Thursday, June 24, 2021
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Sunday, June 20, 2021
Phase...
With daily COVID cases falling New York State will begin shutting down the mass-vaccination centers that were a key part of its inoculation effort.
It will mark the first phase in the state's effort to wind down its large-scale vaccination sites and focus more on pop-up clinics across the state.
New York is currently running more than 20 vaccination sites across the state, of which at least a dozen have been large-scale facilities meant to administer hundreds or even thousands of shots a day.
But some of those sites have been seeing a very small number of people seeking shots in recent days and weeks as demand for a shot appears to dwindle.
So it started terribly for the elderly who couldn't get an appointment to get vaccinated and in a couple of months the State is shutting it all down. Just a thought.
Thinker...
As progressives hammer Sen. Joe Manchin for opposing Democrats’ signature ethics and election reform bill, the West Virginian is busy working behind the scenes.
After writing an op-ed against the bill earlier this month, Manchin circulated a memo among his colleagues that outlines his preferred changes to a proposal his party has billed as essential to prepare for the 2022 midterms. Manchin also organized a Zoom meeting this week with civil rights groups and a handful of Republican senators to find areas of agreement.
The West Virginia senator organized his meeting after a similar conversation with leaders of national civil rights organizations one week earlier. With no change to the filibuster on the horizon, Manchin and the groups know that 10 Republican senators will be needed to support legislation that would achieve two major Democratic goals: reauthorizing key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and approving changes to American elections that lie at the heart of the party's massive but stalled elections bill.
In an interview, Manchin said he’d done the best he could to put together a proposal he could support.
Unexpectedly, one Senator controls the whole US Senate. Just a thought.
Reform...
In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City.
Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible. Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media. Hundreds were arrested.
Since then, the NYPD says the Bronx district attorney and the courts have dismissed most of those cases — 73 in all. Eighteen cases remain open and there have been 19 convictions for mostly lesser counts like trespassing counts which carry no jail time.
Llocal business leaders are upset as looters are not being held accountable for the destruction they caused. Until next time.
Many are asking is this the "Criminal Justice Reform." we are promised?
Just a thought.
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Borders...
Kamala Harris drawing the shortest straws in the White House?"
President Biden last week again gave the vice president a nearly impossible mission, asking her to lead the administration's battle against GOP-led voter suppression. "It's going to take a hell of a lot of work," Biden told Harris in an extreme understatement. Harris is off to an "unimpressive" start, said Noah Rothman at Commentary Magazine. Three months after Harris took on the border crisis, attempted border crossings are at a 21-year high.
With her aides reportedly "dismayed" she is now seen as the "border czar," Harris has reversed her opposition to border closures to stem the tide — but that quickly brought sharp criticism from progressives.
Harris is already unusually "unpopular" for a veep, said David Harsanyi at National Review. A recent YouGov poll showed her approval rating at 41 percent, and she's "25 points underwater among independents." A highly partisan senator from California before joining Biden's ticket, Harris has become a political liability for her boss: "Voter sentiment regarding Biden's handling of immigration dropped after he named Harris to head up the efforts.
Voting rights legislation is doomed in the 50-50 Senate unless Democrats eliminate the filibuster, which Sen. Joe Manchin refuses to do. Harris the first woman and first woman of color to be vice president already had been given the unenviable job of stemming migration at the southern border, among the most "intractable" and polarizing issues in politics.
Harris, who went to Central America to address "root causes" of migration, actually requested both assignments, said Cleve Wootson at The Washington Post. But if Biden's "heir apparent" flops, it "could stoke disappointment in the party and diminish her standing." Just a thought.
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