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riversedge's JournalManching on ACA: 2018 and 2022...
2018: Senator Manchin brings resolution to Senate floor to protect people w/pre-existing conditions. GOP in Congress & via Supreme Court were trying to overturn ACA & protections of people w/PEC's.
2022: Manchin films a pro-ad for anti-ACA member of Congress: WV, David McKinley.
https://twitter.com/morethanmySLE/status/1520830111527878657?s=20&t=mSFfKtGt5meSAGaTof2Wdg
Noah: Give it up for Kyrsten Sinema. Who'd ever thought we'd see the day in American politics when a
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Noah: Give it up for Kyrsten Sinema. Who’d ever thought we’d see the day in American politics when a Senator could be openly bisexual but closeted Republican
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1520595310233505793?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
If anyone has a tomato truck, just for fun park it in front of Mar-a-Lago for a few hours.
Twitter has been having a little fun with Trumps phobia of tomatoes
If anyone has a tomato truck, just for fun park it in front of Mar-a-Lago for a few hours.
https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1520161022740471808?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/sddphoto/status/1520207033919848450?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/kimmcarpenter/status/1520253112434319361?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/17frosted/status/1520305553804693504?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/cubzfab/status/1520224882944053248?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/DoughyRamone/status/1520202626255704065?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
https://twitter.com/pewtergod/status/1520228049035448320?s=20&t=QEUfgVZpVSeC9Wjv5OG2xg
Yesterday, @MTG held a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, demanding her Twitter account back
lordy -she holds a presser for this!! damn
Yesterday, Marjorie Taylor Greene held a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, demanding her Twitter account back.
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1520102524635779076?s=20&t=C6UfHxn6nVVQ4VMyZorqmA
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1520102114667737089?s=20&t=C6UfHxn6nVVQ4VMyZorqmA
U.S. inches toward 1 million #deaths as daily death rate falls
U.S. inches toward 1 million COVID deaths as daily death rate falls
Dylan Stableford·Senior Writer Fri, April 29, 2022, 2:29 PM
As the world marked the second anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic in March, the United States was on the brink of reaching 1 million COVID-19 deaths, with health experts projecting that the country would surpass that mark by the end of the month or early April.
Nearly two months later, the nation is still bracing for that grim milestone. But that it’s taken longer than expected is a sliver of sunlight in an otherwise dark reality.
According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 81 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. to date, and more than 993,000 Americans have died of complications from the virus.
But the daily death rate has slowed considerably. On March 11 — the day many Americans recognize as the anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic — the seven-day average for deaths attributed to COVID-19 was 1,229, per Johns Hopkins. It has since fallen to about 300 deaths a day.
Daily hospitalizations have fallen too, from a pandemic high of more than 20,000 in mid-January to under 2,000 now.
“I believe we are at an inflection point,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the new White House coordinator of the administration’s COVID-19 response, said at a press briefing earlier this week. “On one hand, we know that BA.2, the subvariant of Omicron, has become dominant; cases are rising across the country. But hospitalizations are at the lowest level of the pandemic and deaths are continuing to fall.
“We're down to about 300 deaths a day — still too many, ..........................
He credited the nation’s vaccination program, in large part, for slowing the death toll. ...........................
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Columns representing victims of the coronavirus line the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, Jan. 19, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Columns representing victims of the coronavirus line the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, Jan. 19, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Rep. Jamie Raskin Flames Putin 'Cheerleader' Marjorie Taylor Greene
Source: huff post
"My friends: We have to decide which side we're on," Raskin said in a powerful House speech before calling for a "National Day of Reason."
Apr. 29, 2022, 10:03 PM EDT
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Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, lashed “the very distinguished gentlelady from Georgia” for her comments last month on a radio program in which she blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia because it “just kept poking the bear.”
“We have members of Congress who are cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin, and are voices of nothing but defeatism, fatalism and pessimism for democracy in Europe,” Raskin said, “and so they try to distract us with a lot of phony rhetoric about other issues.” He then referenced Greene’s claim that NATO was supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s own justification for its invasion.
“My friends, we have to decide which side we’re on,” he continued.
Raskin said Americans during World War II did not watch Nazis march down the street in Europe and say there were “very fine people on both sides,” a reference to former President Donald Trump’s comments about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2019.
“They did not start cheerleading for Mussolini and Hitler and Franco,” he added. “And yet we have people here who go out and speak on the side of Vladimir Putin.”...........................................
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-raskin-marjorie-taylor-greene-putin-cheerleader-day-of-reason_n_626c7312e4b0cca675560aff
Evert congressional lawmaker should be calling out his crap!
Edit to add this video. Raskin at his BEST!
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1520417685749878785?s=20&t=fjkD9dR8kOLegTlBIxPCSw
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1520250130427179008?s=20&t=uogN8IXrY_EixPEK4WbWHg
Madison Cawthorn is a 'monster of Republicans' own creation' -- and he won't be the last:
I do fear many more will get elected. damn
Madison Cawthorn is a 'monster of Republicans' own creation' -- and he won't be the last: columnist
https://www.rawstory.com/madison-cawthorn-republicans/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s
Tom Boggioni April 29, 2022
According to the Washington Post's Dana Millbank, the leadership of the Republican Party would like to see Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) go away so they won't have to answer for his almost daily antics including repeatedly being stopped for speeding while driving on an expired license to trying to take guns on planes to blurting out stories about drug-fueled conservative orgies in Washington D.C.
As the longtime political observer notes, even if voters in Cawthorn's district oust him -- there will be more Cawthorn's coming down the pike in the upcoming midterm election and elections beyond November.
With Cawthorn vying for media attention with fellow freshman House members Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, Millbank suggested that North Carolina Republican's extracurricular activities are proving to be more than mainstream lawmakers are willing to put up with.
However, those same lawmakers are the same ones who not only made a "monster" like Cawthorn possible in the first place but eased the path to him winning in 2020.
"Ousting Cawthorn in his May primary won’t cure this Republican illness; the North Carolina congressman is just a symptom," the Washington Post columnist wrote. "More than 50 QAnon believers have run for Congress as Republicans in 2022, the liberal watchdog Media Matters reports. Several who participated in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, have run for Congress. If Republicans succeed in taking the House in November, the new majority could make the current Congress — with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert and the rest — look like Periclean Athens."....
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Marge Greene says when women get abortions, it's because Satan has whispered in their ears and promi
Marge Greene says when women get abortions, it’s because Satan has whispered in their ears and promised them that if they do it, the guy they are with will marry them.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1520185102143303684?s=20&t=yyz4G5P9Mw9vAaim-XTDFA
Greene apparently spends a lot of time thinking about Satan.
https://twitter.com/chessclubgringo/status/1520189295708958721?s=20&t=yyz4G5P9Mw9vAaim-XTDFA
https://twitter.com/Rottenkowski/status/1520242533938319360?s=20&t=yyz4G5P9Mw9vAaim-XTDFA
Sen. Tim Kaine, who suffers from long COVID-19 symptoms, pushes for research into treatments
Source: CBS
By Scott MacFarlane April 28, 2022 / 10:19 AM / CBS News
In the spring of 2020, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee and current Virginia Senator Tim Kaine became one of the first prominent politicians to test positive for COVID-19. Two years later, he told CBS News he's still fighting the virus.
"I feel like, you drop an Alka-Seltzer in the water and watch it fizz," Kaine said. "It kind of feels like that; like a fizzing or buzzing nonstop... I can feel it in the tip of my forehead right now. I can feel it in the tops of my legs."
His symptoms are distinctive, but other patients reporting long COVID symptoms have reported brain fog, persistent cough and permanent loss of taste or smell. The symptoms could be affecting up to 23 million Americans, according to estimates cited by the Government Accountability Office.
Mattie Smith, a Virginia mother of three boys, is one of them. The traveling nurse said more than a year after contracting the virus, it's still a fight to lift herself out of bed each morning.
"I used to exercise with my dad every morning at 5 a.m. before I went to work," Smith said...........................................................................
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-kaine-long-covid-19-symptoms-research/
I still mask if I go into a store like I did today. Saw only a few with masks.
@loscharlos
Great #LongCovid interview with @timkaine
& @washingtonpost
~ 3 key takeaways.
1. Confirms estimates are 5-30 million in USA.
2. We shouldn’t wait to fully understand cause before researching treatments. (Agreed!)
3. We are 100% looking at other post viral conditions as well.
https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1518733566590394368?s=20&t=vnkJpRz3yqshAw-dTbcx-g
https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1518734489521852417?s=20&t=vnkJpRz3yqshAw-dTbcx-g
https://twitter.com/Baranga104/status/1519034381230555136?s=20&t=vnkJpRz3yqshAw-dTbcx-g
https://twitter.com/Baranga104/status/1519034381230555136?s=20&t=vnkJpRz3yqshAw-dTbcx-g
Trump's risky primary play: Rallying for a longtime ally accused of sexual misconduct
Trumps fans did not care that trump himself was accused of sexual harrassment, and they will not care if his allies are accussed either!!
Trump’s risky primary play: Rallying for a longtime ally accused of sexual misconduct
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/28/trumps-risky-primary-play-rallying-for-a-longtime-ally-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-00028611
The former president is holding a rally in Nebraska Friday for his candidate for governor, Charles Herbster.
Former President Donald Trump did not withdraw his support for Charles Herbster, or scrap plans to hold a Friday rally in Nebraska.
| AP By Alex Isenstadt 04/28/2022 01:14 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump’s aides earlier this month told him about explosive allegations: That Charles Herbster, his endorsed candidate in the Nebraska governor’s race and a longtime top donor and ally, had sexually assaulted eight women.
But Trump did not withdraw his support for Herbster, or scrap plans to hold a Friday evening rally for the candidate in Nebraska. Instead, he doubled down: The former president relayed word that Herbster wasn’t fighting back hard enough, backing plans for Herbster to hold a press conference aggressively denying the allegations and pushing back at his adversaries.
Herbster followed suit, blasting the allegations as a “smear campaign” taken from the same “playbook” used to target Trump and Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, when they faced accusations of sexual misconduct. And Herbster, a multimillionaire agricultural executive who owes his fortune in part to selling bull semen, boasted to reporters that he had brought on a law firm used by Trump to defend himself.
Trump’s unflinching support of Herbster, who served on a Trump White House agricultural panel and has known the former president since 2005, starkly illustrates the all-encompassing emphasis the former president places on loyalty. When Trump associates have faced allegations of misconduct, the question of what they did has often taken a back seat to how close they’ve been to Trump — who has then offered allies everything from pardons to campaign support in their time of need.
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