Ouch! Mayor
@Pete
Buttigieg responds to
@realDonaldTrump
slam that he is “Alfred E Neuman” —“I had to Google that..I guess it’s a generational thing.”
Lead singer/songwriter for "Creedence Clearwater Revival" says he is issuing "cease and desist" order to Trump for using his iconic song, "Fortunate Son" in campaign rallies
“Certainly the 25th amendment is there...I never thought it might occur in my lifetime,'' noted presidential historian Douglas Brinkley says on
@CNN
. But "Trump is acting and thinking in an irrational way.''
--
@KamalaHarris
, sounding near tears, is burning up
@MSNBC
in outrage over Santa Clarita shooting: "Mitch McConnell needs to covene the Senate..we don’t need to take everyone’s guns, but there has been a failure of the Congress to act. It is pathetic…This is outrageous.”
New! Mayor
@LondonBreed
announces San Francisco is 1st in the nation to make all phone calls from county jails now free, effective today; effort to "permanently stop generating revenue frm incarcerated people & families through phone calls, commissary markups, other services. "
"Auntie Maxine" is mad: "Enough is enough!" says
@RepMaxineWaters
advisory - announcing she's marching down to the main Post Office in Los Angeles today at 4 pm, holding presser to bring attention "to effects Trump Administration’s new USPS rules are having on postal operations."
--Anyone who's covered
@GavinNewsom
knows he's a nerd for numbers...
@JoeBiden
should thank him for this segment, where Newsom happily delivers to
@Hannity
the receipts on global economy & the issue of inflation
Newsom: Let’s talk about inflation.. He was just with the UK Prime Minister, it’s 6.9%. Is that because of Biden’s policy?
Hannity: EconomIc—
Newsom: Impacted the UK’s inflation?
“For those in my party considering standing up against the voters on January 6th, know this: our grandchildren will know your names only as the villains who fought against the great American experiment and the will of the voters. You will live in infamy.”
The cost of border shutdown to California jobs, businesses, communities and familiies would be huge...The shutdown at San Ysidro Port of Entry in November cost local biz more than $5.3 million -- and that was just 5 hours.
Dear
@GOPLeader
McCarthy (R-CA): I will leave it up to you to tell California businesses that the leader of the Republican party--
@realDonaldTrump
--wants to shut down all trade along California's southern border.
Interesting: Dem
@KimMangone
, USAF veteran who's running against
@GOPLeader
, 1 of record number of women running for House, is now a social media presence -- who's "raised more in 3 months than all McCarthy’s previous gen election challengers combined."
It's official --The Republican Party is now a third party in California, surpassed in numbers by both Democrats and "no party preference" or independent voters.
Republicans finally succumb to independents in California - they now trail by 76,000 - Democrats hold steady, with slight increase in registration.
#BigBlueWave
Kudos and 👏👏👏👏to reporter
@JVittalTV
, who refuses to back down as he attempts to get an answer from
@RandPaul
on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund -- he doesn't take the bait of the Senator's insults and snark, merely tries to do his job.
Our
@JVittalTV
on Thursday questioned Kentucky Senator Rand Paul about his objection to an attempt to quickly pass a bill ensuring the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund never runs out of money. Here is video of their exchange.
It’s simple - A vote for liberal Jacky Rosen is a vote to turn Nevada into California.
Nevada patriots - Get out the vote on Tuesday for
@Deanheller
!
#MAGA
#NVSEN
President Trump called an unscheduled press availability which coincides with
@BarackObama
eulogy for Rep John Lewis. Trump event ongoing as are Pres. Obama remarks...
Owner Tane Chan of The Wok Shop on Grant — SF Chinatown’s Main Street— nearly bursts into tears when
@SpeakerPelosi
shows up to support her local small business facing
#CoronavirusOutbreak
losses
Have to ask upon seeing this: Is it legal in CA -- a "two party consent" state -- to videotape someone in a private home or business without their consent?
#FoxNews
"I'll tell you something else that doesn't belong to one politcal party..the American flag,'' says
@PeteButtigieg
, noting that as an Afghan vet, he had one velcroed on the shoulder of his uniform daily. "I did not see "property of the Republican Party" on it, he says to applause.
If 1,300 people were unaccounted for in Washington DC or NYC, there would be 24/7 coverage. Shameful that
@Chucktodd
and
@MeetThePress
doesn't even lead with it. Good call by
@ABCThisWeek
to do so -- but the cable channels in generally woefully dismissive of this huge story.
And that will freeze major donors and other Republican hopefuls (
@NikkiHaley
,
@TedCruz
,
@MikePompeo
, et al) who stood with Trump in place for the forseeable future. Democrats will love it.
New per
@CBSNews
: Trump advisors say he’s already openly discussing running again in 2024. He’s still hoping for a
#SCOTUS
win on segregated PA ballots—not because it could change his defeat (it wouldn’t) but so he can claim he was “cheated out of a 2nd term” & run on that in ‘24
Goes without saying that both despots whom Trump defends in this interview -- says he "liked" and who "liked me" -- have been documented to have engaged in widespread murder, torture and imprisonment of their political opponents.
An AMTRAK passenger train just derailed in California.
Two weeks ago a highway collapsed in Philadelphia.
Stuff like this is going on constantly in America.
We’re sending our money all over the world but our own country is falling down around us.
-
@DevinNunes
, just now on Fresno
@KMJNOW
: "The media is absolutely responsible for this..90% of them are working for the Democrats, working for the left..They’re doing dangerous things in this country by whipping everyone up in this panic. There’s no reason to be in this panic."
New! CA
@RepSwalwell
's resolution for peaceful and orderly transition of power, as called for in the Constitution, has just passed on a 397-5 vote in the House. Who were the 5?
Watching this WHouse briefing: Kudos to
@HallieJackson
and
@AprilDRyan
for pushing back hard on consistent efforts to shut down followup questioning by
@PressSec
. And hoping more reporters in the room support such moves.
New endorsement for
@BernieSanders
in CA: – University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE)-CWA 9119, "the nation’s largest Communication Workers of America (CWA) local" representing nearly 17,000 UC employees is backing Sanders, who got 66 percent of their vote.
"This is the fifth largest economy in the world, the consequences of this election are profound,'' says
@GavinNewsom
. "If they can take CA, a progressive blue state, think about the impact that will have on Nancy Pelosi's future...on the entire Biden agenda."
There is no victory more important this year than defeating
@realDonaldTrump
.
The team that knows how to stay on offense and do just that is
@ProjectLincoln
.
Will you join me in supporting them by contributing right now?
Dear
@DNC
: Asian Americans are the fastest increasing group in America, including in multiple swing states. The gross underrepresentation of Asian American speakers in the four days of the DNC Convention is tone deaf and a slap in the face.
On
@MSNBC
,
@RepSwalwell
asked about
@SpeakerPelosi
's react to
#SOTU
in ripping up speech: "I don't think I would have had the restraint that she did... Thank God there weren't matches around..it was an insulting speech in many ways, it didn't offer us many ways to work together."
"Governor
@Schwarzenegger
specifically refused to ask for any special treatment because he wanted to have the same exact experience as everyone in LA... when he spoke out about it, it was real. His experience should give the people who are currently eligible hope, not outrage."
The
@latimes
did a disservice to their readers by saying "Shots for them, but not for you" about
@Schwarzenegger
using the county website and waiting in line at Dodger Stadium to get his vaccine. The real story offers hope instead of divisive outrage.
.Determined
@SpeakerPelosi
at press conference vows Democrats will pursue background checks & gun safety “relentlessly, constantly..until we get the Senate to say yes” or there will be “hell to pay”
Heartbreaking..the report: After Guatemalan officials "burned down an environmental activist's home,'' he sought US asylum w child w heart failure. Upon arrival, "border agents tore 7 yr old away,'' father sent 2,000 miles to detention camp, child repeatedly sexually molested
Nothing would be more satisfying than electing the wonderful
@KimMangone
to Congress and forcing tRUMP sycophant/enabler Kevin McCarthy into a new career at Faux "News"
#GetTheJobDoneRightWithKim
👍
On this call,
@DoloresHuerta
announces she’ll be making a South Texas with O’Rourke in mid-September. They’ll be in Brownsville, McAllen, Corpus Christi and San Antonio on Sept. 17 and 18, per the campaign.
#TXGOV
"If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare & the Federalist Papers, that's what they need to learn from America. They don't need to learn quantum computing" -- Sen. Tom Cotton proposes restricting Chinese students from studying science & tech at US universities
Campaign for
#CA23
USAF veteran Dem
@KimMangone
says she's raised nearly $600,000 in Q3 to challenge
@GOPLeader
, more than every other McCarthy challenger "in their entire campaigns, combined."
I am the Democrat running against Republican Kevin McCarthy. I am a United States Air Force Veteran, Democrat and a single mother. This is my Final TV ad. Please retweet it to help me win
Significant that
@NYGovCuomo
and now
@CAgovernor
@GavinNewsom
now both reject new
@CDCgov
"updated" guidlines on testing: "It's not the policy in the state of CA. We will not be influenced by that change.''
In SF,
@MichaelAvenatti
greets supporters, press and political power brokers at the Willie Brown Breakfast Club; he tells us
@realdonaldtrump
pronouncement on birthright citizenship is “outrageous” and charges it is “a wedge issue he thinks he can use” to boost GOP turnout
"Nancy Pelosi was dancing in the streets in Chinatown, she wanted to go out and party,''
@RealDonaldTrump
says. This has been called out previously, but we'll repeat: not true.
Via
@AbcarianLAT
: "I don’t mean to pick on
@DevinNunes
. … Oh, who am I kidding? Yes, I do." How Trump cheapened one of America's highest honors, the Medal of Freedom
Big cheers: "I don't even golf,'' says
@PeteButtigieg
in Sacramento. And for this: "the first time I place a phone call to Mitch McConnell, it will be to congratulate him on his retirement."
--With Delta variant on the rise,
@GavinNewsom
says CA's move to become first state to require all teachers and school employees to be vaccinated or submit to regular Covid-19 testing, is about "knowing that the schools are doing everything in their power to keep our kids safe"
Hey
@GOPLeader
, your silence on Trump cozying up to Putin is an endorsement of Russia putting bounties on the lives of my brothers and sisters. And it’s utterly indefensible.
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....
White House transcript:
@RealDonaldTrump
defends Putin on election interference: "We've talked about it before. You know he denies it totally.. I mean, how many times can you get somebody to deny something? But he has, in the past, denied it. He's denied it also publicly. "
I finally tuned in, and gotta say: Congrats,
#MeghanMarkle
for a great podcast in
#Archetypes
,
#1
on the charts, and topping
@JoeRogan
. Funny, insightful — and covering topics too long ignored. Her interview w
@SerenaWilliams
about female ambition is a must-listen…
CA's
@GavinNewsom
, announcing bombshell $1 billion deal: “We've been competing against other states, against other nations, against our own federal government for PPE — coveralls, masks, shields, N95 masks — & we're not waiting around any longer.''
--
@Acosta
on
@CNN
reports "eight or nine large military-style vehicles rolling" now through the White House complex...adds in eight years covering WH, "I've never seen" that kind of display on the grounds.
"This is the greatest Christmas gift!”
@Schwarzenegger
donates 25 tiny homes to homeless vets at the VA in West LA.
For the first time in a long time, these vets are now off the streets.
Watch
@TheIssueIsShow
for an exclusive tour & interview w Arnold &
@PSchwarzenegger
Courageous reporters and photographers documenting protests all over the country last night were arrested, gassed, shot with rubber bullets -- in numbers I have never seen in 30 years in this business. I am sick at heart.
The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy. As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!
#Breaking
:
@JoeBiden
just issued statement denoucing CA recall: “Gov Newsom is leading California through unprecedented crises. He is a key partner in fighting the pandemic and delivering economic relief to working families and helping us build our economy back better than ever."
Details from new book: “Melania didn’t want to move to the White House right away in part because she didn’t want to have to use the same shower and toilet as former First Lady Michelle Obama”
Strong performance tonight from
@KamalaHarris
, she's looking impassioned, forceful -- came prepared with some good strong soundbites.
#Democraticdebate
CA gov
@GavinNewsom
, appearing in direct conflict with suggestion from
@POTUS
yesterday that stay at home orders soon could be lifted: "Don't think for a second that we're a day or two from lifting that order. We're not. We're not even a week or two."
👉
@RepSwalwell
greeted w cheers at packed town hall which draws hundreds in Dublin, notes three Bay Area legislators now on House leadership —
@NancyPelosi
, he,
@RepBarbaraLee
-
@LarryElder
on
@MarkLevinShow
today: "
@DianneFeinstein
nobody's seen in weeks..I'm told it's an even worse mental condition than
@JoeBiden
...They're afraid I'm going to replace her w a Republican - which I most certainly would do & that would be an earthquake in Washington DC."