Peter Nicholas / Atlantic:
Biden doesn’t speak for a reason
Yes, he wants to avoid gaffing, but he also doesn’t want to be a direct president.
What is overlooked is that Biden and his team are also making a strategic bet. Limiting his contact with the press, and therefore the public, isn’t just a defensive ploy to avoid an embarrassing gaffe. It’s a conscious calculation that people don’t have to or want to hear from the president for hours and hours if he can revive the economy and end the pandemic. After all, Americans only had one president, who stepped into their lives and refused to leave, who picked up the megaphone and didn’t let go. Biden has no desire to revive Donald Trump’s presidency.
“People don’t break the door and say, ‘Why isn’t he in my living room every day? Why don’t I see this big face staring at me and somehow promoting itself? “Said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster. “People are happy to see Joe Biden when they see him. But they are happy not to see him every day. “
Michael A. Cohen / USA Today:
Bouldering: Senators have no excuse for inaction with guns. Tell them to save lives.
We have learned to live with avoidable gun violence for too long. Too many Americans have died in vain from this scourge. We need action, not despair.
It doesn’t have to be like that. With Congress and the White House controlled by a Democratic Party that fully supports arms control efforts, now is the time for the Senate to vote on gun laws that could actually save lives.
Background checks are not a panacea for stopping the daily gun violence carnage in America, which kills approximately 40,000 people annually. But as Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action gun security group for Gun Sense in America, told me, “Background checks are the most effective way to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people and ultimately reduce gun violence. They are the foundation of a holistic gun security system . “
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GOP “Border Crisis” BS is supposed to make you stupid about the complexity of this topic. The new role of Kamala Harris could help by shifting the focus no longer just to the border, but to the plight of migrants and solutions to the causes of migration: https: //t.co/420sXiA2me
– Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 24, 2021
Rich Thau / Bulwark:
This is what Trump-Biden voters think of the Republican Party
Spoiler: It’s not very nice.
I did not ask you to describe any particular person, but rather to “pretend that the attributes you associate with the Republican Party are summarized in one person”.
The responses from these Trump-Biden voters were interesting and could shed some light on how four years of Donald Trump’s impact on the party’s perception. The first group consisted of five independents and one Democrat. Your answers were:
- Stubborn
- Conservative
- Unreliable
- Selfish
- Greedy
- Ultra capitalist
- Narrow-minded
- Ultra religious
- Anti-immigrants
- Hypocritical
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🇺🇸 “I want to change the paradigm where we start with reward work, not just wealth.”
The most important finding of the first press conference in Biden is that he clearly sees himself as the transformation president
The adopted American rescue plan and the upcoming infrastructure bill speak in favor of it.
– Michael Knigge (@kniggem), March 25, 2021
Guardian:
Asian Americans saw the biggest surge in serious online hatred in 2020
According to surveys, Asian and Black Americans have seen sharp increases in harassment, while LGBTQ + respondents face the highest rate overall
A poll published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate speech organization founded in 1913, found that Asian Americans saw the largest single year-over-year increase in severe online hatred and harassment in 2020 compared to other groups. 17% reported having experienced sexual harassment, stalking, physical threat, swatting, doxing, or persistent harassment, compared with 11% the previous year.
The poll comes out as the Asian-American community grapples with an increase in violence in the real world, most recently with the killings of six Asian women Work at massage parlors in Georgia, and a 75-year-old Hong Kong man who died after being robbed and assaulted by a man police said had a history of Victims of elderly Asian people. Stop AAPI Hate, a group dedicated to prosecuting crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific islanders, documents 3,800 incidents related to hatred The target group are Asian Americans in 2020.
“Unsurprisingly, after a year in which national figures, including the President himself, have routinely scapegoated China and the Chinese for the spread of the coronavirus, Asian Americans have seen increased harassment both online and offline,” said Jonathan Greenblatt. CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
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64 of the current 100 members of the U.S. Senate were born when there were fewer than 50 states. There is nothing special about this number.
– Connor Ewing (@ConnorMEwing) March 23, 2021
Brookings:
How should local leaders use their American Rescue Plan funds?
For many cities and counties, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) state and local funding isn’t just a $ 350 billion lifeline. They are the biggest positive budget boost to their households in decades. A puzzle is now being conducted to determine how best to use the money. The decisions that will be made in the coming weeks – and next year in relation to the second tranche of funding – will determine whether cities will only receive a brief incentive or embark on a new path of inclusive economic growth.
There is a lot at stake. The money must flow quickly and be used intelligently and fairly. In 10 years we can look back on this time and ask: Which places have just spent their money and which places have invested it?
Based on our field work in Northeast Ohio and Birmingham, Ala., We believe that elected officials – and their surrounding networks of citizens, businesses, philanthropists, and community stakeholders – should take a tripartite approach to their ARP Financing: stabilize, strategize and organize.
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For all I know, the AZ vaccine is a good vaccine that my family would love to get
From what I know, AZ’s incompetence in communicating test results, working with regulators, etc. is staggering
We see that on the display
– Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) March 23, 2021
Daniel McGraw / The Bulwark:
Joe Biden has just fixed Obamacare’s “subsidy cliff”
The American rescue plan isn’t just about COVID relief. It also solves one of Obamacare’s lingering problems.
The subsidy cliff is why many middle-class Americans thought Obamacare was good for the less wealthy but left them out in the cold.
In the Affordable Care Act, which was originally passed, public subsidies for buying health services in the private market were not part of the plan for people who make up more than 400 percent of federal poverty. Translation: No Help For Individuals Earning $ 51,000 And Over; Couples earning $ 68,960 or more; or a family of four earning more than $ 104,800.
The American Rescue Plan caps any healthcare payment to 8.5 percent of income and makes the difference with a federal grant. This means a significant reduction in healthcare costs for middle-class Americans over the next two years. It will likely culminate when Biden pushes that policy to become a permanent fixture in 2023.
And daring Republicans to object.
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A common theme for Manchin, King and other filibuster skeptics: They keep sending the message to the GOP. Help us out of here. You have to give us something to show that 60-vote calculations are possible on important topics. Similar to Biden, they know how easy it is to play.
– Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 24, 2021
Paul Davidson / USA Today:
“I don’t want to be the one who gives it to people”: Many Americans will not eat out, fly, until COVID-19 herd immunity is achieved
A growing proportion of Americans would feel safe walking or flying again within weeks of their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but 25% to 30% would wait until, according to a Harris Poll the nation reaches herd immunity for USA TODAY.
Your attitudes bode well for a historically robust recovery from the coronavirus recession. However, the sizeable proportion of people who prefer to wait for at least 70% of the population to be immune could mean a less violent upswing as some activities shift to late summer and fall from the middle of the year.
There is no doubt that Americans, who have been largely confined to their homes for the past year, can’t wait to break loose.
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Net favorites:
Biden: + 18%
Harris: + 10%
Democrats in Congress: + 5%
Schumer: -8%
Pence: -12%
Pelosi: -13%
McCarthy: -17%
Trump: -19%
Republicans in Congress: -24%
Jinping: -33%
McConnell: -39%
Putin: -60%
Morning Consult / March 22 / n = 1994 / Onlinehttps: //t.co/ZjvmoDQauG
– USA poll (@USA_Polling) March 24, 2021
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“They should all have them in Egypt, and everyone brings their own rope, and they tie all the ropes to the side of the boat and everyone pulls it as tight as they can.” https://t.co/JHRpNhkLQ0
– Hiroko Tabuchi (@ HirokoTabuchi) March 25, 2021
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Fun Fact: The only time you see people wearing MAGA hats is FBI posters.
– Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) March 26, 2021
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