11/13 News Roundup and Open Thread – The Progressive Wing

Because we all need a lucky black cat on this Friday the 13th grim with very bad COVID news

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The COVID news is terrible.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/12/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Public health officials in the United States announced more than 160,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the first day over 150,000 since the pandemic began — an alarming record that came just over a week after the country first experienced 100,000 cases in a single day.
The pandemic has risen to crisis levels in much of the nation, especially the Midwest, as hospital executives warn of dwindling bed space and as coroners deploy mobile morgues. More than 100,000 coronavirus cases have been announced nationwide every day since Nov. 4, and six of the last nine days have broken the previous record.
Hospitalizations for Covid-19 also set a record on Thursday, climbing to 67,096, according to the Covid Tracking Project. It was the third straight day of record numbers, and the figure has doubled in just five weeks.
Deaths are rising, too, with more than 1,000 on average each day.
In Illinois, where more than 75,000 cases have emerged in the last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker suggested that he could soon impose a stay-at-home order.
“We’re running out of time and we’re running out of options,” said Mr. Pritzker, who scolded local officials in parts of his state for disregarding mask rules and restrictions on businesses.
Case numbers are trending upward in 46 states and holding relatively steady in four. No state is seeing cases decline. Thirty-one states — from Alaska and Idaho in the West to Connecticut and New Hampshire in the East — added more cases in the seven-day period ending Wednesday than in any previous week of the pandemic. Vermont, Utah and Oregon were among at least 10 states with single-day case records on Thursday.
But the outlook is especially dire in the Great Lakes region. Pennsylvania, Indiana and Minnesota all exceeded their previous single-day records on Thursday by more than 1,000 cases. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio warned that hospitalizations had soared to record levels. Wisconsin surpassed 300,000 known cases this week, an increase of more than 130,000 in just a month.

jcitybone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-midwest/2020/11/12/90508b72-250f-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Covid’s long, dark winter has already arrived in the Upper Midwest, as cases and deaths surge, snatching lives, overwhelming hospitals, exhausting health-care providers and raising fears that the region’s medical system will be completely overwhelmed in the coming days.
As coronavirus cases grow across the United States — up 70 percent on average in the past two weeks, with an average of 130,000 cases per day nationally — the situation is particularly acute now in the Upper Midwest and Plains states, with North and South Dakota leading the nation in new cases and deaths per capita over the past week, according to Washington Post data.
Experts say that cases are surging in the region as the weather has turned colder and more people are forced inside — into more poorly ventilated indoor spaces where transmission thrives — with the virus arriving even in remote areas in largely conservative states where Republican leaders have resisted mask mandates or business closures, asking their residents to rely instead on personal responsibility.
The region’s surge is a preview of what the rest of the United States can expect in the coming weeks as winter approaches, experts say.

Andrew T. Pavia, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah School of Medicine, said on a press call organized by the Infectious Diseases Society of America on Wednesday that the “enormous surge” in the Upper Midwest and mountain states is concerning because health-care access in some rural areas is already limited and staff and facilities taxed.
“The situation really has to be described as dire,” Pavia said, saying that the “political climate” and “general distrust of the government” in these areas resulted in a reluctance of public officials to take more stringent measures to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease covid-19. Mass gatherings such as the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D., also contributed, Pavia said, as well as university students attending classes that were largely in person.
More than 330 coronavirus cases and one death were directly linked to the Sturgis bike rally as of mid-September, according to a Washington Post survey of health departments in 23 states.
“There’s an awful lot of preventable deaths happening right now,” Pavia said.
Doctors at one of the region’s largest health-care systems, Avera Health in Sioux Falls, S.D., with facilities in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota, said that its modeling showed the virus surge was only going to get worse in the coming weeks. Already, some of its facilities are nearing capacity and between 200 and 400 of its staffers are either out sick or in quarantine, officials said.

jcitybone

I am so incredibly angry at the multitudes who voted for Trump and his Republican enablers in the midst of this terrible crisis. We are in a broken country.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/trump-spends-post-election-week-spreading-misinformation-chaos-virus-rages-n1247678

And most important of all, it’s coming during the worst spike yet in new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations since the virus arrived in the country. (There have been nearly 1 million new coronavirus cases and 7,500 deaths in the U.S. since Trump’s last remarks on Nov. 5, per NBC’s Peter Alexander and Sally Bronston.)
The coronavirus — and the federal government’s response to it, or lack thereof — represents arguably the biggest American public policy failure since Vietnam.
And you have a president who’s been trying to convince the American people he wants to keep his job, despite the election results, but who hasn’t been doing the work of president.
History is going to look back on this past week … and it’s not going to be a pretty chapter.

jcitybone

And no indication the president is the least bit interested in looking up from his own fantasies & grievances to do anything about it, or that any Congressional Republican is pressuring him to do so. Total abandonment of American people at a moment of crisis. AWOL under fire. https://t.co/2q2fJjUcZs
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 13, 2020

orlbucfan

The kozmik chickens have come home to roost, jcb. Recall Ronbo Fascist Raygun, his cabal, and his the-government-is-your-enemy bull? 💩 Diseases should not be politicized period! Yet the FRight money grabbers and their bribed “public” servants, media yahoos, etc. do just that. Add in organized religion and public education destruction. Voila, America 2020.😓

humphrey

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wi65

Moscow Mitch as the elephant 🙂

wi65

Historians will look back on this period of history much like Star Treks “Past Tense”
“How could they have let things get so bad?”- Dr Bashir. They’ll discover a five letter name as the reason

jcitybone

F’n piece of shit

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/525819-rand-paul-says-covid-19-survivors-should-throw-away-their-masks-go-to

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday called for those who have recovered from COVID-19 to “throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again” as the coronavirus surges nationwide, falsely claiming those who have recovered from the virus are “now immune.”
Paul, who tested positive for the virus in March, told Fox News that the 11 million Americans who have also recovered should “celebrate.”
“We should tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again, because these people are now immune,” Paul, a self-certified ophthalmologist, said.
The Kentucky Republican then went after Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, and claimed the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “doesn’t want to admit to any of that.”
“Dr. Fauci is like ‘Oh, woe is me’ until the election occurs, but now maybe he’ll be changing his attitude,” Paul continued.

wi65

Paul is such a Putz.

jcitybone

JUST IN: The ship's captain announces 5 people have tested positive for #COVID19 on SeaDream 1, the first cruise ship to embark on a voyage in the Caribbean since the #coronavirus shut down the cruise industry.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) November 12, 2020

Because trump lifted the no-sail order back in September pic.twitter.com/D0YMkXV0T8
— Vivian is VIVACIOUS10 in threads (@ViviVacca) November 12, 2020

jcitybone

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/13/fighting-pandemic-cant-wait-inauguration-day

The election itself demonstrated for us all that we cannot wait for a new COVID-19 strategy until Inauguration Day. As poll workers essential to our democracy painstakingly counted votes, COVID-19 continued to rack up landslide victories, roaring to “uncontrolled spread” in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico by November 11, according to CovidExitStrategy.org. The November 12 coronavirus map of the New York Times has only one state, Louisiana, where recent infection levels are low and staying low
As the incumbent president lied incoherently about “election interference,” nothing interfered with the virus. Fauci, who has remained the nation’s more trusted singular source by far on the pandemic despite being sidelined by Trump from the coronavirus task force, warned in the summer that reckless re-openings could lead to 100,000 infections a day. The week before the election, Fauci said the United States was in a “precarious situation” for a winter with “a whole lot of hurt” as fall weather drove people indoors and the winter holidays might tempt people with pandemic fatigue to conduct unsafe gatherings.
“All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors,” he told the Washington Post. “You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”
A nation could not have been more poorly positioned to fight COVID-19 than by the Trump administration. It was not chagrined by the First Family contracting the virus; not by the COVID-19 death of one of its few prominent Black supporters, Herman Cain; not by the super-spreader Rose Garden event for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett; not by outbreaks among the staff of Vice President Mike Pence, nor by the most recent round of announced infections that includes Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
In the home stretch of the presidential campaign, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, declared, “We are not going to control the pandemic.” That prompted Fauci to wryly say, “I tip my hat to him for admitting the strategy.” Meadows, a noted anti-masker and opponent of locking down, proceeded to contract the virus and, like his boss, “played down” the diagnosis, not making it public for a couple days and perhaps endangering others.

polarbear4

i had a horrible thought that maybe Barrett would get it and die. right after the inauguration.

jcitybone

Another Republican f’n piece of shit.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/samuel-alito-religious-freedom-federalist-society/index.html

Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday night that he worried about the future of religious liberty in the United States, expressing particular concern as it applies to Covid restrictions and the Supreme Court’s decision in 2015 clearing the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.
“It pains me to say this,” Alito said, “but in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right.”

In addressing Covid-19, Alito pointedly noted that he was not trying to diminish the severity of the pandemic, which he said has taken a heavy human toll, leaving “thousands dead, many more hospitalized,” but that he wanted to emphasize its impact on the rule of law and individual rights as officials have moved to combat the virus.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged,” he said, and added that the pandemic has resulted in “previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.”
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Alito said that the Covid crisis has served as a “sort of constitutional stress test” that has highlighted “disturbing trends” that were present before the virus appeared. He pointed to emergency orders over the summer where the court sided with officials who sought to restrict the number of people who could worship in person and he lambasted his colleagues for ruling in favor of state and local officials even when he thought churches were being treated differently from other entities that had fewer restrictions.
Earlier Thursday the court received yet another emergency petition on the issue, this time from the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn seeking relief from an executive order from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

jcitybone

Time to ignore the Court. What are they going to do to enforce their right wing partisan decisions? Send in the Supreme Court police?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/alito-federalist-society-speech-insane.html

Finally, Alito took aim at five senators who filed an amicus brief in a Second Amendment case last year. The senators’ brief warned the justices that the court was becoming dangerously political. Alito noted that the senators believed the court might need to be “restructured” to reduce political influence, then told the story of a foreign judge who faced violence if he did not side with the government:
Yet Alito’s speech proved the senators’ point. At least one justice is clearly a bitter partisan out to settle scores with the left. Flouting his ethical obligations, Alito waded into fierce political debates over public health during a pandemic, reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality, and other issues that routinely come before his court. It is wildly inappropriate for a justice to assume the role of Fox News commentators, and unwise in light of progressives’ mounting doubt about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
Surely the justice knows all this—and perhaps his speech is really a taunt to the left. There is now a hard-right six-justice majority on the court; Republicans have won their battle for domination of the judiciary. Democrats can grumble, but Alito’s worldview is ascendant. There is nothing the left can currently do to limit his power. Trump stacked the judiciary with judges just like him, who learned from the Federalist Society how to cloak Republican policies in the guise of conservative judicial philosophies.
Alito is notoriously cranky, but he seemed to be in relatively good spirits in Thursday’s address. And why shouldn’t he be? Sure, Trump lost reelection, but the Senate has continued to confirm Federalist Society judges at a record clip. For Sam Alito, the future looks as bright as ever.

orlbucfan

Every judge can be removed from the bench. Dumbo Alito is smirking cos it’s really hardly ever been done.

wi65

Kinda sick of these covidiots, let them go to church, most are old boomers that vote R no matter what anyway as its a reflex action. Most have no clue on how bad this R party is. It will thin the boomer R voting block and the R’s will say its gods will that they died because of this anyway.. Your wasting your time arguing with these people, they have to learn the hard way- well at least their family’s do.

Torabs

The problem is not them getting, it’s them going to their superspreader events, then interacting with decent people (especially essential workers). I am full of sadness for the people who try to do the right thing living amongst these knuckle-draggers.

magsview

I heard some of Alito’s whining, something about, ‘We’re not allowed to even say that marriage is between a man and a woman anymore!’ wahhh. I interrupted mr. mags’ tv viewing to yell at tv, “Oh no! Are people not allowed to say that black people’s vote should still be 3/5ths of white people’s vote??”

jcitybone

No. Dakota's crisis is so severe that the state is advising asymptomatic, COVID-positive nurses to stay on the job.
This is from the 'interim health officer' — a guy with zero medical training, appointed by the governor after 3 other health officers quit https://t.co/FA1gUwBPcr
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 13, 2020

Like Kristi Noem in So. Dakota, Burgum has rejected mask mandates "in favor of relying on the 'personal responsibility' of residents."
Meanwhile, No. Dakota has suffered some of the highest case and death rates in the U.S.
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 13, 2020

humphrey

Places with highest daily reported cases per capita Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents

phatkhat

My county has a population of about 14K. We’re closing fast on 400 cases – we’ll be there by Monday at the latest. That’s a 3.5% infection rate in a rural area with low population density. 13 deaths, which is 3.25% of the infected. And people STILL won’t wear masks.

One elderly woman I know, who barely survived a bad stroke last year just blows it off. God will take care of her, she said. SMDH

polarbear4

someone i know pretty well is on a trip in socal, staying in a hotel on the beach and socializing with many people with no mask. she wants to do something together when she gets back, distanced, with masks. even then, i’m going to see if we can give it 2 more weeks.

when i think i might have been exposed, i stay away from high risk people.

wi65

It will be interesting if theirs a spike in cases in a week or so , D’s for the most part voted by mail Rs were there in person

jcitybone

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/biden-trump-electoral-college.html

We are living through a period in which, for reasons of geographic polarization in particular, the Republican Party holds a powerful advantage in the Senate and the Electoral College, and a smaller one in the House of Representatives. Twice in 20 years they’ve won the White House without a majority of votes. A few shifts here and there, and Trump might have won a second term while losing by a popular vote margin nearly twice as large as the one he lost by in 2016.
The Republican Party, in other words, can win unified control of Washington without winning a majority of the vote or appealing to most Americans. Aware of this advantage, Republicans have embraced it. They’ve pinned their political hopes on our counter-majoritarian institutions, elevated minority government into a positive good (rather than a regrettable flaw of our system) and attacked the very idea that we should aspire to equality in representation. “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are,” Senator Mike Lee of Utah tweeted last month. “We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
“Rank democracy.” Perhaps Lee, one of the leading intellectual lights of the Republican Party, is alone in his contempt for political equality between citizens. But I doubt it. And a Republican Party that holds that view is one that will do anything to win power, even if it breaks democracy. It’s a Republican Party that will suppress voters rather than persuade them, degrade an office rather than allow the opposition to wield it and create districts so slanted as to make it almost impossible for voters to remove them from office.
For that Republican Party, the Electoral College is a loaded gun, waiting to be fired. We’ll disarm and disassemble it as soon as possible, if we value this democracy of ours.

jcitybone

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/joe-biden-win-presidency-2020-coalition/617081/

That stark contrast—between Biden’s resounding popular-vote victory and his narrow win in crucial swing states—encapsulates the challenge Democrats will likely face in the coming decade. Biden’s victory underscores how Democrats now represent a larger coalition than Republicans do: It marks the seventh time in the past eight presidential elections that Democrats have won the popular vote, an unprecedented feat since the formation of the modern party system in 1828. But combined with Republican gains in the House of Representatives and Democrats’ inability to win any Senate seats in the states that backed Donald Trump, the close swing-state results illustrate why it may be extremely difficult for that majority coalition to consistently exercise its power in the years ahead.

Torabs

Utterly conventional drivel. To unquestioningly republish Rahm Emmanuel’s “analysis” revealed the author’s failure to understand the moment.

jcitybone

Biden can do a lot without McConnell’s Senate.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/13/joe-biden-day-one-policies-without-congress?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1605267278

On 8 July, the Joe Biden campaign published the results of its unity taskforces with the former Bernie Sanders campaign in a 110-page document of policy recommendations. Though Biden has not committed to enacting the policies recommended by the taskforces, they represent a clear vision for what a Biden presidency might look like.
While each taskforce proposed new legislation to achieve its goals, you can also read the document with an eye toward what a Biden administration could accomplish on day one, without having to go near Congress. To that end, we found 277 policies that are clearly within the executive branch’s power to immediately pursue, at least in part.
On their own, none of these 277 policies will fully solve any of the interlinked crises we now face. But they can go a significant way toward immediate harm reduction. Some can even solve longstanding problems, simply by enforcing or fully implementing laws already on the books.
Perhaps most important, all of these policies are ideas that leaders in the moderate and progressive wings of the party broadly agree on, and that Biden should have no excuse not to enact, save for his own policy preferences. There is no hiding behind Congress on these topics. In Biden’s first hundred days, we should expect him to have made significant progress on many, if not all, of these proposals. Those which he does not adopt and pursue vigorously will speak to his nature as a president.
Not all of the proposals are new ideas. In fact, 48 are simply calls to roll back Trump-era policies, or to reinstate Obama-era rules and committees that Trump ended or disbanded. Any remotely competent Democrat ought to be able to implement these immediately, no matter what their particular policy vision.

jcitybone

I’m really tired of complaints about the Dems not getting a big stimulus package done. Do those criticizing actually know how government works? Do they realize that right now we have a completely uninterested President and a outright hostile Senate? The Dem House can’t magically pass a large stimulus on their own. That’s why it is really important to hope for Dem victories in GA to get to 50/50, whatever one thinks of the relative merits of Ossoff and Warnock.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/coronavirus-aid-stimulus-bill/index.html

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday continued to reject the call from Democrats for a big coronavirus stimulus package, saying, “that’s not a place I think we’re willing to go” and reiterated his push for a bill that’s “highly targeted at what the residual problems are.”
McConnell said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, “I gather she and the Democratic leader in the Senate still are looking at something dramatically larger. That’s not a place I think we’re willing to go.”
Pelosi and Schumer signaled during a news conference earlier on Thursday they’re not willing to change their call for a large coronavirus package even as efforts to negotiate remain stalled. The Democratic leaders instead argued that the result of the presidential election was a mandate for Joe Biden, which in turn strengthens their position in an effort to get a Covid package in the lame duck session.
“This election was maybe more a referendum on who can handle Covid well than anything else,” Schumer said. “The Donald Trump approach was repudiated. The Joe Biden approach was embraced and that’s why we think there’s a better chance to get a bill in the lame duck, if only the Republicans would stop embracing the ridiculous shenanigans that Trump is forcing them to do in the election and focus on what people need.”
“We’re at the same place, even more so with the pandemic,” Pelosi said in response to a question if her position on a stimulus has changed from before the election.
Pelosi said the priority must be addressing the pandemic, and called on Republicans to “stop this circus and get to work on what really matters to the American people — their health and their economic security.”
The criticism from Democrats comes as efforts to negotiate a new relief bill remain stuck as Democrats call for a large-scale, comprehensive approach to a new stimulus with Republicans calling for a targeted approach.
McConnell signaled, however, that he does think there needs to be another relief package.
“I do think there needs to another package,” he told reporters at the Capitol. “Hopefully we can get past the impasse we’ve had now for four or five months, and get serious about doing something that’s appropriate.”

orlbucfan

Beijing Mitch and his crooked wife need to be lined up and shot. That is how much suffering and death they have caused. Alas, this is a sh1thole world.💩

humphrey

Perhaps the is a different way of looking at the Georgia senate. Go all in for Warnock as Ossoff is the weaker candidate.

This with the hope that some covid denying senator in a different state will become infected and croak giving the opportunity to regain control of the senate.

Having one victory is better than losing two.🤔

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

I just received this email from NACA, the organization that helped people to reduce their mortgages after the 2008 recession.

“We are organizing NACA Members and other community residents to flip the U.S. Senate to elect Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the runoff elections in Georgia. The eyes of the country and the world are on Georgia and you can participate as a canvasser. You would do outreach in neighborhoods to register voters and get them out to vote. Where possible we want to have the canvassers work in the neighborhoods they are most familiar with. To learn about being a canvasser join a webinar this Saturday November 14th at either 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. Since we want to begin very soon, you can submit your information now to canvass as a volunteer or as a full-time paid canvasser through January 5th (click here).”

https://www.nacalynx.com/naca/v2/vote/canvassSignup.aspx

polarbear4

wow. if you do this, please be safe. i guess it would be put the material on the doorstep, knock and backup to talk. VoteForward has a letter writing campaign, although a lot of people will probably toss them. and i haven’t received any materials. maybe bc i’m not a dem anymore.

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

I’m not planning to do it. I still have lots of buttons and yard signs for Bernie that I planned to canvas my neighborhood before Covid started and before he dropped out. Some of my crew from 2016 were planning to join me but it couldn’t happen. I canvassed in SC in early March and was very worried cause I’m definitely in the vulnerable demographic.

polarbear4

that’s what i thought. phew. stay safe. yeah, any canvassing seems like a bad idea right now, but the Squad says that’s how they got Michigan.

wi65

Have Byedone offer a few R senators a cabinet post or ambassadorship and hope the local govt will temp fill the spot with a D and then go nuts with legislation. Moscow Mitch would be the minority leader for a while 🙂 One can dream

Paul ADK

The Dems first passed a new stimulous package in what, May? There has been a series of them. Each more compromising to the GOP than the last, while the GOP hasn’t moved an inch.

Torabs

…if only the Republicans would stop embracing the ridiculous shenanigans that Trump is forcing them to do in the election and focus on what people need

Just stop. This fiction needs to end. Trump isn’t forcing the Republicans to do anything, that’s who they are. Trump is them and they are Trump. They shielded his criminality from being impeached, and have enabled his every impulse. Nobody should buy Schumer’s bullshit at this point.

That’s why it is really important to hope for Dem victories in GA to get to 50/50, whatever one thinks of the relative merits of Ossoff and Warnock.

Obama stimulus 2.0, anyone? With a strong president willing to play hardball with these Republican bastards, it would be worth caring about. Biden and the Establishment will compromise with McConnell regardless of the Senate breakdown, and some watered down, top-heavy stimulus is getting passed.

We’re past the point where the government can carry on and learn to manage this Republican+Establishment disease. 2020 has failed, progressives need to seed the ground for 2022.

LieparDestin

This is what can happen when we work together on a strong relational organizing & digital strategy ⬇️ https://t.co/OKoXcdj6ZU
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 13, 2020

LieparDestin

Jones had an excellent platform, certainly worth keeping an eye on

It’s really happening. pic.twitter.com/TCj8wCMhwI
— Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) November 13, 2020

jcitybone

Thrifting is the way to go, it also makes your look unique. @israhirsi & I do this often, it’s also where I get most of my jewelry.
Somali shops in my district have the best scarves on a budget, will get you some to spice up any wardrobe.
I specialize in $50 or less outfits 😊 https://t.co/cxsftlekqm
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 11, 2020

jcitybone

Unreal.
Zuckerberg told staff Thursday that Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Wray. https://t.co/kGqef4D7rU
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 12, 2020

polarbear4

hahahahaha! maybe i should try it. right. he gives droids a bad name. him and petey. peas in a pod.

jcitybone

A couple of days ago, there were some people from Alabama bitching on this website about being judged unfairly because they went to school in Alabama. Well. This dude beat Doug Jones by 20 pts. We deserve what we get.
— Josh Moon 🇺🇸 (@Josh_Moon) November 13, 2020

But wait, there's more folks! pic.twitter.com/XfLNaD8los
— Bright Blue Spot in Bama ☮️🐾🌻 (@LanierCandy) November 13, 2020

jcitybone

Another idiot

‘Half-wit’ Texas senator mocked for not knowing Puerto Rico can’t vote in the presidential election https://t.co/QpoPjw74Yz
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 12, 2020

wi65

The stupidity is truly amazing, and people wonder why were in the shape we are as a country. Well thats what you get when you vote for a letter instead of doing even minimal research on a candidate. The sad thing is Trumpcorp said he likes his voters uneducated. He insults them and they vote for him anyway🤪🤪🤪

jcitybone

Let’s not forget his shameful response to another health crisis: AIDS

For those who remember Reagan as that "nice" Conservative, he destroyed unions, demonized poor people, gutted mental health services and set the stage for Donald Trump. Trump is Ronald Reagan's "Portrait of Dorian Gray". He reveals the true face of Conservativism.
— 🇺🇦Pat🌻Tracy🇺🇦 (@pattracy2) November 12, 2020

orlbucfan

If there is a hell, hope that bastard and his enablers are frying in it!

jcitybone

Fetterman (if he wants) should run for Toomey’s open Senate seat in 2022

The lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania is 6’8” with tattoos, a shaved head and a graduate degree in public policy from Harvard.
On today’s episode of “Sway,” @karaswisher talks to @JohnFetterman about how his state flipped for Biden in the 2020 election. https://t.co/SeHcSHYQ7T
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) November 12, 2020

He continues to troll Texas Republicans

First, thank you for unifying Pennsylvania during this divided time that the Cowboys truly blow.
My dude, you put out a national call for voter fraud + I delivered. It was a dead mom voting for Trump. 😆
Your generous reward will go directly to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. https://t.co/XDbWplUpMl
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 12, 2020

We delivered PA + the Presidency for Joe Biden. I delivered you a case of *actual* voter fraud that resulted in arrest + criminal charges.
Bottom line, Governor, you own me- pic.twitter.com/3W2FdzAi4H
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 12, 2020

polarbear4

go fetterman.

NYCVG

“Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold nearly $5.6 million of the company’s stock on Monday as the share price soared as much as 15% on the news that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective.

Bourla sold 132,508 shares of Pfizer’s stock at a share price of $41.94 apiece.”

This is the USA 2020. A vaccine fantasy and happy talk land. Where the multitudes are distracted and entertained and confused so that we can’t think straight.

Thank you jcitybone for covering the Covid spread so thoroughly.

Back in February I told my family that anybody who tells you if, how, and when this nightmare will end does not know what they are talking about. It is truly terrifying and I have no answers.

All that we have learned so far is that lying will not improve our chances.

orlbucfan

T and R, jcb!!☮️😊👍

polarbear4

love that cat. i’ve had black cats–so pretty and cool.

polarbear4

That's the irony: journalists kept whining that Trump was trying to engineer a "coup" actually themselves wanted a coup. They've been cheering for 4 years every time unelected military or intelligence officials defy the President & implement their own policy. *That's* a coup: https://t.co/CZq3h5qCul
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 13, 2020

NYCVG

omg

polarbear4

https://twitter.com/MMaccruiskeen/status/1327374995593580557?s=20

magsview

(It's hard not to read that in the context of Esper's dismissal — in part motivated by a perception in the White House that the Pentagon was slow-rolling withdrawal orders.)
I left an enormous amount on the cutting room floor from this interview. A few highlights:
— Katie Bo Lillis (@KatieBoLillis) November 12, 2020

1/2 Jeffrey on Erdogan: “One of the arguments is, [Erdogan] can’t be an ally because he’s not a democracy. Frankly, he would be easier to deal with if he wasn’t the leader of a democratic country…”

He points out Turkey is having a pretty stellar run, with its preferred side prevailing in three separate conflicts—Idlib, Libya & now Nagorno-Karabakh.
“That’s a pretty good ally if you think you’ve got a war of Russian expansion in the Middle East & the Caucasus, which we do.”

humphrey

Trump Aide Peter Navarro LIES, says there will be Second Trump Term on Fox Business

Peter Kent Navarro is an American economist and author. He serves in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator.

orlbucfan

Don’t call it POX/diseased garbage for nothing!

wi65

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