Monthly Archives: December 2020

US Records Highest Weekly COVID Death Toll So Far

The New York Times reports: With a seven-day average of 2,249 deaths, the country broke the previous mark of 2,232 set on April 17 in the early weeks of the pandemic. Seven-day averages can provide a more accurate picture of the virus’s progression than daily death counts, which can fluctuate and disguise the broader trend line. The United States is …

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Video Shows NYC Bar Owner Striking Cop With His Car

The New York Daily News reports: Surveillance video shows the moment Staten Island pub owner Daniel Presti slammed into a city sheriff’s deputy with his Jeep — and the barkeep’s lawyer maintains the footage clears his client. The video shows Presti, 33, who co-owns Mac’s Public House on Lincoln Ave. in Grant City, running along South Railroad Ave. toward his …

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Trump Team Hits Electoral “Safe Harbor” Deadline

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results run into a new hurdle Tuesday, known as “safe harbor” day under federal law. The 1887 law sets a deadline of six days before the convening of the electoral college for states to certify their election results. While the deadline is not mandatory, the law prohibits Congress from undoing …

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Tony Perkins Flogs Debunked Georgia “Suitcases” Claim

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: The image Democrats can’t seem to shake is the blockbuster video of four suitcases that appear to be stuffed with ballots, pulled out from under a table, and counted and scanned without election supervisors present. Regardless of how the media is trying to dismiss this story (and a simple Google search …

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Trump Rages At “Dumb And Corrupt” Georgia Lt Gov

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump, desperately ramping up his attacks on allegedly disloyal Republicans as his electoral defeat looms ever larger, lashed out at Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, on Monday night and said he “should be replaced.” Duncan had moved up Trump’s hit list after several, recent reality-based comments. Earlier on Monday, for example, Duncan offered a thinly …

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Walter Reed Doctor Loses Gig For Criticizing Trump

CBS News reports: Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump’s decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October, has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s schedule starting in January. Colleagues of Dr. Phillips were surprised that a disaster medicine specialist would be …

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Axios: Trump Planning To Hand Out Mass Pardons

Axios reports: President Trump isn’t just accepting pardon requests but blindly discussing them “like Christmas gifts” to people who haven’t even asked, sources with direct knowledge of the conversations told Axios. Behind the scenes: Trump recently told one adviser he was going to pardon “every person who ever talked to me,” suggesting an even larger pardon blitz to come. As …

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Britain Begins Administering COVID Vaccine [VIDEO]

CNBC reports: The U.K. is rolling out the first coronavirus vaccines to the public on Tuesday, making it one of the first countries in the world to do so. Member of the public Margaret Keenan, a 90 year-old grandmother, made history as she became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine outside of trial conditions. The …

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Trump Pressures PA House Speaker To Overturn Result

The Washington Post reports: President Trump called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice during the past week to make an extraordinary request for help reversing his loss in the state, reflecting a broadening pressure campaign by the president and his allies to try to subvert the 2020 election result. The calls, confirmed by House Speaker Bryan Cutler’s …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

NPR reports: Nearly 60 years after writing such counterculture classics as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog — more than 600 songs — to Universal Music Publishing Group in a deal announced Monday morning by Universal. The agreement is worth more than $300 million. The deal with Dylan may …

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Biden To Name Gen. Lloyd Austin As Defense Secretary

Politico reports: Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, once viewed as a long-shot candidate to be President-elect Joe Biden’s defense secretary, has been chosen to lead the Pentagon, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The decision comes two weeks after Biden announced the other senior members of his national security team. In recent days, Austin, the former commander of …

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Petri Dish WH Needs “Deep Cleaning” Ahead Of Biden

USA Today reports: In just six hours on Inauguration Day, belongings of a departing president’s family are moved out, carpets are cleaned, furniture is rearranged, fresh art is hung and the executive mansion is transformed for its new residents before they set foot inside. But staff tasked with preparing the executive mansion for the arrival Jan. 20 of President-elect Joe …

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Lou Dobbs Rages At Voldemort: Why Won’t You Salute Ted Cruz And Welcome Him To The WH Legal Team?

Mediaite reports: “The reality is that this president right now is fighting — and let’s be straightforward about it — he’s fighting all alone,” Dobbs continued. “And Ted Cruz has stepped up to say he’ll argue before the Supreme Court. Why on God’s green Earth wouldn’t the White House jump on it?” Miller pivoted to talking about state legislatures, but …

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Pat Robertson Calls On Jesus To Save Trump [VIDEO]

“We must declare that God almighty is not going to let this great nation of ours be taken over by fraud. This is too important in the history of the world, and we as his servants must declare we are not going to let this happen, we are going to declare in the name of the lord that this fraud …

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Armed FL Agents Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: State police brandishing firearms raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health employee who built the state’s much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to “manipulate data.” Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger sent a statement confirming the seizure of computer equipment at Jones’s Tallahassee home …

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House Cultists Call For Floor Fight Over Election Result

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College vote next week, calling on their party’s leader to fight for his unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud all the way to the House floor in January. Asked if Trump should concede next …

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Lincoln Project Ranks #4 In Best 2020 Advertisers List

The Hill reports: The Lincoln Project was ranked among the top 2020 advertisers by Ad Age, which said the campaign operated with “fearlessness.” A team of reporters and editors at Ad Age ranked The Lincoln Project as the fourth best performing marketing brand this year. This comes after the anti-Trump Republican group flooded the internet with campaign ads this year, …

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Kraken Lawyer: Death Of Loeffler Aide Was “Planned”

Mediaite report: Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood floated a conspiracy that the death of Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R-GA) daughter’s boyfriend was “planned” — daring his followers to “search for the truth.” Replying to a post from Wood, which claimed there was voter fraud in the 2020 Election, a Twitter user piled on with more baseless and shocking theories. “This is much …

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REPORT: Trump May Not Return From FL Xmas Trip

CNN reports: Where President Donald Trump decides to spend the final weeks of his presidency has become a matter of internal speculation as aides wonder whether he’ll leave the White House for the holidays — and never return. At this stage, there are plans for Trump to remain at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach over Christmas and New Year’s, …

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Cruz Offers To Argue Trump’s PA Case Before SCOTUS

Via press release from Sen. Ted Cruz: Because of the importance of the legal issues presented, I’ve publicly urged the US Supreme Court to hear the case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly, congressional candidate Sean Parnell and state legislature candidate Wanda Logan challenging the constitutionality of the presidential election results in Pennsylvania. The petitioners’ legal team has asked me whether …

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