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I don’t know the count, dozens for sure. This article listed ten recent departures:
Sarah Sanders, Raj Shah planning to depart the White House
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-sanders-raj-shah-planning-to-depart-the-white-house/
Shah is also considering his exit, but he has not yet settled on an exact date.
Neither Sanders nor Shah responded to repeated requests for comment before this story was published. When reached Wednesday evening, both declined to comment on the record, and Sanders tweeted that she is "honored to work for @POTUS."
Several other lower-level positions in the communications department left vacant in recent weeks are likely to remain unfilled, with more departures expected in the coming weeks, according to a former official.
Numerous staffers have left the White House over the last several months, some voluntarily and others having been forced out.
Those departures include Hicks;
Jared Kushner's top communications aide, Josh Raffel;
homeland security adviser Tom Bossert;
National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton;
Trump personal aide John McEntee;
director of White House message strategy Cliff Simms;
communications aide Steven Cheung;
congressional communications director Kaelan Dorr;
assistant press secretary Natalie Strom;
and deputy director of media affairs Tyler Ross.
Trump's team
Over the course of the Trump administration, the White House has consolidated its workforce, eliminating jobs and assigning multiple portfolios of responsibility to individual staffers. Some positions have never been filled. Despite the smaller number of positions, the record-setting turnover rate has not slowed.
Less than halfway through Mr. Trump's term, the turnover rate stands at 51 percent, according to the Brookings Institution. Turnover during Mr. Trump's first year in office was 34 percent -- nearly four times higher than turnover during the first year of the Obama administration.
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The Million Man March was a gathering en masse of African-American men in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995. Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a leading group of civil rights activists and the Nation of Islam working with scores of civil rights organizations, including many local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (but not the national NAACP) formed the Million Man March Organizing Committee. The founder of the National African American Leadership Summit, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. served as National Director of the Million Man March.
The committee invited many prominent speakers to address the audience, and African American men from across the United States converged in Washington to “convey to the world a vastly different picture of the Black male”[1] and to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community.
The march took place in the context of a larger grassroots movement that set out to win politicians’ attention for urban and minority issues through widespread voter registration campaigns.[2] On the same day, there was a parallel event called the Day of Absence, organized by female leaders in conjunction with the March leadership, which was intended to engage the large population of black Americans who would not be able to attend the demonstration in Washington. On this date, all blacks were encouraged to stay home from their usual school, work, and social engagements, in favor of attending teach-ins, and worship services, focusing on the struggle for a healthy and self-sufficient black community. Further, organizers of the Day of Absence hoped to use the occasion to make great headway on their voter registration drive.[3]
Although the march won support and participation from a number of prominent African American leaders, its legacy is marred by controversy over several issues. The leader of the march, Louis Farrakhan, is a controversial figure whose commentary on race in America has led some to wonder whether the message of the march can be disentangled from that of its organizer.
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Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
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104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
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120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
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https://tytnetwork.com/2016/04/22/rescinding-daily-pennsylvanian-article/
In 1991 Uygur wrote an article on the The Daily Pennsylvanian in which he expressed the opinion that the genocide of Armenians during the late stages of the Ottoman Empire did not in fact constitute genocide, a view he repeated in a letter to the editor of Salon in 1999.
In a blog post in April 2016, he announced that his views on the matter had changed significantly since 1991 and formally rescinded the statements. He went on to mention that he does not know enough today to comment on the genocide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenk_Uygur
Rescinding Daily Pennsylvanian Article
Today, I rescind the statements I made in my Daily Pennsylvanian article from 1991 entitled, “Historical Fact of Falsehood?
When I wrote that piece, I was a 21 year-old kid, who had a lot of opinions that I have since changed. Back then I had many political positions that were not well researched. For example, back in those days I held a pro-war rally for the Persian Gulf War. Anyone who knows me now knows that I am a very different person today.
I also rescind the statements I made in a letter to the editor I wrote in 1999 on the same issue. Back then I had a very different perspective and there were many things that I did not give due weight.
On this issue, I should have been far, far more respectful of so many people who had lost family members. Their pain is heart-wrenching and should be acknowledged by all.
My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not.
I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about.
Thank you for being patient with me on this issue, though I might not have always merited it.
Cenk Uygur
https://tytnetwork.com/2016/04/22/rescinding-daily-pennsylvanian-article/
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USA Today: Chris Christie says he spent a week in ICU, was 'wrong' to not wear a mask at White House event
7:44 pm EDT Oct. 15, 2020
Former Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he was "wrong" not to wear a mask in the days before testing positive for COVID-19, but that he felt at that time that he was in a "safe zone" because of frequent testing.
Having spent a week being treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus – in an intensive care unit – Christie said he had a chance for greater reflection about his actions and the virus.
"It is something to take very seriously. The ramifications are wildly random and potentially deadly," Christie said in a statement, first reported by the New York Times.
"No one should be happy to get the virus and no one should be cavalier about being infected or infecting others."
Christie's position and his message to the public is at odds with President Donald Trump, whom he helped prepare for a debate and was also hospitalized with COVID-19. Trump has said he feels great, has entertained large, mask-less crowds at campaign rallies and urged the public, "don't be afraid of COVID."
In contrast, Christie said, "I hope that my experience shows my fellow citizens that you should follow CDC guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others.”
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Mutineer9 how about two wrongs don’t make a right? In case you haven’t noticed (whether you’re foreign born or actually living in a Slavic country), our side is against all of that nonsense. Youre preaching to the choir. You’re barking up the wrong tree, go troll the right wing Trump channels if you want to bring them around to your way of thinking.
KGB spy Putin doesn’t want to make the world a better place, his minions are targeting left-leaning candidates to lose and growing support for far Right movements all over Europe.
He just wants to weaken the West, and prove the Western way is wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/31/denmark-and-sweden-boost-defence-ties-to-fight-russian-cyber-attacks
Ask Denmark and Poland how innocent Russia is in threatening other counties with invasion. NATO is the force holding back Russia from taking over and invading at least the old USSR states that want to keep their independence. Russia wants to weaken the EU and all cooperative efforts in the west, to get out of his way.
I’d prefer a less corrupt state than one where people can’t even demonstrate in streets, and support Navalny. I don’t want to be like Russia where our reporters are assassinated and nobody bats an eye.
Or Chechnya with Russia bombing apartment buildings filled with citizens, or a government beats and kills gays.
Yeah, we aren’t the greatest and have a long way to go to our ideal, but we are making progress. I have plenty of criticism for our own country. Doesn’t mean we just give up, go “oh well, we’re not perfect so we can’t point fingers at others wrongdoing” and lay down in apathy.
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19 Left wing incidents, 7 deaths
115 Right wing incidents, 79 deaths
Majority of terrorists who have attacked America are not Muslim, new study finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-right-wing-america-muslims-islam-white-supremacists-study-a7805831.html
Most of the designated terrorist groups in the US are right-wing extremists, not Muslim, according to a new report.
A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media centre, and news outlet Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting took a look at the 201 designated terrorism incidents within the US from 2008 to 2016.
The results: “right-wing extremists were behind nearly twice as many incidents” as terror acts associated with those identified as “Islamist domestic terrorism”.
The report identified 63 incidents involving those “motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State”. In that time period, this includes the San Bernardino shootings and Boston Marathon bombings, among others.
Right-wing extremists, often white supremacists, were responsible for 115 incidents within the same period. Events like Robert Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood women's health clinic in December 2015 for offering abortion services would fall into this category.
Regarding violent extremism on the left of the political spectrum, between 2008 and 2016 there were 19 incidents and seven deaths. The recent shooting on Republican Congressman playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia falls under this category.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Trump vs. Hillary
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html
Trump vs. Bernie
Current National Polling
November 6, 2016
Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,638 registered voters across the United States.
The poll was conducted on November 6th and has a margin of error of ±2.4% at the 95% confidence level. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The poll was conducted using interactive voice responses, with the results weighted by voting patterns.
If the Presidential candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, for whom would you vote?
Sanders 56%
Trump 44%
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Gravis_Sanders_Election_Poll.pdf
Bernie Sanders would have crushed Donald Trump according to new pre-election poll.
The poll, reported by the Huffington Post, found that the Vermont senator would have likely earned 56 per cent of the vote, while Mr Trump would have only received 44 per cent.
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, who endorse Mr Sanders during the primaries, commissioned the poll by Gravis Marketing.
Hillary Clinton did not fare quite as well in the poll amongst Independent voters – who could not vote during the primaries, resulting in Mr Sanders' loss to the former Secretary of State.
The poll found that Mr Sanders led Ms Clinton among independent voters 55 to 45 per cent.
Ms Clinton suffered a major blow Tuesday night from that particular demographic, losing independents to Donald Trump 48 per cent to 42 per cent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-beaten-donald-trump-pre-election-poll-a7412636.html
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*outlier ;)
19 Left wing incidents, 7 deaths
115 Right wing incidents, 79 deaths
Majority of terrorists who have attacked America are not Muslim, new study finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-right-wing-america-muslims-islam-white-supremacists-study-a7805831.html
Most of the designated terrorist groups in the US are right-wing extremists, not Muslim, according to a new report.
A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media centre, and news outlet Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting took a look at the 201 designated terrorism incidents within the US from 2008 to 2016.
The results: “right-wing extremists were behind nearly twice as many incidents” as terror acts associated with those identified as “Islamist domestic terrorism”.
The report identified 63 incidents involving those “motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State”. In that time period, this includes the San Bernardino shootings and Boston Marathon bombings, among others.
Right-wing extremists, often white supremacists, were responsible for 115 incidents within the same period. Events like Robert Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood women's health clinic in December 2015 for offering abortion services would fall into this category.
Regarding violent extremism on the left of the political spectrum, between 2008 and 2016 there were 19 incidents and seven deaths. The recent shooting on Republican Congressman playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia falls under this category.
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KC 😂 wow soooo damning that there opinion piece from 2016. You used to go after the baddies, wonder what happened to you. Please state which candidate(s) you back so we can do a nice comparison if Bernie of all people doesn’t meet your funding purity test out of all the 2020 candidates!
From the 2016 article:
To be sure, lobbyist donations—about $3,200 overall —represent a tiny fraction of the more than $96 million Sanders has raised for his underdog presidential bid. About 70 percent of that sum comes from small-dollar donors who have given Sanders $200 or less.
Sanders's anti–big money, anti–special interest mantra has resonated with many voters, who have lifted him to victory against Clinton in several primary and caucus contests.
The lobbyist cash the Sanders campaign has collected has come from traditionally left-leaning causes: *labor unions, environmentalists, the American Civil Liberties Union*.
For instance, John M. Walsh, a lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, contributed $500 to Sanders last year.
Other labor lobbyists giving Sanders money include Ian Hoffmann, a lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees, who contributed $235, and Michael Dolan, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, who gave $100.
Each lobbyist declined to comment.
Lobbyist Michael Correia of the National Cannabis Industry Association also donated $500 to Sanders last year. That's tied for the largest amount among Sanders's lobbyist contributors to date.
Like seriously??😂
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19 Left wing incidents, 7 deaths
115 Right wing incidents, 79 deaths
Majority of terrorists who have attacked America are not Muslim, new study finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-right-wing-america-muslims-islam-white-supremacists-study-a7805831.html
Most of the designated terrorist groups in the US are right-wing extremists, not Muslim, according to a new report.
A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media centre, and news outlet Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting took a look at the 201 designated terrorism incidents within the US from 2008 to 2016.
The results: “right-wing extremists were behind nearly twice as many incidents” as terror acts associated with those identified as “Islamist domestic terrorism”.
The report identified 63 incidents involving those “motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State”. In that time period, this includes the San Bernardino shootings and Boston Marathon bombings, among others.
Right-wing extremists, often white supremacists, were responsible for 115 incidents within the same period. Events like Robert Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood women's health clinic in December 2015 for offering abortion services would fall into this category.
Regarding violent extremism on the left of the political spectrum, between 2008 and 2016 there were 19 incidents and seven deaths. The recent shooting on Republican Congressman playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia falls under this category.
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In case that comment about “he was a democrat for decades” was about Trump, that is incorrect. Here’s a rough breakdown.
Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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SirToby, I don’t really care about arguing what exact percentage responsibility Farrakhan had. I don’t like the guy a all.
You seem to be downplaying it and angry he’d get any credit and I’m confused why. Most of the references to the Million Man March I read refers to it as his march.
I certainly didn’t didn’t create it out of thin air, and I have no reason to exaggerate one way or the other. If you have more sources (thanks for sourcing) that state otherwise, I’m always interested to learn more. I’m fine giving credit to different groups and icons being involved, and we could just leave it at that. I’m just not a huge fan of erasing history because it’s uncomfortable.
This is an excerpt from an article on mother jones about Keith Ellison’s past with Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam in the nineties:
Ellison’s aspirations as a community leader led him into an alliance with the Nation of Islam.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/keith-ellison-democratic-national-committee-chair/
If reclamation was the idea animating Ellison as he entered his 30s, Farrakhan was black America’s leading evangelist for it, commanding huge crowds for speeches that could last hours.
In 1995, Ellison and a small group of pastors and activists he’d worked with on policing issues (including the leader of the local NOI chapter) organized buses to take black men of all religions from the Midwest to attend Farrakhan’s Million Man March.
In his book, Ellison describes the event, held in October 1995, as a turning point in his flirtation with Farrakhan. After filling those buses and attending the march, he was struck by the smallness of Farrakhan’s message compared with the moment.
The speech was rich in masonic conspiracies and quack numerology about the number 19. What was the point of organizing if it built up to nothing? Ellison says he was reminded of an old saying of his father’s, which is attributed to former House Speaker Sam Rayburn: “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”
Ellison has said that he was never a member of the Nation of Islam and that his working relationship with the organization’s Twin Cities study group (the national organization’s term for its chapters) lasted just 18 months.
He has said that he was “an angry young black man” who thought he might have found an ally in the cause of economic and political empowerment, and that he overlooked Farrakhan’s most incendiary statements because “when you’re African American, there’s literally no leader who is not beat up by the press.”
In his book, Ellison outlines deep theological differences between the group and his mainstream Muslim faith.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Study:
Background
Only 63% of U.S. infants are breastfeeding at 3 months of age, and only 27% at 12 months.1
Furthermore, approximately 60% of mothers do not breastfeed their infants as long as they want.2
Maternal employment is frequently cited as a barrier to breastfeeding.3–10
Indeed, mothers who anticipate earlier return to work and/or return to full-time work are less likely to prenatally intend to initiate exclusive breastfeeding.11 Additionally, earlier return to work and return to full-time work are associated with shorter durations of exclusive/predominant breastfeeding and shorter duration of overall breastfeeding.3–10
As such, national initiatives include recommendations for employer support for breastfeeding women. For example, Healthy People 2020, the 2011 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding, and the National Prevention Strategy all include recommendations for employer support.12
While shorter durations of breastfeeding have been documented from mothers who return to work earlier and/or full-time,3–10 these studies do not consider the possibility of reverse causality – that women planning to breastfeed for a shorter duration are returning earlier to paid employment. We sought to address this issue by assessing the impact of maternity leave duration with part-time/full-time return status on the ability of a mother to breastfeed for at least 3 months, among a cohort of women who all reported prenatally that they intended to breastfeed for at least 3 months.
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Among women who intend to breastfeed at least 3 months, the odds of not breastfeeding at least 3 month, Infant Feeding Practices Study II, 2005–2007 (n=1172)
Overall, 28.8% of mothers in our study did not meet their intention to breastfeed for at least 3 months (Table 1). Mothers who returned to work before 6 weeks/FT had 2.25 times the odds and mothers who returned FT after 6 weeks but before 3 months had 1.82 times the odds of not meeting their intentions to breastfeed for at least 3 months, compared to mothers not working at 3 months. No association was observed between returning to work part-time and not meeting intentions to breastfeed for at least 3 months.
Discussion
Among mothers who intended to breastfeed for at least 3 months, those who returned to full-time work before 3 months were less likely to meet their intention to breastfeed at least 3 months. Fifty-seven percent of U.S. mothers with infants under one year of age participate in the work force, with 63% of these employed mothers working more than 35 hours per week.14 Support for employed mothers to meet their breastfeeding intentions may help improve U.S. breastfeeding rates.
Previous studies have documented shorter breastfeeding durations among mothers who return early to work or return to full-time work.3–10 Yet, these studies were cross-sectional and could not rule out whether mothers planning to breastfeed for shorter durations returned to work earlier or for more hours than mothers planning to breastfeed longer. Our study takes into account a mother’s prenatal intention regarding breastfeeding duration and demonstrates that early return to work, specifically full-time work, may result in a shorter than intended duration of breastfeeding.
Our study had several limitations. Mothers were categorized as full-time or part-time based on the number of hours they reported upon their initial return to paid employment, but mothers may have increased their working hours subsequently. Data are from 2005–2007 therefore are representative of working women during these years. While IFPSII included a national sample of women, it is not nationally representative; mothers were more likely to be older, white, and more highly educated, all factors associated with higher employment rates and better feeding practices.13, 15, 16 Moreover this study is limited to mothers who intended to breastfeed for at least 3 months, therefore the findings are not generalizable to all breastfeeding mothers. While our study focused on the ability of a mother to meet her goal to breastfeed for at least 3 months, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend continued breastfeeding for the first 12 months or longer.17 Strengths of our study include the frequency of postpartum questionnaires to minimize recall bias regarding feeding and the inclusion of mother’s prenatal report of her breastfeeding intention.
A mother’s return to employment after giving birth is likely influenced by the amount of paid leave she is granted and the amount of unpaid leave she can afford to take.
Of the 167 countries reviewed by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the U.S. is one of only three that does not mandate paid leave for new mothers.18, 19 ILO recommends a minimum of 18 weeks paid maternity leave,20 however in the U.S. 83% of working mothers return to their job within 12 weeks.21
Action 13 of the 2011 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding calls for “work toward establishing paid leave for all employed women”.12 Returning to work full-time within the first 3 months postpartum may interfere with a woman’s ability to breastfeed as long as she intends to, which may result in the loss of health benefits associated with breastfeeding and in more women falling short of AAP recommendations for breastfeeding durations.
Conclusion
We found that mothers who return to full-time work before 3 months postpartum were less likely to meet their intentions to breastfeed for at least 3 months. Support for a mother’s delayed return to paid employment, or return at part-time hours, may help more mothers achieve their breastfeeding intentions. This may increase breastfeeding rates and have important public health implications for U.S. mothers and infants.
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United States:
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
I expect a bigger jump in the next week or two.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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@adesignersperspective maybe you can use some of that supposed medical dr assisting experience you say you have and be a lot more specific about your criticisms? That’s a lot of emotional invective and cuss words. If you needed to vent your spleen and get your frustrations out, I think you’ve now done that thoroughly in your previous posts. And found sympathy from the conservative who you said your friends accused you of being. 😁 Try some of that calm, cool sciency language. I’m not the only one asking for clarification and to please be specific.
Judging from your initial post you said you were accused of being a science denier and a Trumper. Most of us have some pretty similar ideas probably what that means, but how about instead of us assuming, you just lay it out.
I also am confused where the CIA comes into the science and data part of your unclear but passionate implications. (Was that you, or another poster?)
And I’m going to throw in my laymen’s opinion that the public sort of needs to be treated like idiots sometimes lol. The public often sucks with nuance and gray areas or unclear simple messaging. You said you’re pro vax, look at all the holdouts on getting vaccinated.
Half my relatives didn’t get vaccinated, and they’re mostly Trumpers, libertarians, conservatives, and 1 bonafide Q nut.
We now have 13 people in our family who have been sick with covid this past week and a half.
So I’m a little grumpy and tired addressing this topic, as it’s been affecting a whole lot of my relatives and extended family. I hope you’ll understand why I’m skeptical and am asking for details. How old are you and what is your education?
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So popular his government threatened people’s jobs to come out and vote for him:
Some 145,000 observers were monitoring the voting in the world's largest country, including 1,500 foreigners and representatives from opposition leader Alexei Navalny's political movement. Navalny himself is barred from running.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-hand-putin-a-4th-term/
Many voters said they were under pressure from their employers to vote.
Yevgeny, a 43-year-old mechanic voting in central Moscow, said he briefly wondered whether it was worth voting.
"But the answer was easy ... If I want to keep working, I vote,"
he said. He said his bosses haven't asked for proof of voting but he fears they will.
He spoke on condition that his last name not be used out of concern that his employer -- the Moscow city government -- would find out.
Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, told The Associated Press that local officials and state employees have all received orders "from higher up" to make sure the presidential vote turnout is over 60 percent.
"They are using everything: schools, kindergartens, hospitals -- the battle for the turnout is unprecedented," said Roizman, one of the rare opposition politicians to hold a significant elected office.
A doctor at one of the city's hospitals told the AP how one kind of voting pressure works.
The doctor, who gave her name only as Yekaterina because of fears about repercussions, said she and her co-workers were told to fill out forms detailing not only where they would cast their ballots, but giving the names and details of two "allies" whom they promised to persuade to go vote.
"People were indignant at first, said: 'They're violating our rights' ... but what can you do?"
she said at a cafe Saturday.
Yekaterina said she wasn't sure what she would do with her ballot, musing that "maybe I'll just write 'Putin is a moron.'"
But she understood that not showing up at the polling place Sunday would not only endanger her job but would reflect badly on her boss, whom she likes.
She said she wouldn't go to vote if she wasn't forced to.
"What's the point? We already know the outcome. This is just a circus show," she said.
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Oh please what resources did he get? To be on the receiving end of smear campaigns by Clinton... who bought the dnc? Or maybe the tens of thousands of dollars he paid for the privilege of using NGP VAN software, a company run by two Clintonites who planted an insider as his data manager? Oh maybe he benefitted from having attack articles written against him by journalists who were chummy with Luis Miranda, the DNC communications director? You know, the Clinton-selected guy who Robby Mook has DWS agree to hire in August *2015*...before the first primary vote, before any of us regular citizens got to choose Webb, O’Malley, Sanders or Clinton.
And Bernie never pretended anything. Unlike robotic Hillary who has no class, no genuine connection with people, no ethics, Bernie’s been very open the whole time that he is an independent as a senator from Vermont.
And he ran as a Democrat for president...if he’d won a fair primary, we’d have a democratic president in office today. Bernie.
He’s more democrat than most of the democrats who are official party members. You care more about a title than a persons actual character and platform.
Must be a fan of Clinton, who has zero character or integrity ...but hey, what’s really important is she presented herself to the world as a democrat. And a human being.
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This article from the guardian was written in 2017:
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money
Like Donald Trump, Yiannopoulos grew out of a grotesque convergence of politics and the internet, and thrived by turning hate speech into showbusiness
Dorian Lynskey
Tue 21 Feb 2017 13.07 EST First published on Tue 21 Feb 2017 13.06 EST
Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News: ‘I am horrified by paedophilia’
So there is, after all, a line that you cannot cross and still be hailed by conservatives as a champion of free speech. That line isn’t Islamophobia, misogyny, transphobia or harassment. Milo Yiannopoulos, the journalist that Out magazine dubbed an “internet supervillain”, built his brand on those activities. Until Monday, he was flying high: a hefty book deal with Simon & Schuster, an invitation to speak at the American Conservative Union’s CPac conference and a recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. But then a recording emerged of Yiannopoulos cheerfully defending relationships between older men and younger boys, and finally it turned out that free speech had limits. The book deal and CPac offer swiftly evaporated. The next day, he resigned his post as an editor at Breitbart, the far-right website where he was recruited by Donald Trump’s consigliere Steve Bannon, and where several staffers reportedly threatened to quit unless he was fired.
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In the incriminating clip, Yiannopoulos prefaces his remarks with a coy, “This is a controversial point of view, I accept”, this being his default shtick. Maher absurdly described him as “a young, gay, alive Christopher Hitchens” – a contrarian fly in the ointment, rattling smug liberal certainties – but Hitchens had wit, intellect and principle, while Yiannopoulos has only chutzpah and ruthless opportunism. Understanding Yiannopoulos requires a version of Occam’s Razor: the most obvious answer is the correct one. What does he actually believe in? Nothing except his own brand and the monetisable notoriety that fuels it. That’s Milo’s Razor. Understanding how he got this far is more unnerving.
Milo Yiannopoulos book deal cancelled after outrage over child abuse comments
Yiannopoulos was born Milo Hanrahan in Kent in 1984 and grew up in a financially comfortable but emotionally fraught family. He later adopted his beloved Greek grandmother’s surname, but prefers the pop-starry mononym Milo. On Twitter, before he was permanently banned last July, he operated as @nero. After dropping out of two universities – Manchester and Cambridge – he wrote for the Catholic Herald and covered technology for the Daily Telegraph. On the Telegraph’s blog pages, under editor Damian Thompson, he became a professional troll; a clickbait provocateur who hated the left more than he loved anything.
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In 2011, having left the Telegraph, Yiannopoulos co-founded the tech journalism website the Kernel. “Tech’s gadfly continues to provoke and irritate, often for its own sake” was Wired’s judgment, but that only helped Yiannopoulos paint himself as a thorn in the side of a complacent tech establishment. The more people he insulted, the more attention he got. But his vindictiveness wasn’t just an act. In 2013, the Kernel was successfully sued by former editor Jason Hesse for non-payment of wages and one female staffer publicly complained about similar treatment. In a vicious email, Yiannopoulos threatened to ruin her career and called her “a common prostitute”. Many profile-writers have noted that his critics won’t speak on the record for fear of vendettas. Iain Martin, the Telegraph’s former comment editor, remembered “talk of him being someone who should not be crossed” and was shocked by the cruelty of his mob-like followers, which included rape threats and doxing.
Yiannopoulos found his stepping stone to America in Gamergate, an online movement that claimed to campaign for ethics in videogame journalism while subjecting women in the industry to brutal harassment. Unlike older conservatives, Yiannopoulos understood what was bubbling up on platforms such as Reddit and 4chan: a new gamified form of hard-right discourse based not on ideas but on memes, harassment and “saying the unsayable”, driven by white male resentment toward minorities and so-called “social justice warriors”, the au courant name for political correctness. It didn’t matter that he had recently mocked gamers as “unemployed saddos living in their parents’ basements”. For Milo, Gamergate was an exciting new front in the culture wars and the career boost he craved.
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As an informal movement, Gamergate didn’t have a figurehead so Yiannopoulos gave himself the job and turned into an outlaw antihero. Gamergate’s activists and opponents both agreed that without his advocacy the movement would have fizzled out. Profile-writers and shows such as Newsnight expanded his celebrity beyond the internet. Young, handsome, charismatic and eloquent – the writer Laurie Penny called him “a charming devil and one of the worst people I know” – he was far more alluring to the media than, say, James Delingpole.
Milo Yiannopoulos speaking on campus
Milo Yiannopoulos speaking on campus at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado in January 2017. Photograph: Jeremy Papasso/AP
Yiannopoulos preached the topsy-turvy gospel of the “alt-right”: liberals, feminists and people of colour were the oppressors and bigotry was a rebel yell. “I always thought journalism was about sticking up for the many against the powerful few,” he told Fusion in 2015. Yet in the same interview he implied it was all a show: “I didn’t like me very much and so I created this comedy character. And now they’ve converged.” Whenever he gets into trouble, he blames the character. On Monday, he attributed his justification of child abuse to his “usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humour”. Last year, he flippantly told Bloomberg Business Week: “I’m totally autistic or sociopathic. I guess I’m both.”
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In 2015 Yiannopoulos spotted his next opportunity, and perhaps a kindred spirit, in Donald Trump, a man he calls “Daddy”. (He rarely speaks to his own parents.) With Trump, the backlash against political correctness went nuclear and via Bannon’s Breitbart, Yiannopoulos became a far-right hero and gleeful scourge of liberal “snowflakes”. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls him “the person who propelled the alt-right movement into the mainstream”.
Most people who are no-platformed or shamed on Twitter didn’t set out to inspire outrage, but outrage is Yiannopoulos’s lifeblood; without it, he is nothing. He boasted that being banned from Twitter made him more famous than ever, and endeared himself to mainstream conservatives when protesters shut down his appearance at UC Berkeley on 1 February. (At previous campus events, he had targeted individual students for harassment.) Even Trump, the US’s first troll-in-chief, tweeted his support. CPac billed him as a “brave conservative standard-bearer” and an “important perspective”, not because he said anything valuable but because protesters hated him. That’s the level to which the debate over free speech has sunk.
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So what is his “important perspective”? What does he stand for? It’s telling that he was banned from Twitter (no easy feat) for ringleading a campaign of harassment against actor Leslie Jones for the crime of daring to appear in the female-led reboot of Ghostbusters – hardly a vital cause. He is a gay man who hates the gay rights movement. A libertarian who calls an authoritarian president “Daddy”. A vigorous opponent of Black Lives Matter who says he can’t be racist because “I just like fucking blacks”. A self-styled second-wave feminist who sells hoodies reading “Feminism is cancer”. A conservative pin-up who claims: “I don’t care about politics.” A writer and speaker who claims his provocative statements are just “facts” while celebrating the “post-fact era”.
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Trump was only a Democrat during W.
Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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“In 2016, the amount of PAC money she received grew to more than $465,000. Again, business PACS made up the majority of her PAC money, this time over 55 percent. One of the largest contributing sectors was the defense industry. While Gabbard has gained a following for her anti-interventionist stances, yet, her 2016 campaign was given $63,500 from the defense sector. In fact, the campaign received donations of $10,000 from the Boeing Corporation PAC and from Lockheed Martin’s PAC, two of the biggest names in the military-industrial complex.Gillibrand’s Off the Sidelines PAC donated another $10,000 in 2016 as well.
In 2017, leading up to her successful reelection campaign, Gabbard announced she would no longer take PAC money. After receiving over $400,000 in PAC money in her previous two reelection cycles, in 2018 her campaign only took in just over $37,000, almost all of which came from labor associations and trade unions.
Gabbard also had her own leadership PAC named Time to Unite Lead and Serve with Integrity. According to an FEC filing in June 2018, the PAC was terminated. However, during its lifespan for the 2014, 2016 and 2018 cycles, the PAC brought in substantial money. In 2013-2014, the leadership PAC saw more than $44,000 in contributions, $17,500 from other PACs. It did even better in 2015-2016, with PAC contributions nearing $31,000, according to FEC data. The majority of funds, $20,000, came from business PACs like Raytheon and New York Life Insurance Company.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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19 Left wing incidents, 7 deaths
115 Right wing incidents, 79 deaths
Majority of terrorists who have attacked America are not Muslim, new study finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-right-wing-america-muslims-islam-white-supremacists-study-a7805831.html
Most of the designated terrorist groups in the US are right-wing extremists, not Muslim, according to a new report.
A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media centre, and news outlet Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting took a look at the 201 designated terrorism incidents within the US from 2008 to 2016.
The results: “right-wing extremists were behind nearly twice as many incidents” as terror acts associated with those identified as “Islamist domestic terrorism”.
The report identified 63 incidents involving those “motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State”. In that time period, this includes the San Bernardino shootings and Boston Marathon bombings, among others.
Right-wing extremists, often white supremacists, were responsible for 115 incidents within the same period. Events like Robert Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood women's health clinic in December 2015 for offering abortion services would fall into this category.
Regarding violent extremism on the left of the political spectrum, between 2008 and 2016 there were 19 incidents and seven deaths. The recent shooting on Republican Congressman playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia falls under this category.
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Alternet article:
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was confronted with a massive contradiction between his campaign’s claim to support Medicare for All and his actual health care plan in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Yang has repeatedly said that he supports Medicare for All, and he has even run ads promoting his support for the idea, as host Jonathan Karl noted. But in his campaign’s recently released proposal for health care, there’s nothing at all resembling the idea of Medicare for All.
“I’ve looked at your health care plan,” Karl said. “And this plan does not call for Medicare for All. In fact, it doesn’t even have a public option.”
The “dissonance,” as Karl referred to it, is still plain to see on Yang’s campaign site. His plan for health care is described under a heading called “Medicare for All.” But his “six-pronged approach” to reforming health care contains the following items:
1. Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation.
2. Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology, supported by measures such as multi-state licensing laws.
3. Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners.
4. Shift our focus and educating ourselves in preventative care and end-of-life care options.
5. Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, HIV/AIDs detection and treatment, reproductive health, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care for the 21st century.
6. Diminish the influence of lobbyists and special interests in the healthcare industry that makes it nearly impossible to draft and pass meaningful healthcare reform.
On their own, these might be good or bad ideas (some of them have already been tried or are being tried.) Some of them sound more like clichés than policies. But not one even addresses the expansion of the health insurance coverage, which is at the heart of what “Medicare for All” is about. And it certainly doesn’t address giving Americans government-provided and -run health insurance, which is what the “Medicare” in “Medicare for All” is supposed to be about.
There’s been some debate about whether a national public option for health insurance, along the lines of what Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden might advocate, actually constitutes or approaches “Medicare for All.” Buttigieg has spun his plan as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” And in the interview, Yang correctly pointed out that “Medicare for All” is not a single bill — multiple laws could fit that label, and the slogan itself has been around years before legislation was written to enact it. There’s some room for reasonable disagreement about what really lives up to the name.
But it’s not reasonable to claim that Yang’s plan is any form of “Medicare for All.” The only conclusion can be that he was and is lying when he says that “Medicare for All” is his plan. He doesn’t even seem to prioritize expanding health care coverage, let alone expanding the government’s health care coverage.
Yang deflected from Karl’s accurate characterization of his plan, saying, “We need to move towards universal health care that’s high quality and nearly cost-free for Americans around the country. But reality is, we have millions of people on private insurance right now, and taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many, many Americans.”
That’s a fair argument to make, but it doesn’t explain why he’s claiming to be for Medicare for All when he isn’t, or why he wouldn’t support at least a public option.
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He tried to say that his plan is in favor of “expanding” universal health care, including, in part, by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare. But none of those ideas are actually in the plan his campaign put out. And this is particularly bad, because his website describes his proposal as his “FULL PLAN for a New Way Forward for Healthcare in America.”
When his plan was announced, Yang said, “I support the spirit of ‘Medicare for All.'” But this claim is so vague as to be almost completely meaningless when his actual policy does nothing resembling a push for “Medicare for All.”
As I said, the only plausible interpretation is that Yang is lying. He wants people to think he supports “Medicare for All,” even when his actual ideas for reforming health care policy in the United States are nowhere near such a plan.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
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The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
TikTok
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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DNC chair questions House campaign arm's attack on progressive candidate
March 02, 2018
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376498-dnc-chair-responds-to-dccc-opposition-research-on-progressive-i-wouldnt
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez is questioning a move by the party's House campaign arm to publish opposition research on a progressive candidate in Texas ahead of a primary contest there.
"I wouldn't have done it. And I wouldn't have done it because I think we're at our best as Democrats when we talk about the issues," Perez told C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" during an interview Friday.
"I would have done it differently," he continued. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which backs Democratic House candidates, came under fire from progressives late last month after the group posted a memo online containing opposition research about Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat running in Texas' competitive 7th Congressional District.
The opposition research blasts Moser as a "Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress." It also points out that she claimed Washington, D.C., as her primary residence in January "in order to get a tax break."
The episode highlighted the divide between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its establishment wing.
The party has worked since the 2016 presidential election to close that divide, after leaked emails revealed that top DNC officials sought to help Hillary Clinton win the party's presidential nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who gained a following among the party's progressives.
Our Revolution, a progressive group allied with Sanders, endorsed Moser this week ahead of the March 6 primary.
The DCCC has framed Moser as an unelectable candidate in a critical race, pointing to concerns about her residency and accusations that her husband is improperly benefitting financially from her campaign. The Sanders-affiliated group called the DCCC's attacks "ridiculous."
Moser is one of seven Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary to try to take Rep. John Culberson’s (R) Houston-area seat. Clinton won the district narrowly in 2016, while the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
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Probably true. They do a lot for PR including their khakis to give a nice face to their hateful ideology.
SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Alternet article:
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was confronted with a massive contradiction between his campaign’s claim to support Medicare for All and his actual health care plan in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Yang has repeatedly said that he supports Medicare for All, and he has even run ads promoting his support for the idea, as host Jonathan Karl noted. But in his campaign’s recently released proposal for health care, there’s nothing at all resembling the idea of Medicare for All.
“I’ve looked at your health care plan,” Karl said. “And this plan does not call for Medicare for All. In fact, it doesn’t even have a public option.”
The “dissonance,” as Karl referred to it, is still plain to see on Yang’s campaign site. His plan for health care is described under a heading called “Medicare for All.” But his “six-pronged approach” to reforming health care contains the following items:
1. Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation.
2. Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology, supported by measures such as multi-state licensing laws.
3. Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners.
4. Shift our focus and educating ourselves in preventative care and end-of-life care options.
5. Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, HIV/AIDs detection and treatment, reproductive health, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care for the 21st century.
6. Diminish the influence of lobbyists and special interests in the healthcare industry that makes it nearly impossible to draft and pass meaningful healthcare reform.
On their own, these might be good or bad ideas (some of them have already been tried or are being tried.) Some of them sound more like clichés than policies. But not one even addresses the expansion of the health insurance coverage, which is at the heart of what “Medicare for All” is about. And it certainly doesn’t address giving Americans government-provided and -run health insurance, which is what the “Medicare” in “Medicare for All” is supposed to be about.
There’s been some debate about whether a national public option for health insurance, along the lines of what Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden might advocate, actually constitutes or approaches “Medicare for All.” Buttigieg has spun his plan as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” And in the interview, Yang correctly pointed out that “Medicare for All” is not a single bill — multiple laws could fit that label, and the slogan itself has been around years before legislation was written to enact it. There’s some room for reasonable disagreement about what really lives up to the name.
But it’s not reasonable to claim that Yang’s plan is any form of “Medicare for All.” The only conclusion can be that he was and is lying when he says that “Medicare for All” is his plan. He doesn’t even seem to prioritize expanding health care coverage, let alone expanding the government’s health care coverage.
Yang deflected from Karl’s accurate characterization of his plan, saying, “We need to move towards universal health care that’s high quality and nearly cost-free for Americans around the country. But reality is, we have millions of people on private insurance right now, and taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many, many Americans.”
That’s a fair argument to make, but it doesn’t explain why he’s claiming to be for Medicare for All when he isn’t, or why he wouldn’t support at least a public option.
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He tried to say that his plan is in favor of “expanding” universal health care, including, in part, by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare. But none of those ideas are actually in the plan his campaign put out. And this is particularly bad, because his website describes his proposal as his “FULL PLAN for a New Way Forward for Healthcare in America.”
When his plan was announced, Yang said, “I support the spirit of ‘Medicare for All.'” But this claim is so vague as to be almost completely meaningless when his actual policy does nothing resembling a push for “Medicare for All.”
As I said, the only plausible interpretation is that Yang is lying. He wants people to think he supports “Medicare for All,” even when his actual ideas for reforming health care policy in the United States are nowhere near such a plan.
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@davidchidester5463 you’re right there are more factors. April fact check on USA Today:
Lumber prices have soared across the United States in recent months, a trend some on social media are blaming on the new Democratic occupant of the White House.
An April 8 Facebook post, which includes a photo of a Home Depot price tag, is captioned, "America held hostage, day 79 of living in leftist-imposed hell!"
The post also includes a list of rising prices for 3/4-inch plywood since March 2020, claiming that there has been a "252% price increase on one of the most used pieces of common lumber for construction."
But the post itself – like others making similar claims – unintentionally points out the absurdity of this line of thinking. Going back to March 2020 creates a time span mostly falling under the Donald Trump presidency.
The lumber price spike is all about the COVID-19 pandemic, not Democratic President Joe Biden.
USA TODAY has reached out to the posters.
COVID-19 fueled spike in lumber prices
Lumber prices have indeed spiked, but it's not related to the Biden administration.
Prices rose by more than 250% in the last year, according to Business Insider. The National Association of Homebuilders said the increases added more than $24,000 to the price of the average single-family home.
Of course, most of that increase came while Trump was still in office.
Like other products, lumber prices surged amid the pandemic as mills were forced to close or slow production. Pandemic home improvement projects, mill production cuts and this year's building season have caused an increased demand for lumber while supply remains low, leading some experts to predict prices will stay high.
The association attributes the escalating lumber prices to "insufficient domestic production."
It's similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, though on a smaller scale. Then lumber prices went up by 30% from August 2017 through January 2018, the association said.
According to its website, the NAHB "reached out extensively to the Trump Administration, members of Congress and to lumber mills calling for prompt action to address supply shortages that were harming small businesses, home builders and ultimately, the overall economy," and will continue to do so under the Biden administration.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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10% against Trump had a lot better chance of winning vs. 3% against Trump.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Trump vs. Hillary
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html
Trump vs. Bernie
Current National Polling
November 6, 2016
Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,638 registered voters across the United States.
The poll was conducted on November 6th and has a margin of error of ±2.4% at the 95% confidence level. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The poll was conducted using interactive voice responses, with the results weighted by voting patterns.
If the Presidential candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, for whom would you vote?
Sanders 56%
Trump 44%
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Gravis_Sanders_Election_Poll.pdf
Bernie Sanders would have crushed Donald Trump according to new pre-election poll.
The poll, reported by the Huffington Post, found that the Vermont senator would have likely earned 56 per cent of the vote, while Mr Trump would have only received 44 per cent.
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, who endorse Mr Sanders during the primaries, commissioned the poll by Gravis Marketing.
Hillary Clinton did not fare quite as well in the poll amongst Independent voters – who could not vote during the primaries, resulting in Mr Sanders' loss to the former Secretary of State.
The poll found that Mr Sanders led Ms Clinton among independent voters 55 to 45 per cent.
Ms Clinton suffered a major blow Tuesday night from that particular demographic, losing independents to Donald Trump 48 per cent to 42 per cent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-beaten-donald-trump-pre-election-poll-a7412636.html
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No, this wasn’t something said by Donna Brazile a couple of days ago. You’re obviously new to this topic.
This was first written about over a year ago by investigative reporters.
Here’s a snippet of a much longer rolling stone article talking about it which I recommend reading for people like you who are unfamiliar with this story. (The Politico article is excellent also but not as readable, it’s a little dry and very involved.). Snippet:
What the Vogel-Arnsdorf story pointed to, then, was the Clinton campaign – with the aid of the DNC – using large-money donors like Clooney's friends to get around a fundraising shortfall among small donors.
This is also significant because one of Clinton's campaign talking points throughout emphasized that she was aiding down-ballot Democrats, while Sanders was not.
Even the likes of Clooney thought the money was going to the committees. "The overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising,"
the actor told Meet the Press, "is not going to Hillary to run for president, it's going to the down-ticket."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/dnc-leak-shows-mechanics-of-a-slanted-campaign-w430814
Politico's "1 percent" report put all of this in question.
In the leaked DNC documents, we see remarkable exchanges between high-ranking officials, talking about how best to deal with the potential scandal.
In the most bizarre and darkly comic moment, DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda emails his colleagues about which local Democratic official to put on Morning Joe to rebut the story.
Miranda asks DNC Deputy Policy Director for State Party Programs Maureen Garde, then-DNC National Political Director Raul Alvillar, and DNC CEO Amy Dacey if they should put Indiana State Chair John Zody on the show.
But Miranda had a problem. The Vogel-Arnsdorf story had quoted a state official and a party operative who were pissed about their disappearing money.
Since those complaining were unnamed, they could be anyone. Even Zody! In which case, putting him on TV might not be a good idea.
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(1 of 3) Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.
I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.
So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.
Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.
By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.
*
The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.
“What?” I screamed. “I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.”
That wasn’t true, he said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.
If I didn’t know about this, I assumed that none of the other officers knew about it, either. That was just Debbie’s way. In my experience she didn’t come to the officers of the DNC for advice and counsel. She seemed to make decisions on her own and let us know at the last minute what she had decided, as she had done when she told us about the hacking only minutes before the Washington Post broke the news.
On the phone Gary told me the DNC had needed a $2 million loan, which the campaign had arranged.
“No! That can’t be true!” I said. “The party cannot take out a loan without the unanimous agreement of all of the officers.”
“Gary, how did they do this without me knowing?” I asked. “I don’t know how Debbie relates to the officers,” Gary said. He described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse. Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774?cid=apn
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(2 of 3) Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund—that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement—$320,000—and $33,400 to the DNC. The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to Brooklyn.
“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”
Gary said the campaign had to do it or the party would collapse.
“That was the deal that Robby struck with Debbie,” he explained, referring to campaign manager Robby Mook. “It was to sustain the DNC. We sent the party nearly $20 million from September until the convention, and more to prepare for the election.”
“What’s the burn rate, Gary?” I asked. “How much money do we need every month to fund the party?”
The burn rate was $3.5 million to $4 million a month, he said.
I gasped. I had a pretty good sense of the DNC’s operations after having served as interim chair five years earlier. Back then the monthly expenses were half that. What had happened? The party chair usually shrinks the staff between presidential election campaigns, but Debbie had chosen not to do that. She had stuck lots of consultants on the DNC payroll, and Obama’s consultants were being financed by the DNC, too.
When we hung up, I was livid. Not at Gary, but at this mess I had inherited. I knew that Debbie had outsourced a lot of the management of the party and had not been the greatest at fundraising. I would not be that kind of chair, even if I was only an interim chair. Did they think I would just be a surrogate for them, get on the road and rouse up the crowds? I was going to manage this party the best I could and try to make it better, even if Brooklyn did not like this. It would be weeks before I would fully understand the financial shenanigans that were keeping the party on life support.
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Right around the time of the convention, the leaked emails revealed Hillary’s campaign was grabbing money from the state parties for its own purposes, leaving the states with very little to support down-ballot races. A Politico story published on May 2, 2016, described the big fund-raising vehicle she had launched through the states the summer before, quoting a vow she had made to rebuild “the party from the ground up … when our state parties are strong, we win. That’s what will happen.”
Yet the states kept less than half of 1 percent of the $82 million they had amassed from the extravagant fund-raisers Hillary’s campaign was holding, just as Gary had described to me when he and I talked in August. When the Politico story described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.
I wanted to believe Hillary, who made campaign finance reform part of her platform, but I had made this pledge to Bernie and did not want to disappoint him. I kept asking the party lawyers and the DNC staff to show me the agreements that the party had made for sharing the money they raised, but there was a lot of shuffling of feet and looking the other way.
When I got back from a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, I at last found the document that described it all: the Joint Fund-Raising Agreement between the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund, and Hillary for America.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774?cid=apn
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(3 of 3) The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.
I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.
When the party chooses the nominee, the custom is that the candidate’s team starts to exercise more control over the party. If the party has an incumbent candidate, as was the case with Clinton in 1996 or Obama in 2012, this kind of arrangement is seamless because the party already is under the control of the president. When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.
I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.
The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.
*
I had to keep my promise to Bernie. I was in agony as I dialed him. Keeping this secret was against everything that I stood for, all that I valued as a woman and as a public servant.
“Hello, senator. I’ve completed my review of the DNC and I did find the cancer,” I said. “But I will not kill the patient.”
I discussed the fundraising agreement that each of the candidates had signed. Bernie was familiar with it, but he and his staff ignored it. They had their own way of raising money through small donations. I described how Hillary’s campaign had taken it another step.
I told Bernie I had found Hillary’s Joint Fundraising Agreement. I explained that the cancer was that she had exerted this control of the party long before she became its nominee. Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position, but here we were with only weeks before the election.
Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express outrage. Instead he asked me what I thought Hillary’s chances were. The polls were unanimous in her winning but what, he wanted to know, was my own assessment?
I had to be frank with him. I did not trust the polls, I said. I told him I had visited states around the country and I found a lack of enthusiasm for her everywhere. I was concerned about the Obama coalition and about millennials.
I urged Bernie to work as hard as he could to bring his supporters into the fold with Hillary, and to campaign with all the heart and hope he could muster. He might find some of her positions too centrist, and her coziness with the financial elites distasteful, but he knew and I knew that the alternative was a person who would put the very future of the country in peril. I knew he heard me. I knew he agreed with me, but I never in my life had felt so tiny and powerless as I did making that call.
When I hung up the call to Bernie, I started to cry, not out of guilt, but out of anger. We would go forward. We had to.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774?cid=apn
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“Pharmaceutical pollution doesn't seem to be harming humans yet, but disturbing clues from aquatic life suggest now is the time for preventive action.
Although maybe not as tasty as an ice-cold gulp from a mountain spring, the water that flows through most American kitchen faucets is generally clean, clear, and safe. Approximately 170,000 public water systems are monitored for nearly 80 harmful substances. The prohibited nasties include bacteria, viruses, pesticides, petroleum products, strong acids, and some metals.
But water quality experts and environmental advocates are increasingly concerned about another kind of water pollution: chemicals from prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications that get into lakes, rivers, and streams. Water also gets contaminated by perfume, cologne, skin lotions, and sunscreens that wash off people's skin.
At this point, there's really no evidence of pharmaceutical and personal care products in the water harming people, but studies are showing adverse effects on aquatic life.
Drug take-back programs, which allow people to drop off their unused medications at central locations, serve two purposes. They keep unused drugs out of the water and prevent diversion of drugs, mainly the opioid painkillers, for recreation and illegal purposes.
Another step in the right direction is new guidelines from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that discourage hospitals and nursing homes from flushing unused drugs down the drain or toilet. Guidelines for individuals also discourage flushing most, but not all, unused drugs. The question now is whether these and other efforts will be enough to keep the chemicals out of the water at a time when the use of pharmaceuticals and personal care products continues to grow at a rapid rate.
The sources
Reliable figures are hard to come by, but it's a safe assumption that we, as consumers, are responsible for a hefty percentage of the pharmaceutical and personal care products that wind up in lakes, rivers, and streams. The typical American medicine cabinet is full of unused and expired drugs, only a fraction of which get disposed of properly. Data collected from a medication collection program in California in 2007 suggest that about half of all medications — both prescription and over-the-counter — are discarded. That's probably a high-end estimate, but even if the real proportion is lower, there's a lot of unused medication that can potentially get into the water.
Chemicals also get into the water from the drugs we use. Our bodies metabolize only a fraction of most drugs we swallow. Most of the remainder is excreted in urine or feces (some is sweated out) and therefore gets into wastewater. An increasing number of medications are applied as creams or lotions, and the unabsorbed portions of those medications can contribute to the pollution problem when they get washed off. It's been calculated, for example, that one man's use of testosterone cream can wind up putting as much of the hormone into the water as the natural excretions from 300 men.
Health care institutions are another source of pharmaceutical water pollution. Hospitals are probably less of a problem than nursing homes because they typically have on-site pharmacies with arrangements in place to return unused drugs to manufacturers for credit or disposal. Nursing homes, though, have often been guilty of flushing medications down the toilet or drain after a patient dies or is transferred to another facility. Typically, they don't have the same kind of return arrangements as hospitals. And the rules for getting rid of opioid painkillers, which make disposal down the drain an acceptable option, have inadvertently encouraged some nursing homes to dispose of all their leftover medications that way.
Drug manufacturing also results in some pharmaceutical pollution, although some factories are bigger problem than others. For example, a U.S. Geological Survey study found contamination levels downstream from two drug manufacturing plants in New York State that were 10 to 1,000 times higher than those at comparable facilities around the country.
Agriculture is another major source. The two trillion pounds of animal waste generated by large-scale poultry and livestock operations in this country is laced with hormones and antibiotics fed to animals to make them grow faster and to keep them from getting sick. Inevitably, some of those hormones and antibiotics leach into groundwater or get into waterways.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/drugs-in-the-water
Thanks for the tip! You were right about the excretion.
LOL now that the trend for guys using testosterone is going up, it’s probably begun to counteract it..and maybe soon we’ll see it start making women grow beards! 😆
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I agree. I’m just pointing out where all this recent controversy has been drummed up from.
excerpts: Dems denounce Farrakhan rhetoric amid pressure from GOP
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/louis-farrakhan-democrats-448241
Several Democratic lawmakers denounced Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic rhetoric Thursday after facing pressure from Republican officials and religious groups to account for their past contacts with the controversial activist.
“I’ve spent my life fighting discrimination in every form, from anyone. I unequivocally condemn Minister Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic and hateful comments,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)
tweeted Thursday. “This vitriol has no place in our society.”
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) also disavowed the religious leader, writing on Twitter: “Farrakhan's anti-Semitic messages are upsetting & unacceptable. I always condemn hate speech of any kind.”
Farrakhan’s history of derogatory remarks toward Jews and white people resurfaced in recent weeks after it was reported that at least one organizer of the 2016 Women's March in Washington attended a February event at which the Nation of Islam leader proclaimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.” Farrakhan bemoaned what he called the “satanic Jew” and took aim at Caucasians, saying: "White folks are going down. And Satan is going down.”
The comments prompted a wave of backlash, with Republicans demanding that Women’s March leaders and Democratic officials forcefully denounce the rhetoric.
On Tuesday, the Republican Jewish Coalition called on seven Democratic lawmakers to resign, saying they “sat down with Farrakhan for personal meetings” while in office.
The group targeted Reps.
Andre Carson (D-Ind.),
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.),
Danny Davis (D-Ill.),
Al Green (D-Texas),
Lee and
Meeks
in their calls for resignation, along with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.),
the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, over “Farrakhan ties.”
Carson distanced himself from Farrakhan’s rhetoric in a statement to POLITICO.
“As a Member of Congress, I have met with a diverse array of community leaders, including Minister Farrakhan,
to discuss critical issues that are important to my constituents and all Americans,” he said Thursday.
“While many of these leaders have long track records of creating positive change in their communities, this does not mean that I see eye to eye with them on all beliefs or public statements.”
Carson added: “Racism, homophobia, islamophobia [sic], anti-Semitism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance have no place in our civil discourse.”
Davis initially responded by disavowing bigotry without explicitly naming the Nation of Islam leader in a statement earlier this week. But the Illinois lawmaker delivered a direct rebuke of Farrakhan Thursday evening.
"Let me be clear: I reject, condemn and oppose Minister Farrakhan’s views and remarks regarding the Jewish people and the Jewish religion," Davis said in a statement.
Ellison, whose praise of Farrakhan in 1995
was resurfaced by the Republican National Committee this month,
told the Washington Post that he had already addressed the issue, having previously disavowed the controversial leader and his rhetoric.
Last month, Ellison criticized his political detractors for resurfacing the issue, telling CNN that his “opponents keep pushing this out there in order to try to smear and distract from the key issues, but there’s no relationship.”
Representatives for Waters and Green did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday.
The controversy over the Democratic lawmakers’ past interactions with Farrakhan drew the attention of some within President Donald Trump’s inner circle, with his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and former press secretary Sean Spicer claiming news outlets are not holding legislators accountable on the topic.
“Strange how little coverage this is getting and how few (if any) are disavowing,” Trump Jr. tweeted Thursday. “It’s almost as though they condone and perhaps even agree with it. The silence is deafening. Truly sick.”
Spicer added on Twitter that it’s “not difficult for Capitol Hill reporters to ask the Democrat members to account for their association to #farrakhan & also ask @TheDemocrats leaders - as they would if this was a Republican.”
Farrakhan’s remarks at the February event also received significant attention from conservative media figures, drawing segments on Fox News’ prime-time lineup and grabbing headlines on right-leaning outlets like The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard.
Davis, in his initial statement, pushed back against “right-wing blogs” covering the issue, accusing them of seeking to “impugn my character” and create a “divide” between the Jewish and African-American communities.
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Alternet article:
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was confronted with a massive contradiction between his campaign’s claim to support Medicare for All and his actual health care plan in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Yang has repeatedly said that he supports Medicare for All, and he has even run ads promoting his support for the idea, as host Jonathan Karl noted. But in his campaign’s recently released proposal for health care, there’s nothing at all resembling the idea of Medicare for All.
“I’ve looked at your health care plan,” Karl said. “And this plan does not call for Medicare for All. In fact, it doesn’t even have a public option.”
The “dissonance,” as Karl referred to it, is still plain to see on Yang’s campaign site. His plan for health care is described under a heading called “Medicare for All.” But his “six-pronged approach” to reforming health care contains the following items:
1. Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation.
2. Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology, supported by measures such as multi-state licensing laws.
3. Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners.
4. Shift our focus and educating ourselves in preventative care and end-of-life care options.
5. Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, HIV/AIDs detection and treatment, reproductive health, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care for the 21st century.
6. Diminish the influence of lobbyists and special interests in the healthcare industry that makes it nearly impossible to draft and pass meaningful healthcare reform.
On their own, these might be good or bad ideas (some of them have already been tried or are being tried.) Some of them sound more like clichés than policies. But not one even addresses the expansion of the health insurance coverage, which is at the heart of what “Medicare for All” is about. And it certainly doesn’t address giving Americans government-provided and -run health insurance, which is what the “Medicare” in “Medicare for All” is supposed to be about.
There’s been some debate about whether a national public option for health insurance, along the lines of what Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden might advocate, actually constitutes or approaches “Medicare for All.” Buttigieg has spun his plan as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” And in the interview, Yang correctly pointed out that “Medicare for All” is not a single bill — multiple laws could fit that label, and the slogan itself has been around years before legislation was written to enact it. There’s some room for reasonable disagreement about what really lives up to the name.
But it’s not reasonable to claim that Yang’s plan is any form of “Medicare for All.” The only conclusion can be that he was and is lying when he says that “Medicare for All” is his plan. He doesn’t even seem to prioritize expanding health care coverage, let alone expanding the government’s health care coverage.
Yang deflected from Karl’s accurate characterization of his plan, saying, “We need to move towards universal health care that’s high quality and nearly cost-free for Americans around the country. But reality is, we have millions of people on private insurance right now, and taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many, many Americans.”
That’s a fair argument to make, but it doesn’t explain why he’s claiming to be for Medicare for All when he isn’t, or why he wouldn’t support at least a public option.
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He tried to say that his plan is in favor of “expanding” universal health care, including, in part, by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare. But none of those ideas are actually in the plan his campaign put out. And this is particularly bad, because his website describes his proposal as his “FULL PLAN for a New Way Forward for Healthcare in America.”
When his plan was announced, Yang said, “I support the spirit of ‘Medicare for All.'” But this claim is so vague as to be almost completely meaningless when his actual policy does nothing resembling a push for “Medicare for All.”
As I said, the only plausible interpretation is that Yang is lying. He wants people to think he supports “Medicare for All,” even when his actual ideas for reforming health care policy in the United States are nowhere near such a plan.
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If you think chickenhawk Trump was a “conscientious objector” with his admiration for dictators, his giant hard-on for the military, desire for a parade, repeatedly questioning why we can’t nuke people, wanting to kill innocent family members of terrorists, pro-waterboarding, wants to fill up Guantanamo bay after his predecessor emptied it by 75%, dropped the MOAB and talks about “Big beautiful bombs”, hires John Bolton, etc ...well, that takes a huge amount of cognitive dissonance.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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snippet of a longer article:
He Solved The DNC Hack. Now He's Telling His Story For The First Time.
Less than a year before Marine Corps cyberwarrior Robert Johnston discovered that the Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee, he found they had launched a similar attack at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
November 8, 2017,
at 12:38 p.m.
Jason Leopold
One late morning in May 2016, the leaders of the Democratic National Committee huddled around a packed conference table and stared at Robert Johnston. The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision, but what he said was so unnerving that a high-level DNC official curled up in a ball on her conference room chair as if watching a horror movie.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/he-solved-the-dnc-hack-now-hes-telling-his-story-for-the?utm_term=.htrxLKreN#.ap1dKr0ga
"They're looking at me," Johnston recalled, "and they're asking, 'What are they going to do with the data that was taken?'"
So, Johnston recalled, that’s what he told the DNC in May 2016: Such thefts have become the norm, and the hackers did not plan on doing anything with what they had purloined.
Johnston kicks himself about that now. “I take responsibility for that piece,” he said.
The DNC and CrowdStrike, now working with the FBI, tried to remove all remaining malware and contain the problem. And they decided on a public relations strategy. How could the DNC control the message? “Nothing of that magnitude stays quiet in the realm of politics,” Johnston said. “We needed to get in front of it.” So, Johnston said, in a story confirmed by DNC officials, CrowdStrike and the DNC decided to give the story to the Washington Post, which on June 14, 2016, published the story: “Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump.” “I thought it was a smart move,” Johnston said.
But it may have backfired.
One day after the Post article, a Twitter user going by the name Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the hack and posted to the internet materials stolen from the DNC’s server.
Johnston thinks the Washington Post story changed the tactics of the cyberattackers. “We accelerated their timeline. I believe now that they were intending to release the information in late October or a week before the election,” he said. But then they realized that “we discovered who they were. I don't think the Russian intelligence services were expecting it, expecting a statement and an article that pointed the finger at them.”
A month later, in late July 2016, WikiLeaks began to release thousands of emails hacked from the DNC server. Those leaks, intelligence officials would say, were carefully engineered and timed.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
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..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
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104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
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127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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“In 2016, the amount of PAC money she received grew to more than $465,000. Again, business PACS made up the majority of her PAC money, this time over 55 percent. One of the largest contributing sectors was the defense industry. While Gabbard has gained a following for her anti-interventionist stances, yet, her 2016 campaign was given $63,500 from the defense sector. In fact, the campaign received donations of $10,000 from the Boeing Corporation PAC and from Lockheed Martin’s PAC, two of the biggest names in the military-industrial complex.Gillibrand’s Off the Sidelines PAC donated another $10,000 in 2016 as well.
In 2017, leading up to her successful reelection campaign, Gabbard announced she would no longer take PAC money. After receiving over $400,000 in PAC money in her previous two reelection cycles, in 2018 her campaign only took in just over $37,000, almost all of which came from labor associations and trade unions.
Gabbard also had her own leadership PAC named Time to Unite Lead and Serve with Integrity. According to an FEC filing in June 2018, the PAC was terminated. However, during its lifespan for the 2014, 2016 and 2018 cycles, the PAC brought in substantial money. In 2013-2014, the leadership PAC saw more than $44,000 in contributions, $17,500 from other PACs. It did even better in 2015-2016, with PAC contributions nearing $31,000, according to FEC data. The majority of funds, $20,000, came from business PACs like Raytheon and New York Life Insurance Company.
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Dzooky Nduru there’s been enough things Trump has done and said to warrant impeachment, in my opinion.
You probably have a ready excuse for all of them if you’ve followed the news all year...otherwise you haven’t seen the complaints in which case you can find with an easy search.
I do understand that his supporters feel it’s a witch hunt. I personally think they’ve allowed their fervent loyalty to cloud their judgement by only selectively hearing what they want. To me Trump is a chameleon who speaks out of both sides of his mouth and spews his word salad which clearly has made him a very effective conman. His listeners’ brains end up filtering what they hear. But that’s my opinion. I’ll leave you to yours. And others who are making much better points than I am today.
Just to back up what I was saying about Clinton’s impeachment, I found this on Gallup:
It is clear that last week's air strikes against Iraq were overwhelmingly popular with the American public: 78% of Americans approved and only 18% disapproved. Additionally, the attacks appeared to have been viewed as legitimate by most Americans.
The criticism that they were ordered by Clinton in part to divert attention away from the impeachment proceedings was endorsed by only 25% of the public.
Most thought that they were "in the best interests of the country."
Dramatic, sharply focused events which involve Americans placed in harms way on foreign soil are part of a class of occurrences known as rally events, so named because they typically cause the American public to "rally around the flag" and usually result in increased job approval ratings for the sitting president.
In recent years, such events have included Desert Storm and the Invasion of Panama in the Bush administration and air strikes against Libya and the invasion of Grenada in the Reagan administration. Given these past experiences, it might be expected that the Iraq strikes would boost the President's job approval numbers.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/4111/clinton-receives-record-high-job-approval-rating-after-impeachment-vot.aspx
At the same time, the House vote on Saturday was an historic event of great significance and one that dominated television and news coverage. As has generally been the case for several months, public opinion about this impeachment action, although not as sharply defined as the reaction to the Iraq attacks, is strongly negative, with disapproval of the House vote running ahead of approval by a 63% to 35% margin. Other measures included in Gallup's most recent poll underscore this negative reaction. There has been a significant drop in favorable opinions of the Republican Party -- at the same time that 54% of Americans agree that the Republicans in Congress have abused their Constitutional authority.
This negative reaction to the congressional emphasis on impeachment, combined with the positive reaction to the Iraq strikes, may have resulted this past weekend in a renewed focus by the public on what they perceive Clinton to be doing right. A parallel phenomenon occurred last January, as the Lewinsky crisis first broke, when a successful State of the Union address by Clinton resulted in an increase rather than a decrease in his job approval by the American public.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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FTC:
$50 million in refund checks for University of Phoenix students
By Lesley Fair
March 24, 2021
“The check’s in the mail.” You’ve heard it before, but this time it’s true if you are one of the 147,000 University of Phoenix students who will be receiving payments totaling more than $50 million as a result of the FTC’s law enforcement action against the online school.
In a 2019 lawsuit, the FTC alleged the University of Phoenix lured consumers in with ads that falsely touted – among other things – job opportunities for its students with national employers like AT&T, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Twitter, and the American Red Cross. To settle the case, the defendants agreed to pay $50 million in direct payments for some students and an additional $141 million in canceled balances that eligible students owed directly to the school. (Other debts – for example, federal and private student loans or military benefits – aren’t affected by the settlement.)
Who is getting the 146,804 checks and 677 PayPal payments the FTC is sending out? The money is going to students who:
first enrolled in a masters, bachelors, or associates degree program between October 15, 2012, and December 31, 2016;
paid more than $5,000 with cash, grants, federal and private student loans, or military benefits;
didn’t get debt cancellation as part of this settlement; and
didn’t opt out of the University of Phoenix providing the student’s contact information to the FTC.
People who receive checks should deposit or cash them within 90 days. By the way, the FTC never requires people to pay money or provide account information to get a refund or to cash a refund check. People who get a refund via PayPal will have 30 days to accept the payment. (This FAQ has more information about the PayPal payment process.)
If you have questions about debt canceled by the school, email the University of Phoenix at UOPXFinance@phoenix.edu or call 1-800-333-5305. For questions about refunds, call the FTC’s refund administrator, Rust Consulting, at 1-877-310-0487.
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You’re not in the US I’ll bet 😉
Harvoni
Harvoni is one of the new breakthrough drugs for Hepatitis C.
Harvoni is one of the new breakthrough drugs for Hepatitis C.
Lloyd Fox | Baltimore Sun | TNS via Getty Images
Cost: $87,800
Who makes it: Gilead Sciences
What it does: This hepatitis C drug has actually seen its price increase substantially in recent months. It was ranked the second most expensive drug of 2016, with a 30-day supply running $74,000. At press time Harvoni was priced at $87,800 — an increase over 2016 by $13,800. The price jump could be due to its extremely high effectiveness rate (since patients no longer need treatment after finishing the 12- to 24-week supply. It also often doesn’t need to be taken in combination with other drugs, and users require just a single pill per day, which has made it a popular choice among doctors.
Sovaldi
Solvadi Hepatitis C treatment from Gilead Sciences.
Solvadi Hepatitis C treatment from Gilead Sciences.
Source: Gilead Sciences
Cost: $73,800
Who makes it: Gilead Sciences
What it does: Another popular and effective hepatitis C treatment, also available as a once-daily pill, is Sovaldi. It is slightly older than Harvoni. First introduced in late 2013, Sovaldi was the first of the treatments for the disease that showed cure rates of close to 90 percent — substantially higher than previous options.
Epclusa
An Epclusa pill by Gilead Sciences to treat Hepatitis C.
An Epclusa pill by Gilead Sciences to treat Hepatitis C.
Source: Gilead Sciences
Cost: $73,300
Who makes it: Gilead Sciences
What it does: The third leg in Gilead’s trilogy of hepatitis C treatments, this drug, which was approved in July 2016, boasts success rates of nearly 99 percent. It’s quickly becoming the preferred option of many physicians and may be prescribed alone or, if patients have cirrhosis, with ribavirin.
Zepatier
Zepatier Hepatitis C treatment by Merck.
Zepatier Hepatitis C treatment by Merck.
Source: Merck
Cost: $52,600
Who makes it: Merck
What it does: You might be sensing a theme here. Zepatier is another hepatitis C treatment, taken once a day for 12 weeks (like all of the preceding entries). Part of the reason there are so many options is because a large number of hepatitis C treatments were approved by the FDA over the past several years, says Elizabeth Davis of GoodRx. (As such, few have generic alternatives at this time.)
Bexarotene
Bexarotene is a gel to treat skin lesions for patients with certain types of T-cell lymphoma.
Bexarotene is a gel to treat skin lesions for patients with certain types of T-cell lymphoma.
Source: Bexarotene
Cost: $49,800
Who makes it: (generic)
What it does: Of all the expensive drugs on this list, there’s only one that has been around long enough for generics to be possible. What’s strange, though, is the generic version — bexarotene — is apparently more expensive than the name brand, Targretin, which didn’t make the list. It comes in two forms: a gel or capsule. Both treat patients with certain types of T-cell lymphoma.
Daklinza
Dakinza made by Bristol-Myers Squibb for the treatment of Hepatitis C.
Dakinza made by Bristol-Myers Squibb for the treatment of Hepatitis C.
Source: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cost: $49,400
Who makes it: Bristol-Myers Squibb
What it does: Another hepatitis C medication, Daklinza is unique in that it has the ability to treat a specific genotype that, until now, has been the hardest to cure. It’s often taken in conjunction with Sovaldi, which makes the cost to the patient even more painful. The cocktail of those two drugs, however, has shown cure rates of 98 percent.
HP Acthar
HP Acthar made by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals is an anti-inflamatory medicine used by multiple sclerosis patients.
HP Acthar made by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals is an anti-inflamatory medicine used by multiple sclerosis patients.
Source: Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Cost: $40,800
Who makes it: Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
What it does: This antiinflammatory is used by multiple sclerosis patients and people with gout, among others. It’s designed for people who can’t handle the side effects that accompany high doses of corticosteroids or who have not seen results from those in the past.
Viekira Pak
Viekira Pak made by AbbVie combines three Hepatitis C medicines into a single pill.
Viekira Pak made by AbbVie combines three Hepatitis C medicines into a single pill.
Source: AbbVie
Cost: $34,600
Who makes it: AbbVie
What it does: This hepatitis C treatment combines three tablets (taken at one time) and boasts a 95 percent cure rate. You’ll take this a bit longer than the other, more expensive hep C treatments on this list, though — sometimes as long as 24 weeks.
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dennis c threw him under the bus like Trump will do to anyone.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
TikTok
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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Some 145,000 observers were monitoring the voting in the world's largest country, including 1,500 foreigners and representatives from opposition leader Alexei Navalny's political movement. Navalny himself is barred from running.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-hand-putin-a-4th-term/
Many voters said they were under pressure from their employers to vote.
Yevgeny, a 43-year-old mechanic voting in central Moscow, said he briefly wondered whether it was worth voting.
"But the answer was easy ... If I want to keep working, I vote,"
he said. He said his bosses haven't asked for proof of voting but he fears they will.
He spoke on condition that his last name not be used out of concern that his employer -- the Moscow city government -- would find out.
Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, told The Associated Press that local officials and state employees have all received orders "from higher up" to make sure the presidential vote turnout is over 60 percent.
"They are using everything: schools, kindergartens, hospitals -- the battle for the turnout is unprecedented," said Roizman, one of the rare opposition politicians to hold a significant elected office.
A doctor at one of the city's hospitals told the AP how one kind of voting pressure works.
The doctor, who gave her name only as Yekaterina because of fears about repercussions, said she and her co-workers were told to fill out forms detailing not only where they would cast their ballots, but giving the names and details of two "allies" whom they promised to persuade to go vote.
"People were indignant at first, said: 'They're violating our rights' ... but what can you do?"
she said at a cafe Saturday.
Yekaterina said she wasn't sure what she would do with her ballot, musing that "maybe I'll just write 'Putin is a moron.'"
But she understood that not showing up at the polling place Sunday would not only endanger her job but would reflect badly on her boss, whom she likes.
She said she wouldn't go to vote if she wasn't forced to.
"What's the point? We already know the outcome. This is just a circus show," she said.
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Colloidal silver is LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth , applied to the skin, or injected intravenously (by IV). The silver in colloidal silver products gets deposited into organs such as the skin, liver, spleen, kidney, muscle, and brain . This can lead to an irreversible bluish looking skin that first appears in the gums. It can also stimulate melanin production in skin, and areas exposed to the sun will become increasingly discolored.
Special Precautions & Warnings:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Colloidal silver is LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth, applied to the skin or injected intravenously (by IV). Silver may cross the placenta. Increased silver levels in pregnant women have been linked to abnormal development of the ear, face, and neck in their babies. Colloidal silver supplements can also lead to silver accumulation in the body, which can lead to an irreversible bluish looking skin, known as argyria . Silver can also be deposited in organs, where it does serious damage.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Smh. Many of them or their families are going to become a statistic.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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How many had died in March?
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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That is incorrect.
Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
168,000 deaths Friday August 14th
175,000 deaths Friday August 21st
181,000 deaths Friday August 28th
187,000 deaths Friday Sept 4th
191,000 deaths Friday Sept 11th
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104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
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I haven’t gotten today’s number yet. But I’ll bet money we’ll be over 150,000 by mid month.
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“Death rate is steeply declining” Like I said, check back in a couple weeks.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
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Trump didn’t even defend the kid.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
TikTok
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
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110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
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132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
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..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
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147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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Trump wasn’t a Democrat then. In 1999 he was an independent after being a Republican for twelve years.
Trump party affiliations:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
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175,000 deaths Friday August 21st
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That Oregonian article was pretty balanced. I came away not agreeing with the judge. Ian not going to watch your tim pool video.
Isn’t he the guy pictured having a nice lunch and beer with Andy ngo and/or the proud boys?
Interesting Wikipedia page on the judge. A Mormon against gay rights who clerked under two Nixon appointed judges. And was himself appointed by George bush.
Michael Mosman was born in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in 1956 in the city of Eugene.[3] He grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, the son of an attorney and judge with an older sister and three younger brothers.[4] He attended Ricks College in Idaho, which is now Brigham Young University–Idaho.[3] He graduated with an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1979 before attending Utah State University in Logan, Utah. At Utah State he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981,[3] and was the valedictorian of his class.[4] Mosman then went on to law school at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. He graduated there in 1984 with a Juris Doctor.[3] At BYU he was the editor of the law review, and graduated magna cum laude.[4]
Legal career Edit
In 1984, Mosman began clerking for Malcolm Richard Wilkey, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[3] The following year he entered private legal practice for part of 1985 as an associate at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)[5]. Mosman then was a judicial clerk for United States Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell.[3] While clerking for Powell, he was involved in the justice's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick,[6] writing [7]
"The right to privacy calls for the greatest judicial restraint, invalidating only those laws that impinge on those values that are basic to our country"
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"I do not think that this case involves any such values. I recommend reversal [of the Eleventh Circuit decision]...Personal sexual freedom is a newcomer among our national values, and may well be, as discussed earlier, a temporary national mood that fades."
After leaving Powell's employ, Mosman entered private practice in Portland, Oregon, in 1986 at Miller Nash (now Miller Nash Graham & Dunn).[3][5]
Federal judicial service Edit
United States Attorney Edit
In 1988, he began working as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, remaining until 2001.[3] That year he became the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, serving until 2003.[3] He replaced Kristine Olson Rogers who had resigned.[8]
United States District Judge Edit
In 2003, United States President George W. Bush nominated Mosman to serve as judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on May 8 to take the seat of Robert E. Jones, who had assumed senior status on the court.[3]
Senate Confirmation Edit
Mosman was confirmed unanimously in a 93-0 vote on September 25th, 2003 by the United States Senate during the 108th United States Congress.[9] Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Gordon H. Smith spoke at the confirmation hearing, highlighting his prior service in the war on terrorism and that a bipartisan commission established to fill the vacancy left by Robert E. Jones had discovered him.[5]
He served as Chief Judge for approximately 4 years from February 1, 2016 to December 23, 2019.[1]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court & Alien Terrorist Removal Court Edit
He served a full 7-year term as a Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from May, 2013 - May, 2020. He is also a Judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court since 2018.
Notable cases Edit
Lemons v. Bradbury Edit
On February 1, 2008, in Lemons v. Bradbury, Judge Mosman dismissed the lawsuit and lifted an injunction against Oregon's new civil union law.[10] Judge Mosman had issued the temporary injunction in December 2007 to prevent Oregon's new civil union law from taking effect in January.[6] This was in response to a legal challenge by a group that had attempted to place a referendum on the November 2008 ballot to block the civil union law that had been passed by the Oregon Legislative Assembly.[11] The legal issue centered on how the Oregon Secretary of State verified signatures on petitions.[6]
Carter Page Warrant Edit
In 2017, Judge Mosman approved renewal of a FISA Court warrant for Carter Page, a former adviser to the 2016 Trump Campaign. In July 2018, the warrant application was released publicly, marking the first time FISA warrant application materials were made public.[12] The heavily-redacted, 412-page application cites many sources, including confidential informants.[13] Among those many sources, the application cites the Steele dossier, leading a legal commentator to criticize the basis of the warrant.[14]
Kawhi Leonard v. Nike Inc Edit
In April, 2020, Judge Mosman granted Nike's motion dismissing Kawhi Leonard's copyright claims over a disputed logo, writing
"It's not merely a derivative work of the sketch itself...I do find it to be new and significantly different from the design."[15]
Oregon restraining order against Department of Homeland Security (2020) Edit
In July 2020, the Oregon Attorney General, Ellen Rosenblum, requested a restraining order based on the detainment actions of Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol personnel. The AG alleged that unmarked federal agents had unlawfully detained protesters in Portland without probable cause.[16]
Michael Mosman rejected the request for a restraining order, stating that "because it has not shown it is vindicating an interest that is specific to the state itself — I find the State of Oregon lacks standing here and therefore deny its request for a temporary restraining order".[17]
Awards Edit
In 2018, Mossman received the Alumni Achievement Award from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School.[18]
Family Edit
Mosman is married to the former Suzanne Cannon Hogan, and they have five children.[4] He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[4]
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
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120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
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USA Today: Chris Christie says he spent a week in ICU, was 'wrong' to not wear a mask at White House event
7:44 pm EDT Oct. 15, 2020
Former Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he was "wrong" not to wear a mask in the days before testing positive for COVID-19, but that he felt at that time that he was in a "safe zone" because of frequent testing.
Having spent a week being treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus – in an intensive care unit – Christie said he had a chance for greater reflection about his actions and the virus.
"It is something to take very seriously. The ramifications are wildly random and potentially deadly," Christie said in a statement, first reported by the New York Times.
"No one should be happy to get the virus and no one should be cavalier about being infected or infecting others."
Christie's position and his message to the public is at odds with President Donald Trump, whom he helped prepare for a debate and was also hospitalized with COVID-19. Trump has said he feels great, has entertained large, mask-less crowds at campaign rallies and urged the public, "don't be afraid of COVID."
In contrast, Christie said, "I hope that my experience shows my fellow citizens that you should follow CDC guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others.”
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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Right. Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
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127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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TheRedRaccoonDog I'm guessing you mean the overly vocal nasty trolls posting on YouTube.
Thank the lord they're not representative of all the people on the right. They're pretty tough so deal with, cuz they're closed minded, outrageous, loud, shameless, and love to get people riled up.
Individuals on the right who aren't trolls though are just people. With a variety of beliefs and life experiences. I'll bet a lot of them never even post anything, just lurk and read.
It's easy to forget a lot of us are just members of the party our parents were, or we chose when we were kids straight outta high school.
I'm not religious anymore myself, but honestly religious people gravitate toward the right. Even if they don't believe everything in their platform.
I know the left is accepting of all beliefs (including no beliefs), but aggressive atheist types who attack people on their closely-held belief system are just good at winning arguments...and making people more closed minded.
I understand it's hard to be patient with people when they have a belief system that requires a suspension of reality, but the approach can be off-putting and nobody's going to just give up being a member of their religion instantly one day because somebody made a good argument against theirs.
This isn't about you or Kyle or anything. Just pointing out something on the left where I think we need to be building bridges. The right needs to stop being the home for the religious. They've stirred up this frenzy that the left is persecuting them and wants to take away their religious freedoms.
People are honestly imagining themselves having secret bible meetings by candlelight in basements "if the left gets its way", like those missionaries in Russia who had to proselytize in secret or be arrested.
Completely irrational, I know. But there's people in the pulpits putting this ridiculous stuff in their heads.
There's someone in my family who hates cronyism, lobbying, war profiteering...and loves animals, the earth, cares about the environment, and our gay relatives.
A natural fit for the left you'd think? All except...he's religious.
So while he loves and supports his gay relatives 100% in the personal sense and even wants to be part of their gay wedding ceremony, he still is conflicted on the topic in general. And although he supports abortion as a right for everyone, that he'd never choose for himself, he has trouble wrapping his mind around "pro-choice" meaning exactly that, letting people choose. Instead of "who-hoo I think abortion is great and should be used like birth control" how others are framing it. But he worries about when "the soul" comes into the fetus...is it at conception? Some point in the middle, right before birth, at birth? Whether anyone else thinks the way he does, he agonizes internally over the ethical issue. He's empathetic that a woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy is agonizing over it too thankfully. But the question of whether he's right with God on the issues weighs heavily on him.
He fell for the idea of Trump being a businessman could mean a good economy for us, smartly run instead of bureaucratic nonsense and waste. Ala Ross Perot.
He saw out government as dysfunctional and throwing a Trump grenade into the works as shaking things up so we could get the parasitic vultures out and run the country eventually more efficiently.
They were nice ideas and he's since not viewing Trump so favorably anymore.
He's seeing through the facade Trump put up, the hypocrisy, and the serious risks Trump is exposing us to with his ego and his rashness.
I don't know if I had a conclusion to end it with, I just got to talking and had some points I wanted to verbalize in real life examples.
I guess mostly that there's people who'd be on our "side" if we didn't alienate them, and recognize their religious beliefs can be a huge factor in turning them against "us". So our approach can be important when talking to them. I worry the left is accidentally making enemies with people who are religious. And many of them don't need any help in that regard. The right is whispering in their ear that we're a people without ethics, who want to take their rights away. They're full of crap, but they're winning at this point so far.
Ok ramble over. If you read this far, I thank you for your time. :)
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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Its September now. 😞
Coronavirus deaths in the US
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
168,000 deaths Friday August 14th
175,000 deaths Friday August 21st
181,000 deaths Friday August 28th
187,000 deaths Friday Sept 4th
191,000 deaths Friday Sept 11th
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Alternet article:
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was confronted with a massive contradiction between his campaign’s claim to support Medicare for All and his actual health care plan in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Yang has repeatedly said that he supports Medicare for All, and he has even run ads promoting his support for the idea, as host Jonathan Karl noted. But in his campaign’s recently released proposal for health care, there’s nothing at all resembling the idea of Medicare for All.
“I’ve looked at your health care plan,” Karl said. “And this plan does not call for Medicare for All. In fact, it doesn’t even have a public option.”
The “dissonance,” as Karl referred to it, is still plain to see on Yang’s campaign site. His plan for health care is described under a heading called “Medicare for All.” But his “six-pronged approach” to reforming health care contains the following items:
1. Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation.
2. Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology, supported by measures such as multi-state licensing laws.
3. Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners.
4. Shift our focus and educating ourselves in preventative care and end-of-life care options.
5. Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, HIV/AIDs detection and treatment, reproductive health, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care for the 21st century.
6. Diminish the influence of lobbyists and special interests in the healthcare industry that makes it nearly impossible to draft and pass meaningful healthcare reform.
On their own, these might be good or bad ideas (some of them have already been tried or are being tried.) Some of them sound more like clichés than policies. But not one even addresses the expansion of the health insurance coverage, which is at the heart of what “Medicare for All” is about. And it certainly doesn’t address giving Americans government-provided and -run health insurance, which is what the “Medicare” in “Medicare for All” is supposed to be about.
There’s been some debate about whether a national public option for health insurance, along the lines of what Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden might advocate, actually constitutes or approaches “Medicare for All.” Buttigieg has spun his plan as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” And in the interview, Yang correctly pointed out that “Medicare for All” is not a single bill — multiple laws could fit that label, and the slogan itself has been around years before legislation was written to enact it. There’s some room for reasonable disagreement about what really lives up to the name.
But it’s not reasonable to claim that Yang’s plan is any form of “Medicare for All.” The only conclusion can be that he was and is lying when he says that “Medicare for All” is his plan. He doesn’t even seem to prioritize expanding health care coverage, let alone expanding the government’s health care coverage.
Yang deflected from Karl’s accurate characterization of his plan, saying, “We need to move towards universal health care that’s high quality and nearly cost-free for Americans around the country. But reality is, we have millions of people on private insurance right now, and taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many, many Americans.”
That’s a fair argument to make, but it doesn’t explain why he’s claiming to be for Medicare for All when he isn’t, or why he wouldn’t support at least a public option.
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He tried to say that his plan is in favor of “expanding” universal health care, including, in part, by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare. But none of those ideas are actually in the plan his campaign put out. And this is particularly bad, because his website describes his proposal as his “FULL PLAN for a New Way Forward for Healthcare in America.”
When his plan was announced, Yang said, “I support the spirit of ‘Medicare for All.'” But this claim is so vague as to be almost completely meaningless when his actual policy does nothing resembling a push for “Medicare for All.”
As I said, the only plausible interpretation is that Yang is lying. He wants people to think he supports “Medicare for All,” even when his actual ideas for reforming health care policy in the United States are nowhere near such a plan.
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excerpts: California Democrats decline to endorse Feinstein
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/25/california-democrats-feinstein-leon-423452?cid=apn
The party declines to give its backing to the state's senior senator.
SAN DIEGO — In a sharp rebuke of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democratic Party has declined to endorse the state’s own senior senator in her bid for reelection.
Riven by conflict between progressive and more moderate forces
at the state party’s annual convention here, delegates favored Feinstein’s progressive rival, state Senate leader Kevin de León, over Feinstein
by a 54 percent to 37 percent margin, according to results announced Sunday.
Neither candidate reached the 60 percent threshold required to receive the party endorsement for 2018.
But the snubbing of Feinstein led de León to claim a victory for his struggling campaign.
“The outcome of today’s endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual, and it boosts our campaign’s momentum as we all stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo,”
de León said in a prepared statement. “California Democrats are hungry for new leadership that will fight for California values from the front lines, not equivocate on the sidelines.”
A centrist Democrat, Feinstein has long maintained an uneasy relationship with activists who dominate state party conventions, and the vote this weekend — while embarrassing — was not unexpected.
The result followed two days of lobbying by the candidates in convention speeches and throughout the convention halls.
In an appeal to thousands of delegates Saturday, de León portrayed himself as an agent of change. He cast Feinstein, without mentioning her name, as a Washington power broker out of touch with progressive activists at home.
The non-endorsement appears unlikely to immediately alter the trajectory of a contest Feinstein is leading by a wide margin.
Feinstein is out-polling de León 46 percent to 17 percent among likely California voters, according to the most recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Her financial advantage is even more overwhelming:
Feinstein held close to $10 million in cash on hand at the end of last year, while de León reported raising just $500,000.
Addressing the convention Saturday, Feinstein reminded delegates of her experience and what she portrayed as a lifetime of service in the cause of Democratic values.
And though supporters this year waved signs and stopped Feinstein to pose for photographs, she at times appeared out of step working the convention halls.
Interrupted in her convention speech Saturday by music signaling her time to speak had run out, Feinstein said, “I guess my time is up.”
As she left the stage, de León supporters in the crowd yelled back at the 84-year-old, “Time’s up! Time’s up!”
The state party returned a non-endorsement in California’s other major statewide contest, as well.
In the race for governor,
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom led all candidates with 39 percent support, followed by state Treasurer
John Chiang and former state schools chief
Delaine Eastin with 30 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has drawn close to Newsom at the top of statewide public opinion polls, finished a distant fourth,
at 9 percent.
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Eliza Almaguer glad to hear 👍
Today Friday June 5th 110,000 deaths
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
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Now 116,000 deaths. Starting to slow down.
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
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Hope you and yours are healthy.
127,000 deaths now.
I expect next week the number to jump over 140,000. We have a 300% jump in cases in some places.
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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132,000 deaths in the US as of today.
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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136,000 deaths as of today Friday July 10th
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Eliza Almaguer good luck to you 🤞
140,000 cases today July 17th
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
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The curve swung up quite a bit over the last couple weeks.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Eliza Almaguer yes that looks pretty steadily climbing. Have people there gotten tired of social distancing?
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
It went back to its previous rates from 3-6 weeks ago. But we don’t know whether to trust the numbers now due to reports of deaths being underreported.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
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168,000 deaths Friday August 14th
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
168,000 deaths Friday August 14th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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The numbers in February and March were low.
It’s now July. Who’s anti-mask today? Trumpsters and Q conspiracy nuts.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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Thanks. From what I’ve read it was historically kind of a universal recommendation but it’s been tempered recently. From the American Heart Association:
Avoid daily aspirin unless your doctor prescribes it, new guidelines advise
Published: March 18, 2019
By American Heart Association News
Aspirin tablets
(Tetra Images, Getty Images)
For decades, a daily dose of aspirin was considered an easy way to prevent a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event.
Then came a string of recent studies challenging that assumption. With this latest research in mind, a new set of guidelines to help people stay heart-healthy is advising against daily aspirin use for prevention. It may actually cause more harm than good.
"We're talking about healthy people who don't have known heart disease or stroke, who might have been considering or already taking an aspirin to prevent that heart attack or stroke in the first place," said Dr. Erin Michos, one of the writers of new prevention guidelines developed by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology.
The new recommendation doesn't apply to people who already have had a stroke or heart attack, or who have undergone bypass surgery or a procedure to insert a stent in their coronary arteries.
These individuals already have cardiovascular disease and should continue to take low-dose aspirin daily, or as recommended by their health care provider, to prevent another occurrence, said Michos, associate director of preventive cardiology at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland.
According to three significant studies published last year and one major analysis released this year that looked at 10 other studies, the benefit from taking a daily low-dose aspirin was offset by the danger of internal bleeding and other side effects in people considered to be at low or moderate risk for heart disease.
One study in particular found aspirin had no obvious benefit for healthy people older than 70 but found evidence for harm, which is why the new prevention guidelines strongly discourage aspirin as a protective therapy among these older adults.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of national experts in disease prevention, recommends a low-dose aspirin regimen for adults 50 to 59 whose 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease is more than 10 percent.
But the group's recommendation is based on an imperfect risk calculator and statistics taken from older studies, Michos said.
"Heart attack rates have gone down in more modern society with lower smoking rates and better treatment of blood pressure, better treatment of cholesterol," she said. "There probably was more of a role for aspirin back in the older trials, even though the bleeding issue has always been seen there."
But today, the benefit for taking aspirin for the majority of otherwise healthy adults just doesn't outweigh the risks enough. Aspirin still may be considered for very select high-risk adults ages 40-70 who are not at increased risk for bleeding, if advised by their doctors.
"For primary prevention, the risk of bleeding and the benefits of reducing heart attack are pretty matched, even to even. So there isn't a lot of gain for taking aspirin," Michos said. Primary prevention is a term for avoiding a first heart attack, stroke or other type of cardiovascular event.
Dr. Daniel Muñoz, another member of the guideline writing committee, said the new advice reflects the philosophy of the first pledge a physician takes.
"It's sort of back to the Hippocratic oath. Our job is first, do no harm. That's what has contributed to an evolution in how we think about aspirin in primary prevention," said Muñoz, an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee.
Muñoz stressed the new recommendation does not apply to people with coronary disease. For others, the decision to use aspirin has become a more customized one over the years.
"It's clear that for certain populations – the elderly and, in particular, patients who have a high (internal) bleeding risk – aspirin may in fact do more harm than good, but there are no absolutes, so these decisions need to be tailored to the individuals."
Michos agreed. She said doctors might consider advising aspirin for individuals who have a strong family history of heart disease, or if tests like coronary calcium scans detect considerable plaque buildup inside their arteries.
But for most people considered to be at low or moderate risk, they can better protect themselves with healthier habits, Michos said.
"Eat a heart-healthy diet, get regular physical activity, control blood pressure and control cholesterol," she said. "If they need the statin, take it. Those are much more important when compared to recommending aspirin."
If you have questions or comments about this story, please email editor@heart.org.
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Too many Trump virus deaths.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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As a progressive, I wouldn't presume to speak on behalf of all the others.
I'm with Bernie, responsible gun ownership, registration, training.
The rate of suicides by gun in our country are astronomical. If I recall correctly, that statistic dwarfs all other gun deaths.
What's the solution?
I'm not sure. Less guns, better locking, less access, more psychological and criminal background checks, better chain of ownership registration...are probably all good ideas.
We run the gamut on gun ownership, I think a large percentage feel the way I do.
Many do want them banned outright, and I understand where they're coming from too. Once you've been through a gun tragedy yourself, it doesn't make guns seem so "fun" anymore.
But even if we had an all democratic government, we'd never fully ban guns in America. They're too ingrained in our history and culture. Nothing like that would ever pass. The best we can hope for is sensible measures to mitigate accidental and intentional deaths by theses deadly weapons.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Even your dude Trump didn’t defend this guy. You look a little older than him. You should have more sense.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
TikTok
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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Or your neighbor. Or your family.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Florida School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Was ‘Creepy and Weird,’ Survivors Say
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nick-cruz-parkland-florida-shooting-stoneman-douglas-high-school
Before a mass shooting erupted at Cruz’s former high school on Wednesday, most classmates thought of the 19-year-old as no more than “creepy and weird.”
Before 6AM on Thursday, he was formally booked into Broward County jail charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
Law-enforcement officials believe he attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday.
The teens who knew Cruz at the school were stunned. They described Cruz as an awkward “outcast”—someone who had trouble fitting in at Douglas High. But they never saw a mass murderer in the making.
“I knew him to be passive aggressive but not violent. He was rude to people. He had an act up like he was tough. He never got into, like, physical fights with anyone, but he did get into verbal arguments,” 17-year-old Ocean Parodie told The Daily Beast. “I just thought he dropped out of school, I didn’t think he would do anything. He always kept a low profile.”
“He was definitely not accepted at our school socially. People saw him as someone who was different than the normal people at our school,” Parodie added.
Douglas High has a place students call “the Emo Gazebo,” he said. “That’s where all the kids that are considered weird or not accepted sat. Kids at the Emo Gazebo didn’t even accept him there. He was just an outcast... He didn’t have any friends.”
Cruz always had his hair short and had a penchant for wearing patriotic shirts that
“seemed really extreme, like hating on” Islam,
Parodie said.
The suspected gunman would also deride Muslims as “terrorists and bombers.”
“I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat,” the student said.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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Stop rubbing it in our faces, Canada🤢 (jk)
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
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Most of our household got the swine flu. It was awful, I stayed home for the holiday feeling like I was going to die and my spouse got pneumonia.
I think the numbers will go up in a couple weeks.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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Trump spent his adult life as a libtard? Lol, so I guess he was an adult for a total of 8 years (strangely, pretty much just while dubya was president). Amazes me how many of Trump’s own supporters keep repeating that even though it’s wrong.
Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
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1:26 Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
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DNC chair questions House campaign arm's attack on progressive candidate
March 02, 2018
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376498-dnc-chair-responds-to-dccc-opposition-research-on-progressive-i-wouldnt
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez is questioning a move by the party's House campaign arm to publish opposition research on a progressive candidate in Texas ahead of a primary contest there.
"I wouldn't have done it. And I wouldn't have done it because I think we're at our best as Democrats when we talk about the issues," Perez told C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" during an interview Friday.
"I would have done it differently," he continued. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which backs Democratic House candidates, came under fire from progressives late last month after the group posted a memo online containing opposition research about Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat running in Texas' competitive 7th Congressional District.
The opposition research blasts Moser as a "Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress." It also points out that she claimed Washington, D.C., as her primary residence in January "in order to get a tax break."
The episode highlighted the divide between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its establishment wing.
The party has worked since the 2016 presidential election to close that divide, after leaked emails revealed that top DNC officials sought to help Hillary Clinton win the party's presidential nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who gained a following among the party's progressives.
Our Revolution, a progressive group allied with Sanders, endorsed Moser this week ahead of the March 6 primary.
The DCCC has framed Moser as an unelectable candidate in a critical race, pointing to concerns about her residency and accusations that her husband is improperly benefitting financially from her campaign. The Sanders-affiliated group called the DCCC's attacks "ridiculous."
Moser is one of seven Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary to try to take Rep. John Culberson’s (R) Houston-area seat. Clinton won the district narrowly in 2016, while the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
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104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
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Interesting Wikipedia page on the judge. A Mormon against gay rights who clerked under two Nixon appointed judges. And was himself appointed by George bush.
Michael Mosman was born in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in 1956 in the city of Eugene.[3] He grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, the son of an attorney and judge with an older sister and three younger brothers.[4] He attended Ricks College in Idaho, which is now Brigham Young University–Idaho.[3] He graduated with an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1979 before attending Utah State University in Logan, Utah. At Utah State he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981,[3] and was the valedictorian of his class.[4] Mosman then went on to law school at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. He graduated there in 1984 with a Juris Doctor.[3] At BYU he was the editor of the law review, and graduated magna cum laude.[4]
Legal career Edit
In 1984, Mosman began clerking for Malcolm Richard Wilkey, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[3] The following year he entered private legal practice for part of 1985 as an associate at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)[5]. Mosman then was a judicial clerk for United States Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell.[3] While clerking for Powell, he was involved in the justice's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick,[6] writing [7]
"The right to privacy calls for the greatest judicial restraint, invalidating only those laws that impinge on those values that are basic to our country"
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"I do not think that this case involves any such values. I recommend reversal [of the Eleventh Circuit decision]...Personal sexual freedom is a newcomer among our national values, and may well be, as discussed earlier, a temporary national mood that fades."
After leaving Powell's employ, Mosman entered private practice in Portland, Oregon, in 1986 at Miller Nash (now Miller Nash Graham & Dunn).[3][5]
Federal judicial service Edit
United States Attorney Edit
In 1988, he began working as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, remaining until 2001.[3] That year he became the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, serving until 2003.[3] He replaced Kristine Olson Rogers who had resigned.[8]
United States District Judge Edit
In 2003, United States President George W. Bush nominated Mosman to serve as judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on May 8 to take the seat of Robert E. Jones, who had assumed senior status on the court.[3]
Senate Confirmation Edit
Mosman was confirmed unanimously in a 93-0 vote on September 25th, 2003 by the United States Senate during the 108th United States Congress.[9] Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Gordon H. Smith spoke at the confirmation hearing, highlighting his prior service in the war on terrorism and that a bipartisan commission established to fill the vacancy left by Robert E. Jones had discovered him.[5]
He served as Chief Judge for approximately 4 years from February 1, 2016 to December 23, 2019.[1]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court & Alien Terrorist Removal Court Edit
He served a full 7-year term as a Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from May, 2013 - May, 2020. He is also a Judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court since 2018.
Notable cases Edit
Lemons v. Bradbury Edit
On February 1, 2008, in Lemons v. Bradbury, Judge Mosman dismissed the lawsuit and lifted an injunction against Oregon's new civil union law.[10] Judge Mosman had issued the temporary injunction in December 2007 to prevent Oregon's new civil union law from taking effect in January.[6] This was in response to a legal challenge by a group that had attempted to place a referendum on the November 2008 ballot to block the civil union law that had been passed by the Oregon Legislative Assembly.[11] The legal issue centered on how the Oregon Secretary of State verified signatures on petitions.[6]
Carter Page Warrant Edit
In 2017, Judge Mosman approved renewal of a FISA Court warrant for Carter Page, a former adviser to the 2016 Trump Campaign. In July 2018, the warrant application was released publicly, marking the first time FISA warrant application materials were made public.[12] The heavily-redacted, 412-page application cites many sources, including confidential informants.[13] Among those many sources, the application cites the Steele dossier, leading a legal commentator to criticize the basis of the warrant.[14]
Kawhi Leonard v. Nike Inc Edit
In April, 2020, Judge Mosman granted Nike's motion dismissing Kawhi Leonard's copyright claims over a disputed logo, writing
"It's not merely a derivative work of the sketch itself...I do find it to be new and significantly different from the design."[15]
Oregon restraining order against Department of Homeland Security (2020) Edit
In July 2020, the Oregon Attorney General, Ellen Rosenblum, requested a restraining order based on the detainment actions of Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol personnel. The AG alleged that unmarked federal agents had unlawfully detained protesters in Portland without probable cause.[16]
Michael Mosman rejected the request for a restraining order, stating that "because it has not shown it is vindicating an interest that is specific to the state itself — I find the State of Oregon lacks standing here and therefore deny its request for a temporary restraining order".[17]
Awards Edit
In 2018, Mossman received the Alumni Achievement Award from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School.[18]
Family Edit
Mosman is married to the former Suzanne Cannon Hogan, and they have five children.[4] He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[4]
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China did zero COVID and then just suddenly dropped lockdowns.
BBC: Covid cases in China touch 900 million - study
13 January
People walk past Lunar New Year decor in ChinaMARK R CRISTINO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
Covid cases are expected to spike in China over the Lunar New Year
Some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, according to a study by Peking University.
The report estimates that 64% of the country's population has the virus.
It ranks Gansu province, where 91% of the people are reported to be infected, at the top, followed by Yunnan (84%) and Qinghai (80%).
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year.
The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are travelling to their hometowns - many for the first time since the pandemic began - ahead of the lunar new year on 23 January.
China has stopped providing daily Covid statistics since abandoning zero-Covid.
But hospitals in big cities - where healthcare facilities are better and more easily accessible - have become crowded with Covid patients as the virus has spread through the country.
Speaking at an event earlier this month, Mr Zeng said it was "time to focus on the rural areas", in remarks reported in the Caixin news outlet.
Many elderly, sick and disabled in the countryside were already being left behind in terms of Covid treatment, he added.
China's central Henan province is the only province to have given details of infection rates - earlier this month a health official there said nearly 90% of the population had had Covid, with similar rates seen in urban and rural areas.
However government officials say many provinces and cities have passed the peak of infections.
The Lunar New Year holidays in China, which officially start from 21 January, involves the world's largest annual migration of people.
Some two billion trips are expected to be made in total and tens of millions of people have already travelled.
Chinese hope lunar new year consigns Covid to past
Young Chinese self-infect amid Covid fears for elderly
Last month, China abruptly abandoned its zero Covid policies. It also reopened its borders on Sunday.
Official data shows five or fewer deaths a day over the past month, numbers which are inconsistent with the long queues seen at funeral homes and reports of deaths on social media.
In December Chinese officials said they planned to issue monthly rather than daily updates on the Covid situation in the country.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said China, which stopped reporting Covid fatalities from Tuesday, was heavily under-reporting Covid deaths.
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Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House. Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House.
Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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Even Trump disavowed him.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
TikTok
Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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Thank you!
“The medical examiner's report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital. During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather's portable machine by her parents while at home. Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medical examiner. She received plasma therapy and was eventually intubated on June 22, but died one day later.
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump praised as a COVID-19 treatment method throughout much of the pandemic, was later flagged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as possibly detrimental to patients' health. The FDA explained it could potentially cause "serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm problems" in a statement released April 24.”
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I agree with your estimate. And i think it’s likely a conservative number.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House.
Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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excerpts: California Democrats decline to endorse Feinstein
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/25/california-democrats-feinstein-leon-423452?cid=apn
The party declines to give its backing to the state's senior senator.
SAN DIEGO — In a sharp rebuke of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democratic Party has declined to endorse the state’s own senior senator in her bid for reelection.
Riven by conflict between progressive and more moderate forces
at the state party’s annual convention here, delegates favored Feinstein’s progressive rival, state Senate leader Kevin de León, over Feinstein
by a 54 percent to 37 percent margin, according to results announced Sunday.
Neither candidate reached the 60 percent threshold required to receive the party endorsement for 2018.
But the snubbing of Feinstein led de León to claim a victory for his struggling campaign.
“The outcome of today’s endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual, and it boosts our campaign’s momentum as we all stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo,”
de León said in a prepared statement. “California Democrats are hungry for new leadership that will fight for California values from the front lines, not equivocate on the sidelines.”
A centrist Democrat, Feinstein has long maintained an uneasy relationship with activists who dominate state party conventions, and the vote this weekend — while embarrassing — was not unexpected.
The result followed two days of lobbying by the candidates in convention speeches and throughout the convention halls.
In an appeal to thousands of delegates Saturday, de León portrayed himself as an agent of change. He cast Feinstein, without mentioning her name, as a Washington power broker out of touch with progressive activists at home.
The non-endorsement appears unlikely to immediately alter the trajectory of a contest Feinstein is leading by a wide margin.
Feinstein is out-polling de León 46 percent to 17 percent among likely California voters, according to the most recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Her financial advantage is even more overwhelming:
Feinstein held close to $10 million in cash on hand at the end of last year, while de León reported raising just $500,000.
Addressing the convention Saturday, Feinstein reminded delegates of her experience and what she portrayed as a lifetime of service in the cause of Democratic values.
And though supporters this year waved signs and stopped Feinstein to pose for photographs, she at times appeared out of step working the convention halls.
Interrupted in her convention speech Saturday by music signaling her time to speak had run out, Feinstein said, “I guess my time is up.”
As she left the stage, de León supporters in the crowd yelled back at the 84-year-old, “Time’s up! Time’s up!”
The state party returned a non-endorsement in California’s other major statewide contest, as well.
In the race for governor,
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom led all candidates with 39 percent support, followed by state Treasurer
John Chiang and former state schools chief
Delaine Eastin with 30 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has drawn close to Newsom at the top of statewide public opinion polls, finished a distant fourth,
at 9 percent.
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Alternet article:
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was confronted with a massive contradiction between his campaign’s claim to support Medicare for All and his actual health care plan in an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Yang has repeatedly said that he supports Medicare for All, and he has even run ads promoting his support for the idea, as host Jonathan Karl noted. But in his campaign’s recently released proposal for health care, there’s nothing at all resembling the idea of Medicare for All.
“I’ve looked at your health care plan,” Karl said. “And this plan does not call for Medicare for All. In fact, it doesn’t even have a public option.”
The “dissonance,” as Karl referred to it, is still plain to see on Yang’s campaign site. His plan for health care is described under a heading called “Medicare for All.” But his “six-pronged approach” to reforming health care contains the following items:
1. Control the cost of life-saving prescription drugs, through negotiating drug prices, using international reference pricing, forced licensing, public manufacturing facilities, and importation.
2. Invest in technologies to finally make health services function efficiently and reduce waste by utilizing modernized services like telehealth and assistive technology, supported by measures such as multi-state licensing laws.
3. Change the incentive structure by offering flexibility to providers, prioritizing patients over paperwork, and increasing the supply of practitioners.
4. Shift our focus and educating ourselves in preventative care and end-of-life care options.
5. Ensure crucial aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, care for people with disabilities, HIV/AIDs detection and treatment, reproductive health, maternal care, dental, and vision are addressed and integrated into comprehensive care for the 21st century.
6. Diminish the influence of lobbyists and special interests in the healthcare industry that makes it nearly impossible to draft and pass meaningful healthcare reform.
On their own, these might be good or bad ideas (some of them have already been tried or are being tried.) Some of them sound more like clichés than policies. But not one even addresses the expansion of the health insurance coverage, which is at the heart of what “Medicare for All” is about. And it certainly doesn’t address giving Americans government-provided and -run health insurance, which is what the “Medicare” in “Medicare for All” is supposed to be about.
There’s been some debate about whether a national public option for health insurance, along the lines of what Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden might advocate, actually constitutes or approaches “Medicare for All.” Buttigieg has spun his plan as “Medicare for All Who Want It.” And in the interview, Yang correctly pointed out that “Medicare for All” is not a single bill — multiple laws could fit that label, and the slogan itself has been around years before legislation was written to enact it. There’s some room for reasonable disagreement about what really lives up to the name.
But it’s not reasonable to claim that Yang’s plan is any form of “Medicare for All.” The only conclusion can be that he was and is lying when he says that “Medicare for All” is his plan. He doesn’t even seem to prioritize expanding health care coverage, let alone expanding the government’s health care coverage.
Yang deflected from Karl’s accurate characterization of his plan, saying, “We need to move towards universal health care that’s high quality and nearly cost-free for Americans around the country. But reality is, we have millions of people on private insurance right now, and taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many, many Americans.”
That’s a fair argument to make, but it doesn’t explain why he’s claiming to be for Medicare for All when he isn’t, or why he wouldn’t support at least a public option.
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He tried to say that his plan is in favor of “expanding” universal health care, including, in part, by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare. But none of those ideas are actually in the plan his campaign put out. And this is particularly bad, because his website describes his proposal as his “FULL PLAN for a New Way Forward for Healthcare in America.”
When his plan was announced, Yang said, “I support the spirit of ‘Medicare for All.'” But this claim is so vague as to be almost completely meaningless when his actual policy does nothing resembling a push for “Medicare for All.”
As I said, the only plausible interpretation is that Yang is lying. He wants people to think he supports “Medicare for All,” even when his actual ideas for reforming health care policy in the United States are nowhere near such a plan.
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Trump actually threw him under the bus.
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January
Kyle Rittenhouse’s social media is filled with references to “Blue Lives Matter.” A Trump campaign spokesperson said, "This individual had nothing to do with our campaign."
Ellie Hall
Last updated on August 26, 2020, at 8:16 p.m. ET
Posted on August 26, 2020, at 5:53 p.m. ET
Trump speaks behind a lectern at a rally; a white circle focuses on a boy in the front row of the audience
CSPAN
Kyle Rittenhouse (circled) can be seen wearing a white hat in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30.
The law enforcement–obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse’s social media presence is filled with him posing with weapons, posting “Blue Lives Matter,” and supporting Trump for president. Footage from the Des Moines, Iowa, rally on Jan. 30 shows Rittenhouse feet away from the president, in the front row, to the left of the podium. He posted a TikTok video from the event.
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Seven months later, Rittenhouse went with his rifle to the third night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha after police shot Blake, a Black man who is now paralyzed as a result, according to his family. Rittenhouse attended as an armed vigilante, supposedly assisting police and protecting property in an unofficial capacity. Instead, he allegedly prowled the protest with a gun. Videos captured him fraternizing with law enforcement and attempting to get their attention.
By the end of the evening, he was considered a fugitive on the run. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Antioch, Illinois, and is expected to be extradited to Wisconsin to face charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse’s mother did not respond to a request for comment. The Lake County Public Defender’s Office, who represented him in court today, told BuzzFeed News it does not comment on active cases.
Wednesday’s arrest record from Antioch police states that Rittenhouse “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for the offense.” According to public records, Rittenhouse lived in Antioch, which is about 20 miles away from Kenosha, with his mother and siblings and worked as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said, “President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness. This individual had nothing to do with our campaign and we fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case.”
A close look at his social media accounts and background show a teenager obsessed with law enforcement who also identified as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and “Blue Lives Matter,” a pro–law enforcement movement that evolved in response to Black Lives Matter.
A teenager dressed in a black T-shirt and pants smiles and holds a large gun
His connections to law enforcement, however, go beyond his vocal support of police on social media. In a statement to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, the Grayslake Police Department confirmed that Rittenhouse was a former member of the Lindenhurst, Grayslake, Hainesville Police Department's Public Safety Cadet Program.
According to a description that was recently removed from the department’s official website, the program “offers boys and girls the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement” through “hands-on career activities,” such as riding along with officers on patrol and firearms training.
Along with the page describing the Public Safety Cadet Program, the organization’s official Facebook account was deleted after images from 2018 of a boy in a police uniform identified as “Kyle” began to circulate online.
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At least Tulsi stopped taking corporate and defense contractor money recently.
“In 2016, the amount of PAC money she received grew to more than $465,000. Again, business PACS made up the majority of her PAC money, this time over 55 percent. One of the largest contributing sectors was the defense industry. While Gabbard has gained a following for her anti-interventionist stances, yet, her 2016 campaign was given $63,500 from the defense sector. In fact, the campaign received donations of $10,000 from the Boeing Corporation PAC and from Lockheed Martin’s PAC, two of the biggest names in the military-industrial complex.Gillibrand’s Off the Sidelines PAC donated another $10,000 in 2016 as well.
In 2017, leading up to her successful reelection campaign, Gabbard announced she would no longer take PAC money. After receiving over $400,000 in PAC money in her previous two reelection cycles, in 2018 her campaign only took in just over $37,000, almost all of which came from labor associations and trade unions.
Gabbard also had her own leadership PAC named Time to Unite Lead and Serve with Integrity. According to an FEC filing in June 2018, the PAC was terminated. However, during its lifespan for the 2014, 2016 and 2018 cycles, the PAC brought in substantial money. In 2013-2014, the leadership PAC saw more than $44,000 in contributions, $17,500 from other PACs. It did even better in 2015-2016, with PAC contributions nearing $31,000, according to FEC data. The majority of funds, $20,000, came from business PACs like Raytheon and New York Life Insurance Company.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Yahoo news: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent
September 14, 2020, 2:06 PM PDT
Following some devastating revelations from a nurse-turned-whistleblower at a Georgia immigrant detention center (as shared with the Intercept earlier this week) about concerns over medical practices at the center during the global pandemic, the full complaint obtained by SheKnows provides a grim closer look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and reproductive freedom.
Through on-the-record insights from Dawn Wooten, the licensed practical nurse employed by ICDC and protected whistleblower quoted throughout the complaint, and interviews with detained women, the complaint shares reports of a lack of clear informed consent before procedures are performed and numerous women undergoing traumatic, lasting changes to their reproductive health. The complaint was filed by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network on Monday, September 14.
According to the complaint, a number of immigrant women have reported being recommended hysterectomies (a surgery that removes a woman’s uterus) “by a particular gynecologist outside the facility” — with reports of women undergoing the procedures without being made to fully understand what is happening to them and the medical reasons (either due to miscommunication, language gaps or other reasons) they’d need the procedure.
Wooten said in the complaint that the number of women recommended for the procedure was concerning: “Everybody [the gynecologist] sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody. He’s even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy,” Wooten said. “She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can’t bear kids… she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary.”
According to the complaint, one detained immigrant told Project South that she had spoken with five women who were detained in late 2019 (October through December) who had hysterectomies done. Per the complaint: “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’ She further said: ‘When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies.'”
Wooten says that she and other nurses at the center have been alarmed by the rate these procedures are being performed on detained people and said that, for the doctor in question used consistently by the center, a hysterectomy seems to be “his speciality.”
“He’s the uterus collector,” Wooten said in the complaint. “I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something? Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”
For non-English speaking people in detention, there are reports of the language gap leading to extreme miscommunication about the procedures being done and why. Per the complaint, one detained person told Project South that she had a hard time getting straight answers — getting three different responses about what procedure she was getting and why — and “felt like they were trying to mess with [her] body.”
Project South reports that she was told by one doctor that she was going to have a procedure to drain an ovarian cyst; she was told she was having a hysterectomy by the officer transporting her to the hospital; and she was told by a nurse at ICDC that she was going to have a dilatation and curettage (D&C) procedure to deal with “heavy bleeding” that the woman said she’d never even experienced. When she tried to explain that to the nurse (“I tried to explain to her that something isn’t right; that procedure isn’t for me,”) she said the nurse got angry and agitated and started yelling at her.
“I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going,” Wooten said. “…These immigrant women, I don’t think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what’s going to happen depending on who explains it to them.”
She adds that others, who are able to understand the very permanent, lasting procedure being recommended to them “some of them a lot of times won’t even go, they say they’ll wait to get back to their country to go to the doctor.”
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Check the last two weeks, pink numbnuts.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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General welfare clause:
Consequently, the Supreme Court held the power to tax and spend is an independent power and that the General Welfare Clause gives Congress power it might not derive anywhere else. However, the Court did limit the power to spending for matters affecting only the national welfare.
Shortly after Butler, in Helvering v. Davis,[24] the Supreme Court interpreted the clause even more expansively, disavowing almost entirely any role for judicial review of Congressional spending policies, thereby conferring upon Congress a plenary power to impose taxes and to spend money for the general welfare subject almost entirely to Congress's own discretion.
Even more recently, in South Dakota v. Dole[25] the Court held Congress possessed power to indirectly influence the states into adopting national standards by withholding, to a limited extent, federal funds.
To date, the Hamiltonian view of the General Welfare Clause predominates in case law.
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“Reports of health problems from a dangerous so-called “miracle cure” marketed widely online in recent years as a mineral solution known as “MMS” -- whose promoters tout it as a treatment or cure everything from HIV/AIDS and cancer to autism and fibromyalgia –- are back on the rise, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
In a statement released earlier this month, FDA officials warn that ingesting MMS is “the same as drinking bleach” – a warning that was echoed by medical experts, toxicologists and chemists contacted by ABC News in a new probe of the mixture and its promoters.
"Product directions instruct consumers to mix the sodium chlorite solution with citric acid -- such as lemon or lime juice .... before drinking," the warning FDA notes. "When the acid is added, the mixture becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent."
Meanwhile this month, the founder of a fringe healing "church" known for marketing the mixture -- who changed course and declared in a church newsletter that "MMS cures nothing!" after being featured in an earlier 2016 ABC News investigative report -- is back to hawking MMS as the solution to "whatever ails you."
FDA spokesman Jeremy Kahn said the statement was issued in part to combat the product’s increasing web presence.
“We’ve seen an uptick in social media traffic and searches all over the web,” Kahn told ABC News. “We’re hoping to remind folks that this product is still out there, it’s dangerous, and to beware.”
The FDA has documented at least 20 reports of MMS poisonings, Khan said, including the hospitalization of a child. FDA records on the agency's website document the April, 2015 hospitalization of a 10-year-old girl with autism after ingesting MMS.
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....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
161,000 deaths Friday August 7th
168,000 deaths Friday August 14th
175,000 deaths Friday August 21st
181,000 deaths Friday August 28th
187,000 deaths Friday Sept 4th
191,000 deaths Friday Sept 11th
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DNC chair questions House campaign arm's attack on progressive candidate
March 02, 2018
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376498-dnc-chair-responds-to-dccc-opposition-research-on-progressive-i-wouldnt
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez is questioning a move by the party's House campaign arm to publish opposition research on a progressive candidate in Texas ahead of a primary contest there.
"I wouldn't have done it. And I wouldn't have done it because I think we're at our best as Democrats when we talk about the issues," Perez told C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" during an interview Friday.
"I would have done it differently," he continued. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which backs Democratic House candidates, came under fire from progressives late last month after the group posted a memo online containing opposition research about Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat running in Texas' competitive 7th Congressional District.
The opposition research blasts Moser as a "Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress." It also points out that she claimed Washington, D.C., as her primary residence in January "in order to get a tax break."
The episode highlighted the divide between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its establishment wing.
The party has worked since the 2016 presidential election to close that divide, after leaked emails revealed that top DNC officials sought to help Hillary Clinton win the party's presidential nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who gained a following among the party's progressives.
Our Revolution, a progressive group allied with Sanders, endorsed Moser this week ahead of the March 6 primary.
The DCCC has framed Moser as an unelectable candidate in a critical race, pointing to concerns about her residency and accusations that her husband is improperly benefitting financially from her campaign. The Sanders-affiliated group called the DCCC's attacks "ridiculous."
Moser is one of seven Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary to try to take Rep. John Culberson’s (R) Houston-area seat. Clinton won the district narrowly in 2016, while the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
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....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
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Then why didn’t she respond to their request? If it’s fake, she let it go to print without denying it.
Sarah Sanders, Raj Shah planning to depart the White House
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-sanders-raj-shah-planning-to-depart-the-white-house/
Shah is also considering his exit, but he has not yet settled on an exact date.
Neither Sanders nor Shah responded to repeated requests for comment before this story was published. When reached Wednesday evening, both declined to comment on the record, and Sanders tweeted that she is "honored to work for @POTUS."
Several other lower-level positions in the communications department left vacant in recent weeks are likely to remain unfilled, with more departures expected in the coming weeks, according to a former official.
Numerous staffers have left the White House over the last several months, some voluntarily and others having been forced out.
Those departures include Hicks;
Jared Kushner's top communications aide, Josh Raffel;
homeland security adviser Tom Bossert;
National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton;
Trump personal aide John McEntee;
director of White House message strategy Cliff Simms;
communications aide Steven Cheung;
congressional communications director Kaelan Dorr;
assistant press secretary Natalie Strom;
and deputy director of media affairs Tyler Ross.
Trump's team
Over the course of the Trump administration, the White House has consolidated its workforce, eliminating jobs and assigning multiple portfolios of responsibility to individual staffers. Some positions have never been filled. Despite the smaller number of positions, the record-setting turnover rate has not slowed.
Less than halfway through Mr. Trump's term, the turnover rate stands at 51 percent, according to the Brookings Institution. Turnover during Mr. Trump's first year in office was 34 percent -- nearly four times higher than turnover during the first year of the Obama administration.
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....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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USA Today: Chris Christie says he spent a week in ICU, was 'wrong' to not wear a mask at White House event
7:44 pm EDT Oct. 15, 2020
Former Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he was "wrong" not to wear a mask in the days before testing positive for COVID-19, but that he felt at that time that he was in a "safe zone" because of frequent testing.
Having spent a week being treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus – in an intensive care unit – Christie said he had a chance for greater reflection about his actions and the virus.
"It is something to take very seriously. The ramifications are wildly random and potentially deadly," Christie said in a statement, first reported by the New York Times.
"No one should be happy to get the virus and no one should be cavalier about being infected or infecting others."
Christie's position and his message to the public is at odds with President Donald Trump, whom he helped prepare for a debate and was also hospitalized with COVID-19. Trump has said he feels great, has entertained large, mask-less crowds at campaign rallies and urged the public, "don't be afraid of COVID."
In contrast, Christie said, "I hope that my experience shows my fellow citizens that you should follow CDC guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others.”
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Uh oh 48% of Americans think Trump is obstructing the investigation.
"Robert Mueller’s disapproval rating is at its highest point since Morning Consult and Politico began tracking the Special Counsel,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s managing director. “A key driver of this movement appears to be Republicans.
Today, 53 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable impression of Robert Mueller, compared to just 27 percent who said the same in July 2017."
The spike in the special counsel’s unfavorable ratings come as he begins his second year on the job. Mueller has already publicly netted five guilty pleas and 18 indictments of people and companies tied to his work examining Moscow meddling in the 2016 election. But he’s nonetheless faced sharp attacks from the president, his lawyers and other associates.
Voters interviewed for the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll also have changed direction on whether they think the Mueller investigation has been on the up and up. In the latest survey, 40 percent of voters said it had been handled unfairly, compared to early February when 34 percent said the probe wasn’t being handled fairly.
The percentage saying the investigation was being done fairly remained unchanged from February at 38 percent.
The latest poll also has bad news for the president.
Forty-eight percent of voters believe Trump has attempted to impede or obstruct the Russia investigation, up from 44 percent who offered the same view in early February.
Democrats by a wide margin — 79 percent — said Trump was trying to obstruct Mueller’s probe. But 70 percent of Republicans said the president wasn’t meddling in the investigation.
Trump also may want to rethink his comments about pardoning himself if he’s found guilty of a crime.
The president last week told reporters he had the “absolute right” to make that move, but a majority of voters — 59 percent — said they opposed the idea of Trump issuing a self-pardon. Twenty percent said the president should pardon himself, while 21 percent were without an opinion or responded that they didn’t know.
The breakdown among party affiliation on pardons is also against the president.
About a third of Republicans — 34 percent — agree with the idea that Trump should issue himself a pardon.
The same number of Republicans also said he should not pardon himself.
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Splinter:
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Bunch of Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Republican Congressional Campaigns
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Hamilton Nolan
9/05/18 11:25AM
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Bald industrialist Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon and America’s richest man, has officially waded into the midterms with a $10 million PAC donation. It is reflective of his absolute inability to spend money in a socially good way.
Bezos’ net worth currently stands at $167 billion, a number higher than you can comprehend. Unlike his mega-billionaire peers like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett, he has not made substantial financial commitments to charity.
He is so weirdly incapable of conceptualizing how he might use his immense fortune to help the world that he famously asked for philanthropy ideas on Twitter, and even more famously said, “The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel.”
Jeff Bezos could be saving literally millions of human lives per year and curing entire diseases in the developing world but instead all he can think of is to build space rockets. He is a walking advertisement for the necessity of wealth confiscation.
Anyhow—he just donated $10 million to a political action committee. This amount of money, though small for him, makes him a major political donor in the context of the midterm elections. And what political ideology has America’s richest man chosen to support? If you guessed “The most confused, incoherent, counterproductive one,” you are extremely correct.
He has donated to a PAC called With Honor, which brands itself as “a cross-partisan organization” that works to elect military veterans to Congress—as long as they take THE PLEDGE, in which they promise to have integrity and civility and to “join with colleagues on both sides of the aisle on at least one piece of major legislation each year.” So, lots of new cross-partisan Post Office namings.
If you are even mildly politically astute, you may have already picked up on the fact that this PAC seems to have no coherent political philosophy whatsoever. It is the most milquetoast sort of flag-waving meaninglessness.
And indeed, when you look at the list of candidates that the PAC is supporting, you will notice a mix of Democrats and Republicans who have nothing in common except being veterans and who, if elected, will just cancel out one another’s votes. Great thing to spend $10 million on.
Additionally, this means that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is spending millions of dollars to directly support the campaigns of Republican candidates including:
Michael Waltz.
As a small business owner I have created hundreds of jobs and know first-hand the benefits of President Trump’s tax relief and de-regulation...
I have carried a rifle and a pistol for most of my adult life, and fired both in defense of every American and myself...
I’m a strong supporter of the right to life. I believe we must defend life at every stage and protect the most vulnerable members of our society.
Dan Crenshaw
I support the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As Democrats make false accusations about Republican policies, we must stick to free-market principles and lay out the FACTS... [ed.-lol]
I will always fight for 2nd Amendment rights. Democrats who don’t understand how guns even work continue to propose frivolous and ineffective gun-control legislation in Congress. We cannot allow the Leftists to set the terms of the gun rights debate in this country...
From Berkeley to Boston, leftist agitators are trying to “enforce” political correctness by shutting down speeches that they disagree with. Even some liberal commentators are finding this problematic and have called them out for their anti-American ways. College should be a place for the free and open exchange of ideas, not a place where groupthink and political correctness are enforced, and anti-conservative thugs reign supreme.
Van Taylor
Repeal Obamacare. Contrived in backroom deals and riddled with broken promises and false hope, former President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and their allies in Washington forced on the American people a $1.7 trillion dollar takeover of our healthcare system...
I am proudly pro-life and believe life begins at conception and ends at natural death. For my commitment protecting the unborn, I have earned a 100%+ pro-life rating and multiple endorsements from Texas Right to Life during my time in the State Legislature...
Defending Second Amendment Freedoms. On their sixteenth birthday some kids ask for a car. On my sixteenth birthday, I asked my dad for a membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA). As a lifelong gun owner, avid hunter, and life member of both the NRA and Texas State Rifle Association (TSRA), I have always fought to defend and expand our second amendment freedoms and will continue this fight against the gun-grabbers in Washington, D.C.
Don Bacon
Illustration for article titled Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Bunch of Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Republican Congressional Campaigns
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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KC grab some context, dude. These aren’t bundlers, they aren’t investment bank or insurance industry or oil lobbies. Bernie already has a reputation for supporting unions before he got those minuscule donations! He walks picket lines, who else has a history of activism like Bernie?
You want to win a point? Congrats, I concede you win, he had some measly lobbyist donations. But you’re really nitpicking here and I know you’re smart enough to know better. I personally have donated more than any of those big scawy donors this year myself!
So take your win and get off your soapbox. You seem like you just wanna debate to debate.
Of all the candidates, which one(s) do you think will make the most positive impact being elected the next president? To me it’s patently obvious.
Which one will appoint the best Supreme Court judges, work the hardest to turn around big money in politics? Who can win? Bernie, easily.
If you have anyone you think is superior, please lay your argument on the line and be vulnerable like the rest of the normal humans on this thread whose position you already know.
That or go back and rip on the idiots who encourage people to sit out and just bitch on the sidelines, like you used to.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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'Willfully Choosing Not to Listen to Scientists': DNC Chair Tom Perez Under Fire for Urging States to Hold Primaries Despite Coronavirus Crisis
"That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Ignoring urgent pleas from medical professionals and other health experts to postpone primary elections amid the coronavirus outbreak, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez late Tuesday encouraged states to go ahead with their scheduled contests, claiming "we can in fact have voting and protect our workers, our voters, our candidates."
"I think it's a false choice to suggest we either have to protect safety or protect and ensure our democracy," Perez said in an interview with NPR late Tuesday as voters in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois went to the polls despite widespread calls for a delay. Former Vice President Joe Biden swept all three states.
Perez urged upcoming states to make vote-by-mail available to all voters, but it is unclear whether such a solution could be implemented in short order.
"Deeply disappointed that the DNC is willfully choosing not to listen to scientists during one of the most critical moments in recent history."
—Dr. Lucky Tran
"What you saw in Arizona today, and in Florida, was in Arizona more people voted early than voted in the entirety of the Democratic primary in 2016," Perez said.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, Perez critized Ohio's widely praised decision to delay its presidential primary, asserting that it "only bred more chaos and confusion."
Critics argued that Perez's position runs counter to the recommendations of scientists—as well as the federal government—and could put countless lives at risk.
"Deeply disappointed that the DNC is willfully choosing not to listen to scientists during one of the most critical moments in recent history," tweeted biologist Dr. Lucky Tran.
Pointing to a video of an elderly Illinois resident voicing alarm Tuesday about conditions at her polling site—where she said hundreds of people, including vulnerable seniors, were gathered in a room for hours at a time—The Intercept's Ryan Grim ripped Perez for permitting such a potentially disastrous situation.
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"That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal," Grim tweeted, referring to a DNC memo sent last Wednesday warning that states could face a "delegate penalty" if they push back their scheduled elections.
"It's not out of the question that when this is over there could be demands for prosecutions of those who knowingly did this," Grim said.
Puerto Rico is set to hold its Democratic presidential primary on March 29, followed by contests on April 4 in Alaska, Hawaii, and Wyoming.
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Look at the percentages... https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/data-points/who-s-more-likely-beat-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-or-n570766
May 10, 2016, 6:03 AM PDT
Hillary Clinton holds a 12-point lead over Bernie Sanders nationally, but in a hypothetical match-up against Donald Trump, Sanders does much better than the current Democratic front-runner.
As Ted Cruz and John Kasich exited the Republican primary race last week — making Trump the party’s presumptive nominee — Clinton and Sanders have used Trump’s candidacy to argue that they would be in the best position to defeat him in the general election in November.
When respondents in our NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll were asked whether they would cast a vote for Trump or either of the Democratic candidates still in the race,
Sanders is the favorite over Trump by 13 points.
Clinton also beats Trump, but the race is decidedly closer — 49 percent to 44 percent.
These results are according to the latest from the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll conducted online from May 2 through May 8 of 12,714 adults including 11,089 registered voters.
Though about a month remains until the last Democratic primary in June, Sanders trails Clinton by a significant number of delegates, making Clinton the strong favorite to win the nomination. The data from the hypothetical head-to-heads thus provides a window into which groups Clinton needs to sway in order to defeat Trump in the general election in November.
Though blacks, Hispanics, women and moderate voters consistently support either Democratic candidate when faced with Trump as the Republican alternative, there are two significant groups that Sanders wins over by much larger margins than Clinton and help him beat Trump by double digits:
Republicans under 30 and Independents who do not lean toward either party.
There is no question that Sanders has consistently dominated Clinton among Democratic voters under 30 throughout the primary season. When analyzing the data from our weekly tracking poll, however, it appears his appeal among millennial voters crosses party lines as well.
About 30 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners under 30 would vote for Sanders over Trump.
The support Sanders gains among young Republicans is surprising as research has consistently shown that party identification is the strongest predictor of vote choice.
When faced with a Clinton-Trump ticket, 18 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters under 30 would support Clinton; 78 percent would support Trump.
Appealing to unaffiliated and undecided voters is essential as campaigns start to pivot toward the general election. There is much higher turnout among these voters in the general election than the primary contests for several reasons, including the fact that some state-specific rules make it more difficult for Independents to vote in primary contests.
These “swing voters” can significantly impact the outcome of the election.
When analyzing this week’s theoretical general election match-ups, Sanders gets much higher support from Independents than Clinton when faced with a Trump alternative.
A small majority of Independents — 52 percent — would pick Sanders over Trump (30 percent).
When asked who they would support in a Clinton vs. Trump match-up, Independents were much more divided over their choices; 37 percent would vote for Clinton, while 39 percent said they would support Trump.
Though there are still a number of months left before any votes are cast this November, an analysis of each candidate’s strengths and weaknesses offer early insights into where campaigns should focus their efforts in the coming months.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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USA Today: Chris Christie says he spent a week in ICU, was 'wrong' to not wear a mask at White House event
7:44 pm EDT Oct. 15, 2020
Former Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he was "wrong" not to wear a mask in the days before testing positive for COVID-19, but that he felt at that time that he was in a "safe zone" because of frequent testing.
Having spent a week being treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus – in an intensive care unit – Christie said he had a chance for greater reflection about his actions and the virus.
"It is something to take very seriously. The ramifications are wildly random and potentially deadly," Christie said in a statement, first reported by the New York Times.
"No one should be happy to get the virus and no one should be cavalier about being infected or infecting others."
Christie's position and his message to the public is at odds with President Donald Trump, whom he helped prepare for a debate and was also hospitalized with COVID-19. Trump has said he feels great, has entertained large, mask-less crowds at campaign rallies and urged the public, "don't be afraid of COVID."
In contrast, Christie said, "I hope that my experience shows my fellow citizens that you should follow CDC guidelines in public no matter where you are and wear a mask to protect yourself and others.”
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Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House.
Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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Lolll you can’t be serious with this piddly nonsense.
“To be sure, lobbyist donations—about $3,200 overall—represent a tiny fraction of the more than $96 million Sanders has raised for his underdog presidential bid. About 70 percent of that sum comes from small-dollar donors who have given Sanders $200 or less.
Sanders’s anti–big money, anti–special interest mantra has resonated with many voters, who have lifted him to victory against Clinton in several primary and caucus contests.
The lobbyist cash the Sanders campaign has collected has come from traditionally left-leaning causes: labor unions, environmentalists, the American Civil Liberties Union.
For instance, John M. Walsh, a lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, contributed $500 to Sanders last year.
Other labor lobbyists giving Sanders money include Ian Hoffmann, a lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees, who contributed $235, and Michael Dolan, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, who gave $100.
Each lobbyist declined to comment.
Lobbyist Michael Correia of the National Cannabis Industry Association also donated $500 to Sanders last year. That’s tied for the largest amount among Sanders’s lobbyist contributors to date.
Correia, who also gave $500 to Republican Rand Paul, told the Center for Public Integrity he contributed to both presidential campaigns because it was an “opportunity to reward somebody” for being a leader on cannabis policy.
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I’d get someone you know in person to help you. Or geek squad at Best Buy.
Whatever you do don’t trust these people. They will never issue a refund, and just use any future contacts with you to try to scam you further.
If you haven’t already, I’d ask your bank or credit card company to get you a new card number for your account and tell them you were scammed. They may be adding extra charges to your card you’re not aware of. Unless you paid them in money order or gift cards or something.
Get your computer fixed if you can, or even a new computer if you can’t.
Never give your information to someone over the phone. They will pretend to be anyone: the IRS, your bank, your credit card company, your computer company.
Always only contact them using phone numbers that you personally get from your own paper records. Like your bank statement, your credit card statement, your IRS or social security mailings.
I recommend screening all of your phone calls. Letting the answering machine pick them up. Anybody legitimate will leave a message.
If somebody says they’re from your company, do NOT call the number they left in your machine. Only the number on your paper records. They will be able to transfer you to the appropriate department or give you a special number if it’s separate.
Mom mother has been scammed. It cost us months of headache. If anybody calls you always be suspicious.
Good luck to you, it’s money out of hand, just consider it gone and a good lesson. They wanted $2,000 from my mother and she came to me fast enough that we were able to stop the charges. Best wishes.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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This was an article yesterday. Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House.
Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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Newsweek: “The medical examiner's report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital.
During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather's portable machine by her parents while at home.
Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medical examiner.
She received plasma therapy and was eventually intubated on June 22, but died one day later.
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump praised as a COVID-19 treatment method throughout much of the pandemic, was later flagged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as possibly detrimental to patients' health.
The FDA explained it could potentially cause "serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm problems" in a statement released April 24.”
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And Harry enten ...
What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means
By Harry Enten
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-stunning-bernie-sanders-win-in-michigan-means/
Filed under 2016 Election
Bernie Sanders made folks like me eat a stack of humble pie on Tuesday night.
He won the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton, 50 percent to 48 percent, when not a single poll taken over the last month had Clinton leading by less than 5 percentage points. In fact, many had her lead at 20 percentage points or higher.
Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
Both the FiveThirtyEight polls-plus and polls-only forecast gave Clinton a greater than 99 percent chance of winning. That’s because polling averages for primaries, while inexact, are usually not 25 percentage points off.
Indeed, my colleague Nate Silver went back and found that only one primary, the 1984 Democratic primary in New Hampshire, was even on the same scale as this upset. In that contest, the polling average had Walter Mondale beating Gary Hart by 17 percentage points, but it was Hart who won, with slightly more than 9 percentage points over Mondale.
Indeed, my initial thought was to compare the Sanders upset with Clinton’s over Barack Obama in the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary, but that undersells what happened Tuesday night.
I was in New Hampshire when Clinton won in 2008 and sat in stunned disbelief — Obama lost by about 3 percentage points, when the polling average had him ahead by 8 percentage points.
In other words, tonight’s error was more than double what occurred eight years ago.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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'Willfully Choosing Not to Listen to Scientists': DNC Chair Tom Perez Under Fire for Urging States to Hold Primaries Despite Coronavirus Crisis
"That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Ignoring urgent pleas from medical professionals and other health experts to postpone primary elections amid the coronavirus outbreak, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez late Tuesday encouraged states to go ahead with their scheduled contests, claiming "we can in fact have voting and protect our workers, our voters, our candidates."
"I think it's a false choice to suggest we either have to protect safety or protect and ensure our democracy," Perez said in an interview with NPR late Tuesday as voters in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois went to the polls despite widespread calls for a delay. Former Vice President Joe Biden swept all three states.
Perez urged upcoming states to make vote-by-mail available to all voters, but it is unclear whether such a solution could be implemented in short order.
"Deeply disappointed that the DNC is willfully choosing not to listen to scientists during one of the most critical moments in recent history."
—Dr. Lucky Tran
"What you saw in Arizona today, and in Florida, was in Arizona more people voted early than voted in the entirety of the Democratic primary in 2016," Perez said.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, Perez critized Ohio's widely praised decision to delay its presidential primary, asserting that it "only bred more chaos and confusion."
Critics argued that Perez's position runs counter to the recommendations of scientists—as well as the federal government—and could put countless lives at risk.
"Deeply disappointed that the DNC is willfully choosing not to listen to scientists during one of the most critical moments in recent history," tweeted biologist Dr. Lucky Tran.
Pointing to a video of an elderly Illinois resident voicing alarm Tuesday about conditions at her polling site—where she said hundreds of people, including vulnerable seniors, were gathered in a room for hours at a time—The Intercept's Ryan Grim ripped Perez for permitting such a potentially disastrous situation.
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"That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal," Grim tweeted, referring to a DNC memo sent last Wednesday warning that states could face a "delegate penalty" if they push back their scheduled elections.
"It's not out of the question that when this is over there could be demands for prosecutions of those who knowingly did this," Grim said.
Puerto Rico is set to hold its Democratic presidential primary on March 29, followed by contests on April 4 in Alaska, Hawaii, and Wyoming.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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Yahoo news: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent
September 14, 2020, 2:06 PM PDT
Following some devastating revelations from a nurse-turned-whistleblower at a Georgia immigrant detention center (as shared with the Intercept earlier this week) about concerns over medical practices at the center during the global pandemic, the full complaint obtained by SheKnows provides a grim closer look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and reproductive freedom.
Through on-the-record insights from Dawn Wooten, the licensed practical nurse employed by ICDC and protected whistleblower quoted throughout the complaint, and interviews with detained women, the complaint shares reports of a lack of clear informed consent before procedures are performed and numerous women undergoing traumatic, lasting changes to their reproductive health. The complaint was filed by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network on Monday, September 14.
According to the complaint, a number of immigrant women have reported being recommended hysterectomies (a surgery that removes a woman’s uterus) “by a particular gynecologist outside the facility” — with reports of women undergoing the procedures without being made to fully understand what is happening to them and the medical reasons (either due to miscommunication, language gaps or other reasons) they’d need the procedure.
Wooten said in the complaint that the number of women recommended for the procedure was concerning: “Everybody [the gynecologist] sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody. He’s even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy,” Wooten said. “She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can’t bear kids… she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary.”
According to the complaint, one detained immigrant told Project South that she had spoken with five women who were detained in late 2019 (October through December) who had hysterectomies done. Per the complaint: “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’ She further said: ‘When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies.'”
Wooten says that she and other nurses at the center have been alarmed by the rate these procedures are being performed on detained people and said that, for the doctor in question used consistently by the center, a hysterectomy seems to be “his speciality.”
“He’s the uterus collector,” Wooten said in the complaint. “I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something? Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”
For non-English speaking people in detention, there are reports of the language gap leading to extreme miscommunication about the procedures being done and why. Per the complaint, one detained person told Project South that she had a hard time getting straight answers — getting three different responses about what procedure she was getting and why — and “felt like they were trying to mess with [her] body.”
Project South reports that she was told by one doctor that she was going to have a procedure to drain an ovarian cyst; she was told she was having a hysterectomy by the officer transporting her to the hospital; and she was told by a nurse at ICDC that she was going to have a dilatation and curettage (D&C) procedure to deal with “heavy bleeding” that the woman said she’d never even experienced. When she tried to explain that to the nurse (“I tried to explain to her that something isn’t right; that procedure isn’t for me,”) she said the nurse got angry and agitated and started yelling at her.
“I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going,” Wooten said. “…These immigrant women, I don’t think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what’s going to happen depending on who explains it to them.”
She adds that others, who are able to understand the very permanent, lasting procedure being recommended to them “some of them a lot of times won’t even go, they say they’ll wait to get back to their country to go to the doctor.”
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snippet of a longer article:
He Solved The DNC Hack. Now He's Telling His Story For The First Time.
Less than a year before Marine Corps cyberwarrior Robert Johnston discovered that the Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee, he found they had launched a similar attack at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
November 8, 2017,
at 12:38 p.m.
Jason Leopold
One late morning in May 2016, the leaders of the Democratic National Committee huddled around a packed conference table and stared at Robert Johnston. The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision, but what he said was so unnerving that a high-level DNC official curled up in a ball on her conference room chair as if watching a horror movie.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/he-solved-the-dnc-hack-now-hes-telling-his-story-for-the?utm_term=.htrxLKreN#.ap1dKr0ga
"They're looking at me," Johnston recalled, "and they're asking, 'What are they going to do with the data that was taken?'"
So, Johnston recalled, that’s what he told the DNC in May 2016: Such thefts have become the norm, and the hackers did not plan on doing anything with what they had purloined.
Johnston kicks himself about that now. “I take responsibility for that piece,” he said.
The DNC and CrowdStrike, now working with the FBI, tried to remove all remaining malware and contain the problem. And they decided on a public relations strategy. How could the DNC control the message? “Nothing of that magnitude stays quiet in the realm of politics,” Johnston said. “We needed to get in front of it.” So, Johnston said, in a story confirmed by DNC officials, CrowdStrike and the DNC decided to give the story to the Washington Post, which on June 14, 2016, published the story: “Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump.” “I thought it was a smart move,” Johnston said.
But it may have backfired.
One day after the Post article, a Twitter user going by the name Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the hack and posted to the internet materials stolen from the DNC’s server.
Johnston thinks the Washington Post story changed the tactics of the cyberattackers. “We accelerated their timeline. I believe now that they were intending to release the information in late October or a week before the election,” he said. But then they realized that “we discovered who they were. I don't think the Russian intelligence services were expecting it, expecting a statement and an article that pointed the finger at them.”
A month later, in late July 2016, WikiLeaks began to release thousands of emails hacked from the DNC server. Those leaks, intelligence officials would say, were carefully engineered and timed.
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Doctors say Trump on steroid therapy, health improving after brief 'episodes'
Trump's doctors said the president is being treated with dexamethasone, the steroid typically used for the sickest Covid-19 patients.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's medical team said Sunday that Trump's condition is improving after multiple "episodes" over the weekend and after he was placed on a steroid therapy typically used in more severe Covid-19 cases.
"Since we spoke last, the president has continued to improve. As with any illness, there are frequent ups and downs over the course, particularly when a patient is being so closely watched," said Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, adding at a news conference that the president could be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday.
Trump's doctors said the president was on dexamethasone, the steroid used for the sickest Covid-19 patients. The medical team said the president took his first dose Saturday and would remain on it for the "time being."
Conley said Trump had a high fever late Friday morning and was administered supplemental oxygen for about an hour at the White House.
Later in the day, Conley said, Trump appeared to be improving, but doctors still felt that the best course of action was to move him to Walter Reed. Trump has remained without a fever since Friday morning, and his vital signs are stable, according to his doctors.
Conley said Trump's oxygen levels dipped for a second time Saturday, but it was unclear whether he was again administered oxygen.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Just today:
“ ...became the first person to be sentenced in Robert Mueller's investigation when a federal judge sentenced him on Tuesday to spend 30 days in prison and pay a $20,000 fine after he admitted to lying to investigators.
Alex van der Zwaan, who worked with Gates and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort while he practiced law at a large international firm, admitted to lying and failing to turn over emails to Mueller's team in February.
He was wrapped into the special counsel's investigation last fall after his firm, Skadden Arps, began to cooperate in an investigation of Manafort and Gates' alleged contact with Ukrainians and Russians during the 2016 election.
He lied in his first voluntary interview with investigators in November, and according to both Judge Amy Berman Jackson and prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Tuesday, was "caught red-handed."
Van der Zwaan's communications with Gates and a person with Russian intelligence ties became important to the special counsel's broader investigation, as it pursues crimes related to Russian interference in the 2016 election, Mueller's team has said.”
Since he’s has to turn over his calls and emails now, it may get very interesting. Be patient.
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SPLC: Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017.
EXTREMIST GROUP INFO:
SPLC DESIGNATED HATE GROUP
Date Founded 2017
Location Texas
Ideology White Nationalist
ASSOCIATED EXTREMIST PROFILES
Thomas Rousseau
Dallas, Texas
Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.
In its own words
"The time of the Republic has passed in America as the system grows too weak to perform its duty. ... The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"The American Identity was something uniquely forged in the struggle that our ancestors waged to survive in this new continent. ... To be an American is to realize this identity and take up the national struggle upon one's shoulders. Not simply by birth is one granted this title but by the degree to which he works and fulfills the potential of his birth."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"An African, for example, may have lived, worked, and even been classed as a citizen in America for centuries, yet he is not American. He is, as he likely prefers to be labelled, an African in America. The same rule applies to others who are not of the founding stock of our people as well as to those who do not share the common unconscious that permeates throughout our greater civilization, and the European diaspora."
— Patriot Front manifesto.
"America our nation stands before an existential threat. The lives of your children, and your children's children, and your prosperity beyond that, dangle above a den of vipers. A corrupt rootless, global, and tyrannical elite has usurped your democracy and turned it into a weapon, first to enslave and then to replace you."
— University of Texas at Austin demonstration, November 3, 2017.
Background
Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.
Rousseau and his loyalists broke away from VA after a months-long feud with VA’s leader Dillon Irizarry.
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DNC chair questions House campaign arm's attack on progressive candidate
March 02, 2018
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376498-dnc-chair-responds-to-dccc-opposition-research-on-progressive-i-wouldnt
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez is questioning a move by the party's House campaign arm to publish opposition research on a progressive candidate in Texas ahead of a primary contest there.
"I wouldn't have done it. And I wouldn't have done it because I think we're at our best as Democrats when we talk about the issues," Perez told C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" during an interview Friday.
"I would have done it differently," he continued. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which backs Democratic House candidates, came under fire from progressives late last month after the group posted a memo online containing opposition research about Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat running in Texas' competitive 7th Congressional District.
The opposition research blasts Moser as a "Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress." It also points out that she claimed Washington, D.C., as her primary residence in January "in order to get a tax break."
The episode highlighted the divide between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and its establishment wing.
The party has worked since the 2016 presidential election to close that divide, after leaked emails revealed that top DNC officials sought to help Hillary Clinton win the party's presidential nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who gained a following among the party's progressives.
Our Revolution, a progressive group allied with Sanders, endorsed Moser this week ahead of the March 6 primary.
The DCCC has framed Moser as an unelectable candidate in a critical race, pointing to concerns about her residency and accusations that her husband is improperly benefitting financially from her campaign. The Sanders-affiliated group called the DCCC's attacks "ridiculous."
Moser is one of seven Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary to try to take Rep. John Culberson’s (R) Houston-area seat. Clinton won the district narrowly in 2016, while the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
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What is your angle on this, and if your statement were true...what would it prove?
The majority of people who post about this topic on YouTube comments are Christians who say the people known as the Jews today aren’t really descended from the Jews.
This is also from your quoted author’s DNA study which compared the Khazar theory to the Rhineland theory:
“The most parsimonious explanation for our findings is that Eastern European Jews are of Judeo–Khazarian ancestry forged over many centuries in the Caucasus. Jewish presence in the Caucasus and later Khazaria was recorded as early as the late centuries BCE and reinforced due to the increase in trade along the Silk Road (fig. 1), the decline of Judah (1st–7th centuries), and the uprise of Christianity and Islam (Polak 1951). Greco–Roman and Mesopotamian Jews gravitating toward Khazaria were also common in the early centuries and their migrations were intensified following the Khazars’ conversion to Judaism (Polak 1951; Brook 2006; Sand 2009). The eastward male-driven migrations (fig. 7) from Europe to Khazaria solidified the exotic Southern European ancestry in the Khazarian gene pool (fig. 5), and increased the genetic heterogeneity of the Judeo–Khazars. The religious conversion of the Khazars encompassed most of the empire’s citizens and subordinate tribes and lasted for the next 400 years (Polak 1951; Baron 1993) until the invasion of the Mongols (Polak 1951; Dinur 1961; Brook 2006). At the final collapse of their empire (13th century), many of the Judeo–Khazars fled to Eastern Europe and later migrated to Central Europe and admixed with the neighboring populations.
Historical and archeological findings shed light on the demographic events following the Khazars’ conversion. During the half millennium of their existence (740–1250 CE), the Judeo–Khazars sent offshoots into the Slavic lands, such as Romania and Hungary (Baron 1993), planting the seeds of a great Jewish community to later rise in the Khazarian diaspora. We hypothesize that the settlement of Judeo–Khazars in Eastern Europe was achieved by serial founding events, whereby populations expanded from the Caucasus into Eastern and Central Europe by successive splits, with daughter populations expanding to new territories following changes in socio-political conditions (Gilbert 1993). These events may have contributed to the higher homogeneity observed in Jewish communities outside Khazaria’s borders (table 1).
After the decline of their empire, the Judeo–Khazars refugees sought shelter in the emerging Polish kingdom and other Eastern European communities where their expertise in economics, finances, and politics was valued. Prior to their exodus, the Judeo–Khazar population was estimated to be half a million in size, the same as the number of Jews in the Polish–Lithuanian kingdom four centuries later (Polak 1951; Koestler 1976). Some Judeo–Khazars were left behind, mainly in the Crimea and the Caucasus, where they formed Jewish enclaves surviving into modern times. One of the dynasties of Jewish princes ruled in the 15th century under the tutelage of the Genovese Republic and later of the Crimean Tartars. Another vestige of the Khazar nation is the “Mountain Jews” in the North Eastern Caucasus (Koestler 1976).”
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