https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trumpadmin-alaska-mine-permit/2020/08/25/id/983823/

The Trump Administration this week made a complete reversal on its position regarding a planned Alaskan copper and gold mine, saying that the proposal “cannot be permitted,” due to environmental concerns.

The Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday that the Pebble Mine planned at Bristol Bay “as proposed, would likely result in significant degradation of the environment and would likely result in significant adverse effects on the aquatic system or human environment.”

This means that the project cannot abide by the environmental conditions that the administration made a requirement for the mine last year.

“That effectively is how the project is killed,” an unnamed person said to be familiar with the plan told Politico, speaking under the condition of anonymity. “This one had a huge number of problems.”

“I understand, respect, and support this decision. I agree that a permit should not be issued,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said in a statement on Monday. “And I thank the administration for its commitment to the protection of this world-class watershed and salmon fishery.”

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/biden-campaign-forcefully-denounces-endorsement-of-white-nationalist-richard-spencer

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden’s presidential campaign forcefully denounced the Democratic nominee’s endorsement by a white nationalist, Richard Spencer.

“When Joe Biden says we are in a battle for the soul of our nation against vile forces of hate who have come crawling out from under rocks, you are the epitome of what he means,” campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said Sunday on Twitter, responding to a tweet by Spencer. “What you stand for is absolutely repugnant. Your support is 10,000% percent unwelcome here.”

Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, said in a conversation that he was shifting his support to Biden from President Donald Trump, whom he supported in 2016, not for ideological reasons but because Biden was more competent.

“I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic ticket,” Spencer tweeted. “It’s not based on ‘accelerationism’ or anything like that; the liberals are clearly more competent people.”

“Accelerationism” is a white nationalist strategy that advances liberal policies as a means of sowing chaos, which white nationalists believe will bring about a white supremacist revolution.

So did he just say the left is better on bringing the race war then he ever was?

Somebody seems concerned

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/25/james-comey-barr-trump-damage-justice-department/?

Media Matters complaining about local coverage of Save the Children rallies

https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/watch-how-reports-across-country-omitted-dangerous-qanon-connections

On Saturday, in communities all over the United States, protesters took to the streets in what many of them called rallies to “save our children” from the very real problems of sexual abuse and abduction – except that these rallies were organized online by supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

According to NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, reporters who specialize in the dangerous and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, more than 200 “Save The Children” or “Save Our Children” (these appear to be used interchangeably) rallies were scheduled across the country beginning on August 9, but taking place as recently as August 22. The marches were often peaceful and, when talking to reporters, they “rarely mention[ed] QAnon or wider conspiracy theories, sticking instead to demands like stricter laws against pedophilia and greater media attention on sex trafficking.” But the rallies were not actually about protecting children; in actuality, they were attempts to lure more people into supporting the demented conspiracy theory.

Unfortunately, media all over the country failed to report on the rallies’ connections to QAnon, supporters of which have been linked to child abductions, domestic terrorism, and at least one murder. Instead, most media outlets covered the nationwide QAnon rallies as credible attempts to call attention to child abuse – even when well-known QAnon-related slogans and signs were plainly visible, sometimes even appearing in the televised reports.

New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen documented examples of news programs ignoring the rallies’ QAnon links this past weekend on Twitter and the Atlantic Council’s Zarine Kharazian compiled a database of over 100 media articles on these rallies, many of which did not mention QAnon.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/florida-dem-says-vote-against-child-sex-doll-ban-was-mistake/

Florida Democratic congressional hopeful Margaret Good was the only state house member to vote against a bill that banned the sale and possession of child sex dolls—a vote she now says is a mistake.

Good, who enjoys the support of national Democrats and pro-abortion activists, voted against a 2019 bill that made selling, possessing, or advertising "an obscene, child-like sex doll" a third-degree felony. The Good campaign told the Washington Free Beacon that the Democrat made the vote "in error."

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/25/we-build-the-wall-advisory-board-resignations/

Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Robert S. Spalding III and Pennsylvania businessman John D. Moran Jr. told the Daily Caller News Foundation they had no prior knowledge of the allegations against Bannon and Kolfage and said they tendered their resignation from the group’s advisory board on Thursday after learning of the indictments.

Two other advisory board members — retired Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo — also told the DCNF they first learned of the allegations on Thursday but did not respond when asked if they intended to resign their position with We Build The Wall.