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crickets's JournalSounds like Bill Barr might actually show up.
Bluster all you like, Billy. Tomorrow will not be a good day for you.
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The depressingly familiar list of who's who...
I studied ethics at Harvard Divinity School with James Luther Adams, who had been in Germany in 1935 and 1936. Adams witnessed the rise there of the so-called Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi. He warned us about the disturbing parallels between the German Christian Church and the Christian right. Adolf Hitler was in the eyes of the German Christian Church a volk messiah and an instrument of God—a view similar to the one held today about Trump by many of his white evangelical supporters. Those demonized for Germany’s economic collapse, especially Jews and communists, were agents of Satan. Fascism, Adams told us, always cloaked itself in a nation’s most cherished symbols and rhetoric. Fascism would come to America not in the guise of stiff-armed, marching brownshirts and Nazi swastikas but in mass recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance, the biblical sanctification of the state and the sacralization of American militarism.
Well said!
The Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act, which I introduced with Democratic Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, provides people with up to $2,000 every single month to help them keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table. Instead of a one-time payment, people would get help every month.
My RELIEF Act would help keep Americans safe and in their homes during this crisis by banning evictions and foreclosures for a year; preventing utility shutoffs; and prohibiting landlords from raising tenants’ rent. And The Heroes Act, which already passed in the House, would give funding for testing and to localities that desperately need it to pay essential workers.
Solutions are out there; we just need competent leaders who know how to listen, lead with empathy and get things done. People across the country are begging the president and his Republican boosters in Congress to approach these crises with the seriousness they deserve, recognize their missteps and work on behalf of the people who sent them to Washington. If they can’t, it’s time for them to move aside and let real leaders lead.
Somebody's working hard, unlike the little toddler who eats and tweets and does little else.
Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains JUL14
https://news.yahoo.com/israeli-data-show-school-openings-073608473.htmlImportantly, on May 17 in Israel it appeared the virus not only was under control, but defeated. Israel reported only 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the entire country that day. In the U.S., the debate often is about reopening schools where the disease is not only not in decline, but surging. [snip]
On July 2, Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist at the Federation of American Scientists, tweeted a chart showing Israel’s rate of infection surging past Europe and fast approaching the disastrous rate in the U.S., noting that it was exactly one month since the reopening of Israeli schools.
The level of school contagion became public last week during testimony provided to Israeli legislators by Udi Kliner, the health ministry’s deputy director of public-health services, whose boss had just quit in protest against the government’s mishandling of the crisis. Israel now surpasses 1,200 new cases of COVID-19 a day.
+1
It occurs to me that if Dodd is so concerned about her that he sqawks in public, Harris must at the top of the list. Sure, he's on the VP search committee, but this isn't an official message by any means. He's politicking in public, which likely indicates he must be getting his little feefees tromped on in private. Boo hoo.
Joe has a deep well of talent to choose from. I have my preferences (e.g. young enough to take the reins after him) but the VP he picks will be fine with me, regardless.
This. They're all in this situation together and can make up the time together.
If schooling is delayed for a year because of this, it might require a shift in gears to deal with being a year behind where they might have been otherwise, but at least they'd be alive. And it's not just one grade - all grades will be moving along together as a bloc. It might be logistically interesting for schools to deal with that given the students coming along behind them, but the actual number of students would not really change enough to be considered impossible.
Let's face it, graduating a year later than you thought you would sure beats dying.
"what Mr. Yoho did was give permission to other men to do that to his daughters"
That's the part that often gets missed and glossed over when a woman stands up to defend herself. It isn't just about how he treated one woman in the moment, it's that claiming the right to treat one woman poorly is claiming the right for any man to treat all women that way, including the women close to them that they ought to respect and love.
Good for AOC - for standing up for herself, and for doing so in a way that defends, respects, and lifts up all women.
There's a swift domino effect when people can't get a paycheck.
The inability to earn during a pandemic is no one's fault and shouldn't be punished. As illustrated in the OP, when entire populations can't get a paycheck, then communities can't function. It's ridiculous to hear Repubs talking about cutting aid to $100 a week - if they strangle the ability of the rank and file worker to pay basic utilities, they have set up the entire nation to fail economically. The whole "can't let 'em get too comfortable!" thought process they have going on is so divorced from reality it's scary.
Thank you, Mayor Wheeler.
The mayor responded: "I will absolutely do everything in my power to go get rid of the federal troops and to reform the Portland Police Bureau. We need to do both."
Earlier on Wednesday, a unanimous Portland City Council voted to end cooperation between the Portland Police Bureau and federal agencies charged with protecting federal properties on Wednesday, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said in a statement.
The feds aren't going to listen, but it's important that you stood up.
Deliberate nonfeasance in office. Criminal negligence.
There are clear cut examples of this behavior going on right now, nationwide, costing people their lives by the thousands. Why is no one stepping up? Not even the media. Why is no one stepping up to say the words out loud?
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