When he was called upon to answer a threat to Americans so severe that it would in barely three months leave more dead than were killed in World War I, Trump deliberately lied.
Trump downplayed the danger in the critical early stages of the fight—which the president would eventually describe as “our big war”—and he has continued to lie as the death toll has ticked upward, past 100,000, past 150,000, past 175,000.
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Tens of thousands of those deaths were preventable. But Trump’s lies made them inevitable.
The 107-year-old Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, becomes the first newspaper in the United States to respond to the deliberations of the Democratic National Convention by formally endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
Founded in 1917 as a newspaper that backed Republicans, The Capital Times editorial described its respect for Republicans who tried to do right by Wisconsin. But, it said, “We have no such respect for Donald Trump, or for his running mate JD Vance.”
The Capital Times wrote: “If the Republican Party was serious about politics, and serious about governing at this definitional moment in American history, it would have rejected Trump and Trumpism at its convention in Milwaukee. But that didn’t happen.”
Dems wanted a VP nominee who would stand up for economic justcie and human rights, proudly embrace progressivism and call out the weirdness of Trump's Republican Party.
While others triangulated, Walz jumped at the chance to be the progressive populist.
Tim Walz delivered a robust Franklin Delano Roosevelt-style appeal to urban AND rural voters, by identifying Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, their billionaire donors and their venture-capitalist cabal as the robber barons who have stolen American prosperity.
Supreme Court rejects oversight by agencies staffed by experts in the areas they regulate and instead determines that courts have the expertise to deal with the issues… in a decision where Justice Gorsuch confuses laughing gas with a dangerous air pollutant.
#ChevronDecision
For decades, federal agencies have interpreted complex scientific, technicaL & technological issues in order to assure that regulations approved by Congress can effectively protect our food, our water, our air, our transportation systems.
SCOTUS has now rejected that precedent.
“You may have a random judge in Amarillo deciding on the safety of heart medicines or clean air for our kids, or rules to keep the doors from blowing off airplanes. Judges will now be able to essentially rewrite our laws.”
— David Doniger
Lawyer
Natural Resources Defense Council
Waffle House agrees to the “largest additional investment” in raised wages in the chain’s history. Workers organized, petitioned management and won a big hike—$3 or more an hour—for thousand across the South.
@RaiseUptheSouth
This is a huge win for southern workers, and a signal that the determined efforts of groups such as the Union of Southern Service Workers will go from strength to strength in a region that has gone for too long without a raise.
The South is going union!
Here’s Anthony Bourdain on why @WaffleHouse matters:
Nikki Haley did not campaign in Indiana. She did not spend any money on TV, radio or digital advertising. And, yet, she’s won more than 120,000 votes — for almost 22% of the total in Tuesday’s GOP primary. In some key counties, she has won a third of the vote.
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In Hamilton County — suburban Indianapolis — Haley is at almost 34%.
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In Marion County — Indianapolis and suburbs — Haley is over 35%.
I still don’t believe in letting Dick Cheney off the hook. I thought he should be impeached and removed for high crimes and misdemeanors when he was Vice President. Indeed, if he had been impeached and removed, I believe the Republican Party’s degeneration would have been slowed.