NEW: White House announces “Building a Better America” campaign to tout passage of climate/health bill, CHIPS Act, gun control/mental health bill, infrastructure bill. @POTUS to visit Ohio and PA soon, Cabinet & VP also planning 35 trips to 23 states.

Goal: “make clear that the President and Congressional Democrats beat the special interests and delivered what was best for the American people. Every step of the way, Congressional Republicans sided with the special interests — pushing an extreme MAGA agenda that costs families”

Kari Lake says Desantis has ‘BDE,’ (Big Dick Energy), the same kind of BDE that Trump has. “He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have.”

A former NBA player from Detroit is reportedly among those under consideration to be Tudor Dixon's running mate

The Detroit News says the Republican candidate for governor is looking at Willie Burton, who played high school at Detroit St. Martin De Porres and college at the University of Minnesota. Other names mentioned include former Detroit Pistons player Vinnie Johnson and ex-Congressman Mike Bishop. (Credit: Bill Pugliano/ Getty)

https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/wwj-on-demand-45729/a-former-nba-player-from-detroit-is-reportedly-among-those-under-consideration-to-be-tudor-dixons-running-mate-1519779243

Willie Ricardo Burton (born May 26, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Miami Heat in the first round (9th overall pick) in the 1990 NBA draft from the University of Minnesota. Burton played for numerous NBA teams as a journeyman from 1990 to 1999. He also played in Europe for several seasons.

He was born in Detroit where he attended high school at St. Martin De Porres. Willie has three children with Carla Burton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Burton

Trump's Fox News interview inside Lincoln Memorial: Scratches + gouges left in marble floor. Nearly $150,000 spent on Park Service security. Secret Service official apologized to colleagues for “$#!t show” planning process. Records obtained by @jocwapo:

Documents show how Trump landed Lincoln Memorial for Fox News event

Trump’s 2020 ‘town hall’ was held inside the memorial, an area where events have long been barred by federal regulations

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By the next morning, the virtual “town hall” was no longer to be held at the base, the documents show. Trump’s two-hour sit-down with Fox News anchors would take place inside the memorial’s main chamber, on the landing in the shadow of the marble statue of a seated Lincoln. With the exception of an annual birthday tribute to Lincoln, federal regulations bar events from being held in that area.

The email is among hundreds of pages of newly released government documents that help fill in the picture of how officials from multiple government agencies worked to engineer the event at the Lincoln, one of the many norm-defying moments of the Trump presidency. They show that the Park Service provided security personnel at a cost of nearly $150,000 and that a Secret Service official apologized to colleagues for the planning process, calling it a “$#!t show.”

After the event, officials noted that the memorial itself — then 98 years old — had sustained scratches and gouges in its pink marble floor, according to a final memorandum.

In the end, the Trump-appointed interior secretary, David Bernhardt, relaxed the rules by finding that the venue was appropriate, given the president’s need to communicate with the American people during a “grave time of national crisis.” That finding has been previously reported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/13/trump-lincoln-memorial-fox-town-hall/

16 year old me: Hey, 37 year old me, what is the future like?

Me: Well, I learned about the former president getting raided by the FBI from an internet cat talking to a rapper.

16 year old me: wait what

Today and every single day since June 24th, people have woken up without the right to choose. Women have woken up as second-class citizens.

Unacceptable. I cannot wait to be the 51st vote in the Senate that reinstates Roe as the law of the land.

No, I’m gonna be the 51st vote and you’re the 52nd vote to codify Roe! 😆

Last time I checked, for Senate roll call, Barnes came before Fetterman…

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Last night on Skye I had the joyful experience of walking alongside my fairy shadow in the mist! @neilhimself told me it’s a Brocken spectre - do google them they’re v cool! Skye, what a magical place I’m homesick already!

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite to a strong light source. Additionally if the cloud consists of water droplets backscattered a bright area called heiligenschein and halo-like rings of rainbow coloured light called a glory can be seen around the head or apperature silhouette of the spectre. Typically the spectre appears in sunlight opposite to the Sun's direction at the antisolar point.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or from an airplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre