This is so ugly. Fake sites making Harris look like an extremist + fake texts impersonating her campaign driving people to the sites.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241018006856315
I’m guessing North Korea has decided its special forces need more training.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187245/kamala-harris-fox-news-bret-baier-roasted-interview
Oh, schmack:
«“I’d like to congratulate Kamala Harris on her victory in the Presidential Debate against Bret Baier despite Baier’s compulsive interruptions,” wrote Keith Olbermann in a post on X.»
Well, this is an uncomfortable read:
https://wapo.st/3Nw5cd2 (gift)
«Some in western North Carolina’s sizable and growing Latino population face distinct hurdles getting government aid in the disastrous wake of Hurricane Helene.»
@tzimmer_history 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/tzimmer_history/statuses/113317256117555263 – Donald Trump, American Fascist Trumpism is what a specifically American, twenty-first century version of fascism looks like. And in November, fascism is on the ballot. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵1/ https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/donald-trump-american-fascist
This looks like a super-interesting article, but I haven’t read it yet. They have some nice maps of mobile-home density by county in the paths of Helene and Milton.
#readLater
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/climate/trump-flood-protection-rules-infrastructure.html (sadly, not a gift link)
«In the summer of 2017, Donald Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower and declared he would heal a “massive self-inflicted wound on our country” by eliminating red tape that he said was making construction in America an arduous, expensive process.
One policy he eradicated that day was a set of standards aimed at ensuring that anything built with taxpayer money — including hospitals, sewage treatment plants, bridges and libraries — could withstand flooding and rising seas caused by climate change.…
When Trump was elected, he took aim at every policy linked to the phrase “climate change” and repealed it. President Biden reinstated the standard, which went into effect at most agencies this year.
Quantifying the effects of the standard’s seven-year absence is no easy feat. But Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, said “hundreds of millions if not billions” had been spent on buildings that are unprepared for intense floods.
Can the standard’s elimination be blamed for damage caused by Hurricane Helene or Hurricane Milton? At this stage, officials said, it’s hard to say.
In part that is because there are no national data sets showing infrastructure spending in flood plains. Helene was a one-in-1,000-year hurricane that might have damaged structures even with stricter codes. And finally, federal data might not capture state or local decisions to impose stricter rules even in the absence of federal requirements.
That’s what happened in Hendersonville, N.C., which was deluged during three days of unrelenting precipitation from Hurricane Helene. Adam Steurer, the city’s utilities director, said that when the town built a new drinking water pumping station a few years ago on the banks of the French Broad River, engineers opted to build to 500-year flood levels.
“It was a very early discussion we had because this area goes underwater all the time,” Steurer said. He said that the cost difference was negligible and that putting electrical equipment at higher elevation gave the pumping station extra resiliency. The station is still being assessed, but officials do not believe it was badly damaged by Helene, he said.…
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
If he wins the White House in November, Trump is widely expected to again eliminate climate policies, including the flood standards.»
Browsing some leftover tabs from yesterday. Here’s an interesting little factoid from wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung#Fall
«Although some of the conflicts between the SS and SA were based on personal rivalries of leaders, the mass of members had key socio-economic differences and related conflicts. SS members generally came from the middle class, while the SA had its base among the unemployed and working class.»
I’m thinking about Trump supporters and the nature of revolutions. It’s like there’s always a point where the revolution is subverted by smoother operators not driven by the ideals of the revolution, but by an appetite for power and money.
Anybody wanna join me?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-midnight-in-america
«But the burden can’t all be on the campaign or the candidate. Others could step up.»
Canvass! Join me! You’re probably better at it than I am actually.
«When Trump spews hatred at immigrants, surely it’s time for George W. Bush, the former Republican president, who was—in the tradition of his father and Ronald Reagan—a fierce critic of demagoguery against immigrants, to come off the sidelines and help in the good fight.
When Trump and Vance refuse to back away from the Big Lie, surely it’s time for other Republicans who care about the truth, like Mitt Romney, to spend time explaining to the country how serious the Big Lie was and is.»
Oh, yeah, these guys, too.
Seriously, George and Mitt, if Bill Kristol is calling on you, wtf are you doing?
Here, Read This 