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Demovictory9's JournalAs Biden mulls VP choice, women's groups mobilize proactively to counter sexist, racist attacks
As Biden mulls his choice, women's groups brace for sexist, racist attacks on VP
A number of big-name women's groups are issuing warnings about the kinds of attacks they expect to be made against a woman running mate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-mulls-his-choice-women-s-groups-brace-sexist-racist-n1236246
As Joe Biden nears a decision on his vice presidential running mate, women’s groups are mobilizing to proactively combat the kind of “isms” that negatively impact women running for political office.
These groups are taking actions that range from putting news outlets on notice that they will “have her back,” to popping up rapid response teams tasked with tracking and calling out sexism and racism in real time. It’s a coalition dedicated to rooting out a problem that has long plagued women in politics.
“We’ve all been to this movie before,” Tina Tchen, President and CEO of the advocacy group Times Up, told NBC News. Tchen says the conversations among women in charge of these groups had been “building for a few weeks,” borne of a desire to stomp out the negative biases before they start. “We knew what was going to happen and then, lo and behold, it’s unfolding before us.”
Tahoe father implores tourists to stop visiting after son falls critically ill
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tahoe-father-implores-tourists-to-stop-visiting-15470372.phpA Tahoe-area father is asking tourists to stay away after his son became sick with an unusual condition doctors believe may be associated with COVID-19.
Maeson Howard, 10, is "fighting for his life at UC Davis Children's Hospital," reports the Tahoe Daily Tribune. Doctors think he may have multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a condition the CDC says has been observed in children infected by COVID-19. Children with MIS-C may experience inflammation of the heart, lungs, brain or gastrointestinal organs, along with fever, vomiting and body pain.
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Maeson's father, Corley, has written to local politicians, including the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, asking them to restrict tourists into the area. The Howards live in Christmas Valley neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe. Corley Howard said every vacation rental in his neighborhood is filled by out-of-towners.
"I get it, we chose to live in a tourist town but the timing is not right," Howard told the Daily Tribune. "The numbers don’t really show what’s going on. It doesn’t seem like the right time to be putting people on boats and campgrounds."
El Dorado County currently has recorded over 700 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Sixty-four of those cases were found in individuals 17 or younger.
Maeson, who first felt sick on July 28 and has been hospitalized since Aug. 1, is showing signs of improvement.
"After suffering from a collapsed lung, Maeson was able to take two deep breaths during his breathing test today and no longer needs the assistance of oxygen. The tenderness and pain in his stomach, back and neck have decreased to almost zero and he is no longer suffering from adrenaline rushes and body trembling," reads a Saturday update on the GoFundMe set up for Maeson's health care costs.
After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing, neighbors rally
https://twitter.com/Here2ListenWLuv/status/1290418679704727552https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/white-man-erases-black-lives-matter-chalk-trnd/index.html
After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing in front of her home, neighbors stepped in to show support
(CNN)Every day for nearly a week, Manette Sharick and her 3-year-old daughter, Zhuri, drew "Black Lives Matter" in chalk across the sidewalk outside their home in Concord, California.
But every time they wrote the message, they woke up the next morning to find that the word Black, and only that word, had been erased.
"I just wanted to teach my daughter that Black lives matter, Black culture matters, Black communities matter, and that we are the movement for Black lives," Sharick, who is Black, told CNN. "I was shocked that someone could be purposefully doing this. It hurt a lot, it made me extremely upset."
Following three days of what she called "overwhelming frustration," Sharick wrote the message in direct view of her security camera.
That's when she saw a man she says she never met and only knows as Jim, pouring water over the message. In a video Sharick recorded on her phone after running out to confront him, the man tells her that he will continue to remove the word "as long as she keeps on doing this."
"I was only pouring across the word Black because I believe that all lives matter," Jim told CNN affiliate KGO. "I don't care what nationality, sexual orientation or any of that, we are all human beings."
He added that he erased the "Black" from Black Lives Matter because he felt in the beginning of the movement "it had good intentions" but now the phrase has been "hijacked."
After sharing the video on Instagram and Facebook on July 30, word began to spread. The next day, Sharick said dozens of people from in and out of the neighborhood showed up in front of Sharick's home with chalk to draw supporting messages all over the sidewalk on her side of the street and even in front of their own homes.
Donald Trump says he should be on Mount Rushmore
Donald Trump says he should be on Mount Rushmore: President says it sounds like a 'good idea' for him to appear alongside Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt because of the 'many things I accomplished in my first three-and-a-half years'
Donald Trump on Sunday evening tweeted his support for adding him to the site
A White House aide reportedly asked last year about adding a president
Mount Rushmore officials say there is no more carvable space on the rock
Trump has long been fascinated with the monument, raising it in early 2017
In July 2017 he mused about adding himself to the monument at a rally in Ohio
When Trump visited South Dakota for July 4 he was presented with a site replica
The replica, a gift from Governor Kristi Noem, had Trump's head added to site
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8610013/White-House-reached-South-Dakota-governor-adding-Trump-Mount-Rushmore.html
great analysis of "the worst interview in history"
At his golf club, Trump nonsensically accuses Democrats of election 'cheating'
At his golf club, Trump nonsensically accuses Democrats of election 'cheating'
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics/donald-trump-press-briefing-democrats-cheating-election-fact-check/index.html
"The Democrats are cheating on the election. Because that's exactly what they're doing. If you look at what they're doing even with these negotiations. That's an influence, and an unfair influence, on an election," he said.
Facts First: This is nonsense. Participating in a legislative negotiation is simply not cheating in an election; Trump did not even attempt to explain his allegation.
In addition, it is not as if Democrats are conspiring to harm the Trump-era economy before Election Day: The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has already passed its own relief bill, and Senate Democrats are proposing to spend more money than the White House and Senate Republicans are proposing to spend.
The Washington Media Is Starting to Treat Trump Like a Clown
The Washington Media Is Starting to Treat Trump Like a ClownThe most jarring thing about Donald Trump is that he is president. Nearly every press conference, public event, and interview is awash with contradictions. On the one hand, there is the man in the office: grotesque, incoherent, malicious, dumb. On the other, there are the rituals and aesthetic trappings that have grown around the office of the presidency itself, which all communicate its awesome power and solemnity. A lot of media coverage gets lost in these contradictions, as if reporters and camera operators can’t quite believe what they’re seeing: How do you capture—let alone hold to account—someone so ridiculous?
One of the many virtues of Axios’s Jonathan Swan’s interview with Trump is that it does away with much of that unearned solemnity. The interview in which Trump claims, among very many other things, that John Lewis will be remembered for skipping his inauguration and that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has failed is not shot like a typical interview with a sitting president. Instead, it has the look of a sitcom. As many have pointed out, the rhythms of its edits, which cut between Trump’s relentless maundering and bullshitting, Swan’s increasingly incredulous reactions, and long, awkward shots of the two of them, most closely resembles HBO’s Veep.
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Swan is understandably baffled when Trump starts handing him printouts, but it’s worth examining what he’s trying to do. The line of questioning is meant to get Trump to acknowledge one simple point: that the United States is in the midst of a horrible pandemic that has killed more than 150,000 people and that all this has occurred under Trump’s watch as president of the United States.
With a different president, this would likely result in a response typically deemed as “presidential”: a homily about the gravity of the situation we are enduring collectively. “The unspoken question hovering over much of this was Swan pleading with Trump to share in our collective horror about the consequences that have unfolded since, and to take some measure of responsibility for those consequences,” wrote The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent about the interview. “This taking of responsibility would itself speak to the gravity of what the country is enduring, and show basic respect for the sick, the dead and the bereaved.”
Trump, of course, does not do that kind of thing. Instead, he engages in an endless series of evasions and lies, claiming that, actually, the United States is doing better than other countries when it comes to addressing the pandemic. The video is shot and edited in such a way that underscores just how removed Trump is from reality: He is less a president than someone playing a president—and not doing a very good job, at that.
The printouts ultimately damage Trump more than he himself could. They’re a prop for the camera, but they also suggest that the administration is more interested in coddling the president and creating a comforting pseudo-reality than stopping a deadly pandemic.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158784/washington-media-starting-treat-trump-like-clown
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