A Texas sheriff who starred on the controversial show Live PD has been indicted and arrested on evidence tampering charges after allegedly destroying video evidence connected to the death of a Black man. A grand jury indicted Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody on Monday on charges of destroying Live PD footage depicting deputies using force on Javier Ambler.
if you are reading, chances are that you already have a plan to vote. But what is your plan to get other people to vote so we can build a blue wave?
As Howard Dean would say, voting only gives you a “C” in a democracy. Working hard to get other people out to vote is how we can achieve real results, and that’s what will help get you that “A.
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Faced with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, Texans looked towards leadership in their state government amidst a combative national dialogue. To many of us, it was clear that Texans needed strong guidance through these difficult times. Instead, the state utilized the pandemic to implement an anti-abortion agenda that left Texans with barriers towards abortion care in clinic settings that haven’t been seen since before Roe V. Wade.
Less than 12 hours after the wild debate concluded, Biden called Trump’s behavior in the prime-time confrontation a “a national embarrassment.
Recovery could take years, with the nation’s most vulnerable enduring the worst of it.
A proposal for a Republican-run committee to investigate the election could be the first step to handing the state’s electors to Trump.
“I’m disappointed for the country, because it could have been a much more useful evening than it turned out to be,” the Fox News host told The New York Times.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.JULIO CORTEZ / APLast night, the president refused to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and militia groups. When pressed, he said that members of the far-right group the Proud Boys should “stand back, and stand by.
I think she liked it a little too much.
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The painting style of Jackson Pollock is called “gestural abstraction,” but before last night’s debate, I never knew that it was also a governing philosophy. The debate featured many decisions from President Donald Trump that were puzzling, to put it mildly. The president constantly interrupted the moderator, Chris Wallace, and he all but jeered his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, even as Biden discussed the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
Photographs by Philip MontgomeryImage above: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath KeepersStewart Rhodes was living his vision of the future. On television, American cities were burning, while on the internet, rumors warned that antifa bands were coming to terrorize the suburbs. Rhodes was driving around South Texas, getting ready for them. He answered his phone. “Let’s not fuck around,” he said. “We’ve descended into civil war.
Wide-eyed and brokenhearted, the greasy-haired Nevada teens of Panic! at the Disco channeled their woes into elaborate, vaudevillian theatrics. (Nigel Crane / Redfern)Before TikTok, SoundCloud, or even YouTube existed, four gawky teenagers from suburban Las Vegas found success by posting their music to an unlikely platform: the Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s LiveJournal page.
Last night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden started off placidly enough, with each candidate delivering a measured, coherent answer to a question about the current Supreme Court vacancy. That sense of coherence lasted about five minutes.What followed was shambolic—a disorienting, exasperating medley of half-thoughts, interjections, raised voices, and simultaneous monologues broken up occasionally by brief periods of uninterrupted speech.
“I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it,” Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said of the president’s refusal to condemn white supremacists.
The Democrat-led reports come just weeks before Election Day, and amid efforts by President Donald Trump to show progress on slashing drug costs.
After massive outcry from activists and young voters, debate moderator Chris Wallace questioned President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about the climate crisis at the first presidential debate. He did not include it in his initial list of debate topics. Kate Aronoff, author and staff writer at The New Republic, says she didn’t expect climate change to come up, but was unsurprised by the responses.
“It’s a rigged election,” claimed President Trump when he and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were asked about election integrity during last night’s debate as the two men sparred over mail-in voting. Trump ended the debate by calling for poll watchers.
During the first presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly criticized President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 205,000 people in the United States — the highest death toll in the world. Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask, while claiming that a vaccine would be available within weeks. “It was very bizarre,” says Marc Lamont Hill, author and professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden were asked about how to address racism during the first presidential debate held in Cleveland. While Biden expressed sympathy with victims of police brutality, President Trump insisted that most violence came from left-wing groups — a false claim ignoring that the vast majority of political violence in the U.S. comes from right-wing extremists, according to the FBI and others.
President Trump refused to condemn white supremacists during the first of three scheduled presidential debates with Joe Biden. When pressed by moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News to disavow far-right extremism, Trump name-checked the Proud Boys and told them to “stand back and stand by,” words widely denounced as a tacit endorsement of the violent, white supremacist organization classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Framed quilts on the walls, quilts on the couches, quilted coasters. My house looks like a quilt threw up on it.
America is very good at tracking when people buy homes—and terrible at tracking how many are booted from them.
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The first shipments, totaling 6.5 million tests, will be sent this week, and the amount each state receives will be based on population data.
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
