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Trump-appointed judge blocks Biden’s order to halt deportations after Texas AG sued
January 26, 2021
A federal judge in Texas has just placed a temporary stay blocking President Joe Biden's 100 day moratorium on deportations.
U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton, a member of the right wing Federalist Society, sided with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
<p>"Defendants are enjoined from executing the 100-day pause on removals for 14 days," Judge Tipton ruled. That apparently means deportations can continue for the next two weeks.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Breaking: federal judge temporarily blocks Biden's 100-day deportation pause in lawsuit brought by Texas AG <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KenPaxtonTX</a>. Applies nationwide.<br/><br/>"Defendants are enjoined from executing the 100-day pause on removals for 14 days..." <a href="https://twitter.com/CourthouseNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CourthouseNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/Kbl2VNEM8c">pic.twitter.com/Kbl2VNEM8c</a><br/>— Travis Bubenik (@travisbubenik) <a href="https://twitter.com/travisbubenik/status/1354152064176291840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>President Biden enacted the 100 day deportations pause on January 20.</p><p>Slate's Mark Joseph Stern notes Republicans did exactly what they have been accusing Democrats of doing for years.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Republicans who spent the last four years railing against nationwide injunctions and forum shopping just went to a Trump judge in Texas to get a nationwide block on Biden's 100-day deportation pause. <a href="https://t.co/v6HsWCRCzk">https://t.co/v6HsWCRCzk</a> <a href="https://t.co/LTnmLtds19">pic.twitter.com/LTnmLtds19</a><br/>
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1354153880754532360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Los Angeles 'vaccine chasers' wait hours in hope of leftover doses
January 26, 2021
Young "vaccine chasers" with sleeping bags, warm hoodies and folding chairs are lining up for hours outside Los Angeles inoculation centers in the hope of obtaining coronavirus jabs from leftover vials that would otherwise end up in the trash.
Los Angeles county, where Covid-19 cases have surged this winter, is currently only vaccinating frontline medical workers and people aged 65 and over.
<p>Even among those groups, appointments are extremely difficult to obtain, with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots in limited supply.</p><p>But a small number of patients fail to show up as scheduled each day, and this is exactly what the "vaccine chasers" are counting on.</p><p>"If this vaccine is just going to end up in the trash, then what good does that do to anyone?" asked Elaine Loh, who was outside a community health center in working-class south Los Angeles, where some have been waiting almost 18 hours.</p><p>"If we are young enough and healthy enough to spend the night to come and get it, we might as well."</p><p>Also waiting outside the Kedren Community Health Center, Adam -- who did not give his last name -- said he was happy to wait for hours because "it's not like anything is open right now, so I would be sleeping."</p><p>"I think anyone would feel the same thing. If they throw it out, why waste it, you know?" he added.</p><p>- Don't waste a drop -</p><p>Success is far from guaranteed, and the county's health authority has not formally sanctioned giving leftover Covid vaccines to people who do not meet the current criteria.</p><p>"Officially there is no wait list, there is no queue, there is no standby," said Jerry Abraham, a doctor who oversees the Kedren center vaccination program for a non-profit nongovernmental organization.</p><p>But "once we open it, we have to use it all within six hours," he told AFP.</p><p>"There are times when the appointment line is down and we have expiring doses of vaccine. And I refuse to let a drop go to waste. Nothing.</p><p>"No vaccine will ever be discarded if it's given to us here at Kedren."</p><p>At times when doses risk going unused because patients have not arrived or the day is ending, quickly searching for candidates to receive them poses a difficult challenge -- making the informal standby lines a blessing.</p><p>Still, only one to three percent of those with appointments fail to show, and it can be "heartbreaking" to watch hopeful young people arriving at 2:00 am and leaving hours later without a shot, Abraham said.</p><p>"I can't guarantee them anything."</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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‘Complete crap’: CNN’s Tapper fact-checks Oregon Republican Party claim of ‘false flag’ Capitol attack
January 26, 2021
CNN host Jake Tapper called out the Oregon Republican Party after their vote last week to declare the Capitol insurrection a "false flag" event.
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cffcfdc6f091bdfec3e977095b7f12f4" id="b39c0"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1353828537506082816"><div style="margin:1em 0">So the Oregon Republican Party's official account has publicized these resolutions that, among other batshittery, c… https://t.co/F5lCAtXYK3</div> — Kevin Gannon misses Grogu (@Kevin Gannon misses Grogu)<a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/statuses/1353828537506082816">1611612850.0</a></blockquote></div><p>"It comes from a resolution passed by the Republican Party officials in Oregon, the official state party in Oregon. I'm quoting here, and this is a lie, what I'm about to read to you, but this is what they say, quote, 'there is growing evidence,' there isn't, 'that the violence at the Capitol was a false flag operation designed to discredit Trump and his supporters and all conservative Republicans," Tapper read. "Again, that's complete crap. 'This provided the sham motivation,' not true, 'to impeach President Trump in order to advance Democratic goal of seizing total power,' unquote, and, again, all of it a lie."</p><p>CNN's Michael Warren noted that this is a growing movement among Republicans and Republican Parties, referring to it as the "Trumpification" of the GOP. </p><p>Tapper noted that the Hawaii GOP recently issued an apology after it realized it had been retweeting a Holocaust denier. Alex Jones, one of President Donald Trump's friends and early supporters, was prosecuted for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook shooting being a lie. </p><p>"It's really notable, you know, Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Senate, but he is clearly following where the majority of his party is," said Abby Phillip. "He's not taking a leadership position even though based on our reporting he knows what happened on January 6th was something that was beyond the pale."</p><p>Tapper said that this fact-free world and embracing of conspiracy theories has become part of the GOP under Trump and RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel. </p><p>"The false flag allegation is totally, totally obscene, and it's hard to believe that serious people would even make an allegation like that when we all saw the Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol," said long-time newsman Wolf Blitzer. "Very, very ugly."</p><p> See the exchange below: </p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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