I was glad to see Warren on Bernie’s panel last night. There are going to be lots of fights ahead no matter who is elected president and it is important to have as many allies as possible on the progressive side.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren may not be the likeliest vice-presidential pick for Joe Biden, but she’s emerging as the running mate Democratic voters would prefer most — and who they believe would be best for the job.
In a Data for Progress poll shared exclusively with Vox, the Massachusetts senator ranked first as the vice-presidential candidate likely Democratic voters think is most ready to be president and would be best at handling the coronavirus pandemic and implementing policies, including those that benefit working-class people.
Forty-two percent of poll respondents said they believe Warren is most ready to be president, followed by Sen. Kamala Harris at 15 percent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 9 percent, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at 7 percent, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at 4 percent, and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto at 3 percent. Nearly 20 percent of respondents said they didn’t know. Warren ranks significantly better than the other candidates surveyed across gender, age, and education. But among black voters, she is basically tied with Harris and Abrams.
Warren outpolled the other potential contenders on nearly every measure. She’s the most preferred vice presidential candidate, with 31 percent support, and the pick Democrats are likeliest to say would make them more inclined to vote for Biden. It is also worth noting that Warren is among the vice presidential contenders with the highest name identification among voters — she ran for president for longer than most of the 2020 field, and she’s a famous figure.
But it does seem a long time (July is when the decision to announce whom it will be) to put the potential candidates on a short leash just to keep Biden from appearing to be a former sexual predator.
Yes, let’s see if Biden makes it to July. A whole lot of stuff could happen between now and then.
eve
you know Biden and the DNC want the don’t-rock-the-boat, easy-does-it, baby-steps, if-it-ain’t-broke Klobuchar who thinks that pre Trump everything was just hunky dory Not understanding that Trump is a symptom of peoples’ perception that things are going to hell in a hand basket w $trillions on regime change wars/ $trillions bailouts for reckless bk dereg./ unfair trade arbitraging wage earners against cheap labor overseas/ whistleblowers imprisoned for exposing wrongdoing etc etc
Trump plagiarized Bernie – lied – but people in midwestern states didn’t trust that Clinton understood their angst – considered her part of the problem
With Americans losing their jobs at record-breaking rates, it’s now clear to political leaders (including the president) that a $2 trillion infrastructure investment will be a key step to getting our country back on its feet.
Now the big question is: what will our huge infrastructure investment look like? Beyond essential spending on public health infrastructure to cope with COVID-19, where will this massive expenditure of our tax dollars go in the next jobs-focused stimulus? Will we take this opportunity to invest in preventing another public health threat, or will it be more of the same sort of thinking that led to this crisis?
This mammoth investment comes in conjunction with another threat to our survival: climate change. As we invest in our nation’s survival, we must build in the goal of zero carbon by 2050 (and the interim step of 50 percent cuts by 2030) that scientists say is necessary to ensure a safe, healthy and productive future for humanity on this planet. Planes may not be flying, but zero carbon isn’t a goal we want to reach by shutting down our economy.
To get there, we don’t need an old-school boondoggle infrastructure bill. We need future-focused legislation to build sustainable infrastructure and create clean jobs to begin to bend the curve of carbon emissions. States like Virginia have been showing leadership: the Virginia Clean Economy Act will eliminate pollutants from electricity generation, invest in clean renewable energy and create thousands of new jobs in an industry that’s resilient to the whims of Saudi Arabia or Russian oil producers.
Eight fossil fuel executives tapped for a White House task force advising President Donald Trump on how to reopen the U.S. economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic have donated millions to Trump and other Republican campaigns and political committees in recent years.
Earlier this month, the White House named nearly 200 corporate executives and business leaders to its so-called “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups” ― which Trump has called the “Opening the Country” council ― in 17 separate areas ranging from agriculture and banking to sports and “thought leaders.”
“These bipartisan groups of American leaders will work together with the White House to chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity,” Trump said in a statement accompanying the April 14 announcement. “The health and wealth of America is the primary goal, and these groups will produce a more independent, self-sufficient, and resilient Nation.”
The 12-member energy panel includes eight oil and gas executives who have collectively made more than $4.2 million in political contributions since Trump launched his presidential bid in June 2015, according to an analysis from the watchdog group Documented. The vast majority of that total went to Republican candidates and political action committees.
Publicly traded companies have received more than $1 billion in funds meant for small businesses from the federal government’s economic stimulus package, according to data from securities filings compiled by The Washington Post.
Nearly 300 public companies have reported receiving money from the fund, called the Paycheck Protection Program, according to the data compiled by The Post. Recipients include 43 companies with more than 500 workers, the maximum typically allowed by the program. Several other recipients were prosperous enough to pay executives $2 million or more.
After the first pool of $349 billion ran dry, leaving more than 80 percent of applicants without funding, outrage over the millions of dollars that went to larger firms prompted some companies to return the money. As of Thursday, public companies had reported returning more than $125 million, according to a Post analysis of filings.
Other companies have said they plan to keep the funds, saying the loans had been awarded according to the program’s rules and that they would use most of it to pay workers, as required, in order for the loans to be forgiven.
At this point, in a country leading the world by a long shot in known cases of, and deaths from, Covid-19, none of this should exactly be rocket science. It’s beyond obvious that if you encourage such demonstrations, you’re increasing the odds that the protesters will both catch and pass on a disease that’s already killed 60,000 Americans, more than US fatalities from 20 years of war in Vietnam.
And that, of course, makes the president of the United States a killer, too. Or thought of another way, the assassin-in-chief in distant lands has just transformed himself into an assassin-in-chief right here at home, a man who might as well have fired Hellfire missiles into such crowds or put a gun to the head of some of those protesters and their wives or husbands or lovers or parents or children (to whom the disease will undoubtedly be spread once they go home) and pulled the trigger.
The act of encouraging members of his base to court death is clearly that of a man without an ounce of empathy, even for those who love and admire him most—and so of a stone-cold killer. You couldn’t ask for more proof that the only sense of empathy he has lies overwhelmingly in his deep and abiding pity for himself (which matches his staggering sense of self-aggrandizement) and perhaps for his children, other billionaires, and fossil-fuel executives. Them, he would save; the rest of us, his base included, are expendable. He’d sacrifice any of us without a second thought if he imagined that it would benefit him or his reelection in any way.
But there’s no point in leaving it at that. After all, as he pushes for a too-swiftly reopened country, he’s declaring open season on Americans of all sorts. And every one of us who will die too soon should be considered another Covid fire missile death and chalked up to a president who, by the time this is over, will truly have given a new meaning to the phrase “assassin in chief.”
You could say, I suppose, that he’s just been putting his stamp of approval on the recent statement of Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, another politician in a rush to reopen his state not to business, but to the business of pandemics. Patrick classically summed up the president’s position (and those of the protesters as well) in this fashion: “there are more important things than living.” Indeed, how true, though not, of course, for Donald Trump, or the Trump Organization, or that hotel of his in Washington, or his other presently sinking properties, or for his reelection in November 2020.
As for the rest of us, in Covid-19 America, we are all now potential Suleimanis.
yes. and it may have been a better response. but the key reasons this is so bad is bc supply chains and health care and privatization of hospitals. and the dems STILL don’t want to change any of that. i could go on.
There are more economic support bills to come, though, and as the crisis wears on, Democrats are going to come under more pressure to play hardball. One obvious place is on automatic triggers — legislative provisions that ensure economic support will continue so long as unemployment remains high. No congressional Democrat I spoke to thinks there’s a chance in hell Republicans will keep voting for economic support if a Democrat wins in November. Building in automatic triggers now would be good policy and good politics. And if Democrats don’t use Republican cooperation to build in those triggers now, they’re almost guaranteeing terrible economic pain if they happen to win later.
Similarly, there’s much that the stimulus packages have left undone. Health care is a particularly glaring example. Jayapal and 30 other House Democrats are proposing a plan to open Medicare to the unemployed and to expand Medicaid to 300 percent of the poverty line for the duration of the crisis. That’s both good policy and, in terms of Democrats’ longer-term goal of expanding Medicare coverage to more Americans, good politics.
Democrats are right to think that they bear the weight of responsibility in this crisis. But you can worry so much about appearing responsible that you become irresponsible — and not being willing to force a fight over state and local aid, health care expansions, and automatic triggers tips into irresponsibility.
“I don’t think we’ve been rolled,” says Jayapal. “But I think that the whole set of circumstances has been challenging. And we have not responded yet at the scale of the crisis that we face.”
a softer, gentler murder of fewer people, probably.
“in terms of Democrats’ longer-term goal of expanding Medicare coverage to more Americans,”. has the author been paying attention as Democrats fund cobra and hospitals in their desperate determination to NOT expand Medicare?
In both a written statement and an appearance on MSNBC Friday morning, former Vice President Joe Biden denied that he sexually assaulted former Senate aide Tara Reade in 1993, the first time the presumptive Democratic nominee has personally addressed the allegation in public.
“No, it is not true,” Biden said on MSNBC. “I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn’t. It never happened… The claims are false.”
In a written statement posted to Medium, Biden called on the Secretary of the Senate to request that the National Archives identify and “make available to the press” any complaint filed by Reade.
Reade said she submitted a complaint about Biden to a congressional human resources office.
“There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be—the National Archives,” Biden said. “If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
Joe Biden, asked on @Morning_Joe if he sexually assaulted Tara Reade:
“No, it is not true. I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn’t. It never happened.” pic.twitter.com/nXIAdGloG5
The university that possesses a trove of Joe Biden’s Senate papers told CNN on Thursday that there are still no plans to make them public now, as pressure grows on Biden’s presidential campaign to release records that some say could potentially shed light on a sexual assault allegation against the presumptive Democratic nominee, which his campaign denies.
The University of Delaware said in a statement provided to CNN that the school is still “curating the collection” and the process is not expected to end until well into 2021. And even after the curation is finished, a spokeswoman for the school told CNN, the school would not release the papers until two years after Biden retires from public life.
“The University of Delaware received the Biden Senatorial Papers as a gift from Vice President Biden. We are currently curating the collection, a process that we estimate will carry at least into the spring of 2021,” spokeswoman Andrea Boyle said in the statement. “As the curating process is not complete, the papers are not yet available to the public, and we are not able to identify what documents or files can be found within the collection.”
Biden said in a statement on Friday morning that his papers at the university do not contain personnel files. But, he said, personnel files from the Senate during those days would be kept at the National Archives.
“I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there,” Biden said.
Biden said in an interview with MSNBC Friday morning that the his papers at the University of Delaware will remain sealed because they could become political “fodder” during his presidential campaign.
“The idea that they would all be made public while I was running for office can be taken out of context,” Biden said. He added that the documents would cover topics like meetings with foreign heads of state.
A federal law from the time states that if a Capitol Hill staffer filed an employee discrimination complaint, a procedure for investigating those claims would have been triggered, including a hearing by a board of independent officers. No evidence has surfaced that such a hearing was initiated related to a complaint by Reade.
Reade has said that she filed a complaint with a personnel office on Capitol Hill at the time, but that she does not have a copy of it. It is unclear what kind of complaint — and at what office — Reade may have filed.
The New York Times reported that it had been unable to locate any such document.
Joe Biden today denied the allegation of sexual assault by former Senate staffer Tara Reade. Investigative journalist @RichMcHugh says despite that denial, "The more that I've gone down the road reporting it, the more corroborating voices I've found" for Reade's account. pic.twitter.com/GcJR7Y1Hak
Holy shit, Biden realized mid-sentence that he walked into a trap by acknowledging the Kavanaugh comparison. He looks a deer in headlights: https://t.co/ck5ljIixVa
Instead, a Senate Historical Office staffer said the Fair Employment Practices records are governed by a Senate resolution mandating that "records containing personal privacy, information closed by statute, and records of executive nomination are closed for 50 years." pic.twitter.com/xUVyfnQP2H
According to congressional testimony from 1995, 479 people contacted the office between 1992 and 1995 seeking assistance. Of those, only 102 entered the office's five-step "dispute resolution" process, which included a formal complaint and hearing.
It's also important to note that Reade isn't just looking for the complaint. She has other reasons for wanting the University of Delaware to unseal the records: pic.twitter.com/FUXdj3tUU2
Whether they need more yeast for stress baking or the comfort of Kraft macaroni and cheese, Americans sequestered by social distancing are shopping for groceries online. But for many low-income households using food stamps, that can happen only in person.
About 38 million people receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but how they can use them is often limited by technology or government policy. That means they must walk the aisles, increasing the possibility of coronavirus exposure for a group of Americans that includes the poor, older people and those with disabilities.
Ariel Smith, 23, has a connective tissue syndrome that makes it difficult for her to work, and the idea of visiting a store makes her nervous.
“With any chronic health condition, your body is working so hard to keep you stable, so there is not a lot of bandwidth for something like Covid-19,” said Ms. Smith, who lives in Austin, Texas.
She receives about $195 in SNAP benefits each month, but her state does not offer a way to use that money online. Most don’t, although Texas and several other states have recently signed up for a pilot program that would expand that access.
Congress authorized the pilot program six years ago, but it got off the ground only last year — and advocates for low-income Americans say it could have made a bigger difference during the pandemic if the government and other stakeholders had moved faster.
“It should have happened yesterday, and it should be accessible to everyone,” said Patricia Baker, a senior policy analyst at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, an advocacy group for low-income people.
Some stores are using a workaround that doesn’t require coordinating with the government: allowing SNAP recipients to place orders online and then swipe their benefit cards when they pick up their groceries. The nearest grocer to Ms. Smith’s home, H-E-B, told her that it was working on a way to do that; the chain said this week that it was testing curbside payment.
But that’s possible only if a store’s system is already set up to allow customers to place an order and pay later. Stores that require online payment for delivery or pickup can do so for SNAP recipients only if their state is part of the pilot program set up by the Agriculture Department.
The program is fully operational in nine states: New York, the first to join a year ago; Washington; Alabama; Iowa; Oregon; Nebraska; Florida; and Kentucky and California, both of which started this week. Two retailers, Walmart and Amazon, are participating in all those states.
this is one of those times I am grateful for where I live. A company called imperfect operating up and down the left coast, I believe based in San Francisco, gets imperfect and surplus food from the best (local, a lot, but not always) sources they can find and we get a delivery every week or every other week, our choice.
Just this week, they started delivering to SNAP recipients and the elderly who meet the income requirements.
Even their regular prices are lower than the store. lots of veggies—they are the stars. dairy, meat and fish, and snacks. some staples. i get a quart of local (Portland) organic half and half for $3. they are expanding now and i’m thrilled to be a part of a different kind of food supply chain.
If I were young and had some money to start a business, I might well do this. Buy a van, hit your local farms, deliver. on the website, you can see how much carbon, water, etc., they estimate you saved.
As nearly 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment in just six weeks and millions worldwide face hunger and poverty, we look at the global economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic and its impact on the most vulnerable. As the World Food Programme warns of a massive spike in global hunger and more than 100 million people in cities worldwide could fall into poverty, can this crisis be a catalyst for change? We ask French economist Thomas Piketty. His 2014 internationally best-selling book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” looked at economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes. His new book, “Capital and Ideology,” has been described as a manifesto for political change.
AMY GOODMAN: The U.S. Labor Department has just released its latest unemployment numbers, as you were speaking, showing more than 3.8 million people filed for unemployment benefits in the last week. So that brings the total number to 30 million people who have filed for unemployment in just six weeks. I want to go back to two months ago. Bernie Sanders was the Democratic front-runner for president, a man you supported. The unemployment rate was 3.5%, and the U.S. just reported its first coronavirus death. So, I want to ask you about the significance of this. Last month, you tweeted a graph showing voter turnout from 1945 to 2020, which revealed far fewer Americans over that period voted in elections than the electorate, proportionally, in either Britain or France. You tweeted, “Sanders to the aid of US democracy. Only a full-scale reorientation of the type proposed by Sanders would eventually rid American democracy of the inegalitarian practices which undermine it and deal with the electoral disaffection of the working classes.” That’s what you wrote then. Talk about what has happened in this two months, what you think needs to happen, this as the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said states should simply go bankrupt, unless they agree to a Republican austerity plan, and then they might get some U.S. government aid.
THOMAS PIKETTY: Yeah. I mean, this statement is particularly crazy. I mean, we had this kind of statement back in the ’30s. You know, they were what we call the liquidationist ideology: “Let’s liquidate bad firms, bad banks, bad states.” But, of course, this is the worst policy you can imagine, both in terms of social consequences and in terms of macroeconomic consequences.
Look, I think, you know, coming back to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, I think Joe Biden will be very well inspired to borrow some of the new ideas that were put forward by Bernie Sander, Elizabeth Warren, including a progressive wealth tax on billionaires, including more investment in public hospitals, in public universities. You know, I think this is the time for the Democratic Party to show to the middle class and the lower-middle class and the lower socioeconomic groups that they care about redistribution and they care about improving the minimum wage, which is what the Democratic Party stood for until the ’60s, ’70s and even ’80s.
And then, what I show in my book Capital and Ideology — which, by the way, I should say, it’s a very readable book. You know, it’s a bit long, but it can really be read. It’s not technical at all, and it’s a broad history of inequality regime across societies. And I show that the Democratic Party in the U.S., starting, as you were saying, in the ’50s, ’60s, just like social democratic parties in Europe, gradually lost touch with the more disadvantaged electorate. And, you know, I compare all these countries and timing together. And my conclusion is that this is largely because they failed to renew their policy package and to keep redistributive ambition.
And I think many of the lower-class and lower-middle-class voters have just stopped voting, so now, somehow, also voting for Trump, and, in Europe, somehow, also voting for the nationalist party, I think, largely, for lack of a better alternative. And they feel that protection and return to the nation-state and the frontiers of the nation-state at least will protect them a little bit more than nothing at all. And I’m not sure they are so optimistic that all the gesticulation by people like Trump or Marine Le Pen in France will do a lot of good, but at least they see something new, and they hear nothing for them on the other side, therefore they feel — but let’s remember that most of these voters are actually staying at home. You know, if they were really enthusiastic about Trump or Le Pen, they would all go and vote, and you would have a 90% participation rate, which is not at all what you have.
T and R, jcb!! 😊🕊 Mr. Hi-tech hubby mentioned ByeDone picking $hrill for VP. I replied that sure, that’s a good way to guarantee a tRump victory. And a win in the total vote count. ByeDone is stupid enuff to do it. 😡🤮
I think we should all be able to agree that it's not OK for a taxpayer funded public university to block the release of government documents just because those documents may be politically inconvenient for a politician.
I don't even know why this point is controversial.
I’m not agreeing with Sirota necessarily by posting his tweet. I’m more interested in the privacy issue, and I’m not certain Sirota is addressing that. What I do question is Biden when he said that he was going to open up his papers in 2021. Reports I’ve read was it was supposed to be this year.
Why didn’t @morningmika bring up any corroborating evidence? If you only watched that interview you would think that no witnesses had come forward to back up Tara’s account. In fact her brother, friend, neighbor, Larry king live call and former work colleague all back her up.
Is it not relevant, as people call Tara Reade a liar, that Joe Biden has a very well documented record of blatantly lying in public, including recently, about various parts of his life? He had to withdraw from a race for president because of plagiarism and lying.
" … the coronavirus lockdown is showing us roughly the scale of what is needed to avoid extreme climate change effects — but an extremely clumsy way of achieving it," writes @ryanlcooper.https://t.co/jCxrqTxDR4
In early April, Vice News obtained a leaked memo from an internal meeting of Amazon leadership, which described a campaign to smear the fired warehouse organizer Smalls, calling him “not smart or articulate” as part of a PR strategy to make him “the face of the entire union/organizing movement.”
Led by Smalls, dozens of organizers have been planning the logistics of the walkout over Zoom calls in recent days. Since the pandemic broke out, retail, warehouse and gig workers have coalesced around a similar list of demands: personal protective gear, health care benefits, paid leave, and hazard pay—making it natural for them to coordinate a mass action.
“We have workers at more than 100 stores who’ve agreed to participate and some stores were enough people will call out to shut stores down,” Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Christiansburg, Virgina, and a lead organizer of the walkout at Target, told Motherboard. “We’re trying to echo calls for a general strike. We want to shut down industry across the board and pushback with large numbers against the right-wing groups that want to risk our lives by reopening the economy.”
On May 1, a day historically celebrated globally by the left as International Workers’ Day or May Day, small business owners and right-wing groups will stage “Reopen America” rallies in cities around the country, including Washington DC and Chicago.
The so-called “May Day General Strike” is the culmination of a series of strikes led by workers at companies like Whole Foods, Amazon and Instacart since the pandemic began. The organizers at the forefront of the recent labor unrest form the face of the country’s resurgent labor movement: non-union, underemployed, and precarious workers who have taken things into their own hands to demand changes and organize their co-workers in the absence of a union—primarily over social media and encrypted messaging apps like Signal and Telegram.
Worker-led online groups, such as Whole Worker, Target Workers Unite, and the Instacart Shoppers (National) Facebook group, with thousands of members spanning the country—have been years in the making, but have experienced unprecedented growth during the pandemic, organizers say.
While the mass strike action might not be enough to shut down society, the collective action certainly echoes the calls for a general strike—a coordinated work stoppage across businesses and industries in pursuit of a common goal—the likes of which have not been seen in the United States since World War II.
The planned mass strike was in part seeded at the grocery delivery app Instacart, which recently became profitable for the first time since its founding in 2012, according to a report in The Information. On March 30, thousands of Instacart workers went on strike to demand protective gear, $5 hazard pay per order, and an expansion of paid sick leave to high risk workers. Following Instacart walkout, Whole Foods workers and Target’s delivery app Shipt workers staged their own strikes—making similar demands. Amazon workers at warehouses in Staten Island, Detroit, Chicago, and most recently Shakopee, Minnesota have staged their own walkouts.
The demands for Instacart, Amazon, Whole Foods, and Shipt strikes on May 1 remain largely the same as they did during initial strike actions, as companies have largely resisted providing workers with sufficient paid leave, protective gear, and hazard pay.
“It’s very important for us as similarly positioned workers to come together for demands that are pretty universal,” Vanessa Bain, a lead organizer of the Instacart walkout, told Motherboard. “In addition to building broader worker power, the point of our mass strike action is to bring this to the attention of the politicians and policy makers. We need them to address our demands now, and the fastest way to ensure that this happens is for companies to feel pressured into doing it.”
Tyson says that its workers are documented. But Trump and the likes of the Iowa congressman Steve King, the race-baiting Republican, have Latino workers shaking in their boots. The governor warns that if a plant reopens and you don’t show up, unemployment benefits cease. And then the president orders that the plants shall reopen come hell or a virus. The leaders of the big meatpackers are warning of spot meat shortages – plant capacity has dropped 40% in recent weeks from worker shortages. You just can’t let this Storm Lake plant shut down. But what happens if it explodes? The anxiety cuts to our quick.
Remember, too, that Smithfield Foods is owned by a Chinese conglomerate. Prestage Farms, in Eagle Grove, Iowa, has taken to sending whole hog carcasses to China for lack of further processing help amid our cornfields. This is not really an American food shortage.
The supply chain is so tight that when two plants go down – Smithfield in Sioux Falls and Tyson in Waterloo – fully 10% of national pork production is knocked out. Everyone has to eat, and they have not yet developed a taste for algae or even tofu. The world eats meat. Shoppers can clear out a grocery display in minutes, and a meat supply in a week.
Somebody has to process the hogs and birds that keep coming no matter a virus. Mike Pence called our neighbors heroes. The secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, called them patriots. Trump stopped legal residency permitting for immigrants. Nobody is talking about amnesty or even hearing the refugees. In fact, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa told Bloomberg Law nobody is talking about providing undocumented workers healthcare.
The state and federal governments did not order slower line speeds or provide protective gear for the packinghouse. Tyson asked for imposed guidance and resources, and got a promise of liability protection from worker claims. But there is this sticky thing called the 10th amendment that does not allow the president to waive corporate liabilities in state courts or workers’ compensation processes, says Storm Lake attorney Willis Hamilton, who has been advocating for food processing employees for nearly 50 years. The order was about instilling fear, Hamilton said. He says his clients are afraid of sick leave and afraid of filing for workers’ comp or unemployment.
“They have to threaten people. These ‘don’t even think about it’ orders fit into a system that marches workers to their deaths,” Case said. “Fear is turning to anger, and that’s when people organize.”
They could have a choice, to temporarily enlist in a quick process in the National Guard, and get that pay and benefits, or to stay home and a National Guard take their place until it is safe.
I was glad to see Warren on Bernie’s panel last night. There are going to be lots of fights ahead no matter who is elected president and it is important to have as many allies as possible on the progressive side.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/1/21243143/elizabeth-warren-vice-president-joe-biden-2020-poll
I would be surprised if he selected Warren. I just hope it’s not Klobuchar.
But it does seem a long time (July is when the decision to announce whom it will be) to put the potential candidates on a short leash just to keep Biden from appearing to be a former sexual predator.
Yes, let’s see if Biden makes it to July. A whole lot of stuff could happen between now and then.
you know Biden and the DNC want the don’t-rock-the-boat, easy-does-it, baby-steps, if-it-ain’t-broke Klobuchar who thinks that pre Trump everything was just hunky dory
Not understanding that Trump is a symptom of peoples’ perception that things are going to hell in a hand basket w $trillions on regime change wars/ $trillions bailouts for reckless bk dereg./ unfair trade arbitraging wage earners against cheap labor overseas/ whistleblowers imprisoned for exposing wrongdoing etc etc
Trump plagiarized Bernie – lied – but people in midwestern states didn’t trust that Clinton understood their angst – considered her part of the problem
I’m not saying anything new 🙁
The ONLY VP pick that would get me to vote for Joe is Bernie. And we all know that ain’t gonna happen.
There is no one else (besides Bernie and Nina) at all?
I am a NO vote. No way Braindead will choose someone halfway palatable to me.
Makes that easy…
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/495437-build-sustainable-infrastructure-and-create-clean-jobs-for-a?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=87274643&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_DoGqRrqtoGhoeYBSiSo585w-MaUftxuP0mNHgTCUdYeX1cI4t86X4DJ0gufrHeKOUcPY8&utm_content=87274643&utm_source=hs_email
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-executives-economic-task-force-gop-donors_n_5ea9a3e2c5b6fb98a2b65a6e
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/01/sba-ppp-public-companies/?utm_source=reddit.com
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-war/
just like joe and the DNC. joe even compared voting to a wartime act. that’s what flipped a switch for me.
Ditto.
I suppose, to Trump, the loonies are proving they will take a bullet for him, and it reinforces his own self-aggrandizement.
yes. and it may have been a better response. but the key reasons this is so bad is bc supply chains and health care and privatization of hospitals. and the dems STILL don’t want to change any of that. i could go on.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/1/21241709/democrats-coronavirus-stimulus-trump-2020-polls-recession
a softer, gentler murder of fewer people, probably.
“in terms of Democrats’ longer-term goal of expanding Medicare coverage to more Americans,”. has the author been paying attention as Democrats fund cobra and hospitals in their desperate determination to NOT expand Medicare?
This is why I despise the MSNBC and CNN’s for not doing their job on Cuomo. No one ever asks him in the presser why he slashed Medicare funding in NY.
It’s Ezra Klein
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/01/claims-are-false-joe-biden-denies-he-sexually-assaulted-former-senate-aide-tara
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/biden-senate-papers/index.html
Liberals on Kavanaugh: “Believe Women!”
Same Libs on Biden: “Bros before Hos!”
That the “leading candidate” has to address this at all is never a good thing, going into a nominating convention.
The record would remained closed, but it would exist.
Does it exist?
Both sides learned from Nixon to get rid of evidence especially the self incriminating doc’s –tape’s digital storage well you get the idea…
Now that my staff has gone through them
Joe has a pretty good record of being a pretty good liar. And I’m sure his operatives have scrubbed anything damaging. I still believe Tara.
For Most Food Stamp Users, Online Shopping Isn’t an Option
this is one of those times I am grateful for where I live. A company called imperfect operating up and down the left coast, I believe based in San Francisco, gets imperfect and surplus food from the best (local, a lot, but not always) sources they can find and we get a delivery every week or every other week, our choice.
Just this week, they started delivering to SNAP recipients and the elderly who meet the income requirements.
Even their regular prices are lower than the store. lots of veggies—they are the stars. dairy, meat and fish, and snacks. some staples. i get a quart of local (Portland) organic half and half for $3. they are expanding now and i’m thrilled to be a part of a different kind of food supply chain.
If I were young and had some money to start a business, I might well do this. Buy a van, hit your local farms, deliver. on the website, you can see how much carbon, water, etc., they estimate you saved.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/thomas_piketty
T and R, jcb!! 😊🕊 Mr. Hi-tech hubby mentioned ByeDone picking $hrill for VP. I replied that sure, that’s a good way to guarantee a tRump victory. And a win in the total vote count. ByeDone is stupid enuff to do it. 😡🤮
Recent polls of swing (and lean Republican) states (which actually are more important) though have shown Biden doing pretty well
NC
Biden 47 Trump 40. Meredith
Biden 45 Trump 40. Survey USA
Biden 48 Trump 45. Grain Hart Yang Research
Michigan
Biden 50 Trump 42. PPP
Ohio
Biden 45 Trump 44. Baldwin Wallace
New Hampshire
Biden 50 Trump 42. St Anselm
Texas
Biden 47 Trump 46. PPP
Trump 49 Biden 44 YouGuv
Georgia
Trump 45 Biden 44. Cygnal
I bet those polls are close to being accurate.
I’m not agreeing with Sirota necessarily by posting his tweet. I’m more interested in the privacy issue, and I’m not certain Sirota is addressing that. What I do question is Biden when he said that he was going to open up his papers in 2021. Reports I’ve read was it was supposed to be this year.
Chances are those papers have been temporarily removed or reindexed.
There have to be other reliable sources of evidence backing her up besides these papers.
I don’t think that it is a mere coincidence that “ibelievebiden” is trending”
The dem operatives and their bots have been quite busy lately!
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1256231956481748992?s=20
Living in an urban area, I will miss the notable reduction of air and noise pollution when “the normal” cranks back up.
Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart Workers Organize a Historic Mass Strike
How to Make the Best of the Mess Our Ruling Class Has Made
They could have a choice, to temporarily enlist in a quick process in the National Guard, and get that pay and benefits, or to stay home and a National Guard take their place until it is safe.