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Belated MLK Day Open Thread: The Tribute Vice Pays to Virtue

by Anne Laurie|  January 19, 20211:00 am| 33 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights

‘The Embrace’: Boston Looks Ahead To MLK Memorial As Monuments Come Down Across UShttps://t.co/mZ9rzzPnZV pic.twitter.com/4RcVP9017Q — WBZ | CBS Boston News (@wbz) January 18, 2021 I am aware that discussing Dr. King’s legacy is so very much Not My Place, but nominally I’d agree celebration is preferable to the alternative… … “While the rest of …

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you know why he’s staring at you like that right https://t.co/KWyaiSzwmw

— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 18, 2021

today is the day gop lawmakers honor martin luther king jr by saying something nice about a black guy like it’s reloading their swipe card at dave and busters for the rest of the year

— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 18, 2021

Today is MLK Day and my home state of Alabama still jointly commemorates it as Robert E Lee's birthday, which is a disgrace to MLK's legacy. The people who could remedy that insist that they're not racist, but they demonstrate otherwise by continuing it.

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) January 18, 2021

A new film reveals how the FBI spied on Martin Luther King, shortly after he led the march on Washington in 1963.
Documentary maker Sam Pollard managed to uncover FBI documents, sourced secret White House phone calls and found forgotten footage of Kinghttps://t.co/GqHQ5EBd3f pic.twitter.com/bkfbE8WGju

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 17, 2021

Monday Evening Respite Open Thread: Dogs, Bruh

by Anne Laurie|  January 18, 20215:21 pm| 56 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

Who, me?!? this dog mocking a Corgi has me in tears pic.twitter.com/EnV0f9uI8I — yella enchanted (@chantshmant) January 2, 2021 There’s a sucker born every minute, and some of them live with dogs… A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their barks using voice-recognition …

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Monday Morning Open Thread: MLK Day of Service

by Anne Laurie|  January 18, 20216:09 am| 75 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will be volunteering tomorrow in DC, transition says. https://t.co/PIsVUYa2xA — Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) January 18, 2021 Yes, it’s a real thing: Observed each year on the third Monday in January as “a day on, not a day off,” MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day …

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Best thing I’ve heard all week: asked a National Guardsman at my corner if his team was being fed and taken care of. His reply: “Yes sir, @chefjoseandres already brought us something.”

Because of course.

— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) January 17, 2021

UPDATE from the @USCapitol where the @WCKitchen team is serving meals to the National Guard troops and everyone keeping us safe this Inauguration week…Thank you to @SpeakerPelosi for helping today! And thank YOU for supporting WCK’s efforts. #ChefsForDC #WeThePeople pic.twitter.com/tBsIpUdC6V

— Please wear a mask! Do it for the World please… (@chefjoseandres) January 16, 2021

*Won’t* it be lovely to have a functioning government again, instead of a kakistocracy!

BREAKING: U.S. president-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office. https://t.co/rpHeD2bnLK

— CBC News (@CBCNews) January 17, 2021

On 1st day, Biden will rescind travel ban on several Muslim countries, rejoin Paris climate accord, extend pandemic limits on evictions and student loan payments, and order agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families at border. https://t.co/bPj007bw2w

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 16, 2021

And then there’s the GOP version of a public service…
Monday Morning Open Thread: National Day of Service

(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)

COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, Jan. 17-18

by Anne Laurie|  January 18, 20214:55 am| 14 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Foreign Affairs

2020 mid-January: “hope the weather’s nice this week” 2021 mid-January: “hope the only mass casualty events this week are pandemic-related” — KochBroHat (@Popehat) January 17, 2021

COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, Jan. 17-18Post + Comments (14)

One year, 400,000 #coronavirus deaths: How the U.S. guaranteed its own failure https://t.co/iMnj7SUuKp

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 18, 2021

The US had +174,560 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 24.4 million. The 7-day moving average continued falling to below 222,000 per day. pic.twitter.com/VsEv51f8tV

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 18, 2021

Biden’s incoming chief of staff warns the coronavirus death toll will reach 500k by the end of February.https://t.co/BFPJkI1tr9

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 17, 2021

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Here's where the USA stands, worldwide, for #COVID19 #vaccine rollout….
(Not the worst, but terrible) pic.twitter.com/6ahCfT2E7U

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 17, 2021

(To be fair, at least two of the #2-5 countries are doing a worse job of tracking infections… )

Here's where we stand today: The USA is, of course, Number One in #COVID19 cases and deaths. Moreover, we've had more than twice the case and death toll of the world's #2 country.
In fact, we are doing worse than combined #2-5, India, Brazil, Russia, UK. pic.twitter.com/YM5zM9SnfG

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 17, 2021

China reports 109 new COVID-19 cases as infections persist in northeast https://t.co/bDLJjfl4aj pic.twitter.com/miGy2fZiZE

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 18, 2021

Chinese officials trace a growing new outbreak to a salesman hawking health products. He appeared at several workshops in Jilin in northeastern China & is linked to 102 infections. 79 workshop attendees, including the salesman, tested positive https://t.co/hGtqp3M9Xi

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 17, 2021

Asia Today: Coronavirus infections in the Philippines have surged past 500,000 as the government faces criticism for failing to immediately launch a vaccination program. https://t.co/zxlE4qcgv5

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2021

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vows to get the pandemic under control and hold the already postponed Olympics this summer with ample coronavirus protection. https://t.co/gVwUhdxMce

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2021

#Oped Russians' varying attitudes towards the coronavirus vaccine is a reflection of their level of trust in the Kremlin as well as local governance, @alexeizakharov writeshttps://t.co/0RgHULvLmg

— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 17, 2021

Vaccination has started… all the way to the Greek islands! 🇬🇷

In Syros, Rhodes or Chios, health workers are getting the vaccine to protect themselves and others.

Vaccination will help us keep safe from COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/cp1DeTlutW

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 17, 2021

UK is vaccinating 140 people per minute on average, minister says https://t.co/aEnExvO9uh pic.twitter.com/Ol81c57jx2

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 18, 2021

Australia unlikely to fully reopen border in 2021, says top official https://t.co/b7SfozXeJk

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 18, 2021

The number of players in hard quarantine swelled to 72 ahead of the Australian Open after a fifth positive coronavirus test was returned from the charter flights bringing players, coaches, officials and media to Melbourne.

by @byjohnpye https://t.co/mcxveGFoPf

— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) January 18, 2021

Some 5,616 new cases of the novel #coronavirus were reported in #Israel on Sunday, with 9.1% of tests returning positive, a record in the percentage of positive tests, although the number of tests conducted decreased as well.https://t.co/euS9v3OabM

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 18, 2021

Data for vaccines: As Israel races to inoculate most of its population, it has struck a deal with Pfizer to secure coronavirus vaccines in exchange for medical data — but critics say the deal raises ethical questions. By @IlanBenZion. https://t.co/xBwqhQECTo

— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) January 18, 2021

Ghana president warns of health system overload as COVID cases soar https://t.co/aqvpfjpo6c pic.twitter.com/O3uWEPVrDJ

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 18, 2021

Brazil’s health agency approves the urgent use of two coronavirus vaccines, allowing immunizations to start after delays and political disputes. https://t.co/0XGDL213ZX

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2021

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The virus is changing. It's a deadly enemy, and a tricky one. The more we understand it and track where it is and where it's going, the better off we'll be.

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) January 17, 2021

Experts expect the J&J vaccine to show efficacy at or >80%, which would trail the ~95% achieved in trials of already-authorized vaccines.

The J&J vaccine requires just a single dose & does not have the cold storage requirements of the other vaccines.https://t.co/e4HI7dWl5w

— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) January 16, 2021

Those who've read about deaths in Norwegian nursing homes among seniors who had recently been vaccinated against #Covid19, please read this. Those who haven't yet read about the Norwegian deaths — please read it too. https://t.co/ByEdqxgCX6

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 18, 2021

One-third of people infected by Covid-19 never show symptoms but still spread the disease to others. They never bother to get a PCR test because they don't know they are infected. Only widespread deployment of simple rapid antigen tests will identify them. https://t.co/UMMapyirrb

— Annie Sparrow (@annie_sparrow) January 17, 2021

The risks of catching Covid indoors are well-known, but what are the chances of being infected outdoors?https://t.co/5AkTmcJ6io

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 17, 2021

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Los Angeles, crushed by Covid-19, now confronts a more contagious variant. L.A. County, one of the hardest-hit areas in the United States, may face even more dire weeks ahead. Hospitals have run out of space in intensive care units https://t.co/3tjny7fAiJ

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 18, 2021

I need a graph that shows where how the COVID case/death disparities will only widen if vaccination continues on this path. https://t.co/rC2Z0EHALE

— KizzyPhD (@KizzyPhD) January 17, 2021

the quoted tweet is only a couple of degrees away from the lady who was like, "everyone complains about how hard 2020 was, but no one actually suffered."

just incredibly blinded by privilege

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) January 18, 2021

And on a lighter note…

For @SFGate, I tested the idiot COVID rich guy helmet. OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL. https://t.co/89UfNrHrFK pic.twitter.com/8ByBtmA8n3

— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) January 15, 2021

Late Night Open Thread: What Is Best in Life?… (Redux)

by Anne Laurie|  January 18, 20211:20 am| 63 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Trumpery, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up, Schadenfreude

There’s a high-souled, pure-minded joy in considering the installation of a working (Democratic, of course) government. There’s also much schadenfreude! LOL I love that as a last gesture of fealty to Trump the bitter-enders will have to get up at five in the morning to be ready to see him off. https://t.co/TpdpvxDA5l — Daniel W. …

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Trump is leaving White House early enough Wednesday morning that he's still president when he lands in Florida and motorcades to Mar-a-Lago, aides told me last week.

Departure events on South Lawn before he boards Marine One and at airport before he boards AF1 for final time. https://t.co/4FX6OVcIaf

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 17, 2021


‘Forty-two gun salutes, because I’m *special*’

There’s no one left https://t.co/qmp0Co5cuW

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 18, 2021

are you threatening me with a good time https://t.co/u4IK8QOo1i

— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 16, 2021


(Yeah, it’s Rand Paul, so you know it’s pure BS.)

I’m glad I haven’t gotten used to the capacity of people to abase and humiliate themselves over this ludicrous old man. https://t.co/YYy6gp8IgP

— KochBroHat (@Popehat) January 18, 2021

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— Michael Huggins (@MichaelHugg2591) January 15, 2021

Easy Targets Open Thread: Florida Lit’rary Man…

by Anne Laurie|  January 17, 20214:32 pm| 167 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up, Schadenfreude

Disappointing that so many people are assuming this is a scam and not a sign of the President’s deep love of literature and learning. When did we all become so cynical? https://t.co/1yaoQG3Rc9 — James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) January 17, 2021 Who better qualified for the task than Dan Scavino, Trump’s former caddy and devoted keeper (until …

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There’s gonna be a network of shell LLCs that spends $2 billion to make an Arby’s with a single copy of Art of the Deal in it and the financial reports will look like a sudoku filled in by a manic orangutan https://t.co/GtqTGjc1y2

— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) January 17, 2021

The part that will keep a horde of paralegals busy for years is sorting out which funds were misappropriated by Trump family members and cronies, which were misappropriated-without-permission-from-Himself ditto, and which never existed beyond some weasel words and a line on some photocopied ‘financial document’.

“It fits in with Florida’s overall character of being the magnet for all insanity in the universe … Florida, in some freakish, horrible way, is the Trumpiest of states. This is the logical place for them to come,” ?@TheRickWilson? https://t.co/2OciZchLXg

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 17, 2021

More schadenfreude:

… By migrating… to Palm Beach, Fla., Trump plans to inhabit an alternative reality of adoration and affirmation. The defeated president will take up residence at his gilded Mar-a-Lago Club, where dues-paying members applaud him whenever he eats meals or mingles on the deck. He is sure to take in the same celebratory fervor whenever he plays golf at one of the two Trump-branded courses nearby…

Trump may have imagined a mischief-making, mega-rally farewell — complete with a tease about reclaiming the White House in 2024 — to draw attention from President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to remind fellow Republicans that he still rules the roost.

But there will be no such grand departure in the wake of the Capitol insurrection…

… Trump has been consumed with anger over his impeachment Wednesday by the House for inciting the Capitol riot, advisers said. He is also upset by the silence from many of his most vigorous defenders, and is nursing feelings of betrayal from Republican congressional leaders, they said…

Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, are shopping for a house in Jupiter, Fla., about 15 miles from Palm Beach, according to a person familiar with their plans, confirming a New York Post report. Trump Jr.’s ex-wife, Vanessa, and their five children moved to the area last year, this person said.

Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, both White House senior advisers, recently purchased land owned by pop star Julio Iglesias in Indian Creek, a gated private island near Miami that is home to celebrities, business figures and professional athletes, including Jay-Z, Beyoncé and football star Tom Brady.

Daughter Tiffany Trump also is shopping for property in Miami, according to Page Six…

At least they’ll all be corralled in one place, where the rest of us can keep an eye on them. Condolences on your new neighbors, Betty, Adam, other Floridian jackals…

Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower

by Anne Laurie|  January 17, 20215:59 am| 44 Comments

This post is in: Garden Chats

From ace flower-portraitist & commentor Ema Ema: Here are some pictures I took in July and August 2020 around Lincoln Center and Lexington Ave.

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I’ll be honest — there’s a couple there *I* don’t recognize, either!

Gonna let you more experienced gardeners take your claims first, though.

What’s going on in your garden (planning / indoor / retrospectives), this week?

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