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riversedge's Journal@AmyMcGrathKY · Aug 16 Everyone in Kentucky, please read this thread .........
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Aug 16
Everyone in Kentucky, please read this thread
Down pointing backhand index
https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1295103874915852289?s=20
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1294577167033081856?s=20
@RepKatiePorter I hope the Postmaster General comes prepared. I know I will.............
https://twitter.com/JustVent6/status/1295453952251658240?s=20
https://twitter.com/DavidYankovich/status/1295443431117008898?s=20
https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1295418478506237954?s=20
https://twitter.com/GuadalahonkyToo/status/1295452210365489152?s=20
And I have NO idea what this is all about!!
https://twitter.com/1GOPWIZARD/status/1295474080586637314?s=20
Latinos downgrade Trump on coronavirus response, kick up Biden support, poll shows
Source: nbc news
“Latinos view Trump’s poor response to the pandemic as the cause of the crisis,” pollster Gary Segura said.
Aug. 17, 2020, 1:05 PM CDT
Seventy percent of Latinos gave President Donald Trump poor marks for his handling of the coronavirus, while 66 percent who are registered to vote said they support Joe Biden, according to a poll released Monday as Democrats began their virtual national convention.
Latino registered voters’ support for Biden, who will officially accept the party’s nomination this week, rose 5 percentage points from May, while Latinos' disapproval of Trump was up 14 percentage points over the same four months, the poll showed.
“Responding to COVID-19 is the gorilla at the table. It is a giant factor that Latinos are considering as the most important issue that they are facing. It eclipses health care costs and unemployment,” said Gary Segura, a principal with Latino Decisions polling firm, which conducted the poll.
The poll showed that 73 percent of respondents agreed that Trump ignored the early warning signs of the virus and downplayed its seriousness.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-downgrade-trump-coronavirus-response-kick-biden-support-poll-shows-n1236963
🚨 It certainly appears that @USPS is targeting Democratic areas with near surgical precision
I had not seen the map before.
Aug 14
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It certainly appears that @USPS
is targeting Democratic areas with near surgical precision for reductions of sorting capacity.
This is as deeply concerning as the the other delays they have announced.
https://washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1294479483983073281?s=20
#SaveUSPS #USPSprotest
............DeJoy, in service changes last month, has drastically reduced overtime and banned extra trips to ensure on-time mail delivery. His wholesale reorganizations ousted several agency veterans in key operational roles. And the USPS is currently decommissioning 10 percent of its costly and bulky mail-sorting machines, which workers say could hinder processing of election mail, according to a grievance filed by the American Postal Workers Union and obtained by The Washington Post. Those 671 machines, scattered across the country but concentrated in high-population areas, have the capacity to sort 21.4 million pieces of paper mail per hour.........................................
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1294479876368498688?s=20
Hard not to notice Trump repeatedly trying to hold Melania's hand on their way down the steps and he
umm.. I am surprised to see Melania--she has been invisible these last 2 or so weeks.
Hard not to notice Trump repeatedly trying to hold Melania’s hand on their way down the steps and her having none of it
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1295159724497874944?s=20
https://twitter.com/rpdandy/status/1295169807999012865?s=20
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1295168548503945216?s=20
Grieving for his brother....
https://twitter.com/GottaLaff/status/1295137678791307264?s=20
Sen Tammy Baldwin coming up on msnbc--Covid-19 supply cutbacks in WI--diverted from WI...
Testing down--lack of testing reagent and supplies.
I do not know if happening in other states.
Belarusians gather in Minsk in thousands for biggest protest yet
Source: the guardian
Alexander Lukashenko claims Vladimir Putin has offered him ‘comprehensive help’
Shaun Walker in Minsk
Sun 16 Aug 2020 08.12 EDT
Thousands of Belarusians have gathered in the capital Minsk for what could be the biggest protest in the country’s history, as an extraordinary week of rising protest sentiment comes to a close.
Just seven days after the country’s authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, claimed to have secured 80% of the vote in a presidential ballot, his legitimacy is in tatters and his regime is facing its biggest crisis since he first came to power 26 years ago. The protest mood on Sunday was stoked further by egregious police violence against thousands of protesters earlier in the week.
The protest, set for 2pm local time on Minsk’s Independence Avenue, came as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, told Lukashenko in a phone call on Sunday that Moscow stood ready to provide help in accordance with a collective military pact if necessary.
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The Kremlin said in a statement that external pressure was being applied to Belarus. It did not say by who.
Lukashenko on Sunday addressed a crowd of several thousand supporters in front of the country’s parliament, who waved Belarusian flags and cheered him. Visibly emotional, he said he had no intention of giving up the country, and suggested Nato forces were preparing to invade.
“I have never betrayed you and I never will,” he said, bowing to the assembled crowd. “If you destroy Lukashenko, it will be the beginning of the end for you.”
Earlier on Saturday, Lukashenko appealed to Putin’s visceral fear of revolution at home and suggested that if his regime fell, the Russian president was also in danger. “This is a threat not just to Belarus … if Belarusians do not hold out, the wave will head over there too,” he said in televised remarks to a meeting of advisers, claiming that the protests were organised by shadowy figures from abroad.
“Both sides expressed confidence that all the problems that have arisen will be resolved soon,” said a Kremlin transcript of the phone call between the two men.
Russia and Belarus are technically part of a “union state”, but Lukashenko has resisted closer integration in recent years and proved a tricky partner for the Kremlin. Still, Putin will be keen to keep Belarus as a strategic ally and not to see street protests win out in yet another neighbouring state.
Lukashenko’s challenger in last week’s vote, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was forced to flee to neighbouring Lithuania last Monday, called on Belarusians to protest this weekend in a video address released on Friday.............................
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/belarus-prepares-for-biggest-protest-yet-after-week-of-anger
Looks like Putin has control over Belarus.
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1294962832228995072?s=20
https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/1294967617422331905?s=20
https://twitter.com/irynam11/status/1294971509417574400?s=20
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1294974138331930624?s=20
https://twitter.com/Lucian_Kim/status/1294912406116859904?s=20
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1294754495034011656?s=20
https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1294758663756943363?s=20
https://twitter.com/GfromZ/status/1294959919658086400?s=20
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Opposition supporters protest against presidential election results in Minsk
People take part in a rally in Minsk to protest against presidential election results, 15 August. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
Proud Boys moves through western Michigan amid counterprotests
Source: abc
by TRISHA McCAULEY, WWMT StaffSaturday, August 15th 2020
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WWMT) — Members of the Proud Boys group moved through western Michigan on Saturday.
The group originally planned to hold a rally in Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Kalamazoo, an outdoor area and event space. After hundreds of counterprotesters and police arrived at the location, the group began to move through the city.
Police had a large presence throughout the demonstration and could be heard over speakers telling crowds to clear from the area.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Proud Boys as a hate group because of what the center says is the group’s frequent denigration of Muslims and Islam, misogynistic rhetoric, and its role as a gateway to other extremist groups.
Kalamazoo city leaders said the Proud Boys did not reserve any park space or request a permit to host an event in the city, but Kalamazoo Deputy City Manager Jeff Chamberlain said groups don’t necessarily need a permit to protest in the city.
A church reserved Arcadia Creek Festival Place at the same time the rally was set to start in what organizers said was a counterprotest against the Proud Boys.
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Read more: https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/proud-boys-moves-through-western-michigan-amid-counterprotests
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When Trump plans one of his desperate tricks, you know he's always thinking, "what's the most vile,
I am hoping the cable and networks do not carry trumps speech. #crueltyisthePoint
https://twitter.com/StevenBeschloss/status/1294714993871474689?s=20
When Trump plans one of his desperate tricks, you know he's always thinking, "what's the most vile, offensive thing I could do?" Then he does it.
https://twitter.com/lisalaurenhere/status/1294717090537111552?s=20
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