Absolutely brutal win for the New York Giants. They drop from No. 6 to No. 19 in the draft order.
YEP: Andy Reid on throwing on the last third down: "I learned a long time ago you don't give the ball back to Tom Brady.''
Bears have no more primetime games after tonight, which I think is a relief to everyone.
For the first time since 2007, the Browns will finish the season with a non-losing record
Nick Folk kicks the Patriots past the Cardinals to victory with a 50-yard FG as time expires
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/1333155825041502208
Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill now leads the NFL in receiving yards. His teammate Travis Kelce is 2nd.
Herbert goes for a QB sneak while the offensive line drops back for pass protection
https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1333158216356794374
Bucs fans booing Tom Brady's offense off the field after a third consecutive three-and-out
https://twitter.com/jjones9/status/1333171674645110784
Why didn't you call timeout for 15 seconds before eventually doing so? Anthony Lynn: "I don't know." That's the 2020 Chargers season in a nutshell.
https://twitter.com/JamesCrepea/status/1333166950428491776
Jeremy Chinn takes the candy from Dalvin Cooks hands for another
Mychel Thompson (Klay Thompsons older brother) put up 7 points on 3/14 shooting while representing The Bahamas against Team USA today. Underwhelming and yes boring game, covid19 ruined everything.
Scientists Confirm Entirely New Species of Gelatinous Blob From The Deep, Dark Sea
https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-jelly-blob-glimpsed-off-puerto-rican-coast-in-first-of-its-kind-discovery
International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/30/international-lawyers-draft-plan-to-criminalise-ecosystem-destruction
110 Farmers slaughtered, villagers massacred and beheaded by Boko Haram group in retaliation after villagers stand up to their extortion and seized one of them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/dozens-farmers-slaughtered-nigeria-islamist-militants/12933416
SpaceX's Starlink beta test requires participants to recognize Mars as a "free planet" and to agree that "no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities." This has been confirmed by the company, which reportedly plans to establish the first Martian city by 2050.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-mars-city-starlink-terms-of-service-declares-free-planet
England's Covid-19 infections down 30% during national lockdown
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-study-idUSKBN28A00H
EU proposes new post-Trump alliance with U.S. in face of China threat: Financial Times
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-usa-trade/eu-proposes-new-post-trump-alliance-with-u-s-in-face-of-china-threat-ft-idUSKBN2890VH
India Fails to Report 3.4 Million Covid Cases
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/why-official-covid-19-numbers-are-misleading-2329668?pfrom=home-bigstory/
French government drops draft law curbing filming of police officers
https://www.reuters.com/article/france-security/french-government-drops-draft-law-curbing-filming-of-police-officers-idUSKBN28A25Z
QAnon's Rise in Japan Shows the Conspiracy Theory's Global Spread
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/qanon-s-rise-in-japan-shows-conspiracy-theory-s-global-spread
Since firing defensive genius Dan Quinn after week 5, the Falcons defense has catapulted itself from 31st to 17th in terms of points allowed
Colts punter Rigoberto Sanchez reveals he has a cancerous tumor and will have surgery Tuesday. He'll obviously miss some time. Hoping for the best for Rigo.
https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1333439939967668225
NFL cancelled Ravens practice scheduled for this morning, per league source. Ravens last practiced the Saturday before the Titans' game and currently are scheduled to play in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. Ravens' travel plans in flux, with snow forecasted in Pitt on Tuesday am.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1333416327235690497
Tom Brady has now lost 3 straight home games for the first time in his career
https://twitter.com/CBSSportsHQ/status/1333207766161297408
SHOUT OUT to Younghoe Koo 🗣️🗣️ ▪️29 FG made (most in NFL) ▪️109 Points scored (most in NFL) ▪️96.7 FG% (best in NFL among K w/ 15 attempts) ▪️6-6 from 50+
https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1333440388397473793
There Aren't Serious Enough Consequences for Those Trying to Break American Democracy. What the president and his lawyers have been attempting to do deserves punishment that will likely never come.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/there-arent-enough-consequences-trying-break-american-democracy/617214/
Mark Kelly to be sworn in as senator on Wednesday
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/527946-mark-kelly-to-be-sworn-in-as-senator-on-wednesday
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html
Ocasio-Cortez raises $200K to fight food and housing insecurity during video game battle
https://thehill.com/homenews/527932-ocasio-cortez-raises-200k-to-fight-food-housing-insecurity-during-video-game-battle
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs: "This election was conducted with transparency, accuracy and fairness in accordance with Arizona's laws and election procedures — despite numerous unfounded claims to the contrary."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1333479735796531201
A federal judge partially advances a lawsuit accusing Felix Sater of laundering money through Trump Organization properties.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-advances-lawsuit-accusing-felix-sater-of-laundering-loot-through-trump-properties/
I've known @neeratanden for over 2 decades. She's brilliant and laser-focused on making our country a fairer place for all. I'm excited to work with her as she does the vital work of rebuilding our government. twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1333473436362936320
.@neeratanden grew up on welfare and lived in public housing. She experienced first hand the importance of our social programs. Her extraordinary career has been devoted to improving opportunities for working families. She is an excellent choice to lead OMB.
https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1333446290412343300
The allegations against Dominion are bizarre. Its voting machines have no secret 'vote flipping' algorithm. The company has no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez, writes CEO John Poulos
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-claims-about-dominion-voting-systems-do-real-damage-11606755399
This person was once one of the most senior U.S. intelligence officers in the US military: "There is no doubt in my mind that he won this election. Hands down. In a landslide," Flynn said about Mr. Trump during a phone interview .
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/28/michael-flynn-donald-trump-beat-joe-biden-in-a-mas/
Arizona's statewide election results were just certified. GOP Gov Doug Ducey says he'll sign the documentation this afternoon to ensure that Mark Kelly can be sworn in to US Senate. It all happened 2 miles from where Rudy Giuliani was at a meeting alleging fraud
NC chair Ronna McDaniel privately told "multiple confidants that she doubted there was any scalable voter fraud in Michigan." But she said she had to parrot Trump's narrative to prove she was willing to "fight." https://politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475
The 2021 BidenInaugural today says it'll accept most kinds of corporate & trade association money. It will, however, reject fossil fuel money.
Contacted 60+ companies this month and asked who'd give $$ if Biden would take it. Here's what they said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-inauguration-inaugural-ceremony-2021-president-corporations-covid19-2020-11
Good
https://twitter.com/i/status/1333284632641429504
https://twitter.com/5691Yenoh/status/1333284632641429504
Jon Ossoff: "This is not just about Sen. Perdue's personal misconduct ... It's about the fact that he's been holding up relief for the very people he serves while enriching himself in office. Opposing $1,200 stimulus checks ... while he's been looking after himself."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1333493501175103489
Despite a long record of fraud, a New Jersey con man — with help from JPMorgan Chase Standard Chartered Bank, Citizens Bank & Wells Fargo — swindled hundreds of customers around the world who sought cheap used cars.
https://icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/the-public-knew-he-was-crooked-in-2009-big-banks-helped-him-stash-millions-until-2017/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinCENFiles
He's right: Grassley (R-IA): "Promising vaccine news means there is light at the end of the tunnel. That makes staying vigilant in the coming months all the more important."
There are 238 suburban Philadelphia municipalities making up Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties. 213 of them shifted left this year, giving Biden a greater share of the vote than they gave Clinton four years ago.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/philadelphia-suburbs-2020-election-20201129.html
Don't miss our review of how Miller and his administration allies were frequently in contact with members of anti-immigrant extremist groups, discussing efforts to punish sanctuary cities or to promote false narratives about immigrant criminality.
https://www.americanoversight.org/how-members-of-anti-immigrant-extremist-groups-have-worked-closely-with-and-joined-the-trump-administration
The nation's system for providing unemployment benefits to jobless workers has consistently produced inaccurate data and lower-than-appropriate payouts to some workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-department-published-flawed-estimates-of-weekly-jobless-claims-watchdog-says-11606752477
Trump and his allies won't drop claims of stolen election because they're cashing in. Trump will leave office on Jan. 20, but in the meantime, right-wing grifters make bank by pretending otherwise
Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to Covid19:
Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms
Netherlands: Up to 90%
Norway: Up to 90%
Germany: Up to 87%
France: Up to 84%
Italy: 80%
United Kingdom: Up to 80%
Canada: Up to 75%
United States: 0%
Congresswoman Elect @mtgreenee - "We have an Islamic invasion into our government offices..." Me: I'm your "Islamic invasion." I'm a Muslim American US Marine who served this Nation with his life! Let that sink in.
https://twitter.com/mansoortshams/status/1333480819671887874
This is stunning & infuriating. I filed a #FOIA request w/every DOJ component for transition materials prepared for the next administration. One DOJ component, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, just turned over docs and redacted everything
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20418150-leopold-presidential-transition-foia-doj-cops
Some notable progressive endorsements for Neera Tanden:
- Barbara Lee: https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1333430286953181189
- Elizabeth Warren: https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1333242309585080326
- Stacey Abrams: https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1333183697948913665
Opening the Senate after Thanksgiving recess, McConnell blames Pelosi and Democrats for the Republican-refusal to greenlight covid19 relief (Republicans control the Presidency and Senate) and says House Democrats have no leverage (the leverage they are discussing are human lives) after losing seats in the House (despite winning the Presidency and flipped Senate seats blue).
Allen Robinson "Likes" Tweets From Fans Telling Him To Leave Chicago
https://nflupdate.co/allen-robinson-likes-tweets-from-fans-telling-him-to-leave-chicago/
Giants QB Daniel Jones underwent tests on his hamstring today and sources say he did avoid major injury. He has an outside chance at playing Sunday, though they'll know more if he's able to get on the field and test it in a few days. NYG will have plans with Jones & without him.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1333494608484069376
Baker Mayfield hasn't thrown an interception in his past 123 consecutive passing attempts, spanning five games. During that stretch, he has 7 passing TDs, 0 INTs, a 106.9 rating, 1 AFC Offensive Player of the Week award and the Browns are 4-1.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DMurph_BrownsPR/status/1333416541271056385
An underrated aspect of Aaron Rodgers' high production this season: In 10 of the 11 games, he's been sacked zero or one time. "For an almost-37-year-old, that's a dream," Rodgers said.
https://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/1333275846795292672
Here's where Tuesday's game stands, per sources: If all the #Ravens' COVID-19 tests come back negative this afternoon, the plan is to practice and travel to Pittsburgh tonight. If any more players or Tier 1 personnel test positive, the game most likely would be postponed again. ||| They'll come back negative this afternoon and tomorrow and have 7 new positives the day after the game.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1333458816218918914
Clearly, we all saw that: Bruce Arians, to me last night, on Tom Brady: "He picks all the plays now. We call what he picks. We just have to get better. He's getting more comfortable every week. We're getting close." (Note: Arians was upbeat about Brady's skillset. This is a process.) More on The Aftermath
https://www.twitter.com/MikeSilver/status/1333465039513153536
Kirk Cousins quietly had an AMAZING November (NFL Rank Min. 4 Starts): 124.3 pass rating (1st), 4-1 W-L (3rd), 72.4 Comp% (2nd), 12 Pass TD (3rd), You like that!? #Skol
https://twitter.com/cbssportshq/status/1333450701649940481
Schumer says Senate should immediately start Biden's Cabinet confirmation hearings after the Georgia runoffs. That would allow some of Biden's nominees to be confirmed on Jan. 20 (though perhaps not that many. Just one senator can slow it all down)
After my parents were divorced when I was young, my mother relied on public food and housing programs to get by. Now, I'm being nominated to help ensure those programs are secure, and ensure families like mine can live with dignity. I am beyond honored.
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1333513295043686400
It's time to rebuild an American economy that works for all of our families and the next generation. It's time to ensure every American enjoys an equal chance to get ahead. It's time to build our economy back better.
https://twitter.com/Transition46/status/1333493062291644422
Art is like a fire, it is born from the very thing it burns" - Jean-Luc Godard
Hey GA, Black/Brown and AAPI voters have watch TV, consume digital and read mail just like white people. Why are we just investing in the "ground game" and not the WHOLE game like with white voters? I'm warning you early enough to fix it #georgia #senate
https://twitter.com/ChuckRocha/status/1333532195860910080
The Patriots have placed WR Julian Edelman on the Covid-19 list.
The Shitstain Terrorist also said he wanted to see her tax records: The hypocrisy of @JohnCornyn spending four years pretending he didn't see Trump's latest tweet about nuking North Korea or whatever now crying about Neera insulting him is just too much. Advice & consent doesn't mean nominees have to pretend you're a good person, John! You suck!
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1333532564791861248
Ravens-Steelers postponed to Wednesday
What about the Steelers' Sunday game vs Washington?
"That's a next week problem" - the NFL probably
A Wednesday game and then a Sunday game? Brutal.
BREAKING: NFL announces this game will be postponed to next Thanksgiving. The Steelers and Ravens will be forced to play 2 full games back to back on the same day against each other.
In South Dakota:
- 1 in 935 South Dakotans has died due to COVID-19
- 1 in 11 has tested positive (more than the population of the state's 2nd largest city)
- 1 in 51 are active cases
Remarkably sweeping language for the pardon. It absolves Flynn of lying to the FBI and also: "any and all possible offenses arising from the facts set forth ... or that might arise, or be charged, claimed or asserted" baed on the Mueller investigation or any grand juries.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1333541405013258243
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoGwajdXYAAIUyH?format=png&name=small
Trump tweets/retweets over Thanksgiving weekend:
On election lies: 42
On the coronavirus: 3
Washington vs Steelers game scheduled for Sunday is now being moved to Monday LOL SUSPEND THE NFL SEASON BECAUSE ALL THE PLAYERS DISMISS COVID19 AS A HOAX
On Nov. 1, Tanden assumed the presidency of the Center for American Progress, Washington's leading liberal think tank, which is an incessant advocate for a broad progressive agenda and as such a sharp thorn in President Obama's left side. Her predecessor, the uber-connected John Podesta, is a tough act to follow, but Tanden, a veteran of the Clinton administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaigns and Obama's policy bench, does not lack self-confidence. | Tanden and her backers like to frame her job as reflecting a generational change, a shift from white male management to a younger face with color. She peppers her high-speed commentary with second-generation references, including how, because of the "Indian thing" she named her 9-year-old daughter Ilina, a Sanskrit word meaning "possessing high intelligence," and nearly called her 6-year-old son Jadvana, meaning 'victory and strength," before settling on Jaden. ("A name that ends in a vowel is not a gift you want to give your son in America," she said.) | She tells of how, when she was 5, her father left her and her mother and brother in Bedford, Mass., to return to India, selling the family's house and taking the profits with him. ("I'm not going to talk about him," Tanden said. "I'm not Lindsay Lohan.") Welfare checks softened the fall for Tanden's now single mother, and a low-income housing program in a middle-class community provided them with a home. | After graduating from Yale Law School and landing some key internships, Tanden worked her way up during the second Clinton term to become the senior domestic policy adviser for the first lady. | As the head of CAP, she will become a more visible face on television, in the White House and on the fundraising circuit. She will oversee a $40 million budget and 250 employees spread over four floors of a building on H Street NW. Strategically, Tanden said her goal, beyond getting the president reelected, is to have bold policy proposals in place for the beginning of the next term, when she predicts Republicans will be stunned into submission. One shift she envisions is for the government to identify sectors of potential growth for investment, from nanotechnology to climate change mitigation, to better compete in a world in which the United States needs to pick its spots. She said she will have the "final call" on her organization's way, and tacitly, she hopes, the White House's.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house/think-tank-post-puts-spotlight-on-veteran-democratic-operative-neera-tanden/2011/11/01/gIQAn6fpjM_story.html
The Detroit Pistons have waived guard Zhaire Smith
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1333531548885413895
Um. During Newsmax call-in Joe diGenova said Chris Krebs should be put to death.
https://thebulwark.com/trump-lawyer-dhs-whistleblower-should-be-executed/
To be clear: this is one of the president's attorneys taking to the airwaves to say a former government official "should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot."
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1333557760789786625
Quit lying you TERRORIST: Jim Mattis and John Kelly were both confirmed before Trump was sworn-in.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1333557794339909632
Even in 2020, Brian Kemp and Doug Ducey going from ultimate villains for liberals to being on the receiving end of Trump's wrath and ultimate villains for Republicans is quite the plot twist. Time will only tell how all of this will affect their careers long-term: Ducey is term-limited but Kemp is up again in 2022
New Kelly Loeffler ad claims multimillionaire knows what "it feels like waiting on that paycheck" | The richest member of Congress is worth between $800 million and $1 billion
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/30/new-kelly-loeffler-ad-claims-multimillionaire-knows-what-it-feels-like-waiting-on-that-paycheck/
Texans WR Will Fuller V says on Instagram he's been suspended for six games for violating the league's PED policy. He's now out for the rest of the 2020 season and will miss the 2021 season opener. Fuller is scheduled to be a free agent in March.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1333539658324643842
Schumer: Neera Tanden is "so eminently qualified" that Republicans are "grasping at straws." "If Republicans are concerned about criticism on Twitter, their complaints are better directed at President rump, who has made a hobby out of denigrating Republican senators on Twitter."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1333576550424440834
This is entirely meaningless, if you aren't woke to the fact that these are all antisemitic dog whistles and have been for decades
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1333531813512404995
Republican State Rep. Moves to Impeach Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for COVID-19 Restrictions
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohio-state-rep-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-gov-mike-dewine-for-covid-19-restrictions
LaMelo Ball — the No. 3 overall pick in the NBA Draft — has signed his rookie contract with the Charlotte Hornets, his agent Raymond Brothers of @RocNationSports tells ESPN.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1333566246575611904
Free agent swingman Rondae Hollis-Jefferson has reached an agreement with the Minnesota Timberwolves
https://twitter.com/chrisbhaynes/status/1333596827787042817
Surreal ESPN graphic discussing Wentz's TD:INT ratio
https://streamable.com/lpkivo
Eagles had -4 yards, put Hurts in and raised the total yards to +2 yards, put Wentz back in and lowered the total yards back to -4.
Sean Payton says he's beaten all 32 teams, not just 31. "Tampa Bay at home, we're up by four, we run the double reverse and fumble it. I beat the Saints."
https://twitter.com/Amie_Just/status/1333577969193848832
Next time your drunk friend yells at the tv that "even I could have made that pass" during an NFL game, remind him that Kendall_Hinton2 actually played QB at the Division 1 level and went 1-9 with 2 picks against an NFL-caliber defense. #Broncos
https://twitter.com/adamcrutchley2/status/1333493588034990081
Carson Wentz clear intentional grounding not called
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/qawdww
The NFC East has officially clinched a losing season.
Another suspension in Houston: #Texans CB Bradley Roby has been suspended six games for violating the NFL's performance enhancing substances policy. His season is over.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1333608823072886786
The announcers love Carson Wentz it's everybody else fault except his
https://twitter.com/marlon_humphrey/status/1333592897682345984
The Arecibo Observatory has collapsed. | The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on it to search for planets, asteroids and extraterrestrial life. | Officials suspect a potential manufacturing error is to blame for the auxiliary cable that snapped after a socket holding it failed, but say they are surprised that a main cable broke about three months later given that it was supporting only about 60% of its capacity. Engineers had assessed the situation after the first cable broke, noting that about 12 of the roughly 160 wires of the second cable that eventually broke had already snapped, said Ashley Zauderer, program officer for Arecibo Observatory at NSF.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-radio-telescrope-to-close-b63df9ec84a876ab1c2e665f20e402e4
Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group, police raid homes
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-horst-seehofer-germany-2129b08825bbc2a60d23059a4f36ee28
Photo reveals Australian soldier drinking beer out of dead Taliban fighter's prosthetic leg
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/01/photo-reveals-australian-soldier-drinking-dead-taliban-prosthetic-leg
A baby was just born with coronavirus immunity. The baby's mother survived a mild case of Covid-19 in March, while she was 10-weeks pregnant. The mother's SARS-CoV-2 antibodies disappeared, but doctors discovered that the boy was born with circulating antibodies
https://bgr.com/2020/11/30/coronavirus-immunity-newborn-antibodies-from-mother/
White Sox manager Tony La Russa initially submitted a not guilty plea in his DUI case. A change of plea hearing has just been scheduled.
https://twitter.com/jrfegan/status/1333813004006289409
#Browns-Titans will feature the top 3 rushers since 2018 in average yards per rush AFTER contact: 1. Kareem Hunt (2.46) 2. Derrick Henry (2.37) 3. Nick Chubb (2.37) @ESPNStatsInfo
https://twitter.com/Jake_Trotter/status/1333754721564200961
Obama says Dolly Parton not getting medal of freedom was 'screwup': 'I'll call Biden'
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/528103-obama-says-dolly-parton-not-getting-medal-of-freedom-was
Trump shares posts asking 'why bother voting for Republicans?' ahead of key vote that could decide Senate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-tweet-election-georgia-vote-b1764483.html
The President* Is Running a Direct-Mail Scam from Inside the White House | Exiled Nigerian princes in my inbox have a less obvious pitch than this guy does.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34833700/trump-raise-150-million-after-election/
If Senate Democrats Are Sick of Losing to Mitch McConnell, They Should Try Fighting - As a first step, that means making Sheldon Whitehouse the Democratic leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/senate-whitehouse-leader/
Trump's campaign ends as his first one began, surrounded by outcasts and cranks
The new goalpost is December 14, when the electoral college votes... but the election isn't certified in Congress until January 6
Bryce Harper is asking you to donate to a QAnon-adjacent charity that is currently under investigation in Davis County, Utah. This is the same org that perpetrated the false Wayfair trafficking conspiracy this summer.
https://twitter.com/it_me_rc/status/1333839288103022593
Trump and Team Trump's lies about a stolen election will continue because it's really a PR game to soften the blow of the loss, raise money, and create a narrative to fuel whatever he does next in TV and/or politics.
AG Barr to AP: "We have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election." After Trump excoriated the FBI and DOJ - AG Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents HAVE been working to follow up specific complaints and information they've received, but they've uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-william-barr-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d
An attorney from Chenango County drops a bombshell with the court-- 55 uncounted early votes were just found, having never been seen before. In a congressional race separated by just 12 votes, these newly discovered early votes could make the difference #NY22 @WBNG12News
https://twitter.com/JRosenblattTV/status/1333852927090417665
Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have Trump declared winner of Wisconsin's electoral votes.
Among other things, suit seeks 48 hours of security footage from the TCF Center from Nov. 3-4. TCF Center is in Detroit.
https://twitter.com/jrrosswrites/status/1333851756820836356
"Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election," AP reports
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333856259662077954
An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window
https://www.businessinsider.com/hungarian-mep-resigns-breaking-covid-rules-gay-orgy-brussels-2020-12
UN: Food has run out for nearly 100,000 refugees in Ethiopia | "The COVID-19 pandemic, alongside lockdowns and travel restrictions, has prevented movement of aid and greatly impacted food production. As a result, several famines are forecast, which the United Nations called a crisis "of biblical proportions", or "hunger pandemic". This pandemic, in conjunction with the 2019-20 locust infestations and several ongoing armed conflicts, is predicted to form the worst series of famines since the Great Chinese Famine, affecting between 10 and 20 percent of the global population in some way."
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-eritrea-abiy-ahmed-ethiopia-united-nations-344e7156295eb1801f9441a9359c2dab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#Risk_of_future_famine
Is it too much to hope that Trump fires Barr and nominates diGenova to replace him so we can watch all the concerned Republican Senators struggle with the mean words from Neera Tanden?
Don't add me in your mess because when s**t spill I don't want be grabbing no napkins, when I was telling you watch the glass in first place
https://twitter.com/MONSTATREZZ/status/1333265211948752896
"But feel free to add me into clumsy metaphors."
(2) Barr then applies the special counsel regulations to the appointment:
https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1333885343226077184
Except that (3) he does NOT apply the provision of the special counsel regulations that govern the appointment of the special counsel and require that the SC come from outside the department. This provision is 28 CFR 600.3:
https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1333885345809784833
Trump campaign now going after AG Barr. Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis say this: "With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn't been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation."
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1333863030136975360
Record-breaking 2020 hurricane season caused $60 billion to $65 billion in economic damage.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/record-breaking-2020-hurricane-season-caused-60-billion-to-65-billion-in-economic-damage/858788
We all knew the risks we were putting ourselves and our loved ones in when we decided to capitalize on our once in a lifetime opportunity to play this sport. What is happening now is a direct result of our choices and actions. I am curious on how the NFL is going to handle these
https://twitter.com/docnation_7/status/1333795861160099845
We the NFL now: Warriors GM Bob Myers just announced that Golden State's first practice will be delayed one day from Sunday to Monday after two Warriors players tested positive for COVID-19
https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1333888961127849985
Ambulance companies at a breaking point after receiving little Covid19 aid
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ambulance-companies-breaking-point-after-receiving-little-covid-aid-n1249586
GOOD: Democrats Are Already Looking Ahead to 2022 Midterm
https://time.com/5916434/democrats-dccc-leadership-fight/
Trump is discussing possibly launching a 2024 campaign on Inauguration Day & skipping Biden's swearing-in. Regardless, Trump isn't expected to attend inaug, invite Biden to the WH or even call him.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-considers-2024-campaign-kick-inauguration-day-n1249595
Good, launch campaign rallies everyday everywhere and drop dead of a heart attack already
Like I get being mad at Cunningham if you are a Democrat. But, Biden also lost NC. It's Fake Democratic Maine that should be the more frustrating to Democrats. Cunningham underperformed Biden by 1.8% in NC - Gideon underperformed Biden in ME by 11 pts: If Cunningham won, the Dems would still be a seat short. The fact is the Dem majority (outside of winning both seats in GA, which is possible!) didn't come about because 1. Country more GOP than thought. 2. S. Collins stronger than thought. 3. Low ticket splitting outside ME.
https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1333786249769873412
For years, Republicans ignored Donald Trump's Tweets. Now they're using Neera Tanden's twitter war with leftists as a reason to reject her as a nominee
Biden pick Neera Tanden rightfully repudiated Michelle Obama catchphrase, said "going higher" doesn't f--king work
I can't believe I need to say this, but Dominion is not owned by Communist China.
Dominion was founded in Toronto, Canada and is now a proud, nonpartisan American company HQ'd in Denver. (1/4)
https://twitter.com/michael_steel/status/1333881540414218248
In Sep. 2020, reports emerged that the investigation expanded from matters related to the "campaigns" in the 2016 election to the Clinton Foundation. This further suggested that the investigation improperly seeks to serve the president's political needs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/durham-clinton-foundation-investigation.html
Jewish students like me thought not being on campus would at least spare them some drama. We couldn't have been more wrong. | "Anti-Zionism" on college campuses is not a political disagreement confined to the boundaries of academic discussion in the classroom. It is an obsession. It is an insistence on making Jews feel uncomfortable—or worse—wherever, whenever, under whatever conditions. And this hatred does not disappear when you walk off campus and into the real world. It is finding its way into American political discourse and our most cherished democratic institutions. | I landed on campus identified as a progressive activist, ready to spend my weekends marching the streets of D.C. against the Trump administration, against Brett Kavanaugh, against the evils of capitalism and corruption. Of course I had heard rumors of anti-Israel activism that occasionally "crossed a line," but these stories came from them. You know... The AIPAC Jews, the Trump Jews, the right-wingers. That was then. Two years later, I am sitting in my childhood bedroom comforting dozens of Jewish students scattered across the country on social media. On this particular October night, the flashpoint is Northwestern University. There, a student organization called Northwestern University Community Not Cops was ostensibly undertaking an effort to protest the presence of police on campus. Somehow, part of their work involved branding Morty Shapiro, the school's religiously observant Jewish president, "piggy Morton" and burning a school banner in front of his home. Shapiro accused the organization of anti-Semitism. In response, Northwestern University Community Not Cops published a statement condemning Zionism as racism and Zionists for silencing Palestinian voices. They wrote: "False claims of anti-Semitism have been used throughout Northwestern's history to shut down student activists, especially Palestinian activists, and to divide coalitions by falsely claiming that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Because of the pervasive myths of colonialism and white supremacy, we find ourselves having to repeat: Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." Neither Israel or Palestine were, until this point, pieces in this unfolding drama, yet this student organization decided to frame Shapiro's reactions to them as a Zionist conspiracy. "I don't even identify as a Zionist," one Northwestern student wrote me on Instagram, "but Jewish students like me are being completely gaslit by an organization we overwhelmingly supported. Another noted: "I'm a little worried for myself and fellow Jewish students right now." I have sat in front of my computer fielding these sorts of missives almost every night since last November, when The New York Times published my own story about the kind of bigotry I faced as a young Jewish student at George Washington. After a year of this, I want to put it to you as plainly as possible: What we are seeing on our college campuses is not criticism of Israel. It is not even hatred of Israel or Zionism. It is unmitigated, often unprovoked rage at Jewishness. | It is therefore completely unproblematic to demonize them, and certainly not to protect them. That's why, at Sacramento City College, after swastikas were found on campus on two separate occasions, I received the following note: "The Black Student Union organized a demonstration against and about keeping the Black and brown students safe, but there was no mention about keeping Jewish students safe," the student wrote. "After speaking about the omission to fellow students, I was told that people like me could not be victims of a hate crime." | This is how unsuspecting young Jews get branded with the most detestable traits imaginable on earth. If Hillel is hosting a Shabbat dinner with an Israeli speaker, Hillel is the ultimate betrayer of human rights. Hillel is demonic. Hillel is evil. Hillel is irredeemable. If Jewish students are eating hummus and pita before class, they are appropriating Arab food and by extension colonizing Arab culture and murdering indigenous people. If a Chabad is set on fire in the dead of night, and Jews post about it on their social media accounts, they must delete their posts because talking about Jewish issues is racism against Black people facing legitimately important matters. If the Panera Bread at school is out of fresh cookies, it is christened "The Zionist Panera." (That one's mine, from a student in my Comparative Politics class.) Anyone who objects risks being pushed out of what British scholar David Hirsh in characterizing the same breed of anti-Semitism running rampant in the British Labour Party called "the community of the good," and banished forever to the community of the bad: The conservatives, the Republicans, the Trump supporters. And so the things that used to be staples of Jewish communal life on campus—Hillels, Shabbat dinners, promotion of Birthright trips, and so on—are forced outside the realm of righteousness and exhaustively politicized to the point where most Jewish students won't even bother raising an eyebrow even if they know it to be wrong. Of course, as in all waves of anti-Semitism, there is always room for the Jews willing to work with our enemies: The Jews who will remain quiet when the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Florida State posts a Der Stürmer cartoon; the Jews who will stand by the Palestine Solidarity Committee at Harvard when they broadcast an image also featured on David Duke's official website; the Jews who will stand by as a speaker who called Jews "Sleazy Thieves" is invited to offer an expert opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These Jews will take center stage at rallies, events, and Zoom calls with convicted terrorists. These Jews are always a sterling defense against accusations of anti-Semitism—until, of course, their services are no longer needed. When adults tell me that we should just be more open-minded, that it's really just a difference of a political opinion, I want to scream. The people marinating in this ideology are changing the country, not just the campus. It is why The New York Times sees no problem in publishing a flattering piece on Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March. It is why leftist organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow host a panel on "Dismantling anti-Semitism" with four vocally anti-Israel panelists. And it is why when the organization "Muslims for Abolition" organized a Juneteenth "day of action" to protest bigotry and discrimination in law enforcement, the flyer read "open to all, minus cops and Zionists." Throughout Jewish history, our community's leaders have had a terrible habit of ignoring threats to Jewish safety in exchange for promises of acceptance—until it becomes too late. I fear that what we are seeing now is no exception. What will finally be the wakeup call? "Palestine" was spray-painted onto the UMass Hillel building on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and that didn't do it. The Chabad building at University of Delaware was set on fire in a confirmed arson attack and that didn't do it. Students demonstrators at Cornell spit on Jewish students and shouted "f*ck you Zionist scum" and that didn't do it, either. When will be the moment when Jewish voices are taken seriously, not smears as agents of pro-Israel propaganda but understood as Jews who are being marginalized because of who they are? The failure to recognize this threat is the failure to recognize the new, rigid ideology that is now permeating American culture—and it is one that boasts a dark and uncomfortably familiar forecast for the Jewish community.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hate-cant-be-contained
Wyden on McConnell: "There are upwards of 150,000 COVID cases per day and miles-long lines at food banks nationwide, and Leader McConnell wants to do tax breaks for three-martini lunches and broad legal immunity for his corporate donors. It's insulting to the American people."
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1333909298657845249
Problem is the American people disagree, Trump almost won and voters happily re-elected McConnell and happily voted out Democrats everywhere
"The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a court record unsealed on Tuesday by the chief judge of the DC District Court."
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1333909947042701316
This morning my family paid our respects to Senator John McCain as I prepare to be sworn in tomorrow. Senator McCain has been a hero of mine since I was a young pilot. He left a legacy of service to Arizona and country that can't be matched, but that we should all strive towards.
https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1333886615832281088
Love this moment. In that moment John McCain saved an incalculable number of American lives.
https://twitter.com/resist_user/status/1333886765900341249
https://twitter.com/i/status/1333886765900341249
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make the United States a welcoming place for immigrants, but his plans to dismantle the Trump administration's barriers to immigration could leave him in a quandary, especially as a new migration surge could be looming.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/02/bidens-policies-immigration/
Why Does a Self-Proclaimed Wall-Street Multi-Billionaire Who Owns The Manhattan Bank Tower And Trump Tower Keep Begging for Donations?
https://www.theroot.com/why-does-a-self-proclaimed-billionaire-keep-begging-for-1845785098
Release of PPP loan recipients reveals troubling patterns Trump and Kushner Companies are major beneficiaries of PPP loans. And Democrats are COWARDS who refuse to investigate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/release-ppp-loan-recipients-data-reveals-troubling-patterns-n1249629
Most emergency covid19 relief for small business funds went to uber-wealthy corporations
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/more-than-half-of-emergency-small-business-funds-went-to-larger-businesses-new-data-show/
I'm not sure how "player practiced with team last 2 days" and "no concern for further spread" can both be true
https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1333933439666556931
Players were told of two new positives while on plane. The player practiced with team last 2 days.
https://twitter.com/jeffzrebiec/status/1333932444131725312
If the Giants win the NFC East, they would be the first team in NFL history to start 1-7 and make the playoffs
Mike Flynn calls on Trump to declare martial law to hold a redo election. This man is a complete disgrace and enemy of democracy and the American republic. In a democracy this amounts to sedition. In a democracy what is worse than a call to overthrow the state?
This is a reminder that last season Harden dunked the ball so hard the refs did not count it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twlEFbo-9U8
The NBA's tentative Dec. 22 opening night doubleheader on TNT: Nets vs. Warriors in Brooklyn and Lakers vs. Clippers in Los Angeles, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.News
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1334175926544977921
Army Hits Back Against False Claim that Soldiers Died in CIA Op to Nab Election Servers | No Special Forces soldiers were killed while seizing computer servers in Germany as part of a CIA operation after the presidential election. There was, in fact, no mission of the sort. And members of the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion are not "the Kraken" that an attorney for President Donald Trump said last month she'd be unleashing. The unit is not involved in any post-election missions supporting the White House -- a move that would be highly unlikely considering it's an entry-level training battalion where new soldiers who haven't yet picked up their military occupational specialty are assigned. "The allegations are false," an Army official told Military.com.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/12/01/no-kraken-refer-military-intelligence-unit.hmtl/amp
Clippers wives/girlfriends dance from their seats in joy after the Clippers take a 82-65 unassailable lead up 3-1 against the Nuggets following a Kawhi 3. They were up double digits in games 6 and 7 as well.
https://streamable.com/etrh08
LiAngelo Ball is signing a one-year, non-guaranteed contract with the Detroit Pistons, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1334227831639957507
Arizona's senators are now a former astronaut who got into politics via gun control activism and a former Green Party member who came in purple hair, a zebra pattern coat and neon boots to swear him in. Portrait of a changing state: Mark Kelly is sworn in as Arizona's second Democratic senator, shaving the Republican's majority by one vote for the final weeks of the lame-duck session and marking the first time the state has had two Democrats in the Senate in 67 years. http://abcn.ws/3ohkvro
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1334220754313994243
Private spies infiltrated an Amazon strike, secretly taking photos of workers, trade unionists, and journalists. Now a union is taking legal action.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinkerton-agency-spies-union-strike-spain-ccoo-legal-action-2020-12
More than 2.5 miles of cliff paintings found hidden in the Amazon rainforest show ancient hunter-gatherers killing Ice Age creatures
https://www.businessinsider.com/cliff-paintings-in-the-amazon-depict-ancient-humans-killing-mastodons-2020-12
Over 25 PPP loans worth more than $3.65 million were given to businesses with addresses at Trump and Kushner properties, paying rent to those owners. Fifteen of the properties self-reported that they only kept one job, zero jobs or didn't report a number
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/release-ppp-loan-recipients-data-reveals-troubling-patterns-n1249629
Trump can't win in court and he can't convince state officials to toss the results, so his last resort is a Facebook video full of lies. All he has is a Facebook rant.
Really leaning into being the sorest loser in American political history — the full video is 46 minutes long and chock full of lie after lie after lie
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/release-ppp-loan-recipients-data-reveals-troubling-patterns-n1249629
#Chargers QB Tyrod Taylor has declined to file a grievance against the team and its doctor after a pain-killing shot mishap in mid-September led to a puncture in his lung and Justin Herbert starting. Taylor and the NFLPA had 60 days to inform the team of their decision.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1334120665809641488
Robert Griffin III starts today for the Ravens. Little fun fact: This will be his third start since 2017, and all 3 starts were against the same team: the Steelers.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1334214603161690114
The Ravens-Steelers is on even though 100% of the Ravens players tested positive for covid19. Because 100% of the Ravens players dismiss covid19 as a hoax.
The Ravens took off last night just after learning of another playing testing positive for Covid19. NFL Commission And Ravens Dismiss Covid19 As A Hoax And Will Play Game No Matter What.
Roger Goodell stresses that games are postponed for medical reasons, not competitive considerations. Covid19 is a hoax and games will be played even if every player is hospitalized hooked up to oxygen ventilator.
[Allbright, on Eric Bieniemy] Most of it is over a decade ago, and people can change and grow, but it's a tough sell to say a guy with (allegedly) multiple assaults (including choking a woman), DUI, a seperate fleeing the scene and being part of a sexual assault cover-up should lead your team.
https://twitter.com/AllbrightNFL/status/1333867062234669059
Asked about a playoff bubble, NFL Roger Goodell said, "We feel strongly that our protocols are working. I don't see us doing a bubble." Because 100% of NFL dismisses covid19 as a hoax.
The #Cubs are definitely tendering a contract to Kris Bryant, but barring a change of plans, will cut ties with outfielders Kyle Schwarber and Albert Almora, as @MDGonzales predicted.
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1334241649271037952
Sen. David Perdue had never invested in the Navy supplier BWX Technologies until right before he assumed control of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-david-perdue-helped-defense-contractor-and-sold-off-its-stock
Rhode Island facilities moving Covid-19 patients to field hospital to free up beds
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/528438-rhode-island-facilities-moving-covid-19-patients-to-field-hospital-to
Houston has agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to Washington for John Wall and a first-round pick. Nothing has changed for either team.
Austin Rivers on 'obvious' Knicks choice: 'I don’t understand someone not wanting to play for a city like New York'
https://sports.yahoo.com/austin-rivers-obvious-decision-choose-211406602.html
Former Presidents Obama, Bush II and Clinton volunteer to get coronavirus19 vaccine publicly to prove it's safe
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/obama-vaccine/index.html
Democrats seek disciplinary investigation for Trump lawyer who called for violence against former election cybersecurity official
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/democrats-disciplinary-action-digenova-trump-lawyer/index.html
It's very important to the future of Senate Republicans that their voters become more discerning about which flamboyant lies they believe and which flamboyant lies they don't.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-georgia-senate-run-offs/2020/12/03/e777c11e-34bd-11eb-afe6-e4dbee9689f8_story.html
712,000 Americans seek jobless aid as layoffs remain elevated amid resurgence of virus.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1334490574091677700
All-NBA forward Anthony Davis is finalizing a five-year, $190M maximum contract to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers, @KlutchSports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN. The deal includes an early termination option prior to fifth season in 2024-2025. Deal could be signed as soon as today.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1334477520939474945
As devastating as Davis has been offensively, he's shown himself to be a spectacular defender. Opponents shot 38% last season with Davis as the closest defender, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Of the 167 players to defend at least 500 shots last season, only Giannis allowed a lower %.
More Americans died of Covid-19 yesterday than were killed on 9/11
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1334290576972238849
Postal Service Delays Disenfranchised Thousands of Legally-Cast Ballots This Fall
https://www.nbcwashington.com/lx/postal-service-delays-disenfranchised-thousands-of-legally-cast-ballots-this-fall/2495351/
Kristi Noem's grandmother died in a nursing home hit by COVID-19 as the South Dakota governor continued to downplay the virus
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said today she'd be willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine publicly to help encourage other Iowans to do the same:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/03/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-willing-get-covid-19-vaccine-publicly/3810754001/
Legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign and Team Trump and other Republican groups to overturn Biden's wins in Wisconsin and PA and 100% have been rejected today (again) by Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Contrast this with Hoyer on the Dempcrat Caucus call this morning: "We will not go home until we pass COVID-19 legislation.": LeaderHoyer says he'll send House members home on the 11th with or without a COVID deal, and they "won't come back immediately until we can have a deal," per HouseInSession
"But I won't bring them back until we have something they can vote on and pass in a day," said Hoyer
https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1334562954193330178
This year buy a real living tree in Colorado to replace ones lost to wildfires when you buy your Christmas tree that will just die. Keep it for you. Give as a gift. You name it and you can visit it today, tomorrow or in 20 years. We do all the work. Buy @ https://rootedfutu.re/?ref=j1
https://twitter.com/Rooted_Future/status/1329552034723348480
The Day The Movie Theatre Died: Happy birthday, JLG: Warner Bros. smashes box office windows, will send entire 2021 slate to HBOMax and theaters https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-smashes-box-office-windows-will-send-2021-slate-to-hbo-max-and-theaters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoVZ1gbXIAA24UD?format=jpg&name=large
Steelers pass-rusher Bud Dupree is, in fact, done for the season with a torn ACL, source said following his MRI. @MikeGarafolo and @AKinkhabwala reported initial tests showed an ACL tear, and further tests have now confirmed. PIT’s franchise tagged player sets his eyes on 2021.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1334513312667758592
US intelligence found that China conducted experiments on its soldiers to "biologically" enhance their capabilities
https://wsj.com/articles/china-is-national-security-threat-no-1-11607019599
This certainly explains why US intelligence might have been so worried about Chinese acquisitions of fertility Clinics in San Diego, as reported in October: https://cnbc.com/2020/10/16/trump-administration-blocked-chinese-purchase-of-us-fertility-clinic.html
House Republicans use procedural tool to stop proxy voting, forcing House to adjourn, even though they are in the minority. This is what will happen for the next four years of the Biden Presidency.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/528590-house-gop-to-use-procedural-tool-to-push-back-on-proxy-voting
The Justice Dept.’s White House liaison has been banned from the building after she demanded DOJ staffers give her sensitive investigative information, including on election fraud matters, so she could relay it to the White House | The official serving as Trump's eyes and ears at the Justice Dept. has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-archive-elections-7624560e990ec55383a2a3e421c3a52e
You need them in the government because they are the experts in finance and financial law: If you're keeping an eye on Wall Street power, consider this: Moguls haven't landed top Biden jobs, but his team includes veterans of finance, private equity, asset management and venture capital. I talked to execs and billionaires. They're smiling
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/biden-s-new-white-house-team-delights-his-fans-on-wall-street
The John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts is now being Trumpified and these people CANNOT BE REMOVED FOR SIX YEARS AND THEY WILL DESTROY KENNEDY CENTER.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1334589137333211136/photo/1
I Wrote the Special Counsel Rules. Barr Has Abused Them. There is no reason for the outgoing attorney general to appoint his preferred prosecutor for the continuing Trump-Russia inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/bill-barr-john-durham-prosecutor.html
Joe Biden told jaketapper on Thursday that he has asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to be one of his chief medical advisers and be part of his Covid-19 response team when his administration begins next year. Biden to jaketapper: "I asked him to stay on the exact same role he's had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the Covid team."
http://cnn.com/2020/12/03/politics/biden-harris-interview-jake-tapper/index.html
As he left CNN interview, joebiden paused before climbing in motorcade. He appeared to be listening to the lone protester across street. (Protester, waving Trump flag, has been using megaphone to say "Joe Biden belongs in jail" and "Joe Biden is a sellout," among other things.)
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1334624062073671680
March For Our Lives is calling on Biden to appoint a director of youth engagement -- they say preferably a Gen-Zer -- to sit on the Domestic Policy Council to "ensure a seat at the table for youth, who have traditionally been shut out of the domestic policy agenda."
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1334623474938224643
Biden's margin in NY State is now wider than Clinton's, despite losing considerable ground in NYC
This hearing could run until 7, and we still haven't heard solid actual evidence from witnesses who understand GA election law+processes. But during the break Rudy Giuliani came over and was very complementary to the two Democratic senators Jordan and Parent asking questions.
https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1334622497103343621
Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing | The story of the coronavirus19 in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/how-iowa-mishandled-coronavirus-pandemic/617252/
Idaho lieutenant governor, opposed to covid19 relief, illegally received $300K in PPP virus funds
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article247584440.html
NFL reinstating drug-addict Josh Gordon from suspension, eligible to return for last 2 games instead of being placed in prison where he belongs.
https://twitter.com/jayglazer/status/1334597870645727233
Bengals QB Joe Burrow had successful knee surgery on Wednesday, the team announced. Surgery went as planned and he is expected to make a full recovery.
https://twitter.com/Ben_Baby/status/1334582183353315335
I love meeting my heroes. Today I reached out to @C_C_Krebs to let him know he is one of my heroes. He is a great American who stood up for every voter in this country, and I am so grateful that he’s a public servant, not a party servant.
https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1334628639711797249
81,237,902 votes (51.3%), Trump trails by 7+ million votes
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html
YEP: Bill Gates says we need a new federal organization and five-fold spending increase to fight climate change
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/03/bill-gates-says-us-needs-a-federal-agency-to-fight-climate-change.html
World's loneliest elephant starts a new life in sanctuary in Cambodia
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/12/02/world-s-loneliest-elephant-starts-a-new-life-in-sanctuary-in-cambodia
"The families soon realized that although they now had clear evidence of murder, even that was not enough to spur authorities to act. And they would come to see that this was all by design." New mass graves created by state police discovered in Mexico
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-the-disappeared-inside-families-risky-search-to-uncover-the-truth/
Pfizer halves vaccine supply estimate, blaming it on the supply chain.
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-pfizer-halves-vaccine-supply-estimate/a-55818736
BioNTech, a 🇩🇪 company founded by a 🇹🇷 immigrant (& the daughter of one), developed their vaccine in March (pre-OWS), & then partnered w/ Pfizer(🇺🇸), run by a 🇬🇷 native, to make it at 🇺🇸/🇧🇪 facilities (using 🇨🇦/🇪🇺/🇺🇸 inputs), & then ship it using their own 🌎 network. twitter.com/thehill/status…
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1334928638299549699
Native Americans Helped Flip Arizona. Can They Mobilize in Georgia? | Very few of Georgia's more than 100,000 voting-age Native Americans cast ballots in November. Even a small increase could make a difference in the Senate runoffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/politics/georgia-native-american-voters.html
Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets will visit the Golden State Warriors on Feb. 13 in a primetime Saturday night game, marking Durant's return to the Bay
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1334932625958514691
Pentagon announces that two top Trump advisers, convicted criminal Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, have been illegally and unconstitutionally appointed to the department's Defense Business Board.
Agreed, the current bill is strictly welfare for millionaires and billionaires and industries that are DESTROYING THE PLANET: Bernie Sanders vows to vote against $908 billion relief deal without significant changes. Calls for including $1,200 stimulus checks or scrapping liability shield | "Given the enormous economic desperation facing working families in this country today, I will not be able to support the recently announced Manchin-Romney COVID proposal unless it is significantly improved," Sanders said in a statement, citing the inclusion of a "liability shield" intended to insulate firms from coronavirus-related lawsuits. Sanders added of the absence of stimulus checks in the bill: "Tens of millions of Americans living in desperation today would receive absolutely no financial help from this proposal. That is not acceptable."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/04/bernie-sanders-stimulus-bill/
Kanye West Campaign Gives $100K to Islamic terrorist
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/kanye-west-campaign-gives-100k-to-anti-israel-rapper/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for a fresh wave of $1,200 stimulus checks that are excluded from the latest COVID-19 relief bill gaining momentum in Congress
https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-calls-for-1200-stimulus-checks-covid-relief-bill-2020-12
About 150 GM dealers will exit the Cadillac brand, rather than invest in costly upgrades needed to sell electric cars, because they dismiss anthropogenic global warming as a hoax
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-150-u-s-cadillac-dealers-to-exit-brand-rather-than-sell-electric-cars-11607111494
This is rich. Mike Pence is at @ CDC for a vaccine briefing. To Dr. Nancy Messonnier (@DrNancyM_CDC) who was muzzled by the White House after speaking the truth about the pandemic in its early days: "Dr. Messonnier, it's great to see you again. It's been a little while."
https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/1334919460872974336
National Guard members to be sent to hospitals as nurses, Covid-19 testers or ambulance drivers. Tennessee prepares to send National Guard to hospitals for COVID-19 surge
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/12/04/covid-19-surge-tennessee-send-national-guard-hospitals/3826572001/
The House approves a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill, unlikely to pass in the Senate, would reverse what supporters called a failed policy of criminalizing pot use. Opponents called the vote a hollow gesture.
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1334950874372853761
So now people are doing amateur stakeouts of loading docks in Georgia to prove voter fraud. "At 2:29 p.m. a UPS truck pulled up to the dock." "I hope this helps with exposing the fraud in this election."
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1334950369944801287
The GA voting system implementation manager: You can watch the @wsbtv report to show that the President's team is intentionally misleading the public about what happened at State Farm Arena on election night. They had the whole video too and ignored the truth. twitter.com/justingraywsb/…
https://twitter.com/GabrielSterling/status/1334950232526884873
I just spent 2 hours going through State Farm surveillance video with @GabrielSterling & state investigators. We watched chain of custody of the table & ballot boxes in question - from 8am until midnight. The boxes were packed & sealed with observers in room - nothing improper
https://twitter.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1334919773352812547
if you are someone who doesn't even believe the simple, basic fact (that has nothing to do with anything) that these are not suitcases - you live in a world outside of reason & reality. Here they are loading the crates - while observers and media were in the room at 10:01pm
https://twitter.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1334927307392356356
Can't believe the Steelers are playing 3 games in 12 days. The last time they did that you have to go all the way back to 2019. Before that, 2018. Before that, 2016. Before that, 2015.
Only 4 Players Haven't Missed a Start Since 2012 - QB Philip Rivers, DT Ndamakong Suh, DE Cameron Jordan, and QB Russell Wilson
The first kicker in @NFL history to make six 50+ yard field goals in the same month... Now let's get Jason Sanders to the Pro Bowl!
https://twitter.com/MiamiDolphins/status/1334853147194494979
Patrick Mahomes averaged 399.5 yards-per-game in November, which is the highest mark for any player in a single month in NFL history Memo
https://twitter.com/Chiefs/status/1334886429403582466
Carson Wentz will be working behind his 11th different o-line combination in 12 games with Jack Driscoll stepping in at right tackle.
https://twitter.com/tim_mcmanus/status/1334887336807706624
"That's money I could have siphoned off into my own account," sobbed Ivanka. Ivanka Trump is accused of letting her father's inauguration committee overpay a Trump hotel. Now she's calling the investigation 'a waste of taxpayer dollars.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-blasts-inauguration-spending-investigation-trump-organization-2020-12
Joe Biden: "It's essential we provide immediate relief for working families and businesses now. Not just help them get on the other side of this painful crisis, but to avoid a much broader economic cost due to long-term unemployment and businesses failing."
"There is no detailed plan as to how to get the vaccine out of a container, into a syringe and into someone's arm," Biden says when asked about vaccine distribution plans
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1334958938245181440
A California psychologist convicted of tax evasion was at the center of a mysterious investigation into whether White House officials were illegally lobbied to obtain a presidential pardon, according to people connected to the case.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tax-evasion-26a8f8b98762e365f1c10169a0268f6f
Obama, speaking at a virtual rally for Georgia Dems right now, not exactly going for a subtle approach: "the special election in Georgia is going to determine, ultimately, the course of the Biden presidency."
JoeBiden said he's "encouraged" by the Senate's bipartisan pandemic relief bill, but notes that another stimulus bill will be necessary again next year. "The fight against covid wont be won in January," he said.
Obama: "If the Senate is controlled by Republicans who are interested in obstruction and gridlock rather than progress and helping people, they can block just about anything."
Biden with sharp words for Republicans and Trump: "If the Republican-led Congress and President Trump fail to act by the end of December, 12 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits they've relied on. Merry Christmas."
Trump Victory illegally and unconstitutionally spent more than $1 million on Trump businesses in the new filings, including $294,019.95 on facility rental and catering services on Nov. 12.
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/the-trump-campaign-raised-a-massive-207-5-million-post-election-haul-and-little-of-it-is-going-to-the-lawsuits/
Trump is not planning a coup, he's doing a coup, he just also happens to be a fucking idiot with no restraint or capacity for forethought so it looks like a disorganized chaotic mess. Trump doesn't plan things. He quite literally doesn't have the capacity to plan things. He just does things, and what he's doing right now is everything possible to reverse the election results. We just hesitate to call it a coup because it doesn't appear to be what we envision a coup looks like. We picture some kind of coordinated, calibrated, synchronous Hydra-takes-over-Shield type shit in our heads. We're waiting for the moment when the entire electoral college rips off their clothes to reveal some sleek, red MAGA uniforms and ninja-flips all over the place and unfurls some giant picture of Trump's face that unfolds over the American flag and Trump seizes total control. That's what we're waiting for because that's what we think a real coup is. In reality, this coup looks like a pants-shitting Adderall-addicted emotionally-crippled imbecile throwing a 24/7 tantrum and commanding his army of flunkies to try anything and everything to get him installed in power again, including having his idiot hair-brained spy infiltrate his own justice department and bully employees to get them to go along with the coup until she gets fired and ejected from the building, because that's exactly what it is. His behaviour is completely seditious and treasonous and terroristic and the Trump campaign's claims are knowingly fraudulent, because nothing they say in public is what they're saying in court under oath, but they keep doing it because it's a fucking coup and they don't care about the law or actual fraud they're just trying to win. This is what a coup looks like when they parties involved are fucking idiots, but in no way should their incompetency or stupidity detract from the seriousness of their crimes. Much like if someone is shooting at you, it doesn't become a laugh and a joke simply because they have bad aim. A bullet from drunken idiot and a bullet from the world's greatest gunslinger both do exactly the same amount of damage if they happen to find your head.
Two years ago, I lived through a coup in Sri Lanka. It was stupid. The minority party threw chili powder at everyone in Parliament and took over by farce. Math, however, requires a majority and the courts kicked them out. They gave in. We'd been protesting for weeks and yay, we won. No. I didn't know it at the time, but we had already lost. No one knew — but oh my G/d, what we lost. The legitimate government came back but it was divided and weak. We were divided and weak. We were vulnerable. Four months later, on Easter Sunday, some assholes attacked multiple churches and hotels, killing 269 of us. My wife and kids were at church, I had to frantically call them back. Our nation was shattered. Mobs began attacking innocent Muslims. It was out of control. The coup broke our government, and four months later, that broke us. The coup was a farce at the time but how soon it turned to tragedy. They called it a constitutional crisis, but how soon it became a real one. Right now, the same thing is happening to you. I'm trying to warn you America. It seems stupid now, but the consequences are not. You're being coup'd.
https://medium.com/indica/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3
I think people genuinely believe that a coup will not be successful because of the safeguards in place. It helps that his court cases aren't successful.
Interview with Biden and Harris: We heard no fake news. We heard no conspiracy theories. We heard no personal grievances. We heard a President-Elect and a vice president who want to work with the other side.
1,000,000 (Double exclamation mark) Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the Jan. 5 runoff elections. Our time is now to elect @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff to the U.S. Senate, so let's get it done. Request your ballot today Rightwards arrow http://ballotrequest.sos.ga.gov
https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1334582033721548807
KAT says he has lost six other family/relations from COVID in addition to his mother. "I'm the one looking for answers to try to keep my family well informed and make all the moves necessary to keep them alive."
https://twitter.com/JonKrawczynski/status/1334963544241082369
(Karl-Anthony Towns)
Michigan Court of Appeals scathingly REJECTS Trump's "purportedly emergent application" for an appeal, which it finds "moot" because the vote is certified. Story on that certification:
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/michigan-certifies-election-results-with-one-gop-abstention/
Arizona's Republican House speaker makes clear that there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud in his state and rejects calls to try to overturn the election as unlawful. Pretty strong brush back: Statement from the Speaker addressing calls for the Arizona Legislature to overturn 2020 certified election results. #AZLeg https://azleg.gov/press/house/54LEG/2R/201204STATEMENT.pdf
https://twitter.com/AZHouseGOP/status/1334983417562243074
This is obviously doing real damage to our democracy, Republicans are TERRORISTS: News: 75 Pa. House and Senate Republicans have signed a letter to Pennsylvania's congressional delegation calling for them to dispute the 2020 election results in Congress. Among the signatories is House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster.
http://pahousegopnews.com/AttachedFiles/12.04.20%20Congress%20Election%202020.pdf
Remember when Dems were bitterly disappointed when 2018's Georgia runoff was won by a guy named Brad Raffensperger?
It's so weird how the Trump campaign doesn't seem to be concerned with any voting irregularities which might have occurred in states that the president lost
Armenians Refused to Believe They Were Losing a War—Until It Was Too Late
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh.html
There's a scathing footnote where Judge Garaufis tells Chad Wolf and Pete Gaynor to stop purporting to use powers he ruled they don't have. "Neither Administrator Gaynor nor Mr. Wolf currently possesses, nor have they ever possessed, the powers of the Acting Secretary of [DHS]."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EobQ8YqW8AEu7CA?format=jpg&name=small
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1334984093176573954
US Judge Nicholas Garaufis has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore DACA, instructing DHS to open the Obama-era program to new applicants for the first time since 2017.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EobJ73YXcAMUy7d?format=jpg&name=small
https://twitter.com/camiloreports/status/1334976777224118279
Baton Rouge area - EBR is a politically marginal parish that trended Democratic starting in 2004, when for the first time, it voted less Republican than LA did.
https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1334980870827028480
Lafayette has for some times been Republican, but with the presence of ULL and a growing medical industry (and not as many people employed by the oil industry), it's a bit more moderate than Acadiana now.
https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1334982600105078784
Trump has always been popular in Alexandria; the parish has a black population as well, mostly in the center of Alexandria.
https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1334983816847515652
Shreveport/Bossier City/Ruston - very conservative area, and also with a substantial black population in many of these parishes.
https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1334984602226712578
Monroe/NE LA - similarly, a very conservative area, and also with a substantial black population, esp the closer you get to the Mississippi River.
https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1334985182085001217
Meanwhile — a judge in Nevada dismissed a challenge filed by Trump electors. "Contestants failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any of the grounds ... to contest the November 2020 General Election"
https://democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/20-OC-00163-Order-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss-Statement-of-Contest.pdf
Trump Illegally And Unconstitutionally And Terroristically Orders All American Troops To Leave Somalia To Kenya. While the number of troops — about 700 — is small, it is a continuation of Republican's efforts to sabotage Democratic foreign policy and allow Islamic terrorists to win. Many of the troops will be "repositioned" to nearby Kenya, a Defense Department official said Friday. It was not immediately clear whether other parts of the American presence in Somalia — such as C.I.A. officers, the ambassador and other State Department diplomats who are based at a heavily fortified bunker at the airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital — will also withdraw from Somali territory along with the military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/africa/trump-somalia-troop-withdrawal.html
Bye Bye: White House exodus begins even as Trump continues to baselessly claim victory
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/trump-loyalty-purge/index.html
Trump Campaign says it has filed a lawsuit to throw out the Georgia election and "order a new election to be conducted in the presidential race."
https://twitter.com/BrendanKeefe/status/1334988017463857154
Alisha and Gwendolyn were last seen by relatives in Joplin, Missouri on or around Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1982. Family members say that Gwendolyn took Alisha and traveled to Florida with a man she had been dating at the time to start a new life. "Delta Dawn" would be found dead in Jackson County, Mississippi just ten days later. In June 2020, using familial DNA, forensic genealogists developed a list of possible family members for Delta Dawn. Later, investigators traveled to Missouri to interview these people, who informed them that Alisha and Gwendolyn (18 months old and 23 years old respectively) had not been seen since 1982. Further DNA tests confirmed that Alisha was Delta Dawn. The man Gwendolyn and Alisha were traveling with is now deceased. He reportedly returned to Missouri at some point after their disappearances and is considered a suspect in their case. At this time, his name is being withheld by law enforcement because his family is actively cooperating with the investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Dawn_(murder_victim)
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/45ufms.html
This 3-0 opinion — written, for those keeping score at home, by Judge Andrew Brasher (a Trump nominee) — expresses incredulity at how Powell and her team are handling all this: "But the plaintiffs would not take the district court's 'yes' for an answer. They appealed instead."
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1335002891489325056
"A Judge Just Shot Down 25 of the Trump Campaign's Conspiracy Theories in Nevada" Shooting down their baseless claims, the Nevada judge wrote the challengers "did not prove under any standard of proof" — 25 times.
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/a-judge-just-shot-down-25-of-the-trump-campaigns-conspiracy-theories-in-nevada/
Keep your eye on this coming fight. Chuck Schumer co-bylined an op-Ed w/ Warren pushing Biden to forgive you to 50k in student loan debt by executive order. Not everyone in the party thinks this is the best idea including Obama CEA head
https://blavity.com/why-we-elizabeth-warren-and-chuck-schumer-believe-the-biden-harris-administration-should-cancel-up-to-50k-in-student-debt-on-day-one
YES! Everyone is happy you're leaving
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334991357144944643
So are Covid19 deaths. Congratulations!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334991357144944643
Pentagon illegally and unconstitutionally blocked Biden's intelligence transition team from meeting with agencies
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/pentagon-biden-transition-intelligence/index.html
A Covid-19 vaccine is nearly in our grasp. That should give Americans an incentive to hold on a little longer and double down on our resolve to protect the health of others.
ICE Is Trying To Illegally And Unconstitutionally Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-subpoena-buzzfeed-immigration-sources?ref=bfnsplash
Legendary Afghan pilot in hiding after U.S. reverses decision to help him flee Taliban
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/12/03/afghan-pilot-naiem-asadi/
Australia's Great Barrier Reef status lowered to "critical" and deteriorating
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-great-barrier-reef-critical-deteriorating-mass-bleaching-climate-change/
Stacey Abrams today campaigning for Ossoff & Warnock: "A few weeks ago we did something no one expected: we turned Georgia blue. We won this election decisively, and despite the number of recounts, it keeps giving us the same answer: that Georgia Democrats showed up."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1335044973180272641
The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academies of Sciences
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250094
Undermining Americans' confidence in our democracy has been a surprisingly inexpensive thing to do. President Trump spent about $8.8 million on it so far, and millions of Americans now believe the lie that the election was rigged.
https://reuters.com/article/usa-election-trump-expenses/trump-campaign-spent-more-than-2-million-on-election-lawyers-including-jenna-ellis-idUSKBN28E2VG
LeGarrette Blount announces retirement from NFL
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIZP14Ygh0P/?igshid=llbdir2nnw9s
Tom Brady's company — TB12 Inc. — received nearly $1 million from PPP loan in 2020
https://sports.yahoo.com/tom-bradys-company-tb-12-inc-received-nearly-1-million-from-ppp-loan-in-2020-195220527.html
Veteran K Stephen Hauschka Retiring From NFL
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIZGvX3hP_F/
#Ravens placed QB Robert Griffin III on IR with a hamstring injury. Trace McSorley will be the backup once Lamar returns from COVID.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1334967264261656579
The whole PPP programme was fucked from the start (which is why Republican oppose it), regardless of how good its intentions were. It was basically free money for businesses who used it "correctly", but even for the ones that didn't use is properly, it was just a loan with unprecedentedly favourable terms. The fact that megachurches received multi-million dollar PPP loans...
Founder of all-Black armed activist group faces federal charge after FBI says he aimed a rifle at officers
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/us/nfac-john-fitzgerald-johnson-grand-master-jay-arrest/index.html
Argentina has passed a new tax on its wealthiest people to pay for medical supplies and relief measures amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55199058
Trump Lost, But My Brother's Still In A Far-Right Militia
https://www.thecut.com/2020/12/trump-lost-but-my-brothers-still-in-a-far-right-militia.html
Ex-Military Officers Spread Conspiracies, Urge Martial Law
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/943220215/backing-trump-some-ex-military-officers-spread-conspiracies-urge-martial-law
Lin Wood Loses Again as Federal Appeals Court Savages Georgia Election Lawsuit
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lin-wood-loses-again-as-federal-appeals-court-savages-georgia-election-lawsuit/
Historian groups sue White House over fears the Trump administration will destroy records before leaving office
https://www.businessinsider.com/historian-groups-sue-to-prevent-white-house-from-destroying-records-2020-12
GOOD: When confirmed that a coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective, the NBA and NBPA will discuss players, coaches and staff being required to receive the vaccine, or additional health and safety-focused restrictions on individuals who elect not to receive it.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1335291064626933762
Vontaze Burfict arrested on battery charge in Nevada
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30453705/free-agent-lb-vontaze-burfict-arrested-battery-charge-nevada
More than one million new cases of Covid-19 have been reported within the first five days of December, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of 6 p.m. EST, 174,641 new cases and 2,040 new deaths were reported in the US.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1335362340473200640
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will miss tonight's rally with Trump in Valdosta, GA, after a personal tragedy shook his family yesterday, but that hasn't stopped Trump from attacking Kemp for refusing to overturn election results he's found unfavorable.
https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1335357657667002370
Huge Epoch Times (racist white supremacist conspiracy theory propaganda) push outside tonight's Trump rally in Georgia. A copy being left on every car.
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1335349895104958470
If I were running the DNC, I'd invest a lot of money just doing basic advertisements touting the popular things Democrats believe in, because right now there's a large part of the country that has no idea what the party stands for.
Shortly after urging people to vote on Jan 5, Trump played the crowd in Valdosta a long OAN/Newsmax clip on debunked theories about voter fraud. One woman in the crowd yelled "traitor" as the camera showed a woman in Fulton County scanning ballots.
https://twitter.com/jessbidgood/status/1335400797736214528
Kyrie Irving donated 1.5 million to WNBA players who opted out of the bubble this year, 323K to Feeding America, and partnered with an NYC charity to provide 250K meals. Maybe let's not have a referendum on his character because he doesn't want to talk to beat writers.
https://twitter.com/seankeane/status/1335118607898927106?s=19
Just a reminder: Bradley Beal is the only healthy player to average 30 a game and not get an All-Star nod
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/bradley-beal-enters-break-highest-scoring-average-ever-non-all-star
New York tenants sue Donald Trump for rent fraud scheme affecting up to 14,000 apartments in buildings owned by his father
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-sued-brooklyn-new-york-tenants-b1766794.html
Oregon suspends license of anti-mask "doctor"
https://nypost.com/2020/12/05/oregon-suspends-license-of-defiant-no-mask-doctor/
Ravens players voted not to play Steelers in Week 12, Covid19 investigation goes beyond the weight room
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-players-voted-not-to-play-steelers-in-week-12-covid-investigation-goes-beyond-the-weight-room/
Japanese spacecraft successfully returns asteroid sample to Earth
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-japan-hayabusa2-mission-deliver-ryugu-asteroid-samples-earth-live-stream-today-2020-12-05/
National rugby players sing Australia's national anthem in Indigenous language for first time before match
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/australia/australia-indigenous-national-anthem-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Weird pandemic thing is you'll spend all week negotiating how you can safely see one other person, masks and all, and then you look at your Insta stories and people are having big dinner parties and restaurant hopping and I'm just .... it feels like I'm living on another planet! [Translate]
The Titans have suspended OT Isaiah Wilson, their first round pick out of Georgia. He's been placed on the reserve/suspended list accordingly.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1335343250387980293
Titans pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney quietly underwent season-ending knee surgery on Wednesday, sources say. My story on what's next for the disruptive defender:
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1335540916879314947
Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa is expected to start for Miami, while #Colts QB Philip Rivers will likely need surgery following the season to repair a plantar plate rupture. But he'll play on the injury, which could also be described as a really bad turf toe.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1335595590701473793
Falcons' WR Julio Jones (hamstring) and RB Todd Gurley (knee), both listed as questionable for Sunday, both are expected to play vs. Saints barring any pre-game setbacks, per source.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1335445344503689216
The SNL skit was amusing, I guess, but last night my caucus was trying to figure out how to keep those on that committee safe from the deluge of death threats they're receiving. I'm sorry to be a bummer and I'm glad people enjoyed the skit, but the reality of it is heinous.
https://twitter.com/lpohutsky19/status/1335594981516595200
America's spymaster (pro-Trump appointee) casts doubt on Biden taking over as president despite no evidence of election fraud: "We'll see whether there is a Biden administration" -- DNI John Ratcliffe
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335618124104822784
Perdue & Loeffler got rich. Georgians got sick.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EokRqdeW4AQJFCk?format=jpg&name=large
The right-wing election conspiracy machine is using video from PENNSYLVANIA to wrongly accuse two Georgia Democratic state senators of counting/stuffing ballots in the election. It's nowhere remotely the same people.
https://usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2020/11/07/polling-workers-continue-counting-pennsylvania/6202733002/
Another courageous journalist martyred; brutally murdered in Mexico for shining a bright light on heinous corruption. In her memory, let's stand up for every journalist, abroad and at home, who holds that indispensable lantern. | The intruder probably surprised her in the bathroom, from behind, investigators believe. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. The assailant broke her jaw with brass knuckles, then wrapped a rag around her neck, squeezing the life out of the region's best hope for accountability and justice. In articles for the national investigative weekly Proceso, MartÃnez, who was killed at age 48, told her readers that two successive governors in her home state of Veracruz looted the treasury and allowed cartels to operate freely with the help of local and state police. She sought to prove the traffickers and their accomplices had executed hundreds of people: Teenage dealers and entire families. Farmers and politicians. Even young women who attended their sex parties. | At least 27 journalists have been killed in the state of Veracruz since 2003. Eight others have disappeared. International press groups consider Veracruz to be the most dangerous place in the world to report the news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/investigations/regina-martinez-mexican-journalist-murdered-veracruz/
Sidney Powell amplified a false claim that 3,000 ballots were "floating in Lake Erie." That satirical story was not about the election, but the television show "The Voice."
https://twitter.com/JimSwiftDC/status/1335260655688052743
Chiefs woke up early this morning to seven positive Covid19 tests, they're playing anyway
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1335633121165905921
The Orlando Magic's Mo Bamba is still dealing with Covid19 symptoms 6 months after testing positive. https://cbssports.com/nba/news/why-you-should-expect-an-ugly-2020-21-nba-season-filled-with-covid-19-drama-and-unpredictable-outcomes/
The Portland Trail Blazers are closing their practice facility today for deep cleaning after three positive coronavirus tests within organization.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1335658175383687168
I say this reluctantly, as someone who has interviewed my fair share of MAGA/Trump folks, including General Flynn, and as someone who believes in holding people to account with tough interviews. But conspiracy theorists who are just using your platform to mainstream hoaxes? Nope.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1335697114765139970
At some point, we have to ask what is the value of having such people - even if they're sitting senators - coming on live TV to do their best impersonations of Alex Jones. We interviewers may think we're challenging them but really it's just allowing them to spread their disinfo.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1335696739760807936
Giants starting & winning QB Colt McCoy takes a knee as NY upsets Seattle 17-12. Big blow to his former Football Team (4-7) who would lose a tiebreaker to Giants (5-7). McCoy's 8th start in 9 yrs, first win since '14. Giants defense dominated Russell Wilson in key moments.
The Patriots have lined up to punt three times in this game. The Chargers have had the wrong number of players on the field for two of those three punts.
Jets stop the raiders and will win the game
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/adwlly
I know it's fun to joke about the Tank for Trevor finish for the Jets. But here's the thing. That staff won't be there next season. They don't care about Lawrence. Gregg Williams just called a horseshit defense.
https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1335696006697136132
Coach Brian Flores approaches the Bengals' bench and reprimands them following a second dirty hit against Jakeem Grant
https://streamable.com/s3knaz
Baker Mayfield woke up feeling dangerous: 17/21, 252 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INTs in the first half. Titans have no pass rush.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1335663219134894080
The Detroit Lions scored 34 points one time in 43 games under Matt Patricia. They've scored 34 in their first game after his firing.
TY Hilton goes over to the Texans bench to console Deshaun Watson
https://streamable.com/lnpv51
Jaguars RB James Robinson is on pace to rush for 1,295 yards this season. Most rushing yards in the common era by an undrafted rookie: 1. Dominic Rhodes: 1,104 2. Phillip Lindsay: 1,037 3. LeGarette Blount: 1,007 A great, great season for Robinson so far.
https://twitter.com/fieldyates/status/1335570184388612097
The Vikings finished with 420 yards of total offense. The Jaguars ran 69 plays.
https://twitter.com/WillRagatz/status/1335701132899799040
(marijuana and sex)
Baker Mayfield stats at the half: 20-25, 290 yards, 4 TDs, 156.6 Rating, Browns lead 38-7
On 2nd and goal from the 2 in the final minute, the Texans center executes a bad snap, Watson cannot recover the ball, the Colts come away with it and JJ Watt is in disbelief
https://streamable.com/rey0jk
The Saints are 8-0 without Drew Brees over the last 2 years.
It doesn't matter what their ceiling is this year. They may win ugly sometimes. Kevin Stefanski has the Browns at 9-3 and with their first winning season since 2007 and is doing an incredible job getting this franchise turned around. Well done, Browns
Jarvis Landry passes to Baker despite roughing the passer call
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/kedbem
Kyler Murray finds a socially distanced WR for the 60 yard TD
https://streamable.com/cywykx
Taysom Hill first career passing touchdown
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/zgzmgy
Bengals #36 Shawn Williams continues the dirtiness long after the bench clearing brawl
https://twitter.com/JMia305/status/1335678173669896192
Trubisky fumbles away the ball and most likely the game
https://twitter.com/respectdabeard1/status/1335690646598737921
Baker Mayfield's last interception came on his first pass of the Bengals game to OBJ. Since then, he's thrown 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions over a span of nearly six full games
Seahawks lead Giants 5-0. It's believed to be the first NFL 5-0 halftime score since Week 3, 1927. Providence Steamrollers led the Buffalo Bisons 5-0 at the break.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSiciliano/status/1335714116518830081
Aaron Rodgers to Davante Adams for an absolutely absurd 42 yard hookup deep in their own territory
https://twitter.com/packers/status/1335723470991323136?s=19
Since starting 0-5, the Giants have won five of their last seven, and the losses were by one point and two points.
https://twitter.com/MichaelDavSmith/status/1335738405221789698
#Browns RB Nick Chubb on fans' reaction to being 9-3: "I know they're excited. It's been a long time since Cleveland had success like this. We're straight up playing for them."
https://twitter.com/KeithBritton86/status/1335705863764520961
The Jets are the only team to send 8+ pass rushers on a play in the last 30 seconds of a game this season.
https://twitter.com/NextGenStats/status/1335699448589070337
Cam Newton to N'Keal Harry. Patriots extend their lead to 35-0.
https://v.redd.it/aokars13hn361
Pats have punted 4 times. # of Chargers on the field for each: 11 (!) 10 12 10
https://twitter.com/greggrosenthal/status/1335732327922552832
Jalen Hurts is 4/7 for 92 yards, 1 TD and a QB rating of 141.4. Also the team's leading rusher with 29 yards.
https://twitter.com/eliotshorrparks/status/1335734647259541504
Jets take the lead
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1335686626190606336
The Saints defense has now played 39 consecutive possessions without allowing a TD.
https://twitter.com/jeffduncan_/status/1335670413561647106
So everyone knows on the last play of the game for the @nyjets -that's what Gregg Williams does in those "Hail Mary" situations. He always pressure and often plays 0 coverage (everyone man to man) with no safety help. It isn't done to lose on purpose.
https://twitter.com/danorlovsky7/status/1335694768224006144
The NFC East records its first win over a .500 team this season with the Giants victory over the Seahawks
Chargers special teams today: missed FG, gave up punt return for 70 yards, blocked field goal return for Pats TD, and now the Chargers put 12 men on their punt return unit, converting a 4th and 5 to a Pats 1st
Cordarrelle Patterson is the first player in NFL History with: 8 rush TD, 8 rec TD and 8 kickoff return TD.
https://twitter.com/NFLonCBS/status/1335719464625725440
Justin Jefferson with the crispy route on this TD.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1335679183389741057
This route from Justin Jefferson is a work of art 🎨
https://twitter.com/thecheckdown/status/1335679183389741057
Changes have to be made point blank, you can't have this much talent and have 0 points. The Patriots aren't even a good team this year.
https://twitter.com/shawnemerriman/status/1335735017679376387
Justin Jefferson with an unreal deep catch
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1335672379196940290
