"Foreman rejected Vance's claim that Walz dodged serving in Iraq in 2005 by noting he resigned two months before orders to deploy were sent to his unit.

"The claim that he was somehow dodging going over there after 24 years of service, saying 'Well I just don't want to go to combat,' there's just no evidence to back that up," Foreman said. "

https://www.rawstory.com/no-evidence-vance-on-walz-military-service-gets-thorough-fact-check/

@GottaLaff
Let me guess, some guy with ties to Putin has volunteered this information...

@GottaLaff Uh, maybe they should check out Clarence Thomas, and Trump on who influenced them?

Journalistic rules of neutrality:

• If news is good for Democrats or bad for Republicans, it is biased against Republicans, and should be diminished.

• If news is bad for Democrats or good for Republicans, it is not biased against Republicans, and should be enhanced.

Griffin:

Tim #Walz signed the "Democracy for the People Act" into law last year — a sweeping bill that implemented automatic voter registration, allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, and created a permanent absentee voter list that automatically sends people who sign up a ballot each election.

#HarrisWalz2024

Breaking disaster this morning — the annual glacier floods are hitting Juneau, Alaska harder than ever, with a whole neighborhood flooded. Climate change is really hitting home this morning. https://www.ktoo.org/2024/08/05/live-updates-as-annual-glacial-outburst-flooding-impacts-juneaus-mendenhall-valley/ #akleg #alaska

Trump is too old and unfit to be president.

Drive up the company stock by doing layoffs then when investors get spooked by your now understaffed, deeply unstable company and they flee try to fix it with more layoffs!

A plan that could only come from the most brilliant minds!

@chrisgeidner Nothing says "I'm a Conservative!" like unearned/illegitimate moral superiority.

I remember a time when we all told ourselves, at least in academia, that #SCOTUS was supposed to be an #apolitical body of the #UnitedStates Govt….

If overturning #RoeVWade, SCOTUS’ ruling on Presidential #immunity, the blank check ruling on #bribery, … #Alito’s wife hanging a US flag upside down, & #ClarenceThomas’ existence was not enough to convince you that the #SupremeCourt is one of the most #political & #corrupt sections of our govt, then perhaps this will.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/5/2260806/-Gorsuch-Delivers-SCOTUS-Cryptic-Reply-to-Reform-Be-careful

#Google is an illegal #monopoly, federal court rules

A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market #power to quash #competition in #InternetSearch, handing the #DOJ a landmark victory against as it takes on a string of federal #antitrust lawsuits #BigTech.

“Google is a monopolist, & it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote in his judgment on Monday.

#law #TechPolicy #tech #business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/05/doj-google-monopoly-trial-judgment/

@petealexharris

Start with placing Starlink and SpaceX under the control of an international body so Musk can't give Putin any more freebies.

If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.