Iowa: this woman wearing a “Nevertheless, She Persisted” shirt with a Bullock 2020 sticker and a button with Pete Buttigieg’s face just posed for a selfie with Joe Biden



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Opening shots from Peter von Bagh's 2008 documentary "Helsinki, ikuisesti" ("Helsinki Forever" ) show a crowd admiring (and soon being chased by) the icebreaker Tarmo in Helsinki, Finland. Apparently filmed in the 1920s.

The voiceover quoting Eino Leino towards the end is not related to this footage in particular. It translates roughly as:

"We do not live only in the present
The past – with all its memories, events and experiences – lives in us
And often it just might so happen that the past is stronger than the present"

(WXYZ) — As folks prepare for the potential damaging winds and flooding Hurricane Dorian could bring, cats and dogs in some Florida shelters are being evacuated.

Several animals are heading to metro Detroit to stay safe and find their forever home.

“The folks here in Michigan are just so amazingly welcoming of these animals and willing to provide them whatever they need in order to help them get their fresh start,” said Anna Chrisman with the Michigan Humane Society.

The animals were flown into Willow Run Airport Sunday afternoon. More than 100 cats and dogs are out of harm’s way.

“These storms are super unpredictable and we cannot guarantee that brick and mortar locations are going to be safe,” Chrisman said.

The animals are heading to various shelters including the Michigan Humane Society.

The organization will take in about 20 animals that will be ready for adoption as soon as the middle of the week. By emptying Florida shelters, it also frees up space for animals after the hurricane passes.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-humane-society-takes-in-several-animals-displaced-by-hurricane-dorian

Not a battlefield in Syria or Afghanistan.

This one is in #OdessaTexas.

It's Saturday. The sun is shining. An automatic weapon is firing. Innocent people are dying. People are laying in a field. A woman is crying in terror.

Just another day in America.

#GunControlNow

https://twitter.com/twmentality1/status/1167983934568837120

Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as President Trump’s personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight.

Given Westerhout’s sensitive role as a confidante to the president, the few details the White House shared about her abrupt firing had Washington’s political-media class in a quiet frenzy on Thursday night and Friday.

The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner, according to two people familiar with the matter, that Westerhout and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley held earlier this month with reporters who were covering Trump’s vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people. “She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters,” the person said.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226