Day: September 24, 2020💾

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Trump Campaign Is Reportedly Plotting to “Bypass” a Biden Win | Vanity Fair

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Trump Campaign Is Reportedly Plotting to “Bypass” a Biden Win | Vanity Fair

Now the Trump campaign is said to be considering another, even more outrageous approach: In a thorough and deeply disconcerting piece about the constitutional crisis that may await us between November 3 and the inauguration in January, the Atlantic’s Barton Gellman reports that the Trump campaign has been discussing “contingency plans to bypass the election results and appoint local electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority.” Citing the president’s baseless claims of fraud, Team Trump could ask GOP-controlled state governments to choose electors, completely ignoring an unfavorable or uncertain popular vote, state and national Republican sources told Gellman.

In your guts you know he's nuts. Can you imagine the political backlash if a state even tried to do that? Or the court challenges that would raise? That power may exist but I can't imagine anybody wanting to touch that. 

Federal Agents Tapped Cellphones of Portland Protesters | Democracy Now!

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Federal Agents Tapped Cellphones of Portland Protesters | Democracy Now!

The Nation magazine is reporting federal officials with the Justice Department and Homeland Security have intercepted the phone communications of protesters in Portland. The Nation reports the surveillance involved cellphone cloning, where the government steals a phone’s unique identifiers and copies them to another device in order to intercept the communications received by the original device. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has called for a full investigation. He wrote on Twitter, “The Trump admin has treated the people of Portland like enemy combatants. These tactics—like cell phone cloning to spy on protestors—are unacceptable in America.”

Gavin Newsom signs order banning sales of gas powered cars | The Sacramento Bee

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Gavin Newsom signs order banning sales of gas powered cars | The Sacramento Bee

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order that would phase out sales of new gas-powered passenger cars by 2035, a move that he said would improve air quality and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

He signed the order two weeks after he pledged to fast-track California’s environmental goals in response to what he called a “climate damn emergency” — the wildfires that have burned a record-breaking 3.6 millon acres this year.

Did you see that article I shared a little while ago about them canceling the in person viewing of the ball drop in New York City during the pandemic? 🎇

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Did you see that article I shared a little while ago about them canceling the in person viewing of the ball drop in New York City during the pandemic? 🎇

I guess that’s just a sign of the times and such a mass gathering wouldn’t be sensible during a pandemic but it just shows what we have to look forward to as we go into 2021. Normalcy isn’t coming home anytime soon.

Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Will Be Virtual – CBS New York

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Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Will Be Virtual – CBS New York

The coronavirus pandemic is altering another iconic New York tradition.

The annual Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop will be virtual this year, organizers announced Wednesday.

Organizers say it will be a “virtually enhanced celebration,” though added there would be some small, scaled-back live events using social distancing associated with it.