A man climbed over the Las Vegas airport’s perimeter fence, walked onto the tarmac, and climbed up on the wing of an Alaska Airlines 737 about to depart for Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Read story here. He presumably wanted a free ride. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for December, 2020
Where the push for electoral college reform stands now
The electoral vote system has long been criticized, and polls show a majority of Americans support reforming the system to ensure the popular vote winner wins the presidency. That consistently happened from 1888 through 1996, then in 2000 and again in 2016, the popular vote losers squeaked into off[...]
December 12th, 2020 - 7:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
1 person shot in Olympia protests; 4 stabbed and 2 cops injured in Washington D.C. protests
Pro- and anti-Trump protesters clashed violently in Olympia, Washington, on Saturday, December 12, 2020, for a second weekend. A person was shot and a suspect arrested during the day of scuffles and fights between rival protesters armed with guns and clubs in the state capital. “Police declare[...]
December 12th, 2020 - 8:34 am § in Misc.
Happy Hannukah . the miracle of the cell phone
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December 12th, 2020 - 3:35 am § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Law and Courts, Politics
By the numbers: Quantifying Trump’s presidency
From Atlantic magazine (read original article here): More than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19 so far; 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance before the pandemic, and millions more during the pandemic. Trump pulled the U.S. out of 13 international organizations, a[...]
Blowing up Trump’s fraud claims in one easy step (spoiler: he relies on a single source)
Much of Trump’s (and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s) claims of “massive voting fraud” rest on the “work” of one person, Matt Braynard (photo), a former Trump campaign employee. Braynard, according to Mother Jones (see story here), “has produced analyses of the[...]
Some political donations are more productive than others
The Lincoln Project, Mother Jones says, “brought in $82 million this election cycle,” of which $24 million went to a co-founder’s firm. LP produced ads targeting anti-Trump Republicans, but Trump expanded his share of the Republican vote by six percent compared to 2016. Well, who k[...]
Live from Musk 1 Moon Shot
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December 11th, 2020 - 4:01 pm § in Law and Courts
Cryptanalysts crack coded message from infamous Zodiac killer
The identity of the Zodiac killer who terrorized the Bay Area and surrounding counties in the late 1960s is one of American true crime’s most enduring mysteries. The perpetrator was an attention-seeker who taunted police and contacted the media, often writing in a code he apparently invented h[...]
White House threatens FDA chief: “Approve vaccine or resign”
President Trump intervened in the FDA approval process for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the most shocking way possible on Friday, December 11, 2020. He ordered the agency head to either approve the vaccine or else. The threat was conveyed to FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn by Mark Meadows, Tr[...]