10/27 News Roundup, Numbers, and Open Thread
Along the Keystone XL Pipeline, Hoping for a Miracle
The pipeline, expected to be operational in 2023, would transmit 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, crossing through the US Midwest. Environmentalists believe that should the pipeline succeed, it will commit North America to continued investment in fossil fuels, dooming any realistic effort to curb climate change.
“The reality of the footprint is so much beyond what the pipeline itself is just doing. [There are] spills and leaks and those kinds of risks, but folks living there are already experiencing increased truck traffic and risks of Covid,” said Gabby Brown, the senior press secretary of the environmental organization Sierra Club.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has attempted to push through construction under Permit 12—a fast-track water crossing permit. But a federal judge, in response to a lawsuit filed in July of last year by members of the Northern Plains Resource Council and other environmental groups, prohibited the Corps from using this permit. Plaintiffs claim that the Corps violates the Clean Water Act and challenges the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. “The idea that a foreign country could impose imminent domain and violate the sovereignty of another country with the support of our so-called leaders is unbelievable…. What is the benefit? A few short-term jobs and longtime destruction?” Dena Hoff, a plaintiff and member of the Northern Plains Resource Council, said to me this month.
To add to the destructive legacy of the Trump Administration:
Hypocritical. If Judge Amy is true originalist she should have automatically disqualified herself as framers did not think women were fit to vote nor be counted as full person.
— Leila Walsh (@LeilaWalsh8) October 27, 2020
More news, tweets, videos, etc in the comments. Sure Happy It’s Tuesday.
One week. Can’t we get this over with?
New:
Reported last night, but worth mentioning again.
nancy, blood is on your hands
dems, party like there is no tomorrow
i.e., like the constitution is done
would’ve been 6-3 Get used to seeing those numbers, unless Byedone packs the court. I’ll say it now if the Dems get all 3 branches the R’s will sue to the supreme court everytime Byedone signs a law into effect they dont like.
Duly noted and agreed.
and my wife and her liberal friends love the ads
she sends them to me and has me watch them
propaganda works in strange ways
she is well informed – NYT, WA Post, rolling stone, etc
and she reads lots of books – especially the Trump books about the crook
and she knows that Trump is destroying the government
but, the Lincoln ads speak to her
there is so much bad stuff that anyone can cherry pick it
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if that is so, why do dems go after Russians rather than governance
a coup has been underway and the dems have not stopped it
just one big happy family
I ignore slick dumb crap like their ads. But, I never cared much for TV and am not the usual American consumer.
Krystal Ball might blow it on Amendment 3. Hubster asked me what it was, and when I explained it to him, he voted for it ASAP. Heavy statewide turnout reports continuing.
Orl, she’s quoting a poll, not forecasting it.
She is also backing what the poll says personally.
I thought she was commenting on how the margin is thin and sure way for Biden to win FL?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/expand-court-ocasio-cortez-leads-charge-3-word-democratic-strategy-after-barrett
Person to lean on is Pete Buttigieg.
Just another GOPuke Lite.
But he was the first one to bring it up.
The DNC next chosen one
Right Liz, take your GOPuke Lite arse somewhere else.
SCOTUS has been screwed since Cheney-Dumbya. PBadOdor didn’t help. So, no surprise.
I disagree.
Justice Sotomayor is an excellent justice and she was nominated by PBO.
She’s actually the best. She really was to left of RBG even
haven’t there been a couple of pro-corporate decisions she’s agreed on? i don’t keep track or have receipts, but i thought she made a couple or a few bad decisions. O didn’t appoint anyone who would really get down with the people. imho
PBO lucked out with Kagan and Sotomayer at the time. But the FRighties/McConnell called his number on starting to ram through all the fed judges approved by the Federalist Society at the lower levels. PBO never called them out nor used his great oratorical skills to alert the country as to what they were up to. These fringe FRight assholes have played this long game for over 50 years. Man, have they been successful!
You found the common ground!
i still believe he could have done better.
I wish I knew more about the judiciary. Because effin’ Schumer just let all of those Trump picks on the federal bench without any debate, we don’t know what they are like or who’s left to pick, should Biden get that opportunity. The problem is the oldest on the RW part of the court is Thomas, and I still don’t see him retiring anytime soon.
Plus Kavanaugh is a f’n hypocrite. But what else is new.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/27/hes-down-steal-thing-kavanaugh-parrots-trump-mail-ballot-lies-supreme-court-bars
Kavanaugh is dumber than dumb. He, Barrett and Thomas need to have an IQ contest just for laffs.
The miracle is nobody wants it.
Good morning Benny and our bunch.
Seven days left. S-E-V-E-N
65 Million Early Votes so far. In 2016, 154 Million votes were cast.
NYC registered 315,000 Early Votes in just 3 days. 5 more days to go.
74,323 New Covid. USA daily average is now at 70,000 cases per day up 30,000 per day from the summer average of 40,000.
Deaths yesterday were 534.
TY for the daily!
Hear, hear! 🙂
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaign-coronavirus-trump-biden/2020/10/26/572fe2be-17a1-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com
Trump is not very popular in Allentown. Clinton won the district by 2 points. Biden is leading by 19.
we are still in the first wave of COVID
Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing
talking to my great mechanic this morning
single, no kids, paying for public schools for 25 years
he doesn’t want a socialist like Biden
I mentioned that we are still in first wave
he says that because testing up, more cases
i said rate is too high
he said that he doesn’t believe the numbers, hospitalizations not spiked (yes, here in OH), and he expects the number of cases to go down after the election
well,….
number 8 has been achieved!!
what a milestone!!!
https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1321071922650689537?s=20
someone said, maybe on this blog, that Biden does something every day that pisses off progressives
is this the one thing for today, or will there be more?
this kind of cruel insanity will not be magnified. it will be praised or shrugged off. vicious people and policies coated in smiling Lincoln Project “normalcy.” and harder and harder to undo.
Considering her for what? I avoid Twit(ter).
Treasury Sec.
I’m not going to get too excited about “considering.” We will know soon enough who he’s going to pick so I’ll save my reactions to his choices until then. That being said Raimondo would be an awful choice,
imho, considering her is terrible. goes to state of mind and heart.
But the truth is, we have no idea if he is really “considering her. I’m going to save my outrage (or not) for the actual pick, which will come soon enough
Basically Bennys Bar better stock up on a lot of booze once Byedone puts his corporatist buddies in place, If he has a choice no one involved with Bernie will get close to any real power in his admin. I’m not counting any positions filled by seniority
I will ensure there are budtenders and buds..all around!
it’s in the Boston globe, the American prospect, and Bezopo is urging it. you’re right, tho. MSM can’t be trusted.
i’ll stay with terrible.
https://prospect.org/api/amp/politics/sources-gina-raimondo-being-considered-as-biden-treasury/
heart and mind
moved
‘They agree with me.’ Trump courts Sanders supporters at rallies; progressives say it won’t work
I do wonder what Trump’s internal polling looks like. His polling was on target last time.
T and R, Ms. Benny!! 🙂 Wonder where POTUS NOTA voters like me are? If the turnout continues at this heavy pace, that question will be moot.
While I respect those of you with NOTA voting, I’m still anxious that the margins could be too thin.
The good news is that NOTA voting appears to way down from 2016. There has been a surge of early voters who did not vote in 2016, plus third party voters are way down also.
I’ve said it before, this election is a referendum on the baroness as much as it is on Trump.
definitely. Biden winning will be a loss for Her.
The $hill has said she wants no part of a Byedone Admin. Now Now she could always be Ambassador to wall street
her claws are in the whole thing, tho. you can bet she hlds power in the shadows
I dont think their telling him the truth as that’s news that would make his head explode!!!
A good rundown on how this election is very very different from 2016.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/27/alberta-final-feelings-2020-election-432718
But Biden antagonizes the left, hence NOTA.
Honestly, that’s not the only reason. Unless “antagonizes” encompasses a whole range of horrible things.
NOTA? I’ve missed a step, apparently. What is NOTA?
NOTA is an acronym for None of the Above.
Thank you.
That’s a sentiment I can understand very easily.