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You Can’t Buy Anything That Matters When It Matters (Covid Vaccine Edition)
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 19 minutes ago
… unless you have control over the production facilities. Rich countries
will get access to coronavirus vaccines first – for poorer ones, the
timeline will stretch until 2024 (at the earliest)
pic.twitter.com/UgLieumAFr — Agathe Demarais (@AgatheDemarais) December 11,
2020 I think this map is a little inaccurate, but it makes the point. Money
matters, yes, […]
Ian Welsh is more correct on these matters than I wish.
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In Trying for a Diverse Administration, Biden Finds One Group’s Gain is Another’s Loss
Michael D. Shear and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 45 minutes ago
The pressure on the Democratic president-elect is intense, even as his
efforts to ensure ethnic and gender diversity already go far beyond those
of President Trump. And it’s coming from all sides.
The election of Joe Biden was not a revolution.
Progress won.
The changes will be slow and we hope continual.
"Habbit is habbit and not to be thrown out the window.
It is to be dragged gently down the stairs.
One step at a time."
S. L. Clemons
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‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump was also a blunt rebuke to
Republican leaders who had put their interests ahead of the country’s.
The GOP has attempted a coup.
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Biden’s Iowa Bus Tour Is Headed for a D.C. Reunion
Sydney Ember and Katie Glueck, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
A year ago, Joe Biden was on a grim bus tour through Iowa, joined by many
old friends, including Tom Vilsack and John Kerry. Now Mr. Biden wants to
bring some of the crew back to Washington with him.
Biden is calling in his experts.
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F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away
Katie Thomas, Sharon LaFraniere, Noah Weiland, Abby Goodnough and Maggie Haberman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
An initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine will be sent
around the United States over the next week.
The U.S. has a population of 350,000,000 +
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‘Very High Risk’: Longshoremen Want Protection From the Virus So They Can Stay on the Job
Pranshu Verma, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago
Port workers want early access to the coronavirus vaccine so they can
prevent outbreaks that could shut down the nation’s ports and further
damage the economy.
Longshoremen deserve an early place in the vaccine line along with other food and logistics workers.
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The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’
Gisela Williams, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
Young entrepreneurs, artists and activists are building on a Southern
capital’s long, rich history.
A mere child of a city. A railroad boom town that did some growing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta
| Terminus | 1837 |
|---|---|
| Marthasville | 1843 |
| City of Atlanta | December 29, 1847 |
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What Will D.J.T. Do?
Lisa Lerer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
That’s the question that could define the Republican Party for years to
come, even as the president’s time in Washington winds down.
Trump won in the shoulders of a century and a half effort.
With any luck he will spend years in prison.
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Supreme Court Rejects Texas Lawsuit Challenging Biden's Victory
Adam Liptak, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
The suit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, sought to bar Georgia,
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from casting their electoral votes for
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
It is the beginning of the end.
Trump should be a "dead man walking."
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Democrats, and Even Some Republicans, Cheer as Justices Spurn Trump
Shane Goldmacher, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
While a top legal expert exhaled that “Our institutions held,” the Texas
Republican Party chairman suggested secession.
Trump has no future in politics.
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Justice Department Carries Out 10th Execution This Year
Hailey Fuchs, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago
Alfred Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection for murdering his
2-year-old daughter.
Trump likes killing with clean hands.
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Giuliani Material Spurs Separate Justice Dept. of Pursuit of Hunter Biden
Adam Goldman, Katie Benner and Ben Protess, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
The inquiry, based out of Pittsburgh, was run parallel to an investigation
in Delaware and raised alarms among F.B.I. agents about politicization.
Barr follows orders.
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Brian Kemp Cast His Lot With Trump, and Has Now Paid the Price
Richard Fausset and Lisa Lerer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
Mr. Kemp rose to Georgia’s governorship with the help of President Trump,
but his refusal to try to overturn the state’s election results has drawn
Mr. Trump’s ire — and may affect his political future.
Trump is a would be autocrat. He has no future.
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Rallying Behind Trump, Most House Republicans Joined Failed Lawsuit
Catie Edmondson and Luke Broadwater, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
More than 60 percent of the chamber’s Republicans — including party leaders
— signed onto a brief, underscoring the party’s willingness to back the
president no matter how extreme the test.
Lemmings are said to follow eachother in suicidal leap from the cliffs.
They do not do so. Republicans do commit mass suicide.
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Congress, Paralyzed on a Stimulus Deal, Gives Itself Another Week to Strike One
Emily Cochrane, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 16 hours ago
The Senate cleared a weeklong stopgap spending bill to buy time for an
elusive pandemic aid bill, but negotiators remained short of an agreement.
More time will not move Mitch McConnell.
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As two-thirds of House Republicans support the Texas election suit, a Democrat called them ‘traitors.’
Luke Broadwater, Chris Cameron and Andy Newman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The Democrat is not tecnically correct. Emotionally he nailled it.
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Texas replies to 4 states in its lawsuit to overturn their election results.
Adam Liptak, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago
Texas lacks standing. The court will not consider the case.
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Senate Sends Military Bill to Trump’s Desk, Spurning His Veto Threat
Catie Edmondson, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 22 hours ago
The move raised the prospect of a legislative showdown in the president’s
final weeks in office on the bill that authorizes pay for the troops.
Mercinary troops must be paid.
The "volunteer" military is a mercinary force.
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Trump slams the F.D.A. ahead of expected vaccine authorization.
Sharon LaFraniere, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Trump is wrong again.
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Disney Setting A Precedent For Not Paying Writers
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 1 day ago
Back when the original Star Wars came out, an author named Alan Dean Foster
wrote the novelization as a ghost-writer, and wrote the first other Star
Wars novel, “A Splinter In The Minds Eye.” Disney isn’t paying him for
those novelizations any more (authors of books which do well get payments
long after the initial […]
Copyright law has been tested repeatedly.
Disney is in violation and must pay Alan Dean Foster.
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