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Russian attack on Kharkiv kills at least six, injures scores more

The Cure A Letter to Elise

Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders

The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.

Brazil blocked the social network X on Friday after its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with a Brazilian judge’s orders to suspend certain accounts, the biggest test yet of the billionaire’s efforts to transform the site into a digital town square where just about anything goes.

Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, ordered internet providers to block access to X across the nation of 200 million because the company lacked a necessary legal representative in Brazil.

Mr. Musk closed X’s office in Brazil last week after Justice Moraes threatened arrests for ignoring his orders to remove X accounts that he said broke Brazilian laws.

TPM: Arlington Visit Was A Fake Memorial To Set Up Biden, Harris

 "Look how they didn't even come to the memorial for the soldiers they got killed!"

It's not a good sign that no one seems to be able to make Trump follow the law, and his parole officer seems to be missing in action.

According to Talking Points Memo, the whole mess was a pretend event put together so the Trumpers could claim Joe Biden and Kamala Harris didn't bother to attend.

Three days ago, the Trump campaign held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery. The idea was to lay a wreath honoring the 13 members of the U.S. military who were killed during the evacuation of Kabul in 2021 and film a political ad. They would distribute the video and attack Vice President Harris and President Biden for not “showing up” for their campaign event, which they sought to portray was an established memorial. As soon as the video circulated, military policy experts I know said right off the bat they were shocked that the campaign had been allowed to hold a campaign event on the grounds of the cemetery and circulate video of it. It isn’t just unseemly. It’s against the law. How were they allowed to do that?

Everything he does is for his self aggrandizement. 

Charlie Sykes: Who poses with a thumbs up in front of the grave of a fallen soldier?

Donald Trump \ uses others for his own gain. Does he care about those soldiers buried at Arlington or their surviving family members? Of course not. He saw an opportunity to exploit them for his own purposes and he took full advantage.  

【台風10号】宮崎でも突風 木があおられ枝が道路に散らばる

This video of typhoon number 10 that made landfall on Kyushu and the city of Miyasaki. 

TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFILING ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 8.29.24 | Countdown With Keith Olbermann

Steely Dan - Do It Again

TRUMP ACCUSES HIMSELF OF RIGGING THE 2020 ELECTION - 8.28.24 | Countdown With Keith Olbermann

Trump staffers reported over altercation at Arlington cemetery during photo op

 Officials at military cemetery say two campaign members ‘verbally abused and pushed’ a representative

Officials at Arlington national cemetery have filed a report over the behavior of members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who reportedly shoved and verbally abused an employee during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate.

The officials confirmed that a confrontation took place at the Virginia cemetery on Monday after the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 US servicemen and -women killed in a 2021 suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the statement said, adding that “a report was filed” over the incident.

Donald Trump has called those who've served in the military suckers and losers and refused to visit a World War 1 American cemetery in France because it was raining.  

Voice Of Baceprot The Enemy of Earth is You

Midnight Vibrations | Deep & Progressive House | 2016 Mixed By Johnny M

Trump Can't Win On Character

 Rich Lowery writing in the New York Times postulated that Donald Trump a man with immense character flaws could win the election in November based on wait for it:  His character. The man has zero character. 

The New York Times recently published an op-ed by Rich Lowry that has sparked widespread ridicule online.

Titled "Trump Can Win on Character," the piece argues that former President Donald Trump’s best strategy for winning the 2024 election lies in attacking Vice President Kamala Harris's character.

Lowry, who is the editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, suggests that Trump should focus on portraying Harris as "weak, a phony, and uninterested in the country or the middle class" to gain an advantage.

The article has drawn sharp criticism and mockery, with many finding the idea that Trump—often criticised for his own character and behaviour—could win a race based on character to be deeply ironic.

Rich Lowery doesn't understand irony. 

Rudy: Bannon Tortured By Lack Of Access To Television

  Via HuffPost:

The former mayor of New York City lashed out at the Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General Merrick Garland while acting as a stand-in for Bannon during Tuesday’s episode of the former White House strategist’s streaming series, “War Room: Battleground.”

Joined by MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy enthusiast, Mike Lindell, Giuliani claimed Bannon was being subjected to cruel treatment as he serves his four-month sentence for flouting a 2021 subpoena from congress. “Steve unfortunately can’t hear this broadcast, which is an outrage,” the man formerly known as “America’s Mayor” complained.

 The person who's actually being tortured is the guys cellmate. As Bannon is averse to bathing. Imagine having to live with that smell 24/7 for 4 months. Torture.

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GOP Group Claims Dred Scott Ruling Disqualifies Harris From Presidency

 Birtherism 2.0 cites the most racist and reviled Supreme Court decision to claim Oakland-born Kamala Harris is not a natural-born citizen.

The Dred Scott decision, which ruled that enslaved people were not U.S. citizens, is often cited as the worst Supreme Court decision ever, the National Archives states on its website. Also, it was “overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the United States.”

But the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), an organization with 26 chapters in the U.S. and which once included Ronald Reagan in its membership, is using that decision to argue that born-in-the-USA Kamala Harris is not a natural-born citizen. The resolution is undated. But we know it was drawn up during the 2024 presidential campaign because it also cites Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy as disqualified.

By NewsHound Ellen — August 25, 2024

The Dred Scott decision, which ruled that enslaved people were not U.S. citizens, is often cited as the worst Supreme Court decision ever, the National Archives states on its website. Also, it was “overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the United States.”

But the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), an organization with 26 chapters in the U.S. and which once included Ronald Reagan in its membership, is using that decision to argue that born-in-the-USA Kamala Harris is not a natural-born citizen. The resolution is undated. But we know it was drawn up during the 2024 presidential campaign because it also cites Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy as disqualified.

AlterNet has more on the resolution, which was posted to Bluesky by attorney Andrew Fleischman:

The NFRA argued that the phrase "natural born citizen" is defined as "a person born on American soil of parents who are both citizens of the United States at the time of the child's birth."

RFK Jr. Endorsees Trump: Brain Worms Ecstatic

As you know yesterday the man who has brain worms indorsed the orange clown. With nothing else happing in the world save for the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the civil war in Sudan CNN decides that the most import news of the weekend is the afore mentioned endorsement. 

Clowns and brain worms have been partying ever since. 

Johnny M - As Deep As It Gets | Deep House Set

Trump To Host Jan. 6 ‘Awards Gala’ Next Month

 Nope, not The Onion, though it should be.

Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club is hosting a “J6 Awards Gala” early next month. The felonious insurrectionist, Rudy Giuliani and Vivek Ramaswamy are invited speakers to the event originally scheduled for earlier this month, now re-scheduled for September 5th.

Attendees have a chance to win a plaque commemorating the fact that MAGA folks bought a bunch of copies of his J6 "song" called Justice for All earning him a fleeting spot on the Billboard music chart.

That song takes audio of Trump reciting the pledge of allegiance and mixes it in with J6 defendants singing the national anthem, alternating between lines. Attendees at Trump's events often struggle to sing and recite along.

Event description: "We gather to pay tribute not only to these individuals but to all J6 defendants who have shown incredible courage and sacrifice."

The real prizes should be a free orange jump suit, a stay in federal prison and QAnon tattooed to their foreheads. 

Deep Progressive Techno #15

CNN gains access to Ukrainian-held Russian town

CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh has been charged with illegally crossing the border into Ukrainian-held territory of the Kursk region of Russia.

Nick Paton Walsh now faces up to five years in prison, if the Russians catch him.

Source: Moscow Times

Russian law enforcement authorities said Thursday that they have filed criminal charges against a CNN reporter and two Ukrainian journalists for illegally crossing the border into Ukrainian-held territory of the Kursk region during a reporting assignment.

“Criminal charges have been filed, and investigations are underway,” a spokesperson for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) told the state-run Interfax news agency.

Sky Cries Mary Shipwrecked

Protesters clash with police outside Israeli consulate in Chicago

Chicago police officers with batons pushed protesters away from the Israeli consulate, two miles from where the Democratic national convention was being held. Democratic delegates formally nominated Kamala Harris as the party's candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza had gathered for a third consecutive day. On Monday, they had marched through the city to rally against the Biden administration before protesting outside the convention centre the following day

Just a reminder the following who were alive in 1968 Richard J. Daley, Hubert Humphry, LBJ  and Richard Nixon are still dead. The Vietnam War ended in 1975. This isn't Chicago of 1968. 

Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Official Music Video)

Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrow For Pundits

 You know cable news is getting desperate when they start inviting podcasters onto their shows like:

Billy Bob's Down Home Political Punditry and Air Conditioning Repair 

I Know Jesus Is A Republican Podcast

Why The Middle Is Squishy Podcast

 I Can Find A Conservative In A Diner Podcast  

Shooting Bud Light For Jesus Podcast

Bobbie Sue's Let's Make America The Handmaids Tale Podcast

The Ken Boone Still Wears Red Sweaters Podcast

The Cure - Apart (with lyrics)

Patrick Delaney Is Sorry Because He Got Caught

 The boss of Foxtel - a majority News Corp-owned cable television company in Australia - has "unreservedly" apologised after an image surfaced of him performing a Nazi salute.

Patrick Delaney said he believed he was showing "the similarity" between the gesture and one used by some fans of a Western Sydney soccer club when the photo was taken a decade ago.

"Regardless of the context, the fact I demonstrated this offensive salute was wrong," he said in an email to staff seen by the BBC.

Ron Johnson Idiot (I) Wisconsin Wants an Investigation

 Ron Johnson the sailed boat fueled Senator from Wisconsin would like to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for; Wait for it. Getting married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. 

   Republican Senator Ron Johnson attacked Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz over his ties to China, claiming it’s a red flag that the “radical leftist” got married “on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.”

Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the Wisconsin lawmaker and member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate: “She’s a radical leftist. She chose another radical leftist. They’re just assuming the mainstream media is not going to cover his background.

“The House is going to investigate it now — it’s very strange. He got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. He’s gone to China. He’s taught in China. He’s got deep connections to China.”

Dear Ron a large number of Americans have traveled to, lived in and have worked in China. You and the those fools in the House should investigate that.  

‘Everything has changed’: Ret. US Army Major on Ukraine’s 'buffer zone’ ...

Ukraine’s military incursion into Kursk aims to create a “buffer zone” to prevent cross-border attacks by Moscow’s forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed, as his troops blew up a second bridge in the Russian border region.

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

Jeffries not confident a GOP-led House would certify election if Trump loses

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicated Sunday during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that he is not confident a House Republican majority would certify the presidential election if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected, as attacks from former president Donald Trump raise fears he would question the election outcome if he loses.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man

CNN gains access to Ukrainian-held Russian town

CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh gains access inside the Russian town of Sudzha, a city that Ukrainian President Zelensly says his forces now occupy.

Moby Boiler Room Set

Ukraine release footage they say shows first moments of Ukraine's incursion

A Ukrainian military brigade has released footage it claims is from the first day of Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region. It appears to show a destroyed border point and men believed to be Russian soldiers surrendering

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Felon 45 Wants His New York Sentencing Postponed

Mr. 34 Felony Convictions wants his sentencing in that case postponed until after the election. The court should deny that and let him campaign from jail with his face matching orange jumpsuit. 

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Ukrainian Troops Are Reviewing Russian Restaurants

 

Meanwhile in #Kursk oblast, Ukrainian soldiers are reviewing Russian restaurants on Google. Here's a cafe in #Sudzha: pic.twitter.com/nrF44w3zXg

— Matt Austin 🇺🇦 (@Iammattaustin) August 13, 2024

Tribal Techno & Afro House Mix - March 2020 (#HumanMusic)

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Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

 Dan Huff, a former legal adviser in the White House Presidential Personnel Office under Trump, says in another video that future appointees should be prepared to enact significant changes in American government and be ready to face blowback when they do.

“If you’re not on board with helping implement a dramatic course correction because you’re afraid it’ll damage your future employment prospects, it’ll harm you socially — look, I get it,” Huff says. “That’s a real danger. It’s a real thing. But please: Do us all a favor and sit this one out.” 

“Eradicate Climate Change References”

The project’s experts outline regulatory and policy changes that future political appointees should prepare for in a Republican administration.

One video, titled “Hidden Meanings: The Monsters in the Attic,” is a 50-minute discussion of supposed left-wing code words and biased language that future appointees should be aware of and root out. In that video, Kozma says that U.S. intelligence agencies have named climate change as an increasingly dire threat to global stability, which, she says, illustrates how the issue “has infiltrated every part of the federal government.”

Later in the video, Katie Sullivan, the former acting assistant attorney general under Trump, advocates for removing so-called critical race theory from public education without saying how the federal government would accomplish that. (Elementary and secondary education curricula are typically set at the state and local level, not by the federal government.)

   

In a different video, David Burton, an economic policy expert at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the importance of an obscure yet influential agency called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Trump administration used OIRA to help roll back regulations on economic, fiscal and environmental issues. Under Biden, OIRA took a more aggressive stance in helping review and shape new regulations, which included efforts to combat housing discrimination, ban the sale of so-called ghost guns and set new renewable fuel targets.

 

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Ukrainian incursion shows 'no sign of winding down'

Ukraine’s daring incursion into Russia is showing “no sign of winding down”, FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze said, pointing to Moscow calling in more reinforcements to fight off Kyiv’s troops in Kursk. “Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are still trying to advance within Russian territory ... this is very much felt by Russia, we see the chaos that this has created in border regions, not just in Kursk but in neighbouring Belgorod, Bryansk”, Chaze said, reporting from Kramatorsk.

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Has Trump lost campaign momentum? Analysts discuss

"Experts" from the Beltway pundit class meet to discuss a topic that most Americans could careless about. The orange man's crowd size at his rallies. They need these panels to not only stay relevant, but to help their financial bottom line. 

ZHU, partywithray - Came For The Low

Trump's Helicopter Crash Story Never Even Happened

 

During his insane "press conference" yesterday (which was really one long Festivus rant), Trump told a jaw-dropping story about nearly dying in a helicopter ride with Willie Brown, the former California politician and ex-boyfriend of Vice President Kamala Harris. Via the New York Times:

It wasn’t the famous former San Francisco mayor on the helicopter flight at all. It was Gov. Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, who bears little resemblance to Willie Brown.

There was also no emergency landing, and the helicopter’s passengers were never in any danger at all, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was also on the flight.

Jerry Brown, who left office in January 2019, said through a spokesman, “There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.”

“I call complete B.S.,” Mr. Newsom said, laughing out loud.

Fever Ray 'Keep The Streets Empty For Me'

Live Shot Of Trump Press Conference

 

Live shot of Trumps press conference: pic.twitter.com/lIAgh2Hns1

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) August 8, 2024

Felon45 Tells Reporters There Was A Peaceful Transfer Of Power On January 6

Another Trump sh*t show and lies.

Donald Trump miraculously claimed there would be a peaceful transfer of power if he lost just like the last time in 2020, which we know was highlighted by Trump's efforts to overthrow the election, culminating in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th.

The 'peaceful' transfer of power that the orange felon fought to prevent began with 64 court cases in November of 2020. Of which, he lost 63. His attempted coup on 6 January 2021 was the culmination of those efforts.  

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Heritage President Delays Project 2025 Book Publication 'Indefinitely'

 

Things are not going well in the alternate reality otherwise known as the far right of the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, will delay publication of his forthcoming book in the wake of a media firestorm sparked by Democratic criticism of the Heritage-led initiative Project 2025, RealClearPolitics is first to report.

Notably, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a friend of Roberts and the Republican nominee for vice president, wrote the foreword of that book entitled “Dawn’s Early Light.”

“There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country,” Roberts wrote in a statement to RCP. “That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election.”

Russia says Ukrainian troops crossed border and launched ‘massive attack’

Russia has accused Ukrainian troops of crossing the border into its Kursk region, which, if confirmed, marks the first incursion of its kind from Ukraine and puts pressure on Moscow in an area largely unaffected by the two-year war.

Here's the irony for you. Putin called it a major provocation even though it was Russia that invaded Ukraine for the purpose of recreating the old Soviet Empire.

Bob Welch Hypnotized

ZHU, partywithray - Came For The Low (Zemo Dance Song)

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country as protesters storm palace

In Pictures: Celebrations and looting on streets of Dhaka

As we have reported, thousands of people have gone out in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to celebrate the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

But amongst the celebrations, there are reports of looting. Demonstrators breaking into Hasina's official residence and taking furniture with a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Hasina's father - vandalised.

Despite historic ties, India will want to tread carefully

Sheikh Hasina and her family share historic ties with India.

India fought alongside Bangladesh’s freedom leaders in its war for independence from Pakistan in 1971, after which Sheikh Hasina’s father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became Bangladesh’s first president.

In 1975, after the assassination of her father and most of her family in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and her sister were granted political asylum in India for several years.

Across political parties in India, Hasina has found support because the Indian establishment has long seen her as a way of keeping radical Islamist groups out of power in Bangladesh.

• The army chief of Bangladesh says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned after weeks of unrest. Her aide says she fled the capital, Dhaka, by helicopter.
• In an address to the nation, General Waker-Uz-Zaman also says an interim government will be formed to run the country.
• Thousands of people take to the streets to celebrate, while many storm the prime minister’s official residence.
• Demonstrations that began last month over governmental job quotas had expanded into nationwide unrest.
• Students have been marching on Dhaka to demand justice for some 300 people killed since last month.

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Critics Clap Back After Donny Dumbf*ck Questions Kamala's IQ

 

Racist grandpa Donald Trump, who won the keys to the White House in 2016 with zero political experience and a not-so-savvy business mind, no matter how much he tries to spin it, pulled out that racist dog whistle and blew it hard at his rally in Georgia on Friday night. When Trump talks about Black women, he typically calls them low-IQ individuals. It's as if the former President doesn't want the coveted woman vote and Black vote.

During his time in office, the serial bankruptcy filer didn't read the written intelligence reports that he was given. Instead, he looked at visuals such as graphs, charts, etc. In 2018, Trump boasted of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) given under now-Texas Rep. Drunky McDrunkerson, claiming he "aced it" for repeating the words "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."