Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance have made anti-immigrant hate the centerpiece of their campaign for the White House, and that campaign stooped to a new low Monday. Vance amplified bogus "reports" that "people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country." First of all, the claim is false: There are no credible reports that "people who shouldn't be in this country" are eating pets. read more
US consumers may finally be getting some relief from their grocery bills - especially if they shop for food online. Data by Adobe Inc. shows that online grocery prices fell 3.7% in August from a month earlier, the largest decline since the firm began tracking the numbers in 2014. read more
While nearly all states suspend or withdraw people's right to vote when they are convicted of felonies, most allow restoring that right after they have served their sentences. Tennessee has moved in the opposite direction, making the process significantly more difficult. (Think: bureaucratic maze from hell.) About 9 percent of the state's voting-age population is prohibited from voting because of felony convictions. read more
U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Monday against two alleged leaders of a white supremacist gang, accusing them of soliciting attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people and immigrants in hopes of inciting a race war. read more
Mark Leibovich - In the summer of 2015 ... he was in the early phase of his first campaign for president. I was struck by one theme that Trump kept pounding on over and over: that he was used to dealing with "brutal, vicious killers" - by which he meant his fellow ruthless operators in showbiz, real estate, casinos, ... "I will roll over them," he boasted, referring to the flaccid field of Republican challengers he was about to debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that September. read more
If I know Kamala Harris' personal fastidiousness, Trump might be walking into a ticking timebomb of his own if he he tries to gaslight America like Strawlighter is gaslighting us on this thread:
Kabul airport bomber was an ISIS operative freed from prison by the TalibanWho negotiated the withdrawal agreement which stopped US forces from engaging the Taliban, allegedly, for assurances that Taliban fighters would no longer attack our soldiers on the way out?
The man who detonated a bomb outside the Kabul airport in August 2021, killing 170 Afghans and 13 American service members, was an Islamic State operative who had been held in a coalition detention facility in Afghanistan but was freed by the Taliban, according to a new U.S. military review that has identified him for the first time.
Some service members who were at the airport that day claimed they had spotted the suicide bomber at the site and were ordered not to engage. But the review found that those service members had the wrong man in their sights, and the strike was not preventable.
The actual bomber was Abdul Rahman al-Logari, according to the U.S. military. A facial comparison analysis determined that al-Logari and the bald man in black could not be the same person, the review found.
The team of military investigators reviewed photos and video taken of the scene before the attack and found no footage of al-Logari. He was determined to have arrived immediately before the blast and blended in with the massive crowd gathered outside the airport.
The officials involved in the review said that given the density of the crowd, the U.S. military members at the scene did not have time to identify him.
Al-Logari was among the thousands of militants released from Afghan prisons after the Taliban seized control of Kabul in mid-August 2021.
Who allowed the Taliban to decimate the American-trained Afghan Army - that basically threw down their guns and refused to fight, knowing that the rickety "government" in Kabul wasn't long for the world - as Trump announced a date certain for our withdrawal - something we did not do when leaving Iraq or any other active theater of war in this or the last century?
And how was Biden supposed to stop an attack by ISIS-K - again, something Trump negotiated on a promise from the Taliban that they wouldn't let ISIS-K to use Afghanistan as a base for terrorism, but with no other security assurances against those ISIS-K already there or in Afghani prisons, being released to attack the remaining US troops?
It's my fervent wish that Harris has these facts ready to counter anything about the withdrawal that Trump will throw at her. And after the debate is over, every single channel - including Fox - will have to admit what's written above is indeed the truth, regardless of what the House GOP smear-job report tries to ignore.
Constitution is silent on this matter but it also predates prisons.
What do you mean "predates prisons"?
That's not what I found. There were only a few state disenfranchisement laws from the Constitution's signing up until Reconstruction.
After that, these laws exploded to keep newly-freed slaves from threatening white majority rule, period, end of sentence.
Can anyone name a single detail of any singular policy that Trump articulated tonight?
"The moderators allowed Trump to interrupt way more than Harris." - First off, no they didn't. Trump's mic was muted while she was speaking. So, let's dispense with this lie right now.
Officially, Trump spoke 5 minutes longer than Harris tonight according to ABC.
You're as bad as Trump with the gaslighting. Stevie Wonder could see that Trump talked far more than Harris did without any meaningful pushback from the moderators. And we all know why: Trump's a bully and he'll happily tell you that's how he dominates "weaker" opponents. There's a thread about it right now on the Front Page.