Gee, think we could do better?
Millions have lost their health insurance in pandemic-driven recessio
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/coronavirus-health-insurance-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR05qLCcrhK34P29R_jFRiQjd_MNRGLDLZ-mCZHqhIC2GsJ9ywOyUyg0EA0
Mother Jones article:
Ohio in the news:
ReplyDeleteOperation Grant seeks to stop President Trump’s re-election in Ohio: John Weaver and Bill Kristol [Click]
Major USPS Changes Could Hamper Vote-By-Mail At The Worst Possible Time [Click] Yep, this was predicted. We have been voting by mail for more than 25 years with no problem. Maybe this year we will deposit our ballots in a drop box. I inquired about a couple of packages that are taking a very long time to be delivered, and the postal clerk said that with everyone ordering online, it is currently three times worse than the busiest Christmas season he has ever seen—he has been working twelve hour days. And now the Trumpets want to forbid overtime right before the election.
ReplyDeleteThe drop box is only safe if it's monitored carefully, so that ballots are not stolen.
DeleteThe ones they use here are pretty secure.
Delete1334 known cases (+9)
ReplyDelete56 deaths (0 for a month)
Now 157 active cases
Recovered 1121
In Hospital = 5 ( 0)
Tests 88,246 (+8806!)
We are waiting on the results of major testing taking place around a suspected outbreak in the southern part of Vermont. I expect this number to jump by about 40-50 (or more) soon.
Good luck to all.
DeleteIn today’s news conference, we heard that the 49 positive antigen tests are being followed up with a proper PCR test. So far only 2 of those have tested positive. 15 negative. Tests ongoing. Stay tuned.
DeleteThanks, Alan.
DeleteI wonder if there's a typo in the Tests number. I suspect so. I imagine it's really 80,246, so a total of 1806. We'll see.
The Atlantic: How Trump Closed Down the Schools [Click] “The president is demanding that classes resume this fall—but his own failures are forcing districts to shut their doors.” The Atlantic has strengthened its paywall. I may be able to work around it, but it’s long past time to consider subscribing. I’ve been mooching off them for a very long time, and they’re hard up.
ReplyDeleteTrump's campaign reshuffle shows he's figured out he's losing [Click] There are some zingers toward the end of this column.
ReplyDeleteSome people give their life for the sake of others. We call them heroes. Here is a true hero. RBG is undergoing chemo again and plans to keep doing her job. Rock on, Justice Ginsburg!
ReplyDeleteRuth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence, will remain on the Supreme Court
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer-chemotherapy/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1ahZifX9n5kxBq3YxpxXCof9lIwUcNf3ux5V3dl1zCU_i40vOE0RcaGvA
Hopefully after November RBG can finally freely retire if she wishes to or needs to.
I hope it's after the inauguration rather than the election.
DeleteJamaal Bowman unseats veteran Rep. Eliot Engel in New York primary [Click] Per AP, I don’t yet see the margin.
ReplyDeleteOne story says 15 point margin. So that would be about 57 to 42. The in-person vote went to Bowman by 25 points, but Engel narrowed it up in the absentee votes.
DeleteWhen The AP called the race, Bowman led Engel, 56 percent to 40 percent.”
DeleteOHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 72,280 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,112 deaths, and 9,445 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDeleteTrump’s Fumbling of the Virus Could Kill College Football Season [Click] I can assure Mr. Trump that will have no effect whatsoever on my vote, but I suspect that it might be a BFD for many people who customarily vote Republican.
ReplyDeleteJustices Expedite Ruling In Trump Tax Subpoena Case [Click]
ReplyDelete“The U.S. Supreme Court put a clash over a grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump’s financial records on a fast track, formally returning it to the appeals court level ahead of schedule,” Bloomberg reports.
“Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had asked the justices not to wait 25-plus days, as they normally do after issuing an opinion.”
Judge orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications [Click] YEEEE-HAH!
ReplyDeletePlaybook: “The Trump administration is likely to issue an executive order today seeking to ban undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census.”
ReplyDeleteMore desperate flailing.
Trump Mulls Troop Reduction In South Korea [Click] He has various choices about how to do it; I am confident that Uncle Vlad and Premier Xi would be happy with any of them.
ReplyDeletePence Calls Biden a ‘Trojan Horse’ for Radical Agenda. [Click] Jeez—- look who’s talking. I don’t think they can do anything to change Biden’s avuncular appearance.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.salon.com/2020/07/17/theyre-kidnapping-people-trumps-secret-police-snatch-portland-protesters-into-unmarked-vans/
ReplyDelete"Democratic leaders in Oregon called on the Trump administration to withdraw federal forces from Portland after footage emerged of camouflaged federal officers snatching protesters off the streets and detaining them in unmarked minivans."
The Fourth Reich, brought to you by the Republican Party.
US Attorney For Oregon Calls For Investigation Into Portland Protester Arrests [Click] I do wonder about the claims that protesters were throwing “mortars.”
DeleteYour comment is spot on, Susan:
Delete"The Fourth Reich, brought to you by the Republican Party."
Trump properties have made over $17 million from the campaign and the RNC since 2016 [Click] Is that all? Oh, that's what they report.
ReplyDeleteLBJ's advice to Humphrey for running mate. [Click] Yep, that sounds about right. We can only wonder if it would have made a difference, but Johnson was no slouch as a politician; he was an incredibly complex person.
ReplyDeleteIt is said that in his first run for office, not only did LBJ get enough votes from deceased constituents to win, they even voted in alphabetical order! If that doesn't show outstanding organizational ability on the part of the local Democratic establishment, I don't know what would.
DeleteAnd years later LBJ would tell the story of the young boy who complained bitterly that his deceased father had come to town to vote for Johnson but hadn't stopped to visit hem!
DeleteOh, I hadn't heard that one, Bill. It's a keeper, that's for sure!
DeletePresident Trump’s reelection campaign is conducting an internal review of spending irregularities overseen by Brad Parscale, the recently-demoted 2020 campaign manager, Business Insider reports.
ReplyDelete“Trump’s anger at Parscale has been building since last year after he learned his campaign manager was living a lavish lifestyle built off riches he’d made working for the president.”
Pass the popcorn!
UPDATE: Gov. Newsom orders most California schools to stay closed until coronavirus spread lessens [Click]
ReplyDeleteProtests after Detroit teen imprisoned over missed homework [Click]
ReplyDeleteBig political news in Illinois: Feds say ComEd will pay $200 million fine in alleged bribery scheme; Pritzker says Madigan ‘must resign’ if allegations are true. Michael Madigan, Speaker of the House and head of the state Democratic Party for a quarter century, denies any personal wrongdoing.
ReplyDeleteJ. B. Pritzker is the Democratic Illinois governor.
DeleteGee. . . gotta go read up on that.
DeleteThat's pretty impressive, by any standard I think.
DeleteCan Joe Biden win Ohio? Big polls show a tie and Trump just dropped more than $18 million on TV ads.
ReplyDeleteWhite House portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to [now] rarely used room [Click] The now rarely used room was redecorated by Michelle Obama. . .
ReplyDeleteWe watched the International Space Station fly over our house a few minutes ago. Now we’re taking a short drive to get a good vantage point to hopefully see Neowise Comet.
ReplyDeleteWe have seen the Space Station pass overhead; it's pretty easy to see if you know when and roughly where. Last night I made a slight effort to see the comet, not expecting to see it. The air was a little smokey; it appears less so this evening. I understood that it would be roughly where the sun set, visible about an hour thereafter.
DeleteHere is where the comet will be in relation to Polaris and the Big Dipper [Click]
DeleteNo luck seeing the comet tonight; the air isn't clear enough to the north, probably because of a fire in the next county. At 9PM I couldn't see the pole star or the Big Dipper. Well, the air will probably clear in time to see it.
DeleteBiden warns of Russian election interference after receiving intelligence briefings [Click] Pretty good that he is getting intelligence briefings already.
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis, US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, dies at 80 [Click]
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw this about the same time. Posted it on the next thread. SO sad.
DeleteGlad he made it to 80, at least.
When I saw this on Facebook a short while ago I read the age as 90. Realizing he was only 80 makes him seem almost young.
DeleteI've been getting scads of emails from the Lewis campaign for the past several weeks.
He, of course, went down fighting.
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