Notices by Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (zhizhu@newsie.social)

The Trump campaign is literally handing out #NeoNazi signs at #Trump rallies.

"The signs read “Reclaim America,” a phrase the #WhiteNationalist group #PatriotFront uses regularly... splintered from the neo-Nazi #VanguardAmerica, has long used the slogan in an effort to make #WhiteSupremacist ideology palatable to a wider audience...

On Thursday, the preprinted signs with the same slogan were handed out before Trump spoke"
- @newrepublic

https://newrepublic.com/post/186763/trump-team-white-supramacist-slogan-signs-campaign-rally

#MAGA #GOP #Racism #Politics

"Harris is a former prosecutor; #Trump, a felon. #Harris gives campaign speeches about her civic values; Trump rants endlessly about his personal grievances, interrupting himself with asides about #sharks and Hannibal Lecter. Harris has outlined a detailed set of #policy proposals for the #economy; Trump nonsensically offers #tariffs as a panacea, describing this #fantasy in terms that make it clear he doesn’t understand how tariffs work."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/29/harris-trump-tight-election/

#Election2024 #Politics #USA

"from 3 past chairmen of the #Maine #Republican Party. They wrote:

'We led our party at a time when candidates of both parties were not only civil & believed in the #RuleOfLaw, but... had the best interests of the state & entire nation foremost in their hearts, even when we disagreed on policies. We see these same #positive characteristics are on full display in Vice President #Harris & her candidacy. Sadly, they are completely lacking in her opponent, former president Donald #Trump.'"

#USA

Harris " has also managed to thoroughly discredit the radical #Project2025...

she has made the document so toxic that #Trump has attempted to disclaim ownership. A recent #NBC poll showed voters hold an overwhelmingly unfavorable view (57% disapprove, 4% approve) of the #RightWing agenda...

If Project 2025 is now considered a “blunder,”... credit goes to #Harris, who helped expose it and relentlessly denounced it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/27/newsletter-harris-economic-policy-voters/

#Election2024 #Democrats #Vote #USA #News #USNews

"This week, the #WhiteHouse announced that “the #economy has grown by 3.2% per year during Biden-Harris administration — even stronger than previously estimated"...

#Harris has managed to reduce former president Donald #Trump ’s polling edge on the candidate most trusted with the economy. And frankly, she has left those complaining about her “lack of details” with egg on their faces."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/27/newsletter-harris-economic-policy-voters/

#KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #Politics #Economics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #News

"Trump told startled aides that if AG Jeff Sessions would not order the dept to go after #HillaryClinton & James Comey, the former #FBI director, #Trump would prosecute them himself.

...White House counsel, Donald McGahn, sought to stall.

“How about I do this?” McGahn told Trump... “I’m going to write you a memo explaining to you what the #law is and how it works, and I’ll give that memo to you and you can decide what you want to do”"
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/trump-investigations-enemies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M04.cnHj.-ABNToexupmu&smid=url-share

#Politics #News #USA

"The story of that period has a powerful resonance today as #Trump, angered in part by the two #federal & two state-level #indictments... threatens to carry out a campaign of #retribution if he returns to the White House. He has signaled that a 2nd Trump administration would be stocked not with people who served as #guardrails during his first term, but with carefully vetted loyalists who would eagerly carry out his wishes"
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/trump-investigations-enemies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M04.cnHj.-ABNToexupmu&smid=url-share

#GOP #Politics #Revenge #USA #News

"a look back at the cases of 10 individuals brings a pattern into clearer focus: After #Trump made repeated public or private demands for them to be targeted by the govt, they faced federal pressure of one kind or another.

...Even without his direct order, his indirect influence could serve his ends and leave those in his sights facing expensive, time-consuming #legal proceedings or other high-stress inquiries."
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/trump-investigations-enemies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M04.cnHj.-ABNToexupmu&smid=url-share

#Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA

"But in many low- and middle-income countries, lead is not just a legacy issue: It is still being used in widely available consumer products such as house paint, spices and makeup. Addressing these sources doesn’t require billions of dollars."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/22/lead-poisoning-children-flint/

Spices!!
Lead is being used in spices?! 😮

#Food #Poison #Health #Pollution #Environment #News #WorldNews

from the excellent Will Bunch:

"We shouldn’t just normalize the use of Nazi-invented #propaganda tactics in #American political campaigns. We need to decide as a nation if the #UnitedStates is a place where life-or-death deliberate lies by the likes of #JDVance can have actual consequences — or else we face a very dark future."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/jd-vance-lies-springfield-disease-crime-20240922.html

#GOP #Nazi #Disinformation #Republicans #Lies #Trump #TrumpLies #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue

"The backbone of the book is the numbers. Because Buettner and Craig have such a trove of documents, they are able to prove the reality under the hype that is #DonaldTrump in incontrovertible detail...

The news in their book lies not in one specific detail, but rather in the sheer accumulation of damning facts.

But the book is also much more than an excavation of tax returns."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/17/lucky-loser-donald-trump-finances-susanne-craig-russ-buettner-review/

#Trump #Lies #Fraud #TrumpLies #Book #Books #BookReview #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News

"Craig & Buettner have written a #book, “Lucky Loser: How #DonaldTrump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.” It shows in meticulously documented detail how “even when Trump appeared to be at his best, he was failing,” with massive losses on his core business.

The authors prove that without his father’s support, #Trump would have been nothing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/17/lucky-loser-donald-trump-finances-susanne-craig-russ-buettner-review/

#Fraud #Lies #TrumpLies #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #Books #BookReview

"The most important character in Donald Trump’s life was his father, Fred Trump, who... wasn’t always a paragon of ethics... [but] who built a #RealEstate empire that was ultimately worth almost $1 billion. Everything about him stood in sharp contrast to his son, who became “a black hole for Fred Trump’s cash.” That’s a fact #Donald has never acknowledged. Indeed, he diminished his father whenever possible, telling people: “My father, he could never do something like this.”

#Trump #Lies #Money

"This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes. For instance: Trump was able to salvage at least the construction of his first casino project... by bringing in Holiday Inns Inc... as a partner. But before it would get on board, the company wanted to know that construction was underway. So #Trump faked it.

...“dozens of bulldozers and backhoes pointlessly pushed mounds of earth around the 2.6-acre site in an elaborate ruse with no purpose other than to fool his new business partner.”

"Why is #MAGA still so gullible? Why didn’t #Republicans learn anything from 2020, when they fell for some of the strangest #ConspiracyTheories I’ve ever heard about?

Who can forget that #FoxNews attempted to substantiate Trump’s election fraud claims by relying on a memo written by a woman who claimed to experience something like “time-travel in a semiconscious state” and said that the wind told her she was a ghost?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/opinion/maga-debate-cats-dogs-haiti-trump.html

#Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #Politics #US #USA #News

“The CCRB [Civilian Complaint Review Board] is not perfect, but its goal is clearly #accountability,” said Chris Dunn, #legal director of the #NewYork Civil Liberties Union. “The #NYPD clearly does not have that goal. When a problem arises, the department’s default solution is to kill the case.”
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban

#law #LawEnforcement #Police #ACAB #US #USNews #USA #News #NoPaywall

"bat populations are on the decline, wiped out by a devastating fungus that attacks the insect eaters in their sleep.

...farmers have increased their use of #pesticides on crops in response to the population collapse of #bats, potentially leading to the deaths of more than 1,000 human infants...

Past #research has linked exposure to pesticides with negative #health outcomes, incl childhood asthma & death."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/05/bats-white-nose-syndrome/

#Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Food #Climate #News #USA

"the weakening of a free & independent #press matters... The flow of trustworthy news and information is critical to a free, secure and prosperous nation. This is why defense of the #FreePress has been a point of rare #bipartisan consensus throughout the nation’s #history...

That consensus has broken. A new model is being crafted that aims to undermine the ability of #journalists to freely gather and report the #news. It’s worth getting to know what this model looks like in action."

#Freedom

from Sulzberger:

"Over the past year, I’ve been asked with increasing frequency whether The #NYTimes, where I serve as publisher, is prepared for the possibility that a similar campaign against the free #press could be embraced here in the #UnitedStates, despite our country’s proud tradition of recognizing the essential role #journalism plays in supporting a strong #democracy and a free people.

It’s not a crazy question."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/3ZfmRNg

#Freedom #News #USA

It might have something to do with the #NewYorkTimes editor, Joe Kahn.

'New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it'

"But to Kahn, democracy is a partisan issue and he’s not taking sides"
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

One can suppose that Joe Kahn, in his role as #editor, refused to publish an article that talks about democracy's role in defending #press #freedom, and the press's role in defending the #democracy that protects the #FreePress.

#News