Evening Roundup, September 10
Featuring Jen Rubin and Juan Proaño, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, "Quiz: Choose the Real Headline," Jeff Nesbit, Shalise Manza Young, RJ Matson, and The Democracy Movement
Coffee with The Contrarians 09/10
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A desperate Trump downplays domestic violence
So desperate is President Donald Trump to prove that the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., has resulted in the wholesale elimination of crime, he now claims domestic violence is wrecking his near-perfect record.
Quiz: Choose the Real Headline
By this point we’ve all seen the image of Trump’s signature in Epstein’s “Birthday Book,” scrawled in his classic Sharpie-thickness, in a placement suggestive of pubic hair within a crude sketch of a woman’s torso. The whole tableau would come across as juvenile if it weren’t so sinister. (“May every day be another wonderful secret”—shudder.)
The blackboard and the ballot box
By Jeff Nesbit
Oklahoma is manufacturing a 'woke' crisis in its schools instead of focusing on educating its children.
The shadow docket strikes again
By Shalise Manza Young
The Supreme Court made racial profiling okay again in one unsigned ruling.
Battle plans
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Every day (Monday-Friday), we’ll update this space with protests, signs and other public demonstrations against the actions of the administration. Keep checking to see how Americans all across the country are protecting and defending democracy.
Our leaders must strongly condemn gun violence in all its forms and prioritize ensuring our safety above the politicization of tragedies. Allowing anyone to buy a gun and massacre Americans is a choice we do not need to keep making. Thank you for being with us, Contrarians. Take care of yourselves and one another tonight.
Another act of brutal violence today, one which will reverberate in terrible ways for a long time.
Another crowd of terrified onlookers subjected to rule by the gun, rather than the rule of law and access to free speech for all.
Another grotesque example for the next nutball with access to military-style weaponry to degrade our already degraded country even further than most of us thought possible.
I notice the most immediate condemnations of this violent act came from those whom this young man hated the most, and constantly vilified —Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Gabby Giffords, Pete Buttigieg, others, as was right and proper to do.
I can’t help wondering whether — had the victim been a liberal Democrat — would the fright-wing gun “enthusiasts” be issuing their usual, cynical calls for “thoughts and prayers” for the victim’s family right now.
Somehow I think not.
"Trump downplays domestic violence."
Is this the same man who pardoned 1,500 perpetrators of grave domestic violence.
implicitly giving violent attackers license to continue their behavior.
No? Really?