1/ Must read COVID mutation thread. My take, we could save ourselves and the lives of millions of other people if we would NOT ONLY GET VACCINATED BUT STAY MASKED AND SOCIAL DISTANCED A FEW MORE MONTHS. UNFORTUNATELY, GOP LEADERS ARE OPENING THE FLOODGATES TO DISASTER.
1/ Excerpted from the Brennan Center For Justice at NYU Law School: "The For the People Act has big goals: to protect voting rights, establish automatic voter registration, prohibit extreme gerrymandering, and curb the role of big money in politics. The bill has passed the House,
2/ has been introduced in the Senate as S.1, and is very popular with the American public. Nonetheless, at this very moment, some pundits are urging Democrats to strip the bill of some key provisions. It’s a bad idea, as I argue in this Washington Post op-ed. Keeping the measure
3/ strong is the best way to boost its chances of becoming law. If enacted, the For the People Act would be the most significant democracy reform in decades, the next great civil rights bill. There’s no denying it faces legislative challenges. Republicans are preparing to
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AND DELIVER MAIL IN BALLOTS!
2/ If you have not mailed your mail in ballot you are too late to mail it. You must drop it in a ballot drop box or use other voting methods. Note that it varies by state. This article will help you get your vote counted. propublica.org/article/what-t…
3/ If you have not mailed your mail in ballot you are too late to mail it. You must drop it in a ballot drop box or use other voting methods. Note that it varies by state. Here is another article to help you get your vote counted. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
THIS SCOTUS DECISION IS A victory for PA voters whose late arriving ballots will now be counted. AND, it happened because newest justice AMY CONEY BARRETT RECUSED HERSELF. In this election, every victory in every state counts enormously. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…
CNN's reporting on the SCOTUS decision rebuffing the GOP's renewed attempt at voter suppression in PA - a decision even more remarkable because Trump's rushed through "judicial asset" Amy Coney Barrett RECUSED HERSELF. cnn.com/2020/10/28/pol…
NOTE: The decision may only result in a temporary protection of voters' rights. Hopefully, the decision will stay in effect long enough to allow all the mail in votes in PA to be counted. Also, the decision may not have been the DIRECT result of Barrett's recusal (but who knows).
3/ Use the SCROLLING TABLE at this useful @axios website to learn when EARLY VOTING STARTS in your state (you will be surprised at how many states have early voting) and how to vote by mail. THIS IS HOW WE WIN - despite Trump's dirty tricks! axios.com/how-to-vote-by…
1/ When Trump announced that children are "almost immune" to COVID he engaged in a calculated lie. To the contrary, children do contract COVID in large numbers; they do suffer profoundly serious physical and neurological harm and they can transmit the disease others.
2/ A study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school re-openings will trigger more outbreaks as older children spread the coronavirus just as much as adults this large study found.
3/ Children younger than 5 have between 10 and 100 times more genetic material from the novel coronavirus in their noses compared to older children and to adults, according to a small study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.