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solarbirdThe Republican-controlled Supreme Court is upholding massive voter suppression as Donkeyballs Donald is saying Democrats shouldn't be allowed to win. You do the math.
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Natasha Bertrand
twitter.com/NatashaBertrand
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1246970670661218309
JUST IN: Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was fired by Trump on Friday. “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations...”
[EMBEDDED STATEMENT IN FULL]
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Caroline Orr
twitter.com/RVAwonk
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1246961377559883777
Trump: “What do you have to lose [by taking an unproven drug]?”
President of the American Medical Association: “You could lose your life.”
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Katy Tur
twitter.com/KatyTurNBC
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1246987704186912768
Thread
My friend’s 73 yr old mother went to the ER at Interfaith in Brooklyn at 6pm last night. She’s now been sitting in a chair in the ER for 29 hours waiting for a bed. She has a bad cough, a fever and violent chills. She calls her daughter crying pain and fear.
[THREAD AND EMBEDDED VIDEO]
Her daughter is freaking out & desperate for help. She’s afraid her mom is going to give up.
Her COVID test just came back positive. But she’s still in a chair. There are still no beds.
The drs and nurses are doing their best. They’re in an impossible situation
There just aren’t beds.
Don’t mistake sending a ship or building a field hospital as remedying the situation. It’s a full on a crisis and people are dying. The hospital system was not built to handle this. The state needs help.
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Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
4 April 2020
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1246536733157720068
Trump accuses the media and Democratic governors of conspiring to make unreasonable ventilator and PPE requests of his administration
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[TRANSCRIPT BY EDITOR]
"We have to stop playing this game. If a governor wants 200 ventilators and I say no we're going to send 1000 we think you need more than 200 and then the media meets with the governor and they say "oh, you got more, well, it's not enough, the president should've sent more." So he's asking for 200, we give him a thousand, they say how's the president doing, he should've given more, 'cause that's politics. That's politics. And that's unfortunate because we can't play that game. And you know that's one party doing it, and the other party's happy. But they're all really happy because they should've been doing this work themselves for a long period of time."
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By a 5–4 Vote, SCOTUS Lets Wisconsin Throw Out Tens of Thousands of Ballots
The conservative majority just approved one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern times.
By Mark Joseph Stern
April 06, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/supreme-court-wisconsin-absentee-ballots.html
On Monday, by a 5–4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court approved one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern history. The court will nullify the votes of citizens who mailed in their ballots late—not because they forgot, but because they did not receive ballots until after Election Day due to the coronavirus pandemic. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent, the court’s order “will result in massive disenfranchisement.” The conservative majority claimed that its decision would help protect “the integrity of the election process.” In reality, it calls into question the legitimacy of the election itself.
Wisconsin has long been scheduled to hold an election on April 7. There are more than 3,800 seats on the ballot, and a crucial state Supreme Court race. But the state’s ability to conduct in-person voting is imperiled by COVID-19. Thousands of poll workers have dropped out for fear of contracting the virus, forcing cities to shutter dozens of polling places. Milwaukee, for example, consolidated its polling locations from 182 to five, while Green Bay consolidated its polling locations from 31 to two. Gov. Tony Evers asked the Republican-controlled legislature to postpone the election, but it refused. So he tried to delay it himself in an executive order on Monday. But the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court reinstated the election, thereby forcing voters to choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote.
Because voters are rightfully afraid of COVID-19, Wisconsin has been caught off guard by a surge in requests for absentee ballots. Election officials simply do not have time, resources, or staff to process all those requests. As a result, a large number of voters—at least tens of thousands—won’t get their ballot until after Election Day. And Wisconsin law disqualifies ballots received after that date. In response, last Thursday, a federal district court ordered the state to extend the absentee ballot deadline. It directed officials to count votes mailed after Election Day so long as they were returned by April 13. A conservative appeals court upheld his decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the only protection in place to ensure that voters could still safely cast ballots.
Now the Supreme Court has reversed that order. It allowed Wisconsin to throw out ballots postmarked and received after Election Day, even if voters were entirely blameless for the delay. (Thankfully, ballots postmarked by Election Day but received by April 13 still count, because the legislature didn’t challenge that extension.) In an unsigned opinion, the majority cited the Purcell principle, which cautions courts against altering voting laws shortly before an election. It criticized the district court for “fundamentally alter[ing] the nature of the election by permitting voting for six additional days after the election.” And it insisted that the plaintiffs did not actually request that relief—which, as Ginsburg notes in her dissent, is simply false.
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Weijia Jiang
twitter.com/weijia
6 April 2020
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1247301710579666946
Trump lashes out at Fox News’s Kristin Fisher over her very important question about testing:
[QUOTED TWEET]
Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
Trump castigates a female reporter who asked him about testing failures: "You should say 'congratulations, great job,' instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
Apr 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1247297619833032708
Trump says the Democrats "shouldn't be allowed to win" the election because of how good a job he's done. He says they were "artificially stopped" by the virus.
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Nick Cannariato
twitter.com/nickcannariato
Apr 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/nickcannariato/status/1247211353703620608
I want to expound a little bit more on this video because I think twitter.com/InnuendoStudios is more right than he knows.
First, please watch this video. If you aren't aware of the Alt Right Playbook, take a moment to watch all of it. It's worth your time.
[THREAD]
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
- Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson
- AMA President: "You could lose your life."
- There just aren't beds
- Trump accuses the media and Democratic governors of conspiring to make unreasonable ventilator and PPE requests of his administration
- By a 5–4 Vote, SCOTUS Lets Wisconsin Throw Out Tens of Thousands of Ballots
- Trump lashes out at Fox News’s Kristin Fisher over her very important question about testing
- Trump says the Democrats "shouldn't be allowed to win" the election because of how good a job he's done.
- InnuendoStudios is more right than he knows.
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Natasha Bertrand
twitter.com/NatashaBertrand
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1246970670661218309
JUST IN: Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was fired by Trump on Friday. “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations...”
[EMBEDDED STATEMENT IN FULL]
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Caroline Orr
twitter.com/RVAwonk
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1246961377559883777
Trump: “What do you have to lose [by taking an unproven drug]?”
President of the American Medical Association: “You could lose your life.”
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Katy Tur
twitter.com/KatyTurNBC
5 April 2020
https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1246987704186912768
Thread
My friend’s 73 yr old mother went to the ER at Interfaith in Brooklyn at 6pm last night. She’s now been sitting in a chair in the ER for 29 hours waiting for a bed. She has a bad cough, a fever and violent chills. She calls her daughter crying pain and fear.
[THREAD AND EMBEDDED VIDEO]
Her daughter is freaking out & desperate for help. She’s afraid her mom is going to give up.
Her COVID test just came back positive. But she’s still in a chair. There are still no beds.
The drs and nurses are doing their best. They’re in an impossible situation
There just aren’t beds.
Don’t mistake sending a ship or building a field hospital as remedying the situation. It’s a full on a crisis and people are dying. The hospital system was not built to handle this. The state needs help.
----- 4 -----
Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
4 April 2020
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1246536733157720068
Trump accuses the media and Democratic governors of conspiring to make unreasonable ventilator and PPE requests of his administration
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[TRANSCRIPT BY EDITOR]
"We have to stop playing this game. If a governor wants 200 ventilators and I say no we're going to send 1000 we think you need more than 200 and then the media meets with the governor and they say "oh, you got more, well, it's not enough, the president should've sent more." So he's asking for 200, we give him a thousand, they say how's the president doing, he should've given more, 'cause that's politics. That's politics. And that's unfortunate because we can't play that game. And you know that's one party doing it, and the other party's happy. But they're all really happy because they should've been doing this work themselves for a long period of time."
----- 5 -----
By a 5–4 Vote, SCOTUS Lets Wisconsin Throw Out Tens of Thousands of Ballots
The conservative majority just approved one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern times.
By Mark Joseph Stern
April 06, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/supreme-court-wisconsin-absentee-ballots.html
On Monday, by a 5–4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court approved one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern history. The court will nullify the votes of citizens who mailed in their ballots late—not because they forgot, but because they did not receive ballots until after Election Day due to the coronavirus pandemic. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent, the court’s order “will result in massive disenfranchisement.” The conservative majority claimed that its decision would help protect “the integrity of the election process.” In reality, it calls into question the legitimacy of the election itself.
Wisconsin has long been scheduled to hold an election on April 7. There are more than 3,800 seats on the ballot, and a crucial state Supreme Court race. But the state’s ability to conduct in-person voting is imperiled by COVID-19. Thousands of poll workers have dropped out for fear of contracting the virus, forcing cities to shutter dozens of polling places. Milwaukee, for example, consolidated its polling locations from 182 to five, while Green Bay consolidated its polling locations from 31 to two. Gov. Tony Evers asked the Republican-controlled legislature to postpone the election, but it refused. So he tried to delay it himself in an executive order on Monday. But the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court reinstated the election, thereby forcing voters to choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote.
Because voters are rightfully afraid of COVID-19, Wisconsin has been caught off guard by a surge in requests for absentee ballots. Election officials simply do not have time, resources, or staff to process all those requests. As a result, a large number of voters—at least tens of thousands—won’t get their ballot until after Election Day. And Wisconsin law disqualifies ballots received after that date. In response, last Thursday, a federal district court ordered the state to extend the absentee ballot deadline. It directed officials to count votes mailed after Election Day so long as they were returned by April 13. A conservative appeals court upheld his decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the only protection in place to ensure that voters could still safely cast ballots.
Now the Supreme Court has reversed that order. It allowed Wisconsin to throw out ballots postmarked and received after Election Day, even if voters were entirely blameless for the delay. (Thankfully, ballots postmarked by Election Day but received by April 13 still count, because the legislature didn’t challenge that extension.) In an unsigned opinion, the majority cited the Purcell principle, which cautions courts against altering voting laws shortly before an election. It criticized the district court for “fundamentally alter[ing] the nature of the election by permitting voting for six additional days after the election.” And it insisted that the plaintiffs did not actually request that relief—which, as Ginsburg notes in her dissent, is simply false.
----- 6 -----
Weijia Jiang
twitter.com/weijia
6 April 2020
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1247301710579666946
Trump lashes out at Fox News’s Kristin Fisher over her very important question about testing:
[QUOTED TWEET]
Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
Trump castigates a female reporter who asked him about testing failures: "You should say 'congratulations, great job,' instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question."
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
Apr 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1247297619833032708
Trump says the Democrats "shouldn't be allowed to win" the election because of how good a job he's done. He says they were "artificially stopped" by the virus.
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Nick Cannariato
twitter.com/nickcannariato
Apr 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/nickcannariato/status/1247211353703620608
I want to expound a little bit more on this video because I think twitter.com/InnuendoStudios is more right than he knows.
First, please watch this video. If you aren't aware of the Alt Right Playbook, take a moment to watch all of it. It's worth your time.
[THREAD]
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
