ICE’s refusal to free immigrants amid pandemic added nearly 250,000 cases nationally, report says
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Ceremonial dagger of Ahmose I
The inscription ends in very fine decorative motifs: on one side a lion pursues a calf in a rocky landscape, followed by a row of four grasshoppers and the head of an animal. The other side shows a floral design crowned with a jackal’s head. This decoration in gold thread, like the hieroglyphs, is backed by a band of black enamel.
Made of gold, electrum, copper alloy and semi-precious stones. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Ahmose I, ca. 1550-1524 BC. From the Tomb of Queen Ahhotep, Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, West Thebes.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 4666
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After seditious suit loses in Supreme Court, Texas Republicans decide to try rebellion -
On Friday evening, the Supreme Court surprised court watchers by hurrying out an evening rejection of the ludicrous case brought by Texas against four other states—states that happened to be won by Joe Biden. Those misinterpreting it as a 7-2 vote failed to read the fine print, because even those two conservative justices—whose judicial theory is that all state vs. state cases should be heard—didn’t buy into the content of this suit. Texas’ effort was a absolute loser, and so are all the attorney generals and House Republicans who added their name to this flaming pile of sedition.
The failure of the suit has generated thousands of very satisfying breakdowns on the right. After all, this are people who put their faith in Rudy Giuliani’s team, only to see that go over as well as the luxury suite at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Then they latched on to Sidney Powell’s “kraken” only to see it get “calamari’d” in court, over and over again. Trump’s efforts to recruit Pennsylvania legislators into simply ignoring the vote there also failed. So did multiple efforts to get Georgia officials to toss out the votes and just hand the state to Trump.
On Friday morning, Republicans were passing around memes in which a laser-eyed Amy Coney Barrett burned down the election. On Friday evening, Texas Republicans are ready to leave. Just leave.
The Texas GOP’s statement is … very special. It appears that they love the Constitution just so much, that the only way to save it is by completely destroying it.
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution.”What they did there, by both adopting and corrupting the word “union,” may be cute. But the entire statement only underlines that this whole episode was an attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States. And no, rebellion does not make sedition less of a crime. …
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Muslim men said the FBI put them on no-fly list for retribution, SCOTUS grants them the right to sue -
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Several dozen members of Michigan’s state legislature tested positive after Rudy Giuliani visit -
Despite the surge in COVID-19 cases across the United States, Donald Trump and his minions seem not to care how many more people are infected. In the latest of Trump infections, Trump’s sidekick and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Dec. 6. While allies of Giuliani maintain he tested negative days before meeting state officials in not one but three states last week, some states have reported infections within days after Giuliani’s visit.
Nearly 30 staff members and lawmakers at the Michigan House tested positive for COVID-19 this year alone, a spokesperson told NBC News Wednesday. While the timing of the infections is not clear, the report comes just four days after Giuliani, who testified in the state House maskless, tested positive.
Of the 30 individuals who tested positive, about eight are representatives and 21 are staffers, Gideon D'Assandro, communications director and press secretary for Michigan’s House speaker, told NBC News. Giuliani had visited the Republican-held House Oversight Committee regarding Trump’s failed attempt at claiming he won Michigan. As a result of an employee complaint of “possible workplace violations” because of a lack of masks and social distancing, an investigation has been opened in the House, according to NBC News affiliate WDIV. While the hearing was limited to 50 people, Giuliani was also reported to not be the only one without a mask. Some lawmakers not only lacked masks but sat close to the Trump attorney.
According to the Detroit News, Giuliani even encouraged some individuals wear masks to remove them. “Would you be comfortable taking your mask off so people can hear you more clearly?” Giuliani reportedly asked Jessy Jacob, a city of Detroit employee who helped with the election. The revelation of Giuliani’s test results not only garnered criticism of how Michigan’s House has been handling the virus, but of how many individuals had been tested for the virus prior to the meeting.
On Sunday, Michigan Rep. Darrin Camilleri of Brownstown Township tweeted that it was “time to get tested.”
“Not only was the Rudy show dangerous to our democracy, but it also was a threat to our health,” Camilleri said. “We knew it was a bad idea, but my Republican colleagues in the state Legislature pushed on anyway — endangering all of us in that hearing room and the Capitol.” …
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