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The framing of a "news" thread rather than a politics one is really interesting and it's good the mods are trying new things to keep the forum orderly while retaining the quality of posting. I still can't believe the governor of OK used the Murrah Bombing pulpit to rail against cancel culture. We've been through a decade of horrific poo poo but man, that one really stunned me.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:The framing of a "news" thread rather than a politics one is really interesting and it's good the mods are trying new things to keep the forum orderly while retaining the quality of posting. agree, i'd mostly stopped reading the last thread as it was too focused and frankly too heated a lot of the time
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Joesph RR Biden has commented on the obvious https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1384540682388393986 This is leading to shirt rending and teeth gnashing....on both sides https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1384541054691577859 https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1384537984939302914 Norm's are back baby awoooooo *wolf howl* https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1384548964566028290 Thread question: would you smoke out Charles Schumer. Second question: If you say "smoke up" instead of "smoke out" - what the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Apr 20, 2021 17:47
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Handsome Ralph posted:I gotta wonder if they're coming out in full force because there's a strategy there or if it's because "gently caress it, it sounds nice to say out loud". I want to believe in both when it comes to moves like this. Even if its a currently unplanned strategy, I can't wait to see if there is any effect on midterms results if they run on the message, "We tried to do X,Y, Z, but we didn't have enough members in Congress; we need your votes for the House/Senate to make them happen!"
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Apr 20, 2021 17:48
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 To contribute: https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1384493137213726723 Some details on Biden's second big package, this time focused on "families" Universal pre-K and community college? 
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Apr 20, 2021 17:49
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Cheesus posted:I'm cynical as poo poo when it comes to the left being effective at planning and executing anything, but from what I've seen so far this year from their actions and mouths since January is way beyond my incredibly low expectations. I think (and it's been said by others much better than me) that Biden's long term experience in the Senate really is helping them out here. He knows how to effectively frame things so they have half a chance of getting through the Senate/Congress, which is something that I think that presidents with no or little senate/congressional experience with often struggled with.
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I would like to know when the Dems are putting in HR1 and Infrastructure Bill for vote.Fritz the Horse posted:
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Vilsack is doing a thing, which is cancelling the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. https://gottobenc.com/usda-announces-continuation-of-the-farmers-to-families-food-box-program/ quote:The Farmers To Families Food Box Program – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will purchase an additional $1.5 billion worth of food for nationwide distribution through the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. In total, USDA has distributed more than 132 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This was started in the 2nd quarter of 2020, and if you were assuming it was just full of corruption and grift, you'd be right. Fun reminder that Perdue responded to correct claims of him using his office for a corrupt land deal by denying he made as much money as was claimed. Basically "I didn't do that well so you're lying." Lots of links here https://xtalks.com/why-the-usda-can...%20last%20week. quote:Almost immediately, food banks began reporting that deliveries were not arriving, that the boxes were falling apart and that the produce was in poor condition. The program distributed food boxes to around 2,100 of the country’s 3,006 counties, leaving around 1,000 areas without service. Food banks were forced to pick up the slack and incurred thousands of dollars in extra delivery costs. The cutoff to apply for this? 75% of your farms AGI being under 900k. And you could also get relief funds if you grew tobacco or turf sod lmao  The only reason I heard about it? https://twitter.com/RepCawthorn/status/1384545431967965187?s=20 So if it pisses off Madison it's a good move. If want to help hungry families, expand SNAP and WIC benefits. Don't send them boxes of brown lettuce.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:The framing of a "news" thread rather than a politics one is really interesting and it's good the mods are trying new things to keep the forum orderly while retaining the quality of posting. Kevin Stitt is low-key the worst governor in country. The man is as dumb as a loving post and constantly pops off with poo poo like that.
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Apr 20, 2021 17:55
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Fritz the Horse posted:
This would be a serious game changer for most of the families I know, mine included. The extended tax credit alone would be tens of thousands of dollars for us. Just, wow.
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Gatts posted:I would like to know when the Dems are putting in HR1 and Infrastructure Bill for vote. Good question about HR1. I thought that the Infrastructure Bill is still being crafted, though. That might take a while.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1384544678356439045 New mass shooting at a grocery. It only took one page of the new thread for this to happen.
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Gatts posted:I would like to know when the Dems are putting in HR1 and Infrastructure Bill for vote. Don't know about HR1 but Biden has asked the Republicans for a serious infrastucture counterproposal by May. If they can deliver any kind of meaningful response, there may be some compromise and an actual bill sometime in June. There's no hard schedule for it, though. Lots of caucusing to see what the Democrats themselves can agree to support, apart from what the Republicans may want. I'm not holding my breath on any sort of meaningful response from the Republicans, anyway, so that may speed it up a bit. We'll probably see a fairly solid package coming together sometime this summer.
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Fritz the Horse posted:
I know it is to help out families with children living at home through their 20's, but I can already feel the "Socialism causes arrested development. 25 is a child now?!? Should we raise the voting age to 25?" commentary coming.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1384544678356439045 New mass shooting at a grocery. The US really decided to make up for lost time huh? Though it is wild how it seems to suggest a bunch of people were sitting around respectiving Covid restrictions and stuff and are now going "Finally, the lockdown is lifted, I can go on that shooting spree I've been planning for six months!".
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Ms Adequate posted:The US really decided to make up for lost time huh? Though it is wild how it seems to suggest a bunch of people were sitting around respectiving Covid restrictions and stuff and are now going "Finally, the lockdown is lifted, I can go on that shooting spree I've been planning for six months!". "I would go on a shooting spree, but the gun store has a mask requirement"
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haveblue posted:"I would go on a shooting spree, but the gun store has a mask requirement" There's no way that's true https://twitter.com/fineout/status/1384551935823470594 NCAA has basically strangled this nascent "we're just trying to protect women's sports" back door bigotry in its crib
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Fritz the Horse posted:
I wonder if this is also going to include free public university tuition for families of <$125k. This article doesn't say much about that aspect of it. Overall though, this looks like a good start.
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zoux posted:There's no way that's true Do they have multiple variations of that bill going on, or was that another state?
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Military occupation, police attacking protesters and journalists happening in a blue state, with a blue governor, with a blue president in the White House. https://twitter.com/Mont_Jiang/status/1384150000318353416?s=20 https://twitter.com/MichaelEast1983/status/1384219359275405313?s=20 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Do they have multiple variations of that bill going on, or was that another state? Multiple states have tried this. Kristi Noem ended up having to veto the very bill she pushed after the NCAA told her what time it is. The one that passed one house here got referred to a Dem-chaired Education Committee so that one is probably dead too. There's a second prong to this ("this" being some ALEC manufactured culture war wedge issue ), that's the banning of trans affirming health care for minors, which is getting blowback from businesses rather than the NCAA. That's the bill that the AR legislature overrode Asa Hutchinson's veto on. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 18:08
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1384544678356439045 New mass shooting at a grocery. Oh drat, I used to go there pretty often. It's been years though.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know it is to help out families with children living at home through their 20's, but I can already feel the "Socialism causes arrested development. 25 is a child now?!? Should we raise the voting age to 25?" commentary coming. The great thing about lovely people espousing bad faith opinions is that they are super easy to ignore.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Do they have multiple variations of that bill going on, or was that another state? The legislative session effectively ended last Friday so they were basically out of time to keep working on it
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Do they have multiple variations of that bill going on, or was that another state? It's over 33 states.
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^^^ahh, an ALEC SPECIAL e: I see that has already been pointed otu Handsome Ralph posted:In other news, The bit I always wonder about with this is how it will be organized. If the city and the state comprise the exact same area and borders, do they still need to form separate governments for each political entity? Or do you just keep the one and add/rename departments as some functions get inherited from the federal government? Really interested to see what the plan is.
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ReidRansom posted:^^^ahh, an ALEC SPECIAL The most recent bill re-designated the Mayor as the Governor and the City Council as the General Assembly. The state government would be unicameral and they would not incorporate any additional towns or cities in the state.
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This plus this: https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1384516605334405121?s=19 Frankly has me amazed at how the Biden administration has pretty much surpassed my expectations already at what they would try to do. I realize they may not get it all, but dammit at least it's something.
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Silly Burrito posted:This plus this: To be fair, the Obama administration supported D.C. statehood too. This is a little better because the Obama administration's position was that D.C. should be a state, but they didn't really push to bring a bill to a vote.
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Gatts posted:I would like to know when the Dems are putting in HR1 and Infrastructure Bill for vote. HR1 passed the House earlier this month so I imagine they're going to start working it's way through the Senate soon-ish. I have no idea what the timetable for that is, though.
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I swear there's a mass shooting every day in this loving country.
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Kalit posted:I wonder if this is also going to include free public university tuition for families of <$125k. This article doesn't say much about that aspect of it. Overall though, this looks like a good start. Hate to kill the suspense but nope. Not from these folks.
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Great news! What are the chances that this'll actually pass? (Not American)
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Vichan posted:Great news! What are the chances that this'll actually pass? (Not American) Better than it ever has been previously. Obviously it will still require complete solidarity in the Democratic Party though, so it remains difficult.
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Jagged Jim posted:HR1 passed the House earlier this month so I imagine they're going to start working it's way through the Senate soon-ish. I have no idea what the timetable for that is, though. According to Gov Tracker, the most recent update was a hearing on April 14th and there is a hearing on it in a different committee later this week. No date scheduled for the final committee vote yet.
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Kirios posted:I swear there's a mass shooting every day in this loving country. Pretty sure there is, just not all of them are "active shooter" domestic terrorists. Vichan posted:Great news! What are the chances that this'll actually pass? (Not American) Very low Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to Gov Tracker, the most recent update was a hearing on April 14th and there is a hearing on it in a different committee later this week. No date scheduled for the final committee vote yet. I've heard - though I haven't read the bill of course - that as far as a drafted piece of legislation, HR1 is pretty bad. Sounds very Christmas-tree, loaded with all sorts of individual rep pet projects and unintended consequences. For example, one issue I saw was the automatic voter registration provision could accidentally register non-citizens to vote, since non-citizens can receive government IDs, and open them up to a whole new world of federal elections violations. The goals are good but as far as the details go, it needs a lot of work. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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