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November 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1461189507617673217
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Asian students attacked by group of teens on SEPTA train in Philadelphia, suspects to face charges
https://news.yahoo.com/asian-students-attacked-group-teens-210608683.htmlhttps://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1461189507617673217
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November 19, 2021
Gaetz soon will hire the little murdering vigilante Rittenhouse as an intern, book it.
November 19, 2021
https://www.salon.com/2021/11/17/fbi-raids-home-of-lauren-boeberts-ex-campaign-manager-in-colorado-tampering-probe/
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FBI raids home of Lauren Boebert's ex-campaign manager in Colorado election tampering probe
A Mike Lindell ally and Colorado election clerk stands at the center of an alleged voting data breachhttps://www.salon.com/2021/11/17/fbi-raids-home-of-lauren-boeberts-ex-campaign-manager-in-colorado-tampering-probe/
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November 19, 2021
Summary
CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would result in a net increase in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period, not counting any additional revenue that may be generated by additional funding for tax enforcement.
This estimate is based on language in two documents, which are available from the House Committee on Rules:
Rules Committee Print 117-18, Text of H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Act
Rules Committee Print 117-18, Yarmuth Amendment 112
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-11/hr5376_SummaryTable.xlsx
Direct link to the CBO: Summary of Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57627Summary
CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would result in a net increase in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period, not counting any additional revenue that may be generated by additional funding for tax enforcement.
This estimate is based on language in two documents, which are available from the House Committee on Rules:
Rules Committee Print 117-18, Text of H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Act
Rules Committee Print 117-18, Yarmuth Amendment 112
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-11/hr5376_SummaryTable.xlsx
November 19, 2021
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/premier-inn-will-pay-you-to-drink-wine-visit-christmas-markets
This Company Will Pay You to Drink Wine & Visit Christmas Markets
Get in the spirit and get paid thanks to Premier Inn.https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/premier-inn-will-pay-you-to-drink-wine-visit-christmas-markets
November 19, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/pandemic-winter-surge-three-unknowns/620738/
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The Pandemic's Next Turn Hinges on Three Unknowns
A potential winter surge is up to vaccines, variants, and us.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/pandemic-winter-surge-three-unknowns/620738/
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November 19, 2021
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Trump's Mutant GOP Freaks Assemble Into an Evil Voltron
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-mutant-gop-freaks-assemble-into-an-evil-voltronIt’s good to be a Republican in Congress. Every day is Carnival, where you can gluttonously indulge your id, grievances, and white rage without consequence and be excused for every bacchanalian sin and shameful behavior—especially if those involve promoting violent videos directed at your colleagues, engaging in workplace harassment, demeaning the Squad, or promoting dangerous anti-vaxx and antisemitic conspiracy theories. The only cardinal sin is actually doing your job and getting the government to help Americans in need.
That’s the clear takeaway from Wednesday, when only two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, an ally of white nationalists and armed insurrectionists who’d tweeted an anime video showing him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then attacking President Biden with swords. House Minority “Leader” Kevin McCarthy thought there was nothing out of bounds here.
It was par for the course from Gosar, whose own sister calls him a “sociopath” and who has an exquisite history of being on the wrong side of everything, from palling around with white nationalist Nick Fuentes to allegedly working with right-wing activist Ali Alexander to plan the Jan. 6 insurrection. Tweeting an ugly and violent video that would further incite hatred against AOC, who’s endured numerous death threats while being called a “fucking bitch” by Rep. Ted Yoho and hounded by proud anti-vaxxer Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments last year for her utterly outrageous social media posts suggesting that Jews control space lasers that start wildfires, questioning whether the 9/11 attacks were real, suggesting that school shootings were “false flag” operations, and amplifying Q-Anon conspiracy theories. A day after 61 Republican lawmakers voted to remove Liz Cheney from the party’s leadership, just eleven Republicans joined the united Democratic majority in voting to punish Greene in February.
That’s the clear takeaway from Wednesday, when only two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, an ally of white nationalists and armed insurrectionists who’d tweeted an anime video showing him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then attacking President Biden with swords. House Minority “Leader” Kevin McCarthy thought there was nothing out of bounds here.
It was par for the course from Gosar, whose own sister calls him a “sociopath” and who has an exquisite history of being on the wrong side of everything, from palling around with white nationalist Nick Fuentes to allegedly working with right-wing activist Ali Alexander to plan the Jan. 6 insurrection. Tweeting an ugly and violent video that would further incite hatred against AOC, who’s endured numerous death threats while being called a “fucking bitch” by Rep. Ted Yoho and hounded by proud anti-vaxxer Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments last year for her utterly outrageous social media posts suggesting that Jews control space lasers that start wildfires, questioning whether the 9/11 attacks were real, suggesting that school shootings were “false flag” operations, and amplifying Q-Anon conspiracy theories. A day after 61 Republican lawmakers voted to remove Liz Cheney from the party’s leadership, just eleven Republicans joined the united Democratic majority in voting to punish Greene in February.
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November 19, 2021
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/lunar-eclipse-longest-november-2021-how-to-see
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The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse in 580 Years Arrives Overnight Tonight
You'll have to be out late (or early) on Friday, November 19, to catch this one.https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/lunar-eclipse-longest-november-2021-how-to-see
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November 18, 2021
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/weather/thanksgiving-travel-weather-forecast-storm/index.html
Thanksgiving Travel Could Be Pummeled by Monster Storm on East Coast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thanksgiving-travel-could-be-pummeled-by-monster-storm-on-east-coast?via=newsletter&source=BI-CS-AllA massive storm is forecast to hit the East Coast early next week, just as much of the nation is embarking on Thanksgiving travel. “Even though we are still almost a week out and forecasts can change, this looks like a planes, trains, and automobiles storm,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said of a brewing storm system that could prove to be a nightmare for travelers.
Meteorologists say the storm is likely to begin in the Midwest on Sunday and build strength before spreading to the East Coast on Monday or Tuesday. The storm could bring heavy winds and snow to some areas further north, while bombarding areas further south with thunderstorms and rain. “We could be looking at a huge mess and a real wrench in holiday travel,” AccuWeather meteorologist Jon Porter said.
Meteorologists say the storm is likely to begin in the Midwest on Sunday and build strength before spreading to the East Coast on Monday or Tuesday. The storm could bring heavy winds and snow to some areas further north, while bombarding areas further south with thunderstorms and rain. “We could be looking at a huge mess and a real wrench in holiday travel,” AccuWeather meteorologist Jon Porter said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/weather/thanksgiving-travel-weather-forecast-storm/index.html
November 18, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/11/young-people-college-grads-wokeness/620674/
Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language. If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you’ve probably heard some version of this complaint. The Democratic patriarch James Carville has bemoaned the idea of “people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges” coming up with “a word like ‘Latinx’ that no one else uses.” John McWhorter, the linguist, Atlantic contributor, and author of Woke Racism, has asserted that “everybody is afraid of being called a racist on Twitter by articulate, over-educated people.” The Economist recently defined wokeness as “a loose constellation of ideas that is changing the way that mostly white, educated, left-leaning Americans view the world.” The thinking, or at least the impression, is that normal people who care about bread-and-butter economic issues go to college and pop out not caring about bread or butter, but instead worrying about gender pronouns and cultural appropriation. According to these sorts of arguments, people who never go to college stay reasonable, normal, or—depending on how you look at it—asleep.
But according to a recent Atlantic/Leger survey, no gap exists between people with college degrees and those without them on some of the hot topics most commonly associated with “wokeness.” Instead, neither group endorses the supposedly “woke” positions particularly strongly. Though the term originated in the Black community, woke now lacks a standard definition, and is sometimes used as a catchall label for a group of only loosely related ideas. People often use the term to describe neologisms that are more popular among progressives, such as pregnant people, as well as policy choices advocated for by some on the left, such as defunding the police. In our poll, we also included reverse-coded statements, meant to capture whether someone was the opposite of “woke,” by asking about common right-wing shibboleths such as political correctness, “cancel culture,” and critical race theory.
For the poll, Leger surveyed a representative sample of 1,002 American adults from October 22 to October 24. We asked for respondents’ agreements with various statements, shown in the chart below, that are often invoked by conservatives and moderates as being associated with people who are “woke.” The results showed that there was no significant difference between people with college degrees and those without them on the question of whether America is becoming too politically correct (slight majorities of both groups agreed somewhat or strongly). The same was true for believing “cancel culture is a big problem in society”—51 percent of degree holders agreed, as did 45 percent of those without degrees.
There was also no difference on questions pertaining to support for defunding the police; a preference for saying “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women” or “Latinx” rather than “Latino or Hispanic”; for using gender-neutral “they/them” pronouns upon a person’s request; or agreeing that it’s racist to wear a Halloween costume associated with a different race or ethnicity. Less than 30 percent of respondents agreed with any of those, and it didn’t matter whether they had a college degree or not—at most, the college-educated were more likely to endorse these views by a few percentage points.
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America's Real 'Wokeness' Divide
A new poll finds little difference between people with and without college degrees on questions about “wokeness.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/11/young-people-college-grads-wokeness/620674/
Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language. If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you’ve probably heard some version of this complaint. The Democratic patriarch James Carville has bemoaned the idea of “people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges” coming up with “a word like ‘Latinx’ that no one else uses.” John McWhorter, the linguist, Atlantic contributor, and author of Woke Racism, has asserted that “everybody is afraid of being called a racist on Twitter by articulate, over-educated people.” The Economist recently defined wokeness as “a loose constellation of ideas that is changing the way that mostly white, educated, left-leaning Americans view the world.” The thinking, or at least the impression, is that normal people who care about bread-and-butter economic issues go to college and pop out not caring about bread or butter, but instead worrying about gender pronouns and cultural appropriation. According to these sorts of arguments, people who never go to college stay reasonable, normal, or—depending on how you look at it—asleep.
But according to a recent Atlantic/Leger survey, no gap exists between people with college degrees and those without them on some of the hot topics most commonly associated with “wokeness.” Instead, neither group endorses the supposedly “woke” positions particularly strongly. Though the term originated in the Black community, woke now lacks a standard definition, and is sometimes used as a catchall label for a group of only loosely related ideas. People often use the term to describe neologisms that are more popular among progressives, such as pregnant people, as well as policy choices advocated for by some on the left, such as defunding the police. In our poll, we also included reverse-coded statements, meant to capture whether someone was the opposite of “woke,” by asking about common right-wing shibboleths such as political correctness, “cancel culture,” and critical race theory.
For the poll, Leger surveyed a representative sample of 1,002 American adults from October 22 to October 24. We asked for respondents’ agreements with various statements, shown in the chart below, that are often invoked by conservatives and moderates as being associated with people who are “woke.” The results showed that there was no significant difference between people with college degrees and those without them on the question of whether America is becoming too politically correct (slight majorities of both groups agreed somewhat or strongly). The same was true for believing “cancel culture is a big problem in society”—51 percent of degree holders agreed, as did 45 percent of those without degrees.
There was also no difference on questions pertaining to support for defunding the police; a preference for saying “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women” or “Latinx” rather than “Latino or Hispanic”; for using gender-neutral “they/them” pronouns upon a person’s request; or agreeing that it’s racist to wear a Halloween costume associated with a different race or ethnicity. Less than 30 percent of respondents agreed with any of those, and it didn’t matter whether they had a college degree or not—at most, the college-educated were more likely to endorse these views by a few percentage points.
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