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Sen. Jason Rapert files bill to end abortion in Arkansas | KATV - 0 views

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arkansas abortion bill Roe v. Wade

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  • Republican Senator Jason Rapert and Rep. Mary Bentley filed a bill on Wednesday that would make abortion illegal in Arkansas except when the mother’s life is at stake.
  • If passed, the bill will generally prohibit abortion in Arkansas and give the U.S. Supreme Court an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and other pro-abortion decisions.
  • A conservative education and research organization, Family Council, showed support for the bill.
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  • This is an opportunity for Arkansas to be a real leader in the effort to end abortion in America.”
  • public opinion polling shows Arkansans oppose abortion and that the organization will work to mobilize Arkansans to support S.B. 6.
  • He referred to the decision as a "crime against humanity."
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Why It Wasn't Normal When Michigan Republicans Refused to Certify Votes - The New York ... - 0 views

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  • For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked as though two Republican officials in Wayne County, Mich., might reject the will of hundreds of thousands of voters.
  • But hundreds of Michiganders logged on to a Zoom call to express their fury. And around 9 p.m., the Republicans reversed themselves, certifying the count.
  • Could the results of a free election really be blocked that easily, in such a routine part of the electoral process?
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  • the answer was no, but perhaps only because so many people said so.
  • The Republican members, William Hartmann and Monica Palmer, said they were concerned about small discrepancies between the number of votes cast in some precincts and the number of people precinct officials recorded as having voted.
  • After intense backlash, both from election watchdogs and from voters whom Representatives Debbie Dingell and Rashida Tlaib organized to call in to the canvassing board’s meeting, Mr. Hartmann and Ms. Palmer voted to certify the results after all.
  • Is this sort of dispute normal?In a word, no.
  • This is basically an accounting task. If the canvassers find possible errors, it is their job to look into and resolve them, but refusing to certify results based on minor discrepancies is not normal.
  • The Trump campaign has filed a slew of legal challenges in Michigan and other states, but the courts have repeatedly rejected its arguments.
  • It is also highly abnormal to suggest, as Ms. Palmer did, that canvassers certify the results in one place but not another when there is no meaningful difference between the two in terms of the number or severity of discrepancies.
  • Before the deadlock was resolved, Ms. Palmer had proposed certifying the results in “the communities other than the city of Detroit.” As Democrats and election law experts noted, nearly 80 percent of Detroit residents are Black
  • “It’s hard to ignore the potentially racially motivated actions of at least one of the canvassers,” Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in an interview shortly before the board’s reversal, adding that her group was exploring “all legal avenues” if Republicans continued to disrupt the certification process.
  • Section 168.822 of Michigan’s election laws says that if a county board fails to certify results, the state board “shall meet immediately and make the necessary determinations and certify the results” within 10 days.
  • Under federal law, election experts say, a state legislature could potentially step in and appoint electors in a disputed presidential election.
  • First, the election is not legitimately disputed. Mr. Biden won multiple battleground states by clear margins.
  • it is extremely rare for members to decline to certify an election that their party lost.
  • Second, even if Republican state legislators appointed a pro-Trump slate, a Democratic governor could step in and appoint a pro-Biden slate.
  • The Republican leader of the Michigan Senate has said that the Legislature will not name its own electors.
  • Several election lawyers said last week that federal law would favor the slate appointed by the governor, including if Congress deadlocked. Congress could also, in theory, toss out Michigan’s electoral votes altogether.
  • If Congress did that, or if it chose the Republican slate against the will of a state’s voters, the country would be in constitutional crisis territory.
  • Regardless of the outcome, the fact that the Trump campaign and other Republicans have managed to inject so much chaos into what should be formalities shows how much disruption is possible in the systems that undergird the democratic process.
  • In other words: The system wasn’t designed for this.
  • A lesson of the Trump era has been that much of American democracy is built not on laws but on norms, which persist by common consent. The episode in Michigan is an example of what can happen when the consent stops being common.
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Black Lives Matter: Supreme Court throws out case against activist - 0 views

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supreme court activist Black Lives Matter history

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  • The Black Lives Matter movement got a favorable ruling Monday from the Supreme Court.
  • The justices tossed out a federal appeals court decision that allowed a Black Lives Matter protest organizer to be sued by a police officer injured by an unknown assailant
  • The officer, who suffered injuries to his brain, jaw and teeth, also sued Black Lives Matter. That was tossed out on the theory that BLM is a social movement and cannot be sued.
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  • The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, said that appeals court should not have reached its ruling, based on free speech rights, without a clear understanding of Louisiana law
  • David Cole, the ACLU's legal director, had said allowing the appeals court decision to stand "would have a tremendous chilling effect on the First Amendment right to protest."
  • lawyers for the injured police officer had argued that reversing the appeals court decision "would encourage negligent, unpeaceful, and illegal behavior at the expense of others and, in particular, would expose law enforcement officers to serious harm."
  • The Supreme Court's most significant precedent also involved a protest organized by Black leaders. It ruled unanimously in 1982 that the NAACP was not liable for damages caused by a boycott of white merchants in Mississippi because its role was nonviolent.
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Biden's Call for 'National Mask Mandate' Gains Traction in Public Health Circles - The ... - 0 views

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  • public health experts are coalescing around Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s call for a “national mask mandate,” even as they concede such an effort would require much more than the stroke of a presidential pen.
  • it is time to seriously consider a national mandate to curb the spread of the virus.
  • Mr. Trump is opposed to a mandate, and Mr. Biden has conceded that a presidential order for all Americans to wear masks would almost certainly face — and most likely fall to — a legal challenge.
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  • Mr. Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, echoed the “dark winter” language during the most recent presidential debate, and he is already using his bully pulpit to promote and reinforce a culture of mask wearing.
  • He could use his authority under federal transit law to require masks on public transportation. He could also prod governors who are resisting mask mandates to at least require masks in public buildings in their states.
  • Instead of making it about the president’s coercive authority under law it should be about whether the president can support a norm that supports public health, which is in people’s self interest
  • Experts say there is growing scientific evidence that face masks can considerably reduce the transmission of respiratory viruses like the one that causes Covid-19.
  • Research also shows that states that have passed mask mandates have had lower growth rates of Covid-19, beginning on the day the mandate was passed
  • the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimated that “universal mask use” — when 95 percent of people wear masks in public — could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the coming months, though those numbers are based on certain assumptions and could change if people alter their behavior
  • any hint of a sweeping federal requirement would “go over like a lead balloon” and “divide and harden areas of the country in opposition,”
  • that has not produced the kind of compliance that public health experts say is necessary to reduce the spread of the virus
  • Some public health experts fear that Mr. Trump — who routinely mocks Mr. Biden for wearing masks and whose aides often forgo them even as the White House has become its own coronavirus hot spot — has so poisoned the discussion around masks that wearing them will always be construed as a political statement.
  • She also suggested that insurance industry executives might be persuaded to adjust their policies to require that businesses mandate mask wearing by customers and employees in order to receive coverage.
  • “There’s a presumption that a mask mandate would have to be backed up with fines and set off scuffles with law enforcement,
  • There is some evidence that norms are changing.
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Who Is Miles Taylor? - The New York Times - 0 views

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trump homeland security

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  • Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 that was critical of President Trump, is a lifelong Republican whose service as a senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration led him to endorse former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, for president this year.
  • Mr. Taylor anonymously described what he called Mr. Trump’s “amorality,” writing that he witnessed the president’s dysfunctional behavior as part of a “quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first.”
  • Mr. Taylor was frequently in meetings with top White House officials and sometimes with the president.
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  • Taylor served as a national security adviser on the committee and was a leading contributor to the task force report on combating terrorist and foreign fighter travel, which the committee released in 2015.
  • He faced criticism from some of the company’s employees because of his role in the administration when Ms. Nielsen helped enable the separation of migrant children from their families at the border.
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The 2020 Campaign Is the Most Expensive Ever (By a Lot) - The New York Times - 0 views

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Politics Trump

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  • The 2020 election has blown past previous records to become the most expensive campaign in American history, with the final tally for the battle for the White House and control of the Senate and the House expected to hit nearly $14 billion, according to new projections made by the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • The surge of spending is powered by donations at both ends of the giving spectrum as small donors, particularly online, are playing an increasingly central role in funding campaigns. At the same time, billionaires and multimillionaires are writing enormous checks to super PACs.
  • Mr. Biden’s campaign committee, which had raised $938 million as of Oct. 14, is on track to be the first to surpass $1 billion in fund-raising. The fund-raising hauls by both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump, when combined with party money, already far exceed that threshold.
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  • Eight of the 10 most expensive Senate races ever are unfolding in 2020
  • Up and down the ballot, Democrats have the financial upper hand this year.
  • Small-dollar donors, who have lifted Democratic Senate candidates and Mr. Biden in particular, are growing in importance, accounting for 22 percent of the total money raised in the 2020 cycle. These donors, who gave less than $200 to a candidate or cause, contributed 15 percent of the funds raised in the 2016 election.
  • So-called dark money continues to flood into American political campaigns through entities like nonprofits that do not fully disclose their donors.
  • More women than ever are giving to federal races, accounting for 44 percent of donors, up from 37 percent in 2016, according to the analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • Women have favored Democrats in the voting booth
  • Separately, the role of traditional political action committees, often used by corporations to bundle donations to incumbent politicians, has been shrinking as a share of political cash, hitting a record low of 5 percent, according to the center.
  • The top industry for campaign cash remains Wall Street, totaling more than $255 million from the securities and investment world, according to the center’s research. That money heavily favored Democrats: $161.7 million to $94.5 million.
  • The nonprofit Democratic online donation platform, ActBlue, has processed more than $3.3 billion so far this year.
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Days From Election, Police Killing of Black Man Roils Philadelphia - The New York Times - 0 views

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killing Black Lives Matter trump Biden election philadelphia

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      I completely understand being upset over the loss/damage of property. But we cannot say that property damage is worse than lives lost.
  • Ms. Peters has friends on both political sides, she said, and the unrest in Philadelphia appeared to have changed no one’s mind: neither the Trump supporters who see this as further reason to get behind his law-and-order messages, nor Biden supporters like herself who are dismayed by the looting but believe that the president is the ultimate source of division.
  • Among them was Tymika Peterson, 50, a social worker. She said the officers should have given Mr. Wallace’s mother more time to de-escalate the situation, and should have been trained in dealing with people who have mental illness. “That man should not have died that way,” she said.
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  • two officers confronted Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old with a history of mental health problems. A lawyer for the family said that he was experiencing a crisis that day and that the family told officers about it when they arrived at the scene
  • Gov. Tom Wolf called in the National Guard. On Wednesday, the city declared a 9 p.m. curfew.
  • The shooting and its aftermath were guaranteed to ratchet up tensions in a country already on edge.
  • The White House blamed the “liberal Democrats’ war against the police” for the destruction that followed the protests
  • Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris lamented Mr. Wallace’s death and condemned the looting that followed, but added that none of this would be solved with a president who fanned “the flames of division in our society.”
  • To vote is to believe that problems can be solved, and the election has presented a stark division as to how best solve a litany of national problems, including racial divisions and the coronavirus pandemic.
  • The Philadelphia police have for many years been criticized by community activists for excessive use of force against people of color.
  • “The department has a long history of abusive behavior, violent behavior and brutality when it comes to residents in this city, and more specifically, when it comes to Black and brown Philadelphians,”
  • the A.C.L.U. found that Black people in the city are more than 50 percent more likely to be stopped by the police without reasonable suspicion than white people are, and 40 percent more likely to be frisked without reasonable suspicion.
  • Efforts to strengthen accountability have gained some steam in Philadelphia since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May set off a national outcry over abusive policing practices
  • But the debates about how to improve police accountability are only made more complicated by what happened on Tuesday night nearly a dozen miles away from where crowds were protesting in Mr. Wallace’s name
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Japan's New Leader Sets Goal of Being Carbon Neutral by 2050 - The New York Times - 0 views

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      Even if they're just doing this in competition, whatever it takes to clean up the planet!
  • Achieving that goal will be good not only for the world, he said, but also for Japan’s economy and global standing
  • Taking an aggressive approach to global warming will bring about a transformation in our industrial structure and economic system that will lead to big growth
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  • major upgrade of its previous commitment to reducing greenhouse gases, and necessary if the world hopes to keep a global temperature rise well below 2 degrees
  • Japan is the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It had previously said it would go carbon neutral “at the earliest possible date,” vowing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 205
  • Joseph R. Biden Jr., his challenger in the presidential election, has vowed to restore the United States’ participation in the accord.
  • reinforced just how much of an outlier the United States, the world’s second-largest carbon emitter
  • decision was most likely driven by a combination of domestic and external political pressures
  • As a developed nation, Mr. Kuramochi said, it would be “somewhat embarrassing for Japan to have a net zero emissions timeline later than China.”
  • he would harness the power of “innovation” and “regulatory reform” to transform the country’s energy production and usage
  • The country has made steady progress in reducing its emissions, but still generated 1.06 billion tons of the gas in the one-year period that ended in March 2019, placing it among the top 10 per capita emitters
  • By the early 2000s, Japan had made substantial progress in curbing carbon dioxide emissions through the use of nuclear power. But the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Fukushima after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011 led to a widespread shutdown of the country’s energy-producing reactors, which had generated roughly a third of Japan’s total power supply. Only a handful of the plants have since restarted.
  • Short on energy sources, Japan decided to reinvest in coal.
  • Japan currently plans to reduce — but not eliminate — its dependence on coa
  • The country has also vowed to end contentious government subsidies for the export of coal-fired power technology to developing nations, where the use of coal for electricity continues to rise
  • Further efforts to decrease Japan’s domestic commitment to coal will likely meet powerful resistance from Japanese industry, which is still heavily dependent on the fuel
  • Japan is already considering a substantial increase in its supply of wind and solar power, and it is also looking at newer, less-established technologies, such as plants that burn ammonia or hydrogen.
  • Mr. Suga said that Japan would continue to develop nuclear power with “maximum priority on safety,”
  • Movement toward the new goal had already started on the local level, where 150 municipal governments have pledged to be carbon neutral by midcentury.
  • But even if Japan achieves its goal, it will not by itself be enough to halt or even slow the current trend of global warming, a goal that requires a global effort
  • Preventing a climate catastrophe will require “a transformation of the energy system that has underwritten modern society,”
  • Japan will be carbon neutral by 2050, its prime minister said on Monday
  • The announcement came just weeks after China, Japan’s regional rival, said it would reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2060.
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Opinion | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Nigeria Is Murdering Its Citizens - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • SARS, which stood for Special Anti-Robbery Squad, was supposed to be the elite Nigerian police unit dedicated to fighting crime, but it was really a moneymaking terror squad with no accountability.
  • SARS officers would raid bars or stop buses on the road and arbitrarily arrest young men for such crimes as wearing their hair in dreadlocks, having tattoos, holding a nice phone or a laptop, driving a nice car. Then they would demand large amounts of money as “bail.”
  • In 2012 Mr. Iloanya was 20 when SARS officers arrested him at a child dedication ceremony in Anambra State. He had committed no crime
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  • There are so many families like the Iloanyas who are caught between pain and hope, because their sons and brothers were arrested by SARS and they fear the worst, knowing the reputation of SARS, but still they dare to hope in the desperate way we humans do for those we love.
  • the protesters insisted on not having a central leadership, it was social rather than traditional media that documented the protests, and, in a country with firm class divisions, the protests cut across class
  • The protests were peaceful, insistently peaceful, consistently peaceful.
  • But the Nigerian government tried to disrupt their fund-raising.
  • From the capital city of Abuja to the small town of Ogbomosho, state agents attacked and beat up protesters
  • The Lagos State government accused protesters of violence, but it defied common sense that a protest so consistently committed to peaceful means would suddenly turn around and become violent.
  • At about noon on Oct. 20, 2020, about two weeks into the protests, the Lagos State governor suddenly announced a curfew that would begin at 4 p.m., which gave people in a famously traffic-clogged state only a few hours to get home and hunker down.
  • Government officials reportedly cut the security cameras, then cut off the bright floodlights, leaving only a darkness heavy with foreboding. The protesters were holding Nigerian flags, sitting on the ground, some kneeling, some singing the national anthem, peaceful and determined.
  • A blurry video of what happened next has gone viral — soldiers walk toward the protesters with a terrifyingly casual calm, the kind of calm you cannot have if you are under attack, and they shoot, not up in the air, which anyway would still be an atrocity when dealing with peaceful protesters, but with their guns at arm level, shooting into a crowd of people, shooting to kill.
  • The Nigerian state has turned on its people. The only reason to shoot into a crowd of peaceful citizens is to terrorize: to kill some and make the others back down.
  • Twelve hours after soldiers shot peaceful protesters, Mr. Buhari still had not addressed the nation.
  • In the first week of the protests, the president sent out a tweet and then gave a flaccid speech about ending SARS
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Stimulus talks: McConnell casts doubt on massive pre-election deal - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin engaged in fast-paced negotiations on Tuesday to cut a deal on a major relief package that could pass before Election Day
  • While Pelosi and her aides sounded upbeat about the progress in the talks, time is running short, meaning it's growing more likely that any proposal would likely get voted on after the elections during a lame-duck session of Congress.
  • "Today's deadline enabled us to see that decisions could be reached and language could be exchanged, demonstrating that both sides are serious about finding a compromise."
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  • McConnell indicated that the deal was unlikely to get a vote in his chamber before Election Day, according to multiple sources, and he said he warned the White House against getting behind such a proposal before November 3 that would badly divide Senate Republicans.
  • the majority leader described how hard it would be logistically to get a bill done so quickly before the election, given all the legislative hurdles that need to be overcome, and as Republican senators are eager to campaign
  • he did not indicate a time frame for doing so
  • she and Mnuchin must reach an agreement by end of the day Tuesday, the last feasible date to get a bill passed through both chambers of Congress by November 3
  • "We all want to get an agreement because people need it. It's urgent, and our economy needs it,
  • After calling off talks while he was recovering from coronavirus earlier this month, Trump abruptly reversed course and pushed lawmakers to pass a massive new spending package.
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A Regulatory Rush by Federal Agencies to Secure Trump's Legacy - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Facing the prospect that President Trump could lose his re-election bid, his cabinet is scrambling to enact regulatory changes affecting millions of Americans in a blitz so rushed it may leave some changes vulnerable to court challenges.
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  • In the bid to lock in new rules before Jan. 20, Mr. Trump’s team is limiting or sidestepping requirements for public comment on some of the changes and swatting aside critics who say the administration has failed to carry out sufficiently rigorous analysis.
  • Every administration pushes to complete as much of its agenda as possible when a president’s term is coming to an end, seeking not just to secure its own legacy but also to tie the hands of any successor who tries to undo its work.
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  • Two main hallmarks of a good regulation is sound analysis to support the alternatives chosen and extensive public comment to get broader opinion
  • Administration officials said they were simply completing work on issues they have targeted since Mr. Trump took office in 2017 promising to curtail the reach of federal regulation.
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      He really took that opportunity to throw shade at Obama and Biden and did just that.
  • If Democrats take control of Congress, they will have the power to reconsider some of these last-minute regulations, through a law last used at the start of Mr. Trump’s tenure by Republicans to repeal certain rules enacted at the end of the Obama administration.
  • But the Trump administration is also working to fill key vacancies on scientific advisory boards with members who will hold their seats far into the next presidential term, committees that play an important role in shaping federal rule making
  • But it is nonetheless pushing to have the rule finished before the end of Mr. Trump’s first term, limiting the period of public comment to 30 days, half the amount of time that agencies are supposed to offer.
  • Workers across the country deserve a chance to fully examine and properly respond to these potentially radical changes,
  • The Departments of Labor and Homeland Security are using a tactic known as an interim final rule, more typically reserved for emergencies, to skip the public comment period entirely and to immediately enact two regulations that put much tougher restrictions on work visas for immigrants with special skills. The rule change is part of the administration’s longstanding goal of limiting immigration.
  • The Homeland Security Department is also moving, again with an unusually short 30-day comment period, to adopt a rule that will allow it to collect much more extensive biometric data from individuals applying for citizenship, including voice, iris and facial recognition scans, instead of just the traditional fingerprint scan.
  • A third proposed new Homeland Security rule would require sponsors of immigrants to do more to prove they have the financial means to support the individual they are backing, including three years’ worth of credit reports, credit scores, income tax returns and bank records.
  • Unlike most of the efforts the administration has pushed, the rules intended to tighten immigration standards would expand federal regulations, instead of narrowing them
  • The Environmental Protection Agency, which since the start of the Trump administration has been moving at a high speed to rewrite federal regulations, is expected to complete work in the weeks that remain in Mr. Trump’s term on two of the nation’s most important air pollution rules: standards that regulate particulates and ozone emitted by factories, power plants, car exhaust and other sources.
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  • Mr. Trump signed an executive order last year directing the Transportation Department to enact the rule within 13 months — even before it had been formally proposed.
  • The change was backed by the railroad and natural gas industry, which has donated millions of dollars to Mr. Trump, after construction of pipelines had been blocked or slowed after protests by environmentalists.
  • the proposal provoked an intense backlash from a diverse array of prominent public safety officials.
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White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Bomb Colorado Synagogue - The New York T... - 0 views

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      What happened to freedom to practice any religion that you choose?
  • Each offense holds a maximum of 20 years in prison. However, according to plea agreement documents, prosecutors agreed not to recommend a sentence greater than 20 years.
  • White supremacists were inspired by the attack, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and Jewish institutions were targeted on at least 50 occasions in the year after the Oct. 27, 2018, rampage.
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  • Mr. Holzer used social media to promote white supremacy and communicate with people who were actually undercover law enforcement agents
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      It's so strange that people feel so empowered to say whatever they please online and think that there will be no consequences.
  • Later he discussed using pipe bombs after visiting the synagogue and observing “that Molotov cocktails would not be enough to condemn the entire building.” He said that he wanted to get the synagogue “off the map,” federal officials said
  • Mr. Holzer’s plot was “a reality of today’s world.”
  • After news of the plot was made public in 2019, the synagogue received overwhelming support nationally and outside the U.S., he said. Funds sent from supporters helped the synagogue ramp up security, financing a 24-hour surveillance system and an armed guard during services
  • A self-identified white supremacist pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal hate crime for plotting to bomb a Colorado synagogue in 2019, actions that federal officials said meet the federal definition of domestic terrorism.
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      Typical
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Store Workers to Get New Training: How to Handle Fights Over Masks - The New York Times - 0 views

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new york times Pandemic training masks

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      I can't even imagine how someone could get mad at someone else for trying to protect their safety. Even if the pandemic is a hoax, which it certainly is not, why not just be safe rather than sorry?
  • The training puts a spotlight on the unexpected challenges that store workers have been forced to grapple with during the pandemic.
  • Susan Driscoll, president of the Crisis Prevention Institute, said the online training program and accompanying Covid-19 Customer Conflict Prevention credential are “really focused on how to engage your thinking brain over your emotional brain.
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      They are trying to appeal to the customer's rational brain instead of emotional (rider instead of elephant). This is smart but will be difficult.
  • the program offers tips on “how to verbally and nonverbally communicate empathy and support” while wearing a mask
  • Or, Ms. Driscoll said, “when someone is defensive and losing their rationality, you give them a choice or set a limit.”
  • inquiries to the organization for de-escalation information have doubled since the pandemic started
  • The National Retail Federation said it did not have data on disputes at retailers
  • Many retail workers will receive a new sort of preparation for this year’s holiday season: training on how to manage conflicts with customers who resist mask-wearing, social distancing and store capacity limits
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In Biden's Home State, Republican Centrism Gives Way to the Fringe - The New York Times - 1 views

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Delaware politics Trump QAnon Witzke Senate Coons

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      So not only is she prejudiced, but her entire team is prejudiced too! And seen here, it is clear that Pres. Trump's statement about the Proud Boys has caused a resurgence nationwide. Delaware is not immune to white supremacy.
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      Earlier in the summer, I went to a BLM protest that she led. It is clear that she has been on the frontlines of this fight since the beginning.
  • Across the street, Keandra McDole, sister of a wheelchair-bound Black man who was killed in 2015 by the Delaware police, chanted “Lauren Witzke’s got to go,”
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  • It’s sad that voters feel like they only have a choice between democratic socialism and white supremacy.
  • Ms. Witzke’s ascent in Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s home state may be the nadir of the Delaware Republican Party’s rapid swerve from patrician moderation to the far-right fringe
  • Republicans running statewide are facing a choice: Appeal to the vocal extreme or find some way to assemble a more centrist coalition that could actually elect them.
  • That was an easy case to make not long ago in tiny Delaware, population 974,000, where “the Delaware way” was a model of centrist political accommodation.
  • The F.B.I. has warned that QAnon poses a potential domestic terrorism threat.
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      How in the world could all of those charges be dropped?
  • “People are so tired of George Bush-era politics. Nationalist populism is the future,” Ms. Witzke said. “America First is the future. And that is what I am.”
  • The Republican Party has to be open-minded about the people who live in this country and get back on some sort of track that makes sense to the average voter,
  • You can’t just have ideological beliefs that don’t appeal to a majority of people in a state — or the country.
  • Ms. Witzke’s message to moderates, she said: “It’s me or Antifa.”
  • On Wednesday, a day after Mr. Trump’s Proud Boys remarks during the first presidential debate, Ms. Witzke took to Twitter to create more headaches for her party. “The Proud Boys showed up to one of my rallies to provide free security for me when #BLM and ANTIFA were protesting my candidacy,” she wrote, neglecting to mention that the Proud Boys outnumbered the McDole family protesters at the event.
  • “We are sick and tired of pandering and people electing government officials who will cave to the mob,”
  • Gathered with her in the parking lot of the Republican Party headquarters here was a self-appointed security guard with a gun on his hip, a political adviser whose losing clients include candidates accused of racism and anti-Semitism, and a smattering of Proud Boys, the far-right brawlers whom President Trump told to “stand back and stand by.”
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Election 2020: Fueled by Democrats, early voting is way up - 0 views

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  • More than 4.2 million people have already voted early in the presidential election, vastly exceeding the pace of 2016 as Democrats amass a commanding lead in returned mail ballots
  • The more their votes get cast early, he said, the less time Republican candidates have to reverse things "before all we're producing is regrets from people who already cast their ballots
  • The strong early voting turnout comes as Democratic nominee Joe Biden maintains a strong national polling lead over President Donald Trump
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  • Some voters could be voting earlier because they're wary about the performance of the U.S. Postal Service and want to get their ballots in the mail as soon as possible.
  • It might not be good news, however, for Trump and Republicans, who are lagging considerably behind Democrats in the number of mail ballots submitted.
  • The advantage for Democrats comes after they requested nearly twice as many mail ballots nationwide than Republicans, likely the result of Trump's months-long assault on the legitimacy of mail ballots
  • Several states have changed laws since four years ago to either offer early voting or expand early voting periods. In addition, as expected for months, more people are taking advantage of early voting, particularly voting by mail, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  • not only did Democrats request more mail ballots than Republicans, they are also returning them at higher rates.
  • It's a concern if the pandemic continues to rage and if seniors who had voted for Republican candidates in the past get scared to go to the polls at a time when it's too late to vote for mail.
  • It's a concern for Democrats because mail ballots are far more likely to be disqualified for various reasons than are in-person ballots
  • Polling has shown that Trump voters are nearly twice as likely to vote on Election Day than Democrats
  • The other scenario is that Democrats are just more enthused to vote than Republicans and it's showing up in these numbers
  • McDonald is among election experts who predicted a historically high turnout presidential race even before votes were cast. He estimated last year 150 million people would vote in the 2020 election, 12 million more than the 138 million in 2016
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N.J. Officials Say Trump Fundraiser Put Lives At Risk, But Attendees Appear Unworried :... - 0 views

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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      This is so true! To host an event at this time is not only dangerous for the president and his supporters, but for everyone who is contractually obligated to be there (Secret Service, event security, etc). After Trump's blatant mask ridicule of Biden and his recent diagnoses, you'd think that he'd be more cautious.
  • Trump supporters said Murphy is exaggerating the risks to score political points
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      If anything, Trump is undervaluing the risk of Coronavirus to ease the minds of his fanbase and take the blame off of himself for his subpar course of action in lowering our case numbers.
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  • The fear-mongering needs to stop
  • a pharmacist who has worked in public health
  • About half came from other states — as far away as Texas and Arizona
  • State officials said the task has been complicated because the Republican National Committee only provided them with email addresses for attendees, not addresses and phone numbers.
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      Purposefully making the task more difficult. Lovely.
  • Attendees said many guests were wearing masks — but not all the tim
  • "I was surprised to hear that he had the virus because he looked as healthy as I've ever seen him,"
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      This is exactly what his campaign wants. If they can paint Coronavirus as less lethal, it'll make Trump seem correct even though over 200,000 Americans have already died from this virus. And of course he'd recover! He has access to nearly unlimited resources, a personal team of physicians, and a practically unlimited amount of money to cover any of the hospital bills. Most of the people fighting this virus do not have the same resources.
  • President Trump's last public event – a fundraiser at his golf club in New Jersey – has touched off a major contact tracing effort as well as a messy political fight
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      So as a public health worker and public servant hopeful, she's choosing to ignore CDC guidelines? Smart.
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      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      So not only can the health officials not contact those who may be infected, but those workers have traveled from all across the country. Now, they may begin a spike of cases in their own states!
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U.S. labor shock from pandemic hit women of color hardest; will it persist? | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Women’s labor force participation had declined in 2007-2009 during the Great Recession, and many economists had worried that would become permanent, weighing on growth overall as women kept their skills and efforts off the table.
  • women’s participation started climbing around 2015, particularly for Blacks and Latinas, it helped boost growth and likely was a force behind the increases in household income that also began around then
  • The coronavirus has seized back those gains
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  • Recessions typically fall hardest on racial and ethnic minorities
  • During economic expansions, job gains typically flow last to those groups, which means less seniority when downturns arrive
  • More jobs have been lost in service industries and occupations where women are disproportionately represented, while women have also shouldered more responsibility for the challenges to family health, school closures and other disruptions from the pandemic.
  • a departure from the labor force altogether that can recast demographics of who works and earns, who can buy a home, invest, or help children pay for college.
  • Younger women in the first stages of career and family formation had made some of the strongest recent gains in labor force participation, and now have seen the sharpest drop.
  • The blow has fallen hardest on women of color.
  • That question will determine the quality and breadth of the U.S. recovery, and whether this recession exacerbates wealth and income inequality
  • at some point the loss of millions of wage earners will be felt, and full recovery will be elusive until either their former employers recover, or those workers gravitate to new firms and occupations.
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Six Takeaways From the First Presidential Debate - The New York Times - 0 views

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      This is a direct call to action of a white supremacy group. This is absolutely unacceptable.
  • Later, Mr. Trump also refused to say he would abide by the results of the election and declined to tell his supporters to stay calm and avoid civil unrest.
  • His mocking of Mr. Biden’s decision to regularly wear a mask — which health officials have recommended — underscored his rejection of science when it suits his political purposes.
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  • one of Mr. Trump’s most consistent lines of attack has been that Mr. Biden is actually a leftist or even a socialist masquerading as a centrist.
  • Mr. Biden repeatedly took the opportunities on Tuesday to distance himself from his party’s left wing — without denouncing them. And he left little doubt who was in charge.
  • But he mostly emerged unscathed, and for most Democrats, anything but a loss was welcomed as a clear win.
  • The president declined to condemn white supremacists again on Tuesday, despite being asked directly by Mr. Wallace if he would do so.
  • From the opening bell, Mr. Trump came out as an aggressor, speaking over Mr. Biden in what seemed to be almost din-by-design: Pull the former vice president, who has run as a statesman promising to restore the soul of America, into a mud-slinging contest.
  • Instead, he kept turning — physically — to face the cameras and address the American people instead of his chattering rival.
  • The former vice president was strongest and most comfortable on the issues that he has focused on overwhelmingly in the last six months: the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.
  • it was at times a hard attack for Mr. Biden to answer. But unlike her, he had Mr. Trump’s record to slash at.
  • Mr. Trump seemed principally focused on undercutting and disorienting Mr. Biden, rather than on presenting an agenda or a vision for a second term in the White House.
  • Eventually, after Mr. Biden suggested he condemn the Proud Boys, a far-right organization widely condemned as a hate group, Mr. Trump declared, “Proud Boys: Stand back and stand by.”
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