November 12, 2020 6:59 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, November 12, 2020
Tired of the same old post-election rhetoric? Need something to celebrate? Today is ‘National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day!’ So there ya go.
If you need something a little more demure, it’s also Charles Manson’s birthday.
Peaches
- The digital ad bans will hamper Georgia runoffs.
- Ossoff says Georgia Dems ‘have the wind at our backs’ ahead of Senate runoffs
- Georgia Republican Party circles back on voting issues in Fulton.
- Judge hears arguments in Georgia activist’s lawsuit against MARTA
- Warnock’s old obstruction case resurfaces.
- The Good Ol Boy system continues to be why we can’t have nice things.
Jimmy Carter
- Time to “succeed” from the union, apparently.
- Alaska results put spotlight on Georgia
- Prepping to intervene.
- What the heck is wrong with Ken Paxton?
- Mounting commercial real estate losses threaten banks, recovery
COVID & Such
- 14 days to slow the spread – 4 or 6 months to revive the economy
- Ticketmaster exploring negative COVID-19 test or vaccination
- The infiltration into jails and prisons hasn’t really slowed.
- The pandemic’s dangerous transition.
- Bank calls for a 5 percent ‘privilege’ tax on people choosing to work from home
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Since it is ” National Pizza With The Works Day” I’m wondering if pineapple is part of the “works”?
It is also “French Dip” day and “Chicken Soup For The Soul” day.
Perhaps it should also be “Watch Your Cholesterol” day.
Are you for or against pineapple on a pizza? Pineapple and cheese just do not work for me.
Can we just put Trump in jail already?
You know if you donate less than $8000 to the Republican’s fraud fund it all goes to the RNC and Donald Trumps political PAC? Over $8000 the fraud fund only gets 25% of the donation. the rest goes for nice vacation trips for the party leaders and the Trump family. No real limits on what the PAC can spend its money on.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/trump-fraud-claims-fundraising-436188
Also:
“As Donald Trump and his allies have touted unproven claims of election fraud over the last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its leader, Chris Krebs ( a part of the Department of Homeland Security), have swatted them down. CISA has set up a “Rumor Control” page that debunks common claims about the election.
Now Reuters is reporting that the agency has come under pressure from the White House to knock it off:
White House officials have asked for content to be edited or removed which pushed back against numerous false claims about the election, including that Democrats are behind a mass election fraud scheme. CISA officials have chosen not to delete accurate information.
Krebs expects the White House to fire him, according to three sources who talked to Reuters.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/report-white-house-pressuring-cisa-to-stop-debunking-election-nonsense/
“In particular, one person said, the White House was angry about a CISA post rejecting a conspiracy theory that falsely claims an intelligence agency supercomputer and program, purportedly named Hammer and Scorecard, could have flipped votes nationally. No such system exists, according to Krebs, election security experts and former U.S. officials.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-officials-exclusive/exclusive-top-official-on-u-s-election-cybersecurity-tells-associates-he-expects-to-be-fired-idUSKBN27S2YI