We’re in the thick of election coverage and on the publishing side of the organization planning coverage for the remainder of 2016 and beyond. But I wanted to take a moment to let you know about another book I read recently which I can heartily recommend. It’s called 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed.
There appears to be a general consensus – met with glee by Trumpites and frustration by Democrats – that the atrocity in Orlando will be a boon to the campaign of Donald Trump. It will ‘change the narrative’ and play to Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigration and general claim to be the only one tough enough to protect Americans.
Put me down as skeptical about that assumption.
A special thanks to TPM Reader NS for alerting us to the situation in Siskiyou County, California that Katherine Krueger reported out in today’s feature story.
Paul Ryan gets grilled about Trump at the annual Mitt Romney shindig …
One of the toughest questions for Ryan came from Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a longtime friend of Romney’s who helped bankroll a Republican anti-Trump super PAC this spring. Whitman asked Ryan how he could endorse someone with, in her judgment, such poor character and whose campaign has been based on personal attacks and division. According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
TPM Reader SB checks in the world of healing and pain …
It’s the end of a long week in psychotherapy land. Many women brought to session and read aloud the letter written by the woman raped at Stanford and cried, deep heaving tears; a few for the first time.
She spoke for so many who could not have spoken for themselves.
Trump basks in the endorsement of Don King. King says he didn’t endorse Trump.
It’s sad that this piece needs to be written in this day and age. But check out this closely reported, debunking piece on the Trumpite slur about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s membership in a Latino lawyers group. The mix of racist conflation and outright deception is quite something.
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that if you hold US Treasury bonds, you really, really need Hillary Clinton to win the presidency since Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for not paying his debts. But a new report finds hundreds of ordinary vendors – not big banks but plumbers, painters, dishwashers – who Trump stiffed and never paid.