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September 3, 2022
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
After a season of bites, panicked beaches, and annoyed researchers, it’s clear sharks are back in New York. We’re not ready for what that means.
BY RUSSELL JACOBS
SEPT 01, 20225:45 AM
(Slate) About 10 years ago, I saw a shark leap out of the water from somewhere near Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens. I had come out with friends to swim on a hot weekend day and just happened to be gazing out at the right moment. The shark breached, was airborne for a single second, and then landed with an inaudible splash about a mile from shore.
When I told my compatriots, none of them believed me. “Perhaps,” one suggested, “you saw a dolphin?”
Why was it so hard to believe that there might be a shark in the Atlantic Ocean? Don’t they live there? Sure, my friends said—everybody knows that there are sharks in the ocean. But I definitely hadn’t seen one jump out of the water in New York City.
That conversation would go differently now. This summer, the reality that New Yorkers share the ocean with an increasing number of sharks has broken through some kind of cognitive barrier. Several surfers and swimmers have been bitten nearby, ushering in a wave of local and semi-national shark stories. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that state agencies would be stepping up shark patrols by helicopter, boat, and drone, particularly along the south shore of Long Island, where all of the incidents occurred. Beaches in Rockaway, where I now live and work, were closed for swimming twice in July because of shark sightings from shore. (Surfers, who use un-lifeguarded beaches at their own risk, happily stayed in the water.)
According to fishermen, marine biologists, ocean lifeguards, and just about anyone else in a position to know anything about the matter, there are more sharks around than at any time in at least the past half-century. This is a big win, from a conservation perspective. Measures as broad as the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, both from 1972, and as specific as a 2019 state law banning commercial purse-seine boats from fishing for bunker in New York state waters, deserve enormous credit for restoring whale, dolphin, and shark populations along the coast of New York and nearby states. After the enormous pressures on them over the course of several centuries, sharks—even endangered ones—are finally recovering. ..............(more)
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/shark-attacks-new-york-east-coast-reasons-science-risk.html
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
After a season of bites, panicked beaches, and annoyed researchers, it’s clear sharks are back in New York. We’re not ready for what that means.
BY RUSSELL JACOBS
SEPT 01, 20225:45 AM
(Slate) About 10 years ago, I saw a shark leap out of the water from somewhere near Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens. I had come out with friends to swim on a hot weekend day and just happened to be gazing out at the right moment. The shark breached, was airborne for a single second, and then landed with an inaudible splash about a mile from shore.
When I told my compatriots, none of them believed me. “Perhaps,” one suggested, “you saw a dolphin?”
Why was it so hard to believe that there might be a shark in the Atlantic Ocean? Don’t they live there? Sure, my friends said—everybody knows that there are sharks in the ocean. But I definitely hadn’t seen one jump out of the water in New York City.
That conversation would go differently now. This summer, the reality that New Yorkers share the ocean with an increasing number of sharks has broken through some kind of cognitive barrier. Several surfers and swimmers have been bitten nearby, ushering in a wave of local and semi-national shark stories. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that state agencies would be stepping up shark patrols by helicopter, boat, and drone, particularly along the south shore of Long Island, where all of the incidents occurred. Beaches in Rockaway, where I now live and work, were closed for swimming twice in July because of shark sightings from shore. (Surfers, who use un-lifeguarded beaches at their own risk, happily stayed in the water.)
According to fishermen, marine biologists, ocean lifeguards, and just about anyone else in a position to know anything about the matter, there are more sharks around than at any time in at least the past half-century. This is a big win, from a conservation perspective. Measures as broad as the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, both from 1972, and as specific as a 2019 state law banning commercial purse-seine boats from fishing for bunker in New York state waters, deserve enormous credit for restoring whale, dolphin, and shark populations along the coast of New York and nearby states. After the enormous pressures on them over the course of several centuries, sharks—even endangered ones—are finally recovering. ..............(more)
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/shark-attacks-new-york-east-coast-reasons-science-risk.html
September 3, 2022
Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming
Trump and his lawyers keep making things worse, and he's now the DOJ's target: The irony is dark, but delicious
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Columnist
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2022 8:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) The last week in August is usually a sleepy time in America, news-wise. A gigantic blanket of heat settles over the country, driving everyone inside, or to beaches and lakeside retreats. Congress is in recess with the president typically vacationing somewhere that features refreshing breezes if not cool temperatures; cable news anchors have retreated to their second homes in the mountains or by the seaside; even newspapers tend to take the slow-news days to run culture features on trendsetters and hip designers who have set the looks everyone will be sporting in the fall.
But none of that holds true when the disrupter in chief is facing investigations in multiple states and by the federal government itself that could land him in criminal court, and maybe even in jail. The former president, who throughout the past week had his lawyers refer to him as "President Trump" and "the President" in legal papers filed on his behalf in Florida, is facing a lawsuit in New York that could disassemble and fine out of existence his business, the Trump Organization; an investigation by prosecutors in Georgia for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in that state (which he lost); and an investigation by the Department of Justice into his handling of official documents and national defense information that he spirited away to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House and then refused to return to the National Archives over a period of almost 18 months.
It's not a pretty picture for a man who would rather be on one of his golf courses than hiring new lawyers and holding Zoom meetings with them, especially when it became known this week, according to a report in Politico, "the Republican National Committee is not paying for Trump's legal fees related to the FBI's investigation and retrieval of documents at Mar-a-Lago."
It's not going to be cheap. The former president had four lawyers in a Florida courtroom on Thursday to argue his motion that a so-called special master should be appointed to go through the documents seized by the FBI in its search of Mar-a-Lago early in August. Trump had ordered his lawyers to file a motion requesting the outside arbiter to review the seized materials for documents that might fall under either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, the second of which is accorded to presidents while in office to protect their communications with top aides and other senior government officials. (It's unlikely to apply in this case, both because ex-presidents have limited recourse to executive privilege and because the FBI and the Justice Department are themselves part of the executive branch.) .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/03/and-consequences-after-an-amazing-series-of-unforced-errors-indictment-is-coming/
Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming
Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming
Trump and his lawyers keep making things worse, and he's now the DOJ's target: The irony is dark, but delicious
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Columnist
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2022 8:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) The last week in August is usually a sleepy time in America, news-wise. A gigantic blanket of heat settles over the country, driving everyone inside, or to beaches and lakeside retreats. Congress is in recess with the president typically vacationing somewhere that features refreshing breezes if not cool temperatures; cable news anchors have retreated to their second homes in the mountains or by the seaside; even newspapers tend to take the slow-news days to run culture features on trendsetters and hip designers who have set the looks everyone will be sporting in the fall.
But none of that holds true when the disrupter in chief is facing investigations in multiple states and by the federal government itself that could land him in criminal court, and maybe even in jail. The former president, who throughout the past week had his lawyers refer to him as "President Trump" and "the President" in legal papers filed on his behalf in Florida, is facing a lawsuit in New York that could disassemble and fine out of existence his business, the Trump Organization; an investigation by prosecutors in Georgia for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in that state (which he lost); and an investigation by the Department of Justice into his handling of official documents and national defense information that he spirited away to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House and then refused to return to the National Archives over a period of almost 18 months.
It's not a pretty picture for a man who would rather be on one of his golf courses than hiring new lawyers and holding Zoom meetings with them, especially when it became known this week, according to a report in Politico, "the Republican National Committee is not paying for Trump's legal fees related to the FBI's investigation and retrieval of documents at Mar-a-Lago."
It's not going to be cheap. The former president had four lawyers in a Florida courtroom on Thursday to argue his motion that a so-called special master should be appointed to go through the documents seized by the FBI in its search of Mar-a-Lago early in August. Trump had ordered his lawyers to file a motion requesting the outside arbiter to review the seized materials for documents that might fall under either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, the second of which is accorded to presidents while in office to protect their communications with top aides and other senior government officials. (It's unlikely to apply in this case, both because ex-presidents have limited recourse to executive privilege and because the FBI and the Justice Department are themselves part of the executive branch.) .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/03/and-consequences-after-an-amazing-series-of-unforced-errors-indictment-is-coming/
September 2, 2022
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
After a season of bites, panicked beaches, and annoyed researchers, it’s clear sharks are back in New York. We’re not ready for what that means.
BY RUSSELL JACOBS
SEPT 01, 20225:45 AM
(Slate) About 10 years ago, I saw a shark leap out of the water from somewhere near Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens. I had come out with friends to swim on a hot weekend day and just happened to be gazing out at the right moment. The shark breached, was airborne for a single second, and then landed with an inaudible splash about a mile from shore.
When I told my compatriots, none of them believed me. “Perhaps,” one suggested, “you saw a dolphin?”
Why was it so hard to believe that there might be a shark in the Atlantic Ocean? Don’t they live there? Sure, my friends said—everybody knows that there are sharks in the ocean. But I definitely hadn’t seen one jump out of the water in New York City.
That conversation would go differently now. This summer, the reality that New Yorkers share the ocean with an increasing number of sharks has broken through some kind of cognitive barrier. Several surfers and swimmers have been bitten nearby, ushering in a wave of local and semi-national shark stories. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that state agencies would be stepping up shark patrols by helicopter, boat, and drone, particularly along the south shore of Long Island, where all of the incidents occurred. Beaches in Rockaway, where I now live and work, were closed for swimming twice in July because of shark sightings from shore. (Surfers, who use un-lifeguarded beaches at their own risk, happily stayed in the water.)
According to fishermen, marine biologists, ocean lifeguards, and just about anyone else in a position to know anything about the matter, there are more sharks around than at any time in at least the past half-century. This is a big win, from a conservation perspective. Measures as broad as the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, both from 1972, and as specific as a 2019 state law banning commercial purse-seine boats from fishing for bunker in New York state waters, deserve enormous credit for restoring whale, dolphin, and shark populations along the coast of New York and nearby states. After the enormous pressures on them over the course of several centuries, sharks—even endangered ones—are finally recovering. ..............(more)
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/shark-attacks-new-york-east-coast-reasons-science-risk.html
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks
After a season of bites, panicked beaches, and annoyed researchers, it’s clear sharks are back in New York. We’re not ready for what that means.
BY RUSSELL JACOBS
SEPT 01, 20225:45 AM
(Slate) About 10 years ago, I saw a shark leap out of the water from somewhere near Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens. I had come out with friends to swim on a hot weekend day and just happened to be gazing out at the right moment. The shark breached, was airborne for a single second, and then landed with an inaudible splash about a mile from shore.
When I told my compatriots, none of them believed me. “Perhaps,” one suggested, “you saw a dolphin?”
Why was it so hard to believe that there might be a shark in the Atlantic Ocean? Don’t they live there? Sure, my friends said—everybody knows that there are sharks in the ocean. But I definitely hadn’t seen one jump out of the water in New York City.
That conversation would go differently now. This summer, the reality that New Yorkers share the ocean with an increasing number of sharks has broken through some kind of cognitive barrier. Several surfers and swimmers have been bitten nearby, ushering in a wave of local and semi-national shark stories. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that state agencies would be stepping up shark patrols by helicopter, boat, and drone, particularly along the south shore of Long Island, where all of the incidents occurred. Beaches in Rockaway, where I now live and work, were closed for swimming twice in July because of shark sightings from shore. (Surfers, who use un-lifeguarded beaches at their own risk, happily stayed in the water.)
According to fishermen, marine biologists, ocean lifeguards, and just about anyone else in a position to know anything about the matter, there are more sharks around than at any time in at least the past half-century. This is a big win, from a conservation perspective. Measures as broad as the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, both from 1972, and as specific as a 2019 state law banning commercial purse-seine boats from fishing for bunker in New York state waters, deserve enormous credit for restoring whale, dolphin, and shark populations along the coast of New York and nearby states. After the enormous pressures on them over the course of several centuries, sharks—even endangered ones—are finally recovering. ..............(more)
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/shark-attacks-new-york-east-coast-reasons-science-risk.html
September 2, 2022
‘A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members
The rightwing group’s workings resemble a media production company more than a classic neo-Nazi group, researchers say
Mackenzie Ryan
Fri 2 Sep 2022 06.00 EDT
(Guardian UK) In June, police in Idaho arrested 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front packed into the back of a U-Haul near a Coeur d’Alene Pride event. The group had planned to riot during the LGBTQ+ celebrations, authorities said, and carried riot gear, a smoke grenade, shin guards and shields.
The mass arrest not only revealed the names of members of an extremist group that had long worked to keep those hidden, it provided extremist experts with new insight into how the group is meticulously planning, financing, organizing and publicizing armed demonstrations at public events that celebrate diversity.
Patriot Front’s fundraising and mobilizing efforts, those experts say, reveal a corporate-style organization that more resembles a media production company with satellite offices than a classic neo-Nazi group.
“No other white supremacist group operating in the US today is able to match Patriot Front’s ability to produce media, ability to mobilize across the country, and ability to finance,” says Morgan Moon, investigative researcher with the ADL Center on Extremism. “That’s what makes them a particular concern.”
....(snip)....
In the 18 months after the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, many anti-government extremist groups, like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and Three Percenters, have lain low. But Patriot Front has geared up. The group has made unpermitted demonstrations its “bread and butter”, says Moon, making sure each event is heavily publicized on social media.
Since last December, the group has organized five such flash demonstrations. Two of them – the event in Idaho and a contentious march along Boston’s Freedom Trail on the Fourth of July holiday – resulted in national media attention. ...........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/patriot-front-recruits-members-young-pyramid-scheme
'A white nationalist pyramid scheme': how Patriot Front recruits young members
‘A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members
The rightwing group’s workings resemble a media production company more than a classic neo-Nazi group, researchers say
Mackenzie Ryan
Fri 2 Sep 2022 06.00 EDT
(Guardian UK) In June, police in Idaho arrested 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front packed into the back of a U-Haul near a Coeur d’Alene Pride event. The group had planned to riot during the LGBTQ+ celebrations, authorities said, and carried riot gear, a smoke grenade, shin guards and shields.
The mass arrest not only revealed the names of members of an extremist group that had long worked to keep those hidden, it provided extremist experts with new insight into how the group is meticulously planning, financing, organizing and publicizing armed demonstrations at public events that celebrate diversity.
Patriot Front’s fundraising and mobilizing efforts, those experts say, reveal a corporate-style organization that more resembles a media production company with satellite offices than a classic neo-Nazi group.
“No other white supremacist group operating in the US today is able to match Patriot Front’s ability to produce media, ability to mobilize across the country, and ability to finance,” says Morgan Moon, investigative researcher with the ADL Center on Extremism. “That’s what makes them a particular concern.”
....(snip)....
In the 18 months after the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, many anti-government extremist groups, like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and Three Percenters, have lain low. But Patriot Front has geared up. The group has made unpermitted demonstrations its “bread and butter”, says Moon, making sure each event is heavily publicized on social media.
Since last December, the group has organized five such flash demonstrations. Two of them – the event in Idaho and a contentious march along Boston’s Freedom Trail on the Fourth of July holiday – resulted in national media attention. ...........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/patriot-front-recruits-members-young-pyramid-scheme
September 2, 2022
(Salon) In April 2021, inside a high-rise building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a meeting of the Broward County School Board came to an abrupt standstill when then-superintendent Robert Runcie announced he would resign. A decade earlier, Runcie had become the first permanent Black superintendent ever hired in the district, the sixth-largest in the nation, with around 260,000 students and 330 campuses. A program he helped launch in 2013, to address the "school-to-prison pipeline," was hailed as a national model and possible inspiration for federal guidance released the following year by Barack Obama's administration.
But after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, long viewed as one of the most desirable schools in Broward, Runcie's program became a focus of local grief and a target of conservative attacks. When Republican Ron DeSantis was elected governor, he promptly called for a grand jury to investigate whether school policies had enabled the tragedy, ultimately leading to Runcie's arrest for alleged perjury in April 2021 and then, last week, the removal of all remaining Broward school board members who had supported him.
Depending where one stood, the investigation was either an effort to get to the bottom of safety failures that had enabled the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre, or a ploy to scapegoat progressive education reforms and deflect from the total lack of action against U.S. gun violence.
Over the years since the shooting, that question had become entrenched in bitter local divisions that often broke along political and racial lines. Many (though not all) of those cheering Runcie's arrest were white suburban conservatives who said his policies allowed "known criminals" to remain in public schools, endangering other students. Many (though not all) of those who denounced it were liberals, including much of Broward's Black community, who saw the accusations and the grand jury as the definition of a "political hit job." .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/02/ron-desantis-school-board-coup-critics-say-he-hijacked-parkland-grief/
Ron DeSantis' school board coup: Critics say he "hijacked" Parkland grief
(Salon) In April 2021, inside a high-rise building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a meeting of the Broward County School Board came to an abrupt standstill when then-superintendent Robert Runcie announced he would resign. A decade earlier, Runcie had become the first permanent Black superintendent ever hired in the district, the sixth-largest in the nation, with around 260,000 students and 330 campuses. A program he helped launch in 2013, to address the "school-to-prison pipeline," was hailed as a national model and possible inspiration for federal guidance released the following year by Barack Obama's administration.
But after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, long viewed as one of the most desirable schools in Broward, Runcie's program became a focus of local grief and a target of conservative attacks. When Republican Ron DeSantis was elected governor, he promptly called for a grand jury to investigate whether school policies had enabled the tragedy, ultimately leading to Runcie's arrest for alleged perjury in April 2021 and then, last week, the removal of all remaining Broward school board members who had supported him.
Depending where one stood, the investigation was either an effort to get to the bottom of safety failures that had enabled the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre, or a ploy to scapegoat progressive education reforms and deflect from the total lack of action against U.S. gun violence.
Over the years since the shooting, that question had become entrenched in bitter local divisions that often broke along political and racial lines. Many (though not all) of those cheering Runcie's arrest were white suburban conservatives who said his policies allowed "known criminals" to remain in public schools, endangering other students. Many (though not all) of those who denounced it were liberals, including much of Broward's Black community, who saw the accusations and the grand jury as the definition of a "political hit job." .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/02/ron-desantis-school-board-coup-critics-say-he-hijacked-parkland-grief/
September 2, 2022
Joe gets it. Dems need to hammer the "Save Democracy" message this fall .....
.... it's visceral and relatable to everyone whose brain hasn't been reduced to MAGA goo.
September 1, 2022
(Detroit Metro Times) The Michigan Board of Canvassers on Wednesday deadlocked on certifying a ballot initiative to protect abortion rights.
The bone of contention? The space between the words on the amendment.
Republican Canvassers Tony Daunt and Richard Houskamp rejected the abortion rights initiative because of typographical errors, saying the amendment lacked sufficient space between some of the words. ...............(more)
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/michigan-gop-canvassers-block-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative-citing-spacing-between-words-30963127
Michigan GOP canvassers block abortion rights ballot initiative, citing spacing between words
(Detroit Metro Times) The Michigan Board of Canvassers on Wednesday deadlocked on certifying a ballot initiative to protect abortion rights.
The bone of contention? The space between the words on the amendment.
Republican Canvassers Tony Daunt and Richard Houskamp rejected the abortion rights initiative because of typographical errors, saying the amendment lacked sufficient space between some of the words. ...............(more)
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/michigan-gop-canvassers-block-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative-citing-spacing-between-words-30963127
September 1, 2022
Sarah, we'll miss ya. .... Well not really, but I've got to share one of your classics:
September 1, 2022
A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin
If Democrats can win after all, Trump is toast and the current GOP is finished. But what comes after that?
By BRIAN KAREM
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 6:30AM
....(snip)....
Trump followers, who've evidently studied the Beer Hall Putsch, believe the Trumplican party will be victorious and consume its enemies in hellfire, congressional hearings and a never-ending belittlement on conservative media. Some Republicans with gavel envy and a lust for power are reportedly looking at swatches for their new offices.
They preach civil war and destruction should they not prevail, or if Trump is denied a return to his golden throne. They say those things even as they drive their SUVs less than a mile to go grocery shopping, visit their doctors and hit the drive-through for their favorite cholesterol burger and then a convenience store for smokes and liquor.
No one's going to risk a real civil war while those things are readily available — not for a period of time longer than it takes to march to the Capitol and get arrested.
A recent NBC poll reports that "persuadable" voters — which means registered voters who are not core Democrats or Republicans — are "breaking toward the party controlling the White House and Congress," which would be the Democrats.
The Hill recently published an opinion piece that said the GOP's embrace of extremism has dimmed its midterm hopes. Perpetual Republican cheerleader Anne Coulter just announced the political demise of Donald Trump, using the words millions have already mouthed: "Trump is done."
Maybe she's right. Of course, we've heard all this before and that's part of the problem. When it comes to Trump, there's nothing new. It's just reruns and Trump's ratings are wearing thin. People are sick and tired of his pre-pubescent drama. ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/01/a-storm-is-coming-it-might-sweep-and-the-into-historys-dustbin/
A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin
A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin
If Democrats can win after all, Trump is toast and the current GOP is finished. But what comes after that?
By BRIAN KAREM
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 6:30AM
....(snip)....
Trump followers, who've evidently studied the Beer Hall Putsch, believe the Trumplican party will be victorious and consume its enemies in hellfire, congressional hearings and a never-ending belittlement on conservative media. Some Republicans with gavel envy and a lust for power are reportedly looking at swatches for their new offices.
They preach civil war and destruction should they not prevail, or if Trump is denied a return to his golden throne. They say those things even as they drive their SUVs less than a mile to go grocery shopping, visit their doctors and hit the drive-through for their favorite cholesterol burger and then a convenience store for smokes and liquor.
No one's going to risk a real civil war while those things are readily available — not for a period of time longer than it takes to march to the Capitol and get arrested.
A recent NBC poll reports that "persuadable" voters — which means registered voters who are not core Democrats or Republicans — are "breaking toward the party controlling the White House and Congress," which would be the Democrats.
The Hill recently published an opinion piece that said the GOP's embrace of extremism has dimmed its midterm hopes. Perpetual Republican cheerleader Anne Coulter just announced the political demise of Donald Trump, using the words millions have already mouthed: "Trump is done."
Maybe she's right. Of course, we've heard all this before and that's part of the problem. When it comes to Trump, there's nothing new. It's just reruns and Trump's ratings are wearing thin. People are sick and tired of his pre-pubescent drama. ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/01/a-storm-is-coming-it-might-sweep-and-the-into-historys-dustbin/
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