ICYMI
More than 750 Harvard Law School graduates had signed a letter asking the dean to rescind the appointment of U.S. Supreme Court nominee as a lecturer.
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh will not teach at Harvard Law School in the winter, as he was expected to do, the university announced Monday night in an email to law students.
“Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered,” Catherine Claypoole of the law school curriculum committee wrote in an email to students Monday night.
Hundreds of Harvard Law School graduates had signed a letter calling on the school to rescind Kavanaugh’s appointment as lecturer at the school, following sexual misconduct allegations against the U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
They had not sent the letter to the school’s dean as of Monday evening.
“People are coming together to say, ‘This isn’t the type of person we want teaching at Harvard Law,’” said Jessica Lynn Corsi, a law lecturer and 2010 graduate of the school. It’s an incredibly important job, she said, to shape the minds of students destined to become Supreme Court justices, legal scholars and other leaders.
https://twitter.com/PennysUnique/status/1046455054683627521?s=20
https://twitter.com/PhilipVanguard/status/1047199755003154438?s=20
https://twitter.com/LaurenBaratzL/status/1047431391611371520?s=20
https://twitter.com/LaurenBaratzL/status/1046872875582599168?s=20
https://twitter.com/MrBlifil/status/1047443528266240000?s=20
The pro-Kavanaugh ads running on MSNBC is courtesy of Judicial Crisis Network – a polling group started by Clarence Thomas’ law clerk.. And a sponsor of Morning Joke..
https://twitter.com/LaraRosevelt/status/1047450532670070785?s=20
Rod Rosenstein is overseeing the supplemental Kavanaugh FBI ‘investigation’ ..
Rod Rosenstein is Kavanaugh’s pal …he was even at the initial confirmation to support him..
They were all part of the Ken Starr ‘team’..
And part of the neocon-rightwing- Karl Rove set-up..
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1044273014488145921?s=20
Alex Azar is the current HHS Secretary …complicit in the heartless imprisoning of innocent brown kids in cages..
Rosenstein supporting his pal Kavanaugh at his initial confirmation hearing ..
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-listens-as-supreme-court-picture-id1026685694?k=6&m=1026685694&s=612×612&w=0&h=YsHHamZr3c0iaiiZR7WfsRvX4wKiH2KZOJYQxAOlscE=
Rosenstein leaving the Kavanaugh heating during the lunch break..
https://twitter.com/KildayMorgan/status/1039926391108718593?s=20
Don McGhan, Kavanaugh and Rosenstein at Kavanaugh’s hearing..
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/d97Bmemx6b5/Senate+Holds+Confirmation+Hearing+Brett+Kavanugh/myA6PwiDybj
How did they get away with this for so long? How is it their crimes are just coming to light? Authorities dropped the ball here. Jamycheal Mitchell, a Black man was jailed for a $5 theft & died in jail but this fraud went untouched for years & is now in the Oval Office. #Amerikkka
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1047318176671956992
And this fraud sits in the Oval Office. God help us all.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1047269246554841088
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1047262118591045636?s=20
I hope that he gets help😢
https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1047230088901799936?s=20
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1046478473722834950?s=20
White people voted for a fraud, a con man occupying the White House.
https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/1047205512012546048
https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1047224390272917504
https://twitter.com/Kris_Z_Massey/status/1046863716371914752?s=20
Post Card Patriots
https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives/status/1047131592144113664
Republicans reach the ‘triage’ stage of the 2018 midterm election cycle
10/02/18 10:00 AM
By Steve Benen
Ask party officials at the various campaign committees about their expectations in any given race, and in nearly every instance, you’ll hear a stock answer. If they expect to win, partisans will say something like, “_____ is running a great race, and we feel good about his/her chances.” If they expect to lose, they’ll say, “It’s an uphill climb, but we think _____ is going to surprise people on Election Day.”
It’s why I think it’s best not to even bother asking party officials what they expect to see happen. Instead, I find it far more useful to follow the money. Slate reported yesterday:
This baby knows…
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1047120786253930496
BWA HA HA HA
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1046709537921748994?s=20
She’s getting PAID with our tax $$4 to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH, ZERO!
Analysis finds 290 hours of ‘private’ meetings on Chao’s calendar
BY EMILY BIRNBAUM – 10/01/18 09:35 AM EDT
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has spent more than 290 hours in meetings labeled “private” during her first 14 months in the position, according to a new Politico analysis of her calendars.
Documents obtained by Politico through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indicate Chao has spent a large amount of time in “private” meetings, which have usually taken place on Fridays after lunchtime.
One Department of Transportation (DOT) spokesperson told Politico some of the “private” time was spent traveling, while other blocks involved appointments ranging “from doctor’s appointments to meeting with personal friends to tending to personal needs or regularly sharing meals with her husband.”
Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/409214-analysis-finds-290-hours-of-private-meetings-on-chaos-calendar
Grifters.
A RIGHTEOUS RANT
Kavanaugh, Graham, Grassley, & Co. Rage Against the Dying of the Whites (Ferret/ShowerCap)
This one was hard, friends. For the first time, shit was so abominable, I didn’t WANT to blog about it. The news has been like a cheese grater, slowly, painfully, eroding my brain into a pile of taco toppings. I wanna stick my head in a sauna till it sweats out the memory of every single moment of the Kavanaugh hearing.
As always, you can find this post, with all relevant news links, at:
And please, please, check out the Goddamn Midterms Action Guide, and get in the fight: http://showercapblog.com/vote-goddamn-midterms/
It seems like a decade ago, when we enjoyed a little chuckle watching the Hairplug That Ate Decency belch up his usual dogbowlful of self-aggrandizing nonsense at the United Nations, only to have the world laugh directly in his sharty little face. All the fear he imagines he inspires, the respect he so desperately craves, and he was roundly, openly, mocked without a second thought. And though you’d normally feel a twinge of patriotic anger to see your President so humiliated on the world stage, with this bloated assclown, your only regret is that you weren’t there to take take the diplomats out for a beer later.
Oh, and the Velveeta Vulgarian, who has of late been test-driving various excuses for his imminent midterm spanking, accused China of meddling in the elections because hey why not? One thing I’ll say for MAGA nation, it must be fun having your Bible written and re-written in real time. “What do we believe today? Who are we supposed to love now that we hated a week ago?” George Orwell seriously underestimated how much FUN it could be to resculpt reality to suit the fleeting needs of a moment.
Speaking of pathetic Republicans who get no respect largely because they deserve none, Rand Paul’s shady little proposal to lift sanctions on his new BFF, Vlad Putin, over that one thing when Russia INVADED UKRAINE AND SEIZED CRIMEA, of course went down in flames. One of these days, us taxpayers should bill Rand for all the valuable government time he wastes with these little stunts of his. I’m sure they impress the college libertarian clubs, though.
Read the rest here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211216310
Damaging new details emerge on Trump’s response to Stormy Daniels
10/02/18 09:20 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump has said quite a bit about his alleged extra-marital affair with Stormy Daniels, but very few of the president’s claims have stood up to scrutiny. A new Wall Street Journal report puts Trump in an even worse position, explaining that Trump was “personally” involved in an effort to silence the porn star.
https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1047126623307358210
Top of the Morning, Everyone.
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1046822059240755202
He can really sing!
Word of the Day : October 2, 2018
Cloister: verb KLOY-ster
Definition
1 : to seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
2 : to surround with a cloister
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/cloister-2018-10-02?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=c&file=cloist01&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
Nobel Prize in physics awarded to a Canadian woman and men from the U.S. and France
The scientists — American Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada — developed ways to use light as tools. Strickland is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics since 1963.
The committee hailed their groundbreaking inventions in laser physics
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/c32675/5bb341b5f0b2200e694ff015/YXdhcmVvZjQxMUBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D/2/10/3a569220054ddfca9b49a25bb24a75b5