The Proud Boys Changed Tactics After Jan. 6. We Tracked Their Activity.
The far-right street-fighting gang looked to whitewash their reputation in 2021 by latching onto hyperlocal right-wing culture war issues.
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Dominick Black, who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the gun used in Kenosha shootings, has taken a plea deal
Dominick Black, the man who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the gun he used in deadly shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020 has agreed to a plea deal related to weapons charges, his defense attorney told CNN.
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Senate Democrats grow less confident in Manchin
Senate Democrats are growing less and less confident about whether Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) wants to strike a legislative deal with President Biden.
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The race to the bottom is capitalist construct.
Why not use empty buildings / apartments to house the homeless. it is win win for the landlords, the homeless, and the government. In places were this has been done it has found to be cheaper than locking up the homeless or other ways to deal with them. Scottie
Dead man walking.
People who watch FOX think it’s a news channel and do not care that it is an entertainment channel with opinions, not journalism.
That is their research. Opinions are their facts.
More than 760 kids under the age of 18 are getting hospitalized with COVID-19 on average each day, according to CDC data. It’s the highest average ever reported for the age group.
“”For the week ending December 30, 2021, more than 325,000 cases were reported among children—a 64 percent increase from the previous week and nearly double the cases from two weeks prior,” says Dr. Noah Greenspan, PT, DPT, a cardiopulmonary physical therapist and the director of Pulmonary Wellness ComplexPT, who has been treating COVID patients since the beginning of the pandemic.”
SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/more-kids-being-hospitalized-covid-210857541.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Normally I would put this anti-CDC stuff in the misleading right wing media section, but the recent guidelines that changed several times a day for several days due to lack of tests for the Coronavirus variants and people needing to work to survive. So this time he has a point. While the recommendations have changed rapidly recently the CDC has to take into account reality when they issue their guidelines. Their job is to recommend the best public health measures to take to best protect the people from a public health threat. The reality is the US doesn’t currently have enough tests for people to test and quarantine then test again until they are negative for Coronavirus as they were doing, and people also need to work to survive in the US so have to be able to go back to work with out a negative test. While the CDC guidelines are not the optimum they are the best considering the circumstances. Scottie
Twelve people were killed Wednesday when gunmen stormed a French satirical news magazine, a weekly publication called Charlie Hebdo, which has published cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Scottie
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As January 6th was an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power, an attempted coup, an insurrection designed to deny the will of the people who voted to elect Biden president in a fair and valid election, yes it was much worse. The attack and deaths of 9/11 couldn’t destroy the US nor stop the government from functioning. Jan 6th did stop the government from functioning and could have destroyed / ended the US form of democratic government by force. Scottie
“The general public and the politicians who serve them, like me, tend to reflexively support punitive sentencing measures that often fail to promote public safety and result in needless deprivation of freedom, burdensome taxpayer cost and unimaginable racial and regional disparities,” Mariani said. Supporters of the change contend it would help promote rehabilitation and save taxpayer money by freeing up prison space.
DFL Gov. Tim Walz shared some thoughts on the proposal earlier this week, saying he thinks the commission will make sure the most violent criminals remain locked up.
“Trying to tell Minnesotans that this is somehow going to make them less safe is simply not true,” Walz said. “The sentencing commission is made up of a vast swath of expertise. So, I would expect them to make the right decision on that, to be smart about what it takes for Minnesota to keep Minnesotans safe.“ Scottie
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Star Wars reference. Imperial storm troopers are notorious for missing every good guy they shoot at. Scottie
I have noticed that when the question of who should benefit the most these upstanding servants of the people in elected office put themselves and theirs at the top while being sure that no one else is as deserving as they are. In their minds no one has earned the rights and largess of the country more than they have, so to them go the spoils and to others goes the labor needed to produce the spoils. Scottie
Since at least The Feast of Saint Ronnie, the US in general and Republicans in particular frame government spending as illegitimate giveaways, often to the undeserving who continue to disappoint them by the lack of their bootstraps up-pulling.
Poverty is seen as a lack of character rather than dumb luck, while wealth (often inherited) is somehow earned. It’s one of those Fantasyland portrayals we like to tell ourselves about our exceptionalism rather than the hard truth of our ingrained class structure, I guess.
I mention this because we are told the economy in general is booming, but when you get to the scrappy individual, it is not good times. Our wealth gap is wider than it has ever been, billionaires continue to pay no taxes (and build island fortresses and escape rockets for the inevitable Horror to come) and what few crumbs that they don’t hoover-up remain for the…
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Yahoo News reports:
A Florida official admitted Thursday that as many as 1 million COVID-19 test kits expired in a state warehouse over the last few days of December while coronavirus cases were skyrocketing and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said nothing about the health crisis.
Kevin Guthrie, director of the state Division of Emergency Management, made the startling revelation about the Abbott Laboratories rapid test kits in response to a reporter’s question at a Palm Beach press conference where DeSantis was touting the state’s acquisition of an additional 1 million tests.
Guthrie claimed at the press conference that there was simply no demand for the tests that expired — despite massively long lines of Floridians waiting for tests that were available elsewhere, and despite drugstores being sold out of COVID tests.
Politico reports:
DeSantis on Friday defended his administration’s decision to allow up to one million Covid-19 rapid test kits to expire, a move that comes as he is facing increasing criticism from Democrats over his handling of the Omicron surge.
DeSantis has argued that the stockpile resulted from a lack of demand in the later part of 2021 and blamed President Joe Biden’s administration for not granting extensions to keep the tests eligible — something it did in September for three months.
In the days before Thursday’s admission, DeSantis had focused on erasing the “testing psychology,” essentially arguing against the practice that all individuals should get tests regardless of whether they show Covid-related symptoms while railing against the federal government for not providing tests.
A Texas teacher has been charged with child endangerment after she allegedly placed her COVID-19-positive son in the trunk of her car, KPRC 2 Houston reported.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed that the teacher, Sarah Beam, was charged after her son was found in the trunk of her car while they were at a COVID-19 testing site run by a Texas school district, the news outlet reported.
She allegedly placed her son in the trunk of her car to avoid being exposed to the teen, who she told authorities had COVID-19. She allegedly told officials that the two were there to do additional testing for her son.
Officials first became aware of the incident after a noise coming from the trunk was heard by a witness, and the trunk was later unhatched by the Texas teacher, KPRC 2 Houston reported.
The witness then contacted police after Beam was reportedly told that the teen needed to be removed from the trunk and placed in the back seat, or else she would not receive a COVID-19 test.
The teen later left the trunk and entered the back seat, according to surveillance footage that officials were able to access, the news outlet noted.
The police department for Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District said a warrant for her arrest has been issued, KPRC 2 Houston reported. She is on administrative leave by the school district.
It was not immediately clear if Beam had a lawyer representing her.
The Hill has reached out to the school district, the school district’s police and Harris County District Attorney’s Office for comment.
https://apnews.com/article/arrests-florida-ron-desantis-22c716a4ec47ac6fc5ad09611d8d1470
Two county commissioners in central Florida were suspended from office Thursday, several weeks after being arrested and charged with lying during an investigation of possible Sunshine Law violations.
Gov. Ron DeSantis issued two executive orders to remove Sumter County commissioners Oren Miller and Gary Search from their elected offices until their criminal cases are resolved, in accordance with state law. Miller and Search were arrested Dec. 15 and charged with perjury.
DeSantis, Miller and Search are all Republicans. Miller and Search are both residents of The Villages, a massive retirement community.
Florida’s Sunshine Law requires public access for any gathering of two or more members of the same government board to discuss a matter that could foreseeably come before that board for action. The Fifth Circuit State Attorney’s Office initially received three complaints last year that Miller and Search were communicating through Miller’s wife.
Phone records showed Miller and Search contacted each other directly over 40 times between November 2020, when they were both elected, and July 2021, prosecutors said. Miller told investigators the calls stopped in January or February after they realized the communication might be an issue, and Search told investigators he had no contact with Miller outside public meetings, according to court documents. The phone records showed that nearly half of the calls between the two men were made after January 2021.
Arrest affidavits didn’t say what Miller and Search were discussing, but many of the calls were made just before or just after scheduled county commission meetings, prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys for Miller and Search didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment from The Associated Press.
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Seems to me the places having less of a problem getting and keeping restaurant workers are the ones ditching tips and paying more. Sure, they’ve raised their prices, but adjusted for not tipping, it comes out as a push for the customer. Aw, whose a good boy?! Works for leftovers. The dog, but not the previous waiter. Scottie