andrew kaczynski🤔
@KFILE

NEW story: Ken Cuccinelli was a founding member of a controversial anti-immigration group in 2007 that called undocumented immigrants as "foreign invaders" linked to "serious infectious diseases, drug running, gang violence, human trafficking, terrorism."

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1162741901805719553

On Saturday, The New York Times published an account of the final days of high-powered wealth manager Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead of apparent suicide in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center while facing trial for child sex trafficking.

One of the key new revelations from the report is that Epstein despised his cell, which was “cramped, dank and infested with vermin” — so he used his vast wealth to exploit a legal loophole in the prison system that would let him spend most of his time outside of it: hire a bunch of lawyers to come and talk to him for hours and hours so he could get a private room to himself.

During these marathon sessions, Epstein’s legal team reportedly kept emptying the vending machines.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/epstein-hired-multiple-lawyers-to-meet-with-him-to-avoid-being-kept-in-cell-before-his-death-report/

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people. Thousands outside trying to get in. Place was packed! Radical Left Dems & their Partner, LameStream Media, saying Arena empty. Check out pictures. Fake News. The Enemy of the People!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162562469283471360

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Great news! Tonight, we broke the all-time attendance record previously held by Elton John at #SNHUArena in Manchester, New Hampshire!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162195296924946433

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"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most revered saxophonists, was speaking to Nat Hentoff about an eternal quest — a compulsion to reach toward the next horizon, and the next.

More than half a century after his death, that restless pronouncement also carries implications for us, the beneficiaries of Coltrane's music. Not only because his body of work represents a fathomless realm of insight, as his many admirers can attest — but also because it has recently yielded surprise discoveries from his prime.

Just over a year ago, Impulse! had a phenomenal success with Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, a startling assemblage of studio recordings made by the John Coltrane Quartet in 1963. That two-disc set posthumously gave Coltrane his first-ever debut on the Billboard 200, at No. 21; according to the label, global sales have exceeded 250,000 copies.

Now comes word of another new album by the classic John Coltrane Quartet, with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Blue World will be released on Impulse!/UMe on Sept. 27, and like Both Directions it offers an unexpected view on a pivotal period in the band's evolution. It was recorded at Van Gelder Studios on June 24, 1964 — a few weeks after the quartet put a finishing touch on the album Crescent — as the soundtrack to a Canadian art film. Because the date had gone unnoted in session recording logs, this music has occupied a blind spot for Trane-ologists, archivists and historians.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751516859/a-lost-album-from-john-coltrane-is-found-with-thanks-to-a-french-canadian-direct

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Just completed a very good meeting on Afghanistan. Many on the opposite side of this 19 year war, and us, are looking to make a deal - if possible!

6:58 PM · Aug 16, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162498956917706754

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-fonda-dead-easy-rider-architect-counter-cultural-icon-was-79-1232714



Peter Fonda, who broke out from under the legendary Fonda family name with Easy Rider, has died. He was 79.

Fonda, the son of acting legend Henry Fonda, the younger brother of Jane Fonda and the father of Bridget Fonda, died Friday morning.

Fonda received an Academy Award nomination as a screenwriter for Easy Rider, which he shared with Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern.

Fonda and Hopper dreamed up the idea of two motorcyclists who hit it big with a drug deal and take off across the country, ostensibly to attend Mardi Gras. Their trek was "in search of America," emblematic of the '60s zeitgeist of rebellion and drug experimentation. Featuring Jack Nicholson as their alcoholic, back rider/lawyer, the film was a low-budget, colossal hit.

BEDMINSTER, NJ: As Donald Trump's hopes for the acquisition of Greenland quickly wither, he's set his sights on a new property: Little St. James Island, a small part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

"I hear it might be up for sale," Trump said. "It was apparently owned by a billionaire, I think his name was Jerry Einstein or something like that. Never heard of him, never met him, but I was told that he used to be a popular guy around Palm Beach. I've never been there, but I've seen some photos of the place, and you can feel a rich sense of history there. I'll bet that if those walls could talk, you'd hear some fabulous stories. Really fabulous stories."

While Trump's plans for the property have not been fully revealed, aides have signaled that he'd ultimately like to see it become the 51st state. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters "I know that the fake media will accuse the president of considering this move in order to secure more electoral college votes, but that's simply not true. He loves America, and he promised to make it great again, and becoming the first U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to oversee a new state added to our nation would be a bold example of his keeping his promises to the American people."

Jerry Einstein could not be reached for comment. DEVELOPING STORY.

Trump humiliated one of his own supporters — then called him but didn’t apologize

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-accidentally-humiliated-one-of-his-own-supporters-then-called-him-but-didnt-apologize/

“That guy has got a serious weight problem!” Trump yelled at the man. “Go home, start exercising. Get him out of here, please! Got a bigger problem than I do! Got a bigger problem than all of us. Now he goes home and his mom says: ‘What the hell have you just done?’”

Trump seems to have thought he was talking about a protester who had disrupted the rally. But the Associated Press reported:

As the protesters were being led out, a Trump supporter wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt near them began enthusiastically shaking his fist in a sign of support for the president.

But Trump mistook him for one of the protesters …

That’s when Trump launched into his fat-shaming screed.

The Trump team seems to have figured out that the president messed up. Fat-shaming is nothing new for Trump, of course, but he sees no advantage in fat-shaming a fan. And so, according to multiple reports, the president called the man he attacked for being overweight.