Democrats Say Agency Run By Trump Holdover Is Delaying Stimulus Checks

Democrats Say Agency Run By Trump Holdover Is Delaying Stimulus Checks

Millions of disabled and retired Americans are still waiting for their $1,400 stimulus payments because of a holdup at the Social Security Administration, House Democrats said Wednesday. 

President Biden. "I have no idea if there will be a Republican party" in 2024

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Atlanta man arrested with 6 guns, body armor at Publix grocery store
• Hundreds of Migrant Children Test Positive for Coronavirus Upon Arrival at HHS Facilities
• Pentagon official: Trump's Somalia withdrawal 'probably' had 'significant downsides'
• 43 senators to Biden: Use "full force" of diplomatic, economic tools to check Iran

All I'm saying is that if your reaction to minor gun control legislation is to flip the f*ck out and drape yourself in weapons and dare people to try to take them away from you, you're probably not a good avatar for responsible gun ownership. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Will The "Strict Constitutionalists" Be "Strict Constitutionalists"?

A possible expansion of gun rights is on the Supreme Court's agenda, days after mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia.

The justices are meeting in private Friday to discuss adding new cases to their docket for the fall. Among the prospects is an appeal from gun rights advocates that asks the court to declare a constitutional right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-protection.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For Tougher Background Checks On Purchasers of Space Lasers. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Georgia House passes sweeping bill that would restrict voting access, setting up final vote next week
• Ted Cruz Throws Down With a Reporter Who Asks Him to Mask Up: 'You're Welcome to Step Away'
• MS Senator Defends Georgia's Rollback of Sunday Early Voting By Claiming Policy Breaks One of the Ten Commandments
• Chicago hospital CFO resigns over vaccinations for Trump Tower employees
• Trump aide concealed work for PR firm and misled court to dodge child support
• Wyoming election changes pushed by Donald Trump Jr. fail
• Maggie Haberman Points Out That Press Conferences Are 'Generally Not Great Formats' for 'Thin-Skinned' Joe Biden
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Ted Cruz Decries Voting Rights Bill As Shameless Power Grab By American People To Control Country. - The Onion

 

Michigan GOP Are Really Mad They Lost The Last Election!
Michigan Senate Republicans unveiled a sweeping package of more than three dozen bills to overhaul state election procedures after discredited efforts to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 election, which President Biden won by nearly 3 percentage points.

It's time to stop allowing people with severe mental illness to legislate guns. - TheTweetOfGod

 

 

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The only way we will solve the problem of gun violence is by solving the problem of mental illness in Republican Senators. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• President Biden overhauls his goal for COVID-19 vaccine
• Biden's new goal is 200 million COVID-19 vaccinations in first 100 days
• Schumer vows votes on background checks, voting rights after break
• Florida Democrats call for DOJ investigation of state Senate races
• Cuomo Family Members, Including Brother Chris, Reportedly Got ‘Special Access’ to Covid-19 Tests

Yes, I’m running for re-election. No, I’m not going to spend 4 years campaigning. I don’t need rallies to feed my ego like the other guy. - President Biden

New York To Legalize Marijuana
New York State lawmakers have reached a deal to legalize recreational marijuana, a legislative source familiar with negotiations told CNN Wednesday, stating lawmakers were finalizing bill language to be passed next week.

Hey, remember when Hunter Biden got caught stealing from his own fake foundation and was forbidden from ever operating a charity again and had to attend a class on "how not to steal"? oh wait, that wasn't Hunter Biden, that was Ivanka, Individual-1 Junior, and the dumb one. - Jeff Tiedrich

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Business/Tech News

• 'Awful news' for Trump hotels and resorts after top luxury travel agency dumps them: report
• Energy Department targets 60 percent reduction in solar costs by 2030
• Facebook, Google, Twitter Chiefs Testify at Congressional Hearing on Misinformation
• Amazon's Official Twitter Hits Back at Congressman: 'You Don't Really Believe the Peeing in Bottles Thing, Do You?'
• Agriculture secretary: Under Trump, 0.1% of COVID farm aid went to Black farmers

Krispy Kreme is offering free donuts to anyone who’s been vaccinated. Which is great news for anyone who got the shot but still has a death wish. - Stephen Colbert

 

I've Switched To Pepsi

Georgia activists are planning to launch a boycott of Coca-Cola Co., one of Atlanta's largest and most well-known companies, over its apparent refusal to denounce a GOP-backed bill in the Georgia legislature that would limit voter access

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Odd News

• Sprawling 5,000-year-old cemetery and fortress discovered in Poland
• Civil War-era cannonball detonated by Maryland bomb squad
• Virginia school finds student's lost wallet after 70 years
• Snowboarders escaped monster avalanche, but not the law
• Terrified Girl Writes 'Help... Robbers!' to Zoom Class During Home Invasion in SF

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Bora Bora. I would be snorkeling there until sunset.

Peace.

After mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, Senate Democrats promise a vote on new gun regulations

After mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, Senate Democrats promise a vote on new gun regulations

Senate Democrats vowed Tuesday to move forward with new gun safety legislation in the wake of two more mass shootings, but passage of such measures faces long odds thanks to

Republicans Argue That Migrant Children Pose Far Greater Danger Than Assault Weapons. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• DHS Reportedly Weighs Monitoring Travel, No Fly List for Potential Domestic Terrorists, White Supremacists
• A Man Drove His Car Through A Crowd At An Anti–Asian Violence Rally And Yelled “F*ck China”
• Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber Says Spring Breakers Have Been Caught With About 100 Guns Since Chaos Began
• Coronavirus: 'Double mutant' Covid variant found in India
• Merkel drops Easter shutdown plan, apologizes to Germans

After 20 small children were massacred at Sandy Hook, President Obama led the charge on common sense gun reform. 

It had sky-high public approval.

The filibuster killed its chances of passage. - Dean Barker

 

 

Of Course It Was A Planned Insurrection
A key member of the Oath Keepers militia told associates he had coordinated alliances with the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups in advance of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally, according to new evidence filed by the Justice Department.

If you don't need a mask because God will protect you then why the f*ck do you need a gun? - Brown Eyed Susan

 

Republican Shenanigans

• McConnell Says He Hasn't Been Invited to White House; Complains Biden Has Made 'No Effort' for Bipartisanship
• Tucker Carlson Calls Obama a ‘Racial Arsonist’ Trying to ‘Divide Americans’ With Statement on Shooting
• Jake Tapper Baffled by GOP Senator's Gun Control-Drunk Driving Analogy: 'I Don't Even Know What to Say to That, It's So Stupid'
• Trump pictured entertaining guests maskless at Mar-a-Lago days after COVID outbreak caused its partial closure
• GOP senator defends vote suppression by saying God doesn't want Americans to vote on Sundays
• Bernie Sanders says he’s not comfortable with Twitter ban against Trump

Thoughts and prayers is actually the GOP healthcare plan. - OhNoSheTwitnt

 

Georgia Must Be Itching To Bring Charges Against The Trumpsters

Local prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are actively researching whether they can apply “false statement” charges against Rudy Giuliani and other members of Donald Trump’s team for their mendacity-packed attempts to meddle with the state’s 2020 election results, according to a person familiar with the matter.

If every black person purchased an assault rifle and carry it around in public like these gun nuts, Republicans would ban guns in minutes. - Alex Cole

 

 

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First they came for the Second Amendment, and I did not speak out— because nobody is coming for the Second Amendment, you whiny paranoid grievance-baby gun fetishists. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• More than 40 states say they will meet or beat Biden’s May 1 deadline for vaccine eligibility for all adults.
• Kamala Harris Demands Action for Gun Control: 'Time for Congress to Act and Stop With the False Choices'
• Duckworth, Hirono Back Off Ultimatum to Biden White House on Appointing More Asian Americans
• Biden's dogs return to White House

If they think that God picks our Presidents, then why do Republicans vote? - DesignationSix tweet

Virginia Ends Death Penalty
The governor signed legislation Wednesday making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth, which had the second-highest number of executions in the U.S.

Every day Meghan McCain, daughter of a senator and heiress of the Anheuser-Busch fortune, goes on TV and tells Whoopi and Sunny, who both grew up in the projects, how elitist they are. - Sabrina tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Experts Predict Gas Prices Will Hit $3 A Gallon By Memorial Day
• Stocks move higher as banks, industrial companies recover
• Musk: Tesla accepts bitcoin as payment, won’t convert it “to fiat currency”
• Lawmakers reintroduce legislation to secure internet-connected devices

It’s rather baffling that we live in a society where drugs are illegal and guns are not... Just ponder how different our country would be if it were the other way around... - Cyrus McQueen

 

 

Republicans Have A Sexual Harassment Problem
The man who led former President Donald Trump’s effort to produce Covid-19 vaccines, Moncef Slaoui, has been fired from a bioelectronics company’s board of directors over sexual harassment allegations.

While I was writing THE SHINING and THE STAND, I lived on 42nd Street in Boulder, a 5-minute walk from the Table Mesa King Soopers. - Stephen King

 

 

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Odd News

• China: 3,000-year-old gold mask sparks online memes
• Satellite imagery shows mega container ship blocking Egypt's Suez Canal
• Volcanic ash shuts down international airport in Guatemala
• These dolphins took a day trip up Venice's Grand Canal
• Florida woman missing for weeks found naked in storm drain

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Australia's Green Bird flower plant has flowers shaped like Hummingbirds. Mother Nature is so creative.

Peace.

Boulder supermarket shooting suspect charged with 10 counts of murder

Boulder supermarket shooting suspect charged with 10 counts of murder

Police have charged a suspect in the Boulder, Colo., supermarket shooting with 10 counts of first-degree murder in an attack that left 10 people dead on Monday, including a police officer.

No other rich democracy on the planet regularly has mass shootings. Every other similar country has solved this problem. Not solving it is a policy choice. - Brian Klaas

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Obama rips lack of action on guns: Shouldn't take pandemic to curb shootings
• Boulder gunman, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, described as ‘anti-social’ and paranoid by brother
• NRA bragged about blocking Boulder AR-15 ban a week before Boulder mass shooting
• YouTube says it's leaving up live-streamed video of Boulder shooting
• Gunman Arrested In Texas After Ambushing National Guard Troops Carrying Covid Vaccines
• Polish writer could be jailed for describing president as 'moron' on social media

God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule. - The Onion

 

Republicans Won't Protect Us From The Virus Or Guns
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on Tuesday accused Democrats of playing “ridiculous theater” by proposing universal background checks and other reforms following mass shootings, which he claimed would take “away guns from law-abiding citizens.”

We should name mass shootings the way we do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the NRA. - Andrea Junker

 

Republican Shenanigans

• 'The Tweeting Gets You in Trouble': Trump Says He Prefers His 'Elegant' Press Releases to Twitter
• GOP firebrand Mo Brooks enters Ala. Senate race
• Sidney Powell tells court "no reasonable person" would take her voter fraud claims as fact
• Claudia Conway Gets Eliminated from American Idol
• South Dakota governor aims to block trans athletes from women's sports nationwide
• Marco Rubio Talks to TMZ About UFOs and the Possibility of Alien Life: 'There's Stuff Flying Over Military Installations' We Can't Identify

I don’t want stories about UFOs or Greenland. I want stories about the fact that someone removed the panic button in Ayanna Presley’s office before the insurrection. - Andrea Junker

 

Biden Wants Ban On Assault Weapons
President Joe Biden Tuesday afternoon called on Congress to ban assault weapons and to pass bills to strengthen background checks, less than 24 hours after a Colorado gunman slaughtered 10 people in a Boulder supermarket.

If you think an AR-15 should be easier to get than an abortion, you are not pro-life. - Middle Age Riot

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Rock The Voter News

• White House Reportedly Bringing in NASCAR, Christian Broadcasting Network to Help Sell Covid Vaccine to Skeptics
• Schumer fast-tracks hate crime, domestic terrorism bills
• Obamacare defies opponents and keeps expanding

Bill Barr’s daughter worked at Treasury to protect Trump’s tax returns, and loans at Deutsche Bank.

Rudy Giuliani’s son got $363,000 to be WH sports liaison with no experience.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner used the WH as $640 million bonanza.

It was never about Hunter Biden. - Andrea Junker

 

Germany Is In Lockdown. Florida Parties On.

Germany is extending lockdown measures until April 18 and urging people to stay at home for five days around the Easter holidays in an effort to curb the "exponential" growth in coronavirus cases, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Tuesday.

hey everyone, the AR in AR-15 actually stands for who gives a f*ck what it stands for, no civilian needs to have one. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

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When you live in a country so stupid it's full of people who think vaccines are dangerous but assault rifles are harmless. - Mrs. Betty Bowers

 

Business/Tech News

• USDA to increase SNAP food aid by 15% through September
• Early tests are planned for a COVID-19 vaccine that can be taken as a pill, with no need for injections
• New home sales fall more than 18 percent in February
• Citigroup CEO bans Friday Zoom calls to combat pandemic fatigue

Gun registration and background checks aren't an invasion of privacy.

Being shot is. - Middle Age Riot

 

Pandemic Beer Bread!

With restaurants and bars all closed due to pandemic restrictions, a Duesseldorf brewery found itself with 6,000 liters (1,585 gallons) of its copper-colored “Altbier” unsold and nearing its expiry date.

But with trying times come novel solutions. Fuechschen Brewery brewery paired up with craft bakers already using leftover grains from the brewing...

Covid-19 Guidelines Recommend No Screaming On Roller Coasters. - The Onion

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Odd News

• Australian government staff 'filmed sexual encounters in parliament and brought in sex workers for MPs'
•  Detective files for divorce after wife pictured at Capitol riots with another man
• Man gets stuck in stranger’s chimney — then charged with murder, Arkansas police say
• Lost and found: $1M lottery ticket recovered in parking lot
• Jack Dorsey sells first-ever tweet for more than $2.9 million

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Aerial view of Mount Fanjing in China, crowned with two Buddhist temples. Instead of those stairs, I'd prefer a helicopter.

Peace.