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The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is taking emergency action to help protect the critically endangered California condors after several have died from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). APHIS has approved the emergency use of HPAI vaccine in an attempt to prevent additional deaths of these birds.

I hope it works.

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Democrats have flipped the Jacksonville Mayor office tonight.  Say many bad things about Florida, but they sure as hell know how to count votes.  Polls closed at 7 pm and they had over 95% over the votes counted by 7:40. 

Now of the 20 largest cities in the US only two are run by Republicans.

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The pardon allegation reminds me of Kushners deposition for the Jan6 committee, where he said he was too busy handing out pardons to notice the insurrectionist stuff going on pre-Jan6...

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According to an as of yet unconfirmed article by Drudge Report, Fox fired Laura Ingraham. Nothing will change there ofc, but it still couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

Bumped to primetime: Watters (toldya), Gutfield. Heir of F*cker's spot: Hannity (haha, good luck with that).

“TOP SOURCE TELLS DRUDGE: ‘IT’S OUR BOLDEST AND MOST FEARLESS LINE-UP EVER’…”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-matt-drudge-teases-bombshell-about-fox-news-schedule-shakeup/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/17/2169892/-Prime-time-news-at-Fox-has-a-shakeup-apparently-Laura-Ingraham-was-fired

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Top five US executives hoard $9bn tax-free for retirement as workers face limits
At many of these companies a sizeable percentage of workers, in some cases as much as half, had no money in their 401(k)s – report

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/18/executives-tax-free-retirement-plan-savings-401k

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The report, A Tale of Two Retirements, from the Institute for Policy Studies and Jobs With Justice found the top five executives at S&P 500 firms held a combined $8.9bn in special tax-deferred accounts at the end of 2021. Income taxes will be due on this compensation when they withdraw the funds, but in the meantime, they benefit from the tax-free compounding of investment returns.

These so-called “top hat” plans allow unlimited tax-deferred retirement while ordinary workers face strict limits on their 401(k) retirement plan contributions. The survey found that at many of these companies, a sizeable percentage of workers – in some cases as much as half – had no money in their 401(k)s.

 

 

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Feinstein’s primary caregiver: Pelosi’s daughter

A quiet caretaking arrangement has raised questions about whether Nancy Pelosi has the ailing senator’s personal interests at heart.

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Prowda, the eldest child of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has come to play in Feinstein’s life as the 89-year-old has dealt with the absence of her deceased husband, the departure of trusted staffers, a nasty case of shingles and spiraling concerns about her fitness for office.

Not only did Prowda escort Feinstein around Capitol Hill last week, she was again at her side yesterday, helping aides surround the senator in a Capitol hallway as a reporter tried to speak to her. Multiple people familiar with the arrangement say it’s only the most visible part of a quiet but critical role the Pelosi family has played in helping to take care of the ailing senator, both in Washington and San Francisco.

...it has also raised uncomfortable questions about whether Nancy Pelosi’s political interests are in conflict with Feinstein’s personal interests.

The intrigue surrounds the future of Feinstein’s seat. Pelosi has endorsed Rep. Adam Schiff, her longtime protégé and former hand-picked House Intelligence Committee chair, to succeed Feinstein after her sixth and final term ends next year....

if Feinstein were to bow to pressure and retire early, Schiff’s advantage could disappear. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has pledged to appoint a Black woman to serve out her term, and one of Schiff’s declared opponents, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), would fit the bill.

“If DiFi resigns right now, there is an enormous probability that Barbara Lee gets appointed — thus, it makes it harder for Schiff,” one Pelosi family confidant told Playbook, adding that the relationship between Pelosi, her daughter and the senator is “being kept under wraps and very, very closely held.”

...“The political thinking is that if DiFi stays as long as possible, it helps Schiff as well.” (...)

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/18/dianne-feinstein-senate-resign-retire-pelosi-schiff-lee-00097595

 

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34 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Evidently an effect of shingles, which is why Feinstein is o-u-t to l-u-n-c-h is memory loss and disorientation.

 

Not so much the shingles as the most common treatment for it: gabapentin. My 83yr old father (who is sharp as a tack) was prescribed it for shingles pain; he twice woke up sitting in his driveway, in a running car, with no memory how he got there. There was a Home Depot bag on the passenger seat, so apparently he drove three miles home before blacking out? That's why it is a popular party drug with the youfs.

Then my mother tried gaba for sciatic nerve impingement. She sounded really disoriented on the phone & could never remember what day it was. Kept missing medical appointments. The disorientation is worst in the first month or so, then it becomes less noticeable. Unfortunately, the pain relief also seems to taper over time, requiring ever-higher dosages. Which prescriptions insurers and drug stores are hesitant to fill (see youfs, above).

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On 5/13/2023 at 6:29 AM, Tywin et al. said:

Sure, and DeSantis looked hot until people started realizing he was lame af. Everyone of their candidates are. Not one of them as far as I can tell is more sophisticated than Rubiot 9000, just way more hateful.

No. And you're not the target audience. I'm sure the majority of people who hear "globalist" don't really get the whistle either. But it rings loud both to the target audience and the one afraid of it. 

Not fully caught up on the thread but felt I needed to chime in and back Ty on this. I'm not Jewish and wouldn't have said I'm particularly keyed in on this issue, but railing against specifically Soros is something I parse as an antisemitic dog whistle in pretty much 100% of cases.

Maybe if there's something specific he's just done that's being criticized then there's some room for benefit of the doubt, but just general complaining or especially something like "Soros funded protestors" reads exactly the same as "globalists" which itself is a dog whistle that seems utterly meaningless if you aren't in on it, but is absolutely Nazi shit.

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6 hours ago, karaddin said:

Not fully caught up on the thread but felt I needed to chime in and back Ty on this. I'm not Jewish and wouldn't have said I'm particularly keyed in on this issue, but railing against specifically Soros is something I parse as an antisemitic dog whistle in pretty much 100% of cases.

As another half-jew who's worked on dogwhistles (wrote a paper on those a few years back), I can confirm 200% that attacks against Soros are generally anti-semitic dogwhistles, yes.
BTW, the entire point of a dogwhistle is that not everyone gets it, so it's entirely normal that a few folks here would be skeptical, plausible deniability is the goal.

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I’m seeing people opposing Feinstein resigning because they say the Republicans can block judicial appointments by refusing to seat a New Democratic Party member on the Judiciary committee.  When a Democratic interim Senator is appointed by Newsome the Democratic Caucus retains the Majority in the Senate… can’t they just use that majority position to force the minority to accept a new member on the Judiciary committee?

Can the Republicans filibuster the seating of a new Senator on the Judiciary committee?

@DMC @Tywin et al. 

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DeSantis will officially announce his candidacy on Wednesday, the Miami Herald reports. That is all.

Ohm, and one more thing. He has been noting to donors privately that only Biden and he have a chance to win next year, but probably smart for him not to state that publicly.

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Ah yes, Ronald DeSantis, a normal human person that American voters can relate to.

Maybe learning to laugh from a YouTube tutorial was not a great idea.

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12 minutes ago, mormont said:

Ah yes, Ronald DeSantis, a normal human person that American voters can relate to.

Maybe learning to laugh from a YouTube tutorial was not a great idea.

I’ve said for years he needs adjustments to his human suit.  It seems very uncomfortable.

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20 minutes ago, IheartIheartTesla said:

Ohm, and one more thing. He has been noting to donors privately that only Biden and he have a chance to win next year, but probably smart for him not to state that publicly.

This claim feels very much like a *private* claim made to be leaked to the press.  Smart to do it like that. 

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1 hour ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Can the Republicans filibuster the seating of a new Senator on the Judiciary committee?

Yes replacing Feinstein on the committee would require 60 votes.  Indeed, last month Republicans blocked Schumer's effort to temporarily replace Feinstein - without her resigning - with Ben Cardin. 

However, when that happened, Lindsey Graham clarified that if Feinstein were to resign he would follow precedent and support a replacement.  I'd expect there'd be eight other Republican Senators that are institutionalists and would do the same (definitely the Romney/Collins/Murkowski bloc), but hey you never know. 

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