The most delightful elderly man - looked to be late 70's/early 80's - just delivered our pizza, handing it over with a slight tremble in his frail arms.
If it's possible for a heart to feel physically heavy, it does.
Shortly after the 2016 election, an older female journalist pulled me aside after a TV hit and explained that, while she was in the sunset of her career, I (and other journalists my age) are now responsible.
We are responsible for explaining WHY we have safety net programs.
And doing it with plainspoken English.
We have them, because before they existed, before Social Security existed, many old people were poor or would just die if they didn't have family to take them in.
"The Depression was a catastrophic blow to almost every American, but none
more than the elderly. For many people, said Franklin Roosevelt in 1934, old age is "the most tragic of all hazards."
NEW w @albamonica: Trump expected to bring as a guest to tonight's @NBCNews debate Tony Bobulinksi, the former Hunter Biden business partner quoted in the New York Post making allegations ab Joe Biden and Chinese business deals.
Important footnote:👇
In his statement, Bobulinksi talks ab his decision to speak out now, following Johnson’s report on Hunter. Bobulinksi says he was “shocked” that Hunter had made millions “behind my back.”
“The Johnson Report connected some dots in a way that shocked me — it made me realize ..
the Bidens had gone behind my back and gotten paid millions of dollars by the Chinese, even though they told me they hadn’t and wouldn’t do that to their partners.”
"History will haunt this raw exercise of political power," said @SenBlumenthal, who is calling for the #BarrettHearing to be delayed.
“Might does not make right. In your hearts, you know what’s happening here is not right, it’s not normal," he said.
Points: 1/
1. Nominee named before Ginsburg was buried. 2. Amid a pandemic that should be the priority. Naming ceremony became super spreader event. 3. Days before an election, unprecedented in modern history. 4. Amid news of more disclosures not on her forms.
5. Refused to recuse self from election-related rulings after Trump is suggesting he needs her seated in event of a disputed election. 6. Breaks with "McConnell" rule GOP invoked to block Dem. nominee Garland for 9 months, stating justices shouldn't be seated in election years.
👉No president has seated a Supreme Court nominee within three months of a presidential election, according to Senate historical records dating to 1900.
During the tumultuous election year of 1968, Johnson did attempt to replace retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren by elevating Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice and naming Homer Thornberry, an appeals court judge, to the high court.
👉Judge Barrett has not released full records of her tenure at Notre Dame, where in the past few days it's been revealed she participated in previously undisclosed talks and anti-abortion ads.
Progressive watchdog groups have outstanding records requests and just sent a letter to her asking for her consent to disclose the info:
"To not have any emails or much of a more in depth look at her work history is not normal," said Kyle Herrig with Accountable.US:
“If she was at a public university, we could’ve gotten her emails. We got emails from federal agencies and even the White House in past nomination fights," said Herrig.
NEW: Sens. Leahy, Booker & Harris press Judiciary Chair Graham *not to proceed with Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week unless stringent COVID-19 testing procedures are implemented immediately* via @JulieNBCNews
Pointing out that two Judiciary Committee members have tested positive for COVID-19 and others have thus far refused to be tested, the senators told Graham that without testing procedures in place, the hearings could threaten the safety and health of all who attend in person.
Several of the committee members are elderly: Feinstein, Leahy, Grassley to name just a few.
Further it was just a week ago the committee held an extended indoor hearing in which COVID positive @SenMikeLee was seen speaking w/o a mask.
Barrett was required, per the questionnaire, to list the “10 most significant litigated matters which you personally handled, whether or not you were the attorney of record” and to “describe in detail the nature of your participation.” Barrett lists just three cases.
A source familiar with Barrett’s work history said her client had “filed only two even arguably substantive filings after she appeared as counsel,” so the work “is not a significant level of involvement.”