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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

[facilitatorn]

When newspapers started putting up paywalls they stopped being accessible to most americans.  Information comes at a cost.  But you know what doesn't?  Disinformation.  So over the last decade we've seen disinformation spread on cable news networks, chat room message boards,  social networks, and broadcast radio.

The decision made by the NY Times and others to make their valuable reporting harder to come by has led to disastrous outcomes all across America.

We’re gonna need a better model for news funding.

[facilitatorn]

And with this, they have proven it did not need to be at the Supreme Court level. Thank you, gentlemen (and ladies, if any).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155//20201211142818270_SCOTUS%20Motion%20for%20Intervention%20Final%20-%20word%20certificate.pdf

This link didn’t work for me. Could you find another that deals w it or summarize please? Thanks

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/donald-trump-christmas-parties-coronavirus-white-house

[facilitatorn]

http://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/11/senate-government-shutdown-444545

It’s on the pants shitter to keep things open another week.

[josh]

And with this, they have proven it did not need to be at the Supreme Court level. Thank you, gentlemen (and ladies, if any).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155//20201211142818270_SCOTUS%20Motion%20for%20Intervention%20Final%20-%20word%20certificate.pdf

This link didn’t work for me. Could you find another that deals w it or summarize please? Thanks

This is the set of filings in the Texas vs. swing states suit.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22o155.html

The last of the items is called "Complaint in Intervention of Ron Heuer, et al. submitted." It's just above halfway down the page.

In it, a bunch of state legislators are seeking to join the suit, as have now 5 additional states.

One of the aspects of the specific route Texas chose, "original jurisdiction," is that it requires the case to be so unique that only this court can hear it.

By its having been joined so broadly (or rather, sought to be joined, as SCOTUS would have to approve that, too), it is shown to not so unique.

[REDSTATEWARD]

When newspapers started putting up paywalls they stopped being accessible to most americans.  Information comes at a cost.  But you know what doesn't?  Disinformation.  So over the last decade we've seen disinformation spread on cable news networks, chat room message boards,  social networks, and broadcast radio.

The decision made by the NY Times and others to make their valuable reporting harder to come by has led to disastrous outcomes all across America.

Are you paying attention?
Do a google search (which is free)for anything and what comes up first? Ads!
Facebook bought WhatsApp and made it free worldwide by adding paid advertisement 
There are tons of Apps that offer consumers free services and thousands of companies are using multiples of them to sell their products.
Which means those companies are NOT  buying ads in Newspapers.
Newspaper subscribers have always been subsidized by advertisers and so are online readers who now have to pay dirt-low fees.
If the information supplied by newspapers is so valuable why the reluctance from you to pay for it?

[kidcarter8]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/donald-trump-christmas-parties-coronavirus-white-house

The White House parties allow guests to wander through ceremonial rooms, admire Christmas trees and other elaborate decorations and enjoy copious amounts of food and drink.



How dare they?

[kidcarter8]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-coach-tony-dungy-warnock-faith

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/us/connecticut-high-schools-black-latino-studies-trnd/index.html

Connecticut is the first state to require high schools to offer Black and Hispanic studies.

Great. They can study how the Spain and Portugal built the African slave trade, and forced religion, language, and culture on indigenous people whom they also enslaved; well, the indigenous people who survived the diseases that they brought with them.

Should go well.

Why wouldn’t it?

YOU know why.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Hard to be critical of the cops without knowing every detail of the case.

Don't mess with Larry's narrative. He's very one-sided on this issue.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Congress says "Fuck you" to Little Donnie.


The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve a sweeping defense bill with a veto-proof majority, a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation. The vote was 84 to 13.

Trump's position on the bill has sharply divided GOP lawmakers, forcing them to choose between loyalty to the President and legislation that sets defense policy for the country. In the end, however, the President's opposition was not enough to stall passage of the legislation through Congress. The Senate vote comes after the House of Representatives also passed the bill with a veto-proof majority earlier this week. Now it will be up to Trump to decide how to respond.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/politics/senate-defense-bill-trump-veto-proof-majority/index.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-trump-investigation-interview-bankers-insurers-2020-12


 Manhattan prosecutors have stepped up their investigation into President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization in recent weeks, interviewing bankers and insurers who work for the president, according to The New York Times.

Specifically, the report said, state prosecutors have interviewed people working for Trump's main lender, Deutsche Bank, and his primary insurer, Aon.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is investigating whether the Trump Organization violated state laws. His office has subpoenaed eight years of Trump's tax returns, which the president is fighting in court.

Trump has expressed significant concerns privately and publicly about the Vance investigation, given that any criminal charges arising from it would be pardon-proof. 

Let's go!!
 
 

[josh]

"How can we slow down people's taking the vaccine to make the Biden administration's time harder?!"

"Hey, what if we get the President to threaten to fire the head of the FDA if he doesn't approve the vaccine when the Prez sez to!"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/politics/white-house-fda-chief-approve-covid-vaccine-resign/index.html

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/health/superspreader-covid-boston-biotech-conference/index.html

333,000 cases across the country from the Biogen conference.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/us/minnesota-asatru-folk-assembly-murdock-trnd/index.html

Whites only.