Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops
home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the
promise -- and reaping growing criticism over the grim results that are
unfolding in Afghanistan.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Biden Delivers on Trump’s Afghan Exit as
Friday, August 13, 2021
Judge refuses to toss out Dominion defamation suits against Powell, Giuliani and Lindell
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/11/judge-dominion-defamation-suits-powell-504000
The three defendants’ arguments found
little resonance with Nichols, a Trump appointee who seemed disdainful
of their conduct and of suggestions that their statements were within
the bounds of freewheeling political debate.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Eye on statute of limitations, alleged victim of US youth group leader speaks up
Rabbi Jordan Soffer demands USY, the Conservative movement’s youth branch, explain why it turned blind eye to abuser for years, later allowed his employment as a synagogue director
Trump calls police officer who killed Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt a murderer: 'We know who he is'
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-police-officer-killed-202125447.html
He and Republicans in Congress like Rep. Paul Gosar have sought to turn Babbitt into a martyr, saying she was unjustly killed and wrongly targeted by law enforcement. GOP lawmakers have cited her death to say that the insurrection wasn't as serious as it appeared and she didn't pose a threat.
FDA expected to authorize COVID vaccine booster shots this week
The Food and Drug Administration is slated to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow immunocompromised people to get a third dose, NBC News reported. The announcement is expected within the next 48 hours, but the timing could move, according to multiple sources. The Biden administration is anticipated to put out a Covid-19 vaccine booster strategy for all vaccinated Americans in September.
On July 12, Israel began to offer a booster shot for people with a severely weakened immune system. Preliminary results from research
conducted by the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva
and Clalit Health Services has shown that administering a third
coronavirus vaccine shot to immunocompromised patients significantly
increases their ability to produce antibodies.
Reform movement probing itself over history of bungling sex abuse allegations
She said many of the roughly 600 rabbis in her network have observed for decades how survivors who complained through official channels were often ignored or dismissed. She believes they would be treated differently if they come forward now to participate in the investigations.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
What Exactly Is Andrew Cuomo Guilty Of?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/cuomo-michael-tracey
Among the “less overtly sexual” behavior cited in the report as being unlawfully “gender-based” was Cuomo’s apparent habit of “allowing senior staff members to sit on his lap at official functions” and “lying down with his head on the lap of staff members who are women.” This, the report alleges on page 148, was a key component of the overall “hostile work environment.”
But parsed out elsewhere in the report—evidently causing it to be missed by frenetic pundits—is the revelation that “none” of the staff involved in the lap-sitting activity “reported feeling uncomfortable with this behavior.”
In fact, the report’s authors concede, “a number of witnesses we spoke to informed us that all of this behavior led to a sense among staff members in the Executive Chamber that personal attention from the Governor, even if flirtatious … was not only normal, but to be valued.” This would seem to be exculpatory information of a kind—but a search across Google and Twitter suggests it’s been omitted almost entirely from the ensuing press coverage. Instead, these exculpatory testaments were somehow reconfigured by the report’s authors as evidence of Cuomo’s guilt. In the rush to axe Cuomo, media accounts appear to have wholly glossed over this discrepancy.
Cuomo is a mini-Trump – it's always been obvious to anyone paying attention
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/13/andrew-cuomo-mini-trump-new-york-coronavirus
It has always been obvious to anyone paying attention that Cuomo is a mini-Trump. He has the same appetite for authoritarianism as the former president: during the pandemic he has drawn scrutiny for cancelling special elections, issuing executive orders and consolidating power. Like Trump he has nothing but disdain for his detractors, particularly if they happen to be more qualified than he is. The New York Times recently reported that nine top New York health officials have resigned during the pandemic, with many of them telling the Times that Cuomo had asked them to match their health guidance to his decisions. But who needs experts, eh? Not the all-knowing Cuomo. “When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Cuomo said of pandemic policies in a recent news conference. “Because I don’t.”
In the End, Cuomo Goes Full Trump
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/in-the-end-cuomo-goes-full-trump/
After the incendiary 2005 tape was released just weeks before the 2016 election, where Trump can be heard bragging about sexually assaulting women, he dismissed his actions as mere “locker room” talk and went on to win the election. The dozens of women who have stepped forward to describe flagrant misbehavior by the former president have been repeatedly demeaned and dismissed. In 2019, Trump said one of his most prominent accusers, E. Jean Carroll, was “totally lying,” and added, just for that special dash of credibility, that she was “not my type.”
In addressing the allegations leveled at him, Cuomo took a similar, albeit more eloquent, approach, focusing on his own misunderstood behavior rather than slandering those who stepped forward. “The facts are much different than what has been portrayed,” Cuomo mewled during his response, claiming that his accusers were “misinterpreting” his behavior and demeanor toward them. He had done nothing wrong, he insisted, and was going nowhere. “I do it with everyone!” he said of the allegations that he inappropriately touched state staffers. “Black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street.”
Andrew Cuomo’s Only Defenders: Trump Fanatics and...Himself
It’s not as though Cuomo has zero defenders. But those who are stepping up—devoted Donald Trump supporters like Newsmax host Greg Kelly, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Gristedes billionaire John Catsimatidis—might not be the people the governor wants in his corner. Kelly, who on Tuesday called Cuomo the subject of “a freakin’ witch hunt,” has himself been accused of sexual misconduct and, along with Giuliani, shown a penchant for unhinged conspiracy theories. (He has denied all wrongdoing.) “I’m not buying it,” Kelly said of the attorney general’s report, an assessment that loses some weight given that he spent months denying the reality of the 2020 election.
Breathtaking hypocrisy: Trump sycophants have no standing to demand that Cuomo resign
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik wants New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to “resign and be arrested immediately.” The New York Republican is incensed on behalf of the 11 women whom, according to evidence in a report from the state attorney general, he sexually harassed. “These brave women deserve swift and definitive justice,” Stefanik says.
What’s rich is Stefanik passing judgment on Cuomo when she has sold her political soul to former President Donald Trump and the ethically, morally, legally, constitutionally and sexually compromised mess of a party he leads. She got her leadership job – No. 3 in the GOP House hierarchy – after Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was ousted for insufficient fealty to Trump. Cheney had voted to impeach him over his role in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack by violent Trump supporters.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/andrew-cuomo-investigation-08-10-21/index.html
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he is resigning, effective in 14 days.
- New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will replace Cuomo and become the state's first female governor.
- A state investigation released last week found Cuomo "sexually harassed multiple women and violated state law," allegations he denies.
- Cuomo was facing an impeachment investigation from New York Assembly's Judiciary Committee.
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