Here's how we're looking in the U.S. today on COVID-19 risk levels, via covidactnow.org.
Dark red = severe outbreak
Red = active or imminent outbreak
Orange = at risk of outbreak
Yellow = slow disease growth
Green = on track to contain COVID
Of all 50 states, Hawaii is the only one currently slowing the spread of COVID-19.
I've been using covidexitstrategy.org for months and was sad to see that they won't be updating this site anymore. But now I see that their new effort, a partnership with @CovidActNow, is actually better.
You can toggle all the depressing AF data now! Yeah!
For ex -- here are the states with the highest rates of daily new cases of COVID-19.
Tennessee and California have topped the list for a while now.
Can our health care system handle the COVID-19 spread?
ICU capacity in states like New Mexico and Oklahoma is bursting at the seams, and in several other states.
What's also nice about this site is that its COVID-19 data is coming in in real time.
"Over the last 14 days, daily new cases have decreased by about 1% and daily new deaths have increased by about 12%."
"As of December 24th, 2020, there have been roughly 18.6 million cases and 329,000 deaths from COVID in the United States."
329,000 Americans dead. In less than a year. And still counting.
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Ok this is a huge new feature of this site: it breaks out COVID-19's impact on Native American majority communities. Hugely important to do this because we know they're getting hit harder, but it's not easy to tease out data on this.
Now you can see it.
Check out their site yourself if you want to see how your state or county is doing. They've got solid data.
Also the guy is leaving office just as he came in: using Pocahontas' name as a slur, which tribes and tribal advoacay groups have condemned time and time again.
Speaking of Trump routinely degrading Native people + culture, today's insult falls on the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
That was when U.S. soldiers surrounded a peaceful group of Lakota people + slaughtered ~300. Mostly women + children. (h/t @Ruth_HHopkins)
In light of today being the anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre, a note that there is a House + Senate bill that would strip Medals of Honor from the 20 U.S. soldiers who slaughtered 100s of Native women and children.
Good morning! ☕ Trump's presidency is ending in a few weeks. But the more than 230 people he put into lifetime federal judgeships will be shaping the nation’s law for decades.
How will our federal courts look different after Trump is gone? He has confirmed...
3 Supreme Court justices
54 appeals court judges
174 district court judges
3 judges on Court of Intl Trade
All are lifetime appts.
Compared to recent past presidents, Trump has confirmed more lifetime federal judges than Barack Obama (175), George W. Bush (206) and Bill Clinton (204) did in their first terms.
Today, Lindsey Graham went on a conservative radio show and claimed that Stacey Abrams “conned the Republican leadership in Georgia” into helping Joe Biden win by abetting voter fraud huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-…
Graham also said Georgia's GOP leaders must immediately change state laws to “stop Stacey Abrams from stealing the Senate race," referring to January's runoff elections.
That Stacey Abrams, she must be very powerful in her efforts to... strengthen voting rights & fair elections.
What Graham is saying: Abrams tricked GA Republicans! Fraud! Biden no real!
What really happened: GA officials agreed to a March legal settlement laying out steps for local election officials to notify voters if there's a problem with a ballot signature. Abrams supported it.
I know there's a lot going on but FYI Senate Republicans are voting in a couple hours to confirm a guy, Stephen Schwartz, to a 15-year federal judgeship who has fought for discriminatory voter laws, severe restrictions on abortion access + discrimination against trans kids.
Schwartz, 34, argued on behalf of North Carolina in 2016 in a failed effort to get SCOTUS to review the 4th Circuit’s ruling striking down the state's discriminatory voter ID law.
The 4th Circuit found the law "target[s] African Americans with almost surgical precision."
Schwartz defended N.C.'s anti-LGBTQ law, HB 2, that barred people from using restrooms that match their gender ID + blocked nondiscrimination protections.
He was co-counsel in a Va. case, arguing Gavin Grimm, a trans high school boy, shouldn't be able to use the men’s restroom.
Good morning! ☕ Tribal leaders all over the country have been urging Biden to pick Native American Rep. Deb Haaland for interior secretary. But for some reason, anonymous Biden advisers are telling news outlets she's not qualified. People are NOT happy. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
“Of course it’s offensive to say she’s not qualified,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. "Those individuals being anonymous should think that through for themselves, because by going after this person, you’re standing in the way of history."
The anonymous hits on Haaland by "Biden advisers" are shitty for a few reasons.
1) Hiding behind anonymity to hurt her chances at getting a historic job is shady.
2) She is qualified + very popular.
3) These "sources" want a different Native candidate who happens to be a man.