Monthly Archives: December 2020

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: In keeping with his annual tradition, Barack Obama today shared his favorite films and television series of 2020. Obama’s movie list includes “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” David Fincher’s “Mank,” Pixar’s animated adventure “Soul” and the acclaimed documentary “Time.” Among the TV series that captivated Obama include the Michael Jordan docu-series “The Last Dance,” Netflix’s water-cooler hit “The Queen’s …

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BREAKING: FDA Approves Moderna’s COVID Vaccine

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day. Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. …

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Stormy Wants To Win The Trump Demolition Auction

The New York Daily News reports: The New Jersey seaside town’s mayor announced Wednesday that a fundraiser benefiting The Boys and Girls Club of Atlantic City was being launched, with the highest bidder winning the right to press the button that will start the implosion of the failed casino Trump built in 1984. On Thursday, a GoFundMe account was started …

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Biden To Delay Confirmations To Keep House Majority

The Associated Press reports: President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to tap several House Democrats for administrative positions is putting Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically tough spot, having chiseled away at the party’s already slimming majority and leaving her potentially without enough votes to pass his legislative agenda. But Pelosi’s leadership team has a plan. “We need to manage something like …

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Christian Prophet: I Heard God “Laughing Loudly” At The Electoral Vote, Biden Will Never Be President

“When I woke up yesterday, he was laughing. I mean, I heard him laughing loudly. And he said, ‘I’m laughing because of what they have said the electoral vote came to.’  “Of course, it went for the other side. And God said, ‘None of that matters. It’s not changing my plan.’ “This is what God said: ‘I don’t care who …

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FRC Asks Jesus To “Expose The Monied Racketeers” Who Have Funded “Election Fraud And Manipulation”

From the FRC’s prayer of the day: Father, you charge us to have nothing to do with works of darkness (Eph 5:8-14) but rather to expose and reprove them. You also charge us to pray and keep on praying like the little widow who was repeatedly turned away by the “unjust judge,” but persisted in coming back until the judge …

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Trump Still Hiding Out During COVID Vaccine Rollout

The Hill reports: President Trump spent the weeks leading up to Election Day boasting of the rapid development of a vaccine for COVID-19 under his watch. But now that the shot is here, the president is nowhere to be seen. Trump was absent when Vice President Pence became the highest-ranking White House official to get vaccinated in a televised event …

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Navarro Latest With Crackpot Election Fraud “Report”

Forbes reports: White House trade advisor Peter Navarro is the latest Trump administration staffer to publicly back up the president’s baseless voter fraud claims, publishing a report Thursday that claims widespread irregularities may have stolen last month’s election from President Trump. Many of Navarro’s claims are either anecdotal or widely debunked: He pointed to Trump’s early election-night leads in several …

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Obama Records Campaign Ads For Rafael Warnock

The Hill reports: Former President Obama cut three digital ads in support of the Rev. Raphael Warnock ahead of the Georgia Senate runoffs in January that will determine control of the Senate. “John Lewis wrote that ‘Democracy is not a state. It is an act.’ Georgia, the time to act is now. Let’s send Raphael Warnock to the Senate to …

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Inhofe: Stimulus Deal Or Not, I’m Leaving Tomorrow

Mediaite reports: Senator James Inhofe (R- OK) said on Friday that he’s going to leave on Saturday and said Congress should get the stimulus deal done before then. Inhofe spoke on the Senate floor Friday, talking about a number of historical events that have happened in December 19th, before saying that day is his anniversary. And Inhofe made a point …

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GOP Rep Won’t Let You Stop “Freedom” To Get COVID

Somebody was watching Tucker Carlson last night: As members of Congress begin receiving their first round of the coronavirus vaccine, one Republican lawmaker went on television and announced he would not be getting it. Declaring it his “freedom” as an American to refuse the vaccine, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he was more fearful of the vaccine than contracting the …

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Climate Change News: “Seaweed Feed” Wins $1M Prize

Australia’s ABC News outlet reports: A company commercialising seaweed feed product, which slashes the amount of greenhouse gases cattle burp and fart into the atmosphere, has won a $1 million international prize for its work reshaping the food system. According to the science agency, methane emissions from livestock make up around 15 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Future Feed …

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Gen. John Kelly Defends Working For Trump: At Least We All “Kept The Train From Careening Off The Tracks”

“The vast majority of people who worked in the White House were decent people who were doing the best they could to serve the nation. “They’ve unfortunately paid quite a price for that in reputation and future employment. They don’t deserve that. “They deserve better than that, because they kept the train from careening off the tracks. The climate—the work …

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QAnon/GOP Rep To Join Electoral College Challenge

The Washington Post reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected GOP congresswoman from Georgia, said she will be among those who object to some Biden-won states’ electoral votes for president when they come before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Greene, who has espoused extreme conspiracy theories, including those held by QAnon followers, will be joining Rep. Mo …

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Pentagon Ordered To Halt Biden’s Defense Briefings

Politico reports: The tension between the Trump administration and President-elect Joe Biden’s team spilled out into the open on Friday, as officials traded accusations over the status of a series of Defense Department transition meetings that a Biden spokesperson called “invaluable” for national security. Biden spokesperson Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s claims that the two teams …

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REPORT: Kushner Created Campaign Shell Company That Paid Trump Family Members And Trump Advisors

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump’s most powerful advisor, Jared Kushner, approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest, a person familiar with the operation told Insider. The operation acted almost like a campaign within a campaign. It paid some of Trump’s …

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Ailing Macron Blames Himself For Contracting COVID

Agence France-Presse reports: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday blamed his COVID-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck, urging his compatriots to stay safe as critics called out slip-ups in his behavior to prevent infection, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week. In what looked like a self-shot video from the presidential retreat …

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Pelosi Becomes First Member Of Congress To Get Vax

Axios reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from the attending physician of Congress on Friday, her office confirmed. The 80-year-old Democratic leader is among the highest-ranking government officials to have received the vaccine, joining Vice President Mike Pence, who received the vaccine publicly earlier on Friday. Members of Congress, many of whom …

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Brian Brown: Send Money To Stop “Biden’s America”

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: Biden’s America is coming ever more clearly into view. And it isn’t a pretty picture… This week, Biden is celebrating the announcement of his pick of Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary — his former primary opponent who is in a same-sex “marriage” and is radically left on all LGBT issues. But even …

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Feds Elevate Alarm At Russian Hacking: “Grave Risk”

The Associated Press reports: Federal authorities expressed increased alarm today about a long-undetected intrusion into U.S. and other computer systems around the globe that officials suspect was carried out by Russian hackers. The nation’s cybersecurity agency warned of a “grave” risk to government and private networks. The hack compromised federal agencies and “critical infrastructure” in a sophisticated attack that was …

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