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Anne Laurie has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2009.

Timely Content Open Thread: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

by Anne Laurie|  December 12, 20196:21 pm| 36 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Excellent Links, Impeachment Inquiry, Racial Justice

Everyone's talking about impeachment and Clinton & Johnson as the only presidents ever impeached. But most people don't know WHY Johnson was impeached.

So let me tell you the story about how not impeaching a racist president is a BIG reason why white supremacy lingers in America

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) December 12, 2019

Michael Harriot is the Roots writer who had that much-discussed convo about racism with Pete Buttigieg. I knew the basics of Johnson’s impeachment, but I learned stuff from Harriot’s thread here. Click on the tweet below to read the whole thing with the extraneous headers stripped out:

Hola, please find the unroll here: Thread by @michaelharriot: Everyone's talking about impeachment and Clinton & Johnson as the only presidents ever… https://t.co/x8GiRbbFgT. Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) December 12, 2019

Dems planning to vote against impeaching Trump take note: “no senator who voted to acquit Johnson ever held office again” https://t.co/WaKO8yaimD

— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) December 12, 2019

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Happy (OK, Fierce) Thoughts

by Anne Laurie|  December 12, 20196:11 am| 136 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, Kamala Harris 2020, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for President 2020

Gonna be another busy, strife-ful day in politics, so…

This rules https://t.co/J45Q50BYfZ

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 11, 2019

That’s my Senator topping the list: @IndivisibleTeam

? bold policy
? fighting for our democracy
? grassroots power https://t.co/0Nq0ofUyVb pic.twitter.com/hlgiYWrjPA

— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) December 11, 2019

Elizabeth Warren is not giving you sneaky double talk and she’s not trying to scam you into supporting her.

She understands the plight we’re in and where our problems lie. We need structural changes now and can’t afford to wait. pic.twitter.com/pSHGr0DCqI

— Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) December 11, 2019

And furthermore:

When you return to the Senate in a bubble gum pink blazer to call for the investigation of misconduct committed by the Attorney General of the United States. ???? pic.twitter.com/Bf5HrOyQzf

— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) December 11, 2019

This is important. IG can’t investigate attorneys within DOJ. That’s done through the Office of Profesisonal Responsibility which is under DOJ/Barr. I admit I used to think this was ok. It’s not. Not when you have clear partisans like Barr at the top. There’s pending legislation. https://t.co/RUqVUHazoI

— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) December 11, 2019

IG Horowitz literally begged the Senate to give him the authority to investigate AG Barr.

Process that for a sec.

— Ben. No More, No Less. (@BJS_quire) December 11, 2019

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Trump’s Press Campaign Proudly Declares Him A Comic-Book Villain

by Anne Laurie|  December 11, 201910:29 pm| 65 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Popular Culture, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery

… a comic-book villain who is mere seconds away from getting the beat-down of his life…

So you're arguing that Trump is Thanos ("The Mad Titan") who wants to kill half of all living things, but in the end winds up defeated and dying, taking all of his sycophantic followers down with him?

Great work, everyone. https://t.co/gFLPVch2An

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 10, 2019

Nicely (in the original sense of the word) encapsulating the modern Republican Party: Parasitizing a smarter group’s work, failing to pay attention long enough to spot the problems with the stolen ideas, and not caring how much they get kicked around afterwards so long as the check clears. Per the Guardian:

… Shortly after the House brought two articles of impeachment against the president for his efforts seeking foreign interference to bolster his own political interests, the official Trump War Room re-election campaign Twitter account posted a video to social media that superimposed his face over that of the villainous Marvel comic book character Thanos.

In the scene from the movie Avengers: Endgame, Thanos snaps his fingers, attempting to destroy the diverse array of heroes from throughout the universe who’ve teamed up to defeat him. I am inevitable Trump/Thanos says…

The video then cuts to footage of Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler who magically vanish much like in the movie. Not the movie in question, mind you, the previous one, but these low-effort trolling operations from Trump’s social media team tend not to be heavy on consistency or logic.

Marvel Universe timeline discrepancies aside, the choice of this moment from the film was a strange one, as it’s seconds before Thanos realizes he’s about to be defeated.

Among the chorus of critics to point out the many other flaws at work in the analogy here was Jim Starlin, the artist who created the character of Thanos in the 1970s…

The creator of Thanos responds to that Trump ad: "Seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer." https://t.co/hsQgvTmB8F

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 11, 2019

In the far future when historians look at this time period I’m convinced that they’ll call it the Era of Stupid. https://t.co/4ii8kWI9G5

— Gay and Bad ???????? (@SJGrunewald) December 10, 2019

Can't wait until the Trump campaign superimposes his head onto Hitler's body in the "Downfall" video.

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 11, 2019

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Worthy Endeavors Open Thread: Senator Harris Has A New Target — Stephen Miller

by Anne Laurie|  December 11, 20195:54 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trumpery

NEW: In a remarkable letter sent to the White House today, @KamalaHarris leads 27 senators in calling for the “immediate removal” of white nationalist Stephen Miller https://t.co/EOLxA9rSPG

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) December 9, 2019

… The letter—whose signatories include Harris’s former 2020 rivals Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Cory Booker—adds to the already intense pressure on the White House to relieve Miller of his duties, though the administration has given zero indication it plans to heed those calls. Miller, who has encouraged Trump’s immigration crackdown, has never made a secret of his nationalist, anti-immigrant worldview, evidenced in his reported proposal to release detained immigrants in sanctuary cities as a form of retaliation, and his alleged push to tax Mexico. “He is working behind the scenes, he has planted all of his people in all of these positions, he is on the phone with them all of the time, and he is creating a side operation that will circumvent the normal, transparent policy process” in order to push his agenda, a source told my colleague Abigail Tracy last year, highlighting the insidious ways in which Miller pushes his priorities…

At least 75 House Democrats have also called for Miller’s removal, and the SPLC has circulated a petition pushing for him to be fired. But Republicans have mostly been silent on the matter, and the White House has stood by Miller amid the fallout. “I know Stephen,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told the Hill last month, attempting to frame calls for his removal as somehow anti-Semitic “He loves this country and hates bigotry in all its forms.”

That in itself is a pretty good indication that the administration has no plans to sever ties with Miller, setting up a de facto confrontation between Trump and Harris that promises to play out as long as Miller remains on staff. In leading the charge, Harris is cementing her post-campaign position as a leading Trump antagonist. Before she entered the presidential race, Harris was perhaps best known for eviscerating now Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearing; months later, she did the same with attorney general William Barr. She may not get the chance to cross-examine Miller in practice, but in principle she’s once again setting herself against a figurehead that stands for everything she wishes to be known for fighting against.

Excellent quick summary of the Miller Problem, from Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post:

… Miller’s fingerprints can be detected all over Trump’s presidency. He is, after all, one of Trump’s main speechwriters. But his biggest role has been in molding the White House’s immigration policy, tacitly pushing through a sweeping series of measures — from travel bans on Muslim-majority countries to punitive actions against immigrants who receive public assistance — under Trump’s watch.

Although many advisers have come and gone during Trump’s tumultuous presidency, Miller has endured. That is, until now. Over the past week, more than 100 Democratic lawmakers and some civil society organizations have called for Miller’s resignation in response to new revelations about the depths of his ideological extremism.

A leaked cache of more than 900 emails that Miller allegedly sent to employees at the far-right website Breitbart ahead of the 2016 election appear to show his demonstrated commitment to white-nationalist political beliefs and talking points. Miller “promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit organization that obtained the material from former Breitbart reporter Katie McHugh…

What concerns some analysts is that Miller may not be an outlier. He has spent his entire professional life working within the Republican Party, including a stint as a close aide to Jeff Sessions, Trump’s former U.S. attorney general, when he was an Alabama senator…

Update on those who have called for Miller to resign/be fired:

-Nearly 40 Dems in Senate

-107 Dems in House

-Over 50 civil rights orgs like @NAACP

-Coalition of Jewish groups

-130k folks who signed @AOC’s petition

-not a single Republican https://t.co/EOLxA9rSPG

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) December 9, 2019

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: YES QUEEN!

by Anne Laurie|  December 11, 20195:56 am| 118 Comments

This post is in: A Woman's Place Is In The House, Education, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture, Republican Stupidity

I had so much fun putting a smile on all of these little faces from Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the @TheEllenShow for letting me be a part of #EllensGreatestNight!pic.twitter.com/3lOWaUAqQY

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) December 11, 2019

And too also:

Pelosi says during the speaker's press holiday reception that Congress is planning on leaving next Friday. "One way or another," they will get everything done in time, she says. pic.twitter.com/4QpfsfWnzz

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) December 10, 2019


“Wanna find out if I still have those ball bats in my office, boys?”

Today was a tale of two press conferences for Pelosi, as she hopscotched from an announcement of articles of impeachment to take a victory lap over a deal on USMCA.

My rundown of a particularly weird morning on Capitol Hill:https://t.co/Idi6QYkkEV

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) December 11, 2019

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… At the first appearance in the Capitol’s stately Rayburn Room shortly after 9 a.m., Pelosi spoke of Congress’s “solemn” duty to act as a check on the president before ceding the floor to the Judiciary Committee chairman to announce impeachment articles accusing the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. At the second press conference, Pelosi was flanked by about two dozen Democratic lawmakers, the atmosphere joyful as she touted the newly forged deal on USMCA.

If she experienced any cognitive dissonance over slapping the president with impeachment articles before handing him a bipartisan legislative victory, Pelosi did not betray it to reporters. When asked by CBS News’ Nancy Cordes if it was a “coincidence” that the two announcements were made on the same day, Pelosi swiftly responded that it was not. Congress only has one more week before a long recess, and that means multitasking, she said…

Speaking at a conference hosted by Politico later on Tuesday, Pelosi said the USMCA deal “isn’t about politics or giving the president a win,” and that Congress shouldn’t walk away from a deal that benefits Americans because the president is involved.

But the deal also holds undeniable political benefits for the 40-odd freshmen Democratic lawmakers who flipped Republican seats in 2018, many of whom promised to work with Mr. Trump when necessary and were wary of impeachment before the Ukraine scandal. Several of these members were at the podium with Pelosi as she made her announcement, including Congressman Colin Allred of Texas, Congresswoman Lucy McBath of Georgia and Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Iowa…

The House is expected to vote to impeach the president and to approve USMCA next week before leaving for the Christmas holiday, setting up the prospect of the House approving both on the same day. Congress must also approve the National Defense Authorization Act and 12 spending bills to fund the government ahead of its scheduled departure on December 20.

Despite the news cycle accelerating at breakneck speed, Pelosi appears to be unfazed…

In case you weren’t keeping score, Pelosi’s strategy turned out to be correct mere hours later when McTurtle announced that the Senate wouldn’t vote on the trade deal until after it dealt with the impeachment, cutting off the Republican talking points about Dems off at the knees.

— Gay and Bad ???????? (@SJGrunewald) December 11, 2019

"Part of my success is that I don't care. I know my purpose, I know what I'm there to do, and if that's the caliber of question someone wants to drum up, that's their problem."

— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on ageist and sexist critiques of her leadership#RuleWithUs

— Charlotte Clymer?????? (@cmclymer) December 10, 2019

Late-Night Dystopia Open Thread: Floriduh Cops

by Anne Laurie|  December 11, 20193:22 am| 14 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Shitty Cops, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, All Too Normal, Decline and Fall

*into a vehicle with a hostage https://t.co/qYvWhv1rc1

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 10, 2019

In a world with less terrible / outrageous news every day, I have the feeling this incident might’ve gotten more attention.

… Most of those officers — 13 — were from Miami-Dade Police Department, having followed the truck into Broward County during a long chase, said Rod Skirvin, president of the Broward County Police Benevolent Association.

Four people were killed in the shootout Thursday evening at an intersection in Miramar: two robbery suspects who’d hijacked the truck; a UPS driver they had taken hostage; and a bystander, police said.

The shootout happened as a police chase ended after the hijacked UPS truck got stuck in traffic. Gunfire erupted from inside and outside the truck, though it’s not clear who fired first.

Police officers left their vehicles and crouched behind cars — their own and others at the intersection — as shields as they approached, video from the scene showed.

Suspects Lamar Alexander, 41, and Ronnie Jerome Hill, 41, both of Miami-Dade County, were killed, the FBI said.

Also killed were the hijacked UPS driver, Frank Ordonez — who relatives said had been substituting for a colleague who’d called out from work — and bystander Richard Steven Cutshaw, officials said.

Whether Ordonez and Cutshaw were shot by police is under investigation, the FBI has said.

At least 13 police officers were shot at, but none was injured, according to Steadman Stahl, president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association.

The chase began after Alexander and Hill robbed a jewelry store Thursday afternoon in Coral Gables, near Miami, and hijacked the UPS truck, police said.

Police radioed that gunfire occasionally erupted from the truck even as police chased it, CNN affiliate WSVN reported…

Ooooh, hot pursuit! Stealing jewelry is wrong, and pistol-whipping a store employee is worse, but I can’t see how making sure the perpetrators didn’t escape was worth shooting two people whose only crime was going to work that day.

… “Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong,” said David Klinger, a criminal justice professor at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. The incident “was really, really bad.”

But as chaotic and calamitous as the episode was, it was also “a perfect example” of why police are allowed to use deadly force against dangerous criminals, Klinger said. Authorities said Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill had left a trail of violence behind them that evening. Stopping them by any means — even with bullets — was “absolutely the right thing to do,” Klinger said.

“In a situation like this, the police are reactive,” Klinger added. “This is not a situation they want to be in. Their hand was forced.”

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The dramatic exchange of gunfire followed a high-speed chase through two counties that thwarted residents’ commutes at rush hour. The men had tried to rob Regent Jewelers in Coral Gables, triggering a silent alarm about 4:15 p.m., police said.

They said a female employee of the store was injured as the robbers and the store owner shot at each other. The gunmen fled north in a truck, then commandeered a UPS truck while the driver was making a delivery, police said. Several police cars pursued the UPS truck, with the UPS driver trapped inside, until the vehicle was boxed in by traffic in Miramar and officers surrounded it….

Geoff Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, said that other than having a SWAT truck with heavily armed tactical police officers, he did not know of alternative ways that police could have safely ended the pursuit. The gunmen had proved that they were willing to resort to violence to escape and could have endangered other people in the area, such as by hijacking other cars, Alpert said.

“This is why the police are trained to do what they do,” he said…

Cops: We are the only thing standing between the criminals and you

Also cops: [stands behind you when criminals start shooting] https://t.co/SJ68aeNqaa

— Flushcount:TenHat (@Popehat) December 7, 2019

Seems like the cops could’ve given the perpetrators a few minutes, just so the “they shot first” defense would be a little clearer. (Unlucky damned hostage was about to end up dead anyways.) I’m told that Coral Gables is “one of South Florida’s most sought-after shopping destinations”, but we haven’t quite descended to the point where richer zip codes get a free pass on extrajudicial murder, have we?

judge the cops all you want, you have NO idea how you'd react in a hostage crisis so it's easy to say you wouldn't murder the hostage and a bystander while using innocent people as cover in order to save three grand worth of jewelry and a truckload of Amazon packages

— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) December 6, 2019

Hey in the cops defense, using NPCs as human shields to defend low level loot is perfectly acceptable if your entire view of policing comes from Grand Theft Auto

— Big Malarkey Lobbyist (@MenshevikM) December 6, 2019

Bonus cameo from another newsmaker:

"If you don't start showing enough respect to these officers, they might not protect your community." – Bill Barr, paraphrased https://t.co/DZyl5rWAlW

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 7, 2019

Bedtime Respite Open Thread: “Hair Love”

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 201910:01 pm| 42 Comments

This post is in: Nature & Respite, Popular Culture, Something Good Open Thread

#HairLove, an animated short film from @MatthewACherry, tells a touching story about a father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time. pic.twitter.com/g18uHroJwK

— Sony Pictures Animation (@SonyAnimation) December 5, 2019

(Thanks to commentor Rikyrah)

Many of you have already seen it by now, but hey, cartoons are made for re-watching…

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Impeachment Open Thread: Our Failed Republican Party

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20196:24 pm| 149 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, All Too Normal, Assholes

A picture is worth a thousand words:

3 liberals from California, 3 from New York, and 1 from Massachusetts.

The Democrats pushing impeachment couldn’t be more out of touch with most Americans if they tried! pic.twitter.com/1cWj0bL5h6

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) December 10, 2019

And its Very Woke enablers…

I made a joke that on the day they impeached Trump, Do Something Twitter would be too busy yelling do something to notice, but I don't think it's a joke now.

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) December 10, 2019

Can you believe that they got Al Capone on tax evasion? Seriously. Those dummies just don’t understand political strategy

— ???????? ???????????? (@JoshuaGrubbsPhD) December 10, 2019

and Trump's being impeached for, essentially, trying to get the Russians off the hook! The Crowdstrike fever dream is insane nuttery that says all those Russian intelligence officers charged with hacking the DNC were somehow framed. That's what Trump wanted Ukraine to say!

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 10, 2019

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Russiagate Open Thread: Another Day, Another ‘Snow’ Storm…

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20197:50 am| 64 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russia, Trump Crime Cartel, All Too Normal

dc braces for blizzard of evidence - walt handelsman

(Walt Handelsman via GoComics.com)

NEW: Democrats expected to unveil articles of impeachment against Trump Tuesday, focusing on abuse of power, obstruction of Congress @rachaelmbade @mikedebonis @eliseviebeck @ToluseO https://t.co/8BZML3Gwr0

— Emily Guskin (@EmGusk) December 10, 2019

Notably, Trump is meeting Russia’s foreign minister tomorrow. https://t.co/I64KHWvCjl

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 10, 2019

Trump/Lavrov meeting in the Oval office will be “closed press” pic.twitter.com/ryOfpou1Rj

— Jérôme Cartillier (@jcartillier) December 10, 2019

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So it appears there will be a mtg with Trump, and once again, the news comes from Moscow. https://t.co/lUyoMaplLo

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) December 9, 2019

Annual performance review with Trump & Pence at the WH.

Then onto Congress for #MoscowMitch, #LeningradLindsay, and a host of others.

Word is that he'll attend the weekly @GOP Congressional meeting to give the team fresh orders from Putin. https://t.co/kLDTmW5lHl

— dengre (@denngree) December 10, 2019

Here's what Trump may be up to meeting Lavrov in a "closed press" Oval meeting tomorrow, the day after Putin met Zelensky at #NormandySummit to resolve Russia-Ukraine war. It's always been about sanctions, which entails absolving Russia of election attack, rehab'ing pariah Putin. https://t.co/xNc6kcJJCW

— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) December 10, 2019

I think for Christmas, he's gonna give him Afghanistan ??

Lavrov will drop some small bit of info that POTUS will tweet before the end of the day https://t.co/T4qoM5SS1o

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) December 9, 2019

Caving to inferior-but-independent-and-ruthless powers is the essence of Mr. ArtoftheDeal. He always caves.

— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) December 10, 2019

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Good News from the Sports World

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20195:48 am| 65 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Open Threads, Sports

Megan Rapinoe is the 2019 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. The phenomenal story by @JennyVrentas is here: https://t.co/yrAy042G6U pic.twitter.com/Hjo0tFlJYV

— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) December 9, 2019

Haven’t done the research, but there can’t be too many people who have been on three Sports Illustrated covers in one year like Megan Rapinoe has. Even more impressive considering there are only 26 magazine issues in 2019. pic.twitter.com/sEumr6W0cx

— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) December 9, 2019


Read the whole thing:

… She is just the fourth woman in the award’s 66-year history to win it unaccompanied, a feat that is both a remarkable athletic achievement and a reflection of entrenched gender biases. Rapinoe challenged perceptions of her, of female athletes, of all women. She led her teammates, three months before their tentpole tournament, to sue the U.S. Soccer Federation for equal pay; to declare in advance that they would not visit the White House when they won the Cup; to score 13 goals in a group-stage match against Thailand, without apology.

As for The Pose? “It was kind of like a ‘F— you,’ but with a big smile and a s— eating grin,” Rapinoe says. “You are not going to steal any of our joy.”

Yes, the U.S. women have been here before. But the ’19ers were more dominant than the team that won four years ago—they never trailed in France; they scored a record 26 goals—and they were even bolder than the ’99ers who collectively captured SI’s year-end award two decades ago. Julie Foudy, co-captain of that team, asked her old cohort Mia Hamm about the equal-pay lawsuit, “Do you think we would’ve done this?” And Foudy says they concluded, “We probably would have said, Let’s plant that flag after we’ve won. We had been socialized not to stir the pot. Which I love about Rapinoe, this freedom to speak her mind in a way we didn’t feel we had.”…

In the months since: Michelle Obama recruited Rapinoe to join in a voter-participation initiative. Gloria Steinem, the original feminist icon, thanked Rapinoe for carrying her torch. A high school girls’ soccer team in Burlington, Vt., staged its own campaign in support of equal pay, and an 11-year-old boy in Geneva, Ill., went viral for his pink-haired Halloween costume, each inspired by Rapinoe. She has been invited to Washington by New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; talked politics on Meet the Press, Pod Save America and CNN; and turned into a coveted endorsement for the 2020 election. No, she’s not running for office anytime soon. “I don’t have plans for policies and how to implement them,” she says. “I’ll just be the jabber.” (The White House did reach out privately to the team about a visit, a U.S. Soccer rep confirms. Rapinoe says she heard about the outreach on the plane ride home from France, from USSF president Carlos Cordeiro. He suggested a visit to both the White House and Capitol Hill; Rapinoe and another player reiterated they didn’t want to meet with Trump. Rapinoe would like to visit Congress with her team, but she doesn’t think U.S. Soccer is willing to organize a trip that skips the White House, with the World Cup coming to the U.S. in 2026. The team rep says ’26 “has absolutely zero bearing” on the issue.)…

Bonus points: This will make the #MAGAts lose what little chill they might’ve had.

Good game. Good game. Good game.pic.twitter.com/ad5Ogyz1QS

— Travis Akers (@travisakers) December 9, 2019


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Also good — if more ambiguous — news:

Russia banned from international sports – including 2020 Olympics – for four years by World Anti-Doping Agency https://t.co/DRK4ZgrefD

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 9, 2019

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Russia was banned from international sport for 4 years on Monday for state sponsored doping, including the 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup https://t.co/EyDm9XIq9t pic.twitter.com/5wOoKormmw

— TIME (@TIME) December 9, 2019

Russia was just banned from the next two Olympics for its persistent, state-organized doping of its athletes. For some context, watch "Icarus" or read my piece on why Putin is so obsessed with the Olympics. https://t.co/UMQdgEsy9X

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 9, 2019

This 2014 piece I worked on with @Kasparov63 right before the Sochi Winter Olympics (and the subsequent invasion of Crimea) holds up on the IOC's "values" and why Putin & dictators love the Olympics and similar spectacles. https://t.co/ccqWEhyVOk

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) December 9, 2019

BIG: Christopher Steele told the FBI in 2011 that Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev had a conversation acknowledging that a Russian oligarch bribed Sepp Blatter to secure the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Russia. https://t.co/sBYfcYXEWS

— Ken Bensinger (@kenbensinger) December 9, 2019

When is a ban not really a ban? When Olympic officials are desperate not to anger Russia and Vladimir Putin. The farce continues … https://t.co/Dp0xnLnusv

— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) December 9, 2019

‘Tales of Thrilling Adventure’ Open Thread: Chris ‘Mad Bitcher’ Cillizza & His Talking Points of Derpitude

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20193:16 am| 12 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, IOKIYAR, Open Threads, Trumpery, Assholes, Bring On The Meteor, Our Failed Media Experiment

WATCH: Democratic witness Daniel Goldman perfectly explain the entire Trump-Ukraine scandal in 1 minute.

He then warns that Trump is as we speak still trying to get Ukraine to influence the 2020 election.

This clip needs to be on every nightly news show tonight. pic.twitter.com/62SJzLSoNI

— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) December 9, 2019

The whole thing — even for someone like me who gets paid to watch this stuff — was, well, unwatchable.

A bunch of adults yelling at one another over matters that almost no one watching understood or cares about. https://t.co/i2Fn83a8cx

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 9, 2019

There’s a lot of dumb, “That’s how we got Trump” takes, but cable news viewing him as an exciting, TV hot break from normal, boring politics actually fits the assertion.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 9, 2019

If only there were some sort of institution that exists to explain current events and politics to help people understand and care about what's happening. https://t.co/uhgNSxY3Yy

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) December 10, 2019

The important thing is Democrats unveil their articles of impeachment in a manner that engages Chris Cillizza. Maybe with some close up magic.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 10, 2019

Someone asked me this afternoon what the point of the GOP’s strategy was today, and I said it was to generate this kind of coverage rather than coverage that provides information about the underlying conduct at issue. https://t.co/kHiXelkq8J

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 9, 2019

2/ The defense, such as it is, is to oscillate between "you don't have a smoking gun!" and "it was awesome to shoot him!" … Basically a separate article of impeachment for gaslighting the whole fucking country should be added to the list.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 9, 2019

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— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 9, 2019

—@JeffreyToobin: "Let's be clear about what happened today. For years and years, Donald Trump has said the FBI and the deep state was involved in an illegal conspiracy … and now after years of investigation, the inspector general said, 'Not true. Didn't happen.'" pic.twitter.com/F3t1Sg9Ylq

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 9, 2019

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: “How did the Republican party arrive at this place?”

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 201911:06 pm| 80 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Impeachment Inquiry, Media, Open Threads, All Too Normal, DC Press Corpse

People are asking me what I thought of this. I read it as a confession: We're out of ideas. "Both sides" and "so divided" is all we got. https://t.co/u6gvIB0ZdE

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) December 8, 2019

Sigh.

Again: the faux-naive stance of the paper’s national-politics framing is at odds w (a) the reality of this moment and (b) the sophistication of their coverage of nearly everything else.

No story about biz, arts, science, climate, books etc would be framed this way.

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) December 8, 2019

Jesus H. Christ on deadline, the lede may be the worst thing I ever read. The WH is engaged in obstruction of a) justice and b) Congress, and it’s being defended in the latter by a collection of bums, yahoos, and tobacco auctioneers. But the D’s are abandoning “lofty traditions."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 9, 2019

Which is why the watchword(s) of every Liberal must be…#BothSidesDont pic.twitter.com/nul6kBkyky

— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) December 8, 2019

Good day to repeat my current rule of press criticism: News stories currently framed as "we're so divided," and "can't agree on a common set of facts" should instead be cast as "how did the Republican party arrive at this place?"

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) December 8, 2019

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Girl Power, Ivanka!

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 20197:31 pm| 154 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel

BREAKING: ABC News can confirm that the Trump “family member” referenced in the Inspector General report who had a friendship with dossier author Chris Steele, was Ivanka. She met him in 2007 at a dinner in London when he was still working for MI6. https://t.co/W64i5GPqVK

— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) December 9, 2019

… The prior relationship came to light as investigators with the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office was looking into allegations of political bias at the origins of the Russia investigation since May 2018.

Steele gained notoriety as the investigator who ignited a firestorm by authoring the highly controversial 2016 dossier alleging links between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and embarrassing incidents involving Trump before he took office. Critics of Steele have argued that the former intelligence officer was biased against Trump and was inclined to produce a negative report on the presidential candidate – excoriating Steele on social media and elsewhere.

In 2007, Ivanka Trump met Steele at a dinner and they began corresponding about the possibility of future work together, the source said. The following year, the two exchanged emails about meeting up near Trump Tower, according to several emails seen by ABC News. And the two did meet at Trump Tower according to the source. The inspector general’s report mentions a meeting with a “Trump family member” there. They suggest Ivanka Trump and Steele stayed in touch via emails over the next several years. In one 2008 exchange they discussed dining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower…

Members of President Trump’s family have never publicly discussed the interactions – and their past meetings with Steele went unmentioned as the Trumps leveled charges against the British intelligence expert in the wake of the controversial and hotly disputed memos he wrote about President Trump…

The inspector general’s report, which was released publicly today, briefly references these past dealings. In his discussion with investigators from the inspector general’s office, Steele cited his past cordial relationship with Ivanka Trump as reason to believe that he was not biased against her…

Ivanka’s never gonna challenge the sort of people who join Mensa, but she’s by far the brightest of the Donald/Ivana litter. And the firstborn, too. Yet she’s been told, since she could bang two blocks together, that she’d never inherit the Trump empire, because she was ‘just a girl’. On the one hand, she was taught that money and its acquisition was the only real measure of human worth; on the other hand, she’s complained that both her parents kept her chronically under-funded, requiring her from childhood to resort to ‘clever’ business measures like selling faked ‘Indian arrowheads’ to her childhood peers. The Trump ideology is that powerful people swing their weight around, take whatever they like, and brag about their taking… but Ivanka, as a girl, was required to be ladylike, not to fight, but to get what she needed by pleasing & manipulating people (especially Daddy, the source of all good things). As a Trump, she was told, she had the best heritage from the best family in a world of sheep and slackers — and yet: Her job was to be eye candy, and (secondarily) to trade her gifts for an allegiance with another family (almost) as powerful and rich as her own…

Spymakers, the story goes, have an acronym: M.I.C.E. You lure potential ‘assets’ through the judicious use of Money (to those who feel themselves undercompensated), Ideology (‘you & I both agree about what is truly important’), Compromise (blackmail, when targets or those important to targets — hellooo, Jared — have left evidence of lawbreaking), and Ego.

It’s not that Ivanka has necessarily been recruited by foreign power, but…

Reaching out to someone like Steele and trying to develop/maintain a relationship w him is the kind of thing one might do if you were a Russian asset. https://t.co/IrKOQ60KwM

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 9, 2019

… Being able to plausibly suggest that Ivanka might’ve been recruited is not nothing, for a sufficiently busy & mischievous foreign power.

WaPo matches @juliamacfarlane’s scoop https://t.co/87ioenmfsj

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 9, 2019

… In her role as a senior vice president of her father’s company, Ivanka Trump was particularly involved in its overseas real estate projects. In 2006, she traveled to Moscow to explore the possibility of a Trump Tower in Russia.

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Seasons’ Greetings

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 20195:22 am| 126 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, Immigration, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, The Brown Enemy Within, All Too Normal, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

I chatted today with the pastor of a Claremont church which erected a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees separated in cages https://t.co/MGl82HTZ3n

— James Queally (@JamesQueallyLAT) December 9, 2019

… Ristine, who has served as the church’s lead pastor only since July, said the church often uses its Nativity scene to tackle a societal issue. Southern California’s homelessness crisis has been invoked in past depictions, she said. A more traditional Nativity scene, showing the Holy Family reunited, can be found inside the church, which serves a congregation of about 300 people, Ristine said.

“We don’t see it as political; we see it as theological. I’m getting responses from people I don’t know … I am having people tell me that it moved them to tears,” she said. “So if the Holy Family and the imagery of the Holy Family and the imagery of a Nativity is something you hold dear, and you see them separated, then that’s going to spark compassion in many people.”…

Rep Cicilline "all of the potential articles of impeachment are on the table." pic.twitter.com/t3E0PJ2M7J

— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) December 8, 2019


Dug out my copy of The Friends of Richard Nixon, written by former Assistant U.S. Attorney George V. Higgins, and found this in the introduction:

… Thinking ahead, in criminal business, is of surpassing importance, even more so than in legitimate commerce and in politics, where it certainly does no harm. The professional outlaw seldom loses sight of the possibility that he, or someone working for him, may make a mistake, or suffer some bad luck, or succumb to overconfidence and get hooked for something big because he bungled something small. He is on guard from the instant he begins to make his operational plans (he does not cause his conferences to be tape-recorded, and he invites to those discussions only those with a pressing need to know, and he does not confide this agenda to the uninvited). If something goes wrong, and the cops come, he is not reduced to frantic, random foraging in the early morning hours, for a willing though sleepy attorney, and a bail bondsman. Nor does he negligently permit his operatives to carry his phone number in their belongings, helpfully annotated to show that, yes, it is his number. The practical crook is a man of provident humility, who sees to it, in advance, that investigation will be arduous, protracted, dispiritingly unproductive, and, in the long run, unsuccessful. By that foresight in frustrating the orderly procedures of American criminal justice (by leaving nothing to chance, and very little to be found), he exonerates himself from the alternative, more difficult, and vastly more dangerous obligation to obstruct the processes of American criminal justice. There is no substitute for knowing what you’re doing…

It looks to be Rudy Giuliani’s week for going under the Trump bus. Mr. Giuliani, during his long career flirting with the romance of Big Crime, might’ve done himself better if his reading (okay, viewing) had included more narratives from the side of the prosecution, IMO.

And finally, a happy dream to start the week…

AP Interview: Elizabeth Warren says she believes Americans are ready for a presidential ticket with two women at the top, rejecting concerns from some Democrats that a woman can't beat President Trump. https://t.co/8wHcarzJTj

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 8, 2019

My dream ticket. pic.twitter.com/Jz4dtJIbQF

— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) December 9, 2019

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R.I.P. (Rove in Perpetuity), D.C. Fontana

by Anne Laurie|  December 8, 20197:10 pm| 55 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, Popular Culture

“She was a very, very tough lady,” Mr. Skotak said. “She carried a phaser with her right up to the end.” https://t.co/jH3MxZQyHi

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) December 4, 2019

I’ve always thought of Fontana as the Mother of All Trekkies — she showed us it was possible. Yes, of course, that women could succeed at writing ‘action shows’ for television (which was no small thing). But also that women — we — could play with the two-dimensional sci-fi Wagon-Train-to-the-Stars characters (mysterious dark alien, stalwart trickster captain, hard-bitten hard-drinking medical man) and make something worth sharing. She certainly wasn’t the first to turn fanfic into a living (I can’t be the only one who wanted, back in the day, to see Nimoy and Shatner do a turn as Sherlock and Watson) but she gave a STEM-curious generation the key to a particular door…

D.C. Fontana, who helped craft the lore of the 1960s television series “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the show’s first female writer, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. She was 80.

Her husband and only immediate survivor, Dennis Skotak, said the cause was cancer.

Ms. Fontana was part of the “Star Trek” universe from its early days, working alongside the show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, as a story editor and writer…

In a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com, the franchise’s official website, Ms. Fontana said she thought her greatest contribution to the franchise had been “primarily the development of Spock as a character and Vulcan as a history/background/culture from which he sprang.”

She fleshed out the character’s back story as the child of a human mother and a Vulcan father while she was a story editor and associate producer for “Star Trek: The Animated Series” in the 1970s. She later wrote, with Mr. Roddenberry, the pilot that launched “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in 1987.

Dorothy Catherine Fontana was born on March 25, 1939, in Sussex, N.J. She was raised by a single mother in Totowa, N.J., and dreamed of becoming a novelist, she said in an interview with the Writers Guild Foundation in 2014.

After high school, she studied to become a secretary at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. She told the foundation that she had thought that clerical work would be a good day job for an aspiring novelist, but that her goals had changed when she became a secretary at Columbia Pictures’ television arm, which was based in New York.

When her boss died of a heart attack, leaving her jobless after just two months, she decided to move to California, in December 1959, to see if she could break into television writing. She achieved early success selling scripts to western series, which were popular in the early 1960s, including “The Tall Man,” “Shotgun Slade” and “Frontier Circus.” …

Ms. Fontana wrote for all three seasons of the original series. She later wrote for other science fiction shows, including “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Babylon 5,” as well as influential series outside that genre like “Bonanza,” “Dallas” and “The Waltons.” …

Speaking to StarTrek.com in 2013, Ms. Fontana reflected on what it was like to be a female writer in Hollywood in the 1960s. While working on “Star Trek,” she said, she did not realize that she had gone where no woman had gone before.

“At the time, I wasn’t especially aware there were so few female writers doing action adventure scripts,” she said. “There were plenty doing soaps, comedies, or on variety shows. By choosing to do action adventure, I was in an elite, very talented and very different group of women writers.”

From the blog The Objective Standard:

… [W]hat truly set Fontana apart was the artistic integrity of her own work. Consider, for example, “This Side of Paradise,” which tells the story of the “logical” Mr. Spock discovering emotions, falling in love, and being tempted to abandon his lifelong mission of discovery in order to remain in a seeming paradise forever. With its elegant dialogue and sympathetic tone, the episode evokes the viewer’s emotions but takes a firm stand against utopian fantasies and in favor of embracing the more rewarding challenges of real life. Reducing such a complex plot, profound ideas, and compelling character developments to a single hour-long episode was a remarkable achievement.

It was par for the course for Fontana, however, who earned a reputation for hard work and intense focus. “The first draft [a producer] gets is really my third or fourth draft, because I’m always refining,” she said. Conscious of the practical limitations of producing a series within money and time constraints, she was nevertheless committed to her artistic vision. “I just work at it so hard that I feel, this is what I want to say.”…

Asked once how she would like to be remembered, her answer was simple—and characteristically straightforward. “I would like to be remembered most just for being a damn good writer.”

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