Liveblog - In case you missed it: Headlines 07/13/21

With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks.  Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share that we may have missed.

President Biden/Biden Administration:

• “The big lie is just that, A BIG LIE!” (Should have said ‘bald faced lie’ if he really wanted to get people’s attention and trigger them in the process).

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1415023402973372418

JUST IN: Vice President Kamala Harris hinted in an NPR interview that she’s talking with senators about a voting-rights exception to the filibuster.https://t.co/JrzQs2pSBI

— NPR (@NPR) July 13, 2021

Congress:

Mitch McConnell, who never seemed too upset about Trump’s expansive use of executive authority, quickly pegged Biden’s move as “an unprecedented and dangerous politicization of the Social Security Administration.” https://t.co/CK0c9STdVM

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) July 13, 2021

Sen. Joe Manchin says he will meet with the Texas Democrats.

Asked if he would support a carve-out in the filibuster just for voting rights legislation, Manchin wouldn’t answer, saying only that he’s “anxious to meet with” the legislators. – via NBC's Hill team

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 13, 2021

COVID-19 Updates/COVIDIOTS:

• Dutch COVID-19 infections soar by 500% in a week.
• CDC: 100 People Vaccinated With J&J COVID Shot Developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Eight NFL teams above 85 percent vaccination threshold with two weeks until training camp.
• How unfortunate: California health officials on Monday issued a statewide policy for the upcoming academic year that would have barred students from school campuses if they refused to wear masks, only to backtrack on the ban hours later.
• COVID Cases In Parts Of Missouri And Arkansas Surge To Levels Not Seen Since Winter.
• Greece Vows To Suspend Health Care Workers if They Refuse COVID Vaccine.

Durbin: There are two hosts of programs on Fox prime time that can only be characterized as Anti-vax quacks. I’m referring of course to Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham… pic.twitter.com/KSyFRQdupI

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 12, 2021

Voter Suppression/Voting Rights:

Texas House Republicans vote to direct the Sgt at Arms to arrest Texas House Democrats. pic.twitter.com/yT4YLVU69C

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 13, 2021

Sen. Chuck Schumer: "Republican legislatures are not only making it harder to vote, they're making it easier to steal an election." pic.twitter.com/QiPwX1hLmk

— The Hill (@thehill) July 13, 2021

The Economy:

Prices pumped!

US #inflation rises at the fastest pace in 13 years.

But it's likely the #Fed won’t overreact says @LaMonicaBuzz – here's why 👇 pic.twitter.com/lTVXuKzaxt

— Julia Chatterley (@jchatterleyCNN) July 13, 2021

Headline inflation is up but we need to look under the hood to understand what's really going on–used cares, new cars, auto parts, and car rentals accounted for 60% of month-over-month price increases. W/o cars and pandemic-related services, June's monthly inflation was 0.2% https://t.co/Bg3S6mPuKG

— Heather Boushey (@hboushey46) July 13, 2021

White ISIS/MAGAts/ White Supremacists/Wing Nut Watch/GUNZ!:

In Eureka, Missouri, the only Black woman in the Rockwood School District’s administration resigned from her position as diversity coordinator after threats of violence grew so severe that the district hired private security to patrol her house. https://t.co/6dDsuLj1GQ

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 13, 2021

• Violent, homophobic shirt draws rebuke from state, community leaders
  • The discovery that a Cheyenne bar was selling a violent, homophobic T-shirt drew a strong rebuke Monday from community and state leaders.

The Former Guy- The ‘gift’ that keeps on giving:

• Speaking of The Big (bald-faced) Lie: ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: Inside Trump’s Election Day and the birth of the ‘big lie’
  • At the end of a tumultuous day, the defiant president refused to accept the signs that he was losing the White House contest to Joe Biden. “I won in a landslide and they’re taking it back,” Trump told advisers.

• Trump said whoever ‘leaked’ info on his White House bunker stay should be ‘executed,’ new book claims

Other News:

• Abortion rights groups sue to block Texas law allowing citizens to sue providers
  • Unlike other states’ laws, Texas’ ban would be enforced through private citizens’ lawsuits against abortion providers, not by the state government.

• Rapper shot as many as 64 times as he walked out of Chicago jail
  • Londre Sylvester, 31, was walking to a waiting vehicle when several suspects “exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot,” police said.

• Coast Guard Warns Florida Cubans Against ‘Dangerous’ Trip Back to Island to Aid Protesters