(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest for Sept 11, 2024 (We're looking back, but not GOING back edition) [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-09-11 President Biden, Vice President Harris, former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance all attended a ceremony at the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York Wednesday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 lives lost in the terror attacks 23 years ago today. x Thank you to @POTUS and @VP for visiting the Pentagon to honor the 184 lives lost on September 11, 2001. On this day, the entire Nation stands by the families, friends, and the loved ones of the fallen. May their memories live on today and every day. pic.twitter.com/3uqpwa8XKJ — Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) September 11, 2024 None made formal remarks at the solemn event, where the names of those who died were read by their families. Around midday, Biden and Harris visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., for a wreath-laying ceremony. Trump also laid a wreath at the site later in the afternoon. x Today, President Biden and I are traveling to the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honor the victims and their families. We will never forget the 2,977 lives lost on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/4jk1XYxjho — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 11, 2024 Trump and Vance visited a New York fire station, while Biden and Harris visited a fire station near the Shanksville site. Biden and Harris concluded the day with an event alongside Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. Their trip to all three major memorial sites mirrors President Biden's 2021 itinerary to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks. x Hey Christian MAGA, does your candidate not know how to pray? pic.twitter.com/hUP9ToI32n — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 11, 2024 This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments x From doing a thumbs up while grinning like the fat orange cat who ate the canary by a grave site at Arlington, to winking & smiling at female reporters during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, trump has no sense of propriety. This fuck must never be POTUS again.pic.twitter.com/4pdc1NXR6G — 😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) September 11, 2024 The Ink — Kamala won by being all the things ...The most important new thing I saw her do was prebunking. Pre-, not de-. Debunking is waiting for someone to lie and then hitting back with the truth. It doesn’t work in politics as much you would hope it would in an age saturated by lies. But prebunking works better. Prebunking is explaining to people how they are being (or, better yet, will be) manipulated, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and how it will function, and, for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of Trump, too many of his opponents have been all debunk, no prebunk. But in last night’s debate, again and again, Harris rose to the meta level and explained Trump’s ways in advance so as to inoculate against their infectiousness. “I’m going to tell you all, in this debate tonight, you’re going to hear from the same old, tired playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling,” she said in the first minutes. In another moment, she prebunked any professions Trump might make to be admired by foreign autocrats for his strength: “It is absolutely well known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again because they’re so clear, they can manipulate you with flattery and favors.” Trump is a challenge for anyone, because he is a weird mix of super dangerous and a joke... think of how much harder this challenge grows for a woman running against him. Play up his danger, and you risk being seen as shrill, or weak, or scared, or hysterical. Belittle him, and you risk coming off as a bitch, a ballbreaker, a nag, a witch. It was remarkable, then, to see Harris’s comfort last night in treating Trump as both of these things at once, a danger and a clown. She loves her a Venn diagram, and in the debate she seemed to find the lens-shaped intersection of what supremely dangerous wannabe autocrats and semi-retired, narcissistic, imploding clowns have in common: They are not thinking about you. x Best line post debate: 👇 ‘She was like a childless cat woman with a laser pointer, and he chased the dot the whole night.’ — Jeras Ikehorn (@JerasIkehorn) September 11, 2024 x Donate *directly* to up to 24 of the closest U.S. HOUSE races at once:https://t.co/V5IB5YB3gw — Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) September 11, 2024 x Just a reminder: Trump didn’t have a bad night. This is just who he is, and has been all along, visible to anyone who looked past the sanewashing. Probably this is also who Harris has been all along, but now she has broken through the negative narratives that have clung to her. — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 11, 2024 Mayor Adams’ pick for New York City’s top lawyer played a pivotal role in helping Chevron escape liability for a toxic legacy of pollution in Ecuador. At the start of what would turn out to be a grueling 11-hour confirmation hearing before the New York City Council last week, Mayor Eric Adams’ pick for the city’s next top lawyer introduced himself as a “happy warrior” and “lifelong Democrat” with a laundry list of progressive accomplishments. He did not, during that introduction, mention his work as a lawyer for Big Oil. x ❗️ Eric Adams’ pick for NYC’s top lawyer is out. Mastro’s work for Chevron helped sink his nomination. I wrote about it here: https://t.co/2lv2V1rPfq https://t.co/HFTzmN7hZl — Emily Sanders (@emdashsanders) September 10, 2024 ...A longtime trial attorney who worked as deputy mayor for Rudy Giuliani, Mastro’s nomination for Corporation Counsel has been met with heavy skepticism from many of the City Council’s 51 members. In April, the Council’s Black, Asian and Latino Caucus stated that “Mastro is unfit to serve as the city’s chief lawyer” given his “professional track record representing dubious clients.” Indeed, Mastro’s list of clients include former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” scandal, New Jersey in its effort to block congestion pricing initiatives in New York, landlords fighting a local ordinance requiring buildings to make energy efficiency upgrades, and oil giant Chevron, in its years-long pursuit to evade liability for oil spills and billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon. x Donate *directly* to Democrats running in up to 40 of the closest STATE LEGISLATIVE districts in ALASKA, ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO & FLORIDA at once:https://t.co/TrZLPYavaO — Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) September 11, 2024 Donald Trump’s sons want to turn their father’s growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business. So far, the project’s troubled rollout has succeeded in creating only one thing: a potential political liability for the former president. Trump’s eldest sons — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — have been teasing their plans to unveil a crypto startup called World Liberty Financial for weeks. But the launch has been marred in recent days by a series of apparent scams that have redirected fans to fake pages and compromised the social media accounts of other Trump relatives. The incidents have begun to rattle some of Trump’s allies within the crypto world. They’re warning that his family should shelve a project that they say creates unnecessary political risks and reflects poorly on the industry “This is a huge mistake,” said Nic Carter, a Trump supporter who is a founding partner at the crypto-focused venture capital firm Castle Island Ventures. “It looks like Trump’s inner circle is just cashing in on his recent embrace of crypto in a kind of naive way, and frankly it looks like they’re burning a lot of the good will that’s been built with the industry so far.” x JD Vance on Taylor Swift: “I don't think many people are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.” pic.twitter.com/fJn5cfvZOr — Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) September 11, 2024 Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the Gulf Coast. Despite quickly weakening to a tropical storm, it was packing a strong punch. x Wind and surge hammering Dulac, LA as the inner eyewall approaches. We are tracking the eye wall LIVE as it moves into Houma. #francine #HurricaneFrancine pic.twitter.com/w2vhGYZ5EL — Aaron Jayjack (@aaronjayjack) September 11, 2024 Francine crashed ashore in Terrebonne Parish, about 30 miles southwest of Morgan City, the National Hurricane Center announced at 4 p.m. CDT. Packing maximum sustained winds near 100 mph, the storm then battered a fragile coastal region that hasn't fully recovered from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. ...The National Hurricane Center urged residents to stay sheltered overnight as Francine blows inland. The storm's projected path included New Orleans, where forecasters said the storm's eye could pass through. ...Francine drew fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters, strengthening to a Category 2 storm hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said. Category 2 hurricanes are classified as having winds of between 96 to 110 mph that are capable of extensive damage. x Photo taken 9/10/24 The Bridge Fire in the Angeles National Forest exploded to ~47k acres with 0% containment. The fire was quite visible last night from behind the Los Angeles skyline photographed the Baldwin Hills area. A sad reality of fire season in LA. pic.twitter.com/kTyg9AuMAy — Brandon Yoshizawa (@bay_photography) September 11, 2024 When Biden took office in 2021, he faced the prospect of responding to a number of Trump’s decisions made during his chaotic final year in office — including one important one made about oil As Donald Trump patches up the ever-growing hole in his finances resulting from his ongoing legal escapades with fossil fuel money, it looks as if a late-game gamble the former president made during his last year in office may be finally paying off. That gamble may have also set up Joe Biden to deal with the effects of higher gas prices just as he was taking office a year later. When Trump ran for re-election in 2020, he did so with a palpable sense of desperation. Early on, it was clear that the Republican president was worried about his opponent, Joe Biden. That impression was only made clearer after it came out that Trump had sought to pressure the president of Ukraine to open a criminal investigation into Biden with the intention of damaging his rival politically. ...When Biden took office in 2021, he immediately faced the prospect of responding to a number of Trump’s decisions made during his chaotic final year in office. That didn’t just include his meddling in global oil production; most famously, Biden was burdened with carrying out the politically fraught task of ending America’s longest-running war in Afghanistan. Oil prices, which kept climbing through 2021, seemed to reach a peak a year after the 2020 election, only to begin surging once more a few months later when Vladimir Putin and Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine. x Tim Walz learns about Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris in real time on MSNBC pic.twitter.com/KVsyH9v87d — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2024 x While you're at it, donate *directly* to these STATE SUPREME COURT candidates running in MICHIGAN, NORTH CAROLINA, OHIO & TEXAS (plus a vital early 2025 race in WISCONSIN):https://t.co/8VXbAEHKTE — Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) September 11, 2024 x If only Donald Trump would just drift off into the woodwork after last night. If only. But it won't be that easy. So register/check your registration at https://t.co/KTm21qea8f & encourage those around you to. Make a plan to vote with friends. It's all about turnout now. — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 11, 2024 x The @Swifties4Kamala coalition will host a phone bank with youth vote organization @VotersTomorrow on Saturday. https://t.co/yj9fXelCu9 — Rachel Janfaza (@racheljanfaza) September 11, 2024 Looking to volunteer to help get out the vote? Click here to view multiple ways you can help reach voters—textbanking, phonebanking, letters, postcards, parties, canvassing. We’ve got you covered! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/11/2269271/-Overnight-News-Digest-for-Sept-11-2024-We-re-looking-back-but-not-GOING-back-edition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/