Good morning, kidlets. I’ll take this brief watering hole down if Georgia publishes. Two things. First from Dana Millbank on Ivana’s sand trap: The latest Trump grift? Burying Ivana at their golf club.
Photos published by the New York Post on Sunday show a lone grave at the edge of a field with some yellowed grass around it, a clump of white flowers on the freshly turned earth and a flat stone marker with a less-than-effusive epitaph: “IVANA TRUMP, February 20, 1949 - July 14, 2022.” She died last month of an apparent fall.
Roger is buried in front of a bank of ferns, hostas, and lilies and bordered by rose bushes, hibiscus and a butterly bush.
Second. The Guardian has a disturbing yet all too familiar piece on Police Miss Red Flags in Domestic Violence Cases.
Women who have been non-fatally choked by their partner are seven times more likely to eventually be killed than other abuse victims; women who are abused while pregnant are three times more likely to be slain, Campbell’s research has shown. Just owning a firearm makes an abuser five times more likely to take his partner’s life; if he actually uses a weapon to threaten or assault her, her risk of being killed is 20 times higher than for other abuse victims. The combination of risks makes a situation like Carpenter’s “all the more dangerous”, Campbell said.
Ooops, there’s a third and predictable from the NYT about stupid Democrats. Fed Up With Democratic Emails? You’re Not the Only One.
National Democratic and progressive groups together burned through the surge of liberal organizing under Mr. Trump, treating impassioned newcomers like cash cows, gig workers and stamp machines to be exploited, not a grass-roots base to be tended. Worse, research by academics and political professionals alike suggests many of the tactics they pushed to engage voters proved ineffective.
Some may even have backfired. Millions of dollars and hours were wasted in 2018 and 2020. And yet, as the party stares down a bleak midterm landscape, with abortion rights on the line, the Democratic establishment and progressive organizations alike are doubling down on the same old tactics.
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