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riversedge's JournalBlack activists warn Biden: Don't pick Klobuchar as VP
I think she would do fine as VP. She would have done fine as President also.
Black activists warn Biden: Don't pick Klobuchar as VP
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/23/black-activists-joe-biden-amy-klobuchar-vice-president-275326
The Minnesota senator and former prosecutor has problems with communities of colors that another top white contender, Elizabeth Warren, does not.
Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar
Sen. Amy Klobuchar has regularly appeared as a surrogate and a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. | Eric Gay/AP Photo
By ELENA SCHNEIDER
05/23/2020 02:56 PM EDT
Amy Klobuchar performed abysmally among black voters in the Democratic primary. It’s haunting her now as Joe Biden decides on a running mate.
The Minnesota Democrat has the governing experience and ideological profile to mesh well with Biden, and she’s regularly appeared as a surrogate and a fundraiser for him, raking in more than $1.5 million for a single event she headlined. The pair have a warm relationship, trading phone calls when her husband was hospitalized with Covid-19 and they didn’t tangle publicly during primary.......................
....................Klobuchar's boosters counter that Donald Trump will drive out the Democratic base no matter what, and that the key Rust Belt states that Democrats have to win play to Klobuchar's strengths.
"I think she could help put the upper Midwest in play, and that's an invaluable asset," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who backed Bernie Sanders during the presidential primary. He also noted that "there are a lot of black people" in the Midwest, in cities like Detroit and Milwaukee, who will also be key for Democrats in winning back those states.
"I think the base is going to be excited enough because, before, Trump was an idea, now Trump is the reality," Ellison continued.
The U.S. is stuck in a patchwork pandemic, and the country's disparate experiences of the same crisi
The U.S. is stuck in a patchwork pandemic, and the country’s disparate experiences of the same crisis will make for a difficult year ahead, @edyong209 reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/patchwork-pandemic-states-reopening-inequalities/611866/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share The White House’s baseless attempts to claim victory will further divide the already fragmented states of America.
America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/patchwork-pandemic-states-reopening-inequalities/611866/
The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
A U.S. map shaded in with coronavirus particles
May 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here.
There was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. finally crested and began descending sharply, never happened. Instead, America spent much of April on a disquieting plateau, with every day bringing about 30,000 new cases and about 2,000 new deaths. The graphs were more mesa than Matterhorn—flat-topped, not sharp-peaked. Only this month has the slope started gently heading downward.
This pattern exists because different states have experienced the coronavirus pandemic in very different ways. In the most severely pummeled places, like New York and New Jersey, COVID-19 is waning. In Texas and North Carolina, it is still taking off. In Oregon and South Carolina, it is holding steady. These trends average into a national plateau, but each state’s pattern is distinct. Currently, Hawaii’s looks like a child’s drawing of a mountain. Minnesota’s looks like the tip of a hockey stick. Maine’s looks like a (two-humped) camel. The U.S. is dealing with a patchwork pandemic....................................
................The pandemic discourse has been dominated by medical countermeasures like antibody tests (which are currently too unreliable), drugs (which are not cure-alls), and vaccines (which are almost certainly at least a year away). But social solutions like paid sick leave, which two in three low-wage workers do not have, can be implemented immediately. Imagine if the energy that went into debating the merits of hydroxychloroquine went into ensuring hazard pay, or if the president, instead of wondering out loud if disinfectant could be injected into the body, advocated for health care for all? “We have decades of social-science research that tells us these things work,” says Courtney Boen, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s a question of political will, not scientific discovery.”
And while a vaccine will protect against only COVID-19 (if people agree to take it at all), social interventions will protect against the countless diseases that may emerge in the future, along with chronic illnesses, maternal mortality, and other causes of poor health. “This pandemic won’t be the last health crisis the U.S. faces,” Boen says. “If we want to be on better footing the next time, we want to reduce the things that put people at risk of being at risk.”
Of all the threats we know, the COVID-19 pandemic is most like a very rapid version of climate change—global in its scope, erratic in its unfolding, and unequal in its distribution. And like climate change, there is no easy fix. Our choices are to remake society or let it be remade, to smooth the patchworks old and new or let them fray even further.
Ed Yong is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers science.
A woman draped in a "Qanon" flag screaming at a reporter to take his mask off feels like peak 2020.
The dangerous nutcases are all over the place.
The Sparrow Project
@sparrowmedia
A woman draped in a "Qanon" flag screaming at a reporter to take his mask off feels like peak 2020. The cough heard at the end of the video is the chef's kiss.
https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1264050845823447041?s=20
https://twitter.com/LouRaguse/status/1262453142047854592?s=20
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@DevinCow
I am over it. I hope they infect each other, if they end up in Hell, oh well. Let it happen. Stupid people infecting others, kiss my #Virginia grits.
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Sadly, they show up in ERs demanding front of the line care - with their rude, screaming relatives in tow - and still won’t learn a thing because IF they survive , they will complain, go on the local media , try to sue the all the while promoting their GoFundMe
Pouting face
https://twitter.com/CarlTFloorwalkr/status/1262745474932502528?s=20
A Trump election conspiracy collapses after #Florida investigation found NO voter fraud
No fear-Trump will continue on and on about so-called voter fraud.
A Trump election conspiracy collapses
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/05/21/a-trump-election-conspiracy-collapses-1285442
By MARC CAPUTO
05/21/2020 07:07 PM EDT
MIAMI — A Trump election conspiracy theory has fallen apart after Florida’s law enforcement agency said it had found no widespread voter fraud in the 2018 races for Senate and governor.
President Donald Trump had complained repeatedly about election “fraud” and theft in heavily populated, Democrat-rich Broward and Palm Beach counties, which had slowly but erratically updated their vote totals after polls closed on Election Day.
With each updated tally, Republican candidates Rick Scott, who was running for U.S. Senate, and Ron DeSantis, in a bid for the governor’s mansion, saw their margins of victory narrow. Both races ultimately went to recounts.
It’s common for election margins to change as more ballots are counted, but Scott, who was governor at the time, claimed without evidence that the counts reeked of Democratic fraud, a conspiracy theory Trump amplified on Twitter. Scott called for an investigation. Trump backed him up.
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But neither Trump’s unnamed “lawyers” nor the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found evidence of a “big corruption scandal.” The state took more than 17 months to wrap up its investigation Wednesday, and found none of the wrongdoing alleged by Trump and Scott.
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Trump’s corruption conspiracy in Florida collapsed as he sought to discredit vote-by-mail efforts in two other battleground states, Michigan and Nevada, with incendiary and false rhetoric. As Trump tweeted falsities about vote-by-mail in those states, the Florida GOP sent a fundraising email urging donors to "Stop Voter Fraud."..........................
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1264203161037934592?s=20
Old #Liar Trump Tweets about so-called voter fraud
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060938144336367616?s=20
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1060939787278913537?s=20
Jeff Sessions snaps back after Trump tells Alabama not to trust him
Source: the guardian
Former attorney general is running for old Senate seat
President ‘damned fortunate’ he recused from Russia inquiry
Last modified on Sat 23 May 2020 09.04 EDT
After Donald Trump told supporters in Alabama “do not trust” Jeff Sessions and backed his opponent for the Republican Senate nomination, the man Trump trusted to be his first attorney general did something rare: he snapped back.
The president was “damned fortunate”, Sessions said on Friday night, that he recused himself from the Russia investigation.
Sessions, 73, said his March 2017 decision, forced because he did not disclose to Congress contacts with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 election, “protected the rule of law and resulted in your exoneration”.
In fact special counsel Robert Mueller, appointed by then deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein on 17 May 2017, said in his report that though he had not found evidence of criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the president, he was not exonerating Trump.
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Sessions is an immigration hardliner and mentor to the hard-right Trump adviser Stephen Miller. He was the first senator to endorse Trump in 2016.................
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/23/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-alabama-senate-tommy-tuberville
Another case of a Vindictive cyber-bullying Trump
https://twitter.com/jeffsessions/status/1264028159965528065?s=20
https://twitter.com/jeffsessions/status/1264028418951258112?s=20
https://twitter.com/UROCKlive1/status/1264036194339319809?s=20
https://twitter.com/DevinCow/status/1264041629675130880?s=20
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/23/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-alabama-senate-tommy-tuberville#img-1
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions button their coats as they stand for the national anthem at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, in December 2017. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
After 3 Children Die, a Race to Investigate a Baffling Virus Syndrome
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-3-children-die-a-race-to-investigate-a-baffling-virus-syndrome/ar-BB14tE5H?ocid=msedgntp
Joseph Goldstein and Jesse McKinley 4 hrs ago
Blood will be collected from dozens of children in New York to determine whether they share any genetic variations that might make them susceptible to a mysterious syndrome linked to the coronavirus.
Tissue samples from at least one of the three patients to have died from it — ages 5, 7, and 18 — have been sent to a public health laboratory for intensive testing.
A team of more than 30 disease detectives — epidemiologists, clinicians, and statisticians — is poring over thousands of pages of medical records.
Even as doctors and scientists around the world race to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, New York State has become the center of a parallel effort to investigate an unnerving aspect of the outbreak: an illness that is sickening a small but growing number of children.
The ailment has now been reported in at least 161 children in New York, making the state’s caseload one of the largest publicly reported anywhere. Hundreds of other children across the United States and in Europe have also been sickened with the illness, now called multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
The syndrome can be characterized by severe inflammation of the heart, blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract or other organs, believed to be caused by a reaction to the coronavirus. The inquiries into why it is occurring, and whether a treatment can be found, could have an impact on how the authorities handle the reopening of schools and other activities for children...................................
Fast work. Trump campaign is already selling "You ain't black" shirts for $30.
what a waste of thirty dollars.
Fast work. Trump campaign is already selling "You ain't black" shirts for $30.
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1263939292927275009?s=20
Trump fires back at Michigan AG after she calls him 'petulant child'
Source: the hill.
By J. Edward Moreno - 05/22/20 07:58 AM EDT
President Trump late Thursday fired back at criticism from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), who called him a “petulant child who refuses to follow the rules” for not wearing a mask during a visit to a Ford plant in the state.
The president responded by suggesting Nessel “was taking out her anger and stupidity” on Ford.
"Do nothing A.G. of the Great State of Michigan, Dana Nessel, should not be taking her anger and stupidity out on Ford Motor — they might get upset with you and leave the state, like so many other companies have — until I came along and brought business back to Michigan. JOBS!” Trump tweeted late Thursday evening.
Before the visit, Nessel had encouraged the president to wear the mask, noting it is required in the state by order of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and by Ford company policy.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/499108-trump-fires-back-at-michigan-ag-after-she-calls-him-petulant-child
Trump is nothing but a #cyberbully
I love it that the ladies in charge of Michigan are giving Trump some smackback.
https://twitter.com/dananessel/status/1263680531671252997?s=20
"I was honored by the man of the year in Michigan," Trump says, but this never happened. He made it
No one challenges him. Trump sits in his Task Force meeting. (I see dr. Brix was there) and he lies about his imaginary man of the year award. No one challenges him publicly. damn
Trump begins his speech at a Ford plant by boasting about winning the "man of the year" award in Michigan. There's just one problem -- he totally made it up. There is no such award. https://factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps
https://twitter.com/peterelkind/status/1263586945159950337?s=20
"I was honored by the man of the year in Michigan," Trump says, but this never happened. He made it up:
https://factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1263244602007527425?s=20
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1263478624017166345?s=20
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Trump’s Dubious Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ Boast
By Robert Farley Posted on August 22, 2019
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President Donald Trump has claimed no fewer than seven times over the past three years — including at a recent rally in New Hampshire — that he won Michigan’s “man of the year” award. But there’s no evidence that he did.
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This is what we did find: It appears that Trump is referring to a 2013 dinner hosted by a county Republican Party organization, which presented him with token gifts – including a statuette of Abraham Lincoln. But a former Republican congressman who organized the dinner said Trump did not receive an award, and the group has never given out “man of the year” awards.
The boast is politically expedient; Michigan is a key swing state in presidential elections. When referencing the award, Trump often notes he was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Michigan since 1988. Trump also often mentions his narrow win in Michigan as critical to his upset victory.
“For many many years nobody won Michigan as a Republican,” Trump said at the rally in New Hampshire on Aug. 15. “But I used to complain and you know I just — I’d go there and I’d say, they’re stealing your car business. I go, for years. In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me ‘man of the year’ in Michigan. I said, ‘How come?’ I didn’t even understand it myself. But I was named ‘man of the year.’ I wasn’t even political. That was years before I did this. But I was always complaining that our car business is being stolen.”
As we said, it’s a claim Trump has made repeatedly for years, according to searchable records of Trump’s public comments archived by Factba.se.
The earliest mention we could find was during a campaign speech Trump made two days before the election, on Nov. 6, 2016, in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
“I’ve been fighting for the car industry for years,” Trump said. “I was honored five years ago, ‘man of the year’ in Michigan. That was a great honor for me. And during my speech, all I talked about is what Mexico and these other countries are doing to us, and especially what they’re doing to Michigan. That’s all I talked about. And I was criticized. They said, ‘Donald, speak about something else.’ I said, ‘No, what’s happening is horrible. What’s happening is terrible.’ One of the main reasons I ran for president is to stop it.”.....................
...........The context of Trump’s comments at the roundtable in Ypsilanti lends credence to the idea that Trump believes he received an award at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Michigan in 2013 — an event at which Trott says Trump was not awarded Michigan’s “man of the year.”
Trump’s claim is vague enough — he hasn’t provided an exact year or the name of the organization that supposedly honored him — that it makes it nearly impossible to entirely disprove. But the responsibility to back-up political claims rests with the politicians who made them, and in this case, neither the White House nor Trump’s presidential campaign has provided any information on the president’s boast. If any such proof ever emerges, we’ll update our story.
Fox News poll: Biden opens up 8-point lead over Trump
Source: the hill
05/21/20 06:49 PM EDT
A new Fox News poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Trump by 8 points nationally, with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee opening up wide leads among independents and older voters who broke for Trump in 2016.
The survey released Thursday finds Biden at 48 percent support and Trump at 40 percent, with 11 percent undecided or saying they’ll support someone else. Trump and Biden were knotted at 42 percent in the same survey last month.
Biden leads by 17 points among voters aged 65 and older and by 13 points among independents.
Exit polls found older voters going for Trump by 7 points in 2016. Trump also won independents by 4 points.
Some Democrats have worried about polling that shows Biden facing an enthusiasm gap, but the Fox news survey found that Biden leads 53 percent to 41 among voters who say they’re extremely motivated to vote in November....................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499077-fox-news-poll-biden-leads-trump-by-8-points-nationally
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