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One of just seven Dems left in Trump districts, so a blow to Dem prospects for keeping the majority. Now IL Ds will have to decide what to do with her seat in redistricting. https://t.co/pHqPE0yncQ
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) April 30, 2021

She was the DCCC chair in 2020. From some various spotty reporting, it appears her district is the one IL is likely to sacrifice.

Hopefully, Illinois is going to try to eliminate an R seat (and they should given what goes down in the R states.

I had heard whispers last year it was going to be my district, but I’ve read 3 accounts today that it is likely to be her district. Half may go to a Dem, but the other to an GOP since Trump won it handily.

Interesting. I have a feeling a place will be made for her (has been made for her?) in the Biden admin.

At the same time its CEO is compensated to the tune of $10.5 MILLION a year, Churchill Downs is refusing modest pay increases for their workers. Absurd. I am proud to stand with the workers of SEIU Local 541 on strike for better pay and better working conditions.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 30, 2021

A valet (not pronounced val-ay) is paid $109 a day for their care of the horses such as feeding, cleaning stalls, etc. They want a raise to $130 a day as they haven’t had one in years.

One would hope the those who care for the horses would receive a living wage.

A take home pay of $2,000/mo (per my calc) is not enough to pay rent/mortgage and car/food etc. I’d bet the caretakers, the life blood of Churchill Downs, are worth at least $2,250/mo take home pay (and that doesn’t include deductions for health ins pmts etc).

@POTUS’s 1st 100 days end TODAY. On Wednesday he mentioned police brutality, which disproportionately harms Black lives. We need him to keep his word & show up for the people who put him in office.
Tweet the White House & tell them to demilitarize our neighborhoods & #End1033. pic.twitter.com/bpoq2K8AEy
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) April 30, 2021

The last person on the list is one of the reasons why it’s not likely to happen.

orlbucfan

T and R, and thanks, Ms. Benny!! 🙂

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/551194-schumer-backs-sanders-push-on-drug-prices-lowering-medicare-age

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an interview published Friday that he supports measures to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, as well as lowering the Medicare eligibility age and creating a public health insurance option.
The comments from Schumer give important backing to a push from progressives, who have been calling for a range of major health care reforms from President Biden, including in his next major economic package, which he laid out for Congress during a joint address on Wednesday night.
Schumer specifically pointed to conversations he has had with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
“Bernie Sanders and I agree on this,” Schumer told The.Ink. “I believe we should be negotiating — we just talked about this at some length; he and I must talk almost every single day — Medicare negotiating with the drug companies and using that money to expand Medicare.”
Asked about reducing the Medicare eligibility age or a public option to compete alongside private health insurers for people of all ages, Schumer replied, “Yeah, I’d be for either of those, both of those.”

polarbear4

bc he knows biden will never do it.

Well Biden doesn’t write the legislation.

https://www.newsweek.com/ro-khanna-bernie-sanders-biden-praise-speech-1587788

The progressive California Democrat said Biden’s speech was a “home run” and applauded him for doing “better” than either he or Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) believed he would during last year’s Democratic primary campaign.
He also told MeidasTouch that he believed the president had rejected “the frame of Reaganism” and championed government intervention in the economy and other areas of policy.
Speaking to the channel after Biden’s speech on Wednesday, Khanna said: “I thought it was a home run. I didn’t know Joe Biden had that in him. I was for Bernie during the campaign and we spent so much time saying Joe Biden, he’s going to be cautious and incrementalist.
“I don’t think Bernie will mind my saying this… he said: ‘Well, he’s doing better than we thought he would, isn’t he Ro?’
“The truth is he really rejected the framework of Reaganism, and he’s making a bold, affirmative case for government as necessary. I loved the speech. He’s got his own way of relating and earning trust of people; I think he’s off to a fabulous start.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/29/biden-trickle-down-economics-us-president

Cut taxes on the rich. Unleash a wave of entrepreneurship. Growth will pick up and more jobs will be created. Everybody benefits. That, in essence, is trickle down – a theory of economics that Joe Biden wants to consign to the dustbin of history.
The US president was a young politician when the idea that cutting taxes on the well-off would be good for the poor first came into vogue in the 1970s. Now he has used his first address to a joint session of Congress to call on the US’s top 1% to pay for his $1.8tn (£1.3tn) American families plan – higher spending in areas such as education, childcare and infrastructure.
Anticipating pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill, Biden had a simple message. It was time, he said, to build the country from the middle and the bottom outwards, not from the top down. “Trickle down has never worked,” he said.

Biden on NBC: "A month ago, we had 1000s of young kids in custody in places they shouldn’t be, controlled by the Border Patrol. We have now cut that down dramatically."
As of Wednesday, there were 954 children in CBP facilities, down from 5,767 on 03/28. https://t.co/R4U96Aoks1
— Priscilla Alvarez (@priscialva) April 30, 2021

As I've talked about before, we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to kids at the border, because a new bottleneck could still form if kids aren't sponsored out of Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters fast enough.
But here, too, clear progress is being made. pic.twitter.com/XmyXWbPlQd
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 29, 2021

Good for him

Joe Rogan walks back anti-vaccination comments: "I'm a f***-ing moron".
Good for Joe. As I said earlier today in my Op Ed for CNN, Rogan has an influential voice. Admitting a mistake is a sign of strength not weakness. https://t.co/80jjjnwvY7
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) April 29, 2021

I’m glad he did that. It might be hard for a person living under headphones all day to realize the effect their words might have. Sounds like he realized his words might have a negative impact?

.@graceculhane spent months reporting this heartbreaking story, digging deep into Oregon's public records and investigating police officer Christopher Drumm. Read the whole piece, and pay particular attention to this paragraph as well: https://t.co/xUT5kZ2Zmf pic.twitter.com/D0TjhQKxsT
— Leah Feiger (@LeahFeiger) April 29, 2021

polarbear4

oh my god. mask up time. i’ll check out if we’re having demonstrations.

https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-condoleezza-rice-biden-afghanistan-troops-9e115f31-85c4-4f30-9663-30dd6e572895.html

Biden >>> Clinton

Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee they’re worried about President Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with Rice suggesting the U.S. may need to go back, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The position puts two former secretaries of State — from the Obama and Bush administrations — at odds with one of Biden’s most significant foreign policy moves to date.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pharma-backed-democrats-letter-biden-patent-waiver_n_6089cfcde4b0462027031b92

As usual, follow the $

Two House Democrats are soliciting support for a letter calling on President Joe Biden to continue denying developing countries’ request for a temporary waiver from intellectual property rules that severely limit their ability to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines developed in the United States and Europe.
The Democrats, Reps. Scott Peters of California and Ron Kind of Wisconsin, were both among Congress’ top 25 recipients of contributions from pharmaceutical industry political action committees in the 2020 election cycle.
A draft of their letter, which is backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful big business lobby, uses pharmaceutical industry talking points to argue for preserving a status quo that many experts believe could cost the world countless lives and squander a narrow window for achieving global herd immunity.

polarbear4

yeah. “congress” Doesn’t really write legislation anymore. it’s written by the “expert” lobbyists. as several have noted.

Dear @GOPLeader: Please remove Rep Matt Gaetz from the House Judiciary Committee immediately. The Committee has jurisdiction over the Department of Justice that is investigating Rep Gaetz, including allegedly for sex crimes with a minor. This is an untenable conflict of interest. https://t.co/H3ZzJYoCzs
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 30, 2021

wi63

https://twitter.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1388212104017158155?s=20

Torabs

What a venal bastard.