Dear fireman,
Shut up and spray.
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Biden admin, how long are children detained for ?
Miller stated that when these children are detained, they are put at the front of the line for processing and later turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The CBP official did not reveal how long these children are detained for as he said it is a “law enforcement-sensitive” subject.
“Law enforcement sensitive” - so transparent.
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US and the rest of the WTO blocked waiving IP rights to the vaccine. Poor countries, you ain’t getting it. Maybe years. Maybe ever.
I wish NYC had four boroughs. Ugh.
It’s really amazing that all the Republicans had to do was pass a Stimulus in September that Democrats would have gone along with and gotten zero credit for, and put Trump’s phone under lock and key for a month and they cruise to an easy sweep last November.
Is it possible they’re the new Democrats? Taking a gifted win and managing to screw it up?
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Republicans are really into populist rhetoric but not actually helping poor or middle class people. Even the stimulus checks they sent were mostly a smoke screen for the giant hand out to the rich the simultaneously provided.
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Got a good shot to be the best president of our lifetimes too.
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Bilken is going to make some money off of us looking the other way for MBS killing Kashoggi
It felt as if the Biden administration was prioritizing American corporate interests linked to Saudi Arabia.
Then came the news that the boutique Washington consulting firm that Blinken had established with other Bidenworld operators, WestExec Advisors, would partner with an even bigger powerhouse, Teneo. Its investment in WestExec, making Teneo “a significant minority shareholder in the business,” seems to correspond with Blinken’s divestment. (“There is no relationship between the two,” a WestExec spokesperson said; Teneo did not immediately respond to the Prospect .) Blinken valued his equity in the firm’s venture arm to be worth up to $5 million, in addition to his stakes in other aspects of WestExec’s lucrative operations. He has up to three months to divest fully, so he will essentially benefit from Teneo’s new investment in his bespoke Washington advisory while working as America’s top diplomat.
What makes Teneo, with its 850 staff members and bipartisan roster of well-connected senior advisers, different from Blinken’s old firm is that Teneo is willing to work with anyone. It takes on foreign governments and their sovereign wealth funds as clients. Among those that Teneo represents: MBS’s most ostentatious vanity project, a $500 billion new city in the desert called NEOM.
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It’s because the first world countries are going to trade the vaccine for concessions and deals from those countries.
It is pretty gross.
If they just allow everyone to make it they have no leverage to squeeze that last drop of blood.
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Seems like there is a messaging opportunity here but it’s hard to do it concisely and lol democrats.
Democrats were on board with the previous stimulus bills. Republicans all rejected this one. With such a hugely popular measure you would think you could get some good messaging out of it for the democrats.
I will start holding my breath in 3…2…1…
Kind of sickening that the Biden admin is backing Moise for another year but not surprising after looking at some of the disgusting abuses the US, Clinton Foundation, the UN and others have committed against Haitians.
As thousands of Haitians protest each Sunday against Jovenel Moïse, their embattled and increasingly authoritarian president, their protest signs and songs exhort the U.S. ambassador and the head of the United Nations mission in Haiti, who is also a career U.S. diplomat, “to stop supporting a dictatorship.” The protests reflect a broad consensus among politicians, intellectuals, lawyers and others in Haiti, supported by human rights experts and members of the U.S. Congress, that the Biden administration is propping up Moïse and preventing the emergence of a Haitian-led solution to the political crisis.
The State Department added gaslighting to its green light on February 12, claiming there had been a “remarkable lack of popular response to calls for mass protest in recent weeks.” The State Department knew very well that Haitian demonstrators had been subjected to violent attacks by government forces and allied militias once they marshaled in the streets. Indeed, the Department of Homeland Security reported in February that the government was using gangs “to repress the opposition,” and noted “President Jovenel Moïse’s increasingly authoritarian tendencies.” With Washington nevertheless still backing Moïse, police escalated their attacks, shooting one journalist with rubber bullets 14 times on February 14. Moïse’s Washington public relations firm ensured that the international press saw the State Department’s statement.
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How come whenever the economy is slow, Congress just doesn’t expand infrastructure? It seems like a good way to keep people employed. Is it political or not feasible for whatever reason?
Republicans
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Yea that’s what I figured. It just seems so silly though. You’d figure a lot of those blue collar workers are conservative. Seems like an easy way to score votes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1370440001792655368
It will be interesting to see what issues Merrick prioritizes. The “equitable” word signals perhaps reviews of big city PD departments.
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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1370747064469045249?s=21
I don’t think this should be seen as anything like a real filibuster abolishment, but it’s a promising sign from Manchin. There’s a world where they do this and Manchin caves further after 24/7 filibustering from shameless GOP members becomes the norm.
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