After expanding to 16 teams this mlb playoffs the World Series will feature the #1 seed in the NL Vs the #1 sees in the AL
Joe Biden's platform offers progressive solutions to every major problem facing the country, and he has the experience to put those principles into practice
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-president-endorsement-1074513/
'Indigenous Peoples Day' booed by White Republicans at Trump Michigan rally
https://www.newsweek.com/indigenous-peoples-day-booed-michigan-rally-donald-trump-1540069
Judge blocks Trump admin plan to illegally and unconstitutionally cut food stamps to 700,000 unemployed Americans
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-halts-trump-s-proposed-food-stamp-cutback-700-n1243861
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-food-stamps/u-s-judge-strikes-down-usda-rule-on-food-benefits-during-pandemic-idUSKBN27417U
Community outbreaks of Covid-19 emerge after Trump's campaign rallies
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/16/trump-campaign-rallies-leave-a-trail-of-community-outbreaks/
EARLY MORNING, EARLY VOTING: A line has already formed at the North Miami Public Library on the first day of early voting in Florida. Some were here before 5 am, braving sporadic rain, hoping to get in their vote before the start of the work day.
https://twitter.com/BojorquezCBS/status/1318137014139703296
Bright Spot for N.Y.C.: In Schools, Only 18 Positives Out of 10,676 Tests. The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city's efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/nyregion/coronavirus-testing-schools-nyc.html
Fitzpatrick urges the fans to cheer on Tua as the rookie takes the field for the first time of his career
https://streamable.com/ag7ysh
Tua Tagovailoa went back to the field and he's sitting around the 15-yard-line in full uniform. It looks like he's soaking this moment in. On November 16, 2019, Tua suffered a potentially career-ending injury. On October 18, 2020, he threw his first NFL passes.
https://twitter.com/CameronWolfe/status/1317969501888139264
Joe Flacco gets sacked for a loss of 28 yards, the worst of the season thus far
https://streamable.com/dzbv3x
Tua just threw the first pass by a left-handed quarterback in the NFL in 5 years
https://twitter.com/fbgchase/status/1317964821309067264
Derrick Henry 94 yard touchdown
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1317910924473237504
Marcus Maye wild interception
https://streamable.com/x77akq
The Patriots find themselves in a very, very strange position in the AFC East: 3rd place.
https://twitter.com/NBCSBoston/status/1317967380975357952
The Jets fired Todd Bowles to hire Adam Gase
This is why Democrats need to win, they will overturn Draft Kings (again): Someone reportedly placed a $2 million bet on the Lions and Dolphins winning today.
https://www.mlive.com/lions/2020/10/someone-reportedly-placed-a-2-million-bet-on-the-detroit-lions-to-win-in-week-6.html
Gase is 30-40 as NFL head coach. 31 of the 40 losses by double digits.
https://twitter.com/mikefreemanNFL/status/1317963355857031170
Tampa Bay Rays really need Meadows and Lowe to show up. If they get out of their slump, the Dodgers are going to be shocked at how good the Rays are from top to bottom.
A huge matchup will be Cash vs Roberts.
John James completely fumbles on @Local4News when pressed on how he'd protect Michiganders with pre-existing conditions. (Hint: it's because he has absolutely no plan to do so) #MISen
https://twitter.com/elenakuhn/status/1317852142867283970
Gretchen Whitmer goes door-to-door for Biden in Michigan weeks after kidnapping plot
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-kidnapping-plot-biden-campaign-voter-outreach/
Trump illegally and unconstitutionally invited a waiter into a top secret intelligence briefing room (briefing was on Afghanistan) to order a milkshake
https://theweek.com/speedreads/944607/trump-reportedly-invited-waiter-into-secret-intelligence-briefing-room-order-milkshake
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ordered-milkshakes-amid-classified-briefing-on-afghanistan-2020-10
Yikes LOL: Birx Confronted Pence About Atlas And Pushed For His Removal From Covid19 Task Force
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-birx-confronted-pence-about-atlas-and-pushed-for-his-removal-from-covid-task-force
Black police officers break from unions over Trump endorsements
https://www.witf.org/2020/10/19/black-police-officers-break-from-unions-over-trump-endorsements/
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ordered-milkshakes-amid-classified-briefing-on-afghanistan-2020-10
A blue wave on Election Day may unleash $2.5 trillion in stimulus,
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-stimulus-a-blue-wave-on-election-day-may-unleash-billions-goldman-sachs-says-121835364.html
Fire intentionally set inside ballot box in Baldwin Park (California) to destroy ballots | Voters can check their ballot status on sos.ca.gov or have signed up for text message/email ballot status updates. If the status shows it was never received you can still vote in person on Election Day.
https://abc7.com/fire-intentionally-set-inside-baldwin-park-ballot-box-officials/7155522/
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-california/if-you-applied
Spy plane was sent to monitor protest in affluent suburb, home to head of California National Guard
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-18/spy-plane-george-floyd-protests-el-dorado-hills-california-national-guard
Can't think of any better use for that national-emergency money at the moment....The justices said Monday they will review two federal appeals court rulings that were designed to block Trump from using a national-emergency declaration to spend $2.5 billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-19/supreme-court-accepts-trump-appeal-on-border-wall-spending
A Barron County judge has revived Gov. Tony Evers' order limiting public gatherings, including the number of customers who may visit bars and restaurants at one time. Babler said the plaintiffs could not show they were complying with the order and therefore hadn't proven they were harmed by it.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/19/tony-evers-order-limiting-gatherings-bar-capacity-revived-judge/3711676001/
China Threatens To Detain US Citizens If Scholars Linked to PLA Are Prosecuted
https://www.ibtimes.com/china-threatens-detain-us-citizens-if-scholars-linked-pla-are-prosecuted-3064485
DT Steve McClendon was traded at the end of yesterday's Jets-Dolphins game from the Jets to the Buccaneers. He didn't waste any time joining his new team. I'm told he just got into a car and drove from Miami to Tampa Bay last night. And away we go.
https://www.twitter.com/PSchrags/status/1318164478010314755
I have no doubt the Jets practice offense, but when they play you genuinely wouldn't know it. I have watched a lot of bad football in my life. I've never seen a team as bad as the 2020 New York Jets. There isn't anything they do well. They are unprepared, undisciplined, and look like they absolutely hate playing. If ownership isn't embarrassed by this they never will be.
The Giants continue to get nothing from any WR not named Darius Slayton. Golden Tate only plays in 3-WR sets, which the Giants are using less of this season. Tate is averaging 3.8 catches and 31.2 yards per game. His cap hit is $10.4M.
https://twitter.com/DDuggan21/status/1318167796572979201
80 million gallons of oil, larger than Exxon spill, dangerously close to pouring into Caribbean
https://www.newsweek.com/oil-tanker-nabarima-caribbean-1540082
India arrests 83-year-old activist and Jesuit priest who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates on "terrorism" charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54490554
Decades too late and not enough being deported, DEPORT THEM ALL: France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-foreigners/france-to-expel-231-suspected-extremists-after-attack-on-teacher-europe-1-idUSKBN2730RV
Arizona Republican Rep Tweets Joke About Hunter Biden Drug Addiction; His Siblings Endorse His Democratic Opponent. Delina DiSanto
https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-gop-rep-tweets-joke-about-hunter-biden-drug-addiction-his-siblings-endorse-his-democratic-1540311
https://www.delinadisanto.com/
US charges 6 Russian military intel officers with hacking to destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for use of weapons-grade nerve agent, and (5) the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. DOJ says the Russian hackers also hit hospitals in Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of FedEx, and a large pharmaceutical company, resulting in nearly $1 billion in losses. DOJ says one of the Russians charged, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, was previously charged with conspiring to gain unauthorized access into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the administration of the 2016 U.S. elections.
https://justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328521/download
Facebook has suspended the account of Ukrainian politician Andrii Derkach, who has been accused by the US government of being a Russian agent and trying to meddle in the presidential election.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1318244392944177153
A Republican senator condemns Trump, without mentioning Trump: Dr. Fauci is one of our country's most distinguished public servants. He has served 6 presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. If more Americans paid attention to his advice, we'd have fewer cases of COVID-19, & it would be safer to go back to school & back to work & out to eat.
https://twitter.com/SenAlexander/status/1318259834437906439
Amy Coney Barrett likely to get confirmed by next Monday, Oct. 26th, eight days before the election. A vote to break a Dem filibuster expected Sunday. Senate Judiciary expected to approve nomination this Thursday. She was announced as Trump's pick Sept. 26. RBG died on Sept. 18.
I am rather amazed that this person thinks there is such a concept as "a waste of a Tweet"..... as if Tweets were either a finite commodity, or held some special significance in the pantheon of human history. Tweets are just that - "tweets"
I know of a few publications that operate like this. Bad for journalism: We have alarming news. The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists' pay to the number of clicks their stories get. We're urging the company to reconsider. Here's our letter to McClatchy's new CEO about how this could hurt our community. #NoPayForClicks 1/9
https://twitter.com/SacBeeGuild/status/1318212995785224192
Dear U.S. journalists: This may not seem like the most important issue right now, but please take note that the DHS is proposing massive restrictions for foreign correspondents. The plan is to limit their stay in the U.S. to 240 days (from 5 years)
https://twitter.com/mathieuvonrohr/status/1318251996592410624
Whether the emails are authentic or not: the underlying allegation that Hunter Biden's business interests are the reason Viktor Shokin got fired is clearly false and everyone knows they are false and the entire story is deeply and profoundly fake.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1318255368863125504
What neither the pro-Trump right nor the anti-anti-Trump left wants to admit about this is it's a search for "evidence" to support a charge that they all know is false. That's the disinformation campaign.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1318255834804199426
Trump is attacking Dr. Fauci as his campaign touts a fake endorsement from Fauci in their campaign ads.
Fox News Passed On Hunter Biden Laptop Story Over Credibility Concerns
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-news-passed-on-hunter-biden-laptop-story-over-credibility-concerns/
As I first reported this morning, Rudy Giuliani's "Russian agent" pal Andriy Derkach has been kicked off Facebook "for violating our policy against the use of our platform by people engaged in election-focused influence operations." https://buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/facebook-banned-alleged-russian-agent
Second Circuit AFFIRMS a lower court's order to unseal documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell's civil case, including her allegedly incriminating deposition. Background, CourthouseNews
https://courthousenews.com/ghislaine-maxwell-fights-to-hide-possibly-incriminating-deposition/
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1318264127538761728
and the reporter refusing to take a non-answer for an answer on this *legitimately important question* is the one and only @KellyO (feat. the #kellyOcam, of course) Trump is straight up mocking reporters for asking him basic questions about his coronavirus testing history
https://twitter.com/HallieJackson/status/1318263947989012480
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1318263165008924676
Guys: This is totally the same as when Biden snapped at a reporter who pressed him re: a question he didn't want to answer: On tarmac in Phoenix, Trump sounding angry, calling Joe Biden "a criminal" and accusing the press of being criminals for not covering his attacks on Biden.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1318262038276329473
So Sudan - whose government is a genocidal Islamist war machine - isn't actually paying restitution to terror victims. The United States government will fund the Sundaese Islamic terrorist government that has genocided millions of Sudanese so that Trump can declare another victory before the election
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1318266146307670017
Trump says he will take coronavirus19 test before next debate with Joe Biden
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/coronavirus-trump-will-take-covid-19-test-before-joe-biden-debate.html
Beto O'Rourke: Voted this morning! Super easy, safe, no line at UTEP early voting site. Felt great to vote for @JoeBiden @mjhegar @ChrystaForTexas @vgescobar and @carlosforelpaso and other greats Democrats. Early voting lasts through October 30 in Texas
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1317183853900025856
One reason that the third debate subjects were broadened is that there was supposed to be another debate and Trump backed out: Trump campaign demands last debate on Thursday be about foreign policy instead of announced topics. The announced topics INCLUDE foreign policy. Trump is going to bring up "foreign policy" (Hunter Biden, "I brought peace to the Middle East") no matter what. It's not like he answers the questions anyway. And he wants to the microphone turned on, as if turning it off means he suddenly stops speaking and nobody will hear hi. He will rant and rave as even if the microphone is turned off, and everybody will hear him in the background ranting and raving.
https://twitter.com/BillStepien/status/1318269143884435456
Voters have cast a total of 29,648,027 ballots in the reporting states.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
The Rays have ENDLESS different looks to throw at opposing hitters. They can pitch to you from EVERY angle.
https://www.mlb.com/rays/news/rays-pitchers-unique-arm-angles
In Game 1 of the ALCS, the Rays used 5 pitchers to give the Astros 5 wildly different looks. Meet Dr. Octopus, if only Otto Octavius also had nasty stuff. (Thanks to @AlexFast8 for the cool video.) pic.twitter.com/5imvCT6KQm
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) October 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/mike_petriello/status/1315989914790563840
Clayton Kershaw Game 1 starter ... Going up against Tyler Glasnow
https://twitter.com/kengurnick/status/1318283231788032000
Michigan pastor leaves ministry over church's broad support of Trump
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/18/michigan-pastor-leaves-ministry-over-churchs-broad-support-trump/3702429001/
More Black Women identify Democrat than men. Donald Trump's approval rating is higher among Black Men than Black Women.
https://aurn.com/election-2020-black-vote-crucial-to-democrats-and-republicans/
Trump coronavirus advisor Scott Atlas shot down attempts to expand testing. He openly feuded with other doctors on the Covid19 task force. He advanced fringe theories. And he advocated allowing infections to spread naturally among most of the population.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-den-of-dissent-inside-the-white-house-task-force-as-coronavirus-surges/2020/10/19/7ff8ee6a-0a6e-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html
Trump attacks and calls for violence against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Kamala Harris, Tony Fauci, the Obamas and the Cuomos, Savannah Guthrie, Kristen Welker, Hillary Clinton and Mark Kelly, then pauses:
The Federal Reserve and US Treasury are sitting on $259 billion in unspent Cares Act $$. Republicans refuse to allow the forcibly unemployed and small businesses owners to receive that aid.
https://washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/19/federal-reserve-treasury-coronavirus
It is not a crime for reporters NOT to push dodgy stories or exercise any type of editorial news judgment the president does not like.
"This is not the Republican party that the greater Phoenix area Mormons have known... No longer is this the Arizona Republican party of Barry Goldwater or John McCain or Jeff Flake. It's that of Martha McSally, it's that of Trump" -
https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1318304549447323649
Dana Clark, and her son 18 month old Mason, wait in line at City Hall as early voting begins in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dana said she wasn't sure how many people would be wearing masks while they voted so she wanted to be safe. Photo by
https://twitter.com/corinne_perkins/status/1317171678322040832
Ishamel Reed is the guy who said:"Writing is fighting." Okay. This Ishmael Reed obituary for Stanley Crouch is a settling of scores like I've never seen in my life.
https://counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-tragedy-of-stanley-crouch/
KD should get sponsored by a deodorant company and call his line Deo-Durant
Trump ties Fauci to Biden — to Biden's delight
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/trump-ties-fauci-to-biden-430217
Tsunami sirens wail in parts of Alaska after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake; evacuations underway
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1318311776686137344
https://twitter.com/POLITICO_Steve/status/1318313941852934151
The cat etching is believed to be older than any of the prehistoric geoglyphs previously unearthed at Nazca." Cat face Double exclamation mark. 2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru. Archaeologists came across the faded feline outline while conducting maintenance work at the UNESCO heritage site. | The image, stretching for 40 yards on a hillside in Peru, shows a creature with pointy ears, orb-like eyes and a long striped tail. It appears to be a cat lounging, as cats often do. | The catlike geoglyph — which experts say dates to 200 B.C. to 100 B.C. — is the latest discovery among the carvings of larger-than-life animals and plants previously found between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, in a desert plain about 250 miles southeast of the capital, Lima.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/world/americas/peru-cat-nazca-lines-nasca.html
In a pandemic, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia (Republican terrorist, son of shitstain terrorist Antonin Scalia) is weakening worker protections: Since the pandemic began, OSHA has received more than ten thousand complaints alleging unsafe conditions related to the virus. It has issued just two citations.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/trumps-labor-secretary-is-a-wrecking-ball-aimed-at-workers
The attacks caused billions of dollars in losses and disrupted a broad cross-section of life, including health care in Pennsylvania, a Ukraine power grid serving thousands of customers and a French election that saw the disclosure of hacked emails.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-winter-olympics-elections-russia-emmanuel-macron-6fc251c08d1ac82d5633e84378c6c805
I spent the weekend diving into the IRS Form 990's for the Tommy Tuberville Foundation after reading how so little of the money went to the mission of supporting veterans. I've been a veterans advocate for 10 yrs and seen a lot of these. Strap in for a long thread! #Alabama
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1318307148737048577
The accounting and paperwork is an absolute mess. Different forms every year, different addresses, wildly missed reporting numbers, totals that don't add up and bizarre financial choices. At a minimum the foundation has been incredibly poorly and unprofessionally managed.
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1318307155259187202
At worst its a sham. Let's talk about the numbers. He founded it in 2014 for $645 in New Lenox, IL filing a 990EZ. Then in 2015 they held a single golf fundraiser that made a whopping $117,688. It cost $24,224 to run. The single biggest event cash haul they had from 2014 to 2018.
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1318307157402480640
990's are complicated but the bottom line is at a minimum this is a monumentally badly managed foundation and at worse...it's a sham and nothing but a branding effort using veterans to burnish Tommy's image. Either way...vote Doug Jones.
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1318307188046098432
Foxconn tried to build a glass sphere in Mount Pleasant so Trump would visit for a ribbon-cutting campaign stop. It was supposed to be a network operations center, but there was no data center. But they wanted the photo, so they built the sphere anyway. https://theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump
Tommy Tuberville's Financial Fumbles
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/elections/senate-alabama-tuberville-jones.html
Texas can illegally and unconstitutionally reject mail-in ballots over mismatched signatures without giving voters a chance to appeal
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/19/texas-mail-in-ballots-signatures/
Luhnow again denies role in Astros' sign scandal. Says "The people who were involved that didn't leave naturally to go to other teams are all still employed by the Astros."
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30151774/ex-astros-gm-jeff-luhnow-again-denies-role-houston-astros-sign-stealing-scandal
Reminder: Fox News rejected Hunter Biden exposé; New York Post writer refused to put his name on it: reports. The FBI is investigating whether the story is tied to a Russian influence operation, according to multiple reports
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/19/fox-news-rejected-hunter-biden-expos-new-york-post-writer-refused-to-put-his-name-on-it-reports/
Florida shatters opening day record for early voting with 350K ballots cast
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/521799-florida-breaks-first-day-early-voting-record-with-350k-ballots-cast
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/10/19/florida-shatters-opening-day-record-for-early-voting-1327488
Exxon Mobil, after Trump's fundraising remarks, says its CEO and Trump had no phone call
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-trump-exxon-mobil-idUSKBN2750CN
Senate Republicans to work through weekend to push Barrett onto court
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-amy-coney-barrett-elections-judiciary-164d44d1df25cc6be6bbfe01ff32e552
Texas has already surpassed half of total 2016 turnout
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Cowboys players initially bought into keeping things internal. Now as they sit 2-4 the discontent is leaking out. On the coaching staff "totally unprepared. They don't teach. They don't have any sense of adjusting on the fly." Another "they just aren't good at their jobs"
https://twitter.com/SlaterNFL/status/1318602459300974595
I Am Watching My Planet, My Home, Die - Our world cannot survive four more years of the Trump administration's environmental policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/opinion/trump-environment-vote.html
And the covid19 infected players played: NFL and NFLPA announce there were eight new confirmed positive tests among players and 11 new confirmed positives among other team personnel in coronavirus testing between Oct. 11-17.
https://twitter.com/MarkMaske/status/1318598767025803267
Dolphins are naming Tua Tagovailoa their starter
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1318575233004113922
Dolphins are naming Tua Tagovailoa their starter even though their starting QB win all the Dolphins games. "Ryan, you're doing an amazing job. You're fired." "Ok, off to Dallas I go."
Interesting timing to switch to Tua, but my best guess is the Dolphins want to find out what they have in Tua because that 2021 Texans 1st-round pick could get very interesting if it ends up inside of the top 5.
https://twitter.com/JReidNFL/status/1318577876598489091
Ryan Fitzpatrick appreciation post. Through six games: 🐬 1,535 pass yards 🐬 12 Total TDs 🐬 Dolphins 2nd place in AFC East
https://twitter.com/sportscenter/status/1318582451015483394
Republicans distancing from Trump are pretending they haven't been his sycophants
Dak Prescott still leads the league in passing yards despite not playing tonight. Matt Ryan is in second.
Melania Trump cancels plans to attend Tuesday rally citing Covid19 recovery
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/melania-trump-campaign-rally/index.html
Judge Rejects Settlement, Fast-Tracks Student Debt Relief Class Action
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rejects-settlement-fast-tracks-student-debt-relief-class-action/
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday reiterated the Justice Department's assertion that Trump was lying when he told his followers that he had declassified "any and all" documents related to the federal government's investigation of the "Russia Hoax." In a declaration submitted in response to an order from a federal judge, Meadows said he spoke with Trump about the declassification tweets and confirmed that the president did not actually mean what he said.
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/wh-chief-of-staff-confirms-to-federal-judge-that-trump-lied-about-authorizing-the-release-of-all-russia-hoax-docs/
Melania Trump stays off campaign trail, citing lingering cough from Covid19. What's the excuse for all those other months she's been gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-melania-trump-coronavirus-20201020-hhfvw3ckvrccdom3wjankn466a-story.html
And can we get a Ryan Fitzpatrick trade to Dallas in order to save Cooper/Lamb/Gallup/Schultz/etc?
https://twitter.com/MikeClayNFL/status/1318576679430881280
Here's the #Rays World Series roster. Slegers and Alvarado are out, Phillips and Sherriff are in
https://twitter.com/juanctoribio/status/1318586080094990336
Alvarado in his prime is great. Alvarado coming off injury, not many actual batters faced, in the WS, is not an experiment we need to see right now. He was lights out in his first appearance. Guess the Rays saw something in Alvarado's second outing they didn't like.
It's always a back in forth for me in praising the Rays staff for doing what they do with the limited resources while being annoyed at the Rays players (and fans) being robbed of what they could really do if the ownership willingly spent money on the team.
Regardless of what happens, the Rays beat the Astros and the Yankees
Of course winning is always #1 and I think if the offense is going watch out.
Despite Glasnow's 4.66 ERA this postseason, I'd still feel very confident with him starting any game. Vice versa with Kershaw and his 3.32 ERA so far. Either way they are both the best options for each time
Voters have cast a total of 35,351,389 ballots in the reporting states.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Major Trump, RNC fundraiser Elliott Broidy set to plead guilty to acting as unregistered foreign agent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/elliott-broidy-plea/2020/10/20/c41ae12c-125a-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
Registered Democrats In Alachua County Are Facing Voter Intimidation | The email is being sent to registered Democrats in Alachua County insinuating that retaliation will be inflicted upon people who do not vote for Trump. This email was sent to registered Democrats in Alachua County by a sender claiming to be from the designated domestic terrorist group Proud Boys. The message suggests that the sender has gained access to "the entire voting infrastructure" and is using the obtained data to pick out registered Democrats. The sender tells the reader to switch their party affiliation to Republican in order to show compliance toward the sender's demands. The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections has issued a press release stating they are aware of the multiple instances of voter intimidation. The release also states that local, state and federal levels of law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security, are working in conjunction with the county to face the threat. The elections office says it will refer any and all forms of voter intimidation to state and federal law enforcement.
https://www.wuft.org/news/2020/10/20/election-supervisor-registered-voters-in-alachua-county-are-facing-voter-intimidation/
Stats released by @NYGovCuomo show seven of 10 regions in NY now showing rates of infection on Monday over 1 percent even as "red-zone" rates decline. Central NY over 2 percent.
https://twitter.com/jessemckinley/status/1318631890086133774
RoKhanna, the first elected Democratic official who urged Pelosi to compromise with Mnuchin, came on to talk about the state of the talks, and the case for getting a bill done now.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/rep-ro-khanna-on-why-democrats-should-cut-a-stimulus-deal
In last-minute push, DeSantis administration urges Florida election officials to illegally and unconstitutionally remove felons who owe fines from voting rolls
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-felon-vote-2020-election/2020/10/20/fd67d51c-11fa-11eb-82af-864652063d61_story.html
If you vote for Joe Biden in 2020 but stay home for the 2022 Congressional midterms, you've missed the entire point.
Trump abruptly ends '60 Minutes' interview before taping joint appearance with Pence
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/trump-interview-60-minutes/index.html
Judge illegally and unconstitutionally denies tribes' bid to halt Keystone oil pipeline work
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2020/10/20/judge-denies-tribes-bid-halt-keystone-oil-pipeline-work/5994460002/
Trump abruptly cut off his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, refused to film with her and Mike Pence, then taunted the CBS anchor on Twitter
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/elections/trump-lesley-stahl-60-minutes.html
File this under things I didn't expect this time last year: Rashida Tlaib at a Jill Biden campaign event: .@DebDingell giving a powerful introduction of @DrBiden to #Dearborn #12thDistrict. We will outwork the hate and win! Learn how you can vote early at http://michigan.gov/vote
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1318663733409886209
Two new peer-reviewed studies show a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized Covid patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting providers are getting better at treating the illness. https://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/20/925441975/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates
We are without electricity, running water and no sanitation. And you just can't get up and switch that light on
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-teachers-entrepreneurs-seek-new-ways-close-digital-divide-n1243746
USPS IG has a new report critical of USPS service cuts under DeJoy: "No analysis of the service impacts of these various changes was conducted and documentation and guidance to the field for these strategies was very limited and almost exclusively oral."
https://uspsoig.gov/document/operational-changes-mail-delivery
Nigeria's security forces open fire on protesters in the middle of #Lagos after the imposition of a 24-hour curfew. It follows almost two weeks of EndSARS demonstrations across the country.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/losses-mount-from-nigerian-protests-against-police-brutality
REPUBLICAN COURT-PACKING: Surprise: McConnell adding another judicial nominee to the Senate sked
https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1318668858971115522
If they want to win women voters, Biden and Trump need to be hammering on their plan for getting kids back to the classroom and making it easier for families who still want to do remote learning. It's probably the most impt thing for families and it's not getting much attention.
I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting. I will not over-interpret early voting.
Trump's farmer bailout has given $21 billion to red counties and $2.1 billion to blue ones
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/20/trumps-farmer-bailout-has-given-21-billion-red-counties-21-billion-blue-ones/
Washington Football team management not able to figure out a new team name by NEXT season.
https://espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30156280/pretty-good-chance-washington-football-team-remains-2021-says-team-president
Democrat-run cities fuel the economy, keep many red states afloat
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/521875-democrat-run-cities-fuel-the-economy-keep-many-red-states-afloat
Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066
2020 Swallowed Immigration. Now activists are among those calling for Biden to bring immigrants and immigration into the debate, even if NBC and Trump won't
https://newsweek.com/activists-call-biden-bring-immigrants-immigration-presidential-debate-even-if-nbc-trump-wont-1540683
Don Jr tells a PA rally his father pressed US generals to explain why we're still in Afghanistan, but they couldn't. "The end goal is they want a board seat at Raytheon," he says. Trump's defense secretary, who he gets to pick, was a Raytheon lobbyist.
https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1318678617854005250
Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin + Wyoming each set seven-day covid19 case records on Tuesday
https://nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/coronavirus-surge.html
Frank Fahrenkopf, Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairman, says if anyone in the debate hall takes off their mask, they "will be approached and be told if you don't put it back on...your ticket will be canceled, and you'll be asked to leave."
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1318683681221955585
The U.S. has already hit 70% of total 2016 early voting. At least 33 million have voted nationwide, and there are still 14 days until Election Day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/early-voting-numbers-so-far/
"The Chinese account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management L.L.C., which the tax records show paid $188,561 in taxes in China while pursuing licensing deals there from 2013 to 2015." Trump's tax records show that Trump maintains a previously unknown bank account in China. The foreign accounts do not show up on Trump's public financial disclosures because they are held under corporate names.
https://nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html
We're rounding the turn on the pandemic," Trump declares again, this time in Pennsylvania, as cases and hospitalizations surge. https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1318691009358893056
Trump then adds of the pandemic: "It's ending." That's at least the 39th time he has made such a declaration since February. https://cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/
Trump: "If Biden wins, China will own this country." China owns Trump:
https://nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html
Brits warned 'do not take US meat at any cost' as poultry farm horror exposed
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/brits-warned-do-not-take-22872542
US spies and diplomats are suggesting a Trump administration cover-up after officials in Cuba, Russia, and China got mysteriously sick
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-spies-diplomats-mysteriously-sick-suggest-coverup-2020-10
The Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Has Grown Much Deeper And Wider in 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-ozone-hole-over-antarctica-has-grown-to-one-of-its-largest-sizes-in-recent-times
NATO would seek early summit with Biden, if elected, envoys say
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-nato/nato-would-seek-early-summit-with-biden-if-elected-envoys-say-idUSKBN27514U
Astronauts Plug Leak On The International Space Station With The Help Of Floating Tea Leaves
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2020/10/20/astronauts-plug-leak-on-the-international-space-station-with-the-help-of-floating-tea-leaves/#49f422c54409
It is being described as one of the biggest attacks on art and antiquities in post-war German history, but it has taken more than two weeks to emerge. At least 70 artefacts were sprayed with an oily liquid on Berlin's Museum Island, a Unesco world heritage site that is home to five famous museums.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54626632
Germany has issued international arrest warrants for the two founders of the firm at the centre of the tax haven scandal exposed by the Panama Papers data leak, German media reported.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201020-arrest-warrants-issued-for-founders-of-panama-papers-firm-report
NASA makes history with sample of asteroid soil
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-will-attempt-collect-samples-surface-asteroid-n1244054
Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across the globe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/21/polluted-air-killing-half-a-million-babies-a-year-across-globe
Jessica Mendoza became the first female analyst in World Series last night
AOC's 'Among Us' Twitch stream pulls in over 400,000 viewers
https://www.engadget.com/aoc-among-us-twitch-stream-234654176.html
Twitter erupts over Sam Elliott TV ad for Joe Biden during World Series
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/twitter-erupts-over-sam-elliott-tv-ad-for-joe-biden-during-world-series/article_efb2128a-8db1-5877-ac62-edb6eff0c273.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xufahbaq4
Biden's Social Security and SSI plan would lift 1.4 million out of poverty
https://www.yahoo.com/money/bidens-social-security-and-ssi-plan-would-lift-14-million-out-of-poverty-study-finds-200534985.html
Facebook posts shared more than 2,000 times just weeks before the US presidential election claim that mail-in ballots require two postage stamps in order to be counted. This is misleading; the United States Postal Service said postage requirements vary from state to state, and that the official policy is to deliver ballots without the correct number of stamps and then collect the missing postage fee from the appropriate local board of elections.
https://factcheck.afp.com/us-postal-service-says-it-will-deliver-ballots-insufficient-postage
Trump is pressuring the Pentagon to give no-bid 5G spectrum multi-billion dollar contract to Republican company not qualified for the job
https://theweek.com/speedreads/944958/trump-reportedly-pressuring-pentagon-give-nobid-5g-spectrum-contract-goplinked-firm
Ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett scam cult sex trafficking group tell of trauma and sexual abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/amy-coney-barrett-people-of-praise-trauma-abuse
Young Australians are being 'aggressively radicalised' through right-wing extremism
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/young-australians-are-being-aggressively-radicalised-through-right-wing-extremism-federal-police-warn
In 'Lobster War,' Indigenous Canadians Face Attacks by Fishermen
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/world/canada/nova-scotia-lobster-war.html
China's super wealthy have earned a record $1.5 trillion in 2020, more than the past five years combined, as e-commerce and gaming boomed during pandemic lockdowns, an annual rich list said Tuesday. An extra 257 people also joined the billionaires club in the world's number-two economy by August, following two years of shrinking membership, according to the closely watched Hurun Report. They created and spread a pandemic that destroyed the entire global economy except their own.
https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/10/633787/chinas-super-rich-got-15-trillion-richer-during-pandemic
Trump tells Pennsylvania rally 'nobody wants me' before cutting event short and dancing off stage to YMCA (which his campaign is illegally using and will have to pay the copyright holder federal copyright fines...). It's the same dance he did in that footage at Epsteins party from the 90s. He's dancing like SpongeBob https://tenor.com/view/gif-18883536 So desperate for the "suburban housewife" vote that he's trying to dance like Ellen.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/nobody-wants-me-trump-plays-sympathy-card-at-pennsylvania-rally-before-cutting-event-short-and-dancing-off-stage-to-ymca-b1200436.html
Republicans lose bid to illegally and unconstitutionally block deadline extension for North Carolina ballot
Repblican-Controlled Rasmussen Reports Shows Biden Leading Trump in Swing States Ohio and Pennsylvania
https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-rasmussen-reports-shows-biden-leading-trump-swing-states-ohio-pennsylvania-1540948
Wife of New Jersey officer who died from Covid-19 says Biden called her last night | "[Biden is] a kind, caring guy, and that to me is a huge piece of what we need right now in the White House," she said
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-election-news-10-21-2020/h_cfd93a234bfa7e519d2ee8adb60ef279
The Pandemic Sent Americans' Health Care Coverage Into Free Fall - Between February and May, more than 5.4 million people lost their health insurance coverage. That's the highest increase ever recorded.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-healthcare-unemployment/
Florida voters have already cast more mail ballots than entire 2016 election
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2020/10/21/florida-voters-have-already-cast-more-mail-ballots-than-entire-2016-election/
Now, just imagine if you can. Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office, the next time America faces a crisis. Imagine him being in charge when your jobs and savings are at stake. Is this who you want to lead us in an emergency? Someone thin skinned and quick to anger who'd likely be on Twitter attacking reporters or bringing the whole regulatory system down on his critics when he should be focused on fixing what's wrong? Would he even know what to do?
https://time.com/4378220/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-economics-business/
Republicans considering cutting critical funding for Covvid19 aid, screenings for infants, and addiction treatment in Democrat-run cities
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-considering-cutting-healthcare-funding-for-democratic-cities-2020-10
Ryan Fitzpatrick: "I basically got fired yesterday and my day today consisted of zoom meetings with the guy who fired me and sitting in a room with the guy who replaced me for four hours."
https://www.twitter.com/ArmandoSalguero/status/1318966449478770688
I know what my man #FitzMagic is feeling, in 04 w/ NYG we were playoff team after 9 games (& i wasn't playing as well as Fitz) when they moved 2 @EliManning - sucked 4 me - but I knew it wasn't about that season but the future & I'd have to say it worked out pretty well 4 Gmen!
https://twitter.com/kurt13warner/status/1318606048593285120
[Eli Manning in Response to Kurt Warner] Thanks for being such a class act and great mentor for me.
https://twitter.com/elimanning/status/1318869845975379969
The Washington Football Team is both one game away from leading their division, and one game away from having the first pick in the NFL draft.
A man in Maryland was arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap and kill Biden and Harris.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/elections/a-man-in-maryland-was-arrested-and-charged-with-threatening-to-kidnap-and-kill-biden-and-harris.html
Whistleblower Retaliation': Texas AG Fires Top Aide Who Accused Him of Bribery and Abuse of Office
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/classic-whistleblower-retaliation-texas-ag-fires-top-aide-who-accused-him-of-bribery-and-abuse-of-office/
Mitch McConnell admits he's blocking coronavirus19 bill — will media finally stop blaming Democrats?. Republicans clearly never intended to pass a new relief bill — so why has the media consistently blamed Democrats
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/21/mitch-mcconnell-admits-hes-blocking-coronavirus-bill--will-media-finally-stop-blaming-democrats/
Earth to Biden: Stop Talking About Fracking | Data for Progress polling shows that support for a fracking ban fell 16 points among Democrats after Biden and Harris opposed it in the debates.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-polls-fracking/
Indian Country overwhelmingly supports Joe Biden
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/survey-indian-country-overwhelmingly-supports-joe-biden-for-president
Mister Rogers' wife and Mel Brooks have endorsed Joe Biden, whilst the Taliban, the KKK and Bin Laden's niece have endorsed Donald Trump, just in case anyone was still on the fence about who to vote for...
I thought it was odd when someone from Trump's campaign staff said Biden's town hall was similar to a Mr. Rogers show. I thought, "Is that supposed to be an insult?"
Stan Van Gundy has agreed to a deal to become the next coach of the New Orleans Pelicans.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1318974917820313601
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1318975775157161984
There are 300 hospitality workers doing the door-knocking for UNITE HERE and 500 on phones and texts. They were previously employed at places like the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, the Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, and Disney World in Orlando: Bloomberg's latest Florida spend is $1 million to UNITE HERE efforts which have laid-off hospitality workers door-knocking to Black and Latino voters in Central and South Florida.
https://newsweek.com/bloomberg-funds-laid-off-hospitality-workers-door-knocking-black-latino-voters-florida-1541062
Senate Democrats block slimmed-down corporate covid19 bailout as talks continue. This is the Republican bill exempting employers from covid19 liability so Republicans can open everything up and try for herd immunity on worker deaths
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-relief-bill-senate-democrats-block-republican-proposal/
Trump's allies on Wall Street have abandoned his bid for reelection. The finance execs who backed his 2016 campaign and inaugural have gone silent in their contributions in the final two weeks of the election.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/2020-election-wall-street-donors-keep-distance-from-cash-strapped-trump-in-final-days.html
Two days until the pages of The Roanoke Times are no longer designed in Roanoke. They'll be designed in the Midwest. Because of that, 10 people will lose their jobs here. Lee Enterprises didn't take up the Timesland News Guild's idea for how to keep this work local.
https://twitter.com/AJFriedenberger/status/1319002378197192704
New Hampshire's attorney general has rejected the state Republican party's illegal and unconstitutional request to stop remote college students from absentee voting.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/2020-10-21-trump-biden-election-n1244076/ncrd1244163
I would prefer that today the Tampa Bay Rays out score the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2
Rudy Giuliani Caught On Camera Touching Genitals During 'Borat' Prank | Giuliani, 76, was filmed putting his hands in his pants when he thought he was with a female journalist.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-borat-movie_n_5f906409c5b686eaaa0d6aff
No, really??? Who didn't already know this? The CDC had previously defined a "close contact" as someone who spent at least 15 consecutive minutes within six feet of a confirmed coronavirus case. The updated guidance, which health departments rely on to conduct contact tracing, now defines a close contact as someone who was within six feet of an infected individual for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period, according to a CDC statement Wednesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/21/coronavirus-close-contact-cdc/
Schumer and Judiciary Dems announce boycott of ACB committee vote tomorrow: "We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway."
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1319027635020759040
Nearly 2.9 million Pennsylvania voters have requested mail ballots, and nearly 1.2 million have already submitted theirs to be counted.
Democrats continuing to far outnumber Republicans. Look up the party breakdown by county:
https://inquirer.com/politics/election/live/elections-2020-candidates-updates-news-pennsylvania-20201021.html
27% of prime-age Americans, or those age 25 to 54, expect someone in their household to lose employment income in the next 4 weeks, per new uscensusbureau survey
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/economic-pain-persists-for-millions-in-u-s-as-aid-talks-drag-on
We obtained nearly 400 pages of Mike Pompeo's personal emails from his time as CIA director. These records reveal a problematic amount of classified and official business conducted illegally and unconstitutionally over private email and show Pompeo fielding questionable investigation requests.
https://www.americanoversight.org/pompeos-use-of-personal-email-while-cia-director-highlights-state-departments-failure-to-produce-his-emails-as-secretary
Most New Yorkers see a future for themselves in NYC, but even more project a recovery will take 6 months or longer: exclusive Spectrum News-Ipsos poll
https://ny1.com/share/nyc/all-boroughs/coronavirus/2020/10/20/spectrum-news-ipsos-poll-coronavirus-recovery
These bias accusations being circulated by prominent Republicans are nonsense. Twitter is now putting these kinds of "hey you can read the article" labels on ALL attempts to retweet a tweet that includes an article link you haven't opened.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1319029656604020742
Voters In Florida And Alaska Receive Emails Warning 'Vote For Trump Or Else!'
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/926139270/voters-in-florida-and-alaska-receive-emails-warning-vote-for-trump-or-else
Report Details How Trump Downplays, Ignores Grave Human Rights Violations Around the World
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/21/report-details-how-trump-downplays-ignores-grave-human-rights-violations-around
Conservative Think Tank Finds Biden Tax Hike Only Hurts the Rich
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/joe-biden-tax-plan-analysis-conservative-think-tank-rich-middle-class-economy-growth.html
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/an-analysis-of-joe-bidens-tax-proposals-october-2020-update/
As wildfires explode in the West, Forest Service can't afford prevention efforts
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-10-21/amid-worsening-wildfires-the-forest-service-is-short-of-funds-and-delaying-fire-prevention-work
All the people complaining that they "can't retweet" are telling on themselves. Just played around with the feature a bit and it only seems to block you from retweeting if you haven't actually clicked through and read the article.
Obama in Philly speech channeling exactly message Biden camp wants from him to Dem base: "We can't be complacent. I don't care about the polls!"
Georgia has officially topped 2 million early voters, per @GaSecofState:
2,090,481 early ballots cast
In person: 1,285,039
Absentee: 805,442
That's 28% of all registered Georgia voters. More than double this point in 2016.
#Election2020
https://twitter.com/ReporterBlayne/status/1319042292775325700
With schools closed and jobs short, some Kenyan girls have turned to sex work to help feed their families amid the Covid-19 economic downturn. The U.N. says the pandemic is putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative jobs. http://apne.ws/amAb30s
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-africa-united-nations-kenya-nairobi-4c0fa9421409d2a8e79045ba896f4db7
Threatening emails received by Democratic voters were linked to servers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Estonia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-emails-proud-boys-vote-trump-linked-overseas-servers/
Obama in PA intentionally stoking a Trump psychic meltdown in tomorrow night debate.
80 Million Gallons of Oil, Larger Than Exxon Spill, Dangerously Close to Pouring into Caribbean
https://www.newsweek.com/oil-tanker-nabarima-caribbean-1540082
A video citing 4Chan and alleging voter fraud in Montgomery County has gone viral. Election officials concluded after an investigation that there's no truth at all to the claim, but some worry that the damage has already been done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/ballot-fraud-denied-montgomery-county/2020/10/21/aee4de64-13dd-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html
"When you get this disease, it hits you how easy it is to prevent. We are asked to wear cloth over our mouth and nose, wash our hands and avoid crowds... Seldom has so little been asked for so much benefit." — Chris Christie
https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-should-have-worn-a-mask-11603315968
Russia, Iran have obtained some voter registration data, aiming to communicate disinformation with voters. If only we had 4 years to prepare for this not to happen again.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/fbi-to-make-an-announcement-on-a-major-election-security-issue.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/fbi-election-security/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-government-russia-iran-have-obtained-some-voter-registration-data-aiming-to-interfere-in-election/2020/10/21/53d82ad4-13f7-11eb-a258-614acf2b906d_story.html
Armed Right-Wing Militants who illegally and unconstitutionally dressed as armed guards and illegally and unconstituionally set up in a tent outside an early voting location in downtown St. Petersburg were hired by the Trump campaign. | "The Sheriff [Bob Gualtieri] told me the persons that were dressed in these security uniforms had indicated to sheriff's deputies that they belonged to a licensed security company and they indicated—and this has not been confirmed yet—that they were hired by the Trump campaign," said Marcus in a video interview with 8 On Your Side's Chip Osowski Wednesday night. | "The sheriff and I take this very seriously," Marcus said. "Voter intimidation, deterring voters from voting, impeding a voter's ability to cast a ballot in this election is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any way shape, or form. So we anticipated many things going into this election. Not only cybersecurity, but physical security and we had a plan in place and executed that plan."
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/armed-guards-at-st-pete-early-voting-site-told-deputies-they-were-hired-by-trump-campaign-election-officials-say/
Corey Seager, who is not a Ranger, now holds the record for the most home runs hit at Globe Life Field, regular and postseason combined.
Ji-Man Choi becomes the first Korean-born player to record a hit in the World Series
Blake Snell WS game 2 final line: 4.2 IP | 2 H | 2 ER | 4 BB | 9 Ks | 88 pitches
Will Smith hits his first career postseason home run off of somebody not named Will Smith.
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/8281d387-16ef-43e5-acba-782bcb7431e1.mp4
Phillips was in because Cash plays everyone, T Ball style. Plus Phillips is a better baserunner and defender. Both he and Arozarena are very fast by StatCast Sprint Speed and it's too early to say much about Arozarena's baserunning value at the MLB level, but Phillips is at +4.9 baserunning runs in 383 career PA, a really good ratio, and has stolen 58 bases in 62 attempts at the MiLB and MLB levels since 2017 while Arozarena is at 67 of 95 in that span. Arozarena isn't necessarily bad, Phillips is just a terrific baserunner and a better defender
Democrats Are Losing The Journalism Wars: As Democratic-Leaning media outlets erect unbypassable paywalls, Republican publishers are flooding the country with free right-wing propaganda
https://newrepublic.com/article/159876/liberals-losing-journalism-wars-brian-timpone
Trump Considering Firing FBI Director Chris Wray And Bill Barr For Not Helping His Campaign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considering-firing-fbi-director-christopher-wray-for-not-helping-his-campaign-says-report
Hundreds of Nebraskans were falsely told they could not vote
https://omaha.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/hundreds-of-nebraskans-were-potentially-falsely-told-they-could-not-vote/article_ca766b0d-b0db-5429-adc0-a13d1084d264.html
Fake Judge Illegally And Unconstitutionally Stops California attorney general's effort to investigate illegal and unconstitutional Republican ballot boxes being used to throw Democratic ballots away
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-21/judge-rejects-california-attorney-general-investigation-gop-ballot-boxes
Minnesota attorney general launches investigation into company that illegally and unconstitutionally hired right-wing militant armed guards as poll watchers
https://abcnews.go.com/US/minnesota-attorney-general-launches-investigation-company-accused-hiring/story?id=73739591
Anti-American Domestic Terrorist leader of Arizona's Patriot movement has been charged with felony identity theft.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2020/10/20/jennifer-harrison-az-patriots-leader-charged-felony-identity-theft/5999976002/
Supreme Court Republican Justices illegally and unconstitutionally ban curbside voting in Alabama
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/21/alabama-curbside-voting-supreme-court-431130
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to be arraigned for violation of Oahu beach park closure order
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/10/21/breaking-news/u-s-surgeon-jerome-adams-to-be-arraigned-for-alleged-violation-of-oahu-beach-park-closure-order/
A college football player whose season was postponed by the virus blames Trump in a new ad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/politics/a-college-football-player-whose-season-was-postponed-by-the-virus-blames-trump-in-a-new-ad.html
Might not have made any Pro Bowls but two of most impactful NFL careers over past 20 years belong to Ryan Fitzpatrick & Josh McCown. Fitz and McCown played for 17 teams and 15 different franchises. Taught a generation of young QB's how to be leaders and pros. Immeasurable impact.
https://twitter.com/JimNagy_SB/status/1318878785819856898
Video of Joe Biden Comforting Parkland School Shooting Families Watched Over 7 Million Times
https://www.newsweek.com/video-joe-biden-parkland-shooting-victims-families-1541245
USPS told its postal police officers to not do their jobs, igniting concerns about mail-in ballot security and sparking another lawsuit against the agency
https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-sidelines-postal-police-officers-election-mail-in-ballot-concerns-2020-10
Wisconsin reports record-high 48 coronavirus deaths as Sen. Johnson falsely claims state has flattened the curve
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/10/21/wisconsin-coronavirus-state-reports-4-205-new-cases-48-deaths/3717200001/
Colorado trailer park tenants say landl-rd sends note implying a vote for Biden is a vote for increased rent
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/politics/trailer-park-biden-voter-intimidation-letter/73-56daf9cd-5eb8-49eb-a768-4e3cb08640a3
Around 787,000 people filed for first-time jobless claims last week
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/around-787-000-people-filed-first-time-jobless-claims-last-n1244251
Trump walks out of interview after complaining that Lesley Stahl's questions were too tough for him
https://twitter.com/arlenparsa/status/1319302033879535617
Trump accused Stahl of saying a "vicious thing" for saying that he had said to lock up the governor of Michigan, claiming he "never" said this. Amid a "lock her up" chant in Michigan on Saturday, prompted directly by his criticism of Whitmer, Trump said, "Lock 'em all up." The best thing about Stahl's performance here is that she was willing to just spend minutes going round and round with Trump on one point he was lying about, rather than trying to move on to a checklist of pre-planned topics. There's an interesting story about a walk out in Michael Cohen's Trump book. Trump is to meet with some casino creditors. Trump takes offense at their attitude, scolds them, and walks out. And ... they foreclose on him. One way to look at the "60 Minutes" leak: Trump reacting poorly to questions from a female journalist hours before he will face questions on the debate stage from a female journalist.
Trump is not surprisingly preparing to throw a mountain of allegations against Joe Biden and his son during tonight's debate. He'll do nothing but shooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuut the entire debate about Hunter.
https://politico.com/news/2020/10/22/hunter-biden-giuliani-hard-drive-431022
What the heck is going on with Mitch McConnell's hands? The image is legit: http://apimages.com/metadata/Index/Mitch-McConnell-talks-to-reporters-Washington/8ed2c53d1ff147ab861b92ba1ffa04c4/1/0
Trump denied encouraging his crowds' lock-'em-up chants, saying, "They say it. It's not me." Wrong. He starts the chants then goes quiet to let his crowds chant. He repeatedly says his opponents should be locked up. His response to the chant in Michigan on Saturday: "Lock 'em all up."
"Goldman Sachs today accepted responsibility for its role in a conspiracy to bribe high-ranking foreign officials to obtain lucrative underwriting and other business relating to 1MDB."– Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt
https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1319322462224584706
A bunch of prominent Republicans spent yesterday idiotically screaming about "censorship" because Twitter was encouraging them to actually read what they were tweeting (which is kind of the opposite of censorship)
Career federal employees whose work involves making policy will their civil service protections under illegal and unconstitutional Republical order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html
Biden's 13 negative tests since October 2:
Oct. 2 – Negative x2
Oct. 4 – Negative
Oct. 6 – Negative
Oct. 8 – Negative
Oct. 10 – Negative
Oct. 12 – Negative
Oct. 14 – Negative
Oct. 15 – Negative
Oct. 16 – Negative
Oct. 19 – Negative
Oct. 20 – Negative
Oct. 22 - Negative
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1319321397697662983
The White House's unprecedented decision to disregard their agreement with CBS News and release their footage will not deter 60 Minutes from providing its full, fair and contextual reporting which presidents have participated in for decades. (1/4)
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1319316652412919808
"I hope that they end it." This is Trump on 60 Minutes telling Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court strip away health care from millions. Democrats will not stop fighting.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1319330879940984834
Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/snowden-granted-permanent-residency-in-russia/articleshow/78811368.cms
More people have now early voted in North Carolina (2,4317,317) than the number of people who voted for Donald Trump in North Carolina (2,362,631) in 2016.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Total Early Votes: 46,591,993
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Republicans Broke The Rules To Advance Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3veve/the-gop-just-broke-the-rules-to-advance-amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-nomination
Get involved with Beto's Powered by People. Our work to turn Texas blue is why Texas is #1 in voter turnout & why Abbott is attacking Beto. Without our 38 EVs Trump has no path to the White House. Signup: http://events.poweredxpeople.org
In Mississippi, Black voters face many hurdles
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-race-and-ethnicity-mississippi-voting-rights-meridian-5128c7cd5d0f01b1bc39144452b2730c
Colorado wildfire grows by more than 100,000 acres in a day, forcing hundreds to flee
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1319341578121564162
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/10/22/colorado-wildfire-east-troublesome/
GOOD: As of now, the DH will be AL-only next season, I'm hearing. The union and MLB would have to expand it to both leagues through bargaining.
https://twitter.com/lavelleneal/status/1319334510580944901
This is a photo of international airline counters for carriers, including Austrian and Lufthansa. Germany and Austria currently have tight restrictions on U.S. travelers, for instance, so it's not clear how any governor's political party or state regulations would affect that. FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS heavily restricted Americans from their planes and countries because REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO DEAL WITH COVID19.
https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1319352307935514625
Police officers who hide their badge numbers while doing unlawful things may want to start wearing masks after all. Activists are using facial recognition apps to identify them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html
The extent of Pompeo's use of personal email to conduct government business raises concerns that Pompeo's practices may have resulted in violations of recordkeeping laws & in the storing of sensitive national security info on insecure personal accounts.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1319350089974951946
I don't see bias, hatred or rudeness from Lesley Stahl, I see a dogged & polite journalist trying to get answers about the pandemic, unemployment, and other issues and a president determined to deny reality. (Ex: No respected health official thinks we're "turning the corner.")
Manfred claims to love baseball, but everything he wants to do destroys the game
https://washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/22/rob-manfred-world-series-commissioner/
Trump, when off camera, acknowledged that climate change was exacerbating California's wildfire season last month
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/22/us/trump-biden-debate-tonight/with-the-cameras-off-trump-softened-his-climate-denial
In La Crosse, Wis., students partied in September. Then infections and deaths among the elderly began to rise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/21/la-crosse-wisconsin-covid-outbreak-nursing-home-deaths/
After months of political pressure, Hahn seems to be trying to save the FDA from the fate of the CDC, whose scientists have been stripped of much of their authority and independence
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/health/covid-vaccines-fda-trump.html
Fun fact: TikTok is still owned by a Chinese company, and it's still not banned in the U.S.
NYC, Seattle and Portland sue Trump administration over 'anarchy' designation and threat to illegally and unconstitutionally withhold funding
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/nyc-trump-administration-complaint-anarchy/index.html
The Only Single Mom In Congress Wants You To Know Childcare Will Be Key To America's Recovery
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/katie-porter-childcare-election
Individuals waving Trump flags intimidating minority voters in Albuquerque, NM
https://www.krwg.org/post/report-trump-supporters-obstruct-and-intimidate-voters-albuquerque
CISA and the FBI warn that Iran "likely" intends to interfere in U.S. election processes based on its creation of fake media websites and impersonation of real ones to spread misinformation.
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/Joint_CISA_FBI_CSA-AA20-296B_Iranian_APT_Actors_Threaten_Election-Related_Systems.pdf
CISA names Russia as the actor it previously described targeting state/local govt/aviation:
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-296a
The hackers have stolen data from at least 2 victim servers.
You'd think that Trump would have tested *before* he boarded Air Force One to Nashville, so as not to infect anybody and so as not to waste the trip in case of a positive result
Based on an update we'll be releasing later today, we're now projecting total turnout in the presidential race to be 154 million, with an 80th percentile range between 144 million and 165 million. In 2016, turnout was 137 million, by comparison.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1319358871731830785
"Yes, we raised $57 million, but we spent $60 million," Harrison said. (that's how you win) | Jaime Harrison raised a record-shattering $57 million last quarter in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, but the South Carolina Democrat told The Associated Press on Thursday that the cash is already spent.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-senate-elections-jaime-harrison-elections-campaigns-fa41fac7f4e23c3caac73f4fd0a8b79c
Reminder: A candidate for president had a secret bank account in China where he partnered with a state owned bank, and in China these are often shells for the government. He paid more to the Chinese government in taxes than to America. That candidate's name is Trump.
As Trump uses Bobulinski to tear into Hunter Biden, he'll be sitting as a guest with Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka, who only have their jobs in government and business because of their father (plus Kushner, who has his job because of his father in law and fortune because of his own father). TRUMP'S OWN FAMILY SELLS THEIR NAME FOR PROFIT. TRUMP SELLS HIS NAME FOR PROFIT. REMEMBER THAT.
Joe Biden....released his tax returns and did every year while in office as vice president...and released 10 years in 2008 when he was on the ticket.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1319366770122215425
Russia hacked into U.S. computer networks in recent days, and many intelligence officials say it shows Moscow is a bigger election threat than Iran. The discovery of the hacks came as American intelligence agencies, infiltrating Russian networks themselves, have pieced together details of what they believe are Russia's plans to interfere in the presidential race in its final days or immediately after the election on Nov. 3.
https://nytimes.com/live/2020/10/22/us/trump-biden-debate-tonight#russia-poses-a-bigger-election-threat-than-iran-many-us-officials-say
"Hunter's laptop" is a fake — Computer was manufactured AFTER the date it was supposedly dropped off at repair shop
https://www.twitter.com/spdustin/status/1316621229751762945
Man arrested in Kannapolis with van full of guns and explosives, researched killing Joe Biden
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/10/22/man-arrested-kannapolis-with-van-full-guns-explosives-researched-killing-joe-biden/
Mitch McConnell, the 78-year-old Senate Majority Leader currently running for reelection, is denying any health issues despite photos showing his hand bandaged and severely discolored.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/mitch-mcconnell-hands-health
Trump's Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password "maga2020!"
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter-account-password/
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-president-endorsement-1074513/
We've lived for the past four years under a man categorically unfit to be president. Fortunately for America, Joe Biden is Donald Trump's opposite in nearly every category: The Democratic presidential nominee evinces competence, compassion, steadiness, integrity, and restraint. Perhaps most important in this moment, Biden holds a profound respect for the institutions of American democracy, as well as a deep knowledge about how our government — and our system of checks and balances — is meant to work; he aspires to lead the nation as its president, not its dictator. The 2020 election, then, offers the nation a chance to reboot and rebuild from the racist, authoritarian, know-nothing wreckage wrought by the 45th president. And there are few Americans better suited to the challenge than Joe Biden.
It is no exaggeration to say that the American experiment hangs in the balance in the November election. Four years of Trump have left 215,000 of us and counting dead from a serious but preventable public-health crisis, tens of millions out of work or underemployed, a cataclysmic climate crisis ignored, our democratic institutions in disrepair, and the public's faith in its elected representatives at an all-time low.
Is America capable of stepping back from this precipice? Of turning away from the politics of resentment to rebuild our country based on a shared idea of American progress? That remains to be seen, but electing Biden is the first step. Despite the multiple crises at hand, Biden envisions a revival anchored in unity. "We have too bright a future to have it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division," Biden said in an October address near the battlefield at Gettysburg.
The Democrat has delivered more than just happy talk. Biden has been leading by example in his campaign. He showed confidence and bridge-building by tapping his harshest critic from the primary debates, California Sen. Kamala Harris, as his running mate. And Biden has won a diverse backing that would have been inconceivable outside of this 2020 moment. Think of it as a coalition of the decent, ranging from Bernie Sanders, Barbara Lee, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the left, to "Never Trumpers" John Kasich, Cindy McCain, and Bill Kristol on the right. Biden has promised to be a president for all Americans, standing in contrast to Trump, who has only governed for his partisans and once mused aloud that the nation's pandemic death toll didn't look so bad "if you take the blue states out."
Biden's broad acceptability is his strength. But inside his big tent, Biden's platform offers progressive solutions to every major problem facing the country. And the former vice president has the experience to put that platform into practice:
A Bold Plan for Climate Change
The danger of climate change is not a future concern. It is our deadly present. As the wildfires ravaging the West and the record number of named storms in the Atlantic this summer have made clear, we are already living with the dangerous results of accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Trump and his party live in denial, rejecting basic climate science and pushing ahead with policies that permit the unfettered drilling of fossil fuels.
Biden, by contrast, believes in science, and names the "existential threat" we are facing in global warming. He has embraced the spirit of the Green New Deal, outlining a path to limit the catastrophic heating of the planet by achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This would be realized through a $2 trillion investment in America — including clean-energy plants, solarized and weatherized homes, and carbon-free transportation networks — that would create millions of sustainable jobs. "When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is 'hoax,' " Biden has said. "When I think about climate change, the word I think of is 'jobs.' "
Climate change is a global crisis. And Biden also has the foreign-policy chops, honed over decades of service, to not only reverse Trump's course for America as a rogue nation on climate, but to also reassert U.S. leadership, moving the world toward equitable climate solutions.
A Path to Racial Justice
Biden recognizes America's systemic racism, and is unabashed in denouncing the poisonous purveyors of white supremacy, including the current president — who praised the torch-carrying neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville as "very fine people" and who did not denounce violent groups like the Proud Boys when prompted in a debate, instructing them instead to "stand by."
As a four-decade veteran of Washington, Biden has amends to make. The 1994 crime bill that he helped usher through the Senate expanded America's prison-industrial complex. But Biden, despite his age, has retained agility in his thinking. The world has changed, and Biden is responsive to it. His selection of Harris made history, creating the chance that a black woman will be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and Biden has promised that Harris will be his partner in governing America. This decision kept faith with the key Democratic constituency that sealed Biden's nomination. It also built on Biden's promise to be a "transition president" who will pass the baton to what he calls "the most open, the least prejudiced" generation now coming of age in America. A key part of Trump's political project has been to make white supremacy just another ideology in the American political spectrum. Biden promises an America where hate has no quarter. "I made a mistake about something," Biden said recently. "I thought you could defeat hate. . . . It only hides. And when someone in authority breathes oxygen under that rock, it legitimizes those folks to come on out from under the rocks."
Protecting LGBTQ Rights
Biden vows to reverse course on the Trump administration's openly discriminatory actions and policies toward the LGBTQ community. Biden would enforce the Civil Rights Act's prohibition of employment discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, ending Trump's sweeping efforts to the contrary. Biden would allow transgender Americans to serve openly in the armed forces again. He would revoke Trump's federal permissions to discriminate against LGBTQ people in health care, and he would end the Trump administration's threats to allow federally funded homeless shelters to turn away trans people and to let federally funded adoption agencies simply reject same-sex couples. Biden, who helped push the Obama administration forward on same-sex marriage, has also vowed to secure passage of the Equality Act, enshrining all these protections into law, thus guarding them from the whims of another administration.
A More Just Immigration Policy
Trump's rancid anti-immigrant politics have blocked immigration from a wide swath of the Muslim world while forcing U.S. taxpayers to pay billions for "the wall." The administration's inhumane actions to separate migrant parents from their children at the border — including mothers from infants — has left a stain on our national character. "It makes a lie of who we are in front of the whole world," Biden has said, offering policies to revive the ideal of America as a nation of immigrants. Biden promises to protect Dreamers, to process refugees as they arrive at the border (instead of stalling them in dangerous limbo in Mexican border towns), to end for-profit detention centers, and to stop terrorizing law-abiding residents with ICE raids. While insisting he'll still "control our border," Biden vows to pursue comprehensive reform that creates a "road map to citizenship" for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who call America home. "When immigrants succeed," Biden has said, "we all succeed."
A Fairer Tax Code
Biden seeks to raise trillions of dollars by taxing the nation's highest incomes, cutting the estate-tax exemption in half, and undoing the most egregious giveaways of Trump's 2017 corporate tax cut. It's important to be clear-eyed about what Biden offers on this plank. He's not Sanders — and has bragged in the general election: "I beat the socialist. . . . Do I look like a socialist?" Biden's line is that he's not out to "punish" anyone. Fair enough. But in these punishing times — where hundreds of thousands of small businesses are shuttering through no fault of their own — it's not punitive to demand that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, who've gotten massively richer since the coronavirus hit, pay a larger share to build an economy that works for American workers. Sanders, for example, has introduced a bill to levy a 60 percent tax on wealth gained by billionaires during the pandemic. Biden would be wise not to dismiss such policies out of hand.
Expanding Health Care
Biden — who famously touted the passage of Obamacare as a "big fucking deal" — has vowed to protect the Affordable Care Act from Republican assault, and to expand the program with a public option in the health care exchanges that his campaign insists is "like Medicare" in that it would negotiate with hospitals and doctors to contain costs. The Biden health plan would also make Obamacare's insurance subsidies more generous and extend them to higher-earning middle-class workers, ensuring that no family pays more than 8.5 percent of their income on health coverage. The situation is critical. More than 5 million Americans have lost workplace insurance coverage in the pandemic — adding to more than 1.25 million who have fallen off the Obamacare rolls under Trump. Independent analysis of Biden's plan suggests he could expand health coverage to 20 million Americans. If the Trump administration wins a lawsuit seeking to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide in 2021, as many as 23 million Americans could lose their health insurance.
Defending Reproductive Rights
Over his long career, Biden, a Catholic, has equivocated on abortion, saying at times that Roe v. Wade went "too far" and voicing support for the Hyde Amendment, a measure banning federal funding for most abortions. But he has since made significant efforts to put any doubts to rest on his stance, publicly pledging, for example, to codify the protections of Roe into law if it is overturned by a conservative Supreme Court. Biden has further pledged to appoint judges who would support reproductive rights, to restore the birth-control coverage originally included in the Affordable Care Act, to restore funding for Planned Parenthood, and to repeal the gag rules the Trump administration has put in place prohibiting doctors from speaking with their patients about abortion. He's also pledged he will work to reduce the high U.S. maternal-mortality rate, an epidemic that disproportionately impacts black women.
Navigating the Pandemic
America could hit 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic before the end of the year. Trump's bungled response to the central crisis of his presidency also deepened the accompanying economic disaster that has seen tens of millions thrown out of work.
Biden has proven experience in addressing the intertwined health and economic crises posed by Covid-19. One of his top lieutenants, Ron Klain, was the "Ebola czar" and led the response that safeguarded America from that potentially devastating disease. In contrast to Trump, Biden has a plan for taming the spread of the virus, which would impose a national face-mask mandate and fund the mass deployment of personal protective equipment, testing, and contact tracing, so that schools and businesses might safely reopen.
The challenge of leading an economic recovery is also in Biden's wheelhouse. As vice president under Obama, he led the implementation of the 2009 Recovery Act, steadily rebuilding the U.S. economy from what was then the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression — and doing so without the scandals and self-dealing that have defined the Trump presidency.
Rebuilding Democracy
Biden will be confronted with the challenge of rebuilding a government corrupted by Trump and his henchmen. The current administration, led by a president impeached for inviting foreign interference in our elections, has politicized pillars of our government that previously operated above the fray. Attorney General Bill Barr has acted as the president's personal lawyer, telling U.S. attorneys that they work not for the people but for the president. Even the Postal Service has become complicit in Trump's anti-democratic schemes, with Postmaster Louis DeJoy ripping out mail-sorting machines in blue districts to disrupt the election. "At the heart of DeJoy's and the Postal Service's actions," a judge ruled in September, "is voter disenfranchisement."
The daily functioning of our government could, under a Biden administration, be revived following a single Trump term. But if Trump gets another four years, the America as we know it will grow dark and unrecognizable. Corruption at our essential public agencies could take root, and our democracy might never truly recover.
Restoring Our National Character
As much as any specific policy, this election is a referendum on character — the character of the president and the character of the nation. America doesn't need a saint in the Oval Office. But the country has been reeling with a broken man at the Resolute Desk. Trump is a narcissist and an egotist, a shameless liar and an open bigot, a man who simply cannot understand the notion of sacrifice for the greater good, even as he demands unthinking fealty from those in his service.
Biden's lived experience and expansive empathy make him not just a good, but an outstanding candidate. His keen understanding of loss connects him emotionally to the honest struggles of Americans whom he seeks to serve. And it gives Biden the moral authority to ask the rest of us to sacrifice as well. Biden calls us to the responsibilities of citizenship — to think of ourselves as threads in the fabric of our society, of owing allegiance to one another, individually and as a whole, and of seeing ourselves connected to the values at the core of the American experiment. Trump has broken that creed, insisting such patriotism is for "suckers." The 45th president preaches a doctrine of extreme individualism, of keeping what's mine and to hell with my neighbor, even indulging in trollish satisfaction at the suffering of fellow Americans not part of his personality cult.
Every election presents a stark choice. The contrast between the 2020 candidates — and the coalitions behind them — could not be clearer. This is a fight between light and darkness. Rolling Stone is proud to stand in the light and endorse Joe Biden for president. Vote like your country — and perhaps even your life — depends on it.
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MLB's Astros investigation showed Luhnow's awareness of sign-stealing
https://theathletic.com/2154958/2020/10/22/sources-mlb-astros-investigation-showed-jeff-luhnow-awareness-of-sign-stealing/
Kevin Kiermaier led MLB with six CF assists isn't even a finalist for a Gold Glove this
Treasury sanctions Iranian Ambassador to Iraq. Treasury sanctions the IRGC, the IRGC-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) & Bayan Rasaneh Gostar Institute for having "directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit" in foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1159
YES: Bernie Sanders is angling for a spot in a potential Biden Cabinet, particularly as Labor Secretary. https://politico.com/news/2020/10/22/bernie-sanders-biden-labor-secretary-431266
My first thought is he would go for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But Bernie will be a welcome member of the cabinet. In a Biden administration we need to work together to keep the Leftist-Moderate partnership going, not just for administering but also for 2022 and 2024.
Madison Cawthorn, whose background is under increasing scrutiny, told a packed school chapel in 2017 that his best friend "[left] me in the car to die" after the crash that paralyzed him. Cawthorn's father says the friend pulled him from the car.
https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1319389001166557184
In a letter signed by more than 150 of former classmates of Cawthorne's during his time at Patrick Henry College, he's also accused of "sexually predatory behavior" and vandalism while at the school. https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1319389665217171459?s=20
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Jared Kushner floating launch of an illegal and unconstitutional Trump-branded media outlet (government is banned from having its own media outlet)
https://businessinsider.com/kushner-talking-up-trump-branded-media-outlet-gop-sources-say-2020-10
Nationals Bring Back Kevin Long As Hitting Coach
https://mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/nationals-bring-back-kevin-long-as-hitting-coach.html
Same former Fox News executive who killed Stormy Daniels story pre-2016 election, as NewYorker reported, has now turned up behind spread of Hunter Biden laptop claims...
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/former-fox-news-executive-promoted-alleged-hunter-biden-emails-far-right-message-board
Indigenous Voters Are Getting Hit Hard by Polling Station Cuts in North Dakota. North Dakota Illegally And Unconstitutionally And Racistly Eliminated 60% of its polling stations. Now Indigenous people have 50-mile treks to a post office.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8gnx/indigenous-voters-are-getting-hit-hard-by-polling-station-cuts-in-north-dakota
Senate Republicans Illegally And Unconstitutionally Court Pack Another Trump Court Pick Rated Not Qualified
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-judicial-nominee-unqualified-kathryn-kimball-mizelle_n_5f91aa90c5b61c185f48092d
Sacklers—who made $11 billion off opioid crisis—to pay $225 million in damages
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/sacklers-who-made-11-billion-off-opioid-crisis-to-pay-225-million-in-damages/
Georgia U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) loaned her campaign $3 million more on Oct. 13, bringing her total self-funding to more than $23 million:
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00729608/1462804/sa/13A #gasen #gapol
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00729608/1462804/
It seems Republicans have pulled out of two Southeast Iowa House races as Democrats expand the map https://iowastartingline.com/2020/10/22/where-dems-are-spending-big-to-break-iowa-gop-trifecta/
Trump lied repeatedly throughout the 60 Minutes interview on Covid19, crowd sizes, health care, etc. Stahl pushed him and fact-checked him which is why he's upset.
This is a new thing Twitter is doing for stories. It's popped up the few times I tried to retweet an article I had not opened on twitter itself. This is not discriminatory. And it doesn't stop you from retweeting something without reading it, it just asks if you'd like to read the story first.
https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1318976241853210625
Republican Shitstain candidat Madison Cawthorn's campaign is attacking a local reporter (who is a retired Pulitzer winner) for his "work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males." Madison is also using a fake name, his name is DAVID Cawthorn.
https://thebulwark.com/madison-cawthorns-racist-website/
On Thursday morning, a federal court released a 2016 deposition given by Ghislaine Maxwell, the 58-year-old British woman charged by the federal government with enticing underage girls to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein. That deposition, which Maxwell has fought to withhold, was given as part of a defamation suit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges that she was lured to become Epstein's sex slave. That defamation suit was settled in 2017. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-redactions-epstein-how-to-crack.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article246624308.html
https://www.nhpr.org/post/ghislaine-maxwell-accused-grooming-victims-jeffrey-epstein-arrested-nh#stream/0
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7274479/Maxwell-Deposition-2016.pdf
The Texas Supreme Court has denied TexasGOP and HarrisCountyRP's requests for writs of mandamus to block drive-thru voting in Harris County:
https://txcourts.gov/supreme/orders-opinions/2020/october/october-22-2020/
Interesting to see this alleged incoming text on a phone connected to Russia's @ru_mts mobile network.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1319390872761454594
This is a screenshot of an iPhone connected in Russia or what, Belarus? and it's being looked at on a broke Blackberry and then photographed w/ a third phone?
https://twitter.com/dellcam/status/1319393135357734920
A North Carolina man who was indicted last month on charges of child pornography also had plans to commit a mass shooting during the holidays and assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. A federal grand jury indicted 19-year-old Alexander Hillel Treisman (no doubt a Jew), who also used the alias Alexander S. Theiss, in September on charges of knowingly possessing an image that contained child pornography, according to the Daily Beast. When authorities investigated Treisman's electronic devices, they discovered a bounty of disturbing information.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522346-north-carolina-man-arrested-with-van-full-of-guns-and-explosives-had-plans-to
Susan Collins 'Truly Grateful' For Endorsement From Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Group
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-collins-christian-civic-league-endorsement_n_5f91a66ac5b61c185f48043b
Tadataka Unno, a Japanese jazz pianist, suffered a brutal attack in Harlem last month. "He had come to the city to mix with people not like him, and now he was suffering for this difference"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/nyregion/jazz-pianist-attack-racism.html
Panda face Red heart It's official—our giant panda cub is as round as he is long, received his first vaccine and is 100% adorable. Pencil STORY: https://s.si.edu/37ykJW6 . #PandaStory #PandaCubdates
https://twitter.com/NationalZoo/status/1319367839233593347
Twice as many Americans have died from the coronavirus19 since the first Hunter Biden laptop story ran as died in the September 11 attacks.
The Trump campaign published more digital ads with stock footage from Russia and Slovenia. One of them was about America's comeback since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Another was trying to attack Joe Biden in an attempt to link him to China
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/trump-ad-on-americas-comeback-features-footage-from-russia-slovenia.html
Big Prediction: Trump runs over his time by nearly six minutes for the second time around halfway into the debate, his mic gets muted. He storms off. Fox news spins it as unfair media silencing the president.
Twitter suspended Trump campaign press secretary after tweet about mail-in voting issue
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/522365-twitter-suspended-trump-campaign-press-secretary-after-tweet
Trump Supporter Arrested For Requesting Absentee Ballot For Dead Mother
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/-trump-supporter-arrested-voter-fraud-pennsylvania_n_5f91e43ec5b61c185f4848de
Trump's children illegally and unconstitutionally take in millions overseas as Trump and Republicans attacks Biden's son
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-10/trumps-adult-children-do-business-overseas-as-president-slams-biden
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/trump-china-taxes-financial-records/index.html
A White House pool report tonight that is just a transcription of someone who is not the president or part of the White House or campaign staff making unverified claims at a campaign event because he's being paid to do so
Biden campaign: "Joe Biden has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever. He has never held stock in any such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1319430855392067584
Big news day for the gig economy: A California appeals court has unanimously ruled against Uber and Lyft, saying they must reclassify their drivers as employees under AB 5.
https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1319427427089543168
The accidental tell here is that the WSJ *news* side obviously found this too dubious to warrant an actual story, so the *editorial* (opinion written by republican pro-trumper) side is going to launder it because they don't even pretend to have any standards or do fact-checking.
https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1319427243970564096
Buttigieg: If they want to make this about the business deals of a government official, let's talk about the President of the United States having a secret Chinese bank account
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1319404416894529537
The WSJ news section didn't get it. The opinion section (written by pro-trump republican) got it.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1319428352130772993
Mother Nature is cooking up a repeat of October 2017, right down to the time and day of the week. only this time everything is even drier and the fire season is already historically severe: This is the fire weather forecast I was hoping wouldn't come to pass, given all that has already transpired in 2020: Very strong offshore winds, coupled w/exceptionally low humidity & record-dry vegetation, will bring extremely critical wildfire risk Sun/Mon. 1/3 #CAwx #CAfire
https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1319375803495243776
This will likely be strongest & most widespread offshore wind event of season, & is reminiscent of extreme events in 2019 & 2017. Hardest-hit areas appear to be west slopes of Sierra Nevada (gusts of 70+mph) & SF Bay Area (widespread gusts 40-50mph; higher in hills). #CAwx
https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1319375807215661056
FDA dubiously approves Covid19 Drug Remdesivir 1) That Has Never Helped Any Covid19 Patient And 2) Had Its Trials Cancelled Because It Was Scientifically Proven To Have No Impact On Covid19 and 3) Had Severe Side Effects
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-science-virus-outbreak-e03b6e713ad5e7b7ad74f23001a94f63
Trump gets to the big moment, and can't even say Bobulinski's name
Early votes for the 2020 election (49+ million) have exceeded the ENTIRETY of early votes (mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, in-person early voting) in the 2016 election.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Biden to Trump: "Release your tax returns, or stop talking about corruption"
During the debate Trump says on Covid-19: "I take full responsibility. It's not my fault."
During the debate Trump says "we're learning to live with" covid19. Biden says "people are learning to die with it."
Trump lies about Fauci's covid19 advice in heated exchange
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/presidential-debate-trump-fauci-covid-fact-check-biden-b1239264.html
During the debate Biden eviscerated Trump over Covid19: "Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain president"
Trump claims children separated at border "so well taken care of" as Biden eviscerates him for kidnapping them away from their parents and placing them in detention centres then shipping them off across the country to be lost.
Second whistleblower illegally fired from corrupt terrorist Republican Texas attorney general's office after accusing Ken Paxton of bribery. Blake Brickman and Lacey Mase, two whistleblowers who accused their boss of crimes including bribery and abuse of office, were both fired Tuesday.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/22/texas-ken-paxton-whistleblower-bribery/
Lindsey Graham Calls For Legal Investigation Of Rival Jaime Harrison's Ability To Out-Fundraise Him
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison-shadowy-small-donations_n_5f91f8f4c5b695a32fb1a77e
Pennsylvania Attorney General Warns Trump Campaign To Stop Videotaping Voters At Polls
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pennsylvania-attorney-general-warns-trump-campaign-to-stop-videotaping-voters-at-the-polls
WSJ Journalists Found No Joe Biden or Hunter Biden Role In Non-Existent Deals After Reviewing Bobulinski's Russian Disinformation Propaganda
https://www.newsweek.com/wsj-newsroom-found-no-joe-biden-role-hunter-deals-after-reviewing-bobulinskis-records-1541553
Trump decided to get back to his basic self for the last debate, the way he was in 2015-2016 debates. He opted to defend his record and push the Hunter Biden Russian Disinformation propaganda. He defended his record with lies and lies and more lies and was fact-checked every step of the way by Biden, and he bungled the pronunciation of Bobulinski and stumbled with the Hunter Biden attack. Biden's fact-checking and quick clever responses and policy contrasts wrecked Trump, by the end of the debate Trump was ready to explode and did not because he knew he lost not only the debate but pretty much everybody and the election. He went from having tens of thousands of people at his 2015 primary campaign rallies to having 40,000+ people at his rallies in 2016 leading up to election day to having only a few thousand people at his airport runway rallies. He's done.
Northwest Florida voters receive email threat; what to do if this pops up in your inbox
https://weartv.com/news/local/northwest-florida-voters-receive-email-threat-what-to-do-if-this-pops-up-in-your-inbox
Daniel Jones tackles himself to save a TD for the Eagles
https://streamable.com/nkxs04
Putin Most Likely Directing Election Interference to Aid Trump, C.I.A. Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/cia-russian-election-interference.html
Trump's campaign has, again, used stock footage from Russia and Slovenia in a digital ad intended to convince voters that America is bouncing back from the pandemic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/trump-ad-on-americas-comeback-features-footage-from-russia-slovenia.html
U.S. sets record with number of new coronavirus cases rising by over 77,000 on Thursday, topping the previous record in July. https://nbcnews.to/3jlZ31F
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1319601847401840642
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-case-increase-sets-new-u-s-record-rising-over-n1244490
ANNA CARTER, 13, of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, died of COVID-19 on July 10. Anna was a "super fun, loving, kind, and empathetic child, loved dance and hanging out with her friends and siblings."Submitted to @FacesOfCOVID by her mother.
https://beckerfuneral.com/obituary/anna-carter
https://twitter.com/FacesOfCOVID/status/1319443422810259456
82 Person Covid19 Church Outbreak. A woman says her mother-in-law has died after attending a convocation at Charlotte church—82 COVID19 cases & 3 deaths plus a cluster of 6 cases at a senior living facility—all stemming from a church's events from Oct 4-11.
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/10/22/woman-says-mother-in-law-died-after-attending-charlotte-church-event-linked-covid-outbreak/
Why the Pandemic Is Forcing Women Out of the Workforce. Isaac Chotiner speaks with Betsey Stevenson about how the pandemic has affected men and women differently and what the past six months should teach us about paid family leave.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-the-pandemic-is-forcing-women-out-of-the-workforce
#NC11 deserves better than a habitual lying racist with no education, training or experience who thinks he's entitled to a seat in Congress where he'd be in the minority and powerless to do anything for Western North Carolina.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/23/us/debate-trump-biden/a-gop-house-candidate-sounds-a-racist-dog-whistle-in-an-attack-on-a-journalist
https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1319600818455281664
Daniel Jones Was Clocked At A Top Speed Faster Than Lamar Jackson's Top Speed
https://www.outkick.com/daniel-jones-clocked-at-an-incredible-speed-during-80-yard-run/
While everyone is laughing at Daniel Jones for not finishing the run, he topped out at 21.23 MPH on that long run and that was the fastest top speed by ANY quarterback on a run since the 2018 season. And yes, that includes all of Lamar Jackson's runs. Not bad.
https://twitter.com/danschneiernfl/status/1319466241187250176
I mean i can't even say anything cause i would never be able to run that far either 😂😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/patrickmahomes/status/1319465145047961601
Giants QB Daniel Jones reached 21.23 MPH on his epic, unforgettable 80-yard run vs the Eagles, the fastest speed reached by any QB as a ball carrier since 2018, per NextGenStats. The longest run by a QB who didn't score on the play since at least 1975.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1319609392090828802
"Giants-Eagles is a bad game, two teams with only one win. Man, who's going to watch that?" About 15 million people.
https://twitter.com/AndrewBrandt/status/1319416752426618883
Source says Raiders Trent Brown wasn't wearing Kinexon proximity device (tracing device) at all times in the facility and there were instances of the offensive linemen unmasked together on the sidelines during practice while team was in intensive protocols.
https://twitter.com/diannaespn/status/1319598127159123968
He tripped the same way people do in scary movies when they running from the villain/bad guy ...
https://twitter.com/stefondiggs/status/1319468244512739330
Giants players on the sideline watch their quarterback trip over himself
https://streamable.com/w7jpa2
More than 700 leading economists, including seven Nobel Prize winners, urge US voters to reject Donald Trump, a 'selfish and reckless' president
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-day-economists-biden-economy-growth-gdp-2020-10
Judge orders Postal Service to restore high-speed mail sorting machines
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/522422-judge-orders-postal-service-to-restore-high-speed-mail-sorting
Trump vividly reminds us that he doesn't know how tariffs work
https://theweek.com/speedreads/945400/trump-vividly-reminds-that-doesnt-know-how-tariffs-work
Trump's Plan To Make Biden Look Senile Disappeared Without A Trace
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/final-2020-debate-trump-calling-biden-senile-dementia-sleepy-joe.html
USPS illegally awards $5 million contract to Postmaster DeJoy's former company XPO
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-contract-xpo-logistics-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/
Legal Scholars Endorse House Bill Imposing Term Limits on Justices: It's 'Critical' to Depoliticizing Supreme Court
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/legal-scholars-endorse-house-bill-imposing-terms-limits-on-justices-as-critical-to-depoliticizing-supreme-court/
Melania Was Caught Literally Ripping Her Hand Away From Trump After The Debate. He turned to wave at Trump and Melania and they had already walked away without ever considering a handshake. Jill redirected him, but you could tell it bugged him that Trump couldn't even feign the decency or respect. You can tell a lot by a persons actions, and that spoke pretty loud to me.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/melania-caught-literally-ripping-her-112500448.html
The town that built back green. After a tornado demolished Greensburg, Kan., it rebuilt without carbon emissions. Can its lessons help communities and economies rebound from fires, hurricanes and covid-19? A wind-swept farming community in southwestern Kansas, Greensburg rebuilt "green" after an EF5 tornado — the most violent — barreled through at more than 200 miles per hour and nearly wiped it off the map in 2007.
A decade later, Greensburg draws 100 percent of its electricity from a wind farm, making it one of a handful of cities in the United States to be powered solely by renewable energy. It now has an energy-efficient school, a medical center, city hall, library and commons, museum and other buildings that save more than $200,000 a year in fuel and electricity costs, according to one federal estimate. The city saves thousands of gallons of water with low-flow toilets and drought-resistance landscaping and, in the evening, its streets glow from LED lighting. It's exactly the kind of community Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden envisions when he talks about the need to conserve energy and transition away from fossil fuels towards wind, solar and other sources that do not emit the greenhouse gases driving climate change. | By the end of 2007, Greensburg became the first city in the country to require all municipal buildings over 4,000 square feet to be certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization. That means the buildings meet certain standards for saving energy, reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are linked to global warming. More than a decade later, the town has about 400 modest, newly rebuilt homes — many of them with white-pillared front porches — centered in a small downtown where the key buildings are clustered among a few walkable blocks. There's the city hall, hospital, courthouse, a commons building with a media center and library and school, all built with green construction features like angled windows that make the most of winter sun, cisterns to collect rainwater for irrigation and geothermal heating and cooling systems. | The city was able to halve its carbon footprint by shifting to 100 percent wind energy from a 10-turbine wind farm south of town that is owned and operated by Exelon Corp. The turbines, which began operating in 2010, are capable of producing 12.5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 4,000 homes, according to Exelon. The energy generated by the turbines goes into the Kansas Power Pool, which provides power to several municipalities and ensures Greensburg still has electricity on days when the air is still. The city uses wind energy that has been certified by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to Stacy Barnes, Greensburg's city administrator. An NREL study from 2011 showed that 13 of the city's "smart" buildings save about a combined $200,000 a year in utility costs, and the homes consume about 40 percent less energy on average than before the tornado. Harnessing the wind that nearly obliterated it and using it to power a revived Greensburg was logical for the city. Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the United States, supplying more than 7 percent of the nation's electricity last year. And in 2019, Kansas generated 41 percent of its electricity from wind power, second only to Iowa, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/22/greensburg-kansas-wind-power-carbon-emissions/
US, Saudi Arabia and Uganda join forces to declare women have no right to reproductive health care
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/abortion-geneva-consensus-declaration-trump-pompeo-azar-us-saudi-arabia-uganda-b1250419.html
Reminder: Ongoing Russian Cyberattacks Are Targeting U.S. Election Systems
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926825699/ongoing-russian-cyberattacks-are-targeting-u-s-election-systems-feds-say
Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons projected onto government buildings in defiance of Islamist terrorists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-muhammad-samuel-paty-teacher-france-b1224820.html
Australian soldiers killed prisoner because he could not fit on aircraft, American marine says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-21/soldiers-killed-man-who-could-not-fit-on-aircraft-says-us-marine/12782756/
'Boogaloo Bois' member fired 13 rounds into 3rd Precinct during Minneapolis riots
https://www.fox9.com/news/boogaloo-bois-member-federally-charged-with-firing-on-3rd-precinct-during-minneapolis-riots
Boogaloo Boi Leader Arrested For Firing AK-47-Style Rifle During George Floyd Protest
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8zyw/a-boogaloo-boi-leader-just-got-arrested-for-allegedly-firing-ak-47-during-george-floyd-protest
Right-wing agitators were responsible for shooting up and burning a Minnesota police precinct during George Floyd protests; shouted "justice for Floyd" as they destroyed it. Trump, Fox News pointed to the incident as evidence of violent protestors
The push for a Christmas Day start to the 2020-21 NBA season, which would naturally please the league's TV partners, is gaining momentum
https://twitter.com/thesteinline/status/1319686635081158663
USPS says it has processed over 100 million ballots since September 4
https://www.startribune.com/charges-boogaloo-bois-fired-on-mpls-precinct-shouted-justice-for-floyd/572843802/
Schumer to McConnell, who just argued that it was consistent to deny Garland's confirmation and push Barrett's through: "You don't have the right to argue consistency when you're doing what you're doing now."
Ken Kurson, a Trump ally and a close friend of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was taken into federal custody and charged with cyberstalking in connection with his divorce.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/nyregion/ken-kurson-arrest-cyberstalking.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Boulanger
"I don't make money from China," Trump said in last night's debate. Except he personally gave me a tour of a state-owned Chinese bank's offices in Trump Tower when he was running for president. "I have the best tenants in the world in this building."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/10/23/forbes-estimates-china-paid-trump-at-least-54-million-since-he-took-office-via-mysterious-trump-tower-lease/#32c2c695ed11
Opening of S Firstenberg's "In America How Could this Happen" installation in Wash DC, w/ flags representing 70% of those lost to COVID in US. Rest of flags to be planted by people who lost loved ones. This is Yuletta Pringle who lost her sister Trudy Pringle Peoples to COVID 1/x
https://twitter.com/T_Inglesby/status/1319705551861932033
Labor Department Illegally Ends Announcements Of Company Violations
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/business/economy/labor-department-memo.html
In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anarchism-navajo-aid/
Pennsylvania Supreme Court says ballots can't be rejected based on signature comparisons
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/pennsylvania-court-ballot-signatures-431794
If Biden wins, Foxworld will need some way to keep its audience focused on something other than the Cabinet he appoints, the new legislation he passes, and all the other events, decisions, and changes that used to constitute "news."
All three cable news networks are airing Biden's speech focused on his plan to combat the pandemic.
The NBA is targeting Dec. 22 for the start of the 2020-21 season and a 72-game campaign that finishes before the '21 Olympics, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.News
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1319709540607283200
Six-time All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire has agreed to a deal to join new Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash's staff as an assistant coach, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Nash and Stoudemire starred together in Phoenix.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1319713978579324930
An Abandoned Oil Tanker In the Caribbean Is an Environmental Time Bomb - If the Nabarima sinks, the resulting oil spill could be six times larger than the Exxon Valdez.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpzdz/an-abandoned-oil-tanker-in-the-caribbean-is-an-environmental-time-bomb
Dr. Fauci says the last time President Trump has attended a coronavirus19 task force meeting was "several months ago." "Direct involvement with the president in the discussions? I have not done that in a while."
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1319703333691678722
Texas Sees Highest Youth Voter Turnout in Country as Dems Aim to Win State for First Time in Over 40 Years
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-sees-highest-youth-voter-turnout-country-dems-aim-win-state-first-time-over-40-years-1541722
Tony Bobulinski's records don't show proof of Biden business relationship | Fox News has reviewed emails from Bobulinski related to the venture — and they don't show that the elder Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings, or took any payments from them or the Chinese.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
#Rays CF Kevin Kiermaier said he is "very surprised, disappointed, and upset" to not be a Gold Glove finalist this year. "I believe they got it wrong," Kiermaier said, before pivoting to add, "We've got better things going on." That is, of course, the #WorldSeries.
https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/1319734721530810368
Ending the present ongoing mass casualty event should probably make it into your top four.
https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1319715289328766980
It seems like North Carolina could be a real thorn in the side of Trump's re-election prospects. The polling's been very consistent lately in showing a small Biden lead. It has a D governor in case of administrative disputes. And Ds have banked a big lead there with early votes.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1319714685810298880
Trump uses Florida rally to play a political ad from Bernie Sanders primary campaign against Joe Biden, charging he has called for cutting Social Security, which Biden denied. "That's a devastating ad," says Trump. "This guy is either really stupid or he lies," he says of Biden.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1319750979189936130
If I remember rightly, the clip in question is of Biden like thirty-odd years ago, saying Social Security cuts should be on the table. And that's fair game, I guess. But again, it was a lifetime ago, when a LOT of Democrats were trying to play the Cutting Costs card.
https://twitter.com/matthewfdesmond/status/1319752271568187394
11 days left. Which is not nothing. This is Comey letter anniversary day.
What the media is not really counting is that Americans have seen this presidency for almost 4 years. Previously, the Trump presidency was a theoretical exercise, and people thought it could surprise on the upside...
The unusually large voter turnout in Texas has persisted through the first 10 days of the early voting period, leading experts to predict that the state could reach overall turnout levels unseen so far this century.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/23/texas-early-voting-records/
One of the most bizarre cable news rituals is employing a pollster to recruit low info attention-seekers who pretend to be undecided in service of creating ten minutes of meaningless television.
Minnesota has received at least 1,186,522 absentee ballots for the general election as of Friday. The previous high was just 689,722 ballots in the 2016 general election.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1319745412337750021
You're an idiot.
https://twitter.com/GreggJarrett/status/1319698635853074435
Paula Jean Swearengin Wants to Turn West Virginia Blue
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/west-virginia-senate-swearengin/
Long-hidden tax records show that Trump didn't reach into his wallet for his charitable giving. The vast bulk came from simply agreeing not to develop land — in several cases, after he had shelved development plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/trump-taxes-philanthropy.html
This chart powerfully illustrates the value of mask-wearing. In Washington DC 97 percent say they always wear masks outside. Covid19 rates are among the lowest in the country. In places with high covid19, barely half say they wear masks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/23/pandemic-data-chart-masks/
Antonio Brown and the Buccaneers have reached agreement on a one-year deal, per sources. Language still has to be finalized, COVID protocols passed, but Brown is likely to make his Bucs' debut in Week 9 against the Saints.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1319777260409393153
The number of Covid19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths is going to continue to grow sharply as we enter the winter; until all of us on our own start taking enough collective action to slow the spread. There is no seasonal backstop, and won't be any new national policy action.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1319788915327381505
Mark Kelly's campaign proved this story, which was retweeted by Don Jr., is a hoax. The story said he wore a Hitler costume to a Halloween party as a young man.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1319788557247123457
Ohio Police Say Group Plotted to Arrest Gov. Mike DeWine for 'Tyranny'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohio-police-say-group-plotted-to-arrest-gov-mike-dewine-for-tyranny
Trump says he proposed selling oceanfront Tyndall AFB to developers after Hurricane Michael, figuring the government could bank billions and rebuild inland. Says DeSantis and the military weren't a fan of the idea so they rebuilt where it was
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1319806959923679235
Fewer than 4% of adults in Wuhan, China, tested positive for antibodies against Covid-19, putting the possibility of countries developing "herd immunity" against the virus without a vaccine in doubt.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/10/23/Fewer-than-4-of-people-in-Wuhan-have-COVID-19-antibodies-study-finds/9611603464946/
Yikes this will NEVER happen: Biden pledges free Covid19 vaccine for 'everyone' in US if elected
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201023-biden-pledges-free-covid-vaccine-for-everyone-in-us-if-elected
People Have Nothing Left — Literally $0 — Because Of The Pandemic
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/coronavirus-savings-recession
Mar-a-Lago is taxed as a private club, not a residence, Trump is ILLEGALLY VOTING in Florida because he lists his address as Mar-a-Lago. TRUMP IS VOTING ILLEGALLY.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-how-can-trump-vote-20201023-tetnflz3uzflrjjmnbxt3wn3ji-story.html
Expensify CEO David Barrett emailed the company's 10 million customers on Thursday with an unusual pitch: Vote for Biden, he urged them, or risk damaging the nation's democracy. The email has been met with both support and condemnation, with critics calling it "political propaganda" and a misuse of customer emails.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/expensify-ceo-david-barrett-emails-customers-vote-biden/
Joe Biden Trolls Donald Trump With Spoof Covid19 Trump site: After eight months of this pandemic, we finally found President Trump's plan to beat COVID-19. https://trumpcovidplan.com/
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1319723264927649792
Not Found. The Trump plan to defeat the Coronavirus and reopen safely does not exist.
https://trumpcovidplan.com/
Trump Organization renewed the TrumpTowerMoscow.com domain name this year
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/24/trump-organization-renewed-the-trumptowermoscowcom-domain-name--this-year/
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kusher's lawyer threatens to illegally and unconstitutionally sue Lincoln Project over Times Square billboards
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/522562-ivanka-trump-jared-kushers-lawyer-threatens-to-sue-lincoln-project
Jared and Ivanka have always been entitled, out-of-touch bullies who have never given the slightest indication they have any regard for the American people. We plan on showing them the same level of respect. The level of indignant outrage Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have shown towards The Lincoln Project for exposing their indifference for the more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to their reckless mismanagement of Covid-19 is comical. While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Ivanka and Jared," the group said in a statement.
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319818697444216832
Republican Arkansas state senate candidate wore a KKK robe and hood as teen. First he blamed Democrats. saying they made it up. Now he says he did wear the KKK robe and hood, and it was a mistake. Racist knows that procuring and donning a KKK hood/robe to menace minorities people is not a mistake. He had intent and motive.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/oct/23/hopeful-dogged-by-kkk-costume/
This is so unconscionably absurd and illegal and unconstitutional: Missouri mail-in ballots cannot be returned in person
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-st-louis-elections-michael-brown-f337acf75a04d8ba346ff6af3987c9ff
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article246636078.html
"Changing the rules midstream is sure to create confusion, disruption, self-contradictory instructions, unequal treatment of voters, and voter discouragement." ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DROP THEIR BALLOTS IN A USPS DROP BOX ENDS CONFUSION AND DISRUPTION AND SELF-CONTRADICTORY INSTRUCTIONS AND UNEQUAL TREATMENT ETC. AND THE TRUMP-CONTROLLED USPS DESTROYED THEIR INFRASRUCTURE AND GUTTED THEIR WORKFORCE AND REDUCED THEIR DELIVERY SCHEDULE TO CREATE CONFUSION AND DISRUPTION AND UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF VOTERS AND VOTER DISCOURAGEMENT.
Last night, Trump attacked "socialized medicine." Funny. I didn't hear him complain when he received the best socialized medical care in the world for free at a 100% government-run hospital. pic.twitter.com/RHZ8Ro2ZG9
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1319790780236648448
Sullivan was too busy to even gp to Alaska to debate Dr. Gross, in person, because he was too preoccupied with taking away your healthcare, personal freedom, and a woman's right to choose, by ramming through ACB. Let's send Dan Sullivan back to Alaska, permanently: Vote for Dr. Al Gross https://dralgrossak.com/
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-alaska-senate-elections-anchorage-6f822f5986b63890cfaf96f00132c448
Today was a great day! We won 5 voting rights cases and I continue to live rent free in Ronna's head. Huge victory for election integrity from the Maine Supreme Court! Marc Elias and the Democrats sued to allow ballots to be received up to 10 days *after* Election Day and eliminate signature matching, but the court ruled in our favor! (1/2)
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1319808677793173506
Republicans knew separating children from their parents/adult-guardians would result in the children never being returned to their parents: A new report says the parents of 545 children separated at the border can't be found. We obtained a January 2018 memo from DHS highlighting problems with the early "pilot" family-separation program. One "negative impact" listed: "New populations of U.S. orphans."
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1319629548686893059
On Friday, Johns Hopkins University reported 83,757 new cases and 943 new deaths. This is now the highest number of new cases reported in a single day since the pandemic began.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1319985940006318086
Officials are worried that two of Colorado's largest wildfires – the East Troublesome Fire and Cameron Peak Fire – could merge. Nearly 190,000 acres have burned and crews are prioritizing saving lives over dousing flames. @PattersonNBC has the details.
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1319975969923489792
The NFL's Black Lives Matter Push Was BS. Most NFL PAC Donations Went to Republicans
https://www.theroot.com/the-nfls-black-lives-matter-push-was-bs-majority-of-nf-1845465494
Giants (including Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley) allegedly spotted out last night partying without masks after video from DJ hits social media. DJ claims video is old and deletes, but it appears to have two rookies in it. Giants team source says they're looking into it.
https://twitter.com/allbrightnfl/status/1320030445505966081
Trump's rallies have left a trail of Covid19 clusters across the US. One county in Wisconsin sees 67 per cent increase in cases in the two weeks after event
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-rally-covid-cases-us-2020-election-coronavirus-numbers-b1282241.html
Gila County Sheriff's Office. Killed and dumped like trash in a Payson, Ariz. forest, five adult dogs and one puppy were discovered by campers who smelled their decomposing carcasses from a nearby campground, according to Deputy Chris Sanks of the Gila County Sheriff's Office. Several of the lifeless dogs appeared to have been shot, and drag marks led authorities to believe that they died somewhere else before someone disposed of them in the woods. Based on the decomposition, the dogs, who were not microchipped or wearing tags, were likely discarded several days before locals made the grisly discovery, which has left the community both baffled and outraged. Nearby, law enforcement discovered the skeletal remains of what is believed to be another dog. The cause of death, and whether the animal is somehow connected with the recently dumped bodies, is unknown, according to Sanks. Whoever is responsible for the death of these dogs must answer for their actions before any more innocent animals are harmed or killed. Sign this petition urging the Gila County Sheriff's Office to use all available resources to identify and charge the individual(s) behind this disturbing act of cruelty. This is an ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is urged to call the Gila County Sheriff's Office at 928-474-2208.
https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-justice-for-6-dogs-killed-and-dumped-near-campground/
If you walk out of a 60 Minutes Interview, then you're never gonna stand up to a dictator, if you're spending all your time talking about how mean reporters are to you, you're never going to stand up to Putin.
Joe Biden in PA reiterates he won't ban fracking: "Unlike Donald Trump I don't think big oil companies need a handout from the federal government. We're gonna get rid of the $40 billion fossil fuel subsidies, and we're going to invest it in clean energy and carbon capture."
Parts of a New York county's computer systems have been infected with ransomware, potentially impacting voters there who had tried to register to vote by absentee ballot by email, county official says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/2020-10-24-trump-biden-election-n1244363/
In-Person Voting Opens At 118 Locations Saturday Including Staples Center, Forum
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/23/in-person-voting-locations-staples-center-forum/
Justice on the Ballot 2020 - 40 key ballot initiatives, sheriff's elections, and prosecutorial races to watch this November
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/justice-ballot-2020
Amazon Tribes Are Excited to Use Drones to Detect Illegal Deforestation in Brazilian Rainforest
https://mondestuff.com/world-news/amazon-tribes-are-excited-to-use-drones-to-detect-illegal-deforestation-in-brazilian-rainforest/
Arctic sea ice isn't freezing in October for the first time on record. Ocean temperatures in the area recently climbed to more than 5C above average, following a record-breaking heatwave and the unusually early decline of last winter's sea ice
https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/23/arctic-sea-ice-isn-t-freezing-in-october-for-the-first-time-on-record
Total Early Votes: 56,567,346
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Voting rights groups have urged the county to notify voters who may have gotten the waiver that they do, in fact, need witnesses — and to figure out how to give voters who used the waiver a chance to make sure their ballots don't get tossed out. An unknown number of absentee voters in Alabama's most populous county are at risk of having their ballots thrown out because elections officials mailed special instructions that became invalid after a recent court ruling.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/alabama-ballots-witness-wrong-information-jefferson-county
Texas continues to lead the country in turnout, both in raw numbers & as a % of 2016, as well as leading in youth voter turnout. Let's keep it up. Join us as we call the millions of Texas voters who have yet to cast a ballot on this Saturday's phone bank:
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1319653546380361729
Airplane banner warns of the potential superspreader event prior to Trump's rally
https://wkow.com/2020/10/24/airplane-banner-warns-of-the-potential-superspreader-event-prior-to-trumps-rally/
If these early voting numbers continue in Texas then it's game over for Republicans. It's a wrap. And you'll have voters of color to thank.
Allow me to explain.
#Election2020 Thread ⇩ 1/10
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833518005747712
Texas is home to:
• The Largest #Black population in US
• 2nd largest #AAPI population in US
• 2nd largest #Latinx population in US
AND WE ARE SHOWING UP.
THIS IS A MOVEMENT! 2/10
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833519184465925
Our team @JoltInitiative is watching the numbers. From Harris to Cameron County, our Latinx, AAPI & Black brothers and sisters are turning out across the state. 24% of all eligible voters in Harris County cast their ballots IN FOUR DAYS. 3/10
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fd908329d66f4902b1b5d339011c1311
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833520304279552
Down in Nueces County, early voting is up a staggering 53% where Donald won by only 1568 votes. #VoteReady 4/10
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-early-voting-numbers-huge/
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833521654804482
If these numbers continue, then what we're witnessing is Texas turning blue—even with the lack of investment and all the voter suppression attempts @GovAbbott has thrown at us. 5/10
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-turning-blue-any-second-now/
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833522833403905
.@GovAbbott limited vote by mail, tried intimidating us, and then there are these long-ass lines…but Texans are saying fuck suppression, they are voting and bringing the entire marching band with them 6/10
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1317833524028768261
Gilliar told the Journal, "I am unaware of any involvement at any time of the former Vice President. The activity in question never delivered any project revenue."
https://www.newsweek.com/wsj-newsroom-found-no-joe-biden-role-hunter-deals-after-reviewing-bobulinskis-records-1541553
Fox News has reviewed emails from Bobulinski related to the venture — and they don't show that the elder Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings, or took any payments from them or the Chinese.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/rudy-is-so-bad-at-this-giuliani-mocked-after-photo-of-alleged-hunter-biden-text-is-linked-to-russia/
As though Judge Barrett, who allowed herself to be used in this cynical game, is somehow separate from the shameful process in which she participated. And as if Barrett's record alone is not disqualifying. A true failure of leadership in a critical moment in this country.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-amy-coney-barrett-elections-us-supreme-court-bc23fc1c185727338d499e274736a0e4
Corey Seager hits another 2 out Home Run
https://streamable.com/yqfodm
Randy Aroazarena breaks the all-time postseason record with his 9th Home run.
https://streamable.com/a2pg1u
ROYALS LEGEND BRETT PHILLIPS WON THE GAME
LA DODGERED THEMSELVES
Hunter Renfroe blasts a 444ft no-doubter to bring the Rays within 1.
https://streamable.com/upkui4
Julio Urías got 20 swings & misses That's tied for 5th-most in a World Series game since 2000: '00 Orlando Hernandez: 24 '10 Tim Lincecum: 22 '19 Justin Verlander: 21 '00 Roger Clemens: 21 '14 James Shields: 20 '14 Madison Bumgarner: 20 '01 Mike Mussina: 20 h/t @EliasSports
https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1320185614877282305
2020 WS Gm4: Brandon Lowe hits a go-ahead 3-run homer
https://streamable.com/n2uyix
Kevin Kiermaier joins the party with a home run to tie it 6-6.
https://streamable.com/4f0muo
Corey Seager bloops a single into right, Dodgers lead 7-6
https://streamable.com/wjnrsd
2020 WS Gm4: Brett Phillips walks off the Dodgers to tie the series 2-2
https://streamable.com/cluvmu
Ooohhsjoshsiskdgskamebdusbsksnfhsndnosfysh!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1320218494483505152?s=19
Randy Arozarena seconds before scoring the winning run of World Series Game 4
https://i.redd.it/qpzcmxuu46v51.jpg
Dave Roberts reacts to the final moments of Game 4
https://streamable.com/igqi9u
That's Kenley Jansen's 4th blown save in the postseason. Only Mariano Rivera (5), Ryan Madson (5) and Armando Benítez (6) have more. The last walk-off loss for the Dodgers in the postseason also came in the World Series (Game 5 in 2017). Alex Bregman hit a single off Jansen.
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1320222263300493313
Kenley Jansen now has 4 blown saves in World Series games, the most of any pitcher in MLB history.
https://twitter.com/ktsharp/status/1320221910739775488
A lot of people talking about Jansen not backing up the plate. Really made me think of this play in 2018 when Kenley also didn't back up home, resulting in a loss. #WorldSeries
https://twitter.com/stevegranado/status/1320224945708822534
Dave Roberts said that Kenley was supposed to be somewhere between third and home on that play at the plate. I'm not entirely sure that's how that works in that situation.
https://twitter.com/DodgersNation/status/1320225904740593664
Jansen said "it doesn't matter" when asked why he didn't back up the catcher on the final play of the game. #Dodgers #WorldSeries
https://twitter.com/michaeljduarte/status/1320224999375032320
What a bad response. He should be benched for that comment and not his shit play. Dude is Playoff P in baseball form.
Dave Roberts said he takes the blame for sending Pedro Báez back for the seventh inning. He had told Báez he was done after the sixth, but changed his mind when the Dodgers took the lead.
https://twitter.com/pedromoura/status/1320226985122017281
Kenley Jansen fell to his knees then stood around doing nothing instead of backing up the catcher. If his heart problem has caused him to play with that kind of caution, he needs to retire from pitching.
League average starter's ERA goes up .67 between first and second series starts since 2015, but Kershaw's goes up 2.29. We got this.
Time replaces its logo for the first time in its history. Now, it says 'Vote'
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/media/time-magazine-cover-vote-logo-trnd/index.html
Jill Biden Eclipses a Largely Absent Melania Trump With Starring Role in Campaign
https://www.newsweek.com/jill-biden-eclipses-largely-absent-melania-trump-starring-role-campaign-1541916
Pence chief of staff Marc Short tests positive for coronavirus19
https://www.axios.com/marc-short-coronavirus-bf8f7c1c-0e4c-4441-9a76-ca0220f1aca4.html
They're Afraid. They're Buying Guns. But They're Not Voting for Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/25/first-time-gun-sales-not-voting-for-trump-430310
In Philadelphia, Barack Obama reminds Americans of what a real president looks like
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/10/21/in-philadelphia-barack-obama-reminds-americans-of-what-a-real-president-looks-like.html
Biden, an Amtrak Evangelist, Could Be a Lifeline for a Rail Agency in Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/biden-amtrak-covid.html
Texas Supreme Court illegally and unconstitutionally reinstates governor's illegal and unconstitutional ban on ballot drop boxes
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/522604-texas-appeals-court-temporarily-reinstates-governors-ban-on-additional
Bill Barr's Speech To Law Enforcement Officials Is Full Of The Sort Of Lies Cops Love To Hear
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201019/18260745537/bill-barrs-speech-to-law-enforcement-officials-is-full-sort-lies-cops-love-to-hear.shtml
50 Cent Would Rather Endorse Donald Trump Than Allow Democrats To Defend And Champion Musicians, Free Speech, Black LivesJoe Biden Raise His Taxes
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/10/50-cent-endorses-donald-trump-joe-biden-tax-plan
Appeals court illegally and unconstitutionally stops more paper backups of Georgia voter records
https://www.ajc.com/politics/appeals-court-stops-more-paper-backups-of-georgia-voter-records/OPHIW2T2RJHUJGIARWZSZKYTLU/
Titans fined at least $300k for COVID-19 violations, Raiders could be next
https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-fined-at-least-300k-for-covid-19-violations-raiders-could-be-next
Mike Pompeo's extensive personal email use while CIA director suggests that other records might have been unlawfully removed from agency custody. We called for action to ensure that all federal records in Pompeo's personal emails are transferred to the appropriate agencies.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1319350088393756675
.@ABC News has confirmed at least 5 individuals in the Vice President's orbit have tested positive as of last night w/KFaulders
https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1320377180300414991
A private security company that tried to recruit former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day agreed to cancel its plans following an investigation by Attorney General Keith Ellison.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1320379589466705920
We are leaving this for our children
https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/1320370708078362624/photo/1
Jimmy Garoppolo still under evaluation with 49ers, and team could make a change in 2021
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jimmy-garoppolo-still-under-evaluation-with-49ers-and-team-could-make-a-change-in-2021/
It's really amazing and frustrating how everybody involved in that defensive play messed up. Taylor bobbled the ball.
Muncy throws to wrong side. Smith doesn't catch the ball. Kenley is just walking.
https://i.redd.it/cj2jgx6z86v51.jpg
So, Mike Pence isn't quarantining? Because campaigning in NC today is "essential" work?
Schumer (in letter to Democratic colleagues) says Pence intends to preside over Senate during vote tomorrow and urging senators not to linger in the chamber during votes
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/522663-schumer-warns-of-covid-19-danger-posed-by-pence-on-senate-floor
MEADOWS: We're not going to control the pandemic
TAPPER: Why not?
M: Because it's a contagious virus
T: Why not make efforts to contain it?
M: What we need to do is make sure we have the proper mitigation factors to make sure people don't die
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320353720132128768
Mark Meadows is making very clear on CNN that the White House has given up trying to contain the coronavirus. Their only strategy at this point is praying for a vaccine.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320354224069292034
Mark Meadows says Americans should follow CDC guidelines, but in the context of making a case that masks don't really work. Completely incoherent.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320354897100001280
TAPPER: Why don't you ask people to wear masks at Trump rallies?
MEADOWS: We pass them out
T: They don't wear them!
M: Well, it's a free society. You're not wearing one right now, Jake
T: There's literally nobody in this room
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320355454715822080
Tapper to Mark Meadows: "Just yesterday, President Trump said 'we are rounding the corner & it's going away.' Mark, it's not going away even in the WH! But beyond that, the US reported 83,000 new cases on Friday and Saturday. That's the 2 highest days of the entire pandemic."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320356499894509575
Jaguars RB Ryquell Armstead has been hospitalized twice because of COVID-19 complications and is not expected to play this season. Armstead was placed on the COVID list in early September. He is expected to return next season at full strength.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1320406959821119488
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30187081/sources-jacksonville-jaguars-rb-ryquell-armstead-battling-covid-19-expected-miss-rest-season
Biden has better chance of winning Texas than Trump has of winning Pennsylvania
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-has-better-chance-winning-texas-trump-has-winning-pennsylvania-1541967
Biden raised the pandemic alarm in October 2019 as Trump complained about iPhone buttons
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/biden-trump-coronavirus-us-election-2020-tim-cook-apple-iphone-pandemic-a9537751.html
In looking at registration breakdown of early vote in NC it is 40D 30R 30 other. In cbs poll of people who have already voted early it breaks down 61 Biden 36 trump 2 third party. This means Biden is getting an overwhelming margin of independent vote in NC right now.
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1320426372028895237
In looking at registration breakdown of early vote in Florida it is 43D 36R 21 other. In cbs poll of people who have already voted early it breaks down 61 Biden 37 trump 2 third party. This means Biden is getting an overwhelming margin of independent vote right now.
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1320423317745139723
9 days left to help save democracy, the planet, our futures, etc etc
http://votesaveamerica.com/volunteer
The great journalist, Eli Lake, is outraged that The NY Post has been slapped on the hands by Twitter for printing an uncorroborated story full of holes and lies in the hopes of manipulating the outcome of an election. That's where we are folks.
https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1320143959671382016
We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1187829299207954437
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to vote no on Judge Amy Coney Barrett confirmation
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/10/25/sen-kyrsten-sinema-arizona-vote-no-judge-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation/6033363002/
Biden statement: "They've given up on their basic duty to protect the American people. This wasn't a slip by Meadows, it was a candid acknowledgement of what President Trump's strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1320432511906795520
Democrats planning 30-hour 'digital filibuster' to try to stop Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed. Republicans will just unplug the network cable at the capitol building and push her through.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-supreme-court-digital-filibuster-b1314584.html
Thanks to everyone who showed up to make calls to Texas voters today! Over 410,000 calls made. Join us for the next one, Monday evening:
https://act.betoorourke.com/event/gotv-phone-bank/34526
Santa Clara County approval of $1,000,000 for Dauber program to audit schools to "discover" if they have "altered" #TitleIX policies to give accused more due process rights. @CHSommers @ScottGreenfield @kcjohnson9
https://padailypost.com/2020/10/25/county-to-spend-up-to-1-million-to-audit-schools-title-ix-compliance/
A cool mil of taxpayer money to Stanford Law's flaming nutjob Dauber to scream "fuck you" at people who don't violate constitutional rights.
https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/1320396662737719298
The Eleanor Roosevelt episode (like all of the episodes in this series) is wonderful. For years I thought I "knew about" ER, but truth is I never fully understood her as a person, nor recognized the impact she had on such a vast number of issues. In short: it's a good one. Watch! : Eleanor Roosevelt used her influence to endorse, empower, and elevate others when it mattered most. Watch how she uplifted her communities in times of desperate need in an all-new episode of #FirstLadies, tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1320349430755872769
Kenley Jansen's Instagram comments are filled with racism, death threats, death wishes, and attacks targeting his wife and kids. People treat professional athletes like animals, and it sucks the joy right out of sports.
https://twitter.com/joeylinn_/status/1320244992640577538
AOC on Biden's mixed messages about a fracking ban: "It does not bother me ... I have a very strong position on fracking ... however, that is my view ... It will be a privilege to lobby him should we win the White House, but we need to focus on winning the White House first."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320361742334152706
Welp had a lot more things to post but a power outage forced a reboot
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/23/joe-biden-slow-and-steady-campaign-432042
It was a frigid night in mid-Michigan on November 2, 2018, when Joe Biden jogged onto the stage inside an overheated gymnasium at Lansing Community College, a rowdy audience of several thousand people chanting his name. The former vice president wasn't yet a declared candidate for president, and this occasion wasn't about him. Biden had come to Michigan to headline a unity rally four days before the midterm election. After rousing remarks from the Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and Congress, Biden bounded into the spotlight, outstretching his arms as if to gather in every decibel bouncing around the arena.
And then, he delivered the worst campaign speech I'd ever heard.
For nearly an hour—although it felt much longer—Biden strayed from subject to subject, alternating between exasperated observations of President Donald Trump and insider anecdotes of how things used to function in Washington. Suffering from laryngitis after stumping for dozens of other candidates, Biden's delivery was scratchy and off-key, which made his meandering only that much harder to follow. Some 30 minutes into his remarks, with the keynote speaker no closer to finding an organizing theme, people began to get up to leave. First a few, then a larger trickle, and before long, streams of them, young and old, black and white, heading for the exits. Of those who felt obliged to stay, there were exchanged looks of bewilderment and wristwatches checked and cellphones fiddled with.
It was an uncomfortable scene in every respect. I remember standing in the back of that gymnasium, taking it all in, comparing notes with a very sharp colleague, Dave Weigel of the Washington Post. Neither of us could recall such a pitiful sight: The deserters kept pouring past us while Biden grasped for a compelling scrap of oratory to keep them in the bleachers. It was like watching an old athlete whose body had betrayed him. Biden, once an engaging and quick-witted pol, was on his last legs. One thing seemed certain to me that November night: If he ran for president in 2020, Biden was going to get embarrassed.
Needless to say, I was dead wrong.
The reasons I expected Biden to get mauled by the likes of Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are exactly the reasons he outlasted them all.
The reasons I wondered how he would fare against Donald Trump are exactly the reasons he outperformed the president in each of their two debates.
Biden is slow. He is steady. He is unspectacular. In other words, he is what much of the electorate seems to want.
On Thursday night, two years after he stepped to that lectern in Lansing, Biden climbed down tiredly from the stage in Nashville. Over the previous 90 minutes, he had put the finishing touches on a campaign that was crafted in defiance of every expectation placed upon him and his party since Trump took office. I would call Biden's performance in the final debate an exclamation mark—except there is nothing exclamatory about his candidacy. He has run, objectively speaking, one of the most monotonous and predictable and uneventful campaigns for president in recent memory. And it has been nothing short of superb. Now, with Biden on the brink of a historic victory, it's worth understanding what has been right about his campaign—not simply what has been wrong with Trump's.
The Democratic nominee was at it again Thursday night, plodding along at a comfortable pace, reciting methodically rehearsed responses, never losing his composure or abandoning his message. It was telling that the lone error Biden supposedly committed—pledging to transition the country away from reliance on oil—is something he has discussed regularly over the past 18 months. Could he have polished his point a bit more? Sure. But there was no controversy. There was no campaign-imploding misstep. This was not Hillary Clinton promising to put coal miners out of work or Mitt Romney calling 47 percent of the country indolent. The former vice president's loyalists who have spent two years holding their breath, certain that he could say something disqualifying at any moment, are exhaling today with equal parts relief and amazement. The truth is, for all Biden's history of veering outside the lines and putting his foot in his mouth, he has navigated the most hyperexposed and instantly scrutinized political climate in history without ever putting himself in real jeopardy.
Some of this, of course, owes to a sheltering strategy that has kept the Democratic nominee out of sight for long stretches of the race. The basement that Trump mocked on Thursday night actually has been a protective lair from which Biden has run a textbook referendum campaign, keeping the focus on the incumbent, not on himself.
But much of Biden's success owes to his opponent's willingness to embrace that referendum. The president is a man who cannot bear to cede the spotlight, whose penchant for chaos unwittingly shields his political adversaries from sustained examination. Trump has also created an atmosphere that is badly imbalanced, one in which the extremism that once composed society's outer rings now features at its nucleus. Biden has a stated goal of restoring the soul of America. That's an inflated campaign promise if ever there was one. What he might be able to do—what many voters are praying he can do—is restore some balance to American politics. No more reality show at the White House. No more living on a knife's edge with every presidential tweet. No more conspiracy theories from the commander in chief.
In one sense, Biden isn't a natural fit for these times. He's always been edgy and provocative in his own right, an old school scrapper who kept a quip in his pocket and a chip on his shoulder. Sometimes it went too far—even at points in this 2020 campaign. When he challenged a mouthy Iowan to a push-up contest or went nose-to-nose with a Michigan autoworker, or questioned the Blackness of any African American who wouldn't vote for him, Biden showed flashes of his primal self. He stirred echoes of the very president he was vowing to defeat.
And yet, that's all it amounted to—flashes and echoes. Over the past two years, Biden has executed a campaign that is all the more brilliant because it suppresses his own core instincts. The wise guy who loved to instigate is now the wise man who wants to mediate.
It was on display Thursday night as Biden repeatedly and rightly accused Trump of governing only for his base and promised to be a president for red states and blue states alike. It was on display throughout his primary campaign, when he refused to be swept away by the whims of the left and consolidated a majority of Democrats around a theory of defeating Trump with a fire extinguisher instead of a flame thrower. It was on display two years ago, on that chilly night in Michigan, when he told yarns of a conciliatory yesteryear and wondered aloud what it might take to get back to that place again.
I remember thinking back then that Biden was little more than a glorified grandfather, tucking Americans in with a pacifying bedtime story. He was a glass of warm milk to put us to sleep. As it turns out, that's exactly what he is—and after four years of being overcaffeinated, it's exactly what a majority of America wants.
Presidential politics has always been about meeting the moment. In 2008, the electorate wanted someone to inspire them; Americans elected Barack Obama. In 2016, the electorate wanted someone to rock the boat; Americans elected Donald Trump.
In 2020, more than anything else, it seems the electorate wants a break from the Trump Show. Joe Biden is meeting that moment. If Thursday's debate was a final audition, he aced it. Not because he dazzled the American people, but because he invited them to change the channel.
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Italy is shutting cinemas, swimming pools and gyms from Monday in a further attempt to curb the rapid rise in coronavirus infections.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54682222
Brady with the absolute DIME to Scotty Miller to end the half
https://twitter.com/nfl/status/1320477140966461441
The #Cowboys have now scored 13 total points in the last seven quarters without Dak Prescott.
https://twitter.com/marcus_mosher/status/1320445270191202304
Cowboys QB Andy Dalton took a shot to head. He's down. Illegal hit. Lot of concern on field. A cart is coming. And rookie seventh-round pick Ben DiNucci will make NFL debut
https://twitter.com/GehlkenNFL/status/1320441751061090307
How inexplicably bad is the NFC East? Once The Dallas loss becomes official the Eagles will become the first team since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to lead a division after week 7 with 2 wins or fewer per @EliasSports . In other words...we've reached peak historic dumpster fire level
https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/1320454063440494593
The Jets had four yards of total offense in the second half.
https://twitter.com/andy_vasquez/status/1320455439981727744
The Cowboys have allowed 20+ points in the first half of 6 straight games. They are the FIRST TEAM IN NFL HISTORY to do that.
https://twitter.com/NFLonCBS/status/1320432379283070979
A White House lawyer, who is paid by taxpayers, is shopping dirt on the president's political rival https://nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html
If I can vote while receiving an infusion and living with a currently terminal illness, what's your excuse? #VoteHopesNotFears
https://twitter.com/bsw5020/status/1319688846221737986
Photo of Man in Halloween Costume Isn't Mark Kelly
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/photo-of-man-in-halloween-costume-isnt-mark-kelly/
There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother." Fact-checking the China-related insinuations pushed by Trump & allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/politics/bidens-china.html
Brett Phillips needed an IV after the game, his resting heart rate was 140 and he was dehydrated from all the excitement. He also got approx. 500 text messages and stayed up to 4 a.m. answering them. Among the well-wishers: Adam Wainwright, Ryan Braun and Whit Merrifield.
https://twitter.com/peteabe/status/1320461539581792257
The World Series official scorer says the ruling now is a double error in Game 4. An error on CF Chris Taylor for allowing Randy Arozarena to reach third, and an error on catcher Will Smith for allowing him to score. It's the first double-error to end a game in WS history.
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1320490728984903680
There is a way to send a message bigger than defeat—and this is it. If Trumpism loses Texas it would be transformational and reshape American politics. Fellow Texans: go vote! It's close and the country is watching.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/texas/
https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1320513049330130945
Texas just surpassed 80% of its total 2016 votes cast, leading the nation. And there's still more than a week of voting to go.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1320373242339729408
A day before becoming a World Series hero, Brett Phillips gave Tom Verducci a birthday present. Phillips joked he would need to get a walk-off hit to make it worth something. Well ... here's a great story from Tom https://si.com/mlb/2020/10/25/world-series-rays-dodgers-brett-phillips
Todd Gurley accidentally runs in a TD to give the Falcons a 20-16 lead with 1:06 left in the game. The Falcons would then lose the game.
https://streamable.com/5jmbnl
Chiefs are first team to score on O, D and ST in a game this year.
https://twitter.com/adamteicher/status/1320479241016877058
Cam Newton has a 19.8 passer rating in the first half. Would be the worst by a Patriots starter since 1994 when Drew Bledsoe had an 18.2 passer rating against ... Bill Belichick's Cleveland Browns.
https://twitter.com/DougKyed/status/1320482815121727488
#Browns WR Odell Beckham, who was knocked out of today's game early, is feared to have suffered a major knee injury, source said. He'll have an MRI in the morning and perhaps there will be some better news, but early indications aren't good.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1320467986478731264
Joe Burrow is only the 4th rookie QB in NFL history with at least five 300-yard passing games.
https://twitter.com/ProFootballHOF/status/1320445992882315265
Tom Brady: 33-of-45, 369 yards, 4, TDs, 0 INTs, 127.0 rating. Patriots QBs: 15-of-25, 162 yards, 0 TDs, 4 INTs, 39.5 rating.
https://twitter.com/albertbreer/status/1320503472110915585
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