A van has crashed into a crowd in the Las Ramblas section of Barcelona. Reports are fragmentary and contradictory on Twitter. Here is the Guardian’s article, to be updated. Keep in mind that early reports in a situation like this are often inaccurate. There has been a report of two gunmen, but also reports …
Tripling Down
Twitler’s on a tear this morning. He began by attacking two fellow Republicans (Senators Flake and Graham) and urging their constituents to boot them out of office. Then he moved on to decrying the removal of monuments to white supremacists and again compared founding fathers to the traitors who attempted to destroy the country: Sad …
Always on the record
Axios is getting fed a line of bull: The White House chief strategist has told associates he never intended to do an “interview” with an editor at the American Prospect, a left-wing publication. Bannon has told associates that he admired the author’s stance on China, and so called the journalist, Robert Kuttner, on Tuesday, to …
On the Road and In Your Backyard
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Let Your Light Shine
Candles instead of torches. This is Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/f31QHpXlMi — Nora Neus (@noraneus) August 17, 2017 I've never seen the UVA lawn like this. And this is only a quarter of the people here. Hundreds more marching. pic.twitter.com/t0ChLe1BuC — Nora Neus (@noraneus) August 17, 2017 . What’s on the agenda, as we gird ourselves for the …
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Late Night “Yes, You Were Warned… ” Open Thread
Hillary campaign released this video on September 13, 2016 pic.twitter.com/LrojmcsSjA — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 15, 2017 Now CNN’s Dan Merica figures it out… Many of Hillary Clinton’s top aides sat nervously a year ago this month as their boss stepped up to a podium in Reno, Nevada to decry then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, …
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Local Races: Doug Jones* Wins His Senate Primary in Alabama
convenient night for Democratic messaging purposes to have a famed civil rights lawyer win the Senate primary in Alabama — Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) August 16, 2017 From the local site AL.com: … Jones, a former U.S. Attorney known for the prosecution of convicted killers Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry for the 1963 Sixteenth Street …
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