Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

The death toll now stands at 10 in the listeria outbreak tied to Boar’s Head deli meat. https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/details-delimeats-7-24.html

from @AmandaMarcotte

" #Ohio Senate candidate #BernieMoreno went on a diatribe Friday calling concern about #AbortionRights "crazy."
..."It’s a little crazy by the way, but — especially for #women that are like past 50 — I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.'”

Well...
I'm a #woman over 50 & #abortion IS an issue for me because I care about people other than myself.

Does Bernie Moreno think all voters are as utterly selfish as he is?

#Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue

Apple continues to quietly remove VPNs from its App Store in Russia. It's reportedly deleted nearly 100 VPN apps this year alone. https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-complies-with-russian-censorship-pulls-more-vpns-from-russia-app

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before:
“Perhaps democracy means a little bit more!”
What happened next? Well in L.A. they say
That the Grinch’s small heart grew five sizes that day!
“Hurray,” cried the Grinch.”Now I am not embarrassed
To take off this red hat and go vote for Harris!”
Salutore, salutore, welcome Kamala on this day!
Happy days are here again, the storm clouds have all blown away!

Via Kyle Griffin:

Rep. Steven Horsford, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, has offered a privileged resolution on the House floor to censure Republican Clay Higgins for posting that Haitians are "thugs" who "better get..their ass out of the country before January 20th."

Here's my latest article, which provides the most detailed overview published of how Jared Kushner's firm Affinity Partners has invested over $1 billion to-date

#JaredKushner #Kushner #AffinityPartners

https://newstracs.com/how-jared-kushners-affinity-partners-has-invested-over-1-billion/2024/09/16/

Kushner's Affinity Partners manages $3billion, 99% from overseas - Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar & Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou

A new letter from Sen. Wyden says there's one more “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify”

Letter Wyden sent yesterday notes:

Affinity has pocketed $157 million in fees from foreign clients, including $87 million from the Saudi government

#JaredKushner #Kushner #AffinityPartners #SenWyden

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/us/politics/kushner-private-equity-saudi-arabia.html

Letter:
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/7b79894d98990357/21a470fd-full.pdf

IT'S STUNNING TO ME that *Union* members could possibly be #Undecided between a candidate WHO ACTUALLY WALKED A PICKET LINE WITH UNION MEMBERS and a guy who praised & laughed with #ElonMusk about firing anyone who dare try to organize a #Union. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/watch-interviews-with-undecided-battleground-voters-explain-closeness-complexity-of-2024-race-220093509749

The science was clear: the DNA on the crime scene did not match the one of Marcellus Williams. Death penality is State murder and has to be abolished. The execution of yesterday was the assassination of an innocent black man by US officials.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

Hurricane Helene is going to devastate Florida and the Southeast, as a Category 3+ storm

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's Project 2025 would:

- cut FEMA
- kill the National Weather Service
- kill federal-backed flood insurance
- kill emergency disaster funding for state/local govts

Three pharmacy benefit managers administer 80% of prescriptions in the U.S.

The @FTC sued them for allegedly inflating insulin prices and blocking patients from accessing cheaper drugs.

The Biden-Harris admin continues to tackle monopoly power and lower costs for consumers.

Wrote up a bit of a rant on Medium about a particularly distressing case I've been assisting with - a student (falsely) accused of submitting AI-generated work who has produced a ton of exonerating evidence and isn't being believed.

https://writerethink.medium.com/still-shouting-from-the-rooftops-about-ai-detection-and-why-its-so-harmful-to-students-c1608bb57b20

If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/sep/24/donald-trump-presidency-republican-lawmakers-targeting-lgbtq-policies

The 23-year-old Colorado Water Trust received the 1890s-era reservoir as a donation and it was able to sell it last month, giving a 37-mile segment of Boulder Creek a much-needed drink

https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/24/jasper-reservoir-wilderness-boulder-creek-streamflow-tiefel/

New Amtrak route just dropped! https://media.amtrak.com/2024/09/amtrak-launching-the-floridian-with-daily-service-between-chicago-and-miami/