Nearly 200 public health experts joined forces on Thursday to demand that General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy officially green-light President-elect Joe Biden’s formal transition amid surging COVID-19 cases nationwide. Continue reading “Health Experts Demand GSA Chief Stop Holding Up Biden’s Transition As COVID Cases Surge”
BuzzFeed Buying HuffPost In Surprising Media Move
BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon as part of a bigger deal that has the wireless giant investing in the digital-media company.
BuzzFeed and Verizon did not disclose terms of the deal. Verizon will be a minority shareholder in BuzzFeed and the two companies will partner on content and ads.
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The Corruption is Upon Us
We’re watching the press conference of the President’s legal team. It’s an all star team of rejects and degenerates from the Fox Cinematic Universe: Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Joe DiGenova. It’s both comical in its slapdash level of nonsense but also deeply corrupt and an attack on the very foundations of the American republic. In the course of this event Giuliani has claimed that most of the votes in Wayne County (Detroit) are invalid and should be discarded. Needless to say, this disenfranchises most of the African-American population in Michigan. As Giuliani succinctly put it, “It changes the results of the election in Michigan if you take out Wayne County.”
CDC Cancels Thanksgiving: Agency Advises Against Holiday Travel Amid COVID Surge
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday advised the public against traveling for Thanksgiving during its first briefing since August as the country reaches the grim milestone of 250,000 fatalities from COVID-19. Continue reading “CDC Cancels Thanksgiving: Agency Advises Against Holiday Travel Amid COVID Surge”
Romney Warns Of ‘Severe’ Consequences Of Lame Duck Trump Lashing Out
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) suggested that President Donald Trump may cause damage during his lame duck period that is “potentially more severe” than the delayed transition that has captured much of the national spotlight thus far.
“The consequences of what’s happening during this lame duck period, I think, are potentially more severe than the consequences associated with a late transition process,” Romney told CNN’s David Axelrod in a podcast interview released Thursday.
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Where Things Stand: Major Roadblock For Trump’s Census Scheme
We have a new, exclusive story up right now.
TPM’s Tierney Sneed has learned that the Census Bureau identified routine issues in data from the 2020 decennial census, and will need time to fix them. This seemingly small wrinkle could have significant implications for how political power is distributed through apportionment.
New Delays In Final Stage Of Census Could Foil Trump’s Plan To Rig It
The Census Bureau has identified issues in the data from the 2020 decennial census that will take an additional 20 days or so for it to fix, and thus delay the release of survey’s apportionment data until after President Trump leaves office, TPM has learned.
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Graham ‘Can’t Explain’ What Makes GA Sec Of State ‘Tick’ After Claims Of Ballot Interference
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took to “Fox and Friends” Thursday morning to gripe that he “can’t explain” what makes Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger — who accused the South Carolina Republican of pressuring him to toss out legally cast ballots — “tick.” Continue reading “Graham ‘Can’t Explain’ What Makes GA Sec Of State ‘Tick’ After Claims Of Ballot Interference”
All Quiet On The Trump Front As U.S. Marks Grim New COVID Milestone
President Donald Trump is bunkering very strongly.
He has no public events scheduled on Thursday — and he has yet to emerge from the safe cocoon of the White House after the United States crossed the grim threshold of more than 250,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday.
Trump has kept a light public schedule as COVID-19 continues to rage across the nation, reaching 11.5 million cases since the pandemic began and hitting 172,000 cases on Wednesday — the second-highest number of cases reported in a single day since the pandemic began.
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Trump Tries Desperate And Damaging New Tack As He Refuses To Accept Loss
WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.
The battle is centered in the battleground states that sealed Biden’s win.
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