Be sure to get your questions in for this one. Jon Alter is going to join us for a Live Chat at 5:30 PM eastern this afternoon at TPMPrime to discuss his book “The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies” and share what he learned from covering the winning 2012 Obama campaign close up and getting a sense of just how and why they pulled it off. I had a long talk with Jon a couple months ago and one thing I realized was that my understanding of who the tech gods were within the Obama camp was totally skewed and frankly the actual systems they used to pull it off. Definitely join us at 5:30 PM and get your questions in now. You’ll learn stuff you didn’t know.
Muslim Brotherhood leader calls for “martyrdom” to end Egypt protests.
Two spokesmen quit President Morsi’s office, coming after the resignation of the Foreign Minister over night.
Romney voted against running in 2012 in family polll, but lost. And had to run.
I hope this doesn’t just state the obvious. But it is simply amazing to watch how Southern states, ruled by Republicans, have moved so quickly, after the Supreme Court’s VRA decision to push through a series of new laws the only aim of which is to limit black voting: voter ID laws, ends to same day registration, early voting, weekend voting. Here’s yet another example from North Carolina. But we noted numerous other examples within a day of the decision coming down.
Okay, sure, what did I expect? I’ve been writing about this for years. Everything I’ve written and so many other better than I could has predicted this. But still, to see it, it’s another thing again. This is supposed to be the 21st century. And yet, in a broad swath of the society we’re in an ersatz version of the late 19th century.
So the NSA has a Speakers Bureau for the K-12 set.
The government of Ecuador had already been distancing itself from Edward Snowden’s cause. But now the country’s President, Rafael Correa, has gone as far as to say that his government never intended to facilitate Snowden’s journey from Hong Kong to Moscow. He now says his consul in London, apparently in league with Assange, was freelancing. This comes after Snowden released a statement thanking the Ecuadorean government for making his flight (in both sense of the word possible). Read More
It is hard to see how the ultimatum the Egyptian military issued a few hours ago doesn’t amount to a post-dated or contingent coup. But, notably, the military, the opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi are each insisting it does not representative a coup – only a patriotically inclined military encouraging all sides to move toward compromise.