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VideoGameVet posted:Seniors (Ok, Boomer) and low income people get a nice discount in Los Angeles. Here's a great piece on how Boomers are loving the UK. He mentions all the senior citizen discounts were created because traditionally being a senior citizen also meant you lived in poverty. But now, with their wealth secured in real estate, the average senior citizen has more disposable income (spending power) than the average millenial. So these are just added perks instead of life-lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
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Old James posted:Here's a great piece on how Boomers are loving the UK. He mentions all the senior citizen discounts were created because traditionally being a senior citizen also meant you lived in poverty. But now, with their wealth secured in real estate, the average senior citizen has more disposable income (spending power) than the average millenial. So these are just added perks instead of life-lines.
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Old James posted:Here's a great piece on how Boomers are loving the UK. He mentions all the senior citizen discounts were created because traditionally being a senior citizen also meant you lived in poverty. But now, with their wealth secured in real estate, the average senior citizen has more disposable income (spending power) than the average millenial. So these are just added perks instead of life-lines. Good thing I have no RE wealth. But yeah, I think the point is correct.
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It's strategic, to shield their assets from court claims.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's strategic, to shield their assets from court claims. Also very, very obvious.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's strategic, to shield their assets from court claims. Oh, the WR Grace technique! 
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Discendo Vox posted:It's strategic, to shield their assets from court claims. We're seeing a number of sporting institutions threatening to do this in Australia with new legislation coming in regarding compensation for children who were abused by such organisations. They think that people will say, "Oh no, you poor sporting organisation, please don't shut your doors after turning a blind eye to the rape of children by your staff at your facilities for decades! Please don't go! You did just so much good in the world when you weren't holding children down and raping them." Sadly, they're probably right.
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Hey now, I learned some good life ethics from them up through sixth grade.
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The Boy Scouts were selling their lovely popcorn for like $20 or $25 a bag recently. Lol, no wonder.
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Zipperelli. posted:The Boy Scouts were selling their lovely popcorn for like $20 or $25 a bag recently. Lol, no wonder. They've been losing a lot of their funding from right-wing churches (especially the Mormons) over their "Let's stop being lovely to LGBT people and women" moves.
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BSA is so decentralized in practice that experiences vary widely. Mine was great, because the parent volunteers were great. Head Council was just a very minor obstacle to us for the most part. Other places lean heavily into the religion or just have poo poo local leadership. It really is a shame because there is a LOT of real value in there somewhere.
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The Bloop posted:BSA is so decentralized in practice that experiences vary widely. Agreed. I've seen a couple articles suggesting the death of the BSA might be exactly what scouting in America needs. I think they might be right.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Agreed. I've seen a couple articles suggesting the death of the BSA might be exactly what scouting in America needs. I think they might be right. Possibly. But again, a lot of the money in the BSA came from far-right religious organizations, especially the Mormons, and a lot of those groups already split off to try making their own Scouting organizations but with the religious and conservative elements out in the open. The death of the BSA may not do much harm, but I can't see it doing much good, either.
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BSA shuttering means that it can't do any more harm, and that's what I care about. I was a weeblo and it was not a positive experience.
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Kith posted:BSA shuttering means that it can't do any more harm, and that's what I care about. I was a weeblo and it was not a positive experience. The regional level organizations are separate entities and they won’t be closing down. The organization has made a lot of changes to protect youth (my local council has required background checks for all adult volunteers for 5+ years) and I think it’s one of the better national youth orgs as long as the individual troops can maintain independence from its sponsoring org (aka the church stays out). I’m sorry you had a bad experience, and I hope you didn’t have any actual harm come to you.
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Fellis posted:The regional level organizations are separate entities and they won’t be closing down. The organization has made a lot of changes to protect youth (my local council has required background checks for all adult volunteers for 5+ years) and I think it’s one of the better national youth orgs as long as the individual troops can maintain independence from its sponsoring org (aka the church stays out). Well, that complicates things. Here I was hoping that it would be a nice and easy dollop of catharsis. quote:I’m sorry you had a bad experience, and I hope you didn’t have any actual harm come to you. I'd rather not turn this into E/N, so I'll leave it at "my scoutmasters should be in prison".
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Obviously not everyone had the same experiences. I was a cub scout, webelos, and boy scout, and I learned a ton and had a great time. Someone with the local boy scout council in my area was interviewed in the newspaper, and they claimed nothing locally was going to change.
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Trump Has Now Shifted $1.9 Million From Campaign Donors To His Business forbes.com/Feb 19, 2020 The Trump administration hopes that America's hunters and fishermen can be played for fools dailykos.com/February 15, 2020 'Over the first nine days of February, thousands of hunters, fishermen, gun aficionados, and other outdoor sports enthusiasts poured into an annual central Pennsylvania event: the Great American Outdoor Show. Prominently sponsored by the National Rifle Association, this sprawling exhibition features high-power firearms showcased by hundreds of national and international vendors—along with, to a lesser degree, standard hunting rifles, bowhunting gear, fishing tackle, and backwoods outfitting—and is explicitly billed by the NRA as celebrating “hunting, fishing, and outdoor traditions treasured by millions of Americans and their families.”' They were one of the first families separated at the border. Two and a half years later, they’re still apart. washingtonpost.com/Feb. 17, 2020 US judge sides with migrants in case against Border Patrol kold.com/ February 19, 2020 "A U.S. judge in Arizona has issued a permanent order requiring the Border Patrol to provide clean mats and thin blankets to migrants within 12 hours of arriving at a detention facility." ICE deported a trans asylum-seeker. She was killed in El Salvador. pri.org/February 13, 2020 Mississippi prison crisis: 18th inmate dies since Dec. 29, second in 24 hours usatoday.com/Feb. 16, 2020 What is the 'boogaloo?' How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream msn.com/11 hrs ago "An anti-government movement that advocates for a violent uprising targeting liberal political opponents and law enforcement has moved from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream in recent months and surged on social media, according to a group of researchers that tracks hate groups." Indigenous Peoples Report Racism Surge as Wet'suwet'en Rail Blockades Grow vice.com/Feb 19 2020 Uber shuts downtown L.A. office, laying off about 80 latimes.com/Feb. 18, 2020 FRONTLINE: Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos pbs.org/ 02/18/20/1h 54m 22s "Amazon Empire" is PBS' frightening look at Jeff Bezos' relentless capitalist success story salon.com/February 19, 2020 "PBS' "Frontline" confronts how much we are all contributing to the richest man in the world's vision for domination"
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Trump signs order diverting water to California farmers against state wishes thehill.com/02/19/20 "President Trump on Wednesday signed an order in California to re-engineer the state’s water plans, completing a campaign promise to funnel water from the north to a thirsty agriculture industry and growing population further south. The ceremonial order comes after the Department of the Interior late last year reversed its opinion on scientific findings that for a decade extended endangered species protections to various types of fish — a review that had been spurred by the order from Trump." Iowa lawmakers kill mobile home park bills as residents beg, 'please, help us' desmoinesregister.com/Feb. 19, 2020 'Iowa mobile home park residents gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday to advocate for state action to boost protections against steep rent hikes and evictions, even as key lawmakers said bills to do that would not advance this session. At a news conference, residents detailed the impact of the out-of-state firms that have bought several Iowa mobile home parks over the past few years, in some cases increasing the rents substantially. "These corporate entities are coming after us like a virus, and we don't have time for a cure," said Carrie Presley, president of the mobile home owners association at Table Mound Mobile Home Park in Dubuque. "You guys are it. So please, help us." Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate who control which bills will receive hearings before a legislative "funnel" deadline on Friday said they would not advance the mobile home park bills in either chamber.' ICE defies California law, arrests people at courthouse borderreport.com/Feb 20, 2020/by: OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press "U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests Tuesday at Sonoma County Superior Court, prompting an outcry from criminal justice and court officials who said the action undermines local authority and deters immigrants who are in the country illegally from participating in the U.S. justice system. ICE said California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly-enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States.” Poor People’s Campaign Puts the Spotlight on Poverty commondreams.org/February 20, 2020 "Series of gatherings around the country builds momentum for June 20 march." .... 'James Shearer was living out of sight and beyond care among Boston’s homeless in the 1980s. Now he is helping to give them a voice. “Why does this country cater to the rich while allowing working-class men and women, who work multiple jobs, with long hours, to live in places that are unfit for humanity?” asked Shearer, sixty, at a mass meeting on February 5 in the small town of Greenfield in western Massachusetts. “Instead of helping the homeless, they are criminalized, abused, arrested, preyed upon by bullies, and marginalized. And when we die in the street, there is no funeral.”' Protesting Syracuse Students Are Still Occupying An Administration Building After About 30 Were Suspended buzzfeednews.com/February 19, 2020 'More than two dozen students have occupied the admissions building of Syracuse University since Monday, protesting what they described as the university administration’s “complacency in the spreading of white nationalistic ideology.” The protest movement, which is led by black students and tweets under the hashtag #NotAgainSU, has been active since it was formed in late November.' ETA: Walmart Workers Demand Fair Pay and Hours at Protest Outside Alice Walton's Penthouse as Retail Giant Cuts Jobs commondreams.org/February 18, 2020 '"Walmart workers issued a "wake up call" to Alice Walton, an heir to the retailer's $500 billion fortune, in New York on Tuesday by marching to Walton's New York penthouse and demanding her company pay its 1.5 million workers a living wage and give them reliable, stable work schedules. The protest was partially a response to the company's so-called "Great Workplace" restructuring initiative which Walmart began testing last year and plans to roll out in at least 1,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores by the end of 2020. According to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post Tuesday, employees are bracing for job cuts under the program, which will consolidate multiple workers' responsibilities into single roles with hourly pay staying the same or even going down in some cases.' https://i.imgur.com/hna3aAa.jpg
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New Trump Disability Rule Targets Non-English Speakers yahoo.com/February 20, 2020 "The Trump administration is finalizing a new rule barring Social Security disability examiners from considering someone’s inability to speak English as a factor in whether they should be eligible for benefits." Trump's push to install people loyal to him in law enforcement, intelligence appears to be well underway theweek.com/February 21, 2020 How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession newyorker.com/February 21, 2020 "Donald Trump’s senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration’s racist agenda. How far will he go?" .... 'One afternoon in November, a half-dozen government officials sat at a conference table in the White House, waiting for the arrival of Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump. Miller had summoned officials from the Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Justice to discuss a new Administration policy initiative: a series of agreements with the governments of Central America that would force asylum seekers to apply for protection in that region instead of in the United States. Miller, who had helped make the deals, wanted to know when their provisions could go into effect. Typically, everyone rises when top White House officials enter a room. But when Miller walked in, wearing a dark suit and an expression of wry resolve, everyone remained seated, their eyes cast down. “You go into meetings with Miller and try to get out with as little damage as possible,” a former Administration official told me. Miller has a habit of berating officials, especially lower-ranking ones, for an agency’s perceived failures. Chad Wolf, now the acting head of D.H.S., used to advise colleagues to placate Miller by picking one item from his long list of demands, and vowing to execute it. “It’s a war of attrition,” Wolf told them. “Maybe he forgets the rest for a while, and you buy yourself some time.” One participant in the November meeting pointed out that El Salvador didn’t have a functioning asylum system. “They don’t need a system,” Miller interrupted. He began speaking over people, asking questions, then cutting off the answers.' We Calculated How Much We Pay Trump to Play Golf. It Turns Out, He's America's 10th Highest Paid Athlete theroot.com/Wednesday 3:12PM Rudy Giuliani hit with a criminal complaint for allegedly manipulating federal resources to advance a partisan agenda rawstory.com/February 21, 2020 "A government watchdog group has filed a criminal complaint to federal prosecutors in New York calling for an investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani’s shadow foreign policy efforts in Ukraine. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), which was once led by Giuliani, to launch an investigation after Trump admitted last week that he directed the attorney to go to Ukraine and pressure leaders to pursue baseless allegations against his political rivals. The effort came as Trump directed a freeze on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine appropriated by Congress, an order which violated federal law, according to the Government Accountability Office." Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration vox.com/Feb 22, 2020 "The ordinary rules no longer apply when the Trump administration shows up in court." .... 'The Supreme Court voted along party lines Friday evening to allow a Trump administration rule restricting low-income immigrants’ ability to enter the US to take full effect. All four of the Court’s Democratic appointees dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing a sharply worded dissenting opinion accusing her Court of “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration. “It is hard to say what is more troubling,” Sotomayor wrote. “That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”' California proposes a path to stripping PG&E of its license latimes.com/Feb. 19, 2020 "Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he wants the option to take over bankrupt PG&E Corp. if the utility gets into trouble again. Now, the state has laid out a road map for how that could happen." Facebook faces tax court trial over Ireland offshore deal reuters.com/February 18, 2020 "Facebook Inc is slated to begin a tax trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, as the Internal Revenue Service tries to convince a judge the world’s largest social media company owes more than $9 billion linked to its decision to shift profits to Ireland." Company Lays Off 2,300 Employees To Convert Workforce To Independent Contractors labor411.org/February 19, 2020 "A food delivery company no longer wants its employees to be, well, employees. Instead its laying off over 2,000 of them to switch to an independent contractor model, which will save the company money at the expense of workers." Small town residents threaten to sue their own kids’ financially strapped school over a rainbow flag queerty.com/February 20, 2020 "In 2016, Donald Trump won the county where Marshall is located with roughly 60 percent of the vote." How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart theguardian.com/20 Feb 2020 "For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP is remaking the nation into one where some people count as more Indian than others." Mormon Church Formalizes Punishments for Trans Members advocate.com/February 19 2020 [Original link]: LDS Church publishes new handbook with changes to discipline, transgender policy sltrib.com/Published: 3 days ago/Updated: 1 day ago Germany shooting: chants of 'Nazis out' at vigils after gunman kills nine theguardian.com/20 Feb 2020 "President denounces ‘brutal act of terror’ and calls for nation to unite as thousands attend gatherings across the country"
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O’Brien Denies Russian Meddling Reports After Saying He Hasn’t Seen Intel talkingpointsmemo.com/February 23, 2020 "National security adviser Robert O’Brien denied reports that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in an effort to help President Trump’s re-election, during Sunday TV news appearances. When pressed by ABC News’ George Stephanopolous on whether he has seen analysis from the intelligence community showing that Russia aimed to help Trump, O’Brien replied that he has “not seen that” despite getting “pretty good access.” Pull Yourself Up by Bootstraps? Go Ahead, Try It nytimes.com/Feb. 19, 2020 "Back in the 1800s, the expression “pull oneself up by the bootstraps” meant the opposite of what it does now. Then it was used mockingly to describe an impossible act." Oracle Employees Walk Out to Protest Chairman Larry Ellison’s Trump Fundraiser time.com/February 21, 2020 .... "The protest, called No Ethics/No Work, involved about 300 employees walking out of their offices or stopping work at remote locations at noon local time and devoting the rest of the day to volunteering or civic engagement, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution." .... Bomb threats made against 18 Jewish communities centers in New York, authorities said usatoday.com/Feb. 23, 2020 New Jersey Raises Terror Threat Level for White Supremacist Extremists to High nbcnewyork.com/February 21, 2020 The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later newyorker.com/February 23, 2020
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By any means necessary: Trump’s prepared to cheat again in 2020 — and lie about it shamelessly rawstory.com/7 hours ago What Exactly Is Ivanka Trump Doing in India? vogue.com/February 24, 2020 50 service members diagnosed with TBI following Iran ballistic missile attack militarytimes.com/January 28 Study finds half of homeless have a traumatic brain injury komonews.com/February 21st 2020 USC announces free tuition for families making under $80,000 a year nbcnews.com/Feb. 20, 2020 "The University of Southern California also said homeownership will no longer factor into its calculations to determine a student's financial need." You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus theatlantic.com/10:39 AM ET "Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain." .... [If you're panicky about the subject, read the entire article. It's the best distilled so far. FWIW, tomorrow's information will be be different, 'cause that's the way biology and human information works.]
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Almost every time I start a book or a podcast about someone who's done something society thinks is bonkers, like a public assassination or a serial killing spree, or some other thing society thinks is bonkers--pants crazy...if you look at their history, there's some kind of severe head injury. Like, I'm listening to a podcast doing a deep dive into Sirhan Sirhan and why he assassinated RFK, and two or three episodes in it's like, "Oh, and also, he wanted to be a jockey, until he got tossed off his horse in a race and suffered a severe head injury. Then he went and flailed at life for a while and a bunch of funky poo poo was excused until OMG he killed a presidential candidate and we don't know why!"
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Otteration posted:... quote:Edwards needed surgery to save his right eye, and he suffered a traumatic brain injury that still causes migraines and memory issues. He was managing, and he started his own appliance repair business in Seattle. But he relied heavily on his wife. When she was arrested last year over questions about her immigration status, he spiraled and stopped working. 
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Trump, in India, Demands 2 Liberal Justices Recuse Themselves From His Cases nytimes.com/Feb. 25, 2020 'Besides ignoring the entreaties of Attorney General William P. Barr, the president’s attack on the two justices also risked provoking a reaction from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In 2018, Chief Justice Roberts admonished Mr. Trump for calling a Supreme Court justice who ruled against one of his administration’s policies, “an Obama judge.”' More than a dozen killed, hundreds injured as New Delhi riots overshadow Trump visit reuters.com/February 25, 2020 Delhi rocked by deadly protests during Donald Trump's India visit theguardian.com/25 Feb 2020 Mosque set on fire as violent protests continue across New Delhi aljazeera.com/8 hours ago Auschwitz Museum again calls out Amazon and Jeff Bezos for selling ‘Nazi propaganda’ jta.org/February 24, 2020 The complicated truth behind Trump’s ‘American comeback' bbc.com/20 February 2020 '"We can't even live off our wages," says Corin, 46, who works as a hotel receptionist. "That's why we come here."' ["Complicated".] After penalizing gay teacher, Mansfield ISD awards her $100,000, plans vote to ban sexual orientation discrimination texastribune.org/Feb. 25, 2020 "Arlington art teacher Stacy Bailey was placed on administrative leave in August 2017 after showing her students a picture of her soon-to-be wife. On Monday, Mansfield ISD awarded Bailey $100,000 after a federal judge ruled her suspension was unconstitutional." [Not complicated.] In pictures: Haiti capital's streets blocked as protests spread bbc.com/25 February 2020 "The blockades came a day after police demanding better working conditions attacked the army headquarters in the city." After Protests, University of California Agrees To $2,500 Stipend For Grad Students in Santa Cruz laist.com/February 24, 2020 '“And while we are glad to hear this news, it is not enough,” Iyengar said. The stipend isn’t part of the union’s contract and not legally enforceable, she said, and it only benefits Santa Cruz students. Statewide union leaders said they will continue to push UC to negotiate pay increases that aren’t limited to one campus and one year. “The one-time stipend granted by UC is a gesture of good faith and will placate Santa Cruz strikers,” said union leader Noah Teller, a grad student at UC Riverside, “but does not give a substantive benefit to all members of the union.”'
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Pastor Rick Wiles Says Coronavirus Will Stop If China Accepts Jesus god.dailydot.com/14 hours ago Even Republicans Are Worried the Trump Administration Isn’t Ready for a Coronavirus Outbreak rollingstone.com/February 25, 2020 [Cue internal debate about whether to continue to post actual science or let the masked protests wash over the world.] Doctors Have a Name for Separating Kids from Their Parents at the Border: It's Torture. vice.com/Feb 25 2020 "A 39-year-old Honduran mother had her 9-year-old child taken from her when she fled to the U.S. to seek asylum. It was three weeks before she was even able to speak to him, and though they were reunited two months later, she experienced depression and post-traumatic stress. She sometimes wondered whether she’d be better off dead." The typical US worker can no longer afford a family on a year's salary, showing the dire state of America's middle class markets.businessinsider.com/Feb. 25, 2020 Dear Debate Moderators, There Are More 'Black Issues' Besides Crime and Poverty theroot.com/Yesterday 2:30PM "Because of my poorly funded fixation, I have noticed that the political narrative about race—especially during this election cycle—has focused almost exclusively on four issues: *Black criminals: Police brutality, the ’94 crime bill, stop and frisk, mass incarceration and the drug war. *Poor black people: Poor “urban” areas, segregation, redlining. *Dumb black people: Unequal black schools, test scores, and teaching black kids to read with record players. *White supremacist violence: Nazi marches, Trumpism and right-wing terrorism. If one is lucky enough to catch the 91 seconds during each debate when candidates are asked to address racial issues, it is easy to assume that the entirety of black America is either poor, uneducated, unemployed, in jail or running from Nazis wearing MAGA hats. Debate moderators, media outlets and candidates condense the concerns of black voters down to four categories because they really don’t care about “black issues.” They just want to look like they care." Hong Kong, Hit by Coronavirus and Protests, to Hand Out Billions of Dollars in Cash wsj.com/Feb. 26, 2020 'As economy reels, an “exceptional measure” is necessary to encourage consumer spending, said Financial Secretary Paul Chan'
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Otteration posted:Pastor Rick Wiles Says Coronavirus Will Stop If China Accepts Jesus I don't know if my blood-pressure will ever be the same. Where to even start with how loving wrong and ignorant this is? That he can't even vaguely approximate "Xi Jinping" with English phonology? That he thinks somehow Xi is the one who "turned away from Jesus"? That another culture should be Christianized more than it is already? That the last time China got its Jesus on there was the Taiping Rebellion that killed millions?!?!? That this is literally based on a medieval understanding of how disease works? So. loving. Angry. GAH.
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Crossposting this here because it's exceptionally news worthy and has gotten shockingly little play writ large. Basically the US has done almost no testing for coronavirus cases because the test kits the cdc sent out had a bunk component and thus don't work at all .LeeMajors posted:We have zero confirmed cases of Coronavirus in our metro area and all our local emergency rooms were butts-to-nuts with sneezy, wheezy folks from the crack of dawn until I got off shift. We have zero confirmed cases because we've only tested like 400 people nationally https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/cdc-coronavirus-test/ quote:Problems with a government-created coronavirus test have limited the United States’ capacity to rapidly increase testing, just as the outbreak has entered a worrisome new phase in countries worldwide. Experts are increasingly concerned that the small number of U.S. cases may be a reflection of limited testing, not of the virus’s spread. full text cuz paywall
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That article is very disingenuous and fear-mongering. Ebola had the same restrictions with regard to testing requirements and availability of testing, in the face of a virus with MUCH higher mortality rate. Zika also had stringent testing requirements, even in the face of endemic cases in Puerto Rico. There have been issues with test kits sent from the CDC (negative control coming back positive). But CDC testing will eventually become ancillary to commercial testing. Zika ELISA and urine testing from commercial manufacturers was on the market within months. Considering there is already infrastructure for testing SARS and MERS (which are genomically similar to COVID-19), it's just a matter of time. Here's an article that is less inflammatory and more factual: https://www.mlo-online.com/disease/infectious-disease/article/21127144/as-cdc-warns-of-us-covid19-spread-labs-frustrated-over-lack-of-tests
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Trump Isn’t Managing the Coronavirus Crisis or Anything Else – He Just Spent an Hour in the White House With Diamond & Silk thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/on February 27, 2020 Coronavirus makes the case for Medicare-for-all washingtonpost.com/Feb. 26, 2020 "Osmel Martinez Azcue wanted to do the right thing, for both his own health and the health of the nation. When the Florida resident came down with flu-like symptoms shortly after returning from a trip to China, he immediately went to a local hospital to get tested for coronavirus. A few weeks later, according to the Miami Herald, Azcue received an invoice for more than $3,000. His insurer claims he’s responsible for $1,400 of the total. He’s expecting even more bills to arrive over the next few weeks. We’re all fixated on the Trump administration’s day-late-and-billions-of-dollars-short response to the increasing likelihood that coronavirus will cause a public-health crisis in the United States. But the fact remains that even if the government were fully prepared, many Americans will face another barrier to receiving care that will make the crisis worse. That barrier is their wallet." Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight apnews.com/February 26, 2020 "The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts." Off The Record: Trump Administration Criticized For How It Keeps Documents npr.org/February 24, 2020 "The Trump administration is being criticized for its handling of certain government records. Historians and activists charge that the White House has failed to keep notes of the president's meetings with foreign leaders, including with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that other papers, including records of alleged abuses of undocumented immigrants, could be destroyed. Immigration activists fear that records relating to the treatment of undocumented immigrants — including detainee deaths, complaints about medical conditions, and alleged sexual assault and abuse of detainees — could be destroyed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." Democrats Chasing the White Moderate Vote With White Moderate Candidates Ignore People of Color teenvogue.com/February 26, 2020 Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4 theguardian.com/27 Feb 2020 "Alfonzo Tucker Jr is just one of millions of Americans who have been entangled in a racially biased system – and deprived of their democratic right" Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations taskandpurpose.com/Feb 27, 2020 Women in Mexico Are Urged to Disappear for a Day in Protest nytimes.com/Feb. 26, 2020 "Fed up with escalating gender-based attacks and murders, activists called for a daylong national strike by women to demand greater support for their rights."
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Trump administration to cut funds from health programs to pay for coronavirus response thehill.com/02/26/20 Lawmaker Threatens To Beat Up Trump Jr. For Claiming Dems Want Millions Of Coronavirus Deaths thegailygrind.com/02/28/2020 'Democratic Rep. John Garamendi of California on Friday threatened a “serious altercation” with Donald Trump Jr. after the president’s eldest son falsely claimed that Democrats “seemingly hope” that the coronavirus comes to the U.S. “and kills millions of people so that they can end Donald Trump’s streak of winning.” “He should not be near me when he says that,” Garamendi warned during an interview with MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson. “Why not?” Jackson asked the congressman. “There would be a serious altercation,” Garamendi replied. “That is just totally outrageous. I can assure you that there’s not a Democrat or Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick.” “Don Jr. better not get close to me,” he added. “It would not be a healthy situation.”' The Trump administration barred a top US disease expert from speaking freely to the public after he warned the coronavirus might be impossible to contain yahoo.com/February 28, 2020 "President Donald Trump's administration has barred one of the top US experts on infectious diseases from speaking out about the coronavirus outbreak without permission from the White House, The New York Times reported Thursday, in an apparent bid to stop contradictory messages about the public-health crisis." White House's Mulvaney: Coronavirus coverage 'all about' hurting Trump msnbc.com/Feb. 28, 2020 'Rush Limbaugh this week told his audience that "this coronavirus thing" is being "weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump." He added, "I'm dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks." A day later, the host kept this going, insisting that journalists want the virus outbreak to be deadly "so they could blame Trump for it."' Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S. scientificamerican.com/February 27, 2020 "Getting ready for the possibility of major disruptions is not only smart; it’s also our civic duty" .... "As the new human coronavirus spreads around the world, individuals and families should prepare—but are we? The Centers for Disease Control has already said that it expects community transmission in the United States, and asked families to be ready for the possibility of a “significant disruption to our lives.” Be ready? But how? It seems to me that some people may be holding back from preparing because of their understandable dislike of associating such preparation with doomsday or “prepper” subcultures. Another possibility is that people may have learned that for many people the disease is mild, which is certainly true, so they don’t think it’s a big risk to them. Also, many doomsday scenarios advise extensive preparation for increasingly outlandish scenarios, and this may seem daunting and pointless (and it is). Others may not feel like contributing to a panic or appearing to be selfish. Forget all that. Preparing for the almost inevitable global spread of this virus, now dubbed COVID-19, is one of the most pro-social, altruistic things you can do in response to potential disruptions of this kind." Education Dept. to Cut Off Federal Funding for Some Rural Schools nytimes.com/Feb. 28, 2020 "A bookkeeping change at the department will cut thousands of dollars in aid to some of the poorest, most isolated schools in the country." For the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans than independents washingtonpost.com/Feb. 28, 2020 "For the first time in history, there are more registered independents in the United States than there are registered Republicans." CEO Of Wall Street Bank That Took $25 Billion Bailout Warns Of Socialism For Everyone Else labor411.org/January 23, 2020
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Mulvaney Dismisses Coronavirus Crisis As A Media Hoax nationalmemo.com/February 28, 2020 America is about to get a godawful lesson in why health care should never be a for-profit business dailykos.com/February 27, 2020 Millions of uninsured Americans like me are a coronavirus timebomb theguardian.com/28 Feb 2020 Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response politico.com/02/28/2020 Americans avoiding Corona beer amid coronavirus outbreak: survey ktsm.com/Feb 28, 2020 "38% of beer drinkers said they would not under any circumstances buy Corona as the deadly virus continues to spread, according to a survey conducted by 5W Public Relations." Federal appeals court blocks President Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy but stays its own ruling washingtonpost.com/Feb. 28, 2020 Hilton Hotel To Host Neo-Confederate Group Conference On Last Day Of Black History Month huffpost.com/02/28/2020 Comedians mock ‘Confederate sympathizer' Steve King with tiny statue theguardian.com/28 Feb 2020 'They’re calling it a tiny statue for a tiny man. Given Iowa congressman Steve King’s pitiful history of racist and xenophobic comments, it may not be small enough. The statue, placed in front of the Iowa statehouse in Des Moines, is the work of the comedy duo Davram Stiefler and Jason Selvig, known as The Good Liars. “This site is dedicated to Confederate sympathizer and White Nationalist, Steve King,” reads the plaque underneath the statue, which is indeed especially small. “Here, King is honored with the world’s smallest Confederate statue.”' Protesters against Sons of Confederate Veterans conference turn against police newsobserver.com/February 29, 2020 "What started out as a protest against a Sons of Confederate Veterans annual conference at the Embassy Suites near Brier Creek turned into a protest against police Saturday afternoon."
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Is it my imagination, or is he wearing a chastity belt? Or a jock strap over his pants?
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