I had some fun answering questions about #APromisedLand for BookTube. I talked to creators about everything from fatherhood, to celebrating science at the White House, to the role strong women played in my life. You can watch the full episode on @YouTube: https://t.co/yCydcrqVW4pic.twitter.com/VLOBfnjc2z
BREAKING: Colorado public health officials on Tuesday confirmed the presence of the new variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the U.K., saying the state is the first to identify the strain in the United States. https://t.co/1bWtWPkbsS
Michelle Obama was named the Most Admired woman for the third year in a row because she is intelligent, graceful, powerful, and all-around AWESOME. pic.twitter.com/rA8UOu0bYk
I came across something a Houston councilman said about Michelle Obama, that councilman name is Greg Travis. He posted some disrespectful picture of Michelle and then he had a respectful picture of Melania. It is clear that councilman must had forgotten about all those naked pictures of Melania all over the internet. Then he says that Michelle only got into Princeton because of affirmative action. He seem to forgotten how Melania got into this country, and excuse me but I would love to ask that councilman what college did Melania get into and graduate from? Melania is were she is not because of affirmative action, but marrying that disgusting lying racist crook Trump . What have she done?
Hey friends, Didn’t get this done on the last thread. Update: I slept really well last night and feel like a different person today! I have worked all day, hardly stopping except to eat lunch. I am still going to get the test tomorrow afternoon.
Did you notice that nevertrumpers like conway, wilcon & co did not say a fucking bleep about the moscow mitch’s voting down 2K aid? They also welcomed that ‘christian’ wingnut lady to the SC ‘appointed’ by the thug and moscow mitch. Other than hating the traitorous thug, their agenda isn’t much different from the greedy old party. They were convenient allies for defeating the treasonous thug, after Biden’s inauguration, time to cut them loose.
JUST POSTED. @Kloeffler's flagrant conflict of interest was worse than previously reported. In the Senate, she oversaw regulators as they made decisions affecting her own financial interests. Please read, RT, and share. https://t.co/CcxeGmdQEq
Biden’s comments knocked it out of the park. It’s insane that after record-setting vaccine creation and manufacturing, we’re dropping the ball this badly on distribution.
We’ve had almost a *year* to plan these logistics. Happy to hear he’s immediately going to invoke the DPA.
Loeffler and Perdue aren’t calling for Moscow Mitch to hold a vote on the $2,000 stimulus because they’re full of it. They don’t want you to have money. Vote for Warnock and Ossoff, who want you to have money.
There was a massive smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution.
Washington quarantined the infected, refused to let people from hot spots travel to his army, and even sent a thousand soldiers to Boston to prevent the spread there.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/29/luke-letlow-covid-congress-452218
Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid
Luke Letlow was to have been sworn in Sunday. Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41. Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.
Michael Flynn is going all in on QAnon, endorsing QAnon trucker hats and teaming up with a major QAnon promoter to launch a website for "digital soldiers." https://t.co/E8C9X2w2Ri
Trump’s most powerful loyalists are abandoning him in his doomed fight to overturn the election. So the president is turning to his true ride or dies: the Qanon community. And they're thrilled. https://t.co/D3PiFGTelT
Upon criminal charges being filed against @realDonaldTrump, he will be arrested/allowed to surrender. He will be booked. His fingerprints will be taken. He will be photographed. His passport will be surrendered, his travel will be restricted, & he will be supervised.
Upon criminal charges being filed against @realDonaldTrump, he will be arrested/allowed to surrender. He will be booked. His fingerprints will be taken. He will be photographed. His passport will be surrendered, his travel will be restricted, & he will be supervised.
First in Playbook: NEW … JON OSSOFF is airing a minute-long spot with BARACK OBAMA and JOHN LEGEND, urging voters to send OSSOFF to the Senate. The spot features LEGEND singing “Georgia On My Mind,” with OBAMA narrating. The minute-long spot pic.twitter.com/iJ18UNBrGR
First in Playbook: NEW … JON OSSOFF is airing a minute-long spot with BARACK OBAMA and JOHN LEGEND, urging voters to send OSSOFF to the Senate. The spot features LEGEND singing “Georgia On My Mind,” with OBAMA narrating. The minute-long spot pic.twitter.com/iJ18UNBrGR
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is going to challenge the results of a free and fair election. He just announced that he'll object to the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden's election win. McConnell had privately urged Republicans not to take this step.
Hours later, Trump's lie on Twitter about Georgia is still up. He attacked the brother of Brad Raffensperger, claiming he works for China — there's just one problem: Raffensperger doesn't have a brother.
In retrospect, the reluctance of the news media to more aggressively and seriously question the mental health status of the president these past four years did the country a grave disservice.
The "Goldwater Rule" hurt, but too many news outlets simply did not want to touch it. pic.twitter.com/KwxLGtiTbh
Even then, they would have been 4 years too late. The time to raise the traitorous thug’s mental issues was well before 2016 during primaries. 3rd rate 4th estate.
Jon Ossoff: "It is no exaggeration to say that Black voters in Georgia will determine control of the United States Senate and the course of our republic for the next decade." @MSNBC
“Trump Finally Gave QAnon What It Always Wanted: Respect”
“QAnon started in 2017 as a small community
of imageboard users who delusionally believed they were receiving messages from the Trump White House and the military through an anonymous entity known as “Q,” promising the imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton and many other powerful people for child sex trafficking. Clinton obviously remains free, but QAnon followers tend to overlook the lack of results and failed predictions because they gauge the movement’s success by its popularity, its opposition from the mainstream media, and its recognition by the president himself. Consequently, many in the QAnon community feel supremely validated despite the fact that Trump is exiting the White House.
Trump’s encouragement of QAnon is nothing new.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/trump-gave-qanon-what-it-always-wanted-respect.html)
Author Travis View tells Hassan that you cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into, and that QAnon is filling an emotional need.
It is endless when you don’t care about the people or it doesn’t impact you. In this case, it’s both.
Pelosi: "It is amazing to see the patience that some people have with other people suffering. These Republicans in the Senate seem to have an endless tolerance for other people's sadness. We urge Mitch McConnell to stop his obstruction and to bring that legislation to the floor."
After watching the latest incoherent freakout by a maskless Trump supporter in a store, I wondered to myself whether there's a correlation between opioid abuse and support for Trump. Turns out there's a 2018 study:https://t.co/Am5YZVAKTO
Jon Ossoff Criticizes ‘Dime-A-Dozen’ Sen. Perdue:
“Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff criticizes his opponent, incumbent Sen. David Perdue, over his opposing direct relief to those in need due to coronavirus and ‘flipping his position’ last minute”
Jon Ossoff:
“It is no exaggeration to say that Black voters in Georgia
will determine
control of United States Senate
and the course of our Republic
for the next decade.
And they are voting
in record numbers right now
for health,
and jobs,
and justice.”
President Elect Biden:
COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts: “Falling Far Behind”
(excerpt)
“First, things are going to get worse before they get better.
In September, we passed a grim milestone, 200,000 deaths. At that time, in this very room many of you remember I warned that we hit 400,000 deaths before the end of the Trump administration in January. Critics said I was being too alarmist and negative but as I’ve said all along I will tell you like it is when it comes to COVID and the reality is it looks like that we’re going to hit that grim milestone. We’ve just crossed 330,000 deaths in America. We’re averaging daily death rates of nearly 2,200 people which means we’ll lose tens of thousands of more lives in the months to come…..
The second thing to know is the Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind,
far behind. Were grateful to the companies, the doctors, the scientists, the researchers, the clinical trial participants and Operation Warp Speed for developing the vaccines quickly. But as I long feared and warned the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. A few weeks ago, the Trump administration suggested the 20 million Americans could be vaccinated by the end of December. With only a few days left in December we’ve only vaccinated a few million so far. And the pace of the vaccination program as moving now, if it continues to move as it is now, it’s going to take years, not months to vaccinate the American people.
Which brings me to the third thing every American should know,
the Biden Harris administration will spare no effort to make sure people get vaccinated. I’ve laid out three challenges in our first 100 days. One of them is ensuring that 100 million shots have been administered by the end of the first 100 days. If Congress provides the funding we’d be able to meet this incredible goal. It would take ramping up five to six times the current pace to one million shots a day. But even with that improvement, even if we boost the speed of vaccinations to one million shots a day, it will still take months to have the majority of the United States population vaccinated…
This is going to be the greatest operational challenge we’ve ever faced as a nation but we’re going to get it done but it’s going to take a vast new effort that’s not yet underway.
And that gets me to the fourth thing that we should know, I’m going to move heaven and earth to get us going in the right direction. I’m going to use my power under the Defense Production Act when I’m sworn in and order private industry to accelerate the making of the materials needed for the vaccines as well as protective gear. Vice-president Harris and I had been speaking with county officials, mayors, governors of both parties to speed up the distribution of the vaccines across the nation. We’re planning a whole government effort and we’re going to work to set up vaccination sites and send mobile units to hard to reach communities.
And we also know there’s a vaccination hesitancy in many communities,
especially black, Latino, Native American communities, who have not always been treated with the dignity and honesty they deserve by the federal government and the scientific community throughout our history. That’s why we will launch a massive public education campaign to increase vaccine acceptance. We’ll do everything we can to show the vaccines are safe and critically important for one’s own health and that of their families and the communities. That means we’re also going to make sure vaccines are distributed equitably so every person who wants a vaccine can get it no matter the color of their skin or where they live. And we’re going to ensure vaccinations are free of charge.
Fifth, while the pandemic rages on and as we increase the supply,
distribution and administration of the vaccine we have to remain vigilant. As part of the 100 day challenge I’m going to be asking the American people to wear a mask for the first 100 days of my administration. It’s not a political statement, it’s a patriotic duty. Our administration are going to require a mask wearing where I have the power to do so for federal workers, in federal facilities and interstate travel like planes and trains. And we’ve been working directly with county officials, mayors, governors, to implement mask mandates in their cities and their towns and their states. Masking has been a divisive issue in this country but COVID is a killer in red states and blue states alike. So I encourage you all to wear a mask,
encourage your family and friends to do the same. ”
(https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-speech-transcript-on-covid-19-vaccination-efforts-falling-far-behind)
“Kelly Loeffler’s Conflict of Interest
Is Even Worse Than Reported”
“The senator had power over regulators whose work directly affected her own financial interests.”
“…one piece of this tale has received little notice.
Her conflict of interest was even more pronounced, for while Loeffler was on the commodities subcommittee,
the CFTC took several actions that impacted ICE. This means Loeffler was overseeing regulators at the same time they were engaged in activity affecting a company she was intimately tied to as a current shareholder, former executive, and spouse of its CEO.”
“Loeffler was one of a handful of senators on the subcommittee that keeps a watch on the CFTC when the commission was making decisions essential to her old company and a subsidiary she had run—two corporate entities in which she held large investments.”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/kelly-loefflers-conflict-of-interest-is-even-worse-than-reported/)
STAT news:
“Opinion: Public trust in the U.S.’s push to develop a Covid-19 vaccine can be restored by ensuring transparency about it, creating a robust safety monitoring system, and developing an equitable vaccine distribution and immunization strategy.”
“A vaccine alone won’t stop Covid-19.
We also need a trusted plan for it”
“Operation Warp Speed is expediting vaccine development primarily by moving clinical trials forward without pauses between phases, and by scaling up manufacturing capacity before knowing if a candidate works. Three candidates are currently in Phase 3 pivotal trials, with initial results expected as early as this fall. At least three other candidates are expected to enter advanced clinical development soon.
At the same time, physicians, scientists, and the public are increasingly concerned that the speed with which Covid-19 vaccines are being developed, as well as the unprecedented political pressure being exerted on the FDA, as occurred surrounding controversial emergency use authorizations (EUA) for Covid-19 treatments, may pose undue risks to the vaccine development and evaluation process — and thus to the population — and that an unproven vaccine might similarly receive an emergency use authorization.” (Borio)
Luciana Borio:
VP In-Q-Tel, fmr NSC Director for Medical & Biodefense Preparedness, fmr FDA Acting Chief Scientist. Brazilian-American infectious disease physician and medical/public health administrator,
part of Biden COVID-19 taskforce.
About the new strain of Covid coming from UK now confirmed in Colorado:
Borio said it has been suspected to be in the US all along, a lot unknown.
Also that it doesn’t change much as long as we continue to wear masks, social distance = continue to do containment protocols.
Opinion: “Will Pence Do the Right Thing?”
“On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional.”
“But as a matter of constitutional text and history, any effort on Jan. 6 is doomed to fail.”
“In this election, certification is clear. There are no ongoing legal challenges in the states of any merit whatsoever.”
(Katyal, Monsky)
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/opinion/pence-electoral-college-votes-.html)
–However Katyal said last night Pence showing “no signs of doing the right thing”.
When asked about her political future:
“My focus in Georgia and my focus on D.C. is making certain that we send Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock from Georgia to D.C. to serve Georgia and to serve America.”
Kemp says he hasn’t yet been invited to Trump’s rally on Monday. He adds: “Whether you're mad at me, whether you like me, (you) shouldn’t get distracted by anything other than getting out the vote to save our country, quite honestly, from a socialist agenda.” #gapolpic.twitter.com/LUtQroOyEJ
McConnell makes clear that the Senate has no immediate plans to vote on the standalone House bill to increase direct payments to $2,000. https://t.co/7EpnYnBEky
Biden's team on the first 100+ White House appointees: • 61% are women • 54% are people of color • AAPI appointees represent more than twice their share of the national population • LGBTQ+ appointees account for 11% of W.H. staff • Almost 20% are first-generation Americans
#BREAKING – Actress Dawn Wells, best known as “Mary Ann” on TV’s “Gilligan’s Island,” has died at the age of 82. It was a result of complications due to COVID-19. She was a positive spirit in the show biz world. May this kind, lovely star R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/5qELBxusPA
I reiterate: Healing is not an option if the country just moves on and justice is not served. The wound will continue to fester and grow if Trump’s criminality is not probed, proved, prosecuted.
Breaking HuffPost: Biden is signaling that he's ready to move quickly with nominating judges once he's sworn in. And he specifically wants Democratic senators to recommend nominees who are diverse, not just in terms of race or gender, but professionally. https://t.co/ULTmq7J7Bz
"We are particularly focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been historically underrepresented on the federal bench, including those who are public defenders, civil rights and legal aid attorneys, and those who represent Americans in every walk of life." https://t.co/x0kLRJqnaZ
Hard to cite any accomplishments…in the six years he’s been in office, he could only come up with something — not even something widespread, but six individuals — that happened *recently*
It's hard to cite any accomplishments when you've mainly used your office as a way to line your pockets with insider stock tips https://t.co/WhYnGVWbHB
Writing for the Washington Post this Wednesday, Michael Kranish says that Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue once proudly boasted about his career outsourcing American jobs. But now that he’s running for reelection, he’s trying to shift the focus away from his past work…
Perdue defended the practice of outsourcing in his first campaign. But in a new version of the same campaign ad he initially launched, references to his work in Asia were deleted, prompting his opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, to say that Perdue is trying to mislead voters.
Media just does not get it, Trump knows he doesn't have a brother. Trump wants you to waste a full 72 hour news cycle talking about this vs. Real news.
After 5 years of this manipulation you should know this!
"Mitch McConnell is blocking a vote on $2,000 checks, and Georgia’s two Republican senators are the reason he has the power to block that vote" seems like a solid closing message for Democrats in the Peach State https://t.co/S1Vt8PCxSz
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
We need to clean out this rot
Holy Shit!
NW thanks for showing this video of…Glama Obama.
(just thought of it)
I came across something a Houston councilman said about Michelle Obama, that councilman name is Greg Travis. He posted some disrespectful picture of Michelle and then he had a respectful picture of Melania. It is clear that councilman must had forgotten about all those naked pictures of Melania all over the internet. Then he says that Michelle only got into Princeton because of affirmative action. He seem to forgotten how Melania got into this country, and excuse me but I would love to ask that councilman what college did Melania get into and graduate from? Melania is were she is not because of affirmative action, but marrying that disgusting lying racist crook Trump . What have she done?
that is,
at the trump “snail pace of a rollout”.
(Jason Johnson)
Hey friends, Didn’t get this done on the last thread. Update: I slept really well last night and feel like a different person today! I have worked all day, hardly stopping except to eat lunch. I am still going to get the test tomorrow afternoon.
Did you notice that nevertrumpers like conway, wilcon & co did not say a fucking bleep about the moscow mitch’s voting down 2K aid? They also welcomed that ‘christian’ wingnut lady to the SC ‘appointed’ by the thug and moscow mitch. Other than hating the traitorous thug, their agenda isn’t much different from the greedy old party. They were convenient allies for defeating the treasonous thug, after Biden’s inauguration, time to cut them loose.
Worth repeating.
FFS. Get her out!
Shocking that these racist numbnuts keep getting elected over and over.
Hope Biden admin rehabilitates these brave whistleblowers starting with Sally Yates.
PBO is so refreshing to look at and listen to. Thanks Nerdy-girl 💃🏾😎💖👑👍🏾
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/29/luke-letlow-covid-congress-452218
Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid
Luke Letlow was to have been sworn in Sunday. Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41. Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.
Another covid denying rethug gone. Don’t care.
Traitorous traitorous seditious regime.
The rw nut was basically inviting death. And Karma answered.
Fuck him and his trumpian ilk, who spread the virus to god knows how many morons and how many innocent bystanders.
Goodnight TOD.
Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
It is fascinating the different venues that President Obama is using in his book tour.
Thread
Thread
May it be so! ❗️❗️🤞🤞🤞
It would be nice…but I expect this will not happen. “He can’t do that!” He did, he does and consequences….
Good morning everyone!
Have a great day.
PBO cut an ad❤️
PBO cut an ad❤️
This is probably why he’s rambling on… with everything so rigged he can’t believe he lost. Seemed assured.
States that use this voting machine include, FL, TX, ME, IA, SC, KY, Mitch refused to move forward on election security because why?
Good Morning Family! Here’s an important message from 4EverPOTUS and John Legend.
Another important message. 😁🐶
love this…
Every Single One!
every.single.solitary. one.
🙂 I don’t care for them either
A US Senator doing this bullshit. He should be recalled
LIVE NOW:
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
And 70 million morons wanted 4 more years of this shite? Unbelievable.
Even then, they would have been 4 years too late. The time to raise the traitorous thug’s mental issues was well before 2016 during primaries. 3rd rate 4th estate.
Yes…
“Trump Finally Gave QAnon What It Always Wanted: Respect”
“QAnon started in 2017 as a small community
of imageboard users who delusionally believed they were receiving messages from the Trump White House and the military through an anonymous entity known as “Q,” promising the imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton and many other powerful people for child sex trafficking. Clinton obviously remains free, but QAnon followers tend to overlook the lack of results and failed predictions because they gauge the movement’s success by its popularity, its opposition from the mainstream media, and its recognition by the president himself. Consequently, many in the QAnon community feel supremely validated despite the fact that Trump is exiting the White House.
Trump’s encouragement of QAnon is nothing new.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/trump-gave-qanon-what-it-always-wanted-respect.html)
Author Travis View tells Hassan that you cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into, and that QAnon is filling an emotional need.
Mehdi Hasan.
Friendly reminder, Georgia:)
It is endless when you don’t care about the people or it doesn’t impact you. In this case, it’s both.
Oh my.
NIKEMA WILLIAMS,
GA Rep-elect who will take over Jon Lewis’ seat on January 5th:
–Georgians have been ignored by Loeffler, Perdue.
Here: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rep-elect-williams-georgians-have-been-ignored-by-sens-loeffler-perdue-98581573671)
John Lewis, dear John Lewis.
Jon Ossoff Criticizes ‘Dime-A-Dozen’ Sen. Perdue:
“Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff criticizes his opponent, incumbent Sen. David Perdue, over his opposing direct relief to those in need due to coronavirus and ‘flipping his position’ last minute”
Jon Ossoff:
“It is no exaggeration to say that Black voters in Georgia
will determine
control of United States Senate
and the course of our Republic
for the next decade.
And they are voting
in record numbers right now
for health,
and jobs,
and justice.”
President Elect Biden:
COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts: “Falling Far Behind”
(excerpt)
“First, things are going to get worse before they get better.
In September, we passed a grim milestone, 200,000 deaths. At that time, in this very room many of you remember I warned that we hit 400,000 deaths before the end of the Trump administration in January. Critics said I was being too alarmist and negative but as I’ve said all along I will tell you like it is when it comes to COVID and the reality is it looks like that we’re going to hit that grim milestone. We’ve just crossed 330,000 deaths in America. We’re averaging daily death rates of nearly 2,200 people which means we’ll lose tens of thousands of more lives in the months to come…..
The second thing to know is the Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind,
far behind. Were grateful to the companies, the doctors, the scientists, the researchers, the clinical trial participants and Operation Warp Speed for developing the vaccines quickly. But as I long feared and warned the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. A few weeks ago, the Trump administration suggested the 20 million Americans could be vaccinated by the end of December. With only a few days left in December we’ve only vaccinated a few million so far. And the pace of the vaccination program as moving now, if it continues to move as it is now, it’s going to take years, not months to vaccinate the American people.
Which brings me to the third thing every American should know,
the Biden Harris administration will spare no effort to make sure people get vaccinated. I’ve laid out three challenges in our first 100 days. One of them is ensuring that 100 million shots have been administered by the end of the first 100 days. If Congress provides the funding we’d be able to meet this incredible goal. It would take ramping up five to six times the current pace to one million shots a day. But even with that improvement, even if we boost the speed of vaccinations to one million shots a day, it will still take months to have the majority of the United States population vaccinated…
This is going to be the greatest operational challenge we’ve ever faced as a nation but we’re going to get it done but it’s going to take a vast new effort that’s not yet underway.
And that gets me to the fourth thing that we should know, I’m going to move heaven and earth to get us going in the right direction. I’m going to use my power under the Defense Production Act when I’m sworn in and order private industry to accelerate the making of the materials needed for the vaccines as well as protective gear. Vice-president Harris and I had been speaking with county officials, mayors, governors of both parties to speed up the distribution of the vaccines across the nation. We’re planning a whole government effort and we’re going to work to set up vaccination sites and send mobile units to hard to reach communities.
And we also know there’s a vaccination hesitancy in many communities,
especially black, Latino, Native American communities, who have not always been treated with the dignity and honesty they deserve by the federal government and the scientific community throughout our history. That’s why we will launch a massive public education campaign to increase vaccine acceptance. We’ll do everything we can to show the vaccines are safe and critically important for one’s own health and that of their families and the communities. That means we’re also going to make sure vaccines are distributed equitably so every person who wants a vaccine can get it no matter the color of their skin or where they live. And we’re going to ensure vaccinations are free of charge.
Fifth, while the pandemic rages on and as we increase the supply,
distribution and administration of the vaccine we have to remain vigilant. As part of the 100 day challenge I’m going to be asking the American people to wear a mask for the first 100 days of my administration. It’s not a political statement, it’s a patriotic duty. Our administration are going to require a mask wearing where I have the power to do so for federal workers, in federal facilities and interstate travel like planes and trains. And we’ve been working directly with county officials, mayors, governors, to implement mask mandates in their cities and their towns and their states. Masking has been a divisive issue in this country but COVID is a killer in red states and blue states alike. So I encourage you all to wear a mask,
encourage your family and friends to do the same. ”
(https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-speech-transcript-on-covid-19-vaccination-efforts-falling-far-behind)
“A Political History of Georgia”
Mehdi Hasan,
‘Deconstructed’ podcast:
https://play.acast.com/s/deconstructed-with-mehdi-hasan/apoliticalhistoryofgeorgia
“Kelly Loeffler’s Conflict of Interest
Is Even Worse Than Reported”
“The senator had power over regulators whose work directly affected her own financial interests.”
“…one piece of this tale has received little notice.
Her conflict of interest was even more pronounced, for while Loeffler was on the commodities subcommittee,
the CFTC took several actions that impacted ICE. This means Loeffler was overseeing regulators at the same time they were engaged in activity affecting a company she was intimately tied to as a current shareholder, former executive, and spouse of its CEO.”
“Loeffler was one of a handful of senators on the subcommittee that keeps a watch on the CFTC when the commission was making decisions essential to her old company and a subsidiary she had run—two corporate entities in which she held large investments.”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/kelly-loefflers-conflict-of-interest-is-even-worse-than-reported/)
“Ohio Senator Brown Joins Sanders in Delaying Senate Holiday Over $2K Stimulus Checks”
(https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-senator-brown-joins-sanders-delaying-senate-holiday-over-2k-stimulus-checks-1557905)
….”I will be on the floor to make sure this comes to a vote” (Sen. Brown to Hasan)
Senator Sherrod Brown:
“Now all of a sudden republicans have gotten religion” (on the deficit).
—yeh not this time.
“The Plague Year”
“The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.”
(https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year)
STAT news:
“Opinion: Public trust in the U.S.’s push to develop a Covid-19 vaccine can be restored by ensuring transparency about it, creating a robust safety monitoring system, and developing an equitable vaccine distribution and immunization strategy.”
“A vaccine alone won’t stop Covid-19.
We also need a trusted plan for it”
“Operation Warp Speed is expediting vaccine development primarily by moving clinical trials forward without pauses between phases, and by scaling up manufacturing capacity before knowing if a candidate works. Three candidates are currently in Phase 3 pivotal trials, with initial results expected as early as this fall. At least three other candidates are expected to enter advanced clinical development soon.
At the same time, physicians, scientists, and the public are increasingly concerned that the speed with which Covid-19 vaccines are being developed, as well as the unprecedented political pressure being exerted on the FDA, as occurred surrounding controversial emergency use authorizations (EUA) for Covid-19 treatments, may pose undue risks to the vaccine development and evaluation process — and thus to the population — and that an unproven vaccine might similarly receive an emergency use authorization.” (Borio)
(https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/17/vaccine-alone-wont-stop-covid-19-we-also-need-a-plan-for-it/?utm_content=buffer9e082&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter_organic)
Luciana Borio:
VP In-Q-Tel, fmr NSC Director for Medical & Biodefense Preparedness, fmr FDA Acting Chief Scientist. Brazilian-American infectious disease physician and medical/public health administrator,
part of Biden COVID-19 taskforce.
About the new strain of Covid coming from UK now confirmed in Colorado:
Borio said it has been suspected to be in the US all along, a lot unknown.
Also that it doesn’t change much as long as we continue to wear masks, social distance = continue to do containment protocols.
Opinion: “Will Pence Do the Right Thing?”
“On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional.”
“But as a matter of constitutional text and history, any effort on Jan. 6 is doomed to fail.”
“In this election, certification is clear. There are no ongoing legal challenges in the states of any merit whatsoever.”
(Katyal, Monsky)
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/opinion/pence-electoral-college-votes-.html)
–However Katyal said last night Pence showing “no signs of doing the right thing”.
The fabulous Stacey Abrams speaks to Dr. Jason Johnson about GOP, COVID-19 Relief Bill, GA Runoff.
(ReidOut)
When asked about her political future:
“My focus in Georgia and my focus on D.C. is making certain that we send Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock from Georgia to D.C. to serve Georgia and to serve America.”
“As runoff nears, Trump complicates GOP case by demanding that Kemp resign”
RIP Mary Ann
Excellent
Georgia
Georgia
Hard to cite any accomplishments…in the six years he’s been in office, he could only come up with something — not even something widespread, but six individuals — that happened *recently*
Writing for the Washington Post this Wednesday, Michael Kranish says that Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue once proudly boasted about his career outsourcing American jobs. But now that he’s running for reelection, he’s trying to shift the focus away from his past work…
Perdue defended the practice of outsourcing in his first campaign. But in a new version of the same campaign ad he initially launched, references to his work in Asia were deleted, prompting his opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, to say that Perdue is trying to mislead voters.
The story of the path scumbag’s life.
Now, THAT made me smile! Ha!
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/audibly-gasped/