Update:
Well, that’s not good pic.twitter.com/0ydfUUvgs8
— Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) September 23, 2020
This is a red flag to those agencies that should now be contingency planning on the scenario where a peaceful transition of power is not followed. It doesn’t get clearer than this. https://t.co/T7jjfDxged
— Mikey Kay (@MikeyKayNYC) September 24, 2020
When Trump refuses to concede, the cascading effects could break our fragile transition of power. My new cover story in @TheAtlantic. https://t.co/l98m2QRszn
— Barton Gellman (@bartongellman) September 23, 2020
1. My theory of DT is he's an amoral opportunist with authoritarian tendencies, who pushes everything as far as he can. When he says he might not accept the election result he's testing the ground.
— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) September 24, 2020
https://t.co/Hjs12ITnrF
As I've said before, fully possible he means to hold on at any cost, will rally militias, split the military, lawsuits go to the stacked Court… but at least as likely he wants to have something to bargain away in exchange for post-presidential immunity. https://t.co/3AUo2zCBXh
— Richard Kreitner (@RichardKreitner) September 23, 2020
President Trump said he wanted to confirm a Supreme Court justice before the election because he expected the court would resolve disputed results. https://t.co/8B7QMTixTE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 23, 2020
The president suggested he would not transfer power peacefully unless mail-in votes are removed from the process. https://t.co/RHK5vw3j8d
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) September 24, 2020
My new one @Slate: I’ve Never Been More Worried About American Democracy Than I Am Right Now; The pre-emptive attack on the vote count is a five-alarm fire.
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) September 23, 2020
. https://t.co/LvZ5lWWAlG via @slate
It will never not be insane and devastating that 40+ percent of Americans are totally cool with junking democracy.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 24, 2020
In the debate next week, @JoeBiden should pledge unequivocally that he will recognize the result of a free and fair election and then challenge @realDonaldTrump to do the same. Ten of millions of Americans deserve to hear his answer. https://t.co/gHfMVuYFRR
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) September 24, 2020
Earlier: Government ridiculed over ‘Kexit’ but at least no-one’s talking about a second wave
Fandango over need for “permit” to drive to Kent after brexit via @FT but as one insider tells me, it’s an empty vessel of a system…/1
— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) September 23, 2020
https://t.co/UlqZENXPmm
2020 just keeps delivering.
— Slough for Europe 🇪🇺🎪 (@SloughForEU) September 23, 2020
Here's Michael Gove explaining how commercial vehicles will need paperwork to enter the country of Kent… An internal border. There'll queues at Sevenoaks & they can say that they succeeded by not having queues at Dover.
Put that on the side of a bus. pic.twitter.com/636jjCuPAZ
So, a lorry driver approaching Dover will need a travel pass to get through Kent. The pass will be issued by the SMS, smart Freight system, which is still being tested apparently. No pass, head for the nearest toilet free lorry park.https://t.co/pM1Y3Pl6Gn
— Ian collins (@Iancoll94354676) September 23, 2020
Just imagine if anyone had suggested in 2016 we would end up with legal recognition for Kent border, with police powers of coercion to enforce it in respect of trade, Brexiters would have *howled*
— david allen green (@davidallengreen) September 23, 2020
But on a rainy Wednesday afternoon that is what the government has just announced
Little did they know they were voting to leave the UK too… https://t.co/6wZTUv65eZ
— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) September 23, 2020
Thanks to Brexit, we can finally keep those bastards from Kent out of Great Britain! Remember the people of Kent are economic migrants and only want to cross the border to steal our benefits and impose their way of life on us. It's time to take back control. #Kexit
— Boris Johnson #StayAlertControlTheVirus ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ (@GetBrexit_Done) September 23, 2020
It's interesting seeing the strong reaction today about the `internal border' in Kent due to Brexit. This has actually been the government's publicly stated plan for months 👇 https://t.co/24jDUbpfrq
— Joe Mayes (@Joe_Mayes) September 23, 2020
I can’t help thinking the Internal Markets Bill, talk of a “border” in Kent is all cover for the very Theresa May-like Brexit deal Boris will sign, say, at the end of October
— Steve Hawkes (@steve_hawkes) September 23, 2020
Brextremist Tory dinosaur Sir Edward Leigh-Gammon MP is heartbroken today. He has been dreaming of sending ‘our boys’ to seize back Calais – or die in the process. The loss of Tunbridge Wells to the French without a shot being fired has come as a terrible blow to morale. pic.twitter.com/Ax7uyQIxuR
— Brexit Buster (@BrexitBuster) September 23, 2020
Has anyone seen Prince Michael of #Kent to tell him of his impending new and improved role?
— Mary Aspinall-Miles (@MAM12CP) September 23, 2020
Defender of the borders against marauding HGVs without the right paperwork : pic.twitter.com/3OpHBqLEtm
Goodnight to everyone who is brave enough to admit that they didn’t know what they were voting for, that they were lied to by self-interested wankers, and that the whole thing is a colossal jizz and dogshit smoothie that we’ll all be gagging down for decades to come.
— 🏳️🌈 Max 🏳️🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) September 23, 2020
If Brexit results in a border in England and no border in Ireland, I may never stop laughing
— Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) September 23, 2020
Meanwhile…
BREAKING: JPMorgan is moving about 200 billion euros ($230 billion) from the U.K. to Frankfurt as a result of Brexit, a shift that will make it one of the largest banks in Germany https://t.co/2oeD3tH3iP
— Bloomberg Brexit (@Brexit) September 23, 2020
Scoop 🚨
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) September 23, 2020
Rishi Sunak is drawing up plans for new programme to subsidise workers’ wages as pressure mounts to avert mass unemployment when the £39bn furlough scheme ends in October.
by @GeorgeWParker @ChrisGiles_ and me
this time with link that works https://t.co/UfF40vwlvU
Chancellor must listen. New restrictions put extra pressure on #creativeindustries + theatre, music venues, comedy clubs looking at a bleak few months. We must #extendfurlough for those unable to get back to work. https://t.co/sqPLf0b9p9
— Tracy Brabin MP 🌹 (@TracyBrabin) September 23, 2020
Finally…
This is huge & ethically enormously challenging. Accelerating progress to a vaccine but in the absence of antiviral therapy finds me falling on the side of “unethical”. 🤞things go well! UK to test vaccines on volunteers deliberately infected with Covid-19 https://t.co/ie9Y5EdD8c
— Alan Parker (@alanlparker) September 23, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
Income earned from work worldwide dropped by an estimated 10.7%, or $3.5 trillion, in the first nine months of 2020, compared to the same period a year ago, the U.N.’s International Labour Organization said https://t.co/a0MSa3jegW pic.twitter.com/kDddUzgckt
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
#COVID19 pandemic: countries urged to take stronger action to stop spread of harmful information: https://t.co/zu2xNMBGGZ#UNGA pic.twitter.com/fr05IlCPXD
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) September 23, 2020
"If our voices can give strength to people, then that’s what we want and that’s what we’ll keep on doing."
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) September 23, 2020
@BTS_twt’s heartfelt message to young people at #UNGA. From feeling alone to feeling hopeless, they shared their struggles during COVID-19 to remind us what binds us. pic.twitter.com/SuD4Rm6ABa
.@SecPompeo wanted to get support at UNGA for his prioritization of religious rights & property rights, but European diplomats didn’t want to back him. Officials fear Pompeo wants to erode support for LGBTQI rights & reproductive rights. By @pranshuverma_. https://t.co/GNN0IbEOZN
— Edward Wong (@ewong) September 23, 2020
The Mideast is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. And generally for the better. https://t.co/LGbyqdRK7Y
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) September 23, 2020
New report on a unique habit of Benjamin Netanyahu –> When he travels to the U.S. on diplomatic trips, he often brings bags & suitcases full of dirty laundry for his U.S. hosts to clean, said U.S. officials. It has caused much eye-rolling at Blair House https://t.co/uKbVWHGqiM
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) September 23, 2020
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ELSEWHERE IN THE IDIOCRACY THAT IS TRUMPWORLD
A grand jury indicted a former Louisville police officer on charges of endangering neighbors with reckless gunfire during a raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment. But no one was charged for shooting Taylor in her home. https://t.co/35TaXAWTet
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 23, 2020
Nobody will stand trial in the death of Breonna Taylor because that's the way things work in the world created by our misbegotten "war" on drugs, a world in which very few of us live, and that even fewer of us understand. https://t.co/BeZXli74Qd
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 23, 2020
Breonna Taylor should be alive today.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 23, 2020
This decision is a disgrace.
We need accountability for the officers who killed Breonna. And we need to fundamentally remake a criminal justice system that endangers Black lives with impunity. https://t.co/RDScRCNB9O
Civil unrest in Louisville intensifies hours after Breonna Taylor grand jury decision https://t.co/Y28yjauJuD pic.twitter.com/TZIB1q5R8c
— New York Post (@nypost) September 23, 2020
If these “militia” members were black, they would already be either dead or in jail, and every American knows this is true. https://t.co/oxI0rYRdra
— Indivisible (@AmerIndivis) September 23, 2020
Meanwhile…
Trump allies weigh which Supreme Court pick would help him win the election https://t.co/JoZMLA67sF
— TIME (@TIME) September 23, 2020
I wonder what John Roberts thinks of when he sees stuff like this. https://t.co/P6RTNlJW07
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 23, 2020
Trump leaves for the "emergency phone call" while a reporter tries to ask about Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Matter: pic.twitter.com/lLcAB2ZU9i
— The Recount (@therecount) September 23, 2020
The standard WH spin is to disparage critics as “disgruntled” ex-employees.
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 23, 2020
The implication is that all have some dark, mysterious motive for disparaging Trump. Maybe they all have fee disputes at Trump golf clubs?
There is a simpler explanation…. https://t.co/cXzA2cs3fo
He spends all his time with Jared and he thinks this?? Seems like it says more about Jared.
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 23, 2020
Trump said Jews are ‘only in it for themselves’ and suggested they weren’t loyal to America: White House officialshttps://t.co/n2KtWEkXAo
NEW: Dem lawmakers say Fed COVID-19 response program enriched investors as workers were fired https://t.co/lK97msAwCR pic.twitter.com/qjVwQxZEKf
— The Hill (@thehill) September 23, 2020
JUST IN: Over $6 million in Homeland Security contracts awarded to firm of acting Secretary Chad Wolf's wife: report https://t.co/Gdfg5mucql pic.twitter.com/2WyyWSR4Qa
— The Hill (@thehill) September 23, 2020
JUST IN: Trump has nominated NSC advisor and former NUNES aide Allen Souza as the new inspector general of the intelligence community >>> pic.twitter.com/fkwdxf8UlS
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 23, 2020
Dr. Birx has told people around her that she is "distressed" with the direction of the task force, describing the situation as nightmarish and adding she is not certain how much longer she can serve in her position via @acosta https://t.co/FeWc1c3XDv
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 23, 2020
Wow. Indiana Gov. Holcomb nearly fully reopening, including sporting events and large gatherings. Will large gatherings require distancing? https://t.co/hTrtKKNyAm via @indystar
— Avik Roy (@Avik) September 23, 2020
Congress is poised to leave town until after the election without passing a coronavirus stimulus https://t.co/deFM9mVVpd pic.twitter.com/A37dGfdE1E
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 23, 2020
He should probably finish it off himself, I don’t think Tricky Dicky will want it now https://t.co/hqtpEqKNvw
— Dli O'Doir (@dli_odoir) September 23, 2020
A child in a Supergirl costume salutes iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of equality and women's rights, who is lying in repose at the Supreme Court. https://t.co/ymHxQgBKs8 pic.twitter.com/1MaSQiiqxq
— ABC News (@ABC) September 23, 2020
Finally…
Sir Harold Evans, trail-blazing newspaper editor, dies aged 92 https://t.co/m3Gu2txHew
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 24, 2020
Sunday Times was a serious paper when Harry Evans edited it. https://t.co/kJQLruEgmY
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) September 24, 2020