June 8, 2021

" ....COVID cases have fallen by 90% since January."

Team Biden

Biden Harris email this AM

Last week, President Biden announced a National Month of Action to make sure we can administer at least one COVID-19 vaccine to 70% of U.S. adults by July 4.

Already, over 63% of U.S. adults have received at least one vaccine dose, and that’s had a huge impact on beating back this virus -- COVID cases have fallen by 90% since January.

But it’s going to take all of us organizing in our communities, having conversations with our friends and loved ones, and spreading the word on social media to hit President Biden’s vaccination goal by July 4.

Getting as many people vaccinated as possible is key to building back better, Botany. We’ve already seen what this grassroots team can accomplish together, and getting folks vaccinated is the next step.

June 8, 2021

A DU quiz. Match the conspiracy to its owner.

Match the Conspiracy to its owner A DU quiz

An Italian Military Satellite was flipping votes from outer space in 2020 (Mark Meadows)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215499827


Jewish Space Lasers started wildfires in CA (Marjorie Taylor Greene)


Mark Zuckerberg put out many ballot drop boxes that were pre loaded with 96% Biden Ballots (Donald Trump)

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1401895819041771529

Trump tosses out a conspiracy that Facebook paid hundreds of millions of dollars for "phony lockboxes" that contained "96% Biden votes" during the election. "They were like just dumping ballots, it was a phony deal!"

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A ramp at West Point was slippery on a dry day June in order to make Trump look bad (Donald Trump)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/trump-ramp-west-point-commencement-speech/index.html

June 7, 2021

Kos: Republicans "forget" that Trump fired embedded CDC observer in China months before the outbreak

Quick eveybody look @ Anthony Fauci. He is the bad guy.

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Lab leak theory? It’s quite possible. Can’t trust the Chinese government to tell us the truth about anything, least of all the nature of their coronavirus research or any accidents involving it.

But you know who could have been in the best possible position to inform the US about it many months ahead of the pandemic? The China-embedded CDC epidemiologist who was fired by the Trump administration in July, 2019, that’s who. I’m referring to Dr. Linda Quick, the only person on the ground in China for the US working in this capacity at all. And she was never replaced — ever. Her position was eliminated as collateral damage during Trump’s trade war with China.

Do you remember Rand Paul or Tom Cotton or any other Trump water carrier protesting Quick’s firing at the time — or at any other time? I sure as hell don’t.

So Trump, knowing that China couldn’t be trusted on anything, apparently seemed to trust them just enough not to have anyone keep tabs on their virus research. And the GOP seemed to have no problems with this, either.

Maybe it’s time to remind the American public about all this, eh? Especially just before the next campaign cycle.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/6/2033874/-Republicans-forget-that-Trump-fired-embedded-CDC-observer-in-China-months-before-the-outbreak?detail=emaildkre2

June 4, 2021

Is it still correct to use the term "mestizo?"

thanx

June 4, 2021

The K-Bomb!

I know things seem tough and the GOP is pulling out all stops to keep power but the bottom line is that
"the good guys" are winning and there is nothing "they" can do to stop it. Joe and company stopped the
pandemic, V.P. K-Bomb is a bad ass, and we should crush it in 2022.

June 2, 2021

Biden freezes Trump-era oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska's Arctic wildlife refuge

Joe Biden freezes Trump-era oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic wildlife refuge

The Biden administration has reversed a Donald Trump-era drilling programme by suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The order by interior secretary Deb Haaland follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office.

Mr Biden's January 20 executive order suggested a new environmental review was needed to address possible legal flaws in a drilling programme approved by the Trump administration under a 2017 law enacted by Congress.

After conducting a required review, the US Department of the Interior said it "identified defects in the underlying record of decision supporting the leases, including the lack of analysis of a reasonable range of alternatives" required under the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law.

The remote, 19.6 million-acre refuge is home to polar bears, caribou, snowy owls and other wildlife, including migrating birds from six continents.

https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/joe-biden-freezes-trump-era-055629141.html

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This really is huge. Not only will this protect one of the earth's last wilderness ecosystems but that oil and
gas will stay in the ground and not be burned and turned into greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

June 1, 2021

If you refused to get one of the C-19 vaccines and you get the disease you should be ...

... denied all medical attention.

Fuck it I'm done with these MAGA/Evangelical assholes.

May 31, 2021

On this day may I post this? A childhood friend's older brother. He was 3 weeks short of 19.

http://www.virtualwall.org/dr/RuddJE01a.htm

May 29, 2021

Kos: Proud Boy who hid ax handle in American flag argues he'll lose disability pay if he's in jail

With the help of online sleuths and boatloads of video and social media evidence, the arrests and charges keep rolling in. But as hearings begin and court dates are set, plea deals are bandied about and defenses and bonds are debated. One group of bigots that was well-represented in Washington, D.C., that fateful day is the so-called Proud Boys. The Proud Boys have enjoyed incredible immunity from law enforcement over the past few years. In recent weeks, many of these bigoted boys have been arrested and each and everyone of them has given a sob story about why they shouldn’t be in jail for breaking all the laws. One particular Kansas Proud Boy, William Chrestman, who was recorded wielding an axe handle and threatening a federal law enforcement officer, is freaking out because he is stuck in jail.

Chrestman, a 43-year-old unemployed union sheet metal worker, was reportedly arrested alongside fellow Kansas residents Louis Enrique Colon and Christopher Kuehne back in February for their part in the insurrection. The charges, according to the Kansas City Star, included “conspiracy, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” Chrestman had the distinction of additional charges for carrying the deadly weapon and threatening law enforcement.

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But that isn’t all. According to Chrestman’s legal counsel, he has been receiving disability insurance and medical care by way of the Department of Veterans Affairs. According to the Star, Chrestman also has a family and his detention means that his benefits are up in the air. “The residence he shares with his common-law partner … and their six children is in danger of foreclosure, placing the whole nuclear family in jeopardy of homelessness.”

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Why Chrestman’s fellow conspirators have been let free on bond remains a mystery. According to the federal affidavit against Chrestman and the men, they acted “in concert to prevent law enforcement officers from controlling the crowd by obstructing metal barriers,” and also “appeared to gesture and communicate to one another both before and while inside the Capitol in an apparent effort to coordinate their efforts.” Oh yeah, and Chrestman wrapped his axe handle in an American flag to allegedly hide it while he was pantomiming peaceful protest.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/27/2032422/-Proud-Boy-tries-to-downplay-role-in-Jan-6-riots-mourns-loss-of-government-benefits-while-in-jail?detail=emaildkre

May 28, 2021

In Fox News' America Yesterday, "Tennessee woman drives into vaccination tent to protest."

Tennessee woman drives into vaccination tent to protest
May 27, 2021
Associated Press

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A police report says a Tennessee woman has been charged with reckless endangerment for driving through a COVID-19 vaccine distribution tent as a form of protest.

According to news outlets, a Blount County deputy who witnessed the event Monday at Foothills Mall in Maryville said more than a dozen people were inside the tent, including health workers and National Guard personnel.

Several said multiple people were almost hit.

The deputy arrested 36-year-old Virginia Christine Lewis Brown.

She told him she drove through the site to protest the vaccine and was only traveling 5 miles per hour.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Brown has an attorney.



https://www.wbbjtv.com/2021/05/27/tennessee-woman-drives-into-vaccination-tent-to-protest/