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solarbirdPrepare for a big economic drop when the Republicans - almost all of them - let unemployment coverage die this week. It's suicidal, even for them, but unless things change rapidly and soon, what you've seen so far is going to be chicken feed.
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Two Trader Joe’s customers were asked to put on masks. They attacked employees instead, police said.
By Teo Armus
July 29, 2020 at 3:45 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/covid-trader-joe-face-masks/
The two men were not wearing face masks when they entered a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan earlier this month. But when some of the grocery store employees asked the pair to cover their faces, they refused — and went on a rampage instead, police said.
One of them ripped a face mask off one of the workers, who are typically known for their colorful Hawaiian shirt uniforms, according to the New York Police Department. The men, John Carrero and Alejandro Escobar, both 34, pulled one employee’s hair and threw baskets at others. Using a wooden paddle, typically meant to help direct the flow of traffic at cash registers, they began pummeling another employee over the head, police told NBC News.
That worker started bleeding badly and was taken to a hospital, one Trader Joe’s employee on the scene told Vice News.
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GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn
Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
Updated 6:59 am PDT, Wednesday, July 29, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/GOP-s-jobless-benefit-plan-could-mean-delays-15440523.php
A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of delayed payments in some states.
Older computer systems that took weeks to set up for the initial federal unemployment enhancement would need to be reprogrammed again twice under the GOP plan.
In Florida, state Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, said the state has not even gotten the original supplemental benefit to everyone entitled to it.
“So the idea of changing the current process that has taken us months to put into place, that is still not even perfect, is a scary thought,” she said.
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Louie Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus
The Texas Republican received the diagnosis during a pre-screening procedure at the White House on Wednesday morning.
By JAKE SHERMAN
07/29/2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/louis-gohmert-who-refused-to-wear-a-mask-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-386076
Rep. Louie Gohmert — a Texas Republican who has been walking around the Capitol without a mask — has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to multiple sources.
Gohmert was scheduled to fly to Texas on Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump and tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House. The eighth-term Republican told CNN last month that he was not wearing a mask because he was being tested regularly for the coronavirus.
"[I]f I get it," he told CNN in June, "you'll never see me without a mask."
Reps. Mario Diaz Balart (R-Fla.), Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), Ben McAdams (D-Utah) and Tom Rice (R-S.C.) have tested positive for the virus, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
In May, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) turned down the administration's offer of rapid testing for the Capitol. Some lawmakers — mostly Republicans — decline to use face coverings while in the building.
Gohmert attended Tuesday's blockbuster House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr in person, where lawmakers were seated at some distance from one another.
But footage from before the hearing shows Gohmert and Barr walking together in close contact, with neither wearing a mask.
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Atul Gawande
twitter.com/Atul_Gawande
29 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/1288461056306798594
This survey finds that 90+% of parents of color fear school reopening. Most distressing additional finding: 44% fear that without school, their children will not have enough to eat at home. Only 9% of white parents have that fear.
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Charlie Gile
twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC
29 July 2020
https://twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC/status/1288525505881350144
Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks that it’s possible that wearing a mask gave him COVID.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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As virus aid talks stalemate, Trump scorns help for cities
By Lisa Mascaro
The Associated Press
July 29, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-dismisses-virus-aid-for-cities-lashes-out-at-gop/
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed Democratic demands for aid to cash-strapped cities in a new coronavirus relief package and lashed out at Republican allies as talks stalemated over assistance for millions of Americans. Another lawmaker tested positive for the virus.
Republicans, beset by delays and infighting, signaled a willingness to swiftly approve a modest package to prevent a $600 weekly unemployment benefit from expiring Friday. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., roundly rejected that approach as meager, all but forcing Republicans back to the negotiating table.
“As of now, we’re very far apart,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the White House’s top negotiator.
Stark differences remain between the $3 trillion proposal from Democrats and $1 trillion counter from Republicans putting aid for millions of communities at risk. Money for states and cites is a crucial dividing line as local governments plead for help to shore up budgets and prevent deeper municipal layoffs as they incur COVID-19 costs and shutdown economies.
Trump complained about sending “big bailout money” to the nation’s cities, whose mayors he often criticizes.
- Two Trader Joe’s customers were asked to put on masks. They attacked employees instead, police said.
- GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn
- Louie Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus
- This survey finds that 90+% of parents of color fear school reopening.
- Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks that it’s possible that wearing a mask gave him COVID.
- As virus aid talks stalemate, Trump scorns help for cities
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Two Trader Joe’s customers were asked to put on masks. They attacked employees instead, police said.
By Teo Armus
July 29, 2020 at 3:45 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/covid-trader-joe-face-masks/
The two men were not wearing face masks when they entered a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan earlier this month. But when some of the grocery store employees asked the pair to cover their faces, they refused — and went on a rampage instead, police said.
One of them ripped a face mask off one of the workers, who are typically known for their colorful Hawaiian shirt uniforms, according to the New York Police Department. The men, John Carrero and Alejandro Escobar, both 34, pulled one employee’s hair and threw baskets at others. Using a wooden paddle, typically meant to help direct the flow of traffic at cash registers, they began pummeling another employee over the head, police told NBC News.
That worker started bleeding badly and was taken to a hospital, one Trader Joe’s employee on the scene told Vice News.
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GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn
Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
Updated 6:59 am PDT, Wednesday, July 29, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/GOP-s-jobless-benefit-plan-could-mean-delays-15440523.php
A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of delayed payments in some states.
Older computer systems that took weeks to set up for the initial federal unemployment enhancement would need to be reprogrammed again twice under the GOP plan.
In Florida, state Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, said the state has not even gotten the original supplemental benefit to everyone entitled to it.
“So the idea of changing the current process that has taken us months to put into place, that is still not even perfect, is a scary thought,” she said.
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Louie Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus
The Texas Republican received the diagnosis during a pre-screening procedure at the White House on Wednesday morning.
By JAKE SHERMAN
07/29/2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/louis-gohmert-who-refused-to-wear-a-mask-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-386076
Rep. Louie Gohmert — a Texas Republican who has been walking around the Capitol without a mask — has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to multiple sources.
Gohmert was scheduled to fly to Texas on Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump and tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House. The eighth-term Republican told CNN last month that he was not wearing a mask because he was being tested regularly for the coronavirus.
"[I]f I get it," he told CNN in June, "you'll never see me without a mask."
Reps. Mario Diaz Balart (R-Fla.), Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), Ben McAdams (D-Utah) and Tom Rice (R-S.C.) have tested positive for the virus, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
In May, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) turned down the administration's offer of rapid testing for the Capitol. Some lawmakers — mostly Republicans — decline to use face coverings while in the building.
Gohmert attended Tuesday's blockbuster House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr in person, where lawmakers were seated at some distance from one another.
But footage from before the hearing shows Gohmert and Barr walking together in close contact, with neither wearing a mask.
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Atul Gawande
twitter.com/Atul_Gawande
29 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/1288461056306798594
This survey finds that 90+% of parents of color fear school reopening. Most distressing additional finding: 44% fear that without school, their children will not have enough to eat at home. Only 9% of white parents have that fear.
[LINKS TO:
https://www.axios.com/families-race-schools-coronavirus-8ef31b79-7873-4a9e-8f91-03d5734643e6.html
]
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Charlie Gile
twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC
29 July 2020
https://twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC/status/1288525505881350144
Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks that it’s possible that wearing a mask gave him COVID.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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As virus aid talks stalemate, Trump scorns help for cities
By Lisa Mascaro
The Associated Press
July 29, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-dismisses-virus-aid-for-cities-lashes-out-at-gop/
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed Democratic demands for aid to cash-strapped cities in a new coronavirus relief package and lashed out at Republican allies as talks stalemated over assistance for millions of Americans. Another lawmaker tested positive for the virus.
Republicans, beset by delays and infighting, signaled a willingness to swiftly approve a modest package to prevent a $600 weekly unemployment benefit from expiring Friday. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., roundly rejected that approach as meager, all but forcing Republicans back to the negotiating table.
“As of now, we’re very far apart,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the White House’s top negotiator.
Stark differences remain between the $3 trillion proposal from Democrats and $1 trillion counter from Republicans putting aid for millions of communities at risk. Money for states and cites is a crucial dividing line as local governments plead for help to shore up budgets and prevent deeper municipal layoffs as they incur COVID-19 costs and shutdown economies.
Trump complained about sending “big bailout money” to the nation’s cities, whose mayors he often criticizes.
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Date: 2020-07-31 01:12 pm (UTC)Nutcases who assault store employees over mask mandates should be given the maximum sentences permitted by law for assault and battery. And have to pay for the employees' medical bills, lost wages, etc. on top of that.
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