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riversedge's JournalIn apparent play for QAnon supporters, GOP attack ads claim Democrat lawmakers are defending 'sex
Source: yahoo.com
In apparent play for QAnon supporters, GOP attack ads claim Democrat lawmakers are defending 'sex offenders'
Michael Isikof fChief Investigative Correspondent
Yahoo News•September 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — The ad couldn’t sound more ominous. As darkened images of quiet suburban neighborhoods roll on the screen, a woman’s voice delivers a scary message: “On every street, in every neighborhood, around every corner, sex offenders are living among us.”
And then comes the kicker: U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey in a swing district, “tried to make it easier for predators to hide in the shadows,” the woman continues. “Malinowski worked as the top lobbyist for a radical group that opposed the National Sex Offender Registry.”
As attack ads go, this one — entitled “Shadow” and released by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) — would be considered extreme even by the usual standards of political mudslinging. There is no evidence that Malinowski, who before being elected to Congress in 2018 served for years as the Washington director of Human Rights Watch and later as assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights, had ever done anything to protect sexual predators or lobbied against the sex offender registry.
But to some, the harsh attack ad is part of a nationwide “QAnon strategy” that the Republican campaign committee appears to be deploying to exploit the fears and paranoia fueled by the bizarre conspiracy cult convinced that the Democrats are working with “deep state” sex traffickers and pedophiles to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/in-apparent-play-for-q-anon-supporters-gop-attack-ads-claim-democrat-lawmakers-defending-sex-offenders-221037264.html
gawds.
https://twitter.com/Isikoff/status/1308563814774976512?s=20
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The poor bastard running the Bumble Bee Twitter account staring at this tweet and wondering what on
Bumble Bee is trending on twitter.
I imagine the MAGA TrumpRally fans clapped and cheered at this trump comment
The poor bastard running the Bumble Bee Twitter account staring at this tweet and wondering what on earth they're supposed to do right now
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https://twitter.com/AlyssaMastro44/status/1308567262253789185?s=20
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1308565609068797953?s=20
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Wisconsin declares new public health emergency after surge in coronavirus cases among young people
Source: CNN
Updated 2:36 PM ET, Tue September 22, 2020
(CNN)Wisconsin will continue to require people to wear face masks indoors after the state saw a surge of new Covid-19 cases.
The order was issued by Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, coupled with the declaration of a public health emergency. The order is effective immediately, according to the governor's office, and is due to steeply rising cases, particularly among people between the ages of 18 and 24.
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"We are seeing an alarming increase in cases across our state, especially on campus. We need folks to start taking this seriously, and young people especially -- please stay home as much as you are able, skip heading to the bars, and wear a mask whenever you go out. We need your help to stop the spread of this virus, and we all have to do this together."
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Wisconsin is experiencing "unprecedented, near-exponential growth" of the virus, according to the release, with the daily number of new cases rising from 678 at the end of August to 1,791 on Monday.
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Masks were already required in the state, following a similar order made in July and set to expire on September 28. Though new cases slowed in August, the statement says, the reopening of schools has caused another jump. This order attempts to address that rise, by lengthening the mask requirement for another 60 days or until another order is issued.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/us/wisconsin-masks-required-covid-trnd/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-09-22T22%3A36%3A14
It continues to amaze me--and anger me-- when I see so many folks in WI without masks--and our local stores do not enforce the masks.
Sometimes I just walk out.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1308535606004375558?s=20
Gov. Tony Evers: "We are seeing an alarming increase in cases across our state, especially on campus."
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https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1308580968882724865?s=20
Live updates: Trump incorrectly claims that coronavirus affects 'virtually' no young people
Source: Washington Post
President Trump falsely claimed that coronavirus mainly affects older people with heart problems during a Sept. 21 rally in Swanton, Ohio. (The Washington Post)
September 22, 2020 at 10:11 a.m. CDT
President Trump falsely claimed at a Monday night campaign rally that the coronavirus “affects virtually nobody” below the age of 18 and is mainly a risk to elderly people with heart problems and other preexisting conditions. In a March 19 interview with Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward, however, Trump acknowledged that “plenty of young people” were affected and admitted that he had downplayed the risks of the virus...............................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/22/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Trump rallies are a free for all basket of lies. over and over.
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1308425783636119558?s=20
Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor
Source: Washington Post
Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors
September 22, 2020 at 7:35 a.m. CDT
A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used for making things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.
The change illustrates how one taxpayer-backed effort to battle the novel coronavirus, which has killed roughly 200,000 Americans, was instead diverted toward patching up long-standing perceived gaps in military supplies.
The Cares Act, which Congress passed earlier this year, gave the Pentagon money to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.” But a few weeks later, the Defense Department began reshaping how it would award the money in a way that represented a major departure from Congress’s original intent.
The payments were made even though U.S. health officials believe there are still major funding gaps in responding to the pandemic. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in Senate testimony last week that states desperately need $6 billion to distribute vaccines to Americans early next year. There remains a severe shortage of N95 masks at numerous U.S. hospitals. These are the types of problems that the money was originally intended to address...............................................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-funds-pentagon/
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1308360775837323264?s=20
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper speaks as President Trump listens during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force March 18 at the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP)
Local cop's son shows off the Biden signs he and his friends stole, then tags the accomplices on his
Local cop's son shows off the Biden signs he and his friends stole, then tags the accomplices on his Instagram post.
Because, y'know... Law & Order.
Hey @MarysvilleOHPD
. You know where he lives. When can we pick up our signs?
https://twitter.com/OhioUnionCoDems/status/1308191602884608000?s=20
CDC Publishes -- Then Withdraws -- Guidance On Aerosol Spread Of Coronavirus
Source: npr
September 21, 20204:08 PM ET
Updated at 6:03 p.m. ET
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Over the weekend, the CDC page "How COVID-19 Spreads" included among the most common modes of transmission "respiratory droplets or small particles, such as those in aerosols, produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes."
It continued: "These particles can be inhaled into the nose, mouth, airways, and lungs and cause infection. This is thought to be the main way the virus spreads." The guidance also stated that these particles might travel farther than 6 feet.
For a few days, researchers who have suspected aerosol transmission for months cheered the update as a long-overdue acknowledgment of accumulating evidence for how the virus transmits, particularly in indoor spaces. ...................................
..............."The consistent inconsistency in this administration's guidance on COVID-19 has severely compromised the nation's trust in our public health agencies," Koh said in a statement Monday.
"During the greatest public health emergency in a century, trust in public health is essential — without it, this pandemic could go on indefinitely. To rectify the latest challenge, the CDC must acknowledge that growing scientific evidence indicates the importance of airborne transmission through aerosols, making mask wearing even more critical as we head into the difficult fall and winter season."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/21/915351325/cdc-publishes-then-withdraws-guidance-on-aerosol-spread-of-coronavirus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention briefly posted new guidance to its website stating that the coronavirus can commonly be transmitted through aerosol particles, which can be produced by activities like singing. Here, choristers wear face masks during a music festival in southwestern France in July.
'It's a big, big swing': Trump loses ground with white voters
https://twitter.com/michaelkruse/status/1308013004387123201?s=20
We need more folks to wise up!! We need a BIG win.
‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420
The president is running well behind his 2016 pace with the demographic that sent him to the White House.
President Trump
White voters have not proved immune to the damage inflicted on President Donald Trump by the coronavirus and its resulting economic wreckage, which have been a drag on his reelection campaign since spring. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
By DAVID SIDERS 09/21/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Donald Trump is making modest inroads with Latinos. Polls suggest he’s pulling slightly more Black support than in 2016.
But Trump is tilting at the margins with those groups. His bigger problem is the demographic that sent him to the White House — white voters, whose embrace of Trump appears to be slipping in critical, predominantly white swing states.
In Minnesota, where the contest between Trump and Joe Biden had seemed to tighten in recent weeks — and where both candidates stumped on Friday — a CBS News/YouGov survey last week had Trump running 2 percentage points behind Biden with white voters, after carrying them by 7 points in 2016. Even among white voters without college degrees — Trump’s base — the president was far short of the margin he put up against Hillary Clinton there.
It’s the same story in Wisconsin, where Trump won non-college educated white women by 16 percentage points four years ago but is now losing them by 9 percentage points, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. In Pennsylvania, Biden has now pulled even with Trump among white voters, according to an NBC News/Marist Poll...................................
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@RepAdamSchiff · 9h Mr. President, this is low. Even for you. No, I didn't write Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I hate to say this but I think Trump will push his SC nominee though.
@RepAdamSchiff
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9h
Mr. President, this is low. Even for you.
No, I didn’t write Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish to a nation she served so well, and spent her whole life making a more perfect union.
But I am going to fight like hell to make it come true.
No confirmation before inauguration.
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1308057867237371904?s=20
Trumps "Patriotic education" -- a merger of Stephen Miller's fascism with Mike Pence's fundamentalism
Very good article.
‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives
No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can
https://gen.medium.com/patriotic-education-is-how-white-supremacy-survives-d92a944e14a
Jeff Sharlet 8 hours ago·10 min read
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Schoolchildren pledging allegiance in the 1950s. Photo: Lambert/Getty Images
It feels strange, as mourners gather outside the Supreme Court, to be writing of anything but the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the looming prospect that Donald Trump will seal the court into a new era of right-wing absolutism unprecedented in our lifetimes. It’s hard not to think of the future, of all that will be lost. But the past, too, is under threat. The news cycle moves so fast now that you may have already forgotten Thursday’s outrage, Trump’s announcement of a “1776 Commission” to promote a “patriotic education” that defines love of country as unquestioning loyalty to (some of) its leaders. But Trump — and the aides who drove the project — have more in mind than the current moment. “Patriotic education” is his historical hydroxychloroquine, a know-nothing attempt to cover up the past that challenges his present — the 1619 Project and generations of work by scholars and activists to recognize the centrality of white supremacy in American history and to topple it, just like the Confederacy’s stone tributes to treason and hate.
Liberals who want to dismiss Trump’s latest salvo as so much campaign fodder point to the fact that the federal government doesn’t set school curriculums — a failure yet again to grasp that Trumpism is a noxious movement as much or more than the work of a man; that, while no, Trump can’t instill “patriotic education” in the nation’s schools, a thousand mini-Trumps, school board strongmen, can; and that many more teachers will censor themselves for fear of running afoul of parents such as the one who, according to NPR, wrote that America-hating faculty will only grasp what Trump called “the magnificent truth” of our past “once they’re looking into the barrel of a gun.” Christian nationalists have been getting that gun ready for a long time. Patriotic education isn’t a last-minute campaign stunt of 2020. It’s the result of a decades-long effort, beginning with a modern Christian right that built its power not through national elections but through local school boards.
Textbooks Watered Down the Civil Rights Movement. They Could Do the Same to Black Lives Matter.
Too often our schools gloss over the intricacies and struggles of Black liberation
gen.medium.com
Some years ago, I took a course in “patriotic history,” subjecting myself to a term of textbooks such as United States History for Christian Schools and The American Republic for Christian Schools and the teachings of scholars such as William Federer, author of America’s God and Country. This oddly titled collection of quotations (the United States is its own country, no?) was compiled to demonstrate Federer’s thesis that America is a Christian nation, the separation of church and state described by Thomas Jefferson as a “wall” actually a myth. The wall is one-way, argued Federer then and Mike Pence now, meant to protect churches from the state but not the state from the churches of a nation made, in this vision of the past, by Christians, for Christians.
Lest that sound fringe, consider that last week the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Election Commission declared separation of church and state a “fallacy” and falsely claimed that John Adams deemed the Constitution Christian. (He did not.) Bringing this unsolicited history lesson into the present, the FEC chairman further signed on to the idea that the 2020 election he’s charged with overseeing is a “spiritual war” to return the United States to a “Christian moral foundation” — despite the explicit work of the founders to guarantee both freedom of and from religion.
“Patriotic education” — a merger of Stephen Miller’s fascism with Mike Pence’s fundamentalism — is both old and new. It is a return to the “great man” vision of history long taught (and still often taught) to our children, not to mention the biblical education that dominated American schools until the 1930s. But what once was an unexamined given of a white supremacist system is now a weapon, mobilized in explicit opposition to examination of slavery’s centrality in U.S. history. As Jean Guerrero writes in Hatemonger, her political biography of Trump commissar Stephen Miller, Trump’s intellectuals recognize the larger restructuring of knowledge necessary to the triumph of personality as power. For Miller and the cynics and believers who provide Trump with the targets to which he applies his invective, Trump isn’t everyman, he’s uberman. His “victories” — whether in fact or in declaration — are presented as “your” victories. You win when he wins, because whiteness wins. “That which God has given us,” as Trump proclaimed on July Fourth at Mount Rushmore. That speech, in which Trump paid tribute to the genocidal doctrine of Manifest Destiny, was widely seen as his historical turn, the moment in which his speechwriters began to retrofit “Make America Great Again” with a right-wing revisionist history that casts Trump’s ascendency as inevitable..
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