As we consider what a president did to overturn an election, here is what one African American woman faced when she won election in a rural Alabama town. Investigations, police, a lawsuit aimed at unseating her. Breaking the Rule of One:
In the Syrian town of Kobane, where the US alliance with Kurds began in 2014, thousands of Kurds marched in anger and dismay toward a U.S. base, many clutching photographs of their children killed fighting ISIS alongside U.S. forces.
@LizSly
Horrible scoop: Father kills himself after being separated from 3 year old son at the US border. “They had to use physical force to take the child out of his hands,” an agent said, after which the father was put in a chain-link cell.
@NickMiroff
NEW: Pipeline of undocumented workers from Latin America built Trump's golf course, and everyone seemed to know it. “It’s been a very open secret." via
@nickmiroff
@fahrenthold
@partlowj
Meanwhile, regarding democracy: In Georgia, county election boards are being dissolved and remade with people who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. The story of one...
Deepening suspicions. A parallel voting system. Dumpster diving for documents. In northwest Georgia, a woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming.
A U.S.-born woman traveling w/ her Iranian parents said border agents seemed "clueless." “They would say, ‘Your case is being processed.’ And we’re like, what do you mean? We’re not criminals — what case?”
@ahauslohner
The psychology at work when Raffsenberger says no, he did not allow ballot shredding etc and Trump says, “I’m notifying you that you are letting it happen.” Notifying.
Huge via
@ksieff
- “Diez represents dozens of U.S. citizens who were denied their passports or had their passports suddenly revoked. Among them are soldiers and Border Patrol agents.” ICE agents have gone to homes w no warning & revoked passports.
The WP's story of the extraordinary day, based on reporting of at least 14 colleagues including many who took personal risks to gather details such as this one:
"MURDER THE MEDIA," read a message written on one door.
A Haitian ethics professor seeks asylum, is detained two years without seeing daylight, appears in court, ankles shackled: “I am so embarrassed,” he whispered to his courtroom interpreter... via
@elisaslow
On a day like today, read
@danbalz
-- Kavanaugh "will either become a member of the Supreme Court or he will not. But the process by which that fate is ultimately determined is likely to leave a stain on Washington..."
NYT: Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows pressed DOJ to examine debunked election fraud claims including a fantastical theory that people in Italy had used military technology and satellites to flip votes to Biden....
Meanwhile... The world has barely 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientific panel finds. “There is no documented historic precedent" for the scale of changes required, the body found:
@chriscmooney
@brady_dennis
Example of old-fashioned journalism mattering: Congress is taking action as a direct result of
@hannahdreier
's stunning story, which you can read here --
Congress is trying to stop the Trump administration from using confidential therapy disclosures against young asylum-seekers.
New bills in the House and Senate would ban the practice.
NEW: Woman shares new evidence of her relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17, he was 34, as Moore says, "I don't know any of these women." w/
@jongerberg
“That decision is without precedent in modern American history: the president used his public office to direct a massive contract to himself.”
@ToluseO
@Fahrenthold
Classic
@paulschwartzman
here, while giving the moment the dignity it deserves: “In 2017, Briskman was engaged in a different form of flipping, this one involving her middle finger...”
Long before the debate, there were troubling signs for Biden in the strongest of Democratic strongholds, where loyalties are fraying, and right-wing propaganda is seeping into social media feeds of young black voters.
Alabama woman says Roy Moore touched her sexually when she was 14, he was 32 & Deputy D.A. Three others say he pursued them as teenagers. with
@bethreinhard
Alabama woman says Roy Moore touched her sexually when she was 14, he was 32 & Deputy D.A. Three others say he pursued them as teenagers. with
@bethreinhard
and Alice Crites.
In Mexico, an astonishing 89 politicians have been killed since September as one of its most violent election cycles in modern times comes to a close. Read
@marybsheridan
to understand—
In light of
#MarjorieTaylorGreene
news, a reminder that the people who ran against her included an actual brain surgeon, and a guy named Kevin who wanted to "bring civility back to Washington."
The 31-day campaign against QAnon
To better understand the modern incarnation of white nationalism, I highly recommend the book by my brilliant and talented colleague
@elisaslow
- Rising Out of Hatred
A desperate search for health care forces a husband and wife apart after 63 years. This is now the way life ends for many as basic care disappears in parts of rural America.
The rapid rise of the NAR has been obscured by more dominant narratives about Christian nationalism. But it is not lost on Trump, or
#RogerStone
- who see the value of a huge well of untapped voters primed to hear what the prophets have to say...
AJC adds: On the call, Mark Meadows urged election officials “in the spirit of cooperation and compromise” to find a path forward outside the courts.
@bluestein
He checked the stock graph on his screen — up $2.6 million in the past five hours. His accounts were equal to the average net worth of 23,000 middle-class American families.
@elisaslow
on one of the nation's 745 billionaires.
Read
@elisaslow
on the lost students of the pandemic: “...he’d found students who slept in tents, students who lived in homeless shelters...but the home visits that haunted him most were the ones where he discovered nothing at all.”
In one of the small Alabama towns where the civil rights movement was born, representation had come down to showing up for a parade... "Everything here came at a cost and we don’t want to lose anything,” said one councilwoman.
John Prine’s first review via Roger Ebert in ‘70:
“They’re nothing like the work of most young composers these days, who seem to specialize in narcissistic tributes to themselves....”
Latest in the relentlessly great
@elisaslow
series: "‘How is this possible? What are the odds?’: The Graveson family, on what the coronavirus has done to them.
The inheritance was the exact opposite of intergenerational wealth: his father’s end-of-life expenses, thousands of dollars in debts, a continued regression from the middle class into the expanding bottom of the American economy.
@elisaslow
Via
@ktumulty
— “This is a place for practicality, not politics. Some of Sister Norma’s greatest admirers are the law-enforcement officials who witness the loaves-and-fishes miracles she works with the donations she gets...”
My latest column has little to do with politics, but it meant a lot to me to be able to write it. I'd love it if you would read it, and pass it along, if you feel so inclined:
Wild conspiracies, investigations, a failed lawsuit aimed at overturning an election result - here is what an African American woman went through to win a city council seat in a rural Alabama town...
Sudan: Pretty stunning images here of huge protests unfolding in towns and cities across
#Sudan
despite internet blackout to thwart organizing. Hard to underestimate the risk protesters are willing to take after decades of repression...
The full story on Steve Bannon, formerly President Trump's top political strategist, charged with defrauding donors to help himself as part of a private effort to raise money for a border wall.
@mattzap
@jdawsey1
@postroz
@shaynajacobs
Worth noting: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district has roughly 517K eligible voters, of which 449K vote regularly. Greene won with 229K. That leaves.... a lot of voters.
In Alabama, not much hesitancy among people waiting in these vaccine lines:
“Here I am!” said an elderly woman bumping her walker across the gravel.
“I’m right here!” said a man raising a hand holding a worn Social Security card.
The death phase of the pandemic that Trump said would "miraculously" go away is now overwhelming a funeral home near his old Queens neighborhood. "It's too many," the funeral director says.
After their neighbor was arrested on terrorism charges, how would the subdivision react? “I was nervous to find out what kind of people we were,” one woman said....
Another singular
@gregjaffe
story on the forces behind the low-wage worker revolt: This time, a young woman from rural Tennessee becomes obsessed with Eugene Debs, wins a Rhodes scholarship, organizes the first Starbucks union in the U.S. and... now what?
Congrats to our cherished colleague
@gregjaffe
- dogged reporter whose hard-won stories are grounded in the basic act of bearing witness, and do what the best of them can do- transport us into places we might not know.
1/ A note on
@GregJaffe
- a
@PulitzerPrizes
finalist for feature writing this year about the impact of the pandemic on Americans living on the economic edge. He is not just one of my most talented colleagues in
@washingtonpost
- he is among the most reflective and thoughtful.