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Mississippi election commissioner's social media comment about Black voters causes uproar
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg American 5d 4 tweets
A Jones County election commissioner is under fire for making a comment about Blacks holding voter registration drives, unlike "people in Mississippi."
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Mark Elliott Mississippi election commissioner: "I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi," the commissioner wrote. "The blacks are having lots (of) events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too." 5d
From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials
CNN 8d 117 tweets
In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President...
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Mark Elliott H.R. McMaster, John Bolton, James Mattis, Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- concluded that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. 8d
Polls show big divide between Texas men, women on Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden
HoustonChronicle.com 8d 1 tweets
Fox News poll shows that while Trump is winning favored by men in Texas, 51% to 39%, Biden is winning the female vote, 51% to 39%.
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Mark Elliott Biden v Trump. Tied. In. Texas. Fox News Poll. 8d
Failing Grades: States' Responses to COVID-19 in Jails & Prisons
Prisonpolicy.org 12d 2 tweets
50-state report evaluating state efforts to prevent COVID-19 deaths behind bars.
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Mark Elliott . and examined state's efforts to prevent COVID-19 in jails and prisons. Over 40 earned an F or F+ (meaning they did very, very little). 12d
Lawmakers protest as feds pull support from 4 Harris County COVID testing sites
HoustonChronicle.com 14d 6 tweets
Houston officials are urging the White House to rethink the move, warning of ‘catastrophic cascading consequences.’
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Mark Elliott During a pandemic. With new records being set daily. The Trump administration is planning to end federal support for local coronavirus testing sites across the nation at the end of the month. 13d
A Slow Climb Back Begins as NYC Hits Likely Bottom on Job Losses
THE CITY 14d 2 tweets
The city lost 20% of its jobs in three months, with low-wage workers hardest hit. As Phase 2 of return begins, a full rebound is four years away, economists predict.
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Mark Elliott NYC lost nearly one million jobs since February. Minority and young workers have been absolutely devastated, as unemployment rates soar to 25-35% (!) | 14d
Coronavirus Job and Death Toll Is Widespread in Michigan: ‘We are Talking About a Very Deep Hole’
John McCormick - WSJ 14d 3 tweets
A Wall Street Journal analysis found almost a quarter of the counties in Michigan, a political battleground state in November, rank at the top nationally for both annual unemployment-rate jump and Covid-19 death rate.
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Mark Elliott !!! Almost a quarter of Michigan’s counties are among the top 20% nationally for both increase in unemployment from a year earlier and deaths per 1,000 residents linked to Covid-19. c 14d
Colorado to strip its police force of qualified immunity: Countless officers discussing resigning.
LawEnforcementToday - Law Enforcement Today 16d 5 tweets
Protesters are celebrating today as Governor Polis has decided to sign a law stating the police are no longer protected by qualified immunity.
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Mark Elliott As Colorado strips police of qualified immunity, many officers say they'll resign/look for work in other states. 15d
Black officer fired from Buffalo PD after stopping white colleague’s chokehold deserves ‘new set of eyes’ on case after George Floyd
New York Daily News - nydailynews.com 22d 2 tweets
Pressure is mounting to reinvestigate the case of a Buffalo police officer who was fired for trying to stop a colleague’s chokehold on a handcuffed suspect.
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Mark Elliott Black Buffalo police officer who tried to stop her white colleague's chokehold was fired in 2008. She's still trying to get her pension. 22d
Cleveland Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Is Hired by an Ohio Police Department
Nytimes.com 638d 2 tweets
Officer Timothy Loehmann fatally shot Tamir, 12, at a park in 2014. The shooting added to national outrage over the killing of unarmed black men and boys by law enforcement.
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Mark Elliott Reminder. The Cleveland police officer who was fired after he killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was quickly hired by another Ohio police department. “He was cleared of any and all wrongdoing,” the Bellaire police chief, Richard Flanagan. 23d
Dallas County reports record number of new coronavirus cases for third day in a row
Dallas News 24d 1 tweets
Dallas County reported 328 new coronavirus cases Friday, setting a daily record for the third consecutive day. The county also reported three more deaths...
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Mark Elliott Yo , "Dallas County reports record number of new coronavirus cases for third day in a row" 24d
There Are No Nazi Memorials
The Atlantic 297d 9 tweets
Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.
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Mark Elliott Fun fact: Germany has no monuments that celebrate the Nazi armed forces, however many grandfathers fought or fell for them. Instead, it has a dizzying number and variety of monuments to the victims of its murderous racism. 26d
NYC reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time since mid-March
Julia Marsh - New York Post 33d 6 tweets
The Big Apple marked a major turning point in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday with no new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since March 12. “In the face …
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Mark Elliott Here's some good news! NYC reported no new deaths from COVID-19 yesterday -- the first time that's happened since March. 32d
Minneapolis police made 44 people unconscious with neck restraints
NBC News 36d 19 tweets
Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. "By using this tactic, it's a self-fulfilling tragedy," said one.
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Mark Elliott Holy crap. Minneapolis Police used neck restraints at least 237 times since 2015, and 44 times people were rendered unconscious. George Floyd's treatment was freaking business-as-usual! 36d
Can America’s Middle Class Be Saved from a New Depression?
Matthew Desmond - Nytimes.com 41d 9 tweets
As the pandemic guts the livelihoods of formerly stable families, the federal government seems unwilling to act on the necessary scale.
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Mark Elliott A New Deal today is unrealistic? It’s not as unrealistic as was the original New Deal, which fashioned national programs from scratch during a time when there was a genuine debate in America about whether the government should step in at all. 39d
Trump: Jewish people who vote Democratic show 'great disloyalty'
NBC News 322d 4 tweets
'I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat - I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty, ' Trump told reporters.
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Mark Elliott In other news: President Donald Trump told reporters that "any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat" are either uninformed or show "great disloyalty." 45d
Rising cases, inadequate tracing put Texas at risk during reopening
HoustonChronicle.com 49d 4 tweets
Rising cases, inadequate tracing, put Texas at risk during reopening
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Mark Elliott Holy crap! "Since April 24, when Abbott first started rolling back restrictions put in place to control the virus, Texas has seen a 55 percent increase in new cases per day." | 49d
Cities Are Safe Places to Live, Even in a Pandemic
Nytimes.com 53d 9 tweets
It’s a mistake to blame density for the spread of the coronavirus.
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Mark Elliott "It's a mistake to blame density for the spread of the coronavirus." NYC's experience reveals it's about the high cost of housing, overcrowding, poverty and racial segregation. Brilliant essay by c 53d
Trump Feared Testing Too Many People for Virus Would Spook Stock Markets, Says Report
The Daily Beast 54d 13 tweets
The Financial Times reports that Trump was advised against making too many preparations for the pandemic.
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Mark Elliott Absolute killer quote: “Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it..." And there you have it. 150,000 Americans sacrificed for the stock market. 54d
Free to read: Coronavirus tracked: has your country’s epidemic peaked?
Ig.ft.com 62d 36 tweets
Find any country in the live-updating and customisable version of the FT’s Covid-19 trajectory charts
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Mark Elliott Hey folks. The U.S. is the ONLY developed country that's easing restrictions BEFORE the death toll starts declining. We've seen about 1800 deaths/day since early April. This will not end well. 59d