“I’m not afraid of the 300,000 Black men who are registered but haven’t voted yet. I’m afraid of the system that stops reaching out to them.” -John R. Taylor III, Co-Chair, Black Male Initiative of Georgia pic.twitter.com/ibGFyASTGQ
“The state of Georgia is well known for rampant voter suppression. Every election cycle we’re faced with the stories of last minute precinct closures, fear tactics… I won’t stop until our democracy is fully realized for all of us.” -Georgia State Sen. @NikemaWilliamspic.twitter.com/aR8mJuOceZ
“There’s an opportunity to flip the Georgia House and Georgia Senate… Our minimum wage, which is currently $5.15, there’s an opportunity to raise that. Our elected officials are not embarrassed by it and now is the opportunity to fire them.” –@nseufot, CEO @NewGAProjectpic.twitter.com/9KvEOgzlKu
The last desperate grab for power by the wasps, the generations that were screwed over by them will take charge sooner or later, Time is on their side as the Wasps are dying off. 2028 or 32 I expect it to really hit hard
The last time this country was so-called “exceptional” was 1969. Since then, the FRightwingnuts and their Powell Memo business bosses put a gradual stop to it. Sure hope it is changing, and not a moment too soon.🎃👽
For me the moon landing, i was a young’un back then but it made me feel America could do anything it put its mind too. The last 40 years sure we advanced technology wise but the human social condition is on life support
Bernie Sanders is the latest figure endorsing Portland mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone.
Sanders’ endorsement late Thursday endorsement came the same day Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty announced her backing of incumbent Ted Wheeler’s challenger.
The former presidential hopeful and current U.S. senator from Vermont also endorsed Chloe Eudaly in her Portland City Commissioner race against challenger Mingus Mapps in a list of endorsements for “progressive, down-ballot candidates.”
“In every corner of the country, strong progressives are running at the state and local level to represent our movement and lead the fight to transform this country. These races are incredibly important — that’s why I am endorsing progressive, down-ballot candidates across the country. If you can, I hope you’ll cast your ballot for them when you vote,” Sanders’ statement said.
In a statement, Iannarone thanked Sanders for the endorsement.
“I’m excited to work on behalf of the 99% to hold big corporations accountable and to fight for health care for all Portlanders and everyone across the country,” she said.
A record surge of coronavirus cases in the United States pushed hospitals closer to the brink of capacity and drove the number of infections reported on Friday to an ominous new daily world record of 100,000, four days before the U.S. presidential election.
The United States also documented its 9 millionth case to date on Friday, representing nearly 3% of the population, with almost 229,000 dead since the outbreak of the pandemic early this year, according to a Reuters tally of publicly reported data.
With the country facing the final stretch of a tumultuous presidential campaign dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. health authorities on Friday also confirmed that 100,233 more people had tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.
Friday’s tally set a new single-day record in U.S. cases for the fifth time in the past 10 days, surpassing the previous peak of 91,248 new infections posted a day earlier.
It also represented the world’s highest national daily toll during the pandemic, exceeding India’s 24-hour record of 97,894 set in September.
The American Medical Association (AMA) on Friday issued a scathing statement condemning President Trump’s claim that doctors are purposefully inflating coronavirus case numbers, calling the suggestion “malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided.”
Trump, while speaking at a rally in Waterford Township, Mich., on Friday, argued without evidence that doctors are improperly counting coronavirus deaths for monetary gain.
“Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. You know that, right? I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say ‘I’m sorry but everybody dies of COVID,'” he said.
Trump argued that other countries put less of an emphasis on COVID-19 as a cause of death compared to the U.S., adding, “with us, when in doubt, ‘choose COVID.’ It’s true.”
Trump pushed a similar claim during a rally in Wisconsin last weekend, saying “doctors get more money and hospitals get more money” if COVID-19 is listed as a cause of death.
Susan Bailey, the president of the AMA, pushed back on Trump’s claims, pointing to work physicians, nurses and frontline health care workers have done during the pandemic to treat their patients.
“They did it because duty called and because of the sacred oath they took. The suggestion that doctors—in the midst of a public health crisis—are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge,” Bailey said in a statement Friday without directly naming the president.
The White House decision to set aside the mandatory safety controls put in place by the Food and Drug Administration fueled one of the most disputed initiatives in the administration’s response to the pandemic: the distribution of millions of ineffective, potentially dangerous pills from a federally controlled cache of drugs called the Strategic National Stockpile.
Over a span of four days in early April, the White House ordered the distribution of 23 million hydroxychloroquine tablets from the stockpile to a dozen states, enough pills for 1.4 million covid-19 patients, according to public records obtained by The Post in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Post review found that the process was marked by haphazard planning, little or no communication to local authorities about the flow of pills into their communities, and a lack of public accounting about where they ended up.
Mixed emotions, reminds me Bernie wont be president(sad) but he will go down in history as a man that started a movement that changed America forever and maybe their will be a Bernie Sanders day to celebrate
Yah, also it made me feel nostalgic tbh, but I’m slowly, but surely, getting over that deep disappointment. I’ll probably feel some pain over it for the rest of my life though.
Leticia Rodriguez, a longtime resident of rural Rushmore, Minn., is busy these days. She’s a mother, a grandmother, a nutrition educator and a community leader who provides translation services and other support to the area’s Spanish-speaking population. Rodriguez is also a first-time candidate for public office.
She is running for a nonpartisan position on the Nobles County Commission, the five-member body that oversees the budget and the overall economic and civic vitality of the county. If she wins in the November election, Rodriguez will become the first woman of color to serve in this role. She has considered running before, but now, Rodriguez says, she is ready.
“Everything is changing,” Rodriguez tells In These Times. She is referring to the rapidly shifting demographics in and around Worthington, Minn., the county seat and biggest town in Nobles. She is also referring to the recent upsurge among women of color in the area running for office, having long supported and uplifted their communities without seeking the pay and recognition that comes with an elected position — until now.
If Rodriguez and Simon are successful in their campaigns, neither one would be new to the role of public servant. From their Covid-19 relief efforts to their recent work on voter registration drives, “they are already doing the work.”
Worthington, population 13,000, sits in the far, southwestern corner of Minnesota, just over the border from South Dakota. It is an agricultural area, where acres of soybeans and corn monocrops dominate land where, not so long ago, buffalo roamed and a biodiverse prairie thrived.
Food production remains a central industry for the city, where JBS S.A., a Brazilian company that is the largest meatpacker in the world, operates a pork processing plant. Recent immigrants to the U.S., primarily from Africa and Central America, have been drawn to Worthington by the availability of farm and meatpacking jobs, dramatically shifting the local demographics. Only two decades ago, Worthington was a majority white community in an overwhelmingly white state. Today, less than half of the city’s residents are white, and Latino residents form the largest demographic group. There are growing numbers of Black and Asian residents as well, and the area has also taken in one of the highest per capita percentages of unaccompanied minors in the U.S. in recent years.
How much does an election cost in Portland, Maine? The Chamber of Commerce, real estate developers, and Airbnb’s corporate offices are hoping it’s around $1 million. With just days to go, opponents of five progressive referenda sponsored by People First Portland are pouring money into direct mailers (I’ve received dozens in the last two weeks), Facebook ads, and high-price social media advertising.
The five referenda (A, B, C, D, and E) include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour (with time and a half for essential workers during emergencies), banning police use of facial recognition software, Green New Deal building policies, rent control and tenant protections, and restricting short-term rentals. Taken as a package, the measures seek to slow gentrification and greenhouse gas emissions, boost workers’ pay, and remove one racist tool from local police forces in the wake of skyrocketing rents, pandemic-induced budget cuts, and long-standing racist treatment of the city’s people of color by the Portland Police Department and city officials.
In sum, People First Portland seeks to defend the right of working-class people to live in Portland.
The all-volunteer campaign has raised $24,955 as of October 27. The largest donors to the campaign are the carpenters’ and laborers’ unions, while the largest employment designation of small donors (who have collectively kicked in some $3,500) is “unemployed.” People First Portland was initiated by the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in consultation with local organizations, many of whom are endorsing all five measures, including the Southern Maine Labor Council (along with a half-dozen union locals), Black P.O.W.E.R. (formerly BLM Portland), the Southern Maine Workers Center, Fair Rent Portland, Our Revolution Maine, the Portland Green Party, and Progressive Portland.
Airbnb alone ponied up $124,000, and a single local real-estate developer, Tom Watson, who has a plan before the city council to build a 171-unit apartment complex in Portland, bundled almost $60,000 in anti–People First Portland contributions. And why not? The investment is cheap when you consider that just seventeen of the units Watson proposes must be set aside for median-income renters ($70,630 for a single-person household to $90,810 for a three-person household), while the rest can go for the “market rate” of between $1,350 and $1,900.
Unfortunately, the bulk of Portland’s elected officials (all Democrats) have not only jumped on the bandwagon but have put their shoulders to the wheel. On October 13, Portland mayor Kate Snyder and seven out of eight city councilors came out against the ballot measures. Only progressive councilman Pious Ali declined to sign the statement.
“When you put up a serious challenge to power, it has a way of clarifying relationships among those in power. Seeing most of our city council side with the Chamber of Commerce has given us a clearer picture of forces arrayed against us,” Maine DSA’s cochair, Aaron Berger, told me.
City councilwoman Kim Cook resorted to red-baiting tactics, suggesting in a written statement that People First Portland’s referenda would “subvert the open public process” of policy-making and constitute “an abuse of our citizen initiative process to pass the Democratic Socialists’ agenda without consideration by local elected officials or members of the general public.”
Don midwest
the national awakening of the effects of neo liberal economics will be even more clear when we have our depression and Covid continues next year
It’s been 217 days since Congress instructed the IRS to send $1,200 stimulus checks to every citizen below a certain income threshold. And yet, it’s likely as many as 12 million people — including those who most need a financial boost — never got the cash.
The reasons include confusion about how the complex program works, IRS missteps, technical snafus and Treasury Department policy decisions that cut out large groups of people altogether. Those who fell through the cracks have until Nov. 21 to claim the money or risk losing out on any second round of stimulus payments, which Congress has been negotiating for months.
“Out of what should be an incredibly positive story, [the IRS] just kept getting black eye after black eye after black eye,” said Nina Olson, who served as the IRS’ taxpayer advocate until last year and is now director of the Center for Taxpayer Rights. “And that’s coming partly from the IRS just being overwhelmed, but also not doing the planning and strategic thinking that they really should have once it became clear that the pandemic wasn’t going to be a 60-day flu.”
The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced by applying all available measures to combat infection via aerosols. Here is an overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday scenarios, based on the safety measures used and the length of exposure
President Trump had a deal to offer the women at his rally in Lansing, Mich., this week. He loved women, he declared — “much more than the men” — and he needed their support. In exchange, he would help their husbands get back to work.
“They want to get back to work, right? They want to get back to work,” Trump said. “We’re getting your husbands back to work, and everybody wants it.”
The remark ignored a central reality of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic: Women also work, and they have suffered greater professional and economic consequences during the crisis.
A yawning chasm has emerged between Trump’s support among women and their backing of Democratic nominee Joe Biden — but the president, in his public remarks, has seemed intent on exacerbating it.
Trump has spent the closing weeks of his campaign using outdated stereotypes to appeal to women in the suburbs, several times saying baselessly that a Biden win would result in the ruination of their communities.
He has implied that suburban women are White, when those areas have steadily diversified over decades. He has gone out of his way to insult a growing number of prominent women, from journalists to Democratic politicians to members of his own party.
Don midwest
a long article on an academic/writer who has sounded the word on Corona virus
interesting the courage to publish. She thought that if the article bombed, she would have to withdraw to narrow academic concerns.
I may have read some of her articles from The Atlantic, but I don’t recall them now.
Here are the characters: the man does the interview and the woman wrote the articles. I usually don’t post these kinds of things
The reason I am doing this is the flap about The Intercept — making the publication safe for James Risen — who had a scoop years ago, and was pursued by Obama for years, but he doesn’t impress me that much. And more learner about Naomi Klein who was one of my heroes but her trashing of Planet of The Humans and now Greenwald (mild statement) makes me suspect of the motivations of people as they get closer to power and money. T
The two characters in this article look clean
Eric J. Topol, MD, is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine and frequently writes about technology in healthcare, including in his latest book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.
Zeynep Tufekci, PhD, is a sociologist and regular contributor to The Atlantic who also regularly writes for The New York Times and Wired. Prior to the pandemic, her work focused on the social effects of technology. She published her first book, Twitter and Teargas: The Ecstatic, Fragile Politics of Networked Protest in the 21st Century, in 2018.
NBC News has created a useful early voting resource that tracks in-person and by-mail balloting at the state level nationwide using TargetSmart’s analysis to infer partisan leanings without voter registration by party. What it tells us doesn’t match what we’re hearing from the pollsters—who continue to insist that Texas is turning blue, or at least a little purplish.
As of Oct. 29, NBC News has analyzed Texas’ early and by mail voting through Oct. 26, finding that 54% of those voting early are Republican vs. 36% Democrat and 10% other or unknown. This gives the Republicans up to an 18% lead in early voting in Texas, or 8% if all the unknown and first-time voters are assigned to the Democrats.
Because polls suggest that Republicans are more likely than Democrats to vote in-person and on Election Day (due to a wide partisan gap in the level of fear over COVID-19), it can be projected that the estimated share of the Republican vote still has room to climb in Texas.
Just because a voter has a party affiliation doesn’t mean that voter will reliably follow through. In 2020 there has been plenty of ink—or electrons—spilled on the topic, with the “suburban woman” vote for Biden on one side and increased support for Trump among Black and Hispanic voters on the other.
First it’s Forbes and second here’s what Dave Wasserman (nonpartisan election guru) has to say about those NBC numbers.
Just going to say it, this is total BS. Texas doesn't have party registration and it's impossible to precisely model party ID from commercial data.
We have plenty of evidence Biden is ahead in TX's early vote right now, while Trump has an advantage among Election Day voters. https://t.co/8LPz4KcLYs
That’s a Forbes piece. Forbes is a business mag. Keep that fact in the back of your mind when you read what they write. They will be conservative to start with. We don’t know how folks are voting. The turnouts are very heavy, and that has always been a plus for the good guys.😊👍
Some numbers: So far, countrywide, 88 million people have Voted Early. In many districts, the early vote totals have met or exceeded the 2016 final voting numbers. This bodes well for a huge turnout.
98,859 New Covid cases were reported yesterday. This is hard to take in for me. Election may be notable as the first day the USA records 100,000 new Covid cases. 971 deaths due to Covid yesterday.
The sun has finally come out in Manhattan this morning. See you all later.
T and R, jcb!! 😊☮️👍 Happy 🎃👺 to you, too. Love your pumpkin carving. 😊
Don midwest
long article. A preprint. study of Trump super spreader rallies. explains the methodology used.
Abstract
We investigate the effects of large group meetings on the spread of COVID-19 by studying the impact of eighteen Trump campaign rallies. To capture the effects of subsequent contagion within the pertinent communities, our analysis encompasses up to ten post-rally weeks for each event. Our method is based on a collection of regression models, one for each event, that capture the relationships between post-event outcomes and pre-event characteristics, including demographics and the trajectory of COVID-19 cases, in similar counties. We explore a total of 24 procedures for identifying sets of matched counties. For the vast majority of these variants, our estimate of the average treatment effect across the eighteen events implies that they increased subsequent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by more than 250 per 100,000 residents. Extrapolating this figure to the entire sample, we conclude that these eighteen rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 incremental confirmed cases of COVID-19. Applying county specific post-event death rates, we conclude that the rallies likely led to more than 700 deaths (not necessarily among attendees).
I don’t think you will want to take the time to read this article because the election is close.
6) and is it just more testing? NO! Why? Because the rise in cases is OUTSTRIPPING the rise in testing volume. Implies the case rise is real growth and not testing inflated. pic.twitter.com/9BwtfbNg3u
FOR F*CK SAKE!!! Trump just picked the wrong goddamn fight trying to blame doctors for “phony” #COVID19 diagnoses and deaths. Here are over 20+ doctors who have **DIED ON THE FRONTLINES** among almost 2000 healthcare workers who have died.
6) in contrast, look how Taiwan 🇹🇼 conquered #COVID19—202 days zero Covid. Taiwan’s leaders (It has a VP who is a JHU-epidemiologist!) and efforts received wide acclaim for its aggressive & fast & early response. And they didn’t blame or silence doctors!pic.twitter.com/GWgOuL5lzN
Eric my med student son in Minnesota says they are at 95% capacity and WI IA SD are disasters. And this isn't EVEN- November. As a doc- watching the ineptitude and the – indeed corruption of this response fills me with fury- way beyond my combat tour in Afghanistan
wpDiscuz
Bernie’s positive attitude warms my heart. As far as I can tell, Bernie hasn’t taken a moment off. He’s preaching his views to every group he can.
He’s relentlessly positive and it’s been helping me get through this nightmare.
The last desperate grab for power by the wasps, the generations that were screwed over by them will take charge sooner or later, Time is on their side as the Wasps are dying off. 2028 or 32 I expect it to really hit hard
The last time this country was so-called “exceptional” was 1969. Since then, the FRightwingnuts and their Powell Memo business bosses put a gradual stop to it. Sure hope it is changing, and not a moment too soon.🎃👽
For me the moon landing, i was a young’un back then but it made me feel America could do anything it put its mind too. The last 40 years sure we advanced technology wise but the human social condition is on life support
https://www.koin.com/news/elections/bernie-sanders-endorses-sarah-iannarone-in-portland-mayoral-race/
More than 100,000
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN27F1MO?utm_source=reddit.com
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/523740-american-medical-association-rips-trump-claim-that-doctors-are
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/31/trump-hydroxychloroquine-stockpile-pharmacies/?utm_source=reddit.com
Tip jar for jcitybone!
Thanks for the pumpkin pic, jcitybone. Made me smile 🙂
Mixed emotions, reminds me Bernie wont be president(sad) but he will go down in history as a man that started a movement that changed America forever and maybe their will be a Bernie Sanders day to celebrate
Yah, also it made me feel nostalgic tbh, but I’m slowly, but surely, getting over that deep disappointment. I’ll probably feel some pain over it for the rest of my life though.
Same here as evreytime i hear about issues that are pushed aside knowing Bernie would’ve taken them on
I was going to put a scary Trumpkin in also, but I decided who needs that
Must admit I’m glad you didn’t do that, I’m having enough nightmares lately as it is.
ditto!
Yeah, I’m tired of feeling angry and discouraged, too.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/rural-minnesota-immigrant-communities-demographic-change-election
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/portland-maine-people-first-referenda
the national awakening of the effects of neo liberal economics will be even more clear when we have our depression and Covid continues next year
https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-still-havent-gotten-stimulus-checks-including-many-who-need-them-most
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
at the top of the article:
The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced by applying all available measures to combat infection via aerosols. Here is an overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday scenarios, based on the safety measures used and the length of exposure
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-women-biden/2020/10/30/d95af4b6-199c-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com
a long article on an academic/writer who has sounded the word on Corona virus
interesting the courage to publish. She thought that if the article bombed, she would have to withdraw to narrow academic concerns.
The Remarkable Value of Thinking Broadly: A COVID-19 Trifecta
I may have read some of her articles from The Atlantic, but I don’t recall them now.
Here are the characters: the man does the interview and the woman wrote the articles. I usually don’t post these kinds of things
The reason I am doing this is the flap about The Intercept — making the publication safe for James Risen — who had a scoop years ago, and was pursued by Obama for years, but he doesn’t impress me that much. And more learner about Naomi Klein who was one of my heroes but her trashing of Planet of The Humans and now Greenwald (mild statement) makes me suspect of the motivations of people as they get closer to power and money. T
The two characters in this article look clean
Massive youth vote bodes well for Dems
I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer, but after reading this piece I’m not so sure about that.
Trump By A Landslide In Texas? Early Voting Numbers Are Diverging Strongly From The Polls
I’ll hold to my original thought that Tx will be blue by 28 or 32, Be curious to hear LD’s thoughts since he lives in that state
First it’s Forbes and second here’s what Dave Wasserman (nonpartisan election guru) has to say about those NBC numbers.
Polls show it’s a very close race there. Higher turnout always favors Dems because Republicans always vote.
That’s a Forbes piece. Forbes is a business mag. Keep that fact in the back of your mind when you read what they write. They will be conservative to start with. We don’t know how folks are voting. The turnouts are very heavy, and that has always been a plus for the good guys.😊👍
Of course I know that Forbes is a biz mag, but the numbers the writer put forth seemed somewhat credible.
Good Morning TPW.
Three days until Election Day.
Three days!!! Almost here.
Some numbers: So far, countrywide, 88 million people have Voted Early. In many districts, the early vote totals have met or exceeded the 2016 final voting numbers. This bodes well for a huge turnout.
98,859 New Covid cases were reported yesterday. This is hard to take in for me. Election may be notable as the first day the USA records 100,000 new Covid cases. 971 deaths due to Covid yesterday.
The sun has finally come out in Manhattan this morning. See you all later.
T and R, jcb!! 😊☮️👍 Happy 🎃👺 to you, too. Love your pumpkin carving. 😊
long article. A preprint. study of Trump super spreader rallies. explains the methodology used.
I don’t think you will want to take the time to read this article because the election is close.
The Effects of Large Group Meetings on the Spread of
COVID-19: The Case of Trump Rallies
B. Douglas Bernheim Nina Buchmann Zach Freitas-Groff
Sebasti´an Otero*
October 30, 2020
But some tweets from Dr. Ding are worth seeing