Biden team announces Domestic Policy Council director and secretary of veteran affairs
President-elect Joe Biden has just announced two appointments, both former officials from Obama’s administration.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/top/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/hot/
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice has been tapped to lead the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, which will be in charge of implementing elements of Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan for economic recovery. Meanwhile, Denis McDonough, former chief of staff to Barack Obama, will serve as secretary of veteran affairs.
Biden will make a formal announcement of the appointments tomorrow, along with official announcement of his nomination of US Representative Marcia Fudge, a Democrat from Ohio, as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Katherine Tai as US trade representative and Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary, according to the Associated Press.
An omen? A sign? A reminder that wildlife can exist in urban areas?
Maybe it’s trying to reclaim the name “fox news”.
The House just passed a bill that directs the National Park Service to remove a monument to Robert E Lee at the Antietam national battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
The bill was introduced by US Representative Anthony Brown, a Democrat from Maryland, who has said that the removal of the monument will be a step toward the country making decisions not to honor the Confederacy.
“It is important that this country make a firm decision that we no longer honor and glorify the men, the Confederate soldiers, who were traitors at the time, and represented division and hatred in the defense of slavery,” he told local news station WUSA9.
The bill received support from Democrats and Republicans and will head to the Republican-controlled Senate, where Brown believes it will pass.
Amid news of president-elect heading to Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff on December 15, ProPublica has a story out that David Perdue, the Republican incumbent Ossoff is running against, sold his home in Washington D.C. to a finance industry official whose organization was lobbying the committee Perdue sits on.
According to real estate experts interviewed by ProPublica, the home was sold for $1.8 million, a sale price that seemed a bit high. The home was not listed for sale publicly, with the deal being made off market.
Perdue has come under criticism before for his history of stock trading, being one of the most prolific traders in the Senate. The Senator was once under a Justice Department investigation amid criticism that the Senator has sold off stock holdings after he attended closed-door coronavirus briefings in the Senate. The investigations have since closed.
Bill McKibben writes for us this morning to champion Deb Haaland as a potential Biden pick for interior secretary:
There’s one kind of American who’s never run the department, and that’s a descendant of the people who, well, once owned the interior. That could change — the New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, is considered a frontrunner for the job.
From the beginning, one duty of the department has been to handle “Indian affairs”, which is to say they have administered what’s usually been a gruesome set of policies. Haaland’s grandmother was taken away to boarding school when she was eight, as part of the process to break the chain of cultural connection that stretched back into the very ancient history of the Laguna Pueblo. Haaland — both of whose parents served in the military — was a single mother on food stamps; nonetheless she managed to graduate from law school, and she was soon chairwoman of the tribe’s development corporation, successfully overseeing its casinos and other businesses. She ran the state’s Democratic party before her election to Congress, where she has managed to make friends across lines of party, region and ideology — the Alaska Republican Don Young, longest-serving member of the House, called her a “consensus builder”, and according to the journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat, her House legislation has attracted more companion bills in the Senate than any other representative. She’s already served as vice-chair of the House committee on natural resources and chair of the subcommittee on national parks, forests, and public lands — she knows precisely what she’s getting into.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/top/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/hot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/rising/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/gilded/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/wiki/index/https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagr6v/streamreddit_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagrhg/officialwatch_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagrre/redditlivestream2020_patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kags1u/officiallivestream_patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kags9u/officialredditpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagsje/officialstreamnew_england_patriots_vs_los_angeles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagstb/officialreddit_thursnay_night_football_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagt1v/official_livestream_thursnay_night_football_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtah/officiallivestreamnew_england_patriots_vs_los/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtjf/officiallivestream_2020_new_england_patriots_vs/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtqr/streamofficial_new_england_patriots_vs_los/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kaguem/officiallivestrem_florida_atlantic_vs_southern/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kaguzw/officialreddit2020florida_atlantic_vs_southern/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagwed/officialpittsburgh_vs_georgia_tech_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagx0r/livestreamofficialpittsburgh_vs_georgia_tech_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxc7/officialtv_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxjb/livestreamofficialpatriots_vs_rams_live_streams/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxst/officiallivetvpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagy1f/officialpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagy8q/officialreddit2020patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagyh3/officiallivestrem_patriots_vs_rams_live/But she’s also beloved of environmentalists — the Sunrise Movement has offered an unstinting endorsement, and she’s introduced the 30 by 30 Act, which “sets a national goal of conserving at least 30% of the land and 30% of the ocean within the United States by 2030”. She’s argued persuasively that the best route out of the coronavirus recession is to move swiftly to build out clean energy. “We need to listen to our planet and act now. While we do that, our country can reap the economic benefits of new industries and address economic inequality.”
Caitlin Owens at Axios has this short and succinct piece about one of the great conundrums of the coronavirus pandemic in the US. At all turns, senior Republicans have sought to downplay its seriousness, dismissing it as being like the flu, as something that will just disappear, and as something being exaggerated by the media and the Democratic party for political ends. And yet as soon as one of them has it…
President Trump and his friends have received coronavirus antibody treatments that are so scarce that some states and hospitals are giving them out via a lottery system.
Putting aside questions of medical ethics, these high-profile examples of successful coronavirus recoveries could give the impression that the virus is much less dangerous than it is — particularly because most patients won’t have access to the same game-changing treatment that these politicians did. Recipients, in addition to Trump himself, include Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said yesterday that 278,000 doses of the two therapies have been allocated. 210,000 coronavirus cases were reported just yesterday
853,000 Americans applied for jobless insurance last week
The unemployment insurance weekly claims number has gone up again. It was 853,000 for the week ending 5 December, a rise of some 137,000.
As ever, that is well down on the horrendous numbers seen in the first stages of the pandemic earlier in the year, but suggests that the increased caseload, hospitalisations and deaths, and the economic disruption caused by measures to combat them, are biting into Trump’s much touted economic bounce-back.
It feels like one of the intended effects of the Trump campaign and their outriders repeatedly filing court cases baselessly alleging vote corruption is just to keep the idea in the news. Nevertheless, if a US president is trying to overthrow the result of an election at the supreme court, one feels obliged to keep reporting on it, however tenuous the actual legal claims might be.
NBC News chipped in last night with what Pete Williams sees as the five glaring problems with the argument being put forward to the highest court in the land:
- It’s unconstitutional — it’s asking the supreme court to set aside the 14 December electoral college meeting.
- Texas has no legal right to claim that officials elsewhere didn’t follow the rules set by their own legislatures.
- It is mostly a compilation of “legal claims that have already been chewed over [and mostly rejected] in lower courts”.
- It is asking the supreme court to overturn around 20 million votes on the basis they might be fraudulent without evidence that they are.
- The lawsuit says the four states that Texas wants to sue have a total of 72 electoral votes. The total is actually 62.
Texas University of Law professor Steve Vladeck maybe put it more succinctly earlier this week: “It looks like we have a new leader in the ‘craziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election’ category.”
The Tampa Bay Times has this despatch by Langston Taylor on the latest on the coronavirus crisis in Florida.
More and more people are dying from Covid-19 in Florida, again, just as expected. In the fall, new coronavirus cases started rebounding in the state. By mid-October, rising cases led to more people in Florida’s hospitals.
“If we don’t see a change in trajectory, we could see a very difficult time coming forward,” Tampa General Hospital Covid-19 care head Dr. Andrew Myers told the Times more than a month ago.
As of yet, there are no signs of the trend changing course.
In the first week of December, the state counted 695 new Covid-19 deaths, about 100 per day. That death toll is twice as high as it was just last month. November’s first week saw only about 50 deaths a day.
As of now, about 4,400 Floridians are hospitalized with the disease, twice as many as six weeks ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/top/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/hot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/rising/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/gilded/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/wiki/index/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagr6v/streamreddit_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagrhg/officialwatch_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagrre/redditlivestream2020_patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kags1u/officiallivestream_patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kags9u/officialredditpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagsje/officialstreamnew_england_patriots_vs_los_angeles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagstb/officialreddit_thursnay_night_football_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagt1v/official_livestream_thursnay_night_football_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtah/officiallivestreamnew_england_patriots_vs_los/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtjf/officiallivestream_2020_new_england_patriots_vs/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagtqr/streamofficial_new_england_patriots_vs_los/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kaguem/officiallivestrem_florida_atlantic_vs_southern/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kaguzw/officialreddit2020florida_atlantic_vs_southern/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagwed/officialpittsburgh_vs_georgia_tech_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagx0r/livestreamofficialpittsburgh_vs_georgia_tech_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxc7/officialtv_patriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxjb/livestreamofficialpatriots_vs_rams_live_streams/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagxst/officiallivetvpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagy1f/officialpatriots_vs_rams_live_streamsreddit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagy8q/officialreddit2020patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PatriotsvRamsLivest/comments/kagyh3/officiallivestrem_patriots_vs_rams_live/
https://malimi5956.medium.com/pfizer-vaccine-continues-to-roll-out-in-u-k-7c237d40b9a7
https://malimi5956.medium.com/u-s-flew-two-bombers-from-louisiana-over-the-persian-gulf-to-deter-iran-says-military-8f0d7c10f5c8
https://ralixo1684.medium.com/jupiter-and-saturn-will-form-the-first-double-planet-in-800-years-a20b2acbd56e
https://ralixo1684.medium.com/pelosi-holds-press-conference-after-saying-lawmakers-close-to-covid-19-relief-bill-9f7da4c5225d
https://radih35331.medium.com/sprawling-8-mile-long-canvas-of-ice-age-beasts-discovered-hidden-in-amazon-rainforest-a8e8e3ec0cfe
https://radih35331.medium.com/archaeologists-uncover-trove-of-ice-age-paintings-in-colombian-amazon-dc7c52ed43e
It is a story that is similar across the country. The New York Times reports that:
Even as case numbers fall in some Midwestern states, that progress is being more than offset by uncontrolled outbreaks in some of the country’s largest cities. The Miami and Los Angeles areas are adding thousands of cases each day. States in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that managed the virus successfully this summer have been unable to control the spread this fall. And across the country, deaths are emerging at devastating levels, with more than 2,000 announced on most weekdays.
According to the Johns Hopkins university figures, there isn’t a single state in the US that is currently recording a coronavirus case rate increase that is lower than 3%.
