” Soldier of Love” is another song originally recorded by the great Arthur Alexander.
Cason co-wrote the song
Month: December 2020
The Trump cult thinks there was fraud because they didn’t like the election results
The psychology of fairness: Why some Americans don’t believe the election results https://t.co/J6D4M4i9ms
— Salon (@Salon) December 25, 2020
More on COVID-19 in prisons
The #COVID19 epidemic has taken big tolls inside prisons — yet shocking numbers of prisoners are refusing #vaccination — especially men of color.https://t.co/PDWmhGIXwT
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 22, 2021
For the first time, you can mail one of our stories directly to your loved one in prison. We’ll cover the costs of postage.
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) March 4, 2021
We answered questions that incarcerated people asked about the vaccine. Help us out by sharing with your loved ones behind bars. https://t.co/sChphXNHYS
“It is very alarming now that we have these deaths. We got a crisis that is starting to explode in Maryland prisons and it is not getting the attention that it merits,” Marc Shindler, of the Justice Policy Institute said. https://t.co/iUF611aHOe
— Phillip Jackson (@phillej_) December 25, 2020
It’s come to this. 1 in 5 people in prison—both incarcerated and workers—has contracted coronavirus this year. That’s four times as high as the overall population. Important reporting from @marshallproj & @AP today assessing the toll. https://t.co/Zrl2UjBUqk pic.twitter.com/NXHa4G3Zux
— Tom Meagher (@ultracasual) December 18, 2020
Opinion: Incarcerated people are suffering from covid-19 most. They should be among the first vaccinated. https://t.co/JdZFlcX43Q
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 10, 2020
At least 2,647 incarcerated youth have tested positive for #covid19, 414 of them in November. pic.twitter.com/io06OdGheT
— Josh Rovner (@JoshRovner) December 3, 2020
There are reports that more than 252,000 people have contracted COVID-19 while in federal, state, and local custody.
— Congressmember Bass (@RepKarenBass) December 2, 2020
More than 1,400 of them have died.
I called today's hearing to make it clear that this is absolutely unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/uhOj9SELTd
This is data that had never been public until now. Just like the @MarshallProj/@ap project tracking #COVID19 in prisons. This data (open, naturally) has a life in civil society that goes far beyond the stories we author, from op-eds to academic papers.https://t.co/3r5WA0TH5j
— David Eads (@eads) December 1, 2020
Your liberal northern states. Huh. A full half of the people imprisoned by NYS are black although black were only 16% of the population in that last census. Covid disproportionately kills black people. The sound you hear is the deafening silence of you so-called allies. https://t.co/cGnLirXuI5
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 13, 2021
Hawaiian Spam gangs!
Soooo they’re stealing spam in Hawaii?🤦🏽♀️😂
— NAJala 🧘🏽♀️💋🪬 (@Naj_Blackk) December 24, 2020
Spam is an iconic staple in Hawaii. https://t.co/ivgC6S46nB
— Al Pastor Fan Account (@JJBittenbindr) December 24, 2020
and we can’t discuss Spam without Monty Python
How Spam became cool again https://t.co/WQW8aUG3RM
— CNN (@CNN) October 1, 2022
The thoroughly revamped loss-prevention regime at the Port Authority Duane Reade has finally created something of beauty, a sort of Jeff Koons homage. pic.twitter.com/gtlpzY2l9G
— willy 🌜💧 (@willystaley) July 28, 2022
spam, oreo, and mayo burger pic.twitter.com/wPhjD3QQ80
— fucked up looking food (@fuckedupfoods) August 15, 2022
— fucked up looking food (@fuckedupfoods) November 16, 2022
— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) September 8, 2023
Trump campaign sleazy financial arrangements
Grifters
How is this legal? https://t.co/AJas4NUmmx
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 23, 2020
SCOOP: The Trump campaign shell company that helped hide $617M in presidential campaign spending was almost exclusively a Trump family production, run in part by a top deputy to Eric Trump, @Politicsinsider has learned. by @tomlobianco & @davelevinthal ($) https://t.co/58zpT50j28
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 23, 2020
Jared Kushner approved the creation of a shell company that operated like a “campaign within a campaign” and secretly funneled millions of dollars in campaign cash to Trump family members https://t.co/3UHXiIlEjv
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 22, 2020
New reporting from Business Insider reveals Pres. Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner helped create a Pres. Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent $617M in reelection cash. https://t.co/dO1Hvld61n
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 19, 2020
I’ve been saying for four years that Trump campaign was a large criminal enterprise & I’m yet to find a political professional, Republican or Democrat, who doesn’t agree. If you know how campaigns work, it’s been obvious. https://t.co/fgDyKFeUOd
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) December 20, 2020
Other Rs said the shell company & the hiding of payments feels like Trump family members may have crossed a line. "With Trump it's all about him and money and everyone around him took it to the Nth degree," said one R close to the campaign. "It's truly a criminal enterprise."
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 23, 2020
Trump unleashed
PLEASE STAND BY: sight unseen, I’m betting there will be multiple additions to the #ToddlerinChief thread coming from this story. https://t.co/Wivq7dX8tw
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 23, 2020
Trump is whining about stuff he proposed in the budget
The funding figures Trump complained about for the Kennedy Center, National Gallery and Smithsonian are actually lower than what he requested in his budget in February pic.twitter.com/54r3uMZxSF
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) December 23, 2020
Someone has just made a great point to me: much of the foreign spending the president is complaining about was in his budget request to congress.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 23, 2020
What are the chances that after four years as President, Trump understands that the budget — which included the foreign spending he cited — and the covid relief bill are two separate pieces of legislation?
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) December 23, 2020
Pres. Trump can pardon my cynicism (pun intended), but he’s been proposing budgets and signing bills for four years with provisions identical or nearly identical to the ones he’s complaining about. The entire legislative process needs to be overhauled to restore accountability. https://t.co/alZycxpLvK
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) December 23, 2020
Not only is the $40m the president singled out for the Kennedy Center NOT in the Covid relief bill, it's EXACTLY the amount he asked Congress to appropriate in his 2021 Budget request.
— Tony Fratto (@TonyFratto) December 23, 2020
The Trump Administration has requested $1.3 billion in aid for Egypt in each of its past 3 years’ proposed budgets. https://t.co/SdggSUPFEM
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 23, 2020
The funding figures Trump complained about for the Kennedy Center, National Gallery and Smithsonian are actually lower than what he requested in his budget in February pic.twitter.com/54r3uMZxSF
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) December 23, 2020
Trump’s bad pardons
"A tabulation by the Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith found that of the 45 pardons or commutations that Mr. Trump had granted up until Tuesday, 88 percent aided someone with a personal tie to the president or furthered his political aims.” https://t.co/iwnRVZ5X3U
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 23, 2020
NEW: Trump pardoned a group of Blackwater personnel convicted of murder, the campaign aide whose actions instigated the Trump-Russia investigation and three former GOP congressmen conicted of felonies.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 23, 2020
The rundown, w/ @joshgersteinhttps://t.co/zL838mCuIO
The Mueller-related pardons are the *least* unjust and offensive of this batch. Crook GOP Congressmen get second place. War criminals who killed civilians are the worst of the whole group.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) December 23, 2020
George Mason, delegate to Constitutional Convention, said in 1788 that a President should not be granted power to pardon because he might "pardon crimes which were advised by himself. It may happen, at some future day, that he will establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic."
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 23, 2020
There are a lot of unjust pardons, but they’re mostly just gross — liars and grifters, scumbags like Arpaio and D’Souza. But these guys are murderers — 10 men, 2 women and 2 boys, ages 9 and 11, were killed. https://t.co/JDyH3NO1gH
— Tony Fratto (@TonyFratto) December 23, 2020
Many will be wringing their hands about Papadopoulos, but in my view the pardon of the Blackwater employees is the most egregious and disgusting of @realDonaldTrump actions. This was a graven war crime that resulted in the death of 17 Iraqi civilians. Shame on you Mr President. https://t.co/trGAbHu3WB
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) December 23, 2020
Pardon!
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 23, 2020
"#Trump grants clemency to 20 people, including three ex-#GOP members of Congress & 2 men convicted in the Russia probe, including George Papadopoulos, a onetime campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the probe. https://t.co/U0Cex6sGcq
Climate update 12/22/2020
We’ll definitely be better off with Biden.
The U.S. will soon rejoin the Paris climate accord. Then comes the hard part. https://t.co/ESvBLmYqxz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 22, 2020
In confronting climate change, Biden won’t have a day to waste https://t.co/Lp2zvW4sV4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 22, 2020
The pandemic relief bill being rushed through Congress contains the most significant measures to combat climate change in a decade. The bill includes billions of dollars for clean energy, while reducing the use of coolants that contribute to global warming.https://t.co/paToMiiuCh
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 22, 2020
Biden wants the U.S. to stop contributing to climate change by 2050.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 15, 2020
Here’s what that would actually take. https://t.co/QH2ZR1fYZl
An iceberg the size of Delaware is about to slam into an island the size of Rhode Island in the ocean that borders the United States to the east but don't worry everything is fine climate change is a hoax according to the biggest conman in American history https://t.co/5FdeFRf4sK
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 11, 2020
Gorgeous feature about the big trees (sorry, "charismatic megaflora") that are some of my favorite things about living in California. https://t.co/YDhKRFA2wv
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 10, 2020
New from me: Trump fought Californian environmental officials. The Biden team wants to learn from them.https://t.co/yipQtBQC8l
— Miranda Green (@mirandacgreen) December 9, 2020
This is the best legislative news on the climate change front in over a decade. It calls for a rare celebration. Massive props to the lawmakers who got these provisions — and the $35 billion for wind, solar, and other clean power sources — into this bill!https://t.co/h9jfn3syDc
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 22, 2020
Top Climate Stories of 2020
— The Voda Foundation (@Voda_Foundation) December 22, 2020
RAGING WILDFIRES
FLURRY OF HURRICANES
CHART-TOPPING HEAT?
COVID-DRIVEN CO2 DROP
U.S. REVERSAL: Biden’s position on climate change is already sending a clear signal where the federal government will stand on #ClimateAction https://t.co/Ug2dmaseAt
I looked at what Biden could do about catastrophic wildfire. Here's what experts said:
— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) December 22, 2020
– Act on climate change
– Make communities more resilient
– Allow more natural fire & controlled burns, especially by Native experts who have done this for centurieshttps://t.co/AJUvuWgnLI
Here are a few of the most impactful climate books I've read. First up: "Less is More" by @jasonhickel. Yes, we CAN organize society around human thriving instead of further enriching billionaires. Yes, we DO need to deal w growthism to stop climate and ecological breakdown. pic.twitter.com/D4hmoES83R
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) December 22, 2020
Wear a mask – don’t be like these people
Welp—Pastor who told parishioners not to fear pandemic—parents then die of COVID after Thanksgiving.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 23, 2020
🔥“I’m not wearing a mask—There will be no social distancing CDC. Faith over fear!”
➡️A few weeks later, both parents died of #COVID19 in Fort Worth 🏥.
https://t.co/NqsRSp4ri5 pic.twitter.com/5lEQhSuB2L
My son & I were at CVS in Los Angeles, the epicenter of the virus where 1 person is dying every 10 mins from COVID-19 & this woman was refusing to wear a mask & arguing with everyone. The selfishness she exhibited was intense. It blew our minds. My 10-yr-old has more sense. pic.twitter.com/LFIuwTBzFC
— Ty Stiklorius (@tystiklorius) December 27, 2020
This is narcissistic, toddler-level, attention-seeking behavior. Do not waste time trying to reason with people like this. Call security and boot them from the store and then get on with life. https://t.co/HSCW4j0pII
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 27, 2020
Two California men accused of opening fire with an AK-47 on a strip club they had been kicked out of for refusing to wear masks have been charged with attempted murder, authorities say. https://t.co/BHzesPGunt
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 22, 2020
Refusing to wear a mask is today’s equivalent of drunken driving.-but collectively this year the refusal to wear masks will kill far more Americans than driving under the influence.
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) December 12, 2020
This is the test of our lifetimes. Let’s stop failing it.@NickKristof https://t.co/03Jjg07v9I
Rand Paul to me disputed public health officials and CDC on science of masks. “It’s this political correctness of submission, submission, submission. Everybody's got to submit, going to walk around like a drone and wear a mask, and yet there's no real evidence of this working."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 21, 2020
It’s the police officer treating him like a toddler for me. America infantilizes white men. A Black man would have been shot and killed on sight. https://t.co/ntpJNgLeFI
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) December 22, 2020
As Pence gets the covid vaccine on television to promote its use, @DonaldJTrumpJr RTs anti mask and antivaxx fever dreams. pic.twitter.com/NbmNLD6EgM
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) December 19, 2020
I spoke to the authors of two studies that Laura Ingraham has cited to support mask denialism. Both authors told me they reject her portrayal of their work & that they support people in public wearing masks. "It's the right thing to do," one of them said. https://t.co/k62osaRSXI
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 19, 2020
This is like marching through a McDonalds with dirty bare feet and then spitting in the fries, filming yourself as you go and declaring it an act of patriotism. https://t.co/1SeKJ2ZsgU
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 18, 2020
lede of the day, possibly the year https://t.co/U6GjPeLk1Z pic.twitter.com/ZGaNmGxB7B
— Ernest Saves Sam Thielman💭 (@samthielman) December 16, 2020
This is Ian Smith owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, NJ.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 13, 2020
We are near 300,000 deaths from #COVID19.
In terms of casualties, we are experiencing a 9/11 every day.
People are dying all over this country because of assholes like this.
Assholes who parrot assholes like Donald Trump https://t.co/tks5OuVW2b
You're exposing White House staff, servers, Secret Service agents and their families to the virus so you can go to a party without even wearing a mask. https://t.co/JqkD9vSsm1
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 11, 2020
Amid unprecedented caseload, deaths and strain on hospital workers. https://t.co/2u0MCsT5ux
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 23, 2020
Sad! 