Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social), page 2

"Minnesota’s Democrats, led by Walz, enacted 'one of the most pro-worker packages of legislation that any state has passed in decades,' said Steven Greenhouse, dean of America’s labor reporters. This is concrete, make-your-life-better-tomorrow stuff, and Walz has excelled at making it law. It also shows that Walz is tough on crime, namely the most common and costly crime in America."

~ Jason Sattler

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #workers #LaborRights
/20

https://thecause.substack.com/p/three-reasons-to-be-thrilled-about

“'[T]he new legislation tackles wage theft by ensuring a contractor entering into a construction contract assumes liability for any unpaid wages, fringe benefits or damages that a subcontractor owes to its workers,' Greenhouse wrote."

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #workers #LaborRights
/21

"signing a law requiring Minnesota to generate all of its electricity from wind, solar, and other carbon-free sources by 2040, and eliminating the climate-warming pollution generated by coal and gas-fired power plants. He also has one of the nation’s best records on child care — signing into law paid leave, lowering child care costs, and making child care options more available."

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #climate #children
/23

Robert Reich thinks the Trump camp's immediate attack on Walz as a dangerous liberal tells us what a good choice she made:

"What are the Trumpers so upset about? Just this: Walz has signed bills protecting abortion access, expanding background checks for gun purchases, and legalizing recreational marijuana. He is one of the nation’s most forceful advocates for tackling climate change —"'

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #abortion #guns #climate
/22

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tim-walz-for-vice-president

"Harris-Walz? It’s the charming vs the charmless and weird ticket. It’s compassion and decency vs cruelty and violence. It’s the pro-democracy American ticket vs the pro-autocracy, pro-Putin ticket."

~ Steven Beschloss

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive
/24

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-its-tim-walz

"it’s walz. holy shit.

pretty excited. it’s rare for Ds to chose a VP that is reaching out to progressives rather than to centrists. And Walz is very much a unity choice."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive
/25

https://substack.com/@noahberlatsky/note/c-64554687

"Doubtless his many supporters will take his performance as confirmation of his fitness for the fight against Harris. But for the many in the room who could see past the bluster, Trump looked for all the world like an old crank who can barely hear or have a thought without somehow making it racist. Asked by Goba how he’d know if he was too old to stay in the job, Trump didn’t hesitate to take another shot at Scott."

~ Andrew Lawrence

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/27

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/31/trump-nabj-black-journalists-chicago

"I also just want to say one quick thing about this invitation.'To the president and board of NABJ: Y'all got played.""

Joy Ann Reid followed those statements by saying Trump showed up at NABJ for three reasons:

1. "To try to dispel the notion he's scared to debate a Black woman."

2. "To steal the attention that Vice President Kamala Harris has hijacked from him."

3. "To create clips to play for his very white, very right wing MAGA fan base."

#Trump #NABJ
/28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85rcNMm1V8&t=1s

"If you were working for the Donald Trump campaign, when you were watching this, it was like watching a baby crawl across the interstate at night. You couldn't look! And they could not get him off that stage fast enough. And this was a long campaign. You can't hide Donald Trump."

~ Former GOP consultant Stuart Stevens

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTeiWOVuLVY

"Trump’s racist attack on Harris does deserve media coverage. But Trump’s new promise to pardon violent felons who brutally attacked police officers on his behalf demands more. There should be countless news stories detailing the severity of their attacks. Every Republican officeholder appearing on TV should be called to respond to this. And we must press the media to do just that."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/30

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/corporate-medias-focus-on-trumps

"For a fun trip back down memory lane, back in 2020 when Democrats were calling Trump racist, his campaign pointed to his old contributions to Harris as proof he was not.

'Kamala Harris is a Black Woman and he donated to her campaign. So I hope we can squash this racism argument.'"

~ Tyson Brody quoted by Bill Kristol

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/32

Why did Trump claim at NABJ that Kamala Harris is not black, and then double down on that claim last night? Bill Kristol thinks he did so for this reason:

"Trump may well have decided that to win, he has to increase the salience of race in this campaign. Sadly, this is not a new gambit in American politics. And sadly, it sometimes works."

And:

"Harris shouldn’t be left alone to defend herself."

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/31

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-vintage-trump-meltdown

"The myth of the newer, more disciplined Trump came to an end yesterday when he lost his marbles on stage during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. …

While the whole New Trump thing is way overstated, it’s been a very long time since he has imploded in public like he did yesterday. Trump lost his shit for one reason — he’s scared of Kamala Harris."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny
/33

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-disastrous-interview-shows

"By now you've probably seen clips from the interview Donald Trump gave on stage at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago today. It was appalling. The only thing worse than the overt racism that came out of his mouth was his apparent belief that he could get away with it."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/1

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/hes-a-racist

"Trump did not try to walk his comments back. He doubled down on social media. ...

It’s okay to call the racist a racist. In fact, it’s something we’re morally obligated to do. The fact that Trump doesn’t like it makes it all the more important to speak truth to would-be power, especially when the racist wants to be president.

Ultimately, Trump’s own people took him off the stage today. But it’s up to us, the voters, to do that in November."

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/2

Aaron Rupar provides helpful video coverage of Trump's self-immolation at NABJ yesterday.

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFmvXQp6F8

"But it is also possible that Trump cannot bear to see the enthusiasm building behind Harris, not only because of its electoral meaning, but also because it reveals how small his own following is and how much people loathe him."

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/5

"It is unlikely that his insults and naked racism will appeal to anyone but his base, making his performance, as Jessica Tarlov put it on the Fox News Channel, 'a complete, absolute dumpster fire.' It is possible that Trump has lost the ability to read a room and reassure his audience that he’s a good bet."

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/4

~ Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-31-2024

“I think we’re getting the first view of imploding Donald Trump as he realizes that what was his for the taking ten days ago is slipping away and he’s likely to go to prison rather than the White House. He [is] being dominated and humiliated by Harris and he’s losing it.”

~ Josh Marshall as quoted by Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/6

"We all know Trump is a racist, misogynist, and an antisemite. But in past years he’s expressed such bigotry just enough to excite his base while covering himself with 'I was just being sarcastic,' or 'it was taken out of context.' And the media allowed him to get away with it.

No longer. Now that he’s running for president against a Black woman, the media isn’t buying it."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #NABJ #racism #misogyny #KamalaHarris
/7

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-meltdown