Attorney General William Barr has submitted his resignation to Trump. He will depart on Dec 23rd pic.twitter.com/ZQ4mgOnvLf
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 14, 2020
Attorney General William Barr has submitted his resignation to Trump. He will depart on Dec 23rd pic.twitter.com/ZQ4mgOnvLf
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 14, 2020
BREAKING: Joe Biden officially clinches the U.S. presidency as the Electoral College votes to confirm his victory https://t.co/LiT15hSUnV pic.twitter.com/dDOatZPZAo
— Bloomberg (@business) December 14, 2020
BREAKING: California has cast its electoral votes for Joe Biden. Biden has now passed the 270 electoral votes needed to formally become president-elect.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 14, 2020
Homeland Security, the department charged with safeguarding the country from attacks, was among the U.S. agencies hacked by Russia https://t.co/fI7RhJqRry
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 14, 2020
BREAKING: Attorney General Bill Barr is leaving the Department of Justice, after nearly two years of serving as a staunch Trump ally, the president announced https://t.co/acmf5EKhD2
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
>> “Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent” https://t.co/MPrMxgVG4c
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) December 14, 2020
Biden tonight excerpt: "If anyone didn’t know it before, we know it now. What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this: Democracy. The right to be heard. To have your vote counted. To choose the leaders of this nation. To govern ourselves."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 14, 2020
Georgians, today is the first day of early voting – make a plan to vote right now and vote early if you can. Then, make sure your friends and family in Georgia do the same. https://t.co/nylmAnqEbf
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 14, 2020
Crede Bailey, head of the White House’s security office, had his lower leg and right foot amputated due to COVID-19, his friend wrote on his GoFundMe page https://t.co/eE0TmDl6gu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
Analysis: Trump, who often portrayed liberal protesters as "thugs," is silent on violence among his supporters https://t.co/SNUb18NVEN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 14, 2020
[Recap] Security law: Hong Kong justice dept. ‘appalled’ by foreign officials demanding release of media tycoon Jimmy Laihttps://t.co/6wHZd0KR7y @PressFreedom @RSF_inter @FreedomHouse @IndexCensorship @IFEX
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) December 14, 2020
The @WCKitchen Team is back in Georgia today with #ChefsForThePolls! This is our partner food truck Smooth-N-Groove in Cobb County...near the Riverside EpiCenter polling location. Amazing so see so many lining up to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting! pic.twitter.com/yu4AifxlEO
— Please wear a mask! Do it for the World please... (@chefjoseandres) December 14, 2020
Today marks 8 years since 20 first-graders and 6 educators were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 14, 2020
To honor the lives lost in this terrible tragedy, it’s past time we implement common-sense gun safety reforms to keep our children safe. pic.twitter.com/YmsIWM6dDG
This is what triggered my post. https://t.co/d01QtTonTe
— RetroCrone (@RetroCrone) December 14, 2020
They said that they were the Republican electors there to cast their vote for president. State police declined to let them enter the building or leave votes offered in a manila envelope pic.twitter.com/rNVIwc5ZXC
— Riley Beggin (@rbeggin) December 14, 2020
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 300,000 Monday just as the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots. The number of dead is equivalent to repeating a tragedy on the scale of Hurricane Katrina every day for 5 1/2 months. https://t.co/7ovEZZsvcu
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 14, 2020
New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free - BBC News https://t.co/qxxB3ylHDu
— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) December 14, 2020
Not enough. | Michigan House punishes GOP Rep. Gary Eisen for hinting at Electoral College disruption https://t.co/x0KphgOFxN via @freep
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 14, 2020
US electors are meeting Monday to formally affirm Joe Biden's presidential victory. The President-elect will address the nation tonight following the Electoral College certification.
— CNN (@CNN) December 14, 2020
Follow live updates. https://t.co/kXVNabCbsO
Fuck everything about this. https://t.co/tLwTUovgoO
— Rodney Caston (@RodneyCaston) December 14, 2020
This fucking ghoul. https://t.co/BuzhmKX1GQ
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) December 14, 2020
The disgraced ex-president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., reportedly created a university-funded campus “think tank” that has been aggressively pushing President Trump’s baseless fraud claims since the electionhttps://t.co/SzTLduiIE5
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
David Perdue wants you to believe November's election in Georgia was rigged against Trump but "we still won." Totally incoherent. pic.twitter.com/m6DnExh9im
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 14, 2020
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appears ready to embrace fiscal conservatism again now that a Democrat is entering the White House.
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) December 13, 2020
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Graham called for cuts to social security and medicare to pay for the deficit. https://t.co/ELrP3x56HN
Proud boys are a terrorist organization. Pass it on #Airborne pic.twitter.com/shCzMuYttE
— Richard N. Ojeda, II (@Ojeda4America) December 13, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Locals in Tulum are bracing for more COVID trouble: a more than 2-week-long music festival starting on New Year’s Evehttps://t.co/vlhv0ofrih
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
Trump is working to set up @BrianKempGA as the fall guy should Perdue and Loeffler lose.
— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) December 14, 2020
Which, among other things, says they think losing is a real possibility. #gapol https://t.co/xmuJePho7f
Google services including Gmail and YouTube suffer outage https://t.co/w87cjIlL84
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 14, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: White nationalists fantasize about using diehard vaccine skeptics for their own even more twisted endshttps://t.co/f2OwSh2M1y
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
Remove @senatemajldr ’s powers that he uses to serve big corporations by electing @ossoff & @ReverendWarnock & pass term limits for Congress immediately.
— Mandy Thornton (@thornton_mandy) December 14, 2020
We can no longer have a man like Moscow Mitch whose been abusing public office the 70s taking and every payoff he can find.
EARLY VOTING IN GEORGIA BEGINS TODAY
— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) December 14, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden will enter the White House with a “clear mandate” from the American people, his top advisers say https://t.co/KXUMlwdB8L
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) December 14, 2020
South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem has begun trying to put a positive spin citing "harsh rules," "lockdowns, and "mask mandates"- but, per capita, the state's COVID-19 fatality totals are the worst in the US and Noem has been campaigning out of state. https://t.co/dT1i43jTMu
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) December 14, 2020
National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien is bringing his wife along on a trip to Paris and reportedly wants a private tour of the closed Louvre museum https://t.co/qhWGirNDFl
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Los Angeles at LAX. This is a major milestone for science, our country and our community. Thank you to all those who made this delivery possible, and are part of the incredible effort to distribute vaccines around the world. pic.twitter.com/KUnjSFrTyS
— LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) December 14, 2020
87-year-old Elizaveta Bursova will be put on trial on Dec 15 for hanging a White-Red-White national Belarusian flag, the symbol of protests, on her own apartment's balcony. In 1950s she was many times a champion in shooting sports. The lawless regime in #Belarus spares no one.
— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) December 12, 2020
“Every Belarusian is overcoming their fears right now,” the leader of democratic Belarus said. “Two months ago, I couldn’t bring myself to say words like ‘dictator’ or ‘usurper’ about Lukashenka. The more he cracks down, the easier it gets.” https://t.co/fmJVeFQJvn
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 14, 2020
Breaking - UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus vaccine have left Pfizer’s facility near Kalamazoo, Michigan. pic.twitter.com/Cf32ki9gCF
— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) December 13, 2020
New: Documents and records show that bank examiners have avoided penalizing at least six banks that incorrectly charged overdraft and related fees to hundreds of thousands of customers. https://t.co/aUEeJNeUyg
— ProPublica (@propublica) December 14, 2020
Do not believe *anything* until the Kremlin denies it™️ https://t.co/SyLw3N6pYL
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) December 14, 2020
Suspicion that working from home allows ample opportunity for slacking off has reached the Russian president. A news report, contested by the Kremlin, says Vladimir V. Putin has a duplicate office for video conferences at a Black Sea residence. https://t.co/QM3jS5aiok
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) December 14, 2020
Alexei Navalny, activist and vocal critic of Putin, has reportedly survived a second attempted assassination.https://t.co/isucgOjrQS
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 14, 2020
Hong Kong independence activist Andy Chan acquitted of assaulting police, says case is proof of ‘indiscriminate arrests’ https://t.co/GXJA7c6t6p @selina_cheng #hongkong #china pic.twitter.com/foQMGJgX1Y
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) December 14, 2020
Security law: Hong Kong justice dept. ‘appalled’ by foreign officials demanding release of media tycoon Jimmy Lai https://t.co/6wHZd0KR7y @cpjasia @IFJAsiaPacific @cmphku @fcchk @FreedomofPress #hongkong #china pic.twitter.com/OfUjSzjTUI
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) December 14, 2020
#环球时报Editorial: The value differences between China and the West have been exaggerated. We only just have managed to resist ideological attacks from the West, but we are far from having the ability to launch counterattacks on the West. https://t.co/Dinj62FIPt pic.twitter.com/g8NfirQFAU
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 13, 2020
From @NatanSharansky: Why Jimmy Lai and Hong Kong’s democracy advocates need Biden’s public support right now https://t.co/IyvTsKuMqr
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 13, 2020
EXCL: The ruler of Dubai, a Russian oligarch & Vladimir Putin associate, and Scotland's biggest private landowner are among a clutch of billionaire Scottish estate owners to claim nearly £7m in EU subsidies since 2016. My @TheScotsman story. Thread👇https://t.co/lTMLfpqnjY
— Martyn McLaughlin (@MartynMcL) December 14, 2020
After 110,000 deaths ravaged nursing homes in the U.S. and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots. https://t.co/F6zaH7Z7L4
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 14, 2020
With much sadness, I must announce the passing of one the world’s great writers - John le Carré.https://t.co/hpPFA5nA6D pic.twitter.com/HbC3WZzQFF
— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) December 13, 2020
Russian government-backed spies hacked into the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, the Washington Post reported Sunday https://t.co/hPjgbAGLta
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 13, 2020
Sen. Kelly Loeffler had “no idea” that she posed for a photo with a longtime Ku Klux Klan member https://t.co/euqo1m2kKv
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020
My country, the United States, has a state where offices will have to close so that people can fulfill their Constitutional duties without getting killed by domestic terrorists.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 14, 2020
This is where Trump has brought us. https://t.co/MSLrTErsJB
You know that’s not true. But that was par for the course for you. https://t.co/4wg6zAq8kq
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) December 14, 2020
Rep. Jason Crow: "Secretary Wilkie has betrayed the trust of the very veterans he is obligated to protect, and for this betrayal he must resign immediately. I also call for an immediate investigation into the role of Congressman Crenshaw in this smear campaign."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 14, 2020
The people who let almost 300,000 die will be the first to be vaccinated because of course https://t.co/VaxjzrIkJ1
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) December 13, 2020
this is a ransom note pic.twitter.com/AfuSm9Q1b9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 14, 2020
For every White House employee that gets an early vaccine, there will be one more exhausted nurse who has to wait.
— Tami Burages (@tburages) December 14, 2020
Trashed as usual pic.twitter.com/Y82flbIrCC
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) December 14, 2020
Give it a rest, cringeshaw. https://t.co/U0SPv2UDPs
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) December 13, 2020
The president spent another day golfing as Americans spent another day dying
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) December 14, 2020
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Republicans asked What’s the danger of humoring him?
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) December 14, 2020
And now we get to see the danger in real time pic.twitter.com/yceQqarGjI
It would make a lot more sense to vaccinate the incoming administration first.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 13, 2020
White House officials reportedly hustling to get immediate Covid-19 vaccines are like crew members whose bad judgment helped cause the ship to sink who are now oafishly elbowing their way to be first on the lifeboats.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 14, 2020
Gov. DeSantis suggests one dose of Pfizer vaccine may be enough https://t.co/fT3mKPb1Sq
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) December 14, 2020
The country was just attacked. Trump's NSA is going on a second honeymoon. https://t.co/frK9aKUElx
— Dr. emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 14, 2020
Hackers from a foreign nation-state have breached multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration https://t.co/kbb4mOHO5y
— POLITICO (@politico) December 14, 2020
At the most extreme, researchers aren’t sure what is possible when it comes to permanent brain disorders like Parkinson’s and schizophrenia after COVID-19.https://t.co/UzApYXhO1Z
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2020