Biden’s cabinet

[Winehole23]

Biden should observe his own ethics rules. If he can't keep them he should say so.


Last October, in preparation for establishing a new administration, Biden released his transition team’s ethics rules, which banned the hiring of lobbyists with two notable exceptions — individuals who were not registered to lobby in the past year or who received approval from the general counsel. However, after the election, it seemed that the exception became the rule when it was disclosed that the transition team had at least 40 lobbyists (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/latest-updates-biden-trump-election-2020/card/JoZ9MsykGqwQ8EA40uul) and former lobbyists.https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/02/19/biden-can-actually-drain-the-swamp-by-enforcing-ethics-rules-column/

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Biden should observe his own ethics rules. If he can't keep them he should say so.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/02/19/biden-can-actually-drain-the-swamp-by-enforcing-ethics-rules-column/

ALL politicians are liars and hypocrites, with minuscule exceptions that prove the rule.

[Winehole23]

OMB nominee Neera Tanden is sunk

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[Winehole23]

Merrick Garland confirmation hearing is on right now

https://www.c-span.org/event/?508877/attorney-general-nominee-merrick-garland-testifies-confirmation-hearing&live

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Garland's opening statement:

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20489413-garlandsjc

[Winehole23]

lol Republicans seeking assurances Garland will not politicize the DOJ

[baseline bum]

lol Republicans seeking assurances Garland will not politicize the DOJ

:rollin

[Winehole23]

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Biden White House drops the axe on Trump-appointee who refused to resign

Biden White House has announced the termination of a Trump-appointee who made headlines when she defiantly refused to resign when the Biden administration took office.

President Joe Biden's administration moved to fire Sharon Gustafson—the Trump-appointed lawyer who served as general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Gustafson reiterated that she was appointed to serve a four-year term as she respectfully declined to resign. (https://aboutblaw.com/V6W)

"I can only assume that my resignation would be followed by similar suppression of our work

promoting religious freedom," :lol Fuck this Christian Supremacist/Nationalist

Andrea R. Lucas, the EEOC's Trump-appointed commissioner tweeted her concerns saying, it was

"an injection of partisanship where it had been absent[.]" :lol how about inject of LGBT hate? :lol

"One of the issues she made as her hallmark, was the issue of discrimination against religious minorities, the law requiring religious accommodation of beliefs,"

Gustafson also raised concerns about the ethical aspects of her termination :lol Trash appointee with ethics concern? :lol

https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/biden-white-house-drops-the-axe-on-trump-appointee-who-refused-to-resign/

[ChumpDumper]

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:lol RepubliQans

[Winehole23]

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[Ef-man]

Merrick Garland confirmed as attorney general.

[RandomGuy]

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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA :rollin

all it takes. I am glad the evil shits that get through GQP primaries tend to be ... less able.

[Winehole23]

Warrenistas will have some clout:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/15/elizabeth-warren-aides-biden-administration-475653

[Winehole23]

Deb Haaland squeaks by, four Republicans voted yes.

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwmeYfcWQAErHPg?format=jpg&name=medium

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Maddow explains exactly why SHITBAG John Cornyn is fighting new DOJ nominee —

and it has nothing to do with qualifications

Maddow recalled the extensive corruption of Texas cop Tom Coleman

who arrested four dozen people claiming that he did an undercover operation and busted them for cocaine.

An overwhelming number of those arrested were Black.

There was no evidence,

no recording of the alleged drug sales,

no proof whatsoever.

Still, the court believed his testimony over that of the individuals charged. Most were convicted and some were given sentences over 100 years.

The officer, in that case, was an N-word-spouting racist honored with a police

award as Lawman of the Year from then-Attorney General John Cornyn. :lol

Civil Rights attorney Vanita Gupta took on their case, and by 2003,

all of the people charged were released :lol

and

the Lawman of the Year cop was charged with perjury and a slew of other charges. :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/maddow-john-cornyn-hummiliation-nominee (https://www.rawstory.com/maddow-john-cornyn-hummiliation-nominee/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6840)

[Winehole23]

https://seoklaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/tulia_texas-01.jpg

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex7nPRSXIAEFvmd?format=jpg&name=medium

[boutons_deux]

https://seoklaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/tulia_texas-01.jpg

Coleman's 46 victims got prison, but convicted Coleman?

"Jurors deliberated his punishment for less than an hour before recommending probation.

They sentenced him to seven years in prison,

but because he didn’t have any prior felony convictions decided that he could serve the time on probation.

The judge agreed and will rule Tuesday on the length and terms of the sentence."

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6827494

How many of the Coleman's victims went to prison for years but "didn’t have any prior felony convictions" ?


https://www.kcbd.com/story/2813548/tulia-defendants-disappointed-at-colemans-verdict/

[DarrinS]

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[DarrinS]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex7nPRSXIAEFvmd?format=jpg&name=medium



Room of fully-vaccinated people wearing masks.

[Winehole23]

Room of fully-vaccinated people wearing masks.Do fully vaccinated people not need to wear masks, Dr. d?

[Winehole23]

are cases going up or down in the US right now?

[DarrinS]

Do fully vaccinated people not need to wear masks, Dr. d?

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0308-vaccinated-guidelines.html

[Winehole23]

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0308-vaccinated-guidelines.htmlno pull quote?

[Winehole23]

Walensky fudged


Though the study is an impressive piece of evidence of the effectiveness of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, some public-health experts pushed back on Walensky’s pandemic-changing takeaway. “There cannot be any daylight between what the research shows — really impressive but incomplete protection — and how it is described,” Dr. Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, told the New York Times on Thursday. “This opens the door to the skeptics who think the government is sugarcoating the science,” Bach added, “and completely undermines any remaining argument why people should keep wearing masks after being vaccinated.”

Even the Centers for Disease Control hedged on Walensky’s claims. “Dr. Walensky spoke broadly during this interview,” a CDC spokesperson told the Times. “It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get Covid-19. The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence.”
(bad headline)https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/cdc-data-suggests-vaccinated-dont-carry-cant-spread-virus.html

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex7nPRSXIAEFvmd?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-7IcLW8AIS-Uj?format=jpg&name=900x900

[ElNono]

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Are those price tags? asking for a friend, tbh

[SnakeBoy]

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Not enough fatties tbh

[ElNono]

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Not enough fatties tbh

I thought he was going for "separate but equal", tbh...

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/130717145157-samantha-power-exlarge-169.jpg


Samatha Power, head administrator, US Agency for International Development68-26


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/28/politics/samantha-power-confirmed-usaid/index.html
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/samantha-power
https://samanthapower.com/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

revolving door go brrrr...


The arrival of each new WestExec adviser at the administration has been met with varying degrees of press coverage — headlines for the secretary of state, blurbs in trade publications for the head of cybersecurity — but the creeping monopolization of foreign policymaking by a single boutique consulting firm has gone largely unnoticed. The insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption.


WestExec does not affirmatively share its clients, and public financial disclosure forms only offer broad outlines. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, says that government ethics laws written decades ago aren’t equipped to handle a situation in which a single firm launches 15 senior officials.

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/

[Winehole23]

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