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ap215 wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:51 pm Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children

PHOENIX — President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.

"I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did," Biden said in strident remarks. "It's long overdue."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-bi ... rcna177242

That is nice but in reality meaningless. Everyone involved and probably their children are all long gone.
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:33 pm That is nice but in reality meaningless. Everyone involved and probably their children are all long gone.
It's called "doing the right thing". Something conservatives don't understand.

It's why Republicans never apologize for our nation's slavery. Hell, some of them want it to come back. And I quote "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few!" from a Republican candidate for Governor.

He's just saying the quiet part out loud, isn't he?
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Joe Biden waits in line 40 minutes to cast early ballot in Delaware

President Joe Biden, who will end a decades-long public career in January, cast an early ballot in the 2024 general election.

Biden voted on Monday at the state of Delaware Department of Elections, not far from his home outside Wilmington, Delaware at an early voting site, where voters were lined up down the street to cast ballots.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkzkn8plje
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Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result

(CNN) - While many communities around the world have been wondering what to make of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia has sniffed a potential opportunity.

Like many other places in rural Italy, Ollolai has long been trying to persuade outsiders to move in to revive its fortunes after decades of depopulation. It’s been selling dilapidated houses for as little as one euro — just over a dollar — to sweeten the deal.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/travel/i ... index.html
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I didn't expect this what a huge honor.

In rare NYC trip, Biden visits Staten Island to honor service members before Thanksgiving

NEW YORK -- President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a rare visit to New York City on Monday to honor service members and their families ahead of Thanksgiving.

The Bidens attended a Friendsgiving celebration for the Coast Guard on Staten Island.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/bi ... en-island/
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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served out home confinement sentences for at least one year after they were released. Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread. At one point, 1 in 5 prisoners had COVID-19, according to a tally kept by The Associated Press.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardon ... dium=share
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I was 9 years old when Saturday Night's Main Event first started back in 1985 great to see it back in a much earlier time zone.

The Return of Saturday Night’s Main Event – 40 Years Later

WWE and NBC will renew their partnership this Saturday with the relaunch of Saturday Night’s Main Event.

In a different era, it would be hard to fathom that such an undertaking would not include Vince McMahon or Dick Ebersol, who launched the network franchise nearly forty years ago.

https://www.postwrestling.com/2024/12/1 ... ars-later/
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Get Em.

Stein and Cooper sue NC Republicans over changes to State Highway Patrol in powers bill

Incoming Gov. Josh Stein sued Republican legislative leaders on Thursday over a new law that strips him and other newly elected Democrats of longstanding powers.

Stein, who filed the lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court alongside Gov. Roy Cooper, called the law an “unconstitutional and dangerous power grab.”

https://www.heraldsun.com/news/politics ... rylink=cpy
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Air Force names first female SERE specialist as Chief Master Sergeant.
An airman recently became the first female survival, evasion, resistance, escape, or SERE, specialist to achieve the rank of chief master sergeant, the service announced.

Chief Master Sgt. Tiffany Zaloudek earned the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force on Nov. 1, according to an Air Force release.

Zaloudek earned her SERE beret in 2007, becoming the first woman in eight years to finish the specialized course.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... -sergeant/
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a good read

MANIFESTO FOR A RENEWED DEMOCRATIC PARTY

.....Donald Trump is not our problem. He has never been our problem. The problem is the space Democrats left open, which he simply walked into. Leaving far too many people desperate even when we had the power to help them - people without healthcare, without economic opportunities, without justice, without hope - we created the inevitable phenomenon that the most cursory reading of history predicts: people’s attraction to a political strongman. Donald Trump didn’t so much succeed as the Democratic party failed......
Yea the space and the potential in the space

.....Had the DNC not effectively suppressed, even prevented a real Democratic primary this year - had the democratic process been allowed to flourish untainted by such dictatorial behavior– we would be in a very different situation than the one we find ourselves in now. Turning the Democratic National Committee into a conduit for electoral victory in 2026 is going to take more than the selection of a new chairman; it’s going to require the creation of a new organizational culture. It’s going to take a reckoning with its past. It’s going to take repair of its moral compass......
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Yea assigning candidates to voters leads to a very different type of attachment between nominee and voters than voters deciding who the candidate is.
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Here's what to know about the CTA and its Jan. 13 rule for small businesses to register with FinCEN

An anti-money laundering law called the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, is now back in action after a Monday court ruling that will require millions of small business owners to register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, by mid-January, or potentially pay fines of up to $10,000.

The registration rule had been on hold since Dec. 3, when a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting its enforcement. But on Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the order, ruling that the decision is in the "public's urgent interest in combating financial crime and protecting our country's national security."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corporate- ... -it-means/
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Biden signs 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve

President Biden signed 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve, as the year and his time in office draw to a close.

The bills Mr. Biden signed include socialite and activist Paris Hilton's bill to protect teenagers living in residential treatment facilities, a bill setting anti-hazing standards on college campuses, and a bill preventing members of Congress from collecting pensions if convicted of certain crimes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-sign ... stmas-eve/
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ap215 wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2024 8:28 am Biden signs 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve

President Biden signed 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve, as the year and his time in office draw to a close.

The bills Mr. Biden signed include socialite and activist Paris Hilton's bill to protect teenagers living in residential treatment facilities, a bill setting anti-hazing standards on college campuses, and a bill preventing members of Congress from collecting pensions if convicted of certain crimes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-sign ... stmas-eve/
Another bill he signed makes the Bald Eagle the official national bird of the U.S..
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Biden to award Lincoln Police Officer Tu Anh Tran the Medal of Valor

LINCOLN — President Joe Biden is awarding a Medal of Valor on Friday to the Lincoln Police Department sergeant who jumped into a frigid pond in February 2023 to save a woman from drowning in her car.

Sgt. Tu Anh Tran responded to a winter weather-related wreck at Wilderness Ridge Golf Course in which a 27-year-old woman lost control of her Hyundai Elantra on Yankee Hill Road in south Lincoln and slipped into a pond that typically does little more than complicate life for golfers.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/bid ... -of-valor/
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Biden to award Medal of Honor to 7 US Army veterans

President Joe Biden on Friday is set to award the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, to seven U.S. Army veterans for heroism during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

The Medal of Honor is awarded to those who "distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of their own lives above and beyond the call of duty," according to the White House.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-a ... =117236782
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New York becomes the first U.S. city with a congestion charge despite opposition

Motorists entering Manhattan’s busiest neighborhoods will now have to pay up to $9 in congestion charges, as New York City’s first-in-the-nation Congestion Relief Zone officially launched Sunday.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that the zone opened at 12:00:01 a.m. on Sunday morning and “is fully operational.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ne ... rcna186273
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Higher Social Security payments coming for millions of people from bill that Biden is signing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday plans to sign into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and in other public service jobs.

Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put strain on Social Security Trust Funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis.

https://apnews.com/article/social-secur ... dium=share
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ap215 wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:30 am New York becomes the first U.S. city with a congestion charge despite opposition
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ne ... rcna186273
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr2wn3zvqvo
Trump, a native New Yorker, has vowed to scrap the plan when he returns to the White House, and Republicans have already urged him to intervene.
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It will be interesting to see how he plans to do that considering it's a state/local law and not a federal law. Most likely, he and the republicans will put something in a transportation bill prohibiting any city from instituting congestion charging.
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This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies

Progressives across the western world face a century-defining challenge – and the stakes for liberal democracy couldn’t be higher.

The far right is on the march. From Switzerland and Sweden to Hungary, Austria and Italy, European nations are coming under the influence of extreme nativist parties that are hostile to democratic institutions, immigrant populations and fact-based journalism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... re-bullies
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Biden pardons 5, including late civil rights activist and Virginia Speaker

President Biden on Sunday announced pardons for five individuals, including multiple civil rights advocates, and commuted the sentences of two others.

“America is a country built on the promise of second chances,” Biden said in a statement.
As President, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality by issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... a-speaker/
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Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 committee in effort to guard against ‘revenge’ by Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.

The decision by Biden comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has selected Cabinet nominees who backed his election lies and who have pledged to punish those involved in efforts to investigate him.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump- ... ae700ae747
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President Biden pardons brother James, other relatives for unspecified crimes before leaving office

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James Biden and other relatives Monday for unspecified crimes, a similar last-minute move to protect his family from potential investigation as when he pardoned his son Hunter Biden for gun and tax convictions.

The president said he pardoned his brother and other relatives − James's wife Sara Jones Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John Owens, and another brother, Francis Biden − because of concerns about "baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families," he said in a statement released minutes before the end of his term.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 860098007/
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These pardons wouldn't have been necessary if Trump hadn't inferred he'd go after them. He didn't have an effective first term but since then, he's learned enough to get people who would go after those he doesn't like.
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Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of DFL's argument that House lacks quorum

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday sided with Democrats in their interpretation of the quorum question at the center of a power dispute in the state House, ruling that 68 members need to be present to meet that threshold.

That undercuts everything that's happened so far in the House, where Republicans on the first day moved ahead as a majority with 67 members present and have been conducting chamber business ever since even though Democrats haven't been there. The DFL caucus has been boycotting the session to deny quorum and keep Republicans from acting on the one-seat advantage they have—at least for now—due to a vacant Roseville-area seat.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ ... e-dispute/
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