CO Secretary Of State On USPS Mailer: 'This Could Suppress Voters.' - Stephanie Ruhle - MSNBC

Will the West's giant fires spark a climate awakening?

Chris Wallace instantly smacks down Trump adviser ON AIR for lying

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IF YOU LOVE THIS COUNTRY - A Parody by Founders Sing, with Stevie Wonder

I dunno about that being the real Stevie Wonder, but great message nonetheless!

L.A. mayor: 'Instead of hitting golf course,' Trump and Congress should ensure wildfire aid

Source: Politico

By JESSE NARANJO
09/13/2020 11:20 AM EDT

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Sunday urged an end to partisanship in deciding which states get disaster aid as California and the rest of the West Coast reel from devastating wildfires.

“Whether it's twin hurricanes on the Gulf Coast or fires here on the West Coast. We're one nation. And, sometimes looking at the leadership that comes out, it's easy to forget that,” Garcetti said on CNN’s “State of the Union” ahead of a planned visit to California Monday by President Donald Trump.

“It's taken three weeks. I'm glad he's coming, but we need much more help," the mayor went on. "When we have firefighters dying on the line and Washington refuses to help states and refuses to help local governments that are the first responders to emergencies like this, it's unconscionable.”

Pressed by CNN host Jake Tapper on what specifically the president could be doing, given that he declared an emergency in California three weeks ago, Garcetti said there was a “refusal in blaming blue states over red states.” The president, who is on a three-day campaign tour of the West, is scheduled to meet with local and federal officials near Sacramento on Monday to assess the vast wildfire damage.

“Instead of hitting the golf course or going on vacation, the president and Congress respectively should sit down and make sure there is assistance for these brave men and women who are protecting our lives and our property,” Garcetti added.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/13/garcetti-trump-congress-wildfire-aid-413342

Nineteen Years Ago This Minute

I was on a business trip in Medford, Ore. It was 5:46 AM PDT, so, as you might expect, I was asleep. Breakfast started at 7 AM local, but my meeting wasn't till 10:30, so I didn't go down to eat until just before eight (again, local times in effect). You know what everybody was talking about.

I was shocked just like the whole country. But what was fascinating to me was hearing the conversations taking place. Oregon is, of course a reliably-blue state; this does not mean there are no right-wingers. Far from it! Naturally I heard Arabs/"Mooslems" blamed, but more than a few were talking about a false-flag operation by the Israelis, except no one was calling them Israelis. Do I really need to explain what words were used. Didn't think so. And of COURSE some we talking about God's Punishment On a Sinful America, which led to mutterings about LGBTQ people (DEFINITELY not how the right-wingers were referring to them!)

The dining room was packed. I guess no or very few had left after finishing their breakfast, sharply focused on the big-screen TV on the wall. A woman at the closest table asked me if I had family or friends in NYC or Washington (by this time, time, all four planes were down.) I said no, as I was from Minnesota and didn't have anybody in the areas of the strikes.

The weirdest part of all is the no one was crying.No one was shouting, either. Opinions were expressed in lower tones and, as mentioned earlier, mutterings. I guess we were in a kind of shock, but not the kind we normally associate with the word. My meeting ended up getting postponed for several weeks later, and, as soon as the skies were reopened, I flew back home.

I Wish We had MORE Jonathan Karls!

And he didn't "lose it!" He was merely pushing back on Donnie's fucked-up version of reality!

Russia says it has timeline of Navalny movements, wants to send investigators to Germany

Source: Reuters

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
3:15 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have traced opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s movements and what he drank before falling ill in Siberia last month, and are trying to locate a witness who has left the country, the interior ministry said on Friday.

The ministry said it was preparing another request for legal assistance from Germany, where Navalny was airlifted to hospital last month after what Berlin says was a poison attack on him with a Novichok nerve agent.

In a statement, the interior ministry’s transport department in Siberia said it wanted to send investigators to work alongside German colleagues on the case, after reports that Navalny had emerged from a coma.

“This request will include an application for the possible presence of Russian internal affairs investigators... and a Russian specialist when German colleagues are conducting investigations with Navalny, doctors and experts,” the ministry said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/russia-says-it-has-timeline-of-navalny-movements-wants-to-send-investigators-to-germany-idUSKBN2620L2