"Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, the Associated Press projected Saturday, sending President Trump to a bitter defeat four years after he shocked the world by winning the White House with a victory over Hillary Clinton… Biden crossed the 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College on Saturday after the AP called Pennsylvania for him. He was also able to capture Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, states that Trump carried in 2016." It's pretty much known that the lawsuits Trump's team has launched have little chance of affecting anything (and so far most that have come before a judge have been dismissed).
Won't someone think of all the fact checkers who will suddenly be without jobs?
"A tropical storm watch has been issued for southern Florida, including the Miami and Fort Lauderdale metro areas and the Florida Keys, ahead of Tropical Depression Eta's likely impacts early next weekend."
"South-west of Phoenix, Arizona, in the hottest desert in North America, Beth and Tim Wilson use sprinklers to cool their 300 pigs. Nearby, the Adams Natural Meats bison ranch employs shaders and misters. North of the city, chicken farmer Dave Jordan says he cannot put his 10,000 birds out to pasture.… 'If they were out in the sun, they would just get cooked.'" As I've said, the main problem with climate change is we're living in the wrong places and growing our food in the wrong places for a warmed climate (they were barely tenable in the old climate).
"A 15-foot, 2,000-pound great white shark has pinged off the coast of Florida… It’s one of the largest sharks ever tagged in the Atlantic and the second largest shark ever tagged by OCEARCH."
"(Friday), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first serology test that detects neutralizing antibodies from recent or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, which are antibodies that bind to a specific part of a pathogen and have been observed in a laboratory setting to decrease SARS-CoV-2 viral infection of cells. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the cPass SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit, which specifically detects this type of antibody."
"Mark Meadows, the chief of staff to President Trump, has tested positive for the coronavirus. He is the latest person in the president's inner circle to catch the virus, which is surging across the country."
"More than half of adults who worked remotely during the pandemic are unaware that they could face tax consequences because they didn’t update their tax withholding to reflect their new location, a study by the American Institute of CPAs found."
"A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Small Business Administration to release details on coronavirus pandemic-related loans that would disclose information on businesses that benefited from $717 billion in federally backed borrowings… The judge ordered the agency to disclose all the names, addresses and precise loan amounts issued through the Paycheck Protection Program and Emergency Injury Disaster Loan program. The decision comes after a lawsuit was filed by a dozen news organizations, charging that the agency was not fulfilling its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act." This should be public information. It is our tax money, after all. And these are public facing companies, not individuals (supposedly).
"Myanmar holds national and state elections Sunday in which Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will be looking to hold on to power."
"Now, after Mississippi voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to replace the flag’s Confederate imagery with one featuring the state’s official flower, a magnolia, and the phrase 'In God We Trust,' schools that balked at flying the state flag are now planning to hoist it for the first time in recent history."
"Just before 5:30 p.m., Ann Parham returned from a walk with her 12-year-old grandson to find a racial epithet scrawled on the footpath in front of their home… 'F--- [N-word],' read the words written in yellow chalk… Ann was shocked. 'It didn’t seem real that that would happen to us,' she said. 'We’ve always felt so very comfortable here.'"
"The Trump administration abruptly dumped the leaders of three agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid during the past two days, drawing a rebuke from a prominent Republican senator for one of the decisions."
"Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center were 'coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots' to the city, CNN affiliate KYW reported, citing prosecutors." And "Krasner said there were some QAnon stickers on the car and that a hat with a QAnon logo was visible inside the vehicle." So, yes, QAnon adherents decided to drive 2 states away from their homes in an attempt to commit election fraud, at gun point. And then, "On Friday, Philadelphia police investigated a bomb threat made against the city's Convention Center, where votes are still being tallied, while also revealing additional information pertaining to arrests made on Thursday related to a possible threat against the same location." Note that these two didn't make the bomb threat (or at least that's not how the article reads), but the police are saying the threat doesn't extend beyond these two.
"The good news is that Donald Trump appears to be on the cusp of being voted out of the White House. The bad news is that Trump was not a unique, aberrant threat to American democracy; it was already broken so deeply and in so many ways that no single election can possibly repair the damage."
"As President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that all votes received after Election Day are illegal, he attacked the absentee ballots of military members and their spouses that, by law, must be counted… In doing so, the President has endorsed a scenario where thousands of members of the military -- actively defending their country -- would be disenfranchised by having their legal votes thrown out." Republicans say they love the military, but their actions speak louder than their words.
"ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him."
"'When it comes to finding common ground, I will do that,' Graham told reporters. 'The vice president deserves a Cabinet. I’ll give him my input about who I could vote for as secretary of state, attorney general ... There may be some people that I just can’t vote for because I think they’re unqualified or too extreme.'" Remember in 2017 when he said (as was the GOP talking point) that the president should have the cabinet they want? So, fuck Lindsey Graham.
"As a stream of key swing state votes begins to turn the election in presidential nominee Joe Biden's favor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wasted no time in signaling that he would block potential progressive nominees for Cabinet positions if the GOP keeps its grip on the upper chamber." McConnell also said that Trump should have whom he wanted in the cabinet.
"Democracy has, in particular, become Stacey Abrams’s animating mission. In 2018, Abrams lost the Georgia gubernatorial race by a razor-thin margin amid rampant voter suppression. Since then, as the founder of Fair Fight, she’s turned her attention to the deeper fight, the one that sets the rules under which elections like hers play out. In her recent book, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, Abrams makes the case that the fight over democracy is the central question of our politics, with more power and clarity than any other politician I’ve heard."
"Georgia election rules require a runoff in races where either candidate fails to secure more than 50% of the vote, which could also send another race, a closer two-candidate contest between Republican Senator David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff to a runoff the same day."
"Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Friday appeared in a bizarre internet video in which he pounded a desk with ink-stained hands and falsely claimed the presidential election was being stolen. Then, he paused to pitch cigars at a discount." They've lost their fucking minds.
"Shortly after The Associated Press and multiple networks called the presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden, President Trump released a statement claiming the election was 'far from over,' falsely accusing President-elect Biden of attempting to undermine the electoral process and vowing to take the election to the courts… Trump was at his golf course in Virginia when a slew of networks announced Biden had won the presidency. The AP and networks only call a race when they determine the trailing candidate has no possible path to victory, even factoring in the votes that remain to be counted." Trump refuses to concede was pretty much everybody's center square on their election bingo cards.
"Fox News's journalists are, by and large, attempting to navigate a gentle landing for their audiences so that, should Biden defeat Trump, they will recognize the result. But the network's stars are larding their shows with Trump advocates who make baseless but incendiary accusations to ensure that viewers never accept Biden as legitimate."
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