June 9, 2021 11:15 AM
Mid-Morning Reads for National Donald Duck Day (June 9)
Happy Donald Duck Day to you all! On this day in 1934, Donald Duck made his first appearance in “The Wise Little Hen.”
Let’s get on to the news.
Pat Conroy
- Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has filed paperwork for another bid at the office. (Alternate link.)
- The Biden Administration has flagged another part of Governor Brian Kemp’s Medicaid waiver plan, delaying its implementation further.
- Two Republican state senators and the GAGOP chair are in Arizona this week to tour the state’s widely discredited ballot review. (Alternate link.)
- The Justice Department is looking to shut down an Irwinton tax preparer for submitting fraudulent returns.
- Some Loganville residents are against, of all things, a new library paid for from state funds. (Alternate link.)
- Here is the list of all of the earmarks for Georgia that would be funded in the U.S. House’s version of the transportation bill. (Continues through page 85.)
Alice Walker
- President Joe Biden’s talks with Republicans have fallen short of a deal on infrastructure. (Alternate link.)
- The president has headed to Europe for visits with allies and Putin.
- For a second year, most U.S. police forces have declined to share data on their use of force. (Alternate link.)
- 70% of Americans now support same-sex marriage.
- The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that tribal police forces can detain non-Natives on reservation land while they wait for non-tribal backup.
- Senate Republicans have blocked a bill targeting the gender pay gap.
- Here’s a good explainer of the Biden Administration’s push to find COVID’s origin.
- The U.S. is withdrawing executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat.
- Socialist Pedro Castillo is closer to claiming victory in Peru, though his rival is still submitting legal challenges.
- The Afghan government and Taliban leaders have met in Doha to discuss peace.
- A Belarus opposition leader has called for an international investigation into the country’s government.
- El Salvador has become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
Flannery O’Connor
- Cicadas grounded a plane yesterday carrying several U.S. journalists headed to Europe to cover President Biden’s trip.
About Author
Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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Regarding the goper pilgrimage to Arizona to observe the joke audit first-hand, I can’t blame Shafer because that kind of stunt is part of his job description. Jones wanted to criminalize demonstrators he didn’t agree with even before he got on the Trump train so it’s no shock to see him in the desert either.
But wth has happened to Brandon Beach? He always struck me as a reasonable and responsible sort, basically a pragmatic chamber of commerce republican, but he’s morphed into the worst kind of fantasist, voting to deny election results, trying to get the lege to unseat electors, now supporting the Arizona mouth-breathers.
They all claim to want fair elections and say the key point is election transparency when it really should be voter confidence, which by their actions and statements they are doing their best to destroy, all the while offering zero facts to support their views. They’re either criminally cynical or deeply stupid, and I don’t know which is worse.