Republican governors are flailing, trying to deflect blame as their states see #Covid19 cases and hospitalisations skyrocket to new records.
Florida’s governor, eyeing a presidential run, is inexplicably blaming the surge in his state on immigrants.
Governor DeSantis has demonised masks and social distancing, scoffed at vaccination, completely opened his state and banned private companies from imposing vaccine mandates on employees.
Florida now has the highest hospitalisation rate of any time since the pandemic began.
The Republicans eyeing 2024 presidential runs are trying to outdo each other with sounding tough against vaccination mandates, masks & social distancing.
As DeSantis says, Democrats at federal & city level are fighting him, trying to save people’s’ lives. apnews.com/article/health…
“Do your job!” #DeSantis screams at #Biden at his press conference.
This from a governor who isn’t doing his own job. Who has barely been in his state as he tours the country pursuing his presidential ambitions.
While his state is gripped by a health crisis of his own making.
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There were only bad solutions to the "Brexit trilemma" - a consequence of the UK government's choice for an extreme form of Brexit in which the country left the customs union in addition to the single market.
A customs border had to go somewhere. Johnson chose option A.
May chose option C, which would have eventually kept al UK in customs union with EU if no solution could be found.
Johnson rejected that and chose option A. It's far less disruptive than B, because a few ports and an airport are easier to police than 350 separate land crossings.
The EU starting letting in Americans last month. But the US is still banning Europeans from entering, and providing no scientific justification for the continued restrictions.
"Diplomats say that the Biden administration has given no indication when it might reverse the [travel ban] on the Schengen zone...even as vaccination rates tick up and scientific evidence suggests little efficacy in the ban."
The culprit is apparently the Biden administration's fear of even introducing the concept of requiring vaccination for anything, including for travel into the US, Politico reports (h/t @CeliaBelin) politico.com/news/2021/07/1…
Dominic Cummings, @BorisJohnson’s chief advisor until November, says the PM told him when it comes to #COVID19 restrictions he “doesn’t believe in any of this”.
“I wish I’d been the mayor in Jaws and kept the beaches open” Cummings claims Johnson said.
The revelation comes as Johnson is refusing to self-isolate after one of his ministers tested positive, as members of the public are required to do.
Tomorrow is “Freedom Day” in the UK, when Johnson has instructed the country to completely reopen. news.sky.com/story/pm-and-s…
Well, that was quick.
After massive public backlash about one rule did the British elites and another foe the rest of society, they’ve u-turned and announced Johnson *will* self-isolate.
At the January 2016 meeting with Putin, his spy chiefs and senior ministers “agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them ‘social turmoil’ in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position” theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
“Russia’s 3 spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.”
“A report prepared by Putin’s expert department recommended Moscow use “all possible force” to ensure a Trump victory.”
“There is a brief psychological assessment of #Trump, who is described as an ‘impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex’”
“There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat on the future president”
The EPP, the largest and most powerful political group in the EU, has declared that the Polish government is putting the country on the road to "Polexit" with its dismantling of the rule of law.
The ECJ ruled last year that Poland’s Disciplinary Chamber must suspend the politically-motivated cases it is pursuing against judges.
The decision "shows blatant disregard for the EU’s highest court" Amnesty International said today. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
What happens if a member state refuses to abide by ECJ rulings (relevant now for 🇵🇱&🇭🇺) has never been confronted. It is a treaty violation, but does it result in expulsion?
It is the largest single batch of legislation to stop climate change proposed by any government anywhere, designed to update EU laws to meet the new 2030 emissions reduction target of 55% (raised from 40%).
That EU 2030 target was raised in December, motivated partly by the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.
But for the past 6 months there have been many questions about how the new target will be met.