September 21, 2020

They have sealed access to the steps at SCOTUS. On orders from the WH. RBG is in his head!

I did not think I could get more sad--but seeing this my heart fell lower.



They have sealed access to the steps at SCOTUS.

On orders from the WH.

RBG is in his head!

https://twitter.com/dr0lst0n/status/1307812991832739840?s=20


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September 20, 2020

Biden reacts to Wisconsin topping 100,000 COVID cases: One day B/4 coming to Manitowac WI......

X posted from WI Group.






@JoeBiden
reacts to Wisconsin topping 100,000 COVID cases:

“Wisconsinites are suffering the consequences of President Trump’s historic failure of leadership. After deliberately downplaying the virus’ severity — Trump still has no plan to get it under control.”

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307787753535479810?s=20


Replying to
@sbauerAP
Biden comments day before trip to Wisconsin:

“It didn’t have to be this bad. If I’m elected president, we won’t play political games with public health — we’ll trust the experts and the science, speak honestly with the American people, and implement my plan to beat the virus.”

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307788051620474880?s=20


Breaking:

@JoeBiden
is coming to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Monday

It's his second visit to the battleground state in 2 weeks

His campaign did not release any additional details

The stop comes just days after @realDonaldTrump
held a rally in Mosinee


Biden was in Kenosha Sept 7

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307680337577865217?s=20

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307673551831552001?s=20

September 20, 2020

Biden reacts to Wisconsin topping 100,000 COVID cases: One day B/4 coming to Manitowac WI......

@JoeBiden
reacts to Wisconsin topping 100,000 COVID cases:

“Wisconsinites are suffering the consequences of President Trump’s historic failure of leadership. After deliberately downplaying the virus’ severity — Trump still has no plan to get it under control.”

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307787753535479810?s=20


Replying to
@sbauerAP
Biden comments day before trip to Wisconsin:

“It didn’t have to be this bad. If I’m elected president, we won’t play political games with public health — we’ll trust the experts and the science, speak honestly with the American people, and implement my plan to beat the virus.”

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307788051620474880?s=20


Breaking:

@JoeBiden
is coming to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Monday

It's his second visit to the battleground state in 2 weeks

His campaign did not release any additional details

The stop comes just days after @realDonaldTrump
held a rally in Mosinee


Biden was in Kenosha Sept 7

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307680337577865217?s=20

https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1307673551831552001?s=20

September 20, 2020

Trump Calls It A 'Beautiful Thing' That Cops Struck Journalist Ali Velshi With Rubber Bullet

Source: huff post



09/19/2020 08:29 pm ET Updated 10 hours ago

He also praised Minnesota supporters’ “good genes,” adding, “A lot of it is about the genes,” in a troubling, disjointed rally speech.
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He also boasted that his overwhelmingly white supporters at the rally in Bemidji (Minnesota is 84% white) have “good genes,” raising an ominous Aryan specter from the 1940s. “You have good genes, you know that, right? A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory,” Trump said.

He also asked sarcastically if Bemidji was “having a good time with your refugees” — then pivoted to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Muslim American. “How the hell did she win?” he asked.

He suggested Omar and two other female lawmakers of color, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), be prosecuted for “buying dresses” — but offered no details. “We’ll prosecute them, yeah, why not?” he mused.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ali-velshi-rubber-bullet-rally-speech_n_5f6677d7c5b6b9795b11aa12?section=politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016

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September 20, 2020

Trump claims Biden is on drugs: 'They gave him a big, fat, shot in the ass'

It is really an embarrassment to have a US Pres talk this way.--for all the world to see and hear.
Trump is indeed getting more crude and the days go by.






Trump claims Biden is on drugs: ‘They gave him a big, fat, shot in the ass’


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-claims-biden-is-on-s-they-gave-him-a-big-fat-shot-in-the-ass/

Published 1 min ago on September 19, 2020



President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Joe Biden of using performance-enhancing drugs.

The idea that Biden is appearing too smart doesn’t give with Trump’s simultaneous accusation that Biden is senile, but such is the state of the president’s re-election campaign.

Trump added new delusions to his conspiracy theory during a Saturday campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

“They gave him a big, fat, shot in the ass and he comes out,” Trump claimed as his audience laughed. “And for two hours he’s better than ever before. The problem is, what happens after that.”...................................



https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1307484551447547905?s=20

September 20, 2020

RBG barely gone, yet Trumps crowd......

I just logged on--busy enjoying a beautiful fall day. But just saw this.

Did Trump have another rally today??

https://twitter.com/JenniferTam123/status/1307458965270392832?s=20

September 19, 2020

U.S. Covid-19 death toll surpasses 200,000

Source: nbc news



A prediction made in March — unfathomable at the time — has come to pass.



Sept. 19, 2020, 10:38 AM CDT By Erika Edwards and Denise Chow

In the predawn hours of March 30, Dr. Deborah Birx stepped in front of the camera on the White House lawn and made an alarming prediction about the coronavirus, which had, by then, killed fewer than 3,000 people in the United States.

"If we do things together, well, almost perfectly, we can get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities," Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, told Savannah Guthrie of NBC News' "Today" show.

"We don't even want to see that," she added, before Guthrie cut her off.

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Another ominous prediction

Now, many experts are making another ominous prediction: A surge in the number of new infections in the fall and winter, combined with growing fatigue over social distancing and other public health measures, could result in more than 415,000 deaths in the U.S. by January, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, or IHME, at the University of Washington.....................................

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-covid-19-death-toll-surpasses-200-000-n1240034

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https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1307344264750399490?s=20

September 19, 2020

Obama on filling Ginsburg's seat: Apply rules with consistency

Source: nbc news




"A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment," Obama wrote.


Remembering the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sept. 19, 2020, 12:16 AM CDT By Phil Helsel

In paying tribute to the service and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former President Barack Obama also called on Senate Republicans to wait to fill the seat until after inauguration day.

"Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in," Obama wrote.

"A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment.

"The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard," Obama wrote................................



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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-filling-ginsburg-s-seat-apply-rules-consistency-n1240521?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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September 19, 2020

As Trump holds back, tech firms step in on election security

As Trump holds back, tech firms step in on election security


https://apnews.com/680a74243257c46b99b9cdc862d7cab0


By MARY CLARE JALONICK an hour ago




WASHINGTON (AP) — Adam Schiff was in the audience at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum when a Microsoft executive mentioned an attempted hacking of three politicians up for reelection. It was the first that Schiff, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had ever heard of it.


Schiff said he thought it was “odd” that Congress hadn’t been briefed. He got in touch with high-ranking officials in the intelligence agencies, and they didn’t know about it, either. It turned out that Russian hackers had unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the Senate computer network of then-Sen. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and other unidentified candidates.


Two years later, Schiff says that breakdown is still emblematic of the disjointed effort among government agencies, Congress and private companies as they try to identify and address foreign election interference. But this year, with President Donald Trump adamant that Russia is not interfering and his administration often trying to block what Congress learns about election threats, it’s those private companies that often are being called upon to fill the breach.

Lawmakers welcome the help from the private sector and say the companies have become increasingly forthcoming, but it’s a haphazard way to get information. It allows the companies to control much of what the public knows, and some are more cooperative than others.

“If a company wants to publicize it, that’s great,” says Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. “But what happens when they don’t want to bring it to the attention of the government?”

That’s what happened in 2016, when Russia spread disinformation through social media, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Those companies were slow to recognize the problem and they initially balked at government requests for more information. But after Congress pushed them publicly, they gradually became more cooperative.

Now, Facebook and Twitter give Congress regular briefings to the intelligence committees, issue frequent reports about malicious activity and are part of a group that regularly meets with law enforcement and intelligence officials in the administration. ................................

September 19, 2020

Wisconsin secretary resigns amid unemployment claim backlog

Wisconsin secretary resigns amid unemployment claim backlog


https://apnews.com/4e9a48b303646b402f7644bc5371b19f?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
By TODD RICHMOND yesterday



FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2020, file photo, State Sen. Caleb Frostman, who was appointed secretary of the Department of Workforce Development, speaks during a news conference in Madison, Wis. Frostman, resigned Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, after failing to find a way to address a massive backlog of unprocessed unemployment benefit claims sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Workforce Development’s top leader resigned Friday after failing to find a way to address a massive backlog of unprocessed unemployment benefit claims sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ office said Caleb Frostman stepped down after the governor called for his resignation. Republicans have peppered Evers with criticism for months over the department’s inability to process tens of thousands of benefit claims that have been flowing in since the coronavirus took hold in the U.S. in March.

The state’s unemployment rate in August stood at 6.2%, compared with 8.4% nationally. According to the department, 713,508 weekly claims from nearly 1000,000 Wisconsin residents were in process as of Saturday.


States across the country have been facing similar claim backlogs as the pandemic left millions unemployed amid shutdowns aimed at slowing the virus’ spread. Washington state went so far as to call in the National Guard to help process applications.

Evers noted that more than 130 Department of Workforce Development employees have been reassigned to handle claims, bringing the total number of employees working on them to 1,500, up from 600. He said the agency’s technology is antiquated and claims have been slowed by Republican-created eligibility restrictions. But he said he has to make a change at the top of the department.

“People across our state are struggling to make ends meet,” the governor said. “We have continued to add additional resources to support the DWD, but it is clear we must have change if we are going to address these problems to get folks their benefits faster.”.......................