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September 19, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 19, 2019

Breaking news, FBI charges predator Ed Buck for deaths in his home. John Iadarola and Ashlee Marie Preston break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjzee/what-you-need-to-know-about-ed-bucks-chemsex-fetish-and-the-men-who-overdosed-at-his-la-home "A Democratic donor you probably haven’t heard of was arrested Tuesday night after yet another man overdosed in his LA apartment, boosting allegations that the wealthy 65-year-old is a sexual predator potentially engaged in a dangerous chemsex scene. Ed Buck, who’s also a prominent LGBT activist, has recently been the subject of conspiracies and outrage since two men overdosed and died at his home in the past two years. He’s been accused of engaging in a much-fetishized chemsex scene from at least July 2017 to January 2019 where he injected partners — primarily black men, drug users, or homeless individuals he picked up around LA — with large doses of drugs." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s racist hobby exposed. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/9/18/20873153/justin-trudeau-brownface-blackface-photo-yearbook-party-canada-election   "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the handsome, charming champion of Western liberal ideals of diversity and inclusion, is facing a mounting political crisis after revelations that he appeared in brownface on more than one occasion in his not-too-distant past. It all started on Wednesday evening, when Time magazine published a photograph of Trudeau wearing offensive makeup at an Arabian Nights-themed party at West Point Grey Academy, the private day school where Trudeau was a teacher in 2001. The photo appeared in the school’s 2000-’01 yearbook. Trudeau was 29 years old at the time the photo was taken. In the image, Trudeau is dressed in a white turban decorated with a large feather in the front and what looks like a flowing white robe — what he later described as an “Aladdin costume.” His face, neck, and hands are all covered in dark brown makeup. He stands with a group of four women, his arm around one — none of whom are wearing brownface." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump’s stupidity escalates a nuclear arms race, growing the potential for nuclear war. John Iadarola and Lilly Adams break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/20/russian-china-us-missile-test-arms-race "China and Russia have accused the United States of stoking a new arms race by testing a cruise missile, just weeks after Washington withdrew from a cold-war era missile control treaty that would have barred the test launch. The ground-launched missile, a conventionally-configured version of the nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missile, hit its target after over 500 kilometres of flight during Monday’s test, the Pentagon said in a statement. Ground-launched versions of the missile had been removed from service decades ago, after the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. The treaty’s ban on missiles with ranges between 500km and 5,500km aimed to reduce the ability of both countries to launch a nuclear strike at short notice." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 18, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 18, 2019

Dan Crenshaw attacks Bernie Sanders throwing veterans under the bus. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://berniesanders.com/issues/housing-all/ "For more than 40 years, we have had an affordable housing crisis in America that has only gotten worse. In America today, over 18 million families are paying more than 50 percent of their income on housing, while last year alone the five largest banks on Wall Street made a record-breaking $111 billion in profits. How are families in America supposed to pay for food, transportation, health care, prescription drugs, education, and childcare when over half of their income is going to pay the rent or the mortgage? The sad and painful reality is that many of them cannot, and millions of Americans are going deeply into debt just to make ends meet. In America today, there is virtually no city or town where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a decent, two-bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, the top 25 hedge fund managers in America made an average of $850 million apiece last year. In America today, over half a million people will be sleeping out on the streets or in homeless shelters because they don’t have the money to put a roof over their heads. Meanwhile, large, profitable corporations like Amazon, which is owned by the wealthiest person in the world, pay nothing in federal income taxes. In America today, corrupt real estate developers are gentrifying neighborhoods and forcing working families out of the homes and apartments where they have lived their entire lives and replacing them with fancy condominiums and hotels that only the very rich can afford. Sadly, we have a president right now who is not only ignoring the affordable housing crisis. He and his administration are actively making it worse. Instead of expanding federal housing programs, Trump wants to cut them by $9.6 billion, or 18 percent." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump spreads an insane lie about Ilhan Omar dancing. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/ilhan-omar-trump-iran-weather-map-crowd-size-cnntv/index.html  "Washington (CNN)Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's ability to navigate escalating tensions with Iran, pointing to the controversy over Hurricane Dorian's path and whether it would hit Alabama. "Congress has the constitutional right to declare war. The President doesn't have it. The secretary of state doesn't it have and Saudi Arabia certainly doesn't have it," Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront." "I think we need to make sure that the American people understand that this administration -- that lies about weather maps or crowd sizes -- cannot be trusted to give us the full information we need to be able to make a decision whether we should be going to war or not with Iran." "We are not in a position to think about another endless war and I really hope that my colleagues in Congress are going to pressure this administration to take a step back and figure out how we use diplomacy in the de-escalating the situation," she added." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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2020 Democratic Presidential candidates will debate the neglected topic of LGBTQIA+ equality at Iowa Forum. John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Zeke Stokes break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Watch to LGBTQ Presidential Forum here: https://www.glaad.org/form/lgbtq-presidential-forum Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-joins-one-iowa-gazette-and-advocate-national-partner-presidential-candidate-forum-lgbtq #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg schools US Congress in her testimony. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/461857-read-teen-activist-greta-thunbergs-8-sentence-testimony-to-congress   "Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has submitted a major global warming report to Congress in place of prepared remarks ahead of her scheduled appearance at a House hearing on Wednesday. Thunberg submitted an eight-sentence letter along with the report as her official testimony ahead of a joint hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment and the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. "I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don’t want you to listen to me," she wrote. "I want you to listen to the scientists. And I want you to unite behind the science. And then I want you to take action."" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck was arrested after another overdose in his home. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/ed-buck-arrested-charged-with-drug-house  "Prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house, with prosecutors calling him a violent sexual predator who preys on men struggling with addiction and homelessness. Buck was charged with one count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11. That latest incident comes after two men were found dead in his Laurel Avenue apartment in West Hollywood. In both cases, African American men — Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55 — had overdosed on methamphetamine inside. After the first death in 2017, authorities said there was insufficient evidence to file charges." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 17, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 17, 2019

Brett Kavanaugh’s worsening claims trigger right-wing defense. John Iadarola and Piper Perabo break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-defends-brett-kavanaugh-after-sexual-misconduct-allegations-resurface-n1054581 "A slew of prominent Democrats called on Congress to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after allegations of sexual misconduct that had once threatened to torpedo his nomination to the bench resurfaced, even as President Donald Trump continued to defend him. "I sat through those hearings," Sen. Kamala Harris, a member of the Senate Judiciary Commitee and a Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted on Sunday. "Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached." Kavanaugh was nominated by Trump after the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote on the court. He was sworn in last October after a confirmation process that focused on the allegations — and the protests, controversy and high drama of the Senate hearing that followed." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Sean Spicer dances to the Spice Girls on Dancing With The Stars. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/461713-spicer-on-dancing-with-the-stars-those-of-us-who-stand-for-christ-wont-be " Former White House press secretary and current "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Sean Spicer on Tuesday implored viewers to vote for him to "send a message to #Hollywood that those of us who stand for #Christ won’t be discounted." Spicer made the call on Twitter after his viral debut on Monday night, which included him performing to a Spice Girls song while wearing a neon puffy shirt. Spicer, who served as press secretary under President Trump from January to August 2017, made his pitch after former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) asked viewers to vote for Spicer to "create an emotional meltdown in Hollyweird." “Wanna create an emotional meltdown in Hollyweird?” Huckabee tweeted, adding a GIF from the 2004 film "Napoleon Dynamite." “Vote for @seanspicer to win ‘Dancing with the Stars’ tonight and every night he’s on. @seanspicer is a good guy and a brave sport to go on DWTS. Let’s show him some love!” " #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump considers war over his money. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/saudis-fight-their-own-wars-trump-locked-and-loaded_n_5d8000f1e4b00d69059d53a2 "Donald Trump insisted that Saudi Arabia “fight their own wars” — or “pay us an absolute fortune to protect them.” But that was in 2014, when Barack Obama was president. On Sunday he said the U.S. is “locked and loaded,” waiting to “hear from the Kingdom” about who was responsible for the attack Saturday on Saudi oil facilities. As it turns out, the U.S. didn’t wait for “the Kingdom” but instead informed the Saudis on Monday that Iran was responsible for the attack. But the Saudis said American officials failed to provide enough proof that Iran was responsible, The Wall Street Journal reported. Iran has denied responsibility. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the attack was an act of self-defense by the Yemeni Houthi rebels in response to being bombed by the Saudis." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump’s stupidity shocks Hispanic voters at a rally. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/2019/9/17/20870198/trump-new-mexico-rally-steve-cortes-wasp "President Donald Trump did his best to appeal to Latinx voters during his rally on Monday evening in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. His “best,” however, was profoundly bizarre. In one especially odd moment, Trump remarked upon how white one of his key Latino surrogates looks. “He happens to be Hispanic, but I’ve never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do. So I haven’t figured that one out. But I’ll tell you what — there is nobody that loves this country more or Hispanic more than Steve Cortes,” Trump said. (Cortes is a pro-Trump television commentator and member of Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council.) “Nobody loves the Hispanics more!” Trump continued, before asking Cortes a question that suggested Latinos have dual loyalties: “Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics? He says the country. I don’t know, I may have to go for the Hispanics to be honest with you. We got a lot of Hispanics! We love our Hispanics.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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How do we bring the Green New Deal to life? John Iadarola and Naomi Klein break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Buy Klein's Book Here: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Burning-Case-Green-Deal/dp/1982129913 Read more here: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/17/naomi_klein_on_fire_green_new "Amid mounting climate disasters across the planet, from the fires ravaging the Amazon to Hurricane Dorian’s destructive path through the Bahamas, we speak with renowned journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein. In her new book, “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal,” Klein looks unsparingly at the rise of ecofascism, as Western countries fortify their borders and white supremacy surges around the world in response to the climate crisis. But she also lays out another path forward in which mankind meets the challenge of global warming with radical and systemic transformation. “We do know that if we are going to lower our emissions in time, it is going to take transformations of how we live in cities, how we move ourselves around, how we grow our food, where we get our energy from,” Klein says. “Essentially, what the Green New Deal is saying: If we’re going to do all that, why wouldn’t we tackle all of these systemic economic and social crises at the same time? Because we live in a time of multiple, overlapping crises.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Sandy Hook families issue a school shooting PSA. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 16, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 16, 2019

Donald Trump plays a dangerous game after Saudi oil field attacks. John Iadarola and Krystal Ball break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/16/saudi_arabia_oil_supply_attacks "President Trump is threatening to take military action after several large Saudi Arabian oil facilities were attacked Saturday by drones and cruise missiles. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack, but numerous reports indicate the attack may have come from Iraq or Iran rather than Yemen. Crude oil prices soared more than 15% after the Aramco-run plants suffered heavy damage. One of the plants struck is the world’s biggest petroleum-processing facility. According to one estimate, the attacks decreased Saudi’s daily oil output by nearly 6 million barrels. While the United States has been quick to blame Iran, other world powers have not yet assigned blame. In our New York studio, we speak to Peter Salisbury, the International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Yemen. And from Washington, D.C., we speak with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of “Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Ben Shapiro shakes over ‘male genitalia’. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://splinternews.com/ben-shapiro-demands-kavanaugh-accusers-describe-his-jun-1838150315 "Good faith opinion-haver Ben Shapiro surely believes people who say they’ve been assaulted (read: no, he does not). But his bizarre new hangup on this latest development in the assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is that none of the people who have come forward have spent time describing what Kavanaugh’s genitals look like. In a Daily Wire video shared on Twitter today by Media Matters’ Jason Campbell, Shapiro argued that because none of Kavanaugh’s accusers have described how Kavanaugh’s genitalia looks, their accusations of assault may not be legitimate." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Joe Biden brags about confronting and befriending a gang leader named 'Corn Pop'. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-joe-biden-tells-story-of-facing-down-razor-wielding-gang-leader-named-corn-pop/   "Michael Harriot of The Root has published a hilariously skeptical tweetstorm about Vice President Joe Biden‘s account of facing down a gang leader named Corn Pop, and as luck would have it, Biden has told the story at least once on video. As Harriott notes, Biden told this story in his autobiography, and again in 2017, but neither time as hilariously as Harriot did on Twitter Saturday." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump defends disturbing Brett Kavanaugh revelations. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/15/20866829/brett-kavanaugh-perjury-confirmation-hearing-deborah-ramirez-new-allegations  "Nearly a year after Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to a lifetime appointment in the Supreme Court, the New York Times has reported a new allegation of sexual misconduct from Kavanaugh’s college years, as well as new corroborating information about Deborah Ramirez’s claim that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at Yale. Beyond offering new information on Ramirez’s account, the report is resurfacing a public debate: Did Kavanaugh repeatedly lie to Congress? The Saturday report retraced Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, detailing a fast-tracked FBI investigation failed to interrogate more than two dozen potential witnesses in Ramirez’s case, one that ultimately gave Republican senators enough cover to confirm Kavanaugh. It also publicly recounts allegations by Max Stier, CEO of the nonpartisan Washington, DC, nonprofit Center for Presidential Transition, who says he saw Kavanaugh push his penis into the hand of a female student at Yale during a separate incident that didn’t involve Ramirez. Stier talked to the FBI about his allegation, but they did not investigate the matter. The New York Times updated its story to point out that the alleged victim did not wish to comment, and that friends say she did not remember the incident." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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GM strikes signal a dark reality for the US middle class. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/16/trump-urges-general-motors-auto-union-to-make-a-deal-as-workers-prepare-to-go-on-strike.html "DETROIT — President Donald Trump on Sunday urged the United Auto Workers union and General Motors to return to negotiations and “make a deal.” Trump said in a tweet: “Here we go again with General Motors and the United Auto Workers. Get together and make a deal!” Trump’s tweet was in response to the UAW calling for a strike against the Detroit automaker Sunday morning. The strike is scheduled to take effect at 11:59 p.m. with roughly 48,000 workers heading to the picket lines. A spokesman with the UAW declined to comment on the tweet. A GM spokesperson, in response to the tweet, said: “We couldn’t agree more.” The union and GM ceased negotiations after the two sides couldn’t reach a tentative agreement by a Saturday night deadline. Talks are expected to resume as early as 10 a.m. Monday morning, according to the UAW. Reuters reported of the talks resuming ahead of Trump tweeting about the negotiations." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 13, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 13, 2019

Here are the top 10 issues with Elizabeth Warren's candidacy. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/12/elizabeth-warren-proposes-sweeping-increase-in-social-security-benefits-financed-by-wealth-taxes.html "Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seeking to sustain her momentum in the Democratic presidential race, is proposing an across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits, financed by new taxes on high-income Americans. Rolling out the plan Thursday morning, hours before the third presidential debate, Warren called for an immediate benefit increase of $200 per month for current and future beneficiaries. At the same time, the Massachusetts Democrat proposed new rules that would provide additional benefit increases for low-income, female, disabled, minority, and former government worker beneficiaries, reasoning that they’ve been shortchanged by the existing structure of the program. To pay for it, Warren would impose new taxes on what she calls the richest 2% of Americans. She would eliminate the income cap on Social Security taxes for those earning more than $250,000 a year, imposing a 14.8% levy on incomes above that amount, split evenly between employers and employees." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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ABC ran a disturbing Anti-AOC ad for the GOP and it went way too far. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/12/debate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-faces-pac-ad/ "THE STRANGE REPUBLICAN OBSESSION with attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a new low in a commercial break during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston on Thursday night. The widely reviled commercial, which aired on ABC and was paid for by donors to the GOP New Faces PAC, opened with a photograph of the young Latinx congresswoman’s face being set on fire to reveal images of the 1970s genocide in Cambodia underneath. The attack ad was narrated by the Cambodian-American daughter of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, who offered the preposterous claim that Ocasio-Cortez’s democratic socialist ideals are the same as those of the radical Maoist militants who killed up to one-fourth of Cambodia’s population in the late 1970s. “Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism?” the narrator, Elizabeth Heng, says. “My father was minutes from death in Cambodia, before a forced marriage saved his life. That’s socialism. Forced obedience. Starvation.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Meghan McCain attacks Bernie Sanders over his commentary on healthcare during the third democratic debate. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/461212-meghan-mccain-swipes-at-sanders-dont-you-dare-lecture-biden-about-cancer "“The View” co-host Meghan McCain swiped at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after a heated exchange between the senator and former Vice President Joe Biden on bankruptcy rates due to cancer in Thursday evening’s third Democratic presidential debate. Sanders, arguing the need for universal health care, listed rates of bankruptcy for diseases such as cancer, saying under Biden's health care plan, families could be hit with massive costs. “I know about cancer,” the former vice president responded. “Don't you dare lecture Biden about cancer, Bernie...” McCain tweeted." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump loses it in cringy comedy attempts in his Baltimore speech. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-baltimore-gop-retreat_n_5d7aca3be4b00d6905959f7c "BALTIMORE ― In disjointed, jumbled remarks delivered in a city that he proclaimed in July was “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” President Donald Trump addressed House Republicans at their annual retreat Thursday night and delivered a preview of his central reelection message: “You have no choice.” Speaking from the stage of a grandiose hotel ballroom in downtown Baltimore, Trump largely ignored the Twitter feud he started with the city earlier this summer, saying only he would fix its “failed and corrupt rule” ― without providing any details. Instead, he chose to speak on just about anything else that crossed his mind for an hour and 10 minutes. Trump took the stage clapping along with his excited GOP audience, and he really never stopped praising himself. He cheered his administration’s repeal on Thursday of clean water regulations, while also congratulating himself for what he claimed is the nation’s cleanest water and air in the last 25 years. He cheered the Senate’s confirmation Thursday of his 150th nominee to federal courts. And he lauded the economy that has produced low unemployment rates for minorities." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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You asked questions we have answers. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://twitter.com/johniadarola Read more here: https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Young progressive Robert Emmons Jr. from Chicago's south side challenges the only incumbent to ever beat Obama in an election. John Iadarola and Robert Emmons Jr. break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: robertemmons.org "Movements are built together. They’re built out of family, reinforced by courage, and sustained by faith. Through a commitment to the power of community, movements can alter the course of history. I grew up with the understanding that the gas and electricity might shut off and paying for prescriptions or covering the bills might not be possible. At 13, I moved in with my grandparents on 79th Street in Auburn Gresham. I watched my grandmother work tirelessly to reinvigorate our block and open a local food bank in St. Philip Church in Englewood. As we bagged and distributed food to our neighbors, I realized that she was the first true organizer I ever met. Every break from school, I was at her food bank in St. Philip Church, helping to bag and distribute food to our neighbors. She taught me not only the value of community activism, but blessed me with the resolve to treat every individual with dignity and compassion. Through a sustained model of inspiration, she provided the support and love I would need to rise from a 1.2 GPA to the honor roll for the rest of high school. After graduating from Perspectives High School, I enrolled at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. When my college sweetheart, Brittani, and I moved back to Chicago, we both landed dream jobs in the non-profit, impact space. I began my career as a Manager of Program Innovation for OneGoal, focusing my efforts on projects which aimed to increase college-persistence in low-income communities, and as a Community Leader with the Obama Foundation, assisting young organizers around the country and developing initiatives designed to heal their communities from within. My involvement in community initiatives has shown me just how powerful advocacy can be when backed by a coalition of determined individuals, fighting tirelessly for justice. Although I held an amazing and fulfilling job, I still couldn’t afford the deductible for a therapist session or a city-sticker to avoid a fine. This is the very cycle that defines the lives of so many in the First District of Illinois. Throughout all my experiences, my highs and my lows, I have come to understand that through a commitment to community and a dedication to organization, we can become the very solution we need to reverse this cycle." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 12, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 12, 2019

Donald Trump bans e-cigarettes to save Melania's son. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/trump-to-consider-e-cigarette-policy-amid-outbreak-of-lung-disease.html "The Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes as federal health officials call for restrictions to combat an outbreak of a mysterious lung disease that has sickened hundreds and killed at least six people, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration is currently finalizing its guidance to remove all non-tobacco flavors of e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol, from the market within 30 days. Companies might be able to reintroduce their flavors at a later date, so long as they submit a formal application and receive approval from the FDA. Vaping companies such as Juul have been criticized for hooking children on e-cigarettes with flavors such as mango and creme. The surge in underage vaping, which U.S. health officials have labeled as an “epidemic,” is one of the reasons why they plan to ban them — at least until the FDA can thoroughly review their safety, Azar said after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on the issue." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Ted Cruz was schooled in gun control by a Parkland dad and maybe he learned something. John Iadarola and Fred Guttenberg break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/460979-cruz-alyssa-milano-meet-to-discuss-gun-control "Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and actress Alyssa Milano on Tuesday followed through on their pledge to meet to discuss gun control legislation after arranging the sit-down through Twitter last week. Each thanked the other for agreeing, though neither appears to have shifted on the issue. “I am always grateful for the opportunity to engage in positive, civil discussion on the substantive issues of the day — especially with those with whom I disagree. Today’s meeting was productive and respectful, and I appreciate Alyssa and Fred’s willingness to come here with an open mind. I believe more conversations like this will go a long way in helping unite and heal our divided country,” Cruz said in a statement, referring to Fred Guttenberg, a gun reform activist who lost his daughter in the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting and also attended the meeting." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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You can invest and make money while helping build an economy for good. John Iadarola and Jessica Jackley break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.aspiration.com/ "We didn't set out to build a bank. We set out to build a better world. That could mean more money in your pocket* – and more power to do good in your hands. Welcome to Aspiration – a new kind of financial partner that puts our customers and their conscience first." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Krystal Ball calls out Rush Limbaugh after his misogynistic attack. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-msnbc-host-krystal-ball-fires-back-after-rush-limbaugh-falsely-accuses-her-of-posing-nude-at-14 "Hill TV’s Krystal Ball lashed out Thursday at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh after the talk radio gabber took to his show and falsely accused her of posing nude as a young teenager and posting the photos to social media. During a recent broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the right-wing talker decided to reference Ball, who had unsuccessfully run for Congress in 2010. Towards the tail-end of Ball’s campaign that year, party photos of her in a racy Santa costume and her then-husband dressed as a reindeer with a dildo for a nose popped up on the internet." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 11, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 11, 2019

An elite black swimmer was disqualified from competition for her body. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-swimmer-disqualified-in-race-because-school-issued-swimsuit-broke-modesty-rule_n_5d77e465e4b064513575d02d "UPDATE: Sept. 11 — The Alaska School Activities Association reversed a teen swimmer’s disqualification on Tuesday after she was disqualified from a meet because too much of her buttocks was showing. “ASAA has determined, the disqualification was the result of the misapplication of the rule and as a result is being overturned,” the association wrote in a statement. PREVIOUSLY: A high school swimmer in Alaska won her 100-meter freestyle heat on Friday, only to be disqualified as soon as she got out of the water. Her one-piece swimsuit broke the modesty rule, the referee announced. The young girl, a 17-year-old state championship swimmer at Dimond High School in Anchorage, was wearing the school-issued swimsuit that every other girl on the team was wearing and yet she was the only one disqualified. A referee who was present at the swim meet told the Anchorage Daily News that the official who made the controversial call disqualified the girl because she could see “butt cheek touching butt cheek.” The referee who made the controversial call has not been publicly named and HuffPost will not identify the high school swimmer who was disqualified, as she is a minor. The disqualification quickly stirred controversy in the Anchorage community, with some pointing to the fact that the swimmer is nonwhite and “curvier” than most others on the team. Lauren Langford, a swim coach at a neighboring high school, was the first to make this point in a Saturday essay on Medium. “All of these girls are all wearing suits that are cut the same way,” Langford told The Washington Post on Tuesday. “And the only girl who gets disqualified is a mixed-race girl with rounder, curvier features.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The Damage Report remembers September 11, 2001. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/us-to-commemorate-911-as-its-aftermath-extends-and-evolves.html "Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to “never forget” and rising attention to the terror attacks’ extended toll on responders. A crowd of victims’ relatives is expected at ground zero Wednesday, while President Donald Trump is scheduled to join an observance at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence is to speak at the third attack site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Former President George W. Bush, the commander-in-chief at the time of the 2001 attacks, is due at an afternoon wreath-laying at the Pentagon. Eighteen years after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, the nation is still grappling with the aftermath at ground zero, in Congress and beyond. The attacks’ aftermath is visible from airport security checkpoints to Afghanistan. A rocket exploded at the U.S. embassy as the anniversary began in Afghanistan, where a post-9/11 invasion has become America’s longest war." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Republicans history will remember that they backed Trump. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-to-republicans-history-will-remember-you-backed-trump/ "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wants Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump so that the Republican lawmakers who support him will be on the record opposing impeachment and suffer a “stain on their careers.” “I want to see every Republican go on the record and knowingly vote against impeachment of this president, knowing his corruption, having it on the records so that they can have that stain on their careers for the rest of their lives,” she told reporters Tuesday. “Because this is outrageous, to protect the amount of lawlessness and corruption coming out of this presidency.” On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee unveiled a proposal “to spell out the panel’s authorities as it intensifies its consideration of articles of impeachment,” Politico reports. The committee will vote on the proposal Thursday." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump lies about what he was doing on 9/11. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-9-11-tweet-backlash_n_5d78cec2e4b09342507c5a2e "President Donald Trump drew ire on Twitter Wednesday morning with the way he marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Trump shared a photograph of himself and first lady Melania Trump, their backs to the camera, with the caption: “We Will Never Forget.” However, it wasn’t his first post of the day. That honor went to a rant about China and his trade war. Critics on Twitter also called out Trump’s now-canceled plan to meet with Taliban leaders close to the anniversary of 9/11, and recalled his history of making insensitive and untruthful statements about the attacks. “Except when we invited the Taliban over for a photo op,” tweeted attorney George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and a frequent Trump critic." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump's crazy voting logic is debunked. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/10/20856987/daniel-bishop-north-carolina-special-election-donald-trump-suburbs "Dan Bishop, a North Carolina Republican known for writing the state’s controversial “bathroom bill,” narrowly beat out Democrat Dan McCready to win a House seat in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. His victory comes in the wake of a massive scandal that plagued the district’s election last fall, and suggests that Republicans still have a lot to worry about in 2020. North Carolina’s Ninth is, after all, a staunchly conservative district that’s been electing Republicans since the 1960s, and one President Donald Trump won by 12 points in 2016. Bishop’s win should have been relatively easy, but was overshadowed by the previous Republican candidate fielding allegations of ballot fraud and suburban voter pushback toward Trump. The fact that Bishop held onto the seat for Republicans will surely be a relief for the party. Still, Republicans looking ahead to 2020 might worry about similar districts; the tight margin doesn’t bode well for competitive seats in suburban districts across the country. If anything, Bishop’s race suggests GOP candidates in these places should be concerned about maintaining any existing advantages they currently have." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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20-Year democratic incumbent Susan Davis runs scared from progressives, dropping out of the congressional race. John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Jose Caballero break it down on The Damage Report. Learn more and support Jose Caballero here: https://www.joseforcongress.us. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2019-09-04/rep-susan-davis-to-retire-drop-out-of-race-for-reelection-in-2020 "Rep. Susan Davis, a 10-term Democratic congresswoman representing San Diego, announced on Tuesday that she is dropping out of the race for re-election in 2020 and will retire from Congress at the end of her term. Davis, 75, first elected to Congress in 2000, announced her retirement from the solidly Democratic 53rd District seat in a news release Wednesday. Candidates to replace her will face off in the primary election March 3. “I have struggled to make this very difficult decision,” Davis said in the announcement. “I will not seek another term in Congress. My decision today represents a desire to live and work ‘at home’ in San Diego.“ In a personal letter to constituents, Davis said she did not know what she would do next, but there are many ways she could continue to serve her community." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 10, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 10, 2019

Donald Trump's response to Bahamian Dorian victims is sickening. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bahamas-hurricane-dorian-survivors_n_5d76aad9e4b0752102312348 "President Donald Trump on Monday urged caution in admitting people into the U.S. from the Bahamas, claiming ― with no apparent basis in fact ― that “very bad people” could be hidden among the hordes of Hurricane Dorian survivors attempting to flee the devastated archipelago. “We have to be very careful,” he told reporters outside the White House before heading to a North Carolina campaign rally. “Everyone needs totally proper documentation because the Bahamas had some tremendous problems with people going to the Bahamas who weren’t supposed to be there.” The president went on to assert, without evidence, that the people leaving the islands could include criminals. “I don’t want to allow people who weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very very bad drug dealers,” he said." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Deadly damage caused by Dorian in the Bahamas is ignored by the Trump administration. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/americas/bahamas-dead-dorian.html "The total number of those missing and dead may not be known for weeks, ... church in Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas town badly hit by Hurricane Dorian. ... of the victims, or information about where they died, many Abaconians ..." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Donald Trump's feud with Fox News gets much worse. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://theweek.com/speedreads/863678/trump-reportedly-called-fox-news-ceo-fume-about-networks-coverage "President Trump has apparently been taking his complaints about Fox News all the way to the top. Trump in recent months has repeatedly railed against his once-beloved news network, and The Atlantic reports on Monday that "on occasions when he's unhappy with the network's coverage, Trump will pick up the phone and call [Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott] to complain." These calls, the report says, "don't tend to go well." That's because Fox News executives reportedly couldn't care less about Trump's attacks on the network, with the thinking being that he needs them far more than they need him, and they have the "leverage" in this relationship. "I'm not sure she tells him what he wants to hear," one source told The Atlantic of Trump's calls with Scott. Trump has targeted Fox News for various reasons in recent months, including the network's polls showing him losing to 2020 Democrats and its hiring of former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile as a contributor. In his latest escalation, the president last month complained after a Fox News interview with the DNC's communications director that the network "isn't working for us anymore," telling his supporters "we have to start looking for a new news outlet."" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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CBS News announces hilariously stupid on-air. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-polls-2020-elizabeth-warren-rises-as-joe-biden-clings-to-delegate-edge-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=73427576 "The latest CBS Battleground Tracker poll tells a story of Elizabeth Warren rising. But not Joe Biden falling. The former vice president now clings to a narrow lead over Warren in our CBS News/YouGov Tracker estimate of convention delegates — the only count that ultimately matters — with an estimated 600 delegates of all delegates available through Super Tuesday, to Warren's 545. Warren has gained delegate share as supporters of other, lower-tier candidates have been switching their preferences toward her. Bernie Sanders rounds out the top tier of candidates with 286 delegates in a race that has tightened substantially over the summer. Biden's position is helped by amassing enough delegates from South Carolina and other Southern states, as well as consistently strong showings elsewhere to keep him up in the overall delegate standings — albeit not by much." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Gun reform will never happen with Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-09/congress-gun-control-government-shutdown "WASHINGTON — Congress returns to Washington this week amid mounting pressure from Democrats and the public to enact new gun restrictions, but lawmakers from both parties say meaningful action hangs solely on President Trump. Since lawmakers were last in session Aug. 2, three mass shootings have killed 38 people and injured many more. The White House is expected to release gun policy proposals that Trump supports, possibly this week. But few gun safety advocates or Democrats are optimistic that the proposals will be as expansive as they want. Returning lawmakers will also face a quick deadline to fund the government again, or risk another shutdown. And the White House needs to pick up the pace on negotiations with Congress over a revised NAFTA trade agreement if Trump’s top legislative priority, now called the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, is to become law this year. All the while, some House Democrats will be clamoring to get impeachment proceedings against Trump underway." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Young working-class business owner, Dary Reznavi challenges Devin Nunes in CA-22. John Iadarola, Emma Vigeland, and Dary Reznavi break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://daryforcongress.com/ "Dary Rezvani is a first-generation American, born and raised in Fresno. Raised in a working class family, he learned the value of hard work from his mother, an entrepreneur and small business owner, and his father who operated a local automotive repair facility. Dary joined his father in the business when he was 19 years old while attending Fresno City College. After transferring to California State University, Fresno, Dary lost his father to lung cancer and took on the full responsibility of the business. In addition to being a small business owner, Dary worked at one of the largest accounting and finance firms in the world. As an auditor and consultant, he worked with companies to help them run more effectively and efficiently. Dary is no stranger to the burden of student loans, the perils of an unstable healthcare system, or a tax system that hurts local businesses while turning a blind eye to the corporations erasing the middle class. In Congress, he will fight to strengthen our water supply, make it easier for local businesses to create jobs, and make healthcare and prescription drugs more affordable. Dary will be a voice for the valley." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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September 9, 2019
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The Damage Report: September 9, 2019

Donald Trump explodes on twitter over Chrissy Teigen's 'filthy mouth'. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1170897584510124032 "When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it. Obama couldn’t come close. A man named @VanJones68, and many others, were profusely grateful (at that time!). I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, & Republicans deserve much credit. But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise. Guys like boring musician @johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is - but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed. “Anchor” @LesterHoltNBC doesn’t even bring up the subject of President Trump or the Republicans when talking about...." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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A Saudi-linked lobby group pitched a film to humanize child detention camps. John Iadarola and Ken Klippenstein break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/6tcosRq7ObVqebKo2ZQR11 "A lobbying group that was one of the few to keep Saudi Arabia as a client after the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi sought to make a film about the migrant child detention facility in Homestead, Florida, this summer, documents obtained exclusively by The Young Turks reveal. The video concept appears to be a public relations exercise. It “is not about facts and figures,” instead opting to focus on the “emotive sense of the community” and “speaks to the nature of their caring relationship,” according to a video concept paper dated July of this year and obtained by TYT. The proposed narrative contrasts sharply with what rights groups have said about the facility. In July, the human rights group Amnesty International published a report calling for Homestead to be shut down due to the unlawful conditions witnessed by the group during visits in April and July of this year. The concept paper, pitched by the lobbying and public relations group Qorvis, is essentially a script that appears to suggest using a short film to cast Homestead’s conditions in a more positive light. Qorvis has strong ties to Saudi Arabia, which has relied on lobbying firms and registered agents to preserve its unusually warm relationship with the Trump administration. For example, last year Qorvis lobbied against the Justice Against State Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would have let families of 9/11 victims proceed with litigation against Saudi Arabia. In one elaborate scheme, Qorvis is alleged to have gone as far as tricking veterans into lobbying on behalf of Saudi Arabia against the proposed legislation." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump steals public funds for one of his properties. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337 "In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies. What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland. Since April, the House Oversight Committee has been investigating why the crew on the C-17 military transport plane made the unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort, according to several people familiar with the incident. But they have yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon. The inquiry is part of a broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland. According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base. The letter also cites a Guardian report that the airport provided cut-rate rooms and free rounds of golf at Turnberry for U.S. military members." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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An NPR study shows maps that link poverty and rising temperatures. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/754044732/as-rising-heat-bakes-u-s-cities-the-poor-often-feel-it-most "When Shakira Franklin drives from West Baltimore to her job near the city's Inner Harbor, she can feel the summer heat ease up like a fist loosening its grip. "I can actually feel me riding out of the heat. When I get to a certain place when I'm on my way, I'll turn off my air and I'll roll my windows down," says Franklin. "It just seems like the sun is beaming down on this neighborhood." Franklin isn't imagining that. Her neighborhood, Franklin Square, is hotter than about two-thirds of the other neighborhoods in Baltimore — about 6 degrees hotter than the city's coolest neighborhood. It's also in one of the city's poorest communities, with more than one-third of residents living in poverty." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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The Damage Report: September 6, 2019

A new movie 'The Reliant' mocks gun control. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6105774/ "Economic collapse causes widespread rioting and social unrest, leaving a lovesick 19-year-old girl struggling to care for her siblings in a stretch of woods bordered by lawless anarchy, wondering why a good God would let this happen." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Progressive, Erica Vladimer, schools the incumbent democrat in NY-12. John Iadarola and Erica Vladmier break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.ericaforny.com/ "Erica is a licensed attorney and member of the New York Bar Association, who has spent more than a decade as an advocate and public servant. Over the past three years, Erica worked as an education analyst for New York City’s Independent Budget Office, evaluating federal and state policies that affect the lives of students and their families. The same skills that Erica used to study the inequities across the nation’s largest school system bridged her ability to also advocate for stronger workplace protections for all New Yorkers. Prior to joining the Independent Budget Office, Erica worked as an education analyst and counsel in the New York State Senate. In this role, Erica partnered with advocates and experts from across the city and state to develop comprehensive education policies. She drafted legislation and policy papers on behalf of the senators, and represented their interests at the budget negotiation tables. Although Erica initially saw herself remaining in government services for her career, she resigned in 2015 after believing sexual harassment was an unspoken but mandatory part of her job description. It would take almost three years before she recognized the power in telling her story; the reigniting of Tarana Burke’s “Me, Too” movement propelled Erica to speak out about her experience and the systemic culture of harassment that allowed it to happen. She believed that if speaking out could help bring change to an unjust system that shunned victims, it was worth the risk." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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Trump goes sharpie crazy because he can't admit he's wrong. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/6/20851971/trump-hurricane-dorian-alabama-sharpie-cnn-media "Vice President Mike Pence engaged in some questionable patronage of a Trump property while traveling abroad, the administration shuffled millions away from key government projects (including Puerto Rico recovery) to pay for President Trump’s border wall, and things got real weird with Brexit, but all US media could do this week was talk about a Sharpie-altered map of Hurricane Dorian to prove a Trump tweet about Alabama. We’re looking at you, CNN, who played right along with Trump in the distraction game. To back up a bit: This all began on Sunday when the president tweeted a warning about Hurricane Dorian and said that in addition to Florida, “South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated by the storm.” Apparently, he was wrong about Alabama, and the Birmingham National Weather Service quickly corrected him. It all could have ended there, but of course it didn’t. On Wednesday, weather reporters and other experts noticed that it looked like someone had drawn an extra little bubble onto a map of the path of a storm in a video of Trump talking about it. People started to wonder whether Trump or someone else had used a Sharpie pen — which the president is known to use — to doctor the map so it looked like he had been right. #SharpieGate was born." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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SNL's Lorne Michaels helped Trump win the 2016 election claims writer Anthony Jeselnik. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/comedian-anthony-jeselnik-snls-lorne-michaels-helped-get-trump-elected "Ten years ago, before Anthony Jeselnik was among the best stand-up comics in the country, he was a monologue writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In those days, most of the jokes he pitched were deemed too dark for the sunny host. “They didn’t really want my sensibility,” Jeselnik says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. He ended up staying for a year and leaving of his own volition. He was long gone by the time Fallon ruffled Donald Trump’s hair on The Tonight Show and subsequently got blamed for “normalizing” the candidate just a few weeks before the 2016 election. “I felt a little bad for Jimmy in that situation,” Jeselnik admits. But he doesn’t blame Fallon. “Trump and Lorne Michaels are friends. And Lorne Michaels produced that show,” Jeselnik says of The Tonight Show. “And I’m sure—and I don’t want to put words in his mouth, and I haven’t talked to Jimmy in years—but I’m sure it’s one of his biggest regrets.” In an interview last year, Fallon said that he never intended to “normalize” Trump and felt “depressed” amidst all of the backlash. “I made a mistake,” he added. “I'm sorry if I made anyone mad. And, looking back, I would do it differently.” Fallon likely did not think Trump would go on to win the election when he had him on his show. And Jeselnik felt the same way in the fall of 2016. He was even pitching a show at the time based on the premise that with Hillary Clinton as president he could portray a villainous Trump-esque pundit in opposition to her, similar to the role Stephen Colbert ended up playing on The Colbert Report under President Obama." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurks
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