They are more concerned with undermining Biden than helping the country. Sad!
Month: December 2020
Trump judges have been very conservative
Given that some nominees would not even commit to saying that Brown v. Board of Education was properly decided, it’s not really a surprise that disagreement has arisen. Always good to have the data though. https://t.co/sYdLbHfxSF
— Gautam Hans (@dispositive) December 17, 2020
Trump should not be allowed to live at Mar-a-Lago
He’s trying to avoid a deal he made.
Former Pres. Trump gets a big leg up in fight with neighbors who don’t want him to spend post-presidency at Mar-a-Lago. Documents reveal the Town of Palm Beach has gotten a legal opinion saying Trump can live at the club. Via @RoigFranzia https://t.co/pJub6JCDKa
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 3, 2021
A letter delivered to the town of Palm Beach and also addressed to the Secret Service from a lawyer representing Mar-a-Lago neighbors asserts President Trump lost his legal right to live at Mar-a-Lago post-presidency due to an agreement he signed in 1993. https://t.co/WMvJOD3GOn
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 16, 2020
Report: Palm Beach neighbors don’t want Trump to live at Mar-a-Lago https://t.co/sfIuHBY7K8 pic.twitter.com/ZAVfj1q7VF
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) December 16, 2020
Trump’s life’s work of signing lucrative deals and then weaseling out of them continues 👇#DonTheConhttps://t.co/Vm2CRq5VR4
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) December 16, 2020
Oops! No one wants him… a man without a country is a #poor little rich boy!#ONEV1
— Tammy Barrett. #BLM #Resist #Vote (@tmmyb) December 16, 2020
Trump's Mar-a-Lago neighbors don't want him to move there. They may be able to stop him, too. https://t.co/a6MKB7pQ8t
Neighbors argue Trump can’t live at Mar-a-Lago after leaving White House | TheHill
Neighbors reportedly wrote a letter to Palm Beach authorities and the Secret Service saying Trump had no legal right to live there full time, citing legal precedent from a 1993 agreement he signed.#TrumpIsALoser https://t.co/wfCK4cm3w2
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) December 16, 2020
Trump pardons are coming
President Trump’s staff is so inundated with requests for pardons or commutations that a spreadsheet has been created to keep track of the requests https://t.co/2yyWGXV6tf
— CNN (@CNN) December 16, 2020
More from the story: Trump is considering pardons for more than 2 dozen people in his orbit whom he believes were targeted–or could be targeted in the future–for political ends. That's in addition to hundreds of requests from others who have approached the White House directly
— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) December 16, 2020
Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani – The New York Times https://t.co/laEiqyi4UX
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 2, 2020
"One former White House official said Trump asked about self-pardons as well as pardons for his family. Trump even asked if he could issue pardons pre-emptively for things people could be charged with in the future, the former official said."https://t.co/DEmZcV1PKA
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) November 13, 2020
Ben Pogue, owner of a Texas construction company, provided the use of a private jet to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign last fall. Several months later, his father received a presidential pardon. https://t.co/jzxjbEnC4e
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 4, 2020
Trump's announcement that he's pardoning Susan B. Anthony is met with laughter pic.twitter.com/ycIFtFtQOQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 18, 2020
Of course, Trump would not do this unless both he and Weisselberg were guilty of numerous crimes. https://t.co/pYVy8R2YD9
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) December 17, 2020
Trump has made it clear: we need to pass a new amendment to the Constitution, reforming and restricting the pardon powers granted to the president – so future presidents can't put their friends, cronies, relatives, and themselves above the law. My latest: https://t.co/tVE536mS4u
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 18, 2020
If Trump gives out corrupt pardons on his way out of the White House, that will not be the end of the storyhttps://t.co/1WUfxTjELc
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 19, 2020
Opinion: If Trump pardons himself, Biden should un-pardon him https://t.co/Nz7oQVzySQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 18, 2020
One of the people asking for legal immunity in the final weeks of the Trump administration is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. President Trump has been a supporter of MBS, even after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.https://t.co/6tVe5UYA22
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 21, 2020
Trump’s lie of the year
How Donald Trump orchestrated the 'lie of the year'https://t.co/A1OK7ELD72 pic.twitter.com/wakAjebwuE
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 16, 2020
After #DonTheCon takes the stage, it's always best to get the facts straight 👇https://t.co/EI5vAwHhCv
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) December 6, 2020
Remarkable — Trump lies about poll watchers not being allowed to watch the tally in PA, gets fact-checked by a reporter in real time, and then just doubles down on his lie anyway pic.twitter.com/V8OYCLfrbP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 26, 2020
Basically nothing the president is saying is true.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 18, 2020
People say “what else is new,” but this is a new lying level even for him. He’s barely even bothering to sprinkle in some accurate and arguable claims. It’s almost all false all the time.
Coronavirus vaccine polls 12/14/20
BREAKING: More than eight in 10 Americans say they would receive the coronavirus vaccine, with 40% saying they would take it as soon as it’s available to them and 44% saying they would wait a bit before getting it, according to new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/48awcPeIjx
— ABC News (@ABC) December 14, 2020
62% of Americans say they would be uncomfortable being among the first to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Just 37% said they would be comfortable. https://t.co/QCLgtdi0QD pic.twitter.com/44eLsUwa4D
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) December 4, 2020
Wow. 55% of Black people said they would not take the Coronavirus vaccine. Wow. I'm just wow. https://t.co/lqpoCEkCaa
— Young Daddy (@Toure) December 5, 2020
About 82% of Americans agree with the CDC’s guidance that health care workers and residents of nursing homes should get COVID-19 vaccines before other Americans, according to a YouGov poll. https://t.co/8yPU5lT4PI
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) December 12, 2020
More women than men in U.S. nervous about fast rollout of COVID vaccine, and that's a problem: Reuters/Ipsos poll https://t.co/F7AhvhOwtI pic.twitter.com/DWpxpcVTwg
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2020
This is a tough topic to poll, but one reason I haven’t been too worried about vaccine hesitancy: a lot of people expressing hesitation just want to wait and see a little, and they’re probably going to have to do that anyway. https://t.co/fugD5EnJRM
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 9, 2020
Polling has consistently showed that African Americans are more skeptical of taking the #Covid_19 vaccine than other groups of people in America, but the reasons for this aren't just based on "older" instances of poor medical care. A thread…. https://t.co/ZY8Isx9a30
— Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) December 14, 2020
A new AP-NORC poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots when their turn comes as states gird for months of mass vaccinations. https://t.co/I8LwLp151f
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 9, 2020
Coronavirus statistics 12/14/20
New covid deaths yesterday in the US: 3,538
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 17, 2020
Total covid deaths since the pandemic began:
Japan: 2,688
Australia: 908
South Korea: 612
Norway: 402
New Zealand: 25
Taiwan: 7
Total covid deaths in the US: 314,629 (and counting)
Shocking COVID stat:
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 13, 2020
~1 out of every 500 residents in New Jersey dead.
US coronavirus cases via @CNN:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) December 12, 2020
0M-1M: 98 days
1M-2M: 44 days
2M-3M: 27 days
3M-4M: 15 days
4M-5M: 17 days
5M-6M: 22 days
6M-7M: 25 days
7M-8M: 21 days
8M-9M: 14 days
9M-10M: 9 days
10M-11M: 7 days
11M-12M: 6 days
12M-13M: 6 days
13M-14M: 6 days
14M-15M: 5 days
15M-16M: 4 days
As of Thursday, coronavirus has killed a higher percentage of Gove County, Kansas, residents than any other county in the United States: One out of every 132 people has died. https://t.co/dhdst6sp5G
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 12, 2020
If the ratio of new deaths to new cases over time holds, we'll be averaging 3,500 deaths a day by the new year and pass 300,000 dead early next week.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 11, 2020
Many Americans and elected leaders chose to let the virus spread. This was the inevitable result.https://t.co/AnXgsDuurs pic.twitter.com/JgFyTV6sKe
At least 356,000 more people than normal have died in the U.S. between March 15 and Nov. 21 according to our analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 10, 2020
That is nearly 20% higher than what would be expected in a normal year. https://t.co/MikvQt4yqb
Virus research news 12/14/20
Research provides strong evidence that coronavirus survives longer in cold weather and inside dry, heated homes.
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 4, 2020
Sure signs you have COVID now, according to the @CDCgov https://t.co/LvrHJAjTp2 pic.twitter.com/oX3V8y2X5h
— Yahoo Life (@yahoolife) December 14, 2020
Coronavirus vaccines can have side effects. That typically means they’re working. https://t.co/vunQMlAlNz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 13, 2020
8 facts about the coronavirus to combat common misinformation https://t.co/LCfo4K3HyR
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 13, 2020
Doctors are concerned that some Covid-19 survivors may develop heart inflammation that makes sports and exercise risky.https://t.co/TVnEiF1u3B
— Jacqueline Stenson (@jstensonwriter) December 14, 2020
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 19, 2020
Will we ever have parties again? How long will we be wearing masks? What will the new normal look like?
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 17, 2020
We asked Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts about what comes next. https://t.co/zIOTLk7z8k
I have to believe this whole fight over masks and government overreach would’ve been different if the CDC had led with “The virus causes erectile dysfunction.”https://t.co/EhcYTflupn
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) December 17, 2020
"But what we believed before about the relative harmlessness of Covid-19 among younger adults has simply not been borne out by emerging data." https://t.co/ps8ZnkLIXx
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) December 17, 2020
“What is clear is that the rampant spread of the virus is having a major effect on mental health.” https://t.co/sDg89o9Z7c
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 16, 2020
New analysis of blood donations finds virus was present on West Coast earlier than previously believed.
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 4, 2020
“The incidence of depressive or anxious symptoms among Americans almost exactly mirrors the trajectory of the US coronavirus curve.” https://t.co/sRSTfMHOgC
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) December 19, 2020
Voice of America under attack from Trump
Restoring the VOA after Trump's "wrecking ball" tactics won't be easy, but it's a key resource in the world's "information deserts" and is worth saving (@sulliview / Washington Post)https://t.co/Ki8uIiG8kYhttps://t.co/DkJQw2EFWJ
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) December 14, 2020
Speaking truth to power: Opinion | Amanda Bennett: Why Trump's pick to lead Voice of America is dangerous – The Washington Post via @abennett https://t.co/ze9KzTwYpT
— Lisa Rein (@Reinlwapo) December 12, 2020
Voice of America is suffering through yet more turmoil in the final weeks of the Trump admin. This week, for the second time in less than 6 months, a shakeup is underway. And the outgoing acting director, Elez Biberaj, is not going quietly… https://t.co/6aCaa4ZCL3
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 9, 2020
NEWS: USAGM CEO Michael Pack today removed acting Voice of America Director Elez Biberaj, NPR has learned.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) December 8, 2020
He took action as part of an effort to consolidate greater loyalty with the agency and its networks ahead of the Biden administration coming to power. /MORE
UPDATE: NPR has obtained first note to staff from mew Voice of America Director Robert Reilly
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) December 14, 2020
Decries "distorted views of the United States that many people have formed" – not just from foreign propaganda but from American pop culture and "almost constant self-criticism."
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2 in 3 want stimulus checks to be the top priority
Notice how few support McConnell’s top priority – preventing businesses from getting sued.
2 in 3 Americans said stimulus checks were the most important provision of the next relief deal, according to the latest @YahooFinance @HarrisPoll, while fewer than 1 in 4 (23%) support the liability protection for businesses @denitsa_tsekova
— Lisa Scherzer (@lisascherzer) December 14, 2020
https://t.co/HF59TqpjMt
Sad! 