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riversedge's JournalTrump Reportedly Fuming That Pence May Certify Loss to Biden, Considers It 'Ultimate Betrayal'
Source: mediaite.com
By Ken Meyer Dec 22nd, 2020, 7:54 am
President Donald Trump is raging against his allies who’ve abandoned his long-shot efforts of overturning the election, according to a new report. Vice President Mike Pence is described as one of the targets of Trump’s outrage due to his imminent constitutional duty when the 2020 Electoral College results appear before Congress.
Axios’ Jonathan Swan reports that Trump is seething at numerous people close to him while he “increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results.” The article asserts that Trump believes Pence isn’t doing enough to fight for him, and he is especially preoccupied about what will Pence do on January 6 when he presides over Congress as they officially recognize the 2020 results.
“Pence’s role on Jan. 6 has begun to loom large in Trump’s mind, according to people who’ve discussed the matter with him,” Swan reports. “Trump would view Pence performing his constitutional duty — and validating the election result — as the ultimate betrayal.”
The report goes on with further accounts of Trump lashing out at officials who won’t indulge his pushes to overturn the votes.
“At this point,” according to Swan’s sources, “if you’re not in the ‘use the Department of Homeland Security or the military to impound voting machines’ camp, the president considers you weak and beneath contempt.”................................
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-reportedly-fuming-that-pence-may-certify-loss-to-biden-considers-it-ultimate-betrayal/
Fuming again. That is all trump does.
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1341407268710060034?s=20
Heavily Armed Far-Right Mob Floods Oregon Capitol
Source: daily beast
The crowd was a loose collection of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and others far-right groups, many of them are armed with pistols and rifles. It got ugly fast.
Updated Dec. 21, 2020 3:42PM ET / Published Dec. 21, 2020 12:23PM ET
SALEM, Or.—A group of about 300 demonstrators attempted to force their way into two separate entrances of the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, outraged lawmakers were holding a special session closed to the public.
The crowd was a loose collection of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and other far-right groups, many of them are armed with pistols and rifles. At one point during the demonstration, which began around 9 a.m., a woman tried to climb in a window on the west side of the government building. Oregon State Troopers, however, repelled her—before two more troopers showed up to insist that she get off the ledge.
Those troopers were quickly chased off by screaming protesters, many of them toting long black rifles.
Minutes later, the crowd moved to the building’s north entrance and attempted to push their way in. A dozen more troopers arrived at the door, declared it an unlawful assembly, and pushed the crowd back, using some kind of deterrent in a series of “pop” sounds, at which point the protesters swarmed back out again, their eyes watering and coughing.............................
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/heavily-armed-far-right-mob-descends-on-oregon-capitol?source=articles&via=rss
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Just before their violent physical assaults on journalists, the right wing extremists literally tried to kick in the door of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem.
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1341159447100497920?s=20
https://twitter.com/nancylevine/status/1341151718654898176?s=20
https://twitter.com/MsLisaHendricks/status/1341144682345054208?s=20
https://twitter.com/USAntifa1/status/1341132417512435717?s=20
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1341141096651513858?s=20
https://twitter.com/Tao4mind123/status/1341138757563478016?s=20
What was the theme of Pompeo's Christmas Party??
Potato sacks
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What was the theme of Pompeo’s Christmas Party??
https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1340169806234968066?s=20
DHS Inspectors Found ICE Detainees Who Were Kept In Solitary Confinement For 300 Days
DHS Inspectors Found ICE Detainees Who Were Kept In Solitary Confinement For 300 Days
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-immigrants-solitary-confinement
Inspectors also found that nearly a dozen immigrants detainees were kept in solitary confinement for more than two months.
Picture of Hamed Aleaziz Hamed Aleaziz BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on December 17, 2020, at 4:24 p.m. ET
Ted S. Warren / AP
An immigrant detainee waits in an ICE holding area in 2019.
Nearly a dozen immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were kept in solitary confinement for more than two months, including two people who were isolated for more than 300 days, according to a draft Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s report obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The draft, which highlighted a February inspection of the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Calexico, California, also documented how food at the facility had expired and gone moldy.
ICE has come under fire in recent years for issues related to medical care provided at its detention centers. In some facilities, ICE provides medical care directly; in others, a few employees assist contractors; and in many cases, the agency oversees care provided by a contractor.
In September, the House Oversight Committee found that ICE detainees died after receiving inadequate medical care and that jail workers “falsified records to cover up” issues. That same month, a separate committee report issued by the House Homeland Security Committee found that ICE detainees are often given deficient medical care and that detention centers use segregation as a threat against immigrants.
The draft report obtained by BuzzFeed News documents how officials at the detention facility in Calexico were using solitary confinement as a long term “solution” for immigrants in “protective custody,” or those who need special supervision or housing due to risks to their safety................
Who Was Editing CDC Guidance? Ivanka Trump and Kellyanne Conway. Not Scientists.
Who Was Editing CDC Guidance? Ivanka Trump and Kellyanne Conway. Not Scientists.
https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/12/16/who-was-editing-cdc-guidance-ivanka-trump-and-kellyanne-conway-not-scientists/
Written By Elle Meyers Elle Meyers
Originally Published December 16, 2020 2:37 pm EST
Ivanka Trump (L), daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump and assistant to the president, and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Former Trump administration officials say that whenever the science clashed with political messaging, the messaging won.
Two former Trump administration officials from the CDC say the White House dismissed scientific facts, meddled in public messaging, and stifled the agency’s voice during the coronavirus pandemic.
In multiple interviews with The New York Times, Kyle McGowan, a former chief of staff within the CDC, and his deputy, Amanda Campbell, explained how political and economic considerations from the White House often took precedence over science. And they are worried those tactics from the Trump administration will have a lasting impact on the CDC.
McGowan explained that over time, White House officials and people part of Trump’s inner circle strengthened their grasp over the CDC. For example, the CDC’s weekly disease outbreak reports were always considered free from any political interference. But just last week, the editor in chief of the reports reported that she was ordered to destroy an email that contained information about Trump appointees working to alter change the publication.
In other instances, the White House requested to review the content of the CDC’s COVID-19 guidance documents. Agency employees felt as though the guidelines were available to “an endless loop of political appointees across Washington,” according to The New York Times. ...............................
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Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
This was over 2 days ago--but doubt he has mentioned the dead in those 2 days.
Coronavirus Updates
22 hours ago
Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/12/trump-tweets-coronavirus-deaths-election/
President Donald Trump on the golf course on November 26.Tasos Katopodis/Getty
On Wednesday, as the United States hit new records for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump was, as usual, tweeting about the election he lost more than a month ago. While he was typing a flurry of false claims about “massive FRAUD,” the country’s total death toll was passing 300,000.
Reading Trump’s recent tweets, you would never know the United States is in the midst of a surging pandemic that is killing more than 2,000 people a day. Of his 729 tweets between November 3 and December 16, more than two-thirds were about his attempts to reverse his election loss through baseless claims of voter fraud and far-fetched lawsuits. The pandemic was just a blip: Four percent of his tweets were about vaccines and just two percent mentioned the coronavirus at all—without ever acknowledging its human cost or encouraging Americans to take precautions to protect themselves or others from getting sick.
November 16 was typical: After nearly a dozen tweets about his recent defeat (“I won the election!”), he bragged that news of the Moderna vaccine’s efficacy had boosted the stock market. “For those great ‘historians’, please remember that these great discoveries, which will end the China Plague, all took place on my watch!” he gushed. That was followed by a quick dunk on the nation’s allies: “European Countries are sadly getting clobbered by the China Virus.” Then it was back to normally scheduled programming: more angry tweets about the effort to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
The secretary’s diagnosis Wednesday forced the cancellation of a large Interior Department holiday party scheduled for Thursday night, and it is raising concerns about his deputy’s plans to visit two national parks next week. Deputy Secretary Katharine MacGregor, who is headed to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks starting Monday, has asked National Park Service staff to drive her between them and provide tours of Yellowstone for four days, according to several federal officials briefed on the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Depending on the route, the trip is 113 miles and should take roughly three hours by car..............................
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/12/trump-tweets-coronavirus-deaths-election/
Sen. Ron Johnson blocks Hawley bill proposing $1,200 stimulus checks
Source: axios
1 hour ago - Politics & Policy
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Friday objected to Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) motion to pass a bill via unanimous consent that would provide $1,200 to Americans in the form of direct stimulus checks, citing the ballooning national debt.
Why it matters: Hawley has teamed up with an unlikely partner, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in a push to include direct payments in Congress' next coronavirus relief package, which has entered the final stages of negotiations.
The bill currently being discussed by congressional leaders does include direct payments, but at a size closer to $600 — half of what Sanders and Hawley have said is necessary to support working families.
Johnson's concerns about the size of the stimulus package, which at about $900 billion would be one of the largest in U.S. history, are shared by many Senate Republicans.
......... "We will not have learned the lessons from our very hurried, very rushed, very massive, earlier relief packages. We're just going to do more of the same, another trillion dollars. It takes our debt from $27.4 trillion to $28.4 trillion in a couple months. With doing virtually no revisions, no improvements."
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Read more: https://www.axios.com/ron-johnson-hawley-stimulus-checks-e5bff298-9207-407e-bcc2-79caa833c37c.html
wtf. Johnson has his paycheck and heath care. But now he is worried about the US debt. damn
Interior shuts Washington Monument after interior secretary tests positive for the coronavirus
Source: Washington Post
Park Service staff say they may have been exposed when David Bernhardt led a private, after-hours tour
Dec. 18, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. CST
Officials have taken the extraordinary step of closing the Washington Monument starting Friday as a precaution after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt — who had been giving private, nighttime tours to associates — tested positive for the coronavirus.
Interior spokesman Nicholas Goodwin confirmed the temporary closure, saying the department acted after consulting with federal health officials. Bernhardt had led other Trump DOI appointees on a tour earlier this week. Some National Park Service staff at the site said they had been exposed to the secretary during his after-hours tour and are now in quarantine, which has led to a staffing shortage at the monument, Goodwin said.
“As we do in all circumstances when an employee attests to having covid-19, we work with our public health officials to ensure all guidance from the CDC is followed, such as identifying close contacts and cleaning areas as appropriate,” Goodwin said. “The Secretary was recently at the Washington Monument. In working with our public officials and out of an abundance of caution, a couple of employees have quarantined resulting in a temporary workforce reduction at the monument and its temporary closure.”....................................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/18/washington-monument-david-bernhardt-covid/
I hardly think these are essential activities with the virus in full gear.
https://twitter.com/LyndseyLayton/status/1339985031905898496?s=20
The COVID Memorial Project placed 20,000 American flags near the Washington Monument to memorialize the 200,000+ coronavirus deaths in the United States since the pandemic began. An interfaith memorial service was held Sept. 22 in Washington. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post). (Amanda Voisard/for The Washington Post)
MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office
Source: POLITICO
A growing call to invoke the Insurrection Act shows how hard-edged MAGA ideology has become in the wake of Trump’s election loss.
President Trump
12/18/2020 04:30 AM EST
An 1807 law invoked only in the most violent circumstances is now a rallying cry for the MAGA-ites most committed to the fantasy that Donald Trump will never leave office.
The law, the Insurrection Act, allows the president to deploy troops to suppress domestic uprisings — not to overturn elections.
But that hasn’t stopped the act from becoming a buzzword and cure-all for prominent MAGA figures like Sydney Powell and Lin Wood, two prominent pro-Trump attorneys leading efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and even one North Carolina state lawmaker. Others like Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser who was recently pardoned for lying to the FBI, have made adjacent calls for Trump to impose martial law. The ideas have circulated in pro-Trump outlets and were being discussed over the weekend among the thousands of MAGA protesters who descended on state capitols and the Supreme Court to falsely claim Trump had won the election.
At its core, the Insurrection Act gives the president authority to send military and National Guard troops to quell local rebellions and violence, offering an exemption to prohibitions against using military personnel to enforce domestic laws. Historically, it has been used in moments of extreme national strife — the Civil War, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, violent labor disputes, desegregation battles, rioting following Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.
Only once, however, has it been used in the wake of an election — and that was to stop a literal militia from seizing the Louisiana government on behalf of John McEnery, a former Confederate officer who had lost the 1872 governor’s race. ...................................................
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/trump-insurrection-act-presidency-447986
https://twitter.com/kellyG124/status/1339928307962425344?s=20
The Insurrection Act has gained popularity among the far-right fringes, mainly as a way for President Donald Trump to solve all their problems. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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@Deb Haaland NM tweet as Biden's pick for Dept of Interior...........
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A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior.
Growing up in my mother’s Pueblo household made me fierce. I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.
I am honored and ready to serve.
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