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reasoningdaily · 2 years ago

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Why in the world would Egypt need to bribe a U.S. senator?

Taking bribes in exchange for aiding Egypt is one of the allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who was indicted Friday along with his wife and others.

Federal prosecutors allege Menendez repeatedly sought to help Egypt get around restrictions on aid imposed by Congress because of the country’s human rights record. Those actions included ghost-writing a letter to other senators asking them to lift a hold on $300 million destined for Egypt. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, have denied wrongdoing.

But why would Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally, need Menendez’s help in the first place?

To understand, it helps to know a little history.

For years, Egypt was the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid, behind Israel.

This was in part reward for Egypt’s willingness to recognize Israel (almost unique in the Middle East) and cooperate with security involving the Gaza Strip, a stretch of often-volatile Palestinian land along the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt and Israel.

During the three-decade rule of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the relationship puttered along more or less stably, despite widespread reports of corruption and election-rigging but often with Egypt stepping up to provide valuable security in conflicts in the region.

That changed during the Arab Spring, when in 2011 nearly three weeks of demonstrations forced Mubarak from power. He was eventually tried on charges related to the killing of demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an iconic center in the quest for democracy.

Mubarak was replaced, briefly, by a Muslim Brotherhood presidency, but Abdel Fattah Sisi came to power after a military coup in 2013, and he remains president today.

Egypt has displayed scant regard for human rights ever since, activists say. “Thuggish behavior [by government agents] has been the norm” under Sisi, targeting journalists, political opponents and human rights activists, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a recent report.

Sisi, who met with President Biden last year on the margins of a climate summit in Egypt, and who has met on a couple of occasions with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, has largely turned a deaf ear to private U.S. entreaties for release of prisoners and other human rights considerations, officials say.

Over time, that human rights record has eroded congressional support for unfettered aid to Egypt — a shift prosecutors allege Menendez was working to stop.

Earlier this month, a group of senators led by Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.) applauded a separate decision by the Biden administration to withhold $85 million in military aid for Egypt and called for restricting an additional $235 million in security aid, saying Sisi had failed to make progress on human rights.

“Egypt has released more than 1,600 political prisoners since early 2022. That’s good news,” Murphy said at the time. “During that same time, they have jailed 5,000 more. So for every political prisoner that Egypt releases, three more are jailed. That’s one step forward, and three steps back. That’s not the kind of ‘clear and consistent progress’ in releasing political prisoners that the [U.S.] law requires.”

In a long and often impassioned speech, Murphy went on to answer those in Congress who argue that Egypt would end its security cooperation — including counter-terrorism efforts in the Sinai desert — if the aid is cut, saying that has not happened yet. Murphy noted that past administrations from both parties, under Presidents Obama and Trump, had ignored the need to restrict aid to Egypt but said that “now the Biden administration must hold the line.”

Biden ultimately released the $235 million in security aid, disappointing Murphy, who called it a “missed opportunity to show the world that our commitment to advancing human rights and democracy is more than a talking point.” As of Friday evening, Murphy had not yet released a statement on his Democratic colleague’s indictment.

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tabloidtoc · 4 years ago

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National Examiner, January 11

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Cover: Why JFK destroyed the Rat Pack

Page 2: The Sky Was Their Limit -- beloved celebs who lost their lives in air crashes -- Patsy Cline, Otis Redding, Rocky Marciano, Kobe Bryant, John Denver, Carole Lombard

Page 3: Ricky Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Glenn Miller, Will Rogers, Audie Murphy, Buddy Holly, Lt. Thomas E. Selfride

Page 4: Cher and her fashion in her movies

Page 6: Albert Bouria the CEO of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Pfizer says he hasn’t taken his company’s shot yet because he doesn’t want people to think he can jump the line

Page 7: The kids of The Waltons are all grown up and share some fond memories -- Michael Learned (Olivia), Richard Thomas (John-Boy), Kami Cotler (Elizabeth), David W. Harper (Jim-Bob), Mary Elizabeth McDonough (Erin), Judy Norton (Mary Ellen), Eric Scott (Ben)

Page 8: Avoid these common laundry mistakes

Page 9: Michael J. Fox: How I survived the darkest days -- Parkinson’s has not destroyed his hope and faith

Page 10: For the second year in a row Florida businessman Michael Esmond has paid the utility bills of families at risk of having them turned off

Page 11: Your Health -- watch for unhealthy buildup of anxiety

* Pantry/Fridge/Countertop -- where to store your food

Page 12: What do you get for a monarch like Queen Elizabeth who has everything including the crown jewels? Why, gag gifts, of course

Page 14: Dear Tony -- past lives you’ve both led have led to the Blame Game, Tony predicts many women worldwide will wear white this winter and he predicts there will be a lot more road rage

Page 15: For more than 15 years Carrie Fisher and her mom Debbie Reynolds lived next door to each other in Beverly Hills -- now Carrie’s only child Billie Lourd is combining the two homes into an estate where she’ll live with fiance Austen Rydell and their newborn son Kingston

Page 16: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John grew close while co-starring in the hit 1978 musical Grease and that bond has supported them through thick and thin for four decades

Page 18: An Ohio man who lost his high school ring while washing his car in 1967 was reunited with it thanks to a good-hearted guy with a metal detector

Page 19: A whole community in upstate New York had been looking for a lost dog for ten days when a man with a drone stepped in and saved the day

Page 20: Cover Story -- John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra, along with the legendary Rat Pack, were the best of friends until JFK was elected president and then he and his powerful clan crushed them -- in early 1960 then-Sen. Kennedy was running for president and associating with the Rat Pack which consisted of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. made him look cool and it also helped fund his campaign -- JFK won the presidency and a thrilled Sinatra built an elaborate communications system and a helipad at his Palm Springs home in expectation of a visit but after the election Sinatra found himself outside the inner circle because Jackie Kennedy despised the singer and didn’t want him anywhere near the White House and Sinatra flaunted his friendships with crime bosses and JFK’s brother Robert Kennedy was the attorney general

Page 22: It’s been a little over a year since Felicity Huffman was released from prison after serving time for her role in the college admissions scandal but she’s starting to get her life and career back on track -- initially Felicity was nervous about working again given the controversy and everything that went down but she shouldn’t have worried so much -- she has landed a part in an upcoming pilot in which she’ll play a widowed owner of a Triple-A baseball team -- Hollywood has a short memory and people have been very forgiving towards her

Page 24: A church in Iowa bought and forgave a staggering $5 million in medical debt for people across the state

Page 25: Myths about digestion revealed

Page 26: 100 ways to 100 years -- you can live longer by following these simple suggestions

Page 32: Star Dreams -- what celebs wanted to be when they grew up -- Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Reese Witherspoon, James Earl Jones, Matthew McConaughey, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tony Danza, Goldie Hawn

Page 35: Winter Beauty Tips -- stay soft and smooth during the cold months

Page 40: Happy birthday to legendary singer Dionne Warwick who turned 80 years old on December 12 and couldn’t be happier

Page 42: Tony’s Mystic World -- the power of people

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Jerry O’Connell with his dog outside his home in L.A. (picture), Gordon Ramsay (picture), when model Lauren Hutton was first starting out she was told to fix her teeth so instead she used a type of wax called mortician’s wax and stuck it between her two front teeth, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin engaged, two days after the birth of his son Luca Patrick singer Robin Thicke paid tribute to his late dad Alan Thicke, production on Ted Danson’s latest Tinseltown project Mr. Mayor has been disrupted by COVID-19

Page 45: Chrissy Metz singing on the Hallmark Channel (picture), Christopher Walken says he’s never owned a computer or a mobile phone, country icons sing praises of Charley Pride

Page 46: A man in Maine met his biological dad for the first time at 43 years old and decided to recreate the scene from Elf

Page 47: Collect Them All -- weird wonderful passions of the stars -- Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Janet Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Hanks, Claudia Schiffer, Demi Moore

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floorcharts · 6 years ago

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Who: Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-Connecticut)

Twitter: @ChrisMurphyCT

When: May 2019

What: Iraq

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dannyreviews · 6 years ago

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In Memoriam 2018

Happy New Year everyone. It’s time to remember the well known icons of entertainment that we lost in 2018.

Ray Thomas - musician (The Moody Blues) (1941 - 1/4/2018)

Jerry Van Dyke - actor (1931 - 1/5/2018)

France Gall - singer (1947- 1/7/2018)

Donnelly Rhodes - actor (1937 - 1/8/2018)

Terence Marsh - production designer (1931 - 1/9/2018)

Eddie Clarke - musician (Motorhead) (1950 - 1/10/2018)

Jean Porter - actress (1922 - 1/13/2018)

Edwin Hawkins - gospel singer (1943 - 1/15/2018)

Dolores O’Riordan - singer, musician (The Cranberries) (1971 - 1/15/2018)

Bradford Dillman - actor (1930 - 1/16/2018)

Dorothy Malone - actress (1924 - 1/19/2018)

Jim Rodford - musician (The Zombies, The Kinks, Argent) (1945 - 1/20/2018)

Connie Sawyer - actress (1912 - 1/21/2018)

Hugh Masekela - musician (1939 - 1/23/2018)

Dennis Edwards - singer (The Temptations) (1943 - 2/1/2018)

John Mahoney - actor (1940 - 2/4/2018)

Kenneth Haigh - actor (1929 - 2/4/2018)

Reg E. Cathy - actor (1958 - 2/9/2018)

John Gavin - actor (1931 - 2/9/2018)

Jóhann Jóhannsson - film composer (1969 - 2/9/2018)

Vic Damone - singer, actor (1928 - 2/11/2018)

Jan Maxwell - actress (1956 - 2/11/2018)

Idrissa Ouédraogo - director (1954 - 2/18/2018)

Nanette Fabray - singer, actress (1920 - 2/21/2018)

Lewis Gilbert - director (1920 - 2/23/2018)

Bud Luckey - animator, director, actor (1934 - 2/24/2018)

David Ogden Stiers - actor (1942 - 3/3/2018)

Hubert de Givenchy - fashion designer (1927 - 3/9/2018)

Ken Dodd - actor, comedian, singer (1927 - 3/11/2018)

Stephen Hawking - scientist, personality (1942 - 3/14/2018)

Delores Taylor - actress (1932 - 3/23/2018)

Stéphane Audran - actress (1932 - 3/27/2018)

Steven Bochco - producer (1943 - 4/1/2018)

Susan Anspach - actress (1942 - 4/2/2018)

Isao Takahata - director, animator, screenwriter, producer (1936 - 4/5/2018)

Chuck McCann - actor, comedian (1934 - 4/8/2018)

Milos Forman - director (1932 - 4/13/2018)

R. Lee Ermey - actor (1944 - 4/15/2018)

Harry Anderson - actor, magician (1952 - 4/16/2018)

Verne Troyer - actor (1969 - 4/21/2018)

Michael Anderson - director (1920 - 4/25/2018)

Charles Neville - musician (The Neville Brothers) (1938 - 4/26/2018)

Lester James Peries - director (1919 - 4/29/2018)

Robert Mandan - actor (1932 - 4/29/2018)

Ermanno Olmi - director (1931 - 5/5/2018)

Anne V. Coates - editor (1925 - 5/8/2018)

Margot Kidder - actress (1948 - 5/13/2018)

Tom Wolfe - author, journalist, personality (1930 - 5/14/2018)

Joseph Campanella - actor (1924 - 5/16/2018)

Patricia Morison - actress (1915 - 5/20/2018)

Clint Walker - actor (1927 - 5/21/2018)

Philip Roth - author (1933 - 5/22/2018)

Jerry Maren - actor (1920 - 5/24/2018)

Kate Spade - fashion designer (1962 - 6/5/2018)

Anthony Bourdain - chef, personality (1956 - 6/8/2018)

Eunice Gayson - actress (1928 - 6/8/2018)

Danny Kirwan - musician (Fleetwood Mac) (1950 - 6/8/2018)

Jon Hiseman - musician (Colosseum, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers) (1944 - 6/12/2018)

Matt “Guitar” Murphy - musician (The Blues Brothers) (1929 - 6/15/2018)

XXXTentacion - rapper (1998 - 6/18/2018)

Vinnie Paul - musician (Pantera, Damageplan) (1964 - 6/22/2018)

Harlan Ellison - author (1934 - 6/28/2018)

Steve Ditko - comic book writer/artist (1927 - 6/29/2018)

Gillian Lynne - dancer, choreographer (1926 - 7/1/2018)

Robby Muller - cinematographer (1940 - 7/4/2018)

Claude Lanzmann - director (1925 - 7/5/2018)

Tab Hunter - actor, singer (1931 - 7/8/2018)

Roger Perry - actor (1933 - 7/12/2018)

Yvonne Blake - costume designer (1940 - 7/17/2018)

Mary Carlisle - actress (1914 - 8/1/2018)

Winston Ntshona - playwright, actor (1941 - 8/2/2018)

Moshe Mizrahi - director (1931 - 8/3/2018)

Charlotte Rae - actress (1926 - 8/5/2018)

Aretha Franklin - singer (1942 - 8/16/2018)

Brian Murray - actor (1937 - 8/20/2018)

Barbara Harris - actress (1935 - 8/21/2018)

Robin Leach - personality (1941 - 8/24/2018)

Neil Simon - playwright, screenwriter (1927 - 8/26/2018)

Paul Taylor - dancer, choreographer (1930 - 8/29/2018)

Carole Shelley - actress (1939 - 8/31/2018)

Jacqueline Pearce - actress (1943 - 9/3/2018)

Bill Daily - actor (1927 - 9/4/2018)

Christopher Lawford - actor (1955 - 9/4/2018)

Liz Fraser - actress (1930 - 9/6/2018)

Burt Reynolds - actor (1936 - 9/6/2018)

Mac Miller - rapper (1992 - 9/6/2018)

Peter Donat - actor (1928 - 9/10/2018)

Fenella Fielding - actress (1927 - 9/11/2018)

Marin Mazzie - actress, singer (1960 - 9/13/2018)

Dudley Sutton - actor (1933 - 9/15/2018)

Arthur Mitchell - dancer, choreographer (1934 - 9/19/2018)

Denis Norden - comedy writer (1922 - 9/19/2018)

Al Matthews - actor (1942 - 9/22/2018)

Otis Rush - musician (1934 - 9/29/2018)

Charles Aznavour - singer, actor (1924 - 10/1/2018)

Geoff Emerick - recording engineer (1945 - 10/2/2018)

Will Vinton - animator (1947 - 10/4/2018)

Audrey Wells - screenwriter, director, producer (1960 - 10/4/2018)

Montserrat Caballe - opera singer (1933 - 10/6/2018)

Scott Wilson - actor (1942 - 10/6/2018)

Peggy McCay - actress (1927 - 10/7/2018)

Arnold Kopelson - producer (1935 - 10/8/2018)

James Karen - actor (1923 - 10/23/2018)

Ntozake Shange - playwright, poet (1948 - 10/27/2018)

Raymond Chow - producer (1927 - 10/2/2018)

Roy Hargrove - musician (1969 - 11/2/2018)

Sondra Locke - actress (1944 - 11/3/2018)

Francis Lai - film composer (1932 - 11/7/2018)

Douglas Rain - actor (1928 - 11/11/2018)

Stan Lee - comic book writer, editor, actor (1922 - 11/12/2018)

Katherine MacGregor - actress (1925 - 11/13/2018)

John Bluthal - actor (1929 - 11/15/2018)

Roy Clark - country singer (1933 - 11/15/2018)

William Goldman - novelist, playwright, screenwriter (1931 - 11/16/2018)

Bernardo Bertolucci - director, screenwriter (1941 - 11/26/2018)

Stephen Hillenburg - cartoonist, animator (1961 - 11/26/2018)

Ken Berry - actor (1933 - 12/1/2018)

Philip Bosco - actor (1930 - 12/3/2018)

Pete Shelley - singer (Buzzcocks) (1955 - 12/6/2018)

Nancy Wilson - singer (1937 - 12/13/2018)

Penny Marshall - actress, director (1943 - 12/17/2018)

Donald Moffat - actor (1930 - 12/20/2018)

Amos Oz - novelist (1939 - 12/28/2018)

June Whitfield - actress (1925 - 12/28/2018)

Ringo Lam - director (1955 - 12/29/2018)

Don Lusk - animator (1913 - 12/30/2018)

Mrinal Sen - director (1923 - 12/30/2018)

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uneminuteparseconde · 7 years ago

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Des concerts à Paris et alentour

Novembre 07. Low Jack + Sidney – Bigwax records (gratuit) 07. M.A. Beat! + Domotic – Olympic café 08. Half Asleep + Delphine Dora – Médiathèque musicale (gratuit) 08. Cold Cave + Choir Boy – Petit Bain 08. Jealous + The Absolute Never + Drone à clochettes – Alimentari 08. Dominique A – Maison de la Poésie 09. Le Syndicat faction vivante – Paris anim' Marc-Sangier, Vercingétorix & Didot (gratuit) 09. Sonotanotanpenz + Le Ton mité – Le Chair de poule 09. Words & Action – Le Klub 09. Rendez-Vous + Prurient + Silent Servant + Poison Point + Crave + Low Jack b2b Moyo + Clara 3000 & Coni – La Machine 09. Regis + Vatican Shadow + Samuel Kerridge + December – Rex Club 09. AZF + Randomer + Identified Patient + Zuli + Benoua b2b Legitime – Concrete 09. The Hacker – Badaboum 09. Porest Group + Senyawa – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 09. Kikagaku Moyo + Frédéric D. Oberland – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 10. Missing Waves – Paris anim' Nouvelle Athènes (gratuit) 10. Kink Gong + Baba Commandant & The Mandigo Band – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 11. Bo Ningen + Cassels – Point FMR 11. Brothers Unconnected (Alan & Richard Bishop) + Robert Millis & Jesse Paul Miller – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 13. Hot Snakes – Point FMR 13. MellaNoisEscape + Puts Mary – Petit Bain 13. Sophie Agnel, Joke Lanz & Michael Vatcher – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 14. Cocaine Piss + We Hate You Please Die + New Favourite – Supersonic (gratuit) 14. Peter Murphy & David J jouent "In the Flat Fields" – Bataclan 14. Jerusalem In My Heart + Good Luck In Death + Florian Abou Yehia – Petit Bain 14. Tout de suite + Mr Marcaille + Le Crabe – L'International 14. Charalambides + Bridget Hayden + Jon Collin, Nina Garcia & Augustin Bette – Les Nautes 14. Blind Delon + BLNDR + IV Horsemen + Paulie Jan + DJ Varsovie + Panzer – Rex Club 15. Father Murphy + Le Jour du seigneur & Kaïto Winsé + Arnaud Rivière – Les Nautes 15. Babil Sabir 2 + L'Ocelle Mare – Le cirque électrique 15. Méryll Ampe + Emmanuelle Bouyer + Anne Flore Cabanis + Matthieu Crimersmois + Frédéric Mathevet + Colin Roche + Anton Mobin... (Extended Score #2) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 15/16. Mario Batkovic – Centre culturel suisse 16. Frigs + Plomb + Cave Story – Supersonic (gratuit) 16. Jasss + Nkisi + Bonaventure (Biennale Némo) – La Gaîté lyrique 16. Ellah A. Thaun + Love Coffin + Bryan's Magic Tears – La Station 16. Tapeworms + Carpet Burns + Casio judiciaire – La Pointe Lafayette 16. Noir Boy George + Officine + Foune Curry – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 16. Parquet Courts – Elysées Montmartre ||COMPLET|| 17. Moriarty – Librairie L'Atelier (gratuit) 17. The Damned – Elysées Montmartre 17. Jung An Tagen + Matthias Puech + Meryll Ampe & Konpyuta – 100ECS 17. Eomac + Defekt + Aktion mutante (Unhuman & Violet Poison) + ANFS + Polly F – entrepôt en banlieue 18. Ensemble Links : « Drumming » de Steve Reich – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 19. U.S. Girl – Nouveau Casino 19. Samara Lubelski + Metabolismus + Gloria Navales – tbc 20. King Champion Sound + Pierre & Bastien + Rose Mercie – Le Klub 20. Duck Duck Grey Duck + Billie Bird – Centre culturel suisse 21. The Breeders – Le Trianon 21. Lydia Lunch & Ian White – La Station 21. Ekafaune + Badbad + Baba Yage – Le cirque électrique 22. Société étrange + Pyjamarama – Le Zorba 22. Scout Niblett + Miles Oliver – Petit Bain 22. Cookies + Trotsky nautique + Guns'n'Ganseblumchen – La Pointe Lafayette 22. Les Filles de Illighadad + Zenobia – NF-34 22. Tomoko Sauvage + Jacques Demierre & Axel Dörner + Frantz Loriot + Anna Frei & Franziska Koch (Textures fest.) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 22. Serge Teyssot-Gay, Christian Vialard & Éric Arlix : Hypogé – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 23. Michael Nyman : "War Work: 8 Songs with Film" – Salle Pleyel 23. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 23. Kollaps + Trepaneringsritualen + Verset Zero – Gibus 23. Le Mystère des voix bulgares – église Saint-Eustache 23. Les Morphogénistes + Asié Usu + Annabelle Playe (fest. Vision'R) – Les 100 ECS 23. Saravah revisité (Areski, The Recyclers, Arlt, Bojan Flames...) + Hyperculte + Waltraud Blischke (dj) (BBmix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 23. Yasmine El-Baramawy + Dennis Tyfus + Les Sirènes (Francisco Meirino, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Saladin & Juliette Vocler) + Denis Rollet (Textures fest.) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 23. Tommy Four Seven + AnD + Stephanie Sykes + VSK – Concrete 23. Steve Rachmad + Scan X + Matteo WNB – Rex Club 23>25. Anne-James Chaton & Manuel Coursin : "L'Affaire La Pérouse" – La Pop 24. Geometric Vision + Solveig Matthildur – Supersonic (gratuit) 24. Seefeel joue "Quique" + Insides – Petit Bain 24. O'Death Jug – Le Bal 24. Smode + Marti Guillem + Maries Laveau + The Shaders + Stéphane Privat + Sune Petersen (fest. Vision'R) – Les 100 ECS 24. Endless Boogie + Pan American + Facs + Von Limb + Waltraud Blischke (dj) (BBmix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 24. Frustration + Twin Arrows – Rack'am (Brétigny/Orge) 24. Trentmøller (dj) – NF34 24. Arnaud Rebotini + Vernacular Orchestra + Soul Edifice – Rex Club 24. ABSL + Cem + Elad Magdasi + Mind/Matter + Moth + Nico Moreno + Paramod + Parfait + Raär + Sentimental Rave – tba 25. Satan + Kill + Necrodancer – Espace B 25. Lene Lovich Band + Morgan King – Supersonic 25. Evan Crankshaw & The Dead Mauriacs + The Mauskovic Dance Band + Waltraud Blischke (dj) (BBmix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 27. Mudhoney – Trabendo 27. Etienne Jaumet – New Morning 27. Elizabeth Devlin – La Tête de chou 28. Anne-James Chaton – Auditorium|Cité de l'architecture (gratuit) 28. Adult. – Petit Bain 28. Borja Fames + Eloïse Decazes + Èlg – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 28. Ensemble IRE joue "Nexus Entropy" d'Ulrich Krieger + Marc Baron + Lionel Marchetti (fest. Bruits blancs) – Anis gras (Arcueil) 29. SK/LR – Chair de poule (gratuit) 29. Esben & The Witch – Point FMR 29. CHDH + Mariachi + Lårs Akerlund & Sten Backman (fest. Bruits blancs) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 29. Rakta + Marée noire + Trashley – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 29. Interpol + Nilüfer Yanya – Salle Pleyel ||COMPLET|| 30. Mick Harvey – Petit Bain 30. Artus + Fleuves noirs + Hex – Le cirque électrique 30. Spit Mask + Poison Point + Lunacy + Some Ember + Offermose + Kaukolampi – La Station 30. Deeat Palace + Tamara Goukassova + Tryphème – L'International 30. Machine sauvage + Léon Denise (fest. Vision'R & Cookie Demoparty) – Folie numérique N5|Parc de La Villette 30. John Chatler + Samuel Sighicelli + Shapednoise (fest. Bruits blancs) – Anis gras (Arcueil)

Décembre 01. NAO (fest. Vision'R & Cookie Demoparty) – Folie numérique N5|Parc de La Villette 01. Nadia Ratsimandresy + Bruno Chevillon + Uriel Barthélémi + Marc Sens + Annabelle Playe (fest. Bruits blancs) – Anis gras (Arcueil) 01. Deux boules vanille + Jeff Mills + Molécule + Renart + Nicolas Horvath joue P. Glass, T. Riley et J. Adams + Ensemble Links : "Music for 18 Musicians" de S. Reich (fest. Marathon!) – La Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 02. Beak> + Le Comte – Café de la danse ||COMPLET|| 03. Idles + John – Bataclan 03. Pardans – Olympic café 05. Julia Holter – Petit Bain 05. Sudden Infant + Massicot – Centre culturel suisse 06. La Tène avec Jacques Puech, Louis Jacques, Guilhem Lacroux & Jérémie Sauvage – Centre culturel suisse 06. The KVB + M!R!M – Badaboum 07. Kink Gong – Médiathèque musicale (gratuit) 07. Antoine Chessex + Nina Garcia + Francisco Meirino – Centre culturel suisse 07. Heimat + Bordigaga + Bruno Billaudeau, Xavier Mussat & Black Sifichi (Semaine du bizarre) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 07. Nosfell – Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen) 07. Aubadja + chdh (fest. Vision'R) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 07. Shxcxchcxsh + W.LV.S + Wlderz – Rex Club 08. Père Ubu (Semaine du bizarre) – Théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 08. The Horrorist + Federico Amoroso – L'Officine 08. Jean Benoît Dunckel + NSDOS + CloZee + Kiddy Smile (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 08. Blawan + The Advent + AWB + Yogg & Pharaon + Netsh – Concrete 09. Panteros666 + Matt Black + Erol Alkan + Kiasmos (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 09. The Fleshtones – Supersonic 09/10. Moriarty – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 12. Nova Materia – La Maroquinerie 12. Le Réveil des tropiques + France + Helio Polar Thing – Petit Bain 13. The Callas + Selofan + Hørd (fest. Magnétique Nord) – La Station 14. New Model Army – Trabendo 14. Carol Robinson, Bertrand Gauguet, Julia Eckhardt & Yannick Guedon : "Sequel to Occam Ocean" (2018) d’Éliane Radigue – Palais de Tokyo 14. Sida + Broken English Club + Toresch + Moderna + Wr2old + Shazzula (fest. Magnétique Nord) – La Station 14. Hangman's Chair + Jessica93 + Revok – Les Cuizines (Chelles) 14. Succhiamo + Air LQD + Rraouhhh + Christophe Clébard – Le Chinois (Montreuil) 14. Rebekah + Paula Temple + Anetha + Hannah b2b Charlene – Concrete 15. Gaspar Claus – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 15. Ata + Oliver Hafenbauer + Chinaski + Last Love Pilgrim + Kilian Paterson + Slyngshot + DJ Neewt (fest. Magnétique Nord) – La Station 15. Job Sifre + Fatma Pneumonia + X1000 + Spunoff (fest. Magnétique Nord) – La Station 15. AZF – Rex Club 18. Drab Majesty – Point FMR 19. Belmont Witch + Zad Kokar + Petra Pied de biche – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 22. Yan Wagner + Il est vilaine + Magnüm + Mayerling – La Maroquinerie

2019

Janvier 18. Francis Dhomont (fest. Akousma) – MPAA Saint-Germain (gratuit sur résa) 19. Armando Balice + Ingrid Drese + Jérôme Noetinger + Loïse Bulot + Robert Hampson (fest. Akousma) – MPAA Saint-Germain (gratuit sur résa) 20. Catherine Bir + Raphaël Mouterde + Francisco Meirino + Roland Cahen + Yoko Higashi & Lionel Marchetti (fest. Akousma) – MPAA Saint-Germain (gratuit sur résa) 22. Emmanuelle Parrenin & Dominique Regref – La Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel) 24. Rouge Gorge – Le Chair de poule 25. La Secte du futur + Shiny Darkly – Supersonic 25. Léonie Pernet – Gaîté lyrique 26. Chloé – Elysée-Montmartre 29. Dominique a – Salle Pleyel 31. Deena Abdelwahed – Gaîté lyrique

Février 02. The Residents – Gaîté lyrique 02. Shabazz Palaces + Dälek (fest. Sons d'hiver) – théâtre de la Cité internationale 06. Brendan Perry – Petit Bain 07. VNV Nation – Le Trabendo 09. The Ex : "Ethiopian Night" (fest. Sons d'hiver) – salle Jacques-Brel (Fontenay-sous-Bois) 10. Therapy? – La Maroquinerie 11. Massive Attack feat. Liz Fraser jouent « Mezzanine » – Zénith 16. Anthony Braxton + Dave Douglas & Bill Laswell (fest. Sons d'hiver) – théâtre Jacques-Carat (Cachan) 21. Mlada Fronta + Absolute Valentine + Neoslave – Petit Bain 22. Nils Frahm – Le Trianon ||COMPLET|| 23. Nils Frahm – Le Trianon

Mars 02. Boy Harsher + Kontravoid – Badaboum 07. Scratch Massive – Gaîté lyrique 12. Yann Tiersen – Salle Pleyel 20. Oomph! – La Machine 22. Delia Derbyshire (diff.) + Lettera 22 + Evil Moisture + Caterina Barbieri + Drew McDowall : "Coil's Time Machines" (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 22. The Young Gods – La Maroquinerie 23. Pierre Boeswillwald (diff.) + Max Eilbacher + Andrea Belfi + Sarah Davachi + William Basinski & Lawrence English (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 24. Warren Burt (diff.) + Mats Erlandsson + Okkyung Lee + Low Jack + BJ Nielsen (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 29. Perturbator – Le Trianon 30. Marc Almond – Le Trianon

Avril 05. Beirut – Le Grand Rex 08. The Specials – La Cigale 10. Daughters – Point FMR 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 17. Teenage Fan Club – Trabendo 27. She Past Away – La Machine 27. Chloé : Lumières noires – Le 104

Mai 10/11. Dead Can Dance – Grand Rex 11. Christina Vantzou + Eiko Ishibashi + Jan Jelinek + NPVR (Nik Void & Peter Rehberg) – Le 104 12. Massimo Toniutti + François Bayle – Le 104 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 31. François Bonnet + Knud Viktor + Jim O'Rourke + Florian Hecker (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio

Juin 01. Eryck Abecassis & Reinhold Friedl + Hilde Marie Holsen + Anthony Pateras + Lucy Railton (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 02. Bernard Parmegiani + Jean Schwarz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

Juillet 11. Masada + Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman + Mary Halvorson quartet + Craig Taborn + Trigger + Erik Friedlander & Mike Nicolas + John Medeski trio + Nova quartet + Gyan Riley & Julian Lage + Brian Marsella trio + Ikue Mori + Kris Davis + Peter Evans + Asmodeus : John Zorn's Marathon Bagatelles – Salle Pleyel

Août 23>25. The Cure (fest. Rock en scène) – parc de Saint-Cloud

Septembre 13. Rammstein – La Défense Arena (Nanterre)

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

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How Many Congressional Representatives From Indiana Are Republicans

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Rep Greg Murphy North Carolina

Republicans target each other in Indiana Senate primary

Murphy voted to object to the Pennsylvania count, but not to the Arizona count.

In questioning results in key swing states, Murphy was explicit when explaining his stance on whether or not those states’ results violated the Constitution. He also claimed executive officials and judges usurped the legislative power in order;to rewrite election laws from “thin air.”;;

Rep Bill Posey Florida

Posey;voted to support objections for both contested states.

There has not been a serious investigation by federal agencies into the growing body of evidence of election fraud,” Posey told USA TODAY Network paper TCPalm in a statement Monday, “and among the court cases dismissed, most were dismissed on technical grounds rather than review of evidence of fraud, thus I will object as the evidence must be examined.”

Rep Kevin Mccarthy California

McCarthy;voted to support objections for both contested states.

McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, expressed support ahead of Congress meeting;for his colleagues’ efforts.;

I think it’s right that we have the debate. I mean, you see now that senators are going to object, the House is going to object how else do we have a way to change the election problems? McCarthy said.

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Filed Candidates By Political Party

As of September 7, 2020, there were 3,263 candidates filed with the FEC to run for U.S. House in 2020. Of those, 2,767â1,291 Democrats and 1,476 Republicansâwere from one of the two major political parties. In 2018, 3,244 candidates filed with the FEC, including 1,566 Democrats and 1,155 Republicans.

The following chart shows the number of filed candidates by political party.

Sen Marsha Blackburn Tenn

Blackburn previously announced she was joining her Senate colleagues in planning to object, but did not do so.

“I will vote in support of certifying the electoral college results,” she tweeted following the violence at the Capitol.

“I cannot in good conscience turn a blind eye to the countless allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election,” Blackburn previously posted on Twitter.;”On January 6, I will vote in favor of objecting to the certification of the electoral college results.”

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Arguments For Expanding The Number Of House Members

Advocates;for increasing the number of seats in the House say such a move would increase the quality of representation by reducing the number of constituents each lawmaker represents. Each House member now represents about 710,000 people.

The group ThirtyThousand.org argues that the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights never intended for the population of each congressional district to exceed 50,000 or 60,000. The principle of proportionally equitable representation has been abandoned, the group argues.

Another argument for increasing the size of the House is that is would diminish the influence of lobbyists. That line of reasoning assumes that lawmakers would be more closely connected to their constituents and therefore less likely to listen to special interests.

Sen John Kennedy Louisiana

Kennedy objected to Arizona’s electoral votes count, but not to Pennsylvania’s.

Kennedy previously announced he would join his 11 Republican colleagues and object to certifying Biden’s Electoral College victory.;

Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not regularly given and lawfully certified , unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed,” a joint statement that includes Kennedy states.

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What Braun’s Letter Said

Braun, in a joint statement with 10 other sitting and incoming Senate Republicans, said the 2020 presidential election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud” and called for an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in states in which President Trump had challenged results.;

Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed,” the statement said. “By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes.”;

Ideally, the courts would have heard evidence and resolved these claims of serious election fraud,” the senators added. “Twice, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so; twice, the Court declined.”

Last month,;Attorney General William Barr said;that the Justice Department has not found evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the vote.

In the statement, the senators acknowledged they would face pushback.

“We are not naive. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise,” the statement said.;”But support of election integrity should not be a partisan issue.”

Former Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly criticized Braun saying he believed the senator broke with a tradition of always doing what was right upheld by predecessors such as;Republican Richard Lugar and;Democrat Birch Bayh.

Braun unseated Donnelly in 2018.;

Rep John Joyce Pennsylvania

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Joyce voted to support objections for both contested states.

Joyce said, Unfortunately, the many unlawful actions undertaken by the Pennsylvania Governors office, the Secretary of State, and what has been described as a rogue Pennsylvania Supreme Court exceeded and circumvented the state legislatures clear constitutional authority.”

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Voting Members By State

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Rep Fred Keller Pennsylvania

Keller voted to object to Pennsylvania’s result, but not to Arizona’s result.

Keller added his name to the joint statement, and;tweeted that “PA’s Governor, Secretary of State and Supreme Court acted unlawfully to violate the state legislature’s clear, constitutional authority to set election procedure. Until these actions are addressed, I cannot support electors chosen based on an inaccurate vote count.”

He also elaborated during an interview;why he would not certify his state’s electors, insisting that the “Executive Branch in Pennsylvania violated the Constitution” and “they need to be sent a message that this is unacceptable.”

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Rep Rob Wittman Virginia

Wittman objected in Pennsylvania, but not in Arizona.

Wittman said he is in full support of the GOP effort seeking to overturn the election results.

“Like many of my constituents, I have concerns that several states failed to follow the Constitution in conducting elections and deserve scrutiny to ensure a fair and free election, Wittman wrote, concluding;a thread via Twitter.

What Is Gerrymandering And Does Indiana Do It

Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party or group over another.;

Indiana’s current state and congressional maps substantially favor Republicans, according to a recent study commissioned by activist group Women4Change and completed by;Christopher Warshaw, a political science professor at George Washington University.

Warshaw arrived at that conclusion by looking at the number of wasted votes; or the number of votes above what is needed to win in Democratic districts compared to those in Republican districts.;

During the 2012 House race immediately following redistricting, for example, the efficiency gap; or difference between wasted Republican and wasted Democratic votes;; was more extreme than 95% of other statehouse elections;throughout the country and in Indiana over the past five decades.;

Likewise, the 2014 state Senate election results, when the 2011 plan fully went into effect, had a higher efficiency gap than 96%;of other state Senate elections. A similar gap exists on the congressional side.;

Warshaw concluded the disparity wasn’t just due to Indiana’s natural geographical makeup.;

Wesco argued that the maps Indiana uses currently are more fair than those used in the early 2000s when Democrats controlled the House.

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Rep Mike Garcia California

Garcia;voted to support objections for both contested states.

I do believe there is enough evidence of compromised processes and breakdowns in election integrity by certain state legislatures that do in fact warrant a closer examination, Garcia said in a statement. We need a full forensic audit of several states to ensure all Americans have confidence in our elections.”;

Incumbents Defeated In Primary Elections

The following table lists incumbents defeated in 2020 House primary elections or conventions.

Incumbents defeated in primaries

See also: Incumbents defeated in 2018 congressional elections

In the 2018 midterm elections, 378 U.S. House incumbents ran for re-election. This was the lowest number of U.S. House incumbents seeking re-election since 1992.

Thirty-four incumbentsâ9 percentâlost their re-election bids. That included two Democrats and 32 Republicans. This was the highest percentage of incumbents defeated since 2012, when 10.2 percent were not re-elected.

The following data for congressional re-election rates from 2000 to 2016 was reported in Vital Statistics, a joint research project of the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute. Find the original datasets and methodology here. Data for the 2018 election came from Ballotpedia.

Defeated U.S. House incumbents by party, 2000-2018 Year

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Rep Jack Bergman Michigan

Bergman;voted to support objections for both contested states.

Bergman tweeted:;”Our options arent binary -Congress has an obligation to the millions of Americans who have lost faith in our election process.;@RepWalberg;and I join our Senate colleagues calling for an Emergency Electoral Commission to perform an audit of the election.”

Rep Ralph Norman South Carolina

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Norman;voted to support objections for both contested states.

“At the end of the day, I believe Congress has a responsibility to ensure that our federal elections are fair and transparent, Norman said in a statement.

He continued, “Because there remain valid questions as to whether several states have actually met this threshold for certification, Congress has a right and a responsibility to examine and debate the results.”

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Indiana House Of Representatives

The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Indiana General Assembly. Alongside the Indiana State Senate, it forms the legislative branch of the Indiana state government and works alongside the governor of Indiana to create laws and establish a state budget. Legislative authority and responsibilities of the Indiana House of Representatives include passing bills on public policy matters, setting levels for state spending, raising and lowering taxes, and voting to uphold or override gubernatorial vetoes.

The Indiana House of Representatives meets in the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

All 100 seats in the Indiana House of Representatives were up for election in 2020. The chamber’s Republican majority increased from 67-33 to 71-29.

Indiana has a Republican state government trifecta. A trifecta exists when one political party simultaneously holds the governors office and majorities in both state legislative chambers. As of September 8, 2021, there are 23 Republican trifectas, 15 Democratic trifectas, and 12 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control.In the 2020 election, Republicans had a net gain of two trifectas and two states under divided government became trifectas. Prior to that election, Indiana had a Republican trifecta. There were 21 Republican trifectas, 15 Democratic trifectas, and 14 divided governments.

This page contains the following information on the Indiana House of Representatives.

Rep Dan Meuser Pennsylvania

Meuser;voted to object in Pennsylvania, but not Arizona.

Eight Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania, including Meuser and Joyce, signed a joint statement saying;they would;object.

The congressmen claim Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat,;did nothing to stop alleged unlawful activities regarding issues like signature requirements on mail-in ballots.

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Rep William Timmons South Carolina

Timmons;voted to support objections for both contested states.

Timmons announced his intention to object to the Electoral College certification process in an email on Saturday after soliciting input from constituents through a survey.

He;said last-minute revisions in election rules “may have enabled widespread fraud that could have altered the results of the election.”

Rep Andy Biggs Arizona

Biggs;voted to support objections for both contested states.

Biggs, who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Fox Business the group that met with Trump discussed the process for objecting to electoral votes on Jan. 6.

“We think we’re going to actually be able to contest this, as you say, with at least one objection from the House and we’ll have dozens of objectors in the House and then at least one in the Senate, and we think we’ll have more than that,” he said.

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About Legislative Sessions In Indiana

The Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declares that any power not already given to the federal government is reserved to the states and the people. State governments across the country use this authority to hold legislative sessions where a state’s elected representatives meet for a period of time to draft and vote on legislation and set state policies on issues such as taxation, education, and government spending. The different types of legislation passed by a legislature may include resolutions, legislatively referred constitutional amendments, and bills that become law.

Article 4 of the Indiana Constitution establishes when the Indiana General Assembly, of which the House of Representatives is a part, is to be in session. Section 9 of Article 4 states that the General Assembly will begin its regular session on the Tuesday following the second Monday in January of each year. However, Section 9 allows the starting state for the session to be changed by law. This happened in 2010, as the General Assembly’s session convened on January 5th instead of the constitutionally designated date, which was January 12th. Section 9 also gives the governor of Indiana the power to call special sessions of the General Assembly.

What Was The Outlook Prior To The Election

Republicans needed to get to 218 seats to win back the majority they lost in 2018. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, in early 2019 identified dozens of Democratic-held districts to target. They included;30 Democrats;who were elected or re-elected in 2018 in districts that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016. All but one Dave Loebsack of Iowa sought re-election. Most were first-term members who defeated or succeeded Republicans in the 2018 election. Republicans won some of these Trump Democrat districts but needed to unseat most to win back control of the House.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats, identified more than 40 Frontline Democrats it expected to have very competitive re-election campaigns. Many of these members represented;suburban districts;that have diversified their populations in recent years. In most of these districts, Democrats were running for re-election for the first time. The Frontline Democrats amassed large campaign funds.

Democrats also identified more than three dozen Republican-held districts they intended to target, including seven in Texas.

Democrats also made a play for the suburban Texas districts of retiring Republican Reps.;Pete Olson;of the 22nd District and Kenny Marchant of the 24th District. They lost the 22nd District, but the 24th is currently too close to call, with Republican Beth Van Duyne leading.

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Sen Bill Hagerty Tenn

Hagerty, recently sworn in, also changed course and voted to certify election results in contested states.;

He had previously announced he would be joining Blackburn and his other GOP colleagues in objecting.

On behalf of Tennesseans, we are taking a united stand against the tainted electoral results from the recent Presidential election,;said Hagerty and Blackburn in a joint statement. American democracy relies on the consent of the governed. Allegations of voter fraud, irregularities and unconstitutional actions diminish public confidence in what should be a free, fair and transparent process. Protecting the integrity of the electoral process is paramount to preserving trust and legitimacy in the final outcome.

Rep Chris Stewart Utah

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Stewart voted to object in Pennsylvania, but not Arizona.

Stewart, in a thread posted to Twitter, said he will not vote to certify the election results.;

“Until we have resolved the issues surrounding voting irregularities, ballot integrity and security, and the implementation of state election laws, I can not, in good conscience, uphold the oath I took to protect and defend our constitution by voting to certify the election.”

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About The House Of Representatives

The United States is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 750,000 each. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term.

As in the Senate, the day-to-day activities of the House are controlled by the majority party. Here is a count of representatives by party:

Rep Sam Graves Missouri

Graves;voted to support objections for both contested states.

In a joint statement, Graves joined three other Republican representatives from Missouri in stating they will object.

“This isn’t going to change the outcome of the 2020 election, but it’s about standing up for the thousands of North Missourians and millions of Americans that have legitimate concerns about the integrity of the 2020 elections and every election from here on,” Graves said in a Facebook post.;

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How college athletes finally earned the right to make money

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Student-athletes from across the country can now make money from their name, image, and likeness

On July 1, for the first time, student-athletes can be compensated for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL). This is revolutionary, as rules around NIL have prohibited athletes from accepting compensation in order to maintain their eligibility. The rules kept them squarely under the NCAA’s “amateur” guise, but not anymore.

Originally, beginning on July 1, athletes in eight states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas) were going to be able to take advantage of these changes. Laws and executive orders were passed in each of those states, allowing their student-athletes to make money from their NIL beginning on July 1. Other states had similar laws and legislation coming out soon after. But following the devastating loss of the NCAA v. Alston Supreme Court case, and mounting pressure from the D1 Council to adopt NIL policy, the NCAA quickly made changes.

This resulted in the Division I Board of Directors agreeing on June 30 to allow college athletes from across the country to make money off their NIL. Leaders in Division II and III made similar moves as well. Just like that, the formerly unshakable NCAA amateurism rules came tumbling down. Let’s take a look at how we got here and what this means for the future of college athletics.

How did the NIL battle begin?

In 2019, California took the lead when Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a bill called the Fair Pay to Play Act. The bill was signed on an episode of LeBron James’ show The Shop.

Prior to putting pen to paper, Gov. Newsom explained what the signing of the bill would do. Gov. Newsom said,

It’s going to initiate dozens of other states to introduce similar legislation. And it’s going to change college sports for the better by having now the interest finally of the athletes on par with the interest of the institutions. Now we’re re balancing that power arrangement.

Gov. Newsom was right. The signing of the Fair Pay to Play Act started a spiral. As he predicted, states began to sign bills and executive orders allowing their student-athletes to benefit from their NIL.

But why then? Why were states finally energized to make this change?

I would love to believe that Gov. Newsom was the catalyst to help other states see the severe inequity and issues of the NCAA’s business model, but I believe it came down to the fact that California schools now had a major recruiting advantage over schools in other states. Recruits would choose to attend school in California because they had the opportunity to make money there.

Who will pay student-athletes?

Though the NCAA dragged their feet and was basically forced into allowing athletes to make money from their NIL, the NCAA is not the organization responsible for paying them. Instead, it is third-party organizations.

With NIL rights in full swing, athletes can now sign endorsement deals with companies who want to use their NIL to promote their products or services. In exchange, the athletes will be paid.

Prior to July 1, deals were already in the works as Iowa men’s basketball guard, Jordan Bohannon, struck a deal with Boomin Iowa Fireworks.

The worlds coolest Fireworks store @IowaBoomin is excited to welcome the worlds best 3 pt shooter @JordanBo_3 tomorrow July 1st at 4:30. Come meet JBo, get his autograph, buy some fireworks & get entered into a raffle for signed Memorabilia. RED WHITE & BOOMIN!!!!! pic.twitter.com/JgcTN5CQOr

— BOOMINIowaFireworks (@IowaBoomin) June 30, 2021

Other athletes like Graham Mertz, quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers, took the steps to launch their own brands.

Coming soon... pic.twitter.com/XDhapgrRrr

— Graham Mertz (@GrahamMertz5) June 28, 2021

But also schools have taken steps to support their athletes in various ways, from creating logos for each athlete like USC to launching specific programs to help student-athletes with their branding.

Ahead of college athletes being able to cash in, some college athletic departments are helping design logos for their athletes. Here’s @USC_Hoops pic.twitter.com/1hQFXmA52H

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 29, 2021

But while many people may be surprised at how much money top-tier athletes may be able to rake in with their newfound NIL freedom, another group of athletes will walk away as winners also. Shaylee Gonzales, a guard for BYU women’s basketball, is an excellent example of this.

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Is Shaylee Gonzales a household name like Haley Jones of Stanford or Paige Bueckers of UConn? No. But she’s been building a brand since long before she got to college. Gonzales has had her YouTube channel for the past five years, and as she began her journey as a D1 women’s basketball player, she took people along for the ride.

She has grown her following on Instagram to 76.7K followers and her YouTube channel to 129K subscribers. For years, Gonzales could have made money off of her content like other influencers, but she was held back by her status as a student-athlete. Now the door is open for her to finally cash in. While a good player, Gonzales may not get endorsement deals solely for her athletic ability, but now she can monetize the brand she’s been building for years.

Are student-athletes still considered “amateurs”?

Yes. Student-athletes are still considered amateurs despite the introduction of NIL rights, but the definition of an amateur might change in the future as the NCAA begins to sharpen up its policies around NIL rights.

Are there other opportunities for athletes to make money?

Currently, there are not, but other opportunities are around the corner. There are seven NIL bills in Congress, but some cover more than the NIL rights afforded to athletes beginning on July 1. Two examples of the bills that could continue to give student-athletes rights are the College Athletes Bill of Rights sponsored by Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9) and the College Athlete Right to Organize Act sponsored by Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT). Both bills propose additional ways for student-athletes to make money, from revenue sharing to collecting wages from the NCAA and their universities. You can read more about those bills here.

As a former college athlete, I couldn’t be happier that student-athletes are now able to benefit from their NIL. It’s been long overdue. As someone who could not take advantage of this rule change during my eligibility, I hope that the schools take the time to support their athletes in these new changes and that athletes take full advantage of this opportunity because it’s been a long road to get here.

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Who: Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-Connecticut)

Twitter: @ChrisMurphyCT

When: August 2018

What: Bombing in Yemen

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Joe Biden: 46th President of the United States

President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.

He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months, and he will reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. He will repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and he will reinstate the program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country, according to people familiar with his plans.

Although transitions of power can always include abrupt changes, the shift from Trump to Biden — from one president who sought to undermine established norms and institutions to another who has vowed to restore the established order — will be among the most startling in American history.

Biden’s top advisers have spent months quietly working on how best to implement his agenda, with hundreds of transition officials preparing to get to work inside various federal agencies. They have assembled a book filled with his campaign commitments to help guide their early decisions.

Biden is planning to set up a coronavirus task force on Monday, in recognition that the global pandemic will be the primary issue that he must confront. The task force, which could begin meeting within days, will be co-chaired by former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

There has also been a recognition of those around him that he may have to lean more on executive actions than he had once hoped. He can reorient various federal agencies and regulations, and he can adopt a different posture on the world stage.

But pushing major legislation through Congress could prove to be a challenge.

Although the Democrats will hold a narrowed majority in the House, the final makeup of the Senate is not yet clear. That will be decided on Jan. 5, with two runoff elections in Georgia. Democrats would need to win both races to effectively have control of the Senate — with Vice President Kamala D. Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote — while Republicans would retain a narrow advantage by winning at least one.

“The policy team, the transition policy teams, are focusing now very much on executive power,” said a Biden ally who has been in touch with his team who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. “I expect that to be freely used in a Biden administration at this point, if the Senate becomes a roadblock.”

A Republican-held Senate — or even one with a narrow Democratic majority — probably will affect Biden’s Cabinet picks given the Senate’s power to confirm nominees.

One option being discussed is appointing Cabinet members in an acting capacity, a tactic that Trump also used.

“Just by virtue of the calendar and how many positions are filled, that’s always a possibility,” the person said. “Because the Senate moves so slowly now, so much more slowly than it used to.”

On Saturday afternoon, about two hours after networks called Biden the winner of the election, the president-elect had a brief call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who called to congratulate Biden on a “tremendous victory,” according to two Democratic officials.

Schumer called while en route to a celebration in Brooklyn, holding his flip phone out the window so that Biden could hear the cheering crowd.

If Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stays as majority leader, he would be trying to manage a conference torn between two factions with different interests, but neither necessarily eager to help Biden — one with senators running for reelection in swing states in 2022, and another with those seeking the national spotlight as they vie for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“In the old days, the mandate meant that the other side would be more amenable, or feeling they had an impetus to work,” said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.). “I’m not sure that applies any longer.”

It is unclear whether Biden has communicated with McConnell yet directly; aides have not commented on any conversation.

A closely divided Congress could hamper Biden’s efforts to do sweeping legislative actions on immigration changes. He has also said he would send a bill to Congress repealing liability protections for gun manufacturers, and close background-check loopholes. He has pledged to repeal the Republican-passed tax cuts from 2017, an effort that could be stymied if Republicans hold the Senate majority.

Without congressional cooperation, however, Biden has said that he plans to immediately reverse Trump’s rollback of 100 public health and environmental rules that the Obama administration had in place.

He would also institute new ethics guidelines at the White House, and he has pledged to sign an executive order the first day in office saying that no member of his administration could influence any Justice Department investigations.

Biden has long pledged to rejoin the Paris climate accords by executive order, but he has also said that he would attempt to persuade other nations to adopt higher standards in an attempt to curb the impacts of climate change.

Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), a longtime Biden ally who holds the seat Biden had for 36 years, offered a broad overview of Biden’s initial agenda: “Get us out of this pandemic that’s been made far worse by Trump’s bungled mishandling of it, rebuild our economy in a way that’s more sustainable and more inclusive, and deal with division and inequality.”

He noted that Biden’s style will be quite different, saying that Trump and Pelosi haven’t spoken in more than a year.

Coons suggested that Biden would promptly begin reaching out to leaders in both parties.

The coronavirus response has been foremost on Biden’s mind, and it is seen inside his campaign as a chief reason for his victory. He has previously said that even before the inauguration he would reach out to Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious-disease expert, asking him for advice.

Biden also wants to quickly appoint a supply commander to oversee production and distribution of testing — and, when ready, vaccines — as well as materials such as masks and gowns.

The coronavirus — and Biden’s response to it — could also significantly impact the traditional spectacle that surrounds the transfer of power. Inaugural balls could be altered. And while Biden has previously said he wouldn’t envision wearing a mask while being sworn in, he has said they could try to limit the traditional throngs that fill the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

Much of Biden’s early agenda — including which pieces of legislation to prioritize — will be determined in the coming weeks as his transition team begins taking on a far more prominent role.

Biden’s transition effort is being overseen by Ted Kaufman, one of his closest advisers. Kaufman, who was appointed to replace Biden in the Senate when Biden became vice president in 2009, also helped co-write an update to the law governing the transition process, which was passed in 2015 and signed by President Barack Obama.

Biden’s transition team has been given government-issued computers and iPhones for conducting secure communications, and 10,000 square feet of office space in the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, although most of the work is being done virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. His advisers have been granted temporary security clearances and undergone FBI background checks to fast-track the processing of personnel who can receive briefings on intelligence.

But one important next step is for the head of the General Services Administration to rule that the election results are final, enabling Biden’s transition team to expand its work and gain access to government funds. Biden officials are prepared for legal action if that administrator — Emily W. Murphy, a Trump political appointee — delays that decision, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Trump has so far not conceded defeat, falsely claiming Saturday that he won the election.

Pamela Pennington, a GSA spokeswoman, said that Murphy would ascertain “the apparent successful candidate once a winner is clear based on the process laid out in the Constitution.” Until that decision is made, she said, the Biden transition team would continue to receive limited access to government resources.

The transition from Trump to Biden would have few historic parallels, rivaled perhaps only by 1860-1861, when southern states seceded before Abraham Lincoln took office, and 1932-1933, when Herbert Hoover sought to undermine Franklin D. Roosevelt and prevent him from implementing his New Deal policies.

The last time there was a prolonged delay in a transfer of power was in 2000, when uncertainty over the results in the contest between then-Vice President Al Gore (D) and then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) stretched out until the Supreme Court ended a Florida recount that gave Bush the victory on Dec. 12.

The Bush administration’s sluggish start and lack of qualified personnel in place was cited by the 9/11 Commission Report as a critical vulnerability to U.S. national security for the attacks that occurred less than eight months after the inauguration. That prompted changes to the law and the granting of access at an earlier date following the political conventions.

“When George W. Bush left he made clear to his Cabinet that this is going to be the best transition of power that’s ever occurred. Because we weren’t treated very well when we came into power,” said Michael Leavitt, who at the time was the outgoing secretary of Health and Human Services. “Barack Obama to his credit said the same thing. There was a spirit of cooperation that went on and needs to continue. Whether it will or not I don’t know. But we’re better prepared.”

Chris Lu, the executive director of the Obama-Biden transition in 2008, said that within two hours of the election being called in 2008 he had a formal letter beginning the transition process.

“We literally at 9 a.m. the next morning walked into a transition office and had access to it,” he said. “It was the model for the smoothest transition of power.”

Making a clear break from the Trump administration's adversarial posture toward the civil service is also a top priority for the Biden transition team.

The Trump administration's suspicion of career officials and early calls for them to “get with the program” or “go” created tensions with incoming political appointees that never dissipated. Biden officials are hoping to create a positive atmosphere by avoiding some of the terminology and labels they think contributed to the mistrust.

The teams of campaign staffers and other aides that first embed themselves into government agencies after an election have historically been called “landing teams” and “beachhead teams,” summoning the memory of the storming of Normandy during World War II.

To avoid any associations with war, some Biden aides are sticking to soberingly bureaucratic terms, referring to landing teams as “ARTs” or Agency Review Teams, and beachhead team members as “temporary employees.”

So far, Trump administration officials have reviewed succession plans for department officials, planning for which civil servants would take on acting roles amid vacancies. Briefing materials are slated to be delivered over the next several days to Biden’s transition team.

Leavitt, who oversaw transition planning in 2012 for Republican nominee Mitt Romney and has worked with Kaufman to change the law governing presidential transitions, said there are a range of moves the Biden team could make even without cooperation from Trump’s campaign. Cabinet members and other top White House staff could be picked, and key priorities for the start of the administration could be lined up.

“The current moment always seems like it’s the extreme, and often they are. But we get through them. The country survives,” he said. “The internal strength of the United States allows us to get through these things.”

John Hudson contributed to this report.

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The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

September 15, 2020

RIGHTEOUS MIKEY SHOOTS THE MOON

What would you do if you were auditioning for Donald Trump for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. You could attack Google and social media. That's it. Good conservatives know those techie giants are too damn liberal. Oh wait, what a coincidence, Utah Sen. Mikey Lee recently raged against Google, Facebook and Twitter for their left-leaning commie ways. As Mikey knows, anything that isn't ultra-conservative must be that of leftist moral relativists. They're lurking in every corner. Yes, even within the purview of The LDS Church. And so Mikey demanded church leaders sell KSL.com because... wait for it... It's Too Damn Liberal! Yikes! When KSL is too liberal you know something is seriously askew. Maybe that's why an earthquake knocked Moroni off his temple perch. It's a warning, people. And here's the proof: Kiddie Porn. That's right,“Cuties,” the poignant Sundance-winning film of an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant girl caught between a Muslim upbringing and French culture is what Mikey called an insidious display of raw flesh. Shooting the moon, he exclaimed, “[I]t might encourage the sexual exploitation of young girls by adults.” Reality can be so sick. Hey Mikey, next maybe you can go after those heinous women's rights baby-killers.

WHY SOME REPUBLICANS CAN'T VOTE FOR TRUMP

Is your head spinning from all of Trump's scandals? Need a diagram? Downplaying Covid-19. Calling fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.” White House interference with CDC reports. It just goes on and on. But here's something you can relate to: “Republican Voters Against Trump” (RVAT) put out an 11-minute video listing 113 reasons they could not back the president. Not to be outdone, the staff here at Smart Bomb put together a list, too. Here we go:

RVAT: 1. He's a racist. 2. He's a sexual predator. 3. He promotes hate and divisiveness. 4. He pushes nationalism and xenophobia. 5. And increased the national debt.

Smart Bomb: 1. Cheats at golf. 2. Thinks Fox's Jeanine Perro is cute. 3. Eats Big Macs in bed 4. Thinks Jared is a cool. 5. And never laughs.

RVAT: 6. Started a trade war with China and raised tariffs. 7. Alienated our allies. 8. Praises dictators. 9. Denies Climate Change. 10. Defunded the World Health Organization.

Smart Bomb: 6. Winks at Jeffrey Epstein's pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell. 7. Loves Russian military parades. 8. Tweets on the toilet. 9. Can't take a joke. 10. And wants to grope Ivanka.

And there's a lot more. For the complete Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) list and video see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-voters-against-trump-113-reasons_n_5f5b5e75c5b6b48507ff3bc3

DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE CHESHIRE CAT

“I'm late, I'm late, I'm late for a very important date,” sang National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to Richard Clarke when he tried to warn her of intelligence on Al-Qaeda signaling what would become 9/11. Oops. In the aftermath, the newly awakened Bush administration put together a behemoth known as The Department of Homeland Security to coordinate intelligence on terrorist threats both foreign and domestic so we'd never go down the rabbit hole again. But recently DHS senior appointed officials went behind the looking glass to instruct subordinates to distort intelligence and play down white supremacist terrorist threats and Russian election interference and exaggerate Antifa activities to reflect President Trump's positions and keep him from looking bad. And the Cheshire Cat appeared: “We're all mad here. I'm mad. And you're mad or you wouldn't be here.” Whistle-blower Brian Murphy's allegations point to The Mad Hatter's continued attempts to use U.S. intelligence services for his own political ends. But Sarah Matthews, a White House spokeswoman, said DHS brass “never sought to dictate the intelligence community’s focus on threats to the integrity of our elections or on any other topic.” The Cheshire Cat reappeared: “I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.” So true. And by the way, the pandemic is no more serious than a cold.

Post script — Well things are pretty messed up and we're all going to hell in a hand-basket. Of course Wilson and the band don't care. Since the Republican National Convention they've been on a steady diet of Ecstasy and Cheetos and no matter what you tell them, they say, Love is the answer and where's the Heineken. Everyone else, though, is in a bad mood except the homeless people because they don't get much news. Well, that's one way to avoid Tucker Carlson. Right-wingers say they are patriots but hate the government. Lefties are pissed that Congress keeps making the rich richer and want working people to quit screwing themselves. But it's hard to pay attention when Trump and what's left of the Republican Party spread disinformation and confusion. Get this: Republican Burgess Owens, who is running against Congressman Ben McAdams in the 4th District, said the Democratic Party is led by “narcissists and sociopaths” who “have no empathy for anyone else.” Maybe he thinks he's running against Trump. And by the way, Owens has links to QAnon. True story. QAnon loves Trump and Trump loves them back because they hate all the pedophiles running the government and child sex rings in New York pizza joints. And one other thing: If Biden is elected, Antifa will come to your house and have a barbecue on your patio and invite Black Lives Matter and they'll probably serve rburgers — but no Heineken, only Bud Light. As Rudyard Kipling said: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, you're probably not paying attention.

Well, Wilson, since you and guys are in such a good mood, why not play us out with something uplifting for the marvelous week ahead:

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy! Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch. Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin', Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door. There's a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin' high heels. Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn. A dinosaur Victrola listnin' to Buck Owens. Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door. Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon? Doo, doo doo. Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows. Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

(Lookin' Out My Back Door — John Fogerty, Credence Clearwater Revival)

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