Новости за 26.08.2020

Wow, what a surprise! Have you seen the Republican Party’s official platform? Perhaps, like me, you would have expected it to be a mishmash of Trumpian miasma, laissezfairyland corporate economics, QAnon lunacy, police state authoritarianism and all the other wackiness that today’s GOP has been embracing. But, no. Astonishingly, this 18-page policy statement flat-out rejects […]

The founders of The Lincoln Project announced they will be joined by special guests for live analysis of the second night of the Republican National Committee Convention. Speakers will include first lady Melania Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Two of Donald Trump’s children will be speaking. Eric Trump from Trump’s first marriage will […]

Republicans are displaying the names of donors on the chyron of their convention video feed during first lady Melania Trump’s RNC Convention speech, which she will deliver from the White House. Ads are being run, including on Raw Story, with the text “Get your name displayed live during the 2020 GOP Convention,” the ads reads, […]

On Tuesday, as the second night of the Republican National Convention kicked off, Joe Biden went live with an ad blasting President Doanld Trump’s record — using the words of the speakers at the previous night. “We are here tonight to talk about the great American story,” said Donald Trump Jr. in the ad, followed […]

On Tuesday, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) joked about sex with 15-year-old girls on Facebook with a friend. “One of the comments involves a Feb. 23, 2009, photo of a bar outing posted by Rocco LeDonni, who is now Mast’s campaign manager. The photo was taken during LeDonni’s vacation […]

Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who will speak on Tuesday during the second night of the Republican National Convention, has advocated in recent months for a head-of-household voting system that has historically barred women and people of color from casting ballots.  Originally published by The 19th “What is the most controversial thing you believe?” Johnson asked […]

A Note from Bill Moyers: The evidence is spread across nearly 1,000 pages, proving that Russia, with top Trump henchmen playing right along, sought to spread confusion and distrust among American voters, influence the outcome of the election, and undermine the legitimacy of our democracy. Vladimir Putin, according to the report – the same Putin […]

On Tuesday evening, CNN reported that the Republican National Convention has abruptly removed Trump adviser and “Angel Mom” Mary Ann Mendoza from the night’s speaking lineup. This comes after Mendoza posted her support from a thread written by a QAnon supporter positing a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Faced with backlash, Mendoza wrote […]

On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that even though Jerry Falwell, Jr. has resigned as president of Liberty University, the institution may still owe him up to $10.5 million, according to a person familiar with his employment contract. “Mr. Falwell is due his $1.25 million salary for two years, followed by a lump-sum payment […]

On Tuesday, Boise reporter Ryan Suppe tweeted images of far-right activist Ammon Bundy being dragged out of the Idaho state capitol in handcuffs, after storming the building in protest of mask mandates. Bundy and others still sitting in the Lincoln Auditorium. From what I can tell, Bundy hasn’t moved since the earlier hearing changed rooms […]

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Mary Ann Mendoza, a Trump adviser scheduled to speak on the second night of the Republican National Convention, tweeted out a thread by a pro-QAnon account positing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. “Mendoza, an ‘angel mom,’ is scheduled to speak Tuesday about her son’s 2014 death at the hands […]

The leader of the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel was blasted on Tuesday for allowing first lady Melania Trump to use the White House Rose Garden for her Republican National Committee Convention speech. “Imagine being the head of the [Office of the Special Counsel], which is responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act, and standing […]

On Tuesday, The New York Times editorial board excoriated President Donald Trump’s FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, for the “fuzzy math” he used to justify an emergency authorization for an unproven convalescent plasma treatment for coronavirus. Hahn, the board noted, was forced to apologize for his false claim that data showed the treatment could save 35 […]

No charges will be filed in a scandal in the ongoing #MeToo scandal at the Arizona capitol. “Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, the Scottsdale Republican who became the face of Arizona’s #MeToo movement when her claims led to a fellow lawmaker’s expulsion, sexually harassed a female lobbyist so severely it took a toll on the woman’s mental […]

Storm Laura was upgraded to a destructive hurricane on Tuesday and is forecast to make landfall along the Texas or Louisiana coasts on Wednesday night, after earlier causing 24 deaths in the Caribbean. Maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts, the US National Hurricane Center reported, with the storm expected […]

Director Roman Polanski’s legal battle against his expulsion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was thrown out by a Los Angeles judge Tuesday. The “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby” filmmaker fled the United States in 1978 after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. He was expelled from the Los Angeles-based […]

President Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party has been so thorough that the party is now unable to stand up to him. Politico reporter Tim Alberta literally wrote the book on the changing of the old guard, when former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) resigned in 2018 as the GOP as he knew it […]

YouTube said Tuesday that video removals soared in the second quarter of this year as the company relied more on software to enforce content rules to protect workers from the pandemic. Slightly more than 11.4 million videos were pulled from the popular online platform, nearly double the number removed in the first three months of […]

On Tuesday, Georgia Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene — who has drawn controversy for her support of QAnon and 9/11 trutherism — tweeted that President Donald Trump has invited her to his nomination acceptance speech on Thursday. I’m honored and thrilled to be invited to attend President Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday evening at the […]

Julia Jackson, the mother of 29-year old Jacob Blake, who was shot at least seven times at point-blank range from behind by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday, delivered a powerful speech Tuesday afternoon. Blake was tasered in addition to being shot. His three children looked on from inside his car. He is currently […]

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency, saying he would deploy more state National Guard troops, as the city of Kenosha braced for a third night of unrest following the shooting of a Black man by police. Evers said he would authorize an increase in the Wisconsin National Guard’s presence – more than […]

On Tuesday, the Never Trump conservative group the Lincoln Project released a new ad, based entirely on footage from the first night of the Republican National Convention. The ad splices together a long list of speakers at the convention, from Charlie Kirk to Kimberly Guilfoyle to Tim Scott, lamenting the horrible state of America from […]