Shontel Brown Leads in Ohio 11th Didtrict

By rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/03/2021 - 8:59pm |

Brown has a huge lead in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and is essentially tied in Summit (Akron)

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/03/us/elections/results-ohio-special-primary-elections.html

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NBC: Shontel Brown wins

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/shontel-brown-defeats-nina-tu...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 12:31am

toon:

#OH11 Shontel! Shontel!! Shontel!!! Thank you Ohio for the Democratic Victory over the Bernie Bros! #ShontelBrown pic.twitter.com/JaS4eIX2FV
— Katahdin (@Katahdin5270) August 4, 2021

also I noticed with interest that The Grio (as well as many others) had quite an opposite take on what an "establishment" candidate means these days to the opinion of rmrd.

#NinaTurner didn't lose to #ShontelBrown because of "Dark Money" she lost because #OH11 voters don't live thier lives on Twitter, don't read WaPo puff pieces and don't like Establishment carpet baggers coming to town telling them how to vote https://t.co/9APObrnDLJ
— Dr. Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) August 5, 2021

p.s. I imagine "carpet bagger" still is a significantly loaded term the closer one gets to the historic Mason-Dixon line, I bet.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 3:16am

Killer Mike vs Clyburn

The “Jim Clyburn creations” pic.twitter.com/hGUy2UDrWr
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) August 5, 2021

A lot of us weren't that thrilled with Juneteenth - oddly aside from posturing it didn't seem most were that excited. So why *did* it occupy much of media through the summer?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 11:46am

Shontel Brown received money from Trump donors. We will see what impact, if any, that has on her voting pattern.

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/27/nina-turner-shontel-brown-ohio-gop/

There had been a push for a national Juneteenth holiday. Several states already had a Juneteenth holiday.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 2:04pm

You think Shontel's voting Trump? And based on Clyburn, don't think he (nor Biden) are wasting more time on Juneteenth - bigger fish to fry.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 3:56pm

I pointed out Brown's donors. She will be an establishment Democrat.

Cori Bush helped push the WH to keeping the eviction moratorium

Shontel Brown would not initiate the move in that direction.

Opal Lee was a major force behind the Juneteenth holiday. It was in the works for years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/style/opal-lee-juneteenth.html

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 4:26pm

Go ahead, say it - Uncle Tom (Aunt Thomasina?)

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 4:37pm

Sigh

Establishment Democrat.

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 4:48pm

hah hah, when AOC does it, it's so very special to rmrd types, but when Aunt Thomasina does it, it's a big nothingburger:

If Shontel Brown holds on in #OH11, it's the story of an underdog who came back from 35 points down, worked the doors, built the lists, ran an upbeat Democratic campaign, and showed incredible political talent and grit against a big national political operation.
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) August 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:37pm

Aunt Thomasina is a term only being used by PP and AA. I said that Shontel Brown was an Establishment Democrat. She had the support of Establishment Democrats, the CBC PAC, Marcia Fudge's mom, etc. Brown also received support from Republicans who had supported Trump. Those are facts.

Nina Turner lost her race. She angered James Clyburn, and he focused his attention on her. Turner compared voting for Biden to eating a bowl of feces. The race became about Turner's hatred of the Democratic establishment.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/nina-turner-learns-the-hard-way-that-democrats-like-biden.html

The attempt at diverting from the facts is interesting. In the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the slave Tom died a hero, killed because he would not divulge the ~~names~~ locations of two escaped slaves.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/30/race.society

Harriett Beecher Stowe based her book on a real life hero, Josiah Henson.

https://blavity.com/blavity-original/this-bhm-let-makinghistorywhileblack-remind-you-that-our-excellence-cant-be-overshadowed-by-bigotry?category1=culture

I posted the story of Brown's victory because, despite being a low turnout special election, it might be an indication of where the party was headed in 2022 and perhaps 2024.

Edit to add:

"Names" changed to "locations"

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 6:18pm

We know dog whistles. "Establishment Democrat" in black circles is an "Uncle Tom" - ask Killer "don't vote your vagina" Mike - he's got his dog whistles down. Certainly no one uses "Uncle Tom" to mean a "hero" these days, whatever the origins.

As for "where the party's going", the party never left - Obama won because he was a centrist who punched enough buttons for the left. Bill Clinton won because he knew how to talk to blacks as well and made inroads in the right's South (plus Ross Perot siphoned off vites). Hillary lost because enough elements on the left joins the right & Russians to slime and slander her, including some oddly anti-frmale "feminists". But while i like some of the Squad's energy and effect on the party, they're still fringe, and unless the party pays attention to Schor and Clyburn, it'll waltz itself into defeat.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 4:17am

If Establishment Democrat is an "Uncle Tom", how did Brown beat Turner?

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 7:57am

I'd like to throw in one piece of advice you left out, my own personal favorite:

JAMES CARVILLE: “WOKENESS IS A PROBLEM AND WE ALL KNOW IT”

Note he didn't say:"that's my opinion", he said: "we all know it". And he didn't mean everyone in the Democratic party, he meant every professional in U.S. national politics, no matter which side they are working for.

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 12:09pm

"Establishment" means WINNING NATIONALLY. Establishment means majority support, not QAnon nor Trump fan nor Ilhan-Omar-I hate-Israel nor Maya-Wiley-Socialist New Yorker types

TAKE YOUR RADICAL ELITE COASTAL WOKISM AND SHOVE IT:

Pelosi defends warning from Maloney about losing House: 'Always run scared'

BY MIKE LILLIS - 08/06/21 12:35 PM EDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday defended the head of the Democrats' campaign arm for warning that the party risks losing the House without a sharp change in message.

The speaker said the pessimistic outlook, voiced recently by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), was merely an energizing tactic, while predicting that Democrats will keep the gavel in next year's midterm elections.

"You always have to run from behind," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol. "In terms of the specific, where he was zeroing in on: always run scared."

The remarks came two days after a Politico report revealed that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), had recently warned vulnerable Democrats that if the elections were staged today, Republicans would win back the lower chamber.

The message was designed to light a fire under Democratic donors, while encouraging rank-and-file lawmakers to focus their campaigns squarely on President Biden's economic agenda, which polls show is popular with voters of diverse ideologies across the country.

Pelosi, an accomplished campaign strategist who formerly headed the California Democratic Party, defended Maloney on Friday, saying he was simply floating a worst-case scenario to manage expectations and guard against complacency.

"You never run from the best-case scenario," she said. "There're several scenarios here; that was one of them, and I think that's a safe place to run from." [.....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 12:57pm

Wokism is elitist? Are POC elites?

by Aaron Carine on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 3:20pm

From Slate

The word woke is all over our phones, our TV screens, and even the campaign trail, but do people actually know what it means? On Saturday’s episode of ICYMI, Slate’s podcast about internet culture, co-hosts Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher—building on the work of journalists like Vox’s Aja Romano—explained how the earliest usages of woke date back to the early 20th century and the idea of Black people “keeping their eyes open” to the realities of white supremacist violence. “Stay woke” continued as a warning call to other Black Americans through the music of people like Erykah Badu and Childish Gambino, and as a rallying cry through the Ferguson protests, until it started to enter mainstream and lose its original meaning. In this transcript, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, they discuss how white people on both the left and the right developed a misunderstanding of the word woke and spread that version online—and how the same thing is now happening with “critical race theory.”

https://slate.com/culture/2021/06/woke-critical-race-theory-definition-history-meaningless.html

Many freely let Republicans to gain control of the meaning of a word. Look at the current nonsense surrounding Critical Race Theory. It went from a scholarly study of structural racism to making it impossible for teachers to discuss issues of race.

Republicans are openly continuing the coup attempt that began under Trump. Those who find the Woke the biggest threat to the country are gullible.

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 6:10pm

I never heard the term before I saw PP use it, I presume as a pun

You have a serious lack of a sense of humor problem.

Oh and save the Uncle Tom's Cabin lectures for your shallow myopic fellow afro-american-centric history fans. My absolute first undergrad college course was History of American Theater of which already in the early 70's Harriet Becher Stowe's magnum opus was like half the course, already seen as more of import to its affect on white American culture (including but certainly not exclusively thousands of black-face minstrely shows to follow). I have followed scholarship on its import for many decades now. It's a very serious and complex topic.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 2:51am

Nina Turner had a 35 point lead and a huge money advantage. Her loss says more about her than Progressives. Turner angered Democratic leadership. She made a local race national. It is likely that there will be no major differences in Brown's voting pattern and how Turner would vote. Turner blew a local race.

James Clyburn

"I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid,” Clyburn told Axios this week of his decision to back Brown.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566455-jeffries-nina-turner-loss-proves-anti-establishment-line-of-attack-is-lame

Progressives remain in place:

Cori Bush was elected and was a major force in getting an eviction moratorium extension

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/us/politics/cori-bush-eviction-moratorium.html

Jamaal Bowman represents NY-16

Mondaire Jones represents NY-17

The Squad remains in place

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:08pm

er, a friendly reminder from the hot new political analyst this year of the same old same old: you don't win states like OH, SC, NH etc. with The Librul Party:

"Swing voters don't share our values. If they did, they would be liberals." Democratic data guru David Shor on Dems' growing peril on Beyond Politics. https://t.co/G3tz0kOi5A
— NH Talk Radio (@wkxlnh) August 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:42pm

This is a great interview with @DavidKlion and @danielmarans about what went down in Ohio-11 https://t.co/hwqcegLVul
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:53pm

A Shontel supporter, "Shontel Brown is going to Congress @Lawlorbrendans" Biden Democrat, Liberal, Capitalist, Never Trump, Anti-Trump/Trumpism #Resist #BidenHarris2020"

vs.

Cori the privatizer (who's the real Trumpie really?)

Defunding the police would lead to a proliferation of private security and vigilantism when people don’t feel safe and protected https://t.co/IQojCUJNfE
— Shontel Brown is going to Congress (@Lawlorbrendans) August 5, 2021

You see it in the Cori Bush clip but there’s just a deep, un-acknowledged affinity between “defund police” and the general idea of privatizing public services.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 5, 2021

Many people could live perfectly safe lives commuting from gated communities to offices with security guards to shopping malls patrolled by rent-a-cops.

But thriving, socioeconomically integrated cities needs a *public* safety force.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 12:05am

More on the demented nationally counterproductive woke Dems like Cori Bush. GOP campaigns would like to thank her for the fish:

This is just so unhinged, she thinks she is better and more important than the rest of us commoners. She thinks she is more deserving of security and safety than the people because she’s “doing more”. She expects the Capitol Police she voted to defund to protect her https://t.co/4POCXO46R0
— Shontel Brown is going to Congress (@Lawlorbrendans) August 6, 2021

Hope everyone who was applauding Cori Bush for her performative camping trip feels good giving her so much attention now that she's gonna be the face of GOP ads going into 2022 with her "suck it up" comment.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 5, 2021

House Dem leadership should also be ashamed of themselves for pushing Biden to issue that EO.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 5, 2021

Defund The Police almost cost the house in what should have been a wave year.

I didn't think voters were gonna take it at face value, but they did.

This is blatantly unhelpful.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 5, 2021

It’s like she looked at Omar and Tlaib and said “not embarrassing enough”.
— Dollar Store Publius (@Xeynon) August 6, 2021

She is a liability
— Dreamsicle (@Dreamsicle2020) August 5, 2021

Yes I did , it should never had come that in the 1st place. If you don't like that then Dem leadership should do better They were going on vacation while folks were worried about shelter
— richieri1318483 (@richieri1318483) August 5, 2021

It's almost like she wants to beat the Labour record in the UK for being the losing-est of all time, the Tories can be as evil and stupid as they want because no one, no one will even consider supporting Labour anymore

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 1:11pm

Ran across this guy who prides himself on observing and fortelling changes in pop culture zeitgeist. Looking pretty good on this one back 8 days ago:

Those Nina Turner rallies have such a dated and throwback feeling to them, it’s like its
always 2016. Forever 2016 Anger and more anger.

Shontel Brown’s rallies are about doing the work, reality and living in the present and making a better tomorrow. #ShontelBrown
— Jason Elias (@Zebop) July 31, 2021

I hope he's right. I and everyone I know in meat space is FUCKING SICK OF YOUR ANGRY PROTESTING MODE left and right. It's so Trumpian and all of 2020 was given over to it, enough already of your humorless anger, negativity, cancel culturing, culture wars distractions over shit where no one is ever going to change their mind, there are- only-two-sides-divisiveness and playing to Putin's wet dreams. We ARE a diverse country. Except that a huge majority are proud of being citizens of this country. The descendants of african slaves who chose not to be here are an ever smaller minority all the time, like they used to say to us hippies back in the 70's: love it or leave it. Way past time those who are no longer sure do that. Get some Joementum and stop your bitching.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 3:04am

I talked to a Texas cousin after a few decades, and during the very long convo (politics didn't come up til the end) she rattled off like 8 times her kids had lost major career opportunities due to racial requirements/untilting the playing field. At some point people will get pissed.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 3:55am

Does your cousin have documentation that the people hired were less qualified?

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 1:00pm

Yeah.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 2:41pm

Did she file and win lawsuits?

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 4:27pm

You mean did her kids file lawsuits? No, i don't think so. Unless you want to be Alan Bakkie and give up 4-5 years of your life on a faint hope, not really a good bet.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 5:11pm

So no real documentation.

Edit to add:

Affirmative Action in hiring is on its death bed.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/fall2009/affirmative_action_age_forty-five_is_dead/

There are recent cases settled by the EEOC of discrimination against minority workers

https://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/e-race/significant-eeoc-racecolor-casescovering-private-and-federal-sectors

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 8:42pm

same old "any old fallacy" in argument from you just to keep arguing

PROOF IS NOT THE ISSUE AT HAND when it comes to this topic of elections, IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS.

Heard tell generally sunny optimisim works better than negativity on people, especially in swing states, as well as you know, hopey changey, things might noit seem so unfair in the future, stuff like that.

I don't think this would be a sure sell, for example: "all I care about is this one minority and especially fuck all you whypipple" Race war, calling each other names, fighting for spoils, now this seems to only appeal to your type and your doppelgangers that the GOP is lying to right now, the Trump fans.

You seem to enjoy the faux hate and warring so much, bully for you. Enjoy your kabuki show before the boom lowers in swing districts in 2022: enough ot fhis shit, we're sick of it not to mention it's not real.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 9:33pm

Psst: hint about reality- while you're playing troll games about non reality like silly mental health policies as a replacement for policing as with your big lie believing doppelgangers blame you for the homicide rate (and the perps thinking you both mean law and order is over so have at it)

Joe's bipartisanship is actually going on, a trillion dollar's worth (not to mention an end to most child poverty, didja miss that one while you are playing lefty squad vs. establishment games?)

you mention losing. where is that going on except for lefties and far righties who are losing so much they have to keep lying? Looks like the Biden admin and allies in (a DemCongress I might add) are following the golden rule for Dems winning nationally: IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!

Hopefully they'll NOT listen to people like you and KEEP WINNING as they are RIGHT NOW in a nearly impossible situation of a pandemic and a nut case ex-prez stoking crazies out here

Interesting weet from just a guy named Landry, once advance guy for @JoeBiden @HillaryClinton @TimKaine

2020-2021 election record

Jim Clyburn: 2
Errbody else: 0 pic.twitter.com/kHuMAzXsRK
— Doug Landry (@dougblandry) August 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 9:47pm

People changed the meaning of identity politics

People choose to focus on police abolition rather than rearranging funding of services to a community

They give Republicans cover.

People use Critical Race Theory as a cover for not teaching history about race in the United States

Truth over fiction is better

Truth

The fictional character "Uncle Tom" died a hero

Hillary was not hiding babies in the non-existent basement of a pizzeria in D.C.

COVID is not a hoax

Perceptions can kill.

Where did I say fuck all you white people?

Traveling to Santa Barbara with some white people in September (if the town is not on fire)

BTW: There is a poll suggesting that 69% of Black people are OK with Andrew Coumo remaining in office.

I think Cuomo should resign.

If Democrats can't build the backbone to pass a strong voting rights bill, they deserve to lose.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 10:38pm

you are both deluded and changing the topic now to totally unrelated shit like Cuomo and #MeToo.

simple fact: the only two term Democratic presidents of our lifetime were centrists proving their centrist bonafides with prominent and clear STFU to lefties via "Sister Souljah" moments during campaigning and strong "uniter not divider" anti-identity politics messaging in their major speeches. Furthermore they followed the rule of "it's the economy stupid" above all others and continued to support bi-partisan efforts no matter how nasty the other party, including during ridiculous impeachment effort for kabuki distraction

NOTHING has changed about how Democrats win. And that includes offering an alternative in behavior of adulting to rabble rousing GOP children. Doing the same thing as the other side is not offering an alternative! You do not become the liberal version of Tom Delay to win against Tom DeLay.

Law and order goes hand in hand with "it's the economy stupid", as people cannot conduct business without some semblance of it. See like, Venezuela.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 10:51pm

p.s. um if you are going to bring him up, didja ever notice Cuomo has been an extremely successful Democratic politician to date despite all his personal quirks, flaws and peccadilloes? nearly literally has gotten away with murder because consitutents like the centrist tough guy functionality aspect and lefties who have challenged him end up on the trash heap

Cuomo served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he served in President Bill Clinton's Cabinet as the 11th United States secretary of housing and urban development. In 2006, Cuomo was elected Attorney General of New York. Cuomo won the 2010 New York gubernatorial election to become Governor of New York and has been reelected twice after winning primaries against progressive challengers Zephyr Teachout (2014) and Cynthia Nixon (2018).

~wikipedia

You basically talk from the same kind of delusionary nether world as Trump fans waiting for the return of their savior.. You can't see how nuts and self-centered and baically anti-American you identarians sound to most people? All you care about is your own tribe, that's an attitude that's responsible for some of the worst evils in history and is the opposite of why immigrants want to be citizens of the United States, they are running from the shit you like! Plenty in Africa would love to trade places with you, why doncha think about it?

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 11:05pm

btw this is the strategy that basically killed the Biden "sexual harassment" story, despite the commenter's assertion this'll do no such thing. (Biden's attacker's assertion was he had run his hand up her skirt (with crotchless panties, delish) in a hall in the Senate building. Seconds indeed.

Sounds like maybe she was suggesting he had no time in between to grope. Groping happens in seconds.
— PenelopePitterstop (@PPitterstop) August 6, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 11:51pm

To quote Groucho Marx, "who ya gonna believe - me? Or your lying eyes?" I'll be sure to pass your links to my cousin to show her (grown) kids' experience wasn't all that bad.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 9:43pm

true that the job opening is U.S. congressional legislator from the state of Ohio and not blacktavist:

Shontel Brown on Cori Bush: pic.twitter.com/jCD90lpnO0
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) August 5, 2021

Shontel Brown, on Cori Bush: “I’ve not been much, candidly speaking, of an activist. I know thats something she has been very proud to be and I respect that wholeheartedly. But I really pride myself on being a legislator who sits at the table to negotiate” https://t.co/igtuGVPBYF
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 8:55am

Several cities are shifting police funds to mental health and other issues.

Both St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri are shifting funds.

The St Louis program is based on one already in operation in New Haven

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/St-Louis-police-social-service-workers-learn-12885675.php

Kansas City police actually gain $3M

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2021-06-10/defund-the-police-was-designed-to-provoke-a-response-in-missouri-it-worked

Homicides are increasing despite the presence of police. Other approaches are needed.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:27pm

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Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From...
Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From a Neighbor

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Imperialism for me but not for thee?

It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

submitted by artappraiser 12 months ago

@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

submitted by artappraiser 12 months ago

"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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