Vegan meals 40% cheaper than meat and fish
https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/research-finds-vegan-meals-cheaper-than-meat-and-fish/
White House secures 'three martini lunch' tax deduction in draft of coronavirus19 relief package: low-income people will be paying for luxury lunches eaten by millionaires and billionaires.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/white-house-secures-three-martini-lunch-tax-deduction-in-draft-of-coronavirus-relief-package/
U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Hit In Rocket Attack
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/948674350/u-s-embassy-in-baghdad-targeted-in-rocket-attack
Anyone who works in journalism has heard for years that Rukmini Callimachi's reporting - not just on "Caliphate" but many stories - was shoddy, unreliable, unethical and often false.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/20/caliphate-retraction-wont-end-new-york-timess-woes/
In 1861, the Confederate States of America contained more counties than the Union-loyal states. And yet we're supposed to believe that the Union won the Civil War? Sure.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1341012492714037250
Big media and coastal elites want you to believe that just one single company, Apple, has a market capitalization greater than all 2,000 firms in the Russell index. True patriots however know that it's impossible for some things to contain more stuff than other things!
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1341008812157767680
You can see how years of conservatives using the visual trick created by Republicans occupying sparsely-populated regions mutated so easily into Trump's election conspiracy.
https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1340849599595094017
Kelly Loeffler says she uses private jet to save taxpayers but took publicly-funded flights. Kelly Loeffler and her husband bought a $10 million jet but taxpayers are paying 100% of her flights.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/21/kelly-loeffler-says-she-uses-private-jet-to-save-taxpayers-but-took-publicly-funded-flights/
Virginia's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the US Capitol overnight Sunday, Gov. Ralph Northam's office announced. Lee's statue had been one of 13 statues in the Crypt of the Capitol, representing the 13 original colonies. It had been there since 1909, "44 years after the Confederacy rebelled against the United States and was defeated," a statement from Northam's office said. By law, all states are allowed to donate two statues to the US Capitol for display around the building as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, and they're able to replace existing statues through a process that involves the state's legislature and governor. Donated statues should be "of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services," according to the legislation.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/robert-e-lee-confederate-statue-us-capitol/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/948736896/virginia-removes-its-robert-e-lee-statue-from-u-s-capitol
Barr says he sees no reason to appoint special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden; says he won't appoint one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barr-says-he-sees-no-reason-to-appoint-special-counsel-to-investigate-hunter-biden-says-he-wont-appoint-one/2020/12/21/70aedd5e-43a6-11eb-ac2a-3ac0f2b8ceeb_story.html
China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives In Africa And Europe
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-exposed-cia-operatives-spy-networks/
How Ammon Bundy Helped Foment An Anti-Masker Rebellion in Idaho
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-ammon-bundy-helped-foment-an-anti-masker-rebellion-in-idaho
YEP: Mekhi Becton on Jets fans wanting them to lose: "They are not real fans"
https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1340884489493499906
Jalen Hurts had more total yards (401) yesterday than Carson Wentz has had in any game of his career
The Panthers have fired GM Mary Hurney
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1341020822002143240
The Browns swept both of their cross-divisional series' (AFC South, NFC East) this season.
"Giants lose to Baltimore, beat Dallas… Dallas beats Philadelphia, Carolina beats Washington, Philadelphia beats Washington. Giants win the division at 6-10."
https://twitter.com/EvanRobertsWFAN/status/1340871449935044610
Biden Names Ex-Warren Aide Ramamurti to His Economic Team
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/president-elect-biden-names-progressives-to-his-economic-team
And so there are now five GM vacancies already in the NFL: Falcons, Jaguars, Lions, Panthers, Texans.
House Democrats Subpoena HHS and CDC Chiefs Over Alleged Political Interference in Covid-19 Response | "The subpoenas were necessary because... efforts to interfere with scientific work at CDC were far more extensive and dangerous than previously known," asserted Rep. James Clyburn.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/subpoena-hhs-cdc-house-democrats/index.html
Cam Newton on if he will consider retirement: "I still have a lot of football left. I still want to play football. I have the urge to be better. After putting out this film? Hey, c'mon now. I can't go out like this. I definitely can't go out like this."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30572971/new-england-patriots-qb-cam-newton-says-a-lot-football-left
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the months change, the direction toward the rising Sun changes, too. The featured image shows the direction of sunrise every month during 2019 as seen from near the city of Amman, Jordan. The camera in the image is always facing due east, with north toward the left and south toward the right. Although the Sun always rises in the east in general, it rises furthest to the south of east on the December solstice, and furthest north of east on the June solstice. Today is the December solstice, the day of least sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere and of most sunlight in the Southern Hemisphere. In many countries, the December Solstice is considered an official change in season: for example the first day of winter in the North. Solar heating and stored energy in the Earth's surface and atmosphere are near their lowest during winter, making the winter months usually the coldest of the year. On the brighter side, in the north, daylight hours will now increase every day from until June.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201221.html
The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat. What has become known popularly as the "Christmas Star" is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in the evening sky over the next two weeks as the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn come together, culminating on the night of Dec. 21. In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the night sky, discovering the four moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. In that same year, Galileo also discovered a strange oval surrounding Saturn, which later observations determined to be its rings. These discoveries changed how people understood the far reaches of our solar system. Thirteen years later, in 1623, the solar system's two giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, traveled together across the sky. Jupiter caught up to and passed Saturn, in an astronomical event known as a "Great Conjunction." | The planets regularly appear to pass each other in the solar system, with the positions of Jupiter and Saturn being aligned in the sky about once every 20 years. What makes this year's spectacle so rare, then? It's been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as it will for 2020, allowing nearly everyone around the world to witness this "great conjunction." The closest alignment will appear just a tenth of a degree apart and last for a few days. On the 21st, they will appear so close that a pinkie finger at arm's length will easily cover both planets in the sky. The planets will be easy to see with the unaided eye by looking toward the southwest just after sunset. From our vantage point on Earth the huge gas giants will appear very close together, but they will remain hundreds of millions of miles apart in space. And while the conjunction is happening on the same day as the winter solstice, the timing is merely a coincidence, based on the orbits of the planets and the tilt of the Earth.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn/
https://www.nasa.gov/live
https://www.pscp.tv/NASA/
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=931
Everyone wants 2020 to be over, as far as I'm concerned, 2020 isn't over until January 20th 2021
The Kansas City Star has apologized for decades of racist coverage. The newspaper's top editor says the Star "disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It reinforced Jim Crow laws and redlining."
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article247928045.html
The NBA has determined the Milwaukee Bucks violated league rules with timing of Bogdan Bogdanovic transaction and will lose their 2022 second-round draft pick, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341066734636322816
A Maricopa County judge has accepted White Sox manager Tony La Russa's guilty plea to reckless driving. His one day of jail time will be served via home detention. His attorney told the court that La Russa completed alcohol counseling in Scottsdale, Arizona
https://twitter.com/jrfegan/status/1341067987546206209
Multiple Strains Of Bird Flu Confirmed Across UK As Cases Rise Because People Refuse To STOP EATING ANIMALS
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/multiple-strains-of-bird-flu-confirmed-across-uk/
Rui Hachimura is out for approximately three weeks with conjunctivitis, the Wizards just announced.
https://twitter.com/FredKatz/status/1341086245582237702
Georgia's runoff system was created in the 60s by a segregationist who desired to limit black voters political power. In a year, marked by widespread protests and calls to address systemic racism. Is it time for Georgia to rethink runoffs?
https://twitter.com/PriscillaWT/status/1339964025640239104
So predictable. Newsmax, after weeks of lying to its viewers, bails on the grift train and concedes they've been spreading conspiracies. So Ali, who has been using their "reporting" to justify his StopTheSteal terrorism, now turns on Newsmax and says they "caved."
https://twitter.com/ali/status/1341100031886172168
Entire Harry Potter series? 4,224 pages. Just-released $2.3 trillion bill being passed tonight? 5,593 pages
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
Kanye West, alone, received more PPP than Utah granted today to support Utah's entire arts, entertainment, music, concert, venues, event industries combined. Kanye received millions. Low and Middle Income people receive $600 per household adult and $300 per household child.
The covid19 bill provides up to $2 billion in assistance through states for families with funeral expenses due to covid19 through December 31, 2020, something Republicans previously refused to do.
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
Death is now everywhere and yet nowhere in America. The more who die, the less we care. Statistics are human beings with tears dried off. And that's dangerous because we need tears to motivate us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/21/covid-why-we-ignore-deaths/
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Arthur Allen Lee theory: I think this creep INTENTIONALLY injected himself into the Zodiac case. That is why there seems to be so much circumstantial evidence implicating him - because he wanted there to be! However, he is 100% innocent of the Zodiac killings. We have the Zodiac's fingerprints. ALA's do not match. We have partial Zodiac DNA. ALA's DNA does not match. Handwriting also - for certain does not match. ALA is 100% NOT the Zodiac killer. Its really that simple. Graysmith wrote a shit tier 'true' crime book full of uncorroborated nonsense that all points to ALA being Zodiac despite the fact ALA is innocent of these crimes (though guilty of other crimes). Multiple "factual" claims in the book have not stood up to scrutiny. One thing the 'ALA is likely the Zodiac' crowd points out is just how much circumstantial evidence points to ALA. But much of that can be dismissed out of hand. "He lived in the area at the time" - Really? San Francisco is full of millions of people, are they all also prime suspects? "He used a Royal brand typewrite...just like Zodiac!" - Wow. Oh guess what? Millions upon millions across the globe used that brand of typewriter because it was super popular. "He wore a Zodiac watch!" Yup, so did lots of people. These are not really pieces of evidence, they are just weak associations at best. Now, let's look at some of the more specific bits of evidence against ALA. What really stands out is just how often ALA VOLUNTEERS incriminating evidence to the cops and other people.
The police officers then went on to mention to Allen that he had been questioned after one of the murders took place. Allen cited a dead neighbor as a person who could confirm his whereabouts which he had never previously brought up. Mulanax wrote in his notes about the interview ". . . without any questioning regarding a knife, Allen made the following statement: 'The two knives I had in my car with blood on them, the blood came from a chicken I had killed.'"
https://filmdaily.co/news/zodiac-killer-arthur-leigh-allen/#:~:text=Police%20still%20suspected%20Allen%20of,was%20definitively%20the%20Zodiac%20Killer.
They didn't even ask him about knives and here he is telling them about bloody knives he has in his car. Why? Because he wants to be a suspect, thats why. Why would someone insert themselves as a suspect? Because they are fucking nuts, they want attention, they want to be seen as a badass criminal mastermind and not (in ALA's case) as some loser pathetic kiddy diddler. All kinds of reasons.
Allen confessed to the police that he had an interest in guns, but only own .22 calibers. A later witness stated otherwise. To make matters worse for himself, Allen mentioned an interest in a story called "The Most Dangerous Game," which was about one man being hunted by another on a deserted island.
https://filmdaily.co/news/zodiac-killer-arthur-leigh-allen/#:~:text=Police%20still%20suspected%20Allen%20of,was%20definitively%20the%20Zodiac%20Killer.
Here again the incriminating evidence comes direct from ALA himself...without prompting. Does that sound like a criminal master mind who doesn't want to get caught? No it does not.
Police also questioned a G.V.R.D General supervisor named Philip Tucker. Tucker said that he and his wife had had an encounter with Allen that had left a lasting impression. They had gone to his house on one occasion and Allen had shown them a strange paper that he kept in a grey metal box. Allen emphasized how special it was that he was showing this to them because he only showed it to "very certain people." The note was an account of a person who had been sent to Atascadero State Hospital for child molestation. It went on and on about how the person had been betrayed by their attorney, but most importantly, it contained various symbols that looked a lot like the ones used in the Zodiac Killers letter to the police.
https://filmdaily.co/news/zodiac-killer-arthur-leigh-allen/#:~:text=Police%20still%20suspected%20Allen%20of,was%20definitively%20the%20Zodiac%20Killer.
Same theme. Totally out of the blue ALA decides to show some random people a piece of paper that incriminates him as the Zodiac suspect. And of course the symbols were public knowledge at that point. Its borderline laughable when you realize that ALA is 100% innocent of these crimes. "oh look here! This is where I keep my super extra top secret criminal documents! Better never tell anyone!"
Although authorities had all these interesting leads on Allen, they had no conclusive evidence he was the Zodiac Killer
https://filmdaily.co/news/zodiac-killer-arthur-leigh-allen/#:~:text=Police%20still%20suspected%20Allen%20of,was%20definitively%20the%20Zodiac%20Killer.
Because all the 'evidence' was bullshit trumped up mostly by ALA himself. The actual hard evidence all excludes ALA
Allen told police he was going up to Berryessa on the day of the Hartnell/Shepard attack, but decided to go up the coast instead.
https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Leigh_Allen
Again the evidence come direct from ALA unprompted. "Yeah I was totally going to go to that specific area where the Zodiac murder happened. But then I didn't." Just a creep trying to insert himself into the situation.
You also have his friend Don Cheney, who seems to 'remember' incredibly incriminating conversations he had with ALA every few years, and is always available to talk about it.
The point is that ALA voluntarily gave the police and half a dozen other people many reasons to suspect him of being the Zodiac, despite being ruled out by actual hard evidence. The only conclusion I can come to is that he intentionally inserted himself in this case for sociopathic lonely perk reasons. ALA was clearly a disturbed person, and I think he enjoyed both the attention and expressing his righteous indignation over being "persecuted" by the police. Which he mostly brought on himself, of course.
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Also apparently back in Trump's ear: Steve Bannon. Bannon appeared on a livestream with conservative pastors last night & said: "As I strongly recommended to the President, we need a special counsel named immediately - a special prosecutor just on election fraud and voter fraud." Trump's increasingly brazen push to overturn the 2020 election is alarming senior officials and people close to Trump who worry how Trump will handle his final weeks in office.
https://cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/trump-white-house-sidney-powell/index.html
when members of Congress planning to contest the clear results of the Electoral College in an attempt to subvert democracy head to the White House for a meeting with the president:
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1341123411695820806
President-elect @JoeBiden receives the COVID-19 vaccine. "I'm doing this to demonstrated that people should be prepared, when it's available, to take the vaccine.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1341120419110285312
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1341120419110285312
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._T._Oslin
KT Oslin - Hold Me/Kiss Me Like We're Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5r-CSB38E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttcSaPi7gE
Delaware County man (Republican) registered dead relatives to vote in presidential election for Trump. The Republican man behind those applications, Bruce Bartman, faces two felony counts of perjury, as well as one count of unlawful voting for successfully casting an absentee ballot for Donald Trump in the name of Elizabeth Bartman, his long-dead mother.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/bruce-bartman-election-fraud-delaware-county-20201221.html
As new Covid19 strain hits U.K., at least 70 London flights landed in U.S. in the past 48 hours
https://www.newsweek.com/new-covid-strain-uk-70-london-flights-landed-u-s-past-48-hours-1556353
Fine and Suspend Already: Dwayne Haskins allegedly spotted maskless, partying with strippers after loss vs Seattle
https://twitter.com/dcbarno/status/1341089236288757761
Dak Prescott STILL has more Pass Yards (1,856) this season than Sam Darnold (1,767).
https://twitter.com/nfloncbs/status/1341056312503877637
In case you missed it: Yesterday, the NFL on FOX debuted their 8K endzone camera in the Seahawks/WFT game. Here's how it looked.
https://streamable.com/nimqsl
Patriots CB Stephon Gilmore, the reigning defensive player of the year, suffered a partially torn quad, sources say. He'll have surgery to repair it tomorrow. He should be able to participate in a some portion of the offseason program. No structural damage to his knee
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1341104806224605184
Steelers Icon Kevin Greene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Greene_(American_football)
Browns OL Chris Hubbard is having surgery this week to repair torn ligaments in his knee, sources said, as his season is over following the injury last night. His kneecap was dislocated and the procedure will repair the associated damage.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1341081227454017536?s=21
Eagles' Doug Pederson says Jalen Hurts will start vs. Cowboys
https://sports.yahoo.com/eagles-doug-pederson-says-jalen-hurts-will-start-vs-cowboys-but-wont-go-beyond-that-194011587.html
Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley has entered guilty plea for threats of violence from October charges, and his felony drug charges were dismissed, his attorneys Steven Haney and Ryan Pacyga tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.News
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341137580050550785
Any potential jail, or home confinement, will not exceed 120 days and will be served at end of 2020-21 season, his attorneys Steven Haney and Ryan Pacyga say. Upon successful completion of probation, the threat of violence charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341137950776692736
After Biden won, Jim Clyburn said defund the police could do "to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what 'Burn, baby, burn' did to us back in 1960." Biden has since been cautious about police reform. So where do activists go from here?
https://newsweek.com/defund-police-loses-luster-activists-assess-joe-bidens-prospects-police-reform-1556469
LOL Texans announced they have interviewed former Lions' HC Jim Caldwell for their Head Coach job.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1341145613195497473
This started out as a story about the press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, but it became a story about the infighting and dysfunction on the campaign, the legal team, and in the White House that helped Donald Trump lose the election.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/four-seasons-total-landscaping-the-full-est-possible-story.html
Joe Biden's team will consider several options to punish Russia for its suspected role in the U.S. hack once he takes office, from new financial sanctions to cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cyber-breach-biden/bidens-options-for-russian-hacking-punishment-sanctions-cyber-retaliation-idUSKBN28U0DV
CDC says: "Experimental and epidemiological data support community masking to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The prevention benefit of masking is derived from the combination of source control and personal protection for the mask wearer."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html
The Murdock City Council voted 3-1 during a virtual meeting Wednesday to allow the Asatru Folk Assembly to turn the run-down church it purchased in July into its first "hof," or gathering place, in the Midwest. The looming presence of the obscure Nordic folk religion, widely classified as a White supremacist hate group by extremism and religious experts, promoted months of pushback from concerned residents. City leaders, meanwhile, were advised that denying the AFA's permit could leave Murdock vulnerable to a potentially devastating religious discrimination suit. | The AFA has tried to paper over its hate group label by holding food drives and community events. Jennifer Snook, a sociology lecturer at Grinnell College who researches Heathenry, called these efforts a "facade" in an email to The Post. "They are widely perceived as being White supremacists with great PR." Ethan Stark, the spokesman for the inclusive Heathenry advocacy group Heathens Against Hate, said the AFA has created modern interpretations of the ancient Nordic faiths to justify its White supremacist views. "The AFA has fringe beliefs that don't represent Heathenry or the Asatru religion," Stark said. The AFA denies that it's a hate group but admits that it does not allow anyone not of White, Northern European heritage. Its public statement of ethics includes lines such as: "Activities and behaviors supportive of the [w]hite family should be encouraged while those activities and behaviors destructive of the [w]hite family are to be discouraged."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/12/14/murdock-white-church/
Pass-rushing great, Hall of Famer Kevin Greene ran beyond the field, 58yrs old. He played with a smile for love of the game and for love of the havoc of which he wreaked. He was one of the NFL's greatest wild men.
https://www.nfl.com/news/pass-rushing-great-hall-of-famer-kevin-greene-dead-at-58
https://www.wtae.com/article/kevin-greene-dies-former-pittsburgh-steelers-linebacker-pro-football-hall-of-fame/35036669
The U-S is now reporting over 18 million coronavirus19 cases, per our NBC News tally. The country crossed the 17 million case mark LESS THAN A WEEK AGO
California records half a million virus cases in 2 weeks, could have nearly 100,000 hospitalizations in January.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1341150456777728000
Congressional negotiators dropped $500 million for states to bolster their election security after opposition from Republicans, per Democrats involved in the talks.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/stimulus-deal-votes/index.html
Georgia
Total Early Votes: 1,471,144
Total In-Person Early Votes: 901,640
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/GA_RO.html
Dude was a fucking bulldozer. One of the greatest sack masters ever. Such a long and storied history. A beast throughout his whole career. Blitzberg legend. Blitzburgh Defense. RIP Kevin.
Montrezl Harrell when asked to actually contribute in the playoffs: "ππππ OK!"
Montrezl Harrell on Twitter after the Clippers extended Luke Kennard for 4 years and 64M: "ππππ OK!"
https://twitter.com/MONSTATREZZ/status/1341144044487884800
He will fuck up the Lakers locker room
In Connecticut, Covid-19 Forces One in Three Small Businesses to Close
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-connecticut-covid-19-forces-one-in-three-small-businesses-to-close-11608476400
The Republican War On Christmas: Millions of Christmas presents will arrive late because of Republican-created USPS package delays. Unprecedented package volume has paralyzed the agency, leading managers to divert vast shipments of mail across the country
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/21/usps-delays-christmas/
Reminder: Pat Robertson is an appalling human being, even if he occasionally says something with which you agree.
NBC News confirms: The United States is now reporting more than 18 million coronavirus19 cases. The U.S. crossed the 17 million case mark just a few days ago on December 17th.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1341156499465355265
Trump called Charlie Kirk tonight and spoke via speakerphone to the TPUSA conference in West Palm. "The problem is we need a party that's going to fight...we won this in a landslide, they know it, and we need backing from like the Justice Department."
https://twitter.com/Kevinliptakcnn/status/1341155196404178944
Christie Smythe helped break the story of Martin Shkreli's arrest in 2015. Then she "started to fall for him," she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/media/martin-shkreli-reporter-relationship.html
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn recently told the NYT about receiving "dark messages" by angry Trump supporters telling him that he should be tried for treason by a military tribunal. As usual, Trump pours gas on the flames—attacking him by name in a thread.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1341161329898508291
The easiest way to achieve equity is "everybody gets nothing." ...except the members of the Party who administrate equity. The technical name for this organizational approach is Sovietism.
Several consecutive days of meetings inside the White House with conspiracy theorists and people who are advocating martial law to overturn an election have apparently yielded some official plan of action: Several members of Congress just finished a meeting in the Oval Office with President @realDonaldTrump, preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud. Stay tuned.
https://twitter.com/MarkMeadows/status/1341157317451124745
A hundred religious leaders in and around Georgia sign letter demanding that Loeffler stop calling Rev Warnock a "socialist" & a "radical" -- because he isn't -- and to cease her attacks on the Black church.
https://ajc.com/politics/church-leaders-tell-loeffler-to-back-off-warnocks-religious-views/3Z4MCMZ5FBAWRH2GMU6YLZL7OE/
Draymond Green is officially ruled out for tomorrow's opener in Brooklyn.
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1341156704780648449
Armed anti-shutdown Republican militants use bear spray, force way into Oregon capitol
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/article248015110.html
Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News, a sign that the investigation into Giuliani remains active and may soon be ramping up
https://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-have-discussed-making-legal-request-giuliani-s-electronic-communications-n1250714
With Education Secretary soon to be announced, five top posts remain - chief among them, Attorney General. That decision is not expected before Christmas and could slide into the New Year, people familiar with the matter say, as it remains one of the most complicated.
The pandemic relief bill being rushed through Congress contains the most significant measures to combat climate change in a decade. The bill includes billions of dollars for clean energy, while reducing the use of coolants that contribute to global warming.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-climate-climate-change-john-barrasso-legislation-7e1db709dc1fa91ce6516f27459cdf93
After identifying agents in Putin's poison hit squad, Alex Navalny called one of them pretending to be from the FSB demanding an accounting of the failed assassination attempt. The agent admitted they applied a nerve agent to Navalny's underwear.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/21/russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-dupes-spy-into-revealing-how-he-was-poisoned/
The Putin agent who inadvertently confessed to the attempted assassination is not going to last long. Russian police already arresting journalists trying to reach him: Russian police arresting Lyubov Sobol, a Navalny ally, after she knocked on the door of the FSB agent who apparently admitted to trying to kill Navalny. twitter.com/martin_camera/
https://twitter.com/marcbennetts1/status/1341114744493760512
Republicans-Controlled NASA Murdered 27 Monkeys In One Single Day For Zero Reason, Democrats Perpetually Silent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/nasa-killed-all-monkeys-on-single-day
Norway's supreme court approved the government's plans for globally illegal Arctic oil exploration on Tuesday, welcoming the destruction of the planet for profit
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-norway-oil-environment/greenpeace-loses-norway-supreme-court-case-over-arctic-oil-idUKKBN28W104
Republicans are weighing a request to declare Islamic terrorist and human butcher Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer who could disclose damaging secrets about the prince's ascent to power. The Saudi government has asked that the prince be shielded from liability in response to a complaint brought by Saad Aljabri, a former Saudi counterterrorism leader and longtime U.S. intelligence ally now living in exile in Canada. A State Department recommendation could also lead to the dismissal of the prince as a defendant in other cases recently filed in the United States, including ones accusing him of directing the death and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018; and of targeting a hack and leak operation to discredit an Al Jazeera news anchor, Ghada Oueiss, in retaliation for her critical reports on Mohammed and the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/legal-immunity-request-mbs/2020/12/21/c2b87900-4150-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html
Canada rejects purchase of Canadian Arctic gold mine by Chinese company
https://financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/government-of-canada-rejects-tmac-sale-to-shandong-gold-mining-co-ltd
Suspect in death of Russian COVID-19 scientist Alexander Kagansky released after statement: "He stabbed himself and leaped to his death."
https://nypost.com/2020/12/21/suspect-in-death-of-russian-covid-19-scientist-released/
Hundreds of Thai workers found dying in S. Korea
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2039423/hundreds-of-thai-workers-found-dying-in-s-korea
In the Congo rainforest, the doctor who discovered Ebola warns of deadly viruses yet to come
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/africa/drc-forest-new-virus-intl/index.html
A Brazilian woman enslaved as a maid from the age of eight for almost four decades and forced into marriage has been rescued in a rare crackdown on domestic slavery, officials said. She had worked for the family for most of her life without pay or any time off, according to labour inspectors.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/woman-enslaved-as-a-maid-for-nearly-40-years-freed-20201222-p56pj7.html
Taiwan reports first domestic case of Covid-19 in 253 days
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202012220006
The Phoenix Suns have claimed F/C Frank Kaminsky off free agency waivers
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341232720102510599
Fox News and Newsmax, facing lawsuits, admit their claims about voting-machine companies are lies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-and-newsmax-facing-lawsuits-walk-back-wild-fraud-claims-about-votingmachine-companies-215728233.html
Middle Tennessee Mayor Bill Newman, who dismissed Covid19 as a hoax, is sick with covid19
https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2020/12/mayor-wouldnt-order-masks-without-holy-spirit-guidance-now-he-has-covid.html
Bengals delivered up an excellent game
Republicans grant immunity over Islamic terrorists who murdered Americans in 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Sudan and give Islamic terrorists a billion dollars to stop them from murdering Americans while continuing to scream for Hillary's death (Bengazi). Republicans banned family of victims from prosecuting Sudan
https://www.axios.com/trump-grants-immunity-us-embassy-bombings-sudan-deal-b4d49bf6-dc72-43db-b98e-6c842e2e7312.html
Vonn Bell destroys JuJu
https://streamable.com/f9cjvi
Juju Smith Schuster has more TikToks (95) than receiving yards in a game this season (93).
https://twitter.com/mldiffley/status/1341205592501841921
ESPN gives a reminder of Juju's pregame antics
https://streamable.com/tyxj4b
Rapist Gets Raped, giving him a statline of 5/13 for -2 yards and 2 turnovers in the game so far
https://streamable.com/8znvu8
Steelers won't win again this season. They're a legitimately bad football team.
The only team in the NFL with a longer active losing streak than the Steelers is the Jaguars.
The Miami Dolphins could make the playoffs and wind up with the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL Draft.
Kermit makes a mistake, pays for it dearly
https://streamable.com/g53ueh
The Bengals just broke an 11-game losing streak vs the Pittsburgh Steelers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Cincinnati_Bengals_season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengals%E2%80%93Steelers_rivalry
Ben Rapistberger on throws 10+ yards vs. Bengals: 1-13, 1 TD, 1 INT
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/1341238428407656448
With the Bengals win, they are officially out of the running for the #1 and the #2 overall pick.
Ben Rapistberger said this week "We have three weeks now to get it going." Make that two. And after not doing it against a 2-win Bengals team tonight, the Steelers are going to have to "get right" against the 10-4 Colts and the 10-4 Browns ...?
The Bengals get the stop on 4th down with under 2 minutes left
https://streamable.com/wtid74
Seibert drills the field goal to drive the stake deeper
https://streamable.com/gi3y47
The Buffalo Bills are now the 2nd seed in the AFC following the Steelers loss to the Bengals tonight. A Bills victory over New England and Steelers loss to Indy next week would clinch this spot, allowing Buffalo to rest starters Week 17 against Miami
Jets beat the Rams. Bengals beat the Steelers. Any given sunday. Any given week.
Ancient wolf cub found 'perfectly preserved' in Canadian permafrost
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/21/americas/frozen-puppy-yukon-intl-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55409689
The Constitution Annotated online is now updated to reflect the October 2019 Supreme Court term. The changes are detailed in the Constitution Annotated Supplement 2020
https://constitution.congress.gov/updates/ALDU_00000008/
YEP: Ian Happ doesn't like MLB owners' "narrative" of financial woes. "You don't see the players coming out and saying we took a 63% loss," Happ says. "It's tough to claim loss when it's money that wasn't realized."
https://twitter.com/670TheScore/status/1341413432592052233
Rockets players' early signs of tension in recent days included James Harden throwing a basketball at a rookie, setting the stage for Houston to tip off the season on Wednesday
https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1341384558227435520
Doc Rivers: "I told someone the other day, I said, 'Listen, everybody doesn't love playing for me, and I'm fine with that.' That doesn't make them bad guys or good guys or whatever. I do my best, and if they like it ... " Rivers said. "And I joked and said, 'Paul loved playing for me until the playoffs.' If you look at his numbers, he got more pick and rolls than he had ever gotten in his entire career and he had his highest percentage in pick and rolls than he ever had when he was with me. Paul struggled in the playoffs. He struggled in the Dallas series. He needed somebody to blame, and I'm fine with that. Blame me. [Expletive], I can handle it." "Last [season], that is the one that hurts, because we were up 3-1 and I thought we were the better team," he said. "This last series, all of them were home games or road games. I don't know what the hell the bubble was. But I left that series thinking we were the better team, and we didn't perform. We had a lot of [stuff] going on. Pat Beverley couldn't play more than three-minute stretches because of an injury. Trez [Montrezl Harrell] was never in shape, and all that stuff. And I really believe, in my heart, if there is no bubble, we would have at least played the Lakers" in the Western Conference finals.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-12-22/nba-east-preview-doc-rivers-philadelphia-76ers
Pointing out that PG needs someone to blame, while simultaneously blaming the bubble for losing the series
Doc Rivers: "And I joked and said, 'Paul (George) loved my daughter until the strip clubs.' (...) Paul excelled in the strip clubs. He needed somebody to leave, and I'm fine with that. Leave her. [scrub], she can handle it."
The Sixers finally set up an interview with Lue for Sept. 29, but it was already clear that momentum was not on his side. Lue had an ally in the Sixers' search — super agent Rich Paul, who represents James (hence his ties to Lue) and Philadelphia star Ben Simmons. But sources across the NBA said the Sixers' other star, Joel Embiid, ultimately opposed Lue as coach for X's and O's reasons and for the optics of Simmons' "guy" getting the job.
https://theathletic.com/2274539/2020/12/22/lakers-clippers-frank-vogel-ty-lue/
Good. After sitting by and watching them let JJ walk, choose Brett over Jimmy, and then use that money to sign a guy who plays his position, it's time he says his piece. He's the franchise. They lost sight of that. With the NBA season just hours away from beginning, here's a reminder of how misleading early season performance can be.
Montezl Harrell's Defensive Rating with and without Lou Will in the 2019-2020 playoffs
Sixers vs Clippers games gonna be fun. And Golden State vs Brooklyn. And Clippers vs Lakers.
Wisconsin judge who ruled against Donald Trump gets extra police protection after threats
https://www.newsweek.com/brian-hagerdorn-wisconsin-supreme-court-trump-election-police-protection-1556586
Iowa Democrat challenges defeat with the House | Rita Hart finished six votes behind Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks but says officials in Iowa should've counted 22 ballots that would flip the result. Hart's complaint details reasons why the 22 ballots in question were rejected: Two are ballots cast from vehicles because the voters had disabilities, nine are absentee ballots from Marion County that were "inexplicably" not included in the initial canvass; one is a provisional ballot uncounted due "an election worker error" and another was "unlawfully rejected" due to the placement of a signature on the ballot; seven ballots had been improperly sealed and another two ballots were placed in the wrong drop box. And all Iowa Republicans are against this challenge to count uncounted votes, and at the same time supporting Trump's efforts to appeal to SCOTUS
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/hart-challenges-defeat-house-449841
Alex Padilla becomes California's first Latino U.S. senator, replacing Kamala Harris
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-22/gavin-newsom-alex-padilla-senate-california-kamala-harris
Texas AG Ken Paxton illegally and unconstitutionally urged White House to revoke Harris County Covid19 relief because Harris County is a strongly Democratic
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton-urged-White-House-to-revoke-15821993.php
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/22/governor-gavin-newsom-selects-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-as-californias-next-united-states-senator/
Remember over the summer when AG Barr tried to oust Geoffrey Berman as US attorney in SDNY and it blew up? Acting US Atty Audrey Strauss, Berman's former deputy who ultimately took over, has now been serving so long that she's been court-appointed to stay in the job
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep3F1neXUAIH1kw?format=jpg&name=small
Alex Padilla would bring election security chops to the Senate
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-cybersecurity/2020/12/07/alex-padilla-would-bring-election-security-chops-to-the-senate-792081
Trump's longtime banker at Deutsche Bank, who arranged for the German lender to make hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to his company, is stepping down from the bank. Rosemary Vrablic, a managing director and senior banker in Deutsche Bank's wealth management division, recently handed in her resignation, which the bank accepted, according to a bank spokesman, Daniel Hunter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/trump-banker-resigns-deutsche-bank.html
Tom Thibodeau expects to have every Knick available except for Austin Rivers and Omari Spellman for tomorrow's opener against Indiana. Spellman and Rivers aren't available due to injury.
https://twitter.com/ianbegley/status/1341444118367657992
Gordon Hayward says he will play in Charlotte's season opener Wednesday against Cleveland ...
https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1341443317280739332
Washington Football Team settled sexual misconduct claim against Daniel Snyder for $1.6 million
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/daniel-snyder-sexual-misconduct-settlement/2020/12/22/f81131d8-4339-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html
Mike Tomlin on TikTok star JuJu Smith-Schuster dancing on the opponent's logo in pregame warmups: "I am aware of it and I do plan to talk to JuJu."
https://twitter.com/edbouchette/status/1341433695178133504
Uh-Huh: I want to publicly apologize for my actions this past Sunday. I spoke with Coach Rivera yesterday and took full accountability for putting the team at risk. It was irresponsible and immature of me and I accept responsibility for my action.
https://twitter.com/dh_simba7/status/1341419031295889411
I'm told Washington has no plans to release QB Dwayne Haskins, who was fined for a previous COVID-19 protocol violation. Going to a nightclub without PPE is considered "High Risk COVID-19 Conduct," punishable by a maximum fine of one week's salary or up to four-game suspension
https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1341414031786164236
Tomlin said that having a 10-4 team (the Colts) up next is "a good thing." "We don't need to run away from the kitchen; we need to run into it."
https://twitter.com/C_AdamskiTrib/status/1341430425181405184
Juan Becerra was a husband, father and NFL fan who fell 120 feet to his death helping build SoFi Stadium
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30531319/juan-becerra-was-husband-father-nfl-fan-fell-120-feet-death-helping-build-sofi-stadium
This scenario has been averted. NFL moved Washington vs. Carolina to 3:05 p.m. CT on Sunday. Cowboys and Eagles no longer can be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention before their game begins. Still could be before game ends.
https://twitter.com/GehlkenNFL/status/1341391291029086213
There's a chance the Ravens finish 1st in the NFL in scoring margin while missing the playoffs
Kevin Stefanski should be the Coach of the Year • a rookie Head Coach • also calls offensive plays • without an offseason/preseason • double-digit wins • likely playoff spot turned around a team that hadn't posted a winning record since 07 or made the playoffs since 02
https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1341195057089695744
The Bengals scored on 5 different drives. 4/5 of those drives, they started at most 38 yards from Pittsburgh's endzone. 3/4 of those drives, they started at most six yards outside of the red zone.
This is U-G-L-Y (Bens passing chart last night)
https://twitter.com/steelersdepot/status/1341276886782001153?s=21
Coronavirus19 spreads to Antarctic research station
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-55410065
A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it: far away from the authorities, trees are falling to make way for marijuana and spice cultivation
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/a-madagascar-forest-long-protected-by-its-remoteness-is-now-threatened-by-it/
Florida Gators' Keyontae Johnson being released from hospital
https://espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/30582502/florida-gators-keyontae-johnson-being-released-hospita
Texas Governor Abbott Receives COVID-19 Vaccine
https://c-span.org/video/?507496-1/texas-governor-abbott-receives-covid-19-vaccine
What Bernie Sanders Can Teach Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/12/22/what-bernie-sanders-can-teach-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
Eligibility of 364,000 Georgia voters challenged before Senate runoff | A Texas-based group is challenging the eligibility of more than 364,000 Georgia voters, arguing that they might have moved away and their votes shouldn't count. Critics say the group is trying to...
https://www.ajc.com/politics/eligibility-of-364000-georgia-voters-challenged-before-senate-runoff/3UIMDOVRFVERXOJ3IBHYWZBWYI/
Still wouldn't vote for him: Steve Schmidt, a founder of the Lincoln Project and a resident of Utah, has registered as a member of the Democratic Party. Previously, Schmidt talked about running against Utah Sen. Mike Lee in 2022.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/12/22/founder-anti-trump/
Deborah Birx, Failed White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Says She Will Retire
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deborah-birx-to-retire_n_5fe2418ec5b6acb53454f08d
The Democratic left needs Biden to succeed. Stop trashing the winner and help him deliver. The all-or-nothing folks say moderates will sell you out and half a loaf is much worse than none. This doesn't help Democrats, America or the left. iden has announced the Democratic Party's most progressive and leftist economic and climate teams ever. It's as if Biden never promised "a plan to create millions of good-paying jobs" in infrastructure, health care and renewable energy. It's as if he opposes progressive taxation. It's as if he never promised "further immediate relief to working families, small businesses, and communities," including providing "state, local, and tribal governments with the aid they need so educators, firefighters and other essential workers aren't being laid off," "a comeback package for Main Street businesses and entrepreneurs," and to immediately "put people to work by enlisting them to help fight the pandemic, including through a Public Health Jobs Corps." None of this is a secret. It's all on his website.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/12/21/left-should-help-biden-democrats-deliver-for-america-column/3955164001/
Justice Dept. filing lawsuit against Walmart alleging it illegally distributed opioids, helping fuel crisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-source-justice-dept-filing-lawsuit-against-walmart-alleging-it-illegally-distributed-opioids-helping-fuel-crisis/2020/12/22/69ca4598-4485-11eb-ac2a-3ac0f2b8ceeb_story.html
Lol they said it was 300,000. Now only 60,000. It'll be down to 600 by January. More than 60,000 Trump supporters plan to attend virtual 'seconnld inauguration'
https://www.newsweek.com/more-60000-trump-supporters-plan-attend-virtual-second-inauguration-1556712
Noah Syndergaard and the Mets have agreed to a $9.7 million salary for 2021, a source confirms. That's the same salary as 2020, which he missed while recovering from TJ surgery. @BNightengale was first with the news.
https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1341464673451970560
Listen I really dislike Harden the person (off the court). Especially over the last month. But this video screams edited hit piece. All I saw in video was Harden holding some luggage, could've been anywhere or anytime, then the video makes 3 cuts to random snip-its of some club with Harden no where in sight. Again. Not a Harden fan but this video doesn't exactly seem credible.
https://twitter.com/bso/status/1341458490691338241
No Democrat has a problem with Democrats using hearings and oversight to grill Biden nominees and appointees etc, to keep them transparent and hold them accountable to Democratic and liberal/progressive ideals.
This is infuriating. Big missed opportunity. Many smaller municipalities only have one ambulance service provider and that provider can opt out of insurance networks. Essentially providing them with carte blanche to charge whatever the hell they want: Ambulances generate as much as $129 million each year in surprise medical bills. Congress left them out of the new surprise billing ban that passed yesterday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/upshot/ground-ambulances-left-off-surprise-medical-bill-law.html
How a certain kind of reactionary nostalgia for a falsely remembered American past can lead to a critique of American foreign policy that can be mislabeled "progressive/leftist/radical"
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/brian-stewart/us-global-supremacy-stephen-wertheim/
Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/22/health/oximeters-covid-black-patients.html
"You're a one-horse pony" is a top-shelf Bidenism. Conservatives are going to have so more fun when they stop hoping for the Lawsuit Fairy to keep Biden out of office and start goofing on him.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1341483416622120961
"I'm not a lame duck. Just watch me." - President-elect Joe Biden. Then he took off and flew around the auditorium.
"Cyber threats are among the greatest threats to our global security in the 21st century," Biden said. "I believe we have to treat them with the same seriousness of purpose that we treated threats of other unconventional weapons."
Biden continued: "I'll consult with experts to plan for the steps that my administration will take in order to secure our systems and prove our cyber defenses and to better withstand future attacks that we know will come, and to impose cost on those who conduct them."
"Over the next month," Biden said, "I intend to continue focusing on building my team so that the right people are in place on day one of my administration to take over this effort, to prioritize cybersecurity across the board."
Biden Calls Fox News Reporter 'One-Horse Pony' After Hunter Question
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-calls-fox-news-reporter-peter-doocy-one-horse-pony-after-hunter-question
McConnell blocked extending a paid-leave mandate for employees sick with COVID-19 in the $900 billion stimulus package
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-blocks-paid-sick-leave-workers-covid-19-stimulus-deal-2020-12
Fort Worth pastor who told parishioners not to fear pandemic grapples with parents dying of Covid19 complications after Thanksgiving
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/12/22/fort-worth-pastor-who-told-parishioners-not-to-fear-pandemic-grapples-with-parents-dying-of-covid-complications-after-thanksgiving-holiday/
Spokesman's office: Israeli parliament fails to pass budget by deadline, triggering yet another new election. To my fellow tribe members of Israel: can y'all PLEASE finally dump the corrupt and despicable Netanyahu? I'm saying this as a hardcore one-state-solution-for-jews-only-deport-the-muslims-take-back-gaza-and-all-of-west-bank Israelist who is part Jewish, Muslim, Indigenous/Arctic and lived in the Middle East and Central Asia. Israel's parliament was dissolved after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government failed to pass a new budget, sending the country to a fourth election in two years. Israel's government has collapsed and the country is going to its 4th election in 2 years, but anti-Semites will continue to accuse them of controlling everyone else's governments, because they are both unintentionally hilarious and not very bright.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-faces-fourth-election-in-two-years-after-parliament-is-dissolved-11608674809
The Village Voice has been bought by Brian Calle, LA Weekly's owner. He plans to relaunch the iconic publication's website in January and run quarterly print editions
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/media/village-voice-new-owner.html
Donald Trump informed Sidney Powell on Monday that he does not intend to appoint her "special counsel" to investigate "election fraud"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-tells-sidney-powell-he-wont-name-her-special-counsel
Experts say it's potentially the largest spying operation against the US in history — and it ran without being noticed by Republicans (they control the intelligence apparatus) for 9 months.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/why-russian-hack-so-significant-why-it-s-close-worst-n1252131
Goldman Sachs, once reserved for the rich, is close to offering wealth management for the masses
Goldman's move is the latest example of a shift towards Main Street that begun in 2016 with its Marcus brand of personal loans and savings accounts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/22/goldman-sachs-once-reserved-for-the-rich-is-close-to-offering-wealth-management-for-the-masses.html
Trump Is Guilty of Sedition and Must Be Brought to Justice
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-sedition-coup-elections/
Just-released transcript of Rudy Giuliani telling LevParnas's lawyer JosephABondy to call him back on his "soon to be gotten rid of number." Public impeachment hearings began later that month.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/rudy-giuliani-left-a-voicemail-for-lev-parnas-lawyer-before-impeachment-hearings-asked-for-call-back-at-soon-to-be-gotten-rid-off-phone-number/
Now that all 50 states have certified their results (save for one House race in New York's 22nd CD), it's a natural time for a reckoning on what transpired down-ballot. The consensus of hundreds of pre-election polls conducted for both parties was that House Democrats were the ones on offense. And yet, Republicans shattered our and others' expectations, gaining at least 11 seats. Our Electoral and Senate ratings generally performed well, with every race at least "leaning" to one party breaking that direction and Toss Ups breaking to Republicans — save for Georgia, where Joe Biden prevailed and both Senate races are in runoffs. But in the House, Republicans nearly swept the 27 races in our Toss Up column and won seven races in our "Lean" and "Likely" Democrat columns. These included some big upsets: Republicans held every vulnerable seat in Texas, picked up four Biden/Clinton-won seats in California and even picked up two Miami area seats Clinton had carried by more than 15 points in 2016. In 2018, Democrats won most of the Toss Ups and even four seats we had rated as "leaning" or "likely" Republican — not entirely dissimilar. But this time, instead of a strong majority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is left with 222 seats and virtually no margin for error — especially with Reps. Cedric Richmond (LA-02), Deb Haaland (NM-01) and Marcia Fudge (OH-11) set to decamp for administration posts. The only races where Democrats are still holding out hope are New York's 22nd CD, where Rep. Anthony Brindisi trails by 12 votes pending a court-ordered recanvass of votes, and Iowa's 2nd CD, where Democrat Rita Hart is contesting her Republican opponent's certified six vote margin before the House Administration Committee. Otherwise, 25 of the 27 Toss Ups broke Republican. | 1. Polls that guided both parties' decision-making missed the mark — with remarkable consistency. | The Parties Spent $195 Million on 30 Races that Weren't That Close | Republicans Didn't Spend Significantly in 10 Races They Narrowly Lost | 2. Much as in 2016, President Trump atop the ballot was actually the best of both worlds for congressional Republicans. | 3. Republicans' recruitment 180 paid big dividends. | 4. Republicans' attacks on "socialism" and "defund the police" were potent - and Democrats didn't do enough to blunt them. | 5. It's possible there was a late Republican surge that polls missed. | 1. The "fundamentals" deserve at least as much weight as the polls. | 2. It's worth incorporating more voices outside the Beltway. | 3. Patience is a virtue — especially next cycle. |
https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/five-takeaways-our-2020-house-forecast-and-three-resolutions-2021-and
U.S. nears deal with Pfizer for up to 100M additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1341517312692809730
House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney has sent a letter to the Archivist of the U.S. expressing grave concerns that the outgoing Trump admin may not be adequately preserving records and may be disposing of them without first obtaining his views, as required by law.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1341518886848638978
49ers are signing QB Josh Rosen off the Buccaneers practice squad on to SF's active roster
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1341508120586170371
JuJu Smith-Schuster's Dancing Is A Distraction From Ben Roethlisberger Playing Like Boiled Ass | Defector
https://defector.com/juju-smith-schuster-dancing-distraction-ben-roethlisberger-boiled-ass/
He's got a wet noodle for an arm now, so if the first quick read isn't there, things go downhill fast. I'm just assuming teams have made the proper adjustments to defend that the last few weeks, and we're seeing the results. Rapist Ben looked horrible, overthrowing, under throwing, taking too long, bad decisions, just doing everything wrong. The o-line looked rough as well. Unfortunately, I feel like we've heard this story season after season, and it seems too likely that he will snap out of it like he always ends up doing.
When the Ravens players go to the Steelers logo and dance on it after they beat the Steelers by 3 tuddies in the playoffs i wanna see if JuJu wants to get pressed about that
Loved watching Rapist Ben stalk the touchline like some sort of sad-rapey-giant-penguin against the Bengals. That interception in the 2nd was a thing of beauty.
Waiting for Tomlin to bench Ben and start Rudolph the red nosed reindeer again. Hopefully against the Browns in week 17 lol
More #49ers QB news: Nick Mullens suffered a right elbow injury which will likely require surgery. 49ers play Arizona on Sunday and we'll likely see CJ Beathard.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1341461277592444932
The Texans fined QB Deshaun Watson $7,500 for violating COVID19 protocols last week at his restaurant opening, where dozens of people -- including other Houston players -- were photographed indoors not wearing masks, per sources.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1341514023980982273
"You'd think the planets would have to be aligned for the Bengals to be beating the Steelers like this." -Steve Levy (PIT vs. CIN) (Saturn and Jupiter actually ARE aligned)
GavinNewsom has selected AsmShirleyWeber to be California's next secretary of state, following this morning's pick of AlexPadilla4CA for the U.S. Senate.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-22/assemblywoman-shirley-weber-california-secretary-of-state-padilla-senate-appointment
The 5,593-page coronavirus19 relief/government funding bill has yet to arrive at the White House, aides say, and is not expected to be there for a while because the bill must be enrolled, meaning it has to be read backwards for errors. Could take days
Jury trials in Maryland suspended through April 23, 2021, per order from state's chief judge....In related news, Trump today announced he has decided to relocate to Maryland until April 22, 2021
Trump issues 15 pardons, including former Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collin and George Papadopolous and Alex van der Zwaan, and military contractors Blackwater guards who intentionally murdered and massacred Iraqi civilians. Also the two border patrol agents convicted in 2006 of intentionally shooting and wounding an unarmed undocumented immigrant and covering it up. Why would a guy who fetched coffee need a pardon?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/trump-pardons/index.html
The Brooklyn Nets (1-0) skewered my Golden State Warriors (0-1) on opening night, 125-99. James Wiseman scores 19 points on 7-13 shooting from the field in his rookie debut.
Oubre gets up for an insane putback
https://streamable.com/yy1tml
Steve Kerr on playing the Nets on opening night; "I probably deserve this. I was coaching a team like this for five years."
https://twitter.com/thehoopcentral/status/1341484852936384524
Durant drives baseline and throws it down
https://streamable.com/rfkz3a
Durant drills the triple in Wiggins's face for his first Nets points
https://streamable.com/q1n37d
KD and Steph catch up before the game
https://streamable.com/m4gd7f
Curry dances on Allen and nails the three
https://streamable.com/nrq8vb
Warriors have no answer for the hot Nets shooting
https://streamable.com/tybs6b
Worth noting Duncan Hunter's wife was also convicted and received eight months of home confinement. She was not given a pardon tonight.
The exhausted Democratic majority rejects the political culture created by the angry racist insanse activist wing
A tabulation by the Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith found that of the 45 pardons or commutations Mr. Trump had granted up until Tuesday, 88 percent aided someone with a personal tie to the president or furthered his political aims."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/trump-pardons.html
Trump - who has been totally engaged with useless efforts to overturn the election - and DIS-engaged from COVID19 relief negotiations - is now stepping in and potentially delaying relief checks for millions of Americans
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing/status/1341555180526034948
Trump Threatens to Veto Covid-19 Economic Stimulus
Andrew Wiggins and Kelly Oubre combine for 4-20 FG at the half so I'm back to praying Golden State trades both to Houston for James Harden SIGH......
Crooklyn Nets (1-0) torch Golden State Warriors (0-1) 125-99 in the opening game of the season
Wiggins plays great defense but the Warriors can't convert and KD comes back with the transition hammer
https://streamable.com/bdxiwm
Chris Webber narrated a whole made up convo between KD and Steph Curry: "You got your hair braided, well you need to brush your hair."
https://streamable.com/zp4xbe
Wiseman debut: 19 points and 6 rebounds on 7-13 shooting
KD in his regular season debut for Brooklyn: 22/5/3 with 3 steals, a block, just 1 turnover, and +26 from the floor in 26 minutes
The war criminals who Trump just pardoned: Prosecutors accused the men of illegally unleashing "powerful sniper fire, machine guns and grenade launchers on innocent men, women and children." The 4 were among 7 Blackwater employees who opened fire in Baghdad, killing 17 people.
Paul George tries to pass it to the corner but nobody is home
https://streamable.com/1bgdqk
The Los Angeles Clippers (1-0) defeat the Los Angeles Lakers (0-1), 116-109
Zubac denies Lebron at the rim
https://streamable.com/u5eipn
A quick PG run forces a Laker timeout
https://streamable.com/508e75
Dennis SchrΓΆder nearly triple doubles in Lakers debut with 14pts, 12rebs, and 8asts
FBI Says White Supremacists Plotted Attack on US Power Grid
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/fbi-white-supremacists-plotted-attack-on-us-power-grid/2518441/
Georgia Senate candidate Ossoff backs Trump's call for $2K checks
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/531393-ossoff-backs-trumps-call-for-2k-checks
Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/microplastics-revealed-in-placentas-unborn-babies
A baby elephant hit by a motorbike has been saved by an emergency worker who performed CPR on the calf on a Thai roadside. The elephant was eventually revived and was able to stand after about 10 minutes.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/baby-elephant-miraculously-rescued-by-cpr-after-motorbike-accident/news-story/4ca43b318be620127c97af8adb4434ca
In 2007, a group of Blackwater contractors escorting a convoy intentionally opened fire in Baghdad's Nisour Square, mass murdering 14 unarmed civilians including two boys, aged 9 and 11 - Four of them have been pardoned Republicans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/trump-pardons.html
Buried in the stimulus passed last night are big wins for criminal justice reform and increased access to higher education.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/stimulus-law-education.html
The ban on access to Pell Grants for incarcerated students was a piece of the 1994 Crime Bill that joebiden opposed at the time, and reversing that ban is a huge advance that will support incarcerated students’ successful re-entry into society.
https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/1341564863022329856
My mom Lois Rice was known as the "Mother of the Pell Grant", so this is personal to me. The package also includes a major simplification of the FAFSA financial aid form and debt forgiveness for HBCUs, which will help make higher education accessible for millions more Americans.
https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/1341564863898935304
This bill reminds us that Congress can still come together & do the right thing. As Domestic Policy Advisor I will help President-elect Biden push for criminal justice reforms & broadened access to higher education, which cannot be a privilege just for those who can afford it.
https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/1341564864817459201
No, Really??? Organic meat production just as bad for climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/23/organic-meat-production-just-as-bad-for-climate-study-finds
Rockets are working with NBA office to review video of James Harden at a strip club. If the video circulating on social media is verified to be recent, it is a violation of league's Covid19 protocols, which would put Harden's availability for tonight's opener in jeopardy.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1341765325990277120
"I don't want to get in a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke," James said at the time. "And so many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually." What James did not know was that Morey had befriended a number of Hong Kong residents while attending business school and had intimate knowledge of the challenges they faced living in a semi-autonomous country. His decision to tweet his support was neither rash nor uninformed, but a conscious effort to express his solidarity for people he knew well.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30587457/philadelphia-76ers-daryl-morey-was-worried-hong-kong-tweet-end-nba-career
Eight Hawks players are listed on the injury report ahead of tonight's season opener against the Bulls, which is currently the largest amount in the NBA. Capela being out for the season opener after not playing a real game since January is definitely worrisome.
US layoffs remain elevated as 803,000 seek jobless aid
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-unemployment-coronavirus-pandemic-layoffs-economy-7fb2d64292d0ec938be86702d73bbe30
Trump administration to begin departing White House in two weeks
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-begin-departing-white-house-two-weeks-email-says-1556955
It's a fucking pandemic and you were in a crowded building AND YOU ADMITTED IT. Pretending the location was not a strip club and the women not prostitutes does not change the fact YOU ADMITTED YOU VIOLATED THE NBA COMMISSION PROTOCOLS THAT THE NBA PLAYERS' UNION THAT YOU ARE A PARTY OF COLLECTIVELY AGREED TO FOLLOW.
https://www.instagram.com/jharden13/?hl=en
ESPN includes only Bills highlights in Bills-Patriots MNF promo
https://twitter.com/NotScTop10plays/status/1341226632913313795
359 passing yards and 4 total touchdowns. Josh Allen is your AFC Offensive Player of the Week (again)
https://twitter.com/BuffaloBills/status/1341737824362459136
The #Lions COVID-19 positives from yesterday left their coaching staff in a difficult situation. Almost all of their defensive staff members are considered close contacts, while interim coach Darrell Bevell is, too. DET is still determining who can coach this Saturday.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1341729812617027584
#Seahawks WR Josh Gordon had a setback in his battle with substance abuse and now won't be allowed to practice or play indefinitely, per sources. As @bcondotta reported, the NFL informed the team this morning Gordon hadn't complied with terms of his conditional reinstatement. Did I get tested for BRADY-12?
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1341571744423948296
*Posts pic of Colts AFC finalists* in response to Dungy listing him 6th toughest to coach against. I'm on life support all of a sudden?
https://twitter.com/tombrady/status/1341530905207320577
Black retired @NFL players undergoing #dementia evaluations must score lower than White players to qualify for a monetary award. This Viewpoint explains perils of race-norms and propose a new approach that adjusts for social determinants of #brainhealth
https://twitter.com/JAMANeuro/status/1341520573990625281
Several Houston Rockets, including John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and possibly more, are expected to miss tonight's season opener vs. OKC due to coronavirus19 contact tracing
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1341800644718542855
Houston guard John Wall has tested negative for the coronavirus19, but is among a group of Rockets sent home today because of a positive test of another teammate, sources tell ESPN. That other player is getting tested again to confirm he's contracted the coronavirus19, sources said.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341806775654297608
As Rockets disclosed yesterday, Ben McLemore is in self-isolation and out for tonight's game vs. OKC. McLemore tested positive for the coronavirus19 days ago, sources said, and has been in isolation. He isn't the teammate whose positive test initiated contact tracing today on team.News
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341807360369692674
The Rockets contact tracing is connected to testing on rookie KJ Martin, sources tell ESPN. Martin is on team injury report now as "not with team, self isolating."
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341815786457985027
There was a group of Houston players -- including Martin, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins -- away from the facility at an apartment getting haircuts, sources said. That's led to the contact tracing on Wall and Cousins as team awaits more testing results on Martin, sources said.News
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341817481728581632
For every person who succumbed to Covid19, there is a constellation of those who grieve. A husband, a mother, a granddaughter
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/magazine/covid-family-deaths.html
Unidentified gunmen attack town in western Ethiopia, killing at least 100 people
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1341820197599141889
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday asked Georgia state representatives to end no-excuse absentee voting, a proposal that would limit the voting method used by over 1.3 million people in the November presidential election.
https://twitter.com/markniesse/status/1341818749222080517
1,884,692 people have voted in the 2020 Georgia Senate run-off election
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/GA_RO.html
"Why can't we send everybody $2,000 a month, like Canada did? That's a good question. Actually wait, it's not a good question, because Canada didn't do that."
https://www.businessinsider.com/stop-lying-covid-relief-bill-stimulus-checks-unemployment-trump-congress-2020-12
FBI Investigation Shows Iran Incited Violence Against Whitmer, Other Officials on 'Enemies of the People' website
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/12/23/iran-incited-violence-against-whitmer-other-officials-on-enemies-of-the-people-website-fbi-says
The Trump campaign shell company that helped hide $617M in presidential campaign spending was almost exclusively a Trump family production, run in part by a top deputy to Eric Trump, attorney Alex Cannon, completely illegal and unconstitutional. The power and secrecy of the shell company has spurred calls for federal investigations, including requests filed by three Democratic lawmakers after Insider broke the news last week of Kushner and Lara Trump's involvement.
https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-trump-deputy-kushner-campaign-spending-shell-company-2020-12
The United States is considering closing its embassy in Baghdad after a series of rocket attacks on Iraq's Green Zone by Iranian-backed militias, among several options being discussed, per two sources familiar with the discussions.
https://www.axios.com/us-closing-embassy-baghdad-6ce51ac3-3986-4212-a128-4fa78f489edc.html
Trump has never treated his budgets as his own, they're more like the OMB director's fan fiction. When an item makes negative headlines, he not only disowns it, but demands credit for saving voters from the changes his own WH requested. See Lakes, Great.
https://rollcall.com/2019/03/29/trump-contradicts-his-own-plan-to-slash-great-lakes-preservation-funds/
State Department issued the most decisive statement yet from the Trump administration blaming the Russian Security Service for the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, days after CNN reported on the first direct evidence of the FSB's involvement: "The US believes that officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) used a Novichok nerve agent to poison Mr. Navalny. There is no plausible explanation for Mr. Navalny's poisoning other than Russian government involvement and responsibility. Russia has suggested numerous, often contradictory, conspiracy theories," spox said. "Let's be clear – these types of conspiracy theories are nothing more than a means to deflect attention from the serious questions before the Russian government which it has yet to answer.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/22/949053847/navalny-reportedly-dupes-agent-into-revealing-details-of-poisoning
Louisiana Congressman-elect Republican Luke Letlow moved to intensive care unit with Covid19
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/12/23/louisiana-congressman-elect-luke-letlow-moved-icu-coronavirus/4028385001/
League rules mandate that the Houston Rockets have eight eligible players to start the game vs. OKC tonight, and so far, it appears they'd have enough to do that. Still, the Rockets could be cutting it close.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341842393843322882
Trump vetoes colossal $740 billion defense bill
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/23/trump-vetoes-740-billion-ndaa-defense-bill.html
Alaskan tribes, activists, and businesses sue to save America's biggest national forest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/23/tongass-national-forest-alaska-trump-administration-lawsuit
A New Hampshire woman is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening the chair of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers through a series of text messages that included graphic photos of a mutilated corpse. Katelyn Jones, a 23-year-old former Olivet resident who now lives in Epping, New Hampshire, admitted to the FBI that she threatened Republican board member Monica Palmer because she felt Palmer was interfering with the presidential election. Jones is charged with transmitting threats of violence through interstate commerce and faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and a fine of up to $250,000, if convicted.
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2020/12/woman-faces-federal-charges-for-sending-threats-photo-of-bloody-corpse-to-wayne-county-canvasser.html
Fully aware that an effort by some Republicans in Congress to overturn Joe Biden's victory cannot succeed, top advisers to Donald Trump are urging him to use his final weeks in office to polish his legacy and preserve his political options.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article248056260.html
Erdogan's Turkey sentences journalist Can DΓΌndar in absentia to 27 years. Until recently, Turkey ranked as the world's leading press jailer and is now second only to China.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/turkey-sentences-journalist-can-dundar-27-years-jail
Whether Pelosi genuinely believed it at the time or not, it's an example of how politicians curry favor with the left by supporting single payer when it doesn't much matter, and drop it when the stakes are real: Nancy Pelosi previously sponsored single payer "Medicare for All" style health reform. In 1994, she demanded a vote on it. "It is interesting to see how, under scrutiny, when people really take a look at these bills, how brilliantly the single payer plan stands out," Pelosi said.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1341867268196560897
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1341867268196560897
Given the recent "discourse" around this topic, surprised no one has pointed this out. Pelosi sponsored the single payer bill, even serving as the pitch person introducing it at committees, appearing on TV to argue for it. Makes basically all the same points as Bernie does today.
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1341868197499158529
It's not just Pelosi, dozens of state level Dems in California, Howard Dean, Obama, Ted Kennedy, etc. have said they support single payer when out of power to rally left-wing voters, before backing away when in power. It's become an empty slogan for many.
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1341871153728479233
Despite the seeming surge in recent support for Medicare for All, Pelosi's single payer bill in 1993 had 90 sponsors. The current House Dem bill for single payer has 118 sponsors, not a huge increase
https://congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/1200/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1384
The N.Y. Attorney General's office has subpoenaed bank records, communications, and financial & corporate documents from Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman in connection to a robocall scheme that has already netted felony charges in two states.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/23/ny-attorney-general-subpoenas-pro-trump-troll-jacob-wohl-for-voter-suppression-scheme/
Reminder: The FBI and CISA say they have "highly credible information" that Iran - a nation that has funded global Islamic terrorism for 60+ years - was behind a website threatening government officials and private industry figures associated with the election.
https://fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/iranian-cyber-actors-responsible-for-website-threatening-us-election-officials
First Trump pulls out the rug out from Loeffler and Perdue by trashing/not signing the stimulus bill (and esp the direct checks) that were supposed to help in their runoff races, and is now airing radio ads falsely telling GA voters that their elections are rife with fraud: Trump campaign is going on radio in GA with a substantial buy with an ad talking about its allegations of election fraud, per a buyer and a campaign adviser. Also in MI and AZ and Wisc, as well as on OAN and Newsmax
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1341865244856119299
High-powered law firm Clare Locke has sent letters to Fox News, Newsmax and OAN letting them know of Dominion Voting Systems' intention to sue the networks over baseless election fraud claims made on their airwaves.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-threatens-to-sue-trump-boosting-networks-over-election-conspiracies
Reminder: Stacey Abrams' voting rights group Fair Fight plans to fight a Texas organization in court over its challenge to the eligibility of more than 364,000 voters to participate in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/lawsuit-tries-to-block-effort-to-disqualify-georgia-voters/LCUSTNBS6FGILLEAQB3VG6CZPU/
After the NBA declared James Harden "unavailable due to violation of health and safety protocols," it is still unclear to both Harden and the Rockets how long he'll be unavailable or whether he'll face league punishment
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341875653319127041
James Harden is unavailable due to a violation of the health and safety Protocols, NBA says. Three Rockets have returned positive or inconclusive coronavirus19 tests. Four others are quarantined due to contact tracing.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341873121402482689
The Rockets don't have the required eight available players. Houston Rockets-Oklahoma City Thunder game tonight has been postponed.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341872346177613828
AGAINST LEAGUE PROTOCOL AND WITHOUT A MASK. Does this dude not get it?
https://i.imgur.com/lPNGo1O.jpg
The Trump tantrum has nothing to do with check size or spending - he was fully aware of the the negotiations carried out on his behalf by Meadows and Mnuchin and never said a peep. This is about McConnell and Thune acknowledging that the Biden Administration is on its way in and as such Congressional Republicans need to swing towards what Democrats want because that's what America voted for. When it comes to venting rage and seeking revenge vs. tens of millions losing unemployment the day after Christmas and millions losing apartments and millions of small businesses going under, there is no contest: his ego always comes first. He wants to crush everybody because he lost.
The WH coronavirus19 task force has informed states that it will no longer proactively send its weekly state reports with tailored data and recommendations, according to multiple state officials. Instead, states will need to request the reports each week
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/white-house-coronavirus-state-reports/index.html
Rockets' James Harden has been fined $50,000 for violating NBA's health and safety protocols.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1341901912547979266
Trump on Wednesday evening announced 26 new pardons, including ones for longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's father, Charles. Also included in Trump's pardon list Wednesday evening is former California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter's wife, Margaret, just one day after Trump granted Duncan Hunter a full pardon. Margaret Hunter had pleaded guilty last year to conspiring "knowingly and willingly" to convert campaign funds for personal use. Beyond the high-profile pardons, Trump also pardoned more than 20 other individuals, including those who had pleaded guilty to various cyber crimes, firearm possession and mail fraud. He also commuted the sentences of three others.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-pardons-stone-manafort-kushner/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump
Manhattan DA Cy Vance's office: "This action underscores the urgent need to hold Mr. Manafort accountable for his crimes against the People of New York as alleged in our indictment, and we will continue to pursue our appellate remedies."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1341917841797369858
Senate Republicans will try to deny Joe Biden critical nominees because of their mean tweets and support for health care a month after they openly supported pardons for unrepentant criminals and murderers.
Trump also pardoned ex-Border Patrol agent Gary Brugman, whose assaults on immigrants who were not fighting back or resisting in any way is chronicled in an appellate brief by Trump's ex-Sec. of Labor Alex Acosta. https://justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/14/brugman.pdf
I can't decide whether Trump's last-minute, convulsive legislative bombs are just an effort to deflect attention from his dirty pardons or a play to show he's still relevant as Washington turns its focus to the Biden years.
We said he'd abuse his power to protect his own interests; you called us "deranged."
We said he'd make us weaker; you called us "paranoid."
We said he'd subvert our democracy; you called us "unhinged."
We warned you that this would happen; you enabled him and called us names.
Trump also pardoned Rand Paul ally Jesse Benton. In another news cycle this would've been a big deal. Here's the story of his indictment in 2015
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/rand-paul-2016-jesse-benton-super-pac-121034
Sigh.....Hornets C Cody Zeller fractured his left hand
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1341928662313132034
In his first game as a Wizard, Russell Westbrook records a triple double
Uh-Huh: "Players who violated protocols in the bubble and were forced to miss games lost salary for every game missed. In this case, Harden would forfeit $284,517...The gray area is that the Rockets-Thunder game was postponed and not canceled, thus for technical purposes, Harden has not missed a game yet"
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30589362/rockets-thunder-postponed-next-nba-james-harden-teams
LaMelo Ball in his first game: 0/1/3 on 0-5 shooting, 0-3 from 3 with 3 TOs
Felix at Sisu Refuge
https://i.redd.it/sbwzi3rsry661.jpg
Donald Trump executive order banning diversity training blocked by federal judge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/12/23/trump-diversity-training-ban-executive-order-blocked-federal-judge/4033590001/
I've seen heard read countless complaints over the last 3 years about the Gametime app or league pass.
League does nothing
LeBron posts once and it's fucking done.
LeBron fix League Pass too please
'The NBA Gametime App is weird': Lakers star LeBron James criticizes league's official scores app on Twitter, NBA account replies | The SportsRush | LeFeedback | LeStackOverflow | LeCritique | LeDeveloper
https://thesportsrush.com/nba-news-the-nba-gametime-app-is-weird-lakers-star-lebron-james-criticizes-leagues-official-scores-app-on-twitter-nba-account-replies/
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Jayson Tatum hits a dagger three to put the Celtics up two with 0.4 seconds left in the 4th
https://streamable.com/5mulc5
Buddy Hield with the putback to win the game
https://streamable.com/f3uno4
Giannis misses the free-throw to lose the game
https://streamable.com/y7yhmj
NFL Prospect and Part Time NBA Player Anthony Edwards On His MLB Chances
https://streamable.com/1h0mcp
Ja Morant off the glass to himself for the slam! He has a career high 42 points!
https://streamable.com/853fwy
KAT: "That Karl died on April 13. He ain't coming back. You're talking to the physical me ... That man you're talking about from April 13 or before, I don't know him. He ain't there."
https://twitter.com/JonKrawczynski/status/1341958317145530370
You know what, I don't even recognise most of my other games and years I've played and how I felt those days. If I can be honest with y'all for a second, I mean, I don't really recall or really care. I only know what happened from April 13th on. Because you may see me smiling and stuff, but that Karl died on April 13th. He's never coming back. I don't remember that man. I don't know that man. You're talking to the physical me, but my soul has been killed off a long time ago. I want to really answer your question. I really do. But I only know how I feel on April 13th on. To say it's been day by day is probably an understatement. I think it's more moment by moment. I'm very fortunate, like I said on TV, I've got my kids, my niece and nephew who are at the house waiting for me. My sister, who has been with me and always been my mom's favourite. She says she wasn't, it was me. I think it's her. That's just brother and sister. I want to answer your question, but that man you're talking about from April 13th or before, I don't know him. I don't recall any parts of him.
https://twitter.com/JonKrawczynski/status/1341966767242039296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgH03adzoA
Richardson gets the shot to drop... I said drop... drop... finally
https://streamable.com/pmhfy2
The Boston Celtics (1-0) defeat the Milwaukee Bucks (0-1) 122-121. Bucks led by Giannis Antetokounmpo and his 36 points and 13 rebounds in the loss. Jason Tatum with the Amazing Game Winning 3pt Shot
RJ Barrett in the first half against the Pacers: 20 pts/2 rebs/3sts on 8/8 from the field (3/3 from three)
LaMelo Ball is the first Top-3 pick to score 0 points in his NBA debut since Otto Porter Jr. (2013). The only other Top-3 picks to be held scoreless in their NBA debut over the last 15 seasons are Hasheem Thabeet (2009) and Greg Oden (2008).
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1341934841684758530
One team hired a private investigator to gather info on James Harden; "One executive told ESPN that they had hired a private investigator to do a thorough background check, treating the process of gathering information on him like they would a draft prospect."
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30589362/rockets-thunder-postponed-next-nba-james-harden-teams
The Phoenix Suns (1-0) defeat the Dallas Mavericks (0-1) 106 - 102
In his first game as a Wizard, Russell Westbrook records a triple double
Zion absolutely erases a shot from OG
https://streamable.com/r2uw66
SexLand tonight: 49/8/11 on 55/58/76 Shooting in a Cavs opening night win. Colin Sexton and Darius Garland both looked great tonight for the Cavs. They were both hitting shots while also making plays for the rest of the team. The ball movement overall was amazing as well with Nance having 8 assists and the rookie Okoro chipping in 5. Defense looked better than last year but still has a way to go but the offense looked really fun.
Trae Young tonight: 37/6/7 in 26 minutes. 5/6 from 3, 10/12 FG.
The Sacramento Kings (1-0) defeat the Denver Nuggets (0-1), 124-122 in OT
The last 13 seconds of the Kings/Nuggets game. Pure chaos
https://streamable.com/q6aory
Anthony Edwards in his regular season debut: 15 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds
Bertans with the casual catch and shoot from 30
https://streamable.com/fq2mgl
Ja Morant finishes the game against San Antonio with 44 points on 18/27 shooting to go with 9 assists and just 1 turnover.
The Stacked Philadelphia 76ers (1-0) defeat the Washington Wizards (0-1) 113-107, led by 29pts/14reb from Joel Embiid
The New Orleans Pelicans (1-0) defeat the Toronto Raptors (0-1), 113-99
LaMelo Ball in his first game: 0/1/3 on 0-5 shooting, 0-3 from 3 with 3 TOs.
Fox gets the clutch block and Barnes ties the game with 6.5 left
https://streamable.com/c0ud9d
The Utah Jazz (1-0) defeat the Portland Trailblazers (0-1) 120-100 behind 20 and 17 from Rudy Gobert
An interesting small sample size stat: since he became a member of the Hornets, Terry Rozier has been an absolute menace to the Cleveland Cavaliers, averaging 35.7 points and 2.3 steals on great shooting
Brandon Ingram tonight: 24 points, 11 assists, 9 rebounds, and 3 steals on 52% FG and 50% 3FG.
Doc Rivers on Paul George's preferential treatment comments: ""Every player says, 'I want to win a championship,'" Rivers says. "That's bull. A lot of them want to win as long as they get to do exactly what they want to do.""
https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/30583049
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown tonight: 63/12/6 without Kemba lead the Celtics to victory
Nikola Jokic finishes the game with a monster triple double: 29 points, 15 rebounds, 14 assists
The San Antonio Spurs (1-0) defeat the Memphis Grizzlies (0-1) by a score of 131-119 behind 28 points from DeMar DeRozan.
Booker nails the contested mid-range jumper to go up 5 with 40.2 left
https://streamable.com/gbzeas
Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks have just equaled the franchise history in total points in one half at 83
Terry Rozier with 42 points in the season opener
[KOC before yesterday's Blazers vs Jazz game] Blazers are comically overrated. Nurkic still isn't near his pre-injury self. He can't move the way he used to. Covington is getting way too much hype. He has elite off-ball D but only solid on-ball D. Blazers are a likely play-in tournament team. . .
https://twitter.com/kevinoconnornba/status/1341601623127318529
The Minnesota Timberwolves (1-0) defeat the Heavily Rennovated Detroit Pistons (0-1) 111-101
Jason Tatum tonight: 30 points, 7 rebounds and a ridiculous game winner
The Orlando Magic (1-0) defeat the Miami Heat (0-1), 113-107
Marcus Smart taking three charges from Giannis
https://streamable.com/sw8pm1
Terry Rozier finishes the game after fouling out against Cleveland with 42 points on 15/23 shooting from the field including a stunning 10 three pointers.
Celtics get called for a foul on the inbounds play
https://streamable.com/39vodv
Michael Porter Jr with 25/5/2/2/3 on 9-15 (3-7 3P) shooting
Arguably one of the best finals performances in NBA History, Isiah Thomas 25 points on an injured ankle https://streamable.com/8k0do5
Lonnie Walker attacks the rim and puts Brooks on a poster
https://streamable.com/4sanxa
Rudy Gobert in his first game since signing his max extension 20 Pts 17 Reb on 8/10 shooting.
The Atlanta Hawks (1-0) cruise to an easy win over the Chicago Bulls (0-1), 124-104
Domantas Sabonis tonight: Career-high 32pts | 13reb | 5ast on 61% shooting.
Joel Embiid is confused how Rudy Gobert made All-NBA over him last season: "I agree that Anthony Davis had a better season than me. Jokic? That's debatable. But Rudy Gobert? No offense, but he had 15 and 13 and I had my 23 and 12, and that's kind of a big difference."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2923795-76ers-joel-embiid-says-he-deserved-to-make-2020-all-nba-team-over-rudy-gobert
A night for centers in the NBA. Jokic - 29/14/14. Embiid - 29/14/2. Adebayo - 25/11/4. Towns - 22/11/7. Gobert - 20/17/2. Sabonis - 32/13/5.
Udoka Azubuike posterizes Enes Kanter for his first points in the NBA, and gets an ecstatic reaction from Donovan Mitchell
https://streamable.com/6para8
Damian Lillard at halftime has 0 points on 0/6 shooting as he struggles to beat Utah's trap and double team. The Jazz lead 65-44 against Portland.
DPOY Giannis comes out of nowhere for the block
https://streamable.com/k7s971
Tyrese Haliburton in his NBA debut: 12/2/4 on 3-7 FG (2-5 3P)
The Cleveland Cavaliers (1-0) defeat the Charlotte Hornets (0-1), 121-114
For the second time in his career Dame Lillard has been voted the winner of the Magic Johnson Award by the Professional Basketball Writers Association. The award is given annually to the player who combines excellence on the court with cooperation with the media.
https://twitter.com/jwquick/status/1341804799591792640
Brandon Ingram drops 24 PTS/9 REB/11 AST/3 STL in a Win VS Raptors
Jrue Holiday in Bucks debut: 25/6/3 on 10-16 shooting
Karl-Anthony Towns blows by his defender and viscously attacks the rim
https://streamable.com/emrd4p
Carmelo Anthony and Dame Lilllard combine for 28 minutes, 0-10 shooting, -30 +/- at halftime
Shout out to the Players, Coaches, Staff, Announcers, and everyone else working within the arenas or on location for spending their Christmas Day without their families, and putting on a show for us at home tomorrow
Giannis, Khris and Jrue drop 89 points combined in season opener. Meanwhile the bucks bench only score 13.
Appreciation for Jeff Teague : 19/4/3, 4/4 3PT
Dwight Howard scores his first points as a Sixer in traditional fashion
https://streamable.com/gfwgsb
76ers guard Shake Milton tonight: 30 minutes, 19 points (6-11 FG; 2-4 3FG), 3 assists, 3 steals, and a game-high +33 off the bench!
The Indiana Pacers (1-0) defeat the New York Knicks (0-1), 121-107.
Today was the first time ever that Joel Embid has beaten Russel Westbrook in a regular season game.
Jamal Murray with a 9/4/1 on 1-9 shooting with 6 fouls
Trae with the monster lob to John Collins who draws the and-1
https://streamable.com/ru2umv
Shaun Livingston crosses up James Harden
https://streamable.com/7u22dt
Gordan Hayward finished his Hornets debut with 28/4/7
Ja Morant scores a career-high 44 Points on 18/27 shooting. Adds 9 assists and 2 rebounds.
Westbrook drops Simmons on the stepback
https://streamable.com/jylvbw
Draymond Green to miss Christmas game vs. Bucks due to foot injury
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30593288/golden-state-warriors-draymond-green-christmas-day-game-vs-milwaukee-bucks
Wizards leave Simmons wide open for the clutch slam with 21 seconds left
https://streamable.com/uc3rnw
Chris Paul drops 8/4/5 on his Suns debut. CP3 had a solid debut with 8 points on 3-9 shooting. Not eyepopping numbers but he contributed defensively & hit some clutch buckets to help pull out the win. His leadership & professionalism continue to be invaluable & he looks set for yet another age-defying season. All of their key guys had sh//t games and they still won. Good sign for Phoenix.
Tyrese Maxey drives to the hoop for his first NBA bucket, then hits Korkmaz in transition for a triple
https://streamable.com/plmzgo
Danny Green tonight : 2 points in 18 min, 1/6 FG and 0/4 3PT, -27 total
Cole Anthony throws it up high for Aaron Gordon
Tobias Harris vs Wizards: 3-13 shooting. 0-4 from 3. 10 points. 8 Rebounds. 0 assists.
Myles Turner finishes the game with a career-high (equalled) 8 blocks.
Ty Lue wins his second game ever as a head coach without Lebron James playing for him
Patrick "Flower Power" Williams finishes his NBA debut with 16/4/1/1/1
Mike Malone: "There are plenty of teams that are dysfunctional. That don't get along. That have star players that are fighting for the limelight. We don't have that. Again, that starts with Nikola being selfless. It's a part of our culture and we have a lot of guys that live by that".
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/22/james-harden-denver-nuggets-kiszla/
Domantas Sabonis ends the first-half with 22pts, 4reb and 3ast.
Joel Embiid vs Washington: 29 points, 14 rebounds on 10/17 shooting
Pelicans sweet ball movement leads to a Zion slam
https://streamable.com/mglvum
Julius Randle has 8 assists at half
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House Republicans Block Trump's Request To Increase Stimulus Checks To $2,000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/24/house-stimulus-checks-trump/
Pelosi Statement on House Republicans Blocking Unanimous Consent Request to Increase Economic Impact Payments: "Today, on Christmas Eve morning, House Republicans cruelly deprived the American people of the $2,000 that the President agreed to support. If the President is serious about the $2,000 direct payments, he must call on House Republicans to end their obstruction. "House and Senate Democrats have repeatedly fought for bigger checks for the American people, which House and Senate Republicans have repeatedly rejected – first, during our negotiations when they said that they would not go above $600 and now, with this act of callousness on the Floor. "On Monday, I will bring the House back to session where we will hold a recorded vote on our stand-alone bill to increase economic impact payments to $2,000. To vote against this bill is to deny the financial hardship that families face and to deny them the relief they need. "Hopefully by then the President will have already signed the bipartisan and bicameral legislation to keep government open and to deliver coronavirus19 relief."
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/122420
'Tiger King' Joe Exotic Drops Lawsuit Against DOJ Under Belief That Trump Has Received His Pardon Petition
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/tiger-king-joe-exotic-drops-lawsuit-against-doj-under-belief-that-trump-has-received-his-pardon-petition/
Public Schools Face Funding 'Death Spiral' as Enrollment Drops | Congress is sending more relief money to schools, but coronavirus19-related costs and declining state funding tied to student enrollment are driving districts toward a financial crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/public-schools-enrollment-stimulus.html
Portugal outrage after Spanish hunters massacre 500 wild animals
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55435940
Shell Oil Site Seized by Nigerian State Over Unpaid Damages
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/shell-oil-site-seized-by-nigerian-state-over-unpaid-damages
UK and EU announce post-Brexit trade deal four-and-a-half years too late and already obsolete
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-55433447
U.K. government confirms second strain of coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/23/uk-government-confirms-second-strain-of-coronavirus.html
Biggest circular tomb in the ancient world to open in Rome.The site opens 1 March 2021, and from 22 April visits will include virtual and augmented reality elements.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/augustus-tomb-rome-opening/index.html
The removal of nuclear debris from Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant will be delayed by about a year, because the pandemic has set back development of specialized equipment
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201224-fukushima-nuclear-debris-removal-delayed-by-virus
Republicans strip government accountability measures from budgeting process
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/531577-white-house-strips-government-accountability-measures-from
Interim Head Coach Darrell Bevell, Defensive Coordinator Cory Undlin, Defensive Line Coach Bo Davis, Defensive Backs Coach Steve Gregory and Linebackers Coach Ty McKenzie will not coach in Saturday's game against Tampa Bay due to COVID-19 protocols.
https://twitter.com/lions/status/1342126636230189057
In the Rio Grande Valley, Death Has Become a Family Affair. Christmas will be quieter in the Texas borderlands, where aunts and uncles, grandparents and adult siblings often live under the same roof. That closeness let the coronavirus19 ravage families.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/coronavirus-rio-grande-valley-texas.html
A Hill source confirmed to me that the #FinCENFiles helped get the anti-money laundering legislation secured in the NDAA, which was being negotiated at the time. "I think it did provide some additional impetus to getting it done."
https://businessinsider.com/biden-yellen-white-collar-crime-money-laundering-treasury-fincen-doj-2020-12
A Russian says evidence of a state-organized assassination attempt for Navalny "should have changed everything in this country." It hasn't. "I was disappointed that I was there alone. I think that even 100K people would have been too few. But no one came.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/world/europe/russia-navalny-poisoning.html
After threatening to blow up $900 billion in desperately needed financial relief ahead of Christmas, the President is spending his day golfing.
Not on the phone negotiating with congressional leadership. Golfing.
At a time when 20+ million Americans are unemployed.
https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1342170342119395329
Two years ago, the president had the government shut down over his insistance for money for a border wall. He had several deals in hand that would've given him that money, but he rejected them. Here we are two years later. Gov't shuts down Monday.
Blocking aid to desperate American families on December 24. Looks like Republicans finally accomplished the War on Christmas they were so worried about.
Oh no! Don't call them idiots or racists! Because that hurts their feelings and then they'll vote republican out of spite just to own the libs even if it's against their interests because, you know, that's what idiots and racists do!
Trump pardons include two Republicans from 2012 Iowa caucuses election scandal
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/trump-pardons-include-two-from-2012-iowa-caucuses-scandal-20201224
G League Bubble will begin in February, 18 teams opted in including the Ignite team, every team will be allowed to designate one "NBA Vet Selection" to their roster
Georgia Early Voting Statistics: Total Early Votes: 2,062,902
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/GA_RO.html
Congress is sending the coronavirus19 stimulus package and annual budget measure to Donald Trump this afternoon, he has 10 days to sign. The nearly 5,600 page bill has been enrolled and is now being sent to the White House and literally flown to Mar-a-Lago for Trump's signature.
A Temp Worker Died on the Job After FedEx Didn't Fix a Known Hazard. The Fine: $7,000. https://propublica.org/article/fedex-prioritizes-packages-over-employee-safety-workers-and-experts-say
Two new NBA players tested positive for coronavirus19 out of 558 tested since Dec. 16.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1342184092746588161
USPS and civil rights groups reach deal to fast-track ballots in Georgia runoff elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/24/usps-ballots-georgia-runoff-naacp/
Remember all those predictions from Trump and his allies that the coronavirus19 and the lockdowns were all going to disappear after Election Day?
Another Republican election suit fails as Fulton County judge dismisses GA RNC suit seeking new guidance on dropboxes and pollwatchers for Jan. 5 Senate runoffs. Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams: 'This court does not have jurisdiction to hear it because of sovereign immunity.': BURN: Top election lawyer for state of Georgia just mocked RNC and Georgia Republicans for having out-of-state counsel for state-court challenge to GA dropboxes & pollwatcher rules. Russ Willard Sr Asst AG: 'I understand she's from Florida and she has a little unfamiliarity with the law'
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1342178999934595074
Adam Silver, appearing on ESPN, said James Harden was not suspended because "The precedent is that discipline gets ratcheted up. It's Christmas. It was a first offense." Silver said "in a way he got lucky." If the game had been played, Harden would have been docked 1 game's pay.
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/1342191952608063489
Republicans didn't flinch at the omnibus spending bill that was orders of magnitude larger and funded way worse stuff but suddenly they have fiscal concerns when it comes to bailing out lower and middle income Americans.
The Trump administration has formally notified Congress that it intends to illegally and unconstitutionally sell nearly $500 million in precision bombs to Saudi Arabia, a transaction that will fuel criticism from lawmakers who oppose arming the Persian Gulf nation over its record of human rights abuses and role in the war in Yemen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-administration-saudi-weapons-deal/2020/12/23/657cdc72-4565-11eb-8deb-b948d0931c16_story.html
New Covid19 variant reaches Germany from UK | A woman who flew from London to Frankfurt this weekend was carrying the new, more infectious coronavirus19 variant, German officials have said. Meanwhile, Denmark identified 33 people infected with the mutated virus
https://www.dw.com/en/new-covid-variant-reaches-germany-from-uk/a-56054140
To Lin Wood's purported expert who confused Michigan with Minnesota: "You have positioned yourself as a leader in the ongoing attacks against Dominion by recklessly promoting long-debunked conspiracy theories that Dominion is somehow responsible for widespread voter fraud."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqBxq2KW8AMfuWu?format=jpg&name=small
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1342197682694217728
South Carolina cops forced 71-year-old Black man to stand outside naked at 4 a.m. while they searched house without a warrant
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-rock-hill-sc-black-man-stand-outside-naked-lawsuit-20201223-h2ggxog7vfgslifakvq5qct2se-story.html
Second Black man shot dead by police in Ohio city, officer relieved of duty
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-ohio/second-black-man-shot-dead-by-police-in-ohio-city-officer-relieved-of-duty-idUSKBN28X135
And Dominion has also sent a letter to Mellissa Carone! The woman Rudy Giuliani has touted as having evidence of election fraud, and who was parodied on SNL. The letter isn't very nice.
https://businessinsider.com/dominion-defamation-letters-fox-news-sean-hannity-lou-dobbs-newsmax-oan-2020-12
The Washington Post has been inundated with messages and phone calls from people on the verge of losing their homes and cars and going hungry this holiday .... Several broke down crying in phone interviews.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/24/trump-congress-stimulus-unemployment-reaction/
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html
Can my child's teacher even talk about religion in public school? Why are they learning about Christmas anyway? See how students can learn about Christmas & other holidays as part of a well-rounded education that respects First Amendment rights for all.
https://www.freedomforum.org/2020/12/22/american-students-should-learn-about-christmas-in-schools/
Somewhat lost among the Trump pardons: former Palm Beach County commissioner Mary McCarty who pleaded guilty to fraud and resigned in 2009, is the sister of Brian Ballard, top Trump fundraiser and lobbyist.
A research assistant who has never been a positional coach will call the Lions' defensive plays against Tom Brady this week. Their receivers coach will be interim interim head coach, with the quarterbacks coach as OC.
https://www.mlive.com/lions/2020/12/evan-rothstein-a-research-assistant-will-call-detroits-defensive-plays-against-tom-brady.html
Titans WR AJ Brown was fined $12,000 for throwing this TD ball out of the stadium on Sunday. It's the second time this season he's been fined for chucking the ball. Brown joked that he wants the league to rename the rule after him.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1342181799720603648
Pakistan orders release of one of the Islamic terrorists who murdered Daniel Pearl. Court endorses murder of Daniel Pearl, saying there was no reason to arrest or charge the terrorists who murdered him.
https://apnews.com/article/karachi-pakistan-journalists-media-daniel-pearl-bc47c3d383c47541e4283cd44d7def62
Trump's last-minute pardon spree shows why Joe Biden just can't "move on". The country can't unite and heal if Republicans believe they have license to cheat in elections and commit crimes |
As we were repeatedly warned would happen when Trump took office, Trump is normalizing corruption — at least on the Republican side. All of which just makes it all the more urgent for the Department of Justice, when Joe Biden takes office, to ignore all calls to let bygones be bygones, and instead investigate and prosecute Trump to the fullest extent of the law. Forget all the claims that doing so is a threat to "national unity." Failure to hold Trump to account is the true threat to national unity. After all, the standard Trump is attempting to set with his actions — where Republicans can break any law that they want without facing consequences — is a standard tearing this country apart. That's a literal double standard, where the Democrats are expected to obey laws and respect the rules, but the Republicans can do whatever they want, no matter how illegal. That is why, despite reports that he "just wants to move on," Biden can't move past Trump's crimes.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/24/trumps-last-minute-pardon-spree-shows-why-joe-biden-just-cant-move-on/
It could be that there needs to be two different faces within the Biden admin to handle these tasks. Biden can work towards the positive, unite the country angle and someone else can go after the corruption and show strength in that area. Maybe that would achieves the same goal without making the President the face of Justice Department stuff.
To Lin Wood's purported expert who confused Michigan with Minnesota: "You have positioned yourself as a leader in the ongoing attacks against Dominion by recklessly promoting long-debunked conspiracy theories that Dominion is somehow responsible for widespread voter fraud."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqBxq2KW8AMfuWu?format=jpg&name=small
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1342197682694217728
South Carolina cops forced 71-year-old Black man to stand outside naked at 4 a.m. while they searched house without a warrant
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-rock-hill-sc-black-man-stand-outside-naked-lawsuit-20201223-h2ggxog7vfgslifakvq5qct2se-story.html
Second Black man shot dead by police in Ohio city, officer relieved of duty
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-ohio/second-black-man-shot-dead-by-police-in-ohio-city-officer-relieved-of-duty-idUSKBN28X135
And Dominion has also sent a letter to Mellissa Carone! The woman Rudy Giuliani has touted as having evidence of election fraud, and who was parodied on SNL. The letter isn't very nice.
https://businessinsider.com/dominion-defamation-letters-fox-news-sean-hannity-lou-dobbs-newsmax-oan-2020-12
The Washington Post has been inundated with messages and phone calls from people on the verge of losing their homes and cars and going hungry this holiday .... Several broke down crying in phone interviews.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/24/trump-congress-stimulus-unemployment-reaction/
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html
So many families are trying to celebrate without loved ones this year. This Queens family is carrying on its Christmas traditions in honor of a husband and wife of 65 years who died five days apart from the coronavirus19
https://ny1.com/share/nyc/queens/news/2020/12/23/family-that-lost-queens-grandparents-to-covid-five-day-apart-prepare-for-first-christmas-without-them
Can my child's teacher even talk about religion in public school? Why are they learning about Christmas anyway? See how students can learn about Christmas & other holidays as part of a well-rounded education that respects First Amendment rights for all.
https://www.freedomforum.org/2020/12/22/american-students-should-learn-about-christmas-in-schools/
Somewhat lost among the Trump pardons: former Palm Beach County commissioner Mary McCarty who pleaded guilty to fraud and resigned in 2009, is the sister of Brian Ballard, top Trump fundraiser and lobbyist.
A research assistant who has never been a positional coach will call the Lions' defensive plays against Tom Brady this week. Their receivers coach will be interim interim head coach, with the quarterbacks coach as OC.
https://www.mlive.com/lions/2020/12/evan-rothstein-a-research-assistant-will-call-detroits-defensive-plays-against-tom-brady.html
Titans WR AJ Brown was fined $12,000 for throwing this TD ball out of the stadium on Sunday. It's the second time this season he's been fined for chucking the ball. Brown joked that he wants the league to rename the rule after him.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1342181799720603648
Pakistan orders release of one of the Islamic terrorists who murdered Daniel Pearl. Court endorses murder of Daniel Pearl, saying there was no reason to arrest or charge the terrorists who murdered him.
https://apnews.com/article/karachi-pakistan-journalists-media-daniel-pearl-bc47c3d383c47541e4283cd44d7def62
Trump's last-minute pardon spree shows why Joe Biden just can't "move on". The country can't unite and heal if Republicans believe they have license to cheat in elections and commit crimes |
As we were repeatedly warned would happen when Trump took office, Trump is normalizing corruption — at least on the Republican side. All of which just makes it all the more urgent for the Department of Justice, when Joe Biden takes office, to ignore all calls to let bygones be bygones, and instead investigate and prosecute Trump to the fullest extent of the law. Forget all the claims that doing so is a threat to "national unity." Failure to hold Trump to account is the true threat to national unity. After all, the standard Trump is attempting to set with his actions — where Republicans can break any law that they want without facing consequences — is a standard tearing this country apart. That's a literal double standard, where the Democrats are expected to obey laws and respect the rules, but the Republicans can do whatever they want, no matter how illegal. That is why, despite reports that he "just wants to move on," Biden can't move past Trump's crimes.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/24/trumps-last-minute-pardon-spree-shows-why-joe-biden-just-cant-move-on/
It could be that there needs to be two different faces within the Biden admin to handle these tasks. Biden can work towards the positive, unite the country angle and someone else can go after the corruption and show strength in that area. Maybe that would achieves the same goal without making the President the face of Justice Department stuff.
Kentucky state representative Republican Thomas Huff says he's in the ICU with COVID-19
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2020/12/22/kentucky-coronavirus-rep-thomas-huff-icu-covid-19/4019681001/
A new population of Blue Whales discovered in Indian Ocean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/science/blue-whales-indian-ocean.html
Gunmen on motorbike shot dead a women's rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan's capital, as a wave of assassinations ravages the violence-wracked country. Freshta Kohistaniwas the second activist to be killed in two days
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201224-afghan-women-s-rights-activist-shot-dead
NBA's L2M from Nuggets-Kings isn't pretty. Here's list of incorrect no-calls. In 4th: Barnes traveling. In OT: Foul on Whiteside defending Jokic, DEN lost ball. Barnes traveling before tying game at 122. Barnes foul on Jokic w/ two seconds left. Barton foul on Barnes' dunk
https://twitter.com/msinger/status/1342224565460631552
After surgery on his fractured left hand in New York today, Charlotte Hornets center Cody Zeller is expected to miss four-to-six weeks
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1342229339883134977
Jimmy Butler can't concentrate on his free throws with United Center's blaring Christmas music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCvq6UgTeQM
Not too far from where the massive line for food was
https://twitter.com/i/status/1342220779942006784
https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1342220779942006784
Folks, this too is a Christmas story: This is a passage from a judgment in secret "Kraken" witness Terpsichore "Tore" Maras-Lindeman's civil fraud case in North Dakota.
https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/sites/ag/files/documents/RecentActions/2020-09-14-MagicCityChristmas-Judgment.pdf
A 4-year-old girl coping with the loneliness of the pandemic created a tiny garden, and kindled an unlikely friendship...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/style/fairy-garden-covid.html
"Hard as it may be to hear, Fauci said, he believes that it may take close to 90 percent immunity to bring the virus to a halt — almost as much as is needed to stop a measles outbreak"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html
At 3:43 pm ET, Trump broke 400 misinformation flags on Twitter with the tweet pictured below. Current count: 402 flags for misinformation.
https://twitter.com/FactbaseFeed/status/1342245919949991938
https://factba.se/topic/flagged-tweets
Ooops she forgot to mention her role in child separations. Seems kinda monstrous: Sarah Isgur, the director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Justice Department from 2017-2018, writes in Opinions: "We in the 'shallow state' thought we could help. Instead, we obscured the reality of a Trump presidency."
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1342000569662234624
The details of how some of these victims of this massacre died are gutting. Iraqis react to the Trump pardons of four people connected to the Blackwater killings
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/world/middleeast/blackwater-trump-pardon.html
Imagine if you had told people a year ago that local news stations would be celebrating the birthday of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. And that the whole country would know what his name is.
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1342181661186772995
But if you saved them, isn't that you rigging it?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342245390540804096
If there was no Section 230, Twitter would be liable for your lies on this platform, so you'd be deleted tomorrow. Not saying we're against this...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342243632833814528
The quintessential fraud claiming voting fraud. Too funny. Some kids in cages who can't find their parents would like to have a word about that "happy family" thing. "In the group announced Tuesday night were four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone." Man facepalming. WHEN does Trump get ARRESTED for actively attempting to overthrow the November 3 election? Asking for 81 million friends. Oh and 81 million instances of fraud and the only one anyone could actually prove was a Republican dude using his dead mother's mail-in ballot to vote for Trump Face with tears of joy okay Ok hand All of these conspiracy theories have been debunked. The only ones who believe it are TERRORISTS. This is Ali Kinani. He was 9 years old when murdered by Blackwater guards. You pardoned his killers, why?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342212651447967744
THINGS I TRUST MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP:
1) Flint Michigan Tap water
2) Gas Station Sushi
3) Getting stung by a box jelly fish
4) Hugging a Lion
5) Tom Brady putting air in my tires
6) Swimming in an ocean filled with great white sharks
7) A North Korean trial
NBA has informed teams that infectious disease and public health experts advising the league has concluded, consistent with FDA, that the new Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are "safe and effective," league tells teams in a memo obtained by ESPN.News
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1342248348229775362
League also tells teams that they "may not engage in efforts to procure or administer Covid-19 vaccinations on a team-wide basis" that's not permissible under CDC or local public health guidance regarding vaccine prioritization, memo says.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1342248814716063748
The NBA is allowing exceptions for team physicians and health-related personnel and older staff members or those with conditions that deliver a higher risk for complications upon contracting the coronavirus19, the memo said.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1342259981735833607
Republicans were frantic that Joe Biden would defund the police. Donald Trump defunded the military by vetoing the NDAA. Republicans silent.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/23/trump-ndaa-veto-defense-bill-450286
If there were ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future visiting tonight, what might they have to say to certain angry old white republican men?
Sidney Powell's secret intelligence contractor witness is a pro-Trump podcaster. An N.D. judge found she broke fraud laws by exaggerating her resume & using charity donations to pay for personal expenses at McDonalds. Powell filed her testimony to SCOTUS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powells-secret-intelligence-contractor-witness-is-a-pro-trump-podcaster/2020/12/24/d5a1ab9e-4403-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html
Remember Trump intentionally hijacked covid19 stimulus legislation to attack EVERYBODY because he lost the election, and especially attack top Republicans like McConnell whom told Trump they would not fight the election results. This is about getting himself all the attention on Christmas.
Jon Ossoff has raised $131,331,281 for his Senate campaign as of December 16. I believe that makes him the biggest fundraiser of any Senate candidate *ever*, surpassing Jaime Harrison's $131,107,396 haul from earlier this year.
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00718866/1484274
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Adams
Calling it Jedrick's Winter Blast, Browns' OT Jedrick Wills this week surprised a woman with a new car, paid the rent for a year for a family that lost its home in a house fire, and spread $50,000 worth of toys, gifts and cash to five Cleveland-area families.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1342128475465940993
To ppl who chose to not travel & are doing an at-home Christmas on their own: I'm sure it's hard but you're doing the right thing. Thank you for being responsible & for prioritizing your own health & that of others. Do things you love doing this week. Next year will be better.
7th Circuit AFFIRMS dismissal of Trump's lawsuit to overturn the results of the November election. "Even on a broad reading of the Electors Clause, Wisconsin lawfully appointed its electors in the manner directed by its Legislature." Trump and allies remain 1-59.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1342223486589280257/photo/1
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1342223486589280257
On Wednesday, Giannis Antetokounmpo missed the game-tying free throw with 0.4 seconds left in a 122-121 loss against the Celtics. Giannis has now missed 25 free throws in clutch time since the start of the 2018-19 season, the most in the NBA over that span.
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1342288958730866689
Due to a separate positive test for a Houston Rockets staff member, there is additional contact tracing being performed that involves guard Eric Gordon and others
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1342303841111445504
Houston's displeasure with this week's actions stem from the trust and confidence placed in Harden since he was traded to the franchise nearly nine seasons ago. For years, Harden has been viewed as the franchise leader. The Rockets expect Harden to set an example for the rest of the team to follow, not to repeatedly shirk the rules that come with significant consequences for all involved.
https://theathletic.com/2284237/2020/12/24/james-harden-trade-rumors-news-celtics-blazers-added-to-preferred-trade-destinations/
The Rockets have several players — including John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and possibly more — currently facing seven-day quarantine per NBA contact tracing protocol
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1342303901157117955
Leaked Documents Show How China's Army Of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Post Fake Information Downplaying Coronavirus19
https://www.propublica.org/article/leaked-documents-show-how-chinas-army-of-paid-internet-trolls-helped-censor-the-coronavirus
Trump is gone in 26 days whether or not he likes it
The CDC will now require travelers from the UK to test negative for Covid19 within 72 hours of flying into the US. Many other countries already closed their borders to Britain because of the highly transmissible variant of the virus
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/25/950218997/u-s-now-requires-all-u-k-travelers-to-have-a-negative-coronavirus-test
The State is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of Everyone else. -- Frederic Bastiat
Nearly 200K Nevadans to lose jobless aid day after Christmas
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/nearly-200k-nevadans-to-lose-jobless-aid-day-after-christmas-2230944/
5- to 9-year-old children chose to save multiple dogs over 1 human, and valued the life of a dog as much as a human. By contrast, almost all adults chose to save 1 human over even 100 dogs. The view that humans are morally more important than animals appears later and may be socially acquired.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620960398
Biden on working with Senate Republicans: 'I'll never publicly embarrass them'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/531661-biden-on-working-with-senate-republicans-ill-never-publicly-embarrass-them
Obama didn't use his bully pullpit of the Presidency to highlight how Republicans were being obstructionist. His strategy of trying to appear aloof and above the fray led to huge blowout downballot losses in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Biden is already signalling he's going to be even more obsequious and prioritize Republican feelings over telling hard truths. It's a recipe guaranteed to de-mobilize the Democratic base and lead to electoral catastrophe.
Officials believe that a Christmas morning explosion in downtown Nashville that injured at least three people and damaged dozens of buildings was an intentional act. In a brief news conference Friday morning, Metro Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said the department's hazardous devices unit was headed downtown in response to a call about a suspicious vehicle when there was a "significant" explosion linked to that vehicle around 6:30 a.m. CT. "We do believe that the explosion was an intentional act," Aaron said. Three people have been transported to hospitals from the scene, but none are in critical condition, according to Nashville Fire spokesman Joseph Pleasant. The incident is under investigation by multiple agencies, both local and federal, including the FBI and the ATF, Aaron said. Police and Tennessee Highway Patrol are conducting a shutdown of the area for the investigation. Access from the interstate through the immediate area will be restricted, he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/index.html
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/downtown-nashville-explosion-christmas/4044635001/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1342508443094167553
Nashville police say they were responding to reports of shots fired when they noticed a suspicious vehicle. As the police hazardous devices unit was en route to the scene, an explosion occurred.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1342508071793340416
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1342508071793340416
Remember a Fire Department cannot make criminal assertions and conclusions about perpetrators/suspects/people. They investigate the explosions and fires etc, not the people who created them. Only law enforcement who investigate people can label the event an act of domestic terrorism.
One week from tomorrow, a man who herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jails human rights activists, crushed Tibet, disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus19, and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong will join the U.N.'s highest human rights body.
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1342191483064102914
UH-HUH: "Sources say Harden told Rockets officials that there was a misunderstanding on his part regarding what the protocols allowed and didn't allow."
https://twitter.com/Rockets_Insider/status/1342242810532126721
Execution of only female federal prisoner on death row halted
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/531664-execution-of-only-female-federal-prisoner-on-death-row-halted
There are a lot of places in Kentucky, and across Appalachia for that matter, where people are registered Democrats but haven't voted for a Democrat for President since Bill Clinton. They've effectively become base Republican voters, but are ancestrally Democratic and still sometimes vote Democratic for state and local offices. Party ID in coal country and Appalachia means almost nothing to national politics .If you've ever wondered "how bad did Dems slide in rural America from 2008 to 2016 to make Trump possible," that's it right there. There are counties all over the south with 70+ registered Dems that are now R+50. Kentucky and WV used to be Democratic strongholds. Mitch McConnell winning most Kentucky Democrats is normal.
Nashville police say officers saw suspicious RV and swept apartments door-to-door before blast occurred, likely saving lives. Officers were "blown to the ground" & at least one suffered hearing loss.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1342501174310805506
https://twitter.com/noonanjo/status/1342523449990934534
We're heartbroken to have to announce our beautiful daughter Francesca passed away last night in the arms of her mom and dad. There will always be a Bean-sized hole in our hearts for her. We're so grateful to have known her love. Francesca we love you.
https://teambeans.medium.com/team-beans-4657008c3073
We're so grateful for everyone's support and kindness. In lieu of flowers, gifts, or food we'd ask people to donate in honor of Francesca to Team Beans in the PMC Winter Cycle, which donates 100% of every rider-raised dollar directly to Dana-Farber.
http://profile.wintercycle.org/DP0276
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1342525178719432705
One of the hardest parts of watching Francesca on life support has just been the limbo of everything. When she's not getting worse, but not getting better. Just the day in and out of waiting becomes so hard. I hope everyday for that sign she's getting better and can improve.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1341808144222015490
EU bans plastic waste exports to poor nations. Under new rules, trash importers and exporters will need to agree on how to handle hazardous shipments.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-bans-plastic-waste-exports-to-poor-nations/a-56033900
Russian police raid home of opposition activist Lyubov Sobol
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/europe/navalny-russia-lyubov-sobol-intl/index.html
Devin Nunes Loses Lawsuit Accusing The Washington Post of Conspiring with House Democrats to Defame Him
https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/devin-nunes-loses-lawsuit-accusing-the-washington-post-of-conspiring-with-house-democrats-to-defame-him/
Jimmy Butler (right ankle stiffness) will not return to today's game vs the Pelicans.
https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/status/1342539675773399043
Brandon Ingram with the 3 to end the quarter for his 28th points of the game.
https://streamable.com/wm3igz
Duncan Robinson sets an NBA Christmas record with 6 threes in a halfπ₯with 18 points
When a commander in chief addresses US troops for a holiday message, it is typically a news event with media coverage because the public can and should be included.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342556287872233474
Pointing out that the president is wishing the troops well after vetoing their funding and pay raises.
K.C. Jones, who personified winning as a hard-nosed point guard and then coach of the Boston Celtics during a Hall of Fame career, has died, the Celtics confirmed Friday. He was 88. K.C. was Jones' given name, although some joked the "C" stood for championships. It was easy to see why.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30595836/boston-celtics-legend-kc-jones-dies-88
Havlicek, Heinsohn, and now Jones. Bill Russell is losing all his friends. Going to be a rough couple of years in terms of nba legend deaths. We have been fortunate to have so many legends of the game but father time is undefeated. It's pretty wild when you consider almost every single MVP in the history of the league is still alive, even from the very first years. We've only ever lost 4 MVPs, and two of those came in the past year with Kobe and Wes Unseld. (The other two are Wilt and Moses Malone).
We've been pretty lucky in that regard, but that number is sure to start growing pretty significantly in the next decade or so
Wisconsin Supreme Court's chief justice denounces death threats against her peers. Context: There have been multiple reports of threats against justices who ruled against Trump, including one he attacked by name and antisemitic abuse against two Jewish justices.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqG_cySXEAEXRHW?format=jpg&name=900x900
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1342564668532027393
Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said police were responding to a report of shots fired when they encountered a recreational vehicle blaring a recording that said a potential bomb was to detonate in 15 minutes. Police evacuated nearby buildings and called in the bomb squad. "Shortly after that, the RV exploded," Drake said at a midday news conference. Surveillance video published on a Twitter account Friday that appeared to be recorded from across the street captured an audio recording that included the warning, "... if you can hear this message, evacuate now." The blast was captured on the surveillance video seconds later.
https://apnews.com/article/nashville-explosion-christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
Wisconsin Chief Justice Patience Roggensack released this message today after a series of threats and anti-Semitic comments in recent weeks against justices.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqG9xJRXYAEDztD?format=jpg&name=medium
https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1342562822522343424
Curry has played 2 games since March, can we chill with the hot takes
Oubre looks worse than Wiggins so far. He looks like he literally can't score at the NBA level, and he's somehow playing worse defense than Wiggins. I know they'll both play somewhat better over the course of the season, but this is just pathetic. The score is close but the game doesn't feel like it at all for some reason
Curry hits the deep three to beat the buzzer at the half
https://streamable.com/hicgr7
Former DPOY passing some wisdom to Wiseman
https://streamable.com/9poq1i
Wiseman shows off his range
https://streamable.com/ju52sz
Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson combine for 60 points on 18/37 shooting. The rest of the Pelicans scored 38 on 13/41 from the field.
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra improves to 8-0 on Christmas, the best record among active coaches, ahead of Doc Rivers (6-6), Scott Brooks (5-1), Tom Thibodeau (4-3), Mike D'Antoni (4-5)
Golden State will be good once Draymond comes back, I'm not taking anything away from these first two games other than the fact that Wiseman looks great
Flights out of Nashville airport have been halted due to telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown. Police say an RV exploded outside a building housing AT&T network equipment. 911 systems up to 180 miles away were knocked out.
https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
Republicans didn't break with him on election fraud bullshit, conspiring with Russia, pilfering our country, destroying our national security, and dismissing covid19 as a hoax when millions were infected and hundreds of thousands dead, but when he asks that the people get more money, it's a line too far
This is a really underhanded ploy by Trump, he doesn't want the economy to start improving a couple weeks before he leaves office. Why set Biden up in a better situation when all he cares about is himself. He knows Republicans won't ever go for 2000, so it's obviously just a poison pill for folks to get nothing. Really surprised more people aren't understanding this
Curry really 2/10 from 3 wow
Sunday's game is much more important than this one. If we (GSW) can't beat the Bulls, then there's very little hope for this season.
The Milwaukee Bucks (1-1) defeat the Golden State Warriors (0-2) 138-99 behind a big game from Khris Middleton
Khris Middleton finishes the game with 31/4/5 on 10-15 shooting in 25 minutes
Steph dances with Jrue and sinks the floater
https://streamable.com/kxjntx
The Warriors are the 4th team in NBA history to lose their first 2 games by at least 25 points each (last: 1989-90 Warriors). Today's 39-point loss is the largest margin of defeat on Christmas by any team since 1960.
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1342590431536709633
Andrew Wiggins and Kelly Oubre Jr combine for 15 points on 7-28 shooting
Steph Curry in 8 Christmas Day Games: 12.3 PPG - 29.3 FG% -20.5 3P%
Kamara takes it 40 yards for the touchdown on the Saints opening possession
https://streamable.com/rvx4ex
"The Atlanta Police Department reported medical examiners requested the woman reveal her foot to check for injuries. Investigators said she was initially hesitant to show her foot, but when she did examiners found no signs her foot was run over." Republicans have messy divorces all the time and it seems to be a net positive for them.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/531629-warnock-responds-after-video-of-ex-wifes-accusations-surfaces-im-going
Two law enforcement officials tell AP authorities have found human remains in the vicinity of the Nashville explosion. It is unclear how remains are connected, whether they might belong to the person believed to be responsible or a victim.
https://apnews.com/article/nashville-explosion-christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
"The lesson from Jesus' life and ministry is that understanding people's stories and struggles requires much more time and effort than condemning them, but it is vastly more rewarding."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/opinion/jesus-christ-christmas-incarnation.html
Wish I had something more uplifting but ... it's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for so many, this is all I got: It's. almost. over.
New York City's EMS workers are finally getting COVID19 vaccines. Emergency Medical Service Captain Mary Merced, one of the FDNY's first recipients, says she sees the light at the end of the tunnel: "It is very important to me, my family, my grandchildren." First NYC EMS workers receive historic vaccine after virus claims 12th department member
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-fdny-first-responders-vaccine-20201223-i6je7queofgqvpn7xixxut53nm-story.html
"I'm done with that industry," Parscale said last month, leaving politics. That didn't last long -- now the onetime Trump digital guru later deposed as campaign manager is back pitching a new political consultancy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/politics/brad-parscale-trump-campaign.html
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The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ
First-century Christians weren't prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.
By Peter Wehner
Dec. 24, 2020
"Get used to different."
That line comes from a marvelous new TV series on Jesus' life, "The Chosen," in which Jesus, played by Jonathan Roumie, invites Matthew to become one of his disciples. Simon Peter, already a disciple, registers his fierce objection. Matthew is a tax collector, who were viewed as tools of Roman authorities, often dishonest and abusive. They were therefore treated as traitors and outcasts by other Jews.
"I don't get it," Simon Peter says to Jesus about his decision to invite Matthew, to which Jesus responds, "You didn't get it when I chose you, either."
"But this is different," Simon Peter answers. "I'm not a tax collector." At which point Jesus let's Simon Peter know things aren't going to be quite what his followers expected.
First-century Christians weren't prepared for what a truly radical and radically inclusive figure Jesus was, and neither are today's Christians. We want to tame and domesticate who he was, but Jesus' life and ministry don't really allow for it. He shattered barrier after barrier.
One example is Jesus' encounter, in the fourth chapter of the gospel of John, with the Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus and the woman talked about Jesus being the Messiah, why he was even deigning to talk with her, and the unnamed woman's past and present, which she initially sought to hide from Jesus. (It included her five previous husbands, according to the account in John, and the fact that "the one whom you now have is not your husband.") Yet not a word of condemnation passed the lips of Jesus; the woman felt heard, understood, cared for. Jesus treated her, in the words of one commentator, "with a magnetic dignity and respect."
The encounter with Jesus transformed her life; after it the woman at the well became "the first woman preacher in Christian history," proclaiming Jesus to be the savior of the world to her community, according to the New Testament scholar Kenneth Bailey.
This story is a striking example of Jesus' rejection of conventional religious and cultural thinking — in this case because Jesus, a man, was talking earnestly to a woman in a world in which women were often demeaned and treated as second-class citizens; and because Jesus, a Jew, was talking to a Samaritan, who were despised by the Jews for reasons going back centuries. According to Professor Bailey, "A Samaritan woman and her community are sought out and welcomed by Jesus. In the process, ancient racial, theological and historical barriers are breached. His message and his community are for all."
This happened time and again with Jesus. He touched lepers and healed a woman who had a constant flow of menstrual blood, both of whom were considered impure; forgave a woman "who lived a sinful life" and told her to "go in peace," healed a paralytic and a blind man, people thought to be worthless and useless. And as Jesus was being crucified, he told the penitent thief on the cross next to him, "Today you will be with me in paradise."
Jesus was repeatedly attacked for hanging out with the wrong crowd and recruited his disciples from the lower rungs of society.
And Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan, a story about a man who helps a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, made the hero of the story not an influential priest, not a person of social rank or privilege but a hated foreigner.
For Christians, the incarnation is a story of G-d, in the person of Jesus, participating in the human drama. And in that drama Jesus was most drawn to the forsaken and despised, the marginalized, those who had stumbled and fallen. He was beloved by them, even as he was targeted and eventually killed by the politically and religiously powerful, who viewed Jesus as a grave threat to their dominance.
Over the course of my faith journey, I have wondered: Why was a hallmark of Jesus's ministry intimacy with and the inclusion of the unwanted and the outcast, men and women living in the shadow of society, more likely to be dismissed than noticed, more likely to be mocked than revered?
Part of the explanation surely has to do with the belief in the imago Dei, that Jesus sees indelible dignity and inestimable worth in every person, even "the least of these." If no one else would esteem them, Jesus would.
Among the people who best articulated this ethic was Abraham Lincoln, who in a 1858 speech in Lewiston, Ill., in which he explained the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence, said, "Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows."
Yet another reason for Jesus' connection with outcasts undoubtedly had to do with his compassion and empathy, his desire to relieve their pain and lift the soul-crushing shame that accompanies being a social pariah and an untouchable.
But that is hardly the only reason. Jesus modeled inclusion and solidarity with the "unclean" and marginalized not only for their sake but for the sake of the powerful and the privileged and for the good of the whole.
Jesus must have understood that we human beings battle with exclusion, self-righteousness and arrogance, and have a quick trigger finger when it comes to judging others. Jesus knew how easily we could fall into the trap of turning "the other" — those of other races, ethnicities, classes, genders and nations — into enemies. We place loyalty to the tribe over compassion and human connection. We view differences as threatening; the result is we become isolated, rigid in our thinking, harsh and unforgiving.
Jesus clearly believed that outcasts had a lot to teach the privileged and the powerful, including the virtues of humility and the vice of supreme certitude. Rather than seeing G-d exclusively as a moral taskmaster, Jesus understood that the weak and dispossessed often experience G-d in a different way — as a dispenser of grace, a source of comfort, a redeemer. They see the world, and G-d, through a different prism than do the powerful and the proud. The lowly in the world offer a corrective to the spiritual astigmatisms that develop among the rest of us.
It's easy for us to look back 20 centuries and see how religious authorities were too severe and unforgiving in how they treated the outcasts of their time. The wisest question those of us who are Christians could ask ourselves isn't why we are so much more humane and enlightened than they were; rather, it is to ask ourselves who the modern outcasts are and whether we're mistreating them. Who are the tax collectors of our era, the people we despise but whom Jesus would welcome, those around whom are we determined to build a "dividing wall of hostility," to use the imagery of the Apostle Paul?
"How Christians, including me, responded to the AIDS crisis in the '80s haunts me," my longtime friend Scott Dudley, senior pastor of Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Wash., recently told me. "Had we, like the first Christians, cared first and cared most for modern day 'plague' victims, I think we'd be in a whole different conversation with the L.G.B.T.Q. community. We may still have significant differences of opinion. However, I believe the dialogue would be one of more mutual respect, and I believe the L.G.B.T.Q. community would feel less afraid of the wounds Christians can inflict." But even if the conversation were not different, as Scott knows, caring first and caring most for those victims of a plague would have been the right thing to do.
No society and no religious faith can live without moral rules. Jesus wasn't an antinomian, one who believes that Christians, because they are saved by grace, are not bound to religious laws. But he understood that what ultimately changes people's lives are relationships rather than rule books, mercy rather than moral demands.
Jesus' teachings are so challenging, so distinct from normal human reactions and behaviors, that we constantly have to renew our commitment to them. Every generation of Christians need to think through how his example applies to the times in which they live. We need our sensibilities to align more with his. Otherwise, we drift into self-righteousness and legalism, even to the point that we corrupt the very institution, the church, which was created to worship him and to love others.
The lesson from Jesus' life and ministry is that understanding people's stories and struggles requires much more time and effort than condemning them, but it is vastly more rewarding. And the lesson of Christmas and the incarnation, at least for those of us of the Christian faith, is that all of us were once outcasts, broken yet loved, and worth reaching out to and redeeming.
If G-d did that for us, why do we find it so hard to do it for each other?
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Stephen Jackson: "I won a championship in the Dominican Republic... I still get texts and DMs... asking me to come back... Overseas... they love you forever." Matt Barnes: "I think they did that... 'cause they want you to come back and check on your kids you left over there." Stephen Jackson: "Yeah I might have...Holla at me. They 18, 19 now so I'm good."
https://streamable.com/b57uqn
The Rockets list DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Gordon, John Wall and two-way player Mason Jones as out for tomorrow's game in Portland due to health and safety protocols. Ben McLemore and Kenyon Martin Jr., who both tested positive for COVID-19, are also out.
https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1342599617251319810
Steve Kerr on the Oubre/Wiggins early struggles: "Kelly's going to be fine. Andrew's going to be fine. They're proven players in this league. I've got to do a better job of putting them in positions to get comfortable."
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1342598811823194112
Steph Curry apparently doesn't like showing up Jesus on his big day. He averages 12.3 ppg, 29.3% FG/20.5% 3 PT splits on Christmas for his career.
https://twitter.com/GSWReddit/status/1341847916676182017
https://twitter.com/GSWReddit/status/1341848006618800128
Steph has G/dawful Christmas day stats lmao and it's a pretty consistent career trend. His best Christmas game was probably 2015, he had 19/7/7 on 6/15 shooting, 1/4 from 3. Everything else is pretty terrible.
Here's every year:
2010: 4p, 11a, 4r, 2/15 FG, 0/5 3PT
2011: 4p, 4a, 5r, 2/12 FG, 0/4 3PT
2013: 15p, 11a, 6r, 5/17 FG, 2/6 3PT
2014: 14p, 7a, 9r, 5/12 FG, 1/5 3PT
2015: 19p, 7a, 7r, 6/15 FG, 1/4 3PT
2016: 15p, 3a, 3r, 4/11 FG, 2/7 3PT
2018: 15p, 5a, 2r, 5/17 FG, 2/8 3PT
Fred Piccolo, spokesman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, deactivated his Twitter account after he tweeted in the middle of night that photos of each dead COVID-19 victim should be balanced with 99 photos of people who survive the disease.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-fred-piccolo-twitter-account-20201224-yw63wxtmljci5a4hptfrtnmf3q-story.html
I thought KD tore his achillies? He is the MVP. The Reaper's coming for his souls. Nobody is fucking with KD! We know who he is.
I really want to see a healthy Nets against a healthy Clippers team, that game will be nasty.
On what the largest issues are, Steph said, "I mean, a lot... We played two teams with championship aspirations. We understand that's the level we have to get to, but we're just not anywhere close to that. . . We didn't expect it to be this rough early. . . We need to win. Immediately."
https://twitter.com/con_chron/status/1342604736613109760
https://twitter.com/con_chron/status/1342604736613109760
https://twitter.com/con_chron/status/1342606251125919744
https://twitter.com/con_chron/status/1342607063738769409
Wiggins and Oubre gonna give this man a stroke before the year is over
Kyrie destroys Tatum on the fast break
https://streamable.com/55dpgc
Family tied to company with history of hiring unlawful 'aliens' among Kelly Loeffler donors
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-tied-company-history-hiring-unlawful-aliens-kelly/story?id=74903440
New from @ATTNews about Nashville explosion: "We have mobilized additional resources including our National Disaster Recovery team and are bringing in multiple portable cell sites to assist in the recovery efforts. We will provide additional updates at http://go.att.com/nashville"
https://about.att.com/pages/disaster_relief/nashville.html
Lol at the Brooklyn Nets bench all getting up to point at the line
Kyrie and KD best duo this season
Please send Steph Curry to the Brooklyn Nets.....
Tristan Thompson getting abused out there
Can we skip the Lakers vs Mavs and go straight into the anticipated Clippers vs Nuggets game?
Why does the NBA reward flopping artists like Smart? Everyone hates watching that shit
Kyrie just destroyed the Celtics (again lol)
Kevin Durant (29/4/3) and Kyrie Irving (37/6/8) combine to shoot 22/37 from the field (60%), 10/14 from three (71%) and 12/13 from he free throw line (92%) in a demolition victory against the Celtics.
The Brooklyn Nets (2-0) defeat the Boston Celtics (1-1) 123-95 in BostonPost Game Thread (self.nba)
Kyrie walks into the deep contested 3
https://streamable.com/plx5hh
KD hands off to Kyrie for another deep 3
https://streamable.com/u6n67e
Brooklyn is ok with 10 isos or 10 passing sequences. It's one of the most unique systems in the league right now. KD, Kyrie, and the rest of the team are just having FUN. The fastest way to build chemistry and define roles on a championship-caliber squad. KD and Kyrie are finally in a system that allows them to have complete freedom offensively, something they didn't have to such an extent in their previous teams. Also, everyone else on the Nets is fully committed to their roles. I just haven't seen this level of offensive freedom for everyone on the floor from any other team in the NBA.
KD is the best player in the world
What you guys don't know is that Sean Payton promised Taysom Hill this offseason that if the Saints were ever on the 1 yard line and Alvin Kamara was looking at scoring his 6th touchdown of the game, he would give him the ball and kill all the fun everyone was having
https://twitter.com/pff_seth/status/1342626728288661505
Kamara's 5th rushing touchdown of the game
https://streamable.com/rwld0a
Kamara gets touchdown #6
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/gvapmb
Drew Brees becomes the first player to pass for 80,000 yards in NFL history
Jayson Tatum has attempted zero free throws through his first two games (69 minutes played)
Why isn't Curry taking 30 shots a night, why aren't we exploiting the PnR? Other than Klay, Green and Looney, no other Warrior has played more than 5 games with Curry. In order to get the system back up and running you need your players to learn Steph's patterns, tendencies and get used to his style, that's why you need the team to play like nothing has changed, so they can get up there the fastest way possible. Going full 2017 OKC won't lead us to success. Why are Oubre and Wiggins shooting so many 3's when they're missing everything? You miss a 100% of the shots you don't take. No one ever came off a shooting slump by NOT shooting, you need them to take shots without hesitation regardless of how they're doing, because that's what we'll need when it matters. Why are we running a Motion offense when we don't have the personel for that, since our players have low passing IQ? Dray is coming back soon, he is the missing key, motion offense maximizes Steph's stenghts, as well as Role player's. Warriors ran a bunch of PnRs tonight, had some good looks and bricked a ton of open looks. The Warriors also generated a ton of open looks through Curry's off-ball movement. Again, bricked a ton of open looks. This isn't an offensive philosophy problem. This is a players just can't hit open jump shots problem. Besides missing a bunch of open shots, you can just tell the team hasn't learned how to play together at all yet which is understandable given the short amount of time they've played with each other. Kerr's system can take a bit of time to learn and Oubre/Wiggins don't seem like very high iq players which can slow their adjustment and with a short season it could be too late by the time they get it together. Wiseman looked phenomenal.
Officials in key states have IDed just a small number of even possible voter fraud cases. Penn. Lt. Gov. Fetterman said his state's two cases were "out of a Benny Hill skit." "It perfectly illustrates how rare and difficult it is to commit voter fraud."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voter-fraud-investigations-2020/2020/12/22/bdbe541c-42de-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html
keeping the government open is literally the bare minimum of doing their jobs -- but none of the people involved in the negotiations will see a change in their paychecks... while millions wait to hear on relief, military salaries and now income for workers doing their jobs
This is the kind of thing you'd see in late-stage Soviet Union, when nobody really believed it, including the people who wrote it: During the Holiday season, President Trump will continue to work tirelessly for the American people. His schedule includes many meetings and calls.
https://factba.se/topic/calendar
Francesca showed her parents a kind of love they never knew before and they will never forget it. In lieu of flowers, food, or gifts of any kind, donations can be made in honor of Francesca to the PMC Winter Cycle charity event, which donates 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar directly to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
https://teambeans.medium.com/team-beans-4657008c3073
http://profile.wintercycle.org/DP0276
Trump appears increasingly unlikely to sign legislation approved by Congress that would prevent millions from losing emergency unemployment benefits during a pandemic. Those benefits expire tomorrow.
Raise your hand if you would like to see Donald Trump testify under oath in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain why he continued to golf during a Christmas morning domestic terror bombing in a major American city
Props to the Celtics for playing two games back to back on the same night. Mavericks look more like the Celtics than the Celtics did today.
I love the wide open cocky dribble missed 3-pointer
Is everything a TikTok dance now?
This Celtics playing the Tarheels game is 1960's Minneapolized
Kawhi Leonard gets accidentially clipped in the mouth by new old teammate Ibaka and spills blood
https://streamable.com/wml03k
Kawhi Leonard is down and bleeding heavily on his face after colliding with Serge Ibaka. Medical staff is attending to him on the court
https://twitter.com/malika_andrews/status/1342710398257135616
Kawhi Leonard had 8 stitches to treat a mouth laceration after colliding with Serge Ibaka, the team says. After the game, coach Ty Lue said he believed Leonard will be "fine."
https://twitter.com/malika_andrews/status/1342719375665729536
Montrezl Harrell 22/7/2 in 28 minutes shooting 77% from the field (10-13)
The Los Angeles Clippers (2-0) drudge the Denver Nuggets (0-2) 121-108.
Talen Horton-Tucker hits the step back three from deep
https://streamable.com/jcvim1
Warriors have attempted 99 FG for 99 PTS each of their first two games. Quite a shocking stat. The rest of the team not named Curry and Wiseman need to step it up offensively if they want to win more like Curry says.
An interesting feature in empty arenas is the space behind the basket that teams have to work with now. You'll see bench guys warming up, doing wind sprints, ladder drills, etc. so they're not completely cold when checking into the game.
Montrezl gets revenge for the bullying he received last season from Boban
https://streamable.com/c4y17o
Good, this means they're getting along just fine: Kawhi protested when Ty Lue suggested he sit out the second half of the Clippers' preseason game against Utah when he learned he was the only guy scheduled to sit. That he told his new coach: "Never mind, I need to be out there."
https://twitter.com/MirjamSwanson/status/1342679349653172225
Harris finds Milsap with the behind-the-back pass
https://streamable.com/a0el0k
MPJ tips the ball away from Batum and throws it down
https://streamable.com/hyl2if
Jokic inbounds while the Clippers are still setting up their defense to get Baron an easy layup
https://streamable.com/u32os1
Japan: Man fled hospital after testing positive for coronavirus19, visited public bath
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/man-who-visited-public-bath-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus-not-prosecuted/
Boko Haram kill villagers in Christmas Eve attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55448105
The fact that a Vikings reporter lied about Marshon Lattimore mocking Justin Jefferson is a legit problem that needs to be addressed. Lattimore literally checked on Jefferson when the injury happened. That's a dangerous and BS assumption to make by that reporter.
https://twitter.com/rosvogloureport/status/1342655419546800129
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law New York's Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2020, a bill that aims to increase civic engagement by improving voter registration at state agencies. It could add more than one million new voters.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/12/22/new-york-gov-cuomo-enacts-automatic-voter-registration-in-bid-to-boost-election-turnout/?sh=61c6e8154d43
Arkansas far-left journalist among 4 charged in BLM firebombings of police vehicles
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-far-left-journalist-among-4-charged-in-blm-firebombings-of-police-vehicles-report
https://siouxcountyradio.com/news/2020/12/25/arkansas-far-left-journalist-among-4-charged-in-blm-firebombings-of-police-vehic
It's pretty clear now that Trump's next desperate play is to encourage disruption and/or violence, in Washington on 6th January, the day electoral votes are counted before a joint session of Congress.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342821189077622792
Operation Santa Is a Horror Story About American Poverty — Children have written requesting money for their parents, a bed to sleep in, and a better wheelchair to help them get around. There's nothing feel-good about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160701/operation-santa-christmas-horror-story-american-poverty
This is part of a dangerous trend in reporting each allergic reaction as news. A million people have been vaccinated. A few had allergic reactions. All turned out fine. More will occasionally happen. They don't all need headlines. It inaccurately skews perception of risk.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1342572082534756354
Cavs F Dylan Windler has broken left hand, no timetable on return
https://www.nba.com/news/cavs-f-dylan-windler-has-broken-left-hand-no-timetable-on-return
Lions QB Matthew Stafford, hobbling on an injured foot, is headed to the locker room. Chase Daniel has been throwing on the sidelines.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1342898931739586560
With his second touchdown pass of the day, Tom Brady becomes the first player in NFL history to score 600 total TDs in the regular season
If Tom Brady sits out the 2nd half, this will be his second game against Detroit where he had a perfect passer rating
Brady throws his fourth touchdown of the first half
https://streamable.com/iuid2i
A Browns player has tested positive for COVID-19 -- not Jedrick Wills Jr. -- and their flight to NJ for the #Jets game has been delayed while they conduct contact tracing
https://twitter.com/marykaycabot/status/1342911161507966978?s=21
Buccaneers clinch first playoff berth since 2007
T. Brady 22/27, 348 yrds, 4 tds, 0 interceptions
https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=401220286
Bradley Chubb is out. Won't play vs Chargers with ankle injury per source.
https://twitter.com/MikeKlis/status/1342935943314026504
The San Antonio Spurs (2-0) defeat the Toronto Raptors (0-2) by a score of 119-114 behind 27 points from DeMar DeRozan
McCollum nails the go-ahead 3 with 6.3 left
https://streamable.com/pm0o69
The Minnesota Timberwolves (2-0) defeat the Utah Jazz (1-1) by a score of 116-111 behind 25 points from D'Angelo Russell
James Harden tonight: 43 minutes, 44 points | 17 assists | 4 rebounds in OT thriller vs Blazers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4cNTRC3UU
CJ McCollum tonight: 44/3/8 on 17/30 shooting, 9/16 from the line, 0 turnovers and a game-winner in 44 minutes
The Cleveland Cavaliers (2-0) defeat the Detroit Pistons (0-2) 128-119 behind Sexton's 32 point performance
The Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) defeat the New York Knicks (0-2) 109-89, led by 27 points and 10 rebounds from Joel Embiid.
Fitzmagic completes a bomb while being decapitated
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/mmzrdp
Josh Rosen's Twitter banner is him on the Dolphins, his bio says he's a Buccaneer, he's suiting up for the Niners today, and facing the Cardinals who drafted him tenth overall just 2.5 years ago.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is in for Tua Tagovailoa. Dolphins have benched Tua again.
If Trump pardons himself, Biden should un-pardon him
A truly impressive performance by the Raiders, who in the span of 22 seconds saw their win probability change from 99.9% to 0.01% to get eliminated from playoff contention
The Dolphins ran 19 plays for 193 yards when Ryan Fitzpatrick was in. They ran 47 plays for 191 yards when Tua Tagovailoa was in.
Gruden said he has no regrets about working the clock and going for 3 instead of the TD..."I only regret the results."
More than 1.56 billion face masks will pollute oceans
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/more-than-1-56-billion-face-masks-could-end-up-polluting-oceans-report-1.5221239
Section 230 does not prohibit social media companies from suspending accounts that primarily traffic in Covid19 lies. The 1st Amendment allows social media to freely make those choices, and 230 makes it easier to avoid frivolous litigation about those decisions.
Then why did you get the vaccine? Fauci never lied, you lied and lie at all times
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1343221417287016448
Look who's first in line everyone: Marco "Covid19 is a hoax and vaccinations are designed to murder Republicans" Rubio
https://twitter.com/cpsutherland/status/1343221585461784576
I love when he says sorry when the deer has to go over a bump: Because you want to see a man saving a deer that is stuck on a frozen lake back to safety.
https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status/1342156541663703041
Yep: "Our intent was not to overturn the election in any way. Our intent was to focus on voter suppression in Ohio," Boxer told me. "They're talking about the vote that the presidency was stolen from Donald Trump. It's not even a close comparison." Former Sen. Barbara Boxer was the last senator to object to a state's Electoral College votes with Bush in 2005. She said it was one of her proudest moments, and explains why the circumstances are completely different from the current Republican effort. Democrats were focusing on real voter oppression in Ohio, Republicans consider all Democratic votes fraud and are trying to invalidate the election to remain in power. Boxer said that Tubbs Jones, who died in 2008, convinced her to join the 2005 objection by showing her the problems that took place with Ohio's votes, including hours-long lines at polls, broken voting machines and high rates rejection rates for provisional ballots in the state's African American communities.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/27/politics/electoral-college-objection-bush-boxer/index.html
Christian Wood's 31 points are the most by a Houston Rockets center in their team debut in franchise history. Previous highs: - Elvin Hayes, 25 points (San Diego Rockets) - Hakeem Olajuwon, 24 points
https://twitter.com/robksports/status/1343071350940971008
Kelly Loeffler opposed a suspension on negative credit reporting after her and her husband's firm "stood to be hurt by the proposal" ahead of a $10 billion acquisition. Kelly Loeffler's Letter Helped Set Stage for Husband's $10 Billion Deal
The senator never publicized the letter she signed opposing a moratorium on credit reporting. But months after she did, her husband made a notable acquisition.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kelly-loefflers-letter-helped-set-stage-for-husbands-dollar10-billion-deal
- A working mRNA vaccine (first ever in humans!),
- Apple M1 chip,
- SpaceX rocket launch,
- GPT-3,
- Tons of cool companies IPO'ing and tons more getting started,
- V-shaped recovery
- Electric cars
- Crypto going mainstream
Sure feels like the roaring 20's are starting
Baltimore Ravens fined $250k for Covid-19 outbreak
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30605369/source-baltimore-ravens-fined-250k-covid-19-outbreak
Warriors center Marquese Chriss has suffered a broken right leg (fibula) and will miss remainder of the season
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1343245207299612672
We really went from Christmas time π to Chriss miss time π’
Lakers coach Frank Vogel says Anthony Davis (right calf contusion) is out tonight vs. Minnesota.
https://twitter.com/jovanbuha/status/1343271715585937408
This was an extremely difficult year and it's okay to acknowledge it. In fact, by feeling devastated over the loss of 300,000 people and the economic catastrophe affecting millions, you're exhibiting basic empathy.
Jags fans cheer as the Bears score a touchdown
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1343261705732841472
Watkins throws a 50/50 ball to Mahomes and gets picked
https://streamable.com/ifdura
Jets "rough" the passer
https://twitter.com/TonyClementsTC/status/1343270082814861315
Jets receiver to Jets receiver for a long touchdown
https://streamable.com/4mgyqu
Mitch Trubisky throws into quadruple coverage in the redzone and gets picked
https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1343276128836804608
Falcons intercept Mahomes in the Redzone and return it for 52 yards
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1343280205301878784/vid/1280x720/mDw9tbdyR5oCi09c.mp4
Sam Darnold trucks the defender for the first down
https://twitter.com/thecheckdown/status/1343271744048533505
The Steelers winning the AFC North and getting blown out at home on the same day is firmly in play. Steelers start today's game vs. Indy with 3 throws and 3 incompletions. Struggle continues.
MRI on left wrist of Minnesota star Karl-Anthony Towns shows no bone damage. Team calling him "questionable" for game against Lakers tonight. Wolves are one of four teams in the West off to a 2-0 start.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1343296315455893506
Nobody is better at losing close games then the Falcons. Kids, that's reason number 104, why you don't become a Falcons fan.
WTF the Mavericks are blowing the Clippers to non-existence. Kawhi not playing is not an excuse to get blown out.
https://www.espn.com/nba/game?gameId=401267191
Koo misses the game-tying kick
https://www.clippituser.tv/c/wwrbng
Frank Gore becomes the 3rd player in NFL history with 16,000+ rushing yards, joining RBs Emmitt Smith (18,355) and Walter Payton (16,726).
https://twitter.com/NFL345/status/1343300090040037376
Deshaun Watson injured while trying to throw 265-pound DE Sam Hubbard with one hand
https://twitter.com/StevenCheah/status/1343300784742653953
The Chiefs clinch home-field advantage and a playoff bye
Mahomes to Robinson for the 25-yard touchdown to give the Chiefs the lead, with 2:01 to go in the game
https://streamable.com/kp0t23
The Chiefs have played 6 straight one-score games
The Hawks just announced that Kris Dunn will undergo ankle surgery on Wednesday. Recovery timeline TB
https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1343293497151954945
Dallas Mavericks broke the NBA record for the largest halftime lead with 50 point margin (77-27) against Los Angeles Clippers.
https://www.espn.com/nba/game?gameId=401267191
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30607630/dallas-mavericks-set-record-largest-half-lead-putting-la-clippers-50-point-hole
Kawhi PLEASE go to Golden State Warriors, thanks
The Timberwolves made 11 3s in the first half yesterday (saturday) against the Jazz
The AFC is guaranteed to have a team with 10+ wins miss the playoffs
Philadelphia Eagles' DeSean Jackson breaks loose for 81-yard touchdown vs. Dallas Cowboys
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30607605/philadelphia-eagles-desean-jackson-breaks-loose-81-yard-touchdown-vs-dallas-cowboys
Authorities say DNA testing confirms the human remains found at the blast site belong to Nashville bombing suspect Anthony Quinn Warner.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1343325832840937472
Ibaka drives to the basket and hits the tough shot to bring the Clippers within 41
https://streamable.com/rf2jee
Anthony "Dirk" Edwards nails the off balanced, one legged, fadeaway jumper
https://streamable.com/4rl7gj
Some interesting stuff from Joe Kennedy III this morning on @WCVB: he voted for Markey in November, saying he's "happy to support him in any way I can." Also said, "I have absolutely no plans to do anything else in politics, anytime soon. At all. Period."
https://twitter.com/hjessy_/status/1343321655913959425
Kennedy says he has spoken to members of President-elect @JoeBiden's team but he won't be returning to Washington. Instead, he says he will get involved with organizations and causes within the Commonweath on issues including healthcare, mental health, and poverty. #mapoli
https://twitter.com/hjessy_/status/1343321658212364288
Draymond Green remains out tonight against the Bulls.
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1343323551542046722
Paul George vs the Mavericks: 15 points on 4/13 shooting, 0/6 from 3, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 turnovers, - 22 from the floor
Deseree and Matthew Cox have had almost zero income since August, when Matthew was let go from his management job in pest control. His application for unemployment benefits from the state of Florida has never made it through the system's queue. The $300 per week Matthew, 38, scrapes together driving for DoorDash hardly makes a dent covering bills, rent and food for themselves and their two children with special needs. The Coxes have depleted their savings and moved from south Florida to the Indianapolis area for cheaper cost of living and to be near family that could help with childcare. But they say they need the extended unemployment benefits, rental assistance, extended eviction moratoriums and direct payments promised by Congress's stimulus package. At one point, Deseree, 37, said she couldn't afford a medication her son needs "just for him to be able to function." "People will die without this money," Deseree said. "People will get evicted. People will not be able to get their medication. To [lawmakers], $600 or $2,000, it seems so little. But to the American people right now, it's just everything."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/27/trump-stimulus-shutdown-congress/
Two Texas billionaires illegally and unconstitutionally received a $35 million pandemic-relief loan for one of their fracking companies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-fracking-billionaires-drew-covid-19-aid-while-investing-in-rivals-11609070400
Today the Atlanta Falcons blew a late game win probability of 86.5%, marking the fifth time this season where the Falcons have blown late game win probabilities of 86.5% or higher this season alone.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqRtUkaXEAE_WbV?format=jpg&name=small
Jimmy Galligan held on to a three-second clip of a White teenage girl saying the n-word while singing along to a rap song with the n-word for years. He posted the clip publicly when the girl had been admitted to a university in order to ruin her life. Future employer: "You held onto this video and stalked her for 3 years?" Galligan: "Yes" Future Employer: "I think we're done here"https://nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html
Reminder: Families turn obituaries into final pleas to avoid COVID-19. "He was born into an America recovering from the Great Depression...He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face..."
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/obituaries-include-warnings-of-covid-19
In today's game, the Mavericks had more points at halftime than the Clippers did at the end of the game.
You lost the election by 7 million votes. You lost 306-232 in the Electoral College. So you wants to, what, gin up street violence in the capital on the day Congress accepts the tally?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343328708963299338
In the future, all mentions of the name Trump will be removed from public spaces, some of his descendants will be recluses, some will change their names, and most of his supporters will deny they ever supported him. The legacy of Trump will be of an American terrorist.
PA: Out of 7M ballots cast, we had 3 cases of documented voter fraud in 2020. All three voted for the Trump.
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1343174559235792900
1) Dead mom Skull Older woman
https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/crime-emergencies/forty-fort-man-applied-for-a-ballot-for-his-deceased-mother-detectives-allege/article_ec840c70-2ccc-58f2-b187-97036d6990de.html
2) Returns in sunglasses πΆ
https://www.dailylocal.com/news/charges-filed-in-father-son-voter-fraud-case-in-chester-county/article_19d8db38-250b-11eb-bded-5765af29bc08.html
3) Dead Mom 2 ️⃣Older woman Skull
https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-pennsylvania-voter-fraud-donald-trump-muschick-20201223-cnltcwpt4rc3bje7gpvam2l6nm-story.html
Good New York Times reportage about how Trump's baseless crusade to subvert democracy has produced "a thorough debunking of the sorts of voter fraud claims that Republicans have used to roll back voting rights for the better part of the young century."
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/politics/republicans-voter-fraud.html
Hurts to DJax for an 81-yard touchdown
https://streamable.com/l4zaep
Justin Herbert has broken the rookie passing TD record with his 28th TD pass
https://twitter.com/chrishayre/status/1343314654647312384
Dwayne Haskins has been benched. Taylor Heinicke is entering the game at QB for Washington.
Baker threw 53 times today with no receivers. That seems like that could be a potential reason for them losing to the Jets.
Live look-in of Lambeau Field ahead of tonight's game. Snow expected to continue through at least the first half of Packers-Titans.
https://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/1343328068274950146
With the Browns/Colts loss and Ravens/Dolphins win there is a real chance a team will go 11-5 and not make the AFC playoffs with 7 playoff spots.
The Browns can still clinch a playoff berth next weekend with a victory over the Steelers OR a Colts loss.
The Steelers breaking Covid19 protocols fresh after the ravens get fined.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGUw516/
"At the age of 48, Niekro was the oldest player in major league history to play regularly until Julio Franco played at age 49 in 2007...His total of 5,404 1/3 innings pitched is the most by any pitcher in the post-1920 live-ball era."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1343261632982609927
"We're still following leads, but right now there is no indication that any other persons were involved," said the FBI's Douglas Korneski. We've reviewed hours of security video surrounding the recreation vehicle. We saw no other people involved."
https://apnews.com/article/nashville-explosion-anthony-warner-rv-2cc36514764d302b9fd5e0781a3c31f4
Trump may want to shutdown the gov? May think if the gov is not open Joe can't become POTUS. This is partially correct. Trump's term ends noon 01.20.21. If Joe's not processed Nancy becomes POTUS. But she'll fix. Or 2/3rds Congress can fix. Trump can only create chaos and delay.
Hurts fumbles the ball, while his knee is on the ground, call still stands as a fumble
https://streamable.com/2ylcv1
Josh Reynolds catches the pass, lets the ball go, is ruled to have "given himself up," Rams retain possession
https://streamable.com/rhw37w
The Seattle Seahawks are NFC West champions for the 11th time in franchise history, and for the fifth time in Pete Carroll's tenure
The PR team for the Washington Football Team tried to get in touch with Dwayne Haskins to speak with the media. They can't get a hold of him. NFL rules state that the starting quarterback has to speak with the media after the game. I'm sure another fine is coming for Haskins.
https://twitter.com/ScottABC7/status/1343359435247390725
Kyrie with the crafty layup over LaMelo
https://streamable.com/wkwl3c
Karl-Anthony Towns suffered a left wrist dislocation and will be re-evaluated weekly on a return to play plan. He won't require surgery. A hand specialist evaluated Towns in LA today.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1343361046204080134
Trump signs pandemic relief and government-funding measure, averting government shutdown.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1343363887211507712
Trump has finally signed the coronavirus19 relief bill — 5 days after calling it a "disgrace" and less than 24 hours after allowing 12 million+ Americans to lose unemployment benefits.
As he backs down and signs relief/spending bill, Trump says he will seek to cut items he does not like: "I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill." SCOTUS ruled in 1998 the line-item veto is unconstitutional. This redlined version would be a symbolic gesture without any enforcement now that Trump has signed the Covid19 package into law.
Supermarkets in England to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy one, get one free offers, as part of proposed government crackdown on obesity. No 10 also plans to stop multi-buy offers on foodstuffs high in sugar and fat from 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/28/unhealthy-snacks-to-be-banned-from-checkouts-supermarkets-in-england
LaMelo Ball throws a bullet to Terry Rozier who slams it on Kevin Durant
https://streamable.com/m0cpnh
Julius Randle makes a business decision on the Giannis fastbreak dunk
https://streamable.com/81w9ko
Myles Turner takes one dribble from the 3 point line and skies for the one handed jam
https://streamable.com/jt1zhz
Pandemic P is currently trending on Twitter. This is most likely due to the Dallas Mavericks' lopsided win over the Los Angeles Clippers. The nickname "Pandemic P" is a mutation of the nickname Clippers star Paul George gave himself, "Playoff P", that started when George played poorly in last year's playoffs. RIP Pfizer P. Not his fault the rest of his team forgot how to play basketball.
Wizards have blown a 17 pt lead in about 8 mins. The big thing Westbrook sitting out has exposed is Washington's shaky depth beyond the top 10. The Wizards were outscored by 15 in Jerome Robinson's seven minutes of action, allowing Orlando back in the game.
This is a win for Pelosi & Schumer. Section 230 will remain intact. A "redlined" document from Trump (that's not even a real thing) or his rescissions mean nothing since he's gone on Jan. 20.
The House will pass a bill to give Americans $2,000 checks. Then I will move to pass it in the Senate. No Democrats will object. Will Senate Republicans?
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1343374127479083008
German police raid church service with over 100 maskless worshippers
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-german-police-raid-church-service-with-over-100-maskless-worshippers/a-56119653
At least 11 coal miners shot dead by Pakistani Muslims in Balochistan's Mach area after being kidnapped
https://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/532419-11-coal-miners-killed-by-armed-attackers-in-pakistan
Jayson Tatum hits the BIG shot for the Celtics late in the fourth with 2.9 left. The Boston Celtics (4-3) defeat the Detroit Pistons (1-5), 122 - 120
https://streamable.com/tijoj0
Jayson Tatum Tonight: 24 points on 10-22 shooting including 4-8 from 3 to go along with 12 assists, 8 boards, a game winning shot and 2 clutch blocks.
Derrick Henry 52-yard touchdown run
https://streamable.com/s8yfju
As a matter of political hygiene and constitutional precedent, the House Judiciary Committee should at least draft articles of impeachment based on this call, even if there's not time for the House to adopt them.
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1345799697521233920
Former Ted Cruz chief of staff: Today, I objected to the seating of my colleagues from six states: AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI. It would confound reason if the presidential results of these states were to face objection while the congressional results of the same process escaped public scrutiny.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq1__QXW8AMXfP4?format=png&name=small
https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1345873272831963141
What becomes of us when 74+ million of our fellow citizens will simply deny reality? Asking for a country.
In response to the Republicans' disunionist actions this coming week, the Biden team needs to drop the language of healing and unity already and start FIGHTING. Fucking coward establishment democrats. Biden's determination to dismis the mounting Trump efforts to overturn the election, and major-majority of Republican enlisting in that effort and backing Trump, establishment democrats need to FUCKING FIGHT BACK.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom become meaningless and void, rendering it equivalent to a cereal box trin, the moment it was given to criminal terrorist Limbaugh.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/03/trump-give-ally-nunes-presidential-medal-freedom/
Joe Harris hits the halfcourt 3 buzzer beater to put the Nets up 3 at half time
https://streamable.com/khnk84
Luka DonΔiΔ (left quadricep contusion) will miss tonight's game in Chicago.
https://twitter.com/MavsPR/status/1345876267569188865
Kevin Durant has not lost a step
https://streamable.com/1momth
Jamal Murray has 26 points in the half along with 16 points in the second quarter vs the wolves
The Denver Nuggets are currently running a lineup with JaMychal Green (6'8" 225lb) at center & PJ Dozier (6'6" 205lb) at PF
20 years ago, Ted Cruz was a junior lawyer on the team that won George W. Bush and Dick Cheney the election. This weekend, it was Cheney who led an effort to have all the living Defense secretaries speak out against the case Cruz and others want to make against this election:
https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-defense-secretaries-rebuke-trump-election/2021/01/03/1c708f64-4de5-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html
"Mr. President, we'll send you the full link from WSB."- Raffensperger. Trump said he didn't want to see this link: https://wsbtv.com/news/politics/georgia-election-officials-show-frame-by-frame-what-really-happened-fulton-surveillance-video/T5M3PYIBYFHFFOD3CIB2ULDVD
Pro-Trump forums are very excited about Trump's call for a mass DC protest on the day Congress counts the Electoral College votes. Many see it as the mobilisation call they've been waiting for.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpnI-pYW8AAGDMV?format=png&name=900x900
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1340323730883538946
Trump supporters are planning on being heavily armed in DC on Jan 6, to "arrest" Congressmen who accept Biden's victory or just to intimidate.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpnJtQiXUAAvm5W?format=png&name=360x360
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1340325062348566529
Some are preparing to shoot any counter-protesters
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpnKwq8XEAEM3u1?format=png&name=small
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1340325308688445446
They see it as a "marching order". And some are preparing to storm the Capitol to stop the certification. They genuinely believe they are doing it on Trump's orders.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpnK1jPXIAAbStr?format=png&name=360x360
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1340325866702815232
On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341016471795843080
These people are angry at the Democrats. They're angry at the Republicans for not suspending democracy. They hate the media, and many consider police to be the enemy even as they fly the "blue lives" flag instead of the Stars and Stripes.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341016990903922695
They are convinced that Congress will, somehow, declare Trump the winner on Jan 6. Maybe Pence will just refuse to count the Electoral Votes from states Biden won? Or the Senate will throw those votes out? Or Justice Thomas? Alternatively...
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341017615326703621
...some think Trump will win because *they* will ensure it. Maybe by forcing Congress to certify him as the winner at gunpoint. Maybe as backup forces to Trump's supposed military coup.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341017969841811456
How will January 6 be policed? We've already seen that the White House can effectively commandeer the DC police, and construct ad-hoc paramilitary forces out of prison officers and CBP. Will Congress get the protection it needs?
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341019133668978690
The Capitol Police has 2200 officers, but I'm guessing they mostly aren't riot trained or SWAT types. The question here is if federal forces will be *allowed* to help them.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341020110807584770
To be clear here, I don't think the 3%ers, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers or boogaloo types are going to seize the Capitol. But some of them are going try. And people will die.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341020685641113600
How will US Conservatives react? Well, they made Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero. They ignored the Whitmer kidnap plot, except as a way of calling for more violence against her.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341021591493353475
I note that @Robertwaldeck reckons I'm completely wrong here and that DC forces including the Capitol Police, DC police and Nat Guard, which he knows well, will be able to keep things completely under control.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1341025022601781249
More than a year back, I wondered if Trump would be the first President to be impeached twice. Tonight, members of Congress are seriously considering it.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1346963824524595201
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