In the past six months, Czup has arranged the funerals of a 37-year-old killed by complications from diabetes, a 54-year-old killed by lung disease and a 54-year-old killed by a stroke, among many others who died prematurely.
“How long until this is me?” the funeral director wondered, noting his stress-filled 18-hour days and unhealthy diet.
How many of these people didn’t have health care, and didn’t catch their illnesses in the early stages? This country desperately needs universal health care.
Specific concessions thrown out include greater Democratic representation on committees, forcing votes on Democratic bills and spiking votes on certain controversial Republican legislation.
Some great initial ideas. If McCarthy needs Democratic votes to keep his job, the Dems better get something meaty from that coalition.
Buck then advised Trump to “do what a lot of us do. Go into a room by yourself, yell for a little bit, and come out and be the person that really personifies what we want in a leader in this country.”
I’d like a president that doesn’t need to be spoken to like he’s 6 years old.
The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that’s not what I thought people would enjoy. It’s the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).
If he becomes speaker again by making the same stupid deal that any one person can oust him, we’re basically guaranteeing this will happen again. But that was not a normal thing in the house prior to Kevin’s desperate plea to get the job
The civil war continues. When Trump’s not in the room no one can agree to a power structure, and all of the idiots are trying to grab the reins. It’s very Stalinist in that way.
I would hope that the Democrats would only back Kevin McCarthy on the condition that he ends the impeachment hearings he began last week in a dumb, failed attempt to appease his right wing and avoid the shutdown.
His lawyers probably didn’t expect to juggle a dozen trials at the same time. That, and, no one even halfway competent would ever work for Trump. Most of his previous attorneys are codefendants in his criminal trials at this point.
The rats are scrambling to get off the sinking ship. Incredible that it took the threat of prison to break the logjam, but there’s no time like the present.
The physiology or medicine prize for Hungarian and American Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman recognized work that led to the development of vaccines that were administered to billions around the world.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against Covid-19 that have since been administered billions of times globally, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
Their discovery “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system,” the panel that awarded the prize said, adding that the work “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.”
A huge breakthrough, hopefully this leads to a whole new class of mRNA vaccines.
In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.
Butler will be the only Black woman serving in the U.S. Senate, and the first openly LGBTQ person to represent California in the chamber.
The long-serving Democratic senator died last Thursday after a series of illnesses. Butler leads Emily’s List, a political organization that supports Democratic women candidates who favor abortion rights. She also is a former labor leader with SEIU 2015, a powerful force in California politics.
She seems like a good appointee, but honestly I’m just glad to have two functioning senators in my state now.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to appoint Emily’s List president Laphonza Butler to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week at age 90, according to two people with knowledge of the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share information not yet public....
How Red-State Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives (wapo.st)
Paywall free Washington Post gift article....
Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births. (www.propublica.org)
Reposting from local post on SDF instance:...
Democrats don't want to be McCarthy's "cheap date" (www.axios.com)
House Democrats sound like they’re willing to save Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his right-wing revolt — but he’ll have to pay a price.
Republican Congressman Gives ‘Immature’ Trump Advice on What to Do When Frustrated: ‘Go Into a Room By Yourself, Yell For a Little Bit’ (www.mediaite.com)
A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and ‘the end of politics’ in America (www.inquirer.com)
Donald Trump's increasingly violent vision is coming through loud and clear to supporters like the MAGA gunman in New Mexico.
Phones to receive an emergency alert test this week (youtu.be)
The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that’s not what I thought people would enjoy. It’s the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).
Matt Gaetz files motion to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker (www.washingtonpost.com)
Matt Gaetz accuses Kevin McCarthy of cutting ‘secret side deal’ with Biden (www.theguardian.com)
Far right of Republican party split as congressman attacks House speaker for working with Democrats to avoid shutdown...
Trump saves fireworks for outside court on first day of fraud trial (www.theguardian.com)
Trump was a quiet presence inside court, but outside he said ‘deranged’ judge overseeing case ‘should be out of office’...
McDonald's order is carried into Manhattan court during Donald Trump's $250 million fraud trial (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Donald Trump’s court battle over claims he inflated his property values by $2.2 billion doesn’t seem to have deflated anyone’s appetite....
A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)
Trump Attorney Screwup Means Trump Won’t Get Jury Trial in NY Fraud Case (www.meidastouch.com)
Due to an oversight, Trump's attorneys failed to ask for a jury trial within the time allotted to them
And So it Begins? CNN Reports Bernard Kerik is Seeking Immunity in Trump’s Georgia Election Fraud Case (www.mediaite.com)
Kerik’s been to prison before. He doesn’t want to go again.
I specifically requested it. (feddit.de)
Donald Trump expected to attend civil fraud trial opening (www.bbc.co.uk)
Mr Trump, his two adult sons, and the Trump Organization, are accused of inflating the value of their properties by more than $2bn (£1.65bn)....
Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers (www.nytimes.com)
The physiology or medicine prize for Hungarian and American Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman recognized work that led to the development of vaccines that were administered to billions around the world.
Saudi Arabia predicts budget deficit as it funnels money into gigaprojects (www.ft.com)
‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (www.theguardian.com)
California governor to name Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat (apnews.com)
Calif. Gov. Newsom plans to name Emily’s List leader to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat (www.washingtonpost.com)
ANAHEIM, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to appoint Emily’s List president Laphonza Butler to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week at age 90, according to two people with knowledge of the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share information not yet public....
Travel website Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket (www.theguardian.com)