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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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America slowly recovers: all of Biden's EOs

Part 1:

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 			[TD="align: left"][B]SUBJECT[/B][/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][B]TYPE OF ACTION[/B][/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][B]DATE[/B][/TD]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Re-engage with World Health Organization[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"]End withdrawal process[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Create position of COVID-19 response coordinator[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-organizing-and-mobilizing-united-states-government-to-provide-unified-and-effective-response-to-combat-covid-19-and-to-provide-united-states-leadership-on-global-health-and-security/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Rejoin Paris climate agreement[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/paris-climate-agreement/"]Sign an "instrument"[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Revoke permit for Keystone XL pipeline, pause energy leasing in ANWR[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-public-health-and-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-climate-crisis/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Ask agencies to extend eviction/foreclosure moratoriums[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"]Request[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Ask Education Dept. to extend student-loan pause[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"]Request[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Launch an initiative to advance racial equity, end "1776 Commission"[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Revoke order that aims to exclude undocumented immigrants from census[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-ensuring-a-lawful-and-accurate-enumeration-and-apportionment-pursuant-to-decennial-census/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Preserve/fortify DACA, which helps "Dreamers"[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/preserving-and-fortifying-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca/"]Memorandum[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Require masks/distancing on all federal property and by federal workers[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-organizing-and-mobilizing-united-states-government-to-provide-unified-and-effective-response-to-combat-covid-19-and-to-provide-united-states-leadership-on-global-health-and-security/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Reverse travel ban targeting primarily Muslim countries[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Stop construction of border wall[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/"]Proclamation[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Combat discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Require ethics pledge for executive-branch personnel[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-ethic-commitments-by-executive-branch-personnel/"]Executive orde[/URL]r[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Modernize and improve regulatory review[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/modernizing-regulatory-review/"]Memorandum[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 			[TD="align: left"]End "harsh and extreme immigration enforcement"[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-the-revision-of-civil-immigration-enforcement-policies-and-priorities/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Extend protection from deportation for Liberians in U.S.[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/reinstating-deferred-enforced-departure-for-liberians/"]Memorandum[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Revoke certain executive orders concerning federal regulation[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-revocation-of-certain-executive-orders-concerning-federal-regulation/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
 		[/TR]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Freeze any new or pending regulations[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/"]Memorandum[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 20[/TD]
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 			[TD="align: left"]Fill supply shortfalls in fight vs. COVID-19 with Defense Production Act, other measures[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-a-sustainable-public-health-supply-chain/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Increase FEMA reimbursement to states for National Guard, PPE[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/extend-federal-support-to-governors-use-of-national-guard-to-respond-to-covid-19-and-to-increase-reimbursement-and-other-assistance-provided-to-states/"]Memorandum[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Establish “COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board,” expand testing[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-establishing-the-covid-19-pandemic-testing-board-and-ensuring-a-sustainable-public-health-workforce-for-covid-19-and-other-biological-threats/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Bolster access to COVID-19 treatments and clinical care[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-improving-and-expanding-access-to-care-and-treatments-for-covid-19/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
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 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Improve collection/analysis of COVID-related data[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-ensuring-a-data-driven-response-to-covid-19-and-future-high-consequence-public-health-threats/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Mount vaccination campaign amid goals such as [URL="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-pledges-100-million-vaccine-shots-in-100-days-to-fight-covid-11607455764?mod=article_inline"]100 million shots in 100 days[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"]Directives[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Provide guidance on safely reopening schools[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-supporting-the-reopening-and-continuing-operation-of-schools-and-early-childhood-education-providers/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]OSHA guidance for keeping workers safe from COVID-19[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-protecting-worker-health-and-safety/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Require face masks at airports, other modes of transportation[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-promoting-covid-19-safety-in-domestic-and-international-travel/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Establish a “COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force”[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-ensuring-an-equitable-pandemic-response-and-recovery/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Support international response to COVID-19, “restore U.S. global leadership”[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"]Directive[/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 21[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Ask agencies to boost food aid, improve delivery of stimulus checks[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/22/executive-order-economic-relief-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 22[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Restore collective bargaining power for federal workers[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/22/executive-order-protecting-the-federal-workforce/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 22[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Repeal ban on transgender people serving openly in U.S. military[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/25/executive-order-on-enabling-all-qualified-americans-to-serve-their-country-in-uniform/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 25[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Tighten ‘Buy American’ rules in government procurement[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/25/executive-order-on-ensuring-the-future-is-made-in-all-of-america-by-all-of-americas-workers/"]Executive order[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 25[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD="align: left"]Reinstate coronavirus travel restrictions on Brazil, most of Europe[/TD]
 			[TD="align: left"][URL="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/25/proclamation-on-the-suspension-of-entry-as-immigrants-and-non-immigrants-of-certain-additional-persons-who-pose-a-risk-of-transmitting-coronavirus-disease/"]Proclamation[/URL][/TD]
 			[TD="align: right"]Jan. 25[/TD]
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Kepler said:
Is the NLRB still hamstrung?

Last I heard the Nazis were holding it sub-quorum because they're Nazis.
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Biden fired the Board's General Counsel within a day or so of taking office. He also replaced the Board Chairperson with one of his own choosing, Lauren McFerran. Those two moves help, but the board is still 3-1 in favor of the racist party. By August that will change. He has a vacancy to fill, and the term of another racist party appointee ends in August. By the end of the summer, the Board may actually be working within the actual parameters of its mission.

For me the highlight of the entirety of the Obama presidency was his NLRB. My guess is Biden's will have a similar mindset.
 
Maureen Dowd kindly g f y

First off, if Dowd thinks liberals spent four years lionizing the New York Times for its Trump coverage, then the Beltway bubble she lives in is even more impenetrable and remote than I thought.

Progressives for years were rightly fuming over the Times' forced timidity when covering Trump — the paper's failure to call out his lies, its never-ending attempt to normalize his radical behavior, and the daily's relentless, fawning coverage of Trump voters, who were depicted as the true voice of authentic America — not the backbone for a looming insurrection.

Secondly, the idea that after four years of watching the Trump media circus, liberals think Beltway journalists are on their side, as Dowd claims, is beyond comical. Liberals understand perfectly well how this game is played and are under no illusions that the Times is doing the Democrats' bidding. In fact, quite the opposite.
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This is the newspaper that waged war for eight years against the Bill Clinton presidency. The newspaper that mocked Democratic nominee Al Gore nearly every day of the 2000 campaign. The newspaper that co-sponsored the GOP's Iraq War, with some of the worst pre-war reporting in modern history. The newspaper that published all kinds of sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2008 and 2016.

The newspaper that on the eve of Election Day 2016 reported there were "no links" between Russia and the Trump campaign. And the newspaper that often prized access over truth telling during the Trump years, publishing a puff piece on his press secretary last year while she lied without pause about a public health crisis. (The Times politely glossed over when the spokeswoman had claimed, "We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.")

So yes, we understand the Times' institutional mindset. Like two years ago when, not having read a single page of Robert Mueller's report on his Russia investigation, the Times rushed to echo GOP spin that Trump had been exonerated and that Mueller had provided Trump with a "powerful boost" toward reelection.
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With a change of command at the White House, liberals also know that after depicting Trump, a pro-corporate millionaire crook, as a "populist," it was ridiculous and insulting for the Times to try to paint Biden as an elitist, just days after he moved into the White House. It was equally dopey for the Times to get played by Sen. Mitch McConnell last month by reporting the Republican Senate Minority leader was somehow in favor of Trump's impeachment. (McConnell ended up voting three different times against it.)

The Post reported Kim was the target of racist and sexists comments from social media trolls, which of course is never okay and is always condemned. But I didn't see any prominent liberals, Democratic members of Congress, or White House staffers insult the reporter, call her un-American or demand she be fired, the way Republicans and the Trump clan certainly would have if the roles had been reversed. The point being, legitimate criticism of a Post reporter from progressives created an instant rallying effect from the Beltway press in a way that unhinged and dangerous criticism from the right under Trump rarely did.

And seriously, liberals raising genuine concerns about the Post's coverage of an OMB budget director is what set Dowd off? That was her a-ha moment to start lecturing progressives about the role of the press in a free society? Talk about being thin-skinned.

Safe to say that Dowd's oversized reaction proves that progressives hit a nerve with media elites early in the Biden term; that the liberal critique of the press is dead-on and journalists are perturbed they're being held accountable after their collective Trump debacle.
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Given that dinosaurs like Maureen Dowd are not even relevant to anyone inside the Beltway, I can't imagine who she thinks she is speaking to other than a mirror.
 
Now that the Covid bill is nearing its end, I would like to see the focus turn towards getting the USPS governors appointed. Though one of the Dems has apparently backed DeJoy recently so it may not be as simple as getting the 5-4 majority to remove him.

But if they could swing it, they could clean up the current sabotage and hopefully move to implement some policies like postal banking that Bernie has pushed for in the past and Biden's campaign also supported.
 
F the NY Times with the business end of a rake. What privileged asshole wrote this?

"In this Sunday’s NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof writes, “Every time Democrat’s brandish their wokeness and wag fingers or call people bigots, they manufacture new Republicans.” He goes on to research that says what wins people over is listening, asking questions and appealing to their values, not your own. Granted, this is hard to do and surely takes practice, but worth pursuing to help our society in this decisive time."
 
MissThundercat said:
F the NY Times with the business end of a rake. What privileged ******* wrote this?

"In this Sunday’s NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof writes, “Every time Democrat’s brandish their wokeness and wag fingers or call people bigots, they manufacture new Republicans.” He goes on to research that says what wins people over is listening, asking questions and appealing to their values, not your own. Granted, this is hard to do and surely takes practice, but worth pursuing to help our society in this decisive time."
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White male oppression is really bad. They hate it that the can't hit on women and can't hit LBGTQ people, and just joking about it around the water cooler.
 
MissThundercat said:
F the NY Times with the business end of a rake. What privileged ******* wrote this?

"In this Sunday’s NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof writes, “Every time Democrat’s brandish their wokeness and wag fingers or call people bigots, they manufacture new Republicans.” He goes on to research that says what wins people over is listening, asking questions and appealing to their values, not your own. Granted, this is hard to do and surely takes practice, but worth pursuing to help our society in this decisive time."
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Some dude who has won a couple of Pulitzers and should know better considering how the media business historically operates (white men asking for favors in exchange for advancement).
 
Apparently one of the big takeaways in blighty from the interview last night was how messed up our healthcare system is. They’re not wrong.
 
I must be taking crazy pills because the only people I see talking about anything dealing with the culture wars (outside of say San Fran) is the GOP. The Dems are worried about passing legislation.
 
The Culture Wars are a distraction from the Republicans not permitting the government to help anybody. The punditry -- even the "liberal punditry" -- keeps it alive because they are lazy and it's an easy story to rehash the same tired tropes of the last 20 years and then just let the extremists take the bait and create their story for them. The Plutes sit back and laugh.
 
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