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By Lowering the Debate Bar for Biden, Has Trump Set a Trap for Himself? - The New York ... - 0 views

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      hannahcarter11 on 30 Sep 20
       
      Though these issues would attest to Biden's character, I don't think this is enough to sway voters away from voting for him. In this election, it's less about being Pro-Biden and more about being Anti-Trump
  • Instead of regular, formal sessions, aides traveling with him to rallies or official events have used time on the plane to pepper him with questions.
  • Mr. Trump has never favored formal debate prep with mock-ups at lecterns
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  • He sometimes says the opposite of what he means.
  • The Biden voter is simply an anti-Trump voter. What if he fails to make this about what he’s for and what he’s about?”
  • The Biden campaign, meanwhile, has been telling people that no debate outcome will fundamentally change the contours of a race that has been defined
  • While Mr. Biden’s empathy and his love for his children have been calling cards for voters who like him, they have made it challenging for him to put those questions to rest.
  • Trump has to try and change public perceptions of him
  • Mr. Trump’s allies are also concerned that the president, who is generally cocooned from people who oppose him, will be unable to resist the temptation to defend himself from Mr. Biden’s face-to-face criticisms.
  • Because moderators never call him out for doing any of those things, the candidates can’t do it
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'It's Not in My Head': They Survived the Coronavirus, but They Never Got Well - The New... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...navirus-long-term-effects.html

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  • Month after month, they rush to the hospital with new symptoms, pleading with doctors for answers.
  • I can’t do anything right now, physically, without harming myself. It’s like someone cut your battery pack in half and doubled the charging time.
  • Still, many say their biggest challenge is getting other people simply to believe them.
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  • some subset of them are now suffering from serious, debilitating and mysterious effects of Covid-19 that last far longer than a few days or weeks.
  • I have not gotten paid from my employer since May. My disability was denied. It’s like this disbelief. They don’t believe me and thousands of us Covid long-haulers that have these symptoms.
  • When people are for so long feeling this bad, constantly in pain, constantly in such anxiety of the unknown, they turn to the doctor, and the doctors don’t know either. That starts to bring you down, that starts to be part of your life.
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Live Breonna Taylor News Tracker: Suspect Charged in Shooting of 2 Officers - The New Y... - 0 views

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      hannahcarter11 on 24 Sep 20
       
      So terrible that a literal wall matters more than Breonna's life. While the shooting was reckless period, the officers should've been charged about her murder.
  • plans to plead not guilty to the charges in the indictment
  • Breonna Taylor’s case as both the tragic death of a young woman, and the continuation of a long pattern of devaluation and violence that Black women and men face in our country, as they have historically,
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      hannahcarter11 on 24 Sep 20
       
      It's astonishing how they're so quick to attempt to arrest the person who shot the police officers yet have done everything to not face the consequences for their own actions.
  • “We need our whole city to come out,”
  • Ms. Helm said that she was nervous for the safety of protesters, especially after seeing the significant law enforcement presence that was patrolling Louisville on Wednesday evening
  • Shortly after midnight, the police declared the protest unlawful and ordered people to disperse.
  • Anger over Ms. Taylor’s killing and the prosecutors’ handling of the case has spread far from Louisville, with protests on Wednesday night drawing crowds in New York, Chicago and Seattle. Some rallies, like those in Portland, Maine, and Memphis, were small but vocal.
  • “There are Breonnas everywhere.”
  • the people want justice even if the system doesn’t,
  • “I don’t want this incident to get swept under the rug and everybody forgets about all the innocent lives that have been taken
  • female athletes have been instrumental in directing attention to the investigation.
  • This isn’t a bad apple, it’s a rotten tree.”
  • The lack of a murder or manslaughter indictment against any of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor was an outrage to many — but not a surprise.
  • A grand jury indicted a former Louisville police detective on Wednesday for endangering Breonna Taylor’s neighbors with reckless gunfire during a raid on her apartment in March, but the two officers who shot Ms. Taylor were not charged in her death.
  • Three officers fired a total of 32 shots
  • Ms. Taylor’s name and image have become part of the national movement over racial injustice since May, with celebrities writing open letters and erecting billboards that demanded the white officers be criminally charged.
  • Angry demonstrators took to the streets on Wednesday after a Kentucky grand jury did not charge police officers with killing Ms. Taylor. A suspect was in custody, accused of shooting two Louisville officers.
  • The city erupted in angry demonstrations Wednesday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor during a botched nighttime raid on her apartment in March.
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Opinion | A Divided America Is a National Security Threat - The New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...trump-national-security.html

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      hannahcarter11 on 23 Sep 20
       
      It is absolutely remarkable that Climate Change is missing from this list. This is not a political issue. If we can't unite across the aisle to fight this, there will be nothing to fight for in just a few years.
  • 75 percent of Democrats deem it a critical concern
  • Climate change does not even rank in the top seven for either Republicans or independents
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  • China is conspicuously absent from Democrats’ top seven, notwithstanding Beijing’s increasing predations in the economic
  • Independents, not surprisingly, occupy the center, placing Covid-19 first and China fourth.
  • independents identify domestic political polarization as a top threat, second only to the pandemic.
  • Political polarization is a “force multiplier” that worsens other threats and cripples our ability to combat them.
  • our polarization prevents us from effectively confronting vital challenges, from the pandemic and its economic consequences to climate change; from the rise of white supremacist groups, which account for the bulk of domestic terrorism, to reforming our immigration system.
  • Whether reprising discredited eugenics theories of white racial superiority, stoking fears of “low income” people invading white suburbs, demanding “patriotic education” in public schools that whitewashes slavery and institutionalized racism, falsely declaring mail-in voting corrupt or expressing contempt for “blue state” America, Mr. Trump seeks to perpetuate himself in power at great cost to our national cohesion.
  • Mr. Trump and his party are happy to ignite the ire of many Americans, a majority of whom oppose this brazenly hypocritical and illegitimate move.
  • national security threats are best understood as anything that can kill or severely harm large numbers of Americans, devastate our economy or upend our way of life.
  • Americans rank the top seven critical threats to U.S. vital interests as: 1) the Covid-19 pandemic; 2) domestic violent extremism; 3) China; 4) global economic downturn; 5) political polarization; 6) international terrorism; 7) foreign interference in U.S. elections. Each is properly conceived as a national security threat, and at this extraordinary time, we are contending with almost all of them simultaneously.
  • threat perceptions vary significantly, depending on political party affiliation.
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New York among three 'anarchist' cities named by White House to lose funds - BBC News - 0 views

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      hannahcarter11 on 22 Sep 20
       
      In their minds, protecting the citizens can only be down by police. This isn't true. In a lot of the cases of many BLM protests, it is often citizens vs. police.
  • The department statement noted that these cities were highlighted as they meet key criteria, such as forbidding "the police force from intervening to restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or destruction", as well as seeking to disempower or defund police. Refusing to accept federal law enforcement assistance is also a factor.
  • All three cities have seen major protests since the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in May.
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  • the mayors of Portland, Seattle, New York and Washington DC - which was on a shortlist of "anarchist cities" but was not included in Monday's decision - accused Mr Trump of "playing cheap political games with congressionally directed funds".
  • Violent crimes have generally declined in US cities since the 1990s, but have risen steeply in the past year in several cities including Philadelphia, Chicago and New York.
  • Some of the protests have led to major police reforms around the country.
  • In New York City, the rate of shootings and murders has skyrocketed as youth programmes and other social organisations have been placed on hold due to the pandemic. Cases of looting and vandalism have also made national news as protests for racial justice have sometimes turned violent.
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Washington Politics Could Be About To Enter A 'Post-Apocalyptic' Phase : NPR - 1 views

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      hannahcarter11 on 21 Sep 20
       
      This is so hyprocrtiical of McConnell. Justice Ginsburg's death came less than two months before the presidential election and McConnell is fighting for President Trump to be allowed to nominate a new justice. Yet, he led the blockade of President Obama's nominee because it was "too close to the election" though Obama had more than 11 months before his replacement would be sworn in. It is clear that McConnell is extremely self-serving.
  • It will be a woman.
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      hannahcarter11 on 21 Sep 20
       
      This is clearly to give women a false sense of security. If you don't do you research on these women, you may assume that they are somewhat moderate conservatives. But upon further examination, you'll find that his top pick, Amy Coney Barrett, she's endorsed by an anti-abortion political group and has voiced her wish to invalidate the Affordable Care Act.
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  • Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a former longtime senator and Senate Judiciary Committee chair, called on Republicans in the Senate "who know deep down what is right for the country — not just for their party" to vote against a Trump nominee.
  • Let the people speak. Cool the flames that have been engulfing our country."
  • "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said in 2018 at a panel hosted by The Atlantic.
  • There has certainly been very little consistency among Republicans on this.
  • It's called delay, delay, delay."
  • It's not OK for Obama to do it, because it's bad for my side. But it's OK for me to do it, because it is good for my side. This is all about political power.
  • "character" and "temperament."
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      hannahcarter11 on 21 Sep 20
       
      This is completely objective!! His version of "good character" could be completely skewed and far from his constituents.
  • "When we weigh the equities, defending our democracy requires us to use every arrow in our quiver."
  • passing statehood for Washington, D.C., to likely give Democrats two more senators;
  • If blowing up the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees was "going nuclear," we might be about to enter a phase of "post-apocalyptic" governance in Washington.
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Teaching Children About Freedom Of Speech - 1 views

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  • freedom to protest
  • Meanwhile, government leaders both around the globe and right here in the U.S. are threatening to limit freedom of speech, with everything from legislation to litigation to violent force. 
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      hannahcarter11 on 15 Sep 20
       
      To limit free speech is to silence all of those who may not have a voice in any other venue. It is incredibly disrespectful to try and limit the rights of your electors. These citizens deserve fair leaders who will engage in civil discourse with them instead of trying to completely shut them down or hurt them due to a difference in opinion.
  • Individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights in various ways—from writing a letter to a government or community leader, to marching in a protest, putting a sign on their lawn or kneeling for the national anthem. 
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      hannahcarter11 on 15 Sep 20
       
      Protesting comes in many forms. Whatever action that you take is okay as long as you take some action. It is important that people begin to understand the importance of local government as well as federal. People often overlook taking issues to their community leaders though they are the ones who have the most direct effect on local politics.
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  • Malala, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner (at 17, she was the youngest recipient to receive the prize), began using her voice at the age of 10, standing up to the Taliban in Pakistan and advocating for the rights of girls to receive a safe, free quality education.
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      hannahcarter11 on 15 Sep 20
       
      Malala is such an inspiration not only because she stood up for herself and others in the face of danger, but also because she continued to do so even when she became safe. She now uses the privilege that she has to uplift other young girls.
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