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riversedge's JournalHere's today's snapshot of #COVID19 activity in Wisconsin. Have weekend plans? Play it safe. Stay h
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Here's today's snapshot of #COVID19 activity in Wisconsin. Have weekend plans? Play it safe. Stay home if you're sick, wear a mask when you do go out, avoid large crowds, and above all...get vaccinated! Learn more at https://go.usa.gov/xMKmY #YouStopTheSpread
https://twitter.com/DHSWI/status/1438940823803006980?s=20
ANOTHER Anti-Mask Florida Official Dies of *COVID--and Takes GOP Software Secrets With Him
His colleagues are just as bad as he was in blaming others for Prentice's death.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1439102885736947713?s=20
Anti-Mask Florida Official Dies of COVID—and Takes GOP Software Secrets With Him
‘ILLEGALLY INTUBATED’
Surviving colleagues had to tell the FEC that Tampa’s GOP committee might be late with its filing, while others turned Gregg Prentice’s sudden death into a “murder” conspiracy.
Brooke Leigh Howard
Updated Sep. 17, 2021 3:48PM ET / Published Sep. 17, 2021 2:30PM ET
Just a day after testing positive for COVID-19, a Florida Republican official who battled against mask mandates, attacked the vaccine, and railed at CDC officials has died in Tampa.
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“Gregg’s software converted data from our Quickbooks software to supply the information needed by the FEC,” it states. “Unfortunately, Gregg passed away suddenly from Covid-19 on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Gregg did not share the software and instructions with our officers. We will have to enter the August data manually, and according to the information we have received from our FEC analyst, Scott Bennett, we may likely have to re-enter the data from our first 7 months of 2021.
.......................Friend Jason Kimball blames Tampa General Hospital for the 61-year-old’s death, alleging staff “illegally intubated” Prentice the day before he died. During a Sept. 13 Tampa City Council meeting, Kimball requested an investigation be launched. However, members of the City Council denied any wrongdoing or mistreatment from the hospital.
“My public comments are really going to be about Tampa General Hospital,” Kimball said at the council meeting. “There’s a dire situation going on right now... that I don’t think anyone is aware of, and I have firsthand knowledge of it. They’re intubating everyone entering Tampa General Hospital as a first line of action. They’re using fatality-treatment protocol, and I think that the city council really needs to do an investigation... They’re intubating people illegally... When you call 911 and you go to that hospital, you’re going into a bad situation.”....................................
BREAKING: The FDA voted 16-2 against a third Pfizer booster shot for Americans 16 and older.
darn. I was hoping to get mine soon.
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BREAKING: The FDA voted 16-2 against a third Pfizer booster shot for Americans 16 and older.
Not enough data available for them to decide to approve
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1438958560134762501?s=20
Georgia criminal probe into Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election quietly moves forward
Source: cnn
Updated 1750 GMT (0150 HKT) September 17, 2021
(CNN)As Donald Trump returns to Georgia later this month, criminal investigators in the state have been quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators as they aim to build a case against the former President for his alleged attempts to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis kicked off her investigation with a splash earlier this year, when she fired off a round of letters to Georgia officials asking them to preserve documents related to Trump just a month after she took office.
Since then, her investigation into Trump's efforts to upend Georgia's 2020 presidential election results has been more discreet as she juggles the early stages of the Trump probe with an avalanche of backlogged cases and rising violence in the Atlanta area.
"What I can tell you is that the Trump investigation is ongoing. As a district attorney, I do not have the right to look the other way on any crime that may have happened in my jurisdiction," Willis told reporters this week. "We have a team of lawyers that is dedicated to that, but my No. 1 priority is to make sure that we keep violent offenders off the street." .......................................
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/georgia-probe-trump-election/index.html
GOP lawmakers try to strip affordable health care goals from Biden agenda
GOP lawmakers try to strip affordable health care goals from Biden agenda
https://americanindependent.com/gop-build-back-better-health-care-medicaid-expansion-provisions-joe-biden/
Josh Israel -September 15, 2021 1:57 PM
House Republicans attempted to kill provisions of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan that would expand coverage and lower drug prices.
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When the Democratic majority rejected those efforts, Republicans accused them of leaving constituents to die.
The 2009 Affordable Care Act offered states funding to expand Medicaid eligibility. Though this voluntary program is quite popular, even in red states, 11 GOP-run states have refused to implement the expansion.
Democrats are now seeking to address that as part of the investment package, creating a new federal program for those eligible people who live in states that have blocked Medicaid expansion, prompting GOP pushback.
Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin tweeted early Wednesday, "Federalizing Medicaid takes our country one step closer to Democrats’ dream of Medicare for all. It is time to stop playing partisan politics with American lives."
The House Republican caucus' policy arm warned that providing health insurance for millions would be fatal for many, claiming baselessly, "The dangers of Medicaid expansion aren't just the out of control spending needed to pay for it but the lives that will be lost as people wait in line for health care under it."
A 2019 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities study found expansion has saved at least 19,000 lives thus far.....................................
Pope Francis Is Not a Fan of Conservative Effort to Deny Communion to Joe Biden
Good on the Pope!
People need to mind their own business/morals!
Pope Francis Is Not a Fan of Conservative Effort to Deny Communion to Joe Biden
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/pope-francis-is-not-a-fan-of-conservative-effort-to-deny-communion-to-joe-biden/ar-AAOulgm
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Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers approve wide-ranging subpoenas for…
Quite a catch: Catfish shatters state, maybe world, record
Pope Francis has let it be known indirectly through his Vatican agents that he is not happy with the efforts of conservative U.S. Bishops to deny communion to pro-choice politicians, including, of course, the Catholic President Joe Biden. The pontiff has also more generally expressed opposition to the idea of “weaponizing the Eucharist” by granting or denying access to the sacrament as a way of compelling compliance with Church teachings, writing that the Body and Blood of Christ thought to be present in the wafer and wine are “not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”
Pope Francis wearing glasses talking on a cell phone: Pope Francis elevates the Host that some bishops would deny to Joe Biden. Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images © Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Pope Francis elevates the Host that some bishops would deny to Joe Biden. Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
But now he has for the first time personally addressed the question of denying communion to politicians like Biden:
“I have never refused the eucharist to anyone,” Francis said, though he added that he did not know of any instance when such a politician had come to him for communion. Bishops should be pastors, he said, not politicians….
“If we look at the history of the church, we will see that every time the bishops have not managed a problem as pastors, they have taken a political stance on a political problem,” he told reporters on his plane as he returned from a four-day trip to Slovakia and Hungary. He cited a history of atrocities committed in the name of the faith when the church became involved in politics.
So the Pope has fired a double-barreled volley at conservatives who want to “discipline” Biden and other “bad Catholics” in public life (like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who was threatened by bishops with denial of communion during his 2004 campaign). He’s telling them they are betraying their pastoral duties (while implicitly reminding them Biden has an actual pastor, his own parish priest and bishop, who haven’t joined their censorious clerical colleagues) and he’s accusing them of playing a dangerous game of politics that in the past has led to atrocities. These are strong words for those who by their own conservative doctrines must soberly obey him as the Vicar of Christ...........................................
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California Recall Results and #Covid19 hotspots--ILLUSTRATED.......
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California's coronavirus cases are dropping, CDC says; & @POTUS & @VP Congratulate Newsom
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1438223300489056261?s=20
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1438256114563534851?s=20
@VP
He is focused on beating back COVID-19, and helping the state make a big comeback. In resoundingly rejecting this recall attempt, California’s voters made it clear that the American people want leaders who stand for women’s rights, voting rights, and workers’ rights.
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1438256116039835655?s=20
California’s coronavirus cases are dropping, CDC says
https://ktla.com/news/california/californias-coronavirus-cases-are-dropping-cdc-says/
by: Los Angeles Times, Erin Myers, Kareen Wynter
Updated: Sep 15, 2021 / 10:45 AM PDT
California’s coronavirus transmission rates are dropping, a hopeful sign amid a summer surge fueled by the Delta variant, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state’s coronavirus transmission level has fallen from “high” to “substantial,” the second-highest tier as defined by the CDC.
As of Tuesday night, California is the only state that has fallen into this category, as has Puerto Rico. ...................................................
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California is “the only large state to improve from red to orange COVID-19 community levels of transmission,” state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said in a tweet Monday night. She credited relatively high vaccination rates, as well as indoor masking practices, in helping drive down new coronavirus infections.
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I'd Like to Hear Chris Wray Explain Why the FBI Used This Memo to Avoid Investigating Brett Kavanaug
I'd Like to Hear Christopher Wray Explain Why the FBI Used This Memo to Avoid Investigating Brett Kavanaugh
It looks like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will see to it that he does.
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 14, 2021
...............................But I will be watching with interest later this week when FBI Director Christopher Wray goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be questioned about the shake-and-bake investigation that the FBI did into Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh back in 2018. The FBI interviewed neither Ford nor Kavanaugh in the course of that largely ad hoc exercise.
Heretofore, Wray and the FBI have relied upon a now 11-year-old Memorandum of Understanding that they said limited the Bureau’s ability to conduct such an investigation. But, as The Guardian reports, this cover may be a threadbare one.
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But an examination by the Guardian of the 2010 MOU, which was signed by the then attorney general, Eric Holder, and then White House counsel, Robert Bauer, does not make explicitly clear that the FBI was restricted in terms of how it would conduct its investigation. .....................................
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One of the senators bulldogging this issue is Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who’s interested in a number of unresolved issues regarding the Kavanaugh confirmation—including, intriguingly, the questions surrounding the evaporation of Kavanaugh’s heavy personal debts. Whitehouse is pretty clearly out of patience with Wray and with the FBI.
In a statement to the Guardian, Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island who has led Democrats’ demand for answers on the investigation, said: “In its years-late response to our questions, the FBI leaned hard on the notion that this MOU limited its authority to be the FBI and investigate wrongdoing. Now that we have the MOU, it’s even harder to understand the Bureau’s excuses for ignoring credible information it received. Director Wray ought to be ready to answer my questions about this episode – I won’t stop asking until he does.”
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judge brett kavanaugh is sworn in during his us senate judiciary committee confirmation hearing to be an associate justice on the us supreme court, on capitol hill in washington, dc, september 4, 2018 president donald trump's newest supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is expected to face punishing questioning from democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion photo by saul loeb afp photo credit should read saul loebafp via getty images
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Caitlyn Jenner got 1% of the vote in the California recall, but probably 25% of the airtime.
Deluded 1%!
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Caitlyn Jenner got 1% of the vote in the California recall, but probably 25% of the airtime. Not appropriate.
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