NEWS: .@JoeBiden intends to nominate Neera Tanden to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget + Princeton labor economist Cecilia Rouse to serve as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. https://t.co/Qfhr0MB39T — Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) November 29, 2020 Not having Bruce Reed at OMB is better, but choosing Neera Tanden…
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NC-Sen: Add Thom Tillis (R) To The List Of GOPers Pushing QAnon Talking Points About COVID-19 Deaths
Along with Trump, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R. IA), and U.S. Senate candidate, Roger Marshall (R. KS), you can now add U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R. NC) to the list: Tillis, who like Ernst and Marshall is facing a tight reelection race, told a caller in a virtual town hall that she was “absolutely right”…
IA-Sen: Iowa Doctors Are Still Pissed At Joni Ernst (R) For Pushing QAnon Conspiracy Theory
A lot has been going on in the news this past week but it’s important to know that this happened: An organization that represents 6,000 physicians, residents and medical students in Iowa discussed with U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst her recent questioning of the legitimacy of how hospitals are reporting COVID-19 deaths. The organization issued two…
GA-Sen A: Jon Ossoff (D) Calls Out David Perdue (R) For Pushing Unemployment Insurance Cuts
Received this e-mail today from Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: We knew this public health and economic crisis would last well beyond July. So, as millions of Georgians have filed jobless claims, what is Sen. David Perdue doing? He is calling for *CUTS* to expanded unemployment insurance. Perdue and the GOP sat on…
GA-Sen A: David Perdue (R) Gets Busted Pushing Anti-Semitic Attack Ad Against Jon Ossoff (D)
Disgusting: Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff’s nose bigger. The ad called for donations to Perdue, a Republican, by claiming that “Democrats are trying to buy Georgia.” It uses black-and-white photos of Ossoff and Senate Minority…
Methane levels soar to record highs across the globe pushing us to a dangerous temperature threshold
Sapiens has trouble with timescales of planetary forces. Greenland Ice Sheet Fossil fuels and agriculture have driven methane emissions to record highs across the globe claim two new studies. Methane is a colorless gas and comes from natural and human-made sources. The gas is a danger to humans because it traps heat into the atmosphere…
Half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots
The other half are also pretty dangerous… “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard to discover,” #ReOpenAmerica https://t.co/3QbqNbB5tZ — God's – Elect KatyCue (@KatyQWarrior) May 18, 2020 “Because [the pandemic is] global, it’s being used by various countries and interest groups as an opportunity to…
The New Republic Argues That Progressives Should Be Pushing Biden On Structural Reforms Over Policy
There’s been a lot of discussions about how progressives are trying to figure out which policies they can push Joe Biden on fully embracing and campaigning on. But Osita Nwanevu at The New Republic makes the argument that instead of pushing Biden more to the left on policy, they should be pushing him more into…
IA-Sen: Ernst (R) Caught On Tape Pushing Massive Cuts To Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
In case you missed this: x In a room of wealthy fundraisers, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are “out of control” and that she wants to “make changes for the future.” “Changes” is code for MASSIVE CUTS! #IASen https://t.co/IRJn3Hz6K9— SocialSecurityWorks (@SSWorks) February 13, 2020 Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of…
DCCC caught pushing some of same talking points NRA-backed politicians use regarding gun violence
At this point, it is becoming almost impossible to tell the difference between the political messaging of the neoliberal Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is an organization that is responsible for helping Democrats get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the political messaging of Donald Trump’s fascist Republican Party. From encouraging Democrats…
