jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 ABC News @ABC BREAKING: Starting Sunday, downloads of the massively popular video app TikTok and the messaging app WeChat will be banned in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. TikTok, WeChat to be banned from US app stores starting Sunday The Trump administration said the move was necessary to "safeguard the national security of the United States." abcnews.go.com 8:19 AM · Sep 18, 2020·SocialFlow 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs BREAKING: Trump admin is banning Americans from downloading or maintaining the WeChat or TikTok apps. WeChat transactions prohibited starting Monday at midnight. Tiktok will shut down Nov. 12 if there's no deal by then. Trump admin says threats posed by WeChat and TikTok are not identical, but are similar. "Each collects vast swaths of data from users. ... Each is an active participant in China’s civil-military fusion and is subject to mandatory cooperation with the intel services of the CCP." “WeChat U.S., for all practical purposes, will be shut down,” Commerce's Wilbur Ross says on Fox Business. It'll be up to Apple and Alphabet Inc. to delete the Tiktok and WeChat apps from their US app stores. Apps already on Americans' phones still usable but won't be updated. 7:59 AM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter for iPad Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Eamon Javers @EamonJavers So the question about the Commerce Department’s announcement this morning is: Is this just gorilla dust from the president before we see an actual deal cut? Or is this the beginning of the gradual end of these apps in the US, culminating after the election? 8:31 AM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone Link to post Share on other sites
Arturo Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 hours ago, jakeem said: Mark Knoller @markknoller At the National Archives, feet from America's founding documents, Pres Trump uses speech marking Constitution Day, to decry “left wing mobs” that he says seek to “demolish the precious inheritance” contained in the Constitution. “We can’t let this happen,” he says. 3:08 PM · Sep 17, 2020·Twitter Web App “We can’t let that happen! Only I can trash the Constitution!” 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Arturo Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 hours ago, jakeem said: Mark Knoller @markknoller At the National Archives, feet from America's founding documents, Pres Trump uses speech marking Constitution Day, to decry “left wing mobs” that he says seek to “demolish the precious inheritance” contained in the Constitution. “We can’t let this happen,” he says. 3:08 PM · Sep 17, 2020·Twitter Web App “We can’t let that happen! Only I can trash the Constitution!” Link to post Share on other sites
Arturo Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 hours ago, jakeem said: Mark Knoller @markknoller Candidate bearing gifts. Pres announces he’ll be announcing $13-billion in relief for farmers hard hit by the impact of the pandemic. Says Wisconsin farmers have been waiting a long time for that. 10:29 PM · Sep 17, 2020·Twitter Web App They’ve been waiting a long time....and you’ve been president for how long, you effing moron!?!? 6 weeks before the election. You are so shamelessly transparent, you translucent fool!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Princess of Tap Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 3 hours ago, jakeem said: ABC News @ABC BREAKING: Starting Sunday, downloads of the massively popular video app TikTok and the messaging app WeChat will be banned in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. TikTok, WeChat to be banned from US app stores starting Sunday The Trump administration said the move was necessary to "safeguard the national security of the United States." abcnews.go.com 8:19 AM · Sep 18, 2020·SocialFlow That's one way for a Kellyann Conway to get control of her kids. Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 Letter from Trump’s Washington Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of the Coronavirus The first staffer on the coronavirus task force to go public tells The New Yorker that America’s pandemic response was “derailed by the person at the very top.” By Susan B. Glasser 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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Bogie56 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 09/18/2020 17:36:39 TOTAL ESTIMATED U.S. COVID-19 DEATHS: 196,908 Trump Death Clock 118,145 Estimated U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Due To POTUS Inaction In January 2020, the Trump administration was advised that immediate action was required to stop the spread of COVID-19. According to NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, “there was a lot of pushback” to this advice. President Trump declined to act until March 16th. Experts estimate that, had mitigation measures been implemented one week earlier, 60% of American COVID-19 deaths would have been avoided. (For further reading, click here). Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins · 2h President Trump says the reason they’re now rolling out the aid package for Puerto Rico — weeks before the election — is because it took a long time to get ready. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 41 minutes ago, mr6666 said: Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins · 2h President Trump says the reason they’re now rolling out the aid package for Puerto Rico — weeks before the election — is because it took a long time to get ready. Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump is complimenting Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, announcing billions in aid money. (Pre-campaign, he repeatedly complained about how much aid Puerto Rico was getting or wildly overstated the amounts.) https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1307036197492064257 2:18 PM · Sep 18, 2020 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Trump administration announces $13 billion in additional aid to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of 2017's Hurricane Maria. The move is likely an attempt to appeal to Puerto Rican voters who moved to the battleground state of Florida after the hurricane struck the US territory...... In the three years since the storm made landfall, the rebuilding process has been slow and costly. In November 2018, White House officials told congressional leaders and appropriators that the President did not want any additional relief funding sent to the island. Asked why he didn't approve the aid package years ago, Trump baselessly claimed in a Friday news conference that it was the Democrats' fault. "Very tough to get things passed, Democrats, where they don't want to see this happen," he said, though the reality is his administration held up aid to the island as he criticized its residents........ https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/trump-aid-puerto-rico/index.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 POLITICO @politico BREAKING: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most revered justices in U.S. Supreme Court history, has died. She was 87 https://politi.co/3iKVkLG Only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg wrote some of its most notable opinions on gender discrimination, including the majority opinion in US v. Virginia, a 1996 case which opened the Virginia Military Institute to women. RBG's influence went far beyond gender cases. In 2012, Ginsburg authored a vital concurrence/dissent in the split decision for National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius – a case that upheld aspects of the Affordable Care Act. 7:43 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Michael Tackett @tackettdc "Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that i I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." 7:41 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis After Scalia died in February 2016, 9 months before the election, Mitch McConnell did not allow Obama to name his replacement because the election was so close. "The American people should have a say in the court's direction," McConnell asserted. NO RBG replacement now. 7:44 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Walter Shaub @waltshaub Knowing that Mitch McConnell is about to make a liar of himself (again) by abandoning his Merrick Garland rule, Republicans should just stop using words entirely and begin communicating only in grunts and foot stomps. They have no principles and worship only power. 7:44 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 3 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio McConnell has repeatedly said he would move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy this year. 7:43 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe Remember when President Trump said he'd nominate Tom Cotton to the U.S. Supreme Court? 7:48 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Chris Hayes @chrislhayes Not 100% clear McConnell can hold the caucus on a confirmation vote before the election. Probably can, but absolutely not a done deal. 7:48 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Ian Bassin @ianbassin Replying to @chrislhayes The egregiousness of it will be so extreme it would guarantee a Dem Senate. And if McConnell dares to do it, he will know a Dem Senate would almost surely add seats to fix what he broke. And one has to think a few of his caucus members won't want to be responsible for that. 7:54 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Matt McDermott @mattmfm We lost a giant. We better respond with a **** movement. 7:50 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Caroline Orr Bueno @RVAwonk I know it’s tempting to start talking about who will replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the truth is, no one will replace her. So let’s just remember her legacy — how much she did, how many barriers she broke, & how hard she fought for women’s rights and equality more generally. 7:51 PM · Sep 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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