Tag Archives: COVID-19

5/7 Sanders Hosts TH on COVID-19 Affectations on the Criminal Justice & Prisons; Evening OT

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More jibber-jabber and the bar is open. See you in the comments!

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May 4 Kent State and OT

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

i’m not sure how the news came in that day, probably on the radio since my new husband and I didn’t have a TV. I turned 20 in Houston, he at 27 in April. we had both marched against the war, but this was a new realization, a shock to so many.

<blockquote>To Lou Capecci, the crack of the national guard’s guns sounded like more of the same.

“It was pretty common to have demonstrations every day. The national guard had been on campus for a few days. They would shoot tear gas into the middle of the crowd and people would throw it back at them. Then we heard the shots and at first everybody kind of shrugged their shoulders and thought more tear gas,” he said.

But the young student at Kent State University in Ohio was mistaken.

Fifty years ago today, 28 soldiers opened fire on anti-Vietnam war demonstrators, letting loose 67 bullets in just 13 seconds. Four students were killed, nine wounded, and a fissure exposed in American society that shaped politics into the Trump era.

To large parts of the country, the Kent State massacre was a shocking and seminal event – American soldiers gunning down white students was unthinkable until it happened.

Part of the shock for Capecci, who walked away from the demonstration minutes before the national guard fired, was that he thought the soldiers’ weapons were just for show.

“No one knew the national guard had real bullets. We were completely shocked. It just never occurred to anyone that they would actually have bullets to shoot people. It may sound naive but we talked about that for years afterwards,” he said.

It was naive. In other parts of the country, the police were killing African Americans protesting for equal rights, including on college campuses before and immediately after Kent State with little attention from the television cameras that gave saturation coverage to the deaths of the white students.</blockquote>

Read more at the link.

 

4/30 Shared Priorities For COVID-19: Jayapal, Pocan, Sanders, and Warren Panel Discussion & OT

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On in 10 minutes (close to 6 CT) is a panel discussion via YT with Reps Pocan and Jayapal, and Sens Sanders and Warren.

Our Revolution is having an event too.

We’ll add more news, tweets, and videos in the comments. This serves as an open thread. It’s Thursday evening and Benny’s bar is open for HH.

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4/27 Jayapal Endorses Here’s the Deal Joe; Sanders TH on COVID-19 & OT

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What if she were being vetted? Long shot for sure.

“As progressives we all understand that the essence of what we believe in is the concept of solidarity,that we’re all in this together. No matter what our color may be,no matter where we were born,no matter what kind of work we do. We are human beings, and we are in it together.”

I wish he would address the NY ballot issue, but don’t believe if he will. Meantime, there’s been push back from Bernie’s team, but we’ll put those in the comments section. Consider this an open thread. BYOB tonight.

4/23 Sanders TH: State Responses to COVID-19 Livestream; Evening OT

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Keith Ellison is among 4 attorneys general in states such as VT, NY, MN, MI in how they are responding to the COVID pandemic. Comes on at 6CT.

Looks like AOC was the holdout again on the next stimulus bill vote:

I do wonder why Bernie feels the need to vote for the bill when no one item from his agenda was included.

Live blog and OT. Bar is open. More jibber-jabber, tweets, videos and conversation in comments. This serves as an open thread. Feel free to play the video jukebox after the TH.

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4/18 One World Together at Home Concert & Open Thread (part 1)

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Co-sponsored by the World Health Organization/YT and others in the quote below.

https://youtu.be/jGQT3YyE-n4

Curated in collaboration with Lady Gaga, this global event will include Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, FINNEAS, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan and Stevie Wonder.

“The World Health Organization is committed to defeating the coronavirus pandemic with science and public health measures, and supporting the health workers who are on the frontlines of the response,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. “We may have to be apart physically for a while, but we can still come together virtually to enjoy great music. The ‘One World: Together At Home’ concert represents a powerful show of solidarity against a common threat.”

One World: Together At Home will be broadcast on major television networks worldwide on Saturday, 18 April 2020 at 18:00 (GMT) on ABC, NBC, ViacomCBS Networks, iHeartMedia and Bell Media networks and platforms in Canada. BBC One will run the program on Sunday 19 April 2020. Additional international broadcasters include beIN Media Group, MultiChoice Group and RTE.

The event will be streamed online on multiple global platforms, including: Alibaba, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, LiveXLive, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, TIDAL, TuneIn, Twitch, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube. This digital special will include additional artists and performances from all over the globe as well as unique stories from the world’s healthcare heroes.

Text Action to 31318 for US if you want to pitch in.

The entire Special will be streamed at www.youtube.com/WHO and on WHO’s main social media channels.

Adam Lambert is on, performing “Mad World” which is one of his best single tunes.

Looks like the artists are doing one song followed by highlighting different first responders/healthcare workers.

Looks like plenty of entertainment. For those who like Broadway/caberet music, Ben Vareen will be appearing at a Feinstein’s 54 Below At Home stream at 6:30 ET.

Bar is open for light fare or coffee.

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I’m glad the Nest is here. I’m toasting LD and Bernin’ for keeping the train running here!

4/3 TGIF: Bernie Appears on MSNBC, CNN, Maher; Evening OT

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Bernie had three appearances scheduled today to discuss his coronavirus plan.

When the interview with Anderson Cooper appears, that will be posted here.

TGIF! Bar is open! Tweets, videos, and jibber-jabber in the comments to go with the beverages!

This is the official drink of Wisconsin. We’ll add some music from Clyde Stubblefield who was the drummer for James Brown. And he was a native of Wisconsin.

4/2 Unemployment Spreads Like the 30’s Dust Bowl; Evening OT

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keeping on the theme of labor, I saw this graphic this afternoon:

(credit: Wallethub, h/t Capitol Fax Blog)

What else besides “My Cornona” (play on the Knack’s “My Sharona)”? More tweets, videos, analysis summaries, and jibber-jabber in the comments. See you there! This serves as an Open Thread.