anti-science

Symbolic Vote For The Stupid: Senate Votes Against Employer Vaccine Mandates That Are Working

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The pro-Covid, anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-socially responsible Republicans in the Senate got their symbolic vote against President Biden’s employer vaccine “mandate” (not actually a mandate because employees can opt for weekly Covid testing, and there are exemptions available to qualified employees) on Wednesday night. Republicans did this as US Covid cases surge as vaccine progress slows … Read more

An Authoritarian Political Party That Stands For Nothing But The Accumulation And Abuse Of Power

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The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said the quiet part out loud this past week: The Republican Party stands for nothing. It has no policies nor anything to offer the country, other than its accumulation and abuse of power through gerrrymandering districts and voter suppression laws to keep Democratic leaning voters … Read more

Congress Averts A GQP Anti-Vaccine Government Shutdown As The Omicron Variant Emerges In U.S.

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The Hill reports, Congress averts shutdown after vaccine mandate fight: The Senate on Thursday night passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown after a dayslong fight over President Biden’s vaccine mandate threw the legislation into limbo. Senators voted 69-28 to pass a stopgap bill to fund the government through Feb. 18. The legislation, which … Read more

Trump Death Cult Is Plotting A Government Shutdown Over Vaccine Mandates During A New Covid Surge

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Mitch McConnell’s and Donald Trump’s federal court packing with Federalist Society and [Confederate] Heritage Foundation approved radical right-wing judges paid dividends this week when Two Trump-appointed judges block Biden administration vaccine mandate for health-care workers: [I]n a 32-page ruling issued Monday in St. Louis, U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp, a Trump appointee, said a … Read more

Florida Governor Ron ‘DeathSantis’ Lays Claim to The Mantle of The Trump Death Cult

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CNN reports, Florida set to become first state to fine businesses over vaccine mandates, in defiance of Biden administration: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t get everything he wanted this week from state lawmakers in his campaign against federal coronavirus vaccine mandates. But in a fast-moving three-day special session criticized by Democrats as “political theater,” the … Read more