Vaccines, Infrastructure, and Kids In Cages: US Politics April 2021

Left OTM.

There is not a single honest person in this country who, if they know their recent history, can't say that the US is committing an ongoing genocide against Indigenous people. Given that 8 of 10 of these 'stages' of genocide can easily be filled, looking at today's climate, it's absurd to parse terms— it's ongoing genocide, plain and simple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_stages_of_genocide

the level of racist oppression involved is plenty bad enough, but calling it genocide just makes you sound foamy at the mouth

― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, April 11, 2021 4:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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alternative name for pitchfork music festival

Ecocide & Juice

lol get fucked asshole

Lawyer for Tommy Webster, retired NYPD cop accused of beating an MPD officer with flagpole on #J6, says his client is in a "dormitory setting" with people serving time for "inner-city crimes" - "for a middle aged guy whose never been arrested before this has been a shock for him"

— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) April 9, 2021

that's called karma

“Increasingly isolated”

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/11/politics/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-denied-meeting/index.html

.@BernieSanders on upcoming reconciliation

-Rebuild infrastructure + millions of jobs
-Tackle climate change
-Lower Medicare eligibility age
-Expand Mcare to dental, hearing, glasses

"The American people are not staying up nights worrying about the process. They want results."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 12, 2021

Bernie Sanders, the Budget Committee chairman, asked by Hill reporters when he'll write another budget resolution (which triggers the filibuster-proof process) for all this: "Working on it... as quickly as we can."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 12, 2021

hells yeah

student debt forgiveness?

Debt forgiveness goes into the crisis queue.

thanks caek, great news

just saw that Charles Booker is considering a 2022 run against Rand Paul :)

read that as Charlie Brooker

Read that as Booker Ervin.

hell yeah, fuck you rand paul, i am a booker supporter myself

i follow booker on the old twitter, and at least at this point, he is not full of shit. rooting for him.

hi, Zach!

These are not rookie numbers.

UK vaccine rollout days away from extending to those aged 40-50.

Check out these whopping takeup rates by age groups:

80+: 95.2%
75-79: 100%
70-74: 96.9%
65-69: 93.8%
60-64: 96.9%
55-59: 93.6%
50-54: 87.0%

(Figures are percentage who've had at least one dose in England)

— Bevan Shields (@BevanShields) April 12, 2021

100%?!

💯

#onethread?

this seems, how you say, ridiculously stupid

Breaking News: The U.S. will seek to pause Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine after six women developed rare blood clots, officials briefed on the decision said.https://t.co/9cnE2E0Ehn

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 13, 2021

stupid -- as if anti-jabbers needed talking points

seems ultra-stupid on the back of Europe and UK having just been through all this and it was correctly overridden. Dumb, but I'm not surprised.

I guess the system works? In my non-expert opinion, though, I suppose the CDC/FDA could've said the subsector of the population shouldn't get the J&J.

the way conspiracists reject all "official" stories, some anti-vaxxers might start clamoring for J&J shots now

Official narratives are doubly reliable when they prove your point.

It definitely seems counter productive, from a strategy standpoint, but it's worth a reminder that afaict *all* of these vaccines are being rolled out with emergency authorization, and for all we know it's quite possible that *none* of them would have been approved (at least not yet) had they had gone through the regular rigmarole. I think they're doing the best they can to do rapid trials and ensure safety in real time. If they discovered any of them had unwanted effects and then kept that secret, that would a huge scandal, wouldn't it? I think that's one reason why the US has more or less planned to have an excess of vaccine, not because they're hoarding it, but because they want options should they need them. Australia, for example, put all its faith in AZ, and with that one out of the picture there now, suddenly that country's vaccination goals have been punted until next year.

the way conspiracists reject all "official" stories, some anti-vaxxers might start clamoring for J&J shots now

Conspiracy theorists are definitely consistent in that way, yes

The problem with the “they shouldn’t have announced it this way” criticism is that there is an obligation to make the health care community aware that this is a possible side effect. Have to start there, then discuss whether pause is warranted too

— Ed MD (@notdred) April 13, 2021

I'm not smart enough to know what the right way to do this is. I do know that anti-vaxxers will run with anything, whether it's a truth or lie. And media coverage is frequently negative even when the vaccine news has been great. Seems like a true no-win scenario.

— Ed MD (@notdred) April 13, 2021

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I can’t stop thinking of the anonymous Republican operative quoted in the WaPo article about the Biden-Harris infrastructure plan who said in panic that they even associating it with “cancel culture” didn’t decrease its popularity in focus groups.

— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) April 13, 2021

I wish I could find that WaPo story.

so is cancelling cancel culture... cancelled?

Building broadband is cancelling copper wire. You could be next!

What are they going to do next, build a smart grid?? The nerve of these politicians. Cancel the build!!

I can't find the article, either. Does it exist?

Maybe it was cancelled.

Cancel culture? More like can'tcel culture, am I right?

i also can't find it. possibly it's embedded in a weigel mailing list piece or something.

I look forward to hearing from ILX's super-lefties why this is bad, actually.

Biden administration to lift abortion pill restriction amid pandemic

The Biden administration will temporarily lift a medication abortion restriction that requires abortion pills to be dispensed in person, reversing a Trump-era policy and handing abortion-rights groups one of their first major victories of the new administration.

In a two-page letter letter to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, a professional medical organization, acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock announced Monday evening that her agency would "exercise enforcement discretion" surrounding the FDA's requirement that abortion patients using mifepristone to terminate a pregnancy obtain the pills in-person from a medical provider. The decision will allow providers in some states to prescribe via telemedicine and send the pills in the mail.

Temporarily!

Oh, Joe Biden loves his dog huh WHAT DOES THE LEFT HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

can someone check in with the left

as a member of the super ultra mega left i am not available to respond to dumb strawmanning today

can someone check in with Left

in 2021, let's not be left, right or center. let's be above it.

#ThirdWay
#LincolnProject

sorry, leftover hashtags

#ThirdWay
#LincolnProject

#FourthWay
#JimmyCarterInitiative

I'm still waiting to hear** from the "I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" cohort.

**I'm willing to wait a long time.

"the carter initiative" is a good start but needs a lot of workshopping to get the OK from Ludlum's editor

The Carter Memorandum