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JoanofArgh's JournalMeet Matt Castelli, A Dem who' s running against Elise Stefanik
https://twitter.com/castellimatt/status/1435577855577034759?s=21As a CIA and White House counterterrorism official, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
@EliseStefanik took that same oath. But she violated it on Jan. 6th.
Now I'm running for Congress to defeat her and uphold mine.
New Hampshire Democrat wins GOP-held state House seat
A former town councilor in Bedford narrowly won a seat in the New Hampshire state House on Tuesday, the first Democrat to win a previously Republican-held legislative district in any state since President Biden took office.
Election results showed Catherine Rombeau (D) narrowly edged out former state Rep. Linda Rea Camarota (R) in the race to replace the late state Rep. David Danielson (R), who died in May. Rombeau won election by just a 37-vote margin, out of about 4,600 votes cast.
Rombeau will be one of six legislators representing her Hillsborough County district, only two of whom are Democrats.
Now-Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) easily carried the district in his 2012 presidential contest, by a wide 23-point margin. Former President Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the Bedford-area seat by 7 points in the 2016 presidential election, but Biden won the seat in 2016 by just over 3 percentage points.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/571225-new-hampshire-democrat-wins-gop-held-state-house-seat
7.0 earthquake about 7 miles outside Acapulco tonight
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 has struck Acapulco in southern Mexico, seismologists and residents say. Details are still limited but shaking was felt as far away as Mexico City.
The earthquake, which struck at 8:47 p.m. local time on Tuesday, was centered just north of Acapulco, a city and major seaport on Mexicos Pacific coast. The area is about 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Mexico City.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) put the earthquakes preliminary magnitude at 7.0, down from an earlier estimate of 7.4. It struck about 12 kilometers below the surface, making it a very shallow earthquake.
Details about damage or casualties were not immediately available, but shaking was felt as far away as Mexico City, where power outages and gas leaks were reported.
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2021/09/powerful-earthquake-hits-southern-mexico/
How the Navy failed to stop a murderous special operations leader. (Eddie Gallagher)
In recent years weve had a raft load of fanboy books by and about Navy SEALs and other special operators at war. But in Alpha, David Philipps, a reporter for The New York Times, has produced a serious study of a SEAL unit in crisis as it fought ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, in 2017. By Philippss credible account, the units leader, Eddie Gallagher, was a one-man wrecking crew for ethical behavior. He murdered a teenage captive by plunging a knife into the helpless prisoners neck. He entertained himself by repeatedly firing his sniper rifle at people who clearly were civilians, such as old men, schoolgirls, and people doing their laundry in the Tigris River. He frequently disobeyed orders from his superiors and hid information about his units whereabouts on the battlefield. He had a drug abuse problem.
Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs by David Philipps Crown, 480 pp.
The story gets worse. Gallaghers immediate superior, a Navy SEAL lieutenant, was intimidated by him and went along with his misdeeds. The chain of command above that officer was aware of Gallaghers behavior but did nothing to constrain him. Indeed, when the commander of SEAL Team 7, Robert Breisch, was told of possible war crimes violations by members of Gallaghers team, instead of pursuing their allegations, as was his clear and legally required duty, he told them to report the violations themselves. But Gallaghers immediate subordinate worried that if he vocally asked for an inquiry into the murder of the prisoner, Gallagher would find a way to kill himwhich would be easy enough in a combat zone.
But Philippss book isnt just about Gallagher. Its about a system that enables evil because it doesnt want to look bad. After the Mosul deployment, Gallagher was assigned to teach special operations urban warfare in the United States, and the compliant lieutenant was promoted to teach the art of command in such fights. Despite his justified fears of death, Gallaghers concerned deputy went on to report the murder three timesonly to have the Navy fail to act on each occasion. The institutional Navys response was to figure out a way to handle the situation quietly. When that failed and Gallaghers story became major news, the Navy was still unable to discipline him, and the SEAL was embraced by high-level political figures, including then President Donald Trump.
In the spring of 2018, several members of Gallaghers platoon lost patience with their leaders misdeeds and essentially demanded an investigation. Gallagher responded by seeking to intimidate witnesses. Among other things, he gave the names of his accusers to an old SEAL buddy, who responded in a text message, some day we will just kill them. This book brims with such striking quotations, mainly because Philipps was able to read a trove of some 6,000 texts written by Gallagher and 2,300 others sent by members of his platoon.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2021/seal-of-disapproval/
""Trump fucking hates DeSantis" a Trump confidant told Vanity Fair." I knew it!
Although DeSantis looks like a front-runner now, a lot can go wrong between now and the New Hampshire primary. For one thing, DeSantiss supposed success at managing COVID is being torched by the delta variant raging out of control in Florida. DeSantis also needs to win reelection in 2022 (a recent poll showed him losing to Republican turned Democrat Charlie Crist). But assuming DeSantis prevails, former staffers told me that his abrasive personality could become a liability under the pressures of a national campaign. DeSantis is known to only trust his wife, Casey, a former newscaster, and his staff has seen heavy turnover. He has zero relationships. He just doesnt speak to you, one former staffer told me. In May, Politico reported that former DeSantis staffers set up a support group to commiserate over their experiences working for him. DeSantis didnt respond to requests for comment.
DeSantiss biggest challenge, though, will be navigating his fraught relationship with Trump. Trump fucking hates DeSantis. He just resents his popularity, a second Trump confidant told me. (Ron is a good guy, Trump said.) According to a source, advisers for Pompeo have been promoting DeSantis in hopes of stoking Trumps jealousy. Pompeos people are building up DeSantis as the leader of the Republican Party to piss Trump off, the source said.
Part of Trumps irritation with DeSantis is that Trump feels that DeSantis doesnt give Trump enough credit for his rise. Trump tells people, I made Ron. Trump says that about a lot of people. But in this case, its actually true, a prominent Republican said. (He gives me good credit, Trump told me.) According to sources, then Congressman DeSantis cultivated Trumps support during the 2018 gubernatorial election by hanging out at Trumps Washington, D.C., hotel. He asked me if Id endorse him, Trump recalled. For much of the primary, DeSantis trailed Florida agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam. But after Trump backed DeSantis in June, DeSantis zoomed 12 points ahead and went on to win by nearly 20 points. The second I endorsed Ron, he blew through everybody, Trump said.
Once in office, DeSantis irked Trump further by putting his political ambitions ahead of Trumps demand for blind loyalty. According to a source, DeSantis announced publicly in the fall of 2019 that Trump would attend the Florida GOPs annual statesman dinner before the White House signed off on the invitation, which effectively forced Trump to appear. Last year, I reported that DeSantis rejected Trumps pleas to close Floridas beaches as the pandemic raged. In the wake of the Surfside condo collapse in June, DeSantis and Trump clashed over Trumps plan to hold a MAGA rally in Florida while the search for survivors continued. (Trump denied there was a dispute, but DeSantis didnt attend the rally.) On July 1, DeSantis appeared alongside Biden and praised him for the federal governments response to the tragedy. The moment recalled the greeting between New Jersey governor Chris Christie and President Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/the-race-to-inherit-trumps-maga-base-is-already-on
Top federal health officials warn that booster shots initially may be limited to Pfizer recipients
Top federal health officials have warned the White House that the Biden administrations plan to begin offering booster shots to most Americans later this month may have to be limited initially, with third shots made available only to people who had received the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients on Thursday that their agencies may not be able to approve a more expansive coronavirus booster plan that they, along with other top doctors across the administration, endorsed last month.
Woodcock and Walensky told Zients that, by the end of this month, they may be able to approve and recommend booster shots only for people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Some officials said Friday that reviews of the other vaccines boosters could take an additional few weeks, though they cautioned it depends on the data.
Now, Woodcock and Walensky, who have faced criticism for endorsing a plan before their agencies completed their reviews, have warned that staff may need more time to make a determination about boosters for people who received the Moderna vaccine. The FDA has only partial data on Moderna and Johnson & Johnson boosters. Pfizer and BioNTech submitted late-stage booster data late last month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/03/booster-shot-delay-pfizer-first/
Florida is reporting an average of 325 coronavirus deaths a day, by far the highest on record
Florida is reporting an average of 325 coronavirus deaths a day, by far the highest on record https://newsnodes.com/us_state/FL
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1433549919323779102?s=20
This is a 7 day average.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1433546165149069335?s=20
REAKING: Florida, which reports a backlog of COVID-19 deaths every Thursday, has added 1,338 new deaths, up 48% from last week
So much for relying on monoclonal antibodies instead of vaccines.
Joe Rogan has COVID and is taking Ivermectin.
Also Zpak, prednisone and monoclonal antibodies.
https://twitter.com/zachzachzach/status/1433165332928032768?s=20
Two dead and 10 injured after Mississippi highway washed away by heavy rain
Two people were killed and 10 others injured after part of a highway was washed away Monday night near the town of Lucedale, Mississippi, officials said.
The incident occurred on the two-lane Highway 26 in George County, Trooper Cal Robertson of the Mississippi Highway Patrol told CNN on Tuesday. The washout was likely related to the rain from Hurricane Ida, he said.
Seven vehicles went into the hole created by the washout, according to Robertson. It's about 50 feet in length and 20 feet deep, he said.
"I've never seen anything in my 23 years in law enforcement like this," he said .Three of those injured were in critical condition, he added.
Highway 26 is a main artery between Mississippi and Louisiana, the George County Sheriff's Office told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/us/mississippi-highway-26-collapse-flooding/index.html
A tree was uprooted in Morgan City , LA yesterday. What's going on with the lawn here?
Is this turf? Just curious . I've never seen anything like this before. Doesn't look like the tree has any roots.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1432075874044612613?s=20
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