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Millions of black boys sit in front of televisions with a basketball resting between their crossed legs, watching their basketball icons with awe. Well, one black boy will get to partner with the very organization that molds these icons: the NBA!
Per Forbes, the widely-popular national basketball league has entered a licensing partnership with 15-year-old entrepreneur Moziah “Mo” Bridges and his Memphis based company, Mo’s Bows, which manufactures handmade bow and neckties.
Initiated by the league, the agreement grants Mo’s the rights to manufacture products with the logos of NBA clubs for distribution through the company’s online store as well as retail outlets in a seven-figure licensing deal! The league itself is on track to rack in about $6 billion in revenue this year. Wow!
“Moziah’s creativity and entrepreneurial spirit are an inspiration, and we are thrilled about the launch of the Mo’s Bows NBA Collection,” said Lisa Piken Koper, NBA Vice President, Global Partnerships. “We are always looking for ways to diversify our merchandise offerings and cater to our fashionable fan base, and couldn’t be more excited that fans will have a fun and unique way to show support for their favorite NBA teams.”
15-Year-Old Mo’s Bows Founder Ties His Way Into NBA Partnership
Moziah “Mo” Bridges is channeling peak black boy joy with this major business deal!
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FIRST, NC….NOW, PA.
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Hey, Chicas!
I guess I touched a nerve with Greta?
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/862803675294695424
https://twitter.com/greta/status/862830234827149312
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/862833538214883328
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tell it, SG2
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This Tom Perez statement on Trump’s voter fraud commission is blistering pic.twitter.com/KA1eWUjwpV
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 11, 2017
While it is just one poll and all caveats apply, the most recent one from Quinnipiac paints a devastating picture for the man in the White House. They note that Trump got a bit of a bump after the missile strike in Syria, but he’s back down now to a near-record negative 36 – 58 percent job approval rating—and that is from a poll conducted before the announcement about Comey being fired. The drop holds true for groups that have been an important part of his base.
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But as Adam Raymond summarizes, it’s not just job approval numbers.
Every number in this poll is bad. The majority of Americans say Trump is “not honest,” lacks leadership skills, doesn’t care about average Americans, is not “level-headed,” and does not share their values. On the economy, immigration, foreign policy, and terrorism, more Americans disapprove than approve of the job he’s doing.
Finally, Philip Bump tweeted the part of this poll that is getting most of the attention.
In total, the poll reported 46 words used by respondents to describe Trump. I did my own calculation and found that 28 of them were negative (idiot, clown, bigot), 10 of them were positive (strong, successful, great) and 8 were neutral (president, businessman, American). But beyond that, it is amazing to hear people describe the President of the United States with words like “idiot,” “liar,” and “buffoon.” Perhaps you’ll agree with me when I say that is disturbing in what it says about our current situation, but encouraging in that so many people are actually paying attention to the horrors we’re seeing from this president.
While the opportunity for American voters to weigh in on this president’s performance is still about 3 1/2 years away, here’s a bit of hope for 2018:
Thursday, May 11, 2017
A Coup in Real Time: Trump’s Firing of Comey is More Proof that He is in Collusion with Putin’s Russia ———-By–WARN
In total, Trump’s firing of Comey, his hostility to an independent judiciary, his authoritarian behavior and his evident attempts to control or contain the investigation into his connections to Russia add up to a constitutional crisis. Unfortunately, Trump is being aided and abetted in his irresponsible, and perhaps even criminal behavior, by a Republican Party that, to this point, values power and partisan politics over loyalty to country and true patriotism. Trump’s supporters among the American people are deeply devoted to their leader, even if that means siding with Putin’s Russia and spitting in the face of American democracy. They are authoritarian lemmings.
While the supposedly “liberal” news media largely refuses to tell the ugly truth about Trump and the fascist movement he represents, the conservative media serves as Trump’s personal echo chamber, much as Pravda and other state-sponsored publications served the Communist Party during the Soviet era.
Unfortunately, this state of emergency is the new normal in America. In the future, people who are now living will tell their children and grandchildren how they watched American democracy surrender to plutocratic authoritarianism and fascism in real time. These same children and grandchildren will ask, “Why didn’t you do anything to stop it?” What will we tell them?
History is watching. The American people now have to choose if they will be bystanders or agents in their own destiny. I am deeply saddened that so many Americans seem ready and willing to choose the first option.
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2017/05/a-coup-in-real-time-trumps-firing-of.html
Trump Names Racist to Co-Chair Voter Fraud Commission
by Martin Longman May 11, 2017 3:17 PM
On paper, Kris Kobach is the kind of guy you’d like to marry your daughter. An Eagle Scout who graduated summa cum laude and first in his department at Harvard, went on to get M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Oxford and a law degree from Yale, Kobuch also did missionary work in Uganda, clerked for a federal judge, and obtained a White House Fellowship to work for the Attorney General of the United States.
On the other hand, the Minority Leader of the Kansas Senate Anthony Hensley once stated that Kobach is “the most racist politician in America today,” and with plenty of justification. Kobuch is the brains behind both Arizona SB 1070 and Alabama HB56, the two most notorious anti-immigrant bills to be produced in this country in recent decades. He’s the country’s most famous proponent of bogus voter fraud theories and has boasted of successful efforts to suppress the minority vote both during his time as chairman of the Kansas Republican Party and as Kansas’s Secretary of State.
He’s also a classic John Bircher-style nutcase who has referred to both the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women Voters as “communists.”
Donald Trump seriously considered Kobach to serve as his Attorney General and also as his Secretary of Homeland Security:
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As a former county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote efforts to boost minority participation in our elections, you can imagine how I feel about Kris Kobach who clearly thinks I should have been prosecuted for my efforts. I’m offended by the very existence of the commission which is an affront to the most minimal grasp of reality, so naming Kobach as the co-chair is little more than confirmation that the whole effort is a fraud on the American public.
No one in American life has less credibility with the left on voting issues than Kobach. And it certainly doesn’t help that he’s not only seen as a racist but as perhaps the most effective racist in the country. Trump doesn’t care about that at all and perhaps even enjoys sending the message that he doesn’t care.
So, here’s what we’ll get:
One adviser said the group would spend about a year drafting a report that would take a comprehensive look at election issues that have preoccupied state officials for many years.
They’ll spend a year looking for ways to justify efforts to curtail minority voting, and they’ll do it based on the delusions and lies of the president:
Civil rights groups also reacted with alarm to the impending creation of the task force, arguing that Mr. Trump’s own comments about illegal voting by immigrants suggested that his intent was to work to restrict the voting rights of minorities.
Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, called the commission “a thinly veiled voter suppression task force,” adding that it was “designed to impugn the integrity of African-American and Latino participation in the political process.”
President Trump Just Crippled His Legislative Agenda
by Martin Longman May 10, 2017 3:45 PM
Writing in the Washington Post, James Hohmann makes a rather obvious point about the fallout from President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.
Also noted in that article is the fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee has requested financial records on Trump and Trump associates from the Treasury Department and that the Ranking Member of that committee, Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia, plans on holding up all Trump nominees until he’s gets the information he seeks. That should be lumped together with the Senate Democrats’ decision this morning to invoke the two-hour rule to curtail the majority’s ability to hold committee hearings.
Good afternoon 3Chics,
I was too young to watch Nixon go down. I thought Reagan would. They stole Bushes election so I knew he wouldn’t. But this shit right here??? How can he NOT go down? We know but still. Checking it all out. Have a good day all.
I’m here for Eat What You Want Day!
Hi Tyren. I was a senior in high school. There a too may rats to mention in this shit show. This is why #45 has gone as far as he has.
Hi Tyren.Well, we will see.
I was going to FSU when Nixon resigned. It’s one of my best memories. There were like a zillion of us in the student union watching this one TV. Nixon gave his speech and everyone went crazy. It was great. If there were any Nixon supporters there, they were keeping a low profile.
Uh huh
Uh huh
How’s those votes turning out for you….
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Cooper: Trump administration denied 99 percent of amount recently sought by N.C. for Hurricane Matthew help
Journal staff and wire reports May 10, 2017
Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday expressed his “shock and disappointment” in the small amount of federal disaster money the Trump administration and Congress have authorized in the latest round of funding for Hurricane Matthew recovery in North Carolina — less than 1 percent of what the state requested.
Cooper had hoped for more than $900 million in federal relief, an amount he said was a conservative request made in consultation with U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., U.S. Reps. David Price, a Democrat from Chapel Hill and David Rouzer, a Republican from Johnston County, and others in the state’s congressional delegation. Just $6.1 million in federal money was approved.
The funding request was in addition to $1.4 billion in federal and state money the state has already received, Cooper said. The storm caused an estimated $4.8 billion in damage, Cooper has said.
Cooper expressed his dismay at the latest round in a letter sent to President Donald Trump, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Cooper also invited Trump to visit North Carolina to see storm damage firsthand. An official in the Trump administration didn’t immediately respond to an email request for comment Wednesday.
“Families across Eastern North Carolina need help to rebuild and recover, and it is an incredible failure by the Trump Administration and Congressional leaders to turn their backs,” Cooper said in a statement.
“North Carolinians affected by this storm cannot be ignored by the Trump Administration and Congressional leadership, and I will continue to work with our Congressional delegation to get North Carolina residents affected by the storm the help they deserve,” he said.
Taylor Holgate, a spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said Wednesday that hurricane recovery has been and should continue to be above partisan finger-pointing.
“The bipartisan North Carolina congressional delegation worked to secure more than $300 million in federal assistance for Hurricane Matthew and is committed to making sure the people of North Carolina have the resources they need for hurricane recovery,” Holgate said. “Sen. Burr encourages both Democrat and Republican leaders to work together to ensure that those suffering as a result of a natural disaster get the support they need.”
Russian TURDS in OUR white house yesterday. Where they vetted, frisked, checked for wiring?
From TOD:
Trump claimed Comey told him three times he’s not under investigation. Comey associates tell the WSJ that’s nonsense https://t.co/lAzKUyUaOd pic.twitter.com/MCpmZn50eV
— Mark Berman (@markberman) May 11, 2017
Chimp asking him that question was illegal right there.
MacArthur asked about pre-existing protection changes. Audience: “If you have a pre-existing condition, stand up.” Most audience on feet. pic.twitter.com/V4lhgGVX7q
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 10, 2017
Woman says MacArthur attack on gov’t healthcare “bureaucrats” is wrong.”What makes [them] worse than some employee of an insurance company?” pic.twitter.com/syaa1tgTva
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 11, 2017
MacArthur town hall still going 3.5 hours later pic.twitter.com/6qs7UPLMiJ
— Katie Jennings (@katiedjennings) May 11, 2017
Man angrily tells MacArthur: “You have been the single greatest threat to my family.” Says GOP bill was dead until MacArthur resurrected it. pic.twitter.com/U1O8vTwVBx
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 11, 2017
Ha, ain’t it the truth? Why be afraid of ISIS when you have the GOP trying to kill you first?
Hey Liza,
Still not afraid of al-qaeda. It’s al-cracka that keeps me up at night.
#FF @katiedjennings, who’s at what’s sure to be a doozy of a town hall https://t.co/i2755xpbYa
— Adam Cancryn (@adamcancryn) May 10, 2017
Well that didn’t last long. MacArthur now losing the audience, as crowd chants “shame” and consistently interrupting him. pic.twitter.com/PItTbyTm17
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 10, 2017
MacArthur ask for “respect.” Audience: “Can I be disrespectful on behalf of all the people you’re going to kill.”
— Katie Jennings (@katiedjennings) May 10, 2017
Attendee: “Donald Trump is the greatest threat in our democracy in our lifetime” for attacking press, judiciary, etc. Gets standing ovation. pic.twitter.com/CjDghsIbql
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 10, 2017
MacArthur’s response: “I didn’t come here to defend the president.” Says many members of district support Trump. pic.twitter.com/u3UMbp6bjI
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 10, 2017
Trump creating voter fraud commission today with Kris Kobach as vice chair. Will lead to massive voter suppression https://t.co/RneLso5ANS
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 11, 2017
Abuse.Of.Power.
There is a reason why the GOP are behind Trump.
AND THE DEMS?
Feinstein says she’s read Rosenstein’s memo 3 times.
“With each read I’ve become more troubled by the contents of this unusual document.” pic.twitter.com/HuETaTlstj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2017
NYT Ed. Board writes an open letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein: “You have one choice: Appoint a special counsel…” https://t.co/F8QN0njfaB pic.twitter.com/9dHHvsbWNN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2017
Rosenstein has two options:
1) appoint an independent counsel
2) resign https://t.co/jbJYAA9yyD
— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) May 11, 2017
ICYMI:
Betsy DeVos was invited to speak at Bethune-Cookman, an HBCU. Needless to say, many folks were deeply offended.
Luvvie’s take on what happened yesterday:
Dear Bethune-Cookman 2017 grads, thank you for telling Betsy DeVos ‘ nah”
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2017/05/bethune-cookman-2017-grads-betsy-devos.html
UH HUH
UH HUH
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President Trump expected to launch commission on ‘election integrity’
By KATHERINE FAULDERS ALEXANDER MALLIN
May 11, 2017, 6:10 AM ET
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the American election system, multiple senior administration officials tell ABC News.
The officials say Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will be announced as Chair and Vice Chair of the ‘Presidential Commission on Election Integrity’ in a press release today. It’s not clear whether the White House will allow coverage of the order signing.
The commission, which will include Republicans and Democrats, will be tasked with studying “vulnerabilities” in U.S. voting systems and potential effects on “improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting,” according to one official with knowledge of the announcement.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, Trump claimed widespread voter fraud explained why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged with nearly 3 million more popular votes. To date, neither Trump nor his team has provided evidence to substantiate the claims, but they have promised an investigation.
“You can never really find, you know, there are going to be — no matter what numbers we come up with there are going to be lots of people that did things that we’re not going to find out about,” Trump told ABC News’ David Muir in January. “But we will find out because we need a better system where that can’t happen.”
Administration officials would not provide a draft copy of the order but described its scope to ABC News. The commission’s review is expected be broad in scope, and will not just address Trump’s allegations about the 2016 election but also “systemic issues that have been raised over many years in terms of the integrity of the elections,” one official said.
Membership of the commission is still taking shape even as Trump is poised to sign the order creating it. Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson (R), New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D), Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap (D), Christie McCormick, commissioner of the election assistance commission, and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R), are among the names under consideration, the administration officials said.
GOP’s brand of election integrity =RUSSIA
Topher Spiro @ TopherSpiro
Here we go: Handel defends Trump. Ossoff called for a special prosecutor. It’s on. #FlipThe6th
From WaPo:
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