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After interviewing Kyle Murphy, who was until recently a DIA analyst, @maddow notes many public servants have quit, but "very few of them have articulated their reasons in a way that is very helpful for us to understand."
His @just_security essay: bit.ly/3iwQwZQ.
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) writes a letter to the postmaster general saying she is concerned about the recent operational changes and the resulting delays in mail delivery.
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Barr has been on a right wing media tour promising an October surprise - a rerun of 2016 except worse, because as bad as Comey’s decisions were, at least they weren’t partisan. This is straight up open abuse of power. twitter.com/isikoff/status…
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Let it be noted that they're not just turning them off, or deciding to use them less, or unplugging them -- they're *removing them* from these processing centers.
It makes no sense at all as cost-cutting. This is just sabotage. twitter.com/maggieNYT/stat…
"This is exactly when civil society needs to stand behind the institutions and the elements of government and also to peacefully express their will and reject any idea that the results of our election and the sanctity of the election process could be challenged by the president"
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CNN: The US Postal Service plans to remove hundreds of high-volume mail-processing machines from facilities across the country, leading some postal workers to fear they may have less capacity to process mail during election season.
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Trump messing with the Postal Service is more Impeachable than the Ukraine thing, which was super impeachable. He’s really going to try to cheat.
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"The basics of participatory democracy are what's most effective in countering situations like this. So this is: massive voter turnout, citizen support directly for campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations that are part of enduring social movements that shape electoral politics."
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BREAKING: In new court filing, Pennsylvania AGREES to enjoin its received-by deadline and count any ballot postmarked by Election Day and received by the third day following the election. @prioritiesUSA @ActiveRetirees
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Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "driving out honest, skilled, talented long serving professional public servants on trumped up charges and replacing them with people of no qualifications whose only attribute is loyalty.
McCarthy couldn’t have done it better.”
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"... they’ve lost the functioning government they once had."
"What is happening at this agency is a microcosm of what’s happening all across the US government:
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"The American people are going to be very very sorry when they wake up one day and find that by these individual actions — one at a time that nobody stopped...
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I know there's a lot going on, but this ongoing, accelerating horror show in Belarus should be on the front pages of more US newspapers and news sites. twitter.com/BBCWillVernon/…
FAQ on Belarus’ protests
Location: at least 30 towns
Key demand: presidential election
Key numbers:
5 days
2 deaths
300+ injured
6000 detained
>100 000 participants
3 days of internet shutdown
$1.5mln donated
Importance:
largest protest movement in this dictatorship ever
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Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC 2/ There is of course plenty of evidence of American Airlines Flight 77, with 58 passengers and a crew of 6, crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11, killing 125 people working there.
It’s hard to know how to even respond to such completely deranged conspiracy theories.
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC GOP House candidate refers to “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. Odd there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.”
This is insane. And of course patently false. twitter.com/ehananoki/stat…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC 561 prisoners and 25 staff members test positive at Florida prison -- another 294 test results still pending
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COVID Outbreak at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution is the largest in any workplace in the state
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More: In Maine, the postal union said new directives from DeJoy forced workers to leave behind more than 80,000 pieces of mail rather than wait an extra 10 minutes for the mail to be loaded onto the trucks. sunjournal.com/2020/08/10/pos… twitter.com/sahilkapur/sta…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us."
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The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given, Motherboard has learned through interviews with postal workers and union officials.
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Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Trump has always said the quiet part out loud. This one challenges the basic legitimacy of our democracy and functioning of our postal service twitter.com/npr/status/129…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Trump says he’s blocking Postal Service funding because Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during pandemic wapo.st/3fUpfie
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Trump's Postmaster General continues to hold a multimillion-dollar stake in his former company — a Postal Service contractor — likely creating a major conflict of interest, according to newly obtained financial disclosures and ethics experts. cnn.com/2020/08/12/pol…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC In addition to problems with receiving medicine on time, we’re also hearing from people whose bill paying is being messed up by the Trump degradation of the Postal Service. Late fees, service interruptions...
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC A Georgia school district that does not require masks has closed a high school and now has over 1,100 students and staff in quarantine due to the coronavirus. nbcnews.to/2DFs3CZ
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC I thought I had a handle on how I’d explain all this to my toddler 20 years from now but then @THEHermanCain started tweeting from the other side and I’m honestly back at square one.
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "[Joe Biden's] guidance to the team was: Don't screw this up, and don't embarrass anybody, and make sure you get every last bit of information you possibly can."
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "I believe [the vetting of Kamala Harris] was quite thorough, and I say that having been vetted twice for Cabinet level positions. I've never experienced anything quite like this." -Amb. Susan Rice
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC So, let me get this straight. You think the Biden candidacy is going to be nuts and you're saying this FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE SINCE YOU DIED TWO WEEKS AGO twitter.com/THEHermanCain/…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC NEW: Financial disclosures reveal USPS chief Louis DeJoy's business entanglements, which experts say are likely a major conflict of interest. He has a $30m stake in a USPS contractor, and he bought Amazon stock options after joining Trump's administration. cnn.com/2020/08/12/pol…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "Mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we're seeing equipment being removed," said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union and a postal clerk in Waterloo. bit.ly/3aj4yva @JamesDoubek @IowaPublicRadio
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Happening in Europe, right now twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/…
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Biden tonight:
"We, in the last 24 hours, raised $26 million. 150,000! -- 150,000 of you first time contributors. It's really palpable the excitement because there is so much at stake.”
Biden campaign says it had its largest fundraising **hour** ever in the hour after the announced the Harris pick.
Also their largest fundraising day. twitter.com/_clarkekent/st…
We're also now just wildly embarrassing:
"The Energy Department today proposed easing efficiency requirements for shower heads following multiple complaints from President Trump about how low water flow is impeding his ability to properly wash his hair."
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In radical move, Joe Biden has chosen not to use the spotlight to rant about toilets and showers
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Worth noting: the six biggest networks are all airing this Biden-Harris launch event live right now. ABC, NBC, CBS broadcast networks plus the three big cable newsers.
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC Just in case your nightmares aren't vivid enough already these days:
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Over 50% of prisoners test positive at facility in Century, Florida: pnj.com/story/news/202…
#Belarus Look at this guy in the orange shirt. Bursts out of the police car and onlookers help him get away from the police.
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC "For 16 days in a row, the US has averaged over 1000 deaths per day. Georgia and Florida -- led by GOP governors who have not issued mask requirements -- have the highest per capita new cases over the last seven days, followed by Alabama and Mississippi."
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BREAKING: Ohio's Republican Secretary of State issued a new directive prohibiting boards of elections "from installing a drop box at any other location other than the board of elections."
Media will have to find a new @GOP election official to fawn over in "both-sides" coverage.
Retweeted by Rachel Maddow MSNBC BBC: Security forces now shooting at protesters with live rounds in Belarus
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