WESH NBC-2 Orlando:  “Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Senate President Wilton Simpson and House of Representatives Speaker Chris Sprowls in Zephyrhills on Monday.  The governor said that no one should be losing their jobs over ‘these jabs,’ promising to step up to protect workers against ‘heavy-handed mandates.’

“‘We have got to stand up for people and protect their jobs and livelihoods,’ he said. ‘It’s wrong to kick people out of work. It’s wrong to micromanage business like that.’  He says the legislature will use the special session he called for to propose bills that will strengthen workers’ and parents’ rights. He added he suspects ‘no Democrat will help any of these workers’ during a special session.

“The governor said the decision to have children vaccinated should be up to parents alone.  DeSantis said he will fight against vaccine mandates to stand up for the Constitution.”

Joe Biden's FBI is raiding the homes of investigative journalists, but tell me again how President Trump was attacking the press.

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 8, 2021

South Carolina Dem Congressman Jim Clyburn, the guy who saved Biden’s candidacy with his endorsement in the 2020 primary race has endorsed Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in the 2022 Senate race to take on complete piece of shit Ron Johnson (or whoever takes over the GOP nomination if RonAnon retires as he’s been considering), the Daily Beast reports.

“Mandela is hands-down the best candidate to defeat Senator Ron Johnson, expand our majority in the United States Senate, and deliver results for the people of Wisconsin” said Clyburn in a statement provided exclusively to the Daily Beast. Barnes’s counterpart in Pennsylvania, Lt Gov John Fetterman has a commanding lead in the primary for another flippable-for-Dems Senate seat.

“A man on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for allegedly attacking police during the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the ex-Soviet country’s state-run television reported Sunday. Evan Neumann, 48, is wanted in the United States on charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as for assaulting, resisting and obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder. Neumann denies the charges as ‘unfounded.'”

“Neumann sold his California home in spring and was thought to have moved to Ukraine to evade arrest, ABC News reported this summer. ‘Judging by his story, [Neumann] is the same type of simple American whose shops were burned by Black Lives Matter activists,’ a Belarus 1 TV channel presenter said, echoing a common talking point on Russian state television. Neumann ‘sought justice and asked uncomfortable questions’ following the 2020 U.S. elections disputed by ex-President Donald Trump, the presenter added, ‘but lost almost everything and is being persecuted by the U.S. government.’ Belarusian border authorities detained Neumann on the border with Ukraine on Aug. 15, Belarus 1 reported” – Moscow Times.

New York Times: “The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.”

“The Kyle Rittenhouse trial enters its second week Monday, with a key witness expected to take the stand: Gaige Grosskreutz, the last person shot by Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2002. Prosecutors expect to rest Tuesday, leaving just two days to buttress their case against Rittenhouse, 18, for homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment. His attorneys say he acted in self-defense and that he will testify” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

The Journal-Sentinel also noted that “jurors were allowed to go home for the weekend, with only the normal admonishments from Judge Bruce Schroeder to not discuss the case with anyone, watch or read any media accounts or commentary about, or do their own research” with that last bit confirming that the judge is a member of the Satanic Hollywood Clinton Comet Ping-Pong death cult that President Trump, JFK Jr, the true Queen of Canada, and other “white hats” are secretly battling. Nobody who tells Americans not to do their own research is on God’s side. Nobody.

“There’s no questioning the Republican Party’s loyalty to former President Trump these days – and a gathering of potential 2024 candidates over the weekend in Las Vegas only underscored that point. But as for Trump’s loyalty to the GOP, new reporting out Monday morning serves as a reminder of how tenuous it has been. In his forthcoming book, ‘Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,’ ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports for the first time on a Jan. 20 conversation between the soon-to-be-former president and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair.”

“‘I’m done,’ Trump told McDaniel just after he boarded Air Force One for the last time as president, according to Karl. ‘I’m starting my own party.’ The full exchange has McDaniel warning of the consequences – ‘we will lose forever’ – and Trump saying he didn’t care. It was only after the RNC threatened to take control of Trump’s email list, among other potential legal actions, that Trump backed down, Karl reports in the book. In an interview with Karl, Trump claimed not to recall the conversation, and said he never threatened to start a new party. Whatever might be said about the GOP’s allegiance to Trump for the foreseeable future, the book is a timely reminder that loyalty has often been a one-way street for the former president” – ABC News.

“Look, if the Democrats end the filibuster, if they fundamentally destroy the country, if they pack the Supreme Court, if they make D.C. a state, if they federalize elections and massively expand voter fraud, there may come a point where it’s hopeless. We’re not there yet. And if there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil” said Senator Ted Cruz to raucous applause at an event at Texas A&M last month. “Take me please, I don’t want to be trapped” the unidentified man on stage said. “What about Joe Rogan, are you gonna take him?” asked the unidentified blonde woman about the Ivermectin-loving podcast bro. “Joe Rogan, he might be president of Texas!” Cruz exclaimed.

Mediaite also published an article misidentifying the author of a piece in the Guardian as Trump’s former personal lawyer/fixer and not author Michael Cohen, the Daily Beast reports, noting that Mediaite published their article more than a half hour after the author of the column had tweeted about The Hill’s mistake on Sunday night. Shockingly enough, it does not appear the even more amateurish news site Raw Story made the same stupid error, according to their Disqus feed.

“If the bill is a success, no one, in 30 years, will remember the excruciating political drama surrounding its passage and it will be a significant legacy achievement for Biden. The measure also represents significant political vindication for the President. He anchored his campaign in 2020 on a case that he could use government to tilt the economy toward working Americans. He says the infrastructure plan will create the kind of secure, blue-collar jobs the US has been shedding for years. Over the last decade, the idea of an infrastructure reform bill had become a Washington punchline. But Biden achieved something that former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both failed to do despite their own hopes of splashy infrastructure bills” – CNN.

Associated Press:  “Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station.  Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s main module on Sunday evening, spending more than six hours outside installing equipment and carrying out tests alongside the station’s robotic service arm, according to the China Manned Space agency

“The third member of the crew, Ye Guangfu, assisted from inside the station, CMS said on its website.  Wang, 41, and Zhai, 55, had both traveled to China’s now-retired experimental space stations, and Zhai conducted China’s first spacewalk 13 years ago.

“The three are the second crew on the permanent station, and the mission that began with their arrival Oct. 16 is scheduled to be the longest stretch of time in space yet for Chinese astronauts.  The Tianhe module of the station will be connected next year to two more sections named Mengtian and Wentian. The completed station will weigh about 66 tons, much smaller than the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs around 450 tons.”

“Michael Cohen, the ex-lawyer of former President Trump, wrote on Sunday that President Biden’s best hope for reelection could be the former president himself. In an opinion article for The Guardian, Cohen predicted that ‘Trump is likely to remain the gift that keeps on giving for Democrats — the living, breathing bogeyman under the bed who keeps their voters up at night.’ ‘As much as Democrats may want to run on their legislative agenda, the spectre of Trump could be their most effective strategy for maintaining power and is probably Biden’s best hope for re-election,’ he wrote” is the first few paragraphs of The Hill’s Sunday night article titled Cohen says Trump is likely ‘Biden’s best hope for re-election’. Buuuut…

This is legitimately hilarious. @thehill wrote an entire piece saying “Michael Cohen” said Trump is Biden’s best hope for re-election … believing it was the other Michael Cohen. I wrote the article https://t.co/AXQ07CTDgm

— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) November 8, 2021

A little humility would go a long way at The Hill. They have none however. Even when they don’t so blatantly fuckup and fail at some of the most basic exercises in fact-checking they’re still a third rate product self-packaged as if it were a world-class one. A timeout on their account should be added, further failures of this nature should make it permanent.

November 7th, 2020 is a date that shall live in infamy. Victory Trump Day in America, when jubilant throngs filled the streets to celebrate the electoral defeat of the fascist, genocidal regime which had occupied the seat of its own government for four years full of disgrace and dishonor.

Amid the church bells ringing in cities across Europe, the raucous partying in New York’s Times Square, and the sweeter, smaller moments of love and affection, there was the one comically inept reaction that foreshadowed the increasingly insane and ultimately bloody and violent death spiral for the MAGA Reich. And it happened in a random Philadelphia, Pennsylvania landscaping company’s parking lot, between a crematorium and a porn store, with at least one convicted sex offender standing on the makeshift “stage” alongside former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani:

The background story of how the Four Seasons hotel press conference became the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Parking Lot press conference is still not really clear owing to the opacity of the opportunistic but probably not really actually pro-MAGA owners of the outfit and the laughable, but understandable embarrassment of Trump campaign staff who just wanted to forget it happened. It was just too goddamned perfect that right in the middle of Rudy’s insane rant did the final call “JOSEPH R BIDEN JR ELECTED 46TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES” come from all the major news networks’ decision desks and his childish reaction was but just one humiliation on the day of the lowest ebb of the American right wing’s power in over a decade (up until that point).

It appears State Farm Insurance is very unhappy with Green Bay Packers Quarterback and Homeopathic Healthcare fan Aaron Rodgers. While watching the Buffalo Bills/Jacksonville Jaguars game on NBC, this author cannot recall seeing a single State Farm ad featuring Aaron Rodgers. There were plenty of ads for State Farm, but they all featured Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and “Jake from State Farm”, played by actor Kevin Miles.

Aaron Rodgers recently tested positive for Covid19, and then managed to dig his own grave in news coverage by claiming that he’d received “homeopathic treatments”, received medical advice from right-wing radio troll Joe Rogan, and was taking Ivermectin to treat his illness

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Cornell University has issued a warning for all of the Central campus:

CornellALERT for the Ithaca campus: Avoid central campus. Evacuate areas in or nearby the Law School, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.

— Cornell University (@Cornell) November 7, 2021

“Russia could be left with almost $2 trillion in worthless hydrocarbon assets if major economies hit their net zero targets over the coming decades,” reports the Moscow Times. A report published in the journal Nature showed that “more than half of Russia’s estimated $3.9 trillion stock of fossil fuel assets — such as oil and gas rigs, pipelines, extraction facilities and other infrastructure to support the country’s vital energy sector — would become “stranded,” or effectively worth nothing, by 2036.”

After the surprise Gubernatorial win by Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, the GOP is in the process of rapidly trying to pivot away from Donald Trump. CNN reported that “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told some of the Republican Party’s most influential donors and bundlers Saturday that the only way for the party to continue building on last Tuesday’s electoral successes is to move beyond former President Donald Trump’s fixation with the 2020 election results — while showing voters they will listen and fight for them…” In an appearance on Meet The Press, former Florida Governor and Medicare/Medicaid frauster Rick Scott insisted: “If you’re a Republican, you want his [Trump’s] endorsement, but you’re going to win on the issues. And if you listen to Ron Klain, and you listen to Phil Murphy, they didn’t get it. What Americans are fed up with, they’re fed up with inflation…” Multiple media outlets have run stories describing how GOP candidates want to keep Trump “at arm’s length, but on their side.”

“Sudanese security forces have detained dozens of protesters and fired tear gas at several anti-coup rallies, as demostrators in several cities joined a call for two days of civil disobedience and a strike campaign against last month’s military takeover,” reports Al Jazeera. “Hundreds of anti-coup protesters rallied on Sunday in the capital Khartoum, as well as in its twin city of Omdurman, Wad Madni to the south, and the northern city of Atbara,” reports Al Jazeera.

“The Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized power on October 25 – dissolving the transitional administration and arresting dozens of government officials and politicians. The international community has since accelerated mediation efforts to find a way out of the crisis, which threatens to further destabilise the already restive Horn of Africa region.”

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“More than a year after Fox News fired him over complaints about ‘willful sexual misconduct in the workplace,’ Ed Henry has quietly returned to right-wing media, landing at a fringe outlet with ties to Steve Bannon. Real America’s Voice is a fledgling internet and satellite TV network starring mostly obscure MAGA hangers-on, with the exception of former Donald Trump confidants like Steve Bannon, whose daily War Room podcast airs on the channel, and the ex-president’s Ukraine conspiracy architect John Solomon, who partnered with RAV to produce ‘news’ content for the network. And in recent weeks, the little-watched channel has added Henry, a former rising star anchor at Fox News, to its roster as a correspondent and ‘political insider’. His re-surfacing went mostly unnoticed until he played a role in RAV’s live election coverage on Tuesday” – Daily Beast.