Here’s an email I sent to CNN today.
Month: June 2021
Most House Republicans vote to keep Confederate statues in the Capitol
How can Republicans justify voting to keep the statues?
120 House Republicans Vote Against Removing Confederate Statues From Capitol https://t.co/vOtC5wCFwR
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 30, 2021
House votes 285-120 to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.
— Cristina Marcos (@cimarcos) June 29, 2021
Only a minority of Republicans – 67 – voted with all Dems in support.https://t.co/JgP7IZlDxK
120 votes for Confederate statues. I thought it was 2021, not 1921. https://t.co/CUKTNtIMWN
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) June 29, 2021
Vaccine Polls update 6/30/21
Large-scale vaccine rejection has consequences beyond the individual: more sickness and death, more families and friends losing loved ones, more use of health care resources on preventable illness, more economic disruption. https://t.co/D2OdSuoS2c
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 6, 2021
43% of unvaccinated Americans say "just don't want to get the vaccine" is a major reason why they haven't gotten vaccinated via new @KFF poll.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 30, 2021
Vaccinated groups via @KFF poll:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 30, 2021
86% Democrats
85% over 65 years old
79% college grads
70% women
67% White
65% all Americans
63% Hispanic
61% men
60% Black
59% no college
58% White evangelicals
55% under 30 years old
52% Republicans
Half of Texas Republicans say they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine, new poll finds
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 25, 2021
Doing what I can to fix this, but for now it’s hard to imagine something more self-defeating, especially ahead of the delta variant train headed our way https://t.co/6ZFWokTikT
Likely never get vaccine via new Monmouth poll:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 23, 2021
35% conservatives
26% Republicans
25% men
25% no college
22% non-white
21% all Americans
20% white
17% under 35 years old
17% women
14% college grads
11% over 65 years old
6% Democrats
6% liberals
One in five Americans, 21%, say they will likely never get the coronavirus vaccine via new Monmouth poll just out.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 23, 2021
Trump mob update 6/30/21
New 40-minute short doc. The Visual Investigations team synchronized and mapped thousands of videos and police audio of the U.S. Capitol riot to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened on Jan. 6 — and why. https://t.co/jBNiYRRjTs
— Malachy Browne (@malachybrowne) June 30, 2021
Pa. woman accused of recording, encouraging assault on NYT photographer in Capitol riot arrested https://t.co/Zdp4zlWKGd
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2021
PA state Sen. Doug Mastriano's staff asked CP to retract our coverage of him at Jan 6 insurrection (we were one of the first), citing he didn't actually enter the Capitol grounds, and now videos contradict those claims. Via @HuffPost https://t.co/6gYkJU6sLF
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) June 28, 2021
Court appearance FRIDAY for Jan 6 defendant Matt Martin
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 27, 2021
Feds say Martin wore that bright red Trump face mask at US Capitol on Jan 6
*AND* they say he wore the same jacket to his interview with FBI that he wore on Jan 6 pic.twitter.com/YTjkbM0Bqx
New video from the Capitol riot shows a Trump supporter with a lengthy criminal history heckling police https://t.co/ZsVUxrF8xG
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 26, 2021
Meet the internet sleuths tracking down the January 6 insurrectionists https://t.co/ge87ASanH1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 12, 2021
“FUCKING TRAITOR, GET THE FUCK OUT!”
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 28, 2021
Sandy Pomeroy Weyer was arrested in Pennsylvania today in connection with an assault on a New York Times photographer during the U.S. Capitol attack. pic.twitter.com/y1BU9QkgeP
A not-so-surprising common thread among many Jan. 6 defendants? Misogyny@MacFarlaneNews: A number of defendants are “accused of having histories of assaulting women, badgering women…” pic.twitter.com/iO1MR2pVXt
— Zerlina on Peacock (@ZerlinaShow) June 24, 2021
New poll of historians on presidents
The hardest president to evaluate in my lifetime is Lyndon Johnson. Johnson was great domestically – voting rights, civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid. He was bad in foreign policy – the Vietnam war. Johnson had courage politically. He knew the civil rights laws would cost the Democrats in the South but they were the right thing to do.
I don’t get what people see in Reagan. To me, he was a slightly less bad version of Trump.
RESULTS: C-SPAN's 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership:
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 30, 2021
Top 10 Presidents
https://t.co/51PjAwPliK #cspanPOTUSsurvey pic.twitter.com/WR660IvM0j
Presidential historians survey via @cspan:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 30, 2021
1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. FDR
4. Teddy Roosevelt
5. Eisenhower
6. Truman
7. Jefferson
8. JFK
9. Reagan
10. Obama
…
35. Taylor
36. Hoover
37. Harding
38. Fillmore
39. Tyler
40. W Harrison
41. Trump
42. Pierce
43. Johnson
44. Buchanan
Trump Ranked WORST Living Former President — But He Did Beat Three Dead Ones https://t.co/LDXeOgSbVU
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 30, 2021
Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson has fallen from #6 to #13, and Polk had also dropped from #12 to #18. Bill Clinton had moved up from #21 in 2000 to #15 in 2017, but now slips back to #19. …. pic.twitter.com/Z3m3fGccHd
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 30, 2021
The Ronald Reagan presidency resulted in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of 138 administration officials, the largest number for any POTUS in history.
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) June 30, 2021
But in 1986, Dems passed the Anti-apartheid Act that levied sanctions against South African corporations.
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 29, 2021
It made it through Congress and the Senate hurray!
Reagan vetoed that shit.
The Dems needed Republican support to help override the veto.
Who could convince them?
On the first day of White History Months, we honor Ronald Reagan, the racist, xenophobic, “welfare queen” spewing, “ghetto”-targeting addled-brained president who your favorite member of the Lincoln Project still hails as the Republican Messiah.#WhiteHistoryMonths337 pic.twitter.com/0HouHwlbGm
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 1, 2021
Despite being impeached twice, former President Donald Trump is not the worst president in U.S. history, according to 142 presidential historians surveyed by C-SPAN, the results of which were released Wednesday. https://t.co/ktZtwkQfTD
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 30, 2021
Morning Consult health care poll
NEW poll from Morning Consult.
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) June 30, 2021
Support for health care items in reconciliation package.
Adding dental/vision/hearing to Medicare: 84-9%
Expanding home health: 77-11%
Coverage for non-Medicaid expansion: 68-19%
Negotiating Drug Rx Prices: 66-18%https://t.co/9jmUvGZmD3 pic.twitter.com/K5euWpzko9
High temperature update 6/30/21
Palm Springs recently hit 123 degrees, equaling its highest recorded temperature. Las Vegas set a daily record of 114 degrees. Phoenix reached a record 118 degrees, the earliest the city has hit that mark. Sacramento set a new daily record of 109 degrees.https://t.co/zWCc3VemYB
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) June 22, 2021
Iraqi government offices to close Thursday due to temperatures expected to reach 50 degrees/122 F. This after electricity minister resigns after southern provinces left with huge power shortages.
— jane arraf (@janearraf) June 30, 2021
It is 118° Fahrenheit in Siberia.
— Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) June 29, 2021
And we’re still acting like climate chaos is something that is coming. Instead of something that is already here.
121º F https://t.co/JhQXtjxHar
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 30, 2021
What's causing these “historic, dangerous, prolonged and unprecedented" heat waves?
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) June 29, 2021
They're caused by heat domes, which occurs when the atmosphere traps hot ocean air like a lid over a certain area. https://t.co/XYtlEDJuIl
"Anybody ever believe you would turn on the news and see it was 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon?" Biden asked today. "116 degrees! But don't worry, there is no global warming. It doesn't exist, it's a figment of our imagination. Seriously."https://t.co/juO4DttMo4
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 29, 2021
The 49.6° C (121.3° F) record on Tuesday shattered the previous record of 45° C (113° F)
— Washington Post TikTok Guy 😵💫 (@davejorgenson) June 30, 2021
On Sunday, temps in Lytton broke Canada’s all-time record, hitting 116 degrees Fahrenheit.
— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) July 1, 2021
On Monday, Lytton set a new record: 118 degrees.
On Tuesday: 121 degrees.
On Wednesday, Lytton burned down.https://t.co/gB4lDpqvgB
Climate update 6/30/21
A landmark United Nations report is expected to declare that reducing emissions of methane, the main component of natural gas, will need to play a far more vital role in warding off the worst effects of climate change.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 21, 2021
https://t.co/nLAEdsLU4L pic.twitter.com/kPTjiQXj76
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 30, 2021
Thanks for your comments. The story has been updated and now includes this passage: https://t.co/xZ8T24AzwJ pic.twitter.com/5oMtWwBJXx
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) June 28, 2021
TAPPER: "Do you think the climate crisis is part of the drought that is so devastating in the West?"
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 27, 2021
ROMNEY: "The people that are more expert than I do believe that the kind of weather patterns we're seeing are the result of climate change. And I have no reason to disagree."
Two years ago I sat on a stage and @tedcruz told me some nuttiness about how the temperature data was all wrong and the planet wasn't warming. https://t.co/iSiPdxSqQZ
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 25, 2021
New: A small but growing number of Republicans say the G.O.P needs a coherent climate strategy and form a “Conservative Climate Caucus” on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/8Fh02jGMyb
— Lisa Friedman (@LFFriedman) June 23, 2021
Biden risks botching a key chance to fight climate change, @triofrancos and @MarkVinPaul write https://t.co/zn7bw8ZhiG
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 30, 2021
“When it comes to addressing climate change,” New Jersey Board of Public Utilities president Joseph Fiordaliso said, “doing nothing is not an option.” https://t.co/emI2PANFtK
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) June 30, 2021
As heat and drought stress the West, Biden climate team leverages the urgency for clean power and tax help push https://t.co/J7sUe83XD1
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) June 30, 2021
“We condemn the statements and are deeply apologetic for them," said Darren Woods, Exxon’s chief executive. "We were shocked by these interviews and stand by our commitments to working on finding solutions to climate change.” https://t.co/Mc1JVVng5g
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) June 30, 2021
With many House Republicans denying the established science of climate change and rural lawmakers feeling shortchanged by the shift toward mass transit and rail, the bill did not get the bipartisan support usually afforded to such measures.https://t.co/vBYDlduKXR
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) July 1, 2021
Maricopa won’t reuse voting equipment seized in the phony audit
Maricopa County will not reuse equipment turned over for partisan 2020 audithttps://t.co/bDFPenjpWC
— Meme Burk🌎🌊🇺🇸💙😷 (@MemeBurk) June 29, 2021
This is truly incredible. Thanks to the sham GOP audit in Arizona, election officials in Phoenix will need to get tons of new election equipment. It would be malpractice to reuse any equipment that was in the custody of the conspiracy theorists running the “audit.” https://t.co/fIAQV4vJmp
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 29, 2021
Just so I am understanding correctly, AZ Senate President Karen Fann subpoenaed the Maricopa Board for election equipment. She got it. She turned it over to the Cyber Ninjas and as a result, it’s UNUSABLE now and AZ taxpayers will eat the costs!?
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 28, 2021
Rolling Stone’s guide to Trump’s legal challenges
From tax evasion to election tampering to inciting an insurrection, a comprehensive list of the criminal and civil allegations against the former president. https://t.co/szJGupegpT
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) June 28, 2021
Can’t remember where I found this, but it brings me joy.https://t.co/UMeCp6cbKh
— Horney & Vaccinated ANTIFA Secretary (@MKMaybe) March 21, 2021
Overview of Trump's legal trouble. I suggest to @TheEconomist @stevenmazie, among the many cases often discussed, he can't pardon his way out of NY state criminal exposure for Ukraine conspiracy or tort claims if he conspired in Jan 6 violence. https://t.co/X17OleVSii
— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) January 18, 2021
Sad! 