Liveblog - ICYMI: December 13, 2024

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Friendly Reminder:

I don't care what TIME says.MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris.TIME got it wrong. So did America.

BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T19:19:53.477Z

Updates:

When the lies were told about about President Biden and his son Hunter, they were bullhorn-blasted loud and long for everyone to hear.When the liar was exposed?Quiet as church mice.This should be a MUCH bigger story.

Really American (@reallyamerican.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T00:12:02.876Z

Congress:

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after sustaining injury on Luxembourg trip

The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2024-12-13T17:18:11.761Z

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized with injury during congressional trip to Luxembourg

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hospitalized after sustaining an injury during a trip to Luxembourg as part of a congressional delegation, her office said Friday.

“While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,” spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement. “Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals.”

The nature of the injury was not immediately clear. Krager said Pelosi continues to work from the hospital and “looks forward to returning home to the U.S. soon.” The news outlet RTL Luxembourg reported that she had been taken to Kirchberg Hospital in the northeast of Luxembourg City. 

The Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:

From The MarKODA Files-The Dented Can Aisle and Expired Shelf Life Edition:

REMINDER: People voted for Trump because he said his stupid tariffs will "bring your grocery bill way down," even though experts say the opposite will happen.Now he's saying "It's hard to bring things down once they're up." We warned you.

Really American (@reallyamerican.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T20:23:33.441Z

Apples, famously found in the refrigerated section.

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T23:34:42.958Z

Donald Trump Commits To Closing Department Of Education

The new Time Interview highlights his position on the education policy

In a new interview with Time Magazine, Donald Trump has reiterated his support for closing down the Department of Education when he takes office in January. 

The reporters asked what his plan was on education policy in America, and he noted that the wants to move education issues back to the states. When pressed on “what does moving back to the states mean?” Trump responded by stating:

“A virtual closure ofDepartment of Education in Washington.” 

if you kill a disfavored person in the street the leaders of the republican party will try to make you a national hero. absolutely not an ominous sign for the future.

jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2024-12-13T15:28:41.898Z

Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.

Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.

Craven Assholes:

What’s happening in NC should be much bigger scandal: gerrymandered GOP legislature stripping power from Dem gov & AG in lame-duck session while Rs trying to throw out 60k votes to overturn Dem victory in state Supreme Court race www.motherjones.com/politics/202…

Ari Berman (@ariberman.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T16:04:59.721Z

A North Carolina Judge Won Two Recounts. Republicans Are Still Trying to Overturn Her Election.

“This is a nonviolent version of January 6.”

After trailing by more than 10,000 votes on election night, Democratic North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs pulled off an unexpected victory by 734 votes after absentee and provisional ballots were counted and the results were affirmed by two recounts, including a hand count completed on Tuesday. “Let this race serve as a reminder that every vote counts,” said North Carolina Democratic Party chair Anderson Clayton.

But the election has yet to be certified because Riggs’ GOP opponent, Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, has challenged the validity of more than 60,000 ballots, including those of Riggs’ parents.

“The scale of this should be deeply troubling to anyone who has any respect for the rule of law,” Riggs told me on Wednesday. “With 60,000 people, it is everyone’s friend, it’s everyone’s family member, it’s everyone’s neighbor. There’s no one who doesn’t know someone on that list.”

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