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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]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/politics/us-rejects-un-coronavirus-resolution-china-who/index.html

US blocks UN resolution on global coronavirus ceasefire after China pushes WHO mention

Better to keep fighting than to mention WHO!

[kidcarter8]

Re:. The SD Sioux

Noem can't issue regulations that cover just their Nation

Likely she is pleased they are acting on their own re: stay at home (numbers on Native Americans being higher), though she also feels she must act to allow liberties such as car travel in that area., correct?

Noem could have it worse.  She seems to be doing fine.

[josh]

Gregg Gonsalves
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How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy? #COVID19 #coronavirus

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Gregg Gonsalves
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 · May 6, 2020
So, what does it mean to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law? #COVID19 #coronavirus


Gregg Gonsalves
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And I am being serious here: what is happening in the US is purposeful, considered negligence, omission, failure to act by our leaders. Can they be held responsible under international law?

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7:05 AM - May 6, 2020

[josh]

Re:. The SD Sioux

Noem can't issue regulations that cover just their Nation

Likely she is pleased they are acting on their own re: stay at home (numbers on Native Americans being higher), though she also feels she must act to allow liberties such as car travel in that area., correct?

Noem could have it worse.  She seems to be doing fine.

"doing fine"

Are they sovereign? Do they have the right to regulate their own land or not?

Tribes, therefore, possess the right to form their own governments; to make and enforce laws, both civil and criminal; to tax; to establish and determine membership (i.e., tribal citizenship); to license and regulate activities within their jurisdiction; to zone; and to exclude persons from tribal lands.

~Bureau of Indian Affairs

[josh]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/8/1943563/-Pence-caught-on-hot-mic-admitting-the-boxes-of-PPE-supplies-he-delivered-this-week-were-empty

Empty boxes that Pence pretended were filled with PPE.

If that doesn't capture the essence of this Administration's response to crises and especially this crisis, I don't know what does.

[barton]

I think it would be illuminating to determine the percentage of Red's  total posts that obsess over 2016.and early 2017. 

To whom?

What would it tell us that we don't already know? How many holes it takes to fill his head?

I was being rhetorical.   Not literally recommending the world's most boring research project.   

Noem has,  in her governorship, shown little respect for NA community.   We normally drive through the Sicanju rez (Rosebud) en route to family in Nebraska.   It's no great trouble to drive a different route and respect the tribes efforts not to be a repeat of the Navajo debacle. 

[kidcarter8]

Bureau of Indian Affairs says no road closures or restrictions can occur unless an agreement is made with the state.

[barton]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/09/obama-leaked-conversation-us-rule-of-law-at-risk-flynn-case-dropped

  “The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed – about the justice department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama reportedly said.

“And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury [in fact Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI] just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic – not just institutional norms – but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.

“And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”   

[josh]

In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America

By
Aaron C. Davis
May 9, 2020 at 12:06 p.m. EDT

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

[barton]

Bureau of Indian Affairs says no road closures or restrictions can occur unless an agreement is made with the state.

An agency infamous for mismanagement, land theft,  and paternalism.   Good grief,  citing the BIA in any discussion of NA issues is a nonstarter.   This is the agency that took native children away from their parents in the interest of "assimilation. "   People here mostly listen to the tribal leaders,  and not the BIA.  I won't derail the Trump thread over this,  but you have some research to do before you just regurgitate conservatives talking points.   

[josh]

Bureau of Indian Affairs says no road closures or restrictions can occur unless an agreement is made with the state.

"Mutually agreeable" solution is what the BIA is seeking. The governor would be happy to have a mutually agreed upon solution so long as the tribe does exactly what the governor wants. See also: Keystone.




These are in response to what the BIA wrote:

[josh]

A tragedy of errors.

The AP released a report about how the White House buried a CDC report.

The WH response has been to fast track several items within it, once they could no longer pretend it didn't exist.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/top-white-house-officials-buried-cdc-coronavirus-report/2121365/

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails obtained by The Associated Press.

The files also show that after the AP reported Thursday that the guidance document had been buried, the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast-tracked for approval.

The trove of emails show the nation's top public health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spending weeks working on guidance to help the country deal with a public health emergency, only to see their work quashed by political appointees with little explanation.

[barton]

See also: Keystone

Exactly.   Tribes are sovereign when it's convenient for us to say so.   Same old same old.

[bodiddley]

No idea what that BIA letter means referring to "individual's constitutional rights."
Idiots.

[luee]

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