A CHANGE OF SEA . . . CAP LOUNGE, the Pennsylvania Avenue pub just two blocks from the Capitol that has served the Hill Masses for two decades, announced its closure this morning. like the Capitol Lounge, about 20 years has been drinking beers there for 26 years. He had a mantra of non-politics: Republicans and Democrats went there in equivalent quantities and with the same comfort.
– THE TWITTER BIO: “No policy. No Miller Lite. “
– OK, who to buy it from?
THE PRESIDENT will hold a press conference at 3 p. m.
Break. . . KYLE CHENEY and NATASHA BERTRAND: “The Treasury names Ukrainian anti-Biden lawmaker for sanctions for electoral interference”: “The Treasury Department has appointed Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian discredited by accusations opposed to Joe Biden, for sanctions similar to foreign interference in U. S. elections.
Derkach, who in the past had been known as a malicious actor through the intelligence community, met with President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine in December as Giuliani sought derogatory data on Biden’s relations in Ukraine. even more by linking Derkach to the Kremlin. “Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, has been an active Russian agent for more than a decade” . . .
“The Treasury announcement underscores the ongoing evidence that Russia is putting a crusade to its efforts in 2016 to bolster Trump’s candidacy and harm its rival. . . Democrats have sounded alarm about evidence that Derkach has released anti-Biden data packages for Republican lawmakers investigating Biden’s role in Ukraine. “
TODAY DECODAGE: THE SENATE failed to advance The Republicans’ “slight” Covid relief bill, Senate majority leader MITCH MCCONNELL achieved a modest victory, bringing a majority of Republican lawmakers to vote for the bill.
CONGRESS IS NO MORE PROCHE than passing Covid’s relief bill. In fact, both sides are as far apart as ever.
– THE TWO CÉTES are in the field of pointing with their finger. President NANCY PELOSI said at her weekly press conference, “We don’t have a tight bill when we have a major problem. “MCCONNELL warned that Democrats were in favor of everything on the bill, but expected a broader package. They’re nowhere to be found.
NEXT: GOVERNMENT FINANCING, which expires in 10 DAYS. PELOSI said a transparent, nonstop solution, by which she and Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN plead, will come with Covid’s relief. Hence the nickname “clean”.
– PROCHAIN QUESTION: How will the precautionary measure last?
THE IMAGE OF THE CHEMCH – “U. S. Unemployment Claims”But it’s not the first time Held last week,” through Sarah Chaney of the WSJ: “US unemployment claims are in the middle of the world. “But it’s not the first time They remained at 884,000 last week, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, a sign that the hard labor market recovery is slowing six months after the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States
“The total of approximately 29. 6 million people, which are not seasonally adjusted and are two-week new state claims figures, includes federal pandemic transitional systems for self-employed and structured personnel in addition to those receiving normal state benefits. “Wsj
– REALITY SUMMARY: “Do unemployment benefits deter staff?Some employers say yes. Studies don’t,” through NYT’s Patricia Cohen: “There has been a surprising agreement between conservative and liberal economists who have studied that the $600 supplement has deterred few employees from accepting jobs. . . For other people who get unemployment benefits, there’s just no work. Approximately part of the 22 million work that evaporated with the coronavirus outbreak has not yet returned.
Good Thursday afternoon.
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TV NEWS . . . VARIATE: “MSNBC expands weekend programming; Kasie Hunt revives “Way Too Early” on weekdays:” NBC-owned cable media will launch two new weekend night systems on September 19 and raise the anchor to its weekend coverage. Alicia Menéndez, who joined the network in 2019, will debut with “American Voices” on Saturdays and Sundays between 6pm and 8pm. that is, while Joshua Johnson . . . who joined MSNBC before this year will premiere “The Week” between 8 p. m. and 10 p. m. on weekends at night.
“Kasie Hunt, whose “Kasie DC” introduced the audience to a Washington attitude on Sunday night, will relaunch “Way Too Early,” an MSNBC early in the morning for the days of the week that originally performed with Willie Geist in 2009. “
AP / FRONTLINE: “The shortage of key appliances compresses the manufacture of medical masks”, through Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, Thomas Peipert and Irena Hwang in Fresno, California: “At the beginning of the pandemic, the White House ignored the harsh warnings – especially about the N95 – of senior management positions. The Associated Press found that it took management months to sign contracts with corporations that make the detail internal to masks: molten textiles.
“Meltblowing is the production procedure that turns plastic into a dense mesh that makes the N95 mask effective at blocking incredibly small particles and adding viruses. Even today, brands say the Trump administration has not made the long-term investments they want to succeed in full In the meantime, management allowed exports of molten goods to escape the country as the pandemic and mask order soared.
VOTE UPDATE – “Most Americans need to vote before voting day, a significant replacement from previous years, according to the ballots,” through Amy Gardner, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement of WaPo: “Approximately six out of 10 electorate registered across the country say they need to vote before polling day, a significant deviation from past years that will force applicants to reshape their way of campaigning in recent weeks election season, according to a vote conducted through Ipsos at the University of Washington Post. . . . .
“Even though more electorates need to mail their vote than in 2016, just over 3 in 10 say they are ‘very confident’ that their vote will count as it should be if they vote in the mail, compared to nearly 7 out of 10 who say the same thing about voting on the user on polling day. Arrangement. . The survey also shows a strong racial disparity in perceptions of electoral integrity, with 71% of black Americans saying it is less difficult for white citizens to vote than for black citizens, compared to 34% of other white people who think so. Wapo. . . The survey
– WAPO: “Voting is a challenge for the homeless. Advocates seek to make things easier,” via Justin Wm. Moyer: “While advocates sign other people to vote in a polarizing election that took place in a pandemic, they also have a traumatized population through, in some cases, years on the street.
“These are those voting hurdles that Pathways to Housing DC, which has registered more than 60 electorates since the crusade introduced last month, is trying to overcome. Some are fighting intellectual disease and addiction. Others are illiterate, or possibly just don’t have a pair of glasses to read, they want to fill out a form. “
VIDEO RESEARCH . . . WAPO: “Sweeping in the Federal Reaction to Portland Protests: “I didn’t know if I’d be seen again,” through Shawn Boburg, Meg Kelly and Joyce Sohyun Lee in Portland, Oregon: “The Washington Post conducted a thorough review of 4 cases in which other unsuspecting people were kidnapped from the streets of the city through federal agents in the middle of the night. Data-driven fix that has proven to be wrong or inadequate to classify them as a crime.
“The cases highlight the tactics used through border officials and immigration officials deployed in Portland for an operation that President Trump has touted as a success. [. . . ] From detention to release, the other 4 people whose instances were reviewed by The Post described reports that found them painful and disturbing. Three are speaking for the first time. Wapo
THE LAST INBEYROUTH – “A huge connecting place for a chimney exploded in Beirut Harbor a month after the explosion,” via ZEina Karam and Hassan Ammar of the AP: “A huge place for the chimney exploded Thursday in Beirut Harbor, from last month’s catastrophic explosion. that killed about two hundred more people and devastated parts of the capital. The new place of the fire lamp almost 40 days after the explosion caused widespread panic among traumatized citizens in the area.
“The cause of the facility’s chimney site, which it decimated because of the August 4 explosion, when nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded, not without clear delay. . . The Lebanese army said the chimney site exploded in a warehouse where oil and tyres were placed in the free zone, adding that efforts were being made to combat the chimney site.
“These adjustments are mandatory in the face of worsening wildfires,” experts say, through NYT’s Brad Plumer and John Schwartz: “Millions of Americans move to forest fire-prone spaces outside cities and communities resist escalation restrictions. The federal policy of aggressively extinguishing all wildfires rather than allowing some to burn at low levels, a technique now considered wrong, has left forests with a lot of destructive fire fuel, all at a time when global warming is generating a warmer climate. and drier environment, loading the bucket for larger fires.
“Some cities and states have taken vital steps, such as enforcing stricter regulations on homes built in fire-prone areas. And there has been a motion towards the use of fires aimed at excess plants that can feed uncontrollable flames in forests and meadows. But those adjustments are still declining too slowly, experts say, and have been overcome through the immediate accumulation of wildfires.
TICK TOCK, TIKTOK . . . BLOOMBERG: “Trump’s team plans to give homeowners more time to align the sale,” through Saleha Mohsin: “The Trump administration plans to give TikTok’s Chinese homeowners more time to organize a popular video sale: percentage of the app’s operations in the US. U. S. with an American buyer, according to other people familiar with the subject . . .
About TikTok, ByteDance Ltd. reported on Thursday.
CLICKER – “Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as America” Become Moree,” through Denise Lu, Jon Huang, Ashwin Seshagiri, Haeyoun Park and NYT’s Troy Griggs
Go. . . WAPO: “Humans are decimating wildlife, and the pandemic is a sign,” according to Karin Brulliard: “The average population of approximately 4,400 mammals, amphibians, birds, fish and reptiles has been reduced to 68% since 1970, according to the World Wildlife Fund Report, based on vertebrate tracking projects around the world. The losses were mainly due to habitat loss, he said, as well as pollution, invasive species, excessive hunting and fishing and, increasingly, climate change. . . . .
“The World Nature Fund has under pressure that one of the catastrophic consequences of the decline is now before our eyes. The coronavirus pandemic, caused by the type of “overflow” of a zoonotic virus becoming increasingly common as humans expand their footprint, should be considered as “an SOS signal to the human enterprise,” the report says.
VALLEY TALK – “Facebook would possibly have to avoid shifting knowledge from EU users to the US. USA,” via AP’s Kelvin Chan in London: “Facebook would possibly be forced to avoid sending information about its European users to the US. The main consequence of a recent court ruling that some transfers of transatlantic knowledge do not affect users of U. S. government espionage.
“The social network said on Wednesday that the Irish Data Protection Commission had opened an investigation into how Facebook transfers knowledge from the European Union to the United States . . . The result may be that the giant of the American generation, which has centers of knowledge around the world, you are forced to adopt a costly and complex review of your operations to make sure the European user knowledge is not in the US.
NO SECOND ACTS IN AMERICAN LIFE – PODCASTS ONLY. . . “Megyn Kelly launches into podcasting with New Venture,” via WSJ’s Anne Steele: “Former TV news commentator and new communications host Devil May Care Media are expected to release the first episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” at the end of the month. Kelly, 49, whose last morning exhibition with NBC News ended just two years ago, is the company’s own investment.
READ ALSO – “A whole story of ‘cowardly replacement’ – and the seeds he has sown in our politics,” via Esquire’s John McDermott: “The cowardly replacement had nothing yet been made computer-generated file photographs and graphics distributed for the loose and the film’s DIY taste is possibly his greatest legacy. For years, techno-utopian people have pontificated how the Internet would democratize the production and dissemination of information, freeing us from the tyranny of media guardians, and creating a true market for ideas Loose Change has fulfilled this promise.
“Today, 15 years after its release, Loose Change also has a more troubling legacy, a legacy that filmmakers insist it never wanted. It is a precursor to the rise of internet conspiracy and the integration of conspirators, adding InfoWars founder Alex Jones, who was the executive manufacturer of the third edition of the film, and is connected to a number of prominent left- and right-wing extremist movements, including Occupy, Tea Party and Birtherism.