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Virus news 1/27/21
Scientists explain why the new Covid-19 variants could be more infectious.
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 19, 2021
This article is free to read.
Some companies have stopped donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election
It's growing, and it won't stop until Hawley, McCarthy, Cruz, and Scott are held accountable. https://t.co/Asdns7VXvU
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 26, 2021
A double scoop from @Olivia_Beavers in Huddle today:
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) January 25, 2021
—House Republicans are looking for ways to connect w/ corporations & PACs amid the current freeze on donations
—A senior staffer for Tom Cole has left the office after he objected to election resultshttps://t.co/ntBiDJutt7
2. You can find an updated list of corporations that have pledged to suspend giving to this group of Republicans here: https://t.co/r4Z4TjJUCe
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 25, 2021
Big: Google stops donations to members of Congress who tried to overturn the election.
— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) January 26, 2021
I don't know if Biden can convince Republicans to work with him. But I think the stop of political donations by the business sector may just pull it off.https://t.co/Ex9bel1dEG
Microsoft has joined in halting PAC donations to Republicans who voted against certification. "The company believes that opposition to the Electoral College undermined American democracy and should have consequences."https://t.co/CS2L9vbGgt
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) January 24, 2021
Corporations yanked donations from Dems and Republicans, got some nice regretful statements from Republican leaders, and now Republicans are back to being the party of Trump. https://t.co/93EiXgUGGg
— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@sjdemas) January 21, 2021
We are calling on all corporations that financially supported House Republicans to freeze all contributions for their complicity in the attack on the United States Capitol.
— PA HDCC (@PAHDCC) January 19, 2021
These are the corporations that have remained silent: pic.twitter.com/jpepb0YBDX
You mean like … THIS list of companies? Yeah it's weird that Microsoft isn't on it. Since January 8th. https://t.co/QxPFeVC4K2
— Rose Bigham ⭐ (@funchefchick) January 23, 2021
More on masks 1/26/21
See https://t.co/jJMuQjXQxy for @Smogdr's excellent data on masks. Shows that adding filter layer hugely improves performance. Washing degrades it. Visit website to see other combinations. Totally consistent with all other results I've seen, including from my lab. pic.twitter.com/oEiJNLQNF1
— Linsey Marr (@linseymarr) January 25, 2021
Masks are everywhere, but which is best to wear to protect yourself from Covid-19?
— CNN (@CNN) January 26, 2021
CNN checked with experts about the pros and cons of the many masks on the market today and which may be best for you. https://t.co/KThzZ6Wdtp
Face Mask for Coronavirus: Types, Best Filters, How to Make (webmd.com)
Wear multiple masks?
Americans’ renewed interest in double masking also comes as variants that appear to be more contagious emerge from the U.K, South Africa, Brazil and California.
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 26, 2021
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, double-masking would "likely be more effective."https://t.co/xqrOUtK2ib
Double Masking ‘Makes Common Sense,’ Fauci Says
Mask tips for covid: Fit, filtration, double masks and more – The Washington Post
Biden ends Trump’s worthless 1776 Commission
President Biden: "I've rescinded the previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training, and abolished the offensive, counterfactual 1776 Commission."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 26, 2021
President Joe Biden revokes Donald Trump's presidential 1776 Commission that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians rejected as political propaganda. https://t.co/oEtD6828OO
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 21, 2021
Biden abolishes Trump’s 1776 Commission.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 26, 2021
"Trump’s ‘1776 Report’ is an egregious parting shot!" @washingtonpost columnist @kathleenparker argues on @SXMPOTUS @SIRIUSXM! https://t.co/Uku3Zs09KZ
— Laura Coates (@thelauracoates) January 20, 2021
Right-wing extremism in state Republican parties
We need to talk about the number of state GOPs — Arizona Hawaii Oregon Texas — pushing deranged conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists. This garbage got people killed and police beaten at the Capitol not even 3 weeks ago. https://t.co/FDSvdBRlw8
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 25, 2021
There are a number of GOP state parties that are more accurately described as Q Parties. Oregon, California, Texas and Arizona are among them. Understanding what side controls what in the GOP civil war will be key to understanding and covering it.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 26, 2021
The January 6th vote is as irreconcilable for the GOP as was the Kansas/Nebraska act for the Whigs. It has broken the GOP in two. @mattgaetz has declared Trump as the forever leader of the Republican Party and more ominously “The America First Movement”. Like its ‘85 year old https://t.co/cCySvBVYcs
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 26, 2021
.@HawleyMO are all in league with the insanity of the Oregon, Arizona and Texas parties. They have become consumed by Qanon and the insanity birthed from a million lies. @GOPLeader is unsteady and flailing. He betrayed his oath and finds himself in a political coalition that
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 26, 2021
Oregon Republican Party falsely calls Capitol riot a "false flag" meant to "discredit President Trump" https://t.co/LB32JqAUPN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2021
The Oregon republican party just compared the impeachment vote to the Reichstag Firehttps://t.co/2USyHPCN9c
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) January 26, 2021
This is insane garbage. People have been arrested and charged, in part because they were on video they shot themselves. I don't what's scarier: that these idiots believe this false flag crap or they don't and think it's important to lie. https://t.co/DXiaECovEQ
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) January 25, 2021
In run-up to 2020, Trump team took care to firm up their control of state party organizations to mitigate any primary challenge. And now… https://t.co/SI31ptAKlr
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 25, 2021
One of the reasons I've argued for voting out the GOP down to the roots is that the state parties are even more insane than the national party. https://t.co/k7i4KOOMXk
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 25, 2021
Kelli Ward is a two-time loser in GOP Senate primaries, whose next project has been driving the Arizona GOP into a ditch, including most recently by censuring its successful conservative governor, Doug Ducey https://t.co/UnIghhy7p1
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) January 25, 2021
GOP congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene has made racist, Islamaphobic, anti-Semitic and conspiratorial comments.
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) August 14, 2020
Republicans supporting her:
-Donald Trump
-Kevin McCarthy
-Kelly Loeffler
-Doug Collins
-Matt Gaetz
-Jim Jordan
-Andy Biggshttps://t.co/LhwDWU9JR0
QAnon is terrible 1/26/21
QAnon believers seek to adapt their extremist ideology for a new era: "Things have just started" https://t.co/J4BzG7UZF2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2021
Newsmax and OAN peeled off some viewers and instead of becoming more sane Fox has made an editorial decision to get even crazier https://t.co/H0qK1vxEWR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
"Like the Hawaii GOP, [Tucker Carlson] didn’t promote or subscribe to the wild and baseless theory about a mass pedophile ring in the U.S. government, but he cast its adherents as victims of looming persecution, denied basic civil liberties." https://t.co/FeYi2yLK9L
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 26, 2021
Conspiracy theories are dangerous and can be deadly. But we need to stop thinking of QAnon believers as far-off lunatics or tinfoil hat loners in basements. Some, sadly, may be your neighbors. We urgently must try to bring them back to reality. My latest: https://t.co/KxXxFioy2A
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 25, 2021
Dear god, they literally tweeted a QAnon slogan from their official account. https://t.co/4I2LmwxZOH
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 23, 2021
"A Federal Aviation Administration employee who subscribed to the QAnon conspiracy theory was already under FBI investigation when he took part in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities disclosed this week.” https://t.co/YxWWOIiEU5
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) January 23, 2021
What a story from @stephemcneal on the world of white women QAnon believers. The idea of one person creating a community that follows extremist ideas couched in millennial pink nearly overnight is so scary.
— Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) January 22, 2021
Come for the reporting, stay for the art. https://t.co/tVcMMNFMwQ
"There are possibly millions of Americans who have been indoctrinated in conspiracy theories, and just because Biden is the President, that is not going away." — @donie https://t.co/buQssVcLEq
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) January 22, 2021
“All it took was Biden’s inauguration to break the fever dream for some QAnon supporters,” @JohnAvlon says in today’s #RealityCheck as he looks at the “panic on the QAnon message boards.” pic.twitter.com/lDY6cMAPPl
— New Day (@NewDay) January 21, 2021
I wonder what these guys are up to today. https://t.co/p90bVsUBei
— Travis View (@travis_view) January 20, 2021
QAnon conspiracy theorists are having a very bad day. https://t.co/HPuQPhRbeW
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 20, 2021
"Q was a LARP the entire f—ing time."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 20, 2021
"There is no plan.'
"It's over and nothing makes sense… absolutely nothing…" pic.twitter.com/I2k8C7708m
Pro-Trump Telegram channels and other online forums were filled today with posts from users angry and disappointed that Trump did not black out U.S. communications networks and send in the military to arrest Biden and other Democrats and celebrities. https://t.co/1Y2Odm6JM1
— Axios (@axios) January 20, 2021
Ron Watkins, the former 8kun admin who helped keep QAnon afloat for years (and who some suspected of being Q himself), is throwing in the towel. pic.twitter.com/HJdBrOexO2
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) January 20, 2021
When talking to doomsday QAnon supporters in West Virginia, this NYT reporter confesses that "You can see the image of Hillary rising to the Presidency in their eyes", further confirmation of what Trump supporters have known all along, that Hillary will emerge from the wings.
— SatireBot (@BotSatire) January 20, 2021
Facebook has new QAnon numbers out tonight that highlights how vast the conspiracy theory is.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 20, 2021
Since August Facebook says it has removed:
-3,300 Pages
-10,500 groups
-510 events
-18,300 Facebook profiles
-27,300 Instagram accounts
Under its QAnon policy.
National Park Service spent 4,000 hours working on Trump’s fireworks
corrupt
4000 hours.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 26, 2021
That's a staggering amount of time for government employees to have to work promoting the president's re-election campaign. https://t.co/9u0Dlb8O3t
After GOP leaders decided a fireworks display should cap President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in August, the National Park Service got to work, providing 3,957 hours of labor for the job.https://t.co/RRHHDjMwsA
— E&E News (@EENewsUpdates) January 26, 2021
Download the 2020 Awards Season Screenplays
The script for #Soul is now available to download for free, along with more 2020 screenplays: https://t.co/ADG0ipYynf pic.twitter.com/7NrVEH7ZO1
— The Film Stage 📽 (@TheFilmStage) January 26, 2021
Voice of America update 1/26/21
Biden is undoing the damage done by Trump and his hacks.
So if I understand this right, the Trump guy appointed to gut Voice of America illegally paid @McGuireWoodsLLP $3M in tax dollars to root through employee email archives for evidence of disloyalty. https://t.co/X5ntwCai1r
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) January 26, 2021
Demoted VOA reporter Patsy Widakuswara (@pwidakuswara) is back on White House beat, as of today.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 22, 2021
She was reassigned last week after asking pointed Qs to Pompeo and the then VOA director about Trump & US standing in the world. VOA director & deputy replaced yesterday.
Breaking NEWS: Acting USAGM CEO Kelu Chao has fired the presidents of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia & the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, as of 6pm.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 23, 2021
RFE's Ted Lipien, RFA's Stephen J. Yates and MBN's Victoria Coates were appointed in late December /MORE
Wow. VOA Dir. Robert Reilly is FIRED by Biden admin and escorted by Guards. He reprimanded reporter @pwidakuswara last week for asking Qs to Pompeo, removed her from assignment.
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 21, 2021
He's at least #5 official to be fired in last 24hrs. AP: https://t.co/wugj8yc6Mu
New: Director and deputy director of @VOANews pushed out by new Biden-appointed overseer @keluchao. VOA directors had been appointed by Trump administrator Michael Pack last month. Pack was forced out yesterday. https://t.co/FAUMLYpsNG
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) January 21, 2021
UPDATE: President Biden names senior VOA news executive Keli Chao as acting CEO over its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 21, 2021
Chao had been named whistleblower in lawsuit that successfully alleged illegal acts by Michael Pack, whom she replaces https://t.co/SAbOdv9sFM
US Agency for Global Media Michael Pack resigns, effective 2pm, after waging war on his executives and the international news networks they oversee. A Trumpian legacy of ideological clashes, lawsuits and scandal. More to come.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 20, 2021
