Above Photo: Veteran, social worker and organizer, Dr. Daniel Lee speaking at a rally for affordable housing. (Dr. Daniel Lee For Congress CA-37). Culver City’s First Black Mayor, Daniel Lee, Wants To Make California The Bastion Of Progressive Politics Some Imagine It To Be. “There’s the California that people imagine, a place I would love to visit and maybe buy a house on one salary,” Mayor Daniel Lee, now running for Congress, says with a smile. “Then, there’s the actual California.” Back in 2018, when Lee was elected as Culver City’s first Black councilmember, he didn’t know about the city’s history as a “sundown town,” a reference to all-white areas […]
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How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. October 20, 2020 How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/biden-e1603234793201.png200px200px Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed. “Our troops are coming home. Serbia is talking to Kosovo. And the Arabs and Israelis are talking peace, which I believe is a modern-day miracle, what’s going on. Does President Trump’s foreign policy deserve some credit?” […]
NBC stirred plenty of controversy this week by granting Donald Trump his own town hall in the same time slot as Joe Biden’s broadcast—but the decision seems even more cynical than some critics alleged when you realize how much Saturday Night Live maestro Lorne Michaels and his merry band of comedians must have been drooling at the prospect. Saturday night’s cold open kicked off the show, predictably, with a re-enactment of this week’s dueling town halls. Viewers toggle between the two—“trying to decide,” in the show’s parlance, “between a Hallmark movie and an alien autopsy.” Plenty of familiar faces re-appeared: Jim […]
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The ratings are in, and it appears as if Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden’s Thursday night town hall attracted more viewers than that of US President Donald Trump, whose program was simulcast across three networks. Early Nielsen television ratings released on Friday revealed Biden attracted 13.9 million total viewers to his town hall on Thursday night, versus Trump’s 13.1 million, Bloomberg reported. While the former vice president’s event was only broadcast via ABC, Trump’s town hall could be viewed on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. An estimated 73.1 million viewers tuned into the September debate between Biden […]
Americans saw two men last night in the closing days of their respective pursuits of the highest office in the land, and their split-screen town halls clarified and catalyzed an understanding of this race in a way that their one debate so far did not. It was one more sign of a Trump campaign in total collapse; broke, broken, and unmoored. As Donald Trump was eviscerated by a smart and determined Savannah Guthrie, who put up with exactly zero bullshit from a subject who usually submerges interviewers under a tidal wave of bullshit, while Joe Biden connected with both his audience […]
Town Hall YouTube Ratings At the end of #Trump‘s town hall, the #NBC News YouTube channel showed 153,660 viewers were watching. #ABC News’s YouTube channel showed 507,445 viewers at the end of #Biden‘s town hall. AND, THE WINNER IS, BIDEN!!!#MOGhttps://t.co/md6MsdKtK8 — Michael O’Grady (@mog7546) October 16, 2020 Town hall YouTube views suggest Biden hit Trump where it hurts him most—ratings https://t.co/8PBy5ZDamQ — Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 16, 2020 Sean Hannity completely melts down after Donald Trump’s town hall is a disaster https://t.co/Fjkzm9uyFL via @PalmerReport — Jo-Jo (@jojog50) October 16, 2020 Maddow explains why Trump’s NBC town hall backfired on him: “Trump got […]
It was another balancing act for Joe Biden tonight, and if Donald Trump hadn’t killed our outrage receptors, many of us would probably find the confusion truly alarming. Even if you’re convinced that Biden is, by far, the lesser of two evils, it’s still worth taking a minute to stop to consider what we might be getting ourselves into with Biden and the Democrats. It ain’t pretty. Thursday night’s town halls were a stark contrast in style, with the ABC town hall being stylistically like Biden (slow and substantive), and Trump’s NBC event reminding me of him (flashy, interrupting, and entertaining). […]
Dealt dreadfully lousy cards—that is, widespread and justified criticism of NBCUniversal and its traumatized news division for hastily gifting Donald Trump an hour of free airtime at the same moment that Joe Biden was doing his previously scheduled town hall over on ABC—Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie did not fold. Quite the contrary, she managed to burnish her journalistic reputation, if not that of her employer, by repeatedly forcing the president to answer the sort of inconvenient questions he has easily evaded during countless press gaggles, phoned-in interviews, and his first and possibly final official debate against the frontrunning Democratic nominee. […]
President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In a unique political […]
Donald Trump refused to denounce the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory at his town hall on Thursday, instead praising the dangerous movement as people who “are very much against pedophilia.” NBC host Savannah Guthrie pressed Trump on previous praise for QAnon believers as “people who love our country,” and asked him to disavow QAnon believers’ claims that the world is controlled by a cabal of Satanic pedophiles in the Democratic Party that he is on the verge of destroying. “[C]an you,” Guthrie asked, “just once and for all state that that is completely not true and disavow QAnon in its entirety?” Trump, […]
During his late-night monologue on ABC Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel waded into the brewing controversy over dueling town hall events happening Thursday on both his network and NBC. “You know, there was supposed to be a debate tomorrow night, but since Trump would not agree to the virtual format that they wanted to have because he tested positive for the coronavirus, he backed out altogether,” the host explained. “So because there was no debate, Biden agreed to do a town hall on ABC that night.” Then came the announcement that Trump would also be doing a town hall on NBC at […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0e/1080769654_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_d474eb41452bc726bb457c670f5dd162.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010141080770110-hot-thursday-night-trump-biden-to-partake-in-rivalling-town-halls-after-cancellation-of-2nd-debate/ Last week, the US Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed that the second faceoff between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden slated for 15 October had been cancelled. Earlier, POTUS said “no” to the commission’s move to hold a virtual debate due to health concerns. NBC News has announced that President Donald Trump will participate in the network’s town hall on Thursday night, a 60-minute event that is due to be held at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. NBC’s “Today” host Hoda Kotb said on Wednesday that the event […]
Frank Fahland, 61, is one of hundreds of Libby, Mont., residents who has an asbestos-related disease. That makes them potentially more vulnerable to complications from COVID-19. Nate Hegyi / Mountain West News Bureau hide caption toggle caption Nate Hegyi / Mountain West News Bureau Frank Fahland, 61, is one of hundreds of Libby, Mont., residents who has an asbestos-related disease. That makes them potentially more vulnerable to complications from COVID-19. Nate Hegyi / Mountain West News Bureau LIBBY, Mont. — Frank Fahland has spent most days since the pandemic began at the site of his dream house, working to finish a […]
Azerbaijan and Armenia have blamed each other of violating the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region late on Saturday. Capital of self-proclaimed republic, Stepankert, has reportedly come under heavy shelling. Azerbaijan, for its part, accused Armenia of striking the town of Terter with artillery fire. RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov said alert sirens were heard in Stepankert, the capital of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, late on Saturday. Several explosions – both in the air and on the land – were observed in the city, he added. The ceasefire, reached on Friday during a meeting of the rivaling parties in Moscow, came into effect […]
‘Bomb Trains’ Coming Soon Through Your Town By Sarah Okeson, DC Report. September 30, 2020 ‘Bomb Trains’ Coming Soon Through Your Town2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bombtrains-e1601481183822.jpg200px200px Above photo: The crude-by-rail explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, killed 47 people in 2013. Earthjustice. Trump, Kushner Have Financial Ties to Company that Wants Railroads to Carry Deadly Liquefied Natural Gas. An energy company tied to a hedge fund that loaned millions to the Trump Organization and the Kushner Companies will benefit after Team Trump approved railroads running “bomb trains” through our nation. They are loaded with liquefied natural gas with more explosive power than the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Liquefied natural gas is even more volatile than Bakken crude […]
New York’s Black Brook town council has moved to not rename its jurisdiction of Swastika, arguing that the word’s original Sanskrit definition of well-being trumps the modern view of the word and symbol. “Swastika was named by the founders of the area who settled there,” Black Brook town supervisor Jon Douglass explained to NPR. “I think that’s probably, maybe some viewpoint that it’s associated with hate. But then I believe there are others that do not associate it with hate,” he said. “Did the Hindus and the [Buddhists] and all them, did they erase it from their religious history because of […]
Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. Windsor Mann, Opinion columnist USA Today: Like most Americans, I didn’t watch President Trump’s town hall on Tuesday night. I was too busy doing anything else. #Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. #Election2020 https://t.co/eaBl9jJLK6 — 𝕄𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕠 ℕ𝕐 𝕁𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪 (@JBucknoff) September 18, 2020 Two days later, I capitulated and watched it on demand. Five minutes later, Joe Biden’s town hall began. The contrast was startling. If we want to end Covid, we must end […]
Seth Meyers found it “so cathartic” to see regular voters “put Trump in his place” during this week’s ABC Town Hall, especially because at this point it’s become exceedingly rare. “That’s what happens when Trump steps outside his right-wing media bubble,” the Late Night host said. “Most of the time he surrounds himself with sycophants and yes men. So he’s rarely treated like the idiot blowhard he is.” For instance, instead of interrupting him when he “calls into Fox & Friends and rambles for an hour,” Meyers said, “the hosts just sit there, staring blankly into the camera like they’re posing […]
The Lynwood City Council in Los Angeles County has disavowed the comments of its city manager about the ambush shooting of two sheriff’s deputies in nearby Compton, including saying it was a case of “chickens come home to roost.” “There have been comments made today by our city manager on his personal social media that are his personal opinions and don’t reflect the position of the Lynwood City Council,” the council said Sunday on Twitter. The city’s governing body gave no indication of whether City Manager Jose Ometeotl will face any disciplinary action. Lynwood neighbors Compton, where two deputies were repeatedly […]
Cosmos Karaoke is a lively karaoke bar in the middle of Namie, a small city that is slowly reopening after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident devastated the area. Minza Lee (right) is the driving force behind the bar. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Cosmos Karaoke is a lively karaoke bar in the middle of Namie, a small city that is slowly reopening after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident devastated the area. Minza Lee (right) is the driving force behind the bar. Claire Harbage/NPR In downtown Namie, a small coastal city in eastern Fukushima prefecture, […]
In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook hide caption toggle caption Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook Almost every structure in the small farming town of Malden in eastern Washington state was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Monday as high winds created what officials described as […]
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Portland rioters chanted “every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground” on their 51st night of “protests” in the city. The message deeply contradicts the “we just want reform” narrative that liberals and their media lackeys are trying to push. Advertisement – story continues below “Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground!” Doesn’t sound like a lot of “reform”-minded folks in the crowd. pic.twitter.com/MoYlkPxWbV — Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) July 19, 2020 TRENDING: Portland Riot Organizer Claims Mission is the ‘Abolition of the United States As We Know It’ They also vandalized a […]
A council member in East Fishkill, a town up the Hudson River from New York City, has advised local residents to avoid four out of five NYC boroughs “due to crime,” noting a drastic increase in shootings and homicides. “Reconsider travel” to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens “due to crime,” reads the letter by Councilman Anil Beephan, made public on Friday. Violent crime is “widespread” in New York City, he added, and “armed criminals have been known to target and attack individuals, both pre-meditated and at random.” Beephan attributed the 21-percent increase in homicides and 53-percent increase in shootings to […]
The ACLU and other groups have sued Graham, North Carolina, calling the city’s ban on “demonstrations of two or more people” while under a declared emergency unconstitutional. They’ve remained silent on similar laws, though. Graham violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly and speech with the law, which bars two or more people (or even a single person carrying a sign) from assembling without a protest permit during a declared state of emergency, the suit, filed on Thursday, states. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office announced last Friday that no further protest permits would be issued “for the foreseeable future” […]
A small German party has installed a monument to the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities sought to block the initiative but ended up launching an online educational campaign. The former West Germany has seen the very first monument to Lenin erected on its soil on Saturday, courtesy of a tiny fringe party, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). The party proudly unveiled the over two-meter (6.5-foot) tall statue, originally produced in the former Czechoslovakia in 1957 and now placed outside of its office in Gelsenkirchen. The MLPD told the crowd of its red […]
Joe Biden lost his temper on Wednesday during a NAACP virtual town hall when he was told some young people don’t like him. Advertisement – story continues below Biden is not attracting the young voters. Joe Biden snapped when he was asked a question sent in by a young person about concerns that a lot young people don’t like him. “No! There’s no evidence! That’s not true!” Biden yelled as he pointed his finger. “Show me a poll that says that!” TRENDING: Antifa Releases List of Demands After Taking Over 6 Square Block Section in Seattle and Setting Up Armed Security […]
…from The Berkshire Edge, Great Barringtion, Mass “To put your knee on a man’s neck until he is dead is the same as putting a noose around his neck until he is dead or to put him in a chokehold until he is dead…we’re back to lynching” – Dennis Powell, NAACP [ Editor’s Note: Great Barrington earned this for putting 1000 people in front of the Colonial era town hall when the town’s population is 2500. This is a hint as to why it was chosen as the best small town in the US for 2012. Smithsonian Magazine cited the town […]
Antifa thugs messed with the wrong town.Several antifa thugs traveled to Yucaipa, California this week to try to stir up some trouble.The men in town chased the punks and beat the snot out of them. Todd Starnes reported: A small gang of Antifa thugs tried to stir up trouble in Yucaipa, California – but it turns out they messed with the wrong town. Video shows citizens turning out in large numbers to chase the thugs out of town. “They just beat the ever-loving snot out of three or four guys,” said an unidentified man who was filming the beat down. “The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107933/45/1079334587_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_17c19e28748033fdf5188ff3f6ae65cb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005261079424044-militants-shell-town-in-syrias-idlib-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group have attacked a settlement in the Syrian province of Idlib, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry’s centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Tuesday. He noted that no attacks by Turkey-controlled armed groups had been recorded and that Russian military police units had continued patrolling several routes in the provinces of Aleppo and Hasakah. “At the same time, we have registered one attack on the settlement of Maaret Moukhos in the Idlib province from the positions of Jabhat al-Nusra* […]
What is wrong with old Joe? 77-year-old Biden held a virtual round table to discuss the Coronavirus from his basement on Thursday. As usual, his virtual town hall was marred by glitches and audio problems. Biden also struggled to remember who briefs him every morning. TRENDING: John Brennan Goes Berserk After His Role in Unmasking General Mike Flynn Revealed He’s not playing with a full deck. “Um, and uh, and I’m not, and I, I have a, I have a uh, like all of you but every day I get between an hour and an hour and a half brief with […]
Italian Town Prints Own ‘Currency’ To Help Locals And Businesses By Alessio Dellanna, Euro News. May 12, 2020 Italian Town Prints Own ‘Currency’ To Help Locals And Businesses2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/money-e1589297828464.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ducati banknotes are checked after being printed in Campobasso, southern Italy. April 26, 2020. AP. Castellino del Biferno is a small town in south Italy’s Molise region with only 550 residents. Minting money is something town mayor Enrico Fratangelo has been studying for over twelve years. The Covid-19 pandemic gave him the opportunity to test his skills. “We decided to mint money to make sure the local economy could withstand the impact […]
By Kathleen McLaughlin, Kaiser Health News Even as Montana begins a gradual easing of stay-at-home restrictions intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the political schism it highlighted is creating reverberations in one community in the northwestern corner of the state. A Flathead County health board member who led a movement to disparage the protective safety orders and downplay the virus is now the subject of two competing petitions—one to expel her from office and another to keep her. When the commissioners in this county of about 104,000 people appointed Dr. Annie Bukacek to the health board in January, they […]