Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden

Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden

The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority.

After years and years and years of “Infrastructure week” – we’re on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that will transform America. - President Biden

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Fauci Dismisses 'Individual Freedom' Before Sounding Alarm for Local Mandates: 'We're in Such a Serious Situation Now'
• Tucker Carlson Gives Bizarre Warning About Vaccine Mandates: ‘If You Can Do That, Why Can’t You Sterilize Me?’
• Ted Cruz Calls for ‘No Mandates, Zero’ on Masks or Vaccines as Texas Governor Announces Measures to Address Covid Surge
• Alabama officials dread ‘superspreader’ event at Trump rally in America’s least-vaccinated state

I try to optimistic, but then I read the state newspaper and get the feeling that America is now just Jonestown in slow motion. - Jimmie von Tungeln

 

Cuomo Steals Spotlight From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from office Tuesday, one week after an investigation concluded that he had sexually harassed 11 women and retaliated against his accusers.

At a press conference Tuesday, Cuomo announced that he would step down from the office. His resignation will be effective in 14 days.

New Yorkers Hopeful That Resignation Means Cuomo Will Stop Talking. - Andy Borowitz

 

Fauci Wants To Protect Teachers. The Nerve Of Him!
Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor, on Tuesday, said he supports any effort from local governments to mandate that teachers be vaccinated against the coronavirus. 

Whoa! My vaccine microchip is teaching me Critical Race Theory. - Brian Hjelle

Republican Shenanigans

• Dominion Sues Newsmax, OANN and Overstock Founder For 'Barrage of Lies' Over 2020 Election
• Dr. Ashish Jha Reacts to Marjorie Taylor Greene Touting Low Alabama Vaccine Rate: What’s the Political Gain of ‘Extending This Pandemic?'
• Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Twitter for a week after claiming vaccines are ‘failing’
• Desperate? Rudy Giuliani Now Selling Personalized Video Messages for $200 a Pop
• 'I'm staying up here for 72 hours': Mike Lindell abruptly cancels food breaks at his 'cyber symposium'
• Greg Gutfeld Refers to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski as 'That Dumb Broad'
• Trump-loving podcaster says America's founders would have launched military strikes against Drag Queen Story Hour

Marjorie three-names has been suspended for a week by Twitter and all I can think is why not forever. - George Takei

 

‘Rise Up, Patriots!’ Rand Paul Calls To Intubated Patients Lying Unconscious In Hospital ICU - The Onion

Gov. DeSantis Requests Federal Help

Florida is requesting hundreds of ventilators from the federal government after a surge in COVID-19 across the state, according to a Department of Health and Human Services planning document obtained by ABC News affiliate Local 10.

I have heard several times that some people don't want to take the vaccine for "religious reasons".

What the heck religion tells you not to take a vaccine????? - Pamela Apostolo tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Officials Reportedly Frustrated With CDC for Withholding Information From Them: 'Where the Hell are the Data?'
• AOC Tells Dana Bash She Thought She Was Going to be Raped and Killed During the Storming of the Capitol
• Zaid Jilani: 'Possibility' Cuomo could be prosecuted

Of course Andrew Cuomo should resign. 

Brett Kavanaugh, Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz should also resign. 

Why is it only Dems who hold themselves accountable, while RepubliQans just double down? - Randi Mayem Singer

 

Prince Andrew Has Nowhere To Hide. Or Does He?

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the many alleged victims of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has filed a federal lawsuit in New York accusing Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her on multiple occasions when she was still underage.

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Business/Tech News

• AMC to accept bitcoin as payment by end of 2021
• Over 59,000 pounds of frozen foods recalled. They’re linked to a salmonella outbreak
• How anti-vaxxers weaponized Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer drug, as a COVID-19 treatment
• Miami condo deemed unsafe, residents ordered to evacuate

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
New Orleans city council voted Thursday to remove penalties for low-level cannabis possession offenses, while in a separate action city leaders decided to vacate thousands of past cannabis-related convictions

If you don’t think Donald Trump will end up in prison, remember, nobody thought he would end up in the White House either. - Middle Age Riot

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Odd News

• Mars rock mysteriously vanishes, baffling NASA scientists
•  Smoke from wildfires reaches North Pole for first time in history
• City of Kyle, Texas, attempting to gather Kyles for Guinness World Record
• Canadian woman unofficially sets world record running on all fours
• Bear opens 8 car doors in a single night
• A "war zone" that "smelled lovely": Explosion of women's deodorant rocks truck stop

Time To Deflate Photo

In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there's 3,000-year-old, densely packed shrub called Yareta. It looks like moss covering rocks, but it's actually a cluster of branches and leaves that is so hard you can stand on it

Peace.

Kayleigh McEnany calls the Biden administration the 'biggest contributor to vaccine hesitancy'

Kayleigh McEnany calls the Biden administration the 'biggest contributor to vaccine hesitancy'

Fox News host and former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called the Biden administration the nation's "biggest contributor to vaccine hesitancy" on Monday.

She also referred to the CDC as the "deep state" in her on-air comments.

We could have just paid everyone to stay home for eight weeks.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'This is My Call to Arms,' Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman Urges MSNBC Viewers to Be 'Active in Defending This Democracy'
• How Tucker Carlson and the far right embraced Hungary’s authoritarian leader
• Survey: Fox News only network to see increase in trust among viewers since February
• Canada reopens border to vaccinated American

Cops quitting because of a vaccine requirement seems like an elegant solution to a different problem. - Paul Cogan

U.S. Military Required To Get Vaccinated
The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. That deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval or infection rates continue to rise.

DeSantis Blames Covid Numbers On Arabs Who Invented Numbers. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Nothing to be afraid of’: Anti-vaxxer said he was ‘glad’ to catch COVID – it killed him days later
• 'Severe cognitive decline': Trump stuns critics with Fox News comments on coronavirus
• Dallas schools to require masks in defiance of Gov. Abbott’s order
• GOP Congressman Cuts Off Interview After Saying 'I Don't Like to Get Into Taking Sides' On Vaccinations
• Texas Republican unleashes a bizarre new election conspiracy in undercover video – claims Mike Lindell is 'being set up'
• 'Coward' GOP Sen. Todd Young blasted for flip-flopping on infrastructure bill after threat from Trump
• The United States no longer exists -- according to Trump spokesperson
• Melania Trump hit back at a presidential historian who accused her of 'eviscerating' the White House Rose Garden

Sturgis is the Delta Variant's EZ Pass. - John Fugelsang

 

Rand Paul Continues To Make A Fool Of Himself

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is calling for across-the-board defiance of future Covid-19 mitigation measures implemented by the CDC — including mask mandates and any potential lockdowns.

In a wild rant posted to Twitter Sunday, the Kentucky senator — speaking direct-to-camera before a dark blue backdrop — railed against the “petty tyrants and bureaucrats” implementing new mandates.

Senate Passes Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Calling For Rand Paul To Be Paved Over. - Andy Borowitz

 

The same GOP who treated Obama’s birthday party like a scandal have said nothing about the 700,000 person motorcycle rally in Sturgis. 

Me at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

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Rock The Voter News

• Texas judge temporarily blocks arrests of lawmakers who fled state over elections bill
• Senate Democrats Unveil $3.5 Trillion Sanders-Schumer Spending Plan
• Gov. Cuomo Accuser Brittany Commisso Breaks Silence on His Inappropriate Touching: 'I Know What Happened and So Does He'
• Top Cuomo Aide Melissa DeRosa Resigns: 'The Past 2 Years Have Been Emotionally and Mentally Trying'

Stop naming Covid variants after greek letters and start naming them after Fox News hosts and GQP legislators. - Baligubadle tweet

 

Dear Gawd, We're Doomed.

A top epidemiologist is warning that the highly transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 might be one of the most contagious diseases in recent history.

"This is maybe the most contagious virus that we've ever seen in living memory," Larry Brilliant, who worked with the World Health Organization to help eradicate smallpox, said in an interview with CNBC on Friday.

Schools “can’t enforce masks” but sure did enforce not letting us wear shorts or spaghetti straps. - Akilah Hughes

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Business/Tech News

• Job openings hit 10.1 million in third straight record-breaking month
• Average grocery, restaurant worker pay hits $15 an hour for first time
• Senators reach bipartisan deal on cryptocurrency amendment 
• Democrats press Facebook over suspension of researchers' accounts

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." ~ James Baldwin

Jeffrey Epstein Fund Compensates Victims $806,666.6666666667 Each
The fund set up to compensate women who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein is closing down after paying out roughly $121 million to 150 victims, the fund’s administrator announced Monday.

I just declined to “accept cookies” if you want to know what kind of mood I’m in today. - Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• 1st Carnivorous Plant Identified In 20 Years Grows Near Vancouver
• This terrifying 'dragon' was Australia's largest flying reptile
• Want to pretend to live on Mars? For a whole year? Apply now
• 'Super Mario' game sells for $2M, breaks weeks-old record
• Man chops through 85 kiwis in minute while on balance board

Time To Deflate Photo

White Wisteria in Japan.

Peace.

Pelosi honors Jan. 6 police officers as 'martyrs of democracy'

Pelosi honors Jan. 6 police officers as 'martyrs of democracy'
At a press conference on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the ongoing House select committee investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The speaker honored the law enforcement officers who died as a result of the riot, calling them "martyrs of democracy."

PAY ATTENTION: They knew exactly where they were going. The breach of the Capitol took 20 minutes! 4 sides. 2:11 the first window was broken and 2:28 rioters were attacking the house chamber doors. During the Kavanaugh hearings I got lost WITH a map. But they knew where to go. - Sandi Bachom

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Vaccine demand jumps in states pummeled by Delta variant
• White House says half of total US population fully vaccinated
• Stunning new report ranks US dead last in health care among richest countries—despite spending the most
• Blinken to diplomats: 'I wish we had more answers' on Havana Syndrome
• Gym owner pleads guilty to assaulting officer in Jan. 6 riot

If COVID has taught me anything it's the importance of staying socially distant from Republicans. - Middle Age Riot

President Biden Awards Congressional Gold Medal To The Brave Police Who Saved The Capitol
President Biden on Thursday signed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6.

DeSantis Threatens To Cut Hospital Funding If Surgeons Keep Wearing Masks. - The Onion

Republican Shenanigans

• Judge blocks Arkansas from enforcing ban on school mask mandate
• Writer Forcibly Removed From Kevin McCarthy Presser After Asking About His Opposition to Jan. 6 Commission
• Cruz rips GOP colleagues who are 'complicit' with Biden spending agenda
• GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls NC school district mask mandate 'psychological child abuse'
• Meghan McCain Says Goodbye to The View: 'It's Been Honestly the Best of Times, and the Worst of Times'
• Pompeo Pleads Ignorance in the Case of the Missing Whiskey: ‘I Wouldn’t Know the Difference Between a $58 Bottle, and a $5,800 Bottle’
• Trump encourages supporters to buy misspelled 'Trump Offical Card'

I thought I felt a mending of a great rift in the time-space continuum, but it was just Meghan McCain leaving The View. - George Takei

When Life Comes At You Fast Guided By Karma

Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a vote on the U.S. House floor, has contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19, the second member of South Carolina’s delegation to do so.

Ron Deathsantis thinks he is running against Joe Biden. Soon he will be run out of Florida. - Anthony Scaramucci 

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Rock The Voter News

• 'Governor Who?' Biden Laughs Off Covid Criticism From Ron DeSantis
• Biden pays homage to Obama by rocking tan suit during birthday week
• 9/11 families ask Biden not to attend memorial events without release of documents
• ACLU calls on DOJ to enact permanent protections for journalists covering protests
• Data scientist who clashed with DeSantis returns to Florida, preparing to run against Matt Gaetz

I’m going with the theory that Joe Biden wearing a tan suit is a deliberate attempt to troll Fox News. - Dan Rather

Republican Karma Continues...
A Texas Republican leader who was hospitalized with COVID-19 died Wednesday, just days after he shared a post on social media questioning the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccine.

Andrew Cuomo is the one person liberals want to evict from public housing during a pandemic. - John Fugelsang

 

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Business/Tech News

• 'WOW!' Fox Business Stunned By July Jobs Report Showing Over a Million Jobs Added
• Fox News Sweeps the Top 12 Spots in the Demo in Wednesday Ratings
• United Airlines mandates Covid-19 vaccines for all employees
• 2 million dehumidifiers recalled over potential fire risk

With the Dow and S & P hitting new highs, it’s time to recall another Trump failed prediction: that Biden’s election would cause a drop in the market. 

Turns out it’s just the opposite! - Walter Pincus

 

Raise Your Hand If You Thought Jeff Bezos Was A Sore Loser
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, is being salty online after NASA snubbed it for a contract to land astronauts on the moon...In response, Blue Origin called Starship "immensely complex and high-risk" and said NASA made the "wrong" decision. The company recently updated its website to include a graphic that compares Starship unfavorably to Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander.

91% of the Navajo Nation is fully vaccinated. If the Navajo Nation were another country—it’d be the most vaccinated in the world. - Lakota Man tweet

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Odd News

• International Space Station did complete rotation during last week's mishap
• Planets similar to those in our solar system found around nearby star
• Brazil's tallest building opens glass-bottom viewing deck
• Museum in Russia claims largest Lego city
• Family accidentally throws away $25,000, garbage crew races to rescue it
• Florida woman steals car after test drive

Time To Deflate Photo

Floating in a sea of stars, the red ‘coral’ is a giant star-forming nebula designated NGC 2014. Along with its blue companion, NGC 2020, it resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is a small satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, about 160,000 light years away. Take that, flat earthers.

Peace.