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ACLU of Georgia: "Today, the Georgia General Assembly made the best possible case for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the U.S. Senate."https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1375231019532574722?s=20
Greta ftw
Greta ThunbergSee you all at the next climate strike
@SkyNews
· Mar 24
Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist http://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1375148442176131073?s=20
https://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106
https://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106
So many dumb questions and he didn't use the word malarkey once. Impressive
Press: We want a press conference because important issues!
Biden: Fine.
Press: Are you and Trump gonna fight in 2024?
https://twitter.com/rudepundit/status/1375147839676891136?s=20
The media embarrassed Trump.
Biden is embarrassing the media.
The media people who wet themselves over the absence of Biden press conferences have now further soiled themselves by making little use of the time.
This press conference is embarrassing, and its not because of Biden
https://twitter.com/TheRealHoarse/status/1375148760003665922?s=20
Dear Republican voters: What did you expect?
Thom Hartmann, Independent Media Institute
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The simple fact is that Republicans have been lying to voters like you for better than 40 years, from Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and "War on Drugs," through Reagan's "Supply Side Economics," right up to today's Trump/GOP line that the 2020 election was filled with "voter fraud."
They're all lies, to disguise the fact that the GOP worships money and power alone, and puts those two things above the safety and security of average Americans every time.
For the past 18 years on my radio show I've been running a contest. To win, all you need to do is name a single piece of post-1980 legislation that was first written by a Republican, majority-sponsored by Republicans in Congress, passed by a majority of Republicans and signed by a Republican president — and has as its main beneficiaries average working people, instead of rich people or big corporations.
MORE:
https://www.rawstory.com/dear-republican-voters-what-did-you-expect/
I think I can, I think I can...
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https://twitter.com/J_Jakobowski/status/1375053302770118657?s=20
We are SO screwed.
How is the vaccine rollout going in Mississippi? Well, they have to change the script that the vaccine call-in center operators are reading.
Bobby Wayne, a retired reverend with prostate cancer and leukemia, had spent a week calling health agencies around his county in Mississippi, trying to find out where to get the Covid-19 vaccine. But when Mr. Wayne, 64, called the state’s hotline on Monday, he said an operator, whose job was to help residents schedule vaccine appointments, gave him unnerving and incorrect information.
“This is the way she put it to me: They had no documentation that the vaccine was effective,” Mr. Wayne said. “And then she asked me did I still want to take it.”
When he told her “yes,” he said the operator replied that there were no appointments available and that he should call again the next morning.
As it happens, Mr. Wayne's daughter is a doctor and she raised holy hell on twitter when her father told her what had happened. The MS Department of Health said there had been a miscommunication, the words were taken out of context, and the script will be changed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/covid-vaccine-moderna-mississippi.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
via:
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2021/03/thursday-is-new-jobless-day_25.html#comment-5316846607
"Some day men will read again."
Excerpt:
Every plague leaves its mark on the world: crosses in our graveyards, blots of ink on our imaginations. Edgar Allan Poe had witnessed the ravages of cholera in Philadelphia, and he likely knew the story of how, in Paris, in 1832, the disease had struck at a ball, where guests turned violet blue beneath their masks. In Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death,” from 1842, Prince Prospero (“happy and dauntless and sagacious”) has fled a pestilence—a plague that stains its victims’ faces crimson—to live in grotesque luxury with a thousand of his noblemen and women in a secluded abbey, behind walls gated with iron. At a lavish masquerade ball, a tall, gaunt guest arrives to ruin their careless fun. He is dressed as a dead man: “The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have difficulty in detecting the cheat.” He is dressed as the Red Death itself: “His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of his face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.” Everyone dies, and because this is Poe, they die as an ebony clock tolls midnight (after which, even the clock dies): “And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
More often, a remnant of life survives—a reminder of just how much has been lost. In Jack London’s “The Scarlet Plague,” published not long before the 1918 flu pandemic, a contagion kills nearly everyone on the planet; the story is set in 2073, sixty years after the imagined outbreak, when a handful survive, unlettered, “skin-clad and barbaric.” One very, very old man who, a half century before, had been an English professor at Berkeley predicts good news: “We are increasing rapidly and making ready for a new climb toward civilization.” Still, he isn’t terrifically optimistic, noting, “It will be slow, very slow; we have so far to climb. We fell so hopelessly far. If only one physicist or one chemist had survived! But it was not to be, and we have forgotten everything.” For this reason, he has built a sort of ark—a library—hidden in a cave. “I have stored many books,” he tells his illiterate grandsons. “In them is great wisdom. Also, with them, I have placed a key to the alphabet, so that one who knows picture-writing may also know print. Some day men will read again.”
from:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-do-plague-stories-end
via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/25/2022716/-Thursday-Pundit-Round-up-Coming-Attractions?utm_campaign=trending
Whether he takes responsibility or not - He is responsible for 100s of 1000s of deaths.
U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousand of deaths - researchBy Howard Schneider
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy and trimmed federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars while still supporting those who needed it.
That is the conclusion of a group of research papers released at a Brookings Institution conference this week, offering an early and broad start to what will likely be an intense effort in coming years to assess the response to the worst pandemic in a century.
U.S. COVID-19 fatalities could have stayed under 300,000, versus a death toll of 540,000 and rising, if by last May the country had adopted widespread mask, social distancing, and testing protocols while awaiting a vaccine, estimated Andrew Atkeson, economics professor at University of California, Los Angeles.
the rest:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-economy-idUSKBN2BH1DK
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