Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 pledging to cut down on gang violence, but killings last month reached the same historic highs as when he first started his presidency. With his tenure set to end and elections set for June 2, cartels have stepped up their bloody turf wars against one another, and residents are caught in the crossfire. Read more from the Associated Press.
U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump have agreed to debate in two televised broadcasts. These events are usually organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates, but the Biden and Trump teams directly negotiated the terms of the showdowns. The Biden campaign says the Commission “is out of step with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters.” But there’s some strategic thinking involved in the move, too. Yahoo! News has more about the changes and why they’re important.
Donald Trump - candidate for the Republican party despite having:
-sent an armed mob to stop the election certification
-told an insurrectionist mob to go to our Capitol and fight like hell
-tried to steal an election
-received millions of dollars from foreign nations while serving as President
-been found to be a sexual predator by a jury
-been found to be a fraud by a judge
-had multiple affairs that he covered up through hush money payments
-did tax fraud
-stolen national security secrets which he hid and concealed, enlisted others to help his Espionage crimes
-promised a healthcare plan in two weeks, never delivered, but did deliver an empty binder to 60 minutes
-pretended a pandemic wasn't serious causing hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths
-said he wants to be a dictator
-told our enemy to go ahead and attack our allies
-sent jobs to china
-praises murderous dictators
-told 33,000 lies in office
And all of this is but a fraction of his crimes, scandals and despicable moments. #election
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, asks #MichaelCohen why he paid the money to #StormyDaniels. Cohen says he did so to #influence the #election, & that he did so at #Trump’s direction. This is a summary of the key themes & may signal that direct examination is coming to an end soon.
Trump’s lawyers are on edge thru this part of Cohen’s testimony. #Blanche & #Bove pass notes.
Trump, however, appears to be dozing peacefully. #NodFarter
Maryland's turn! Go VOTE! And if you are wondering what to do for Baltimore city, here's some handy stats to help you decide. Let's not disrupt progress!
#MichaelCohen testifies about being in London when the #AccessHollywood tape came out shortly before the #election. He says he got an email from #SteveBannon, who was the CEO of the #Trump campaign at the time.
Prosecution displays an email exchange about the tape that was forwarded to him by Bannon. Top campaign ofcls including the press sec #HopeHicks, the campaign manager #KellyanneConway & the deputy campaign manager #DavidBossie were also on the email.
#MichaelCohen said that #Trump told him: "I thought you had this under control."
Cohen says Trump also said of #StormyDaniels's allegation: "Guys may think it’s cool, but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign."
Cohen says that Trump explicitly told him they needed to do whatever they could to suppress Daniels's story until at least after the #election, because it wouldn't matter at that point.
For myself and most of the people I know personally who are not lost to the MAGA-side, we are:
Disgusted and outraged by Israel's war on Palestinian civilians.
Disgusted and outraged at our complicity in these war crimes.
Absofuckinglutely going to vote for every single Democrat on our ballots including Joe Biden.
If this confuses you, please feel free to ask me ethics questions. It is a subject I have studied and taught and I'm happy to engage in good faith dialogue.
Third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
The minor-party campaigns of Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan in 2000 are remarkable examples where their campaign increased overall voter turnout.
But lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties make the rules – and those rules make it very hard for third parties.
@rbreich If this is just legal, why haven't #democrats provided regulation in the past? Is it because democrats also take big money from mulinationals for their #election campaigns? That they complain now but ultimately approve of the country being ruled by #oligarchs and the big exchange #companies? #Electioncampaignfunding
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
…powerful pro-Israel interest groups including the American Israel Public Affairs Cmte… is spending tens of millions …this #election cycle to unseat #Democrats it views as insufficiently pro- #Israel.
#Republicans assailed news of a delay in #weapons approvals as a “reprehensible” betrayal. “The #UnitedStates must stand with Israel. Period,” said Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC).
Went out and did some voting. Different place for the polling station then usual, and I didn't make it out at lunchtime so a different time than usual. Seemed about as empty as usual though.
Spoiled my ballots by writing "FPTF is a two party fit up, a fraud in which I will not participate" on them.
They are reporting that BoJo forgot his ID and couldn't vote 😆
I nearly deliberately didn't take any ID, in protest at the new rules designed to further bias and fix the election results. Thought my own "vote" in the list of those turned away might be more valuable than in the list of voters for wankers.
Decided to not make a fuss other than a frustrated sigh and a spoiled ballot in the end.
Before you give too much credit to Dan Poulter (MP & doctor) for abandoning the Tories to join Labour, don't forget he's been an MP for 14 years & been working as a doctor all that time.... so one might have expected him to notice the Tory engineered crisis in the NHS quite some time before now.
No, he's defecting because he can see the Tory electoral meltdown coming & wants to preserve his dignity, before returning full-time to the NHS.
The prosecution’s discussion of the deal w/ #KarenMcDougal —brokered in summer 2016— demonstrated that the payment was part of a #conspiracy to #influence that year’s #election.
Pecker said that McDougal’s payment was disguised as a contract for services, to avoid violating #CampaignFinance#laws.
It’s really funny that the two major parties backing Anies Baswedan for presidency have given the clearest signals that they will support Prabowo.
The expansion of the Advance Indonesia Coalition means that the President-elect will have the backing of the majority of the next parliament, leaving the current party in opposition, PKS, and the current ruling party, PDIP, potentially in opposition together for the next five years.
#Pecker, before a tense & focused courtroom, is recounting Trump calling him directly 3 days before that year’s #election day, 1 day after the WSJ article was published.
He was “very upset, saying how could this happen, I thought you had this under control, either you or one of your people have leaked the story," Pecker says.
"I wanted to protect my company, I wanted to protect myself & I wanted also to protect Donald Trump,” Pecker testifies.
#Pecker reiterates the importance of keeping #KarenMcDougal's story quiet, in a comment that relates directly to the prosecution's argument that he & #Trump conspired to aid his #election.
"Another story about sexual infidelity, especially w/ a porn star, on the heels of the '#AccessHollywood' tape, could have been devastating to his campaign," #Colangelo says of the #StormyDaniels story. He says that "w/pressure mounting & Election Day fast approaching, Donald #Trump agreed to the #payoff & directed #Cohen to proceed."
Colangelo says Trump told Cohen to drag out paying Daniels, in the hopes of getting past the #election & then not paying her at all.
Reportedly, #Trump pursed his lips at ↑ that & wrote a note which he passed to his atty Todd Blanche, then whispered to atty, Emil Bove.
#Colangelo described a communication from Keith Davidson, the lawyer for #KarenMcDougal, to Dylan Howard, a #NationalEnquirer editor, as it became clear Trump was winning the #election: "What have we done," he said.
#Colangelo says #Trump's willingness to go to the trouble of the convoluted repayment scheme to #Cohen “shows just how important it was to him to hide the true nature of Cohen's illegal payment to Ms. Daniels & the overall #election#conspiracy that they had launched."
#MichaelCohen is a key witness. Colangelo explained the litany of problems w/Cohen to get ahead of defense’s attempt to discredit him - something Trump's lawyers can't do, their client won't let them: admit mistakes were made.
I want to keep TracingVRL going. I've developed my own methodology in those red notebooks.
My project is having an impact.
And we're up against a lot.
Now that antivaxx influencer O.G. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said "I'm a spoiler", is on just enough ballots to spoil the election for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden , small outlet disinfo reporters contribute a lot.