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September 24 2021
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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 9.24.21
Good Friday morning.
ICYMI — General Counsel James Uthmeier will become Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new Chief of Staff as current chief Adrian Lukis departs the administration next month.
Uthmeier, a Destin native, has served as General Counsel since October 2020 and first began working in DeSantis’ legal office as Deputy General Counsel in March 2019.
“We are proud to welcome James as the next Chief of Staff for Gov. DeSantis, where he will continue to serve the people of Florida,” DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said in a statement. “James looks forward to supporting the Governor’s mission of ensuring our state continues to be a place where every family has the opportunity to succeed, knowing their constitutional liberties will also be protected.”
Before joining the DeSantis administration, Uthmeier served as a senior adviser and counsel to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and an associate at the law firm Jones Day. He is also an adjunct professor at Florida State University.
Lukis was elevated from Deputy to head Chief of Staff in March. However, Lukis didn’t plan to stick around long because of his young family.
Lukis’ last day — and Uthmeier’s first — will be Oct. 1.
— SITUATIONAL AWARENESS —
Tweet, tweet:
—@JKennedyReport: Watch out, @GovRonDeSantis. Ex-Pres (Donald) Trump now pressuring @GregAbbott_TX to audit last year’s elections — despite his big win there. Is Fla next for this exercise based on nothing?
Tweet, tweet:
— DAYS UNTIL —
The Problem with Jon Stewart premieres on Apple TV+ — 6; Disability Employment Awareness Month begins — 7; ’The Many Saints of Newark’ premieres — 7; Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary party starts — 7; MLB regular season ends — 9; ’No Time to Die’ premieres — 14; ’Succession’ returns — 23; ’Dune’ premieres — 28; World Series Game 1 — 32; Florida Chamber Future of Florida Forum begins — 33; Florida TaxWatch’s annual meeting begins — 33; Georgia at UF — 36; St. Petersburg Municipal Elections — 39; Florida’s 20th Congressional District Primary — 39; The Blue Angels 75th anniversary show — 42; Disney’s ’Eternals’ premieres — 42; ’Yellowstone’ Season 4 begins — 44; ’Disney Very Merriest After Hours’ will debut — 45; Miami at FSU — 50; ExcelinEd National Summit on Education begins — 55; FSU vs. UF — 64; Florida Chamber 2021 Annual Insurance Summit begins — 68; Jacksonville special election to fill seat vacated by Tommy Hazouri’s death — 74; Steven Spielberg’s ’West Side Story’ premieres — 77; ’Spider-Man: No Way Home’ premieres — 84; ’The Matrix: Resurrections’ released — 89; ’The Book of Boba Fett’ premieres on Disney+ — 92; CES 2022 begins — 103; NFL season ends — 107; 2022 Legislative Session starts — 109; Florida’s 20th Congressional District election — 109; Joel Coen’s ’The Tragedy of Macbeth’ on Apple TV+ — 112; NFL playoffs begin — 113; Super Bowl LVI — 142; Daytona 500 — 149; St. Pete Grand Prix — 156; ’Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ premieres — 182; ’Thor: Love and Thunder’ premieres — 226; ’Top Gun: Maverick’ premieres — 245; ’Platinum Jubilee’ for Queen Elizabeth II — 251; “Black Panther 2” premieres — 287; San Diego Comic-Con 2022 — 299; ’Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ sequel premieres — 378; “Captain Marvel 2” premieres — 413.
“U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians” via John Hudson, Anne Gearan and Anthony Faiola of The Washington Post — The U.S. special envoy for Haiti has quit his job in a blistering resignation letter saying he could not be associated with the Joe Biden administration’s decision to deport thousands of Haitian migrants to their home country, a move he called “inhumane” given the deteriorating security situation in the country. “Our policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my recommendations have been ignored and dismissed,” Daniel Foote said in the letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday. Foote was named special envoy in July, just weeks after the assassination of Haiti’s President plunged the country into political turmoil.
“In resignation letter, Daniel Foote blasts repatriation of Haitians from U.S.-Mexico border” via Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner of the Miami Herald — Harshly criticizing what he called the United States’ “inhumane” treatment of Haitian migrants and its policy toward Haiti, Foote, the U.S. diplomat whose reputation for working in some of the world’s most challenging environments led the Biden administration to name him special envoy to Haiti, has resigned. In a strongly-worded resignation letter, the veteran diplomat criticized the U.S. decision to repatriate thousands of Haitians from the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few days. He also lashed out at what he called “puppeteering” of Haitian politics by the U.S. and other nations.
“Congresswoman ‘pissed’ about treatment of Haitians at Texas border, says some are being sheltered in Miami” via Amanda Batchelor of WPLG Local 10 News — Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson held a news conference with other elected officials and community activists to discuss the treatment of Haitian migrants at the Texas border. Wilson kicked off the speeches Thursday at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, calling on Biden to immediately stop deporting people to Haiti. According to the Congresswoman, some of the Haitians currently at the border have not lived in Haiti for 10 to 15 years, and the country is not equipped to take them. Wilson also addressed controversial photos that surfaced this week, showing Border Patrol agents on horses using long reins against Haitians who were crossing back into Texas after going into Mexico.
— DATELINE TALLY —
“Senate Agriculture Committee targets racial inequality among farmers” via Jason Delgado of Florida Politics — As head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Sen. Darryl Rouson directed members’ attention Thursday to an issue he plans to address as chairman: racial inequality. “The plight of the Black farmer in the State of Florida is real,” Rouson told members at the committee’s first meeting. Dania Davey, a director with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund, briefed lawmakers Thursday about the decline of Black farmers in Florida. She warned they are losing nearly 4,000 acres each year while averaging less than half the government payments that non-Black farmers receive. Unlike their counterparts, Black farmers disproportionally are victims of discriminatory lending practices and lack adequate access to capital.
Happening today — The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Attorney General Ashley Moody’s challenge to immigration enforcement moves by the Biden administration. U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell had turned down the state’s request for a preliminary injunction. Arguments begin at 9 a.m., Federal Justice Building, 99 N.E. Fourth St., Miami.
“Tina Polsky, Dan Daley again push ‘Jaime’s Law’ to vet the sale and transfer of ammo” via Ryan Nicol of Florida Politics — Rep. Daley is trying for the third straight Session to push forward legislation requiring background checks for ammunition purchases. The measure (HB 181) is titled “Jaime’s Law,” named after Jaime Guttenberg, one of the 17 people killed during the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. The measure would subject those buying ammo to the same background checks that exist for individuals purchasing a gun. Ammunition could still be freely transferred at shooting ranges, or hunting and fishing sites just as before, so long as “the transferor has no reason to believe that the transferee will use or intends to use the ammunition in a crime or that the transferee is prohibited from possessing ammunition under state or federal law.”
“‘Self-Defense Restoration Act’ bill proposed in Florida would require retreat before use of deadly force” via Sam Sachs of WFLA — Rep. Michele K. Rayner filed a bill for the 2022 legislative session that would require a retreat from law enforcement officers during situations where non-deadly force is threatened or used. Rayner’s bill is entitled “The Self-Defense Restoration Act,” and is listed as HB 73. The bill would prohibit the use of deadly force by an officer who knows that it can be avoided “with complete safety by retreating.” It was added to the legislative agenda for 2022 on Sept. 17. Rayner is a Democrat from St. Petersburg and a civil rights attorney. The bill makes some adjustments to how officers respond to threatening situations. There are currently no co-sponsors to the bill. If enacted, HB 73 would require law enforcement officers to find alternative methods of handling situations where force is needed.
“Lawmakers play nice over redistricting process — for now” via Jacob Ogles of Florida Politics — The truncated but still monthslong process of redrawing Florida’s state and federal jurisdictions rolled forward Thursday. Two committees met simultaneously, further showcasing newly available tools for drawing and submitting maps. For now, the infamously partisan process remains cordial and friendly. Rep. Kelly Skidmore, the ranking Democrat on the House Congressional Redistricting Subcommittee, said she looked forward to the challenge of “fair and legal districts” that comply with an anti-gerrymandering amendment passed by voters just over a decade ago. There’s been plenty of skepticism over whether that will happen.
“What is Florida’s three strikes malpractice law? Here’s how dangerous doctors evade it” via Holly Baltz of The Palm Beach Post — In Florida, voters in 2004 passed a law that is supposed to prevent dangerous doctors from practicing medicine. It’s known as the three-strikes malpractice law and requires that doctors with three findings of malpractice lose their license. Sounds pretty simple, right? But then the Florida Legislature in 2005 got involved and made it nearly impossible for the board of medicine to levy a strike. The law says a strike happens after a judgment of malpractice by the court in a lawsuit or a finding by the board of medicine or an arbitrator. If the doctor settles a malpractice case or a disciplinary complaint, which doctors often do, there’s no finding of malpractice.
New and renewed lobbying registrations:
Ellyn Bogdanoff, Becker & Poliakoff: Gulf Group Holdings Acquisitions & Applications
Leslie Dughi, Metz Husband & Daughton: Amscot Financial, BioFlorida
George Feijoo, Gary Guzzo, Floridian Partners: Castle Key Insurance Company
Shawn Foster, Sunrise Consulting Group: CohnReznick
BillieAnne Gay: HCA Healthcare
Patrick Gillespie: Department of Management Services
Doug Holder, The Legis Group: West Coast Inland Navigation District
Paul Mitchell, Laura Boehmer, Clark Smith, The Southern Group: Next Insurance
Marco Paredes, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler: Eisenhower Property Group
Monica Rodriguez, Ballard Partners: Barry University
Will Rodriguez, Corcoran Partners: Peoples Gas System, Tampa Electric Company, TECO Energy
— CORONA FLORIDA —
“Florida COVID-19 update: 1,213 deaths and 4,215 cases added to tally, fewer in hospital” via Devoun Cetoute of the Miami Herald — Florida on Thursday reported 1,213 more deaths and 4,215 additional COVID-19 cases to the CDC. According to the Herald analysis, all but 131 of the newly reported deaths — about 89% — occurred since Aug. 26. About 56% of the newly reported died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed. The majority of deaths happened during Florida’s latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant. In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,531,465 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 53,105 deaths. In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 328 deaths and 8,227 cases to the cumulative daily total, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
“Lost to COVID-19: Summer delta wave puts Florida in Top 10 states for pandemic deaths” via Skyler Swisher of the Orlando Sentinel — Florida has moved up as a fierce summer wave pushes the virus’ toll past 50,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Florida now has the No. 10 highest per capita death rate among U.S. states. More than a fourth of those deaths have occurred over the summer, despite the widespread availability of highly effective vaccines in preventing serious illness. Behind the numbers is a trail of heartbreak.
“Florida purchases GlaxoSmithKline monoclonal antibody as federal reduction continues” via Renzo Downey of Florida Politics — The DeSantis administration has purchased 3,000 doses of GlaxoSmithKline’s monoclonal antibody treatment after the Biden administration reduced the federal supply of Regeneron’s version of the coronavirus-fighting drug by more than half. Speaking in Tampa, DeSantis told reporters the state would soon receive that shipment and could use it to offset the declining federal distributions. The news comes eight days after DeSantis met with leadership from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company that produces the latest monoclonal antibody therapy to receive federal approval, sotrovimab.
“Florida’s mysterious COVID-19 surge” via German Lopez of Vox — The most common explanation for the outbreaks in the South that we saw over the recent summer was the low vaccination rates across the region. But Florida defies the regional trend. The state ranks 20th for full vaccination in the U.S., with 56% of people fully vaccinated — not great, but a little above the national rate. According to Google’s mobility data, Floridians around mid-August were about 14% less likely to travel to retail and recreational outlets than pre-pandemic times. That’s almost the same as Californians and actually lower than New Yorkers. Neither New York (about 59% fully vaccinated at the time) nor California (about 54% fully vaccinated at the time — not much higher than Florida) saw surges anywhere as bad as Florida’s in August.
“Ron DeSantis says natural immunity is equal to vaccines. Experts say it’s not so simple” via Bianca Padró Ocasio and Daniel Chang of the Miami Herald — DeSantis is focusing some of his attacks on one main claim: Federal authorities are ignoring the benefits of natural immunity against COVID-19 reinfections. “You can’t tell noble lies to try to get [people] to behave in a way that you think you want them to behave in. And so, we see that time and time again in this issue of natural immunity,” DeSantis said as he introduced the state’s new Surgeon General. Infectious disease experts and vaccine researchers agree it’s way too soon to make declarative statements that ignore the risk of severe illness and omit the mountain of caveats that come with a novel virus that mutates rapidly and which scientists are still struggling to understand.
“U.S. begins reimbursing Florida school officials docked pay for defying mask mandate ban” via Heidi Przybyla of NBC News — The Biden administration began compensating some Florida school board members whose pay was docked this month for defying DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates, the Department of Education said. As part of the Biden administration’s “Project SAFE” grant program, an initial sum of $148,000 has been awarded to Alachua County school board members who voted this summer to mandate masks in the county’s schools as Florida developed some of the worst rates of COVID-19 infection in the nation. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement that the first wave of reimbursements offers a clear message: You will not be punished for overriding GOP Governors and legislatures to make schools safer for kids.
“CVS is hiring thousands in Florida to cover COVID-19 demand and flu season. How to apply” via Michelle Marchante of the Miami Herald — CVS Health is hosting a nationwide hiring spree Friday to help prepare for flu season while also juggling the demand for COVID-19 vaccinations and testing. The retail pharmacy hopes to fill 25,000 positions across the country, including 2,400 jobs in Florida and 70 positions in Puerto Rico. Open positions include full-time, part-time and temporary licensed pharmacists, trained pharmacy technicians, nurses, and retail associates. Some corporate and fully remote positions are also available. The company recently eliminated the high school diploma or GED requirement for most entry-level roles and will be raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour next year.
— CORONA LOCAL —
“Orlando VA no longer leads the nation in active COVID-19 cases, closes mobile ICU” via Caroline Catherman of the Orlando Sentinel — The Orlando Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center closed its mobile intensive care unit on Wednesday, about three weeks after it began using it to treat patients to conserve hospital resources. The facility still limits visitors and screens them for COVID-19. “The Orlando VA Healthcare System has seen a sustained decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the past couple of weeks and has decommissioned the mobile ICU effective today,” wrote spokesperson Heather Frebe. The VA has seen its number of active COVID-19 cases cut in half from 506 two weeks ago to 222 as of Wednesday. Patients occupy 92% of its ICU beds and 72% of its medical and surgical beds.
“AdventHealth Central Florida continues to report drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations as its hospitals remain at green status” via Danielle Prieur of WMFE — There are some 660 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at AdventHealth Central Florida’s hospitals in seven counties. That represents an almost 50% drop in hospitalizations from the peak in August when about 1,700 people were in its hospital and ICU beds. Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Neil Finkler says, “This slow, but steady decline in new admissions of COVID-19 patients is a positive signal that we continue to head in the right direction.” Finkler urges residents to continue to get vaccinated in order to avoid severe cases of the coronavirus that might result in hospitalization and death. Although hospitalizations are dropping, hospital capacity remains high which is why AdventHealth is still operating under green status.
—“Dramatic drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations across South Florida” via Peter D’Oench of CBS4
“Brevard quarantine critics hail rule allowing asymptomatic exposed students to go to class” via Bailey Gallion of Florida Today — Previously, students exposed to COVID-19 were required to quarantine at least four days and could return on the fifth day with a negative COVID-19 test if they did not have symptoms. Parents can now choose to send exposed children to school as long as they remain asymptomatic, or they can quarantine an asymptomatic child for up to seven days. The move runs counter to guidance from the CDC and has been criticized by liberal politicians, some school officials and the state’s largest teachers’ union over fears that it may drive further spread of COVID-19. Some people infected with COVID-19 may never show symptoms, and both they and infected people who are not yet symptomatic can spread the virus.
— 2022 —
“Charlie Crist wants newly minted Surgeon General fired over new COVID-19 rules” via Anne Geggis of Florida Politics — It’s only Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s second day as Florida’s Surgeon General and Crist already wants him removed for what he calls a “reckless” order that leaves it up to parents whether their COVID-19-exposed child should stay home from school. Crist hosted an online event Thursday with school officials, parents, and a teacher to decry the action, which he says is going to remove a layer of protection for the most vulnerable children, many of them who are too young to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Hiring an anti-mask, vaccine skeptic to be the state’s top doctor is another way for DeSantis to go “soft on COVID,” Crist said.
Florida’s property insurance markets ripe for 2022 battle — Florida’s property insurance market is in “dire” shape and will likely be a major issue in the 2022 midterms. “It is dire. These are not good results,” Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier told a Senate committee this week. “These results continue to not be sustainable. We will see companies either not survive or decide Florida is not the place for them to conduct business.” Matt Dixon of POLITICO reports that property insurance reform is shaping up to be a major battle in The Capitol. By 2022, the effects of a huge insurance bill designed to limit costs for insurance companies will be better known, particularly in Crist’s gubernatorial campaign. In 2006, when Crist won the race as a Republican, Florida had just experienced a series of hurricanes, with a spike in property insurance rates.
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“Miami Beach commission candidate apologizes after falsely claiming to be Hispanic” via Carli Teproff of the Miami Herald — Former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez said Thursday she “wasn’t even conscious” of what she was saying when she told Democratic Party leaders while seeking their campaign endorsement last week that she was Hispanic — even though she is not. “I have always identified politically as a Hispanic,” Rosen Gonzalez, who is hoping voters will return her to the Miami Beach Commission this November, told the Miami Herald Editorial Board during a scheduled interview Thursday. “I’ve apologized, and I’ve said I am obviously not Hispanic.” The apology came a day after Miami Herald news partner CBS4 wrote about Rosen Gonzalez’s claim in a Miami-Dade Democratic Party endorsement interview.
— CORONA NATION —
“U.S. sets the stage for COVID-19 booster shots for millions” via Lauran Neergaard and Mike Stobbe of The Associated Press — The U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 stood on the verge of a major new phase as government advisers Thursday recommended booster doses of Pfizer’s vaccine for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans — despite doubts the extra shots will do much to slow the pandemic. Advisers to the CDC said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents, and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems. The extra dose would be given once they are at least six months past their last Pfizer shot. Still, getting the unvaccinated first shots remains the top priority, and the panel wrestled with whether the booster debate was distracting from that goal.
“Has the spread of COVID-19 peaked in the U.S.? What future COVID-19 spread could look like” via Akshay Syal of NBC News — New COVID-19 cases reached a high point Sept. 13, with a seven-day average of cases at 166,807, NBC News data finds. Since then, cases have been gradually dropping nationwide for seven of the last eight days. It’s the most consistent decline since June 23, a period before the delta variant took hold in the U.S. Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, is hopeful that cases should continue to decline. “It will not be a sharp decline like we saw a sharp rise,” Mokdad warned. He said there could be a bump around the December holidays due to the seasonality of the virus, potential relaxation of physical distancing measures, and any waning immunity from the vaccines.
“Rural vaccinations climb by fastest rate in three months” via Tim Marema of the Daily Yonder — New vaccinations in rural America last week reached their highest level in three months, according to a Daily Yonder analysis. The increase in newly completed vaccinations came as the rural death rate from COVID-19 climbed to twice that of metropolitan areas. Rural counties reported approximately 362,000 newly completed vaccinations last week. That’s an increase of about 20% over two weeks ago and the largest number of new vaccinations recorded in rural counties since the third week of June. In metropolitan counties, the number of newly completed vaccinations climbed by about 9% compared to two weeks ago.
—“West Virginia, Montana case rates doubled in last month as Alaska sees record highs” via ABC News
—“Mapping America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide” via Zach Levitt and Dan Keating of The Washington Post
“Providers challenge only U.S. law banning vaccine mandates” via Amy Beth Hanson of The Associated Press — Medical providers and Montana residents with compromised immune systems are challenging the only law in the U.S. that prevents employers from mandating workers get vaccinated amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. They argue the new law violates federal requirements for safe workplaces and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and want a federal judge to rule that it doesn’t apply to hospitals and other medical providers. The Montana Medical Association, private physician groups, a Missoula hospital and seven individuals filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Missoula on Wednesday, arguing the law inhibits providers’ ability to “practice ethical and effective medicine” by requiring them to employ unvaccinated workers who are more likely to spread infections and diseases than vaccinated workers.
“Penn State temporarily suspends 117 students for missing required coronavirus testing” via Paulina Firozi of The Washington Post — More than 100 students at Penn State have been temporarily suspended for failing to comply with the school’s weekly coronavirus testing requirement, the university said this week. Students and employees who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus must undergo weekly testing throughout the semester, which the school said it announced before the start of the fall semester. Students who did not disclose that they are fully vaccinated received weekly emails about the required testing. There are 117 students who have missed at least three weeks of testing and have been placed on interim suspension, the school said. Last week, staff called students with three missed tests, an effort that “brought several hundred students into compliance,” according to a statement.
— CORONA ECONOMICS —
“Household net worth in U.S. hits record on surging home values” via Reade Pickert of Bloomberg — Household net worth increased by $5.8 trillion, or 4.3%, to $141.7 trillion in the second quarter, a Federal Reserve report out Thursday showed. The advance included a $3.5 trillion gain in the value of equities and a $1.2 trillion improvement in real estate held by households. Household net worth increased by $5.8 trillion, or 4.3%, to $141.7 trillion in the second quarter, a Federal Reserve report out Thursday showed. The advance included a $3.5 trillion gain in the value of equities and a $1.2 trillion improvement in real estate held by households. Equity shares as a percent of total household assets rose in the second quarter to almost 29.5%, up from 25.6% in 2019, the Fed’s report showed.
“U.S. and European economies slowed by delta variant, supply chain bottlenecks” via Jason Douglas and Amara Omeokwe of The Wall Street Journal — Manufacturing and services businesses in both the U.S. and Eurozone reported slower growth in activity this month, although the pullback was more pronounced in Europe. Forecasting firm IHS Markit said its index measuring U.S. business activity, based on surveys on purchasing managers, fell to 54.5 in September from 55.4 in August. That was the lowest level in a year. A level above 50 points to an increase in activity, while a level below 50 indicates a contraction. IHS Markit said its index of eurozone activity fell to a five-month low of 56.1 in September from 59 in August. The fall was steeper than predicted. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected a reading of 58.5.
“A record number of cargo ships off the California coast shows a crack in the supply chain.” via Gregory Schmidt of The New York Times — Sixty-one vessels were anchored offshore on Thursday waiting to unload cargo, down from a record 73 on Sunday, said Capt. J. Kipling Louttit, the executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, a nonprofit that works in partnership with the Coast Guard to provide data on maritime commerce. In addition to the anchored ships, 29 were adrift up to 20 miles offshore. The delay in getting the container ships to port comes as the easing of pandemic restrictions and increased consumer spending have ramped up demand. As a result, manufacturers are struggling to keep pace, and shortages of some products, like semiconductors, have caused slowdowns in production.
“COVID-19 requirements add another number to define small businesses.” via Stacy Cowley of The New York Times — When the Biden administration announced a mandate that employees be vaccinated or tested regularly at companies with 100 or more employees, business leaders responded with a barrage of questions. Among smaller companies, one loomed especially large: Why 100? It’s an appealingly round, easy-to-remember number, and it captures a broad section of the American workforce. But as a dividing line between a “big” business and a “small” one, it’s a threshold not found in any other major federal or state law. For entrepreneurs who employ a smattering of workers, that’s an increasingly common challenge: Every time lawmakers invent a new regulation, they also make up a new definition of which businesses count as small.
“Palm Beach County approves nearly $6 billion budget with American Rescue Plan help” via Hannah Morse of the Palm Beach Post — With a boost of millions of dollars from the federal government, Palm Beach County will come into its second full fiscal year during the pandemic with a balanced budget. But County Administrator Verdenia Baker warned that the county may face difficult financial decisions in the future. “Next year will be challenging, but we’ll get it done,” she said Monday evening. Palm Beach County Commissioners approved a $5.9 billion budget for the cycle that starts Oct. 1. The budget includes a $1.6 billion spending plan on county services and operations, as well as a total budget of $788.6 million for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
— MORE CORONA —
“Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year” via Reuters — Moderna Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel thinks the coronavirus pandemic could be over in a year as increased vaccine production ensures global supplies, he told the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung. Vaccinations would soon be available even for infants, he said. Asked if that meant a return to normal in the second half of next year, he said: “As of today, in a year, I assume.” Bancel said he expected governments to approve booster shots for people already vaccinated because patients at risk who were vaccinated last autumn “undoubtedly” needed a refresher. Its booster shot had half the initial dose, which meant more of them would be available.
“COVID-19 treatment derived from antibodies found in llamas shows promise in initial study” via Annabelle Timsit of The Washington Post — A small antibody found in llamas and camels that has been studied as the basis for a potential treatment for COVID-19 showed promise in new research published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature Communications. In the study, researchers injected a llama called Fifi with noninfectious parts of the coronavirus, which triggered an immune response. They then harvested Fifi’s blood and isolated nanobodies — small antibodies found in some animals that are prized by researchers because of their ability to get into nooks and crannies and because they are slow to degrade in the body — that they manipulated in a lab “to increase their ability to bind to the virus.” According to the researchers, the nanobodies were able to neutralize the coronavirus and its alpha and beta variants in lab experiments.
“Brazil approaches 600,000 COVID-19 deaths in second-deadliest outbreak” via Anthony Boadle of Reuters — Brazil has had 24,611 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 648 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Thursday. The South American country has now registered 21,308,178 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 592,964, according to ministry data, in the world’s third-worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest after the United States. As vaccination advances, the rolling seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths has fallen to less than one-fifth of the toll of almost 3,000 a day at the peak of the pandemic in April.
“A fictional funeral home tries to save lives with an anti-vaccine ad.” via Alyssa Lukpat of The New York Times — It was a tailgate unlike any other on Sunday morning, as a strange truck circled the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Don’t get vaccinated,” the side of the truck said, much to the bewilderment of the Carolina Panthers fans who were there to watch a game against the New Orleans Saints. Underneath that text was the name of the apparent sponsor, Wilmore Funeral Home, with a link to its website and a phone number. The twist was that Wilmore Funeral Home was a fictional business, and its website sent visitors to a vaccine registration page. The phone number belonged to Crenshaw Visions, the advertising agency that owned the truck.
“Both vaccinated? Oregon health officials say you can kiss on dates again!” via Lizzy Acker of The Oregonian — Back in April 2020, the Oregon Health Authority put out some advice for daters in the time of COVID-19: “You are your safest sex partner.” It has been a long, hard 18 months of pandemic behavior for people who want to date but are also somewhat responsible. But now, OHA has a new message: If you’re vaccinated, and your date is vaccinated, and you both are generally being safe; otherwise, get intimate! OHA’s dating advice really isn’t too wild. In fact, it’s the same advice all the experts keep giving everyone, even people who aren’t looking for new kissing partners — get vaccinated, wear a mask in crowded spaces, don’t go anywhere, or do anything if you have any symptoms of any illness.
“Answers to your vaccine questions: I got two shots in Argentina. Am I considered fully vaccinated in the U.S.?” via Lois K. Solomon of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel — The Biden administration is easing travel restrictions into the United States beginning Nov. 1. Tourists coming in from other countries will need to show proof of vaccination and a negative test for COVID-19 taken within three days of boarding the plane. To be considered fully inoculated, foreign travelers must have two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The U.S. will also accept vaccines approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, including the AstraZeneca shot. However, Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has not been approved by the WHO. So, you will not be considered fully vaccinated in the U.S., and it’s the same for Canada.
— PRESIDENTIAL —
“Joe Biden pushes deterrent border policy after promising ‘humane’ approach” via Michael D. Shear, Natalie Kitroeff, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Eileen Sullivan of The New York Times — The images could have come straight from Trump’s immigration playbook: mounted Border Patrol agents rounding up desperate Haitian families at the southwestern border for rapid deportation from the United States. In fact, the aggressive effort to quickly clear a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, of more than 15,000 Haitian migrants was part of a Biden administration response that included “surging” agents to the overrun area using a public health immigration rule invoked by Trump to send many people home. President Biden’s spokeswoman said the scenes of agents on horseback were “horrific” and not “acceptable or appropriate.”
“Biden administration directs border officials to suspend horse patrols in Del Rio migrant camp” via Nick Miroff of The Washington Post — The Biden administration has directed U.S. border officials to suspend patrols by agents on horseback in the Del Rio, Texas, migrant camp, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday. Psaki said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told civil rights leaders Thursday the department would no longer use horses in Del Rio. “So that is something, a policy change that has been made in response,” she said, describing the administration’s reaction to anger from Democratic lawmakers, rights groups and others over widely circulated images showing U.S. agents on horseback charging at migrants, including families, in an attempt to drive them back to Mexico, while cursing and swinging reins in the air.
“White House weighs invoking defense law to get chip data” via Jenny Leonard of Bloomberg — The Biden administration is considering invoking a Cold War-era national security law to force companies in the semiconductor supply chain to provide information on inventory and sales of chips, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Thursday. The goal is to alleviate bottlenecks that have idled U.S. car production and caused consumer electronics shortages and identify possible hoarding, she said in an interview. Her team for months has sought clarity into how companies allocate their semiconductor supply. The Commerce Department is now asking companies to fill out questionnaires within 45 days providing supply chain information. The request is voluntary, but Raimondo said she warned industry representatives that she might invoke the Defense Production Act or other tools to force their hands if they don’t respond.
“Biden finalizes move to phase out potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration” via Maureen Groppe of USA Today — The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the first major step taken under Biden to curb climate change, releasing new regulations to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration. Emissions would be cut by 85% over 15 years. By 2050, the reductions would be the equivalent of eliminating three years’ worth of carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power sector, according to the administration. Critics have charged that the restrictions will hurt consumers whose air conditioners and refrigerators run on affordable refrigerant. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute joined with other business groups in praising the regulation as balanced and a “win-win for both the climate and the economy.”
“America’s billionaires pay an average income tax rate of just 8.2%, Biden administration says” via Sarah Ewall-Wice of CBS News — The Biden administration analysis estimated billionaires paid 8.2% of their income between 2010 and 2018, including on forms of income that go largely untaxed — lower than the rates paid by most Americans. In that final year of analysis, it notes that those families had at least $2.1 billion in wealth, according to Forbes. The analysis by economists from the Office of Management and Budget and the White House Council of Economic Advisers drew from publicly available data and said the disparity is primarily driven by how the tax code treats income generated from wealth — such as income from stocks, whose worth increases over time — rather than wages, which are immediately taxed.
“South Florida developer nominated to be Biden’s ambassador to Belgium” via Bianca Padró Ocasio of the Miami Herald — Biden nominated Coral Gables real estate mogul Michael Adler as the new U.S. ambassador to Belgium, one of two ambassadorship nominations of major Democratic fundraisers announced Wednesday. Adler, the chairman and CEO of South Florida-based Adler Group, Inc., has been a Democratic donor for over a decade and was the national finance chairman of Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. In 2019, ahead of the Democratic presidential preference primary, Adler hosted a private fundraiser for Biden at the Gables Club, where then-candidate Biden warned the crowd of about 200 people that reelecting Trump would be the “end of NATO.”
— EPILOGUE: TRUMP —
“Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Donald Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown” via Tom Hamburger and Jacqueline Alemany of The Washington Post — The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former President’s objections, a decision that could have significant political and legal ramifications. Trump has said he will cite “executive privilege” to block information requests from the House select committee investigating the events of that day, banking on a legal theory that has successfully allowed Presidents and their aides to avoid or delay congressional scrutiny for decades, including during the Trump administration. But President Biden’s White House plans to err on the side of disclosure given the gravity of the events of Jan. 6.
“‘He put himself ahead of the country’: Chris Christie rips Trump’s election claims” via David M. Drucker of Yahoo News — Christie said Trump should stop peddling conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen, arguing that the claims are inconsistent with putting America first and damage the Republican Party’s efforts to blunt Biden’s agenda. “I think it would be better if he accepted the results of the 2020 election. And I think that would be better for the country. There hasn’t been any type of substantive evidence that has come forward,” the former two-term New Jersey Governor and Republican 2024 contender said during a virtual appearance at the annual Texas Tribune Festival.
“Trump moving political HQ back to Mar-a-Lago” via Paul Steinhauser of Fox News — Trump has headed south to Florida. A top adviser to the former President says that with the onset of autumn, Trump’s moved his residence and political operation back to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. “The season is starting to open down there,” Corey Lewandowski said. “You are going to see a complete rush of candidates going down to the Mar-a-Lago area to do fundraising, to be near the President, to talk to him, to get his advice and counsel.” Trump moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in late January, at the end of his presidency. But in May, he moved his political headquarters and residence north to his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
“Michael Flynn thinks they might be putting the COVID-19 vaccine in your salad dressing” via Ryan Bort of Rolling Stone — On Monday, Flynn appeared on “Thrivetime Show: Business School Without the B.S.,” a podcast clearly meant to drive business to host Clay Clark’s business coaching program. It’s hard to overstate how far afield of reality, or even mainstream conspiracy-theory culture, the discussion ventures. At one point, Flynn suggests that the government could be secretly administering the vaccine through salad dressing. The idea that “they” are putting vaccines in salad dressing likely trickled down from a recent story about how researchers at the University of California at Irvine are trying to develop a way to grow edible plants that contain the same medication active in the mRNA vaccines.
— CRISIS —
“Jan. 6 investigation accelerates as it turns toward Trump” via Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu of POLITICO — The march to unearth Trump’s Jan. 6 secrets has shifted into a sprint. In interviews, six members of the House panel investigating the Capitol attack made clear that they’re prepared to fly past any obstacles they encounter, mindful of Trump’s past success at stymieing congressional investigators. The calendar makes their job tougher: Panel members know they need to show results quickly as the midterms bear down, given Democrats’ thin majority. “The schedule has always been a challenge to accomplish what we need to accomplish in the time frame,” said Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California. “We’re committed to do it, and we’ll use every available tool to get there.” And the potential hurdles are many.
“Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas four Trump aides” via Ivana Saric of Axios — The Jan 6. select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot has subpoenaed four aides to Trump for testimony and documents. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former communications official Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kash Patel, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon were all in touch “with the White House on or in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection,” the committee said in a release. These are the first subpoenas for testimony issued by the select committee. Earlier Thursday committee member Rep. Adam Schiff warned that those who refuse to comply with subpoenas would be guilty of criminal contempt.
“To sue The New York Times and his niece, Donald Trump turned to a low-profile attorney from New Jersey” via David A. Farenthold and Alice Crites of The Washington Post — Earlier this month, one of Trump’s best-known attorneys, veteran litigator Marc E. Kasowitz, withdrew from a case where Trump had been sued for defamation. Trump replaced him with a lower profile lawyer: Alina Habba, from a four-attorney firm with offices near Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. Her experience included serving as general counsel for a parking garage company. On Tuesday, she filed a $100 million lawsuit on Trump’s behalf, targeting The New York Times, three Times reporters, and his niece Mary L. Trump. Trump alleges that Trump violated the terms of a 2001 legal settlement by providing the reporters with family financial records, which they used to write Pulitzer Prize-winning stories.
— D.C. MATTERS —
“Democrats see tax ‘framework’ to pay for huge $3.5T package” via Lisa Mascaro and Alan Fram of The Associated Press — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the progress as Biden administration officials and Democratic congressional leaders negotiated behind the scenes. Staring down a self-imposed Monday deadline, lawmakers said they would work nonstop to find agreement on specifics. Democrats’ views on those vary widely, though they largely agree with Biden’s idea of raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to fund the package. Moderate Democrats, most prominently Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are demanding that the massive dollar total be reduced. The revenue options to pay for it — that mostly means taxes — being considered can be dialed up or down, the leaders say. The ultimate price tag may certainly slip from the much-publicized $3.5 trillion.
“Nancy Pelosi says government funding won’t lapse” via Kristina Peterson and Andrew Restuccia of The Wall Street Journal — House Speaker Pelosi said Congress wouldn’t let government funding expire next week, on the same day that the Biden administration began preparing for a possible partial shutdown. “We will keep our government open by Sept. 30, which is our date, and continue the conversation about the debt ceiling, but not for long,” she said Thursday. “We will have a (continuing resolution) that passes both houses by Sept. 30.” White House officials remained optimistic that lawmakers would avoid a shutdown. There “is enough time for Congress to prevent a lapse in appropriations, and we are confident they will do so,” White House Office of Management and Budget spokesman Abdullah Hasan said.
“House Democrats plan Saturday votes to advance tax, spend plan” via Erik Wasson and John Fitzpatrick of Bloomberg — House Democrats are attempting to move forward with the next procedural step needed to pass Biden’s economic agenda, penciling in a rare Saturday committee meeting to advance a proposed $3.5 trillion package. The Budget Committee’s markup could occur Friday instead of Saturday if Republicans agree to an expedited schedule, Chairman John Yarmuth said, adding that he expects the full House to consider the package next week. The committee’s vote on the individual components of the tax and spending bill is a necessary step but does not mean Democrats have resolved all their differences on the package. The Budget panel cannot amend what the other committees voted to approve earlier this month — any changes would come in the Rules Committee or on the House floor.
“Federal court voids ruling on minimum age requirements for purchasing handguns” via CBS News — A federal appeals court tossed out an earlier ruling that found federal laws prohibiting the sale of handguns to young adults under the age of 21 are unconstitutional, because the woman who mounted the legal battle against the minimum age requirement turned 21 “Despite efforts to add parties and reframe her claimed injuries, it is too late to revive this case. So, it must be dismissed as moot,” Judge Julius Richardson wrote in an opinion. The 4th Circuit panel ruled in the dispute over the age requirements for handgun purchases in July, finding that 18-year-olds possess the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The ruling from the 4th Circuit panel was at the time criticized by gun control groups.
“The tangled tale of the Israel consulate, the Dilbert cartoonist and the Matt Gaetz case” via Marc Caputo of POLITICO — Scant media attention has been paid in the sex crimes investigation to the mysterious cameo of Jake Novak, broadcast media director of the Consulate General of Israel in New York. Three days before the story broke in March that federal investigators were probing whether Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl, Novak began corresponding with Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams about the scandal. Novak indicated to Adams he had inside knowledge of the probe and suggested he was personally involved to get $25 million out of Gaetz’s wealthy father to help free an American hostage in Iran named Bob Levinson.
— LOCAL NOTES —
“Tropical Storm Sam forecast to grow into major hurricane by Saturday” via Robin Webb and Chris Perkins of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel — Tropical Storm Sam, the 18th named storm of the season, is expected to be at hurricane strength by Friday and could be a major hurricane with top winds of 125 mph by next week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Sam formed Thursday from Tropical Depression Eighteen and was moving west at 16 mph with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, as of 5 p.m. Thursday, about 1,635 miles east-southeast of the boundary where the Atlantic Ocean meets the far eastern Caribbean Sea. It is forecast to move west-northwest by Friday. Sam could be at major hurricane strength Saturday, the center said.
“Latest poll for St. Pete Mayor’s race shows Ken Welch with wide lead over Robert Blackmon” via Janelle Irwin Taylor of Florida Politics — The poll, the first since the Aug. 24 Primary, shows Welch with 53% support to Blackmon’s 36%, with 11% of voters still unsure in the race. That’s a troubling data point for Blackmon because it shows even if undecided voters broke his way, it still wouldn’t be enough to bridge the gap with Welch. The lead is well outside the St. Pete Polls survey’s 4.5% margin of error. The last poll taken just days before the Primary showed Welch leading Blackmon in a hypothetical General Election matchup with the same 53% share of the vote. Blackmon improved some from that poll, which showed him at the time with just 29% support.
“Everyone is talking about DeSantis — except in St. Pete’s Mayor race” via Steve Contorno of the Tampa Bay Times — He’s a topic of conversation in races from California to Virginia and in the White House briefing room. He’s a hashtag and on flags. It seems everyone these days is talking about DeSantis — except the candidates running for mayor in St. Petersburg. Welch and Blackmon have all but ignored the state’s consequential and contentious Governor on the campaign trail. DeSantis hardly came up during the summer primary, and he remains a distant presence in the weeks since the race for City Hall became a two-man runoff.
“6 women, babies dead. Botched circumcisions. Catastrophic injuries. Why this baby doctor practiced for decades” via John Pacenti and Holly Baltz of the Palm Beach Post — The birthing suite at Good Samaritan Medical Center resembled “something out of a movie, like a murder scene,” Jorge Douglas Miranda Romero recalls. Moments earlier, he’d watched his wife, Onystei Castillo-Lopez, give birth to their second child, a healthy baby boy. But something wasn’t right. After holding her son for about five minutes, Castillo-Lopez said she wasn’t feeling well. And then the blood wouldn’t stop. Castillo-Lopez was barely conscious when her husband spoke to her for the last time, as she was taken to surgery to stop the bleeding. Neither the husband, who is known as Miranda, nor his wife were aware that Dr. Berto Lopez had his medical license restricted by Florida three months earlier.
“$750,000 in cash recovered amid rubble of Surfside condo collapse. Victims will get it back.” via Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald — When the Surfside condo tumbled down in June, rescue workers painstakingly searched through the mountain of debris to recover nearly 100 victims and lots of personal property. Among the buried personal items at the collapse site of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building were cars in the underground garage, as well as furniture, clothes, jewelry and photos of families and friends. Miami-Dade County rescue workers also recovered cash — about $750,000 in total — some still neatly tucked into purses and wallets but most randomly scattered throughout the sprawling rubble.
“Surfside families call for memorial at site of condo collapse” via David Selig and Alex Finnie of WPLG Local 10 News — Repeating that “we do not build over dead bodies,” family members of Surfside condo collapse victims demanded Thursday that a memorial be placed at the site where the Champlain Towers South once stood — not new construction. Thursday’s news conference took place on the beachwalk along Collins Avenue, between 87th and 88th Streets. Since the June 24 tragedy, a debate has ensued over what to do with the 1.88-acre plot of land where 98 lives were lost. Some say it should be sold for the highest price to support the surviving residents and families of the victims. Others wish to see a memorial on that very land, which they say is sacred.
“Three Miami Beach police officers involved in rough arrest now face felony charges” via David Ovalle of the Miami Herald — Three Miami Beach police officers charged over the rough arrest of two men at the Royal Palm South Beach hotel two months ago will have their charges upgraded to felonies. Prosecutors announced upgraded charges for Officer Kevin Perez and Sgt. Jose Perez, who had been charged with misdemeanor battery and are now charged with third-degree felony battery. Officer Steven Serrano is now charged with a count of official misconduct, a third-degree felony, for allegedly authoring a bogus police report about the incident. Serrano is still facing a misdemeanor battery charge. Prosecutors said officers on July 26 used excessive force against a man named Dalonta Crudup, who had been illegally parked on a motor scooter on 13 Street and Ocean Court.
“Latest Florida election glitch: In Miami cop union poll, hundreds of votes cast from Kansas” via Charles Rabin of the Miami Herald — Despite the controversies surrounding him and a lashing from Miami commissioners, someone appears to be a very big fan of Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo. So much so that a person using the same computer address somewhere in Kansas likely voted for the chief more than 500 times in a police union poll that could help to determine his fate in the city. The discrepancy threatens to further muddle and delay the results of an already quite unscientific poll commissioned by the president of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police — an elected officer who has been anything but shy over a series of beefs he’s had over the chief’s actions in the past few months.
“Miami may ban homeless encampments, arrest residents. Advocates say that’s the crime” via Anna Jean Kaiser and Joey Flechas of the Miami Herald — Bambi Nicole Kuttkuhn was afraid when police came through the I-95 overpass on NW 11th last month, an area where she and some 60 homeless people resided. She said they took some of her belongings, saying they’d been stolen, and forced her and the others to leave. After three weeks living in a vacant lot about a mile away, the 43-year-old is back, but worried about a proposed city ordinance that would give the police new powers and could make such clearings more frequent. City commissioners last week gave initial approval to an ordinance that prohibits encampments on public property and in entryways.
“Why SunPass payments may be on their way out at Miami International Airport garages” via Douglas Hanks of the Miami Herald — Miami International Airport plans to stop accepting SunPass payments by the end of the year, cutting off the only remote pay option in the parking garages at one of Florida’s busiest airports. A recent memo lays out MIA’s strategy to drop SunPass at MIA’s Dolphin and Flamingo garages. The latest agreement with a parking operator that won a 2019 bidding contest to upgrade MIA’s garage technology “deletes the SunPass component and installs a ‘Pay-on-Foot’ system, which is a user-friendly alternative,” Jimmy Morales, Miami-Dade County’s chief operating officer, wrote in a memo presented at the Sept. 13 meeting of the county commission’s Airport and Economic Development committee.
“Condo prices dip in Miami for first time this year. Here’s how much they went down” via Rebecca San Juan of the Miami Herald — Home prices decreased slightly in Miami-Dade County in August, according to the latest Miami Association of Realtors sales report on Wednesday. The median sales price dipped by about 3% for single-family homes — from $515,000 to $500,500 — and by almost 2% for condos — from $340,000 to $335,000 in Miami-Dade. It is the first drop in condo prices in 2021 in the county. From January through June, condo prices increased from $280,000 to $340,000 and remained steady for July. Single-family homes last declined in price from April to May. In Broward County, prices remained steady for houses and increased slightly for condos.
“Stronger sense of community would increase Broward philanthropy” via Sylvia Gurinsky in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel — In July, the Community Foundation of Broward, the county’s fundraising arm, issued a report titled “Untapped Potential: Growing Philanthropy in Broward.” The report indicates that county residents give over $1 billion a year in local charitable contributions, and the total is going up. However, Broward lags behind Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, as well as nationwide communities of comparable size, in total contributions. The biggest donations are concentrated in a handful of neighborhoods, mainly in Fort Lauderdale. From 2016 to 2018, about 70% of donations from Broward-headquartered private foundations went outside the county. The study indicates that 85% of Broward residents have been in the same home for at least a year. But a longer look is needed.
“His books on Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were banned. Here’s what this South Florida author did” via Connie Ogle of the Miami Herald — When South Florida writer Brad Meltzer learned that a Pennsylvania school board had banned his books “I am Rosa Parks” and “I am Martin Luther King, Jr.,” he knew he couldn’t ignore it. “If you’re taking the lessons of Rosa Parks, you have to fight back,” said the creator of the Ordinary People Change the World series. “I am Rosa Parks” and “I am Martin Luther King, Jr.” — which, like the other books in the series, are illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos — were two of more than 200 anti-racism books and resources suggested by the Central York School District’s diversity education committee last year. The Central York School Board vetoed the entire list.
“Orange teachers push for bigger raises as school board laments state budget cuts” via Leslie Postal of the Orlando Sentinel — The Orange County teachers union was “shocked and saddened” when the county school district offered $175 raises to most teachers this year. Convinced Orange County Public Schools could afford far more, union leaders pressed for a better package last week at both the Orange County School Board meetings and during an impasse hearing before a special magistrate. Dennis Campagna, the special magistrate who heard the case, likely will not make a recommendation on how to resolve the pay dispute until the end of October, at the earliest, and whatever he decides will not be binding. Under Florida law, school boards have the final say. They also start the process by setting a tentative budget and the parameters for salary negotiations.
“Clock is ticking for glitch-free Citrus County EMS takeover” via Mike Wright of Florida Politics — At a special meeting Wednesday, Citrus Commissioners voted unanimously to keep in place an emergency declaration that board Chairman Scott Carnahan signed on Friday. The declaration provides authority for County Administrator Randy Oliver to spend money without prior board approval, negotiate contracts and bypass the bid process in the circumstances related to the Oct. 2 takeover of Nature Coast EMS. In a Friday email, County Attorney Denise Dymond Lyn said the emergency is necessary to ensure the transition takes place on time with no glitches. Oliver said all but four of NCEMS’s 72 paramedics and emergency medical technicians applied for jobs with the county heading into the transition. “The jobs are very much in demand,” he said.
— TOP OPINION —
“The unTrump presidency slams into Trumpness” via Frank Bruni of The New York Times — France’s foreign minister described himself as “angry and bitter.” He called what Biden had done “brutal.” But those harsh adjectives meant nothing next to something else that the diplomat, Jean-Yves Le Drian, uttered late last week. He said that Biden’s decision to negotiate a secret submarine deal with Australia that nullified a lucrative French arrangement reminded him “a lot of what Trump used to do.” And nothing about Biden is ever supposed to remind anyone of Trump. All in all, Biden is a far cry from Trump. But that doesn’t mean that he’s untouched by Trump. And it doesn’t mean that he won’t find himself in similar places, because he’s navigating some of the same dynamics.
— OPINIONS —
“Gwen Ifill was right about ‘missing white woman syndrome’” via Charles M. Blow of The New York Times — The breathless coverage of the disappearance and apparent killing of Gabrielle Petito has played out in a virtual and sometimes literal split-screen alongside images of mounted officers in Texas swinging long reins like whips while herding Haitian migrants. It is not that these white women should matter less, but rather that all missing people should matter equally. Race should not determine how newsroom leaders assign coverage, especially because those decisions often lead to disproportionate allocation of government resources, as investigators try to solve the highest-profile cases.
— ON TODAY’S SUNRISE —
U.S. Rep. Crist is calling for the firing of Florida’s new Surgeon General for changing the state’s COVID-19 protocols in schools.
Also, on today’s Sunrise:
— Once again, a speaker at a DeSantis news conference spreads misinformation, decrying the loss of failed, and dangerous experimental treatments for COVID-19.
— South Florida Congresswoman Wilson rails against the Biden administration over the treatment of Haitian migrants.
— Today’s Sunrise interview features Anna Paulina Luna, a candidate for Florida’s 13th Congressional District who proudly waves her recent endorsement from former President Trump.
To listen, click on the image below:
— WEEKEND TV —
Battleground Florida with Evan Donovan on News Channel 8 WFLA (NBC): Reps. Anna Eskamani and Mike Beltran; Florida Politics publisher Peter Schorsch.
Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede on CBS 4 in Miami: The Sunday show provides viewers with an in-depth look at South Florida politics and other issues affecting the region.
Florida This Week on Tampa Bay’s WEDU: Moderator Rob Lorei hosts a roundtable featuring retired Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince, USF-Tampa Honors College professor Dan Ruth, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare President/CEO Max Richtman and Mindy Murphy, president/CEO of The Spring of Tampa Bay.
The Usual Suspects on WCTV-Tallahassee/Thomasville (CBS) and WJHG-Panama City (NBC): Host Steve Vancore speaks with Dara Kam of The News Service of Florida.
This Week in Jacksonville with Kent Justice on Channel 4 WJXT: House Speaker-Designate Paul Renner; Steve Atkins of the SouthEast Development Group; and Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, chair of new Safety and Justice Task Force.
This Week in South Florida on WPLG-Local10 News (ABC): A discussion of COVID-19, Florida’s proposed heartbeat abortion legislation, and coverage of the Haitian migrant crisis.
— ALOE —
“Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago” via Tom Metcalfe of NBC News — David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first came to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005. It wasn’t until over 10 years later, in 2016, that scientists confirmed the ghost tracks had been made by real people — and it’s only now that some of the ancient footprints at White Sands have been dated as the earliest in North America. The tracks at one location have been revealed as both the earliest known footprints and the oldest firm evidence of humans anywhere in the Americas, showing that people lived there between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago — several thousand years earlier than scientists once believed.
“One to charge them all: E.U. demands single plug for phones” via Kelvin Chan of The Associated Press — The European Union announced plans Thursday to require the smartphone industry to adopt a uniform charging cord for mobile devices, a push that could eliminate the all-too-familiar experience of rummaging through a drawer full of tangled cables to find the right one. The European Commission proposed legislation that would mandate USB-C cables for charging, a technology that many device makers have already adopted. The main holdout is Apple, which said it was concerned the new rules would limit innovation, ending up hurting consumers. The draft rules also call for standardizing fast charging technology and giving consumers the right to choose whether to buy new devices with or without a charger, which the EU estimates will save consumers 250 million euros ($293 million) a year.
“Legoland Florida: 10th birthday celebration includes new attraction, shade over Miniland” via Dewayne Bevil of the Orlando Sentinel — The Winter Haven attraction, which opened on the former site of Cypress Gardens in 2011, debuts The Legoland Story on Oct. 15. The walk-through experience includes bits of Lego history, an interactive Minifigure trading wall and photo-ready displays, including one with an original ride vehicle from the Triple Hurricane, a roller coaster from the Cypress Gardens era. The top three Lego models from the second season of “Lego Masters” also are there. Oct. 15 also marks the reopening of Miniland, now featuring shade structures that will keep visitors and models cooler. This is the centerpiece area of the park, featuring miniature representations of landmarks from across the nation, including familiar Florida sights.
— HAPPY BIRTHDAY —
Best wishes to Jessica Love of GrayRobinson, as well as Davis Bean, Javi Correoso of Uber, Tom Griffin of Smith Bryan & Myers, Mary Mayhew of the Florida Hospital Association, Minnie Cora Merritt of the Board of Governors, and Jocelyn Mund. Celebrating this weekend is Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby.
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🗳️ Breaking: In Arizona, private contractors conducting a GOP-commissioned recount confirmed President Biden’s win in Maricopa County. (WashPost)
President Biden bit off too much, too fast in trying to ram through what would be the largest social expansion in American history, top Democrats privately say.
Why it matters: At the time Biden proposed it, he had his mind set on a transformational accomplishment that would put him in the pantheon of FDR and JFK.
- Democrats, controlling two branches of government, saw a once-in-a-lifetime opening. In retrospect, some top advisers say this should have been done in smaller chunks.
An outside White House adviser said: “Reality is setting in that you can’t pass a $3.5 trillion package. It’s going to get scaled back. The question is whether it can be done this year.”
- In branding some Democrats wish had started months ago, White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sept. 15 at the SALT financial conference in New York: “The net cost of Build Back Better is zero.”
The $3.5 trillion price tag covers the 10-year cost of Biden’s infrastructure plans, plus massive social spending, including pre-K for all 3- and 4- years olds, and two years of tuition-free community college.
- Biden needs to show lawmakers on the left he’s with him on topics like this, when he’s being pulled to the right on immigration.
- The proposal was always an opening bid. The White House points out that the final figure is still being negotiated.
But the big number stuck and is the near-universal way Biden’s plans are described.
- The New York Times’ David Leonhardt said on CNN earlier this month that the price “highlights a political weakness of how the Biden administration … They haven’t given anyone any other way of selling the bill because it’s sort of such a hodgepodge of different things.”
The White House points to polling showing the components of Build Back Better are popular, and emphasizes $3.5 trillion as a “gross investment figure” that’ll be paid for through tax increases.
- White House spokesman Andrew Bates told us: “The bill’s price tag is $0 because it will be paid for by ending failed, special tax giveaways for the richest taxpayers and big corporations, adding nothing to the debt.”
Sudden doubts about President Biden’s competence — on Afghanistan, immigration and COVID — are driving double-digit drops in his approval in private polling in swing House seats, The Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter writes.
- Why it matters: “[T]hese early mistakes go directly to the very rationale of his presidency; that it would be low drama and high competence.”
Besides those setbacks, Biden “looks more like a helpless bystander than an experienced Capitol Hill deal maker, watching from the sidelines as his party struggles with internal divisions,” Walters writes.
- “For many voters,” Walters adds, “things in Washington look like more of the same; politicians squabbling instead of solving problems.”
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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot is already playing hardball with former aides to President Trump who were in touch “with the White House on or in the days leading up to the January 6th insurrection.”
- The committee last night released letters demanding testimony and documents from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows … Dan Scavino, Trump’s tweeter … former Pentagon official Kash Patel … and former adviser Steve Bannon.
Patel and Bannon are summoned for depositions on Oct 14, followed by Meadows and Scavino on Oct. 15, Axios’ Ivana Saric writes.
The White House was lit up in gold last night for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, writes CNN’s Andrew “KFile” Kaczynski, who fights for his daughter Francesca’s legacy through Team Beans Fund.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Two years into the 5G era, expensive new cellular networks have blanketed much of the country. But even people who have a 5G-capable device may not have seen much change yet, Axios’ Ina Fried writes in her weekly “Signal Boost” column.
What’s happening: The current crop of 5G networks are built on-top of the existing 4G LTE networks.
- Still to come are standalone 5G networks that are needed to deliver on some of 5G’s biggest promises, including ultra-low latency — the kind of delay-free responsiveness required for applications like remotely manipulating robots and vehicles.
Plus: iPhones, which have been offering 5G for a year now, only tap 5G networks when they believe the speed boost is needed. That’s part of a scheme to save battery life.
Illustration: Rae Cook/Axios
Human resources departments are gaining clout as companies grapple with return-to-work plans and the war for talent, Erica Pandey writes in Axios What’s Next.
- Listings for HR jobs are spiking — up 53% from before the pandemic, according to data from the jobs site Indeed.
- C-suites now include chief people officers.
Modern issues that newly muscular HR departments must grapple with include mask and vaccination policies, managing remote teams, therapy pets in the office, gender designations for restrooms, and removing college degree requirements for hiring.
- This new clout is reflected in new lingo: HR is increasingly known (including @ Axios) as the “People Team.”
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Twitter announced Bitcoin tips and other new features, Axios Media Trends expert Sara Fischer writes.
- Why it matters: For years, Twitter made few changes to its product, instead relying mostly on ad innovations to grow its business. Now, it’s adding new features faster than it ever has.
Twitter rolled out Tips to every user globally, and now allows users to tip with Bitcoin via the payment app Strike.
- Users can drop links to payment profiles in their bios and Tweets.
Live audio: Twitter also said it’ll allow recordings of live audio conversations and events held via its “Spaces” feature.
- Read more about Twitter Tips … Share this story.
Fossilized footprints found in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, AP reports.
- The fragile footprints, made of fine silt and clay, were found in a dry lake bed in White Sands National Park in 2009.
- Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey recently analyzed seeds stuck in the footprints to determine their approximate age, ranging from around 22,800 and 21,130 years ago.
What happened: Most scientists believe ancient migration came by way of a now-submerged land bridge that connected Asia to Alaska.
- Based on stone tools, fossil bones and genetic analysis, other researchers have estimated humans arrived in Americas 13,000 to 26,000 years ago or more.
- The new study provides a more solid baseline for when humans definitely were in North America. They could have arrived even earlier, the authors say.
Based on the size of the footprints, researchers believe that at least some were made by children and teenagers who lived during the last ice age.
💡Ciprian Ardelean, an archaeologist at Autonomous University of Zacatecas in Mexico, tells the N.Y. Times: “I think this is probably the biggest discovery about the peopling of America in a hundred years.”
- Go deeper: Article in the journal Science.
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Top Democratic leaders and tax writers have narrowed a “menu of options” on how to pay for their multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation package that takes a controversial inheritance tax proposal off the table but leaves many others with shaky support. Read more…
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The House committee investigating the Capitol attack issued subpoenas Thursday demanding four people who were close to former President Donald Trump leading up to and during the insurrection produce documents and sit for a deposition in October. Read more…
Can 400 pounds of barbecue help grease the wheels of the Senate?
Thursday saw the return of the Senate’s bipartisan barbecue lunch, aimed at helping bridge the gulf between the two parties. Started by former Sen. Johnny Isakson, the lunch now continues under the sponsorship of Sens. Chris Coons, Raphael Warnock, Lindsey Graham and Roy Blunt. Read more…
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25.) POLITICO PLAYBOOK
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Fox to Rudy: You’re banned
DRIVING THE DAY
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: The Arizona Republic scooped the results of the Maricopa County “audit” paid for by “Stop the Steal” and DONALD TRUMP allies: It found that Trump lost the key county by a wider margin than the official election results. To put a finer point on this: The firm selected by the people promoting the election lie, Cyber Ninjas, did its own count and found that JOE BIDEN won.
— ALSO: In a tweet early this morning, Sen. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-Iowa) announced that he is running for reelection in 2022 — a major sigh of relief for Republicans. The 88-year-old has been in elected office since 1958. More from the Des Moines Register
BRAVURA OR BRAVADO? — Buckle up. That was the advice from Capitol Hill late Thursday night as news got out that Speaker NANCY PELOSI privately told her committee chairs that she does, in fact, intend to bring the reconciliation bill to the floor next week, reports Heather Caygle.
The question now: Is it bravura or bravado?
— The case for bravura: Pelosi has repeatedly declared herself a “master legislator,” and the cascade of deadlines she’s up against — to avoid a government shutdown, to raise the debt ceiling, to keep her promise of a Monday vote on the BIF, to notch a win for Biden — may be the most difficult legislative gauntlet she’s ever faced. Still, at this point, it makes a certain amount of sense to try and package everything together and ram it through as quickly as possible.
— The case for bravado: Sources on the Hill say that the moderates and progressives aren’t close to a workable deal. As Heather, Sarah Ferris and Jennifer Scholtes reported Thursday, “Pelosi and her team hope that projecting progress in the talks … will satisfy progressives enough to back off their threats.” For a vote on reconciliation to happen next week, they will need to mark up the bill Saturday. It’s now Friday, and the bill is not yet written.
HOT DOC — A document is circulating among pro-BIF Senate Republicans pushing back on House GOP leadership’s effort to whip against the bill. The Senate Republican document … The whip notice from STEVE SCALISE’s office
RUDY GETS THE GONG — RUDY GIULIANI has been banned from Fox News for almost three months. As if the sting of that weren’t painful enough, the “9/11 mayor” learned of his banishment … on the eve of Sept. 11.
Giuliani was slated to appear on “Fox & Friends” to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. But the night before, host PETE HEGSETH called Giuliani to say he’d been cut from the show and apologize.
The ban extends not just to GIULIANI, but also to his son ANDREW, who has not been on Fox News since he launched his campaign for governor of New York in May despite many requests to go on the network. His team has been frustrated that rival GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. LEE ZELDIN is a frequent guest.
But bookers have told both Giulianis the ban comes from the top, sources said. The former New York City mayor had been a fixture on the network.
“Rudy is really hurt because he did a big favor for RUPERT [MURDOCH],” a source close to Giuliani said. “He was instrumental in getting Fox on Time Warner so it could be watched in New York City.” In 1996, Giuliani’s administration advocated for Time Warner to carry the newly launched Fox News Channel, intervening in a dispute between Murdoch and the cable provider.
Dominion Voting Systems has separately sued Giuliani and Fox News for allegedly defaming the company with false election claims — in the case of Fox, for allowing guests like Giuliani to make the claims on its network. Fox News has filed to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that Dominion failed to show the network acted in malice, the legal standard for proving defamation. Giuliani has argued his claims about Dominion were “substantially true,” while acknowledging he didn’t understand how the company’s voting software works, according to Business Insider.
In a 2018 FBI deposition that became public last month, Giuliani admitted he would push lies about HILLARY CLINTON on Fox News, referring to it as “throwing a fake.”
Giuliani’s former police commissioner, BERNIE KERIK, who also promoted election conspiracies, has had difficulty getting time on Fox after being a regular on the network. He appeared live on the network just once on Sept. 11 — on JESSE WATTERS’ show — despite being a critical player in the aftermath of the attacks. Kerik wrote a letter to Fox Business News President LAUREN PETTERSON to complain, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A Fox News source said that Kerik was also booked for “Fox & Friends” on Sept. 11 but canceled because of logistical issues. The network declined to comment on Giuliani’s status with the network.
“I could not have been more disappointed with the Fox coverage on the 20th anniversary of September 11,” Kerik said in a statement to Playbook. “Then they chose to intentionally ignore Mayor Giuliani who was, and who according to their own coverage for the last two decades was America’s hero on the day and in the aftermath of the attack. Regardless of reasoning, I think this was another demonstration of Fox’s cowering to the far left.”
It’s not just Giuliani. Senior Trump aides have found it difficult to get bookings on Fox News or even coverage of stories that are damaging to their enemies or positive for Trump.
“They’re not doing us any favors,” sniffed one Trump aide.
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MAYOR ROYALE — The mystery of ERIC ADAMS’ summer plans has been solved. The notoriously guarded likely future mayor of New York City — so much so that we still don’t know where he sleeps at night — spent his summer vacation in Monaco, cruising on a yacht and visiting the famous Monte Carlo Casino. (His office said he did not actually gamble.) The ritzy destination, where JAMES BOND movies have been filmed, was a surprising choice for a candidate who played up his humble roots against his Ivy League opponents. “Some blue-collar mayor, huh?” one Democratic operative quipped to SALLY GOLDENBERG. Let’s just say we hope Adams eventually drops his guard and takes a press pool on his next jaunt to the French Riviera.
REGULATING CRYPTO: THE $2T RUBIK’S CUBE — Crypto trading! Bitcoin! Dogecoin! Stablecoin! Even if lawmakers don’t understand blockchain, Capitol Hill is finally waking up to digital currency. Congress has introduced more than a dozen bills on crypto and blockchain this year alone — as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle go head to head over the best way to regulate the $2 trillion market. Economics reporter Victoria Guida joins Tara to talk about lobbying around crypto and the time her dog ate her bitcoin. Listen and subscribe to Playbook Deep Dive
BIDEN’S FRIDAY:
— 9 a.m.: The president will receive the President’s Daily Brief.
— 11 a.m.: Biden will participate in a bilateral meeting with Indian PM NARENDRA MODI in the Oval Office.
— 2 p.m.: Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders Summit with Modi, Australian PM SCOTT MORRISON and Japanese PM YOSHIHIDE SUGA in the East Room.
— 4:10 p.m.: The president will meet with Suga in the Red Room.
— 5:35 p.m.: Biden will depart the White House en route to Camp David.
VP KAMALA HARRIS’ FRIDAY:
— 7:45 a.m.: The VP will depart D.C. en route to New York City, where she will appear on “The View.”
— 12:40 p.m.: Harris will depart New York to return to D.C.
— 4:45 p.m.: Harris will meet with the Quad Leaders in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office.
The White House Covid-19 response team and public health officials will brief at 12:30 p.m. Press secretary JEN PSAKI and DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS will brief at 2:30 p.m.
THE HOUSE will meet at 9 a.m., with last votes at 3 p.m.
THE SENATE is in.
PLAYBOOK READS
THE PANDEMIC
BOOSTER SURPRISE — After CDC advisers voted Thursday to recommend Pfizer booster shots only for old people, nursing home residents and those with underlying health conditions, CDC Director ROCHELLE WALENSKY early this morning overruled them and added workers in high-exposure jobs to the list. NYT’s Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin Mueller call it “a highly unusual move,” aligning Walensky with the FDA and White House over her own staff. A White House booster shot plan could come as soon as today.
JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH
ACTING FAST — Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu report that the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is issuing subpoenas to four current and former top aides to Trump: his final White House chief of staff, MARK MEADOWS, former White House chief strategist STEVE BANNON, former Pentagon official and House Intel aide KASH PATEL and Trump’s longtime social media chief, DAN SCAVINO.
— MARK YOUR CALENDARS … Oct. 7: the deadline for the four to give the committee the documents they’ve requested. Oct. 14: Bannon and Patel are scheduled to sit for depositions. Oct. 15: Meadows and Scavino are scheduled for depositions.
COUNTDOWN TO DEFAULT
— The debt ceiling debate is Treasury Secretary JANET YELLEN’s biggest test yet, writes NYT’s Alan Rappeport: “[In] the face of congressional dysfunction, she has been thrust into a political role, trying to convince reticent Republican lawmakers that their refusal to lift the debt cap — which limits the government’s ability to borrow money — could lead to a financial collapse.”
CONGRESS
DEFENSE, DEFENSE, DEFENSE — On Thursday evening, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act in a 316-113 vote, Connor O’Brien reports. In addition to setting spending levels and Pentagon policy, the bill “would require women to register for a military draft. It also aims to extract information from the Biden administration on the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and launch a wide-ranging review of the two-decade war.”
— In an interview with Rachael, Sens. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-N.Y.) and JONI ERNST (R-Iowa) called the House legislation “inadequate” as it pertains to handling sexual assault cases in the military. More on that from Claire Rafford and Connor, with video
AND ABOUT THAT ISRAEL DEFENSE FUNDING … Just days after stripping it from the larger funding package after objections from progressive Democrats, the House passed a separate bill to provide $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, Andrew Desiderio reports.
— One notable switch: Rep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.) changed her vote from “no” to “present” after a campaign of scathing criticism from pro-Israel activists. After making the vote, AOC was seen in tears on the House floor, reports NYT’s Catie Edmondson.
POLITICS ROUNDUP
TOO BLESSED TO STRESS — Earlier this year, Senate Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL vowed to “tangle with Trump if necessary to nominate electable GOP candidates in must-win Senate primaries,” reports Burgess Everett. Instead, something unexpected is happening: McConnell is “tacitly blessing many of Trump’s endorsements” — even HERSCHEL WALKER.
“There are some things written that indicate he’s had some challenges in his life,” McConnell said this week, ostensibly a reference to Walker’s widely reported turbulent history, which includes multiple accusations that he threatened the life of his ex-wife, engaged in violent and unpredictable behavior including playing Russian roulette and had undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder. “On the other hand, the good news is, he’s made several impressive performances on national television. … I think there’s every indication he’s going to be a good candidate.”
BIG BUCK HUNTER — Insider’s Mattathias Schwartz scoops that “two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of HUNTER BIDEN indicate that the president’s son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.”
TOP-ED — “The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.” That cold splash of water is the lede of Robert Kagan’s massive new essay for WaPo — one that is already driving lots of buzz on Twitter.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD
PULLOUT FALLOUT — The Afghanistan withdrawal “is imperiling Congress’ plans to repeal the war authorization that sent American troops to the Middle East in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” Andrew Desiderio reports.
MORE ON ‘HAVANA SYNDROME’ — The CIA has removed its station chief in Vienna amid criticism of his handling of a “growing number of mysterious health incidents in the U.S. Embassy there,” WaPo’s John Hudson and Shane Harris report.
HE SAID, XI SAID — WaPo’s Josh Rogin has the wide-angle lens on U.S.-China relations: Beijing “is rejecting Biden’s carefully crafted proposal to build a relationship based on equal measures of cooperation, competition and confrontation. It’s time to consider the possibility that XI JINPING isn’t buying what the Biden administration is selling,” Rogin writes.
MEDIAWATCH
— Disney will not mount an outside investigation into the handling of sexual assault allegations against MICHAEL CORN, the former top producer of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the WSJ reports. Last month, ABC News chief KIM GODWIN announced that she had requested an independent probe of the matter.
TV TONIGHT — PBS’ “Washington Week”: Jacqueline Charles, Bob Costa, Weijia Jiang and Bob Woodward.
SUNDAY SO FAR …
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“Face the Nation”: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) … Australian PM Scott Morrison … Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan … Scott Gottlieb.
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“Fox News Sunday”: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Panel: Guy Benson, Catherine Lucey and Juan Williams. Power Player: Lt. Damon Radcliffe.
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“Full Court Press”: Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) … Suzanne Lynch.
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“The Sunday Show”: Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) … Valerie Jarrett … Bryan Stevenson … Connie Schultz.
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“This Week”: Albert Bourla … Brian Murphy. Panel: Donna Brazile, Jane Coaston, Patrick Gaspard and Justin Amash.
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“Meet the Press”: Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Eddie Glaude Jr., Meghan McCain and Amy Walter.
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“Inside Politics”: Panel: Seung Min Kim, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Jeremy Diamond and Burgess Everett.
PLAYBOOKERS
Ron Klain liked a tweet by Tommy Vietor decrying the media attention paid to Klain’s Twitter likes.
Since we’re on the topic, and in a meta mood, we couldn’t not include the Fox News headline that caught Vietor’s attention: “Ron Klain hasn’t retweeted Jennifer Rubin since Politico reported on lovefest between Biden WH, WaPo columnist.” Got it?
Donald Trump released a statement about the new subpoenas by the Jan. 6 committee that contained a single 122-word sentence with 14 commas, per grammarian Josh Dawsey.
The White House was lit gold Thursday night in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. #TeamBeans
OUT AND ABOUT — Firehouse Strategies celebrated their five-year anniversary Wednesday night with a party at Nationals Park. Guests ate stadium food in the National Club, toured the dugout, threw pitches in the bullpen and met Screech and Teddy. SPOTTED: John Hishta, Maury Donahue, Jonathan Collegio, Stephanie Lester, Erik Komendant, Brendon Plack, Don Stewart, Brian Barnard, Jonathan and Betsy Fischer Martin, James Hohmann, Jeff Zeleny, Ed O’Keefe, Abby Tracy, Brad Bosserman, Lisa Leonard, Alex and Caitlin Conant, Terry Sullivan, Matt Terrill, and Will and Anita Holley.
— The Best Friends Animal Society hosted its inaugural D.C. event at Bullfeathers on Thursday night to celebrate National Dogs in Politics Day with rescue dogs from Lucky Dog Animal Rescue and the Humane Rescue Alliance. “There were a couple of minor dog-on-dog confrontations (don’t know if they were Democrats or Republicans) but all ended peacefully,” per a tipster. Rep. Tony Cárdenas’ (D-Calif.) dog, Basil, was “one of the night’s heartbreakers.” Also SPOTTED: Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Syd Terry, Patrick Hester, Emily Benavides, Stacey Daniels, Josh Dawsey, Andrea Sachs, Matt Shirley, Steve Clemons, Kirk Bado, Andrea Woods, Colin Reed, Greta Palmer, Elise Traub, Katherine and Will Patterson, Kate Constantini, Christine Barrata, Preston Mizell, Pam Stevens and Eric Schulz, Neil Grace, Virginia Coyne and Megan McDonough.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Lynne Patton has been named a senior adviser to Trump’s Save America PAC, where she’ll be in charge of working on coalitions. She most recently was a political consultant with her own company, and is a Trump HUD alum.
MEDIA MOVE — Serena Marshall is joining NowThis as senior Washington correspondent, expanding their coverage of politics. She most recently has been a digital journalist and correspondent for ABC News. More from The Hollywood Reporter
STAFFING UP — Eloy Oakley is now senior adviser in the Office of the Under Secretary at the Education Department. He most recently was chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
TRANSITION — Ryan Kelly is now comms director for Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.). He previously was with the House Administration Committee and is a Jim Sensenbrenner alum.
WEDDING — Jesselyn Cook, a senior reporter at HuffPost and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of La Verne, and Kyle Gager, who works in hospitality, got married recently in Brooklyn. Pics
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Jack Pandol Jr., comms director for the Senate Leadership Fund, and Holli Heiles Pandol, public policy counsel for Carta, welcomed Jack Jay Pandol III, “Jackson,” on Tuesday. Pic … Another pic
— John Nothdurft, director of government affairs at ISSA, the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association, and Katie Gray welcomed Cade Nothdurft on Sunday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: AP’s Alexandra Jaffe … Michael Kennedy of VMWare … Earth Day Network’s Olivia Altman … Craig Shirley … CNN’s Nicky Robertson … Will Nuckols … Nate Blake of Amazon … Hope Hall … David Nelson of the White House … Andrew Bower … WSJ’s Katy Stech Ferek … Connolly Keigher … CAP’s Phil Wolgin … Kelsey Coates … Adam Rice of the American Securities Association … Derek Pangallo … Sharon Yang of Facebook … Joe DeSantis … Shea McCarthy of Thorn Run Partners … Mark Gracyk … EC Wheatley of The Herald Group … Sara DuBois … FTI Consulting’s Will Allison … Jon Davidson … POLITICO’s Lisa Leonard, Brian Kidd, Jalyn Sanders and Bisha Wanzala … Lara Barger of Hadron Strategies … Scott Wallace … Livy Polen of Miller Strategies … Joe Householder … Stand Together’s Vik Ath … Taryn Rosenkranz … CJ Mahler … Generra Peck … Moe Tkacik … Lou Dobbs … former Defense Secretary Ash Carter … Kim Fuller … Mike Morey of SKDKnickerbocker … Patrick Davis … former Rep. Joseph Kennedy II (D-Mass.) … Steve Goldstein of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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27.) CAFFEINATED THOUGHTS
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The Morning Briefing: COVID Gives GOP a Chance to Get Serious About School Choice
Top O’ the Briefing
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Never trust people who don’t eat their pickles.
I’ve been playing the conservative Republican activist game for a very long time and, quite honestly, I am often perplexed by the battles the party chooses to wage. Or, almost as frequently, the ones it doesn’t fight.
The school choice fight is one I revisit more and more right now because I think that there is a golden opportunity being provided by the pandemic to pick up some votes. We don’t have to be the “never let a crisis go to waste” ghouls like the Democrats, but there’s no reason to ignore a strategic play that’s been practically gift-wrapped.
Back at the beginning of the year, I wrote about the way COVID has exposed the thoroughly evil teachers’ unions for the shakedown artists they are. They couldn’t help themselves. Rot like that isn’t easy to cover up.
That rot and greed have been forcing migration in school enrollment away from public schools to private and charter options.
Stacey wrote an excellent column about it yesterday:
A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows what a great advertisement American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten and her more radical members provided for school choice. After more than a year of school closures, Zoom classes, and battles over critical race theory, parents are increasingly taking their children out of public schools. The study looked at enrollment shifts between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.
Their analysis shows that 1.45 million children left traditional public schools. Charter schools gained 237,000 students in the same period. The difference is made up by families choosing private schools or homeschooling. The researchers noted that public school enrollment declines began years ago in many cities and states. Some of the loss was due to demographic changes and population decline. However, the pandemic appears to have accelerated the switch to public school alternatives.
Charter school enrollment increased in all but three of the 39 states that allow them and provided data.
When you combine the numbers in Stacey’s column with the increased involvement of parents everywhere at school board meetings as they battle insane leftist curricula, the right kind of messaging from the Republican Party could change some hearts and minds.
Of course, the GOP isn’t always gifted in the messaging department. In fact, there have been times in recent years when it seemed like it didn’t have any messaging on this issue at all. That’s maddening, given the fact that getting stronger on school choice could help the party make some inroads with voting blocs that traditionally vote for Democrats, like in inner cities.
This is a very good time for the Republicans to do some of that pouncing that the mainstream media so often accuses them of doing.
If it doesn’t, this is the political version of leaving money on the table. Something that the party can ill afford to do amid all the current chaos.
Everything Isn’t Awful
PJ Media
‘Not Even a Little Bit’: Trump Confirms Biden and ‘Dope’ Milley Didn’t Follow His Afghanistan Plan
VodkaPundit: Killing Children with Safety: Child Obesity SOARED During COVID Lockdowns
[WATCH] FDA Worker Recommends Blow Darts for Vaccinating Black People
If These Latest Revelations Aren’t Enough to Arrest Hunter Biden, Then Nothing Is
VDH: Civilization Requires Deterrence
Justin Trudeau Is a National Joke…and a Shrewd Manipulator
BLM Organizer Sues L.A. After Cops Surround Her House … to Save Her. Then It Happens Again.
#WINNING. [WATCH] Enraged New Yorkers Tear Down Sexually Explicit ‘OK Cupid’ Subway Ads
Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit Will Be Presented to Arizona Senate Friday
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The Morning Dispatch: Dems in Disarray?
Congressional Democrats struggle with a legislative agenda tangled by party gridlock, a looming government shutdown, and an impending debt ceiling crisis, while Republicans sit and watch.
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Happy Friday! Our condolences to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who—citing the “hate” the Greenbrier County Board of Education has for him—withdrew his name from the Greenbrier East High School boys basketball coaching search this week.
Signing off the letter with his career .741 winning percent is a pretty baller move, though.
Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories
- The Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted Thursday to recommend booster shots to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine recipients over the age of 65 or with underlying conditions that make them particularly susceptible to the virus. The Food and Drug Administration had also authorized booster shots for those with jobs that put them at heightened risk for contracting COVID-19, but the CDC panel voted against including that group in their guidance. In a rare move late on Thursday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky overruled ACIP’s rejection and sided with the FDA, adding the jobs-based provision to her formal recommendation.
- The House voted 420-9 on Thursday to approve $1 billion in funding to help Israel replenish its Iron Dome missile defense system following heavy fire between Palestinian and Israeli forces this spring. The measure was broken out into standalone legislation earlier this week after a handful of progressive lawmakers protested its inclusion in a package suspending the debt limit and funding the federal government.
- The House also voted 316-113 on Thursday to advance a $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act funding the military for the coming fiscal year. The legislation would increase U.S. service member pay 2.7 percent and require women to register for the military draft, among many other provisions. The Senate will now work to pass its own version of the bill and smooth over any differences with the House’s legislation.
- Taliban co-founder Mullah Nooruddin Turabi told The Associated Press this week that the group will resume the executions and amputations it was known for in the late 1990s. “Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” he said. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”
- Amb. Daniel Foote, Special Envoy for Haiti, resigned his post yesterday due to what he deemed the Biden administration’s “inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti.” The White House pushed back on Foote’s assertions, with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman saying some of his proposals “were harmful to our commitment to the promotion of democracy in Haiti.”
- New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker—a key figure in former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 nursing home policies—has submitted his resignation, new Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday. He will remain in his role until Hochul finds a replacement.
- The January 6 Select Committee on Thursday issued its first set of subpoenas related to its investigation, demanding documents and testimony from four longtime aides to former President Donald Trump: Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Steve Bannon, and Dan Scavino. Trump said in a statement that “We will fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds, for the good of our Country.”
- Initial jobless claims increased by 16,000 week-over-week to 351,000 last week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
A Make or Break Week for Biden’s Agenda
When Joe Biden was running for president, one of his campaign’s key selling points was that, as a senator for nearly four decades and vice president for eight after that, he knew how to get things done in Washington. “I’ve been doing this my entire career,” Biden told Politico’s Michael Grunwald. “I’m going to say something outrageous: I don’t know anybody who counts votes better than me in the Senate.”
He expressed even more confidence once elected president, telling a group of newspaper columnists last December that he was more than ready to take on Republicans and progressive Democrats in Congress attempting to stymie his agenda. “I think I know what I’m doing, and I’ve been pretty damn good at being able to deal with the punchers,” he said. “I know how to block a straight left and do a right hook. I understand it.”
Fast forward nine months, and it’s his presidency that’s on the ropes, not his opponents. Democrats successfully approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package into law back in March, but have accomplished little of note legislatively in the half-year since. The White House rolled out the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan back in March and April, respectively, and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package they morphed into isn’t even fully written yet, let alone passed. The one win from the summer—the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure deal—is stalled in the House, in large part because Biden publicly linked it with the bigger, more audacious package. And now, as the fiscal year draws to a close, congressional inaction risks both defaulting on the United States’ debt and shutting down the federal government. Biden’s Office of Management and Budget began warning federal agencies yesterday to prepare for the latter.
The Dispatch’s Uphill team covered much of this in their newsletter on Tuesday, but a lot has transpired even since then. Let’s break down where each of the Democrats’ four priorities stand.
Raising the Debt Ceiling and Funding the Government
Most of the Democrats’ agenda is focused on authorizing enormous new levels of federal spending. But they’ve got another problem on their hands too: making sure the U.S. maintains its ability to keep doing even the amount of spending Congress has already committed to. That’s become an issue thanks to the recent expiration of a 2019 law that suspended the debt ceiling, the cap set by Congress on how much money the government is permitted to borrow to meet its spending obligations. Uphill covered the expiration last month:
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 suspended the debt ceiling entirely for a period of two years—a move that proved fortuitous, given the titanic pile of pandemic spending that lurked just around the corner. Over the weekend, however, that provision expired—automatically snapping the debt ceiling to the current level of debt and putting Congress on a short clock to raise the ceiling again.
For weeks now, the U.S. has been limping along by means of “extraordinary measures”—essentially accounting tricks that allow the country to temporarily work around its debt ceiling limit. But these are only a stopgap solution: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that, without congressional action, the U.S. will lose its ability to borrow as soon as mid-October.
Passing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package and Very Partisan Reconciliation Package
If you thought that was thorny, wait until you get a load of this: Congressional Democrats are trying to usher two massive spending bills to President Biden’s desk, and they need essentially every single Democratic Senator and House member on board to do it. But the party’s moderate flank prefers the $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure package while its progressive wing favors the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Several members on each side of this divide—enough to matter for final passage—have said they won’t vote for the others’ priority until their own is passed. It’s like a very, very expensive M.C. Escher sketch.
Pelosi thought she’d threaded the needle in August when she got the moderates to support a procedural reconciliation measure in exchange for a promise to vote on the smaller infrastructure package by September 27. But with Monday rapidly approaching, Democrats are more or less right back where they started.
Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, firmly in the moderate camp, told CNN this week he was holding Pelosi to her promise. “[The Speaker] has said that she’ll help get the votes, she committed to that publicly,” he said. “There’s no one better [at] getting votes than Speaker Pelosi, so we’ll get this done.”
But Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal—chair of the Progressive Caucus—indicated this week that more than half of her 96 members stand ready to tank the bipartisan infrastructure bill if the reconciliation package—which expands the social safety net, establishes universal pre-school, invests heavily in green energy, and much more—is not ready. “At the end of the day, if we don’t have the reconciliation bill done, the infrastructure bill will not pass,” she warned. Asked if the progressives are bluffing, Jayapal replied with two words: “Try us.”
Worth Your Time
- In a piece for Reason informed by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s new book, Peter Suderman details the myriad ways that the Centers for Disease Control actively hindered the United States’ response to COVID-19, from failing to develop functional tests in the pandemic’s early days to stonewalling private entities that sought to help. “At nearly every stage of the pandemic, the CDC got things wrong and got in the way,” he writes. “Its failures almost certainly made America’s pandemic worse.”
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NEW: Hunter Biden asked for a retainer of, um, $2 million per year, plus ‘success fees’, to help unfreeze money belonging to the Libyan govt. This was 2015, while his father was still VP. Read the emails here…
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#BREAKING: Audit report affirms President Biden beat former President Trump, as Maricopa County said in November. Early versions of the Arizona audit report include results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results.
Toeing the Company Line
- On yesterday’s episode of Advisory Opinions, David and Sarah broke down a legal challenge to Texas’ new abortion law, a recently unearthed memo detailing former President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 election, a new congressional push to rein in presidential powers, and a complaint over critical race theory.
- The Remnant hit 400 episodes on Thursday, and Jonah celebrated by bringing on his longtime friend and colleague Kevin D. Williamson for a conversation about the morass that is modern American politics.
Reporting by Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey), Andrew Egger (@EggerDC), Charlotte Lawson (@lawsonreports), Audrey Fahlberg (@AudreyFahlberg), Ryan Brown (@RyanP_Brown), Harvest Prude (@HarvestPrude), and Steve Hayes (@stephenfhayes).
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September 24, 2021 THE LATEST There’s no way to dispute the 2020 election without lying by Steve Vladeck Former President Donald Trump’s allies insisted in the days after the 2020 presidential election that they were just making sure that all of their claims of fraud had been properly investigated. Almost a year later, it’s both clear that those arguments were in bad faith and that Trump’s lackeys knew as much at the time. Case in point: A series of memos from lawyer John Eastman charting a path for Trump to remain in office was embarrassingly bad legal analysis, Steve Vladeck writes.
“But the memos never stop to wonder whether the underlying result for which they’re advocating — that a vice president can unilaterally override the clearly expressed will of the American people — is actually a good thing,” Vladeck writes. “It’s just assumed that the goal is to keep Trump in office, whatever the price.”
Read Steve Vladeck’s full analysis here and don’t forget to check out the rest of your Friday MSNBC Daily. TOP STORIES Why did we allow this time-wasting charade? Read More The New York Times and Mary exposed the former president as a financial fraud. Read More TOP VIDEOS MORE FROM MSNBC Introducing The ReidOut Blog, the digital extension of “The ReidOut,” political juggernaut Joy Reid’s nightly show on MSNBC.
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To ensure delivery to your inbox add email@mail.nbcnews.com to your contacts Today’s Top Stories from NBC News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Today we have the latest on Covid-19 booster shots, which have been approved for certain at-risk groups, and the oldest footprints in North America.
Here’s the latest on that and everything else we’re watching this Friday morning. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director early Friday endorsed recommendations for a third dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for certain at-risk groups, clearing the way for millions of Americans to get a booster.
Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky signed off on the recommendations for a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after advisers on Thursday approved them.
She also went further — recommending a third dose for workers in high-risk settings and those in institutional settings.
“This updated interim guidance from CDC allows for millions of Americans who are at highest risk for COVID-19 to receive a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster shot to help increase their protection,” the agency said in a statement.
Read more here.
Also in coronavirus news today:
Friday’s Top Stories
The review grew out of Arizona Republican lawmakers’ efforts to toss out President Joe Biden’s victory in November, and the state and the county have been targeted by those who falsely believe the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Iran remains ready to return to nuclear talks “very soon” but the Biden administration has sent a “negative sign” by failing to lift economic sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Tehran, Iran’s new foreign minister told NBC News. The Democratic-controlled House approved a wide-ranging bipartisan defense policy bill Thursday despite strong opposition from a conservative wing of the Republican Party. OPINION The president’s main strategy for quelling the intraparty mud-slinging consists of caving to moderates’ ambiguous, ever-shifting complaints, writes Max Burns, Democratic strategist. Also in the News
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EDITOR’S PICK The frustration of the families of missing Black men intensified as stories about the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, dominated the national news cycle, the result, some say, of “missing white woman syndrome.” Shopping
We spoke to nail technicians to learn about the safest ways to push back your cuticles and the best cuticle oils for nourished skin. One Fun Thing
David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first went to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005.
But it wasn’t until 2016 that scientists confirmed that the ghost tracks had been made by real people — and it’s only now that some of the ancient footprints at White Sands have been dated as the earliest in North America.
“We’d been suspicious of the age for a while, and so now we finally have that it’s really exciting,” Bustos said. “One of the neat things is that you can see mammoth prints in the layers a meter or so above the human footprints, so that just helps to confirm the whole story.”
Read more about it here.
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FIRST READ: Biden’s sinking poll numbers threaten Democrats’ razor-thin majority one year out
The 2022 midterms are still more than a year away, but President Biden’s political standing is already in dangerous territory for his party.
A Gallup poll this week had Biden’s approval rating at 43 percent. Pew had him at 44 percent. And most other polls this month – though not all of them – also show the president underwater.
Using Gallup’s historical numbers, that’s worse than Barack Obama’s standing in all of 2009 and much of 2010, when Democrats lost the U.S. House in a midterm shellacking.
It’s slightly better than Donald Trump’s in 2017, before the GOP would also lose the House that next year.
And it’s about the same trajectory as Bill Clinton’s in his first year of his presidency. And in case you forget how the 1994 midterms fared for the Democrats, yep, they lost control of Congress.
Jim Watson/AFP – Getty Images file
Midterm elections are always referendums on the president, and the two recent times when a president’s party actually performed well during them were in 1998 (during that roaring economy and the backlash to Clinton’s impeachment) and 2002 (after 9/11).
The good news for Biden and Democrats is that the midterm elections aren’t today, so they still have time to turn things around.
It’s still super early.
But right now – after the Delta Covid surge, after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, after another crisis at the border, and amid a congressional stalemate on the president’s legislative agenda – Biden is standing on unstable footing.
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And how do you translate Biden’s political standing to the current legislative standoff on Capitol Hill?
We guarantee you some of the at-risk Dem members have seen poll numbers that show them in dangerous territory, too.
By the way, we STILL don’t have an answer from President Biden to the questions we posed yesterday: Should Monday’s infrastructure vote go forward?
And if so, should all Democrats vote for it?
That’s a bad sign for Democrats who want to see the infrastructure legislation pass on Monday.
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It appears the partisan review of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results shows that Joe Biden won Arizona.
Again.
NBC News: “Maricopa County, Arizona, said Thursday that a draft report from a company in a contentious, partisan review of November’s election has confirmed the winners… NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix said that it obtained a copy of the report and that the review widens Biden’s victory margin by 360 votes.”
“Every time Trump and his supporters have been given a forum to make their case, they have swung and missed,” GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsberg told the Washington Post.
“If Trump and his supporters can’t prove it here — with the process they’ve designed — then they can’t prove it anywhere,” he added.
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4: The number of top former Trump White House officials — Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino and Kashyap Patel — subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee.
$147,719: How much the Department of Education paid Alachua County school officials to offset the fines their faced for installing a mask mandate.
83 percent: The share of Americans who relied on national news outlets for their news on the pandemic in April 2020 who are vaccinated, per Pew. Those who listened most to former President Trump and their personal and community connections last year are far less likely to be vaccinated now.
42,739,354: The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States, per the most recent data from NBC News and health officials. (That’s 115,918 more since yesterday morning.)
688,483: The number of deaths in the United States from the virus so far, per the most recent data from NBC News. (That’s 3,455 more since yesterday morning.)
387,821,704: The number of vaccine doses administered in the U.S., per the CDC. (That’s 327,988 more since yesterday morning.)
55 percent: The share of all Americans who are fully vaccinated, per the CDC.
66.2 percent: The share of all U.S. adults at least 18 years of age who are fully vaccinated, per CDC
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The CDC Director authorized Pfizer Covid vaccine booster shots for a broader group than advisors recommended — including the elderly, those with underlying medical conditions, and those whose work or institutional living situation puts them at increased risk.
Texas’ secretary of state’s office announced a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election results in four counties, shortly after Trump backed one.
Pennsylvania’s attorney general is suing in the hopes of blocking a GOP attempt to audit the 2020 election results in the state.
Politico reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is warming to Herschel Walker and other controversial Republican Senate candidates backed by Trump.
Families of missing Black men plead for more resources and accountability from police like they’re seeing in the investigation into the death of Gabby Petito.
The former police officer convicted of killing George Floyd will appeal the verdict.
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No images? Click here Good morning. It’s Friday, Sept. 24, and we’re covering a shooting in Tennessee, the return of one of the world’s oldest pieces of writing, and much more. Have feedback? Let us know at hello@join1440.com. First time reading? Sign up here. NEED TO KNOWMass Shooting in TennesseeAt least one person was killed and 14 others were injured after a gunman opened fire inside a Collierville, Tennessee, Kroger grocery store. Nine of the victims were taken to the hospital, with at least four in critical conditions. The gunman also reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to reports, the shooter was an employee of a third-party vendor that served the store, located about 30 miles outside the city of Memphis. At least 44 employees, along with an unspecified number of shoppers, were in the store as the attack unfolded; a number of workers were found in the store’s freezer, while officials found at least one hiding on the roof. Police are still searching for a motive. Separately, preliminary data from the FBI show the homicide rate rose by almost 30% in 2020, the largest single-year spike on record. Total homicides are still below levels seen between 1970 and 1990. Top Haiti Official Resigns The US special envoy to Haiti resigned yesterday, citing an “inhumane” response to a migrant surge that saw nearly 14,000 Haitian migrants amass outside the border town of Del Rio, Texas. Special Envoy Daniel Foote accused the Biden administration of ignoring his recommendations—a claim dismissed by the State Department. Foote was appointed as envoy to the country in July, following the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse. Foote’s resignation comes as US officials attempt to deport thousands of the migrants—at least 12 flights have returned migrants to Haiti—though thousands have reportedly been released into the US pending adjudication of asylum cases. The surge was said to be primarily Haitians previously living in South America, motivated by social media reports of an easy entry port into the US. Separately, federal officials suspended horse patrols in the area after images of Border Patrol agents appearing to use their reins as whips against the migrants drew backlash. See video here (warning: sensitive content). Gilgamesh Returns HomeA rare tablet containing a 3,500-year-old partial account of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” was returned to Iraq by US officials yesterday. The artifact was looted from an Iraqi museum during the first Gulf War in 1991 and smuggled into the US art market in 2007. US retail company Hobby Lobby purchased the tablet, placing it in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. The Justice Department seized the artifact in 2019. Regarded as one of the earliest known works of literature, the poem itself revolves around the travails of a mythic Sumerian demigod (breakdown here). Many themes of the poem are believed to be mirrored in the Hebrew Bible. Originally discovered in the ruins of an Assyrian library and written in Akkadian cuneiform script, the tablet itself recounts Gilgamesh describing dreams to his mother. The tablet will be repatriated to Iraq along with roughly 17,000 other looted artifacts. In partnership with PiestroCHEZ ROBOTWhat do you get when you combine decades of food experience, an Italian founder, and robotics expertise? You get Piestro, the restaurant-quality pizza robot that won’t quit. These nifty devices operate with 48% profit margins (versus 22% for traditional pizzerias) in a US pizza market that’s expected to reach $54B in value by 2023. Piestro allows pizza-eaters to order custom pies ahead and watch while they’re being prepared—a fun and engaging experience that’s being brought global via commercial contracts valued at over $580M with brands including 800 Degrees Pizza and Carbone Restaurant Group. 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September 24, 2021 Welcome to the Friday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect the week online. Today:
Fall officially began on Wednesday, Sept. 22—and everyone seems excited for the change. Summer, as a whole, was a big letdown for a lot of people. Chet Hanks, the problematic son of Tom Hanks, promised us a “hot boy summer.” But, as Trey Smith wrote on Twitter, “I can now officially and scientifically say it was the worst in recent memory.” On this week’s Bachelor in Paradise, one cast member called out another for being in “sad boy summer.” Since there are fewer expectations for fall 2021, maybe the next three months will surpass the previous three. Several Twitter users welcomed fall by posting photos of Chris Evans in Knives Out—where he wore a memorable cream-colored fisherman’s sweater. Fall also includes Spooky Season, which people have also started celebrating. And one of the icons of Spooky Season, Elvira, just came out as bisexual, to the delight of Queer Twitter. Cassandra Peterson, the actress behind Elvira, also revealed that she’s been in a 19-year relationship with her personal trainer, Teresa Wierson. So far, fall is off to a pretty decent start. Culture Editor ‘Mommy? Sorry. Mommy?’ is all over TikTok Why are people saying “Mommy? Sorry. Mommy?” on TikTok? It’s complicated. The origin appears to be an Aug. 25 TikTok from roofjesus, who uses the line (he says “excuse me” first) to get the attention of a woman standing in a parking garage. “Mommy,” in this case, is not meant literally, but more like “daddy” is used to express attraction or admiration. (The woman is his girlfriend.)
On TikTok, the sound was quickly applied to a range of situations, from horny to thirsty to a little scary. Some TikToks were expressions of friendship, while others worked the sound into product promo. The format has also been applied to stan Twitter, where people are using it alongside photos of their favorite actresses.
—Audra Schroeder, senior writer
LABOR Film workers are sharing industry horror stories on this anonymous Instagram page A wide swathe of the American entertainment industry is getting ready to go on strike, protesting against unfair and unsafe working conditions. They’re represented by IATSE, a union with around 150,000 members covering behind-the-scenes jobs like editors, costumers, hairstylists, lighting technicians, and cinematographers.
IATSE’s main bargaining issues involve pensions, health plans, wage increases, and “substantial improvements in rest periods.” Many entertainment workers are allegedly dangerously exhausted by long work days, a common refrain on the Instagram account @ia_stories, where insiders are sharing horror stories about their alleged working environment. A typical anonymous post describes working 15-hour days, seven days a week as the assistant to “an emotionally abusive egomaniacal actress,” resulting in a breakdown.
The account rapidly gained traction over the past few weeks, allowing people in the industry to share their alleged experiences of bad bosses, unbearable hours, and dangerous workplaces.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, staff writer
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Friday 09.24.21 Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On With Your Day. A migrant woman is seen in a tent near the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas. Immigration
The Haitian migrant crisis at the southern US border in Texas has exposed deep divides in the Biden administration over how to best address a complex problem with no easy solution. Daniel Foote, the US special envoy for Haiti, resigned yesterday, saying he could not be associated with what he called the “inhumane” decision by the US to deport thousands of Haitian refugees to a homeland in turmoil. He and other Democratic leaders have criticized the administration’s vow to turn away Haitian migrants arriving at the border, while some Republicans like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have said the administration isn’t doing enough to stem the influx. The Department of Homeland Security has also temporarily suspended the use of horse patrol in the Del Rio, Texas, area after images surfaced of mounted DHS officers aggressively confronting migrants.
Coronavirus
Covid-19 vaccine boosters can officially begin for certain groups of adults after the CDC approved the decision. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recommended boosters for people ages 65 and older, residents of long-term care facilities, certain people with underlying medical conditions, and people ages 18 to 64 who are at increased risk of Covid-19 because of their workplaces or institutional settings. That last group was actually not included in the recommendations of the CDC’s vaccine advisers, but the CDC leader included them in the final approval, in line with FDA recommendations.
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The Senate is set to vote Monday on a motion to advance a temporary government funding bill that includes a suspension of the debt ceiling. Republicans are still planning to block the bill because of the debt ceiling provision, which they oppose. If they do and the bill fails, Democrats have two options to address the possible shutdown looming at the end of the month: They could remove the debt ceiling provision from the bill and pass it with GOP support, or they could just let the government go unfunded and blame their colleagues across the aisle. A reminder of the timeline here: Government funding runs out at midnight on September 30. The government will reach its borrowing limit in mid-October, which could trigger a first-ever US default.
Tennessee shooting
At least one person was killed and 14 others injured in a shooting yesterday at a Kroger in Collierville, Tennessee, near Memphis. The shooter was also found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police officials said. So far, police don’t think there was an incident that led up to the shooting. This year is shaping up to be the worst year for US gun violence in decades, surpassing even last year’s unusually high numbers. A total of 14,516 people died from gun violence in the US from January 1 to September 15, marking a 9% increase over last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. There have been 498 mass shootings during that period — a 15% increase over last year.
Germany
Germany faces a historic general election Sunday as voters determine who will succeed longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel, who has led the country since 2005, announced in 2018 that she would not seek reelection after her term. She’ll step down once a successor is clear, which may take days or weeks. This landmark decision could open the door for a significant shift in German politics. Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party dominate German politics, but the Green Party is gaining ground, and a far-right party jockeys for fourth place in the hierarchy. The three top parties are well represented now, and the election is bound to be close, as polling suggests a large number of undecided voters.
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85% That’s how much the Biden administration says it will slash the use of hydrofluorocarbons, the potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration, over the next 15 years. The US Environmental Protection Agency will reduce the production and use of HFCs incrementally, starting with a 10% reduction next year. You don’t have to dig deep into the draft copy of the Arizona Senate/Cyber Ninja audit report to confirm what I already knew — the candidates certified by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General — did, in fact, win.
Jack Sellers, chairman of Maricopa County, Arizona’s Republican-led board of supervisors, on a draft report on the partisan review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in his county in the 2020 presidential election. The review, which was fueled by ex-President Trump’s lies over voter fraud, found a vote count nearly identical to what the county had previously reported. Brought to you by CNN Underscored ‘Friluftsliv’ is trending: Here’s what to know about the interior design craze Highlighting fresh air, nature and adventures galore, the viral friluftsliv design concept aims to bring the outdoor experience into our indoor spaces. Here’s what you need to incorporate friluftsliv into your home. I can’t believe my phalanges! 5 THINGS You are receiving this newsletter because you’re subscribed to 5 Things.
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Anti-Semitism: Alive and Well on the Left
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 04:33 PM PDT (John Hinderaker)We wrote here about the fact that far-left House Democrats, mostly the Squad, blocked inclusion of funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system as part of the continuing resolution to fund the government. They were able to block anti-terrorist spending because the Democrats’ House margin is so slim that they can’t afford even a minor number of defections. Steve then wrote about the fact that Democratic leadership introduced a stand-alone bill to fund Iron Dome that passed the House 420-9-2, with that principled, courageous firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voting “present.” Reportedly AOC originally voted No on Iron Dome funding, but then changed her vote to Present and was seen sobbing on the House floor. It sounds like there is a story there, of the sort that people known in earlier times as “reporters” might have inquired into. The “no” votes give us a pretty good list of open House anti-Semites, bearing in mind that there may be others who would have liked to vote against the appropriation but found it imprudent to do so. Is someone who votes against helping to protect our ally Israel against terrorist attacks an anti-Semite? Not necessarily; one can imagine other theories on which a legislator might cast a No vote. But take a few moments to watch Rashida Tlaib deliver an emotional harangue against Iron Dome which is, in fact, nothing but a harangue against Israel as an “apartheid state,” with all the usual nonsense. The animus is palpable. And it helps to remember that the only thing Iron Dome does is shoot down rockets that terrorists have aimed at Israeli civilians. Tlaib would prefer that the rockets get through, especially since the recent crisis, she says, was “manufactured” by Israel:
I would say that Tlaib stands exposed as a bigot, but if you look at the responses to her tweet, you will see that she is not the only one.
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Is President Xi reviving Maoism?
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 01:14 PM PDT (Paul Mirengoff)China’s President Xi Jinping reportedly is moving down a Maoist path. If so, this is probably the most important development of 2021. The Wall Street Journal reports on this development in a story with the headline: “Xi Jinping Aims to Rein In Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision.” The subtitle is: “Going beyond curbing tech giants, [Xi] wants the Communist Party to steer flows of money and set tighter limits on profit making.” The Journal reports that Xi’s campaign has produced more than 100 regulatory and policy directives over the past year. The directives are said to have shattered the power of the companies that dominate China’s new economy — the Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent and a real estate behemoth called Evergrande. USA Today also reports on Xi’s campaign. It notes the return of “self-criticism,” that oppressive communist practice:
USA Today recognizes these words for what they are: “language and methods drawn from the often bloody rule of Chairman Mao.” What’s really going on here and what are the implications? It would take someone far more knowledgeable than I am to answer these questions with confidence. Even someone less knowledgeable can see the obvious. If China truly moves in a Maoist, cultural revolution direction, it means (1) tremendous suffering for a great many Chinese and (2) the economic weakening of America’s prime adversary. But the American economy is tied to that of China, so the implications of the second point are complicated. Attacking local leaders who have helped build a hugely successful economy is a recipe for economic setback. So is shattering the power of the country’s most successful companies. “Democratic centralism” is a recipe for economic deterioration, as the history of communism demonstrates. The economic warning signs are already present. Reportedly, China’s top six technology stocks have lost more than $1.1 trillion in value over the past six months. Evergrande, the real estate developer, may be on the verge of defaulting on tens of billions of dollars in debt. But is this really the path Xi intends to take on a long-term basis? And if so, why? The USA Today report quotes one analyst who views recent developments as “another step in a serious campaign to make the Communist Party work better and look more responsive – to both the public and to those in the party ranks concerned about shortcomings in the way the country is currently run.” In other words, this is partly a PR move and partly a short-term correction. This was an accurate way of viewing an earlier revival of Maoist-style self-criticism instituted by Xi eight years ago. However, another view of the present situation takes Xi’s actions much more seriously. David Ignatius of the Washington Post writes:
Ignatius’ view is consistent with the Journal’s reporting, from which he draws. He cites this bit from the Journal article which seems telling:
I assume that many members of China’s elites resent their lack of freedom. If, in addition, they are to be persecuted for their successes, fear of China’s coming ascendency may soon recede. Why, though, would Xi revive ruinous Maoism? The obvious explanation is lust for power. The communist party’s reduced control over the private sector may be good for China’s economy, but it’s not good for a power hungry party head. Ignatius puts it this way:
If Ignatius and his sources are right, then Xi’s mini-Maosim is terrible news for China. It may also be terrible news for Taiwan, and therefore a major threat to peace. However, if the U.S. is able to avoid war, Xi may end up doing for America what America arguably is incapable of doing for itself — keeping us ahead of China in the economic pecking order.
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Civil War on the Left (78): Iron Dome Edition
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 12:04 PM PDT (Steven Hayward)A few days ago “progressive” Democrats the House succeeded in getting the Appropriations Committee to strip out $1 billion in U.S. funding for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense program, which relies on a lot of U.S.-made technology such that the Iron Dome appropriation is something of an export subsidy, from the continuing resolution to keep the feddie guvmint operating through the end of the year. This did not set well with “mainstream” Democrats, and today the House brought up a standalone bill to provide funding for Iron Dome. It passed 420-9-2. Yes, you are reading that box score correctly. Two House members voted “present.” One of them was Squad Queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her fellow Squad members mostly voted No on the proposal. The No votes comprising the House Democratic Anti-Semitic Caucus were: Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), André Carson (D-Ind.), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) A fairly recognizable list. (The lone Republican vote against it was from Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and I have no idea what to make of him.) There is one report that Ocasio-Cortez was near tears on the House floor as she cast her “Present” vote. No doubt. * The other House member who voted “Present” was Hank Johnson of Georgia, who may fear that something as heavy as an Iron Dome might cause the Gaza Strip to tip over into the ocean or something.
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Al Franken: The movie
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 07:04 AM PDT (Scott Johnson)I have written a lot about Al Franken on Power Line over the years. When Franken returned to Minneapolis to test the waters for a career in politics before a paying DFL audience in June 2005, I was invited to attend as a member of the press. I wrote up my account of the evening in “Saturday night live with Al Franken” and foresaw his political viability in Minnesota. In September 2006 I was sent a DVD screener of the Nick Doob/Chris Hegedus documentary on Franken. The movie was a complete and utter commercial bomb (domestic gross: $102,990). Just about no one saw it. Franken of course went on to a successful career in politics. With an assist from Russia hoaxer Marc Elias, Franken was declared to have defeated incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in a painful recount and related legal proceedings. Franken was handily reelected in 2014 and then resigned in early 2018 at the urging of then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. I was happy to see Franken go down in flames at the time, but it doesn’t sit well in retrospect. Franken now seeks to reenter public life. He has taken The Only Former U.S. Senator Currently on Tour Tour on the road. He has two shows booked at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis on October 2. The 7:00 p.m. show is almost sold out. A few more tickets are available for the 9:30 p.m. show. Paul Mirengoff noted his D.C. stop here. I take it from Paul’s account that Franken is recycling his joke about Ted Cruz from Giant of the Senate, his 2017 memoir, on tour now. I deemed Franken “The unfunniest Senator” in a 2017 City Journal column. That is one judgment I stand behind. Franken’s tentative return to public life has prompted me to think back to the 2006 film. A.O. Scott reviewed it for the New York Times. Stanley Kaufmann reviewed it for the New Republic. Before the Scott and Kaufmann reviews appeared, this is what I wrote (below the break). * * * * * Last week I received a DVD screener of Al Franken: God Spoke on the condition that I post a review on our site between September 6 and September 13 [2006]. The film is scheduled to open in theaters on September 13. I watched the film over the weekend and again last night. It’s hard for me to believe how bad it is. Directed by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, the makers of The War Room, their new film might more aptly have been titled The Bore Room. Although Franken made his name as a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live, the film provides additional evidence to support my view that Franken hasn’t been funny since the expiration of the Al Franken Decade in 1990. I have been a fan of Franken for a long time. In June 2005 I was given a press pass to attend the Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis where Franken was the featured speaker. The fundraiser was held on the west bank campus of the University of Minnesota within shouting distance of where I had first seen Franken perform with his former comedy partner, Tom Davis. The film shows Franken in 1977 performing the same skit on Saturday Night Live with his parents that I saw Franken try out in Minneapolis in the summer of 1976 at the Dudley Riggs Workshop. What kind of a documentary is God Spoke? It feels like a 90-minute vanity production cum campaign video, geared to promote Franken’s apparent candidacy for the Senate seat currently held by Norm Coleman. In that respect, however, the film closes on an extremely sour note. Franken is at the wheel of his car driving from the airport in Minneapolis and musing on some advice given to him by Minneapolis attorney Tom Borman. In an early scene in the film, Franken is seen telling his favorite joke (from Buddy Hackett) before a Minneapolis audience. The final scene shows Franken reflecting on Borman’s statement that his parents (wisely) thought Franken should stop telling that joke at political appearances. Franken is incredulous and unhappy about the advice. Whereas The War Room portrayed the inside of a successful presidential campaign, God Spoke appears to be a study in failure, though no one knows it. The film opens with Franken promoting Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them before an appreciative audience. Thereafter it’s mostly downhill with Air America. God Spoke portrays Franken’s involvement with the debut of the liberal radio network, Franken’s coverage of the 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions in 2004, Franken’s campaigning for John Kerry, Franken’s disappointment on election day, Franken’s announcement that he’s thinking about running against Norm Coleman and Franken’s related move from New York back to Minneapolis. At what appears to be an Air America planning session for a meeting with investors, Franken is asked what Air America is to be. “It’s about answering the fuckheads,” Franken says. On his first Air America show in March 2004, Michael Moore is Franken’s in-studio guest; together Franken and Moore interview Al Gore by telephone. The film shows Franken exulting that his ratings for the first month of the show beat those of Rush Limbaugh in New York. The network’s financial difficulties are intimated by reference to a missed payroll, but the abject failure of the network’s lineup to generate an audience remains a deep secret of the film. The film portrays Franken hinting darkly of network difficulties deriving from the “active intimidation” of advertisers and leaves it at that. “Less is more” seems to be the spirit with which Doob and Hegedus approach the story of Air America’s difficulties and disappointments. The film includes a kind of “Man from Hope” element, showing Franken returning to the house he grew up in for a look around and reminiscing about his father. It also shows him on one of his USO tours impersonating Saddam Hussein to entertain the troops in Iraq. It is an unfunny sequence that appears to have been edited to show the troops laughing uproariously over Franken’s routine. Doob and Hegedus work hard to portray Franken in a flattering light, but ninety minutes with Franken is about eighty minutes too many. Franken does not wear well; he comes across as a boor and a profoundly ugly man. Doob and Hegedus have blundered into the truth, though I can’t for the life of me imagine why they think an audience would want to pay to see it.
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Who’s whippin’ who, cont’d
Posted: 23 Sep 2021 04:17 AM PDT (Scott Johnson)The psychedelic Jen Psaki is blowing my mind. She conducted a White House press briefing and appeared on a show or two yesterday. She falsely called out CBP officers on horseback trying to contend with the flood of illegal Haitian immigrants crossing the border in the vicinity of Del Rio. NR’s Zachary Evans covered Psaki’s comments at the briefing here. Psaki said officials had watched “horrific video of the CBP officers on horses using brutal and inappropriate measures against innocent people.” The border has dissolved at the behest of President Biden and administration hacks psuch as Psaki disparage law enforcement. They are disgusting and contemptible.
I think I misunderstood one of Psaki’s comments at the press conference earlier this week. She said individuals crossing the border don’t intend to stay for a long time. What was she talking about? As I say, she is blowing my mind.
Bill Melugin is covering the scene in Del Rio for FOX News. He circled back to Psaki’s comment in the tweets above and below.
The administration will keep lying about the invasion as long as they are asked about it. Both Psaki and DHS Secretary Mayorkas profess to know nothing. Of course they know the answer to this basic question. They don’t want the American public to know.
And one more thing. This fish is rotting from the head. Biden’s minders in the daycare operation at the White House have to put a lid on his extemporaneous comments. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn’t get the memo before he took questions from British reporters before his meeting with Biden: “President Joe Biden refused to take questions from American reporters before his aides chivvied them away from a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.”
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On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, This program is sick and tired of racism pushed by Democrats. Whether it’s Joy Reid, the Democrat Party, or the media. The left uses anti-white racism conveniently to pursue their own interests. The vast majority of this country are tolerant, fair people that see past skin color. They have redefined racism to only apply to a certain group, but not all bigots fueled by race-hatred. The left uses reparations as one more way to redistribute the wealth of others. Interestingly the border is flooded with people of color desperately trying to get into this nation that they call racist and white supremacist. Then, the media is the scum of the earth, they are frauds. Joy Reid is a bigoted hate-monger that promotes anti-white bias and she should be fired for her comments about “missing white woman syndrome.” What’s truly appalling about this leftwing ignorance syndrome is that Reid never uses her platform to help stop the slaughter of people of color in cities mainly run by Democrats. Later, Chicano studies have laid the foundation for Marxists that want to promote anti-white racism. So many journalists today espouse these Marxist beliefs and spread them. This is why they support erasing the border. Afterward, the New York Post, confirming what this program has discussed regarding President Biden’s skirting of Medicare taxes, is reporting that Biden owes upwards of $500K in back taxes. Biden set up an S corporation in order to avoid paying payroll taxes as an employee.
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