The N.Y. Democrat tweeted that ‘Donald Trump has never cared for our country more than he cares for himself.’
The fallout from the New York Timesreport about the incredibly low amount that President Donald Trump paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 continues.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corteztweeted that she “paid thousands of dollars a year in taxes *as a bartender.*”
In 2016 & ‘17, I paid thousands of dollars a year in taxes *as a bartender.*
Trump paid $750.
He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses & undocumented immigrants.
Donald Trump has never cared for our country more than he cares for himself. A walking scam. https://t.co/VZChbp8htu
“Trump paid $750,” the Democrat continued. “He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses & undocumented immigrants.”
Ocasio-Cortez wrote that “Donald Trump has never cared for our country more than he cares for himself.” She called the president, “a walking scam.”
In a second tweet, Ocasio-Cortez recalled the controversy that surrounded her in October 2019 when she got an $80 haircut at a D.C. hair salon and spent $180 on lowlights.
Last year Republicans blasted a firehose of hatred + vitriol my way because I treated myself to a $250 cut & lowlights on my birthday.
Where’s the criticism of their idol spending $70k on hairstyling?
Oh, it’s nowhere because they’re spineless, misogynistic hypocrites? Got it. https://t.co/xCQGwW7EK5
At the time, Richard Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, said: “it is a bad look to spend hundreds of dollars to get your hair done to make a video decrying income inequality.”
“Last year Republicans blasted a firehose of hatred + vitriol my way because I treated myself to a $250 cut & lowlights on my birthday,” she tweeted. “Where’s the criticism of their idol spending $70k on hairstyling?”
“Oh, it’s nowhere because they’re spineless, misogynistic hypocrites? Got it.”
The representative was referencing a line in the report that Trump wrote off $70,000 in hairstyling on his tax returns.
Fellow Democrats denounced Trump following the release of the bombshell report.
“Donald Trump paid just $750 in income taxes in 2016 and 2017,” Senator Elizabeth Warrenwrote, “He knows better than anyone that there’s one set of rules for the wealthy and giant corporations and another for hardworking Americans—and instead of using his power to fix it, he’s taken advantage of it at every turn.”
“Nothing REAL can be threatened,” she wrote, “Oh yeah, and remember when I said I was collaborating with @fashionnova to make jeans for tall women. These are the first samples (fire emoji) coming soon.”
Her second post was far less subliminal, with the “WAP” rapper posing face-first to the camera wearing a set of rings that spell out, “F**K YOU.”
Rap star Megan Thee Stallion has a couple choice words for Tory Lanez in response to the album he recently dropped. (Photos by Rich Fury/Getty Images for Billboard and Erik Voake/Getty Images for Roc Nation)
The caption simply said, “Mood.”
Megan’s supporters piled on compliments and praise for the hot girl coach. “Girl, you make me so proud,” one wrote, “and I love you.”
Actress Keke Palmer wrote, “You look great sweetness.”
Supporters of Tory Lanez chimed in as well, with one writing, “Tory is innocent. How could you accuse a king like him?”
Friday morning, Lanez released Daystar, his 17-track album littered with diss songs about Megan Thee Stallion, as well as Kehlani and JoJo, who both removed Lanez from songs on their projects.
“There is a time to stay silent. And a time to speak,” he captioned a photo of the album’s cover. “I said all I could say on this.”
The LP received mixed reviews, but it did reach #1 on Apple Music this weekend.
Daystar was Lanez’s first response to Megan’s Instagram Live declaration, on which she said definitively that he shot her following a party the two attended on July 11 at the home of Kylie Jenner.
Lanez was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon following the incident but has not been charged with assault.
The story continues to unfold, with lines drawn between fans of the two artists.
Megan Thee Stallion will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this week when the show returns to the studio for the first time following the coronavirus pandemic. The debut of Season 46 will be hosted by SNL alumnus Chris Rock, as another of Megan’s Instagram posts noted.
The Biden-Harris campaign’s vinyl sticker two-packs are priced ironically at $7.50. Trump says he pays ‘a lot.’
The bombshell report that President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income tax in both 2016 and 2017, the first years of his presidency, set social media ablaze.
The president refused to comment on the New York Times story, calling it “fake news” and adding that he pays “a lot.”
However, the Biden campaign has seized on the report by selling stickers that read “I paid more in taxes than Donald Trump.”
The vinyl sticker two-packs are priced ironically at $7.50.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware earlier this month. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has not yet released an official statement in response to the report about the president’s tax woes. However, the two are expected to face off during the first presidential debate Tuesday night, and the subject will undoubtedly arise.
The Times article details how during his first two years as president, Trump received $73 million from foreign operations, which, in addition to his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, included $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey. The president in 2017 paid $145,400 in taxes in India and $156,824 in the Philippines, compared to just $750 in U.S. income taxes.
The report also notes that the president is saddled with tens of millions of dollars in debt, much of which would come due in his second term, if he was re-elected.
According to the Times, he appears to be responsible for loans totaling $421 million, most of which is coming due within four years.
For years, Trump has maintained that his taxes could not be released because he is under audit. That fact has been rejected by a number of experts. Trump and the Justice Department have fought their release all the way to the Supreme Court amid an investigation from New York state.
The Times did not disclose how they obtained the returns, only that their latest findings build on their previous reporting.
#TrumpTaxReturns is still a trending topic on Twitter, where users are expressing their dismay with the disclosures about the president’s finances.
"47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes…And so my job is not to worry about those people—I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." — Mitt Romney, 2012
Lots of ppl excited abt the tax exposé & putting a lot of faith in the system…anticipating this huge consequence. Just like after the “grab ‘em by the 😼” audio, the paid for sex news, the Russians in the oval, the #Mueller report, etc etc. So. 😐I’m still bracing for chaos.
The House speaker sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues and reminded them of the possibility, rare as it is.
The Speaker of the House is preparing for the possibility that the House of Representatives will ultimately decide the presidential election.
If neither candidate wins the Electoral College, each state’s delegation would get a single vote, which is decided by an internal tally of each lawmaker in that designation. That means that the presidency could be decided by the party that has more delegates in the chamber.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks during a memorial service for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she lies in state in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Saturday. Ginsburg is the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)
According to POLITICO, Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to House Democrats and reminded them of the possibility of this scenario, which hasn’t happened since 1876.
“The Constitution says that a candidate must receive a majority of the state delegations to win,” Pelosi wrote. “We must achieve that majority of delegations or keep the Republicans from doing so.”
Republicans presently control 26 delegations over Democrats’ 22, with Pennsylvania tied and Michigan a 7-6 plurality for Democrats, and a 14th seat held by independent Justin Amash, also of Michigan.
According to the report, Pelosi has expressed worries about this rare possibility for weeks.
The concern will mean that Democrats will be spending time trying to turn particularly vulnerable House races in traditionally red states to blue. Resources are expected to be deployed to contests in Montana and Alaska.
President Donald Trump has also started mentioning this prospect at his rallies.
“And I don’t want to end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t want to go back to Congress either, even though we have an advantage if we go back to Congress. Does everyone understand that?” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
“I think it’s 26 to 22 or something because it’s counted one vote per state,” he continued, “so we actually have an advantage. Oh, they’re going to be thrilled to hear that.”
November’s election has already had a number of twists and turns; this scenario is simply another possibility for which Congress is preparing. The only way to avoid sending the presidential election results to the Supreme Court or to Congress is by an uncontested Electoral College win, which would be determined by a high voter turnout.
Government officials have increasingly sounded alarms on the risks of foreign interference and disinformation campaigns leading up to—and after—November 3.
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Brad Parscale’s wife reportedly called Fort Lauderdale police, saying he had weapons in their Florida home
Brad Parscale, the former head of President Donald Trump‘s reelection campaign, has been hospitalized after a home incident in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in which he reportedly threatened to harm himself.
Parscale, who served as Trump’s campaign manager until he was demoted in July, had a brief encounter on Sunday afternoon with police who were called to his home by his wife Candice Parscale, said Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Karen Dietrich, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Brad Parscale, campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, speaks on stage with Laura Trump, President Donald Trumps daughter in-law and member of his 2020 reelection campaign, during the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 (CPAC) hosted by the American Conservative Union on February 28, 2020 in National Harbor, MD. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
His wife told authorities that he had guns in the home and that she feared he would harm himself. Police Chief Dietrich said Parscale did not threaten the responding officers and that the encounter was “short.” He reportedly went willingly to a hospital with authorities under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows police to detain someone who’s potentially a threat to themselves or others.
The incident drew the attention of Fort Lauderdale’s Democrat Mayor Dean Trantalis, who said he received word that there was a SWAT team standoff at Parscale’s residence. “It was indicated to me that he had weapons,” said Mayor Trantalis. “Politics aside, this fellow obviously suffers from emotional distress … I’m glad he didn’t do any harm to himself or others I commend our SWAT team for being able to negotiate a peaceful ending to this.”
Parscale, who had previously run the digital strategy for Trump’s 2016 campaign, was announced as campaign manager for the 2020 reelection campaign in February 2018. However, a new campaign manager was announced in July 2020, leaving Parscale instead as a senior adviser.
Parscale became a face for the Trump campaign and often served as a “warm-up act” at rallies, according to USA Today. His relationship with Trump and his family dates back to 2011 when his digital marketing firm was hired by the Trump Organization to build websites and develop media strategies. But his role as the top honcho at the campaign came to a halt when Trump announced a new campaign manager, Bill Stepien.
The Trump campaign’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, speaks before Donald Trump supporters at a rally in Manchester on August 15, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Trump 2020 campaign is looking to flip the battleground state of New Hampshire with the use of a strong economy and appeals to his core voters on immigration and guns. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Trump allegedly blew up on Parscale during a campaign team meeting. The mercurial president was reportedly livid over his trailing in national polls against his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — all while fighting against public backlash over an uncertain economy amid the coronavirus pandemic and growing unrest over police brutality and racial violence in America.
Trump reportedly lashed out in an “angry outburst” against Parscale and even threatened to sue him after receiving a barrage of negative press for his handling of the pandemic, CNN reported. While Trump and Parscale had seemingly patched things up, a couple of months later, Parscale was demoted from his top position on Trump’s campaign staff.
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Shawn Myers hosted two parties that attracted crowds as much as six times the gathering limits set by the governor to contain coronavirus
A Maryland man has been sentenced to a year in prison for throwing house parties in March that violated the state’s coronavirus protective orders.
Shawn Marshall Myers, of Hughesville, Maryland, was arrested that month after hosting the second of two large parties at his home and received his punishment on Friday. More than 50 people attended the first party and more than 60 attended the second party days later, which came after the governor issued a stay-at-home mandate prohibiting residents from unnecessary social gatherings and trips outside the home, Washington Post reports.
The emergency order prohibited gatherings of more than 10 people.
According to Charles County State’s Attorney Office, police went to Myers’ house during a party to inform him that he was in violation of the protective order. Despite being “argumentative” with law enforcement, he dispersed the party, according to WBFF.
Despite this, Myers, 42, threw another house party on March 27, less than a week later. WTTG reports that this time more than 60 people were at his home and a bonfire was burning. After once again arguing with police, stating that he had a right to have the party, he was arrested after telling his guests not to leave and purposely violate the order.
Myers posted bail in April and awaited his August trial. After his release, he stated that he didn’t take the pandemic seriously and admitted that he behaved poorly with police.
Shawn Myers (via Charles County Sheriff’s Office)
“I definitely regret the way I handled it,” Myers told reporters in April. “I wish I had been more informed and given the opportunity to do it over again, I wouldn’t do it the same way.”
On Friday, Myers was found guilty on two counts of failure to comply with an emergency order. Alongside his year-long prison sentence, he must also pay a $5,000 fine and serve three years of unsupervised probation.
He will serve his term at the Charles County Detention Center.
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As President Donald Trump seeks his third appointment to the high court, justices are readying to tackle big legal issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — If Congress confirms President Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court would become more conservative, and also perhaps more ready to tackle certain hot-button issues like abortion and guns. Chief Justice John Roberts would also likely become less able to steer the outcome in divisive cases.
Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18 at 87, was the leader of the liberal wing of the court, which had been split 5-4 between conservatives and liberals. Roberts had, on occasion, sided with the liberals. But if Trump fills Ginsburg’s seat, there will be six conservative justices, three of them appointed by him.
Here are several big issues that are poised to come before the justices where a more solidly conservative majority could make a difference:
Pro-life activists stage a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court June 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)
HEALTHCARE
A week after the presidential election, the court will hear arguments in bid by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to overturn the Obama-era health care law. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, coverage for more than 20 million people is at stake, along with the law’s ban on insurance discrimination against Americans with pre-existing medical conditions.
A more conservative court might be seen as more sympathetic to striking down the Affordable Care Act, but the court might still choose not to. The justices have less drastic options. For example, the court could invalidate “Obamacare’s” now toothless requirement that most Americans carry health insurance, and leave in place core provisions such as subsidized health insurance, Medicaid expansion and protection for people with medical problems.
Now that former President Barack Obama’s landmark law is more than 10 years old, its many provisions are fully baked into the health care system. Unwinding it would be a colossal undertaking, fraught with political risks.
Trump promised, but never delivered, a replacement.
ELECTIONS
Trump has said he wants Ginsburg’s replacement confirmed to the Supreme Court ahead of Election Day so that a full court can weigh in on any campaign-related litigation.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump predicted the election “will end up in the Supreme Court,” adding, “I think it’s important we have nine justices.” The 2016 election was conducted with only eight justices on the bench, however, after Republicans refused to hold hearings on Obama’s nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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It’s possible that an election-deciding case lands in the justices’ laps, as one did in the 2000 election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. And liberals worry that a court with three Trump appointees would favor him in a dispute with Joe Biden.
But even if an election-deciding question doesn’t arrive at the justices’ doorstep, they have already weighed in on election changes states have made in response to the coronavirus pandemic. And more pre-election challenges are likely coming. So far this year the court has stopped other courts from altering election rules close to the election.
ABORTION
Abortion rights advocates would seem to face insurmountable odds winning at the Supreme Court without Ginsburg.
Earlier this year, a divided Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights. It was the first big abortion case of Trump’s presidency.
The 5-4 outcome turned on the vote of Roberts, who joined his four more liberal colleagues, including Ginsburg. The court addressed a law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The justices ruled that the law violates the rights established by Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a nationwide right to abortion.
But Roberts’ vote had to do with following court precedent rather than support for abortion rights. If a Trump nominee replaces Ginsburg, Roberts’ vote on the issue would likely become less decisive. And the addition of another conservative vote would likely spur states to test the boundaries of regulation.
Already, cases are headed to the court that would provide an opportunity to overturn or weaken Roe. v Wade. Those cases involve sweeping bans on abortions after six weeks or eight weeks of pregnancy.
GUNS
The Supreme Court has for years been reluctant to take on new guns cases, but that could change under a more conservative court.
Last year, with two Trump justices aboard, the Supreme Court took on its first major gun rights case in nearly a decade. But the case ended with the justices sidestepping any major decision.
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Gun rights advocates had hoped the court might use the case from New York City to expand on landmark decisions that established a right under the Second Amendment to keep a gun at home for self-defense. Instead, the justices ultimately threw out the case, citing changes in city restrictions and state law.
Three members of the court dissented, however, expressing concern that lower federal courts are not properly applying the court’s two big gun rights decisions from 2008 and 2010. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was among the justices who agreed the case should be thrown out, shared that concern, saying the court should address the issue soon.
ENVIRONMENT
After the president started pulling America out of the Paris climate accord, more than a dozen mostly Democratic governors were among those taking up the fight against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions themselves
A more conservative Supreme Court could doom those ongoing efforts, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week. Newsom said he’s “deeply anxious about what a 6-3 ideological majority on the court may mean to this conversation.”
But the outcome of the presidential election matters in this area too. A Biden administration could undo many of the dozens of Trump administration rollbacks weakening or eliminating many protections for the air and water and for people and wildlife.
Federal courts so far have rejected many of the rollbacks. Lawyers for environmental groups say if Trump were to win a second term and the makeup of the Supreme Court shifts significantly, they could be less likely to win if cases ultimately land there.
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Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, David Crary, Ellen Knickmeyer and Mark Sherman contributed to this report
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One public health official credits relative success in combating the virus in Africa to ‘drastic action’ taken by nations at ‘great cost to their economies’
While much of the world has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, multiple nations in Africa have managed to keep the virus at bay. Now, NBC News reports that researchers are working to figure out how it is being done.
According to Dr. Sam Agatre Okuonzi of Uganda’s Arua Regional Referral Hospital, things looked “very bleak” for Africa in regards to coronavirus. It was initially predicted that several countries would experience “severe devastation.”
“In Uganda, it was predicted that by September, there would be 600,000 cases of COVID-19 and 30,000 deaths,” Okuonzi said Thursday in a press conference. “But the reality is starkly different.”
According to Johns Hopkins University, Uganda has recorded about 7,300 positive COVID-19 tests and about 70 deaths.
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, Africa’s regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), attributes the relative success in combating the virus to early diligence of several African nations.
“Governments took early, quite drastic action through the lockdowns at great cost to their economies,” Moeti stated in the same news-making event Thursday. “This has bought us some time.”
Concern over the fragile health systems of numerous nations on the continent was high when the pandemic started. However, as of Sept. 20, the entire African continent has recorded more than 1.4 million cases and about 35,000 deaths connected to COVID-19 as of Sunday morning, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly half of those positive tests — almost 670,000 — were diagnosed in South Africa. The population of the continent is 1.2 billion.
World Rugby Player of the Year Pieter-Steph du Toit during the #StrongerTogether for R32-12 media opportunity at Food Forward SA on June 18, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
About 1.2 million people in Africa, a continent of an estimated 1.2 billion people, have now recovered from the disease.
As a comparison, the United States, which has an estimated population of 330 million, has reported over 7 million coronavirus cases and over 204,000 deaths, with 4.5 million recoveries, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University as of Sunday morning.
As the world seeks to blunt what damage a second wave of the virus may bring, researches are working to see what other factors have led to the containment of COVID-19 in Africa in an effort to educate other countries. University of Edinburgh professor Francisca Mutapi is among those who are researching nations like Zimbabwe to find the key to immunity levels.
People wear face masks to protect against coronavirus, in Harare, Zimbabwe Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
One factor considered is the fact that much of Africa’s population resides in rural areas and spend a majority of time outside.
“One of the factors about the virus is it doesn’t transmit very well outdoors,” Moeti stated. “Africa has a significant population that is rural and spends a lot of time outdoors. That is one of the factors that we have found from our own work.”
Moeti has also said a factor could be that only three percent of most African nations have a populace of citizens over age 65.
In a first for the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, The Rock has publicly endorsed a candidate for public office
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has never publicly endorsed a candidate for public office before.
All that has now changed, as he’s announced his support for Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be elected the next president and vice president on the United States this November.
The actor and former wrestler posted his official announcement on his Twitter page on Sunday morning. Not only did he give his endorsement, but he also recorded a video of him speaking with both Biden and Harris, asking them about what they plan to do if they win.
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Johnson is a self-proclaimed “political independent and centrist” who has voted for both Democrats and Republicans in his lifetime. He also revealed he has friends “in all parties.” However, he’s choosing to speak up now for what he calls “the most critical election this country has seen in decades.”
The video transitioned from Johnson making his endorsement announcement alone and outdoors to a virtual sit-down with Biden and Harris, where he complimented them both and told them he was endorsing them in the election. Johnson then asked the duo how they plan to earn the respect of the nation if they win.
As a political independent & centrist, I’ve voted for both parties in the past. In this critical presidential election, I’m endorsing @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris.
“By doing what we say we’re going to do. By keeping our word,” Biden answered. “When we fail, acknowledge it. We’re not going to be perfect, but take responsibility.”
Harris responded to the same question by saying that trust needs to be established between the American people and the Administration.
“It’s a reciprocal relationship. You give and receive trust,” Harris answered. “And one of the foundations of trust is truth.”
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris confer on stage outside the Chase Center after Biden delivered his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 20, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Harris continued by saying that it’s difficult to be truthful at times because sometimes people don’t want to always hear the truth, but that the nation has been suffering so much that being truthful is crucial to progress.
“People are grieving the loss of life, the loss of jobs, the loss of certainty, the loss of normalcy,” Harris said. “And to heal and get through this, we’re going to have to be honest about what healing will require.”
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To many onlookers, the sales through the crafts marketplace Etsy may straddle an uncomfortable line between supporting the movement and exploiting it.
A few weeks after nationwide protests erupted over the police killing of George Floyd, Julie Muller looked for something positive she could contribute to the movement from her Houston home.
The 67-year-old white woman, who has been selling homemade cookie-decorating kits online since March, decided to offer one with a Black Lives Matter theme. The kit comes with cookie cutters imprinted with former President Barack Obama’s face, sprinkles and icing in red, black and green — the colors of the Pan-African or Black Liberation flag.
Other examples of homespun BLM merchandise include wine stoppers and even garden gnomes — objects more often associated with white suburbia. The white sellers insist they are not trying to make light of racial issues or widen their profit margins. But to many onlookers, the sales through the crafts marketplace Etsy may straddle an uncomfortable line between supporting the movement and exploiting it.
Julie Muller, who sells cookie decorating kits on Etsy, makes cutout cookies for her Black Lives Matter kits Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Muller’s three children were the first to warn her she might appear to be capitalizing on racial unrest. But that’s partly why she wanted to act.
“I’ve been thinking about what’s systemic racism and what is racial profiling,” Muller said. “It’s more about doing my part. What can I offer?”
The protest movement ignited by Floyd’s death in May under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer compelled businesses large and small to declare publicly that they were “woke” to the pain of Black people. Manufacturers soon began making BLM T-shirts, face masks and signs.
It’s not surprising that independent merchants wanted to express solidarity too, said Patti Williams, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
To demonstrate sincerity, sellers should commit to making these items permanently to show their efforts are not just an attempt “to jump on a fad,” she added.
There’s also potential for the items themselves to be seen as offensive or tone-deaf.
Julie Muller, who sells cookie decorating kits on Etsy, poses in her kitchen Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Ashleigh Boutelle, 45, of Twin Peaks, California, custom paints garden gnomes as a side business. After making gay pride gnomes, he decided in July to try painting a Black Lives Matter gnome. The yellow-and-black-clad gnome — a nod to the colors used on a Black Lives Matter website — wears a “BLM” hat. He also painted it with a darker skin tone.
“I was just trying to be very careful and present something that you might say is neutral,” Boutelle said. “Hopefully, someone who sees it is not offended.”
He has since gotten a few orders for either Black Lives Matter gnomes or African-American gnomes. Boutelle hopes people don’t question his sincerity because his support is displayed on a mythical figure with a pointy hat.
This Sept. 21, 2020, photo provided by Ashleigh Boutelle in Twin Peaks, Calif., shows Black Lives Matter gnomes and gay pride gnomes he painted and is selling online. (Ashleigh Boutelle via AP)
“I like the idea of offering it to someone who might want to put it in their yard to make a statement — a cute statement, of course,” said Boutelle, who has not chosen yet to which organization to donate $10 from every sale of the $60 gnome.
Kate Mayer, 37, of Cincinnati, decided to offer a Black Lives Matter wine bottle stopper among her dozens of handmade wine stoppers. She understands critics may dislike the link between rosé and race relations. But her Etsy shop is her biggest platform.
“I can only hope that they would understand that I’m trying to come from a good place,” Mayer said. “I’m just trying to do the little bit that I can do. If everyone does that, it adds up to a lot.”
She gives 25% of each sale to the Black Voters Matter Fund. She has sold 15 of the $17 stoppers.
“I’m really not making a profit on these,” Mayer said. “It’s more of just a show of good faith.”
Both independent creatives and companies should be donating profits to demonstrate solidarity, said Fresco Steez, an activist with Movement for Black Lives and co-founder of Black Youth Project 100. And it can’t be just a percentage. Otherwise, businesses are essentially benefiting from the social struggles at the heart of the protests, she said.
“If you keep your production costs and explicitly say all of the profits are going to doing the work — that feels ethical to me,” Steez said.
Sugar cookies with the likeness of President Obama are displayed as part of Julie Muller’s cookie decorating kits which she sell on Etsy, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Crafters can also do other things, like donate an item for an organization’s fundraiser or event, Steez added.
In Chicago, Jasmine Renee, a Black legal assistant in her early 20s, recently launched an Etsy shop — Shea Butter Apparel — to sell Black Lives Matter-themed shirts, sweaters and accessories she designed. Advertising support for the movement on items like a gnome or wine stopper doesn’t personally appeal to her. She hopes those who find them appealing will also look at Black-owned businesses and that white sellers will promote Black sellers of BLM merchandise.
“It doesn’t really put the focus on you and your store or operation,” Renee said. “It returns some of the focus to the main goal of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is to say Black bodies are important. What we say and do is important.”
Ultimately, the offbeat creations could be a good way to touch a demographic that is sometimes out of activists’ reach. A wine stopper, for example, might initiate “upper middle-class conversations” about the marginalization of Black people and other groups, Steez said.
“My hope is when a white woman buys a Black Lives Matter wine stopper and potentially in the middle of the COVID pandemic has a dinner party and she sets it on a table — that a Trump-Pence supporter potentially wants to have a conversation and wants to debate,” Steez said.
Muller, a former teacher, would like to see her cookie-decorating kit serve as a vehicle to talk with children of any race about the movement and why it matters.
“I think you could make a little lesson around it,” Muller said. “I can’t believe anybody would say that would be unimportant.”
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The injured people were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Two people were struck by a car and injured Saturday during a Southern California demonstration involving members of Black Lives Matter and counter-protesters.
The incident occurred in the city of Yorba Linda, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
The injured people were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the car was detained, said Carrie Braun, spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
An unidentified woman is taken into custody after witnesses said she drove her car into a crowd of protesters in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (Mindy Schauer/The Orange County Register via AP)
The incident occurred as members of Black Lives Matter demonstrated against police brutality and systemic racism.
Counter-protesters crossed six-lane Imperial Highway and confronted the BLM protesters, authorities said. The protesters also confronted each other in the parking lot of the Yorba Linda public library, Braun said.
A white sedan came went through the crowd in the parking lot or the exit of the parking lot at the public library, injuring two people, Braun said. People chased the car as it tried to drive away, and it was eventually stopped and was surrounded by police, she said.
The Register reported it was not known how fast the car was going. The back windshield had been broken out, and it had a flagpole sticking out of it. The front windshield was smashed, the Register reported.
Orange County Sheriff deputies keep protesters and counter protesters apart in Yorba Linda, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (Mindy Schauer/The Orange County Register via AP)
The female driver of the car was detained, Braun said.
Braun said there were 300 people total and at some point it was declared an unlawful assembly and dispersal orders were given.
On Thursday night, a protester was struck by a pickup truck during a march in Hollywood and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Los Angeles police said Friday the preliminary investigation found that the driver was attempting to maneuver through the crowd when protesters began beating the vehicle with sticks and attempted to open the door.
The driver was attempting to drive away from the situation when he struck the protester. The driver stopped several blocks away and cooperated with officers. He was released pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Turns out it may not have been all her decision after all
Earlier this month, NeNe Leakes announced that she decided not to return to Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta next season.
Turns out it may not have been all her decision after all.
On September 17, Leakes posted a video message to fans on her YouTube channel, disclosing that after an “extremely, extremely long, exhausting, tiring, emotional negotiation,” she made the “very hard and difficult decision to not be a part of Real Housewives of Atlanta season 13.”
When a fan asked her on Twitter on Friday if Bravo was going to give her her own spin off show, Leakes replied back with, “They don’t think I deserve to work at all in any [capacity].”
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Leakes’ statement then received a response by another fan, Ellison Kendrick, an ex-background singer for Joss Stone. Kendrick tweeted back to Leakes, “it sound like they forced you out!” She then wrote, “Is that the story you want our there. ‘They didn’t want u to work in any capacity?'”
While the full story behind Leakes’ departure remains a mystery at this time, she is the second cast member of Real Housewives of Atlanta to reveal that they will not be coming back. In June, Eva Marcille Sterling announced that she was also stepping away from the show, according to The Ricky Smiley Show, of which she is a co-host.
She said she wanted to focus on “other opportunities” as one of the reasons for departing the show by “serving the community.” Marcille Sterling, the inaugural winner of “America’s Next Top Model,” joined the Housewives in season 10.
NeNe Leakes attends Rolling Stone Live Miami at SLS South Beach on February 01, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
“I love every single one of those black women. They are all queens all in their own right,” Marcille Sterling said of her tenure on Housewives. “They are stars and I wish them the most successful season and transformational season 13 that The Real Housewives of Atlanta has ever seen.”
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