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Rhiannon12866
Rhiannon12866's Journal
Rhiannon12866's Journal
July 30, 2022
In the first of three jury trials against right-wing conspiracy-peddler Alex Jones, lawyers for the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook massacre asked a jury to award their clients $150 million in damages. Elizabeth Williamson, who is covering the trial for The New York Times, describes that moment in the courtroom and the reach Alex Jones’s lies have for MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
Jury To Decide How Much Alex Jones Must Pay For Sandy Hook Lies - The Last Word - MSNBC
In the first of three jury trials against right-wing conspiracy-peddler Alex Jones, lawyers for the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook massacre asked a jury to award their clients $150 million in damages. Elizabeth Williamson, who is covering the trial for The New York Times, describes that moment in the courtroom and the reach Alex Jones’s lies have for MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
July 30, 2022
Under Abbott's failed leadership:
🔴 16 rural hospitals have closed down
🔴We're last in access to mental health care
🔴 We've been the least insured state each year
As governor, I'll expand Medicaid, bring $10 billion a year back to Texas, and prioritize rural health care.
#AbbottFailedTexas
Join our people-powered campaign for the future of Texas: https://betofortexas.com/
Abbott's failed leadership - Beto For Texas
Under Abbott's failed leadership:
🔴 16 rural hospitals have closed down
🔴We're last in access to mental health care
🔴 We've been the least insured state each year
As governor, I'll expand Medicaid, bring $10 billion a year back to Texas, and prioritize rural health care.
#AbbottFailedTexas
Join our people-powered campaign for the future of Texas: https://betofortexas.com/
July 30, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing new rules on which businesses can get Florida investments, prohibiting those that take into account environmental, social, and governance factors, which is a common practice to screen a company's behaviors before investing in it. Critics agree DeSantis is simultaneously going after so-called "woke" businesses, while the state he should be governing faces numerous crises.
Florida St. Sen. Shevrin Jones joins The ReidOut, telling Joy Reid that Ron DeSantis has, "decided to take a scorched earth approach in his quest for power." - Aired on 07/29/2022.
DeSantis Is Anti-Big Business Only If That Business Doesn't Agree With Him Says Joy - The ReidOut
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing new rules on which businesses can get Florida investments, prohibiting those that take into account environmental, social, and governance factors, which is a common practice to screen a company's behaviors before investing in it. Critics agree DeSantis is simultaneously going after so-called "woke" businesses, while the state he should be governing faces numerous crises.
Florida St. Sen. Shevrin Jones joins The ReidOut, telling Joy Reid that Ron DeSantis has, "decided to take a scorched earth approach in his quest for power." - Aired on 07/29/2022.
July 30, 2022
GOP Senators celebrated blocking a critical veteran health care bill with a fist bump on the Senate floor on Wednesday. Activist Susan Zeier, mother-in-law of late veteran Heath Robinson, for whom the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act — or PACT Act — is named, joins The ReidOut.
The PACT Act would have expanded medical coverage for millions of combatants exposed to toxic burn pits during their service. Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, also joins Joy Reid to discuss. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
Watch: GOP Senators Slammed For Fist Bump After Blocking Vet Health Bill - The ReidOut - MSNBC
GOP Senators celebrated blocking a critical veteran health care bill with a fist bump on the Senate floor on Wednesday. Activist Susan Zeier, mother-in-law of late veteran Heath Robinson, for whom the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act — or PACT Act — is named, joins The ReidOut.
The PACT Act would have expanded medical coverage for millions of combatants exposed to toxic burn pits during their service. Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, also joins Joy Reid to discuss. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
July 30, 2022
Bill reacts to the top stories of the week, including Donald Trump's participation in a Saudi-backed golf tournament.
Chris Cuomo: Free Agent
Chris Cuomo joins Bill to discuss America's broken two-party political system.
Herschel Walker, Science Talker
Bill shares some of GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker's thought-provoking scientific theories from his new book, "Think About It."
New Rule: Let the Population Collapse
Instead of worrying about population decline, we should be celebrating it.
Overtime: John McWhorter, Sam Stein
Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show.
Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with journalist Chris Cuomo (6:27), entire panel discussion with John McWhorter and Sam Stein (21:09), Bill's "funny bit" (35:58), and includes the opening part of New Rules (47:06). It won't last long, as usual:
Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 7/29/22
Monologue: Trump's Arabian GolfBill reacts to the top stories of the week, including Donald Trump's participation in a Saudi-backed golf tournament.
Chris Cuomo: Free Agent
Chris Cuomo joins Bill to discuss America's broken two-party political system.
Herschel Walker, Science Talker
Bill shares some of GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker's thought-provoking scientific theories from his new book, "Think About It."
New Rule: Let the Population Collapse
Instead of worrying about population decline, we should be celebrating it.
Overtime: John McWhorter, Sam Stein
Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show.
Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with journalist Chris Cuomo (6:27), entire panel discussion with John McWhorter and Sam Stein (21:09), Bill's "funny bit" (35:58), and includes the opening part of New Rules (47:06). It won't last long, as usual:
July 30, 2022
Maya Wiley and Elie Mystal join Ari Melber on MSNBC's "The Beat" to discuss the evidence uncovered by the January 6th Committee and how DOJ is using it to move forward against the Trump administration. - Political Voices Network.
Maya Wiley & Elie Mystal: The Noose is Tightening on Trump. There is a New Urgency with DOJ
Maya Wiley and Elie Mystal join Ari Melber on MSNBC's "The Beat" to discuss the evidence uncovered by the January 6th Committee and how DOJ is using it to move forward against the Trump administration. - Political Voices Network.
July 30, 2022
Andrew Torba, C.E.O. of Gab, regularly spews vile, hateful ideas, suggesting that Jewish people are “evil” and that they should not be in positions of power. And he is being paid by the Republican Party's nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
GOP Candidate Doug Mastriano's Ties To Antisemitic Site And Its Founder - All In - MSNBC
Andrew Torba, C.E.O. of Gab, regularly spews vile, hateful ideas, suggesting that Jewish people are “evil” and that they should not be in positions of power. And he is being paid by the Republican Party's nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
July 30, 2022
Chris Hayes: “The internal Secret Service communications leading up to and during the Sixth are possibly the most revealing pieces of contemporaneous evidence you could ask for. But, of course, those text messages are gone.” - Aired on 07/29/2022.
Why Those Missing Secret Service Texts Could Be Key To The Jan. 6 Probe - All In - MSNBC
Chris Hayes: “The internal Secret Service communications leading up to and during the Sixth are possibly the most revealing pieces of contemporaneous evidence you could ask for. But, of course, those text messages are gone.” - Aired on 07/29/2022.
July 30, 2022
MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the evidence of actual, "criminal intent" by Trump and his aides, a requirement for any indictment and criminal trial, and documents eight different plots to overturn the 2020 election for this MSNBC Special Report. "Inside Trump's Election Plot."
The original special, broadcast after the conclusion of the Congressional hearings into Jan. 6, draws on government evidence, testimony, primary documents, independent reporting, and some of Melber's own newsmaking interviews with participants, subjects and one indicted White House aide, Peter Navarro, to show how the effort to overturn the election reflected an attempted conspiracy over several months -- and not only the narrower set of events surrounding January 6, 2021. The distinction could prove pivotal to any criminal conspiracy case against the exposed election plots. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
(This is the second excerpt from the Special Report; a first excerpt of the report is also available online.)
A Trump Coup Nightmare: Prosecutors Probe Full Conspiracy, Not Just Jan. 6 - MSNBC - Part 2
MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the evidence of actual, "criminal intent" by Trump and his aides, a requirement for any indictment and criminal trial, and documents eight different plots to overturn the 2020 election for this MSNBC Special Report. "Inside Trump's Election Plot."
The original special, broadcast after the conclusion of the Congressional hearings into Jan. 6, draws on government evidence, testimony, primary documents, independent reporting, and some of Melber's own newsmaking interviews with participants, subjects and one indicted White House aide, Peter Navarro, to show how the effort to overturn the election reflected an attempted conspiracy over several months -- and not only the narrower set of events surrounding January 6, 2021. The distinction could prove pivotal to any criminal conspiracy case against the exposed election plots. - Aired on 07/29/2022.
(This is the second excerpt from the Special Report; a first excerpt of the report is also available online.)
July 30, 2022
There has been an explosion of headlines in recent days announcing that the Department of Justice is criminally investigating Donald Trump. Specifically, Washington Post investigative journalist Carol Leonnig has reported some of the precise questions federal prosecutors have been asking witnesses in the grand jury about the statements, conduct and behavior of Donald Trump. But a debate has arisen about whether the DOJ has or has not "opened a grand jury investigation on Donald Trump." That question is more semantics than substance.
This video is an explainer of the two most common ways prosecutors open or initiate grand jury investigation and the difference between the two. - Glenn Kirschner - 07/29/2022.
Is a federal grand jury criminally investigating Trump? An explainer of how grand juries work
There has been an explosion of headlines in recent days announcing that the Department of Justice is criminally investigating Donald Trump. Specifically, Washington Post investigative journalist Carol Leonnig has reported some of the precise questions federal prosecutors have been asking witnesses in the grand jury about the statements, conduct and behavior of Donald Trump. But a debate has arisen about whether the DOJ has or has not "opened a grand jury investigation on Donald Trump." That question is more semantics than substance.
This video is an explainer of the two most common ways prosecutors open or initiate grand jury investigation and the difference between the two. - Glenn Kirschner - 07/29/2022.
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