Credit: Alaska Airlines
** PERTINENT LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL NEWS **
+ By Kevin McClatchy, McClatchy Newspapers (owner of The Olympian, Tacoma’s News-Tribune, 49% owner of The Seattle Times): “It’s time to bid farewell — and say thank you”
+ By Craig Forman McClatchy: “You will decide the future of local news” [McClatchy will emerge from bankruptcy, likely on Sept. 4., when ownership will by Chatham Asset Management]
+ JOLT News: Thurston County holds voter registration challenge hearing over C Davis address
+ Voter registration hearing for Thurston candidate C Davis covered more than his address [Ed.note: This person is not capable of answering a simple question about his residency, so has no business being a candidate for public office.]
+ Washington craves pizza from this chain [Papa Murphy’s] the most during pandemic, report says
+ United Airlines permanently eliminates most change fees, adds free standby option
+ Thinking about ski trips? Alaska Airlines is offering a new service out of Seattle
+ Retailers are reporting record online sales during the pandemic. But it won’t last forever
+ We’re doing our best with Zoom. But we’ll still need offices — and each other.
+ JOLT NEWS: Despite dry conditions, wildfires elsewhere, fire season average in Thurston County
+ Zuckerberg says Facebook made mistake not removing militia post
** CORONAVIRUS NEWS **
Inside Trump’s pressure campaign on federal scientists over a covid-19 treatment
First Study Shows an Oral Rinse Could Reduce COVID Risk
** TRUMP LAYS SIEGE TO THE U.S. **
Senior intelligence officials will no longer brief Congress in person on foreign threats to the 2020 election [Ed. note: See Ratcliffe’s poor performance at his confirmation hearing. Start at 8:00 Click here]
Shift on Election Briefings Could Create an Information Gap for Voters
McGahn argued Kushner’s security clearance should be downgraded: book
Trump swiped $44 billion from FEMA as he undermined unemployment negotiations before Hurricane Laura
Trump’s favorability and perceptions of COVID-19 response stagnate: POLL
A new ABC/Ipsos poll shows NO Trump post convention bounce
Did an IP address accidentally reveal QAnon’s identity? Who Is QAnon? Was the Poster’s Identity Revealed This Week?
Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President Hardcover – September 1, 2020, by Michael S. Schmidt
The Guardian: Michael Schmidt of the New York Times has written a masterful and alarming account of ‘the struggle to stop a president’
QAnon supporters join thousands at protest against Germany’s coronavirus rules [Ed. Note: Will QAnon incite this in America. Just watch!]
Top U.S. intel official: China wants Trump defeated, Russia is sabotaging Biden
WaPo: The Cybersecurity 202: Ex-DHS official Miles Taylor says Trump is a threat to election security
Ex-DHS official Miles Taylor regrets family separations. Now he’s trying to stop Trump.
Video: A Former DHS Official Says Trump “Purges” Anyone Who Disagrees With Him
Video: Republican Voters Against Trump, Elizabeth Neumann and Miles Taylor on CNN
Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless. (the From Scottie Nell Hughes, a paid commentator for CNN during the 2016 campaign, said something startling, live on WAMU’s Diane Rehm radio show: “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, [as] facts.”)
Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances
WaPo’s Deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus: Trump’s convention was repulsive and dishonest. I fear it was also effective
Social Security fund would run out of money in 3 years if Trump eliminates payroll tax: SSA analysis
IRS guidelines put employers on the hook for Trump’s payroll tax break
NYT’s Maureen Dowd: The Princess [Ivanka] vs. the Portrait in Trumpworld
‘Promises kept’? Not entirely. Here are five pocketbook pledges Trump broke. Candidate Trump’s promises included universal health care, tax hikes for the rich, infrastructure spending and six weeks paid leave for all moms. President Trump hasn’t delivered.
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“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, [as] facts.”
I have been struggling with this issue for a long time. So many Trump supporters tout his many ‘accomplishments’ and ignore Trump’s behavior. I address the facts of his ‘accomplishments’ in my latest post in my blog.
Example: prior to the pandemic Trump bragged that unemployment for minorities was at the lowest it has ever been. That is a true fact except for the implication that Trump was somehow responsible for this drop in unemployment. Minority unemployment has steadily and linearly declined since 2010! There is nothing to imply, show, or indicate that Trump’s administration let alone Trump had anything to do with it. And that’s a fact.
The blog post Mr. Perez referenced can be read here
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