July 26, 2013 - Pensito

An Underhanded Approach

July 26, 2013 Buck Banks

It must be true — it was said by a pundit:
The Republicans are out to confound it.
That old Obamacare
Has got ’em running scared —
They can’t defeat it, so they’ll try to unfund it.

Obama Suffers Unusual Drop in Approval Rating

July 26, 2013 Buck Banks

20

Number of approval rating points President Obama has lost between mid-January 2009 and mid-July 2013. “The traditional pattern for a two-term president has been to lose 18.1 points between his first weeks in office and the summer of his second term,” notes Amy Walter at the Cook Political Report.

In Manning Trial, Army Casts Journalists as ‘the Enemy’

July 26, 2013 Buck Banks

Pfc. Manning was not a humanist; he was a hacker. He was not a whistle-blower. He was a traitor, a traitor who understood the value of compromised information in the hands of the enemy and took deliberate steps to ensure that they, along with the world, received it.

— Pfc. Bradley Manning’s military prosecutor, Capt. Ashden Fein, in his closing arguments in the Bradley Manning court martial, characterizing the recipients of the leaked NSA material — journalists — as “the enemy.”

Day: July 26, 2013

An Underhanded Approach

Obama Suffers Unusual Drop in Approval Rating

20

In Manning Trial, Army Casts Journalists as ‘the Enemy’

Pfc. Manning was not a humanist; he was a hacker. He was not a whistle-blower. He was a traitor, a traitor who understood the value of compromised information in the hands of the enemy and took deliberate steps to ensure that they, along with the world, received it.

— Pfc. Bradley Manning’s military prosecutor, Capt. Ashden Fein, in his closing arguments in the Bradley Manning court martial, characterizing the recipients of the leaked NSA material — journalists — as “the enemy.”

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

50%

38%

31%