I've seen countless times how quickly demonizing the homeless can turn into demonizing anyone who dares to have compassion.

This evil ruling will not just criminalize the homeless, it's likely to also allow cities to criminalize mutual aid as well.

Absolutely can not stand.

#MutualAid #Homeless #GrantsPass

"And, since the format established that the CNN journalists running the debate did not challenge anything either candidate said, and Dale’s fact-checking spot came long after the debate ended, the takeaway of the event was a focus on Biden’s age rather than on Trump’s inability to tell the truth or form a coherent thought."

#Biden #Trump #media
/2

"At the end of the evening, pundits were calling not for Trump—a man liable for sexual assault and business fraud, convicted of 34 felonies, under three other indictments, who lied pathologically—to step down, but for Biden to step down…because he looked and sounded old."

#Biden #Trump #media
/3

"The biggest loser? Our democracy."

~ Kristin Du Mez

#Biden #Trump #media
/4

kristindumez.substack.com/p/la…

Last night's biggest loser

If you had the good fortune to skip the presidential debate last night, the CNN headline sums it up: “Biden’s poor showing and Trump’s repeated falsehoods.

^{Kristin Du Mez (Du Mez CONNECTIONS)}

"While Biden clearly lost the debate, the real loser was democracy and the America people as Trump filled the airwaves with unchecked lies and hateful rhetoric dehumanizing immigrants. We may have just witnessed the last presidential debate in modern American politics."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Biden #Trump #media
/5

"This is a just sad, honest reflection of our broken country and flawed information ecosystem that platforms hate and misinformation for sake of profit and ratings."

~ The Left Hook

#Biden #Trump #media
/6

thelefthook.substack.com/p/a-p…

A Presidential Debate For Masochists

I saw the debate so you wouldn’t have to, and trust me, be glad you didn’t.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"It was a painful evening.

Let me leave you with these quotes:

'The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.' — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf."

~ Robert Reich

#Biden #Trump #media
/7

robertreich.substack.com/p/fin…

Final thoughts on tonight’s debate

Friends, Thanks for joining Heather and me tonight. It was a painful evening. Let me leave you with these quotes: “The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

^{Robert Reich}

"The big news companies are deeply committed to peddling a storyline about Biden, who is four percent older than Trump and considerably more knowledgable and coherent, being old and incoherent. So they judge the two candidates by very different standards, and hope you don’t notice…."

~ Jamison Foser

#Biden #Trump #media
/8

findinggravity.net/p/what-do-y…

What do you want the presidential election to be about?

I'll keep this one short

^{Jamison Foser (Finding Gravity)}

"Trump won’t agree to commit to abide by the will of the voters in this election. Given three chances to say he would, he refused to say he would. That should be it. You can’t run a democracy if you won’t commit to the democracy. And Trump won’t. He can’t. Make sure you emphasize this point, especially with younger voters whose turnout is essential, in the weeks ahead.'

~ Joyce Vance

#Biden #Trump #media
/9

joycevance.substack.com/p/thur…

Thursday in the Courts

These days, it's a race to the bottom to see who can move more slowly to decide important issues related to the former president that are in front of them: Judge Aileen Cannon or the Supreme Court.

^{Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)}

"It works like this: Trump sounds nuts, but he can’t be nuts, because he’s the presumptive nominee for president of a major party, and no major party would nominate someone who is nuts. Therefore, it is our responsibility to sand down his rhetoric, to identify any kernel of meaning, to make light of his bizarro statements, to rationalize."

~ Jeffrey Goldberg

#Biden #Trump #media
/10

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

The unadorned truth about Donald Trump

We must treat him like any other candidate for high office who is emotionally and mentally unstable.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}

"I just donated money to the Democrats for the first time in a while. Yes, this was terrible but my reaction is to suddenly face up to the horror of the reality of Trump and to prioritize doing more and to temporarily ignore my Longer-term concerns Such as climate change."

~ TPM reader SJ to Josh Marshall after last night's débacle

#Biden #Trump #media
/11

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/y…

Your Reactions #6

From TPM Reader SJ … I just donated money to the Democrats...

^TPM

"Much has been said about the age of the candidates, but maybe it’s the corporate media whose senility is most dangerous to us."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Biden #Trump #media
/12

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The true losers of this presidential debate were the American people

We didn’t need this show. Each candidate has had time to show us who they are, and one is a felon trying to destroy democracy

^{Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)}

"Their insistence on proceeding as though things are pretty much what they’ve always been, on normalizing the appalling and outrageous, on using false equivalencies and bothsiderism to make themselves look fair and reasonable, on turning politics into horseraces and personality contests, is aiding the destruction of the United States."

#Biden #Trump #media
/13

“CNN is illustrating how a ‘debate’ where the moderators reject the basic responsibility of fact-checking in real time, and refuse to challenge blatantly false statements, is not a debate. It’s a chaos where lies are given equal footing with the truth.”

~ John Nichols, as quoted by Rebecca Solnit

#Biden #Trump #media
/14

"Complicating the effort further is the media’s own sense of itself. So much of what passes for political news — grading the candidates on how good they are at performing for the media, reporters on the campaign trail talking to 'real' people, media-sponsored public opinion surveys and the thousands of polling stories they generate — is the media positioning itself as gatekeeper between candidate and public."

~ David Kurtz

#Biden #Trump #media
/15

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

How To Process Biden’s Debate Disaster

INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Teddy White ... Don Draper

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

"Trump is—objectively—unfit for office. He is insurrectionist and a felon. He cannot answer simple questions.

Yet nowhere in the Republican party does there exist a single person standing up today to say, “Something must be done. We cannot let this man be our nominee.”

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Biden #Trump #media
/16

thebulwark.com/p/the-sum-of-al…

The Sum of All Fears

The Democratic party is asked to save democracy. Again.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

"Note that no one is demanding that Trump step down due to his making a mockery of the 'debate' with his lying, or because of the disgrace he brings to America’s global reputation by being a convicted felon and having staged an insurrection.

Instead, it’s Biden who is supposed to step down."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Biden #Trump #media
/17

lucid.substack.com/p/a-debate-…

A "Debate" That Reveals our Surreal Situation. Performance Matters More than Being a Criminal

Creeping authoritarianism and an addiction to strongman glamour are degrading our democracy. Performance on stage matters more than being a criminal.

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"This election is simply not about Joe Biden. When will people understand this? This election is about two things: how the country is doing and the fact that Donald Trump is a monster."

~ Seth Abramson

#Biden #Trump #media
/18

sethabramson.substack.com/p/th…

The Extremely Simple Reason MAGA Wants President Joe Biden to End His Campaign

If you’re a Democratic or independent voter who’s been suckered into the idea that Biden ending his campaign would do anything but ensure a second Trump term, it’s time to awaken from the fever dream.

^{Seth Abramson (Proof)}

"The latter fact isn’t going to change—in fact, Trump’s monstrousness is only becoming more clear with each passing day—and the former is incontrovertible: the country could be doing better, but it’s doing fine, and much of that is attributable to the good work of the Biden administration."

#Biden #Trump #media
/19

Ja, das kann ich gut verstehen, lieber Rainer!

Ich hoffe, du hast zuhause den einen oder anderen etwas kühleren Raum? Zimmerpflanzen oder Begrünung von außen bewirken da übriigens wahre Wunder!

*Nur mal so ein Tipp am Rande...