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Sunday, 2 January 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene Permanently Banned From Twitter

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may be permanently banned from Twitter after reportedly getting her fifth strike from the social media platform.

Greene's account was suspended on Sunday after she tweeted an attack on Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX). In the tweet, she slammed Crenshaw for pressing for more Covid-19 testing centers.

But soon after the tweet, Twitter suspended Greene's account. None of her tweets were available after the suspension.

This is reportedly Greene's fifth strike on the social media platform, which would make her eligible for a permanent ban from Twitter.

Twitter confirmed the ban to New York Times reporter Davey Alba.

"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our Covid-19 misinformation policy," a Twitter spokesperson said.

"She's not coming back," Alba concluded.

Twitter confirms to me that Marjorie Taylor Greene has gotten up to 5 strikes on its Covid-19 misinformation policy. She’s not coming back. pic.twitter.com/tSlBtMFmGB

— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) January 2, 2022

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Marco Rubio Blasts 'Irrational Hysteria' Over Omicron

Some days it's well nigh impossible to pick the worst Republican in the U.S. Senate. There are just so damn many of them. These jackasses are so beholden to their corporate masters that they spout dangerous nonsense on a daily basis. In this case, endangering others with their dismissive tone to a deadly pandemic.

Florida keeps shattering their own records for positive tests, with over 75,000 on Friday alone.

Source: Business Insider

Sen. Marco Rubio on Friday criticized the public response to the highly-transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant, saying that fears emanating from the surge in new cases amounted to "irrational hysteria."

The Florida Republican —whose home state had a one-day record of 75,900 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — took to Twitter to minimize the severity of the new variant.

Record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isn’t a crisis

And people in the hospital for car accidents testing positive isn’t a surge

The real crisis is the irrational hysteria which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days

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Mike's Blog Round Up

On this date in 1971 George Harrison's album, 'All Things Must Pass' started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. Above, some people you might recognize star in the official video for the 50th-anniversary re-release. George Harrison, My Sweet Lord.

Show Me Progress updates us on Mississippi's "Close your eyes and wish" strategy for dealing with COVID.

You Might Notice a Trend: 2021 as Tragedy and Farce.

Crazy Eddie's Motie News brings you 2021's top science stories from Science Magazine, WatchMojo, and Nerdist.

Attention dinosaur nerds! Exquisitely Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg!

Blog Round Up by Driftglass of The Professional Left Podcast. Send tips to MBRU (at) crooksandliars (dot) com.

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Dr. Ben Carson Promotes Baseless Snake Oil Cures

On Thursday's Hannity, Ben Carson promoted the same phony cures and side show treatments like hydroxychloroquine for COVID that have been panned by the medical community for nearly two years now.

Super Trump fluffer Pete Hegseth guest-hosted for Hannity and was furious that the Biden administration is promoting only vaccinations, booster shots, masks, double masks and CDC guidelines.

"That's pretty much all we hear. Why can't they make the shift to things that actually work? Hegseth asked.

WTF?

Carson actually claimed that by promoting vaccines, and CDC safety guidelines, President Biden was the one playing politics with the pandemic.

Channeling Lin Wood, Carson based his next lies on Nigeria and their low death rate from COVID.

Carson said, "Well for one thing, [Nigerians] take antimalarial's like hydroxychloroquine?"

"is this really something that really helps?" he asked. "Of course we know it helps but why do we pooh-pooh hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and some other things?"

Hydroxychloroquine doesn't help COVID. Ivermectin doesn't either. Just ask all the people who died after taking it instead of just getting a vaccine.

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Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread

All week long, Crooks and Liars has been giving out Crookie Awards to many of the villains of this past year, and Good Guy Crookies to some of the the most deserving players on the political landscape. They served as reminders of an outrage here and triumph there — something we do at the end of every year.

One of my favorite peeps on Twitter (she is constantly educating people on how, you know, government works...) made this great video round-up of pictures and headlines, though, that really gives us an overview of the several decades' worth of political upheaval that has happened over the course of these last twelve months. A birds' eye view (HAR) if you will, from Candidly Tiff (@Tiff330) on Twitter.

Enjoy, reflect, and may 2022 bring joy and justice to you and yours.

No negative vibes today. We are going to end this year on a positive note. Twitter demons please stay away. Thanks! 💜 #2021inReview #BidenHarris #DemsDeliver #Blue2022 pic.twitter.com/HNYxzi22VN

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