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Black Lives Matter movement launches campaign against LA police officers unionFebruary 24, 2021 at 11:04 PM People raise their fists as they listen to speakers during a Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles press conference and rally to launch a campaign against the Los Angeles city police union which represents nearly 10,000 rank-and-file officers in front of the American Civil Liberties Union building in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Dr. Melina Abdullah speaks to about 150 people during a Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles press conference...Tags: Politics, News, Minnesota, La, Police, Government, Senate, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Lapd, BLM, Eric Garcetti, Trump, George 69 people like this. Like Lara Trump tells 'Hannity' Biden presidency's early blunders are 'only the beginning’February 24, 2021 at 11:35 PM President Biden’s first month in the White House has already shown him to be a "detriment" to the nation, and "it's only the...Tags: White House, Biden, Lara Trump, Hannity Biden 14 people like this. Like White House lifts Trump order on immigrant visasFebruary 24, 2021 at 11:29 PM President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a Trump-era executive order that temporarily banned some immigrant visas during the coronavirus pandemicTags: News, White House, Joe Biden, Stories, Trump 41 people like this. Like White House lifts Trump order that temporarily banned certain immigrant visas during pandemicFebruary 24, 2021 at 11:29 PM President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a Trump-era executive order that temporarily banned some immigrant visas during the coronavirus pandemicTags: White House, Joe Biden, Cnn, Trump 32 people like this. Like Considerations in making a major disaster tax claimFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:47 PM Winter can be gorgeous. It also can be disastrous, as all us Texans more accustomed to heat waves than winter storms found out last week. (Photo by Kay Bell)
It's been near 80 degrees for the last two days in my part of Texas. This time last week, we were in the teens during the day, after single-digit overnight low — and record-breaking — cold temperatures.
This surprisingly strong cold snap left a lot of damage. People lost power and water. Freezing pipes in freezing houses burst. Food ...Tags: Florida, Texas, Taxes, White House, Joe Biden, Ted, Hawaii, House, Fema, Biden, Sam, Agi, Irs, South Florida, Heidi, Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA 110 people like this. Like Team Biden taps Asian American groups to help save TandenFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:54 PM As Biden’s choice for budget chief flounders in the Senate, the White House has rallied her allies in the South Asian community to her defense.Tags: Senate, White House, Biden, Tanden 21 people like this. Like Saudi heir complicit in Khashoggi murder, US assessment reportedly findsFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:48 PM Reuters reports that intelligence assessment of murder of journalist will find that Mohammed bin Salman was complicitJoe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, as his administration prepares to release a declassified intelligence assessment that will reportedly name the royal’s son and heir as complicit in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi.The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Biden’s call to the 85-year-old ruler would take place “soon” and that the declassified report o...Tags: Saudi Arabia, White House, US, World news, Joe Biden, US foreign policy, US news, Middle East and North Africa, Biden, Reuters, King Salman, Mohammed bin Salman, Salman, Khashoggi, Jamal Khashoggi, Biden Administration 50 people like this. Like Defending QuadricameralismFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:32 PM From ninth grade Civics on, we are taught that the U.S. federal government (and all but one of its states) relies on bicameralism. Although arguably true to the constitutional text, this account is grossly oversimplified. Just as the rise of political parties and other developments since the founding have transformed presidential elections, judicial nominations, and other aspects of our constitutional order, they also have transformed bicameralism into something considerably more co...Tags: Congress, Senate, White House, House, Branding, Trump, CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Joint Committee, David Super 35 people like this. Like Klain on Manchin's objection to Neera Tanden: He 'doesn't answer to us at the White House'February 24, 2021 at 8:42 PM White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said he “respects” Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) right to oppose the nomination of Neera Tanden to...Tags: White House, Va, Manchin, Sen Joe Manchin, Ron Klain, Klain, Neera Tanden 45 people like this. Like Tired of waiting for help, some states have begun passing their own COVID-19 aidFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:56 PM Not waiting for more federal help, states have been approving their own coronavirus aid packages, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help residents and business owners devastated by the the pandemic's economic fallout.
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As Americans await the passage of Biden's stimulus plan, some states are passing their own relief.
At least five states have passed or proposed their own economic and virus aid legislation.
But critics argue their success undermines calls ...Tags: Florida, Politics, New York, News, Maryland, Congress, California, Senate, Trends, Joe Biden, Ap, Pennsylvania, House Of Representatives, Associated Press, States, New Mexico 129 people like this. Like WH Maintains It’s ‘Fighting For’ Tanden Confirmation Even After Hearing DelayFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:10 PM White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday insisted that the Biden administration remains committed to "fighting" for the nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the OMB, following the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's postponement of its confirmation hearing for Tanden. [Author: Summer Concepcion]Tags: News, White House, Biden, OMB, WH, Senate Homeland Security, Governmental Affairs Committee, Jen Psaki, Neera Tanden, Summer Concepcion 131 people like this. Like Group of Senate Democrats call on Biden to create Office of Sexual and Reproductive Health and WellbeingFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:53 PM Seven Senate Democrats are asking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to establish a White House office devoted to reproductive health that would create a federal policy home positioned to address the issue across the administration.Tags: Senate, White House, Joe Biden, Cnn, Biden, Kamala Harris, Office of Sexual and Reproductive Health 29 people like this. Like 'High on my own supply?’ Sen. Murkowski surprised at Neera Tanden attack-tweetFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:05 PM Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday said she was surprised to learn that President Biden’s nominee for White House budget director, Neera...Tags: White House, Biden, Lisa Murkowski, Sen Murkowski, Neera Tanden 16 people like this. Like Key GOP senator critical of Tanden's past tweets in latest setback for Biden's pickFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:03 PM Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed concerns on Wednesday about the social media history of President Joe Biden's nominee to be budget director, the latest warning sign for the White House since the Alaska Republican could seal Neera Tanden's fate.Tags: News, White House, Joe Biden, Gop, Alaska, Stories, Biden, Lisa Murkowski, Neera Tanden, Tanden 7 people like this. Like Key GOP senator critical of Tanden's past tweets in latest setback for Biden's pick for budget directorFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:03 PM Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed concerns on Wednesday about the social media history of President Joe Biden's nominee to be budget director, the latest warning sign for the White House since the Alaska Republican could seal Neera Tanden's fate.Tags: White House, Joe Biden, Cnn, Gop, Alaska, Biden, Lisa Murkowski, Neera Tanden, Tanden 38 people like this. Like Key GOP senator critical of Tanden's past tweets in latest setbackFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:03 PM Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed concerns on Wednesday about the social media history of President Joe Biden's nominee to be budget director, the latest warning sign for the White House since the Alaska Republican could seal Neera Tanden's fate.Tags: News, White House, Joe Biden, Gop, Alaska, Stories, Lisa Murkowski, Neera Tanden, Tanden 18 people like this. Like Coronavirus tracker: California reported 6,247 new cases and 275 new deaths reported Feb. 23February 24, 2021 at 6:33 PM The end-of-day totals from California public health websites for Tuesday, Feb. 23, registered 6,247 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases there have been in the state to 3,519,289.
The 14-day total of new cases, 6,956, is down 83.5% from the Jan. 1 high of 42,268.
There were 275 new deaths reported Tuesday, for a total of 49,876 people in California who have died from the virus.
Hospitalizations continue to decline as well. There were 6,764 hospitalizations of people w...Tags: News, California, White House, Infographic, Sport, Soccer, Local News, Johnson Johnson, LA City Council, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories PE, Top Stories IVDB, Top Stories RDF, Top Stories Sun, Top Stories Breeze 140 people like this. Like Rules allow individual senators to slow nominations, but the dynamics of a 50-50 split in the chamber give Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin even more powerFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:00 PM The message emblazoned on the bright pink sweater Sen. Kyrsten Sinema wore presiding over the Senate this week may not have been intended specifically for the White House, but the words could still offer fair warning to the West Wing.Tags: News, Senate, White House, Stories, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema 23 people like this. Like Miscalculating Sinema and Manchin could end up costing BidenFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:00 PM The message emblazoned on the bright pink sweater Sen. Kyrsten Sinema wore presiding over the Senate this week may not have been intended specifically for the White House, but the words could still offer fair warning to the West Wing.Tags: Senate, White House, Cnn, Biden, Manchin, Sinema, Kyrsten Sinema 35 people like this. Like Biden Choice for Budget Chief Faces New Hurdles in CongressFebruary 24, 2021 at 6:30 PM The increasingly slim odds — and surprisingly thin outreach from the White House — for Neera Tanden’s nomination as head of the Office of Management and Budget are raising growing questions about how long the president will stick with her.Tags: Congress, White House, Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, Biden Choice for Budget 29 people like this. Like RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)February 24, 2021 at 4:08 PM “Democracy is not a spectator sport,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti proclaimed on the wall of his City Lights bookstore, a San Francisco fixture since the poet, activist, and publisher founded the landmark with Peter D. Martin in 1953. Ferlinghetti, who died on Monday at age 101, was himself a fixture, a venerated steward of the counterculture. (See him read “Last Prayer,” above, in a clip from The Last Waltz). On his 100th birthday–on which the city instituted an annual “Lawrence Ferlinghetti D...Tags: Google, Politics, Navy, College, Poetry, America, San Francisco, New York Times, Literature, Npr, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Nagasaki, Goya, Poe, Trump 55 people like this. Like House Democrats gear up for Friday vote on the $1.9 trillion Biden stimulus packageFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:46 PM Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders.
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House Democrats have scheduled a final floor vote for Friday.
Republicans strongly oppose the plan, arguing it contains a litany of progressive priorities.
Senate Democrats are awaiting a ruling that would determine whether a $15 minimum wage can be included in the final package.
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House Democrats on Wednesday were setting the stage for a floor vote on Friday, as their S...Tags: Senate, White House, West Virginia, Trends, Democrats, House, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Biden, Illinois, White House Press, Steny Hoyer, Sen Dick Durbin, Sen Joe Manchin, Jen Psaki, Pete Aguilar 94 people like this. Like Obama says he punched a friend in the face and broke his nose for calling him a racial slur when they were kidsFebruary 24, 2021 at 5:08 PM Former President Barack Obama waves while wearing a "Vote" mask as he campaigns on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee and his former Vice President Joe Biden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2020.
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Obama revealed in his new podcast that he once punched a school friend who called him a racial slur.
Obama shared the story with Bruce Springsteen as they discussed race on "Renegades: Born in the USA."
He explained how people use racial epithets to assert ...Tags: Podcast, Politics, Usa, Bruce Springsteen, News, Obama, US, Barack Obama, Trends, Joe Biden, Racism, Donald Trump, Don, Springsteen, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Eliza Relman 63 people like this. Like LAUSD parents want special ed teachers – especially those eligible for vaccines – back on campusFebruary 24, 2021 at 5:33 PM In the ongoing debate over how soon educators should return to in-person work, some Los Angeles Unified parents are fuming over the revelation that certain employees who work with special education students have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations since January but have yet to provide in-person services to some of the district’s most vulnerable students.
Generally speaking, those who work in schools won’t have access to the vaccines until next week under L.A. County’s priority system, but so...Tags: News, Education, White House, Disney, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Inglewood, Johnson Johnson, U S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, District, Bailey, Aguilar, United Teachers Los Angeles 6 people like this. Like Health care workers get COVID-19 in the community more often than the workplace, Cedars-Sinai study findsFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:41 PM LOS ANGELES — Health care workers might not be that different from the general population in the factors that determine their risk of getting COVID-19, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said Wednesday.
A study led by Cedars-Sinai shows that health care workers are more likely to have antibodies to COVID-19 in their blood if they are Black or Latino or have hypertension.
But it suggests that the community — rather than the workplace — is the more common source of coronavirus exposure.
Th...Tags: News, White House, Disney, California News, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Johnson Johnson, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, LA City Council, Cedars Sinai, Department of Cardiology, Susan Cheng, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories PE 3 people like this. Like Former aide says Gov. Cuomo kissed her without consentFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:27 PM By Marina Villenueve | Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — A former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration who previously accused him of sexual harassment offered new details Wednesday, saying he once kissed her on the lips without consent after a private meeting.
Lindsey Boylan said that during her more than three years working as an economic adviser in the administration, Cuomo “would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs,” compared her to one of his rumored ex-girlfr...Tags: Politics, News, California, Senate, New York City, Sport, Joe Biden, Soccer, Food Network, Bill Clinton, Manhattan, Associated Press, Lausd, Andrew Cuomo, Sexual Harassment, Albany 13 people like this. Like Exclusive: U.S. Airline CEOs to Meet With White House on Cutting Carbon FootprintFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:23 PM By David Shepardson, Jarrett Renshaw and Tracy RucinskiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of major U.S. airlines are set to meet virtually...Tags: White House, U S Airlines, David Shepardson Jarrett Renshaw, Tracy RucinskiWASHINGTON Reuters 19 people like this. Like UK and EU fail break to break impasse over Irish Sea borderFebruary 24, 2021 at 4:09 PM Joint committee reiterates commitment to Northern Ireland protocol despite problems with supply chainsEU and UK leaders have failed to break the impasse over the controversial Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland after more than two hours of talks.However, the two sides have pledged to reach a “pragmatic solution”, with the UK agreeing to develop new plans to respond to problems with supermarket supplies. Continue reading...Tags: Europe, Politics, UK, Eu, European Union, UK News, Ireland, Foreign Policy, Northern Ireland, Michael Gove, Brexit, Arlene Foster, Democratic Unionist party (DUP 33 people like this. Like Addressing Financial De-Platforming A MustFebruary 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Addressing Financial De-Platforming A Must
United States/Your Neighborhood – -(AmmoLand.com)- Second Amendment supporters need to understand why many anti-Second Amendment extremists are targeting banks and financial service companies – because our Achilles heel is not so much government action, it’s the money. Sound crazy? Not really. Throughout history, exercising our right to keep and bear arms has always involved money.
Think about the guns you own. In many cases you bought the firearms, ...Tags: Guns, White House, Reagan, Nra, House Senate, Harold, Ammoland, Institute for Legislative Action, Gun Rights News, Harold Hutchison, Soldier of Fortune 66 people like this. Like A Tuskegee hero and the oldest living Black West Point grad reflect on the US military and its first Black defense secretaryFebruary 24, 2021 at 3:51 PM Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a ceremonial swearing-in with Vice President Kamala Harris, far right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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Secretary Lloyd Austin is the first Black person to lead the entire Defense Department.
"We have a secretary of defense who can say 'I've been there, I've done that,'" a Black veteran told Insider.
A Tuskegee airman said it was "just amazing how the attitudes in ...Tags: Politics, Hollywood, News, West Point, Congress, Washington, Senate, White House, Defense, US, International, America, Trends, Department Of Defense, Austin, Racism 104 people like this. Like |
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