'Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door,' Trump No. 95

[lionheart]

From Emily Dickinson.

Old thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3356297-Freedom-of-the-press-is-not-just-important-to-democracy-it-is-democracy-Trump-no-94

Not directly related to this threat, but it is Trump/Brexit related

uk.businessinsider.com/liam-fox-trade-deal-scrap-european-union-food-standards-after-brexit-2018-9#

*this thread, but I guess threat works too...

I'm still here. I'm in a news black hole at the moment and you all are my source of political information! Thanks for keeping me up to date!

Hello Across.

At present a news black hole has its advantages.

Enjoy your news black hole, Across

A long read

The Plot to Subvert an Election
Unraveling the Russia Story So Far
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-interference-election-trump-clinton.html

www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/insider/russia-investigation-details-so-far.html

To help make sense of the Russia investigation, our reporters looked for lessons from the coverage of another complex White House affair: Watergate.

@MarkMazzettiNYT and @ScottShaneNYT explain their reporting process.

www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/ron-desantis-florida-racial-issues-830726

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-poll/opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-support-at-historic-low-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1LZ1WT

'How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team'
To understand how Russia penetrated the 2016 campaign, look to the oligarchs
amp.timeinc.net/time/5401645/putins-oligarchs?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&__twitter_impression=true

Evangelical Leaders Are Frustrated at G.O.P. Caution on Kavanaugh Allegation nyti.ms/2DiwmTL?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Worried their chance to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court could slip away, a growing number of evangelical and anti-abortion leaders are expressing frustration that Senate Republicans and the White House are not protecting Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh more forcefully from a sexual assault allegation and warning that conservative voters may stay home in November if his nomination falls apart.

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More swamp filling

www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ben-carsons-hud-political-loyalty-required-no-experience-necessary/2018/09/20/addb8e74-9b0c-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded promotions and pay increases to five political operatives with no housing policy experience within their first months on the job, demonstrating what government watchdogs and career staff describe as a premium put on loyalty over expertise.
The raises, documented in a Washington Post analysis of HUD political hires, resulted in annual salaries between $98,000 and $155,000 for the five appointees, all of whom had worked on Donald Trump’s or Ben Carson’s presidential campaigns. Three of them did not list bachelor’s degrees on their résumés.
The political hires were among at least 24 people without evident housing policy experience who were appointed to the best-paying political positions at HUD, an agency charged with serving the poorest Americans. They account for a third of the 70 HUD appointees at the upper ranks of the federal government, with salaries above $94,000, according to the Post review of agency records.

EXCLUSIVE: An audit of the NRA's financials obtained by @OpenSecretsDC shows that the group has seen a steep decline in revenue from dues-paying members over the last two years, and that has, in turn, fueled deep, two-year deficits. With @kwashy12
www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/09/nra-in-the-red-for-2nd-straight-year/

twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1042789924464996353

McConnell has guaranteed this seat will always be seen as illegitimate.
Not just this seat:
@Susan_Hennessey
Steve Schmidt
@SteveSchmidtSES
It is a tragedy that few people beyond @benjaminwittes and @Susan_Hennessey talk about the most essential issue. The Supreme Court as an institution is being discredited by partisan politics. McConnell has guaranteed this seat will always be seen as illegitimate.
@Susan_Hennessey
They don’t care if he did it. They don’t care about the institutional integrity of the Court. Trump was the deal with the devil and this is their payout. (link: twitter.com/mkraju/status/1042483356762628096) twitter.com/mkraju/status/…
mobile.twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1042567214023540736

There's a reason they won't call Mark Judgethe one eyewitness to Dr. Ford's storyto testify and a reason also that he won't. His past shows he's hostile to women and therefore cannot be trusted to talk about what happened. via @mmfa https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/17/brett-kavanaugh-s-character-witness-mark-judge-has-extremely-disturbing-views-about-women-and-black/221339

twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1042804417760841733

Ugh! - I despair.

'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Protesters at Hart Senate Building and in Grassley's office.

www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/russia-midterms-trump-declassified-docs-830631

'“It’s key to this election,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who is planning to release the transcripts of witness testimony from his panel’s now defunct probe into Russian election meddling, during a speech last week.

“It’s not going to be just about economic growth and running on the economy,” he said about the upcoming election. “It’s also going be about what the other side did to play dirty — to dirty up a campaign — but not do it through campaign tactics, but do it by corrupting the FBI and the DOJ. That is important for the American people to know and we have to deliver that message going into October.”'

Joyce Vance on Velshi and Ruhle talking Beauty

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-believes-anonymous-democratic-validators-actually-exist

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-embraces-conspiracy-theory-about-year-old-interview?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Sorry, fighting off affectionate cat 🐱 and pressed post in error after autocorrect being ridiculous
Cancel Beauty insert Kavanaugh
The premise that an innocent man, or someone with nothing to hide, would fight to prove that and welcome thorough investigation to clear his name, seems obvious.

Cancel Kavanaugh and find some beauty would be a thing.

I'm finding the accounts of sexual assault and the gross misogyny coming from certain quarters somewhat dispiriting.

Holy shit that Media Matters article with examples of Mark Judge's writings...

I know he's not the one up for nomination, but I can see why he ain't being let anywhere near the proceedings.

Media Matters citing an article by Mark Judge:

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/17/brett-kavanaugh-s-character-witness-mark-judge-has-extremely-disturbing-views-about-women-and-black/221339

The bogus “war on women” is really nothing but liberal women acting out against bad fathers. The frightening thing about this rage is that it is insatiable even as it demands resolution through politics.

These lines stood out to me, because I've heard similar from that Canadian men's rights pin-up whose name briefly escapes me – oh Jordan Peterson. Although I think his name is some kind of batcall on MN, so perhaps I shouldn't have spelt it out.

'Kavanaugh accuser open to testifying next week.
But an attorney for Christine Blasey Ford writes that she won't go before the Judiciary Committee Monday.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/kavanaugh-supreme-court-ford-831112