First on CNN: GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin
By Kristen Holmes and Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 6:41 PM EST, Mon November 23, 2020

(CNN)The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.

The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump's defeat, more than two weeks after Biden was declared the winner in the election.

Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the formal transition and did not make a decision "out of fear or favoritism."

Read more @ https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html

Trump backer charged with assault after being seen on video exhaling twice on protesters
NOVEMBER 23, 2020 / 6:23 AM / CBS/AP

Sterling, Virginia — A man seen forcefully exhaling on two women outside President Trump's Virginia golf course has been charged with assault.

Raymond Deskins, 61, was charged with misdemeanor assault after a private citizen obtained a warrant through a county magistrate, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said Sunday. Deskins didn't immediately return a request for comment from The Associated Press.

The altercation happened Saturday outside Trump National Golf Club, where the president was going to play. Protestors and supporters regularly gather outside the club's entrance when he golfs.

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Twitter, Facebook to hand over @POTUS account to Biden on January 20
The social media giants will also hand over other institutional handles — for the White House, vice president and first lady of the United States — on inauguration day.
Nov. 21, 2020, 3:30 PM EST / Source: Reuters
By Reuters

Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the social media companies said on Saturday.

The @POTUS account on both platforms is the official account of the President of the United States. It is separate from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and the @Donal

dTrump Facebook page that U.S. President Donald Trump mostly uses to write his posts.

"Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021. As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records," the company confirmed to Reuters on Saturday.

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Housing Prices Increase Amid Economic Devastation Leaving Less Affordable Homes
October 9, 2020 | AFFORDABLE HOUSING
By Cynthia Griffith

In stark contrast to the 2008 recession, the plummeting economy caused in part by the novel Coronavirus hasn’t put a dent in the housing market. In fact, particularly in wealthy neighborhoods, housing prices are actually going up, even as employment numbers continue spiraling down.

The reason?

Market experts agree that it is lack of supply. In other words, the fact that we aren’t building enough affordable houses (or enough houses at all for that matter) is keeping the housing industry afloat but certainly at the expense of those who are newly unemployed. Here we have not only a widening wealth gap but an impending housing gap as houses in low-income neighborhoods depreciate and houses in wealthy and upper middle-class neighborhoods grow more expensive.

To quote Megan McArdle, a columnist at the Washington Post, “the housing market tells the story of two Americas. One has the educated and professional classes, most of whom work from home…The other America has the people whose job requires their physical presence.”

Read more @ https://invisiblepeople.tv/housing-prices-increase-amid-economic-devastation-leaving-less-affordable-homes/