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August 17, 2017
Nazis and Klansmen on the street. This is the picture that needs to go viral. Not jokes about Tiki torches.
https://twitter.com/resisterhood/status/898163407857352704
https://twitter.com/politico/status/898136351442448385
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-chairwoman-ronna-romney-mcdaniel-white-supremacists-vote/story?id=49246071
I've got some bad news for you, Ronna (RNC Chair)
Nazis and Klansmen on the street. This is the picture that needs to go viral. Not jokes about Tiki torches.
https://twitter.com/resisterhood/status/898163407857352704
https://twitter.com/politico/status/898136351442448385
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-chairwoman-ronna-romney-mcdaniel-white-supremacists-vote/story?id=49246071
August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/898174736978640896
There will be no statues of you.
https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/898174900988514304https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/898174736978640896
August 17, 2017
VIRAL VIDEO: Terrified Charlottesville Nazi Strips Off His White Power Costume To Escape Angry Protesters
August 17, 2017 Extremists, Nazis
GQ Magazine reports:
It was Saturday, and the police had finally called for everyone to clear the park. As I filmed officers opening up a blocked street, a young man ran into view, screaming for help. He wore the khaki-and-white uniform of the white nationalist group Vanguard America. He had been separated from them and was being chased by at least one protester. He ripped off his shirt and begged the crowd for mercy. He wasnt actually into white power, you see.
Barely, he clarified to me. As he shoved his polo shirt into a plastic bag, the fear on his face settled into a smirk. Its kind of a fun idea, he explained. Just being able to say white power, you know? I didnt know. But by the look of things, the fun of shouting white power stopped as soon as he was threatened with the same violence his group brought to bear on others. Cut off from the pack, forced to face the consequences of his inflammatory behavior, he found escape in a costume change.
https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/898171117138984962
https://www.gq.com/story/charlottesville-white-supremacist-strips-to-escape-protestors
Terrified Charlottesville Nazi Strips Off His White Power Costume To Escape Angry Protesters -
VIRAL VIDEO: Terrified Charlottesville Nazi Strips Off His White Power Costume To Escape Angry Protesters
August 17, 2017 Extremists, Nazis
GQ Magazine reports:
It was Saturday, and the police had finally called for everyone to clear the park. As I filmed officers opening up a blocked street, a young man ran into view, screaming for help. He wore the khaki-and-white uniform of the white nationalist group Vanguard America. He had been separated from them and was being chased by at least one protester. He ripped off his shirt and begged the crowd for mercy. He wasnt actually into white power, you see.
Barely, he clarified to me. As he shoved his polo shirt into a plastic bag, the fear on his face settled into a smirk. Its kind of a fun idea, he explained. Just being able to say white power, you know? I didnt know. But by the look of things, the fun of shouting white power stopped as soon as he was threatened with the same violence his group brought to bear on others. Cut off from the pack, forced to face the consequences of his inflammatory behavior, he found escape in a costume change.
https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/898171117138984962
https://www.gq.com/story/charlottesville-white-supremacist-strips-to-escape-protestors
August 17, 2017
Why has a friendly tabloid exposed a sex scandal in the Presidents ranks?
........
A vague outline of the truth is starting to emerge from the fog. It is that the Russians made continual attempts to get close to Trump and his associates, part of what the US intelligence agencies all agree was a Kremlin plot to subvert the election. Trumps supporters believe that any such approaches never went anywhere (as Jr says happened with his meeting) or that the tough New York property developer from The Apprentice was playing the Russians without being played himself. Trumps enemies, believing him to be a man with no moral compass, imagine he was only too eager to take whatever was being offered: information; weird sex in a Moscow hotel room; money, lots of it, for his businesses.
This is why it is so important that the FBI investigation, led by a special counsel, Robert Mueller, now appears to be reaching back into Trumps business past. Muellers team of prosecutors includes a number of experts in money-laundering and New York real estate. The US media is speculating that he is trying to build an old-fashioned wire fraud, tax evasion and racketeering case against Trump. This is a neuralgic issue for the President. In a New York Times interview he agreed that any investigation of his finances was a red line Mueller should not cross. I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I dont I dont I mean, its possible theres a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? Trumps most recent partner in selling a lot of condos was a man called Felix Sater. Sater was once jailed for stabbing a man in the face with the broken stem of a martini glass. He was convicted of a massive stock fraud a partnership between the Russian and Italian-American mafias but stayed out of jail by becoming an FBI informant.
For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison, someone talking to Muellers investigators informed me. Sater himself added fuel to this fire when he told New York magazine last week: In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about. Unfortunately, I cant talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it aint anything as small as whether or not theyre gonna call me to the Senate committee.
Sater and Manafort together would pose a deadly threat to Trumps presidency if they testify that Russian money in his businesses led to information being exchanged with Russian intelligence. This is exactly the relationship an exchange running between them for at least eight years that the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele described in his dossier. At a news conference this week at his New Jersey golf club, the President bizarrely asserted that the Steele dossier had been paid for by Russia in order to damage him. This is the latest twist in Trumps response to the dossier, which began with flat denials in January that he had been filmed by Russian intelligence with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.
the rest:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/
Felix Sater, is said to have told friends that he and POTUS are going to prison
Forget Charlottesville Russia is still the true Trump scandalWhy has a friendly tabloid exposed a sex scandal in the Presidents ranks?
........
A vague outline of the truth is starting to emerge from the fog. It is that the Russians made continual attempts to get close to Trump and his associates, part of what the US intelligence agencies all agree was a Kremlin plot to subvert the election. Trumps supporters believe that any such approaches never went anywhere (as Jr says happened with his meeting) or that the tough New York property developer from The Apprentice was playing the Russians without being played himself. Trumps enemies, believing him to be a man with no moral compass, imagine he was only too eager to take whatever was being offered: information; weird sex in a Moscow hotel room; money, lots of it, for his businesses.
This is why it is so important that the FBI investigation, led by a special counsel, Robert Mueller, now appears to be reaching back into Trumps business past. Muellers team of prosecutors includes a number of experts in money-laundering and New York real estate. The US media is speculating that he is trying to build an old-fashioned wire fraud, tax evasion and racketeering case against Trump. This is a neuralgic issue for the President. In a New York Times interview he agreed that any investigation of his finances was a red line Mueller should not cross. I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I dont I dont I mean, its possible theres a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? Trumps most recent partner in selling a lot of condos was a man called Felix Sater. Sater was once jailed for stabbing a man in the face with the broken stem of a martini glass. He was convicted of a massive stock fraud a partnership between the Russian and Italian-American mafias but stayed out of jail by becoming an FBI informant.
For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison, someone talking to Muellers investigators informed me. Sater himself added fuel to this fire when he told New York magazine last week: In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about. Unfortunately, I cant talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it aint anything as small as whether or not theyre gonna call me to the Senate committee.
Sater and Manafort together would pose a deadly threat to Trumps presidency if they testify that Russian money in his businesses led to information being exchanged with Russian intelligence. This is exactly the relationship an exchange running between them for at least eight years that the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele described in his dossier. At a news conference this week at his New Jersey golf club, the President bizarrely asserted that the Steele dossier had been paid for by Russia in order to damage him. This is the latest twist in Trumps response to the dossier, which began with flat denials in January that he had been filmed by Russian intelligence with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.
the rest:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/
August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/_mikeburrows_/status/898160354638909440
https://twitter.com/RebeccaBMackie/status/898167716766523393
Great Courage!: Protest in support of organizers arrested for taking down confederate monument!
Folks lining up to be arrested at durham jail supported by hundreds of community membershttps://twitter.com/_mikeburrows_/status/898160354638909440
https://twitter.com/RebeccaBMackie/status/898167716766523393
August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/WilDonnelly/status/897958337471430656
https://twitter.com/germanotes/status/897869285875494914
At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin tonight, Germans are standing with Charlottesville
Berlin Stands with Charlottesville demonstration tonight before the Brandenburg Gate
chanting: "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA"
https://twitter.com/WilDonnelly/status/897958337471430656
https://twitter.com/germanotes/status/897869285875494914
August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/898026973439680513
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721
Imagine this set of emotional triggers during, say, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/898026973439680513
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721
August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/898152511718268928
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/898154127267688448
The new cover of TIME.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/898152511718268928
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/898154127267688448
August 17, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/john-brennan-letter-wolf-blitzer-trump/index.html
Former CIA Director Brennan: "Trump is putting our nat'l security & collective future at grave risk"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/john-brennan-letter-wolf-blitzer-trump/index.html
August 17, 2017
Luckovich: Newly Erected Anti-Bigotry Monument
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