A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Far-right commentator Dinesh D’Souza has re-released “2000 Mules,” aka a Bible for election deniers that’s based on his documentary of the same name, after the first version of the book was abruptly recalled due to what he called an unspecified “significant error”–but not before NPR got a copy.
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Kanye West Shows Up Uninvited to Skechers Headquarters in Wake of Adidas Fallout (tmz.com)
HEY SKECHERS, GOT ROOM FOR ME???
Sources familiar with Ye’s visit tell us he was at the company’s main office Wednesday morning in Manhattan Beach, CA … but this was not a scheduled meeting with management.
Skechers says, Ye “arrived unannounced and without invitation at one of Skechers’ corporate offices in Los Angeles. Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation.”
wrong color I guess
Preacher’s wife sues Miami cops for strip searching her after mistaking her for a drug trafficker: report (msn.com)
Lucarelli says U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained at 6:00 a.m. when she returned to Florida after visiting family in Brazil. They reportedly brought her into a back room after finding her prescribed medication.
“Miami-Dade Police Department detectives started trickling in, and the situation deteriorated from there. Lucarelli, who has a Brazilian background, claims one detective “called [her] a Mexican” and tried to pressure her into confessing to his illusory narrative that she was trafficking drugs,” the weekly reported
This is funny because most cool kids wouldn’t be caught dead wearing skechers, according to my hip nephew.
Perhaps SAS needs a spokesperson.
Somewhere on my shelves is a book on editing with a section on budgeting your time. If your time is at a rock-bottom minimum, it says, read over what you’re about to publish to spot anything that might be absurd or libelous. This seemed so obvious when I first read it long ago that I found it amusing but I GUESS SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY NEEDED TO HEAR THAT LOOKING AT YOU REGNERY JFC NOT TOO FUSSY ARE YOU?
Those five unnamed groups should sue d’Souza anyway, just for being a lifelong jerk.
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, was allegedly “engaged in unauthorized filming” and was escorted from the building by two executives, Skechers said in a statement.
“Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,” the statement reads.
“We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech.”
As I read the Adidas announcement of the severing of their business relationship - Ye takes nothing in the way of IP away from the deal - only his name (which is a net liability at this point) - no artwork / design - nothing … and “nothing” is what Ye has to offer at this point.
Early bird gets the worm??
RNC Launches 73 Election Integrity Lawsuits Across 20 States - Tennessee Star
Shouldn’t D’Souza have the words convicted felon after his name (I know Trump pardoned him along with all the other GOP crooks).
It’s all a shell game – PACS would buy the book in bulk, then “give” it away after a donation. That (used to be) how Ann Coulter’s fact-deficient screeds would end up on the NY Times bestseller lists.
Probably goes without saying given that they even considered publishing a book by D’Souza 
Open letter to top publisher condemns $2m Amy Coney Barrett book deal | Books | The Guardian
More than 250 figures from the US literary world have signed an open letter protesting the acquisition by Penguin Random House of a book by the conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett.
It looks like right wing publishing houses are beginning to pay attention to the defamation decisions that have been coming down lately. They want to shade the lies instead of just own them.
In line with a becca656 comment on a different thread, we seem to be in a period without much substantial news right now. Is this just the ‘quiet before the storm’ preceding the midterms, or is there some big story about to drop…?
Sure, that’s easy for you to say…
One of these days, there will come a plaintiff who has a deep pocket who would be willing to fund putting Regnery out of business. Just like Hulk Hogan did with whatever gossip site that posted that video of him and his neighbor getting it on.
