What if the counties in your state were afraid to protect local communities because they fear lawsuits? Please read.
"Here they go again. Wednesday the WI Supreme Court ruled against the people of WI, overturning Governor Evers' stay-at-home order and letting businesses and retailers reopen immediately. No plans, no safety standards, just a free-for-all coordinated between the Republican state legislature and the conservative Supreme Court.
"Here they go again. Wednesday the WI Supreme Court ruled against the people of WI, overturning Governor Evers' stay-at-home order and letting businesses and retailers reopen immediately. No plans, no safety standards, just a free-for-all coordinated between the Republican state legislature and the conservative Supreme Court.
Prior to this, the governor had been leading our state toward actual progress in slowly reopening, adhering to medical standards and guidelines. He first enacted the stay-at-home order on March 25 and had extended it through May 26. He paired this with ramped up testing plans and the Badger Bounce Back Plan, which was announced last month and set clear metrics for what the state needed to reopen.
Wisconsin, despite the Trump administration's continued failure in getting us requested testing supplies and personal protective equipment, was setting a standard for how a state could slowly reopen, in phases, and get people back to work. This week, we had almost met all of the criteria for Phase 1 of the Badger Bounce Back Plan.
In one night, Republicans reversed all of that progress. Without any further guidance, businesses were told they could reopen. Videos of bars filled with people tightly packed, without masks surfaced online within hours. People had been listening to stay-at-home orders, and now, they were listening to the guidance of a Supreme Court and state legislature that decided human life was not worth protecting
Wisconsin now has over 11,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 434 deaths. We are 25th in the country for cases—right in the middle. This decision by the state legislature and Supreme Court could likely change that. It's up to us and our local leaders now to figure out which way we move."
ICYMI.
Of course he does.
The former pharmaceutical executive tapped by President Trump to lead the federal effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine owns stock options worth more than $10 million in a company receiving funding from that same program, Stat News reports. Until his appointment, Dr. Moncef Slaoui was on the board of the company, Moderna, one of the leading companies in the race for a vaccine and the first to enter a vaccine into clinical trials.
Of course he does.
The former pharmaceutical executive tapped by President Trump to lead the federal effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine owns stock options worth more than $10 million in a company receiving funding from that same program, Stat News reports. Until his appointment, Dr. Moncef Slaoui was on the board of the company, Moderna, one of the leading companies in the race for a vaccine and the first to enter a vaccine into clinical trials.
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Alternate Realities, this is why 'Murika is so f'ed up right now. Trump, Republicans, Fox News spewing this vile fascist propaganda unchecked and allowing it to air is a clear and present danger to America. This is not what free speech was intended for as these fascists manipulate free speech to fuel their vile hostile takeover bid for America. Shut them down and lock them all up for treason! Patriots my a$$
"President Donald Trump’s son Eric suggested that coronavirus lockdowns were a conspiracy to keep his father from holding 2020 campaign rallies during a Saturday appearance on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro.
With America leading the world in reported coronavirus fatalities, the president’s son was focused on the 2020 campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden."
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Groan of the Day No. 3.
PS- This is the insanity of the cult we have to fight against.
PS- This is the insanity of the cult we have to fight against.
Heather Cox Richardson
May 16, 2020 (Saturday)
Today former President Barack Obama gave two virtual graduation speeches. Midday, he spoke to the graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and in the evening, he spoke to the high school graduates of 2020 in an event called Graduate Together.
Both speeches were a striking contrast to the language we have become accustomed to hearing from today’s White House. And while they were directed at this year’s graduates, they mapped out more generally a new direction for America than the one we have taken since 2017.
The former president noted that we are in a frightening moment, when we are coping with a deadly pandemic and a terrible recession. But he also heralded the enormous possibilities of a time when all the cards have been thrown up into the air, waiting to be gathered up into new patterns.
Obama noted that the pandemic had “fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” “Turns out that they don’t have all the answers. A lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions.”
He called for today’s youth to honor “honesty, hard work, responsibility, fairness, generosity, respect for others.”
He rejected the aggressive individualism that has defined America since the Reagan years. “[I]t doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick…. [O]ur society and democracy only works when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other.”
He placed America’s strength in community. “No one does big things by themselves. Right now, when people are scared, it’s easy to be cynical and say let me just look out for myself, or my family, or people who look or think or pray like me. But if we’re going to get through these difficult times; if we’re going to create a world where everybody has the opportunity to find a job, and afford college; if we’re going to save the environment and defeat future pandemics, then we’re going to have to do it together. So be alive to one another’s struggles. Stand up for one another’s rights. Leave behind all the old ways of thinking that divide us — sexism, racial prejudice, status, greed — and set the world on a different path.”
He urged young people to change the world. “If the world’s going to get better, it’s going to be up to you. With everything suddenly feeling like it’s up for grabs, this is your time to seize the initiative. Nobody can tell you anymore that you should be waiting your turn. Nobody can tell you anymore 'this is how it’s always been done.'"
"More than ever," the former president said, "this is your moment—your generation’s world to shape.”
[Photo: Children's driftwood fort, 2018]
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