https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-12-07/california-lawmakers-to-newsom-give-all-immigrants-health-coverage

SACRAMENTO — California Democratic lawmakers so far have failed to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state can afford to spend an estimated $2.6 billion a year to expand its Medicaid program to all unauthorized immigrants.

Rather than working independently, a fiercely liberal state senator from Los Angeles and a moderate Assembly member from the Central Valley are joining forces to pressure Newsom to make California the first state in the nation to cover every income-eligible resident regardless of immigration status. Unauthorized immigrants up to age 26 can already qualify for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program for low-income residents.

Emboldened by the win of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and spurred by the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic, state Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly member Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) plan to introduce a two-bill package on Monday that would cover unauthorized senior immigrants first, and eventually the remainder of California's undocumented immigrant population.

California currently covers about 200,000 unauthorized immigrant children and young adults, according to the state Department of Health Care Services. The state budgeted about $375 million to cover young adults ages 19 through 25 this fiscal year, but does not track spending for undocumented immigrant children, according to the state Department of Finance.

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Index is borked too

https://www.pajiba.com/politics/voting-democrat-in-the-georgia-runoffs-is-the-easiest-1200-you-will-ever-make.php

Implicit here is this: If you live in Georgia, and whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, if you want a $1200 check (plus potentially an additional $1,000 per child), all you have to do is vote for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. This is not a bribe. This is a goddamn fact. If the Democrats have control of the Senate, the Democrats will provide direct payments of at least $1,200.

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https://hongkongfp.com/2020/12/08/breaking-us-slaps-sanctions-on-14-chinese-officials-over-hong-kong/

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on 14 senior Chinese officials as it vowed there would be a price to pay for Beijing’s growing clampdown in Hong Kong.

President Donald Trump’s administration said it was freezing any US assets and barring travel to the United States of 14 vice chairs of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, which spearheaded a tough new security law in the city.

While Lam has sought to play down the effect of sanctions, she acknowledged in a recent interview that she relies on “piles of cash” as she cannot maintain a bank account due to the pressure from the US Treasury Department, which has broad influence over dollar-denominated transactions.

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we are all shit posting to read

post count doesn't seem to be changing too

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KEK

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She looks familiar

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/georgia-dem-dominion/

Elena Parent, the Chairwoman of Georgia State Senate Democrats, slammed Dominion voting machines as “opposed by national security experts,” suggesting the state’s decision to go with the vendor “wreaks of corruption.”

What did they do buy her off ?

Biden tells BLM protestors, Screw You

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-07/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-biden-inauguration

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as one of five co-chairs for his upcoming inauguration, despite calls from protesters to exclude the mayor from appointment to a federal post.

In addition to Garcetti, the president-elect named House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, longtime ally Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Biden’s home state of Delaware and Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, who is set to leave the House to be a senior Biden adviser.

The decision comes one day after Los Angeles police clashed with protesters outside Mayor Garcetti’s official residence, leading to one arrest and a skirmish with baton-wielding officers that several elected officials later denounced as police brutality and a violation of demonstrators’ free speech rights.

The demonstrations, organized by Black Lives Matter, have been going on for 13 consecutive days at the Getty House, Garcetti’s Windsor Square residence, with the aim of dissuading the incoming Biden administration from appointing Garcetti to any federal post.

fubar

something smells

How can these people be in charge of anything ?

https://reason.com/2020/12/07/kamauri-harrison-school-virtual-bb-gun-suspension/

In September, Louisiana's Jefferson Parish Public Schools suspended a 4th grader—Ka'Mauri Harrison—for six days because he allowed a BB gun to briefly appear on his screen during virtual Zoom school. On Friday, the school board declined to remove the suspension from his permanent record, according to local news.

The Woodmere Elementary fourth-grader said he was moving the BB gun so his brother didn't trip on it when his teacher saw in during a virtual classroom session.

The Harrisons have argued their home is not an extension of Ka'Mauri's classroom. The school system has stood its ground and refused to change his record.

That happened even after a new law was passed—and named in Ka'Mauri's honor—to deal with similar situations.

"Are you aware you were suspended because you brought a BB gun to school?" Chelsea Cusimano, the Harrison family attorney, asked Ka'Mauri as he testified during the hearing.

"I didn't bring my BB gun to school," he answered.

School Board member Simeon Dickerson, a former teacher, asked Nyron Harrison, Ku'Mauri's father, to think of how his teacher felt seeing a gun on her computer screen.

School Board member Simeon Dickerson, a former teacher, asked Nyron Harrison, Ku'Mauri's father, to think of how his teacher felt seeing a gun on her computer screen.

"I know what a BB gun looks like. And you know what it resembles? A real gun. OK? It resembles a real gun," Dickerson said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/7/arizona-supreme-court-agrees-weigh-election-challe/

The Arizona Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an election challenge brought by the state’s Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward concerning mail-in ballots in Maricopa County.

A lower court judge dismissed her case Friday, but she took the challenge to the state’s highest court and has said a small sample of ballots and envelopes she was able to inspect showed some irregularities.

Arizona results show presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden topping President Trump by about 10,457 votes, or 0.3%.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/529071-pompeo-to-deliver-speech-in-georgia-ahead-of-senate-runoffs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will deliver a speech on the national security threat posed by China at Georgia Tech ahead of two critical Senate runoff elections that will determine the balance of power in the upper chamber.

Pompeo’s remarks, set for Wednesday, will address “the China challenge to U.S. national security and academic freedom,” according to the State Department.

It’s not unusual for secretaries of State to speak to domestic audiences, though the timing and location of Pompeo’s remarks are likely to raise questions about whether the nation’s top diplomat is engaging in partisan political activities.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/durkan-will-not-seek-re-election-as-seattle-mayor

In a video statement Monday, Mayor Durkan said that she had a choice to make: campaign for another term over 2021, or put all her energy into fighting the pandemic. She says she has opted to focus on responding to the pandemic.

"We know stopping the spread of the virus, protecting jobs and focusing on the economic recovery — especially for downtown — is going to take everything we’ve got. As Mayor approaching the last year of my term, that meant a choice. I could spend the next year campaigning to keep this job or focus all my energy on doing the job. There was only one right choice for our city: doing the job. I have decided not to run for reelection because Seattle, we still have some tough months ahead," Durkan said.

Durkan has also been criticized from multiple sides for her handling of the CHOP in Capitol Hill — an area of protest that resulted in peaceful demonstrations, controversial crowd control tactics, the abandonment of a police station, and fatal shootings.

update

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/covid-19-case-at-new-york-elections-office-slows-ballot-counting-in-final-uncalled-race

Vote-counting in the final unsettled House race of 2022 has been delayed, again, by a coronavirus case at a central New York elections office.

In New York's 22nd Congressional District, former Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican ousted in 2018, leads Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi by 12 votes out of hundreds of thousands cast, according to unofficial results through Monday.

But a COVID-19 case at the Oneida Board of Elections center is delaying further counting.

Brindisi was behind Tenney by 28,422 votes based on in-person ballots received during early voting and on Election Day, but almost 60,000 mail-in ballots were also cast. This cut into Tenney’s lead and brought her down to just a 100-vote margin lead. Brindisi decided to challenge the ballots in court, bringing him ahead 13 votes at one point, but he fell behind by 12 votes later.