August 25, 2020 5:30 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 25
Good morning!
- We are asserting that we don’t need a statewide mask mandate for Georgians to do the right thing while we are also exhorting Georgians to please not drink bleach.
- Delta will slowly add more international flights. They will also continue to cap seating at 75% capacity through at January 2021 (at least; depends on the availability of a vaccine…).
- Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, assured several of Georgia’s Republican members of Congress that it’s safe to vote by mail.
- Meet Lisa Herring, the new superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, and learn more about how the district will approach virtual learning.
- A massive project to remove lead-contaminated soil at properties in West Atlanta may not impact all contaminated homes.
- A global Zoom outage yesterday morning was frustrating for teachers, parents, and online learners.
- Dolly Parton knows that Black Lives Matter, and now a Nashville mural commemorates her (not entirely safe for work) thoughts on the issue.
- “Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching in a Dystopian Hellscape.” This is very dry, very dark – and very funny.
- Speaking of nightmares… a Detroit woman who was pronounced dead started breathing again at the funeral home.
- Finally, because 2020: alligator blood may help treat venomous snakebites.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Since the Democrats love the nanny state so much, maybe there needs to be a mandate to not drink bleach as well.
Who needs mandates when everybody knows the right thing to do, and will do it?
If anyone fails, it’s just acceptable collateral damage?
R.I.P. “common sense solutions”.
“When asked about participating in specific government social programs, 97 percent of Republicans and 98 percent of Democrats say they have taken part in a government program of some kind, according to a 2008 survey run by the Cornell Survey Research Institute. Not just one or two either; the survey found that people had used around five social policies on average. ”
I know when I took care of folks in the hospital, social security disability, Medicaid, and Medicare were a big part of older Americans support system.
Now the Republicans and Trump want to defund social security, limit Medicare and would like to get rid of Medicaid.
“Donald Trump won’t say it, but Republicans in the Senate will: Social Security and Medicare would be on the chopping block in a second Trump term. Pointing to rising deficits, Republican senators have all but promised to gut entitlements if Trump gets four more years.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the second-ranking Senate Republican, expressed hope to the New York Times that Trump would be “interested” in reforming Social Security and Medicare. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) was even more optimistic. “We’ve brought it up with President Trump, who has talked about it being a second-term project,” Barrasso said. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has made no secret of wanting to cut Social Security. ”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/08/23/trumps-second-term-plan-for-social-security-starve-the-beast/#4a21dc223794
Since 2008 recession and the recession this year are putting big dents in people’s retirement plans, I guess the rich republicans will build walls around their subdivisions to keep the starving hordes out.
The followers of Trump show their class (and the one without the “cl”):
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock was bombarded by racist trolls while delivering virtual remarks to a county party late Monday, leading local officials to promise to increase their online security for future meetings.
Shortly after the Hall County Democratic Party meeting began on Zoom, several attendees began repeatedly hurling the N-word at the Black pastor of Atlanta’s famed Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Others spouted nonsense from the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory and shared graphic porn.
“I had to play ‘Whack a Troll,’” said party chair Kim Copeland, who was moderating the discussion when the racial epithets popped up on the Zoom chat. “To say I was shocked was an understatement. I’m still in shock, to be honest.”
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/georgia-senate-candidate-bombarded-by-online-racist-trolls/DSZGVNNCVVBTDKHKKH7T6WJDKQ/