Rittenhouse, the person who went to Kenosha to murder Democrats and did: "He was helping people"
https://www.wisn.com/article/rittenhouse-s-mom-he-was-helping-people-in-kenosha/34884708
We all struggle. Doctors have me on this new anti-inflammatory kick. Vestiges of Covid19. Requires static cardio. I find every reason to delay… Sometimes for hours. But, I'm grinding right now. That's all I control. My ability to do the next right thing.
https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1335990315203883020
Great Barrier Reef has deteriorated to 'critical' level due to climate change
https://abcnews.go.com/International/great-barrier-reef-deteriorated-critical-level-due-climate/story?id=74569794
The #Jets have fired defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, per sources.
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1335979322126045189
Jerry Jeudy in a deleted tweet: "At least I got my conditioning in 🤷🏾♂️"
https://twitter.com/vonsmagic/status/1335834764515962881
Justin Herbert has thrown 23 TDs in his first 11 starts as a rookie. This is the first time a rookie QB has accomplished this feat since Daniel Jones in 2019
Tyreek Hill catch that was called incomplete
https://twitter.com/BradGalli/status/1335768044648493056
Chiefs had a wild Tyreek Hill TD that was ruled incomplete, and they didn't challenge. Chiefs punted it away without realizing until after the fact.
I'm really excited for @XavierBecerra to lead HHS. He believes deeply that health care is a human right, and he has said repeatedly that HHS should use its full power to take on Big Pharma greed. An excellent pick by @JoeBiden!
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1335718643582316550
An Associated Press analysis of data provided by food banks in the Feeding America network found a nearly 60 percent increase in the amount of food distributed since the coronavirus19 pandemic began.
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-hunger-coronavirus-pandemic-4c7f1705c6d8ef5bac241e6cc8e331bb
A federal judge in Michigan on Monday denied a Republican effort to undo the certification of President-elect Biden as the winner of the presidential election in the state and rejected every aspect of the case.
Speaker David Ralston: "If we overturn this one, there could be one overturned on us some day. We just have to be very careful about how we act out our frustrations and concerns and understand that these things can happen again some day."
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/why-kemp-wont-call-an-illegal-special-session-to-overturn-georgias-election/6L6KT2NZEZCU7MYXADEBLIO6S4/
Merrill to pay $26 million to New Hampshire, former NH Governor to settle churning allegations. It is the largest monetary sanction in the Bureau's history and the second largest FINRA settlement in at least a decade.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/07/merrill-lynch-to-pay-26point25-million-to-settle-churning-allegations-.html
Trump's Afghanistan Airstrikes Increased Civilian Deaths by 330 Percent
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-afghanistan-airstrikes-increased-civilian-deaths-by-330-percent-brown-costs-of-war-study-reports
At least one person has died and 200 others have been hospitalized due to an unidentified illness in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, reports said Monday.
https://twitter.com/rgilliescanada/status/1336006555725131779
The Trump campaign's filings are vague on what exactly they want a judge to order at this point that could affect Biden's win in MI — they ask for an order that the MI SoS violated the law, but there's no specific ask to nullify the results/invalidate ballots
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1336027879881183237
Democrats are objecting to a doctor who has previously opposed vaccine requirements being featured as the lead witness at a Senate Homeland Security Cmte. hearing Tuesday on Covid-19 treatment.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1336027207483973632
James Harden is the Rockets. He's the stamp on everything that they do. Him not being professional and missing multiple practice days is really not good.
Mystery illness kills one and leaves 200 in hospital in India. Symptoms include nausea, anxiety and loss of consciousness - and all patients have tested negative for COVID-19.
https://news.sky.com/story/andhra-pradesh-mystery-illness-kills-one-and-leaves-200-in-hospital-in-india-12154221
Mexican cartels now in possession of data gathering tools used by federal law enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/07/mexico-cartels-drugs-spying-corruption
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for third year in a row
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/07/coca-cola-pepsi-and-nestle-named-top-plastic-polluters-for-third-year-in-a-row
Why Biden Needs to Throw the Book at Trump. Healing Cannot—and Should Not—Occur Without Prosecution
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/07/why-biden-needs-to-throw-the-book-at-trump/
Former American Bar Association Presidents, 1,000-Plus Lawyers Call for Bar Investigations of Trump Campaign Attorneys
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/former-american-bar-association-presidents-1000-plus-lawyers-call-for-bar-investigations-of-trump-campaign-attorneys/
First Lady Proudly Unveils White House Tennis Pavilion—as U.S. Covid19 Deaths Near 300K
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-skewers-melania-trump-over-tennis-court-unveiling-as-covid-deaths-near-300k
Armed Trumpers in MAGA Gear Threatened Michigan's Top Election Official at Her Home
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/armed-michigan-protest-secretary-of-state-home-election_n_5fcd9995c5b63a1534530e6d
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdpqk/armed-trumpers-in-maga-gear-threatened-michigans-top-election-official-at-her-home
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/07/armed-trump-supporters-surround-michigan-secretary-of-states-home-threaten-her-family-officials/
Federal judges in Georgia and Michigan eviscerated 2 of Sidney Powell's 'Kraken' lawsuits in one morning
https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-loses-2-kraken-lawsuits-in-one-day-in-georgia-michigan-2020-12
Sen. Schumer's debt relief plan would erase $50,000 from each N.Y. student loan
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-schumer-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-20201207-cqdhmg7te5c7rbbazquexdha64-story.html
Former Alabama senator dies of Covid19 at age 78, and in his last words warns, 'We messed up'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-alabama-senator-dies-covid-age-78-his-last-words-n1250236
After Republicans Loosened the Rules of Engagement, Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Rose by 95 Percent
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/after-trump-loosened-the-rules-of-engagement-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-rose-by-95-percent/
Jon Ossoff campaigning in Lilburn, GA: "David is hiding. A month ago in Savannah I debated an empty suit, and last night in Atlanta I debated an empty podium. Imagine being a U.S. senator afraid of answering questions in public, for fear that he might incriminate himself."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1336075515568947200
If Pence cannot bring himself to personally announce to a Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the electoral votes to enter the White House, that announcement would be made in his absence by the Senate's President pro tempore.
It appears that Dr. Fauci will appear (remotely) with President-elect Biden tomorrow, but will skip an appearance at President Trump's vaccine summit.
https://twitter.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1336075398665424897
Leading Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna decline invitations to Trump's Anti-Vaccine Summit.' https://statnews.com/2020/12/07/pfizer-moderna-decline-white-house-vaccine-summit/
A good way to know someone is lying to you, as is the case here, is when they tell you Biden only over-performed Clinton in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philly — and no other metro area. It's just so far from true that it's almost laughable.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/02/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-team-are-running-out-voter-fraud-tricks/
Cornyn would not say if Trump should concede once the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden but said of the effort to fight the results on the House floor: "I don't think that's a good idea." (instead of "that is unconstitutional and Congress will not allow that to happen")
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336073253668982785
Trump administration declined to buy extra Pfizer vaccines.
https://nytimes.com/live/2020/12/07/world/covid-19-coronavirus#trump-administration-officials-passed-when-pfizer-offered-in-late-summer-to-sell-the-us-more-vaccine-doses
Sen. John Cornyn, a member of Senate Republican leadership, made clear Republicans will only accept aid to state and local governments in a covid19 relief deal if there's an agreement on liability protections for businesses to exempt them from paying unemployment compensation related to covid19 and to exempt them from lawsuits if 1) their employees get sick/die for being forced to work and sue 2) if their employees are fired because of covid19 issues.
Jones is the scientist who was fired from the Florida Dept of Health a few months ago - this NPR aericle story from May says, "She says she was let go for refusing to manipulate data to support the state's reopening."
https://npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/20/859741245/florida-governor-defends-firing-of-top-data-scientist
1/There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech. They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint. They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids..
https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665
Trump egregiously mishandled pandemic by making it all about him. To curry favor from China's Xi, he dismissed advice from CDC, WHO and epidemiologists. He politicized wearing masks and social distancing. Covid19 has flourished under Trump.
HORRIFIC: Supreme Court refuses to question school district policies that let transgender students use bathrooms aligned with their gender identity. Court, without comment, rejects appeal from Oregon parents who said privacy rights other students are being violated.
https://twitter.com/GregStohr/status/1335955357311643648
Deb Haaland told me she hasn't spoken to the Biden team about the Interior job. Asked if she's interested in the post, she said: "Who wouldn't be interested, right? They haven't called. I know they are working towards things. When they get to it, I assume they'll get to it."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336070264510173185
"You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna's mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html
I helped cover Rudy's '93 campaign for NY Newsday. They often lied, aided by a press secretary Rudy was reportedly sleeping with. He used dirty tricks, made deals w/ corrupt bosses, and egged on a racist police union. Stop the mythology
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/rudy-giuliani-decline-coronavirus.html
Wow Biden's already banned saying Merry Christmas: Warmest thoughts and best wishes from our family to yours. Happy Holidays!
https://twitter.com/TrumpPalmBeach/status/1336012368137105412
For the last month, Trump has been telling us that companies like Pfizer purposely withheld the vaccine announcement to mess with his reelection chances. Turns out...
https://nytimes.com/live/2020/12/07/world/covid-19-coronavirus#trump-administration-officials-passed-when-pfizer-offered-in-late-summer-to-sell-the-us-more-vaccine-doses
"Nursing home staffers attended a 300-person superspreader wedding. Now six residents have died."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/07/washington-superspreader-wedding-nursing-homes-covid/
MLB told clubs to assume no DH in NL next year
https://twitter.com/Rotoworld_BB/status/1335961397549649921
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/agents-raid-home-fired-florida-data-scientist-who-built-covid-19-dashboard-rebekah-jones/6482817002/
Wow, this is so intense. 500 New York businesses closed this year. Restaurants, art galleries, dry cleaners, cobblers, hair and nail salons—every one of them someone's livelihood (often that of many someones) and dreams.
https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-businesses-closed-2020-pandemic.html
NFL probe into alleged sexual harassment of Washington Football Team employees turned up decade-old confidential settlement. Former team lawyer fighting to keep it secret says owner Dan Snyder getting involved
https://washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/12/07/beth-wilkinson-lawsuit-washington-football/
Harden basically lit the league health protocol on fire, All players at this point are required to self-quarantine except for essential activities. While Harden has yet reported to training camp and has been partying at strip clubs without a mask with large group of people on both coasts while relentlessly claiming he's Muslim. The league should absolutely suspend him. Make a statement that even the best players aren't immune to the rules. 20 games for blatant disregard for not only his health and those around him, but the reputation of the league and what it built with the bubble loses a lot of credibility when he acts this way.
@Acosta to @wolfblitzer: "Some #Republicans in #Congress are encouraging the president to keep fighting it out, even after the electoral votes are officially tallied up next week - teeing up a potential fight in the #House that's expected only to drag out the inevitable."
https://twitter.com/Porter_Anderson/status/1336075600142938116
Judge Sullivan on #Flynn's case just granted a lineup of requests to file friend-of-the-court briefs in the wake of Trump granting a pardon to the former national security adviser.
https://twitter.com/MMineiro_CNS/status/1336077252145139714
A group of Watergate prosecutors and Dems on the House Judiciary Committee are among the parties granted leave to file amicus briefs.
https://twitter.com/MMineiro_CNS/status/1336077819621871617
The requests Sullivan has granted were filed in late Sept/early Oct before Trump signed Flynn's pardon. Background:
https://www.courthousenews.com/sweeping-flynn-pardon-covers-possible-future-charges/
Multiple senior Army officers and enlisted personnel expected to face disciplinary action that could result in reprimands, re-assignment or some being relieved of duty when the Army secretary unveils the results of a Fort Hood independent review Tuesday
https://twitter.com/barbarastarrcnn/status/1336065202379481089
This is completely unacceptable. Gov DeSantis is sending armed state police to the home of a Covid Tracker - GeoRebekah - after systematically ordering Florida health department to not talk about Covid19 before the election.
https://sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-coronavirus-florida-desantis-spin-ss-prem-20201203-tyjmgkos6bd7vo7vnripqliany-htmlstory.html
THANK YOU WASHINGTON DC TEAM.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401220176
Alex Smith with a million-IQ play and smile to take the ball off the field to stop the clock for a last-second FG
https://streamable.com/djai6t
Alex Smith is gushing blood after the center's cleat spiked his leg. Man.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1336092002732158976
YEP: Alex Smith has made like $200 million in his career. He's got a wife and kids. No reason not to retire. Except that the dude is a competitor, and so he's out there playing on one surgically repaired leg and the other leg spewing blood.
https://twitter.com/MichaelDavSmith/status/1336094156830150658
Bostic picks off Rapist Ben to seal the win for the Washington Football Team
https://streamable.com/7l2pil
James Washington makes the catch and breaks multiple tackles en route to a 50-yard touchdown
https://streamable.com/et5h8k
Chase Young stops Snell from reaching the endzone on 4th and goal from inside the 1
https://streamable.com/znbm9c
The NFL has suspended #Bengals S Shawn Williams and #Titans DE Teair Tart one game each for stepping on opponents in Sunday's games, per @TomPelissero and me.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1336094576289964033
Sims with a beautiful one-handed catch on 3rd and 4 to get WFT in field goal range
https://streamable.com/mfataa
Alex Smith to Logan Thomas for a 15-yard touchdown to tie the game at 17
https://streamable.com/kfvc6m
What Alex Smith has done is unbelievable. Comeback Player of the Year even before taking a snap. But playing winning football after everything he's been through is even more incredible.
That was Pittsburgh's 6th punt of the game and 54th of the season. Only the Jets and the Eagles have more. Pretty sure you don't want to spend a ton of time in that neighborhood.
U.S. Army leaders are expected to fire or suspend a "significant number" of officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood over repeated violent conduct, in a dramatic purge to correct a command culture, U.S. officials said Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-army-8af5fb1707e06948a46823a79ab1aed7
Beating the Cowboys on Thanksgiving and the unbeaten NFL-best Steelers a week later. This is the most exciting stretch of Washington Football Team football in years. It may not lead anywhere but still.
Wisconsin's response to Sidney Powell's lawsuit points out that the Dominion voting machine she says were part of a big election-rigging plot weren't used in most of the counties she's complaining about, and in the two that did use them, Trump won.
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1336116867845517312
You can now place Washington DC NFL team into the Team You'd Rather Not Play category with high-quality candidates for Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Defensive Rookie of the Year.
WTF WFT! A 4-7 football team named "Football Team" just beat the undefeated 11-0 Pittsburgh Steelers. Welcome to 2020.
1972 Dolphins safe, again. Bottle with popping cork
Dustin Hopkins: 3-for-3 with kicks of 49, 45 and 45 yards. Big game for the veteran kicker. #WashingtonFootball
Washington was down 14-0. They've out-scored the Steelers 20-3 since. This fight might be up for grabs still but they've won the last several rounds decidedly.
Very early for Trump to be shifting blame on GA
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336110929856040960
Enjoy watching Biden's inauguration in 44 days
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336110929856040960
In 'Huge Victory for Polar Bears and Our Climate,' Court Rejects Trump Approval of Offshore Drilling Project in Arctic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/07/huge-victory-polar-bears-and-our-climate-court-rejects-trump-approval-offshore
Following state law, Georgia GovKemp has re-certified the state's 16 Democratic electors. Earlier today, the Secretary of State re-certified the election after a third tally of roughly 5M votes.
"Some of our industry's biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service." https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/christopher-nolan-rips-hbo-max-as-worst-streaming-service-denounces-warner-bros-plan
Brian Kemp literally ran as Trump Republican. And has governed as one too.
Becerra "is not a health care expert and has not overseen an office as sprawling as the Department of Health and Human Services."
The ER physician who publicly criticized Trump's decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with Covid19 has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's schedule starting in January.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-reed-schedule-doctor-who-criticized-trump-actions-to-be-removed/
Why are they doing this for outgoing President. Spiteful to the very end.
"But why," they asked, "would you ever leave Los Angeles?"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EorZ7-qU8AEI7aE?format=jpg&name=360x360
NEW: L.A. County DA George Gascon has issued a directive to prosecutors that the following misdemeanors will be declined for prosecution, with exemptions.
-Trespassing
-Disturbing the peace
-Driving without license
-Prostitution
-Resisting arrest
Details/exemptions below @FOXLA
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1336119868182077445
Seth Curry makes a circus shot + the foul on Paul George and let’s him know about it
https://streamable.com/7hisau
Gov. Northam signs 'Breonna's Law' banning no-knock search warrants: Virginia is the first state to ban no-knock search warrants in response to Breonna Taylor’s death, according to Gov. Northam's office.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/no-knock-search-warrants-banned-virginia-breonna-taylor-death/65-1b5bd1c5-84f5-4e68-8a39-c3ac487d24c8
Colombian environmental official assassinated: 284 environmental leaders and land defenders have been killed in the country so far during 2020
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/colombian-environmental-official-assassinated-in-southern-meta-department/
Josh Allen draws a personal foul
https://streamable.com/hc2eet
Alex Smith with a million-IQ play and smile to take the ball off the field to stop the clock for a last-second FG
https://streamable.com/djai6t
Another absolutely bananas ESPN monday night football graphic, this time touting the bills' record
https://streamable.com/pqecoj
The 8-3 Bills are underdogs to the Niners playing in Arizona tonight? Am I seeing this right?
https://twitter.com/jjones9/status/1335936397107064833
Buffalo hadn't won on Monday Night Football since Doug Flutie led it to victory against the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 4, 1999. The Bills were the only franchise since the start of 2000 that hasn't won a Monday Night Football game.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30473744/cole-beasley-josh-allen-lead-first-place-buffalo-bills-rare-victory-monday-night-football
White takes the ball away from Wilson to end the 49ers' drive
https://streamable.com/fvxu34
Dolphins legend Larry Csonka enjoyed watching Washington end the Steelers undefeated season 😆 (via @Larry_Csonka39)
https://twitter.com/espnnfl/status/1336128041723043840
Not hard to see what went wrong tonight.... Every single 49ers pass rusher was an average of over 5 yards away from Josh Allen at the time of throw tonight. This is way above the NFL average and the worst performance I've seen this season from any pass rush
https://www.twitter.com/LombardiHimself/status/1336171610374467585
Documents released by U.S. regulators Tuesday confirmed that Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine was strongly protective against COVID-19 -- offering the world's first detailed look at the evidence behind the shots.
https://apnews.com/article/science-ap-top-news-coronavirus-pandemic-594e55efc2b927d85aae3c54da8f463f
Election officials in Cobb County, Georgia, the state's third most populous county, are planning to illegally and unconstitutionally open fewer than half the early voting locations for the Senate runoff elections in January. The county swung heavily to Democrats in the general election.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1336302006168850432
Don't miss the coming great conjunction. In just under two weeks, the two largest planets in our Solar System will angularly pass so close together in Earth's sky that the Moon would easily be able to cover them both simultaneously. This pending planetary passage -- on December 21 -- will be the closest since 1623. Jupiter and Saturn will remain noticeably bright and can already be seen together toward the southwest just after sunset. Soon after dusk is the best time to see them -- because they set below the horizon soon after. In mid-November, the Jovian giants were imaged together here about three degrees apart -- and slowly closing. The featured image, including a crescent moon, captured the dynamic duo beyond the Cape Murro di Porco Lighthouse in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201208.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction
https://www.flickr.com/photos/144743338@N07/50621993051/in/pool-apods/
Republicans block inaugural committee from recognizing Biden win
https://www.axios.com/republican-block-recognizing-biden-mitch-mcconnell-nancy-pelosi-9e38550d-ea7e-4b14-bf9a-9deee1a34cbc.html
Now that the #WhiteSox have landed frontline starter Lance Lynn from the Texas #Rangers, they will focus on a right fielder. They have Michael Brantley, Joc Pederson and Adam Eaton on their radar.
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1336322268910129156
Biden fans reject blue anti-MAGA hats as 'we don't need another cult'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/biden-blue-maga-hats-trump-b1767888.html
Reminder: Republicans rejected chance to lock in 100 million more Pfizer Covid19 vaccine doses for now and the future
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/08/trump-passed-up-chance-to-lock-in-100-million-more-pfizer-covid-vaccine-doses/
Trump makes sudden exit from Medal of Freedom ceremony leaving recipient baffled
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-medal-of-freedom-ceremony-walk-out-b1768011.html
Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court over 'unlawful election results' in 2020 presidential race
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/texas-sues-four-battleground-states-in-supreme-court-over-unlawful-election-results.html
Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Tests Positive For Covid19
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/jenna-ellis-coronavirus/index.html
North Carolina's Labor Commissioner Abandons Workers One Last Time on Her Way Out the Door: In response to calls for more regulation, Cherie Berry wrote that Covid-19 was not "proven likely to cause death or serious physical harm from the perspective of an occupational hazard."
https://newrepublic.com/article/160472/north-carolinas-labor-commissioner-abandons-workers-one-last-time-way-door
#Steelers' HC Mike Tomlin on the loss to Washington: "If you don't get a yard, you don't deserve to win." Pittsburgh had 5 chances to score from the one-yard line and failed all 5 times.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1336357156065603589
Mike Tomlin on how to fix drop woes. #Steelers "They can catch the ball or get replaced by guys who will."
https://twitter.com/alex_kozora/status/1336358598386003975
A suspected Chinese spy slept with at least 2 mayors and got close to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell in a yearslong intelligence campaign, report says
https://news.yahoo.com/suspected-chinese-spy-slept-least-130946174.html
So Republicans are going to make the move I feared. When the certified election results are presented, a few House and Senate Republicans will vote to challenge them. Both Houses will recess to "debate" the states in question. The House will vote to accept the results, the Senate will vote to not accept the results. The president of the Senate, VP Mike Pence, will then be the decision-maker. I thought maybe McConnell and others would move on from Trump but as usual, appear to be doubling down on him. They are about to truly attempt a soft coup and steal this election through Congress.
Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies voted against a resolution that would have affirmed the committee was preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced Tuesday.
https://www.axios.com/republican-block-recognizing-biden-mitch-mcconnell-nancy-pelosi-9e38550d-ea7e-4b14-bf9a-9deee1a34cbc.html
49ers don't expect Jimmy Garoppolo, George Kittle back anytime soon
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/12/08/49ers-dont-expect-jimmy-garoppolo-george-kittle-back-anytime-soon/
Federal Regulators Are Illegally And Unconstitutionally Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built. Federal regulators and West Virginia agencies are rewriting environmental rules again for construction of a major natural gas pipeline across Appalachia, even after appeals court blocked it for a second time.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-regulators-are-rewriting-environmental-rules-so-a-massive-pipeline-can-be-built
Kellyanne Conway is illegally and unconstitutionally appointed to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Air Force Academy. Matt Schlapp is illegally and unconstitutionally appointed to be a Member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. Neither can be removed.
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1336374435507564553
Carlos Santana agrees with Royals: $17M, two years
https://twitter.com/jonheyman/status/1336386140589461507
Reporting w/ @ESPN_MacMahon: James Harden has recently indicated to Houston he'd be open to a trade to Philadelphia or other contenders. So far, no substantive talks with Sixers. Daryl Morey's been adamant he wants to keep his two young stars.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1336361078251511808
Teams would be reluctant to give up the assets required to get a player of Harden's caliber without confidence that he would be willing to remain long-term. Few contenders have ability to furnish Houston with the combination of assets that it's seeking to consider dealing Harden.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1336361820282621956
James Harden has arrived in Houston and tested in accordance with the NBA's protocol today, league source tells ESPN.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1336387837839749124
Draymond Green and James Wiseman both officially test positive for COVID-19
https://www.sfchronicle.com/warriors/article/Warriors-without-Green-Wiseman-because-of-15782717.php
Quick glimpse from Warriors first practice scrimmage today, ft. an Oubre to Curry to Wiggins fastbreak dunk
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1336124114361184261
.@USArmy Secretary Ryan McCarthy on Fort Hood Independent Review Committee Report: "This report without a doubt will cause the Army to change our culture. I have decided to accept all these findings in whole."
https://c-span.org/video/?507109-1/pentagon-briefs-reporters-fort-hood-independent-review-committee-report-findings
"We are in a very dark winter," Biden says re spikes and vaccines. "We need to level with one another. It will take longer than we would like to distribute to all corners of the country. ...It's daunting.But I promise you,we'll make progress starting on day 1. That's the truth"
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1336390238638383105
This is new: McConnell says negotiators should drop both state and local and liability shield provisions in order to reach consensus on covid19. Dems want state and local, McConnell called liability his "red line"
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1336390102029922306
President-elect Biden announced Dr. Tony Fauci will be staying on to help the incoming administration: "A truth teller and a patriot" who will tell him what "I need to know. Not want I want to know."
Quite the split screen: as Trump speaks at his White House vaccine summit, Biden expresses gratitude for Anthony Fauci to stay on to work on his COVID-19 task force. No one of Biden's team were invited to the summit.
Mohammed bin Salman rejected claims he sent an elite hit squad to kill a Saudi spy chief exiled in Canada, arguing he's immune from prosecution anyway
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-mbs-lawsuit-denies-ordering-hit-squad-claims-immunity-2020-12
The victims all had increased levels of highly-toxic heavy metals in their bloodstream, including lead and nickel, according to a preliminary study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). "We have tentatively identified the primary cause of this strange phenomenon, but it is not yet clear what the source is and how and why it has happened," said Katamaneni Bhaskar, a state health commissioner in Andhra Pradesh. "For instance, the chemicals were found in the bodies of the patients but not in either water or any other food substance."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/mystery-illness-india-neurotoxic-poisoning-initial-reports-say/
Dr. Fauci at the Biden health event: "In the fight against this pandemic, we must lead with science and that a key piece of our ongoing work is communicating consistently with the American people."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1336395171890515968
Trump said the first vaccine came from the US and that's a lie. The first vaccine came from Germany (without ANY money from the US at all) and the 2 german doctors, a married couple with Turkish roots, who did it are worth 5 billion dollars now (more than trump ever had or will have)
Trump said it's "terrific" that so many Americans have gotten the coronavirus19
Christopher Krebs, a former Trump official, sues the campaign and the lawyer who said he should be shot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/briefing/chris-krebs-defamation-lawsuit.html
"My inclination is that I would support that," @SenSanders tells @KatyTurNBC of a waiver for Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as Defense Secretary
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1336399853807656965
Don't want to alarm you, but here's one of the Republican's verified accounts asking its supporters if they are ready to die for Trump's election fantasies. We have two major parties: one normal, and one... this. The reality-based press is going to need separate coverage rules.
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1336348748109254658
JoeBiden: "100 million shots in the first 100 days."
After there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud and after an election where Democratic voters largely voted by mail (which in turn was after the Trump and Republican repeatedly cast doubt on mail-in voting): Georgia State Senate Republicans say they will work during the legislative session to illegally and unconstitutionally eliminate at-will absentee voting, to illegally and unconstitutionally require photo ID for absentee voting for cause and to illegally and unconstitutionally outlaw drop boxes
https://twitter.com/RElliotWSB/status/1336392637687984133
Expect more of this elsewhere. Before the pandemic, more Republicans voted by mail and Republican lawmakers were uninterested in mail ballot fraud or making it harder to cast a mail ballot. When Democrats start voting in a particular way, Republicans suddenly become very interested in implementing illegal and unconstitutional measures to stop Democrats from voting. Kudos to Republicans who resisted Trump's efforts to subvert democracy, but Republicans have passed restrictive voting measures for decades throughout the U.S. aimed to make it harder for Democrats and persons of colour in particular to vote. There's your real election rigging.
Arizona Governor responds to his state's Republican Party tweeting today that folks should take up violence & be willing to die to get Trump the state's 11 electoral votes: The Republican Party is the party of the Constitution and the rule of law. We prioritize public safety, law & order, and we respect the law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We don't burn stuff down. We build things up.
https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/1336398038609264647
William Shakespeare has been vaccinated against the coronavirus19. In Coventry, England, on Tuesday, a man named William Shakespeare, 81, joined Margaret Keenan, 90, as a recipient of the new coronavirus19 vaccine. The world may be a stage, but William Shakespeare from Warwickshire didn't flinch or shy away from his task: As Britain started to roll out the coronavirus19 vaccine on Tuesday, Mr. Shakespeare became the second person in the country to receive the vaccine outside a clinical trial. "It could make a difference to our lives from now on, couldn't it?" Mr. Shakespeare, 81, said with a smile shortly after being vaccinated at University Hospital Coventry, in central England, just 20 miles north of where the man for whom he was named was born in 1564. "Shakespeare gets Covid19 vaccine," the BBC wrote as a headline. Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" became The Taming of the Flu. And "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" quickly turned into The Gentlemen of Corona.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/world/william-shakespeare-covid-vaccine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html
Eagles' HC Doug Pederson is naming Jalen Hurts his new starting quarterback and the rookie will start Sunday vs. the New Orleans Saints, sources tell @mortreport and me. Carson Wentz now will backup Hurts.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1336378779426566144
NFC East starting QBs Week 1: Cowboys: Dak Prescott, Eagles: Carson Wentz, Washington: Dwayne Haskins, Giants: Daniel Jones NFC East starting QBs this week: Cowboys: Andy Dalton, Eagles: Jalen Hurts, Washington: Alex Smith, Giants: Colt McCoy
https://twitter.com/jonmachota/status/1336380309835804675
Army Finds 'Major Flaws' at Fort Hood; 14 Officials Disciplined
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/fort-hood-officers-fired-vanessa-guillen.html
The OMB has officially notified lawmakers that Trump intends to veto the defense policy bill (#NDAA). Here's the letter to Capitol Hill.
https://twitter.com/HarrisonCramer/status/1336412468663431169/photo/2
https://twitter.com/HarrisonCramer/status/1336412468663431169
I don't remember seeing an OMB memo in the Schoolhouse Rock legislative process explainer. Trump is defunding the military, what a 2020 plot twist! Support our veterans amirite @realDonaldTrump? Don't miss the whine in here about the wall funding (paragraph 4)
Eye-opening look from pewresearch on the changing geography of Covid19 deaths: From March-May, densest areas were hit hardest. Now, rural areas suffering 2x the death toll
https://pewresearch.org/politics/2020/12/08/the-changing-geography-of-covid-19-in-the-u-s/
"It was a stunning theft, akin to bank robbers who, having cleaned out local vaults, then turned around and stole the FBI's investigative tools. In fact, FireEye said on Tuesday, moments after the stock market closed, that it had called in the FBI." With the Fireeye breach news coming out, it's important to remember that no one is immune to this. Many security companies have been successfully compromised over the years, including Symantec, Trend, Kaspersky, RSA and Bit9. Security companies are a prime target for nation-state operators for many reasons, but not least of all is ability to gain valuable insights about how to bypass security controls within their ultimate targets. The biggest news here for me is the admirable standard that Kevin Mandia and Fireeye team is setting in rapid and transparent disclosure of the intrusion, as well as release of red team tools stolen by the adversary. That will go a long way to mitigating the potential impact of this intrusion for organizations all over the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/technology/fireeye-hacked-russians.html
Sen. Blumenthal (D-Conn.) will NOT support a waiver for Lloyd Austin to serve as defense secretary, he tells me. Blumenthal voted against a waiver for Mattis and says a waiver would "contravene" his belief in civilian control of the military. Lots of Democratic defections on Austin.
Now Roy Moore is weighing in on the Supreme Court case seeking to invalidate millions of mail-in votes in PA. Moore appears to be arguing that *all* early voting violates the federal Constitution. It's unclear from the brief why Moore's argument that early voting is unconstitutional should invalidate absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, but not early votes in Florida, where Trump both voted early and won the state.
https://supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20A98/163088/20201208152905478_Motion%20to%20Submit%20Amicus%20Brief%20in%20Support%20of%20Application%20for%20Injunction.pdf
It will be fascinating to see the MAGA response when SCOTUS, including Trump-appointed justices, rejects each and every election challenge. Will that mean that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett will suddenly be seen as sellouts?
From Major League Baseball broadcaster to the Roberto Clemente League:Thom Brennaman is heading back to the broadcast booth three months after resigning from his role with the Reds for anti-lgbtq slur
https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/12/08/thom-brennaman-hired-roberto-clemente-league-reds-resignation
LOLLL Supreme Court Rejects Pro-Trump Lawmaker's Bid to Overturn the Pa. Election and Doesn't Bother to Comment https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/supreme-court-rejects-pro-trump-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-the-pa-election-and-doesnt-bother-to-comment/
How long until @realDonaldTrump starts tweeting that Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are RINOs?
Reminder: Donald Trump, Dealmaker in Chief, Turned Down "Multiple" Offers To Buy 100 Million More Pfizer Vaccination Doses
Reminder: Trump keeps losing the 2020 election over and over and over
Republicans clinch 2-2 deadlock for Biden FCC as Senate approves Trump nominee to prevent Democratic majority. This is what Republicans are doing instead of covid19 relief -- obstructing the incoming president and the will of the people.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/senate-confirms-trump-fcc-nominee-cementing-2-2-deadlock-for-biden-admin/
When you look at which Republicans said and did what, it does seem notable to me that almost no one with actual authority over the results (govs, statewide officials, state legislature leaders, judges) used the powers of their office to try and steal the election for Trump
Fact: Biden won the presidency winning 79% of counties with a Lululemon store and 19% of counties with a Tractor Supply Company.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1336404423996813313
FWIW, ~50% of the U.S. electorate lives in counties with a Lululemon, and ~69% of the U.S. electorate lives in counties with a Tractor Supply.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1336405347033108480
Andrew Yang is calling elected officials to gauge support for a possible bid to become New York City's next mayor, according to several people involved in the talks, even though New Yorkers voted Cynthia Nixon and Zephyr Teachout out of New York
4 of the 10 most populous counties in Georgia are illegally and unconstitutionally reducing the number of locations where people can vote early in the state's Senate runoff races, prompting an outcry from civil rights and voting rights organizations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/georgia-counties-cut-back-early-voting-sites-ahead-senate-runoffs-n1250307
For those of you who kept saying "Just wait until the Supreme Court!" Well, your wait is over.
Meanwhile, over on planet-Parler, the Supreme Court's decision is being met (as many things there are) with calls for martial law and armed insurrection.
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1336437615269203968
Trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is TREASON AND TERRORISM.
Iowa, which has the 3rd highest confirmed COVID19 cases per capita, has now vaulted past the national average for deaths.
>1 in 1,100 Iowans dead.
Sources tell the WaPo that the Russian SVR intelligence service --APT 29 -- appears to be behind the hack of FireEye. That's the same group that hacked Democratic servers in 2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/leading-cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-hacked/2020/12/08/a3369aaa-3988-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html
To call Trump litigation a clown show is a tremendous insult to clowns. Some have compared their error-ridden filings to prisoners filing on their own. But prisoners don't have J.D.'s and limitless resources. Top lawyers haven't touched these cases for a reason. They're garbage.
Remember when Trump fell for a fake account posing as his sister? (If not: He did.) Well, I figured out who was behind it: a 21-year-old DoorDash driver and Trump supporter in Mechanicsburg, Penn.
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/08/technology/trump-family-impersonator.html
Biden bombed out of two presidential bids; on his third try he's seemingly going to get certified the winner more times than any other candidate ever.
.@SenWarren, a member of Senate Armed Services Committee, said she will vote against Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense: "I opposed a waiver for Gen. Mattis, and I will oppose a waiver for Gen. Austin. I don't think we ought to be doing these waivers," @mkraju reports tonight.
https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1336439703545982984
Documents we obtained reveal troubling details about ICE's handling of Mergensana Amar's death in custody. Records show ICE officials kept Amar restrained over objections of hospital staff, and didn't follow the agency's policy on death notifications.
https://www.americanoversight.org/american-oversight-documents-reveal-troubling-details-about-ices-handling-of-death-in-custody
With 433 members, Democrats will only need 217 votes to pass legislation (not 218) — and can afford to lose three members (not two). Will still be razor-thin on most votes. And this is assuming GOP win in two contested seats they currently lead by slim margins. IA-2 and NY-22.
Over 550 Groups Urge Biden to Become #PlasticFreePresident With Eight Executive Actions to Address Pollution Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/08/over-550-groups-urge-biden-become-plasticfreepresident-eight-executive-actions
The Pennsylvania Attorney General @JoshShapiroPA reacts on @CNN to the SCOTUS order tonight: "Look the president saying he won doesn't make it so... courage isn't following the lies of Donald Trump or the lunacy he wants you to follow. Courage is following the laws."
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1336450678449975296
DeSantis appointee quits after raid on home of fired Florida data scientist. Ron Filipowski announced his resignation from the 12th Circuit Judicial Nomination Commission on Twitter on Tuesday, saying a raid at the home of Rebekah Jones was unconscionable.
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/desantis-appointee-quits-over-raid-on-home-of-fired-florida-data-scientist/
Trump camp moves to illegally and unconstitutionally disqualify NV Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty from election challenge because at ceremony he congratulated SecState Cegavske on 'extraordinarily successful' vote.
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20421476-trumpazdisqual120820
OK, I read the expert affidavit and it's as bad as he says. It argues that if everybody voted for the same party in 2020 as they did in 2016, it's impossible that Biden won states Clinton lost. It's ridiculous. And Texas is using it to try to invalidate other states' elections.
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1336448467493851137
Wow. Earlier today, I wrote about the significant increase in people citing Newsmax as one of their top 2-3 news sources.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/08/newsmax-one-america-news-gain-prominence-they-push-trumps-baseless-theories/
But never would have predicted this ...Newsmax TV scores a ratings win over Fox News for the first time ever
https://twitter.com/audreycnn/status/1336459408180699139
The NFL experienced a significant drop in Covid-19 infections during its most recent testing period, likely the result of FORCING HERD IMMUNITY
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30477989/nfl-had-significant-drop-positive-coronavirus-tests-last-week
White House proposes eliminating federal unemployment benefits to end debate on covid19 stimulus relief for workers and the forcibly unemployed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/08/stimulus-checks-economic-relief-package/
In Idaho, officials had to shut down a *virtual* public meeting on covid19 b/c anti-mask protestors were banging on the doors at their houses during the call.
https://idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article247678350.html
Miami defensive back Al Blades Jr. said Tuesday he will miss at least three months after being diagnosed with inflammation of the heart. Blades said the myocarditis diagnosis came after doctors were concerned about some bloodwork that came back while he was "going through some Covid19 protocols." Blades said doctors made the diagnosis after an MRI was performed. It's common for athletes to undergo cardiac exams after contracting the coronavirus19 as part of a return-to-play protocol — with myocarditis something that is often looked for in those additional tests.
https://apnews.com/article/college-football-miami-football-coronavirus-pandemic-manny-diaz-e47f82260c2e811f61d6d0285a2e55ad
Baltimore Ravens WR Dez Bryant says he's tested positive just before kickoff. Ravens wide receiver Dez Bryant announced on Twitter that he tested positive for Covid-19 before his much-anticipated reunion with the Cowboys on Tuesday night.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30480237/baltimore-ravens-wr-dez-bryant-says-tested-positive-just-kickoff
https://twitter.com/DezBryant/status/1336469570262020102
Why I Chose Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense by JoeBiden
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/secretary-defense/617330/
YEP: The guys on the FOX set basically saying "what do you mean there's no close contacts we literally saw people standing right next to Dez" is immensely entertaining. This whole thing is a mess.
https://twitter.com/BrettKollmann/status/1336475671716093952
EVERY SINGLE BALTIMORE RAVENS PLAYER WAS HEAVILY AND REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO COVID19. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS. ALL THE RAVENS PLAYERS ARE INFECTED WITH COVID19 (AND HAVE BEEN INFECTED FOR WEEKS). NONE HAVE TESTED NEGATIVE. THEY ALL TESTED POSITIVE AND TESTED POSITIVE REPEATEDLY.
The Cowboys gave up 294 rushing yards tonight. That's the most by a team since the Cowboys gave up 307 against the Browns in Week 4.
Justin Tucker's missed FG from 36 yards out ends his NFL record of 70 straight made FGs inside 40 yards. Remarkable.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1336488627136761856
Dalton launches the hail mary into the endzone and the ball goes right through Lamb's hands
https://streamable.com/zsuzqd
France confirms outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on duck farm because people refuse to stop eating+wearing animals
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201208-france-confirms-outbreak-of-highly-pathogenic-h5n8-bird-flu-on-duck-farm
Joe Biden's climate change plan is one of America's most ambitious ever
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/12/03/joe-biden-climate-change-plans-explainer-orig-yir-jnd.cnn
Azerbaijani Muslims Beheaded Armenian Christian
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/azeri-forces-accused-beheading-elderly-armenian-civilian
Lame duck administrations should not be allowed to change rules or laws that affect the incoming administration. It's so blatantly obstructive and goes against the will of the people. It's yet another thing Republicans have abused and taken advantage of because they are TERRORISTS. Trump Team Proposes A Rule That Could Stall Biden's Health Care Agenda
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/944274246/trump-team-proposes-a-rule-that-could-stall-bidens-health-care-agenda
Texas can't block votes cast in other states. Absurdly, it's trying. | The Supreme Court is sure to reject this latest attempt to overturn the election.
On this day 2 years ago, the Miami Dolphins defeated the New England Patriots on the final play of the game, pulling off the first ever multi-lateral game-winning touchdown in NFL history
https://v.redd.it/ci9xr1c676461
These are so frustrating to deal with. Yes there really are registered Democrats who voted straight Republican. I really don't know what else to say to these people: On my continuing quest to understand how Mitch McConnell, who had an approval rating of 18%, managed to win reelection by 57%, I dug even deeper
The deeper I dig, the more I find the numbers out of Kentucky hard to swallow
Here's a follow up on Kentucky's election results
(basically, most Democrats in Kentucky not only voted for McConnell, they voted for him in record-breaking numbers)
https://twitter.com/GrassrootsSpeak/status/1336713647050153984
DrLeanaWen says "People need to remember hospitals are the last line of defense," and that the first line is individuals and community. "What we do in our daily lives, that's what is going to be so critical in saving our healthcare system."
https://twitter.com/postlive/status/1336754634384429059
Dr. Leana Wen says now is the time to "hunker down." "We've not even seen the impact of Thanksgiving travel. By the time we get to see those numbers reflected in hospitalization...that takes us into Christmas and into New Year's, where we might have another surge ."
https://twitter.com/postlive/status/1336754347150094336
Pennsylvania court AGAIN Denies Republican effort to decertify the 2020 general election results in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rejects last-minute suit from Republican state House Reps led by Daryl Metcalfe to roll back certification of the vote. This leaves the Texas challenge before SCOTUS as the only active court challenge to the state's results.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsylvania-decertification-challenge/
Cobb County elections officials restores early-voting sites for Georgia Senate runoff
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/cobb-adds-early-voting-locations-after-criticism/TTCSXLKNABHWTLM32IXEMUJGPE/
Hackers breached the European Medicines Agency and accessed regulatory documents about Pfizer's coronavirus19 vaccine. https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/statement-regarding-cyber-attack-european-medicines-agency https://reuters.com/article/us-ema-cyber/biontech-says-covid-19-vaccine-data-unlawfully-accessed-in-cyberattack-on-eu-regulator-idUSKBN28J2Q7
Nixon in 1960 would like a word...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336691981981016066
YouTube will remove any new videos alleging Trump lost election because of fraud. YouTube announced they will remove "any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections." But the millions of video claiming Trump won and Democrats rigged it, posted before today, will remain.
https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-will-remove-any-new-videos-alleging-trump-lost-election-because-of-fraud/
So far seventeen states filed a brief in the Supreme Court just now in support of Texas' request that the justices throw out the results of the presidential election in four other states that didn't support Trump. A lot of complicity in the brief because they're calling early voting and drop boxes and mail-in ballots illegal and unconstitutional even though each and every one of the seventeen states have allowed all three for several hundred of years. They're even attacking expanding time of early voting even though they all signed off on expanding the time of early voting. Everything they're attacking 1) THEY SIGNED OFF ON IN THEIR OWN STATES and 2) IS EXPLICITALLY CONSTITUTIONAL
Weeks after the SCOTUS turned down emergency relief from PA Rep Party on the state supreme court extending deadline for receipt of absentee ballots, the Party's cert petition is still pending. Court won't act before electors vote: The Republicans litigants whose emergency bid to nullify Joe Biden's certified win in PENNSYLVANIA was rejected by SCOTUS yesterday will soon petition the justices for a formal appeal. Four or more justices must agree to grant review of the PA Sup Ct ruling at issue here
https://supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-542.html
Insanity. Will they next appoint Trump as the president of the new confederate states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Budd
Imagine telling somebody at the beginning of the year that Browns/Giants would be flexed to SNF, Flexed to replace 49ers/Cowboys too: NFL has flexed Week 15 Browns-Giants game to Sunday night on NBC. Niners-Cowboys moves to 1 ET on CBS. Jets-Rams kicks off that day at 4:05 ET on FOX.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1336717427242045441
Broncos CB AJ Bouye has been officially suspended for 6 games starting immediately per source.
https://twitter.com/mikeklis/status/1336697750658887680
Rockets star James Harden will need to register six negative coronavirus19 tests before returning to group workouts according to NBA protocols, source tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Harden returned to Houston for testing this week after being out of town.
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1336780023752237056
As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds most Americans, including Shitstain Black people who are the second-worst hit demographic, will not get the vaccination
https://apnews.com/article/ap-norc-poll-us-half-want-vaccine-shots-4d98dbfc0a64d60d52ac84c3065dac55
House passes temporary government funding bill to prevent shutdown, buy more time for COVID-19 relief talks.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1336798027697283072
Unlike Trump himself, Trump's (nonsense-filled) Supreme Court brief does not claim that there was mass fraud in the election. It claims that policy changes made by Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin made all the fraud that could have happened "undetectable."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1336797482655903745/photo/1
It's true that Trump is filing lawsuits and losing, but the idea that "nobody seriously believes" that the election will be overturned has not aged well because Trump and most Republicans are saying they want the results overturned and they are fighting to the death to overturn the results.
So the John Eastman brief for Trump was ghost-written by the guy who drafted Texas's brief that the Eastman brief supports? Oh my. The Supreme Court will not appreciate the sock-puppetry, especially in a case with these stakes: Who is Lawrence Joseph? Well, he's one of the lawyers in the original Texas complaint, listed as the "Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Texas".
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1336787200193736707
The metadata of the Texas SCOTUS complaint itself also features Lawrence Joseph, alongside Aaron Reitz, the Texas Deputy AG who was just promoted into his job two weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1336788111855136780
Texas media reported that Lawrence Joseph seems to have been hired in as an outside attorney for this, instead of Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins
https://texastribune.org/2020/12/08/texas-ken-paxton-election-georgia/
I suspect that he's Larry Joseph, a DC-based conservative lawyer
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1336790331098951680
Larry Joseph has backed Trump at the Supreme Court before, filing an Amicus in Trump v Vance on behalf of conservative lobby group "Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund"
https://supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-635/130712/20200203130026618_EFELDF%20Pres%20Taxes%20Amicus.pdf
Federal investigators served a round of subpoenas on Tuesday, including to Hunter Biden
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-federal-tax-investigation-87c200c919aa61396b5d43077bc5b0ff
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hunter-biden-reveals-that-the-feds-are-investigating-his-taxes
Michigan House says almost 30 members, staffers tested positive for Covid-19; The chamber reported the numbers a week after Rudy Giuliani testified in Lansing, and just days after the former mayor tested positive for Covid-19.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-house-says-almost-30-members-staffers-tested-positive-covid-n1250610
Motion Of Donald J. Trump, President Of The United States, To Intervene In His Personal Capacity As Candidate For Re-election, Proposed Bill Of Complaint In Intervention, And Brief In Support Of Motion To Intervene
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163234/20201209155327055_No.%2022O155%20Original%20Motion%20to%20Intervene.pdf
Despite all the rhetoric about election fraud, though, Trump's brief to the Supreme Court makes clear that he's not alleging fraud. The brief also defines Covid19 as a hoax created by Democrats to rig the electoral college against him and as such all the election measures enacted due to covid19 are illegal and rigged and all the votes related to those measures are illegal and rigged and should be nullified in four states where Biden won, but not in any state where the REPUBLICAN Attorney Generals backing the briefing greenlighted the measures in their own states and Trump won (like Missouri, Texas, Florida, Kansas, etc)
Only in America could someone whose father assassinated a president be called upon to help re-elect a different president decades later. Trump asked Ted Cruz to argue the Texas case challenging the election results if the Supreme Court agrees to hear it. Cruz agreed.
https://nytimes.com/live/2020/12/09/us/joe-biden-donald-trump/trump-asked-ted-cruz-to-argue-a-case-seeking-to-overturn-the-election-if-the-supreme-court-agreed-to-hear-it
So let's see #SN8 took off, shut down 2 engines, made it to altitude, did the belly flop, flew, reoriented itself, descended, and then had a rough landing.
https://twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/1336807416797794304
SpaceX's Starship test flight didn't quite make the landing and just exploded. It was more or less expected to fail somehow. Musk said 30% chance of total success a couple weeks ago. The fact that it flew the whole profile until the last bit is actually quite a success.
Photo taken by paparazzi on one of the happiest days in my life. My father was carrying me home from the hospital where I, among countless other kids, was treated for polio. I couldn't walk yet. Vaccines spare today's kids from polio. Now we await another vaccine to save us.
Folded hands
https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/1336802728488673292
Sen. John Cornyn, the senior GOP senator from Texas, is critical of his state's lawsuit challenging the election results in several battleground states, telling me: "I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory of it."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336803777001771008
"You know, it's very unusual because when a state sues a state, the Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction, so you don't have to go through the ordinary procedure. I read just the summary of it, and I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory of it."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336804069541879812
"Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say so on how other states administer their elections," Cornyn said. "We have a diffused and dispersed system and even though we might not like it, they may think it's unfair...
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336804350136606722
"those are decided at the state and local level and not at the national level. So it's an interesting theory, but I'm not convinced," he told me
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1336804351000666112
Pentagon set to begin COVID-19 vaccinations on small scale
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-begin-coronavirus-vaccination-c5f6e42e861b30596dbb8b9e6737173a
VA watchdog told prosecutors his probe of Secretary Wilkie's effort to discredit House staffer turned up possible criminal conduct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-wilkie-watchdog-investigation/2020/12/09/df7fa6b0-381a-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
Republicans stop Democratic-led effort to block Trump's arms sales to UAE
1 in 3 South Dakotans has now been infected with Covid19. Stunning.
https://twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/status/1336719617004277762
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/trump-uae-arms-sales-444002
The Michigan Supreme Court has denied a request from two voters, one of whom is part of 'Black Voices for Trump,' to stop the secretary of state or governor from declaring winners of the 2020 presidential election.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-12-09-20/index.html
This is insane and a direct threat to US national security and US national health and being done by REPUBLICANS: National Weather Service no longer has sufficient internet bandwidth to keep websites running reliably and will have to remove online information because REPUBLICANS controlling the National Weather Service refuse to allow the service to spent $1.5 million (of their $5.4 billion budget) to avert rate limits. REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of Senate Commerce Committee with oversight over NOAA, said a request to upgrade the Weather Service's computing infrastructure would probably find bipartisan support. "From wildfires in Washington to hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, seconds count to save lives and property, and weather data plays a critical role in getting our emergency managers and first responders the information they need," she said. "The United States should be striving to be the best in the world when it comes to weather data and forecasts, and with everything we've seen this year, a request to upgrade servers at the National Weather Service would find support on both sides of the aisle in Congress. Telling people to limit their use of this critical data is not an acceptable answer."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/09/nws-data-limits-internet-bandwidth/
Remember: Mitch McConnell and Republicans trashed Democrats for holding up aid to jobless Americans but the Republican stimulus plan contains zero dollars in extra federal unemployment benefits and proposes ending federal unemployment benefits altogether
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-trashed-democrats-delaying-unemployment-aid-gop-federal-unemployment-benefits-2020-12
EU-wide ban would save nature from 500,000 tonnes of microplastics
https://www.reuters.com/article/environment-plastic-eu/eu-wide-ban-would-save-nature-from-500000-tonnes-of-microplastics-agency-idUSKBN28J1EE
Germany blocks Chinese takeover of satellite firm on security concerns
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-germany-china-m-a/germany-blocks-chinese-takeover-of-satellite-firm-due-to-security-concerns-document-idUKKBN28I1U0
France's Europe minister comes out as gay and pledges to travel to 'LGBT-free' towns in Poland
https://news.yahoo.com/frances-europe-minister-comes-gay-164902334.html
International Criminal Court says it will not take action against the UK, despite finding evidence British troops committed war crimes in Iraq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55247033
2020 Marks the Point When Human-Made Materials Outweigh All the Living Things on Earth
https://time.com/5919294/human-materials-biomass-2020/
Deep-sea 'gold rush': secretive plans to carve up the seabed decried: "Exploration permits for the international seabed already cover an area equivalent in size to France and Germany combined, and that area is likely to expand rapidly, despite the risks to biodiversity and ocean carbon deposits."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/09/secretive-gold-rush-for-deep-sea-mining-dominated-by-handful-of-firms
German experts defuse 1,100-pound WWII-era bomb found in Frankfurt
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/12/06/wwii-era-bomb-defused-frankfurt-germany-after-evacuation/3852784001/
The Worlds Largest Iceberg, the Size of South Georgia Island is on a Collision Course with… South Georgia Island
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55237010
Trump illegally and unconstitutionally warned the Georgia attorney general not to rally other Republicans against the Texas lawsuit. The two men spoke at the urging of Perdue, who along with Loeffler also received calls from Trump about the AG's stance.
https://ajc.com/politics/trump-warns-georgia-ag-not-to-rally-other-republicans-against-texas-lawsuit/37ASZD4PJNENHOLVIXZHRXCIJI/
A good example of the common practice of judges throwing shade in footnotes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo1euVcWEAELmMf?format=jpg&name=small
Judge Humetewa: "The various affidavits and expert reports are largely based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and irrelevant analysis of unrelated elections. Because the Complaint is grounded in these fraud allegations, the Complaint shall be dismissed."
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1336828534510268417
The judge was extremely unimpressed by Powell's evidence: "The allegations they put forth to support their claims of fraud fail in their particularity and plausibility. Plaintiffs append over three hundred pages of attachments, which are only impressive for their volume."
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1336828363449753602
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8 million tests, 210k cases, and a record 106,688 COVID-19 patients in US hospitals. There were 3,054 reported deaths today -- the highest single-day total to date.
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1336837356343607297
After years of slumber, a solar flare burst from the sun toward Earth is tempting a rare glimpse at the northern lights for areas farther south than normal and becoming the latest sign that the sun is "waking up." The solar flare erupted from the sun on Monday and produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) of plasma from the sun's atmosphere, which will interact with the Earth's atmosphere through Thursday. As a result, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center is forecasting a multi-day solar storm that is expected to peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning at G-3 intensity (strong) on a scale ranging from G-1 (minor) to G-5 (intense).
https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/northern-lights-may-glow-over-parts-of-us-on-wednesday-night/863366
YES GOOD: Biden Taps Susan Rice For Top White House Domestic policy job
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/10/biden-taps-susan-rice-for-top-white-house-domestic-policy-job-444231
Sidelined from protests after an injury, L.A. man sues to ban police projectiles
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-09/sidelined-from-protests-after-an-injury-l-a-man-sues-to-ban-police-projectiles
We now know Giuliani received rare medical treatment that ordinary Americans could not get because he is a friend of Trump. This is another example of why Biden won and Donald lost. Trump repeatedly put himself and his elite friends above the American people: "Giuliani appeared unaware of the scarcity issues...In fact, the antibody treatments are so scarce that officials in Utah have developed a ranking system to determine who is most likely to benefit from the drugs, while Colorado is using a lottery system." https://nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-treatments.html
World's largest iceberg may strike island in South Atlantic this month
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-s-largest-iceberg-may-strike-land-month-n1250742
Rays owner Stuart Sternberg offers stinging criticism of Rays, players following World Series loss. Rays fans (of which I am one), I'm sorry you have an owner that seems hellbent on undermining and sabotaging everything your front office has built. How in the world can an owner say all that garbage with a straight face after his team went to the World Series? The terrorist owner straight up described their post-season as "additional expenses" and a "massive financial hit", instead of a commendable run by the underdogs.
https://www.draysbay.com/2020/12/10/22165614/rays-owner-stuart-sternberg-stinging-criticism-tampa-bay-players-following-world-series-loss
Chad Johnson used to call Marvin Lewis and Hue Jackson up at 2am, tell them that he was open and then hang up.
https://twitter.com/Chughes612/status/1336404201841307657
Taysom Hill is expected to start his fourth consecutive game at QB for the Saints on Sunday vs. Philly. I'm told his three-game performance as the starter has only bolstered the confidence internally that he is the eventual heir apparent to Drew Brees' job.
https://twitter.com/JeffDuncan_/status/1337039538133340162
Former Raiders' LB Vontaze Burfict arrested at Las Vegas Resort after unable to find 'Secret Pizza' location
https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/altercation-over-secret-pizza-location-led-to-nfl-players-arrest-2211150/
LOL Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge: "I think it's time in Georgia that we look at an alternative way of electing our Secretary of State." The idea? Let legislators illegally and unconstitutionally elect an SoS
https://twitter.com/maggie_a_lee/status/1337139922977906691
So, uh, which "Democrat officer" runs elections in Georgia? (none, they are all Republican)
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1337144846130311168
The thing about spending a month on a low-grade existential crisis for democracy during a raging pandemic that's killed almost 300,000 is that it's 100% voluntary. If Trump conceded, all of this would have been confined to messageboards. It's not bottom-up, it's one man's choice.
Colin Roth, repping other Wisconsin officials, notes that the state's Supreme Court approved the procedures being complained about and that there's no evidence that the state's voter ID laws were not followed.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1337143716834930689
New details about the Justice Department investigation into a possible scheme to lobby the Trump administration for a presidential pardon indicate that a now-deceased California real estate mogul donated $6 million to support Trump
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/billionaire-pardon-effort-pledged-massive-donation-trump-sources/story?id=74656249
A thing to note is the Republicans House members who signed this just won races in the states that they're now arguing were so rife with fraud that SCOTUS should invalidate the results: 106 members of Congress, including House Judiciary Committee top Republican Jim Jordan, filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to allow Texas to file a lawsuit that seeks to wipe out the results of elections in four states Trump lost.
https://supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163403/20201210153048641_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20106%20Representatives.pdf
This would be a crisis for American democracy in otherwise boring times, but they're doing it while 3,000 people are dying a day
No, Trump wasn't the first to lose while winning OH + FL (and who cares?)
No, WI drop boxes weren't "unsecured"
No, poll watchers weren't banned
No evidence MI and PA had illegal ballot policies
Fact check of Trump's nonsense-heavy SCOTUS brief:
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1337140897759326209
.@RandPaul is currently holding up passage of the #NDAA, blaming America, and delaying hazardous duty pay to hundreds of thousands of our service members and their families. Inexcusable. Rand and I do have one thing in common, though. We're both 5'2" tall. https://twitter.com/i/status/1337112894723469319
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1337138096689868809
A Trump administration pattern continues: Department IG rebukes secretary for despicable, revolting behavior; secretary responds that he's totally exonerated; IG points out that secretary didn't dispute specific facts.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/va-wilkie-assault-watchdog-ig/2020/12/10/f07be288-3ae2-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html
The Jets nominee for Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year was cut in November and now plays for the Ravens.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1337038811344343040
This seems unlikely to even make it onto the ballot. Constitutional amendments in Georgia need to be approved by 2/3rds of each chamber in the General Assembly in order to be on a ballot, and Republicans don't have supermajorities in either chamber: Georgia House Speaker David Ralston says he will ask for legislation for a constitutional amendment for the Secretary of State to be selected by the General Assembly, instead of being elected. Voters would have to approve it.
https://twitter.com/rahulbali/status/1337144064567873551
Adam Gase outlasted his team's beat writer: Manish Mehta has been removed from the New York Jets beat. Coverage of the team will continue uninterrupted.
https://twitter.com/NYDNSports/status/1337155247567990789
Threats against elections officials in GA continue: an elections director's car got broken into; a warehouse manager got followed by a camera and told he was going to prison; some workers are getting stalked, says Gabriel Sterling at news conference.
https://twitter.com/myhlee/status/1337131613818380294
1.4 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week, a big jump from Thanksgiving week. Layoffs remain a problem. New unemployment claims have been above 1 million a week for 38 weeks now. *Over 19 million Americans are on unemployment aid*
https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1337027359418032128
US panel endorses Pfizer COVID-19 shot in a major step toward an epic vaccination campaign against the outbreak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/10/fda-advisory-panel-recommends-covid-vaccine/
CDC Official Says She Was Told to Delete Email on Kids' Covid-19 Risk to Match Trump's School Reopening Message. "Federal employees have affirmative obligations to preserve documents, and destruction of federal records is potentially illegal," warned Rep. James Clyburn.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/10/cdc-official-says-she-was-told-delete-email-kids-covid-19-risk-match-trumps-sc
Notable contrast to today's announcement of the Denis McDonough nomination to be Veterans Affairs secretary, which seems based in the idea that the VA is a famous mess even on just the basics, and McDonough is a tough & effective manager, despite no direct veterans experience
Federal executions during a presidential transition are rare, especially from a death-penalty proponent to an opponent like Biden. The last time executions occurred in a lame-duck period was during the presidency of Grover Cleveland in the 1890s.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-prisons-killeen-13044e3f1ab9e0e140c57d8012b67abb
We cannot normalize how totally insane it is that Trump, 18 state AGs & 106 House Republicans still trying to overturn election 37 days after, when Biden won by 7 million votes, 306 electoral votes certified, Trump campaign lost 55 court cases & presented no evidence of fraud
Supreme Court overturns top military court, rules that rape cases before 2006 can be prosecuted
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/supreme-court-military-sexual-assault-prosecuted-any-time/index.html
Select Subcommittee Investigation Finds Evidence Career CDC Officials Were Directed to Destroy Record of Political Interference by Trump Administration
https://coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-subcommittee-investigation-finds-evidence-career-cdc-officials-were
Speaking of Deb Haaland: today, Native Organizers Alliance submitted 2 petitions to Biden's transition team with more than 18,000 signatures urging Biden to pick Haaland for Interior secretary.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/endorse-deb-haaland?source=websitehome&referrer=group-native-organizers-alliance
Haaland, meanwhile, chairs the House subcommittee on natl parks, forests and public lands. She co-chairs the Native American caucus. She has Dems and GOP lawmakers backing her for this job. Not to mention the 150 tribal leaders who wrote to Biden:
https://huffpost.com/entry/deb-haaland-biden-interior-secretary_n_5fce4d83c5b63a153453c32e
The Democratic AGs of DC and 22 states + territories filed a brief opposing Texas's last-ditch effort to have SCOTUS invalidate the election results in PA/GA/WI/MI (an unprecedented effort now backed by Trump, 106 GOP members of Congress, and 17 GOP AGs)
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/final_texas_v._pennsylvania_amicus.pdf
We're getting close to 1 out of every 1,100 Americans dead with Covid19: Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9 million tests, 214k cases, and 3,067 deaths. There are 107k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a new all-time record.
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1337192776727924738
"With no stimulus aid and her savings gone by May, Jean said she was out of options. So she began sneaking food into her son's stroller at the local Walmart. ... Each time, she'd tell herself that G/d would understand."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/pandemic-shoplifting-hunger/
Irving and the Nets organization each received the $25K fine. NBA says: "The fines result from Irving's refusal on several occasions this week to participate in team media availability."
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1337186107780444160
Senate Republicans reject covid19 relief bill
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-financial-aid-steven-mnuchin-d327eac762f3152899904ad67f442632
FBI subpoenas Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton amid whistleblower allegations
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/fbi-subpoena-texas-ag-ken-paxton/269-aac1b3ca-f2c3-4116-a95c-cdef4b41531e
Dr. Anthony Fauci Appeals to Black Community: 'The Vaccine That You're Going to Be Taking Was Developed by an African American Woman'
https://www.theroot.com/dr-anthony-fauci-appeals-to-black-community-the-vacc-1845853569
US Senators introduce amendment to stimulus bill that gives $1,200 to adults, $500 to their children
https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/us-senators-introduce-amendment-to-stimulus-bill-that-gives-1200-to-adults-500-to-their-children/
Russian state media are calling for Trump — or 'Trumpusha' — to get asylum in their country when he leaves the White House so he can save himself from prosecution
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-state-media-trump-get-asylum-dodge-prosecutions-2020-12
14 million US households are at risk of eviction as protections expire
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/politics/eviction-risk-protections-expiring/index.html
Just noting that the Hanukkah miracle to which she refers is the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel: I'd like to wish my Jewish neighbors a Happy Hanukkah. Hanukkah inspires me, especially during this difficult time. I hope we can all remember that even in the most unexpected moments, miracles can happen.
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1337170986135924740
We are extending non-essential travel restrictions with the United States until January 21st, 2021. Our decisions will continue to be based on the best public health advice available to keep Canadians safe.
https://twitter.com/BillBlair/status/1337449995168047104
I'm old enough to remember when the tri-state area was going to do everything in lockstep. Just saying:
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/12/indoor-dining-shutdown-not-right-now-on-the-table-for-nj-as-covid-19-cases-rise-murphy-says.html
The two states do not exist (failed secessionist movement) and misspellings throughout: Brief Of State Of New California And New Nevada State As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff's Motion For Leave To File Bill Of Complaint
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163506/20201211114620451_Amicus%202020-12-11.pdf
Disney laid off 32,000 workers as its stock price was soaring to an all time high on Friday. This is the story of one of those workers, who spent 14 years with the company, and her struggle to provide for her daughters and stay afloat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/disney-layoffs-coronavirus/
State Department watchdog: The majority of trips taken by Mike Pompeo's wife, Susan, over a two-year period took place without written approval from the State Dept., despite the fact they were considered official travel and paid for by the US government.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/susan-pompeo-watchdog-report/index.html
Three months after the publication of the FinCEN Files, Congress takes an enormous step toward shutting down a cornerstone of the dark economy — the end of anonymous shell companies.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/congress-closes-loop-hole-shell-companies
The Senate voted 84-13 to approve a bipartisan defense-policy bill over Trump's objections. That's enough to override any veto by Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-advances-defense-policy-bill-despite-trump-veto-threat-11607703243
The FBI has quietly shelved plans to outsource some of the work on its FISA reforms. The bureau canceled the contract solicitation just one week after we reported on the plans and concerns about them.
https://businessinsider.com/fbi-fisa-spying-2016-elections-trump-private-contractor-2020-12
GovRonDeSantis tells reporters that calling this a 'raid' was 'editorializing' and confiscating equipment wasn't a 'raid.' But in 2018 he went on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' and called the FBI confiscation of documents at the home of Michael Cohen, 'a raid.'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJLN_1xCQM
GOOD AGREED, THEY ARE TERRORISTS AND SEDITIONISTS: Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell is calling on Speaker Pelosi to *refuse to seat* the 126 Republican members of Congress who signed the Texas election amicus brief to the 117th Congress on January 3.
https://pascrell.house.gov/uploadedfiles/qualifications_letter_revised_version2.pdf
This is nuts. Three Republican state lawmakers are demanding a county hold a "mock election" to prove no machine issues.
...but they have a REAL election where in-person voting starts Monday.
And Logic & Accuracy testing - which they coulda watched - tests these machines.
https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1337478581887393792
So Kevin McCarthy signs on to a lawsuit seeking to thwart the presidential election outcome over groundless claims of widespread fraud and irregularities. Yet the same ballots he's contesting have produced House Republican victories that he is celebrating.
An illegal and unconstitutional hedge fund run by Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney is illegally and unconstitutionally seeking at least $1 million from investors. They've already started seeing commitments from "ultra-high-net-worth" investors
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/11/trump-official-mick-mulvaneys-hedge-fund-seeking-at-least-1-million-from-investors.html
California has certified its 2020 election results:
Biden 11,110,250 (63.5%)
Trump 6,006,429 (34.3%)
That's a 0.9 point margin swing towards Trump vs. 2016 and a 23.4% increase in votes cast.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1337482389015195648
Patrick Beverly when asked about Westbrook after the First Round in 2017: "he looked up and said, 'No one can guard me, I got 40 points.' I said, 'That's nice. You took 34 shots to get it.'"
https://streamable.com/6q9dhx
Failing recently to dismiss the case against him, Felix Sater will have a deposition in the lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to launder money through Trump properties. It's scheduled for Jan. 13, right before the lame duck session expires.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-advances-lawsuit-accusing-felix-sater-of-laundering-loot-through-trump-properties/
Michigan's 16 electors will get police escorts from their cars to the state Capitol on Monday when they cast their votes for Joe Biden. Officials are bracing for protests.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/11/us/joe-biden-trump#michigans-16-electors-will-get-police-escorts-from-their-cars-to-the-state-capitol-as-officials-brace-for-protests
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1337525065433247744
Atlanta federal judge sets Dec. 21 hearing on bid by RNC, NRSC, Perdue & Loeffler to illegally and unconstitutionally reimpose signature matching for mail-in ballots in Jan. 5 runoff. Also: serious lawyers for GOP on this, incl. Geo. Terwilliger & Dick Cullen. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.284608/gov.uscourts.gand.284608.11.0.pdf
Republicans offered $700M to 9/11 victims to drop their litigation against Sudan
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-offered-700m-911-victims-save-sudan/story?id=74672919
The Georgia 'Kraken's' Supreme Court petition misspells the name of their lead plaintiff, again.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo_UsrmWMAI99jt?format=jpg&name=small
Snow leopard at Kentucky zoo tests positive for coronavirus19. Two other snow leopards at the Louisville Zoo are undergoing testing to confirm the virus, the Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratories said in a statement. Officials took samples from the three large cats after they showed signs of respiratory illness, the statement said. The zoo said the risk of infected animals spreading the virus to humans is considered to be low and the zoo remains open, though the snow leopard exhibit is closed while the cats recover.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/11/snow-leopard-kentucky-zoo-positive-coronavirus-444568
NYC losing another iconic restaurant: The 21 Club has told its 148 employees it has ceased operations indefinitely and they will be terminated March 9 of next year.
https://twitter.com/davidfaber/status/1337503113406799873
GO VEGAN. THE MASS BREEDING STOPS. ANIMALS ARE SAVED: Modern livestock raising practices run afoul of anti-bestiality laws in some states
https://newrepublic.com/article/160448/meat-bestiality-artificial-insemination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lister_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-duk
Chuck Yeager, 97. American aviator, war hero, test pilot, flying ace, icon. Let's establish at the beginning that Chuck Yeager was not the character played so memorably by Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff. That might seem a shame because Shepard's Yeager could be the coolest character in the history of American movies. But as appealing as he was, the real Yeager was somehow more confounding, more complex, and more impressive. He was 21 years old when he was shot down over France, making his escape to Spain with the help of the resistance. A few months later, he made ace in a day, destroying five German aircraft in the course of mere minutes. (Years later, he spoke frankly about "atrocities" committed by American pilots who shot too cavalierly at ground targets.) Three years later, still only 24, he became the first person to move faster than sound, flying in an experimental rocket plane without revealing to his superiors the broken ribs that might have scratched him from the flight. Over the ensuing decades, he developed such a titanic reputation as an aviator that, as Tom Wolfe reported in The Right Stuff, pilots all over America began unconsciously copying his accent and diction. Everyone who flew, apparently, wanted to fly like him. It was left to Wolfe, filmmaker Philip Kaufman, and Shepard to turn him from an icon of American aviation into both a myth and a metaphor for daring endeavor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager
NamUs is Back: UNT Accepts Award to Manage Program Days After Announcing its Withdrawal
https://www.forensicmag.com/571017-NamUs-is-Back-UNT-Accepts-Award-to-Manage-Program-Days-After-Announcing-its-Withdrawal/
US Supreme Legally And Constitutionally Dismisses Texas V. Pennsylvania, Et al.
https://www.www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/supreme-court-republican-challenge-pennsylvania-vote.amp.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-texas-election-trump/2020/12/11/bf462f22-3bc6-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
The Zodiac Killer is an unidentified serial killer responsible for the murders of at least five people in the Bay Area in California between 1968 and 1969. He is infamous for taunting law enforcement and the media with various letters and ciphers, in which he claimed to have murdered 37 victims for the purpose of enslaving them in the afterlife. The 340 Cypher was mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle on November 8, 1969 along with a greeting card and a strip of victim Paul Stine's shirt. It has been cracked by David Oranchak, a code-breaking expert recently featured on the TV show The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer, and his colleagues, Sam Blake and Jarl Van Eycke. In an email to the San Francisco Chronicle, FBI spokesman Cameron Polan confirmed that the cipher has been solved and they are not releasing any more details at this time.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Zodiac-340-cypher-cracked-by-code-expert-51-years-15794943.php
Trump and his allies have lost dozens of cases trying to overturn the result of the election he lost. In state courts, federal courts, in front of Trump appointees, in the Supreme Court. That kind of record should send a very clear signal about the merit of these claims.
For those who are saying this is a 7-2 action by the Supreme Court, that's wrong. All nine justices would reject the suit by Texas, the other states, and POTUS (Trump). Seven of them would refuse to hear the case at all. Two of them believe they have to hear it and would deny relief.
The State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945617913/supreme-court-shuts-door-on-trump-election-prospects
Big blow to Sens. Loeffler & Perdue; Reps. Carter, Allen, Ferguson, Scott, Hice, Collins; State Sens. Ligon, Jones, Beach, Dolezal, Thompson, Brass, Tillery, Harbin, Tippins, Harper, Robertson, Unterman, Mullis, Gooch, Anderson; Sen.-elect McNeil and state Reps. Ridley, Rhodes...The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an 11th hour challenge to Joe Biden's election as president. This, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued four states where Biden had been certified the winner: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
There was a time when conservatives were against frivolous litigation
Number of House Republicans who signed onto Trump lawsuit: 126
Words it took Supreme Court to reject the case: 126
https://twitter.com/CitizenCohn/status/1337550810876702721/photo/1
Reliever Brandon Morrow and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a minor league deal, sources tell ESPN. Morrow returns to where he starred in 2017 before injuries hampered his two years with the Cubs. Now 36, he's a flyer for a team with a good rep for rehabbing pitchers.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1337542643350466566
Veteran reliever Jerry Blevins, who pitched four years for the #Mets before being released last spring by the #SFGiants, returns to the organization on a minor-league contract that will pay him $1.25 million if he's in the big leagues. It includes $1.5 million in incentives.
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1337544038082199552
Just sickening. Betray your entire country to remain loyal to a TERRORIST: Several Republicans who signed their names to the amicus brief for the Texas lawsuit understood it would likely quickly be shot down by the Supreme Court and only viewed it, like many other things in Trump's world, as a loyalty test. But Trump told people he thought he'd prevail.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1337544203824476161
Supreme Court DENIES Texas effort to invalidate GA, MI, PA, WI election results.
7 justices deny for lack of standing. 2 Would grant motion for petition but deny relief.
No justice sides with TX/Trump.
Trump/allies are 1-57 in court.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1337544289740599298
Trump lost in Georgia.
Trump lost in Pennsylvania.
Trump lost in Michigan.
Trump lost in Arizona.
Trump lost in Wisconsin
Trump lost in state court.
Trump lost in federal court.
Trump lost in the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court order: "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot." Hilarious.
Let it never be forgotten, these 126 Republican Congressman advocated for the overthrow of the Republic and the installation of Donald Trump as unelected dictator.
Every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court - including all three of Trump's picks - closed the book on the nonsense.
Jenna Ellis: "We had to lose at the Supreme Court so we could appeal to the Super Secret Supreme Supremist Court. We are pleased with this result." /s
December 11, 2020—a date which will live in democracy.
House Republican want to fight this on the floor now. They have no chance of succeeding but they could prolong debate if a senator is willing to join them.
https://cnn.com/2020/12/07/politics/house-republicans-trump-biden/index.html
Kneeling during Star Spangled Banner is unpatriotic. But calling for your state to secede from the United States of America is PATRIOTISM!
Some people have trouble remembering that the Fifteenth Amendment is also a law
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1337559732157083648
Let it forever be recorded that half of our government said (with their whole chest) fuck democracy just cause they didn't win. And 74 million of our fellow citizens supported this shit. And most of the people in charge know it's bullshit. Enough to probably have shut this shit down by now. But they're too spineless to do anything about it publicly lest they lose their spots. They chose power over democracy. And I guarantee they're not done by any stretch of the imagination.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf
Senate Democrats have asked the FBI and DHS for a written assessment on "the QAnon threat to America's democratic institutions and contribution to hatred here and overseas."
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/QAnon%20Letter%20to%20FBI%20and%20DHS_12082020%20Final.pdf
The New York Times reports that the FBI reviewed a laptop and an external hard drive that Trump allies said belonged to Hunter Biden and "found nothing to advance" a federal investigation of Biden.
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/hunter-biden-justice-department-pittsburgh.html
"We're not finished, believe me," says Rudy Giuliani on Newsmax. Says Trump will "look at other options."
Clearly Stacey Abrams colluded with Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh at the annual "super secret elite law school graduates" summit located in the bowels of the Supreme Court building to make this all happen, that's the only explanation for this
Never forget that the majority of Republicans sought to overthrow the results of a presidential election and install their unelected candidate, the majority of their supporters approved, and their sniveling apparatchiks concocted post hoc rationalizations justifying it.
Joe Biden has won this election so many times he is now the 67th president of the United States.
At the White House Christmas Party, guests were informed about 10 minutes ago that the president won't be joining them to make remarks.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1337571309266538496
68-page report from the VA Office Inspector General says three witnesses confirm Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was the one who planted information in a smear campaign against a female veteran, who was sexually assaulted, to disparage her credibility. Crenshaw refused to go under oath because he's been lying all along. Wilkie asked to meet with him because he heard Dan had dirt. He gave it to Wilkie who tasked Curt Cashour to call the NYT to shop it. Crenshaw used the exact same FALSE info in this interview. He's the source.
https://newsweek.com/rep-dan-crenshaw-linked-smear-campaign-female-vet-led-va-secretary-watchdog-says-1553928
US illegally and unconstitutionally and murderingly puts to death Louisiana truck driver who killed 2-year-old daughter, carrying out illegal and unconstitutional and murderous 10th federal execution of 2020.
MONDAY: Electoral College Votes - LIVE starting at 10am ET on C-SPAN, @cspanRadio & online at http://c-span.org
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1337576403521339397
The Ability of Rev Al, with his history of fraudulence and false accusation and relentless antisemitism and racism, to play the Aggrieved One and get Pols and Press to treat him as a legitimate Civil Rights Force is perversely impressive
Atlanta's Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church inundated with threats ahead of Senate runoffs
https://cbs46.com/news/historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-inundated-with-threats-ahead-of-senate-runoffs/article_7276522c-3b6b-11eb-b3d6-0361f3d351f2.html
Alito and Thomas smacked this down hardest of all. The other 7 Justices said "we refuse to hear this shit, dismissed"
Alito and Thomas said: "we are willing to hear this shit but we already know our decision, it's shit, dismissed"
NFL makes changes after Alex Smith hidden ball trick vs Steelers. Bill Belichick nods approvingly. That was quick, they waited for the season to end before they addressed the false start/delay of game thing Belichick pulled.
https://fansided.com/2020/12/10/nfl-rule-changes-alex-smith-hidden-ball-trick-vs-steelers/
Jameis Winston still leads all QBs in interceptions thrown in 2019 + 2020
Tower of human skulls reveals grisly scale to archaeologists in Mexico City | New sections of the tower at the capital's Templo Mayor Aztec site include 119 skulls of men, women and children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/mexico-templo-tower-of-skulls-archaeologists-aztec
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-mexican-experts-skulls-aztec-trophy.html
Kawhi yells "Hell Nah" to Montrezl Harrell's jumper
https://streamable.com/7d69ao
CJ McCollum tells Luke Walton to put his mask back on
https://streamable.com/zjcrwk
Ibaka drills his first 3 of the preseason for the Clippers
https://streamable.com/vv19gq
Texas AG Ken Paxton was criminally indicted for fraud 5 years ago and was never arrested and never went to prison
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/07/27/texas-ag-ken-paxton-was-indicted-for-fraud-5-years-ago-will-he-ever-face-a-jury/
A white supremacy terrorist plot targeting power grids across the country was to have its operational status accelerated if Trump lost the 2020 election, an FBI informant told investigators, according to a newly unsealed federal search warrant. According to the warrant, which was unsealed Thursday in Wisconsin's Eastern U.S. District Court, three people were the subject of the investigation. The person described by investigators as a recruiter for the plot was as young as 17 years old. That person, according to the warrant, planned to move from Ohio to Oshkosh and live with one of the other suspects under investigation. The teen, agents write in the warrant affidavit, used multiple encrypted apps to encourage followers to read books by neo-Nazi James Mason and others with white supremacist ideology. "To make America Great Again, you had to make it white again," Mason is quoted by agents of having said of Trump's 2016 election victory.
https://www.wisn.com/article/feds-white-supremacy-terror-plot-timeline-tied-to-trump-election-loss/34948551
US government expects shipments of the nation's first COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday morning.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1337827090809323520
Republican legislators are refusing to pay two Wisconsin counties the $3 million they're owed for conducting election recounts
https://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-counties-stiffed-3-million-for-conducting-election-recounts-2020-12
The US just surpassed 16 million Covid-19 cases. It only took 4 days to go from 15 million to 16 million cases, marking the fastest the US has ever reached a million milestone.
https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1337877797054918664
Florida star forward Keyontae Johnson, the SEC preseason player of the year, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital after collapsing during a game at Florida State. Like most of his teammates, he tested positive for COVID-19 over the summer. | Although the cause of Johnson's ailment was not immediately known, the coronavirus19 can lead to myocarditis, a viral infection of the heart muscle. At its most severe, myocarditis can lead to sudden cardiac arrest and has been a documented cause of death for young, otherwise healthy athletes.
https://apnews.com/article/tallahassee-florida-gators-mens-basketball-florida-mike-white-keyontae-johnson-92955cac3a11402172df366384b89ff3
Holy shit. Congressman-elect Bob Good of Virginia starts speaking and immediately proclaims, "this looks like a group of people that gets it. This is a phony pandemic."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1337858218631065600
Bob Good defeated RepRiggleman because Riggleman was attacked for presiding over an interracial same-sex marriage. Riggleman's grandmother incidentally is currently hospitalized with Covid19.
Someone walked up to a Democratic Get Out the Vote rally in Stockbridge today and punched a supporter in the face then tore up his @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock signs, per police & witnesses. The suspect was arrested and charged with battery. Victim is ok.
https://twitter.com/MattWSB/status/1337853427926315008
Charley Pride Died at 86 From Covid-19 Complications
https://rollingstone.com/music/music-country/charley-pride-dead-obit-192455
Ivanka Trump Has Been Grifting Her Way Through Her Father's Presidency. But It's Hunter Biden We Want to Investigate?
https://www.vogue.com/article/hunter-biden-ivanka-trump-who-should-we-investigate
Bee-killing pesticide row as farmer's union accused of secretly campaigning to bring them back after Brexit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/11/bee-killing-pesticide-row-farmers-union-accused-secretly-campaigning/
Iran executes French-based dissident journalist captured last year
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28M06Y
I'm so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Charley Pride, has passed away. It's even worse to know that he passed away from COVID-19. What a horrible, horrible virus. Charley, we will always love you. (1/2)
https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1337864068821102592
Rest In Peace. My love and thoughts go out to his family and all of his fans. - Dolly (2/2)
https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1337864070976974849
They want Hunter Biden's taxes. We've been asking for Trump's taxes for years. Only one of them has ever been president. In what dimension does this make any sense?
Any updates on Ivanka's tax avoidance issues?
Let's investigate Ivanka's interests in China. Patent approvals (including one for voting machines) in the week after her official government visit and a seat at dinner table with Xi Jinping.
https://forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/
Stealing a Black Lives Matter banner. From a church: Proud Boys are marching through DC taking down some of the Black Lives Matter banners hanging up #DC #MarchForTrump #ProudBoys #Antifa #BLM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1337933979383717890
0M-1M: 98 days
1M-2M: 44 days
2M-3M: 27 days
3M-4M: 15 days
4M-5M: 17 days
5M-6M: 22 days
6M-7M: 25 days
7M-8M: 21 days
8M-9M: 14 days
9M-10M: 9 days
10M-11M: 7 days
11M-12M: 6 days
12M-13M: 6 days
13M-14M: 6 days
14M-15M: 5 days
15M-16M: 4 days
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1337877850930761733
Steph with the new version of the tunnel shot
https://streamable.com/tjljov
LaMelo's outlet pass is too fast for the camera
https://streamable.com/itxiur
4 Stabbed and One Shot As Trump Supporters Shoot At And Stab Counter-Protestors And Police. Trump Supporters Repeatedly Opened Fire On Counter-Protestors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/4-stabbed-and-one-shot-as-trump-supporters-and-opponents-clash.html
Trump voters also largely reject the idea that the president is himself making these claims simply because he's upset by his loss, with 85% saying he has "hard evidence of widespread vote fraud."
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1338146656848666625
If the Giants beat Arizona on Sunday, not only do they take another step forward in NFC East race: their playoff chances (and a shot at the final wild card) receive a big boost, too. A victory and NYG is right in the mix for division AND wild card. Such a pivotal game for NFC.
Navalny Poisoned Again: Russia Made Second Assassination Attempt.
https://www.dw.com/en/navalny-poisoning-russia-made-second-assassination-attempt-report/a-55921189
Republicans Arming Mexicans And Smuggling Them Into The US To "Guard" (read: Murder Immigrants) US/Mexican Border
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/armed-mexicans-smuggled-in-guard-trump-wall-1101345/
Netherlands Uncovered Russian Spies Targeting Its Technology
https://news.sky.com/story/netherlands-says-it-has-uncovered-russian-spies-targeting-its-technology-12157571
First Evidence Of Microplastics In Human Placenta. Microplastics Were Found In All Placental Portions: Maternal, Fetal And Amniochorial Membranes. We Are Breathing Microplastic Down Our Lungs 24/7. I Never Jumped On The Water Bottle Bangwagon Because I'm Not A Mentally Ill Deranged Terrorist Like Everybody Else Is
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297
Kelly Loeffler Posed With Former KKK Leader Ahead Of Georgia Runoff Elections
https://www.newsweek.com/kelly-loeffler-slammed-posing-former-kkk-leader-ahead-georgia-runoff-elections-1554401
Tonight In DC. ...Tell Me How This Is Not Like Berlin In 1935. Really. Somebody Tell Me.
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1338010497459818496
U.S. Treasury Breached By Hackers Backed By Foreign Government. A Highly Sophisticated Hacking Group Has Stolen Emails From Treasury Department And Commerce's NTIA. Other USG Agencies Are Believed To Be Breached By Same Group Through Similar Technique. Hacking Operation Is So Serious That NSC Had A Recent Emergency Meeting. Incident Comes Shortly After Trump Administration Fired Heads Of DHS' Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protection Agency. There Is Also No Current Top Cyber Official. Multiple Agencies Wrapped Up In The Investigation.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cyber-amazoncom/exclusive-u-s-treasury-breached-by-hackers-backed-by-foreign-government-sources-idUSL1N2IT0HS
She Stalked Her Daughter's Killers Across Mexico, One by One | Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html
Why do you think drop boxes - which are allowed and used in almost every county, and used almost evenly between the two major parties - make it harder for Republicans to win? If you mean you think it allows more Black people to vote just say so. Just to be clear, he's literally saying that making it easier to vote makes it harder for Republicans to win. In fact, most Republicans in competitive races did quite well and surpassed expectations with record-breaking amounts of mail and early voting.
https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1338189444311101441
This is a photo from the March For Our Lives protest against guns and school shootings. This a a real "Make America Great Again" movement.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpF9x1OWEAIeF-i?format=jpg&name=small
According to an Instagram post, Luther Place Church in DC says their Black Lives Matter sign has been torn down *3 TIMES* since Friday, including an incident where Proud Boys allegedly "descended on the church" and harassed church leaders. As of Sunday, they have a new sign
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpJDALVXUAMQPcP?format=jpg&name=900x900
Republicans instructed clinics to wait to inoculate elderly residents at long-term care facilities until 21st December, despite CDC guidance prioritizing elderly residents
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nursing-home-vaccinations-trump-administration-delay/
White Sox racist drunkard manager Tony La Russa reaches guilty plea deal in DUI case. The shitstain terrorist is getting one day of “home detention.” That is a non-punishment, especially in the context of 2020. So, here’s an old, rich, white pro-kkk racist person getting absolutely no punishment for a DUI. He put other people’s lives in danger and committed a serious crime that would have been punished harshly if he were young, minority, and poor. At his age, this isn’t someone making a one-time mistake. He is a danger to society and acting recklessly because he knows there is no repercussions for someone as privileged as him. Shame on La Russa, shame in Major League Baseball, shame on the White Sox, shame on the criminal “justice” system. Shame on everyone involved.
https://theathletic.com/2257991/2020/12/13/tony-la-russa-dui/
Hershey Co. refusing to uphold sustainability efforts in West Africa
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/war-cocoa-hershey-co-accused-not-upholding-sustainability-efforts-west-n1250798
Hundreds of high school students kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria, gang in firefight with military
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hundreds-high-school-students-kidnapped-nigeria-gang-firefight-military-n1251027
Chiefs 33, Dolphins 27. Chiefs are 12-1 & AFC West champs for the 5th straight year. They overcame 4 turnovers for their 10 consecutive road victory. The Chiefs will move into the top AFC playoff spot if the Pittsburgh Steelers fall to the Buffalo Bills tonight.
https://twitter.com/bynatetaylor/status/1338231790646030346
Patrick Mahomes had 2 interceptions after week 13. He has 3 interceptions against the Miami Dolphins in one game
WH staffers are getting vaccinated. Trump, Pence and other top U.S. officials will be offered the newly-approved coronavirus vaccine starting tomorrow, sources say. Essential personnel in WH and certain officials in three branches of govt vaccinated within next 10 days.
https://nytimes.com/live/2020/12/13/world/covid-19-coronavirus/white-house-staff-members-will-be-among-the-first-to-be-vaccinated
NSC spokesman confirms — "The American people should have confidence that they are receiving the same safe and effective vaccine as senior officials of the United States government."
The book for "The Prom" (now a new Netflix series with Nicole Kidman) was written by Chad Beguelin, who wrote the book for "Aladdin," which included the song "Proud of Your Boy," which the Proud Boys take their name from. Just trying to ruin everybody's Netflix plans for the night!
Relief bill "progress": two bills to hasten relief but no checks to families and no $ for govts in charge of getting us vaccine in first wave. Why not? That ok?
https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1338250192198447105
Edward Snowden is a traitor. He is responsible for the largest and most damaging release of classified info in US history. He handed over US secrets to Russian and Chinese intelligence putting our troops and our nation at risk. Pardoning him would be unconscionable.
British author John le Carré, whose best-selling spy novels include 'The Spy Who Came In from the Cold' and 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' has died at 89
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carré
And we also spoke with @andrewbird about his new holiday album. Listen to the interview here: https://npr.org/2020/12/12/945788827/andrew-birds-first-holiday-album-includes-a-song-inspired-by-the-pandemic and check out tickets for his live stream concert tonight here: https://go.seated.com/events/9864d335-f5e3-4df6-82bc-355cce77cdd3
I love the Saints, but it is also super fun to see Hurts playing about a million times better than Wentz
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401220265
Reminder: MAGA Marchers and Proud Boys Descend on D.C., Setting Fire to Churches' Black Lives Matter Signs and Getting into Stabbing Fights
https://www.theroot.com/maga-marchers-and-proud-boys-descend-on-d-c-setting-f-1845872730
Americans are broke and jobless through no fault of their own. What is wrong with Congress that they cannot see the humanity of this disaster and release some of our hard earned tax money back to us? TAXPAYERS need it more than ever right now
Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/politics/russian-hackers-us-government-treasury-commerce.html
Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sports/baseball/cleveland-indians-baseball-name-change.html
Packers TE Robert Tonyan takes out three defenders with one block
https://gfycat.com/lividbewitchedhochstettersfrog
In the past week, Washington beat the 11-0 Steelers. Giants beat the 8-3 Seahawks . Eagles beat the 10-2 Saints . This division is wild.
Doug Pederson is now 11-2 without Carson Wentz as his starting QB
Kenny Moore with an insane one-handed interception in the endzone
https://streamable.com/rirqkr
Can't believe Jalen Hurts won with all the teammates who were to blame for Carson Wentz being bad.
Jalen Hurts leads the Eagles in an upset win over the Saints, 24-21. 17/30, 273 total yards, 1 TD.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1338281452040019974
The Raiders have relieved Paul Guenther of his duties as defensive coordinator. Defensive line coach Rod Marinelli will serve as interim defensive coordinator for the remainder of the 2020 season.
https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1338315272063750146
Buffalo casually ran out the final 7:11 vs Steelers. That's impressive.
Mahomes gets sacked for a loss of 30 yards, setting up a 4th & 42 (KC still won)
https://streamable.com/qcynln
For the first time since 2008, the AFC East champion will NOT be the New England Patriots
Vikings' kicker Dan Bailey has missed all FOUR of his attempts today. 3 FGs and and Extra Point/Point-After
DeAndre Hopkins leaves laughing emoji comment following Texans' playoff elimination
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIwKXOzH3nK/
Giovani Bernard's first fumble in over 800 carries and he's benched? Seems excessive...
https://twitter.com/mikeclaynfl/status/1338190669546917891
Chase Young becomes the first player in Washington franchise history to record a fumble return touchdown, a forced fumble and a sack in a single game.
https://twitter.com/michaelpRTD/status/1338258534698512386
Kansas City Chiefs Still Won: Xavien Howard with the ONE HANDED INTERCEPTION, third for the Dolphins today
https://twitter.com/NFLBrasil/status/1338220208712978433?s=09
After today's game, Mitchell Trubisky has a higher career winning % than Deshaun Watson.
Chargers just had another special teams blunder, and this might take the cake as the worst one. They ran the ball with no timeouts and mayhem ensues. What in the world.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1338253106270834698
Chargers accidentally ran out the 2nd quarter by running the ball. Effectively losing at least 3 points
The Racist Pro-Trump Texan sideline, JJ Watt included, looking completely dejected
https://streamable.com/kubwvc
Matt LaFleur is now 23-6 in the regular season with 2 division titles
AJ Brown hauls it in one handed for the TD
https://streamable.com/a1ir74
The first player to rack up 100 receptions in 2020: Buffalo Bills WR Stefon Diggs
https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1338337998769954817
Franchise record. Josh Allen connects with Gabriel Davis on the touchdown, his 35th total touchdown of the season. Allen has now tallied more total TDs in a season than any Bill in team history.
https://twitter.com/BuffaloBillsPR/status/1338324965104508930
Vikings kicker Dan Bailey has missed six kicks in the last two games
Gardner Minshew is entering the game for the Jaguars at QB. Mike Glennon has been benched
Jalen Hurts in his first start has his team up 17-0 on the hottest defense in football, is 12/21 for 129 yards, a TD, 0 INTs, 0 sacks, and has run 7 times for 75 yards. Impressive.
https://twitter.com/JamesPalmerTV/status/1338255649633873922
Giants opened the day as the #4 seed in the NFC. They're now #12.
Rodgers hits Davante Adams for their 14th TD connection of the season
https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1338237349919154181
Jalen Hurts just became the 2nd 100 yard Rusher against the Saints Today. Prior to today they had no 100 yard Rushers in the last 55 Games
Chase Young's day: 6 tackles, a sack, 2 QB hits, a tackle for loss, 2 batted passes, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown.
https://twitter.com/granthpaulsen/status/1338283394212487172
Russell Wilson has become the first quarterback in NFL history with a winning record in each of his first nine seasons.
Asking all former and current NFL players who see this: what must a 6-hour plane flight home for an 0-13 team that just lost by 37 points sound like?
https://twitter.com/richeisen/status/1338283368681631750
Alex Smith now questionable to return with a leg injury. Working toward back to back CPOY awards
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1338260819126202375
Tom Brady, now 6-0 versus the Vikings, one of the 4 teams he's never lost
https://twitter.com/ESPNNFL/status/1338227293710381057
Mahomes to Hill for a 44-yard touchdown
https://streamable.com/wl5xlw
The Bears have defeated the Texans for the first time ever
Throwback to that one time Brady got a hand brushed on his chest and that was roughing the passer but Kirk gets assaulted after the throw and that's fair play.
https://twitter.com/Tyler_J_Bigge/status/1338227462937964544
With their loss today, the Falcons have officially been eliminated from the playoffs. It's the 3rd straight season they will miss the postseason.
Doug Pederson spent most of his press conference trying his hardest to not praise Jalen Hurts too much.
Deshaun Watson's top weapons:
Will Fuller - suspended
Brandin Cooks - out
Randall Cobb - IR
David Johnson - out
Kenny Stills - cut
Matt Ryan gives the ball right back to the Chargers
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1338274640603406337
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