Sunday, January 17, 2021

In The News (4)

 Cuomo Widens Eligibility After Vaccine Goes Unused or Is Even Thrown Out Three million more people will be permitted to schedule vaccinations, including those 75 and older, as the campaign in New York gets off to a dispiriting start. ..........  He estimated that it could take into April to finish vaccinations for the two groups, which total about five million New Yorkers.   


FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week  “Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the U.S. Capitol from 17 January through 20 January” .........   A tweet in which Trump promised that last Wednesday’s event in Washington, D.C., “will be wild” fueled a “month-long frenzy of incitements, strategizing, and embrace of violence against lawmakers” ..............   the Capitol attack has emboldened Trump-supporting extremists. ............. Boogaloo followers advocate for a second civil war or the collapse of society, and they don’t adhere to a coherent political philosophy.   

Boogaloo followers advocate for a second civil war or the collapse of society, and they don’t adhere to a coherent political philosophy. .............  Trump has violated his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He is a clear and present danger to American democracy and the national security of the United States. He has disqualified himself from continuing to serve out even his few remaining days as president, as well as from ever again holding, according to the Constitution, “any Office of honor, Trust or profit under the United States.” We urge members of the House of Representatives to conduct a speedy impeachment and the Senate to hold a prompt trial as the Constitution stipulates.

Who Dies for Donald Trump? Now her family members are trying to reconcile their own image of the feisty but private woman they knew with the one who stormed Congress as part of a violent mob that called for the killing of lawmakers. ...........  The Air Force veteran would hold court at barbecues for hours about the state of the country, but she often segued into conspiracy-theory-tinged rants that people couldn’t comprehend.   

Biden dresses down his Covid team over plans to speed vaccinations The president-elect has criticized his Covid coordinator on multiple occasions in front of groups of transition officials. ...... he’s refused to back off his own goal, instead doubling down on the belief that his administration can get at least 100 million shots into arms by April 30.  ........  Inside the Biden camp, officials pinned the success of their plan — and the 100-million pledge — largely on the ability to persuade Congress to quickly pass another relief package that includes billions of dollars for state and local governments. ....... The administration is also planning to offer clear and regular updates on its progress, a practice absent throughout much of the Trump response and that officials believe will build goodwill.  

We've seen this movie before — Rumors of Trump's political demise are greatly exaggerated  dispatching mobile vaccination units to rural areas and erecting new federal sites to administer the shots. ........ 

Sirota weighs in on what Democrats are likely to do with Senate majority  the “most immediate” thing Democrats could do is pass legislation to provide $2,000 coronavirus stimulus payments to Americans. ............  Sirota also predicted that Democrats would try to pass a public health insurance option. 

Hillary Clinton: Trump should be impeached. But that alone won’t remove white supremacy from America Trump ran for president on a vision of America where whiteness is valued at the expense of everything else. In the White House, he gave white supremacists, members of the extreme right and conspiracy theorists their most powerful platforms yet .......... Members of Congress who joined him in subverting our democracy should resign, and those who conspired with the domestic terrorists should be expelled immediately.  


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