another instance in the long, ongoing saga of how the Trump administration sincerely believes it doesn't owe the American people shit https://t.co/PeK3IjRXiQ
How everyone who cares about justice and dignity and health and safety isn’t filling their timelines with this is worrisome. We’ll never know the truth again. Not that we ever knew enough about the numbers, but now any possibility of transparency is gone. https://t.co/Lvn7B8bcSF
“Stay At Home Order Is Best Hope For Texas Stricken By Coronavirus”
“Judge Lina Hidalgo, executive of Harris County, Tx, talks with Chris Hayes about the need for a stay-at-home order in Texas as a last ditch effort to get the coronavirus in Texas under control.”
Mary Trump on ABC on being the main source for the NYT Trump taxes report: "Certainly in that moment that I'm describing, I felt that I needed to do anything I could, not just to stop this, but also to make up for the fact that I hadn't done anything in the past."
“The Plan Is To Have No Plan”
“The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing,
and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element,
and by “flooding the zone with shit,”
Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence.”
(Jay Rosen: https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/)
“Stated another way,
the plan is to default on public problem solving,
and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default.
To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign.”
Vampire Party’s plan to sharpie the numbers and cover up the death toll…
Described May 4th by Jay Rosen as: “default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default.”
—What is our collective response to the diabolical cover up in the works?
Kanye West is running for president in November’s election as an independent candidate for the budding “Birthday Party,” according to a shocking federal filing.https://t.co/J2gZ43lBOl
A special digital cover: Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, bioethicist Dr. Christine Grady spoke to @NorahODonnell about the battle against COVID-19, Fauci's contentious relationship with the White House and how he's staying sane (pro-tip: he power walks). https://t.co/CSM3KjFk3Xpic.twitter.com/aNJno1CUkC
"I’m an apolitical person. I don’t like to be pitted against the president. It’s pretty tough walking a tightrope while trying to get your message out and people are trying to pit you against the president. It's very stressful," Dr. Anthony Fauci says. https://t.co/028XiDojep
Dr. Christine Grady and Dr. Fauci met in 1983 working with a patient at the NIH. Dr. Grady says her husband's commitment to public health is a driving force 24/7. "When he gets criticized, it feels unfair to me because he is working so hard for the right reasons," she says. pic.twitter.com/y6qd7DLgbK
Heard he still does 80 hour weeks. Truly an extraordinary man without much ego. He just said that one year to 18 months is hopeful for a vaccine. That is what Doom doesn’t want us to hear.
–Thank you is not enough.
–Dr. Fauci and Dr. Grady we already owe you a giant debt.
Strengthen OSHA not employer liability.
(Transcription via speaker.gov)
Speaker Pelosi to Hayes:
“Let me first say, today is the two-month anniversary of the passage in the House of The Heroes Act.
At the time, the Leader said – McConnell said, ‘We need a pause.’ Well, we’ve had a two-month pause, and it hasn’t been constructive. It’s been harmful, and the uncertainty is very stressful to America’s working families. That’s who we are here to represent. So, when they make a big fuss over $600, when they were willing to give $2 trillion in tax breaks, at a cost of $2 trillion to the national debt, to give tax breaks to their friends, 83 percent of it going to the top one percent, and they begrudge America’s working families, who really do need the money, for $600. They might anecdotally say, ‘Oh, I know somebody who isn’t going to work because the $600.’ We’ll say the saying we had on appropriations is, ‘the plural of anecdote is not data.’ The data is quite different. People need the $600. Why would you give the big tax breaks to the high-end and begrudge working families $600?”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So, that will be a point of discussion. In terms of the immunity that they want, we’re saying the best way to do that is to pass The Heroes Act. In The Heroes Act we have a very strong OSHA provision.
The OSHA provision is strengthening even the one that is there now that they’re not really enforcing.
But if you have a strong OSHA provision that recognizes the danger of the coronavirus and the employer implements it, he has or she has protection, and so does the worker.”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So, instead they’re saying, ‘You’re an essential worker, you have to go to work.
If you don’t, you don’t qualify for unemployment insurance. And by the way, if you get sick you have no recourse with your employer.’ I mean, what is fair about that? It’s just not fair. I understand the risk. I’m sorry – I understand the risks that are there, but everybody is protected by a strong OSHA standard. The employer if he implements it, the employee because he’s safer and customers and clients who may come into the place of business as well.”
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/71520-2)
It is officially official. Governor Kemp does not give a damn about us. Every man and woman for himself/herself. Ignore the science and survive the best you can.
In #Savannah, we will continue to keep the faith and follow the science. Masks will continue to be available!
— Mayor Van Johnson (@MayorJohnsonSAV) July 16, 2020
Good morning from Georgia, where Athens hospitals are full, hospitalizations have doubled since the beginning of July, and Governor* Brian Kemp is banning cities from requiring face masks because he'd rather have thousands of needless deaths on his hands than do anything. #gapolpic.twitter.com/l4DXp6N31j
Implement the DPA.
Speaker Pelosi calling on Trump:
“And what we’re calling upon the President to do on this second anniversary –
it’s the two-month anniversary of The Heroes Act – is to implement the Defense Production Act to call upon industry to supply us with the equipment that is needed. People can’t get tested because there’s not enough testing equipment. They can in some areas; they can’t in others. People can’t – it takes a week to get a test back because we don’t have the equipment, enough equipment to get those results in a timely fashion that really makes a difference. So in a week, it’s probably obsolete anyway. So you have that. And then we need the PPE.
We need it for the schools, for health care workers, the personal protective equipment. We should be all systems go with providing that equipment: PPE equipment, equipment to test, equipment to get the results of the test. And if we do that – and the sooner we do that, the sooner we can open up our economy, the sooner we can send our children back to school as safely as possible. “
Speaker Pelosi:
“And we have it in The Heroes plan.
Mr. Pallone, the Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee has a very strategic plan.
We’ve done testing, the first bill we had, on March 4th on the Floor of the House, is testing, testing.
We’ve done it, but they have not implemented it because they’re defying science.
And now they want to have the results of the findings to go, not to the CDC and the scientists there, but to the Administration. Shameful.”
(Full transcript: https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/71520-2)
So Larry Hogan will be the first to throw his hat into the 2024 republican presidential primary… | I’m a GOP governor. Why didn’t Trump help my state with coronavirus testing? https://t.co/VXcIKS5NQp
What are the books by Black writers you would love to see reinterpreted on screen over and over and over again, the way we have with Jana Austen or Mary Shelley or the Brontës?
— Soraya Nadia McDonald (@SorayaMcDonald) July 16, 2020
Update: Today, @NASA_Astronauts removed 6 nickel-hydrogen batteries and installed 3 new lithium-ion batteries on the @Space_Station. Since one of the station's lithium-ion batteries shorted in 2019 and will need to be replaced, this work will be completed on a future spacewalk: pic.twitter.com/ATpsv2Mzzu
— The Weather Channel India (@weatherindia) July 16, 2020
“These unprecedented pictures of the Sun are the closest we have ever obtained,” said Holly Gilbert, NASA project scientist for the mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
(📸: : Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL) pic.twitter.com/wEL1cOoy5j
— The Weather Channel India (@weatherindia) July 16, 2020
I keep seeing these “I don’t care how ahead Joe is in the polls, I’m voting like he’s down” posts & can’t help but wonder how many Americans actually vote/don’t vote based on polls. Since when were polls ever supposed to be a substitute for showing up to VOTE on Election Day? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/hdO5FA1k64
“[Donald Trump] is like the man who refuses to ask for directions…This is such a MASSIVE dereliction of duty” –@SpeakerPelosi
Thank you, Madam Speaker, for standing up for veterans and the military – communities that have been hit HARD by #COVID19 and the President’s inaction. pic.twitter.com/J3XHmREKpS
“All of the answers are there.” (Speaker Pelosi)
“The scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, and sanitation can stop the spread of this virus. And yet the president continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us. This is such a massive derilction of duty. People are dying. And so what we’re saying to the Senate: Join us in asking the president to use executive action for good instead of ill as he has done. And pass the Heroes Act.”
It's been almost three weeks since the news broke. We will not let this story fade away. In November, vote Trump out as though you are saving lives — because you are. #TraitorTrumppic.twitter.com/MJmb8nnVIT
Something fundamental is getting lost. Trump and the White House aren't undermining Fauci because of anything he got wrong in the past. They're undermining him because he's being blunt about how bad things are right now and how much worse they could get:https://t.co/4bIeBMwOhCpic.twitter.com/xQb6czO9Hj
Oh — and he used to work for Putin and lived in Moscow and was caught (by Mueller) lying under oath to Congress about his and Stone's dealings with Russians with "dirt" on Hillary during the campaign. https://t.co/aF0k5yAxdN
The Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on a federal appeals court's decision that blocked some Florida felons' eligibility to participate in elections — a major blow to efforts to restore voting rights to as many as 1.4 million people. https://t.co/40wky80jcH
Voting suppression very much underway….cutting USPS hours…allowing massive rental and housing evictions leads to loss of absentee voting addresses…street garbage cans disguised as voting boxes?
Let’s get Thousands of lawyers at the polls…and folks on the street ready to take care of voters waiting in long lines…also porta potties…as well as very visible personnel designated for the polling stations to protect them from the thousands of thug “watchers” planned.
“Mary Trump’s book about uncle Donald and the Trump family has sold a publisher record 950,000 copies on its first day….another circumstantial tea leaf that suggests that Republicans and Trump are in big trouble this fall. ”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/16/mary-trump-book-sales.html)
Wish this happened where I live. Most have on masks in stores, but you still see a few a*wipes prancing around without them. Luckily I’ve not run into belligerent ones.
I know this sentiment doesn’t go big on twitter but I went to a grocery store today and everyone wore masks and was really nice. Like, everyone.
Did you have bare-armed Superman building a computer to Barry White music on your 2020 bingo card? I didn’t, but I’m grateful all the same. ☺️ https://t.co/aldOly4tSv
Today @HispanicCaucus members had a productive conversation with Vice President @JoeBiden on the most pressing challenges confronting the Latino community, particularly the disproportionate COVID-19 impact, health care and immigration reform. pic.twitter.com/Cu1ud7c5Pf
This post is now updated with analysis. #SCOTUS This ruling is a big deal and shows a conservative Supreme Court majority consistently siding against voting rights, especially on its shadow docket. Chief Justice Roberts is no swing vote here. https://t.co/1IxYv9XkYa
#ELB Breaking: Supreme Court, on Divided Vote, Refuses to Vacate Stay in Florida Felon Reenfranchisement Case, Meaning Potentially Hundreds of Thousands of Former Felons Reenfranchised by Florida Voters Won’t Get to Vote in November https://t.co/T6GIH3a1yC (post in progress)
Will we ever be able to get pass this…WE Deserve to vote…we have paid for the right to vote with our lives…with our bodies…
The voters in Florida voted to allow ex felons to get their voting rights back…yet the FL legislature told the electorate to kiss their ass….SCOTUS will intervene on the side of voter suppression….i am so sick of it….what can we do….
THE MOST powerful ad made by a Resist member yet. Blew my mind. #TrumpFailedAmerica as another 1.3 million apply for unemployment. Our modern-day Benedict Arnold lust for Hope Hicks just being the latest of how his personal effects his governing. pic.twitter.com/gfNQNJDQtl
Travel bans meant to stop the coronavirus from getting to the US from China and Europe came too late, according to a new analysis of cases from the CDC https://t.co/hxAwDPzQ9E
Stacey Abrams says Gov. Kemp is “following the lead of the incompetency and the immorality,” following his decision to void local mask mandates in Georgia.
“He is too afraid of the consequences of leadership to actually demonstrate any.”https://t.co/Z97OKGsB2E
13 years ago, I emailed Dr. Fauci out of the blue to ask if I might interview him for my undergrad thesis. He invited me to his office, where he answered all my questions. When I sent him the thesis, HE READ THE WHOLE THING (see his overly effusive review below). Who does that?! pic.twitter.com/3FIEfSSlXm
Professor Corey Brettschneider argues Pres. Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone is unconstitutional.
“In broad daylight, people…have just lost the meaning of the constitution to the point where they think ‘well, that’s allowed.’”https://t.co/NDNdhoLJiy
Is this why Trump has been ignoring Russia's bounties on U.S. troops? Because he's playing with trucks outside in the White House sandbox? https://t.co/Gkzyqo8iGL
The state filed a lawsuit challenging Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ July 10 decision to revert to “phase one” guidelines that push restaurants to close dining rooms and urge residents to leave home only for essential trips. It also seeks to block the city’s new mask requirements.
[This is my question as well} Why was the federal government so willing to let states and local leaders handle the pandemic, but push all schools coast to coast to open as if things were normal or risk the punishment of losing federal dollars?
A longtime Atlanta educator asks: When did schools become the mitigating factor for child care? Is day care the highest priority of educational institutions? https://t.co/9ZK7m20HYX
In the call now to reopen schools, I hear talking points about the importance of learning, mental health, and socialization. The last gut punches me when I think about how long Georgia sacrificed recess, yet now emphasizes the need for socialization. What I hear coming from Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos is about day care — babysitting kids so parents can work.
Teachers have spent a lifetime of being guilted into accepting bad deals through contracts, salaries, insurance premiums, paid time off, and so forth.
In the midst of this health crisis, people ought to consider how easily lice can spread in a school, how flu and now even measles outbreaks are a part of our lives. We want to open school, but it feels we are being guilted into an all-or-nothing scenario. Day care or babysitting should not be the focus, but it is.
It is time we change the definition of schools. Either we see them as educational institutions or rebrand them as day care facilities with some education provided on the side.
Kohl’s (beginning 7/20) is the latest retailer to adopt a policy requiring guests to wear face coverings. Walmart and Sam’s Club (7/20), Target (8/1), Costco, CVS (8/1) and Walgreens are among others with such requirements [also Best Buy (7/15), Dollar Tree (7/8), Starbucks (7/15), Kroger (7/22) and Publix (7/21)]
Kemp himself went on a publicity tour promoting mask wearing!!! And Atlanta isn’t the only city run by a black mayor that mandated masks. Savannah did too!
Update on our border: Non-essential travel between Canada and the US remains restricted. And as we continue to fight COVID-19, we have agreed to extend the current border measures by another 30 days – until August 21st – to keep people in both our countries safe.
Opinion | Alexis Goldstein: "Most people smacked down by the courts as much as the education secretary might stop flouting the law. She looks for new ways around complying with it." https://t.co/1YBXnmaJLa – @NBCNewsTHINK
This former Navy SEAL's seen the consequences of government corruption. That's why he's supporting Joe Biden
"When you see the president's attorney general doing favors…that's where you really start feeling, you know, concerned about the direction of our country." @VetsForRLpic.twitter.com/3L1f7vyeuB
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 17, 2020
Portland is just the beginning for Trump's and Barr's Gestapo style kidnappings of protesters. They expect to carry this out in various other large Democratic cities like Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago. WAKE UP AMERICA. Trump's tyranny isn't done yet.
All those libertarians who complain about government red tape are awfully silent about the police state brutality in Portland … https://t.co/6rRT3um6ly
This morning, I led my Congressional colleagues in sending a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis urging him to issue stay-at-home orders and a statewide mask mandate until we get this virus under control.
"But the victory isn’t completely won yet. We still have to save America. Black people have to save America. It can’t save itself. Four hundred years of slavery has proven that.” https://t.co/iHVUZTsagE
I am so excited to have former Ambassador & National Security Advisor #SusanRice on the show tomorrow!! Make sure you listen live at 7:22 am CST/8:22 am EST!!!! pic.twitter.com/YCE2QCgEwm
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Donald Trump is the worst possible person to lead us through a public health crisis. pic.twitter.com/6s6KCGU9KV
Georgia Democrats outraised their Republican opponents in both U.S. Senate races and two high-profile House contests, according to campaign finance reports filed today. https://t.co/D6NspHNAr1
Democrat Jon Ossoff’s campaign said he raised $3.45 million from April to June and has $2.5 million in cash on hand. Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue raised roughly $2.2 million during the same period but has much more — about $10.7 million — in the bank.
Raphael Warnock [considered the leading Democrat in the special election for U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s seat], who collected roughly $2.9 million during the reporting period. Warnock has roughly that same amount, $2.88 million, in cash on hand.
Comedian @TheKaranMenon is delivering hilarious takes on social issues across social media — and his voter suppression vid is spot on pic.twitter.com/CHLlwzGtwn
We’ve lost civil rights icon Reverend C.T. Vivian. President Obama gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a pioneering civil rights organizer and field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the historic struggle for racial justice a half-century ago, has died. https://t.co/1QlxZjdTCL
Rev. C.T. Vivian—the civil-rights icon who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama—has died at 95https://t.co/tQFg0OSg9k
Sad to hear that civil rights legend Rev. C.T. Vivian has passed away.
Watch this clip of him in Selma confronting Sheriff Jim Clark and his men. Watch the posture of the man in front of him as Vivian makes the case for voting rights. https://t.co/3b5L5PUK98
The clip is a little short here but in the fuller version you get even more of a taste of his power and the impact it had on Clark’s deputy. A segregationist’s whole worldview just crumbles apart.
Here’s a fuller version. I see what you mean here. Reverend C.T. Vivian was one of the staunchest fighters for voting rights in the movement. A true American hero.https://t.co/0u0XNgpRL2
The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump have joined together to launch Operation Grant. They plan an advertising campaign and a grassroots guerrilla campaign that will help deliver Ohio’s 18 electoral votes to Joe Biden in November. https://t.co/jmStXJEnd1
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp isn't suing the city of Atlanta for the mask mandate. He is suing Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms & the city council personally.
Georgia is a Covid hotspot. He should be 100% focused on saving his people. Instead he's 100% focused on being Trump's lapdog.
We lost a giant today. Civil rights champion Reverend C.T. Vivian dedicated his life to fighting and organizing against racial justice and to make our nation a better place for all. Keeping his family in my prayers during this time. https://t.co/SSfnIQWnCE
Hey, trump. Quit with the campaign rallies on White House grounds, paid for by taxpayer dollars, so you can pocket your campaign contributions paid for by fools. Note to aides: Explain this to him in little words, please. No charts. (Can't wait for trump's YOU'RE FIRED party.)
Federal officers have been using unmarked vehicles to detain Portland protesters since at least July 14. The administration says officers are protecting federal property, but interviews show they're also detaining people nowhere near it. https://t.co/RKsRLvQL52
As long as we have “leaders” who make wearing a mask/social distancing a choice, there will be self-indulgent, narrow-minded, evil people who will do the wrong thing and, in the process, put others in danger. They are the first to yell that “We are in America” as if that gives them all the freedoms to do whatever they want with no responsibility or consequences.
One thing of note is that the numbers indicate that black and brown people are more susceptible to the coronavirus. Do these people believe that they are immune? Are they in effect attempting to commit what amounts to genocide against POC? Dark thoughts but sometimes I wonder.
These anti-maskers fought for a grilled cheese chef’s right to work unmasked as Florida's COVID-19 cases continued to break records pic.twitter.com/Nb4EWCKl4t
We lost a giant today. Civil rights champion Reverend C.T. Vivian dedicated his life to fighting and organizing against racial justice and to make our nation a better place for all. Keeping his family in my prayers during this time. https://t.co/SSfnIQWnCE
Stimulus checks are spent. Millions are out of work. Unemployment expires in 2 weeks. Eviction moratoriums are lapsing.
Renters and homeowners are in crisis, and they need our help. Thank you @KamalaHarris for working to keep people in their homes. https://t.co/YoVU4Gz4wE
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a fighter her whole life and I know this next challenge is no different. Joining those across our nation sending love and prayers. https://t.co/96XAnTvpv2
Urging the White House to undo changes to hospital reporting requirements for COVID-19 data, House Democrats described the CDC as "the sole agency with the expertise and objectiveness to protect the integrity of this data and provide accurate analysis."https://t.co/0AoKP3o2V7
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning TODVille!
My First Lady is so gooooooood!
Isn’t she? 👑
We pay for this! We need to know!
SOON…
“Stay At Home Order Is Best Hope For Texas Stricken By Coronavirus”
“Judge Lina Hidalgo, executive of Harris County, Tx, talks with Chris Hayes about the need for a stay-at-home order in Texas as a last ditch effort to get the coronavirus in Texas under control.”
WHITE POWER ….
All you need to know
“The Plan Is To Have No Plan”
“The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing,
and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element,
and by “flooding the zone with shit,”
Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence.”
(Jay Rosen: https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/)
“Stated another way,
the plan is to default on public problem solving,
and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default.
To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign.”
“So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up
(worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion.
The press won’t be able to “expose” the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight.
The facts will be known, and simultaneously they will be inconceivable.”
Per Hayes: (https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-fauci-is-trying-to-fight-coronavirus-while-trump-is-trying-to-fight-reality-87782469853)
Vampire Party’s plan to sharpie the numbers and cover up the death toll…
Described May 4th by Jay Rosen as: “default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default.”
—What is our collective response to the diabolical cover up in the works?
He’s making a mockery of the presidency.
Delighted to have a new way to listen to Michelle Obama’s soothing voice!
Heard he still does 80 hour weeks. Truly an extraordinary man without much ego. He just said that one year to 18 months is hopeful for a vaccine. That is what Doom doesn’t want us to hear.
–Thank you is not enough.
–Dr. Fauci and Dr. Grady we already owe you a giant debt.
extraordinary
Strengthen OSHA not employer liability.
(Transcription via speaker.gov)
Speaker Pelosi to Hayes:
“Let me first say, today is the two-month anniversary of the passage in the House of The Heroes Act.
At the time, the Leader said – McConnell said, ‘We need a pause.’ Well, we’ve had a two-month pause, and it hasn’t been constructive. It’s been harmful, and the uncertainty is very stressful to America’s working families. That’s who we are here to represent. So, when they make a big fuss over $600, when they were willing to give $2 trillion in tax breaks, at a cost of $2 trillion to the national debt, to give tax breaks to their friends, 83 percent of it going to the top one percent, and they begrudge America’s working families, who really do need the money, for $600. They might anecdotally say, ‘Oh, I know somebody who isn’t going to work because the $600.’ We’ll say the saying we had on appropriations is, ‘the plural of anecdote is not data.’ The data is quite different. People need the $600. Why would you give the big tax breaks to the high-end and begrudge working families $600?”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So, that will be a point of discussion. In terms of the immunity that they want, we’re saying the best way to do that is to pass The Heroes Act. In The Heroes Act we have a very strong OSHA provision.
The OSHA provision is strengthening even the one that is there now that they’re not really enforcing.
But if you have a strong OSHA provision that recognizes the danger of the coronavirus and the employer implements it, he has or she has protection, and so does the worker.”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So, instead they’re saying, ‘You’re an essential worker, you have to go to work.
If you don’t, you don’t qualify for unemployment insurance. And by the way, if you get sick you have no recourse with your employer.’ I mean, what is fair about that? It’s just not fair. I understand the risk. I’m sorry – I understand the risks that are there, but everybody is protected by a strong OSHA standard. The employer if he implements it, the employee because he’s safer and customers and clients who may come into the place of business as well.”
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/71520-2)
Implement the DPA.
Speaker Pelosi calling on Trump:
“And what we’re calling upon the President to do on this second anniversary –
it’s the two-month anniversary of The Heroes Act – is to implement the Defense Production Act to call upon industry to supply us with the equipment that is needed. People can’t get tested because there’s not enough testing equipment. They can in some areas; they can’t in others. People can’t – it takes a week to get a test back because we don’t have the equipment, enough equipment to get those results in a timely fashion that really makes a difference. So in a week, it’s probably obsolete anyway. So you have that. And then we need the PPE.
We need it for the schools, for health care workers, the personal protective equipment. We should be all systems go with providing that equipment: PPE equipment, equipment to test, equipment to get the results of the test. And if we do that – and the sooner we do that, the sooner we can open up our economy, the sooner we can send our children back to school as safely as possible. “
Speaker Pelosi:
“And we have it in The Heroes plan.
Mr. Pallone, the Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee has a very strategic plan.
We’ve done testing, the first bill we had, on March 4th on the Floor of the House, is testing, testing.
We’ve done it, but they have not implemented it because they’re defying science.
And now they want to have the results of the findings to go, not to the CDC and the scientists there, but to the Administration. Shameful.”
(Full transcript: https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/71520-2)
That should have been enacted as soon as the Coronavirus came to our shores.
trumpsky could’ve made a nationwide call for DPA at any, any, time.
Noooo. No more Republicans. I don’t care how moderate they appear.
This THREAD gives me joy! Read my frriends, read…
Pride and Prejudice: Sparky Sweets/Thug Notes.
Summary and Analysis.
—Funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
He’s so cool.
In other news, there’s a space walk going…
☀️☀️☀️
As always, PJ breaks it down. Thread…
My school district is planning for a full in building reopen on September 14th. If I had kids, I’d home school…
Full plan: https://www.ssdcougars.org/reopening-schools
Summary: https://www.ssdcougars.org/uploaded/District/COVID/Reopening/SSD_Health_and_Safety_Plan_Summary_7.15.20.pdf
Powerful
“All of the answers are there.” (Speaker Pelosi)
“The scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, and sanitation can stop the spread of this virus. And yet the president continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us. This is such a massive derilction of duty. People are dying. And so what we’re saying to the Senate: Join us in asking the president to use executive action for good instead of ill as he has done. And pass the Heroes Act.”
Outrageous
“Senator Bernie Sanders talks about the growing support for his amendment to cut U.S. defense spending in deference to support for more struggling areas of American society.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-aims-to-refocus-u-s-priorities-with-defense-budget-cuts-87791173728)
–Amendment to cut the Defense Budget by 10% and refocus the money where we so need it.
Of course they did. This needs to change
Voting suppression very much underway….cutting USPS hours…allowing massive rental and housing evictions leads to loss of absentee voting addresses…street garbage cans disguised as voting boxes?
Let’s get Thousands of lawyers at the polls…and folks on the street ready to take care of voters waiting in long lines…also porta potties…as well as very visible personnel designated for the polling stations to protect them from the thousands of thug “watchers” planned.
“Mary Trump’s book about uncle Donald and the Trump family has sold a publisher record 950,000 copies on its first day….another circumstantial tea leaf that suggests that Republicans and Trump are in big trouble this fall. ”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/16/mary-trump-book-sales.html)
I think most know it fine well – the rest are possessed by their gods of greed and prosperity.
Wish this happened where I live. Most have on masks in stores, but you still see a few a*wipes prancing around without them. Luckily I’ve not run into belligerent ones.
Yes Henry Yes! 🤓
This sounds like a good idea.
Will we ever be able to get pass this…WE Deserve to vote…we have paid for the right to vote with our lives…with our bodies…
The voters in Florida voted to allow ex felons to get their voting rights back…yet the FL legislature told the electorate to kiss their ass….SCOTUS will intervene on the side of voter suppression….i am so sick of it….what can we do….
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I loooooooove this ad. It sums up everything in response to Trump’s stupid ad.
Just brilliant. Chocking… in a good way.
Lead the way…….
The state filed a lawsuit challenging Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ July 10 decision to revert to “phase one” guidelines that push restaurants to close dining rooms and urge residents to leave home only for essential trips. It also seeks to block the city’s new mask requirements.
[This is my question as well} Why was the federal government so willing to let states and local leaders handle the pandemic, but push all schools coast to coast to open as if things were normal or risk the punishment of losing federal dollars?
In the call now to reopen schools, I hear talking points about the importance of learning, mental health, and socialization. The last gut punches me when I think about how long Georgia sacrificed recess, yet now emphasizes the need for socialization. What I hear coming from Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos is about day care — babysitting kids so parents can work.
Teachers have spent a lifetime of being guilted into accepting bad deals through contracts, salaries, insurance premiums, paid time off, and so forth.
In the midst of this health crisis, people ought to consider how easily lice can spread in a school, how flu and now even measles outbreaks are a part of our lives. We want to open school, but it feels we are being guilted into an all-or-nothing scenario. Day care or babysitting should not be the focus, but it is.
It is time we change the definition of schools. Either we see them as educational institutions or rebrand them as day care facilities with some education provided on the side.
This made me smile. (Our children leading)
– ‘When I was your age and someone told me not to do something, it usually meant I tried to so it.’
– “Maybe you weren’t educated properly enough about health and well-being.”
Btw I smiled not because it was funny but because I appreciated the composure, focus, and preparation of the two young leaders.
Pro-life my rear end.
Mine too
Exactly
Individuals and businesses have to take it upon themselves to do what is necessary. No adults in charge.
Kohl’s (beginning 7/20) is the latest retailer to adopt a policy requiring guests to wear face coverings. Walmart and Sam’s Club (7/20), Target (8/1), Costco, CVS (8/1) and Walgreens are among others with such requirements [also Best Buy (7/15), Dollar Tree (7/8), Starbucks (7/15), Kroger (7/22) and Publix (7/21)]
SOON: Biden launches Biden Climate Voters at virtual town hall – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-5
Curious as to why he’s only suing Atlanta. Savannah, Athens, Dekalb County, Hinesville, and Rome (among other local governments) also have mandates.
Is it because Atlanta mayor said that tRump was breaking the law by not wearing a mask at the airport yesterday?
#FlunkTrump
Have you asked yourself why?
Seriously, what’s the upside of killing lots of kids?
Great literature break!!
“Nearly one-third of Florida Children Tested for COVID-19 test positive”
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-children-test-positive-coronavirus_n_5f105ac8c5b6d14c3363e65f)
—Bang! goes their ad nauseam argument that children are immune.
These are all such sick people. Never seen such dead looks in anybody’s eyes that this crowd has, to a person, including 45.
Goodnight TOD.
RIP
Morning everyone
TGIF
Good Morning, TODbots.
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TGIF – and good morning to you!
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Democrat Jon Ossoff’s campaign said he raised $3.45 million from April to June and has $2.5 million in cash on hand. Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue raised roughly $2.2 million during the same period but has much more — about $10.7 million — in the bank.
Raphael Warnock [considered the leading Democrat in the special election for U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s seat], who collected roughly $2.9 million during the reporting period. Warnock has roughly that same amount, $2.88 million, in cash on hand.
We’ve lost civil rights icon Reverend C.T. Vivian. President Obama gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
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Beautiful tributes!
If this isn’t straight up Nazi shit, I don’t what is?
Who are these people…do they have insignia….
The article says they don’t show any identification.
This is terrifying!
As long as we have “leaders” who make wearing a mask/social distancing a choice, there will be self-indulgent, narrow-minded, evil people who will do the wrong thing and, in the process, put others in danger. They are the first to yell that “We are in America” as if that gives them all the freedoms to do whatever they want with no responsibility or consequences.
One thing of note is that the numbers indicate that black and brown people are more susceptible to the coronavirus. Do these people believe that they are immune? Are they in effect attempting to commit what amounts to genocide against POC? Dark thoughts but sometimes I wonder.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/defund-the-police-fund-communities/
For those all or nothing people…
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Love this! 🌈
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This motherfucker should share a jail cell the governors of Florida and Texas.