Month: September 2017

MSNBC Ali Velshi explains Graham-Cassidy bill in 2 minutes

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MSNBC Hosts Fret There's Not Enough 'Climate Change' Discussion

Everyone thought that Trumpcare was dead. It is not. Ali Velshi explains in detail how devastating a bill it is and if it became law many would lose insurance and in fact many will die as a direct result of the lack of care. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi deconstructs the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill and shows it… Continue reading “MSNBC Ali Velshi explains Graham-Cassidy bill in 2 minutes” →

‘All Lives Splatter’ goes nationwide, Republicans everywhere fantasize about killing protesters

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The latest in a string of conservatives to publicly display their deeply held desire to murder protesters is Republican Lynne DiSanto, the GOP Whip in the South Dakota state legislature. Rep. DiSanto posted a “funny” meme declaring “All Lives Splatter” nearly two weeks ago and didn’t delete it until Tuesday after a major outcry. She faces… Continue reading “‘All Lives Splatter’ goes nationwide, Republicans everywhere fantasize about killing protesters” →

Angus King: Lindsey Graham is ‘rooting for chaos’

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Senator Angus King

After a terse interview with Graham-Cassidy sponsor Sen. Bill Cassidy, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked Sen. Angus King to give his own perspective on the ACA repeal bill. “We have two problems here,” King said. “I think the bill itself is a bad bill, but the process is just atrocious. It came out of nowhere. It was… Continue reading “Angus King: Lindsey Graham is ‘rooting for chaos’” →

Cat 4 Hurricane Maria slams Puerto Rico

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If only we treated them like real Americans:

Hurricane Maria slammed into eastern Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning as a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm, bringing vicious winds, storm surge and rain to areas across the island before weakening to a Category 3 by the afternoon.

As of noon local time, 100 percent of customers of Puerto Rico’s sole energy provider were without power, according to the island’s emergency and disaster management agency.

The hurricane’s eyewall passed over Vieques around 4 a.m. Eastern time before heading toward the main island, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm made landfall on the eastern part of the island, near Yabucoa, around 6:15 a.m. with wind speeds of up to 155 mph.

Maximum wind speeds had slowed to 140 mph by 11 a.m., the NHC said.

Maria is expected to move off Puerto Rico’s shore by the afternoon and start traveling northwest toward the Dominican Republic. It will likely remain a dangerous hurricane for the next few days and gain intensity as it moves across the water, bringing “life-threatening storm surge” to the islands in its path, according to the NHC.

“This is the most devastating storm either in a century or quite frankly in modern history,” Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN on Wednesday. “What’s critical right now is for people to recognize that the breadth of the storm is still to come. There’s a lot of flooding, there’s a lot of infrastructure damage, but the only thing that should matter right now is that people should stay safe.”