Blip

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Roger Mudd, a probing TV journalist and network news anchor,
a longtime CBS News political correspondent

R.I.P.



In 2010, Mr. Mudd donated $4 million to Washington and Lee to endow a center
for ethics that bears his name.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/rog...t-and-network-news-anchor-dies-at-93-1.665147

 

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A House vote Wednesday sends the bill to President Biden, who is expected
to sign Friday, the White House said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/10/house-stimulus-biden-covid-relief-checks/

 

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Trump Loyalist, Rep. Glenn Grothman, racist

On Wednesday, Plaskett was in a position to address a shocking statement made by…
you guessed it, MAGA Republican Glenn Grothman from Wisconsin during a debate
on the COVID relief bill. Grothman made an obscene comment.

“How dare you!”

“How dare do you say Black Lives Matter, Black people do not understand
old-fashioned family?” she exclaimed, her voice cracking with passion.
“We have been able to keep our families alive for over 400 years,”
she continued, “and the assault on our families could not have
black lives or black families.”

“That is outrageous and that should be stricken down,” she continued,
before yielding back to partisan applause.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/how-d...-old-fashioned-family/?utm_source=mostpopular

Rep. Stacey Plaskett ✓
Twitter › StaceyPlaskett

‘How Dare You!’: Rep. Plaskett Slams GOP Rep for Saying Black Lives Matter
‘Doesn’t Like the Old-Fashioned Family’

(link)

via @NicoleJames

2 hours ago


https://www.mediaite.com/news/how-d...-old-fashioned-family/?utm_source=mostpopular

https://www.politicalflare.com/2021...ashioned-family/?utm_source=right-rail-latest

 

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Wonkette
Twitter › Wonkette

President Biden Signs COVID Relief Bill Without Sharpie,
Does That Even Count?

(link)

by @EvanHurst

2 hours ago

Grandpa Joe Biden's signature is not on the checks!

 

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About that unity, that Trump Loyalists whine about

Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York

"...fucking bitch."

July 21, 2020

- Scout Finch

Daily Kos

 

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"Times is hard"

Perhaps the not-really-Democrats are ready to join their friends on the
Trump Loyalists bench, and join Repeal Estate Tax 2022 ?

Real Democrats, most certainly, are not giving the super-wealthy
another tax break.

 

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Pfizer vaccine has 25 cases of blood clots in 11 million doses

Pfizer's partner BioNTech received $445 million from German government -
“Pfizer, unlike its competitors, did not join Operation Warp Speed, the government
initiative designed to erase the financial risk of vaccine and therapeutics development
by providing funding to companies and helping coordinate the trials,” The Washington
Post’s Carolyn Y. Johnson reported Monday. “Instead, Pfizer plowed $2 billion of its
own money into the project and then struck a $1.95 billion contract with the U.S.
government to provide 100 million doses, contingent on the vaccine being
effective.”

AstraZeneca has more cases of blood clots, but not by many.

The AstraZeneca vaccine, made in conjunction with the University of Oxford,
is not authorized in the United States.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is currently authorized only for people 18 and older.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/977778462/...shots-to-young-kids-as-part-of-covid-19-study

It said the inoculations produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, which both used
a cell line derived from an aborted foetus to test their vaccines, were preferable to the
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which used such cells in the design, development,
production and testing stages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55409693

Rome has their own medtech company, ReiThera

March 08, 2021

Italy's death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 100,000 on Monday, a year after
it became the first country in Europe to go into lockdown to try to stop the spread
of the virus.

Earlier Monday, the Italian Health Ministry changed course and signed an order
approving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for people 65 and older.

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/italy-surpasses-100000-covid-19-deaths

France, Germany, Spain and Italy have said they are awaiting an investigation
by the EU's regulator into reports of clots in a small number of recipients.

(Chicago) Trump Tower employees improperly received COVID vaccine at West Side hospital

- Chicago Tribune

Loretto Hospital President George Miller said he authorized his team earlier this month
to “to vaccinate 72 predominantly Black and brown restaurant, housekeeping and other
hotel support personnel at Trump International Chicago.”(March 2021)

 

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Female lawmakers file complaint over misogyny in Georgia Legislature

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

21 hours ago

 

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DCist ✓
Twitter › DCist

D.C. police arrested Paul Murray, 31, near the Vice President's Naval Observatory
residence on Wednesday. He's been charged with four counts, including carrying a
dangerous weapon and possession of unregistered ammunition.

(link - story on March 17th)

1 hour ago

Paul Murray, 31, of San Antonio was first detained by the U.S. Secret Service
based on an intelligence bulletin originating from Texas. He was later formally
arrested by Washington police. A rifle and ammunition were recovered from
his vehicle.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/9783...s-ammo-outside-of-vice-presidential-residence

 

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A Georgia sheriff’s spokesperson —
whose tone deaf statement appeared to downplay the gruesome actions of an alleged
Atlanta shooting suspect accused of killing eight and wounded another —
had previously posted an image to Facebook that played up nativist fears about Covid-19.

According to a BuzzFeed report, Cherokee County Capt. Jay Baker shared a picture

(pic of said T-shirts ) of several piles of T-shirts last April that featured a biohazard sign
above a mock Corona beer logo reading “Covid 19 Imported Virus from Chy-na.”
In the caption of the post, which has since been deleted after BuzzFeed inquired
about it, Baker reportedly wrote “Love my shirt [name redacted by BuzzFeed] !
Get yours while they last.”

Police Captain Capt. Jay Baker’s background briefing instantly ignited a backlash
for his comments after initial interviews with the suspect. Baker said that the suspect
was “fed up, at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this
is what he did.”

(murder 8 people, and attempting to drive to Florida, to kill more)

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ga-po...-calling-covid-an-imported-virus-from-chy-na/

 

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Fukkin' Arizona Arseholes (apologies to the normal people in Arizona)

Right Wing Watch ✓
Twitter › RightWingWatch

Radical right-wing activist Josh Bernstein reports that he's part of the effort
to audit the election results in Arizona, which he's hoping will create a
"constitutional crisis" that'll allow them to issue a "writ of quo warranto"
to remove Biden from office.

7 hours ago

 

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Suprise! She talks out of all sides of her mouth

Lauren Boebert ridiculed for hiding her guns before Colorado shooting interview:
'What happened to the assault weapon shrine?'

In a previous question and answer Zoom session she did weeks ago, she had a full display
of her personal armory haphazardly stacked on the bookshelves behind her.
Tuesday night those same guns were nowhere to be seen, replaced with books.

https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-guns-2651191831/


February 2021

"There are plenty of soldiers in the parking garage at 'Fort Pelosi' in Washington, D.C. "
"Let's go ahead and forget about due process while we are at it," Boebert said.

The meeting was conducted over video conference and Boebert was framed by
two military-style assault weapons displayed on bookshelves behind her.

Ultimately the amendment to keep guns out of the meeting room was passed
along party lines.

This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration
between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUNR in
Nevada, the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Montana, KUNC
in Colorado, KUNM in New Mexico, with support from affiliate stations across
the region.

Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting.

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.o...ssault-weapons-during-house-committee-meeting


Lauren Boebert ripped after Boulder shooting for fundraising email:
'They want to take our guns'

Colorado Springs Gazette

3 hours ago

https://gazette.com/

Colorado Springs Gazette @cospringsgazette

 

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Tamir Rice had a toy gun - he was twelve years old, when police made a flash decision.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/9512...ecute-cleveland-officers-who-killed-tamir-ric

 

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Maine

March 27, 2021

Sen. Susan Collins avoided censure from her state party on Saturday, escaping the fate
of other Republicans who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his most
recent impeachment trial.

Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) were rebuked by their state parties
but narrowly averted censure.

Utah GOP defended Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/27/susan-collins-maine-censure-478248

bodysong comment - Trump Loyalists cannot afford to throw Senators in the trash.

 

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Princess Ivanka Had Perfect Cover Story for World Travel

Ivanka Trump's flagship policy program slammed by government auditors

The Government Accountability Office has issued a damning report about Ivanka
Trump’s pet project during her time as an adviser to her father, (Presiderp) Donald
Trump.

She touted more rigorous standards for women's empowerment, but USAID
delivered the opposite.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/31/ivanka-trump-womens-initiative-gao-478710

 

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Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer

Two U.S. Capitol police officers who say they received physical
and emotional wounds during the January 6 riot have filed a suit
against Donald Trump

1 hour ago

 

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Bratty, willful gesture of February 4th, to impress gun fanatics,
and threaten and frighten Democrats - has a cash price to be paid

March 31, 2021

Ethics panel affirms Rep. Gohmert (R-Texas) fine over metal detector

The House Ethics Committee upheld a $5,000 fine against Rep. Louie Gohmert
on Tuesday after he was accused of failing to submit to a full security screening
when entering the chamber’s floor last month.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ebc362-91be-11eb-aadc-af78701a30ca_story.html

 

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Louie Gohmert, a true resident of Trump's Scum Bucket

1/01/2021

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert’s last-ditch attempt to subvert President-elect Joe Biden’s
victory, his second rejection in two days in the Texas lawmaker’s attempt to empower
Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gave very short shrift to Gohmert's legal effort,
dismissing it summarily in a one-paragraph opinion issued Saturday evening.

The unsigned decision noted the district court's ruling that Gohmert and
11 Arizona Republicans — who would have been electors for (Presiderp)
Donald Trump — lacked legal standing to pursue the case.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/01/louie-gohmert-lawsuit-pence-453387

 

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April 6, 2021

38-year-old Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, is dead

A Navy medic shot and wounded two U.S. sailors at a military facility Tuesday,
then fled to a nearby Army base where security forces shot and killed him, police
and Navy officials said.

Woldesenbet shot the sailors with a rifle inside the facility at the Riverside Tech Park
on Tuesday morning, causing people inside to flee, said Frederick Police Chief Jason
Lando.

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2...hoots-2-u-s-sailors-is-stopped-killed-on-base

Woldesenbet, a Navy medic assigned to Fort Detrick but who lived in town, then drove
to the base, where gate guards who had been given advance notice told him to pull over
for a search, said Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley. But Woldesenbet immediately sped off
making it about a half-mile into the installation before he was stopped at a parking lot
by the base’s police force. When he pulled out a weapon, the police shot and killed him,
Talley (Gen. Michael J. Talley) said.

Reporters, on shooting incident Frederrick, Maryland

- Matthew Barakat
- Michael Kunzelman in College Park, Maryland
- Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia
- Jonathan Drew in Durham, North Carolina

Fort Detrick is home to the military’s flagship biological defense laboratory
and several federal civilian biodefense labs. About 10,000 military personnel
and civilians work on the base, which encompasses about 1,300 acres (526 hectares)
in the city of Frederick.

The base is a huge economic driver in the region, drawing scientists, military personnel
and their families.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...eafdf6-96d9-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html

Police cordoned off Woldesenbet’s garden-style apartment building in Frederick City,
a few miles from the site of the shooting.

A neighbor, Ava Target, said she knew Woldesenbet only by sight, and that he lived on
the top floor of the apartment complex with a wife and two kids. She wasn’t aware of
any problems.

Another neighbor who would only identify herself by her first name, Rachel, said she saw
police escort Woldesenbet’s wife and two young children from the apartment building
Tuesday afternoon.

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2...hoots-2-u-s-sailors-is-stopped-killed-on-base

 

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Planet Word Museum

planetwordmuseum dot org
Planet Word is an immersive language experience located at the historic Franklin School
in Washington, D.C.

April 2nd, 2021

- Sarah Orozco

...when Harvard literature professor Lisa New wrote an article about the role of poetry
in processing the pandemic, Roberts realized there was an opportunity to further explore
our difficult times through poetry. New, the creator and host of Poetry in America, a PBS
series aimed at making poetry accessible and interesting to the public, will be presenting
poetry in roughly four categories in an educational event on April 6.


https://washingtoncitypaper.com/art...planet-word-offers-us-poems-for-the-pandemic/

 

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Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer

To see dozens of corporations denounce voter-suppression laws
has come as a shock to the Republican elite.
@jonathanchait writes (link to NY magazine)

33 minutes ago

 

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The Queen has lost the companion that was on her side.

She must herd the cats on her own.

 

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"Eazy Sleazy"

(Mick Jagger feat. Dave Grohl)

We took it on the chin
The numbers were so grim
Bossed around by pricks
Stiffen upper lips
Pacing in the yard
You're trying to take the mick
You must think I'm really thick

Looking at the graphs with a magnifying glass
Cancel all the tours, football's fake applause
No more travel brochures
Virtual premieres, I've got nothing left to wear

Looking out from these prison walls
You got to rob Peter if you're paying Paul
But it's easy easy
Everything's gonna get really freaky
Alright on the night
Soon it'll be be a memory you're trying to remember to forget

That's a pretty mask
But never take a chance TikTok stupid dance
Took a samba class yeah I landed on my ass
Trying to write a tune you better hook me up to Zoom
See my poncey books teach myself to cook
Way too much TV, its lobotomizing me, yeah
Think I've put on weight
I'll have another drink then I'll clean the kitchen sink

We escaped from the prison walls
Open the windows and open the doors
But it's easy easy
Everything's gonna get really freaky
Alright on the night
It's gonna be a garden of earthly delights
Yeah it's easy sleazy
Everything's smooth and greasy
Yeah easy, believe me
It'll only be a memory you're trying to remember to forget

Shooting the vaccine
Bill Gates is in my bloodstream
It's mind control
The earth is flat and cold
It's never warming up
The Arctic's turned to slush
The second coming's late
And there's aliens in the deep state

Now we're out of these prison walls
You gotta pay Peter if you're robbing Paul
But it's easy easy
Everything's gonna be really freaky
Alright on the night
We're all headed back to paradise
Yeah easy. believe me
It'll be a memory you're trying to remember to forget

Easy cheesy
Everybody sing please please me
Yeah
It'll be a memory you're trying to remember to forget

April 2021

 

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April 15, 2021

SPOTTED upstairs at Cafe Milano on Wednesday night, gathered with Jimmy Finkelstein
in town: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Gayle Manchin, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)
and Sofia Kinzinger, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), Johnny Taylor, Bret Baier, Rajiv Shah
Suzanne Clark, Greg Lebedev, Barbara Humpton, Charles Rivkin, Steve Clemons and
Tammy Haddad.

https://www.politico.com/playbook

 

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Maxine Waters to Jim Jordan at Fauci Hearing: 'Shut Your Mouth'

April 15 2021

- Neal Broverman

An exchange between arch-conservative Congressman Jim Jordan and Dr. Anthony Fauci
chief medical adviser to the president and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's
COVID-19 expert, devolved into rancor during a House hearing on Thursday.

The hearing on the nation's COVID response was hijacked by Trump ally, Jim Jordan

Throughout the exchange, Jordan continuously spoke over Fauci and committee chairman
Jim Clyburn and then went over his alotted time, talking over a Democratic congresswoman
who was next in line for a question. Congresswoman Maxine Waters — not shy in standing
up to the bullying tactics of Republicans like Jordan — stepped in.

"You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth," she told Jordan.

Finally, Dr. Fauci told Jordan, "You're making this a personal thing and it isn't."

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/15/maxine-waters-jim-jordan-fauci-hearing-shut-your-mouth

Daily Kos ✓
Twitter › dailykos

Rep. Maxine Waters tells Jim Jordan three words we've all wanted
someone to say

2 hours ago

Rep. Maxine Waters tells Jim Jordan three words we've all wanted someone to say

April 15, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan wanted to make this personal because
he really didn’t want it to be about the facts.

When will life return to “normal,” Jordan claimed to want to know—
and he made clear that he thought Fauci is to blame for the lack of normalcy.
Never mind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, never mind the
governors, never mind the still-raging pandemic that’s killing around 700 people
per day.

Fauci was attempting to emphasize the importance of widespread vaccination
to drive downCOVID-19 rates and get to the state of normalcy Jordan kept talking
about, but Jordan was more interested in interrupting.

”Your time expired, sir,” Maxine Waters finally snapped.

“You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.”

Daily Kos

During a hearing today from the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis,
Rep. Jim Jordan was so nasty to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Chairman Jim Clyburn
that Rep. Maxine Waters had enough, telling him to respect that chair and
"shut your mouth."

- by John Amato
April 15, 2021
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