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The NFL has pumped the brakes on its policy requiring players on the field to stand during the national anthem. In a joint statement from the NFL and the NFL Players’ Association, the two sides announced the policy has been suspended while they negotiate.
The move comes hours after the Miami Dolphins announced a team policy that could lead to players being suspended for four games if they protest during the national anthem.
The statement reads:
The NFL and NFLPA, through recent discussions, have been working on a resolution to the anthem issue. In order to allow this constructive dialogue to continue, we have come to a standstill agreement on the NFLPA’s grievance and on the NFL’s anthem policy. No new rules relating to the anthem will be issued or enforced for the next several weeks while these confidential discussions are ongoing.
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/nfl-national-anthem-protests-nflpa-eagles-dolphins-malcolm-jenkins-20180719.html
NYDN: Please Clean Up After Your Pet
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1020051477866385408
NYT letter to the editor of the day - maybe month
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1020319460664725506
Mother Jones: NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina -Here is yrs' worth of evidence.
Butina’s American contact noted that the “international reach of the NRA placed me in a position a couple of years ago to slowly begin cultivating a back-channel to President Putin’s Kremlin.”After Trump won, Butina contacted Torshin. “I am ready for further orders,” she told him.
For decades, the National Rifle Association has promoted its hardline politics with appeals to patriotism, freedom, and the staunch defense of the Second Amendment. But now, the controversial gun lobbying group finds itself deeply caught up in a wide-ranging effort to sabotage American democracy by an enemy foreign power.
Federal prosecutors unsealed charges this week against 29-year-old Russian national Maria Butina, a self-styled gun activist with long-running ties to the NRA who worked for Alexander Torshin, a high-level Russian government and banking official from President Vladimir Putin’s party. Butina, who was a graduate student at American University until this spring, began traveling to the United States in 2014 and operated as a “covert Russian agent,” according to an FBI affidavit. She acted as an unregistered foreign agent and participated in a multiyear conspiracy to infiltrate conservative political groups including the NRA, federal prosecutors say, in order to “advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina and Torshin worked together in attempts to cultivate Republican politicians and eventually Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Under Torshin’s direction, “the covert influence campaign involved substantial planning, international coordination, and preparation,” according to court documents, which detail some of the evidence gathered by the FBI on Butina’s connections to a Russian intelligence agency and Russian oligarchs. Torshin, who for years also traveled to America for NRA events and was among Russian officials sanctioned by the Treasury Department in April, is referred to only as a “Russian official” in the court documents. But his identity has since been confirmed in multiple news reports, and he appears with Butina in both the United States and Russia throughout several years’ worth of social-media posts previously documented by Mother Jones.
The pair of Russians spent years building ties with the NRA, as we reported in our recent investigation. And according to a New York Times report this week, the NRA “repeatedly brought Butina from her native Russia to the United States for events until she obtained a student visa in August 2016.”
Much more:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/maria-butina-web-connections-republican-party
I'm no dentist, but that body language says it all.
We don’t have Marina Gross’s notes. We do have photographs. The moment the two men walked out of their two hour private meeting. Look at Trump in those photos. Now look at Putin.
Ушатал таки наш Президент их "богатыря".
The President of their "hero" still staggered
https://ok.ru/novayakakh/topic/68647777525973
https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1020308655067951105
I can't believe this tweet is just hanging out there, it's utterly fucking amazing
Maria Butina is now in the US. He writes to me that D. Trump (a member of the NRA) is really for his cooperation with Russia.
it’s like a sentimental scrapbook of espionage
Anybody speak Russian to decode this thread?
https://twitter.com/torshin_ru/status/698742761160368128
https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1020146311704825856
Luckovich: "Japan Medling In Our Harbor"
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1020075011795832832
Eugene Robinson: God Bless The 'Deep State'
Before this harebrained and reckless administration is history, the nation will have cause to celebrate the public servants derided by Trumpists as the supposed “deep state.”
The term itself is propaganda, intended to cast a sinister light upon men and women whom Trump and his minions find annoyingly knowledgeable and experienced. They are not participants in any kind of dark conspiracy. Rather, they are feared and loathed by the president and his wrecking crew of know-nothings because they have spent years — often decades — mastering the details of foreign and domestic policy.
God bless them. With a supine Congress unwilling to play the role it is assigned by the Constitution, the deep state stands between us and the abyss.
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We will get answers at some point, but we can’t ignore what we appear to be seeing right now: ongoing collusion, between Trump and Putin, to impede and denigrate the Mueller investigation. It’s happening before our eyes.
Democrats in Congress are powerless; the Republican leadership, spineless. Experienced government officials know that their job is to serve the president. But what if the president does not serve the best interests of the nation?
In this emergency, the loyal and honorable deep state has a higher duty. It’s called patriotism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/god-bless-the-deep-state/2018/07/19/de36bd00-8b8a-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html?utm_term=.4406ec4c8f52
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/19/eugene-robinson-deep/
David Corn to Ari Melber: "You like to quote rap songs, I'll go with punk"
"You like to quote rap songs, I'll go with punk" @DavidCornDC quotes The Ramones: "my brain is hanging upside down" while discussing lack of "checks and balances on Trump"
https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1020079999402086400
Vladimir Putin "attacked the United States it's not meddling it's an attack" and "yet here's Trump providing cover for him" and giving him "an invitation to the White House"
https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1020078992542633984
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)
Ramones
You've got to pick up the pieces
C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best
Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say
Bonzo goes…
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