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Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker of the House for the 117th Congress, clinching the gavel for the fourth and potentially final time.https://t.co/mYaHdHq2F0— POLITICO (@politico) January 3, 2021
Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker of the House for the 117th Congress, clinching the gavel for the fourth and potentially final time.https://t.co/mYaHdHq2F0
Kamala Harris's vice presidential portfolio was nebulous before last week. But thanks to Democrats' upset victories in two Georgia Senate run-offs, Harris has unexpectedly earned a new title: Senate tie breakerhttps://t.co/RckmEJrVJI— POLITICO (@politico) January 10, 2021
Kamala Harris's vice presidential portfolio was nebulous before last week. But thanks to Democrats' upset victories in two Georgia Senate run-offs, Harris has unexpectedly earned a new title: Senate tie breakerhttps://t.co/RckmEJrVJI
How to become the richest person on the planet.$TSLA@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/IjPPvBCokD— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) January 7, 2021
How to become the richest person on the planet.$TSLA@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/IjPPvBCokD
Now playing in America. https://t.co/PhFmwRdAs7— Pedro Nicolaci da Costa (@pdacosta) January 7, 2021
Now playing in America. https://t.co/PhFmwRdAs7
Carrying pro-Trump banners, supporters of President Trump march in Tokyo pic.twitter.com/2OIEMgFyWw— Reuters (@Reuters) January 7, 2021
Carrying pro-Trump banners, supporters of President Trump march in Tokyo pic.twitter.com/2OIEMgFyWw
I understand why Joe Biden does not have a grasp of #US history. It would extraordinary, if he did. What I find particularly tragic and disappointing is that many of our friends on ["]the left["] seemingly have the same affliction as Joseph R. Biden."
I was in a local grocery store, just picking up some food to cook dinner on New Year's day. And I was offered the Moderna vaccine by the pharmacist who had some extra doses and was going to have to throw them away. There were two people who were scheduled to come in and get their vaccines, who didn't show. And as a result, she had two doses left in the vial that she had prepared.
President-elect Biden has nominated Ambassador Samantha Power as USAID Administrator.A leading voice for humane and principled American engagement in the world, she will rally the international community and work with our partners to confront the biggest challenges of our time. pic.twitter.com/Gv9G8CLrI5— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 13, 2021
President-elect Biden has nominated Ambassador Samantha Power as USAID Administrator.A leading voice for humane and principled American engagement in the world, she will rally the international community and work with our partners to confront the biggest challenges of our time. pic.twitter.com/Gv9G8CLrI5
Besides the poor conditions the guardsmen were met with, an outbreak of the coronavirus rippled through the ranks in Washington. It was not immediately clear how many guardsmen were infected with the virus, but reports indicated that somewhere between 100 and 200 service members could have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
A contingency force of National Guard troops will help protect the Capitol from what was described as "impeachment security concerns."https://t.co/hQPW0NfbCp— POLITICO (@politico) January 24, 2021
A contingency force of National Guard troops will help protect the Capitol from what was described as "impeachment security concerns."https://t.co/hQPW0NfbCp
Despite the threat, the citizen soldiers [BWAH!] on the ground [no cots ?!] say they have been given little information about the extension, and wonder why they are being forced to endure combat-like conditions in the nation's capital [sic] without a clear mission. "Quite frankly this is not a `combat zone,' so combat conditions shouldn't apply," said one Guard member on the ground in D.C. who has deployed twice to Afghanistan.
"Quite frankly this is not a `combat zone,' so combat conditions shouldn't apply," said one Guard member on the ground in D.C. who has deployed twice to Afghanistan.
What is herd immunity?
And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. To overcome these challenges - to restore the soul and to secure the future of America - requires more than words. It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity. Unity.
To overcome these challenges - to restore the soul and to secure the future of America - requires more than words.
It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity. Unity.
Democracy is not well understood.
Blinken told members of the U.S. Senate that Biden would seek to "more effectively target" sanctions on the country, which aim to oust President Nicolas Maduro - who retains control of the country. Blinken said the new administration would look at more humanitarian assistance to the country. [...] "We need an effective policy that can restore Venezuela to democracy, starting with free and fair elections," Blinken said.
well suh, cheeto's plan to BLOCK TransTeam Biden sure failed. They hacked that bidness with the intertubez.Read all SWEEPING orders for yourself at Federal Register EO disposition table https://t.co/MJMLcaDQdr (checks watch) Fri, Jan 22. pic.twitter.com/s8KSAabbJs— MissMaryPrep (@MissMaryPrep) January 21, 2021
well suh, cheeto's plan to BLOCK TransTeam Biden sure failed. They hacked that bidness with the intertubez.Read all SWEEPING orders for yourself at Federal Register EO disposition table https://t.co/MJMLcaDQdr (checks watch) Fri, Jan 22. pic.twitter.com/s8KSAabbJs
I don't know about you, but this is the winner for me. pic.twitter.com/4e3B0N60N1— Dan Chibnall 🖐🏻 🧼 😷 (@bookowl) January 21, 2021
I don't know about you, but this is the winner for me. pic.twitter.com/4e3B0N60N1
Last week, we joined w/ 39 other orgs to tell @POTUS that his antitrust appointees should have NO ties to Big Tech. This is no different.https://t.co/dti7RU1UJP— American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) January 28, 2021
Last week, we joined w/ 39 other orgs to tell @POTUS that his antitrust appointees should have NO ties to Big Tech. This is no different.https://t.co/dti7RU1UJP
I can't vouch for the underlying reporting, but The Guardian is a careful and usually reliable source, and this reporting begins to connect the otherwise bizarre dots . . . 'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years - ex-KGB spy https://t.co/gDDX8wnVjb— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 29, 2021
I can't vouch for the underlying reporting, but The Guardian is a careful and usually reliable source, and this reporting begins to connect the otherwise bizarre dots . . . 'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years - ex-KGB spy https://t.co/gDDX8wnVjb
FDA Briefing Document, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, 17 Dec 2020
We are updating our phased distribution based in part on federal guidance. At the current pace of allocation, the state expects to fully enter Phase 1B by late January.Read more about our updated phases and approximate timelines: https://t.co/hNTK1RxUDt pic.twitter.com/EzC6c8PAu7— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) January 5, 2021
We are updating our phased distribution based in part on federal guidance. At the current pace of allocation, the state expects to fully enter Phase 1B by late January.Read more about our updated phases and approximate timelines: https://t.co/hNTK1RxUDt pic.twitter.com/EzC6c8PAu7
Fewer than 10 individuals required medical attention over the span of 24 hours," the epidemiologist said in a statement here. The vaccine maker said it was unaware of comparable cases of adverse events from other vaccination centers which may have administered vaccines from the same lot or from other lots of its vaccine. A total of 307,300 doses from the lot remain in storage, Moderna said, of the total 1,272,200 doses that were produced in the batch.
The vaccine maker said it was unaware of comparable cases of adverse events from other vaccination centers which may have administered vaccines from the same lot or from other lots of its vaccine.
A total of 307,300 doses from the lot remain in storage, Moderna said, of the total 1,272,200 doses that were produced in the batch.
"Embedded" CQ Roll Call reporter, Niels, is terrified, but sufficiently coherent to organize a (cell) phone tree with press pool "sheltering in place".
Detail from a photo by Saul Loeb. That's a valknot under the tail there. Info on the valknot from the ADL here:https://t.co/bu8QUZ8jT6 pic.twitter.com/WSuR8vkNm2— 𝕊onja Drimmer (@Sonja_Drimmer) January 6, 2021
Detail from a photo by Saul Loeb. That's a valknot under the tail there. Info on the valknot from the ADL here:https://t.co/bu8QUZ8jT6 pic.twitter.com/WSuR8vkNm2
Spotted at the Capitol today: A Trump supporter sitting inside Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office as rioters stormed the building.Were you at the Capitol today? Tell us what you saw: https://t.co/dyWmwGfPiV(📷: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty) pic.twitter.com/3U3UivYlFE— POLITICO (@politico) January 7, 2021
Spotted at the Capitol today: A Trump supporter sitting inside Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office as rioters stormed the building.Were you at the Capitol today? Tell us what you saw: https://t.co/dyWmwGfPiV(📷: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty) pic.twitter.com/3U3UivYlFE
Audio blaring from one of Ronald Reagan's speeches adding surreal quality to insurrection attempt at side entrance of the #USCapitol, which rioters attempted to storm several times. #US pic.twitter.com/hoAH87xKin— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) January 7, 2021
Audio blaring from one of Ronald Reagan's speeches adding surreal quality to insurrection attempt at side entrance of the #USCapitol, which rioters attempted to storm several times. #US pic.twitter.com/hoAH87xKin
@UWMedicine Do you endorse a physician calling for murder and participating in a riot where five people died and they attempted to murder government officials?— Marquis Lafayette (@RenegadeSci) January 8, 2021
@UWMedicine Do you endorse a physician calling for murder and participating in a riot where five people died and they attempted to murder government officials?
The made-for-media theatrics on Capitol Hill were not an attempted "coup". Coups are what the CIA stages all over the world. Neither was "democracy" in peril. What democracy? And Trump is no more than a caricature of a system of which Biden, Obama, Bush etc are the embodiment.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) January 9, 2021
The made-for-media theatrics on Capitol Hill were not an attempted "coup". Coups are what the CIA stages all over the world. Neither was "democracy" in peril. What democracy? And Trump is no more than a caricature of a system of which Biden, Obama, Bush etc are the embodiment.
carnage: 3 white ppl "medical emergencies," 1 white woman SHOT by Capitol Police officer, 1 white Capitol Police officer BEATEN by white-supremacy mob
parler dragnet: U.S. pursuing seditious conspiracy cases in 'unprecedented' probe of Capitol assault
Makes a change from dick pics, I guess. (Or does it?)
Guy in MAGA cap asks a REALLY good question: https://t.co/p7I0Z2zL6T— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) January 19, 2021
Guy in MAGA cap asks a REALLY good question: https://t.co/p7I0Z2zL6T
Does anyone have any idea where 65-year-olds and older can get vaccinated against Covid in Maryland? They opened the category today and told people NOTHING about where to go. None of this would be happening if Larry Hogan were governor.— Thomas L. Friedman (@tomfriedman) January 25, 2021
Does anyone have any idea where 65-year-olds and older can get vaccinated against Covid in Maryland? They opened the category today and told people NOTHING about where to go. None of this would be happening if Larry Hogan were governor.
Maryland providers have now administered 372,937 doses of #COVID19 vaccines, and are now averaging nearly 17,000 doses per day. Providers have now utilized 72.1% of first doses allocated to the state. pic.twitter.com/J7qi8lBFCy— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) January 25, 2021
Maryland providers have now administered 372,937 doses of #COVID19 vaccines, and are now averaging nearly 17,000 doses per day. Providers have now utilized 72.1% of first doses allocated to the state. pic.twitter.com/J7qi8lBFCy
A Mob and the Breach of Democracy: The Violent End of the Trump Era
Hitler Virtually Eliminated.
CALIFORNIA. US Sen Dianne Feinstein (D) has filed FEC paperwork to seek reelection in 2024 to a six year term ... when she will be 91 years old. https://t.co/OQUWaDOCLB— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) January 13, 2021
CALIFORNIA. US Sen Dianne Feinstein (D) has filed FEC paperwork to seek reelection in 2024 to a six year term ... when she will be 91 years old. https://t.co/OQUWaDOCLB
"CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated that Rep. Ted Lieu grabbed a crowbar before leaving his office. He grabbed a ProBar energy bar,".
PS5 pic.twitter.com/ouzkmkmFYd— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) January 15, 2021
PS5 pic.twitter.com/ouzkmkmFYd
The National Rifle Association says it has filed for bankruptcy and will seek to incorporate in Texas instead of New York. https://t.co/92Z855uRzi— The Associated Press (@AP) January 15, 2021
The National Rifle Association says it has filed for bankruptcy and will seek to incorporate in Texas instead of New York. https://t.co/92Z855uRzi
Thoughts and prayers, etc...
I understand that the NRA being sued by the state of New-York might play a part in their decision to re-incorporate in supposedly friendlier Texas.
Air quality regulators have lifted the limits on the number of cremations that can be performed in Los Angeles county, citing a death rate that is more than double the pre-pandemic norm and an unmanageable backlog of dead bodies. [...] The 28 crematoriums in Los Angeles county have the capacity to perform more cremations, but most of their permits include a monthly cap on cremations due to environmental regulations, the regulator said. Environmentalists have for years called for limits on cremations, which studies have shown release toxic mercury emissions from dental fillings. Mogharabi said the "air toxics impacts" resulting from the executive order were expected to be "relatively small".
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The 28 crematoriums in Los Angeles county have the capacity to perform more cremations, but most of their permits include a monthly cap on cremations due to environmental regulations, the regulator said. Environmentalists have for years called for limits on cremations, which studies have shown release toxic mercury emissions from dental fillings. Mogharabi said the "air toxics impacts" resulting from the executive order were expected to be "relatively small".
Politico
For higher-profile remarks, he'd obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory. And at times through the various iterations of outlining remarks, Biden could grow downright ornery. "I would never say this," Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. "Where did you get this from?'" The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.
"I would never say this," Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. "Where did you get this from?'"
The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.
Congratulations, soon-to-be-president Harris!
Tension brewed in early 2019, when Kamala was still a contender in the Democratic presidential primary. When asked if she had ever smoked pot during an interview with The Breakfast Club, Kamala said, "Half my family's from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?" The joke fell flat with many--including her father. In a statement he sent to Jamaica Global Online, Donald wrote, "My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family's name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty."
The joke fell flat with many--including her father. In a statement he sent to Jamaica Global Online, Donald wrote, "My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family's name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty."
An alleged Capitol rioter from Florida knew he was wanted from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and returned to Washington, DC, to attend the inauguration on Wednesday, the Justice Department said in a new court filing. Prosecutors in Washington say that when law enforcement tried to arrest Samuel Camargo at his home in Florida on Tuesday, he had left. Investigators then found him in DC on Wednesday and arrested him there -- the same day as the presidential inauguration.
Prosecutors in Washington say that when law enforcement tried to arrest Samuel Camargo at his home in Florida on Tuesday, he had left.
Investigators then found him in DC on Wednesday and arrested him there -- the same day as the presidential inauguration.
Federal officials estimate that roughly 800 people surged into the building, though they caution that such numbers are imprecise, and the real figure could be 100 people or more in either direction.
MEANWHILE DOJ has created the "Capitol Breach Investigation Resource Page" for inquiring minds--such as yella sheet stringers--tabulating individual suspect WHITE SUPREMACIST TRUMPIANS, charged with disorderly conduct, by US state residency.
Even defense attorneys have acknowledged that the evidence poses a problem for them. "I'm not a magician," said an attorney for the man seen in a photo carrying Pelosi's lectern. "We've got a photograph of our client in what appears to be inside a federal building or inside the Capitol with government property."
"I'm not a magician," said an attorney for the man seen in a photo carrying Pelosi's lectern. "We've got a photograph of our client in what appears to be inside a federal building or inside the Capitol with government property."
Brian Williams and his producers for the win... pic.twitter.com/XhIE3ujW3x— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 29, 2021
Brian Williams and his producers for the win... pic.twitter.com/XhIE3ujW3x
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