President Trump’s campaign and its joint Republican committees set a new monthly fundraising record by raising $210 million last month, but it pales in comparison to the $364 million that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign raised in the same period. Continue reading “Trump Campaign’s Fundraising Efforts Drastically Fell Short Of Biden’s Last Month”
The Climate Crisis Is Happening Right Now. Just Look at California’s Weekend.
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Two weeks ago, after freak lightning strikes torched Northern California but before the inferno of Labor Day weekend had begun, a friend called to talk, like you do when the world is turning to crap and nothing is stable or makes sense. In the past six months she’d fled New York for rural West Marin (due to the pandemic), and West Marin for San Francisco (due to smoke). Now she was planning to leave San Francisco for Los Angeles, as the gross air had descended here. We joked, as I’d joked with every friend this summer, that we should all just drop out and start a commune on a lake in Maine. “Every commune needs lesbians!” she said. “I’ll be our lesbian! California is going to become unlivable!”
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‘Beyond Despicable’: Biden Slams Trump For Purposely Downplaying Severity Of COVID-19
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump on Wednesday after Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward released audio recordings of Trump privately admitting back in early 2020 that COVID-19 was a serious threat and that he was downplaying it on purpose.
DOJ Lawyers: Would Take Us ‘Several Weeks’ To Compile Info On Decision To Truncate Census Timeline
Department of Justice lawyers claimed in a Tuesday filing that it would take them “several weeks” to compile a record of how the Trump administration made its abrupt decision to cut in half the timeline for collecting census data early last month.
WH Denies Trump Downplayed COVID-19 Despite Audio Proving He Did
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday vehemently defended President Trump just hours after reports on journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book “Rage” recounted Trump admission that he downplayed the risk of COVID-19 publicly. Continue reading “WH Denies Trump Downplayed COVID-19 Despite Audio Proving He Did”
‘My F*cking Generals Are A Bunch Of P*****s’: Highlights From Woodward’s Trump Interviews In ‘Rage’
Over the course of eight months, famed investigative journalist Bob Woodward brought his well-worn reporting formula to the task — sifting through the wreckage of the Trump presidency and providing us a clearer picture of Trump’s private thought process behind a myriad of issues that have plagued his administration.
The Trump Campaign Is Losing The Fundraising War—And Many Supporters Have Already ‘Maxed Out’
As the President’s campaign struggles with a cash crunch following an incredibly expensive few months of campaigning, it’s also confronting a growing and related problem: More and more of its most dedicated donors have “maxed out” and are no longer eligible to give money.
Top GOP Lawyer Denounces Trump: There’s No Proof Of Widespread Voter Fraud
Ben Ginsberg, a prominent conservative lawyer who was on George W. Bush’s vote recount legal team in 2000, came to Jesus on Tuesday, denouncing President Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping comments about mail-in voting. The President, he claimed, was casting a shadow over what Ginsberg described as legitimate efforts by Republicans’ to stamp out mass election fraud — something Ginsberg also now admits isn’t really a thing.
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Resist The Metaphor
TPM Reader JF reports from the Bay Area:
This isn’t the sort of thing you normally cover, but it is really remarkable.
Anti-Immigration Norwegian Lawmaker Nominates Trump For The Nobel Prize, Again
An anti-immigration Norwegian lawmaker who once accused the Norwegian government of conducting what he called a “multicultural experiment” and claimed that the emergence of multiculturalism in Norway would “tear our country apart,” has nominated President Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
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