BeBop 😷

You are loved & valued...but you are not the center of the story. God is the center of the story - because our love & value come from Him. - Cory Lebovitz

[Jeff Zients Archived @WHCOS46Archive]

Today, two very different COVID milestones: 700,000 deaths in the pandemic -- and 200 million US adults have now gotten at least one shot. For months now, the overwhelming share of the deaths have been preventable.

[Austin FC @AustinFC]

Fought every minute. A well-deserved victory for the guys in #VERDE.

[BeBop 😷 @BeBop1953]

@ed4rail @jemelehill 700,000 Americans
1 in every 500 Americans

[Oliver Willis @owillis]

The Weimar Republic was plagued with legislative inaction while the Nazis gained support by promising to return Germany to mythical past glories and I’m gobsmacked at people who can’t see the parallels.

[BeBop 😷 @BeBop1953]

@MazMHussain @chrislhayes This could have been written in 1969, substituting ARVN. It is so disappointing that Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest learned nothing from Vietnam.

[. @swordsjew]

lets just call yall plague enthusiasts then

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

i keep repeating myself on this but the fact that this was a live possibility means we’re already in the danger zone and that a repeat is more likely than not

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Every single Republican Member of Congress voted against it.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Some horrifying poll numbers on the impact of the right-wing media’s election and Jan. 6 lies, via @ThePlumLineGS https://t.co/PBWJMMu0Mq

[Steve Benen @stevebenen]

The Senate Republicans' position in a nutshell:
1. Congress must raise the debt ceiling.
2. Democrats must do this on their own.
3. Republicans won't let Democrats do this on their own. https://t.co/YbP15Ba4kS

[. @GregTSargent]

Yes, and:

4. When Republicans filibuster, Republicans don't have any agency or responsibility for the end result.

5. When Republicans filibuster, the media must treat this as entirely a matter for Democrats to resolve.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

My Republican friends are attacking my plan — saying it’s “big spending.”

I have to laugh when I hear that one.

These are the same folks who passed the Trump tax cuts, almost $2 trillion, a giant giveaway to corporations and the top 1% — and almost none of it was paid for.

[BeBop 😷 @BeBop1953]

@TheOnion I wish this headline was a joke

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Montana covers more square miles than Germany.

There are 83 million people in Germany.

There are 1 million people in Montana.

1.7 million people applied for asylum in Germany between 2015 and 2019.

That's more than the entire population of Montana.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Turns out -- vaccines WORK.

Over 82% of eligible Californians have at least one dose. Now, we have the lowest case rate in the nation. https://t.co/WoCdLE88lR

[BeBop 😷 @BeBop1953]

Prof. Strunk would find nine unnecessary words in that sentence.

No Republican gets to claim fiscal responsibility ever again.

[Jess Phoenix, Lava Connoisseur 🌋 @jessphoenix2018]

No California Republican who participated in making the recall election happen gets to claim fiscal responsibility ever again.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

As a nurse I’ve seen patients literally die because they couldn’t afford their prescription medications.

We pay an average of THREE TIMES more for the same exact medication in other countries.

How can someone put Big Pharma’s profits over saving lives?

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

Republican Covid policy has been to to take every step they can at every stage to ensure its spread.

It’s a genocidal strategy.

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

Literally everything Iran is doing right now—enrichment to 60%, assembling 10x the stockpile of enrichment, installing/using faster centrifuges, limiting IAEA access—wouldn’t be happening if the U.S. remained a party to the nuclear deal you think is horrible.

[Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt]

Lose a friendship. Lose an employee. Lose some popularity.

Life will have losses. But be willing to lose a lot of things before being willing to lose lives that we don’t have to lose. /end