Month: April 2020

Donald J. Trump’s name will be on stimulus checks in unprecedented move

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The unprecedented decision, finalized late Monday, means that when recipients open the $1,200 paper checks the IRS is scheduled to begin sending to 70 million Americans in coming days, “President Donald J. Trump” will appear on the left side of the payment.

It will be the first time a president’s name appears on an IRS disbursement, whether a routine refund or one of the handful of checks the government has issued to taxpayers in recent decades either to stimulate a down economy or share the dividends of a strong one.

Donald J. Trump’s name will be on stimulus checks in unprecedented move – The Washington Post

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Michigan governor fires back at Trump, says states won’t ‘open via Twitter’

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Legal experts say the president does not have the authority to overrule governors by reversing public health restrictions that have been ordered at the state level.

…When discussing Trump’s comments during an appearance on the “Today” show, Cuomo said the “president doesn’t have total authority,” while pointing to the 10th Amendment, which states that “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

“The Constitution is there, the 10th Amendment is there, number of cases over the years, it’s very clear. States have power by the 10th Amendment, and the president is just wrong on that point,” Cuomo said.

Michigan governor fires back at Trump, says states won’t ‘open via Twitter’ | TheHill

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U.S. probe unable to rule out White House influence on JEDI contract awarded to Microsoft, not Amazon

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Several officials said their conversations were privileged “presidential communications.”

…“We could not definitively determine the full extent or nature of interactions that administration officials had, or may have had, with senior DoD officials regarding the JEDI Cloud procurement because of the assertion of a ‘presidential communications privilege,’” the report said, referring to the Department of Defense by its acronym.

…Amazon has said the Defense Department’s decision to give the contract to Microsoft was full of “egregious errors,” which were a result of “improper pressure from [Trump.]”

U.S. probe unable to rule out White House influence on JEDI contract awarded to Microsoft, not Amazon – Reuters

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Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry

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Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry – EcoWatch

That’s nice but…. Et tu, EcoWatch?

Step away from the plastic recycling kool-aid. Recycling plastic is an unsustainable mysth propagated by an industry that doesn’t want anyone to pay attention to how devastatingly unnecessary and toxic their product is.

Repeat after me morons, the only way to stop the tide of plastic overwhelming our water and our landfills is STOP USING PLASTIC PACKAGING.

As long as you are distracted by recycling, you are tacitly enabling the proliferation of unnecessary single use plastic and plastic packaging. Period.

Twitter Users Love CNN Chyron Operator’s Cheeky Trump Captions

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Twitter Users Love CNN Chyron Operator’s Cheeky Trump Captions | HuffPost

If only they’d made a habit calling out lies and bullshit (instead of capitulating to and being culpable in the spreading of nonsense)  for the past four years.

Just think of they impact they choose not to have until now!

(spineless, echo-chamber perpetuating, no adherence to facts or journalism hacks)