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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

Kid,

This is what I am talking about:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/1/1923179/-CDC-reports-potentially-significant-outbreak-of-COVID-19-as-cases-reported-coast-to-coast?detail=emaildkre

And in case you are still on your "josh wants a major outbreak because it will hurt Trump" bullshit...

In addition to my just plain not wanting people to die or the economy to collapse (which will also cause people to die), I personally am running a couple conferences this year and a major outbreak would kill those. In case the only thing you could believe is direct personal interest.

Asshole.

[barton]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/climate/goks-uncertainty-language-interior.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Climate%20and%20Environment

Gok: not just a Klingon delicacy...

An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial — into the agency’s scientific reports, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The misleading language appears in at least nine reports, including environmental studies and impact statements on major watersheds in the American West that could be used to justify allocating increasingly scarce water to farmers at the expense of wildlife conservation and fisheries....

The wording, known internally as the “Goks uncertainty language” based on Mr. Goklany’s nickname, inaccurately claims that there is a lack of consensus among scientists that the earth is warming. In Interior Department emails to scientists, Mr. Goklany pushed misleading interpretations of climate science, saying it “may be overestimating the rate of global warming, for whatever reason;” climate modeling has largely predicted global warming accurately. The final language states inaccurately that some studies have found the earth to be warming, while others have not.

He also instructed department scientists to add that rising carbon dioxide — the main force driving global warming — is beneficial because it “may increase plant water use efficiency” and “lengthen the agricultural growing season.” Both assertions misrepresent the scientific consensus that, overall, climate change will result in severe disruptions to global agriculture and significant reductions in crop yields.

Scientists and policy experts say that, by embedding an inaccurate sense of uncertainty about scientific findings in its documents, the Trump administration is advancing its policy of weakening environmental rules and reallocating vast quantities of water to farming and irrigation, even though climate change projections show that use to be unsustainable. Last month, President Trump signed a memo in California relaxing regulations that have limited the flow of water to irrigate the Central Valley’s big farms.

“Highlighting uncertainty is consistent with the biggest attacks on the climate science community,” said Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine. “They’re emphasizing discussions of uncertainty to the point where people feel as though we can’t actually make decisions” based on the research.

Fucking lying scumbags who pervert science.  Not an opinion.  Fact.

[facilitatorn]

Trump is always caught with his pants down. Now it’s us getting whacked with a virus instead of him getting whacked with a rolled up Forbes.

#presidential

Trump’s deal in Afghanistan has reached typical trump negotiation results,

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/afghanistasn-bomb-attack-taliban-us-deal

#kiidloveslosers

#trumpslump

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/03/02/trumps-mental-impairment-were-now-in-the-middle-of-the-worst-case-scenario/

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/03/02/how-conservatism-could-kill-us-all/

[LarryBnDC]

Another one bites the dust...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-drops-out.html

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

Meanwhile, the racist scumbags you keep defending continue to try to deny minorities the ease of voting.

Are there polling station closures in blue states?

[kiidcarter8]

Rough day for Bernie

[josh]

Another one bites the dust...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-drops-out.html

" the senator is flying to Dallas to join the former vice president at his rally, where she will suspend her campaign and give her endorsement on the eve of Super Tuesday."

Buttigieg hasn't decided if he is endorsing Biden yet or not - or if he decided it, he has not told anybody.

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

Meanwhile, the racist scumbags you keep defending continue to try to deny minorities the ease of voting.

Are there polling station closures in blue states?

Why don’t you tell us?

[Hairy Lime]

Another one bites the dust...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-drops-out.html

I am Klobucrushed.

[Hairy Lime]

Another one bites the dust...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-drops-out.html

" the senator is flying to Dallas to join the former vice president at his rally, where she will suspend her campaign and give her endorsement on the eve of Super Tuesday."

Buttigieg hasn't decided if he is endorsing Biden yet or not - or if he decided it, he has not told anybody.

Wbo else, Bloomburg? The moderates are clearing the field.

[LarryBnDC]

Ripples coming out of Pakistan don’t bode well for the Taliban ‘Peace’ deal.

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

Meanwhile, the racist scumbags you keep defending continue to try to deny minorities the ease of voting.

Are there polling station closures in blue states?

Why don’t you tell us?

Sure there are. Boards of elections are bi partisan. The cost of staffing and operating voting locations come out of state and county taxes. Modern day voting does not require the amount of space and workers it used to.

[josh]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

Meanwhile, the racist scumbags you keep defending continue to try to deny minorities the ease of voting.

Are there polling station closures in blue states?

Between 2012 and 2016, New Jersey, Michigan, DC, and Maine closed some polling locations.

The Governor of New Jersey at the time was Chris Christie, Republican.

The Governor of Maine at the time was Paul LePage, Republican.

The Governor of Michigan at the time was Rick Snyder, Republican.

Notice a trend yet, Kid?

The Mayor of DC was a Democrat, but the Mayor also has zero say over poll closures. I don't know who does. It might be Congress.

From the above chart we’ve excluded 16 states: 14 of them were missing polling place data for at least one -- and in some cases all -- counties for either 2012 or 2016. Two other states, Colorado and Washington, implemented vote-by-mail programs in 2013 and 2011, respectively. Those resulted in massive polling place closures but had little affect on overall voter participation.

Two of those excluded states are Georgia and Texas.
"Hundreds of polling places have closed in Georgia and across the South since a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2013..."
and
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-polling-place-closures/
"Texas Leads in Polling Place Closures Since 2013" --> 750 of them.

This comes into focus when looking at the demographics of some of the counties that saw the most closures. Brazoria County, which lost 59 percent of its polling locations since Shelby, is 30 percent Latino and 13 percent African American. The number of polling places in Nueces County, home to Corpus Christi and 63 percent Latinx, dropped by nearly a third. In Jefferson County, where Beaumont is located, about 34 percent of its 250,000 residents are African American and 20 percent are Latino; polling places there dropped from 57 in 2012 to 39 in 2018.

http://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/reports/2016/poll-closure-report-web.pdf

From 2019:
"Report: More than 1600 Polling Places Have Closed Since the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act"

But mostly, no, Kid.