@guardian 1/ DeSantis has issued a blanket pardon to anyone convicted of breaching local authority Covid mandates, and promised to use power handed to him by Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature to invalidate local emergency measures.Per bit.ly/3y6Ag9U by @richlusc
2/ He[DeSantis] has also sued the CDC, with mixed success, to try to prevent cruise lines from being able to require passengers to be vaccinated or comply with other health requirements.Per bit.ly/3y6Ag9U by Richard Luscombein @richlusc via @GuardianUS
3/ ...in recent days DeSantis has stepped up his personal animosity towards Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious diseases expert.Per bit.ly/3y6Ag9U by Richard Luscombein @richlusc via @GuardianUS
4/ ...[DeSantis]fundraising off the “Don’t Fauci my Florida” beer koozies and T-shirts, DeSantis accused Fauci of attempting to “muzzle” his three-year-old son with a mask mandate.Per bit.ly/3y6Ag9U by Richard Luscombein @richlusc via @GuardianUS
@brooklynmutt 1/ “When I was saying things that [Covid-19] is not going to just disappear, that this is not going to just go away, that we do have a very serious problem, that annoyed a lot of Trump loyalists.Fauci said.]per bit.ly/36ZbInr By Peter Wade @brooklynmutt via @rollingstone
2/ I’m very sorry that it annoyed them. But it is the truth. And that’s what I was trying to do and still do, is to tell the truth,” Fauci said.per bit.ly/36ZbInr By Peter Wade @brooklynmutt via @rollingstone
3/ “Any regrets?” the Fox host asked.“I never have a regret about telling the truth or about doing my job,” the doctor[Fauci] replied.per bit.ly/36ZbInr By Peter Wade @brooklynmutt via @rollingstone
2/ Random, short-term and natural weather patterns are being heightened by long-term, human-caused climate change.Per bit.ly/2UMuqMF by Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly and agencies via @GuardianUS
3/ Global warming has made the west much warmer and drier in the past 30 years.Per bit.ly/2UMuqMF by Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly and agencies via @GuardianUS
1/ Right Wingers fear/hate monger with CRT — using stories about how Democrats might use it to control people — how they might try to harm schools, government and other institutions.Per bit.ly/3i1e6Ax by Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert, @upine
2/ The[Fear CRT] stories fit well into the constantly spread Right Wing propaganda theme of “Democrats are going to control you and take your freedom away.”Per bit.ly/3i1e6Ax by Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert, @upine
3/ That[Fear CRT] is also the theme used to conduct Right Wing anti-vax and anti-environment campaigns.Per bit.ly/3i1e6Ax by Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert, @upine
1/ Per Lorenzo Canizares bit.ly/34IaPfE@canilor People Before Profits, " The Wall Street Journal lead editorial of today’s (5/7/21) levels a harsh critique of the Biden administration “bewildering” decision to endorse a patent waiver for Covid vaccines and therapies.
2/ Per Lorenzo Canizares bit.ly/34IaPfE@canilor People Before Profits, " They[Wall Street Journal Editorial] also add “this may be the single worst presidential economic decision since Nixon’s wage-and-price controls.”
3/ Per Lorenzo Canizares bit.ly/34IaPfE@canilor People Before Profits, "Unbridled Greed is a malignant disease when allowed to run rampant. Not only is a justification for placing profits over people, but also eventually harms the self-interest of the afflicted.
1/ Per bit.ly/3hcCL4T By Phil Wilson , “Biden has long been excoriated in progressive circles as a tool of corporate masters and a soulless career politician-utterly beholden to large donors. But Biden's support for the WTO waiver challenges progressive orthodoxy.
2/ Per bit.ly/3hcCL4T By Phil Wilson,“Whether or not Biden is raptly reading the tea leaves of this historic moment, or resonating with the few progressive voices in the Democratic caucus — a group of ten senators, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren...
1/ Per bit.ly/3unLjd2 by David Smith @SmithInAmerica via @GuardianUS , “ The press cannot be expected to restore a common baseline of truth on its own, however.
2/ Per bit.ly/3unLjd2 by David Smith @SmithInAmerica via @GuardianUS , “The technology platforms are so much more powerful than any organ of the so-called mainstream press,...[Clinton said]