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<\/p>\nYesterday, I discovered that Bob Woodward’s new book, “Peril” (co-written with Robert Costa), is so packed with bombshells that I’m not going to be able to cover it properly. And it’s not even out until next week. I’m sure to be making allusions to it from time to time, though. Especially in the video thread.\u00a0 But the high point of the day was seeing a dear friend who picks up for me the one prescription I can’t get delivered.\u00a0 Thanks to the pandemic, including now Delta, that’s the only way I get to see her.<\/p>\n
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HuffPost – QAnon Followers Threaten Hospital After Outspoken COVID Denier Dies Of COVID<\/a> Crooks and Liars – Alabama Man Dies After 43 Hospitals With Full ICUs Turned Him Away<\/a> The Hill – Trump’s 2020 gains in rural America offset by Biden’s urban dominance<\/a> Food for Thought – Also, for those observing Yo Kippur, may the fast be easy and the day blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, I discovered that Bob Woodward’s new book, “Peril” (co-written with Robert Costa), is so packed with bombshells that I’m not going to be able to cover it properly. And it’s not even out until next week. I’m sure to be making allusions to it from time to time, though. Especially in the video thread.\u00a0 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[4553,3704,3913,3751,3924,4115],"class_list":["post-45178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-murder","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Lin Wood \u2014 a far-right attorney Twitter permanently banned earlier this year after he predicted the execution of then-Vice President Mike Pence by firing squad \u2014 seized upon [Veronica] Wolski\u2019s<\/a> hospitalization to boost his own publicity. He used social media to urge his followers to contact staff at the hospital and demand Wolski be treated with ivermectin. Hundreds of people have since called and emailed the hospital, according to NBC Chicago. Some have threatened violence. In a post on Telegram after Wolski\u2019s death, Wood told his followers they had a \u201cresponsibility\u201d to stop \u201cmedical murders\u201d and to \u201cgo to war.\u201d Hospital staff reportedly called the police in response to bomb threats.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. Sigh. “The party of personal responsibility” strikes again.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – A reminder, if one were even needed at this point, that with all these COVID patients in ICU beds across the country resources are stretched to their limit. In Alabama things are especially dire, as they no longer have any ICU beds. When Ray DeMonia suffered his cardiac event they searched in vain for an ICU bed for him, finally finding one in Mississippi. But it was too late.
\nClick through for story<\/a>. It’s a little cooloer as I type this, but it’s not cold enough for me to be cool with my blood boiling.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – \u201cWe\u2019re becoming more diverse, we\u2019re becoming more urban, and most of that is happening outside of places Trump won,\u201d said William Frey, a senior demographer at the Brookings Institution. \u201cEven though Trump did better than he did in 2016 in some of those bigger places, the groups he was getting are shrinking parts of those populations.\u201d
\nClick through for more.<\/a> I would point out, first, that this data is based on the last election, and secondly, that if we don’t have voting laws in place nationwide that provide for actual majority rule, it doesn’t much matter.<\/p>\n
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