Roughly 7 in 10 know 'just some,' little or nothing about spending packages: poll

Roughly 7 in 10 know 'just some,' little or nothing about spending packages: poll

A new poll published on Sunday found that about 7 in 10 Americans know 'just some' or even less about what's in both the Biden administration's infrastructure and social spending bills. 

Despite 55 percent of respondents saying they were following negotiations about the bills at least somewhat closely, only 31 percent said they know a great deal or good amount about what's in the legislation...

November 1st is the official beginning of Republicans Claiming There's a War on Christmas Season. - Middle Age Riot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Matt Gaetz Jokes About Blowing Up Capitol Metal Detectors With Explosives (UPDATE: Lauren Boebert Tweets 'I'll Bring the Tannerite!')
• Military jury condemns US treatment of terrorist, urges clemency
• 98 percent of US Special Operations Command has received COVID vaccine
• Some NYPD cops fight COVID vaccine mandate cite fetal cell lines

After threats that 10,000 NYPD officers could quit the force over the NYC vaccine mandate, the actual number going on unpaid leave today was 34. - Tristan Snell tweet

LOL those 34 idiots are sitting in a bar called O'Neills somewhere in Queens checking the door waiting for the rest to arrive. - YS tweet

Mess With These Texas Police & Sue Them To High Heaven, Please!

Transcribed 911 calls reveal that San Marcos police officials refused multiple requests for assistance from a Biden campaign bus that was being harassed on the road by a so-called Trump train, even as other jurisdictions agreed to help.

The transcriptions were included in the amended lawsuit against the police officials filed by those who were inside the bus at the time of the incident

Halloween?  l live in Florida. I'm scared every f*ckin time I leave the house. - duke windsor388 tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Miami Herald: DeSantis descending into 'anti-vaxx Crazyville'
• Lindsey Graham told officers on Jan. 6 to use their guns on rioters: report
• Trump Inflates the Weight of His Endorsements, 'If I Endorse Somebody, They Win'
• Adam Kinzinger Tears Into Republicans Submitting to 'Cancerous' Embrace of Conspiracies: 'It's Not on Liz Cheney and I' to Save the Party
• Pompeo is Planning to Run for President in 2024 'Even if Trump Does,' Reports Maggie Haberman
• Reality show father of '19 Kids and Counting' running for Arkansas Senate
• Supreme Court to hear clashes over abortion, gun rights this week
• Florida school district under fire for dismissing students' racist video as 'a joke'
• Video appears to show Melania Trump turning away and rolling her eyes immediately after smiling next to Donald at World Series game

In the end, Melania Trump is just another contractor her husband isn't going to pay. - Middle Age Riot

Is The FBI Making Excuses For Their Lack Of Action on Jan 6? Aspirational Nature, My Foot.
Senior FBI officials are reportedly defending the bureau’s actions before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, contending that many warnings appeared to be protected free speech because of their “aspirational” nature.

Lindsey Graham would have helped Nixon erase the tapes. - Jeff Tiedrich

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden expresses confidence domestic agenda will pass by end of week
• Manchin warns he may vote against Biden social safety net plan as he criticizes key aspects
• White House's Psaki tests positive for COVID-19
• Franken rules out challenge against Gillibrand for Senate seat
• Biden says pope provided family with 'great solace' after son's death

Anyone else sick and tired of the media being so hard on President Biden after the four years of HELL we all lived through? - Jon Cooper

Kyle Rittenhouse Gets Another Red Carpet Treatment From Judge

The jury selection process in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who fatally shot Black Lives Matters protesters in Kenosha, Wisc. last year, began on Monday.

Judge Bruce Schroeder told attorneys that he believes picking 12 people from the 150 prospective jurors should only take one day, The Associated Press reported. Schroeder said he had no plans of sequestering the jury in the high-profile case.

NYC Mayor: About 9,000 municipal workers have been put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with the COVID vaccine mandate that took effect today. - Kyle Griffin

I'm pretty sure God never let anyone into heaven just because they have "Christian" in their profile. - Death Metal Viking tweet

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Business/Tech News

• John Deere reaches tentative deal with striking workers
• CBC to keep Facebook comments turned off on news posts
• Southwest Airline Pilot Under Fire for Telling Passengers 'Let's Go Brandon'
• Elon Musk says he'll sell Tesla shares to help 'solve world hunger' if UN can say how his money would be spent

Humans are fascinating: They blithely go about their business while democracy and the planet are on fire.- Steven Beschloss

 

Jesus, Imagine Thinking "I wonder what Josh Hawley's thoughts on masculinity are?"

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) suggested that criticism of “traditional masculinity” is making American men less manly ― and inspiring them to watch more porn and play more video games.

If you vote on one issue this election, let it be democracy.

Without it, none of the other issues even matter. - Ally Sammarco

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Odd News

• NASA chief Bill Nelson latest official to suggest UFOs have otherworldly origins
• With Subtropical Storm Wanda, meteorologists run out of names
• U.S. missionaries have long tried to convert the ‘unreached’ in the Amazon. Now Indigenous groups are fighting back.
• Florida woman claims cop told her she needed permit for Halloween costume
• California family's fake fire Halloween display prompts 911 calls

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Mount Assiniboine, British Colombia, Canada, for your viewing pleasure.

Peace.

Adam Schiff: Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t just playing politics – she is 'legitimately nuts'

Adam Schiff: Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t just playing politics – she is 'legitimately nuts'

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) bashed the "grifters and thieves" that have taken over the Republican Party, although he believes some of Donald Trump's most conspiracy-addled supporters might actually be mentally ill.

MTG is nothing more than a conservative crisis actor.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Administration asks judge to order Florida to release funding to school districts with mask mandates
• Italian leaders host Biden on first day of European summit trip
• 300 passengers flee LAX terminal in gun scare
• Mexico to give humanitarian visas to children, pregnant people

It's been 15 days since Steve Bannon told Congress to f*ck off. you know what would happen if you or I tried to pull that sh*t. - Jeff Tiedrich

Why Are Prosecutors Going Easy On The Insurrectionists?
A federal judge unleashed on prosecutors Thursday for allowing some defendants charged in the Capitol insurrection to resolve their cases by pleading to "petty offenses."

It’s nice to see world leaders laughing with our President, instead of at him. - John Collins

Republican Shenanigans

• Kinzinger announces he won't seek reelection
• New Fox News Poll Has Glenn Youngkin Leading Terry McAuliffe in Virginia by 8 Points
• Trump to hold tele-rally for Youngkin on eve of Virginia election
• Trump campaign sells 'Let's Go Brandon' T-shirts
• Tucker Carlson Calls Liz Cheney 'Coward' and 'Liar' After She Rips His Insane 1/6 Special
• Mitt Romney dresses up as 'Ted Lasso' with Krysten Sinema playing his boss in viral Halloween photo
• Utah GOP lawmaker abruptly quits after calling for an Arizona-style election audit
• South Dakota official says meeting with Noem had no effect on daughter's application
• Iowa passes bill allowing unemployment for workers fired over vaccine mandates
• A Texas lawmaker is targeting 850 books that he says could make students feel uneasy

Before you going getting all boo hoo, remember this:

Adam Kinzinger voted 90% of the time for Trump policies.

90%. - Don Winslow

Anti Vaxxers Send Death Threats To Fox News Anchor

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto has battled multiple health challenges over the years, including stage 4 cancer, open heart surgery, multiple sclerosis and, currently, COVID-19. Now some of his viewers are sending him death threats — because he encouraged them to get vaccinated for their own safety.

ATTENTION VIRGINIA:  Polls are showin' Youngkin takin' a slight lead.  If you don't want to be the next Texas, get your hiney to to polls and vote! - Tea Pain tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden said the Pope told him he should continue to receive communion
• Kirsten Gillibrand Hounds Joe Manchin on Senate Floor Over Paid Family Leave: 'I Just Want It in This Bill!'
• Trevor Noah Mourns What was Cut from Biden's Build Back Better Plan: Women Will 'Give Birth During Their Lunch Break'
• Andrew Cuomo accused of forcible touching in criminal complaint

If men could get pregnant, paid paternity leave would be in the preamble of the Constitution. - Middle Age Riot

Dear God, Oklahoma Delivers Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was executed for the 1998 slaying of a prison cafeteria worker, ending a six-year execution moratorium brought on by concerns over its execution methods,

A weird feature of the current political landscape is that Dems are far more upset Jan 6 rioters wanted to hang Pence than the GOP, or even Pence himself, seem to be. - Joyce Alene

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Business/Tech News

• Oil companies downplay early climate knowledge under fire from Dems
• Exxon and Chevron profits soar on surging oil and gas prices
• Trump's real-estate empire pays the price for poisonous politics
• Citigroup to require all U.S. employees to be vaccinated

Facebook changing its name to Meta is so exciting I've already forgotten that we just learned they knew women were being sex trafficked on the platform and did nothing! - John Fugelsang

Eww, Restaurant Servers Clean Bathrooms. Who Knew?

The Biden administration wants restaurant servers to know they can’t be told to clean bathrooms for $2.13 an hour.

That’s one of the examples provided in the Labor Department’s new rule regarding the tipped minimum wage...

Mark Zuckerberg Changes Name To Mother Teresa. - Andy Borowitz

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Odd News

• US traffic fatalities up 18 percent in first half of 2021
• World's most expensive home, with mural by Renaissance painter, about to go on sale
• A man claimed he was related to Sitting Bull. Now, DNA proves he's his great-grandson.
• Asian spider takes hold in Georgia, sends humans scurrying
• Mobile home abandoned in the middle of Missouri road
• Merriam-Webster adds 455 new words to the dictionary, including 'fluffernutter' and 'dad bod'

Time To Deflate Photo

Volcano Irazú and the back volcano is Turrialba in Costa Rica.

Peace.

Facebook changes its company name to Meta

Facebook changes its company name to Meta

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it would rebrand as Meta, a name change that comes as the company battles criticisms...

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Facebook is now Meta, as in "I just META nice young white nationalist who told me to vote Trump, hate foreigners, and never get vaccinated, because the government is just trying to put a chip in my head." = Jeremy Newberger

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Fox & Friends Graphic Shows Merrick Garland Putting Crosshairs Over Parents
• Liz Cheney Blasts Fox News Over Tucker Carlson’s ‘Patriot Purge’: Spreading ‘Same Type of Lies’ That Led to Jan. 6th
• Capitol Police arrest fugitive with 'ghost gun,' large-capacity magazine
• FBI to pay millions after failing to stop Dylann Roof from obtaining gun used in mass shooting

The Confederacy was hardworking white ppl programmed to be racist & suckered into fighting for the wealthy plantation owners.

And it still is. - John Fugelsang

White Collar Crime Update
The Justice Department announced a series of policy changes Thursday aimed at toughening the federal response to white-collar crime, particularly offenses involving corporate misconduct.

If the judge in the Rittenhouse case doesn't like the word 'victim', perhaps the phrase 'unarmed person shot to death' might do the trick. - John Cleese

Republican Shenanigans

• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey joins states pushing back against Biden administration's vaccine mandates
• Trump suggests he might drop a bomb on the Va. gov race. Then leaves.
• GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Catches Hell For Biblical Quote About Secrets
• Republican Missouri Senate candidate: Teen incest victims should be denied abortions
• Brett Favre repays $600K in welfare fraud case
• GOP's Madison Cawthorn asks 'what's the biggest lie a politician's ever told?' – and it doesn't go well for him
• Former DOJ official splits with lawyer before Jan. 6 testimony
• Who Messed Up Devin Nunes’ Campaign Records This Bad? His Mom.
• BUSTED: Republican's brother-in-law called stock broker just one minute after getting off phone with senator

Patagonia stopped all paid advertising on Facebook platforms in June 2020 because they spread hate speech and misinformation about climate change and our democracy. We continue to stand by that boycott 16 months later. - Patagonia tweet

State Trooper Threatened Doctors Over Horse Dewormer.
When a Montana hospital refused to treat an 82-year-old COVID-19 patient with the drug ivermectin earlier this month, a state trooper showed up and doctors got "harassed and threatened" by three different public officials, the hospital told local media outlets.

Texas School Censors All Of ‘Huck Finn’ Except The N-Words - The Onion

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Manchin Will Agree to Halloween Only if Candy Is Completely Removed. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Joe Biden Claims Democrats All on Board with Spending Plan ― as Bernie Sanders Denies it
• Biden's proposed reconciliation framework drops clean electricity program, methane fee
• Democrats looking at a new tax on billionaires
• Democrats drop paid leave from Biden spending framework
• Clyburn to rally support for McAuliffe in Virginia

Calling it a ‘billionaire income tax’ was smart branding by the Democrats, because Republicans are going to sound pretty out of touch if they oppose it, which they immediately did. - Stephen Colbert

Thanks to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, Biden's Build Back Better initiative has been reduced to every American receiving an additional 20% Off Coupon for Bed Bath & Beyond. - TranquilityRuse tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Economic growth rate slows to 2 percent as delta derails recovery
• NAACP calls on pro athletes to avoid signing with teams in Texas
• Wall Street Journal Slammed for Running Trump Letter Pushing Election Lie: Gave Him 'Platform to Promote Nonsense'
• Flight diverted after passenger accused of assaulting attendant

It's worth remembering that every single Republican in the Senate is worse than Joe Manchin; a society where billionaires can go to space and veterans can go to food pantries is acceptable to them. - John Fugelsang

Profiting From COVID!
Merck & Co Inc on Thursday said its experimental COVID-19 drug could bring in between $5 billion and $7 billion in sales through the end of next year, assuming it gains U.S. authorization in December.

I don’t know about you, but I kind of like standing six feet apart from people. - Nathalie Jacoby tweet

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Odd News

• A Strange Radio Signal Was Just From Earth, Not Aliens
• Florida Woman Punches KFC Drive-Thru Employee
• Italian farmer breaks world record with 2,702-pound pumpkin
• Toxic chemicals linked to infertility found in Big Macs and Taco Bell burritos
• Colorado softball team features players in their 90s

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Trompe-l'œil is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Art soothes my soul.

Peace.