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JoanofArgh
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November 23, 2020
General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California's right to set its own clean-air standards. CEO Mary Barra urged other automakers to do the same.
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.
CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will pull out of the lawsuit, and it urges other automakers to do so.
She said the company agrees with President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring electric-vehicle costs down to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years.
Barra sent the letter after a Monday morning conversation with Mary Nichols, head of California’s Air Resources Board, the company said. The board is the state’s air pollution regulator. “We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned, to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions,” Barra said in the letter.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-lawsuits-environment-california-gavin-newsom-f30458eb13b6ff967d05b12c178621e8?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
GM flips to California's side in pollution fight with Trump
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1330950425860853761?s=20General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California's right to set its own clean-air standards. CEO Mary Barra urged other automakers to do the same.
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.
CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will pull out of the lawsuit, and it urges other automakers to do so.
She said the company agrees with President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring electric-vehicle costs down to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years.
Barra sent the letter after a Monday morning conversation with Mary Nichols, head of California’s Air Resources Board, the company said. The board is the state’s air pollution regulator. “We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned, to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions,” Barra said in the letter.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-lawsuits-environment-california-gavin-newsom-f30458eb13b6ff967d05b12c178621e8?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
November 23, 2020
This town is full of smart, talented, and experienced people who are also jerks. The unifying theme of Biden's picks thus far are reputations for decency, kindness, and integrity.
DC is full of smart, talented people who are also jerks
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1330937854655148032?s=20This town is full of smart, talented, and experienced people who are also jerks. The unifying theme of Biden's picks thus far are reputations for decency, kindness, and integrity.
November 22, 2020
As President Trump brazenly seeks to delay the certification of the election in hopes of overturning his defeat, he is also mounting a less high-profile but similarly audacious bid to keep control of the Republican National Committee even after he leaves office.
Ronna McDaniel, Mr. Trump’s handpicked chairwoman, has secured the president’s support for her re-election to another term in January, when the party is expected to gather for its winter meeting. But her intention to run with Mr. Trump’s blessing has incited a behind-the-scenes proxy battle, dividing Republicans between those who believe the national party should not be a political subsidiary of the outgoing president and others happy for Mr. Trump to remain in control of it.
While many Republicans are hesitant to openly criticize their president at a moment when he is refusing to admit he has lost, the debate crystallizes the larger question about the party’s identity and whether it will operate as a vessel for Mr. Trump’s ambitions to run again in four years.
Mr. Trump will have no political infrastructure once he leaves office except for a political action committee he recently formed, and absent a formal campaign, he is hoping to lean on the R.N.C. to effectively give him one, people familiar with his thinking said. The continuing influence of Mr. Trump could also have implications for some of the national committee’s most critical assets: Its voter data and donors lists contain thousands of names of contributors and detailed information about supporters. The voter data in particular is a focus of attention, after distrust arose between the committee and the Trump campaign over the data’s use in the final months of the campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/politics/trump-gop-control.html
How Trump Hopes to Use Party Machinery to Retain Control of the G.O.P.
As President Trump brazenly seeks to delay the certification of the election in hopes of overturning his defeat, he is also mounting a less high-profile but similarly audacious bid to keep control of the Republican National Committee even after he leaves office.
Ronna McDaniel, Mr. Trump’s handpicked chairwoman, has secured the president’s support for her re-election to another term in January, when the party is expected to gather for its winter meeting. But her intention to run with Mr. Trump’s blessing has incited a behind-the-scenes proxy battle, dividing Republicans between those who believe the national party should not be a political subsidiary of the outgoing president and others happy for Mr. Trump to remain in control of it.
While many Republicans are hesitant to openly criticize their president at a moment when he is refusing to admit he has lost, the debate crystallizes the larger question about the party’s identity and whether it will operate as a vessel for Mr. Trump’s ambitions to run again in four years.
Mr. Trump will have no political infrastructure once he leaves office except for a political action committee he recently formed, and absent a formal campaign, he is hoping to lean on the R.N.C. to effectively give him one, people familiar with his thinking said. The continuing influence of Mr. Trump could also have implications for some of the national committee’s most critical assets: Its voter data and donors lists contain thousands of names of contributors and detailed information about supporters. The voter data in particular is a focus of attention, after distrust arose between the committee and the Trump campaign over the data’s use in the final months of the campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/politics/trump-gop-control.html
November 22, 2020
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (KMOT) - B-52 Stratofortress crews assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base conducted a “short-notice, long-range mission” in the Middle East Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command.
According to CENTCOM, the mission was intended to “deter aggression and reassure U.S. partners and allies.”
The mission comes less than a week after the Pentagon announced reductions of troops to 2,500 in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to Bill Urban, a spokesman for CENTCOM, the bombers integrated with at least four other national defense elements.
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2020/11/22/centcom-b-52s-from-minot-air-force-base-sent-to-middle-east-saturday/
B-52's from Minot AFB sent to Middle East
https://twitter.com/alana_austin/status/1330307690481000459?s=21MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (KMOT) - B-52 Stratofortress crews assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base conducted a “short-notice, long-range mission” in the Middle East Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command.
According to CENTCOM, the mission was intended to “deter aggression and reassure U.S. partners and allies.”
The mission comes less than a week after the Pentagon announced reductions of troops to 2,500 in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to Bill Urban, a spokesman for CENTCOM, the bombers integrated with at least four other national defense elements.
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2020/11/22/centcom-b-52s-from-minot-air-force-base-sent-to-middle-east-saturday/
November 20, 2020
Jim Jordan “has begun privately talking about running for governor, according to Ohio Republicans who have spoken with him,”
@AndrewJTobias
scoops in this great look at how Mike DeWine could have Trump-inspired primary trouble in 2022.
Sorry, can't access the article because it's behind a paywall.
At least this would get him out of the House. Any Ohioans on here? Can you see him beating DeWine?
Jim Jordan wants to run for Governor of Ohio in 2022
https://twitter.com/HenryJGomez/status/1329881352603389953?s=20Jim Jordan “has begun privately talking about running for governor, according to Ohio Republicans who have spoken with him,”
@AndrewJTobias
scoops in this great look at how Mike DeWine could have Trump-inspired primary trouble in 2022.
Sorry, can't access the article because it's behind a paywall.
At least this would get him out of the House. Any Ohioans on here? Can you see him beating DeWine?
November 19, 2020
New: Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, is looking to run for the US Senate in North Carolina in 2022.
North Carolina is her home state.
@anniekarni scoops
https://nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/politics/lara-trump.html#click=https://t.co/s4AVxen4dD
I believe that Democrat Jeff Jackson , a well-liked NC State Senator will be running against her. I hope he does.
Oh, ffs, will this never end? Lara Trump wants to run for the Senate in NC
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1329533321936859136?s=20New: Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, is looking to run for the US Senate in North Carolina in 2022.
North Carolina is her home state.
@anniekarni scoops
https://nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/politics/lara-trump.html#click=https://t.co/s4AVxen4dD
I believe that Democrat Jeff Jackson , a well-liked NC State Senator will be running against her. I hope he does.
November 19, 2020
Joe Biden right now is doing a call with 10 governors, five Democrats, five Republicans:
Charlie Baker (MA)
Andrew Cuomo (NY)
Gary Herbert (UT)
Larry Hogan (MD)
Asa Hutchinson (AR)
Kay Ivey (AL)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM)
Jared Polis (CO)
Gretchen Whitmer (WI)
John Carney (DE)
Biden's on the phone with 10 Governors. 5 D's, 5 R's
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1329507819872280576?s=20Joe Biden right now is doing a call with 10 governors, five Democrats, five Republicans:
Charlie Baker (MA)
Andrew Cuomo (NY)
Gary Herbert (UT)
Larry Hogan (MD)
Asa Hutchinson (AR)
Kay Ivey (AL)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM)
Jared Polis (CO)
Gretchen Whitmer (WI)
John Carney (DE)
November 19, 2020
The New York Times is calling out Trump’s crimes
Subverting an election is a felony
There's been a criminal referral to the NJ AG asking him to empanel a grand jury to look at subversion of NJ election laws by Trump
Michigan is next.
Why would anyone meet with him?
Subverting an election is a felony
https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/1329502362050965506?s=20The New York Times is calling out Trump’s crimes
Subverting an election is a felony
There's been a criminal referral to the NJ AG asking him to empanel a grand jury to look at subversion of NJ election laws by Trump
Michigan is next.
Why would anyone meet with him?
November 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1329492201538195456?s=20
This was just fucking bonkers.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1329486814558752769?s=20
Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn's lawyer now working for Trump, says the election was rigged by "communist money" and a scheme devised by the late Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuala.
Trump's lawyer Sidney Powell encouraged Pro-Trump militias to retake the country at the presser
https://twitter.com/JonathanLanday/status/1329485065898909700?s=20https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1329492201538195456?s=20
This was just fucking bonkers.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1329486814558752769?s=20
Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn's lawyer now working for Trump, says the election was rigged by "communist money" and a scheme devised by the late Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuala.
November 19, 2020
1/. Very disturbing
The @WSJ has just revealed that the social media app Parler, - set up as an alternative to Facebook & Twitter - is funded by the Mercers, the former owners of #CambridgeAnalytica
Parler has had a surge in users since the #Election2020
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327714223313604609?s=21
2/ "They always wanted to create a social network to collect data & disseminate propaganda. Now they have” @chrisinsilico (#CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower)
"Posts on Parler often contain far-right content, antisemitism, & conspiracy theories” @Wikipedia
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327718240622170113?s=21
3/ "To me the easiest fix is for every Conservative to kill two liberals."
Under the guise of free speech, Parler appears to be an uncensored space for libertarians, right-wingers, far-right wingers & conspiracy theorists of every description to come together & share their ideas
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327733631914270723?s=21
5/ “As Parler expanded in 2019, it was squarely focused on creating conditions that would challenge a section of the Communications Decency Act. The company’s purpose seems to be expressly political & aimed at eroding US social media firms.”
Here👇@davetroy follows the money!
Parler is funded by the Mercers
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327710696021381120?s=211/. Very disturbing
The @WSJ has just revealed that the social media app Parler, - set up as an alternative to Facebook & Twitter - is funded by the Mercers, the former owners of #CambridgeAnalytica
Parler has had a surge in users since the #Election2020
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327714223313604609?s=21
2/ "They always wanted to create a social network to collect data & disseminate propaganda. Now they have” @chrisinsilico (#CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower)
"Posts on Parler often contain far-right content, antisemitism, & conspiracy theories” @Wikipedia
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327718240622170113?s=21
3/ "To me the easiest fix is for every Conservative to kill two liberals."
Under the guise of free speech, Parler appears to be an uncensored space for libertarians, right-wingers, far-right wingers & conspiracy theorists of every description to come together & share their ideas
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1327733631914270723?s=21
5/ “As Parler expanded in 2019, it was squarely focused on creating conditions that would challenge a section of the Communications Decency Act. The company’s purpose seems to be expressly political & aimed at eroding US social media firms.”
Here👇@davetroy follows the money!
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