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BY BRIAN BEUTLER, PRIYANKA ARIBINDI & CROOKED MEDIA Tuesday, July 2, 2019 |
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| —WNBA star Sue Bird on the president’s vendetta against her girlfriend Megan Rapinoe |
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| WHOSE EXTREME IMMIGRATION POLICIES?! |
| In the past 24 hours, we’ve learned that the crisis President Trump created at the southern border is worse than previously reported. Here’s what’s happened just since yesterday.
For all the consternation since last week’s primary debate over the positions some Democratic candidates have taken on immigration, it’s important to remember that the winner will face Trump, who has presided over these unprecedented human rights abuses. The choice facing voters won’t be between someone who wants to provide immigrants health care and someone who doesn’t, but between someone who wants to provide immigrants health care and someone who has locked them in camps and terrorized their communities. The people counseling caution mostly just don’t want to see Trump re-elected and the abuses continue, but they should consider what the real choice facing voters in 2020 will be. |
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| President Trump has commandeered the previously non-partisan national Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC, by ordering tanks on to the National Mall, and giving the Republican National Committee tickets to an event at the Lincoln Memorial that will be called “Salute to America.”
How the hell is he getting away with this gross waste of taxpayer money? By abusing his power of course!
Presidents are allowed to host political events at the White House. But Trump has essentially blown this up into a fascistic celebration of himself and moved it to the National Mall. A Trump-GOP event with the military providing decoration. Congress, would you like to step in here? |
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| House Democrats have finally sued the Treasury Department and IRS six weeks after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced he would refuse to comply with subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns.
Nike has pulled a new Independence Day-themed sneaker featuring the “Betsy Ross flag” from shelves after the design came in for criticism, including from Nike athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick. Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) responded to the decision by canceling financial incentives for the company to open a new manufacturing plant that would have created 500 new full-time jobs in the state. Owning the libs in the culture war by keeping your own citizens out of work!
Vice President/Mr. Mother Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire moments before departure and returned to the White House, and the administration has refused to explain why. It’s probably something terrible, but in the absence of an official explanation, we should all assume he pooped his pants.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office—the largest in the state of Florida—lost its law enforcement accreditation by unanimous vote from a state panel. The office mishandled both the Parkland school massacre in 2018 and a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale airport in 2017, and the state decided it did not comply with the standards for certification, which resulted in a “catastrophic loss of life.” Though accreditation isn’t mandatory for law enforcement agencies to operate, it helps them defend themselves in lawsuits, lower insurance rates, and satisfy various evaluation standards.
The latest issue of Vogue features five of the women running for president—Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Tulsi Gabbard—photographed together. Notably absent? Marianne Williamson. Vogue claims it wanted to highlight the lawmakers running. Williamson begs to differ, and may or may not have told Anna Wintour, “girlfriend, you are so on.”
Fifteen-year-old tennis player Coco Gauff defeated Venus Williams in her first ever appearance at Wimbledon on Monday. Gauff made history as the youngest person ever to qualify for the tournament.
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| The first Democratic primary debate had a serious impact on candidates’ standings among voters. A new CNN poll indicates that both Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have made significant gains since their debate appearances last week, with Harris’s support rising nine points, up to 17 percent, and Warren’s rising eight points, up to 15 percent. Frontrunner Joe Biden, by contrast, fell by 10 points to 22 percent and Bernie Sanders fell by four points to 14 percent.
Several candidates, even those whose polling barely changed, also reported substantial spikes in fundraising after the debate, ahead of the second quarter June 30 fundraising deadline.
Not John Hickenlooper, though. He apparently has just 13,000 donors, making it nearly impossible for him to qualify for later Democratic debates, will likely run out of funds in the next month, and his senior aides have reportedly urged him to drop out of the race. |
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| The Trump administration has reportedly abandoned its effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration had lied about its rationale for including the citizenship question on the survey, and must remove the question—unless it could provide credible reasons for including it. Sadly for Trump “I hate immigrants” doesn’t count.
Trump had hoped to find a way around the ruling, but the Constitution requires the government to conduct a Census every 10 years, which left the administration little time to regroup and defend itself in Court.
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