Pamela Hilliard Owens offers readers today a useful resource: a short biography of Kamala Harris that Owens first published in March this year.
#KamalaHarris
/16
https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/today-in-black-history-vice-president
Pamela Hilliard Owens offers readers today a useful resource: a short biography of Kamala Harris that Owens first published in March this year.
#KamalaHarris
/16
https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/today-in-black-history-vice-president
"Harris is a hip, younger candidate, while Trump is an aging one with clear early dementia and aphasia.
Harris has sent sexual predators to prison, and Trump is an adjudicated rapist.
Harris will appeal to the winning Obama coalition, while Trump must rely on turnout from white MAGA voters.
Harris is articulate and organized in her public speaking, while Trump rambles nonsensically and interminably.
Harris is today’s news, and Trump’s is yesterday’s."
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/15
"Few politicians understand in such concrete terms how dangerous decisions of this U.S. Supreme Court have been in recent years. Harris will talk forthrightly about the end of Roe v. Wade and the need to protect abortion rights. Harris should be able to do the same in many other areas, including the dangers to democracy posed by Trump."
~ Chris Geidner
#KamalaHarris #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #abortion
/17
https://www.lawdork.com/p/it-happened-its-harris-now-lets-do
"Biden’s announcement and Harris’s rapid consolidation of support and money appear to have blindsided the Trump-Vance campaign. MAGA Republicans have responded with scattershot arguments that suggest they had not thought through a scenario in which Biden would step down, an omission so astonishing it perhaps suggests they could not imagine a presumptive nominee voluntarily giving up power."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Suddenly Trump looks plder and more deranged.
Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence."
~ Anne Applebaum
And, Lord knows, age matters supremely — especially to Republicans, who have spent months and months yelling about that very matter.
And to the media. We can surely count on blaring headlines now about Trump's age: am I right? New York Times?
#KamalaHarris #Trump #age
/20
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/
"A post on Trump’s social media feed tonight suggested that Trump recognizes that being the oldest candidate ever nominated for the presidency is a campaign issue. The post said that 'Lyin’ Kamala Harris…has absolutely terrible pole [sic] numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP! Be careful what you wish for, Democrats???'”
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/19
"People are excited. The storylines are writing themselves: prosecutor versus convicted felon, public servant versus selfish businessman, healthy Gen Xer versus deteriorating Boomer, prime-of-life woman of color versus old white man, a women fighting for women’s rights versus a man who wants to take those rights away.
~ Greg Olear
#KamalaHarris #Trump #age
/21
And while the Democrats offer us Kamala, the Republicans offer us Trump selling sneakers at $300/pair, with his bloody face on them. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar comments:
"The company is owned by Trump, yet the site says 'Though it uses Trump’s name, it is ‘not political’ and does not contribute to the presidential candidate’s re-election campaign.' How disingenuous can you get? The money goes directly to Trump, which is supporting his candidacy."
#Trump #Republicans
/22
https://kareem.substack.com/p/biden-steps-aside-so-harris-can-run
"By endorsing V.P. Harris, President Biden has helped to impose order on a process that could have been chaotic. It will not be his final gift to our nation, but it is a fitting and significant one that will echo for generations. In endorsing Kamala Harris, Joe Biden has pointed the way to the future."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump
/24
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-new-beginning-and-a-great-start
"Trump is the oldest presidential candidate in our history. That script he’s been using against Biden? It all applies to him. Unlike Biden, as a candidate, he hasn’t made important medical results like bloodwork or even his weight public. We still haven’t seen a report from a doctor with a valid medical license about his injuries during the shooting.
If Trump is elected, J.D. Vance is only a heartbeat away from the presidency."
~ Joyce Vance
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/23
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/things-that-matter-desperately
"The stark political reality facing President Joe Biden, prompting his unprecedented decision to exit the 2024 race, might look different had he enjoyed the support of a blindly loyal, propagandistic news media."
~ Oliver Darcy
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17216991515692458e0c72351/raw
"In an era when the rise of rightwing nationalism has coincided with declining trust in mainstream politics, this is an outcome to celebrate. ... A high turnout across France led to millions of voters burying very real differences to join forces against it. They did so in order to see off a party whose xenophobic core is at odds with republican values of equality and inclusion."
~ The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/08/the-guardian-view-on-the-french-election-time-to-build-a-republican-future
#France #election #LePen #HardRight
"Nearly 26,000 children – or just over two percent of Gaza’s child population - have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months of a war which has decimated the health system and severed access to education, Save the Children said."
~ Relief Web
"The March jobs report was another big one, coming in way above expectations at 303,000 net new jobs, and 22k more in upward revisions from previous months. Average hourly earnings are up 4.1% over the past year. So with inflation at 3.2% over the past year workers in America are not only seeing the best job market since the 1960s - almost 60 years! - but are also now clearly getting ahead and beating inflation."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Biden #economy #jobs #inflation
/1
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/another-great-jobs-report-the-economy
@feld These numbers come not from the media but from government tallying of solid evidence about what's happening to the economy. We can, if we wish, pretend that the earth is flat, that eclipses are acts of God to goad us to repentance, that bleach will cure Covid and vaccines don't work.
Me, I prefer to live in a world governed by facts, truth, and logic – the reality-based world.
Charles Pierce:
"There is no reason for the United States to be engaged with any government that can do this."
Then he excerpts a BBC report about the IDF of 7 food-charity workers of chef Andrés' World Central Kitchen on Monday, something the IDF is trying to dismiss as, "It just happened."
#Israel #Netanyahu #IDF #Gaza #Palestinians
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60373049/world-central-kitchen-netanyahu-idf/
"The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."
~ Elle Hardy
#evangelicals #surveillance #privacy
/1
https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance
"For those of us who are Jewish, and particularly for those of us who bear the trauma of our own ancestors’ genocide, it is time to face the consequences of these actions, not only for the Palestinians, whose tragedy is obvious, but for ourselves."
"But in its desire for revenge, Israel is engaging in the mass killing of innocent civilians, largely children, which may spiral even further out of control. Israel claims it is not targeting civilians. But what does such a claim mean when Israel is conducting such a fierce bombing of an urban area as dense as Gaza?"
"Israel’s current actions, I believe, make me less safe as a Jewish person, rather than more. But I also feel Israel’s actions, not only here but also over time, in a different way – as an assault on my Jewish identity. ...
Israel suffered an unspeakably horrifying terrorist attack, by a criminal group dedicated to its destruction."
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