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President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday is expected to outline proposals for trillions of dollars in government spending to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the economy, with an initial focus on large-scale expansions of the nation’s vaccination program and virus testing capacity.
Mr. Biden will detail his plans, which he and his economic team have been honing for weeks, in an evening speech in Delaware. The efforts will cover the pandemic, the economy, health care, education, climate change and other domestic priorities, Brian Deese, the incoming director of the National Economic Council, said at the Reuters Next conference on Wednesday. Top Democrats in Congress have said in recent days that they are preparing for the efforts to span two bills.
“At this moment the president-elect feels that we need to move aggressively on both rescue and recovery,” Mr. Deese said.
Money to complete $2,000 direct payments to individuals and aid to small businesses and local and state governments, components that Mr. Biden has stressed in recent weeks, will be part of the initial package, Mr. Deese said. Others briefed on Mr. Biden’s thinking said he would also call for the first piece of legislation to include an extension of supplemental federal unemployment benefits, which are set to expire in March for many workers, and more help for renters.
Plans for the first package also include a significant increase in spending on vaccine deployment, testing and contact tracing, Mr. Deese said, and Mr. Biden will seek enough money to allow most schools to open, in an effort to increase labor force participation.
“We need to get the schools open,” Mr. Deese said, “so that parents, and particularly women, who are being disproportionately hurt in this economy, can get back to work.”
Transition team officials would not say on Wednesday how expensive Mr. Biden’s proposals were likely to be or whether he would announce a cost estimate on Thursday. Last week, Mr. Biden said he expected his full agenda would cost “trillions” of dollars.
The proposals in the second tranche are likely to be larger than the first, and Democrats plan to pay for all or some of them by raising taxes on corporations and the rich. The second package is expected to be centered on job creation and infrastructure, including hundreds of billions of dollars of spending on clean energy projects like electric vehicle charging stations, along with health care and education spending, Mr. Biden’s team and leading congressional Democrats have indicated.
The first bill is likely to be deficit-financed, in keeping with the Covid-19 relief bills that Congress passed last year.
Mr. Biden has said he will work to build Republican support for his plans, and he will need 10 Republican votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. But top Democrats in the House and Senate are preparing to pivot quickly to a parliamentary process known as budget reconciliation in the event they can get only a simple majority in the Senate. Republicans used the procedure to bypass a filibuster and approve Mr. Trump’s signature tax cuts in 2017.
Democrats on both sides of the Capitol — including Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who will be the majority leader — have urged Mr. Biden to spend more than he had initially planned in the initial relief bill, people familiar with the conversations said.
Many Democrats in the House and Senate were pressing Mr. Biden this week to add items to the first bill, including targeted aid for restaurants and temporary expansions of the earned-income tax credit and the child tax credit, which could cost just over $100 billion. Economists say expanding those credits could sharply reduce child poverty when many low-income parents have lost work and are turning to food banks for help.
Congressional Democrats may include expansion of those credits in their legislation regardless of whether Mr. Biden calls for it. After Congress passed a $900 billion aid bill that did not include Democrats’ full priority list in December, Mr. Schumer told committee members to draft legislation that would include expansion of those tax credits, along with the additional direct payments and aid to state and local governments.
Democrats are also pushing Mr. Biden to include in his proposal provisions to automatically renew federal unemployment benefits and other aid until the unemployment rate falls to a specified level, in case Congress stops approving more rescue bills in the future.
President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal, likely debuting today, is expected to call for more than $1 trillion in new spending, targeting help to poor and middle-class households.
It will fund an expansion of the child tax credit, the full $2,000 checks Biden pledged to secure, extended unemployment benefits, aid to state and local governments, and more spending on the pandemic response and vaccine rollout.
But a bid to reduce child poverty will be core to the package. The yet-to-be-finalized plan would offer $3,600 a year to families with one young child and $3,000 for those with older children, Jeff and Erica report. “Biden is also likely to seek to extend the existing child benefit to millions of poor families currently shut out of the program.”
The Biden team proposes to unleash the federal spending in two waves. The first, what his economic advisers are calling the “rescue bucket,” would target emergency needs from the pandemic and its immediate economic fallout. The second, which the administration will seek to advance later this year, will focus on “recovery” items, meaning longer-term investments in healthcare and infrastructure aimed at Biden’s campaign pledge to “build back better.”
“We need an immediate rescue package that finishes the work that Congress took an important step on in December, but left a lot of work undone,” Brian Deese, who will lead Biden’s National Economic Council, said at an event hosted by Reuters on Wednesday. “We need to focus immediately again on underwriting the investments necessary to make a nationwide vaccination program work.”
The Biden team wants Republican support but doesn’t necessarily need it.
Deese said the officials with the incoming administration have started briefing senators from both parties on their plans. But Senate Democrats already are preparing to move ahead without their Republicans colleagues, soon to find themselves in the minority.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman, told Politico earlier this week he is working with his staff on a reconciliation package that would allow Democrats to pass more relief with a simple majority.
That said, it’s not clear senators will split strictly on party lines. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), for one, has signaled he will be wary of adding much more to the deficit. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote Biden on Wednesday urging him to back increasing the $600 stimulus checks signed into law last month to $2,000, a move already in Biden’s plan, though Rubio wants to advance such a measure as standalone legislation.
The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and evidence that the resurgent virus has caused a spike in layoffs.
The latest figures for jobless claims, issued Thursday by the Labor Department, remain at levels never seen until the virus struck. Before the pandemic, weekly applications typically numbered around 225,000. Last spring, after nationwide shutdowns took effect, applications for jobless benefits spiked to nearly 7 million — 10 times the previous record high. After declining over the summer, weekly claims have been stuck above 700,000 since September.
The high pace of layoffs coincides with an economy that has faltered as consumers have avoided traveling, shopping and eating out in the face of soaring viral caseloads. More than 4,300 deaths were reported Tuesday, another record high. Shutdowns of restaurants, bars and other venues where people gather in California, New York and other states have likely forced up layoffs.
Some states and cities are resisting shutdowns, partly out of fear of the economic consequences but raising the risk of further infections. Minnesota allowed in-person dining to resume this week. Michigan is poised to do the same. Some bars and restaurants in Kansas City are extending their hours.
In addition to the first-time applications for unemployment aid last week, the government said Thursday that 5.3 million Americans are continuing to receive state jobless benefits, up from 5.1 million in the previous week.
Many more Americans are receiving jobless aid from two federal programs — one that provides extended benefits to people who have exhausted their state aid and another that supplies benefits to self-employed and contract workers.
Those two programs had expired near the end of December. They were belatedly renewed, through mid-March, in a $900 billion rescue aid package that Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed into law. That package also includes $600 relief checks for most adults and a supplemental unemployment benefit payment of $300 a week. Congressional Democrats favor boosting the checks to $2,000 and extending federal aid beyond March, as does President-elect Joe Biden.
The U.S. job market’s weakness was made painfully clear in the December employment report that the government issued last week. Employers shed jobs for the first time since April as the pandemic tightened its grip on consumers and businesses.
Money to complete $2,000 direct payments to individuals and aid to small businesses and local and state governments, components that Mr. Biden has stressed in recent weeks, will be part of the initial package, Mr. Deese said. Others briefed on Mr. Biden’s thinking said he would also call for the first piece of legislation to include an extension of supplemental federal unemployment benefits, which are set to expire in March for many workers, and more help for renters.
Bernie alluded to $1400 the other day for extra relief, so it looks like the number then will be $1400, not $2000.
TYT is claiming Bernie is not happy with $1400 but I think they have not read that NYT report very carefully. Here’s why.
I always assumed they meant a $1400 top up because that’s what’s been in Congress but most people blissfully have better things on their minds and might be expected to be confused
biden skimping $600 off of what is already the bare minimum on a policy that is overwhelmingly popular with the public, even has some republican support and has zero downsides is the perfect encapsulation of the democratic leadership and who owns them
When this started, March of 2020, I was saying, only half jokingly, that this was the Walking Dead, we just haven’t understood it yet. We all will have it.
As the virus mutates and spreads out-of-control at the one year mark, my remarks seem more prescient than simply the result of my watching too much sci-fi.
Kid (university student part-time worker) who helps me at work came in to office to help me with the weekly check run but asked if it was ok to leave early as he wasn’t feeling well, said he was sore.
So I, knowing that he’d been diagnosed with Covid, probably due to his hair stylist mom who got it, asked him if by “sore” did he mean sore joints? He replied, “no my groin” (!)
First of all, I was surprised he was so frank with me, but I responded, “I don’t like the sound of that” and he accepted some ibuprofen to ease the inflammation. But the thing is that I’m hearing that covid has been affecting men’s private parts. This good kid still doesn’t have his sense of taste back after 8 months. I worry that his fertility has been affected. 🙁
T and R, jcb!! ☮️😊👍 Viruses form families. It’s a medical fact. They evolve and mutate. That has been reported over the last few months. I know Katie Porter is a true political moderate. She is focused on white collar crime in the financial industry. Is she too conservative for the Squad?
I think she’s great for her suburban 50/50 district. She’s a force in the CPC but I think her role will be as a close ally to the Squad, not officially part of it. Mondaire Jones is probably on the Squad borderline. His district has a Dem majority, but it’s also suburban with a big white majority like Porter’s. Their districts are going to change, especially NY, which might lose 2 Reps, definitely 1. California is going to lose 1.
This has been something that black community activists have tried to warn about for decades but no one listened. America must pay attention as each of these officers are exposed.
When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, he knew he had a serious problem.
Since 2001, hundreds of Black officers had sued the department for racial discrimination. They alleged that white officers called Black colleagues slurs like the N-word and that one officer found a hangman’s noose on his locker. White officers were called “huk lovers” or “FOGs” — short for “friends of gangsters” — if they were friendly with their Black colleagues. Black officers faced “unprovoked traffic stops” from fellow Capitol Police officers. One Black officer claimed he heard a colleague say, “Obama monkey, go back to Africa.”
In case after case, agency lawyers denied wrongdoing. But in an interview, Dine said it was clear he had to address the department’s charged racial climate. He said he promoted a Black officer to assistant chief, a first for the agency, and tried to increase diversity by changing the force’s hiring practices. He also said he hired a Black woman to lead a diversity office and created a new disciplinary body within the department, promoting a Black woman to lead it.
“There is a problem with racism in this country, in pretty much every establishment that exists,” said Dine, who left the agency in 2016. “You can always do more in retrospect.”
Whether the Capitol Police managed to root out racist officers will be one of many issues raised as Congress investigates the agency’s failure to prevent a mob of Trump supporters from attacking the Capitol while lawmakers inside voted to formalize the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
Already, officials have suspended several police officers for possible complicity with insurrectionists, one of whom was pictured waving a Confederate battle flag as he occupied the building. One cop was captured on tape seeming to take selfies with protesters, while another allegedly wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat as he directed protesters around the Capitol building. While many officers were filmed fighting off rioters, at least 12 others are under investigation for possibly assisting them.
Two current Black Capitol Police officers told BuzzFeed News that they were angered by leadership failures that they said put them at risk as racist members of the mob stormed the building. The Capitol Police force is only 29% Black in a city that’s 46% Black. By contrast, as of 2018, 52% of Washington Metropolitan police officers were Black. The Capitol Police are comparable to the Metropolitan force in spending, employing more than 2,300 people and boasting an annual budget of about a half-billion dollars.
On the surface it appears that the officers just let the crowd in, you’ll hear one black officer say, “I disagree with it”, and I read that this happened after being under siege for quite awhile, with no support, so I gather they decided to stand down and let the rioters in.
p.s. I disagree that this video necessarily indicates inside help (in this instance at least), it seems like the officers got the word that it wasn’t worth getting hit over the head with a fire extinguisher over without leadership supporting them.
President Trump’s defenders are claiming that his incitement of the attack on the Capitol is protected by the First Amendment under the venerable case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, and that he shouldn’t have been impeached for it or that he should be acquitted. But this claim is wrong. Even if Brandenburg applied to impeachments, which are different from criminal cases, the facts of that case are easily distinguished, and Trump’s conduct clearly meets the legal standard that Brandenburg set.
The Supreme Court reversed his conviction, holding that the First Amendment protected “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Under that standard, the defendant’s speech was protected because there was no lawless action imminent — saying that if suppression continues, some form of unspecified vengeance might have to be taken at some unclear future time (at least more than two weeks away, but probably even later after that), and over 500 miles away, didn’t meet the standard.
In contrast, Trump riled up a mob a short walk from the Capitol right before Congress was scheduled to count the certified electoral votes. Both in his tweets calling on supporters to come to Washington and in his speech at the Washington rally, the president falsely stated that allowing Congress to count the certified electoral votes would “steal” the election from him and his followers. In his remarks and tweets in the days before, he said the goal was to “stop the steal,” that their protest would “be wild,” that “you can’t let [the steal] happen,” and that “they’re not taking this White House. We’re going to fight like hell.”
At his speech on the day of the attack, he told his supporters that they should march to the Capitol to “stop the steal,” which necessarily meant stopping Congress from counting the electoral votes. Mere chanting was hardly likely to stop the count, so this implied forcible action — especially coming after his attorney Rudolph Giuliani urged the crowd to use “trial by combat” to stop the steal at the same rally.
That implication was confirmed by Trump’s other statements in his speech. He stated that Republicans had been too “nice” and were instead “going to have to fight much harder.” He added that “you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.” He further exhorted that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore” and that “they need to take back our country.” Although Trump tried to protect himself by stating that he was sure that the crowd would “peacefully” march to the Capitol, that does not alter the fact that he was inciting the crowd to forcibly stop Congress from counting the certified electoral votes once they got there.
Trump thus clearly incited lawless action (obstructing the operations of Congress is a crime) that was imminent (right after the speech, a short walk away). That he wanted to incite such lawless action is confirmed by reporting that for hours he watched the Capitol attack with pleasure and did not take any steps to stop it by calling out the National Guard or by urging his supporters to stand down.
Inauguration Day is a great American tradition but proceeding with a swearing-in at the Capitol is a mistake, not because Joe Biden and the public won’t be safe but because it’s impossible to have a ceremony that makes sense.
Even before the election, this year’s inauguration was already going to be a mess. The pandemic meant that a large gathering, even if masked, sanitized and held outside, would be foolhardy. Transmission rates outside may be low but cramming observers into Washington’s public transit, hotels, train stations and airports would have been a super spreader event. Even if the inaugural balls were canceled, you still would have had too many people descending on D.C.
The Capitol attack–and the weeks of lying and court challenges that preceded it–make it impossible to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power with a traditional inaugural on the Capitol steps. It’s not a peaceful transfer of power. Only tear gas and reinforcements and luck put down the insurrection. We can’t celebrate what didn’t happen.
I’m of the don’t-cave-to-terrorists school but canceling the ceremony at the capitol and replacing it with something else isn’t caving to the MAGA mob. The seditionists wanted which is four more years of Donald Trump. They won’t get it. Biden will take office and he will be sworn in. We won.
But just as it would be inappropriate to throw a ball this year, an outdoor ceremony at the Capitol, days after the American Carnage there, feels wrong. Biden could say a few words on Pennsylvania Avenue, outside the White House gates, take the oath from John Roberts, walk in and get to work.
It would be more befitting of the moment–the urgency to get vaccinations in arms and convicted terrorists in jail. The image of Biden going right to the Oval, perhaps followed by a camera, verite style, seems more appropriate to the solemnity of this January.
A day after she called for peace and healing following the riots at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called Georgia’s two incoming Democratic senators communists.
Noem made her comments about incoming Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in an op-ed published Friday by the conservative online magazine The Federalist. In her piece, which focuses on her views about what the Republican Party must do going forward, Noem criticized the election of Ossoff and Warnock in Tuesday’s runoff election.
“The idea that Georgia, of all places, could elect two communists to the United States Senate was ridiculous,” wrote Noem, a staunch Trump supporter who campaigned for Georgia’s Republican incumbents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Like the mask situation, it’s incredible that these swine can get away with endangering the safety of their fellow legislators scot-free. How is it that they haven’t already been censured, if not expelled? Just another symptom of white privilege.
Saw tiny bit of a tv panel while eating lunch & one guy said just what I was thinking, if Trump can somehow avoid any further incitement, and manage to stay on the down low, he won’t get convicted, or whatever it’s called, impeached.
But, if Trump can’t stop his mouth from running off, and says something stupid (odds?), forgetaboutit.
The place I work is going to begin allowing our parking lot as a vaccination place. Wild times..
But the past experience of indigenous populations has made them wary of the proposal.
Earlier efforts to create protected areas such as national parks sometimes led to their eviction from ancestral lands.
“By just setting a target without adequate standards and commitment to accountability mechanisms, the CBD could unleash another wave of colonial land grabbing that disenfranchises millions of people,” said Andy White, coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative.
When the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was dramatically enlarged in 1975, for example, the Bambuti community lost more than access to the forest.
A whole culture intertwined with nature perished.
“We no longer have access to medicinal plants,” said Diel Mochire, regional director of the Integrated Programme for the Development of the Pygmy People.
One of the most remarkable “sixth” senses in the animal kingdom is magnetoreception – the ability to detect magnetic fields – but exactly how it works remains a mystery. Now, researchers in Japan may have found a crucial piece of the puzzle, making the first observations of live, unaltered cells responding to magnetic fields.
Many animals are known to navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field, including birds, bats, eels, whales and, according to some studies, perhaps even humans. However, the exact mechanism at play in vertebrates isn’t well understood. One hypothesis suggests it’s the result of a symbiotic relationship between the animals and magnetic field-sensing bacteria.
But the leading hypothesis involves chemical reactions induced in cells through what’s called the radical pair mechanism. Essentially, if certain molecules are excited by light, electrons can jump between them to their neighbors. That can create pairs of molecules with a single electron each, known as a radical pair. If the electrons in those molecules have matching spin states, they will undergo chemical reactions slowly, and if they’re opposites the reactions occur faster. Since magnetic fields can influence electron spin states, they could induce chemical reactions that change an animals’ behavior.
Saw a bit of a youtube vid recently, talking about our current knowledge about matter, began with the usual electrons/protons/neutrons but then went on to more recent discoveries – the part I really loved was his talk of fields of “liquid-like” matter that exist in the universe. I’ll try to find it.
In the meantime, the attached pic blew my mind when I first saw it decades ago. To think that when I looked up at the sky as a kid and thought it was stars in the night sky..meanwhile, some of what I saw were galaxies.
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, suggests that a ring of dark matter encompasses the center of galaxy cluster CL0024+17. Khoury’s research proposes that dark matter functions within the conventional model at the large galaxy cluster scale, but that within the individual galaxy scale, superfluids cause unusual behavior. Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford et al. (Johns Hopkins University)
"70% of U.S. companies expect to increase their supply-chain footprint in China…China’s economy has been resilient, bolstering Beijing leaders’ belief that their system offers a more dependable alternative to Western democratic capitalism." https://t.co/fAdgU4vWL5
another article about China and US working together on climate rather than posturing for war
hypothetical: what if, looking backward, after 9/11, the world went all out for climate justice rather than that 20 years of wars and global arms buildup
what if…
politics are important
and often off the mark
Hint: China is not going to go away and need to be concerned that a dying empire will overreact using military to hold on to what is left
Considering we’ve had 4+ years of BS from trumpcorp Cori is refreshing she cut thru it
Don midwest
hot off the press from emptywheel
Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells @HallieJackson on @MSNBC that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.
Presidential speech is not like private citizen speech. If you can fire the Secretary of State or pardon a co-conspirator with a tweet, then your calls for violence, too, must be deemed operative.
Kansas City Star Editorial Board: In about a week, Mike Pompeo's service will mercifully come to an end.
"America will be better when he leaves office. Kansas will be much better if he decides to stay away from his adopted home state forever."https://t.co/XdQHoaxfBJ
Companies’ new attempt to feign ignorance and powerlessness about their officials’ donations to GOP super PACs obscures how corporate and individual contributions often work in tandem. https://t.co/Jp26P9ced5@dailyposter
wpDiscuz
They will move quickly to reconciliation after initially attempting to get Republican votes to get by filibuster (which will fail)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/business/biden-economy.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/14/finance-202-biden-roll-out-trillion-dollar-economic-relief-package-amid-fraught-transition/?utm_source=reddit.com
Why it’s needed
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-jobless-claims-unemployment-coronavirus-pandemic-layoffs-a0931717c499fbb6861a2d4e2dcb78a8
Bernie alluded to $1400 the other day for extra relief, so it looks like the number then will be $1400, not $2000.
I saw that too, Bernie quoting a $1,400 payment. I’m with you Benny. Demand a whole loaf!
TYT is claiming Bernie is not happy with $1400 but I think they have not read that NYT report very carefully. Here’s why.
no $600 here and it’s not bc i make too much.
👍 !
Now there’s a bad Brazil variant
When this started, March of 2020, I was saying, only half jokingly, that this was the Walking Dead, we just haven’t understood it yet. We all will have it.
As the virus mutates and spreads out-of-control at the one year mark, my remarks seem more prescient than simply the result of my watching too much sci-fi.
Kid (university student part-time worker) who helps me at work came in to office to help me with the weekly check run but asked if it was ok to leave early as he wasn’t feeling well, said he was sore.
So I, knowing that he’d been diagnosed with Covid, probably due to his hair stylist mom who got it, asked him if by “sore” did he mean sore joints? He replied, “no my groin” (!)
First of all, I was surprised he was so frank with me, but I responded, “I don’t like the sound of that” and he accepted some ibuprofen to ease the inflammation. But the thing is that I’m hearing that covid has been affecting men’s private parts. This good kid still doesn’t have his sense of taste back after 8 months. I worry that his fertility has been affected. 🙁
T and R, jcb!! ☮️😊👍 Viruses form families. It’s a medical fact. They evolve and mutate. That has been reported over the last few months. I know Katie Porter is a true political moderate. She is focused on white collar crime in the financial industry. Is she too conservative for the Squad?
I think she’s great for her suburban 50/50 district. She’s a force in the CPC but I think her role will be as a close ally to the Squad, not officially part of it. Mondaire Jones is probably on the Squad borderline. His district has a Dem majority, but it’s also suburban with a big white majority like Porter’s. Their districts are going to change, especially NY, which might lose 2 Reps, definitely 1. California is going to lose 1.
I appreciate your knowledge jcitybone. It helps me try to keep up.
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-one-took-us-seriously-black-cops-warned-about-racist-capitol-police-officers-for-years
This video is quite wild.
On the surface it appears that the officers just let the crowd in, you’ll hear one black officer say, “I disagree with it”, and I read that this happened after being under siege for quite awhile, with no support, so I gather they decided to stand down and let the rioters in.
p.s. I disagree that this video necessarily indicates inside help (in this instance at least), it seems like the officers got the word that it wasn’t worth getting hit over the head with a fire extinguisher over without leadership supporting them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/14/trump-brandenburg-impeachment-first-amendment/?utm_source=reddit.com
Prick.
Latest member of Hydra
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/01/13/cancel-the-inauguration/
sounds great.
Still with the inside track for the coveted Most Putrid Governor award.
https://www.wjcl.com/article/after-initial-calls-for-peace-south-dakota-governor-says-georgias-new-senators-are-communists/35177079
F—you, Noem. Get out of our way.
I would ad the word
racist
right in front of the word Noem in your reply.
DeathSantis is giving all the other FRightie governors a serious challenge for that title. 💩
F—them. Get out of our way.
They have them in airports, but maybe they use their own planes?
Fine them just like over the mask wearing.
Like the mask situation, it’s incredible that these swine can get away with endangering the safety of their fellow legislators scot-free. How is it that they haven’t already been censured, if not expelled? Just another symptom of white privilege.
I guess we are supposed to cheer for a Trump impeachment in the Senate.
I will not be cheering for this.
I want Trump GONE.
Biden may or may not get the vaccine out promptly and efficiently. But he needs to have the space and support to do this.
Same goes for the economic relief agenda he is unrolling.
Trump lingering and lying will clog up the works.
OK. Maybe that’s the point. Slow down help to those who need it. That’s the corporate uniparty alright.
I’m with you NYCVG, I just want him gone.
Saw tiny bit of a tv panel while eating lunch & one guy said just what I was thinking, if Trump can somehow avoid any further incitement, and manage to stay on the down low, he won’t get convicted, or whatever it’s called, impeached.
But, if Trump can’t stop his mouth from running off, and says something stupid (odds?), forgetaboutit.
The place I work is going to begin allowing our parking lot as a vaccination place. Wild times..
Indigenous peoples wary of UN biodiversity rescue plan
They should get access for that reason at the very least!!
Why can’t we get it together and recognize the value of the knowledge that native people have gained?? It seems like such a no-brainer to me.
are you charged today?
ask your cell mates
Scientists observe live cells responding to magnetic fields for first time
Good stuff Don, thank you.
Saw a bit of a youtube vid recently, talking about our current knowledge about matter, began with the usual electrons/protons/neutrons but then went on to more recent discoveries – the part I really loved was his talk of fields of “liquid-like” matter that exist in the universe. I’ll try to find it.
In the meantime, the attached pic blew my mind when I first saw it decades ago. To think that when I looked up at the sky as a kid and thought it was stars in the night sky..meanwhile, some of what I saw were galaxies.
You are talking my language here, mags. Love it!🌎🪐👍
Moon of Alabama – three views of current state of US
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/01/three-views-on-the-current-situation-in-the-us-of-a.html
didn’t go to WSJ because behind a paywall
another article about China and US working together on climate rather than posturing for war
hypothetical: what if, looking backward, after 9/11, the world went all out for climate justice rather than that 20 years of wars and global arms buildup
what if…
politics are important
and often off the mark
Hint: China is not going to go away and need to be concerned that a dying empire will overreact using military to hold on to what is left
like the dead enders in the Republican party
“a more dependable [CHEAPER MORE OBEDIENT] alternative to Western democratic capitalism.”
we need to bring our supply chain home and revive our middle class.
Considering we’ve had 4+ years of BS from trumpcorp Cori is refreshing she cut thru it
hot off the press from emptywheel
What do you mean ignorance? The Corps own their critters